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Year: 1878

No STRIKE AT THE MINEs.-Dispatchcs
large mining towns in Pennsylvania report
that no meetings have been held or talk 4 nf
90 discuss the question of strike of the
miners. The prevailing opinion is that there
Will be no strike at present, the men not being
in a condition to stand out any length or time,
Year: 1878

INTERNAL REVENUE STATISTICS show that
over $4,000 was collected from the st. Louis
Internal revenue disuict on account of fines.
penalties, fOreitureS and compromises for the
fiscal year just ended, all of which goes to
show that there is still a small whisky ring in
the city which yeaTns to be the seat Of govern
neut,
Year: 1878

The GUARDS AT TIE TREASURY are to be
armed with Springfield rifles. This, moi be
cause there is any apprehension of trouble,
hut because Secretary sherman is OF thn
opinion that it should have been done long
q
Year: 1878

The SOUTH CAROLINA CONFLICT.-District
Attorney Earl left here today for South
C!TOllna to take the necessary steps to release
the revenue officers now in Jail under indict-
ment for murder. Mr.. Earl does not appre-
hend that there will be any refusal to grant the
writ OF habeaS corpus, and Judge Bond feels
so well assured that there will not, that he GEES
no necessity Of going TO South Carolina to have
the case brought before him in case of a con
GIct between the state and federal officers.
Year: 1878

Every Description Of Real Estate.
In a section Of country unsurpassed
for health, scenery and fertility. 1t
is remarkably free from all malarious
and pulmonary diseases. It's pure
bracing air, fine springs of fresh cool
water, short mild winters and long
seasonable summers, it's gentle noun
tain slopes and rich valleys, its forests
and fields, its flowers Of spring and
varied hues Of autumn--all combine
to place this region Of country in the
front rank Of superiority and beauty
to the colonist and home seeker.


We continue this week our list of
the very attractive properties for sale
by this agency, in both the far-famed
Piedmont and Valley regions Of Vir-
ginia.
Year: 1878

Mr. Editor The Public School
term ends on Wednesday next, and
the teachers of this vicinity look worn
and wearied with the severe mental
task they have performed SO wsll. I
do not think there is person in this
community who would not like to see
them paid, and we'll paid, as soon as
possible, or who doubts that the new
school board will do it.


You KNOW How IT Is YOURSELF.
Year: 1878

An English engineer has devised a
method for generating and utilizing highly
superheated steam which is certainly novel.
In circular furnace is suspended one or
more series of hollow spheres connected to
one pipe, from which the generated gas
escapes to an engine of special adaptation,
and down which passes an internal pipe
conveying water to be ''decomposed." The
spheres are made very strong, and the in
ventor claims that the "electric' gas pro-
duced from evaporated water possesses
unlimited expansive force, which has not
hitherto been made subservient to the will
of man; and the quantity of fuel needed he
declares to he out of all proportion less
than that needed to generate steam for the
same amount of power.
Year: 1878

A Jersey City typo, who has been study
ing law for few years, was recently ad-
mitted to tho bar, and one day recently he
pleaded his first case. He was retained by
the plaintiff in d hog-stealing case, and
in the summing up be finished with the
following burst of eloquence:-


Gentlemen of the jury, hog is dirty,
vicious, ill-mannered brute; it is an animal
considered unfit to be eaten by large and
intelligent portion of the community; the
term hog is synonymous for meanness of
an extreme type. A hog is generally re-
garded as the very embodiment of filth and
nastiness, Acknowledgements. But,
gentlemen of the jury, there is one thing
On Gods footstool that stands on a lower
level of creation than hog; that is in
every respect worse than the vilest, most
vicious hog, and that is, gentlemen of the
jury ry-mark me gentlemen-A hog tttg"
Year: 1878

A daring robbery was successfully per-
petrated recently upon the banking house
Of Messrs. Blodgett q Stebbins, at Pike,
Wyoming connty.


About o'clock in the morning the citi-
zens of that quiet hamlet were awakened
by an explosion that shook the entire viii
lage, and caused the echoes to resound
from the neighboring hills and valleys.
Citizens living near rushed into the street,
and were just in time to see three men run
from the bank building and disappear in
the surrounding gloom. The town was
soon in arms, and, stopping only long
enough to see that the burglars had been
successful, about sixty sturdy sons of the
village, headed by Mr. George A. Green,
President of the Vigilance Society, started
in hot pursuit. The pursuing party tracked
the burglars to Grifdth's Corners, a small
hamlet about three miles east of Pike,
where all trace of them was lost.


The burglars had burned up or carried
away about $1,500 in cash, and some
Government and railroad bonds. In one
corner of the room a package of 1000 in
currency, uninjured, was picked up, and
about one-fourth of mile from the bank,
some burned greenbacks were found The
bank building is frame structure of small
dimensions, standing alone, and situated
in the centre of the village. An entrance
was effected by prying open side window.
A clock hanging against the wall was taken
down and had stopped at 113 o'clock the
the night before. The safe a handsome
one weighing about 1000 pounds, was
moved some distance into the room, evil
IDENTIFY for the purpose of being more ac-
cessible. The safe was opened by ripping
up one Of the bands across the front and
taking it partially off. Two small square
holes were worked through the outer shell
of the safe with twist drills, and by means
of jimmies the bolts were pushed back and
the outer door swung naturally upon its
hinges. The operators then tried to re-
move bodily the money chests inside by
means of wedges and jimmies, but failing
in that, they wedged the door sufficiently
to make small creyice, putticd the whole
over except q small aperture through
which, by means Of Il small bellows, the
all was exhausted and the hnest powder
force into the box. When all was ready
the outer door was closed and the powder
exploded, throwing the contents promiscu-
ously about the Office About pound of
the finest gray powder, so pure that it could
not be made to soil the whitest linen, q
pair of bellows, four twist drills, two
double jimmies, and various other tools usu-
ally used by professional burglars were
left lying indiscriminately about the
premises.-Bufalo Courier.
Year: 1878

WHAT is called a track-laying machine
has lately been constructed, and its adap-
tation to the purpose successfully tested.
It is composed of succession of rollers
set in movable frames attached at will to
the sides of several fiat cars in train,
elevated SO as to form an inclined plane
from rear to front. Upon these, the ties
on one side, and the rails on the other,
are readily rolled or laid by workmen upon
the cars, when they move along over the
rollers to the front, and are delivered to
the tic and track-layers as fast as they can
use them, The object Of this arrangement
is to obviate the necessity of teams for the
distribution of ties along the road bed,
especially over rough or swampy ground,
and also to save extra handling of the iron,
as by the present way, thus insuring both
rapidity and economy.
Year: 1878

OF Cooper and Carey in 1876, although
professedly working for them. It
met with considerable. disfavor and
was tabled. All further resolutions
partaking of the nature Of the plat
form was shut off by 4 vote Of the
convention.


Hon. s. S. Carey. then made an
eloquent and minute speech, in which
ne argued an active, aggressive, for
ward movement, and expressed the
hope that the silver league in Wash
lngton would feel the moral pressure
OF this convention and it's testimony
ana would break away from partv
ties that have been binding them 80
firmly


Blanton Duncan said he had adyo-
Gated the name Of National party
that the name might Indicate that it
was party of the whole Union. and
that he had been confederate sol.
der holder he was now a true Union
man. He predicted that the country
would at the next election be aston
lshed at the strength of this party
whlch would become the first party
instead Of the third porty as it is
called. Other speeches were made.
and after the usual resolutions Of
compliment and singing of the dox-
oiogy the convention at l1:lO adjourn
ed sine die.
Year: 1878

the middle of the night and offered
large sums to vote against the bill.
He saw that the Book Ring were
buyging away the supporters OF the
school book law; he saw that some
thing had to be done to expose them
and save the law: and he threw him.
self into the breach, like Arthur
Winkalried the Swiss patriot who
gathered the spears of the enemy into
his own breast and thereby broke
their line and saved his country. His
exposure has, we believe, saved the
law
Year: 1878

We are within two and half months of
the date fixed by law tor the resumption of
specie payments. Our whole paper cur
rency, including both greenbacks and bank
notes, is substantially at par with gold, and
has attained such steadiness of value that,
excepting for q day or two at the close Of
last week, it has not varied more than three
The foreign balances are largely in our favor,
and seem likely to continue 80, relieving us
Of any apprehension of foreign drain of
the precious metals. Alp these circum-
stances are favorable to the smooth and easy
execution of the Resumption law without
any Jolt OF disturbance in the transition
from an irredeemable to redeemable cur
rency.


If there is any possibility that the expert
ment may miscarry it must arise either Q)
from repeal Of the Resumption law, or
(2) from IN insufficient coin reserve in the
Treasury, or (3) from defects in existing
legislation. The country is safe on the first
two of these heads, but there may be some
room for doubt as to the third. Let MS
consider them in the order named.


First The repeal Of the Resumption
law is o political impossibility. President
Hayes will remain in Office for two ears and
three months after the next meeting of Con-
gress and his veto may be relied on If a re-
peal bill should be passed. 1t is certain
that no such bill can pass both houses at
tho next session. The ground taken by
the republican party in this years elections
has made that party unit for resumption
and the republicans still have majority of
the Senate. Besides number of demo-
cratic Senators, led by Messrs. Bayard,
Herman and Eaton, are uncompromising
champions of resumption. Resumption
cannot fail by q repeal Of the law.


Sccond-The coin reserved in the Treasury
is ample and perhaps redundant Mr..
Sherman has been satisfied on this point
since the sale of the last four and half
per cent loan to the Syndicate. But even
il il were supposablo that the stock Of gold
in the Treasury may prove insufficient tho
Secretary has full authority to sell any
amount of new bonds for resumption pur-
poses The experiment cannot fail for lack
of coin.


7zird-We now come to the only real
source of anxiety. Will not the operation
of law which was enacted at the last ses-
sion make resumption a nullity? We, Of
course, refer to the act forbidding. any
further contraction of the legal tender
notes, and requiring all that are received
into the Treasury to be paid out and kept
in circulation. 1t must be confessed that
this looks like pulling down with one hand
all that is built up with the other. II our
whole paper circulation consisted of legal
tender notes We do not 500 how there could
/ be any valid reply to this argument But
Year: 1878

The Western Union Telegraph Company
is the keeper Of everybody's secrets, but
some secrets it does not keep with o success
calculated to inspire confidence. Perhaps
If it were known how many secrets are in
trusted to the wire it would be thought that
the number Of those that get out is very
small indeed. In the dispatches kept might
be found probably the key to every domes-
tic tragedy that has broken hearts or de-
stroyed homes; as well as the comm ercial
and financial secrets Of merchants, bankers
and brokers, and tho plan Of every crime
that has startled the community and puz-
zled the police. Any government that
should assume the right to make free use
Of the dispatches would put itself in
possession of more secrets than ever echoed
in the ear of Dionysius. But the secrets
committed to tho custody Of the telegraph
companies.aro kept very we'll except when
they are political, and on several i'm
portant occasions the projects, schemes
and rogueries of the politicians have been
disclosed by the simple process Of Con-
gressional demand for the papers. Nobody
but the victims will care to object when an
exposure of this nature proves that Prosi-
dental candidate was prepared to buy the
great office il he could get it cheap enough.
But it has often happened that nets OF
doubtful advantage have been permitted TO
pass into regular precedents because they
produced good results without consideration
OF the facility with which they might be
turned the other way. One of these days
the people will have to go over the subject
Of the disclo of tolegraphic dispatches
in spirit not affected by one or anoth er
results of such disclosures
Year: 1878

Congressman Hewitt having offered the
West Point cadetship in his gift to whatever
boy o competitive examination might prove
sented themselves; but eight of the
twelve were promptly rejected as physi-
cally unfit for the position. The disabili-
ties of some of these boys may have been of
hereditary nature; but the proportion Of
The rejected is too great to be explained
away in this manner. The New York school
boy enjoys great deal of teaching, but no
exercise worthy of the name. He is in
school from FIVE to six hours day and
studies at home during several hours more /;
but if he can find little time for
physical training the means are lack
ing. The combined gymnasia of the
city are inadequate to the proper physical
our schoolboys, and the schools them
selves, public and private, neglect the
physical necessities Of their pupils in
manner almost criminal If the average
physique of the dozen boys alluded to is a
fair indication Of the condition Of city boys
in general-and there is no reason to believe
it is not-the nominal estimates of the value
Of education must be reduced just two
thirds. No matter how able. some feeble
men have been intellectually. the general
rule holds good that to have q sound mind
ono must have a sound body. Is not the
condition of these selected boys warning
powerful enough to set parents and teachers
to thinking, SO that mind in future may not
SO frequently be unavailable for lack Of
physical backing2
Year: 1878

We regret to observe that our intelligent
contemporary, the Times, is uneasy about
the possible success Of supposed attempt
by notorious speculator to get up new
corner in gold and force up the premium.
Such a speculation cannot succeed, it
rightly says, without the help of the banks !;
but we will add that it needs, besides the
banks, the help of sufficient number of
panic makers in the street. If such people
are allowed to scare the public thoroughly
beforehand with vague and wild threats Of
what is going to happen and of the magni-
tude and probable success of the threatened
speculation this will be of the greatest pos
sible assistance to the speculators. We
know, of course, that the Times does not
mean to play into the hands of spectators
by circulating alarming reports. We mean
only to suggest caution to it; for the alarm
lists on the street, many of them more
honest than wise, would be glad of its help.
Year: 1878

ests, because these are to great extent
their own.


These citizens might tell him, as doubt
less they would tell General Arthur, that
straight" republican ticket can only help
Tammany to win, but that a judicious and
fair combination ticket, made up of repre-
sentatives of all the opponents OF Tam
many and composed of good men, could
beat Tammany and achieve q creditable
and perhaps lasting political success
Year: 1878

Hard Money Candidates Wanted.


Both parties in this State having adopted
sound currency resolutions we hope they
will be so far consistent rs to nominate for
Congress only gentlemen who are known to
stand on the platforms. We hear OCCASION
ally of intrigues, by one or the other side,
to curry favor with the greenbackers by
nominating men for Congress who either
favor imitation or are conveniently 'ton the
fence" The voters are not unlikely to
resent this kind Of trifiing, which is pretty
sure to be exposed when the nominations
are made, if not before. The republican
party is just now claiming to be the especial
friend of sound currency. We advise its
managers here and in Brooklyn to take a
little care that they are not caught bargain
ing with the greenbackers, because this
would certainly be exposed.


The merchants Of the two cities, who are
vitality interested in the currency question,
ought to bestir themselves in this matter
and see to it that they are fairly and ade-
quately represented in Congress.
Year: 1878

fortunately our paper currency consists IN
about equal proportions of greenbacks and
bank notes, and a contraction of one
will have the same general effect as a
contraction of the other. The volume
of paper in circulation would be as surely
diminished by the withdrawal of hum
dred million dollars of bank notes as by
the withdrawal of the same amount of legal
tender notes; and if all the green backs are
kept in circulation, as the law directs, the
effect of resumption will be to contract the
circulation of the banks, if the currency is
at all redundant. If there should be no
premium on gold during the month Of JAN
uary that fact would prove that our paper
circulation is not excessive, and in that
event there would be very little demand
for coin at the Treasury. But if there
should be ever so small q premium on
gold the currency would be at once con-
tracted until the premium should cease.
But the contraction would fall upon the
bank notes. Bank deposits consist in
about equal proportions of greenbacks and
bank notes, and the banks would send the
notes of other banks to Washington to be
exchanged for greenbacks, and Immediately
present those greenbacks for redemption.
The effect would be to force home a large
quantity of bank notes, most of which
would not be again put out until there
began to be dearta of currency. There
will be no difficulty in contracting the
paper currency, but the contraction will fall
on that part Of it which consists of bank
notes.
Year: 1878

SENTIMENTAL YEARNERs after the Commune
which some foreign enthusiasts have lauded SO
eloquently, will find but little comfort in our
pertinent selections from Jules Simon's new
work. The biographer of Theirs pronounces
the best of the Paris Communists to have been
stupid blunderers. The world well knows what
the worst of them were, and there is no reason
to believe that on this side of the ocean they
would be any better
Year: 1878

A Few MORE DAYS LIKE YESTERDAY, with
its forty four convictions of persons guilty Of
cruelty to animals, would compel brutal drivers
to abuse each other to keep their cruelty in
proper condition.
Year: 1878

THE WONDERFUL CTY STEAM HEATING PLAN
Of General Spinola was rushed through the
Board of Aldermen yesterday, only one Tam
many member voting against it. OF course the
Aldermen have looked carefully into the merits
Of the plan, considered thoughtfully the nui-
Bance which torn-up streets will infict upon the
enormous majority who will not care to avail
themselves of the system, and seen to it that the
projectors Of the enterprise men of sufficient
capital and character to do the proposed work
properly And of course none of them knew
pf any pipes being laid TO the Aldermanic
chamber before the resolution was voted upon.
Year: 1878

writing of letter that had been dictated
by Mrs. JENKs and put on paper by an
amanuensis, rs appears by her testimony
The Secretary knew that the committee
were trapping for him, and he was wary of
their snares. He was not in mood to af-
ford the committee the slightest relief from
n perplexing position, into which it had
fallen through anxiety to bag Secretary
SHERMAN carly In the hunt. lie made his
statement, which was guarded, and then
left the committee to work out its own sal
vation. Since then 1t has been swashing
around loosely to find some peg upon which
to hang hope of success, but 1t has failed
at all points, and now the POTTER commit
tee stands before the country in u ridiculous
if not disgraceful attitude.


Now that the investigation has utterly
failed to connect either the President, Sec
retary SHERMAN, or any other prominent
Republican with anything that bears the
slightest semblance of fraud on the Rcpub-
lican side either in Louisiana and Florida {;
and having determined not to search for or
expose Democratic frauds and intYmidations,
it is difficult to see why it continues to pot
ter away at the public expense, when it
has no prospect of securing any game by
its further expensive hunt.
Year: 1878

AT last General BEN BUTLER has struck
chord in the POTTER inquiry which will
evoke many responsive thrills in the hearts
and feelings of thorough Republicans and
hberty-loving citizens the country over.
lie is beginning to expose the weakness, if
not worse, of the Administration in recog-
nizing the NICHOLS government in Louis-
ana. The story is an old one, it is true, but
1t is now being told again in a new and
stronger light than ever before.
Year: 1878

WHY don't the POTTER committee sub
pona MADDOX? 1t is true his testimony
would simply expose a Democratic attempt
to corrupt the Louisiana returning board
but the story has almost been forgotten,
and the avowed intent of the committee
is to apprise the people of all the frauds of
1871
Year: 1878

PoTTER's committee relied upon jim An
DERsoN and Mrs JENKs as the colossal
supports for their investigation into the
election frauds by which President HAYES
holds the tenure of his Office. They have
been at work to strengthen their position
for several weeks by whiting down the
truthfulness of these props with the jack
knife Of cross-examination, until there is
nothing left of them. The whole thing will
soppe over soon, much to the disgust, no
doubt, of some of the Investigators who will
be thrown out of business.
Year: 1878

IT Is due to General HUNTER to explain
that the editorial structures upon the FITZ-
JoHN PORTER court of inquiry that have
appeared in these columns were neither
written nor inspired by him, as charged by
the Democratic organ yesterday. They were
written by regular at,dche of the Ma
fioNAL REPUBLICAN, and inspired by the
facts in the case. The writer has not ad-
dressed General HUNTER in any way since
he was witness in the room of the court.
martial Of which the General was president,
and before which PORTER was tried.
Year: 1878

THANKS to the Washington Gaslight
Company for promptly needing our sug-
gestion as to the lack of light for business
purposes. The defect is remedicd, and even
now, as General JACKSON once said, There
" is no pressure that any honest man should
reprct"