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Year: 1879

SMALL FAvoRs THANKFULLY RECEIv-
ED.-The Repubhcon now says It does
not consider 10 ''revolutiouary"t put .
"rider" on an appropriation bin. How
quick these "supples-jacks' turnabout.
Only last week they were heaping praise
on Senator Ba;ard, because they hoped
he would be found voting against his
party and its caucus, since he had made
speech in the Senate in the late session
calling it revolutionary to put riders on
appropriation bills. Now, when Judge
Kelley declares IL is not "revolutiohary,
and that Garfield who had often voted IN
favor Of such bills with riders" on them +,
IL himself made TO deny his own
record; and Senator Bayari denies also
that he holds It to be revolutionary,
the Republican jumps around; agrees
with Judge Kelley and bows itself out of
It's dilemma in the following language :


awe never had anything to expect
from Senator Bayard, but we do know
from the way in which the Gazette has
condemned him for has course in Con-
gress, the anxiety is ON the other side,





the Presidency it will still be hard TO tell
in what party be may yet land. AT auy
rate his little spells of liberality that the
Gazette SO earnestly condemns Is clear
gain 10 the Republicans"


Well, we don think Senator Bayard
will be very much hurt by the loss of the
confidence of the Republican. The GA
zETTE has only advocated the policy OF
the great Democratic party, and han
never IN any case "condemned" Senator
Bayard.


But it will not follow the wake of an,
man into the doubtful paths. The GA
zETTE firmly believes in the use of part.
and party unity-that our government
cannot be properly and safely conducted
without it; and with due regard to pa
triotlsm, it is the duty Of all to unite oil
some great principles settled by careful
consideration and ripe experience. II
who goes astray from the great Demo
cratic Party commits just as great mis-
take As he who abandons the great le ad
: ing doctrines of the church. Senator Bay
ard is too wise, too able a statesman to b
, found anywhere else than in the lead o
the great party with which he has alway


labored to cooperate.


If the Republican ever gets in dout
again as to Senator Bayards position, W
: advice 1t to wait until it hears him speal
We can safely refer it to his speech ii
, the Senate yesterday.
Year: 1879

THE heroine of the following remark
able stOry-but which comes on unim-
peachable authority as perfectly true
was young lady of thirteen or fourteen
years. After a somewhat protracted
illness, she, to all appearance, died.
The mother literally refused to believe
it, although the doctors and the other
inmates of the house saw no reason to
doubt the fact.


The funeral was arranged, the grave
made, and the specified three days had
come to an end. The mother had never
left her daughters body; she had
tried every available means to restore
her, but to no avail. As the hour ap-
preached for the ceremony to take
place, she became more and more dis
tracted, and more desperate in her
efforts to convince herself that life still
fingered.


As last resort she went for some
strong elixir, and taking out of her
pocket fruit knife with two blades,
one blade of gold, the other of silver
proceeded by continual working to
force the gold blade between the teeth;
when inserted she poured drop of the
elixir on the blade, then another and
another, and tried to make it enter the
mouth; but it seemed only to trickle
back again and down the chin. Still
she perseVered, becoming more desper-
ate as the moments flew on to the hour,
now so near. when her child was to be
taken from her.


At the very last, when she was be-
ginning to dread the very worst, she
Thought she detected a slight spasm in
the throat, and on close examination
she became aware that the liquid was
no longer returning, as it did at first.
She continued the application, every
moment feeling more excited and more
joyfully hopeful. Presently the action
of swallowing became more decided.
She felt feeble futter at the heart,
and before long the eyes gradually
opened, and closed again; hut the
breathing became quietly regular, and
the mother was satisfied that now no
one would dispute the fact; so she
called her household round her and
proved to them the joyful fact that her
child was restored to her, and that no
funeral procession would leave the
house that day. Before long the child
fully recovered. The fruit knife, with
its two blades, is to this day the most
precious heirloom in the family posses
sions.- Chambers Journal
Year: 1879

BOSTON has introduced a novelty
which will fill want long felt. In
several depots in that city they have a
baggage mistress, if such a term is
proper. 1t has been discovered that
trunk crushed to earth will rise again
in the shape of suit. Several trunks
that have gone through baggage
masters cyclone have turned on the
companies and exacted damages. This
is the secret of the Introduction of
women as baggage walters. Expert
ment has shown that it is impossible to
reform confirmed baggage-smasher.
He may swear off for few weeks, or
months even, but he is sure to return to
the vice worse than ever. He might be
cured, perhaps, if he were kept away
from the trunks and allowed to sober
off, as it were, on heavy freight; but
the sight of a pile of trunks sets him
wild, and in spite of the efforts of his
friends he sinks in a few hours to the
lowest depths of baggage-smashing.
Of course it is easy for person, who
don't know what he is talking about, TO
say that man with any strength of
mind could quit the vile habit. Few of
us know the hilarious delight that
thrills through a baggage-smasher's
frame as he grasps the handle of nice
trunk that has never Travelled before,
whilst in the air, shouts Chicago,
3478," and lets the trunk come down
on its corner, knocking it into the
shape of breathless ACCORDION. Bag
gage-smashers have been known to
quit the business, hoping to reform;
and yet, before a week was over, they
would steal sheepishly into a trunk
store and order half dozen delivered
in the back yard after dark. 1t is
needless to add that the night would
be spent in wild revelry of flying
trunks. The air of the room would be
filled with aerial baggage enough to
knock a sober man down on entering
the room. 1.-The old mans trunk
again" Thus it is that women are to
be the baggage jerkers of the future,
as it is expected they will handle the
trunks with care, either in the presence
or the absence cf the passenjaire.-
Detroit Free Press.


Gen. Sherman and Jefferson Davis
left Vicksburg, Miss, recently ON the
same railroad train,
Year: 1879




A WRITER in the Portland (Me.) Press
proposes a new plan of life insurance
a company in which only invalids and
weaklings shall be insured. He says:
The robust man shall be 81 anned-
for he is q deception and a Share. You
cannot count on him. He is always
sure to die when death is least ex-
pected. He has been the utter ruin of
many strong companies, and the cause
of embarrassment and impoYerishment
to many others. Just when you are
counting on his premium for diVi-
dend he drops off, and you have pol
icy to paw. The invalid, on the other
hand, is tOlerably certain to live to
good old age. The sickly youth who
promises to die before he is thirty, oft
en- lives to be ninety, and sometimes
reaches par-and IS then redeemed, let
US hope. OF course there are excep-
tions. Once in a while a vigorous
young man lives to be old. Occasion
ally an invalid who is very, very good,
dies young. But in general the weak
ling outlives the other. The trouble
with our life-insurauce system, as now
conducted, is that its managers Obsti-
nately work on the assumption that
healthy man ought to live longer than
a weakly one. Perhaps he ought, but
he doesn't. The facts are against
them. Still they go on in the old way,
obstinately clinging to their unfortu-
nate theory. They are unable to see
what enterprising men in other branch
es of business have long seen, that
the invalid, if well worked, is a man
of wealth. Look at the army of doc
tors be supports. Look at the great
drug shops he has built. See the for
tunes he has made for the owners of
patent medicines. What help he is to
the fruit trade, and to the people who
put up jellies and other delieacies for
the sick The only man he does not
assist is the undertaken. That worthy
loses great sums in interest while wait
ing for him, and sometimes goes into
bankruptcy with large stock, shop
worn and out of style, on hand. In
face of all these facts the actuaries go
On III their laundering way, insuring
the strong and refusing the weakly.
They do not perceive that the robust
man has his head turned by the posses
sion of a great capital of health and
goes and squanders il. He does not
appreciate its worth. II came to him
without effort on his part; perhaps he
inherited it, and he regards it Lightly
lightly come, lightly gone. The invalid
guards his little store, husbands what
strength he has, lives frugally on his
narrow income of health, and takes
good care not to touch the principal.
Sometimes he does not use all the in
come, but puts by little year by year,
a surplus stock of vitality,
and when cid has substantial capital
of health to live upon. Here's to the
invalid! May he live long and pros
uerr'
Year: 1879

such terrible results will be legally prose-
cuted.


This sad story Of suffering and death
applies with peculiar significance to this
State, as well - to other parts Of the
country, and should serve to put farmers
on their guard against committing like
acts Of carelessness. The destructive
potato bug is about beginning his ravages
upon the potatoes in this neighborhood,
and as the Paris green used for his ex-
termination is deadly poison, farmers
should be exceedingly careful not to
throw the poisoned tops into any stream
from which either people or cattle drink,
or, indeed, to leave them anywhere where
they will endanger the safety of human
life. Better for the entire potato crop to
be sacrificed to the greed Of the rapacious
bug, than for one human life to fall =
victim to the deadly Paris green. We
hope all our farmers will reflect upon
this matter, and while spreading DEATH
trap for the troublesome potato bug, be
exceedingly careful not to entrap human
lives in their poisonous snare.
Year: 1879

THE Corporation of London is going
to present, rather late in the day, the
city freedom to Sir Rowland Hill. Forty
years have elapsed since the great postal
reform with which Sir Rowland's name
is identified, and it seems, even to Lon
doners, strange that the corporation
should have just bethought itself of the
desirabillty of doing something in honor
of the man who was instrumental in
procuring so great benefit for the ma
ton. The light which is breaking in
upon his eighty-fourth year, will not
says an English paper, gain much by re-
hection from a golden casket.
Year: 1879

PARIS GREEN AND POISONED WA
TRR.-The latest reports from Vermont,
not only confirm but increase the terri
BILE reports of the wholesale poisoning Of
a number of children who drank water
from brook poisoned by the carcasses
Of dead horses and sheep, and also potato
tops on which Paris green had been used,
they being thrown into the stream. At
the town of Newark, twenty children
drank from the poisoned brook, of whom
seventeen were taken down and eleven
are dead. One man lost his entire fami-
ly Of five children, and his wife is hope
lessly insane in consequence. The poor
children suffered untold agonies, and
after death their bodies became so putri-
fed as to require immediate burial.


The cause of this terrible calamity
seems, from all accounts, to have been
occasioned by the carelessness and per-
verseness Of farmer named Horace
Cheney, into whose barnyard was dump
cd load Of potato tops on which Paris
green had ben spread. Cheny soon after
wards built drain from his barnyard to
the brook, and the poison from the potato
tops of course soon found its way into
the stream. He also buried q colt on the
edge of the brook, and when neighbor
protested against the proximity of the
dead animal to the water, he moved it
back about fifty feet, into the middle of q
swamp, the water from which ran into
the brook, and thus did not improve
matters much. The affair is now being
investigated, and the guilty parties who
impregnated the water Of the brook with
Year: 1879

The Democratic and Greenback
Conventions Of Ohio meet in Columbus
to-day. The contest for Governor in the
Democratic Convention seems to be mar
rowed down to Rice and Bishop. Last
night, however, there was much talk Of
General Ewing's availability, owing to
his strength among the Greenbackers,
and because of his being the only man
likely to be acceptable to both the Rice
and Bishop factions In case their candi-
date should fail.
Year: 1879

About three years ago the.Observer re-
ported the case OF 4 citizen Of this coun-
try who, having married in lS43, lighted
a fire on his hearth stone as soon as he
took his bride to his new home, and had
kept it burning ever since. Tho citizen
was in town yesterday, and, being ques-
toned abort the matter, stated that the
fire was still burning, and that through
out all these thirty-six years it had never
been allowed to so ont. Questioned as
to whether or not it made the house I'M
comfortably hot in torrid weather. he
said the extra heat thus generated was not
preceptlble. In reply to another ques.
tion, he said that N summer weather
when it was necessary for comforts sake
to keep the fire burning very low, he had
to get un frequently at night to replenish
it slightly, but that he counted this as
nothing when he contemplated the idea
of the fire going out He has evidently
formed for it a strong attachment, and
yet one would not take him for q senti-


mental man. But this fire is to him q
constant reminder of the day when he
first broafss ..t,ts1.ts, -, N3riles around II
his children haveerown up into manhood
and womanhood, and their children have
gazed into its light. 1t was the last


light that fell upon the eyes Of his wife,
and he hopes that it will be the last that
| will fall upon his. Viewed thus, the sen-
| timcnt in the matter can be understood,
and so strong is this sentiment that with
the old man it amounts almost to q pas
sion.-Charleston (N. CO. Observer.
Year: 1879

fyAt 6 O'clock of the morning be-
fore St. Patricl1s Day in 1856, the late
Prince Imperial was born, lust at the
close of tho Crlmean war. The Emperor
and Empress at once declared themselves
godfather and godmother to every child
born in France on that day; q great
amount was distributed in charities, and
two thousand prisoners received II Tree
pardon. In his reply to tho congratuta-
ton of tho Congress of Paris. then sit
ting, the Emperor made this foreboding
allusion: ssThe unanimous acciamations
which surround my childs cradle do not
prevent me from rcflec ling on the destiny
of those born in the same place and under
similar circumstances"
Year: 1879

DURING the greater part of the past
seventeen years of suspension there were
only two legal tender dollars, to wit, the
gold dollar and the promise of the Gov
ernment to pay this dollar, which promise
was made the equivalent of the gold dol
lar tor debt-paying purposes. We have
now three legal tender dollars, the gold,
the silver, and the United States legal
tender note, which is promise of the
Government to pay, as it may elect either
a gold dollar or silver dollar.
Year: 1879

"The first thing we knew" says
traveller in Mexico, "there were forty or
fifty brigands around the diligence and
the horses were stopped. Before ] had
time to turn around I had a revolver
pointed at each eide of my head, and
was told to hand over my money. l had
$500 in notes along, but had hidden that
in one of the cushions, and had only two
or three dollars in silver in my pockets.
They helped themselves to my watch
and everything else in my pockets that
I cared anything for; but my having 80
little money seemed to excite their sus-
picions, and one of them took me to one
side of the road, away from the coach,
making me bring along small sachel
I was carrying with me. He told me to
take off my clothes, and did. The
sachel contained an old suit of light
clothes, belonging to friend of mine,
much too small for me; but he said he
thought my clothes would about fit him,
and he made me put on the old ones.
He did not take time to search the pock-
cts, as he was taking clothes and all;
but when told him that should need
two or three mora meals and lodging
before I got to the end of my journey,
he gave me back the two or three dollars
in silver. But he left me bad looking
specimen, in the little old suit of clothes,
though l was better off than most of the
other passengers, for they we're sitting
around in their underclothes, and one
woman, whose clothes had been stolen,
was wrapped up in horse blanket.
Then we went on.
Year: 1879

About ten o'clock in the morning,
says a Virginia City (Nev.) paper,
crowbar was dropped down the main
vertical shaft of the Savage mine from
the surface, and went directly through
cage at the bottom, piercing the bonnet
and floor. No one was on the cage at
the time, and no one was hurt; yet it is
unpleasant to one making q trip into q
mine to reflect that such things some
times occur.


AS the bar fell something over five
hundred yards, it was travelling with
the rapidity and vim of cannon-ball
when it struck the cage. A hit of gravel
no larger than filhert sings like a
bullet toward the latter part of such u
Journey. A dog once fell into shaft at
Gold Hill; and, though the shaft was
but 800 feet in depth, two men upon
whom the animal landed were killed, as
was also the clumsy cur that had failed
to hop across the top of the shaft.


A rat once fell down the Consolidated
Virginia in attempting to spring across
a compartment, from wall.p to wall
plate, and 1,100 feet below landed on
the bald head of q miner, and exploded
like bomb, causing the miner TO think
that rock had cut open the top OF his
skull and let out his brains.


a grain of birdshot dropped into the
top of shaft 1,500 feet in depth would
probably bury itself in a plank or any
piece of wood it might happen to strike
at the bottom. This being the case, we
repeat that it is not pleasant to think OF
euch things as crowbaIs going down
shafts.
Year: 1879

Let IL Pass.
Be not swift to take offense,


Let it passl
Anger is foe to sense;


Let it pass
Brood not darkly DER wrong
Which will disappear ere long;
Rather sing this CHEEKY song


Let it pass


Let it pass
Strife oorrodes the purest mind;


Let it pass
As the unregarded wind,


Let it pass!
Any vulgar souls that 1.-Two
May condemn without reprIeve;
Tis the noble who forgive.


Let it pass


Let IL passl
Echo not an angry word;


Let it pass
Think how often you have erred;



Since our joys must pass away,
Like the dewdrops on the spray,
Wherefore should our sorroHs stayp


Let them passl


Let them pasS
II for good you've taken i'll,


Let it pass

Oh be kind and gentle still;


Let it pass
Time at last makes all things straight;
Let us not resent, but wait,
Aud our triumph shall be great;


Let it passl


Let 1t pass
Bid your anger to depart,


Let it passl
Lay these homely words to heart,


"Let it passl"
Follow not the giddy throng;
Better to be wronged than wrong;
Therefore aing the CHEEKY song


Let it pass


Let it pass!
Year: 1879

A CROWD OF PLEASED DEPOsIrORs FILLS THE BANK


NOT MORE THAN 100000 WITHDRAWN.


Crowds of deposltors of all ages and condi-
tons in life tnronged the lobbes of the Manhattan Saw
ings Institution, Bleecker-st and Broadway long
before O'Clock yesterday morning. when for the first
time since the robbery Of s safe in October last that
institution opened for business special detail OF
police from the Fifteenth Precinct wes made for the
preservation Of order and the crowds were arranged In


double line without confusion Some OF the depositors
came In carriages which were kept within call for sew
r hours before the demands of their owners could be
met BoOtblacks, shOprls and aboring men spent the
day awaiting their turn, and the last dopostor on the
sn0t was not attended to until late hour last evening,
when the doors Of the bank closed Tor the day


large number but, perhaps, not majority OF those
at the bank yesterday drew out their entire deposts
hut many drew only enough to relieve their immediate
needs and left the remainder with expressions Of great
confidence In the sOundness Of the bank Among those
present at the bank Sergeant william H. Leferts,
dcpost of the money OF p0licemen's widows so much
erable amount, and subsequently showed receipts in
mi from various widows President Sche stated last
night that he could give no correct idea OF how much
money had paid out Yesterday, although was not


likely that the amount would he much above $4,000
IL is not thought that the will continue longer than
Two or three days.
Year: 1879

Stephen Layton lives at No. 73l Gates-ave,
BROOKLYN is carpenter by trade but has had very little
work recently On his return home early Tuesday even
ing he was told by his wife that their child cripple,
fifteen months old, had mysterously disappeared while
she was at the butchers shop Layton Immediately IN
formed the police at the Ninth Precinct StaiOnhouse
Detective Kelly sent TO the house, and suspecng
that Mrs Layton knew than she bad told he took
her 10 the saton'house. In the uigh The woman con-
fessed that she had taken the boy TO Bushwickave.,
near Linden-st and left him. wrapped in shawl and
with some crackers She said that they very poor
and her husband didn't have work enough TO support
three children she left this there hoping some
one would fnd him and take good care OF him. The
child had been found in the afternoon by the police OF
the sub-preci CT, who asccrtalned that woman had
been seen by 1t sent to The Nursery IN flat-
luSl.
Year: 1879

THE Rx-MINIsTRIEs TO BE CONDEMNED ONLY.


LONDON, Wednesday, March II, 1879


The Paris correspondent of The Times says
"The order of the day shelving the Impeachment
scheme in order to secure the support Of the majority
of the Republicans must be couched in such terms that
the De Broge and ROchebOuet Cabinets. while escaping
the Judgment OF any formal tribunals viii be none the
less condemned Such order of the day. though the
Right could for It, would receive the support OF
a large majority OF the Republicans. and would be
adopted. Such will doubtless be the issue OF the de-
bate"


The Standards correspondent at Paris says: The
impeachment question is likely to have result which
its authors do contemplate namely, the beginning
OF crusade to put down noisy demagogues who aim at
rendering government impossible under every regime
The and temper OF the country as wen as or the
House require protection against these incendares
and II the Government shirks from taking measures 10
render nnOcuOus the country Will get tred or the
Government. The unanimous oucry is: we have had
too much OF all this want 20 be let alone and have no
more PLAYING at the 1898 Committee OF Public safety
and the Reign OF Terror"
Year: 1879

Upon the arrival of the midnight express
on the Hudson River Railroad al tie Grand
Central Depot early this morning WcldTessed man,
OF middle age, was found unconscious III one Of
The passenger coaches. lie removed to the station
room and ID WIS found that he had attempted suicide
No clew has yet been discovered 10 is ldenuty.
Year: 1879

MENAsHA, Wis, Feb IA terrible tragedy
was enacted on the outskirts OF this city last
evening: A man named Oleson invited a
his mistress TO his house, and during the
evening an alteration sprang UP, resulting
in Oleson seizing an ak and attemp pting to
drive Hammer from the house. The after
turned upon his assailant and inflicted q &C.
we're pounding on him, leaving him insensible
on the floor. Hammer put pillow under his
head and then took his mistress and left the
place, stopping at physicians Office and
telling him that he had better go down and
see IL the old man was much hurt. The ply
siclan, in company with others, went to Ole
sons house and found him lying dead upon
the floor. Hammer was Immediately ar
rested.