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Year: 1876

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save money by having their printing done at
the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN Job Office. Our
unlimited assortment of job type and fast
presses will enable us to allow twenty per cent.
ON all orders
Year: 1876

A steam velocipede has been invented by
Berlin man, and If the boilers are made thin
enough, editors will find It very convenient in
the case of the bores who hang around the
Office and handle everything within reach.
Year: 1876

My neihbOr comes to me holding
out note for me to sign, saying,
Il wish you would just write your
name on the back of this: I need
the money very much; it will be a
great accommodation to me, and
you will only have to write your
name" My answer is: 'sMy fried,
do you really understand what my
position would be before the world
and the law if were to do this?
should instantly proclaim that from
a state of complete independence,
and for no consideration whatever.
except friendship, have agreed to
take upon myself che risk of your
business, but with the difference
against me, that if you lose I lose,
and if you gain 1 do not. 1 share
in your losses but not in your pro
fits. But not only this; I should
affirm before the public that you
are repOnsible when really 1 know
nothing Of your circumstance, and
in so far help you to deceive others.
l give you false credit. In short,
do that which no honest man, true
to himself and to his family, can do
and be blameless. VIII any right
minded, real friend, with this view
of the case, ask of me such a posi-
bic sacrifice Il Country Gentleman.
Year: 1876

Some peoples superior smartness
is always getting them into trouble.
An Indiana paper tells of a man who
undertook to show just the way to
feed a threshing machine, and a
minute or two after had TO go around
to the other end of the instrument,
to find what had become Of his
left hand.
Year: 1876

No more subsidies! is the cry of
northern Radicals, after having built
their Pacific roads at the cost ofthe
entire people. But whilst the cry Is
being uttered, Radical States are
pouring in their petitions for more
subsidies for other internal improve
ments. They fail to see that the
South has any other position in the
Union than that of foraging grounds
for hordes Of carpetbaggers.-
Garksvi5le Chronicle.


Grant, Blaine and others of that
stripe, effect holy horror lest the
Pope may overthrow our govern
ment, crush protestant christianity
and break up our common school
system. Now we venture to assert
that, even if the Catholics are intent
upon doing these terrible things,
they can not in fifty years do as
much-to overthrow the Republic
destroy Professionalism and lower
the standard of public virtue, as
Radical Puritanism has accom-
plished in the last ten years of its
corrupt and baleful influence
CgarksvilIe Chronicle.


The most economic measure that
Congress can adopt is to curtail the
number of thieves. But as this can
not be done so long as the Execu.
tive Department upholds and har-
bors that class Of officials, the Pres.
ident and Senate must be deposed
before there viii be any show oil
honesty in the administration of the
government.-I5id.


Won't it read well in history that
Grant exerted all his authority and
| infuance to rescue thief from the
hands of justice, and forced out oI
his Cabinet the only man honest
enough to prosecute the deprada
tors upon the peoples Treasury
I'D be he" who would transmit
to posterity 50 foul a blot upon tho
honor of the government and it;
highest office.-Bid.


For those who would rather
starve than steal our charities vii
be taxed to the utmost" This is
the utterance Of the New York Trib-
une, whose charities are equally
Year: 1876

Spencer, of Alabama, with charges
preferred against him which, if true,
ought to send him to the penitentiary
still sits in the senate, making laws
for honest people. That ponder
ously respectable body has not as
yet been able to ind time to decide
upon a case which jury of twelve
men would decide in an hour-and
settle too, in favor of Justice and de
cency. Had Spencer been a Demo
crat instead of Republican, would
there have been any such delay?
Certainly not. He would have been
kicked out before the echo of the
chaplain's opening prayer had died
out.
Year: 1876

The following advertisement ap-
pearsIn the Sparta, Tenn, Index


WANTED-A first class demagogue
to defame the dog law. He must be
without seruples Of any kind, except
the three scruples that make dram.
We want him brim full Of the love of
the people. He must be able to talk
eloquently of the rights Of the peo-
pie. Let him talk feelingly Of the
inalienable right to keep whelps, and
grow indignant at the invasion Of
this right by the legislature Such
viii be entitled to good wages, If he
earns them.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Huxley lays down as his first prin-
ciple, that education, in its largest and
highest sense,-the education not merely
of schools and colleges, but that educa-
tion which the human spirit is receiving
uninterruptclly from birth till DEATH
that this process consists solely in learn
ing the laws of nature, and training
ones self 10 obey them. And within
The laws of nature which we have to
earn he includes not only the physical
avs, but also those moral laws which
govern man and his ways. We must set
ourselves therefore to acquire II knowl-
edge not only of the laws that regulate
matter, but also of the moral laws OF the
universe. These moral laws Mr.. lux
ley holds to be as rigid and self-exacting
as the physical law appears to be. This
view of the condition of our existence
here, and of the part man bears in it,
Mr.. Huxley sets forth in a startling, not
to say daring, figure. Suppose 1t were
perfectly certain" he says, "that the life
and fortune of every one of US would,
one day or another, depend upon his
winning or losing a game of chess, don't
you think that we should all consider it
to he primary duty to learn at
at least the name and moves of the
pieces; to have a notion of a gambit,
and keen eye for all the means of Civ
ing and getting out of check Do you
not think we should look with n disap.
probation amounting to scorn upon the
father who allowed his son, .or the state
which allowed its members, to grow up
without knowing pawn from knight


"Yet it is very plain and elementary


truth that the lite, the fortune, and the
happiness of every one of us, and, more
or less, OF those connected with us, do
depend on our knowing something Of
the rules of "A game infinitely more diff.
cult and complicated than chess. 1t isa
game which has been played for untold
Year: 1876

Who SHOULD NOT BE A WIFE.-I[as
that woman call to he n wife who
thinks more of her silk dress than her
children, and visits her nursery no Of
tcner than once day? Has woman a
call to be wife who calls for a cash
mere shawl when her husbands notes
are being protested Has that woman
a call to be wife who sits reading the
last new novel while her husband stands
before the glass yaiLly trying to pin to.
gether a buttonless shirt.b .boson9 Has
that woman a call to be wife who cx.
poets hcr husband to swallow diluted
coffee, Soggy bread, smoky tea; and
watery potatoes, six days out of the
seven
Year: 1876

Tender tones prevent severe truths
from offending,


Every parent is looking glass for his
children to dress themselves by.


A man may as well expect to grow
stronger by always eating, as wiser by
always reading.


Things are not to be done by the effort
of the moment, but by the preparation oil
past moments.


If you have bright thought, express
it in the simplest language possible. a
diamond should have plain setting.


There is no day which we may not lay
unbroken on the altar Of humanity, if
We will DO our regular work in noble
way.


Take care to be an economist in pros
perity; there is no fear Of your being
one in adversely.


1t is with moral qualities as with fow-
ers; the bright are sometimes poisonous,
but, l believe, never the sweet.


To do nothing is not always to lose
time; to do negligently is surely to lose
time; it is fatigue without profit.


God takes some things from us lest we
should spoil them, and We have more of
them in missing them than we should
have in keeping them.


Happiness is having what one likes;
contentment is liking what one has; but
contentment is only the pale ghost of
happiness


We should learn never to interpret
duty by success, The opposition which
assaiIs us in the course of obedience is
no evidence that we are mistaken.
Year: 1876




| Yesterday about one o'clock d. m.


the frame building No. Is No tn street.


occupied by a colored man and wife


by the name of Benson was discovered


to be on fire. The alarm was given


and the Fire Department turned out,


and after great exertions the flames


were gotten under control, and the
chief ordered a hole to be cut through
the roof. After cutting quite hole,
one of the fremen jumped in, and to
his borrow found the corpse of man


who had been burned to almost q coal.
After the flames had been entirely ex-
tinguished the body was lowered to
the ground, when it was fonnd to be
the body of the colored man who oc-
cupied the house, and who had been
bedridden for twelve or eighteen
months. During the fire the widest
excitement prevailed among the col
Ored people in the neighborhcod,
some of whom declared that when the
fire first broke out they saw q man go
on the roof of the burning house to
cxtinguish the fire, when he fell in
and was seen no more, and some
claimed that the body taken from the
building was the body of this man,
while others were positive that it was
the body of Cudger Benson, as after
wards proven. We sought the wife of
the unfortune man, who informed us |
that her husband had been sick for a |
long time with consumption, and was
perfectly unable to help himself, and |
at times he displayed symptoms o.
insanity. Yesterday she had occasion
to 60 a short distance from home, and
on leaving her husband was asked oy
him if she was going out. aud if SO, not
to stay long. She promised to return
soon and " ent out. leaving tue door of
their room unlocked, not dreaming of
any danger. She further stated that
when she left home her husband was
in their bed room alone. He had lain
for long time unable to move; but
strange to say his body WAS found i'll
a small attic, into which one could
only gain access by ascending steep
but short pair of steps.


Another account of the affair is,
however, that when the building was
first discovered on fire the sick man
was carried in the yard, but during
he excitement Of the fire he became
and insisted on returning to
lis own room, from which he was
AIKEN, he rushed to the attic, where,
)y the heat and smoke, was over
and finally burned. The
body was carried some distance from
he building to await the action of the
coroner. The house WAS partially i'll
ured.
AT i o'clock yesterday afternoon an
WAS held, and the jury, after
a number of the witnesses,
verdict that the deceased
anne to hiH death some time between t
IOnday afternoon at 4 O'Clock, and !
he time when the body Was discov-
red, but by what means they We're
uable to determine. There are grave
which, under the verdict a
f the jury. We do not feel it our .dnty
D make public.
Year: 1876

The Beaufort Eagle seems tn he
uneasy as to tho successful termina
tion of the attempt to close New Inlet
aud deepen the water on the main bar
We have heretofore expressed the
opinion that it is now too late to talk
about stopping the present plans Oh
even to change them. The probabili
ties are that the work will prove a
great success. This must be conceded
by any one who will take tho trouble
of making n personal inspection of the
work and ascertuIning the plan of
operations. If the probability of good
results he conceded by the unscicn-
tifc, what, must We conclude when we
have the positively asserted opinion
of men of science that if the work is
carried on according to the adopted
plans and specifications, New Inlet
will not only he closed. but the depth
of water on the main bar will be ma
terially deepened?


This is what the E'Ugic says


The Wilmington papers state that
petitions are being circulated along
the coast against the closing up of
new Inlet. The Rcric,c says this ac-
ton was caused by an article of ours
about a month ago on the subject, in
which we urged that the small cocn
vessels would be obliged to seek some
nearer port, because of the dangers of
doubling Frying Pan Shoals. We
have not heard of any such petitions,
and can not see that any action of this
kind would avail our small vessels.
as the work has progressed 50
far, and as so much money has been
expended on it, that however strong
the remOnstrances may be against the
further operations at this inlet, the
authorities at Washington would turn
a deaf ear and not even consider it.
II is now too late to press this matter,
and the only remedy We can see is the
construction of larger vessels. That
our seafaring men of limited means,
aud who on this account are obliged
to buiId small vessels, will be dam
aged and their business almost broken
up, no one can d-ny. If the efforts
to deepen the bar at Smithville are
successful, then Wilmington will
mOSb certainly De materially Den
Gifted; but some predict, that after
new inlet is closed up-thus making
it impracticable and dangerous for
our smaller vessels to use 1.-THE ap-
preparation will have been exhausted
before the maiu bar can be utilized
and after ward failure to make that
available for n larger class of vessels
will follow. Ii that be SO, then in
hn
quences to the commerce and trnde of
Wilmington will ensue. We hope
that no sach contingency as this can
arise, ard that the most sanguine ex-
pectationS of the friends of this work
may be realized.


1t would certainly be a public ca,
lamity, if after SO much money has
been expended and every precaution
saken to accomplish in the surest and
most economical manner the great OBJ
Iect of increasing the commerce OF
Wilmington by the introduction OF
more tonnage into that port, it should
De found that the means used had
been lmpracticable. We do not anti
clpate any such result, but on the con-
trary the reports of the engineers in
charge, and of that entefprising and
pubic spirited gentleman. Mr.. Henry
Mutt OF Wilmington, all point to a
speedy and successful termination of
this work
Year: 1876

We hardly think it a fair thing for
our lady friend to stop at the age of
thirty~nine, as there are very few Ia
dies who have arrived at that age of
single bIessedness from whose hearts
Lave been extinguished hopes of ever
seeing the chosen one. No, indeed;
so long as there ia still an old bachelor
left, we say give the old maids a
chance, and don't blame them for still
cliDpiup to hone"
Year: 1876

yer in the Swazey suit against the
North Carolina railroad, is in the city
in attendance on Federal Court. We
learn Swazey and other bondholders
are suing for compound interest on
the coupons which will amount to over
two hundred Thousand dollars. By
an order of this court several terms
since these bOndholders now draw
dividends yearly of the States stock
amounting to one hundred and eighty
Thousand dollars year and which
goes to pay the. interest on the bonds
they yhold.-Raieigh NeaOs.
Year: 1876

The State Convention of the Demo
cratic party in North Carolina assem-
bled in Raleigh on yesterday, and
succeeded in one day in putting be-
fore the people Il ticket that will carry
the State in whur. The fact that the
nominations were all made during the
first DAVIS session Is convincing proof
that the delegates met together to con-
snIt for the common good, and to de-
I;berate for the common veal. We do
not believe that stronger ticket could
have been placed in the field one that
would meet with a more hearty and
enthusiastic suppor, from the people
of North Carolina. It is composd of
mon of integrity. character and a)'ii-
tv and will sweep the State. With
the Incompatible Vance at its head,
and an able coadjutor in every place,
the shameless corruption and misrule
of the Radical party Will be exposed
to the detesta;ion of the people in
every nook and corner of the good old
State Vince and UictOJY!
Year: 1876

WAsHINGTON Oct. 26


The President to-day issued the fol-
lowing proclamation:


From year TO year We have been accus-
TONED to pause in our daily pursuits and set
apart a time to offer our thanks to AL
mighty God for special blessings He has
vouchsafed to us, with our prayers for a con-
tinuance thereof. We have, at this time
equal reason to be thankful for his continued
protection and for the many national bless
ings which His bounty has bestowed. In ad.
ditlon TO these faTors accorded to us as indi-
viduals, We bave especial occasion to express
our hearty thanks to Almighty God that by
His providence and guidance our Govern
ment, established a century ago, has been
enabled to fulfill the purpose of its found
ers, in Offering an asylum to people of every
race, securing civil and religious liberty to
all within its borders, and melting out to
every individual alike justice and equality
before the law. 1t is moreover especially our
duty to offer our humble prayers to the Fa-
ther of all mercies for a continuance of His
divine favor to us as nation and as indi-
viduals.


BY reason Of all these considerations, I,
Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United
States, do recommend to the people of the
United States to devote the Both day of No
vember next to the expression of their
thanks and prayers to Almighty God, and,
laying aside their daily avOcations and all
secular occupations, to assemble in their re-
spective places of worship and observe such
day as day of thanksgiving and rest


In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.


Done at the city of Washington, this twen-
ty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord 1875, and of the independence of the
United States of America the one hundred
and first. U. s. GRANT
By the President:


HAMILTON FIsH, Secretary of State.
Year: 1876

This does not cover the Southern claims.
The controversy regarding them did not
gngender civil war. Civil war engen-
dered it. By the language of the plat
form, therefore, the prohibition of the
payment Of the rebel debt and of rebel
losses by emancipation is not accepted
by the Democratic party.


What Mr.. Tilden says of his intention
toward the Southern claims is explicit,
and is worth as much as any of his
promises. But how much are they
worth? A few months since Mr.. Tilden
gave the country, in the avowals of his
messages and in his official action on the
bill compelling payments in specie in
this State after Jan. 1, 1879, pledge
as solemn as any could be that he would
maintain the Resumption act Of 1875.
But IN his letter of acceptance he con-
sented to the reputation of that act,
and his party friends did thereupon, so
far as the action of the House could do
it, repudiate the act. Here was a case
precisely parallel to that Of the Southern
claims. On the one side vas the good
faith of the nation and the distinct COM
mitment of Mr.. Tilden by his official ut
terances and acts. On the other side
was the pressure of his party, inspired
by greed and passion, and threatening
him with loss of political power unless
he conceded to its demands. The situa-
tion was altogether too trying for Mr..
Tildens virtue. He yielded almost
without struggle, and when he says
that he shall "deem it his duty to veto"
bills for Southern claims we cannot
help asking; " Will he do what he deems
his duty?" OF course he will not. He
could not have more imperative motives
for observing his obligation than he had
in the matter of the Resumption law,
and then he utterly failed to respond to
it. With Confederate Congress howl
ing at his heels, and with threats from
the leaders who would hold in their
hands the success or failure of his ad
ministration, he would no more stand by
the promise which he now makes than
he would tell the truth about his income
tax. His declarations are but "sprynges
to catch woodcock withal."-N 7.
Times
Year: 1876

A MAN at Fairview, KY, with a crav-
ing for liquor, after selling everything of
value wherewith to buy the stimulant,
took his few months old child and traded
1t over the bar for a drink of whisky.
The child was afterward redeemed by
the mother on paying for the liquor.
Year: 1876

On Saturday afternoon we took a walk
70 one of the cornfields near town, and
were surprised to see the ravages made
by mice and rats. Nearly every ear of
corn was injured, and many entirely
eaten up by these pests. We noticed a
place where there appeared to be i
colony OF rats - there being any number
OF holes, and paths i'll which they ran
from place to place,


Since the cool weather they seem tc
have come from the country to town, il
great numbers, and are doing great
damage How shall we get rid O
them? This is a solemn question. ant
one that needs an answer and action
They are perfect plague, and are des
troying thousands of dollars worth an
nually y Saline Democrat.
Year: 1876

The next house Of representatives will
be democratic by a majority not so large
as that at present, but more than suffi-
cient for all practical purposes. The
southern states have sent almost solid
democratic delegations, and IN New
England and the west the republicans
have not recovered their losses of two
years ago. In many districts the result
is doubtful from our present advices.
but the most important fact is beyond
doubt, and that is the certainty of DEM
ocrstic majority.
Year: 1876

new misery of the South. As we said at
the beginning, no friend of that section,
any more than he who knows no sections
in his love for the Republic, but must hope
that through the courage and fidelity of the
Republicans of South Carolina, protected
by the strong arm of the National authority,
the policy of the outlaws may prove an in
glorious failure, and that IN the country at
large the aroused people may set their seal
of condemnation upon the candidate who
stands before them as the new 'doughface'
instrument of new Fire-Eating conspiracy
against the peace and welfare of the South,
and of the National Union.
Year: 1876

Carl Schurz, in his speech in New York,
on Saturday evening, referred not only to
those measures of real reform with which
he has been identified-and to which he
is yet earnestly devoted, believing that the
election of Governor Hayes will make them
possible-but he dwelt also upon the two
dangers that menace the country from the
South (1) the attempt to secure payment
from Congress of damages for the tires
pass" OF the national armies engaged in
putting down the Rebellion and (2) the
attempt to terrorize the elections by use of
the rifle and revolver Both these threats
of danger he regarded as too serious not to
be considered. He said in regard to the
"claims' subject that it was his sober CON
viction there was much more in it than
mere partisan cry, and he proceeded to ex-
plain how many of the Southern people had
been brought to expect that all the losses
they sustained when engaged i'll the Re
belilon, would be reimbursed from the ma
tional treasury when a Democratic Congress
and Administration came into control Of it.
1t will be incredible and wonderful folly if
the people, warned in advance by every
clear-headed and fair observer, take any
risk OF mourning such dangers.
Year: 1876

The Lenton & Ware troupe give
their last performance in this city to-
night at Turn Verein Hall. No doubt
many who dared not encounter the
bad weather and muddy streets when
they were here before, will seize this
opportunity to attend the best enter
tainment of the kind ever given in
this city. We have before spoken of
two wonderful acrobatic feats of Mr..
Lenton and his boys, and also of the
extremely comic opera troupe. So all
we will say now is, give them a crowd
ed house and you will get much more
than the worth of the ticket. This
performance is for the benefit of the
Odd Fellows Relief Society.


When some visitors in the ISan Ga
brlel valley found themselves at the
Five Mile House yesterday at p P. NJ. f,