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Year: 1878

SOLID PRoGREss-All around us, on every
hand, to the acute observer are to be seen
the evidences of returning prosperity, the
dawn of better times. We are now on the
road to wealth-wealth based upon labor,
not the wealth of paper kites and sigma
tureS
Year: 1878

Here is a letter recently sent to San
Francisco paper from Idaho; "Mr. Editor
Dear Sir IL wish to ask for a wife
through your paper. intend to settle in
this country and start chicken ranch. l
want wife to take care of young chichens.
have money. My wife will not have
much to do, only milk nine cows, feed six
hundred young chickens, chop her fire.
wood, cook three meals every day, and the
rest Of her time she can go out among heI
neighbors. Please publish"
Year: 1878

The whipping post grows in favor In
New York its resuscitation is advocated,
and the wholesome results which have fol-
lowed its use in Delaware and Virginia are
beginning to convince great many people
that this "relic of barbarism" is after all
the most effective preventive of civilized
crime
Year: 1878

scnts that obligation, assume it as
one implied by all the Others But
such an implication could only touch points
not covered by contrary provision and this
point is SO covered. by the secret agree
ment with Russia England pledged herself
to recognize the validity of all parts of the
San Stefano Treaty not repealed at Berlin,
and the San Stefano Treaty fixed the period
for the general evacuation of the Turkish
territory at three months after the coDclu-
sion OF definite treaty of peace with the
Sultan. This therefore, is the law between
Russia, England and Turkey, and the
definite treaty thus ref, rred 60 is not yet
made. Russia will consequently hold on
till it is made, and if England takes any
steps, such rs the sending of her fleet up
the Bosphorus, the Russian army will
assail the lines Of Constantinople and Kauf-
mann will move his forces to the support Of
the Amcer
Year: 1878

Trade in manu- iactured goods is playing
some queer pranks nowadays. man or 4
company may work hard, expending much
time and money in perfecting some article
of general use, and suddenly find that else
where some one has been at the same work
and can sell the results for less money. A
few years ago England was the only coun-
try which manufactured cotton prints for
export, while the idea Of any one compet-
ing with her in her home markets was
laughed at as bit Of insanity; but to-day
American prints are being worn by opera
tives in English cotton mills having been
found to be prettier, better and cheaper.
Now we hear that agents of German cutters
have been to Sheffield, heretofore the ac-
knowledged centre OF the cutlery trade OF
the world, and sold their goods at prices
which the home manufacturers could not
underbid. Sheffield will continue to make
knives and scissors, and no American will
be foolish enough to hope that the
English print works will be closed, but
the illustrations which we have given of the
fluctuations Of trade will show the American



considers more profitable than his own
are subject to drawbacks and dangers which
the agrlculturist never knows. Breadstufts
and food materials Of every kind are always
in demand, and have tolerably uniform
value the world over No competition, no
new farming community that may be de-
veloped, can ever atiict farmers with a
lockout" such as workers in the trades
are constantly experiencing, nor in tre-
mendous failures like those which are con-
stan.ly startling the commercial world.
The overstocked manufacturer cannot eat
his superfuous knives or prints nor can
the locked out operative dine on his tools,
but in the worst season the farmer is sure
at least Of a full stomach and roof over
his head. Sensible is he if instead of
grumbling at his lot he makes the best of
it and II talizes how in the long run he is
better off than many whose occasional sue
cess he envies.
Year: 1878

Lawyers in the Old Dominion arc in full


possession Of legal sensation in an appar-
ent disputed jurisdiction between the


United States District Court and a federal


court in the case Of two negroes accused Of
murder. The case comes into the cogniz-
ance of the United States judge in the reg
ular co,frse Of justice, as provided for in


the statute called the Civil Rights act. BY
citizen of the United States in a
State court entities tho person SO
wronged to petition for a removal OF
the case to the United States Court, and il
the removal is denied authorizes the United
States Judge to have the accused brought
before him by the writ of habeas corpus.
All this was done in the case Of the two
negroes, the right denied being the right to
a special vcnire for jurors, so that there
might he drawn blacks as well as whites,
there having been summoned to try these
cases only white men. This denial was
held to be violation Of the law OF
the United States, and the proceed
ings subsequent to it in the State
Court were declared null. IL is
thought in Virginia that this will render il
difficult in future to punish negroes for
murder, inasmuch as under this ruling they
must have jurics composed in part, at least,
OF colored men when they demand them,
Year: 1878

IL is On old saying that there are as good
fish in the sea as were ever taken out of il,
and if we are to judge by the shocking case
Of child killing-we can scarcely call it ac-
cidental death-at Newark, there are as
many thoughtless, foolish people in the
world as have ever been happily removed
from it. A mother residing at Newark left
her infant daughter in care of her sister.
The aunt put the child to sleep, and, want
ing to leave the room, just tied a cord to the
knob Of the door and hung the other end
in loop loosely round the little ones
neck. The silly woman thought it would
be d nice amusement for the infant when it
awoke to get hold Of the cord and
pull the door knob, besides which the
noise would attract her attention and
summon her to the bedroom. The poor
child, however. instead of pulling ut the
door knob drew the loop tightly around its
own neck and then in its struggles fell out
of bed. When the mother return 1 and
won't TO the bed TO kiss her darling and
meet the welcome Of its outstretched arms
and its pretty Growing she found its corpse
on the floor. The child was strangled. IL
is to be hoped that the painful tragedy will
teach other people that there are safer ways
of providing for child's amusement than
by means Of rope tied in hangman $
moose around its neck.
Year: 1878

structions complained of exist beyond the
market block, and if distractions and en-
cumbrances in the shape OF stands are to
be allowed at the distance Of one block from
the market proper why not two blocks
or twenty blocksg The Commissioners OF
the Sinking Fund could no doubt realize a
large income from the rent of meat stands,
fish stands and vegetable stands around 81.
Pauls Church and in front Of the Astor
House, but would they on that account have
right to put them there? We know Of no
law by which the authorities having charge
Of a market gain control over the public
streets and the privilege of using them to
increase the income of the sinking fund.
Year: 1878

The authority Of the superintendent Of
Encumbranccs to remove the distractions
caused by the outside market stands in
West street, Greenwich street and yesey
street is 10 be tested in the courts The
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund claim
that they receive an income from the rent
of the outside stands of which the Superin-
tendent Of Encumbrances has no business
to deprive them. But to what distance
from the market does the right to authorize
and rent market stands extend? The OBJ
Year: 1878

The Indian Bureau and the Army.


So far as the controversy pending be-
tween the War Department and the Indian
Bureau involves a question of veracity be-
tween the agents of the bureau and officers
OF the army there can be no hesitation on
the part of the people to accept the state
ments of the latter as correct. The loose
management of the bureau for many years,
the acknowledged faults of the system, the
notorious corruptions Of the agencies, all
tell against the civil authorities, and it will
be universally believed that General Sher-
idans charges against the management of
the agencies in the Military Division of the
Missouri are fully justified by the facts.
The new scandal will revive the desire
to see the management of the Indians
transferred wholly to the War Depart
ment. General Sherman wisely says that
it would entail a great deal of extra
responsibility and care on the army !;
but he adds that either the Indian Bureau
must come to the War Department or the
army must be turned over to the Interior
Department to protect the Indian Bureau.
This tells the whole story. The Indian
Bureau, through the irresponsibility. cor
ruptions and rascalities of its agents. drives
the Indians to the warpath. AS the army.
then, has to take charge of the Indians. it
might MS we'll commence the duty little
sooner and so save the necessity Of war.
Theoretical civil service reformers at WASH
ington and practical rascality in the distant
agencies will never give US honest and
efficient Indian management.
Year: 1878

In the good old times when underground
wonders like the caves at Luray were de-
clared to be the work of gnomes and fairies
it would not have been difficult TO imagine
how they made music for their subterra-
mean revels. Some quaint sprite took his
wand, shaped like toadstool at the head,
and, striking on the stalactites, brought
forth the bell-toned rhythmic harmo nies
which sent the tiny feet Of the ''good peo-
pie" dancing over the crystal floors. while
their laughter ripp!ed in elfsh echoes from
humored gnomes Alas for the dainty
fairies Muddy boots are trampling over
their crystal floors. Scientists and Won
der mongers of the baser sort go pok-
ing about and chipping their pillared
halls and as for the fairy music,
newspaper man in suit of overalls sits
down and taps the stalactites with walk
ing stick. One would think that the fairies
never had been. But as their organ was left
behind when mortals entered their abode
let it be made some use Of We have author
ity for saying that the fairies when hunted
from their homes search through the world
for the children of art and breathe their fan
cies in their ears. Of the lovers Of music
they are very fond, and why, we ask, should
not some Of these 60 down to the caves of
Luray and restore the fairy organ to its use,
mark off the columns on the tonic scale that
mortals wot Of and make the dim recesses
echo with the silvery notes in harmony once


af cfa1a al


Beauty is not lost The sylvan nymphs,
the Naads of the fountain, the daughters OF
the sea dissolved like dream in the hour
that Aphrodte and Apollo died and the
winds mysterious voices told that the great
god Pan was dead for evermore. But new
spirits came to the human vision: in the
wake Of the Man Of Sorrow hocked the
angels who are by us yet The fairies are
gone from the caves ut Luray, but science,
hard and uncouth of mien, has entered
there with poetry OF its own. It sings the
marvellous romance Of drop of water on
it's mission of beauty through the heart of
the earth; how it slowly steals through the
limestone rock, taking as it goes the white
essence of the stone. 1t gathers on the
neither side of the rocky roof; it grows; il
trembles with the fulness of its time of sac
rifice to beauty which has come at last; it
falls. Down fifty feet it comes sheer like q
liquid diamond through the gloom it strikes
on the white foliations; it is shivered to n
thousand atoms of spray, and from each
atom forms delicate rock crystal pure as
snow. What fairy skill could match the
infinite beauty of the work of these drops Of
water?
Year: 1878

A Man VINO SEVERAL YEARS AGO was SEN
fenced to be hanged, and whose fate was finally
changed to Imprisonment for life, has just been
proved innocent. l. it rot about time 10 try
and punish few prosecuting officers. as a warn
ing to the others who 10 think the duty Of
the State is to convict every person suspected OF
,5r
Year: 1878

and the colored man being even more dis.
posed to acquit in such cases than his
white neighbor to convict We are inclined
to believe, for our part, that its ultimate
result will be larger number OF execu-
tions. for it will simply throw all cases Of
accused colored men into the jurisdiction
OF Judge Lynch
Year: 1878

IN ANOTHER CoLUMN the Street Cleaning
Bureau can find some information about dirty
streets The rain storm-the only excuse for
delaying works now. and though il some
what improved matters, it made pretencc
of suppanting shoyes and carts
Year: 1878

DOES THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD own the
municipal authorities OF Newark, y. j. If not
why should the railroad crossings be so poorly
guarded that man can be struck and killed in
much frequented street, Us was the case yes
terday on Market street
Year: 1878

WHILE MANUrAcTuRERs gru,nbling u
great deal, the produce dealers are so busy in
New York that they find their large and hand
some Exchange" too small for them and pro-
pose to build larger one.
Year: 1878

SEVERAL IMPORTANT INDICATIONS OF the BUSH
ness depression in Great Britain appear in our
cable dispatches this morning, and the poor
Englishmen have no greenback orators or labor
reformers to tell them how to make things
better. Cannot some benevolent society send a
few Of agitators over there Everybody
would be benefited by such an operation.
Year: 1878

That the classic entertainments Of the Philharmonic
Society retain all Of their oldtime prestige, and ercr


else the potent charm of yore, was evidenced
In the assemblaee yesterday OF very large, brilliant
end critical audience on the occasion Of the first
Year: 1878




When the classic poet. half in bitter.
ness half in poetic prophecy, sang the
unrequited toll of those who labor that
Others chiefly may enjoy; ot the bee,
which gathers and stores up the honey
that he will not be allowed To cat; of the
OK, which bears his heavy yoke and
drags the plow through rich fields, ON
whose after product he may not browse,
he cast sidelong and pcnetrs ting glances
at "A kind of injustice which fingers
among men, wherever the true spirit of
civilization and sound policy has not
prevailed. We know not what mcaner
trait could distinguish condition of
society whore there would be but two
classos---serfs or slaves, and taskmastcrs
over them-than the understanding tha
the toilcr was TO receive hut the most
tritling modicum OF the benefit arising
from his labor, after having borne the
heat and burthen of the day, i'm clearing
the land, rearing the first dwelling
thereon, sowing the seed aud harvesting
the crop. We know that in the semi
barbarous condition which some are
wont to dignity with sounding names,
thissysteU of glaring injustice is the rule
rather than the exception; and that
many who are loudcst in preaching the
doctrines of an equal humanity are the
last TO practice it. But the universally
of the wrong in no wise palliates it.,
morally speaking, nor yet relieves il of
the mark of folly, regarding il merely in
the worlds way. Wcrc noblcr plan
prevalent, there would be n far sounder
condition of affairs, more truth and CON
tdence between men, and, we believe,
an infinitely more rapid victory gained
over the resistance of nature and the ills
of mortal existence. The workman who
feels himself but an implement, liable,
when his task ls done and the fruition of
it's success is at hand, To be flung aside
to make room for those who have had no
part in the long laborious process of
preparation, IL in no mood that bodies
well 10 society. A community largely
composed OF men similarly disappointed
in their various walks Of life, il ever ripe
for treasons, stratagems aud spoils."
And hence il is that the calendar OF
crime swells from day 90 day: and that
instead of being m honorable contest Of
industry and skill, what we term "busi.
ness too often degcneratcs into mere
unscrupulous struggle of chicanery
Men no longer look upon each other M
brethren, In such n strife, but as enemies,
and prey U be mutually devoured Each,
seeing how the other il treated, deter
mines 90 get and keep all that he can, so
that when his turn for tTeachourous dis
placement comes, he may not go forth
empty. Now, if such n social state be
not a barbarism, more or less disguised
in broadcloth, what is it2 And can any
thing ultimately come of it but general
disaster2
Year: 1878

CLEVELAND, May 1s-In spite Of the asser
tions Of Citizen Schadri. q leading Socialist In
this city, that nothing wrong was intended
by his colleagues, there are ominous signals
observable In Cleveland At the picnic at
Kinseater's Garden, red flag was flung
FORTH and some foreigners present were so
turbulent as to cause the police TO arrest the
eight men comprising the committee having
the affair in charge. 1t is asserted all present
were avowed Communists. The prisoners
will have trial on the twenty first instant.


Detectives have observed that an unusual
number of small arms were being purchased
by the Bohemians, about 1000 or more, who
are out of employment No outbreak could
amount to much here, as the authorities
would meet it so promptly as to make it a
sad day for the disturbers.
Year: 1878

C1NcGNNAT1 May 49, The Butler county
grand jury for the May term yesterday. at
Hamilton. found q bill aganstJohn B. Tytus.
Of Middletown, for perjury. The following is
the brief


In q certain action for damages for breach
of promise of marriage, said cause then pend
ing in the Court of Common Pleas, wherein
one Nanny A. Dickey was plaintiff and John
B. Tytus was defendant, and in which said
action and cause said Nanny A. Dickey, by
an amendment to her petition, claimed in ag
gravation of damages that she had been
seduced by John B. Tytus, and that he
had before the time Of said suit had
sexual intercourse with her, and on the faith
Of said promise Of marriage: said John B.
Tytus did appear in said court and was SOL
ennly sworn on his own behalf, to testify to
the truth in said action then pending, and did
corruptly. willfully and feloniously depose and
declare certain matters then and there to be
facts, to wit: That he. the said John 3. Tytus.
had never had sexual intercourse with the
said Nanny A. Dickey. in any place, at any
time, nor under any circumstances. whereas
in truth. he had, prior to the time. had sexual
intercourse with her. and well knowing that
the said matters declared by him to be true
were false
Year: 1878

Boston, May 18.-The National Convention
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians adopted
the following unanimously:


Resoired, That if there is anything in our
order at present in opposition to the doctrines
of the church, all, as her obedient children
are willing to rectify it as soon as her decision
is properly announced, but until that decision
is ennnciated, we deem any attack upon the
principles and objebts Of the order, no matter
from what source it emanates, an unwarrant-
able abuse of an organization whose only OBJ
benevoence. Respect of civil law and our
admiration Of the free institutions Of this free
country are as steadfast and undying as our
devotion to the church, whose traditions and
readings we revere.
Year: 1878

New YORK, May 1s-The Herald says: No
Intelligent man of either party can longer
doubt that this whole batch Of incendiary at
tempts. the Blair memorial. the Kimmell bill,
the secret Florida investigation and the Pot
were instigated by Mr. Tilden. He never did
anything more characteristic of his still hunt
methods.


This astrte and secretive plotter. who mis-
takes cunning for wisdom is no doubt sin
cere in thinking that he has been defrauded OF
an office to which he was elected by the peo-
pie and probably iustfies himself in the
underhand attempts he is making to shake
the stability of the government. imperil the
tranquility and disturb the business of the
country; but neither his aim nor his methods
will be indorsed by the public sentiment oi
the country. Against the cry of fraud, the
the Republicans raise the cry of revolution
and they will unite the whole North once
more In their support.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, May 18.-In the event of a
declaration of hostilites between England
and Russia this government will issue a
proclamation of neutrality and use every
effort to enforce its provisions. In the Turco-
Russian war such proclamation was I'M
necessary, the interests involved in that con-
hict being so far removed from this country.
In case OF q Russo-British war events have
demonstrated clearly that international COM
plications of a serious character will arise if
the United States does not proclaim it's ner-
trality and enforce as far as possible a strict
fulfill other international obligations
Year: 1878

New YORK, May 18.-Miss Adelaide Len
nox told an audience last night that if a
woman will pay $1,000 manager will bring
her out. To gain favor, women are obliged
Lennox said, as she laid down her manu-.
script and looked over her audience. Name
a single actress Of talent that has been In a
stock company Of any New York theatre the
past winter. You remember the lady that
followed Boucicault at the Grand Opera
was heralded as a star, and she can read a
poem at any benefit, on the same terms that
the privilege.
Year: 1878

United States Collector Of Internal Revenue,
yesterday found an Illicit dstillery located in
the large basement of VIM. Williams resi-
dence in the northwestern part of this county
which was confiscated and Williams arrested
and brought here to jail. The still was Of
copper and in fine condition. Williams had
been doing an illicit business, running out
whisky and brandy, and selling it in the sur
rounding small towns.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, May 18-The preservation of
the Irish tongue has been agitating the
minds Of Irishmen lately to the extent of in
sisting that every son of the sod should
speak the language Of his native heath. Last
evening the Society for the Preservation of
the Irish Language met, and number of
eloquent speeches were made by various
members
Year: 1878

CLEVELAND, May 18.-The Leader to-day
publishes an interview with prominent Fe-
mans, who declare that there is no truth in
the runaors Of an invasion Of Canada. They
say that there are large sums of money here
waiting to be used when the right time comes


and In case there should be war between
Russia and Great Britain there would likely
Year: 1878

be some assistance given to their Irish breth-
rem at home. The Feaif,ns in this city have
always been understood to be strong in mum
bers and wealthy, end it is known that they
are under good drill, in readiness for any
emergency.
Year: 1878

raj understanding seemed to exist. that each
man should furnish his own. They believed
that their military organization would be in
q more effective condition than the State
militia
Year: 1878

In a hotel at Corning there is the
warning prohibition posted up on the
door of every room Guests are posi-
lively forbidden to light matches on the
wall" And do you know what is the
effect Of that. notice? Every man who
goes TO that hotel lights the match on
the walls, and then wipes itup and down
the cleanest place he can find on the wall
to rub it out, and he doesn't let up 80
long IS there is enough of the match LETT
to make mark with, Burlington Heck
eye,
Year: 1878

tion in which they now were. II this bill
was passed, would not the iron men come
here and asked to be saved from the danger
threatened by the reduction of the tariff on
iron Would not all other interests come,
and thus make the revenue laws series of
pIasters and patchwork ?..... In the midst of
great confusion the amendment reported by
the ways and means committee was read and
adopted, which amendment ia to add the
words "And acknowledged gtheir liability
under the terms OF said bond for the period
for which said extension is granted" as II
the same was inserted in the body of said
bill AFTER further scenes of confusion
and excitement, the committee rose without
any further action on the amendment, and
the house adjourned.