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Year: 1878

President Hayes has sent in his first veto
which has proven a disastrous failure and gives
fair idea OF the influences he has in Congress,
and the respect with which his opinious are re-
ceived. On last Thursday, after o'clock in the
afternoon, he sent his veto of the silver bill to
the House, and in twn honrs 1t had been acted
upon and the bill passed over the veto by both
Houses.


The veto message is a re-hash of the argu-
ments Of the Eastern organs of the Gold Ring
sgainst the silver bill: that the bondbolders ex-
pected to get pay in gold, when they purchased
the bonds; that the proposed dollar will be o
debased coin, from TO 10 per cent. less
than gold and that it will be defrauding the
creditors Of the Government This pettifogging
document in the interest of the money specu-
latiDg classes, was overruled by the House, by
vote Of 19G to 73, and by the Senate, by vote
of 46 to 10. 1t received SO more votes in the
Honse than were necessary for its passage, and
more votes in the Senate, making surplus of
Sc votes in favor Of the bill.


Several scenes occurred during the passage of
the bill that were significant, in showing the al
most utter want Of respect for the President in
Congress. Sam. Cox remarked that the message
was charge Of fraud by fraud, which was re-
ceived with applause. McCook, of New York,
asked that the language be taken down, as I'M
parliamentary. Cox repeated the remark, when
the Speaker decided that he had no parliament
ary right to make it, as he had not been recog
nized by the Chair, and the reporters would
make no record of his words. In the Senate,
some Eastern member wanted to postpone the
question until another day, 10 order to give the
veto that consideration which due respect for
the President demanded. But all other business
was put aside, and the veto vetoed upon the
spot. Several members who had voted against
the silver bill, voted to pass it over the veto.
Among these was Hill, of Georgia, who has been
one of the Presidents special pets.


We doubt whether President was ever be-
fore treated with such indignity by Congress,
IS to have a veto message received with insults,
and so little respect shown it as to crush it in
both Houses in the brief space of two hours.
But it is announced that the President will at
onceproceed to carry out the provisions of the
hill. Wonderful condescension!


The repeal of the Resumption act will be the
subject Of the next struggle. 1t has stronger
opposition than the silver bill; but under the
headway that has been acquired on the money
question, aud the obnoxious course of the Pres
ident the Eastern gold advocates, it will not be
surprising if the Resumption act is repealed by
as decisive vote as that which passed the sill
yer bill.
Year: 1878

SEEKING A SrTUArIoN.-W When SEEK
ing situation do not propose to- take
an advanced post. Ask for q chance to
work, begin at the bottom You may
be considered qualified for something
better, yet be placed at the foot to test
your temper and 6delity--to ascertain
ii you will bc faithful over q few
things as o qualification to become .
ruler over many things If you
sweep, make fires. dast, do anything
and everything promptly and cheer
fully, you will be advanced SO fast as
you are seen to have mastered your al
lotted position. Grumbling at your lot
and asking to be put forward will dis
gust your superiors. who are perhaps
plan ming to obtain some one to I'LL
your place that you may be put for
ward. Men like to manage their own
business-dislike to have boys make
suggestions as to their own occupation
or pay. Plants are not put into large
pots until, by healthy growth, they
seem to fill the small ones. II q puny
plant we're to tease the gardener for .
large pot or open-air plauting,he would
wisely say, Fill the place you occupy
first, aud thus show your adaptation
to . larger Que; or. in disgust. be would
Jerk out the feeble starveling and put
vigorous successor in its place.
Many boy has lost his situation be-
cause he whined for . post Of duty be.
yond his present capacity to Dill.
Year: 1878

There is probably on word in the En-
glish Language more expressive, more
heart touching. than the simple word
gone. 1t is a small word. yet hidden
under it Is an intense meaning deeper
than one thinks, until called upon to
use the word in reference to his own
loss.


Robert Hall thought the word tear
the most beautiful and expressive in
our language; but has not the word
gone much of the same pathetic SEN
timent! The loved and cherished of
the heart and home-perhaps dearly
beloved mother or father, brother or
sister, has passed away. expression
could be more touching to the heart
than the word gone-gonc out of our
sight and home forever. With it, in
this case. the word tear is near kin
dred. When we have seen friends
laid in their narrow house, gone ex-
presses the feeling Of our heart better
than any other word. We can hardly
conceive Of the cause of q tear without
the knowledge of something gone.


Does the heart weep over tho grave
of loved oncs2 Then something surely
is gone. Does it mourn over wasted
time and opportunities: Then some
thing is gone. Abundant as is our Ian.
guags in words, it is hard to conceive
how we could do without it, short as it
is. Life is always changing. always
making voids in our fire-side circles;
friends leaving US to seek fortune or
fame. Twenty years hence the friends
with whom We mingle at the present
time will be scattered; some may be in
foreign countries. others may rise to
high honor, and some, sad to say. will
run themselves IN dissipation, and
finally die outcasts from society. union
ored and unnourned. Aud gone is the
only word that expresses the souls
keen sense OF loss and absence. There
is an expressiveness in the exqusitely
sad word which We only see in its kin
dred word, tear Warerly Magazine.
Year: 1878

FAST"


BY CELIA THAXTER.
Pilgrim comes the night so fast.
Let not the dark thy heart sppall.
Though loom the shadows vague aud vast,
For love shall save us all.
There is no hope but this to see
Through tears that gather fast and fall;
loo great to perish love must be,
And Love shall save US all.
Have patience with our loss and pain,
Our troubled space of days so small;
We shall not stretch our arms in vain,
For love shall save us all.
pilgrim, but q moment wait,
And we shall hear our darlings call
Beyond Deaths mute and awful gate,
And love shall save US all.


-Scribasr.
Year: 1878

A decision was rendered to-day
by Judge Payne in the County
Court, which is of interest, show
ing the rights of Justices of the
Peace and arresting officers. The
case in brief was as follows: A war;
rant for the arrest Of John Doe had
been placed in the hands of Deputy
Constable G. w. Parker, and he
was told the person to be arrested
was q boss OF Chinese washh0use.
He entered the washhouse, and
while waiting for the boss to ac-
company him to the City Hall, one
of the assistants questioned the
Constable's right to make the ar
rest, and applied to him epithets of
a very Objectionable nature. Par
ker advanced and menacingly told
him to shut up, and the Chinaman
took him by the collar, the others
took hand and were making it
lively, when other officers arrived
and put an end to the scuffle by
arresting the Celestials. The Grand
Jury indicted the batch for assault
ing an officer. AT the close OF the
evidence for the prosecution, Kinds
and Terry, counsel for the prison
ers, asked the Court to instruct the
Jury to acquit. After argument
the case was taken under advise
ment and the jury excused until to-
day, On the opening of the Court
this morning the Judge charged
the jury in substance that war
rant to be legal must name or de-
scribe the person to be arrested, and
that the officer must know from
| the fase of the warrant, without
any other Information, whom he
Is commanded to arrest. The war;
rant in this case, he claimed, was
therefore illegal, and the defend-
ants had an unbeatable right to re-
sist the attempt to make the arrest
under it. He said, conceding
that John Doe meant some person,
lit was the officials duty to arrest
that individual or return upon the
warrant, "Not found" The Officer
did not do this, and attempted to
arrest o person who was not named


or described in the warrant, whe


he believed was the person he wa:
expected to arrest, from informa'


ton received from third person
and not from anything indicated il


his process. He was, therefore


committing trespass and not dis
charging his duty, and the defend


ants, in resisting him, cannot b.
held criminally responsible. Th
Judge then ordered the jury to fin'
= verdict of acquittal, which the,


accordingly did. This is the frs


time that the question of arrestinI
under John Doe warrants was eve


raised In this State.
Year: 1878

The facilities of the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside OF San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates.
Year: 1878

The Central Democratic Committee OF
Massachusetts quarreled over whether the
name of Ben. Butler or Judge Abbott
should go at the head of the printed State
ticket as the nominee of the convention.
A proposition to endorse Butler and one
to endorse Abbott were both voted down
The Butler men said they would withdraw
and the committee adjourned.


There has been no provision for the
printing of ballots at all, and the party
is at sea. This undoubtedly loses them
the Boston city election and blights the
Congressional prospect of Messrs Dean
and Morse, who represent now the Third
and Fourth districts. The fiasco is
another Butler blunder.
Year: 1878

December 24th.-The track was laid to a point about twenty-five miles east of Yuma; track laying is progressing at the rate of about a mile per day. In the course of ten days it is expected that a point will be reached where the grading will be much lighter, and then about one and a half miles of track per day will be laid. It is the intention, if good water is found, to establish depot for freight and passengers near Mission Camp, about thirty miles east of Yuma. Machinery for boring an artesian we'll is daily expected About 1,600 mer are employed on the line of the road, and this number will be in creased as the work progresses. Col. Strobridge, the Superintendent of Con- struction, has the happy faculty of mana ging this la"ge number of men so that every man has place, and keeps it. A person who can successfully work so large a number of men would make a good General of an army. In fact Strobridge is invading Arizona with an army, but " their spears have been turned into pruning hooks" &c. It is an army of peace, and will make Arizona a great and prosperous country.
Year: 1878

THE New PARTY MovEMENT.-Comment
ing on the action Of the national labor
greenback party convention, at Syracuse,
New York, the New York Herald says:


"There is disposition in some quarters
to treat this greenback and labor move
ment with contempt and ridicule, but we
do not think it wise to do so. The Syra-
cuse men have certainly made platform
compounded of ignorance and wickedness :;
but ridicule and abuse will not help the
honest part of them to see this, and much
the greater number of the men who met in
the convention, and of the voters who mean
now to support this platform, are sincerely
honest people, who would not knowingly
do wrong or unpatriotic act. 1t is the
duty of the press and the public and of
public speakers to argue with them, to try
and convince them of their error, and not
to condemn them as parcel of rogues.
The leaders in this movement, here and in
other States, are doubtless either political
adventurers or ruined spectators, whose
aim is to use the general depression from
which the country is just recovering to i'm.
prove their personal and political fortunes.
But the mass of their followers are honest
people, and the movement gains the main
part Of its strength not from their belief in
the platforms adopted, but from the deep
and general, and, we must say, very just
dissatisfaction with both the old political
parties
Year: 1878

An EXCITING SCENE AT CAPE MAYA
thrilling incident was witnessed on the
beach at Cape May Sunday afternoon. A
young man named McGarry was in the
surf, bathing, when he was suddenly car
ried out beyond his depth. The surfboat
was not out at the time, and some minutes
passed before the crew could be got to-
gether, Finally, however, they manned
the boat and struck out for the rescue.
The tide was so strong that the young man
loated down to Sea Grove before the boat
overlook him, having been in the water
over two hours. At the time there were
thousands of people on the beach anxiously
watching the struggling man in the wateI
and the efforts of the boat 10 reach him.
When he was finally drawn into the boat
alive shout of relief went up from those
who had witnessed the exciting spectacle
from the shore.
Year: 1878

The Sentinel is vieing with the "Court
House Ring" in urging John w. Hall for
Governor. If Hall were a "bigger man
than old Grant" there would not be such
unanimity in his nomination. 1t is a
popularity of American politics that our
Clays and Websters have always been
superseded for our chief office, by men ol
not 1.-THE of their capability. 1t was in
tended in making the Office for it to be under
a strong management, but as it will of neces'
sity have to be EARNED out" we cannot
but commend the wisdom of the Sentinel
in "staking off, lot in advance near the
mansion.
Year: 1878

In May 1884, bill intended to
limit the privilege of franking was
sent from Ireland to England for
the royal appreciation. In it was a
clause enacting that any member
who from illness or other cause
should be unable to write, might
authorize some other person to
frank for him, "provided that on
the back of the letter so franked
the member doth at the same time
give under his hand full cert,ti-
cate of his inability to write"
Year: 1878

The people of Greenfield are going to tear
up their ancient burying ground in order to
secure "a more convenient road to the new
depot" Which of the thilty Greenfields in
the land it is that has gone into the ghoul
business is lett in doubt. Perhaps it is quite
as well to leave the question unsettled.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and eommuni
cations, The and address OF the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
out as guaranty OF GOOD faith.


We cannot undertake TO return Or preserve CON-
municatioDs that are not used.
Year: 1878

ACCORDING to the Boston Transcript
''socia hen" is the latest thing in girl slang.
No explanation Of the mysterious phrase is
given. Maybe social hem Of girl is the,
female Of the species known as lively yoQsA
roosters OF fellows. n CT y
Year: 1878

Mr.. HENDRICKS warned some Michigan
law students the other day not to stay too
long in politics if success full, and added that
he sometimes thought he had stayed too
long. His Democlatlc rivals think SO too.
Year: 1878

THE Chicago Times is going TO model after
the London Times in type, style and make
up. If it wonld pattern after the Thunderer
in tone an Improvement would result worth
all the rest.
Year: 1878

Why the boys who made the Fourth
of July odorous and hideOus with gun
powder from 1910 to 1856, inclusive, ARE
speechless with indignation at the de-
praved and vicious tastes of the boys
who want to enjoy the same kind OF a
celebration in 1878?


Why people always discuss European
politics as though they understood
them?


Why man should always get mad if
you frankly and for his own good tell
him he is making an ass of himselfP


Why it is so hard to find a man when
you want to borrow money of himP


Why it is so hard to borrow the money
after you have found himP


Why somebody doesn't come out and
explain the Louisiana muddleP


Why a man always wishes he had
chosen some other professionP


What Mrs. jerks is talking about and
what she means by itP


Why man is always going to take a
vacation "next summerP"


Why people should consider it dis
graceful to be sent to Congress?


Why a man thinks every year that he
won't be as big fool this year as he
was lastP


And why he is, though, all the sameP


Why the tramps don't ask for some
thing to eat, if they are hungryP


Why man never tries to beat down
tba ,,rioa of q railroad ticketp


Why every body affects a profound
knowledge of growing crops and crop
prospects,


Why men always lie about the size OF
the fish they catch and the number OF
ducks they shootP


What girl ever sees in a great self
ish, deceitful, hulking animal of a man
to marry him for, any howP


Why SO many foreigners should speak
German or French, when it is so much
easier to speak Englishp


Why it takes five grown people to
take one sleeping infant to the circus to
"see the animalsP"


Why a man who doctors himself with
patent medicines, three bottles for
dollar, always, in referring to his health,
speaks of "his physicians" as though
he were constantly attended by retinue
of 50 or 60 doctors?


Why it is wrong to kill the man who
says he told you SOP


Why really generous men are always
so ready to admit that you were in the
wrong?-Hawkeye Bmrdette.
Year: 1878

each other three times three cups, in
natural cOngratulation at the happy
change that has come over them, as in
dicated by their change of dress,


This being done there follows a feast
to all in the house, who assemble in one
room, and regale themselves with the
fare that is set before them; and, hav-
ing kept up the festivities till about the
dawn of day, the wedding-party breaks
up. Three days after the bride usually
pays a visit to her own parents, when
another entertainment is made to which
the relatives of the family are invited.


Henceforth the married woman is re-
garded as having been absorbed, as it
were, into the family of her husband,
and to have surrendered her relation
ship to her fathers house. Her duty to
her father-in. law and mother.in-law su-
persedes all the obligations of filial piety.


The common people, in their matri-
monial rites, endeavor to ape as far as
possible their superiors, the daimios
and other great people of the land.
Year: 1878

Necessity is the mother Of invention,
and in those parts of our State afflicted
with feas, many novel and ingenious
devices have been resorted to as a means
of getting rid of the pest. We publish
ed a few days ago that Cuthbert man
had, with partial success, tried covering
his limbs with varnish on retiring at
night and had captured 43 Another
paper now gives the experience OF
gentleman of its town who placed
plate of molasses under house where
the animals loved to congregate, drove
a little stake on each side, and then
fastened sheet of writing paper in
vertical position over the middle OF the
plate. The feas, true to their instinct
to make for every thing white, began to
Jump against the paper and to slip down
into the molasses, from which they were
unable to extricate themselves. The
scheme was success. The feas were
thinned out. "Now," says the paper,
"if it was some enterprising Yankee
who had made this discovery, he would
apply for patent and make fortune
out of it."-Sauannah (Ga.) NeWs.
Year: 1878

One of the most attractive and pop
ular features of the Paris Exhibition is
the display of the superb Pullman pal
ace and sleeping cars in the American
section.


"A jeweler in the Paris Exhibition
shows necklace which purports to be
a mixture of true pearls and false, and
challenges any body to single out the
real.


OF all the buildings in the Park of
the the Trocaadero, the Algerian Palace is
said to be the most extensive and cost
Year: 1878

nave W 10 postponed, DiL -.
rose brightly, and as it passed the
meridian the air was extremely
sultry. The track was not in as
good condition as it was expected
1t would be from the warm weather,
the water clinging tenaciously to
the heavy soil, despite every effort
to place 1t in good condition.


BEFORE THE RACE.


At the beginning of the betting
there was light Odds Ia favor of
Year: 1878

The Indians now in arms have shown
themselves alike the most contempti-
bic of towards and the most inhuman
of fiends. They will not fight at all;
it is impossible to bring them to battle,
and their only motive is to rob, to
murder and to mutilate. If they
know it they will take no chances and
incur no risks whatever. True to
their cowardly and savage instincts,
they attack only the unarmcd, lie in
wait for those they can kill without
danger to themselves, run like pal
troons from the first appearance of an
attack, and refuse to accept battle with
every odds of numbers and every adj
vantage of position i'll their favor.
These are the most cowardly, and at
the same time the most villainouS
and diabolic wretches with whom the
country has yet had to deal. Some
Indians have the redceming trait of
bravery, and though cruel and merci-
less, will fight at all events; bat these
will not. Before any attack made by
the troops they scatter like sheep.
They hunt only the unarmed, and kill
from the mere lust of murder. Every
person whom they have murdered has
been shockingly mutilntcd. The atroc-
tiles thus committed viii not bear even
an attempt at description. Not only
has their fiend-like malignity, fit CON
comitant OF their woltish cowardicc,
been exercised in this way, but it has
also been practiced upon dumb ami
mails. Some they have wantonly
killed from the mere love of destruc-
ton. In other instances they have
caught animals and partly hayod them,
and then let them 90. Examples are
given of their having taken sheep,
chopped of their fore legs and left
them alive; and in many cases they
have wantonly shot the dams and left
the young bleating piteously around
them. Seldom, if ever, has it been
necessary to deal with misceants sc
abominable as these; and if single
one of them is allowed to live after
they are hunted down, humanity will
be outraged almost as much as it has
been recently by their unspeakable
atrocities. Oregoaidh
Year: 1878

THE REMNANTS The bark Anne
thyst, now at Sehome, is taking away
the last of the effects of the Belling-
ham Bay Coal Company. The store at
that place, which has been the largest
in the country since its establishment,
has had its stock reduced to mere
driblet by sales "belo~ cost The
iron on the track has been taken up,
the machinery removed and everything
valuable sold or removed that it is
possible thus to dispose of. The resi-
dence of the Superintendent, Mr..
Jones, will have to be left, of course,
which is Il pity, for 1t is one of the
finest in the Territory, and there will
be no use for it whatever after the de
parture of the coal company.
Year: 1878

Basques and polonaises are equally
fashionable


Braided letters and futed rufies are
used on palmer sets.


Lace mitts are as fashionable this
winter as white kid gloves for evening
teilettes.


\ felt bonnet with q coronet of shaded
gray feathers will complete the toilette.


Dark tinted smoked-pearl buttons are
more used than any ether kind for wool
dresses.


Get sheet muslin for petticosts, as it
retains starch better than that more
closely woven.


Brecaded silk is very stylish, and viii
look well made up in conjunction with
plain black silk.


The lew-brimmed toques that come
down on the forehead are worn by ladies
who have long faces. The trimming
may be fringe or lace, but if economy is
necessary, simple piping is sufficient.


White or colored mitts are preferred to
black, though the latter are much used
in very fine qualities.


A band of galloon, knife-pleating of
silk or else fringe will trim your green
cashmere overskirt nicely. Have a
waIking-jacket of the same, warmly lined
with flannel and trimmed as simply as
the polonaise.


The brocaded camel's-hair is very
handsome. especially that in which
threads of gilt or silver are introduced.


White matelassee silk is used for the
most elegant opera cloaks but if you
cannot afford this, get white, cream
colcred, or else pale blue camePs-hsir.