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Year: 1878

THE Cincinnati Commercial put an in
dustrious sub-editor to work on its files a
few days ago, to make list of all the
murders committed iu the United States
during 1876. The result is list of ap-
palling dimensions 1t fills seven col
umns of fine type. Unfortunately there
is no summary showing the total number
or classifying the homicides by motives
or methods. There seems to be an aver
of about three for every day in the year.
1t is frightful showing, and it brings
the fact home to us with unwelcome
force that human life is in greater dan.
ger in the United States from the bullet,
knife and bludgeon of the murderer than
in any other country or the civilized
world,
Year: 1878

A friend writes from Europe I:
What an amount of discomfort wet
boots entail, to I've sure; and well We
all recall the fretful efforts we have
now aud then made to dtaw on a pair
Of hard baked ones which were put up
by the fire over night to dry. Damp
and adhesive within. they are with.
out stiff aud unyielding as horn.
Once on. they are sort OF modern
stocks destructive Of all comfort and
entirely demoraliuins to the temper.
The following will rob the wet barn
yard Of a slushy winter or spring
evening of half its promise Of discom-
fort for the next morning: When
the boots are taken off Gil them quite
full with dry oats. This grain has
great fondness for damp, and will rap
idly absorb the vestige Of it from the
leather. As it takes up the moisture
i, swells and fills the boot with tight
ly fitting last. keeping its form good
and drying the leather without hard
ening ii. In the morning shake out
the oats and hang them in Tag near
the fire to dry, ready for the next wet
night, draw on the boots, and 60 hap
py about the days work.
Year: 1878

What a blessing 70 a household is a
merry, cheerful voman-one whose
spirits are not affected by wet days or
little disappointments. or whose milk
OF human kindness does not sour in
the sunshine Of prosperity. Such a
woman in the darkest hours brightens
the house like little piece of sunshi-
ny weather. The magnetism of her
smiles and electrical brightness OF her
looks and movements infect every one.
The children 20 to school with a sense
Of something great to be achieved; her
husband goes into the world in con-
querer's spirit. No matter how peo-
pie annoy and worry him all day, far
of her presence shines, and he whis-
pens to himself: al home ! shall find
rest" So day by day she literally re-
news his strength and energy. and if
you know a man with beaming face,
a kind heart and prosperous busi-
ness, in nine cases out of ten you will
lind he has a wife Of this kind.
Year: 1878

The great rage just now is to tell
enormous lies about the remarkable
freaks of vegetation in this unusually
mild weather, aud the man who tells
the biggest lie carries of the chrome.
Out on South Iill-but We won't try,
us no use; we never could lie.
Year: 1878

A new wheel tire has been invented.
1t consists in passing around the usual
iron tire n rubber tire, and around this
again an iron tire made in sections, so
that each section may yield or move
inward as tn, weight comes upon it.
They are said to prevent noise, janing
and wear.
Year: 1878

Wax is generated in the bodies of
bees at will, oozing out between the
scales of their abdomen in little plates
no larger than the top of pins head.
When bees are engaged building rap.
idly, the hoor-board is often thickly
sprinkled with the wax scales which
have fallen from the workmen's
mouths. Each bee generates two
scales at time, and is unable to do so
on scanty diet, but must feed literally
on honey during the time. The con-
sumption of honey is very great when
wax production is going on. Liebig
was of the opinion that 90 lbs. of
honey were required to manufacture |
lb. of wax. English Mechanic.
Year: 1878

a letter of which the following is
the literal text was picked up on the
street:


"Dere Gin cume too the house too
mite the old mans going to the loge
and mars Got The rooomatisum so
bad she kant here herself sneeze be
sure An bring Sum of That handy
with sent ontoo it cause we're going to
have Fride Injuns for super Your ewn


JULYANA.
Year: 1878

1t is Il singular fact that a girl who,
when she is alone, can put her hands
on the top rail Of fence AMI skip
Over like a lamb at play, will, IL her
beau is along give HIM as much trou-
BILE in helping her over as though she
was q rheumatic locomotive engine.
Year: 1878

such horror in England that the sympathles oil
the nation were no longer called out by Its
treaty engagements or reducing tile demands
of the COnstantinOple Conference to mini
mum, or separating the Government from the
action of the other Powers by attaching
clause to the Protocol, he never for
feited the esteem of all moderate Con-
servatives. He preserved through all the
1uctuatiug impulses that have swayed the
public will his reputation for GOODNESS. peril
nacity, common sense and patriotism. lie was
regarded as leader who would not lose his
head even on the edge of an abyss into which
the Unbalanced zeal of the Premier might be
dragging the Cabinet and the country. Now
that he has left the cOuncl-chamDer
there will be no one to direct the policy
of resistance to the projects OF an
erratic and imaginative leader, VINO
has the caprices and passions OF inc
East, rather than the sober instincts OIL an
Englishman. Lord Salisbury remains In the
Cabinet but he has not Lord Derby's hold
upon public confidence. Lord Carnarvon re-
signed his seat late in January, after valnly
attempting to resist the policy of sending the
fleet to COnstantnOple. Lord Derby also lett
the Cabinet at the same time, but was
induced to reconsider his determination ana
to return to his place. He has remained III
Office long enough to feel in his face the
wthering blaze of popular passion. The hour
of panic and giddiness has come and he can
not hold back his colleagues any longer.
Lord Derby cannot now keep step with his
associates. He goes out.


But Ominous as the news Ia, it would be
premature to abandon hopes of peace. AL
though Great Britain is arming to the teeth,
and the war feeling in Russia Is running high,
the breach between the two nations is not
wide. Lord Derby's last explanation in the
House of Lords was that he had asked that
all the articles of the treaty of peace should
and for that only; and that he had
suggested that Greece should have voice In
that body, although she might not have
earned the right to be received on the same
footing as the Great Powers. If Great Britain
makes these demands point of honor, Russia
can well afford to make concessions, for II
Congress were held the Continental Powers
would be more than likely to sane
ton the pacfcatioD OF Turkey on the
Russian basis and to throw cold water upon
British interests. But the danger is that there
are hot headed diplomatists in each capital,
and that each Government feels behind it the
pressure of popular prejudice and passion.
Lord Beaconsiied may, in a moment of gid
dlness, repeat the bundcr which was made
by a minister of Napoleon III. i'll 1870, when
an iniquitous and unnecessary war was pre-
cipitated. Lord Derby can i'll bc spared In
such crisis.
Year: 1878

"Not TO worry the Indians, but only to find
"out where they are" was what General Tay-
lor said he wanted the dogs for in the Semi
mole War. 1t was proper, he thought, to make
such an exclamation of his Use Of bloodhOunds


lest he might be charged with cruelty in the
conduct of his campaign. Whether the use of
"expertsn y by the army of investigation now
laundering In the bogs and swamps and
morasses of tho departments is for the pur-
pose of worrying the officials, or only OF find
ing out where they are, does not ap-
pcar The committees have not explained.
Whatever may be the Ostensblc purpose,
however, there is q very strong suspicion in
the public mind that the real object is to give
EMPLOYMENT to the experts. AT least that is
all that has been accomplished thus far. They
haven't worried anybody nor found out any
thing to speak of. But they have attained
places on the pay-rols, and there they rest as
# conscious that the end of their existence
was answered. Many of these persons, we
presume, were left over from the DOorkeepcr
campaign-able- bodied Democrats, who bad
escorted their Members of Congress to Wash
ington in the expectation of being immc-
datey set to keeping door, or to watching
somebody keep door, or to taking care that
the official whose duty is to watch the other
official who keeps the door does not
neglect his duty. There is reason to
believe, notwithstanding the herculean
efforts of Doorkeeper Polk to get all these
Democrats on his payroll, that few hun
dreds were left over. These are they, no
doubt, who have sgnitied willingness to
enter the Government service as experts
rather than have the country incur the hazard
of attempting 10 get along without them. 1t
was the intention of Glover, no doubt, to en-
list them all in the grand inquest which he
originally proposed to make under his resolu-
ton empowering committees of investigation
to swear perpetual blue streak, and arrest
whom they pleased. That failing, they have
been provided for mostly as "experts."


How many experts Glover himself had at
his heels when he plunged into tho Treasury
accounts, we do not know. One of them, and
the most active, We understand is former
Treasury agent who happens to be out of jail
on bail under two criminal indictments one
for conspiracy to defame, and the other for
libel in making and publishing false afida-
Wit. Glover, us is well known, is pursuing
his search for fraud in secret. We have
already noticed his emerging two or three
times, wholly or partially, to assure the
country in an indirect way, through the
press, that he was on fresh trail, and would
! shortly bring out something startling. Since
the last intimation to this effect was given out,
| considerable time has elapsed, and The TRIB-
! UXE, giving voice to the public anxiety, has
Year: 1878

called upon him with great earnestness TO re-
appear and tell us how far he has got, and
what he has found. But there has been nc
response. Men wait for his return, doubling
somewhat whether the next time he
comes out it will be with call
for 100000 more experts, or hurriedly,
after the manner of the California
miner, who started on a bear hunt IN the
morning and came back just ahead OF hne
grizzly early in the afternoon. His Demo
cratic friends, even, are getting Impatient, ana
some of them almost discouraged. They had
promised themselves so much from the inves-
tigatiOns and have found out so little, that
they are half inclined to doubt Glover ana
give up the search. The only really
interesting disclosures that have been
made yet are those in connection
with their own DoOrkeeper, and those they
were not looking for and didn't want to find.
And they found them without experts. Unless
Glover and the other investigators have better
success than has attended them hitherto,
they will hardly be able to answer sat-
isfactOrly the inquiries OF their constitu-
ents as to whether they have ferreted OUT
the frauds they promised to. They can
say, ooh yes, we discovered plenty OF
fraud and corruption and mismanagement
"and waste and all that sort of thing;" but
when they are asked where they found them,
they will have to answer. Gin the Doorkeeper's
department of the House." They are in some-
thing the same fix as the farmer who sent his
dog into the cellar to find out which OF his
neighbors was stealing his cider. The dog
came back with the trousers seat of the farmers
son Bill in his mouth.


So much time has elapsed, and there have
been so many false alarms and so many and
such experts employed in this business, that
the case seems desperate. We have pretty
much given up all hopes of Glover's finding
anything for campaign uses. And yet it's ten
to one that he comes up by and by, pulling
and blowing and wiping his noble brow, and
asseverating his conviction that he could have
found everything needed to run campaign
on if he had only had more experts. He has
the true Democratic idea. What the country
needs is not an army or navy, but experts
more experts
Year: 1878

and have done it without seeking even q decent
excuse for the step. They seated man from Col.
orado who did not run for election on the day pro.
self. when he had no opposition. He had no mora
right to the seat than Dr. Mary Walker had. They
not elected by the Supreme Court of his own Stats
and by the Democratic officials Of that States Gov
emment. The Massachusetts, case is a fit companion
for these: The country will have q chance to say
next Fall how much more reform" Of this kind 4
can stand.
Year: 1878

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children is doing good service by rescuing
from unnatural parents and cruel guardians chill
dren sent out into the streets to beg. Whether
any percepible diminution is made or not in
the ranks of professional beggars of all ages
with which the city is swarmng, there will be
at least the satisfaction of knowing that these
children have been put out of the reach of
harm.


At Albany the Tammany Democrats are
striving to see who shall be the most seryile
domagogue for the catching of laboring mems
votes. The debate yesterday on the bill to
connect Clinton Prison with the outside world
by means of railroad, so that it may be
made self-supporting, drew out vast deal
of Democratic buncombe about the competition
of convict labor with the honest son of toll.
10 low in its tono that 1t is an insult to the
Intelligence Of the average workingman to
Year: 1878

The scondal-monger has again been busy with the
names of Henry Ward Beecher Theodore Titon and
Mrs. Tilton; and unfounded rumors have lately
found their way, by various sewers to pubic atten
tion Several days ago these rumors reached IHE
TRIBUNE Office to the effect that Mr. TiltOn and his
wife had become reconcied and that Mrs. Iilton
had made a written confession. This was coupled
with the further rumOr that Samuel ID. Morris,
formerly Mr. Tilton's counsel, had made certain
charges against his client. THE TRIBUNE investi-
gated these reports thoroughly, and discovered that
they were untrue. Mrs. TitOn declared in brief
but positive terms that she had made no statement
proposed none and had not lately seen her husband
who was living in New-York, while she resided III
BROOKLYN. Mr. Morris denied emphatically the
story that he had resolved to denOunce TlltOn. All
the evidence obtanable conradicted the rumors
SET afloat and as they were scandalOus as well as
untrue TIE TRIBUNE made no mention whatever OF
them. 1t only now remains to be said that there Is
no purpose on the part Of any of the persons directly
interested to raise again the unsavory controversy


The manufacturers Of Fall River found themselves
the other day in predicament. They must either
stop the mills for month, and thus reduce the sur
plus production or they must make general reduc-
ton of wages. The matter was to them indifferent,
but. for the sake of the workmen, they decided to
try the reduction Upon this the leaders of the labor
agitation, who had personal interest in the busl-
ness went to Fall River instituted a series OF mass
meetings made no end of flaming speeches, and dld
what they could to set aioOt general strike Is
there ~ way Of keeping mischief-makers quiet
Year: 1878

1t was quite in keeping that House of
Representatives., which lately indignant
because Cabinet officer. who had a right to
address the House, exercised that privilege,
should now call upon another Cabinet officer
for information who has no right to respond
When the Secretary of the Treasury. who has
the privileges of the floor in the House,
forwarded an important communication to the
Speaker, there was afrenziedhOwl from the great
constitutional lawyers of the majority that their
liberties were in danger; and now these same
wiseacrcs have permitted the passage of
resolution calling upon the Attorney-Gcncral
for legal opinion, which he is compelled, by
an unbrollen line of prccedents from the time
of William Writ, to decline furnishing. But
it is a pity Judge Devens should have been
forced to refuse. There never was House
where a little injection of good law would
have been more useful.
Year: 1878

Fortunately the temper of the Legislature
respecting feloniOus attempts upon our parks
has shown itself so Enthusiastically, that we are
safe in considering the raid on Washington
Square as at an end. But the memorial which
Mr.. Ruggles has prepared, reviewing the his
tory of the parks, is none the less timely. 1t
serves to show that in all cases, gifts
of land were made to the city. or squares
were laid out by tho city, with the sole object
of aflording places of recreation and enjoy
ment for the people; and, also, that in every
case the existence of park has caused the
value Of surrounding property to appreciate,
just as the destruction of one invariably re-
suits In the depreciation of property. Apart
from these considerations, the paper has
pleasant local flavor in its account of the way
in which the parks with which everybody is
SO well acquainted first came into being.
Year: 1878

suppose that he can be deceived by it. AS on
previous occasion. Mr.. Alvord spoke bravely
and sensibly in opposition to the demagoRues'
This is marriage we predicted some time
ago-that of the Democratic and Working
mems parties and there will be strange OIL
spring.
Year: 1878

A sharp little girl in Chicago got
out Of patience with her baehfuI
lovers backwardness, and so
brought matters to a favorable
climax by saying to him, II really
believe you are afraid to ask me to
marry you, for you know I would
say yes :
Year: 1878

aegrees north latitude took what is called the
middle passage intending to go about due until
we got between e5 degrees al1 20 degrees west lou
gitude, and then coald where the
stream narrower Instead OF that VIC struck into
the Gulf Stream, finding 1t about sixty miles
further south than marked In the charta first
noticed tho difference August % about eight hum
dred miles further east than the point where wanted
cross. The current whore struck into the Gull
Stream Two miles an hour Two years ago. in
October met with the same trouble, but did not re-
port II, as thought it might be temporary. Now
am convinced that Il is permanent Gales Of wind
might change tho current perhaps twenty twenty


vo miles. but tney could not change II sixty miles,
and this time there were no gales The width OF the
ut the point whore found the greatest
divergence as laid down In the charts is 24O miles
The additional sixty miles viii mako II IN reality 500
miles wide at this point"


However annoying TO Captain Coffin tho contrary
currents of the Gulf Stream might have been, IN
scientific point OF view is deemed very fortunate
that he met with them. That he was enabled also TO
extrcate himself from the current several times after
having been driven ia also thought fortunate, Tor
II fixes tho extreme southern limit Of the
Gulf Stream. Had he been plunged within It's bor
aers a number OF successive days that would only
serve to show that former charts OF the southern
edge OF the Gull Stream inaccurate, but would not
establish how far south they really extended. That
the captain got out OF the stroam three successive
times is deemed sufficient to settle tho latter point.
Year: 1878

Yesterday afternoon number of the
members of the Delaware Fire Company
gave their new hose carriage trial, while
doing so they unfortunately broke one OF
the front springs. They placed about 900
feet those on the reel, which was too
much, and on running down Orange ST.,
the spring broke. The damage will be
repaired as soon as possible.
Year: 1878

The Maryland Jockey Club has been
unfortunate with the weather for the
spring meeting this week at Pimlico
course The opening was postponed a
day on account of rain Tuesday. Owing
to rain on Friday morning there was s
second postponement. The concluding
races are set for to-day Saturday ane
Monday next.
Year: 1878

The new steamer Republic built by
Harlan q Hollingsworth, for the purpose
of running between Philadelphia and
Cape May, will be put in the dry dock,
within few days for the purpose of hay-
ing the hull painted.
Year: 1878

EDITOR LITCHFIELD ENQUIRER:

 Dear S~.-Under the above caption in your issue of the 18th ult., the writer speaks of my 'being an old offender in the matter of allow ing my cattle free range of the highway, also of ''lmpounding Cowles' cattle''

 The impounding of Cowles' cattle was on this wise: When went to my field near sum- set on the day of the disaster at Wallingford, found Cowles' fence separating his meadow from mine blown down, and his oxen, COWS, horse and young cattle, in my meadow in which were one and one half acres of potatoes on which Paris Green had been plentifulIy used, also some corn just right for roasting. As it would not do any good to drive the cat tie into Cowles' lot, the fence being down some thirty rods, rode to his house two miles distant, to let him know the condition of his fence, and the whereabouts of his cattle, which did in as courteous language as could. For this l received from him foul and brutal lan- guage, accompanied with threats of personal injury.

 The next morning when took my COWS to pasture, found (to my surprise), his cattle still in my meadow just entering my potatoes and corn. Something must be done Unless the cattle were watched, they would be pois- oned with the Paris Green and injured from eating the corn.

 A neighbor offered me his yard, and hiring a boy to help me, I, after much trouble, put them into the yard, and sent messenger to notify Cowles that his cattle were safe, and where he could find them. For eight miles travel going and returning, the services of the boy, the use of the yard, and my own trouble, saying nothing nothing of keeping them over night, charged Cowles one dollar and twen- y-five cents.

 III tue matter of my cattle running at large, I will say that for more than fifty years my COWS, during the summer, have been in the street twice day, going to and returning from the pasture. have also fed the grass around my house and barn.

 So far as relates to swearing, it is very pos- sible the imagination of the writer of the ar- ticle to which this refers, was so excited that he really believed did that which he himself would have done under the same circumstan- ces. That there was some tall swearing in court, do not deny, but it was according to law and before Justice of the Peace Other swearing heard none. I am with great re- spect Very truly yours,

 SAMUEL M. ENSIGN.
Year: 1878

Lord Lorne and his Princess have at last ar rived, and have been received with all the ef- fusive loyalty of the most provincial of provin- ces. It seems to give the Canadian infinite satisfaction to bask in the moonshine of reflect ed royalty, and to fancy himself warmed there by. That our American journals should waste column upon column upon the stupid triviali- ties connected with the arrival of this rather pretty young fellow and his rather pretty young wife, shows how hotly the newspaper reporter must follow up everything like a sen- satiOn.
Year: 1878

The chief objection to Hawley's election to the Senate has been, that, in case of new election in the First District, Democratic Congressman might be chosen, and thus the vote of the State lost to the Republicans in case the Presidential election goes into the House. The fact is that the vote of twenty States is needed to choose President in the House. The Republicans can now command but eighteen they will have but nineteen if carry California, the only state which has not already chosen Congressmen. If there is no clear majority of twenty States for any candi- date in the House. the Vice President, to be chosen by the Senate, becomes President The Senate which will act in this matter in 1881 will be largely Democratic, so that no election in the House means victory for the Democ- racy
Year: 1878

The Volumes of the Bazar begin with the first Num- Der forfJanuary of each year, When time is men tonee will be understood that the subscriber wishes to commence with the number next after the receipt of his order.