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Year: 1879

A dispatch received from New York
announces the death Of Gen. Hooker,
at Garden City. Long Island, Saturday.
The particulars Of which, as furnished
by telegraph. are that he had been in
bis usual health until an hour before
his death. He gave . large dinner
party at the Garden City Hotel on the
25th. and has seemed TO be in the best
OF spirits and to enjoy social inter,
course with his many friends as fully
as At any time in his life. He took his
accustomed walk in the Park during
the afternoon Friday, and did not COM
plain OF feeling i'll until about 4 o'clock
when he retired to his apartments and
summoned his valet, who led him to
the sofa, where he rested about an
hour. and then rose aud busted himself
about BIS rooms till 5:i5. when the
valet, hearing The General struggling
for breath, hastened to his side and as
sisted him to lie down. at the same
time ringing for assistance. The hotel
Sups sintendent hurried to the room.
but when he arrived the General was
dead.
Year: 1879

AccoEpISG to late order Of the
Postmaster General. after n letter Is
mailed it is the property of the person
To whom il is addrc ssed, md must be
sent to the postoffice to which 1t is di-
rccted. IL there be such an Office; bur:
whether there DO such an Office or not.
the postmaster or his subordinatcs have
no authority in law. or otherwise, TO
change the direction or address Of the
party or parties entitled to the letter.
Should tho postmaster change the
address or direction Of letter or pack.
age and should such letter or pack.
age in consequence fail 10 reach the
addressed. the postmaster would in law
tie linble for the vnlnuo of the package.
A postmaster may complete or perfect
nn address already made; but he can.
not change its direction TO different
person. or different office, or different
State without authority.
Year: 1879

ToSt EIcHELBERGEE thinks that the
minister who declared that there was
no true enjoyment In tile world should
strike d morning Newspaper about mid
night and sec the "artists " at their
lnnch
Year: 1879

AEosEMENA, the new Minister from
Columbia, who was presented to the
President few days ago, saws that
none OF the surveys either Of the Pana-
mo or Sicarngan route seem TO have
been sufficiently complete aud careful
to warrant selection OF either Of those
routes in preference to the other. Both
he believes feasible however, the prin-
cIpal qucsti involved being simply
that OF expense. Panama is n member
Of the confederation which Senor Aros-
cinema represents and he is an advocate
OF the Panama route. he says that the
Government aud people OF that State
take deep interest in the discussion now
going on, but they are debarred from
taking any active steps in the matter
by reason Of the concessions already
made TO Lieutenant Wyse, which form
the basis of DE Lessep's plan OF action.


Tie party Of engineers lately sent ont
by De Lesseps, to make Il teI stitvey
Of the Isthmus; are already on the
ground. The party may wait for the
coming OF the dry season, which is so
favorable for field work. before under.
taking the survey Of the route. All
other times Of the year that region is
inundated With heavy rnins.


The country to he surveyed is almost
inaccessible to parties Of engineers, and
tie work will DO one cf grcat difficulty.
Year: 1879

l hear them in the raindrops
As they patter on the leaves,
Or one by one discerning


From the caves.
They whisper in the sunshine
As il cheers US after rain,
But look to see their faces


All in vain.
They call me In the breeZes
That dance upon The stream,
Yet know not what they utter


What they mean.
But when at eve linger
by the grave of one held dear,
These voices fall the sweeter


On my ear.
Are they voices Of forever
Sweetly calling me to come,
To resting place eternal,


In their home? -Galaxy
Year: 1879

TIE MEssAGE.-Congros meets To-
day at u o'clock. The Presidents Mes
sage will no doubt be sent In about one
o'clock. It's publication will be made
officially this afternoon. But by some
means its contents were secured ana
forvarded to some of the New York
Sunday newspapers, and we transfer
full synopsis of what the President says
to Congress to the GAZETTE in another
column. The message is very fair
document. There is very little in 1t that
may be considered Objectionable except
In party sense. Mr.. Hayes still holds
TO some OF his Civil Service Reform
views; apd gives the high salaried geh-
try of his administration kick that the
stalwarts will not like. He suggests
that If the Office holders receive so much
money that they are able to contribute
to carry elections, and thus keep them
selves in power ; their salaries are higher
than necessary and should he reduced.
He might have added too, that 1t was
altogether too expensive to the govern
ment to do without the labor Of several
hundred clerks for ten or twelve days
while they went from Washington to
Ohio 70 carry that S.ate to please the
Executive and save the political reputa-
tion of John Sherman. This thing Of
clerks going from Washington home to
their native States 10 vote has been "run
in the ground" Most Of these men
have made their "komes" in Washing
ton; and many Of them never expect to
have ''home" anywhere else; if they
do, however, the country can better
afford to do without their votes than TO
pay their expenses and lose their services
for two weeks to sway political opinion
iu doubtful States. If the practic is
kept up, the clerks from California,
Oregon and Alaska will of course all
want to 60 "home" and vote, and we
presume there is about as much justice
and right in their going of for two
months as there is justice and right in
the Ohio and Pennsylvania clerks going
off for two weeks for this purpose.
Year: 1879

The average newspaper sets up column


and half of third class jokes, and thel


being stricken with remorse, inserts few


religious items


"a thing of beauty is joy forever, bu


woman that eats onions will never go to


heaven and be an angel and wear wings.


1t requires man of great natural cupid


ity and wonderful powers of deception to


palm off a tin suspender button for nickle,


when the lynx-eyed deacon promenades
around with the contribution box.


George Washington had to fight for the
Presidency; R. B. Hayes had his fight
ing done for him. There is some more
difference between these two men which we
intend to lay before the public as soon as
we can borrow an American history.


Magnolia man says that he'll be con-
founded if any fellow can own a kicking
mule and retain any interest in religious
affairs; and that explains why he withdrew
from the church the other day.


Did you ever see anything quicker than
thought We have-it was the look of res
lief that flew into the eyes OF young lady
just after the departure of very green
young man who had been hanging around
and worrying her for four long hours.


The other morning, just as the sun, the
majestic orb of day, was tinting the skies
with the rosy light of dawn, Jackson man
went out to milk fine COW which friend
in Ohio sent him the other dav
The milk bucket came down yesterday
afternoon, and the man was observed by
his wife to be slowly descending this morn
ing The COW is doing very well.


What this country is languishing for Just
now, is an invention that will enable man
to read the newspaper, nurse the baby, and
listen to his wife's gossip about new bon
nets all at once. I
If one auctioneer makes a sale, how many
will it require to make sailor? A hand
saw file and three prize packages for the ,
irst correct answer.


'How to spend your money" is the title t
# new book by Peter Cooper. We've
'een knowing how to do that for ages, old c
elbow; how to get our money is what is :
worrying US, and causes our naturally hand +
ONE face to look as faded and pinched up
S Susan B. Anthony's a
Once upon An evening dreary, as we pom b
cred sad and weary over many an old and "
ing joke we'd often made before, sudden Il u
: there came tapping as of some one 9,
emily rapping an old candle-box with n
and the first thing we knew fc
ian as big as David Davis bursted open the IL
oor, walked in and-and-setted an un- 81
aid subscription bill that dated as far back o %
! the building of Noah's ark. Go thou h,
I'd do likewise. VALENTINE Vox. OF
Year: 1879

UNCLE RUBEN DAVIS is cavorting aDt
tergiversatins around for the State Senate in
the Monroe District, but he will get left OF
course. He always manages to get left
In long and active political career he has
developed an extraordinary faculty for get
ting left. But as he is used to it, we sup
pose it will make no difference with him.
He will have the company of General
Planetarium and Col D. B. Wright, in his
;soIatioo
Year: 1879

THE Walthall Pioneer: "There is
no better paper in the State than THE
COMET, and it should be in the hands of
every Mississippian. 1t is not only a
good sound political paper, but it is
brim full of humor, wit and sound
practical suggestions on all topics. THE
COMET is peculiar; there is no other
paper like it; no other can be like it,
and hence its success"
Year: 1879

The Raymond Gazette: "The Comet
is one of the most readable newsy and
interesting papers that comes to our
table. We always open it with much
pleasure and lay it aside with much
regret. 1t deserves place in every
household, and ought to have and will
no doubt soon have (for it is, compsra-
lively, a new candidate for public ia
vor) circulation second to no paper in
the Southwest -
Year: 1879

Col. Horn half earnestly asks whether
it would not do for the "Solid South" to go
for Grant in 1880? In what way shall the
solid South ''go for Grant ?"-Nlacon Sun


Why, "go for" him in a way that
will make him think that "a thousand
of brick" had fallen down on his head
at once.
Year: 1879

weare born in hope, we pass our child
hood in hope, We are governed by hope
through tie whole of our lives; in our last
moments hope is Aattering to us; and not
till the beating Of the heart shall cease will
its benign influence leave us
Year: 1879

and she said he was the stage she could not tell
his whereabouts, aud aEked me why inquired $50
particularly about Bennett" she afterward asked.
'Do you think Bennett could have done thisi' ard
not waiting tor an answer she said, why. he's a
mere hoy:" she told me that Smith had no trouble
with Bennett except once when she was preparing
Bennett extra food zone time" she said. Harry
threw Bennett OF the stoop, and then. she said He
had no business to do it, Tor Bennett has been good
friend to u.s. and but for him we would not have
had shelter" II asked her, said the witness, "how
Harry stood with Ills lodge" aid She said his
brother gave him SIS his dues but he spent the
money picnic she complained that in three years
Harry had only given her dress and apair of shoes;
the morning of the mur Ter was telling some
porters that Harry was well thought of and had no
enemies. and when returned to ths parlor she said
to me, Everybody is giving him go0d name nov.
but know that he had enemies. and everybody
spoke bad of him." she said to me- "Do you think


woman could do this trefcrring to the murder) and
hold W under t?' said yes, and she asked what
q woman would do it Tor; told her for love. and
then she said. "why. haven't had any love for him
for years. she also said that he had blackened her
eyes and torn her dress; she told me that she had
met Bennett only twice by appointment, once in
Jersey City, in the street, and again in New York.


Counsel for defence struggling for an hour to
shake McHorncy in regard to his memory but failed.
He was the stand when the Court adjourned
Year: 1879

The principal confagrations of yester-
day were not as destructive to property as
some others which have occurred of
late, but they will appear more promi-
nent because of their peculiar nature
The Rogers Locomotive Works, which were
the principal feature Of the Paterson fire,
were claimed to be the largest in the world,
and their destruction will undoubtedly
cause serious annoyance to some American
and foreign roads which had work in prog
ress there. The number of residences
consumed by the fire which spread from
the Rogers works was unusual in
city confagntions and naturally ex-
cited serious apprehensions for the safety
of the city. The fire at the Tattersall
Stables was remarkable for the lamentable
loss of animal life which it occasioned. and
it emphasizes the need Of some intelligent
system of removing animals rapidly from
buildings so quick to burn as even tho
safest stables are. Horses ore easily
terrified and made uncomfortable by the
sight of fire, but there are methods of safely
removing them from burning buildings,
and in stables where valuable animals arc as
numerous as they are in New York every
hostler nnd stable boy should be made
acquainted with them.
Year: 1879

1t will be remembered that when the
Nordenskj3ld expedition reached the mouth
Of the River Lena with the steamers Vega
and Lena it was decided that tho latter
should proceed up the river to Yakutsk,
remain there until next summer and then
return to Europe by the same route as that
on which she came out with her consort.
In the meantime Professor Nordenskj0ld
was to advance eastward with the Vega and
try to make the Pacific Ocean via Behring
Straits. That the latter enterprise mis-
carried this season we were we'll assured !;
but now it appears from our special cable
despatch, published this morning, that the
Lena, which attempted to ascend the river
to Vi.misk or Vitein, where her con-
signee was staying, has been frozen in
on tho river on her return trip to Yakutsk.
OF course this is not a very serious piece of
trouble Her crew will be comfortably
quartered at Yakutsk during tho winter
and the steamer will be loaded for her
home voyage early in the season. News OF
her whereabouts is, however, interesting,
rs she has made wonderful trip up river
whose waters were for the first time opened
to steam navigation.
Year: 1879

The suit brought by the Oceanic Steam
Navigation Company against the City Cham
berlain to recover an amount Of money paid,
as is alleged, under protest, for head money
on emigrants, is very important case. 1t
is intended to test the right of the several
emigrant lines to recover back all moneys
paid by them under the State law, which
has been pronounced unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court Of the United
States. Subsequently to that decision
law was passed by Congress legalizing
the acts of the State. and this is held by the
defence to be n bar to the present suit On
the other hand, it is claimed that Congress
cannot pass law depriving the parties who
have been injured by IN illegal act from
recovering their rights. The case is IN in
teresting one, but it does not seem polite for
tho emigrant transportation companies to
press their supposed claims. 1t is well
known that the companies compelled the
emigrants to pay the head money by add
ing the amount to their fare or making it
up out of their subsistence. The present
suits will prompt Congress to pass an act
which will apply to all ports of the United
States, and will be less acceptable to the
steamship lines than the New York Head
Money law. Emigrant ships which bring
over paupers and land them here to be
charge ON the public ought TO be made re-
sponsible in some shape or other for tho
expense they entail upon as.
Year: 1879

President Hayes to Collector Merritt.


1t is an unusual and, so far as We are
aware, an unexampled thing for the Presi-
dent of the United States to address letter
Of congratulation to one of his appointees
on his confirmation by the Senate. The
circumstances of General .Merritt's case
perhaps justify SO singular proceeding ;
but if President were to write letters of
congratulation to all his appointees on their
confirmation he would be burdened with o
needless amount of correspondence. The
simple fact that the President makes ON ap-
pointment is sufficient proof of his con-
fidence and good will. This exceptional
letter was evidently written with view to
publication, and is o convenient vehicle for
removing, or attempting to remove, the i'm
preston made by certain letters written to
Collector Arthur, which were read by Sena-
tor Conkling in the executive session when
the confirmation of Mr.. Merritt was under
consideration. Those letters have not been
published, but according to the reported
summary of the contents they consisted of
requests to appoint personal friends of the
President and of the Secretary of the Treas
ury to offices in the Custom House. The
note to General Merritt seems to have
been :, written to efface the impression
made on, the public mind by those letters.
The President says to the new Collector
s.Neither my accommodation nor that of
Secretary Sherman, nor of any member of
of Congress or other influential person must
be specially regarded" But would it not
be better for President Hayes and Secretary
Sherman to refrain from recommending
their friends at all? A Collector who feels
so deep sense OF obligation to them as Mr..
Merritt must naturally feel ought not to be
embarrassed and made uncomfortable by
rejecting the applications of these high
functionaries to whom he owes so
much and !, who are his official supe-
riors .p to u whom he is accountable.
The principles stated in this letter are ex-
cellant, like all the general declarations Of
President Hayes. But if heNsks the Col
lector to give places to his personal friends,
Mr.. Merritt will be tempted to discover
qualifications which do not really exist by
q natural reluctance to thwart the wishes of
the President. We wish that instead of
telling Collector Merritt to pay no special
regard to his own recommendations the
President had assured the Collector that he
would relieve him from all embarrassment
on that head by abstaining from making any
requests Of the kind.
Year: 1879




How m my of our readers during the past
twelvemonth have paid any heed to the
cons family repeated telegraphic announce
ments of pestilence and fam inc in Ceara
Not many, wo suspect, could readily find
Ceari on the map of South America, and OF
the few who know that it is coast province
OF Northern Brazil there is, perhaps, not one
who can at the first blush realize the possi-
bility of the amazing catastrophe SO graph
ically portrayed in our columns this morn
ing 1t is tale calculated to stir the blood
of the most apathetic and to excite in the
breasts Of the compassionate such pity as
rarely in lifetime can be felt for suffer-
ings not present to the bodily eye. The
world heard much OF Bulgarian atrocities
during the past year and but little OF
drought in Brazil. It will doubtless be
reluctant to believe that the whole mortality
from the Russo Turkish war falls far short
of that resulting from the drought in the
two Brazilian provinces Of Ceari and
Piauhy, but such is the appalling fact us
presented by trustworthy witnesses. The
letter of our correspondent presents pic
ture of voc such as can scarcely be paral-
lelcd in history except by the siege of Jeru-
salem and the black death which desolated
Europe in the fourteenth century. Com
pared with the tragic tale of Ceari the cpl
demic which has lately visited our South
orn cities seems nlerciful visitation.
Year: 1879

The terrible reverse to the British forces
in South Africa was not a pleasant subject
with which to greet the members of the
British Parliament on their reassembling
yesterday yet it was one which the Minis
try could not ignore. and the speeches Of
Earl Beaconsfed in the Lords. and of Sir
Stafford Northcote in the Commons, dealt
frankly with the subject. The Chancellor
of the Exchcquer referred to the British de-
feat as ''an unduly severe blow" which it
was not desirable either to exaggerate or
depreciate, but proclaimed the determine
ton of the Cabinet to "repair and wipe out
the disaster" by vigorously pushing for
ward the reinforcements asked for by Lord
Chelmsford. He sugar-coated the bitter
pill he was forced to administer with the
customary ''official utterances" as to the
general admiration for the gallantry Of the
soldiers and the universal sympathy for
the sufferers. But he rendered no explana-
ton of the blunder by which handful Of
troops had been sent forward to be mas
sacred by IN army of savages, and when
questioned by an opposition member as to
whether the full force originally asked for
by Lord Chelmsford had been supplied,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer referred
his interrogator to the Blue Book with an
official GOODNESS which Sir Joseph Porter,
K G. B., might envy.


The Ministerial leaders availed them
selves of the opportunity to exhibit the
brighter colors of events in other parts
of the world. in contrast to the dark shading
mencement Of the Russian evacuation Of
Turkey; the earnestness of the Porte in tho
matter of reforms in Asia; the success in
Afghanistan, where the object Of the expe-
dition is claimed to be already practically
accomplished, were all made subjects Of
ongratulation.. Even the slight allusion to
the "present distress prevalent in England"
was tempered by the prediction that the
trouble will be diminished by the improved
weather We sincerely hope that the "offi-
cial utterances" of Lord Beaconsfeld and
Sir Stafford Northcote may prove correct.
Yet it is to be feared that the English gov
ernment has not SO fair prospect before it
as the Ministry represents. The Afghan diff
fculty is not yet settled While England is
not likely to hesitate in the employment of
whatever force and outlay may be neces-
sary to retrieve her losses in South Africa
there may be danger Of other disasters
before the reinforcements SO much needed
reach the colony. At the best the terrible
blunder that caused the calamity will be-
canvassed and criticised by the English
people in O manner that will not aid the
popularity of the present rulers. The dis
tress prevalent in England. which SIR Stat.
ford Northcote hopes will disappear before
good weather and pleasant sunshine, is not
of character to be SO easily removed. In
security has eaten into the heart of moneyed
institutions, confidence is impaired, credit
is shaken, business is stagnant, and the
chronic want and suffering of the poorer
classes arc becoming acute and unbear-
able. We sincerely trust that the pros
poets in England will be better when Par
lament next adjourns than they are on its
present reassembling.
Year: 1879

II TIE BILL introduced in the Legislature yes
terday providing for the consolidation of tho
small towns around Brooklyn and their govern
ment by commission becomes law it may be
the means of effccting some needed reforms. At
all events it would be difficult to conceive of
worse condition OF affairs among them than
exists at present
Year: 1879

YOUNG HOPE who is accused OF completely in
the robbery of the Manhattan Bank may be in
nocent, but unless several witnesses are very
much mistaken he was in and around the build
Ing the morning of the burglary. His examina-
ton has not yet been finished.
Year: 1879

THE STORY of the two survivors of the
schooner Estella, which was capsized in mid
ocean last month, forms sad chapter of human
suffering. For fifteen days they were at the
mercy of the waves water-logged craft
their only food being few apples and some
salted fish.
Year: 1879

PHrrApELpHrA Feb. Is. 1879.
The Board of Assay Commissioners for Weighing
and testing the coinage Of the United states mints
during the past year concluded their labors this
afternoon The deviation In weight and hneness OF
the pieces from the various mints was found to be
very small although the coinage for last year was
heavier than ever before. because Of the issuing Of
tho new silver dollars.