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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-08-30

Cream color is no longer fashionable, no
even in milk.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04
EXCESSIVE COTTON CROPS.

IT has been shown that excessive
cotton crops have been raised year
after year in the interest of the spec
ulators and spinners of the North and
of Europe that cotton besides being
an uncertain crop, is not remunera-
tive at present low prices that the
raising of cotton at low prices and
the purchase of provisions and stock
at high prices is ruinous to the plan
ter-that the system of anticipating
the probable income from the cotton
crop by going in certain debt for
plantation supplies, places the plans
ter at the mercy of the merchant and
the cotton buyer, and is a bar alike
to the planters independence and
prosperity. Every intelligent plans
ter has accepted these propositions
as sound, but few have been induced
to act upon them. At each return
ing planting season the planter re-
solves that his next cotton crop shall
put him out of debt. He contracts
for supply of provisions, gathers
his unreliable labor on the best terms
he can, and puts every available
acre in cotton to the exclusion of
corn and other provision crops.
Then from the time the cotton plant
is out of the ground he is in a state
of anxiety, watching the seasons, the
rain, the drought, the caterpillar, and
the thousand ills the plant is lttir to,
and if at picking time he is foStenate
enough to secure the largest portion
of his crop, he has it on the market,
with his debts pressing upon him,
provisions to buy, compelling him to
sell at prices fixed by the Spectator
and the spinner, who1 are certain
about that time to discover that an
excessive crop has been made, that
there is an immense overstock of cot
ton in Liverpool, and that the mills
not only have ample supplies for
many months, but that the market
for cotton goods of all kinds is glut~
ted. In few months the cotton
crop has passed from first hands.
Then perhaps prices begin to look up
and wary spectators realize fortunes,
while the planter is where he was
at the beginning of the year, except
that he finds himself slill deeper in
debt, aud obliged to buy corn and
bacon at higher prices.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

liz these days of official Delinquent
cy, it is pleasant to hear of Wen
Slang, the aged Chinese Minister,
who died poor, and has been honored
by grand fune al, for which the
Emperor subscribed 1900. 1t is
safe to say that Wen Slang never
sold post>tradership, was in no way
connected with canal ring, and
would have disdained to derive profit
from the building of a court house.
We are accustomed to regard the
Chinese Government as corrupt, but
there must be germs of reform in it
when honesty is thus held in honor.
N, Y. Tribune.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04
A CAT WAITING FOR IT'S SHIP.

A CAT WAITING FOR ITS SHIP.
She is Boston cat, but her home
is on the high seas. Puss is brave
sailor, and has taken many voyage
from Boston to the Azores and back
on the good ship Kate Williams,
commanded by Captain Beebe.-
Whenever the ship reaches Boston
puss always lands and has a social
time with old friends on shore-fe-
line friends among others, probably.
One day she was so entertained
with her visit that she stopped a lit
tie longer than usual, and when she
returned to the wharf she found the
ship had sailed without her. She
gazed with longing eyes far out over
the water, and shifted her whskers,
as if seeming out the track of the
receding and now invisible ship. =
But she knew it was Of no use. She
knew the ways of the ship too well.
Every day for three months she APP
peared on the wharf with clock like
regularity, and shifted and gazed,
and gazed and shifted. There were
plenty of ships coming and going,
but they were nothing to her. At
last tt e right one came. 1t had
hardly touched the wharf before a
cat grown thin and gaunt with anx>
ious months of waiting and watching,
sprang on board and made a dash
for the captains room, where find
ing him sprang on to him, put her
head on his neck and meow wow
vowed, weow-wow> vowed, and talk
ed, and told such pitiful feline tale
as never greeted captains ear be-
fore. That ship never hes chance
to leave pusO on shore now. She is
sailing the seas in high feather to-
DAY.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04
Marietta. Georgia. Friday Morning, August 4, 1876
BOTH SIDES.

burg, South Carolina, between tn,
whites and the blacks, the New Yorl
Herald says: "Unless these outrage
are stopped, the people of the Nortl
will make it their business, and i
will be found impossible to maintain
constitutional barriers where they
are perverted to defend outrages OF
freedom, justice and humanity. l
is in the interest of self-governmen
that the HcraW gives this friendly
warning"
To which the Portsmouth Enter,
prise replies that unless the people o
the North take some measures to put
stop to the murder of policemen in
New York by Northern ruffians, and
the murder of men, women and child
rem by policemen, unless they put a
stop to the rape and murder of school
girls on the highways, unless they
put a stop to the daily and nightly
murder and robbery of innocent men
in their own homes, or on the streets,
unless they put stop to the, mur>
ders and terrors in the mining dis
tricts Of Pennsylvania and Ohio, un
less they put a stop to the massacre
of non union mechanics and laborers
by society members, the South will
interfere and ask the strong arm of
the United States Government to
send the military into the States of
the North and to New York York
city to afford protection to the lives
of the people which the State govr
ernments seem powerless to secure,
Picking up the New York Sun of
Friday we see there accounts of ten
murders of men, one murder of boy,
one account of a man torn to pieces
by bloodhounds which were set on
him by another man, and an account
of the rape of little girl only eight
years old. All of these crimes hap
pened at the North and indicate a
state Of society, and an insecurity of
life that the masses of the people Of
the South will not submit to- 1t is
true that those people were white,
but white people are entitled to
the protection of the government just
as much as if they were black, and
we warn the North in the interest OF
self government that they must afford
a better protection to life and virtue
or the South will demand the inter
ference of The National Government.
Crime has become altogether too FREE
quent there, and this fact alone shows
the imbecility of the Northern State
governments. We hear too much
there of men being taken out OF the
hands of the law and hung or shot in
cold blood men, too, who some~
times turn out to be innocent and
it is time such things were brought
to an end.
1t is somewhat singular that in no>
tices of the late Hamburg affair none
of the Northern papers who have SO
heartily abused the whites, seem to
place any weight on the fact that on
the day of the fight the negroes had
assembled with their arms and ans
munition before the whites began to
gather.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

IT is understood that Gen. Long
street will be United States Marshal
Packard's successor in Louisiana, the
latter having been nominated for
Governor by the Republicans. At
Washington no secret is made of the
administration intention to carry
that State at the point of the bayo-
net, if force should be needed to Sc
cure it for Hayes. OnsthiS account
Grant naturally concludes that a
Southern regenade will serve his pur-
pose with the Louisiana "tanditti"
even better than Sheridan. Besides,
the latter cannot be spared from the
campaign against the Sioux which
he is so vigorously prosecuting-at
Chicago.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

A Broken HEARTED WOMAN
Mr.. Tilton has made a martyr OF
himself and heroic christian, who
goes around and peddles out his
woes in lectures at fifty cents ad-
mission. Mr.. Beecher has had his
salary raised to one hundred thou
sand dollars. Mr.. Tilron is away at
watering place with the children.
Mr. Beecher is junketing at the
Twin Mountain House, and preach
ing in a circus tent to applauding
Congregations. Elizabeth sits sew
ing for living 10 her little hot room
in Brooklyn, yearning in vain FOR
the sight of her children, and bear
ing in her broken heart all the
heaviness of the shames, sorrows,
agonies, lies, cowardices, treacher-
les, perjuries and blasphemies of the
great scandal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

WINE BATHs.-The n. Y. Tri-
bune has saloon on the first floor of
its magnificent building. In the
fourth story, you can get wine bath
for one dollar; in the story below,
fifty cents each, but the wine there
had been bathed in by customers on
the top floor. On being used in
that story it was Systematically car
ried by pipes to the one below,
where twenty-five cents was oharg>
ed, and after being there used, was
conducted to the floor below, where,
it was bottled for the Tribune saloon
and sold as palatable drink. Men
naked have bathed in this wine, and
then at twelve o'clock at night it is
bottled.-N, I. Sun.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

THE LATEST YANKEE NOTION
The Newest thing in neck wear. are
the campaign neck-ties. They are
white, with the names of the Repub.
lican or Democratic Presidential
nominees on each end, and are cali
culated to save good deal of time
and trouble in finding out what a
mans political sentiments are. If
you want to know his politics all you
have to do is to look at his neck-tie.
1t ta' been suggested that they be
universally worn, for the benefit of
canvsssers in estimating the party
vote.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

In Methodist meeting house in
this city, on Wednesday evening
last, says the Plattsburg (Mo) LIE,
yer, the usual prayer meeting was
broken up by the entrance of
small pig. The sexton tried to eject
the pig, but the pig had no thought
of abandoning the field, and as the
sexton dashed down one aisle the
pig ran up another, occasionally
running under the benches and de-
stroying the solemnity of the occas-
ion. Meanwhile the pastor retained
bis speeches. gravity in the pulpit.
But when the pig evinced SO much
audacity as to climb into the pulpit
and take up a positionI beside the
pastor, the latter fully realized the
extremity to which he was at last
reduced, and he and his congrega>
ton retired.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

TIE able manner in which the
New York Times conducts the argus
ments is thus:
During the war hotel keeper in
Davenport, Iowa, kicked wounded
soldier out of his house because he
was selling Chicago TriJlnes contain
ing an account of Union victory.
The night he heard of the nomination
of TiIden that man illuminated his
hotel from roof to office.
Would. it not be just as fair and
honest, asks the Mobile Register, to
publish another paragraph about like
this: During the war Mosby was
Guerilla and killed large number
of Union soldiers. He now endorses
J Hayes and Wheeler
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

AN "Independent,' so.called, in
this momentous campaign of all 9th
ers, when the popular heart is stir
red as it was never stirred before, in
behalf of reform and a change of
federal rulers, is about as influential
as a feather in a whirlwind or fly
on a cart wheel.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

THAT indefatigable African ex~
plorer, Henry NJ. Stanley, has turned
up again, after wandering around in
the Ethiopian wilderness for two or
three years. 1t is stated that in the
''high uplands of the Gambaragara
mountains" he has discovered race
of plalo- faces, entirely different from
the tribes which were thought to hold
undisputed sway in the unregenera-
ted regions of Africa.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

We have really some hope of Ben
Butler yet. lie has gone into the
Lowell district where DR., Aver was
defeated at the last election, to run
for Congress. DIR. Aver has since
gone to the lunaric asylum, and Ben
may go to the penitentiary yet.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

A Rich STUMP.-We report, on
the authority of John R. Gray, says
the Alexandra Sentinel, that citizen
of Fairfax county named George
Williams, while driving on a by-road
near the Telegraph road on Friday
of last week, about four miles from
this city, knocked over an old stump
with his wagon wheel, which being
uprooted, disclosed a number Of gold
pieces buried beneath it, and on dig
ging them up the sum of 81, 400 in
that coin was found. And now who's
is it?
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

ZAcHARIAH Chandler, Secretary of
the Treasury, is Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Nation
al Republican Committee. The ques
ton has been asked, if ever before
in the history of the government a
Cabinet officer filled such position ?
Was there ever a time before in the
history of the United States when all
the departments of the government
were run 10 the interest of the party
in power2
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

THERE seems to be a widespread
desire to get editors to go to Con
gross. Watterson of Louisville is go
ing there the friends of Bowles of
Springfield are anxious to send him
there and Haskell of Boston has
just refused to be a candidate. Let
our talented editorial brethren run
for Congress if they desire to do so :;
but we don't like to miss them from
their papers.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

AN Iowa mother set her three
months old baby under tree near
the house, while she went into the
garden for moment. The child's
screams brought her to it immediate
ly, when she found that pet pig had
eaten off both the baby's hands and
part of its face.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04
COOPERATION OF THE WIFE.

No married man ever prospered
in the world without the cooperation
of his wife. If she unites ia mutual
endeavors to reward his labors with
an endearing smile, with what conf
dence will he resort to his daily toll,
meet difficulty and encounter danger,
if he knows that he is not spending
his strength in vain, but that his la
Dor will be rewarded by the sweets
ofhome9 Solicitudo and disappoint
ment enter the history of every mans
life; and he is only half provided for
the voyage who finds but an asso-
ciate for happy hours, while for his
months Of darkness and distress no
sympathetic partner is prepared.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04
CURRENT DOTS.

MOVING tor a new trial-Court-
ing a second wife.
A Western scttler-The contents
of a six shooter.
Winged Merchants Bees, be-
cause they cell their honey.
AN enthusiast who had been to
Anna Dickson lecture wrote her,
saying: "With you l could be hap
Ply in desert" And she wrote
back "No man will ever have a
chance to desert me-"
els it not time that you paid me
that five dollars ?" said the farmer to
his neighbor. "Taint DUE" was the
reply. But, said the farmer, you
promised to pay when you got back
from New York well, | hain't
BEEN was the reply.
If we desire to possess great and
powerful minds, we mnst think if
we would wish to have faithful and
true hearts, we must lOUe; should
we desire to add to these strong
muscles, we must work.
A man with large family com>
planned of the difficulty of support
ing all of them. But, says the
friend, you have sons big enough to
earn something for YOU The diff,
ficulty is, said the man, they are too
big to wor k
You mustn't think, boys, remarks
one of our leading orators, that you
can slosh around with Ratchet and
become great men. If George Wash
ington had used a cheese knife it
it would have been all the same
They were talking of a death,
when one man asked what were
his last words = He didn't say
anything was the reply. That's
just like him, said the first man with
an approving nod. There was no
gas abont him. He was all busi>
ness.
whispered in my darllng's ear,
Sweet do you love me pet p She
blushed, then came, in accents sweet
the soft reply: you bet 'Oh +! |
could die for you! cried, my
charming winsome elf! She lifted
up her eyes and sighed: 4 know
how It's myself
They tell a story of judge in
Alabama who sent an officer out a
few days since to get him drink of
whiskey. The officer returned with
it, but the amount did not satisfy
the judge. The second time be
came back with tumbler full, and
remarked that the barkeeper said
that he "didn't know that the old
fool wanted to take a bath!'
A clergyman, observing a poor
man by the roadside breaking stones
aud kneeling to get at his work bets
ter, said tAh John | wish | could
break the stony hearts of my hear.
ers as easily as you are breaking
those stones perhaps sir you do
not work on your knees was the
reply.
As Detroit man was digging in
his garden his wife appeared at the
door and shouted Come you old
fraud--come to dinner AS he did
not come, she opened the door pref
ty soon and yelled; 'Hain't you
coming to dinner, you blasted
she saw ncighbor along in the gar
den with her husband and finished
'old darling you
ARE you going to make flower
bed here, Judkins : asked a young
lady of the gardener. Yes, miss
them's the orders answered the
gardener. Why, it will quite spoil
our croquet ground = Cant help
it, miss them's your pas orders.
He says he will have it laid out for
horticulture, not for husbandry'
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

A colored club is actively at work
in Richmond, Va. The organiza-
ton is largely composed of the most
respectable and intelligent colored
men in the city.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

SOMEBODY has been counting up and
finds that Gov. Hayes has enough rel
atives in Ohio alone to fill every Of,
flee within the gift of the President.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

CUSTER was of German ancestry
and gallant soldier. But he waka
Democrat. Which explains the btn
tally of Republican comments on his
death.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04
A horseman passed through LIS

A horseman passed through La
fayete, No., the other day, on his
way from Texas to Michigan. He
was mounted on a mustang, which
had carried him all the way, 1900
miles, with nothing to eat except
what it picked dP along the roadside.
The mans entire baggage consisted
of a blanket and Iariat.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

had much rather be told that a
man is virtuous aud honest than to
hear that his father is member Of
Congress, or even that his grand
father fought in the revolution,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

The firm Of Barrett & Reid las this day dis
solved by mutual consent. sThe business will
be continued in future by d. A. Barrett, TO
whom all accounts due TO the old firm must be
paid. June both 1876.
d. A. BARRETT,
T. w. REID.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

JENNIE JUNE says that notorious
fraud George Francis Train is Dc,
veIoping traits of lunacy. :.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04
CHE M}arletta golrpal.

Marietta, Ca, Friday, August 4, 1875.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

Having had during the last twenty years
of my life to attend to Racing Stock, and having
had 30 much trouble with them with Collie,
Grubbs, &c. gave me graet deal of trouble );
having heard your Regulator as cure for
the above diseases concluded 10 try it, after
trying one PACKAGE IN MASH found it to cure
in every instance. it is only to be tried TO prove
what have said in lis praise. ] can send you
Certificates from Augusta, Clinton & Msean, as
TO the cure Of Horse.
GEORGE WAYMAN,
Macon, Ga. July oath. 1875.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04
CONSTIPATION,

TESTIMONY OF THE CHIEF JUS
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my personal experienced in the use of it
HIRAM WARNER. Chief Justice of Ga
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

SICK HEADACHE,
EDITORIAL,-We have
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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04
MALARIoUs FEVERs,

You are at liberty to use my name in
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and recommend it to every one as the best pre
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Yours &c, Hon b. II. HILL, Ga.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

ARE you going to make flower
bed here, Judkins 7 asked a young
lady of the gardener. Yes, miss !;
them's the orders answered the
gardener. Why, it will quite spoil
our croquet ground y Cant help
it, miss them's your pas orders.
He says he will have it laid out for
horticulture, not for husbandry ?
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04

June 23d, 1876.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-08-04
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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-03-29

A correspondent sends us the following
items in relation to the early government Of
the Province of New Jersey:
At a General Assembly held at Burlington,
N. j., on the 18th day of March, 1774, in the
18th year of the reign of King, George the
Third, a law was passed compelling all per-
sons ordered to receive relief by the Overseer
of the Poor, to wear, in an open and visible
manner, badge or mark, that is TO say, a
large p together with the first letter of the
name of the city, town-corporate, township
or precinct whereof such poor persons was an
inhabitant also in large capital letter cut
in red or blue cloth, as should be directed by
the Justice OF Overseer of the Poor.
In 1909, June Both, in the eighth year OF the
reign of Queen Ann, the first law was passed
for emitting paper money IN the Province.
Lewis Norris Esquire, was the first Govern
or appointed to the government of New Jer-
sey alone, his predecessors since the surren-
der having all presided over New York as
this Province. This may furnish one proba-
BILE conjecture how some of our ancient Acts
became missing. 1t is loss to the early his
tory of the Province, or State, that it was not
the custom to record them.
Dec. 81, 1771, the River Delaware was de-
clared a common highway by an act passed by
the General Assembly held at Burlington, In
the 18th year of the reign of King George
the Third. HunterdoR Democrat