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Year: 1878

New YORK, April 21.-Francis Murphy, the
famous temperance reformer, whose work in
Pittsburg and the West has been so note
wort worthy and and successful, spoke for the first
time In New York this afternoon. under the
auspices of the American Temperance Union.
The large hall was crowded, and the platform
filled with the clergy OF various denomina-
tlons, and with prominent representatives of
the temperance interest. No definite ar
rangements have been made as to the length
of Mr., Murphys visit, but it is hoped that he
will remain and take charge of the temper
ance reyiyals,
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, April 21.-The sub. committee
on compulsory pilotage will give u hearing to
the representatives Of the pilots and to several
members of the House on Wednesday evsu-
ing next. Their report to the Commerce
Committee will be made in II few days, The
matter involved in the various bills affect the
pilot and shipping interests of our entire
coast, and the action Of the sub-oom mttee
will have an important influence over the
matter,
Year: 1878

PARIS, April 21.-Seven elections to fill va
cancies in the Chamber of Deputies will take
place on the fifth of May The Republicans
count on winning six of these, which would
exactly bring up their strength to the famous
fgure-363; but two of them are somewhat
doubtful
Year: 1878

CHICAGO, April 21.-The new Chicago base
ball club played their first game yesterday
with strong picked nine, the score standing
IA to in favor OF the former. Sporting men
organized team and regard it as strong as
ever.
Year: 1878

THE Washington correspondent OF the
N. Y. Herald says, that congressman
Evins, of South Carolina, in conversa-
ton with Congressman Foster, of Ohio,
gave as reason why there was little or
no opposition TO the democratic nomi-
nees for Congress in his State at the last
Congressional election among the color
ed voters the fact that the colored men
have learned from experience that they
are not as well off to-day as when they
were slaves, and inasmuch as the carpet
bag politicians representing the repubi-
eau party have had almost unlimited con-
troll of the State government for the pat
ten years they have concluded that 1T was
to the denomination of the republican
party that they owe their impoverished
condition. He added that the republican
party must have made some confidence
in the good sense of the black race, or
the right of suffrage ought never to have
been given them. They have exercised
ther powers of observation to the extent
of condemring by their support of demo-
cratic nominees for Congress the claim
that the republicans were their best
friends"
Year: 1878

SECRETARY SHERMAN, in his report,
recommends Congress either to increase
the number of grains in the silver dollar
or limit the annual coinage below the
amount now allowed. He is of the
opinion that after the Resumption act
goes into effect he will be able to keep
silver in general circulation" Mr.. sher-
man will not allow this opportunity to
pass, if he can help it, to increase the
amount of silver in the dollar. But
such an act would be taking another ad-
vantage of the people, because it would
add Just that much more to their
debt, winch was contracted to be paid in
coin and the coin was to be Of dollars
of 412a grains of silver, and 25 and el0ths
grains of gold.


Should the silver dollar be increased in
weight the man that gave mortgage
last year for $4,000 would be compelled
to labor to secure and pay just so much
more of silver as the increase amounted
TO, making perhaps his debt $500. Who
knows that as soon as the silver dollar is
made 440 grains as some proposed to
make it, silver may not rise in the mar
ket? In his speech in the Opera House
on the I'd of November, +. l.. Martin
Esq, the member of Congress-elect from
Delaware, said 4l2a grains of silver was
a dollar, and % and S-l0ths grains OF
gold was a dollar, and to add thereto on
take from the dollar, lcds dishonest. And
we think he stated what is true.
Year: 1878

4 PROTECTION TO THEIR SIsTERs.-
New York is charged with being a very
vile place, and we presume the charge is
correct in the main. But nevertheless it
seems to bring more good works in fashion
than any other city and it engages in
any undertaking of charity or morality
with greater zeal than all Other Cities
And in one respect it is far ahead of most
Of our cities and large towns, as the re-
suit of trial there showed on Friday
4 young man was sued for seduction
after promise of marriage, and finally the
case was plainly proven against him by
The young mother, who was present with
her child. The case was adjourned for a
few minutes, at the suggestion of the
District attorney. The Judge and the
contesting parties then went into the
Clerks room adjoining the Court and the
young man and the young woman were
made man and wife. the Judge perform
ing the marriage ceremony. Returning
to the Court the circumstance was men-
toned by the District Attorney, when the
Judge observed that marriage vitated
conviction, and he therefore felt it his
duty to direct an acquittal. On convic-
ton he might have been imprisoned fol
five years. SO it seems thai in a city
vile as it is, brothers have learned to
throw proper protection around their sis.
tiers and narenis their deumhiers
Year: 1878

FRIDAY, Nov. 29-6 p. NJ.


Yesterdays good cheer seems to have further ex-
panded the cookies of the taurine heart especially
its sympathies were directed toward the North
Westerns for in these securities was the chief in
terest of the day concentrated. After fractional
fall early in the morning there followed in thess
stocks a a rally. sharp. vigorous and well sustained
was threatening enough to drive the smaller bears
into fits, but it made little impression upon the
hardened grizzlies of larger growth who are
short Of the stock. SO it would appear that the
Northwesterns advanced to-day, not by reason
of a camorous demand upon the part of shorts
who feared squeeze but from the persistent buying
of bull party whose absorbing seem to have
limit While the general advice to inqusitive specu
lators is to Ego in and win the speculation itself 10
not clapped on the back by any additional incentives
to a RISE


The same statements as to the remarkable earnings
Of the road and the predictions Of "incarna
ton of fat dividends" to come are the stimulants
employed. As arriere pensee there may be some
hope Of cornering Messrs Gould and Sage and
some hopes of receiving an unexpectedly large divi
dend upon the common stock. but the true base Of
the upward movement rests upon the improving con-
dition of the road itself During the last hour prices
receded trife and the stock had tired look, as
though the speculation, like the road ITSELF had been
overworked in trying to produce good impression
upon buyers Nearly as strong as the Northwesterns
the st. Pauls, for other reason apparently.
but that they hailed from the same country side and
desired to appear neighborly Illinois Central sank
away two per cent from opening prices. but recov-
cred half Of the loss at the close. while. the con-
trary, Wabash nearly two per cent at one time
and afterwsrd lost thus proving the truth OF the
adage that 1.-TWO Of a trade never agree"


For most Of the day the coal stocks were on the
weak side of the line Of steadiness but in the last
hour two some desire manifested for "cash"
shares of Delaware and Lackawanna and this being
construed evidence of large short interest
the price bid to threequarters per cent above
that Of the opening The Hannibal and st. Joseph
speculation weaker-the deus nsachind which
has lately manipulated the stock apparently not
being in working order to-day Lake Shore after I'd.
vancing from 691 to 70t4 got its usual tumble and
fell of to 69A. It's friends though loud in commen-
daton OF its excellent qualities seem gifted with
better luck than Ssyphus in their endeavors to roll
it up to higher standard and keep it there. The
market was barren of reports and rumors and, with
the exception Of Northwest, the general list
mained without feature.


The opening, highest. lowest and closing prices
Of stocks and gold at the New York Stock Exchange
to.day were.-
Year: 1878

THE PRESIDENTIAL FRAUD EXAMI- |
NATIoN.-The investigating committee
continued their work yesterday. The
revelations disclose facts daily, which
cannot fail to convince the country with
out regard to politics how necessary and
proper the Investigations is and how impro-
per it would have been to have suffered the
mass of corruption that is being unearth-
ed to remain uncovered. The whole
country will feel easier and breathe freer
after the expose is made; and no doubt
all will come to the conclusion that it is
only through the mercy of Providence
that the government was permitted to es-
cape from the hands of such a pack of
villains without the occurrence of some
thing very calanitous. In fact some
very horrible fate as was said was only
averted by the rope that was given the
conspirators. Had they been opposed at
the time, while Grant and the Sherlnans,
controlled the armies at Washington and
i'll the South, it is quite in reason to sup
pose that bloody revolution would have
been resorted to, to cover up the treacher
Gus course and traitorouS blows aimed a
the constitutional methods of investigat
ing the Presidency upon the choice of tin
people through the we'll known legal All,
proper forms.


Revolution was doubtless desired b
Grant and Sherman; and several Senator
were quite as anxious that the difficult
should take such shape, while scores {
inferior army officers looked to this as
stepping stone to promotion.


1t is hoped the committee will prof
the whole affair to the very depths.


may extend the work into variety
matters and may even reach the bribel
cases, in which tire Credit Moblier pc
Pile robbed the government. We ha'
always believed that Grant got fu
share Of all the money made by the ra
cally proceedings under his administr
tions and such affairs ought to be look,
into and exposed. He could not We
have managed the proceedings precedil
the Inauguration Of Hayes witho
the use of heavy contingent fund and
use and application to this matter is clei
ly within the scope of the Investigate
Committee.


That the course of the Democrats


this matter is approved by the people,
sweeping victory of the party in Greg
IS evidence conclusive.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June THE Potter
committee made good many long
strides to-day IN the direction of the
promised land of revelations about the
great fraud, and the precise nature of the
developments is so astounding that the
republicans are feeling for the first time
as if the ground was giving away beneath
them. The Louisiana case has been SC
involved from the firstthat only keen ex'
perts had perfect knowledge of all the
details of the eventful infamy, and fol
that reason very few OF those who
heard the entire examination of Levisst
OIL yesterday had any idea of the full le'
Gal value of the testimony to the demo
cratic siae Of the case.
Year: 1878

From the chicago TImes.


The constitution of the United States
wisely provides that Vice President
shall be elected from time to time, and
that, during the session of the Senate, he
shall go fishing.
Year: 1878

SOME CHURCH notices come to us
written so carelessly that it requires great
trouble to read them. Hereafter when
notices of this kind which are published
gratuitously are not legibly written, they
will be tossed into the scrap basket.
Year: 1878

AS when pebble is thrown into tho water
and the ripples. in rings, form and widen,
further and further, until they touch some
distant point, so, when death strikes with
and spreads on all sides like the ripples. wave
on wave, gradually increasing the circle Of
mourners until we. far away, with those
nearer and dearer, feel the pang.


Yellow fever has stricken down young jeff
Davis.


Death loves shining mark.


Shall have naught that Is fair saith he.'
But "the good die young and may grace
be given to our old hero to bear his cross.


Every Southerner In whose heart lies sad
memories of the "Lost Cause must offer
sympathy to the bereaved and, with the hope
that God will give rest to the soul Of his son,
we pray for the care-worn, sorrowing father.


A LOUIsIANIAN FAR FROM HOME.
Year: 1878

upon the body of Southern society called the
lively sense Of the fact that the prevailing
regime is not Grantism; Haat tho day Of ten
pin government In the Southern States is
over, and that consequently 1t is O. vastly diff
Rerent thing TO be caught melting or abetting
n negro riot now from what 1t was In 1872


Thus, the failure OF the outrage mill TO find
grist TO order for "Conking and Don Came


ron It Is perfectly safe TO say that the
Sumter affair will fail to do some good in
New York and Pennsylvania A.C. Il.
Year: 1878

AS n cure for yellow fever convaescents the
oyster Is known to be supreme: as q treat for
we'll people 1t has no equal. But when those
sumo oysters are steamed under the scientific
care Of Jules cook, then you cannot leave the
Oyster Bay. No. II Royal stree, without bsiev-
ing that there Is still something worth living
Year: 1878

The Sioux City Journal replies
very plainly to the Davenport Gazette
ON the railroad tariff law question.
1t says:


The Davenport Gazette says the
present Railroad Tariff law is gener.
ally fair and very largely beneficial,
and the general demand" for its re-
peal, it adds, is born of two or three
impecunious railroad corporations
and not of the public sentiment nor
of all the railroads. 1t is barely pos
slble the Davenport Gazette is incor-
rect. If there is general demand"
for anything by the people of this
part Of Iowa, there is general demand
for the material modification Of the
law in question. This demand is not
made in the interest of the railroads,
impecunious or otherwise. 1t is not
made, either, in opposition to the in
terests of Davenport, as those inter-
ests may be understood by the Gazette
or by the Davenport Board of Trade.
The demand is made in self interest.
The law is prsjudicial to the prosper
ity and growth of Northwestern
Iowa. We believe this to be true of
other portions ofthe State. The law,
in effect, is levy of unjust and une-
quail taxes upon this people. Because
Davenport may think it helpful to its
local trade, is no reason why it should
be retained. A law that discriminates
in favor Of one community and
against another, is law unworthy
q place in the statute books of Iowa.
Year: 1878

A movement is on foot to secure the
appointment of Mrs. H. G. Leighton
% Postmistress ct Oskaloosa, to sue.
csed her husband, lately deceased
Iowans generally will agree with uf
that she ought to have it by all means
Council Bluff Nonpareil.


If We may be permitted to add q
word in . matter in which we claim
no right to interfere, we should say
that the NonpareiFs remark 10 very
proper one.
Year: 1878

Governor Gear is winning his spurs
and he 10 well winning them. He il
starting out with practical gumption
and It IL clear that he is going to run
his administration from the inside
He isn't going to cit down in placid
gubernatorial dignity and be told
that State matters are running all
right: he 10 going to see and know |,
tor himself. His appointments show
that II there 10 anything crooked any.
where be Is going to know It and 70,
ing to have It Strengthened. W.
don't know when we have seen an ad
ministration start OFF In Q way &c
thoroughly gratifying a. Gears. Oul
readers know that at no time have W,
been Mr.. Gears fatterer, and we car
tell the just truth about him withou
its being fulsome.


Gov. Gear does seem to start ou
well and we have full faith in him.
Year: 1878

Not only the Postmaster, but tho


merchants of New York, are now re.
fusing to accept the silver ''trade dol.


lars" except at . discount, they not


being legal tender, and their intrinsic


value being only "a cents in green.


back. Many of these 420-grains ell.


yer "trade dollars" have been puoin.
to circulation throughout the West
of Chicago journal.


The Postmaster Of New York is,
perhaps, obliged to refuse these trade
dollars from the fact that they accu-
mulate on his hands, and when he is
called upon to pay over the revenue
of his Office At the close of each quar-
ter, the government will not take
them from him. Postmaster James
is only acting in self-defense, as any
other prudent man would do. The
merchants may be acting from the
same standpoint, or, having the gold
standard on the brain, they seek to
decry silver in that way.


The trade dollar is not even legal
tender for five dollars, as is the frac-
tional coin. If therefore, it can cir
culate at al as it does freely in al
most every part Of the United States,
while it is mere bullion, what would
likely be the result if silver were re-
instated with it's legal tender quality
or, in other words, taken from the pit
of degradation into which it was
cast by surreptitious Legislation !?
There is no use mincing words about
this matter. The people never asked
for silver demonstration they never
knew that it had been done till years
Not one Congressman
in ten knew of it at the time; even
the Preside lent of the United States,
General Grant, knew it not until long
afterwards. 1t was . deliberate trick !;
it was fraud perpetrated by skill
full, cunning hands, and now it is the
earnest demand of an outraged peO-
pie that this wrong be righted.
Year: 1878

Delegate Connor's bill for the ad
mission of Utah as . State will be re-
ported on adversely by the House
subcommittee on Territories. This
determination is based on the fact
that the admission Of Utah would
clothe Mormon priesthood with State
aovereirnty.
Year: 1878

costs. The case will probably be ap.
pealed.


It will be recollected that this


charge was made against Tilden in


the canvass Of '76. Like his evasion
Of paying his income tax, ho sought
to cheat poor laboring men out OF
their hard earnings by issuing scrip
and then repudiating it.
Year: 1878


sumed in the preparations. The men
were then carried through the front
door and placed in an open court.
The cart was surrounded by heavy
force of cavalry, and an immense
throng of sight-seers accompanied it.


THE GALLows SCENE.


The place selected for the hanging
was within the city limits. An enor-
nous scaffold was erected, it being a
notable low one. The scaffold was
furnished with trap door, which
sank beneath the feet of the men al
the springing ofa trigger. After the
men had ascended the plank and the
nooscs had been adjusted, George
Wilson asked to be allowed to make
statement. Permission was grant.
ed him, and, standing there, in the
shadow of q violent death, with the
fatal rope about his neck choking his
voice down, he made q speech that
went to the heart Of every man that
heard it. He spoke withouta q tremor,
and with calm and distinct utterance
He said it was not the part of brave
men to murmur at death when they
were brought face to face with it, and
that he had nothing to say against the
decree Of the court that had brought
him to the scaffold. He decried, how.
ever, in the name of his comrades and
in the name ofjustice, the manner Of
the death to which they had beer
brought. 1t was not such Q death al
soldiers deserved. He said that be
and his comrades had been moved by
nothing but an honest and patriotic
love of the Union. He deplored the
"wickedness OF the Southern leaders
who had "misled and deluded ths
people into making an unholy ani
hopeless war;" He dwelt with enthu
siasm upon the cause Of the Union
and predicted that in q short tim,
the star-spangled banner would wav'
over the very spot on which this scat
fold stood. He then closed his speech
and announced that he and hi
friends were ready. His comrade
listened attentively to his words
turning so that they might face him
They seemed to be very much moved
Robinson WAS m exception, ~ he VA
very i'll with fever.


: After Wilson had concluded th
Year: 1878

shooter at the outlaw, and having q

 bullet pass within a few inches of

 his own head in return. The rob-

 Der Barnes met Deputy Grimes out on the sidewalk, and shot him twice after his exclamation, "Don't boys!"

 At the commencement of the fight Koppel, the storekeeper, was sitting outside the door while his clerk, Jude, was selling tobacco to Bass and his men, Barnes and Jack son. The tragic death of Barnes and Deputy Grimes, and the proba- ply fatal woundiug of officer Moore by the bandits, have already been dispatched. After fleeing from this fight in which the odds were so vast ly against him, Bass hid in the woods, where he spent the night and cndcavOred to bribe a negro to take care of him in his wounded state. At dawn Sergeant Neville and some rangers found Bass lying under q tree, three miles from Round Rock. He exclaimed, don't shoot, I'm the man you are looking for. 1 am Sam Bass.' When brought into Round Rock and ques- tioned by persons. the wounded brigand said II am Sam Bass; l an shot all to pieces, and it's no use to deny it. Thus ends the career of one of those bold and reck- less adventures that delight in the wild freedom and the plunder of the frontier. The sad endingS of the life of this noted desperado will serve as another beacon-light among the moral wrecks that lie along the strand of time, Strange to say, there was q good angel that occasion- ally threw light on this strange and dark life of crime. Young, pure and fair among the daughters of North Texas, she watched the for tunes of the robber chief 1t was t-:e bright and beautiful rainbow spanning the dark abyss of a ruined human life.
Year: 1878

The little bell had not stopped it's tinklng
summons on the following morning Wien
Geotfrey took his usual seat in Mrs. Will
liams pew but Mrs. Elton was in her place
before him, and Cecirs golden head popped
up to nod to his new friend in spite OF his
mothers OBTAINING hand. Her eyes were
never once turned toward him, and, as she
sat in the church at right angles with him,
Geoffrey's thoughts were q good deal dis
tracted by watching the perfect profile, the
long black lashes, and the pure oval OF the
delcately tinted cheek She looked lovelier
than ever in her white dress and bonnet, the
faint pink roses matching the pure, clear
skin, and Geofrey thought, again and
again:


"How wish l were an artist! What a
perfect study she would make for Ma
donna"


There was almost triumph in his glance
as he met Eva Dayrells eyes. Gould she
help admiring such faultless beauty, to
which it was an insult to apply the word
'pretty"?


Poor Eva's heart was sick and heavy
through that long morning service. She
saw, though he was unconscious of her
watching, how Geofrey's eyes sought that
exquisite young face again and again with a
look in them that she had never seen there
before. She was quite ignorant of the fact
that he had spoken to Mrs. Elton but three
times in his life; but, had she known it, it
would not have brought much comfort to
her. No man can hide from woman that
loves him his infatuation for another, and
that Geofrey was utterly infatuated by this
mysterious stranger was evident to Eva's
eyes, though others, watching him less
closely, failed to perceive it. He did not
Join Mrs. Elton at the end of the service,
and, unwilling to follow her too closely, he
let the Abbey party get between them: AS
he reached the porch, however, he heard
Cecil exclaim Mamma here comes Mr..
Godfrey! Oh, do wait for him y but he
made no effort to catch them. Evp heard
the words, and her heart sank at the chid's
knowledge of Mr.. Chetwynd's Christian
name. Did the widow call him by it al
ready? Then they must be engaged, or she
was no fit person for Lady Temple to visit.


"Dont let us keep you from your friends,
she said bitterly as Geoffrey shook hands
with her. ''You must be very intimate to
have already got to Christian names. "


He looked at her in grave surprise, and
again q suspicion that Tom Lee had hit the
truth fitted across his mind as he saw her
flushed cheeks and the angry glitter in her
eyes.


sCacil and 7 ara GREAT friends" he said