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Year: 1877

1t is striking sign of the evil times
on which we have fallen, that the Re-
publican organs are quietly discussing
the relative claims to political prefer
ment, at the hands Ct Mr.. Hayes, of the
several Republican members of the Ell
ectoral Commission. Nothing more
scandalous can be imagined than the
calling Of any member of that commission
into the Cabinet of either Presidential
candidate. That way lies, and not very
far of, the steep descent from Anglo
American scramble for power. Once be-
fore in our history the dissolution of
the Government was threatened by
contested Presidential election; and Mr..
Bayard, in his celebrated speech on the
Judiciary, commented with great earnest
ness and force on the painful and per-
llous" fact that the votes of two or three
States were held in 1901 for for Mr.. JEFF
ferson by persons who soon afterwards
received office from him as President of
the United States. "Similar sugges-
tions,' said Judge Story, long ago, will
scarcely ever fail of being made when
ever distinguished representative in
Congress obtains Office after an election
to which e'has contributed"


This being true in regard to a regular
and constitutional election by Congress
OTTER failure to elect by the people, it
IS obvious that the acceptance of Office
by any member of an ostensibly judicial
commission like that which has been
called into being to meet the present
crisis In our affairs, would infict a much
worse wound upon the public confidence
In and the public respect for our public
men. A scrupulous regard for the puri-
ty and authority of our institutions. in
deed, would seem to require not only
the members of the commission, but
also that the counsel who have been
conspicuous in urging the claims Of either
candidate before the commission should
decline to participate in the distribution
of high offices on the Inauguration of the
new President. 1t is to be expected of
rulers who acquire dominion like the
first Napolean BY the force If their mill.
tary backing and renown, or like the
third Napoleon by successful intrigues.
that they should reward their followers
and supporters, and strengthen them
selves in their ill-gottcn authority, By
putting into place and power those who
nave risked the most or labored the
hardest for their elevation. The port
folios OF the French Government went
naturally enough into thei hands which
mad prepared the great conspiracy of
the Elysee. Bat that will be dark day
Tor this country in which it becomes
possible for those who have participated
In the debates and in the decisions of a
great national tribunal, assembled to
give one nan title to the Presidency.
to participate also in the subsequent
division by him of tie political spoils of
pawer.-World.
Year: 1877

Madame, did you ever lift dog by the
tail? why, no, you cruel thing you"
1 didn't know, because I Just saw you
carry your little child across gutter BY
one arm. A dogs tail is a COED deal
stronger than the hgament Of a baby's
shoulder, said humane observer.
Year: 1877

rooms two stories beneath the fire. The
measures taken to save them will be un-
successful, and 1t is not prob"
able that any valuable papers, excepting
records that were on file In the model room,
will be lost. While there is great excite
m at, the crowd in the neigh 'rhood is very
orderly.


THE MASONIC TEMPLE
is Immediately opposite the burning build
ing, but the wind bearing in southwesterly
direction, It is not thought to be in danger
The wind also carries the flames away
from


THE POST OFFICE
building, which is opposite the Patent Office
on the street side.


HELP FROM BALTIMORE.


Several fire companies arrived from Balti-
more about 12H o'clock. The time con-
sumed in making application to them foz
help and the trip to this city-distance Al
miles, was less than an hour.


UNDER CONTROL.


At this writing the fire is under control
Most of the damage has been confined u
the upper stories.
Year: 1877

He LEAVES HIS WIFE AND MARR1Es HER


sIsTER-HIs CAPTURE.


On Saturday an officer from York, Pa
arrived in this city with requistion from
Governor Hartranft in search man named
Body, from York, who has been living in
this city. The officer proceeded from here
to Middletown and obtained the necessary
papers to convey his prisoner back to York.
On arriving back from Middletown he went
to the police office, and in company with
Sergeant Whelan proceeded down King
street, and succeeded in capturing the man
at Second and King streets, where he was in
conversation with some others. He was
lodged in the city cells, and this morning
the officer left for York.


Itappears that the man had been married
for some time, but having quarrelled with
his wife left her and took up with her sister,
They had lived together for some time, and
finally came to this city. Here the man and
woman went to boarding, and he succeeded
in obtaining work at the Edgemoor Iron
Works, where he continued to work up to
the time of his capture


The charge of adultery was preferred by
his wife, for which offence he will be tried
at the next term of court.
Year: 1877

THE Leipsic police are making war on
LADIES' trains in the street. Notice has
been given through the newspapers that
all persons whose dress is found trailing
ON the sidewalk will be fined.
Year: 1877

A WOMAN in male attire was admitted
to the male ward N San Francisco
hospital to be treated for injuries caused
by fall, but on the discovery of her
sex the assistants hurried her into the
proper apartment. She registered in the
Office as Albert Sinclair, of New Orleans,
and said that she had dressed as man
for ten years, finding it more convenient
and advantageous than woman's dress
for making her living. She ehewed
tobacco
Year: 1877

TICKLE the public and make i grin ..r. .
The more you tickle, the more youl win.
But teach the pUblic-you;n never grow rich,


But live like beggar and die in ditch


A SHORT time ago a man became SO
completely wrapped in thought " that
he was tied up, labeled, and sent off on
the "train of ideas. .
Year: 1877

ACTING SECRETARY of the Treasury
Mccormick says that he has not yet re-
signed his position as Secretary of the
Republican National Executive Commit
tee, but that everything pertaining there
to will remain in allegiance until the re-
turn of Secretary Sherman.
Year: 1877

Nothing is much funnier than the way
in which century-old story is occa-
slonally revamped and started again.
Great-grandfathers used long ago to
tell a story essentially the same as the
following, which appears in the Balti-
more Gazette:


A remarkable story of ssnake charm
ing" has been brought to light at An
napOlis. Mr.. Luke Brewer lives near
the dock in that city. and is the father
OF little girl and boy aged respectively
nine and SIX years. He discovered on
Saturday last that his children had been
i'll the habit of playing with water
snake, three and half feet in length.
1t appears that the reptile had made its
land home underneath the kitchen floor
ing of Mr.. Brewers dwelling, and
came thence through an orifice in the
ground just outside the house. The


little girl on the day above mentioned
informed her father that they had
pretty pet just like an eel that came
out of hole in the ground, and played
with them and the kittens. He asked
the child to show him where il was. but
was told that it would not come out
while he was there. He left for few
minutes, and while returning was met
by his daughter, who said sue had call
ed her pet, and it was now playing with
her brother. The frightened father
FASTENED to the yard, and was almost
paralyzed with fear Oh discovering his
little boy caressing the snakes head.
He ordered the little fellow away. The
child reluctantly complied by stepping
back, whereupon the father seized a
club, when the reptile commenced to
make for its den. The boy then moved
toward it, calling it endearing names,
and was about to pick it up when Mr..
Brewer despatched it, against the ear
nest and fearful entreaties of the iu-
fatuated children. The boy, a robust.
hearty little fellow, refused to be COM
forted, abstaining from food the rest of
the day, and begging to be allowed to
bring the dead serpent into the house.
Mr.. Brewer thinks that the children had
been amusing themselves all the sum-
mer with their strange pet. The tall of
the snake for distance of three inches
from the end bore evidence that two
kittens, which were in the house, had
also been participants in the sport.
Year: 1877

FIFTY thousand workmen engaged IN
silk manufacture at Lyons, in France
have been thrown out of employment.
Their condition is SO pitiable as to
prompt the authorities to appeal to the
government for aid which is bestowed
upon them.
Year: 1877

No NATTER how the Electoral Com
mission may decide the disputed Presi-
deacv the partizsn position taken by
the Supreme Judges must attach the
stigma of disgrace TO them for all time,
Year: 1877

Faith is necessary to victory.


Wine has drowned more than the sea.


Modesty once extinguished knows not
how to return.


Honor is like an island, rugged and
without a landing place; we can never
more re-enter when we are once outside
of it.


To assist our fellow-creatures is the
nobl st privilege of mortality /; it is, in
some sort, forestalling the bounty Of
Providence.


Party spirit is like gamblingz-a vast
number of persons trouble themselves
about what in the end can be beneficial
only to few.


Philosophy has not so much enabled
men to overcome their weakness, as it
has taught the art of concealing them
from the world.


If all the year were playing holidays,
to sport would be as tedious as to work;
but when they seldom come, they are
wished for.


OF the acts of cowardice, the meanest
is that which leads one to abandon a
good cause because it is weak and join
a bad cause it is strong. -


They who have experienced sorrow
are the most capable of approaching
Joy +; 80, those only who have been sick,
feel the full value of health.


Men of humor. are, in some degree,
men of genius; wits are rarely. 80,
although q man of genius, amongst
other gifts, may possess wit-as Shake
speare.


It is as difficult to win over an enthu-
siast by force of reasoning, as to per-
suade q lover of his mistress faults ; or
to convince a man who is at law OF the
badness of his cause.


Man was born for action; he ought to
do something. Work, at each step,
awakens sleeping force, and drives out
error. Who does nothing, knows moth
ing. Rise! To work If thy knowl-
edge is real, employ it. Wrestle with
nature; test the strength of thy theories;
see if they will support the trial. Act
Year: 1877

The following mode of tying hyenas
in their den, as practised in Afghanistan,
is given by Arthur Connolly, in his Over
land Journal, in the words OF an Afghan
chief, the Shirkaroe Synd Daond:


"When you have tracked the beast to
his den you cake a rope with two slip
knots upon it in your right hand, and
with your lett holding felt cloak before
you, you go boldly but quietly in, The
animal does not know the nature Of the
danger, and therefore retires to the back
of his den, but you may always tell
where his head is by the glare of his eyes.
You keep moving on gradually toward
him on your knees, and when you are
within distance throw the cloak over his
head, close with him and take care he
does not free himself. The beast is SO
frightened that he covers back, and
though he may bite the felt, he cannot
turn his neck round to hurt you, so you
quietly feel for his fore legs, slip the
Knots over them, and then with one
strong pull draw them tight up to the
back Of his neck and tie them there. The
beast is now your own, and you can do
what you like with him. We generally
take those we catch home to the krail,
and hunt them on the plain with brides
in their mouths, that our dogs may be
taught not to fear the brutes when they
meet them Wild"


Hyenas are also taken alive by the
Arabs by very similar method, except
that a wooden gag is used instead of a
felt cloak. The similarity in the mode
of capture in two such distant countries
as Algeria and Afghanistan, and by two
races SO different, is remarkable. From
the fact that the Afghans consider that
the feat requires great presence of mind,
and an instance being given of a man
having died of bite in clumsy at
tempt, we may infer that the Afghan hy-
ena is more powerful or more ferocious
than his African congener.
Year: 1877

An amusing story comes from France,
where, according to the tale, an agrl-
culturist recently died, leaving wife,
a horse, and o dog. A few moments
before his death he called his wife to
him, and bade her sell the horse, and
give the proceeds of the sole to his rela-
tives, and to sell the dog and keep the
money thus gained for herself.


Soon after the death the wife went to
the market with the horse and dog, and
exhibited them, with the announcement
that the price of the dog was one hum
dred dollars, and that of the horse one
dollar. The passers by stopped and
stared, and judged the woman mad,
more especially as she Informed all
would-be purchasers that to buy the
horse it was necessary to buy the dog
first. At last a curious passer-by con-
cluded the bargain after which the
skillful woman handed over one dollar to
the family of her deceased husband, and
retained one hundred dollars for herself,
thus contriving at the same time to
carry ont the letter. if not the spirit, OF
the wishes of her husband, and to Sc
cure the largest sum of money for her.
self.
Year: 1877

The South Carolina report will not be made
10 the House this week The committee want
to see bow Louisiana goes. and II Il is decided
against Tilden the Democrats will contest the
vote Of the State and send II to the Tribunal
Year: 1877

National Associated Press to the star.


CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-Fhe Third National
Bank, of this city, failed list evening.
When it could not pay its balance at the
Clearing House committee OF bankers
was appointed to make an Investigation.
The committee reported at late hour
that the bank must go into liquidation.


Among the cause which led TO the dis
aster the following are assigned: geu-
eral and steady decline in the va.ue Of
their securities and IA heavy drain from
country bankers to aid in moving theiI
Year: 1877

AT "a party on West Hill the other eve
Mug number OF young men presented
one of the party, who was very obnoX-
ious to them, with a large tin jackass,
with an appropriate presentation ad-
dress. But The mean man got the drop
on them by accepting it gracefully. say
ing that he would always Keep it. and
never part with it, and SO often as he
looked at it, it could not fail to remind
him of the donors. And then, somehow
or other, il seemed to the young men
that the presentation Sld gone OF kind
at lame, aiterall,
Year: 1877

The Board met in regular session,
all the members present and President
Bell in the chair.


The resignation Of Frank Ratterman
as a Assistant Clerk of the Board was
received and accepted, and vote o.
thanks rendered him Tor his efficiency.


The following pay-rolls were received
n a nrdL L.rnd midi
Year: 1877

This county has now what is termed a
"poor house farm" The GAZETTE op-
posed its purchase. 1t has been cost
TO the county in interest and would not
sell for more than half it cost.


The city has a ''hospital.' The
GAZETTE opposed its purchase. 1t has
been Of no use to the city-is direct ex-
pense, and would not sell for more than
half the city gave for it.


The city has on its hands an unfinished
Reservoir. The GAZETTE opposed its
commencement, on the ground that it
was not needed. An enlargement of the
water mains, which was necessary would
have rendered new reservoir unnecessary
for ten or fifteen years. But there was a
job in it and work was commenced. The
Radicals saw in it a means of employing
large number of negroes who were to
vote at the approaching election. The
politicalresult has been defeat 20 each party
that sought to use it for the Jobs that were
in it.


Many now say that it was placed on a
piece of ground that is filled with springs
and never can be made to hold water per-
manently, while others say the error was
in the construction. 1t is only half the
size which the Republicans proposed to
make 1t; and yet all the money is gone,
and byarecent calculation about $120,0
is still needed to finish it. 1t is not
needed, and is q monument of folly and
expense. We could have done without
it for ten or fifteen years and thus saved
as much as reservoir would cost if
built by contract.


And now it is proposed that the Demo
cratic legislature of Delaware shall 90
into the expensive project of building a
State prison and fill it with machinery in
order that the character of criminal con-
Ucts may be eterGted. Well, we prefer
to rely while longer on the inexpensive
post"


such characters as have TO be perched
upon 1t are rather too far gone to be very
much elevated even by the society of a
trst-class man as superintendent and
hrstclass men torun steam engine and
as foremen for all the branches of mechan.
Ism that it is proposed to teach the fifteer
or ortwenty convicts who may be the in.
mates of the Work House to be erected
at cost of one hundred thousand or per.
haps two hundred thousand dollars.
Year: 1877

A BRILLIANT IDEA.- An advocate
for Estate Work House." in Red Lion
Hundred, has proposed by this means to
elevate the character of the convicted
criminals of Delaware. To say the
least of this it is brilliant idea, and
will no doubt be gratifying to Big Frank
and the five or six convicts in the Jail at
New Castle. The negroes who commit
rapes on white women, and the white
men who steal horses Or commit burglary,
highway robbery, murder, have new
advocate. Philanthrophy may be said
to have run mad with this writer.
Year: 1877

PRESIDENT Ferry yesterday received
from the governor of Florida all the Of
hcial papers showing the recanyass NJ
The presidential vote in accordance with
the decision of the Supreme Court, and
the authorization of the Tilden electors
These papers will go before the electora,
commission.
Year: 1877

The Indian question is one Of diff.
Guilty to solve. The experience aud
observation of the few years last past
has convinced thousands that the res
ervation system has its serious ohiec-
tions, and to some minds these object


ions are fatal to securing the real good
of the Indian himself, to say nothing of
the evils which are entailed upon the
settlers IN proximity as we'll as the
enormous expense they are to the
government We have before stated
our views of the size of the Nez Perce
reservation, compared with the mum
Der of the Indians to occupy the lands.
We are credibly Informed by men who
know well many Of the leading Indians
now remaining upon the reserve and,
who have talked much with them in
regard to their attachment to the reser-
vaIion system, and the keeping up of
their tribunal relations, and they cx-
press much Dissatisfaction wi the res.
efvation system, and say they had much
rather scatter and live in proximity to
white settlers aud own land the same as
Che whites, and pay taxes upon it, than
to live upon IA reservation and under an
agent. They cite We,as-cus and imo.
thy and other Indians who have taken
the benefit of the Indian homestead
laws and secured thei, lands, and now
acknowledge no allegiance to their
tribe. They say these Indians get
along wit the whites without trouble.
improve their lands and make money.
and that the whites seem to encourage
and respect them, while they themselves
are always having trouble among them.
selves and with the agent, and have no
sympathies iu common with the white
settlers off the reservation, aud are al.
ways suspected by them when they go
off the reservation.


They say that they do not want all
the land of the reservation, that they
cannot use it, and they much rather
that the whites would settle upon por-
tons of it aud cultivate it than to have
it remain as it is now. They wish the
government.would give them the Lriv-
ileee Of sci citing each 160 acres to call
his own, to be subject to no control of
any agent, but that he may have it free
and use it the same as white man
uses his land, and they want that white
men should come on the reservation
aud take UP such lands as the Indians
have not located as homesteads, and
cultivate it and live upon it along side
Of them. They say that the white
men know all about tilling and cult.
vating the land and making money
from it, and they themselves do not,
but that they can learn by seeing how
the white men manage their lands.
They do not object to the white mans
laws and are willing to be governed by
them. This sentiment cyinced by these
Indians shows that they are shrewder
political economists than many Of our
people who contend that Indians should
be kept in large herds and bands and
upon reservations under an agents and
fed 10y the government. We naturally
suspect that this sentiment 10 the Nez'
Year: 1877

AN aged man in Liberty, Ind, wooed
a girl Of sixteen in vain as long as he
stuck to sentiment; but when he got
down to business and offered to give her
a deed of farm, she consented without
hesitation.
Year: 1877

THREE thousand, six hundred and FIVE
illegal votes we're cast in San Francisco
at the last election, but the Democratic
Committee that ascertained this fact is
unable to say which party got the benefit
of them. This is suggestive.
Year: 1877

THERE is some Amusement in Boston
over the hard fate of girl who wants to
go to the Tabernacle and get converted
but fears, if she does so. her conscience
will compel her to abandon the fascnat-
iLg pleasures Of dancing.
Year: 1877

SIX thousand seven hundred pounds of
watermelon seed were shipped from Sac
ramento the other day by a Chinese firm
to another Chinese firm in San Francisco.
The Chinese use the seed for food.
Year: 1877

THE passengers on a Kentucky rail-
road train became so interested in an
eloped couple that, when the father of
the girl came aboard at station to take
her home, they forcibly elected him.
Year: 1877

SCHooLs.-The Supreme Court has just
decided that all School elections must be
held in strict accordance with the general
State law, polls open one hour after Sun
rise and kept open until sundown.
Year: 1877

Last night regular meeting Of the New York Gene.
alogical and Biographical Society held In the Mott
Memorial Hall, No. 81 Madison avenue, anc alter the
transaction of the of the evening Mr. Charles
Sotheran introduced TO read paper entitled "The
Alexandcrs Both Sides Of the Atlantic and Their
True Origin" Mr.. Sotheran In his discourse treated
the difficult subject OF ancestral descent with sSilI,
showing the result OF close study patient research
In the mpation of his lecture Tracing the name OF
Alexander through the long progress OF centuries down
day, he showed tho prevalence OF the name
among the many nation paties of the earth,
Year: 1877

FALL PLANTING OF TREEs.-In
digging up trees great improvements
have been made over former years


The great anxiety to save q ball Of
earth has given way to great care TO
save all the roots. All the use there
can be to ball of earth is to keep the
roots moist during removal; but in
most cases-indeed in al except very
small specimens-it is found in prac-
tice that the preservation of young
roots in the ball is at the expense Of
the numerous fine fibrous roots neces


sarily left outside. The digging. fork
is now the chief tool used, and the dis.
tance from the trunk at which the dig
ging up is commenced is much farther
off. After a circle two feet deep Is
dug around tree a few thrusls of the
digging fork under the ball lifts the
whole mass over, and the soil can be
entirely shaken away. In re-planting
it is desirable to use soil for filing in
that is nearly dry, and will crush to .
fine powder; it will then fall in oil
around the root spaces, and the hsr-
der it is stamped or crushed the finer
it will break aud cover up the young
rootlets. --..as-- --.----.-.