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Year: 1878

to report that fact and to have the incur
ables removed to Ovid. But this would
have entailed greater expense on onon-
daga county, and this, we expect, will be
found to be the trne inwardness OF the
wooden cages, the cruel neglect, the foul,
poisonous atmosphere and the speedy re-
lease of the pauper lunatics by death. 1t
is to be hoped that the investigation now to
be made will cover this as well as all other
points
Year: 1878

citizen? Such precaution is certainly
easy enough, if the German born citizen
has any regard. either patriotic or selfish,
for the land Of his adoption and for his
owE right to 60 and come rs he pleases.
Year: 1878

CoSGREss.-The session in the Senate and
House yesterday was very brief and the bust
,ess was confined chiefly TO the introduction Of
pills and resolutions In the Senate the propo-
ntion to appoint commission ON epidemics was
agreed 10, and by a close vote "A motion to con
sider the Texas and Pacific Railroad project was
rejected
Year: 1878

To ESCAPE JURY DrrY all that is necessary
is TO join the Reformed Presbyterian Church. A
member OF that communion has successfully OBJ
iected to service OH the ground that inasnuch as
God is not acknowledged in the constitution he
cannot couscientiously incorporate with the gov
erumrnt
Year: 1878

The TRAINING SCHOOL for nurses in connec-
ton with Bellevue Hospital is one OF the most
useful and important of our many benevolent
institutions. At the annual meeting yesterday
which was largely attended by the friends Of the
enterprise, twenty young women were gradu-
utad
Year: 1878

WnAr WoULD BECOME of the undertakers
and the livery stable men If all our funerals
were conducted in the same plain and simple
style as that of Miss Waldron, the descendant
Of Peter Stuyvesants secretary The coffin
was borne the shoulders Of four men, while
the relatives aud friends followed the remains
pn foot to the tomb
Year: 1878

Is lT Nor Possible TO devise some plan Of
paying the United States pensioners whereby
it will be unnecessary for them to lose
more than day in the effort to obtain the
Pittanee allowed them : At the quarterly pay
oent yesterday there were the usual unpleasant
scenes and incidents
Year: 1878

WAsHISGroS is on the tiptoe of expectation
over the coming trial of the Widow divers suit
against the venerable ex-senator Cameron for
breach of promise of marriage. II will be
reached on the calendar in about two weeks.
Year: 1878

Mr.. EDNUSDs gave notice in the Senate yes
terday that next Monday he will ask that his
bill to regulate Presidential elections be con-
sidered. This is one of the important questions
that ought to be settled during the present ses-
sion
Year: 1878

THAT SUICIDE does not vitiate an insurance
policy has been again and again decided. 1t
will be seen from our court reports, however,
that at least one company is sceptical on the
Year: 1878

WoNAS NATURE. Those who would
elevate the standard of womanhood should
begin by learning that it is only through
love and kindness that woman can ever at
tain her largest growth toward the purest
idea in which the womanly graees center


They should learn that snubbing and slight
ing and envying are not what call out the
good in woman She may have patience and
long suffering, which will shine forth all the
brighter for time, but she never can be
herself, never can feel herself, except in the
atmosphere of refined thoughtfulness and
true lover Harsh criticism and selishness
and forgetfulness of her feelings will all
work together to sadden and harden her
nature, and sicken her of life. She does not
wish or need to rule, but what she wishes
and needs is consideration of her feelings,
Difference and remembrance, and not to be
passed over and ignored as one not belong
ing to existence, or have her very existence
subject of insult to all that is noblest and
purest in her nature. She does not care to
be plaything but she does care for afEec-
tionate regard and the manifested respect of
ali good people She needs to be drawn out
and not forced or pushed hither and tither
either by friends or foes or circumstances.
Year: 1878

pens some brilliant criticism or witty re-
view he shows in all his articles the pos
session of more taste, thought, and power
of observation than the other men of the
Figaro can lay any claim to, and it is GER
tainly pity that he should PROSTATE his
talents in gambling -Wiike's Spirit.
Year: 1878

old TYPE-5O0 pounds of OLD TYPE fol-
" sale in lots to suit purchasers. This Type
is an excellent substitute for Babbit Metal
pronounced by those who have used it better
and can be sold at ene-half the price Apply
at the STATESMAN OFFICE
Year: 1878

IL We read good deal in the papers about
Montgomery Blairs scheme to oust Hayes, and
about how he is fooling his time away in q
piece of nonsense for which he cannot obtain a
respectable support. 1t is all very well to hoot
at this thing but We notice that Montgomery
Blair is pushing his scheme right along, never
theless. When he first presented it in the Leg.
islature of Maryland, he could scarcely obtain a
respectful hearing; but in a few weeks it passed
both Houses by large majority. He is now in
Washington with it, and, although it is pro-
claimed that he cannot get any support for it, it
is fact that number of leading Democrats, in
Congress and out, are working it mp; and when
they are ready to spring it, it will be found to
have pretty nearly solid Democratic support
1t may be that the sluggish brain of the idiot in
the White House cannot comprehend what is
going on but if he should walk out, some pleas
ant evening, and happen to see the moon over
his left shoulder, the idea might fash through
his head that web was being woven about him,
and that he had no friends to come to his res
cue.
Year: 1878

SECRET POLITICAL SoCIETIEs.-It seems to be
a pretty well settled fact, that the new New
National party is assuming a secret character,
and is developing many of the principles of COM
munism, the very worst thing that can enter
into politics. The wisest statesmen that Amer
lea ever produced, have concurred in the opin-
ion that secret political societies dangerous
to free government. Any matter concerning
the public welfare, that cannot be known by
and discussed before the public, is against the
public good. In secret political societies, am
bilious, designing and inscriptions men get in
the lead, and manage the machinery SO as to
make themselves the representative men, there
by cursing the country with worse set of shys-
tiers, knaves and plunderers than ever get into
power by any other means. Look at the men
who are leaders in such secret organizations,
and you will find them to be pretenders and
charlatans, who could never command respect
able folio wing in an open public. We thought
that Nothingism had given the American
people enough of that sort of thing, for one Gen.
tury, at least. And we think the fate of this
new party will show that such was the fact.
In country like this, where all are free to
speak and vote as they please, such an organi-
zation should not be corntenanced
Year: 1878

COMPARISONS ARE ODIoCs.-We sent friend
in Missouri a copy of the Fifth Annual Report
of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture and
in return, he sent us a copy of the Twelfth An
nual Report of the State Board of Agriculture of
Missouri, asking US to compare the two. 1t is
pamphlet in paper cover, and falls behind the
Kansas Report in every respect-in fact, there
is no comparison between the two books. The
most interesting part of it is Prof Riley's Re-
port. But the Missouri Legislature has provided
against that much of interest in the future, by
abolishing Riley's Department, the Geological
Survey, and as many other useful things as they
could reach
Year: 1878

We didn't think the man lived who could fool
Sol. Miller poetry, but some fellow has palmed of
on the Chief as original, the ten year old parody
NO Dorg to Love."-Girurd Press.


Not much, Mary Ann, were we imposed upon
We knew, (and the author claimed nothing else,
that the dog poetry was simply an old poem
worked over, to give it a local application, for
the consolation of our afflicted friend. After
offering this tribute, and writing for the Bulletin
and presenting its editor with scrap-book
which was accepted with thanks, il was very
ungenerous in the Bmlletin to say that it was one
dog writing of another.
Year: 1878

v The Parsons San speaks of the nuisance of
stereotyped Washington letters, at one dollar
apiece, tha: are sent to the country press through
out the West, and which accepted and pub
lished by many of them. There is not a week
but We deposit in the waste pile lot Of these
fifty cent and one dollarpropositions from WASH
ington or New York, to be paid for in advertis-
ing. The propositions are now pouring in, to
furnish letters from the Paris Exposition, at a
dollar apiece. These letters will be made up in
the Eastern cities by men who never saw Paris,
from letters published in the Eastern papers.
They are not worth a cent q basketball
Year: 1878

sV- People who have Russia on the brain. should
remember that history does not record an instance
where England has been frightened into doing any
thng.-Topeka Commonwealth.


But We distinctly remember, or else We have
somewhere heard of it, that certain country,
wea ker than her in every respect, handsomely
whipped her, on two different occasions.
Year: 1878

n late decision of the Post-ofice Depart
ment is to the effect that it is unlawful for post
masters to send postage stamps for subscriptions
to newspapers. As some postmasters do this,
unaware of the penalty, We publish il for their
information, as it may save them from trouble.
As it is more convenient to send dollar bill in
a letter than dollars worth of postage stamps,
the Department construes the sending of stamps
to be for the purpose of getting the per centage
on the amount of stamps sold.
Year: 1878

sS- Prouty, of the Junction Union, tells this,
OF course, nobody will believe it; but we copy
it, just to show to what whoppers some men will
pledge their word and honor:


We pledge our word and honor to editorial
brethren, that what We about to state is God $
unvarnished truth. We received, day this week,
a remittance of five dollars from priater thousand
miles distant, which amount he borrowed of us five
Year: 1878

The average American can make > bigger fool
of himself over the presence Of a few soldiers,
under perfect discipline and control, than an y
other known mammal on the face of the globe.
If you want to throw him into double jointed
Mysteries, send men with guns to help him pro-
tect himself. Five hundred men, fully armed
and equipped, may visit town for the purpose
of having a big drank, and becoming publc
nuisance, under the guise of visit and dress
parade, and the people will have holiday, and
pay all the expenses. Fifty men, with guns
and camp eqnipage may go forth to slaughter
buffalo or quail, perhaps in violation of the law
and it is enjoyed as high sport. But let twenty
five men, under perfect command and discipline,
and armed and equipped for duty, be sent to a
town for the purpose of enforcing law and pro-
tecting life and property, their expenses to cost
the people of the town nothing, and what n
howl you will hear against it. 1t is an outrage
upon peaceabIe people; there is no necessity for
it; the local authorities are competent to pre-
serve the peace.


For some years after the close of the war,
couple of hundred soldiers were stationed in
several Southern States to guard against any
ontlawry that might be attempted, and to see
that laws were executed. And during all these
years, howl came up from the entire south,
against the manner in which ten or fifteen mil
lion free people were being overawed and sub
jugated by those two or three hundred people.
1t was utterly impossible to secure pacifcation
in Kentucky, or Tennessee, or Alabama, while
few troops remained in Charleston or New Or
leans. The other day, there was a strike or
Kansas Railroad, and the Governor saw proper
to send two companies of militia to Emporia, to
preserve the peace. But from the hubbub rails
ed over it, one would have thought they were
sent expressly to search out the citizens who
were determined TO remain quiet and peaceable,
and massacre them in cold blood. All of which
goes to prove that it is an outrage to go in law
full manner, but fun to 60 on big drunk. But
we do not believe that any citizen who staid at
home and quietly attended to his own business,
was even accidentally shot.
Year: 1878

multitudinous unmentionable gar
ments which used in days of yore
to make up that portion of a wo-
mans dress which is not displayed
outside for a rude masculine public
to gaze at are by the present devo-
tees of fashion entirely discarded,
and that underneath lady's dress
nowadays is hardly anything to be
found save tight-ftting suit of
brown, composed of soft and yield.
ing leather in the winter, and of
heaven knows what in the summer.
Only by wearing this perfectly revo-
lntionary style can the closely
clinging fit of the skirts SO dear to
the fair sex of to-day be produced.
To return to the dinner guests
upon the staircase. The lady on
the arm Of the first gentleman of
the procession was gliding down in
all her glory, her train trailing
gafter her several yards along the
stairs, when suddenly the gentle
man next behind her, in the dread
fully clumsy manner of his mis-
gaided sex, trod upon her dress.
Can you not fancy the look with
which, across her shoulder, she
withered that unhappy wretch ?
Horror! There was, all in the
space Of second a dreadful crack,
a fearful sound of rending, and the
entire skirt in the sight of all the
company behind its wearer and all
the hunkies in the hall below, fell
to her feet. Shall l pursue the
awful story, or will you fancy for
yourself the picture? The elabo-
rately arranged hair, the white
neck ringed round with glittering
jewelry, the fashionably trimmed
dress body, and then--no, really, it
is quite too awful. Let us stop; let
us drop the subject.
Year: 1878

A more hardworking, inoffensive
set Of men cannot be found on the
coast than the Cinnamon. Much
of the complaint made against them
is properly chargeable to the non
execution of the laws. That much
Of Chinatown is a foul blot on the
fair fame of this city can't be ques-
toned. The dense population; the
uncleanliness of the Chinese quar-
ters; the crowded condition ol
many Of the apartments; the fact
that plague and pestilence is often
raging IN this quarter; the fact that
portions Of the town are positively
unsafe; that miles of thieying, rob-
bing men infest this quarter, and
the baseness of women who prowl
around at night must be admitted
For all this the government of the
city is alone to blame. The execu-
tion of the sanitary laws, the put.
ting in force of the moral statutes
Of the city would in a week put an
end to the Objectionable features OF
Chinatown. The city is not
obliged to have a nuisance in its
midst unless it wishes to. A bone
boiling nuisance or a glue factory
in the city hall or in the palace
yard would be abated in an hour.
Treaty or no treaty, Chinatown
could be leveled in a day-the
Chinese be compelled to observe
tie sanitary laws. They could be
scattered in a week and be obliged
to dwell IN small communities in
the hills that surround the city, and
be punished il they were not decent
The public hatred Of the Chinese
crops out everywhere. The hood
lums are their special foe. This
class were represented in earlier
times under the appellation OF
hounds." They are an organized
band of mischief-makers, composed
of the vagsbonds Of all nations.
They are between seventeen and
nineteen years of age. They rem
devious on the corners of certain
streets. Their principal amusement
is attacking unprotected and quiet
Chinese. AS an illustration; l saw
an underszed Chinese boy stagger-
ing under basket Of clothes that
he was taking home to the. owner.
For some fancied insult a hoodlum
gave chase. One hundred men
looked on. 1t was clear that the
boy was to be overhauled. The
Chinaman dropped his basket, drew
a flexible rapier out of his bosom,
and made a stand. All these men
go armed, and often shoot wild.
The hoodlum fell back. Stagger-
ing a moment he renewed the
chase. Rough men, fifty in num-
ber, joined in the hue and cry. The
Chinese dropped his basket, darted
into q wash-house, while the crowd
gathered up the clothes, distributed
them among the company and went
their way. The Chinese have meyer
been known to betray one of their
number in court or out of it, but
will defend the Chinese with their
life, : [Burleigh's San Francisco
Letter.
Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. It is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business men to msko note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tiSinsi for many good people seeing an al
vertisement in q paper. especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee Of re-
spOnsibility. Such confidence should not bo
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore.
Year: 1878

Ii 1t is untrue that the official notifi-
cation OF the accession Of Pope Leo
XIII. was addressed to Humbert |. as
King OF Sardinia instead of King of
Italy there is not much hope in the
Immediate future of any change In the
relations betwee the Holy Sea and the


Italian Kingdom. The Italian Premi
recently stated that the law of the
"Papal guarantees" had a constitu-
tional character, which meant that it
was not liable to any hasty revision.
The Italian Court and Cabinet are
treating the Papacy with as much con-
sideratlon as possible, and it has sever
al times OF late been manifest that
they have been willing to 20 half way
In any steps that would lead to easy
relations between The parties. The
root of the trouble is the old Papal
theory that the Pope should not be the
subject OF any king, since perfect free
dom of action is impossible ,if he is.
But a. the great States nowadays are
swallowing up the small it would be
difficult to find any spot in Europe
that would be secure from the devices
of d powerful neighbor. Hence a little
space to rule over becomes merely a
place 10 carry out the behests of
others. Ii His Holiness looked at the
subject in this light he would quickly
argue that an understanding with the
King of tally would be preferable to a
pseudo Independence In petty State.
Year: 1878

fell due on Friday, and it is thought that
he not having the money to meet 1t so
preyed upon his mind as to produce tenn
porary insanity. The accounts of the Com
pany have been examined and found cor
rect, with two months pay due Miller by
the Company. Miller has the key of the
safe in his possession, which, if produced,
would show whether the contents of the
safe had been disturbed or not. Miller is a
young man, and lost his wife one year
after marriage, which made him very mel
ancholy
Year: 1878

Timothy Drscoll. of No. Horatio street, stayed
down town with some friends rather late Saturday
night and having imbibed rather freely of the rosy
did not. hurry home. He thought. indeed that he
might just well stroll home along Thompson street
about three O'Clock in the morning. He abreast
Of No. GO in that thoroughfare. passing an alleyway
which leads to the residences of the negroes.
when two stalwart colored men sprang out
of il and dragged him inside. One Of them threat
eIed to cut his throat IL he did not give up his money.
Five dollars was all he had and his the terrified
man surrendered ut once. Then the other fellow.
gigantic negro ordered Drisco to strip and give up
his garments Poor Driscol did this also. and stood
shivering in the morning atmosphere with moth
ing on but his underclothing.


Take of everything" hissed the robbers cor Wen
finish you anyhow!


These remarks overheard by Ofhcer Henze OF
the Eighth precinct, who In the shadow Of adjon-
ing stoop had been watching and listening to all that
occurred. He made dash into the slleyway and
caught the tall man in the act Of putting Drscolls
pantaoons: the second footpad rushed into the
and was lost The tall man Henze took to the
station house. Yesterday morning the prisoner
arraigned at Jefferson Market Police Court and gave
the name Of Peter Armstrong. He held in $4,000
to answer ut tho Court of General Sessions and
Timothy Driscol was sent to the House of Detention
Year: 1878

largely attended meeting OF cabinetmakers was
held yesterday at No. log Third avenue. under the
auspices of the Cabinetmakers Union. No. Z. Mr..
Bismann presided, with Mr.. Kaufman vice presi-
dent and Mr. Fretsche secretary. is said that there
nearly three thousand cabinemakers in this city,
and that the wages paid them are too low. The OBJ
ject of the meeting to take to organize
the employees of every shop and to strenthen the
Union. When the organization is completed a de-
mand will he made for increase of fifteen to
mand is refused general strike will be declared.
The meeting very harmonious and enthusiastic.
report received from the Cabinetmakers' Union
of Chicago stating that the strike in that city had
been quite successful and that the twenty per cent
increase had been granted in all the shops report
also received from st. Louis stating that strike
is in progress there and that success certain.


Several addresses made in favor of organization
and unity The demand for the increase in wages
will not be made until after the first of January.
Year: 1878

from the San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 81


Last Thursday sound thrashing administered
to an individual named j. p Long by two indignant
females whose characters. they assert, he had i'm
pugned From q statement made by the ladies to a
Chronicle reporter IL appears that about two months
ago Long made certain slandcrous statements to one
of the ladies severely rejecting upon the morality Of
lady No. 2. and exacted promise not to reveal the
information He subsequently, approached lady No.
and made similar statement in regard to the char
acter Of lady No. also enonng upon her the strict
est secresy. Had Mr. Long possessed long head he
would have realized that he was tresding upon dan
gerous ground. for the possession of secret has the
same effect upon female an internal cancer.
eating, undermining and gradually sapping the
vitality, and often bringing her to premature
grave. The ladies retained the secret until
1t commenced to gnaw and burn, when one Of them
concluded that IL better break her oath than
die. and Immediately sought her vifed friend and
unloaded her burden of calumny. There .
parson of notes, the traducer unmasked, q few
tears OF anger she'd and the ladies' made
immediate preparations for the war-path They
did not have recourse to shotgnns pistols.
the libelous Long, couched in polite and
friendly language. inviting him to call upon lady
No. l. ut her residence Mission street, ut two
o'clock on Thursday afternoon. The unsuspecting
Long arrayed himself in gorgeous apparel and
promptly responded to the invitation. He ush
cred into the parlor and confronted with the irate
females each armed with o flexible rawhide and pro-
tected by body guard of two male relatives. The
castigaton immediately began and the blows rnned
thick and fast Long danced howled and begged for
mercy but was met ut every turn by the cruel lash
and the punishment continued until the ladies' became
exhausted. when the victim ordered to leave by
way of the back door. He meekly obeyed the order
aud while passing the kitchen received the contents of
a bucket oi hot squash. He halted in the back yard
to dig the succuent vegetable from under his shirt
collar when the dog set upon him and he fled
from his tormenters. most diapidsted. IL not a