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Year: 1875




An article in the Commercial in regard
to the filthy habits Of the Chinese ser.
wants, reminds me If an incident that oc-
Cured on the south side Of Eighth street,
east Of Linn, in this city. A wagon was
passing along the street loaded with
oysters, and colored servant girl was
sent out to have bowl filled with those
popular mollusks. and as soon as the
shells were removed she started back to
the house. On her return, however, she
stopped long enough in the. passage-w: y
between the adjoining houses to taie
each oyster separately and draw It
through her mouth so as to abstract all
ths fresh liquor from the edible. Hav.
ing done this, the oyster was then deposit.
ed in its proper place in the bowl, and
subsequently served out to the family.
The girl was, no doubt, denied the sub
stance and was determined to have the
shadow Of the thing. AS this, event oc
CURED during the war, the parties resid-
N the aforesaid neighborhood at tho
president time need not order Their
emertics by the cart load.
Year: 1875

Senator Oglesby in his speech at New
Haven must haye reminded Senator Eaton
that the rebellion is not yet forgotten. He
spoke oil speech of the latter in which
President Grant Is threatened with im-
peachment, and said it would be pitiable
TO see House composed Of a large part
of men who were few years ago in re-
bellion against God and liberty, impeaeh
ing the man who had given them theil
liberty and forgiven them for their trea
sonable acts. A few home thrusts like
that will make Eaton more careful how nc
pirates of impeachment Of the President.
Year: 1875

The United States Supreme Court has
set the seal of its reprobation upon the sale
of the influence and exertions of lobbyists
in bringing about the passage Of law for
the payment of Senate claim, without
reference to its merits, in a case that has
been brought before it. Lobbyists will be
obliged henceforward to give the courts
wide berth.
Year: 1875




TRAKPS.


The shocking murder ut East Boston OF
Mrs. Bingham win put people on their
guard, especially housekeepers, against
allowing tramps to enter their houses on
any pretence whatever. The murdered
woman in this case was highly respecta-
BILE, about thirty years of age, in full health
and strength. and yet she was most foully
killed in the house where she resided, the
same being situated on a--thickly settled
street in the city, and the deed done in
daylight and while other persons were in
the tenement over the cellar where the
murder was committed. 1t appears that
a tramp called at the door, and represent
ing himself as an employee of the gas or
water company sent to examine the gas
metre or water pipes, he was attended to
the cellar by the unsuspicious woman.
who was there murdered. What the de-
sign of the murderer was In seeking en-
trance to the house is not positively
known, but it was probably either to take
what he might discover about the premises
during his visit and secrete and carry
away, or to obtain information to be used
at some future time for purposes of plum
der. But when he found himself in the
cellar with defenceless woman and saw
the jewels glittering upon her hand, the
thought of seizing them instantly flashed
over his mind, and in accomplishing his
purpose the brutal murder was commit
ted.


The man as it appears was tramp. a
vagabond and former convict OF the State
Prison, wandering about from place to
place seeking opportunity to CRAFTY his
evil propensities. He was one of class
by no means uncommon, found not only
In Boston but In all the cities and towns
In the country, calling at houses on va
rious pretences and usually at such times
a. only women are supposed to be about
the premises. Against having anything
to do with such characters the murder al
East Boston is a warning that will be
needed. Women should close their doors
against them, lest worse befall them. No
matter II the tramp seems case for the
exercise of charity, the better way will be
to let him pass on. That any person is
wandering and begging in this part of the
country is evidence of bad purpose. for
honest people are not obliged to beg from
door to door for support in New England.
Mrs. Bingham was deceived by the errand
which her murderer pretended to be on,
but though he seemed on an honest busi-
ness the imprudence Of her going into the
cellar with stranger as she did is now
apparent to all who read of the tragedy
which followed her thoughtless and rasl
act.


Not only should persons be careful how
they admit tramps into their houses, but
the authorities should have watchful eye
upon such characters. and find accommo-
dations for them where they will not be
likely to damage the public. There are
others beside beggars who belong to this
class. If they could be made to turn thell
hands to some honest employment il
would be better for them and the commu
mites which they infest. They are nu
sance at the best, and in their worst es
tate they are what we see in this terrible
murder in Boston, which shocks the whole
country with its desperation and brutality
Year: 1875

Mr.. Lands, the Vineland homicide, is not only
of an exctabe temperament himself, but is mar
ried to wife who is reported to be subject to fits
of insanity. Her father, as is we'll known, made
determined opposition TO their marriage and short
ly afterward became so violent that he was kept
for some time in a lunatc asylum, although he
always claimed that this was part Of plot against
him by his son.in-law.
Year: 1875

An English paper says that "somc cute Yankee
is flooding the country with counterfeit penny
pieces" The evidence that it is Yankee is not
gwen and so it is likely to be Britisher as any
one else. The curious part of the matter is that
the mint authorities show no inclination to inter-
Year: 1875




Here is an Irish gentleman's letter
to his son in college, "My dear SON
l write to send you two pair of my old
breeches, that you may have new
coat made out of them; also some new
socks which your mother has just knit
by cutting down some of mine. Your
mother sends you two pounds without
my knowledge, and for fear you may
not use it wisely have kept back half
and only send you one. Your mother
and 1 are well, except that your sister
has got the measles, which We think
would have spread among the other
girls ifTom had not had it before, and
he is the only one left. | hope you
will do honor to my teachings; if not
you are an ass, and your mother and
myself your affectionate parents"
Year: 1875

During last week sixty men were
added to the force at work in the Can
ada Raymundo, San Mateo county.
This makes ninety men now engaged
in cleaning out the Canada, prepara-
tory to erecting the new dam for the
Spring Valley Company.
Year: 1875

THE Republican politicians of the West
have the happy faculty of getting on the right
side of the question, no matter what their
private sentiments may be. Senator Morton
and his followers are getting ready to stand
on hard-money platform next year. The
ing excuses for Allen and Thurman, and pre-
pairing to swallow the initiation dose with as
few grimaces as possible.
Year: 1875

If Allen is reelected governor of Ohio on
an initiation platform, thus demonstrating
that soft-money is popular in the West, the
Western Democrats will certainly incorporate
an imitation plank into their next national
platform. The Democrats of the East, few
and weak, will have no effective strength and
their protestations will be disregarded. Of
course they will fall into line, as they did in
1899
Year: 1875

An earnest desire to justify your generous conf
dence, and strong regard for the honor and ,1el-
fare of our State inspire NTH the firm resolUe TO
spare no effort and to consider other consequences
IN the endeacor to faihftly discharge the duties that
'c't be incumbent on me If your choice shall prove
10 De TIE choice of the people also. pledge you and
thousands for aohom you act in that event, honest
purpose and fred determination to make the public
good my single aim and constant care.


Gen. COnnor's Acceptance,
Year: 1875

A CALIFORNIAN, name not given, with
presumable leanings toward science, has CIV
en- his life in Illustration of the scientific the
ory ofspontaneous combustion. He drank a
gallon of gin the other day, and two small
boys found him by the roadside soon after,
burned to cinder, after the fashion of "the
Lord Chancellor in Bleak House.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of G od faith


We cannot undertake to return CT reserve commu-
nications that are not used
Year: 1875

T AIDES send your address to s. Spring ST.. and
~ have the agent of the Ladies' Easy Cutting and
Work Table call and show this gem Of the work
Patterns cut free Tuesday to test the system.


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Year: 1875

The democratic party gained more politi-
cal capital during the campaign which ended
by what was known as the ''tidal wave"
triumph from the controversy against Caesar
ism than on any other issue. The essential
point Of that controversy was that the Presi-
dency should be an office held in trust for the
people that it should be as much as possible
free from any undue control or patronage, and
that it should be held for single term.
There was no question so clearly presented
to the American people or discussed with SO
much energy Naturally enough, we should
expect from the democrats the moment they
came into power an expression of their faith
upon C@sarism If these leaders, who went
from stump to stump denouncing the CEN
tralization tendencies of Grant were sincere
in their faith, and not merely indulgihg in
claptrap political demagoguery, they would
have put themselves upon record in Con-
gress, even before this time, upon the ques-
tion of oneterm. But nothing was done by
them during the short session. Then the
argument was that the democrats, as a
minority, had no responsibility for legisla-
ton. We trust that the wise democrats will
not continue their blunder. The country
expects from some leading democrat-Mr.
Cox, Mr.. Wood, Mr. Randall or Mr.. Lamar
an immediate campaign in the House Of Rep
resentatives in favor of one term. Unless
this is done the argument will be urged with
irresistible force that the democratic party is
willing to use political question to gain
power, and, succeeding in that, will throw
aside the issue and hold power under a false
pretence. The country expects from the
democratic party in the House the passage of
constitution limiting the Office of the Presi-
dency to one term.
Year: 1875

The National Council of the Union League
Club, which, we believe, is secret organiza-
ton, very much like the dark lantern, Know
Nothing lodge on Fourteenth street called
Tammany Hail. has had meeting in Phila-
delphia. A resolution was offered by Gen.
eral Daniel Ullman, who will be remembered
by our older politicians as the candidate for
Governor on the Know Nothing ticket, In
favor of IAN amendment to the constitution
of the United States prohibiting the estab-
lishment of religion, and SO on, and in
reference to non-sectarian schools" The
fact that this Know Nothing politician and
thoroughly played out fossil, who was be-
lieved to be dead, should come forward the
'leader of movement" and should make
his first campaign in a secret Know Nothing
lodge, is suggestive of the disposition of the
republican party to make its next campaign
for the Presidency upon q platform OF fire.
brands. Thus far we have had the Cuba
frebrand, the third term firebrand, and now
comes the religious firebrand. All of this is
deplorable, as showing to what extremity
politicians will sink to gain political power.
With a President controlled by Methodist
priests, with leader of the House pander-
ing to religious bigotry and with the old
Know Nothing Ullman and his dark lantern
lodge of the Union League in Philadelphia
passing the firebrand resolutions, we are apt
to have as bitter campaign as we have ever
had in this country since the native Ameri-
can days of 1884, when churches were
burned and people were butchered on the
high streets because of difference in religious
belief. 1t is gratifying to feel that we have
in reserve the common sense of the country,
to which we can always appeal, as we ap-
pealed from the Know Nothing meetings of
1856 and the native American frenzy of the
generation preceding.
Year: 1875

government Of Executive interference with
judicial proceedings and a violation Of the
legal privilege Of counsel to argue cases with
out other responsibility than that which they
owe to the Court, which alone is charged
with the duty Of keeping them within proper
limits


The dismissal of Mr.. Henderson Just as
the Babcock trial is to come on seems 50 OBJ
yiously in the interest of that officer, and is
so calculated to undermine public conf
dence, that his acquittal cannot restore his
reputation 1t will be suspected that the
evidence against him was not presented in
all its force, and the result of the trial, if he
is acquitted, will have no moral weight with
the country


So extraordinary an interference with the
course Of justice as President Grant has
yentured on in this case will naturally
attract the attention of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes, which is charged by the constitu-
ton with q peculiar supervision over the
conduct Of the President. Any proceedings
against him affecting the duration of his
Office must originate in that body and
there are few graver offences than an in
trusion by the President into the proceedings
of the judicial department of the govern
ment. The courts have always been held to
be as sacred against such interference as the
proceedings of either House of Congress.
The President has no more right to punish
an attorney for what he may say in Court
than to punish member Of Congress for
words spoken in debate, both being equally
privileged by law. We do not know what
view the House may take of this extraordi-
nary conduct of the President after full in
quiry but the House will doubtless think it
duty to order an investigation.
Year: 1875

The Sun naptly puts the case of Tweed when
it says that, although he has escaped from
trial, punishment he has not escaped and can
never escape" 'Will any sum of money pur-
chase for him esteem, companionship, self
respect, peace of mind, happiness? These
he shall find again nowhere and never more.


Furthermore, 'these five years have told
upon him." ''his fortune reduced, his name
and reputation blighted." How could
Tweed's fortune be reduced? He has been
engaged in no business. All the money he
has paid out has been given to lawyers and
persons claiming to have influence with the
courts to save himself from punishment.
Tweed said to reporter some time ago that
he had spent five hundred thousand dollars
in that way. Now, is it not SANDER upon
the law as an honorable profession and upon
the administration of justice that lawyers
should be permitted to become accessories
to the robbery of the treasury by exacting
vast sums from q confessed plunderer like
Tweed Would it not be well for the Grand
Jury to summon Tweed's lawyers and ask
them how much they received from him and
what service was rendered for the money!
This would enable US to open an entirely
new field of discussion, and one which would
be of much interest to everybody who be-
lieves in the pure administration OF justice.
Year: 1875




The Court Of Inquiry at Chicago has done
very proper thing in declining to proceed
with the case of General Babcock now that
he has been indicted by Grand Jury and is
to be put on trial in civil court. The very
able argument read by General Hancock
yesterday before the Court Of Inquiry sets
forth the impropriety. of further proceed
ings in so convincing a light that the mil
itary tribunal could not have gone on with
out a manifest violation not only OF decorum
but of justice. General Babcock asked for
court of inquiry because he professed to think
that he was deprived of an opportunity to vim
dicate himself before a court of justice the
reason for calling the military court therefore
no longer exists. The witnesses and the docu-
ments by which he is to be convicted or cleared
would be the same in both trials, and in the
conflict of jurisdiction as to which of the
courts should command them, the decision
must necessarily be in favor of the civil
court, on the fundamental principle of our
government that the civil is superior to the
military power. Moreover, the presence of
the defendant is necessary in either form OF





trial, and he cannot be present in Chicago
and st. Louis at the same time. The Court
of Inquiry yielded to this strong array OF
arguments, and decided to merely adjourn
from day to day until they could receive
further orders from the War Department.,


This wise action is in accordance with the
ground taken on this subject by the HERALD
yesterday. AS soon as we learned of the in
dictment Of General Babcock we felt that the
order for q court of inquiry should be at
once suspended. We only regret that in
structions to that effect were not promptly
sent to Chicago from Washington, and that
it was left to the Court of Inquiry to take the
responsibility of disobeying the order under
which it was summoned. There is higher
and prompter sense of honor and propriety
among the officers Of the army than exists at
Washington.
Year: 1875

BISHOP SIMPSON FOR A THIRD TERM. No
man holds higher position in any Church
than Bishop Simpson holds in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and his opinion is always
entitled to respect His views upon the
third term question and Bishop Haven's
nomination of Grant, as given by the Phila-
delphia Item, in an interview elsewhere pub
lished, will be read with particular interest.
The Bishop explained several points and left
others in doubt, but he explicitly declared
himself in favor of o third term in these
words :-"All can say is, that should Presi-
dent Grant be reelected the people will have
done wisely" 1t is significant that all the
other Methodist clergymen Of Philadelphia
who were questioned agreed in the main with
the Bishop. They all professed that Bishop
Haven had no right to speak for the Church.
but, speaking for themselves, they all ap-
proved his nomination of Grant.
Year: 1875

In the whiskey cases on trial at st. Louis
remarkable successes have been gained in
the cause of the public service. An example
of the greatest consequence has been set 1t
has been shown that with the ordinary ma
chinery Of justice and courts of law, plain
judges and juries and honest counsel, rogues
may be got at who had vainly plumed and
boasted themselves that they were beyond
reach because of the high protection they
had secured by judicious division of the
fruits of their plunder. 1t has been demon
strated that no conspiracy, however gigantic,
against the public treasury, has any more
immunity once brought face to face with
Justice than q scheme for petty larceny,
when the cases are in charge of o
vigorous prosecuting officer But the
exhibition Of this fact, so satisfactory to
the nation, awakens but little interest in
Washington. They do not care much there
about the main point of the case, but they
are very inquisitive about q detail.


They want to know whether the coun-
sci for the prosecution referred to the
President in the course of his arguments


This is the great problem OF the hour. For
the time the famous problem as to whether
saltpetre will explode becomes insignificant
People no longer ask one another whether
indigo will sink or swim. They do not even
refer to the prospects of Pacific Mail Men
have actually become callous as to what sort
of horn it was they blowed about Jericho or
who made the Wandering Jew S boots These
points of heroic doubt which once divided
the world are crowded from the minds of
men by the overwhelming wonder whether
Colonel Henderson did really refer to the
President or refrained from such reference


If he refrained he may go on if he referred
he must get out of those cases-yea, even
though Colonel Babcock should escape JUS
tice by this exclusion from the case of the
counsel most familiar with it. That is a
dreadful risk but the President will stand it.
Year: 1875

There may be some mistakes made In hlgh
places as to the issue on which the forthcom-
ing Presidential battle is to be fought. Gen.
eral Grant evidently intends to ''hold the
fort" of straight out piety to fire thence
"double shotted salutes" of good orthodox
Protestant doctrine to shell oil the woods
filed with the imaginary enemies OF free
schools and religious liberty. His course Ii
ineligible if not intelligent He believes
that he can thus ''teach the doubtful battle
where to rage" His notion is that If he
makes enough noise in the neighborhood OF
that fort the deluded enemy will suppose
that it is the key to his position, and VIII
gather all their forces there and hurl them
against his guns in the reckless endeavor 70
storm the useless post Our own notion is
that the enemy will reconnoitre more
effectively than he supposes, and II they do
they cannot fail to note that his line can be
turned by resolute advance on the village
OF Crooked Whiskey Immediately in his
rear Crooked Whiskey is not defensible,
and that point once occupied by the enemy
Grants position is not only untenable, but
his line will be doubled up, the straight
piety" garrison will be cut of. the baggage,
ammunition wagons and reserve artillery
will all be captured. This is now the great
problem politico-religious strategy Which
of these points on the Presidential battle
field is really critical or relatively thefmost
important? Bishop Haven, commander of
the orthodox forces Of the government re-
ligion, thunders apostolically from the fort.
and gives the place an air of Importance by
the noise he makes; but the resolute Hender-
sons advance on the weak point at Crooked
Whiskey has filed bigotry and hypocrisy
with dismay, and their fears of what may be
done in that direction are instructive.
Year: 1875

We shall never have a proper sense of self
respect in our Congressman at Washington
until we send high-toned men to represent
US. At the close of the last session of Con-
gress there was much scandal among
thoughtful people at the spectacle of Presi-
dent Grant appointing defeated candidates
for the Senate and the House to responsible
offices under the government The argu-
ment was made that if representatives Of the
people are permitted to legislate in Wash
ington in the hope of being rewarded for
their votes by office, then the Legislative de-
partment of the government would fall into a
degrading dependence upon the Executive.
This truth is greater than our people have
been disposed to credit. We can trace the
acquiescence of the Senate and the House to
the almost servile demands of the President
to the fact that there is not republican
member of either branch of Congress who
has not felt that if he were to vote against
the will of the people in response to the will
of the President, and were to be punished
for so doing, that he would be appointed to
a lucrative station. The democrats do not
seem to improve upon the republicans in
this respect, for we are told that an ex-mem-
Der of Congress, Mr.. Rice, of Kentucky, has
been selected by the new Clerk of the House
as an assistant in place of Clinton Lloyd
The spectacle of an ex-member Of Congress
quietly coming back to the hall of his former
influence and duty to sit down at the Clerks
desk at q small salary to do humble duties in
arranging the business of the House is humil-
iating. 1t may be justly held that there is
no reason why member OF Congress should
waive his claims upon his party or upon the
administration for support or even appoint
ment to Office should he fail to be elected by
the people, but it is not pleasant thing to
see Mr.. Rice leave his chair as the Represent
ative of great Commonwealth and scratch
and scratch over minutes and calendars and
proceedings as a subordinate officer of the
House. Kentucky is proud State, and will
be apt to send different class of men to Con-
gress in the future.