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Year: 1879

1t is needless to observe that although
Massachusetts has a larger number of
valuable industries than most any
State i'll the Union, the manufacture Of
cotton and woollen goods and boots
and shoes is the most important. At
the present time, when there is good
reason to believe the business OF the
country has reached hard pan and there
are signs of sure but slow revival on
every hand, it will be Of interest to
know what those in Massachusetts en-
gagged in the great industries referred
to think of the future prospects of busi-
ness.


Reports from the cotton manufactur-
ing interest are of a hopeful character.
One owner interested in six corpora
tions says that all the mills are busy
and are doing fair business. These
mills turn out literally hundreds of
miles of cotton fabrics every day, which
find market in all parts of the world.
A Lowell corporation recently had an
order of $500 bales for the African mar
ket, and lively and growing trade is
springing up in Japan and China.
This trade was nearly lost during the
war, chiefly by the imitation of Ameri-
can brands and marks by English
agents and manufacturers, and selling
very inferior goods for lower price.
Year: 1879

swords with great dexterity, dealing
blows sidewise, aid even backward,
while they are in the very act of
whizzing and whirling round the room
in rapid gallopade. Their motions
are not less graceful than enthusiastic;
and though the company is numerous,
and turns and thrusts are sudden,
none seems taken unawares; nor is
there even the slightest apparent con-
fusion. Sometimes single combats
follow the general engagement, each
selecting his opponent; but the boys
are so we'll matched in regard to size,
and all are so perfectly trained, that
really there seems little advantage to
be gained. The grand climax of the
whole affair is to force two of their
leaders into corner, surround them
with circle Of crossed swords, and
hold them prisoners until one or the
other succeeds in gaining possession Of
his opponents weapon. The victor
then receives as prize a real sword,
and is thenceforth honorably discharged
from further trials of his skill; while
the unfortunate lad who permitted
himselfto be disarmed has to 60 through
an additional season of probation.
Year: 1879

The Manchester Guardian of a recent
date gives the following discouraging
account Of the consequences of some of
the recent attempts to arrest the natu-
raj course of decay in Westminster
Abbey:


The solution used on the paintings
in Westminster Abbey, and which has
been reported to have had such disas-
trous consequences on the wall paint
ings in the Chapter House and on a
portion of the cloisler, is simply shellac
dissolved in spirits of wine. This
solution was recommended by Sir
Gilbert Scott himself for use in the
Abbey, and has been chiefly used on
the pillars of the arches in the nave,
also on the tympanum on the arches at
the entrance of the Chapter House,
and on the wall pictures within The
arcade work surrounding that build
ing inside it. The effect has been to
make coating Of dark color, whose
darkness intensiies with age, on the
surface of which it is laid, and destroy
ing all individuality of whatever it
touches. This effect on the entrance
Of the Chapter House resembles that
of the inside of chimney. 1t is be-
lieved that it has kept the surface to-
gether and somewhat retarded the
SUPPLYING decay, but it is feared that
the surface may fall off in patches some
day as the ultimate result of the treat
ment. The appearance is bad and
utterly deceitful as restorative or
preventive process, except for short
period. 1t is believed it will be found
that decay has been going on under
meath the coating, and will probably
result in heavier and more irreparable
mischief than if it had never been tenn
POI arily stayed by the use Of the solu-
! tion. AS to the wall paintings, the
Year: 1879

The purchasers thought that they were
getting American goods. The trick
has been exposed. The capitalists
engaged in the manufacture of cotton
goods are confident that specie resump-
tion will help their business and in
time give fresh impetus to manufac-
turing, but not like that unhealthy
growth which preceded the panic.
Business has not improved perceptibly
yet, but those engaged in it and are
qualified to judge, are confident that
the tide has turned and that the cotton
and woollen manufacturing industries
are on the road to a sure competence
and prosperous times.


The same hopeful feeling is said to
pervade the boot and shoe interest.
Massachusetts still holds the control OF
that great interest, despite the at
tempted competition. The product Of
the industry the past year has been as
large as any year since the panic, and
greater than one or two of the inter
vening. The orders for winter goods
were large and liberal, and the orders
for spring goods are coming in rapidly.
A leading manufacturer thinks that
the revival of the Etrade has set in. 1t
will be slow and conservative. On the
whole, the outlook is more promising
than at any date since the panic.-Bos
ton Journal.
Year: 1879

mischief done to them has been. in the
opinion Of some, much aggravated by
the place being thrown open constantly
to the people and the boys, and that
old enemy of art in the metropolis,
the smoke Of London. The shelIac has
covered them with varnish surface
like that on pictures, and the surface
has cracked and become corrugated,
and so far has done damage to the pic
ture below as cracked varnish does in
an oil painting; but it is suspected that
in this case, if the sheIlac should be
removed, the paintings would be found
to be almost unharmed.
Year: 1879

And that date was less than year
old


My own name my own age. 1t was
moment or two before | recovered
from the shock it gave me, and knew the
truth.


Mrs. Hotfman's cry of surprise and pain
reused me first, and felt her arm put
around me as if to convince herself she
really held me fast.


The touch reused me from the numb
sense of awe holding me, and I said:


SIT must be my poor cousin Rosa. We
were both of the same age and both named
for our Grandmother Etherington. Oh.
if only my uncle had waited here for me-
| want father, and he child


was sobbing as | spoke, for l had
dearly loved my uncle and cousin, and
my overstrained nerves had given way.


Very kindly my friend comforted me,
leading me a little aside from the grave
TO an iron seat. where we rested. We
were still there, and / was telling Mrs
Hoffman of my anxious waiting for =
Year: 1879

The "Gazette" Of this city has join


cd the free traders of the country, and


has even gone so far as to attack the
shipbuilding Of the nation which gives


employment to untold numbers of


workmen. For the sake of having


cheap ships it would shut up every


ship yard from Maine to Florida. To
carry out the doctrine it advances would


break up ship building in Wilmington
and the great ship yards Of the Harlan
& Hollingsworh Company, the Pusey &
Jones Company, the Jackson & Sharp
Company, and others would be aban-
doned to be turned into something else
less profitable to our people, or to be
suffered to go TO decay. What it
would do in Wilmington, it would do
in every other city and town in the
country where ships are built. Let
our people imagine the results OF sud
den shutting down of all the shipbuild
ing firms in the CITY and then they will
have some idea of the kind of times the
"Gazette'' would have if it had its
way. In place of building our own
ships and giving employment to thou
SANDS of workmen, it would have Amer
loan shippers buy up old rotten British
hulks long ago worn out, which the
owners would be glad to sell at almost
any price to get them off their hands.
1: is true that this might be Of some ad-
vantage to aristocratic ship owners,
who already roll in wealth, but our
neighbor who is so anxious for the in.
terests of this wealthy class, seems to
have no thought or care for American
laborers employed in building Ameri-
can ships. For aught he cares they
may be turned adritt and either be
brought down to a level with the pau
per laborers of Europe or starve. 1t is
true that British ships are built for
tritie less than American ships, but the
difference in the cost of the two is the
difference in the price paid for labor
The excess of the price of building a
ship in this country, over that paid for
building one on the Clyde, is paid to
American workmen, while in England
it goes into the pockets of the ship
owners. This is the feast to which the
laborers of this country are invited by
. paper which processes great sympathy
for the working classes and strange to
say, there are thousands of working
men who are engaged in American ship
yards, but who, when they vote the
Democratic ticket, vote in favor of the
very ship upon which they are employ
ed being built in England. What
strange inconsistency
Year: 1879

There has been no man more abused
by uncrupulous partisan papers than
Ex-Governor Chamberlain of South
Carolina. Reelected fairly to an office
which he was not allowed to fill, be-
cause the red-shirted rifle clubs pre-
ferred Wade Hampton, he left the
State in disgust and returned to the
practice OF law in the East, but when
charge was made against him in the
fury OF partisan zeal in the State in
which he hal made the best Governor
it ever had, he lost no time in hasten.
ing to the South to meet the charge.
Poltroon like he never SUNK away
from his adopted State and hung around
Washington claiming the privileges of
his station to keep himself from being
sent back to be tried on criminal
charges like Patterson who had to vote
for Hamburg Butcher Buffers admis-
sion to the Senate to save himself.
Daniel T. Chamberlain 5 skirts were
clear though he was prosecuted. 1t
will be remembered how an unscrupu-
lous so-called Independent organ in
this city stigmatizel and abused him,
though but short time before it had
been as loud in his praise. That hap
pened when that paper had some lit
tie sense of propriety and decency and
could 90 ;asonally be relied on to tell
the truth; but when it became neces-
sary to defame and traduce the char
acter and standing of Ex-Governor
Chamberlain, that case might be
made out in favor of Hampton and
his re el brigadier cohorts, there was
no paper in the land that did the bid
ding of its masters with greater alacrity.
Chamberlain has been making speech
in Massachusetts recently and amongst
other good things he said are the fol-
lowing:


"Peace is our aim and prayer-but
the peace we seek is the peace of the
Declaration of independence, the peace
of freedom, the peace of justice, the
peace of a free and honest ballot, peace
under equal laws, for all men, for black
as we'll as white, at the North and at
the South"


The man who used the above Ian.
guage is the man who is prosecuted by
such papers az We have referred to.
We would ask careful perusal Of the
paragraph quoted, and see if there is
any fault 0 b. foun with such a SEN
timent. The principles there enumpra,
ted will triumph and the name of Dan
lei T. Chamberlain will be cherished
and honorei while his traducers will
be forgotten.
Year: 1879

WE HAVE ALL along been placing the


cost of building new water wheel at


the city mill at $1,000, and at even that


moderate calculation the floating debt


at the end Of the fiscal year would be


about $14 900, but we now see thai


the estimate for building it is $4,000. OF


course for this contingency no appro,
priation has been made, and to the


first estimation of the floating debt of


$4,000 we must add So, 800 more max
ing total Of SIT, 500 at the end of the


present fiscal year. 1t must be remem-


bered that this only extends to the first


of January, 1887, period OF little


less than six months, from which time


up to July lst, 1880, six months more
the expenses OF the city will have to be
paid by money borrowed from the
Banks for which heavy rate of inter
est will have to be paid. All this is
done that there may be show of &c on.
omy by the Democratic City Council,
and this is why the rate of taxation
has been cut down to $l.15. We know
that the "Gazette" with its usual un-
scrupulous party zeal has said and will
say again that we are opposed to low
taxes, but this charge goes for nothing
with intelligent people. We cannot see
what is to be gained by reducing the
rate of taxation to LIS, thereby Great.
ing a floating debt of sl7,S 500, and
then next year be compelled to raise
it to 5l,25 to pay off this same floating
debt. The action of the Democratic
finance committee of Council in reduc
ing the rate looks like sharp political
dodge, made for the purpose of catch
ing votes which will no doubt be very
much needed this coming fall to bridge
them over the wide chasm which has
been made in their party. 1t is cute
lodge too, that works two ways, a wea-
pom that has two edges to it. The re
tuction of the tax rate this year is to
represent Democratic economy, and
should the latter party by any chance
lose the City Council this coming fall.
then the raising of the tax rate to 81. .25
next year to pay off Democratic def.
'iences, is to represent Republican ex
travagance. For political cunning and
chicanery, commend us to the Demo-
cratic CiVy Council of Wilmington.
Year: 1879

Inc agony IN the City Sounoh 40 ."


last over and Mr.. Louis P. Lynch is


elected street commissioner. OF this


there was no doubt since the sharp


dodge executed by the Democrats in


filing the Ninth Ward vacancy, if Mr..


Lynch would vote for himself which 1t


was generally conceded he would do If


there was no other plan by which he


could be elected. We are not amongst


those who contend that Col. Lynch had


no right to cast ballot for himself, for


humiliating as it was there could be no


doubt that he was entitled to all the


rights and privileges Of the other Coun-


cilmen, and his action would be sup


ported before auy court of justice. 1t


is true that rule OF Council very spe-


cifcally prohibits any Councilman from


voting upon any question in which he


is personally interested, but mere


rule made only to be rescinded at the
option Of Council stands nowhere when


The law is brought to bear upon it.


There was no person more desirous
of escaping this terrible humiliation


than Colonel Louis P. Lynch, but


be could not let three year Office
worth $500 year slip from between
his fingers when his own vote would
save it to him. This is rather more
than could be expected of any body
placed in the same circumstances. We
have no idea at all that on injunction to
restrain Mr.. Lynch from performing the
duties of the office to which he has been
elected would amount to anything and
The money spent in having one issued
would be- thrown away, as Mr.. Lynch has
in our opinion been legally cleo
ted, and We are persuaded to believe
will make good and competent officer.
Having said this much of his qualif.
cations and his election we would most
condemn the means made
use of to accomplish his election, aud
the Legislature cannot too soon step in
and amend the charter, prohibiting any
Councilman voting for himself for
any office in the gift of the body of
which he is member. We must
commend the stand taken by Messrs.
Hart and Paynter, a stand which but
few Democrats dare to take, in
opposing what they believed to be
RUG in their own party formed TOR the
distribution of patronage to a favored
few. The remarks of Mr.. Hart last
night, though they did not ring around
he City Hall, down the stairway and
,ut into the street, like Mr.. McGlinchey's
mere noise and party seutimentality
they had the ring of the true metal
# which firm Independent men are
made. Mr.. Hart charged it upon his
Democratic colleagues that three months
before the caucus was held it was de- |
ermined to make Mr.. Louis Lynch I
Street Commissioner and Mr.. Cannon
lerk Of the market, and said Mr.. Hart:
i cannot stultity my manhood by CIV
ng my vote to such combination. :
But though Mrssrs. Hart and Paynter
nave been unsuccessful smashing what
s evidently Democratic ring, they i.
lave raised themselves in the estima-
ion of all friends of good municipal 5
'overnment; and though they may not
10 met by the smiles and Establishments :
f political place seekers, they will


ave what is much better, the approval
f clear conscience.
Year: 1879

a 0sOGy We INV u GbnCC AoaROHh0se


This story of the Prince Imperial, at
the Shoebuiyness School of Gunnery, is
told by writer in Progress. "One young
gentleman about his own age imagined
bimselfa sculptor in embryo, and he per-
suaded the Prince to permit him to make
a cast Of the face OF Napoleon IV. To
that end pile of soft mud was pressed
up into position OH the beach, and the
Prince kn-eling, pushed bis face down
into the soft mass courageously, but fear
ing that 1t was not sufficient to pr oduce a
first-rate impression, the young artist
took him by the back Of ths neck and
crammed him down still further In the
mud, and then, when he considered that
the proper Indentallons had been eceived
he permitted the half-strangled Prince to
arise, and go and wash himself The
mixture of plaster of Paris was ready,
and poured into this ingenious mould,
and highly interested crowd Of young
Officers and men gathered TO see what
success had crowned the efforts of the
regimental artist. When the solidified cast
was taken out it looked like bell
necked squash as anything, for the
plaster some how enlarged the original
cavity left by the Princes nose, and run
down into the ground about ten inches.
The Prince joined as heartily as anybody
In the laugh, that burst out at the sight
of that caricature, but he refused to pose
again, saying that he thought they would
never get such another striking Likeness.
IL is still at the me.s-room at the bar
racks, and IS labelled Bust of Napoleon
IV'.n
Year: 1879

The interviews with business men which
the GLOBE presents this morning very clear
ly demonstrates the feasibility of establish
ing Board of Trade in this city, with daily
meetings, for the purpose of commercial
transactions. All that seems to be necessary
is to have some active citizens take the ini-
tiative. If St. Paul is to thrive as a com
mercial center she must have an active
open, competitive market. The country
must feel that by shipping to St. Paul
market can always be found and such prices
obtained as result from competition. If the
country wishes to buy, it must be
assured that st. Paul has sellers in the field.
AS at present, trading is of a private nature,
each man acting independent of others, and
the party having produce to sell must hunt
for his customer. The bringing together of
our business men daily would make the en-
terprise 8 success, and, when once estab-
lished, it will be a matter of surprise that it
has been so long delayed. If it was under
stood that by going upon the Board of Trade
at given hour all classes of business men
could be found, it would become at once
nucleus for business transactions Of inn
mense proportions. The GLOBE sets the
bali in motion and invites our enterprisino
business men to make the movement prac-
Year: 1879

too, the duties of the Office being statistical
of right belong to the department. of statis-
tics, and should be attended to there.


We are glad to see disposition among
many members of both Houses of the legis
lature to practice as we'll as preach economy.
There is no better way of saving money
than by abolishing all useless offices with
which the State is burdened. Money is not
plenty enough to warrant the maintenance OF
slnecures either in gratitude for past politi
cal services OF from sympathy for their po.
Gtical adversiies. The present is good
time to begin the work Of retrenchment.
The treasury is almost empty, the taxes are
high, crops have not been good for the past
three years, and money is exceedingly scarce
The axe of reform must fall somewhere, and
there is no better place than where thou.
sands of dollars are spent annually in main
tanning useless offices.
Year: 1879

The discussion in the State Senate yester-
day on the bill reported from the committee
on retrenchment and reform, providing for
the merging of the Office of railroad commits
sioner into that Of commissioner of statis-
tics, developed the fact that majority of
the Senators approve cordially the position
assumed by the GLOBE several weeks ago.
At that time we demonstrated that the du-
ties of railroad commissioner could be easily
performed by clerk in one of the other de-
partments at great saving of expense to
the State. The salary of the commissioner
is three thousand dollars year, and he is al
lowed twelve hundred dollars for clerk hire
and two hundred dollars for contingent ex-
penses, making the total cost of the Office.
exclusive Of Office rent, stationery, etc.,
forty-four hundred dollars. The bill under
consideration proposes to save all but one
thousand dollars of this amount, which is to
be paid to an extra clerk in the Office of the
commissioner of statistics who is to be
charged with d1ties now performed by an
ex-governor and high priced clerk.


The dates of the railroad commissioner
are purely clerical and to a great extent
merely nominal. He is not, as some Sena-
tors seemed to suppose, the fiscal agent of
the State in it's dealings with the railroads.
The companies pay all their taxes directly to
the State treasurer, who furnishes the rail-
road commissioner with memoranda of the
amounts SO paid that he may enter them on
the books he keeps for that purpoce. This
dntv can be performed by any man compe-
tent to be second class clerk in any of the
offices at the capitol, and the maintenance of
tho Office as separate department is wan
ton waste Of the peoples money, Then,
Year: 1879

TO the Editor of the Globe.


Can it be possible that any considerable
number of persons believe in the practicability
of the union of St. Paul and Minneapolis? No
such consolidation can take place upon any
basis acceptable to a respectable minority of
the citizens of our city. Minneapolis will con-
sent on the following terms:


First-St. Paul to drop her name and accept
the name of Minneapolis as the name of the
great consolidated.


Second-The postofice, court house and other
city and county Offices to be removed to Min
nea polls and located on the West Side.


Third-A new State house, to be erected at
the expense of the people of St. Paul, and to
be also on the West Side.


Fourth-The passage of law making it
treason to maintain the name of st. Paul, said
treason to work corruption of blood to the
fourth generation.


Is there a man in this city craven enough to
accept the terms of such an inglorious surren-
der?


If SO, let the public have his name that an
effort may be made to raise bonus large
enough to induce him to remove to some other
locality. The advocacy of such union ia alb.
surd and preposterous. The elements are as
discordant as fire and water. A population so
selfish as to be willing to exclude from the
State the Northwestern Park association unless
it can be located SO as to inure entirely to their
benefit, is too narrow gauge tn unite with the
broad gauge people of our city. Let St. Paul
60 on to the consummation of her glorious
destiny, and when the union takes place it will
be by extending her limits and taking in all
suburban villages, including the fourishing
village at the tails. HEwA1l, MAyErg.
Year: 1879

II is very evident that reform is needed
in the matter of the public printing, and
some such bill as was reported to the House
on Thursday ought to be passed by Con.
gress. There has long been more than a
suspicion that tho government printing Office
is grand scheme of robbery, costing the
country millions of dollars annually. Thsre
is no need of printing two-thirds of the pub
lie documents that now see the light of day
and burden the mails, and the expense of
this department might safely be reduced
more than one-half without the least detri-
ment to the public interests.