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Year: 1879


A COurageOus Gs0eesyman-The
Eye behind the Cusaaln-HOW .


Retailer Of OOl0ng Waded In Oh
6upposed Burglars.


One evening recently as . young lady
was passing . grocery store not far from
the corner of Seventh and French
streets, which had been closed for the
night, she saw the curtain on the In
side Of one OF the windows gently moved
to one side, and presently An eye peeped
around the edge Of the curtain aud re-
msined there gazing on her.


The young lady immediately took
steps to inform the proprietor Of this
suspicious circumstance, and that In
dividuAl with visions Of burglars, emp
,y shelves and clesnly swept tills in
his mind, at once hurried to the scene.
Arriving at the store examination
showed the curtain still pushed aside
and the ominous eye still peepinR
around the edge as though on the
watch for something.


Ths proprietor did not long hesitate
as to what course he would pursue,
some under similar circumstances
might have gone to headquarters and
had the entire force Of City Police
brought down, or called out the militia
to surround the place, but not he. His
property was in danger and it was his
duty 10 protect II. Advancing to the
door he opened 1t and standing there
upon the Threshold, with the rays Of
of the autumn moon upon his back,
Acheronian darkness in his front, and
q seven bsrreled Colt in his hand, he
delivered the following oratiou, in a
tone that would have carried dismay
and confusion to the stoutsst burglar.
ious heart.


"Fiends of darkness" said he, and
the words rolled through the inky
space towards the rear end Of the store,
in manner that made the jars upon
the shelves rattle; "Fiends Of dark
ness, l bid ys come forth. One min
ute, railroad time, will / allow you To
come out into the light and show your
selves and explain your presence here
but If at the end Of that time you still
refuse, by the aid Of this trusty wsap-
on hold in my strong right hand'l will
let the light in through your thisving
bodies"


Then he stopped to await an answer
but no answer came. The space within
the store was as quiet as though the
most lively inhabitant Of the place was
the large ood-fsh which hung over the
mackerel barrel. With the voice of q
Stentor he reiterated the demand.
Again nought but the eches were
awakened.


He then advanced cautiously and
turning to the window, expecting mo.
mentarily to feel the effect Of collision
with rushing body, he saw before
him not burglar, bat the innocent
smiling face Of his favorite cat.


Not word was said. Those present
immed lately took in the situation, then
the small party dispersed too full for
utterance.
Year: 1879

We are informed that the people living
along the creek banks are suffering
great danger from the defective aim OF
reed bird marksmen and that the lives
of children are in jeopardy. Near Pick.
els foundry the quantity of gunners is
greatly in excess OF the number of birds;
and the residents of the vicinity are
thinking of tacking lathes and boarding
over their windows to prevent the glass
from being demolished.
Year: 1879

In yesterdays REPUBLICAN, we men
toned the killing Of man on the rail
road. The jury rendered a verdict
that he came to his death by falling
from freight train. The jury exam
ined the spot which bears evidence
that the man had been dragged a
considerable distance, portions of the
skull and the brain were scattered
around, and the body was horribly
mangled. The only thing on his per
son was postal card addressed, J. W,
Jones, Jefferson, Marengo Co., Alabama
which had Just been written.
Year: 1879

The Moral Suasion Reform Associa-
tion hold a public meeting this evening
at their ball Third and King streets.
John B. Cook, President of the club
will preside, and several interesting and
we'll known speakers will be present to
address the audience.
Year: 1879

Quite large delegation Of gentle
men prominent in the Methodist Church
IS in our City, went up to Southwood,
on the Delaware Western Road, this
morning, to visw that locality with the
object Of establishing Delaware Camp
Meeting grounds in that section.
Year: 1879

Rlkc~' "Reminiscences


Talleyraud was certainly the most
extraordinary being Of his kind the
world has ever produced. He was
born lame, aud his limbs were fast.
cned to his trunk by an iron appar'
atus, ON which he would strike his
gigantic cane, to the great dismay OF
those who saw him for the first time
all awe not diminished by the look
OF his piercing gray eyes Peerng
through his shaggy eyebrows, bis
unearthiy face marked by deep stains,
partly covered by IA shock of hair,


part.y hy his enormous muslin cra'


VAT. Add To- this a cynical express


sion aud a Silence broken occasion


ally by the most sepuIchraI mono.


svlabIes. His pulse, which rolled a


stream OF enormous volume, would


intermit and pause at every sixth


beat. This he pointed out trnmph


autIy as a rest Of nature, giving him
a superiority over other men. Thus


he said, all the missing puIsatlons
are added to the sum total of my


life and his longevity and strength
appear to support this theory. He
would, time after time, rise at ) o.
clock in the morning from the whist
table, then 90 home and often wake
one OF his secretaries to keep him
company. At other times he would
seek pleasure in society until mid


night, then 90 TO his office, read over
letters, put marginal indications on
the answers to be given, then seek
little rest, and on waking at six, send
for his attendants and resume busl


ness. Tallcyrand was an epicure in
the widest sense of the term, and he
declared "the talents of his cook
had assisted more in the prolongaton
of his existence than the skill of the
physician" There were ten men
regularly employed in producing the
Princes dinner, which was not only
exquisite in its kind, but adapted to
his health, comprising the essence of
everything that was nutritious and
digestible. He tasted every dish,
f,llowing each mouthlul with sip
of wine. When the last summons
came to this remarkable man, he re-
fused to make an avowal of religious
feeling until his dying breath, that
he might be out Of the reach of hear.
ing the comments. In review of his
life we may say that he was a man
neither of imagination nor OF inven-
ton. He could never make an ex'
tempore speech. He would listen
for hours to the opinions Of men Of
mediocrity, and out of all he heard
makeup those webs in which other
politicians got involved like giddy
flies. His forte was impassability,
cool and perfect judgement, and ex-
ceediugly good luck.
Year: 1879

yond this. If there Were M exact
definition of this term, if all who
use the expression, elementary cd
ucation," had the same thought in
mind, it would be easier to decide
whether this opinion should have
our approval or dissent. If the
ability TO read, write, and perform
the simple operations in arithmetic,
with u smattering of geography is
meant, it would be 4 public calam-
ity for Gov, Robinson's ideas to be
endorsed by the law makers. But If
that degree ofmental and moral cul-
ture essential for u fair eomprehen-
sion Of the duties Of citizenship and
their Intelligent performance is un,
derstood, then there is little good
ground for disagreement with the pc
sition he takes. This degree ofeulture
is not SO limited as most people
think The questions ON which men
are called to express their opinions
at the ballot box have become alto
gether too complicated formen with
the elementary cducation," as un-
derstoo by some writers. Notice
the issues Of the last political cam
paign. Not moro than one voter
in five understood the questions
that his ballot helped to decide.
Was it not ahsurdly inconsistent to
ask the other four, or even permit
them, to have anything to say upon
such subjects. But call the cduca-
tion necessary for proper perform
ance of such duties elementary or
whatever we choose, it is mdcniahle
that the great majority of our
schools fail utterly to bestow it. The
needs of the State make il incum-
bent upon us either to circumscribc
the suffrage or extend the facilities
for public education.
Year: 1879

The Commercial Bulletin prints a
letter from Colorado on the cattle bus
mess, on which it comments: Here at
the east we have but an imperfect con-
ceptiOn of its value and rapid growth;
but the simple fact that the exports of
Colorado alone during the past five
years have exceeded in value the ship
ments of bullion, and the further
fact that what is known as the great
cattle-raising belt is estimated to con-
tain to-day over $1,000, 900 head, worth
upwards of $300,000,O00, are calcu-


lated to very materially expand those
conceptions. The correspondent states
that there are many reasons pointing
to the ultimate absorption of the bus


mess on the plains into the hands of


large owners, whose competition


wipes out the profit of small ranch


eros. Already the lifts, Bosiers, Dor
sey, Waddingham, Craig, Hall Bros.
and Others have each nearly as many


cattle as existed in either of the Terri
tories year ago, and together more
than existed in New Mexico, Colorado


and Nebraska combined. Just now


there is great alarm on the account of


the fear that pleurO pneumonia will


bankrupt the stock men of the plains.


If it gains foothold here it may be
impossible to stop it. There will be a
strong pressure for such legislation at
the next session of congress as will
keep it at a distance. The western mem
bers nearly all favor stringent meas
| ures, whatever these may be, and
hence it is morally certain that some


thing will be done.





Washington advices say that in pri-
vate conversation southern democrats


there complain bitterly of the treat


ment of their section by the press of
the north. They allege that 'all the


great northern papers have Joined the


radicals in n southern scrusade." In
New York none of the first class papers


defend the south, but all have gone to
lecturing th}t section on assassination
and Reputation. From Boston mo-
| thing else was expected, but that dem


ocratic New York should join in the
| crusade southern democrats think is
| discouraging. In Chicago all the


great dailies have gone to preaching
sermons to the south in Il manner


which shows their conviction that the


south needs them. The Times, which


used to be II sort of southern organ,


and was largely and approvingly
quoted in the south, has turned about


and now calls the southern people
barbarians. As for the Cincinnati
papers, it is complained that they go
more or less the same way. Also
that the German papers in the north
ern cities have taken up the cry, and
none of them use their editorial


columns in defence of the south
Whatever truth may be in these
statements is to be accounted for in


the fact that southern political intoler-
ance was never before so venomous or
so manifest rs now.
Year: 1879

Thomas Doane, chief engineer of
the Northern Pacific, has been ordered
to the work of construction between
the Missouri and the Yellowstone, in
order to expedite with all possible
speed the extension of the line toward
the west. The business of the road in
Minnesota and Dakota is increasing at
a rate which indicates an enormous
development OF the country in that
quarter The road is now delivering
two hundred ear loads of wheat day
AT Duluth, where, for want of vessels
there is wheat gorge or blockade
quite unprecedented ON the lakes.
Production along the line of the road
is already larger than the most san
guine had ever anticipated.
Year: 1879

If any respectable resident of New York
is wondering to-day whether or no to go on
an excursion we would suggest to him
that the excursion season is near it's end,
and if quiet sail into purer air benefits
him. as it is supposed to do for every one
not hopelessly invalided, he had better i'm
prove the few opportunities which remain
to him before Jack Frost shall change the
order of physical diversions. We are aware
that our advice does not agree with that
offered by an earnest clergyman who
breaches somewhere in Brooklyn; but this
has nothing to do with the general subject.
Even to the ultra religious, who adhere to
the strict letter of the Mosaic law, the COM
mand to rest is as great as that to keep
the day holy; to the Christian the founder
of Christianity says that the Sabbath
was made tor man and not man for the
Sabbath, so, Brooklyn preaching to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, a New Yorker is
justified in taking himself and his family
away from airless houses and dirty streets
once u week and giving them taste Of the
atmosphere which was prepared by kind
Providence for oil Of us, though stupid and
rascally officials have sadly thwarted Heav-
ems plans. AS for the devotional spirit, con-
ventionally held to be the duty of the day.
if it is not stimulated as much by Heavens
handiwork as it is by stupid afternoon maps
and bad tempered discussions of the repu-
tations of ones neighbors, the would-be
devotee may be sure that he and not the
Sunday excursionist deserves scathing
rebuke from the pulpit.
Year: 1879

Part of the force OF British troops in South
Africa which Sir Garnet Wolseley had
started on it's homeward journey has been
suddenly ordered in the other direction to
face Il dangerous movement toward Zlobane
of Zulus who it is reported have not yet
taken any part in the war and are now in
active cooperation with Cetywayo. An
other untoward fact appears in the report
that Secocoeni, a warlike chief of the Trans
vaal country, whom it was hoped to pro-
pitiate and separate from his relations with
Cetywayo, is not amenabe to the voice of
the charmer and must be dealt with in the
usual warlike way. AS Zululand gets walked
up more and more fully to the true state
Of the case between Cetywayo and John
Bull we shall hear moro news just like this.
The Zulus know what British domination
in their country means. They are reasona-
bly, familiar with the history of all their
neighbors in this particular and do not care
to have that history repeated at their ex-
pense; and so far from a British success
over Cetywayo causing the Zulus generally
to come in and submit to the English it is
likely to rally support to Cetywayo, because
in the man who is the only hope Of inde-
pondence they will all see their own
cause. British journals aud public men
are excited over the tactics adopted
in South Africa of permitting the dusky
allies OF England TO murder wounded
Iulus, and other trihes of that sort We
hope they do not im>gne that this is an
evidence of the decndence of Enuland If
thoy refer to her history of hundred
years since they will find that she subsi-
dized the American savage to massacre men
Year: 1879

Unfortunate Difficulty in California.


The even tenor of tho workingmen's
movement in San Francisco was rudely
disturbed yesterday by some pistol shots
which took effect in the body of Rev. l.
S. Kalloch, the workingmen's candi-
date for Mayor Details of the de-
at this distance from the scene
an opinion cannot be intelligently given.
1t is impossible, however, not to recognize
that the abnormal political condition Of
California, consequent upon that tearfully
wonderful work, the new constitution, is
at the back of the whole affair.
1t is to be deeply regretted
that the pistol should have been
appealed to as the arbiter of question
which could have been effectively settled
at the polls; but, again referring to the new
constitution, we would say that the respect
able people of California are wrought up
to degree of earnestness and pas
sion of which the East, with its
cooler blood and less influential ignorant
classes, can have only the faintest concep


tion. Further details of the unfortunate
affair will be awaited with great interest In
the meantime the good sense and force of
CALIFORNIA; better classes may be depended
upon to save San Francisco and the State
from what at this distance would seem to
be an impending serious disturbance.
Year: 1879

portant waterways it would be difficult to
provided Tor. Perhaps it might be sug-
gested that the penalty is too light, for the
reason that if offenders are only rarely
caught the law ought to give them stinger
when it does lay hands on them, in order
that its severity might deter by example.
But then if law is farce. if it is mere
form of words without force, what does it
matter what penalty it assigns to any
offence? Here is statute which
declares that certain act is u
misdemeanor and designates how it shall
be punished; which creates an officer
whose especial duty it is to make up the
cases for the public prosecutor under this
law and here are the forbidden acts SO
commonly perpetrated that two reporters
who pass four days in the lower bay come
home with four well defined cases in their
notes and record of about twelve thousand
cubic feet of rubbish dumped in the differ
ent channels or on the shoals of the lower
bay. And meantime how does the State
inspector created by the statute earn his
money? What does he do about it? He
bites his thumbs, apparently. We cannot
learn that he moves in any more effective
way than that. He has excused his indif-
ference or his incapacity hitherto by de-
claring that the stealth Of the practices de-
feated his vigilance. He could not obtain
evidence. But our reports show that the
fifteen scow loads whose history we have
traced went down the bay and were dumped
while it was broad daylight, in contempt of
that diligent investigation required of him
by the statute.


Now, a great deal may be said about the
misconduct of the Police Commissioners in
this connection and the misconduct of
other city officials, and it is, perhaps, all
true; but their indifference to duty is so
we'll recognized that people have ceased to
discuss it. 1t may be argued, also, that
the dump system is foolish way to dis
pose of the garbage. There are fifty other
important points in the case. But all these
are for the moment beside the issue. The
point just now is on the simple statute
about garbage in the bay shall that be
violated with impunity as it now is every
day and night? If a law of the Legislature
actually in existence and adequate to the
purpose cannot be enforced what is the use
of prating about going to the Legislature
for remedy?
Year: 1879

LORD CHELMsFoR D's OPPORTUNITY.


1t Is well known that. Immediately Sir Garnet
Wolseleys appointment, Lord Chelmsford's brother.
the Lord Justice of Appeal. sent telegram by
special steamer from Madeira apprising Lord
Chelmsford of the fact and urging him to
do something ut all hazards. What
the result? Instead of waiting for a few
days longer which after these months of
delay he might well have done. for the proper de-
velopment of his plans-which were that General
Creaock should make u flank attack with his brigade
to catch the Zulu army in q trap and utterly
rout 1.-THE makes preclpitate advance snatch es a
partial and transitory success. aferward
making undignifed retreat. and all this to serve
simply his private interests and thwart those of
Sir Garnet. this is not then the other horn OF
the dilemma presents itself. After all. this great
Zulu army was a mere windbag. which one well
organized brigade Of English troops. prop
erly led. could pierce and dissipate. and all
this waste of men and treasure is due to
the incompetency of Lord Chelmsford himself.
Sir Garnet wolseley has. it appears. work still
to do. He will not ind it to lay hands Getty
wayo. ana until the Zulu King is secured the
cannot be said to be at end. But it now enters
upon practically new phase. and will degenerate
into guerilla warfare of very troublesome kind.
Year: 1879

THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST sECoCoENI-A CHIEF


STILL FRIENDLY TO cETYwAYo.


Sir Garnet Wolscley. according to tho news from
Durham. recently ordered Colonel Lanyon to suspend
further hostilties against sccocoeni, believing it
polite. pending tho settlement of Zulu affairs to
give that chief the least possible reason for SYM
pathy with Cetywayo, who might attempt a june
tion with Secocoeni Tho forces, before acting
against the chief, Were Withdrawn for tho
patrol OF the Transvaal border. Sir Garnets action
was condemned at the time. Secocoeni being an
enemy OF long standing The reasons for Sir Garnet
Wosocy resuinng the campaign against the chief
limited at by the correspondent of tho DAILY 7ec-
grdph:--" First and foremost. tho chief secocoeni
has to be subdued. for not only is he the leading
Transvaa chief, but he is the accomplice and tool Of
Cetywayo, who is in close commun ncation with him,
and upon whom the latter can fall back in
case he retreats from zululand; and should
the Zuus once get into the and Businesses
OF the Lulu mountains 1t would require the whole
British army to tackle them The country Inhabited
by Secocoeni-the watershed of the Olphants and
Crocodile rivers and the region of the Lulu noun
tains which country Is strictly Transvaal territory


is also In the direct line Of route for the railway and
highway between Pretoria and Dolagoa Bay-the out
let Tor the Transvaal and the finest harbor in South
.irica-and 1t is therefore an absolute necessity. II
Year: 1879

ANOTHER SET of "instalment' furniture deal
ers came to grief yesterday, and returned seized
goods under suggestion of twenty years i'm
prsonment, the extreme penalty of robberies of
their peculiar kind. Let the good work be kept
up until the insalment men learn to do business
according to business principles The city needs
no new schools of burglary.
Year: 1879

OF British blood all over this country; and
although the course now taken in Africa is
slight falling off from the fine barbarity
of those days it is near enough like it to
show that the old spirit has changed but
little.
Year: 1879

The RAILWAY INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE
continues to stir up bad blood, and it is hard to
how such result can be avoided Any
thing connected with railways or legislatures
is likely to excite suspicion. What can be ex-
pected when the two eombinel
Year: 1879

THAT PECULIAR BODY known as the Chau-
tauqua Assembly closed its session yesterday.
1t is the fashion to laugh ut this body, which
nevertheless affords the only free post graduate
course of instruction for adults at home that is
offered in the Union
Year: 1879

CANNOT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT do some
thing toward preventing careless and dangerous
blasting in the neighborhood of Third avenue
and Tooth street. Fines do not seem equal to
the protection of residents.
Year: 1879

These Engines combine ehtness with ample power and
greatest degree being the only Portable Engine manufactured IN
Steam Balance Valve For mechanical construct
parts regularity of speed and thorough workmanship THIS Enc
In THE WORLD