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Year: 1877

stitutional Democratic party and pref
cures the objects at which it must aim in
its future policy, we mean simp y that
Senator Bayard, not only in his political
convictions but in what may be called his
political temperament, in his tone of
mind and in his moral attitude before the
political problems of our day, represents
the i'd, al Democracy of the Union and
incarnates the spirit by which the coun-
sells of the Democratic party must he an
imated and its course controlled, II ii IL to
live as a party and 10 he intrusted by the
American people with the shaping of our
public policy at home and abroad. Wien
all things looked darkest, not for the
Democratic party only but for the Union
and for the prosperity and happiness OF
our country, the instructive faith of the
masses of the Democratic party in this
high-mi nded leader was a sign of promise
and hope 10 all who had eyes to see. Now
that the whole drift of public events has
done so much to vindicate Democratic
ides, and that the steady progress of the
party to power in all sections Of the coun-
try seems visibly assured, there could be
no better guarantee given to thoughtful
and patriotic men of the spirit in which
it will deal with all our national affairs,
and of the safety and prosperity TO be ex-
pected under its predominance, than this
chastened, earnest and temperate dis
courss of the Democratic, chieftain in
whom all sections and factions of the
party feel an equal pride, and who has
earned the confidence of them all by re-
fusing to palter for an instant with his
own convictions in order to propitiate
any one of them.
Year: 1877

THE BOYS HIGH SCHOOL CoMMEN CE-
MENT in the Opera House last night, was
attended by crowded audience, inclu-
ding many of our best citizens, showing
the deep interest our people take in the
public schools. The graduating class
only numbered nine. They acquitted
themselves very well, but did not show
as much confidence and self-reliance as
the female graduates on the previous
evening. This was, perhaps, occasioned
by tie boys imposing too much on them
selves Their essays were longer than
necessary and taxed the memory too
much. This will have be remedied in
the future, Or essays will have to be dis
pensed with, as it is presumed that after
the High School has been in existence a
few years the graduates will increase in
number very largely. 1t is said that in
1879 it will number perhaps thirty Eight
or fyrty. The attendance at these COM
mencements have seemed to give our
people real pleasure, which they have
sought with an eagerness that is to
some quite surprising, since before these
exercises were introduced it was difficult
to secure a respectable attendance at the
examinations. This feature has shown
itself wherever the High School has been
introduced. The higher and better the
schools are the more interest they attract,
and this truth has never been so forcibly
impressed upon the Board of Education.
We believe our people will commend the
Board for an advanced movement here.


The address of Rev. W. j. Stevenson
on the presentation of the Adams medal
to the successful competitor as the best
scholar in English grammar, and the adj
address of j. II. Hoflecker, Esq, to the
graduating class, were handsome efforts


drawing upon the speakers the closest at
tentlon and the most enthusiastic ap
plause at the close. They were such eff
forts as show forth the gifts and gra
ces of oratory as well as the accomplish
ments of learning and study. Surel.
the results of the popularizing TIN


schools through these exhibitions, AM


the elevation of the studies to the Eighe


branches of learning cannot fail to b


satisfactory and gratifying to the Boar


of Education as it is shown to be to til


great mass of the people.
Year: 1877

Of the thirty-eight States of the Union
only eleven were represented in the Ma
tional Encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, in Provdence,this week
OF the eleven represented, six were New
England States. Here in New York
many of the best and bravest men who
went to the front have no connection
with the Grand Army of these days.-N
N, Sun,
Year: 1877

At the season of the year when
the boys are out of school, they are
taxing their wits to the utmost
tension to find something to do to
procure pocket money, If not to as
sist their parents. One Of the hap
piest and most original devices for
this end that it has been our chance
to hear Of, is that of lad who in
vaded Brooklyn, and, noticing the
unusual number of kerosene lamps
in use in that city, he solicited the
Job of taking care of the same for
several store keepers. His price
was modest-ten cents per week
for each lamp--for which sum he
agreed TO trim and keep clean the
lamp, brush out the chimney, etc.
His success surprised him. He
soon had Fifty lamps TO look after,
and then his work increased so
that he engaged an assistant, pay
ing him n stated salary, and he, as
"boss," took the orders. This
young man has the care Of several
Year: 1877

Philip Gilbert Hamilton, in his
admirable papers on intellectual
Life," thus talks Of the paper:--
Newspapers are to the civilized
world what the daily house talk is
to the members Of the family-they
keep our daily interest In each
other, they save US from the evils
of isolation. To live as q member
Of the great white race that has fill
ed Europe and America and colon
lied or conquered whatever terri
tory 1t has been pleased to occupy,
to share from day to day its thought,
its cares. its inspiration, it is neces-
sary that every man should read
his paper. Why are the French
peasants so bewildered at seat It
is because they never read news
paper. And why are the inhabi-
tants OF the United States, though
scattered over territory fourteen
times the areas of France, so much
more capable of concert action, so
much more alive and modern, so
much more interested In new dis
coveries Of all kinds and capable
Of selecting and utilizing the best
Of them! II is because the news
papers penetrated everywhere, and
even the lonely dweller on the
prairie or the forest is not intellec-
tually isolated from the great cur
rents of public life which flow
through the telegraph and press"
Year: 1877

An Englishman has made and
communicated to the Philadelphia
Times the astonishing discovery
that the majority of American dogs
are low-bred ours. He bases his
judgement upon the fact that the
unfortunate dogs in question curl
their tails to the left, q breach
of etiquette of which no well-bred
dog could be guilty. Having his
curiosity excited about the matter
he employed policeman to take
note of such dogs as passed him on
his beat, and received the startling
information that ninety in every
hundred were left-handed in the
tail, so to speak. This may seem
like small matter to the cursory
observer of social and other phe-
nomena, but the deeper thinker
cannot fail to find in it q warning
that ninety in every hundred of
the dogs of America should be
painlessly extinguished. 1t is bad
enough to be disgrsced by poll.
ticians, without having the very
dogs held up by their left.curling
tails as evidences Of lack Of cul-
ture. The warning is all the more
significant In view Of the fact
which the observant foreigner also
states that the dog whose tail
curves esthetically to the right Is
too well bred to have hydrophobis.
Year: 1877

Printers are unlike any other
classes OF men. Their vocation
imparts to them an intelligence
that does not result from any other
business. Dealing with language
exclusively, in its combination Of
letters, words, sentences and para
graphs, they are constantly brought
into communion with thoughts and
their working, and thus the ideas
Of those minds whose creations
they help to embody into those
forms that give them to the world.
They literally get grammar at their
fingers ends while picking up the
types that form sentences that are
grammatical. Spelling comes to
them as natural as breathing, for
they fall into correct orthography
from force of habit. The charac-
teristics Of printers are not so ia
vorable to personal thrift as those
of other professions. They par
take of the human of artists in
some degree, and are generally lib
ersl to fault, thouGhtless Of the
future, and frequently improvident
for the preseut-fush when in
good situation, and dead broke
when on a tramp. They may be
said to be the working Bohemiaps
Of the world of operatives.
Year: 1877

Two young brothers may be as
devotedly attached to each other
as were Damon and Pythias, but
you will never hear of one snatch
ing the scuttle from the hands Of
the other and insisting upon going
down cellar TO bring up the coal
Year: 1877

One of Shelley's biographers says of
him: Shelley used to pick the turpen-
tine Of fir tree, and eat it with a relish,
or in walking through pine wood, he
would apply his tongue to a larch, and
lick it as it oozed in a liquid state from
the bark. I never met with anyone
else who had the same taste. I have ex-
postulated with him ON the subject, and,
of course, in vain ; and once related to
him little apologize, which was rather
more efficacious. L was once at ball
a very pleasant one it was-and we were
all dancing away merrily, but we were
obliged to desist, for all on a sudden the
fddlers stopped in the middle of tune
we told them to. play on, but they an
swered: "We cannot go ON with our
music, because that rascal, Bysshe, has
eaten up all our resin. " Sometimes,
when he was creeping stealthily up to a
fir tree, that he might lick it, my fable
of the poet and the fiddle would come
into his head, and he would turn aside,
laughing. The broken up ball, the en-
ragged musicians, the whole scene ap-
peared in O moment before his eyes.
Year: 1877

During recent violent storm a gen.
tleman living in North East, Nd, was
returning to that town from Philadel-
phia by the midnight train. On stepping
from the cars to the platform, he dis
covered that the planks were covered
with white substance resembling salt.
The next morning, after opening his
store, he went up stairs to see what
damage, if any, the storm had done.
Around the doors and windows he dis
covered a substance similar to what he
had noticed the night before. Having
his curiosity considerably aroused, he
concluded to examine into the matter,
80 he tasted the substance and found to
his astonishment that it was genuine
coarse salt. The circumstance was re-
lated to another gentleman living neal
by, and he Immediately recalled the fact
of pen of his having been out in the
rain on the same night, and, having put
the pen to his mouth before using it, he
noticed briny taste about it.
Year: 1877

A strange scene occurred the other
day at Sierck on the Moselle. Herr
Schmidt had dog which he wished to
get rid of. Rowing out into the middle
Of the river, he fastened a stone round
the dogs head and threw him into the
water. The animal sank at once +; but
during his struggles the rope slipped off
the stone, and he again rose to the sur
face and tried to get back into the boat.
His master, however, continued to push
him back, but as the dog persevered, he
lost his patience, and striking at him
with his oar, lost his footing and fell
into the water himself. He was unable
to swim. but the dog seizing him by his
coat, succeeded in bringing him to land,
after having been repeatedly washed
away by the current. The dogs life was
spared, We are happy to say,
Year: 1877

He was born when he was very young
in little town called Genoa, on little
gulf of the same name in the Mediter-
ranean Sea. suppose he was like
most all boys he had hoops, marbles
and tops, went to school, got whipped,
and was terrible hungry about dinner
time, and liked to go to Sunday
school when it was most Christmas
time; then maybe he felt bad when
he didn't get anything on the tree. I
guess when he got big he wanted to go
to the Black Hills or to Arizona, il
somebody would give him money. for he
had none of his own. think all boys
would like to be like Columbus, but l
don't think there are any more countries
to discover
Year: 1877

Duty cannot be plain in two diverging
paths.


1t is safer to affront some people than
to oblige them for the better man
deserves the worse they will speak of
him.


No company is far preferable to bad,
because we are much more apt to catch
the vices of others, as diseases are far
more contagious than health.


Never pronounce man to be will
full niggard until you have seen the con-
tents of his purse. The distribution
should be in accordance with the re-
ceipts.


There is nothing more to be esteemed
than manly firmness and decision Of
character. I like person who knows
his own mind and sticks to it who sees
at once what is to be done in given Cir
cumstances and does it.


Never fear superior mind for to
know much makes one very indulgent,
and to feel deeply inspires great kind
ness.


The expression of grief is alike from
one end of the world to the ether and
from the savage to the king there is
something alike in all men when they are
truly happy.


Civility is to man what beauty is
to q woman. It creates an instantaneous
impression in his behalf, while the OPP
posite quality excites as quick preju-
dice against him. 1t is real ornament,
the most beautiful dress that woman
can wear, and worth more as means Of
winning favor than the finest clothes and
iaua1a avar WORN
Year: 1877

| CONTINUED FROM LAST 1ssUE.)


TO the Hon. E. w. Stoug;, ton:


RECOGNIZED BY THE CARPET
| 1t is hardly possible to imagiue any


thing more preposterous than your no.


tion that these laws, which give the pow
| er Of appointment so distinctly and 50


exclusively to the people, do not give it


to them because a Returning Board is


authorized to cOllatc the votes, add them
together, and ascertain what choice the


people have made; that the power to in
spect the record of the election and certi-


fy the result is the power elect; that the


right of the people t" choose their State
officers and Presidential Electors Is only
the power to send up names to the re-
turning officer, who may choose them or
elect them at his pleasure; that when the
people have made one appointment and
the Returning Board another, the latter
is the due appointment, and the former
no appointment at all.


will not trouble you with judicial de-
cisions OH this point, or with arguments
derived from he established canons Of
construction, for they would make no i'm
preston on your mind. But think can
stagger you by citing the authority of
those mighty jurists and statesmen who
until recently, ran the government of
Louisiana so much to your admiration.
All of them, ithout exception and
"without distinction of race, color or
former condition of servitude, conceded
the exclusive right and the unqualified
power of the people to appoint electors of
President and Vice President for their
state. This concession was not only
made in words, it was avowed in every
act they performed, from the beginning
to the end of their domination.


When Kellogg and his associates wan
ted the appointment of electors they
asked the people forit, and they acknowl-
edged in a thousand forms that the peo-
pie alone could give it. The returning
officers themselves never denied the pow
er of the people to choose and appoint
whom they pleased for electors as we'll
as for Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
and other State officers. Their certifi-
Gates, whether false OF true, did not pre-
Ueuu W De pFOpFtO OtyOTe an dpoOluClncLE.
Every one of these papers purported on
its face to be a mere declaration of the
appointment previously made by the peo-
pie. No ca ndidate who obtained one of
them ever undertook to use it except as
evidence of pre-existing righG derived
from popular vote in his favor. The
doctrine that the Returning
Board could create title to an elective
office was never oven broached, unless to
be universally condemned as untenablc. !
1t is a pity that in your long, frequent
and atfectionate intercourse with the ne
groes and carpet-baggeis at New Orleans |
you dig not pick up little knowledge of |
law.


Failing to find any justification in the !
law for those who did this deed, You must /
leave them without an excuse OF find one
in the facts of the case. Your demurrer
is preposterous sham, and you must an
swer over. Was the true vote of Louis
lana counted or not?


THE FACT AS TO LOUISIANA.


The great fundamental fact which un
lerlies all others in regard to Louisiana,
Year: 1877

FISHING IN LAKE TAHoE.-A CORES
pondent of the Evening Post has been
writing some charming letters from the
Pacific slope. In his last he describes
Lake Tahoe, and speaks as follows of
the fish: "The fishing is excellent, and
the pleasure of hauling out salmon
trout weighing twenty-five pounds is
equalled only by their appearance af-
terward on the table. Do you know
how to cook a salmon trout? First
catch him, and then kill him. Do not
allow him to die a natural death of air
suffOcation. Excavate him sew him
up in napkin; boil him from twenty
to thirty minutes, according to his size
serve him up with cream sauce, and
then call us to the table. These pre-
liminaries being duly observed, we are
ready at all times to accept invita-
tions."
Year: 1877

In all Southern, and partly also in
Central Russia, sheep-breeding is car
ried on upon scale approaching that
of Australia or California. The owners
and shepherds have an invaluable as
sistant in the huge aud clever creatures
especially called sheep-dOgs. They are
shepherd born, just as pure-blOOd set
ter is a hunter born, and two or three
of these noble beasts, under the direc-
ton of only one man, will drive out to
pasture Il flock of sheep of several thou
sand head, and keep them in perfect
order, never allowing them to transgress
certain line, and effectually keeping
the wolves from them. A good sheep
dog can easily dispose of wolf in sin
eral attached to each flock. They take
up their position around it, and the mo
ment a sheep strays beyond the pre-
scribed line, the nearest dog gently but
firmly drives it back. These dogs are
mostly black or grey, often immense,
and always above the average size.
When taken care of, their hair is re-
markably long and fine; but they lose
this beauty in the field, for it soon be-
comes tangled and matted into an un-
distinguishable mass, hanging in knotted
fringes often down to the very ground.
In pouring autumn rain, of the kind
that lasts whole days, you can frequent
ly see sheep-dog lying uncOncernedly
in the open air, curled up in a round
heap, from which the water runs down
without penetrating to the warm, dry
skin, protected by the shaggy, uncouth,
real waterproof coat. These dogs are
great favorites, and kept very common
ly in the courtyards of country man.
siOns, being most excellent and trust
worthy watch-dOgs, gentle and kind,
and only fierce where occasion requires,
in defence of house, man or sheep in
trusted to their care.-Spirit Of the
Times.
Year: 1877

V A beautiful young heiress in Mos
COW has married beggar eighty six
years old. 1t has queer look at first,
but nothing could be more natural.
The young girl-she is only twenty-five
could not enter into possession of her
fortune until she was married, and the
young men whom her guardians intro
duced to her were empty headed crea-
lures, to whom she was unwilling to
bind herself for life so she resolved to
marry an old beggar and get the money
without sacrificing her independence.
The old man was one of her pensioners,
and readily consented to marry her and
then keep out of her way, retiring on a
comfortable allowance. All the beg
gars in town feasted and made merry
on the wedding night.
Year: 1877

where shaft 65 feet deep is to be sunk,
and the tunnel then pushed out into the
river. The workmen are to be followed
as they advance by massive wooden
plug, and air is to be supplied by an
engine above, the current also whisking
out the disengaged earth through pipe.
The tunnel will be about two miles
long, 26 feet wide and "a high, con-
structed of the best brick and cement,
and will be about Is feet below the
rivers bed. Work is to be carried on
at both ends at once.
Year: 1877

WINTER CARE OF CHILDREN.-Every


one must remark that a favorite article
of winter clothing for children is COM
forter swathed around the neck. This
is great error; the feet and the wrists
are the proper members to keep warm
the face and throat will harden into
healthy indifference to cold but that
muffier, exchanged for an extra pair oi
thick socks and knitted gloves, would
preserve boy or girl really warm and
we'll. Bronchitis and sore throat have
declined fifty per cent. since the absurd
use of high collars and twice-round
Year: 1877

Beneath the moonlight and the snow
Lies dead my latest year;
The winter winds are wailino low
Its dirges in my ear.
Igrieve not with the moaning wind
As if loss befell;
Before me, even as behind.
God is, and all is WE'LL
his light shines on me from above,
His low voice speaks Within
The patience of immortal love
Outwearying mortal sin.
Not mindless of the growing years,
OF care and loss and pain.
My eyes are wet with thankful tears
For blessings which remain.
If dim the gold of life has grown,
willnot count it dross,
Nor turn from treasures still nv own
To sigh for lack and loss
The years no charm from Nature take;
As sweet her voices call,
As beautiful her mornings break.
As fair her evenings fall
Love watches DER my quiet ways,
Kind voices speak my name,
And lips that find it hard to praise
Are slow, at least, to blame.
How softly ebb the tides of will
How fields, once lost or won,
Now lie behind me green and still
Beneath a level sun,
How hushed the hiss of party hate
The clamor of the throngl
How old. harsh voices of debate
Flow into rhythmic songi
Methinks the spirits temper grows
Too soft in this still air
Somewhat the restful heart foregoes
OF needed watch and PRAYER.
The bark by tempest vainly tossed
May founder in the calm,
And he who braved the polar frost
Faint by the isles of balm.
Better than self-indulgent years
The outfung heart of youth;
Than pleasant songs in idle ears
The tumult of the truth.
Rest for the weary hands is good,
And love for hearts that pine,
But let the manly habitude
OF upright souls be mine.
Let winds that blow from heaven refresh
Dear Lord, the languid air;
And let the weakness of the flesh
Thy strength of spirit share.
And, if the eye must fail of light,
The ear forget to hear
Make clearer still the spirits sight,
More fine the inward earl
Be near me in mine hours of need
To soothe, or cheer, OF warn,
And down these slopes of sunset lead,
As up the hills of morn!


-Rhittier.
Year: 1877

BURNING CoAL.-A common mistake
in the use of coal is the placing of too
large quantity in the stove or CRATE at
once. Coal to burn freely, should only
be six inches deep in the vessel contain
ing il, and then if properly ignited,