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Year: 1879

A Paris correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times writes: "The ex-Empress of France is
said to be one of the richest widows in Eng
land. In addition to her Hungarian estate she
has a castle in Spain and a nice place in Swift
zerland. But hard cash is what comes most
useful to dethroned sovereigns who hope to
return, and of this the Empress has long had
an abundance 1t is estimated in Paris that
she is worth at least a million sterling. Only
recently she sold large block OF house prop
erty in the Rue d'Alba, in Paris, and M.
Rouher'S house. q well known political centre
at the corner of the Rue de l'Elysee, was hers,
in her own right, and was sold last year for
e150G0. The death of the Prince adds to her
property, since he left to her a considerable
amount of landed property Ill Italy, as well as
the Toulouse property, beqqeathed to him by
the orisly General who had been equerry to
the Prince when he toddled about the corridors
of the Tuilleries nearly three feet high and
weighted with the miniature uniform of q
colonel in the Cente Garde. This vast prop
erty was no incumbrance to the Empress while
she had q son to live and scheme for 1t was
drained pretty freely by the Bonapartist or
gans OF the press in France. The Ordre and
the Pays were lavishly supported by the EN-
press, and she also drew handsome checks in
favor of the reduction of the Gaulois. The
need for keeping these fires warm is now dead.
The Empress is not likely to keep newspapers
alive to work for her good cousin Jerome; she
will not, however, find her riches an embar-
rasSment as long as the priests have ready
access to her. a newspaper supplies large out
lets for superfluous cash. but think on the
whole the church can hold its own III rivalry
of this character, and good churchwoman
like the Empress will not lind occasion to dis
tress herself for means Of dsposlng OF the m
terest. and eventually the capital, Of million
sterling.
Year: 1879

THE State Democrat backs up its state
ment that the son of Senator Hamlin is to
be appointed Senator by Gov. Davis, by re-
publishing paragraph to the same effect
which appeared in the same paper some
time ago. This is new evidence that the
Democrat has very poor opinion of the
intellectual capacity of its readers.
Year: 1879

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley L. Pullen,
Editor. All railway steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal
Year: 1879

Clinton Republican; Beware of the man
who comes into your office while the morning
is fresh, and starts off by saying: II don't
want to take up your time; know what busy
men you editors are" Ten chances to one he
will stay until dewy eve and then will only
leave because you draw pistol on him.
Year: 1879

HERE is an extract from a priv ate letter.
written by a hard-money Democrat Of Bcs-
ton to a Republican of Portland:


l congratulate you on the Maine election.
OF course | am sorry to have Blaine successful,
but should have been more sorry to have a
Greenback victory, and l like to have the
Democrats whipped, when they coque t
with such cattle as the Greebackers SO, on
the whole, am very well satisfied
Year: 1879

THE Alyus ought to attend the meeting
of the Democratic National Committee
which Mr.. Tilden has called to help him out
of his New York difficulty and get some
good advice itself. 1t needs it rather more,
if that be possible, than Mr.. Tilden. 1t
should first ask whether it is best to re-
main Greenback organ or to become
a hard-money one. 1t should then inquire
whether it had better support Butler in Mas
sachusetts or the straight Democratic candi-
date when one is nominated. 1t should
still further insist on knowing whether it is
best to shout for Tilden with the Boston,
Post or deprecate his nomination with the
New York World, or say nothing about him
at all. 1t should seek information also in
regard to the situation in Ohio and should
get posted as to the best method of explain
ing away the coming Democratic disaster in
that State. 1t should also beg to be informed
whether it had better speak kindly or harsh
ly of Kearney, whether it had better de-
nounce Kalloch or De Young, whether it
had better expose the crimes of the Southern
.Bourbons or continue to conceal them. At
ter it gets information on all these points it
may be able to fill up its political columns
with something better than fat stories about
Mr. Blaine.
Year: 1879

Sullivan in Yicksburg Herald.


Oh think of the suffering poor,


how they shiver aud freeze aud


fast For the wolf is at the door


aud so is the winter blast. When


happy and cheerful you meet
around the bright, warm hearth,
think of the frozen street aud the
wandering poor of the earth. In
the summer lately passed they had
friends in IA distant cline, not less
do they need friends now in this
drear, bleak winter time; for the
river is clogged with ice aud work
there is none, they say, aud the
poor man sits in his cheerlesS home
since the master stopped his pay.
Think of the suffering poor, of the
widow helpless and old, ot the or
phaned ones that cry for bread
while they shiver and freeze with
cold. Let not the lofty example
taught by our NLrthern friends, be
lost on us who are able to use it for
good ends. OF the little you have,
give freely, wherever want is
known, aud God will bless the Civ
er, will bless him from His thrown.
Year: 1879

The bill to abolish the Lottery outrage
passed the House of Representatives SO
easily and with 30 little opposition that
certain misgivings could not but seize
upon the friends of the bill. The misgiv-
ings were these: There was no money
spent on the House it was all kept back
for the Senate. We cannot say that this
fear has been realized, but there are pro-
badly but!few persons in New Orleans who
doubt it. 1t is certainly singular to see
measure go through one House without an
appreciable opposition, and then find it
hung up in the other as obstinately as
though it we're an obnoxious or, at best, a
very doubtful action. A Senate is a much
smaller body than House of Represent
atives, and not nearly 30 many votes are
required in it as in the other chamber to
insure desired action or non action. If
a thriving individual or corporation has
money to spend in buying votes, of course
Senate presents a much more economical
field of operation than House of Repre-
sentatives because there are not nearly 80
many votes to buy.


1t certainly is not right to accuse men
of 80 grievous a crime as official bribe.
taking, without some better foundat
than mere suspicion. Still it is as lament
able as true that the senatorial friends OF
the Lottery have, justly or unjustly on the
part of the public, subjected themselves
to such suspicions. Whether these men
have been bribed or not, we do not pre-
tend to judge, even to the extent of a sus
piciou, but this we do say, that they have
no right to vote in such flagrant opposi.
tion to the determined will of their own
constituents and of the whole community
tits shallow, pitiful, childlike pretense foI
them to say that this bill perhaps violates
vested rights. They are not elected as law.
yers and should leave to the Courts uestionG
Year: 1879

We regret to zee our ancient friend, the
venerable and respectable Picdyunc, in
such very bad company as that of the
it. Why, it actually comes out-in an
article of lRst Thursday-with a studied
defense of monopolies in general. This is
done in such a slashing, otf-hand, caustic,
ironical style that the-reader does not take
the wink until he is nearly through the
article. OF course, M onOpoles are awful,
says the Pic, though, adds that ely and
artful casuist, it is hard to see how we
could get along without gas works, water
works and street care. Still, continues
that eminently respectable authority in
strain of irony even more exterminative,
every one can see that monopolies have no
rights, that is, every one except a few
foolish old lawyers like those composing the
Supreme Court Cfthe United States.


This is what any body would call
sumner. 1t is like the wicked levity of
prize fighter who comes up smiling and
knocks you right down. And to think
that the N. o. Pic. used to take up for the
respectable elements of society and chap.
erone them and make itself their organ
and now 30 bitter. 1t just shows how
rapidly human nature can go to tho bad
when it once commences.


Let US suggest to our ancient confrere
one consideration that it seems to have
overlooked. There are franchises that
are necessarily exclusive, or virtually so.
1t would be really impossible to have two
railroad tracks along certain streets and
highly inconvenient to permit it on others.
If the Pieayuue insists on calling the use
of such a street by a single line a monop-
oily, it is one which is in the very nature
of things unavoidable. In like manner if
the city contracts with one man to build a
market, the Picayune may choose to call it
a monopoly, but it is an abuse of terms,
for it would be impossible to give the
whole contract to several men indepcn-
IDENTIFY of each other. But it would be
entirely possible for two rival Lottery
dens to co.exist in the same city, nay, on
the same tquare. In fact we doubt not
Year: 1879

It's an i'll wind, they say, that blow


nobody any good, and the following


floating item affords an exemplifcation in


point:


Owing to the great falling off of marriage,
in the established churches in England civil
| magistrates are reapipg q rich harvest o.
| wedding fees.


| What is the matter with the rising gen
Grafton in Englandf Do they mence
married life by absolutely ignoring their
ness of the establishment" will never
win them back to it's fold when they once
60 30 far as to contemn it's ministry on an
occasion 30 solemn as marriage and so
religious in it's traditional character. 1t is
virtually q very decided "good bye" to the
Church. What then is going to become of
that pompous edifice, built upon 80 many
and such costly episcopal corner stones.
Surely it will be an embarrassing moment,
even for the arrogance of the Establish
ed Church." when all the old "members"
shall have died out, leaving no new ones
to replace them, and no one is left in the
concern but the bishops and clergy. 1t
would be like corporation without stock
holders or an army without rank and file.
Yet the movement in the wedding business
ia strictly logical. The Church, such as
they have it, is q mere State creation. 1t
exists and has it's respectability, it's func-
tions and, above all, it's revenues, by vir-
tue of law. Its ministers are officers of the
State, and nothing else in the eyes of the
people, and go are the civil magistrates.
The law authorizes marriage by either set
of officials-the religious and the civil
gives equal validity to both kinds, and is
should not loyal subject select the
cheaperi Why should he not show his
honesty and candor by refusing to become
party to religious sham, by declining to
give his countenance to the living hypo-
crisy of q religion which comes from Par
Lament and not from God.


And 80 it goes. The next step will be
social bankruptcy. Bishops will have to
get out of Parliament and draw their hun
dred thousand dollar salaries from some
other source than the public treasury. A
contemptuous aristocracy will remand
them to the kitchen, as has been already
done in Germany with the Lutheran clergy,
and they will have no consolation bnt in a
pious devotion to their great patron saint,
Henry VIII. We see no hope for them.
If, indeed, there were an immense Catholic
ecclesiastical property in England worth
stealing by the Government, some kind of
a fictitious Church might again be neces-
sity as a religious cloak under which to
disguise the robbery, and the Establish
ment" might take new lease of life. But
the Catholic Church in England 'is too
much poverty stricken to offer any such
temptation. 1t would be mere mouse in
the lions mouth.


No! The Church of Eugland will starve
out and go into liquidation before the crop
of Catholic prosperity will be ripe enough
to afford another harvest of rapine and
plunder for a sacrilegious State and
manufactured Church.
Year: 1879

that number of squares can be found in
New Orleans on each of which several
rival gambling shops actually do CO exist,
not as thriving by any means as their big
brother, the State Lottery, but still doing
quite q good business.


How does the venerable Picayune stand
on farof
Year: 1879

cynical fellow, who can't muster the cash
Tor for sleigh ride, publishes the following recipe
IGE its sensation Sit in the hall in your night
get good draft; put your feet in pail of ice
water drop the front door key down yo4r
taH PACK hold an ictcle in one hand and ring the
tea bell with the other" He says "you oan,t
tell the difference with your eyes shut. and If
is q good deal cheaper" "0 ~
Year: 1879

There appears strong probability of trou-
Bile in Utah. the immediate cause being there
cent conviction and sentence of Reynolds for
bigamy George Q. Cannon, the Territorial
Delegate in Congress, went TO the President,
the other day, to appeal for Reynolds's par
don, but the President gave him distinctly to
understand that the case was settled beyond
appeal, and that the best thing for MIR. Can
non to do would be to let Mr.. Reynolds goto
prison without any further objection. Mr.
| Cannon was interviewed by reporter, and
the result shows that he takes very gloomy
view of the situation in Utah. lie claims
that, under the plea of persecution, the Nor
mons are to be turned over to the Gentle
-irs in the territory to be robbed and plum
dered. They propose; he says, TO use every
peaceful means of resistance. and, if pushed
to the uttermost, and they see that all their
rights in themselves and their property are
to be taken away from them, in their despe-
ration a serious revolt may come. Mormons
are men of peace, but if they sec that all the
work of past wears is to go for nothing, their
lives may as well accompany the downfall of
their material prosperity. Mr.. Cannon
says himself that rather than submit
to the tyrranical prosecutions threatened by
the Gentiles of Utah, he would place arms in
the hands of his people and fly to the noun
tans He thinks that in their Businesses
there the people might be able 10 protect
themselves and force concessions that will
not be given them 50 long as they yield to
every demand made upon them.


Coming from so prominent Mormon as
Cannon these statements and threats are very
significant and il seems entirely possible
that the national government will before
long be called upon to meet a grave emer-
gency The question is difficult one to
deal with and must be approached with care.
The history OF the past shows that No trl-
fling and no halfway measures will answer.
In the meantime the blood of the innocents
slain in the Mountain Meadow and of the
hosts of other victims of Mormon cruelty
cries out for vengeance AMI the better senti-
ment of the country demands the removal OF
this blot of Normonsm on her fair fame.
We are unable to see that the advent Of
steam and the progress of civilization
westward greatly diminish either the power
the growth, or the compact despotism of the
Mormon church. Recruited largely from
the lowest and most ignorant classes of Great
Britain, the main body and its accretions are
made up of people whose religious belief and
political principles are antagonistic to our
moral and constitutional laws; and their
degraded and degrading theories and
practices should have no place in
country like ours. The quasi gage
of battle thrown down by MIR. Cannon
whose remarks above quoted have all the
characteristics of effrontery and ignorance 10
which We have become accustomed in the
uttrrancts of Mormon leaders may he pick
Ell up; and in that case there can be No
doubt of the result
Year: 1879

Lie has a burden for every mans shoulder


None may escape from its trouble and care
Miss II IN youth and twill come when were older,
And III Us as close as the garments We wear.
NnrroW comes into our lives uninvitel.


Ecboing our hearts of their treasures Of song;
Lovers grow cold and friendships are slghied1


let somehow or other we worry along.
EVERYDAY tOA is an everyday blessing


Though poveTty's cottage and crust we may share
Weak is the hack on which burdens are pressing
But stout is the heart that Is strengthed by prayer
Somehow or other the pathway grows brighter


just when We mourn there were none 10 hetriend
Hops Ia the heart makes the burden seem lighter,
An somehow or other We get 10 the end
Year: 1879

Every traveller through the United l States, as from car window he surveys | the country through which he passes,

 ever and anon observes in the distance,

 on some hillside or on the naked field,

 small collection of white marble head stones. These collections denote our country cemeteries, and each headstone marks the rcsting-place of some de- | parted member of the human family. | Were it not that one knew it to be so by observation, the uninitiatcd might be tempted to take these cemeteries for ar l tists' marblc-yards, for little else indi- cates that they are burial places. They 1 have no trees, no sWeet-sccnted shrubs. no tlower-bods, no walks, no seats, no song-birds nothing, except the cold marble slabs and luxurious growth of weeds, is there to be found. Is this as it ought to be? Have those who departed. some in the bloom of youth, others in wintry age, left no relatives. no friends behind that will cherish their memories or beautify their resting-places beyond the placing of d stone on the grave?

 In Europe, at least in northern Europe, the country cemeteries present a differ ent aspect Though the parish may be small and poor, the churchyard blooms like paradise with lovely plantations of trees and shrubbery Clean, graceful walks wind through the groves, and though, instead of the costly headstone, there may be but a simple wooden cross, yet at its base one may be sure to find a rose or hyacinth, or other floral treasure to bear evidence that the sleeper is not forgotten by the living.

 Of necessity our early settlers could not give much attention to the laying out of burial places; but the neglect of our country cemerteries is growing to be national characteristic. The country is now getting older, richer and more densely populated; it is quite time therefore to make change; there is no longer any excuse for the present con- dition of rural cemeteries. Destroy the weeds and produce, instead, a velvety grass sod. Plant bowers, hardy ever greens and deciduous trees to beautify and shade the spot. Plant them for the sake of the sacred memory of those you have buried. Plant them for your own sake who visit and cherish the spot

 Plant them for the sake of the commu- nifty in which you live, whose aesthetic taste you will thus help to ,educate.- RalrGJ NeaU Yorker.
Year: 1879

She laid her pretty hand upon her hus- bands shoulder. Henry, love, there's something the matter with the clock will you see to itp" So he took off his coat, removed the face and hands, exam ined the interior parts with a large mag nifying- glass, blew into them with the bellows, oiled them thoroughly, and did all that mortal ingenuity could devise. But it was of no avail and so, despair hg, at a late hour of the night he went to bed, and slept the sleep of the right eous. Next morning at breakfast quoth she "Henry, dear, I know what was the matter with the clock "Wel1pn It only wanted winding"
Year: 1879

CUsTARD PIE.-Boil quart of milk with half dozen peach leaves, or the rind of lemon. When they have favored the milk strain it, and set it where it will boil. Mix a tablespoonful of flour smoothly, with a couple of tablespoon fuls of milk. Let it boil a minute, stir ring it constantly; take it from the fire, and when cool put in three beaten eggs, sweeten to the taste, turn it into deep pie-dishes, and bake the pies directly in quick oven.
Year: 1879

A painting that is greatly admired at Rome this season, "The Revels of Mas salina," has a strange history. The man who painted it lived in an attic and kept body and soul together on limited diet of bread and oniens. When it was done he gave it to another painter in pledge of $500, and finally killed himself in utter despair. Now that he is dead, his pie lures are selling. The artist to whom " "Massalina" was pledged also killed himself
Year: 1879

The plea of several Western settlers, who have been writing to the bureau of emigration at Castle Garden, New Y York city, for wives has been answered. The superintendent has received letters from three or four young women, who are anxious to ally their destinies with the Western Benedicts, and it is just possible that they may light the torch of Hymen.
Year: 1879

The Emperor Napoleon IT., during his visit to England, contrived to win the warm friendship of the queen and Prince Albert, which, in the case of the former, has been extended to his widow and son. The young Louis Napoleon, before departing for the Zulu war, called upon the queen to bid adieu, and, accord ing to a London paper, she received him with the greatest cordiality, thanking him in a trembling voice for the cour- agcous interest he evinced in her army and country. She seated him beside her on a sofa during the interview, and, as he rose to depart, she drew a ring from her hand, and placing it upon his finger, asked him to preserve it as a mark of her gratitude. The young man was visibly affected by the queens gift and words.
Year: 1879

III1tAo"s


JOHN MCCULLOUGH REVIEWED


We are not among those who consider John
Mccullough genius just yet, but We are
anon. lie number-raoidly increasing-who
believe that he has made mark upon the
American stage which will be enduring. When
be began his engagement at Haycrly's, two
weeks ago. we confess to having gone TO see
him with prejudice in his disfavor, porn Of his
pass performances. We make the amende hon
o1ab!e, and credit him With having made rapid
aud wonderful strides in his profession.


PerhaDs no actor has developed so fully In
three years. We need not say that his early life
was not nucseu in physical or intellectual
wealth, and that the Development and sharpen
ing OF the natural qualities Of his mind were
due entirely to the stage and its peculiar educa-
ton; nor need We remind play-goers of his
good fortune in becoming pet and pupil Of
Forrest Hc went through the routine OF q thea
trc, playing every line OF character, and not
many years ago stepped upon the tragic stage
with laudable determination to labor earnestly,
even It he had to wait, for q name among the
exponcnts Of the higher drama.


When he first appeared as star in the East,
come New York philosopher set him down IS
"a California diamond, rough aud uncut"


This philosopher was right.


John Mccullough mad the same conception
then Of the parts he most successfully portrays
NOW, but be had not the art to make them esthetic
pictures He possessed the physical qualities,
but that intellectual, artistic sway over his fac
ulies was absent sway which only comes by
study and experience


His stature was massive, but not command
Ing; his face Was capable OF much expression,
bat not flexible enough for the perfect depletion
OF passion and emotion; he had a magnificent