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Year: 1878

A CHICAGO JOURNAL ON THE WHIPPING
PosT.-The old State of Virginia celebrated
this anniversary of the Declaration of In
dependence by setting up the whipping
post once more. On and after this day
there will be no Imprisonment, in the Old
Dominion for petit larceny. Instead of
imprisonment, the thief if u male, will be
publicly fogged; if female, she may be
flogged or otherwise punished in the dis.
cretioA of the court. Economy is one
reason given for reviving the old mode
of punishment. The convicts of petty
offences are very numerous and constantly
increasing, and the cost of maintaining
them in prison has become grevious
burden. 1t is in part to save the expenses
that the whipping-post is again set up.
Aside from this consideration, the opinion
is gaining ground, not only in Virginia, but
elsewhere, that whipping is more appro.
pirate and effective punishment than i'm.
prisonment for certain offences.


For good many years past it has been
the fashion to speak of the whipping post
as relic of barbarism, and many a pen.
thrust has little Delaware received for
| clinging to the relic, and it is likely that
Virginia will not be spared by the senti'
mental humanitarians. Perhaps whipping


is a relic of barbarism. But if it is so is
hanging, and so is imprisonment, and,
what is more to the purpose, so is crime.
| Whipping is certainly a cheaper punish
ment than falling, and it is more efficacious
to reclaim offenders, and deter from crime
it may be best to practice it, no matter
whether it is a relic of barbarism or not.
Year: 1878

The Ohio farmers, taking warning from
the threatening letters they have received
forbidding the use of improved agricultural
machinery in securing their harvest, are
forming secret organizations in various Sec
tons for guarding their property. Every
man is to have his gun constantly loaded,
and precautions are to be taken against loss
by fires. They mean business.
Year: 1878

The Democratic Executive Committee seeing that
the election of delegates to the Democratic Conven-
ton was to be held on the Sd of August in Sussex,
have ordered the election on the same day in New
Castle county. Red Lion and Pencader Hundred are
to choose State Senator'S Mill Creek Representative
Year: 1878

The assessment lists of some of the hundreds of this
county simply disgraceful. They are really
curiosity in photography. The simplest names are
misspelled and the clerk has alternative but to
copy them into the records as they are returned
SUSSEX Journal.
Year: 1878

Kearney is coming East with the avowed
purpose of "helping General Butler to the
Governorship of Massachusetts," Butler
made a Greenback- Labor speech at New
buryport on the Fourth, and may be con-
sidered fairly on the course for the nomi-
nation of the Third party for Governor, and
Kearneys help will no doubt be acceptable
to the soldier-statesman of Essex. What
a precious pair of demagogues to stump the
old Bay STATED
Year: 1878

The friends of Messrs. Edward Martin and John
Paynter are hard at work for them trying to get
many delegates as they possibly for the coming
State Convention. The fight promises to be bitter be-
fore it is over
Year: 1878

Mr.. Boutwell, on THE LABOR QUESTION:
The address Of the Hon. George II. Bout
well at Worcester tells in plain and sensi-
BILE manner some old truths which the
labor agitators have still to learn. Hard
times always bring complaints of the
tyranny of capital and machinery, and the
only remedy which occurs to the ignorant
workingman is to limit the productiveness
of labor in order to raise its price. But
reason and experience alike make it plain
that this only aggravates the disorder, and
that the true cure is to be found in the
very contrary process. General prosperity
always increases in direct ratio with the
productiveness of industry. All labor-sav-
ing inventions have resulted, after very
brief period of disturbance and readjust-
ment, in greater demand for labor, high
er wages, cheap living, a marked improve
ment in the condition of the laboring
classes, and a more general diffusion of
wealth. There IS a constant rivalry in
trade and manufactures between the vari-
Gus countries of the world. Our prosperity,
the good fortune of all the industrial classes
in America, must be measured by our sue
cess in this international competition.


The special lesson which Mr.. Boutwell,
wishes to enforce by these principles is the
necessity for a more extensive technical
education at the cost of the State. But
another and just now more useful lesson to
be drawn from thea is the folly of the
attacks which ill-informed laboring men
are making upon the very sources of their
own well-being. The aim of all such
assaults is to create an artificial scarcity of
the products of labor, in the wild notion
that a country is most prosperous when it
is most destitute IN. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1878

REsUMPTIoN.-It is stated on the very
best authority that Secretary Sherman has
decided to and will announce the resump.
ton of specie payments by the United States
government on or before the 1st of De-
cember next. The law requires that re-
sumption shall take place January / next
This action Of the secretary, if taken, will
be to intercept congressional legislation or
the subject, which might be of such q
character as to repeal entirely the resump
ton law, or postpone for some time it,
being put into force. 1t is further intima
ted that the secretary may announce re
sumption at as early date as August
! next Wash. Star.
Year: 1878

Some folks think it too hot to teach afternoon sun
day school during the summer months. We wonder
how they will endure the climate below if they be
consigned there for their neglect of duty.-E
Year: 1878

The Kent County Mutual Insurance Company
have after personal inspection estimated the damages
done the property Of Sam1 Wharton, near Magnolia
at S1O93. The insurance on all the property for
81 767
Year: 1878

The Every Evening in long article discussing this
subject says:


"The real cause for complaint against the present
laws appears to to be in the provision made by the
act Of 1873 making the posting of notice of the
collectors place of residence business, together
with notice that he will be there to receive the taxes
the only notice and demand necessary to enable him
to report tax uncOllectabG and to have the per-
son placed on the delinquent list. This is contrary
to the spirit of the law whole, which not only
assumed diligent but extraordinary efforts on the part
of the collector and even armed him with the power
he still holds to imprison any one for nOnpayment
of taxes. Every business man who has bills to col
lect knows that il would be sheer for him
to advertise by playcards, or even in newspapers,
shat he ready to receive the amounts due him
and sit down and wait till the money came in. So
far the collectors exercise the privilege thus given
them the county is the loser and it undoubtedly does
give them the power to dsfranchiSe through neglect
any all persons of the opposite party who do not
happen to own real estate, while they can attend to
their own partsans That they always do this latter


is nottrue but that they far more likely to hunt up
| and remind Democrat that he is allowing himself
to drift into the delinquent list to consult with


their party managers about the payment of taxes due
from Democrats, we have not shadow of doubt. In
this way the law works real unfairness to the Re-
publican party, but such unfarness they could
not overcome by organization and vigorous action If
they really had majority of all those who ought to
| be entitled to vote in the State.


RS- For additional County and State Items, see second
Year: 1878

The housekeeper who regulates time
well and discreetly has acquired the art
of making business and pleasure friends.
Their households will run smoothly.
The power of regulating time is a gift
with some people, that others. however
well meaning, can never attain. There
are some women who find time for
everything-to manage their households
thoroughly and comfortably, look after
their children, get through certain
amount of needlework, read for an hour
or two every day-who never neglect
their husbands comforts, and are always
ready for any social pleasure.


The well-known sentence, al have
not time," is never said by them. How
they may manage this is a mystery to
those who. have not the gift, though
they will explain it in these few words
81 never dawdle, and 1 never waste a
moment"


A great deal of valuable time is wasted
by people thinking it is not worth while
to do anything in the few minutes there
are to spare between finishing one piece
Of work and beginning another.
Some ladies never go about without
some knitting in their pockets, which
they can take up and work if they have
even five minutes to spare.


To the rule that everything can be
overdone, this industry is no exception
for there are people who carry it to the
extent of rudeness, who will hardly look
up from their work to greet friend
and forget the impulses of good breeding
in their anxiety to waste no time.


There ought to be no such thing al
lack of time for courtesy. 1t is a par
of our training here to give up to oul
fellow. creatures; and if some of our TIM
is wanted by them, it must be givel
cheerfully and willingly.


tits very trying, certainly, when ever,
hour of ones day has been marked out
to find at the end of the day that eacl
hour has been more or less disturbed b,
unforeseen circumstances, so trying tina
it is wisest not to mark out any defnit
plan for the day, but merely to make
good lasting resolution not to waste
minute.
Year: 1878

IR. J. Burdette's Travel-Letter In the Burlington


Hawkeye,I


The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern Railway Company wrote a
new and decidedly novel page to the
records of railroad enterprise. For the
first time in the history Of railroads, the
company furnished its passengers with
smoked glass and held the train while
they looked at an eclipse of the sun. 1t
was Ogden's idea. The glass was cut in
Burlington, smoked in the express car
AID, when the sun, oppressed by the
heat, began to creep into the shade, every
man and woman on the train blacked
his or her nose with one corner of the
glass and watched the eclipse through
the other. The train stopped and we
got out. There was SO much smoked
glass around that it made all that part
of the country dark long before the
eclipse. We turned our expectant faces
toward the sun and kept them there.
Presently, with crash that was heard
distinctly by every one of the -ex-
cursionists, the shadow fell upon the
sun and dark spot on its bright surface
showed that the trouble had commenced.
This was the only point in the United
States in which the noise Of the eclipse
could be heard and the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Northern people had
very carefully timed the arrival of the
train at this point. The dark spot grew
darker and larger and went tearing
across the sun with rasping, grating
sound that would have been very annoy.
ing if it had not been SO wonderful
The shadow did not move directly across
the face of the sun, as was the case
from all other points of observation, but
at times dancing rapidly up and down
and spread out and shrunk Sdp and
wriggled itself violently from side te
side to the great amazement of the
passengers. Vulcan was very plainly
visible throughout the eclipse. 1t ISL
large star, very enterprising and pro
gressive, and contains two saw mills, {
good school house, eight stores, thret
churches and twenty-nine saloons. Dur
ing the eclipse, and while the shadow
was at its darkest, most remarkable in
cident transpired, of which | hay'
noticed no account elsewhere. We saw
the man in the moon. Suddenly h
grabbed up stencil plate, fattened i
against the sun, brushed it violently TO
moment, and, as he snatched it away
there glowed and burned upon the darl
eclipse, in letters of living light, tn
words:


"Go north by the Iowa route"
Year: 1878

STERN necessity-the rudder.


A SMALLPOX and gun are harmless
when apart, but they make terrific
combination.


ONE of the most disgusting things
known is to have vest which hasn't
sufficient longitude to enable it to con-
meet with the trousers, especially when
the shirt billoweth between the two.


If man wants a hundred-d dollar dia-
mond ring, he can purchase it, no matter
where he may be; but when he needs
postal card he may run his legs off in
vain aud not be able to find one.


CDR. CARVER can knock a hole in
silver dollar every time" So can we,
every time we take our girl for walk
down a street that boasts an ice cream
saloon-and deuced big hole it is, too.


WHEN man has a hole in the toe of
one of his socks, and is pulling on a
tight boot, and the sock works up
around his instep, then it is time TO ask
him his private opinion of Pantheism as
an orthodox doctrine.


The smile with which man puts his
name down for a hook, contrasts won
| Wlth phC OAPlCSoIOu WulCu
crests his countenance when the agent
calls to deliver said book and demand
payment for it.


If a man works for week and gets
nothing for his labor, he takes it as bad
luck and says nothing; but when he
spends five minutes in sharpening 8
lead-pencil and the point breaks of, he
Jumps around like madman.


Now is the time that the fair school
teacher goeth into the country to spend
her vacation and present her mora
snall-boy relatives with the jack-knives
balls, ETC., which she has confscatet
from her pupils during the year.


WHEN man falls off horse he goe
to the hospital (if he isn't killed) ant
takes the whole thing in good part, bu
when he simply trips and falls in tn
street he gets up and swears and dances
and isn't himself for ten minutes.
Year: 1878

SIR GEORGE Book, the distinguished
Arctic navigator, is dead. He was not
the inventor of Book beer. And al
though water was his favorite, he has
finally come to his Infant class in
paragraphing, what did the gentleman
come Derrick.
Year: 1878

LONDON. Oct. 2o.-ttumor concerning tbs
Importance Of the steps to bs taken by the
chbinet tomorrow, which were current dur
ing the morning, have gained strength aud
consistency this evening. The Carlton Club
and Conservative Club in st. james Square,
as well us the Army and Navy Club and
United Service Club arc all alive with reports
that the government has resolved to take d
very spirited stand, and insist upon tbs i'm
mediate observance by Russia Of oil her
treaty obligations.


There is a conflict oH opinion us to whether
the manifesto which the government Is eK-
peGted to put forward tomorrow will lead to
war, but in some very well Informed quarters
it Is held that the government is rather in
cIined to provoke war than to avoid it. unless
1t can bs avoided by Fl great diplomatic VIC
tory on their part
Year: 1878

national bank under section 52t4 Of the Re-
vised Statutes. IN Difference to that opinion
national banks will hereafter be required In
making up their capital stock subject to tax
alton TO deduct not the face value nor the
market value, but the price paid for the
United States bonds owned by them. less in
the purpose Of yeritication will be- required
to specify said funds by loans and dates Of
purchase In making return thereof to this
office. No application made In consequence
Of the opinion in question for refunding OF any
tax upon bank capital heretofore assessed
and collected will be entertained by this office
Year: 1878

In justice TO Governor Stone VIC
will say that there was a necessity
for the Immediate appointment Of
. Chancellor. Were 1t material,
we might question the assertion
that any one could have gone be-
fore him with a stronger rccom-
mcndation than Mr.. Phelps could
have shown, upon canvass OF the
district.
Year: 1878

THE Ameer's letter to the viceroy of
india is curious and artful COM
bound of conventional expressions,
hypocrisy and insolence. While pre-
ending to be anxious to maintain
peaceful relations with the British
government, he gives as a paltry excuse
or not receiving the mission at Cabul


hat it was too large and that he could
bot be responsible for the tribes on the
kay or for any mishaps to the mission.
He alludes to his own son Mohamed
Rakoub Khan as an undutiful, i'll


tarred wretch. Yakoub must be an
Iher Absalom Of a fellow, who needs
/ . be hung up by the hair of the head,
pr, if he has no long hair, by the neck.
Fhe British government could hardly
be expected to settle such little fam
| ly growls as that between the Ameer
End his rebrobate son. The coolest
part Of the letter is the last of it, in
which he tells the yiceroy that a small
mission, if not more than twenty OF
thirty members, would be received by


his servant of God" on a purely
Friendly and temporary mission. He
thinks they could entertain that many,
put the prospects are that by next
Bpring he will have to provide fol
General Roberts and his whole army
England will be apt to teach these
Bemi-savages a lesson this time that
fhey will remember for generations
Halfway measures with such people
bnly make them more troublesome
bnd defiant when it is over.
Year: 1878

An admirer of Ingersoll got hold of
that paragraph in which it is related
how Bob keeps a pocket-book in a
drawer where his children can 90 and
get what money they want at any time,
and he read it at the supper-table to
his wife and children and told how
much he admired the man for it. The
next morning when he woke up he
discovered his youngest boy going
through his pantaloons pockets.
What are you doing there, young
man ?" he exclaimed in a voice of
thunder, why, pa" replied the
youngster, Z" | couldn'tfnd your pock-
et-boOk in any of the drawers, and |
thought you might have forgot to lay
it out. Theory Is one thing and
practice is another,
Year: 1878

An advertiser in the Hartford Cou-
rant for some decent occupation for a
reasonable salary offers his employer a
diamond ring as a guarantee for the
faithful performance Of his duties.
Year: 1878

Stark's extensive sulphuric acid


works in Bohemia, which produce the
Nordhauson sulphuric acid on very
large scale from alumineus slate, have
lately put the pure anhydrous acid on
the market. 1t is put up in tightly
soldered tin (tinned from boxes, which
were found TO answer best, because at
ordinary temperatures sulphuric anby.
bride is without action upon metals,
and particularly upon tin. This form
of acid is very useful, and It's transpor.
tation by far less risky than when
shipped in liquid form. The con.
stantly growing production Of artificial
alizarinc has been chiefly the cause Of
this innovation, it being well known
not only that large quantities of FUN
ing sulphuric acid are required for its
preparation, but also that the yield
and quality of the product depend up.
on the degree Of concentration Of the
oxidizing agcnts.-Jownal Of Chemistry
Year: 1878

PERsoNAL.-Judge Jacobs never
looked better physically than at pres
ent. He is received with the utmost
warmth by all his former townsfok
irrespective Of party, the feeling be-
ing general one that he has done
all for the people and Territory that
it was possible for any delegate
to do. He will remain in his old
home until the middle of November,
when he will again take his departure
for the scene of Congressional labor.
Tribune"
Year: 1878

The Shoe end Leather Reporter has its
opinion of the 'peripatetic croaker." 1t
says: In times of financial disquietude and
commercial depression, class of men are to
be found who seem to revel in the "luxury of
woe." They are always on the alert TO pick
up bad news Of every name and nature. II
they hear Of failure they rush forth in
eager haste to make proclamation of it; if
news Of defalcation reaches their ears they
cannot rest till they have circulated the story
with numerous embellishments, in every pos
sible nook and corner to which they can get
access. They affect ruefulness of visage all
the while they are going their rounds, which
is ridculously in contrast with the satisfaction
they derive from being the bearers of evil
tidings. The disguise is altogether too thin
to conceal the palpable relish with which they
spread out the details of their budget. They
get SO accustomed to recounting the miseries
OF mankind, that they feel sense of dis
appointment if there is an occasional blank
In the record of mercantile casualties.
Year: 1878

THE report that Russia wants this country
represented in the conference is probably in
correct. The United States has no interest
other than sentimental interest in the set
tlement Of the Eastern Question, and it has
no desire to become party to European
politics. The invitation if extended, will be a
Chinese one,given only on the implied UNDER
standing that it shall be declined. 1t certain
" ought not to be accepted, 49,
Year: 1878

SENATOR WINDOW is curious specimen
of statesman. He acknowledged that but
for the silver bill specie resumption would
have taken place by this time, and then he
went and voted for the bill. He honestly
acknowledges his dishonesty.
Year: 1878

we do not read anonymous etters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used
Year: 1878

THEY have queer way of observing the
Sabbath day at Fortune Bay. In order to
prevent its violation the people turn out and
cut the nets, traps and seines of the Ameri-
can fishermen into pieces.
Year: 1878

EVERY regular attache OF the PRESS Is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley I.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon Us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1878


When the people have wanted liberty and
unon the maintenance of the pubic credit and the ad
vancenent OF the national honor they have always sup
ported the Republican party when IL comes to pass
that majority Of them want the opposite results they
Will turn 10 the democracy. This Is why we say II is
useless for Republicans TO compete with Democrats In
mocracy Will get all the glory and reap all the reward
II s their latest and bOdest scheme for getting into
be found short sighted enough to asslst in carrying
out Certainly Is the first time since the
of the Republican party that any considerable number
OF Republicans have been found willing 70 put the Dem
0crats IN power
Year: 1878

TRIBUNE OFFICE Jan. SOL q. ma great decline
OF arpressurc took place during yesterdays snow
Storm and there small rise OF temperature during
the evening, not quite, however, above fIeeZhSpoint


For this city and vicinity, cold winds and clearing
weather be expected to-day after the clcse OF the
storm tomorrow. cool AID fair weather is probable.