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Year: 1879

The legislatures of Tennessee and Vir-
ginia have just been considering the debts of
their respective States, the burden in both
cases being heavy and the creditors clamor-
Gus. Both bodies have had competent adj
vice from at home and abroad; both have
population, resources and everything else
which should encourage honest men to
reduce their indebtedness or to at least
make arrangements for paying interest
thereon, but they have treated the mat
ter in widely different ways. The Vir-
ginians, by fair majority, appear
to be making every possible effort toward
putting their affairs in businesslke shape !;
the Tennessee legislators, on the contrary,
pottered with their business as long as they
could without doing something and then
quietly disbanded and hurried off home,
like a lot of absconding debtors. Both
States may imagine that, because the affair
is their own, no one else will interest them
selves in it but the truth is that the whole
of the reading public is as well informed
on the subject as any of the principals are,
and that the degree of honesty OF each State
is being as carefully determined as if States
were individuals and every reader were
creditor. Both States have frequently
expressed desires for more men and capital
to develop their resources, and unemployed
men and capital are ready, but neither
labor nor money is going to trust itself
where business engagements are set aside
or disregarded. Tennessee's prospects
have been seriously injured during the
month, and every Tennessoean must bear
share of the loss and disgrace. Virginia,
on the contrary, has been steadily adding
to her old time reputation for honesty
and honor, and what each State has done
will constitute the public measure of it's
integrity for at least generation to come.
Year: 1879

After two weeks delay Father Flattery
rises to explain. We print in another
column his letter, which we presume relates
to a sermon delivered by him few
weeks ago on the subject Of charging
for admission to the mass. II it does not
relate to that subject we are at loss to
know what the letter is about. AS there
is no mention of the subject in his let
ter it is not altogether certain we are cor
rect in our supposition. 1t is a rollicking
sort of letter, mixing up absolution. Sancho
Panza, Don Quixote and Father Flattery in
such curious nelange that we might be
justified in supposing that it could not
relate to such a solemn question as
sermon from the altar of Catholic
church on q subject which was grave
enough to occupy the attention of
Plenary Council at Baltimore. But as there
is nothing else of late in which the rever-
end gentleman has figured prominently
we must take it for granted that his object is
to reopen controversy about the propri-
ETY. of exacting pay to hear mass. Therefore
we infer that the few opening paragraphs
are intended to convey to his friends by
mysterious hints Of inaccuracies the i'm
preston that the report of his sermon
in the HERALD few weeks ago did not
fairly represent what he said from his
altar We are willing to give Father Flat
terry the benefit Of this denial. No doubt
he knows what he said and what he did not
say But at the same time it would have been
more creditable to his calling to have pointed
out specifically wherein the report was
erroneous. The HERALD is always ready
and willing to correct errors, and he could
have saved himself ''the distinguished
honor of being abused for a whole week"
for saying things which, according to
his letter, never entered his head,
had he addressed to the editor Of the
HERALD the day after the publication of his
remarks few lines over his own signature
denying the correctness of the report. But
instead Of doing that he preferred to wait
two weeks and then to send us the rollick-
ing letter which we print to-day. The
Bible says there is time for everything,
for joking and laughing as well as for pray
ing and crying. But is it good time for a
priest to joke when the question is whether
the Catholic churches have right to dis
obey the mandates of the Pienary Council
forbidding the custom of exacting money
for admission to the mass? Would it not
be in better taste for the reverend gentle
man to explain by what authority he and
other pastors absolve themselves from obe-
dience to law adopted at a solemn council
composed of the highest dignitaries of the
Catholic Church in America?
Year: 1879

It is sometimes o misfortune to be O boy,


and always sin to steal bundle Of shirts
from Broadway store; but after freely ad-
hitting this much it is still hard to see
why Officer Leary should have dubbed an
unresisting eighteen-year-old thief on Fri
day night, as he is reported to have done.
We are willing to 60 farther and acknowl-
edge that the murmurings of the populace
against blue coated incompetency and the
effort of the Commissioners to reduce the
pay of the police may have soured the
temper Of many guardian Of the peace
and made him want to hit somebody, but if
policeman must assault some one and
his side, the spirit of fair play demands
that he should hit man Of his size. The
head Of boy, with its superincum-
bent scalp, has it's rightiul part
to play in the economy of nature,
but there is not, thus far, any reason for it's
being used as practice ball for the police
mans club. If Officer Leary really treated
the partly grown thief in the manner re-
ported he is proper candidate for transfer
to some sphere of action more in accord
with his ambitionand abilities. Let him 90
West and interview Sitting Bull with his
favorte weapon; let him try his hand on
most of the Potter Committees witnesses
give him chance, even, to pound with his
club at the head of the Street Cleaning Bu-
reau, if that Office has head and it can be
upI-anvfhinc so that he hits only ,nar,


Of his own size. If no such material can
be found for him healthful substitute
exists on that island where so many OF our
city's inhabitants temporarily break stone
for the sake of their muscle and the public
conscience. Assault and battery will send
any one else to the island, if the deed can
be proved. Are policemen to be deprived
of the advantages provided by the city for
men Of ungoverned strength and temper?
Year: 1879

| Charter tinkering by the Legislature has
been one of the worst evils with which New
York has had to contend. The changes
made in the law have generally been
prompted by personal or party interests
and not by public considerations, and have
kept the city government in constant state
of muddle and uncertainty. While the
present charter has some Objectionable
! features it is capable of giving us fairly
good city government, provided it is admin
istered efficiently and honestly, and pro-
vded also that there is disposition to
| harmonze the several departments and to
keep them free from partisan intrigues and
jealousies. The kindest thing the Lagisla-
ture can do for the city is to let it alone
until some definite and general law for the
government of all the cities of the State can
be matured and enacted. If changes
are made this year because the republicans
happen to have the power at Albany and
because an anti-Tammany Mayor rules the
city, II revolution in the political complex
ion of the State next year or in two years
time will be sure to lead to other changes
which will reverse those of the present ses-
sion. 1t is not desirable that the city of
New York should thus be used as foot
ball by political partisans. Senator Muir
phys resolution for a simple Investigation
of all the New York city departments and
their workings, with view to the consoli-
dation Of bureaus, the adjustment of USE
less offices and general equalization of
salaries is not open to the objection that
attaches to charter-tinkering bills. II the
inquiry is properly conducted it may lead
to economies that can be enforced without
any material change in the law and without
interfering with the efficiency of our local
government We have at present super
fluffy of bureaus and heads Of departments,
and the proposed inquiry may lead to use
full results.
Year: 1879

Some of the principals in the stupendous
Glasgow Bank swindle stood up for sem
tence yesterday, they having been found
guilty. 1t is not hard to imagine what sort
of penalties the public had agreed upon in
advance, for whether a man were q ruined
stakeholder, depositor whose balance
was swept away, or only participation in
the general paralysis of business which
temporarily followed the great crash,
he could hardly overestimate the guilt
of the active directors Of the bank Put,
to the general surprise, the heavi-
est sentence was eighteen months
Imprisonment, the lightness of the
penalty being due to the supposition that
the guilty parties did not withhold the
condition Of the bank from the public
for their own personal gain, but because
they feared the effect which the disclosure
might have upon general business. A more
pestiferous precedent could not possibly
be established for future proceedings of the
same kind 4; but it is to be hoped and be-
lieved that the judicial sense of England
and other civilized nations will be so
prompt to rebuke the illogical features of
the decision that no one will ever dare to
quote the case as precedent.
Year: 1879

respect, especially as no city employees sal
ary is actually due until he can swear that
he has really performed the services fol
which he is paid. Everybody will regret
OF what may be done in the city by vigor-
Gus administration of his Office are not of a
more masculine type; and everybody will
hope that better surprises are in store and
that the Mayor will not waste all his ener-
gies in triyialties.
Year: 1879

COMMISSIONER ERnARDT's REPLY to the
Mayors request for light upon the Police Board
row is rather indefinite The present anoma-
lous condition of affairs at Headquarters is so
demOralizing to the whole force that it should
be remedied as soon possible, and as the only
way out seems to be through an investigation
the sooner it is held the better
Year: 1879

The RErUBLIcANs in Congress who expected
yesterday to see the Southern wing of the de-
mocracy i'll the House pour hot shot into their
brethren Of the North on the cams question
were disappointed. The debate was, as whole,
good natured and jocular and has left no wounds,
oratoral or otherwise behind. Peace reigns in
the democratic fold.
Year: 1879

THE REPORT that England has determined to
sell the island of Heligoland to Prussia should
be received with some misgiving. In the first
place, it is not the policy of England to part
with her real estate except when she cannot
help it, and in the next she does not care to help
Prussia along the road toward the Neither
lands.
Year: 1879

DOES TIE DAVENPORT COMMITTEE intend to
call every one Of the seven or eight thousand
voters whom that over-zcalous official prevented
from casting their ballots last fall! II SO the
government will have handsome bill to pay.
Year: 1879

Our readers will recollect the elopement
last July of Miss Hattie Ludwig wealthy
and beautiful young lady Of McKeesport,
Pa, with big burly negro, and their SUBJ
sequent marriage in Ohio. Since then her
fate has been a hard one. For time the
negro worked in an earthenware factory at
East Liverpool, in Ohio, but finding the
finger of scorn pointed at them quilted for
parts unknown. The other day a peddler,
who had worked for Hattie's brother, met
them tramping it along the New Jersey
Central road-the girl disguised as boy
making their way to New York. They had
but five cents, with which they hoped to get
across the river. The peddler gave them
the wherewithal to procure meal. Before
parting from them it was ascertained that
they were on their way to Bridgeport,
Conn. Their clothes were old and worn
and we'll patched all over. Hattie's shoes
consisted simply of uppers, while the negro
was somewhat better shod. On the little
finger of the left hand the girl wore plain
gold ring, which she offered to the peddler
for small consideration. When the negro
asked for some information of McKeesport,
Hattie burst out with, ooh, don't talk
about home John; you make me heart
sick" The poor creature, who was in
very exhausted and nervous state, and
whose face bore unmistakable signs of re.
cent tears appeared to have wholesome
dread of her colored lord and master, and to
be completely under his control.
Year: 1879

Ore of the striking features of the North
ern elections this Fall is the rapid decline OF
the Greenback party. Its vote is light in
comparison with that which it cast last year
and the year before; while that now thrown
seems to have come chiefly from the work
ingmen's branch of the organization, rather
than from those who have heretofore advo-
Gated it's financial theories. 1t begins to
look as if the Greenbackers, strictly SO
called, would play an inconsiderable part in
the next Presidential campaign. However,
in conjunction with the Workingmen, they
will probably put up candidate. New po
litical parties, if they hope to remain per-
manent and finally succeed, must increase
in numbers at every election. The only
third party in this country that steadily ad-
vanced till it became a great power and
achieved famous victories was the Anti
Slavery party. Under the successive names
of the Liberty party, the Free Soil party,
and the Republican party, it rose from small
beginnings and advanced with firm steps
till it embodied its fundamental ideas in the
three amendments to the Constitution.-N.
Y SMn
Year: 1879

At 1 o'clock Sunday morning watchman
on tug boat lying on the Morris street
dock, Jersey City, heard groans as of some
one in distress. He reconnoitered with a
lantern, and long distance beneath the
Morris street dock encountered man cling
ing for dear life to the upright piles. His
clothes were frozen SO stiff tn 1t it was i'm
possible to straighten arms or legs from the
position in which he had held them while
he hugged the pile. He was taken to the
station. house and thence removed to the
hospital. His name is said to be John
Leach, and he gave Sergeant Finley to un-
derstand that he had been twined around
the pile for three hours after dragging him
self out of the water into which he had
fallen.
Year: 1879

The announcement is made in ScrSbne7
for December of ssPortfolo of Proof I'm
pressions'' containing one hundred selected
cuts from iScrs5ner and St. Nicholas. A
limited edition has been printed during the
past Summer with great care on special pa
per; the cuts are surrounded by a gray mat
of size suitable for framing, and the whole
is to be included in handsome binding
with an appropriate design. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that this volume will be
the finest possible representation of the ex.
cellence and variety of the wood engraving
of America, which has recently been ac.
knowledged by the London Saturday Re.
view" to be the best in the world
Year: 1879

State Senator Hobart of Passaic County.
is one of the most popular citizens of New
Jersey. His magnificent majority bordering
on 1900 is a handsome tribute, being the
largest ever given to member of the Leg
islature in Passaic. Senator Hobart is one
of the most talented young men in the State,
and if he lives will 60 to the topmost round
of. the political ladder, so far as Jersey is
concerned.
Year: 1879

Frank Danzenbakersays he can make 5000
by not appearing against his ''bunko'' con-
federates when their trial takes place. Is
there sensible man in this county who be-
lieves Frank will appear against them if
there is prospect of his making the above
sum?
Year: 1879

A poor man and his wife lived in the
North of Ireland on a bit of farm so small
that it did not afford them living. and they
ran behind on the rent. They felt very un-
easy and respondent about the debt. One
Sabbath morning the wife declared her in
tention of going to meeting. Perhaps the
minister would have word OF comfort for
her. But she came home more cast down
than ever.


What's the matter? Had the minister
no good word for ye to-day p asked the hus-
band.


'Ah, no, replied she. He held me up to
shame before the whole congregation. What
do ye think he took for his text,man Why
this If ye don't pay the rent, ye shall all
leave the parish 7


Where's no such text in the Bible said
| the husbnd
''Deed then, there is | l saw him read it
out of the book with my own two eyes,
TIE husband was incredulous, and took
the first opportunity to ask one Ct his
naighbors, who had been to the service about
| the matter.
'Will We tell me what the minister took


for his text the Sabbath morn I? said he.
| The text7 l mind it we'll = said the


neighbor. EXCEPT ye repent, ye shall sll


likewise perish
Year: 1879

Now, Walter Harrison Ames, you ge
my seat and / want to sit there : and little
Miss Rose-who looked more like snap
dragon just then--tried to shake her sturdy
brother who had very cool way of pretend
ing not to hear when he did not mean to heed,
sud who sat as calmly looking out of the
window as if only fly were attempting to
move him.


Papa was reading in the other window,
but he seemed to know exactly what was 60
ing on; and so he called the little snap
dragon-though he did not use that name
to come to him, as he had story to tell
her.


A story was delight and so the little
changeable flower almost rose again
went instantly and seated herself on bench
at his feet.


This morning, Rose / met disagreeable
north wind, and it snapped and snarled in
every sp teful way. 1t began by trying to
iniure the trees and bleak off the branches
but the branches were tSo strong for it, and
would not give way. Thea it rushed at me
and blew my coat as hard rs it could, and
said iu a gruff tone, as plain ss wind could
talk Take off your oatquickigi Iwon'
wait But laughed at the idea of obeyinl
such command rs that and so bnttened uE
my coat AS tight as could, and the north
wind tusged aud tugged in vain.
| In the afternoon, as | came home, th'
south wind met me; such sweet manners a.
it had 1t came and kissed me first. anC
then said so gently as it played with m,
hair and patted my cheek. Open your coat
please open your coat ! opened it righ
away, every single button, for l was glad b
get all the south wind that | could, and
is doing me good yet. Which is my littl
girl-the stormy north wind, or the sum
south?


| The sunny south, papa answered littl


Rose cheerily, as she went to brother Waite
and kissed and petted him and said. pleas


let me have that chair, Walter dear?'
4 Brother Walter did not say one word, bl


he whisked out of the chair in secOn,


caught the little south wind up, clspped h,


in the chair, gave her two kisses and scan


pered off to play.
Year: 1879

Macalister Cough Mixture cow being
generally introduced through the western
country is meeting with good sale and is
giving better satisfaction than any other
remedy in the market.


It is boon to sufferers from Cousump-
ton, Asthma, Bronchitis &C., and single
teaspoonfuI taken in time will prevent a
fresh cold'' from developing into some
thing worse.


It is also a valuable remedy for whoop-
ing cough and groups in children. For
sale in Rock Island by John Bengston
Druggist I'D
Year: 1879

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Backing
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade of
these goods is always standard aud their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the Oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in its line DIFF
Year: 1879

The prevalence of malarial diseases in
county and town indicates a danger te
which we are all exposed. These diseases
are easy to contract and hard to eradicate


But Warmers Safe Pills neutralizes the
poison and cures them, And they are
equally effective against all bilious troub
Year: 1879

is common complaint. IF you feel 30,
get package of Kidney-Wort and take it
and you will at once feel its tonic power.
lt renews the healthy action of the Kid
neys, Bowels and Liver, and thus restores
the natural life and strength to the weary
body. Get box and use it at once.
Year: 1879

No toilet is complete without SOZO-
DON'T. 1t combines all that is needed to
keep the mouth and teeth healthful. and
imparts delicious fragrance to the breath.
LIS use should never be intermitted, as the
mouth, needs to be kept pure and clean.
and by nothing better than SOZODONT
can this be affected.
Year: 1879

THE ULSTER GUARD AND THE WAR OF TIE RI


BELLION by THEODoEK Is. GA1Es. svo PIP OIL" New





The Ulster Guard to which this volume Is
devoted was the name of tue Goth New-lork state
Militia that saw not little hard service during
the whole period OF the Civil War. Brcvct Bflsa-
dicr-Genera Gates who succeeded TO the command "f
the regiment OH the death OF Colonel George W. Prati
has Given an interesting narrative Of its military expc-
rence from the battle II Bull Run to the surrender O.
the Confederate Army, including large amount OF
critical comment the conduct OF several of the prO-
nent Union officers in which they often fail to appear
In the most favorable light. The volume comprises
variety Of political and historical notices in winch the
author gives Tree scope 20 his personal IMPRESSIONS ana
frequently with great piquanoy Of remark In spite oi


s excessive duseness OF detail the work for te
part X highly readable. claiming friendly reception
from the public especially the people o. Ulster County,
Who were So deeply concerned in the events which 1t
cOumenOrat.s
Year: 1879

y lady writes thus very sensibly to
Western paper:


Make home home, and make it
one in every sense of the word. My
husband is a great smoker; he loves
to play cards, dominoes and chess !;
he is at liberty to smoke in any room
in the house, and am always ready
and willing to join MIN in the differ
ent games. L endeavor in every way
to be not only a helpmate, but COM
panion to him, and the result has been
that have and enjoy his society; he
preftrs spending his evenings at home
with me TO seeking other society. l
can not understand why women will
run the risk of losing their husbands
society and love, merely for the sake
of gratifying an over fastidious taste.
If they do not like tobacco, did they
object to his using it during the days
of courtship? And if they objected
then and failed, why did they marry !?
If men will not give up such habits
at the solicitations of their sweet
hearts, it is not likely they will be
pursuaded out of them by their
wives therefore think it unwise for
a woman to risk her happiness by
quarreling with her husband over Il
venial fault, the existence and extent
of which she knew and perfectly un-
dcrstood before she took upon her.
self the duties of wife.
Year: 1879

A unpremeditated insincerity must
be indulged under the stress of social
intercourse. The task even of an
honest man must often represent
merely his wish to be inoffensive or
agreeable rather than his genuine
opinion or feeling on the matter in
hand. His thought if uttered might
be wounding, or he has not the ability
to utter it with exactness and snatches
at loose paraphrase or he has
really no genuine thought on the
question and is driven to fill. up the
vacancy by borrowing the remarks in
vogue. These are the winds and
current we have all to steer among,
and they are often too strong for our
truthfulness or wit. Let us not bear
too hardly on each other for this in
cidental frailty and think that we
rise superior to it by dropping all
considerateness and Difference.


But there are deliberate forms of
inslncerity which it is fair to be i'm
patient with. Hinze's for example.
From his name you might suppose
him to be German; in fact his fam
ily is Alsatian, but has been settled
in England for more than genera
ton. He is the superlatively defer
entail man, and walks about with
murmured wonder at the wisdom and
discernment of everybody who talks
to him. He cultivated the low-tone
tete-a-tete, keeping his hat carefully
on his hand and often stroking it
while he smiles with down-cast eyes.
as if to relieve his feelings under the
pressure of the remarkable converse
ton, which it is his honor to enjoy at
the present moment. l confess to
some rage on hearing him yesterday
talking to Feliciana, who is certainly
o clever woman and without any un-
usual desire to show her cleverness,
occasionally saying something of her
own or making an illusion which is
not quite common. Still, it must
happen to her as 70 every one else
that speaks Of many subjects Of