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Year: 1878

Mr.. HENDRICKS, in opening tiir
campaign in Indiana, has no re-


serve in expressing his belief that
General Grant will be the noxt


Presidential candidate of the Re-
publican party. There is un-
doubtedly strong current in that
directions, amongst the recognized


exponents of Republican opinion,


all over the United States. Gen.
Grant stands forth to day as the
representative of the aspiration for
| q strong, centraliz ID government,
which shall be powerful enough To


keep the poor man in subsection to


the exactions of the capitalist. 1t
is somewhat curious phase ol
politics that the only chance
Grant has of again grasping poweI


will be given him by the Working.


men themselves, on the supposi.


tion that the thirl party move
ment shall weaken the Democratic
party more than IL will the Re
publican. We do not believe In
this theory, but it certainly won ID
be q piece Of grim political satire
II the Workingmen themselves
should prove to he the instruments
| by which the dreams of ambition i,


despotic and un Republican Amer


leans shall be realized. We have


heretofore repeatedly expressed
our belief that the Republican
party will lose more in the East by
the detection of the Workingmen


than the Democratic party. The
truth or falsity of our idea will be


demonstrated very shortly in the
Congressional elections. But tha
fact remains that the only politi.
cal combination which would give
Grant an earthly show as candi-
date for tn, third term would be
the running, by the National La


Dor party, of third candidate.
The Democratic party, as ma.
tional organization, has always
been the champion of the poor
| man who earns his bread in the
sweat of his brow, and w0 cannot
help thinking that our horny
handed fellow-citizens Will COM
NIT fatal mistake il they ever
suffer themselves to forget over
eighty years of unbroken Dem o.


cratic devotion to their interests.
Year: 1878

slider Gov. Hartranft's chances decidedly the
best. Ex-senator Henderson. of Mis-
souri,, Is well thought of. not
only by the President, but by a majority
OF his Cabinet, and will prove . formidable
competitor" When asked as to The movement
IN favor OF Gen. Banks, he said


Gen Banks name will not be considered
The fact is, whatever Of prestige he ever had
has been lost by his vacillating course In
Congress during the past few years. He has
been a kind OF political omnibus, ready to
load up at any time with which ever party he
thought would elect him to Congress-"


Mr.. Nimmo, chief Of the Bureau Of Statis-
ties, is busily engaged in the preparation of
his annual report on commerce and naviga-
ton TO the Secretary of the Treasury, which
will be ready for members Of Congress soon
after their reassembling after tho holidays
The report will embrace statistical abstracts,
showing the present condition and progress
of the commerce of the United States with
each foreign nation during the last twenty
years, with special reference to the Increase
Of our domestic exports and the falling Of OF
our imports from foreign countries
Year: 1878

The question Is frequently asked, How Ia
New Orleans getting on 2 The inquiry is
prompted by q generous sympathy. Tho
Crescent City" has just emerged from a
fearful plague. Well, any one who will GO
to New Orleans now will SEQ the most ae-
tive and cheerful city in the United States
Divinely regulated Is the economy of life.
Mercifully diffused are the energies that
come TO the help OF the unfortunate and
that cheerfulness and hope that succeed to
afllicton and woe. New Orleans Is the
grand example Of this. Rapidly Is that
heroic city recovering her fortunes and her
social peace and happiness. Yearly Is it her
fate to have months OF lassitude and iDaGtivi-
ty. and she has become accustomed to the
grand reaction that succeeds to this period.
But the present year her recuperative energies
have been increased In proportion to her
greater demand for them, and at this very
time, We repeat, there is show of activity
and heroic devotion to business there that Ia
wonderful


New Orleans Is noble city, and we are do
lighted to say this OF her. and we are proud
Of the success Of the plan which gives her
deep water to sea and lnsures her prosperity.
Year: 1878

New YORK, Dec 4.-The Herald says: OF
the three principal speakers at the New Eng
land dinner last evening only Secretary Evarts
was born in State lying east of the Hudson
river. Senator Blaine is native Of Pennsyl-
vania and Secretary Sherman Of Ohio. A
singular fact is that the most eminent living
lawyer and statesman of New England have
both long been citizens of New York. The
abiest, hardest and most talented and enter
prisng New Englanders go West, which is
destined to become, not only the center Of
population, but OF political influence. If an
other Webster should be born to New Eng
land he would seek his fortune either in New
York city, like Mr. Evarts, or in the West like
Chief Justice Chase.
Year: 1878

found some hope or happy prospect Of the.
year before dimmed or passed away; that


the present only serves to remind them OF
reduced circumstances and straiphteped In


comes Of the feasts they once bestowed on
hollow friends. and of tho cold looks that


meet them now, In adversely aud misfortune
Never heed such dismal "reminiscences. There
are few men who have lived long enough In
the world who cannot coll np such thoughts
any day In the year. Then do not select tho
1nerriest of the three hundred and sixty-five
Tor your doleful recUllections but draw your
chair nearer the blazing fire-nIi the glass
ana Senu round the song aud II your room
be smaller than It was ~ dozen years ago or
II your glass be filled with reeking punch in
stead of sparkling wine put n good face on the
matter, ana empty 1t off hand. and fill an
other and troll of the old dtty you used to
sing, and thank God it's no wose Look
on the merry faces Of your children Gf you
have any rs they sit round the fire. One lit


tie seat may he empty; one slight form that
mothers pride to look upon, may not be
There Dwell not upon the past; think not


that ono short year ago the fair child now re-
sowing into dust sat before you with the
bloom OF health upon its cheek and the gay


ETY. oil Infancy In its joyous eye Reflect upon
your present blessings which every man
| mas many on your past misfortunes, Of
which all men have some. Fill your glass
again, with merry face and eontented heart.
Our llte on it, but your Christmas shall be-
merry and your New Year happy one.



Who can be insensible TO the outpourlngs
OF good feeling and the honest interchange
oi affectionate attachment which abound at
this season OF the YEAR, A Christmas family
party We know nothing in nature more de-
lighttul There seems a magic In the very


name Of Christmas. Petty jealousies and


discords are forgotten, social feelings are


awakened In bosoms to which they have
long been strangers. father and son,
or brother and sister, who have met and
passed with averted gaze or look
of cold recognition, for months before, proffer
and return the cordial embrace, and bury
their past animOsities In their present happi-


ness. Kindly hearts that have yearned to
wards each other, but have been withheld by
false notions OF pride and self dignity. are
again reunited, and all Is kindness and be-
neyOlencel Would that Christmas lasted the


whole year through las it ought, and that the
prejudices and passions which deform our
better nature were never called into action


among those to whom they should ever be
StranEerS
Year: 1878

BROOKLYN, Dec. "a As Miss Ann Robert
son, aged fifteen, was returning home from
night school, on December H. she was tripped
up IN passing along Myrtle Avenue by a wire
stretched from m awning post Of a grocery
store across the sidewalk. Some boys were
In ambush watching the effect of their trick
upon passers by The girl, in falling, turned
80 that the back Of her head struck the side
walk. She uttered u cry Of pain and then be-
came insensibie, Last night she died from
fracture Of the skull, after great suffering
Tho police are looking for the boys who
stretched the wire.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON Dec. "a The special commit
tee on the Hot Springs omission had another
meeting this morning, as usual. There was
no evidence to fix the responsibility upon any
one Tor the omission. s. s. Smoot emphati-
cally denied the statements heretofore made
by witness named Hill that ho tSmooN had
said he knew how the omission occurred
Benson, the secret service detective who
worked up the case, made an explanation to
the effect that he was ordered to do so The
committee will probably close the whole case
after another session. and report that they
have found nothing
Year: 1878

Christmas time! That man must be a
misanthrope indeed, in whose breast some
thing like iovial feeling is not roused-in In
whose mind some pleasant associations are
not awakened d-by the recurrence Of Christ


mas. There are people who will tell you
that Christmas Is not to them what it used
Year: 1878

In the Standard Theatre, went to dentist
Yesterday and took gas 10 have some teeth
filled. When the operation was over she was
with difficulty restored to consciousness and
was unable TO play last evening.
Year: 1878

1t is most astonishing thing that with all
its sympathy for the negro aud with oil it's
willingness TO have him in Congress, tho
solid North has never sent n representative
Of that race thltherl
Year: 1878

ELECTION day in Tucson was very order ly for frontier town. The various can didates manifested considerable spirit in the strife. Carriages decorated with flags and banners were whirling about town all day furnishing free rides to and from the polls to such of the dear people as chanc- ed to be honored with the glorious rignt of suffrage. Only 55l votes were boiled in Tucson. which is a very feeble effort for this town. There was a lack of spirit or of money. Many were not at the polls who should have been, and several votes were cast by parties who had not been a week across the Mexican line. Liberty and Rehormi
Year: 1878

AND still the ngs from the mines continues encourSing. Five mills, and perhaps six, WI soon be in course of construction in lis county, employ ing a small armyOf mechanics and and aerwards they will keep as many mol busy turning out bullion.
Year: 1878

THE rain for the past two days has been heavy and Of great value 10 the county, It is somewhat unusual at this season we think, and we do not remember of having seen so much snow on the Santa Ritas so early in the season ever before.
Year: 1878

ENGINEER Hood and Surveying party are now camped just east Of Tucson. The line Of the southern Pacific has been sur veyed 10 a point just opposite town. Work has no doubt begun at the Yuma end and we may safely hope that year hence the shrill voice Of the locomotive will be heard where the survey now ter inmates.
Year: 1878

Edison, the phonograph man, is
wretched unless he invents half dozen
things every day. He does it just for
amusement when regular business
isn't pressing. The other day he went
out for a little stroll and he thought out
O plan for walking on one leg, 80 rs to
rest the other before he had gone a


BE hailed milk wagon and told the
driver of o little invention that had
popped through his head just that mo-
ment for delivering milk without getting
out of his wagon or even stopping his
horses. A simple force pump, with nose
attached, worked by the foot. would DO
the business, Milk men who dislike to
halt for anything in their mad career
because it prevents them running over
as many children as they might other
wise do, would appreciate this improve
ment. Edison isn't sure but that sau-
sage and pigs feet could be delivered IN


He stepped into hotel Office, and OBJ
serving the humiliations which guests
encountered in seeking to obtain infor-
nation from the high.toned clerk, he
sat down in the reading-room, and IN
five minutes had invented a hotel olefk
to work by machinery, warranted to
stand behind the counter any length OF
time desired, and answer all questions
with promptness, correctness and suav-
itv-diamond pin on and hair parted IN
the middle if desired.


He went through the barber shop OF
the hotel, and as he did so he sighed to
think that with all his genius and crea-
tive imagination, he could never hope
to equal the knight of the razor as q
talking machine. This saddened him
40 tbat he went home and invented no
more that day.-Cincinna6 Saturday
Minht
Year: 1878

During the late war thirty-six trains,
specially fitted up for the purpose, were
constantly employed in removing the
sick and wounded of the Russian army
in Bulgaria and Roumelia from the
theater Of operations into the interior of
Russia. OF these trains, twenty-four
were provided by the military authori-
ties, seven by the Russian Red Cross
Society, two by the imperial family and
three by Germany, the average number
of carriages in each train being twenty
four.


All the sick and wounded in Bulgaria
who could be moved were in the first
instance carried to Sistova or Simnitiza.
There they were placed in hospital,
their cases inquired into, their wounds
bound up afresh, proper medicines and
food given to them, and then after few
days. rest, they were transported in car
riages to the terminal station of the rail-
way at Fratesti. At the Russian frontier
a permanent commission of thirty doc.
tors was established. These examined
carefully all the patients that arrived,
and divided them into three classes. In
the first were placed those that were so
severely wounded or 80 seriously i'll that
it would have been dangerous to move
them further. In the second class came
those who we're only 80 slightly injured
or unwel that they would probably be
able to shortly rejoin their corps, and
these were cbelonned along the railway
running into the interior; while in the
third class were placed those who could
be moved with safety, but who were not
likely to recover speedily, and these were
sent back into the heart of the country;
care being taken to assemble all those
i'll with the same disease at the same
places.


Two OF the ambulance trains started
for the interior every day, the doctors
and attendants accompanying them, each
being allowed fourteen days rest after
each journey.-PaU Mail Gazette.
Year: 1878

THE manufacture of what is commonly
known, in commerce., as "India ink" Is
carried on upon very large scale at shang-
hal, where very superior description Is
prepared. The cause Of the difference In
quality between the various inks made IN
China results from the unemployment OF
constant material for the production OF
the lampblack. In order to impart an
agreeable odor to the substance, the Shang-
bal manufacturers add small quantity OF
musk and camphor from the isle of Borneo'
two articles which are exceedingly dear IN
the celestial empire. The 'Indian ink"
manufactured by the Japanese is inferior
In quality to that of the Chinese, the
former not being SO well versed in the
manner Of preparing the lampblack'
which is the real secret of the whole
art.
Year: 1878

An instrument has been invented for re.
eOrdng the motion of the earth in lts
hourly progress through space. The prln-
ciple of its construction is, that delicately
made pendulum will continue to osclllate
In the same direction as started, and pre-
serving that plane, mark the movement OF
the earth beneath it. The apparatus Is
about six feet high, consisting of an iron
tripod and fine pendulum. There is an
index attached to the upper portion of the
pendulum, and, when the latter is started,
this is perfectly still. In six minutes the
earths motion becomes apparent, and the
needle shows about one degree of devia-
ton. In one hour, the movement is so
marked that the distances traversed
by the earth may be estimated from its
data.
Year: 1878

A MACHINE is described lately for making
dry pulp from dry wood, in cheap and
simple manner-pulp of this kind having
The advantage of being readily shipped,
not liable to freeze, and convertible with
eSs labor into paper. This apparatus
srlnds up the wood by exposing it to the
action Of a cylinder covered with grinding
surface Of glue, ground flint, quartz, and
emery, and the pulp is conveyed. by a
hopper and an endless revolving belt to a
fecaprocating screen. A number of ma
chimes may be arranged side by side, ac-
eordlng to the quantity Of pulp to be manu-
laotured, and, as the machines are simple
IN their construction, they can be operated
quite inexpensively.
Year: 1878

CINCINNATI, Dee. 8.-Alonzo G. Hepple. once
wealthy circus man and owner of large
property in New York and San Francisco
la st night applied for lodgings at the station
house here as n tramp, being in perfectly des-
Gtute circumstances. Some of his old show
friends heard of his destitution and took him
from the statton-house and provided comfort
ably for him. AS circus man he was famed
for ladder act" in which he tested the
power Of four horses to pull him from the
ladaer While performing this act at the
Bowery Theatre, in New York, some years
aga he was injured, and has been going down
hill ever since.
Year: 1878

We notice that several of our exchanges In
the Southwestern part Of the State are press
ing Hon. John Biliu for Speaker. AZ AS
sumption has given US the Governor and New
Orleans the Lieutenant Governor and the
Treasurer, and Iberrile the Auditor. wouldn't
be courteous to the upper part of the State to
select the Speaker from that part of the
State2 We think so, and we know of no man
who could give better satisfaction than the
Hon. John c. Moncure. We hope the Florida
parishes will give him solid vote.
Year: 1878

TT Is ENTERPRIsING. FEARLESS. RE-
liable and newsy, and the peer Of any weekly
newspaper published in West Tennessee. con-
tanning all LEGAL events of Importance in the
city of Memphis and Shelby county. No
labor 0r expense will be spared to maintain IT
in every department at the highest possible
standard, aud to commend it in al! respects
to the confidence and approval of the best
classes in the surrounding country. being
strictly
Year: 1878

Upon the first evidence Of stomachic
or bowel disorders, promptly give the b..
by a few doses Of DR., Bulls Baby Syrup,
and prevent much suffering on the part
Of the little one Price Is cents.
Year: 1878

Councilman Greenwood was fined forty
dollars yesterday by Judge Clayton, for
not getting to court earlier. 1t was Mr..
Greenwood's good ma ure that got him
into this trouble. He started from home
in time, but meeting lawyer who want
ed to go with him, and who had some
business to do, persuaded the Council
man that there was plenty of time. He
waited for him with the above result.
But he won't do it again. He'll bet his
white hat on Chester, Pa, Times


Most men would promptly compensate
Mr.. Greenwood for loss sustained in
such manner, but grave doubts are en-
tertained of any lawyer looking at the
matter in this light.
Year: 1878

SECRETARY THOMPSON, while at
breakfast on Monday, was suddenly taken
with fainting fit, which lasted for some
moments. Medical assistance was
promptly summoned and in a short time
the Secretary recovered, although he was
not able to leave his house yesterday
Stories were circulated ON the Washing
ton streets that he had been stricken with
apoplexy and paralysis. His physician
excessive use of tobacco.
Year: 1878

The horrors of war are described with
ghastly realism in some "Side Notes
from an Artists Sketchbook in the
London Daily NeaUs. On the first morn.
ing of the year, the correspondent set
out from Fratesti for Putenieu in Rou-
mania. Afar off long, dark line NOV
ing in csterpillar.fashio broke the horl-
zon. It was column of Turkish
prisoners marching-the men who once
kept the flower of the Russian army at
bay around Plevna. Half-starved, al
most dead with fatigue and severe cold,
many with fever burning in their eyes
mere stalking bones and foul rags
came the brave troops who made the
fame of Osman Pasha. Thousands OF
birds of prey whirled round and settled
in front and rear, always following this
grim procession like sharks round q
doomed ship. A few yards further on
lay, half covered with snow, a nude
body of another dead Turk, stripped by
his companions for the little warmth of
the rags he wore. A crow had settled on
his clenched hand, and the dogs were
sinking round their victim. at night q
star and the crescent moon, the only
signs in the clear sky, shine brilliantly.


There is the ominous black line vending
up the valley-more wretched prisoners


footsore and weary, with their cadaver-
GUS faces and ice-laden boards. A halt
is made at the. little bridge, 10 dole out
to each their frozen loaf of bread. A
few poor fellows throw themselves down
on the snow and ferv emily pray after
their fashion. How the heavens, with
the bright symbols of their faith glitter
ing on the frosted snow and on their
misery, seem to mock these poor Turks!
Year: 1878

from Philadelphia letter inclosed in a
plan, white envelope and addressed in
the delicate chirography Of q woman to
edward P. Ewing" simply this and
nothing more. The lady never signs
anything but her initials, hence the let
ters cannot be returned to her. Here
is the subject for romantic novel. One
can imagine broksn.hearted woman
every day sending letter out into the
world to her lost lover, in the vain hope
that some day it may reach his hands.
She does not know bis whereabouts, so
she sends her letter out, directed any
where, nowhere, hoping yet despairing
of its ever reaching him.


As the reporter left this interesting
place he couldn't help thinking how
much trouble and sadness would be
averted if people would only direct their
letters in loud hand, as Pat did when
writing to his deaf grandmother, making
the superscription plain and full; or, If
this does not suit the ladies, let them
always add their address to their letters,
and they will never be lost Washing
ton ReDubLicQn,
Year: 1878

The ST. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer.Press
has this statement Frank Plummer
has again been heard from in connec-
ton with another and recent very peril
GUS experience. About the first of the
month Frank was returning to Dead
wood with q companion from his hay
rancho and was suddenly overtaken by
a furious blizzard, which continued all
night. Being without facilities for start
ing fire, and finding it Impossible 70
travel in the face of the binding storm,
the two put in the night in dancing In
order to avoid severe freezing or pos.
sible death. Frank says he has danced
when he considered it pleasant amuse-
ment, but never before followed it as a
very serious and necessary business. He
has lost his taste for dancing.
Year: 1878

CLIMATE CHANaNa.-l It would seem
that not only is the cii nate OF Iceland
growing so cold that gra in cannot rlpen
there, but that of So andinav1a and
western Europe is beco ming more Sc
we're. This is due, it il supposed, to
the steady descent of tn ice OF the far
north upon the shores of Iceland. The
temperature of Greenla nd was once
much more mild than at p resent.