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Year: 1878

If ever it was just and proper that honor
should be paid to whom honor s due now ia
eminently the time to acknowledge the price,
less services of our physicians and to pay to
their worth the tribute of our love and graft
tude and veneration. During these times of
pestilenoe, poverty and pain, the character of
these men has been shown in bold relief, and
the passing months with all their trying oir-
cumstsnces, have only served to make the re-
cord brighter and more enduring.


When we endeavor to realize their arduous
duties, their momentous responsibilities and
the terrible accountability to which they are
held by an unrefectng people, then we find
ourselves somewhat able to realize the words
of Homer when he sang:


"a wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal


Is more than armies to the public veal"


Let US dwell for moment upon the respon-
siblity Of this 'Cise physician, and then see if it
be possible to measure our debt of gratitude to
him. In his hands rest the temporal and, in
some respects, the eternal interests of an en-
tire family. On his wise prudence and skillful
forethought hinges the happiness of parents
and Of children. On his ability to heal de-
pends the future veal or woe of many hapless
ssuls.


Whenever during these last months of the
fearful epidemic, father of family was pros
trated with the fever, who did not realize that
under Providence this life 80 precious to his
loved ones, was in the physicians handsH A
broken household and a desolate hearth-a
lonely widow and an orphaned banda life of
penury, perhaps Of orime-these were the
dreadful shadows warded off by q physioian's
skill.


How many mother was stricken down
whose smile was sunshine to a husbands life
was heavens own light to her children's bearts
was Gods own benediction to the poor. A
physician's skill preserved that smile upon
her face and kindled it into newer glory. Who
can count the blessed hours and DAYS and
years, each roplete with Christian motber,s
usefulness, which that skill reserved for the
Year: 1878

We thank God that the epidemic is over
or seems to be so. For several days the
death rate has been less than twenty, and
twenty is the number generally received as
the point where the disease may be classed
as epidemic in this city. Bat it's ravages
do not with it's disappearance cease to be
manifest. The fire of great contiagration
may be fAaIly extinguished and the ruined
walls still stand as it's monuments. All
has to be built up again. Kind neighbors
have helped US to control the fires of our
great epidemic and the frosts of heaven
have at last almost subdued them, but the
ruins of families still stand prominently
before the public eye as evidences of the
calamity that desolated our community.
Everywhere the widow, the orphan, the
dismantled home, the hreless hearth, the
cry for bread


Now is the time for help. After a while
the ivy will have grown over the ruins and
hidden them. Society will have rearranged
it's relations and provided for it's unfortu-
nate. But just at this time society has
not much power of recuperation. Poverty
reigus universal, and thousands of willing
hands that might now commence to create
Year: 1878

comfort are still paraly zed with the weak
ness of convalescence.


Under the circumstances we must regret
relief societies, which has taken place this
week. 1t is true there has been much
abuse. Men of considerable means have
been drawing the rations of charity, relief
tickets have been scattered right and left
by gentlemen who would not take the
pains to visit an applicants home and YER
ify the tale Of destitation, stalwart negroes
have been loafng about the city, living on
deluded bounty, while offers of plantation
work were being eagerly pressed upon
them. But with all the chaff there was
plenty of wheat-plenty of warm sympathy,
earnest exertion, true charity aud needed
relief. Incalculable good was done and
untold evil averted, and, as we said above,
we must regret that the work has been
brought to such peremptory close. 1t
might very properly have been greatly
reduced in proportions, but there was and
is still room for relief.


We fear that this action will finally close
the avenues of assistance from the general
public abroad and we therefore call upon
onr home population to make greater sacri-
fees even than usual in the cause of hu-
manity. The Catholic Relief Association
would gladly receive and distribute any
supplies, whether of money, provisions or
clothing. it has central points of commu
nication with every parish, either through
some religious society or the personal zeal
of the curate, by means of which it can
reach the most needy with almost unerring
discrimination. The smallest contributions,
if general, will aggregate a very abundant
supply and the advantage of seudiDg this
supply through one and the same channel
is apparent. 1t will permit a general and
uniform distribution, avoiding alike super
abundance in one quarter aud neglect in
another.
Year: 1878

Mr. Edward II. Gillette, the Democratic.
National candidate just elected to Congress in
Iowa, is q native of Connecticut. He left
Hartford o year ago, went out to lows, and
tried to make living as q briok-maker; was
nominated for Congress by the Greenbackers
and then by the Democrats, in district that
ut the last election gave o Republican majority
of 6OOO and went into the canvass without q
dollar to aid him. Against the money and the
organization of the Republicans he brought
nothing but personally spirited contest, and
depended wholly for what money he obtained
upon the sales Of newspapers and documents
which he carried with him, and sold at 10
cents each from the platform, and by going
personally about among the crowd.
Year: 1878

A WIT once observed that the best
way to avoid sunstroke is to keep out of
the sun. Seriously if we wish to make
existence endurable during the heated
term, we must try to keep cool. The
French understand this art in its per-
fection. As soon as the weather de-
mands a change, the Frenchman ap-
pears in the thinnest of apparel-straw
hat, alpaca coat and low shoes usurping
the place of his usual habiliments. His
house, especially if it be on the sunny
side of the street, is regulated with
equal care and forethought. The car.
pets are taken up; the heavy .ialousies
are shut before sunrise, and kept closed
throughout the day; the courtyard is
hourly watered; and in households
where small expenses are matter of
little moment, large bowl of ice and
water, of pyramid of solid ice, sur
rounded by flowers, forms the center
ornament of the table. What the in
dividual citizen does for himself, that
the municipality of Paris does for the
entire city. Long before the Parisians
are astir the streets have been well
watered with a hose, and the trottoir
thoroughly washed down. The cafes,
with their awnings drawn over the pave
ment, look cool and inviting. AS for
the French drinks the cups that
"cool but not inebriate their praises
cannot be too loudly sung or too widely
spread. Indeed, of life in hot weather,
as of life at the seaside and of divers
other matters in which personal COM
fort is the chief consideration, we can.
not but admit, however reluctantly,
that they manage these things better in
France.
Year: 1878

A FELLOW with demoniac look on his
face, entered sawmill yesterday, and
sauntering up to buzz saw which was
in rapid motion, deliberately laid his leg
in front of it. AS the teeth cut into the
member, seven men tainted and thirteen
turned SO pale that they were mistaken
for wooden buckets and snatched up by
horror-stricken bystanders and dipped
into the river. The proprietors could
scarce maintain their composure as they
saw the parts of the dismembered leg fly
of, but the man most interested was as
cool as Charles Francis Adams, and said
he had an old grudge against buzz saws
and Just wanted to sass this one. His
leg was a wooden one, and when the saw
found out, it gnashed its teeth, gnawed
file, and bit itself in seven places. be-
cause it was so mad at being trifled with


-Keokuk Constitution.
Year: 1878

MILTON has left us this sentiment,
which deserves to be written in in
delible characters on the tablets of every
youths mind: "I call complete and
generous education that which fits
man to perform justly, skillfully and
magnanimously all the offices, both
public and private, of peace and war,
infiamed with a
study of learning and the admiration of
virtue, stirred up with high hopes of
living to be brave men and worthy
patriots, dear to God and famous in all
aceS.O
Year: 1878

ON the authority of the London
Medical Examiner, it is proposed to form
"school of beauty" in England, in
which all the members pledge them
selves to do all they can to make them
selves comely by natural means. Prizes
will be given to those ladies who can
move with ease and grace, and so afford
evidence Of the free use of their limbs.
In short a natural waist and we'll
curved hack, with a perfectly posed
head, will be premium.
Year: 1878

A CHINAMEN has sued the Sheriff of
San Francisco for cutting off his queue
in the County Jail. The Sheriff de-
INJURED to the complaint on the ground
that he was empowered to cut of the
queues of prisoners by city ordinance,
but the Court overruled the demurrer,
declaring that there was no ordinance
which gave such power, and that there
is no general Authority for Sheriff to
clip the hair of convicts.
Year: 1878

A CHrNAMAN's mule walked from a
hillside on to the roof of miners
cabin, in Eureka, Nevada, and fell
through, breaking nearly everything
underneath, including one of the miners
arms. The enraged miner Immediately
slew the mule with an ak. The China
man now sues for the loss of the mule,
and the miner sues for the damage to the
cabin and himself.
Year: 1878

AN ENGLISH gentleman says: "For
sixteen years was cripple from gout,
and never knew what month was
without serious attack, when some one
told me to eat what l liked, but to drink
nothing except milk. have done this
for ten months, and have not had a
twinge."
Year: 1878

The Italians, in their desire to create
anavy, have naturally initiated English
traditions of naval management some
what Unfortunately. Among other
things they have adopted the famous
punishment Of mastheading. The heroes
Of Capt. Marryatt's novels appear to
have spent considerable portion of their
lives at this uncomfortable elevation,
and panorama of a British feet al
anchor in the beginning of the century
would have been incomplete without
the introduction of some dozen or 80 oi
midshipmen tipping the tapering mas
with their persons. Recently an Italiar
cadet was mast-headed at Spezia in the
heat of the day, and losing his footing al
he endeavored TO descend was killed
The Captain has in consequence beer
severely blamed, though if masthead
ing be prescribed in the articles of war
the system rather than the Captain
would be to blame.
Year: 1878

As matter of local pride some Of our
benevolent citizens should arrange for n
river excursion free TO the poor of the Dis
trct. Who will take the lead in reducing
this suggestion to q practical demonstra-
'ion9 Washington is the only city of i'm
portance in the country that does not in
dulge in this kind of health-giving charity.
Two or three boat-loads of the children of
poor parents could be gathered up any day
during this summer school recess and sent
down the river under charge Of the police
or some one of our numerous benevolent
societies The little urchins would not only
enjoy themselves, but would return CRATE
ful thanks, which would more than repay
the promoters of the scheme.
Year: 1878

THE North Carolina election laws have been
shrewdly amended for the distinct purpose of
thinning out the black vote" Reversing
the principle that every man is supposed to
he innocent of any crime until he is proven
to be guilty, these laws place the voter who
is challenged at the polls IN the attitude of
a criminal, and compel him to prove his in
nocence before he is allowed to vote. As
the election officers are all Democrats, II is
easy to see that this infamous system of
challenging will be made operative against
Republicans only.
Year: 1878

IT is the easiest thing in the world to urge
activity in business community, but the
most effective way to promote it is to set an
example, and illustrate the way to do it by
actions which speak palmer than words.
The exemplars of this kind in the District
are not US humorous as they might be.
Year: 1878

Our wasp-like Quaker contemporary, the
Philadelphia Times fails to keep its promise
to embalm in print anything President
HAYES has said that has been remembered.
We direct its attention again to the speech
in which the President practically apollo
gized to the South for the Union victory
over secession. We repeat that the scnti-
ment of this speech has been already en-
balmed BY the Iowa Republicans; but
Colonel MCCLURE has u peculiar way of
his own of doing things We would like
to see how he will go about this cmbalming
Job of his own seeking.
Year: 1878

THE eye of the public press is upon Gem
eral Ben BUTLER. Our exchanges are full of
paragraphs regarding his past, present and
future political man9uvrcs. The result is
a chamclion-like representation of his per-
sonal and public situation which serves to
coniound the casual reader with the idea
that there are several thousand BEN But
LERs In existence. But it must be admitted
that he has the advantage even of the argus
eyed press as regards the matter Of physical
as well as political vision, lie dcccivcs
them by his glanccs, and no two of them
agree as to the direction in which he is look
ing for the future.
Year: 1878

EVERY industrious and self-supporting
newcomer in any community is an advan-
tago to those who have preceded him. The
people OF Washington are not ovcrburdened
with this kind of advantages If they could
conveniently swap of few hundred corner
Generals aud curbstone Coloncls for sim.
liar number of this class, they would not
object They have also few bogus Judges
and Cove EuOrs TO spare
Year: 1878

THERE is difference between grasping
IN opportunity and waiting for one to come
along. Tho business men OF Washington
should understand this fact and profit by
IT. Those who wait are simply MICAwDERs +;
those who grasp are progressive and public
spirited, and generally bring about the
sought-for opportunity by some agency OF
their own
Year: 1878

The Communists of New York held
meeting last Monday night, at the beer
saloon Of Citizen JUsTUs SCHwAB, for the
purpose of raising funds and extending sub
stant!al sympathy TO their suffering friends
across the water. otherwise known as Ger
man Socialists. SCHwAB sold much beer ut
five cents q glass. The fund raised was
twenty dollars-in promises to pay-and
SCHwAD pocketed it along with the beer
money. At hrst glance this proceeding Is
apt to evoke q feeling Of contempt and ridi-
cule for the participants, and to leave the
impression that the Commune is not such
terrible thing after all. But itshould be


remembered that the sentimentalism of
your average Communist does not lead in


the direction Of charity to his fellow-m
He Is o selfish rascal, whose friendships are
ephemeral, whose immediate bodily wants
are gratitied at any cost, and whose
every action Is dictated by cynical
hatred Of everybody else, supplemented by
q desire to obtain public notoriety at any
risk. The Hero of the Barricade in Paris is
never a generous, loving friend, except as
regards one, or two at the most, intimates
who share their all with him Such n man
was CLUsERET. But when such men COM
bne by accident, as they seldom do by de-
sign, they become dangerous. They are the
mob of the instant They bear the quick,
iniiammablo torch Of the impulsive and un-
premeditated inccndiary. They carry
knives and pistols, but use them only when
an inspiration Of dabolism scizes them.
Always restless, they are not necessarily
violent, but when accident arouses them to
overt proceedings, they 90 about their hell
ish work with the vigor and quickly-spent
fury of whirlwind. When that work is
over they flee from the presence of outraged
law, and humble over their prosecuted con-
dition. Citizen ScHwAB is a phlogmatic,
money-getting specimen Of this type. His
immediate followers are harmless so long as
they simply cluster around him and spend
their precariously-earned money for his beer
or bulge his pockets out with promises to
pay impossible sums to relieve the sullerings
OF the Socialists of Europe; but the time
may come when he will swallow his phlegm
in dose Of absinthe, inspire the sycophants
about him with the fury of aggressive agra
rianism, and sally forth to delugc New York
with rapidly-passing avalanche of riot and
rapine. The Aimplc fact that he raised no
funds for the object he had in view at this
meeting does not prove that the Commune
in New York is either harmless or weak.


"a. .
Year: 1878

SECRETARY SHERMAN TO MIR. POTTER.


We print elsewhere in this issue the
reply of Secretary SHERMAN to Mr.. Pot
TER's last attempt to cvade his evident duty
of accepting proilered testimony to prove
frauds and intimidation in the election in
Louisiana in 1876. The reply is so calm
and dignifed in its tone as to disarm crit
icism, even if dictated by the most captious
spirit At the same time it puts the case
from the standpoint of the defense in this


inquiry in the strongest possible light and
Year: 1878

The Rocssstsr aRd SLATE Las Raay runs troa the City OF
Rochester 10 salamanca state OF distance
of about me through the rich valleys OF the


enesee wyoming forms the connecting link between
the NewYor Central Railroad and the Atlantic and Great
Western making shortest ana most direct route for all
the New gland business coming from the Southwestern
States pipe transporting petroleum oil has been
constructed Bradford Oil Regions TO Salamanca ana
upwards OF 80 oil per day pass the ROAD The
Company under the control as tho Newf Ork Cena
and already earning surplus the interest on its bonded
debit The City OF Rochester Invested large amount In the
CAPITAL Of Company at par In order TO secure
shorter ne 70 supply and upwards Of one hundred
thousand per win this road TO the


CITY Of Rochester alone business is large
the road passes through thirty towns between Rochester and
salamanca in which eleven Touring mills besides
various other Tho bonds first mortgage
lien AZ The rate OF 100000 per upon Road and its
ecUipment earnings OF the road are now more than
doube required 10 the interest We have sod
dining the past month 100000 OF these Bonds
and now limited amount for sac at OO per cent atn
accrued interest


WALSTON Ia. BROWN & BRO
Year: 1878

The authorities of West Chester, Pa,
hau decided upon a plan which it is
supposed will rid that borough of the
tramp nuisance. The plan is to put every
tramp brought to the county prison at
woK breaking stone for the borough, the
scen of operation to be in the yard at
tacbed to the prison. The boulders will
be lauled into this enclosure and the
fore of workmen be given hammers
witt which to accomplish the labor.
They will be required to work the regu-
lar hours of the day, and the Borough
Council is to furnish a guard to be placed
overthem to see that no one shirks his
duty and that no one leaves until re-
leas,d by the prison authorities. Those
who do their work the best and most
Willingly will be discharged first, and
thos who will not work will be subject
ed tt very slim diet. 1t is proposed to
put his method to practical test at once
and # it prove successful will be con-
tinud as long as workmen are furnished
by he police officers.
Year: 1878

For the DELAWARE GAZETTE.


The negro Jim Jones, who was shot on
last Tuesday night, on the road from the
head of the Sassafras to Smyrna, and
about half mile from the line in Della
ware by the parties, Mrs. Dodson, Philip
Vincent and William Newcomb, who
brought said negro up to Delaware to
kill him did not succeed in the killing for
the reason, no doubt, the pistols were too
small for the balls that cut through the
skin to the skull and found said skull as
hard as an iron pot, and did not enter, but
glanced round and probably went out, as
[ understand one of the doctors who
have looked at the wound is Of that
opinion, and l think it no doubt fact,
for went out yesterday and had talk
with the negro. He is getting better. In
week he will be out and able to work
When Mrs. General Dodson again COM
mands her valiant troops to fire, better
weapons should he provided, for if these
two brave Marylanders had had Colts
revolvers, Jim Jones would have been
beyond giving information about the cow
ardly performance on last Tuesday night,
and if the family had taken the devil
himself into their confidence they could
not have made a greater scandal than
they have. | hope our law officers will
have the parties punished who come over
the line to cast disgrace on the State OF
Delaware. L. D.
Townsend, November %, 1873.


S.-The Herald talks about Black
bird Forest, the dense pine forest, when
there are no pines at all, and no heavy
bodies of timber; not even one hundred
acres of timber or woodland in one body
in but one OR two places in the hundred.
People here laugh at such bugbear fools,
for this forest is good farming land, and
thickly settled-no rocks or miry places.
Year: 1878

On Thanksgiving night the Walnut
Street Theatre Company, will produce
The American comedy "Our Boarding
House." This will be a thorough enjoy
able performance, and no greater attrac-
ion could be offered tor holiday.
Year: 1878

would violate their respective engage
msnts."


Two unarmed Russian war vessels,
from Cronstadt, passed clandestinely
through the sound into the Cattegst
during the night OF May 20. 1t was
supposed that their destination was this
country. The Pail Mall Gasettes Berlin
special correspondent says that a
great many pretended Russian emigrants
are passing through Germany. 1t is
believed that they are seamen, disguised,
on their way TO America to man cruisers
Ia surmise which may or may not be
correct.


The Pail Mall Gazette attempts to
limit the force OF the treaty rules BY
saying that they define the duties of a
neutral state, but that a state is not
neutral until war actually begins. The
neutrality law, however, is unmistakable,
and IL is clear that II the government has
reasonable ground to believe that any
ship is being fitted out, armed, or equip
ped in any port of the country for the
purpose Of cruising against power with
which we are at peace, 1t is bound to pre-
WIN lls cbCdpc. luc koNcIhhSht, vi
course, must be the judge of such grounds,
subject to future reclamations. The
purchase OF vessels, however, Is not such
a ground. During the late Russian aud
Turkish war, Turkey bought arms in the
United States and ships in England with
out complaint from Russia, and if Rus
sian agents are now buying vessel, in this
country. tits no violation OF our lsws. But
if belligerent power may lawfully buy
ships and arms within our jurisdiction,
and neither the ships nor the arms can
be detained separately, it is evident that
all that is necessary for the evasion OF
the law is to get them out separately,
and then to put the arms upon the ship
on the open sea.


Fortunately there can be no doubt
that the neutral duties Of the United
States, in case of war between Russia
and Great Britain, will be most honor
ably preserved, and that the law of 1918
and the rules of the treaty will be care
fully and impartially enforced. 1t Is,
however, obvious that, considering the
enormous extent of our coast and the
relations of national and state authority,
we have undertaken by the three rules
of the treaty a very difficult task, and it
Is a fair question whether, as the Pail
Mall Gazette says, the word neutral
in the treaty has not given Russia, In
the present case, a great advantage


Harper's Weekly.