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Year: 1878

tt IS not alone III the stately
mansions of the Fifth Avenue, nor
in it's art museums, or theatres, or
churches, that New York life is
seen. The villainy of Wall street
brokers, and the perjury Of bank
and insurance presidents, are but
single phases of that social life, the
foundation of which is laid on a
volcano. Pass down two blocks
from Wall street toward the west
and you find a life the like of which
the heart of man could scarcely
conceive to exist in a civilized and
enlightened community. Trinity
church stands like an awful sentinel
between the two,-the representa-
tive of all that is rich or aristocratic
in morals or religion the broad
and splendid avenue toward Wall
street being opened wide as a
standing invitation for Dives and
his friends to enter; while the huge
rocky barrier at the back seems to
wall out the road to Heaven from
the desperate wretches who live at
it's base, and who need a heavenly
ministration as it was seldom needed
by mortal men before.


For whole blocks the neighbor-
hood is inhabited by pirates ard
river thieves, and the scum and re-
fuse of our foreign population.
The murderer from foreign lands
OF from distant cities in the States
here finds congenial companions,
among robbers and assassins like
himself. They may not have the
extensive nomenclature OF crime
made famous by the criminal classes
of London and Paris, but even here
their intercourse is interlarded with
words and exclamations, the inter-
probation of which can only be
found in the thieves lexicon OF the
cracksman's dictionary.


Along the wharves exists a race
unlike any other class to be found
in the city. Many of them are re-
cruits from foreign lands-En-
gland, Ireland, France, Italy and
Spain furnishing much Of the ma
terial of which it is composed. Al
most every man has served a longer
or shorter term in States Prison ;
and among the guild the man who
has served two or three terms ranks
infinitely above the unfortunate
scoundrel who has had the bad luck
to serve only one. The recruits
for this terrible army are not likely
to give out, for the wharves SWARM
with hundreds of half-grown boys
whose only business, is theft, who
rise in the morning from some
hogshead or dry goods box where
they have passed the night, without
knowing Or caring where they will
lay their heads when the sun goes
down. They all have the same
hard, old, pinched look; all OF
them chew tobacco and smoke and
swear. A cop, as they call a po-
liceman, is their natural and here
dtary enemy, while all the stray
7agabond dogs and social pariahs
are their friends. Last October a
little colony Of them was discovered
under one Of the wharfs, where
Year: 1878

SbSOA i0AV A'o o'uo3
to remain yet a little longer on
the earth, be was SO reduced in
strength tba: it would be months
before he would be able to resume
his duties at the store.


Harriet felt that she must do
something Immediately, for they
were already deeply in debt and it
would take u good deal of money
to support the family until her
father became fully recovered.


The first step to be taken was
to find a place in which to live
with less expense than the board
ing-house they occupied.


After two days Of weary search
ing, she succeeded in finding two
poorly furnished rooms, which she
succeeded in securing at a weekly
rent of two dollars.


To these miserable lodgings she
removed her father, still unable
to sit up, and her little sister.


Her next step was to secure for
herself a situation as clerk in the
large dry goods store of Arnold
& Leo on Arch street. For her
services there she received five
dollars a week, and her small SAL
ary had supported the family for
over four manths, when the con-
versation occurred that opened
our sketch.


Howard Lee, the junior partner
of the firm of Arnold & Lee, had
known Mr.. Grey when be was a
successful merchant, and in many
ways assisted the broken down
family.


Every morning when Harriet
entered the store be gave her q
kindly word and pleasant smile,
and every Saturday night sent
something home for the invalid
father. These little attentions,
insignificant in themselves; ;cheered
the heart Of the toiling girl and
made pleasantstreak Of sunshine
in her dreary path.


Mr.. Grey's recovery was very
slow; how could it be otherwise,
when be was denied the comforts
and induIgences SO necessary to
an invalid? And as day after
day passed by and he became ap-
parently no better, hope died out
from bis heart and gloomy
thoughts continually f i t t,e d
through his brain.


Four months, I SAID, Harriet
Grey had supported her father
aod sister by her daily toll, and
during those months she had
grown old, deop caro- lines lurked
around the mouth once dimpled
with smiles, and the eyes which
once shone bright as diamonds,
were dimmed and sunken.


Harriet Grey had been delicately
reared, and misfortune, care and
toll sat heavily upon her.


"How is your father, today,
Harriet ?"


mo better, ! fear; he reco7ers
so slowly that change for the bet-
ter is almost imperceptible."


"l am sorry to hear this, for
you are killing yourself in order
to keep your family alive. You
have grown very thin and sad
since you came to the store"


II know it, but how can l help
it. I cannot give up and die. We
! must live, and there is none but
myself to- work. | try not to
think my lot is hard, but some.
times I am almost driven to de.
spair | never realized before how
bitter it was to be poor"
"Harriet, 1 am a plain, blunt
man, man Of but few words, and
always say just what 1 mean
When [ saw you in your fathers
house surrounded by wealth and
refinement, I loved you, and as ]
have watched your struggles since
misfortune overlook you, I now
ask you to become my wife"


It is not necessary to give the
trembling answer Harriet made
Year: 1878

Considerable excitement prevailed at
Nashville recently, over an attempt to open
a grave at Mount Olivet Cemetry The
guard shot at and wounded the parties,
who got away and are unknown.
Year: 1878

The grounds and outbuildings around
Henry Clay's old home at Ashland are just
as they were in his lifetime, and even the
old locust avenue where he walked and pom
dered his speeches is wholly unchanged.
Year: 1878

AN APPROPRIATION BILL REfDKifD lir nONNE


NEW AND OBJECTIONABLE LEGISLATION PRO-


POSED.


lBY TELEGRAPH 10 THE TRIBUNE


WASHINGTON, Jan 31.-The House has at LAST be-
gun work on the regular appropriation bills with
the prospect as Mr. Charles Foster, n member of the
committee says, of not completing them until
August. The entire day spent in general de
bate on the Military Academy BIZ, and before the
adjournment the Committee on Appropriations must
have discOvered-what every one who watched the
debate with any care became convinced Of
that the peculiar provisions which they
had embodied IN the second and third
section of the bill will certainly be rejected by the
House. Both of these sections propose new leglSla-
tiOn of character that never ought to be engrafted
on appropriation bills, and over which the Commit
tee on Appropriations really has no jurisdiction
Tie second section provides that no civilian shall
be appointed to second-lieutenantcy in the
Army until there are sufficient assignments for all
the young men who are annually graduated
from West Point. Ii has often been said
that the United States Army is the most arstocratic
in the world thatpromotons from the ranks are less
frequent than in any European army, and that the
whole spirit and all the traditions Of the United
States Amy are opposed to giving the common sol
dier any encouragement by way of promo ION
beyond the rank OF subaltern. Under existing law
the President may under certain circumstances, mp
point secOnd-cutenants from civil life or from the
rank and file Of the Army: but if the second section
OF the Military Academy Bill as reported from the
Appropriations Committee. should be adopted, this
right even would be taken away.


The object of the third section is 10 reduce the
number of cadets at West Point. II provides that
whenever the name of a cadet Is dropped from the
rolls of the Military Academy. except on account OF
death or physical disability 10 other appointment
shall be made for the district which he represented
until the end of the term for which he was appoint
cd II is estimated that about 80 per cent of the
Young men who enter the Military Academy at West
Point fail 90 graduate for other reasons than death
or physical disability and the elect OF thls
section should IL become a law. would, Therefore, be
70 reduce u number of cadets IN that proportion.
The discussion to-day showed the Republicans 10 be
almost unanimously opposed 10 this provision, and
il was also resisted by members OF the Military Com
mittcc and other leading Democrats, promineht
among whom was Mr. ClaIkson n. Potter. OF New
York The Committee on Appropriations has already
been defeated d"rng the present Congress IN It's at
TEMPT TO reduce the Army below the standard OF
- 900 men, and il will certainly be beaten III its
present attempt 10 amend the law relating To ap-
pointpcnts III the Army, and tn the MihtaryAcademy.
Year: 1878

TWFNTY-FOUR HOURS IN A SOUTHEAST GALE-NEAR-
IY TWO HUNDRED LIVES SUPPOSED TO BE LOST


GREAT CONFUSION on BOARD THE STEAMER.


NORFOLK, Va, Jan! 3l.-At 6:3O o'clock this even
ing the steamship Metropolis, from Philadelphia for
Para, Brazil, went ashore on Currituck Beach, three
miles south of the lighthouse, during the prevalence
Of a violent southeast gale.


Great confusion prevailed on board Owing to
the fury of the gale and the roaring of the SURF the
orders Of the officers could not be heard About
fifty of the passengers and were washed
ashore: about 200 a1e believed to be lost From
The statements of some of the sailors who arrived
at one of the signal stations it appears that the
vessel had encountered heavy gales from the sonth
east for the last twenty-four hours, and when she
struck she was heading about south-southeast. The
vessel swung brOadside to the surf, which made
clean breach over her and washed many Of the peO-
pic overheard into the sea-


The Signal Office in Washington has ordered
an operator to the scene of the wreck,
and as soon teegraphc connection
is made full particulars viii be sent by the
agent of the Associated Press, who has gone to the
scene. on the tug Croatan, by way of the Abemarle
and Chesapeake Canal.


The report that no assistance had been sent
to the steamer from the life saving sta
tions in the vicinity, is another evi-
dencc of the necessity Of having practical and ef-
fcient men for such dangerous service.


The Secretary of the Navy has ordered assistance
to be sent from the Navy Yard to the scene but this
is simpractcable as there is no Government vessel
available here capable of doing the service. The
Teyenye cutter Cofax. Captain Irish, is here, and
no doubt will sail in the morning, if the gale VIII
permit for the scene of the disaster.


Currituck Beach, on the northeastern coast OF
North Carolina, lies the eastern side of Curri-
tuck Sound, which joins Albemarle Sound just
above the Kitty Hawk Signal Station. The
Curritucb Light House is about twenty
four miles north of Kitty Hawk, eight
miles below which the United States
steamer Huron and nearly 100 lives were
lost last November. The coast from Cape
Henry to Cape Hatteras is dangerous
one. In 1866 alone there were two vessels
wrecked between Kitty Hawk Station and
Currituck Light House. On March l of that
wear the Nuova Ottawa, an Italian bark,
bound from Italy to Baltimore went
ashore twenty miles above Kitty Hawk
and about four miles below tho Cuuituck
Light Nine of the thirteen members of her crew were
lost and all the members Of Life-Saving Station No
were lost while attempting to board the wreck
A month later the schooner Henry G. Fay. from
Jamaica for New York, ran ashore midway be-
tween Kitty Hawk and the other wreck. The crew
was saved but the vessel was an utter loss.
Year: 1878

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31.-AttentiOn was
called BY The TRIBUNE some time ago TO the departure
Of the steamship Merceds from this port for Brazil,
carrying large quantity Of iron rails and other material


to be OF the Madeira and Mamore
Railway Brazil, the contractors for which are Messrs
Year: 1878

lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l


WAsHINGToN, Jan. 31.-The Silver League is
flooding the country with copies of Senator Noor-
heess late speech in favor of the Silver Bill. The
speech is printed q broadside, with the headings
Of different newspapers and is sent out by them as
supplement of their regular ISSUE Other documents
are being mailed from Washington by the thousand
daily aud there every indication that the T00O,-
O0O said to have been raised by the silver miners o
the Pacific coast ls being put where 1T VIII do
the most good"
Year: 1878

PRUNING OF currants. gooseberries,
grape vines, omitted in the fall, may be
done now on mild days.


CARE of the orchard, whether young
or old, will require good fences and gates
to keep out intruders Of all kinds. A
stray OK or horse may cause serious dam
age in a young orchard.


Roors are better pulped than cut for
sheep. There are very cheap machines
that can cut roots into fine shreds or
pulp. which will soon save their cost in
the improved condition OF the animals
thus fed.


MANURE may he carted to the orchard
and spread over the whole surface. The
time Of manuring is not of 30 much i'm
portance as to get II on at any rate. It
Is q mistake to put little manure close
around the trunks of trees.


COVERING Of strawberries and tender
raspbsrries should be done, II not already
completed. In covering strawberries do
not get the material too thick over the
plants. An inch or 20 is better than
more.--American Agriculturist.


CALVES and yearlings may be made TO
increase in size and weight considerably,
and make a large quantity Of fine ma
nure, by keeping them in roomy shed,
bedding them deeply with cut straw or
leaves, and feeding them well. With
plenty Of bedding the shed may not be
cleaned out until next spring.


CHIcKwEED is an excellent barometer.
When the flowers expand fully there
need be no fear of rain for several hours.
Should II continue In that condition, ne
rain will disturb the summer day.
When it halt conceals its miniature
flower, the day is sure To be showery,
and If It entirely shuts up, or walls the
white flower with It's green mantle, let
the traveller put on his great coat.


IF no accounts have been kept, . be-
ginning of q better system skodld be
made now. At the close of the year
make an inventory Of every article, and
value them, aud also put down the
debts owing and due. This will show
how one stands al the close of the year.
By keeping strict account Of ones bust.
ncsz, Il il not only known what goes out
and what conss q, bat b. notilg eveey
expenditufe and inooss, " On sosdiiy
Year: 1878

In the atmosphere experienced here during the
summer months, the lethaIgy produced by the heat
takes away the desire for wholesome food, and
frequent perspirations reduce bodily energy, par
ticuarly those suffering from the effects of debili
ting diseases. In order TO keep natural health
full activity of the system must resort tn artlf-
cial means. For this purpose Schenck's Sea Weed
Tonic Is very eectuaI. A few doses will create an
appetite and give fresh VigOr to the enervated body.
For dyspepsia, It is invaluable. Many eminent
physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia can be
permanently cured by the drugs which are gener-
ally employed for that purpose. The Sea Weed
Tonic in its nature is totally different from such
drugs. 1t contains no corrosive minerals or acids


in fact 1t assists the regular operations of nature
and supplies her deficiencies. The tonic in its
turc so much resembles the gastric Juice that it is
almost identical with that fluid. The gastric Juice
is the natural solvent which, in healthy condition
Of the body causes the food to be dgested; and
when this juice is ezcreted in sufficient quant-
ties Indigestion, with all its distressing symptoms
follow The Sea Weed Tonic performs the duty
of the gastric juice when the latter is deficient


Schencks Sea Weed Tonic sold by all Druggists.
Year: 1878

All the fairs give the first premiums
and special awards of great merit to Hop
Bitters, as the purest and best family
medicine, and we most heartily approve Of
the awards for we know they deserve it.
They are now on exhibition at the State
Fairs. and we advise all to test them. See
another column.
Year: 1878

This celebrated starch is manufactured
from an entirely new process and is
guaranteed strictly pure. The Gloss
Starch is unequalled in the laundry and
the Peerless Corn" has no equal any
where. Wholesale by Henry Darts Sons
Rock Island 6 Ids low
Year: 1878

A PERSON is not permitted to enter
Berlin now unless he has passport
and certificate signed by responsible
persons that he does not intend to shoot
the Emperor, the Crown Prince or
Bismarck,
Year: 1878

A NEW York Star reporter has
made the alarming discovery that
ladies of the highest society in that
city put thick wells over their faces and
play desperately at faro in the gamb-
ling hells.
Year: 1878

spring is :rying season. Indications of sickness
should at once be attended to. Fatal diseases may
be caused by allowing the bowels to become con-
stipated and the system to remain in disordered
condition, until the disorder has time to deveIope
Itself An ounce Of prevention is worth pound,of
cure, is an old truthful saying. Therefore, we ad-
wise all who are troubled with the complaints now
very preyalent-headache indigestion, disordered
liver, want of appetite, nausea or feverlsh skin
to take, without delay, shenck's Mandrake Pills.
We know of no remedy so harmless and decisive
in its action 1t at once strikes at the root of the
disease and produces healthy tone to he system
People never need suffer from any disease arising
from dsOrdered condition of the liver il they would
take this excellent medicine when they feel the
first indications of the malady. Families leaving
home for the summer months should take three or
four boxes ofsthe pills with them. They have an
almost instantaneous effect. They will relieve the
patient of headache in one or two hours, and will
rapidly cleanse the liver of surrounding bile and
win effectually prevent bilious attack. They are
sold by all druggists.
Year: 1878

CoNsTANTINoPLE May ga FIRE last
night within the precincts of the Sublime
Porte destroyed the greater portion of the
buildings, including those of the ministers
of Justice and council of state. minister Of
foreign affairs; the Grand Vizierate and
Archive were saved. The origin of the
ire is believed to have been accidental.
Year: 1878

Do not bug yeast powder or baking
powder of short weight. A manu-
facturer that defrauds by short weight will
not hesitate to make aduiterated goods.
You can always rely on DooLEY's YEAST
POWDER being full weight and strictly
pure.
Year: 1878

EASY OF ATTAINMENT BY the cultiva-
ion oi kind aud GENEROUS iq pulses, every
man who will may become gentleman.
1t is too rarely we find, among those who
vote themselves the gentlemen and ladies
of the day, any thing to warrant their as
sun ptlon. There Is but little of the true
metal about them. Personal cont ict re-
veals arrogance and pride, and too often
meanness OF spirit and littleness that
disgracts human nature. So lar as our
observation goes-and it covers many
years OF contact with high and low, rich
and pIor-we are constrained to say that,
while am NJ the poor there is as general
ding a sad lack OF external culture-of
attention to little personal habits that are
not agreeable TO others. and that ought to
be cOrrected-there are really in the lower
and middle ranks OF society, SO called,
quite as many true gentlemen and ladies
as among those who claim the exc elusive
right to these honorable designations.
Year: 1878

On Saturday last Coroner Rose, accom-
panied by two of his sons went out sail
ing and fishing. When they were return
ing, they came very near meeting with
what might have been fatal accident.
As they were sailing in the creek, the
steamer Samuel M. FELTON, came along
and the Coroner endeavored to get out
of her way, but instead of doing SO, was
steering directly in her track. The pilot
blew the whistle, and reversed the wheels
When the steamer stopped it was about
eight feet from the sailing party. The
Coroner had picked up his youngest son,
preparatory to jumping in the creek. For
tunately the threatened accident was
averted.s
Year: 1878

AMUSING EXPERIMENTS are two
simple experiments which may enliven a
dull evening at home: Place in small
glass bottle hot water near the boiling
point, colored deep carmine with coch-
meal place the same at the bottom of a
glass jar of cold water. Immediately the
light, hot, colored water in the vial will
be displaced by the heavier, cold water in
the jar, and will ascend in beautiful
crimson clouds to the top of the jar. If
little thread be we'll soaked in strong
solution of salt and water, and then dried
and tied to a ring not much larger than a
wedding ring, you may apply the flame
of candle to the thread, which will burn
it to ashes, and yet it will sustain the
ring. The cohesion of the fibrOus par
ticles of thread having been destroyed
by the action of the flame, the ring is now
suspended by the cohesion of the parti-
cles of salt.
Year: 1878

Moore was sitting in his office one at.
ternoon, some years ago, when farmer
friend came in and said; "Mr. Moore, |
like your paper, but times are so hard
that cannot pay for it,"


as that so, friend Jonesl am very
sorry to hear that you are so poor; If you
are so hard run | will give you my
paper"


"Oh, no l can't take it as gift


"Well, then, let's see how we can fix it,
You raise chickens, | believe"


"Yes, few, but they don't bring any
thing hardly"


Don't theyl Neither does my paper
cost anything hardly. Now l have a
proposition to make to you. will con-
,inue your paper, and when you go home
you may select from the lot one chicken
and call her mine. Take good care of
her and bring me the proceeds whether
in eggs or chickens, and we will call 1t
square,"


GAIL right, Brother Moore" and the
poor fellow chuckled at what he thought
capital bargain. He kept the contract
strictly, and at the end of the year found
that he had paid four prices for his pa
per. He often tells the joke himself and
says he never had the face to say that he
was too poor to take paper from that
day.