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Year: 1878

From all parts Of the country re,
ports come of the immense sales and
increasing demand for that deserve
ingIy popular Sewing Machine. The
Old and Reliable "STANpARD," the
price of which the proprietors wisely
reduced t. $50, including all the at
tachmGntS, and at once secured for
them popularity among the peO-
pie, far beyond that ever yet attain
ed by any other machine at any
price, the consequence Of which is,
agents are leaving the old high priced
machines, and seeking territory for
the "SrANDARD." Knowing from
experience that with the best goods
at the lowest price they can OutseIl
all other Machines, where the supa-
ior quality and low price is made
known. This splendid Machine
combines all the improvements. Is
far ahead of all others in beauty and
durability of its work, ease of man
agement, light running and certainty
Of operation, is sensibly made upon
sound principles, with positive work
in2 parts all steel, and can be safely
put down as the very perfection of a
Serviceable Sewing Machine, in
every particular, that will outlast
any Machine, and at price far down
below any other. 1t is thoroughly
warranted for five years. Kept in
order free OF charge. And sent to any
part of the Country for examination
by the customer before payment Of
the bill. We can predict equally as
large demand for them in this
section as in others. Families desir-
ing the best Machine manufactured
should write direct to the Factory.


And enterpriSing persons wishing to
seize the chance should apply for so
desirable an agency. See advertise


ment in another part Of this paper.
i Address, Standard MachineC Co., Cor,
/ Broadway and Clinton Place, New
+ York.
Year: 1878

New York Herald, und)


The Democrats must see by this
time the folly OF encouraging the
Greenback movement, from which
some Of them, as Senator Thurman,
hoped for important advantages. Not
only has the silly and undemocratic
surrender Of SO many Democrats to
the initiation and paper money swim
die given the astute Republicans an
opportunity to grasp for themselves
the souDd and evidently popular pol
icy of hard money, but tht supposi
ton Of men like Mr.. Thurman, that
x SsslsEsIseAQaek mQNemCnt would
Muse fOssesto the Republican party
is so entirely fallaciouS that in fact,
the Democrats have lost several dis
tricts and the control Of at least two
important StateS-Connecticut and
New Jersry-by Democratic votes
drawn of into the GreenbaCk ranks.
The elections o. Tuesday show clear
IN that the Republicans have benefit
ted greatly by the Greenback craze;
not only because it forced the Re
publicanS to take positive ground on
the currency question, and wherever
they have done so they have gained.
f. take only one instance out OF
many, Mr.. Chittendem in Brooklyn
made his Whole canvass on the cur
rency question and took the most eX-
treme hard money ground, denOunc-
ing even the silver movement and
the sacred "dOllar Of our daddiea,' y
yet his majority increased from two
hundred and fifty in 1876 to over siX
thousand last Tuesday. Mr.. Morton
also carried a Democratic district as
a distinct aud uncomprOmising haro
money man. We advise the Demo
Gratis to unite to get the currency
question out of politics they have
always blundered and lost with it
and they ought 10y this time to see
that for their safety aS party i
ought to be settled as soon as pos
siUle.
Year: 1878

with Indiana and Oregon, cannot
elect.


The Obvious consequence is that
the Greer back heresy dooms tn,
Democratic party to another defeat.
A sound, unflinchiug, hard money
candidate will offer that party the
only chance of success in New York,
New jersey and Connecticut. But
such candidate would he hOpelessly
beaten elsewhere, if the Western and
Southern Democrats continue to fOs.
ter the Greenback heresy, and to
make common cause with repudia-
tors. Nor does it seem possible for
that party to retreat from the fatal
position it has taken, and to undo at
the West and South, in season for
the next election, all the mischief it
has done in educatipgeits veters to
uVffrInpS OF rGf1ilftiaf =
Year: 1878

From the Cleveland Ledger.


A suit was tried before Justice Green
and jury of three men yesterday which
contains many curious elements. Re-
Gently the wife of n member of well
known firm of Water street bought, in
q considerable bill of household goods,
coffee pot, paying Sl.75. But neither
she nor her maid could make acceptable
coffee from the pot, and it was returned
to the dealer. He refused to receive it,
and the husband sued him. Messrs.
Adams and Rogers represented the de-
fendant, and the plaintiff mentioned his
own case. The manner of procedure
was unique, to say the least. The deal
er took the coffee pot and liberal sup
ply of coffee, sugar and cream, gaso-
line stove, and a coffee grinding mill
into the court room. The coffee was
ground in the presence of the jury, the
gasoline lit in the stove, water and
ground coffee were put Into the pot, and
the same was allowed to boil over the
gasoline blaze. Al length the concoc
ton was pronounced complete, and it
was properly mixed with sugar and
cream and passed to the jurors fnd the
justice. What iuryman could withstand
such sweet Establishments? They called
for more, and as there was plenty and
to spare their request was granted. At
length the three retired orconsultation,
and returning rendered a verdict for
the man who made the coffee.
Year: 1878

The Virginia New Enterprise prints
communication from Mr.. j. o. Ed
ridge, which reads: "a gentleman call
ed my attention to an item in your pa
per regarding q lad whose arm had been
amputated, and what he suffered, and
the removing of the same, and its re-
suits. Fifteen years ago lost leg,
and it was closely packed in a casket,
causing me constant, terrible pain. A
good wife, unknown to me, sent faith
full servant to arrange the amputated
limb comfortably in a new and larger
cAsket. The moment the leg was hand
led I knew it, and the comfort began
then and has never ceased, and I could
tell the position precisely in which the
missing member was placed I am glad
to know my experience is verified; but
Just how to account for this let the wise
men tell. This is the first time any al
lusion was ever made to this matter by
myself, and 1 only allude to it now to
add my testimony to that of the little
lad, that missing members do in some
mysterious way convey to us the sense
of feeling. I am well known to many
in your community, and the peculiar
circumstances attending my loss, if you
desire, you can publish
Year: 1878

The scientific editor of the New York
Times declares that by the middle OF
the present month there will not be an
unmelted person left on the earth, with
the possible exception of Charles Fran
els Adams and his next door neighbors
Year: 1878

IT has been noticed that in double
hgedies, the first person is generally


lied as dead as herring, while the
cond only wounds himself desperately
I'd recovers. 1t might be good idea
f the principal actor to kill himself
Year: 1878

bouquets and diamond fi6gson her,
when he was not annoying her with
his suspicious and his sometimes
vehement abuse. She actually dis
liked him, but it did not surprise
those who know her strange, erratic
temperament, when she suddenly
threw up her engagement without
a word Of notice, and went South
with him, pawning her few remain
ing diamonds to pay his debts,
among which was included the
florists bill for the very flowers the
bogus general" " used ostentatious-
ly to present her.


A better hearted, more generous,
more unsel6sh creature never lived.
Unhappy, bitterly and cruelty dis
appointed years ago, careless and
reckless in the extreme, she would
give weeks salary to a beggar and
90 without-if she should be ap-
pealed to at the right moment. She
has seen more of the emptiness and
vanity Of human life than most of
her contemporaries in the profess
sion, and has every reason for the
cynicism which is her chief charac-
teriStic NOWADAYS. She is now
travelling about in thyt monstrosity
of Sula, which was recently damned
at Booths Theater in this city.
Year: 1878

One Of tho Mistake en- OF the GeGtys


burg Campaign.


General James Longstreet in Philadelphia


Weekly Times.


My opinion Of the cause of the
failure of the battle of the 2d, as
given at the time, is very Succinctly
stated by Colonel Freemantle on
page 1873 of his "Three Months in
the South" He says, quoting me
she said the mistake they made
was in not concentrating the army
more and making the attack on the
Sd with 10000 men instead of 15,-
000."* ! doubt now if 10000 men
could have made a successful at
tack, if Colonel Taylor is correct in
his idea as to the manner in which
General Lee would have fought
them. lie says that General Lee
ordered that the column should 90
to the attack with its right flank
exposed to the enveloping forces on
the Federal left. Under this dispo.
sition | do not think 10000 men
could have successfully made the
attack. The battle should not have
been made under the circumstances,
We should have drawn every thing
up on the night of the 1st and
made a quick move by our right
flank on the morning of the I'd SO
as to seize the Emmettsburg road.
Had we done this we should either
have been attacked--the very thing
we had been hoping and mourning
for-or we should have dislodged
Meade from his position without
striking a blow. If we had been
attacked we should have ceFtaInly
repHlsed it. Had Meade deserted
disposition without striking a blow
in its defense the moral effect IN our
favor would have been tremendous.
10 show that one Of these results
would certainly have followed, |
quote Q dispatch sent in cipher
from General Meade to General
Halleck ipat before my battle on
the I'd. The dispatch reads; eff
not attacked and | can getany posi-.
tive information Of the enemy which
will justify me in doing so, will
attack. If l find it hagspdous to
do so and am satisfied that the enc
my is endeavoring to move to my
rear and interpose between mo and
Washington, shall fall back on
my supplies at Westminster If.
however, no decisive result had fol-
lowed Immediately upon the flank
movement that shoNid have been
made an the night of the LIST or the
morning of the Cd, the thirteen
days that elapsed between our first
rencoatre and our recrosaing Of the
Potomac would have surely given
time and opportunity for different
Year: 1878




Probably not one in a hundred
caA do any one thing thoroughly.
They can all dig away at anything
that comes handy" but, as for ex-
ceiling in any trade, business, art
or profession, that is utterly out Of
the question. One of these young
men calls upon us; perhaps he is a
graduate Of some college, has his
diploma and plenty of recommen-
dationS from clergymen aud men,
bers of congress. We ask him what
he can do? He is not particular
can turn his hand to most anything.
We give him trial, and find he
cannot write a decent hand, nor
spell or punctuate correctly, nor
write with any degree of rapidity,
nor read a strange manuscript, nor
do anything whatever with prompt
ness and judgment, which is requi-
site in business. He has no knOwl-
edge of any subject; has simply a
iumbled mass of information, which
may be sound or otherwise, and
which he cannot turn to any prac-
teal account. He has been all his
life reading about how things are
done instead of learning to do
them.


This is wrong. Young men
should reduce their education to
practice as they go long. They
should learn to do. They should
study less-practice, or work more !;
read less and think more; that in
stead of being useless, superficial,
imbecile, autoniata, they may be-
come thorough, practical, executive
men, capable of doing what they
undertake, to the last degree Of
perfection, and with vigor aud
rapidity in keeping with the char
acteristics of the age,


IA stitch in time saves nine" 4 Dot.
| tl,, Of Dr pnllis nonrL Cr.,- ..lI r..
Year: 1878

Chicago Times


It wouldn't do for some Of the
defaulting bank cashiers to live out
in Kansas City, Mo. There is a po-
liceman out there known as Long
John. He belongs to one Of the old
est and most respectable families.
but he was wayward youth and got
away with his share of the estate
early in life. Then with commenda-
ble pluck he got on the force,
Strengthened up, and has been a
faithful and temperate man ever
since. AS often as he drew his pay
he went to certain bank and de-
posted whatever he could save. He
continued this frugal way .of living
until he had saved about 500. Not
long ago when one of the solid insti-
tutions of the Chicago of the West
went down, and the "bosses'' of the
institution were "regretting" in tears
to their penniless depositors, Long
John walked up to the President
and said to him: Look here, when
l was a wild boy you used to talk
to me about saving money, You
told me to follow your example.
When run through my part of the
estate you got me on the police
force. You told me to put what
money | could in the bank. 1 did it.
[ worked hard as a nigger and saved
all I could. And you bave nothing
you say to pay me. I want my
money"


The great bankrupt placed his
hands on Long Johns shoulders and
spoke to him sadly: "My 10y, this
is a great tribulation. | have lost
everything and cannot


Long John took the hand of the
banker from his should and said i:
Il don't want any crocodile tears
from you. Every cent put in your
hand / worked for like Niger. and
you know it. l would sooner be
dead than loose it. Now, if if you
don't pay me that money I willblow
your brains out here on the spot"
And he placed revolver against
the bankers head.


In ten minutes Long Jim had his
500 and the great penniless banker
was begging Kim not to give it away
lest the example might be repeated.
II will do to try in Chicago.
Year: 1878

FROM THE FRANKLIN REVIEW


There is no room outside our State
Democratic Platform for an Indepen-
dent-for National, or for any other
man. no matter who he is-prOvided he
is for relief and for the right. The Con-
vention was the best representative one
ever held in this State. The people
were there. The Taxpayers were there.
Heretofore one day suficed for its de-
liberations. This time three days and
nights were consumed in an anxious
and honest effort for the right declara-
ton of principles and the right sort of
nominee. They got ringing enuncia-
tion Of the true faith, and gallent and
capable leader. 1t Is glorious tri-
umph for the Taxpayers and the horny
handed sons of toil-in the ield-in
the work.shop-at the desk-every-
where in this grand old Commonwealth,
where men toll either with the brain or
the body. The Democratic Party of
this State has planted itself upon the
Jeffersonian rock Of principle and pIae-
ed itself in line with the toiling millions.
1t is true to its traditions. 1t is true to
the poor and weak. 1t takes up the
guage of battle thrown down by the
strong, an1 will war until Rings and
Cliques shall no longer curse our State
and rob and pillage our people. To go
a little into details, the platform declares
that the Radical Republican Party is
directly responsible for all the woes-al
the distress-all the ruin that now riot
ously plumber and pillage tho laboring
masses and every other interest. This
is a gospel truth. 1t preclaims the
great truth that the same Party com
mitted the rape Of the Presidency. 1t
declares that no settlement of the State
Debt shall be made until it is referred
to the people. This is the greatest doc
trine enunciated in the platform 1t
saws what the lightning of Heaven ought
to consume a man for saying otherwise
that the people must pass upon this mat
fer. This is the true Democratic doc
trine. In this contest the people have
won q great triumph. 1t remains for
them now to carry this out by an over
whelming victory at the ballot-box. II
will obey the will Of the people," says
the one-legged frie4d of the masses.
Hurrah for Marks
Year: 1878

The gentleman WHO attracted so
much attention in church last Sun
day by crying out "Holy Lord p had
no intention of disturbing the con-
gregation. He had becn putting
down carpets. and as he sat down in
the pew he suddenly remembered
that he had left some tacks in his
coat tail pocket. We make mention
of this in justice 10 his family, who
are highly respectable.
Year: 1878

CHESTER, Oct. 10.-The Delaware
county fair opened to-day. The attend
ance was slim, although not much of q
rush was expected. The main building
is much too small to hold the exhibits
and has created some grumbling. Nothing
worked well to-day and nearly every
body connected with the show was in
bad humor. One of the exhibition tents
was blown down, luckily doing no dam
age. The Hon. William Ward delivered
the grafton from the top of packing
box to about one hundred people. The
other five hundred who were on the
grounds either did not know he was
going to speak or found more pleasure in
trying the lifting machines and lung
testers. Tomorrow the races will attract
persons from all parts of the county and
a big day is anticipated. There will also
be races on Saturday.
Year: 1878

A Defenseless Dwarf Killed by her Parents.


Fort Wayne, Ind, Nov. 13-Lafayette township,
this county, was on last Thursday night the scene
or horrible murder, which has just come to
light to-day. Mary Daily, dwarf 26 years old,
on that night very suddenly died at her fathers
house, and an undertaken of this city was not


fed. He found the body lying on the aoor with
a sheet covering only the head, Upon removing
1t, which was only done after resistance from the
father he found that the face and head had been
pounded to a mass OF jelly, presenting a sicken.
ing sight He cofined the body at once aud bu
rled 1t without any religious ceremonies, He
came to this city and notified the sheriff and coro-
uer, who the next night went to the graveyard,
exhumed the body that night and arrived here
before daylight in the morning. The sheriff took
the body directly to the Fort Wayne Medical Col
iege, where an Inquest was held to. dey, proving
that the unfortunate cripple was murdered War.
rants were issued this evening, and the sheriff,
with posse of men, started for Lafayette town.
ship. The whole family, eight in number, will
be arrested and brought before the grand jury,
which Is now In session. Within the last two
years she has given birth to two children, said to
have been begotten by her step brothers. The
family are very ignorant and brutal and have
abused the poor dwarf in q shameful manner.
Both Of her children died within two days after
birth. She was less than five feet high and badly
deformed which was made worse by the terrible
cruelty she has been subjected to by her steD.
mother and step-brothers, who wished to put her
out Of the way.
Year: 1878

Aswe turned homeward, from our carriage win.
dow we saw tragedy on the corner of Broadway
and Houston streets, A young man was hating
in doubt ss ito which way he had better 90. Lift
his hat high enough and you see an intelligent
forehead. Look at his eye, clear and mild, as he
stands there. see he has ltalWaEt chest and no.
Year: 1878

New York November Notwithstanding the
day was stormy, the Brooklyn Tabernacle was
crowded to the doors yesterday morning The
interest In this thrilling series Of sermons is still
unabated, but appears to be rather on the In
crease and they will be continued. The follow
ing is the sixth Of the series, delivered yesterday
n,nrnfnO
Year: 1878

him. The messenger was questioned as TO where no
obtained the books, and stated thai be had
been given them TO deliver by man In a
liquor store IN this city. He appeared
TO be very reticent and before he could be detained
ran out into the street and escaped Since the dis
covery OF the mutiated body In the river with only
three cents In the pockets the suspicious OF foul play
have been greatly Increased II was stated that the
detectives detailed to hunt up BORIS whereabouts
learned that he had been seen on tho night OF bis
disappearance In company with two men who
are unknown, drinking In saloon In South
street. but his movements from that place
cannot DO traced. The police believe that
while he was drunk he staggered out ono OF tho
PIERS eii overheard and drowned, that he had
probably bccn robbed aud then thrown overheard by
some OF the dcsperadoes who all times be found
lurking around tho docks Tue friends OF the dead
man scout the idea OF suicide, which has been ad-
vanccd and IN support OF their opposite theory citQ
the similar fate met with by James McNchol, tho
clerk IN the Union Dime Bank, who 10 supposed TO
have beon crugged, robbed and then murderod ana
on suspicion Of which coroner's jury committed 10
cell in the Tombs young man Of the east sido.


permit was granted yesterday by tho Coroner for
the removal OF The remains OF the deceased his atc
residence. The day on which the inquest Will DO held
has yet been mined but Is thought that Il
Will bo held AZ an carly date, when II s probable that
some developments viii be made.
Year: 1878

to speak Of report circulated among them that tho
claimants who put in the application for damages
were New Workers and radicals " Upon the deieat
OF the bill by something like ten votes only. motion
10 reconsider was made which followed by one to
lay on the table, whereupon the minority resorted TO
nlbustering and by carrying motion TO adjourn pre-
vented the scotchng Of the bill which the republicans
intended BY laying on the table.
Year: 1878

The suggestion of the Wchr Zeitung is
that race ofdogs should be attached to
armies in their campaigns, or at least to
the corps of ambulance service attend
ing upon them, and that after every bat.
tie the dogsin question should be sent
forth to range over the field of battle in
search of those wretched wounded sol
diers who have not been killed outright,
but who have hidden themselves in
some refuge, and after figuring in the
list of "missiDg" men too often perish
miserably before any relief can find
them out. 1t seems that the idea OF
employing dogs in this way is by no
means new one, but was brought for.
ward two years ago at Dresden, where
some dogs qualified for thispurpose were
shown in an exhibition. Since that time
experiments have been made by means
OF crossing the St. Bernard with other
races with view to obtaining the most
suitable breed, and a very satisfactory
result is said to have been arrived at BY
the German fanciers. The precise mode
of employing the animals en- their ben.
efcent mission is described in the vi.
emma paper, which explains that the dog
is furnished with a leather cellar and
plate, having marked upon 1t his num-
ber and the division of the army to
which he is attached, and the Geneva
Gross. To this collar is suspended a
small leathern bag, containing pencil
and alin of uarar and aVan a IittIa Ian
tern in case of his being sent out at
night. The wounded man, on being
found, opens the bag and writes HIS
name ifhe can upon the paper, together
with the natGre Of his injuries, and on
the return Of the animal to the ambnr
lance assistance is sent under his guild
ance to the spot where the sufferer is
concealed. Land and Water


In l. kho vrtnRk Of a v,htioaov.ko. - -
Year: 1878

RUSSIAN universities don't stand any
foolishness from the students thereof. A
collegian was expelled from the uni
versity Of Kew because he violated some
of the rules. The other members of bis
class made a fuss about his removal,
whereupon the Rector sat down, as it
were, on the whole class, and expelled
the 14O that composed it. The matter
did not stop here, however, as the
students felt called upon to make some
warlike demOnstrs tions on account OF
the expulsion. They did not demon
strate to any great extent. They were
arrested, and are now completing their
education by serving term in prison,
There was an unfortunate sequel. A
few days after the confinement of the
students, the rector was killed by a shot
from an unknown person He will not
long remain unknown, however. An
official execution of student at klew
may soon be looked for.
Year: 1878

In the senate on the 18th, decision
upon the amendment to the sundry civil APP.
preparation bill for the payment of southern
mail contractors for services rendered prior
to the war was continued at some length.
The bill having been considered in commits
tee OF the whole was reported to the senate.
The bill was read third time and passed,
Adjourned.