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Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HRRALD:-


1t is contemplated by the Police Commissioners
to abolish the inspection districts. probably good
move on their part. for it will be tho saving OF
great expense to the city and likely benefit to the
department.


At present the city is divided into four inspection
districts inspector located In each district.
to whom tho captains OF precincts make their daily
reports. Those reports are looked over by the in
spcctor and then forwarded to the Superintendent
at Headq quarters. where they fled Under this
arrangement the captains are seldom seen by the
Superintendent, unless sent for on some special
business. The Commissioners have an idea that 1t
would be better that the captains should be in moro
direct comm nication with the superintendent


Now that the Commissioners are bent on making
apply early to the Legislature and effect an amend
men to the police law by reducing the Police Com
mission three instead of four. as 1t now stands
That would do away with the ridiculous deadlock ex
hibitons which have too often witnessed in this
commission. The Fire Department. has only three
and they always get decision aud the business or
the department not retarded There is no tangible
reason why the police should not be the same. IL
would also be well TO have an act passed author
izng three inspectors to hold court for the trial OF
delinquent policemen thus severing the appointing
power from the trials. leaving the Commissioners
the appointing power aud jurisdiction over the SUI
perintendent and inspectors. IN.
Year: 1879

A gentleman writes from New Or
leans under date May 18th, to a friend
in this city, who had written to him
expressly inquiring about the health
Of that city, and his replyis as follows.
What he says can be relied on most
implicitly:


Yours of the 14th at hand and
was glad to hear from you. As to
yellow fever there is none here, and
we do not expect any this summer, as
our city is very clean and healthy and
we expect to keep it so. Your city
need have no fears of it here. If a
case occurs here your authorities will
be notified at once and all others.


" j.. A. SAXON"


The following is an extract from a
letter received at this Office from Mrs.
Edwards, the lady who so distin-
guished herself as a nurse last fall:


NEW ORLEANS, May 10, 1879.


Mr.. WHITMoRE-Dear Sir; This
evening | got your paper in which
there is a statement made by some
creOles of yellow fever being in the
city of New Orleans. That cannot
be or | would know something of it.
We have had several cases of cholera,
but only the usual type of spring
cholera My idea of yellow fever is
that it exists in every part of our
State, and is only epidemic according
to the weather, when we have CON
tinued rains without thunder or light
ming, followed by intense heat This
causes our dreaded foe to appear. So
far | think our prospects for healthy
summer bids fair. We, more likely,
will suffer starvation by this laughable
quarantine of DIR. Chopin's. A party
told me last week that if yellow fever
comes they will dispense with doctors
and call in your humble servant.


One thing rest assured of, the first
thing hear of the yellow fever | will
let you know; also what form it will
take, for it is very treacherous.
Year: 1879

IT is likely now that congress will
pass the general appropriation bills
and go home aud take an appeal to
the people against the Presidents
inconsistent yetoes. Some are Of the
opinion however that the session will
last until the lst of July. It is stated
that the Democrats are still consider
ing the propriety Of preparing for
NAL reply to the Presidents vetoes,
and two plans of proceeding are un-
der adyisement. The first is to have
it emanate from the judiciary commit
tees Of the two bodies and send it to the
country. The society is to have a
joint address prepared under a rule
which provides that when the senate
and house of representatives shall
judge it proper to make a joint address
to the President it shall be presented
to him in his audience chamber by the
president of the senate in the pres
ence of the speaker of the house. AS
yet no formal steps have been taken
in this direction.
Year: 1879

If a certain man once offered an eX-
cuse for suicide to the effect that the
necessary routine of rising every morn
ing, making a toilet, and retiring ev-
erV night had rendered life tedious to
him, who can wonder that the house
keeper sometimes finds the dull details
of house-work almost tinsupportable, and
questions if they are not sapping the
sources of youth, strength, and good
spirits? Washing dishes thrice daily,
making beds and fires diurnally, dusting
perpetually, going through with the
weary round of washing, ironing, sweep
ing, and baking day, week after week,
with no variation but wet Monday or a
poor oven; planning out the meals that
there may be variety enough to stimu-
late appetite without much expense or
the waste of a farthing; add to these the
spring and fall cleaning, and we have
the programme of ordinary house-work.
1t may be presumed that it is not so
much the labor that Oppresses many
women, and inclines them to slackness
and shiftlessness, as the wearying repeti-
ton of acts i'm which they have small
interest, when they would be about
work of their own choosing, and the GER
tainty that, perform each task as faith
fully as may be, there is nothing endur-
ing in its nature; and since it must be
often repeated, why should one be so
nice in its accomplishment they may
argue how will a slight here and there
signify in a matter so immaterial? And
thus, in spite of the adage that "prac-
tice makes perfect" neglect creeps into
the practice, and mars its perfection.
Perhaps the housewife does not sweep
her room so thoroughly to-day because
the operation must be repeated to-mor-
row, nor dust so particularly, since dust,
unlike her coffee, has trick of settling
often. Why should she take unsparing
pains with food which is to be eaten up
as soon as it is out of the oven, and not
by visitors either, who would credit her
with skill? Or why be {. fussy" about
the beds that are to be tumbled
in few hours? At the same
time, what is worth doing at all,
is worth doing well, they tell
us. Why did she undertake a business
for which she had no talent, and in
which she finds nothing congenial? For
whom does she bake and brewP whose
breath does she keep in the nostrils by
! her handicraftp for whom does she seek
to make home neat and attractive? Are
not those dearest to her benefited by
her exertions, and shall irksome routine
stand in the way of their welfare and
! comfort? Does not Nature herself sci
us an example of routine and repetition
in which there is no shadow of shirk.
ing? What if she should omit such lit.
tie details as the grass, the early and
latter rains, the planetary movements
In the economy of the household every
disregarded duty or slighted task tells
its own story in the long account, as the
old geologic formations have registered
the rains of their period; and as every
household is Il fraction of the divine
economy, house-work in its homelies
phases is promoted from a menial, un
considered thing to dignity and power
|-Hdrper's Bazar.
Year: 1879

1t will be of interest to the reader to
learn that, according to BesSemer's IS
statement, his knowledge of iron metal
lurgy was at that time very limited, so
that he had to get up the whole of the
subject He is now, however, of opinion
that his ignorance proved of great adj
vantage to him, as he had very little to
unlearn, and could thus approach the
subject free from the bias inseparable
from those who have followed beaten
track and vainly endeavor to get out of
the rut These words of Bessemer re-
quired, however, to be carefully consid-
cred. He does not imply that a state of
ignorance would enable him to invent,
as many schemers imagine, who put
forth crude ideas which are crushed by
practical men. He set to work to learn
the whole business thoroughly, first from
books and then in the foundries. Still
it will be seen that here was man well
on in the world, who set himself to hard
learning, while many of us think that we
can do very well without learning at all,
or without learning any more. To the
public who thus get details at first
hand, it is also of interest to know that,
having built small experimental IRON
works in st. Pancras, and begun his
preliminary trials, months rolled on, and
he spared neither labor nor money, but
made failure after failure. To the wise
man however, failure is way of learn
ing, and failures are carefully recorded,
first, because they show us the way how
to save our time by not trying the fail
ure over again; secondly, because they
show us, through narrowing the field, in
what way we must try; and thirdly, be-
cause they in themselves often suggest
some further experiment. Bessemer,
indeed, says that dnring this long time
of failure he was accommodating many
important facts which could not but
ultimately be of value to him.-London
Year: 1879

At a legal investigation of a liquor
seizure, the Judge asked an unwilling
witness: "What was in the barrel that
you hadP" The reply was: g Well,
your Honor, it was marked whisky on
one end of the barrel and Pat Duffy
on the other end, so that | can't say
whether it was whisky or Pat Duffy was
in the barrel, being as | am ON my oath. "
Year: 1879

Novels written by young writers are
compared by the Pal Mall Gazette to
green gooseberries. They furnish the
discreet student with endless occasion
for impatience and wonder. He remem-
bers that novel-writing is Il difficult art,
and is astonished that no apprenticeship
is thought necessary to its practice.
Reading and writing come by nature !;
and to have ut the masters and outdo
their feats no course of preliminary
gymnastics is needed. This being the
ease, one is overwhelmed with stories
without plot or incident, intrigues with
out point or object, psychology that is
merely stupid description that does not
describe, dialogue that is but monologue
in disguise, heroes with nothing mascu-
line about them but their names, and
heroines most pitifully feminine; and
the public is lucky if it gets half dozen
novels year that are worth remem-
, brance and reperuSal.
Year: 1879

So the murderers of ChisOlm 60 scot free.
There was just Judge but he could not find
a verdict for n Democratic jury. There was
q thorough presentation of conclusive evidence
by able counsel. But the jury were Democrats.
II is said that one man of the twelve was a
Republican, but a man too weak or too stupid
to form and hold an opinion adverse to that
of his associates. Seven were white Demo
Gratis, and that settled it.


Is it TO be inferred that all white Democrats
at the South in their hearts excuse the mur-
der of men for the crime Of being active
Republicans 7 Even then, there would be
nothing to excuse the murder of helpless
cirl and innocent boy. Have the white Dem
ocrats of the South none of those human feel
ings which distinguish men from savage
beasts 2 Yes, the better public opinion of the
South does undoubtedly condemn these muir
ders, at heart. Publicly it says the
Occurrence was very deplOrable." But that
does not enforce law. That does not
punish the guilty, nor deter men from per
petrating similar crimes whenever political
passion or interest prompts. Private censurc
does not 90 far. either Men who say in their
hearts " the murder was wrong" will go fox
hunting with the indicted Gully, or vote for
the assassin Barksdale, and touch without Il
shudder the hands red with innocent blood,
and welcome the murderer to their homes, and
be glad, provided he has money or social
standing, To see the bloOd-red hand joined be-
fore the altar with that of Il much-lOvcd
daughter. The censure hurts no one. 1t is
cool and mild, and impairs the standing of the
murderer neither socially nor politically nor in
business Southern society viii Ostracize Il
man, and hold him unfit to live, if he is guilty
of being Republican. But it will excuse him,
welcome him, court him, and claim him as an
eligible partner in marriage, if he has mur-
dered Republican. That decent society will
regret rs "a deplorable event." but it will not
punish as a crime.


Excuses are always offered, of course The
murdered man was always bad man. He
had "incitcd insurrection that is to say, he
had told the blacks that they were not slaves.
Or he had "stirred up a war of aces"-that
is he had advised the colored people not to
be shot down like sheep without resistance.
Or he had threatened the very existence of
civilized society y"-that is, he had consented
to receive, as n candidate for some Office
votes not cast by strictly Democratic hands.
Usually, after the man is dead. great deal
of mud is cast by chivalrous community
upon his tombstone. lie was desperate and
wicked man, and had insulted somebody, or
wronged somebody, or, it is said in extreme
cases, killed somebody. If a man who votes
an Independent ticket, or receives indepen-
dent votes, has ever killed anybody. that
iustiies killing him at once. But the good
Democrat who kills such person will never
l. IL 10 nj


This Is the state Of society of which the
Solid South is the product. The iurymen. we
Year: 1879

Continental papers come to us full OF gossip
concerning the second marriage OF hinS Al
phonso. which is now a certainty. The Span
isb rranGecs who are to ask the hand of the
Archduchessare already on theiTway to the Court
of Vienna, whclc consent j. impaticntly await
ing them. 1t Is difficult to understand the
eagerness OF the Austrian Imperial house To
enter into this alliance with Spain; 1t can
bring no political strength to that monarchy.
The position of the Spanish Queen is ;hc most
slippery of any of the Unstable thrones of
Europc and added to ali this is the fact that
the sympathies of Austria have always been
with Don Carlos. That great agitator and his
brother were not only cordially received IN
person 10y the Austrian Court, but there
was every ground for suspoctlng that
il was Austrian gold which helped him
in his last struggle. The marriage of Alphonso
into the house of Hapsburg was no doubt
rarily planned IN order to cut OIL this ally
from Don Carlos, and a rumor was started that
q compromise with that troublesome Pretender
would be made before the marriage took place.
Don Carlos, however. has taken pains to let t
be known that he is not TO br bought of,
declaring that he is not 50 weak or 80 cow
"ardiy. but awaits events and trusts in God y
meaning that hc is ready to jump in whenever
there is any chance OF successful fight.


Meanwhile there is the usual feeble effort
to surround the approaching marriage with
the glow Of love and romance which every
body likes to believe belongs to weddings Ill
courts as in cottages. The young King, in
coglito, went through with his SIX days OF
wooing at Arcaclon dltiiuily, gave royal
gifts. and drove ont with the Queen who was to
he. But gossip declares that he was cold
lover, and that the Archduche,s (whO is said
to be a thin, pale-eyed young woman with close
shut lips and sharp. hand memory, rcmcm-
bered when he came that he had known her
long ago and had not chosen her first, and
was hard to be persuaded to listen willingly
to his wooing. Gossip, very probably, knows
nothing about it. Still, the story o. Mercedes,
and the passionate love and wedding OF the
boy and girl King and Queen, which was like
page out of fairy tale, is fresh in the memory
of all Europe, and makes these political nup
tialS tame and commonplace.
Year: 1879

Mr.. jefferson Davis is q singulaTly inoppOr-
tune person. No man was ever so unfortunate
in the times and circumstances of his public
appearances, and no man ever failed so to
hold together. He seems to have the ability
to be conspicuous, but TO fall just short
always of being great. With little more
balance he might have been famous; as 1t Is,
he is merely notorious. With little less self
consciousness he might have passed for mar
tyr; as 1t is, he Is pretty generally set down an
asa. 1t is hardly possible that any other man In
his position would have undertaken to Skip
away from his pursuers at the close of the
war in female guise still less possible that
he should have gwen occasion for the sleep
ing-car scandal, and before that was cold
make speech glorifying the women of the
Confederacy because he had never seen
one that had been reconstructed; and almost
incOnceivable that any other man who had
made these particular blunders should, while
posing before his own people as n martyr, SO
practice upon the credulity of still another
woman rs to make himself her legatce to
the exclusions of her lawful heirs. 1t was
Artemus Ward, we believe. who said "it
"would have been five dollars In JEFF Davis's
"pocket if he'd never been born" However
that may be, il seems certain that 1t would
have been more than that in his pocket If he
had not survived the war. 1t is manifestly
one of the deepest revcnges ever brought In
by the whirlgig of Time, that while Abraham
Lincoln died by the assassin's hand at the
very elimination of his work. in the fulness
of his fame, Jefferson Davis was spared by
the magnanimity of his captors to illustrate
the littleness of his own character and
emblazon the folly of his career There
is no man now living to whom silence and
retirement would be SO becOmingj none who
so persistently breaks the one and emerges
from the other with such invariably fatal eff
feet to himself and his friends. Like the
tramp bounds SO Omaha, he Is kicked at every
appearance and like the same tramp, he
seems bent on reaching a place IN history, "if
"the seat of ais trousers only holds out"


His latest public appearance is in the letter
to the editor of q Mississippi paper, which
was published In yesterdays TRIBUNE.
Therein he declines, ut great and unnecessary
length. to be, a candidate before the Missis-
sippi Legislature for United States Senator
from that State. He begins by tho statement
that 1t Is by no means probable that Congress
Year: 1879

The meeting of the Republican Central Com
mittco last night was large and enthusiastic
The gathering soon became personal demon
stryticn in honor of the Republican candidate
for Governor, who is a member of the Com
mit;cc.
Year: 1879

There is loud call from London on Bis
marck and Gortschakofi to remove the feverish
anxiety of Europe by declaring that there is
no ground for the ill-wlll they are reported
" bear each other. This desire is not likely
Year: 1879




"sooner or later. l fear we shall have
"a war like this with her." In view OF TINS
opinion and his unfriendly conduct toward
Russia at the Berlin Congress. Prince Bis
marck cannot afford TO say that he Is on
amicable terms with the Russian Chancellor,
and that his recent overtures to Austria were
not intended to provide against the hostility
of the Gar.


In less than three months Congress viii
again I've in session. Then, If not before, VIII
he promulgated officially the Mormon plan
for checkmating civilization. A stan CORE
spOndent, now in Utah, reveals the nature ana
extent of this scheme in letter which Is
printed on another page. 1t will be proposed
that Utah be admitted into the Union as a
State. and admission will be urged upon the
ground that this prosperous Territory Is bel
ter qualified FOR membership IN the great
family of Stites than some which are already
within the circle. No doubt pledges VIII pe
made that poygamy shall he represent
They would he given only to be nioNeh'
As our correspondents letter shows 'he
real purpose of the Mormon ieancIS
is to secure for themselves the sovereignty
in such matters. of a State. and then bid de-
fance To the public opinion OF the country
On its face, this would seem TO be an impo5-
sible scheme, but we have seen enough OF
Democratic rule i'll Congress to know what
Bourbon majority means; that which oush'
10 be impossible is too often that which nap
pens. The State of Utah would elect two
Democrats to the United States Senate; would
cast three electoral woes for the Democratic
candidate for President would, in case OF IN
election 10y the House of Representatives,,
give vote which would neutralize that OF
Puritan Massachusetts. There is stake here
for which the Democratic party might be de-
perate enough to play. in the meantime, 1t
is important that the country should know
there is such scheme on foot. and know also
that it's object is 20 perpetuate so-calied
"religionn whose cornerstone is hcenhous-
ness.
Year: 1879

lie following were the receipts and ship


ments OF the leading articles Of produce in this
city during the twenty four hours ending at
O'Clock On Saturday morning, and. for the cor


responding date twelve months ago:
Year: 1879

THERE are few men who have en- deavored to accelerate the develop ing of the Salt River valley or who have the welfare of the valley more at heart than the gentlemen compos- ing the firm of A. Goldman & Go This is not shown in idle words or boastings, b-t in lending a. helping hand to every project that will in any way materially increase the prosperity of the people. Not alone in this but also by assisting persons worthy of aid to obtain a foothold. More farmers th-ssF-one o.re 4h--.- present possession of the fields which hey till to the assisting hand lent hem by this firm and many miner who, tired and despairing of his hunt for fortune has been fitted out for the expedition which has lead to fortune by \. Goldman & Co. A sketch of this firm appears in our bi- ographical columns today being the second article of the series com .mcnced last Saturday.
Year: 1879

Rich discoveries of mines continue to be made in the new districts, re

 gently formed in the eastern part of the Territory. For several years mines have been located in the Tonto Basin country, but owing to their re- moteness, and the difficulties of get ting supplies, nothing of tan gible shape hal been developed. Within the las. two months some very rich lodes have have been discovered in Green Valley District, near Tonto Basin, that for size and richn ess can not be surpassed in the Territory

 Timber and water is close at hand and the facilities for working ores are better than in many of the older districts. Fortunately for those hold ing claims, who are unable to devel- op them with profit, capital will soon find its way into the district, as men of means and influence have secured possession of some lodges, who pro pose to erect reduction works at an early day. A letter received from Green Valley states that numerous rich lodges are being discovered every day, and that the hills are be ing prospected by scores of men

 Several hundred pounds of ore have been sent to San Francisco for re duction, and the report is looked for ward to with considerable interest.
Year: 1879

The World has telegram stating

 that Davis, Republican candidate for Governor of Maine, is not elected by the people by from two to four tkous- and votes The Republican man

 agers are distressed over the news, and wish that the plans of placing Hale in nomination for Governor had been carried out The notion of placing him in nomination was sug- gested with the view of securing for l.;m few hundred votes, so that in case the popular vote should fail to elect, the Assembly could send in Hale's andLDayis names for the Senate to decide upon. Blaine op- posed the suggestion, because he was confident that Cavis could carry the State, and was afraid that with Hale in the field everything might be lost.
Year: 1879

EDITING a newspaper is a very pleasant thing If it should happen to contain too much political matter, people wont have it; if it contains too little they wont have it. If the type is too large, they say there is nothing in it; if too small they can't read it. If we publish telegraphic reports people say they arc lies; if VIC do not, that we have no enterprise If WIG publish origInel matter some damn us tor not giving them selec- tions; if we fill up our space with SC lections they say we are too lazy to write If we give man a compli- mcntary no5ice we are abused for be- ing partial; ii we do not all hands give us fits. If we speak well of an act; they say we dare not do other wise; if we should ccnsure, we are a traitor If we stay at nome and at tend to our business, we are told that we arc too proud to mingle with our fellows. Such is the life of news paper editor.