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Year: 1879

IT will be seen by Washington specials to
the GLOBE that the Democratic Senators,
have amicably and honorably adjusted their
differences on the Warner silver bill. Tho
radical hope for aid to their fast failing
fortunes through Democratic split upon
some of the measures pending in Congress,
will evidently have to be abandoned. Upon
legitimate national issues the Democratic
party is unit, and no temporary measure,
upon which there is ground for an honest
difference of opinion, is to be allowed to
divide their councils, and the sooner the
radicals recognize this fact the sooner they
will begin to appreciate the real magnitude
of the present contest.
Year: 1879

We do not know that there is any law in
Louisiana against speaking tho truth, yet it
seems to be regarded as criminal oHense
for any person hailing from that State to
say aught that could be distorted into a
truthful statement. There ought to be new
laws or a new moral sentiment in that State.
Year: 1879

Some Of the Republican papers are abus-
ing Garfield for his surrender" He is
wiser than his critics. He secs that the
partisanship of the Republicans may be car
red to such an extent as to leave MIR. Hayes
without any money to carry on business, and
he evidently thinks that "half a loaf is
better than no bread"
Year: 1879

ZACH CHANDLER and other stalwarts in
Congress still have the ear of the accidental
President, and acting on their advice he is
engaged in cooking up reasons for vetoing
the supplementary civil bill. This action on
his part has been thought probable, and for
it's mere political effect, is far from undesir-
able from Democratic standpoint. It will
be simply the driving of another nail into
the coffin Of the radical party. But it is a
pity the carcass should be made more often
sive by stirring it up to drive fresh nail.
Year: 1879

The GLoBE will be glad to receive and print


short letter. from the people on local or cur
rent topics. Make your communications brief
and to the point and you will secure their pub
lication. t5 Z
Year: 1879

Some excellent scores were made in the fourth
competition for the Association Long Range
Prizes." which took place yesterday afternoon on
Brinton Range. The breeze light AMI the light
strong gray. The following were the best scores
Year: 1879

the finish as to its being dead heat.
go in the Anu. and the contest ought beggar
description The Elizabeths got the best of the start
aud cut out the work from the prst pushing the
the exasperating press boat fell back tor
''reasons too numerous to mention" From that
Is that at the half-mile the Montreal
crew was seen to slow and drop back. the "Shoes"
and Elizabeths going on ahead of the field. At the
halfway point the Michigans began to fail under tho
speed the leaders were forcing and tell back AS did
the olympcs. later. At the mile the Ezabeths chal
lcngcd the .'Shocs," and in u sperate struggle led
them. Al q mile and q quarter the s.shoas'' got
tho lead again. but for only moment,
the Elizabeths taking it from them 200 yards from
home. The race now seemed positively theirs. when
they began to steer wildly resulting in their losing
the race to the shoes" by few fest. Time sm.
35s.s. The style to-day OF the Shoe-wae-cae. mette
crew. we'll known to the public. has been
the subject of general comment among
fought battles have not been simply thn tron,.a
which they have won. They have. by often coming
ia contact with other oarsmen learned to in
much better form, and as necessary result rowing
faster to-day than before. They still have faults
which should be corrected, If they wish to get the
most speed possible from their boat. They have
tendency to feather under water. Most of them
pull their HANDS into their lap, which causes them
to throw water on the end of the stroke. by pulling
out or the water All meet their oars, which causes
some OF them to settle. They rowed ~ strokes u
minute and spurted 46. The Ezabcths rowed In tho
best form shown by any crew in the heat. Bow and
stroke he'd their form best. Nos. 2 and their
and do not swing with stroke, which spoils
the appearance OF the crew they ought TO use their
backs little more. They are tough wiry lot of
men. and will make any crew work hard to beat them.
They rowed 40 strokes q minute and spurted to a..
The Oh lympic row fast stroke, and another
lot of hardy men. They have the same faults that
have been mentioned in connection with the other
crews, such meeting their oars. swinging out OF
the boat, aud, worst of ali. not swinging In time.
They rowed AZ strokes minute and spuried to a..
The Michigan crew rowcd with backs bent almost
enough to form half circle. and their rowing was
bad IN other ways we'll They rowed A strokes to
the minute, and got up a. high AS ~.


For the third trial heat of the iouroared shells the
Year: 1879

In Virginia there is method and order
in drinking. The climate being colder,
the blood is not so thick, and hence the
necessity for drinks every hour is not
urgent. There is also more economy in
Virginia, where the close methods of
the regions of hog and hominy are OBJ
served. Here in Alabama we drink in
winter to keep warm and in summer to
keep cool. In the cities we drink to be
sociable and to show that we are men
about town, and in the country we
drink to keep off chills and to cure
snake bites. We are opposed to the
continual drinking which exists in Rus
sia and other parts of the barbarous
world, but do not object to cocktail
when we get up, a snifter just before
breakfast, throat-clearer just after
breakfast, luncher at IL O'Clock, two
or three sociables between IL and din.
ner, a bottle of wine or good strong
whisy straight at dinner. After dinner,
having been thus abstemious during
business hours, we open ourselves lit
tie and drop in at the saloons and clubs
to see how political affairs are moving
If the country is in danger or if we find
it popular to abuse good neighbor for
the benefit of faction, the matter can
be better discussed over drink or so.
The Judgment is better balanced and
opinions more readily formed over the
fumes of hot whisky punch. We be-
come. more eloquent and express our
opinions with that emphasis of state
ment which marks the free American.
Mobile (AIa.) Register.
Year: 1879

MARVELLOUS MRTH AND MELANCHOLY AT


RHODE ISLAND ROAST OF BIvALvEs AND


BIPED..


what was announced the last Rhode Island
clambake of the Centennial Club given yester-
day in the grove adjoining Cases Hotel above Gen.
tral Bridge Owing to the weather during the early
part of the day the affair was partial failure. in
spite Of the clear skies and delicious at
mosphere at the time of the bake.
splendid rainbow overhung the Centennials at
dinner and seemed to heiGhten its colors from
the sparkling and foaming wine at the tables Apart
from tho number of the guests the dinner was
quircd delicate and delicious flavor from its
tiguity with the fish. The green corn, on the con-
trary, suffered immeasurably and became ishy.
The clans. however, seemed to rejoice in whatever
had gone before. and could they have spoken " ould
have said:-"l is in our honor all these
things have been prepared; all that have
gone before are but the small fry i'll our ket-
tie" But the sinallness OF the company had n del
clans came with their mouths open Us it begging
to be eaten nobody seemed to be in the humor. Ex-
County Clerk Gumbleton looked at them through
his spcctacles and LIT one of those finely favored
Havanas winch used to make u little corner of the
Court House delicious % resort. Alderman
police Commissioner Nichols looked at them
with a melancholy stare. The pugnacious
Purroy became gentle as lamb. Alder
man t4ilon wished himself back to Washing
ton Market. Alderman Carroll whispered something
about "soft tommy and succulent chops" Dr..
Year: 1879

ment of the funds in the possession of the Treasury
of the United States.''


JURISDICTION OF FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS


THE WRIT OF ERROR IN THE NORTH CARO-


LIMA CASE ABANDONED.


Information has been received at the Department
of Justice that the Governor of North Carolina has
directed the Withdrawal of the order for writ Of
error which to be taken out in the case of The
United States Hoskins. The case is a celebrated
one. involving the Southern idea of State su-
premacy federal jurisdiction. Hoskips was an
Internal Revenue officer, and in the discharge
of his duty. it was alleged, he committed an
assault and battery of the citizens of the
State for which he indicted in the State court
He demanded that the should be transferred to


United States court under the provisions of United
States law. and the motion denied by Judge
Schenck the State Judge. Upon appeal to the State
Supreme Court the decision of Judge Schenck was
reversed.


1t appears that there has been great deal of feel
ing in the Southern States upon this alleged inva-
sion Of State rights by federal officials and the de-
sire hEs been to test the consttutionaity Of the
Legislature which enables a federal official to deny
power of the State courts to prosecute him for
what jury of the State deems an infraction of
state laws. Accordingly the Governor of North
Carolina ordered writ of to be taken out that
the question might be appealed to the United
States Supreme Court. The has been pending
several years. This action of the Governor now in
abandoning the application is understood to have
been taken the ground that the appeal could not
show that there was an attempt to diminish the
thority of the government in the State of North
Carolina. The State Court. it is true, had denied
the authority of the government, but the State Su-
preme Court had refused to sustain this action
Hence the subordination of State federal author
ity plainly admitted and an attempt to make
the issue the action of the lower court could not
be sustained. similar arose in Delaware,
growing out of the arrest of United States SUPER
visors in Wilmington, which involved the same
point but the contest was dropped after the matter
had been fully considered by Senator Bayard, as
counsel on behalf of the State.
Year: 1879

Lindsay. immense he is naturally found his
immensity decline to such a degree that he was COM
PEELED to swell himself with the fresh air or Gabe
Cases grove in order to appear his natural size 10
the little fellows around him. Only Harbor Master
Thompson gave any symptoms OF an ap-
petite. and he only because he had two
friends with him-Jacob Wood and Colonel X.
b. snowden. of Memphis. The Harbor Master
simply sacriice himself to the duties of hospi-
tality and made every endeavor to impress his
Southern friends with the idea that every Northern
man thoroughly enjoys genuine Rhode Island
clam bake He was martyr tn his own cause; but
in the end he received the reward of the good and
the thanks of the neglected clans. AS the affair did
not come off as was expected it was unanimously
voted t. have another bake Sunday next, which,
1t is believed will prove bigger jollier and more
appetizing.
Year: 1879

There are many evils which are
more than half cured by hope. Hope
brings good things about us, not so
as to be handled, but so as to be
owned and rejoiced in. Hope pro-
phecies to us. Hope makes us free
of the universe. am q pilgrim, and
life is what I have to travel over ;
and oh! I have many dangers and
many wants but hope is my all in
all, nearly. Hope is light and courage
and a staff; and when I sit down, it
Is q friend to talk with and when l
suffer, it is an angel to stand by and
strengthen me; and when I have
wandered in sin, and repented and
returned to tho right path, then from
hope get my peace of mind again,
and newness of virtue. - Wiltia"'
Mo,0atfo,'d.
Year: 1879

The other day when q burly big
driver of q coal cart backed his We
hicle up to the alley gate of an old
house on Fort street east to dump
ont q half ton of coal, some child
rem came ont of the side door, and
the driver beckoned them near and
said:


ssLast time was here one o. the
wheels crushed q bit of a dog belong
ing to some of you. I heard q great
crying out, but can't be stopping to
look out for dogs on the street"


The children made no reply, but as
they watched him unload the coal
they wondered if he had little child
kindly to them. He may have felt
the burden of their thoughts, for
suddenly he looked up and said
"Weil, own Pm o bit sorry, and
being as knew L was coming. up l
brought along an orange to give to
the child who owned the dog.
Which of you is it ?"


~The dog belonged to little lame
Billy in that house there" answered
a girl. cit was all the dog he ever
had, and when you killed it he cried
himself almost to death. He didn't
never have any plaything but that
little dog"


"And will you take him this or
ange ?" ,. .;, ,oo. ,.,. a..o am,
they're coming to take him to the
graveyard pretty soon."


The driver looked up and down,
seemed to ponder the matter, and
then crossed to the other house. The
little coffin and its burden was in the
front room, and two or three old wo'
linen were wiping away their tears
land talking in low tones. The driver
put his hand on the closed coffin and
said:


uI didn't know it was his dog
didn't know he was lame and sick
God forgive me if made sorrow to1
him ~
The vehicle sent to convey the bod,
to the cemetery drove mp at that mo
ment, and the burly big man con
tinued:


eff he was alive I'd buy him any
thing he could ask. can do nothing
Inow but carry him softly out"


He gently took up the coffin in his
stout arms and carried it out, his
ewes moist and his lip quivering, and
when he had placed it in the vehicle
he looked up au the driver in a be-
seeching way and whispered


"Drive slow-drive slow He was
q poor little lame boy!'


The driver wondered, and he
moved away slowly, and the Goa
cartman stood in the center of th'
lstreet and anxiously watched till III
was off the cobblestones. Then, a.
he turned to his own vehicle, he said
"I didn't mean to, but l wish h


had lived to forgive me!'-Detro
Free Press.
Year: 1879

notwithstanding the entire absence
Of timber or verdure of any kind,
upon the mountains of the Colorado
river, they are ever changing objects
of beauty and interest, and the longer
and more studiOusly you gaze upon
them, the moro completely are you
lost in admiration Of them. In the
evening, in the interval just before
and immediately after the decline of
the great orb of day, these earth
giants point up thcir ragged edges
and grotesque columns against a
canopy that is Il marvel of celestial
coloring. At this time of the year
no clouds sail majestically over the
mountains. From sunrise until with.
in an hour of sunset the imperial
dome seems like a great sapphire sus-
pended over tho world. Then the
eastern mountains and the horizon
above assume a most exquisite tint
of something between purple and
maroon, while the elevations on the
west and tho horizon above color up
in lilac and gold. A tew moments
after sunset the whole heavens and
mountains upon either side assume q
lavender hue. So perfect and so
delicate are the tracings of these
mountain outlines against the sky
at this period Of the evening, that
the entranced vision follows them as
readily as if they were just so many
artistic pencilings upon map or parch-
ment. Yet all this pales in compari-
son with the mirage on Il clear morn
ing, which cuts up these same
mountains into castles, cathedrals,
fortresses, esplanades, gardens, for
ests and every other imaginable
thing, or topples them over or sus-
can watch the beautiful effects of
mirage in this country with moro
delightful avidity than any other one
thing that can be presented.
Year: 1879

TnE wheat crop in this section gives
promise Of better yield than was hoped
for early in the spring. Whilst the crop
Till not be o heavy one, yet the quality Of
the wheat Is very good.-lforyanioea fost,
Year: 1879

1t is useless to deny that the Democratic
party has been temporarily beaten i'll
the contest which practically closed
by Mr.. Hayes second veto mes
sage. 1t Las been beaten not by the peo-
pie or their representatives, but by men who
do not understand what the people desire.
1t has been beaten by a man who occupies
the highest Office in the nation without sane
ton of the people who heretofore have desig
mated the incumbent of that Office, and by a
set of mon who have been notorious for
years as obstructionists and perverters of the
constitution and the laws. But the defeat
is not irretrievable. If we only have
patience and moderation, time viii! surely
set all things even.


The contest has been one of the most
memorable in the history of the republic.
It has been conflict between free govern
ment and despotism-a struggle for suprem-
acy potent with grave results. During the
days of the war and the reconstruction
period that succeeded it, laws were enacted
that portended great danger to free institu-
tions. In times of national disturbance Ii
cense is too apt to bavo free rein and ex-
pediency to usurp the place OF law. 1t was
SO in the case Of this country. Measures
were enacted that, it was thought, were de-
signed to protect the people i'll their right tc
free exercise of the suffrage, but that were
in direct antagonism to the perpetuity o.
frea institutions The constitutional amend
ments abolishing slavery and forbidding any
discrimination in citizen rights on account
of race, color, or previous condition of ser
vltude were both necessary and proper, ani
none are now found who desire to chang
them i'll any respect. But there wer
other laws passed under the au
thority granted by these amendment
to enact legislation to properly enforce then
that menace the entire structure of the gov
ernment. 1t was sought by Congress to re
peal some of these obnoxious and destructiv
laws-the authority granted to tho executiv
to use troops at the polls in defiance of th
constitutional provision on that subject; th
law giving to federal supervisors of election
and deputy marshals authority to arbitrari]
arrest persons suspected of desiring to exc
else the right Of suffrage illegally, and to a
sumo general control of elections for Repr
sentatives in Congress; and that requirir
Jurors in all cases at the South to take VIII
is known as the iron-clad oath. The first


manifestly an unrepublican law. The pre-
ence Of armed men, wearing the federal ur
Year: 1879

form, at the polls, is a standing monaco to
the citizen-a threat that if he fails
to vote as ho is desired to
vote by the authorities at Washing
ton, he will DO placed III duress. A military
force is not a part of our system of govern
ment except so far as it is employed to repel
foreign invasion and secure domestic tran
guilty, and the presence of troops in any
State, except for such purposes, is wanton
invasion which ought to be repelled.


Scarcely less at variance with our system
of government is the law which gives to fed
eral officials supervision over elections. 1t
is pernicious doctrine, calculated to IN
crease the power of the central government
to the verge of absolute despotism. 1t is no
part of the duty of the government to exer-
else such CONTROL and besides is wholly un-
necessary. During our whole existence the
States have performed that duty and per-
formed it we'll. Frauds upon the ballot box
have been detected and punished vigorously,
and the people have been fully protected in
all their rights. What, then, is the
reason of the change that has been
made? But one can be imagined-a desire
to unduly increase the authority of the fed
eral government and make thu States sub
servient to it. This is fraught with the great
est danger. It is aimed at the idea that the
people are to govern the country, and will
! eventually lead to the building up of ar
oligarchy at Washington that will assume
the control of all the individual affairs of the
people.


The Jurors test oath when enacted .eas sim
ply piece of petty spite, and has already
been declared unconstitutional by learned
Judge of the supreme court. Its effect has
been to exclude from the jury box all per
sons of intelligence in the Southern States
and to put litigants at the mercy of the mos
ignorant and vicious of the population. l
has done it's worst work, however, and few
years, at most, will correct it entirely.


In seeking the repeal of these obnoxiou
laws tho Democratic party has suffered de
feat. But it has not been defeat of whicl
it has reason to be ashamed. In the debate
that have taken place the leading orators hav
presented the most cogent reasons for thei
action, and can now appeal to the people il
the confident assurance of being sustained


They have been moderate in discussion, hav
presented united front, and have sougt
to do nothing that was not inspired by th
highest motives of patriotism. They ca
afford to rest on such record until sue
time as the people may be called upon
enter their verdict in tho promises. Whs


that verdict will be does not admit of


question.
Year: 1879

IT is astonishing how soon the reputedly
rich men of New York become poor when
tho assessor comes around. A few weeks
ago both Vanderbilt and Belmont sWore
that tiloy had not q dollars worth of per
sonal property liable to taxation, and now
Cyrus w. Field, has followed suit All OF
them have been reported to bo worth t!ei,
millions, but if thoy arc SO pitiably poor as
they seek tho public to understand, it may
be necessary to raise a public contribution
for ihor
Year: 1879

lie proposed payment of arrears of pom
sious by tho uso of the ton millions of reserve
held in tho treasury for the redemption OF
fractional currency bids fair to become law.
Thcre is now but little fractional paper cur
rency outstanding, the greater part of that
unredeemed being lost or destroyed, and
therefore there is but little use for the fund.
1t ought to be utilized il the manner pro
posed, and that without delay.
Year: 1879

TnE Greenbackers in the House are doing
far better than we expected them to do On
nearly all questions at issue between the two
parties majority of them have stood by the
Democrats with fidelity that is greatly to
their credit. We can only regret that SO few
of them were elected.
Year: 1879

ANOTHER "commission' is to be appointed


to look after the levees of tho mississippi
These com missions are getting to be rather
expensive luxuries, and it is pretty nearly
time that they were dispensed with. Besides
being expensive they arc cunlbrous and i'll
efficient, and the work they are organized to
accomplish is rarely well or expeditiously
Year: 1879

The Pennsylvania Legislature is making a
reputation for itself, that Is to endure for
eli time: The developments of tho present
bribery investigation show that nearly every
member was approached with tenders Of
money if they would vote for the riot indem-
nifty act While some declined the proffer
others accepted it, and good many radical
statesmen stand good chance of serving
tho balance Of their terms in the penitentiary.