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Year: 1878

Among the few survivors from the terri
BILE wreck of the Princess Alice are three
members of the same family-Mr. Thorpe,
of the old Kent Road, ayoung man II years
of age !; his sister, Miss Thorpe, who is a
year older than himself, and his brother, a
mere boy of nine. All three owe their
lives to the fact that they were able to swim.


When the terrible crash was heard and the
doomed vessel began to settle down, these
three children-for children they almost are
in years, if not in courage and presence of
mind-found themselves struggling in the
water. The boys, it would seem, were
somehow separated from their lister.
They were both picked UP by the same
boat, and were, when it helped them from
their periIous position, swimming side by
side. The sister, who was older than either,
achieved her own safety. She struck bold
ly out, and-in spite of the encumbrance of
her garments, the force of the tide, the
darkness of the night and the danger to
which she cannot but have been subjected
by the frantic efforts of those who were
struggling around her in the water to
catch and cling to any object within their
grasp-succeeded in reaching the bank. 1t
seems little short of miracle that, under
such circumstanc mere girl, not 2Oyears
of age, weighted with her heavy women's
dress, bewldered by the suddenness OF the
catastrophe, frightened-as she must have
been-by the terrible nature of the scene,
and helpless for want of her natural pro-
tectors, should have been able, single-head-
ed, to save her life. The feat is more
remarkable when we bear in mind the fact
that Miss Thorpe is rot-as. are some young
women of her age-a swimmer OF eminence.
That she can hold her own gallantly in the
water the result has sufficiently shown.
But she is merely an English girl who, like
her brothers, has been taught to swim.
She has never attempted the distance from
London Bridge to Greenwich ;she has never,
SO far as appears, competed for any prize ;
and. were it not for the fact that she owes
her life to her own skill and presence of
| mind, her ability to defy sharp current
ON cold, chill, dark night, would be no
matter of public record and yet the ex-
ploit she accomplished is, if we consider it,
almost marvellous. The tide was rushing
swiftly down the water aanst have been
cold and benumbing the night, as we know
was dark and foggy; there were round
about her all the horrors of the scene the


"last farewell" was rising from river to
sky in the water the strugglers were
graphing, in their last agony, each with


each-and yet through all these horrors


she fought her way with a calm, quiet con-


fidence which men who have stood under
fire, and confronted death in other and
aven more sudden shapes might well envy
her.-Londen Standard.
Year: 1878

A young fellow in San. Francisco sudden
ly snatched kiss from a lady friend, and
excused himself by saying that it was
temporary insanity that now and then came
upon him. When he arose to take his
leave the pitying damsel said to him: "If
You feel any more such fits coming on, you
had better come right here, where your in
trinity is known, and we will take care. of
vou -
Year: 1878

WHAT WAS expected by many to be
a trying crisis in the finances of the ma
ton is no crisis at all, ard the resump
ton of specie payments only show that
the universal ruin predicted by tn"
Greenbackers and the great bulk of the
Democracy in the recent elections, were
but idle vapor.ngs. Though resnmp-
ton has been looked forward to with
considerable interest, it has been So
faithfully and carefully guarded before
hand that the change will only be
nominal. For some time past gold has
been in circulation at par, and the peo
PIE knowing that fact are in no great
hurry to gobble up all they can get
hold Of. They would much rather for
the purposes of trade have greenbacks,
and this is the sensible view Of tn
case. Lock up the gold and say the
people shall not have it, they VIII
want it or else they want to know why
they cannot have it, but now that the
people can have gold if they want i
they prefer greenbacks or nationa
bank notes, with a reserved uuderstal
ding that they can have gold wheI
they want it. Thus resumption ha'
come on so quietly without flourish 4"
trumpets, that We hardly know tina
such a change is taking place.
Year: 1878

PRINCESS ALICE's death conveys a
warning which should not be forgotten
The physicians who have investigated
the cause of the peculiar virulence Of
the diptheria which attacked her fami-
ly with such fatal results have agreed
that the rapid spread of the infection
was entirely due to imprudent kissing.
A child with a sore throat ought not to
be permitted to kiss any Of its compan-
ions.
Year: 1878

A lady of Michigan has been very
successful in obtaining two flowers in
stead of one from every Towering sheath
of the calla lily. Her method is as fol
lows; As soon as the joint flower is cut
or begins to wither, pull the stalk down
through the open sheath clear to the
bottom. At the bottom will be found
standing, close to the stalk, another
bud, inclosed in a delicate covering.
Cut the old stalk away as close as pos
sible without injuring the bud, and if it
has net been kept back too long, it viii
grow very quickly.
Year: 1878

The Easton, (Pa.) Free Press
vouohes for the truth of the follow
ing: 1--WE don't want a Moore
township girl for a lung-tester. Al
a singing school up there the other
night a young man was Dragging
about the strength Of his lungs and
invited girl in the company to hit
him in the breast. She said she
was left-handed; had been washing
that day and WAS tired. and didn't
feel very active, but at his urgent
request she let 60 at him. Whsn
his friends went to pick him up he
said he thought he would die easier
lying down. He lost all recOIlec-
tion of having any lungs, but the
young woman csnseled hin by ad-
mitLiHg that she didn't hit him as
hard as she might have done, be
cause she rather liked him."
Year: 1878

The most remarkable statement
was, as Senator Beck declared,
carefully and truhfully prepared :"
The proof is in the ofiial records.


1T will satisfy the country" said
the senator, land ought TO satisfy
tho bondholders and their advocates,
that they ought not TO insult a suf-
ering people whose hard earnings
have gone to enrich them by any
complaint of want of good faith to
them in the effect we are making to
save the country from bankruptcy.


One thousand million of profits,
and yet the bondholders cry for
more! Let workingmen see in this
statement, the truth Of which is be
yond question. the main cause OF
the sutferings which they are now
enduring. Let PROSTATE and help
less industry understand that this
is the system which has made it the
prop of King ShylOck's throne, and
which still continues to wiring from
it, exhausted as it is, $700,000,0O0
annual tribute. Let greenback men
arm themselves with such facts and
figures as are given above, and SO be
prepared to overthrow King Shylock,
raise industry to iFs feet once more.
and bring back the prosperity and
happiness that were ours ere yet the
bonds that bind US had begun to
tighten On us and bear us down to
vassalage.
Year: 1878

l have made another depression / find,
but do not think | need apologize for it
Not so much Of good has ever been said
concerning Lewis r. Redmond that need
silence the public voice of his praise on
this the one single occasion of his justifca-
ton. have written down in these letters
every word which he has said against him
self in speaking Of his own misdceds to me-


| declare that the story was not told
boastlneIy or cvasiVeiy-but quietly and os
Year: 1878

ALBANY, June 17.-At a meeting Of the
Special Committee of the Senate the Revision OF the
Statutes held this daY-present Senators Samuel s.
Edcl Edwin Hicks and Charles Hughes, full commit
teeon motion Of Senator Hicks the following resolution
was passed unanimously:


Resoire-FIst That I'm the opinion Of this committee
II he not exuedent that code OF civil procedure be
enacted but Is expedient that the Code OF Civil Pro
cedure now in force sought TO be amended by the
Legislature OF the session which has Just closed be
tained with such further amendments II any, In mat
ters OF detail as may appear 10 be necessary
careful examination and review thereof or as the result
OF the practical experience OF the bench and bar there
under.


See6ndIy-That I'm the opinion Of the committee the
said Code of Civil Procedure should be completed that
IN will contain the entire revised legislation OF the State
upon the subject OF procedure IN civil causes and there.
upOn that the former statutes upon that subject should
be repealed; for Which purpose this committee viii re-
mort at the next session OF the Legislature bill contain
ING the nine supplementary chapters reported 10 the
Teosature at the session which has just closed by the
Commissioners 20 revise the statutes with snch amend.
mens as may be appear 20 be expedent upon careful
examination and review thereof


TLjrdil-That for the purpose of assisting this CON-
nnittee In preparing such bills as may be necessary
carry out the objects above stated the members Of the
bench and the bar Of the State are requested TO furnish
10 any member Of this committee any suggestions which
may occur to them amendments either 10 the thirteen
chapters of the Code OF Civil Procedure now In force
to the nine chapters proposed to be addea thereto
Year: 1878

She was standing Just beyond the
desk railing leaning against a cell door,
and was talking confidentially to one
of the keepers. She is hunchbacked
and has that weird interest and de-
formed shrew.1ness which always at
tach TO these curious little people. He
eyes are black and beautiful, sparklin
with animation, and, when contrasted
with the weazened old-young face ,sug-
gest jewels set in parchment. The
bent figure does not measure in height
more than three feet. The hands are
long, thin, and deeply veined With blue
streaks. On her head she wore jaunty
hat of straw, with bright scarlet rib
bon, that seemed a blaze of color amid
the mucky, neutral tints Of the place.
Those who delight in gray should visit
the Tombs; the place where every
thing is gray save the prisoners; they
are blue. This little girl is sixteen
years of age, and is the sister of thief.
He has served two terms on the Island,
and is now in the fourth tier of the
Tombs awaiting trial in default of one
thousand dollars bail for larceny from
three persons. Through thick and thin
the tiny, deformed sister has clung to
him, has refused to believe i'm his guilt,
has considered him the victim of plots,
and was on visit of coincidence and
encouragement to her brother when
the writer saw her. She had just come
down from the fourth tier and was hav-
ing lively chat with the keeper. 1t
would be poetic art to paint this little
girl as a radiant angel striving to ward
off with her wings the blow aimed at
her brother by Justice, but strong as is
the temptation, we cannot succumb to
it. She is an angel in sisterly devo-
ton. but, while believing that her bro
ther is individually guiltless of all the
crimes with which he is charged, she
does not seem to particularly dcprecate
the system of robbery in the abstract.
She is concert angel, and one who,
through long residence in the Sixth
ward has become imbued with its prin-
ciples and its slang.


"Are you going down to the District
Attorneys office to see any one about
Jimmy Z" was asked her.


The little face was upturned sarcasti-
cally to the questioner and the reply
came:


"No; what do you take me for? 1t
would need ''iinf'' to get inside the
door.'


After the reporter had been intro
duced he questioned this queer Tombs
visitor:


"Do you come here often?"
"Well, yes. You see Jimmy gets
Year: 1878

The great canal of China is likely to
share the fate of the great wall. This
waterway was constructed by kublaI
Khan and his successors of the Kuen
race, and is six hundred miles in length.
There are ten thousand flat-bOttomed
boats on this canal. and these are used
in the transportation of grain. The
Echo states that this great waterway is
an enormous ''white elephant" as it
costs an enormous amount every year
for repairs, the appropriations there, as
elsewhere, not being entirely devoted
for the purpose fOrwhich theyare meant.
Junks are delayed every month while
channels are being dug for their passage.
This year, for the first time since the
construction Of the canal. the grain
from Gankin, with the consent of the
government, has been forwarded by sea
and this fact has impelled the Pekin
authorities to consider the expediency
of abandoning the canal as a aeommercial
highway.
Year: 1878

1 love patch of garden ground.


Well shaded from the cold:
Where crocuses come up in spring,


And look as bright as gold
A myrtle on the window sill,


Fresh in its early bloom;
just where the morning sunshine steals,


Into the pleasant room
have hnnet, quaint and small,


Thst MARBLES soft and low.
In every changing rhapsody


The music seems to now,
often listen to his voice,


So artless and so CAV;
I'LL fancy brings back to nv view


The hedge rows by the way.
/ have a kitten, black and white


That CANDLES round the hearth,
And plsvs most strsn e and curious pranks
Amid its reckless mirth
Now climbing up the table foot,


Now jumping on chair,
Vow peeping through the window blinds,
In unscDle1 everywhere
have q wife. whose tender love


Has ever been the same,
With all the care and watchfulness
That households duties claim,
An earnest nature full OF hope.


With heart they know no cnsnge,
Whom naught but death can part from me,
Whom Eothing can estrange-
have a group Of children, too,


That often round me stand.
As with kind and earnest love


1 take them by the hand
So gentle and obedient


They need no iron sway.
No birchen rod to keep them down,
Or guide them on the way.
I've long been bless'd with health and
Ny daily work to do; [strength
And with a cheerful heart still
Ny onward course pursue.
I'm ready for each srduous task,
Each trial that may come;
Then tell me truly, is it not.


A happy workmsn's homs-
Year: 1878

4 personal letter from Dele
gate Jacobs, expresses the opin-
ion that there is no hope for the
passage of an Enabling Act
for Washington Territory to or
ganize a State Government at
present, which clearly indicates
Il prevailing sentiment in the
present Congress adverse to cur
admission into the Union as a
State upon the present basis of
population, which the meager
vote ut the late election will
materially strengthen. 1t is too
late now, however, to remedy
the criminal folly of our last
Territorial! Legislature, not only
in the details of the act provid-
ing for a Convention, but in ap-
pointing q special election for
the choice Of delegates, distrib-
uted in such manner as to pre-
sent the. greatest obstacle to q
concert Of action in their selec-
tion; making it necessary to
convene fifteen conventions for
each party-thirty in ALTO
nominate candidates for q body
composed Of only fifteen mcm-
bers. 1t is possible, though, for
the Convention to form Con
stitutien which may be entirely
acceptible to majority of the
people who have already ex-
pressed their desire for Il State
government, and being present
ed for ratification or rejection at
the ensuing general election,
such a vote upon the question
can be shown as may induce the
next Congress to regard our
application in a more favorable
view. We want q State gov
ernment; that the people have
anequivocally declared; and any
opposition calculated TO defeat
that object, or to delay its con
summation, would be factiops
and unreaSonah BILE.
Year: 1878

slow torture, the mothers who
gave them life and loves them
better than her own life. The
amount of agony inflicted upon
pure mothers by the thoughtless
selfishness of their sons and
daughters, is the saddest phase
of our present social life.
Year: 1878

Never believe, much less propagate,
an ill report of a neighbor without good
evidence of its truth; never listen to en-
inf; nous story handed to yor by man
who Is inimical to the person DETAINED.
or who is himself apt to defame his
neighbors, or who is went to SOW
discord among brethren and excite dis
turbance in society. Never utter the
evil which you know or suspect OF
another, till you have an opportunity
to expostulate with him. Never speak
evil of another while yon arc under the
influence of envy and malevolence, but
wait till your spirits are cooled down.
that you may better judge whether to
utter or suppress the matter.
Year: 1878

Cured in this town yesterday
brings up the subject of the
rights Of the press, the abuse of
its privileges and the remedy
therefor. In the case of an in
dictment Of an editor for as false
and malicious a libel as was ever
uttered, it was decided by the
Court that there is no law in
this Territory for the punish
ment Of that most Infamous Of
crimes. What, then, are men to
DO whose personal character, So
cial relations and domestic pri-
vacies are invaded and held up
to public odium through the
public prints? Ben. Franklin,
who had the reputation Of being
a peaceable man and a law abid-
ing citizen, said that the only
proper remedy for newspaper
defamation Was the use Of the
bludgoon. In this Territory.
where there is no punishment
provided by law for the mali
cious slanderer, an assault with
a dangerous weapon is q peni-
entiary offence. AS the Irish
man sad upon the paved streets
in New York: at is a mean
country, wl.o.~ the dogs run
loose and the stones are fastened
down


In the ease first above alluded
to, the publisher of a small ad-
vertising sheet. gratuitously cir
cplated, has from time to time
lampooned certain young ladies
OF high social position an ire
proachable character, upon the
preteXt that they were putting
OF airs and assuming social su-
periority; which certainly was
no good reason for assailin@
them through the public prints
in q manner highly offensive to
feminine modesty and mortify-
ing to their friends. One of our
leading citizens, a married man
and a friend Of the young la
dies, warned the publisher some
time ago that repetition of the
offence would be punished. The
warning was UNDECIDED and the
natural consequence followed in
an assault which, though un-
lawful, had the sympathies of
all fathers and brothers who re-
spect the dccencles and propri
etles of social life. The pub
Usher Of these scurrilous arti-
cles is no worse than hundreds
Of others in the community, who
regard themselves and are re-
garded by others as respectable;
he but reflected a very popular
sentiment delighting in scandal,
and made a demand for his pa
per. But private citizens may
indulge with impunity what in
a publisher would be an outrage
to public decency, because his
opportunities for mischief are SO
much greater than any others.
His responsibilities should be
made commensurate with his
opportunities. There is no in
strumentality that has a greater
power to corrupt and demoral-
lze society than a licentious
press, and no class should be
held to more strict accounta-
bility for their acts than pub
fishers Of newspapers. The pri-
vate acts of individuals, which
are neither lawless nor offensive
to public morals, are not amena-1
bic to public censure, and
the newspaper publisher who
drags purely social matters
before the public for the purpose
Of slurring private character,
deserves to be dubbed, though
the punishment may be unlaw-
full. AS to the primary cause Of
the present difficulty, we know
nothing and care nothing. We
but speak on general principles.
If two or three young girls act
Year: 1878

LET TER FROM BISHOP MCCosKREY.-- -
The Times representative learned that a
letter had been received by friend in
this city from the ex-bishop of Michi-
gan. There is no breach of confidence
in saying that in this letter Bishop Nc
Coskrey expresses his purpose to return
at the earliest moment that his physical
condition will permit. and says: Il feel
thankful that the people over whom I
was placed for So many years are ready
to do justice TO their old bishop. A
more cruel and wicked SANDER was
never circulated against man. God be
praised that he kept me pure i'll youth
and thu ough my life. and the conscious>
ness of this sustainS me under this Sc
we're trial. Niles, Mich. special to Times
Year: 1878

JUsT.EIED.-The delay by the
Department III applying the APP
preparation for the building Of a
lighthouse to that purpose, has
been the cause of much COM
plant against Delegate Jacobs
for not attending to the matter.
The letter from the Naval Sec
retary to the Secretary of the
Treasury, which We publish to-
day, fully exonerates Judge ia
cobs from any such blame; and
we have no doubt that a full
knowledge Of the facts, in many
other eases in which censure has
been cast upon our Delegate


would fully vindicate the zeal
and faithfulness Of his services.
Year: 1878

In moment Of uncommon frankness
the editor of the Corning Journal says
"When the writer was young man he
attended the sociables given by the
Young Ladies' Sowing Society Of the
Presbyterian Church; the funds that
were raised by the weekly contributions
Of the young men present. and the earns
ings Of the young ladies, aided in pur-
chasing the bell now in use One even
ing, to diversity proceedings and in
crease the fund, he circulated oslips Of
paper around the room askipg each lady
to signdler name. (ostensiSly to compare
the handwriting. which was promptly
done without any idea Of the object.
Then he wrote above each signature o
promise to pay q specified number of
kisses onodemand,s and then sold the
slips at auction. They yielded quite a
sum. The prices varied considerably,
as the number Of kisses and the sweet
ness and attractiveness OF tho signers
gave extraordinary value to those due
bills. The occasion was one of hilari-
GUS enjoyment. Enos Barnes, or any
other inveterate editorial enemy OF the
writer, may find in this reminiscepce
material for Q half column of caustic
commpnt - O
Year: 1878

was therefore ordered that every minis
tar should piye notice In his church that
what woman soever should use any
word or speech. tending to q contract Of
marriage, to several persons at one
time. although not precise and legal
vet so as might entangle or breed
scruple in their consciences, should, for
such often 10. either undergo corporeal
correction. or be punished by fine, or
otherwise according to the quality Of
the person 80 offending.
Year: 1878

Burke, in his history of Virginia.
says: II find that the Governor was
obliged soon after to issue proclama-
tion forbidding women to contract
themselves to two several men at one
time. For women being yet scarce. and
much in request, this offense was be-


coming very common; whereby great
disquiet arose between parties and no
small trouble to the government, It
Year: 1878

A Paris gentleman, M. Duval, has dis
covered q new way to get rid Of a
troublesome wife. She was fond Of
spirits and society, and he had endured
her presence as long asehe felt he was
in honor bound to do. So he rubbed
her all over with petroleum and then
set fire to the oil. At IL o'clock In the
morning he burst into neighbours
room to tell how ehis wife had just
burned herself and how he had scorched
his hands in attemptingsto put out the
flames. The neighbor followed him TO
the scene Of these experiments in oil
and found the woman lying on the floor
senseless, but still breathing. After q
little she regained her consciousness
sufficiently to speak, and with her last
breath she charged her husband with
having murdered her. M. Duval, on
being arrested, declared that his wife
was in delirium when she accused him,
but the physicians insist that she had
her full senses, From first to last the
story is peculiarly French, and the re-
suit Of the trial doubtless will be a fit
ting sequel to it; the murderer will be
sent to prison for few months.
Year: 1878

A person that was looking at house the
rent. well, look at the neighborhood, re-
piled the woman, ''you can borrow fiat-irons
next door, coffee and tea across the street,
-four and sugar on the corner, and there's a
big pile of wood belonging to the school-house
right across the alley.''
Year: 1878

We are wing to receive twenty or
thirty cords of wood in payment OF
inscriptions for the EXCHANGE, and
we would be gad to receive it during
the summer months. Bring it in
whie the roads are good, ana before
cotton picking time comes.