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Year: 1878

A daughter of Dan Newman. over at
Sierra Valley. captured the first prize at
last years Nevada State Fair for being
the best equestrienne. After the young
lady had been declared boss. she turned
around and told the world at large that
she would just like to see somebody trot
out something in the shape of horsetlesh
that she couldn't ride, ii they thought
she was sailing under false colors. The
result is that although she has been on
various animals that were brought tor
ward she has KEEP. her seat in every in
stance. Now there's girl that's good
tor something! She can bake cookies
and bread and all such things; darn
stockings, make her own dresses and dc
anything and everything that makes
her q good housekeeper, and when i,
comes to playing the piano she is nc
slouch either.
Year: 1878

The case against John Sherman is made
by his letter to Anderson and Weber and
his own testimony respecting that letter.


The letter shows the writer to have been
engaged in suborning Anderson and Web
er to suppress the fact that the Democrats
had carried the parishes of East and West
Feliciana, and that the protests against
the election there which had been prepar-
ed in their name in order to enable the
Returning Board to act upon those par
ishes. were false ir fact throughout, IN
some respects were forged, and had been
sworn to, not by Anderson and Weber
themselves, but by other parties persona
ting them and taking the oaths in their
names.


Mr., Sherman's testimony when examin-
ed touching the authenticacy Of this letter,
was not that he positively did not write it,
not that there were any things in it which
he would not have written, but that, while
be thought he did not write it, there were
things 10 it which he certainly would have
written under such circumstances.


This testimony given under oath by
Mr.. Sherman himself, with copy OF the
letter in his hand, is in fact and substance
a confession that he cannot deny that the
letter was his-a confession that he wrote
it for tao only purpose which he could
have had in view in writing such letter
at that time.


Whatever explanation Mr.. Sherman
may vet offer, however ingenious the theo-
ries he may try to set up, it is impossible
for him to wipe out the effect which the
letter and his own testimony have produc-
ed upon the minds of all rejecting people.


So far as John Sherman is concerned,
we must consider that the charges against
him in this matter are to be held as proved
by his own letter and his own sworn oral
declarations concerning it. No honest
man could have written that letter; no in
nocent man could have made those decla-
rations.


The ground for the impeachment and
trial of John Sherman is already plain and
solid.-N. Y. Sun.
Year: 1878

NOW is the time to buy your Farming
In Implements cheap. l have on hand
large Stock of Machinery which l am deter
mined to sell. Iwould make special mention
of my two and three horse Furrow Plows.
My two-horse Plow l am selling as low as
$500, and for strength and steady running it
cannot be surpassed, while my wrought shear
plows connot be beat The Clipper Rake
with some important improvements is also
being offered low. The all (wrought) Iron
single and double Shovel Plows and the three
Shoveled Cultivator, which became so popular
and gave such entire satisfaction last year, are
now ready for the Spring trade at low figures.
Remember the Lion Feed Mastieator is the
best Feed Cutter in the market, see it.
Reapers and Mowers promptly repaired unless
new parts are to be ordered which must be
done from the company who manufacture the
machine as there is no one keeping repairs on
hand. So in order to have your machine
ready for moving and reaping bring them in
early so as to give time to order repairs. All
other repairing done well and cheap.


mar 31-tf E. WAGNER.
Year: 1878

CUCUMBER PUMP
put in wells of any depth and guarantee it to
work with ease, and throw water with any
wood Pump and last as long, always on hand
and put in on the most accommodating terms.
Patent Window Fasteners always on hand.


Thankful for past favors we respectfully ask
q continuance of the same and an examina-
ton of our large stock and prices, which defy
competition. Employing nQpe but the best
workmen and using the best material we hope
by strict attention to business to receive a
continuance of the public patronage.


P. CA1LAGHAN & SON,


may 10 Westminster, Md.
Year: 1878

HAVING purchased from my partner his
III interest in the foundry and machine
shops near depot Western Maryland Railroad,
in Westminster, would respectfully solicit
the patronage of my friends and the public
generally. shall do the very best I can to
render entire satisfaction to my customers.
am prepared to do all kinds of
Year: 1878

At last we have king to offer to the Bull
garians whose advancement to the throne
will be advantageous to all parties con-
cerned. Let the crown be placed on the
head Of George NJ Robson, late Secretary
of the United States Navy. He will not
discredit the name OF o King George, of
any country or of any reign. The BuIga-
rians have an army and can fight on land.
Their need, if they desire to become q
great people, is navy. Robson will
build ships for them without limit and at
any amount of expense. If they have oc-
casion to sell new or old ships he will dis
pose of them at an extraordinarily low
figure. King George will soon give them
the strongest navy on the Black Sea if they
can raise enough money to warrant it, and
every Bulgarian will have contract. The
ex-Secretary will not object to leaving the
United States at this time. Indeed, he
may be somewhat anxious for q speedy de-
parture, if there be no obstacle in the way
Of his immediate coronation.
Year: 1878

Canadian genius is reported to have
discovered method of refining petroleum,
not only without the use of heat. but in
such manner that the naphtha, benzine and
gasoline, which must now be expelled be-
fore the oil can bear safety tests, are re-
tanned in such combination to as to be HARM
less and useful. As in all scientific dis
coveries the demonstration of principle
emphasizes the possibility Of the application
of the same to all bodies of nature like unto
that experimental upon, this Canadian dis
covery proves that the method employed is
applicable to all other indammable ma
terial consequently, the inventor should
be Immediately coaxed into the United States
and run for Congress, which is the most
dangerously infiammable body on the com
tlnent. The idea of making our national
Legislature useful without heating it to a
high tempenture, and of making it's volatile
and explosive elements not only harmless
but useful and harmonious with the portion
naturally trustworthy, is the most consoling
one that has ever dawned upon our polit-
ical horizon. Better yet, tho petroleum dis
covery promises to secure yearly saving
of hundred and twenty million dollars


Ii SO much can be saved upon a cheap, rank
natural production, where would our ma
tional debt be within n year if the in
ventors principle were applied to such Sc
lect and expensive material as Congress?
Year: 1878

The strike of the drivers on the Third
and more than three hundred men are now
voluntarily out of employment. AS to the
allegations Of bad faith made against the
company and a betrayal of its promise it
would be unfair to give opinions in the alb
sence Of any but one side Of the story.
Drivers were promised, it appears, at one
time that if they would return to their en-
ployment and abandon strike they would
not in future be molested on account of
their conduct or on account of their mem
bership Of protective union. They are
now discharged on account OF that member
ship as they assume, and they naturally
charge that this is bad faith. Perhaps il is.
But horse car companies are not famous
for good faith in the best Of circum-
stances. 1t seems, indeed, a trihe
ridiculous that anybody should expect
any other sort of faith from these
corporations, or that any one should be
astonished at the violation OF pledge made
to few hundred drivers by corporations
that have accumulated enormous wealth
through the systematic violation for years
of the pledges made to the whole people in
the Capitol at Albany. In the particular
instance before us, however, there is good
word to be said for the company. Nobody
has any great respect for pledges extorted
from people with knife at their throat |;
and if there were public opinion even
vigorously inclined to hold men to their
promises we doubt if it would exact that a
promise given where the will could not be
said to be free was to be devoutly kept.
The managers Of that car property made the
pledge required because they were under
obligation to do their best for the inter-
est Of the property, and they have
violated it in their turn. Drivers
themselves constantly violate pledges
worthy more respect even if implied rather
than declared. In their days of need and
distress they are very glad to get these sit
uations, and they take them under the i'm
piled intention to serve the company fairly.
Once warm in their places they agree among
themselves that they will suddenly take an
action that will greatly damage the property
unless the managers increase their wages or
employ some discharged person. That is
their kind Of bad faith. It is misfortune
that SO many men should suddenly be put
out of employment as the cold weather
comes on, but other men, more in want,
perhaps, will get the places, and those who
live by their daily labor must learn the
hard lesson Of thinking of the needs at
home before they push their quarrels with
their employers to extremes beyond which
the spirit Of compromise is defed.
Year: 1878

The members Of the Bar Association who
are seeking to obtain ON order from Judge
Davis, in Supreme Court, Chambers, en-
powering them to inspect the books in the
County Clerks Office, need scarcely have
put themselves to the trouble Of the appli-
cation if the County Clerks statement is
true. The charter provides that "all
books, accounts and papers in any depart
ment or bureau, except the Police Depart
mont, shall at oil times be open to the in
spection of any taxpayer, subject to any
reasonable rules and regulations in regard
to the time and manner of such inspection
as such department, bureau or officer may
make in regard to the same in order to
secure the safety of such books.


accounts and papers, and the proper
use of them by the department,


bureau or officer" The application of the
Bar Associations committee for permission
to examine the books in question seems TO
have been made in tho busy hours of the
day. The County Clerk declares his will
ingness to give the committee free access to
all the books and papers of the Office when
they are not in actual use. This is all the
committee has right to ask, and Of course
tho Judge before whom the application is
made will not order an inspection at any
other time. The appeal to tho Court, there
fore, seems to have been unnecessary, and
if it was designed to have an injurious effect
on the officer it is not a creditable proceed
ing. The investigation into the alleged
illegal practices in the county offices should
be thorough, but if it is to be productive OF
good it must be impartial and free from po-
litical motives. No county officer has O
right to collect illegal fees, and If the prac-
tice has prevailed up to the present time Il
SHOULD at once be discontinued. But the
reform must be undertaken in the public
interest and not in the interest Of politicians.
Year: 1878

In eight years of peace one hundred and
eighty million dollars were spent on the
United States Navy by that illustrious tar
Secretary Robeson. For nation which has
no navy that is pretty steep. Over twenty
two million dollars year Of the peoples
money were handed over to keep up de-
partment whose ships, if we accept them at
the value put upon them by Secretary Robe
son-the value he put on them when he had
some for sale-would not have fioated the
whole sum if it had been paid out in the
dollars Of the daddies. Thirty-one ships
of the navy supported at this expense
thirty-one ships which had cost the govern
ment nearly fourteen millions of dollars -
were sold for trife over half million.
In that connection committee of Congress
which has inquired into the subject quotes
the suggestive words OF the statute as
to any ''person who steals or embezzles or
knowingly applies to his own use, or who
unlawfully sells, conveys or disposes Of
any ordnance, arms, ammunition, clothing,
subsistence stores, money or other property
Of the United States furnished or to be
used for the military or naval service shall
be for such offences" dealt with under the
criminal laws. But the present suggestion
is that the ex-Secretary shall be given an
opportunity to defend his expenditures in
the methods provided under proceedings
for impeachment. 1t appears that the re-
publican minority of the committee are OPP
posed to the stcp-which seems to us some
what maladroit on their part. If for
mer Secretary of the Navy was guilty Of
misconduct in Office all good citizens. with
out respect to party. should be equally anx-
ious to see him disgraced by exposure but
if he was not guilty the men Of his own
party should be particularly anxious to
have that shown, that even the shadow Of
opprobrium might not fall upon them
through man for whose official career they
were responsible.
Year: 1878

Rapid Transit TO the Grand Central


For the short distance between the Third
Avenue Elevated Railroad and the, Grand
Central Depot it is unnecessary to compli-
cate tire plans Of rapid transit by running
special two-car trains from the Battery ter
minus. On the structure erected for the
Forty-second street branch an arrangement
of movable sectional platforms can be
placed and operated with drums and cables
by.a stationary engine at the end Of the
branch. Passengers for the Grand Gen.
tral depot can get off through
train at the Forty second street sta
ton and go up to the depot on the mov-
ing platform without being put to any
more trouble than is now experienced in
going there in the cars. Stated trains,
designated by lamps or flags, can convey
passengers to the Forty-second street
branch. and these trains can be
switched on for the purpose to
the down track next to. the movable
platform SO as to deposit the passengers on
it. Automatic switches will close the down
track to south bound trains and send them
to the opposite, or east track, while the
west track is0ccupied by o north bound
train leaving passengers at Forty-second
street. There will be no more difficulty or
danger in this arrangement than in that
now governing the switching of special
trains to the branch, and tho through traffic
With com plete trims will bo unintor
rupted. Every other train can also carry
an additional car and thus tho accommoda-
ton for passengers going up town will be
increased over sixteen per cent. To remedy
the dangerous evil of crowded cars the rail-
road com pany ought to consider the prac-
ticability of our suggestion. We feel satis-
fed that it would improve the carrying ca
pacity of the road without increasing the
number Of trains.
Year: 1878

II anything was needed to prove the bold
ness and desperation of our criminal classes
the scenes enacted yesterday in the neigh
borhood Of Jefferson Market Prison sup
ply evidence of the most thrilling and
dramatic character. s.Red" Leary, man
we'll known as lawbreaker, is arrested and
handed over to q detective to be conveyed
into the State where his crime was commit
ted, and in open daylight gang Of desper-
ate men attempt to rescue their comrade
or leader from the clutch Of the law. The
account we print to-day of this bold pro-
ceeding reads more like scene on the
Western border than one happening
in great city which supports nearly
three thousand uniformed policemen.
Yet in one Of our most frequented thorough
fares gangs of suspicious men ore permitted
to assemble and loiter near the door Of o
police court, with evident intention to take
the law into their own hands. police
captain sees his prisoner released for want
of evidence on one charge, and, on finding
him in custody on rcquisition from another
State, asks the detective if he wants any
help" adding, "you may have trouble, for
there's a pretty tough gang outside" On


the detective expressing his confidence to
hold on to his prisoner the police captain
disappears and leaves ''the tough gang un-
disturbed. A struggle between the SherifTs
officers and the desperadoes ensues and the
former only hold their prisoner after draw
ing revolvers on their assailants. Then
the police come to the deputy sheriff s
support and escort the prisoner in
carriages, all Of which are driven at q
rapid, reckless rate through the streets to
the County Jail. Beyond the arrest of one
of the ''rescuers," no effort was apparently
made to seize 'the tough gang" though it
is evident that the members were tolerably
well known to the sworn officers of the law.
These facts are very suggestive and show
clearly how incompetent arc many Of the
men holding high commands in the police
force of New York. well known and
hardened criminal almost escapes through
the palpable negligence Of police captain,
being only held in custody by display of
courage on the part Of the detective and the
deputy sheriff, which our police would do
well to initiate. Then, and only then, the
Inspector commanding the district comes
forward to do what his subordi-
nate neglected in the first place,
but he also refrains from arresting
any of the desperate men who had SO boldly
set the law in defiance. Are these gangs OF
criminals to be permitted to hold posses
sion of our streets and compel the police to
resort to strategy to retain possession of one
Of their number who has been detected in
his crime? If 80, the sooner this disgrace
full state Of affairs is changed the better it
will be for the safety of life and property in
this city. 1t will not do to allow "Red'


Leary's comrades to initiate the followers Of
Robin Hood, else where is the need of our
| three thousand knights of the baton?
Year: 1878

The fact that the Metropolitan Elevated
Railroad Company has concluded con-
tract for the extension Of the Sixth
avenue line to Harlem River, on the
west side, will give general satisfac-
ton. This section of the road is, in
accordance with the terms of the contract,
to be completed to 159th street and ready
for operation by the 1st Of July next, or in
a little over SIX months, and the further Sec
ton to 10th street. or High Bridge. which
is to be included in the same contract, will
be ready for travel before the close Of next
summer The manner in which tho work
on the present structure was prosecuted
guarantees that there will be no lack Of
energy in the construction of the important
section to High Bridge, SO that by this time
next year our citizens will no doubt enjoy
the full benefit Of rapid transit on the west
side. 1t is also gratifying to know that the
same company contemplates an early con-
struction Of its east side line, which will
take the First avenue route to Twenty-third
street and then cross over to Second avenue.
It is evident that the east side travel must
have more accommodation than can be sup
piled by one road, and the completion
Of the Second avenue line will still leave as
much business tor tho New York Elevated
road as it can accommodate. Indeed, im-
proved facilities Of rapid transit travel will
increase the business OF all the roads, and
the prospect is that before long there will
be o general demand for third enterprise,
probably in tho shape of sunken track
like that on Fourth avenue on which long
trains may be run at high rate Of speed.


The Third avenue track will be completed
to Harlem bridge rs soon as the rails are
laid between Ninety-second street and 105th
street, which is o triding piece of work.
The road above Eighty-rnth street will not
be ready for full use for some time, as the
stations are notyet up. But through trains
at stated hours Of the day might be run
from the Battery to the Harlem River as
soon as the track is laid, making no stops
between Eighty-ninth street and the bridge.
Year: 1878

CONGRESS- yesterday was a busy
day in Congress there was very little legislation
OF any description In the House resolution
to suspend the rules and pass bill making it .
penal offence for officers agents Of tho gov
ernment to contribute money toward Presiden-
tial and Congressional elections failed to receive
the necessary two-thirds majority District Of
Columbia business was then considered until
adjournment The Senate debated Mr.. Blaine
Southern resolution, and Mr.. Sherman was
sharply taken to task by Mr. Beck for his fail
ure to answer resolution of inquiry recently
sent to him. 1t also refused by majority Of
six to take up the Texas and Pacific Railroad
Subsidy bill.
Year: 1878

The LAW governing the acquiring of prop
erty BY railroad corporations was clearly laid
down by Judge Donohue yesterday in decision
upon the application OF the New York Central
and Hudson River road in regard to the lands
between Sixty-fifth and Seventy-second streets.
However great the hardship may be to private
parties the corporation in question, the law at
present stands, has the right to acquire any
property If the necessity for its possession is
shown to exist
Year: 1878

limbs, and increase the chances Of promo
tion for the really efficient officers who are
retained in active service The compensa-
tion of officers on the retired list is to be
regulated by length of service. 1t is to
consist for each officer Of two per cent of
the current yearly pay of the rank from
which he is retired for each years service
that is to say, thirty years service entities
him to sixty per cent and forty years SER
vice to eighty per cent; but his pay ''shall
in no case exceed eighty percentum of pay
of the rank from which he is retired"


We trust the time may come when the
civil service may be organized on the same
general plan as the military service, with a
sole view to efficiency and quite regardless
of party politics. The army would be de-
moralized if appointments and removals
were made for party reasons, and the civil
service would become MS respectable as the
army if the offices were held by similar
tenure.
Year: 1878

The REPORT which we print this morning
upon the condition OF business in Massachusetts
is exceedingly encouraging. Nearly all the cot
ton mills are at work and wages are fair. While
competition is keen and prices low the market
is said TO be larger than ever before. An almost
equally good report is made in regard to woollen
goods and the boot and shoe trade. Altogether
the outlook is exceedingly bright.
Year: 1878

The SALOON OF the notorious Owney Geo
ghegan was shown yesterday before the Board
OF Excise to be one of the model institutions Of
the city. Geoghegan can 60 ahead with his
pistol practice.
Year: 1878

JUDGE WALLAcEs DECISION on some OF the
points in the Whalen-Sheridan suit yesterday s
not very favorable to the hero of Winchester.
He holds that General Sheridans course in the
matter was not justified by any Of the provisions
Of the reconstruction acts
Year: 1878

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was strong and active. Gold was quiet all
day at 10O1s. Government bonds were firm,
States dull and railroads strong. Money on call
lent at a Sig per cent and ut the close at .
8 per cent.