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Year: 1877

We understand that Senator Pad
dock will not return to his home in
Beatrice until after the extra session
of Congress The members of Con
gress from Nebraska have done good
work for the State and the whole
western country should feel grateful
to them, ana especially to Hon. a. S.
Paddock, for the interest they have
shown. not ONLY for their own State,
but for the whole frontier States
De IVit Free Press.
Year: 1877

If Governor Nichols of Louisiana is
true to the promises made to our Re-
publican President to carry out Repub-
licsn principles. he will ere long meet
with formidable opposition in the
Democratic party of his own State.
The bloody white lesguers will not
tamely submit to be changed by s!eight
of hand into decent Republican citi-
zens.
Year: 1877

Through the influence of Christian
ladies, a mistress of a certain house OF
prostitution in this city has reformed,
and will go eastward where she will
engage in the millinery business hav-
ing already purchased large stock Of
goods for that purpose.-OmdhG Re-
publican.
Year: 1877

AcoipENTLY SHoT.-Yesterday af
ternoon Daniel Hilly, who keeps
Junk shop on Fifth street, between
Poplar and Lombard was accldeutly
shot in the right arm.


At the time the revolver was dis
charged it was in the hands OF young
man who was examining it.


The ball took effect In the neshy part
of the right arm passing clear through'
Year: 1877

Republican, and reform TO deccncy and fair-
ness is hopeless. That neither Senator
CoNKLING nor ex-Secretary RoBEsoN may
be improperly connected with our news
paper venture, rs the Express has it, we de-
sire to say that IL Senator CoNKLINa knows
even Of our venture he has learned II
through the public press; for we have had no
communication with him on that or any
other subject since the adjournment of the
last Congress. If he backs our venture, 1t is
only with good wishes, nothing more. As
for cN-Secretary RoBEsoN, he unloadcd him
self Of THE REPUBLICAN by arrangement
some time before we had anything to do
with it, and is not now interested in 1t in
pecuniary sense to the extent Of q dime.
SO much for our backing by these distin-
guished statesmen.
Year: 1877

Ohio holds her election tomorrow, and the
event is attracting much attention and So
licitude in that State and elsewhere through
out the country. Both the great parties are
s,nguinc of success, while the grecnback
and labor questions are tormcnting each
II is not clear sailing for either party, for
the reason that the greenback question is
sthat Of labor to the Republicans. Each
party is to lose numerical strength by these
diversions, and whichever party suffers the
heaviest loss from these causes will stand o
fair chance of defeat


We have serious apprehension that the
Republican party is to suffer from lethar-
gy that has fallen upon it under do
fection towards the National Administra-
tion on account of its new policies. This
will not change any votes from the Rcpub-
lican column, but will swell the number of
stay-at-homes largely and thus reduce the
aggregate Republican vote to be overcome.
While there are some diversions from the
Democratic side to the greenback faction,
there is no detection Of any consequence
within that party. 1t has not been more
united and harmonious in years, and is
making vigorous fight, with more than
usual confidence in success.


1t is ofthe utmost importance to the pub
lie welfare that Ohio should be carried by
the Republicans in decided majority.
Every Republican in the State should sink
minor considerations, throw of his lethargy
and go to the polls. 1t is gratifying to
know that the Administration is aroused to
a just appreciation of the responsibilities of
the occasion, and is encouraging every Ohio
Republican connected with the Depart
ments to go home and vote. This is a very
hopeful indication, and is gratifying to
every true Republican, for defeat in Ohio
this fall is liable to throw disastrous in
ilucnce over Pennsylvania and New York.
These three great States should declare ior
Rcpublicanism with no uncertain voice
II is important to the Administration and
| the country.
Year: 1877

The New York Tribune says "there is
nothing left for any honest citizen of New
"York to do except to vote the Republican
ticket To this every honest citizen
everywhere will add hearty amen.
Year: 1877

the thief of time. They see the
storm approaching, but put of" do
ing anything to avert the inevitable,
cslamitous result, until it is too late.
Such citizens are as apt as anybody
TO have old fields well filled with
grasshOpper eggs. They must be
looked after. They must be enlisted
In some manner to fight the com anon
enemy. The hoppers will hatch out
the eggs are perfectly good and
healthy. There is no use to try to be-
lieve otherwise-it matters not what
professors and scientists say, or have
said, to the contrary, the pest will
come with the earliest vegetation,
and unless we are prepared and cour-
ageous to meet and subdue it, our
fields will be devastated, and the cry
of want, and bitter cursings against
the ountry, will be again heard in
this otherwise fair land. The folding
of hands, and trusting to Providence,
will not do. Providence has done its
part by giving US hands and intelli-
gence for seif-preservation. and we
believe by a proper use of then-by
united and intelligent labor-the i'm
pending blow at our prosperity may
be turned aside.
Year: 1877

We read in our State exchanges
Of numerous grasshopper meetings
being held throughout the State
The principal and best resolve is, to
fight. If the people ail-and not one
here and one there-go vigorously to
work, determined to subject them
with the best methods that may be de-
vised, their work will certainly, in a
great measure, be crowned with sue
cess.


Every locality. or neighborhood.
should hold meetings, and agree not
only to work to this end, but upon
some plan of action. 1t will not do
for you to destroy your hoppers, or
their eggs, and your neigh Dor to leave
his unmolested. for they will not only
devastate his fields but yours too.
when they commence business. Hence
your anxiety regarding the hoppers
to come fourth on your neighbor's
land is, or should be, about as great as
for those that will hatch from your
own grounds. Amongst farmers, as
amongst every other class of citizens.
there are some indolent, go-easy
don n't-cRre-a-cuss souls, who have
never learned that procrsstination fs
Year: 1877

The report of coal being four at
| Elk Creek, in Pawnee county, is con-
firmed. A party digging a well dis
covered signs of coal, and dug To the
depth of 81 feet, passing through five
feet Of solid blue lime stone. They
found directly under it IS inches of
hard stone coal. Of the best quality.
The state premium offered for the dis
covery of coal is s.. 900. Arrange
ments will ne made at once for pro-
curing an engine and the necessary
tools for shafting.


This is an interesting item Of news
for the coal company of this county.
Ifsuch a vein OF coal has been dis
covered in Pawnee at a depth of less
than one hundred feet, we may very
reasonably hope to find similar bed
at some depth in this county. We
fear however that this discovery on
Elk creek in Pawnee will turn cut
like that at Elk Station in Johnson.
Year: 1877

Bearing these things in mind,
have endeavored to reduce the mum
ber Of changes in subordinate places
usually made upon the change of the
general administration, and shall
most heartily cooperate with Con
gress in the better systematizing OF
such methods and rules of admission
to the public service, and Of promo.
tion within it, as may promise to be
most successful in making thorough
competency, efficiency and character
the decisive tests In these matters.
ask the renewed attention Of Congress
to what has already been done by she
Civil Service Commission, appointed
In pursuance Of an act Of Congress
by my predecessors, to prepare and
revise the Civil Service rules.


In regard to much Of the depart
mental service, especially at Wash.
ington, it may be difficult to organize
. better system than that which has
thus far provided. It is now being
used TO . considerable extent under
my direction. The Commission has
still . legal existence, although fol
several years no appropriation has
been made for defraying its expenses
Believing that this Commission has
rendered valuable service and will b
. most useful agency in improving
the administration Of the service,
Year: 1877

two countries to the irritations Of
popular feeling and mischances Of
actions which are naturally unfavor-
able to complete amity. Firmly de.
termined that nothing shall be want
ing on my part TO promote a coed
understanding between the two ma
tions, yet must ask the attention Of
Congress to the actual occurrences
on the border, that the lives and
property Of our citizens may be ade.
quatelyprotected and peace preserved.
Year: 1877

unanimity aud sef-control of the meeting
on Thursday will chow that the onward
pace of lreland's cause shall be no longer
stopped, and her beaming glory no longer
shaded. The Engaish Government may rect
assured that their contempt of Irish meas
urea during the last session of Parliament
has done more than any one thing eiDce
OConnell's time to rouse the Irish priest
hood to stand by the peoples cause at this
critical period of Ireland's history. Whilst
the Catholic clergy do not wIsh to lead the
people in any particular line of politics,
and whilst the priest can never stain the
white robe with which the Church of God
has clothed him by~giviDg rash aud imprn
dent counsel, they will endeavor to uphold
the security of the throne by bssing it upon
the rights, the liberties. and the prosperity
of the entire nation. Whilst in looking for
the greatest of all human blessings, "civil
liberty" they shall take care that nothing
shall injo that which ia of greater impor-
,tance than all that man can bestow-the
unsullied and ancient religion Of Ireland
they shall at the came time stand by the
people in the honest aud manly assertion
of their rights. And, though to the impet-
uous the advice OF the priest seems to be a
drag, it is only wholesome drag upon the
wheel. that it may GO down steadily the
PLAIN of freedom.


JOHN BoYLAN, PIP, Crosser,ough.
Year: 1877

A SIMPLE METHOD OF VENrILATISG


ROCKS IN WINTER DR.. II. N Dodge IN
forms us that he has found the followiUg Z
plan very satisfactory for the ventilation
of rooms that are much used during cold
weather: Nail or screw neat "Trip of
wood, from one to two inches high upon
the window sill, just inside of the sash and
extending entirely across from one eide of
the window frame to the other, Upon the
top of this strip fasten piece ni ordinary
"weather strip" 80 that there viii be
formed an air-tight joint between the
weather strip" and the lower sash of tie
window, whether the latter ia shut down
tight or raised an inch or two, the lower
cross piece of the sash sliding on the rub.
ber of the "weather strip" as the sash rises
With this simple fixture in place, the lower
sash may be reised enough to admit a
stream of air between the lower and upper
sashes, where they lap over each other at
the middle Of the window, without admit
ting the least air at the window sill. The
air admitted between the sashes is thrown
directly up toward the ceiling, and there
mixes with the heated air at the upper part
of the room. The room is thereby veutl-
lated in thorough and agreeable manner
without drafts of cold air upon the persons
in the room. The fixture should be applied
to several windows in a room. The amount
of ventilation may be regulated by the
distance that the lower sash is raised
This arrangement is cheap, simple, and
effective.
Year: 1877

Secretary of the Navy, Thompson, in
speaking of the many jokes at his expenses
said That of the hatchway was the best.
In one of my visits of inspection it was
said that was asked to define the proper
dimensions of batchway, and that re-
piled, That depends upon the size of the
hen, and the number of eggs she is to set
on"
Year: 1877

The Legislative CanuaSs.-It is but just
to Messrs. Atkisson and Lynch, the regular


nominees Of the Conservative party for the


Legislature to say that while they are will
ing to do anything for the harmony Of the


party, they do not feel called upon to resign


the nominations rendered them by the regu-.


larly constituted Conservative Convention


until otherwise declared. They Solicit the
votes OF all true Conservatives.
/ At the called Conservative meeting to-day
held at the old courthouse only about six
or eight.voters met, though there was notice


given and printed circulars issued. Nine
tenths OF the voters OF Chesterfield seem to


have lost all interest in politics, yet after


the elections there will be much grumbIing


and growing done. '
Year: 1877

The CITY WATER-BILLs.-It is understood
that Mayor Darlington will return to the
Board of Aldermen this evening the new
bills quarterly instead Of half-yearly, as
heretofore, without his approval. The
Mayor, it is stated, declines to give his con-
sent to the change because it will lessen the
water receipts this year about $4,000, throw
ing that amount to be paid in the first quar-
ter OF the succeeding fiscal year.
Year: 1877

THE SAN DIEGO desert is spoken Of, by contributor to the santa Barbara Press, as place where they bile" tea by setting q cup of 1t out in the sand. The San Diego Union says the heat there was greater than usual last week ; tomatoes were cooked on the vines and the crop of beans dried to a crisp. San Diego must be a nice place to live in.
Year: 1877

A BIG FUSS FOR NOTHING.


Firing of cannons, ringing of bells, a
big feed for two hundred and fifty invited
guests at a cost of SO. 90 per head and all
this at the expense of the tax payers of
Wilmington Mr.. Editor, who are they
that are doing oil this? Are they the Wa
ter Commissioners who have whole con-
troll of the reservoir until 1t is finished /?
No sir; the Commissioners have too much
self-respect, and are trying to finish this
work with as little expense as they possi-
bly, can. But the leaders of this move
ment are part of the last Council who
through their extravaganza, were pushed
aside and Commissioners appointed over
their heads by the last Legislature at the
solicitation of the citizens of Wilmington.
would ask what Is in the event of the in
PRODUCTION of the Brandywine water to
merit such extravaganza? Comment is
unnecessary. Every Taxpayer of this city
knows that the Cool Spring Reservoir has
cost quite enough, and too much already
Can the movers in this matter expect those
invited guests TO participate under these
circumstances? think not


A TAXPAYER,
Year: 1877

1t was many and many year ago,
In kingdom by the sea, Gmay know
That a maiden there lived whom you
By the name of Annabel Lee
And the maiden she lived with no other


thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
| was a child and she was child
In this kingdom by the sea
But we loved with love that was more


than love-


I and my Annabel Lee heaven
With love that the winged seraphs of
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee
So that her high born kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me,
Yes ! that is the reason (as all men know
In this kingdom by the sea, night
That the wind came out of cloud by
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without


bringing me dreams


Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
And the stars never rise but / feel the


bright eyes


OF the beautiful Annabel Lee
And so all the night-tide, / lie down by


the side


OF my darling-my darling-my life


and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In the tomb by the sounding sea.
Year: 1877

This gentleman, so well known to the
merchants and people of East Tennessee
succeeds the firm of Bearden & McTeer
in the extensive clothing house at Knox
vile. His Spring and Summer stock Is
very large and complete, was purchased
at reduced prices, and his customers
will have the benefit of his intelligence.
While at Knoxville, last week, we had
an opportunity of pricing his goods, and
were astonished at the low prices Iald
upon them. A man can get good and
respectable suit anywhere between $lo
and $50 as he may select Everything
in the clothing line for gentleman can
be found at his store as low as anywhere
else in Knoxville or in the State.
Year: 1877

At the time Of the gold fever in
California, a man went from England
to the diggings. BY and by he sent
money for his wife and child to follow
him. They arrived safely in New
York, and there took passage ia one
of the beautiful Pacific steamers. A
few days after sailing, the terrible
cry Of Sire! fire p rang through
the ship. Everything that the cap
tain and sailors could do was done,
but it was no use, the fire rapidly
gained ground. AS there was a
powder magazin on board, the cap.
tain knew that the moment the
flames reached it the vessel would be
blown up; so be gave word to lower
life-boats. They were got out, but
there was not room for all. SO the
strong pushed in and left the weak
TO their fate. AS the last boat push.
ed off, mother and her boy we're on
the deck. and she pleaded to be ta-
ken on board. The sailors agreed
to take one but not both. What
did the mother do? did she jump in
herself. No; she kissed her boy, and
handing him over the side Of the
ship said, i'If you live to see your
father, tell him / die TO save YOU"
That was a great love, yet it is but
faint type of what Christ has done
for US.
Year: 1877

Necessity knows no refusal,


Your wants must all be supplied;
Take warning, and see us as usual.
Before your money is applied.
Remember we stick to the old adage,
OF quick sales and small profits too
And think of the other advantage,
selecting from a stock nice and neao'
In buying we have practiced economy
And recommend the same to you;
For tits the duty of every family,
To know we are selling close too.
So don't fail to call in to see us,


When you are passing our way,
You will find we are really solicitous,
To show you we mean all we say.


J. HI. TATE & Co.
Year: 1877

Public opinion in Germany is thus
reflected in o conversation between
two burghers Of Berlin, taken from
a Berlin paper: First Burgher-s'So
we are likely to have another war
with France?" Second Burgher-
"Let US pray they may thrash as. so
that they may be as poor as we are"
Year: 1877

A pretty young girl. whose Chris
tian name is Anna, took cigar from
q young gentleman who had not
pluck enough to say he wi he'd to
marry her, twirled it playfully be-
meath his nose looking archly az him,
popped the question thus Have
AnnaT'
Year: 1877

A negro burglar was caught while
in the act of breaking into store
house in Nashville, on the 9th inst.
and arrested by the policemen, but
before they got him to the lookup
they were surrounded by thirty or
forty men, pactly disguised, who
took the prisoner from them by force,
put rope around his neck and drag
ging him to the river threw him in
and drowned him. The neighbor-
hood had been infested with burglars
and robbers, and this was the plan
by which they proposed to get rid of
them. Later Nashville papers pro-
nounce this a hoax, gotten up by
some smart policeman, who will
likely retire to private life on account
of perpetrating SO poor d joke.
Year: 1877

WE were born to look upward and
onward. Were aspirations crushed
within US, we would remain as sterile
as the clods of the valley, shut away
from the heavenly influences of the
morning dew ard the midday sun.
shine
Year: 1877

Oft in fancy have builded


Airy castles to the sky,
And as oft I've seen them crumble


To the dust-where now they lie.
have longed to climb the mountain


That is called the Mount of Fame,
And upon its lofty summit


There to write an honored name.
But to-day l view the ruins


OF so many shattered dreams,
And the far. off Hight of Glory


Gray within the distance seems;
Yet the ceaseless, quenchless longing
Grows with appointment-pain,
And it may not fill my spirits


With its whispering in vain.
1t may bid the shapeless marble


Rise in beauty, grand and real,
And each sorrow prove chisel


That may shape the fine ideal;
Or, perchance, the inmost feeling
In pathetic verse may flow,
That would ne'er have had being
Had the soul not tasted woe;
Or, perhaps. should language fail me,
Grief in broken strains would sob,
And the pulse which beats in music
With some weary life might throb.
Year: 1877

We think that the power of money is, on
the whole, overestimated. The greatest things
which were done for the world have not been
accomplished by rich men, or by subscription
lists, but by men generally of small pecrniary
means. The greatest thinkers, discoverers'
inventors and artists have been men OF moder-
ate wealth, many of them little raised above
the condition of manual laborers in point OF
worldly circumstances. And it will always
be So Riches are oftener an impeachment than
a stimulus to action and in many cases they
are quite as much misfortune as a blessing.


The youth who inherits wealth is apt to have
life mode too easy for him, and SO grows
stated with it, because he has nothing left to
desire. Having no special object to struggle
for, he finds time too heavy on his hands
remains mentally and morally asleep; and
his position in society is often no higher than
that Of polypus over which the tide floats.
Year: 1877

Some men move through life as band OF
music moves down the street, t1inglng out
pleasure on every side through the air to
every one, far and near, who can llsten
Some men fill the air with their presence and
sweetness, AS orchards IN October days NIL
the air with the perfume of ripe fruit; Some
women cling to their own houses, like the
honeysuckle over the door, yet, likeit sweeten
all the region with the subtle fragrance OF
their goodness. There are trees of righte-
business. which are ever dropping precious
fruit around them. There are lives that
shine like star-beams, or charm the heart like
songs sung upon holy day.


How great bounty and blessing it is to
hold the royal gifts of the soul, so that they
shall be music to some, and fragrance to
others. and life to all. It would be no un-
worthy thing to live for, to make the power
which we have within US the breath OF other
mems Joy; to scatter sunshine where only
clouds and shadows reign; to fill the atm0s-
phere where earth's weary toilers must stand,
with brightness which they cannot create
for themselves, and which they long for, en-
Joy and appreciate.
Year: 1877

A WOMAN is either worth good deal or
nothing. If good for nothing she is not
worth getting jealous for; if she is true
woman she Will give no cause for jealousy:
A man is brute to be jealous of good
woman-a fool to be jealous of worthless
one; but is double fool to cut his throat
for either of them.
Year: 1877

Deacon Rathfel asked his family physician
last week "Doctor, you have such an ex-
tended experience at deathbeds, and have
seen so many 60 hence, that would like to
ask you what class are most resigned, and
die the happiest ?" The aged man cleared his
throat, and said: swell, Deacon have not
seen so very many deaths, but, SO far as L
have been able to learn, the people who die
the happiest are those who are hanged"
Year: 1877

In olden times supestitious persons,
when about to choose name for q child,
lighted number of torches OF an equal
length and thickness, to each of which they
gave name, and the name Of the torch
which burned the longest was that which
they chose for the child, imagining by this
means to insure it long life.