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Year: 1879

Mr. James II. Tully, q uniformed guar
dian of the peace attached to the Fifth pre-
cinct. which is fast winning reputation
for police ruffianism equal to that of the
notorious Twenty-ninth, was yesterday
transferred to the Penitentiary for three
months by order Of the Court of Special
Sessions. Justices Kilbreth, Morgan and
Hammer formed the court The offence of
which Mr.. Tully was accused was that Of
assaulting with q deadly weapon rounds
man who caught him drinking at q saloon
at two o'clock in the morning. The
roundsman's head was split open, his
arm was broken, and he received injuries
which, if he had not been strong man,
would probably have proved fatal. For Q
felonious assault of this description an
ordinary laboriDg man or any person with
out money in his pocket or police uniform
on his back would have been sentenced to
State Prison for term OF years. Never
theless, the mild rebuke administered by
the Court to Mr.. Tully will be hailed with
satisfaction as an evidence that the official
wielders of the murderous club are not to
be allowed to escape with entire impunity
or to be covered with praise on all occa-
sions. When Mr.. Tully comes out of the
Penitentiary he ought to be Immediately
promoted to the Twenty ninth precinct by
the admiring Police Commissioners.
Year: 1879

Corporation Counsel Whitney informs
the Sinking Fund Commissioners how and
on what conditions the public markets may
be leased to private individuals. There is
no doubt about the authority Of the Com
missioners either to sell or lease such prop
erty, but the sale or leasing must be at pub
lie auction, after nm appraisement and to
Year: 1879

The ENGLISH MOVEMENT for the exploration
of certain spots once famous in Western Asia
will be followed with interest on this side of the
water. Our civilization is not failure, but it
is in so many particulars no better than that OF
portions of Asia forty centuries ago that per-
sistcnt comparison may provoke us into i'm
movement
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YESTERDAY stock market
was active but the list irregular as to prices.
Government, State and railroad bonds were all
in good demand and firm. Money loaned ON
call ut 3l2 5 per cent, closing at per cent.
Year: 1879

TINE is beginning to make things even in the
fireworks line. China is responsible for torture
by frecracker, and yesterday n single cracker
made itself at home in Chinese laundry to an
extent that frightened the pigtailed proprietor
all the way to o police court.
Year: 1879

ONLY HALF AS MANY LIVES have been lost
on steamboats, during the year ending June 30
as were lost last year, and the odds are still
more favorable when comparison is made will,
the three preceding years. Would that the
railway service improved steadily in point Of
safety
Year: 1879

APPARENTLY THE TRAMPs have not yet re-
ceived their copies of the City Directory, for
one of them has been acting after the manner of
his kind Mt the house of Chief of Police Walling
Year: 1879

The MANNERS peculiar to that famous organ
ization, "The Geological Society Upon the STAN
isiaus,' threatened to prevail in the California
Democratic Convention yesterday. No attempt
was made at reconstruction from a set of mule
bones, but some of the members were intent
upon making asses of themselves and longed for
the historic ''chunk of old red sandstone" with
which to impress other delegates
Year: 1879

The WEATHER.-Tle area of low barometer
that over the districts west of the Mississippi
River on Wednesday moved rapidly in north
eastery direction, and now overlies the lake
regions and Canada. The pressure within il
has decreased considerably, and there are indi-
cations that centre of disturbance will be
developed over the lower lake regions and the
st. Lawrence Valley during the next twenty
four hours The barometer is highest over the
South Atlantic States and is above the mean in
the Gulf districts Rain fell throughout the
lake regions and on the Gulf coast The weather
in the other districts generally fair, except
in the New England States, where cloudincss
increased toward the afternoon and light
showers fell. The winds have been brisk
in the central valleys and the lake re-
gions, fresh on the Atlantic coast and
IN the Northwest and generally light elsewhere.
The temperature fell decidedly over the upper
lakes and rose in the other sections of the coun-
try. The area Of high barometer that extends
over the Atlantic coast south of Mary land is
likely TO force the depression that is moving over
the lakes to take nortberly course, so that our
district will not be affected very much during its
passage. The weather over the British Islands
continues unsettled, the pressure Is low and
cloudiness prevails. The weather in New York
and it's vicinity to-day will he warm and partly
cloudy or fair, with occasional rains. Tomorrow
IL viii be cooler and cloudy with showers, fol.
lowed by clearing.
Year: 1879

DARKNESS was gradually closing
~ over the sedate little village of
Edgeville, and night was drawing on
apace. The subdued twilight was CIV
ing place to gloom deep and Opaque;
night was settling down over Edgeville
and its quaint old church under the hill,
on which the bell was now tolling.


Near by the little church = being, in
fact, only separated from it by the
churchyard, was small, neat cottage,
the dwelling of the sexton, little,
withered old man, who, having been
born in the village, and never having
made days journey away from it, was
a sort of pensioner of the village, who
considered him a village institution,
and withal looked up to him as an
oracle.


Adam Hill was town-clerk, as well as
sexton, and postmaster besides = al
though his postal duties consisted in dis
tributing the half-dozen or so of letters
which arrived weekly by the mail-rider.
AS he could actually pronounce the ma
jority of the polysyllabic words scatter
ed through the columns of the newspa-
per which occasionally strayed into
Edgeville from the great outside world,
and as be was known to have quoted
Latin once in his youth, he was consid-
ed a person of boundless sagacity and
erudition, and was prominent man in
Edgeville.


While the bell had been tolling Adam
Hills hale old wife had been composed
ly knitting, in the demure society of the
smouldering fire, the purring cat, and
snoring hound curled up on the red
brick hearth-raising her head ever and
anon to glance out of the window across
the graveyard to the church where her
goodman was tolling the bell in men,
ory of Squire Lowell, who had departed
from Edgeville and this world five years
before, at the age Of eixty-one. On the
Year: 1879

A correspondent OF a New York paper
was planting potatoes on the increase OF
the moon or in the light Of the moon;
several OF his neighbors were present
and discussion arose as to the effect
the moon had on different crops. An
swering its correspondents inquiry, the
paper says; ''Thare has been always a
powerful superstition that the moon ex
erted a great influence upon the affairs
OF mankind, but this idea has prevailed
chiefly among those who did not under
stand the utter impossibility that the
moon could exert any such influences.
Formerly the stars were supposed tC as
sist the moon III these intcrferences with
mankind and their labors, and to be able
to read the stars was equivalent to the
possession of prophetic powers. Now
the stars have lost this reputation, and
the moon is in a fair way to lose what
little is left OF it. Formerly crazy people
were 'moon-struck, but now, when We
see a lunatic derived from Luna, the
moon, an really meaning moon-struck),
We 60 not blame the moon for 1t. The
moon has now fallen SO low as to be sup
posed by some 70 influence only the
twining Of beans on the pole, the plant
ing Of seeds, the wasting of fat pork in
the pan, unless it was killed under a
growing moon, and the making of soft
soap. To reasonable person this seems
q small business for the moon to be en-
gagged in, or very unlike thing that the
moon can exert any such influence, Ii
any difference occurs it will be from
other causes, such as oil, weather, etc.
Lastly, it is absolutely certain that the
neon $ influence on our atmosphere is
50 very small that it cannot even effect
the weather in the least
Year: 1879

"What ever shall do with such a bad
bad boy, said loving mother as she
strove to impress oa the mind OF her six
teen year old tow-heaJ bis manifold
troubiesomenes7. .'Oh. you let me
alone: amt half as bad as l can be.
Year: 1879

Some months since the Prairie Farmer
called attention to the brutal practice
said to be in the vogue in ireland of dis
horning cattle intended for transporta-
ton to English markets. and showed an
easy remedy-that of dis budding while
the animal is young. This is easily per
formed. Hold the calf securely, at an
age of from three TO four weeks. With
hot iron, touch the budding horn until
it is scared down 70 the head. It will
kill the germ, and therefore the animal
will have no horn, or but the rudiment
thereof, according as the operation has
been well or iIIperfectiy accomplished.
Bind over the scared portion little cot
ton lint saturated with oil, and the calf
will suffer no iuconveince from the OPP
Grafton except the limited pain from the
burning, not SO severe as in the case of
geiding.
Year: 1879

every Congressman the magic


word, "Stick." The fraudulent


President has vetoed a bill whose
sole aim is to preserve free cleo


tions In the United States, and to
keep the soldier away from the bal
lot box. The bill, as amended, met
all his first objections. He stands


In the pathway of the voter and


menaces him with the gleam of


the bayonet. The Republicans are


in the habit of surrounding this


subject with fearful amount of


bulbous and magniloquent rhetorl-
cal cant. But the fact stands to-
day that the Republican party is
cheating New York City and
Brooklyn out of between twenty
and thirty members OF the
New York Legislature-the differ
ence in nine years out of ten be-
tween a majority and minority

simply because they can. In the
Empire State Of the nation they
have simply acted on the motto of
the Highland freebooter, "they may
take who have the power and they
may keep who can." We need free
elections in the United States. We
must have them. If Mr.. Hayes Is
willing to surrender our Indian
frontier to the aboriginal savage
simply because he wants to domi.
neer over the ballot box with an
army, let him. Disband the army
rather than submit to such infa-
nous tyranny, say we! Again and
again we say to the Democratic
Congress, "Stick." Stick as fast
and as firm as the eternal hills; and
do not. until the running waters
turn up stream and overwhelm the
fountain head, yield that essential
right of free.born Amsrlcans-an
untrammeled ballot.
Year: 1879

WE notice very pronounced
disposition on the part of Republic
cans and Democrats to rally to
their party standards since the late
elections. The new Constitution
was adopted by the votes of DEM
ocrats, Republicans and Working
men indifferently. The bald pre-
tence that its success should lead
to the formation Of new political
ephemeron meets no favor in either
party. Great and permanent par
ties are the most beneficial features
of free government, when not
pushed to excess. The public
see and condemn an ambitious
movement upon the part of the del
egates to the Constitutional Con.
vention to ride into power on the
strength of a document which no.
body regards as embodying the
highest political wisdom, but
which was accepted because every
body was yearning for "change."
The people have sense enough to
know that an extremely radical
Constitution should be interpreted
by conservative men. If each ol
the national parties shall respond
to the emphatic popular demand
that only its best men shall be
nominated, the hold which the


Democratic and Republican parties
have upon the masses will never
have been more signally demon.
strated than it will be in the elec-
ton next fall.
Year: 1879

''I notice" said Prince Metternieh
to his wife. the best dressed woman oil
the second empire, chat your bonnets
grow smaller and smaller, and your bills
larger and larger. One Of these days the
maker will bring nothing but the bill"
Year: 1879

valuable because II will be Of chief value
10 the poor. Under the operation Of the
law, Wheeling, aud all independent dis
tricts, will get the benefit OF the reduction


Among the most important joint reso-
lutions passed Is that proposing the Judi.
cial amendment 10 the Consultation. This
amendment we shall discuss hereafter.
It's adoption by the people Is very doubt
ful.


The convict bill, granting the use oil
cuOyicts on works Of interval improve.
ment, and also to the various counties oi
the State for labor on the roads, We re.
gard as one OF the most important Of The
minor bills passed, and We give DR.. Gooch
due credit for his zeal in pushing II
through. Itinaugurates new system in
dealing with the vexed question otconyict
labor, and places It where It is likely to
do the most good and least harm. wehope
to see the day when It will be customary to
usethe convictlabor Of the State In build
ing good roads in all the counties Of the
State. Iti the best use that we can make
Of such labor.


There were various other acts passed
that need discussion, such as the general
assessment law, the school law and the
bill. All these will claim
our attention from time to time hereafter.
Year: 1879

NEw YoRE, March lO-The Directors Of
the Western Union Telegraph Company
today declared the usual quarterly liyi-
dcnd Of u per cent. No action was taken
regarding the division Of surplus stock.
Year: 1879

Weary the king took Of his crown;


In either hand he poised It's weight.
"'Tis strange how heavy it has grown"
He said, and with an impatient frown


He eyed it with kind Of hate


Then on his bed he laid him down
And slept, and in atwinkling dreamed,


Oh! dream Of ecstasy and bliss!
Delight through all his senses streamed:
A ragged vagabond he seemed;


Free winds Of heaven his hair did kiss:
On his fair skin the free sun beaincd.
AT morn he walked, bewilderea first,


Or who he was or where might be;
Then saw the crown, and with burst
Of sudden rage, he swore and cursed:
mo beggar would change lives with me
OF all hard fates, a kings the worst"
Outside the palace; on the gronnd


Starved half to death and freezing cold,
Less sheltered than the meanest hound,
A beggar slumbcred safe and sound,


And dreams to him came swift and bold,
As II n palace walled him round.
lie dreamed he was king indeed;


Oh! dream Of ecstacy and bliss!
OF food he had his utmost grecd
OF gold beyond his utmost need;


All men knelt low his hand TO kiss
And gave his word obedient heed.
At morn he walked, bewildered first,


Or who he was or where might BIO;
Then quick, by hunger and by thirst,
He knew himself, and groaned and cursed;
mo creature pity takes OIL me
A beggar's fate Of all Is worst!'
Year: 1879

A story is told Of a great French
satirist which finely illustrates his
knowledge Of human nature. He was
travelling in Germany in entire igno-
rance Of its language and currency.
Having obtained some small change
for some of his French coins he used
to pay drivers and others in the fol-
lowing manner: Taking a handful
ofthe nnmismatical specimens from
bis pocket, he counted them one by
one into the creditors hands, keep
ing his eye fixed all the time on the
receivers face. AS soon as he per-
ceived the least twinkle of a smile he
took back the last coin he deposited
in the band and returned, it with tho
remainder, to his pocket. He after
ward found that in pursuing this
method he had not overpaid for any
thing.
Year: 1879

ing MS Trends speech 4 "happy ef-
fort"


An editor who never feels pleased
to have his good things credited, or
mad when they are stolen.


A pencil is always In the first pock-
ct you put yOur hand into.


A man who has been q fool some
time during his life and knows
enough to keep the knowledge Of It
to himself


A married man who does not think
all the girls envy his wife the prize
she has captured.


A married woman who never said.
"No wonder the girls don't get mar
ried nowadays; they are altogether
different from what they were. when
| was a girl"


An unmarried woman who never
had an offer.


A man who never intimated that
tho economies Of the universe were
suhJrct to his movements, by saying,
| knew If | took an umbrella, it would
not rai!'," or some similar remark.


A pocket knife that is never in
"them other pants"


A mother who never said he ''would
rather do It myself" when she should
have taught her child to do that
thing.


A child who would not rather eat
between meals than at meals.


A person, age or rex immaterial,
who does not experience q flush Of
pride upon being thought what he is
not. and may never hope to be.


A singer who never complains ofa
cold when asked to sing.


A woman, who, when caught in
her second best dress, will make no
apology for her dreadful appearance.
Year: 1879

A certain gentleman purchased a
pair Of pants Il few days ago, which
upon being tried on ut home, he found
to be too long. That night he re-
marked to his wife that he wished
her to take off about an inch for each
leg, which would make them the de-
sired length. Being fond Of teasing
her husband, she told him that she
shouldn't do anything of the kind,
and he retired without having OBJ
tained promise from her that sho
would attend to the matter.


Soon after he had left tor his room,
however, she, as a matter of course,
clipped off the superfuous inch, as
she had been asked to do. The hmi-
ly is composed Of six female members,
and each one Of the Eve who were in
adjoining rooms, heard the dispute
between man and wife, and after tho
latter had taken off the required inch
and retired, not knowing what her
daughter-in.law had done, cautiously
slipped into the room and cut Off
another inch.


In this way did each of the FIVE
ladies, unknown to the other, and all
with the praiseworthy object Of pre-.
venting any misunderstanding be
tween the couple, clip an inch from
the legs Of the gentleman's trousers.


The following morning, all uncon-
scious of what had taken place du-
ring the night, he rolled up his pants
in y piece bf paper, and took them to
he shortened to the desired length.
Upon q hasty glance the latter ven
tured the opinion that they were
already short; but the owner insisted
that they wore fully an inch too long.
The tailor had no more to say, and
our friend retired.


r." On the following Saturday he call
ed for the pants and took them home,
and what supremely disguised him
was to find that the legs reached onlya
triae below the knee. He straightway
accused the tailor, but his wife heard
him and came to the rescue, explain
ing that she had taken an inch from
each Of the legs, and her acknowl-
edgement was followed by each Of tho
other five ladies, when it was discov-
cred that altogether the legs had
been shortened the length Of about
seven INCHES.
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, writing from Chicla, Peru, says:
Here l am among the snow capped
peaks of the Andes, acclimating myself
to "trip over the mountains, whose
highest point, 1850 feet, intend to
scale. Leaving Lima this morning with
party of officers, l came over the cele-
brated Oroya railroad to Matucana,
and from there by the light express to
this place, the present terminus of the
road. The building of this road was
one of the greatest undertakings the
world has ever known. 1t is only sc
miles, and cost $50, 100000. From the
seacOast to the summit of the Andes
we passed through Al tunnels, and over
many high bridges, one of them 300
feet high. The road follows the valley
of the river Rimac, crossing and re-
crossing it many times. From 'Matucaca
to the top is nothing but a succession
of VS. rs and doublings. Some of the
places are truly frightful. AS you pass
around mountain peak you can look
for thousands of feet below, and still
above you can see the lofty peaks lof
the Andes. Even here at Chicla we
were still 5000 feet from the top, and
the railroad tunnel on the summit will
be 1900 feet above the sea.


Chicla is the highest railroad station
and within a few feet of the highest
city in the world. In Lima or Callao
the lightest clothes would be very COM
Portable, but up here / wear a double
suit of heavy underclothing and large
ulster. With all my clothes | am nearly
freezing, and red hot stove close by,
at that. Less than week ago / was in
the tropical seas of the equator-quite
a change. Most people here are trou-
bled with what they call "sorOche,"
headache, nausea and sometimes bleed
ing at the nose, mouth and ears. The
air is so rare, it is difficult to breath.


AT the invitation of the road master,
took a ride with him down the road.
We were just ahead of the regular train
and we started off like a streak of
lightning. have been in a good many
tight places in my life, but never in a
position to make my hair literally stand
on end as it did coming down the An
des on hand Car. Never till my dying
day can l forget that ride. Starting
among the very clouds, down, down we
came; disappearing like a flash in a
tunnel of pitchy darkness and out on to
frail looking iron bridge over mighty
gorge from two to three hundred feet
deep. We stopped in long, curved
tunnel to look at some work that was
going on, and did not hear the train in
our rear until it was in the tunnel
We could not lift the hand car off, so
we made spring for it, cut loose the
brake, and made dash for our lives.
And truly it looked so for she came in
full view before we were well across the
gorge; and on she came at the rate of
mile minute, but we were going by
this time much faster than that, and in
short time we left her far behind.
We reached Matucana, % miles from
Chicla in safety, but since come to
to think it all over l would hardly dare
to try it again.
Year: 1879

metal yet discovered capable of endur-
ing the fervent incandescence of the
electric current. 1t seems obvious that
Qeaving all other difficulties out of the
question: the electric light cannot be
generally introduced for domestic pur-
poses till the single lamps can be set up
for fraction ofa dollar apiece, instead
of costing $40. If the standard furnish
ing every electric jet were worth $40,
burglars would certainly thrive for
time, and the number of practicable
lights would diminish with great rapid
ity. 1t would be as attractive to pilfer-
ers as gold eagle tied to every gas jet
with string. Mr.. Edison's new prob
lem, then, is to make platinum cheap.
AS it will scarcely grow cheaper by the
creation of a new and inexhaustible
demand for it, the only hope of the in
ventOr is to discover some great bed or
mine of it in placer or mountain. This
precious white metal has never been
found in large veins, and when Agassiz
picked up lump as large as pigeons
egg in the Andes it was thought suffi-
GENTLY remarkable to be placed on ex-
hibitioD in a European museum. To
find platinum in large deposits is just
what the world has hitherto failed to
do; but as Mr.. Edison has accomplish
ed several things that the most ingen
iOus men had not succeeded in doing
before, there is no saying precisely
what the hundred miners whom he has
set to work may or may not achieve in
the effort to reduce the cost of platinum
from the price of gold to that of cast
iron.