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Year: 1877

CLEAN SWEEP has been made of the Charter
Oak Insurance Company's old managers, and it
now sails under the colors of ex-Postmaster
General Jewell The report Of the Investigating
Committee gives some interesting hints in regard
to tho value of Broadway property.
Year: 1877

EXCHANGING OLD PRINTING PRESSES for new
ones is generally losing speculation for the
government, and the Attorney General has
properly condemned the practice. Now let the
sale of the old presses be properly advertised.
Year: 1877

RABBI HUEBsCH's sermon yesterday was O
strong argument against Communism, and it is
safe to say he carried his congregation with
him. There is no danger Of the Hebrews ever
being on that side.
Year: 1877

SOUTH CARoLNA's late Ring rascals will soon
be under lock and key. The Secretary of the
Senate has just been arrested on the charge Of
larceny and forgery. They are all opposed to
the Presidents Southern policy.
Year: 1877

THE demand for 41 per cent. bonds of the
United States has fallen off but slightly in
consequence Of the European war,-less
than the demand for any other securities in
the money-markets of the Old World. 1t is
also true that the variation in current quo
tations has been less than in the case of any
strict ly ''gilt-edged," both abroad and at
home; but gratifying feature of the case is
the fact that the a per cents are being large
ly taken by our own people, while the 6 per
cents in the hands of European holders are
called in and cancelled as fast as the sales of
Al per cents furnish the funds.
Year: 1877

JEFF DAVIS sticks to the lost cause. He
has just been making little speech at Mo-
bile urging the Southern people to be true to
it. He tells them they have borne an ordeal
OF deprivation, wrong and injustice with ga
fortitude only equalled by the gallantry dis
played in desperate effort to maintain
Cause which has been crushed but not de-
stroyed." Whoever else is conciliated jeff is
NOT
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

The above POOR fellow
has for the past year been
travelling in Europe for
his health, and finally at
the URGENT REQUEST
OF his most INTIMATE
FRIENDS was induced to
return to the bosom of his
(pOliticaD family. For a
number of years he has
worn to his disgust a &c.
100000 SUIT which he
now intends to dispose of
to the State Attorney i'm ex-
change for liberty.
Year: 1877

Always let your jokes be well-timed. Any
time win do for good joke but no time will
DO, for bad one. Any place will fit, pro-
yiding the joke itself be fitting, but it never
fits if a joke be out of its place. You cannot
order a joke as you would coat or pair of
boots. In connecting jokes, as in making
pudding. each person employs similar ma
terial, but the quality of the dish is entirely
dependent on the skill of the artistic. The
utterer of good joke is useful member of
society, but the maker of q bad one is more
despicsble character than the veriest coiner
by profession. A joke from gentleman is
an act of charity; an uncharitable joke is an
ungentlemanly act. The retort courteous is
the touch-stone of good feeling; the reply
churlish- the proof Of cold-headed stupidity.
Year: 1877

Alderman Bryan Reilly, like the man in
the play, is always anxious to push himself
forward to the footlights as the champion
of card 'anded labor" At the meeting
OF the Board on Tuesday last he introduced
resolution directing the several municipal
departments to insert in all contracts o
clause requiring the contractor to pay to
unskilled laborers the rates low paid by
the departments for day labor. Of course
even Alderman Bryan Reilly knows that
such proposition is illegal and ridiculous,
and that the law, which requires all city
work to be let by contract to the lowest re.
sponsible bidder, would not warrant the
imposition of any such condition any more
than it would authorize the head of de-
partment to bind contractor to pay stipu-
lated sum above the market price for the
material he uses. But it suits Alderman
Reilly to use this sort Of nonsensical dema-
gogisn, because he hopes thereby to
make himself popular with the ''masses"
and to push himself forward for some more
friend of the workingman.


Politicians OF Mr.. Reillys capacity, how
ever, make the fatal mistake of believing
that the laboring classes of the United
States are as stolid and ignorant as the Ia
borers Of Europe. They are conceited
enough to suppose that the workingmen of
New York can be as easily imposed upon as
the agricultural laborers Of Great Britain.
But probably four out Of every five of the
men who are regarded by Alderman Reilly
as mere dolts are shrewd enough to see
through his object and to know that the
proposition he makes is an absurdity. They
have sufficient intelligence 10 know that
honest, economical, business-like manage
ment on the part Of those who administer
the city government, is the best aid that can
be extended to respectable labor, and to
recognize in the demagogues who treat them
as so many fools their most mischievous
enemies.
Year: 1877

How tho Canal Business Looks.


The Canal Board has initiated the practi-
cal work of selling the lateral canals, with
proposition to appoint appraisers to value
the locks, bridges and water privileges of
Crooked Lake Canal, in order that it may be
disposed of as speedily as possible. This is
o very small item in the saving to be effected
by the sale of the laterals. the Crooked Lake
Canal having realized last year only thirty
dollars income and cost sixteen hundred
dollars for maintenance Still, it is some
thing, as the commencement of long de-
sired policy and the Canal Board should
lose no time in carrying out the law and get
ting rid of all these useless encumbrances.
The income of the Erie Canal last year in
excess of all payments was, in round num-
bers, one hundred and thirty-four thousand
dollars, and the payments in excess Of in
come on the remaining canals reached three
hundred and six thousand dollars. OF
this one hundred thousand dollars was
thrown away on tho laterals, and
if we were free of them this year
the saving effected would go far toward
m aking up any deficiency of revenue
from low tolls. No action is reported to
have been taken on the question of increas-
ing the tolls at Tuesdays meeting In
deed, the results of the season thus far so
well Justify the low toll policy that it is not
probable any retrograde movement will
take place. The receipts of grain in New
York this year by water transportation have
very largely increased over those Of last
year on comparison with the whole amount
forwarded to the seaboard, proving that the
low toll policy has worked adyantageously
for the metropolis. We have yet before us
the prospect of an unusually active move
ment of grain in the autumn; hence the
final prospects Of the season are by no
means discouraging Certainly there is
nothing to warrant the abandonment Of the
policy at this time.
Year: 1877

1t turns out, as we supposed, that Mr..
Bracket, Special Agent of the Revenue,
has not been removed. Knowing that he was
highly thought OF in the Treasury Depart
ment we did not credit the rumors of his
removal. But it seems that there was q
purpose to assign him to different duty !;
and rs he has been for some time very sue
cessfully engaged in the discovery of silk
smugglers and is even now understood to
be working up some cases of this kind, the
public is curious to know why he should be
suddenly interrupted in these labors and
sent elsewhere, and what influences worked
to secure this change? 1t is hardly to be
expected that the Secretary of the Treasury
should himself be familiar with the detail $
Of such work as Mr.. Brackets, but some
one in the department, responsible to him,
is, and we should like to hear his reasons.


Especially we should like to hear the rca-
sons which induced the appointment of
accounts of Mr. Weeks agree that he is Il
political manager of peculiarly odious
kind--the leader OF secret political society
of the Native American or Know Nothing
order, and that this is his chiefmerit. Ifthis
is true the Secretary or the Acting Secretary
OF the Treasury has been made the victim
of influences whose purpose he did not
guess and we advise him to follow Mt once
the sound rule already on several occasions
applied in such cases by the President him
self. Let him give TO the public the names
of the persons who led him to substitute
Weeks for Bracket Such changes are made
either for definite and proper purpose,
which can easily be shown, or at the sug-
gestion or solicitation of outside persons,
who may justly be held to their RESPONSE
bility by publishing their names.
Year: 1877

tie summer. They are organized now and
have made tramping one of the nxed
sciences. When it has reached this stage
we know how to deal with it, for the evil
has developed into tangible form. 1t is
no longer to be dealt with by individuals,
but to be suppressed by the united efforts
of communities. Instead of arresting
now and then the tramp who robs
house, insults q woman, OF commits
murder, society should array itself against
the system which makes such crimes CON-
mon. 1t should deal directly with the
cause and not merely with the effects. The
citizens of every county where the tramp
has become nuisance and danger should
take measures to make him wish he had
never entered it. Whenever the bully
and beggar makes his appearance he
should be put to work, the great
est punishment that he could suffer.
II he commits crime he should receive
the fullest penalty the law allows. Should
this method be adopted and enforced with
unmitigated severity by the officials of every
county it would not be long before these
bands of outaws-for they are nothing less
would discover that robbery under the dis
guise OF beggary is a business even more
intolerable than legitimate work.
Year: 1877

harm the Russians greatly, but they will
scourge any district that is found untenable
and from which the Ottoman army Is COM
PEELED to retire. No doubt it is acknowledged
as their function in the plan of the war that
they must make waste places of such dis
tricts, and it is conceivable that they will
perform energeticallya duty so distinctly in
the current OF their tastes.


But it will be found that this scourge
will cut both ways There is natural
attraction for this sort of military tim
ber IN great city, and an uncontrol-
liable mass of these barbarians inevi-
tably gravitates toward Constantinople.
They cannot be driven to the front, and
the moment when they will have absolute
possession of the Sultan's capital is not re-
mote. Then they will be "the people" and
will make revolutions They will be the
power behind the fanatcal audacity of the
softas. They would only last week have
deposed Abdul Hamid rs previously they
did his predecessors, but that there was lnil-
itary force at hand to control them. As
the exigencies on the Danube enforce the
WITHDRAWAL OF regiment after regiment from
the capital it will be left more and more at
the mercy of these banded cutthroats, and
they will practise in the streets of Stamboul
that which it was intended they should
practise exclusively in Bulgaria or other
Christian provinces: for the Moslems of the
capital, in virtue of some varnish Of civiliza-
ton, are as remote from the sympathios Of
these creatures rs are the Christians them
selves.
Year: 1877

RAPID TRANsIT.-Thc leading merchants of
the city have signed call for meeting in favor
Of rapid transit to be held this week, when il is
to bc hoped some steps looking to organized
action will bc taken Speeches and resolutions
will never carry rapid transit against the street
car nonopvlsts and others. interested in main
tanning the existing condition OF affairs. No
man should be sent to the next Assembly who il
not pledged 10 give New York the relief she so
much needs in this respect
Year: 1877

PENNSYLVANIA is ahead in executions if in
nothing else negro was legally killed yestcr-
day, making the ninth death at the hands of the
law during the last thirty days. And this is
only the first summer instalmcnt
Year: 1877

ORANGE AND AiREEN.-The Orange parade in
Montreal has been abandoned and the rival
parties are passing resolutions compliment
ing one another. 1t is to be hoped that this is
the last of the Battle OF the Boyne.
Year: 1877

THE MAYOR is sustained in his position that
the Aldermen have no authority to authorize
the erection Of street stands by the Corporation
Counsel. Many of these stands arc very great
instructions to travel and ought to be removed.
Year: 1877

A BLACK NAyY.-It begins to look as if our
war vessels that is if we shall have any, will
all soon be manned by the colorcd brother. That
element is so large in our vessels now that white
mcn-ofwars men whose terms have expired will
not re-cnlist If they can get anything else to do
Year: 1877

THE silver zealots have claimed that the
decentralization act of 1873 was passed in
stealthy and secret way. But review Of
the record shows that the question was be-
fore Congress for three years, and was
brought up for consideration at twenty-five
different times. The determination was
reached in the full light of discussion.
Year: 1877

GROVER of Oregon was one of the great
lights of Tilden reform. He it was who was
disclosed to the world under the character oe
'Gobble" negotiating with Tilden to steal
the vote of that State. And now by evidence
apparently as direct and irresistible, it is
shown that he bought his way to The Senate.
He is really model Tilden reformer.
Year: 1877

THE advocates of the unlimited multiplica-
ton of the greenback dollar will find an ex-
cellent example of imitation in Turkey, but
will hardly utilize it in their argument. Tur-
key has about as many bonds out now as an
average state Of ten times her wealth, but
the cry is still for more money, and the Porte
is about to issue milliard Of piasters in pa
per, to be redeemed in twenty years. 1t is
well the amount is so large. Every curiosity
hunter in Europe and America will be able
to secure one or more specimens for his COL
lection.
Year: 1877

The Cincinnati Commercial thinks that
with fifty millions of silver, resumption
could be brought about, at once, and finds
that this amount could be coined in year.
With this discovery specie payments would
be as easy as rolling off log. But some
how it isn't made quite clear how nearly sew
en- hundred millions of paper are to be foated
on only fifty millions of silver.l
Year: 1877

IT will not need many more acts like the
Chisolm massacre and the indictment of the
Louisiana Returning Board to convince the
country that whatever the Presidents gen.
erous spirit, the old element of the South
deserves no confidence or trust,
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and cornfnuni-
cations. The name and address Of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu.
nications that are not used
Year: 1877

The great wheat crop of the West is now
matured. A good deal of anxiety has been
manifested as 10 whether it can be success
fully harvested. The frequent and violent
storms have added to this solicitude. But
much of the crop has already been cut, and
unless the weather should be very bad dur
ing the next two weeks, it will all be success
fully garnered. And a good crop this year
means an impulse to reviving business.
Year: 1877

The Republicans of Maine and all others who pro-
pose to support the candidate of the Republican par
ty in the pending election are invited to send dele
gates to State Convention. to be held in
Year: 1877

This great company is growing, in favor
sverv day with the people, and the circle OF
it. operations is widening, until it now en-
braces the whole region between the Atlantic
and the Pacific 1t is however peculiarly a
Minnesota institution organized in Minnesota,
and AZ d officered by Minnesotians, and it is an
honor to the State.


It's rates are very low, while it makes its
terms 50 low as to enable all classes to insure
their property, while those who insure can
feel perfectly confident h d ha nrom On 4 the esS ens D
amount due them


Our people should by all means encourage
home institutions Every dollar kept at home
is 60 much added to the wealth of the State
While the people have much better oppor-
tunity to know the real financial standing o
a home institution, than they have to ascer
tain the responsibility of an insurance com
nany located in New York or Connecticut


Send for circulars and blanks.
Year: 1877

The most treacherous and cruel
thing OH earth is an empty old gun
that has been laid away in the garret
or knocked around as plaything for
ten or fifteen years. You may snap
it at stump all day and it will miss
FIRE every time, but the very first time
that you playfully snap it at your
brother or your sister or your sweet
heart-bang! and you've shot hole
through somebody.
Year: 1877

Thank God that some Of us have
had an old fashioned mother. Not a
woman Of the period, enameled and
painted, with her great chignon, her
curls, and hustle; whose white jewel.
ed hands never felt the clasp Of baby
fingers; but dear, old fashioned,
sweet.voiced mother, with eyes in
whose clear depths the love light shone,
and brown hair just threaded with sill.
yer lying smooth upon her faded
cheek. Those dear hands, worn with
toll, gently guided our totteriug steps
in childhood. and smoothed our pillow
in sickness, ever reaching out to us in
yearning tenderness. Blessed is the
memory Of an old fashioned mother.
II floats TO us now, like the 'beaetifui
perfume from some wooded blossoms.
The music Of other voices may be lost
but the entrancing memory of hers
will echo in our souls forever. Other
faces may fade away and be forgotten,
but hers will shine on.


When, in the ftful pause of busy
life, our feet wonder to the old home
stead, and crossing the well-worn
threshold, stand once moro in the room
so hallowed by her presence, repent
ance comes over US, and we kneel
down in the molten sunshine, stream.
ing through the open window-jusi
where long years ago we knelt by our
mothers knee, lisping "Our Father
How many times when the tempter
lured us on, has the memory Of those
sacred hours, that mothers words, her
faith and prayers, saved US from
plunging into the deep abyss Of sin.
Years have filled great drifts between
her and US. but they have not hidden
from the sight the glory of her pure,
unselfish love.
Year: 1877

at is the last straw that breaks the
camers back" as the fellow murmured
when his girl said she would have
cake with her ice cream, and the con-
sciousness dawned upon him that he
had only twenty cents in his pocket.
Year: 1877

With a clear sky. u bright sun mud
a gentle breeze, you can have friends
in plenty; but let Fortune irown and
the ornament be overcast, and then
your friends will prove like the strings
of y lute. Of which you will tighten
many before you will find one that will
bear the stretch and keep the pitch.
Year: 1877

CELEBRAToNs.-It is now quite certain
that every little settlement in the country
will have its Fonrth of Jniy celebration.
This, of course, interfere with any general
demonstration, but possibly the day will be
quite a. well spent and the flow of patriotism
kept at full tide.
Year: 1877

WATER WoRKs.-The city water works
are now in better condition than they have
ever been heretofore. The reservoir, which
has of late years, been contractor Of filth,
is now done away with, the water flowing
through underground pipes direct from the
springs 10 town.
Year: 1877

POPULAR SUFFRAGE IN JAPAN.


Popular Suffrage has been put to a singular
test in L village OF AVA, japan. The neighbor-
hood was i1arassed by midnight robbcr, whom
nobody could detect. The head OF the hamlet
summoned the entire male population under
his charge. and directed every man to write the
name Of the person whom be suspected and to
deposit the ticket in box. Fifteen ballots bore
the name Of Abe Tanihei, the rest being blanks.
The man whom everybody distrasted was so
overcome with astouishmcul that be made full
confession and went to prison.
Year: 1877

The Pienecr-Press of the I'd contains
some statements Of interest to this locality
from which it appears new company
has been organized for the completion of
the Bra1nerd branch and the work of
construction will commence at once.
This will shorten the distance to St. Paul
about one hundred and twenty miles and
will be Of great advantage to this section
Of the country. This action has stirred
the energies of the Dutch bondholders Of
the St. Paul s. Pacific r. r. and it is new
reported that the Glyndon cut off will also
be completed. Gen. Stark stated in St.
Paul that the North Pacific Company
would build road from Bismarck to the
Black Hills as soon as the country made
this course desirable.
Year: 1877

The Internal revenue receipts for ten
auonths of the current year exceed those
Of last year for the same time by two and
ene-half million dollars. So much for
,shiskey ring prosecutions.
Year: 1877

1t requires nc fine writing TO convince
our readers, that it is their duty to
sustain their own storekeepers, against the
unlicensed hawkers, SINNERS, and buck
sters, who occupy our streets, and side.
walks and swarm over the city with
their wares.


Every citizen Of Wilmington is inter-
ested in the development of the city. This
being concedde, can we escape from the
judgment that we are all under obligations
to support every institution that tends to
our advancement as a community? Our
churches, schools and stores are all worthy
Of endorsement aud hearty support.
Hence, sympathy and financial encourage
ment are freely preferred and continued
There are other enterprises equally de-
serving. Our mere antile interests are en-
titled to something more than a passing
notice. We claim that our Wilmington
merchants are an industrious and energetic
class. They are doing as much towards
the development Of the city as any of u.s.
We should encourage them by patronizing
their establishments. Self.interest AZ we'll
as our local pride, should prompt US 10
this step. We warrant that consumers can
purchase from our own merchants to a.
good an advantage as they can by going
to Philadelphia to replenish their larders,
Why put yourselves to such Inconvenience
and needless expense? Let us give our
merchants fair trial, and if they refuse to
sell as cheap as we can buy elsewhere we
can bring influence to bear upon them.
that will tend 10 the lowering of their pri-
ees. They are now ready to compete with
any Of the large establishments of Pbiladel.
phla or elsewhere. Give them fair tr;a,
and they will convince you of this most
thoroughly.
Year: 1877

The HERALD presents its compliments
to its friends, who stood by it in the hard
and desperate struggle it made with hard
fortune. 1t again returns to its original
size, and we can assure our friends that its
circulation is now the. largest st" "fleashfe
by our friends that recognition has come
to the HERALD in the solid form of many
and important advertisements.


The young blood Of the HERALD will
be at fault, if we do not make it in the fu-
ture, q liye and lively sheet al
Year: 1877

THE CITIZEN OFFICE is now letter than ever supplied with job papers, and Is pre- pared To do better and cheaper work than is done elsewhere in Arizona. The bill head ana letter papers are the very best and they WIll be printed to order at a very small profit; also have a great variety Of cards which will be printed and sold from Ss OO per thousand upwards.