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Year: 1879

The schoolboys were surprised next
day when our hero, in addition to half
holiday, gave them penny apiece all
around.


But they did not know what we do, did
they?


X X y


Briggs has been forgiven. He often
carries messages from Mr. Frederick
Woodman to Miss Nellie Morris, but
they are invariably in black and white
The little schoolmaster has had enough
for little while of the language of flow
ers
Year: 1879

Conrad Brodbeck, an old man, and a
tailor by profession, whose place of business
IS at No. 592 Main street, near Orchard,
dropped dead al his home about II o'clock
this morning. Coroner Carrick was notified
and will investigate the cause of his death
Brodbeck was married man, his wife keep
ing millinery store at the same place.
Year: 1879

Propositions for the sale of property for
the Western Hills Pumping House were re-
ceived, and the purchase of property for the
pumping house was made the special order
for Saturday next.


The Engineer reported that he had in
Year: 1879

In another column will be found the
notice of a dividend declared by the
managers of the Artisans Savings Bank.
1t is a matter of congratulation, and an
indication of good management, and
sound condition, that so fair rate Of
interest can be made from the earnings
of the Bank after the payment of all
expenses. This Bank has never failed
since its organization in 1861, to pay
half yearly interest, besides accumula-
ting a handsome surplus or guarantee
funds for the security of its depositors.
1t is a credit to our city and to the dir
ectors and officers, and is deserving a
more extensive patronage from our
citizens, for whose accommodation aud
benefit it is conducted.
Year: 1879

When Edward Rheinhardt was convicted of wife
murder in the Richmond county courts he was SEN
fenced to be hanged on Friday. July II. 1875 but
two weeks ago Sheriff Brown notified that
writ Of error and stay of proceedings had been
granted until the second Monday in September when
q motion for new trial will be argued before the
General Term Of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
The condemned murderer declined to be interviewed
by HERALD reporter yesterday; but seemed quite
cheerful and confident of release from prison and the
dread OF DEATH He finds amusement and some little
profit in making fancy wicker work goods. and as
the reporter leaving his cell pressed him to ac
cept specimen OF his handcraft


The man Rawlinson. who shot George Sisk st
Tomkinsville early the morning OF the Fourth
was removed to the Richmond County Jail yester-
day. He to realize keenly his terrible posi-
ton. and refuses to speak on the subject Of his
Year: 1879

New York, December Sin connec-
ton with the memorial of business men
OF New York in favor of withdrawing
the legal tender quality from green
backs, the World publishes the following
extract from a letter recently received
from Senator Bayard: 1T is not hOstili-
" % the South that makes the North
solid; il is the apprehension lest unwise
and ridiculous administration OF tinan-
ceS should injure Northern property
and investments. No instrument is 50
dangerous as legal tender paper curren-
cy, the redeemabiity of which may be
endangered. do not care half so much
for party success in this connection (al-
though l value it most highly as do
for the great service it would be to our
whole country and generations to sue
ceed us"
Year: 1879

ton, giving to Congress power to grant,
protect and regulate trade marks, and
agreed to report favorably and urge that
it be put TO an early passage, in order
that II may be ratified by the Legisla-
lures sitting this winter. Some action
will probably be taken by the full COM
mittee tomorrow.
Year: 1879

He Speaks to the Point. and
Says He Will Not Accept the
Second Place With Any One,
and That the Democratic Man
ayers Sold Out the Ticket of
1S7G-The Grant Boom Boom
Inpr I'm Indiana
Year: 1879

New York, June 12.-The Public to-
day speaking Of the Pacific Mail affairs,
states that the last steamer under the
contract has sailed, and the subsidy
ceases with this week. Then, if the
officers of the steamship company (who
are friends Of the Pacific railroads) do
uot very speedily find that they cannot
pay the Panama company. and If the
Panama officials do not very promptly
take possession of the vessels under the
bill of sale, there will be some reason
for surprise. The plain truth Is, the
company has been kept alive by its
contract with and subsidy from the
Pacifcroads which they have withdrawn
and that the recent election gave the
Panama road power to foreclose with
ease, neatness and dispatch the mort
gage held, and to take possession OF
the ships, which form the only compet-
ing line for traffic or travel between
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Year: 1879

of the United States court, win restore
to us the possession of the lines taken,
but then We do not know that it will.
Law is an uncertain thing and may
turn against MS when we have the most
confidence that 1t will favor us. can
not say what the result will be. If the
decision should be adverse. why then it
would simply put US back where we
were before we made our arrangement
with the Denver & Rio Grande compa-
ny, and we should have to make the
best bargain possible.
Year: 1879

London, June PA Vienna cores
pOndent to the London Economist
makes the following illusions to the
rumor that Germany is likely to use q
portion of her hoard of silver for the
purpose of increasing the circulation of
that metal: ''It is now about q week
since these strange rumors were in
circulation in Berlin as to the proba-
bility of revision of the currency act
We have received private communica-
tions from Berlin that confirm these
rumors. 1t is feared that Bismarck
will attempt to change the currency act,
which, after so many difficulties, has at
last been happily put into effect.


The sale of silver at the hands OF the
German government has ceased, and
this certainly proves that something
out Of the common run is going on.
The Bourses themselves have been
somewhat influenced by the rumors cir
culating and the notion that any change
would necessarily be followed by rise
in the price of silver. A large amount
of silver rente has been bought in the
course of the week, so that its price,
which was recently almost on par
with paper rente, has again risen.
Year: 1879

New York Herald.]


We have not been so fortunate as always to
agree with Senator Kellogg, OF Louisiana; in
deed, sometimes we have felt obliged to speak
of his political course In manner tending to
persuade him that tho Herald had a very poor
his last political movement. Louisiana holds
an important election on the second Of De-
cember, and Senator Kellogg urges that
leading Northern Republican speakers shall
go down there as soon as the New York can
vass Is completed and address the people Of
Louisiana.


This is q very sound proposition, and we
promise Mr. Kellogg the Jealous assistance
the Herald In persuadinR eminent Republican
always been reproach to the Northern Re-
publican leaders that they have refused to
take part In the canvass Of Southern States.
They have constantly abandoned their South
ern allies to their fate. here now Is an oppor-
tunity which Senator ConklinR, Senator
Blaine Secretary Sherman, Secretary Schurz
Gen. Garfield and dozen other able and in
tiuential Republicans ought to use Let them
hasten to Louisiana and show the people
Kellogg assures them that If they make a
canvass Of the State they can easily carry it
for the Republican party. and Ii they can do
this they will break the solid Democratic line
In the South, and will secure, with proper
effort at least half the Southern States for
their ticket next year.


We hope Southern Republicans will join
Senator Kellogg in insisting on the presence
and help Of the ablesJ and most conspicuous
during November, and In North and South
Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee and
Virginia next year, Ii not in all the Southern
States,
Year: 1879




The Republicans OF Louisiana are showing
great deal OF courage and devotion to prin-
ctple In reorganiZlng their party with the
Natchitoches outrage and the bloody mas
sacres in Tensas and Caddo parishes fresh In
their memory. They deserve praise and
sympathy for the action they have just taken,
but no one should imagine that they have
any chance Of success this year or next. The
cruel and intOlerant Democracy, which has
hesitated at nothing In the past to get control
Of the State, will not allow that control to be
jeopardized now that the purposes Of the
solid South are so nearly accomplished. The
management Of the election Is wholly In its
hands, and If fraud will not suffice to wipe out
Republican ma jorittes, the shotgun and revol-
yer will be again called into play. In few
eugar-.growing parishes, where the blacks
very heavily outnumber the whites, and
where the planters are more Interested In the
bulldozlng material in the population, the
Legislature, but fraud In New Orleans and
State firmly in the Democratic line. All
hopes Of breaking the Southern phalanx Of
Democratic States this year or In 1880 are
There is not the slightest chance
for single electoral vote from the old slave
States next year, nor will the Confederate
Democracy permit the return of a solitary
Republican Congressman from that section.
The time is not far distant, we hope, when the
solid South will be broken up, but 1t must first
receive heavy blow from the solid North,
and be made to realize the folly Of renewing
the struggle which eliminated at Appomat-
Year: 1879

order to maintain the army In an effective
condition to continue military preparations,
because It's strength greatly regulated the
relations between the nations. Bills will be
presented concerning the army and navy.
Year: 1879

Government Il obvious. The fact that III nii
extremes of party strife this expedient has
been rarely. if ever, rcsOrted to, is creditabic
to the people and their representatives, ana an
evidence OF the fitness of the people ior q
government of limited and distributed pow
crs.


The belief is, when an obnoxious measure
is nut into an appropriation bill. that the
President will not venture to take the sole
responsibility of stopping tho operations Oh
the Government. Rather than call an extra
session of Congress, it Is thought he VIII
surrender his constitutional share OF power
The object of the constitutional provision WAS
To give to him certain definite share OF law
making power; the object of the welding OF
two measures in one. is to deprive him OF
that Constitutional power. II is, therefore,
step essentially revolutionary i'll character. IL
j. nm ottcmpt To set aside the Constitution OF
the United States in order to accomplish
sUcca purpose. II Is mn attempt, moreover
tn reach desired end without that appeal 10
.he sober thought of the people which the
Constitution contcmplatcs, and which 1t was
the precise object Of The veto power to secure


Uuaurstionahly the President ought not to
surrender that power. Ii is part OF his sWo.n
Guty to hold and exercise il. He takes no
responsibility whatever in refusing 10 approve
n measure that is revolutionary IN character.
The whole responsibility rests, and III public
opinion will bc placed, with those who attcmp'
TO force him to approve bill by stopping the
opcr,tiops of Government if lac does not ap-
prove. Their act is without excuse unless the
emergency requiring immediate passage OF the
measure IN question is such as to justify
step essentially revolutionary. Whether the
emergency is Oi that character Is the question
which the President has the clear rightto appeal
to the people and the people in deciding VIII
consider that the veto power or the President
Is. in its nature, only an appeal to the peo-
pie, and that the object OF Congress IN choos-
inc a revolutionary method Is to deprive the
President of that appeal to the popular WILL
Hence the responsibility will rest with those
who disregard the Constitution in order 10
force their will upon the country.


1t is the duty of the President at tins
iuucturc to consider that no part Of the power
winch the Constitution has delegated to him
can with safety be surrendered, or neglected
or abandoned by di>u-e. Let HIM use II 10
the uttermost for the protection OF the pu'hc
interests and he may rest assured that the
people viii sustain him, the more because the
exercise of that power c0nstiutonally III
wolves direct appeal to their will II IN
attempt Is made to dcplcte the Treasury 10
dishonor the Government in any other way
to deprive it of such revenues - are nctol"i
70 the maintenance of resumption, TO repeal
laws which have proved necessary to the
purity of elections, or to abrosate solemn
treaties with foreign nations, the President
has a constitutional power to be exercised.
An attempt to strip him If that power by
sprc!c, Of coercion We trust wIll not succeed
Year: 1879

TO the Assembly. Under ordinary circumstances
all that is necessary to secure prompt sup
rress,on of the Central Park bill and Its
author is the mere announcement that Olic
scheme has been revived if MIR. Langoeiu Is
discreet person, this is all that will be neceS-
sary now.
Year: 1879

Rev. DR.. Hayris of Memphis writes
thus to the Appeal of that city: 1t has
happened more than once in the recent
history of our unfortunate city that op-
portunity to heroic work, and out OF it
to pass to the martyrs grave, has been
seized by many an obscure man or un-
known woman of whom there is no
earthly record beyond the mere name in
the long death list. True in 1873, it
became more notably true in 1878, that
tho names Of many of our best and tru-
est are known to few, or it may be to
none save God only. Of course they are
none the worse for this, but it is the
misfortune of the living to be left with
out knowledge OF inspiring example. 1t
is with this feeling l wish to put on
record little note Of one such life an
death. When the Tobin family, on
Bradford street, were seized with the
fever, there was, of course, no provision
for hired nurses, since no one looked for
the fever so early in the season. Oppo-
site to this family, on the same street,
lived young girl, about seventeen years
old named Evelyn Widricks, her father
and little brother Freddy being the only
other members of the household. Evelyn
had not had the fever, but she went to
her neighbors in their distress, and re
mained with them from the beginning
to the fatal ending, Immediately after
the last of the Tobins was buried, the
infection spread to the family of Godsey,
living next door to the Widricks. With
out having rested, Evelyn began duty
there, and nursed these young ladies with
skill far beyond her years. 1t was there,
last Sunday morning, first saw this
dear child. sent her relief and beg


ged her to 60 to rest. Returning in the
afternoon, found the tireless girl still
on duty, and sharing the labor with the
relief nurse. The same night the fatal
fever laid her prostrate. Last night, in
her fathers room he begged to tell him
how his children was. [ could say no
more than she is rcsting-a truer word
than he thought meant, but tonight
they are both resting in Elmwood, where,
side by side, we laid the two to-day.
Year: 1879

Our PROSPEROUS TRADE.-In addition to
the enormous balance Of trade already in
our favor, our reports continue large with
out precedent. The shipments from Balti.
more last week were two millions, from New
York seven millions, and yet the outflow of
grain to supply the European scarcity, from
scant harvests, is hardly begun. The re-
ceipts of cotton at the shipping ports indi-
cate that the new crop of cotton is coming
in and the expectations in this staple will
greatly swell the balance of trade in our
favor. There is no corresponding increase
in ourimportations and the difference must,
therefore, be made up in payments in gold.
Year: 1879

CHARLES 6. FIsHER.-The case of Charles
6. Fisher, formerly an Assistant District
Attorney at Washington, who was convicted
Tuesday in New York of obtaining money
under false pretences, is a strange and sad
one. This young man had an excellent
start in life, and good position in an hon.
orable profession, but he seems to have
tended inevitably to wickedness and crime.
He was convicted of completely in the
famous " safe burglary" case, and was par
doned only on the stipulation that he should
go to the Government Hospital for the In
sane, which was thought to be the proper
place for him. He escaped, and escaped
also from another insane asylum in which
his friends had placed him. Since that
time, it is stated, he has drained his fathers
resources by forgeries upon him, and has
now been convicted of successful attempt
to commit similar crime at the expense of
strangers. He was sane enough to have an
ingenious theory of defence, and to address
the Court himself very inteligently on the
first day of the trial. He even went so far
as to taunt the prosecution with various
delays in the case, and by so doing compelled
| the disclosure that these delays had been
in consequence of appealing letters from
his mother, who seemed said the counsel
"to be the only friend the prisoner had il
the world" But even such consideration!
seem to have had no effect upon the young
man, whoappears sadly perverse and utterly
beyond redemption. He was clearly righ
in the view that an insane asylum was no
the most appropriate place for him.-N. 7


Tribune.
Year: 1879

1t is the business ofevery man to look up.
Business is looking up, and so ought we all.
1t is looking up, and so ought we all. 1t is
better to keep your eyes on the stars and
stumble over clod now and then than to
look down so persistently that you are not
aware that the stars exist. As Jerrold
SAYS, if we do not come into this world to
better ourselves we might as we'll have
stayed where we were.
Year: 1879

An old gentleman of eighty four having
taken to the altar damsel of sixteen, the
clergyman said to him: you will find the
font at the opposite end of the church"
What do you want with the font?" asked
the old gentleman. 81 beg your pardon"
said the clerical wit, ~ thought you had
brought the child to be christened."
Year: 1879

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company are
going to build an elevated railroad i'll
Philadelphia from its depot at oath and
Market street, to Filbert and Fifteenth
streets, for freight and passengers.
Year: 1879

Unselfish and noble acts are the most
radiant epochs in the biography of souls.
When wrought in earliest youth, they lie in
the memory of age like the coral islands,
green and sunny amidst the melancholy
waste of ocean.
Year: 1879

AS pins have saved great many peoples
lives by not swallowing them, so stairs have
saved great many women's tempers and
health by not having them to climb. Three
days in week, at least, the mother of
family, who does her own work, must be on
her feet from morning till night-washing
day, ironing-day, baking-day-and in this
count, sweeping day and the day for general
housework is not enumerated. If her
working rooms are all on one floor, her
task is hard enough, but suppose her
kitchen is in basement, and her dining
room and sitting-room on the second floor,
and her wood-house a step or two down,
and her water likewise, the addition to the
labor required is simply enormous. A
house might as we'll be built on a steep
cerned, as to be built with steps from one
room to the other. The woman who does
her own work ought to have, on absolutely
one level, the kitchen, the pantry, the
dining-room, the nursery, and be able to
get wood and water without taking one step
up or down.


Some years ago we took q journey, and
during our absence secured a woman with
three or four children to occupy our house
and take care of it and the children we left
| behind. She was a woman who never
opened her mouth but to complain Of
something or other, and on our return We
began to dread meeting her and listening
to her various fault-fndings with what she
had had to put up with while we were away.
Our house was situated on the top of hill,
so that there was no trouble about drainage,
and all the rooms were on one floor, and SO


little raised above the ground that the baby
could roll from any one of its floor doors


without hurting it, and creep from the


grasses to the carpet and the carpet to the
grass without assistance. 1t was easy to see


at the first salutation when we entered the


house that everything had gone smoothly


and we might have staid away month


longer just as we'll as not, so far as the family


left behind was concerned. "This is such


an easy house to do work in," said the


woman. 81 can 60 around all day, every


day of the week, and not begin to feel 81
tired as do after one day of work in the


house I'm going back to-" And ever after
) ward when any allusion was made to tn,
time she spent in the house, it was alway
: met with her exclamation, "That is sucl
an easy house to do work inw


Perhaps, if that woman, who by the wa,


was of heavy weight, had had an "eas
house to do work in :" she might have beef


All IIS LlhS SWSSI-I6LlpeFSO anu COuleIlIo'
with life and its conditions. On the lon
march, soldiers throw away one thing an,
then another that at the outset they cor
sidered neccessaries, and at the end Of tn
: march are encumbered with absolutel
: nothing that can be dispensed with.


like manner, women find at the end of tn
long march, beginning often with marriag
and running on through the year, that on
G step up or down becomes burden almos
$ intolerable.


AS the Spring opens, new houses will


built on our western prairie$ and in OF
S villages and cities. Whenever a step or
y flight of stairs can be avoided let it be don
Z and the unnecessary waste of muscle /
n thus saved.-THe HouSekeeDer.
Year: 1879

The BELLIES AT SARAToGA.-A Saratoga
correspondent of the Boston Times has
been watching carefully the girls from the
chief cities at this famous resort.


The Boston belle is always modestly
economical in her costume, with passion
for the Atlantic Monthly and contempt for
such frivolities as the open worked stock
ing. She dresses her own hair and frizzes
it. She goes to morning concerts, and
does not care much for rich men.


The New York belle studies the latest
arrivals, shows her foot at every op-
portunity, and is wide awake in exact pro-
portion to the moneyed interests of the
young men within range of her vision.


The Philadelphia belle is happy medium.
She is not as severely distracted as the
Boston belle, nor so alarmingly on the alert
as the New York belle. She wears pretty
shoes and stockings, and does not hide
them all the time. Her mits match her
costume, and she goes to the hair dresser.
In literature Harper is solid enough for her,
and she is willing to lay the magazine down
if anything occurs worthy of her atten
ton.