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Year: 1878

Mrs. Martin Mccain, a middle aged respectable
looking woman, has. for several days, been vanly
searching the hospitals of this city for trace of
her husband, who has been missing since the first
week in October. He employed upon the railroad
at White Rock Rhode Island, where he met with an
accident and started for this city to go into hospital
He has not been heard OF since The poor wife has
given up the search in despair and returned to her
home at Holyoke, Mass,
Year: 1878

The Board Of County Canvassers yesterday finished
the work Of counting the votes cast at the recent
election. They will meet again next week for the
purpose of officially declaring the result Of their
canvass.


The following is the Official return of the total
number Of votes cast for the candidates named be-
low
Year: 1878

Over the Senate staircase in the Capitol
at Washington there is q picture of the
battle of Chepultepec, in which the Nelson
of the day, General Shields, is represented
in his shirt sleeves talking to General
Quitman. General Shields was recently
asked by an interviewer was this a fancy
sketch, and replying negatively, he gave
the following account of a historic incident
''We were taken just as we stood, by q
photographer who followed the army to
take sketches whenever he could. It was
afterwards transferred to canvass. The
incident which it commemorate was one
of the most notable and curious in my
history. l had been ordered by General
Scott to make demonstration on the city
of Mexico from the Cheplltepec side. I
gathered up the magnificent Palmetto reg
iment. Colonel Butler, the mounted rifles,
the New York volunteers, and OBrien's
battery, and led sudden dash along the
aqueduct towards the city. The enemy
gave way, and seeing that we pressed them
all the harder to prevent their re- forming.
General Scott, who intended that General
Worth should take the city by the San
Cosme route instead of the Berlin route,
saw from the heights that was making
rather rapid progress, and Immediately
dispatched two aids de- camp to stop me.
l saw them coming and suspected their
errand. Lord Nelson, you know, at Co.
penhagep, was the second in command.
When the signal was given to him by the
Admiral not to attack, one of the Off
GERS called his attention to it. He put
his glass to his blind eye, and said
changed if can see any signal. Attack ="
didn't want any message from General
Scott at that precise moment, and when
the aids de camp got within speaking
range and said, General Scott sends his
compliments to General Shields" hollered
out, "All right, but haven't time to talk
with you now wait Bit" General Scott,
seeing that We were still pushing ahead at
breakueck pace towards the city, sent
General Quitman to me, and, my horse
having been shot under me, was on foot
explaining to General Quitman that it
would be madness for us to desist from
our advantage, and that General Scott
never would have ordered it if he knew
how gloriously we were advancing. Oh
but he was gallant soldier, was General
Quitman, a generous one, and, instead of
ordering me back, he told me to go ahead.
So on we went, and in less than twenty
minutes we entered the garritG, or city gate
and unfurled the fret American flag in the
city of Mezico-the flag that was borne by
the gallant Palmetto Regiment. The artist
happened to get lis camera in focus just
while was talking to General Quitman,
and so 1 apprehend it is q more correct
battle piece than the most of those that
ornament our public buildings."
Year: 1878

The moment man is satisfied with him
self, everybody else is dissatisfied with
him. There are many shining qualities in
the mind of man, but none SO useful as
discretion. II we do not Aatter ourselves,
the fattery of others will not hurt us. The
man who minds his own business has good
steady employment.
Year: 1878

GEORGE LAWRENCE, the manager of the
Pauline Markham troupe, abscOnded at LoniS


vile the other day. Anxious inquiries have
thus far failed to elicit his whereabouts Mo-
one OF the troupe had money enough to settle
MS Dill at the hotel, and at last accounts thew
were endeav0ring to secure a hall to Give a
performance to relieve them of their pecuniary
embarraSSmentS.
Year: 1878

At midnight, ON the caboard shelf,
The bold mince pie beguiled the hour
In whispering softly TO itself,
And chuckling DER its conscious power
"Oh, Joseph Brown pull down your vest,
For you will long to take rest,
When your dreaming fancies wake,
As you and l, jolly pair,
Ride double on the wild night mare.
Or take a walk to regions where
They grow the stomach ache"
At midnight stealing through the shade,
Came Joseph Brown on footsteps light
With eager hand he drew his blade.
Alas, unlucky wight


Where was the guardian sprlte that
stands
To STAY the stroke of reckless hands.
And bid them cheese the blow
That blade descending through the air
Hung but AN instant there.
Then, with one mighty rip and tear.
1t cleaved the Pie below.
An hour passed on-poor Joe awoke
From dreams of crushing wheels;
He woke to beat his breast and cry:
oh, take him off the pie. the pie
He woke to feel that demon poke
His aching stomach with the stroke
OF fifty thousand donkeys' heels.
A motor on the Keely plan


Went crushing through his inner man
And then mccking cry:
Strike" a word and then blow
strike" howl of bitter wo".
~Strike,--now, don't be foolish, Joe.
'Tis nothing but the pie.


They fought, with many a toss and


plunge,


As slow the hours went by
The pie would not throw up the sponge
Nor Joe throw up the pie


Until. at last, the moons pale light
Peeped in and saw the woeful sight.


And wept silent tear.


Poor Joe lay in a ghastly swoon;
Dead for ducat' said the moon;


And waltzed off on her ear.
Come to the throbbing molar, Pain.
Come to the wretch who feels the thrill
When dentists cut and come again,
And ask him TO be still,


Come TO the schoolboy when be begs
To stay the birch that welts his legs.
And see the masters smile of scorn;
Come to that double wretch forlorn
Who feels the anguish of a corn,
Crushed underneath the grinding heel
And thou art terrible-we tear
And groan and cry and howl and swear
And paw the ground and beat the air,
And think tbs pain we feel.


But 10, the silly wretch who takes
Ofcold mince pie his midnight lunch,
Then comes demon form that shakes
A hundred pains with fifty aches,
And Grams them down him in a bunch
There rest thee, gentle pie, for OH
I covet not thy pains and jerks,
For I've been there myself know
Just how the old thing works.
pass thee by without regret,
l know that thou art crisp and fine.
But will take no more in mine -
The stomach ache-you bet.
Year: 1878

Elijah Croly, my husband, was owner
and captain of coasting vessel, during a
good trade; and we occupied an old-fash-
ioned and somewhat dreary house al
Stepney. Eliph liked the place more
than DID, and it was on his account that
we stayed there so long. 1 thought it
could make very little difference to him
where we lived. for he was at home only
two or three weeks out of every ten. i
was often alone two months at time:and
lonely it was sometimes.


SECT some one whom you like to stay
with you, my dear" the captain said,
when L told him one day how unpleasant
/ felt to be alone so much. Get any one
you please and before long hope l shall
be able to stay at home with you myself


I took his advice and after some in
quiry, found woman who | thought
would suit me. Her name was Emily
Sands, and she was a pleasant faced wo-
man of about forty. She told me she had
been left widow with no means and had
since earned her living by needle work;
and although / had intended that the
woman who came every morning to dc
my housework should still come, found
Emily so handy and SO willing that
soon discontinued the services of the
other. She was so amiable and 80 vivac
ious, that | was satisfied that had done
the best that 1 could do in the matter.


Il hope so,' he said doubtfully.


@And don't you think sol" he asked.


"Well, no." he replied.


Now, I'd like to know why, Elijah
Do you see anything wrong about her?'


L can't say that l do; presume it is
only q notion; but l have in some way
conceived kind of distrust of her face
l can't explain it, and you had better not
be prejudiced by it"


"You may be very sure | shall not
rejoined, If it has no more foundation
than this


And this was all that was said between
us on the subject. was too well &C
quainted with the Captains sudden
whims, to attach much importance to thi:
one.


The Captain remained at home thin
time barely two weeks. On the morning
that he left 10 take his vessel for another
trip, Just after he had taken up his ha
to go, he called me into the chamber ant
shut the door.


Here is something, Fanny he said
@that I want you to keep safely for me
till come back And he took a paper
package from his breast-pocket as he
spoke. There are ten fifty pound note.
in it-fve hundred pounds in all Twill
lock it up here in this bureau drawer
and give you the key And he did SO
NO one would think of coming here fol
money


do you think you had better leave j
here, Elijih?" asked. 'Why not put i
in the bank


Il mean to; bus / shall not have time
The money was only paid me last night
But no matter, the money will be safi
where it is, and there will be no dangel
about it; or, if you don't think so, yol
may deposit it yourself"


Ny husband took little thought o
possibilities, and presume he never
once thought Of money from the time ht
left the house until he returned. As fol
myself, 1 was not so easily satisfied.
had heard enough of house plundering
and outrages of that kind to make ms
afraid to keep this large amount with me
My uneasiness increased as the day wore
ION; and about three o'clock the same af
ternoon, took the money and went tc
Year: 1878

TIE COMPLAINT MADE TO CAPTAIN PETTY By A


MAN WHO LOST S400.


A addressed man entered the Oak Street
Police Station about o'clock Saturday morning, and
stated that he had been robbed of Sl00 in house In
Neyg-C Chambers-st. woman had met him, he said in
City Hall Park the previous evening and he had ac
companied her TO her After leaving the house he
had missed his pOcket-bOOk. which contained 800 In
bapkuOes He said he had returned 20 the house again
and had found 1t closed. He believed 10 70 be panel
house. At station the the name OF Francis
Wright ana said be was from New-Orleans.


Detective Carr of the Precinct sent out with the
man and was conducted 10 No. 26 New-Chambers-st
suite of rooms on the second hOor which the said
he had visited with the woman, found
10 be deserted, although IL was amply FUR
nisned The appearance OF the rooms Indicated
that they had been occupied short time
before and had abandoned IN haste The detective
10 persuade his companion 70 return 10 the
station and leave his city address, but the man refused


Non said he cannot afford 10 give my real name or
piaee OF residence have wife and children who must
never hear OF this nights experience" Captain Petty
ba since endeavOred I'm vain 10 learn the mans address
IN ordorfO get further description OF the panel
bief lie learned that q man hired the at No. 90
Chambers-s two weeks ago. and that the other Oc
cupants of the building had not seen any OF the fun
tufe moved in On examining the rooms Captain Petty
found plenty OF evidence that they had Deen used Tor
panethieyng He sent all the furniture TO tue Property
Clerks rooms at Police Headquarters, ana made report
70 superintendent Wallng.
Year: 1878

THE REPORT THAT HE INTENDS TO SECURE THE AT


LASTIc AND GREAT WESTERN DoUBIED-HS


ARRANGEMENTS WITH THE WHITE STAR LINE.


A prominent official OF the New I ork' Lake
r,s ana western Railway said to TRIBUNE reporter
Yesterday that with its present enormous bonded debt
the purchase Of the Atlantic and Great Western Road
would DO a very injudeious investment ana ne
doubts II Mr., Vanderbilt wanted tho property. NO
ip 20 Europe was necessary 70 obtain control OF H. no
desired IT, The road In the hands Of receiver ana
couIa only be obtained by purchase OF majority OF lss
bonds which did not command high price Inc opll
- vas expressed that the New-Xork Central Company
Year: 1878

Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm has heard il


whispered that, on u certain day, known
only to the oath-b and the initiated
every locomotive engineer in the United
States and Canada is to stop work, keep


the engine committed TO his care Just


wherever it may happen to be at that par
ticuar moment, and prevent, by all means


in his power. any other person from using
it. Whereupon, through the medium of
the Chicago Tribune, she respectfully calls
the attention of the guild to the fact thai
thousands of men of moderate means
have invt sted their savings in railroad
stock; thousands of widows and orphans
depend upon it for bread; and all these
must be robbed that Mr.. Engineer may
get ten cents day more wages 1t
country like this, any considerable number
of men could be reduced to such straits
that they could do, or contemplate doing,
acts which would have been scorned bv
Robin Hood and his men. Every railroad
running on IL train must daily
pass thousands of acres lying idle fol
want of hands to till them; and one
would think that II man with spark of
manhood would build him hut out of
grass and clay anl raise his bread with no
other implement than IL hoe, rather than
be the shutllecock of railroad company
and trades union, to be tossed from hand
to hand and tumbIed into the mud ut every
second throw. If man does not like his
place and his wages, why not go to his
employer and give him warning that he
IS going to quit, have some cabin and field


looked out, 60 TO them, get his living out
)f the ground, an call no man or combi-
nation of men master?
Year: 1878

CHRISTIANITY AND IGNoRANCE.-Iet
men understand that Jesus Christ has no
part in,this world with ignorance There
are among philosophers those who delight
to call themselves agnostics, or, as we used
to call them in political parlance, know
nothings; but in the school and the church
of Jesus Christ ignorance is ut u fearful
discount. His disciples are stimulated by
every precept of the gospel to the attain
ment of every sort of knowledge. q" If
there be any truth. if there be any virtue"
the apostle bids US think on these things"
So soon as anything is proven to be truth,
it becomes part of the message of Jesus
Christ to us. 1t is not our business TO
enter into limited, local and partial con-
troversies of men but when either scien-
tist or philosopher has eliminated positive
truth we receive it, and are bound and
pledged to receive it by the very character
of our relationship in The common wealth
of faith. Christendom is the name for
civiliz ition. 1t would be impossible to
picture tho actual condition OF this world
should the forces that have been set at
work by Christianity be with drawn from
society. What would be the laws, what
the tastes, what the usages of the world,
in even its most cultivated portions, if the
influence of the gospel oil the Galilean
should be annihilated2 The name truth,
which the Lord Jesus assumed. itself sug-
gesIs the thought that q stimulus is given
to the mind by the acceptance of His SER
vice. And we have grounds for believing
that He is not content with that disciple
who does not make The most of his facul-
ties.-Reu. s. II. Tyng.
Year: 1878

Bishop Merrill on the Mexicans: Ia
studying these Mexican people, and max
ing inquiries concerning their religious
feelings, | have endenvored to ascertain
whether they ever associate with their no.
tlons of piety any sense of moral obliga-
tion, or have any conception whatever Of
the relation of morality to kind of faith,
and | have been unable to discover any,
thing of the kind. do not See that they
have any thought that immoral practices
have anything to do with Christian char
acter They see no improprety in passing
Immediately from the church to the bull
pen, or in going from the mass to the low
est hauntS of vice. Moral sensiblity is not
cultivated by their religion, if it be 50
much as recognized
Year: 1878

A SCENE OF RETRIBUTIoN.-Af few wears
since an eminent artist ut Lyons while
passing through the Rue des Terrsaux zap.
prohched number of persons who were
gathered together Witnessing tn. sale Of
the furniture of poor workman. A
woman was seated on the pavement with
child in her arms. The painter spoke
to her, and was told that the furniture
which was being sold belonged 10 her !:
that her husband hal lately died, leaving
her with the child in her arms; that she
had struggled hard TO maintain herself by
working day and night, and submitting TO
every prlvation, but that her landlord had
at length seized her furniture for some
months rent which was due to him. The
artist was affected by this simple recital
and inquired who was her landlord


There he is, replied the poor woman,
pointing to man who was watching the
progress of the sale; and he was recog.
nlzed by the painter as person who was
suspected of having ama>sed II considera.
ble fortune by usury, so that to make any
appeal TO his feelings on behalf of the
poor widow would be useless. The artist
was considering within himself what 9th
er plan he could adopt to benefit her, when
the crler announced IL picture for sale. 1t
Was ~ miserable daub, which.in summer
the poor woman had used to hide the hole
in the wall through which the pipe of the
stove passed during the winter. 1t was
put up at one franc. The artist at once
conceived plan for taking revenge of the
landlord. He went over, examining the
picture with great attention, and then call
ed out with Il loud voice:


One hundred francs!"


The landlord was astounded at the bid.
but, conceiving that picture for which So
eminent AN artist could offer that sum was
worth more than double, boldly offered
Two hundred francs.


Five hundredn' said the painter, and
the contest between the two bidders be-
came so animated that the prize was at
Iength knocked down to the landlord at
Two thousand two hundred francs! The
purchaser, then addressing the painter
said:


In seeing an artist of your merit bid
so eagerly for the picture, | suppose that
it must be valuable. Now, tell me, sir, at
what do you estimate it's valuep"


About three francs and half" re-
piled the painter; " but | would not give
that for it,"


" You are surely jesting, for you bid as
high us two thousand one hundred francs. "


True, and l will tell you why did so.
You, who are in possession of an income
of twenty five thousand francs a year,
have seized on the furniture of poor
widow for debt of two hundred francs.
wished 10 give you II lesson, and you fell
into my trap. Instead of the poor wo-
man being your debtor. she is now your
creditor, and | iltter myself you will not
compel her to seize on your furniture for
her debt" The artist then politely saluted
the landlord, and having announced her
good fortune to the poor woman, walked
away.
Year: 1878

ARE EXCITEMENTs UNwIsEp-There is
great fear, on the part of some amiable
persons who write for the public, lest in
certain movements of reform there should
he those who will take steps for which
they will be sorry. They argue from this
that it is not best to have any excitement
at all, and especially that nothing should
be done under excitement. 1t so happens,
however, that the path of progress has al
ways been marked by sudden steps up
ward and onward. There are steady
growth and steady going, it is true,hut the
tendency 10 rut-making and routine are so
great in human nature that it is often only
by wide excitements that whole com
munity is lifted and forwarded to new
level.


There are communities that would new
er do anything but rot, except under ex-
citement a community often gets into n
stolid, immobile condition which nothing
but public excitement can break up
This condition may relate to II single sub
jecl, or to many subjects. 1t may relate
to temperance, or o church debt. Now il
is quite possible that II man under excite
ment will do the thing he has always
known to be right, and be sorry for it or
recede from it afterward; but the excite
ment was the only power that would ever
have started him ON the right path, or led
him to stop in The wrong one. 1t is all
very well to say that it would be II great
dead better for II drunkard, coolly, after
quiet deiberation and rational decision,
TO resolve to forsake his cups, than to ttke
the step under the stimulus of social eX-
citemcnt, and the persuasion of c1mpan-
ionship and fervid oratory, but does he
ever do itP Sometimes, possibly. but not
often. Without excitement an real
social movement, very little of temperance
reform has ever been effected. Men are
like iron; to be moulded they must be
heated and to say that there should be no
excitement connected with II great reform,
or that reform is never effected through
excitement, is to ignore the basilar facts of
human nature and human history y.-Dr.
Holland in Scrjbnsr'S A0nshiy.
Year: 1878

certain intrusive person paid constant
visits to an English nobleman and. if the
latter happened to be from home was
wont to make good his entrance by say
ing that he would step ia and sit by the
fire, or watch the French clock working,
or play with the pet monkey. At length
the head footman. determined to end the
annoyance. met him at the door with
" my lord and my lady's both from home,
the fires gone out, the clocks stopped, and
the monkeys dead. 81
Year: 1878

Prejudice is sometimes apt to interfere
with our comfort in life. and to cause us to
do Injustice to some worthy article or OBJ.
ject, This was exempliied in the exper-
icnce of very worthy lady, short time
ago.


Her daughter was firm believe in the
efficacy Of PoNDs EXTRACT, but such was
the elder lady's prejudice against it, term
ing it quack medicine. she would not al
low it lin the house.


1t happened that the mother severely
burned her hand with the fire poker, and
while suffering intensely, the younger lady
without intimating her intention, dressed
the hand with the Extract, from a bottle
she kept secreted in her own room. Re-
lief from pain was instantaneous, and the
result marvellously satisfactory; and when
the patient was made acquainted with the
remedy doing her so much good, she ac-
knowledged herself in the wrong, and ever
atterward was q warm advocate Of PoND's s
EXTRACT,
Year: 1878

There are unscrupulous grocers and deal
ers in various sections of the country. who
saw to their customers who ask for Dool-
ey's Yeast Powder: I'VE do not keep it
in cans, but have it loose or in bulk. We
desire to call the attention of purchasers
of Dooley's Yeast Powder to the fact that
this is a dishonorable trick, which is re
sorted to for the purpose of palming Oft as
Dooley's a cheap. adulterated substitute
which in many cases is highly detrimental
to health. The genuine Dooley's Yeas
Powder is never sold in bulk or loose, bu
iu cans under the label and trade mark o
the proprietors, Dooley & Brother, New
York. Any dealer, therefore, who offer
it otherwise, is trying to deceive you.
Year: 1878

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING New
YoRK.-One of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and others
to stop at when in New York is the Grand
Union Hotel, nearly opposite the Grand
Central Depot, kept on the European plan
YOU therefore only pay for what you get.
Everything is first class, and prices mod
crate, adapted to the stringency of the
times You save the expense of carriage
hire, and by leaving your baggage check
on the counter of the Hotel, your baggage
will be delivered in your rooms, fifteen
minutes after the arrival of the cars, free
of expense. We advise you to give the
Grand Union a trial.
Year: 1878

There never was time when complaints
a-isiug from inactivity of the liver were
more common 10 this section than at the
present time. Nearly everyone has been
afflicted with some form of malarial dis
ease. and OF all known remedies Maguire's s
Cundurango is acknowledged to be the
best 1t brings immediate relief prevents
fever, tones up the whole system and is a
sure protection against all these distress


ing complaints. Try it once and be con-
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