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Year: 1876

Mr.. Emory Higley, who was member
of Company B, Twenty-third Ohio Vol
unteers, has written brief letter to the
Ashtabula Sentinel in which he says
"When enlisted Iw as quite young and
small to carry a musket, and found IL
difficult at times, when on long marones,
to keep up with The army. When on our
second or third days march from Wes-
ton to Cheat Mountain, became SO fa-
tigued in the middle of the afternoon
that it was impossible to keep up, and
began to straggle in the rear. AS soon
as discovered by our gallant Ma.
jer Hayes he dismounted his horse and
requested me to ride. repeatedly oE-
jecled to do so, saying that l thought /
could march while longer, but he would
not take no for an answer. Alter placing
me comfortably on his saddle and put
ting his pantaloons In the top Of his
boots, he shouldered the gun and filed
my place In the ranks, plodding through
the sticky clay, chatting with the boys
and cheering them on until nearly dark,
when he came for his horse tosride ahead
TO look for a camping ground. We
camped tnat night at what was known
as the 'rompkins Farm where we found
plenty OF wood aud fires still burning,
left by the rebels in the morning Of the
same day. During the whole evening
he was TO be- found walkipg through the
camp, caring and looking After the COM
fort u lie psr y
Year: 1876

THE body of an unknown man was
found about 10 O'Clock this morning. al
the foot OF Broadway, In the river. The
man was dressed in blue pants and dark
check shirt. He wore short sandy col
ored chin whiskers and had an old knife
In his pocket. Squire Eyitt will hold
the inquest.


p. HARTLAUB, the newsdealer, Is very
properly indignant that no inquiries
were made before arrestlng his boy on
so serious charge. The case is one OF
unexampled thfnness, and when It Is
heard he will come out all right. Hart
laub is a man OF good character, and
neither he nor his son had the slightest
intimation that the tickets were not
straight in ali respects.
Year: 1876

Democratic Executive Committee.


The Democratic Executive Committee
held a meeting this morning, and, after
very warm and excited discussion,
resolved to hold the County Convention
on the Both of August. The primaries
are to be held ON the evening OF the 18th.
A resolution was passed Tor the imme-
diate organization OF T1lden and Hen
dricks Clubs in every ward and precinct
in the county.
Year: 1876

Please take notice. We have just received
the very finest Young Tyson and Imperial
Teas, which we boush especially for the hot
season, when hundreds are struck down by
the heat OF the sun. These Teas arU worth
itheIr weight in gold ten thousand times over.
We advise every one to drink nothing but fine
Tea for many precious life is lost through
common drInks. ENTENNIAL TEA COM
EPANY, 204 West Sixth street.


I frD1 luG nat
Year: 1876

P1TTsBURG, Pa, April 22.-At midnight
last night the beautiful camp meeting
grounds OF the Methodists, situated some
twenty miles from this city, we're com
pletely destroyed by an incendiary fire, in
volving a loss of some $50,000. The
grounds, are considered among the most beau
tiful in the country, and the national as
sociation were to hold their camp here this
year, commencing il August next. q,


The number of buildings erected on the
grounds was 1853, all but about half dozen
of these being houses or cottages occupied
by members of the Camp Meeting Associa-
ton. The cottages were all built by fam
lilies occupying them, they paying rent to
the association for the use of the grounds,
30 that the loss will mostly fall on indi-
viduals rather than on the association IS
body. The houses average in value about
$500, though some of the finest were worth
pretty well On to $1,000. Many of the
houses were furnished, the occupants leav-
ing their furniture their during the winter


The grounds proper embrace upward of
fourteen acres, being level plateau with
ravines on the east, west and north sides,
the entrance being on the south side, the
main road from Tarentum leading directly
to the camp. The camp was one of the
most beautiful that could be imagined, the
plateau being covered with immense forest
trees, some of which were fully two feet in
diameter. Great preparations were being
made for national camp meeting on the
7th of August, but it is feared the grove
has been SO badly injured that it will be
impossible to hold the meeting at this city.
Year: 1876

COMPLAINT is generally made that the con-
ditlon of business is such in the United States
Supreme Court that it has ceased to be an
organ for the administration of justice. There
are now 900 cases on its calendar, extending
back five years, and it is now estimated that
if the Court should sit every day for three
years and dispose of case day it would be
scarcely able to finish the old business, 10 say
lieve the Court it was provided year since
that no case involving smaller sum than
$4,000 should be brought before it. This
measure however has not been one of relief,
Year: 1876

AT last the Democrats have framed re-
sumption bill, the chief features of which are
that it doesn't resume and that it repeals all
provision for definite resumption. The bilr
is intended for compromise measure, and is
much like the compromise measures passed
before the war in which all the concessions
were made by the North; the infationists
get all the advantages. They secure the re.
peal of the resumption act, and the repudia-
ton of the pledge to resume in 1879. They
are of course well satisfied, for the bill is in
effect an evasion of the whole question of re-
sumption. 1t is besides an outrageous def
ance of the popular will. The resumption
act was heartily approved by the people in
the fall elections. In Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania, where the Democrats proclaimed
themselves in favor Of repeal, they were de-
feated; while 10 New York and New Eng
land they did not dare even to propose re-
neal
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1876

Judge Kidder says he does not believe
that any Democrat in Dakota wouad be
willing to see the government of the
United States pass into the hands OF
those who tried to destroy it, and yet
that is j ust what Democratic supremacy
in the national administration means.
Year: 1876

SOMETHING WORTH knowing The
Cincinnati Enquirer says: Every little
while we hoar Of some one who has stnck
q rusty nail in his foot or some other
part of his person. and lockjaw resulted
therclrom. All such wounds can be
healed without any fatal consequences
following them. The remedy is simple.
1t is only to smoke such wound, or any
wound or bruise that has infamed, with
burning wool or wooden cloth. Twenty
minutes in the smoke of the wool. will
take the pain out Of the worst case Of
Inflammation arising from any wouan ue
ever saw.
Year: 1876

ES- To keep insects from home bacon,
take cane molasses and apply to the feshy
parts carefully, as much as will adhere.
then sprinkle on as much ground pepper
(the kind found in stores, and called
black by some as will adhere, and hang
tup in the smoke house or any place
you may choose to keep it. In order
that the above may be etiectual, il must
be applied immediately after smoking. for
il the germ or nit, or egg from which the
worm is hatchcd, is lodged on the meat
before the application ia mode, it will not
be edectual, With this applied, the meat
keeps nice aud sweet.
Year: 1876

tricks on the old fellow before he left


Chicago, but failed to catch him IN any


trap. When he gathered up his valise


and took Western bound train, they


followed hira. They took seats behind


him in the car, to watch their opportu-


nifty. Just after the Burlington and


Missouri train left Burlington, the rate


of speed was slow, and the old man


was doing in his seat. Now was then
opportunity. if ever. One of the
thieves reached over and seized the old
mans pocket-book from his side pock-
ct, knowing just where to put his hand
on it, and the other grabbed tie
valise and ran one toward the front
door, and the other for the rear platform.
But the old man was too wide awake.
He drew his pistol and fred. first at one
and then at the other. One fell in the
door of the car fatally wounded. and the
other on the platfoi m, dead. The old
man had good eye for s1ch birds on
the wing. They had his money and all
his effects, and it was evidently their
intention to jump the train. 1t was a
bold risk, but it was a big sum. The
train was stopped-the dead and dying
were carried off, and the Texas cattle
drover gave himself up for examination.
Both of the thieves we're well known on
he road, and train men are glad they
.re out of the way.
Year: 1876

A WOMAN who lived 5S days without
eating or drinking, has just died at
Mexico, N. Y. She was about 80 years
old, and for ten years had been bed
ridden, as the result of a nervous dis
ease. One day ia February she was
taken with a severe toothache. and,
having had her teeth drawn, the pain
went to her throa: and chest, making it
very difficult for her to swvllow She
tried little cream for a while. but it
threw her into convulsious. and finally
the sight or odor of food would produce
the same effect. From time to time,
too, she became deaf, dumb and blind.
Indications were Introduced into her
arms and she was hathed in milk, but
when efforts were made to induce her
to eat pieces of food placed in her
hands she refused, even after nil trouble
with her throat and chest had passed
away. Yet when asked why she would
not eat she could give no reason. The
most striking fact of all was that, after
death, no evidence of disease could be
found in her body.
Year: 1876

Clicked INTo CoNFEssIoN.-Cha


Robinson. a farmer in Genessee Valley,


was fortunate enough to be possessed of


$500 in twenties-a nice little sum, by


way, these hard times, For safe-keep-
ing he hid it inside the cushion of a
lounge in his bedroom, and the hiding
place was know only to himself and
wife. On Wednesday of last week he
occasion to use some money, and it was
discovered that it was missing. No one
had been about the place except the
family and China cook. and of course
suspicion pointed at once to the Celes-
tial. He denied the theft emphatically.
He was a good man; an honest man
aud, in every sense of the word. one of
1.-The noblest works of God," Search
was continued with no success. Rob
inson's stock of patience was exhausted.
and he thought he would string the
Chinaman. and with the assistance of
a man, he was taken to the barn and a
rope placed around his neck, after
which he raised six feet and let down
again. he declared innocent, and knew
nothing. The dose was repeated. and
still he avowed himself innocent. The
dose was increased gradually. and after
he had been hauled up the fifth time be
confessed he had stolen it, and promised
to tell Mrs. Robson where it was hid
den. This he did, and the money was
recovered. He had wrapped the coin
in paper, placed it in buckshin purse,
and. after rolling it up in rag, buried
it under the milk house.
Year: 1876

A PRIZE BROUGHT DEATH.-A letter
to the Cincinnati Commercial from
Munich says: IA mechanic, out of
work and reduced to his last lechser &c
cents), instead of investing it in bread


staked it on a lottery ticket As he did
not return home on Saturday night. his
wife was in fever of anxiety lest, in
his desperation, he had destroyed him =
self However, bright and early Sun
day morning he returned. radiant in a
new suit of clothes, with hand and arms
full of redeemed household articles, he
exclaimed We are saved; have
won prize The poor woman gaZed
at him speechless, unable to realize the
glad tidings;' but the reaction was too
great. She sank on the floor dead. and
widower and four little orphans were
plunged into greater misery than that
from which they had been rescued.
Year: 1876

A TEXAS CATTLE MAN.-An old Texas
cattle man named Seibert proved very
rough customer for a pair of hungry
thieves to deal with. He had sold his
drove in Chicago and pocketed $1,000
as the proceeds. A couple Of railroad
thieves found out he had a large
amount Of money, and resolved to get
il at any risk. The prize was worth
their daring. They tried all their usual
Year: 1876

WHEN Mark Antony threw himself
upon the dear remains" of his loved
Caesar in Pittsburg theatre the other
evening. he struck the "corpse" fair
in the stomach, which had the effect of
doubling it up with a grunt, that rather
detracted from the solemnity of the
Year: 1876

ON This showing the directors declared dividend on
the prefecd stock Of Dig per cent parable on the 22d
inst The transfers will close the 14th and reopen on
the Goth inst 1t will he that the gross earnings


are reported S27G377 less than for the corresponding
time of 1875 but the most noticeable feature IA the re-
ducti of 10 per cent in operating expenses amounting
to S4O7 We also fail TO discover IN tue report any
reference to proprietary roads, or the Po or oss
sustained by the operating OF them The report also
states that the floating debt OF the company has been en-
tirely paid or After the meeting had adjourned Mr.
President Keep asked how the money had been OBJ
tainei to pay of the floating debt ana what additional
amount of the cOmpanys bonds had been Issued ana sofa
since June 1, to which he replied that TINS statement


.s NO, a reoular annual report and such matters
not ouebed upon" query concerning the condition
OF the several sinking funds of the company, Mr. Keep
confined his -epy the statement that the sinking


lpd for the consolidated gold bonds was full up 10 the
Requirements OF the contract
Year: 1876

DO not imagine when you see one of
chose broad -chested statesmen get up in
his place on the floor of the house of rep
resentatives, that your soul is about to be
aroused by burst of sonorous eloQuence.
He carries his paper of chewing tobacco in
his coat-tail pocket. and is too fat to reach
it without rising. - B1ooklyn Argus. 2


1t may be that Bayard can do in
New York all that we hope Ti!den can do,
but, whether Bayard is selected or not, we
of the south and of the. whole union
recognize Tildeu as the embodiment of
that reform idea which is to drag the
present administration from its seat and
restore the government to its pristine puri-
ty.-Aobile Register.


The Effngham (Ill.) Democrat in
d1rses the following from the New York
Tribune: ''His Tilden's is the only name
that, as a Democratic candidate, would
have any serious meaning for the people.
Not to nominate him at St Louis would
be to start off with the confession that all
the talk by party leaders and party presses
about reform is hollow and insincere. p"


1t is almost universally conceded that
upon the result of the Empire state hangs
the result for the union. It's great deal
that the Democrats Of New York deliber-
ately presented Gov. Iilden as their candi-
date; it was much more that he was pre-
sented to the Democrats of all the other
states in the discreet and conciliatory man
ner which was wisely adopted. Boston
| Post


Coy. Seymour is quite incapable of
making mischief, and he is as incapable Of
allowing mischief to be made that he can
hinder. His letter on the Utica Herald S
calumny is perectly characteristic of him.
| If the hopes of the radicals aud jobbers of
New York have nothing better to feed on
than the chance of feud between the
friends of Horatio Seymour and the friends
Of Samuel j. Tilden, they are in a very
languishing way.-N T. World
| Mr.. Tilden is gaining every day, and
we would not be surprised if he should be
nominated at St. Louis on the first ballot.
He will have the support of the eastern
states and large share of the south He
will obtain the votes of the states on the
Pacific slope. We trust that he will have
the vote of Michigan, as he will of Wiscon
sin. We predict that Samuel j. Tilden
will be the next president.-Kdlan,azoo
Mich Gazette.


The prevailing sentiment among
thoughtful and well informed democrats il
in favor of lifelong democrat, whose
character and standing will command tht
respect of the people and the confidence
of the best element of the Republican party
which is looking to the Democrats for relief
men who, like Carl Schurz, have declared
their intention to vote for Democrat like
Bayard or Filden, if such man should b;
selected -BelleUiUe, III, Democrat.
Year: 1876

II you have good thing, advertise il.
II you haven't, don't.


II you don: mean TO mind your own
business it will not pay to advertise.


It's as true Of advertising as Of any.
thing else in the world-if it is worth
doing at all it is worth doing well.


We don't recommend advertising -
q good way to geta wife, but we know il
is the best way to get a good trade.


Don't expect an advertisement to bear
fruit in one night | Ike the prophets
gourd. Advertising will take effect, bnt
It will take more than one night to DO it
You can't eAt cnoughin one week 10
last whole year, and you cant advcr.
tise on that plan. either.


A large advertisement once and then
discontinued, creates the impression that
the man has fizzled.


Injadicious advertising is like fishing
where there is no fish, Yon need to let
the lines fall In the light place.
A constant dropping will wear rock.
Keep dropping your advertisements on
the public. aud they will soon melt under
it like rock salt
Year: 1876

KRErrNG THE HANDS SMOOTH "A wri
ter in the american Grocer says las
glycerinc is not used in the right way.
She asserts that to preserve the smooth
ness and softness of the hands, keep
small bottle of glycerine near the place
where You habitually wash them, and
whenever you have finished washing them
and before wping them, put one or two
drops of the glycerine on the wet palm
and rub the hands thoroughly with it AZ
If it we're soap, then dry lightly with -
towel. Household work and bad wealth.
er will not prevent your skin from being
smooth and soft if this plan of using gly.
cerinc Is followed
Year: 1876

A New INDICATION or DEArH -Is the
patient really dead or not? is at times \
very ;.nxious question. A medical prac-
titioner Of Crernonia proposes simple
method by which the question may be
answered with certainty. 1t Is to inject
drop of ammonia beneath the akin.
when, if death be present, no effect. or
next to none, is produced; but If there
be life, then red spot appears at tho
place of injection. A test SO easily ai-
piled as this should remove all apprehcn-
sion Of being buried alive
Year: 1876

In the island of Cos, as Sir John
Vaudeville tells us, thore still lived,
in his time-tAat is to say, during
the fourteenth century-the dau.h,
ter of an eminent physician, Hip
pOcAtes, VI. d., who had then been
dead, if history lieth not, nearly two
thousand years. The goddess Di,
ana, for some reason of hers un-
known to Sir John Vaudeville, had
changed her by magic art into the
form and figure of loathly dragon
a hundred fathoms in length. She
inhabits-for one may suppose that
she is still there-an old castle in
the island, whence she comes out
two or three times every year, but
does no harm to any body. And
she is doomed to remain in that
form until some knight be found
bold enough to kiss her on the
moutl, disguised and hideous as she
is. This once done, she shall turn
again to a woman. Not long before
Sir John visited the island a knight
of Rhodes undertook the adventure.
Mounting his charger he rode bold


ly into the castle where she lay;
but when the dragon lifted her head
the knights courage left him, and
he turned to escape; whereupon
the dragon tossed him, horse and
all, into the sea. This accident
brought the adventure into disre-
pute. But there was anOther--a
young man who knew not of the
dragon. He, wandering about the
island, came upon the castle, and
entering it, discovered her on one
of those rare days when she was
permitted-in the stri0est privacy
to resume her own shape in order
to comb her hair. She told the
youth, who was not yet a knight,
that if he would go away and get
knighted, and then come back and
have the courage to kiss harmless
dragon on the mouth, she and all
her wealth would be his. He went,
was made a knight, and returned to
the adventure. But, alas! when
the dragon came Out-sO lOathly
and missLapen his courage failed
him too, and he fed in haste. She,
when she saw that he turned not
again, began to cry as a thing that
ha.h much sorrow; and then she re-
Year: 1876

The NOrristOwn Herald seasonably
says: "Young man, if you should
see your girl gain. intently at your
feet don't shift them about uneasily,
or draw them up and sit upon them,
under the impression that she is
overwhelmed by their immense size.
She is merely taking their measure
mentally for pair of slippers, on
the toes of which she intends to
work blue dog with a green tail
and scarlet ears"
Year: 1876




A TURN IN THE TIDE. The
Portland Press, in a well considered
article concludes that the tide which
for the past fifteen years has been
sweeping cityward from the agri
cultural districts in Maine has
turned and is now rolling the other
way, and in consequence tho de
serted homesteads are likely to be
soon peOpled again. 1t says:


There is hardly a rural district in
Maine that has not received access
ions to its male adult population
within the last six months. All
will receive greater accessiOns in
the six months to come. The la-
bOrers have come back, unwillingly,
to the farms. 1t will he many years
before we shall again witness II
general influx to manufacturing
centres. Meanwhile these men
must live and live 10y farming. In
consequence the farms, titled as
they should be, will constantly i'm,
prove. 1t will be found that the
work of two is better for an acre
than the work of one. Every inch
of arabic land will be highly cul-
tivated. More will be produced on
sixty acres three years hence than
is produced on a hundred and sixty
now. In other respects, moral and
physical, the country will be the
gamer. In time probably, on ac-
count Of war or great speculative
excitement, the draft will again set
in to the city-to sweep back again
after time. In the long run city
and country maintain normal pro-
portion.


Another circumstance is strength
enins the country. On account of
scarcity of labor, of consequent cul.
tivatiOn and unromunsrative return
from products, the value of real es-
tate has not inflated. Very often
it has fallen more below its true
value than city property has risen
above. So now it is not forced to
meet and yield to tho shrinkage Of
values. On the contrary it is be-
ginning to appreciate The law of
supply aud demand will cause
further advance. High state Of cul-
tiyation and large crops will enhance
its value still more. The process is
still going on. Real estate in cities
il still falling. In the rural dis
tricts it is slowly rising. Unless
values are once mere unsettled by
an initiation Of the currency, the
farmers have prosperous time be-
fore them. The cities have grown
for years at the expense ofthe coun-
try districts. The farming regions
are now to win prosperity at the
expense of the cities.
Year: 1876

"The Russian glOve' is the most
sensible as we'll as the most fashion
able of new hand gear for a wOma rs
wear out of doors this winter. 1t
is made of very fine and smooth
kid, and the inside is lined with
soft fur. 1t is said to be agreeable,
elegant in appearance, and cOnven-
lent. The Russian glove is worn
with either two or three buttons,
at the option of the wearer.