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Year: 1878

1HE CoMMUNlsTIC SCARE has had the effect
OF causing the National guard in Philadelphia
to prepare for An outbreak. The field officers
OF the "a brigade have received orders to have
their men we'll in hand. SO that in case of a
The men are to be kept fully equipped, and in
case OF call each man is required to supply
himself with one days cooked rations. RoS-
the various commands, their residences and
places OF business, are to be kept in public
places at the armOries, so there may be no de
lay In getting the men together in case OF
trouble. 1t is feared there may be another
outbreak in the state, and the military are to
prepare for it in time. The police force drill
weekly, and every measure is being taken to
suppress all riOtouS proceedings
Year: 1878

THE EXCITEMENT ALONG THE CANADA y
FRONTIER In regard TO a fenian raid cOntinu"
without abatement. The country on this 81
making their way north in squads of ten of
dozen men. Some of them are tramps, an
several outrages have been committed b,
them
Year: 1878

THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR DENOUNCED
FROM THE fiutter was caused
at Scranton, Pa, yesterday among the men,
bers of the new secret society by a sermon
preached at st. Nincent's Catholic Cathedra.
by Bishop O'Hara. He said he was impeled
to make special mention of this society by the
fact that prominent members had written let
tiers III which they claimed that the bishop and
clergy favored the organization. One of these
letters had been forwarded to him, and he
gave the writer a scathing rebuke for his i'm


pertlnence In claiming that he favored so.
clely that had never even shown him its CON
stltutIon or bylaws. He did not desire to in


teTfere with their political views, but merely
TO caution them against the great danger Of
secret societies. He promised to investigate
the knights of Labor and show it up i'm its
true light at no distant date, and spicy pas
toral letter on the subject may be expected
shortly. The organization is very powerful i'm
This section. The leading members are indig-
nant at any interference on the part of the
clergy, but this Will not prevent cutting con.
demnation should the bishop prove to his sat


iSaction that it is dangerous organization.
Year: 1878

|, We have seen in Hart county,
Kentucky, a man by the name Of
William Bowman, who was thrown
away in the Apalache mountains
North Carolina, when an infant, and
was found by an old bear and adop-
ted as cub. At the age of about
ten years he was captured tied hand
and foot, and then his captors found
that he conld not talk, nor could he
be pursuaded to take any food but
milk. which he sucked from bottle.
showing that he had lived solely by
the nursing of the bear. Bowman
is now farmer near Omega, and
any one doubling the truth of this
statement can have it verified by
seeing him.
Year: 1878

constitute cause of war. And why should


not an Afghan ruler have a sense of honor,


and public spirit, and love Of country, as


well as an Engishmanf He is jus: as


well entitled to possess these things ard to


maintain them. The fact is, .the part


taken by the Ameer in this business re


bounds to his credit. The only wonder is
| that he did not treat the impudent "mis-
| sioners" good deal more sternly than be
did had he sent them off with a Whit of
grapeshot in their rear there is not a fair
minded man iu Europe OF India W ho would


not cay he had served them right.


war ageinst the Ameer will very pro


baby result from what bas occurred. If
SO, it will not be at all a trivial affair. The
Afghan army ls said to consist of about
GO, 900 we'll armed and disciplined men
and of the bravery of their race England
has ere now had bitter experience. The
country is highly favorable for war of
defence. 1t would be no way surprising il
Russia should give the Ameer such indi-
rect assistance as che gave to Servia during
her struggle with Turkey, and as England
gave to the Confederate States during the
American civil war. She may !supply him
with arms and money and Russian officers
may possibly volunteer into the Afghan
rauks. Should these things happen, the
war may turn out to be long, costly, and
bloody one. Long or short, the responsi
bility of it rests on England. and England
will have to thank for it her theatrical
Premier. We do not see how any decent
lrishmsn can have any sy ympathy with this
act of unprovoked aggression on the ruler
of Afghanistan. To such of our people as
have not become the mere slaves of Eng
lish parties, to all of them who have not
sunk into the abject condition of .West
Britons," it cannot appear as anything else
than huge crime, and that it may meet
with adequete punishment will, we feel
certain, be the heartfelt wish and hope of
the best portion of the Irish race.
Year: 1878

She seiz ID the can of kerosene,


And raised the burning wick,
She poured the fluid In the lamp,


The work was abort and quick.
Beyond the town beside the church,


NeAtn the weeping willows groom,
Lies on- whose day was turned 70 night
By brilliant kerosene
Year: 1878

It is a strange thing how little, IN
general, people know aboutthe sky. 1t
is the part Of creation i'll which nature
has done more for the sake of pleasing
man, more for the sole and evident pur-
pose If talking to him and teaching
him, than in any other Of her works,
and it is Just the part in which we least
attend to her. There are not many Of
her other works in which some more
material or essential purpose than the
mere pleasing of man is not answered
in every part Of their organization; but
every essential purpose of the sky
might, as far as we know, be answered
if once in three days or thereabOuts, a
great, black, ugly rain cloud was broken
up over the blue, and everything well
watered, and so left blue again until
the next time, with perhaps film Of
morning and evening mist for dew.
But. instead of this, there is not mo
ment Of any day Of our lives when ma
ture does not produce scene after scene,
picture after picture, glory alter glory,
working still upon such exquisite and
constant principles of the most perfect
beauty, that it is quite certain it is all
done for us, intended for our perpetual
pleasure by the Great Being who made
all. all worlds.
Year: 1878

TOBACCO CHEwHa.-The Cincinnati
Gazette recently had a column edi-
toriaI, warning boys against learning
to chew tobacco, and describing all
the nasty consequences Of the habit
It ought to make a serious impress
sion upon "Young America" Of the
masculine gender, and save many
of them from contracting the habit
referred to. It is bad enough, when
viewed only from the Gazette stand
point, of personal uneleanliness, but
when to this is added, the ruinOUs
effects upon the nervous system and
the expensiveness of the habit, every
intelligent boy ought to sign an anti
tobacco pledge and stick to It.
Year: 1878

Julia Brace, deaf q blind mute, a
pupil of the American Asylum, had a
fine physical organization and highly
nervous temperament. In her blind
ness and stiffness her main occupation
was the exercise Of her remaining
senses of smell, touch and taste, so that
through them she might get knowledge
of all that was going on around her.
Smell, however, seemed to be the sense
Oh which she most relied. She smClled
at everything which she could bring
within range Of thesense; and she came
to perceive odOrs utterly insensibIe to
other persons. When she met a person
wnOm she mad met before she instantly
recognized him by the smell Of his hand
OF glove. If it were a stranger she
smelled his hand, and the impression
was so strong that she could recognize
him long after by again smelling his
hand, or even his glove # just taken off.
She knew all her acquaiutauccs by the
odor of their hands. She WAS employ
ed in sorting the clothes OF the pupils,
after they came from the wash, and
could distinguish those Of each friend.
If half a dozen strangers should throw
each one his glove into a hat, and they
were shaken up, she would take one
glove, smell it, then smell the hand of
each person, and urerringly assign each
glove to its owner. If among the visi-
Tors there were Il brother and sister she
could pick out the gloves by a similar
ity Of smell, but could not distinguish
the one from the other. This case fur
nishes a strong argument i'll support Of
the conjecture that dog, removed to a
distant place, finds its way home by
following backward train Of smells
which be has experienced.
Year: 1878

Speaking of the Judgeship Of this
District, the Fayette County Herald
says: "Thus far, we have heard no
other name mentioned in connection
with the nomination for Judge Of
the Common Pleas Court, on the
Republican side, than Judge Min
shall, the present incumbent. There
may be others. Nor do we know
that Judge Minsbal desires to be a
candidate for reelection, hut, if he
does, there is no reason that We
know of why he should not be elect
ed. He has discharged the du-
ties Of the position fairly and honor
ably, and the people appreciate him
as a worthy Judge.
Year: 1878

Score one for the African brother.
When so many Congressman were
so drunk as to be unfit to lock after
the public business, during the last
night of the session, Rainey, the col
ord member from South Carolina,
saved one of the most important
bills by personally attending to
transcribing it.
Year: 1878

Governor Bishop has granted q
free pardon to the Democratic Treas
ur,r of Auglaize County, who was
sent to the Penitentiary some three
OF four months since for robbing the
County Treasury. Such an exercise
of the pardoning power is simply
outrageous.
Year: 1878

The English Arctic exploring vessel
Pandora is to undertake another ex-
pedition and an attempt to reach the
pole by way of the SpiCbergen, in
stead of by the Smiths Sound, route
will be made.
Year: 1878

Gideon J. Tucker must be one of the best
of his party-which is hard thing, says
the N. Y. Tribune, to say about the party.
If any other greenback advocate had been
given the chance to write letter of accept.
ance, it is safe to say that the newspaper
does not exist which could contain it. The
National party believes in plenty of words
as well as plenty of money, and there never
was such party before, take it altogether
for uninterrupted gable. But Mr.. Tuck
er, being offered nomination, says simply
that he has received the communication
that he accepts the place on the ticket
and returns "thanks for the high honor
conferred" Mr. Tucker is an old politi
clan, and knows when nomination ISM
worth the cost of little ink.
Year: 1878

The organization of new political parties
at this time is due as much to stagnation
in business as it is to anything else. But
whether times will be improved by the for
nation of Nationals, or Greenbackers, or
Labor Reformers, is an open question.
Just how they are going to accomplish the
restoration of business activity and general
prosperity does not appear. A good many
politicians, like many of our laboring men
and mechanics, are out of employment,
and by the formation of new party they
hope to be able to establish themselves in
Office. They make great professions as to
their friendship for the workingman simply
because they wish to get his vote.
Year: 1878

Gentlemen of the jury said a Tuscarora
lawyer, ''what kind of swearing has been
done in this case Here we have physician,
man who, from his high and noble calling,
should be regarded as one who would scorn
to stain his soul with perjury, or be gully of
giving utterance to an untruth But what did
he testify. gentlemen? put the question to
him plainly, as you all heard: Where was
this man stabbed 2 And what his reply !?
Unblushingly his features as ccol and placid
as though cut from marble. be replied that
the man was stabbed about au inch and q
half to the left of the medal line, and about
an inch above the umbilicus, and yet we have
proved by three unimpeachable witnesses
that he was stabbed below the Young Ameri-
can hosting works .a
Year: 1878

Parents who permit their boys
to play marbles "for keeps" GER
tainly ought not to find fault if
they lind them soon playing games
for money. The loss of a marble
to them is as great as the loss of
five cents to the man that shoots
the blow-gun. There is no differ
ence in kind and not half as much
degree as some seem to suppose.
Every father who would have his
boys grow up TO bet and win every
time, and empty the pockets Of his
dearest friends into his own, should
buy him flve cents worth Of mar
bles at once, and bis mother should
see to IL that when he goes to
school he has at least one pocket
full, and when he comes home two,
or no supper.
Year: 1878

Those marble days have come
the maddest of the year. The days
when the successful young gam
bler's pockets gingle, in school and
out, with his rich store; the days
when more boys are late to school
than during any other part of the
year; the days when more are late
home "because they had to stay
after school, and blockade the
sidewalk; the days when glorious
lessons are learned by the rising
generation, of how to bet and win
at cards, elections, and even with
the great glass blow-gun. What
grand exercise it is, bringing into
play as it does the muscles of one
entire thumb and q whole tongue.
How graceful the position, like the
bended bow of promise in the
clouds. How beautiful and sweet
the language. How harmonious
the hearts.
Year: 1878

The countess Joannes Moore, the
Sweet Singer of Michigan, hastily
flung off the following the other
day: "If you feel a little pale,
think of joiner and the whale, and
the frightened place of joiner when
he though himself a goner."
Year: 1878

FAILURES FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 1878.


According to the semi-annual circular OF
r. q. Dun d Co.'s Mercantile Agency, the
failures for the first six months Of the pre-
sent wear show an enormous increase. The
nublic mind has in some measure become
prepared for this revelation by the flequen-
CIV with which these misfortunes have been
chronicled by the press, but it remains for
the Agency to put into shape the final re-
suits OF the period under review, and TO
draw from the compilation such differences
as appear to be warranted by the facts pre-;
sented. This has been done in the usual
exhaustive manner, and we condense the
following from the elaborate document be.
fore his. For the purposes of comparison
we group together the following statement,
which will illustrate at glance the signlh'
cance of the figures for the past six months
Year: 1878

Tue JAMEs-RIvEE IMPRovEMENT.-Mr.
Whitcomb, resident assistant engineer on
Rmes-river improvement. received orders
Yesterday from Colonel Craighill, United
States engineer in charge, to recommence
work. This will be done as soon as the
several machines can be put in order. The
city dredges, being in good condition, will
be put to work in a few days. The ma
chimes for removing rock will require per-
haps two weeks longer for repairs. This
machinery will be put to work on Rockets
reef, where channel eighteen feet at big b
tide is to be cut. The several cuts will be
80 feet wide, and will each be carried through
to the full depth before another is begun,
and this will be continued so long as the
appropriation warrants, or until the chan
mel is 1SG feet wide.


The system OF wing dams is to be extend
ed, so as to contract the river where it IS
now too wide to point half a mile or
more below Warwick bar. The channel
below Rockets reef sto be Widened and
deepeued. The Dutch-Ga2 cut of Is to be
further widened at the upper end, making
it about seventy feet wider, to give better
entrance, and some may be taken OFT the
lower end also for a similar reason.
Year: 1878

LEVY BROTHERS
intend making this closing sale success. and are
determined by their mode Of conducting it to show
that they arc in earnest. Remember that you get
TEN CENTS OFF ON EVERY DOLLARS WORTH


YOU PURCHASE OF


LEVY OTHERS.


So make your purchases of them
Year: 1878

The morning will be spent in sight-see-
ing. In.the afternoon a and + companies
OF the regiment will parade with the visit
ors to Oakwood, and at Oakwood or Libby
Park there will be lunch provided by
those two companies. Companies D and
G OF the regiment will show such courtesies
and give such entertainments as the visitors
NAV lind it convenient to accept.
Year: 1878

Berlin, July Fit is expected that the
official publication OF the treaty OF peace
will follow its ratification, which VIII be
effected within month from the date OF
signing. The sitting OF the congress this
afternoon was to complete the reading OF
the instrument OF peace. The document
will be printed tonight and signed to-mor-
row. 1t is probable that the congress will
to-day adopt decisions relative to local conf
missions to be instituted and the supple
mcntary conference which it is proposed to
hold next autumn either at Constantinople
or Berlin.
Year: 1878

Two most unexceptional good Candidates
for a nomination, were endorsed and ap-
proved by Every Evening, unfortunately
for these gentlemen, the friendship of that
journal is fatal, and of course 1t handi-
capped the persons 1t intended to befriend,
and they beaten. If a citizen values sue
cess, be sure to procure the silence Of
Every Evening. 1t was subject of jocu
lar remarks during last week, that gentle


men we refer to, would surely be beaten al
Every Evening was for them.
Year: 1878

On rea ching level two thousand feet
below the surface in q Nevada silver mine
a few weeks ago, the miners struck
stream Of water perfectly, clear, but so Of
fensiye to the smell that it almost drove
them or,t. 1t is proposed to have some of
the wat er analyzed.
Year: 1878

SENATOR BLAINE's VIEws-There is q proba-
bic way out of our difficulty of fixing our
coin standard, especially should the bill
pass and be vetoed by the President. 1t
must be done by a compromise. There are
those who honestly think we must have
more money in circulation-callit it imitation
or what we mayor the debtor class who
number four out Of every five, will 20 on
getting poorer and poorer. Senator Blaine
steps in between the two extreme mesures,-
the Bland bill and single standard, with a
double standard, but making the silver
coin Of a higher standard.


Mr. Blaine is not in favor of dollar that
shall be worth less than a gold dollar, but
he is in favor Of double standard, and
thinks that it can be attained by the issue
of "A 425-grain silver coin. There is no doubt
that Mr.. Blaine will vote against the Bland
bill in any shape in which it will pass the
Senate, and the definition Of his position
on the subject which he gave in his speech,
has, 50 far as this point is concerned,
brought encouragement to the advocates Of
honest money. His definite reputation
of the Bland bill makes the enactment Of
a 92 cert dollar in spite Of the veto of the
President, more Improbable than ever.


Eastern business men have steadily in
sisted that if the worst comes to the worst,
and the silver experiment must be tried,
we should at least put hundred cents
worth Of silver into the dollar Mr.. Blaine
plants n:u>eu on this proposition. He in.
sist that Congress has no Constitutional
right to ..o, Irnr dcmonstized, and pro.
pose ..iar Of 42j grains. The
proposition Is plausible. Neither view ot
the subject is free from difficulties, nor is il
probable that tho last authoritative word in
the discussion has yet been spoken.
Year: 1878

A BIC SILVER LOBBY.-.The Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore San says:


The belief is growing here that a gigantic
lobby has been organized to work up the
silver idea, not only in the halls of Con-
gress, but with the people. 1t has already
been asceftained that a well-known veteran
lobbyist is'~the engineer of the movement
to secure signers to petitions in New York
and the Eastern States in favor of the silver
bill. With a little money there is no
trouble about getting plenty of signatures,
fictitious or otherwise, to Utmost everything.
That money has been spent here and is
still being distributed. not in an altogether
legitimate way is generally accepted as ad'
mitting of no doubt. One result oi the
nntiresumption movement is already seen
in the future, and that i, the loss of New
York State to the democrats next Fall 10y
$4,000 votes. or this there is no doubt.
Year: 1878




If you should see me and my horse on the
Brighton road Oh Sunday afternoon Won
would not believe me when ! prayed %. Lord
may we abstain from all appearance OF evil, said
the present pastor Rev Or Withrow of tl4s Park
Street church IN his sermon last night and the
good deacons and the older members exchanged
knowing looks, and smiled Significantly as their
thoughts took a twist in the almost forgotten past
Mondays Globe


This reminds us of little story Of Rev.
Dr. Stone, a pastor of Park Street church
back IN the ''almost forgotten past, z which
may have furnished the traditional basis
for Dr. Wlthrow's allusion Dr stone
owned a very matched pair ot horses.
rather given to speed, which he .iroye in
to church on Sunday from his home in
the RoXbury district. In his congregation
was dear, sanity old lady yeritable
mother in lsrael-who loved her pastor
and would not tolerate the tlought that
he could do anything wrong. AZ She was
being logged along the mill dam road in
the family carriage one Sunday morning.
on her way to church, accompanied by
her son, the pastors team bore down up-
on them at $50 gait-it being a little
late-and passed them like a flash the
Year: 1878

There is a very touching little story
told of a poor woman with two children,
who had not bed for them to lie upon.
and scarcely any clothes to cover them.
In the depth Of winter they were nearly
frozen, and the mother took the door of
cellar of the hinges and set it before
the corner where they crouched down to
sleep, that some Of the draught and cold
might be kept from them. One Of the
children whispered to her, when she
complained of how badly of they were.
Mother, what do those dear little chill
dren do who have no cellar door to put
up in front of them ~ Even there, you
see, the little heart found cause for thank
tulness.
Year: 1878

The opening of the Sutro Tunnel
has already had a marked effect
upon the temperature of the air In
the Savage mine. The draft COM
ing in through the tunnel had
cooled down from ITO to 95 de.
grees this morning. A regular
current has also set in through The
lower levels of the mine below the
line of the Tunnel, and they are
cooling off rapidly. The hot air
rises and the cool air rushes down
to take its place. The temperature
of the water in the mine has not
changed, and still remains at about
155 degree. Work has been COM
menced in the crosscuts on the
2, 100 foot level. The temperature
in the mine is steadily lowering,
and in few days it will probably
be thoroughly cooled off.


1t is not yet known what effect
the opening Of the tunnel will have
on the Gould & Curry mine, but
the Hale & NorcrOss will be mate.
rally benefited by the change
from q downcast to an urcast cur
rent in the shaft.


Work has been resumed upon the
header of the Sutro Tunnel, which
is being pushed steadily forward to
the west wall of the Comstock lode.
The air has become quite pure, and
the strong draft and iall in the tenn
perature is very grateful to the
miners, who have been compelled
heretofore to wcrk In hot and
confined atmosphere. They are
able TO do greater amount Of
work and are much less exhausted
at the c'ose of their days work
than before the connection was
Virginia Chronicle.
Year: 1878

Look into the home of fretful man or
woman, and mark the discomfort, the un-
happiness, the positive misery, they often
cause within its sacred enclosures. Notice
fretful man in his business relations
disagreeable he makes himself to others, and
how much he detracts from his own power
to act coolly and wisely. See such man
in the church-what an amount of friction
and trouble he causes, where all should
work smoothly and quietly, Besides the
rasping and discomfort such a person occs
sions, the example he sets is most PERM
cious. Children easily catch the manners o
their elders, and fretful people have no ont
to blame but themselves if they have worri'
some, teasing, disagreeable children.