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Year: 1878

ONE WAY TO BAFFLE GRAVE DESPOILERS.
To THE EprroR HEnALD.-


AT this particular time, when the country is
startled and shocked by the late infamous dissertation
of the grave Of New York great merchant prince I
trust you will pardon me for calling your attention to
a very simple of prevention of repetition Of
such an outrage which has much TO recommend it,
and by being generally adopted would give offence
TO no one and that is the employ of such chem
icas after burial would speedily destroy the body
exactly the opposite method TO that practscd by the
ancient Egyptians whose great study seems to- have
been how to embslm the body that IL would keep
for an indefinite period.


The writer has tried many experiments this sub.
ject and has found that mixture OF potissic chlo
rate and common starch in about equal proportions
with drop two of sulphuric acid, all that re-
quircd After burial in the usual way and when the
friends and relatives have departed. IL twenty
FIVE thirty pounds of the above mixture be thrown
on the coffin and around IL and little of the acid
then added large volume Of oxygen will he libcr-
atel, which. combining with the carbon Of the
starch will give rise to intense heat and very
little win be- left Of this frail tenement clay cx
ccpt the inorganic elements. which are, of course
ufchangcable II ~ piece of rolled iron of q semi
u before the acid is poured on the chemicals
the effect s greatly increased. from the flame being
made " play upon tho srched roof and re-
Year: 1878

ASSISTANT WANTED.-T'he constantly in
creasing business OF the STATESMAN Office
makes it necessary for the proprietor to secure
the services of an assistant. To a young man
of 4 fair education and the requisite ability.
this is an excellent opening. What viii be
mainly required is a young man to write locals
and attend to collections. Applicants can ap-
ply to the proprietor in person, or address him
through the mails. stating fun particulars
Year: 1878

THE brick walls of c. T. ThompSon's build
ing are now up and in a few days he Will he
ready to move into his new quarters When
finished it viii he one OF the handsomest build
ings on Main street
Year: 1878

In the Third Ward last night
three Republicans were nominated
for the City Council. We are in.
clined to think that a little variety
is the spice of life in city politics,
as in everything else. The Demo.
Gratis present at the gathering at
Turnverein Hall withdrew, and
very properly, in our opinion. Our
Republican fellow-citizens are act
ing on the plan OF the negro who
was sent with the joint funds OF
himself and a companion to buy a
quart of whisky. When he re-
turned with the empty measure in
his hand he was asked by his com.
padre where his share of the liquor
was. "What's quart of whiskey
'mong one?" was the reply. The
Republicans in that meeting conld
very well have sat for the original
Of the fellow in the Autocrat Of the
Breakfast Table, who appropriated
three peaches with the felicitous
remark that there was just one
apiece for him!
Year: 1878

WHAT between suicides aud mi
ders the Pacific Coast is earning an
unenviable reputation at time
when 1t was thought that the old
impulse Of lawlessness had begun
to yield to the gentle manners
which are q demand of the finer


modern civilization. Suicide is
perhaps a crime growing out Of a
high state of civilization. Plato
has philosophical and Cato solilo.
quiz I'd upon it, the latter putting
bis theories into practice. Paris,
perhaps the most civilized of all
great cities, has achieved q bad
pre-eminence in the number of her
suicides. She is fully rivaled by
San Francisco, however. In fact,
the Golden Gate, in the ratio of
her population, cln boast of more
suicides than any other city on the
globe. Perhaps it is the "ozone"
Va Jul otihOSPhclc WhiCu 5tilhuiatCo
to self murder Notwithstanding
the disparity in populations of New
York and San Francisco, we be-
lieve that the latter city has the
more murders and suicides OF the
two. We have a dreamy sort of
impression that we have lately had
to read the details of about two sui
cldes day in tho Golden Gate,
aud they have not been extra good
days, either, while the murders
have been absolutely portentous in
number and atrocious in details.
Time was when the town of Los
Angeles was regarded as special
ly lawless place, and when it was
expected that at least one man a
day would be served up for break
fast here. We have got bravely
over that stage now, and we doubt
II there is more law-abiding city
on the continent than our own.
Even we have had a mum Der of
sensational suicides, but of late we
do not cultivate self destruction as
q fine art.
Year: 1878

To tho Editor Of the New York


Herald:


SIR: 1t is probable that the hrst
intimation Mr.. Marble received
that the vote OF Florida could be
had for consideration came from
me. / had been told that the vote
of one CT the Republican members
of the Returning Board could be
bought. The sum named as the
price was $4,000. l informed Mr..
Marble Of what l had heard, and
gave him the name of the party
said to be ready to negotiate and
the name Of the member whose
vote was to be secured. We talked
the matter oyer fully. Mr.. Marble
said, in substance, that the pro-
posal was piece Of strategy de.
signed to get an offer from the
Year: 1878

THE whole Pacific Coast Is to.
day hanging on the cross-cuts OF
the Sierra Nevada mine. Should
II turn out that spectators have
been reckoning without their host;


should porphyry ''horse" OF
formidable size obtrude itself In
the lejge, there will be q wall,
Year: 1878

VIRGINIA CITY, Nov. 49, The
acting Superintendent of the Bo.
nanza mines stated to reporter
this evening that the real cause of
the discharge of the men was the
intense heat. The miners will re-
sumo work as soon as connection is
made with Ophir. This will be in
ten days.
Year: 1878

The Liver is the imperial organ .ot
the whole human system, as it controls
the life, health aud happiness of man.
When it Is disturbed in its proper action,
all kinds of ailments are the natural re.
suit. The digestion of food, the move
ments OF the heart and blood, the action
of the brain aud nervous system, are all
Immediately connected With tho working
OF the Liver. It has been successfully
proved that Green's August Flower is
unequalled in curing all persons afflicted
with Dyspepsia or Liver Complaint, and
oil the numerous symptoms that result
from an unhealthy condition Of The Liy.
Year: 1878

of newspaper clippings relative 10 'he same
subject If extracts of that kind were OF value
to an investigating committee we cOulu SET
bov at wOrl, on our exchanges and turhifi
General Butler with cuttings by the pound
But if never occurred to us that such things
were evidence.


Toucbing incidentally upon the Florida case,
the committee produced the celebrated Mr'
Dennis and he did add a new touch TO a
story which we thought was already pretty
fully told. Mr.. Dennis is one OF an interest
ing band of converts who, upon the failure OF
their applications for Office, suddenly as
covered that they had consciences, and that
Mr.. HAYES was an atrOciOus fraud, ana thal
he had got into the Presidency by trick OF
which they were the guilty agents. Mr. Dennis
saws that while the visiting statesmen were
in Florida he became alarmed by notlclhg
rather too much intimacy between General
Francis c.. Barlow and a certain DemOcrauc
editor: and fearing "that there was some sort
"of trading going on by which the National
"ticket was to be saved and the State ticket
"sacriGced," he threatened the Republican
politicians that if anything OF That sOrt @ was
ATTEMPTED he would "give the State to Ill
"den.n If he ever did make such threat,
there was a frankness about 1t then, ana
there is a refreshing GOODNESS about the VOL
untary confession of it now, which we cannot
admire too highly. Mr.. Dennis IS evidently a
gentleman fitted to adOrn the highest circles
of society and politics, and we can understand
that when he saw General Noyes SAP
away to a first class foreign MISSION
leaving him nothing but a formal rec
ommendation to Office and certill-
cate of ostracism, his soul must have SICK
ened and his conscience doubled him up III a
perfect collie of remOrse.


But il is a curious fact that all the confess
ing witnesses agree in proving that the Ad-
ministration for which they pretend to nave
committed crimes never would do anything
for them They do not even allege that any
definite promises were made them; they do
not show that they succeeded IN obtaining
anv special recommendations to the President
from Messrs. Noycs and Sherman, who are
accused of acting as the Presidents paymaS-
tcrs: and il is not disputed that Mr.. Hayes
treated them from first to last with polite in
difference This is not the way the chefs IN
n conspiracy are accustomed to reward their
followers. The presumption from the INST
has been against the existence OF any con-
spiracv, and the evidence so far tends toward
converting presumption into certainty. Upon
the whole the business does not seem to pros
pcr any faster in the hands of Butler than
under his predecessor, Mr.. Potter.
Year: 1878

HORN.


The Democratic horn flares the wrong way.
They are continually going in at the flare and
squeezing out at the little end. If they could
only come out of any of their great
enterprises, their Investigations and what
NOT. with half the flourish with which
they enter on them, they might count
themselves reasonably happy. They start OIL
in the highest possible STYLE with large proc
lamations and elusive prospectuses, and be-
Gin Immediately to taper down to the small
est possible point. Every one is familiar with
the old-fashioned circus that used to
be hcralded by advertising pictures OF
the most wonderful feats performed by
snlendid men and beautiful women, with
Hooded horses magnifcently caparisOncd, and
all things on grand and prlncely scale. But
the circus, when it came was so tar from
realizing the expectations produced by the
show-bls, that the deluded spectator was fain
10 abandon thchrena, with its spawned horses
and awkward acrobats and feeble-minded
clown with stale jokes and rusty spangles,
and 90 out to get the worth of his money in
looking at the pictures OH the bill-boards.
The Democrats seem to be running that
sort of circus. They start with their eli
max. You must walk backward to get the
force of their sensations. From the petty
and insignificant results they reach in
any of their enterprises, you must go back
TO the resolution under which they began
their labors to find out what precisely they
were driving at. They advertise an oratorio
with e full concert troupe and abundant chO-
rus, and when the time comes lead in n sick
monkey by o string, without so much rs a
hand-organ by way of music.


What grand flourish of trumpets 1t was with
which they started in on their great policy
of retrenchment in expenditures. They never
tired of talking about the millions they had
saved and were going to save to the Treas
ury. How gracefully they tapered off toward
tho little end of the horn in this mat
ter, until we saw the little squeaking
outcome of it in an actual increase OF
appropriations and the passage OF
River and Harbor bill which was simple
grab and divide among Congressman
whose only desire in the matter was TO get
"something for the deestrct.' To find out
Year: 1878

Omies of the previous House. There will be moro
of this sort of thing in the supplies of the next
Congress. Democratic economy would thus seem
to be the biggest fraud" 4" the Fraud party can
show If il explores for a century.
Year: 1878

No doubt there are many members of Con-
oress who flatter themselves that the business
men of the country are, on the whole, pretty
well satisfied with them, and that all repre-
seutations to the contrary are merely news
Year: 1878

paper utterances made for political effect 10
all such we commend the opinions expressed
in another part of this issue by business men
themselves. For the practical and honest mem
bers of both houses citizens of all classes cannot
fail to have the highest respect; but the
demagogues-the men who derange trade ana
paralyze industry, simply to procure some
petty personal advantage-are they who cause
merchants to breathe the wish-and strange
one to be heard in an AnglO-SaxOn country
that Congress might "never meet again"
Year: 1878

In tho matter OF the suit brought tor the forfeiture
OF bond for ST. 900 given by John Halliday the gov
ernment recovered verdict yesterday. The action
was tried In the United States Circuit Court before
Judge Benedict and jury The charge was that the
defendant had been manufacturing illicit whiskey.
The defence claimed that they were engaged In tho
legitimate business OF making rubene, or aniline
dye and other chemicas
Year: 1878

purposes. f A like expedition is about visiting the coast of Africa and the Indian ocean. The reports of diplomatic and consular officers in relation to the development of our foreign commerce, have furnished many facts that have proved of public interest, and have stim- nlated to practical exertion the enterprise of our people,
Year: 1878

including Millinery and Fancy Goods in
all tho latest styles and novelties Of the
season, such as are gene orally found in a
tirst-class Millinery establishment Fan
cy and stnplc Dry Goods, beautiful
stock OF newest styles Of Dress Goods
Buttons and
Year: 1878

New York Herald.l


The large attendance of ministers
and laymen at the conference in this
city yesterday of the believers in the
second advent of our Lord is the best
evidence that could be given of the
keen interest that is felt in this ques-
ton by the various Christian denomi-
nations. With one or two exceptions
almost every division of the Christian
Church was represented. Nearly ne
hundred clergymen, who in other mat
ters of belief are wide apart as the
poles, met on q common platform to
attest their adhesion to this idea, and
it is very certain that the doctrinal
divisions on the platform had their
counterpart in the large audience in
front of it. This amicahle gathering
of Presbyterian and Baptist, of Meth
odist and Episcopalian is in itself
strong presumptive evidence in favor
of the second advent and the millen-
ium, which the second advent implies
1t is sweet to see brethren dwelling to-
gether in peace and there Is some con-
ISOLATION in knowing that there is ut
least one point upon which Christiun
clergymen can unite. At the meet
ing yesterday no new light was thrown
upon the question under discussion
aad it is not very probable that we
shall know any more on the subject
after the conference adjourns than We
do now. The theologians for nearly
two thousand gears have not been able
to agree upon it or to explain the pre-
else meaning of the ScriptqFal pass
ages upon which, however, as a whole,
the belief is founded. But neverthe-
less, the conference can do no harm,
and the fact that such a meeting is
possible is in itself a very great gain
to the cause of true religion. The
meeting yesterday may in fact be one
of the signs of the millennium, Who
can tell?
Year: 1878

We need less partyism aud more
patrietism-less of mere ecclesiasti-
cism and more of pure religion-less
arrogance in religious teachers and
more humility-less zeal without know
ledge, and more knowledge with be-
coming and appropriate zeal.


1t is useless to expect that mere in
tellectual culture or mere legislation
will care our ills. These have their
uses, but work no change in the moral
character of men. Many, yes, ma
jority of the tramps of the country
have had the benefit of our common
schools, and not few of our wiseC?)
Legislators have proven themselves to
be most cOnsummate scoundrels. We
need more than mere'intellectaal culture;
we need moral training the observ-
ance and administration of sound NOR
al law; the exercise of healthful moral
discipline in our churches in regard to
both ministers and people. In the
great struggle now going on in the
world between truth and error-the
powers of light and the powers of
darkness-the lines between the
contending forces should be dis
tinctly and clearly drawn, and every
one put in his true position. Let all
ease-loving, mOney-seeking, pleasure
taking worldly ministers, and all Sab
bath breaking, dancing, theatre going,
horse-racing, dram-drinking, worldly
minded and formal professors of reii-
gion be placed in the class to which
they belong the class that in practice
and influence stand opposed to the
truth as it is in Jcsus. Then separate
between the honest and dishonest in
politics. Let +he inquiry be, not is he
a Democrat or Republican, but is he
capable, honest and trustworthy? Docs
he know what is right, and will he dc
it Are his hands clean from direct
or indirect bribes? Does he descend
to nothing that is low or tricky-no
thing unworthy of true noble man.
hood? In word, does he really un
derstand the nature and duties of the
Office to which he aspires, and will he
perform those duties fearlessly and
faithfully
Year: 1878

Oliver Cromwell was one day en-
gagged in warm argument with lady,
upon the subject of oratory, in which
she maintained that eloquence could
only be acquired by these who made
it their study in early youth, and their
practice afterward. The lord protect
or, on the contrary, maintained that
there was no eloquence but that which
sprung from the heart; since, when
that was deeply interested in the at
tainment of any object, it never failed
to supply a fuency and richness of ex-
preston, which would in comparasion
render vapid the studied speeches of
the most celebrated orators. This ar
gument ended, as most do, in the
lady's tenaciously adhering to her side
of the question, and in the protectors
saying he had no doubt he should one
day make her a convert to his opin-
ion.


Some days after, the lady was
thrown into a state bordering on dis
traction, by the unexpected arrest and
imprisonment of her husband, who
was conducted to the tower as traitor
TO the government.


The agonized wife flew to the lord
protector, rushed through the guards,
threw herself at his feet, and with the
most pathetic elOquence, plead for the
life and innocence of her husband


Cromwell maintained a severe brow,
till the petitioner. overpowered By the
excess of her feelings, and the energy
with which she had expressed them,
paused. His stern countenance then
relaxed into a smile, and extending to
her an immediate liberation for her hus-
band, he said : 81 think all who have
witnessed this scene will vote on my
side of the question, in the dispute be-
tween us the other day, that the elo-
quence of the heart alone has power tc
save"
Year: 1878

British Medical Journal.I


One Of the most curious facts con-
nected with madness Is The utter alb
sencc of tears amid the insane. What
ever the form of madness, tears are
conspicuous by their absence, as much
as in the depression of melancholia, or
fhe excitement of mania, as in the M.
ter apathy of dementia. If patient
III the lUnatic asylum be discovered in
tears, it will be found that it is either
a patient beginning to recover or an
emotional outbreak in an epiIepiic who
is scarcely truly insane, while actually
insane patients appear to have lost the
power Of weeping; it is only returning
reason which can once more unloose
the fountain of their tears. Even
when a lunatic is telling one in fervid
language how she has been deprived
Of her children, or the outrages that
have heep perpatfated upon herself.
her eye Is never even moist. The ready
gush of tears which accompanies the
complaint Of the sane woman contrasts
with the dry-eyed appeal of the luna-
tic. 1t would, indeed, seem that tears
give relief which, when pent up, lead
10 madness. 1t is one of the privileges
of reason to be able to weep. Amid
all the misery of the insane they can


find no relief in tears.
Year: 1878

Says the Nation, in speaking of
the education Of woman: 'Part of
the drill of every school ought to
be the reception by a wife IN an old
gown, at q dinner of corned beef and
cabbage, of an unlooked-for guest,
thoughtlessly brought home by a
reckless hRsband.8
Year: 1878

The Commissioner OF Agriculture
reports that the latest returns from
the cotton crop indicate a yield
equal, if not better. than the great
crops that were grown preyio8s 10
the war.
Year: 1878

ability as a jurist The mission Of that
committee is really the complete re-
vision Of our electoral system, revision
making future electoral commissions
unnecessary, and which will task to the
utmost the statesmanlike ability of its
members.
Year: 1878

The county commissioners Of Vino
ma county have appointed a committee
to overhaul the different county officers
to ascertain if any Of them are receiv-
ing from any sources more emoluments
fees or benefits than the statutes allow
Year: 1878

The Canadians have secured space
Of fifty feet square in the centre Of the
main tower or entrance Of the foreign
department of the Paris exposition-a
most advantageous SITUATION for the
erection Of trophy of Cmadian pro.
ducts one hundred and ten feet hish.
Year: 1878

A few days ago lady in Sixth Ward
was making molasses candy for her child
dren. While removing the melted liquid
from the stove, her little boy in his haste
to obtain his portion, stumbled against his
mothers elbow, upsetting the dish ever
her hand, burning her in frightful
manner. She Immediately whipped her
hand up in cotton handkerchief and satu-
sated it with bottle of Wolcott's Pain
Paint, keeping it constantly wet with the
remedy. The RESULT was more than won-
derfal; ii not only stopped all pain in
very short time, but her hand did not even
blister, and the next day was apparently
as well as ever, with The exception of two
small places where the skin was actually
Lurned off at the time OF the accident.
She says that with his remedy, she never
fails in removing Headache. Toothache
and Neuralgia within a few minutes by
an outward APPLICATION; besides curing
rheumatism, healing Ulcers and sores
of long standing. without causing any
pain in in direct application; OH the con
trarY, producing very cooling and sooth-
ing effect te all entlamed surfaces.


This remedy-"W "Wolcots Pain Paint
has been before the public for many years
and is we'll known for its remarkable pow
ers, as healing agent. For the benefit Of
our readers we would say that this Medi-
cine is manufactured by r. l.. Wolcot, 63
Cortlandt street, New York, and sold by
all Druggists.
Year: 1878

The Depot and Hotel building at LIE
Mars was burnt on Saturday morning.
The fire was caused by the explosion of a
kerosene lamp in one of the rooms. A
general alarm was immediately given nd
Babcock extinguishers were freely used
but all efforts proved of no avail, and in
less than an hour from the discovery Of
the fire the building was entire destroy
ed. Every room except two was occupied
The loss is estimated ut 5000. The
boarders saved their effects mostly, but
Mr.. Emery the proprietor lost heavily. =
The Railroad freight was nearly all saved
The Ticket Agent J. H. Rudy lost some
cash that had been left in the drawer over
night. The building was owned by the
Iowa Land Company, but the loss prin-
cpal'y falls on the Illinois Central Rail
road Company. 1t is supposed that only
the Depot will be rebuilt.