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Year: 1879

SO FAR as heard from, the country has not
been startled by the Greenback Congressmen's
Rddress.-The post


This is very true, except of that element
of disturbance in the country known as the
Democratic party in the next House. If
the Greenback Congressmen-elect in that
body do one-half they promise to do, or are
trying to do, Mr.. SAM RANDALL will be
one Of the most startled" ex-Speakers on
record
Year: 1879

THE statistics show that during the last
elk months of 1878 there were only 1866
Chinese emigrants landed in the United
States. During the same period 4,646
Chinese left our shores to return to the land
of their nativity. They seem to be going
Year: 1879

THE Democratic efforts to deride and be-
little the Greenback movement, which now
seems to threaten a arrangement of the
plans Of that party for the organization of
the next House, will prove to be of no
avail But the Greenbackers will remem-
her it.
Year: 1879

for the purpose of removing the barriers
that have been thrown around the right Of
suffrage in the interest of honest govern
ment through the exercise of q free, pure,
and untrammeled ballot, is amazing. There
is q disregard of right and desperation of
purpose involved in this movement which
bodies no good to the immediate or remote
welfare of our common country.
Year: 1879

BILLY McGARRAHAN is q strict religion
ist but if he keeps on morti(ying the flesh
after the style Of Wednesday night during
the entire Lenten-Tide his stock of Patty
will certainly be exhausted.
Year: 1879

THE selection of ex-senator RAMSEY for
the Berlin Mission would give great salts
faction to the Republican party. He is a
pronounced Republican, and with due def
erence to the claims and abilities of other
distinguished gentlemen, we know of none
better fitted for the position.
Year: 1879

Infiexibility.


A certain degree OF ipilexibi'lty II
necessary TO successful career in thl'
life. Without determination, failure
mus. result in morals IS well as III
temporal affairs. The easy going, good
ratured person rarely accompllshs4
any great work, intellectually or phys
ically. We owe our greatest achieve
ments in civil as we'll as in military
affairs, to men of determined purpose
to men who do not willingly admit the
possibility Of the failure OF any work
they SIT out TO accomplish. Applica-
tion will effect wonders. Repeated i'm
portunity on the part OF Columbus led
to the equipment of an expedition that
resulted in the discovery of a continent,
and the inflexible character OF the Pu-
ritans led to the establishment Of civil
and religious liberty thereon, and a
determination to adhere to the right
has preserved it thus far notwitastand-
ing the assaults of foreign and intes-
tine foes. That inhexibiIity of purpose
which characterizes our people will
preserve the integrity of our nation
and crush out the factionists who assail
the freedom of the ballot and threaten
to render our elections a miserable
farce. There is such thing, however,
as being too inhexible in disposition.
We have known many estimable men
whose influence in the community has
been greatly impaired by the inhexi-
bility of their character. They set up
a standard of right, and have no chari-
ty or patience with any one who can
not conform to it. Some who profess to
be very charitable ana peace loving are
invariably annoyed by contention, biA-
ering and strife. They should learn
that erratic individuals cannot be forced
to acknowledge their shortcomings, and
that too many are ready to assume a
belligerent attitude whenever they are
alluded to. Hence it is wiser in many
cases not to notice their delinquenoies,
and seek to correct them through ex-
ample, through deeds Of love and char
ity. 1t always takes two parties to
make fight, and the individual who
encounters constant opposition may
Justly conclude that there is some de-
feet in his own character or conduct,
and if he is wise he will labor to cor
rect it with the least possibe delay.
Love may conquer when force fails to
do so, a. the heat of the sun will cause
the traveller to remove his Goa. after
the tercest wind has failed to tear it
from him. Like begets like, those who
SOW to the wind shall reap the whirl-
wind, while the utterance Of a soft
word will turn away wrath.
Year: 1879

WITH CONSIDERABLE trouble but with
great sWCcess We have Iscertamci the
reasoI why such large whi5key bills
for the city hospital have appeared from
time TO time III the published bills Of
the City Council. The evidence is over
whelmipg, and we hold it in our hands
to use at our convenience and at such
times as it may do the most good. The
City Council can easily obtain the same
evidence if it is disposed to preserve its
self respect and dignity. An article in
another column in reference to the
drunken orgies at the City Hospital will
be read with mingled feelings Of aston
ishment and shame. The Gazette"
will Of course as usual say this is all 4
lie as it says aoout our exposure of
Democratic repeaters.
Year: 1879

The Finance Committee of the Board
Of Education, held a committee meeting
in the room Of the Board last evening
and on adjournment at about nine
O'Clock the gas was turned off before
all the members had descended the
stairs thus making the stairway dark.
Mr.. Edward ?. McIntire Chairman of
tue Committee in attempting to descend
the stairway missed his footing At the
top and fell headlong all the way down.
Fortunately he escaped with a few
bruises.
Year: 1879

-


seaside watering place OF resort is well


assured though time will be required to
obviate the difficulty ola want OF direct
| communication. Much has been al


ready done in that direction but much
more still remains to be accomplished


which time, patience and perseverance


will most assuredly bring about. Sc


cure and safe bathing in the ocean surf
| is what gives to seaside resorts during
the hot summer months, the prefer
encs over inlani mountain retreats
however shaded the latter may be, or
however romantic hill and dale and
dashiny water falls and brooks full Of
speckled trout. A cottage on the barn
ing sand where m green thing can
grow, where the drinking water il ever


brackish, 80 that it Is within sight OF
the white capped roaring waves as
they come dashing upon the sandy


beach and lose themselves in whitened,


foamy spray is the delight of pleasure
seekers, and wherever there is an all


sence of the dreaded undertow, and


where the waves roll in tue highes. and


gentlest, must become the popular place
of summer resort. The truth OF this is
attested by the fourishing summer
towns of Long Branch, Ocean Grove,
Atlantic City, Cape May, Ocean City
and many more cities by the sea that
we might mention that derive the only
Importance they possess from their To-
cation on the sea shore. 1t is not be-
cause Rehoboth il Delaware sea side
resort thai We would write it into im-
portsnce at the expense of other resorts
but 1t is doing Rehoboth nothing more
than mere simple justice to say tha. in
sea bathing she exceeds all other places
that We have mentioned. No safer
beach can be found upon the
coast, and there is no place
where the hinge but gentle waves wrap
the human form in its embrace more
tenderly and with more delicious SEN
sation of pleasure to the bather. SO
far as bathing is concerned Rehoboth is
more than success. Will IL be TOO
much TO predict that it will in lime be-
come as renowned as AtlantiJ City and
Cape May In bathing II is superior,
but it has the disadvantage Of being
hard to reach and the distance trom the
large centres of population gives it
disadvantage to lis rivals on the eNd ol
jerseys sand bar. This appears to be
all that initiates against RehobOth, but
a. we have already said this objection
will BE- gradually overcome by the open
Ing up OF water COMMUNICATION du'i Tue
superiority of the place as a summer
resort. |. is still IN its infancy and set
it is assuming the proportions Of
fouriahing town. Some thirty cottages
built large and airy aud il the hand
some style OF modern rustic architecture
already grace the avAnues which are
wide and laid out with commeudable
regularity ard fore.nought. R-hoboth
is no more myth "a thing of the irnagi-
nation, but Il real soit reality bidding
fair to catch up and outTun in imyor-
tanc. ether sea side resorts Of greater
present ren0wn, which at one time stood |
for many years in their infancy almost
unknown. Reh0botll is an assured sue
cess.
Year: 1879

ly OUR editorial yesterday in refer.
ence to the proposed reception of Sena
tor Bayard We inadvertently sail that
the forty thousand disfranchised vo-


ters of Delaware should join in the
Year: 1879

1t is a noteworthy circumstance that
the Democratic party can not in all its
history show single instance in the
federal congress or any state legisla-
ture of its originating or favoring laws
for the protection of the ballot box.
Their record is one of unvarying oppo-
sition to every form of legislation cal
culated to secure a pure ballot and hon
est election. All registry laws have
met their hitterest opposition; every
measure intended to protect the citizen
in the exercise of his right, and to in
sure to each voter his share in the gov
ernment, has encountered Democratic
hostility at the threshold. Until the
condition of affairs in the South after
emancipation suggested it to them as
mere dodge to defeat negro rule, they
never favored restricting suffrage by
an intelligent test ea-'
Year: 1879

OF all the evils prevalent among young
men, we know OF none more blighting in
its moral effects than to speak lightly of
the virtues Of a woman. Nor is there any
thing in which young men are so thor
oughly mistaken ss the low estimate they
iorn as to the integrity Of woman. Not
of their own mothers and sisters, bnt of
others who, they forget, are somebody
else's mothers and sisters. As a rule, no
person who surrenders to this dehasing
habit is to he trusted with any enterprise
requiring integrity Of character. Plain
words should be spoken on this subject,
tor the evil is a general one and ,leer root
ed. Ii young men are sometime. thrown
into the society OF thonghtless and de-
prsved women. they have no more right to
measure all other women by what they see
OF these, than they have to estimate the
character Of honest and respectable citi-
Zens by the developments of crime in our
police courts. Let our young men remem-
Der that their chief happiness in life de-
pends upon utter faith in woman. No
worldly wisdom, no miSanthrOpic philosO-
ply, no generalization. can cover or weak
en- truth. 1t stands like the record OF it.
self--for it is nothing less than this-and
should put IN everlasting seal upon lips
that are wont to speak slightingly of wo-
men.
Year: 1879

The time has passed when woman
must be pale. delicate, to be interesting
when she must be totally ignorant Of all
practical knowledge to be called high-bred
when she must know nothing of the cur
rent political news of the day, or be called
masculine and strOng-minded. 1t is not 3
sign of high birth or refinement to be
sickly and ignorant. Those who affecs
anything of the kind are behind the times.
and must shake and air themselves, mer,-
tally, physically, or drop under the firm
strides OF cOmDiOnsense ideas, and be
crushed into utter insignificance. In these
days an active, rosy-faced girl, with brain
quick and clear, warm, light heart, tenn
per quickly heated at intended insult or in
jury. and just as quick to forgive; whose
feet can run as fast as her tongue. and not
put her out of breath; who is not afraid Of
freckles, or to breathe the pure air Of
heaven, unrestrained by the drawn curtains
Of close carriage. and, above all, who can
speak her mind and give her opinion on
important topics which interest intelligent
peoples the true girl who will make .
good woman. Even fops and dandies.
who strongly oppose woman's rights, like
a woman who can talk well, even if she's
not handsome.-St. Louis Republican.
Year: 1879

A good deacon In Davenport, Iowa, saw
a drunken man whom he knew driving
aimlessly about the steets one dark night.


The deacon kindly got into his sleigh and
took the reins. intending to take the drunk
ard to his hOnse. which was two miles
away; bat thsliNng the idea of walking
back, he stopped at tavern to find some
body who could more conveniently do the
job. While he was in the tavern, tho
drunkard drove eff by himself, and
young fellow arrived with his girl in u
sleigh. The young fellow entered the tav-
ern, leaving his girl, mutfied in a blanket
to wait while he got drink. The deacon
found 4 volunteer to take his place as guide
to the drunkard; hut the volunteer, ON 60
ing to the sleigh that stood in front Of the
tavern, discovered that the occupant was


not the dr,,nkartl' and said to the deacon.
"It's girl out there" 'No, 'taint," re-
Piled the deacon. who thought she WAS
the drunkartl. He put one arm around
her, and roughly pulled away the blanket.
She screamed for help. Her lover ran out
and gave the deacon a severe W tipping.
Then they took tile good deacon INTO the
tavern. washed the blood from his ace,
the girl kissed him, and all was forgiven.
Year: 1879

Married mcnarc of two kinds-good and
bad. The bad are truly horrible; the good.
very good indeed The bad married man
ill-traats his family In every way ard gen
orally ends with sloping With somebody.
and leaves his wife to earn living by fine
needle work. But the good married man
well. he is not mad!y in love any more.
but he believes that there never was suc! a
woman as his wife. lie does not see Time S
changes in her face; she is always young
to him. Every baby binds them closer to
each other.


There is an expression in good married
mans face that bachelors cannot have.
It is indescribablc. He is a little nearer
the angels than the prettiest young fellow
living. You can see that his broad breast
is pillow for somebody's head, and that
little fingers pull his whiskers. When
some one has said. Husband, and some
other, Papa, a seal is set upon the fore
head. No One-nO woman at least-ever
mistakes the good married man for an in
stant. 1t is only the erratic one who leaves
you in doubt. The good one can protect
all the unprotected. females lift pretty
girls over cutters. talk to them in ears.
and make himself generally agreeable, and
yet never leave a doubt on any mind that
there is a precious little woman at home
worth all the world TO him.


Some women Ike the bad married man.
and delight in making his wife jealous. 1
hate him. The good married man on
whom could not make IAN impression"
if died for it. is the one for ne. dislike
the married man who could fall in love
with any other woman, us much as do
the bachelor who coultn t.-Mary Kyle
Dallas. IL Nc,c York Ledger.
Year: 1879

Some curious incidents happen in the
New York Post-office. A short time ago
letter came from Ireland addressed to
sMy Mother, New York, America" Oi
course it was supposed it must be sent to
the dead-letter Office but on the day of its
arrival woman inquired at the general
delivery window for letter from ''her
son." The coincidence attracted the at
tention of the official in charge of the de-
ciphering bureau. Inquiry showed that
the son of the woman lived in the town
whose name was postmarked on the letter.
After various inquiries the letter was given
to the woman, with the prOviso that she
should open it there; and it was found to
be from her sOn. and designed tor her.
Year: 1879

Thomas Humphreys was as brave an


English sailor as ever ftirled sail. He


was crossing Carmarthen Bay few weeks
ago, in the customs boat, with Mrs. Byd-
der ian officers wife) ard companion,
when sudden gust of wind struck the sail
and they found themselves struggling in
the water. He first endeavored to sup
port his comrade' who was an awkward
swimmer, but the poor fellow could rot
be kept afioat. He then told the woman
to cling to the boat, while he swan round
TO see what could be done. He got his
knife and opened it with his teeth, cut
away the cortlage, and, after considerable
exertion, disInasted the craft AMI righted
her, but as she was full of water, they
could not get in her. He therefore placed
the mast across the boat, and got the wonl-
Year: 1879

A Wisconsin girl put on trousers and
started through the deep snow to walk six
miles to a village for provisions, the family
lartier being empty. She soon became
tired out, besides losing her way, and the
cold was intense. A big Newfoundland
log which accompaniedhe her was the means
Of saving her life. She scooped out a hol-
low in the snow. lay down in it. and made
the warm dog e on her, shifting him
about so as to successfully cover the cold
est parts ofthe body. In that way she pass
ed whole night, and was not severely
frostbitten. ssWith two or three more
dogs" she says, 81 would have got along
very comfortably"
Year: 1879

Did the prophet Isaiah ever eat at rail-
road station? 1t certainly looks so, for
how could he have described it so literally
if he had not? "And he shall snatch Oh
the right hand and be hungry: and he
shall eat on the lett hand and then not be
satisfied Tw
Year: 1879

WATTERsoN is after Mr.. PAINTER now.
The latter having given currency to the
statement that the former had extended to
Senator CONRLING dinner invitation
which he repealed with scorn aud insult,
Mr.. WArTERsON puts it at PAINTER in this
wise


The report was infamous and unfounded. II
It was fabricated by you out Of whole cloth you
are the scoundrel ii you got it of Mr.. CoNK.
LING he is the scoundrel. | have nothing left
me but to donounoo II and its author leaving
you to get out Of the responsibility.


Mr.. PAINTER is expected now to rise and
explain. When Congress adjourns there
will be plenty Of time to study the code
blood should be prevented il possible
Year: 1879

IT will be great relief to the lovers of
peaches to know that the prospect of the
crop Of this delicious fruit in Delaware New
Jersey, and Maryland is excellent. The deal
ers will not be able to getup corner on the
article this year.
Year: 1879

Ir is now charged that when box was
placed in the House for the reception of
reading matter for the sick, the members
crammed it with their speeches Sanitary
considerations call for q discontnuance of
the box
Year: 1879

WE either have too many ships aaoat, or
the ocean is too small, or there is too much
carelessness in navigation. Collisions are
becoming too frequent and the loss of life
by them too great
Year: 1879

If the Presidential election were to be
held between this and the 30th of June
next, the United States would have no say
in the matter. BY virtue of the nullifica-
tion of existing laws, the effect of Bourbon
domination in Congress, the State govern
ments would have supreme control of it.
Year: 1879

THE New York Herald thinks that Post
receive the thanks of every veteran of the
late war; whether employed or not, FOR ex-
ceptng ex-soldiers and sailors from the re-
striction as to age that is imposed upon ap-
plicants for employment in the New York
post-ofiice Men who have periled their
lives in the Government service deserve all
business opportunities that the Nation can
give them. The area of thankfuness would
be enlarged if the same line of policy was
practiced throughout all the Departments
of Government Many man who periled
his life for the Government is standing idle
while place that he deserves is filled by
some one who "fltn on the other side.
Year: 1879

The Democrats and Greenback men in
Wisconsin are making efforts to unite on
Representative BRAGG as candidate for
Governor. We object to this arrangement.
General BRAGG's proper place is in the
House. So long as his district cannot be
carried by the Republicans he is too useful
to the country at large where he is now to
be sacrificed in a vain effort to become q
Democratic Governor in n Republican State.
Year: 1879

SILVER has become one of the standard
coins of the Nation, and any measure
stripped Of demagogsm relating to its
coinage will find little If any, opposition
in Congress, 1t is when it is mounted as
hobby that Senators and members become
shy of it. This accounts for the gingerly
manner with which YEs,r's proposition has
Year: 1879

WHEN the Democrats boast of the success
they have achieved in the extra session they
boast of their own disgrace The only
thing they have accomplished is to exalt the
State governments above the United States
by virtually manaclng the judicial power
of the latter so that the courts of the Cen
eral Government are prevented, if not pro-
hibited, from taking Cognzauce of questions
en'ecting the elective franchise. This is
secession ia its mildest form
Year: 1879

CIVIL suits between citizens which do not
incur any liability to the United States for
fees of court officials may be tried in the
District and Circuit Courts of the General
Government but for all other purposes those
courts have been practically closed by the
failure of the Bourbon Congress to make
appropriations for the pending fiscal year.
Thieves, cmbezzlers, and corruptionists will
not fail to take heed of this fact. The doors
of our prisons have been closed against, and
not upon, them by their Bourbon friends.
Year: 1879

REAPPEARANCE OF THE wANDERER AFTER A
TOUR IN spAcE-coURsE OF THE COMET FROM
SOUTH TO NoITH.


To The EDITOR THE HERALD


Thirty-three years ago to-day. NJ. Brorsen. OF
Kiel. discovered faint comet. which was found to
move in an elliptcal orbit. with period of about
five and half years. never receding from the sun
much further than the planet Jupiter. At its next
return within the earths orbit. in 1851, it
favorably situated and escaped observation. In 1857
it was again seen. rising from the extreme
southern horizon. reaching q brightness bring
ing it within easy observation with opera glass.
and finally disappearing in the northern sky This
comet is approaching for the seventh time,
and is already within the reach of the telescope From
the computations of NJ. Schuze it appears that the
comet will reach its perihelon the point
the sun, on March 30 when it will be about as far
from the the planet Venus 1t will be nearest
the earth on April 10. when it will be little less
than four-ffths Of the suns distance from us: 1t
fore February ~, when it was expecteN
to be OF the same brightness as when
sses hna ha e Fdrence SS p@ ,hs
comet very nearly in its predicted position. upon
January H. far to the south and setting soon after
the At present the brightness OF the moon will
prevent the comet from being seen. but immediately
after the full moon it may be seen with good tel
escope in the southern sky near the horizon and



the evening sky convenient for observation. Com
mencing in the constellation Cetus it will
pass few degrees to the west of Alpha
Piscum. Immediately after the full moon, and
will be about midway between this star and Alpha
Arietis at the time when the again appears
a month hence. Still passing northwardly when the
passes its full in the beginning of April the
comet will be about midway between the Pleiades
and the variable star Agol, reaching point ut the
time of the moon in the latter part of April.
nearly midway between Capella and Algenib in Per-
seus. This will be the time of its maximum bright
ness and is possible that it may be visible the
naked eye IL the sky should be very clear Still pur
suing the same course, and now gradually dimin-
ishing in brightness. it will pass into the
constellation OF the Cameeopard and then into Ursa
Major, passing May % nearly midway between
the two pointers Alpha and Beta. On the 18th 1t will
be little south OF Gamma, the next star in the Dip
per. and June 10 it will pass very Cor Carroll.
1t will now have become faint object excepting in
the largest telescopes. and will pursue southwark
course passing few degrees south of Arcturus but
before reaching that point it will probably have dis
appeared from view. HENRY NJ. PARKHURST.


NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 1879.