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Year: 1878

The Importance of the system its life
tho direct bearing which It has human happiness
thoroughly recognized its and the danger OF
ing it, whether through intense mental application or by
the excessive of the appcttas and
proper subjects for consideration When the
is dean 2ed II Is absolutely TO promptly
advice from who for long scries of
has devoted his whole time and attention TO this study and
who his experience and practice learned 10 dis
the and promptly apply the remedy,
thus avoiding the painfully slow seeking Tor the truth
the patient,
very naturally wants TO know without delay wha. the
tho of the derangemcn tho probabilities Of
recuperation and the time required.


II brain has become exhausted by intense mental
application deprvng of the power OF
it only its strength by being properly fed and
nourshed by tho of certain systematic methods 1t is
precisely the with tho that preside
ganic life The value OF this branch OF medical
scarcely overated 1t reaches marriage tho
ton o family the securing Of hereditary titles and
the retention of estates in the same family.


From long and large experience In this direction have
able command by my the thankful appre-
citation of of the first fatalities in the city and nation
and can communicate much that pertains to the
ercise Of OF the nervous system and the
OF recovering its whether of BRAIN appetite
propensity or passion.
Year: 1878

Somebody said it rained yesterday after
noon.


The QuiH n1nlcs were completely daZcd at
the secrecy maintained at the caucus of the
new city administration yesterday.


Somebody wants to know what has become
of that prize Of 100000 said to have been
drawn by a lady some days since from How
ards lottery.


Mr.. Bofiinger, of the American District
Telegraph Company proposes to place all the
leading business houses in telegraphic connec-
tion by the telephone.


A rather tall gentleman escorting q little
ladv happened to pass q group of urchins yes
rday evening when one of the small sans
souci exclaimed THAT'S nothing, if he Is
holding her hand. 1t might be his daughter
The tall lover had little to say after that
Year: 1878

A committee Of gentlemen representing our
shipping interests yesterday called on Co]ec-
tor Smith to consult with him as to whether
clerks could swear to shippers manifests, by
holding the power of attorney. The decision
reached by Collector Smith was to the effect
that agents could file in the Custom House q
power of attorney to their clerks. and this
would be authority to allow the clerks to
swear to the manifests.
Year: 1878

At 1 o'clock Monday morning a gang of
river thieves boarded the government flat
lying at the head of Hospital street, and were
In the act of carrying away lot OF rope
when they were discovered by the private
Waterman and the officer on the beat. The
thieves dropped their booty and made their
escape in the skiif that they had moored along
side of the flat
Year: 1878

Sunday night the negro, Wallace Brown,
who was shot few days ago on the levee by
on of the Harbor police and who has been in
the hospital since that time, attempted to get
away from the officers in charge OF hlm and
make his escape. He was, however, discov-
cred In the yard, recaptured and brought
back. He will to-day be removed and sent to
the Parish Prison.
Year: 1878

At half-past II o'clock yesterday morning
colored woman was knocked down by the
leading mule of a float driven by Mark John
son, at the corner Of Thalia and Tchoupi-
driver was arrested and locked up in the
Second Station,
Year: 1878

Prices to suit the times" together. with every
comfort the most fastidious could ask Or desire.
and the most delicate attention to every want.
has made the Colonnade the hotel OF Philadel-
phia.
Year: 1878

John Ray arrived here yesterday from
Washington and will Immediately take pos
session of a desk in the District Attorney s
office for the purpose of preparing the whisky
cases for presentation.
Year: 1878

It is expected Judge Billings will reopen
the United States District Court on Deem
Der 3. In this connection it Is stated the first
cases to be called will bo political ones, and
these will be followed in turn by the whisky
Year: 1878

An order was issued on yesterday by Col
lector Smith granting the employees of tho
building q holiday on Thanksgiving Day.
The harn % worked f appraiser, on account Of
toll on the twenty eighth; If it could be ar
ranged it would be only just to give the en-
pIOyees Of this branch Of the servicn rest on
the day numed, as no set Of men deserve it
Year: 1878

The Greenbackers are getting it all round.
The Baltimore Gazette jeeringly says: We
heard Of gentleman once who stuck a
lighted torch in his coat-tail pocket and
jumped out of window under the impress
sion that he was comet. The idea was not
more absurd than the idea that a group OF
thoroughly beaten Greenbackers should get
together on day of the assembling of Con-
gross and issue pronunciamento under the
impression that they are tidal wave.
Year: 1878

The Democrats hold that their next Presi-
DENTAL ticket must be Jack Spratt affair.
One candidate must be man who will have
no hard-money, the other man who will
have no soft. The psrplexing question is,
which one shall head the ticket.
Year: 1878

Philadelphia Chronlole-Heraid: "L don't do
this business for profit said barber when
asked how he could afford to shave q man for
five cents. 81 merely carry it on because l
love to see the dying struggles of man while
he is being talked to DEATH"
Year: 1878

The poets are primarily responsible
for the delusion that flowers are pre-
eminently modest. They perpetually
tell us Of the modest lily and the timid,
bashiul violet, and have firmly con-
vinced the public that with the possible
exception of the peony, which in New
England is considered to wear an in
delicstely healthy look, such q thing as
an immodest flower does not exist "A
very little unprejudiced observation will
show that this is gross delusion.
Flowers, as q rule, have no sense of
modesty whatever. The lily arrays it.
self in simple white and stands on top
of tall stalk to solicit public attention.
Would we consider lady particularly
modest who should dresN herself in the
simplest possible white garments aud
stand on the top Of barreli in the, front
yard to challenge the admiration of
passers by2 The violet is compelled, by
circumstances over which it has no
control, to reside very near the surface
oE the ground, where it is frequently hid
behind bold and forward blades of grass.
That the violet ls not Of bsshful and
retiring disposition is. however, proved
by the fact that it is always ready to
diaplay itself in the button holes OF
brokers aud men about town, iu whose
society really modest flower would
blush to be found. AS for the morning
glory, the shameless way in which i
climbs to the windows OF second story
bed rooms, aud peers into privacy as il i


we're disreputable elevated railroad. il
utterly incompatible, not merely will


modesty, but with common decency. Il


short, the average flower does not know


the meaning Of modesty, and althorghi


may be ill-scented, crippled, and cor


taminated by intimate association wit


depraved worms, it will rear its hes


and mutely ask to be plucked and lai


on the bosom Of beauty.
Year: 1878

From the time boy is eight years old
until he ia thirteen be dsVotes two solid
hours Of every day of his busy life in
learning how to make new kind Of noise.
BY the time be is thirteen years old be
has accumulated noise enough to last
him the rest of his natural lie, and use
three kinds Of Noises the same day, too.
Il Hawkeye.
Year: 1878

The most absent minded man was not
the man who hunted for his pipe when
he had it between his teeth, nor the one
who threw his hat out OF the window and
tried to hang his cigar on peg; no, bat
the man who put bis umbrella to bed and
vent and stood up behind the door,


Rochester Express
Year: 1878

A father lately induced croupy little
boy to make healthy meal OF buckwheat
cakes and molasses, bnt the latter
proved to be syrup Of tquills. The boy
said he thought something allied the mo-
lasses the very minute his father told
him to eat all he wanted.
Year: 1878

When you hear a political speak
er thank God that he wasn't born
with silver spoon in his mouth
you can bet your bottom dollar that
the reflection hurts him more than
it does the audience, smoothly as
he talks it. Free Press.
Year: 1878

foreman there's no copy, you ugly
little bore" Quoth our devil; "send
him moreln


And our devil, never sitting, still
is fitting, still is fitting back and
forth upon the landing just outside
the sanctum door. Tears adown his
cheeks are streaming, a strange light
from his eyes is beaming, and his
voice is heard still screaming, Sir
the foreman wants some more
Year: 1878

Anold pioneer, who was something
of a fatalist, lived in a region infest-
ed by Indians. He always took his
gun with him, and once finding that
some of his family had taken it out,
he would not go without it. His
friends rallied him, saying that there
was no danger of the Indians, as he
would not die till his time came any
how. "Yes," said old Leather-stock=
ing; "but suppose l was too meet an
Indian, and his time was come, it
wouldn't do not to have my gun"
Year: 1878

Some active women, who PRIDE
themselves on their housekeeping,
seems to forget that the object ofkecp'
ing house is, that human beings may
be accommodated in it, Their sole
idea seems to be this, that the object
of keeping a house is, that the house
may be kept in a certain form and
order, and to the performance of the
form and order they sacrifice the com
fort the house was established TO Sc
cure. Such active women are pests
to society, because they want sense
to direct and control their energies
Year: 1878

RodhoIds Columbus letter to the Cincinnati


Commercially


The more see the condition of af-
fairs here the more am ! convinced of
the utter hopelessness of the attempt
of the Republicans to do anything as
a party. They had as well disband at
ance, make terms with the enemy and
bow to the inevitable. The record of
the party is such, and the bitterness
Of the whites 80 great, that nothing
bearing the Republican name can sur
viye locally in power here. Under our
form of government there is absolutely
no remedy for this, no way to prevent
powerful and embittered minority
from overcoming a weak and defense
less majority. South Carolina is lost
to the Republicans, and will hereafter
be as Democratic as Georgia.
Year: 1878

A British tourist has made an up
roar in Rheims. One night about 8
o'clock the town was alarmed by the
sound of the tocsin, or big bell of the
the cathedral. Nhe inhabitants rushed
out of their houses expecting to find a
revolution or fire, but they were
agreeably disappointed, The dreadful
knell was merely the work of an Eng
lish traveller, who, having been locked
up in the cathedral, thought the best
way to get out would be to set the big
bell going.
Year: 1878

New York, Nov. Proceedings
in the Vanderbilt will case opened this
morning with the examination, by
prominent council, of Mrs. Augusta
Evans Wilson, whose evidence was
taken out of due course to enable her
to return to her home in Mobile. Mrs
Wilson said she knew Mrs. Commo-
dore Vanderbilt in the South; visited
her and the Commodore in 1875 had
a lengthy conversation at that time
with the Commodore during a drive
to Central Park after driving through
the park he took witness to show her
his villa, which, he said, he gave to
Miss Hawley on account of her en-
gagement to his son George; he said
his son William was the only one who
had given him any comfort his son
Cornelius had been a great deal Of
trouble, and when Cornelius had made
matrimonial engagement he went to
the young lady and told her that he
did not intend to leave him fortune,
as he thought she probably expected
it; he said he expected his son Will
liam and Williams son would be the
perpetual honor of the family; he told
witness that the greatest peace of his
life had been derived from his second
marriage; that Mrs. Vanderbilt had
always been mediator between him
and Cornelius, and that the beautiful
consistency of her Christian character
had done more to bring him to religion
than all the sermons he had ever heard


The next witness called by counsel
was Samuel Tenyicke, who first met
the commodore in 1850 always Wis
tied him when witness came to the
city; had business relations with him
saw him often in 1874 had 4 conyer.
sation with him on one occasion OF
spiritualism told him that myself anC
some friends had visited Slade, a me
dunn, witness told him some thing:
that happened, and he looked from
his writing and said, "AIy son though
you had more brains than to believ,
any such damned nonsense severa
weeks after, in company with friends
witness again visited Slade; witnes
inadvertently alluded to it in the pres
ence of the commodore, who told wit
ness if he (witness) couldn't find any
thing better to talk of with him h
should forbid witness coming to sc
him; witness once spoke of Corneliu
TO him; he told witness not to talk O
him, that he didn' t amount to anything
in 1874 witness asked him what he in
tended to do with his enormous wealth
he said he didn't know, ,that'ifhe left
to his relations it would be scattered
and that he thought William was tn
only one who could keep it together


The case was then adjourned t
"Wednesday next.
Year: 1878

AN old citizen who went off early
in the epidemic and came back
the day before the election to
get in his vote, was looking over
one of the numerous tickets
printed, "Why, all these fellows staid
here during the yellow fever, didn't t
they2" he inquired, yes l believe
they did" was the reply. We'll, do
You think such id fools arc fit to 60
to the legislature?" But he doubled
up the ticket and put it in.
Year: 1878

A special from Bismarck to the
Globe Democrat says: Mrs. Noon
an, who died last night turns out to be
a man. Mrs. NoOnan was a laun-
dress at the post and a most popular
midwife. She had been married
three times, and was one Of the wild
ows of the Custer massacre. Her
husband is a member of the Seventh
Cavalry, now in the field. There is no
explanation of the unnatural union,
except that the supposed Mexican
woman was worth $4,000 and was
able to buy her husbands silence.
she had been with the Seventh Cav
airy nine years
Year: 1878




General denies the truth Of report that Russian ptVa
teers were be fitted cut in this country He had read
In some of the Russian papers that society Of mer
chants had been formed in Russia for the purpose OF
purchasing and lifting out fast vessels IN the UhIeu
States in case OF war between Russia and England, put
in that IL wOud no necessary TO take them 10
Russia them with their own sailors lie befeved
that there was some foundation for this statement but
he was certain that no action had been taken yet.
Year: 1878

The Aldermens Law Committee yesterday
reported on the communication OF Secretary Sherman


asng that permission should be given by the Board Of
Aldermen to the Government 70 use the Post ofioe
Building for the Offices OF the Internal Revenue officials
and the Steamboat Inspectors The committee declared


at fife original deed was condition that the building
should only DO used for Post Office and for the United
States Courts aud used for any other purpose tho
Year: 1878

land would revert to the city The premises having
been conveyed by deed, the committee conclnden ta
fine proposed action By the Common Council would not
affect In any wav the conditions under winch the deed
was made The Aldermen adopted the report
Year: 1878

The Railroad Gazette thinks India NAV
become our rival in the grain markets of Ed
rope. 1t is reported that vessels at Calcutta
are offering to take cargoes Of wheat to Eng
land for fifteen shilllngs per ton, which is
about 81 cents per bushe, and fourth less
than the current rate from New York to Liv.
erpool, though the distance is three times as
great. Last year the rate was nearly four
times as high, but at present there are about
one hundred thousand tons of vessels in CAL
cutta, and very little grain or other freight to
expert, and they take grain much as our lake
vessels take coal from Buffalo to Chicago, at
almost any price, to avoid going back empty.
A permanent rateof this kind would make
India most dangerous competitor of this
country in the European grain market: but
it can only be temporary as ocean rates tend
to equalize themselves the world over: for if
profits are greater on one route than on an.
other, vessels can always, and always will for
sake the latter for tbs former, in which they
have great advantage over railroads. Bnt
OF late years it seems that there is no corner
OF the earth so remote that it cannot supply
wheat to Eorope, if only it can reach deem
water cheaply. San Francisco is about as far
from London as you can get (by saiD, and
yet there have been years when it shipped
more wheat to England than any other port
in either hemisphere
Year: 1878

1ne GfeenDackerS are getting reconciled to
the idea OF resumption and no longer pro-
Tess to doubt that the resumption act will he
carried into effect January next. But thew
assert that the act will fail to achieve its pur.
pose, and explain their meaning by contend
ing that unless the country becomes extraor-
dinarly prosperous, and great sales are made
and all laborers employed at high wages in
few days after the Treasury begins to paw
out gold dollars no benefit will be gained and
the object Of the law will be defeated, Then.
they say, the resumptionist plan having
failed, ours must be tried; ignoring the fact
that their plan has been tried many times
and has always resulted disastrously.


National. prosperity is only reached, they
say, echoing Butler, when tie people can
buy what they want, and they clamor for
laws that will bring about that result, and
offer their system of currency as the means to
that end. If we are to wait for that time
before we are prosperous then prosperity is
forever out Of our reach. For men want to
buy fine houses and rich clothes and dainty
food and expensive ornaments, and all man.
ner of indulgence. When we are all able to
buy these things who will produce them
Who will even raise the corn we eat. or
manufacture the commonest clothes we
wear? That state of affairs is contradic.
tion, an impossihility. If man can buy
fne house why should he build houses for
other people? If he can buy elegant cloth
ingRhy should he stand behind the loom or
sit upon the tailor's bench? If he can get
all he wants without labor why should he
work9 When we all attain this happy state
of ability to buy all we want who will care to
undertake the drudgery of producing and
selling?


Neither the resumption nor other law can
bring about a condition like that. The act
will certainly fail to achieve that end, But
what it will do, unless silver coinage and the
bill requiring the reissue of legal-tender notes
destroy its power for good, will be to give us
a stable measure of values, currency based
on and convertible into coin, restoration of
confidence between borrower and lender. a
sense of security to capital and an opportuni-
ty for employment to labor. And these
things are the things that make for natiopa,
prosperity. in the common acceptation of that
term.
Year: 1878

The Democrats continue to rejoice at that
majority OF four in the House. A majority
acquired by gerrymandering in the North
and ballot-box stuffing in the South is not
thing to be proud of.
Year: 1878

class Democratic generals, the sooner they
come together in council of war and decide
where and how the approaching battle shall
be fought, the better tor the party prospects.
We cannot win by ''bull-luck and awkward.
ness" the next time.
Year: 1878

No one can go into society as repre-
sented in the country houses of Ireland
without being struck by the singular
absence of veneer which he will find
there. We do not mean those country
houses inhabited by people who spend
their season regularly in London, and who
differ 10 no way from the magnates with
their houses in Yorkshire or Sussex, but
the bona .fde Irish country houses-whose
owners look upon Dublin rs their me.
tropolis and great shopping town, and
as an event to be classed with the ramble
in Switzerland or the tour in Italy. The
visitor to one of these houses will find no
sham-there is mo deception" His ar
rival will cause no furry; he will not be
kept waiting in the drawing-room while
the lady of the house and the girls put
finishing touches to their beauty. 1t is
ten to one that before he has succeeded
in evoking sound from the bell-prob.
ably broken one of the young ladies
will herself open the door, and with vel
come besming from her honest Irish gray
ewes at once insist on his feeling himself
at home. There will be no false pride, no
attempt to hide defects, or to make up by
brag of poverty. Rather will fun be ex-
tracted from the very deficiencies, and
the stranger will at once see that here
there is no danger of putting his hosts to
confusion by demanding what is not to
be had. If there is but one man.servant,
the host will not complain of the illness
or temporary absence of a mythical foot
man if the one man servant is tipsy Ga
not uncommon occurrence i'll the land of
John Jamieson) the hostess will not be
the least ashamed of being detected as
sisting the maid to lay the cloth and ar
range the dinner-table.
Year: 1878

COLUMBUS, o., November 13.-At
the morning session of the convention
of the State railroad commissioners a
resolution was adopted appointing a
committee to consider the state of rail
road corporations in the body polite,
and to report their investigation to the
next convention.


A resolution declaring it to be the
opinion Of the convention that CON
,grcss should give very early attention
TO revision of the patent laws, and
should enact as soon as practicable
such enactments as shall seem just
and proper, after an earnest discussion
was withdrawn


After appointing committees on va
rious subjects, to report at the next
meeting, the convention adjourned to
meet next June at place to be fixed
by the executive committee.
Year: 1878

who remained became indifferent to
events going on in the ont
side world and at the. end
of the long, weary struggle
with death, felt like they had grown
old. The limit of human endurance
often seemed but a step beyond, but
a higher power sustained some, while
others dropped by our side. Peace
and honor to their memory. They
were brave, true men, and the recol-
lection of their unselfsh and heroic
bearing in the shadow, and with the
certainty almost of death In their
faces, will ever be craven in our
hearts. Their examples of faithful
ness to duty and fortitude in the midst
Of great danger, will form a bright
page in the history of the recent awful
past. Long may their names be
honored among the good and great
dead of the land. At one time Mr..
Holland, the acting foreman, was left
almost alone, and but for his zeal and
courage, and those with him, the paper
must have stopped. We have hereto
fore paid a tribute to his memory.
With profound gratitude to divine
providence for their wonderful preser-
vation through the scenes of the past
three months, the survivors have re-
assembled and gone to work at their
respective posts, and will unite hereaf-
ter with all good citizens in measures
designed to avert another such vista
ton. Other battles are to be fought
and won and we should endeaver to
utilize aud concentrate the heroism


fortitude and excellent qualities devel.
oped during the plague in efforts tC
save and build up Memphis in the
future. The power of the press fol
good, when in conscientious hands


was never better illustrated thar


during the past three months, and VIZ


hope it will ever be so conducted as t


promote the general good and com


mand respect Such is our aim.