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Year: 1878

There used to be something very fasci-
mating in the life Of the burglar, its wild
adventure and variety; something even
strangely fascinating in its dangers. He
has been the subject Of romance by Scott,
by Bulwer and by Ainsworth, and the story
of Rob Roy and Paul Clifford, Jonathan
Wild and Blueskin and Jack Sheppard is
made familiar on the stage as we'll as in the
library. 1t used to be n life of singular
irregularity.. The burglar then, like the
beast of the forest, only went forth for prey
when compelled by hunger. When, like
the animal he had attained his booty, he
relapsed into pleasure and sloth. Then
there were ties of association which gave to
the fellowship of such men, isolated from


all Others n kind Of romantic air of honor.
To peach upon n pal was rare, and the
perpetrator was doomed TO Ishmaelitishism
Or exile to foreign lands But We have
changed all that. In this age, when chiv-
airy is gone by and calculation has sue
ceeded, burglary has become o science.
The art has been brought to the highest
perfection TO which brains can bring it, and
labor saving machinery applied in its high
est development. Todleben, the great en-
gineer, could not have made his calcula-
tions for tho capture Of some strong fortress
with moro skill and with more anticipatory
guard against oil accidents and prescience
of every possible result than did these Man
haitian Savings Bank burglars plan their
operations These men were artists They
used the most finished instruments Of their
art, the very latest inventions. They were
first class practitioners; for there are, it
seems, two classes, first and second. First
class artists do not pass their leisure
time in lettering round barrooms or in tho
company of marked characters. They do
not live in low neighborhoods, nor are
they given to registering in low places,
where the police always, very mistakenly,
first look for and hope to find the perpc-
traitor of heavy burglary. On the contrary,
they keen up o resp ectable appearance. and
Year: 1878

THE WRATuER.-With the movement toward
New Brunswick Of the low barometer which
was on Saturday in Canada the barometer has
risen above the mean in al the districts east Of
thc Rocky Mountains except in the far Worth
west Ii is highest over the lower lakes and
southwestward toward Texas, with westerly and
northwcstery winds over oil the territory east
of the Mississippi and Missouri valleys, except
In the Gulf States and in Nebraska and Dakota.
The temperature, after rising slightly on the
Atlantic coast has fallen again briskly. The
low pressure south and southeast Of Florida is
yet causing strong northeast winds in those
regions, but tue barometer has not changed
much. The depression passing toward New
foundland has been attended on the coast by
light rains. In New York and it's vicinity to-
day the weather will be partly cloudy or fair
and cold. Tomorrow it will be fair and cold
Year: 1878

Everybody who wants to see our gloomy
politics made more cheerful, and who
wishes to see right policies maintained in
graceful manner, ought to support Mr..


Jerome for Congress. He will be pleasing
and useful novelty there ; and his oppo-
nent, General McCook, can easily be
spared. for though good man he is only
a partisan. and these are not partisan
times. AS Mr.. Jerome cannot now go to
the United States Senate his constituents
ought to send him to the House, where
they will have occasion to be proud Of him
and of themselves for contributing SO
bright man to a somewhat dull assembly.
Year: 1878

ELECTIONS ron MEMBERS OF CONGRESS will
be held in thirty States tomorrow, and in addi-
tion two of the Territories will choose Delegates.
The list Of candidates is elsewhere printed. At
first glance the situation appears to be badly
mixed up, but by sundown the intelligent citizen
will have evoked order out of the chaos of the
politicians. The two old parties everywhere
maintain their organization, but in several of
the States there other tickets in the field.
labelled prohibition, greenback, communist and
independent. Many Of the latter gentlemen are
rlinning for the pure fun Of the thing. and if any
one desires to throw away his vote by casting
his ballot for one of them there s no law to pre-
vent him.
Year: 1878

have some occupation rs agents for some
thing or other or things Of that class. Such
avocations, or the assumption of them, ex-
cuse their wanderings and avert suspicion.
Living in this way they have their jobs well
prepared in advance, and they never work
too often in the same circle. Given good
burglary like that of the Manhattan Savings
Bank and they are not heard Of more for
months to come. They gain their informa-
tion in various ways; if not directly through
some one connected with the bank or house,
who becomes an accomplice, through some
one who is friend of person who is, or OF
the janitor or servant Thus they discover
all they want to know about the place and
its fastenings. Having laid the plan the
next thing is to secure successful operation.
The chief thing is to get safely into the
''shell, whatever it may be, the getting ont
being easy enough. This is sometimes done
bywhat they term squaring officials, private
and public. But there is lar less Of this than
people imagine. A safe entry into ''a crib"
is far more generally secured by throwing
officials, public and private, off their guard.
Occasionally when burglary is being car
ricd outa row is got up in some neighbor-
ing tavern. keeping policemen out OF the
way until the most dangerous part of
the business is done. Experienced
burglars prefer robbing a dwelling
house any day to warehouse or bank
such MS the Manhattan Savings Bank. The
job is more easily executed in the first, and
in the other case there is no doing the thing
with safety unless number are taken in,
which reduces the profits of the venture, so
that it is hardly worth the great risk which
is always incurred in the disposal of the
plunder. Then the more there are con-
cerned in the job the greater, as in the
present case, is the probability of treachery.
and it is to this the police must chiefly look
for detection.
Year: 1878




Our correspondent at Utica reports a long
conversation with the venerable and dis
tinguished Ex-Governor who tills the soil
and meditates on public affairs in his rural
retreat at Deerfield. This conversation will
be read with interest by persons who are as
dispassionate as Governor Seymour himself,
but we cannot advise any citizen of New
York to look through it with an ex-
pectation of learning how he ought to
vote in the pending election. Evidently
Mr.. Seymour does not think that the fate
Of the city is staked on the success of
either of the present tickets. Seeing that
nearly tho whole interview relates to this
city it is remarkable that he says nothing
from which it could be inferred that he
would be elated by the success or depressed
by the defeat of either ticket.


The topic on which Mr.. Seymour dilates
is the blameworthy indifference of wealthy
New Workers to the government, the
interests and the good name Of the
city. He follows out this accusation
through great variety OF illustra-
tions, mostly historical and some of
them founded on his own experience.
Among the subjects touched upon are the
draft riots, the patriotic exertions of the
city during the war, tho misrepresentation
which have gained currency on these sub
jects, and the indifference of our wealthy
classes to gross perversions OF the truth
which reflect dishonor upon the metropo-
lis. Although his views have no immediate
relation to this city election they deserve
attention even amid the turmoil and
hubbub of a violent and heated
local contest. Besides correcting
number of prevalent errors and CIV
ing many interesting "reminiscences
Mr. Seymour sets forth with great clearness
and earnestness the evils which must result
to any community from the absence Of a just
local pride, and from that apathy respecting
the public affairs by which men of standing
in New York differ from the same class in
other American cities. These views will
deserve careful meditation after the tram
sient excitement of the day is over.
Year: 1878

AS a fitting close to the racing season the
American Jockey Club have arranged an
extra day for tomorrow. The programme
embrnces seven events. The first is to be
dash Of three-quarters of mile for horses
that have not won race this year, and the
second sweepstakes of a mile and three
quarters, entitled "The Hotel Sweep
stakes" the purse being presented by
leading hotel proprietors. The third,
fourth, fifth and sixth events arc to
decide the ownership of handsome
purses, and the concluding race is a
handicap steeplechase. This is notable
series, and as tomorrow will be election
day, when many will enjoy holiday, grow
ing out of their necessary presence at the
polls, the attendance at Jerome Park will
undoubtedly bo large and enthusiastic
one. This bracing November weather will
afford new delight to those fond Of sports
on the turf, and as the races will engage
horses favorably known in our racing cal
endars there is every guarantee for mag
nifcent and exciting day on the course.
Year: 1878

change in the law can Illustrate the expert
ment The political campaign which is
now closing has forestalled that danger,
and there is no longer any reason for doubt
ensuing year will be conducted on the spe-
Gle basis. Its good effects will be SO mahi-
fest in the revival of trade and industry
that no party will dare to 60 into the Presi-
Dental election as the opponent of re-
deemable currency.
Year: 1878




There ought to be no doubt about the
election Of Cunning S. Bedford for City
Judge. The people Of New York three
years ago returned Recorder Hackett to the
Bench for the simple reason that he had
been an upright and fearless judge and
had proved his capacity and fidelity, while
his opponent, although personally unob-
jectionable, had not the advantage Of ex-
perience to recommend him. Judge Bed
ford's public record is unassailable.
He filled the Office Of City Judge
for eight years, and during that long
period of service no decision he rendered,
no sentence he pronounced, no judicial act
he performed can be brought up against
him by enemies whose unscrupulousness is
shown in the malice of their personal
attacks. His opponent, MI. Cowing, is a
gentleman of respectability, but is untried
and without experience. The people should
vote for Judge Bedford for the very same
reasons by which they were induced to sup
port Recorder Hackest, md his majority
ought not to be less than that given to the
Recorder three years ago.
Year: 1878

Dn. ISAAC L HAYES goes before the elec-
tors Of the Seventh Assembly district in
dorsed by the leading citizens of the dis
trict and recommended by his own superior
attainments, established integrity and faith
full services. His election is not doubtful.
and his presence in the State Legislature is
an advantage to the city Mt large as well as
to the constituency he more Immediately
represents.
Year: 1878

The partisan papers on both sides have
by this time said their last word the cam
paign orators have made their speeches; the
campaign fireworks have corruscated and
disappeared, and we suppose but few of our
citizens are still undecided for whom they
should vote. The two candidates for the
Mayoralty have already been put in the
peoples minds, in the place they will oc-
cupy tomorrow evening, only the popular
decision will not take shape till then. The
result will then be known as far as the can
didates are concerned; but what will be the
result for the city?


We have had among us lately q number
of reverend inquirers into the future who,
under the title of the Prophetic Conference,
discussed the probabilities of the near ap-
proach of the millennium. What they ex-
amined as to the whole world may we not
explore for the city? Il has long been mis-
governed, but what if the vote Of our
citizens should give US the astonishing re-
suit of real master of the city government?
Then without much prophecy we might
promise an administration of local affairs





lennium. The city would be governed on
business principles like q merchants Office,
without waste and without superb fuous Off
cials; we should have clean streets, winter
and summer, proper sewerage, no plague
inviting nests of filth. a dock system
worthy Of New York, and efficient police,
honesty and capacity everywhere in Office
and protection to property. health and life
from The Battery to the city limits. Per-
haps our citizens with all their predictions
do not expect this. Looking from the can
didates they see only one man or another
behind each. Both are represented as
pledged to their hackers, to this man or
to that man, and to be so bound up by
promises that the Mayor will only be lay
figure while man or cabal rules in reality.
Some three hundred years ago, when Pope
Gregory XIII. lay dead in Rome and the
cardinals met in conclave, the Sacred Col
lege was found to be divided into a num-
Der of cabals, each Of which sought
to rule through one of their number as
Pope. Small hope seemed there for the op-
pressed Romans in the outcome Of such a
conclave. Among the cardinals was one.
Montalto. Bowed with age and apparent
infrmities, he seemed not long for the
world None Of the factions could agree to
let another reign, and SO they thought by
making him Pope all would grasp some
share of power. They elected him. No
sooner had the result been declared than,
finging away his stick and walking erect
to the altar, he chanted loud "Te Deum."
In Sixtus V. Rome had found "a master
and not o slave" Never was city better
or more vigorously governed. Thieves and
brieands were hunted out and order reigned.
May not New York on Wednesday morning
wake up to such happy result2
Year: 1878

The ACCEPTANCE of on Assembly nomina-
tion by Hamilton Fish, Jr., is q benefit to
the State. The time was when the presence
of such citizens in the Legislature was not
unsual, and when responsible and able
representatives insured wise and honest
legislation. It is only by the election of
such members as Hamilton Fish, Jr., that
the character of the Legislature can be re-
stored to something of its old standing.
Year: 1878

THE RESULT of the election for Congress in
South Carolina tomorrow will be watched with
o good deal of interest by both parties, but
especially by the republicans. We print else
where letter on the subject giving review of
the canvass. 1t is not believed that more than
one republican member will be elected.
Year: 1878

The Projected TRIP of n Harvard crew to
England next season has naturally given rise to
. good deal Of speculation among the Yale oars
men, 1t would be hardly possible for the same
crew to row at New London and in England,
and in the event of two crews being chosen the
better one would of course be sent abroad. To
win under such circumstances at New London
would of course bring no glory to Yale.
Year: 1878

MR. EnAsTus BnooKs. by his ability and
experience, would make q useful member
of any representative body. In the As
sembly of the State his sound principles,
persuasive eloquence and strict integrity
are of especial value, and his election in
Richmond county should not be doubtful.
Year: 1878

In WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA the question is
not republcanism or democracy, greenbacks or
hard money, but OIL A determined war is being
waged on the great oil corporations and on
some of the railroad companies by the producers.
II successful it is not improbable that the move
ment will in the near future seriously interfere
with the operations Of divers other combina-
kong.
Year: 1878

Mr.. TALMAGEs DESCRIPTION yesterday of
what he saw a few nights ago in what he calls
the '.slime pits of destruction" was little more
savory than of his recent utterances on
the same subject His surprise at the people he
saw there from his reserved seat in the gallery
was probably equalled by that of those on the
floor when they looked up and beheld him with
his two venerable elders.
Year: 1878

IT WILL BE SEEN from our London corre-
Bpondence that the average British juror, when
he comes to weigh ard consider fact and evidence,
is fully as eccentric his brother on this side of
the sea- 1t is to be regretted that there is
no such thing as monopoly of stupidity.
Year: 1878

How TO RECLAIM and Christianize Africa, now
that the dark Continent has been in measure
opened to civilization, was the subject of an in
teresting lecture by DR.. Tucker in this city last
night. In the opinion of the lecturer the first
step is for Christian merchants to stop sending
the African the material for rum punches.
Year: 1878

loU ARE RIGHT, JACoB.-The following emf
nently sound remarks are from tie Emporia
News. 1t fits the case of the bowling dervish of
Doniphan County so exactly, that the editor of
the Nems must certainly have his photograph


Nine-tenths of the cost of all county advertising
comes out Of individuals, and not out Of The County
Treasury, and all the fuss made about it from
newspapers who 'out- on the printing. These
fellows sonstmes succeed in interesting special par
tizans, who have spite against papers which happen
to be doing the County work. but "A general thing,
the public don't care a bawbee for their howlings.
In this locality the question made issue by
interested party, who made the subject in the last
campaign, both his politics and religion but the
voters needed not his gentle racket and ruthlessly
refused to sustain him at the bailot-b0x, thus ex-
pressing their approval of the action of the Commits
sioners in giving the County advertising the paper
having the largest circulation.


And the following, from the Fredona Citizen,
plumps the centre of the same mark:


We have hardly referred to the question of County
printing in the past. The cost of it is not matter of
so much moment to the people newspaper adven-
nrers who fail TO get il try to make the public be-
leve The publisher who howls about the tax x-payer
being swndled when he does not succeed in getting
the printing. is invariably who is mad because he
is not in the place of the fellow who is sharing the
benefits of what he terms swindle. 1t is entirely
selfish, mercenary matter, and about all the decent
newspapers in the State have ceased to say ANYTHING
when rival publisher is awarded the printing 1t
Is not the interests of the Taxpayer that worry the
printer who fails TO win in County printing contest
but the chagrin at the other fellows success and his
own disappointment. Nnety-nine times out of a
hundred, the printer who indignant, and wceps
for the taxpayer when the printer who opposes him
is awarded the work. woud keep mum if his lucky
rival would divide with him. The squabbling often
seen this matter is disgrace to journalism.
Editors who thus fill their papers with their per-
s0nal griefs and financial misOrtunes do not under
stand their calling They only illustrate their own
selfish weakness and mercenary motives.
Year: 1878

n There has beeen anxiety on the par,
of some persons to know how Senator ingalls,
stood on the money question. 1t was finally
conceded that he was in favor of silver, but il
was asserted that he was in favor of resumption.
He has settled his own status, by a speech in
the Senate, during the last days of the debate on
the silver bill. He is not only in favor of the
reconciliation of silver, bus emphatically in ia
vor of the repeal of the resumption act. He
warned the East that the West and South were
offering to take less than they would ever
again offer to take, and if their wishes were re-
jected, something more sweeping would come
next!
Year: 1878

" Why does the Bulletin squeal SO Justify at
our proposition to publish the names signed to
it's begging petitionsi Are they ashamed of
their act or, is the Bulletin afraid, that if pub
lished, it would give men an opportunity to dis
cover that their signatures had been forged to
the petitions .-as many of them WERE When
papers Of that description go into the Clerks
Office, they become public property, and any cit
izen has a right to examine them, or take copies.
And, especially, when men assert that eve, tax
payers" ask this and that, the public have a
right to know whether they Taxpayers or
not, and if SO, to what extent.
Year: 1878

sF Out of total of thrty-one editorials and edi-
torial paragraphs in the last number of the Troy
Chief, sixteen are devoted to the BuleGa-Itehisoa
Patriot


Out of several hundred locals in the Atchison
Patriot during the same week, nearly all were
about <he weather and the mud. As we both
were tempted, by the weather and The mud, to
pay too much attention to stale subjects, suppose
we call it even, and say no more about it,
Year: 1878

S The London papers express surprise that
Uuited States securities have advanced instead
of declined, upon the passage of the Silver bill.
good many more will be surprised to discover
that the hideous Nightmares depicted to the
people by the Gold Ring, to follow the passage
of the silver bill are frauds of the first water.
The people have pretty much quit soaring.
Year: 1878

" One of the Bulletins duties is to superin.
tend the County officers affairs, for which il
doesn't charge the County a cent When a no.
tice comes comes to us from the County Clerk
any other officer, We always try to publish it
according to copy, although it may not be word.
ed exactly as the Bulletis imagines it ought to
be. We prefer to follow the copy furnished us
by the County officers.
Year: 1878

They may tell forever of words of bloot1,

 Beyond the skies and beyond the tomb

 Of the sweet repose and the rapture there, That are not found in the world of care; But not to me can the present seem

 Like foolish tale or an idle dreafr

 Oh, know that the bowers of heaven are fair, And know that the waters of Life are there And I do not long for their happy flow, While there burst such fountains of bliss below; And would not leave, for the rest above; The faithful bosom of trusting love

 There are angels here; they are seen the while In each love-lit brow and each gentle smile There are seraph voices that meet the ear, In the kindly voice and the word of cheer; And light, such light az they have above, Beams on us here from the eyes of 1ove Yet, when it eOmeth my time to die, would turn from this bright world willingly |; Though, even then, would the thoughts of this Tinge every dream of that land of bliss; And fain would lean on the loved for aid Nor walk alone through ths vale and shade: And if 'tis mine, til iife's thdngss shd, To guard the heart of one faithful friend, Whatever the trials of earth may be, On the peaceful shore of the restless sea In palace home or the wilderness There is heaven fdr me in world like this.
Year: 1878

In the Southern portion of the State, says local paper, cattle are dying in numbers for want of food, and unless snow falls and stays on the ground the suffering will be much greater. Cattle in Hot Creek valley, one of the best ranges in that section, have to travel from ten to twelve miles to get water, and they only make few trips before they fall. Owing to the light fall oi snow last winter, the white sage, that last resort for cattle in Nevada, did not grow to amount to much this season Another light winter in southeastern Nevada will force many cattle men tc search for new pastures. Lieut. Gov Adams is the greatest sufferer, he having few thousand heao pasturing 1n Ho Greek valley, and they are all suffering more or less.