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Year: 1877

"You see that hoss, don't you ~ caIt ed
out woman about forty years of age, as
she drove up to Grand River avenue
blacksmith shop yesterday.


The smithscame out and said that his
sight was good.


II want shoe on that right hind foot
right at once" she continued and she
jumped down and had the. horse almost
out of the wagon before the smith reached
the curbstone. She led the beast into the
shop, sat down on the bench and prepared
to take a smoke, and as the blacksmith took
down shoe she observed


'No fooling, now [ want that shoe to
stick to that foot for whole year You
can't impose on me cause I'm woman "


After the hoof had been prepared the
horse suddenly became restive, dancing
around and bothering the blacksmith so
that he could not proceed


"You don't seem to have had any ex-
perience with horses" remarked the wo-
man, as she rose up and laid her pipe aside.
81 know this beast from Dan'l to Berthesda,
and you jist Git back little


The smith retreated few feet and the
woman caught the horse by the bits, gave
him two hundred pound kick in the ribs
and yelled


"Whoa Charles Hemy-git around
there-stand over and take that-and this
and some more Now come up and toe
the mark


Charles Henry kicked the anvil off the
block as she Kicked his ribs, but she kicked
the hardest, and when the blacksmith stuck
his head into the shop, the horse was hall
way over a bench, but as quiet as lamb.


"Now proceed, said the woman, as she
picked up her pipe. "When hoss goes
to foolin' around me and aching for row,
he's laying up a sorrow for his gray hairs. y
Year: 1877

A rather elderly darkey was inquiring
of a policeman if he knew anything of his
son Pete


The policeman replied that there was a
young darkey in the lock up, who had a
mouth like a stable door, and piece bitten
out of one of his ears, that was locked up
for breaking up prayer meeting with an
axe handle.


"Dat's him, exclaimed the overjoyed pa
rent she told me as how he was gwine to
muse hisself"
Year: 1877

A good banion remedy is to use pull
verified saltpetSe and sweet oil obtain at
the druggists five or six cents worth OF
saltpetre, put into bottle with sufficient
olive oil to nearly dissolve it; shake up
well, and rub the inAamed parts night and
morning, and more if painful. This is a
well-tried remedy.
Year: 1877

A clergyman in Northern Indiana ascend
ed the pulpit the other Sunday and said =
mo man can serve the Lord while he has
the jumping toothache. l therefore dis
miss the congregation. s.
Year: 1877

IT 1s MISTAKE to suppose that the Elec-
toral Commission will adopt any new rule
for deciding the Presidential question.
They are required to administer the law as
it existed on the day the Presidential cleo
tors were chosen-that is to soy, as it exists
at present, for the law has not been altered
since. IN cases where there are two certii-
Gates from State they arc to decide which
of the two is legal on precisely the same
principles that Congress itself should pursue
in such questions. Their superiority to
Congress consists in their higher intelli-
gence and greater impartiality. They will
have no authority to 60 beyond the law or
against the facts.
Year: 1877

LET Us HAVE PEACE. cE.-Everyt ything favors
vigorous revival of business if we can set
tie our political troubles Prices are 80 low
that there is little danger of a further de-
cline; the small premium on gold shows
that we are within short step of specie
payments labor is waiting to be employed
and offers it's services for moderate wages !;
the only thing needed to set all the wheels
of enterprise in motion is that confidence
in the future which Congress can at once
impart by passing the pending bill. The
universal aspiration of the business and in
dustrial classes is, let us have peace! 1t is
only partisans and camp-followers that
try to obstruct an immediate settlement.
Of course, all the shoddyites and army con-
tractors of the late war would be glad Of
new harvest. There will be wars and I
shall sutler be" is the thought nearest the
hearts of these soulless citizens.
Year: 1877

II Is fortunate that the area Of heavy pre-
cipitation which caused the foods in the
Ohio and Cumberland rivers has been linn
tied to that of the Ohio Valley region. If it
had extended into the watersheds Of the
Upper Mississippi and the Missouri rivers
we might now be recording the de-
struction Of levees and the inundation OF
the bottom lands along the lower
course of the Father of Waters"
While the Ohio and its tributaries were
gorged with the foods descending from
their respective watersheds the upper
portion of the Mississippi and the entire
length of the Missouri were 80 unaffected
by the recent heavy storms of rain and
snow as to add but little beyond the
ordinary flow 70 the volume OF
water entering the Lower Mississippi
at Cairo. Hence the latter river below that
city was low and ready to receive the sur
plus from the Ohio Valley without exhibit
ing any remarkable disturbance Of its levels.
The damage caused by the doods was
therefore, confined to the region in which
they originated. II, as we stated above, the
immense watersheds of the Mississippi and
Missouri had been proportionately affected
by the storms as was that of the Ohio
Valley, the destruction of property would
have been unparalleled, for the united
waters would have continued to be precipi-
tated into a reservoir, or rather channel al
ready filed. The danger line" would
have been overtopped at all points and the
adjacent country inundated. The possbil-
ity Of this occurring any year should awaken
ger, and induce them to exert themselves
to provide against such contingency by
raising and strengthening the Mississippi
levees.
Year: 1877

To put and keep our policeman in proper
physical condition for his duties no day
should pass without at least half an hours
vigorous exercise of the muscular and
respiratory organs, something equivalent
practically to the Englishman's "constitu-
tional" Of course it can best come out of
his hours off duty. Nothing will better fit
him for quick foot work when a criminal is
to be caught than frequent running. Let
any patrolman. divesting himself Of his
heavier clothing, run three or four minutes
daily on any gymnastic track. at the merest
make believe pace, and he will be astonished
at the improvement in his wind and staying
power, even in a week. while, then grad
unlly quickening his pace, in less than
month he will find, if he has any stuff


in him fit to make a policeman of
at all, that he can do his mile In
really creditable time few minutes of
sharp work each day with dumb bells or the
striking bag, combined with this foot work,
will go far toward making these naturally
vigorous and often powerful men handy ard
swift in their movements and awkward Gus
toners for even the most formidable villain
to encounter, while the whole force will
quickly tel the improved tone and self
respect which active, vigorous condition
brings. Nor would it hurt the patrolmen at
all il good sparring masters were at work
steadily among them, teaching the possi-
bilitics Of the fist and skill in warding off
blows when there is not time to reach q
weapon. From the many hundred police in
this city once train off and then keep of fifteen
or twenty tons of worse than useless adipose
and introduce and insist on an erect car
riage Of the body. even though trace-strap
collar has to be worn while to force them
to hold their heads as they ought. Not
only on the next Broadway parade will they
make what they have never yet done. an
actually imposing spectacle. but in down.
right effectiveness the casual observer will
ut once detect a most marked and very
welcome improvement--one which viii
augur most encouragingly for the interests
Of life and property in our busy city.
Year: 1877

The gentlemen who are to meet Mayor
Ely, Comptroller Kelly and the other heads
Of city departments tomorrow. will, no
doubt be able to offer some good advice
on the subject Of the management of the
city debt and the general economizing of the
city expenditures It is agood sign that our
present municipal managers seek by counsel
with prominent citizens to interest the tax
payers in their own affairs and to suffer the
people to understand their exact financial
condition. We may not find any imme-
diate advantage from the conference,
but it will lay the groundwork. no doubt.
for useful reforms and will render easier the
carrying out of the commendable policy of
reducing the interest on all future city
bonds


We insist that the present harmonious
city government can, under the existing
charter, give us an efficient. economical gov
ernment and all necessary reforms. There
is nothing in the law to compel the employ
ment of single needless city official. Bu-
reaus can be swept away, offices consoli-
dated, needless expenditures stopped, deslr-
able improvements promoted and the rate of
interest reduced without changing line of
the present law Hence there is no neces-
sity for any charter tinkering this session.
and all bills purporting TO reform this de-
partment and to change that should be re-
garded with disfavor. Some sort of job
generally lies hidden in these patchwork
measures. and as we are soon to have before
us the propositions Of the Municipal Char
ter Commission it is not worth while to
try new experiments that can only have
brief life at best. Our present city rulers
can give us good government if they de-
sire to do so, and if they do not they will
be held responsible for the failure.
Year: 1877

In ANOTHER COLUMN will be found some in
formation about one of those scmi-military. semi
political organizations whose actual tendencies
almost sure to be dangerous. None Of them
exert particle of influence upon sensible men,
and all of them excite the unbalanced element
of the old army to thoughts and deeds that are
utterly unjustifable in n Republic. The duty Of
good citizens toward such cliques is to keep out
of them, watch them and mercilcssly crush
them, no matter what their politics may be. the
moment they become us mcddlcsome in act as
they are in spirit.
Year: 1877

THE MoDocs are going into agriculture in
the Indian Territory. We hope there will be no
delay in making the necessary appropriations for
implements, seeds, &c. We could bny each one
of them model farm, q handsome house and
grand piano with the usual purchase money Of
one dead ModOc.
Year: 1877

AN HONEST, INTELLIGENT TRIBUNAL is all that
IL desired by men confident in the justice Of their
cause. If Hayes is legally elected an upright tr-
bunal will declare; if Tilden is elected such q
tribunal will declare that Which is more likely
to decide corrcctly--a commission composed of
Htteen eminent statesmen and jursts sworn TO do
Justice and acting under sense of responsibility
or the extravagant, oiice-seekng brigade on
both sides. who noisily asseverate that their own
candidate is surely elected and ready to fight
for his inauguration
Year: 1877

OUR ABSTRACT of Rev. Fred Bells sermon in
defence of the stage should be read by those
who are unsparng in their condemnation of all
things theatrical. The stage has its faults, and
some of them are of grave nature, but they
will remain unchanged by the criticisms Of the
religious public while those criticisms exhibit a
deplorable ignorance of the real status of the
stage and while the efforts of conscientious man.
ayers go entirely unnoticed by those who should
be the first to recognize and commend them.
Year: 1877

held it would still be competent for Con-
gress to prescribe the method he should fol-
low and provide the agents through which
he should act This is true Of oil
powers vested in all officers, even
the powers of the President himself The
constitution declares in explicit language
that "the executive power shall be vested in
President, but Congress creates executive
departments, prescribes the duties of their
heads, and the President can exercise his
power only according TO law. The Presi-
dent is commander-in-chief of the army;
but he can exercise this power only accord
ing to Law. Wherever the power to count
the votes is lodged Congress is competent to
regulate it in virtue Of its broad and ex-
.plicit authority ''to make all laws necessary
and proper" for executing call powers vested
by this constitution in the government of
the United States or any department or off,
Ger thereof"
Year: 1877

''ONLY THE BUSINESS MEN Of the country
favor the Electoral bill" is the cry of the
politicians, land they do SO because they
think is will benefit the industrial and
trading interests" Well are not the ''in-
dustrial and trading interests" little more
important than the question as to which set
Of partisans shall enjoy the fat Offices Of the
government for the next four years
Year: 1877

It is o rule to which there has never been
an exception that the Vice President or
President pro tempore of the Senate, always
acts under the direction Of the two
houses Of Congress when the electoral
votes are counted in their presence.
There has never been an instance when
they did not fix the place of meeting,
never an instance when they did not appoint
tellers, nor when the tellers did not count
the votes. The President of the Senate
has never counted them on any oc-
casion, but has always Immediately
on opening the certificates handed them
to the tellers. He has never declined to
entertain nm objection offered by a men,
Der of either House, and has never assumed
to decide any question connected with the
correctness of any certificate or the validity
of any electoral VOTE Congress has always
those rules have always been followed by
the President of the Senate. So far as any
record, certificate or document asserts that
the Vice President counted the electoral
votes, it asserts what was not true in fact.
The very form of the certificate which was fol-
lowed for SO long period was drawn up and
prescribed by the Senate and signed by the
Vice President in obedience to its direction.
Had Congress prescribed any other form he
would have signed it with equal readiness.
Those who claim on the strength OF that
form that he did presumptively. though not


q Ill H. A.
admit that, in legal intendment. the count
ing by others under the direction of Con-
gress was the act of the Vice President. But
If this is all they mean the claim they make
for the President Of the Senate is futile. If
the acts done by the tellers under the direc-
ton of Congress were his acts then the
decisions made by the electoral tribunal
in pursuance Of law Of Congress
will be also his decisions It really
makes little difference what power Is
claimed for him or denied to him so long
as Congress prescribes the mode Of its exer-
else and selects its own agents to conduct
every part of the process save the mere open
ing the certificates. The truth is that this
is the only thing that the constitution
requires or permits HIM to do. 1.-The votes
shall then be counted"-by whom? The
constitution does not say; but it does say,
Congress shall have power to make all
laws necessary and proper for carrying into
execution the foregoing powers, and oil
other powers vested by this constitution in
the government of the United States, or in
any department or Office thereof"


The PRESS or THE COUNTRY takes interest
in but one topic-tle all-absorbing question
of the Electoral Commission. This great
Year: 1877

WASTE OF LAND.-If O farm of 160
acres is divided by fences into fields Of
ten acres each, there are five miles of
fences. II each fence now is one rod
wide, 10 less than ten acres of land are
occupied by them. This is equal to six
and one-fourth per cent. of the farm, and
the loss of the use OF the land is exactly
equal to a charge of six and one-fourth
per cent. on the whole value of the farm.
But nearly every fence row in the coun-
try is made a nursery FOR weeds which
stock the whole farm, and make an i'm
plense amount of labor necessary to keep
them from snothering the crops. Much
damage always results to the crops from
these weeds, and if these expenses are
added to the first one, the whole VIII
easily sum up to twenty per cent. or a
tax Of one-hfth Of the value Of the farm.
10 remedy this we would have fewer
fences, OF we would clean and SOW down
the fence rows to grass or clover. and
NOW them twice q year. Ten acres of
clover or timothy would at least supply
a farm with seed and a few tons of hay
every wear. We would in short consid-
er the rows as q valuable part of the
farm. and use them as such.-Eir.
Year: 1877

No MORE WAR FOR Us.-Ihe Atianta
(Ga.) Constitution says: The war talk
we see in the newspapers is not refresh
ing Tt makes us shudder. There is
something 50 sanguinary in the spect-
acle of consumptive editor, with his
shirt collar cut low in the neck, and his
pantaloons calling loudly for reform,
squatting himself upon his eloquent
launches and firing offimaginary horse
pistols, that we inyoluntariiy desire to
retreat to the rear. Not that we are
opposed to war-not at ali; but if there
is to be war, we want the patriots of the
north and west to have it out among
themselves. The south has been crush
ed in the struggle, and the northern
democrats have stood by and watched
the crushing process with infinitely
more curiosity than interest. Howbeit
the turn of the wheel has brought them
face to face with the same deadly ele
ments of despotism. If they submit,
well. If they resist, they must fight on
their side of the line.
Year: 1877

IL New York a new method has been
devised for loading vessels with cotton,
by which it is claimed at least one-fourth
more cotton can be packed in vessels
hold than heretofore. The cotton is
first pressed in a compressing machine,
and bound with iron bands, as is usual
with all cotton cargoes. The bales are
then put into the ship, side by side, and
pressed longitudinally into their places
by patent hydraulic machine. They
thus get a pressure both ways, and it is
this second pressure that makes this
saving of room. The entire cotton car
go thus forms compact mass in the
hold, and its weight is proportionately
SO much greater than ordinary cotton
cargoes that the necessity for ballasting
the ship is obviated.
Year: 1877

was momentary pause another ember
fell, and L recognized the PROSTATE form
of the girl of the stone mission. She
crept closer when her head touched the
face of Grey, and there was a sound as
| ii lips touched in q fervent kiss. Then q
knife cleaned, and I heard the thongs
that bound the captive snap as the liga-
ments separated.


He was as free as air. Another flash
from The almost dead embers, and saw
two brawny arms twined round the neck
Of the strange girl, whose head was nest
led in the desperado's bosom. Only a
moment, and he stood butkling belt,
containing pistol and knife, around his
waist He lifted his saddle and blankets
from the ground, and soon the tall out
law and the strange girl faded in the
darkness that enveloped the camp.


Morning, sober and staid, came on,
and one by one the Texans arose from
their blankets, and as they stretched
their drowsy limbs they mechanically
looked for Grey.


He had fed


They swore loud and deep, and gal
loped to the mission and aroused its
sleeping inmates but they could give
no information in relation to the outlaw.
Next they visited the abode OF the girl
Of the mission. Her room was entered,
but it was found empty. ~


'sWe must give up the search" said
Haskell the little tigress turned him
loose. He is armed and will fight like q
demon beside he is many miles on his
way to the Nueces. This is bad work
for u.s. Tie latter sentence he mutter-
ed in low tones, as if dreaming of the
future.


The rangers left me at the mission,
and one month from the night of Nus
tang Grey's escape [ was again in Vic
toria on the Gaudaloupe, where / learn
ed that the girl was the daughter of Grey
and that she inherited all the ferce traits
of her father. =


That eyentful night she rode in the
gloom in the direction Of the Rio Gran
de, the route to which wild stream she
knew as well as any frontier scout.
While the conflict ragged between the
United States and Mexico, Mustang
Grey proved himself Of service as scout
and carrier in the American service, and
] II l. L. -,
wound and died at Puebla.


The history of the child is unknown,
as she faded from sight and memory OF
men, as she sunk into the darkness OF
the night when she and her father fled
from the old mission.
Year: 1877

The Silver State tells as follows how
a Nevada Chinaman was inducted into
one Of the mysteries Of American civil
zation: There is an angry Chinaman
in town to-day. He engaged in a
friendly game Of draw, last evening,
with a white man who had been study
ing "Schenck's Poker Rules" They
played for an hour or two without any
apparent advantage on either side.
Then the Chinaman got four kings and
an ace, and according to his barbaric
idea Of the game, that was an invinci-
BILE hand. He saw his adversary's bets
and kept raising him until there was
s410 In the pot, and he had no more to
bet. He then called, throwing down
four king and an ace, and was Mortified
when his adversary showed four aces
and king and took the money. He
does not yet seem to understand why
there were so many aces and kings in
the deck.
Year: 1877

II we die to-day, the sun will shine as
brightly, and the birds will sing rs sweet
", to morrow Business will not be sus.
pended moment, and the great mass
will not bestow thought upon our mem
ories Is he dead p will be the SOL
emn inquiry Of few as they pass to
their work. But no one will miss us cx.
cept our immediate connections, and in a
short time they will forget us, and laugh
as merrily as when we sat beside them.
Thus shall we all, now active In life, pass
away. Our children close behind us, and
they will soon be gone. In few years,
not living being can say, !" ! remember
him" We lived in another age, and did
business with those who slumber in the
tomb Thus is life! How rapidly 1t
passes!
Year: 1877

"
See from this how much each your build
House. Jail Alma The work the will
$4,000 Then levy and collect this County his
reduce would
$4,000 Now how would portion this?
You easily From this readily which affects
rebuild here greatest
number would benefited
change and how would be and injured personally





Lees Greek and Upper townships These number 1861 voters who
Then
Shepherd Mountain part of Lafayette and lehan that far nconven
distance concerned materially affected Alma Vine Prairie
would
500 polls Now control 1864 polls who by
W Shall they the the what will eventually
$4,000 instead the required rebuild in Van Buren, outside
what Van Buren, Van Burcn township only about
s9l6 Now the voters County who know to be gentlemen of





minds whether under obligations around Alma
Others and make the the county tho heavy
Alma: ;a.tt
the eight miles which little
We
simply poax and had nothing but personal feelings
Tis
We know the material which county made we'll This
be driving the tables
good for reference and


C. D, or CRAWFORD DEMocRAr alas B J. BRowN.
Year: 1877

III, BT#
promised the should
the removal the call the attention the
Crawford County facts and figures of noticing the Wholesale abuse of
by the ptouseang the Herald the mouthpee of tho advo
Alma We their the following tables of taxable
property township required from each for rebuilding the
House here Van Buren, number of polls each township
We then not casually but rather examine thoroughly
these taken from the Assessment Books of the County and



Statement Amount Of Taxable Property each Township Of Crawford County
and Amount be Paid by Each Township for Court House Tax for