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Year: 1878

O'LEARY has come back with his belt
and his gold; but, poor fellow, be will
be compelled to walk twice again. should
he be challenged, before the belt can be-
come his exclusive property. Even to the
pedestrian, life is not all sunshine, and q
champions belt is about as uneasy g
thing TO wear as the monarch's crown
Year: 1878

ARDENT LovER-We do not think You
should remit your attentions to the girl
simply because her father kicked you out.
Go to the old man and say frankly that if
he repeats the action you should regard
it as an insult. 1t was surely rather un-
ladylke for the young woman to hop
upon chair and shout, Go in, dad
give him h'ister! He's been loafing
round here long enough"
Year: 1878

IN ancient Sparta to grow fat was
crime, and the offender was punished at
the whipping-post. In modern Amer
ics it is a virtue, and the possessor of
adipose matter is rewarded by an Alder
mans chair or seat on the Supreme
Bench. So fashions change from age to
are
Year: 1878

It ls rumored that Clarkson Potter will con-
sent to run for Congress In his old district. in
the election to I'LL the vacancy occasioned by
the death of the successful Republican, who
died on election day. Mr., Potter should have
made the contest In November. His position
as leader In the investigation of tho last
presidential election should have caused him
to cast aside private business considerations
and give his constituents an opportunity tc
approve his course. Mr.. Potter is personally
popular; the district has heretofore been
Democratic and it Is thought he can recover
IL II he accents the Democratic nomination.
Year: 1878

A number of newspapers are claiming to be
the only Southern journals that receive the
latest telegraphic news. These papers boast
grams are frequently received In tho DEMO
CRAT office after 3 o'clock in the morning. and
the regular press report is never in until half
past l. This is no new thing, either. It has
been the rule since this paper became q mem
Der of tho National Press Association. That
association can always be relied on to furnish
tho very latest and freshest Intelligence from
all parts OF the world.
Year: 1878

The Northern Fress is discussing the ques-
tion of national quarantine just now, and
seem generally to favor It, 1t will depend
wholly upon The South whether such O. bill
passes CongS3ss as majority of the Western
and Northern members are willing to vote for
this quarantine if tho South overooks State
rights and asks for it. The New York and
New England members will be the principal
objectors to such q law. It Is said that the
President will recommend this quarantine in
his annual message to Congress, and suggest
that 1t be continued in force from january to
November 20; that it be placedaunder the con-
troll Of the Navy Department, and that the
money to be expended beappropriated under q
special head.
Year: 1878

The people Of the North have been thanked
by our various benevolent societies for the aid
that they SO generously gave us in our late
sorrow and suffering, but there has been nc
proper expression of gratitude on the part OF
our people, This is something that should
not be forgotten, now that tho epidemic Is
over. It has been suggested that a popular
meeting, such as could speak for our whole
people, should be held at some early day, say
just after the meeting Of the Commercial Con-
vention here. The occasion is eminently fit
and proper for such q meeting, as those who
are present here from the North as delegates
to this convention. can then see how we re-
member the aid we have received from the
North and how grateful we are therefor. and
bear these tidDgs home with them, BY oil
means. let this popular meeting be held
Year: 1878

The recent lease Of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad to the Atchison Topeka and
Santa Fe company Ia blow aimed at the
Southern Pacific Railroad and government
assistance thereto. The lease goes into effect
ON the first of December. and is to last for
thirty years. The roads will be under the
control of Huntington and Gould, the declared
enemies Of the Southern Pacific. Under the
new arrangement they get 337 miles of addi-
tional road and are within 800 miles Of the
eastern terminus of the Southern Pacific. now
advancing eastward at the rate Of two miles o
day. In less than year the Sante Fe road
will tap the Pacific line.
Year: 1878

Now that the yellow fever has disappeared,
quarantine restrictions been removed, and
free intercourse with the interior re-estab-
Iished, we propose to issue on the first OF De"
Dember comprehensive statement OF the
commerce OF New Orleans for the past fifteen
months.


On that occasion we design issuing one OF
the largest editions ever sent forth from q
newspaper Office In the Southwest. and we
respectfully suggest to our advertising
friends to make d note of this announcement
and govern themselves accordingly.
Year: 1878

Gov Hampton Is rapidly recovering from
the effects OF his recent fall from O. mule, and
will soon be prepared to assume the duties of
his office. The Governor will probably be
elected United States Senator next Tuesday.
There Is virtually no opposition to him. al
though Gen. Gary would like to succeed Pat
terson But the General seems to have NO
following They are all for Hampton.
Year: 1878

We have heard frequent inquiries as
to what has become Of the San Mar
COS band. The following from the
Austin Salesman is supposed" to ex.
plain its mysterious disappearance:


Sisson has the wreck Of the San
Marcos brass band. The instruments
were fished up out Of the pellucid
river into which the outraged people
are supposed to have drowned the
awful musicians.
Year: 1878

The Whitehall Times didn't half
finish that story about the trout in
o gentleman's trout pond, saving
the life of little girl who was ac-
customed to feed them, and who
had accidentally fallen into the
pond, by forming themselves into a
solid body and supporting her In
the water. We have later advices
about il. The trout not only raised
her to the surface, but they floated
her ashore, after which they took
her on their shoulders and carried
her up to the house, over
half mile, across lots, being COM
PEELED to take down several fences
in order to do it. When the father
of the little girl came to the door
in answer to the bell (rung by one
of the trout, he discovered lot
of the trout rolling the child on an
old salt barrel to get the water out
of her. When she was finally re-
suscitated the trout united in CIV
ing three cheers, and declining to
step into the house and take suth-
in, they trotted back to the pond.
Why don't you finish story when
you begin it?-Cincinnati Saturday
Night.


Yes, but you don't say anything
about the big trout with one eye,
that went around the house while
the rest were cheering at the front
door, and drank a quart of cider,
kissed the hired girl, aud stole two
boiled shirts and n pair of silk sus-
penders from the clothes rack.
Don't shield a trout in its wicked
ness, ,Girswood. Huntington Ha,ek.
eye.
Year: 1878

me = quarter If you tried awful
hard?n


The old man grew black and
blue in the face, but suppressing
his emotion, after moment he
forced smile and replied:


"Please come out into the back
yard. 1 keep my silver buried out
there for fear of thieves.n


He started out, a diabolical grin
on his mouth, but the man who
wanted to save the country made Il
sudden break for the street and got
away.-Detrot Free Press.
Year: 1878

A genuine tramp is now an inmate
of Missouri poorhouse He was a.
doctor at one time Of life, bnt tired


and ceased practice. Then his wife


worked for him until she worked her


self to death, and then he tramped.


Believing that work wasn't healthy,


he had resolved Lever to work any


more. Il S mind was fully made up


on that subject. He did not want to


steal, and he had to live. A poorhouse


was what he was looking for. The


poorhouse keepers told him if he stayed,
there he would have to work. He
thought not. No more work for him
under any circumstances. They put
him In dark cell for twenty-four
hours, to bring hin TO a sense of his
loneliness aud isolation, feeding him
moderately. They piled him with the
labor question; wouldn't work. They
shut him up for twenty-four hours
more. His determination remained
unaltered. Ten days passed, and he still
did not work Doctors were called in,
and found the man serene, perfectly
healthy in mind and body, and he
moreover proved himself "a physician
by answering correctly all the profes--
slonal questions put to him. He was
stumper. They had never before
met case of laziuess where forty
eight hours of enforced idcncss aud
darkness and silence would not bring
a reaction. They took him out and
put hoe in his hand He dropped
he hoe. They tried to make him fol
ow a pillow He dropped in the fur
'ow. So they turned him loose among
he otlfer paupers, and find him useful
n lecturlrg them on morals aud Civ
ng them good advice. So he has
us uses, after all.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Jay Gould may have failed. If
he has not failed now, he may fail
hereafter. No + an can deal in such
colossal interests as are owned and
controlled 10y this single man without
being exposed to the liability of fail
ure. In the vast operations in which
he is so constantly concerned, the
wonder is, with many, that he has
not failed before. But believing the
while that Mr. Gould is too strong in
actual ownership of available wealth.
to 90 down under the pressure that is
said to have been r, Gently upon him,
this we say, his failure would be
great damage to Omaha and this part
of the West. No man was ever in
control cf the Union Pac fic railroad
who was able TO perceive lis own in,
terests to lie in so many different di-
rections for the extension of our trans.
Missouri railroad system, and it is at
least problematical whether any man
would succeed him in lis control who
would prove at once So able in means
and SO bold in conception for the pro-
motion Of our railroad interests. For,
whatever else may be said about him.
Mr.. Gould is railroad manager OF
vast experience and conceded ability,
and as business man his remarkable
career speaks for itself IL Omaha Her.
aid.
Year: 1878

THERE is a burden of care in gei-
ting riches, fear in keeping them.
temptation in using them, guilt il
abusing them, sorrow in losing them.
and burden Of account at last to ba
given mp concerning them.
Year: 1878

pointed which will report against all the
Butler delegates. In that case the Butler
delegates, who have an undoubted ma
jority, will hold separate convention and
nominate their favorite. But they will not
do this until after they have made strenu-
ous effort to control the Convention. They
may succeed in doing this by sheer force
of numbers. and in that case it is the pro-
claimed purpose ofthe anti-Buuer democrats
to withdraw and hold another convention.
A split, therefore, seems to be inevitable.
After q brisk fight there will be a separa.
tion of the sheep from the goats, followed
by two conventions and the nomination of
two democratic candidates, each claiming
to be regular. Butler seems certain of a
democratic nomination in any event. and
party discipline will be SO completely
broken that no democrat who prefers Butler
will be restrained from voting for him.
Year: 1878

It seems ridiculous that so slight an in
fuence as that occasioned by change of
weather should alter the tendency of human
nature for good or for bad, yet it is On in
controvertible fact that any unusual change
of temperature is generally followed by
great mass of details of crime. The
past few days have afforded a case in
point. On Sunday and yesterday, after q
period of moisture which, besides being un-
usual, was very depressing to physique and
spirits, the newspapers were supercharged
with stories Of crimes most unusual and re-
voting. Murders, fearful assaults, quarrels
and other manifestations Of irritated mem
tality and deteriorated physique crowded
pleasanter news out of the columns
Of the HERALD, and seemed to in
dicate general outbreak Of human
viciousness. No matter how illogical the
connection between weather and wickedness
may seem, the fact that such an interde-
pendence is manifested should prompt
physicians to look more closely to causes Of
abnormal action, and see if it is not possible
to stop the undesirable developments which
law seems powerless to prevent.
Year: 1878

Boats, trains and ocean steamers have
during the past week been bringing into
the city the Thousands of people who
several months ago hurried away from
sitting air and dirty streets, and fathers of
families considering the whole duty of man
accomplished when they have paid the bills,
have rushed back to store and Office,
leaving their wives to reunite the thread
which was broken when the hegira began.


There is nothing unusual about this, al
though there is great deal that is un-
lust those who have most heart and most
tact always have the greatest share
of the worlds burdens heaped upon
them, so what can woman expect
but the heaviest, most responsible
and most unpleasant of lifo's dutios? To
cleanse and renovate the home is charm
ing task if one chooses to regard it under
the mellow light of sentiment but she who
finds the burden of it upon her own
shoulders knows that it implies as much
torment as taste and as many headaches as
heart promptiugs. But whatever has q
value has also price, and the woman who
spends days of torment and nights of anx-
iety over housecleaners, decorators and
upholsterers--none Of whom have an idea
Year: 1878

Yesterday the elevated road in Third


avenue doubled the number of its trains,
and found even then that during the busi-
ness hours of morning and evening the in
creased facilities were not sufficient to seat
the entire number Of passengers. The plat
forms Of some Of the cars were as crowded
as those of the surface road in the
same avenue used to be in the good
old times when everybody was busy
and could afford to. ride. Some
thing should be done to obvate this diff
Guilty, for in spite of the railing with which
every platform is enclosed the possibilities
of danger are great; besides it is i'm
possible to maintain schedule time it
there is to be delay at every station in
forcing passengers back and forth through
o tightly packed mass OF humanity


Mr.. Field's statement, in another
column, contains some gratifying assur-
ances. Nearly all the projected stations are
open, though we lack any specific promise
of what these stations, when complete, will
amount to. The cars are said to be we'll
built, but Mr.. Field is silent about the
additional number necessary to properly
accommodate the populous east side. We
are glad to learn that the company is not
wholly responsible for the hitherto mex
plicable blunder of the delay with the
Chatham street branch and Tryon square
station, but it is matter for wonder that SO
important q question Of difference between
two great corporations should not have
been earlier settled, even by arbitration.
Year: 1878

larger than the dollars and cents which
their bills express take considerable
private consolation from the fact that the
results will lessen the annoyances and dis
comforts of those for whom she lives To
find her husband relieved of everything
that could be cause for complaint, and
her children happy and healthful in
spite of being deprived of the greater free
dom and variety of scene which they have
enjoyed out of town, will reconcile the lady
of many house to the worst of her own
grievances, even to that never ending one
which comes of the engagement and train
ing of new corps of servants. And some
day, even though it comes not until she is
where servants cease from troubling and
the mistress is at rest, she may be sure that
the law of compensation, which never sleeps,
though it may seem to be hidden beneath
the dust of forgotten places, will award her
the dues of affection and respect which she
has SO honestly and hardly earned.
Year: 1878

1t has generally been admitted that tho
risk of attending the first representation of
a new play is great enough of itself to appall
any but the most intrepid theatre-goer, but
when this is enhanced by the probability
that the play announced will not be seen
at all, but will, on the contrary, be closely
curtained by an injunction, the pub
lie cannot be blamed for regard
ing first nights more suspiciously
than ever. The much enjoined ''M'liss"
has already. drawn two houses which
were compelled to look at plays many
thousand nights old, while "Mliss"
herself remained sort of ward Of court in
strict seclusion. No American branch Of
the Richardson family has yet applied for
an injunction restraining the resurrection
of the long dead "Clarissa Harlowe," and
the reproduction of 'Henry VIII" has not
as yet upon complaint of some pretended
descendant Of Shakespeare, been forbidden
by legal authority, but it is hard to imagine
any step too ridiculous or improbable
while injunctions are easily procured upon
affdavits. 1t is time that little legal
sense should be put to use in such cases.
The tendency to withhold proceedings
during the period of preparation of piece.
but to force them ut almost the last moment
before production, should be regarded by o
magistrate as it would be by any other man,
and the law should be saved the disgrace
of assisting business trickery. We allude
to the proceedings in no particular case,
but it is a notorious fact that those who
know the stage bsst have least respect for
the honesty of injunction proceedings in
general.
Year: 1878

Few stories told of the horrors Of the
famine in China were more horrible than
those which represented parents selling
their children that they might gain few
coin with which to get food and continue
their wretched lives for few days longer.
Ven and women, made savage by hunger.
and at their best lacking in that tender
ness Of sentiment for their children that is
part of the culture of the family as found
in Christian countries, were thought to be
shown at their worst in that fierce trait.
YET, how much better people are a great
deal nearer home may be guessed when we
note that in England the papers are just
now discussing the operation of the law to
prevent the insurance of the lives of chill
dren. 1t is believed that the small amount
of money that is made dependent by insur-
ance upon the lives of little ones--and
made payable if they die-not only
reconciles parents to the most distressing
mortality in their families, but even makes
them indifferent to the ordinary precautions
for the prevention of disease and the ordi-
nary methods of avoiding fatal result. By
law it is already forbidden to place upon
the life of an infant more than six pounds,
or thirty dollars, and nominally this is in
tended to give it handsome funeral in
case il does die; but il is believed that anx.
iety about the funerals of we'll children
does not account for the extent to which
these insurances are made. As portion of
the money must certainly go for funeral
when it is collected the margin between the
sum so spent and thirty dollars must be
small; so that, if the English papers reason
accurately on this subject, the money actu-
ally gained cannot vary greatly between
England and China--and in England there
is not famine.
Year: 1878

One Of the consequences Of the great
freedom of the people Of this country from
the interference and controlof authority is
an equivalent absolution Of authority from
any responsibility for the welfare Of the
people, except within the very narrow
sphere to which the responsibility Of gov
ernment is restricted by the State and fed
eral constitutions. Were it otherwise it
might not be impossible to overcome such
painful dilemma as has been witnessed
recently in the case of the wretched
people living within the limits Of
the country reached by the fever epi-
demic. In Memphis or Grenada, for
example, people could not stay without en-
countering such imminent peril as made
them feel that death was certain, yet they
could not fly without the far greater evil to
the country Of carrying the fever to other
places unless they went far to the North,
and then they were bounded by ignorant vii
lneers as if they were wild beasts, while we
have had one chronicle of people on the
Mississippi opening fire at an attempt to
land from contaminated boats Yet GER
tainly it would have been an advantage to
the country to have had the ravages Of the
epidemic lessened by the early removal
from a place like Memphis of all the peo-
pie willing to leave; and they could have
been taken away without danger to other
communities, for we have districts within
the United States to which fever cannot
possibly reach, and where it cannot be COM
municated to well persons. Perhaps the
money contributed for their assistance, and
certainly the loss by the epidemic, would
pay for such an extraordinary quarantine ;
but our government could not practice ex-
tensive schemes Of this sort for want OF
power-and want of means.
Year: 1878

canada.


Sir Francis Hincks contributes an article
to the September number of the Nineteenth
Century upon the Ministerial difficulty last
spring in the Province OF Quebec, which
attracted so much attention at the time not
only in Canada but in England. The ques-
ton has hardly had a parallel in Canadian
politics, and as it involves the relations of
the Crown to the Ministry it becomes one
Of general interest to the students of
Parliamentary history everywhere. In the
whirl Of our own politics the facts in
the case have perhaps passed from the
recollection of the majority Of our readers.
They are as follows: Toward the close OF
1876 the Governor General appointed the
Hon. Luc. Letellier de St. Just Lieutenant
Governor of the Province OF Quebec. The
sympathies of the new Lieutenant Governor
were ct the time more in accord with the
views of the opposition than with the Min
isterial party in the Legislature. Among
the legislative measures brought forward by
the Ministers was railroad bill upon which
the Lieutenant Governor asserted he had
not been consulted and OF which he unqual-
ifedly disapproved. Notwithstanding that
the Ministry had the full confidence Of the
Legislature, and had carried their bill,
they were dismissed by the Lieutenant
Governor, and new Ministry was formed
from among the opposition, not, however,
before something like On attempt had been
made to select Ministry from the ranks Of
the majority UpOn the constitutional
question thus raised Sir Francis Hincks ap-
pears to be of the opinion that the course of
the Lieutenant Governor is justified by law
and precedent. The thorough knowledge
possessed by Sir Francis Of Canadian poll
tics and his ability and eminence as
statesman will give his opinions on the sub
ject unusual weight in the Dominion.
Year: 1878

IT Is Nor IMPROBABLE that some of the
patriotic ward politicians who have surrendered
their fraudulent naturalization papers to
Commissioner Davenport could, if they chose,
throw some light on the subject of their issuance.
Year: 1878

AT THE EXTRA DAYS MEETING on the course
OF the Kentucky Association yesterday, which
was held for the benefit Of the yellow fever suf-
ferers, the attendance was very light. Ken
tueky ought to have done better.
Year: 1878

INSTEAD OF RAISING MoSEY to protect the
works of the Brooklyn Bridge the Comptroller
OF that city ought to issue bonds for an amount
sufficient to finish the structure and have done
with 1t. That is the policy for Brooklyn to
nursue.
Year: 1878

The SECOND ADyENTrsTs, who are not with
out hope of seeing their peculiar ideas realized
in the sweet by and by, meet to compare notes
next month. A large delegation from abroad is
tel
Year: 1878

IL THE AUTHORITIES wish to see travel over
Harlem Bridge indefinitely suspended, or per-
haps terrible accident at that point, all they
will have to do is TO neglect it for little while
LONGER