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Year: 1877

WHAr A WOMAN Can Do.-As q
wife and mother, woman can make
the fortune and happiness OF her bus,
band and children; AID, if she did
nothing else, surely this would be sui
6cient destiny. BY her Thrift, pru


dence and tact, she can secure to her
partner and 10 herself competency
in cid age, no matter how small their
beginning or how adverse fate may
be theirs. By her cbeerialness she
can restore her husbands spirit, shak.
en- by the anxiety Of business. BY her
tender care she can often restore him
to health, if disease has Ove:tasked
his powers. BY her counsel and her
love she can win him from bad COM
pany, if temptation in an evil hour
has led him sstray. BE- her examples,
her precepts, and her sex's insight in
10 character, she can mould her chill
dren, however adverse their disposi-
ton, into noble men and women.
And by leading in I'll things true
and beautiful life she can refine, ele


yate and spiritualize all who come
within reach so that, with Others OF
her sex emulaiing and assisting her,
she can DO more 10 regenerale The
world than all the statesmen or re


formers that ever legislated. She can
do much, alas Perhaps more to de-
grade man if she choose TO do 1t.
Who can estimate the evils that wO.
man has the power TO do ? As a wife
she can ruin herself by extravaganza,
folly, or want of affection. She can
make demon or an outcast Of a man
who might otherwise become a good
member of society. She can bring
chickering's, strife and discord into
what has been happy home. She
can change the innocent babes into
vile men and even into vile women.
She can lower the moral tone Of so


ciety itself, and thus pGllute legisia.
tian at the spring head. She can, in
fine, become an instrument OF evil III
stead of an angel Of good. Instead of
making flowers Of truth, purity, beauty
and spirituality spring up in her foot


steps, till the earth smiles with love
illness that is almost celestial, She can
transform it TO black and arid desert,
covered with scorn and all evil passion,
and swept by the bitter blast of ever.
lasting death. This is what a woman
can do for the wrong as well as for the
right. Is her mission little one? Has
she no worthy work, as has become
the cry of late? Man may have a
harder task to perform, rougher
road TO travel, but he has none loft:er
or more influential than woman's.
Year: 1877

A ro0f may be covered with a very cheap shingie,
and by application OF this slate be made TO last from
20 70 p years Old roofs be patched and cUatei
looking much better, and lasting longer than new
shingles without the slate, for
Year: 1877

granting of licenses at the recent courts
held in Kent and New Castle counties.


With the same law and same circum-
stances in each, the rulings in one were
diametrically opposite to that in the other.
For instance; in Kent they granted every
applicant a license to sell liquor, with
total disregard to the character or number
of the remonstrants; notably, in the town
where the Town Commissioners and over
900 remonstrants were outweighed by a
applicants. And in another case, where
the applicant was, in the language Of the
Court, "put on his good behavior" though
the States Attorney declared his violations
of the law had been frequent. Ten applied,
and all were granted, to the surprise of a
number of the applicants themselves.


On the other hand, in New Castle co.
there were 35 applicants and all refused.
The law contemplates greater privileges to
regular hotels, and the fight of the
temperance men was not so much against
these, as the tipling houses, but, in New
Castle co. these seem to have been shut out
with no more reason than the tippling
houses were in this county let in. The
Wilmington papers name three or four
such, one of them hotel keeper for II
years and never before refused.


law that in one county means ycS and
in the other no, is no law at all, and if we
have not legal acumen in the State to con-
strue it, then repeal it and let us have a
law so plain that justice of the peace can
understand. We want our judiciary to
stand above criticism, as they should and
can, and for this we contend.
Year: 1877

LAST week, in noting a remark by the
Chief Justice that the character of
woman was equal to the life Of man." we
had occasion to commend it as an indica-
ton that the judicial was being elevated to
the plane of the ministerial rs both Of
divine origin.


Subsequently a reporter Of Whining
ton paprr in ONE pen-Pictures of the
members OF the Court characterized Judge
WoOtten as ''wag" The liberty of the
reporter oiieu,., t4e dignity of the Court
and CA4yl Ju...c1 CJmegys in calling the
attention Of the States Attorney to it made
use of the following language:


"Our courts of Justice are appointed for the admin
istration Of right between man and man. When any
one comes into them he ought 70 look upon them as
the embodiment of that power. Every man ought to
have respect not only for the administration of JUS
ce but for the administrators of that Justice not
individual men, but the representatives selected
and chosen in the constitutional and legal mode, of
the power residing in the whole people at large. If
they degrade themselves, there Is way 20 reach
them. The people have reserved to themselves the
power 10 place their hands upon them and pull them
down from the high place 70 which they have been
elevated and that Is the appointed manner in which
they are to be called upon for anything connected
with the administration of public duty They are





nance and by the people Of this State acting through
their deputies. They ere 70 be treated at all times
when in the exercise of 1leir duties with respect
and not to be spoken of in derison contempt seorn
or ridicule. Disrespectful language addressed 10
judge sitting in his place. Is contempt not really TO
himself but 20 the Court an the power of the people
expressed in the formation of their judicial tribu-
mails. Anything printed published about them, the
tendency of which is b bring the administration OF
justice into ridcule and contempt is an offence Of
gross and outrageous character"


These words are right and proper and no
one will question the Importance here
given to the dignity of the Office. But,
there is another side to the question. The
action Of an official must correspond to his
Office, or there is serious want of the
'iitness of things The nitro of an
offending bishop, however elevated his
Office, will not shield him from just criticism
ip country where there is liberty o.
speech, and when we say that dhere i,
believed to be great want of consistency
In action in the decisions Of the Court, VIZ
say what concerns them more than our
selves We especially refer just now to tn,
Year: 1877

QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK.-The past week
has been one of stirring events especially
in the old world and it is encouraging that
business confidence has been so little
shaken. The fall Of Plevna, though in the
far off Balkan Mountains had in its keeping
in a certain measure the hopes of our far
mers for many broad acre of wheat has
been planted with the prospect that the
the Turk would cause an active demand for
our breadstuffs. The fall of Plevna and
Kars with some $4,000 prisoners renders it
pretty certain that the conflict is getting
unequal and the Turk must give in. 1t is
possible they may be able to hold on until
the next wheat crop is gathered, and, con-
sidering the sensitiveness of finance as to
values, it is gratifying that the almost GER
tain overthrow of the Turkish army in a
few months has scarcely affected the price
of the grain market, as the estimate had
gone forth that 100,000.000 bushels of our
wheat would be needed.


Then, again the conflict between Marshal
Mcmahon and the House of Deputies
threatening & serious disturbance Of peace,
and consequently trade, has been happily
averted, the Republican government more
strongly established and business sconfi-
dence more assured.


On our side of the water the silver ques.
l. Il FTl,o
discussion of this question in Congress pro
duces in England and Germany serious
apprehension that the United States might
prove unfaithful to its obligations in Govern
ment bonds. The threatened fraud oi
making by national enactment silver dol
lar worth only 90 cts, equal to gold dollar
worth 100 cents, for time arrested the sale
of our four per cent bonds in Europe, and
but for the hope that veto from the
President will defeat the schemes of the
infationists, our monetary affairs might bt
very seriously disturbed The discussion
has not yet ended but laid over for month
by reason Of the holiday recess, and in the
mean time it is hoped our Congress will
think on the question more honestly.


Still another matter Of the week ha
been observed with regret, viz: the con
tinued failures of so many Trust anC
Savings Banks, some from rascality, bu
the most of them it is presumed from de
precautions in values. The time was wher
one large failure of this kind would shake
the nation, but now they scarcely excite
comment outside their immediate locality
and this very fact has hopeful sign in it
Year: 1877

A Vicious Cow.-Early yesterday morn
ing a son OF, Policeman T. L. Skinner. a
child about four years Of age, was badly
gored by vicious cow while playing hear
the corner OF First and Main streets. The
cow rushed upon the little fellow as he was
crossing the street, and before she could be
stopped had tossed him in the air, inflicLing
painful but not serious wound in the abb


Sonnar
Year: 1877

This elegant preparation is prepared frem the
True Jamaica Ginger con blned with choice aro
males ard genuine French brandy, and is vas tly
superior To every oher Extract or Essence OF q IN
ger be ore the publlc-a OF which are prepared
with alcohol by the old process.
Year: 1877

Some gentlemen have spoken of this as a
compromise bill There is not drop of com.
promise in it. do not mean that, after it was
found that the principle of securing an able
and impartial tribunal conformed to the opin
ions and desires of all the committee, there was
not some yielding of individual views as to de-
tail, but how can that man be said to compro-
mise who, having just and righteous claim,
asserts it, maintains it, inforces it by argument
and proof, yield no jot or title of it before q
tribunal so constituted as to insure its decision
in accordance with justice and righteousness,
so far as the lot of humanity will admit? I
think justice and right are compromised when
they are submitted for their decision to force.
They are compromised when they can only be
maintained by doubtful, disputed exercises of
power. They never can be compromised when
they are permitted to stand before tribunal
clothed with judicial powers surrounded BY
judicial safeguards, invested with legal author
ity by the law making power of the country.
Let it not be said this reasoning implies that
truth and error stand on equality, that it makes
no difference whether matters be settled right
or wrong, provided only they be settled. It is
precisely because truth and error differ it is be-
cause of the vast difference between the right
eous result and its antagonist, that ne propose
to submit the differences between them, not to
force, not to heat and passion, but to that
tribunal which among all mechaHisms possible
to be executed by the law is least liable to be
diverted from the truth.
Year: 1877

SINCE the decision of the Supreme Court
of Rhode Island in the matter of George FL.
Corliss, the Centennial Commissioner of that
State, and one of the successful candidates
for the Office of Presidential elector, much
attention has been drawn to the effect of the
ineligibility of person receiving a majority
of votes upon the election itself. The field
of jurisprudence has been carefully scanned
in all its extent from the time of the cee-
brated controversy between Wilkes and Lut-
trel, in the British Parliament, to the most
recent English and American decisions.


Hon. James t. Mitchell, in report of the
CorllsS case in the american Law Register"
has collected in ali appendix all the cases
bearing upon the points involved. Iu the
case in question the court decided rea-
sons set out at length in the opinion, and
which need not now be enumerated
the Office of Centennial Commissioner was
an Office of trust under the United States, and
a disqualification to the Office of eector.
But the most important point decided was
that the disqualification did not result in the
election of the candidate next in vote, but
Year: 1877

The Democrats are constantly finding
mares nests" in the Louisiana returns.
But the misfortune is that nothing ever
comes from them. 1t is bad enough for one
to count his chickens before they are hatched;
but it is worse to count them without even
the basis OF Matching material. 1t is much
easier to show that the Louisiana Board re-
turned thousands of votes which might have
been legally withheld than that they withheld
single vote which should have legally been
returned. If Tilden is not declared elected
President it will not be because he has not
been allowed all the votes he was entitled to
in Louisiana.
Year: 1877

The testimony of Littlefeld be fore Fields
committee is pronounced wholly false in its
material points by members of the returning
board. 1t was perfectly apparent that the
whole examination was set up by Murphy
with the help of Llttlefield. On cross-exarn-
ination by Republicans Littlefield was obliged
to admit that he did not know of any other
change in any return. There is still gener-
al belief that those who stole this one mutila-
ted it. At the worst it has no connection
with the electoral vote and could not infiu-
ence it as it was, or as it was claimed to be
by the Democrats.
Year: 1877

SUPPOSE the Republican candidate for
President, Governor Hayes, had been almost
directly caught in the act of trying to pur-
chase Democratic electoral vote, the proof
resting upon money furnished by his own
nephew, living under his own roof, one of
two things would certainly have happened.
The Democrats would either have branded
him as unworthy the confidence of a great
people, or the Republicans would have forced
him to retire from the field as disgrace 10
their party and their country
Year: 1877

liable example to other nations. Had Hayes
or Tiiden been proclaimed President on the
day after the Presidential election, he would
have gone into the Office as a party man.
Now, the Chief Magistrate, whether Republic
can or Democrat, will be as different char
acter as If he had been born anew. Should
f ne happen to be Hayes, he will be perfectly
zee lIee ot all partisan bonds and bargains.
onoulI ne happen to be Tiden, he will be
hungry Democratic hordes. and carefully 10
respect the rights of the colored people every
where. This exigency may therefore be
called providential dispensation, and will
certainly discourage the idea among foreign
nations that the great Republic is at an end.
-PhiLodeLphi0 Press
Year: 1877

The Chicago coroner has ornamented his an
nual report with poetical extracts, and the doc
ument is altogether remarkable one. After
mentioning four suicides from love, he says:
'Let US pass from the contemplation of the
tragedy OF love to that of the poor fellow who
blew out what little brains he had on account
OF the tortures to which he was daily subjected
by-hs mother-in-law. Mothers-in-law have
always been great source of mischief to the
world. and alas the plague is SO universal and
enduring that we must despair of ever seeing it
overcome, The misery caused by mothers'in-
law is eternal, even as mothers in-law them
selves are i'm mortal"
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
sll cases Indispensable not publication
but as guaranty CT good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

4 BILL passed the House on its second
reading to prevent the sale of iutoxicat-
ing liquors ia each county, except by the
consent of the people It is said that it
provides that there shall not be more
than one saloon in each ward of city,
civil district or Incorporated town, aad
this shall be let out to the higbe st bi1Isr
by the county court clerk.
Year: 1877

The Commlttse on Privileges, Powers
and Duties of the House. have agreed to
report bill to provide for Temporarily
filing any vacancy occurring in the Of
fee of President ia the event OF there
being no constitutional declaration of the
election before the commencement of
the rsgup2r term.
Year: 1877

The wav in which / understand it
was that young OFT suspected the
girl to whom he was engaged of re-
ceiving attentions from another
young man, and he went around to
McGlue's house to look in at the
back window in order to observe
the pair upon a certain evening.
ANY way, it was a dark night, and
while OFT was cropping his way
through the yard he stepped on a
loose board of some kind close by the
pump, and instantly he fell into a
hole. He clutched at the boards as
he went down and managed to catch
hold of them, whereupon he hung on
like grim death.


Mr.. OFT knew that he had fallen
into the cistern. He didn't know
how deep it was or how much wa
ter there was in it; but he felt GER
tain that there was enough to drown
him if he should fall. He didn't like
to call for help because that would
expose him; so he struggled desper-
ately to Chamber out, but without
avail. The more he kicked, and
pulled, and jerked, the weaker he
became. He felt that he could not
hold on much longer. So he yelled
for help. 1t seemed an awful while
before any body came. His fingers
slipped a little. He knew that his
hour had come, for he couldn't swim.
His mind ran over all the sins of his
life. He prayed a little and then he
shouted again. Just as he was
about to give up and drop, McGlue's
back door opened and several people
Year: 1877

Correspondent Glasgow News.


A method of using petroleum as
the fuel of steam engines has been
discovered in Italy. 1t has passed
into American hands; it is patented
everywhere. l have seen the model,
and the action seems perfect. As
bestos is the medium; through ashes
tos, itself inconsumable, the oil pass
es blazing on its surface with vol
canic heat and power, yet if sheet
of paper be buried in the asbestos a
little below the flaming surface it
will not be scOrched. In this lies
the safety of the plan. By another
discovery the asbestos is made in
to pliable mill-board of one-eighth
of an inch in thickness, which is alb
sclutely fire proof. The furnace
may be coated with this externally
and internally, and no heat can es-
cape. The hand can touch the fur
mace without being scOrched. l for
get what percentage of heat is thus
saved, but it is very large. The ex-
periments have been tried in Lon
don by the agents of the American
patentee, and the success is reported
in terms as warm as the blaze of pc
troleum Eminent practical engin-
eers have seen the model here, and
are sanguine of the success of the
plan.
Year: 1877

Spring is a trying season. Indications OF sickness
should at or ce be attended to. Fatal diseases
may be caused by allowing the bowels to become
conStipated and the system to remain in . disor-
dered condition. until the disorder hiss time to de


velOp itself. An ounce of prevention is worth q
pound OF cure, is an old and truthful saying.
therefore, we advise all who troubled with the
complaints now very OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES indi-
gestion disordered liver, want of appetite. nausea
feverish skin TO take. without delay, Schenck's
Mandrake Pills. We know OF no remedy so harm
less and decisive IN its action 1t at strikes
at the 1OOt of the disease and produces q healthy
tone to the the system. People need never suffer
from any disease arising from disordered condi-
tion the liver IL they Would take this excellent
medicine when they feel the first indications of
the mslady. Families leaving home for the Sum-
mer months should take three or four boxes Of
these pills with them. They have an almost In
stanianeous effect. They will relieve the patient
of headache in one or two hours, and will rapidly
ly cleanse the liver of surrounding BILE and viii
efectusIly prevent bilious attack. They are
sold by all druggists. 1925
Year: 1877

jected to, and whether the ends of
justice will be subserved by keeping
him longer in prison, and so on. II
is said by those who ought to know.
that this talk of poverty and being
broken man is all buncombe; they
say he has at least three millions
safely hived, and that he proposes
when he does get out to rally around
him his old friends, and make an eff
fort to get control of the city and
State again. There is no doubt that
there is truth in this; once free, with
the money he doubtless has, he
could bring the Irish to his support,
and could capture Tammany with
ease. He is only fifty-six, and is as
strong as he ever was; and no man
ever lived who had more of the or
ganizing and controlling talent. His
old adherents who have been eating
musks since he went under, long for
such leader, and they would rally
under his banner in a minute; for
when Tweed was at the front they
were ali paid, and paid well. If he
wanted an editor, he never went at
him in mean way; but his cheque
for ten or twenty thousand dollars,
according to his value, was made at
once, with no nonsense about it; and
so with all of them. There are so
many who want to be bought, but
who now can find no one to buy
them, that the re-appearance of
Tweed in the political arena would
make decided stir in the city. He
can find party without trouble, and
it need surprise no one if within a
year the old man has control of the
city again.


POLITICAL.


There is weeping aud wailing in
the city among the place-nen. The
custom house cleaning is going on
rapidly, and the bar-rooms are full
Of red-nosed men who are dining
Hayes southern policy. The trou-
bic with them is that every man has
just received his walking paper, and
is adrift on the cold charity of an
unfeeling world, instead of having
nice salary to draw monthly; that
is what sils them. II is estimated
that there are FIVE thousand of this
class of bummers, and as fast as they
can be reached they are being show
ed out. Applicants for places in
the custom house are thick as leaves
in Valombrosa, but they all receive
the same answer-"no vacancies,
and none likely to occur" And
they go away sorrowing, and con-
slider Hayes southern policy a fail
ure. But while these fellows mourn
the people rejoice. For Hayes is
the first President who has ever
made an attempt in good faith to
carry out civil service reform. He
can do it, for he is an honest man
who means what he says; and, be-
sides, he has no aspirations for polit-
ical preferment, and can afford to
snub the spoilsmen; and he is doing
it.


THE WEATHER


is delightful, and New York is as
beautiful as anything can be. Bus
mess is improving slightly, and
there is better feeling. PIErRo.


New York, April sOth, 1877.
Year: 1877

Much has been said of late concerning


the new building owned by the Bismarck
TRIBUNE company, and pen picture Of
it has heretofore been attempted, but the
above cut will give better idea than it


ispossible for words to convey. The
original building was one story 22x46
with lean to II feet making it 22x58.
The main portion OF this has been raised


to a two story structure and a building
for the post Office the same size as the
other has been erected by the side of it
and the space between the two has been


covered and devoted to stairways and
closets. The lower portion of the old
establishment is used by S. Selleck for
his merchant tailoring establishment, and
the upper portion for the TRIBUNE COM
posing and job room. Ofthe new build
ing 22x25 feet is devoted to the post Of
fee and book and stationery stand, 16x-
Year: 1877

General Grant took dinner with Queen
Victoria the other day, and he and the
venerable widow had real good time.
We hope Grant will leave England right
away, because you know,-you know,
people will talk.-Lake City Leader.