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Year: 1877

to lie idle in the Treasury with
loss of interest and then bs suddenly
paid out in exchange for greenbacks
would be more prudent and economical to
fund the greenbacks directly into bonds
than to ''go round Robin Hoods barn" by
first selling the bonds for gold and disturb
ing the gold market, then boarding the gold
for a long period and at last paying it out
tor the same greenbacks that might have
been more easily retired by direct ex-
change for the bonds without all the trouble
and disturbance Of the money market which
would attend the other process. Although
the four per cent bonds cannot be sold for
gold q sufficient amount OF them could
probably be sold for greenbacks to bring the
latter to par long before the end of next
year. A moderate stock Of gold would then
suffice for redeeming the few that would be
offered. If Congress adopts this proposed
recommendation Of the Secretary Of the
Treasury it should also make explicit pro-
vision for the immediate destruction of the
retired greenbacks and prevent their return
to circulation. The free banking law will
give the country all the currency it needs,
since it is the interest Of the banks to fur
nish all the notes which can be maintained
at par. The mortifying collapse Of Mr..
Sherman's first experiment should make
him moro cautious and wary, as we'll as more
modest and we trust he will now put him.
self in friendly connection with the banking
interest of the country, seek its powerful
cooperation and try TO profit by its sugges-
tiOnS
Year: 1877

THE CoURr or APPEALS has at last closed the
gatesagainst the army Of young and ignorant law
ycrs who arc turned loose upon the city and State
and in doing so is entitled to the thanks OF the
public well as of the Bar. The new standard
Of admission is, IL anything, too low, but it is
better than 10 standard at all, which has been
practically the case.
Year: 1877

WELLS, ANDERSON and the other members of
the Louisiana Returning Board will be placed
on trial in q few days. From the counsel who
are engaged ON both sides and certain intima-
tons which are given it begins to look as if IN
effort il to be made to give the trial an intensely
partisan political turn
Year: 1877

tolerably good audience witnessed the performance
OF tho three act comedy Of 'Joshua Whitcomb" ut
Woods Theatre Brooklyn last evening" with apparent
satisfaction. Tho the as that which met
with encouraging success IN Now York some weeks
ago at the Globe Theatre. What thon said OF the
representation need not DO qualified now.
Year: 1877

The Philadelphia Record, In no
ticing the trial of a new steam motor
on the Market street track in that
city, or Wednesday, declares the trial
demonstrated that steam transit for
Philadelphia is possible, practical
nay, that it is already fixed fact. {"
The Public Ledger sums up the con-
ditions to he filled by the steam ma
chimes to be substituted for horse
power on street railways, as follows !:
sit is essential that they shall be
easily handled-that is to say, they
shall be very manageable as to sudden
stops, and in going up and down
grades, around curves, and across
switches and tuEnOGtsj that they
shall be as nOiseless in the matter of
exhaust steam as it is practicable to
make them, so that horses shall not
be scared by the ordinary puff
fag and coughing incident TO
most locomotive engines that
they shall not fill the air with clouds
Of steam or smoke, and that they
shall not throw out fire or cinders /;
that they shall not be 80 ponderous as
to either crush out or hammer cut
the rails and, finally, that they shall
not cost so much for running expenses
and maintenance as horsepower"
The Ledger adds: Excepting this
last mentioned condition, about which
we are without precise information, 1t
may be said that the engine-csrs en-
plOyed in Wednesdays exhibit full
hlled very fairly all, or nearly all, ths
Others"
Year: 1877

. AAOAEAAf


WAsHINGTON, ID. G., March 81. !


To the President: 4:


SIR-The result Of the conference to
which you did me the honor TO Invite
me has been to leave on my mind the
conviction that you sincerely desire
to see q peaceful and Just settlement
Of the question which Is distTacting
our people, and injuring seriously the
material interests Of our State, and i
trust you are equally convinced Of my
earnest wish 70 and In accomplishing
this happy end. As may not have
the pleasure Of seeing you again on
this subject, it msy be proper TO put
before you in the fullest and most deh-
mite form the assurances given you
verbally. Irepeat, therefore, that "
the Federal troops are Withdrawn
from the State House there shall be
on my part, or that Of my friends, no
resort to violence to assert our claims.
but that We shall look for their main
tenance solely TO such peaceful rene
dies as the Constitution and laws OF
the State provide. shall use all my
authority 70 repress the use or exhibit
tiOn Of force IN the settlement OF All
disputed questions, and this authority
shall be exercised in such 3 manner
that the peace shall be preserved.


We only desire the establishment
In our State OF q government which
will secure to every citizen, the low
est as well IS the highest, black As
well as white, full aud equal prOtee-
ton in the enjoyment Of all his rights
under the Constitution Of the United
States. No one can be more deeply
Impressed than myself with the i'm
peratiye necessity Of establishing cor
dial relations between all classes and
both races in south Carolina, for IL Is
only by these means that the true ana
enduring welfare OF the State can De
secured, With the recognition OF per"
feet equality Of every citizen before
the law, with 3 just and impartial ad-
mfnistration OF the laws, with q pfac-
tIeaI and secure exercise OF the right
Of suffrage, and with q system OF pub /
lie education which will open the |
sources Of knowledge to all classes,
we NAV hope to see our State soon
take the position to which she Is en-
titled.


It was the patriotic idea to aid IN
the accomplishment or these high
aims that called me from my retire
ment TO become 3 candidate for Gov
ernOr Of South Carolina. It was
thought the confidence Of the people
of that State that i would honestly
aud faithfully carry out all these pur-
poses th1t / was elected their Chief
Magistrate, and feel profoundly that
peace can be surely preserved there
and prosperity restored BY assuring
Year: 1877

Among other prominent features Of
the show will be the tableau OF Wash
ipgtOn at Yorktown, formerly ex-
hibited at the rink on Chestnut street /;
q large aquarium covering q space OF
700 square feet and containing
fresh and salt water specimens, and =


department Of public comfort" for
the accommodation Of visitOrp. The
southwestern portion Of the building.
q location far removed from the audi
torium, is to be devoted 10 machinery
from Machinery Hall, while the
northwestern section will be occupied
by the agricultural display. Two
Buckeye" engines will furnish
power to the machinery and trans
nit it across 10 the agricultural
machinery by means Of q wire
cable running underneath the


floor. Upward Of three-fOurths OF 3
mIls OF shafting will be required for
the proper working Of the machinery
that Is to be IN operation, and among
those exhibiting in this department
will be representative firms OF the
country. The manufacture OF glass
Year: 1877

CUTTING Doc" ILLUsrRATIoN.-The
Richmond (va.) State gives a graphic
description OF the various kinds Of dogs
once employed in fox hunting In Virgin
ia. The most remarkable Of them was
the cutting" dog, an animal who added
to his instinct, and his nose certain
reasoning faculty which often rose above
instinct and as often fell below it. He
got the name Of cutting" dog from his
habit Of cutting across the fields to head
the fox, and il he was good guesser the
pack would follow him. confident that
he would lead by the shortest road TO
success. But he would some time or
other make big mistake, turn the pack
out, and lead the whole host In grevious
disappointment THEREAFTER the pack
would no longer follow him; when he
gave tongue the other dogs only shifted,
and when he made, as he sometimes did
another good guess, and getting far
ahead would lead the pack. he was con-
tsmptiously disregarded still and never
allowed full fellowship even with the
stupidest Of the cold-nosed, cautious
trailers. The State remarks ia post
script that Blaine Of Maine is the "cut-
ting" dog.
Year: 1877




DEAKYNEvILLE, DEL, March 18th, 1877,


Mr. Editor I'm looking over the pro-
ceedings Of the Legislature at Dover 1
find that they have passed stock law in
School District No 81, Blackbird hun
dred, New Castle county, L would ask
that Legislature what grounds they had
to pass such law in said district? The
remonstrance had eighteen names, resi-
dents of said School District, whereas
the petition had but eight names of said
District. Now, l will say to the Legisla-
ture that the men that signed the remon-
STRANGE against taat bill were men that
voted for them at the November election
of 1876; and they gave US credit for our
votes by saying that we shall not have q
cow! That is the true meaning of said
bill. For one of the very men that got
up that petition said that poor man had
no business with a COW, and one hog was
as much as poor man ought to have. /
will say to that man If that poor mans
hog was as big hog as he is would not
have it. He also said that the men who
favored the petition were the biggest men.
1 will admit that they are the biggest ras-
Gals. Now, 1 would like to know what
he calls big men. 1 will tell him what
his big men are. Four of the men that
signed the petition for the stock law in
said District No. 81, New Castle county,
live, or their residence is in Kent county,
Delaware, and two of the men are the
biggest rascals on the face of Gods earth,
and every body in the neighborhsod
knows it. As for the men that favored
the petition in said district, except two
or three Of them, if their debts were paid
they would not have one cent to rub
against another; and one of these men
has raised part of his stock en- the public
road in School District No. 67, New Cas-
tie county. would ask that Legislature
II eighteen names, composed Of free
holders and poor, hard working white
men. ought not over-balance eight names
composed partly of grand rascals and
poverty stricken freeholders. There is
not one of these men that would hire
poor man pasture unless he paid three
times its worth. Since that bill passed
one of the poor men living in School
District No. 81, went to one of them big
men, as they term themselves, and asked
him If he would pasture COW for him
this season. He gave him cold reply
no! How any Legislature could go be-
hind that remonstrance and pass such
bill cannot see; they certainly must
sweeten their whiskey with that beet |
sugar they have been making at Dover |
this present session. Now, if the legisla-
ture had nothing to do but impose on the |
laboring class of people it would have
been more to their credit and money in |
The treasury if they had stayed at home |
and attended to their business. For the |
way they have been doing this session |
At Dover is curse to the party.


A Democrat of the Old School,


w. j. DAVID.
Year: 1877

AT this moment the condition of Paris.
which may be taken to represent that of
France, is extremely unpleasant, not to say
dangerous. Public meetings are strictly
prohibited, and are 70 be put down by force,
if attempted-the governmental idea being
that if four or five persons exchange words at
the corner of street, the police or the
army must regard that as ga public meet
ing" and Immediately disperse it. Half a
dozen persons familiarly conversing upon
general subjects, with occasional reference to
the political crisis, may be regarded as con-
stituting private and, therefore, illegal po-
ltical meeting, and be hauled away to prison
without delay. Journalists cannot publish
until their papers have passed under the
supervision of censor who marks out every
paragraph, line or word that dispeases him,
and forbids the sheet to be published with
out other and harmless matter filling up the
vacancy. If blank spaces were lef! all the
world would see that the Censorship was
running its course. Unless specially author
lied, newspapers may not be sold in the
streets. Foreign journals are rigidly exam
ined and delivered or kept back at the will of
Year: 1877

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter has "got
itself up regardless" in new dress of type,
and is now the handsomest as it is the largest
and most Influential trade journal in the
country. Its latest issue numbers sixty.fve
pages, is indispensable to all who deal in
leather as we'll as of interest and value to the
general reader. The Reporter has made
rapid strides in enterprise under its new
management.
Year: 1877

A LARGE force of Russians is now across
the Danube, and the whole invading army
will doubtless be in Bulgaria by the end
of the week. With the passage of the river
the difficulties of the attack actually begin,
for the Bulgarian quadrilateral must be
captured or evaded and the line of the
Balkans forced before the troops of the Czar
strike the great road to Constsntinople.
Year: 1877

The crop reports all over the country are
cheering. In the West the danger from the
grasshopper is believed to be over, and the
crops promise to be heavier than for some
years. In our own section everything is do
ipp wall
Year: 1877

the officials. The cafes are watched by an
army of spies, and for conversation which
they report as dangerous the law officers are
to prosecute with all the rigor of the law.
Even the right of petitioning the Senate and
the Chamber of Deputies is restrained.
Year: 1877

On Saturday morning last, about 10
o'clock, the Quarryville Railroad Com
pany came very near making us a real


live local, had it not been for the efforts
of conductor. "A six-year-old son of
George Simmons, engineer of No. 3
mill, residing on South Water Street,
undertook to get aboard the train that
goes south about that time, and in doing
so he fell from the platform, and was
seen to 90 down under the cars. Those
who witnessed the accident shuddered
and turned away their heads, expecting
after the train passed to find the boy
strewn promiscuously along the railroad
track. Luckily for him, however, as he was
falling his pantaloons came in contact
with projecting bolt under the plat
form of the car, and there he hung sus-
pended between life and death. He
could not release himself, but the watch
full eye of the conductor saw the young
ster's peril and ran to his rescue. Pull
ing the bell-rope with one hand, he
reached down under the platform and
caught the lad as he wa:
dragging along on the ground


That was very close encounter the
youth had with death, and we are glad
to know that he has escaped, but as il
is he is bruised very considerably and
his father will have to buy him new
suit of clothes, for those worn by hin


at the time of the accident were com


pletely ripped to pieces.-Lancastei
(Pa.) NeW Era.
Year: 1877

General, it is Virginia herself, through
the Governor, her highest constituted
authority, who asks you to continue in
her service. 1t is our old mother State
who makes this appeal. She has been
rudely smitten on the cheek, and forced
to summon her sons to stand by and de-
fend her from further insult and injury.
viii YOU turn a deaf ear to her solicita-
tions?"


Such, substantially, were his remarks
as he continued to traverse the room;
until finally, after he had thus given full
vent to his feelings and resumed his
seat, | reminded him that it was grow
ing late; and that, as l would have to
leave Winchester by daylight on my re-
turn to Richmond, I hoped he would not
let me 60 back utterly disappointed in
the result of my interview-that if he
would consent to remain in command
of the Valley District, [ would insure
him against any further interference
from the Secretary of War, that l would
do every thing in my power to have his
force increased, and the disaffected por-
ton of his troops replaced by those
which would be more reliable and eff
fective. told him then of the arrange
ment which the Governor had made to
have no action taken for the present on
his resignation.


After appealing to him in this way
for some time, to allow the Governor to
withdraw his resignation, l at last got
up to go; and when | took his hand to
bid him goodbye, said:


"Well, what message am I to take
back to our good friend, the Governor,
in answer to his letterp''


He was silent for some seconds, and |
saw that there was conflict of feelings
within him, but, finally, ruling his spir-
it and thus proving himself to be might
ier ethan he that taketh city," he
slowly replied, pausing between almost
every word:


"Tell m-that-he'll have to do
what he thinks is best-for the State


And thus it was that Stonewall Jack
son consented to remain in the army to
make


| -h;a Valley march tO fame
Year: 1877

THERE is one advantage DIR. Mary
Walker has over the rest of us fellows
who wear trousers. When she sews on
suspender button she doesn't harpoon
her thumb every time she jabs the nee
die through, and then finds out, when
the agonizing job is done, that she has
sewed the trousers, fore and aft, so tight
together that the whole thing has to be
wrecked before she can get into them
Year: 1877

New YORK, June 8.-Peter Cooper,
candidate Tor President of the United
States at the last election, has just sd-
dressed a long open letter to President
Hayes, criticising the past financial
policy oil the government and also mark
ing out proper course, In his opinion,
10 he pursued in the future. Cooper
begins his letter with the words:
ALLOW me to offer you my heartfelt
thanks for the wise and independent
urse you have adopted In the discharge
OF the responsible and difficult duties
that you have been called on to
perform. Mr.. Cooper argues:
Our national currency must be made re-
ceivable for all purposes throughout the
country, and interconvertible with 3pcr
cent government bonds. Such currency
would have been worth more to the
American people than all the gold mines
that have ever been discovered on the
continent of America. He advises that
the silver be Withdrawn from circulation
and used in the purchase of foreign
bonds, the fractional paper currency to
be revived
Year: 1877

City of Jezreel, the dogs have their
teeth fastened in her soft flesh, her
clothing is disheveled, and the run
ming blood which marks the teeth
prints of the dogs is the most
sickening scene / ever saw por-
trayed. There is this account Of
the painting: This picture was
painted by the order of Philip II of
Spain, at his palace, by Lucca
Giordana, the favorite artist of the
court of Spain. The king, enraged
at the refusal of his hand by Eliza
beth of England, sought history
through to find her counterpart.
He decided that Queen Jezebel was
the prototype of England's naughty
mistress. In order to crafty re-
venge he had her painted under
the character of the most ignomini-
GUS queen of holy writ. 1t is really
the form and face of the virgin
queen, whose flesh the dogs of the
street are tearing. The picture
came from the gallery Of Cardinal
Fesch, and has value Of ten thou.


sand scudi."