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Year: 1878

owing his Office to the Mayors favor
But just now We have a capable and honest
Comptroller, who has tn us far done well by
the city and who holds his Office until
November $780, and it would not be ad-
visable to disturb him and to throw the i'm
portant position to the politicians for gen.
eral scramble. The object of Mr.. Daly's
bill is to get rid of Mr.. Kelly. That is the
plain English of the measure. The
Comptroller is legislated out of Office
on and after January of next year, and
the terms Of all his appointees are made to
end ten days thereafter. We do not believe
that the taxpayers of the city desire any
such legislation. If we are to have an
elected Comptroller the worst time we could
select for the change is when the finances
of the city are being satisfactorily managed
by the incumbent and are just getting into
understandable and promising shape. These
political bills, year after year, are pest to
the cily
Year: 1878

have more to gain by veto than by the sue
cess of any arportionment bill which they
would have the face to frame They will
pass no bill on this subject which they do
not feel sure that the Governor Will veto.


1t is given out in some of the democratic
organs that if there should be no new APP
portionment Governor Robinson will call an
extra session. This intimation, or menace,
or whatever it may be called, is not likely
to make any difference. What possible
good can it do to call an extra session? 1t
will be an extra session Of the same Legis-
lature which is deliberately plotting that
no fair apportionment bill shall be passed.
After the majority shall have deliberately
committed itself during the regular session
it cannot be expected to change front in an
extra session. An extra session might be
OF some service to the democratic
party by enabling the Governor to
emphasize the injustice of the majority;
but we do not see how it could add very
much to The impression he would try to
make on the public mind by his veto mes
sage We know of no more revolting illus
trasion of the dishonesty and degradation
which permeate our public life than the
Albany scheme for preventing new appor-
tionment
Year: 1878

The new ninety-cent dollar has made its
appearance, and a very shabby appearance
it makes. 1t is o libel on our ancestors. to
dies would have been ashamed of such a
pinched coarse, badly executed coin. The
old dollar was solid-looking piece of
money, and if the head of the Goddess of
Liberty did appear to be uncomfortably
situated among the stars, and if her cap did
look like candle extinguisher. the eagle
on the reverse conveyed the idea of dignity
and power and kept up the credit of the
national bird. The new dollar bears a
strong resemblance to biggest pumpkin
or best soft soap medal awarded at country
fair, or it might be taken for q genuine
dollar in the last stages of consumption.
The head of the Goddess of Liberty on one
side lacks distinctness and finish, and
although the face is handsome one it
has q brazen look, as if determined
by show of impudence to conceal
conviction that it ought to be ashamed of
it's company. The eagle on the other side
is mean, shabby looking bird, that might
very well pass tor one of the three famous
crows, celebrated in song, before they
lighted on the bare backbone of the dead
horse ''only three weeks slain" and found q
meal. The wings rise perpendicularly over
the head, in the position assumed by bird
when badly frightened. giving one the idea
that the poor eagle is in terror at the thought
that somebody is coming to rob her nest. A
more outrageous car r.cature of the bird of
freedom was never attempted 1t is said
that designer from the English Mint was
brought over to execute tho engraving for
the new dollar The miserable effigy on
the coin may therefore honestly represent
an Englishmans idea of our national bird,
or 1t may be a sly British sarcasm on our
recent financial legislation intended to con-
vey the thought that eagles at ninety cents
on the dollar cannot be expected to have
the proud, easy, confident bearing of full
nriced birds
Year: 1878

Governor Robinson has vetoed the ''Act
supplemental to the Code of Civil Proce-
dure,". and the Message in which he states
his objections to the bill is marked by the
vigor and directness that characterize all
his State papers. The Governor takes the
broadest ground for his present action,
showing, as the HERALD has already pointed
out, that the commission was created only
to revise, simplify, arrange and CONSOLE
date all statutes Of the State general
and permanent in their nature, but that
instead of performing this duty sit set
about an entire upheaval of our legal pro-
cedure." Thus o necessary and desirable
work, designed to secure simplicity and
uniformity in the Code of Procedure, has
been perverted into sweeping revolution,
whose principal object seems to have been
to destroy, alter and remodel simply for
the sake of change, if not with the OBJ
ject of exaggerating the labor and ap-
parent importance Of the task The sub
ject is so fully treated in the Governors
veto that it is needless to enlarge upon it
here. Yet we may point out an instance
which illustrates how carelessly, to say the
least, the work of the commission is done,
and which seems to have escaped the Gov
ernor's attention. Section 1858 Of the Sec
ond title of chapter Is of the revision pro-
vides for an allowance by surrogates in
contested cause Of percentage upon the
AMOUNT or value of the estate or fund
in controversy ''but the entire per-
centage allowed to all parties can
not exceed the percentage which can
be allowed to party in an action in
the Supreme Court" This restriction was
satisfactory inasmuch rs while the Supreme
Court allowance is five per cent Of the
value Of the subject matter involved in asuit,
section 3, 254 of title 2, chapter 81, limited
the maximum allowance to two thousand
dollars in the aggregate. This section is
now omitted or stricken out, the effect of
which is to permit surrogates to make an
allowance Of five per cent upon the amount
or value of the estate or fund in contro-
versy, the great injustice and danger of
which may readily be conceived.


The veto of the Governor will be very
generally approved. The judgment of the
most eminent jurists and Of the ablest law
yers in the State is decidedly adverse to the
new code. A large amount of money has
been wasted on the work, but the cheapest
way out of the difficulty now is to consider
the expense dead loss and to let it 60. 1t
will be worth quadruple the amount it has
cost to get the new code to get rid Of it, and
the wisest thing the Legislature can do is
to follow Governor Robinson's advice, re-
peal the chapters already enacted and re-
turn to the excellent code of 1S4S
Year: 1878

Mr.. Daly's bill in relation to the finances
OF the city of New York may possess few
good points, but it really makes very little
change of any great Importance in our pres
ent financial system except of political
character. 1t provides for the election of
Comptroller by the people. There is
much to be said in favor of the election
of this officer. The Comptroller and the
Mayor sign and countersign the Warrants
on which money is drawn from the city
treasury, and are consequently check, so
to speak, on each other. 1t is easy to con-
ceive how corrupt Mayor and u corrupt
Comptroller might by collusion empty the
city treasury; hence it appears desirable
that the Comptroller should be inde-
pendent OF the Mayor and RESPONSE
ble directly to the people, instead Of
Year: 1878

The WEATHER.-Ihc low pressures which
overlay the Ohio Valley and lake regions on
Wednesday have moved eastward to the coast,
attended by general rainfall in both dis
trcts, well as in the Atlantic Sec
lions of the Middle and Eastern States.
The winds moderated very much during
yesterday, being highest in New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia. They will increase somewhat dur
Ing to-day as the higher pressures gain the coast
line. The barometer is above the mean from
Nebraska and Minnesota to the South Atlantic
States and is falling in Montana, Texas and on
the North Pacific coast. 1t is relatively low
through tho Gulf Temperatures have fallen
on the East Atlantic coast and in the
upper lake districts, but have risen in
the Southwest and West The weather in New
York and it's vicinity to-day will be cooler and
partly cIoudy or fair, with fresh northwestcrly
winds Tomorrow it will be fair and moderately
warm.
Year: 1878

THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE having
resolved to favorably report upon Boards nom
ination us Collector of Boston Simmons can now
carry out his terrible threat of splitting the re-
publican party of Massachusetts in little pieces
Year: 1878

RUSSIA has given fresh illustration of her
appreciation of the enterprise of our citizens by
comforting upon some of our capitalists the right
to erect grain elevators throughout the Empire
Year: 1878

NAVAL OFFICERS and the country generally
will be glad to learn that the Appropriation bill
Of the department is SO arranged this time that
there can be no future misunderstanding about
their
Year: 1878

party has for several years had no diff
Guilty in electing its State ticket, while
the republicans have easily secured
majority in the Legislature. Un-
der fair apportionment of members
according to population the same political
party which elects the State officers would
also have majority of the Legislature


Under the old apportionment, based on the
census of 1865, the republicans would prob
ably continue to elect q majority of the
Legislature. Mr.. Alvord and his supporters
are determined to keep this advantage as
long as they can. Their plan of operations
is TO pass such q bill as they think the
democratic Governor will veto, knowing
full we'll that his veto will leave things as
they are, and that New York and Kings will
have only their present number OF Assem-
blymcn in the next Legislature. In
stead of mourning over u. veto of this
bill they will rejoice at It. A veto is
what they want; it is the very thing
for which they are schemng. Even the
small additional number of metropolitan
members which they are willing to concede
might make democratic majority in the
next Assembly and prevent the election OF q
republican to the United States Senate


They will consent to no apportionment
bill which Governor Robinson would sign
until the Senatorial election is out OF the
way, their strength in the next Legislature
depending on the election of another Assem-
bly, under the olds apportionmont They
Year: 1878

The Cheboygan Amateur Dramatic as
sociation will give their second and third
entertainments at the Town Hall next
Tuesday and Friday nights. The first
night will be presented that thrilling
Irish drama. '.The Colleen Bawn, or the
Brides of Garryown." Although this
drama has been produced in Cheboygan
before, it has never been put upon the
stage in this village in so complete a
manner as the Dramatic club will present
it. The scenery is the finest ever seen in
Cheboygan, and is alone worth the price
of admission. 1t was, painted by Nor
man Lyons and F. E. Hamel. and our
citizens should avail themselves of this
opportunity to see what our home artists
can do. Owing to the length of the play
no other piece will be put on that night.
f.Nll
Year: 1878

The foe of American social life is in
the tendency to luxury and etfeminacy
among the well-to.do young women
of our American cities and large
towrs. They do not realize how this
dreadful mania for expensive pleas
ures, and a life of alternate ldleness
and amusement, is destroying theil
health, abolishing true marriage,
feeding the fame of gross sensuality
and intemperance among young men,
and saddening the hopes of the best
parents in the land. Some of them
will never know it in this world. But
most of them have no real purpose to
waste their lives in this wretched
way. AnG it is a high crime in moth
ers, teachers, ministers of religion and
the public press to pander to this in
sanity. Thousands of good hearted
young girls are sacrificed every year
when little wise and loving guild
ance could save them. But we feel
that they should be told that unless
they change this life they will pass
away like the flowers Of June, and a
more hardy and resolute class occupy
their places.


American society will shed every
class Of trifers, male or female, that
does not do its work, as TIE
forests shed their withered leaves
Let them awake from their dream Of
social indulgences learn to live out
of doors to build up their health to
cultivate more simple tastes in dress,
and more moderation in pleasure
study domestic economy study social
skill and tact fit themselves for the
noblest positions ever yet offered to
their sex, and learn that woman is the
soul of American life, not the tinsel on
its garment.-[Universalist Quarterly.
Year: 1878

L have lately seen an old horse at
Bourn, in Lincolnshire, on the his
tory of which I can thoroughly rely,
and il is so remarkable that think
it worth publication. l have seen
the horse myself, and as far as per-
sonal observation goes, | can thor
oughly indorse the story. The horse
is aged twenty-five, of the old short
legged coaching stamp, and has been
in the possession Of the present
owner upward of sixteen years, dur
ing which period he has only had
three days rest, not excluding even
Sundays. His work has been TO run
a heavy msil-cart from Bourn to
Swsyfield, distance of fourteen
miles, including the return Journey,
every day, and one day week two
miles extra. The horse leaves Bourn
between six and seven in the MORN
!. ing, and reaches Burn about seven
i'm the evening. During his recrea-
tion at Swayfield, the horse is kept
in further exercise by working at
the plow and other work upon a
farm. he is without blemish and
in capital condition. His work for
the last sixteen years has been so
uniform that the horse knows the
particular places he has to stop at
ON given days of the week; for in
stance, he persistently stops at the
BARRIERS shop on Tuesdays and Fri
days, and six days a week he stops
at draper's shop for parcels, and
on Sundays he won't stop at either
place. His owner is so fond of him
that, with a sort of feeling of Tom
Moody. he hopes that be and his
horse msy be buried together
Cor. London Field.
Year: 1878

A gentleman who recently trav-
eled over a notoriously slow branch
railroad declared that ii is the safest
road in the country, as the superin-
tendent keeps boy running ahead
of the train to drive off the cows
and sheen.
Year: 1878

A subscriber wrote to a journal to
make some inquiries about the next
worlds fair, whereupon the wicked
editor replied that he was under the
impression that the next world
wouldn't have any fair.
Year: 1878

A clergyman created consterna-
ton at a funeral by praying earnest
~ I'm behalf of "the bereaved hus-
band and the one to come who shall
NIL the place made vacant by the
death of our deceased sister,
Year: 1878

An exchange says pretty female
lobbyist, when she commences to
weep, generally wins a Congress
man over to her side. From this it
would appear that our Congress is
partially run by water power.
Year: 1878

From the way some of these girls
look in their walking-dressos, pulled
back and tied tight around below
the knees, two peanuts twice a day
and a grasshopper on toast twice a
month would make 'em fat. Their
waists look like the thin part of an
hour-glass with very little sand in it.
Year: 1878

PEOPLE may condenn, as they will,
the personal habits of John Morrissey
and his addictedness to the gaming
table, but those who know him we'll
are devoted to him. He is truthful
always, of boundless generosity of
purse and feeling. He condemns none
who condemn bis habits, and to the
poor and helpless there was never a
truer friend than the once brawny,
heavy-6sted Patlander. Morrissey is
a man of solid, strong intellect, and if
be CANDLES In a gilded parlor with
''chips" spread before him, he is NO
worse or better than the bull or bear
in Wall street, who is welcomed in the
or in Congress.
Year: 1878




PAPERS here and there oppose the
appearance of members of the Cabinet
on the floor of the House to explain the
needs of the departments and furnish
information to Congress. British Cabi-
net officers appear each lay in Parlia
ment and whether concurring with the
majority or not are not overwhelmed
with denunciatIon and ndicule. This
is the fate absurdly predicted for
Schurz, Sherman and the adroit and
eloquent Sec' etary of State. A British
Cabinet resigns when its measures ar"
defeated, but they would resign much
oftener If they were not permitted to
appear in the House of Commons and
expound their purposes and defend
their policy. We can see no good rea-
son why the British plan should not be
adopted, even though our Cabinet do
not resign when voted down and out.
We have q substitute for designations
in the quadriennial recurrence of presi-
Dental elections. The presence of the
Secretary of the Treasury, subject to
interpretations by the Ways and Means
Committee, would be infinitely servicee-
BILE when an appropriation bill was
considered and so when the tariff un-
derpoes transformation. and the sun-
posed purpose of the President to ask
for the induction of his Cabinet into
the House will be very generally ap-
proved.
Year: 1878

The Sherman Register says that they
are insane who propose to attach John
Ireland to the Throckmorton kite !;
that the touch of ireland is contamina-
tion and foul leprcsy. The Register
proceeds to say that "Hon. John can
not thus air his dirty linen" and he
''must run on his own hook" We
merely print these rawlings of the Reg
lister to amuse our readers and show
how necessary becomes the soothing
influence of the telephone in stilling
to repose the nerves of that excited
fantastic newspaper. 1t is true that
John Ireland has violent enemies
among sane people. He is self-willed
and exacting and proud as Lucifer,
and needlessly wounds the vanity
of others. But none of those who hate
him most have ever accused him of
dishonesty of action or purpose. The
STATESMAN, when Judge ireland was
before the public and legitimate sub
ject of criticism, was accustomed to
portray and even exaggerate his foibles,
but if never occurred to us to question
the stainless purity of his personal
character. The Register does itself
gross wrong in thus assailing Judge
Ireland. He may have been nd:screet
as politician and party-leader in seek
ing to serve friend, but nobody in
Ireland's district, or where he is per-
sonally well known, will fail to con-
denim the assertions of our violent and
voluble Sherman contemporary. But
we give no credit to the report that
Judge ireland or his friends would,
under any circumstances, push the
question of his candidacy for any po-
sition.
Year: 1878

narrow gauge consists in the fact that
1t will become part of the road already
extended more than three hundred
miles south from Denver. The whole
wealth of Colorado and New Mexico
would find its cheapest and nearest
route, If the proposed road connect
this city and El Paso, to the exterior
world through Austin. Let Us build
wisely for the future. The Colo
RADIO system of roads extending
from Denver in all directions
to the mining districts have
the gauge of three instead of four feet
eight and q half inches, and to this
Colorado system of cheap highways
ours should be conformed. If bulk be
broken at Austin, Austin will not be
harmed and the three open routes from
this point to the sea would still make
rates of freight very low, and when the
Chamber of Commerce, as it proposes,
considers this subject 1t should not be
forgotten that Austin is contemplating
the majesty of Pixies Peak and the
riches of Denver when considering the
ways and means of building a narrow
gauge to Fl Paso. The Denver road
will anticipate ours IN reaching north
western Texas, but thither the high
way, of which our people dream, will
be steadily directed and the day is not
distant when the vas. wealth of a
bnundless district of the West must
have this nearest route to the ocean
opened by railway line through Aus
tin. But when will new life be in
fused into the capital of Texas by the
Inception of the task of constructing
the Northwestern Narrow Gauge!
Year: 1878

THE story is now told that the trial
of the question of Hsyes's title to the
presidency by the Supreme Court and
its reference to this court for trial was
prevented by the refusal of Southern
Congressman to approve this scheme
concoctsd by Tilden and those
expecting offices at his hands.
Southern Congressman, like Southern
people, were content to have Hayes ad-
minister the government as he pro-
posed, and utterly condemned any dis
turbance Of the country's repose. The
South, they insisted, especially wanted
peace and no conflict involving the title
Of two claimants Of the presidency.
Year: 1878

SAM Houston SAID if Texas seeded
owls and bats would occupy the Capl-
tol. Very certainly, the bats have ap-
propriated the old rookery, and we
suppose it will be retained for their
use till it is filled, and then the vener.
able structure will be sold as valua-
Bile depository of guano for enough to
rear proper structure for the common
wealth on the spot selected by the fa-
theirs of the Republic.
Year: 1878

SOME ignoramus pronounced tie
STATESMAN Radical sheet because ii
asserted its unwillingness to have Til
den supplant Hayes; but now the st.
Louis Times aud many other organs of
Democracy assert the same opinions,
and the STATESMAN doesn't seem to be
as crazy as it used to be. The pecu-
liarity of the STATESMAN Is that it
thinks for itself and asks the privilege
of asserting its faith of no one, and it
doesn't borrow from anybody.
Year: 1878

THE press begins to speak out like
the STATESMAN and as did Mills, of th;a
Safe, the other day and declare, as we
have done for months past, that Tilden
would nevermore be the leader of the
Democratic party In a presidential con.
foot
Year: 1878

PROPERTY in Austin, as now being
assessed, is reduced In value twenty
five per cent, and yet this does not rep
resent half the shrinkage caused By
the eternal twisting of Sherman's
thumbscrew of contraction.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, March 22.-Suspicion
has been excited here in administration
circles that there is purpose to keep
Ander son In Jail as long as possible. It
is said that 1t will be in the power of the
attorney general Of Louisiana to keep
him in duress until the 9th of April, as
the period in which application may be
made to the court TO renew its decision
will not technically expire until that
date.


Louisiana republicans here who don't
want Anderson to be appointed collector
hope he will be kept in prison. Official
kilograms have been sent from here in
quiring as TO the probable course of the
attorney general of Louisiana, but no
definite reply has been received, nor is
yet known what action will be taken
concerning the prosecution of the other
members of the returning board Private
information which reached here this
morning from New Orleans states that
public opinion there was almost universal
that it was useless to carry on the prose.
cutions further, although among what is
called the Bourbon element much CEN
sure was visited upon the court for it:
decision.
Year: 1878

II is the law of streams to run,
OF autumn leaves to fall,
And she who has been false to one
She viii be false to all.
o, wild as tempest on the sea,
Is that poor lovers fate,
Whose faithful spirit, bound to thee,
Must hope, and fear and wait!
BY surge of JOY and storm of pain
His heart is soothed or broke;
He would not rend thy heavenly chain--
He cannot bear their yoke
There is no heaven so high as faith,
No hell so deep as doubt,
No haunted spectre like the wrath
Thy fancies vile or fout
All, let that tiger heart of thine,
By british mercy led,
To Just one p1teous act incline
And strike thy lover dead
Then let the streams forever run,
The leaves forever fall
Thou wilt, at last, be true to one,
And not be false to all.


80 BaldaoiA's Monthly.