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Year: 1878

Senator Lamar. is sitting there just
to the left of Gordon. looking like q
sick lion. He is short and massive in
build and festuse. His hair is thick
and long. as though he could not be
pst;"-t under the scissors of barber.
His beard is a1ch = the same condi-
tion, and completely covers his mouth
"a mouth, however, which you may
easily Imagine is Enthusiastically firm,
decisive and reticent Lamar is feeble.
and seldom trusts himself to continued
effort IN speech or labor His enforced
quiet and inaction make him morose
aud misanthropic in appearance. He
has strong, active, unusually clear
mind. and the blood which pulses quick
and hot from heart IN brain, finds no
backing in the sluggish and clogging
tide that compels his physical energies
to calm. Lamar In full health and
powers would be Boanerges--as be is
he has the hospital gloom and fret upon
him. aud the sound of conflict, the
sight Of contention in which he would
delight TO weld his battle-ax are ag-
gravating reminders of his pulling
weakness.


Senatof Ben Hill that blonde. strong
saxon looking man. is sitting just in
front of Coke. Not sitting. either. for
when quiet in his seat Ben Hill is
.'scrnuged" down in his chair like =
weary schoolboy who has been kept in
after hours When not listening TO
some other Senator, he is reading the
Record, or some other equally interest
ing book or paper. He takes. probably
as mach interest in the current proceed.
iuss of the Senate as any other of bis
colleagues. bat occasionally you may
catch him in the cloak roeu. DOING
sweetly on q sofa. When q Senator
takes the floor for . speech Senator
Hill listens with great respec. long
enough to know whether he is going TO
be interested; if not. he slides out to
smoke or chat in the lobby or cloak
room; il he is interested. he get as close
rs possible % the speaker. and is appar-
emily all ears He is notable figure
in the Senate. promptly hunted cot by
visitants to the galleries Nearly every
one who gsins admission to the door
wants an Introduction to him. He Is
Year: 1878

HERE is verse is a poem elected by
the discussion of the question Of future
rewards aud punishment


cit ID easy enough for tho lovers Of sin TO
Believe in . hell they cannot get into:


And natural. too. for the wicked 70 dorbs Of
he'll which they fear they canLo4 get oat Of %
Year: 1878

THERE is really no urgent necessity TO
newspaper correspondents to expose them
selves to danger by going in search Of
news in yellow fever districts: All that


they can learn by such a course is no more
than can be furnished by the sanitary re-
ports of the towns where the pestilence pre-
walls, unless they merely obtain news fol


alarming sensations that do more harm
than good. ~-'-~
Year: 1878

GENERAL BUTLER does not seem to
have yet made up his mind in the choice
of party. In a speech at North Adam,
some days ago he declared that he did no


ask for support as a republican, or a demo
crat, or a nationalist, or a workingman, o.
greenbacker, but as reformer to purify
the State Government. If the General u
not more careful he will be repudiated b
X Kearney, .rs. .J1,.
Year: 1878

Some of these days the needs of Eng
lishmen may require that Goals shall be
carried to New Castle, which will be in no
way more surprising development than
the demand that carries our cotton goods
to Manchester and American beef to the
English butcher-stals. England spends
annually for her home-raised beef and
mutton, bacon, hams and pork some eighty
seven million pounds sterling, and imports
foreign meat supplies to the extent of
twenty-five million pounds sterling, or one
fourth the whole value of the produce of
her farms. Of this last supply about one
third is set down by the London Times to
consist of living animals and fresh meat,
and it is the growth of the fresh meat i'm
port that it is inclined to call alarming"
The imports of live animals in 1865-66
we're from six million pounds sterling to
six and half in value, in 1876 they
were but seven and quarter millions.
while in two years the new import of fresh
meat into Great Britain has already reached
each year the value of ten millions of dol
lars. The present year the fresh meat
import is said to have fallen off little;
but the opinion is made by the Times that
''no doubt in time the foreign supply Of
meat is likely to regulate the market"
The time required, very likely, will be
brought much nearer at hand by the new
steamers of the Blue Star Line and the
abbatoir at Girard Point, which will make
a business of the English supply. Amer
lean steamers have been too busy in the
last year carrying passengers to the Expo
sition and valuable freight to make room
for the particular handling required by the
new export; but now, that the meat trade
is to have line of its own, (eight new
steamers from Philadelphia its effects on
the British beef market will probably be
directly marked. Just at this time Eng
lish farm tenants are demanding lower
rents and putting down the wages of their
farm hands, because of the late unfavora
Bile season for wheat and its unusually low
price, owing to the competition of Ameri
can breadstuffs; and the farmers, it is said,
are yearly converting more and more Of
their corn (grain) land into pasture land
because of this powerful competitor. When
the competitor comes into the pasture field
also, as is now preparing, there will still
be left to agricultural England TO keep
mich COWS and grow vegetables, which Is
about the final conclusion arrived at by
the distinguished authority Aforesaid
PHILADELPHIA Ledger.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Justice Miller, before the N. Y.
State Association thus expresses himself
on the value of jury trials:


off cultivated Oriental were told for
the first time that nation, which claims
to be in advance of all others in its love
of Justice and its methods of enforcing it,
required as one of its fundamental princi-
pies of jurisprudence that every contro-
versy between individuals, and every charge
of crime against an offender, should be
submitted to twelve men without learning
in the law, often without any other learn
ing, and that neither party to the contest
could prevail until all the twelve men were
of one opinion in his favor, he would GER
tainly be amazed at the proposition. Nor
have the European nations differed much
with him in their estimate of trial by jury.
1t has been we'll understood and received
the careful consideration of continental
jurists for great many years, without be-
ing adopted by any of them, in the form
that We have it from England. Many at
tempts have been made to introduce it in
some modified shape, but l think it safe
to say that it has not in its essential An
glo-Saxon feature met the approval of any
people except those of that race. In the
days when kings exercised arbitrary power
the jury was, among the sturdy, liberty
loving Englishmen, valuable barrier
against oppression by the crown. But in
this country, where the people are sover-
eign, the jury is but too often the mere
reflection of popular impulse, and the
safety of an innocent man is more fire.
ouently found to depend on the firmness
of the Judge than the impartiality of the
Jury. Still it is probably wise that no man
shall be convicted of an infamous crime
until twelve fair-minded men are convin-
ced Of his guilt. I am also forced to adj
NIT. however, that even in civil cases my
experiment as a judge has been much
more favorable to jury trials than 1t was
as a practitioner. And / am bound to
saw that an intelligent and unprejndiced
iuTv. when such can be obtained, who are
Instructed in the law with such clearness,
precision and brevity as will present their
duty in bold relief, are rarely mistaken in
regard to facts which they are called upon
to find.
Year: 1878

Boston papers report that one of the
rooms of the Boston Manufacturing Com
pany at Waltham, Massachusetts,, is now
lighted with electricity, two dynamo-eleo-
trio machines and ten lights taking the
place Of two hundred and fifty gas jets.
Three hundred girls work in the room
at looms on which fine stockings are made.
The superintendent of the mill and opera
tives express themselves much pleased
with the soft white light furnished by
electricity, and as that light costs much
less than gas. This may readily be believ-
ed since the power for running the dynamo
electric machines is furnished by the eight
hundred horsepower engine employed in
the looms and, the only additional cost of
the electric lights is interest on the plant
and the cost Of carbon points and repairs.
1t was proved some time ago that the cleo
trio light was less costly than gas for the
brilliant illumination of large workshops
having surplus steam power available for
running the machines. The question of
prime interest now is whether such lights
can be economically furnished for street
lighting, for dwelling houses and small
rooms, when steam power is used exclu-
sively for the purpose of running the elec-
trio machines,
Year: 1878

For farmers and those who live in To-
calities where people can retire at eight or
nine o'clock in the evening, the old no.
tion about early rising is still appropriate.
But he who is kept up till eleven or twelve
o'clock, and then rises at five or six, be-
cause of the teachings of some old ditty
about "earIy rising, is committing sin
against his own soul. There is not one
man in ten thousand who can afford to do
without seven or eight hours sleep. All
the stuff written about great men who slept
only three or four hours night, is apoc-
ryphal They have been put upon such
small allowances occasionally and prosper
ed; but no man ever yet kept healthy in
body and mind for number of years with
less than seven hours sleep. If you can
get to bed early, then rise early; if you
cannot get to bed till late, then rise late.
1t may be as proper for one man to rise
at eight as it is for another to rise at fivo
Physicians say that a sudden jump out of
bed gives irregular motion to the pulse.
1t takes hours to get over too sudden
rising. 1t is barbarous to expect children
to land on the centre of the floor at the
call of their nurses, the thermometer below
zero. Give us time after you call us, to
roll over, gaze at the world full in the
face, and look before you leap.
Year: 1878

The common practice in making poul-
tices of mixing the linseed meal with hot
water, and applying them directly to the
skin, is quite wrong, because, if we do not
wish to burn the patient, we must wait
until great portion of the heat has been
lost. The proper method is to take a
flannel bag (the size of the poultice re-
quired, } to fill this with the linsced poul-
tice as hot as it can possibly be made, and
to put between this and the skin second
piece of flannel, SO that there shall be at
least two thicknesses of flannel between
the skin and the poultice itself. Above
the poultice should be placed more flannA
or piece of cotton wool, to prevent it
from getting cold. By this method we are
able to apply the linseed meal boiling hot,
without burning the patient, and the heat,
gradually difusing through the flannel
affords grateful sense of relief which cam
not be obtained by other means. There
are few ways in which such marked relief
is given to abdominal pain as by the ap-
plication of poultice in this manner
DR.. T. Lauder Brupton, IN Brain.
Year: 1878

reaching from their neck to their knees,
and they are the best dressed Of all the
laboring people of Singapore. The great
mass of the people do not waste their
money for clothing. The skin of the Ma
lay is not like our Indian or negro, but
sort of bronze color. Most of the popula


tion go into the water several times day.
All along the streets we see the naked
heather sleeping in the sun, with the
thermometer at 820 in the shade. They
sleep half the day and all of the night.
They eat but little and work less


We inquired for hotels and found there
were two quite famous, we'll known by all
who travel over these seas-The Paddy
Goose Hotel, Madras Bob landlord, and
the Hotel De fEurope, were recommend
ed. The name of the former sounded
quite unique in our ears, but we did not
venture. We afterwards learned that
Madras Bob was celebrated landlord,
having no superior for thousand miles
around. Wesought the Hotel Del Europe
and wer2 satisfied The hteol building is
of solid stone, sixty or seventy feet high
and of only two stories 1t is located in
the centre of garden adorned with flow
ers, shrubs and trailing vines, many of
which are new to us. 1t is our first view
of the tropics, and all seems romantic and
beautiful. A grove of graceful palms
shade the house, and their high and feath.
cry heads wave in the breeze. The park
is in front of the hotel, and beyond the
park the beautiful bay, with the shipping
of many nations. The hotel is elegant,
and not surpassed anywhere. We had an
English-speaking waiter behind US, and all
our wants were supplied. The bill of fare,
printed in French, was varied and exten-
sive. The game was abundant, and we
never saw such variety of fruit before.
Year: 1878

IfDr. Armitage theory ofthe necessity
of a Joyful religion were more generally car
ried out there would probably be fewer
empty seats in the churches. A visit to
most modern houses of worship is enough
to give one the blues for whole year.
Year: 1878

Niagara Falls Gazette.


A boisterous northwest wind troubled the
river all day last Friday, and during the after
noon the waves ran pretty high. Despite the
threatening appearance of the river and the
menacing tone of the wind, two young men,
Fred Burdick and James Geagan, started out
with boat, with the intention of enjoying
sail across the Chippewa. Before the occu-
pants had realized their position the boat had
filled with water and was slowly sinking. Both
jumped into the river, and when the craft
| arose to the surface, the sail still upright,
they attempted to make use Of the sheet to
drift them nearer Grass island. In their
maneuyering the boat upset. They had
climbed on the keel, SO when the boat upset it
| threw both into the water again. At this
point, Burdick, after divesting himself of his
shoes, started to swim for Grass island
Geagau, who had taken his coat off before the
accident occurred, took off his shoes, and, after
securing the mast and sail as floating sup
port, attempted to attract attention from the
shores by raising his hat on the spirit. Seeing
a sailboat start out from Binkley's, Geagans
hopes were only raised to be again annihilated
when the occupants of the boat, evidently not
having observed the accident, tackled and re-
| turned to the shore.


Seconds grew to minutes and minutes to
hours in the excited Imagination of the floating
castaway, but after all hope had been aban-
doned his eye caught sight of a rowboat which
had started out from Port Day. He watched
the rescuing boat reach and save the we'll
nigh exhausted Burdick, who by this
time had been carried down nearly oppo-
site the ice-house on the lower point of
Port Day, and after conflicting hope and des-
pair, doubling whether the boat would dare to
venture down where he lay helplessly floating,
he was finally reached by the brave rescuer,
taken into the boat, and the struggle to return
commenced Pipus Walker, who, having heard
of the accident, had dared to attempt to save
the drowning men, at first contemplated max
ing direct for Goat Island, perilous feat to
attempt under the most favorable circum-
stances, and greatly more so under the disad-
vantages surrounding him then; but reflection
led him to attempt to breast the fierce current,
a feat which steady and powerful strokes final
ly enabled him to accomplish. The sailboat
cars, ETC., were all carried over the Horseshoe
Fall. The boat, with the stern broken off, was
afterwards seen floating down the river below
the fall.
Year: 1878

by these men is that there is now too much
untaxed property in the country. Cannot
they see that the success of their scheme to
substitute untaxable greenbacks for taxable
bank notes would augment the cause which
is the basis of their complaint in regard to
untaxed property. 1t seems reasonable and
just that all property should bear it's pro-
portionate share of the expenses of the gov
ernment."


Mr.. Bayard spoke for nearly two hours,
and


IN SUMMING UP


declared the remedies for the business
troubles and financial depression to be: First,
tariff reform; second, a reformed civil service;
third, a sound currency based on and redeem
able in coin of unvarying value. Patience
and courage for but little while longer he
believed would bring about the latter, the
most important of all, and no attempt to
reach healthy condition of business by any
other means could afford permanent relief,
or end otherwise than in failure and more
widespread and complete disaster and ruin.
Year: 1878

pursue and attack us; that We had plenty of
ammunition, and help was coming. They
returned to Morgan, who said he had heard
Davis would kill him on sight, and he did
this to defend himself; that, if the govern
ment had any process to serve on him, and
would give it to any person to terve besides
Davis, he would promptly answer
it and give bond, and use his influence
to correct the ways of his neighborh4od, and
this should be his last shot, and he would
make friends, and requested that his men be
allowed to pass the road on tie way home.
This proposition was readily acceded to.
Morgan and his men went home, and we to
Cockville. We were told that a young man
named Gentry, of Morgan's men, had been
killed, and several others of his party
wounded.
Year: 1878

In addition to the number here given,
several hundred thousand have come here
either by way of Canada or as if from "Great
Britain Among other causes to which this
abandonment of Ireland is attributed is the
diminished area of land sown, and the
diminished production of grain, potatoes,
and other food. The decrease in population
has been uniform with the decrease in the
area cultivated The following table shows
the acreage of each principal crop for the
Year: 1878

The improvement since 1876 is compara-
lively so small as to hardly justify an ex-
pectation that it will be at all permanent
The causes of this rapid decrease in the
population may be accounted for by the
enormous emigration of this people to this
country, the number in round numbers
being nearly 100000, and another million
to Australia, Canada, and other countries
The number of emigrants to this county was
as follows:
Year: 1878

With the exception of the great increase
of horned cattle from 1857 to 1865 there has
also been o general decrease in the number
of live stock The official estimate of live
stock in Ireland ia as follows.
Year: 1878

tneLn LII Will tne nlSneSG premiums they
could get, The payment of


rEEsE IMMATURE BONDS


was unwise, and the law passed in March,
1869, providing for their payment in coin
was entirely unnecessary, and was forced
manner Of accomplishing what would have
come about naturally if the proper course
had been pursued. 81 am not,'' said the
speaker, discussing the question as to
whether the law in existence before the pas
sage of this one of March, 1869, provided
for the payment of the bonds in coin. The
latter law in any event was unnecessary,
and nothing that can conceive of would
would have made it necessary. If one fourth
part of the money that was paid out of the
public treasury for the redemption of these
bonds not due at high premium had been
expended instead in bringing our demand
notes to par, and


RESTORING SPECIE PAYMENTS


there would have been no question as to
what our bonds were to be paid in, for
whether it we're in paper or gold would then
have been immaterial, since the demand
notes of the government would have been as
good as gold. There are very large num-
ber of men, especially in the Western States,
who are demanding that the volume of
greenback notes shall be enlarged. The ex-
tent of the enlargement they do not agree
about. Some insist that it shall be unlim-
tied, large enough, in fact, to iquidate the
entire national debt in greenbacks. There
are others who see that such rank dishonesty
must result in final repudiation and national
discredit. They, however, ask that


WITH cpRFNpAcr vorunSr


be 80 enlarged as to absorb the entire
amount Of national banking currency and
thus take it's place. One complaint made
Year: 1878

We fully endorse the sentiment
of the following extract from oul
llartsvllle contemporary, the Sen
tineI Tiere are several news.
paper "dead- beats iu this vicini.
ty to whom we commend the
Sentinel's structure:


"Tdere are a number Of rrgu
lar dead beats who take their
neighbors pape out Of tie post
Offices. There is one dead beat
who for two years bas been an
noying our subscribers in one
neigborhood. aud has so persist
emily kept the papers he does net
pay for that our subscribers have
had to discontinue their papers in
sheer self defence. They ought to
know that they are stealing.
Well get hold Of a case one of
these days and prosecute the dead
beat for stealing, and see if we
can break up that sort of thing.
If you are determined to read the
paper, get one for yourself and
pay for it. Don't steal your
neighbor's property and expect to
be looked upon as an honest or
clever man."
Year: 1878

Here is Blltlmore tramp's
tale: "At Perryville / went to a
house with a brick in my hand,
aud asked the lady if che would
please be so kind as to put some
butter on it. The request excl
ted her curiosity, and she asked:
why do you want to put butter
on a brick?' ! told her was 60
ing to eat it. Surely she said,
you are not so hungry as to eat a
buttered brick? Come into the
house and ! will give you food
| hagged 9 square meal, Tor which
| had set SO nice a trap. In the
western section of the state |
asked for something to eat at a
house, and was refused. / then
begged for a looking glass, which
aroused curiosity to know what
| would do with it. rep led, L
want to see myself starving to
DEATH They then gave me what
/ wanted"
Year: 1878

Ye lovers of oni)n hash, and
poetry and song, come this way
and listen while we sing you a
plaintive ditty. 1t "goes to the
chune of Happy Day" and is
something like this:
There is boarding house


Not far away,


Where they serve onion-hash


Three times day.


Oh how the ooarders veil


When they hear the dinner bel;
OH how the onions smell


Three times day.
Year: 1878

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Feb. 6.-The latest
adNlceS from Sacramento are To the effect
that no danger whatever from the break i'm
the leYee Is To be apprehended within the lim-
lis OF the city. The outlying portion of the
city south OF the X street leyee Is flooded, the
water Standing IN some houses To depth of
two feet. but that neighbOrhoOd il thinlv pOp-
ulated and the overflow will not cause any
extensive loss. The principal damage falls
upon farmers and orchard owners for dis
tance of thirty miles below the city, and a
rough estimate places the loss to them i'm the
nelghborhGod of one million dollars. Details
of the extent of the disaster must necessarily
mates may prove excessive. From the con.
hguIatiCn OF the ground il Is not impossible
that al point some miles below the city a
great portion of the tiOOd-water may be turned
oil into the SlOughS to the eastward of the I'M
proved property. and much of the latter saved
from The worst effects of the overflow.
Year: 1878

A LITTLE Boy KILLED BY A LITTLE GIRL
Cincinnati Commercial special from Clyde,
o., February 3, says: About six weeks ago
in the eye by stone which was thrown by a
little girl. The Inflammation which followed
was subdued in a short time but was followed
by paralysis of the optic nerve, causing blind
during which the boy died To-day an autopsy
was held which revealed the fact that the dtlra
mater adhered TO both the skull and BRAIN
pressing down upon the optic nerve, had been
the direct cause of death