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Year: 1877

The following conversation between Senators Herman and Sherman ill the United States Senate $ of especial in- terest at this moment = e

 MT. -Sherman-"I I have listened to the senator with pleasure, and before he takes his seat I should like to ask him whether, if either house should object to the vote of q State, the result would be the exclusion of that vote '? Does he think the vote would be rejected upon the determination of either house, or does he care to give his judgment on that question at the present time p

 MT. Kernan-"I would be glad to hear that question debated. I have an opinion about it. My own view is in &C., cordance with the joint rule which was adopted in 1865. It being duty that the two houses have to perform, they must affirmatively decide that the vote objected to is vote before it can be counted"

 Mir. Sherman" That is not the rule. ,"

 MT. Kernan-" That was the rule. The impression upon my mind is that as the two houses are to count the vote and to decide what is vote, that where certificate is objected to, it requires that both shall agree, else it is not decided that 1t is vote. This is the impression have from the examination of the ques- tlon have made

 MT. Sherman" MT. President, do not intend to express any opinion upon any of these questions which are likely to arise, but pledge myself beforehand to examine them dspassionately and honestly, and to decide them according to my convictions of right and justice, above all considerations of party politics or party tactics. As have been here during five or six counts of the votes of Presidential electors, and I might state some results in my own experience, but l will not do so, because all these matters will be subjects of debate. do not think there is much difference of opinion upon the general question, that where the two houses concur in holding that the vote of particular State is illegal or fraudulent or wrong, whether that power be given to Congress by the Constitution or not, the vote naturally will be ex- cluded. In the case, though, that I sub- mltted to the senator from New York, where the two houses disagree, then I beg leave to say to him it would appear to me to be revolutionary and monstrous that either house by it's simple obite7. dictatna, by it's own decision, should have the power of excluding State from voting and thus change the result of Presidential election. That was the re- suit of the twenty-second joint rule, and for that very reason that rule was de- nounced in this body by members of all political parties, and, believe, was con- demned by the common judgment of the whole country" ''

 MT, Bogy-" Under that rule the votes at three Presidential elections have been counted" ..
Year: 1877

The following notice has been issued: To dH Ch9iStians in the United States

 We believe that God controls the des- tiny of nations, and recognize His good ness to us in the past. We acknowledge that as people we have forgotten His precepts,' and thereby forfeited our claim to His protection. Therefore cur existence is seriously imperiled.

 We propose that the mercy of God be supplicated, both privately and publicly, from this time, and that the fourteenth day of February, 1877, be set apart as day of national prayer to God that wis dom may be inparted to those in au- thority over us, So that their decision on that day may result in our continued na- tional prosperity and rebound to the glory of God
Year: 1877

A law in Massachusetts provides that any person who keeps open place of business on Sunday, or does any business or labor on that day, shall pay fine of not more than $1O for each offense. A Hebrew who was convicted of such an offense put in the plea that, as he con- scientiously believed that the seventh day of the week was the Sabbath, and that as he observed the seventh day and did no business thereon, he could not constitutionally be held amenable to the State laws regulating the Lords day. The court overruled his plea, and the supreme court of the State has just affirmed the ruling.
Year: 1877

The Norwich Bulletin says: We are glad to see that the ladies arc again forming reading clubs for the winter. The reading club is an organization that discusses the character of Shakespeare's Portia for fifteen minutes and the best manner of cutting basque on the bias for an hour and half, and rarely fails to be of great profit.
Year: 1877

The importance of giving .Sheridon's g Caualry Condition Po,ode1s to horses that have been out in the cold rain, stood in cold wind, or drank too much cold water cannot be over esti- mated; no man should be without them who owns good horse
Year: 1877

A Valuable (sift.-By arrangement with the Publisher, we will send every reader of this paper a sample Package of Trsnsfer Pictures free Send Scent and easily transferred to any object to initiate actly the most beautiful painting: Agents wanted
Year: 1877

Publishers of newspapers who desire to furnish the Directory with statement of circulation are supplied with blank which takes for granted the following conclusions:

 FIRST. Every publisher is either willing or unwilling
Year: 1877

Mr.. W. J.H. Lingo, of this town, met with
a very serious accident on last Saturday after
noon. While driving near Armstrong; Cor
per bolt came out Of the shafts of his carri-
age allowing them to drop against the horse,
which Immediately became unmanageable and
tnrned the vehicle over throwing Mr.. Lingo
out upon bis head which was cut and bruised
in painful, though not dangerous manner.
The gentleman was removed to the residence Of
Mr.. Martin Walker near the scene Of the acci-
dent, and was not able to be brought home
until Tuesday afternoon. We are glad TO state
that Mr.. L. is now rapidly improving. This
is the second accident this gentleman has met
with during this season, having been kicked
by horse few weeks ago, from the effects of
which he was confined to bis house for several
days.
Year: 1877

Miss: A word in your ear. The next fine
afternoon that you saunter out, buy box Of
CLIENTS SULPHUR Soar. That admirable pG
ri6er will remove every one Of those pimples
which detract 50 much from your beauty.
Sold by all Druggists.


There is youth in every bottle of HiPsHair
Dye.
Year: 1877

WANAMAKER & BROWN respectfully
announce that their Autumn and Winter
Fashions in Clothing for Men and Boys
are ready. The great buildings at Sixth
and Market are crowded from top to
bottom with such Clothing as merits the
confidence of the people.
Year: 1877

AN excursion party of four coach
es, under the auspices of the TEN
perance Reform club Of this city left
here on Monday evening for Darling
ton, where Col. RoweIl and "Jake,"
the great workers for the cause of
temperen ce, are busily engaged in
their efforts to reform that commu-
nifty. A very pleasant time was had
by all who attended, and the profits
were sufficient to compensate The
club for engaging in the enterprise
over $50 were cleared.
Year: 1877

OWING to unfavorable wind the
balloon ascension from the Fair
ground last Thursday was but par
TALLY successful, but on Friday the
ascension vas in all respects up to
expectations. Prof. II. Eastman
went up amid the shouts of the null
titude, to the height of 1900 feet,
with only trapeae bar for support,
on which he performed many daring
feats. From the starting point on
the Fair ground the great air ship
sailed off in a northwesterly direc.
ton for about half a mile, and then
descended with the intrepid Profess
or entirely unharmed, to the joy of
the thousands Of spectators. 1t was
voted by all present the best aro-
nautical display ever given in this
section of the country.
Year: 1877

Of the President to exercise his own
judgment in selecting his appoints tees
for Office. The debate was listened 10
with great interest by both Republicans
and Democrats.


1t is stated that the difference OF
opinion between the President and some
members Of his Cabinet regarding the
propriety OF renOminating Messrs.
Roosevelt, Merritt and others, who
failed Of confirmation at the extra ses'
sion, was not settled when the list OF
names was sent to the Senate, but that
the President decided the matter for
himself and resolved to try his luck
once more, even at risk OF open wal
with MIR. COnEling. The Presidents
friends claim that his position is secure
and will certainly triumph in she end
though they admit the fight may be pro
longed for some time.
Year: 1877

1t is to be inferred from the policy of
those who have arrested the railroad
business of the country, and from the
conduct Of those who have engaged i'll
the destruction of property, that


l. The way to improve the condition
of labor is to paralyZe the business of
the country.


2. That the way to increase the pay
of labor is to cripple the industries that
employ it.


3. That the way to make times good
and everybody prosperous is to obstruct
and destroy the agencies which are es-
sential to prosperity.


4. That the way to inspire confidence
and tempt capital to invest in enter
prises that will give employment to
labor is to terrorize the public mind,
and spread a feeling of insecurity
among capitalists.


.. AS capital is quite as necessary
to labor as labor is essential to capital,
it is sound policy to widen the breach
between them, and create antagonisms
where none in the nature of things eX-
lists.


These deductions are legitimate, be-
cause they are the actual results of
strikes and riotous proceedings. If
workingmen do not believe that such
consequences are calulated to improve
their present or prospective situations,
they should be exceedingly careful how
they assist to promote state of things
that invariably works out these results.
Year: 1877

1t is very popularity supposed that the
early Spring is the season which most
tries the souls of..housekeepers. Per-
haps it was so in our grandmothers'
days, when canned fruit and vegetables
were unknown, and the prudent house
wife was forced in Summer, like the
ant and the bee to clay up stores of
sweetness for use in Winter hours"
stores, which, if not large, were likely
to run low before the kitchen garden
came again into bearing. But now,
with the grocer at our backs ready ''for
compensation" to supply us with every
known fruit and vegetable all the year
round, she who has money or credit
may spread her table bountifully in all
seasons with small forethought of her
own, and the dog-days are those in
which she is most prone to exclaim,
to eat!'' Appetites are capricious;
dinner eaten heartily one day will be
scarcely touched the next, and though
every one has feeling of emptiness,
few persons are actually hungry. Pro-
visions cooked one day are kept to the
next only by the free use of the ice
chest. Thus the economy practiced at
King Arthur's court, where ''what they
could not eat that day the Queen next
morning fried" becomes an impossible
virtue, and the anxious housewife
stands perpleXed between the Scylla of
niggardliness and the Charybdis or
waste. Nature, however, is always a
law unto herself, and he who in warm
weather eats much meat is apt to pay
for it by dulled brain and a general
feeling of uncomfortable heaviness.
In all warm climates the laboring classes
eat but sparingly of animal food. The
East Indian coolie subsists almost
wholly on rice; the West Indian grows
fat upon bananas and oranges, and the
hardy Arab of the desert conquered a
world on diet of dates and barley.
Dio Lewis says that no meat but
chicken and lamb should be eaten in
hot weather; but then Dio Lewis is a
firm advocate Of the theory that the
oatmeal is, or ought to be, the staff of
human life. Milks and fruits, bread
and vegetables, are cooling and healthy
diet for the dog days, and may be freely
indulged in. And since in hot wealth.
er the kitchen is modified purgatory,
and preparing desserts becomes a PEN
ance, we have cause to congratulate
ourselves on the delicious desserts which
nature brings to us for the gathering.
Strawberries, raSpDerfleS, DlackDerrleS
and peaches-an these come to the table
without the smell of fire having passed
upon them, and, eaten with cream, are
ssdish to set before king So, also
in the country, where fruit and milk
abound, ice-cream, that most delicious
of desserts, costs almost nothing.
Given pailfull of ice and a five min
ute freezer, the rich milk, or, still bet
ter, cream, has but to be mixed with
the crushed fruit, sweetened, and left
to freeze itself. Covering with an old
blanket or piece of carpeting, the pro-
cess of congealing will go on slowly
but surely, with small aid from you,
even if your freezer be a tin bucket
only in this case you must stir the cream
| with a knife two or three times while
freezing to prevent the formation OF
crystals of ice in the freezer. [Philadel-
phia Times.
Year: 1877

ANOTHER GHOST STORY.-Every once in a
while a wonderful ghost story comes to
light here on the Peninsula, to feed the
newspapers and initiate the minds Of people
who love to let their thoughts hang upon
the marvellous, however absurd it may be-
Our readers have not forgotten the girl
LarimOre in Queen Annes county who
created such an excitement hN her frances
about two years ago. She fOretOld all
sorts of wonderful things in her sleep and
no amount of physical power could pre-.
vent her from raising her arms or contract.
Ing her limbs. The moment however that
it WAS decided hy physicilns that the poor
ignorant creature WAS afflicted with cata-
lep>y all the romance and sensation was
taken out of her really strange actions, and
nothing she did afterwards had curious
air about it. And now we have another
unexplained mystery in the lower part of
this Kent county. From the reports that
have appeard in two or three of the State
papers about it, it is marvellous in the ex-
w give lIlt NllllOfu @NCtCS account
OF the affair. on the 4th page of this issue.
The editor Of the Ne,cs, as if to v0uch for
the report, says he knows the family in
question. What makes the matter more
startling is that the ghost is fighting APP
partition and comes with his back up and
brick in his hand, to make war upon a
tranquil household because the head of that
household switched his daughter for " fall
ing in love" with lover that was not
worthy of her love-in the old mans esti-
nation. If spectres down the State go to
meddling with love affairs in that fashion
1t would be we'll enough for the Legislature
to pass law prohibiting ghosts from run.
ming at large in school district No. = in
Kent county.
Year: 1877

SUICIDE FOR UNHAPPINEss. Last Friday
evening. Miss Anne Wentworth, resrected
AMI wealthy citizen of Norwich, Conn,
about forty years old, committed suicide hy
hanging herself in the attic of the house
where she had lived many years alone with
her father. Before hanging herself ~i,r
laid compl"t" suit of clothing for ;, =
burial on the bed in her room. She left
long letter addressed To her father, which
he would not allow the jury of inquest or
anybody else to see. When young She was
very attractive, but her father frowne,l
upon her suitors and drove them AWAY. At
last she seems to have decided to devote
her life to taking care of him, and the two
are said to have drawn up and signed n
formal paper 10y which both agreed never
to marry. She did not live pleasantly. and
had become gloomy in late years and had
wholly withdrawn from society.
Year: 1877

Why Miss LINNEY SrED.-Miss Linnev Of
Sacramento was inclined to marry Mr..
Roberts, but She said She could not become
the wife OF a poor man. She would wait a
reasonable time for him to make fortune,
and whenever he was IN a condition to sup.
port her in elegance he might claim her.
lie went to san Francisco. embarked in
mining speculation>, and made money
rapidly. few months ago he told her
that he possessed hundred thousand
dollars. She said that the sum was salts
tActory, and mentioned a date that would
suit her for the wedding. Then he coolly
told her that he had changed lis mind, and
had no idea of marrying her. She has sued
hlm for breach Of promise.
Year: 1877

How SAMMY WAS CURED Or STEAL
ING SUGAR.-Sammy was very small
boy, but he was old enough to know he
ought not to put his hand into the sugar
bowl so often Besides his mother had
said to him more than once


Sammy, don't you take any more su-
gar without l give you leave"


But, like great many other children,
he did not always mind when his mother
was out of sight.


1t was one summer when caterpillars
were very, very plenty. They came into
The house, and crawled about into all man
ner of things.


If you were reading newspaper, you
might expect when you turned it over TO
find caterpillar on the under side, or, if
you took your hat down to 90 for walk,
it was safe to shake out the caterpillar be-
fore you put it on.


One night at tea time the rest of the
family had all left the table before Sam
my climbed down from his high chair,
and he happened to be left alone few
moments.


The sugar bowl was in reach, and as
quick as thought he popped in his little
irty hand for a lump of sugar; and just
then he heard his mother coming.


Now it happened that n caterpillar had
got on TO the table and into the sugar bowl
unseen by anybody, which was not at all
strange that year, and us Sammy snatched
out lump, the caterpillar came with it,
but in his hurry he popped both into his
mouth without stopping to look, and in
rying TO swallow the sugar quickly, both
sugar AID caterpillar stuck in his throat.


Why, Sammy, what is the matter2"
asked his mother, as she came in.


But Sammy could only cough and
'hoke till his nose bled, and finally he
vomited, which cleared ont the caterpil-
lar


But the bristles that were left in his
throat made it sore for IL long time, and
here was no further trouble with Sammy
and the sugar bowl.-K0uthS Companion.
Year: 1877

SECRETARY STANTON AND FLETCHER
fIARpER.-It sounds strangely now that
early in the civil war an order was issued
BY Secretary Stanton for the suppression
Of IIarpers Weekly on the ground that il
had given aid and comfort to the enemy
81 the publication of several maps, show
Ing the positions of the federal works be
fore Yorktown. Accompanying this order
was IL telegraphic dispatch from the Sec
Yolary of war, intimating that the oflense
WAS punishable by death, and summoning
the responsible offender to present him
SELF at Washington to answer for his CON
duct. Fletcher Harper responded 10 the
s6mmons. lie found the usually not over
alniable secretary in one of his most un-
aInlablc moods. Mr. Harper met him in
lid most quiet and smiling manner, and
rs though the matter in hand was the
iarlherest in the world from his mind. In
fye minutes they were in friendly discus
sion upon some trivial point in no way
eonnected with the alleged otfense, and
upon which Mr.. Stanton was forced tc
acknowledge himself in the wrong. The
upshot of all was that Fletcher Harper
brought back with him not only revoca-
ton Of the edict of suspension, but the
written thanks of the secretary for the
service which the Weekly was performing
for the government and the Union.
Year: 1877

ENTERTAINMENT AND SUPPER FOR THE BEN
Eft OF ST.. PAUL's CHURCH AGED HONE
Tonight there will be an entertainment at
Assembly Hall for the benetitof st. Paul's
Church Home for Aged and Infrm Women,
and in connection with it sumptuous sup
per will be spread Next door to the hall, in
Mr.. Norwood's school-room. The supper
is under the management OF one OF the
most enterprising ladies in Richmond-a
lady who doesn't know what it is to fail
and this will be guarantee that her part OF
the programme will be carried out to the
letter.


The entertainment itself will be beautiful
and unique, consisting OF series Of illus.
trations Of Midsummer Nights Dream"
with Mendelssohn's music, interpreted by
Or. Satter.


The ladies have decided that the supper,
which was originally intended to be served
on the breaking up OF the entertainment a
the hall, will be ready for all comers durin!
the whole evening.
Year: 1877

The North sidc Association some time since sent
comm unicaton to- the Board OF Aldermen chilling
upon tnat body Investigate the points Of agreement
entered into between the city and the Sixth Avenue
Railroad Company. Under this agreement u 10
claimed that the city at any time take away tho
franchise Of tho road upon payment Of It's proper
value This movement has been inaugurated In the IN
tcrcst of the Gilbert Elevated Railway The commun
cation was referred the Railroad Committee Of the
Board which consists OF Messrs. Guntzer. Reilly and
Cowing. The first two have recently disting gutshed
themselves In sending in that highly intellectual report
opposing the heating OF the city railroad cars DO
they propose TO further supplement- their Oriinant
Sidc Association report on the subject was yes
terday expected from these gentlemen at the regular
ofs n
Year: 1877

with the interests the public a stake Will not pase
any hasty opinion upon the that the Board 81
Aldermen desire the companies 10 provide In iact
all medical men not entirely in accord IN regard TO
tho sanitary effects Of straw and doubt. such an
important discussion would bring out some scientific
papers the subject, and few weeks viii pass away
before their opinion can be given. IL will probably %
gratifying 10 the car companies " the Board Of Health
does the enforcement Of this ordinance, AZ
Lent the weather will probably be so temperate
that straw will be allowed to go bail until next fall
Year: 1877

It was rumored yesterday that the Grand Jury of
the Court of General Sessions about TO take action
toward prohibiting tho East Broadway ana Dry DOCK
Railroad Company from using that portion Of the track
which crosses junction of Ann street and Broad
way several complaints having been made IN regaru
to the alleged nuisance and Inconvenience wnicn ~ -
claimed arc caused by the moving In that crowded
thurOughfarO. II
Year: 1877

Con family on hand and for sale at the low
est market rates. Particular and personal
attention given to Repairing any articles In
the above line.


A fine assortment of Spectacles constant
hand and sole agent for the Celebrated
Diamond Spectacles. marl6
Year: 1877

happened to he promincnt member
of the church society. - My heart was
yearning toward Chad, but wanted to
make him feel te the bottom of his
boots that because thing is done i'm fun
ii is not necessarily blamcless. Itscemed
To me that would thus straighten the
chief crook in his ideas. 80 asked that
he he fined. He was fined the forty
dollars.


Which had the best Of it? Chad had
to hear this question very often for the
next few months. In view of the fact
that he learned from this experience to
pursue his fun with due regard To the
rights of Others, the question, Which
had (which had the best of it2-may
bc promptly answered