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Year: 1878

| The workingmen of this country are
urged to give their support to the theory
of the Greenbackers, because, if put into
practice, it will be a great help to the
debtor class. The implied assumption is
that these workingmen belong to this
class, and, hence, that greenback initiation
will be signal advantage to them.


The assumption is not true. The great
body of the working people are not in
debt to anybody. Large numbers of them
are too poor to be in debt. They have
not sufficient credit to contract debts
There is no class in the country 30 gem
orally free from debt as the workingmen
or that SO uniformly pay as they GO
They are not traders and do not buy in
large amounts; but pay down the cash
for what they purchase and consume
There is, moreover, no other class in the
country that, in proportion to their num-
ber, contains more creditors than the
workingmen. Their wages, though gem
orally paid to them at short intervals,
are not paid IN advance; and until they
are paid workingmen are creditors, hay
ing claims against their employers. Many
of them have the wisdom to save part
of their earnings; and thousands and
tens of thousands have this surplus on
depost in savings banks or in trust COM
panies, or invested in bank stock or the
bonds of the Government. Every such
workingman or workingwoman is a capi-
talist and a creditor, owing nothing, but
having debts due to him or her.


Not only is the premise from which
these paper infationists reason false but
the conclusion is equally false. There
can be no imitation of paper money with
out corresponding rise of prices, which
means that the same nominal amount Of
money will buy less than it did before.
1t is well-known fact that the increase
of wages will not correspond with the ad-
vance in the price of commodities, and
the consequence is that labor will always
lose in the degree of its purchasing pow
er. This is direct and positive loss to
the laborer. The sham dollars in which
he receives his wages will not buy as
much as genuine dollars. There is no
other class that suffer so severely from
irredeemable paper money as those who
work for wages; and when they are ask
ed to vote with the inhationists in order
to help the debtor class they are asked
to help class to which they do not be-
long, and to injure the class to which
they do belong. Their interests are best
served by having kind of money that is
stable in its value, and, hence, means the
same thing Saturday night that it does
Monday morning. This kind of money
is not the product of the paper-mill or
the printing press, but of mining and
coinage.
Year: 1878

There is no burden that the Christian
can have but the Burden-bearer can ena.
BILE him to rise beneath it, and walk hap
PLY with God under it. A man who
takes the place which God puts him
in, and sticks to it and fights it through
and stands q man every inch, has await
ing him an estate of glory such as has
not been known in this world.


He who puts himself on the ground oil
moral principle, if the whole world be
against him, is mightier than all. Never
be afraid of being in the minorities
principle. The command is, Fight the
good fight of faith" And though there
are many warriors who enter into battle
with doubts and fears as to the issue OF
the conflict, it is not so among the sold
iers of the Lord Jesus Christ, who wage
the celestial warfare. Victory is declar-
ed before the combat commences, and as
sure as they shall be made more than
conquerors.'


A good conscience is better than two
witnesses. 1t melts sorrow as sun does
the ice. l is a spring when we are thirs-
ty, staff when we are faint, shelter
when the sun strikes US, a pillow in the
hour of death.


There is no greater mistake than to
suppose that Christians can impress the
world by agreeing with it. No! it is not
conformity that we want it is not being
able to beat the world in it's own way
but it is to stand apart from and above it,
and to produce the impression of a holy
and separate life; this only can give US
true Christian power Ex.
Year: 1878

DAIN in the right side, under the edge
L Of the ribs, increases on pressure; !;
sometimes the pain is in the left side; !;
the patient is rarely able to lie on the
left side; sometimes the pain is felt
under the shoulder blade, and it fire.


quently extends to the top Of the shoul-
der, and is sometimes mistaken for
rheumatism in the arm. The stomach
is affected with loss of appetite and
sickness; the bowels in general are
costive, sometimes alternative with lax;
the head is troubled with pain, accom-
panied with dull, heavy sensation in
the back part There is generally a
considerable loss Of memory, accom-
panied with a painful sensation Of hay
ing left undone something which ought
to have been done. A slight, dry cough
is sometimes an attendant. The patient
complains of WEAKNESS and debility; he
is easily startled, his feet are cold or
burning, and he complains Of prickly
sensation of the skin; his spirits are
low; and although he is satisfied that
exercise would be beneficial to him,
yet he can scarcely summon up forti-
tude enough to try it. In fact, he dis
trusts every remedy. Several Of the
above symptoms attend the disease, but
cases have occurred where few Of them
existed, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.
Year: 1878

Brother G. makes tremendous blunder-
ing at it; and the minister becoming SO
sorely tried, says, "oh ! brethren, you can
any of you catch it, let's pray. After
prayer they succeed in starting the next
hymn, by coughing and clearing throats,
but it is pitched so high that some will
sing an octave too low, and others who
sing all tunes alike and all at the same
pitch, come laundering along making a
complete concert medley. The poor min
lister attempts to preach warm spiritual
sermon but fails; and why should he
not? when tortured by such miserable
singing.


You may ask, is there any room for
improvement Certainly there is-an
extensive field. 1t is said, that ninety
nine out of every hundred persons have
the ability to sing Every person that
can read can sing. l have met good
readers who say they can not sing and
yet they observe the infections and mod
ulations of the voice with perfect ease
1t is all nonsense for such persons to say
they can not sing, for the same vocal or
gans are used in reading as in singing.
Notice a good reader, how he modulates
his voice, how he observes all the inhec-
tions, changing from mere whisper to
rray Hill Publishing Company, l29 on
1t 2Sth Street, New York City. LIZ
Year: 1878

About week ago woman, who gave
her name as Mrs. Harriet Ridgway and
her residence as No. % Douglass-street,
Brooklyn, entered the Butler.street Po-
lice Station, and told Sergt. Walsh that
she wanted the Police to protect her from
being annoyed by her husband. She said
that until within about three weeks pre-
vious to that time she had lived in Jersey
City with her husband, who is q brush
maker, and her four children. But her
husband took to drink, treated her badly,
and failed to provide for her. She was
at length forced to leave him, and by ad-
vice of sister living in Brooklyn she
moved to that city for the purpose of
getting away somewhere where her hus-
band would not find her, and where she
could support her little ones by the use
of her needle He had learned her where
abouts, however, and, going to her house
had gained admission by protesting
friendship. While sitting in chair
razor dropped from his pocket which his
wife got possession Of and refused to re-
turn to him. He left, and then she went
for Police protection. Sergt. Walsh sent
Officer Mooney home with the woman,
with instructions to arrest the man if he
returned, and take him to the station
He did not make his appearance, howev-
er, and the Sergeant heard no more of
the affair until yesterday morning, when
some persons ran in to the station-house
and told him that there was trouble at
No. 26 Douglass-street. An officer was
sent there, and when he arrived he found
Mrs, Ridgway lying on the floor with the
blood streaming from a cash in the side
of her neck, near the jugular vein, and
her drunken husband standing over her
fourishing bloody knife. When he saw
the officer he turned the knife upon him
self, and tried to cut his own throat, say
ing that he had killed his wife, and was
glad of it. After o. struggle the officer
disarmed the man and took him to the
station house. Medical aid was procured
for Mrs Ridgway, and it was found that
her injury was not dangerous.
Year: 1878

Gen. Butler perpetrated grind" on
those Amherst freshmen who interrupted
his speech there with good deal of
noise from their heels. After the hall
was quiet, the General calmly remarked f.:
Those young men evidently know which
end of them is most useful"
Year: 1878

the ordinary height, whose fine, athletic form
was fully displayed by bis closely. fitting buck
skin garments, stepped forward few PAGES,
and grimly planting his left foot in advance,
threw up an unusually long rifle as though
preparing to fire.


"For Gods sake, stranger, be careful of my
child |" cried Branson, while the agonized
mother muttered an inaudible prayer.


"It's our only chance. 1 know that In.
dian," was the quick reply, and the sharp
click of the hammer, as it was drawn back,
told that the critical moment had come.


By this time the Indian had nearly reached
the summit of the steep. That he was wound
ed now became evident, as upon broad ledge
of rock he rested moment.


The opportunity was seized by the un-
known.


Although the savage had taken the precau-
ton to hold the child in front of himself as q
shield, covering nearly the whole of bis braw-
ny chest, but leaving his head uncovered, the
stranger did not hesitate to make the shot.
For one second, as it gained its position, the
rifle waved, and instantly became as immova-
bic as though held by q vice. With clasped
hands and straining eyes, the parents watched
the statue-like form upon whose skill so much
depended.


Suddenly sharp report rang out, the white
smoke drifted away, and, as the vision became
clear, they saw thesavage loose his hold upon
the child, reel wildly for an instant, and then
pitch forward upon the rocks. 1t may be i'm
agined that the father was not long in reach
ing the place where the child lay, and in a few
moments more the little one was in its moth
er's arms.


"Tell US who you are that we may know
what name to mingle with our prayers" said
the mother, as the stranger prepared to depart


my name is Daniel Boone" he said land
was gone,
Year: 1878

THE CHANGE A WESTERN ORATOR DEEMS


IMPERATIvELY NECESSARY.


Hon. George W. Peck, in his Fourth of
July grafton at Lacrosse, Wis.,, said:


1T may have been noticed that thus far I
have made no allusion to the American eagle,
the national trade mark (patent applied for),
but it is not that do not apprehend the posi-
tion that species of poultry occupies on these
occasions. The poet, alluding to the eagle,
says:


"'Bird of the broad and feeting wing,


Thy home is high in heaven


"This is not true. He is a high old bird,
and the committee that selected the eagle as
a national emblem should have been arrested
for disorderly conduct. o, great bird you
live on mia; you soar aloft on pinions airy
until you see poor little mouse with one leg
broke, and then you swoop down like q ward
constable and run him in. You are nice
old bird for trade mark for nation of he
roes, you old coward You sit on rock and
watch peasant woman hanging out clothes.
When she goes in the house to turn the
clothes. wringer, you great bird-emblem Of
the land of the free and home of the brave !;
you swoop down on the plantation and crush
your talons in the quivering flesh of the little
baby, take him to your home high in heaven,
and pick his innocent little eyes out. You
bald.headed old reprobate, you would turn
your tail and run at the attack of q
bantam rooster. O, eagle, you look we'll on
dress parade, but you are unanimous COW.
ard and you eat snakes. You are fraud
and you were counted in by vote Of eight to
seven.


1.-THE bird that should have been selected
as the emblem of our country, the bird of pa.
tience, forbearance, perseverance,, and the
bird of terror when aroused, is the mule
There is no bird that combines more virtues
to the square foot than the mule With the
mule emblazoned on our banners we should
be terror to the foe We are nation of un.
complaining hard workers. We mean to do
the fair thing by everybody. plod along,
doing as we would be done by. So does the
mule. We as nation are slow to anger. So
is the mule. As nation we occasionally
stick our ears forward and fan flies off of our
forehead. So does mule. We allow par
ties to get on and ride as long as they behave
themselves. So does mule. But when any
nation sticks spurs into our fanks and tickles
our heels with straw, We come down stiff:
legged in front, our ears look to the beautiful
beyond, our voice is cut loose, and is still for
war, and our subsequent end plays the snare
drum on anything that gets in reach of US,
and strikes terror in the heart of all tyrants.
So does the mule. When the country gets
older, and Congress has time to get in its
work, the eagle will be superseded by the na-
tional trade mark, and in its place will rise
the mule in all his glory"
Year: 1878

The question of the proper observance of
Sunday has been much disputed one, and
is one of much interest. A certain amount of
religious services should Of course form part
of each Sundays life; should indeed be its
central idea, but It should not infringe upon
the demands of overworked nature for rest.
But what is rest? Clearly what would be
rest to one would not be to another. What
would increase vitality and strength to the
day laborer, would make the weary student,
book-keeper or editor more weary. The work
of the six week days, whatever it is, should
be put entirely out of sight from Saturday un-
til Monday. Mental labor-reading, writing
or other employment that requires mental
effort. Physical laborers must cease physi-
cal labor, and can obtain the desired rest in
mental improvement. Those whose week days
are spent within the four walls of store or
an office, should be in the open air, in the
broad fields, where they can breathe natures
purest aerial draughts, as much ,as possible.
Those who labor out of doors will find
their greatest rest and enjoyment on Sun
day in their homes. The business man
and the banker should cease all thought of
business, take complete respite from all
thoughts of "shop," and Sunday for all classes
should be made as widely different from any
other days in the week as possible. 1t should
be made enjoyable, especially for the children,
that they may grow up with the love of the
day, instead of aversion for it, as is too COM
mon even in the best of Christian families.
The observance of the day in each household
should be made study, that the most prof.
table and rsst.giving enjoyments to suit each
case may be found, and then let the obser-
vance of the day, once settled, be lived up to
as strictly business transaction. The day
should have its distinctive features religious
culture; freedom from toll for servant as we'll
as master rest in its true sense, and enjoy.
ment of the higher order, which relaxes the
nervous system, and is one of natures great
restoratives, all have their place, and none
of them should be neglected. Pittsburg Iele.
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Year: 1878

and that it was reciprocated. Her father, a
wealthy, substantial citizen of Matanoras,
was notified of her whereabouts. He came
over to load me down with protestations of
gratitude, and to prove his sincerity BY be-
slowing on me the hand Of his lovely and ac-
complished daughter. 1t is worth running
the risk of being skinned alive, to secure
wife as lovely and lovingly as my Anita
Year: 1878

pa" One Of the most horrible tragedies in
Connecticut's recent record, is that which
startled Norwich few months ago, when
Wesley W. Bishop and Mrs. Kate M. Cobb
we're accused of poisoning, the one his wife
and the other her husband, in order to carry
on more successfully their criminal intimacy.
The preliminary examination left little doubt
that the dead pair had been murdered, and
now Bishop has made full confession. He
admits his intimacy with Mrs. Cobb, and that
he procured the poison for her to kill her hus-
band with, and also charges upon the woman
the poisoning of bis own wife. All of which
is very likely true, though some people
doubtless think that it is rather rough for
Bishop to "go back on" the woman in such
wholesale fashion. ...
Year: 1878

SAY WHAT You MEAN.-Let your friends
know that you love them. Do not keep the
alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness
sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill
their lives with sweetness. Speak approving,
cheering words while their hearts can hear
them, and while their hearts can be thrilled
by them. The things you mean to say when
they are gone, say before they 60. The flow
ers you mean to send for their cofins, send to
brighten and sweeten their homes before
they leave them. If my friends have any
alabaster boxes laid away, full of perfumes, of
sympathy and affection, which they intend to
break over my dead body, I would rather
they would bring them in my weary hours
and open them, that may be refreshed and
cheered by them while I need them. I would
rather have bare coffin without flower, and
funeral without an eulogy, than life with
out the sweetness of 10. 9 and sympathy. Let
US learn to anoint our friends beforehand for
their burial. Post.mortem kindness does not
cheer the burdened spirit. Flowers on the
coffin cast no fragrance backward over the
weary days of our lives.
Year: 1878



 II a calico dress is washed careless. ly, starched stiff, stunned 8 day oi two, and half ironed, it is not very comely sight. But if quickly drie,| in the shade, very thinly and evenly starched, and ironed on the wrong side so that it will not shine, it will look like new dress for long time. Many pretty blue prints and cam brics fade when washed in the usu- al way. If they are washed the first time in strong salt and water, or wa ter to which little beef's gall is ad- ded, the colors will be set so that they will be as handsome as at first, and can be washed over afterwards like other goods.
Year: 1878

special to the Star.


THE TOBACCO TAX QUESTION.


WASHINGTON, March 2O.-A strong pres
sure is coming up from the tobacco manu-
facturers and dealers to have the tax ques-
ton settled. They complain of the stagna-
ton caused by the uncertainty as to
legislation Representative Robbins pro-
poses to offer shortly joint resolution de-
claring the policy of Congress in the
matter.


THE REPEAL OF THE RESUMPTION ACT.


The Senate Finance Committee is still
undecided about the report of the bill to
repeal the Resumption Act. 1t has had
this before it for four months, and it is pro-
posed to offer soon resolution in open
Senate to force report of some sort. Sec
retary Sherman, after all his hostility to
the Silver Bill, coolly informed the Com
mittee to-day that it would be a valuable
aid in resuming specie payment.
Year: 1878

stand He said that he stupid from drink on the
night of the murder and had no clear impression of
the affair; he had been drinking heavily through the
day. Nicolo Alessandro of No. IA Roosevelt street,
said that he met cDermott and Burke in the saloon
at No. IL Roosevelt street. and subsequently in the
yard he left an Italian, named Marmaro in the hall
way with the two men; shortly afterward Marmora
Joined him, the two men remaining ut Buglo's
saloon all night; he knew that Marmaro carried q
stiletto, but did not it on the night OF the
tragedy Bugo said that he had heard of the stab
bng for the first time Thursday: he then
told that at halfpast seven p. NJ on the previous
day man had been stabbed and killeds in the alley
way.


The inquest will be resumed tomorrow at the
Fourth precinct station house.
Year: 1878

pATERsoNs OPIUM EATER, AFTER BEING SEN


TENCED TO PRISON, TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE


Colonel Leroy Beaumont, the opium eater. who
week pleaded guilty before the Passaic County,
N j. Court of Sessions at Paterson to an assault on
John Hines, and also to atrocious assault on his
mistress Agnes Heiden, yesterday arraigned for
sentence The proper medical authorities after hav-
ing made the Colonel careful study during the
past week by direction of the Court pronounced him
sufficiently to be held responsible for his acts
He was pronounced mad north-northwest." Beau
mont appeared completely broken down. and shook
like an aspen when he stood up to receive his SEN
tence This largely due to his deprivation Of his
favorite drug for days past at least that
the opinion of the physicians who had visited him
daily of late


The Court sentenced him to six months confine-
ment in the State Prison the FIRST and eighteen
months the other charge. Beaumont was then
removed. He had scarcely been placed in his cell.
attracted the keepers attention. and Beaumont
was discovered bleeding copiously from savage
cash in his wrist the intention having evidently been
To artery. But in this he was unsuccessful
He at put under restraint, and q search
brought to light old pocket knife which Beaumont
had hidden under his mattress. Where he procured
the knife with which he inflicted the wounds is a
mystery. This is. can be ascertaned about
the ninth attempt Beaumont has made his life. He
viii be taken to Trenton by the Sheriff tomorrow.
Year: 1878

AN IMPROVEMENT PROPOSED IN THE CoNsTRUC-


TON OF SHIPS RUDDERs TO FACILITATE THE


HANDLING OF LARGE AND SMALL CRAFT IN


NARROW AND DANGEROUS WATERS


Mr.. William H. Daniels, OF the London Institution,
writes to the HERALD suggesting, as means Of in
creasing the facilities with which vessels handled
in narrow and intricate channels and where danger
OF collision threatens, that the rudders should be
built hollow instead Of solid and open internally from
top to bottom. The idea is to allow a space in the
body of the rdder say ten inches more in length
and from two to four inches wide from the bottom
to the top 20 permit the water to move freely when
the rudder is put in motion to turn the ship. Be-
sides tightening the weight to be moved without i'm
pairing the leverage exerted by the rdder there IL
object to be gained in lessening by little the
volume Of the water to be displaced This is effected
by allowing the vertical space suggested through the
rudder to be filled with water, which with the
rudder and because it is displaced by that appar
atus. The idea is offered by Mr. Daniels to ship
builders and others interested in the hope that the per-
centage Of marine disasters may be reduced thereby
Year: 1878

The partisans Of Jacob Worth. the republican
didate for Sheriff. declare their intention should the
County Board Of Canvassers give the certificate Of
election to Thomas NJ Riley. the democratic candi-
date Whose election is shown by the returns to have
been secured by 55 majority to take the
matter before the courts. They claim that cleo
ton day gang of repeaters headed by well-known
Brooklyn politician worked in the county towns,
Flatlsnds, Flatbush. New Lots New Utrecht and
Gravesend in the interest of the democratic ticket
Supervisor Mcdonald, the republican leader OF the
Board of Supervisors stated yesterday while speaking
the subject that the Board has power to go be-
hind the face of the returns filed with the County
Clerk. Even if they convinced that votes
given in district than the number registered,
or that part of them cast by repeaters, they
could not take official cognizance Of it. because their
duty is simply ministerial