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Year: 1878

level of low prejudice and mischiev-
Gus ignorance straighter and follow
in with a more undertaking steadi-
ness, than any othor man in the SEN
ate or out of it. Conkiing has the
instincts Of despot and Voorhees, Of
demagogue. One is arrogant and
the other mean, Voorhees, is as vain
as Conkling but he is more anxious
10 make himself conspicuous by him
self than personal display. And as anx
ious to keep clear OF trouble when he
has helped to set it at work. He
was the most outspoken abettor OF
southern enmity in the north, till his
encouragement took root and grew
into war. Then he was anxious to
become an enemy without incurring
the danger of hostility. He said all
that he could say to strengthen the
discomfort OF the worst element of
the democracy, kept his congressional
district as turbulent as an Irish meet
ing and as murderous as pass in
the AbruzZi, saw draft officers as
sassinated and union citizens driven
off without remonstrance, advised
with rebels and intrigued with Vail
andigham. He was kept by his dis
cretion within the bound of safety. II
he bad been bolder he would have
been traitor, il he would have been
less eager for mischief he would
have been silent. He is at much the
same work low.


His recent speech is an argument
for nothing, for he never reasons. He
dogmatizes and gushes, but he don't
argue. The logical faculty is as de-
fective in him as an old clock with a
wheel out. But the speech is admir-
ably adapted to making trouble by
setting just such men as those who
are already planning a communistic
war in San Francisco, to attempting
a revolution against the tyranny OF
property" 1t is skillfylly compoun-
ded mass of men prejudices, varied
with spurts OF ludicrous doctrine. II
is just level with the intelligence oil
the class he is speaking for, the hood
lums OF the west and the Molly Ma.
guires Of the east, and is therefore a
much more dangerous speech than
one fifty times as able that had 9
higher aim and sought better audi
ence. Its gushing fires of liberty"
are the splendor Of oratory to his rea
constituency, as laughable as such
stuff is to intelligent men. 1t is not
to be despised because 1t is despic
able. any more than a mole that ruin:
wall is to be thought harmless be
cause it Is contemplate. 1t is fired
in the right place to make mischief
and that is where he meant it to go
In all this Conkling is a very differ
ent man. He will insult his associ
ates, but he will not encourage clas!
enmities. He could assert himself
against st. Peter. but he would moi
appeal to the prejudices and the ig
norance In which today lie the grea
peril OF the country. And his rhetor
ic is as different as his disposition
His enlogy on Senator Morton is a
elgant, apt and graceful a piece o
literary workmanship as can be foun,
! in the English language. Il 10 as n
beyond the reach OF Mr.. Voorhees, an,
his sophomorical culture az "Paradis


Lost" 1t Is the production OF an in
tellectual man, an educated man,
man OF taste, refinement and wild,
reading. Mr.. Voorhees, is none o
those. Except as skillful demagogue
ready to use any element howeve
dangerous, and represent any igno
rance however dense, he is nothing.
Year: 1878

The issue at the coming city elec-
ton promises to be temperance.
Its advocates claim that whiskey and
its belongings are running the youth
OF our city; that many OF the laws
regulating the sale of liquors are
neither observed or enforced; and
that change is desirable. They
propose putting straight out temp
erance ticket into the field and fight
it out on thatlin -Valparaiso "
dette,


Plymouth and Marshall county
might do the same thing with i'm
mense proprierty. We have heard a
temperance man declare repeatedly
that our county officers are all drunk
ards. Whether or not he knows
what he Is talking about we cannot
say, but unless there was some
cause for such declaration 1t is not
likely that 1t would be made. If the
temperance men will put their heads
together, they can mako Rome
howl"
Year: 1878

The Plymouth REP UBLIcAN seems
to condemn the republican judge
there for trihing away about 25 days
OF the court upon one single case,
while the Democrat comes to the
judges defense and attributes some
part of the wasting Of time to per-
sistent contention of lawyers which
no Judge could we'll have prevented.
The strife is of course Of bipartisan
character.-Vdlpdraiso Vidette.
Year: 1878

Godlove s. Orth and Schuyler
Colfax where are they in these days
of gush and sensation, when the
country is calling for statesmen?-
Rochester Sentinel.


Mr.. Orth is in Lafayette practicing
law, and Mr.. Colfax is at his home in
South Bend. The time is not far
distant when probably both OF these
men,-but certainly Mr.. Colfax,-
will come to the front. and the world
will do them the credit to which they
are entitled. Mr. Colfax has been
made the victim of a combination Of
swindlers, but the day will come
when his nobility OF character and
honesty OF purpose will shine forth
as the MONDAY sun. He will do to
cling to as an upright and just man,
and all things will prove him to be
what we claim for him. Men will
calmly weigh the testimony and the
decision will be just.
Year: 1878

The South Bend Tribune gave a
public reception last evening. The
Tribune has from the start been one
Of the most successful papers in
Indiana, and seems to be gathereing
new strength every year.
Year: 1878

Circuit Court opens on the 4th OF
February.-Rochester Sentinel.


And being open once it is likely to
remain so just as long as the law will
allow. That is the Style with the
stiff necked Vermonter.
Year: 1878

The Keely motor turns out to be a
clever invention by which the guage
is made to register IA high pressure,
when in truth there is no pressure at
all. 1t is just as all sensible men ex-
pected-a complete swindle.
Year: 1878

lis { of business, professional and manufacture
Ing men in Marshall County, to whom customers in
their respective lines referred in the full assur-
ance of their reliability and character for fair deal
ing
Year: 1878

pNdSO " 90 ANptOANN %'AAoo w luOlC ClllO
back to her old underground to
find that fifty Jenkinses had SCARED,
Phenix-like, from the ashes of her
memory, and obtained a permanent
resting place amid the journalism
of the present day.


Writing of these bright days Of
Buchanan's regime reminds me of a
bitterly sad story told me this morn
ing by a lady whose heart is ever
ready to give sympathy to the dis
tressed, and whose purse is open to
relieve the needy poor, who we
have always with us. She says that
the daughter of the


HON. JOHN B. FLOYD,


a lady of culture and refinement,
whose charming way of welcoming
and gracious liberality in entertain
ing her fathers guests is remem-
bered by all who made their home
in Washington during those ante
bellum days, has becom-, within a
few months, an inmate of


THE LOUISE HOME,


in this city, into which she en-.
tered so reduced in means, and hel
wardrobe so scantily furnished, or
/ if | NAV say so, SO rich in its desti.
tuition, that friends who heard Of il
by accident sent her a trunk vel
stored with comfortable apparel
otherwise she might not have re
manned within the quiet shelter o
this sanctuary for needy ladies
These were friends, indeed, for theil
memories of her had survived il
all their bright distinctness tn,
storms Of years, and now served he.
in the hour of her direst need. Il
this city is her daughter, widow
whose struggles are barely suflicien
to keep the wolf from her dool
within which are three children
more helpless than herself.


THIS DAUGHTER


of a mother who was once on
high pinnacle of social fame an,
prominence is gifted in every way
skilled in all the.fine accomplish
ments of life, and yet begs from
cruel world any work by which sh
may earn means to clothe, feed an
house her destitute children.
shelter is only now over ther
through the sweet charity of q VIC
man too grand in the nobleness Q
her dignity for me to belittle by th
empty title Of lady, one of thos
women who so fill our Utoplan ide
of what a woman should be, VIII
paid the Shylock Of this house SIS
to prevent the execution of wri
he had obtained to turn them int
the streets, to perish of cold. AL
my Godl How thankfully mus
not such hearts lay down the wear
burden of life, since death ca
place them in a tenement fror
which no greedy landlord can tur
them.


What a homily on theuucertaint
! of human fortunes, and how bite
! a lesson from which to learn b


what a slight thread is our tenur
/ on public approval and this world
: fayorl
Year: 1878

cast her fortunes with the sunny
solid South, and during the four
years of the rebellion received con-
stant and substantial proofs of
friendship from Mrs. Brown and
Miss Saunders. This be recorded


TO their everlasting honor When
Year: 1878

No sea-surpent has turned up this year
to advertise the Atlantic watering places,
but some fishermen near Squan Beach,
New Jersey, have hooked monster from
the deep which deserves passing notice.
1t weighs about one thousand pounds,
and is in many respects shaped like tur-
tie, but no part of its outer casing is of a
consistency to be dignified by the term
shell. The head is shaped like turtles;
the fiukes are under, but the back and
belly are radically different. The back of
the monster is convoluted, and concave
seams run fore and aft. The skull is
hard, but the lip or bill is rather soft and
slightly flexible. The mouth and gullet
are lined with soft white teeth, some of
them two inches long.
Year: 1878

am no teller of stories, says, Hazlitt


yet there is one belonging to Burleigl


house of which | happened to know


sonIe of the particulars. The late Earl


of Exeter was divorced from his wife, a
| woman of fashion and of somewhat


more gravity of manners than LORDS


who love their ladies'" like. He deter
mined to seek second in a humble
| sphere in life, and that it should be one
| who, having no knowledge of his rank,
should love him for himself alone. For
this purpose he went and settled in
cognito, under the name of Mr.. Jones,
at Hornet, an obscure village in Shrop-
shire. He made overtures to one or
two damsels in the neighborhood, but
they We're too knowing to be taken in
by him. His manners were not boorish !;
his mode of life was retired it was odd
how he got his livelihood and at last he
begun to be thought highwayman.
In this dilemma he turned to Miss Hog
gins, the eldest daughter of small
farmer, at whose house he lodged. Miss
Hoggins, it would seem, had not been
used to romp with the village clowns;
there was something in the manner OF
their quiet but eccentric guest that she
liked. Having inspired her with that
kind of regard that he wished for, he
made honorable proposals to her, and
at the end of some months they were
married, without his letting her know
who he was. They set off in a post
chaise from her fathers house across
the country. In this manner they
reached Stanford; and passed through
the town without stopping till they
came to the entrance of Burleigh Park,
which is on the outside of it. The gates
flew open, and the chaise drove down
the long avenue of trees that led up to
the front of this fine old mansion. AS
they drew near to it, and seemed sur
plised at where they were going, her
husband said;


"Well, my dear, this is Burleigh house;
it is the house promised to bring you
to; and you are the Countess of Exeter


1t is said that the shock of this dis
covery was too much for the young crea-
ture, and that she never recovered from
it. 1t was IL sensation worth dying for.
The world WIS worth making, had it
only been fol this. | never wished to
have been lord hut when | think of
this story.
Year: 1878

Butler is a Millionaire and lives in a
palace, and how he contrives to hum
bug the laboring people SO we'll is a
mystery. Probably there is no man in
public life to-day who has sucked so
much money out of the Treasury of
the United States in an adroit way as
he. The lawyers fees in his case cover
everything. One can never tell, whether
he is serving in the House or on a COM
mittee, where the fee begins or ends.
There is always brother or some close
friend at hand to take an interest in
schemes which it would be improper
for the General in command of a De-
partment or q Congressman to be con-
nected with; He has grown rich out of
public life, but nobody will ever catch
at anything illegal or "impr4deut.n-


[Springfield Rep. Letter.
Year: 1878

The Glasgow Times tells of . man in
Georgia, fifty years of age, who never IN
his life drank glass of whisky, smoked
a pipe, or courted a woman. The poor
man who has never sat by q beautiful
woman, with a pipe in bis mouth, a glass
of whisky in one hand, and the whale
bones Of her palpitating stays in the
other, and, "with lip unused to the
cool breath of reason, told his loves
has no more idea of Paradise than
deaf and dumb Orangoutang has of
metaphysics. Even without the pipe
and whisky there is, strictly speaking,
nothing disagreeable about it.
Year: 1878

There are two brothers on West Hill
who look SO much alike they can not
tell each other apart, and one day last
week, when John was raging like a
volcano with the toothache, Henry went
down to DIR. Wilson and had six teeth
pulled.-EHawkeye.
Year: 1878

Atlanta Constitution The South Car
olina Democrats are now considering
a very curious problem. In the old
days, when the bayonet ruled and the
carpet-bagger reigned-when the ne
groes were drilled in secret and taught
that a Democratic victory would send
them all back into slavery, they voted
en- masse with the plunderers, and they
generally carried the day but now that
they have discovered that Democracy
means individual as we'll as general
prosperity, and that they are still in pos
session of all their rights, the tempta-
ton to vote with their old masters is
too much for them, and they are flock
ing over to the Democratic party in
every section of the State.
Year: 1878

missioner had not uttered word Of criticism
OF him through the Associated Press. The
simple facts as to this dispute are these:
Some time ago the Indian Bureau issued
private circular, signed by one Leeds, acting
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in which the
army was Indirectly and meanly attacked;
Certain enterprislng newspaper men-special
correspondents got hold OF this circular and
published it. They also procured from the
files Of Congress, where they have been ever
since the thirty first Of last March, certain
Endorsements OF army officers, which
wsre important against sundry portions of
this secret circular, and published them as an
antidote against the Leeds person. Nothing
could have been more fair or just: Not one Of
these army officers Is within 1900 miles OF
Washington. Not one of them know thing
about what the special correspondents had
done, Of conrse. There is not a particle OF
justification for the Associated Press to take
up one side of a dispute, it having had nothing
whatever to do with the other. AS to the mer-
its of the dispute / say nothing. OF this am
certain, however, that an Indian commission
er* who goes from his duties nearly all the
wflfIs, engaged In ths business Of manufac-
turing q good deal Of counterfeit butter and
a little religion of the bowling species, Is not
likely to gain the reward OF the American
people by attacks upon some OF the best and
most honest men that our country or any
other ever produced. Respectfully,


ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
Year: 1878

A bachelor farmer in Missouri, sixty-five
years old, was disheartened by poor crops
Going out one morning and finding his finest
hog dead, he seized a hatchet and gave him
self several severe cuts in the head: This
proved rather painful, and he varied it by
jumping into lake. Here the water was TOO
Shallow to drown him, and in his desperate
hunt for death he climbed tree, and tried to
dash his brains out by throwing himself from
the top; but Intervening limbs caught him,
and sympathizing neighbors carried MIN nj !
home to recover. Another Western man T. tied n q
a stone to his neck, after unsuccessfully
taking poison, and sprang into the canal, but
the stone broke the rope and the man was
tished out and locked Up. Both OF these men
are evidently unacquainted with the uses and
abuses of the well-loaded shotgun.
Year: 1878

The conduct of Major Longley, landlord Of
the Waverley Hotel, Louisville, is worthy o.
note. Several days ago a young man named
hotel, and soon after took to his bed with
yellow fever. Major Longley, instead OF
packing his guest off to a pest-house not
only allowed him to remain in his room, but
nursed him throughout his illness with his
own hands, though he knew his conduct
would lose him every boarder in the house
Several persons applying to him for board
were told that there was case of yellow
fever in the hotel, and they had better not
fled of it as soon as it was known that the
man had the disease.
Year: 1878

the full nature and extent OF his misfortune
until Monday, July l. after business hours,
and we then Immediately telegraphed the
money to Buck.


Under the circumstances we did not expect
match to go on as advertised, and will not
consent to your proposal to put up more
money, and will leave it to your sense Of
honor whether the match be played or not.


M. BEssINGER.
Sexton said tonight that Schaefers party
had forfeited the money, which he claimed.
The only thing for them TO do was to make q
new match. It is the opinion OF sporting men
that Schaefer will now challenge Sexton for
the Delaney championship medal.
Year: 1878

felt bus Will Make Another March.


CHICAGO, July 6.-The gentlemen COM
posing the billiard firm of Brunswick, Bake
IL Co.. who were Schaefer's hackers, feel
aggrieved over Sexton's action In the matter.
Frank Parker was appointed by them to look
after their and Schaefer's interest In the
match with Sexton, and according to the
terms Of the match the stakes were to have
been In the hands of Mr.. Buck on the evening
of July l. Unfortunately, Mr.. Parker met
with an accident at Elizabethtown, n. j., and
was unable to leave his bed, much less to see
that the stakes were put up.


The house here did not learn Of the accident
until too late to get the money in the stake
holders hands In time. They teIegraphed it
through, however, and Mr.. Buck received it
early on the second in the Spirit of the Times
Office On the sixth an item appeared which
informed Mr. Sexton that he could claim the
forfeit He did so, although, as claimed here,
he was bound by his word OF honor that he
would wait two or three days in case Of acci-
dent.


He telegraphed here that he would arrange
another match. Brunswick, Bake & Co. re-
piled that they would play the original match
or none. So the matter stands at present,
and it is the opinion of billiard men here that
Sexton has deeply injured himself in his
standing by his action in claiming the forfeit
under the circumstances.
Year: 1878

New YORK, July G.-There Is oOnsiderable
excitement among professionals and others
inter ested in billiards over the fiascO in the
SChaefer-Sexton match. SChaefer is in this
city, but says he bad nothing to do with the
match beyond practicing and playing, and as
all arrangements were in the hands Of his
friends, he declines to say anything.


His friend GARNER said the failure to make
the second deposit by Schaefer was the result
of an accident to Mr.. Parker, who had charge
Of the affair, and who was hurt by q railroad
accident last night. After Parker was hurt
the money was sent on from Chicago last
Monday by telegraph, and 1t was the fault Of
the Central Bank that it was not paid until
Tuesday. GARNER says Sexton had no right
10 the money even under the contract.
Year: 1878

BOSTON, July 6.--Judge Lord this afternoon
rendered decree in the Taylor divorce case,
and $1,000 costs and expenses of suits. By
agreement between the parties, the father
takes the eldest and the mother the youngest
child and by an order of the court neither
parent can take the child in his or her charge
out OF the country without consent Of the
other in writing.
Year: 1878

In the month of December, 1880,
mutiny arose on board of the brig


Vineyard, then 10 miles Off the Long Is
land coast. The mutineers murdered
the Captain and mate, and scuttled the
ship. Part of the cargo consisted of
coin to the value Of about $4,000, the
property of Mr.. Stephen Girard, of
Philadelphia, TO whom the vessel was
consigned, and with this sum the crew
left the shipand started for the shore in
two boats. They made for Barren Is
land, the present depot for the dead an
finals of New York and Brooklyn, on
which, at the time, lived man named
johnson, the only inhabitant of the Is
land. The two boats contained the
mutineers and their plumber found the
surf too heavy, and were in danger of
being swamped, so to tighten one of
them, large chest in which part of the
treasure was contained was thrown
overheard. They then reached the
beach and buried the remains of the
treasure in the sand. Proceeding to
Mr.. Johnson's house, they spent the
night there, in the course of which one
of the party told johnson of the crime
they had committed, and of the money
buried on the shore. johnson imme-
diately informed the authorities, and
the mutineers were captured and tried
and two of them were condemned and
hanged on kennedy's (now Bedloe's)
Island.


Search has been made from time to
time for this buried treasure, and a large
amount Of it recovered. A son of
the johnson who resided on Barren Is
land at the time of the mutiny now lives
in Bridge Street, Brooklyn, and is en-
gagged in the fish business. A short
time ago he was fishing inside the is
land when it blew very hard, and he
lest his anchor in about three fathoms
of water. Soon after he returned with
a drag to recover the anchor, and was
occupied three days in the search.
Tired and disheartened, he was about
giving up the task as hopeless, when on
the fourth day, the iron grapple brought
up large square box so covered with
weeds and shell-fish as to be scarcely
recognizable. On examination it proved
to be sailors chest bound with iron,
but wanting lid. The loss Of this,
however, was supplied by solid layer
of sand about three inches thick, which
was removed with great difficulty.
Under this was a layer of black mold,
apparently the remains of clothes,
which was easily cleared away. John
son then saw before him a chest nearly
half filled with Mexican and Spanish
gold and silver dollars. The coins were
stuck together. and were black with the
action of the water-the silver pieces
especially being so closely attached that
hammer and ehisel had TO be used to
separate them. The gold was honey
combed and the surface rough and de-
faced, the principal coins being $40
pieces. The whole amount found was
q, 500,