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Year: 1878

NEW YORK.. Aug. 10.-In conversation with
q New York reporter in u Utica yesterday Gov
Seymour said "The West deals directly with
the markets Of the world. It sells more than
it buys, and to make the most money 1t needs
currency which Is the standard of value
used by the commercial world Moreover the
West gains Immense advantages by cheap
transportation and he points out that since
the paper currency has risen in value to near
the standard Of gold The grain and provision
products have been carried to the seaboard at
less than one-third the cost which had to be
paid when the currency was inflated.


The West, he says, has not only. gained
been able with currency nearly at par with
gold to sell vast amounts Of Its prodnct at q
profit In the East and in Europe, which could
not have gone to either market under initiation
charges. The West never sold SO much nor
bought what~it needed SO cheaply as In the
later. years, when gold and greenbacks are of
nearly equal value.


He proceeds to show that the Western farm
with the grain and produce Of Europe only If
they hold to sound currency, and that the
whole West commands and controls the East
ern and European markets, and Is gaining in
wealth faster than ever it did before. A new


initiation would cause 1t to lose all its present
advantages.


Mr.. Seymour speaks as q Democrat, and
says 1t Is good thing to give all the dis
Safls1ed elements an opportunity TO be heard !;
while their theories may be false, still they
prove that those who entertain them are in
trouble and they will bring out many facts
which will be OF value. The discussions of
this year will be Of great use; to cure them,
the evils must be brought to fight; nor does
he entertain fears Of serious results from the
communistic and socialistic organizations.


He points out that it is not the poor, but
the formerly wealthy who have suffered most
In the long period Of depression, and that
governments bonds are not owned by capi-
talists, but are held in the main by savings
banks and by insurance companies, as trus-
tees for the Industrial masses He says that
it Is q curious fact that the wealthy manu-
facturers Of New England and Pennsylvania
have been preaching the doctrine Of commu-
nism, In urging that that class Of American
labor must be protected and supported by
taxing American citizens through the tariff.


Speaking OF New York specuators, he says:
"There cannot be a more CHASTITY sight on
Wall street than to speak Of its bloated capi-
talists, when it Is charnel-house, full OF the
skeletons of dead corporations, while those
that are left are shrunk to skin and bones. A
list Of its bankruptcies will show that there
Is not spot on earth where financial cpl
denies have slain such multtudes of bank
ers, brokers and speculators.
Year: 1878

Especial to the Demoerat]


CoUsHATTA, Aug. 1O-The first bale OF new
cotton was received by us to-day. It Was
raised by G. Brown on Boards Flat, Bayou
plantation, and classes Strict Low Middlfng.
This is the earliest cotton ever brought to
market here in our recollection. Cotton looks
we'll, and picking will commence everywhere
on the river by Monday, the twelfth. CATER
pillars have made their appearance on Armis-
teads and Russ plantations above here, but
have done no damage in the hills The cotton
has never been so good, and there is no sign
of the worm.


Owing to the yellow fever in New Orleans,
boats are not permitted to land here but we
hope that the quarantine will be OF short dl-
ration, as New Orleans is our cotton market.
TIE health of this town is very good.


Politics are very quiet here. While Moncure
was the first choice of Red River parish, we
will give Col. Burke our hearty support.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Judge GhOate I'm the fed
eral court to-day denied the motion TO discharge
the habeaS corpus In the case OF Red Leary. the
supposed Northampton bank robber. His honor
considered the question OF Identity fully estab-
OF the prisoner that there is not sufficient evi-
dence against the accused. and that the war
rant Is not authenticated by such evidence as
not Wen taken. The prisoners counsel asked q
delay TO procure proofs OF deuialS from Nassa-
chusettS. and said they would carry the ca Sc 10
the I. ). supreme Court. The counsel for the
Shel1n held that the fact or the Indictment
being found was proof enough for an eNtradition
warrant and further that Leary could not be
taken out of the New York jurisdiction unril
passed upon by the general term OF the supreme
Year: 1878

A HUSBAND KILLER SENTENCED.-Mrs Ma
tlida Mack has been sentenced at Chicago to
imprisonment for life for killing her husband
She was convicted on the evidence OF her hired
man, Frank Dickerson, who turned states eyi-
dehce against her. According to his statement,
after the wife had killed her husband with a
stick OF wood she hired him to carry the body
TO the barn and place 1t under the horses feet.
The morse was then backed over the body sew
eIal times, SO as TO make it appear that the de-
ceased had been kicked to death. DickerSon is
TO be tried on an indictment for murder.
Year: 1878

Foul PLAY-Edward CROUCH, the originator
OF the noted long strike, some five years ago,
among the puddlers at Burdens iron works In
Troy, n. Y, was so severely burned on Tuesday
morning by the explosion OF a kerosene lamp
that he died soon after. Foul play is suspected
on the part of his Wife
Year: 1878

THE BERLIN MISUNDERSTANDING Evarts ir-
formed a STAR reporter last evening that no
person has been selected to ill the Berlin mis-
sion. and that all gossip about the chances of
t.e respective candidates was pure speculation.
i he appointment Will not be finally decided
upon until Congress meets.
Year: 1878

THE CABINET was IN session only q Short time
to-day. Nothing Of Interest was presented the
meeting being more OF q social than OF bl>i-
ness character No menti0n was made OF the
German mission.
Year: 1878

TIE PRESIDENT to-day said, III the course Of
conversation. that he was giving no attention
to the collection OF official reports ETC. show
ing Intimidation and fraud in recent elections
in several OF The southern states. fer the use of
the Teller committee, a he had learned that
the committee had formally refused to call upon
him for Slch infNrmatinn
Year: 1878

TEXANS OPPOSED TO DIVIDING THE STATE
senator Maxey denies the reports that there is
party In Texas In favor OF cutting the Lone
Star state into five new states after the next
census Is taken. Mr.. MaXey made thorough
canvass OF Texas last fall, and says nine-tenths
CT the voters are opposed to a division of the
state. New Senators from the southwest are
not needed at the present time as the demo-
cratic majority in the Senate is assured for a
long time to come. Texans are ambitious that
thelr state shall bear the same relation to the
south that New York state does to the east.
and become an influential and ruling common
wealth. Texas Will have at the lowest esti-
mate 15 new REPRESENTATIVES after 1850
Year: 1878

the sections and working people gen.
orally calling for the Simultaneous
holding of public meetings in all parts
of the country on the 18th of January,
for the purpose Of condemning the ac-
tion of the German government In sup
pressing freedom of speech and Of the
press
Year: 1878

BEGGING WITH HoRsE AND WAGoN-The
Reading (Pa.) Times of the 9th inst. says


Last week three men passed through
Womelsdorf on a begging expedition They
came from Donaldson, Schuylkill County,
with horse and large covered spring wagon
to carry their supplies They went from
farmer to farmer and from house to house
with a pitiful story. One of them said he
was the head of a farnily-wife and nine
small chiidren-no work, no money, and
nothing to live upon when at home. The
Two others told similar stories, declaring
that their families were really starving at
home They were quite successful in their
work while in and around Womelsdorf"
Year: 1878

A Boston paper says: "a butterfly was
caught at the South End yesterday" 1t
may be safe enough to catch butterfly at
the south end but when you go to grab Il
easterly end shifting westerly toward the
head.
Year: 1878

Louis j. Jennings London Letter to New York World.


More than fifteen months ago ventured to
tell your readers in the West that there would
be a demand for grain from this side of the
Atlantic, such as they had not known for
some time, and that they had better get ready
and improve the shining hour. II may
judge from the improved standing of most
western railroads in the London market, this
advice seems to have been taken. Milwaukee
and st. Paul bonds (sterling,) to take only
one instance, stood somewhere about So
they are now quoted at 1O5. My impression
is that you have still another harvest to reap
out of the misfortunes of Europe. Already
the government has sent over for horses, but
there will be stores Of various kinds wanted
from you in the course of the present prepara-
tions, even if war does not break out 1t is
not possible that all the requirements of a
large military and naval force can be sup
piled by our own resources alone. 1t seems
as if you, who lost your trade by war, will
by another war regain it. Should hostilities
break out between England and Russia, the
English carrying trade would be transferred
to you, just to the extent that you were pre-
pared to receive it. l presume there would
be no difficulty in getting Congress to pass
an act enabling American shippers to pur-
chase English vessels, if necessary, and sail
them under the United States flag.
Year: 1878

Invention mas done more in the line of
manufacture than any other department OF
human enterprise Our improved machinery
can turn out goods of many descriptions
which compete successfully with the cheap
labor but poorer machines OF Europe. Among
the models that illustrate this fact is that of
the Nelson knitting machine, now in use at
Rockford, Illinois. 1t is the only pcrfecs
knitting machine yet invented, completing its
work in an admirable style without the use
of the needle at the heel or toe of the stock
ing. There are only twelve of these machines
yet in operation. They turn out 5000 pairs
of stockings week, and are tended by boy
whose wages are $16 month-making the
cost of knitting each pair one sixth of MILL
Old ladies must abandon knitting, unless they
preserve it as source of recreation, or to be
used as an accompaniment to the gossip of
teatable.


In 1910 Mr. Biddle, of Cleveland, Ohio,
employed twenty men and boys to manufac-
ture twenty thousand wood screws day. If
you go into the Cleveland Screw Works now,
you will see two girls tending two machines
which turn out two hundred and forty thou
sand screws day.
Year: 1878

The present Earl Ferrers is a good shot,
and annually contests at Wimbledon, on the
side of the House of Lords, against the
House Of Commons. His ancestor of George
II. s time is the only nobleman who has ever
been hanged for murder. In fit of passion
he shot his steward, and then he suffered the
penalty of the law at Tyburn Gate. He was
hanged with silken moose instead of a
hempen, and his heart and other adjuncts
were deposited in the College of Surgeons
instead of in quickIime. He drank hard the
whole was to execution; was drawn by six
horses, and threw gold by the handful to the
enormous crowds which lined the route
New York Satn.
Year: 1878

A new sword has been introduced in tho
English army. 1t is described as combina-
ton of the regulation sword Cavalry and in
fantry) with six-chambered revolver at the
hilt, the hilt of the sword answering for the
stock of the revolver, the chambers of which
take the Boxer cartridge, regulation pattern.
The scabbard is wonderfully utilized, being
cut in sections with stop hinges, and folding
up in the form of a rifle stock This is at
tached to the hilt of the sword by slot and
catch, the whole forming a short repeating
carbine, or without the scabbard attachment,
a sword and revolver in one and the same
weapon. 1t is sighted up to 100 yards, the
front sight being taken from the point of the
sword.
Year: 1878

Most of the biographical sketches OF the
late Mr.. Wade mention that be married Miss
Ronsencranz, and that he was forty Lone years
old, almost an old bachelor, and she thirty
seven, almost an old maid, when the nuptial
knot was tied. She lived with him for thirty
seven years that fact, too, is stated in the
''sketches ;" but how useful helpmeet and
helpmate she was is not more than very gen.
orally narrated 1t is rather an important
fact that Mrs. Wade was her husbands Sec
retary, assistant, reader, and it lnay almost
he said, right hand. Senator Wade had an
almost invincible antipathy to putting pen to
paper. He had an almost equal disinclna-
ton to search books. This drudgery Mrs.


Wade cheerfully assumed. When her hus-
band had great speech in hand, it was his
wife who furnished him with the materials,
which he afterwards arranged. assimilated
and systematized. Great things are told of
her skill in this respect-of her tact, indus
try. patience.


Senator in the statement, for his share of the
work was undoubtedly the greater, and his
mind it was which utilized Mrs. Wade's in
dustry. But it must have been everything to
him that she felt such lively interest in mat
ters which were the business of his life, that
she could be intelligently consulted upon
points about which not many women know
anything, and that, while she was proud of
his success, she knew just how he had sue
ceeded, and why he was deservedly famous.
There are other distinguished Senator's whose
wives are proud of their distinction, but who
do not exactly comprehend how it was at
tanned. They are not without valuable infu-
ence on their husbands, and do much by
social talents to promote their success; but it
is not always that these estimable ladies read
their husbands speeches, or would compre-
hend them if they did. The politics of these
wives are, of course, the politics of their
lords; but they are entertained in the female
bosom in rather an indefinite way, and are
taken pretty much upon trust. Mr.. Wade
was fortunate in wife who sympathlzed
with him entirely in the opinions which, all
his life, he so stoutly entertained.


We have said that wives who have been
the valuable assistants of public men in the
discharge of public duties have not been
many, but perhaps they have been more nu-
merous than is generally suspected. At any
rate, it is matter worth looking into by the
careful student of biography. Theinves:iga-
ton would probably disclose many another
instance like that which we have mentioned
of community of tastes and of toll Some
times it is the wife who devotes her time and
strength in this way; sometimes it is the
daughter In the case of Herschel. the as
tronomer, it was his sister. More than one
great man has probably admitted that he
would have been nobody but for the help and
encouragement which he found athome.
Year: 1878

A writer to the London Lancet cautions
strongly against the administration of brandy
or other stimulants to consumptive patients
when faint from excessive hemorrhage. Such
hemorrhage is often due to the rupture of a
blood tumor in the lung, and the resulting
faint spell promotes the formation of clot,
which offers the only hope of preventing a
speedy fatal result. Ergot and turpentine,
he says, have been found, at the Brompton
Hospital for consumptivee, the most useful
remedies for checking the hemorrhage.
Year: 1878

Carefully collated facts show that the whole
number OF religious organizations in this
country at the time of the Revolution was /
to 1,700 of the population, while at the last
census, in 1870, it was to 529; that is, the
churches have increased more than three
times as fast as the population during that
time Or, we find that while the whole men,
bership of churches in this respect was l to
IA of the population in 1900, it was l to in
1876; that is, the number Of church men,
bers has increased during the century just
about three times as fast as the population.
Year: 1878

When beeches brighten early May,
And young grass shines along her way,
When April willows meet the breeze
Like soft dawn among the trees;
When smell of Spring fills all the air,
And meadows bloom and bue-blrds pair;
When Love first bares her sunny head
Over the brook and lily-bed;
Nothing of sound or sight to grieve
From choiring morn to quiet eve,--
My heart will not, for all its ease,
Forget the days to follow these.
This lovelness shall be betrayed,
This happiest of music played
From field to field, by stream and bough.
Shall silent be as tuneful now,
The silver launch of thistles sai
AdOwn the solitary vale;
That blue selicitudc of sky
Bent over beauty doomed to die.
With nightly mist shall witness here
The yielded glory of the year.


-Scribner for Kau
Year: 1878

Quite trade is carried on in the streets of
the large cities in the sale of iron scissors,
which are kept well polished. Such tools are
good for notbing-the cheat may easily be
detected. To make the distinction quickly,
place the tool upon stone, and drop upon it
some diluted nitric acid flour parts of water to
one of acid.) If the tool remains clean, it
is of iron; if of steel, it will show black
spot where touched by the acid. These spots
can be easily rubbed off.
Year: 1878

The following plan for testingmilk is re-
commended by the Medical Ezanailer for its
simplicity:
Dip we'll .polised knitting-neele into q
deep vessel of milk and immedidely with
draw it in an upright position. II the milk
be pure some of the fluid will adhere to the
needle; should water have been aided, there
will be no adhesion of fluid.
Year: 1878

Never stand when you can do your work
as well while sitting. Every housekeeper and
every mother should heed this. Have va
riety of seats of different heights, from the
low cricket to the Office stool of moderate
height. 1t is matter not only of comfort,
but health.
Year: 1878

DAMAGE AT LEAGUE ISLAND NAVY YARD.


Commodore Z. L. Law, chief of the yards and
docks bureau, Navy department, has gone to
the League Island (Pa.) navy yard to personally
inspect the damage done there by Wednesdays
storm. Commodore Crosby commanding at
the yard, has sent TO the Navy department an
account OF the damage done. The wind came
with great velocity from the east from 2 to s a.
10. II then shifted to the south. Great damage
was done to the buildings and dykes. The dykes
several hundred feet around the island were
washed away. The tide was one foot higher
than ever known before. At high tide only a
trace OF the dykes was visible, except q small
portion lately raised. All the island except the
portion filled to grade. together with the main
land for three-fOurthS Of a mile north, was SUBJ
merged. The Shphouse WAS crushed by the
force OF the gale, and now lies ruined mass
with scarcely a stick OF its frame unbroKen.
The small cart shed was demolished. consid-
cradle part of the tin roof of the construction
and repairs temporary StOrehOuSe was blown
Off. About four squares of roof sheeting and
twenty squares OF tin roofing were blown Off
the boiler and blacksmith shop. few squares
OF tin were blown from the roof OF the saw
mill. Some slight damage was done to VIM
dows and roofing in other temporary buildings
The permanent buildings escaped with Slight
injury,
Year: 1878

choked up that il is forced To relieve itself by


tremendous effort, which blows out ail


this accumulation. sends forth great lava
streams, and then having made new
vent and cleared its throat it subsidies
for season, leaving great abyss Of profound
depth far down into the mountain. Prof. Pal
mir says that after the great eruption of 1872
he went up on the top of VeSuyRS. and the
great crater had been blown out clean to depth
OF $50 feet; the walls being colored with the
most brilliant metallic and Sulphurous hueS. He
wanted TO be let down TO the bottom by a cord


but his friends thought il would not be safe


The Professor says there is no doubt that the
water of the sea has direct communication with
the interior OF VeSuviuS. He has distilled the
smoke from running lava and ascertained that
it contained a considerable proportion OF sea-
water. He subscrfbes TO the Scientific Americdn
and expressed much qualification at the pro-
greSS our country is making, both in the way OF
invention and in scientific research. ! think he
must feel Though he did not say SOY the con-
traSt between the liberal funds frequently sup
pied to scientists in America for research and
that allotted to them in Italy. The inveStiga-
tons he is pursuing here in regard TO volcanic
agencies and laws are of the greatest import
ance to all this densely populated portion of
italy, Yet he has only yearly allowance from
government OF 2,0OO francs Tor $40O) for the sup
port OF the Observatory. Apparently. he could
not earn his bread but for his salary as q Pro-
1esSor in the great university OF Naples. which
has 1000 students. CSN
Year: 1878

The subcommittee of the house commit
tee on ways and means having under con.
sideration the proposed reduction of the tax
on tobacco, to-day heard = representative Of
the firm Of Lorillard & Co., of New York,
who protest against the reduction, and also
against any other further agitation on the
subject, claiming that either will greatly
injure business, and further, should the re-
duction be agreed on BY congress, it will be
impossible to allow it to remain at lower
figures than at present. No conclusion was
reached by the eub-committee.
Year: 1878

THE philosopher of the Boston transcript
thinks sit is great pity that some of the
young bachelors who write impressive para
graphs about the amount Of money spent BY
women, and the other young bachelors who
read the paragraphs and lament over the inn
possibility of marrying on less than double
their present incomes, do not know that they
usually leave out some very important items
in their computation. What sharpness of
point and what swiftness would be impaired
to the pen of the small Jones who writes the
paragraph, if he knew that the black velvet
which arouses his wrath covered lace like a
SPIDERS web and lawn as fine as misty How
would the eloquence of the tall Smith, who
reads Jones's diatribes, soar aloft into the
clear, upper air, where dwell the great mas
ters of oratory, if he dreamed that rosecol-
ored satin and silken embroidery were con-
cealed beneath the floating muslin which al
most persuades him to propose to its wearer
by its apparent simplicity. But, unknowing
and undreaming, the pair 60 on, and women
continue to spend money and time upon
their underclothing, happy in the conscious
ness that they can do so without receiving
any very serious admonitions about the
matter" Perhaps louder and more reason
able cry would go up from women did they
know of the carefully hidden expenses of
men.
Year: 1878

The Russians are not only prolonging their
unwelcome visit to the Sultan but have sent
home for the rest of their folks. Sixty thou
sand troops have within the past few days
made their way to the South of the Balkans.
This would seem to be in violation of the
Berlin Treaty, but perhaps there are Russian
local laws that override the Treaty. There
may be Sabbatarian Statute that requires
Russians to march into Turkey on Sundays.
Year: 1878

THE Boston Globe is in happy possession of
brilliant correspondent who has discovered
that Carl Schurz is the lineal descendant of
the chief money changer who was scourged
from the temple. Now correspondent like
that is a real prize,
Year: 1878

IF the officers of the Democratic House are
a prophecy OF the civil service under Demo-
cratic administration a Democratic national
triumph will be the greatest curse ever in
ficted on this country. Think of govern
ment run BY Fitzhughs and the Kinks.