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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-06-23

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twenty one for Bristow went to HAYES And be ves
nominated. '-'N az "''S
THE SEVENTH BALLOT.
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Observation-Disclosures pr;stov7 r.u..q
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II ndsaaIRsiI,e s. BEistow s Hayes2-
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KFsnitqeky-Hayes "a;
M MainsmBlajps 4: :
Massa0husetts-B Blaine 4. Hayes2l.
Msiinpesota- Blaine 9. Hayesl.
MissourigBlainss 3. Hayes 10.
Neyada~Haysss. y
New JerseyIBiaine ' y. Hayes q; aI !. :"
North G Jar Rslla =, n2 3 OIL
9regon" lsSs ne s.
RSods Isiand-Baine g. H HAYES rs
feaaao oaBISilnaiT BHl a1as Hayes
Vve eqnant@1BEsa "a s. Hayes IS.
W WigslRV1f ;rgIaisnR a Hayes:
Wisconsin Iisaas b i Blaine Is. Hayes
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and SIC TO l21sc. Good New STYLE Plain '.
Dress Goods, 25c. Black Alpaeas and Bril
VERY CHEAP. Our Best Kid Gloves mi,
SIXTY PAIRS REAL KIP BRoGANs !,
which is Soc less than SPLITS are u,usn,
Ladies' Kid Foxed Button and Laced n
duced 25c per pair. Nice Kid button r.5o
per pair. Misses and Childrens' Shoes NV NV
slippers selling proportionately Lower, S'
MEMS FELT) STRAW AND SUN mr.
SILK CAPS ALL LOWER
SOCKET, MEADOW HOES Trowel T,r,.
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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-06-23
FITsT BALLOT IN DETAIL.

ADMINISTRATION IL
Alabama-Blaine 10, Hayes 2, Bristow 7, Jewell l.
California-Blaine 8. Bristow 2. Conkling
Connecticut Bristow 2, jewell 10.
Deaware-Blaine s.
Florids-Blsine ]. Morton 4. Conkling 8.
9e2rsia-Baine s; Bristow 9. Gonkling s, Morton 6.
Indiana Morton 30.
lowa-Blaiue %
kansas-Blane 10.
kentucky-Bristow a.
Louisiana-Blaine 2, Morton a.
Maine-Blaine a.
Maryland-Blaine Is,
Mass ehusetts- Blaine 6, Bristow II, Wheeler 8.
Michigan Blaine Is. Hayes Bristow g. Conkling l..
Mississippi-BristOw 5. Morton r. absentl.
Missouri Blaine IA, Hayes /. Brstow 2, Conkling
Nebraska-Blaine 6.
Nevada-Hayes l. Brstow s Conkling 2.
New Hampshire-Bl 7. Bristow s.
New Jersey-Blaine Is. Hayes s.
New York-Bristow l, Conkling &c.
:, North Carolina-Blaine q Bristow l. Conkling T.
0hio-Hayes "A.
Oregon-Blaine 8,
Pennsylvania-Hartranf So.
Rhode leland-Blaine 2, Bristow g.
South Carolina-Bristow /, Morton IS.
Iennessee-Blaine 4, Bristow 10, Morton TO-
Texas-Blaine 2. Bristow 6, Oonkling 3, Morton s.
Nermont-Blaine /. Hayes |, Bristow
Virginia Blaine l6, Conkling ). Morton g.
Nest Virginia-.BlaineS s. Hayes 2
Colorado-Blaine 6.
Idaho-Blaine q
Montana- Blame z.
New Mexieo-Blaine @
utah-Blaine 2.
w ashington-Blaue O.
Myoming-Blaine l. Bristow l.
District of Colum bia-Morton 2
Dakota-Blaine 2.
Ate the first ballot two delegates
from Pennsylvania voted for Blaine, but
the chairman of the delegation from
that state reported them for Hartranft,
on the ground that they were under in,
structions to vote with a majority of
their delegation. The chair ruled that
each delegate had a right to vote his own
sentiments, (applause). This decision
was sustained by the convention.
No nomination was made till the 7th
ballot, and below is the reeanitrlation
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-06-23

When New York was called Ger. Woods-4
Faheed TO the platform. and in obedience 10 tbs ~
Junction OF the New York State Convention p re-
sS S1sea ne IGNORED name OF Roscoe Conkling
ate wise IN counsel fearless in Leadership trne ~
me od repuhtlea party as the needle to The nols
NC sEels ntliner defence nor eulogy heis nositi,e
qusntty IN the body polite He eharscteTizs5 ~
n true friend q Ulysses S. Grant (Applsnsa1
. ane speAAer projected with complimentary slln
Mor,on and brls,ow He referred deIicsteIy al nj
eloquentiy 70 the sudden silence Of partr $500; a
"asn ar Blame vas stricken down. As il was feaTs
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-06-23
National Republican Convention.

NOMINATION OF WHEELER q HAYES.
The platform will be found on first
page. The convention then proceeded
to nominations but did not ballot till
Friday The several candidates were
presented by their friends. The first
name presented was Gov. Jewell of Con-
necticut The next was Gov. Morton of
Indiana, who was presented by Hon. r.
W. Thompson of that state, who paid
handsome tribute to the great war gov
ernor.
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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-06-23

After the sixth ballot Morton and Bristow wei
Withdrawn and their votes, with the exception I
twenty one for Bristow. went to Hayes and he WI
nominated.
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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10

Some terrible disclosures of the want,
suffering, aud starvation in New York
have been made in the papers of that
city, and have called forth expressions
of sympathy and alarm. The Liberal
Christian thinks it is time "to seek out
the causes of poverty and. incapacity
and crime" which is a pregnant sug-
gestion. The same CHASTITY facts con-
front us everywhere; and homes Of COM
fort are clOuded by thoughts of wide
spread distress and suffering. 1t is a
hopeful thing that people cannot be in
different to such agOnIes; and it would
Ge well if this sympathy should lead to
some general movement toward perma-
nent relief and improvement. Destitu-
ton and starvation are not confined to
the incapable and vicious; capacity and
skill will be found among the victims
1t is time to seek for the causes; and
though they may be traced to methods
of business, and of the distribution oi
wealth, which we have supported and
approved, let the search not be delayed
through fear that such discovery will
be made. When there is enough for al
in society, there ought to be system
by which all may have a share, or civ.
iizatiOn is failure. To seek the cause:
of poverty and crime would be one o.
the most radical investigations evel
started.-NecO Age.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
Our Grandmothers' Ball Dresses.

A ballroom of the early times of the
Regency would look strange to modern
eyes. Brummel had introduced the
stitf1y-starched neckclOth, and, with the
Regent, had held earnest council
concerning the pattern and form OF
clothes. Coats might be any colOr-tht
brightest green, the fruitiest plum, null
berry, or sky blue, was even permissi-
ble-and FURNISHED brass buttons were
in general wear. Trowsers did not ap-
pear in the evening until about 1916;
the Regent was proud of his calves, and
was 10th indeed to conceal them under
broadclOth. But to that measure he had
to come at last, upon the peremptory
behest of fashion. Every gentleman
land some ladies' took snuff, and af-
| fected pecularity about snuff-bcxes,
| indulging in great variety, and making
collections of the same, sometimes OF
an extraordinary value. 1t was a time
of rich waistcOats, variegated and en-
| bOssed, with false collars of suppositious
other waistcoats appearing above the
genuine, so that the evening dress of the
/ male dancer was of far more party
colored character than in these days oil
| funereal black clothes and white ties.
| Indeed, there was an abundance of color
| In the bathrooms OF the Regency. The
dress of the ladies was not remarkable
for quantity. The skirts were neither
long nor broad; they clung closely tC
the limbs, and made liberal revelation
of sandaled feet and silken- -stockingeC
ankles. Heads were very tall, the hair
being piled aloft, and above it soaring
feathers and climbing flowers. The
arm, clothed in kid glove long as
stocking, appeared at the end of shorr
sleeve, pulled into a globular form
Waists were as short as could be. Il
was thus the grandmothers and great
grandmothers of the present generation
of dancers were equipped when calleC
upon to decide the mOmentOus question
touching the propriety or improprietN
of the waltz, and to choose whethe
they would be prudes or profiigates, fo
that was the favorite way of presentin,
the matter.-Hdrper' Bdzdr.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10

"I CAN."-Of course you can. You
show it in your looks, in your motion
in your speech, in your everything. 81
CAMP A brave, hearty, substantial
soulful, manly, cheering expression
There is character, force, vigor, deter
mination, will, in it. We like it. The
words have spirit, sparkle, pungency
flavor, genialty, about them which take:
one in the very right place.
81 can ~ There is a word of meaning
expressed, nailed down, epigramized
rammed into these few letters. Whole
sermons of sOlid-grOund virtues. How
we more than admire to hear the young
man speak it out bravely, boldly, deter
minedly; as though it was an out
searching of his entire nature, reflec
lion Of his inner soul. 1t tells of some
thing that is earnest, sober, serious, o
something that will battle the race, anC
tumble with the world in a way tha
will open and brighten and mellow
mems eyes.
81 CAMP What spirit, purpose, inten
sity, reality, power and praise. 1t is {
strong arm, a stout heart, bold eye, 1
firm port and indomitable will. W.
never knew a man, possessed of it's ell
ergy, vitality, fire and light, that dit
not attain eminence of some sort.
could not be otherwise. 1t is in the ma
ture, constitution, order, necessity, in
evitable of events that it should be so
81 can r' rightly, truly said, and thel
clinched and rivited by the manly, he
roic, determined deed, is the secret solu
tion, philosophy of mems lives. The.
took 81 camp for motto, and went forth
and steadily made themselves and th
void what they pleased.
Then, young man, if you would b
something besides a common, dusty
prosy, wayfarer in life, just put thes
magic words upon your lips, and thei
musing, hopeful, expanding PHILOSOPHY
in your heart and arms. Do it an
you are made a man.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
Lick and His Bequests.

Many who read this will remember
the small, spare figure of Mr.. Lick, at
tired in suit of blaek-not too often re-
newed-consisting of a swallow-tailed
coat, pantaloons-not of the most FASH
iOnable cut-and tall collar, supported
by wealth of neckerchief The style
of his garments never changed with the
tickle fashions. Quite a number of
clergymen of San Francisco, among
them the Revs. Williams, Stone, and
Stebbins, have been at his room on sew
eral occasions, but his conversation at
such times has never inclined toward
religious topics. His views were con-
fined to that plane of rationalism of
which Tom Paine was the best expo
nent, and they were thoroughly in
grained in, his character. a Free
thinker closely crowding four score was
hardly as impressible as those gathered
within the ecclesiastical pale in the dew
Of their youth. His talk with the
friends admitted to his presence was OIL
the news of the day and d-such points as
related to his immediate business.
The Lick House was begun in 1858,
but as originally finished was small and
dingy. 1t afterWaTd became necessary
TO extend it, and Mr.. Lick determined
that the new dining-room should be III
all respects worthy of the hotel. So he
sent an agent to examine and report
upon the similar accommodations of the
principal hotels of Eastern cities, and
the result was one of the most elegant
dining halls in the country. Failing to
find any mechanics sufficiently skilled
TO make the frames of the pictures and
mirrors that adOrn the room, he had
them done by his own workmen at San
Jose, under his immediate supervision.
The crOwning point in Mr.. Lick's life,
and what made his reputation world
wide, was the cession of his immense
property to seven trustees for benevo-
lent purposes. The principal objects
specified were $4,000 for an immense
observatory; $4,000 to found and en-
dow the California School of Mechan-
ical Arts; $3.50, 900 for group of bronze
statuary representing the history OF
California; 100000 for an Old Ladies'
Home in San Francisco; $150,00O fOI
building and maintaining free baths;
| Sl50, 000 for bronze monument to Key,
author of 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner;;'
S25, 900 in gold to the Protestant Or,
phan Home of San Francisco; S25, 900 in
| gold to found an orphan home in the
city of San Jose, and $4,000 to purchase
| scientific and mechanical works for the
| Mechanics Institute of San Francisco
The total value of the trust fund is esti-
mated at about $4,000, ,0OO.-N Y Her.
aid.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10

WOMEN AND HOME.-There is q
bundle of delight bound up in the sweet
word, home. The word is typical OF
comfort, love, sympathy, and all the
other qualities that constitute the de-
lights of social life. Were the everyday
employments of many of our Intelligent
and affectionate families faithfully por-
trayed, they would exceed, in moral
heroism, interest, and romance most OF
the productions of the pen Of fiction.
The social well-being of society rests on
our home, and what are the foundation
stones of our homes but woman's care
and devotion? A good mother is worth
an army of acquaintances, and a true
hearted, noble minded sister is more
precious than the 'dear five hundred
friends" Those who have played
around the same doorstep, basked in
the same mothers smile, in whose veins
the same blood flows, are bound by sa-
cred tie that can never be broken. Dis
tances may separate, quaTrels may oc-
cur, but those who have a capacity to
love anything must have at times a
bubbling up of fond recollectiOns, and a
yearning after the joys of by-gone days.
Every woman has q mission on earth.
There is something to do" for every
one-a household to put in order, q
child to attend to, some class of unfortu-
nate, degraded, or homeless humanity
to befriend. That soul is poor indeed
that leaves the world without having
exerted an influence that will be felt for
good after she has passed away.-ETG.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
Amity, October 80, 1876.

THE FIRST AIM OF EDUCATIoN.-I
accept without qualification the first
principle of our forefathers: that every
boy born IN the world should be put in
the way of maintaining himself in in
dependence. No education which does
not make this its great aim is worth any
thing at all. There are but three ways
of living, as some one has said-by
working, by begging, or by stealing.
Those who do not work, disguise it in
whatever pretty language we please,
are doing one of the other two. The
practical necessities. must take prece-
dence of the intellectual. A tree must
be rooted In the soil before it can bear
flowers and fruit. A man must learn tC
stand upright upon his own feet to re-
spect himself, to be independent o.
charity or accident. 1t is on this basi:
only that any superstructure of intellec,
tual cultivation worth having can pos.
sibly be built.-Froude.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
Suicides.

Samson, who perished amid the ruins
which crushed out the lives of his perse-
cutOrs, is the greatest murderer of Holy
Writ. Saul fell upon his sword in his
last and lost battle, and the hOrrid de-
tails of Raziss' suicide lives with every
reader of the Scriptures. Among the
Greeks suicide was common, though
usually resorted to for worthier purposes
than lead to it to-day. Lycurgus, the
Trainer of the famous Spartan Laws, in
order to secure their observance, made
his people promise to keep them invio-
late "tiIl his return" and then with
drew to Delphi, where, after conversa-
ton with the oracle, he starved himself
to death, thus enforcing the perpetual
observance of the national promise.
In spite of the prevalence of suicides
among the ancients, the laws against
them were stringent, and the practice OF
self-destructon was considered a helm
Gus crime.
1t has been reserved for more modern
times, however, to afford the historian
of self-murder real subject for his pen,
and the number on the list of suicides
has been steadily on the increase since
the beginning of the Christian era.
1t is a noteworthy fact that the pro-
portion of male to female suicides has
been, and is, about three to one, and
that among the females married women
and widows seek the last resort more
frequently than single ones; the score OF
unmarried male suicides predominates.
Drowning is the method most Tesorted
to in modern times. Firearms are next
in order, and poison falls last. The lat
ter two are the most common among
women. But, most singular of all, il
the fact that by accurately compiled
statistics, more cases occur in the month
| of April than any other season.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10

COLLEGES FOR WoMEN.-What would
Dorothy Dudley" have said had she
been entered as Freshman" at We'll
lesley College! That
4" Fair maiden, whom a hundred summers keep
Forever seventeen"
Wonld have told us a very different
story of female education from that
which can be related by the less myth
ical Dorothys and Dudleys of to-day.
At the time to which the first entry OF
her "Diary" introduces us, when nine
British red-coats stopped at Bradish
Tavern, in Cambridge, for dinner, and
then galloped on toward Lexington
with suspected design of seizing John
Hancock and Samuel Adams, there was
no female seminary or your young
ladies' bOarding-schoOl in all the colo
MES, and no college to which a girl
might go. Our nineteenth-century
ideas of education were largely nebu-
lous matter. The now rising project OF
the cO-education of the sexes was very
far below the horizon. Not even at
William and Mary College was there
any place except for the Williams. The
Marys were left to shift for themselves.
Their facilities for the acquisition OF
knowledge were few, the obstacles in
their way were many. A view of such
an Institution as Wellesley College be-
comes, therefore, an important part oil
the general inspection we are all now sc
much interested in making for the
measurement of the century's progress
And it is doubtful if at any point the
contrast between the two extremities oi
the hundred years be more striking
than in this of the education of young
women.-EdWdrd Abbott, an Harper
| Magazine for august.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
"oNLY THREE GRAINS OF CORN"
BY MRS. S. HFWEs. N. D.


Through the long and somber vista OF
departed years, up to a recent period,
woman has held out her hand to man
laden with all that her heart and soul
possessed as a free will offering-physi-
cal, mental, and moral worth. She did
not presume to ask for equal educa-
tional advantages; she scarcely dreamed
of acquiring the professions. If she be-
came interested in the political move
ments of the day, read newspapers, etc.,
she was called "strong- minded" Le-
gally she had not equal ownership with
the father in that little homestead
where all the Websters, CIays, Lin
coins, and Stewards were born, reared,
and tenderly cared for during the long
twenty-one years of their minority.
No, the law did not grant her equal
ownership with the father to the person
of those same boys, whom she gathered
so gently about the maternal hearth
stone.
y
of New Jersey decided his unborn child
to friend; at the proper time this child
was transferred to its legal owner, not
withstanding the protests and anguish
of the mothers heart. All this was in
accordance with the legal enactments OF
that State.
At the death of the father, how many
beautiful, happy homes are at once d.
vided up and legally consumed by the
tedious, rambling process called law,
that these same fathers helped to enact
for the protection of wife and children ?
Women have previously supplicated
imploringly, asking, metaphorically
speaking, for -"Only three grain Of
corn;" modestly asking to be employed
as teachers and servants at less wages
than their brothers received forlike ser,
vices performed; gently knocking at
the college doors; timidly creeping in as
far as permitted, bearing their manifold
burdens bravely; paying taxes without
representation to build and support
these same colleges whose doors art
closed against her. These "three grain,
Of corn" have sustained her "till the
coming of the morn" The day-god has
arisen with brilliancy and power thai
4wakens new thought, and laden witt
fresh magnetic glory, arouses all the
prOudest conceptions of manhood anC
womanhood.
With eommendable zeal woman has
invaded every avenue of labor; by heI
continual knocking she has opened
many college doors, and through heI
growing intelligence she has proven tC
the satisfaction of majority of noble
men and women that she is worthy anC
competent to assume the burden of re
sponsibility in the great political house
hold-to stand by the side of man equa
both in the home interests and the leg
slative halls. She truly merits tina
which she asks at your hands; and NJ
longer satisfied with "three grains o
corn" she must ere long share equal,
with yourselves the qOhoLe field.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10

APPRECIATION OF SUAvITY. There
are some people who affect want of af-
fectation, and flatter themselves that
they are above fiattery; they are proud
of being thought extremely humble,
and would go round the world to punish
those who thought them capable of re-
venge; they are so satisfied of the suav-
ity of their own temper that they would
quarrel with their dearest benefactor
oHly for doubling it. And yet so very
blind are ali their acquaintance to these
their numerous qualifications and mer-
its, that the possessors OF them invaria-
bly, discover, when it is too late, that
they have lived in the world without a
single friend, and are about to leave il
without single mourner.-BdcoR.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1876.

saved, but with an agony at her heart
fierce and wild as the flames from
which she escaped. Not the sharp hiss
and crackle of the fire-fiend's tongue
and teeth, nor the shouts of the men
who had appeared and rescued Tom,
prevented her hearing seven short words
Mr.. Traquair whispered in Hallie's ear:
"Brave little woman, you are rightly
crowned"
There's nothing else to tell. Any Que
can guess how it ended.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10

THE BEAUTY AND GLORY OF A GOOD
drought, you may stand upon hilltop
and look upon the parched and yellow
fields. Presently you say :-"What is
the meaning of that ribbon of green that
Ali now / remeber. That is where q
brook ran once. It's waters have been
dried up, but the verdure which they
nourished remains" And so how often
does it happen, after a good mans life
has exhaled from earth that the beauty
and glory of its benefcence abide!
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
NO STORY YET.

A letter from Mrs. Duniway, under
date of October 2lst, informs US that she
mailed the story at that date at New
York City, but it has not yet arrived,
and, much to our regret, we are again
compelled to go to press without it. The
vexatious delay is doubtless owing to
the careless handling of the mails.