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Year: 1878

Special Telegram to The GLoBE.)


ST. PETER, March 21.-This usually quiet
place is in quite state of fermentation
this bright, glorious spring morning, and
people seem to find nothing else to do than
talk over the e1traord mary action of the
trustees of the insane asylum yesterday. It
appears that many of the citizens were per-
fectly aware of the intention of the board to
refuse admittance to the committee, but
the majority of the people condemn the ac-
ton as unwise, to say the least of it, and it
has caused quite revolution in the opinion
and sentiments of the populace. Men
who had thought that the institution
was faultl.ssly managed, think there
must be something in the charges made by
the petitioners, or why the unwarrantable op-
position to full investigation by the man
ayers. Those who do not believe in cruelty
think there is at least q .swood chuck'' to un-
earth, and if there is the committee is Just
in the right spirit to dig it out Comment
Year: 1878

the patients employed in the fields, who
would not do Immediately what he was told,
seized him by the throat and cast him several
yards upon the ground, tearing his shirt
nearly from his body. He told the gentle
man that they could not help getting mad
sometimes, and the only way they had of
forcing obedience was to be rough with
them.
Year: 1878

Tuesday morning Jan. 18th, Mir. R. Milous, while at work with his men on the Housatonic road (between the depot and Botsford station) saw boy passing along the track, going North, and on questioning the boy, as to where he was going, was told that he was going to Newtown. Mir. Milous thought by the boys appearance, he being we'll dressed and the manner in which he acted, that the boy was running away from home. He said nothing of this to the little fel- low then. but later in the day he again saw the boy, about one mile beyond Hawleyville almost tired out with his long walk, and suffering from cold and hunger Mir. Milous again questioned the boy closely and found out his name, which he gave to he Blakeman, and that he lived in Bridgeport. The boy confessed that he was running away from home, and said that some boys had ad- vised him to do so. He said that he had a good home, and was sorry that hs had left MT. Milous found that the boy really desired to go back So he took hiH to his home in Hawleyville, gave him something to eat, cared for him un- til the train arrived, put him upon it and paid his fare back to Bridgeport The boy, who was about eleven years cid, had walked tbe distance of twenty four miles and for one so young it was a long one.
Year: 1878

The Library association will meet next Tuesday evening. and all persons inter ested are requested to bring the title of such bOnks as they desire to see pur, chased for the library For the benefit of those who may not know how the new subscrip ion price is received, We will state that some twenty-five new names have been added to The list, and that with the money derived from the Pound party about fifty dollars has been put into tue treasuay Let there be a fuli attendance next Tuesday evening
Year: 1878

When you sec his barn larger than his
house, i: shows that he will have large
profits and small Affections.


When you see him driving his work,
instead of his work driving him, it shows
that he will never be driven from good
resolutions, and that he will certainly
work his way to prosperity.


When you always see in his wood
house a sutllcicncy for three months or
more, it will be more than ninety nine
days, wonder, in farming operations, and
that he is not sleeping in his house after
a drunken trolic.


When he has house separate from
the main building, purposely for ashes,
and an non or tin vessel to transport
item, it shows that he never built his
yelling to be a funeral pile for his fam
" and, perhaps himself.


When his sled is housed in summer
and his farming implements covered
both winter and summer, it plainly shows
nat he will have good house over his
head i'll the summer OF early life and tho
winter OF old age.


When his cattle properly shielded and
fed in winter, it is evidences that he is &C
cording to the scripture, which says that
"a mcrcciful man is mcrcitul to his
bcast.''


When he is seen subscribing for papers
and paying in advance, it shows that he
is speaking like book respecting the
latest improvements in all matters, and
that he never gets his walking papers to
the land of poverty.
Year: 1878

Oswego Palladium.


About five years ago Charles Draper, a
resident of the town of New Haven, but
who had been in the employ of Mr..
Benjamin Doolittle of this city, deserted his
wife and children and ran away with a
woman from Texas, in this county. The
pair returned to New Heaven subsequently
and Draper went back to his family, only to
repeat the operation O short time after.
Again the gallant Draper returned to the
bosom of his family, and finding that his
conduct was not considered up to the stand
ard of New Heaven morality, packed up, and
taking his wife and children, went down
east, somewhere near Boston. Here he
eloped with sum of money belonging to his
employer, and was sent to the penitentiary.
Becoming disgusted with the high-toned
notions of Massachusetts people, Draper
came back to New Heaven with his family
and went to work for his brother David, a
leading Methodist and the possessor of a
good-looking wife and four bright children.
In the effort to reform his hayward brother
David took him into his family and at the
falnily altar Charles and David communed.
Last week the brother came to Oswego to
dispose of some produce, and while absent
Mrs. Dave took her children to a neighbours
and asked to leave them there until she
could go to the village and have tooth ex-
tracted. After the ''sass" had been disposed
of Lere. David lost sight of Charles and re-
turned home without him. What was his
surprise OH arriving to find his house de-
serted, his children at the neighbor's and
his wife gone. The situation was only too
plain-his unfaithful spouse and ungrateful
brother had eloped. Mrs. Charles has prob
ably got used to this little eccentricity of
her husbands and don't mind it so much,
but to David it is serious matter. The
runaway pair have not been heard from since
/ their departure. When Charles returns, as
he undoubtedly will, tho citizens of New
Heaven should receive him as becomes a
| a champion eloper, and man who may at
some future time distinguish himself by
getting away with his own or somebody
else's mOther-in-laW.
Year: 1878

The London Times prints two col umns
of description Of the mechanical display of
the United States at the Paris exhibition. In
an editorial article commenting thereon the
Times says: The pre.emincnce of the me-
chanical genius of citizens of the United
States may be admitted and is illustrated not
for the first time in the exhibition in Paris
The Times, without pretending to exhaust
the whole secret OF the phenomena of invent
i've genius across the Atlantic finds reason
therefor in greater efficiency of the labor
and the increased cost and difficulty of hiring
it The condition OF the Union as an ccono-
mic society drives its inhabitants toward in
vcntion, and there as elsewhere necessity
may be said to 'n the mother of wit.
Year: 1878

1t is now definitely known that Presi-
dent Hayes will reach Chicago ell route to
tember. He will remain there that day and
night. and during his stay there will be a
public reception at the Grand Pacific hotel,
and committee of the most prominent
business men has been appointed to receive
him and take charge OF the ceremonies. On
the 4th of September he will leave for St.
Paul. It is understood that in compliance
with tho earnest rcques Of the citizens in all
parts of Wisconsin i will return from st.
Paul via Madison caching the latter place
about the 10th
Year: 1878

LAW AGAINST FLIRTING.-B Burke, in
his History of Virginia, says: II find
that the Governor WAS obliged soon alter
to issue n proclamation forbidding wo-
men to contract themselves to several
men at one time; for women being yet
scarce and much in quest, this ofiense
had become very common, whereby
great disquiet arose between parties, and
no small trouble to the Government. 1t
was therefore ordered; That every min


lister should give notice in his church that
what woman sJever should use any word
or speech rendering to contract of mai
riage to several persons OF one time, al
though not preciso and legal, yet so as
might entange or breed scruple in their
conscieEces, should for such ofiense, either
undergo corporal correction or be pun
ished by fine or otherwise, according to
the quality Of the person so offended.
Year: 1878

Z About one hundred passengers left this
city this morning, on the Ocean City
train. When the train left Delmar there
were two hundred passengers in all.


y The excursion from Dover to Ocean
City on Tuesday last was the largest that
has ever passed over this road TO that
place there being eleven hundred and
tWentytfive passengers. The excursion
on Thursday next will probably be The
last ore for this seasvA. The Red Men
from this city, and all along the line will
make an exeu sion on that day. &. &
Year: 1878

1t is said that quite number ofthe per
SONS who nightly fret and fume at the
foundry temperance meetings are not vo-
ters,as they have refrained for some years
past from paying their taxes. These peo-
pie are certainly very cheeky to talk SO
viciousIy about our State, county and city
governments when they pay nothing for
their support.
Year: 1878

OLEoNARGARTNE A WHOLESOME ARTICLE
OF FoOD.-At meeting of the board of health
yesterday report was received from the san
itary committee in answer TO the inquiries
made by the state senate, asking whether
OleomargaTiRe was wholesome article OF food,
and what legislation was necessary To prevent
its imposition upon the public as butter the
product of the dairy. The committee reported
that OleOmargarine is a wholesome article of
food, and that no additional legislation is
necessary beyond the enforcement of the law
passed by the last legislature, requiring every
receptacle in which IL is offered for sale 20 he
stamped or branded with the word "Oleomar-
garihe." ". y. Commercial, 9TH.
Year: 1878

IN THE FoUR-MILE RACE at Cbarleston
South Carolina. yesterday, the horse Wash
Booth broke his right hind leg short of at the
pastem at the 81 mile pole, but hung on, TO
the end The race was won by Judge Han
cock. Little Rob second, Hatteras third. in
6I014 At the auction sale OF Thoroughbred
stock after the races horses went eh cheap
the highest price being $50.
Year: 1878

THE MURDERERs OF JUDGE CHIsOLM are
finally to be brought before bar of Justice,
though not for the crime of murder. They are
the United States 1t is not creditable to the
democratic party that these men should first
be brought to trial before a federal court. 1t
goes good way to prove that local self gov
ernment' in Mississippi does not include the
punishment of murder.-[N. Y Times.
Year: 1878

THE LAW OF NEwsPAPER LIBEI-At Chi
cagO in the case of Farley agt. Storey, editor
of the Times in which the lower court
awarded large damages to plaintiff for defa-
NATION cf the character of his daughter, the
supreme court of Illinois has reversed the de
ciSOn. and remanded the case for trial The
principal grounds of this decision are that the
lower court Judge gave an erroneous inStruc
tiOn, and excluded a competent witness of de-
fendant. 1t is also set forth that the pu6lica-
tOn of news as such differs widely, in the light
of the law from an expression OF opinion by
the publishers of a newspaper in the editorial
columns. This decision was aSSented to BY
all but one of the supreme court justices.
Year: 1878

The FACT that when the Inflated Metro
polls left the capes the danger signals Of the
signal service were up, adds to the Tesponsi-
bility of those no brought her to wreck. That
an unSeawOrthy ship, carrying five hundred
tons OF iron rails, in addition TO her coal and
other heavy cargo, and carrying some two
hundred and fifty lives, should have gone To
sea when the storm signals warned her in
vain. seemed like tempting Providence.
Year: 1878

Elephants have so much sympathy
with depraved human nature as to
think with Byron, "Sweet is revenge
An anecdote of an elephants revenge,
translated from the French, is as fol-
lows: Upon one of the plantations
was an English overseer named Ben
nett, an exceedingly cross and disa-
greeable man, who was employed by
the master because of his great capa-
bility in directing affairs. Upon the
plantation was an elephant named
Dourga, that Bennett greatly disliked,
and upon whom he often played mean
tricks. His employer, after reproving
him several times for his unkindness to
the animal, warned him that if he car
ried his tricks too far, Dourga would
pay him back with interest Finally
the time came when Dourga's patience
was tried beyond endurance. He was
in the habit of receiving every morn
ing from his driver a huge corn-cake
covered with molasses, of which he
was very fond. One morning, as this
cake was being carried to him on a
bamboo hurdle, Bennett, who was pass
ing with potful of red pimento, threw
it upon the cake, and then stopped to
watch and mimic the grimaces made
by the elephant when he swallowed it.
| The result was easy to see. The poor
animal, his mouth on fire, passed the
! day in a marsh trying to calm the thirst
that was devouring him, and to appease
the inflammation produced by the fiery
dose he had swallowed. When even
! ing came, the hour when Bennett
brought the coolies from work, the ele-
phant pounced upon him, picked him
up with his trunk and pitched him head
long in large reservoir or pond of
water, which was thirty or forty feet
! deep. Bennett, who knew how to
swim, quickly swan to the edge. Dour-
GA allowed him to climb up the bank,
when he picked him up again as if he
had been wisp of straw, and threw
him back in the water. This was re-
peated as many times as Bennett at
tempted to escape, until he was COM
PEELED to remain in the water, keeping
his head up as well as he could. The
affair would have ended with sure
drowning for Bennett, if one of the
coolies had not come to his rescue and
forced Dourga away. The elephant
never forgot the injury done him, and
rarely allowed an opportunity to escape
to still further revenge himself upon
the oyerseer. Sometimes he would
throw a pawful of sand slap in Ben
nett's face; again it would be spout
of water thrown over him; at another
time he would be pitched into cactus
bush, from which he would get out
scarcely alive, so horribly scratched
would he be. 1t was impossible to cor
rect Dourga and make him behave.
The upshot of the whole affair was that
Bennett was obliged to leave the plan.
tation, which was not large enough fol
him and Dourga together, and his EN-


ployer valued the elephant more than
he did his overseer.
Year: 1878

One night during the latter part of
last week, as the schooner Bay Leaf
was crossing Lake Ontario, James Fer
guson, of this city, who was second
mate of the craft, was thrown over
board, and as he was the only man on
deck at the time his absence was not
noticed until too late to bring the YES
sci about in an effort to rescue him.
When Ferguson fell into the water the
schooner was sailing rapidly before a
fair wind, and the unfortunate man
could only swim for life One by one
he divested himself of coat, vest and
shoes, and for an hour or more kept
himself afoat, when he fortunately
came across r piece of board about four
feet long and foot wide. With this
slight assistance Ferguson was able to
secure occasional breathing spells, and
when daylight came he found himself
out of sight of land and with no sail in
hailing distance. Having kept his
bearings in a great measure, the swim
mer struck out for shore with his board,
being then, as he estimated, fifteen
miles out in the lake. All day long,
and with hot sun beating down upon
his barred head, Ferguson worked to
shore, and finally, after being in the
water and without food nearly twenty.
one hours, he landed safely on shore
near the village of Niagara, but con-
siderably exhausted. Yesterday morn,
ing Mr.. Ferguson arrived in this
city, and walking into his house, No
500 Fifth street, presented himself tC
his OVariOVad wife who ever since she
first heard that her husband had faller
into the lake and been drowned, stoutly
maintained that she could not believe


he had been drowned. Detroit Fire,
| Press.
Year: 1878

THE vote in the House on the silver bill
only serves to show that the majority of our
representatives have not lost faith in remone-
tization. The opposition made by Butler,
Ewing and others was mostly play. Doubt.
less these men preferred the bill unamended
but the amendments did not trouble them
much, and they were very glad of the excuse
thus given them. As soon as their dupes dis
cover that reconciliation works harm instead
of good the deceivers will at once cry out
that the Senate amendments wrought all the
evil but that the original bill was a great
blessing. Had they been really opposed to
the measure they could easily have defeated it
by sending it back to the Senate. But they
did not dare to trust it to that body again.
As it is they fear that the veto which is sure
to come will be sustained.
Year: 1878

THE restoration of peace in Cuba ought to
be of great benefit to this city. The Cubs
trade has been in the past one of the greatest
sources of profit to our shipping interests.
The establishment of order and revival OF In
dustry and trade in the unfortunate island
will naturally lead to the taking up again Of
the old relations.
Year: 1878

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS IS furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
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

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

1t is thought by very many of the most active
friends of Temperance that the cause could be great
ly advanced in this State, by more judcious con-
centraon of purpose and effort on the part of the
various Temperance organizations, the Church and
the public generally, by association in some State or
ganzation, similar in plan and scope to that of the
Massachusetts State Temperance Alliance" which
organization has existed in that State for upwards of
twenty-five years. and embraces in active member
ship, members of all the various Temperance organ
izatons as well as the Clergy and Church of almost
every denomination; receiving and disbursing from
fourteen to eighteen thousand dollars every year au-
thenticating and sending out Lecturers into every
portion of the State arranging for public meetings
and supplying speakers, and closely watching the
Temperance pulse, and providing means and meas
ures to keep it in healthy and vigorous state care


ully serutiDizing all legislation and ready at all
ZINES to sound the alarm when encroaehm ents from
the enemy are attempted. With view to organiz-
ing similar Alliance in Maine, and auxiliary to the
to the National Temperance Alliance, the under
signed invite the friends Of Temperance to meet at
Year: 1878

filthy greenbacks from my friends. Well,
that's good. Why | distinctly under.
stood you to name $500 as the sum need.
ed to pay of that mortgage and alter
receiving It you would return 10 New
Orleans and forward documents that
would carry CONSERVATION generally TO
the Administration. What In satan's
name did you expect TO gain BY lying In
the manner you did, for you did lie most
damnably. Why at the very time you
were in "W." trying TO sell that document
another party was there who had 1t
in his possession, and declared that
YOU never saw II; that he does
not know you and never heard OF
you until you gained notoriety by at.
tempting to bull.doze s. N. No wonder
the old coon got mad. He knew all about
it and knew you knew nothing. ! was
not aware Of the actual state Of things
until the day I saw you last, and only the
production Of the paper itself could con.
vince me that you had the hardihood TO
come on such FOOLS errand. There Is a
building just outside Of Jackson TO which
| think you had better be sent. And 80
YOU want 10 know how NJ. s. came to
speak OF Pass. For many reasons. !
will, II you will state your reasons and
they are good ones, / may give you in.
formation. However, l think you had
better retire TO the shades OF private life
and meddle no more with politics. l
would recommend, however, a bath daily;
II sometimes cures In a mild form.


Very Truly Yours,
Year: 1878

EDITOR MIDDLETowN TRANSCRIPT A 1e"
weeks ago we were attracted by an article on
the Suburban attractions of your town, most
prominent of which was the ancieut pile Of ~.
Anne's Frequently visitors regret that the OLD
church is 50 denuded of furniture, as wish Is
often expressed by strangers to see its interior
Were an edifice of such antiquity and inter
esting associations in New England, or where
persons value hallowed age, this building
would be kept in repair, awhole neighborhood
uniting to preserve such an object of interest
Has Delaware no pride in her monuments of
the past? Why should the hillside approach
to the old church, once tanele Of wild vines
be made receptacle of old iron, tin and othef
refuse of the town. A heap Of rubbish DIS
graceful in appearance and violation OF all
good taste Can you not, through your good
paper, awaken an interest in the preservation
of time honored spot which all your people
should feel proud Of Yours truly,


'skENT." +"
Year: 1878

Before the regular business Of the propose make
things brisk by Of our occasional sales organized stu
pendou scale and coupled with attractions elaborate char
The rush for the advance Bargains and First Fresh
Goods will stimulate business only the Grand Depot but
Year: 1878

Miss Smith, present post mistress of Dover,
is about to retire from the 'iactive duties OF
public life" and get married. 1t IS fearful to
contemplate the number of post-mistresses
which matrimony has pIucked from the de
livery window during the past year. Lei
the good work 60 on.
Year: 1878

aTHERE is not" wrote the editor of
the Deadwood Daily Champion, e
quieter, more peaceful, well regulated
and orderly community in the western
country" And then as the e-boy
entered to say that somebody wanted
to see him, he took his bowie between
his teeth, put Colts new pattern sev-
en-shooter on the desk in front Of him,
and then said ssJim, get out another
cof6n-plain one, this time and let
the cuss come in r
Year: 1878

SUPPRESSED STORY OF A CRIME.-The New
York Times publishes lengthy particulars of a
crime, suppressing names, in which it is al
Boston to Albany, several months since, was
met upon the ira in by a couple of men, who
against her protest, assumed charge of her
passengers as being insane and destined for
The lunatic asylum. 1t is asserted that the
villains took the lady from the cars at Utica
placed her IN carriage, and took her to a
dlugged and outraged her, ana where she
was found by her husband the next day in an
exhausted and almost insane condition. AS
discovered
Year: 1878

THE MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN CON-
MTTTEE has issued a call for the convention tu
nominate state officers on the 18Th OF Septem-
Der. A communication from the secretary of
the Union League OF New York suggesting a
cooperation In the coming congressional cam
paign was referred TO the executive commit
tee, with power TO act
Year: 1878

THE GRAND EXTRA DRAWING of the Royal
by the Spanish government, under the super.
vision of the Captain General of Cuba, will
take place on the 4th of September next. There
will be 1900 tickets issued. and the amount
dawn will be sl,350,00O out Of this amount
there will be one s5G00OO prize and two 100000
Year: 1878

THE COMMITTEE on RAILROADS of the New
Hampshire legislature, to which was referred
the bill providing for a tax on the market
value of the stock and property of railroads
have repOrted the bill as ineXpedient.