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Year: 1877

Mysterious Explosion at Portsmouth.


PORTSMOUTH, July 13.-Stortly after one
o'clock this morning the community was
aroused by a terrific explosion and concussion
which called out many people. On investiga-
tion it was found to have proceeded from High
street in front of Rice's bakery, in which near
ly every pane of glass was smashed; also large
squares in Hams periodical store. Mr. Stod-
dard's dwelling house and the gas lamp on the
corner were also riddled. The remnants of
the contrivance which did the mischief were
picked up consisting of fragments Of large
paper box, such as spool cotton is packed in,
and pieces of burned fuse, and on the bottom
of the box, which is nearly whole, can be
traced by scorched line the position in which
the fuse laid while burning The box was
placed on the ground in front of Rice's bakery
and probably contained dynamite cartridge.
The object of the perpetrator cannot be OWNED.
Shortly before the explosion three suspicious
looking men were passed near the vicinity, who
were in earnest, low conversation. About fif-
teen minutes previous the house of Meshach
Bell on Raitt's court was entered and the men
driven off with pistol.
Year: 1877

of Pure Cod Liver Oil and Lime. The advantage of
this compound the plain Oil is that the nauseat-


Ing taste of the Oil is entirely removed and the whole
rendered entirely palatable. The offensive taste o
the Oil has long acted at prominent objection to
is use but IN this form the trouble is entirely OBJ
Waited host of certificates might be given here to
testify to the excellence and success OF "Wilbor's
Cod LiUer OIL and Lime.'' But the fact that 1t is
regularly prescribed by the medical faculty Is suf-
fcent. For sale by A. B. WILBOR, Chemist
Boston, and by.all druggists. jy4eodlwsn
Year: 1877

The great mass Of men are ever
trying to solve the question of how
to get rich, and in the attempt to
do so have misery, pam, disgrace,
wrong, ignominy, discomfort and
all outrages of mankind that have
been perpetrated. A grasping, eager
desire to make money has estranged
friends, neighbors, brothers, fathers
and sons, and caused bitter hate
and strife where peace and love did
and should exist.


In the inordinate desire TO amass
money, nine-tenths of all the trou-
bles of life originate. 1t is the duty
of every one to try by all honest
means to make living, and as the
time may arrive in the life Of ali
when sickness or misfortune or
disability may overtake us, it is
always desirable to be careful and
prudent and lay up little means to
prevent suffering and want when
misfortune overtakes us. But the
idea is erroneous that it is the main
object of life to hoard up money.
The man who has spent a life in
amassing and building up colossal
fortune at the expense OF the feel
ings, the interests, and the prosper
ity of others, does not enjoy a more
happy and quiet life or a more
peaceable death than the beggar.


Money may command influence,
and help to put a poor mortal up,
and cause him to be ostentatious,
but it never compensates for a life
spent in trampling upon the rights
and feelings of others. II there was
more of a desire TO live and enjoy
lie; and to do exact justice to all,
less avarice, more honesty, more
consideration for, and interest In,
neighbors and friends, and less
grasping after money, there would
be less misery, more happiness, and
longer and happier lives. Let the
miser hoard his Ill or honestly got
ten gains, but you live with an eye
to comfort, and with a proper re
spect for the rights Of others, and
we assure you you will 1--we a hap
pier and longer life.
Year: 1877

The following extract is from a
letter of H. V. Redhold, to the Gin
einnati Commercial, in reference TO
the Tennessee state debt. It con-
tains some pretty strong language
whether too strong under the cir
eumstances, we leave our readers
to determine:


Not satisfied with introducing
about thirty bills to repeal the dog
law, the Legislature are set about
devising .neans to swindle tho cred.
itors of the State out Of what Ia
justly their due. One of their last
acts was to fix the tax rate at one
mill on the dollar This is repudi.
alton. and was meant for that. The
existing rate of four mills will not
pay current expenses and interest
on the debt, so the Legislature gave
the creditors warning of what TO ex-
pect by putting the rate at one mill
on the dollar. And that, too, lust
after the bondholders in Now York
had most generously offered TO do
nate to the State forty per cent. of
the debt That is, they offered to
take sixty cents on the dollar In
new bonds, running thirty years,
thus donating TO the State nearly
one half of what Is owing TO them.
And that, too, when the State is
amply able TO pay every cent Of the
debt, face value.


The yelp of poverty is merely the
cloak of dishonesty. There is not
State which borders Tennessee
but that has higher rate OF taxa
tion than four mills. This tells tho
story of dishonesty and bad faith
too plainly to be mistaken. If the
rate here was higher than surround
ing States, there might be some oc-
casion Of complaint. but as il Is, the
present treatment of the creditors Ia
downright dishonesty. Take tho
average rate of taxation in Virgin
Ia, Georgia. Alabama, Missouri,
West Virginia and Kentucky, and
apply it TO Tennessee, and Il would
be amply sufficient to pay current
expenses and interest on the public
debt. Yet in the face of this, the
creditors generously offer TO throw
off forty per cent of this debt, and
only asked for the interest on the
balance, and very small sum TO be
laid aside each year as n sinking
fund for ultimate redemption of tho
new bonds given for the old on ba.
sis of sixty cents on the dollar.


Yet they are met by summary
reduction of the tax rate TO one mill
on the dollar, which will not half
pay current expenses This Is TO
force the creditors TO take thirty
three cents on the dollar, or some
such small per cent. or repudiate al
together. In the history OF rascali-
ty and reputation there are few in
stances the equal of this. The
blush of shame is brought 10 the
face of every States honor man In
Tennessee, for he is made n party
TO the wrong done these innocent
creditors. They have parted with
their money on the pligbted faith
and honor of the State, and after
waiting patiently some years for
their interest, they are told in effect
to take thirty or forty cents on the
dollar for their debts, or nothingi
And that. too, by State which 10
abundantly able 10 pay, and which
has not even the excuse for levying
a higher rate of taxation than any
of the surrounding States.
Year: 1877

The Paris Ky. Citizen repro
duces from the same paper, of Sep
tember Sth, 1909, the following:


GAS he lived, so he died-with
his gun in his hand. We are in
formed by gentleman direct from
Boone's on the Missouri, that early
in last month Col. Daniel Boone
rode 20 deer lick, and seated him
self within a blind raised TO conceal
him from the game. That while
sitting thus concealed, with his old
trusty rifle in his hand, pointed to-
ward the lick, the muzzle resting on
log, his face to the breech of the
gun, his rife cooked, his finger to
the trigger, one eye shut, the other
looking along the barrel through
the sights-in this position, without
struggle or motion, and of course
without pain, he breathed out his
life so gently that when he was
found next day by his friends, al
though stiff and cold, he looked as
if alive, with his gun in hand just
in the act of firing. 1t is not alto
gether certain that if a buck had
come within range of his gun, which
had been the death of thousands,
but it might have intuitively fol
lowed its old employers mind and
discharged itself. The hypothesis
being novel, we leave the solution
to the curious"
Year: 1877

Boston plumes herself on a poor
but honest woman. About two
weeks ago she received from an in
surance company in that city re-
turn dividend on a small house
owned by her. A few days later she
went to the office and returned
twenty dollars, she having been
overpaid that sum. The President
of the company made her present
of two dollars, which she accepted,
with the remark that it would do
her more good than the twenty.
Year: 1877

At point on the line between
Tennessee and North Carolina there
is bed of magnetic ore. The own
ers sent a quantity of this ore to
Sheffield, England, and had a lot of
knives and razors made of it, which
are pronounced the best instru
ments ever seen.
Year: 1877

1t is apt to shake a mans conf
dence in his wife to awake in the
early morning and find her sitting
on the edge of the bed, going
through his pockets. And it is apt
to shake a woman's confidence in
her husband to find nothing in
those pockets but lager beer
check, a piece of bologna sausage,
variety show ticket, and a per-
fumed note signed Ever yours,
Julia."
Year: 1877

Women want to "enjoy all the
rights of men," but we can't see
what pleasure it would afford her to
sit on a storebox in a corner COM
planning of the scarcity of labor and
squirting tobacco juice at a lamp
post
Year: 1877

The Southern papers all concur
in the statement of the Richmond
Dispatch that Gen. Lee did not
surrender his sword to Gen. Grant
and, therefore, Grant did not mag
unanimously return it to Lee. as
stated in New England paper.
Year: 1877

Ladies' dresses will fit more close
ly than ever this spring. Their
dresses will be made so tight, in.
deed, that lovely woman will lose
her last relic of superiority over
man-she won't be able to put her
clothes on over her head any more.
Year: 1877

A lady school teacher in a west
ern town resigned her position, be-
cause when she undertook to cor
rect the big boys they would at.
tempt to kiss her-give her a
smack" for a blow. Fourteen
hundred old girls have applied
for the vacant position.
Year: 1877

A Catskill woman recently
knocked down seven robbers, one
after another Her husband watch
ed her from the top of the stairs,
and felt so brimful of fight that he
couldn't cool off until he jerked his
eight year-old son out of bed
and whaled him soundly for not get
ting up and helping his mother
Year: 1877

New Orleans Democrat: The poi
soned winds of the desert could not
have more effectually blasted the
productive powers of the State and
destroyed the energies of its people
than has the CLEAN of the Federal
bayonets; and had the Republican
leaders sown dragon teeth upon our
soil, they could not have more GER
tainly imposed upon us the curse OF
civil discord than they did when
they sent into our midst the carpet
baggcr with his insolence and thiev
ishness; his impotency for good and
his capacity for everything that is
infamous and vile.
Year: 1877

The pencil marks You see around thl


paragraph tthus) mean that your sub
scription Is out or unpaid, and that yoE
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends aud patrons. but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 20 a strict cash
rule. we hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


IB- We enter no new names ON our
books without the money In advance.
Year: 1877

New Orleans Democrat: The peo-
pie of Louisiana want peace. For
sixteen years they have lived in the
midst of war and civil commotion.
During a period of eight years the
only government they have known
has been sort of scheme of ruling
by discord. The State has suffered
a loss, in that time, in the deprecia-
tion of property the decline of trade,
the repression of enterprise, the
ruin Of agriculture and other indus
tries, and the repulsion of capital,
of five hundred millions of dollars.
Year: 1877

The Port Gibson Reville says: "a
practical planter-no candidate
whose honest aspirations are best
satisfied when he stands between the
plow handles, called on US yesterday
to say that our legislators should take
cognizance of the tact that sheep are
of more utility than dogs sheep are
taxed, while dogs, q Unanimous
nuisance" are untaxed. We want
fewer dogs and more sheep; if We tax
dogs and exempt sheep, we shall
inaugurate great reform"


That Mississippi farmer is q sensible
man; and, come to think about it, we
would not object to having a large
number of such men in the Legis-
lature of Louisiana. We cannot see
the wisdom or justice Of taxing a
mans sheep and hogs, that are neces-
sary and useful animals on planta.
ton or farm, and tend to promote the
advancement of the coupry. while
his neighbor is allowed to keep as
many NANCY, worthless ours as he
pleases, free of tax, to prey upon bis
sheep. If a dog is so valuable thai
bis owner cannot do without him
then be should be willing to pay ia,
on him, and if he is not worth paying
tax on he ought to kill him and ge
rid of tie expense Of feeding him.
Year: 1877

Sherman's Nomination Confirmed.


WASHINGTON, March 8.-lmmediate-
lv after the Senate went into executive
session this afternoon motion was made
to bring before the Senate for action the
nomination of Mr.. Sherman. Objec-
ton being made on the groud that the
nomination had been ordered to be re-
ferred to the Finance Committee when
appointed, and that it could not now be
acted upon without unanimous consent,
the Vice President decided that the rules
applicable to references to Committees
etc, were not in force, as no committees
were IN existence.


After COL siderable discussion concern
ing the point of order the decision OF
the Vice President was sustained with.
out division and the question was then
taken on the confirmation OF Sherman
nomination, and it was confirmed BY the
solid vote of the Republicans, against 25
votes III the negative by the Democrat c
members. Several Democrats retralned
from voting. Ne attempt was made to
confirm any other cabinet nominees.


There Is nothing significant in the fact
that none except Sherman OF the Csbl-
net nominees WAS acted on by the Senate
to-day. Mr.. Sherman having been chair
man of the Finance Committee, it would,
to say the least, have been an act OF dis
courtesy on the part of his brother Sens-
tors to have his name left entirely out IN
making up the committees, or to an
nounce his successor on the FL
nance Committee before they had con-
trmed his nomination as Secretary
OF the Treasury, and consequently
the Senate confirmed his nomination to-
day, that this obstacle might not prevent
the announcement OF the standing COM
mittees of the Senate whenever the time
for making such announc ement shall ar.
rive.


President Hayes officially received the
officers of the army and marine corps to-
night The event WAS one of the most
brilliant that has ever animated tire
spacious parlors of the Executive Man
GlOn
Year: 1877

TIE Baltimore Gazette has failed to
read the REeIsTER Alright. This paper
has the greatest admiration for the puri-
ty of Mr.. T1LDEN's character, tor his
craftsmanship, his devotion to the cause
Of reform and his splendid record IN that
cause, for his unswerving Democracy
and his great courage and energy. 1t
believes that the party made q better
canvass under Mr.. TILDEN's leadership,
by virtue of his location, his reform re-
cord and his brilliant management, than
it could have made with any Of
the. other distinguished Democratic
statesmen as its nominee. The REGISTER
thought it saw, on the adjournment Of
the Cincinnati convention, that our only
reasonable hope to win was in the noml-
nation of T1LDEN and HENDRICKS, in
order to secure the great states of New
York ard Indiana, and it gave express
sion to that belief at tie time. We have
seen no reason since to change that i'm
preston. Mr.. TILDEN was elected to
the presidency by majority OF over
quarter of a million of the votes of
the people and by a majority OF at least
eighteen votes in the Electoral College;
and, besides, he cut down immense Re-
publican msiorities TO merely nominal
ones in HAYES own State and IN many
other States. California was only carried
against him by fraud, and frauds alone
in Phlladel phis saved Pennsylvania to
the cause of the opposition. Mr.. TILDEN
was elected President, and it is
not his fault that the people are
to be deprived of his splendid abilities
as a retormer and his wise craftsmanship
in the management OF the affairs OF the
nation. He has been wrongsd and the
people have been wronged by the
gigantic theft of the Presidency by the
periured scoundrels in power.


But while this is all true, we are firmly
convir ced that somebody-some OF our
trusted leaders, located where bonds and
commerce are more sacred than
free government-hss blundered,
else that great crime could
never have been consummated. These
unworthy leaders will be displaced; men
of nerve and devotion to principle will
come to the front, and the rank and file
will manfully labor to rlgh. the wrongs
of to-day. The REGISTER is not among
those who think all is lost because we
have been swindled by our opponents,
and betrayed by some in whom we trust
ed The people are sound to the
core, and they will be heard and needed
The Republican party stands forth before
the world as the party of dishonesty and
fraud. The hand of g. cry honest man
must be against it. Its Waterloo was at
the Inauguration; on that day its disin-
tegration commenced. 1t will sink be-
meath the contempt and scorn OF the
North and the South alike, and its stencil
will be great throughout the land.
Year: 1877




Judge Davis states that he will moi
expresses the hope that the President
will appoint Judge Drummond to hi.
vacancy in the Supreme court, but, a:
stated months ago, Gen. Harlan, Of
Kensacky, BrIstow's partner; is the


PRESIDENTS FAvoRITE.


and his nomination is believed to bt
assured. The statement is received
and believed to be well founded that
Theodore Roosevelt will be nominated
to the Senate next week for Collector OF
Customs at New York, Gen. Merritt
for surveyor and Gen. John c. Robin
son to'succeed Carnal as naval officer.


CoNKLING WILL OPPOSE


the nominations and the square issue
will be on the important question of
civil service reform. For years past it
has been a rule of courtesy in the SEN
ate to confirm no nominations against
the wishes. of the Republican Senators
of the states to which the nominees be-
long. In this way Senators have sus-
tanned their mutual grasp on patronage
by the tacit agreement that ''if you
vote for my man will vote for yours. ~
1t was this that effectually broke Grant
down on the civil service question,
aided by the fact that he did not rig
idly observe the rule of appointment or
promotion for merit. Conkling is the
only New York Republican who will
probably claim this rule of courtesy in
the case of Cornell, upon which he has
considerable feeling. Thus the Senate
will be


COMPELLED TO DECIDE
between defeating reform i'll the civil
service or breaking down this rule of
courtesy, which has become conspir-
acy to subordinate the public interests
to private aims, and permit one Sena-
tor instead Of Il majority OF the Senate
to decide whether any nomination shall
be confirmed.


The Democratic victory in Ohio does
not seriously dishearten the acknowl-
edged Republican leaders. Their gen.
eral view Of the situation is tersely
stated by the Boston Advertiser. "The
men who do not like the Presidents
course abstained from voting. They
had perfect right to do so. They can
repeat the maneuvre elsewhere and
with the same effect. The circum-
stances of the defeat are not such as to
cause any deep-seated melancholy in
the Republican breast. The discon-
tented men of the Western Reserve
will recover their cheerfulness by-and-
by, and the Workingmens' party will
die, us such parties always do.


OHIO WILL BE ALL RIGHT
again by the time the great National
interests are brought up for discussion.
The OHIO election has proved that the
quickest way to defeat the Republican
party is to vote independent, greenback,
labor and temperance tickets, thus
that intelligent men who want
reforms of all kinds are chiefly Repub-
licans.'
Year: 1877

AT the extra session of Congress,
Secretary McCrary will present care
fully detailed plan for increasing the
army. More men in the ranks are
certainly present need, and may soon
he an absolute necessity.
Year: 1877

CLERK ADAMS on Saturday placed
the name of Pacheco on the roll of the
House as the holder of the governors
certificate and therefore entitled prima
facie to a seat as member of Congress
from the Fourth California district.
Wiggington will contest it.
Year: 1877

If labor finding itself the weaker calls in
riot and destruction, capital instantly draws
to Itself all the sympathles of society and
arouses the instinct of representation in all
classes of the community. The defeat of Ia
Dor in such conflict is the laborer's only
hope OF existence, forthe victory of labor in
such a conflict, were it possible, would mean
the extinction of civilization and the desertlon
of the country by capital. If all the laborers
IN the United States by combining together
could cut off an hour from their days work
or add half dollar to their daily income al
their own pleasure, they would find them
selves without an hour Of work to do or q
half dollar to receive. These are simple ele-
mentary truths, and it is a shame that i,
should be necessary to recite them. But for
the sake of one great class of our countrymen,
now in imminent peril Of making their posi-
ton incomparably worse than 1t ever has
been, when by simple exerlion Of common
sense, fairness, and independence they can
keep open all the avenues of improvement, il
seems to US an imperative duty to recite them
" Y. World.
Year: 1877

What is to be done?" whines the Chicago
Journal. SO far as the mob OF tramps, roughs,
thieves and pickpockets who are affecting
Chicago is concerned, the shortest and best
way to dispose of them would be TO load the
cannon from which blank cartridge were fired
on Thursday with grape and canister and
NOW down a few thousand of them.


The worst possible way to deal with mobs
is to be mealy mouthed abouti It, We have no
country if we have no laws. Without law we
cease to be a nation and revert back TO saw.
agery. Defiance OF law is treason, and can
be dealt with only as such. No matter what
the grievances of the strikers may be, their
wrongs are trifing compared to the wrong
themselves are guilty of against the whole
country By organized defiance Of law They
are entitled to no hearlng-no sympathy, un-
til they obey the laws. The worst laws are
better than anarchy.
Year: 1877

We notice that the ST. Louis Republican and
other papers that ought TO know better persist
in the statement that the silver dollar was
left legal tender by the act of 1878, only that
its coinage was suspended, and that such sll
yer dollars as are still IN existence are as
much a legal tender now as ever they were
This is an error. BY the Revised Statutes OF
1874 the silver dollar was abolished as unit
of value of American money and the gold dol
lar was made such unit; 50 that 1t was the
codihers of the laws and not the act of 1873
that demOnetised the silver dollar.
Year: 1877

Pttsburg is likely to have an impressive
realization Of the beauties Of mob rule. II
her police and citizen sodlery are so deeply
in sympathy with the rioters that they refuse
to fire on them when ordered, perhaps they
are ready TO help pay the damages. BY law
of Pennsylvania every city is liable to the
owners for all property destroyed by mobs
within their limits The destruction at Pitts
burg is estimated at Slj,0OO,0OO, which will
be a beautiful debt for the city to carry FOX
the next half century.
Year: 1877

The strange item comes from abroad, that
a building firm in Manchester England, have
sent to this country for two or three hundred
skilled carpenters, guaranteeing permanent
employment and wages at the rate OF about
a dollar and half day. A hundred ana
fifty masons went from New York TO Man.
chester last year, in response to a similar in
vitation, and II Is said only half dozen of
them have returned. This movement is Ger.
talnly a remarkable eccentriclty Of the labor
market, ana is probably without a parallel
since the first colonization of America.