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Year: 1877

THE ARMY LARGE ENOUGH.-It is not
true that the Democratic House of Repre-.
sentatives reduced the army, as assel ted
by some of the Republican papers. The
Senate would not agree to a reduction and
the most that the House could dowas to re-
quire that the army should not be used in
the South to sustain the carpet-bag gov
ernments. The army is as large as II was
three years ago, Under Grant, as all will
remember, 1t was increased after the muir
der OF Custer by the Indians. 1t is fully
large enough for all the purposes required.
II the army had been a hundred thousand
strong 1t could not have prevented the de-
struction of property that has taken place,
because it was done before the forces could
have been put in position. The advocates
of centralized government, and oppo-
nents of the just rights of the States find
a large standing army one of their chief
necessities, to make their views con.
sistent, and whenever opportunity affords.
this crops out, although the people of the
United States have always professed an
abhorrence for standing armies. They are
the dependence of Kings, and the arlstocra-
cy OF caste cannot be kept up without them.
Ii we are to have local elf-government-a
government by the people-we must not
learn TO depend on standing army. but
rather put our trust in our own intelligence
and desire to maintain the right, through
the aid of well-organjzed and well armed
militia. The time for resting The defense of
nations on standing armies, without train.
ed and armed militia, has passed. France
was taught lesson by Prussia that awak-
oned the world to this fact, and it would be
strange thing to witness free America The
first to depend upon the militia, going back
to the old practice of defunct monarchies
and adopting system of disarming the
people.


Beside having a sufficient army now, IL
seems not to be generally known that the
President under existing laws may order
out the militia of any State, if The legal
emergency arise, and may use them in any
part of the Union. If he makes a general
call 1t must be in proportion 10 population;
but he may order any number from sin
gle State. The Governor can direct the
troops tomeet such an order to any part Of
the country.
Year: 1877

The STRIKERS UNDER Cow--After
showing the most murderous and savage
spirit for eight or ten days, the strikers have
at last come to their senses, and in m ost
places propose to let the people manage
theirown business AM desist from attempts
TO murder the innocent of all ages and all
sexes merely because the re ilroad compa-
MES desire to exercise their undeniable
right 10 employ whom they please when a
well-paid engineer or fireman re uses to
work and leaves his post.


The strikers are under cow. But they
would not be had not tt e people given them
TO understand that they could not be per-
mltted any longer to commit murder and
disgrace the country by their savage acts
OF brutal murder and arson. Were it not
that force had been applied to these com
munists they would still continue the work
OF destruction and rob as they progressed,
all who differed with them in opinion and
when at last their acts OF lawlessness were
complete would turn upon each other and
hight among themselves forthe larger share
OF the booty. The leading strikers are no
better than the French Commune, and are
the enemies of all civilized society, at the
root Of which their principles aim a adeadly
blow
Year: 1877

Congress. In explanation of this ap-
parent want of official interest in this
great international undertaking, it may
be said that neither the action of the
French Government nor the character of
the French exhibits at the Centennial
last year was such as the United States
had right to expect from nation with
which it had so long been ON friendly
terms. While other nations sent special
commissioners, many of them men of
high rank and great experience, France
intrusted the interests of her citizens to
subordinate attaches of the French
Legation here, one, at least, of whom
was extremely Objectionable to President
Grant. In addition to this, the charac-
ter of the French exhibition was not
such as the United States had a right to
expect, and the failure of France in this
respect was, it is believed, largely due to
the lack of interest, not to say opposi-
ton, of the French Government.


1t may be remembered that when the
invitation to the United States to par
ticipate in the Paris exposition of 1878
was received, Secretary Fish transmitted
it to Congress without a recommended
ton, and it is understood that he subse-
quently informed the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations of the reasons why
Grants Administration was unwilling to
urge upon Congress any steps looking to
the representation of the United States
at Paris. This feeling of indifference,
manifested by the lastd Administration, is
understood to be shared, to some extent
at least, by the present one.
Year: 1877

The Detroit Free Press says that, the
other morning while George w. Osborn,
of that city, was fishing from the east
end of the long crib off Stoney Island,
with hand line and float, he had
occasion to leave for few minutes and
made his line secure to the crib, as he
supposed. Upon his return, however,
nothing was to be seen of his fishing
tackle, and as no one had been near it
during his absence he concluded that it
had been hooked by some member of
the fnny tribe. Five minutes later the
float was observed upon the surface of
the water three or four hundred feet
away from the crib, alternately appear
ing, and working towards the middle of
the river. There was no small boat in
the vicinity with the aid of which to re-
cover the tackle, and the float finally
became lost in the distance. This was
between eight and nine o'clock in the
forenoon. Between three and four
o'clock in the afternoon Mr.. Osborn
walked down to the end of the Canada
Southern ferry-dock, and looking over
| the western side discovered his line and
! float near the dock. With considerable
risk of getting into the river he climbed
down to the water, some ten or twelve
feet, and got hold of one end of the line,
but found something lively tugging at
the other end of it. The telegraph
operator at the ferry station now came
to his aid, and with the help of a pike


pole, ten-pound pike was soon landed
on terra firma more than six hours after
it had taken the hook.
Year: 1877

An old fellow Just up from the Kern
River country says that one day while
down in that region he went out hunt
ing. He procured fine, gentle horse
and borrowed dog that was highly
recommended as a nOser-out of almost
any kind of game from quail to full
grown buck Indian. He was told that
the dog once belonged to some Mexicans
who had taught him to ride, and that in
case of his becoming tired. he might be
taken up on the horse until likely place
for game was reached. The hunt was
but indifferently successful, though the
dog seemed to be quite industrious. He
was a long bodied, short legged, long
tailed animal of an old fashioned yellow
color. He showed no desire to ride un-
til start was made for home, when he
came whining about and was taken
upon the horse behind our hunter. All
went well enough for time, but
presently the horse started off on keen
run. When. stopped he stood quietly
enough, but as soon as started up he
broke into a run again and could not be
held in. Says the old man: "What had
got into the 'tarnal lcritter Ididn't know ;
but presently, happening to look back,
caught that Internal yaller dog standin'
up on all fours, whippin' the hoss just
as hard as he could lay on with that
long, timber tail O his'n; he was bound
to get out of that hoss all the run there
was in him."
Year: 1877

A wealthy farmer, being engaged in: a
lawsuit against one of his opulent neigh
bors, applied to a lawyer, who happened
to be engaged on the other side, but
who told him he would give him a
recommendation to professional friend,
which he did in the following lines:
" Here are two fat wethers fallen together,
If you'll fleece one I'll fleece the other,


And make them agree like brother and brother"


The letter being unsealed the farmer
had the curiosity to open and read it: he
did so, and instead of carrying it to the
lawyer he took it to the person with
cured both parties, and ended the dis
pute. Inference-Lawyers frequently
live by the violation of the laws OF good
ness and truth.
Year: 1877

Habit-A decayed gentlewoman, be-
ing obliged for livelihood to go about
with mullins, used, in a faint voice, to
calculate, Mullins and crumpets," add
ing in still more undertone, &c hope to
goodness nobody hears mew


Destiny-We are all the playthings of
destiny, and it often depends upon a
trife, not more than the toss up of a
penny, whether man should raise him
self to riches and honor, or pine away in
misery and want till he dies.
Leisure--It is sort of eternity for a
man to have all his time to himself.


Poetry-Is butterfly on the flower of
the world.


Wisdom-Choose your friend early
| because life is short,
Year: 1877

RAILWAY ReUieU: Those locomotive
engineers who preferred to stick by their
Brotherhood rather than retain their
places on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad are paying dearly for their al
legiance. of thirty-ive who were dis
charged for not accepting the terms
offered by the Company, but two have
secured new places. They were each
promised $50 month by the Brother
hood until they could obtain new posi-
tions. They received only small por-
tion of that sum, and are now told, so
we arc informed, that there is no money
for them. They say that the funds of
the Brotherhood are exhausted, and
that the membership is slow in paying
its assessments for supporting the
martyrs.
Year: 1877

The story of an Oshkosh man who
took up a collection at the funeral of his
wife, the La Crosse (Wis.) San says, is
explained by the fact that the bereaved
man is church deacon, and for twenty
years he had always taken up collection
while the choir was singing the second
time. At the funeral, when the choir
struck up cold Hundred" before he
thought what he was doing, he got up
and passed the hat, as usual, to raise
money to defray the necessary expenses.
When his attention was called to it, after
the funeral, and he thought how his mo-
tive would be misconstrued, he felt as
bad about it as anybody. 1t was not
an evidence of meanness, but case of
absence of mind.
Year: 1877

In the southwestern part of Kansas,
says the Indianapolis Journal, are two
towns named respectively Empire City
and Galena. The two towns are
situated not very far apart, and like
most Western towns, are rivals, each
claiming to be great business center,
etc. The rivalry ran SO high that few
days ago the citizens of Empire City
determined to fence Galena out in the
cold, or, in other words, cut it off from
the former town, that being equivalent
to accommodation. Accordingly on
Wednesday last large number of
armed men from Empire City undertook
to build a stockade between the rival
towns. The alarm was sounded in
Galena by ringing of bells, and an op-
posing force of about fifty men, with
guns and revolvers, collected to prevent
proceedings. The mail coach going to
Empire for the mail was stopped and
ordered back to Galena. The mayor of
Galena read proclamation declaring a
stockade between the two cities an
obstruction to travel and contrary to
law, and calculated to incite riot and
bloodshed, and called upon the citizens
to destroy the same. On general prin-
ciples we should say he was right. A
stockade across road is an obstruction
to travel. There can be no doubt about
this. 1t obstructed travel equally from
Empire City to Galena, and from Galena
to Empire City. The citizens of Galena
viewed the matter in this light and made
an attack on the stockade. Firearms
were called into use, and sharp fight
ensued. Finally the stockade was
carried, saturated with oil and burned.
Communication is now open between the


two places, but the question which is


the commercial metropolis of the great


West is still unsettled.
Year: 1877

According to the statement of Wash


ington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, the Administration is evidently
indisposed to take any steps looking to
the representation of the United States
at the Paris Exposition next year, ex-
cept in response to direct order from
Year: 1877

THE German Government is laying
down subterranean telegraph wires as
rapidly as possible. A line has already
been opened between Berlin and Mayence,
and it is now intended to join
Frankfort and Strasburg in
similar manner, the cost of these is
eight or ten times greater than that of
the ordinary above ground telegraph;
but when once constructed they are not
40 liable to be injured by storms or bad
weather, and it would be much more
difficult for an enemy to destroy them,
since he would have to find out exactly
where they were buried, and then dig
down TO reach them.
Year: 1877

The United States Supreme Court has
decided in case brought before it on a
writ OF error from the Circuit Court for
the Northern District of Illinois, that it
has not jurisdiction of an appeal from a
circuit court in bankruptcy cases; in
other words, that the judgment of the
circuit court in such cases is final.
Year: 1877

Mr. CLINE now writ Sc to the Indiana
State Board of Agriculture from Clay
ton, in this State, placing himself in
competition with the Professor, "or any
other man." He offers to treat Zone
thousand cholera hogs in the State of
Indiana, provided the State Board will
pay all expenses, and pay to the party
who shall succeed in curing the largest
number the sum of $500, with the
proviso that no payment shall be made
to himself or any other person in COM
petition unless ninety per cent. shall be
cured" This proposal will be referred
to the State Association of Hog-breeders,
which body has the letter of Prof.
Haas now under consideration. If the
Association makes no report during the
next month the State Board will prob
ably give attention to the matter within
n short time after the State Fair.
Year: 1877

UPON careful comparison of the best
attainable statistics the New York World
thinks the surplus of this years wheat
crop available for expectation will be
between S0,000,000 and 100,000,00 of
bushels. The World adds: The prom
Use of a market in Europe for so large n
share of it is more solid assurance of
better times than almost any other as
surance that could be given to us.
Year: 1877

In addition to their Morning, Tri-weekly and
Weekly editions, THE PosT AND TRIBUNE CcMP'Y.
publish THE DETROIT EVENING TELEGRAPH,
the cheapest and best afternoon paper published
In Michigan, and the only Afternoon Paper In De-
trot having the Associated Press dispatches II Is
carefully and ably edited In all its departments
any Of thelsrge morning dailies. II Is pure and
unexceptisnslin tone. and is worthy to take its
bright, racy, fresh and original and contains all
the News OF THE DAY. as accurately and Complete


y at the largest daily In the land but in condensed
form, for rapid and agreeable reading. Having be-
hind It all the resources for the gathering of
by telegraph, correspondence, and exchanges of the
largest newspaper corporation in the State It's fa
clities In this respect are unequaled. Special at
tention s paid to obtaining the latest news from
every city and village In Michigan. It's MARKET,
MoNnY and MARINE news will be thoroughly fresh
and reliable every possible item OF information Of
value TO business men being carefully arranged for
Its columns.


Unlike other cheap evening papers, too offen of
the merely sensational order It's editorial columns
will compare favorasly With any paper in the
useful information strength, freshness and purity
Of style, and vide range of topics Ibis depart
ment will always be well worth reading hy think
ing mon Of all clNsss and parties n
Year: 1877

ally very Inn perfectly learned, or at the
best, become mere exercise of the
memory. But still more serious re-
suit Of all this condition Of things Is.
the great majority of pupils never
really learn how to study-how to use
the various powers Of the mind TO the
best advantage, and, of course, fall to
acquire those habits Of attention aud
OF concentration OF thought which are
the very foundation Of all successful
mental effort. On the other hand,
they fall into habits Of inattention
and Of superficial study which work q
lasting injury TO the mind.


Now, we affirm from long expert
ence In teaching that the very time
when pupils most need the aid OF q
skilful teacher, aud when such
teacher can render the most effective
aid, Is In the first sttsCy Of lessons,
rather than In their recitation. We.
can also affirm that an hour spent
with class In carefully going over a
lesson, before the pupils have taken 1t
In hand, will do more for their good
than many hours OF study spent In the
usual way. BY this means, the atten-
tiOn and interest Of pupils are thor
Oughly engaged; study becomes
pleasure (; the lessons are more correct
ly learned better habits of study are
formed and, more than all bad habits
of mental appli are prevented.


Let 1t be observed, we do not pro-
pose to take the labor OF lesson learn
Ing entirely out of the hands OF the
pupil that is, to make him u mere
passive recipient; but to show him
how to apply his mind I'm the study of
lessons-how to analyze the subject
and how to remove the obstacles which
lie in his path. We would do more
than merely cultivate the memory.
We would wake up the mind, and
train the pupil to fix his attention and
concentrate his thoughts upon a sim
gle subject. We would cultivate In
each pupil the all-important habits OF
careful observation, Of searching an
alysis, of close reasoning and of inde-
pendent thinking. In other words,
we would callintO active exercise those
powers which are apt to lie dormant
from never learning how to use them.
This, indeed, Is education in the prop
er sense Of the term, but what in too
many cases Is never acquired, even
after years spent In school.


1t may be said that 1t is better to
leave the pupil to find his way out
alone that the mental discipline
which this gives Is just what he needs.
We reply, practically not one In ten
will do this, while the great majority,
left to themselves, fall into bad habits
Of mental application, whose influence
for evil will be felt during all their life.
There are, indeed, very few who will
persevere and succeed in spite of all
obstacles, and under any system Of
teaching, but, even in this case, often
with great waste of time and energy.
The majority Of pupils need constant
assistance and encouragement, and.
above all, that rousing up Of the mental
faculties which comes from closer and
longer contact with the mind OF the
teacher. as
Year: 1877

EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 2S.
A meeting of business men last night re-
solved that the stagnation of business is
due to the administrations policy of forced
resumption and the contraction of the cur
rency, and they demanded the repeal of the
resumption act, the abolishment of the
bankrupt law, and that the silver dollar be
made legal tender for all debts.
Year: 1877

ELASTIC HoRsE GEAR.-We find in
the columns of contemporary some
accounts of recent experiments 10 de-
termine :he exact advantage of elastic
attachments, or connections between
ho:ses and the loads they draw.
Spiral springs and india rubber were
the materials used, and 1t was found
that the economy of force effected in
continuous movement of the load
was seventeen per cent. of that requir-
ed in dead pull that Is, with
the inelastic attachments in common
use. But if an elastic connection be-
tween power and resistance gives in
creasing effect 10 the former, ought
not ten pound weight suspended TO
steelvard by an eight ounce elastic
strap 10 register somewhat more than
ten pounds and eight ounces? The
examples are not really analogous the
power N both eases are continuous, but
in hat of the horse and load ii is not
GnitOrm il IS succession of partial
stopping and starting, and It is IA
miliar trnth in mechanics that q given
power will more easily overcome the
inertia of body at rest if gradually,
than if suddenly applied. That lhe
advantage Of the elastic attachment Is
IN the gradual application it makes
of the animals power III Successive I'M
pulses accelerating a mo ion success
lively diminished L. clear from another
result Of the experiments with elastic
attachments. 1t WAS found that the
saving Of power in starting the load
when quite at rest was twenty per
cent. Where motion is both conrin-
uous and uniform, like that of rail
way tram. for example, elastic coup
lngs could have no effect in ecoBomrZ
ing power except at each starting
The subject seems to lis well worthy
of attention from those practically IN
terested, but if the horse expects 10
reap any benefits from confirInatOry
experiments be will iind himself mis-
taken; he will have merely The satis
faction of being more useful by draw
ing heavier loads.
Year: 1877

SOUTHERN CONTINENTAL RAILROAD
1t has been stated heretofore 10y tele-
graph that compromise has been
effected relative to the construction
OF the railroad from Texas TO the
Pacific. This statement now seems
TO be corrobrated. Il is understood
that the portion of the road which
will fell to he California company
the Southern Pacitic-will include
about one-half of the distance where
the road has not yet been built.
Year: 1877

HAYWARD woman believes in having
everything in readiness. She purchased
a coffin for sick husband ten days
prior 10 his death and kept IL in the house.
She also bad a stylish mourning suit


made. In anticipation Of the event.
Most any man would DO willing to die
II he had such q thoughtful wife as that.
Year: 1877

A VETO FROM THE MAYoR.-Mayor Car
rington will send a communication to the
Council this evening yetoing the resolution
paying to various charitable institutions a
portion Of the appropriation usually made
to them. 1t is understood that he objects
to the appropriation to the Magdalen Asso.
oio ..
Year: 1877

Messrs Editors AT the meeting OF the
City Conservative Committee to be held to-
night (Monday), and when the plans for the
primary election are under consideration,
it would be we'll to provide for more than
one voting place in Jackson Ward, other
wise the full vote will not be poled. Z,