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Year: 1877

DECLINE OF THE DRAMA.-The Chi
nese Iheater Troupe, after Il stay Of more


than six months packed up bag and bag
gage and left this week for green fields
ana pastures new. As is well known,


women never take a part on the Celestial


Stage the part of females always being
taken by men or boys. The heather who
took the female part here was ugier than
SIN itself. Our last visit to the Theater
was two or three weeks ago, when a son
ana heir was born to some one the dig
hItares, and She aforesaid son and heir,
made Of rags" was exhibited to the ad
mrng audience. We understand that
the Thcspians complain, and justly, Of
the lack of appreciation of the historical
drama in this place, as they are compelled
10 leave few hundred dollars in debt.
FromAhs it would seem that "China-
men and Mclean man all the same some
times"
Year: 1877

Washington, June 25.-The president in
an interview with Col Keatney, editor Of
the Memphis Appeal, said he was very anx-
ious to visit the south aud meet in their
homes the leading men of that section. He
felt satisfied that the spirit of fraternity be
tween the sections was rapidly gaining in
strength He thought the people of the
south should encourage immigration of
the vigorous and enterprising men of the
north. The president was desirous Of
hearing as 80 the progress Of education in
the south, particularly among the colored
people. He remembered when the profes-
sors of OoerlIn college, Ohio, who went
south to teach negroes, wrote back ac-
counts Of inhosptable treatment in that
section, but the accounts from there now
were of a different character The presi.
dent is exceedingly interested in the stats
tcal statement concerning the education Of
negroes.


CALLED FOR a GENEVA AWARD


Washington, June 25-An insane mar
called at the executive mansion to-day tC
obtain an order for the payment TO him o
a Geneva award. He had large bundle 0
papers supporting his claim.
Year: 1877

All of US al times speak too fast,
with too little consideration of how
our words may sound and be taken by
the hearer; hence We say things that
we regret and things that we do not
mean-things that bear a double con-
struction the furthest removed from
our intention, and which strikes on
our senses only when. too late to be
recalled. .. .-s.F
Year: 1877

Nothing Is less sincere than our
manner OF asking and Of giving ad.
vice. He who asks advice would
seem to have a respectful Difference for
the opinion of his friends; whilst yet
he only aims al getting by own ap-
proved Of, and his friend responsible
for his conduct. On the other hand,
he who gives it, repays the confidence
supposed to be placed in him by
seemingly disinterested zeal, whist he
seldom means any thing by the advice
he gives but his own interest or repu.
hsioh' f1 llpTa
Year: 1877

The matinee given BY Mr. Tracy and Miss
Murdoch, last Friday, deserves more than pass


ing notice. The audience was quite large and
select, but not so large IS it ought to have been.
Musical people ought certainly to avail themselves
of this rare opportunity Of hearing the piano
played by an artist of such intelligence and great
executive ability. Mr.. Tracy studied three years


in Germany, under the ablest masters, among
whom was the renowned List. His execution
Is nearly perfect, and whatever style of music he
plays, is done with comparative ease, in power,
fluent execution, and IN artistic grace and finish
of expression. The Rigolette Fantsse OF Liszt is
marvel Of Difficult lties, but 1t was rendered in q
Year: 1877

While at work on the dam, Saturday forenoon
one Of the workmen missed his footing and
plunged headlong into the kennebec, below the
dam, disappearing under the water, and as it was
expressed by fellow workman shutting the
door after him He arose from his involuntary
bath and scrambled ashore. We find that these
rivermen are very indifferent to danger. They
walk tight across the top Of the dam, when sew
eral inches of water are running over it. Whom
they happen to drop tool which they are using
Oh the work, they dive for it.
Year: 1877

Collector Lane, having notified all taxpayers
of the amount of their taxes by personal notice
or by leaving note at their last and usual places
Of abode, will make no further demand except
accompanied with costs. The last hour of grace
10 entitle those who have not paid their taxes to
the discount of eight per cent will be at p NJ,
on Thursday Of this week. The Collector re-
quests to say that the hammer will fall at pre-
cisely that hour. A larger number have paid
their taxes than ever before at this period in the
season.
Year: 1877

We understand paper is being circulated for
signatures to form base ball club. The right
fellows have taken hold of it, which is of itself
sufficient guaranty that business is meant, and
we hope they will meet with the success they de-
serve, and that we shall have frst-class orgsni
cation in this city. If sufficient encouragement Mt
is offered all the principal clubs of state will play
here, including the Portland Reds, and possibly
the famous Reds Of Boston.
Year: 1877

fellow in this city, who if he had the ntel-
gence of dumb animal, would never whip his
dog in the shameful manner he does, should be
taken in hand by the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals,
Year: 1877

A story of the old sort has just been ended A.
New York in the death at Bellevue hospital Of .
handsome, fashionably dressed young girl calling
herself Maud Simpson. She said she became an
orphan when very young, and was put under the
care of rich uncle at Calais and brought up as
one of his children. Her beauty brought her
many admirers, one of whom ruined her under
promise of marriage, and then went to New York.
The girl fed to Boston in the spring and. after
trying dress-msking for . while, began life Of
shame. In June she went to New York, but was
soon taken sick and died Tuesday. She refused
to give the of her betrayer. but it is thought
that the name by which she called herself is his.
Year: 1877

EDITOR REPUBLIcAN:


The retrospect afforded by the obsery-
ance of the status quo upon the part OF the
Nichols party compels the observer to
emile in view of the effects q continuance
legal government Of the State of Louisiana.


To contemplate that the State arsenals,
the police stations and later the Offices of har-
Dor masters and hay inspectors have been
seized in violation Of the said status quo,
and no remonstraDce on the part of the
President of the Uuited States against this
violation, places this correspondent in
dilemma in relation TO the modern definition
of the term.


We all see the manner in which the legal
government is affected by its provisions as
carried out, but we think It strange that
the President Of the United States does not
use the power of his Office in compelling an
equal obedience from both sides.


However, as this is not the case, what is
the duty of Governor S. B. Packard in the
premiseal His duty is to utilize all the
means in his power to eounteract the pro
ceedings of the Nichols party.


1t is said that if the general government
leaves the Republican party in Louisiana
alone, it will die of it's own weakness. We
say, let the Republicans of Lsuisiana leave
the Democrats alone, and they will not. be
able to maintain themselves. The Repub
licsns Of the State believe in Governor
Packard; they believe in his patriotism and
all the qualities that make real man
Let him give us our own way in this matter
Let us organize in every parish in the State
Let US desert the plantations OF the inde
pendent and selfsustaIning Democracy, and
organize into battAliOns in defence of oul
liberties and our government, and the Mich
oils party will be tanned down without fight
ing stroke. But, supposing it comss to &
party conflict. On the color line, we out
number them II 900, and we have got 10, ,00t
white Republicans in the State, as brave
and tried men as there are. In this eonfic


it will not be the negro eultivating thu
plantation and raising the corn and eOttol
and sugar while they do the fighting. LIE


their plantations grow up in weeds; le
, them starve as they can not labor, and le
us defend the rights of our pOsterity.
A C0LORED VOTER.
Year: 1877

sion will visit the State and pass upbn it's
condition. Confident Of the justice and
rectitude Of my claims have no doubt of
the result, and am encouraged TO believe
that so soon as the legal State government
shall have received from the national au-
thorities that recognition to which it is
justly entitled, it will be enabled to draw
to its support the active cooperation of 3
large class of conservative citizens, whose
influence has heretofore been crushed under
the tyranny of that into!erant oligaFchy
whose last desperate effort to govern by the
minority we now witness.


IL will be my earnest purpose to so ad-
minister the government as to oppress none
and maintain the rights of all, and have
confidence that justice will eventually pre-
vail and right be established.


s. B. PACKARD, Governor.
Year: 1877

oAe OF the genuine Nichols supporters
was bOasting, yesterday, of the alaority
with which the taxpayers were coming
forward, and alleged an extraordinary
number had done so. In fact there had
been SO many that in order to be in the
fashion he had just done so himself


One of those doubling ThOmases, who al
ways want to see everything, asked for an
inspection of his tax receipt, and it was
promptly produced bearing on its face
"No. q"


'Great God" exclaimed the crestfallen
taxpayer, when his attention was called to
it, "then there's only ONE besides mel"
Year: 1877

The proposition is seriously made to
form sea Of the desert Of Sahara by
cutting channel to let in the waters Of
the Mediterranean-an enterprise re-
garded as entirely feasible. But Ger
man scientific writer asserts that the Sa-
tually turn Europe into another Green
land. He alleges that the diversion of
the Gulf stream, by the cutting of the
Suez Canal, has already began to have
an influence on the climate Of Europe,
and that the covering of the burning
sands OF the great African desert with
water would destroy the hot winds.
which are necessary for the melting Of
the Alpine snow and ice, and would
finally result in glacial formation that
would overwhelm Italy. He instances
the changes in climate in Australia and
New Guinea by the deviation OF warm
current Of water.
Year: 1877

WE heard curious tramp story the
other day. A young and quite we'll
hammered tramp presented himself at
the door of one of our wealthy cltl-
zens, and, instead of demanding the
best they had in the house, asked for
some work to do by which he could
earn a meal. The work was given,
and the pay for it when it was done.
But it was so well done that more
work followed. Neighbors gave the
tramp work, and he tiourished. Final
ly he told his story. He had been
coachman in the East. He had gone
West to be present at the funeral OF
a near relative. He nearly exhausted
his means in helping to defray the ex-
penses of the funeral There was
nothing left to do but to ride as far
back as he could, and walk the rest of
the way. He found friend who per-
mitted him to ride in an empty freight
car. When the car reached this
city 1T was switched off and re-
mained on side-track two days. The
car being locked, the poor tramp could
not get out, and having no provisions,
he tasted forty-eight hours before his
release. He asked first in the lower
part of town for work. They gave
him some work and very dry crust
of bread for his pay. He applied at
the place we have mentioned above,
and was treated as we have described.
But the strangest part of the story is to
tell. The tramp had been a coach
man. The coachman of the man who
had given him work was next to
worthless. For general worthless
ness, and more particular exhibition
of worthlessness, he was discharged,
and the tramp now fills his place with
satisfaction to his employer. We
should not advise everybody to dis
charge their help and employ tramps,
but it is always well enough to treat
tramp as if he were a human being
Meaduille (Pd.) Journal.
Year: 1877

A Columbia dispatch Of the I'd says
Wade Hampton had issued an address
calling upon all faithful, law-abiding
and loyal citizens who desire to main
tain the government of their choice,
to come forward and pay ten per cent.
of the amount of taxes peid by
them last year. He says: "It is for
the people of South Carolina now to
determine whether they will support
the government they have installed,
or the attempted usurpation which


is only upheld by the bsyonetsof Federal
troops, am but representative of the
people of the State, and to their decision
l shall bow with profound respect. A
long as they choose to support me as the
Year: 1877

tors are so strong in the South American


markets, and then it will occur to them


that it would have been worth while to


have bestowed more attention 10 an enter


prise which her keen rivals have turned


to account in providing new outlets fol-


their products, by bringing the products
themselves under the public eye. As for
our indifference, there are many ways to
account for it.


But the simple fact that all the energies
Of our people were concentrated upon the
great undertaking at home must answer
the Chilians, that if we were conspicuous
by our absence it was necessity of our
position, and that we meant them no slight.
1t must however, be apparent to American
manufacturers and merchants that the
South American States, particularly those
bordering on the Pacific coast, present a
vast field for the development of profta.
bic reciprocal trade and the consumption
of our manufactured products


We have an advantage over European
in our facilities for rapid and !
comparatively cheap transportation. Our
extile goods are now as low in price as
hose Of England and the Continent, and
here is ms reason why, IN all the products
If iron. steel, and leather we should not
uccessfully compete with them. Then
here is s'great variety of goods, classed
enerally as "Yankee notions" which
'ould find market in the South Ameri-
an States, with no fear of competition from l.
European countries.
Year: 1877

tie outer opeHiag.


She leaned forward AID stretched
out her hand TIL it touched ,be Inos
seathed branch that reached across
the back OF the house-it was no oeyr
experience for Annik To descend bv
the chestnut tree Often when her
uneie's rude words had made her run
Up stairs IN anger, she bad got out Of
the house by this means, and now
she soon found her way to the branch
and from thence quickly to the sod
ground below, for the rain had made
m're Of The yard behind the house


ohe paused and listened. She
could only hear the movement OF the
cows within The house; she slipped
on her shoes and started of in the
darkness toward Tregune.
Year: 1877

The pastor Of church in one of our
large cities said to me, not long ago:
'I have otliciated at forty weddings since
| came here, and in every case, save one,
felt that the bride WAS running an aw-
full risk. Young men Of bad habits
and fast tendencies never marry OF their
own sort, but demand 4 wife above sus-
picion, SO, pure, sweet woman, Kept
from the touch of evil through the years
of their girlhood, give themselves, with
all their costly dover Of womanhood,
into the keeping of men who, in base as
sociations, have learned to under value
all that belongs to them, and then hnd
no repentance in the sad after years.
There is but Que way out of this can
see, that is for you-the young women
of the country-to require III assocla
tions and marriage, purity tor purity, so
briefly for sobriety, and honor Tor honor.
There is no reason why the young men
of this Christian land should not be just
as virtuous as its women, and if the loss
OF society and love be the price they are
forced to pay for vice, they Will not pay
it. admit with sadness that not all our
Young women are capable OF tins hlSh
standard for themselves or others, but
| believe there are enough earnest,
thoughtful girls in the society OF our
country to work wonders II faithfully
aroused. Dear girls will you help us, IN


the name of Christ? VIII you, first OF
all, be true to yourselves and Cod; SO
pure in your inner ard outer life that
YOU shall have a right to ask that young


man with whom you marry shall be the
same? The awful gull of dishonor is
close beside your feet, and in it, fathers,
brothers, lovers and sons, are going
down Will you help us in our great
work?
Year: 1877

UNGALLAsT.-Thers is story of a
prominent citizen in car keeping his
seat on the entrance Of two ladies', who
were standing. The conductor stepped
up briskly and said Make way for
these ladies', sir" No, sir!' growled
the citizen. Zone of those ladies wash
es my shirts, and the other cooks my
dinners. unused to seeing them wait
on me and my family at home, and |
don't propose to give up my seat to
them here"
Year: 1877

WISE SAYINGS From impure air we
take disease from bad company vice and
impcrfectlon - t-..,


A man may not be truly happy here
without a well grounded hope OF being
happy hereafter.


Did men govern themselves as they
ought the world would be well discip-
lined.


There is but one way to heaven for the
learned and the unlearned.


The Germans have this good proverb,
That thetts never enrich; aims never
impoverish; nor prayers hinder any
work.


To believe in another mans goodness
is no light evidence Of your own.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 1871
TIE CASE OF NAVAL OFFICER CoRNELL-A
PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT IN THE INTEREST OF


THE PARTY.


The case OF Naval officer Cornell will very likely be
adjusted this week without the necessity OF any
mary action on the part OF the President and through
the quiet acceptance by Mr. Cornell Of the alternative
presented him. There is u strong republican pressure
upon Mr.. Cornell not to do anything to injure the
chances Of tho party at the State election, when
publican defeat would result in handing over the
State to the democrats for probably many
years, owing to the opportunity for redistrict.
ing the democrats would have in the next
Legislature division among the republicans by the
introduction OF such issue Mr. Cornelrs quarrel
with the President would dissiphte altogether the not
very brilliant chance they have Of carrying the State
ir November. rcdstrcling Of the State in tho
democratic interest by the next Legislature would i'm.
peril the United States Senatorship in 1872 Mr.
Cornell might win temporary triumph and gain the
paudits OF OF the soreheads Of his party no W
should he fight the President but the friends of the
latter say the Naval Officer would be execrated few
months hence, when tho ruin Of his contumacy came
10 be seen by the republicans
Year: 1877

The following note was found among
the papers of the late Lord Erskine:
To GENERAL WAsHINGTON:


SIR have taken the liberty to intro
duce your august aud immortal name in 8
short sentence which is to be found in the
book l send to you. I have a large &C
onaintance among the most valuable and
exalted Of men, but you are the only hu
man being for when l ever felt an awfuI
reverence. l sincerely pray to God tc
grant you long and serene evening to 8
life 80 gloriously devoted to the happiness
of the world.


T. ERSKINE.
Year: 1877

Keep busy. The man who has moth
ing to do is the most miserable of be-
ings. If you have no regular work, do
chores as farmers do when it rains too
hard to work in the field. In occupa-
tion we forget our troubles, and get a
respite from sorrow. The man whose
mind and hands are busy finds no time
to weep and wall. If work is slack,
spend the time in reading. No man
ever knew too much. The hardest stud
ents in the world are the old men who
know the most. If you lack books,
there are free or very cheap libraries, at
least in cities, at your command. The
man who does not acquire some item of
useful information between day-break
and bed time must mournfully say with
the Roman Emperor, 81 have lost a
day,''
Year: 1877

A rapid penman can write thirty
words in a minute. To do this he must
draw his quill through the space of a
rod-sixteen feet and half. In forty
minutes his pen travels furlong, and
in five hours and a third, mile. We
make on an average sixteen curves or
turns of the pen in writing each word.
Writing thirty words minute, we must
make four hundred and eighty-eight to
each second; in an hour twenty-eight
thousand eight hundred; in day of only
five hours, one hundred and forty-four
thousand; and in year of three hun
dred days, forty-three million two hum
dred thousand. The man who made a
million strokes with pen in a month
was not at all remarkable. Many men,
newspaper men, for instance, make four
millions. Here we have, in the aggre-
gate, mark three hundred miles long,
to be traced on paper by each writer in
a year. In making each letter of the
ordinary alphabet, we must make from
three to seven strokes of the pen-on an
average, three and half to four. How
much better, therefore, would it be to
dispense with the present unweildly
and tedious form of writing, and adopt
the Photographic system, in which
lines and curves represent consonants
and dots vowels; and by which skilled
writer can write as hiph aS two hun-
dred words minute.
Year: 1877

1t is stated that ten members of the
United States Senate are printers by trade.


Flour is more refined than meal
Wheat has a head on it, while corn is all
ears.


because soda water is half gas, that is
no reason why the price should remain SO
/ inflated.


"A cute man says he thinks instead
of giving credit to whom it is due, the cash
had better be paid.


! The police of Kansas towns have orders
to shoot all potato bugs found running at
large without muZZle on. This is impor-
tant if true.


! Young men of the middle classes are
so little dispose to marry these times that
parents of marriageabe daughters will
have to resort to the seductive chrome.


Discussion between 4 wise child and
its tutor: "That star you see up there is
bigger than the world" eyes, it is"
"Then why doesn't it keep the rain otf?''


A cotemporary asks: care skunks
liable to 60 mad ~ We can't answer the
question, but it is said that person who
too closely interviews one is liable to go
very much that way, indeed.


An essayist winds up an elaborate ar
ticle on the subject of early marriages by
summing up the bad effects. He curiously
omits to mention the worst-the long lease
of mother in-law it usually entails.


Forty cents piece are paid for dead
dogs i'll San Francisco. The skins are
made into gloves, the hair is used in
plaster, the bones are ground for clarifying
sugar, and the fat is manufactured into oil.


"A young gentleman who ventured
West in prevailing fashion of neck wear
was Immediately utilized by thrifty
granger, who smeared his lofty shirt collar
with coal tar and set him up as a grasshop-
per trap.


AT this season of the year there is
something discouraging to the heaven born
genius which despises conventionalities, in
the spectacle of a man who wears a Winter
hat and endeavors to secure the recognition
of his friends.


The Black Hills shine-em-ups charge
o5 cents per job and that amount is also
charged for cigar, shave, or drink
Washing % cents per piece. There is
saloon in almost every house, and gamb-
ling goes on publicly.


Its getting about far enough along in
the season for a woman to trade off $40
overcoat and Sc pair of beaver gloves for
a pair of 80 cent plaster of Paris dogs and
white angel with blue eyes, Nandyke
brown hair, red wings and club feet.


In thieving, the latest is to steal the
leather straps from trunks en- route from
town to country. Wherether the express
men or the railroad people do it is an open
question, but somebody does it, and often,
too, and that is enough. A word to the
owls is all that is necessary.


"A Connecticut dentist has got hold of
4 composition whereby he can make teeth
at a cost of less than II half dollar a set.
This will enable female wearer of false
teeth to have set to match every suit she
owns, both in color and design. With
pink goods, pink teeth, with striped goods,
discovered Connecticut was no slouch.
Year: 1877

As the President comes here, the
representative Of the first outstretched j
hand from the Republicans Of the
North. we greet him A. he comes
here. a representative Northern soldier.
gallant aud honorubleS man, We
greet him - Courier JournAl