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Year: 1878

Every Republican should see to it that his
name is registered to-day. A moments search
in the table Of p0lling-places, printed on an
other page, will show yoa where you must
register; and after to-day there win be but
one more opportunity.
Year: 1878

partment, who has held his place for
many years. As the Commissioner could not
very we'll supervise the work in person, he has
done all that he could do by this prompt pun
ishment 1t will remind all the snbordnates
of the Department of Public Works what the
Mages Of neglect of duty arc.
Year: 1878

Rcccnty II has been found necessary to remove
fr,n, the shelves in the British Museum, to which
readers have free access a large number of books OF
reference Of one kind and another for the reason
that they were small aud could be easily slipped
into the pocket Ii il stated that these small works
were always disappearing. There has been Tor
long time displayed al the door OF the readngroom
a number of mutilaied volumes, with an appeal
TO tho respectable frcquenters OF the institution.
Any one can he admitted as reader on the written
recommendation Of two householders who may OF


may moi he respectable parties, all that is known of
tbcn being that their names are in London drec-
tory. The matter is more serious, because ticket
If admission to the readine-room Of tho British
Museum is a passport to many other libraries.
Year: 1878

Secretary EvartS's address at the CcOpcr In
stitute last night was a great speech to a
great audience. There was not an issue ot
fbe campaign. National or local, upon which
he did not express himself, and though all
Republicans will not 20 with him III his defence
of some of the policies Of the Administrn-
ton, all will admit the force and puRgency
of everything that he said and the truth Of
most Of it, What Mr.. Eyarts had 10 say,
however, upon the Southern question and
Civil Service Reform was hardly more
than incidental. The great features Of his
address were his earnest calculation Of
the necessity of obtaining control OF the
House of Representatives and retaining con-
troll of the Assembly, and his most felicitous
discussion OF the financial Issue. The clear
ness and cogency of his argument on
this latter point especially, was only
eonalled by the quaintncss and simplicity
Of his illustrations. Mr.. Evarts told the
story of the magician in the Ara
biau NIGHTS who paid for his meat in fiat
money. and the story of the Pope who prom
iscd faithful flock fiat crops, and by way Of
illustrating his own remark that when we
get fiat money, we must have " Hat trade,


"hat food. and fiat arrangements all


through he described in his inimital'le way
the Treasury Department where iiat money
Is manufactured in the largest quantities.
the children's nursery. If there were time
in which to do it, many telling say
ings might be pointed out Suffice it
TO say now, that every Republican
should read the whole speech and dwell
specially upon the Secretary's plea for hard
| work in harmony; and that every Democrat
and independent voter should read it, and
dwell specially upon his exbortatiOn 10 men
who really hold their country higher than
party to vote now as the safety OF the coun-
try's honor demands.
Year: 1878

Professor Winchclrs address, delivered last
night at the Academy OF Music il striking
Protest against existing methods Of collegiate
education, made by Il distinguished COLLEGE
professor Coming from q iyceum talker or a
professional refOrmeT, the opinions contained
in the address would hardly have seemed
radical enough to attract attention; coming
from Professor Wimchell, they express tlt dis
satisfaction with antiquated theories Of educa-
ton which is felt nOi only by many who have
been sent out from the colleges without the
training fiat would best have fitted them foT
the everyday life of this century, tut by
many who are engaged in th. practical
work OF education, and ave pC1p,exed by
doubts of prevailing systems ThiriI they
cannot remove and cannot ignore. Professor
Winchcll argues from the fact that the ratio
of college graduates to the whole population is
diminishing, that a collegiate education seems
less necessary than it once did, and shows at
length why it has become, in his opinion, less
useful, comparatively, than it once was.
Year: 1878

NEw YoRK, January 4.-The SNOW
storm this morning turned into down
pour OF rain, which BY noon had washed
the snow from the streets and house tops.
The wind is east, the weather thick and
the danger flag is flying. Already two
vessels are reported ashore, but no lives
Year: 1878

THE Chicago Times says :-"The con-
duct of one Lieu enant Colonel Buell.,
OF the army, is calculated to afford much
comfort 10 Carl Schurz. This ornamental
officer Is alleged to have entered into a
partnership with trader at his post in
Montana, by the terms of which the
trader was to pay none of the taxes laid
upon such dealers by the United States
laws, and was TO be protected in his re-
sistance by the forces at the command of
the lieutenant colonel aforesaid. The
officer kept his part of the agreement so
well that the deputy United States mar
shal who sought to arrest the trader was
repeated expelled with force from the
post, while the violator of the laws was
protected at the sommandant's headquar-
tiers. The department of justice will
very properly insist upon the exemplary
punishment of the officer.
Year: 1878

THE RUGBY ACADEMY is now the
only pay school we have in the city at
which young men are prepared for col
lege, and its reputation has always stood
well but its faculty never stood so high
as at present. The winter term COM
mences on the I'd of December and DR..
Murphy, its Principal, has greater cause
to congratulate himself on the success OF
his educational enterprise than ever;
since the 'hard times" have reduced SC
many excellent schools below the point
at which they are profitable. Whining.
tonans should take deep interest in the
Rugby Academy.
Year: 1878

CHIEF JUSTICE CoMEGYs is reported
TO be suffering from indisposition occas-
ioned no doubt from slight cold, with
which so many have been afflicted during
the present Autumn. He was not in
Court on Monday and Tuesday, and is
staying with his neice, Miss Douglass,
who resides few miles below New
Castle. We regret to hear of the illness
of the Chief Justice and hope he will be
well in few days.
Year: 1878

TIE most curious of all the Congress
sional contests was thai in the Third dis
trict of Louisiana. Acklin, the indiscreet,
if not the betrayer of virtue, was the
Democratic candidate, and the sentiment
of reputable people so strongly against
him that he was pretty sure to be defeat
ed. The Republicans, however, took
him up when the Republican members
Of his committee of investigation gave
him a certificate Of "not proven" in the
matter of the young girl whom he is
charged with leading to destruction
Then the same party nominated can-
didate Of their own, Hebert, whom they
presumed weak one, and brought out
Merchant, a boiling Republican, in OPP
position, and thus divided the Republican
vote, and secured returns for Acklin.-
For sOme unexpected reason the Federal
officials lent themselves heartily TO the
treachery to their party, and now they
are in flutter lest they shall be decapi-
tated. The inquiry into the matter by
the Attorney-General has set all of them
TO protesting the greatest anxiety for the
seating of Hebert. Times.
Year: 1878

can citizen? We might exclaim there
is none. Then let us obey the recommen-
dations of our rulers and thus attest our
faith in the Power to which kings and
princes reverently bow In humble sub
mission and prayer, and be thankful for
the occasion.
Year: 1878

IL seems to me peculiarly important,
says Mr.. Higginson, that woman should
have a share in these studies They Ger
tainly often have time enough. 1t takes
more time for a woman to make herself
charming than to make herself learned.
Sidney Smith says, and he thinks it a
pity that she should often hang up her
brains on the wall in poor pictures, or
watt them into the air in poor music,
when they might be better employed.
And that they have the requisite gifts
for medical study, will be plain to any
one who made the celebrated Essay by
Buckle on "the influence of women on
the progress of knowledge" and sees how
he traces some of the Leading scientific
discoveries of mOdern times, as those of
Newton and Goethe, to the exercise of
that very faculty of quick -witted com
bination which is the characteristic Of
Tomen's minds. Nay, great physician,
always preferred to have an ignorant pa
tient bring his wife with him, because he
could always get more careful observa-
tion ard quicker suggestions from the
woman. This point lies directly in the
line of medical education. This study
lies also directly in their path as pros
pective wives aud mothers, and this alone
would furnish a sufficient reason for il.
\ woman of superior gifts, who had
studied medicine, but never adopted it
as profession, told me that the mere
domestic use Of her knowledge had more
than repaid her for all tho trouble it has
cost Ior man who should thus aband
on the pursuit, it would be of compara-
lively little use, apart from the general
training; but for a woman, if she fulfils
the commoner duties of a woman's life,
this carly knowledge will always be a
source of direct strength. This applies
in degree to surgery also aud have
always wondered, in view Of the old pro.
verb that "a surgeon should have "a lion 8
heart and lady's hand, why our pro.
fessors did not oftener aim at developing
this heart, if need be, in those who have
the hand without training,
Year: 1878

There is great fear on the part of some
amiable persons who write for the public,
lest, in certain excited movements of re
form, there should be those who will take
steps for which they will be sorry.
They argue, from this, that it is not best
to have any excitement at all, and es-
pecially that nothing should be done un-
der excitement. Itso happens, however,
that the path Of progress has always been
Wfd MaFked by sndden steps upward aRd aGd
steady going, it is true, but the tendency
to rut-making and routine are So great in
human nature that it is often only by
wide exctements that a whole commu-
nifty is lifted and forwarded to new
level. Men often get into the condition
OF pig giron. They pile up nicely in bars.
They are in an excellent state of preser-
vation. They certainly lie still, and
though there is vast capacity in them for
machinery, and cutlery, and agricultural
implements-though they contain meas
ureIess possibilities of spindles and spades
there is nothing under heaven but fire
that can develop their capacity and real
ize their possibilities


There are communities that would
never do anything but rot, except under
excitement. a community often gets
into a stolid, immObile condition, which
nothing hut & public excitement can
break up. This condition may relate to
a single subject, or to many subjects. 1t
may relate to temperance, or TO church
debt. Now it is quite possible that a
man under excitement will do the thing
that he has always known to be right
and be sorry for it or recede from it af-
terward but the excitement was the
only power that would ever have started
him en- the right path, or led him to stop
III the wrong one. 1t is all very well to
say that it would be great deal better
for a drunkard, coolly, after quiet de-
liberation and rational decision, to re
solve to forsake his cups than to take the
same steps under the stimulus of social
excitement and the persuasions of com
panionship and fervid oratory, but does
/ he ever do it? Sometimes, possibly, but
| not often. Without excitement and a
great social movement, very little of tenn
perance reform has ever been effected.
Men are like iron-to be moulded they
must be heated-and to say that there
should be no excitement connected with
a great reform, or that reform is never
to be effected through excitement, is to
ignore the basilar facts of human nature
and hnman history. Holland
in Scribner for April.
Year: 1878

heokuk constitution.


a few days ago man and woman.
who live near Pennington, Van Burcn
county, came To keokuk and while here


were married. The groom, being either
unable to resist his new found happiness


or his fondness for drink, got unmista-


kably drunk, and, when he and his


wife boarded the train, attracted all eyes
by his boisterous conduct, which caused
bushes of shame to mantle the check of


the woman who had Just Joined her for
tunes with this man for better or for


worse and she was getting the worse


side at the very start. The fellow made


foot ball of her muff and kicked it
from one end of the car to the other.
He was very conspicuous in many other
drunken ways, until the train reached


Pennington. where, despite the tears and


entreaties of his wife, who had rot OIL


the train, he maintained his stubborn de-
sire 10 ride further. The conductor


tried to persuade him To get off, but he


refused, and said he would pay his pas


sage on 10 the end of the road The
conductor and bridegroom stood upon


tlre platform of the rear coach. the wife
NAi viz l'itAAAbA III VI tic AltlOl- II lHuluA
enIreatIes useless, and time getting the
best of him, the conductor dessted and
gave the signal for the train to start.
As the cars got under pretty good head
way the bridegroom concluded that he
would drop off, and attempted to do so
1be conductor stopped him and tcld him
If he wished to get out he would stop the
train, and seized the bell to do SO. but
the fell)w crowded by him to the other
side Of the car, reached the steps, and
just as he jumped was seized by one of
his coat tails by the conductor. lie
hung suspended in mid for awhile,
whirling round and round like II dancing
dervish, when the cloth gave way, the
coat ripped clear up to the shoulder
parted, left half in the conductors hand
the other half on the fellows body, which
was rolling over in the mud at the rate
of seventy five revolutions "A minute
The conductor put his forefnger out of
joint. The bridegroom, with a drunken
mans usual luck, escaped unhurt.
Year: 1878

The Methodist Bishop Of Texas has
been addressing his conference on the
subject Of young ministers marrying in a
very practical and pleasant strain.
Young preachers with clean shirt fronts
and finger nails were, he said, above par
but should remain single till they had
finished their studies. 'If young min
lister" said the Bishop, ''marries beau
tiful young lady he must love her, and,
loving her, he must talk to her, and,
talking to her, he must spend time he
ought to give to his studies" Then the
worthy old man went on to say that he
determined when he joined the confer
ence in youth not to marry until he
should finish his course of study. There
were as fine looking and charming young
ladies on his first circuit as the United
States afforded. But he armed his
breast against all the glances and smiles
of the fair young damsels. When in the
providence of God it became necessary
for him to select a companion, he was
competent to select the proper person
and when he lost that dear one by death
and it became necessary that he select
one to take her place and be mother to
the pledges of love she had left him, he
found one good, true and peerless.
Young preachers whose boards are not
fully grown could not always select the
right one to be. e travelling preachers
wife. lie knew a man who married
while local preacher, and when after
wards he joined the conference it was
discovered that he possessed considerable
genius, but that his wife was an uncul-
tivated woman who did not know how to
dress herself, 80 that when he was ap-
pointed to an important city station his
wife wore bFogan shoes and the ladies
formed a committee and went and
dressed her, to her husbands unutterable
and abiding shame.-World.
Year: 1878

There is nothing which adds 50 much
to the power and beauty of a man as a
good moral character. 1t is his wealth
his inhuence-his life 1t dignIfies him
in every station, exalts him at every pc
riod of life. Such a character is more to
be desired than everything else on earth.
1t makes man free and independent.
No seFvile toOl-croaking sycophant--
no treacherous honor seeker-ever bore
such a character. The pure joys of truth
and Righteousness never spring in such q
person. If young men knew how much q
good character would dignity and exali
them, how glorious it would make their
prospects, even in this life, never should
we find them yielding TO the groveling
and base-born purposes Of human ma.
ture.
Year: 1878

Baltimore News.l


One of those unaccountable freaks of
nature which puzzle the brain OF the
scientist has Just come to notice in West
Baltimore, and furnishes the medical
fraternity in particular with food for
thought and theme for conversation.
The case is that of a colored woman,
about forty-ive years Of age, who died
last week in house on West Lexington
street, from a complication of diseases.
Eight years ago this woman was q
light mulatto, and at the time of her
death, according to the testimony of sew
eraI physicians and others who saw her,
she was as black as midnight. The
change during this period of eight years


was so gradual, but so certain withal,


that the family with whom she lived
could readily perceive the color as it
deepened ftotn light yellow to a shining
black.


The whole system of the woman un
derwent a complete transformation.


From a stout, portly and unwieldly per
son. who used to attract the notice of


persons on account of her size, she
| dwindled away into the thin, spare and
regular form of the typical spinstes
The physician who had been attepAng
her for the last four years said he could


not fathom the mysteries of theease, aud
does not know to what causr ne may at
tribute the tranformatior that was appa-


rent to the eyes of al who knew the wo


man. She heEef was very sensitive
bout the mater, and before her death
Sho oor,.1' not bear to hear any one pass
snv am re remarks on the change that had
been made in her personal appearance.
She was a VirgIniap, owned at ene time
by the family Of D. Wade, of the firm of
d. Wade Il Co., wholesale druggists, on
SI.,4L II oxvorJ St~aaF
Year: 1878




An engineer on one of the freight
trains on the Missouri, Kansas and To
peka reports seeing a ghost on several
occasions on the track of the railroad be-
tween Nevada and Ellis, Mo-, near the
place where the corpse of the unknown
woman was found about year ago, He
says that something very much resem-
bling a woman would get on the track
before the train and walk ahead of it
short distance and then leave it. and
that nothing more could be seen after il
left the track. He reports that it has
been so plainly seen by him that he at
one time whistled down brakes and stop
ped the train, and after stopping nothing
could be seen in danger. The story has
aroused the people in that neighborhoOd,
and many of the citizens of that locality
are on the watch
Year: 1878

New York Times.


The danger as well as the inconyeni
ence of the fashion which it has pleased
woman in her wisdom to adopt of wear
ing high heeled boots is illustrated by the
evidence given at an inquest recently held
at a hospital in London touching the
death of patient Of that institution
who met with her death under the fol-
lowing circumstances The deceased, a
married woman, left her home in good
health on the 29th of February, and the
same night was brought home in cab
with fractured leg. The driver of the
vehicle made no remark as to how the
injury had been received, but, after ask
ing for his fare, drove of. The deceased,
however, after removal to the hospital,
stated that she was just stepping from
the curb into the carriage road when,
owing to her boots having excessively


high heels, she slipped and fell. 1t is
supposed she was run over, as the injury
she had received was of SO serious q ma
ture that amputation had to be performed


and she died last week from exhaustion.
The jury returned verdict of ssacciden-
tai death" The only wonder Is that
such accidents are not or more frequent
occurrence.
Year: 1878

Fort ' aIIey MITFUE.I


On Sunday evening, as the Rev. Sam
uel Anthony was preaching at Fort VAL
lev, Ga, he was suddenly stricken with
paralysis Of the tongue, and so complete
IL lost the power of speech that he was
forced to stop his discourse He was
affected in a similar manner six years
ago, while filling the pulpit of our min
lister. and, we believe, preaching on the
same subject, aud these two occasions are
the only ones ON which he ever felt any
difficulty of speaking.
Year: 1878

.. APRIL "a, 1878.


Editors Dispatch: In view Of the many
communications published in your columns
in reference TO the public schools, l would
like to offer one or two crude ideas. l do
not suppose they are original with me, but
l do not remember ever seeing them pub
lished. / therefore very ditlidentlv send
them to you to throw in your scrap-baskct,
or use in any way you think proper.


First, then, would it not be well to have
a law framed stating at what ace children
would be received, and the age they would
be debarred the privilege OF attending the
public schools. To illustrate: Children to
be received must be between the ages OF six
and fourteen years, but not to be received
land discharged if attending when they have
reached the age of fourteen. II from any
cause whatever cannot or do not send my
children to school before they are thirteen
years old, and they only receive one years
education free, that is my neglect or misfor-
tune, with which the public (the taX-payers)
are not blamable.


"Aeain," by what right do I educate and
prepare my children (sin the public
schools '') to be school-teachers Could I
not with equal propriety and justice tax the
public to q certain extent to teach them a
trade or some calling other than school
teachers They are vocations to be used in
future whereby said children are to make a
living.


I believe five, certainly not over six, years
to be the maximum time that children ought
to receive free education; but some one
may say they do not get six years attend
ance. Well, suppose they do not. My
neighbor cannot, or does not, send his chill
dren but two or three years. That is no good
reason why should send mine eight or ten
years. suppose that with something like
the above there would be more room and
less expense for those who wished to re-
ceive primary and rudimentary education.
A FRIEND.
Year: 1878

To ESCAPE the binding dust Of Main street
made doubly great by the sought
refuge few days ago in the bookstore Of Messrs.
WooDHoUSE 6 PARHAM Seated in a comfortable
chair, with new book In hand, suddenly arose 4
rushing, mighty sound, as of a cataract breaking
over rocks and tumbling like thunder deep down
In an abyss. For moment all is silent, and then
the softest and sweetest tones break upon the
of JOY and triumph. Such were some OF the effects
produced by an accomplished performer on one of
CHICKERING'S wonderful upright pianos, of which
1Iessrs. WooDuoUsE & PARuAM are the Richmond
agents. -.