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Year: 1877

In riding around and through our city
one is struck with the large number OF new
houses going up in every part OF it. Many
of these houses are very costly, and nearly
all OF them greatly superior TO the average
number erected in former years.


In passing along Leigh street from First
to Tenth street it is really wonderful to sec
the large number OF new houses recently
erected or in an advanced state OF compile
ton. The large and beautiful garden OF
the late Nicholas Mills has been literally
covered with 1irst-class dwellings. There
are only four or five lots in that garden not
built on, and these doubtless will soon be.
1t is lovely location, quite retired from
the hustle and noise OF business, and yet
within q few minutes walk OF the post
Office. Those OF our people who have not
driven around our city can scarcely imagine
the wonderful improvements going on in
every ward. They should be reconciled TO-
heavy taxes when they see how greatly the
streets and sidewalks are being improved.


1t is doubtful whether any southern city
(or even northern one) can boast OF more
solid improvements than Richmond has COM
pleted within the past few years. The tine
crops OF this year will doubtless relieve our
farmers to u considerable extent and will
greatly improve the business and trade OF
our city. " ~# NATIVE CITIZEN.


SPDte1,berf 8, 1877 .-. ~ ".... .s
Year: 1877

ONE WAY OF BUILDING 4 CHCRCH.-1cs-
terday peculiar case in bankruptcy came
before the register in this city from New
market. 1t appears that certain persons,
some four or half-dozen in number, were
authorized to build 4 new church editice
in Newmarket for one Of the religious So
cieties there, and to raise the money the
said persons gave their Joint and several
private notes. They got the money, built
the church, and turned it over to the So
ciety. And now, us the notes fall due, all
these men take to the bankrupt law, and it
is said they can only pay small percentage
OF the debt, while it seems probable that
the society will get the new house for
nothing.-Dorer Democrat.
Year: 1877

IL BOYS
WILL SOON DE HAPPY.
SCHoOL-lIME DRAWS NIGH.
AND NOW
THEY SIT AND Mediate


BY DAY


and
LAY AWAKE AND COGITATE
DY NIGHT


upon the great
AND IMPORTANT QUESTION
\ NEW SCHOOL. SUIT
REVOLVING THE QUESTION
WHAT TO GET,
WHERE TO GET 1T,


and
WHEN TO GET IT.
Year: 1877

In accordance with above opinion bond
was required Of the defendant il the penalty
OF SO, 900, condition rs indicated.


The cause was continued for final hearing
at Richmond to the 1Tth day OF October
during the fall term here Of the Circuit
Court.
Year: 1877

The necessity of mounting all Cap
tains of infantry companies, if the
officers arc to perform their duties
efficiently, is being again dwelt upon
10y the French military press. In the
French army, as i'm nearly all other
Continental forces, company on war
footing, numbers two hundred and
fifty men, and it is urged that
il is simply impossible for the Cap
tain, however active he may be,
TO properly supcrintend its working If
he has To move about on foot. Extended
in skirmishing order, formation which
has now become its normal fighting
order, or employed as an advance or
rear guard, Il company of two hundred
and fifty men covers long stretch
of ground, and can, il is argued,
only bc adequately controlled by n
mounted officer. After march, again,
the captain of company ought to
look after the comfort Of his men,
visit them in their bivouacs, satisfy
himself that they have received their
proper rations, and see that all camp
duties are properly performed But il
he is fatigucd by long march on foot
he will be hut too likely To perform his
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consequently his company will suffer.
Moreover, now that short-service sys-
tenn prevails in nearly every European
army, the captain of company will
generally be one of the oldest, if not the
Oldest man in it, and therefore notso well
able to- endure fatigue as the younger
men under his command. For all these
reasons il is generally recognized az
necessary that the captain should be u
mounted officer. In the German army
he is provided with horse, and in
time of war even with two. In Austria
and Italy the mounting of all captains
has only been temporarily postponed
from considerations of expense, and in
France captain, when on line of
march or during maneuvers in the
field, may ride if he chooses to provide
himself with a horse at his own cost
but unfortunately the small pay re-
ceived by them does not allow many Of
the French officers to avail Themselves
of this permission.
Year: 1877

What 81 cercmOnious affair we make
OF entertaining company Too many Of
us lose all sense of being at home the
moment astranger crosses our thresh-
old, and he instantly feels himself to
be a mere yisitor--nothing more--and
acts accordingly. The man who knows
how TO drop in " Of an evening, draw
up his chair to the hearth, as if il we're
his own, and fall into the usual evening
routine Of the household as if he were
member of it--how welcome he always
isl The man who comes 10 stay under
your roof for season, and who, with
out being intrusive or familiar, makes
you feel that he is at home with you
and j. content in his usual fashion of
occupation how delightful guest he
is! And the house-ah, how few Of
them Into which one can go for day
or a week and feel sure that the family
routine is in no wise altered, the family
comfort is no wise lcssened, but ON the
contrary, increased by ones presence
what JOY IL is to cross their thresholds!
What harbors Of refuge they are to
weary wandcrersl What sweet remin-
iscences they bring TO the lonely and
hOmclcss
Year: 1877

The other day woman walked into u
bank i'm Chemnitz and said that sixteen
years ago she had drawn some money
from il, and on reaching home found
that she had received two ducats too
much. Being in pressing need at the
time she had kept the money, and until
now had been afraid 10 return il. She
was told by the bank officers that she
might keep the ducats, whcreupon she
became highly excited and insisted upon
returning them with compound interest
which, together with the principal.
amounted 10 over forty marks, which
sum was thereupon handed over 10 a
poor family
Year: 1877

-StsubenrtsLe Gazette.


Mr. DANFoRD ran behind his ticket
last fall in every county in the district,
we believe Still more recently marked
signs of dissatisfaction with him among
his own party friends have been exhibit
ed, so we presume he is serving his last
term in Congress. If his party does not
drop him at the nominating COD vention,
next summer, the voters will certainly
drop him at he polls. The Democrats
would have little difficulty in wipIng out
that SIS in case he was the opposition
candidate. DANroRD may safely be set
down as dead cock in the pit"
Year: 1877

.i.< isu Lue crate costs IL cents and does
not carry two baskets of peaches.


The reason carriers charge cents for
taking each basket of peaches to New
York is because they have to return them,
for the latter charging one cent apiece
The letter figures the cost of marketing
each basket of peaches at Al cents. To
answer this the peach growers of Della
ware will laugh loudly. Mr.. T. forgets
that the railroad company has offered a
reduction of ST per car to Jersey City, if
the return of baskets was stopped. He
goes into an abuse of the p, W. & B. r.
K. Now, have heard him speak in the
highest terms of that railroad at one peach
meeting and at the next ridicule thelr
officers to a great extent. The great
trouble with these old peach growers is
that when they advance an idea they
think it should be sacredly supported, but
the time has gone by for such obedience
when the interests of younger men are to
be advanced, and these old fashioned
ways of marketing peaches will be aban
doned when better ones are offered.


1t is a good thing that inducements are
to be made to small growers to have then
present at the next peach meeting al
Middletown, for they are the ones who
long for the abolishment of the presen
system of obtaining cars. When the!
come to a meeting in numbers thes'
large and domiDeering growers who hav'
led them by the nose for so long a tim'
will be shut up so effectively that the.
will never attempt TO govern by lou
talk and harsh epithets. The grower
may go to the next peach meeting conf.
dent that the heretofore style Of brow
beating them into sold fogy" ideas will
be met by men competent to do so. Thes
men who make themselves the ''peacl
commission" are hereafter helpless. L,
Year: 1877

THE attitude of Mr.. Hayes during the long
uncertainty since the election has been as
dignifed and self-respectful as it was during
the campaign. He has never shown an sun
common anxiety" for the Presidency, but has
evidently regarded it, as Mr.. Lowndes, of
South Carolina, long ago described it, as a
trust neither to be sought nor declined The
testimony of those who know him best COIN
cides with the history of his public career,
both military and civil, in the assurance that
he is in the best and highest and most COM
prehensive sense a gentleman. He has had
ample experience of public affairs He is of
tranquil temperament and of firm will. He
has that natural rectitude which was so win
ming in Mr.. Lincoln, and which is Indicative
of just judgment. He is quiet and modest and
self-restrained and it is his peculiar praise
that, when nominated to the Presidency, his
opponents sought, in the most remorseless
scrutiny of his private and public life, to find
some flaw, some spot, and sought in vain.


He has undoubtedly greatly won upon the
confidence ard respect of the country since the
election. Before that time he was a party
candidate, and was viewed only as partisan.
But his moderation and good sense, his total
freedom from anxiety, and unaffected and sim
pie devotion to his duty under unprecedently
trying circumstances, leave him in most
favorable light. 1t would be unkind to Mr..
Tilden to compare his attitude throughout
with that of Mr.. Hayes. 1t has been that of
an old politician dextrously pulling wires to
secure great office; and the full light that
has been turned upon his canvass shows at the
very last his nephew and confidential secre-
tary telegraphing from his house an agree
ment to buy an electoral vote Mr.. Tilden has
certainly not grown in public esteem since his
nomination.


The farewell reception to Mr. Hayes in COL
umbus was undoubtedly the expression of a
general and heartfelt regard; and in his
little speech he touched chord of the public
heart that never fails to respond, in quoting
the simple words of Mr.. Lincoln when he left
his home il 1861:


Z" AS for myself and family, we go, perhaps to re.
turn in few days to occupy our accustomed places
in this community; possibly we 90 to other scenes
and duties, not to meet you again. In that event
wish to say, Mr.. Lincoln said on parting with
his friends at Springfield sixteen years ago. that
trust you will pray that may have that Divine as
sistance and guidance without which can not sue
ceed, and with which I can not fall "-Harper':
Weekly, March IL.
Year: 1877

From the Sydney Correspondence of the
Queenslander, we clip the following relating to
the mail service. Up to the departure of the
steamer from Sydney, March 10Y no action


ad been taken by Parliament on this matter:


On Thursday next March l, if all goes well in the
Legislative Assemby-the Postmaster-General will
move, in accordance with notice of motion he
has given, that Parliament should consent 20
change of route in the Pacific Mail Service, giving
up the forked service 10 New Zealand, and running
the steamers to and from Sydney and San Francisco.
via Auckland and Honolulu. and reducing the sub
sidy for the service from tS9,9oO to G725OO of
which amount e40 600 shall be contributed by New
South Wales, aud e32. 900 by New Zealand. the
coastal service being borne by New Zealand only 1t
is not likely that this proposal will be agreed to,
and as 1t is understood that matters relating to the
Pacific mail service have come to such point that
either these resolutions must De agreed 10 or the
service must be dropped, 1t is probable in few
weeks We shall have seen the last OF the magnh-
cent steamers which have been running between
Sydney and San Francisco in our harbor For some
time past the company has been complaining OF the
enormous risks they run in sending their boats on
the coast of New Zealand, and they have been en-
deavoring to make some new arrangements. The
recent smallpox scare and the necessary detention
of one of the steamers in quarantine at sydney
formed sufficient reason for q temporary Withdraw
al from the forked service between kandavu to
New Zealand and this having resulted In wnat ap,
pears to be permanent wthdra val from the forked
service. an outcry has been raised here, and the
Pacific mail service appears to have reached its
climax. Most of our public men decidedly OBJECT
to pay the Pacific Mail Company larger share OF
subsidy than New Zealand win pay, seeing that
New Zealand will be the first place of call for the
deliyerance of English and American mails apd
news and the last of departure. They object also
to the delay in the transmission of mails that will
be caused by calling at N T. and tEey averse TO
paying foreign company subsidy for performing
service which for the same amount OF money
could and would be carried out satisfactorily by our
own A. $. N. Company, for that company has offer
cd to perform the seryite between Sydney and San
Francisco, for a subsidy OF e75,0o0. There is
pretty strong opinion entertained too. that the ser
vice is not worth the money paid for it, as the mail
steamers OF the various postal services connected
with the colonies arrive SO very closely together
that the advantage derived from the San francisco
Year: 1877

Mir. Foster has opened meat market under Cooks building So that we can expect little competition in the meat business

 We are rlso having little competition on the express business from here to Hartford

 A petition to remove the postmaster here has been circulated for signers. Dr. Cook for some unacceptable reason appears not to be satisfactory. Mir Ellsworth, leader of the band, is proposed for new postmaster In case of his appointment different location must be found for the office.

 Deacon Goodwin has been building a new coal shed and barn just south of his office.

 Doctor Cook, proprietor of Columbian Oil, has been selling the article without stamping it properly. This occasioned a call from one of the revenue officers, recently, who will see that the government is not defrauded in the future. Probably 1t wasmore case of neglect, with the doctor, than an intentional fraud.

 M J, W.
Year: 1877

Another sudden death occurred during the pasa week, that of Mir. George White, aged eighty-four yeara He had been sick for some time away from home in Cornwall and had so far recovered as to be able to get home. He went to church last Sabbath, but seemed much exhausted on his way home, and was seen to step and rest several times. The day before his death he went across the street and called on neighbor, and retired that night apparently as well as usual. At one o'clock the Doctor went to his room and found him sleeping 90 quietly that he concluded not to wake him. In the morning he was found lying in the same posi- iion---dead The funeral was attended at the Episcopal church

 Mrs Ellen Dimone woman in the employ ot Ne. T. L. Hart, has been greatly reduced by constant bleeding at the nose. The bleed- ing is stopped with great difficulty, and one night recently 1t was feared she would bleed io death.

 On Saturday last, at six in the morning, a large barn was bnrned at the Sharon Station, supposed to be the work of an incendiary.

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Year: 1877

skim milk. Keep the best of soap on
hand but by IL fair trial it VIII be seen
that full two thirds more soap is used
than is beneficial. 1t is indispensable
in washing clothes, we think; but far
ther than that the less soap used the
better. christian Union.
Year: 1877

When one reflects that the essence of
this people-the great Russian nation,
thirty-six millions of men of one race,
one creed, one tongue, forms the great
est homogeneous mass of men in the
worldwide can doubt that Russia has
a great future before her? 1t has been
said that with increasing population the
enormous kingdom must fall to pieces of
itself; but DO part can exist without the
other; the wooded north needs the corn
growing south, the industrial midland
needs them both, while the interior is
nothing without the sea- coasts and the
mighty Yolga. But still more powerful
than all these is the community of feel
ing which binds together even the most
distant parts. And of this feeling, Mos
COW is the center point, not only of the
European empire, but of the old, sacred
realm of the Czars, in which the histori-
cal memories of the people are rooted,
and out of which its future may yet per-
haps arise.-C6u,t 1Holtke's Co1rcspon-
dence
Year: 1877

We direct attention to the ADVERTISE
ment Of the Crescent City Relief Asso-
citation in another column of this morn
ing's DEMOCRAT. The entertainment
therein advertised to be given at Cruz
newald Hall on the evening Of the Sd
inst, is for the benefit OF the widows
and orphans OF the gallant men who
fell on the 14th OF September in the he
roic defense Of the rights of this peo-
pie. The blood of those men has made
holy to the people OF Louisiana the Four
teenth of September, and we trust that
those for whom our heroes gave their
lives, will show their gratitude by the
unaminity with which they will patron
ize the entertainment given for the
benefit Of the widows aud orphans Of
the fallen brave.
Year: 1877

with any Southern branches as calcu-


lated to jeopardizs the success OF the


main object had In view. For these


reasons alone we are at loss to see


how the ex-Speaker can hope to receive
the support of Southern members oi
| Congress, or at least from those States
directly and largely interesed In the
measures he has contributed SO much
| to defeat.


| That he is competent, an honorable
gentleman. and has made an excellent


presiding officer, no one will deny. But


in the selection OF o. Speaker for the
next House, the South will look beyond


these qualities and ask Will he be
friendly to our interests and aid us in
obtaining for our section what is SO i'm
peratiyely demanded? Judging by the
past, Mr.. Randall cannot stand this
test, and he will probably be compelled
to yield to one who will more fully meet
the requirements OF Southern repre-
sentatives.


OF the opponents Of Mr.. Randall, the
one whose official career in the past
gives promise Of friendly and active CO.
operation in the future with the South,
is Mr.. Sayler. Personally very popular,
thoroughly qualified, with q large fol-
low ing among the Western Democrats.
he will, it seems to us, be able to obtain
such support from Southern members
as will make the contest between him
and Mr. Randall very close and excit-
ing.


With ninety Southern Democrats in
CAUCUS to sixty Northern and Western,
it would be very strange, at this time, IL
the majority did not make itself felt,
and If policy or interest should dictate
REIMBURSEMENT Of Its power it should
still assert the right to say how that
power shall be exercised. There should
not be an absolute abdication, but mere
ly qualified and limited concession Of
that authority which the preponderance
Of votes has at last secured for the
South.


The judicious exercise of this power
will accou plish all our purposes, and will
enable us to name not only the next
Speaker OF the House, but to shape and
control legislation as we may deem best
in the interests of the whole country.
Year: 1877

What are the conditions which must
precede the introduction Of foreign cap
ital and permit the increase Of railroad
investment and enterprise, which the
Times argues are the first essentials to
the revival Of the prosperity and prog
ress Of our State?


They are, first, the establishment of
a good government and Of the vigorous
enforcement of wise laws.


This condition we have attained as
nearly rs practicable In our present cir
cumstances. Peace, law and order pre-
vail in our State and every branch of the
government is. or will very shortly be,
in full and effective operation.


The next condition to invite capital
and stimulate railroad enterprise is in
creased production of the staples of our
section, which are convertible into
money and exchangable for the pro-
ducts we consume. The large aug
mentation Of these products and the
increase Of their value through manip-
ulation will draw to this mart a large
capital wherewith to move and con-
duct our trade.


For trade and commerce we may cal
culate upon the flow Of capital to that
point where there is large accumula-
tion Of the products OF the soil and Of
labor, which the world demands and all
people consume. Railroads, too, will
quickly follow this flow Of capital and
Year: 1877

The DEMOCRAT has just added to Its
Office Il new and complete Steam Jot
Printing department, with all the latest
and most desirable improvements In
types. rules, borders, etc. We are now
fully prepared to compete with any job
printing establishment in tho South
We can turn out, at the shortest notice,
anything from newspaper or book
to q lady's visiting card, In the best style
of the art. We shall devote special at
tention to commercial printing and to
he printing of lawyers briefs. We
earnestly solicit the support OF oui
friends in our progressive efforts.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator
Patterson, of South Carolina, informed the
president yesterday that he thought he
1.-THE president) had made mistake in his
course toward that state. The president
replied that it was an experiment, but
from representations received and pledges
made by Gov. Hampton and subsequent
developments there was reason to believe
it would be successful.


The senator said he would as soon have
Hampton as Chamberlain for governor
provided his accession to that office should
bring prosperity to the state and Hampton
should treat all citizens alike, and provide
means for a fair election as he promised to
do.


ln conversation to-day Senator Patter-
son remarked that, not as Republi can,
but believing in the right of instructions.
ie the legislature of South Carolina should
instruct him to vote in favor of the admis
sion of Butler or any other Democrat to
the senate he would do so, aud, besides,
he would vote for the admission of Demo
cratic senators from Louisiana. This
would interfere with his Republicism, but
his action would be based on the grounC
that state ought to be represented &C
corCingly to the wishes of her people a
represented in their state government.


1t can be stated on authority that tn
president made no bargain whatever witt
or promise to Chamberlain as a condition
of his retiring from the governorship.
Year: 1877

Special to the Chicago Times.


WASHINGTON, April 1O.-The carpet
bag crowd here IN town are completely
thunderstruck by the news from Columbia
of Cham berlain's withdrawal. Senator
Patterson talks his mind very freely
upon the subject. In an interview to day
be said;


Our party down there is not like
the party you fellows have been used to in
the north. We in the south were created
by an act ofcongress, and the negroes as
sociated the government and the troops
with the party. Now if you take the
troops away the party goes up, for the ne
groes there think the government has de
serted them. | tell you what
we carpet-baggars ought to do.
Why; damn it, we ought to resign
and let the Democrats get the senate.
A friend here suggested that Senator
Spencer had said that he'd be damned if
he was going to resign. Patterson, con-
tinuing, said: We'll. we ought to all re-
sign. | can't understand what Hayes is
driving at The friend said he could.
"Why. he is selling out his party. Talk
about dividing the Democratic party
Why, its all moonshine, Hayes knows it.
He is deliberately selling out his party and
it Is given out that he will divide the
southern Democrats so that the real in
amy of his apostacy will be surrounded
with this glamour and the people won
see the real object in all its fculness. II,
has sold us out "