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Year: 1878

That BaO VrAeA'


The Especial correspondent of the Gazette
who also dished up Fair matters for a Dover
paper, writing from Middletown during the
opening day Of the exhibition says that the
''track was in bad condition and not construct
ed on scientific principles; the attendance
small, and the horses few in number and not
much account in race any way"


The reader who is not even thoroughly versed
in all the Scientific principles of the con-
struction Of a race course, and who attended
both the Dover and Middletown Fairs, could
see that both tracks were constructed on pre-
cisely the same principle and horsemen gen
orally acknowledged that the track here was
in splendid condition this season. The atten-
dance was light during the opening day, but
about equal to that of the first day of the
Dover Fair, where about $500 were claimed
as the number on the ground. When The
reader considers that the Especial correspon-
dent who knows so much about scientific
principles halls from Dover, it won't require
very much thought TO arrive at definite con-
clusion as to ';what's the matter with Hannah" "
Year: 1878

legislator. His old habits of indiscriminate advocacy make him seem much binder par tisan than he really is. He brings the tactics and the insincerities of the jury lawyer to bear upon the graver matters of legislation. His evil habit of laboring for victory, not for the right, clings to him in Congress. His un- measured denunciation of worthy opponents, his habitual justification of unworthy friends, and the all prevailing tone of advocacy, show how difficult it is for the mere lawyer to rise into the statesman-a fact long ago noted by shrewd observers in the British parliament. While it would not be fair to charge all the low trickery and all the partisan bitterness of our politics upon the attorney, it must be evil dent that the prominence of the lawyer in American politics has given it many of it's spe- cial characteristics. Its noisy contentiousness, and it's overreaching methods, which have giv- en us so undesirable reputation abroad, are chargeable in great degree to thepersonal pe- culiarities of the lawyer legislator.
Year: 1878

LIVER IS KING.-The Liver is the imperial organ of tine whole human system, as it con- tros the life. health and happiness of man. When it is disturbed in it's pr0per action. all kinds of ailments are>the natural result. The digestion of food the movements of the heart and blood, the action of the brain and nervous system, are all immediately connected with the workings of the Liver. It has been success fully proved that Greens August Flower is unequalled in curing all persons afflicted with Dyspepsia or Liver Complaint, and all tie nu- merous symptoms that result from an un- healthy condition of the Liver and Stomach Sample bottles to try, 10 cents. Positively sold in all towns on the Western Continent Three doses will prove that it is just what you want. Sold by A. s. Wright S Co.
Year: 1878

The Republicans of the Ninth Indiana Dis trict have nominated the Mr. Orth for Con- gress who wasimplcatedint the Venzuela award scandal. of course he will be beaten, but how and why was he nominated? He is the man nominated for governor by the Republi- cans in 1876, while he was serving as minister to Austria, and who had to retire from the ticket almost as soon as he got home.
Year: 1878

On the 11th of September. 1862, the Litch- field County Regiment then known as the 18th Conn. Volunteers, but afterwards as the 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery, was mustered into the service of the United States. and within a month from that time left for the seat of war. AS the historian of the Regiment we'll remarks lin order to raise it, Litchfield County had given up the flower of her youth, the pride and hope of hundreds of families. In moral qualities, in social worth, in every civil relation they were the best Connecticut had to give. " Their faithful services, from Cold Harbor to Sailors Creek, are treasured as apriceless heir loom in many of the families of the Mountain County, for many households recall the lines

 'To the bush comes the rose,

 And the flower to the plain

 But the good and the brave

 :~ They come not again"

 Since the war, the survivors of thisregiment have held annual Reunions, in various towns in the County, on the date of their muster in i; and this year have appointed the rendezvous in Litchfield That they will be heartily well comed and honored, by our citizens, is certain, and we ask the Enquirer to call attention to the Reunion at this time, in order that all may be prepared to generously second the Commit tee having the reception in charge, and who will this week commence their preparations to receive our honored guests on the 1ith of September, in manner worthy of our old time hospitality. P.

 The term ''cruel and inhuman" treatment, for which divorce is granted in New York, has received a somewhat extended interpretation in recent decision by Judge Sedgwick He holds that the use by the husband of such harsh language as caused sleeplessness and nervous prostration in the wife, was sufficient ground of divorce. The term ''intolerable cruelty" in our statute was given much mar rower signification by our Supreme Court in the case of Shaao vs. Stap, r Conn. 1S9 This led to the passing of the so-called ''omnibus'' clause of our divorce law allowing separation for ''any such misconduct as permanently de- stroys the happiness of the petitioner and de- feats the purposes of the marriage relation D This clause was repealed by the last legisa- ture, and now any amount of abuse short of actual beating seems permissible in the mar riage relation.
Year: 1878

Secretary Thompson proposes to have six vessels out of the stocks by December, and three more in the spring. He has set up a rolling mill at the Washington yard which turns out the best iron for navy purposes at half the former cost.
Year: 1878

Sometime in July gentleman from the eastern part of Goshen appeared before the town clerk and took the oath as Justice of the Peace. He was trifle mortified, shortly af- ter, to learn that he had never been elected.

 He gets the title of Squire" however, from all his neighbors, which is the chief thing.

 The policy of decentralization" has prevailed to such an extent in Goshen, that there are now but two Justices in the whole town; both of whom live near the Cornwall line, one about five and the other three miles from the Center.
Year: 1878

Hard times are building up the West at the expense of the East During the year ending with July last, two million acres of govern ment land were taken up in Kansas and the increase of it's population is reckoned at 15O,- 00O
Year: 1878

THE TRIBUNE, at the close OF the strikes
last July, urged the diversion OF the unem-
plOyed labor in the cities into the waste lands
of the Middle and Southern States, as prac-
rical solution OF the labor problem. Since
then, we are in constant receipt Of commune
cations-hrst, from land spectators who wish
to advertise their property gratuitously, and
secondly, from men out OF work, who would
GLADLY 90 to farming, but have no money to
20 with, and if they had it, do not know how
or where to go. Our advice to the last class
is, don't wait for somebody else to move and
carry you with them to prosperity. Pick out
five, ten, fifty other labOrers-sober, industrl-
GUS, pushing men, Of different trades, If pos
sible; find how much of the necessary money
you can command, and then go to some capl-
taist and ask for loan of the rest, giving
mortgages on your land as security for its pay
ment A very few thousand dollars would estab-
lish such colony, and there are many capitalists
in every considerable city who would gladly
lend money on such security, provided the
men applying for it were of the right quality
There is no safer investment than help given
to the man who helps himself. II is much
easier obtained than charity, OF which there Is
no scarcity, as we all know.


As for the place to go. That is 4 matter for
which the emigrant must shoulder the whole
responsibility. In the case of such colony
as we describe, one or two of the shrewdest,
most intelligent men should be sent in adj
vance to thoroughly examine localities. We
propose to give in THE TRIBUNE brief de-
scription of the climate, resources and price
of the unimproved land in the neighbOring
States, but the settler must decide for himself
as to their relative advantages. In no case has
the information which we give been
drawn from spectators or interested par
ties, but from statistics prOffered by
the Governors of the several States.
Owing to tho steady current OF emigration
westward there has been singular public ig-
norance in regard to the waste lands OF the
older States; lands which recommend them
selves to the emigrant by their nearness to
the great markets and to his old home and
associations, by the established civilization
which hens them in, and in the majority of
cases by their moderate climate and freedom
from malaria. One word Of warning, however.
A man who goes to the virgin soil in Virginia
or Arizona to make capital out of it, must do
il by hard work. We are not inviting our
idle workmen to howery beds of ease when
we advise them to leave the street corner the
doors of closed mills, labor leagues, and the
organized charities which fed them last Winter,
and go to grubbing out stumps and planting
corn. But we are inviting them, as we be-
leve, to independence, to health. to mans
work and mans pay, to future comfort and
n probable competence for themselves and their
children.


the articles to which we refer.
Year: 1878

will go far to renew the confidence OF foreign
creditors. and to prevent disastrous empty
ing of bonds upon this market. At the same
time, his course will encourage American IN
vestors, from whom orders for purchase nave
recently been so large. 1t Is quite reasonable
to hope, If Congress does no more mischief Dy
financial legislation, that the danger from e1-
cessive return of bonds may be avoided.
Year: 1878

The Supreme Court of New-Jersey has rem
dered decision which destroys large and
important share of the work of the present
Legislature. The act gerrymanderlng the
boundaries of wards in Newark is pronounced
unconstitutional, as is all other interference
with the internal affairs of municipalities
Under this head come even excise bills. This
Democratic Legislature has been busy in doing
evil, and much of the evil seems to have been
undOne.
Year: 1878

Mr. Charles Francis Adams is satisfied that the
only honorable course to pursue in regard to the
Halifax award is to pay it, yet he is so ashamed of
the conduct of our Government on all matters relat


Ing to international arbitration, that he doesn't like
to talk about it. He is right there it is almost as
bad to question international arbitration verdicts
as it is to consent to national arbitration, and then
persist in yelling fraud" after the verdict is given.
Year: 1878

Even the House of Representatives sticks at
silver bullion certificates. That is to say more
than one-third of it does, and no such sign
of sanity has been given before on a financial
measure during this session. A vote by
ayes and nays was not reached, but rising
vote seemed to show that more than one
third of the members were against this second
step toward silver imitation. If the President
will stand by his veto, therefore, he will have
the satisfaction of seeing Congress back down
for once,
Year: 1878

The Constitutional Amendment which Mr.


Fish has introduced in the Assembly, but for
which he may not be responsible, would do
just the thing which ought TO be left undone


To give the Legislature the right to reduce
the salaries of city officials throughout the
State would be to extend power which is al
ready too great. This is not travelling in the
direction of home rule, but on a road leading
Just the other way, which ought to be barred up.


The removal of Royalist commanders, the
passage of the third clause in the bill on the
state of siege, and the overwhelming majority
by which NJ. Leon Says motion on the budget
was adopted, are remarkable signs of Repub-
lican progress in France. The displacement Of
the division generals is perhaps the most signi6-
cant act of all, inasmuch as it shows that the
Cabinet possesses the resolution needed to
protect itself against recurrence of the crisis
into which the nation was plunged last May


y u auspiCious for the Republic that th
Year: 1878

Of all the reformers of the Diplomatic Ser
vice, Senator Spencer is the most exact. He
wants to prevent the payment of any salaries
under the pending Appropriation bill until
the consular and diplomatic appointments have
been evenly divided among the various States
and Territories, including the District of CO.
lumbia But he neglects to carry out his
scheme to the last extreme of accuracy by
stating whether the apportiOnment shall be
strictly numerical and the Minister to England,
given to one State, shall count no more than
the Consul to Zanzibar, given to another. All
the distribution is to be proportioned to the
population.-And, by the way, Senator, what
is the population of the Black Hills I
Year: 1878

The members of the bar of Syracuse have
addressed petition to the Legislature asking
the repeal of the whole of the New Code, If
the Governors veto of the supplementary
chapters is sustained. This would seem to be
the only consistent positiOa to take in regard
to the matter. If the greater part of the New
Code is to remain on the statute book, the
whole should be there; and, if any part is to
be rejected, the whole should be. But the
simplest way out of the trouble would be not
to sustain the Governors veto.
Year: 1878

The bill to admit women to practice in the
United States Supreme Court Is poor COM
pliment to the legal ability Of either the
members of the House or the ladies who de-
sire the privilege asked for. These agitators
offered the bill and the House passed it, with
out knowing or without caring that they
were asking Congress to make rule
which the Judges of that Court have
always had the right to make, or refuse
to make, for themselves. Women who want
Congress to make rules for the Supreme Court,
would hardly shine before that tribunal if
they should be admitted and the profession
has probably not sustained great loss.
Year: 1878

To retain or recover health, persons
should be relieved from anxiety con-
cerning disease. The mind has power
over the body-for person to think
ho has disease will often produce
that disease. This we see effected
when the mind is intensely concentra.
ted upon the disease of another. We
have seen a person seasick, in anticipa-
of a voyage. before reaching the vessel,
We have known people to die of can


Ger in the stomach, when they had no
cancer in the stomach or any other
mortal disease. A blindfolded man,
slightly pierced in the arm, has faint.
ed and died from believing he was
bleeding to death. Therefore persons
should have their minds diverted as
much as possible from themselves. 1t is
by their faith that men aresaved, aud
tits by their faith that they die. Asa
man thinketh so is he. If he wills not
to die. he can often live in spite of dis
ease; and, if he has little or no attach
ment to life, he will slip away as easily
as child will fall asleep. Men live by
their minds as well as by their bodies.
Their bodies have no life of themselves
they are only receptacles of life-tene'
ments for their minds, and the will has
much to do in continuing the physical
occupancy or giving it UP. .
Year: 1878

A writer in the Springfield RepuLE,
cdm has had pleasant interview with
the real Mary who had a little lamb,
and who related TO him the incidents
on which the immortal poem was
based. The lamb was twin, thrust
out of the pen by it's unnatural mother.
Mary took it home and nursed it un-
til we'll. and it naturally grew into a
great pet. One morning when it was
to 60 ~ usual to the pasture it cou d
not be found, and when Mary went
singing on her way to school it follow.
ed her; at the school house door she
picked it up and managed to carry it
secretly to her desk, where she cover
ed it up with her shawl. But when
called up to her spelling-class the
lamb got up too, and came pattering
after her, which made the children
laugh to see IA lamb at school. 1t hap
pened that morning that a young man
named John Rowlson, the son of
riding. master in Boston, who was fit,
ting himself for Harvard was at the
school, and few days afterward pro.
duced three verses Of the poem. How
it ever came to be published Mary did
not know, for the young man died soon
after, ignorant Of the Immortality of
his verses. But the lamb lived and
had five lambkins before it met its
death by an angry COW. Aside from
its memory there yet remains Of 1t the
residue of child's rtocking, which is
gradually unraveling to furnish me-
mentoes for the many friends of Mary
and her little lamb.
Year: 1878

The Delaware Republican of Monday
last takes upon itself the duty of read
ing us out of the Republican party
Other political tools have intimated in
the same direction, and the answer to one
will be for all !: let them feed upon it.
If the Republican will
smother and suppress its own conscieH-
tious convictions on the financial ques-
ton, because Jay Gould through the N.


Y. Tribune, and other money kings have
bulldozed the party into their service, and


because party service brings it pecuniary
reward, it is welcome to do so but as
one of its friends we may be permitted
to pity it, which we most earnestly do.
The Republican, like Blaine, Conk-
ling and other party leaders was mum on
the financial question, or rather sided in
the greenback direction, while the great
city papers were bulldozing the party into


the service of the money power but
when the current is once turned in that
direction, both they and it rush on with
| ii for the sake of reward! Such prsstitu-
ton of principle and conviction to pecu-
mary considerations may do for the Re
publican, but honorable newspapers pre-
fer to advocate the cause Of truth and
justice at "A sacrifice.


We have not left the Republican party


and do not propose to do so but if it


selects to leave its old principles and go


off in the service of golden calves we


shall not follow it. That's the long and


short of the matter. Politics with us
personally and editorially will be Sc


condary matter, but while we conduct a
public journal it will be with fearless in
dependence in all matters, with special
eye to the general welfare, and not in the


interest of the rich and powerful as
| against the weak and helpless. We can


not do it if we would, and we thank
| God that we cannot. 1t would be moral
| suicide for us to do so. There is some


thing within us that Ievolts at the sug'


gesti0n, and says to us you would be q
| villain, a scoundrel and thief if you did
| do it, and so we cannot, and we will not
| VIII the Republican excuse us.


| A little more. Is the Republican par
ty in Delaware so strong that it can af-
/ ford to read out of its fold all who will


not bow down and worship the golden
image which king Gould has set up? II
1t is, there ought not to be many Repub-


hcans left in this or any other part of the
State. The masses OF the people of this
country are as nearly financial slaves now


as they wish to be, and when their eyes


are fully opened they will terribly resis


any further measures of oppression.
Year: 1878

= erday the locomotive attached TO
the New York and Washington express
south, which leaves this city at 1851 o.
clock, struck man near Lanagan's cut,
short distance this size of Perryville.
The name of the man was Levi Hill
nDd at the time he was struck he was
walking on the track, and did not heed
the approaching train. His skull was
badly fractured, and one of his arms were
broken. The train was stopped and the
man was taken to Havre- de- Grace, where
he remained until the arrival of the mail
train SOU h when he was taken to Baltl-
more, aud placed in hospital.
Year: 1878

NttJFJIiIu alI7VTTdtFU sur.


Valley FoRGH, Penn, Feb pa meet
ing of the Centennial Association OF Valley
Forge was held here yesterday, to arrange
for the celebration OF the one hltndredth
anniversary of the evacuation hy the Amer
lean army, under the command of General
Washington, ON June 10Th, 1873 The dis
play if carried out will be grand one as it
is anticiptod that on the day named there
will be an encalnpnent of the militia Of the
State on these historic grounds. Arrange
ments were made Tor the purchase Of the
house and grounds at which Washington
made his headquarters, and present the
same to the State of Pennsylvania.
Year: 1878

The New York Sun says that now the
Rochester Reform Club are indignant over
the discovery of base fraud perpetrated
upon them by an enterprising young man,
Charles W. Warren, who has been delivering
temperance lectures with great success
under the auspices of the Club. Warreu's
most effective lecture his trump card
was one which he called "a leaf from his
past life, and in which he told how he
used to indulge in extravagant wine sup
pers and dissipation and wiekeduess. Now
it appears that Warren's stories are false.
and that be is, in fact. sort of humdrum
fraud Of course the club are angry.
Here is man warranted as reformed
rake, fraud snatched from the burning.
who has never been on fire to any extent
instead of phepix, he is only signed
cat. No wonder the Rochester Reform
Club is disgusted, But this is the trump
card they all play.
Year: 1878

The Deputy Grand Master of Ar
kansas saws: Operative MasOns,
when at work. wear an apron to Fro-
tect and preserve their garments from
spot or stain. A white apron is
therefore very appropriately used in
Masonic ceremonies, as an emblem
of purity aud innocence, and is in
tended as such to impress upon the
wearer OF it the duty OF preserving
pure and spotIess character. IN
stained by corruption end free from
vice.


When we see an operative Mason
whose clothes are all spotted and
stained with mortar and dirt, we
know he does not wear an apron at
all, or is unConcerned about the ap>
pcarance of his clothes So it is
when we see a speculative Mason
indulging in intemperance, CT hear
ing him take the name of God in vain,
or otherwise living in violation OF the
moral law, we think at once he has
never learned the use Of the Masonic
J apron. and that his soul is spotted
and COlOred with violations of his
obligations as Mason. What must
be the feelings of profane, intem-
perate or immoral Mason, when his
| mind reverts to the time when first.
as ali apprentice, he was presented
With the whIte apron, and taught that
| il was an emblem of innocence and
the badge of Mason, aud was told
to "wear it with pleasure to himself
| aud honor to the fraternity" How
does he feel, as clothed with this spot
less emblem of purity, he stands in
full view of those in and out of the
Order, who observe his work and
conversation to be corrupt.


On! how his conscience must burn
within him (unless he is covered in
the rubbish of SIM when he drops
his ewes down upon the badge and
thinks of the vain. irreve!ent manner
In which he has used The name OF that
Being who should never be spoken of
except in spirit of awe and rever-
ence? How should the Incorporate
one feel when his trembling hands
drop on the clean texture OF that
spotlesS emblem, and he thinks OF
the ruin he is bringing upon himself,
the disgrace upon the loved ones,
and dishonor to the fraternity by his
intpmDerata habits


Brethren, are we wearing u r
aprons with pleasure to ourselves
and honor to the fraternity" Or are
they displeasure to US in constantly
reminding US of broken vows and viz
oIated pledges, in the taking of which
we call God to witness our sincerity
and f0rtitude? Are we wearing
them to the dishopor of the craft by
having the standard of morality of
the Order low cred to our Own immUr
al conduct?


Let us brush off the untempered
mortar that has diScOlOred our Ma
sonic aprons, = readjuSt them and cons
form our actions in life to the teach
ings Of that pure emblem, that God
may know and the world be convluc>
ed of the sincerity Of our professions.
Then the busy tongue of SANDER can
not harm u.s. the malignant shafts
of bigOtry and fanaticism will fall
harmless at our feet.-Philodelphia
ChrOnicie.-