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Year: 1878

THR Washington correspondent Of the
New York World has information that
Western Democratic member of Congress
has prepared resolution which will prob.
ably be introduced the first day Of the ses-
sion, directing the POTTER committee to
make full inquiry into the cipher kilograms,
and TO send for persons and papers and re-
port on the same TO the House. The cor
respondent adds to this wise prophecy
that tho House will order the investigation
but we fail to see why this new resolution
OF instruction to the POTTER committee Is
necessary. 1t is already empowered with
all the requisite authority to pursue the in
vcstigation in question. What ought to be
done is to arraign tho committee at the bar
of the House, us il has already been ar.
raigned at the bar of public opinion, for Its
deliberate disregard Of imperative duty In
the premises. Every member of the ma
jorty of the committee, having refused to
take up any branch of the inquiry tending
to the exposure Of the Democrats, has been
guilty of u violation OF his oath of office, as
well as n gross abuse of public confidence
and should be held 10 strict accountability
therefor The country never before suf-
fered the disgrace Of such extreme partisan
manipulation IN It's legislative affairs as has
been exhibited by this committee.
Year: 1878

A FAIR specimen OF the manner in which
a certain class OF so-called newspapers assert
their superiority as energetic and wide
awake journals was furnished by the pubn-
cation in Washington yesterday Of the sus-
pension from Office of Supervising Architect
HILL, pending the trial of the Chicago in.
dictments. There was not word Of truth
in the statement; but 1t was news, never.
theless-of the kind that serves to make the
especial journal in question prominent and
distinguished among its contemporaries.
Year: 1878

Now that the POTTER committee Is to be
called upon to investigate the cipher-dis.
patch frauds, the States Rights Democracy
begin to talk gingerly of the power Of the
House to go behind the returns, aud of the
supreme sovereignty of the States as re-
CARDS tho determination of their own af.
fairs But this plea will be unavailing
they began this inquiry themselves, and
public sentiment will compel them to &C
ahead with their poking into the past, even
If the red-hot end of the poker Is the only
one within their reach
Year: 1878

THE more BEN BUTLER complains that
the newspapers have ruined him by their
parent it becomes that he Is either lying
himself or that which is advanced for the
newspapers oyerdid the thing. The truth
about him was bad enough.
Year: 1878

TnB thirty five Representatives in the House and
the Electoral College added to the southern sec
liOnal strength In the councils Of the Government
war amendments TO the Constitution. are now CAP
tured by the Bourbon DUmocracy.- Washington Es
puRicdn..


Anotherlie. The editor Of The REPUBLICAN,
knows, too, that It Is lie, or elso he is unfit
for his place. The number Of Representatives
added TO tho Southern sectional strength"
was not over twelve. Threc-ffths of the
slaves were always ropreseuted.-R Richmond
Dispatch.


You're another! Tho editor Of tho Dis
patch knows, too, that be is another, and
for that reason he Is exactly fitted for his
place, If he will take tho pains to examine
the statistics he will lind that the addition
to the sectional strength" Of the South Is
precisely what we stated 1t was, aud that
discovery will satisfy him that we are not
quite so regardless of the truth as he would
lead his readers TO believe. But, admitting
that tho increase was only twelve, where
arc the twelve mOmbcrs of the House that
by this admission rightfully belong TO tho
Republican party?
Year: 1878

Imagination is wislIing-cap dona-
ted to certain favored mortals at birth,
and often preserved with is m7gic
potency unimpaired up to extreme age.


Putting on this cap, l am no longer
the sport of circumstance, but lis mas
ter. l wish myself in whatsoever
corner of the earth l list; call before
me forms of beauty and grace; place
myself in instantaneous communication
with best loved friends,


The care of this cap is troublesome:
touched by pride, it loses its shape,
vanity makes it limp and colorless;
ostentation renders 1t heavy and COM
fortress. It requires many hazardous
before this wizaId-Cap
works benefcentIy, so it is perhaps
lucky that the majority of mankind
know it only by name.
Year: 1878

Henry ". of France, was educated
in a very different manner from the
princes Of the present age. lie was
brought up in a castle at Bearn, which
was situated among the mountains; his
father would not suffer him to be
clothed different from other children
of the country, and accustomed him to
Climb the rugged rocks, nOurished him
with brown bread, beef and cheese, and
often made him take long Journeys on
foot even in the severest seasons.


Henry, by thus being early used to
hardships, was enabled to go into the
army at an age, that few other princes
quit the nursery. Before he was six
teen he was at the battle of the
HUguenOts, where he betrayed the ut
most desire TO be in the midst of the
action, and to signalize himself; but he
was only permitted to be a spectator on
account Of his youth. In the next en-
gagement his courage and daring could
not be restrained. In spite of the ell
treaties and prayers of lis officers he
exposed his person to as much danger
as the common soldier. By this means
he won the love and admiration of his
men, and infused courage and bravery
throughout his whole army.
Year: 1878

Syud DaOud described to me the mode
Of tying a hyena i'll his lair, as follows:
When" said he, ''you have tracked
the beast to his den, you take rope


with two slip-knots upon it in your
right hand, and, with your left hand


holding felt cloak before you, you go
boldly but quietly in. The animal does
not know what is the nature Of the dan
ger, and therefore retires to the back
of his den, but you may always tell
where his head is, by the glare Of his
eyes. You keep moving on gradually
towards him on your knees, and when
you are within distance throw the
cloak over his head and close with him,
and take care that he does not free him
self. The beast is 50 frightened that he
covers back, and though he may bite
the felt, he cannot turn his neck round
to bite you; SO you quietly feel for his
two fore legs, slip the knots over them,
and then with one strong pull draw
them tight up to the back of his neck
and tie them there. The beast is now
your own, and you do what you like
with him. ."--JO1Tney in Northern India,
Year: 1878

A writer IN an exchange very senslbly
advocates the training Of young girls in
garden work as follows:


A lady friend who has a grapevine
/ bower over the wsshfhOuse door, asked
me, in the spring I'll could prune the
vine for her-a service which I had rem
dered last year. Being just then fully
occupied, l said would show her two
! grown daughters how to- do it, and


would lend them a laiFof shears, which
they could use wil perfect ease. The


mother objected ti5t there would he
risk Of their failing and that probably


should have to tahe as much time to
show them as wouId suffice to do the
pruning. o. no, Il answered, l will
show them on one eane what to cut off,
and they can then prune tie rest in the
same way They will learn a useful
art, aud can afterward direct others to
prUne their own roses, raspberries, etc,
all on the same principle. But it WAS
decided rather to employ an old man.
who makes a business Of pruning and
grating. -rr- --


1 have pondered and wondered over
this case. Why should not the girls
have had this opportunity of learning
to use pruning-shears2 They looked as
If they would have liked to do it, and
their mother is a very sensible woman,
and an excellent mother. I think that
it must be the dread of Mrs. Grundy's
making some talk out of it. But what
could she say? A vine is itself femi-
nine. Most of our cultivated sorts have
feminine names, from Isabella to Mar
tina or her lady sister. And it is very
fit that they should be so named, for the
vine is as helpless as any weak woman
is if its support fafsss, and it has nothing
left to cling to and embrace.


There is really no garden-work light
er, neater or cleaner than the pruning
of vine that has been tidily trained
previously, and is within convenient
reach. Pleasure and health reward the
spending of an hour or two of a mild
day in such work, to say nothing of the
greater zest with which the fruit will be
viewed, gathered and eaten. The faith
er of these girls was, like myself, too
busy to do the work before the proper
season passed. If they could save him
both the trouble and the cost of hiring
man to do it (perhaps imperfectlyl, they
would surely gain in the estimation Of
all, unless it might be- some very nali-
cious Mrs. GrundY. Certainly they
would not lose merit in the eyes Of Any
of their male friends or admirers.


But is there a possibility Of garden.
work going quite out Of fashion, If 20,
it is time for us to initiate those svnsi
bic people over in Belgium who are
providing gardens of at least a quarter
of an acre, te bstsehed to each plim
airy sei5.5f.slIF ilich the scholars shall
exemplify and carry out practically
some of the lessons in horticulture
which are made a part of the regular
schOOl-roOm course. IN our crowded
towns there is great'need that childrc,
should have such opportunities, because
of their having no means Of learning
anything at all at home about how i0od
is obtained from thes0ii
Year: 1878

The researches of scientific men, SAYS
the Journal of Science, have shown
that some species of crustacea, among
others the ordinary barnacles that in
fest the bottoms of our ships, although
blind, fixed and helpless, as they appear
to US, are, in their youth, active, sharp
sighted little creatures, shaped some
what like our watsS-fea, with long an
ten@, which are provided with cups at
their extremities. Having passed the
period of youth, they begin to think of
settling down steadily in some chosen
spot for the remainder of their life. By
means Of sucking cups they adhere to
some fixed or floating body. In this
position long hump grows cut of their
back, from the end Of which a sticky
fluid is poured out, which Clues them
firmly to the object to which they have
attached themselves. The function of
their sucking cups is thus rendered
useless, and the little animal glides
down the declining days of its little
stream of life, in quiet enjoyment of a
new phase of existence.
Year: 1878

Intelligent sgricultuTists should try
reasonable comparative experimentation
themselves. AS business men they are
bound to do this for self-prOlectiOn, and
to determine what course is best adapt
ed to present crops and markets with
out placing full reliance upon antiquat-
ed notions that were only adapted to
the times in which they were born. No
man would be satisfied with using q
pitch-pine knot asa light to read by if
he could secure a well-filled kerosene
oil lamp.
Year: 1878

French Free Masons have long been
divided upon the question as to wheth-
or belief in the "Grand Architect Of the
Universe" should be a dogma of their
order. At the recent Masonic ConYen-
ton in France, the second clause of
the constitution, which ran thus:
Free Masonry holds to the principle
OF the existence of God and of the i'm
mortality Of the soul. was altered by
an immense majority TO Free Mas0n-
~ holds to the principle of an absolute
freedom of conscience, and to the
brotherhood Of mankind. 1t excludes
no one on on accounted his belief"
Year: 1878

The sunset hours Of old age, are filed
with CLEANS Of fading pictures, tinted
with roseate clouds or shadOwed with
tears but if it be a season Of content
ment, restful and cheerful, it always
wears a gracious cOlring, the dew of
its sweet influence rests upon our hearts
and we insensibly yield admiration.
reverence, and love to the unconscious
charm of peace, CLOSE and serenity that
crowns beautiful, graceful old age, and
gives it a poetry grand and tender and
Sweet
Year: 1878

A woman in male attire was admitted
to the male ward in a S n Francisco
hospital to be treated for injuries caused
by fall, but on the discovery Of her
sex the assistants hurried her into the
proper apartment. She registered in
the Office as Albert Sinclair of New Or
leans, and said that she had dressed as
a man for ten years, finding it more
convenient and advantageous than wo-
mans dress for making her living. She
cheWed tobacco.
Year: 1878

The Bishop Of Manchester is trouUed
in his mind about the Colorado potato
beetle. In a sermon at the re-Opening
of Kirkkam Church, he said, that men
and faCetious neWspaPeTs-Puuch, for
iAstance-madet themselves merry about
the Colorado beetle. They did not
seem to think that perhaps this moi
some beast which had destroyed many
a harvest field on the other side Of the
Atlantic, might come here and destroy
our own fair harvest fields. He did
not think the Colorado beOtle was
thing to make Jokes about,
Year: 1878

Lime water is made by adding two
ounces of Stacked lime to one gallon
of water, and shaking it well for a
seW minutes. After twelve hours the
excess of lime will have subsidized, and
the lime water may be drawn off.
Year: 1878

arrived to-day from Kansas City, and will be
the attraetionsof the week at the fair grounds.
The city is full of horsemen from all sections
of the country anxiously awaiting the coming
of the morrow. The track Is In excellent con-
the Heeting steeds will have everything to
their advantage.


The musical festival closed yesterday after
noon, after seven days OF contention for val
different portions of the country. The ex-
hibition up to date has been successful in
every particular, and financially superior 70
that of last year. The indications are that
the fair, which will open on the seventh OF
October will alike eclipse the one OF last year.
Year: 1878

Republicans arrived here last evening from
New Hampshire for the purpose Of raising
funds to carry on the campaign in that State,
and it is expected that an additional assess
ment will at once be made on clerks and
other employees in the several departments
for money, to be used there as campaign
funds. They represent their party in New
Hampshire as being in an exceedingly demo-
rallied condition, and that the only hope of
avoiding defeat similar to that recently ex-
perienced by the Republicans in Maine is by
a free and lavish use of money, which they
must have, or the party is hopelessly de-
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, Sept. ga prominent Re-
publican, who has given much time to the
Study of the financial condition of the country,
says that the fact that the Greenbackers are
developing so much strength may furnish the
lent reason for desiring the postponement of
specie m payments beyond the first Of January
next. It being apparent after the cleo
tions that the Greenbackers and Green
back Democrats will control the Forty
sixth Congress, there may be such an
apprehension of change in the
financial policy Of the government as to cause
a rush for gold that would not otherwise
take place if resumption is undertaken on the
first of January. In the midst OF such a feel,
desire to get as much gold as possible before
the fourth of March, so as to be prepared to
profit, or at least to avoid loss, through any
measures of initiation which the Forty-slXth
Congress may adopt at an extra session.
Year: 1878

The Democratic party is taking the right
ground upon the Federal election law. 1t will
Be the first duty of the House and Senate OF
statute book. Il it is saved by a veto 1t will
be the next duty Of Congress to vote, no
money for the enforcement Of that bill OF
abornfnation and to make any application OF
funds for it's enforcement misdemeanor, ana
to tack this clause on to some appropriation
bill which the administration will not dare
prevent from becoming law. .-
Year: 1878

One thing at time, gentlemen: The Pres
ident is severely criticized for failing to head
the great national subscription in aid of the
yellow fever sufferers. But how can he be
expected to do anything of this sort before
determining the precise amount that ne will
contribute to the Republican campaign fund
Some neOnle are very unreasonable.
Year: 1878

we have good many doctors and good
many nurses, but the doctors do not seem to
do us much good, and we know from personal
observation that the majority Of the nurses
are a drunken, thieving set More men,
phis in this epidemic from thieving, (drunken)
incompetent nurses than from any other
ea11Sp
Year: 1878

WAsHISGroS, November 2l.-The es-
Inmates for the support Of the Navy for
the next fiscal year are about the same
as the sum appropriated during the last
session Of Congress for the year ending
June next, viz: about Sl4,OOO,0O0. The
report OF the Secretary will show that
the appropriations have not only been
confined within their proper limits. brt
there is a small balance to the credit OF
the Naval Academy and Marine Corps.
Unless Congress shall order the build
ing of new vessels, the Secretary, with
the means asked for, can render those
We now have most efficient and keep
them in good repair. Our navy is in
much better condition than one year
ago. and well adapted to peace estab-
lishment, but even in case OF war with
a foreign power, ninety vessels for hos
tile purposes, could AT once be supplied.
These include fifteen monitors and six
frigates for coast defense, together
with two torpedo boats, experiments
with which show their efficiency for the
purposes intended.
Year: 1878

ALL the postnas,ers OF the country
have baon ordered to send to Wash
sngtOn whatever three cent pieces they
say receive. in order that these coins
nay De withdrawn frora circulation
Year: 1878

The OREGON ELECTION -Adyices from
oregon last night concede the election of a
democratic majority to the legislature, a re-
Punncan treasurer and secretary of state, and


indicate the probability of the election Of the
democratic candidate for Congress and the
republican candidate for governor.
Year: 1878

On. let me stand gaze upon thee, thou
all-worthy, almighty, ALLOWING Saviour, till
my soul drink in complete assurance that
thy work undertaken for sinners is finished
work.-R. N, McCheyne.


II God had not said, Blessed are those
that hunger" | know not what could keep
weak Christians from sinking in despair.
Many times all | can do is to complain that
| want him, and wish to recover him.
Bishop Hall.


IL you know a man who is willing to kiss
your boots because you are rich you may be
sure that there is some one whom he compels
TO kiss his boots in return. lie who will
cringe before one who is bigger than him
self will play the tyrant over one smaller
than himself.


IT is far better to have the respect of the
community, without its special favor, than
to have all the world pleased with us to-day
for some other reason than that we are
worthy the confidence of all. Leave pop
ularity to the politicians. Let us strive to
deserve respect for our real characters, and
we shall doubtless have all that we deserve.
A CHRISTIANITY that does not affect the
social life must be barren sentiment in
stead of pervading spirit. 1t can neither
renovate the man nor convert the world. A
mummy is very good in a museum, but
quite useless in the street and market-place.
A Christian lady ought to be a very posi-
tive force toward improvement in the region
where her faculties have chief play and
power; and any yielding on her part to the
false methods around her is so far renun-
citation of her Christianity.-HoDdrd Crosby.


IT is said that the pulpit needs broaden.
ing out. This may be; but we think that
in many respects it needs narrowing down,
at least until it confines itself within limits
concerning which it is written, Thus saith
the Lord" We want the faith preached
more, and the opinions of DIR. A, B, and q
preached less we want, in short, bread in.
stead of stones, facts instead of fancies, truth
instead OF guesses. The faith once delivered
never can grow old. Let the pulpit preach
this, and its influence never can wane.--
Churchmdn.


DEPARTURE from evangelical truth il
commonly gradual and almost impercepti-
BILE. One point after another is surrend
cred, until the entire structure is yielded
The truth may at first be corrupted by but
slight mixture of error metaphysical
speculations may be substituted for the sim
plicity of the gospel; rhetorical adornment
may be wrapt around the sword of the spirit
rendering IL utterly powerless or certain
portions of divine truth to which the nat
ural heart is particularly hostile, may be
kept back, referred TO only incidentally, ol
touched so slightly that they no longer pro
duce any marked Impression, and are re
garded as OF very little consequence.
Year: 1878

Let me not be misunderstood. Fhay
prayers are not family religion. have ktswn
houses in which, with scrupulous regularity,
prayers were offered, the household always
assembled at the time set apart. And vet
in vain could one look for any trace through.
out the day, of the spirit and power of god.
illness. The atmosphere of the circle was
worldly. Frivolity and mere self-pleasing
reigned. The worship of the early hour
was only the witness against the levity of
the rest of the day. Therefore, speak of
the family worship merely as a symbol of
fellowship. But if the symbol is rightly
used, if it is loved and kept as a help to the
reality, it is full of profit. 1t promotes the
sympathy which should animate the men,
bers of the home-circe. 1t is visible sign
of their oneness. 1t provides an opportunity
for instruction in the contents of Scripture,
all the more valuable that the divine teach
ing steals into the soul "precept upon pre-
cept, line upon line" 1t keeps alive in all
the obligation of duties as more than any
claim of rights cements the ties of affection
bestows on all relationships " the beautie.
of holiness" 1t is monitor to those who
command, reminding them of what they owe
to the children and household a monitor
equally to those who are ruled, reminding
them of the honor and obedience that are
due in the Lord. 1t serves as an edge and
border to preserve the web of life from un
raveing; it tends to keep everything in its
proper place and time it naturally intro
duces a similar regularity into other employ
ments" Let none plead want of ability foi
conducting an exercise so blessed. Rev. DR.
j. ". Lana.
Year: 1878

you ask as women2 Then (confidentially)
it will do you good. To see how others live
and suffer and toll to be forced to try TO
help them; even TO find out that you cannot
all sew, will do you incalcuable good.


DO you ask as Christians He whose
name you bear, whose example you follow,
went about doing good, as men would re-
ceive it-physical good and when they
would receive it, spiritual. Justify your
names, ladies.


DO you inquire as Americans What is
the meaning of this communistic cry heard
over the land, now by ruined railroad shops,
now in meeting and mischievous paper, that
property is the common foe, that what the
rich man has the poor man must take
Let better laws, let honest rulers, let Chris
tian churches do all they can in addition,
let good women thus blend the inevitable
classes together, not only showing but feel
ing pity for the suffering, and showing it
thus will make them feel it more and as
the heroic British Queen sucked the poison
from the arrow-wound in her husbands
flesh, and saved his life, they will neutralize
the noxious elements that threaten our in
stitutions. r E.