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A Suggestion.

Detroit Free Press.
A well to do citizen of Detroit almost
had the breath knocked out of him by
tie request of ragged sidewalk tramp
who stopped him and asked:
''Say, can't you lend me S10,000?"
"W hat! Who are you, sir? No, sir
can't, sir !" exclaimed the citizen.
Couldn't possibly do it, eh ?''
"NO, SIR"
"Tell you what you might do" sug-
gested the tramp. "You might hand
me fifteen cents now and lend me the
balance when times get little easier.'
81 can't lend you shilling, sir, or 8
cent, sir, and l won't give you penny
SIR"
"Sorry both Of US happen TO be SC
hard up at once" sighed the tramp
and he continued his walk.
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What piece of carpentry becomes 6
gem as soon as it is finished ?-A-gate
Good headquarters for young men
On the shoulders of their sweethearts.
Why is compositor like a cripple
Because he can't get along without 9
stick.
"Oats wanted. enquire Within" was
inscribed on placard hung to the ribs
of a scrawny nag, that some wag had
thrown adrift in the streets of Roches.
ter the other dag.
1t is good sign, when you go into a
young mans room, to find well
thumbed Bible lying upon the table.
Il is sign that there are pious servants
in the house. Bazar.
A little five-year-old of Dorchester
somewhat surprised his mother few
days since with the remark: "God is
everywhere; he is all over me; and
when you spank me you spank God ~
They said to the father of one of the
prizewinners at the Conservatory: $50
your son has earned his spurs" "Yes, ~
replied the practical old man, ''and
now he has got to earn his boots"
Another defeat for the Turks, is re-
ported by way of jersey City, where
Mrs. Quin threw bucket of water over
Mrs. Turk yesterday, and then knock
ed her down with club.-N. Y. Com.
Adv.
1t is a suggestive sight in wandering
through Kentucky town to see the
number of empty whisky kegs there
are piled up in front of the village
newspaper Office.-N. Y. Com. Adv.
"Does our constant chatter disturb
you ?" asked one of the three talkative
ladies of sober looking fellow passen-
ger. mo, ma'am; I've been married
nigh on to thirty years." was the re-
ply.
Only one hundred and seven new
newspapers were established in Amer
ica last month, and as long as the num-
Der doesn't go over 5000 per year, each
paper can be certain of fifteen or TWEEN.
ty subscribers.-Detroit Free Press.
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fncaDfafiOn.

When the leaves, by thousands thinned,
A thousand times have whirled in the wind,
And the moon, with hollow cheek,
Staring from her hollow height,
Consolation seems to seek
From the dim, re-echoing night;
And the fog-streaks dead and white
Lie like ghosts of lost delight
Ger highest earth and lowest sky;
Then, Autumn, work thy witchery.
Strew the ground with poppy-seeds,
And let my bed be hung with weeds,
Growing gauut and rank and tall,
Dropping DER me like pail
Send thy stealthy, white-eyed mist,
Across my brow to turn and twist
Fold on fold, and leave me blind
To all save visions in the mind
Then, in the depth of rain-fed streams
/ shall slumber, and in dreams
Slide through some long glen that burns
With crust of blood-red ferns
And brown withered wings of brake
Like a burning lava-lake,
Then, urged to fearful, faster flow
By the awful gasp, ''Hahk haiku of tn
crow,
Shall pass by many haunted rood
OF the nutty, odorous wood,
Or, where the hemlocks lean and loom,
Shall fill my heart with bitter gloom;
Till, lured by light, reflected cloud,
/ burst aloft my watery shroud,
And upward through the ether sail
Far above the shrill winds wall,
But, failing thence, my soul involve
With the dust dead flowers dissolve;
And, gliding out at last to seam,
Lulled to long tranquility,
The perfect poise of seasons keep
With the tides that ract of moan
So must be fulfilled the rite
That giveth me the dead years might;
And at dawn l shall arise
A spirit, though with human eyes,
A human form and human face,
And where'er | go or stay,
There the summers perished grace
Shall be with me, night and day.
10. p. Lathrop, IN October Atlantic.
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The Yellow Centaur Liniment

Is worth its wight in gold to owners of horses
and mules
This Liniment has cure more Spraing,
Sweenied. Ring -boped and Called Horses in
three years than have all the Farriers in the
country In an age. Its effects are simply
wonderful.
We have thousands upon thousands OF cer>
tincates as strong as the following:
MY horse was lame for a year with felt.
lock wrench. All remidies utterly failed to
cure and l considered him worthless until a
commenced to cure Centaur Liniment, which
rapidly cured him. l heartily remmend it.
REV. GEO. W. FERRIS,
"Manorville, Schoharie Co., n. Y"
"Dear Sirs-I have used your Centaur LinI-
ment in my family. and find it TO be of great
value. Please send me two dollars worth,
one for the mules and horses.
RILEY SICHLEs,
"Fall Station, Wyoming Co., Pa.
1t makes very little difference what the case
is, whether il be Wrench, Spraip, PoIl-Evil,
Ringbone Scratches or Lameness of any kind,
the effects are the same. Livery men, Stage
proprletors, Farmers, &C., should never be
without the Yellow Centaur Liniment. 1t is
sold everywhere, and warranted in its effects.
Laboratory of J. B. ROSE & &C,
46 DEY ST., New Yo y.
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The Pool of 81, oam as II now
ArnenrS

1,,, n ->PS
: i'''' 'eS i'uoe Warner. in the Atlantic for
October.
~" Ilr way To the Pool of Sloan we
.ssed the village of Silcam, which is
inhabited by about n thousand Mos
lems-a nest of stone huts and canvass
clinring To The siue-hills and exactly
the gray color Of its stones. The occu-
patton OF It's Inhabitants appears to be
begging, and hunting for old copper
coins, mites and other pieces of Jewish
money. These relics they pressed
upon US with the utmost urgency, Ii
was easier 10 satisfy the beggars than
the traders, who sailed out upon US
like hungry wolves from their caves.
There is great choice of disagreeable
places In the East, but l cannot now
think of any that should not prefer
as residence to Sloan.
The Pool of Siloam, magnified in my
infant mind as "Siloam's shady rill, y
is an unattractive sink-hOle of dirty
water. surrounded by modern mason.
ry. The valley here is very stony.
Just below we came to Solomon's Gar
den, an arid spot, with patches of stone
walls, struggling TO be a vegetable gar
den, and somewhat green with lettuce
and Jerusalem artichokes. / have nc
doubt it was another thing when Solo
mon and some Of his wives used to
walk here in the cool of the day, and
even when Shallum, the son of Col
hOzeh, set up "the walls of the Pool OF
Sloan by the kings garden"
Mr.. BLAINE is receiving about a.
much notice from the Democrats now
as Col. Ingersoll, and for the same rea-
son, that he is making unusually bright
and effective speeches. The two ord
tors sometimes speak together, and
wherever they appear there is great
luDhappiness among the Democrats.
Here is an extract from Blaine's speech
in Ohio on Saturday night: "Whenev-
er we get Mr.. Tilden's name to any,
thing and bring it up against him he
denies it. He denies that he ever
wrote the letter that he sent out as
Chairman of the New York Democrat
ic State Central Committee-the basis
of all the political rascality of 186S-he
says that he didn't write that; he says
that Tweed forged it. Laughter.
Now Tweed is coming home, we will
lttdI Wlidt WScu Has SOt W say
Laughter. So when he went out to
Chicago in 1864, and was a member oil
the committee on Resolutions that de.
clared the war failure, he says that he
didn't vote for it. He did not have
the courage to say that in the Conven-
ton, but he slipped around the back
way to McClellan's room in the hotel
and told him not to mind that clause
Laughter. He has got the certificate
of Manton Marble to that effect. Mr.
Tilden is remarble man in another
respect. He has private pigeon-hole
in which he filed the speeches that he
had prepared and expected to deliver,
but not deliver. And Mr.. Marble and
Mr.. Bigelow say that Tilden said &c
them that de ought to have said so and
so, and would have been glad to say it
but the occasion neverarose." Laugh
ter.
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What California is Doing.

California's glass works are success
her bottles, jars, denijohns, lamp chin.
neys and druggists wares are made al
home, from a beautiful white sand
found in Monterey and Alameda coun
ties.
Her soap factories not only supply
the State in plain, fancy and toile,
soaps, but they ship ten million Of
pounds annually to British Colum bia
Mexico, Central America, and the
Sandwich Islands. Her glue factories,
chemical and acid factories are all max
ing money.
A few years ago she imported all her
matches, she now exports them, made
from the fine Port Oxford cedar.
Her rice mills, oil mills, cement
mills, lead works, marble works and
quarries are in full blast.
Her clays for pottery use have been
developed, and every kind ofstone and
earthenware is being made, as well as
fire-bricks, crucibles, etc.
Her wagons, carriages, agricultural
implements, cars, boots and shoes,
saddlery and harness, and furniture,
are largely manufactured within the
Stale, as well as her brooms, her mat
ting, her pianos, organs. and billiad
tables.
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P E n S ION S.

All OFFICERS, SOLDIERS, and SAILORS
wounded, ruptured. or injured in the late war
however slightly, can obtain a pension by
addressing GILMORE & co.
Cases prosecuted by GILMORE & co. before
the Supreme Court of the United States the
Court of Claims, and the Southern Claims
Commission.
Each department OF our business is cOnduc.
ted in a separate bureau. under charge of the
same experienced parties employed by the
old firm Prompt attention to all business
entrusted to GILMORE & co. is thus secured
We desire 10 win success by deserving it.
Address GILMORE Il CO., 629 + street.
WASHINGTON, ID. G.
Feb 9. lS76-tf
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CastOpIa

1t Is mistake To suppose that Castoria Is
not adapted to grown persons well as Cnil>
dren: They only need to increase the quanti-
". But children have so maly complaints
for which CaStoria is adapted-like Wind
Col1c, Sour Stomach, Worms, letter, TeetAing
and Group, that it is especially recommended
.or them.
Its efforts are more certain than Castor Oil.
u contains no alchohol and is pleasant to take
as honey. 1t never gripes. Bv regulating the
stomach and bowels The CastoIia coOls the
olood, expels worms and prevents feverish>
ness. qulets the nerves and produces health
then OF course children can sleep in quiet and
mothers can rest.
Castoria is recommended by all physicians
and nurses who have used IL, and il is having
rapid increasing sale. 1t is prepared with
great care alter the cecipe OF DR.. samuel Pitch
er. of Mass, at the Laboratory OF j. b. Rose d
Co., of AZ Dey Street, N. Y. Sept 7-Decl
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Executors. Notice.

THE undersigned have been appointed and
qualified as Executors OF the estate of Geo.
w. Woods, late of Belmont county, decd.
All persons indebted to said estate are ie-
quested to make immediate Tayment and
those having claims against said estate are re-
qpes,ed 10 present them within one year from
this date. rf s. ......s 81.
LEWIS BOGER, Powhatan, q.
j. ]. WOODS, Wheeling, W. Va.
Sept 2s, ,76-St Executors.
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POETRY.
UucIe Sammy.s Dirge.

November is coming, | sing,
And what will poor Sammy do then,
Poor thing:
The country will go
For Hayes, we all know,
And what will poor Sammy do then,
Poor thing?
He'll put his head into bis tub,
Poor bub,
He'll stick his head into his sSbarT'
And sadly he'll chatter and snarl,
Poor thing,
- Graphic.
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Arrears Of Pay and Bounty.

OFFICES, SOLDIERS, and SAILORS o
the late war, or their heirs, are in many cases
which they .heve no knowledge. Write full
history of service: and state amount: of pay and
bounty rebeived, Enclose Stamp to GILMORE
CO,and full reply .afler examination, will be
given you free.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-10-12

when does ship of war become a
ship of peace? When she drops her
rancor.-N. Y. Com. Adv.
Here is the verdict of Kansas jury |:
"Died of a kick in the stomach from
his wife, and he never knew what hurt
him
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-10-12

gloss and freshness Of youth. Thin
hair is thickened, falling hair checked,
and badness often, though not always,
cured by its use. Nothing can restore
the hair where the follicles are de-
stroyed, or the glands atrophied and
decayed; but such as remain can be
saved by this application, and stimu-
lated into activity, so that new
growth of hair is produced. Instead
of fouling the hair with a pasty sedi-
ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling of, and
consequently prevent badness. The
restoration OF vitality it gives to the
scalp arrests and prevents the forma-
ton of dandruff, which is often so un-
cleanly and offensive. Free from those
deleterious substances which make
some preparations dangerous and inju-
rious to the hair, the Vigor can only
benefit but not harm it If wanted
merely for a HAIR DRESSING,
nothing else can be-found so desirable
Containing neither oil nor dye, it does
not soil white cambria, and yet lasts
long on the hair, giving it rich, glossy
lustre, and a grateful perfume.
Prepared by DR.. J. C. Aver & co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
LOWELL. MASS.
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1T HAS NO EQUAL.
% c A U LILO ga

As there are a number OF limitations offered
to the public, we would caution the commu
nifty to
Buy no Powders or Prepared SIMMONS
LIVER REGULATOR unless in our engrav ed
wrapper with Trade Mark, Stamp and sigma
lure unbroken. None other is genuine
j. ii. ZEILIN & CO.,
Macan, Ga. and Phia.
Your valuable medicine Simmons Liver
Regulator, has saved me many Doctors bills.
use IL for everything 1t is recommended and
never knew 1t TO fail have used IL In Collie
and Grubbs, with my Mules and Horses, CIV
Ing them about half a bottle at time. have
not lost one that gave IL 10, you can recom-
mend 1t to every one that has Stock as being
the best medicine known for all complaints
that Horse-fesh is heir to,
E. T. TAYLOR,
Agent for Grangers Of Georgia.
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REGUtAf OR !
PURELY VEGETABLE,

Is harmless,
Is no drastic, violent medicine,
Is sure to cure. If taken regularly,
Is no intoxicating beverage,
Is the cheapest medicine in the world,
Is given with safely and the happiest results
to the most dellcate infant.
Does not interfere with business,
Does not disarrange the symtem,
Takes the place of Quinine and bitters of
every kind,
ASK the recovered dyspeptics, Bilious suf-
feres, victims OF Fever and Ague, the mercur-
ial diseased patient, how they recovered health,
cheerful spirits and good appetite-the will tell
you by taking simmons Liver Regulator,
The Cheapest, Purest and Best Family
Medicine in the World.
II contains four medical elements, never
united in the same happy proportion in any
other preparation, viz: gentle Catnartic, a
wonderful Tonic. and unexceptionabe ALI era
tive and a certain Corrective of all impurities
of the body. Such signal success has attended
is use, that 1t is now regarded as the
EFFEcTUAL SPACIFIC
For all diseases of the Liver, Stomach, Spleen.
As Remedy in
MALARIUS FENERS, oWELCOMPLAlNTS,
DYSPEPTlA. MENTAL DEPRESSION, REST
LESSN ESS. JAUNDICE,. NAUSEA, SICK
HEADACHE, COLIC, CONSTIPATION AND
BILIsIOUSNESS
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Ayers
HairVigor,
For restoring to Gray Hair its
natural Vitality and Color.

A dressing
which is at
once agreeable,
healthy, and
efectual for
preserving the
hair. IT soon
restores faded
or gray hair
to ats original
color, aUith the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-10-12

What piece of carpentry becomes a
gem as soon as it is finished ?-A-gate.
Good headquarters for young men
On the shoulders of their sweethearts.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-06
"Put IL In For n Joke On Him. ;,

The remark is frequently made to re-
porters, editors and correspondents, put
it in for a joke. We want rig ON him"
Such stuff and nonsense is heard nearly
every day. 1t comes from those people
who have not the slightest conception
of the business of u newspaper. The col
umns of live daily Journal are always
crowded. There is no room for" jokes.
or rigs" On this man or that. Relia-
BILE reports Of passing events, truthful,
graphic accounts Of such things as the
people are interested in, actual news
thar concerns all classes is what news
paper wants; not jokes or rigs on any
person especially when it is merely to
crafty the conceit: revenge, spite or
malice of any particular party. If any
body has a joke to play let him play it
and assume the responsibility of it; but
it is simply absurd for any sensible man
to suppose that disinterested news
paper could do it for him Newspapers
are not for that purpose. Eagle.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-06
SHEnIFF"S SALES.

SHERIFF'S SALE.
~ By virtue of u writ of Levari Facias 10
to me directed. will be EXPOSED to Public
Sale at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL. Sil SHI PLEY ST,
kept by George W. Crtlip, in the city of VIII
mlngtop, New Castle county, Delaware. on
FRIDAY.
THE 9th DAY OF MAY, 1876,
At2 o'clock. y, m.
The following described Real Estate, viz:
All that certain lot, piece. or parcel OF land
situate in the city of Wilmington. afore-
sad, bounded and described as follows. to
wit;
Beginning at point on the southerly side
of q forty feet wide street at tho distance of
one hundred feet westerly from the we terly
side of Claymont street. said forty feet wide
street being laid out parallel with fifteenth
street and distant therefrom northerly one
hundred and fifty feet running from Clay
mont to lleald street thence southerly para
llel with Claym0nt street seventy 70 It to n
corner. thence westerly parallel With fifteenth
steeet fl tty feet to corner. tn nee prtherly
and parallel with the FIRST described line sew
enty feet to the aforesaid side forty feet " ide
as aoove descsibed and thence thereby east
erly fifty fec to the place of beginning, be
the contents tn thereofwnat they may, BGoS s.
vol9. Page 263 &c.
Seized and taken into execution as the pro-
perty of John L, Wrisht and Margaret Jane
his wife, and to be sold by
wM. ii. LAMBS0N. Sheriff.
Sheriff 3 Office New Castle.
May ]. 1876. may2-ts,
The daily gazette., 1876-05-06
WILMINGTON, DEL. MAY 8. 1876.
Sssgtherss Progress in Manufac-
lures.

An English company, with a capital OF
81, $780, 900, it is stated, has purchased
argely Of iron ore lands near Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, where they propose, short
1y, commencing the manufacture of iron
on q very extensive scale. This is only
one Of q great many similar enterprises
projected in the Southern States since
the war.
In Georgia the manufacture of do
mestics is already highly profitable
business, the products of the factories of
that State finding their way 10 northern
markets, where, by their superior quality
and cheapness, they command ready sale.
In Machinery Hall, at the Centennial,
ono Of the most massive, and said to be,
effective pieces Of machinery on exhi-
bition is q huge cotton press from Charles
ton, s. C. The workmanship on this
giant affair is in the highest degree
creditable. case Of blank books made
in the same city, is on exhibition in the
Main building, and il is only just to say
of il that the workmanship is of the
finest order, and such as would not dis
credit any of our northern establish
ments. These signs of progress in the
industrial arts in the South are certainly
very gratifying.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-06

The editor Of the Peninsula Neaps, in the
last issue OF that paper makes our alla-
sion to the appointment of Lewis Tomp-
son, Esq, Collector of this port, the pre-
text for an abusive article, in which tho
GA1ETrR is called an old liar" and such
other choice phrases used as would dis
grace bar room. 1t is quite evident the
writer was not SO drunk as when he was
kicked by ex-Congressman Lofman for
inso!ence, nor could he have been sober,
since he charges that the GAZETTE lis
full Of envy, hatred and malice, and all
uncharitableness y and that " it cordial
ly hates anybody or anything that is de-
cent or progressive" meaning doubtless
by the latter expression the tendency Of
the Office holders have to neglect their
duties and pocket the governments 5
funds. 1t must be for complaining of
this robbery that we are denounced,
since, in the article referring to the ap-
pointment, We suggested the pames of
several very excellent Republican citi-
zens who we said we thought were equal.
ly deserving Of the Office We complain
I'd of the haste with which the appoint
ment was made, and it appears that VIZ
were right, since it has not yet been con
frmed by the Senate, whether it will bt
or not does not cencern us. Mr.. Tomp
son is not Objectionable to the GAZETTE
but indecent haste about such matters
always is.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-06
SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRACY.

COLUMBIA, S. c., May 5.-The Demo-
cratic State Convention to-day elected
General John Brat.on, Hon. w. D. Por-
ter, d. Wyatt Aiken and General j. b.
Kennedy as delegates at large to the Ma
tional Convention. Ex-Governor Perry
is one of the district delegates. The del
egates are uninstructed, and have differ
ent preferences as to candidates, but
will vote in convention for the candidate
most likely to win. A heated debate is
going on upon q platform pledging the
Democrotic party of the State to accept
the national Democratic platform and to
the nomination of straight Democratic
ticket, with the prospect of its adoption.
UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED.
GALVESTON, May Ex-Governor Richard
Coke was elected United States Senator
to-day.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-06

In the L. S. District Court at St.
Louis on Friday, the District Attorney
moved for sentence upon several gau.
gers and store keepers who had plead
ed guilty; but, as their attorneys de-
sired the privilege of presenting state
ments of fact in mitigation of their
offences, they were allowed until this
morning to prepare atiidavits 1t was
announced that ne present action
would be taken in the cases of Fitzroy,
Thorp and McFall, as they were to be
used as Government witnesses.