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Year: 1877

OLD West was chairman of commit
tee of the Ohio Legislature in 1868, and
reported it was all right to arrest Doctor
Olds and other citizens without due pro-
cess of law, and incarcerate them in Fl.
Lafayette and other places. Such is the
man the Republican party would like to
make Governor of Ohiol God forfend !
Year: 1877

A Republicans Opinion of Judge Wet.


We are permitted to copy the follow.
ing extract from letter to citizen of
Canton, from Republican friend of his
residing for many years past near Belle
fontaine. The letter was written just af-
ter Judge Vests nomination:


BELLEFoNTAINE, Aug. 18th, 1877.


X


Or townsmen are much elated over
the nomination of Judge West for Gov
ernor. He is a man of unmistakable
ability, but his physical defects are such
as to render him in great measure unfit
for the position. He is so nearly blind
as to have to be led wherever he goes. l
was in town yesterday morning when he
came up, and he was led by his son from
his carriage to his Office; and he is 80
weak and feeble, that he makes great use
of stimulants whenever called upon to
make public addresses. l think it prob
able that the excessive use of brandy
led to the uttering of the twaddle he used
in Cleveland the evening after the NOM
ination. He is not an inebriate, but the
temperance party has nothing to hope
for from him. l am a good deal of the
same opinion that the old woman was
when her husband and the bear were
fighting, not caring much which whips.
Year: 1877

A crazy California farmer was taken to
the insane asylum at Stockton, on Feb.
2, by his brother and Constable Peck, OF
Tulare township, and commitment pa
pers were made out. The lunntic stepped
outside the door and suddenly broke
away, running at full speed with his
brother close behind him. Meanwhile
the papers were signed i'll the office and
Constable Peck turned to look for the
patient but could not find him. An ut
tendant, hearing that lllnatic had es-
capped, and meeting the constable Ill the
hall, mistook him for the patient.
"Where is he p asked the constable.
"Up stairs, said the attendant; 9TH
show you." They went up stairs to-
gether, one hoping to find the lunatic
and the other bent on locking up the pa
tient whom he was entrapping. When
they reached the ward which had been
selected for the new patient, the attend
ant adroitly closed the door and turned
the key, locking up Constable Peck as
mailman. In vain the prisoner shouted
that he wns sane, that the real llnatic
had run away, that it was mistake, and
that he was u constable. The attendant
marched down stairs with the conscious
ness of being very clever, and it was not
until the lunatics brother returned to
the asylum after long and unsuccess-
full chase that the constable was re-
leased.
Year: 1877

An English paper tells this: A good
story is told concerning a town bred
curate, who had consented to do duty on
Sunday for his friend, the rector of q
country parish in the midlands. The
subject of the morning sermon was the
parable Of the prodigal son, and in the
hope Of impressing upon his hearers the
Joy which the patriarch felt on the re-
turn of his son, as instanced by his or
dering the fatted calf to be killed, the
young curate felt q pardonable pride in
dwelling upon subject which could not
fail TO be comprehensive to the drlllest
plow boy in the congregation. ere
member" he said, "this was no ordi-
nary calf which was to be killed; it was
no common calf or beast suffering from
murrain no half. starved calf, slowly
awaiting death. No! it was not even
merely a fatted calf but," becoming
more impressive, it was the fatted calf
which had been priced and loved by the
family for many years." A sea of wide
eyes and gaping mouths arrested for
moment the eloquence of the fedgling
parson, and in the next there was such a
chuckling and grins and futtering of old
heads below as had not been witnessed
even in the memory of the quaint legged
sexton for more than "many years."
Year: 1877

This is the story which DR.. Schlie-
mann told Miss A. b. Edwards concern
ing his wife: But for her, l should never
have succeeded in preserving the treas
ure of Priem from the rapacity of
the Turkish officials on guard Mt His
sarlik during the excavations. When
[ struck the treasure and saw the
first glitter of the silver under the rub
bish, it was within few feet of the chair
on which the Turkish officer was sitting.
I covered it again instantly. I told them
all that it was my birthday, and that we
would do no more work that afternoon.
1 invited every one into my hut to drink
my health. 1t was within three or four
days Of the time appointed for us to
leave Hissarlik. Our stores were nearly
exhausted. But we brought ont all the
wine and liquors we had left, and Madam
Schliemann kept filling their glasses,
and managed to keep them all indoors
for several hours, during which time my
nephew and I dug out and hid the treas
ure, and refilled the hole with rubbish.
We worked like madmen. We never
could have done it but for the help and
presence of mind of Madam Schlie-
mann."
Year: 1877

An English paper gives an account OF
a strange scene which took place at a
wake at Depford. An inmate of the
Greenwich Union, named Mary Scott,
had died and the body was taken to the
house of her two daughters, where
preparations were made for holding a
wake. One Of the daughters, however,
declared that the body was not that of
her mother, whilst the. other stoutly
maintained that it was. A fierce dis
pute ensued, and after n prolonged al
tercation it was decided to call in n third
person, an aged woman, who had known
the decease we'll.


This person emphatically said that the
body was not that of Mrs. Scott at all, y
decision which excited no small surprise
amongst the friends who were present.
Ultimately the body was returned to the
Union, where it was found that mis-
take had been made, and another body
was shown the Misses Scott, who this
time, however, both agreed that the sec
ond body resembled their mother less
than the first. The upshot of the affair
was, that the parent was found to be
still alive, and in few minutes after
ward the Misses Scott had the satisfac-
tion of again beholding the mother
whose loss they had been deploring.
Year: 1877

A farmers wife living near Ghent,
Belgium, recently captured g thief while
she was in child-bed. Her husband had


left her during the evening to inform
relative who was to be the godfather OF
the auspicious event that had taken
place, leaving her in charge of nurse.
Shortly afterward this woman obtained
permission to return to her home to
fetch something that she required. She
had scarcely left the house before man,
with his face blackened, entered, and,
approaching the bed in the dark, threat
ened to murder the patient if she uttered
a cry, and demanded the money for
which her husband had sold a COW few
days before. Pretending to accede to
his demand, she told him that he would
find it in the cellar at the further end. In
a bag, concealed behind stone. The
man descended the steps, when she at
once jumped from her bed, shut down
the trap door and bolted it, and then
called to her neighbors for assistance.
The man was secured, and his face being
washed he proved to be the husband OF
the nurse,
Year: 1877

Sulphur is recommended as specific
for scarlet fever by a physician who
writes in the London Lancet of his
marvellous success in using it. His
treatment of cases was to thoroughly
anoint the patient twice daily with sui
phur ointment, and give five to ten
grains of sulphur in a little jam three
times a day; sufficient sulphur was
burned twice q day ION coals) to fill the
room with fumes, which were inhaled by
the patient. Every case improved under
this mode of treatment, and none were
over eight days in making complete
recovery.
Year: 1877

and the responsibility of disturbing the peace
of France was thrown directly upon the Presi-
dent and those who had urged or cajoled him,
| for no one suspects him OF sufficient ihte'-
lectual power, good or bad, to have ongina'ed
| the step.


| In such crisis as this the immediate future
of the French Republic, If not the success OF
failure of the system, depends mainly on the
action of the Republican party, which includes
all shades of opinion, from avowed Socialism
to extreme Conservatism. The danger to be
apprehended was that the former might not


be ready to give up their old antagonism ana
unite with the latter in course winch must
be cautious rather than bold, patient rather
than aggressive. Nay, it was not enough 10


adopt such a policy: there must almost De
| uion in regard to n leader who shall repre-


sent something ineligible, or at least positive,


to the millions of peasant-vOters who are sui
ignorant of principles and political duties.
There is no such leader in France, at present
except NJ Thiers and all the signs indicate
that he has been accepted by all shades of
Repnblicans as the proper man to supersede
MacMahon, and himself quietly permits the
choice The leaders of the party, first among
them Gambetta, have acted with admirable
promptness and intelligence. Even the hrst
sensation of angry surprise did not give rise
to any expression of menace which Their an
tagonists were able 60 use with profit their
calmness and dignity were on par with their
unanimty.


The result of this course is, that almost from
the first day the MacMahOn Government found
itself placed i'll morally defensive attitude.
1t was obliged, even, to seem to detach itself
from its Uitramontane support, and to c0nilne
its further measures to the arrest OF editors
and the removal of projects Its latest design,
to prevent the meeting of the sections OF the
Left before the reassembling of the Chambers
has been instantly answered by Gambettas
declaration that no such meeting will take
place The Government has tins been forced
! into q position where every propagation 10
disorder comes from itself, and every move
ment to preserve order from the Republicans
Nothing else could bring It's criminal blunder
into such prominence, or so weaken its power
to do final harm. When the Assembly is dis
solved-as may be confidently expected-we
believe that the French people will render q
iust noble and crushing verdict, In the
next election of Deputies. If they do this, and


the present Republican majority is increased
instead OF diminished, MacMahon cannot longer
retain his place with honor. In that case. he
| will be known in history as the Avenger Of
| Vhicrs.
Year: 1877

There is talk of forming an Anti-Police
Outrage Society II is time. PatrOlman Doyle,
who last Sunday so grievously assaulted Fran
els Williams that he subsequently died in
Bellevue Hospital, has been held to answer III
a comparatively small sum, and for tine present
at least he is at liberty. Meanwhile, Mrs.
Williams, widow of the deceased, is locked up
as witness. The worst of the matter is that
Williams might have recovered if his case had
received early enough attention. He lay groan-
ing and bowling with pain all day Sunday in
the Tombs. A surgeon dressed the wounds of
his head, but no other attention was paid TO
him or to his complaints, it being taken for
granted that he was under the influence of
Intoxicating liquors. Finally, at 10 o'clock on
Sunday evening the ambulance was sent for,
and he was taken to Bellevue. The physician
there was naturally indignant. The man, he said,
would have had a chance of his life if he had
been brought in earlier, instead of being kept in
the station house until he was dying. How he
received the fatal rupture is one question
Officer Doyle may or may not have been guilty
of undue violence it is for jury to pass
upon that point; Williams may have been
properly arrested he may have been a diff
cult man to arrest; but he certainly might
have been approached and assisted as he lay
half dead in his cell.


If we had the Anti-Police Outrage Society
which is talked about, its first business now
would be to find Out-1. Whether Williams
should have been arrested at all. 2. Whether
the violence with which he was treated was
unnecessary or caused his death. 3. Whether
he was properly cared for after his arrest.
When Policeman Doyle is tried for the assault,
if he ever is tired, the public will have another
opportunity of looking into these matters and
we hope that 1t will look sharply.
Year: 1877

Yesterday was one of the minor Centennial
anniversaries. Just one hundred years ago
Congress resolved "that the flag of the l3
United States be 13 stripes alternate red and
white; that the union be 13 stars white In a
90 blue field, representing new constellation
The official PRONUNCIATION was made on the 3u
of September. Since that time there have been
few alterations in the number OF the stars
and stripes, but the general idea has always
been respected Since the gorgeous ensign was
adopted, many a battle by sea and land has
been won or lost under it, but often enough
won to make our annals honorable; many a
poet has sung of it, many an orator has ap0s-
trophzed it. it has been seen and respected In
all parts of the whole earth; and when rebel
lion threatened the integrity of the Republic,
il became an orihamme around which the loyal
rallied and secured the safety of the State.
Last year. we need not say how everywhere 1t
was disnlaved until it became the most familiar
object of the time.


'Tis an old story how men have loved the
standard of their countries; how they have
Ionged for the sight of that memorial
of home in far-off foreign lands, and grown hap
rier when the sight was vOuchsafed 10 them !;





ment from the deck slippery with blood, or
peered earnestly for its crimson cOlOrs through
the war-cloud rolling dun over the hotly
contested field. When all love 1t, and history
and tradition are full of it, and we are sure
of its faithful preservation in the future, there
is little need of hailing it anew even upon It's
natal day. Let us only hope that the winds
will fan it so long as they blow; that it shall
be the ornament of its skies so long as they
stretch over land of regulated liberty and
that future ages, though they may regard it
only as a relic of antiquity, may understand
how dear it was to us as an emblem OF the
Union for which so many dared and 50 many
valiantly died


Trifes are what a nation makes them.
There is nothing very costly in few yards OF
coarse blue, red, and white bunting save as
il is token of honorable achievement and an
expression of resolute and yirtuous purpose
A flag is to a country what his crest was to
many knght-a token of individuality, to be
preserved from all dishnnorable stain. 1t is
the purpose which consecrates the banner, no
matter what its bearings may he. Beautiful
or homely, it is all our Own-made ours by
adoption and conservation, and atterward by
resolute endeavor and the success which re-
warded it. flag is like the phrases which
are always uponsthe popular lips" Liberty
"and Union," Independence Forever and
the lke-phrases which no repetition hack
neys, and which never lose their meaning by
being mouthed. So we may to-day consider
what the flag means-the Union which it
symbolizes, the life of the nation which its
own tremuOus but not timid Viyacity suggests
while as it floats far above all the turmoil of our
partisan disputes, it tells us of purer airs, of
more elevated purposes, and of loftier motives
than those by which we are too often in
fluenced.
Year: 1877

very hungry horse out of the clover are
no more likely to be moved by the
story of what became OF the late leaders OF
New-York Democracy than the good Deacon
Davenport was at Mr.. Potter's recital OF the
history of his "pardners." No, no; it was only
n reminiscence-not more. There are times
when "'tis greatly sweet to talk with our past
"boursr This was one of them.
Year: 1877

II is time that people left off speaking OF the
Presidents treatment of the Southern question as an
"experiment." 1t was the abandonment OF an
experiment. and an experiment which had signally
failed Local self-government is no moro OF an
experiment in our system than trial by jury is.
Year: 1877

1t is to be hoped that the Fishery Commits
sioners at Halifax have good reason for reSolv-
ing to hold their deliberations with closed
doors. As a general rule the decisions of such
tribunals inspire more confidence when their
proceedings are public. In this instance there
ought to be nothing which either side would
wish TO conceal.
Year: 1877

From wide extent of country in this State
and New-England reports come OF the damage
occasioned by thunder-showers, hail, and vio-
lent wind yesterday afternoon. Near North
ampton, Mass. the destruction OF covered
bridge on which several teams had taken shell
ter. involved some loss of lifc and the won
der is, considering the character of the
disaster that so few were killed and in
iured Violent and brief thunder-storms
are apt to occur after periods OF long contln-
ued southerly winds when these accompany
damp atmosphere and occasionally threatening
skies. But it rarely happens in this section OF
the country that the resulting effects are so
widespread as those of yesterday. In TINS
city, fortunately there is no great damage to
report, though for very short time the wind
was quite furious.


Saul on his way to Damascus was not more
suddenly converted than Simmons fresh from
the modern Athens Simmons, accomplished
pupil and ally of Butler and protege OF Grant,
wishes to have it understood that he adhered
to the spoils system only because there
was no other He has no hunger for
the loavcs and fishes; he yeains for
reform with an mselfsh longing. Insure
him his position for another four years-and
here perhaps his eyelid trembled with emotion
and he will withdraw from pClitics and take
the Custom-hOuse along. But first-flrst-he
must bo sure that President Hayes Is really III
earnest about this thing and that his aspira-
tions for genuine reform are not mocked at
and laughed to scorn by the disingenuous
spirits of the White House, playing Reform to
catch the public eye and luring guileless SIM
monses on to Improbable conversions. Assured
of this. he has only one thing further to
ask, and that is that President Hayes shall
allow none of those sinful politicians. of whom
he has heard many and dreadful things but
knows thank Heaven nothing but their own
vile and loathsome regulations. to defeat his
humble and earnest efforts for change OF
heart in the Custom-house. 0! Simmons, Sim
mons How long would you wear the sleeps
clothing, if wolves came into fashion againY
Year: 1877

We have to record the awful fate of lobbyist


Peter Papin his name, who has come to pain and a
prison in Columbia, 5. G.. The enterprisIng Peter
had a scheme for the improvement of Port Royal


to promote which he desired to be incorporated in
tending to be himself President and Secretary and
Director and Treasurer and all He manipulated
his little bill through the Senate but 1t seems to
have stuck in the House. so Peter saw the Com
mitee on interpretations, and proposed to pay hand


soney for favorable report. Instead of taking
his money, the committee reported the proposition
to the House, which at once sent for Mr.. Papin to
come to the bar to answer to a charge of contempt


As he had nothing to say, except that he was no
such person, the House committed him TO Jail for
the remainder Of the session. This is the most en-
Year: 1877

Officer Bleil seems determined to remind the
public that the police force is not organized
for the sole purpose of outrage. Once before,
Just when some brute had made the name Of
policeman Odious, Bleil saved a life at the
risk of his own, adding another to the long
list of his exploits; and now, when Jordan,
Murphy, and Doyle have brought disgrace on
the uniform, lac saves another life and gives
the reputation of the force another timely lift.
Year: 1877

in, so Con, his owner, very wisely told
the boy to let him win the first heat,
which, according to accepted ideas, was
wrong, because Red Eyes great point
was his bottom. So at the finish of that
heat there was such pandemonium as
was never heard on race-course before.
When Red Eye came to the string the
next heat his eyes were glaring diaboli-
cally and he reared and charged and
seemed to jump forty feet every stride.
The third heat was between the horse
and mare only, and, as I have said, the
former, at the close of the face, had run
twelve miles in 22:41l.
Year: 1877

The gill with a frog in her stomach
has turned up again, this time in the
neighborhood of Troy. There can be
no doubt about it, for the Times, of
that city, vouches for the story. She
swallowed the beast seven years ago, in
drinking from brook-an incident
which carries its own moral-and has
suffered the gravest discomfort ever
since. Last Sunday, however, the
frog came up, and now the girl goes
about her affairs as merry as cricket.
Unfortunately for the cause of science,
the sight of the reptile SO excited her
that she Immediately seized it and
threw it intn the fire, and SO 1t hap-
pens that nobody but herself saw the
frog. But then nobody can question
her account Of Ii.
Year: 1877

The first mistake which is made by most
men is in making wealth the object of their
lives. But wealth, as we know, does not
give happiness. Wealthy men do not,
because of their wealth, get happiness.
The Vanderbilts, the Stewards and the
AstOrs have not been our happiost men,
They are not the typical men in the home;
they are not the typical men in social life !;
they are not the typical men in the delights
of life, Or in the progression of learning,
which perhaps yield the finest joys men can
know. We can go down lower still, and
find the men who have only one million or
so, or half million, and they do not type
the happiness of American homes. Gointo
their houses. How splendid, how gorge
Gus, how gaudy they are, and yet they
cannot rival the little homes in the love Of
a husband and wife, in the reverence of
children for parents, in the parents guard
ianship over children, in all the sweet
happiness that affection spreads abroad
| like a fragrance through the chambers of
our houses. You know that almost every
American gets wealth who chooses to-,
! though he loses it again, perhaps; but he
gets it. 1t is not great proof of ability nor
evidence of success for man to get wealth
in this country and this age. Now, then,
it seems to us that if young man should
picture to himself rather quiet house.
sunnily placed on some hillside, with a
stretch of meadow in 'front.' through which
courses running stream, shaded by
! pleasant trees, with a loving wife, group
of pleasant-faced and virtuous children,
quistude of days and peacefulness of nights
health and contentment of mind, that
would be much better than set up a


fictitious standard and strive necessarily fol


it as though you must reach it or be utterly


undOne.-.HuTay.