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Year: 1875

The pleasant autumn weather OF the
last month, has been SO much like the
lovely October days OF New England,
that we have had almost constantly in
mind, thoughts of home and days spent
amidst the scenes we love so well to
dwell upon in these days OF our wander
ing. Early in the present season we
Joined the Cant get away Club" and
have spent the entire season in the city /;
it ha3 been SO delightful that we have
done 50 with few regrets, though often as
we have met friends who were of for the
mountains and springs, and wished them
pleasant trip. we have thought OF the
pleasure i. would afford US to again
ramble over the mountains and through
The valleys OF "oId Oxford" Quite as
often has the names Of those who have
left those scenes, at the summons OF the
grim messenger since we were accustom-
ed to these rambles passed through our
minds, and We find long list that has
been fearfully heightened since our last
visit, until it seems 10 US that all is
changed.


This city is rapidly filling up with pol
iticiaus, and the indications are that there
will be large gathering OF the unwashed
looking for places, but there are COM
paratively few places within the control
of the house. yet there is no doubt but
that the chairman of several of the more
important committees will be able to
secure many places in the Departments
for their friends. Notwithstanding the
hard times many prophesy that the
approaching season will be among the
gayest, If not in fact the gayest in the
history Of Washington; the certainty that
many who were prominent in society
here in days "ante bellum," will make
their appearance for the first time since
the .'late onpleasantness" adds not little
10 the interest that attaches 10 society
matters.


There is q much better feeling in the
Republican ranks. Men who arrive here
from all parts give hopeful reports of The
party in their several localities, and we
see signs OF general yielding to the
good of the whole party. and less Of
selfshness. The party has given prom
inence too far TO many men who have
attached themselves to it, for personal
aggrandizment, having no principle he.
yond self. These are sinking into insig
ni6cance and out of the party, giving
place to better men, and We rejoice TO
see the honored names that are again
being enrolled under the republican ban.
ner. as we read the names of Fenton and
Sburtz and hosts OF Others who are ready
70 unite in an effort to bring the party up
10 its once proud position, and again to
victory to fulfill lis high mission. We
feel something OF the old spirit and the
blood courses quickly through our veins
a. we think OF the proud record made
during the past twenty five years. of a
country redeemed. TO be handed down to
future generations, as the home of the
Year: 1875

OK what principle Of equity does the
worthy Senator from Davidson propose
to have certified copies of Supreme
Court decisions furnished for publica-
ton IN the Nashville Commercial Re
porter, and not in other Nashville
papers
Year: 1875

A large and enthusiastic meeting in Op-
position to the compromise was held to
night at st. PItrick's Hall. Resolutions
against the compromise were adopted. The
opponents Of the compromise consider the
meeting a great success.
Year: 1875

The Senate Finance Committee reported
the tax and tariff bill without amendment
and without recommendation. A majority
of the committee would have preferred to
amend the bin in various particulars, but
at least four Of the eight members now in
Washington, believed to amend the bill at
all, would imperil its enactment in cOnse-
quence not only Of conflicting views in the
Sena.e, but of the difficulty Of reaching
the bill when returned to the House fer ac-
ton on any amendments which the Senate
and minority of the House might be
willing to agree to. A number of Senators
will, however, move amendments in the
Senate, some with a view to improvirg the
bill and others with the purpose of killing
il altogether
Year: 1875

The CURE FOR GossP. Il
cnre for gossip? Simply, culture.
There is a great deal of gossip that
has no malignity in it. Good-natur-
ed people talk about their neighbors
because, and only because, they
have nothing else to talk about. As
we write, there comes to Us the
pietnre Of family of young ladies.
We have seen them at home, we
have met them in galleries of art,
we have caught glimpses of them
going from bookstore, or library,
with fresh volume in their hands.
When we meet them, they are full
of what they have seen and read.
They are brimming with questions.
One topic of conversation is drop
ped only to give place to another,
In which they are interested. We
have left them, after q delightful
hour, stimulated and refreshed and
during the whole hour not neigh
boris garment was soiled by so much
as touch. They had somsthing TO
talk about. They knew something,
and wanted to know more. They
could listen as well as they could
talk. To speak freely of a neigh
bor's doings and belongings would
have seemed an impertinenee to
them, and, Of course, an impfopriety.
They had no temptation to gossip,
because the doings of their neigh
bors formed a subject very much
less interesting than those which
grew out of their knowledge and
their culture.


And this tells the whole story. The
confirmed gossip is always either
malicious or igorant. The one
variety needs a change of heart and
the other a change of pasture. Cos
sip is always a personal confession
either Of malice or imbecility, snd
the young should not only sh9n It,
but by the most thorough culture
relieve themselves from all temPtas
tion to indulge in it
Year: 1875


ious faith that the taxpayers are
habitually plundered. There is
much more reason to expect that the
Roman Catholics will be practically
subjected to political disabilities
than that they viii attain a perni-
clous supremacy. In MARYLAND. Mr..
Carroll, Catholic candidate of GOOD
family and high character, has lately
been elected Governor, but in the
previous contest he was opposed on
sectarian grounds. Mr.. Reverdy-
Johnson took occasion to deliver an
eloquent and apparently successful
warning against an intolerance which
violates the fundamental principles
of American society.


"General Grants unexpected at
tack on the Roman Catholic com
munity is said to have revived his
chance of nomination for a third
time as President. 1t is even alleged
that he is seriously alarmed by the
agitation of the Catholic priests
against the common school system,
and that the elevation of Archbish-
op McCloskey the rank of Cardinal
has increased his uneasiness. If the
President is sincere, his sudden in
tervention in the controversy COIN
cides by remarkable felicity with
his political interest. 1t is not in
this instance only that be has dis
closed his sentiments on the eve of
an election. The official statement
that a threatening message had been
addressed to Spain was calculated,
like the denunciation of the Roman
Catholics, to promote the triumph
of the Republican party. General
Grant has, since the State elections,
expressed a probable opinion that
the Republicans will retain possess
sion of power for at least fours years
longer 1t is true that the Democrats
control the House of Represent a.
tives, but the Senate is Republican,
and the party will not improbably
succeed in electing a President.
Little or nothing could be lost by an
attack on the Roman Catholics. The
Irish have been always allied with
the Democrats, and, although they
have in the city of New York lately
split themselves for the moment
into two factions, it is not likely that
the followers either of Morrissey or
Kelly will prolOng their connection
with the Republicans. If there are no
Cathokc= votes to lose, there may be
Protestant votes to gain. The pre-
judiee against third term may pos
sibly yield to the conviction that


the taciturn General at the head of
the Union has become one of the
most adroit of politicians. As the
champion of religious intolerance, he
may perhaps revive the enthusiasm
which was formerly aroused by his
military exploits. For the present
he has no conspicuous rival in the
RepublieaR ranks. If the Pope at
tempted to understand American
politics, he would be surprised to
learn that his harmless promotion of
the Archbishop of New York had,
instead of being accepted as q com
pliment, furnished occasion for an
attack on his Chcrch.
Year: 1875

the e i the under consideration IS,
wh = points of law therein involved, and also in
ne. ne Emma Jane and the Sonora are covered
La y ae within the pervieu of the decision
A " of the Court In the case Of the Winged
sn That Is a matter properly belonging TO and to
re ided by the majority that concurred IN that
t4 They certainly know best what they intended
er ne. And the same majority that concurred in
M lpnion having decided that the decision in
thee the Winged Racer does apply TO the ques-
tions and the points presented in the cases be-
fore us, while my views unchan I'd, still feel
bound acquesce and f' recognize the binding force
OF the law maxim OF res dicGta pro petat accepttuT


RAYNER, Judge
Year: 1875

While cannot concur In tho reasoning OF the
majority ofthe Court in these cases. yet having hereto


fore given my views at length in dissenting opinion
in the Of the Winged Racer upon the question Of
freights do not feel called on to rciteratc the yeys
then expressed. 1t seems to me the only question for
Year: 1875

A little incident came to our knowledge
the other day which at this time, may be
worth the telling. just after the holidays
In 1873, physician In one OF -


cities while making his daily rounds ga.
description OF one OF his patients in the
almshouse which he had visited that day,
especially dwelling upon the pitable sight
Of so many children to whom Christmas
had not been even q name, but had passed
In all the dull misery of other days. The
lady to whom he spoke was hopeless in-
valid, unable for years to leave her bed;
she WAS straitened, too. In means. But,
hearing the story, she determined that the
next Christmas should bring little pleas
ure to at least some of these little ones
whom society had thrust out of its pale
even at their birth. She had that inevta-
BILE storehouse in family, the ''piece bag"
brought and emptled on her bed, and be-
gan to make rag-babies, knitted mittens,
balls ETC., etc.-the thousand inexpensive
little trifles which required only labor and
patience to make them precious to any
child. She had \ whole year in which to
work; her courage and zeal grew with
every dag her friehds became interested
and brought In their contributions of vel
vet, cloth, yarn. etc.


When she had provided some little gift
for each of the children she began to work
for the insane ward, then for the hospital.
or course. as nothing Is more contagious
than charity. the idea spread among her
neighbors. One brought socks, another
comfortable under clothing. an old lady
knitted jacket, her son q collection OF
pipes, one housekeepsr q pile of chromos
and old prints, another cart-load of old
magazines, until by Christmas, although
the almshouse has as many inhabitants as
n fiourishing town, there was not one for
whom this woman had not a little gitt
When the day came 1t was observed as
holiday, the keepers making an effort to
bring the wards into condition OF cleanl-
ness, and to provide dinner better than
the ordinary fare. The Christmas presents
were given from the unseen friend, she Iy-
ing In the iar-otf little room which she was
never to leave alive; and with each gift
was some message OF Christian kindness
which told OF Him who was born on that
day and of his errand here.


All this happened last Christmas, and
was the work OF one crippled poor wom-
an. The birthday OF Christ is coming
again, and in every town there Is an aims
house, asylum or Jail, flled with the mis-
srable, the guilty, the poor-the very class
to whom He came first; and in every one
OF these towns there are communities OF
men and women who profess to follow Him
when one woman can do so much to give
significance to His birth to thousands OF
these His brethren, what may not these
communities do? Christians, as rule, do
not visit the almshouses. What II they
made Christmas day an exception to their
usual neglect: Let them 90, not with stern
rebukc or tedious sermons, but with some
cheerful, tangible. life remembrance OF
their Master which will gladden. and soften
the hearts OF those who know God only
through the hard justice Of men, New
York Tribune.
Year: 1875

CURE FOR LOVE OF LIQUOR.-At a
festival at reformstery institution, re-
Gently, a gentleman said Of the cure of
intoxicating drinks: 81 overcame the
appetite by a receipt given to me by old
DR.. Hatfield, one OF those good old
ply sicians who do not have percent
age from a neighboring druggist. The
prescription is simply an orange every
morning halt an hour before breakfast
Take that said the doctor, and yOu
will neither want liquor our medicine.
have done SO regularly, and find that
liquor has become repnlsive. The taste
of the orange is in the saliva OF my
tongue, and 1t would be as well to mix
water and oil as rum with my taste.'
Year: 1875

y FIRE IN BALTIMORE on SATURDAY night
greatly damaged the upper stories of the large
iron building of the Consolidated real estate
and insurance company on the southwest
corner OF SoSIth ANA German streets. The fire.
was confined TO the building. Loss estimated
al from thirty TO thirty We thousand dollars
nearly all OF which is fully covered by in
Lstt
Year: 1875

NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICANS Nor SAT
ISFIED WITH THE LOUISIANA REPORT
The republicans Of New Orleans assert thai
the report of the Louisiana subcommittee
goes outside the record, and that no testimony
was brought before them 10 show,th funding
placement OF judges by Kellogg, or the seizure
of arms by the police without process OF law.
They assert that specific evidence will be
adduced TO disprove the other allegations OF
the COMMITTEES, which they say are basel
solely ON briefs of democratic counsel.
Year: 1875

on CITY, Pa, Sept. lO-At o'clock this
morning lightning struck one of the tanks belonging
to the Imperial OH Refining Company, whose WORKS
are near Ihls place the tank contained about 5000
barrels of crude petroleum, which immediately iguied,
and owing strong north wind the FIRE spread nearly
over The entire work.. Al this hour r. NJ Tie nre is
of winch there were ncsily 70 90 barS Aid on ths
building ana machnery and iron tanking al not fall
short OF 100000 winch there Is no insurance. The
oil WORKS were one Of the most extensive and most
perfect IN this country and VIII oe almost entirely de-
Year: 1875

The celebration of 31ardi Gras in Memphis
yesterday WIS unusually extravagAnt, and,
from the point Of view Of those present, suc-
cessful. The people Of New Orleans passed
over tho day in silence, in accordance with n
resolution, some time Rgo adopted, to the
effect that the miserable condition Of the
city and State did not warrant rejoic-
ings over ponce and plenty. This
proclamation, which was made several
weeks ago, was perhaps not so pitiful an up
penl to Northern sympathy MS it WIS intend
cd to be ; yet it WAS declaration in good enr-
nest on the part Of the property of the
city thatt they felt themselves to bo very much
abused by Providence, and had little to be
thankful for. 1t wns not designed merely for
political effect, and us an index Of public
feeling in Louisiana is not without peculiar
Significance.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Andrew johnson in the Senate Is an
ocratic party. And those who have sustained
the Republican party for years, but who have
been troubled and alienated by many later
tendencies and measures, yet who must now
support the Republican or Democratic organ
ization, may well ask themselves whether 1t
is the part of wisdom and patriotism to join
the Democrats and march with Mr.. johnson
and Mr.. Eaton or to act with men like Mr..
Christiancy within the Republican lines. Is
there nothing to do but to insist that nothing
can be doae, that the Democrats cannot be
trnsted, and that the Republicans are un-
worthy Of trust ?-Harper's Weekly.


"You In this district have special stake
in this election, for happen to know Of my
personal knowledge that in your late mem
ber you had gentleman in every way worthy
to be representative in congress. beg OF
you to send us back "Joe Hawley" to REIN
force the little squad Of twenty five-union Of
fcers who on the floor OF the next house will
be confronted by sixty-eight gentlemen who
served in the rebel armies. General Hawley
is needed in Congress. A brave, clear-headed
man, he dares to differ if need be from bis
best friends. He is no follower of men-he
has no leader but his own judgment and
conscience. 1t is just such man constit-
uency requires at Washington one with the
sense to honor the right and the courage to
do 1t. Such a man Is General Hawley,
and I beg of you to honor yourselves and
confer benefit upon the whole nation by
sending him back to us.-Gen james a Gar.
field.


The Democratic journals Of Connecticut
which two years ago so strenuously insisted
on the resignation of Judge Minor, Of Stam-
ford, from the bench, as preliminary to his
acceptance of the Republican nomination for
Congress, are forced into somewhat painful
reticence by the continuance In the judicial
office of two of their own Congressional can
didates.


Congressman Frye, in his speech at Hart
ford, confirmed the statement that General
Sheridan's ''bsnditti'' dispatch was for i'm
mediate effect in New Orleans, where 1t was
published as soon as written, with just such
beneficial results as had been anticipated. He
also said that but for the Republican success
in New Hampshire the effort to secure com
promise and settlement Of the difficulties in
Louisiana would have failed.


The Civil Rights act Of Congress has been
generally pronounced unconstitutional by the
Democratic press and politicians, and il they
believeit to be so the proper course Is to
make up a case and have the matter tested In
the Supreme Court of the United States.
But instead of this they are using the State
legislatures of the south wherever they bave
control of them, to pass laws practically nul-
lifying or evading the statute.
Year: 1875

MARoELLUs EMERY, the editor Of the
Bangor Commercial, publishes an ''open let
ter'' of over two columns addressed to Rev.
DR.. Field treating of a recent declaration of
the latter in public meeting that in SER
mon year before on the women's crusade
the Commercial had misrepresented him and,
taking the clergyman severely to do for al
luding to that paper as one in which people
never looked for the truth. The Commercial
says that "virtuperation and SANDER are the
easiest kind of eloquenee." As experience
is the basis of the best authority on any sub
ject, no one is better qualified than Marcellus
to settle this point forever. Q
Year: 1875

DIR. Mark Hopkins, ex-president of Will
liams College, has found occasion to revise
some OF his opinions, and in recent lecture
at Vassar said, 81 would, at this point cor
rect my teaching in Law of Love- to the ef-
feet that home is peculiarly the sphere of
woman, and civil government that Of man. I
now regard the home as the JOINT sphere Of
man and woman, and the sphere of civil gov
ernment more of an open question as between
the two. 1t is, however, to be lamented that
the present agitation concerning the rights of
woman is so much matter of rights rather
than of duties as the reform Of the latter
would involve the former"
Year: 1875

A New YORK judge has decided that
dover is a right inchoate from betrothal.
A case came up in which a man few mo-
ments before his marriage, gave away his
property, amounting to S150,000. The wife,
who did not know Of the conveyance and to
whom he had represented the value of his
estate before betrothal, brought suit to in
validate the conveyance on the ground of
her inchoate rights of dover. Judge Van
Worst has maintained her right, claiming
that neither the man nor the woman has the
right to convey property on the possession
of which q promise of marriage has been con-
fraota6
Year: 1875

JUDGE Drummo3d of the United States
district court at Chicago has decided that the
taxation Of the capital stock of any corpora
ton having nonresident stockholders Il un-
constitutional. The Illinois law has hereto
fore taxed corporations once for all their vlsi-
BILE property and once again on their whole
capital stock; that Is the property has been
taxed, and then the title to it.
Year: 1875

inimitable style of the authors. 1t is not to
be wondered at that many Alsatian hearts
throb with love and devotion for France and
hatred of the conquerer in reading this story.
The translation is made with ability and by
one in keen sympathy with the sentiment of
the story
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used.
Year: 1875

DISTRESSING DEATH OF LITTLE GIRL.-
About o'clock yesterday Emma, four years
of age, daughter of Mr.. j. Mitchell Daniel,
came to her death in very distressing man.
ner. Mr.. Daniel resides on Sixth street be-
TWEEN Main and Franklin. Immediately in
rear Of the Arlington House, and from which
his premises are separated only By an alley.
Emma, with an older sister, bad been play.
ing in their mothers chamber, on the second
floor, where all the windows are barred, bu.
unnotced BY any one left the room and went
up to 4 room on the third hoor not 80 we'll
protected. The Older sister left the room but
for few moments, and while she was gone
Emma went TO the window overlooking the
alley and commenced playing there with her
toy caps and saucers. The window sill was
but short distance above the floor, and it Is
believed that in throwing OUT some water
and watching it descend to the ground she
lost her balance, and thus fell. Apparently
she struck with her head first on ledge
constituted by the remnants OF an Old
wall, which is close to the wall OF the
house and about six feet high, and from tbs
wall bounced down upon the alley-way be-
low. The distance of her fall could hardly
have been less than forty feet to the old wall
1t was probably thlrty-four or thirty-tve feet.
A colored man Of the Arlington House found
the poor little girl lying bleeding 10 the alley,
and at once bore the horrifying intelligence
of the accident to ber mother. The Guild
was at once taken into the house and doc
tor summoned, but the examination of the
injuries left no hope for recovery, and in two
bours life was extinct. Her head was
crushed on the side where 1t struck the wall
aud the opposite side, which struck the pave
ment OF the alley, was badly hurt. der
thigh, spine, and one hip were broken. /,
is some little consolation to the distressed
parents and friends Of the unfortunate little
one to think that she probably lost all con-
sciousness before she struck the wall, and
never recovered it in the slightest degree at
terwards, and therefore her sutferlngs-
which otherwise would have been great in


deed-Werc not very great.
Year: 1875

THE New REsERvolR.-Work upon the
new reservoir is progressing satisfactorily
1t will probably be ready for the water by
frost. A full force Of hands is now engaged
in putting in the bottom of the eastern di'
vision.
Year: 1875

REPORT OF TIE CApiroL COMMITTEE.
AS will be seen by our report Of pro-
ceedings In tho Second Branch Of Coun-
ell last night, the committee appointed to
select a location for the proposed Capitol
building reported in favor of the grounds
known IA tho Government Warehouse
groahls, alias the Sanitary Fair property,
and the Second Branch unanimously
voted In favor OF adopting tic report Of
the committee. The report did not reach
the First Branch and consequently no
action has yet been taken by that body.
There will be another session, however,
tonight Of both branches for the purpose
mainly Of considering this important
maIEnr