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Year: 1878

A few days since the daughter Of
an Ex- Mayor Of New York was
sent to prison TOR drunkenness
about the same time the husband
of niece Of a late Senator and
Governor Of Maryland was arraign-
ed in a Washington police court
for cruelty to his family, and now
the grandson Of q former President
of the United States has been ar
rested for stealing Bibles from the


pews Of New York Church.
There is a screw loose somewhere.
Year: 1878

Letters from Pernambuco state
that there is great famine in
Brazil, a consequence Of the long
drought. Thousands are reported
dying, and the destruction to
animals very great. What is
worse, no crop can be raised this
wear.
Year: 1878

Two Of Brigham Young's sons
are being educated at West Point,
and third has applied for admis-
sion. Unless Congress shall make
an appropriation for that iustitu-
tlon the rest Of the family should be
content to wait.
Year: 1878

In two large cities OF t1is country within
the past week lottery gambling and policy
playing have been broken up and abolished.
These cities are Philadelphia and st. Louis
In the first there were scores of policy shops
that did an immense business in defiance Of a
State statute prohibiting gambling Of this
kind The Philadelphia Times made a savage
assault on these, called on the officers to vim
dicate the law. and by it's persistence com
PEELED them finally to do 50; the result was
the arrest Of some score of policy players and
the departure of the rest for other parts of the
Union.


In st. Louis 1t is much the same story.
The Missouri State Lottery, in consequences
of a decision in its favor lately rendered by
the Supreme Court Of the State attempted to
reopen its shops and go to work again. The
result was the arrest of n number Of lottery
dealers, who were each fined 5000 by the
Court of Criminal Correction of st. Louis
The Judge declared that selling lottery tick
cts WAS unlawful by the laws of Missouri,
and announced that in future he would assess
every person who sold a lottery ticket In
st. Louis $500. The result has been, as
might be expected, the sudden but completo
disappearance OF the Missouri State Lottery
from st. Louis. There are no more of its
tickets to be found in the Future Great City,
OF Amprica
Year: 1878

courts, their jurisdiction Is as essentially
and exclusively appellate as that of the
Supreme Court. From It's very nature the


proceeding is necessarily revisory, and in no


case can it be issued by q court having
original jurisdiction of the matter to be in


uuired into, It is invariably part of the ap-
pellate power, and can be exercised by none
other than appellate courts. TO say, then,
that power purely and essentially appellate
cannot be exercised by court because it has
appellate jurisdiction only, Is TO our mind n
palpable contradiction. If the Supreme Court
can issue the writ only in appeaiable cases, it
is practically useless, and there is no way by


which the absolute nulHty Of the Judgments
of district courts can be declared, except in
cases where appeals can be taken.


In the Goale case the court had but one
question to ask snd answer. which was In
cases of appeal from the recorders courts. to
what court are they made returnable The
court having appellate jurisdiction over the
recorders courts is, by reason Of It's appellate
power, the court and the only ono that has
authority to issue to them a writ of dcrtjOrHri


There Is but one possible case in which An
appeal from the recorders courts can be
taken. and that Is whore fine or penalty
imposed by municipal corporation snail be
in condensation, and then the appeal is direct
to thc Supreme Court. The Supreme Court.
then, (and it alonel has direct appellate iuris-
diCtion over the recorders courts, and has
the right to issue the writ in cases decided
in the last resort by the recorders and where
in fhere is no appeal. But under no
imaginable condition of facts can there ever
be an appeal from the recorders courts to
the Superior Criminal. 1t may be q debatablc
question as to whether the Supreme Court is
empowered to review the Judgments of the
recorders courts by certjOrnri. hut there Is
not the slightest shadow Of authority for the
assumption of such jurisdiction on the part OF
Judge Whitaker.
Year: 1878

We don't always believe in Darwn's theory
OF progression, but, occasionally, we see SEN
timents and ideas given expression in the
press and, therefore, by means that are un-
mistakably human; but which are, at the
same time, so degraded morally, that we are
compelled to accept the missing link" as a
possibility being with human intellect and
yet totally wanting in moral perception and
all sense OF decency. This observation has
been provoked by the following paragraph
from the Chicago Tribune:


The New Orleans hcdytne alludos to JEFF
Davis as this patriotic and noble gantlema
and veteran" How thankful the aver GO npr
lean citizen shnu d b tn It he is not u patriotic
and noble gentleman, but merely mudsiil


We should like to see comparison insti-
tlted between the scribbler who wrote this
and the honored chief of the Cntedoracy,
Year: 1878

The American Government has expended
for freedmon's schools 1911, ,225 AZ.


The study of the German language is to DE
retained in the St. Louis schools The vote OF the BOARD
was 16 TO IL.


Nine of the public schools of San Francisco
are in direct teegraphic communication with the office
NJ the Board OF Education all the rest OF the schools
arc shortly TO be thus favored An ungraded class Is 10
be established in the city for the benefit OF those pus
who come from the country schools, Where thy nave
had little training and study in those branches that are
Taught here for those who from sickness Otherwise
are kept out of school great portion Of the tme thus
losing the training of graded class for those wEo nave
no ATTITUDE for the studies taught in the grades Tor
those whose parents cannot afford to send them 10
long and who anxious to get an education that wiz
be OF everyday when they so out INTO inc worm,
and for those who have become lsiless ana dslhceu
to study, in whom another system of studies might
awaken some interest.


Superintendent Harrington, of NewBedford,
says that arithmetic unwarrantahy favored "nuer
the old system Of education in the public SCHOOLS
in The first place occupied from third to nan OF 'he
school time-flchng opportunity from other Dranches
of equal or greater vauo-and in the secOnd pce' ls
service the mind greatly mislnterpreteo SO 'h


large part of the labOrious taskwOrk it exaced was
msappied and abortiye. For in addition TO those uses
OF the study which no one will call IN question: 1t was
supposed TO he OF inesmable advantage as an insru
mentality the discipline OF the reasoning powers.
little study and less observation would have shown lis
pretensOns in this respect 10 be utterly uutouhdeo
Every prominent meapbysican who ever discussed the
subject has asserted that intellectual pursuit tends 10
cultivate smaller number OF faculties In more I'm
tied manner Ordinary sagacity indeed can easily dis
cover that mathematical reasoning does not relate to
cause and effect at ALL while its demonstrations are en-
tlrely different from the steps Of logical syogsm In
affairs of fe moreover, there Is always an element
Of uncertainty TO be taken into consideration when
solving practical problems and the best exercise OF tue
reasoning powers manifested in wisely managing this
element Now no such uncertainty pertains to the
mathematics Its conclusions follow inevitably ana
exactly from their premises.
Year: 1878

In the Chattanooga Times of Satur-
day indicoTous and untruthful men
ton is made Of an estimable young
lady of Knoxville, to the effect that
she is soon to be united in matrimony
with a Mississippi gentleman. With
the exception Of the compliment paid
the lady personally, the whole thing
is sheer fabrication, and without the
slightest founda len. How the Times
fell into such an inaccuracy, TO use no
harder expression, is more than we
can understand. The only explana-
ton we can think of, is q paragraph
il the same issue of the Times. from
which it appears the editor had been
opening champagne and beer with
he "Can t-Get-A way Club.n
Year: 1878

THE Gallatin Examiner is out in a
strong article in favor of adopting the
Mohett bell-punch system in this
State as a means Of raising taxes. 1t
argues, with much force. that it will
be the most satisfactory way of col
Letting the tax OH spirituous liquors,
aud that the amount thus raised will
be much larger than under the present
system
Year: 1878

=. sNAsTEE GENERAL KEY is cred
tied with saying that the people of the
West are undoubtedly for Grant for
President in 1850. He saw scarcely
any one on the Pacific slope who was
not for him.
Year: 1878

GOV MARKS has since his election
received on an average fifty letter per
day, mostly from applicants for Office.
He is confined to his room with a
bilious attack, snI is unable TO answer
any Of them
Year: 1878

So, then, God bids you como Of
ten from the noise and strife and tu.
multi Of life, bids you TO come even
from the grandeur Of public religious
worship, aud shut your door that you
may pray to your Father in secret.
It is thore your truest life is lived. II
is there strength comes for the toll
aud weariness Of life. 1t needs not
long for this not long to gather n
round you that sweet sense Of Fath-
erhood which shall make the whole
day sacred, and your work service
to God. You know how, before
you start away 10 the morning to
your toll, you have only timo per-
haps, FOR u loving word er two to
your wife, and . hss.y kiss for the
little ones. But how much love you
may put into those few words, aud
what sweet memory those little kiss
es leave oil tho dsy long. And 80 q
moment or two Of solemn speech
with God. before the great tide of
busy life flows 10 upon the soul, one
short clasp. Of the Fathers hand.
one quick glance into bis holy, Low.
Ing cyes. will make the whole day
sacred. We need not long prayers
TO bring us tho sweet sehse Of Gods
Fatherhood, tho hidden secret Of
comm onion oi him who is ever with
US. walk With my friend through
u bnsiling. crowded street, and
though I speak no word to him, the
close pressure OF bis hand Upon my
arm, from time TO time, tells me oil
[ want 10 know. The little child, too,
holding my hand through a long SUN.
mer walk no looks up into my lace
now and then. ! look down into his,
and iu that look how much 10 said
what compact Of trust and love, what
bright assurance that oil is fair and
calm and pleasing between Us. So
a good man walks with God.-Rec.
George Da,oson.
Year: 1878

For the LEDGER.
LINES ON THE DEATH OF A


FRIEND.
Her sun went down while it was yet


day;
Her fair sweet face was hidden away


Under the snow:


Oh, the bitter woe
That shadows their mourning to-day.
Say, does it ease the parting pain
To tell then her loss is but their gain?


All, no! All, no!


They feel it so,
But the wound is deep and all words


vain.
Only when time in the months to


come
Shall his healing lay on each sorrow


ing one;


When the grief of to-day.


Shall be soothed away,
And the souls trouble more calm be-
come.
Then, only then shall they clearly
see
That the father who lOVeth them
tenderly
Hath willed it so;
For their good they shall! know,
Where the treasure is, there the
heart will be.
In her home whose brightness would
dim the sun
The radiant form of their heart


cherished one
Could they but behold,
Though lonely and cold,
Seemeth earth, they would say ellis
will be done"
How, one by one, as they watch and
weep,
Drift our loved ones away over the
tideless deep;
And we hear not the song
OF the white .robed throng
Whose glau smiles Danish Deaths
dreamless sleep.
T.. VAIL.
Year: 1878

INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 20.-Gen. B. +.
Butler spoke this afternoon in the Exposi-
ton building, for nearly two hours. He
commeuced by saying that the frequency
of our elections has a tendency to destroy
their value and prevent proper apprecia-
ton OF the privilege which was possessed
no oi her nation in the World-that of chos-
ernment and determine the nature of our
laws,


With the view of showing the nature of
financial legislation, he then referred at
great length to the history of the Demo
cratic party and of Congress from the days
of Monroe and Jackson down to the pres


ent time. In the course of this resume he
declared the teaching tof history in this
country and European countries was that
| iirredeemable currency is more easily kept
| at par value than currency redeemable in
coin.


He referred at length to his Congressio-
nal action upon the finance question, and
claimed that he had been consistent in the
views he was now advocating. Speaking
of the RECOGNITION of the South he said i;


had been taken out of the hands of both
political powers by President Hayes and


must now be left to take care of itself. He


wished his Republican friends and the


newspapers who were saying hard things


about him would not allude to anything hs


did previous to 1872. because he was ther
understood 10 be very good man, but HI
had not changed his views. He was il
early life Democrat, believed 10 the fnan
cial view of Jackson and Jefferson The


Democrats at that time were unbelieverI
in hard money, as now understood, and b.


wished to stand on the old Democrat,
doctrine that the government should tax,


care of the people. of the laboring man


and protect him against the greed of capa


talists.
II He spoke again. tonight at Masoni
D Hall, going over pretty much the sam
e line of argument.
Year: 1878

A good deal has lately been heard Of the
progress Of female emancipation in Russia,
but it is something of novelty to find the
Russian ladies figuring in the character of
duelists, as was the case not long since
with two bellies of Petigorsik,a "a well-known
fashionable resort on the northern slope of
Caucasus. A dispute arose between the
two beauties, springing out Of the attention
paid to each in turn by handsome young
cavalry officer quartered in the neighbor-
hood. The quarrel ran SO high that one of
the Amazons at length dispatched her maid
to the other with formal challenge, which
was instantly accepted. The belligerents
met without seconds in lonely place out
side the town, each armed with brace of
loaded pistols. Before, however, each had
taken their respective positions, the trem-
bling of one lady's hand caused her pistol
to explode prematurely, sending bullet
through the dress of the other. who shriek
ed and fell in swoon. The assailant,
frightened out of her wits, flung away her
weapon and rushed to the supposed corpse;
but her ungrateful antagonist, recovering
her senses as suddenly as she had lost
them, clutched her hair with one hand and
boxed her ears with the other in the most
energetic style. The firing having now
ceased the battle proceeded hand to hand.
Locks of hair, ribbons and shreds of cloth
ing flew in every direction. and but for
the timely advent of three or four police
man the affray might have ended like the
somewhat simewhat similar combat of the
the Kilkenny cats. The military Lotha-
rios only remark on hearing the story was,
ssIt's lucky they took to clawing each 9th
er instead of me-"
Year: 1878




Owing to the darkness that fills our deep
mining shafts our miners are less conscious
of the dangers of their. trade than they
would otherwise be. A miner standing on
bit of plank thrown across shaft 1000
or 500 feet in depth sees little of the pit
yawning beneath his feet. The darkness
riensa smith i-:..z~a------A-------
which his eyes may rest and preventing an
unsteadiness of the head. Place the same
shaft on the surface of the earth, and let it
tower /. 500 feet into the air and broad light
of day, and the miner standing on his plank
at an elevation three times as great as the
tallest church spire would be unable to
moye-would be paralyzed. Locking down
through the awful depth below, he would
clutch the nearest timbers, afraid to make
move in any direction. Make for him
doors on each side of the shaft, represent
ing the openings at the stations, and he
would not likely leap from door to door
across the yawning shaft, as ho does under
meath the ground, where the dark rises up
and makes a seeming floor between the
doors. 1t is undoubtedly the darkness that
henumbs the senses of the miner to the
danger to which he is exposed when passing
to Or fro across shafts or wines, or when
climbing the interior of their compartments,
trusting to the scanty hold for feet and
hands afforded by the narrow lodges of the
timbers projecting from the walls.
Year: 1878

In the time of Queen Mary the people of
England were SO partial to square toes that
they were obliged to issue . proclamation
that no person should wear shoes above six
inches square at the toes. Was this GUS
tom one iot more absurd than the hoops of
the last century or the crinolines of the
present century, the enormous bonnets of
forty years ago, or the ladies' head-gear of
the present days The wearing of great
breeches in the reign of Queen Elizabeth
was carried to most ridiculous excess.
They used to stuff them out with wadding
until they resembled wool-sacks and it is
said that scaffolds were erected in places
of public resort on purpose for beaux. Still
more ridiculous were the boots of the reign
of Henry VI. and Henry w., with long


pointed toes taperng for nearly two feet
into a peaked toe. After all we have
gained in simplicity and convenience,
though fashion still plays strange freaks.
Year: 1878

He Knows IT ALL.-He stands in the
store with his back to the stove, and tells
how he could run a newspaper, how he
could be hog on ice, and call things By
their right names; how he would expose
corruption in high places; how he wonld
write good common seEse, hand none or
your frivolous, try-to-be-funny stuff. Then
he criticises other peoples methods of con-
Quoting newspapers, and just wishes some
one would give him a chance to show his
journalistic abilities. The way to cure one
OF these chaps is to get him to write SEN
sible article every day for week. Before
one week is out be is sure TO be pumped
dry, and will cape worse for an idea than
chicken does with the pip.-GoaoaHda En-
tsrpYiss
Year: 1878

FROM indications we should think that
a wedding might be spoken of as being a
probable affair in the near future. The
young man is evidently preparing by lay
ing in household goo,ls.
Year: 1878

For present purposes these short memo.
randa will suffice to put our readers in pos
session of all the facts necessary to connect
our local history with the great events OF
the war 1t will depend partly upon per
sons interested to make this military sketch
perfect so that there may be in an sccessi.
BILE form what will daily become more en-,
tertsinilg and important
Year: 1878

THE MEETING ON SATURDAY was
another evidence of the Improvement of
the people, There was but one drunken
man to be seen on the streets. And we
expect he got his whiskey from some
ex-office holder or some office holder who
had no more respect for his fellow than
to offer him the bottle, ON an occasion
when of all others, it was to the interests
of the party and the county he should
avoid intoxication to enjoy the society
of friends, acquaintances and political
associates whom he meets but once In
several years. Political meetings are no
place to get drunk, and Saturday afford
ed an evidence of the sebriety and good
conduct of the Democracy of the county
We doubt if our temperance friends can
hold so large and general meeting
without showing more intemperance III


various ways than there was ON Satur-
day.
Year: 1878

THE RESPONSE to the urgent call OF the
GAZETTE of Thursday to the Democracy
of the county to exhibit their confidence
and faith in oursystem of government by |
attending the county meeting as patrl-
otic duty, was gratifying in the extreme. |
There has never been so large, respectable
and agreeable May meeting in our remem-
brance. 1t was a success in every particu-
lar and argues in favor of a sure triumph
in November. All our prospects however
were put at risk for time, by the SEM
blance of trick of few would be poll
ticians who had arranged to capture the
meeting and officer the county democracy.
To all appearances it was pre-alTanged,
and so bald and badly managed that no
true gentlemen would care to wear the
barren honors it would be conveyed.


This trick or supposed trick was exposed
and few shame faces was the result
The worst feature of it was that the
names of gentlemen We're used without
their knowledge in such way as to make
explanations and destinations necessary.


The honest yeomanry of the county
could not brooke such an insult to their sa-
gacity and therefore had the trick exposed,
and it required the eloquence and per-
suasive efforts of the best talent of the
party present to get enough oil on the
troubled waters to keep down the rising
indignation of the meeting. However
the matter was dropped with the under
standing that nothing of the kind be at
tempted again, and the chairman was in
structed to commence his committee with
Brandywine Hid. The whole thing seem
ed to have arisen from an effort of some
members of the Jefferson club to capture
the officers Of the meeting, while Other
members were disposed to make capita
for themselves by capturing Or captivating
the meeting through little brassy limo
cent display at eloquence. However
Mr.. VIM. L. Bright, the President of TIN


Levy court, upon whom the much covete,


honor fell will make very good count,


chairman. The Executive Committe


has the merit of experience, being mostl


those who acted last year, and the count


democracy may congratulate itselfon ha'


ing organized so pleasantly and with sue


bright prospects of success.
Year: 1878

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY for the
county was fully organized on Saturday
last. 1t is in good trim for clean sweep
and if good candidates are put on the
county ticket they will be elected. Moth
ing can now defeat the party but blum
der in tie State ticket and it will be time
enough to talk of that when it is commit
ted. The Republican party will no doubt
run candidate for Congress, and an
effort will be made to elect him and the
Sheriff. in Kent or Sussex by swapping of
the Republican legislative ticket for these
oIilces' Ii the Democrats have strong
State ticket they will carry the whole
State with ease.
Year: 1878

tor is thus amenabls to pressure the fato OF tho bill
Is very uncertain Tho administration Is believed 20
favor some changes in the tariff laws; but the Com
missioner OF Internal Revenue said be opposed to
any changes in the informal taxes II certain in any
case that the new bill viii get no strength from ad
min'sraon support for the administration Is attend
ing to It's own end OF the schooner, and takes no IN
terest for or against tho Silver bill or any other
measure OF first class i'm portance.
Year: 1878

Col. McIntire, Chief Engineer of the
Water Department, is ready to fill the
south compartment of the Cool Spring
Reservoir as soon as the slight repairs are
finished, which will probably be by this
evening. When it is filed again the north
compartment will be emptied and thor
oughly cleaned. The fund of the Water
Commissioners is nearly exhausted, and
when the pump house engine and the
railing around the reservoir is paid for,
there will be only about $4,000 left. Ii
is probable that an additional sum of
$4,000 or $4,000 will be asked for at
the next session of the Legislature, as
this amount could be profitably expended
on the grounds around the basin. Un-
less the lot on the east side is used for
reservoir purposes it will revert to the
original owners, and therefore it is pro-
posed to construct a small basin there,
for the purpose Of retaining and utilizing
the water flowing from the Rodney
street spring. Also, to fix up the grounds,
lay out some walks, plant shade trees,
and, in fact, convert the lot into plea
SAINT little park.
Year: 1878

A reception will be rendered this even
ing by the congregation of the West
Presbyterian church to their new pastor
Rev. Mr.. Keigwin. The reception will
take place at the church. The new pas
tor will occupy the pulpit on Sunday
next.