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Year: 1878

her. Willie Edwin is immensely funny
when is he not l should pike to know Miss
Roseau sings beaut fully, Miss Elmore is as
cunning Babe as Edwin is a mischeivous
one, Miss Meryille is fascinating little Prince,
and Miss Marie Williams most bewitching
dad man." As far rs dramatic ability goes,
Miss Williams ranks next to Edouin. She
makes great deal of her part and it is abso-
lutely tho best of any of the ladies' parts.
She came here as a chorus singer with Soldene,
and has risen to her present position from
pure merit


The run of "The Exiles' is unprecedented
1t is on its sixth week, and the demand for
seats has been greater this week than at any
time. John Mccullough was to open at the
Boston the lth of February, but the manage
ment are trying to induce him to change his
date so that they need not remove the play.
1t is probable that he will accede TO their re-
quest, as he is not only n right good fellow,
but a manager himself, who understands what
is lost in taking off n successful play in the
middle Of run. Talking of long runs,
think we've never had such an enthusiasm for
play as the English people have for "Our
Boys That pretty comedy has run sixteen
consecutive months in London


SALLIE JoY WHITE.
Year: 1878

Nor SAINT.-There is n curious story told
of st. Philip Neri, who was commissioned by
the Pope to inquire into the truth of certain
miracles alleged to have been worked by a
nun. st. Philip employed very simple test.
He resolved to ascertain whether the nun had
true humility, which, as one of the cardinal
virtues must be possessed by any one before
he or she can receive the gift of performing
pair of dirty boots on, he pulled them OFF
threw them at her head aud ordered her to
clean them. Vehement and shrilly expressed
was the indignation of the lady whereat ST.
Philipreported to his Holiness that a new saint
had not arisen to edify the Church.-IAs
GO,NhM MagasiRe
Year: 1878

A CHILD's LAUGH.-Colonel Ingersoll in n
recent lecture made the following beautiful
apOstrophe to a childs laugh The laugh of
a child will make the holiest day more sacred
still. Strike with hand of fire, o weird mu-
scian thy harp strung with Apollo's golden
hair Fill the vast cathedral aisle with sym
phonies sweet and dim, deft TOUGHER of the or
gan keys Blow, bugler, blow, until thy sill
yer notes do touch and kiss the moonlit
waves, charming the wandering lovers on the
vine clad hills but know your sweetest strains
are discords all compared with childhood's
happy laugh-the laugh that fills the eyes
with light and dimples every cheek with JOY
o ripping river of laughter thou art the
blessed boundary line between the beast and
man, and every wayward wave of thine doth
drown some fretful fend of care :"
Year: 1878

The Senate, on the l4th, by vote Of %
to %, sustained the point Of order raised by
Senator Eimunds, that the Brazilian subsidy
could not be Incorporated in the postotice
appropriation bill without violating rule %,
which declares that no amendmen. which
proposes general legislation can be received
to general appropriation bill. Daring the
debate, controversy arose between 81 natois
Blaine and Eimunds as to the proper IL
depreciation of the Senate rules bearing upon
the subject. As reported, Senator EdmuuGs
said that he had no doubt the Senator from
Maine was inclined to interpret the rules in
favor of his inclnatiOns, which. Judging from
his speech, were no doubt in favor Ct the
passage of this amendment. Blaine replied
with much warmth that the Senator from
Vermont put on lofty airs and undertook to
read him a lecture on being in favor of such
legislation The Senator had no right to
assert because he /Blaine) was on one side
of point of order and the Senator on the
other, that he was in favor of this subsidy
No one, he said, had moved to place more
general legislation on appropriation bills
than the Vermont Senator. lie declared
that he had watched Congressional legsla-
tion pretty closely for the past sixteen years,
and if called upon to say where in his opin-
ion there was Il statesman given 10 such
legislation he should be compelled to point
his finger at his friend from Vermont and say:
Thou art the man. Senator Edmunds said
in reply that when the Senator from Maine
came to look at the remarks he mad just con-
cluded, in the Record tomorrow, if he did
not change them, as he (EdmundS) had no
idea he would, he would see that what had
been SAID regarding the Maine Senator did
not Justify the Incorporate speech which
had been made in reply. Senator Edmunds
said that when il was customary under the
rules to attach general legislation 10 such
bills he had done so for the purpose OF get
ting some wise and needed legislation
through Congress but since the change OF
the rule he had opposed attaching any new
legislation to appropriation bills Blaine
concluded by saying that the only difference
between them was the construction they
placed upon the rule.
Year: 1878

The passage of the new city debt bill is
hoped for with remarkable agreement by
nearly all parties. There must be about
four and halt million added to next
years city taxes to pay oil bonds idll-
ing due if this bill does not pass. It, prOvis-
ion is to appropriate the surplus of the sink
ing fund toward paying off this amount, and
similar ones as they fall due. Any town
ship in the Country can sympathize with the
big village over the Prospect OF its taxes in
creased by four million debt, with the
money to pay it lying idle.


The temperance people are making
Il bold and steadla>t fight against any
compromise with the liquor interest
in shape OF excise or license bills. Tie
prospect of such bills has always interiered
with the enforcement of the existing striu-
gent laws, and We mean to give these 4 iail
trial before making compromise with IN
temperance. Such II reSolute attitude Is
necessary, when n gin-mill is the standard
corner ornament of village and city block
alike. Coffee would be public blne wert
it drank to the extent and at the expense
that whiskey is, to say nothing OF the quar-
relsomeness and the ruin which result iron
the latter.
Year: 1878

AS a rule poor pec,le have an inSa-
liable desire for pomp and pageanery at
funerals, and sometimes almost inn
poyerish themselves in order to raise
the funds for a handsome g turnout -
consequently when a member of a
family dies, all available funds are ex-
pended in laying the body in state, and
in an impressive cortege. The matter
of carriages is not vexatious to the
momners, as the occupants are ex-
pected to contribute their suotal 10 the
! expense OF @onNeyart -. IN ilege
eagerly embraced by hundredN who
regard funeral procession in tlieN light
of gala parade. But the living in state.
to he imposing, is a costly luxury, par
ticularly with the impecunious CON
sequently, as a corpse is an object of
curious inspection by admiring friends,
the beauty of the exhibition can be
secured at a smaller expense through
the hire Of a caslset than through its
purchase outright.


In an umdertaker's window, in New
York, can be seen coffin of the most
costly fabrication, lined with rich satin,
and otherwise adorned magnificently.
A fac simile Of this $500 casket can fe
hired of its exhibitor, who supplies an
exquisite lining in accordance with the
rules of the trade, pink for brunette,
light blue for a blonde, and so on, and
into the loaned receptacle places the
corpse until the hour of burial arrives.
when the inside frame of the coffin is
slipped out and the deceased transferred
to a cheap, stained wood imitation of
the costly outer casket and " planted
without the imposture being detected.
At present a handsome external case
demands rental of 50 a-day, and as the
body is generally laid OUT for three
days, this with the incidentals, consti,
tute a good source of revenue.
Year: 1878

Dr. Field, an English physician, when
visiting his patients afflicted with diph


liberia, took nothing with him but quill
and powdered sulphur He put tea
spoonful of the sulphur IN a wine glass
of water, and stirred it with his finger
until thoroughly mixed. He then used
it as gargle, and in ten minutes his pa
tient was out Of danger. The eargle was
also swallowed, not spit out. When the
disease was so far advanced thai the pa
tient could not use the gargle, he blsw
Year: 1878

The book containing the applications
for space in the American section of the
Paris Exposition is closed, and within a
week all exhibitors to whom space has
been granted will be informed by mail
of the amount of room given them. BY
States the number of applications is
fo1Iowc
Year: 1878

1t is rumored in Japan that no'ifica-
ton will shortly be issued ordering the
the ado ction OF the foreign style OF cloth
ing by all officials OF Imperial or Gov
ernment appointment In daijO k!ya's and
Department of the Imperial Household
1t is likely that this order viii also be
extended to all Government depart
ments
Year: 1878

some dry sulphur through the quill into
the throat, and, when the fungus had
shrunk, used the gargle. Or, previous
to using the gargle, he put some sui phur
on a live coal, and made the patient in
hale the vapor.
Year: 1878

THE interview with President HAYES
recently printed in the news columns OF
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN regarding the
Southern situation has caused great deal
of anxiety in the ranks of the Opposition.
Repeated attempts have been made to OBJ
tain from the President contradiction OF
the assertions embraced therein that the
laws will be vigorously executed for the
purpose Of Furnishing the bull-dozers In
Louisiana and South Carolina, especially,
who were instrumental In transforming Re-
publican majorities into Democratic vic
tories; but they have failed. The Admin
istration is In no way responsible for any
publication that may be made regarding its
future policy, for the President, with a cir
cumspection which is satisfactory to him.
self, invariably refuses to be interviewed In
formal way by any representative Of the
press. It is nevertheless true that the state
ments accredited to him in that publication
were trustworthy. The events of the com.
ing few weeks will bear them out.
Year: 1878

THE Democratic idea Of a nom partisan
Administration includes a certainty that
Democratic corruptionists and assassins
shall escape punishment for their crimes
hence the prevalent Democratic assertion
that the present Administration is no longer
non-partisan.
Year: 1878

WHETHER the experiment" failed or not
meaning the Southern policy of the Adj
ministration-or whether the President is
reluctantly compelled to admit his disap.
pointment at the result of that experiment,
the end is all the same, Somebody will be
punished for the bloody violations Of the
law In the South, whereby the integrity OIL
American citizenship has been violated.
Year: 1878

THE apostles of the heresy Of fat!sm
need not be disappointed by the results OF
the recent elections. They can find couso-
laton in their own elastic creed All they
need do is to attach tags TO the coat.tails Of
their defeated candidates, saying This is
"a Congressman" and they will pass as
Congressman. If they don't believe it they
arc not true tiatists
Year: 1878

Of their Southern brethren. GRANT and
SETTLE would make q strong ticket in the
South, where tho name Of the former is
synonymous with everything that Is truly


Republican, and the latter Is known as q
native North Carolinian and an ex-Confed-
crate, whose Republicanism Is undoubted.
Year: 1878

THE Baltimore Gazette has struck the
strongest point in the Democratic game. 1t
thinks If the Democracy stands together"
and keep alive the prejudices against car
pet-baggers and the negro as a factor In pol
itics, it will beat the Radicals on this issue
"in 1880" If II can make "this Issue"
stick, the Gazette may do something in that
way; but 1t will find the Republican party
fighting the battle of 1880 on much higher
field than this. It will contend for the
rights of citizenship and for the integrity of
the Constitution and the Government under
the Democratic record and II the negro
and the carpet-bagger are drawn into the
contest at all, It will be by Democratic
hands. The issues of 1890 have been mate :
rally pointed by the Democrats In their
mockeries of the principles of right and
justice in the late Southern elections
Year: 1878

An alarm of FIRE, was sounded about II
o'clock this morning from Box 1853, which
called relay of engines to the. four-story
brick house, No So Baum street The
building is owned by Mrs Romer. On the
ground floor is grocery kept by J. Fl.
G1ieme The rest of the building is used
for dwelling purposes. Back of the brick
is two-story frame. The fire originated in
this part, in room occupied by a family
who had just moved in yesterday The fire
completely gutted the frame building and
also did considerable damage to the roof
and attic of the brick house. The loss will
probably reach the sum of 5000, which is
fully insured. The origin of the fire is not
known.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the STAR.


RICHMOND, VA, March 15.-In the United
States Circuit Court to-day Judge Hughes
rendered decision in the Arlington case


<taning the plaintiffs demurrer to the
Mtorney General S. suggestion that because
the United StatesSWas indirectly a defend
ant to the suit the%purt had no jurisdiction
to Try it. The ri4hg is that if a sovereign
Power intervenes in suit in which it is
not defendant on record with the objec-
ton that it can not be sued the Court will
look into the grounds of it's right to inter
yene, and that accordingly the Government
in this suit must stand upon the strength OF
the title, and not upon its exemption from
Year: 1878

The Sixth Ward voters of this party meet
tonight at o'clock, at No. 2GO Walnut
street, for organization and election Of dele
gates.


The Ninth Ward meet for the same par
pose at No, "A West Court street, at O'Clock
tonight.


The Eighteenth and Nineteenth also meet; j;
place Of meeting not stated.
Year: 1878

The Committee on Education and Labor
has decided to report back the bill for the
sale Of the public lands and division among
the States for educational purposes, on the
basis of illiteracy, with an amendment
setting apart one-fourth for the Agricultural
Colleges, according to the request Of the
late Agricultural Convention.
Year: 1878

Yesterday morning while
Messers. Hamilton Martin and John Bow
ers. who were returning from a fishing ex-
chatting in the baggage-car OF the mail
train on the York River road, their feet eX-
tending out Of the side door Of the car, they
struck cattle-guard on the side of the road
and both gentlemen were slightly injured.
Year: 1878

disposed to poke their fun at him that he
would be hereto eat his Thanksgiving din;
ner, and he Is going to do it. He stopped
in here for coal on his way down to Buf-
falo, night before last, having been only
thirteen days on the trip from here to Du.
luth and return.
Year: 1878

BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO TIE DAILY NEELLIeENoER
GENERAL NEWS.



THE STORM KING AT WORK.
Terrific Cyclones West and South.
Death and Destruction Mark their


Pathway.
Year: 1878

The Beautiful. What is the Beautiful
| Song has sung it, and volumes have been


written on it then what is it All nature


answers, all is beautiful. What of Gods


works do not speak OF beauty? Beauty is
alone, it is an element of everything. of


every impression by which our senses
| acquaint US with the external world. We


see beauty in the Flora of spring we OBJ
serve it in the morning sun; and behold


its grandeur in the stellar brilliancy of the


evening sky; we hear it in the summer


rain we feel its sublinity in the roaring
cataract, and are awed by it in the BOOM
| ing thunder.


We drink beauty at the crystal fount;
| its fragrance we breathe in the summer
| air, and reason contemplates it in every
| thing, everywhere. as the master element
of the sublime mechanism of Gods great
| system of nature. But where and i'm what


is beauty truest, purest and greatest? All


must answer with one voice, in man, in


the image of God Himself.


| That is most beautiful which is best fit
ted to most favorably impress US by
| our every sense, so that the highest attri-
| butes of beauty are found in man, and the
attributes most valuable and impressive
| in man are the social.


The human mind is mirror, full re-
| fleeing the beauty of all this world of Or
| der; and mans own matchless form


towers above all else in nature. in SYM


metrical beauty. the most perfect OF all
Gods works. And love. gathering all


these qualities, and uniting them in their


resistable phalanx, admiration and friend


ship. conquers and subdues the heart and
seiZes the sonl, the whole being captive.


Nowhere else does beauty, after seizing
| the heart, hold it prisoner for life.
| All have had, or have pictured to the


minds eye, their beau ideal OF beauty, but


it is always human.


1t may be Highland Mary, Carrie
| Tolman, ur Lost Lenore, but those eyes


are still seen, they still touch the heart,
| and those features still seem perfection,


and every movement seems still to speak


of love, OF beauty.
Year: 1878

The nationals are true men and they
will make their mark on the Legislation
of Congress in favor of the people and Of
their country. They are not the descend
ants Of the foreign tories. They are the
true p0triots and will show their hand in
the coming contest between the foreign
hirelings and the American people. They
will step forward and take the ground
that cowardice and corruption had not for
years the courage to occupy in the halls Of
Congress
Year: 1878

THE presence of twenty or thirty green.
back men in congress will make it impos.
sible for either of the old parties to indulge
in their old tricks OF voting out the honest.
ly elected representatives to that body and
seating their party favorites in defiance Of
law and justice. The balance of power
held by the greenbackers will be a hang
mans whip over the heads of the political
prohiga tes.
Year: 1878

been made the scapegoat for all their
offences. He ruined himself for Isa-
bella. The rest have nearly made
her ruin herself for theml And the
papers treat him as the vflest of man.
kind. Never talk to me of public
opinion after that l''


Rianzares were never known to say
anything ON the subject; he kept his
own counsel on family matters. 1t
was secret between him and his
cigarette. For all the humility of his
origin, he was OF the pure race Of
consort princes, and like one of the
most iflustrfous of them, he had a
wife who thought he would have been
in his right place if fortune had only
permitted him to take hers. Christina
carried ont this disposition in all
THINGS down to the end of their we'd
ded life. for she would have gladly
changed roles with him in bereave-
ment in 1873 when he died at the
age of sixty-three. her junior by three
years. From that time flatterv itself
could no longer deny that she was an
old woman. Her silvery hair, indeed
could grow no whittier, but her pierc-
ing eye lost its brightness and if she
still retained her curious smile, it was
somewhat changed in character, as
though in derision of the emptiness
of life. Rianzares may have been
worthy of the love of such a woman
but, like the rest of us, he was hardly
worthy of such woman's love- She
adored him to the very last, and there
is just this TO he said in his favor that
he bore her no malice for it, if he did
not yield her full return.


RICHARD Wn1TE1Nq.
Year: 1878

NelCdrk Ledgr.-But when a man saw,
he cannot dance any more, laugh an,
more, fiddle any more, joke any more
because he has been converted, although
his heart may be in good repair, his
mind Is out of gear, and needs half sol.
ing. He may have some correct idea OF
the saving doctrines Of revelation but
he has only remote conception Of the
unwritten laws Of human nature.


Speaking of the efforts TO procure par.
dous for Collins and Chambers, on ac-
count of the bad character of the woman
they are charged with outraging, the
Middletown Transcript says:


We don't see why the crime is any the
less henious on that account, neither do
we think the hands of justice should be
stayed without some more powerful
reason than any we have yet seen as
signed. These atrocicus crimes are be-
coming more common in this country
every day; and nothing but punishment
swift, sure and terrible will suffice in
such eases. Only this week most re-
volting crime of similar character was
committed in Chester county, Pa. A
young and beautiful girl was brutally
outraged by a negro fiend while on her
way from her home to a neighboring viii
lage. There should be no dilly-dallying





ers, and the sooner they dangle at the
end ola rope the better it will be for the
community.


DeidwWem-We as a nation cannot
afford to exclude f rom our circulating
medium silver coin, and thereby seal up
very important vacuum into which the
productions of our silver mines will very
naturally flow rs an important and use
ful agent of commerce and trade. The
people have vital interest in this matter
which cannot be disguised to their un-
derstanding; for, in pro)ortion as our
own productions are employed in the
transactions of life, the demand for labor
increases. How to employ the idle labor
OF the country is the grand problem, the
solution of which is perplexing and agi-
tating the public mind. 1t would there
fore, be monstrous blunder at this day
TO put the public ban upon silver, and
thereby diminish the demand for labor
The highest act of craftsmanship is to
utilize and employ the gifts which nature
has dealt out to us with a bounteous and
liberal hand, and by that means help to
relieve the distress in the land.


Dover Sentmel:-Formerly the thrift,
enterprise and prudence which accum-
ulated a handsome property were accoun-
ted comInendable virtues, and those who
exercised them were deemed the main
stay of the commonwealth. But times
have changed. To have earned COM
petence by life's industry is to have
n political sin. To have
become conspicuous in the "debtor class
is political virtue.


Milford Ne,os:-N othing would be so
beneficial to the public service as the in
dependent nomination of a strong State
ticket, such as Tybout and Williams. or
and Williams, or any other
good, true and suitable men. Then fol-
low this with county tickets for reform
a reductian Of taxation and expenses of
all kinds, and especially of official salar-
les. Such movement inangurated by
the people for their own and the public
benefit, would be both patriotic and pop
ular. The people are tired of being the
tools of designing politicians.
Year: 1878

The recent successful attempt to heat
the city of Lockport, N. Y. by steam, ,
has brought the attention of peopls to
the subject with view to the introdue-
ton of the plan elsewhere. 1t has been
asserted that the system can be apple d
to Wilmington as cheaply and effective
ly as to any other city in the country, as
the large manufacturing establishm ents
In the southern and eastern suburbs
could readily supply the necessary steam
for about half the city, without any con-
siderable increase of steam capacity, or
cost for fuel. The system as il works in
Lockport is fully descli bed IN a despatch
from that city, printed else where.