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Year: 1876

Wonderful as Col Ingersoll is as an orator he is
equally wonderful in his endurance of body and
mind. This afterno, n he speaks at Rock Island,
and il we may ju ge from what we hear and seea
not less than $4,000 pee pie will make the effort to
hear him...Aotine ReUie'e.


His health was so poor during the war
that at the first battle he had business at
safe distance from the rebels, and has
kept at safe distance ever since. The
only gun he shoots is his dirty mouth, and
that disgusts Republicans and sends them
to Tilden. His meeting here was
ludicrous failure-not two thousand peo-
pie being present.
Year: 1876

sernaton among people who knew of had been parties
to corrupt practices and for few days il seemed as
though the gates would open and testimony would pour
in from many sources. But the unfortunate msman'
Agement OF the Beiknap case appears to have, for
time closed the gates again. and while the committees
are undoubtedly working with more energy and sue
cess than the beginning OF their labors, and have
secured valuable and very important clews they
need further time TO bring TO light what they seek.


Some members discouraged because they imagine
the public not take proper interest in the work
OF investigation, but in general they find that their
constituents encourage them, and it said by
prominent member to-day


at duty TO the country to enforce rigid econ
omy and to make patient and thorough investigation of
corrupt practices and, for my part believe this to be
the important work this Congress has to do and
It ought to do 1t If 1t sits here until September and
matter who is hit or what side is damaged"
Year: 1876

witness understood a subpoena was obtained
for Mrs Marsh but before it could be served she went
TO Canada The witness took tho responsibility OF
publishing the story because OF its importance; for, II
true, II placed the committee in an awkward condition
He took the responsibility Of writing 1t up and giving
manifold copies to the correspondents OF the
NEW YORK HERALD Boston Herald and to MAJOR Poore.
OF the Boston Journal, and to the Chicago Tribune
After the story came back in printed form, Mr.. Cymer
made his personal explanation. The witness subse-
quently met Colonel Grafton who informed him that
the points could be sustained. The witness said he
never had any communication with General Kiddoo
personally


The chairman suggested whether, in common fair
ness would not have been better to ask the chairman
whether hc had taken proper steps the matter before
venturing on the charges against him.


Mr.. Blackburn interrogated the witness as to his au
thorzcd statement that the facts IN the case were cal
cuated TO bring disgrace on the managers Of tho
committee whatever the result TO Pendleton might
be- and asked whether the witness knew when he
prepared his article the statement TO be facts.


The witness replied he believed them to be facts just
as he stated, and to that and to no other extent
On being reminded that that not answer to
the question the witness said he did not propose to
answer in any other way


After further spirited coloquy Mr. Robbins said he



only by hcarsay


Mr. Blackburn remarked that the witness had not SO
answered


The witness again repeated that he knew the facts in
no other way and TO other extent than he had
stated.


The Chairman inquired:-'Then why did you not say
so ?"


Mr. Blackburn claimed he had right to answer
whether the witness knew them to be facts then or



Mr.. Danford said that the witness had given de-
him and how he cane make the statement, saying
ho knew the facts in the manner stated by himself


Mr.. Blackburn asked whether he had not right TO
submit the question and expect all answer.


Mr.. Daniord replied he thought the gentleman had
the right put the question and the witness right to
answer in his way. Mr. Blackburn thought not
The witness repeated he did not know the facts ex
cept by hearsay aud in the manner he had stated at
length, as he had any communication with Gen
eTal Kddoo.


The committee then examined j. b. Corcoron, who
posts Texas and gave numerous facts to show how
posts secured and profits divided The committee
then adjourned till tomorrow morning
THE PAYMENT OF THE INTEREST ON THE 3. 60


BONDS.


The interest on the 3 65 District OF Columbia bonds
Will be paid at the Treasury of the United States in
Washington and by the Assistant Treasury Of the
United States in New York tomorrow. The amount to
be paid is about $3.50 000
Year: 1876

three rail fence followed by FIVE Others all Of whom
crossed safely the remainder taking 10 the road -Four
miles on and half the pack had lost the scent Tho
two veteran Maryland dogs, however, kept on Rey-
nard's track till about two O'clock when they too, be-
confused Most OF the dogs scattered in the di-
rection OF knderamack, ana the horsemen abandoned
the chase and returned in brisk galop 10 Hack
ensack
Year: 1876

WILL THOU BE MADE WHoLE?-It is
our health that we bring to the pbysi-
clan? Nay, not our health, but our sick
ness. In SO far as we are healthy, we do
not need him; but only so far as we are
sick.


Yet how many reverse this i'll spiritual
thingsl The amount of disease about
them seemst o discourage and disqualify.
And they labor to find or to make some
symptoms of returning health in order
to qualify them for the physician.


They say, 'Alas! have no convic-
tions OF sin; how can come| Why, if
you have no convictions, you have all
the more needy disease about you.
They say, 81 have no love; how can
Gomez" Surely lam disqualified" Why,
if you have no love, you have more need
to come, and are the more qualified for
the physician by being the more sick.
Each disease is a claim upon the physi-
clans skill and power, and an appeal to
the physicians tenderness and care.
Doubling, troubled spirit, hear this, and
be encouraged, yea, be confident and
glad. The evils of which you complain
are evils which none but the Savio: can
remove. Can you, then, bring them too
soon? Can you bring too many of them
Are they beyond his power to relieve:
And is this your reason for keeping
them to yourself and trying to get rid of
them before you come! Oh, the folly,
as well as the wickednesS of unbelief.-
II. BOnGr, ID. ID.
Year: 1876

Western fellow traders. Nevertheless,
there are signs of renewed activity in
Montreal, and the mechanics and labor
ing men now idle will, no doubt, soon
find employment at the manufacturing
establishments. which, having been
closed for some time, are resuming
operations. An inquiry which vas in
stituied lately as to the probable volume
of imports for the spring trade shows
a reduction of one-third of the amount
received last year. This is in itself
favorable sign, for it augurs the adop-
ton of a policy of caution, which will
result in relieving both importers and
dealers from the incubus of dead stocks
and consequent financial stringency.
Another favorable feature is the amount
of public work going on, including the
Welland Canal enlargement and several
railway undertakings. Money is plen-
tiful at the banks, and will become still
more easy when spring opens. On bond
and mortgage the rates are less than
they were few months ago, and invest
ments are advertised for. We look for
ward to a fair spring trade throughout
the greater part of Ontario, and a slow
but steady progress toward a new cycle
of great prosperity and advancement.
Year: 1876

FRIGHTENING CHILDREN
can be worse for a child than to be
frightened The effect of the scare is
slow to recover from; it remains some
times until maturity, as is shown by
many instances of morbid sensitiveness
and excessive nervousness. Not fire.
quently fear is employed as a means of
discipline. Children are controlled by
being made to believe that something
terrible will happen to them, and are
punished by being shut upin dark rooms,
or by being put in places they stand in
dread of. No one, without vivid men,
ory Of his own childhood, can compre-
hend how entirely cruel such things are.
We have often heard grown persons tell
of the suffering they have endured, as
children, under like circumstances, and
count the irreparable injury which
they are sure they then received. No
parent. no nurse, capable of alarming the
young. is fitted for the position. Child
rem, as near as possible, should be
trained not to know the sense of fear,
which, above everything else, is to be
feared in their education both early and
late
Year: 1876

If | were to pray for a taste which
would stand me in stead under every
variety of circumstances, and be
source of happiness and cheerfulness
through life, and a shield against ills
however it might go amiss and the world
frown upon Inc, it would be a taste for
reading, l speak of it, of course, only
as worldly advantage, and not in the
slightest degree as superseding or dero-
eating from the higher Office and surer
and stronger panoply of religious prin-
ciple; but as taste, an instrument, and
as a sort of pleasurable qualification.
Give man this taste and the means of
gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of
making him a happy man, unless, in
deed, you put into his hands a most
perfect verse selection of books. You
place him ia contact with the best
society in every period of history
with the wisest, the wittiest-with
the tenderest, the bravest charac.
ters that have adorned humanity. You
make him a denizen of all nations-a
contemporary of all ages. The world
has been created for him. 1t is hardly
possible but the character should take a
higher and better tone from the constant
habit of associating in thought with
class of thinkers, to say the least of it,
above the average of humanity. 1t is
morally impossible but that the manners
should take tinge of good breeding and
civilization from having constantly
before ones eyes the way in which the
best bred and best Informed men have
talked and conducted themselves in
their intercourse with each other. There
is a gentle but perfectly irresistible coer-
cion in the habit OF reading, well di-
rected over the whole tenor of a mans
character and conduct, which is not less
effectual because it is really the last
thing he dreams Of
Year: 1876

THE NEW BIRTH.-If the new birth
made one perfectly holy at the start,
then we could tell in every case the mo-
ment that the change took place; but as
it only begins the work, We can scarcely
ever tell. Very few christians eau re-
member the moment in which they be-
came christians, and they are no poorer
christians on that account. You cannot
tell the instant in which day breaks"
It. is no proof, then, that you are not
christian because you did not seem to
have a sudden change. If you are
changed, that is enough. We all know
when Paul was converted; but who can
tell when John and Peter and James
and Matthew were regenerated? Can
you tell when the grain of wheat that
you plant in the earth gerIninates? Can
you see the hour hand of a clock move!
Yet the one does sprout, and the other
moves over the whole face in twelve
hours! And so faith may spring up in
your heart and your heart be regenera-
ted, and you be made to say when.
Year: 1876

A PROBLEM Burritt studied
mathematics while working at an anvil.
Oae of his mental problems was this:
How many yards of cloth, three feet
in width, cut into strips an inch wide,
aud allowing half an inch at each end of
the lap, woaId it require to reach from
the centre of the sun to the centre of the
earth, and how much would it cost at
shilling yard" We hope our young
readers will get an anvil and try this
prnbIen
Year: 1876

From the New York Times, March q, 1872


For time he will be praised, but after
that he will be abused all around


A man who attempts to break down an
abuse of long standing creates many bit.
ter foes, and attracts few supports; and
lucky will it be for him if in he end the
rogues whom he has brought to grief do
not contrive to make out his character
blacker than their own. That was very
wise warning of Coleridge, Truth is a
good dog; butbeware ofbarking too close
to the heels of an error, lest you get your
brains kicked out.


Mr.. Tilden is barking close at the heels
of great fraud, and he will get much en-
couragement just now, plenty ofpeople
will spur him on; but when we are told
that he looks for public gratitude after
his work is done, we must dismiss it as
an idle tale, for Mr.. Tilden is a shrewd
man, and knows perfectly we'll what sort
of a world we are living in
Year: 1876

The Radical Committee of this county
in its search for great men to advocate
the cause of Radicalsm before the people
of Pittsburgh, wrote to Gen. Babcock and
Boss Shepherd, asking them to come here
and make speeches. Babcock responded
that he would come if he did not get a
permanent situation in the Penitentiary
next week, while Boss Shepherd hoped
to have the pleasure of addressing his
fellow Ringsters in Pittsburgh on the
great necessity of defeating Samuel J
Tilden.-PiH. Post.
Year: 1876

Ofhcer Stack, OF the Steamboat squad who was sta.
toned yesterday morning at pier North RIVER noticed
man at the cnd OF the pier emerge from small boat
and jump upon tho dock with large package In his
nand. The officer asked the man what he had and
where he obtained It HIS answers being unsatis.
discovered nity-two boxes OF cigars, which evidently
had been smuggcd Further inquiry revealed tho
fact that they had been thrown IRON the steamship
City OF Meredith OF the Alexandra linc lying al tho
foot OF pier s. few slips below, IN an ndiaruDbcr
covering by some nccompce OF the snuggcr into tho
boat. Upon being taken to tho Central Once the
gave his Charles Sinclair, and said hc lived ~
No. Norris street He handed over to the Gus
tody OF the United States Marshal while the Property
Clerk took charge OF the connscatcd cigars
Year: 1876

The wire receives the same rec:procating
motion which is commonly given to the saw,
and thus burns its way through the wood.
It is practicable, according to the inventor,
not only to cut logs into planks or heavier
forms Of lumber, by this means, but also to
give curvature to the cut, and to produce
fantastic forms Of every description, since
the aw, being without breadth adapts itself
to such proposes better even than the bend
or ribbon saws. In as muck as the wire
burns it's way instead Of cutting, it leaves
the surface Of the wood charred; but this is
an effect entirely superficial, and occasions
no injury to the material. It would seem
as if, however, there were an important
question Of economy here to be settled, and
We shall wait before prenouncing an opinion
on this application Of science until we hear
from it further.
Year: 1876

Wisconsin editor illustrates the prevail
ing extravaganza Of the people Of the pre-.
sent day by calling attention TO the costly
baby carriages in use now, while, when he
was baby, they hauled him around BY the
hair Of the bead.
Year: 1876

An Easter design in the show window Of
a Fulton street store represents rabbit sit
ting upon . lot Of eggs. It is through such
carelessness as this that our children get
very loose ideas about natural history.
Year: 1876

The Lives Insured by the Society are carefully
selected In different parts of North America and
Europe furnishing By this broad Geld OF opera.
tions an additional and exceptional safety to the
Polcy-holders. The Insurances are made only on
the Mutual Principle. The Surplus Premiums are
returned annually to the Insured.
Year: 1876

The San Francisco Alto of July Is says :
immigration to California seems to be
steadily diminishing. The net gain to our
population during the first six months of the
present year is little more than third of
the increase from the same source during the
corresponding period of 1875. The figures
show 1924 gain in 1876, against 26, 149 in
1875: The passenger movement by sea shows
but little difference between the two periods
mentioned. After careful comparison of
the immigration returns for the past three
years. we may safely conclude that the total
decline this year will amount to upwards of
forty per cent. of the net gain of 1875. This
is not very cheering prospect for California,
which stands in such urgent need of popula-
ton to assist in its progress and development,
and, should the decline continue, will be very
apt to embarrass us seriously"
Year: 1876

to scatter to the eastward and toward British
America, or to retire southwark to the Big
Horn mountains. 1t is thought that they
were in front or in close proximity to Gen.
Crooks command 1t is not believed they
would show fight or allow Gen. Crook or
Gen Terry to get chance at them in a body.
Year: 1876

How many unhappy girls have paid
dearly for the early bringing up of their
young husbands, who, after the first
glamour of love has passed, treat their
wives as they were allowed to treat their
sisters, and as they saw their fathers treat
their mothers-carelessly, disrespect-
fully, with total want of that consid-
crate tenderness which is worth more
than all the passionate love in the world.
This, though they may muster outside
as excellent husbands, never do anything
really bad, and possessing many good
and attractive qualities, yet contriving
somehow 20 quietly break the poor
woman's heart, or to harden il into q
passive acceptance of pain which is more
fatal to married happiness than even
temporary arrangement.


The best husbands ever met came out
of a family where the mother, a most
heroic and selCdenying woman, laid
down the absolute lawe"girls first"-
not in any authority, but first 10 be
thought of as to protection and tender
ness. Consequently the chivalrous care
which these lads were taught to show
their own sisters naturally extends
to all women. They grew up true gen
tlemen-generous, exactiDg, courteous
of speech, and kind of heart. In them
was the protecting strength of manhood
which scorns to use its strength except
for protection--the proud honesty o
manhood which infinitely prefers being
twisted around ones finger as mean mer
are twisted, and mean men will always
be found ready to do it; but which,
think, all honest and brave women mo-
merely dislike but utterly dcspise.
Year: 1876

The weather yesterday was of
character to depress the spirit of the
noble red man. A dead-in. earnest snow
storm he didn't mind bit; but wet,
thawing weather gets him. When the
snow banks up on his wickiup it aids to
keen him warm; but in rain or thaw
the trickling moisture works through
the holes in his residence, which is con-
structed of pretty much all holes, and
the cold drops insidiously crawl under
his clothes at his neck and creep down
his spine and make him get up and howl.
In such weather he don't believe that
there is no place like home, and SO he
don't stay at home. He wraps his blanket
about him and seeks the haunts of the
pale-faces and lounges on the street.
corners and chats with his own or some
other Indians squaw. When it is con-
sidered that the Indians sleep at night
on the damp ground, with scarcely any
shelter to speak of, and during the day
time, no matter how severe the weather,
seldom enter house, one would think
their lives must be miserable to an ex-
treme. But such does not seem to be the
case they were born on the bleak hill
sides and the miserable structure, for
which hut is too good name, is the only
kind of home they have ever known.
Most of them would die ii forced 10 1--we
in n comfortable dwelling and, so long
AZ they possess blanket aud get enough
10 eat and can earn little silver to
gamble with, they arc far more happy
and contented than the majority OF
white people who live in luxury.
Year: 1876

There Is an end to Kisses and TO sghs,
There is an end TO laughter and TO tears
An end to fair things that delight our eyes,
An end TO pleasant sounds that charm our cars
An end TO enmity's foul libeling
And TO the gracious praise Of tender friends;
There Is an end TO all but one sweet thing


To love there Is no end.
That warrior carved an empire with his sword;
The empire now is but like him-a name;
That statesman spoke, and by a burning word
Kindled nations heart into fame
Now nought Is left but ashes, and we bring
Our homage to new man, to them we bend;
There Is an end TO all but one sweet thing


To love there is no end
All beauty fades away, or else, alas
Mems eyes grow dim, and they no beauty seel
The glorious shows of nature pass and pass,
Quickly they come, as quickly do they fee;
And he who hears the voice of welcoming
Hears next the slow, sad farewell of his friend;
There Is an end to all but one sweet thing


To love there is no end.
And for ourselves-our father, where Is he?
Gone, and memory alone remains;
There Is no refuge on mothers knee
For us, brown, old, and sad with cares and pains
sisterless, our way we wend
To Deaths dark house from which We shall not


rove
And SO we cease; yet one thing hath no end


There Is no end to love.
Year: 1876

Only a lock Of hair,


And bright red lock, at that,
saw gently slide TO the ground


From under the jaunty hat;
But the wearer was lost In the crowd,
And picked up the curl with start,
And into my pocket II vent


The pocket that's next to my heart.
wore II there nearly week,


And looked at II every night,
Till fancisd I'D give all the world
To see the blue eyes bright.
OF course her eyes were blue,


With hair the color of this;
How bewitchingly sweet they seemed,
As gave the curl kiss.
1 thought OF her every day,


dreamed Of her every night,
but never had met her in any way
Since she vanished from my sight.
looked, and hunted, and searched,
With the most persevering art,
But never could match the curl that lay
In the pocket next my heart.
But down at my boarding house


We had hash for breakfast one morning;
/ remember 1t perfectly well,


For there, without previous warning,
Creeping up from the cold, gray hash,
Lay single golden hair,
With the same indescribable tinge
OF the curl In my pocket there.
always paid for my board,


And always paid the cash,
And oh was hungry that morning,
But couldn't eat any hash.
For now my sweet hopes were blasted,
And my brain was all in whirl,
For knew that at last l had found it,
A match for my golden curl.
Only single hair,


And a bright red hair at that,
But the heart underneath that curl
Gave sickening pitapat.
felt so despondingly faint,


asked for a glass Of water,
II was brought very soon by the hands
OF my landlady's buxom daughter.
The sun shone across her hair,
frowzy mat of red,
i felt very much, confess, =
Like throwing the glass at her head.
went straight up to my room,
Where nobody else would know IL,
And flung the curl out of the window
AS far as i ever could throw il.
And made up my mind to this verdict,
As slammed down the blinds and the sash
Golden hair may look pretty in ripglets,
But it don't look 60 pretty in hask
Only a woman's hair,


And bright red hair at that,
I'm ashamed that ever my poor heart throbbed
For thing so silly as that.