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Year: 1875

1t is reported by the Atlanta Herald that
General Joseph E. Johnston, the distin-
guished Confederate commander has ac-
cepted the position of Commander-in-C Chief
of the Egyptian army that he will receive a
bonus of one hundred thousand dollars and
an annual salary of twenty-five thousand
dollars, and that he now accepts the post
after having repeatedly refused it. If this
report be true the Khedive has secured the
services of most accomplished and capable
soldier, and if victory should not favor his
colors in the wars he has to apprehend it will
not be for the want of military talent in his
commander. General Johnston is not only
the ablest living soldier produced on the
Southern side in our great war, but, in the
opinion of persons who have closely studied
the conflict he is the ablest soldier that APP
peared on the scene, from first to
last, in support of the Southern
cause and the only Southern General
of great conceptions in strategy. No
thoughtful Southerner will ever be able
to free his mind from painful reflections of
what might have been if the conduct of the
war had been thoroughly in Johnston s
hands-and the North must always rejoice
that there was q JEFF Davis to thwart him.


With the many admirers of Johnstons tall
ents as a soldier his character also stands
high, because he fought, as he understood it,
for his country and freedom Different views
may be taken now, as he seems to become q
mere soldier of fortune in an Oriental SER
vice; but against the antique prejudice on
this point it tends to become more and
more recognized that war is an inevita-
bic fact in the progress of nations from old
to new conditions, and that it is one of the
more than human economies to have it con-
Quoted on scientific principles. There WILL
moreover, be no wars there but such as his
friends might envy General Johnston tho
chance to assist in; for the Khedive will do
no fighting of consequence till he is COM
PEELED to defend against Turkey his own
declaration of independence.
Year: 1875

The PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS must be set
down as a very badly conducted set of gen
vention as at all representative. The scenes
of confusion enacted during the election of
State officers were well calculated to injure
the party in public estimation.
Year: 1875

CUBA Valmaseda is evidently unhappy.
Failing to crush Maxine Gomez he has turned
upon the Mayor of Havana and humbled
that functionary to the dust 1t is evident
he aims at establishing a purely personal
government and will have no exhibitions of
independence on the part of subordinates.
Even Zulueta, the leader of the slave power,
is dissatisfied and naturally resents blow
struck at his Office while he remains the
incumbent. From the seat of war we
learn the significant news that the head
quarters of the Spanish troops are to be
placed on the lines Of railway. This new
order will compel the abandonment of meny
strategic points through the interior, which
the Spaniards have preserved with their
native tenacity. Everything, however, points
TO the final disruption Of Spanish power in
the island. Day by day the torch of the in
surgents increases the area of devastation,
and by the end of the year there will be few
sugar plantations to fight for, SO that Spain
is losing blood and treasure in the vain
effort to restore her broken rule.
Year: 1875

THE HERzEGovNLAN TROUBLE does not wear
80 serious an aspect as it did some days ago.
Efforts are being made by outside parties to
restore peace, and there is reason to hope
they may succeed. 1t is rather a curious
sight TO see the Pope interesting himself to
save the Sultan, but it is not the less trpe
that the Catholic priests in the disturbed
districts have been advised from Rome to
counsel subr :ssion.
Year: 1875

WHAT MIGHT BE EXPECTED The Eueninq
la,i, commenting upon the several de-
spatches in the HERALD from California,
says Mot a line about this meeting which
was the most remarkable popular demonstra-
ton known since the time of the Vigilance
Committee in 1856, appears in any of the
dispatches of the Associated Press. The
HERALD, as usual, has its own news and gives
the resolutions in full. Why is it alone
among the morning papers in this respect p
The answer to this question is very simple.
1t is because the HERALD makes its own news
arrangements and carries them out in its own
way, and is not governed as to what it shall
or shall not print by any news combination
to which it may belong.
Year: 1875

INTERESTING information of the progress
and development of Newport will be found
in letter from that fashionable watering
port like all other places, has felt the result
of the hard times, and there has been mani-
tested tendency to lower prices consider
ably, but there is everywhere promise of
future prosperity.
Year: 1875

BISHOP HARE was yesterday up for exam-
ination before the Red Cloud Investigating
Committee. His testimony was marked by its
absolute impartiality, and was very note
worthy as supporting Dir. Marsh on many
important points.
Year: 1875

MODEL POLICE. testimony given yes
terday by policeman James Walters entities
that individual to instant promotion. A man
with his peculiar views of life and cons
duct ought not to be merely police
man, he should be captain. Under
a system of police administration which
seeks to protect the criminal rather than the
citizen it is eminently proper that James
Walters should be policeman if not a
police commissioner. He has in him
the stuff to make great man. and all
he wants is an opportunity. We think the
talents Of such man ought not to be wasted
in the police force. He needs wider scope,
and we think the Commissioners ought ia
see to it that he be sent away.
Year: 1875

The Convention of the BIicawber demoS.
Gratis, assembled at Erie, came very neal
nominating for Governor the Hon. William
Bigler 1t is hardly to be expected that
an organization of political tramps like
these should have finally consented to put SO
sensible q man at the head of it's ticket. Al
the same time we think it was q mistake foI
Governor Bigler to have allowed his name ia
90 before the Convention. He might have
taken the nomination for Governor if it had
been offered to him by acclamation, because
it is very hard for any member of n party to
refuse an honor of this kind. To be sure,
we have Just seen Mr.. Evarts and Mr. Bigelow
decline nominations in the Saratoga Conven-
ton, but that was because they did not
choose to be made disinfectants to purify a
corrupt party which in the days of its
power had neither honors nor offices foI
them. Mr.. Bigler went into the Convention,
struggled through ten ballots and was finally
defeated. This Injuries his record as a leader
of Pennsylvania politics. His greater mis-
take, however, was in becoming q candidate
at time when he was the agent of the Cen-
tennial Exhibition. This great national un-
dertaking, which grows in magnitude every
day, should not be tainted by politics. When
Governor Bigler became its agent he should
have thrown every such temptation behind
him, feeling that if the Exhibition succeeded
his political future would be The brighter
with the glow of its success.


We trust that the managers of the Centen.
NAL will insist that their agents shall refrain
from all political afliliation until their work
is done 1t would have been bad enough if
been nominated for the Governorship OF
Pennsylvania, but it is worse, much worse,
to find him defeated applicant for the post.
Keep the Centennial clear of politics.
Year: 1875

An arithmetical genius seven years
old has reckoned up last years wheat
crop, and makes out that it is enough
10 furnish -four to put Z pancake
two inches wide and an eighth Of an
inch thick around the earth. if cook
could be found equal to the making
Of the pancake"
Year: 1875

A lassie wrote to a young man she
had taken a fancy to, Come and
meet me in the cleaning, John, and
when the time came John want
there. He subsequently explained
that he couldn't find such a place.
Year: 1875

An exchange in protesting against the custom of extravagant display that now prevails at funerals, says: : This sort of thing should be stopped. Poor people make geese of themselves in rival1ng each other at these ceremonials, and the rich well, the rich are simply absurd. The extravaganza of funeral ceremonials has increased to such degree in this coun- try as to become serious burden to the living, and to lead to the formation of funeral reform societies. We are grati- fled to observe, therefore, that in the burial of one of our best known journal ists there was an absence of display.
Year: 1875

A song of the maiden morn, A song for my little maid, Of tho silver sunlight born But am afraid, afraid, When come my maid may be Nothing, there, but shade. But oh, her shadow is more to me Than the shadowless light of eternity
Year: 1875

AN eastern correspondent says: 1 have often said that when the poorer classes are educated to use their minds we shall have better work; and when the wealthy classes are educated to use their hands we shall h ave better thOught.
Year: 1875

A capillary correspondence was recently
attempted between a notorious Partisan
thief in durance vile and his comrades out
side. The prisoner was sent letter from
his fiance, containing merely a lock of hair
wrapped in the leaf of book. The jailor
did not consider the souvenir important
enough to be delivered, but Il few days
after came a similar enclosure, and yet
another. This aroused suspicion, and the
Governor took the matter in hand. lie
examined the leaf of the book, it was only
that of q common novel, twenty-six lines on
page. Then he studied the hair, and
noticed the small quantity of the gift.
Counting the hairs he found them of ull-
equal length. and twenty-six in number,
the same as the lines of the page. Struck
with the coincidence, he laid the hairs
along the line of the page which they
respectively reached, beginning at the top
with the smallest hair. After some trouble,
he found that the end Of each hair pointed
to a different letter, and that these letters
combined formed slang sentence, which
informed the prisoner that his friends were
on the watch, and that the next time he
left the prison to be examined, an attempt
would be made to rescue linn. The Gov
ernor laid his plans accordingly, the attempt
| at rescue was made, but the rescuers fell
into their own trap.
Year: 1875

The ship Horatio, belonging to New Bed
ford, was burned at the harbor of Shang-
hae, December 10. She was remarkable
vessel, and had attained the unusual age
(for ship of forty-two years. Her archi-
lecture was marvel to contemplate. She
was built of live oak, copper-fastened, and
was constructed so solidly and Of such pom
derous frame, that although registering but
46o tons, her frame was as large as that of a
1900 ton ship of the present day. Her career
has been one of great success aud profit for
her owners. She never was obliged to put
into port for repairs, was never dismasted,
and never made claim on the underwriters
for damage to cargo. She had been built
for and always engaged in the East India
and China trade, and when launched, in
1888, was the largest American vessel in
this trade. Notwithstanding her extreme
old age, she rated Al, until burnt; and it
is estimated that her owners and the owners
of cargoes shipped in her have paid in
surance companies $500,000 for premiums
during her career. In her early life, before
steamship lines were established, she was
favorite passenger vessel. On one occasion
an infant was born on board Of her, and the
child, who has since grown to womanhood
and become mother, visited the Horatio
when she was last in the port of New York.
The strength and massiveness Of the timbeTs
with which this old snip was built
were ultimately one of the causes
of her destruction. When the fire
broke out, she was towed from her berth
to be scuttled, and the launch of the Amer
ican man. of-war Hartford, then at Shanghae
fired number Of 12-pound shot at her near
the water line, to make q passage for the
water A number of men were then sent
to enlarge the openings which the shot
had made-but so little impression could
be produced upon the heavy frame that,
after an hours hard work, the attempt
was abandoned. She could not be sunk
and burnt to the waters edge.
Year: 1875

Venice Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle.


The plain truth of the matter is, summer


is the only time in which to see Italy.


What you see in winter is not Italy it is


snow-covered hills and bleak plains swept


by the keenest winds that know of, it is


dull gray sky, broken now and again by


change of wind that reveals cold strips of


bare blue sky 1t IS a frozen soil, pinched


and frost-bitten people, who have no fires


because they cannot afford to have them,


and who are half starved because the price
of everything goes up when the mercury
drops. This winter is exceptional, I am
told. 1t is certainly worse than last winter,


but that was bad enough to freeze out ones
dreams of Italy. England is warmer in
winter than your famous Italy. | know q


gentleman here in Venice who goes to


England in winter ON account of the severity
of this climate. 1t is impossible to heat an
Italian house. They are built like prisons,
so as to keep cold in summer, and to protect
the inmates from the attacks of foreign
D.
were equal to this. But the mistake in all


Italian houses is that while they keep the
heat out in summer they keep the cold in
all winter: In the dreadful day" when
the world is to be consumed by fire have
not doubt in my own mind that these
Italian domestic refrigerators will be the


last things on Garth to get warmed through,
and it will be the first time they were ever
comfortably heated. have never known


such bitter and pinching cold in California


as one is sure to meet in the Italian winters
anywhere from Milan to Naples. The
summer is not dlsagreeably hot. Fever is
the only bugbear to be avoided. I had


thought of flying to Nice for shelter this


winter-for as all Europe is showed up, it
is useless to think of travelling. have
just the warmest nook in Italy, where the
palm trees line the streets and invalids


hope to live again in it's balmy and fragrant
| air.
Year: 1875

Is there no place on the face OF the earth


Where charity dweeth where virtue has birth?
Where bosoms in kindness and mercy will heave,
And the poor and the wretched shall ask and receive
Is there no place Oh earth where knock from the poo
VIII brlng kind angel to open the the door:
Ah search the wide oIld wherever you can,
The sis open door for the moneyless man.
Go look in the hall where the chandelier light
Dry off with its splendor the darkness of night;
Where the rich hanging velvet, in shadowy fold
Sweeps gracefully down with its trimming of gold
And mirrors of silver take up and renew


In long lighted yistas the 'wildering view;


60 there in your patches, and find if you can
welcoming smile for the moneyless man.
Go look in your church Of the cload-reaching spire
Which gives back to the sun his same look of fire,
Where the arches and columns are gorgeous within
And the walls seem as pure a soul without sin:
Go down the long aisle-sce the rich and the great,
In the pomp and the pride of their worldly estate
Walk down in your patches, and find if you can,
Who opens pew for moneyless man.
Go to your Judges, in dark, frownng gown,
With the scales wherein law weigheth quietly down
Where he rowns on the weak and smiles on the str ong
And Furnishes right while be justfes wrong:
Where jurors their lips on the bible have laid,
To render a verdict they already have made
Go there in the court room, and find, if you can,
Any law for the case of a moneyless man.
Go look in the banks, where Mammon has told
His hundreds and thousands of silver and eold
Where safe from the hands of the starving and poor,
Lies pile upon pile of the glittering ore;
Walk up to the counter-ah there you may stay
Till your limbs have grown old and your hair turned


gray,


And you'll find at the hank moi one Of The clan
With money to lend to a moneyless man.
Then 90 20 your hovel-Io raven has fed
The wife who has suffered so long for her bread;
kneel down by her pallet and kiss the death frost
From the lips of the angel your poverty lost
Then turn in your agony upward to God
And bless while it smites you the chastening rod;
And you'll find at the end of your lie's little span,
There's welcome aboN for the moncyless man.
Year: 1875

1. Don't buy but half as many chips at
the start as the other players. The expec-
tation is that you will win, and if you lose
it is better to borrow or 'sowe" up.


2. Never ante up till some one tells you
to, and then say that you have and stick to
1t, which will generally persuade some one
else to 'scome in'' twice. This rule, though
an excellent one, must followed with dis
cretion. IF practiced too often it is liable
to produce unpleasant feeling.


3. Toward the end Of the evening it is
always better to 'owe'' up your ante for a
minute than to 'put up" as the winner of
the pot frequently forgets to charge up the
debts, and none of the other players will
remind him, as they may wish to do the
same thing.


4. When the credit system begins to
creep in, as it generally does about the
middle of the game, you should always
''owe" up if possible, and bet chiefly against
those who always "put'' up. This is one
of the most important rules. To win in
cash and lose on credit is the greatest Sc
cret of successful poker playing.


5. In dealing always observe the bottom
card, which you can easily do before the
cut. Then, by noticing how thick a cut
is made, you can tell whether that card
goes out. This may help you in the
draw.


6. Keep sharp eye on the discards.
They may be of service if your draw is not
satisfactory.


7. When you are Sin luck" watch your
opportunity from time to time, to put some
of your checks in your pocket without be.
ing seen. This will enable you to ''owe
up" if luck turns, and will prevent youl
being borrowed from.


8. When any one wants to buy more
checks, and you have plenty, get him to
buy of you, if possible, in preference to the
bank. 1t enables you to conceal the amount
of your winnings, and, besides, the bank
may not be able to pay up.
8. When you are chipping out fol
uIAiAs, w., pun O oiSdA 4A JouA PoSAo
every once in while. You are sure to bt
SO much ahead of the game, and they come
in very handy, even when you don't smoke


10. Never permit anything to make yor
forget for moment that the whole objec
of your game is to save your own none!
and secure somebody else's, and let every
thing you Go, however trifing, tend to thi
| desirable end.


II. When the game is over, if you ar
winner, deny it entirely, or fix the figure a
low as possible; if you are loser, declar
that you have lost twice as much as yo1
really have. This rule is never departe,
from. The money lost at game of poke
always foots up four times as much as tn
money won.


| 12. When it is inconvenient to avoi'
paying your poker debts entirely, use dir
elimination in the matter. Debts to pei
sons whom you are not likely meet yer
often you can avoid. Many players feel
delicacy about asking for poker debt
these are safe ones to pay.-Cincinna
Times.
Year: 1875

M. Theirs told an interviewer this le-
gend -


When France came into the world as
nation, it WIS in the time Of the fairies.
AS France was to be a great princess, they
invited to her cradle all the good fairies
the fairy of wit, of riches, of conquest, of
beauty, of grace, the Cairies of harvest and
vintage. 1t was an unparalleled festival
throughout the young kingdom everywhere
they danced and drank. But in the very
midst of this public rejoicing an unlimited
fairy came to sit at the banquet. There
were already dozen at the table, and the
strange visitor made the thirteenth. She
was not gay, like the others ON the con-
trary, her face was full of meditation,
gravity and sadness. Every one began to
say, "What is she doing here with that
unearthly countenance?" She had sat
down, but she rose with majesty and thus
spoke @ You invited all the good fairies to
the cradle of France, and you forgot me.
Woe be unto you! France shall have days
of victory and conquest. She shall beguile
the world with her grace. She shall be
rich in corn and wine. But whenever she
is about to enjoy her good fortune, an
unforeseen catastrophe shall hurl her into
the abyss of war or of revolution. And
thus / shall be avenged" sWho art thou,
then?" they cried out from every side to
the avenging fairy. She was already at
the door; she turned on the threshold and
said, in tone at once solemn and satirical,
81 am WisdoMl France may have at her
cradle all the other good fairies, but as she
had not me, all the rest will be useless"
Thus said Wisdom, and Wisdom is always
right.
Year: 1875

gan to speak hoarse and low-'I did it for your sake; oh'-and he stretched out h1s hands with such a look-'for your sake. woman! And now don't you pity me? can't you help me?'

 ''She turned her face to him, but she might have been blind for arythin' she saw-snch a facei He gave a moan and clutched at the bed-curtain to hide it from him; and though she left the room, think in the great agony that came on he never missed her.

 "I dared not leave him. A woman came in and asked where Rhoda was We thought she had taken the child to our neighbours; afterward we knew different. Before twelve he died, never In his right mind after his wife had left.

 ''I was stunned like, and couldn't think of what he'd told us. Sometimes even now l catch myself wonderin' if he were not inventin' and accusin' himself falsely.

 ''I went for Rhoda down the street to where l thought she was; but our neigh bors said, Nay, she had not been there all the night And then a mighty fear came over me, and knew there was far ther trouble to come. We sought about for her, and listened, lest by chance we might hear the child cry. We could see well to look. for the full moon shone as clear as day. It was food-tide, one of the men said, and he half thought the wa ter would be over the new bank if it rose the next half hour as it had done the last.

 'I told naught of the tale I had heard to none of them; only told how Rhoda took opat the thoughts of losin' Jim, and seemed like one out of her mind with grief.

 ''We looked OF all through the night. till the moonlight faded away and the dawn began to show across the water. Then. close by the bank, heard cry out, and some men called to me to come on and some to keep back; but I went on and there she lay

 and dfa9 }Rey might SG t both have been asleep, so quiet and still they lay, her white face turned up to the gray sky, the water just lappip' up to her feet.

 ''The water had gone over the bank, and the people said the poor soul had tried to make her way across, guided only by the white posts on either side; had gone most likely to fetch the doctor, who lived just over tine other side; and so it might have been, but so l never think it was. It's one of the things we shall never know in this world. She must have died soon with that secret on her, for by her look knew that she believed it.

 ''So it is sad, isn't it, ma'am," said the lonely old man, ito have to live all these years and think of that time all by myself? You're strange, and it entered my mind to tell 1t all to you, for there's none alive the tale can hurt if all the world knows it."

 Iwould have said something to comfort him, but he did not want that; think the mere recountal of his story had eased him.

 'Good-night, he said. elf could only tell whether I was likely to see them again, l shouldn't mlnd it so much.'

 I held out my hand and bade him good by, and went home to my children, think ing my troubles were very light to what some folks had to bear.

 Brightland was soon left; my husband came back, and has been at home ever since. Dulce tells him of the charms of the island, but never can think of it ex- cept as the scene of that sad history