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Year: 1879

Five more castaways from the BOrussia
have been brought to an English port. max
ing the whole Dumber known td have been
saved fifteen out of 234. No news has been
received, however. OF the vessel; and WI lie
there is still strange lack of conference be-
tween the various narratives of the sinking,
no reason appears for indulging the hope that
any large number of her passengers and crew
were saved.
Year: 1879

within few weeks. It would be
interesting to know to what cause this should
be ascribed-whether the minds OF street
urchins are infamed by the fash newspapers
or they are vindicatiDg the wisdom OF the
theologians who formulated the dogma OF IN
fant deprayity. One practical suggestion may
check the tendency of the young idea IN this
direction--that the pocketbook snatcher is
almost always caught.
Year: 1879

Pocketbook snatching has developed into
q trade, which has some very youthful ap-


prentices. The boy of eighteen whose career
IN this business was brought to a sudden stop
yesterday must have been veteran. Youths
OF scarcely more than half his age have
distinguished themselves by similar at
sempts in some of the crowded streets
Year: 1879

Professor Geikie, the well-known Scotch
geologist, has been leeturing to the students
of Edinburgh University upon his scientific
observations during recent visit to this coun-
try. His description of the geological forma-
tions in the Far West is of much interest even
10 the reader who has merely the conventional
knowledge of the subject His accounts of the
volcanic phenomena OF the Yellowstone region.
and of the light shed upon the early history
of the Great Salt Lake by the stratiication OF
the surrounding country, deserve especial at
tention.
Year: 1879

A CONVICT NAMED SANDFORD in the Forest
CO., Pa, jail, cary Saturday morning sat fire to
u Ine casing around the window OF his cell In the
hope OF burning hole through which he could
escape, but the flames spread so rapidly that he
was forced to call the keeper, and narrowly es-
caped roasting to death before the fire was ex-
Year: 1879

THE AMERICAN CRICKRTERS have reached OF.
tawa. The international match will commence
at 10 O'Clock this morning, and continue for two
days. The betting is slightly In favor of the
American team. Last evening the Ottawa
Field Battery Band gave promenade cOncert'on
Parliament Hill in honor OF the American team,
and this evening there will be a complimentary
excursion down the Ottawa
Year: 1879

But Ono Case This Mornlng-The


Terrible Racket They Raised at


Rollins.


There was but one case before His
Honor, the Mayor, at the police court
this morning. The central figure in
this was VIM. Rollins, colored, charged
with keeping disorderly house on
Nancy street. Mrs. Emma Burton be
ing the first witness called for, testi-
fed that the place was noisy, disagree
able and q general nuisance; crowds Of
men filed the place day and night,
playing cards, gambling, etc. As an
illustration of the effect the hilarity of
tho inmates had upon the neighbors
Mrs. B. stated that the only way her
son could keep his clock on the mantel-
piece was BY holding it there.


John Sheenan, the next witness, on
being asked what he knew about IT
answered, "nothing at all, they never
disturbed me-" John added that they
did cut up pretty lively once in while
but his dreams were never disturbed.


On account of the absence of several
other witnesses who had been subp9
ned but who officer Payne thought
"must have gone on an excursion"
HIS Honor decided to continue the case
until this evening, remarking that
while he was very anxious to break
these establishments up, he was loath
to convict man upon the testimony Of
one witness.
Year: 1879

Last night about eight O'Clock an in
teresting race took place on the Bran
DIVINE. The contest was between two
men at the oars in one boat and 4
single rover in the other. The contest
ants being James Cameron with Joseph
Hubbard and Joseph Cross. Tho latter
won by one minute. The race will be
rspeatsd at an early day.
Year: 1879

A large delegation of Wilmingtonians
will leave this city on the 5.45 train to
attend the Grand Annual Picnic and
Reunion of the Haymakers' Association
Of Chester, which will be given in the
woods near Upland. The visitors will
return about IL o'clock midnight.
Year: 1879

No ONE will object to tue house ap-
propriating to the family of the late
Observation-Disclosures the remainder
of the salary for the present term. As
to giving them the salary for the entire
term Of the 46th congress, however,
when the apparent vacancy will be
filed in ample time, 1t is rather exceed
ing bounds. A deceased members
family had better be pensioned heavily
at once.
Year: 1879

JERSEY CRY. June 23.-Charles Fra
zer, engineer, IS his locomotive was
rounding Franklin crossing in Passaic,
going west Wednesday evening, saw
seyen-year-old girl run upon the track in
front. Frazer whistied down brakes,
reversed his engine and with his fireman
leaned forward to watch the child. The
locomotive rushed upon her, and the
watchers expected to see her killed.
When escape seemed almost impossible,
the girl succeeded in lifting baby from
between the ties where it had been pre-
viously invisible from the locomotive,
and throwing it on the soft ground at
the side OF the track. She bounded
after it just in time to narrowly escape
the wheels; then she picked up the baby
and walked away.
Year: 1879

A curious instance of the recovery of
lost ring inside root of celery occurred
III Sweden. Mrs. B, in planting
celery in the garden in spring, and while
dibbling holes for the small plants with
her finger, unccnsciously dropped her
ring into one of the holes. A plant was
duly inserted into the hole, and doubt
less through the lost ring, and as the
root grew. the ring must have become
imbedded III its substance. The ring
had been given up for lost until the fol-
lowing winter, when tho mystery was
cleared by the ring turning up among
the soup at dinner in portion of the
celery root.
Year: 1879

Tom Hoods clever tale of "AIiss Kill
mansegge and her golden leg" is doubt
less pure fiction, but story, which is
almost the exact counterpart of it, comes
to us from Brussels, by way Of Australia
and the Melbourne Argus, apropos OF q
young lady with diamond eye, which,
having lost ber natural eye, she wore
instead OF a glass one. The truly bril-
liant orb sparkled so brightly and was so
suggestive of riches that Partisan adj
venturer married the lady on sight, took
her TO the gay city with him, and there
having s1uandered all her property, he
one night decamped, carrying off her
diamond eye, which she used to keen in
glass of water by her bedside. The
deserted wife is now suing the pawn
broker who advanced money on it to her
husband, Tor the recovery OF the Jewel /.
Year: 1879

4 little G year-old in Natchez, Miss.
had been listening to the remarks of a
legal-mlnded uncle in regard to the pros
pect of an indicted party getting clear
by getting continuance of his case
from time to time. Shortly after the
little fellow got into scrape, which Sc
cured for him promise from his mother
of little dose of slipper at an early pc
ROD. He anxiously sought the uncle
for legal advice on the subject, who
could only sympathize with him, but
with no prospect of relief. "Unele, -
said he, "don't you think you could get
mother to continue the case? If we
could get continuance | think I could
getoi " He got off.
Year: 1879

Candidate for Justice of the Peace. .s1
As am unable to call upon my friends in
person, desire to announce that am a candi-
date for justice of the peace for the Third.
Fourth and Sixth wards at the coming election.


E. BURNAND
Year: 1879

WITH the last weeks number Of the GA
zErTE, weended Volume XIV, and the labors
Of our first year as editor and publisher of the
paper. With this number we commence the
New Year, 1879, on the first, or New Years
Day, and Volume XIV. of "THE HAwAI1AS
GAZETTE"


In taking 4 retrospective glance over the
events which have transpired during the year
1878, just closed, We are both thankful and
gratifed that our health and life have been
spared, and our moral courage at a moderate
Temperature TO inspire US with hope for future
usefulness, as journalist. To assert that
the past year, throughout, was radient with
sunshine, would be going too far, for such
boon is not vouchsafed to mortals in any de-
partment Of human pursuits; therefore, We
viii confess that, like Its predecessor, it had
its vieisitudes, its sunshine and clouds: its
trials and adversities, with which We have
contended as best We could At best, the life
Of an editor of a newspaper is anything but
enviable He may toll from early morn to
dewey eve," aye, and often far into the silent
watches of the night, in the effort to get up
and publish an acceptable sheet, and still fall
far short Of attaining the chief desire Of his
heart. He may do his utmost to serve the
community where his lot may be cast, and
still there viii be those who Will carp and
find fault. But this is to be expected, and We
have lived long enough in this world to know
that such is the common lot Of the editors aud
publishers Of a newspaper, anywhere. We
knew this when we undertook the task one
year ago, and therefore accepted the situation
with all It's responsibilities and perple1ities: /:
and with Ike knowledge we enter upon the
disch2rging Of our duties for another year
We may have made mistakes during the past
yeAr, twho does not? but wherein We have
erred, we have the Consciousness in our own
breast, that they were errors Of the head, and
not Of the heart. We have tried to do right,
and 70 serve our patrons and adopted country,
=nd shall continue to do so in the future
I Having "neither friends to reward, nor
enemies to punish,' We enter upon the second
I year Of labor with " charity for all and malice
towards none" and feeling thus, we can,
with clear conscience, and in broad Catho-
lie spirit, greet one and all, without exception
or reservation, with the usual welcome Of A
HAPPY NV YEAR"


The year 1878 has been an eventfuI one
throughout the world During the twelve
months Just closed, the changes produced BY
the events of the year have been both signal
and startling. "Grim visaged war" with
al It's attendant horrors has changed the map
Of Europe; and with that change-the desti-
MES of men and nations. Pestilence and fam
Inc, earthquakes, cyclones, and siSe unusual
destruction Of human life and property, by
foods aud confagrations-have brought sor-
row and sadness to many millions Of the in
hsbitants OF the earth Clims tic changes have
been Of q startling character, over land and
seas; while the fierce caldron of political
Year: 1879

"A young scientist in the Smith-
sonian ms ltute, named Cushing.
has just made public tue diScov
cry OF the method employed in
making the stone and volcanic
glass arrow heads, daggers,
knives, axes, and razors of the
prehistoric races. Up to this time
this has been a great problem to
all antiquarian students, but no
theory has ever been advanced
showing such practical result as
MIR. Cashiug's. He started to solve
the difficulty by putting himself
in the identical position OF the
Aztec or mound building-with
out anything to work with except
sticks, various shaped stones such
as he could find on the bank of
any stream, and his hands, After
making some rude implements by
chipping one flint with another.
he discovered that no amount OF
chipping would produce surfaces
like the best of those he was try
Ing to initiate. He therefor. came
to the conclusion that there was
another way OF doing it, and by
chance tried pressure with the
point OF a stick, instead of chil,
ping by blows of IL stone when,
presto ! he found that he could
break stone, flint and opSidian in
any shape he chose. Shortly he
had made spearheads and daggers
that would cut like IA razor, AS
good as any he had before him,
which had been picked TIP from
all over the world. By little more
observation he foun.' that the
d" tlaking," which he calls his pro-
cess, on the old arrow head lett
grooves that all turned one way.
He produced like result by tuIn
ing his stick the easiest way from
right to left. He therefore, con-
cfndes that the prehistorics were
rlght.handed l,eOplelike ourselves.
This conclusion is reinforced by


the fact that occasionally an ar
row head is found that has tluckes
running from left to right show
ing a left ft-handed person. The i'm
portance OF the discovery is that
it shows the prehiStoricS to have


been able to do this thing with.
ont the use of iron or bronze, a


thing long doubted. These facts


We're given i'll paper which he


read before the Anthropological


Society of the Smithsonian at its


last meeting.
Year: 1879

The attitude of Gov. Garcelon toward the
proposition of Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill, is exactly
what was anticipated by those most familiar
with the mental condition and immediate
surroundings of that functionary. Though
the proposition fails Of its ostensibie purpose,
the settling Of the questions at issue by q
tribunal whose authority would command
general respect, it viii have a good effect in
conclusively demonstrating the deliberate
and continuing wichedness Of the conspiracy
to defraud the people Of Maine. If any in
telligent and well meaning citizen has had
up to the present time the slightest doubt as
to the bad faith Of Gov. Garcelon and his
confederates, that doubt is rudely dispelled
by the refusal to submit to the arbitrament
Of the tribunal provided by our constitution
and laws for exigencies like the present
The lines are sharply drawn, and no man
can innocently sustain the usurping govern
ment. Every man who approves the course
Of the executive knows that he is giving
sanction to deliberate and wilful wrong
doing. It is useful and helpful in every way
to have the line between right and wrong
distinctly defined SO that there can be no
honest differences Of opinion as to the ques-
tions of morals.
Year: 1879

ANOTHER unfortunate misconstruction of
Gov. Garcelon's language: The fusion
committee in this city. understood him to
say that he would be present at the meeting
last evening They were as much mistaken
as to the meaning Of his language as were
the Republicans who waited on him at
Augusta few weeks ago.
Year: 1879

GARcELoN's S faculty of being nisappre-
hended is not worn by use. He is now
loudly complaining that Gov Morrill's
letter did not reach him until after its pub
lication in the newspapers. That letter
was left in the Council chamber Saturday
afternoon. 1t did not appear in print until
Monday morning, Had the Governor been
attending to his duties az the Capitol instead
of cavorting over the State and stirring ur
bad feeling at fusion meetings, the letter
would have come to his hand many hours
before it made its acquaintance with type.
Year: 1879

Gov. GARcELoN says he is testing the
patience and sincerity of the people OF
Bangor Is that one of his constitutional
duties? Does he wish to ascertain how far
he can carry executive usurpation without
provoking violence? Il is a wicked expert
ment to make, and an honest and patriotic
man would not enter upon it.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and cOmmuni-
cations Tho name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publca-
ton but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
mumcations tnat are not used.
Year: 1879

Fellows Compound Syrup is composed of
Ingredients identical with those who con-
stitute Healthy Blood, Muscle aed Nerve
and Brain Substance, whilst life itself is
directly dependent upon some Of them.
Year: 1879

The frequency of the failure of let.
ters to reach their destinations, in
stances of which, we judge, have oc-
CURED in almost every bod IS experience
suggests suspicion as to whether dis
no nestly-disposed clerks in the postal
service may not have taken advantage
of the general confusion caused by the
recent orders condemning hundreds of
letters per day to ths dead-letter Office,


where three or four was former average,
to take from the mail many letters not
liable detention even under the strict
ruling 90 unwisely enforced without
warning to the public. Certainly bet.
ter cover for tampering could not have


been desired by the ill-disposed than
such a state of uncertainty as the cor.
respondence of the country has been
thrown into.
Year: 1879




When the nerves from long habit
have been accustomed to transmit their
messages from distinct parts, and are
suddenly cut off from them, they still
retain along their tracts the sympathetic
actions. Thus man who has had leg
amputated will feel distinctly, along the
course of the trunk of the nerve, sensa-
tions which no longer exist. The mind
also is influenced by this; and frequently
this peculiar direct nervous action can
only be allayed by thatwhich is negative
and reflex. A curious incident occurred
within my own experiences: An old
sailor suffered much from this; he re-
tanned his diseased foot too long, but at
last consented to amputation. When
he had his nervous pains, he always
called for hot water, into which he put
his wooden stump. If told of his folly
in supposing that such proceeding
could do any good, he would become
enraged, and his paroxysm of pain would
increase; but if gratified he took things
easy, and the process actually appeared
to do him good, though all must know
there could be no real benefit. Still
here 10 the effect Of mind over matter.
Year: 1879

New York to Charleston, striking the steamer
amidships and sinking her in five minutes.
Ferguson, the officer in charge, says that most
of the crew were on deck, but few of the
passengers could be seen. The latter had
hardly time to spring from their beds and re-


call their senses before the steamer went down,
and possibly some may not have been awakened
at ALL but it would have taken an extremely
sound sleeper to pass undisturbed through such
a shock as that. moment after the collision
a heavy cloud obscured the moon, and it became
so much darker that the crew of the Octavia
could only judge of the terror aboard the
Champion by the cries of women and children,
and the wild shouting and the wilder leaping
and running OF dozens of men. The rushing
sound of the water it forced itself in and
was weighing down the doomed vessel, when
ever it could be heard above the din upon the
deck, served to increase the awful excitement.
Just as the boat got alongside the Octavia there
was adespairing cry as if from below deck on
the doomed vessel, and the next instant, when
the rescued turned to lovk, the water had in
quilted the Champion.


THE obseques of General Joe Hooker, which
occurred at Cincinnati the 7th inst, were at


tended with much ceremony and ostentation.
The remains, encased in a handsome oak
casket, arrived at Cincinnati from New York
on the preceding day, and were Immediately
transferred to the Presbyterian Church on
Eighth street, where arrangements had been
made for their deposit over night. Prior to their
arrival, numerous meetings had been held by
the different organizations of the city with
view to perfecting the proper arrangements to
pay due respect to the honored dead. The pro-
cession formed at the church on Eighth street
at one O'Clock in the afternoon, consisting of
many prominent ex-officers of the war, old
veterans, military organizations, the officials of
the city, secret orders, etc., and after parading
the prominent streets of the city, the cortege
moved out Freeman street to Spring Grove
Cemetery. The casket in which were
the remains, incased in Theoretically


sealed zinc, which, of itself, weighed
four hundred pounds. gun carriage
was brought into requisition, as hearse was
not of sufficient strength to carry such weight.
Upon the wagon was a flag at half mast, as
were all those carried by the long procession.
A number of bands at intervals in the procession
kept up their sad requiems as the solemn column
moved along. The streets were packed on
| either side along the line of march by thou
sands ofpeople, perhaps many out of curiosity,
and yet many again out of respect who had
known the General at his home as citizen in
years gone by. From the time the line of
march was formed until the veteran was laid
| away to rest in the beautiful grounds of Spring
| Grove, the bells of the city kept up constant
tolling, and over the entire city, as if overhung
| by great pail, an expression of solemity
seemed to depict itself upon every countenance.
| Similar ceremonies to those at Cincinnati in


honor of the dead hero, were had in New York
| at the departure of the remains for the West.
Year: 1879

THERE is one style of importation
that ought to have the heaviest kind OF
duty laid on it, and no free trade man
in the world would have word to say
against it. This importation is the
bringing of the paupers to this country
from Europe. America is quite satisfied
with the number of paupers it already
possesses and has no sort of Oliver
Tw'st earnings for more. The Com
mi-sioners of Emmigration report that
the impo ration of paupers is constantly
increasing, and an effort will be made tc
stop the evil.
Year: 1879

THE new minister from the United
States of Colombia says that neither
the Panama nor the Nicarauguan route
for a canal has been sufficiently ex-
amined to justify a selection. He
thinks both feasible, though he favors
Panama. He thinks the engineer now
On the ground may discover a pass
through the mountains that will obviate
the necessity of tunnel.
Year: 1879

The acreage of land sown to wheat
this fall in the United States will be
fully one-third more than was put in
one year ago. With r. large crop of
wheat next year, there will he such a
plethora in the wheat market as was
never before known. Better raise more
cattle and less wheat.
Year: 1879

ANOTHER attempt to abolish the Jew
ish S ibbath, or rather, to unite it with
the Christian Sunday, so that the He
brews will not be at the disadvantage
of doing business but five instead of six
days in the week, will probably be made
at an approaching conference in London.
Nearly all the synagogues in Europe will
be represented at this meeting, an1 the
general opinion seems to be that this
change is only matter of time.
Year: 1879

A painter of celebrity in Paris, when
his first wife-he has now married an
other-was sick unto death, was informed
by her of her great fear of being buried
alive, and thereupon promised to make
an incision in her neck when he thought
her dead. He, however, failed to recol-
lect it. Some months after he was
dining with friend and paying court
to the lady he wished to make successor
to the deceased one. Out of brown
study, he suddenly exclaimed, By
Jove! l forgot to cut my wife's throat"
1t needed long explanations before the
other took him,
Year: 1879

A NEW HAVEN paper states that
nothing is known in that city of the
rumored offer of the English Mission
TO ex-President Woolsey, of Yale Col
lege, and his son, on being interviewed
on the subject, stated that, although his
father would appreciate the proffered
honor, he would in no case accept it.
Year: 1879

MExICANs who are dissatisfied with
the rule Of the dusky Diaz are organic
ing revolutionary movement, in
which heavy capitalists on the Pacific
Slope are to take part, the inducement
to the latter being certain privileges
and franchises which the would be gov
ernment undertakes to guarantee.
Specializing in wars and revolutions is
not an entirely new branch of American
trada
Year: 1879

THE streams of New Jersey are 10 wer
than they have been within the memory
Of the oldest inhabitant. Wells that
were never out before have gone dry,
and many farmers are compelled to haul
water for household purposes.
Year: 1879

IT In a matter of some wonderment
that Grant has rot been surfeited by
this continuous and endless ovation
business. One would think that lie
would get heartily sick seeing 80 many
people.
Year: 1879

The returns from the State are unusually
slow, but beyond doubt the entire Democratic
State ticket has been elected, and man say
that almost every county in the State has gone
Democratic, with an occasional exception.
Kinds County elects greater part of the
Greenback ticket. The complexion of the
Legislature will be unchanged.