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Year: 1878

The Stewart Hotel for Workingwomen is not
the first charitable enterprise which has proved
an utter and melancholy failure The records
of testamentary bencfcence are filled with in
stances Of kindness that has been wasted,
magnificent plans that have miscarried, vast
schemes for public good that have resulted
only in monuments to tell of the generosity of
the human heat and the weakness of the
human judgment. America is too young, and
perhaps too practical, to have experienced a
great many of these disappointments as
vet. but in older countries they are q
familiar story, and the State has often
been compelled to overrule the directions
of the testatOr when the charitable inten-
ton of the will has been defeated by un-
foreseen circumstances 1t is fortunate that
the Stewart foundation was created in such
peculiar way that the mistake can be promptly
corrected by those who enjoyed the dead
mans confidence and understood his wishes.
If lie had merely left instructions by will for
the establishment OF this hotel, some millions
of money would have remained tied up during
an indefinite time, without doing good to
ANYBODY, and the building would have been
known as Stewards Folly. But the failure
being recognized and the scheme abandoned
before the blunder is two months old, valu-
able piece of property is saved for some prac-
tical use, and the estate avoids a foolish waste
of its resources.


Probably the failure Of the WOmen's Hotel
will surprise nobody who understands the
character of the average New-Yorll working
Girl. Women of this class, perhaps of any
class, will not surrender so much of their per-
sonal liberty as the rules of the hotel asked
them to give up, unless they get a great deal
more in exchange than the hotel offered to
furnish. This great building promised them
good fare, good beds, and clean rooms, but it
could not give them home comfort or home
freedom, and it was governed by a set of
stringent and necessary regulations which
gave it the air of public institution, rather
than a clearinghouse where every inmate
paid reasonable price for her entertainment
The price was high enough to exclude all but
the better class of workingwOmen, and these
mot unnaturally though perhaps unwisely-
preferred to live where the same money, If it
bought them meaner lodgings and poorer
fare would also give them more indepen-
dence.


1t is surprising that Mr.. Stewart, with all
his experience in the employment Of women,
should have comprehended so imperfectly
their tastes and dispositions as to spend nearly
$4,000,000 in building for them something that
Year: 1878

1t is easier to yell fraud than to prove it, isn't 1t
Mr.. Potter


Nephew Peton should be given a fresh opportunity
to display the defects Of his memory.


If the Potter expedition should turn out to be
disastrous failure, what a wretched man Dir. Hen
bricks would be


1t ia a natural sequence that the COpperhead of
the Rebellion should be the most rampant revou-
ZIONIST of to-day. The Northern Democrat is the
worst of his species.


They suspect out in Ohio that one object of the
revolution may be to make Senator Thurman Pres-
dent TIL 1880. That runOr does not hail from
Gramercy Park.


Perhaps Mr.. Randalps zeal in behalf of the fraud
movement is prompted by a conviction that Tilden
and Randall would be an uncommoDy nice ticket
for 1850. Mr. Hendricks should mediate upon tins
possibility.


The South is making desperate efforts through
its newspapers to escape from the effects of the
stand of its Congressman against the President
But repentance comes too late. The country has
lost faith in the good intent of section which talks
so fairly and votes so outrageously.


Senator Wallace seems to have understood what
Randall went to Pennsylvania for, because he tele-
rraphed to Washington at the close of the cOnyen-
tion Have carried everything The Tllden men
were here in force but did not prevail.D That gives
n fresh significance to the declaration of Mr.. Wal
laces platform against any attempt TO unseat the
President.


The latest gossip about Pennsylvania politics is
that Mr. Randall is extremely hkoly to be left at
home at the next election. Senator Wallace is so
elated with his victory in the State Convention that
he il said to threaten to continue the fight in Mr..
RandalPs district and defeat his denomination. This
will not be difficult task. There is ugly feeling
i'm Pennsylvania that the Speakers anxiety to win
strengt in the West has led him to neglect the
y has excellent excuse for existence III the crooked
rulings and votes of the Speaker during this session.


As a subordinate step in therevolutionary scheme,
il is proposed to redstrict Missouri so as to give the
entire delegation TO the Democrats. They have nine
of the thirteen districts now. The consequences of
an increase should be calmly considered by the
marty The present delegation includes Glover,
BLAND and Buckner, three men who have given the
party no end of trouble. If they capture the four
other districts they will be dangerously likely to
and even a revolution could not balance two such
men,


Mr. W. NJ. Ampt of Cincinnati, is impatient to re-
Leye himself of that story of his which he is said to
have estimated rs pOrtentous enough to startle two
continents. He has written letter to Congressman
J. D. Cox requesting opportunity to testify before
the Potter Committee. He says he considers the
charge of fraud an lmputatiOn upon the honor and
honesty of every man who went South in the Presi-
dents interest and he wishes to yindicae himself
lie went TO Florida, and though he hasn't much to
saw he is anxious to say it. He is extremely careful
not to say which side his testimony will affect,
winch may account for the Democratic backward
ness to summon him.
Year: 1878

The fall OF the flooring Of the Sixth Avenue
Railroad Depot on Saturday closed a week
that has been prolific in accidents of a similar
class. The fall of the girder of the Elevated
Railroad in the Bowery, the sudden yielding
Of the floor in tearing down a building along
side the St. Nicholas Hotel, the giving way of
the overloaded lofts of the railroad depot, were
alike in being a consequence OF the oyerstraln
of materials with whose strength every COM
petent civil engineer, architect or builder, is
supposed to be familiar. These accidents all
brought loss of life. All Of them, too, were
the result of inexcusable carelessness; but
in this particular they did not greatly
differ from the majority of so-called
"accidents.r Happening thus within a
day or two of each other they revive the
question as to why it is that disasters of a
given class so frequently occur in groups. 1t
has often been noticed, for instance, that ex-
plosions with loss of life take place following
one another closely for a week or two, and
then cease for q long period. Panics in
crowded assemblies, or fires in hotels, theatres
and churches, may generally be grouped thus
at intervals. 1t is believed by most under
writers that the burning of a large part of some
CITY may DE eApcCtcu W OCCul III tuc CHllcu
States about as often as once in ten years,
and experience certainly gives color to such a
view. The periodicity of panics on the Stock
Exchange and in general business has been
often asserted and is theory of very wide
popular acceptance.


Now if we admit that accidents are usually
the fruit of carelessncss, we shall arrive at the
conclusion that carelessness is periodic. But
as we cannot suppose that men grow sud
denly and at intervals neglectful Of the
dictates of safety and common sense, we
must infer that they gradually become
moro and more careless in certain matters
until the climax Is reached, and then the acci-
dents happen. After the series of disasters, an
unwonted care is exercised for few years !;
then the impression Of danger fades away,
prudence is relaxed, and the cycle comes
round again. This is the explanation that has
been offered for. the pcriodicity of commercial
panics, the carelessness being displayed in
oyertrading, extended credits excessive risks /,
and while the law may not be one upon which
predictions can be accurately based, 1t seems
Year: 1878

The steamers sailing for Europe on Saturday tOok'
as usual at this season. large number Oh passeh-
GERS Times have indeed changed since Horace sang
of the great courage of the first vOyagers and won
dered melOdOusly how anybody could dare to tempt
the waves. Men and women walk on board, WIN
infants in their nurses arms, as calmly as II they
were merely about to cross tue Fulton Ferry; ana
so they sail out upon the vastly deep dreadng noth-
ing more than sea-sickness, uncomfortable GER
tanIy but harlly dangerous. And the confidence
with which they go, they also leave behlnd
IN the bosoms of those from whom they part
There are, they know, such things as ship
wrecks, but they feel that the risk is
small even if they do not labOrOusly reason
it out. Formerly, hardly anybody went to Europe
except business men, intent upon money-making
and avOwed literary men, intent upon making
books Now it is understood that the real value of
most travel is in it's rest in the variation of scene
in our escape from the. old ruts and the irk
some routine of Our lives. If we have grown
dull. it may brighten us; If prosalc, we
may quicken by it our and love OF
the ideal: if tired and discouraged, ii may bring
us rest and hope. There are times when almost any
change is healthy. We are jaded and need FLIP;
travel is like his first going out of doors to man
who has been long i'll. Fortunately, In this day of
many books very few Of our Summer tourists go out
contemplating future volumes. Even the pro-
fessed authors are by no means sure that they
will try their hands. There is an understanding
that traveller must now write uncOmmOnly well,
and be unusually lucky in tho selection OF his
points if he would be read at all The public, after
Hawthorne and Longfelow, and Mitchell and lay
or have become nice; and the books of the old me-
diocre styled0 not sell. On the other hand, every
intelligent traveller will bring back with him
good stock of personal observation, valuable
to himself and to others. We might show, If it
were necessary, how great acquisition to the
social circle is a man or a woman who has seen what
everybody wishes to see, and who can talk pleas
anti y abeut it,
Year: 1878

TO be sustained by great deal Oh uhquoS-
| tionable history. =,
II. then. these accidents are taken sufficiently
TO heart. we may hope for period III which
thew will not recur. The breaking of the chaln
on the Elevated Road, causing the fall OF inc
girder. is a matter of importance at present.
when so many engineering structures are gong
ND. in which iron or steel is a chief component.
Very recently full set of experiments on the
strength of iron, especially in the form of chain
cables, has been performed under Commander
Beardslee's supervision, in the Washington
Navy Yard, for the United States Test Board
While the results of these experiments are
not to be disputed, they have just been pub
lished and are so new that as yet they nave
hardly entered into engineering calculations
They are very striking, and prove that fg-
ures of safety in the use OF iron upon Which
dependence has hitherto been placed, are
quite untrustwOrthy. IN regard to the accl-
dent in the Broadway building, the workmen
seem to have been surprisingly careless III the
removal of the supports OF the floor but work
men always will be careless If they are not
efficiently supervised. There is need for just
as much care in taking down structures as
in erecting them; and both should be con-





Quoted under the supervision of the Building
Department The Sixth Avenue depot disaster
was a plain consequence of overlooking. 1t
would have been matter for surprise II the
floor had not given way when one-third more
weight was put upon it than it was calculated
to support. After the blame for that
occurrence has been placed where it be-
longs, the question will come mp whether
nothing can be done to prevent such an ac-
cidcnt hereafter. Perhaps it would help to
keep the danger in mind and would reduce
the chances Of recurrence, if, after every
survey of loft or floor where storage is per-
mittcd, the Building Department were re-
quired 10 aiiX or paint upon the wall GER
ticatc that each square foot of the particular
floor should only be loaded with gwen
number of pounds. The responsibility for
overlooking could thus, at all events, be
brought to bear directly and we might hope
for period of less carclessucss in this
particular.
Year: 1878

America is doing more and more every day
toward the work of feeding the world. The
reports of our Consul at HavTe show steadily
increasing demand for American provisions in
p France, and two steamers, which have been
fitted up with refrigerating chambers, have
taken to that country in the last six months
half million pounds of fresh meat.
Year: 1878

The report that Count Schouvaloff7s visit
had resulted in an agreement on the part of
Russia TO lay the Treaty of San Stefano before
the Congress, and an agreement on the part of
all the Powers to attend the Congress, is dis
credited on excellent authority in London, and
was obviously premature. Peaceful rumOrs,
boUever are among the signs Of peace.
Year: 1878

A correspondent of Western paper m,stook Jay Cook for Inger- sol and wrote severely analitical and adverse criticism on the 'burly ruffian" and anti .hellian.

 Where ignorance is bliss

 1T is folly to be wise,

 But the mouths the place to kiss

 And not between the eyes.

 The municipality of Prague has forbidden the wearing of dresses with trains upon the streets, "be- cause of the dust, injurious to the public health, raised by them.

 The first duty of a man who iounds q town, according to the De- troit Pree Press, is to name one of the principal streets after Washing ton and another after himself.

 At wedding recently, when the clergyman asked the lady, "Wilt thou have this man for thy welded husbandr she, with modesty which lent her beauty an additional grace, replied, "if you please"

 Judge Barbour decides that when a man goes home drunk his wife has a right to take the money out of his pockets. The necessity of remain ing out all night will accordingly be apparent to the most thoughtless person.

 Darwin says a womanIi loses one- tenth of her time looking for her thimble; but fails to state that this waste of time, and more too, is fully made up when she goes for the roll ing pin on hearing unsteady foot steps coming through the front gate

 If there's anything in this un- certain vale of tears that can move a mans heart two inches to the right, it certainly is found in contemplat' ing a couple of cooing doves trying to occupy char that was originally cut out for one.

 It is o sad but indisputable fact that the man who sees the sea ser pent at a watering place is not member of total abstinence society. The size of the serpent depends con siderably upon the depth ot the color on the mans nose.

 The managing editor of the De troit Free Press will not permit any of the editorial writers on that paper to refer to contemporary as "Tha' mutton headed galloot." The latt William Cullen Bryant, the poe editor of the New York Post, wa also very particular in matters O this kind.
Year: 1878

Aug. l3, 1878.

 MR. EDITOR DEMOCRAT: Since 1 saw you 1 have been over consider able of Pope and Johnson Co.'S. up the bayous Big and Little Piney and Slower. The corn looks well with q few exceptions. Cotton looks we'll and very clear of grass and weeds, which speaks very we'll for the farm CTS, considering so much wet weath- CT in the Spring. saw two fields on Slower, upland, Thomas Metcalf and George say if nothing happens it will make a bale to the acre. Peaches are not so good as last year. This is good fruit growing country if the proper care was taken of fruit trees. As l have not been very long here l have not had much chance to learn what would be best, but taking all things into consideration, this will compare very we'll with other places. You must pardon this short, imperfect letter, and if you think it would interest the readers of your very interesting paper to hear how the poor men of Indiana and Ohio live, l have been there for some tune, and if this is not too tedious 1 think l could tell them some things that would make then think the hills of Arkansas was not so bad as they might be.

 l have seen some as fine tobacco here as l ever saw in Kentucky or any where else. and the best broom corn in the Southwest. When l speak of this it is something that l understand and l will. if nothing happens, give you sample of Pope county growth an manufacture be- fore long. Yours truly,

 CHAs. c. CRAIG.
Year: 1878

have stopped so low as to make such assertions on the stump. All such assertions are a direct attack upon the honor of the people of Russell vile. Russcllville is working on the square fairly and openly for the Court house and is opening her purse-strings for that purpose. To show that RUssELLvIILE MEANS WHAT SHE SAYS, and to prove that the asser- tion that we want to delude the peo- pie with a BOGUS OFFER is FALSE, we publish herewith a copy of the BOND WHICH ANY TAXPAYER OF THE COUNTY CAN NOW FIND ON FILE IN THE CoUNTY CLERK's OFFICE.
Year: 1878

Those who have allowed their mar

 row minded prejudice against Rus sellville to misrepresent the facts in the matter of the County Seat have even gone SO far as to assert that the offer of $2,500 by the Russellville people is all bosh--that we make the offer only to get the people to vote for our town and that we will then "back out" and let the taxpayers foot the bill of building the new honsc. Even some of our candidates
Year: 1878

Wife Beheads Her Husband with an Ak Near


BurksVile, Virginia.


Burksvile Va, June 9-Thls town was thrown
into a terrible excitement to day over domestic
tragedy of almost unparalleled atrocity, in'which
Jennie Miller beheaded her husband, Anderson
Miller, while they were at breakfast. 1t seems
that he was Of cool, quiet temper, but she, his
better-half was notorious hereabOuts as a tartar.
The two had been seated at the table but few
minutes when Mr.. Miller ventured to remark:
"Wife, here's fly in the gravy" At this Mrs.
Miller fired up and screamed out, That's the
way with you, You are all the time finding fault"
The husband said, oh, no; Just happened to
see the fly and thought | would tel you" The
Spunlyv woman repie1. "YOu are a liar dies new
er get in my gravy" Words multiplied, and in
little while Mrs Miller was wdllzng around the
room, smashing up the furniture and raising the
deuce generally.


Finally when the husband, who bad by this
time got his dander up, ordered the wife to leave
the house. she ran out aud seized an ak. which
was on the porch, and rushing back to her huS-
band dealt him heavy blow on the back Of the
head while he still sat at the table. He tried to
get up but she repeated the blow, which felled
him to The ground Then IN her brutal rage she
severed The head from the body.


guest was up stairs while the bloody work
was going on, and he got in the dniug-rOom just
I'm time TO see the end OF it. As he entered the
guilty woman held the het of her husband up,
and with hellish exclamation dropped 1t to the
floor and fell in SwOOn.


The news OF the murder spread rapidly and
Mrs Miller was promptly arrested and lodged in
Jail. The Millers had been married about two
years. His parents and friends advised him
against the match, on account of her high tenn.
her but little was II dreamed that the result of the
marriage would be so horrible.
Year: 1878

The pretentous declaration of the Indiana Re.
publIcans would have a great deal finer point il
the Democrats In Congress were found denying
the validity Of the title of President Hayes. More
over, we fancy that the HOLSTERS who met at In.
diRnspolis yesterday would have manifested much
less sensitveness on this subject had not recent
events encouraged them to think that Mr.. Hayes
is about to consent To establish things on the old
machine basis Thev believe In a party President
out there .-Phiiddel lphid Times
Year: 1878

Washington June Q.
During the morning hour, Mr. Voorhees, spoke
IN favor Of the early consideration Of the bill to
repeal the Specie Resumption act and said the
Senate might as well look this matter square in
the face Ifit was not going to repeal this act let
II say 30 by It's VOTE No greater question ever en-
gagged the American Congress- He would take
every opportunity from now till the close Of the
session to insist thatit should be disposed Of. The
The Senate had time to pass all sorts Of bills to
bridge rlvulets but no time TO meet the question
which involved more peril and distress than ever
had been produced by war and pestilence. He
thought the bill could be disposed of in sixty
minutes.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-The Secretary of the
Treasury has decided that the department can
not receive for collection any deposit of drafts
subscriptions to the per cent loan. The law
does not contemplate the receipt of drafts by the
Secretary desires to afford every facility posi-
BILE to subscribers to the loan. he does not feel
warranted in imposing upon the Assistant
Treasurers the labor and risk Of collecting such
drafts. 1t is thought that the banks and bank
ers can make deposits with the several Assist
ant Treasurers through correspondents in New
York and other cities having sub-treasury
Year: 1878

Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
DAIN in the right side, under the edge
l. of the ribs, increases on pressure
sometimes the pain is in the left side
the patient is rarely able to lie on the
left side; sometimes the pain is felt
under the shoulder blade, and it fire.
quently extends to the top Of the shoul-
der, and is sometimes mistaken for
rheumatism in the arm. The stomach
is affected with loss of appetite and
sickness; the bowels in general are
costive, sometimes alternative with lax;
the head is troubled with pain, accom-
panied with a dull, heavy sensation in
the back part There is generally
considerable loss of memory, accom-
panied with painful sensation of hav-
ing left undone something which ought
to have been done. A slight, dry cough
is sometimes an attendant. The patient
complains of WEAKNESS and debility; he
is easily startled, his feet are cold or
burning, and he complains of a prickly
sensation of the skin; his spirits are
low; and although he is satisfied that
exercise would be beneficial to him,
yet he can scarcely summon up forti-
tude enough to try it. In fact, he dis
trusts every remedy. Several of the
above symptoms attend the disease, but
cases have occurred where few of them
existed, yet examination Of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.