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Year: 1876

The Hopkinsville (Ky.) Democrat says: Talk about the opium eater or the whisky thinker, how much more are they to be pitied than the lady who is addicted to dipping snuff We believe there is more snuff used in Ropkinsville than in apy other place of it's size in Kentucky, and it's use is steadily on the increase. Hopkinsville has reputation for beautiful women, but how long that reputation will last 'tis hard to tell. Some of the prettiest women we knew ten or twelve years ago are now nothing but faded flowers. Lips that once looked like wild cherries, and for one kiss from which man would almost give his right arm, now look more like dried apples than anything else we can think of. The cheek once full and rosy is now sunken and colorless. The chin, which looks longer, now glories in 8 bronze colored stripe, which reaches down to the throat.

 Snuff is robbing women of their beauty and depriving them of husbands. It is more harmful than smoking, and more repulsive than chewing, and it's use by ladies is almost as much to be condemned as the drinking of whisky by men and if the ladies have grounds to talk about men drinking and smoking, they are assured that snuff dipping in the eyes of men is about as repulsive as the smell of two cent and a-haf cigar, or a sniff of "rife whisky to the olfactories of the fair sex.

 We indulge the hope that soon there will be an anti-snuff society formed, which will be twin sister of our tenn perance society. We have no idea how many ladies in our city will take excep tion to this article. If all that use snuff were to get after us, we would call their name legion, but we are upheld in our action by some of the most sensible mothers in town, in entering protest against habit, the adoption of which by girl is almost as much to be dreaded by parent as is the first taste of liquor by his boy.
Year: 1876

A telegraph official explains how cables are broken by the anchors of fishing craft: The skipper hooks the cable, heaves up his chain as far as he is able, putting a severe strain on the telegraph cable, and then swings to it; 8 heavy sea strikes him, or a tremendous ground swell throws him upward like cork, and something has got to smash. That something is generally the cable, being weakest. But on one occasion I remember that we brought up an anchor fast to the cable while repairing. In that case the chain was, no doubt, the weakest but this is rarely the fact.
Year: 1876

stndiousiy avoided. The object OF the tesla.


triX was quite transparent. She wished to
avoid all collision with the new constitution,
and named the man and made the bequest as
though no ecclesiastical office or rank was
thought of. In this the Supreme court has
declared she perpetrated fraud. She thought
to do by stealth what she durst not do in open
terms. The will, being written Instrument,
could not be voided by parole testimony; but
the plea of fraud having been set up. the tes-
timony of witnesses WAS relevant. The pris-
cipal witness was the Archbishop himself. In
his evidence he stated what he understood to
be the desire of the testatrix, and expressed
his determination to execute what he conceiv cd
to be an implicit trust. Nothing palmer or
more explicit than the Archbishop's testimon y
could have been desired. He could have
refused to testify. He could have protected
himself behind reserves aud Quibbles; but
His Grace answered promptly, explicitly and
unreservedly, SO ss to awake the admiration
even OF the opposing counsel. The Aroh-
bishop has fought this matter through all the
courts mp to the Supreme Court of the State.
What his further intentions are We cannot
state at present. SnAkee IL to cay, that in this
as in the famous Cummings case the Arch
bishop has been aotuated by D pure love of
principle and determination to uphold the
rights of the Church. He would not have
been one farthing richer to-day hadSthe su-
that this iniquity of the Drake constitution
will stand the test Of the courts, and that the
Archbishep will have his heavy cost of court
for his pains; however that may be, he will
have the satisfaction Of kno wing that the pocg
parish of the Old Mines has not been Bwiudled
out of its property by any neglect or indifer-
ence of his.
Year: 1876

The following touching incident 10 taken
from the Life of Catherine McAuley, foundress 6
and frat Superioress of the Sisters of Mercy:


Sister Mary Rosa D1be had for some time
been fading away gently as sunbeam. Weak
ness exhaustion and hectic fever indicated
consumption in this case, but none Of its more
painful symptoms were present


This sweet Sister, who had learned fro n her
sanity guide that the spirit of labor 10 an
essential ingredient of holy poverty, begged
to be permitted to sew for the Door, but her
debility was 30 great that the TOundFesB re-
fused. The invalid insisting that she was
strong enough to help the poor in some man.
ner, Mother McAuley, to smuse her, gave
and cheered her with the hope of making .
few old women happy by furnishing their
baskets for the approaching nattOnsl feStival.
Every piece of bright-colored silk or ribbon
she could get was brought to her Industrious
patient, whom she amused by giving pleasant
account Of something that had occurred daring
the day.


A goodly pile of eross 30" garnished the in
6rmsry table very soon, and though sister II.
Rose had received the last Sacramento, she
worked away with increasing ardoE, rejoicing
that from her bed Of death she could assist the
poor. At last, on the 11th Of March, che sank
back gently ON her pillow, and putting the
needle carefully back in the unfinished Pat
Eieks cross" rested her white, Transparent
iugers, and BofEly closed her tOo-brilliSnt eyes.


The Sisters gathered around her, and the
last prayers were hardly eRded when their
gentle, young companion, after smiling her
adieux to those she loved 30 we'll, fell aRlCep
on her fond mothers bosom.


The weeping indEmarian then took Of the
thimble Of her departed patient, and removed
the unfinished "croos" from the bed Of death,
Year: 1876

NoTE.-Publio lands are not included in the
above report of acreage. The addition of
United States lands to the amount of unim-
proved, as reported, would furnish land enough
for an additional population of over double
the number estimated in the address
Year: 1876

The third annual session OF the Com
mercial Travellers Association was held
ut Snake Drum, Pa, yesterday. at the
Olympic Opera House. and was largely
attended. The proceedings we're full
of interest. alike for the general public
and the members of the fraternity
At times their harmony was threatened
with interruption through the excess
Of zeal OF some OF the members. but
peace was always restored with but lit
tie trouble.
Year: 1876

New York Herald


The Republican party is not happy
family. Discord has begun the canvass.
The President is one Of the mosC dis


contented Of its leaders, for he has
found another ungrateful man, and this


is no less IA parsonage than the Republl-


can candidate for the Presidency.


When Gen Hayes was nominated Grant
telegraphed his congratulations and in


return Gen Hayes, in his letter of aC-


ceptance, not only refuses to return the


politeneSs, but actually declares him
self for one term only. We hear that
Grant and his friends consider this an
insult TO the President and an uncalled
for rebuke of his third term aspirations.
Grant also found Bristow treacherous,
Jewell indifferent and Pratt honest, and


has said, in apology for their removal,
that he intended to have friends, not
enemies, near him Then the politicians
are indignant at General Hayes views
on civil service reform. These
ideas ofreform they look upon, as Judge
Quinn looked upon tho growth Of the
German element in this country, with


"aIa-r-um." But the trouble does not
end with the administration. 1t has
entered into New York politics Mr.
Conkling, it is said, is very much grieved
by the result in Cincinnati, and, like
/ Grant is disposed 10 consider the letter
of Gen Hayes as intended to help his
opponents in the State Canvass. Unless
| the State Convention should nominate
| Mr.. Corpell for Governor it is surmised
that tho distinguished Senator will not
take an active interest in the battle, but
will remain, like Achilles, in his tent,
and let the Greeks capture Democratic
Troy, if they can, without him. This
dissatisfaction on the part Of Mr.. Conk
ling is believed to be increased by the
defeat Of Mr. Cornell for the Chairman
ship of the National Committee and the
choice of Zach. Chandler. There seems


to be mutiny all around the Republican


camp.


II this is the way the campaign


begins, how will it end? QuarrelS like


these do not generally grow smaller,


and the breakup Of the Cabinet Just at


this time and the division Of the party


in New York State may have very


serious effect upon the November cleo


tion. The great danger to the party is,


that out Of these and other differences


may grow breach between the Admin


istration and the Republican ticket.


Such a breach would strengthen Hayes


with the people, but would weaken him


with the @5fficeholders, and it will need
all the workmanship the Republican


leaders possess to make the good steed


Reform" and the fast nag Admins


tration" trot we'll together in harness in


the Presidential race.
Year: 1876

from the Sunday Dispatch.


That was a sad story OF destitution
and misery which was told in Green wood
Cemetery on Friday. A poor mother,
Mary Beuhl, and her four little children
were found resting by a grave. nearly
dead OF starvation. When the poor
mother was asked what she and her
children were doing there, she replied
that they had no home, had no food,
had no friends, and knew not where to
look for assistance. So she brought her
children to her fathers grave, there to
wait until death gave them all relief
from hunger and homelessness and
misery. For two days they had
waited by that lowly grave.
Year: 1876

The Campaign WEEKLY DEMOCRAT, a
large eight-page paper, will be fur
nished from the 1st of July to the 18th
November for the small sum of One
Dollar. Every man in the State should
subscribe. Every Democratic and Con
servative club should subscribe for
from twenty five to one hundred copies
for distribution.
Year: 1876

Mr. Slevin, of the Third Assembly district
(by blunder of the Associated Press his
name was printed ''Shepley" in the legisla-
tive report in the city papers yester-
day., has introduced in the Assembly bill
for regulating the wages of laborers on the
State public works, of which the purport is
that their wages shall not fall below two dol
lars day. This is a specimen. of kind of ar
rant demagogism which is cropping out in
many quarters, and which ought to be exposed
and rebuked Even if two dollars a day is
fair compensation for laborers on the pub
lie works in this city, it would be
absurd to compel the State by law to pay
the same rate to laborers employed on
the canals. The canals run through
rural districts, where the cost of living is
scarcely more than half of what it is in this
city. The natural and reasonable price Of
labor on the canals is the wages of farm labor
in the rural districts through which the canal
passes, and in which the work is done. 1t
would be inexcusable waste and folly, it
would be a sheer squandering of the public
moneys, for the State to pay nearly twice as
much as will command the same class of
labor on the adjacent farms.


The small demagogues who broach such
projects care nothing for the laborers except
to get their votes. The idea that laborers on
the public works should be treated as priv
ileged class is preposterous They are under
no compulsion to labor on the public works.
Every field of employment is open to them.
If they can do better elsewhere they are free
to make the trial. If they do not choose
to accept such compensation as the
State offers they are at full liberty to sell
their services to other employers 1t is as
absurd for the State to pay more than the
market rate for labor as it would
be to pay more than the mar
ket price for the stone or timber or iron
it has occasion to purchase for the canals.
The canal officers would deserve dismissal if
they paid more than the market rates for
such materials, and they would be equally
inexcusable for adopting different rule in
respect to labor Mr.. Slevin might with as
much propriety have offered bill for uni
form rate for all oak timber purchased for
the public works. and fixing it sixty or
eighty per cent above its value in the rnral
districts, as to have proposed similar bill
for regulating the price Of labor.
Year: 1876

disposition OF contemporary TO maAo use Of
the occasion in the pursuit Of its well known
hostility to the Executive, and to hound him
on to a policy that it doubtless believes
would be his ruin. If the case should prove
not TO be his ruin-and it is one that has
many chances-the course of our contem-
porary would be unfortunate for the country
in the exact proportion in which it was effec-
tive. II is position that should be sacred
from sensational uses 1t is one Of the COM
mon criticisms of the press that it is prone
TO sensation and that criticism we believe
to be generally an erroneous one. Certainly
the things that are commonly charged as
sensations by the small spirits of critical
literature are simply the somewhat exag-
gerated statements in which the press
presents to its readers the great facts OF the
age. 1t is pity for any journal to give to
the opponents of the press who make this
charge of sensationalism so good ground as
is presented when it does its utmost to bring
about war that would be great calamity
simply because it believes that war would
ruin one of its enemies.
Year: 1876

Ir Is MoURNFUL to hear of the jubilation
among certain leading republicans" over
the Andersonville debate for it has had as lit
tie to do with amnesty as possible. If the
''bloody shirt of the carpet-baggers is to have
the winding sheet" of the rebellion substi-
tuted for it in the coming campaign we
think the republicans mean to leave all live
issues in the hands of the democrats
Whether jefferson Davis is excepted or not
from any amnesty is of little actual moment ;
but when party that owed its advent to
power to division in the opposite party, that
kept its seat as an exigency of the war of
slavery, and now, with eleven years Of peace
behind it drags open the grave to sustain its
life by feeding on the carcase of the rebel
lion, it is time to turn away disguised from
the picture it presents. We do not think
that the American people can be made to
vote now on the winding sheet" and grave
clothes issues yet this was professedly the
object of Blaines demagogery, and which
Mr. Hills intemperate language is expected
TO aid.
Year: 1876

The French Cabinet is house divided
against ITSELF but it seems that it has de-
cided not to fall until after the elections
The cohesive force which thus keeps it up is
a wholesome fear of public opinion. NJ
Buffet who most represents Marshal Mac
Nahon in the Cabinet, would be glad to see
Ministers Say and Dufaure replaced by more
decided conservatives; but doing so would
plainly confess to the electors that the Cabi-
net which fought out the last session of the
Assembly was q makeshift which required
strengthening before it dares face the people
The French people think weakness unpar-
donable, and the falling asunder of the Cabi-
net would be the last proof of its want of
strength. On the other hand, we can well
understand the real reluctance of Messrs
Say and Dufaure to leave the Ministry
They bring the prestige of their positions
to the canvass, and do not lose an atom
of their political identity. They dis
arm the government of its opposition
to certain candidates by preventing that
unity of purpose which most assuredly
would be exercised in the conservative di-
rection if their places were filed with men
like the Due de Broglie. The result Of this
will be good for France. 1t will give that
country better chance to express its opin-
ion freely at the polls than at any election
in twenty-eight years past. The intoler-
ance and passion for governing which ac-
tuate all parties in their turn of power have
never permitted the people to think calmly
over what they were about to do. wild
republican furry, wilder Napoleonic fu-
ror, grim Imperial shadow, or q narrow
conservative oppressiveness, has prevented
the sober thought of France from formu-
lating its political wishes. No matter how
bitter the canvass is, so it be free the right
side will win and we have very little doubt
that the tendency of change will be from the
Right Centre to the Left Centre, which seems
destined to be the coming power in France
for some years. at least
Year: 1876

Mr.. CAVE is determined the world shall
not think there is any trouble between him
and the Khedive. Possibly that ruler has
listened to reason, as he did regarding the
Zanzibar and Abyssinian expeditions. Lord
Derby tried in a speech the other day to
diyest the Suez Canal purchase Of any polit-
ical complexion; and so it would never do
for the British Commissioner to Egypt 70 get
into trouble that would look political Cave
is deep, and Lord Derby is like Bagstock-
sly, devilish sly.
Year: 1876

The DIsGRACEFUL STORY of the drowning
of the Workhouse prisoner, Lewis Gardner.
while being rowed to the Island in company
with the fireman of the institution, both
being drunk, is an illustration of very loose
discipline in that institution. Apart from
the shocking details of the story itself, which
includes the escape of another prisoner, the
question forces itself, What chance of escape
from death would the Workhouse inmates
have in case of fire with such fireman as
John Kidd?
Year: 1876

Mr.. BERGH is still anxious for the horse.
If the bill of Mr.. Foster becomes law OF
the State any small boy who throws a nail
into the street will find the great philohip-
pist on his mettle.
Year: 1876

SPAIN does not desire to have toe many
public functionaries sitting in the Cortes.
This is sensible But when all the wars are
over it will give the. generals more time, if
less opportunity, to conspire.
Year: 1876

The SENATE was occupied yesterday IN
propounding and answering queries respect
ing at least fifty aspects of the con- IN
gehcy in which the President pro temporei
of the Senate might be called on to act as
President of the United States. There
seemed to be no very definite rule or law
governing the majority of these ingenious
supposititious cases, and Mr.. Stevensons
suggestion, to refer the matter to the Judici-
airy Committee for thorough examination, is
sensible
Year: 1876

The ASrI-CoRRUPTIoN RESOLUTIONS over
which the Assembly lost its time yesterday
might have had humorous side if they
had been debated in Tweeds time, for
then nobody would have believed they meant
anything, as the stealing was all done by rule.
Now, however, that plunder is not we'll or
ganized, it is rather a puzzle to know what
all these professions of honesty mean.
Year: 1876

The quality of Democratic economy is il.
lustrated by the action of the Confederate
House on the river and harbor appropriation
bill. The House sent the Senate bill appro-
priating seven and half millions. The Re-
publican Senate after wrestling with the bill
finally adopted one appropriating five mil
lions. Friday the Senate bill was taken up
in the House and was refused passage, the
Democratic members, particularly those of
the Southern states, having secured large
sums for the improvement of rivers which
have no commerce, thus refusing to second
the effort of the Senate to save t,uo and q
half millions. No small part Of these expendi-
lures is of doubtful expediency, but the
House bill of this year is declared to have
been the most shameless piece of omnibus
jobbery ever perpetratedy. The Dem.
ocratic House is loud ta,ker, but it can no
more Withstand an opportunity to steal than
its Northern doughfaces can to defend their
Southern masters or apologize for Hamburg
massacres.
Year: 1876

We DO not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The namt and address of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

In speaking of PERSONS faults,


Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those with house of glass
Should seldom throw a stone.
If we had nothing else to do


But talk Of those who sin,
IT'S better we should look at home,
And from the point begin.
We have no right to judge aman


Until he is fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,


We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults and who has not?
The old as well as young,
Perhaps for aught we know;


Have fifty to the one.
I'll tell you ola better plan,


find it works full well,
TO try our own defects to cure,


Before of others tell.
And though sometime hope to be


No worse than some l know;
My own shortcomings bid me let


The faults Of others go.
Then let us all, when we commence


To SANDER friends or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do


To those we little know;
Remember that curses sometimes,


Like our chickens, "roost at hOme,"
DON'T speak of others faults until


We have none Of our own.
Year: 1876

A WOMAN FLOATING IN FIRE.-Mr.
Thomas Land, living in Pamlico coun-
ty, about twenty miles from this city,
informed us Saturday, that on Friday
night, after he had retired, he heard his
dogs barking furiously in the yard, and
went to the back door to ascertain the
cause. On opening the door, sight
met his gaze which froze his blood.
Just in front of him-so close that ne
could feel the heat-was suspended in
the air large ball of fire, about the
size and in the shape of woman. On
his making an exclamation of horror,
his wife became alarmed, and rushed to
the door to see what was the matter.
When she discovered the fire-woman
1--WE will call iD she Immediately faint
ed. After putting his wife on the bed,
Mr. Land informs us, he became fright
ened at what he had seen that he laid
down and covered up head and ears.
Shortly thereafter the ball of fire passed
around the house, although the night
was dark one Mr.. Land says one
could easily see how to pick up a pin
IN any part of the house because OF the
great flood of light from the fre-woman.
-Nui Shell, NeW6ern, ". c.
Year: 1876

A SAD CHATTER IN LIFE.-The Wac
CO (Texas) Examiner says: "a family


from Southern Kansas, consisting OF


husband, wife and three children, pass


ed through this city in covered wagon


few days ago, and the following sad
chapter in their history was related by
the man. He stated that they left
Kansas on the first of March, with the
intention of joining a number OF families
formerly from Kansas, who are now
living in Brown county. They travel
ed rapidly, and met with no mlshaps
until last Sunday morning, when their
little babe, aged about Is months, was
taken ill, and suddenly died. The grief
of the poor mother on the death OF her
child, knew no bounds; in fact, she be-
came temporarily insane, and when her
husband wished to bury the body of
the infant, she clutched it wildly in her
arms and fled from him and hid herself
in the woods, where she remained over
night alone with the corpse. 1t was not
until nearly noon on the following day
that he finally found her. She was so
completely exhausted by that time that
ne had but little difficulty i'll taking
her back to the wagon. She was in
duced to take some nourishment, and
soon afterwards fell asleep. While she
lay sleeping the little corpse was placed
in roughly constructed box, and the
father and children buried it under a
live-oak tree by the roadside. The
mother slept several hours, and awoke
with her mind restored. She assisted
her husband in building fence around
the lone little .grave, and then, with
many backward glances, the afflicted
family pursued their weary journey"