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Year: 1876

The Infant Asylum attached TO the above admirable
institution Of great xety to the good Sis.
ters OF Charity who in charge lie supported by
voluntary contributions which have dwndled down by
reason OF tue times and the absence OF largo
proportion OF tho wealthy classes until they
to nothing As the SISTERS by their rule not al


lowed solicit charity personally s hoped that those
Interested In charity OF high order will como TO their
Year: 1876

The examination of william Johnson colored man,
on the charge OF arson setting hrs house Orc
Wayne street. Jersey City. took place before Justice
Reese In the First District Court, yesterday It was
proved that the was worth only $500 while II was
insured for s7OO johnson was seen TO jump from win
dow Of the house after the rc had broken out Justice
Keeso committed him for trial
Year: 1876

THE PARLIAMENTARY cRIsIs--AN ANIMATED


DEBATE AND A CLOSE DIVISION.


RohS July Is, 1915
The discussion OF the bill concerning reeula
tions for establishing free ports renewed to-day In
the Senate.


signor Depretis President Of the Council Of Minis
tcrs, declared that the occurrence Al yesterdays Sit
ting affected national institutions and the gov
ernment considered the vote null and void
He said the Ministry would take no further share in
tho discussion but leave the Senate 10 exercise It's m
dependence and do what its dignity and tho prestige
OF the country required


MAJORITY OF ONE.
Tho Senate finally decided, after an animated de-
bate, by vote Of es against 81 that yesterdays vote
null and void, and ultimately resolved 70 meet on
the Goth inst for fresh vote on the bill
Year: 1876

names gathered like fury and swept the hills east
Of the camp. making tremendous smoke For
tunatey the wind was favorable to us.


1t is believed that all the grass has been burned
along the Tongue and Rosebud rivers. The at
mosphere has been very murky.


GENERAL CROOKS ABSENCE


In consequence OF the absence OF General Crook
at The time of his return no force had been sent TO
meet the Sioux band reported by Lieutenant Slbley.
In the opinion OF the subordinate officers of this
The dissatisfaction OF the shoshones at the man
agement of fight OF June Il is not yet appeased
but they are willing to test alliance OF troops
once more. Two hundred Utes and number Of
their coming is far from being assured.


GENERAL TERRY ASSURED GENERAL CROOK
that it he will join him, he will not assume any
superior authority on account of seniority OF rank.
be anticipated. The messengers from the camp
the Yellowstone say that the Sioux village
was destroyed but the official despatch
contains no such statement. The guides who ac-
companied Sibley believe there is large village on
Little Big Horn, near the old government road.


THE VILLAGE ATTACKED BY CUSTER
is supposed TO have been the one removed from the
Rosebud after during the fight OF June II. Sioux
now serenadc this camp every night with bullets
and are watching us very closely.
Year: 1876

that are shipped are in double sacks.
Mr.. Ball speaks of beef cattle being re-
|ce,ved, a. If he were afraid sothethina
|m:ght he done that he would not know
Shout; and sets forth what has been told
him by different parties. l doubt very
much whe,h + Carr or Hunter made such
reports to Ball. because they know such
statements to be untrue. There certainly
was no such transaction as the yoking up
of 40 head of Agency cattle into my train
nor have there been any Agency cattle
with my herd to my knowledge: All Of
which can be proved.


AS regards my character, refsr you to
all the respectable people, (among whom
Capt. Ball is not classed. where he is well
kn0wn), of Montana, where have re-
sided for the last IL years.


In conclusion, respectfully ask your
attention to two facts which l hate al
ready mentioned, viz: the pork and
bacon already put in and On hand for In
spectlon exceeded the total amount of the
contract, and the amount Of fotr at the
Agency and en- route. and in my ware
house at Bozeman. under contract for
shipping, exceeded the amount to be de-
livered on the Kiskaddcn contract, which
was filling.


Under these circumstance; l can see no
chance for fraud, nor What use Captain
Ball could have been tc hue that should
have induced me to offer him . bribe:


fully believe that Captain Ball-ex.
cited into anger because he could not
pltndet the Indians through the present
channel-made the glaring report he made
for the express purpose of furnishing
fuel to be used in an effort to be male
during the present session Of Congress to
transfer the Indian Bureau to the War
Depattffient, in which event he would
probably have an opportunity to make the
Indians live on BUFFALO NEAT to the
benefit of his own pocket.


Very re- fly, your ob't serv't,


NELSON STORY
Year: 1876

A gentleman living at Round Mount,
Texas, writes the following to the Scien


lfic American:


A singular instance of spontaneous ig-
nitibii took place IN MY house some time
ago. On entering the house about noon,
I detected the smell of something burn.
ing. An immediate search was made.
and uson entering the parlor I noticed
smoke rising from center table that was
placed near south window. stepped
up to the table and noticed some pieces OF
cotton goods on fire, which l smotEered
out with my hand. Along side of the
goods that were on IRE lay stereoscopic
instrument that was exposed to the direct
rays of the hot MONDAY sun. It 30 hap
pened that such was the position Of the
two lenses that they caused burning
focus on the goods and set it on fire. Had
we been absent till an hopr later. the fire
would Eave extended itself to the destruc
ton OF the house and all that was in it.
Year: 1876




Philadelphia Press truly says:


"Why should Mr.. Belknap. for ex-
ample, have thought that man in his
high Office could not have the most
satisfactory social recognition flow
comes it about that $4,000 year is
fatal toa family's social standing ?
Can man get no acknowledgment of
his mental abilities, his wit, or his f.
deity, but must clothe himself in
sumptuous appointments Much is
said in these days of inadequate SAL
aries that they are not enough to
sustain the demands of mans social
position. Is salary then the basis of
social position ? That's the lie in
mems minds that corrupts them 1t
ought not to be tolerated. The time
ought to come back again when man
hood, and integrity, and graces Of
mind and heart should fix man. $
place in public respect, and his title
to social courtesies. Until this point
is gained society is lacquered thing,
or a hollow pageant. No, it is some
thing worse--a heap of fostering,
heated muck and dirt, forcing mush-
room growths and toadstools all over
its surface. There is no valid basis Of
respect but industry and fidelity no
sound social disti ctions but those of
personal ability or culture. When
these are recognized so that these
alone allure men and women in their
ambition to get up in the world, tl,
most formidable temptation to dis
honesty and dishonor will disappear
from our land.
Year: 1876

Those who have never tried it have
very little idea how much power a
pound of coal may be made to give out
with good management. A few years
ago an English firm brought together
,he best stokers they could find, by
the offer of prize to the man who
would keep their engine going for the
greatest number of hours with a given
quantity of coal. None but those con-
sidering themselvs experts took part
in the competition. Each man re-
ceived the engine with steam up and
he water at the proper level in the
boiler. He was then given certain
amount of kindling and the quantity
of coal which he was to use. Each
began by making fire, and kept the
engine till his fuel was exhausted and
the engine ceased to move under it's
load, which was the same in each case.
We have not the figures at hand to
give the particulars of the test, but
the results were as follows: The
best man ran the engine $4,000 revo-
lutions, and the others ranged from
10000 to $4,000 revolutions. Here
we have difference Of, say one-half
in the amount Of duty which two men
got out of an engine with given
amount of fuel, under circumstances
as nearly similar as possible; yet the
poorest Of these men was probably
able to run an engine with half the
amount of fuel which would be needed
by stoker of the class usually EN-
ployed in small manufactures.
Year: 1876

A young minister somewhat distin-
guished 70, self conceit, having failed
disastrouslv before crowded audi
ence, was thus addressed by an aged
brother: if you had gone into that pull
pit, feeling as you now do on coming
out of that pulpit you would have felt
on coming out of that pulpit as YOU did
when you went M into that pulpit.
Year: 1876

A North Carolina negro thought lie
could outrun locomotive the other
day on the Air Line Road, and when
ne picked himself up, after being
thrown twentv feet and landing on
his head he said; Yer don't ketch
dis yer chile dom dat again. ! It's a
right smart wonder didn t tear desc
Jritches clean of.
Year: 1876

After The ceremony the other even
ing in Seaford, Md, the happy groom
handed the minister a twenty five
cent shinplsster, saving, Il reckon
twenty cents are about the right thing
amt it" and then waited for his nick
Year: 1876

1t is estimated that every tune a
train of cars Of the average length
stops, it costs, in wear and tear of
material and loss of power, fullseven-
ty-fve cents. This is what makes
conductor always look so cheerful
when he hauls up at a flag station, in
the middle of snow storm, to take on
a string of onions and man with a
dead head pass.
Year: 1876

The Repttticos intimates to Anthony
Higgins, Esq, the propriety of resign
ing the District Attorneyship and
charges the Commercial with taking the
President to task for his assurance, and
insists that he give some good reason for
his conduct" The Commercial is charged
with bullying" the party in local poll
tics, and it may be liable, as the RepubE-
con suggests. to Outlying" the Admins
tration. Be this as ID may that paper
has managed to get more money from
the government for advertising in the
last eight years than any paper in Della
ware, about two or three to one. While
the Republican was doing the hard work
for nothing the Commercial, by its fiirta-
tions, equivocations and play ing fast and
loose, has succeeded in pulling the chest


nuts out of the fire, and its poor neigh
Dor was allowed a very small pittance.
Jewell must have known the Commercial
was for Bristow when he sent it very
long advertisement, and that Bristow
was not for Grant. Grant is dumb, but
not SO dumb as not to note these things
Year: 1876

The New York Herald says: Unless
the republicans put an end to this new
eposide Of Casarism, this business of de-.
grading honorable men to please Ross
Shepherd and avenge Belknap, they NAV
as well close their canvass. HAYES and
Wheeler will be whipped as badly as
Scott and Graham.


They will be whipped any how, and
Grant knows it. He does not desire the
election of another Republican, unless
At Is some such man as Morton or Conk.
ling,
Year: 1876

The sale of Intoxicating liquors on
the grounds of the Centennial EXhib-
ton, Is left to the operation of the laws
of the states. In other words, it is not
to he interferred with. We take it for
granted there is not sufficient energy,
combined with temperance principles,
III the city or state, or in the United
States, to enforce the law by which, in
the first place, the sale of liquor is for
hidden within the Park. and secondly.
10y which no one in the state NAV sell
without license.


This conclusion may be regarded as
the result of inattention on the part of
temperance people, who should have
seen to it that no concessions were
granted at the beginning. This fatal
act might have been prevented and the
business of providing refreshments
would have been prosecuted with as
great energy, without the attendant
evil of converting the nations enter
tainment into Il huge groggery.


But it cannot be denied that there is
a far greater number of citizens opposed
to the desccration of the Sabbath than
to the sale of Intoxicating drinks. The
observance of the Sabbath is held to he
I nbldl bbllSdtlol DluulnE upon tatn
individual conscience. and therefore no
one should he compelled to work on
that day. This doctrine necessarily
shuts up the grounds and buildings of
the Exhibition on the Lords day. But
| II Is held that the Use of Intoxicating
/ liquors, not being in itself sinful. may
he left to the judgment and conscience
of every citizen. This is Il talacious
argument. The use of suck liquors is
an acknowledged evil, gigantic curse.
| the parent of nine-tenthS of all the
poverty and crime of the country.
| Therefore its sale should be- prohibited
and only allowed under such circum-
stances as are necessary to furnish il
for legitimate aud useful purposes. Its
sale on the Centennial grounds is wholly
unnecessary. II positive nuisance. dan
%erous to the peace aud enjoyment of
the occasion. offensive to the moral
>en>e of the nation. and intensely to he
deplorrd. II there ht moral power
enough in the National Temperance or
ganization To enforce the law 10y lay ing
Il legal in JUNCTION at the outset upon
the restaurant Keepers restraining them
from violating the laws of the state. we
trust this will lie done. Let us have
the question settled whether law
amounts to anything III ii free country
Ii is not settled yet 1t is time it Was
y. \. ObSrrrer.
Year: 1876

most unanimous vote determined to
close both the buildings and the grounds
under their care on the Christian Sab
bath and


Whereas, Such action, we are salts
ned, Is III entire harmony with the moral
and Christian sentiment of il large MA
Iority of the American people. as well
us with the facts of oar national history
and the efforts made by our fathers to
guard the sacredness of this holy dav
by all proper regulations and restric-
tiOnS and


Whereas, We regard the religious
observance of the Sabbath as essential
t" the prosperity of our country and the
perpetuity of its institutions and liber-
ty, therefore be it


Resolved, That the hearty thanks of
this body he rendered to the Commits
sioners for their prompt and decisive
action in this matter.
Year: 1876

The final decision of the United States
Centennial Commission. that the En-
hihition. in all its departments. shall be
closed on the Christian sabbath. has
been received with heartfelt satisfaction
throughout the country. Some there
are who would have had it otherwise.
hut the mass of our people are in favor
of having the law of God respected and
oheNed. and of showing to the nations
of the earth that we are Il Christian
nation. The whole subject is very
tersely and property set forth in the
following extract from the remarks of
the President "f the Commission. Gen
Hawley, when the question was before
the Board:


1.-Two Years ago the Commission. in
laying out the programme. expressly
stated that the Centennial Exhibition
would he open during the period from
May I'D to November 10. from nine
O'Clock mornings until six o'clock eve
nlngs, Sundays excepted. 1t was the
very first thought of the majority that
one of the distinctive marks of American
civilization being the observance of the
Sabbath. the International fair should
nv N''~'' WI utlt IL Ht
danger ofcriticism on the part of foreign
ers who may come to visit us. whatever
may be their habits at home. Foreign
gentlemen will use every means in theil
power to observe the customs of the
country while they are in it. | wish to
dictate to no one, but, as for myself,
firmly believe that the one days rest in
seven Is founded on natural law, and
further than that, is made binding by
Divine authority. 1t is well to show
the foreign nations the American ide;
OF the Sabbath. Agassz, on being ask
ed what was the thing which most i'm
pressed him on his arrival in the United
States, at once answered that it was the
quiet of an American Sunday. Moth
ing too earnest can be said against the
arguments made in favor of the yield
ing OF the Commission. All have ad-
mltted that there is fixed belief among
immense masses of our people in the
Dlvlnely appointed Sabbath: and
shall raise my voice firmly against any
innovation on this occasion"


We record also the resolutions on the
subject reported to the General Confer
ence OF the Methodist Church at Balti-
more on Friday, as expressive of the
sentiments of the entire Christian com
munity:


Whereas, The Commissioners of the
CenteLnlal Exposition have by an al
Year: 1876

track. The train came on several rods
and was finally stopped at a point where
the luckless man was pinned between
the cross beams of the bridge, head
downward and feet and legs bent down
ward and sidewiSe. and held in mid air
10y the ear wheel on the tail of his coat.
station agent Garvin went under the
bridge, expecting that the man would
drop twelve or fourteen feet upon the
street, but lee was held too tight. and
could only be released 10y cutting of
the skirt of his coat. which WAS done.
and the injuries discovered to he not
very serious. 1t was II marvellous cs-
cape, as four more inches movement of
the train would have let him to the
ground and probably killed him.
Year: 1876

The usual Friday evening exercises at Ply
mouth Church last evening quiet IN character In
the course Of his lecture room talk Mr.. Beechcr said


q have always believed and held that the social
element was essential TO the highest Development
of the true religious spirit, and l think not
one church In thousand would have passed
through such tria have beset this church that
did not have the social unity and spirit that we nave
the social character OF our religious work. believe the
success of our missions is due rgcy 20 this very spirit


of .Ociay which has paved our path with flowers ana
has got rid Of the iron mask and the gloom MT
Bcecher referred again to tie troubles the church had
gone through telling his listeners that they ought 70
he thankful for them also, for they would mud IN
after years that they had been educated
by them. The most significant remark, however. made
by Mr. Beecher during the evening occurred Just before
the beuedciiOn when he said IN tone or rclefi
Brethren. congratulate you that there ~il be no
business meeting this evening after the bencdictlon'
Year: 1876

themselves sharing in the general fright Many tried to
climb OF the windows which fortunately pre-
vented by the teachers who recovered their pres
enca Of mind. The distance to tho ground is 80 feet
Ater order had been restored six OF the little were
found to seriously injured by the weight OF bodies on
them when they fell and several others received severe
being tramDled
Year: 1876

THE energetic men who have so
long labored in developing the oil
mines of San Fernando are about to
reap the reward of their patience and
industry. A flowing well has been
struck within the last few days which
pours forth an average of fifty barrels
of oil per day. This oil is reported as
much lighter and of great deal finer
quality than that previously procured.
This is encouraging and gives promise
of q yield which will secure the for
tunes of those who have spent so much
time and money in prospecting these
mines. AS depth is attained conf
dence increases that the San Fernan-
do mountains will prove an Oil region
equalling in richness and quality
the best petroleum localities of Penn
sylvania. We congratulate our oil
men on the success which has reward
ed their efforts, and we hope they
may secure, not one, but fifty flowing
wells
Year: 1876

Leading Republican journals are
deploring the weakness of number
of planks in the Cincinnati platform,
and mildly deprecating the vacillating
character of the whole structure.
The civil service plank is so palpably
weak that the intelligent members of
the party do not hesitate to express
the opinion that it is a mere subter-
fuge, promising but little and indicat-
ing that even that little will not be
performed. The truth is that the
party is only held together by the de-
sire for plunder, and an honest adher-
ence to strong civil service plank
would at once destroy the incentive
to be a member of the Republican
party. The convention understood
what was expected of it, and made a
pretense to do thing it we'll knew it
must not do. Civil service reform
will do for Republican leaders to talk
about, but it will never do for them
to practice it. The financial problem
is another of the issues the convention
was compelled to handle in hypo-
critical and sub rosa manner. The
Republican party is responsible for
the financial chaos in which the coun-
try is involved. 1t cannot therefore
condemn the system without admit
ting its own acts to be weak, If not
corrupt. 1t does not intend to remove
the difficulty, and consequently il
avoids positive promises and plans in
its platform, plank that means any.
thing or nothing at all. The Chinese
plank is the most rotten of all that &c
to make mp the rotten structure. II
is fragrant attempt to avoid the
issue, and asserts nothing save the
desire of the party to toady to capital
Taken as a whole, the Cincinnati
platform is string of glittering gen.
eralities, promising nothing yet de-
signed to deceive the people into tn,
belief that great reforms are proposed
where in fact none are intended,
Year: 1876

SOME of the negroes of Louisiana be-
lieve that their liberty is not secure
until they kill all the white people
and appropriate their lands and other
effects to themselves. They have
commenced carrying out their idea of
freedom, and before they get through
with it, many of them will be free
from all earthly care.
Year: 1876

Tie World notes terrific fight and
no foxfire about it, The fox stove his
paw through the cage, and the same
old coon on the other side tackled his
paw and nearly ate it Off All this at
Till Buns den, the Goth of June 1876
Mr.. Fox received surgical aid from
Mr.. Roberts and is now enjoying a
bandage and splints.
Year: 1876

A mother on the green hills of Yer.
mott was holding by the right hand
son sixteen years old, mad with love of
the sea. And as he stood by the garden
gate one morning she said


Edward, they tell me-for I never
saw the ocean-the great temptation of
a seaman's life is drink. Promise me,
before you quit mothers hand, that you
will never drink"


And" said he (for he told me the
story, 81 gave the promise, and went
the globe over, Calcutta and the Medi-
terranean, San Francisco and Cape of
Good Hope, the north pole and the
sonth. 1 saw them all in forty years,
and never saw q glass filed with spark
ling liquor that my mothers form by
the gate did not spring up before me,
and to-day am innocent of the taste of
liquor"


Was not that sweet evidence of the
power of single word Yet that is not
half.


For yesterday came into my count
ing-room man of forty years."


Do you know met"


Well, said he, "Iwas once brought
drunk into your presence on shipboard;
you were q passenger they kicked me
aside; you took me to your berth and
kept me there till had slept off the in
toxication then asked me if had a
mother. I said had never known q
word from her lips. You told me of
yours at the garden gate, and to-day I
am master of one of the packets in New
York, and I came to ask you to come
and see me-"


How far that little candle throws its
beams That mothers words in the
green hills of Vermont Oh God be
thanked fer the mighty power of q
single world