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Year: 1876




THERE are one thousand three hundred
and fifty more county officials, all to be sup
ported by the toiling people, created by the
new, than exist under the Davis constitu-
ton. Bat it's good Democratic constitu-
tiou and the stupid people, delighted with
the prospect of being piundercd, will
vote for it, 1t is Democratic, you
know, and Democracy. ever when en-
quilted by Rutabagaism, can do no wrong.
1t can't blunder. 1t can't make a fool of
itself. The first amendment to be made to
the new Constitution, in view of those sim
pie facts, will consist in making the office
holders support the people each alternate
year. To saddle all this army OF barnacles
in perpetuity on the several counties will
bankrupt popular patience and credulity,
and the Democratic party would be utterly
insolvent. We are much inclined to be
lleve that both people and party should
stand aloof from the awful instrument. Ii
tickles our old friend, Brown of Dallas, and
that is all the good it can ever do the party
or country in this world or the next.
Year: 1876

BY any candidate for the presidency. Grant
is an exceeding good and unselish man, and
he means, in all this Mexican business, 10
serve Texas. He has not thought of him
self or of his poor Bahby and the whisky
ring or of the ''detestable baruacle Bristow''
whom he can't shake off in six months By
all means let those who would surprise
Grant go for him for the presidency as soon
as be goes for the thieving Mexicans.
Year: 1876

The Fredericksburg Sentinel says ''the old
Constitution, God knows, is bad enough /;
IJ,t the new is worse" The time is not
distant when the whole people of Texas
will concur with the Sentinel The evil of
the old Constitution, when Democracy elects
executive officers, is imperative; but the
evils of the new code are practical and
operative hourly and In all directions. Gov
ernOr Coke, while assailing the Davis code
with great force, proper earuestDess and
ability, made this difference between the
two codes palpable. We are willing to bide
our time. The intelligence and love oi
freedom and practical good sense of the
people of Texas will speedily discover how
they have been induced by an army Of
place-hunters to accept scheme OF govern
ment that must become in practical opera
ton, and is already confessed to be, in
tolerable.
Year: 1876

A choice o: routes from Austin to the
East and North will be given by the Inter
national road extended to this city, and
rates of freight and travel will be lessened
twenty five per cent. or more. Goods Or


dered will be received promptly when there
are competing routes, and since Austin will
buy cheaper our tradespeople will sell
cheaper, and inhabitants of wide districts,


who have never seen Austin, will be attracted
hither. The road must be built. It's ex-
tension to this city will save or make for us
half million annually. Moreover, when
the two great highways meet here at the
capital of the imperial State, only dwarfed
by Rutabaga hostility to local freedom and
to railway progress, the necessity for the
conveyance at the same point of other roads
becomes compulsory. The builders o:
cheap narrow gauge roads will always begin
at points from which competition enables
them to ship goods and passengers cheaply.
Austin is sadly recreant to itself in failing
to assure by any possible and reasonable
means the immediate extension of the In
ternational, even as Austin is absolutely dis
honored in the eyes of Intelligent enterprise
! by the failure to secure the location of Aus
tin College on the heights in the suburbs.
Why may not citizens and railway-builders
have conference and see what may be donei
Year: 1876

DAIN in he right side, under the
/ edge of the ribs, increase on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the
Left side; the patient is rarely able
to lie on the left side; sometimes
the pain is felt under the shoulder
tlade, and it frequently extends to
the top of the shoulder, and is some
times mistaken for a rheumatism in
the arm. The stomach is affected
with loss of appetite and sickness;
the bowels in general are costive,
sometimes alternative with lax; the
head is troubled with pain, accom-
panied with a dull, heavy sensation
in the back part. There is generally
q considerable loss of memory, ac-
companicd with a painful sensation
Of having left undone something
which ought to have been done. A
slight, dry cough is sometimes an at
tcndant. The patient complains of
weariness and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of a Prickly scnsa-
ton of the skin; his spirit. are low;
and although he is satisfied that cxer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitudc
enough to try 1t. In fact, he dis
trusts every rem iy. Several of the
above symP;oms attend the disease,
but cases have occurred where few
Of them existed, yet examination of
the body, after death, has shown the
LIVER to have been extensively de-
flnpcd.
Year: 1876

this week. Crops are not as good as we would wish to report them. Wheat is generally rusted very badly; and does not give much promise of an average crop. Corn and cotton are backward. Health is good and farmers all hard at work. There seems to be a deficiency of labor in the coun- try, and we think the planting IS not generally as heavy as last year.

 Ft. Smith Herald: The railroad is about finished. The cars have reported at Alma, grading is go- ing on in the streets of Van Buren and the road is ready for the ties between Lees creek and this city, now what do you think about our railroad prospects, and your easy way to get in and out, to this part of the vineyard where peace and plenty abound.

 From all parts of the country comes the cry of short wheat crops, still we incline to the be- lief that the yield, in the main, will not be far behind that of last year.
Year: 1876

EDITOR DEMOCRAT: Permit me to avail myself of the use of your col umns to express my sincere grati- tude and heartfelt thanks to my friends and neighbors, and to the citizens of Russellyille, for the gem erous aid so noDly extended to me in my recent misfortune, whereby 1 lost my house and entire house. hold furniture. If ever calamity should overtake them, may their distress meet with the same noble and generous relief that they have so freely extended to me, and which l shall ever hold in grateful remem- brance. Very respectfully,

 D. C. HARKEY.
Year: 1876

Mir. II. c. Howell sends us a letter which appears in to-day's paper ex- plaining his motives in moving to omit from the published proceedings of the convention the expressed preference for state officers. It is not necessary for us us to say that Mir. Howell's fealty to his party is undoubted. We differ as to the pro- pTiety of excluding that part of the proceedings, and also as to the effect of the expression given, but when Mir. Howell assures us that his only object was the good of the party, we have no right or grounds or desire to doubt his word or his motives. We know that our delegrtes to the State convention will act so as to se- cure the greatest good to the party and state, and we do not fear but that the people of Pope will endorse their action.
Year: 1876

LNOR SURVEYOR.

 respectfully announce myself as can didate for re election to the office of County Surveyor of Pope, subject to the action of the County Convention. The only refer ence give is careful examination of my work for the past three years.

 JAMES POTTS.
Year: 1876

BEN WOODS, our good eating friend of Fillibuster Camp, sent us last Monday by that pleasant and gentlemanIy stage driver, Frank Norton, specimen, or rather two specimens of the efforts of one of his bullets. This ambitious young hen first produced a little sample about the size of a pigeon egg

 She cackeled considerably, but when she turned round and saw the size of the egg it did not satis- fly her, so she next produced an egg measuring in circumference eight inches by six l! Whose pull let can beat that ? These eggs are in the office of the SENTINEL, and any of our friends are invited to call and see them for one week after the date of this paper, after which time we intend to eat them. We hope Ben will take good care of that bullet, as we wish to procure few of that kind.
Year: 1876

DO YOU WANT A TRI.wEEKLY?


The TRIBUNE is disposed to revive its
Tri.weekly edition if there is q demand
for it, and will if two hundred dollars
a month can be raised in subscriptions.
Daily dispatches would be a good thing
to have in these exciting times. Think
of it citizens Of Bismarck and gentlemen
Of the military posts, and if disposed to
encourage the enterprise, write us or
talk accordingly. The price will be one
dollar per month payable two months
in advance. No money will be received
on subscription until the publication Of
ofthe Tri-weekly is determined upon.
Year: 1876

Black Hills have been subject to greatly
varying emotions. First came the re-
port that all the routes Leading here had
been closed by military and that no one
would be allowed to come in or freight
in pound of supplies. This naturally
caused some Of the most panicky to
rush around for flour and bacon, which
they bought at a high figure; about $18
per hundred for -four and IS cents for
bacon; but the more phlegmatic ones
who had still some faith in humanity,
said that our government was not in
the habit of starving its citizens, even
for the laudable purpose of forcing them
out of country claimed by a band of
murderous, thieving redskins, and
prophesied that those who hoped to
proft.by our supposed dire need of pro.
visions would be badly bitten. Fortu-
nately they were correct, and flour is
selling to-day at $40 per cwt.. not a
very gratifying prospect for the corner
operators who paid $18. .....
q Crook City has grown wonderfully,
and the main street is built up nearly
solid with store buildings for half a
mile while on the upper portion there
are about seventy five dwelling houses.
Lots are held at about two hundred to
five hundred dollars. ""5.'a


The Whiteweod gulch mines are get
ting we'll opened up, and are paying
for the most part, although many Of
them lay so high up that water from
the creek can not be brought on them
without great expense, in fact, every
claim runs up the mountain side for one
or two hundred feet, and even at the
ton the dirt will pay three to five cents
to the pan. This will all be washed out
by hydraulic mining, for which purpose
! ditch is being dug from Spearish
creek. about Is miles to the northwest.
This ditch will bring water into White
wood about 800 feet high, and will give
= pressure that will turn over a meet.
ING house, or clean the Augian stables
this juxtaposition of similus does not
carry the inference that there is any
great similarity. When this enterprise
Is completed, which will probably be by
fall. the business that will be done in
Crock City will be immense. There
will be work for at least 5000 men on
the gulch, which cannot be washed
out in less than five years. This water
will also be turned upon Boulder Greek,
Bear Butte creek, and some other dry
diggings laying about five miles south.
east of here, all Of which have been dis
covered since nv last letter. These
placer claims are said to be richer even


than Whitewood or Deadwood. | have
seen $3.50 in four pans of dirt and bed


rock had not been struck either. The
gold was the most beautiful specimen


we have ever seen, it being all of a
bright yellow color, without particle
of rust that somewhat disfgures the
Deadwood gold, while many Of the sca;es
showed bright polish, like jewelry,
giving indications Of heavy wash


These mines will give employment to
Year: 1876

THE Inauguration Of the new Courier
Journal building yesterday was made
the occasion Of hOnors 10 the memory
OF the great journalist and poet who
made the Journal a great power, such
as speak highly for the generosity Of his
surviving c)lEboreTs by whom the
loving tribute was ordered. No nan
who lived and lsbored in and became
master Of our profession as Mr.. Prentice
did, has been so honored, and none
ever lived who more deserved the hon.
ors thus bestowed. Culture, taste and
discretion were evidenced throughout
all the proceedings, We congratulate
our contemporary upon the crowning
evidence of its euccess furnished in the
new building.
Year: 1876

THE Knoxville Tribune rays that "ss
Che choice of the Democratic party, N.
D. Swami is the candidate for sheriff OF
Knox county, and ss such we shall give
him the full measure Of our support. We
must win in the approaching canvass,
and t) succeed we must cordially and
cheeTfuDy rally 10 the support Of the
nominee Of the pertY.u
Year: 1876




The following extract from the Lnsur-
dnce World Of March 31st, ultimo, pub
lished at PittsbuTg, Pennsylvania, is
of interest to those who need pTOtsc-
ton against destruction of property by
fire:


"In the last two years not one board
company has failed, and only two or
three have become impaired. Is not
this q fine record? How is 1t with nom
board companies during the same time?
More than sixty Of those which attempt
ed to sell indemnity below cost have
ia led or become impaired. Would
life insurance company insure class
of lives among whom death was as prev
alent? Illustrations on this point can
be given to any extent. Cheap insurance
companies have gained very little with
the thinking business portion of the peo-
Pile. The very fact that company Is in
the board the public feel is strong rea'
son for believing it to be safe and sound.
Business men will not buy notes offered
by reckless speculators unless the mar
gin is very great; and banks, if carefully
managed, never dabble in this cheap
kind OF paper. The same principles
should be applied to buying cheap in
| surancen
Year: 1876

AT cabinet meeting yesterday 1t was
ordered that General Augur be instructed
ty telegraph, on the requisition Of the
governor, and it sPpearing that the local
authorities are not able to preserve order,
10 give such sid as in bis discretion may
be nscesss,y to prevent bloodshed and
violence in Louisiana.
Year: 1876

this afternoon, remained in session about
an hour, and decided to communicate
with all the States not represented at
the conference in reference to the selec-
ton of the gentlemen who shall com-
pose the mansging committee. They
made no sele etiOn of members, and will
not probably do so for several days. One
prominent gentleman fromseach State
will be added to the committee.
Year: 1876

sound of whose name even the most dis
heaTtened will take new courage, and
all mankind will say that the AmeTi-


cans are indeed in earnest to restore the
ancient purity Of their government.
Fellow. citizens, the undersigned i'll adj
dressing you sre not animated by the
ambition to form or lead new political
party. Most OF Us have long been, and
still are, warmly attached to their party
associations; and it would be most gratl-
flying to US to see, by party action, candi-


dates put forward whose character and


record answer these requirements which
the present circumstances render imper-
stive. We earnestly hope and trust it


will be go, and we shSll gladly follow


such 8 lead aud make every effort in


our power TO render it successful.
But while we are ready to sccep! auy
and every gOOC result o. party action,
we affirm that the moral reform Of our
public concern is infinitely superior in
Importance to the interests Of sDy po-
litical party. Glad to promote that re-
form through party action, we shall in
sist upon it at all events should party
action fail. Experience teaches US that
the habitual submission Of good citizens
to a choice OF evils presented to them
Dy party OISabiHAhOLoi - OhC Vi thC
most prolific causes Of corruption in our
politics. the acceptance by the people
Of the argument that one party may be
bad and still entitled to the support Of
| good men because the other party Is still
worse, will induce each to consider hoT


bad it may safely be. 1t will strengthen
in each the power Of the most un'


scrupulous clement, and subject


the will Of the people to the subtle
| tyranny Of the organization welded
| by those who live by politics


To break that tyranny by stern refusa


to submit to such choice of evils is the


fret beginning in the reform Of cur po
litical tie. Without this all other step


will prove unavailing. We shall sin


cersly rejoice to see the necessity Of in
dependent action avoided. We earn


sstIy hope that the efforts to this en'
Year: 1876

Causes for Trial and Argument
At the November Te the year Lord one thousand
eight and sevenysx before the Superior Court to
be held New Castle, in and for New Castle County


M.~I., n.c An A n. 1915
Year: 1876

The almost universal testimony
Of men and women who have under
gone great fatigue, such as riding
long Journeys without stopping, or
sitting up several nights in succession,
is that they could do it best upon an
occasional cup Of tea-and nothing
else. But little tea or coffee re-
stores quite as much as a great deal
and q great deal oftea, and especially
Of Coffee impairs the power Of di:
gestion. Wv.
Year: 1876

Dry furnace heat, productive Of
throat and lung diseases, may be
moistened by hanging wet towel in
front Of the register, the lower edge
Of the towel being allowed to dip in
10 a shallow vessel Of water.
Year: 1876

A PROMINENT VETERINARY SURGEON ENDS HIS


HIS LIFE WITH PISTOL.


Arthur s. copcman, prominent and wealthy veter-
mary surgeon residing at No 63 West Thirtyscvenh
street, committed suicide yesterday evening by lodg
almost instantaneous. The cause Of the act
is ascrlbod by his family to q painful nervous
headache Of two years standing which has at times
rendered him almost insane


The deed was committed in his bedroom. He came
after four o'clock and sat down in the parlor few
minutes ut which time he appeared usual He
then went upstairs, whore he emaned about hour
when he returned 10 the parior and made some in
quries about dinner, which was being prepared. Ho
made no complains about being unweil Soon after
ward he again weLt upstairs. At about half
his door to call him to dinner, and obtaining
response she entered. Tho bands were closed and
the room was quite dark. She called her uncle but
no answer came. Hurrying down stairs she informed
Henry Copeman, OF tho deceased that his father
must be very III as he would not speak. The young
man went to the room, and, turning tho light,
blood issuing IN streams from his mouth and nostris.
four chamber pistol with three chambers loaded,
was lying on the floor near tho bod. Dr. J. W.
McClan was hurriedly called IN, but lato
to be OF service. The police wcre then no.
tilted, and soon atterward Deputy Coroner
Marsh arrived at the house. The latter
found on examination that the ball had entered
Through tho roof OF the mouth and lodged In the
brain.


His inquiries Of tho family obtained the above facts
No report oil a pistol was heard, but Miss Copeman
stated tnat the weapon was probably discharged
simultaneously with the falling OF bread pan In the
Kitchen which made considerable noise.


The deceased sixty three years OF age and large
IN stature He was born IN England, but this
country when quito young. He was extensively
known ~ very successful veterinary surgeon, and
reputed to be worth $500. 600. Coroner EickhoG
will hold al inquest.
Year: 1876

James Mcdonnell bell boy In the Grand Central
note accidentally fell through tho hatchway OF the
elevator night and received injuries which will
probably result fatally he was sent to Bellevue Hos
Year: 1876

Sneaker Randall seems to be an uncOmmOnly
earnest person. Not always wise, but ap-
parently always profoundly impressed with
the necessity of "dOing something" and
greatly enthusiastic in going ahead to do it.
It was Mr. Randall who at the last session of
this Congress urged, and persisted in urging


the importance to the Democratic party
of "doing something" in the way of
retrenchment. 1t was necessary, he thought,
to impress upon the people the idea that the
Great Democratic Party was the party of re-
trenchment and reform, and so he advocated
such sweeping reductions in the appropriations
as made even his own political associates
stand aghast. And it was currently reported
and generally believed that the debt of graft
tude the country was under to Congress for
sitting and sitting and wearying the patience
of the people away into the middle of the last
Summer, was due principally to Mr. Randall,
who insisted on staying and peeling the
appropriations down to point where the
departments would be crippled, and the Demo-
cratic party would be enabled to point with
pride TO its great policy of retrenchment. He
did that work exceedingly well. 1t was easier
to do than it would have been if his own
party had been in power and the work Of re-
trenchment had cut into the emoluments
of his own friends; but he did it, and
as soon as it was over the whole
crowd of leaders and followers, orators and
oraces, rushed to the country with the cry
that the party had saved thirty millions in the
appropriations. Mr.. Randall is very stub
born person, and is constantly bent on "doing
something" for the party. The something he
now seems bent on doing is to impeach
President Grant. He intiDated it in his adj


dress upon taking the Speakers chair, and
now he has been urging il IN cauc 5,
and will no doubt follow it up with
his usual pertinacity. Not that anything
can be effected by it beyond little unnecessary
mud-finging at q retiring officer not that he
has any sort of hope of conviction, for that
is wildly improbable, but because he feels the
Year: 1876

OF course the Democrats have no expecta-
ton that the thin game they played in Oregon
can he successful They do not pretend to
the least doubt about the will of the people
of the State The majority voted against all
the Democratic candidates for electors,
and it is certain, therefore, that none
of those Democratic candidates were
fairly elected and that no vote from any Of
them can justly be counted 1t is not prob
able that the Democrats had the least cx-
pectation that it would be. What they want is
TO use Oregon as a lever to Try open the whole
question of the action taken by the various
Returning Boards. The Republicans have main
tanned that there is no power which can go
behind or reverse the decision of Il Returning
Board that its work is final and subject
to no review. The Democrats thereupOn
find q Governor reckless enough to vio-
late his official oath, and give certifi-
cate to a man notOriOusly defeated. They
argue that if the Republicans acqulesce Tilden
is elected if they resist they can only do it
by asserting the right to go behind the de-
cision of a Returning Board, and thus open
up the cases irs all the disputed States. 1t
looked like a shrewd trick in a desperate
game.


But they overreached themselves. Their
bogus cector has to forward his certificate
from the Governor. The President of the
Senate finds there the certificates also of two
Republican electors lawfully elected. lie sees
that they are the majority of the Board, that
their election is unquestioned, and that they
filed the vacancy of one in the lawful manner,
lust as the bogus electOr proceeded TO fill the
vacancy of two. He recognizes this as OBJ
viOusly the true Board, counts their vote, and
the Democratic conspiracy vanishes into thin
air.


But what party this of Mr.. Tilden's is
for scrupulously respecting the declared will
"Of the people ~
Year: 1876

The Virginia Senate was in a solemn mood
yesterday about the recent presence of soldiers
in that State, and would not allow a colOred
member to be sworn in until it had made up
its mind whether "the full choice of the peo-
"ple was controlled by the Intervention of
"the military forces of the United States"
&c. The "military forces" consisted of ten
men in command of second lieutenant. This
is what might be called intimidation of mild
type.