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Year: 1878

A Hartford man went home to dinner,
and saw part of the washing still left in
the tubs. Hurrying to the yard he saw
his wife braced against the fence, hold
ing to the end OF II broken clothes line
to keep the newly washed garments
from the ground. Here I've been
she snapped. But why didn't Won
call some one? 2" he inquired. "There's
that new family next door-the woman
would have come over in one minute. y
But the wife said: Woman next door,
you big idiot, you! Hasn't she been
peeking around for two weeks to see
my, wash, and dye think I'd give her
a chance to find out whether the sleeves
of my nightgown were pieced down
with unbleacled cotton You don't
know anything, sir, and you make
tracks for a piece of rope Hartford
Currant.
Year: 1878

The weather is so intoicrah]v hot that
if the election should come off tn-mnr-
row there isn't a man in this district
could stand it to shake Iland> enough
to elect him to Congress.-[ CilicaGn
Times.
Year: 1878

INTERESTING TO REGISTRARs.-Bothh houses
y, inc General Assembly have passed @ bill
proyiding that registrars shall on the second
Tuesday in May register all qualified voters
who shall apply to be registered, commence
ING at sunrise and closing at sunset, and
shall complete such registration that day.
The effect OF the bill is to repeal the clause
of the Code which provides that in cities
the registrar may sit three days. &c. So in
richmond we will have only one day for
registration, and election expenses thus
considerably lessencd. Major Tanner sue
ceeded in getting up the bill in the Senate
Saturday, which had previously passed the
House OF Delegates.
Year: 1878

OSs NAV study human natr all his
lifetime and yet never be able to sh'
plain why the man who misses Qua step
I. -ning down stairs is certain to miss
three or four more before he brings up.
Year: 1878

Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer sailed
for Europe yesterday on the Russia. The
recent fraternal visit paid by the Lieutenant
Governor to Justus Schwab in the latter's
lager beer cellar, the reticence observed in
relation to the object of the consultation
and the mysterious hints thrown out by the
ConAnunistic leader have given rise to some
singular rumors as to the object OF Mr..
Dorsheimer's journey. The cutious are
inquiring whether he goes as an emissary
of the Schwabs on this side Of the Atlantic
to the Schwabs on the other side, orwhether
there is truth in the assertion that he
has been retained by the party here to dc.
fend Nobiling in his trial. We sincerely
trust that these stories will not interfere
with the enjoyment Of our refined and
elegant Lieutenant Governor in Eu-
rope 1t would not be pleasant il
he should bo placed under police espionage
on the other side or treated as Suspect"
in Berlin. The European authorities and
police may rest assured that he is not
conspirator. but a. very harmless and we'll
hammered gentleman. We do not place any
Year: 1878

BY. engaging the services of Professor
Edison to test the causes of the noise on
the Metropolitan Elevated Railway the
managers of the road have manifested their
desire to do all in their power to accommo-
date and satisfy the public. We have never
doubted the Willingness of the company to
make the road as little inconvenient or in
furious to the people as possible. 1t might
have been better to have delayed the open
ing until everything was in more perfect
order and to have applied at once those
improvements which are now promised.
Still imperfections would have been de-
veloped by the practical working Of the
road under any circumstances, and if the
company will only be prompt in the adop-
ton of remedies the people will be satis-
fed. There may be no such terrible dan
ger in the rapid transit monster MS the doc
tors who have had their brains muddlcd by
the noise of the trains imagine; but the din
is, nevertheless, very Objectionable, and it
is fortunate that Professor Edison is conf
dent in his ability to materially decrease
the noise. The other inconvenience and
annoyances complained Of by residents
along the line can be easily removed.
Year: 1878

credence in these absurd rumors. We be-
lieve that the Lieutenant Governor of New
York goes abroad simply to see and to be
seen; that he is in search of recreation, in
tending to receive and impart pleasure;
that he will not be found in any dirty Com
munistic hsunts in the European capitals,
but will, on the contrary, display his fine
figure and his handsome face wherever they
can be seen to the best advantage. Finally,
we believe he will return home better salts
fed with his own country than ever; for II
he discovers anything more interesting
than himself in foreign lands it will be as
surprising to theLieutsnant Governor as to
his numerous friends.
Year: 1878

cedent to the negotiations. In any


case he had an undoubted right to
hold this opinion. But General Grant
and Secretary Fish did not hold
with him ; on the contrary. in their belief
such condition would be fatal to the at
tempt they were making to settle the differ
ences between the two countries. Now,
under the constitution they were charged
with the negotiations; but whatever they
should conclude must be judged and ratified
by the Senate, which was certain to be
strongly influenced by the report of the
committee of which Mr.. Sumner was not
only the chairman but by far the most in
fuential member. Under these circum-
stances they were bound, if they began
the negotiations, to try to remove every
serious obstruction to their success and
even Mr.. Pierce will allow that Mr..
Summers opposition was tho most danger
Gus they had to look for If, then, it should
be true that the Senators agreeing as they
did with Mr. Fish's policy and not with
Mr. Sumner's-were moved by administra-
ton influences to depose Mr.. Sumner, any
man accustomed to the management of pub
lie affairs wiA admit that no wrong was done
Mr. Sumner. He sacrificed his position to
his opinions on a most important question.
10 speak of his deposition as the result OF
an intrigue or as moral wrong is nom
Gengp-
Year: 1878




The twenty thousand spectators who as
sembled on the Louisville course yesterday
to SEQ O well contested race between Ten
Brock and Mollie Mccarthy were sadly
disappointed. Both horses started. it is
true, but they did little besidcs The Cali
fornia mare was distanced in the first heat,
being completely Gagged OUT before it was
finished. 1t appears the track was in bad
condition, owing to heavy rains the two
preceding days, and, in addition, the
weather was excessively warm. These un-
favorable conditions told severely on Mollie
Mccarthy, and in addition she tried to do
too much. 1t seems that at the start she set
the pace ut the top Of her marvel
lous speed. The calculation Of her
rider was that in endeavoring to
keep up with her Ten Brock would
break down and lose the race almost from
the beginning. But the mare herself was
unequal to the terrible effort and gave out
first, leaving her stronger competitor an
easy victory. The race will be great dis
appointment to the lovers of the turf, and
it is n pity that the famous marc was not
managed with better judgment.
Year: 1878

The experience of yesterday must make
the most rabid frecracker patriot in the
city convert to the anti-gunpowder policy
of the Common Council and quiet Fourth
of July. It was as novel as enjoyable to be
allowed to go to sleep on the evening Of the
Sd and to rest until morning, without
being awakened at midnight and enter.
tanned till daylight by the firing OF cannons
and pistols and the swapping Of powder
crackers. 1t was delightful to be able to
walk the streets on the glorious anniversary
without being deatened by similar noises
and nauseated by the smell of burning
powder. Ladies in especial were enabled
to venture out Of doors without running the
risk of having their skirts ignited by sparks
and burning punk, and parents could
rest quietly in their houses with
out the dread of seeing their chill
dren carried in deficient of an eye,
q finger or hand. The law was generally
observed and enforced. Occasionally
stray popping was heard, when some VEN
turesome youngster would slyly ignite and
cast into the road bunch of crackers or
discharge pistol from some open door or
window, but these only served to remind
us that the day was the one we have been
accustomed to celebrate for over hundred
years and to call to mind the sufferings we
have heretofore been compelled to patriot
ically endure in the heated and crowded
year.


There is no reason why we should not
continue to remember and to honor the
nations anniversary, even if we do refuse
to allow the city to be made q pandemon-
ium and lives and property to be put in
jeopardy on that day. We can celebrate in
o Christian and intelligent manner, to the
satisfaction of all patriotic citizens, as the
success of the spirited proceedings ofsthe
Tammany Society and other similar demon
strations yesterday will testify. No person
would like to see the Fourth forgotten or
sighted but we need not burn down
houses and disfigure and main our chill
dren in order to prove our veneration for
the nations birthday. A public display of
fireworks in the evening would be a proper
popular amusement for the day, and it Is
parsimony and not economy on the part of
our city authorities to deny this to the peo-
pie. But the prohibition of the use of fire.
works and firearms in the streets is Judi
cious reform, and now that we have once
experienced its advantages it is not likely
thnt it will ever be abandoned or that the
evils, annoyances and dangers of the old
"Fourths" will ever be revived in New York.
Year: 1878

THE MoNofoNoUs Story of Indian outrages
in Dakota Territory is varied this morniug by
the report Of the discovery of immense gold
mines Territories having more pine woods
than people ought to hit upon some new plan OF
ADVERTISING.
Year: 1878

The WYOMING VALLEY is making the most of
lts massacre. supplemental commemoration
was held yesterday, ut which the President the
Governor of Pennsylvania and all tho lesser
lights of tho general and State governments
who were present were fully utilized
Year: 1878

BELGIUM, according to the report of our Con-
Sul at Brussels, is very slow in recognizing the
value and excellence of our manufactures. The
prejudice against our goods Is very great. It is
gradually being broken down. however, and our
representative is confident that if sample depots
were established we should soon have a good
market in that country
Year: 1878

A writer describes scene which he
once saw that brought our Lords par
able of the Ninety and Nine before
his eyes: On the Aletusch Glacier
l saw in a stranger, beautiful
sight. the parable OF the Ninety
and Nine" reacted to the letter. One
day we were making our way with ice
axe and alpenstock down the glacier.
when we observed flock OF sheep fol-
lowing their shepherds over the intricate
winding through crevasses, and so pass
ing to the pastures on one side of the
glacier TO the pastures on the other
The flock had numbered two hundred,
all told. But on the way one sheep had
got lost. One of the shepherds. in his
German patois. appealed to us if we
had seen it. Fortunately. one of the
party had a field-glass With its aid
we discovered the lost sheep far up amid
a tangle of brushwood on the rocky
mountain side. 1t was beautiful to SET
how the shepherd, without a word. LET
his hundred and ninety-nine sheep on
on the glacier waste (knowlng the,
would stand there perfectly still an,
saie), and went clambering back afte


the lost sheep until he found it. An,


he actually put it on his shoulder All,
"returnsd rejoicing"
Year: 1878

How few valuable observations can
we make in youth What if there were
united the susceptibility of youth with
the discrimination OF age. Once | was
part and parcel OF nature; now | am
Obseryant of her
Year: 1878

CITY ATTORNEY GODFREY has
lately found out number of things
that even to the Workingmen 1t is
strange he did not find out before.
Whence this new found zeal?
What is wrong now was wrong one
year and two years ago. What
needs a remedy now equally need
ed remedy then. Can City At
torney Godfrey do anything now
that he could not have done this
long while past? II he could, and
failed to do it, was he not derelict
in his duty? The public spirit
which man shows just on the eve
of an important election is always
to be distrusted. Especially ought
this to be the case when virgin
and vlgilant Workingman is
brought face to face with that rec
ognized PROSTITUTES professional
politician. In his new found zeal
City Attorney Godfrey has estab'
lished a remarkable parallel be-
tween himself and the "scurvy pol
itician" described by King Lear.
He has seen q number Of things
lately which he failed to see before
which carries out the parallel In
Lear's fine anathema, Take to
thyseIf glass eyes; and, like the
s,urvy politician, seem to see the
things thou dost not"
Year: 1878

ment. The withdrawal OF Col.
Whiting leaves the field to the
Messrs. Godfrey and Judson, the
latter an Independent candidate.
Mr.. Judsen is a lawyer Of character
and ability, and that he will prove
to be a strong candidate, and the
successful man in the contest as
against the Workingmen's nomi-
nation, is quite probable. He will
doubtless rally to his support all
these who do not care to range
themselves in politics as Working
men pure and simple, and this
large number will be reinforced by


many Workingmen who do not


like to have office-seeking arlsto'


Gratis put off upon them as their


candidates.
Year: 1878

We had occasion, during the last
county campaign, to tell the con-
ductors Of the Republican that we
should live to see their journalistic
career eventuate like the last sput-
terings of penny dip. We have
seen a melancholy procession OF
presentious' newspaper men pass
before us in our time. We have
had no desire to say anything un.
kindly of any of them. When the
Republican sank from q daily of no
circulation to weekly which
counts scarcely a reader, we, in the
spirit of kindness. allowed the epi-
sode to pass without comment. We
might have revamped our prophecy
of the county campaign times and
pointed to its fulfillment, but we
forbore. Unless there is some rem
net of malignity thrown into our
milk OF human kindness We are tn q
mildest hammered institution alive.
The HERALD has been conspicuous
by its personal good humor during
the present city campaign. At the
outside it has been merely playful.
Yet this prepostereus Republican,
which is going around exacting an
amount of money from our busi-
ness men which neither its circula-
tion nor the number of its Issues
during the week justify to the ex-
tent of three per cent. of its actual


noneyed imposition, speaks of our
''scurrillity" towards Major Tober-
man. AS every detail of our refer
ences to Major Toberman have been
in a playful vein, scrupulously
avoiding embarrassing personal ref
erences, the present Republican,
which may be defined as the simal-
acrum of the old shadow of that
pseudo newspaper-a sors of reflect.
Ell refraction of something newsy
and sprightly-would do well to
modify some one of its absurd hall
lucinations. The Republican, for
aught we care, may struggle on in
its feeble way. From a daily 1t
has eventuated in an imbecile
weekly; from an imbecile weekly
1t will probably descend into an un-
wept and unhonored grave. Stu
pidity aud malignity together act
as plummet which will reach the
greatest depths OF ocean itself.
Lead is nothing to that Impulse of
intellectual gravitation which will
carry it to the bottom.
Year: 1878

WE will pay the Star the COM
pliuent of assuming that its editor
is not acquainted with our local
history or his references to the
decalogue would be heavily econo-
mized. There is an old adage,
which we commend to the atten-
ton of the Star, of course on the
supposition that it desires the sue
cess OF its own leading candidate,
which runs that those who live in
glass houses should not throw
stones. In this connection we feel
like employing the classic abbre'
viature and slang-uerbuna sap.
Year: 1878




Ben Butler commenced his ca
reer as q diplomat and an artful
dodger at an early age. While at
tending college at Waterville, Me,
he became engaged to an estimable
young lady there, but, desiring for
some reason to sever the engage
ment, the prospective reformer
adopted novel plan to accomplish
his purpose. The family of the
lady were prominent In the tenn
perance cause and sternly arrayed
against the flowing bowl. Wishing
to shock their sensibilities to the
highest degree, Ben INDUCED in a
bogus but glorious drunk, swagger-
ing around town in the most row.
dy-like fashion and conducting
himself generally in a manner that
made the veritable and most ac-
complished bummers envious. He
finally rolled an inoffensive citizen
into a ditch, and was promptly
waltzed off to the calaboose. He
chuckle1 heartily over his strategy,
counting his disgrace as nothing.
His .afiianeed was overwhelmed at
his DOWNFALL and dispatched note
to him releasing him from his en-
gagement, while her father re-
auested him never to darken their
doorway again. Ben, appropriate
ly called the "Beast," was jubilant
and, gleefully paying his fine, he
emerged from the Police Court with
a proud and victorious tread, free
man, prepared to browse in pas
lures new. This true story Ben
gloated over TO college classmate,
from whom it has come to the
Times correspondent. The fortu-
nate young lady afterward married
happily, and to this day recoils
when she thinks of her narrow es-
cane
Year: 1878

gether and tell what they call stories
or yarns, so vulgar sometimes, as
to render very amount of shame
sufficient to Danish or forbid them
from the atmosphere of home
Most men would hardly be willing
to let their own boys hear their vul-
gar yarns, and drink of their lech-
erour poison, but they will pour
the fostering virus into the eager
ears of other peoples boys, who
happen to be standing around, and
then wonder how those "boys
know so much," and why they Of
ten grow up to lives of immortality.
Men who tell yarns themselves, or
tolerate those who do, can not
reasonably find fault with the i'm
moral precocity of their boy!-
Boys drink in those yarns with
an avidity that is absolutely sur
prising to one whose boyhood was
many years ago, and they cannot
rest till they have repeated them to
every boy they know. If men
will tell yarns that they would be
ashamed to have their sisters hear,
they ought to be generous enough
to spare the boys.
Year: 1878

He was tramp of the first wa
ter-muddy water. He was long,
lean and gaunt, and bore resem-
blance to a half dressed pair of an
mated tongs. He passed though
a town not hundred miles from
Podunk, and he was hungrier than
q pancake tuner in Summer. AS
he passed along the country road
he espied fat, good natured look
ing gentleman standing in front of
residence. The residence was a
cozy-looking one, and he thought
it would be good place to hoist
in n meal.


He asked for work, and the good
natured gentleman, Mr.. McClusky
by name, pointed to a pile of wood
and asked him how long it would
take to cut it, and how much he
would charge per day.


He was a man of few words, and
he answered: -


"Three days and two dollars"


He was engaged. He wrought
and ate. For three days he wrought
and ate, and when that time ex-
pired the wood-pile hadn't got a
single pound thinner, and neither
had the tramp. He could eat more
than a buzz saw with sixty teeth.
He made the table at every meal
look as If the cook had gone out
before meal time. He stayed three
weeks, and then walked up to the
captains Office to settle. When
Mr.. McClusky presented him with
bill of $3.50 for board, gave him
the balance in pennies, and then
set the dog on him, that gentleman
of leisure took a solemn oath that
he would never do aught in the
way of work again If he never wore
pair of patent leather boots or a
white vest.
Year: 1878

A Utah youth actually walked
one hundred and fifty miles to at
tend the circus. Two days before
he could not drive the cows home
because he had a sprained ankle, a
stone bruise and q bunion.
Year: 1878

Trees have their time to leave
Graphic.


They never leave without a
bough.-Courier Journal.


And you can't call them tramps
for they always have a trunk
Fremont Times.


There's always a bark to their
bough.
Year: 1878

Their reason for claim is this When they dscoy-
cred that Mr. Hayden had purchased arsenic at rayors
drug store MiddletOwn as voluntarily stated by MIN
in his testimony they sent two men to the barn where
the poison was placed bv him. These men found the
Arsenic in little tin box precisely where Mr. Hayden
had placed IT, and box and arsenic have been in their
possesson ever SINCE will be produced In court at
the proper time. The theory OF the prosecution Is ta
the poison purchased by the aceuseu IOr khE Ias va"
given to the unfortunate grL


Gambetta's attempt to put spoke IN the
wheel OF the clergy by subiecting them to military SER
vice is condemned by that stauuch champion OF Liberal
ideas the world over The Spectator. II regards MS
single avOwed argument for bis attack on the prlVhg
OF the priests to the effect that 1t unparoc 70 aVod
military service, as an exceedingly feeble one Every
man. it holds owes a duty TO his country but surely IN
becoming a good clergyman. compelled by law 10
ceIibacy by TO sesuppression and by crcuu-
stances TO poverty, he pays that duty France more
over until change Of creed occurs Will not 20 without
priests the only effect OF reducing the supply oeoM
the wants of the country would be, first great amount
OF annoyance from the priest living so fT Oh; anu
secondly, great introduction OF foreign priests los'y
Begians without a French idea in their heads ana oO
sequiousy dey oed Rome. The whole schene Is pau
ant and give hitle more strength to ms %
the cues advice IN politics II VIII annoH thew
wish TO the Republican leaders uhde 'I' M 9
have to govern France that an eccieslastc @ ne - S m
evil IL necessary and that be had nueh , c
ba feduest.d seIninarst than lad who has had the
education or both seminary and camp.


Three editions of the same dream In the
watches OF a single night with sequel early In the
forenoon is q psychoal phenomenon worth studying
correspondent OF The Reading Eagle relates that
Anthony ROmg. well-todo farmer living about IOur
miles from MorgantOwn, woke up his wife and told her
a dream that made the very strings OF her niyhtcap
stand on end He had dreamed that some thieves had
stopped his son. who had started on his way to market
shortly after midnight with wagon load OF produce
had robbed him of his cash and severely beaten HIM.
tho uly IFpa
him to 20 to sleep as he could He aid so, but
again her another poke and said that
he had had the dream. She begged him to try
and compose himself ana go 90 sleep, which ne dld
third time the dream repeated on which he arose
and IL being then after o'clock, dressed himself.
At breakfast his vision the sole subject OF converse
ton In the forenoon word was brought 10 ne house
that ms son had been attacked the road robDed OF
bis money aud severely injured. Mr. R0mig described
mnutey the appearance and dress OF the two men VINO
i'm the cream had attacked his When he was taken
to the spot he pointed the very place where ne nau
seen the wagon stopped and his son assaulted by the
rObberS
Year: 1878

THE HARD FIGHT TO SAVE TUE SICK STILL GOING


ON-RELIEF WORK.


Yesterday was warm and partly rainy day
in the States where yellow fever prevails,
and the epidemic was attacking new
victims. The number of deaths reported
was 100. Among the newly sick was son
of the ex-President of the Confederacy. The
work of raising money and supplies is still
going on in New-YOrk.