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Year: 1878

We are not Sufnclently VerSeu Ill lhe
practice of the Court in our State, to
saw that Chambers and Collins could
have been given new trial, had they
been reprieved by the Governor, but
we do not see why motion for
new trial could not be entertained
properly after, as well as before, SEN
tence had been pronounced. 1t seems
to us that the after discovery of import
ant testimony should warrant the ar
rest of proceedings at any stage in
case, and should the Governor not
wish to take the responsibility of grant
ing pardon, the Court should grant
new trial. The propriety OF new tri
al, in certain cases, whether according
to the rule or not, is fully apparent.


A man might be convicted of murder
in the first degree, who was only guilty
of manslaughter, or one might be con-
victed of rape who was merely guilty
of an assault. This may have been
the case with Chambers, as he persisted
in the assertion that he was not guilty
of the offence of which he was convic-
ed, and died an innocent man. AT any
rat the woman and her paramour were
both guilty of perjury, and this fact in
validates their testimony in every par
ticular to a degree that warranted arc
hearing of the case by the court, had
the Governor not been callous to every
appeal to his sense of mercy as well as
strict justice,in the proper meaning Of
these terms.


His refusal to do anything to stay the
execution of these two men will be a
blot upon the history of our State, "a foul
stain upon his reputation as an enlight
cned and christian ruler. 1t is more
in keeping with the prosecutions prevs-
lent in the dark ages of the world, than
with the deeds of the 10Th century. The
assertion of the necessity Of protecting
the poor and lowly as well as the high
w favored by fortune, is a mere sub
terfuge. The vilence of drunken
prostitute, just discharged from the
house Of correction, joining a common
hummer in tramp through the coun-
try, sleeping at night in stackyards and
outbuildings, and selling herself for a
mere stipend to any one, without dis
tinction of color, should be received
with many grains of allowance and
Year: 1878

LEARNING TO SAvE.-The first thing to
be learned by Il boy or young man, or
any one else having the least ambition to
become useful member of society, is the
habit of saving. No matter if boy or
girl has wealthy parents, each should learn
to save, if for no other reason than thai
riches are known TO take to themselves
wings and fly away. Few are so we'll
to do as to be secure against poverty and
want. In this country it is often true that
children of the wealthy classes are often
miserably poor; while the men of large
means among us, as Il rule, commenced
life without any other advantages than
habits of industry coupled with diSposi-
tion to save.


1t is especially important that the chill
dren of people in moderate circumstan-
ces and of the poor should learn to take
care of the money they get. A boy who
is earning fifty cents, seventy five cents or
"a dollar II day, should manage to save a
portion of it if possible. If he can lay by
only twenty five cents week, let him
save that. 1t dosent amount to much it
is true; it is only thirteen dollars a year,
but it is worth saving; it is better saved
than wasted better stved than fooled
away for tobacco and beer, or any other
worthless or useless article or object.
But the best thing about it is, that the boy
who saves thirteen dollars II year on
very meager salary acquires habit Of
taking care of his money which will be of
the utmost value to him.


The reason why workingmen as II class
do not get ahead any fasler-are not more
independents that they have never
learned to save their earnings. 1t does
not matter a great deal whether man
receives salary of u dollar u day or five
dollars, if he gets rid of it all during the
week. so that there is nothing left on Satur
day night lie will not get rich very rapidly.
He will never have much ahead. But
the individual who receives one dollar n
day and is able to save twenty cents, or
the one getting five dollars who is care
full to lay by II dollar, is laying by some
thing for rainy day.


Young people who expect to labor with
their hand for what they have of this
worlds goods. who have no ambition or
wish to become professional men, office
holders or spectators, should by all means
acquire habits of economy, learn to save.
So surely as they do this so surely will
they be able to accumulate, so surely
will they be in IA situation to ask no spec
al favors. Every man wants to learn to
look out for hmsef. to rely upon himself.
Every man needs to feel that he is the
peer of every other man, and he can not
do it if he is penniless. Money is power
and those who have it exert wider in
fluence than the destitute. They are more
independent. Hence, it should be the
ambition of every young man to acquire,
and to do this, he must learn to save.
This is the first lesson to be learned, and
the youth who cannot master it will never
have anything. He will be menial
depen dent.
Year: 1878

GOODNESS OF MANNER. is no
other way by which friendship can be so
completely crushed out of existance rs by
coldness of manner; hard words are no
competitors at ALL for they are so often
satisfactorily explained, 1t is frequently
said that " like begets like, "and we be-
lieve that is often So If we meet with an
acquaintance who grasps our hand cor
daily, and gives it II generous and hearty
shake, and their countenance lights up
with cheerful and welcome smile and
they utter pleasant salutation, if we are
feeling dull and moody we are, or should
at once be, ashamed of that feeling, and
instantly put forth our energies to disguise
and Danish it. If, on the contrary. we
meet with one who repels attempt 10 be
cordial by studied GOODNESS of manner,
we very soon become impervious to any
genial feeling for him, and a larger stock
of pride springs to our aid than we ever
dreamed our heart possessed, and there
formed over it gulf over which pas
sable bridge can pever be erected.
Year: 1878

Every miner that drops his pick and
takes up hoe, every idle man that turns
himself into an Garner of wages, every
person that picks up some loose thread Of
employment, every capitalist that takes
advantage of stagnating industry and
chenp material to build house or beautify
or improve country seat, or set on foot
some new process of manufacture. does
something toward working out the problem
which is puzzling the economists. In good
time the surplus iron and coal will be sold


nav nopulatjons will want new railroads
recuperaled capital will gather confidence
and lake hold of new enterprise; and the
whole nation will move forward again to
more assured prosperity and to vaster un-
dertakings. Philadelphia Record. ,..
Year: 1878

CLUES HIMSELF IN.-There's curious
little creature living on the rocks in the
Sea. who not being able to shut his house
and lock the door, is obliged to use other
means to keep out intruders, and to stay
where he chooses. His way is simply to
glue himself by the foot on to a rock! He
makes for himself, in the softer rocks.
home, which is merely hollow. perhaps
an eighth of an inch deep. but it is all he
needs, for he carries his roof on his back.
His shell is round and sloping on every
side, like roof, so that when he is glued
inlo the little pit, it is almost impossible to
get him out. The glue he makes hin self,
and it is always ready in his foot. When
he wants to let go his hold. he pours out
of another reservoir in the useful foot. IL
few drops of water, which dissolves the
glue and lets him 90. All day he stays ut
home and rests and at night he unglues
himself and walks out to get something to
eat He's a limpet, and he has only one
foot. That's no matter, though he would
not know what to do with two. .-Ne'O Je-
ruSaiem Messenger.
Year: 1878

! How TO SAVE THE BABIES. The fol-
lowing are the instructions issued by the
New York hoard of health in relation to
The care and feeding of infants in hot wea-
ther. Many of the suggestions will apply
in other attitudes than that of New York:
| In nursing, over-feeding does more harm
than anything else; nurse an infant
month or two old every two or three
hours. Nurse an infant six months and
over five times in "a hours, and no more
II an infant is thirsty, give it pure water.
or barley water, no sugar. On the hot
test days, n few drops of whisky may be
added to either water or food. the whisky
not 10 exceed a teaspoonful in "a hours.


If the infant must be fed, boil tea
spoonful of powdered barley (ground in ii
coffee grinder) and gill of water. with Il
little SALT for l5 minutes strain, then mix
it with half as much boiled milk. add
lump of white sugar, size of walnut and
give it lukewarm from nursing bottle; !;
keep bottle and mouthpiece in bowl of
water when not in use, to which little
soda may be added. For infants five or
six months old, give half barley water and
boiled milk, with salt and lump of si-
gar. For older infants give more milk
than barlcy-water. For infants very cos
live, give oatmeal instead of barley.
Cook and strain as before. When vour
breast milk is only half enough change,
off between breast-milk and this prepared
food. In hot weather, if blue linus paper
applied to the 70 ID, turns red, the food is
too acid, and you must make fresh mess,
or add small pinch of baking-Soda In
fants of six months may have beef-tea or
beef soup once day, by itself, or mixed
with other food; and when ten or twelve
m' nths old, crust of bread and piece
of rare beef to suck. No child under two
years ought to eat at your table. Give no
candies, in fact. nothing that is not con
tained in these rules without a doctors or
ders.


Summer complaint comes from over
feeding and hot and foul air. Keep doors
and windows open. Wash your well
children with cold water twice day, and
oflener in the hot season. Never neglect
looseness of the bowels in an infant; con.
suit the family or dispensary physician at
once. and he will give YOU rules about
what it should take and how it should be
nnrsed. Keep your rooms rs cool rs pos
sible, have them well ventilated, and do
not allow any bad smell to come from
sinks, privies, garbage-hoxes. or cutters
about the house where you live. Where
an infant is cross and irritable in the hot
weather, n "Trip on the water will do it II
great deal of good, (ferry boat or excur-
son-boat,) and may prevent cholora in
fan:um.
Year: 1878

How NOT TO BoRE.-None ofthe books
of etiquette that we have yet read give
prescriptions which will cure the tenden
cy which most of us have to bore other
people. The reason is that none of Us
suspects he is or can be n bore under any
possible combination of circumstances
The supposilon is so wild and absurd rs
to br d,scountenanced at once. And yet
so often are we bored by other people that
it would only be reasonable for us to con.
clude that we too might sometimes place
ourselves in the same unenviable light
To know when to come and when to 90.
when to be silent and when to speak, what
to say and how to say it, TO be properly
aware how to express those thousand lit.
tie tones and acts which endear one, it is
difficult to explain precisely how. is either
Il natural gift or an art obtalnable after
long years of training. Yet he who i:
not master of these things will run The
risk some time or other of being consider
e / nuisance. We all ought to learn
how not to bore We owe it to our neigh
bors as well as to ourselves. 1t is &
knowledge we exact from them. If they
do not betray it we feel personally ag
SrleVeu anu hTe APT ~ coHSluei theu lol
time, our enemies.


One certain way of not boring is never
to give people too much of our company
This is II rule difficult to observe. There
are times when we are too ready 10 be-
Ieve that our friends want Us more than
they really do. We take their protesta
tions literally, and when they say they
could live with us forever and n day, VT
positively give them the day. This is a
great mistake. Probably six hours of the
day would have been quite sufficient
But we are unwilling to believe that oui
destinations are SO weak rs not to stand &
longer trial, and yielding to that weak
prejudice in our own favor we become
unmtigable bores. 1t would be well il
we could hold the hand-glass up to oul
falings in this respect and see ourselve:
rs we really are.
Year: 1878

1t cannot be too often repeated that lux.
uries, not necessities. bring poverty and
ruin. We are made bankrupts, not by
what we really need, but what we think
we want. therefore, never go abroad in
search of your wants-ii they be real ones.
they will come home in search of you; for
he who buys what he does not need, will
soon want what he cannot buy.
Year: 1878

them gain it out of the democratic party
and not from the ranks of the republicans.
But l recall my voluntary promise to
be brief, and will adjourn writing until
such n time as the spirit shall again move.


T. H. @
Year: 1878

We learn from an army officer recently
from Fort Custer, and who is familiar
with the Custer battle field and surround.
ings, that the bones Of those who fell in
that terrible fight, are protruding from the
shallow graves and lying around pronis-
cuously, ghastly skulls of those who were
prompted to do and die are pcering forth
from the few shovelsful of earth thrown
over them, and in other cases the entire
skeleton lies bleaching in the scorching
sun and pitilcss storms of heaven with no
excuse even for grave to shelter their de-
caying forms. The gentleman alluded to
informs us that he personally on recent
visit to that sacred spot, saw four bodies
for which no burial bad been attempted.
While it matters little to those who once
used these evidences of mortality in what
particular manner they return TO Mother
Earth, yet it certainly seems cold and
cruel to let the remains Of any human be-
ing rot like common carrion above ground
and in this case especially where they rode
down to death in the line Of duty, it seems
doubly SO, and criminally negligent be-
side. ;aaEkf }v taaHi 2yG


A very poor incentive to inspire soldier
with the brave spirit which these dead he
roes manifested in their last battle. =,
Year: 1878

d The article which appeared in the last
paper under this head, speaking of Col.
Lounsberry as the possible dark horse in
the race" should have been credited to the
Deadwood Times. The fact Of its appear
ing without such credit places Col. Louns-
berry in a very unpleasant, position.
Year: 1878

a choice of markets and without
breaking bulk - cotton and grain
can be thus shipped to New Or
leans, Mobile, Vicksburg, st. Louis,
New York, Boston and other cities
at the pleasure of tho shipper. In
the event of a foreign war New
Orleans would be in too close prox.
unity to the gulf coast for a supply
depot or place for the distribution
of troops--but Memphis is natural
ly the grand rallying point in every
contingency, whether military, pos
tai or commercial, of the country
and the government.


In behalf Of the people of Ar
kansas and Tennessee-in short, OF
the whole country, we call upon our
representatives in congress to exert
their influence and raise their voices
in favor of this route and protest
against the adoption of any short
sighted policy in reference to it,
This matter has been delayed too
long already. There are millions
of laborerS in the country now un-
employed, and the commencement
of the work would be hailed with
joy. This is the best and easiest
solution Of the tramp" and
strike Questions. Loud-mouthed
defamation and brainless theories
on these questions may give noto-
riety, but they settle nothing, while
few votes and determined action
will solve both problems,
Year: 1878

out and feel the darkness like fog
bank. By and by the horses went
jumping and scrambling upon a
bridge, one end of which had
washed out, and sunk about four
feet from the road, and the driver
went scrambling out over the dash
board. The well-trained team stood
still, the driver crawled about over
the bridge and found the other end
was all right, the broken down
dashboard stuck out like a snow
plow, and the journey was resumed.
We got to Bushnell about two
o'clock am.


was wet to the bone.


was mud to the eyes.


had smoked one hundred and
fifty cigars on the way up, and was
a little nervous.


Ny eyes burned for sleep.


crawled into bed in time tohear
the waiter tell me it was time to get
up and haste to the banquet hall.


got up. l sat on the side Of the
bed and beginning at my neck
counted eight hundred and sixty
distinct aches, and then stopped at
the floating ribs, discouraged. l
sat at the festive board with smiles
on my face and murder in my
heart. | was among my friends,
good, kind, warm hearted friends,
whom I loved, but their friendly
words fell on an icy heart, for /
wanted to crawl under the table
and 90 to sleep. / have always had
and still feel, profound, honest re-
spect for Schuyler Colfax, and an
unshaken confidence in his real
worth, and his honor and manhood
l am a steadfast admirer of Mr..
Oolfax. But ] know he will not
feel offended when l confess | want
ed to hit him with a stove leg that
morning.


However, l didn't. l behaved
myself. | blinked over my coffee,
and | dozed over the hot cakes, and
| snored over the steak, and spread
mustard on nv biscuit and poured
gravy into my lap.


Oh, | was awful sleepy.


And VIXEN Mr.. Colfax went away
l went blindly down to the Sortel
House and told the boys to tel
everybody | had gone East on {
freight, and wake me up for the
noon train West, and | went t
sleep leaning up against the wall
before | could get my coat off, o.
get near enough the bed to fal
upon it, aSd | dreamed that l wa
a man with two hundred heads, anC
only one eye to sleep for all of them
and that had been awake for tive
thousand years and had just crawl
ed into a locomotive boiler to catch
a little sleep. Schuyler Colfax
dressed in a walters white jacket
and napkin over his arm, stood
hammering and riveting cold boltt
in the boiler to keep me awake
while Captain Epperson sat at thu
manhole with telephone and reaC
four thousand pages of delinquent
tax list to me.


| can never forget my first lecture
at Macomb, and the Colfax break
fast at Bushnell.


was aWful sleenv.
Year: 1878

Home.


Graphic.l


DEAR MoTHER-l am not max.
ing SO much progress as I expected
in my studies, because there's a
great deal else to attend to here.
But we have lively times. / have
just returned from the funeral of
Billy Cook. He was shot last Tues
day night because he wouldn't al
low the Sophs to take off his panta-
looms and paint his legs red and
green, barber-pole fashion. This is
the last degree conferred on the
Freshmen by the Sophs. l wish
you would send me a six-shooter,
one hundred cartridges, and a
double barrellod shotgun. We amt
a going to stand any more such
nonsense from the Sophs. After
prayers this morning our class were
all busy making Sand-bags. We're
putting up a barricade on the east
end of our building, and intend to
mount it with a six-pound cannon
ade. The losses in our class have been
pretty heavy this week. John Hill
ton is very low with bullet in his
stomach, and Seward Livingston is
not expected to recover from the
stab in the side. Jack Rhineolonder
is lamed for life by a bullet in the
knee, and Sam Astor has lost the
sight of one eye from a brickbat.
There isn't a whole window left in
the college building. But you
wait, motherI You just walt a few
days and you'll hear something.
We're undermining the Sophs'
quarters, We're working day and
night The tunnel is now 100
yards long, 1t goes straight over
the campus and under old Prex's
building, We've established a COM
munloatiop with his cellar, and l
tell you a drop Of olaret or Bur
gundy is very nice to have after a
fellows handled a pick and shovel
half the night. We shall use dyn-
amite. Keep shady, mother There
won't be a Soph left by this time
next week. Your aEaptienqte son,


FlRGIL KELLY.


PRINCETON, March y.
Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business men to make note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for tho coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our OOlumns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tsingi for many good people seeing an ad-
vsrtisement in a paper. especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee of re-
sDonsibility. Such confidence should not TO
abused when 1t can be helped. We want,
therefore,
Year: 1878

THE POPE WANTS STRONG AND UNITED
ITALY.-A Rome dispatch says that Cardinal
FranGhi has assured distinguished foreigner
Italy. He only required firm assurance of
the complete freedom OF the holy see. The
temporal power was not a dogma
Year: 1878

SENATOR SPENCER authorized a STAR repOr-
ter to say that the statement in a city morning
paper today. purpOrting to he an interview
with him. is manufactured, and is without any
foundation of truth.
Year: 1878

Lee against Kaufman and others involving the
title to the Arlington estate will be tried on its
merits at the july term of the U. S. circuit
are all then ready. The district attorney ex-
cepted to the ruling of Judge Hughes on the
preliminary matter decided the other day. but
appeal can only be taken from final Judgment
Year: 1878

REDUCTION OF TELEGRAPH OPERATORs'
SALARIES.-The operatives of the Western
Union Telegraph Company have been notified
that on the 9th of this month their salaries
Will be reduced ten per cent. This will be the
third reduction of that amount made by the
Western UniOn,and great deal OF diSSatiSfac-
ton on account of il exists among the opera
tors here and elsewhere. Ii is expected that a
strike will occur among them about the FIRST
of next month. originating in New York III
started there, the operators here, who number
about two hundred, say they Will follow and
stick il out. The salaries of some OF these
operators now do not amount to more than
$3.50 and they think they cannot stand an
other reduction.
Year: 1878

REFORM IN THE NAvY.-Secretary Thomp-
son has issued al order that hereafter non
commissioned officers of the marine corps
cannot be reduced while serving on shore.
except with the approval of the cOmmandant
OF the corps or the sentence of a court martial
On ShipbOard, he cannot be reduced except TO
the next inferior grade, and in pursuance of a
sentence OF a court martial. This takes from
captains of vessels and the commander of
companies of guards OF marines, their power
to dismiss nOn-cOmmisSiOned officers at will.
Year: 1878

DRAMATIC LITERATURE.-Senator Blaine in
trOduced yesterday a bill for the better protec-
ton OF dramatic literature. The bill provides
that the law of copyright shall cover and pro-
tect managers, actors, and other citizens of
purchase the right TO play from a foreign
author for the purpose OF playing or publish
ing the same in the United States