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Year: 1878

The road from Phoenix to Globe City is completed, and judging from the statements of a number of re- cent arrivals from that section of the country, it is the finest road in the Territory, not only for the light grades but the abundance of water As soon as this road becomes known all the fleighting for thelich Globe and Pioneer districts must surely SC by this route.
Year: 1878

President Jourian. of tho Brooklyn Board Of Police
and Excise in referring TO the charges made by Mar
tin Taylor that the ballot boxes in certain station
houses had been tanpered with in the interest Of
Surrogate Daley. stated yesterday that there would
be final meeting held by the Board to-day. There
u few more witnesses to be examined in order
to determine whether there really is any ground upon
which TO base charges against any officer or officers
of the Police Department. Should any completely
or knowledge of the alleged abuse be proved,
charges would then be formulated ut once and the
accused would bc put their trial. IT, the other
hand, after mature consideration OF the evidence
taken the Board should conclude that there 10 no
ground upon which to prefer charges the case Will be
dropped by the Commissioners. The testimony
taken however. will be preserved


Martin Taylor stated to reporter that there was
some new and important testimony TO DC brought
forward before the Commissioners to-day. but he re-
had reference.
Year: 1878

And cordially invite all persons who may have need
Of ny Of these things any style or kind Of printing
to favor US with call and lqRrn our prices we give
especial attention to the printing ot
Year: 1878

MoNRGoMERY's FURNITURE EMPORIUM. -
For many years the simple mention of the name of
Montgomery brought to mind visions Of all that
tfu elegant and cheap in the line of furniture What
has been the in the past is still true now for Mr.
B. j. Montgomery continues the business under the old
Arm name, in the splendid Moresque iron building cor
ner Camp and PoydrAs SreetS. Tho three stories of
this immense edlHce crowded with parlor suits
In silk, satin catope reps and hair coth bed room
suits in walnut mahogany and rosewood with French
plate in armores and dressing dining ROOM hall
and library suits Office furniture tabes desks cbSirs
etc, besides full line Of feather moss, hair spring
mAttreSsss and large stock Of medium and common
furniture suitable for the country trade No one
tenPAng the purchase furniture sOuld fail to visit
this mammoth establishment
Year: 1878




Mrs. Hansen put $50 in the oven of her
SsOye one night to keep it safe. Next
morning after breakfast the national debt
had been diminished exactly that much.
4 student of the curious would find it in
Neresting to note the places in which
women hide their money. One excellent
and frugal dame used to tuck her little
SaVings away under a corner of the carpet
The tiny roll OF greenbacks grew fatter
and fatter in the course of a year or two,
shen, the day after it counted up to $3.50,
he house took fire, burnt to the ground,
and again the national debt was diminished
Sy little roll of woman's pin money.
There was that other careful lady, too,
who used sometimes to hide her diamond
rSngs between two teacups in the kitchen
cupboard, sometimes behind a certain
DGiek in the cellar, aud again under the
Mining of an old hat. She had divers other
places of safety for her jewels also, the
oafy trouble being that she had so many
hiding places she occasionally forgot where
BAs had last put her precious thinRs, and
about every three months would fancy abe
had been robbed and the house would be
tarned inside out and all therein made
uncomfortable until the missing GENE
you'd be found carefully tucked away in
lAO folds of the bottom towel of the pile
In &he left hand corner Of the lower drawer
N the clothes press at the east end of the
SiDiRg"ToOm.
Year: 1878

From the Springfield Republican.


The political assessment business at
Washington is pursued in much the old
way. The sending ol Il second circular
to clerks who haven t come down nj the
first demand. notifying them to step up
to the captains office in a certain bank
ard settle. is about rs bad as any,
thing in this line under the Grant
rprimp
Year: 1878

From the Cincinnati Commercial.l


The summer is passing away without
those riots that were to call tor Grant.
Just how the notion grew up that Grant
would be wonderful man to crush out
riots we do not know. 1t was started,
however. by Jay Gould. 4 laboring man
of the city of New York.
Year: 1878

From the Cincinnati CommercIal.I


If Grant should have the third term,
Robeson might turn his attention to the
sale and breaking up OF our ships OF war.
Let the cry be "Robeson and Reform.
Year: 1878

If Mr.. Francis Parkman will as as
siduously look for the good in universal
suffrage as he has for the evil, he may
come to see his subject in different
light, and write a better essay on its sue
cess than the one he has written upon
its failure. This is representative
democratic government, based upon
manhood suffrage. aad though the ig-
norance and illiteracy of many OF the
voters may, at times, work evils, they
are not to be compared to those which
would ensue from a consolidated and
aristocratic government. There is a
remedy tor the Ills we have, which every
thinking man must see, and every lover
of his country desires to see applied ii
is the education of the masses. No effort
must be made to curtail their rights
but rather every effort to render them
more capable OF worthily exercising
them.
Year: 1878




REPORT-GENERAL BUSINESS HEAVY.


lGESERAL PRESS DIsPATCHi


WASHINGTON, March 3.-Members of the House
Committee on Appropriations say they can prepare
their bills much sooner than any Of them can be
acted upon by the House. The Navy Appropriation
and the Pension Bills will be ready for report this
week. The Legislative Appropriation Bill will be
completed in week or ten days. Subcommittee
at work on the Indian Army and Deficiency Appropri
alton Bills Owing to the large mass Of business to
DO transacted. the general impression is that the
Year: 1878

The arrest on criminal charges Of thir-
teen officers and trustees of the Teutona
Savings Bank is very sad affair. The men
who are alleged to have been tempted to
dishonesty in this case are not reckless adj
venturers or fashionable swindlers, but
quiet, business citizens, with moderate
wants and apparently sufficient means.
They are all, or nearly all, Germans-a
people not often involved in such offences
enjoying good regulations in the neighbor-
hoods in which they lived, and generally
looked upon as well-to-do, trustworthy
men. They are accused Of malpractices SO
easy of detection, SO susceptible of proof
and yielding such paltry gain that their
guilt would be incredible but for the posi-
tiveness Of the accusations and their SEEM
ing corroboration by the transactions of the
bankrupt institution.


OF course the accused are not to be pre-
Judged. They are entitled to fair trial,
and the whole community will be well
pleased If they should prove their inno-
cence. But if guilty the law SO plainly
reaches their offence that their escape from
punishment will be impossible, and the
penalty should be rigidly enforced. Tho
fact that such men could be tempted into
dishonesty in the discharge of q trust is
sufficient to show the necessity of severe
example. The accused evidently feel their
disgrace bitterly. One of their number has
attempted suicide, and another is pros
trated by an illness that will probably prove
fatal. But il their previous good characters
Year: 1878

to get their bonds and stock admitted to the
Stock Exchange. Does that mean an at
tempt to "unload" on the public? We
warn investors to look before they buy, and
to require of the managers clear, satisfac-
tory and public explanation of their pro-
ceedings. This matter will be brought be-
fore the Legislature next winter. 1t will
there be probed to the bottom. The people
of New York will demand to know whether
the company has not violated its extremely
liberal charter and whether the citizens
have no rights which can be protected and,
pending such an inquiry as must be made,
it is only fair to warn prudent investors
against putting money rashly into ''se-
curity" which may become the subject OF
legislative proceedings.


The people of New York need rapid
transit. but they cannot afford to sit down
quietly and see their very necessities made
the means of their spoliation. The Metro
politan managers, if they are prudent men,
will hasten to complete their whole line
before the Legislature meets and they may
as well make up their minds that five cents
is as high a fare as the public will pay, un-
less they can show that this does not yield
enough revenue to pay a fair dividend on
the legitimate cost of the road.
Year: 1878

We have sent reporters to interview per-
sons conversant with city politics. but the
politicians have no better idea of the latitude
and longitude than the crew of vessel sail
ing through a fog bank. All that we learn
is that the politicians think everything de-
pends on the nod of Mr.. John Kelly 1t
is not creditable to the sense, courage or
sagacity of SO many politicians that they
confess their abject dependence on one
man for their opinions. 1t has been
demonstrated again and again that Mr.
Kelly is powerless whenever he is
boldly opposed. His attempt to de-
pose Recorder Hackett resulted in a
signal humiliation, and there have been
other demonstrations of his weakness which
he will not soon forget. There seems q
prevalent impression that Hon. Augustus
Schell is Mr.. Kellys candidate for Mayor,
but no such preference has been indicated
by Mr.. Kelly himself, and we cannot think
he entertains it. Mr.. Kelly has found on
two conspicuous occasions that the respect
able Mr.. Schell is not q winning card in
city politics. Although he was Mr.. Kelly s
avowed choice for the Msyoralty two years
ago he was forced to give him up and last
year when he pitted him against John Nor
rissey for the State Senate he learned that
Mr.. Schell is an easy candidate to beat.
We do not believe that Mr.. Kelly will ven.
ture on third experiment with the same
worthy gentleman.
Year: 1878

The Improvement in the Dry Goods


Trade.


Our report of yesterday upon the facts
and feeling in the dry goods trade is full of
good omens In spite of the temporary
cessation of orders from certain Southern
points dealers report trade more brisk than
ever before at this season of the year. The
surplus stock which embarrassed the market
for several years after the panic has been con-
sume6, and manufacturers are guarding
carefully against over production. There
is but little disposition to crowd goods upon
the market. Mere speculation is infrequent,
for the uncertainties upon which it depends
do not exist Prices are SO low that buyers
can lay in stock without fear that decline
will vitiate its value. The foreign demand
for our cotton goods, which ten years ago
was scarcely dreamed of, increases steadily,
the exports of last year exceeding those Of
the previous year by nearly one-half, the
increase being caused by the superiority
of American goods to those Of England,
which until lately monopolIzed the
eApOIC6 VI pIluto. AL tAiS 10 uOt
only very cheering to the dry goods trade,
but to the general run of business, for an in
terest as enormous and far-reaching as that
Of dry goods calls for an immense amount
of labor and compels a steady movement OF
money. The only apprehensions felt in the
trade are caused by that peculiar class Of
dealers which imagines that business con-
sists principally in underselling, even if it
is done ut loss; these compel the failure
of large majority of the houses who are
honest and sensible, and Of themselves
likewise; but as greater care is observed
than Of old in the matter of granting credit
it is to be hoped that this danger will be
lessened to a considerable degree. Aside
from the qualification which the outlook
affords to the trade in question and to busi-
ness in general the small but noisy army
OF croakers about the diminution Of New
York's great business interests will find in
this report some powerful hints upon the
advisability Of silence.
Year: 1878

Owing TO THE COOLER weather and the
threatening skies there was n large falling of
II the patronage of the seaside resorts yester-
lag. 1t was the last Sunday of the summer and
;hc hotel proprietors must make up their minds
hat the season is coming to close.
Year: 1878

When man has his own property adver-
tised for sale for taxes he should not 60
around his congressional district and tell
the people that they can stand more taxes to
pay the State debt. He ought to pay his
own debts before he talks of the;dishonesty
Of others. What say you to this. Brother
Heermans ?-Salens Register.


That Mr. Heermans never failed to pay
all his taxes; that his Newbern town and
water tax is four times the amount Of his
State tax; that we all pay it, thus proving
our ability to stand an increase OF taxation ;
that he had been printing for the corpora
tion every year, and that he expected
to pay his corporation tax in that way !;
that the corporation had no printing
this spring, and that when the SER
geant had to settle his tax had not
yet been paid. and that his name, with
others, was posted in his absence; that he
rallied out among his good deht-paying
patrons, collected the money, lifted bis
tickets, slept soundly, ate his little crust in
peace, went to work happy and contented.
set good example to all repudiators, and
was thus furnished big answer to very
little question: Virginia People.
Year: 1878

the circuit, and the whole thing was COM
plete. All that was necessary to do was to
talk to the tube, even at respectful dis
tanee from 1t, and the telephone repeated
the sound, at any distance yet tried, with q
loudness dependent only on the pressure in
the tube.


This disposes at once OF the fear that the
telephone was nearing the end of IFS useful
ness as an instrument for conveying speech.
1t is only at the beginning. With such
means there will be no obstacle to report
ing public speaker or singer-no difficult
ty, in fact, in hearing whispers inaudibIe to
unassisted ears. All that has ever been i'm
agined as among the possibilities of the
phonograph or the telephone seems now
certain to be outGone: Since the falling OF
a pin can now be heard at the distance OF q
hundred miles, little will be needed to real
ize Hoods metaphor that Silence herself
may be making row. s
Year: 1878

TIE MOUNTAIN RENT IN TWAIN, BUT NO SIGNS


OF AN ERUPTION.


rCharleston News and Courier.J


SPARTANBURG, May 26.-In accordance
with your instructions 10 visit Bald Noun
tain and report the facts in regard to the
alleged rupture of that famous peak, / left
Spartanburg last Thursday morning, and
after fatigning ride OF forty miles through
the mountains reached Bald Mountain next
day. Finding it impossible to reconcile
conflicting rumors, or 10 ascertain the truth
by inquiry, procured guides and assembled
the peak the same afternoon. But one man
had ever seen the fissure, and him I could
not find. After a long and painful search,
however, we finally chanced upon the OBJ
ject OF our quest, and found it to be a crack
about one hundred yards in length, about
four feet in width and of unknown depth.
The creyice, which runs nearly due east
and west, is parallel with and but short
distance from the brow Of the precipice
which marks the southern boundary of the
mountain. That it is of recent origin was
plainly to be seen, and is further proved by
the freshly-torn roots Of the trees growing
near it. Careful investigation leads me to
the conclusion that the crevice merely
marks the separation Of a very large section
of the cliff from the body of the mountain,
and that the break will result sooner or
later in Landslide, differing only in point
of extent from others like it and Of frequent
occurrence in this locality. There has been
no appearance OF smoke nor smell of sui
phur, and the mountain eXpeI Iienced its last
ague at least a year before the crack appear
ed. Whether or not the latter was caused
by the former is thing no fellow can find
out. &. NICK.
Year: 1878

The Circuit Court.-Advices received
from Chesterfield Courthouse yesterday
evening stated that it was thought the case
OF yickers Us. The City OF Manchester
would be given to the jury Last night.
Every iuch of ground had been hotly con-
tested. 1t was also surmised that u yer-
dict was rendered against the city at oil it
would not be for as large amount as was
claimed. Colonel Vickers Is represented by
Year: 1878

THE CAPu0L.-Ten or dozen tons OF
old books which have been stored in the
attic OF the Capitol for years will, by order
of the Governor, be removed at once, an
architect having examined the building and
decided that such great weight renders the
offices in the upper part Of the building ur-
safe
Year: 1878

Many prominent officials OF the State and
city have spoken for tickets for themselves
and ladies. The prospect is that there will
be a select crowd. Refreshments will be
sold on board OF the boat, but many gentle
men and ladies will carry their own lunches.
There will be no Whiskey sold on the boat.
Year: 1878

1t is estimated that fhc above amount IS lost to tho
purchasers of
DRY GOODS
by not buying their goods where they be had at


TIE LOWEST PRICES.
These are times when every dime should be saved.
Year: 1878

A DEMOCRATIC ATTACK ON Gov. BISHoP-
A special dispatch to the New York Times
been introduced in the Ohio legislature by
democratic member that is virtually a bill of
indictment against Gov Bishop. 1t makes it
penitentiary OtfenSe for officers of any state
institution TO purchase supplies of any kind
from any firm of which the governor or other
state officer is member The bill is grossly
personal in its language, and, as its author an
nor MIR. Bishop is senior partner i'm Whole.
sale grocery house of Cincinnati, and il has
been charged, even in democratic quarters,
that he was using the facilities afforded by his
high office to advance the business of his gro.
cery. The late appointment of 4 relative of
one of his partners 10 a place in the manage
ment of the penitentiary gave color To these
him in training for the Presidency are indig
nant at this democratic attack upon his honor
Year: 1878

CANADA AANDTEMPERANCE.-Th new temper
ance act of the Dominion government conferS
powers on any county OF city to prohibit the
sale of alcoholic liquors, except for medicinal
mechanical, or sacramental purposes. For
medicinal purposes the certificate of doctor
is required; for Sacramental, that of clergy
man; for mechanical, sworn application,
application of one fourth the registered voters
Ot a county or city, the governor general will
issue proclamation stating that in sixty days
a plebiscite will be taken, and If majority of
electors vote i'm favor Of the law it comes into
force on the expiration of license term, SO as
to avoid conflict between the local and Do
miniOn authorities. The law once I'm operation
is absolute for three years, and is then repeal
able only on application and by election as
before: The vote will be by ballot, with heavy
penalties against corrupt practices. It's ex-
penses viii be borne by the Dominion.


ASDickens corresponded with Ada Isaacs
Menken
Year: 1878

GOVERNOR EMERY will leave for Washing
ton this morning. where it is pretty generally
believed, he goes for the purpose of trying to
save himself from official decapitation. If
this be true he will reach the capital none too
soon. Intelligence from Washington is to the
effect that the governors removal is not only
possible but quite prObable.-[St. Lake Her
Year: 1878

Mr.. Z. h. Ross. the father of Little Char
ley" is spending some weeks in and about the
city, following up certain information in rela-
ton to parties connected with MOSher and
and who were killed at Bay ridge Our police
and the governor and council are giving every
facility to assist Mr.. Ross in his almost hope
less Search.-I Boston IranScript
Year: 1878

To the Editor of the Standard:


When | wrote the article endorsing
Bishop Haven, had not the least idea
of getting into controversy; but as my
friend Austin seems to think Bishop Ha-
ven black sheep among our noble corps
of Bishops and that he uttered false
hood when he said the Republican party
had beeen retrograding for the last ten
years, until it and the rum power are
one, will attempt to show that our no
bic Bishops, all, do fully endorse the le-
gal prohibition of the rum power, and
are not of that class that pray "Thy will
be done" for three hundred and sixty
four days, and on the three hundred and
sixty fifth, vote to thwart that will. In
an extract from pastoral address to the
members of the NJ. E. Church, find the
following language: believing as we
do, that ballots, as well as prayer, must
be used in banishing intemperance from
society, we very earnestly urge upon your
consideration the position of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church upon this subject,
as given on pages $685. of the Book of
Discipline: That we are unalterably
opposed to the importation, manufacture,
and sale Of all kinds Of distilled, ferment-
ed, and vinous liquors, designed to be
used as o beverage; and that it is the du-
ty Of every member of the Christian
Churh to discountenance and oppose the
evil of all times by voice and vote That
we are fully convinced of the wisdom
and absolute need of total legal prohibi-
ton" 1t is evident from the above law,
that the NJ. E. Church is fully pledged
to the doctrine of legal prohibition as ad-
vocated by the Prohibition party.


All Christian Churches, as far as l am
conVersant with their laws and doctrines,
occupy equally de lied grounds upon the
temperance question. Therefore, instead
of being "dwarfed and i'll favored child"
the Prohibition party stands erect, in
line, with the enlightened sentiment of
all the Christian Churches, bearing aloft
the emblem of protection to every citi
zen under its folds, and thus it ever will
stand, the angel of education and prohi-
bition, over every door of our land, to
guard the entrance against the black de-
mon of rum. Now what are the proofs
that the Republican party is a rum party?
First, the 10th resolution of the Phila-
delphia platform which Herman Raster,
its author, (who is also a prominent
member of the whisky, brewers con-
gress,) declared was adopted by the plat
form committee, with the explicit under
standing that its purpose was the dis
countenancing of all so-called prohibitory
and Sunday laws. This platform has been
repeatedly reaffirmed, and never repeal
ed, and so stands as the law of the party


And how faithfully the party has kept
this pledge to the whisky, brewer E
congress, is shown in the District of Co
Year: 1878

If perfection is to be found anywhere,
it is in the highway robbers of New
York. Whatever they do becomes in
the eyes Of the police miracle that
nothing but Omnipotence could have
foreseen. They swoop down upon all
quarries, from a millionaire's shoulder
ing bones to baby's coral. A short
time since, an eccentric member of that
profession took fancy to door knob of
front door on Broadway and walked off
with it. What disposition he could
make of it, unless it were to use it as a
pestle, for the pounding of pills or hash, =,
would puzzle the most inventive faculty
to discover But the most amazing piece
of audacity in artistic theft took place
on the very premises we pay rent for.
A wandering robber rang the door bell,
and, on the door opening, obedient to
invisible mechanism, rolled up the hall
carpet, very fine one, made by Mr..
Brussels himself and slipped away with
it into the regions of the unknown We
cannot understand the remissness that
prevented his taking the staircase and
the front door. We should like to pro
pound few questions to the party that
walked off with that carpet. But he il
known only to the police, and the rack
itself would not induce them to betray
him.
Year: 1878

When some one was lamenting Foote's
unlucky fate in being kicked in Dublin,
johnson said: "He is rising in the
world When he was in England no one
thought it worth while to kick him."