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Year: 1877

THE New York Herald thinks that
the President should say frankly:
''There is no use for the Republican
party. Its work is done. 1t was q
war party and will only march to the
sound of the drum. There is no use
for the Democratic party. 1t is some
thing between conspiracy and rail-
road speculation. 1t rests on no solid
basis. 1t is fancy stock, like the Erie
or the Bonanza mines. 1t should go
into bankruptcy. Buchanan and
Tweed and JEFF Davis have frittered its
resources away. Even Tilden, the
shrewdest railroad lawyer in the coun-
try and familiar with the handling Of
broken corporations, could not realize
on its assets. What we want now is
peace. Let US have an era of good
feeling. Let US have peace and civil
service reform peace and justice to the
South; peace and specie payment !;
peace and revision of the tariffs peace
and the revival of industry snd credit !;
peace and reform of the powers of the
presidency, the Senate and the States.
Let all who believe that the war is
over; that there should no longer be
patronage IN the management of the
nations business; that the debt should
be paid dollar for dollar-let all who
believe in these precepts and are will
ing 10 unite with the President in en-
forcing them rally around the admins
trstion."
Year: 1877

The President must know that the
rabid Democrats and rabid Radicals
will each use him to slay its
antipode. Each batch of party
leaders, intent upon Office and
power, will adhere to him while he is
useful TO them in effecting h ir self b
purposes. When he j. driven to tie
Democrats for support by BISine, But
Ter and Morton, these Democrats will
use in order to destroy the President
and abandon him to his fate whenever
they can no longer make him a step
ping stone to power for themselves and
for one of their own class. If Blaine
and Butler and Morton, because Of
events in Louisiana and South Caro-
lima, revolt and set up new party
with the bloody shirt as its banner and
hatred of the South Its shibboleth, the
Presidents power must consist in
Democratic support, but these Demo-
Gratis, or a greater number of them,
will only serve in order to betray, and
President Hayes may be left as impo-
tent by those for whom he sacrifices
himself, as was Andrew Johnson. He
has no recourse save in the creation of
a new party, and we are inclined to
believe that this process will be inau


gurated with the beginning of the de-
oates in Congress in June. Blaine and
Butler will lead the way and Conkling,
Bayard, Edmunds, Lamar, Adams,


Young and House and the m0deralos,


in and out of Congress, of the North
and of the South, will coalesce that
extremiss may be destroyed and
accursed sectional issues eliminated
finally from the politics of the country.
Year: 1877

THE Chicago Times says that uni
versal suffrage will eventually ruin any
city IN the world that becomes a great
city. For as city becomes populous
the ratio of non property owners to
property owners increases until the
former become the more numerous
body. It is body which, as rule,
does not realize any interest in frugal
and economic administration, and
which, as a rule, will choose persons
of its own class to administer upon the
estates of others, upon the communist
principle of dividing the property of
those who save among those who only
devour. 1t is among this class that
demagogues and covetous knaves who
aspire to office will always seek for
votes and find them too. And all ex-
perience proves that the public func-
tionary appointed by ballot-boxing
will, as rule, do what those who
elected him desire to have done, and
will not do anything to offend them.
For two and half years the STATES
MAN has been asserting and illustrat-
ing these facts and principles and ne


cessities of municipal governments.
To these Federal constitutional restric-
tions and limitations do not applyand
legislatures can have themselves chosen
by universal suffrage if they like,
but local elections should be de-
termined by those alone inter
ested in these local institutions,


which exist only to collect and eXpend
taxes, while the State and its courts
protect life and liberty and property


Will not every newspaper assert the
wisdom of the TimeS's philosophy, and
when the knife of reform is again
applied to ulcers on the body polite OF
Texas, let this most terrible and ruin
Gus and deadly of all be eXcIsed from
diseased. wretched municipal systems.
Year: 1877

ONE printing house in St. Louis has
drawn from the State of Texas not less
than one million dollars within the past
three or four years. In Grayson coun-
ty nearly all the blanks used by the


county officers are ordered, the Register
says, through drummers for st. Louis
stationery houses, instead of giving the
work to local printers who can do it
just as well, and need the patronage to
help sustain local newspapers. 1t is
just as the Neao Era says, our legisla-
tors (and public ofiicers) seem to have
regarded the printing interest of the
State as one dangerous to the public
good, and, instead of encouraging it,
deem it their holy duty to throw
around it every possible restriction.
This is not the lohOle story. Newspa-
per people bid eagerly against one an
other till rates are made so low that
the contractor fails and the work goes
abroad. Then, too, printers jobs are
so widely advertised by printers that
the politicians managing the business
win great notoriety for economy and
for awful integrity and pluck before
the gaping mob if the printer be thor
oughly robbed and reduced TO poverty.
The Legislature that makes most noise
in getting low bids from bankrupt
printers is deemed the most upright
and economical Legislature, and while
everybody else piucks the treasury dd
iafnitum, the poor devil of a printer
himself is ever reduced to penury and
the State loses millions by it in money
sent abroad and in population exiled.
Year: 1877

The Chicago Inter Ocean thinks ii
is pretty hard on Packard to be unable
to fight, for lack of arms, and that the
North should supply the necessary
weapons for Packard to maintain him
self by arming his militia. How would
it be if the editor of the Inter Ocean
would come himself with an invoice OF
arms, say one musketl If he could
do them any good, Packard and his
friends would welcome him with
bloody hands to hospitable grave.
Year: 1877

PRETTY wreaths of flowers are frozen
by the ice factories in the midst of
blocks sold to their beautiful custom
ers, whose smiles melt human hearts as
the rising sun dissolves the stony sell
fishness of the ice-king.
Year: 1877

The people everywhere will rejoice
that Louisiana is at last redeemed.
The process was somewhat tedious but
cost no bloodshed, and the wisdom of
the President and Governor Nichols
will be alike approved everywhere and
by all classes of just and honest think
ers. The Nichols government has
gained at last majority of returning
board members in both branches of its
Legislature, and the presence of the
army renders Packard Impotent for
mischief and his government now dies
OF hunger and lnsnition.
Year: 1877

Here is an amusing comedy of errors
with Partisan edge. Nine. de V. was
very jealous, and determined to watch
her husband. One day he told her he
was going to Versailles. and when he
went out she put on her bonnet and fol-
lowed him. She kept him in sight until
he turned into a passage which shortened
the way to the railway station, where
she missed him. She stood for few
minutes in the passage looking about,
and suddenly saw man coming out of
a glove-shop with rather overdressed
lady. From the distance she made sure
the man was her husband, and without
a word of warning she gave him three or
four sounding boxes on the ear. When
the gentleman turned around to con-
front his assailant, she perceived that
she had made a mistake, and at the same
moment she caught sight of her husband,
who had replenished his cigar case at a
tobacconist's, and was crossing the street.
What could she do? 1t goes on with
saying that she tainted in the arms of
the stranger whose ears she had boxed.
while the other lady ran off as fast as she
could to avoid scandal. The stranger
who was comedian, was astonished tc
find an unknown lady in his arms, anc
while his ears were still tingling from
her blows, he was again startled. A
gentleman collared him, and shaking
him roughly asked what he meant by
embracing lady in the street "Why
she boxed my ears and tainted =
screamed the actor. She is my wife,
shouted the irate husband, "and woulc


never have struck you without cause.


The infuriated gentlemen shook thei


fists until the lady, whohad been carried


into a shop, recovered sufficiently to ex


plain how it had happened.
Year: 1877

Secretary Sherman made speech at
Mansfield, Ohio, on the 18th of August,
giving his views on the administration OF
public affairs, the withdrawal of troops,
civil service reform, specie payments, and
the resumption act. He does not speak
decisively with reference to the resumption
act. We can not infer from his remarks
that he is in favor of or opposed to retain
ing the date fixed for resumption. He re-
marks that if Congress does not repeal or
modify the act, he will do his part toward
enforcing it. He says the law as it stands is
defective 1t authorizes him to sell bonds for
gold, and to use that and the surplus revenue
to redeem greenbacks. 1t does not, in his
opinion, authorize him to sell bonds for
gold, and gold for greenbacks, and hoard the
latter. Some people have put this construc-
ton upon the resumption act, and urged
him to adopt it, but he respectfully declines.
He will accumulate gold gradually, and in
that way prepare for resumption. This may
be done, he thinks, if the shipments of gold
can be checked, and it looks to him as if
the balance of trade would bring gold into
the country, instead of taking it out. He
evidently does not consider it neces-
sary to have as much coin as
paper money in order to resume.
What Mr.. Sherman means by the term re
deem is distinctly stated. When the re-
sumption act was under discussion in the
Senate he could not say what the word re-
deem meant; but now he says it means to
keep the greebacks afoat; that is to say, to
redeem them in gold at one counter and pay
them out at another desk. He is very
emphatic in the opinion that the greenback
currency ought to be maintained, as part Of
the circulation. He favors the retention of
the greenback and national,bank currency,
regulating the volume of both by the laws
of trade as may be indicated by the demand
for specie. The Secretary discusses the
recent railroad strike with full apprecia-
tion of its gravity, but without any hys-
terics; deprecates the excessive power of
the railway kings warns disorderly persons
of the penalties of the law; points out the
constitutional provisions that enables Con-
gress to get hold of this matter, and hopes


"That Congress will pass laws to establish
and limit maximum rates of freight, so that
the production of farmer may not be in
danger of confscation by exorbitant rates !;
that it will limit and restrain the cutting
and reduction of freights so as to destroy the
ability of railroad companies to pay fair
prices for honest labor, and prevent the
companies from making paupers of men
who perform essential functions in COM
merce. Congress may thus, by wise general
laws, control the most powerful corporations
as well as the humblest citizens"
Year: 1877

During the recent visit of Senator
Morton to California a delegation of
Chinese merchants waited upon him
with regard to the troubles attendant
upon the presence of their countrymen
in California. The spokesman stated in
substance that there was a strong feel
ing against them, that their property
had been destroyed, that they had been
subjected to personal violence, that their
rights under the treaty had been dis
regarded, that. the State and the United
States governments failed to afford
them that protection to which they were
entitled, that they did not blame the
American people for this state of affairs,
recognizing the fact that it was the
foreign element that SO strongly op-
posed them, that having borne with this
treatment for many years with no pros
pect of relief they wished to adopt such
measures as would have tendency to
check Chinese immigration, and to this
end requested the Senator to introduce a
bill at the next session of Congress pro-
viding for modification or abrogation
of the Burlingame treaty, and for levy
ing per capita tax of one hundred dol
lars on every Chinaman landing in
America, the proceeds of this tax to be
devoted to paying passage back to China,
of those Cinnamon who wish to return
but lack the means to do so.


They also expressed their intention of
endeavoring to induce the Pacific Mail
and Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Companies to modify their rates of steer
age passage SO as to make the rate of
coming this way seventy-fve dollars
while reducing the price thence to China
to thirty dollars; either way they ex-
pressed their readiness to provide all
means necessary to pay any expenses in
cident upon procuring such legislation.


Senator Morton expressed his willing
ness to introduce such bill. Touching
the recent troubles in the city the COM
mittee of safety have had repeated con-
sultations with the leading spirits of the
workingman's party, anti-Coolie organi-
cations, etc., all of whom unite in
deprecating any resort to violence, and
announce their readiness to cooperate
in maintaining the peace of the city
against hoodlum assaults.
Year: 1877

by DIR. Donovan as a peculiar famine
eruption. If we look at the thousands
of people collected on the relief works
these famine marks are of almost uni
versal prevalence.


The Superintendent of Relief Opera
tions in Adoui reports that the journey
over one of his roads resembled the
path of great battle, in the numbers of
dead and dying. If the people had
been smitten by local outbreak of the
cholera in ordinary times they would
have fed from the works and never re-
turned, but SO severe is the pressure for
food that none could afford to leave the
works and lose their pay, even for a
single day.
Year: 1877

YoNKERs Gazette: The poetry of mo-
ton may be seen in two ways at one and
the same time. Just watch a bald-headed
man in church. To look at him you
would think his whole being was alb
sorbed in wrestling with those great
problems of theology which the preacher
was rolling in upon him like a flood,
but it is not so; looking closely, and you
will see the set teeth, the cooked eye,
and vengeance standing out upon his
brow. He knows that a fly has been
shining for the last five minutes back
and forth and all over his head, but can
find no resting place for the sole of his
foot Suddenly as the lightnings flash
his hand is describing circle in the air,
and the fly is gracefully making a
straight line to further conquests in the
other aisle.
Year: 1877

The ian line in British India threatened
by th's lack of rain and consequent
iaiirAre Of the crops, has begun its fear
i'.h work among the Hindoos. Already
a million and half of people are being
fed at the public expense, and it is said
that half million have died of want,
but we think these last figures must be
much exaggerated. There have been
several years of scarcity since the
present decade began, and their lack OF
railroads and canals renders transporta-
tion to many of the provinces very slow
and precarious. Everything possible in
the way of relief will be done, but
great suffering and loss of life can hardly
be avoided.
Year: 1877

The Central Council and Committee
OF Safety of the Labor League of the
National Capital have presented resolu-
tions to the Commissioners of the District
of Columbia, setting forth the utter
'destitution prevalent among white and
colored workingmen of the district, the
lawful and orderly manner in which
they conducted themselves during the
recent strike, and earnestly requesting
the Commissioners to raise loan of
$3.50, 900 instantaneously, and set two
thousand men to work at once on public
improvements; and the league further
pledge themselves to use their influence
with Congress, when it assemblies, to pay
the loan and deficiency, with interest
The Commissioners say they will give
the subject prompt attention.
Year: 1877

the completeness with which the nozzle
destroys this roar, we are of the opinion
that Mr.. Shaw has done a great service to
the community, and especially to the
transportation interests, in overcoming
an obnoxious and dangerous feature in
the use of steam; and we recommend the
award to him of the Scott legacy
premium and medal for his spiral
exhaust nozzle"
Year: 1877

In olden times superstitious persons,
when about TO choose a name for a
child, lighted number of torches of an
equal length and thickness, to each of
which they gave name, and the name
OF the torch which burned the longest
was that which they choose for the child,
imagining by this means to insure it a
long life
Year: 1877

The London Lancet calls attention to
the danger of disease the causes of
which are sometimes concealed in ice
which is used for cool drinking water in
summer. tbs mistake to suppose that
water purifies itself by the act of freez-
ing; it often spreads the germs of
disease.
Year: 1877

We desire to say good word about the business of the celebrated Dry Goods and Carpet dealers, Messrs. Hall & Read of Bridgeport. Each season finds their sales increasing and there is every reason why it should be good place to trade. This firm makes all their ingrain carpets thereby saving their customers one profit. They buy their Domestic goods direct from the manufacturers they sell every article at the lowest market rates-they love their business and are determined to please the public. When in Bridgeport. go and see theL..
Year: 1877

s Mlss:A A word in your ear. Tine next fine afternoon that you sannter out, buy box of GLENNs SULPHUR SoAP. That admirable purifier will remove every one of those pimples which detract SO much from your beauty. s Id by all Druggists.

 There IS Youth in every bottle of Hills
Year: 1877

FAST WALKEKs.-We suppose the
average rare of speed at which horses
walk will not exceed three miles an
hour. It is evident If this can be in
creased to four miles an hour, Just
one-third more work can BE- accom-
plished by pair Of horses in the same
time; and this will hold good whether
they are plowing. moving, or drawing
a load on the road; and for a driving
team this increase of walking speed is
worthy Of attention Many a good
trotter when pulled up at foot Of hill
or elsewhere, falls into a pace that
would do discredit 20 snail ofordinary
ambition What we have said Of work
ing horses applies with the same foree
TO oxen There are many sections
where oxen are in common and cons
tant use. not only in the field but on
the road, and where the comparison
''as slow as an OK team" is often heard;
it will be readily admitted that more
speed in an or is desirable quality
Il might be novel and attracti.e feat.
ure to Introduce At fairs walking mach.
es of 10th horses and oxen. It conld
be done with very little trouhl, and
expe's', and We believe Il would he a
~'ap j" the right direction. -RuraI
Mr. " Ler.
Year: 1877

The MIDLAND RAILRoAD.-Al-
though ground was not broken until
the / 4th of last August, fifteen miles Of
iron hrve been laid and sixty miles Of
grading are within ten days Of com :
pletion. We have it authoritively
from head quarters that all the material
necessary for the construction of the
road is now in transit aud that all ar.
rangements are now perfected to com
p(ete the line to Zumbrota on time and
to the full satisfaction of all interested
or any way concerned.
Year: 1877

How TO CURE STANIMERING.-A Cana.
da journal contains letter from cores
pondent who processes to have been a
stammerer from childhood almost to man
hood, and who wishes to give ether suffer-
ers the benefit Of the treatment by which
he was cured. He says: " Go into n room
where you will be quiet and alone, get
some book that will interest but not excite
you, and sit down and read two hours
aloud to yourself, keeping your teeth to-
gether. Do the same thing every two or
three days, or once week if very tire
some, always taking care to read slowly
and distinctly, moving the lips but not the
teeth. Then, when conversing with others,
try to speak as slowly and distinctly us
possible, and make up your mind that you
will not stammer. | tried this remedy,
and read for two hours aloud with my
teeth together. The first result was to
make my tongue and jaws ache--that is,
while | was reading-and the next 10 make
me feel as if something had loosened my
talking apparatus, for could speak with
less difficulty Immediately. The change
was so great that every one who knew me
remarked it, repeated the remedy every
! five or six days for month, and then at
longer intervals until Cured.n
Year: 1877

While Gen. Jewell was our Minister in
Russia, he visited the tanneries of that
country, and found out the secret of the
Russia leather, beloved of book devotees.
The secret is the result of the use of birch
bark tar with which the skins are dressed,
in place of tallow or grease, the latter
substances being 50 largely used as food
among the lower classes. This tar, which
is carefully saved as il eXuics from the
wood when burned, WAS first used rs a
substitute for wheel grease in Russia, as it
is to this day, and then for the filing and
dressing of skins. BY system of care.
full inquiry, and literally following his
nose during his visits to some OF the great
Russian tanneries and curriers' shops. Mr..
Jewell found this compound in great
kettle ready for use, and thus the mystery
was solved. 1t is not expensive, costing
aboutten dollars per barrel. He ordered ten
barrels and sent them to various leading
leather manufacturers in this country, with
instructions, and the result is that genuine
Russia leather goods are now made in
America, and doubtless will soou be sold
at nearly fifty per cent below former
prices.
Year: 1877

An OIL City boy was threatened with a


whipping yesterday, when he called for a
compromise. His argument was, that it
had been stated that he must be whipped,
but nothing could be found to show who
should hold the whip. There were numer-
Gus precedents in favor of the father using
the rod, but nothing could be found in the
law which expressly stated that he should
do the licking. Therefore the boy called
for compromise bill, when disputed ques-
tions should be left to a committee COM
posed of his sister and mother, they to
choose third disinterested party, to whom
all objections shonld be left; and he wish
ed rs u beginning to file an objection to be-
ing whipped. But the President of the
whip overruled the objection an pro-
ceeded to the count, while variety OF
musical notes certified to the full receipt of
all returns. oil CHg Derrjcb.
Year: 1877

Luguet the French actor, when playing
at Brussels, extricated himself with anus
ing tact, from an embarrassing position.
In the course of the piece he, as a soldier,
had to bring in dispatch and present it
TO the King. His Majesty had imagined
that the dispatch would be fairly transcrib-
ed and had not therefore committed it to
memory. But this was a slip of blank
paper, and the King was in despair. A
happy thought struck him; handing it to
the soldier he said, Read it, my good
fellow" But Luguet did not feel equal to
improvising letter, and respectfully an.
swered, " Pardon me, Sire; am born of
parents honest but poor, never learn
ed" And here the King lost his head and
was hissed of the stage.