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“Yon Wait.”—Mrs. Phoebe Yates Pember>
whose new book—a Southern Woman's Story ts a
record o' her four years’ experience as the head of a
Richmond hospital during the war shows a line
sense of the ludicrous mixed with a womanly char
ity and tenderness that make her incidents and
outlined character sketches very graphic and agree-
ab'e reading. As an instance, we give the following
pleasant episode:
‘•Kin you writ me a letter?' 1 drawled a whining
voice from a bed in one of the wards, a cold day
in ’62.
The speaker was an up-country Georgian, one of
the Kind called “Goubers*’ by the soldiers gener
ally; lean, yellow, attenuated, with wispy strands
of hair hanging over his high, thin cheek-bones.
Re put outa hand to detain me and the nails were
“Why do you not let the nurse cut your nails?”
“Because*! aren’t got any spoon, and I use them
in tend,”
“ Will you let me have your hair cut, then ? You
can't get well with all that dirty hair hanging
about your eyes and ears.”
“No, I can’t git my hair cut, kase as how I prom
ised my mammy that 1 would let it grow till the
war be over. Oh, it’s onlucky to cut it!’’
“Then I can't write any letter for you. Do what
I wish you to do, and then I will oblige you.”
This was plain talking. The hair was cut. (I
left the nails for another day,) my portfolio brought,
and sitting by the side of his bed I waited for fur
ther orders. They came with a formal introduction
—“for Mrs. Marthy Brown.”
“My dear Mammy:
“i hope this finds you well, as it leaves me well,
and I hope that I shall git a furlough Christmas,
and come and see you, and I hope that you will
keep well, and all the folks be well by that time,
as I hopes to be well myself. This leaves me in
good health, as 1 hope it finds you and
But here I paused, as his mind seemed to be go
ing round in a circle, and asked him a few ques
tions about his home, his position during the last
summer's campaign, how he got sick, and where
bis brigade was at the time. Thus furnished with
some material to work upon, the latter proceeded
rapidly. Four sides were conscientiously filled, for
no soldier would think a letter wor n sending
home that showed any blank paper. Transcribing
his name, the number of his ward and proper ad
dress, so that an answer might reach him—the com
position was read to him. Gradually his pale face
brightened, a sitting posture was assumed with
difficulty (for, in spite of his determihed effort in
his letter "to be well,” he was far from convales
cence.) As I folded and directed it, contributed the
expected five-cent stamp, and handed it. to him, he
gazed cautiously around to be sure there were no
listeners.
“Did you writ’all that?” he asked, whispering
but with great emphasis.
“Yes.”
“Did I say all that?"
“I think you did.”
a long pause of undoubted admiration—astonish
ment ensued. What was working in th»t poor
mind? Could it be that Psyche had stirred one of
the delicate plumes of her wing and touched that
dormant soul?
“Are you married?” The harsh ]voice dropped
very low.
“1 am not. At least I am a widow.”
He rose still higher in bed. He pushed away des
perately the tangled lmir on his brow, A faint
color 11 uttered over the hollow cheek, and stretch
ing out a long piece of bone with a talon attached,
he gently touched my arm and with constrained
voice whispered mysteriously:
“You wait!”
And readers; I am waiting still; and I here cau
tion the male portion of creation who may adore
through their mental powers, to respect my confi
dence, and not seek to shake my constancy.
Other compliments were paid me, perhaps not of
so conclusive a nature, and they were noticeable
from their originality and novelty, hut they were
also rare. Expression was not a gift among the
common soldiers. “You will wear them little feet
away,” said a rough Kent.ickian, “running around.
They ar n’t much to boast of anyway.” Was not
this as complimentary as the lover who conquered
his mistress' foot to a dream; and much mote com-
prehensible?
At intervals the lower wards, unused except in
times of great nee ’, for they were unfurnished with
any comforts, would be tilled with rough soldiers
from camp, sent to recuperate after field service,
who may not have seen a female face for months;
and though generally t >o much occupied to notice
them much, tlit’ir piirtlv coucculcd, but cl^tuTiriincc-
regard would become embarrassing, one day,
while directing arrangements with a waixbmaster,
my attention was attracted by the pertinacious
staring of a rough-looking Texan. He walked
round and rouud me in rapidly narrowing circles
examining every detail of my dress, face,, and
figure; his eye never fixing upon any particular
part lor a moment but traveling incessantly all
over me. It seemed the wonder of the mind at the
sight of a new creation. I moved my position; lie
shifted his to suit the new arrangement—again a
change was made, so obviously to get out of hi.
range of vision, that with a delicacy of feeling that
the roughest men always treated me with. he de
sisted from his inspection, that though his person
made no movement, his neck tw isted round to ac
commodate his eyes, till I supposed some progeni
tor of his family had been an owl. The men began
to titter, and my patience became exhausted.
“What is the matter, my man? Bid you never
see a woman before?”
“ierusalem? he ejaculated, not making me
slightest motion toward withdrawing his. deter
mined notice, “I never did see such a nice one.
Why you's as pretty as a pair of red shoes with
^These^werc the two compliments laid upon the
•lirine oi inv vanity during lour year s contact with
thousands of patients, and I 7? prove
to stand as a visionary portrait, to prove to my
■-(aiders that a woman with at raclions similar to a
pedr of red shoes with green strings must have
some claim to the apple of 1 ans.
V
M omnn to Suggest, Man to carry out
Ideas. A writer in the Jialtimorean thinks that
the coming order of things will show woman as the
thinking and man as the executive power. He
says all things point to the conclusion that in re
gard to practical production women are far behind
men- W hat, then, remains to them? The answer
is evident—they must distinguish themselves in
the tbdd of ideas. They must furnish the thoughts,
which men will elaborate and reduce to practical
application. Madame Uda’s fire escape ladder and
Miss Hosmer’s new motor are esses iu point; both
required man’s technic il knowledge for develop
ment* but to both will belong the glory of the first
thought. To this field of work “Sweet Sixteen”
should turn its attention—namely, the development
of ideas. An original thought is always worth
something, and may be made available tor business
purposes. The world likes new things, and. if the
new things are really good things, generally re
wards their originators.
“Still in Love” with his Wife.
The Quartermaster of our regiment was kindly
and hospitably entertained by Miss B. during the
campaign in West Virginia—they became true
friends, indeed so intimate that she confided to him
her betrothal, and he freely conversed of his home,
wife and infant son. One day she playfully ac
cused him of uncommon fidelity and said, “You're
a curiosity, I thiuk, for you are still in love with
your wife!” These lines were a reply from the wife
to whom her husband wrote the remark—and his
answer.
“Still in love” with his wife?
Is’t with smile and smirk?
Or sighing like a furnace a’lday.
Does he carry concealed a dear little dirk
To keep interlopers away?
Or is he in love, like a maiden, all tears
Because his beloved is not nigh?
Beset by anxieties, doubts, hopes and fears,
With face like a true April sky?
“Still in love with his wife” you really believe,
”i'isa fact, there's noduubtingat all?
I wonder how oft in the course of life
To mortals such destinies fall!
These significant words were spoken by one
Wit h whom pleasant hours lie's passed,
"Whose heart is as true as the needle, oi sun.
Among the “saltol the Earth” she is classed.
Though you smiled as the words from your gen*
tie lips fell
No covert sarcasm was meant
Of naught like design did those pleasant tones
tell,
They but echoed his own hearts content-
“Yes,” he cried, ‘‘if to feel as time passed o’er
The one I have chosen for life,
In spite of all changes I love tier the more,
Then, I still am iu love with my wife.
Not in love as when five short summers ago,
I sought, wooed aud won as a bride,
The being who promised through weal and thro
woe,
To love me, whatever betide.
But with deeper affection, strengthened and
tried
By the years and the trials that come
With love under whose sheltering wings she
may hide
All her cares, all her thoughts, ’tis her home.
With respect for the wife who honors the name.
Of him she has chosen ’bove all,
Who ne'er by one action will bring me to shame,
But zealously help, should I fall.
With sympathy deep, for the mother, who love
The children vouchsafed her by heaven,
With prayers for their welfare springing up in
the heart
Of a man to whom so much is given.
With the conciousncss that her heart is all
mine,
And to no other's toucli would it thrill—
Jlemember if 1 still bow at her shrine,
She too is tn love with me, still.
D. A. 8.
NEW BOOKS.
whose “overnmeut is professedly given
A, , 1,e . ?' ,m s ofthe people, yet who wrap them-
Viu’es m the mantlVof their political righteous-
contented with grumbling at public
all politic*}HVej-’ViaVe^mViuted'Umniselvci with
‘payhig *j ^(I'jy^aiiner'icniinst our feiu'fi'tl'in'hUcal
tics” and the decla meragam» r ghoulders to the
Urbaucliinent W1 . P . their interest in the
wheel, and bear witness to the,r m hard
work of reform bj doing, their^sna^ foimdneces _
and disagreeable wt . w ill earn a better right
saryU. accomplish of a brutalized
to moralize about u , lined t<) take refuge in
suffrage, andfeel^. will the victory of political
doing it. 11 we »oui . . \v e are absolutely
purification we must fight lor n- »
shut up to this necessity ln mean' it
enmientofthepeorK.andn ..^ ti jd!ug the ovllg
is the people fruU* * ,i )(K j v proposes to call in a
patriarchs continue to bedew its pages. The | lie good. The Judge must be ‘learned in the
widow amid her poverty still reads its precious 1 Jaw,’ and so must the lawyers to whom the men
promises to her fatherless children. The
troubled heart and sorrow bowed be id find
its Divine covenants softer than the pillows
of down on which wearied kings have rested
their achiDg foreheads. The sick yet touch
their spirit-lips to the crystal current of this
‘river of life.’ Its pledges of a coming res ir-
reotion keep the gravts of loved ones green,
and have made the cemetery magnetic to sur
viving friends. The dying tarn their closing
eyes to it as their only lamp through the valley
of the shadow of death, clasping it as their
1 ist treasure, while their fingers stiff en in the
final ordeal.’
We suggest its careful perusal by all those
who require brain stimulus, or have fallen into
ruts while preaching, as a valuable assistant in
raising them out, thus enabling them to present
the great truth of revealed religion, in a more
atiractive and interesting form.
THE TRIAL BY JURY.
Has the Jnry System Outlived its
Usefulness?
‘Common Sense Views or Foreign Lands’ by M.
Dvvinell. Dwinell, Home, G.;., Publisher.
This volume is by a Southern author and is
issued from a Southern Publishing House.
M. D win ell has long been identified with
Georgia Journalism and although of northern
lineage was a gallant defender ot the ‘Lost
Cause' from First M.mnasBas to the surrender
at Appomattox.
Having both money and leisure he undertook
the tour of Europe, followed by a hurried visit
to Egypt and the Holy Lind.
The journey was performed in an almost in
credibly short space of time and the book itself
might be j ustly entitled a ‘Bird's Eye View of
Foreign Linds.'
We need hardly say, therefore, that we nod
iu the book no elaborate criticisms of works of
art, no tedious discussion of arohte logical
quts'.ions, no systematic word-painting, but
rather a freshness and vivacity that enchain
the reader's attention from first to last
He gives ns the impressions of a cultivated
mau, of trans-atlantio civiliz ition, and of those
historic regions watered by the mystic Nile and
Jordan W-*ere the infidel Moslem still holds
sway. .
His views of men and things in the mam are
eminently practical and we are prepared to say
iu all soberness that we much prefer the vol
ume before us to many more pretentions books
of travel. We were particularly charmed with
his letters from Egypt; they furnish a better
idea of the Khedive's government than we have
obtained 6isowhere. What it Egypt, for centu
ries the basest of kingdoms, should revive and
exuibit a glory unknown to the Pharaohs and
Ptolemies—thus illustrating in a new sense
Berkeley’s immortal line ‘Time’s noblest on
spring is the last. ^ ...
His description of scriptural scenes is aoout
in keeping with ordinary hooks of travel. Only
once throughout the volume does he manifest
aDy largfi of enti'osiisiu—fchiH is when
he stands at the fo )t of ’sov.an Blame ’ la this
connection his rhetoric evinces a scholar y cul-
ta-e and a literary taste. We trust that Mr. D s
first venture iu authorship may not he his
la.t. He has unquestionable gif's for enrich-
I?S B ,«k of Southern fuer, fure. If the, »
It is not improbable ; rur!ltioll 0( this Congress r j g ht!y and energetically applied,
certainty—that ,^ of .^cw epoch in the hmtory | Wfa have bef .re ns a Migaz ne entitled ‘The
' published iD
BY HARRY EVELYN.
In a recent address before the Pennsylvania
Bar Association, Judge Miller, of the United
States Supreme Coart, said :
“It requires all the veneration whioh age in
spires for this mode [’rial by jury] of dispens
ing justice, and all that eminent men have said
of its value in practice, to prevent our natural
reason from revolting against the system, aa 1
especially some of its incidents. If a cultivated
Oriental were told for the fiist time that a na
tion, which claims to be in advance of all others
in its love of justice and its methods of enforc
ing it, required as one of its fundamental prin
ciples of jurisprudence that every controversy
between individuals, and every charge of crime
against an offender, should be submitted to
twelve men without learning iu the law, often
without any other learning, and that neither
party to the contest could prevail until all the
twelve men ware of one opinion in his favor, he
would certainly bo am»z ;d at toe proposition.
Nor have the European nations diff red much
with him in their estimate of trial by jury. It
bas been well understood and received the oare-
fnl consideration of continental j lrists for a
great many years, without being adopted by
any of them, in the form that we have it from
England. Many attempts have been made to
introduce it in some modified shape, but I think
it safe to s .y that it had not in its essential
Anglo-Saxon feature mat the approval of any
people except those of that race. In the days
when King? exercised arbitrary power, the jury
vas, among the sturdy, liberty-loving English
men a valuable barrier against oppression by
the crown. But in this country, where the
people are sove tign, the jury is but too often
the mere reflection of popular impulse, and the
s ifety of an innocent mau is more frequ mtly
tound to depend on the firmness of the judge
than the impartiality of the j try. Sill, it is
probably wise that no man shall be convicted
of an infamous crime until twelve fair-minded
men are convinced ot his guilt. I am also forced
to admit, however, that even in civil cases my
oxperien :e as a j idge has been much more fa
vorable co jury trials than i was a ;a practitioner.
And I am bound to say that an intelligent and
unprtj idiced j try, when such can be obtained,
who are instructed in the law with such clear
ness, precision and brevity as will present their
duty iD bold relief, are rarely mistaken in re
gard to facts which they are called upon to find.”
This is a severe arraignment of the jury ays-
Um and. yet it ctmuut u »ia tuut uuj rat.
Those wbo have had anything to do with j iries
know that they ar6 controlled in making up
their verdicts to a large extent by tbe most whim
sical ideas of right and j ustice; that their likes
and dislikes are more important factors in the
matterof arriving at a verdict than the most pos
itive evidence coupled with the plainest law,
that a little prejudice for or against a man will
more frequently sw.,y the mind of a juror than
the testimony of ‘a cloud of witnesses' that can
seeking a redress of wrongs or an assertion of
rights entrust their oases, but the jar maybe
composed of mumskulls, who are about as well
qualified to decide cases upon princ ples of
equity a id justice as they are to make laws to
govern a State, and it is quite certain they never
would be chosen for that position. The law con
templated the selection of twelve men thor
oughly competent to sift the testimony and ap
ply the la 7 as expo inded by the J adge to the
case in hand, aud not men who are controlled
more by a freak of fancy than an intelligent de
sire to do equal and exact j istioe between man
and mau as well as to those acoused of crime.
In the institution of the trial by jury in Eng
land, j urors ware made responsible with their
whole estates, real and personal, for fals 3 ver
dicts, so strictly were the rights of parties liti
gant guarded by those who gave us the system.
Ware such a law in fores to-day, there would be
far less foundation, if any at all, for the com
plaints we now hear in regard to the verdicts of
j iries, provided responsible men were selected
as jurors.
Now for an instance or two in support of
Judge Miller’s assertion that 'the j ury is too of
ten the mere rt-flaction of popular impulse.’
Nearly twenty years ago a murder was oommit ed
in Nis iville, which was the result of heated po
litical discos >ion. I; was felt by the friends of
the murdered man that owing to the high state
of political excitement pervading the communi
ty, a j try c mid not be got to convict the mur
derer, as the panel from which the jury must be
seleoted would ne composed mainly, if not
wholly, of his political friends; and yet they
were confident that if the parties to the tragedy
had been reversed there would have been no
difficulty in sjeuring a conviction of the mur
der. The trial resulted in an acquittal. It was
simply a travesty of j istice.
Another instance in support of Judge Miller's
theory is stated by the Senators and Represen
tatives in Congress from Maine. They state
‘from a personal experience of the operations'
of what is known as the ‘Maine liquor law,’ that
‘very frequently jurors, overcome by their prej
udices. tailed to.agree upon verdicts’ in suits
brought for violations of that law, but finally
‘public opinion reformed all perverse j trors,'
and now the law is successfully enforced
throughout the State. The law was nnpopular
at first, and juries were controlled by the prej
udices common to the people; it is popular now,
and the verdicts flow with that current. An
other instance in support of Judge Miller is to
be found in the repeated change of venue in '
criminal cases from one county to another for
■rial for the good and sufficient reason that de-
iendants and their lawyers have come to the con
clusion that a fair and impartial trial cannot be
had in the c 'unties where the proceedings were
instituted, beemsa of the prejudice existing
among the people of those counties.
O. late years there bas been a wonderful crop
ping o it of mob-law in various parts of the
country, and this spirit, so destructive to the
peace and good order of society, is traceable in
a great measure to the leniency of j uries toward
criminals. A case in point has recently occurr
ed in Nebraska. It appears that at a trial in
Nebraska City, a jury found Henry Jackson,
Henry Martin, and William S. G.veas guilty of
murder iu the sec ,nd degre3 for killing Charles
Slocum and outraging hit wife. The evidence
seemed to warrant a conviction for murder in
the first degree, and the Judge s ; stated in pas
sing sentence of imprisonment for life in t ie
penitentiary noon the Drisoners. At about two
vciock in the morning of the next, ri ai7 „
assembled at the j til, broke in the door, over
powered the j dler, and took Martin and Jack-
son out and hung them. The law was allowed
to take its course with these criminals until the
•tovdixf Af a jury nntragnd the sense of j ustioe of
tho OOUlDiuuit^, whou u uaub o.oppuil iu null vti I
what the j idgtne it of that community s .w t at
the law should have done This spirit is man
ifesting itself all over the country, and in many
places the avengers of inj ired innocence do not
wait for the farce of a trial to be enaoted. Tuere
is no cortuinty now that a criminal will be
promptly punished as the law presooibes, owing
mainly to the strange freaks which control ju-
and to this uncertainty mast be asoribed
The highest bridge in the world is the Verrugas
Viaduct ou tlie Lima Railroad in the Andes of Peru.
It crosses a mountain torrent 12,000 feet above the
level of the sea
It is stated that a train on the New York Central
Railroad made the distance from Rochester to Syra
cuse, eighty-one miles, iu sivty-one minutes, said to
be the fastest time ever nude in America.
Rifled cannon were first employed in actual ser-
viee in Louis Napoleon’s Italian campaign of 1859.
Gen. James’, 1861, were the first introduced into.the
United States service.
A man at South Bend, Ind., buried his wife in nice
style, but after the crowd had dispersed from the
grave he sold the silver handles of the coffin back
to the undertaker at reduced rates.
A Mr. Kennedy was bitten by a rattlesnake near
Wakulla, Fla., the other day. He applied the white
of an egg to the wound, and drank abundantly of
whiskey at once. The next day he was as well as
ever.
The chills and fever exist to such an ixtent at a
ceatain village in Michigan, that is is said the vil
lage church bell is rung every day at twelve o'clock
to notify the inhabitants that it is time to take their
quinine.
Personals.
What People are Doing and Saying
ail over the World.
ries,
, , - , , , . Al . . i in a great measure the aggravated growth of
not be impeached; and that there is always a W * w thronghont fhe country.
disposition manifesting itself in the average y,- . ^ be 8uin . ientl ' intelligent and
ror to ’bleed somebody who u able to stand he J personal preference and prej-
process of depletion. This is demons.raied ^ ^ that otrne before him. ’
more olearly perhaps in cases where suits are in-
stitnted against railroad companies for damages
for killing persons, more particularly employes,
the
Judge upon the bench musl do, aud decide ac-
c jrdiug to the law and the testimony. The coun
try does not lack for such men; they are to be
^nization depended s P ucb vast and vital interests
le suggests
marks thebeginnin
of the republic '
effort, and maj
strife for the conser
the vindication c
r(assertion of the
Trie
ays, of joso water
• „ , .."renc of the fact ot the rcvoiuuouaioj wb()ll 8j ntauy s .u.s are being
epoch through which JJSStcto'mn^e Snitory | lured to destine ion by the Sjreu so
leginning oi r „ nlc , e with ! We nave dci
»lic—an epoch full ot^ ^ of ; i cUl; u | Preacher and Homelette Monthly, pi
^conservation of local seii-government, j New Y >ik city. It t eats, as the till
tim. of the elective fraucr.ise and the , up0Q the m08t e ff civ* method of preaching,
of the supremacy of^civil ?( ; v ^ r)1 j Ils ex ,, 09 itions of truth a-; taken h im „he bu»L
and simple. Tne exetut j , a mockery ! are orthodox to un extrt, • ■ ‘ :nte reltes 1 U :
ment. holding tK. color o representative ot tl
of tenure, which is at o , the r0 voluiiqna
than in any other class of cas A The only , * community, and it is the fault of
point upon which j trors seem to disagree in mebod th / t jnriea are not composed of this
such cases is the amount of damages that s tall J * men . J p ablic opinion could do much
be assessed against railroad companies aspir- , Q reforuling the evi i 8 0 fthe jury system, and
the i iug in those degenerate
lacls ' Christianity, wheu so m
of mod-
of methodical malignit> V", jj^rigiiis of the peopie
is the instrumentbj, « huh Uiir. ( eleclious
must beI reasserted, the 1 eem return8 secured,
auteed. the f ?M a °ched viper of imperialism
and thereby V /. 1 ; ', . 'en bis time and the 4ih of
killed in its shell between ui faltering, any
March 1881. ‘' v^sun-endcr 0 on the pirt of this
weakening, or any sur enu plutocracy and
('ongress to thc powers ofolh, ^hij , u the wllUe
impenalisiri, entrenched Den^ fn(ud jn the jud,ciary
blocks stand to day as they were laid by Moses,
the prophet, the evangelists and the apostUs
From its base laid in Gvuesis at G >d's command
by the greatest architect of Hebrew history,
high up to tbe cornice of R ■vele.tion placed on
the impregnable s ructnre under Divine direc
tion by John, as from its lofty watch-tower he
looked over tbe river and saw tbe Now Jerusa-
lllipr*ricilJMII» Alin v fiMi ml
S°“?e e a Fwlcra> ln GovtTnmwiiTfie nu end |™&7oid'Hedgin'^auds tc-day fresh as the
of popular institutions in tii s ®® aJ . e 8llilll j everlasting hills.’ . .
only question " ‘ il ii.ock Of a coup d ctat or ! ‘Crucial tests have not impaired • chapter o
through a ^crueter “process* 1 of'slow tortSre. called , invalid ated a verse. Tae tears oi silver-baire
forms of law?
ties to suits of thib character Their verdic.s
seem to be based very often upon the idea that
railroad companies have no rights which should
be respected. They do not consider the fact
that railroading is a very hazirdous business;
that the employe is fully oognizint of this be
fore he enters the employment of such compa
nies, and that in perhaps a majority of the esses
of the killing or maiming of an employe the
fault is more his own than that of the agents of
tbe company. The hazards of travelling by rail
are unquestionably great, and human foresight (
can ne'e prevent many of the accidents which oe- j
cur, a fact that is well known to the travelling j
community, yet juries are not stint in awarding j
damages even in such oases. It is freoly admit
ted that railroad companies should be held to
the strictest account for the proper and careful
rnnning of their trains and to guard against ac
cidents by every possible precaution; and that
where accidents occur from neglect of any right
ful and proper precaution, tne companies should
be made to suff :r heavily in damages, the only
way to reach the soul of a corporati m. The law
and the testimony do not weigh much with the
average j uror. He makes up his verdict after a
manner which renders the decision of a cise
somewhat like a game ot ehaoc , sinco he is as
likely to go tbe one way as the other. Tne trial
bv jury under suuh ciro'Uinstances is simply a
farce. Your old lawyers will tell you that such
was not the case half a century ago; that then
the intelligence and worth of the country tilled
the j ury-box, and that the verdict of such a j ury
meant all that the phrase ‘the great right of trial
bv j try’ conveys.
’From the day Magna Charta was wrung from
King John at Rrnuymede by the B irons of
England, tbe trial by jury has been regarded as
the great bulwark ot the people’s liberty, aud
there can be no quts ion that properly con
ducted, it is every thing that is claimed for it.
But the i irv system has fallen into disrepute of
iute wears and Judge Miller but gives viice to
, h i sentimont of a large portion of the intelli-
< -:n ; men oi tbe country in regard to tbis mat-
t r T i what do we owj this change in the es
timate of the trial by jury ? Is it not due to the
fact that juries are generally made up of the
poorest, most ill-assorled materid that well
could be found—men who, for the most, possess
scarcely a single quality to recommend them
for the important and responsible position of
sitting in j udgment upon their fellow-men
or to try others in cases involving liberty or
death? Onr most solid, intelligent citizms,
those who would make the best j urors, have no
fancy for serving on j uries, and certainly there
is nothing inviting in the position in the way of
honor or emolument. Tae men who are com
petent to make good j urors are not the kind of
hat reform must be brought about speedily, or
the j iry system is doomed. The country has
had a surfeit of the ‘forcible feebleness,’ not to
say inauity, whioh charaoteriz s the average j i-
ror. Lot the jury system be made what it was
in its inception, or abandoned a3 having out
lived its usefulness.
Items of Interest.
This country used 700,000,000 postage stumps lust
year.
Tbe floods have already commenced inland in Cal-
ilornia.
A lively Spring trade hascommencediuNew York
as the papers testify.
Our golden and silver weddings are an idea bor
rowed from the Germans.
Macaroni is extensively manufactured in Sun
Fruncisco.
A good circus is supposed to carry away from a ' been given it by Miss Carrie Ribson
Darwin lias just passed his seventieth year.
William Howitt, the author, died recently in
Rome, Italy.
Enrico Pandiani, the sculptor, has just died at
Milan.
Sothern, the popular com \lian, is rusticating
in southern Italy.
Dumas is a great student of the Bible, and reads it
witti great care daily.
Ex President MacMahon is suffering from ophthal
mia and other bodily ills.
It is just about fifty years since Fanny Kemble
made her debut on the stage.
The trial over the estate of the late Commodore
Vanderbilt has not yet collapsed,
The belle of Washington during the past season;
was the daughter of Gen. Thomas Ewing.
Tlie Western people want a law prohibiting the
importation of more than one Brick Pomeroy iu a
century.
Mr. Beeclier has been sued for $40,000 damages by
a publisher with whom he failed to keep his agree
ment.
Mrs. Hayes, does not countenance low-necked
dresses, and ladies at her receptions are expected to
govern themselves accordingly.
The widow and daughter of Bayard Taylor have
returned from Berlin.
Pope Pius IX. never allowed a woman to kiss his
foot, but presented iiis hand. Leo XIIi.,011 the con
trary, presents his pupal toe.'
John Ericsou, the well known inventor, is now
an old mau. still residing in New York, and devot"
ing himself to sci entific experiments.
Wall street watches the movements of Jay Gould
with anxious eyes. He is “flush" now and no one
knows where lie will come to the surface nest.
Lady G >oel>, who some time ago endeavored to
palm off a spurious child upon her husband, is now
suing him for a divorce, alleging his u'afu'* 1 '-- 1 -'—-
^In spite o l,, Qneen Victoria’s hint that she had
better stay at home, the Empress of Austria, with a
,ar-'e suite and stud, has gone to Ireland to enjoy
oriox-lianting for a season.
Reformer—"Sir, what are you willing to do for
Jesus?” Hungry man on corner—“Most anything;
all I want is $1.25 a day.”
A negro woman in New Haven cures people o;
heir diseases by the imposition of hands and pray,
er; and charges nothing for her services. The phy-
iciansare growing alarmed.
A certain Washington citizen called on a friend
last week and asked him for a loan of a dollar. 1 ‘My
wife has left me.' he said “and I wish to advertise
that I am not responsible for her debts,”
Mr. A. M. Waddell, is reputed to be tlie author of
the paragraphic utterance that “there is at present
a mania in literature, art and philosophy to say
something which cannot be ..uderstood.”
The great Bism irk’s policy of "Blood and Iron"
cannot win, and his temper grows hotter as hi/
blood cools with age. Iu a recent deb ite on the ce/
tie plague he charged the Liberals with aiming/
such a mild penal code as to offer protect ion to civ
Herr Lasker replied that it was apparent the
aim of the gagging law as applied to langu
debate should be. to control the language of tbt
ernmeut. To this, the Prince, of course, opp
hot rejoinder, and thus au angry debate was <j
A prominent physician of .San Francisco,
of his wife, and infatuated with a younger \»
is accused of goiug into Arizona for a short
g vin au ostensible residence; and of having
divorce from his wife put through the lei
Legislature, in an omnibus bill with fourte«
acts, so that the Governor could not veto it
vetoing all tlie rest. This done he hied liir
San Francisco and married the young wot
‘Silver Sails' has been briefly n
among the new music sent to the Suns
but not until last evening did we hi
portunity of bearing tbe song -T
beautiful lullaby ‘Soft and low*—sunf
quisite air and lovely aoeunpanicneu.'
ftrstelass show town nearly $50,900,
They have strawberries already at Jacksonville,
Fla. We’ll bet a hat they are sour!
The net bonded debt of New Y ork city amounts
to $107,128,903—a heavy debt to stagger under.
wood, the young composer wbo hi
many encomiums from musical o
judge only by the eff ct produced a/
c riainly it seemed that never were
music so approp iately and e idm-' 1
as in ‘Si,v ■ SbUs when sung last
An artesia i well 300 feet deep rejoices the people of j the pure, sw jet, sympathetic voice <
Fort Worth, Texas, by a liberal flow of pure and
wholesome water.
A young girl was sentenced in New Y ork city, last
week, to five.years’ imprisonment for burglary.
Chicago is the headquarters of a speculating ring
in breadstuff's, the members of which are a curse to
the country.
The citizens of Omaha, Col., have just sent a car
load of flour to the distressed losers by the Bank of (
Glasgow, Scotland.
The State hank of Raleigh, X. C., has for its presi- 1
dent a lady, the widow of tlie former president.
Germany sent us 31.958 einV ts duriug the > car |
187b. China, 8000, but nearly ; many Chinese re
turn home annually as arrive u out' shores.
A ring of profesional perjurers has been dis^ov ered j
in New Y'ork, who realize a living by blackmailing^ j
numbering twenty-five individuals.
A Natioual Museum is to he at once erected in
Washington city, to cost over $350,000, which proba
bly means that it will cost $500,000.
A correspondent writes that the streets of New
York city are more filthy than he remembers to
have seen them at any season beiore.
The New York city clergymen are preachi?
ner—tbe accomplished wife of tl
•Wild Flowers.* The pretty, c«
room seemed to stretch into an expt
mer sea* with the lingering rose t
painting the ‘silver sails,* upon
bent the eyes of the watoher, whil
‘soft and low, * s irred her loose
lips parted to croon to her ‘little ont
ty one* tbe tender lullaby.
V
men wbo care to negleot their own business to The New ior* euj o.e.gju.,»
settle other people's disputes or to try men lor 1 against the tenement-house sjs em o 1N °>
their libertv or their bves, but they will not re- j clarii
fuse to give this service if necessary to the pub- I body
1- : daring it to be unwholesome, both to soul and
Temptations habitually resisted
force, because tbe will is fjrtified bj
tance.
Mr. Sankey has receotly bien labo\
nection with the Presbyterian Cxurcb
castle, Eng. es4
Christ Cnurch, Boston, has the
of bells ia Amerioa. Aii *
Bishop Doggett, who has bee; Eoi s A
of the conferences of the Me)' months^.
Church South during the lastyji , Q 00 ^ \
returned to his home iu X^o‘ ta ^ ' \
health, and with enoouragj£, J (/W
ditioa ot the Churches %/ gor
Those who do ' ,
of Scripture 6 "tronomy
in the pci' nr *r**UHi onr at’ (I
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