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Year: 1878

The Foreign GIuIster's Opinion of


Newspapers.


Lord Salisbury at the Newspaper Dinner in


LOndon.l


1t is impossible to speak of the
achievements of the race of special
correspondents without marVeling
ut the characteristics, the genius,
and the power which they display.
We have one in this room-and we
have heard him to-night-on whose
pen Europe has hung for months


cheers and when we consider the
difficulties under which those splen-
did productions were made, it is
marvellous that such a combination
OF endurance, of brilliancy, and of
accuracy should have obtained by
conductors of our English press.
On the labors Of the special CORE
spondent it is not necessary for me
to dwell. He seems to be forced to
combine in himself the powers of a
frst-rate steeple chaser with those
Of the most brilliant writer the
most wonderful physical endurance
with the utmost remarkable men
tai vigor. But these qualities are
attained and maintained with great
strain. They can only be sustained
by natures of the strongest fiber
and with intellectual powers in the
highest state of efficiency. The
fascinations of the newspaper press
are very great. 1t requires no capi-
tai; it requires little training; it has
but one requirement, and that it
requires in large degree-it only
requires brains. But there are no
vested interests to sustain it; there
is no organized profession to reward
it. The work must be done in the
highest state Of efficiency, and at
the greatest cost Of physical and
mental power, and the moment
these qualities decline, the power
of earning money is gone.


1t is, therefore, above all profess
sions, the one which stands in need
of such an institution as this, and
it deserves that you should respond
heartily to the appeal which from
time to time is made to you from
this chair. The rewards Of the pro-
fession are great, the power which
it exercises is wonderful, but it has
a dark side to it. The calamities
to which it is liable are, indeed, ex-
ceptional. l know nothing more
distressing than to read, as one
sometimes does, that a man whose
genius, originality, wit aud humor
have fascinated the world, and who
has carried on the battle of life by
the exercise Of these qualities in the
face of increasing disease, and amid
fears that destitution will overtake
his family, has succumbed under
his labors at last. Therefore, my
lords and gentlemen, not only as a
politician, but as a member of a
civilized community, as one who
feels that to the action Of the news
paper press and its efficiency, civil
lizatiOn owes more than TO any
other profession which men pursue,
| ask you to join with me in drink
ing, and to contribute toward Sc
curing " Prosperity to the newspa-
per fund"
Year: 1878

TT is ENTERPRISING. FEARLESS. RE.
liable and newsy, and the peer of any weekly
newspaper published in West Tennessee. con-
tanning all local events Of Importance in the
city of Memphis and Shelby county. No
labor or expense will be spared to maintain it
in every department at the highest possible
standard, and to commend it in al! respects
to the confidence and approval of the best
classes in the surrounding country, being
strictly
Year: 1878

INNOCENCE and crime arc curiousiy blended
in the case of the little girl at philadelphia
whose parents took her from school and
treated her. as a servant in house Of ill.fame
which they conducted. The Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Children, to whom
she applied for deliverance, very properly re-.
moved her from their inhuman keeping
Year: 1878

Of South and Central America will
seem tame and incomplete thing
in the comparison. The first step
Ia the revolution will be the elec-
tion of another Democratic House
of Representatives which, with a
Democratic Senate, will put us in
the posture to declare some good
Democrat elected President and
see him inaugurated. We need to
get at the bottom facts in Louis
lana and Florida to learn just how
the thing is managed when the
road is not clear. We either
want Hayes out of an Office he
holds by fraud, and out Of it with
the consent of the Republican party,
or we want to have it UNDER
stood that that party hereafter will
have to take its own medicine. The
worst of the whole thing is that
the Democratic majority In the
United States, both electoral and
popular, will be so overwhelming
that we won't have an opportunity
of practising any of these pleasant
little Republican villainies.
Year: 1878

Angeles county will not exceed
one thousand on the 10th instant.
The probability is that the poll
will be about seven hundred votes.
Both these figures are larger than
we should have allowed the Work.
ingmen had there been local Re-
publican ticket. Undoubtedly
small number of Republicans will
vote the Workingmen's ticket in
preference to the Democratic, but
they will be few indeed. There is
a tacit understanding in Los An
geles city and county that, in con-
sideration that the Republican
nominees of the San jose Copven-
tion shall receive the bulk of tie
Democratic vote, Republicans will
quite as generally vote for the ex-
csllent local Democratic ticket.
Most Democrats and most
Republicans are now satisfied
that great mistake was
made in not having regular
nominations of both the great po-
litical parties throughout the State
at large, but the blunder has been
committed and it is now too late


to remedy it. -Four thousand votes,


at least, will probably be polled at


the Constitutional election; al


though, if the harvest is in favor


able state, the farmers may turn


out generally and the vote may be
larger,
Year: 1878

IF there is one interesting or
amusing thing in this world to us
it is to see the vigor with which
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, in the
Potter Investigating Committee,
settles down to the business of
throwing bricks against this hypo-
critical administration. If there
is one thing Ben despises more than
another, whether it proceeds from
Dem ocratic or a Republican
source, it is sham. The "true in
wardness" of the Louisiana inioui-
ty will not remain hidden If this
strabismic genius from Massachu-
setts can help to unearth it. He can.
not consecrate the last days of a
largely misspent life to a better
purpose than showing up the Ohio
Pharisee and his companion "moral
agricultnrists." He has thrown his
biggest brick plumb at the head of
Stanley Matthews in the shape of
u subpoena.
Year: 1878

il holds together better than had been ex-
pected, and undoubtedly gives some present
relief to companies menaced by the excess OF
producing capacity over demand


The country is IN a healthier condition
financially than it has been for many years.
Debts are being steadily reduced; for a
wonder, there is no perceptible increase even
in the aggregate of municipal indebtedness
Prices have declined to or below the specie
level The notion that labor is peculiarly
suffering from lack of employment is efec-
lively met by the Massachusetts, Labor Bureau,
which shows that the number of men now un-
employed in that state is very small. Beyond
dispute, it is gradually decreasing; If for no
other reason, because men no longer needed
in manufactures at the East are constantly
pushing Westward and engaging in agriculture
Year: 1878

Senator Butler, of South Carolina, has been
making speech to his constituents at Edge
field Court House. Mr.. Butler is great man,
and it was a great speech. When we have
explained that the principal object of his re-
marks seemed TO be TO "assert his manhood y
and that the advice which he gave to his
admiring auditors was that they should assert
their manhood" too, everybody will under
stand what sort of an address ii must have
been. Ii belonged to familiar kind of South
Carolina eloquence, as hot and stirring as the
Pogram Defiance. There used to be great
deal of it in Congress before the war, but ii
went out OF fashion about the month OF
Year: 1878

gentleman in Boston having involved to a ruiu-
nous amount a concern of which he was treasurer,
the newspapers while accusing him Of embezzlement
unite in declaring that he bore very high charac-
ter, was respected the street, and moved in the


best circles. AS il is only respectable people who
are trusted with large amounts, perhaps ought
not 10 he surprised no the regularity with which
great defauters, forgers and swinders found to
be gentlemen Of decOrous outward lives and genteel
appearance. Before we conclude that hypocrisy is
getting to be vice characteristic of American so
ciety. before we begin TO suspect everybody who
wears clean linen and washes his hands, we may do
well to inquire whether the frequency of financial
Irregularities among gentlemen OF exemplary
character is not to be explained by the fact that
we up totally false standard of responsibility.
We do not mean To express any opinion about the
Tappan case the facts of which are not yet clear
but whether Sir. TapDan has been criminal or only
unfortunate, the current comments upon his failure
illustrate equally well what we wish TO say. All
the press dispatches from Boston yesterday de-
scribed Mr. Tappan as one Of our citizens whose
long business career has made him widely known
and generally respected" He inherited largo
property; he increased il by investments in
lands and houses. He speculated with profit.
The city looked up TO him, admired his
sarewdness and revered his success Far be il from
us to imply that he was not an estmable gentleman


in other things we know nothing about him per-
sonally; but il was his "long business career y
that seems to have won for him the public consid


Grafton that has just been so rudely shocked. Now
long and creditable business does not show
the existence of those qualities Of mind and soul
which arm man against temptation. One who has
been fair in his commercial dealings for many years
is presumably not petty thief but he may be at
heart Wholesale swindler. Fair dealing in trade
Is proof of high principle often il has no better
source than calculation that honesty is the best
policy, The exaggerated respect which We pay TO
commercial success, our notorious reverence for
money cannot but have q deplorable influence 10
Year: 1878

merchant found in his empty house yesterday
two unbidden guests, who We're sleeping
off in his bed the pleasant fumes OF
his champagne. These jolly good fellows,
before dropping off 60 sleep, had IN
duIged in practical witticism they had packed
up some of this gentleman's valuable effects
as if for transportation, and the owner, seeing
the exquisite humor of this proceeding took
the police into the joke, who insisted that
these humOrists should amuse the magistrate
himself with the story. 1t is needless to add
that if this merchant should have any more
visitors Of the same voluntary ana conviviai
sort, he would be glad to have them help
themselves to the best that the house affords,
and would be sorry to find that they had
spared the champagne.


The National party of New-YOrk is having'
a hard time of it getting born. The neon
gruOus elements of which 1t is composed
seem to be no nearer fusion at the
end of days preliminary caucusing and
another days organized wranglinG than
they were when leaders of factions were
spelling each others noses here IN New
York. The one conspicuous fact thus lar
developed, if anything can be said to
have been developed by the parody OF
a convention that is now in progress at
Syracuse, is rather to the credit OF the
new organization. There is a universal disgust
among the rural delegates at the character
and proceedings of the various delegates from
New-York, and in excluding all the delega-
tons from this city, the Convention has
raised itself in public esteem by casting
out probably the most disreputable crowd
of small politicians that ever tried to break
into a new party. 1t cannot be said, however,
that there is much else about the Convention
that entities it to respect. When the Chair
man tells the "fellows in the gallery" to " shut
up" and delegates shake their fists at the
Chairman, and the leader of the party threat
ems to send good part of it home in an
"lee-boy," such well-meaning but not we'll
informed men as may have found their way
into it, must have wished they had stayed out
side The Convention has just begun, however,
and before passing sweeping condemnation upon
it, it may be we'll to wait and see what plan
our old friend Barney j. Donahue has for re-
forming the currency, or how Mr.. Tom
Creamer would secure honesty in public SER
wants.
Year: 1878

So the Aldermen are considering whether
they shall allow General Frank b. SpinOla to
lay pipes in the streets in order to supply the
city with steam for domestic and other uses.p
General SpinOla is very uncertain sort Of
person, in politics and out, and the Tammany
Aldermen have never been looked upon as
much better. If they don't get the whole city
into hot water, it won't be for lack of expert
enee in that line of business.
Year: 1878




Though it is pleasant to see Senator Thur
man admit that he thinks about as poorly Of
some of the Democratic witnesses before the
Potter Committee as he does of the Republic
cans, what he has to say about politics Is of
less interest than his estimate Of Mr.. Sum-
ner There will be many to protest against
his judgment that the great Massachusetts
Senator was an overrated man, but the crit
icism is made in kindly spirit, nevertheless,
and is that of an unusually acute observer.


If there is any secret plot on foot for gen.
eral strike throughout the country, and lawless
uprislngs everywhere, with special designs upon
banks and safes, the warning that is given
elsewhere ought to go far to defeat it. Avery
careful correspondent finds a Pennsylvania
manufacturer who impresses him as Gre
"markably coOl-headed" person, and who fears
more serious distur Dances in the next two
months than occurred last Summer. He de-
clares that preparations are making every
where for strike, that its date was once fixed
for the middle of June, and that it is now
fixed for the middle of August If there is
good foundation for these apprehensions 1t
ought not to be difficult to ascertain the tact.
An exposure of the plan would be almost
enough, in itself, to defeat 1t, and exposure
ought to be possible, if there is anything to
expose.


If the pleasures OF hospitality are greater to
him who gives than to him who receives,
imagine the delight with which a Brooklyn
Year: 1878

Lay your finger ON your pulse and
know that at every stroke some NOR.
tai passes to his Maker; that the time
Is drawing nearer when the existence
of hell shall have ceased to be a
matter OF discussion, and when all
such individuals as Henry Ward Bee
cher and Bob lngersoll shall be crying
from the depths Of a tortured soul,
"Eurekal Eureka" - [Vicksburg
Commercial.
Year: 1878

A Scotch paper speaks Of fox hav.
ing been seen trying to spring trap
by means Of a stick that he carried in
his mouth. We knew Of fox once
that took n well pole from the wen
and pushed u turkey oil the lower
limb of a tree with it, and put the
pole back in lis place. AT least he got
the turkey, and the well pole was
found all right in the morning.
Year: 1878

How often, oh, how often. a man
with one solitary button on his
shirt and that one brass pin, looks
with devouring envy upon his wiie's
seven buttoned kid gloves. and wish
es all the shirts in his collection were
just one glove. There does seem
something wrong in this division Of
buttons.
Year: 1878

An Illinois doctor wants the news
papers to spread the information that
Goldfish is a sure preventative Of dyph-
iberia. This explains why the dis
ease never becomes epidemic in a
a boarding house.
Year: 1878

One of the noted "Moffett registers"
by which it is proposed to tax drinks in
Tennessee. was on exhibition yesterday
at the Office Of the comptroller and
secretary OF state, in the capitol. There
are no doubts OF its being a genuine
" Motfttt," IS il was brought from over
the Blue Ridge by a gentleman yester-
dav. As this instrument would be q
common article in Tennessee politics, if
the bill Is passed, a few words Of descrip-
ton may not be entirely cut OF place.
The register is inclosed in an iron box
about ten inches in length by four in
depth and width. On the front is an
elongated dial upon which are marked
faces, each of which is marked off into
numbered spaces from to TO- The first
face has underneath it the word 10, the
next 100, the third 600, the fourth
10000, the fifth 100000 and the sixth
100000. At the reverse of the register
isa small crank, which is to be turned
around every time a drink is taken. This
causes the hand on the first face to turn
to the figured, the second revolution
changes it to l, ,, and so on until the
eleventh revolution places the figure
hand back at 0, and the figure Of the
second face to /. Each succeeding reVolu"
tiOn revolves the tigure-hand OF the first
face, and ten revolutions of the second
make one revolution of the third, and so
on, the eleventh revolution OF each
fgure.hand causing the fgure-hand on
the previous one to assume its original
revolution.


The register is thus capable of marking
| 100000 drinks. The inside arrange
ment of the register is very simple and
is easily explained. The crank commune
Gates with a series of six cOgs, one in
front of each OF the faces, and their
action is similar to the force exerted in
Turbine water wheel. When the crank
is turned around once, it can slip but one
cog, and must await another revolution
10 proceed. This is done in order to pre-
vent continuous revolution from going
on. Every time the wheel is turned,
cong sounds loud enough to be heard a
considerable distance.


Yesterday, everyone who came in the
ofices at the capitol sounded the gong
several times, and late in the afternoon
the register showed that 6, 100 times had
. drink been, or should have been taken.
10 far as can be learned from members OF
The general assembly, there is no strong
probability of the registry bill being
passed-at least not in its present shape
Nashville american.
Year: 1878

There is nothing a young unmarried
man likes better than to go to dinner on
Christmas day at the house of married
friend and to be asked to carve the tur>
key. lie never carved a turkey in his
lie, and with an old maid on one side of
him, watching him closely, and on the
other side fair girl for whom he has
tenderness, he feels embarrassed when he
begins. First, he pushes the knife down
to one of the thigh joints. He can't find
that Joint, and plunges the knife around
in search of it until he makes mincemeat
out Of the whole quarter of the fowl.
Then he sharpens his knife and tackles it
again. At last, while making a terrific
dig, he hits the joint suddenly, and the
leg flies into the maiden lady's lap, while
her dress front is covered with shower
of stufing. Then he goes for the ether
leg, and when the young lady tells him
he looks warm, the weather seems to
him suddenly to become 400 degrees
warmer. This leg he finally pulls loose
with his fingers. He lays it on the edge
OF the plate, and while he is hacking at
the wing he gradually pushes the leg
over on the tablecloth, and when he
picks it up it slips from his hand into
the gravy dish and splashes the gravy
around for six square yards. Just as he
has made up his mind that the turkey
has no JOINTS to his wings, the host asks
him if he thinks the war with Turkey
will soon be over. The girl next to him
laughs, and he says he will explain his
views upon the subject after dinner
Then he mops his brow with his hand
kerchief, and presses the turkey so hard
with the fork that it slides off the dish
and upsets goblet of water on the girl
next to him. Nearly frantic, he gouges
away again at the wings, gets them off in
a mutilated condition, and digs into the
breast. Before he can cut any off, the
host asks him why he doesn't help out
the turkey. Bewildered, he puts both
legs on plats and hands them to the
maiden lady, and then helps the young
girl to a plate of stufting, and while TAX
ing her plate in return, knocks over the
gravy dish. Then he sits down with the
calmness of despair, and fans himself with
a napkin, while the servant girl clears
up and takes the turkey to the other
end of the table. He doesn't discuss the
eastern question that day. He goes
right home after dinner, and spends the
night trying to decide whether to COM
NIT suicide or take lessons in carving
Nev York Mercury.
Year: 1878

1T is well for the women of the house
hold to remember that the pleasant
evenings at home are strong antidotes to
the practice Of looking for enjoyment
abroad, and seeking for pleasure in by
and forbidden places, for relaxation and
recreation will be INDUCED in somehow
by most men, and happy are they who
find in the home circle the diversion
they need. A lively game, an interesting
book read aloud, or in musical families,
new song to be practiced, will make an
evening pass pleasantly.


A little forethought during the dav,
little pulling of wires that need not
appear, will make the whole thing ap-
pear easy; and different ways and means
may be prepared for making the evening
pass pleasantly and a time to be looked
forward to with pleasant anticipatiOns.


We visited once large family where
it WAS the duty Of each sister, in turn, to
provide the evenings occupation, and
there was a pleasant rivalry between
them as to whose evening should be the
most enjoyable. The brothers entered
fully into the simple home entertain.
ments, and were as 10th to be obliged to
spend an evening away from home as
their sisters and parents were to have
them absent. Every one spoke of this
family as an uncommonly united one, for
each and every member showed such a
strong attachment for the home to which
each one contributed SO much pleasure.
Year: 1878

The present tariff taxes the cotton
planter e.quarters of a cent on every
yard of iute bagging be uses, and this is
accomplished by a duty of six dollars
per ton on jute butts, the raw material
cut OF which jute bagging is made. BY
ab9lishing this duty on JUICE butts, the
planter not only gains by cheapening the
cost of bagging to the extent mentioned,
hut secures a better article by rendering
it less profitable to manufacture the
common grass or straw (aax tow bag
ging, about the use of which there is 20
much complaint from dealers and spin
ners. 1t is, therefore, to the evident
advantage of the whole cotton-Erowlng
section that any legislation on the subject
of import duties should provide for the
admission of iute butts free OF duty,


ard we trust that our representatives. at
the national capital will se' the import
ance of this matter, aud use al their
ipaence to free the cotton states from
this tax. Friends of this measure have
no time to lose; all interested should
agitate the subject at once, az a con-
gressional committee is now ct work ~
Year: 1878

Let me tell you that our sex we're not
meant to be wOoers The custom preva.
lent among a certain class of youngladie
Of asking, directly or indirectly, the at.
tention Of young gentlemen, is not an
admirable custom. My SON" said n
lady to me not long since, ais much
pTfej4ldiced against a young girl, whom
admire, because she is constantly sending
him notes inviting him to be her escort
here and there and planning to have him
with her.' A modest and dignifed
reserve, which is neither prudely nor
aiiectation, should distinguish your man.
ner to gentlemen, Too great familiarity
and too evident pleasure in the society
OF young men are errors into which no
delicate and pure-minded girl should
fall.
Year: 1878

ternal, The poor young musician, being
secretly in love with a German princess
whom he saw when on pilgrimage to
, Vienna, recoils, and taking up his bat in
his bewilderment, surprising it is his roll
OF music, tries to stuff it inlo his pocket
and gets out Of the room His want of
presence of mind leaves him an orphan
His hopes are gone, his only chance of
patronage is withdrawn, and it he can get
the position of o.ganist in some obscure
country town, and keep himself from
Starving, it will be the future limit of his
ambition,--Saturday Reriew.