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Year: 1876

TRAVELLING AT GOVERNMENT ExPESsE.-The
popular way of making trip to Washington at
the expense of the government nowadays is to he
a witness in some one of the numerous investi-
cations OF contested election cases. Over eighty
witnesses have been summoned from Alabama
in the case Of Senator Spencer, and they will cost
the government about 500 apiece. All a man
has to do is to throw out hint that he knows
something to the advantage disadvantage of
one side or the other, and be gets a summons
right of and makes agreeable trip to the capi-
tai, and it doesn't cost him a cent.
Year: 1876

u After hearing SO much about people going
to Colorado for the restoration of their health, it
sounds odd to hear the associate editor of the
Golden City Transcript say that he must relin-
quish the position, and return to Alabama, on
account of the bad state of his health.
Year: 1876

~ The residence of Henry Clay Dean burned
down, the other day, while he was absent on a
lecturing tour. All its contents, including a
valuable library, were burned. 1t is supposed
the fire originated from spontaneous combustion
in a greasy shirt which he took off before leaving
Year: 1876

R It's all up with Guthrie for Congress. The
Reporter has sOured on him, because the Chief
said good word for him We are sorry to have
been the cause of Guthrie's downfall, but We
didn't go to do it," However, Phillips is dead,
because of that little pOst-ofice business; SO
there's another out of the way. This leaves the
track to Judge Price and ourseIf
Year: 1876

II Jack Selover's Advertiser tells about some
blurred marriage certificates printed at the Chief
Office, for Doniphan County. As the County
doesn't furnish marriage certificates further
comment would seem unnecessary. The only
blanks We ever printed for the County on the
marriage question were Licenses, and the Pro-
bate Judge said they were the best he had ever
seen. If they were blurred, it was by the dirty
hands Of some one who had been scaling
wood-piles in the dark We have never been
left with a botched job of County blanks ON our
hands, as was the case with the Reporter Office,
when it undertook to improve upon the electro
typed form of County warrants.
Year: 1876

GRrrsBAcKs-We publish in another column


a resolution adopted by the County Grange, last


Saturday afternoon, after an animated debate.
The opponents of the resolution were not oppos-
ed to greenbacks, but opposed it because they
held that it was introducing political question
into the Grange, which they wished to avoid.
The outcome will show that these men were
right. Every time the Grange dabbles into pol
itics, it lowers ITSELF and mpars its usefulness.
The real friends of the Grange try to avoid this,
but cannot always successfully combat those
who are trying to use the Grange to further their
own political designs. Some of them are even
SO wild ON the question, that they talk OF start
ing greenback newspaper in the County, ana
Will have representation in the GreenDack
State Convention.


We are in favor Of greenbaeks, but there are
other questions involved in the approaching
elections Neither the Republican nor the Demo-
cratic party can agree among the mseives upon
that issue, but not many can be driven from the
party, this Presidential year, on the currency
question. The number of men IN Doniphan
County who are willing to maintain distinct
organization upon the greenback issue, VIII he
very small.
Year: 1876

stated to oe a mistake made by the drug
gist where his medicine was prepared.


Mr.. Bailey was one OF the Oldest deal
ers in his line in this city. and was high
ly respected by all who knew him.
Year: 1876

A young Chinese lady, who had the
misfortune to be left widow while iu
her teens, was urged by some injudicious
relatives to enter again into the bonds
of wedlock. The thought thus sug-
gested of supplying the place of her late
husband was so repugnant to her feel
ings that, in order to escape from the
persecution of her advisers, she deter
mined to ascend to heaven OIL the back
of a stork," or, in other words, publicly
to commit suicide. Having arrived at
this determination, day was fixed for
the ceremony. EARLY, on the fatal
morning the lady, dressed as the queen
of heaven and surrounded by large
numb Der of admiring relatives and friends,
started from her late husbands house in
an open sedan chair for the scene of her
selfinficted death. BY the way she
visited her parents to bid them farewell,
and, being blessed with fine appetite
even at this critical stage of her history,
frequently stopped to taste the viands
which were placed at intervals by the
side of the road, as at a funeral. On
arriving at an open space at the back of
the Hai-chou Temple, she mounted on
sCduOiuluS WulCu udu DCCu CiSCtCu ioi
the purpose, and, having bowed to the
vast crowd which had assembled to wit
ness the proceedings, she cried with a
loud voice, Heaven and earth! and my
friends! l am quite satisfied to die in
this manner" Having said this, she
stepped on to chair on the platform,
and thrust her head through the moose
of red cord, which hung suspended
from a cross. beam above her. At the
same moment red cloth was placed
over her head and face, and then, with
out the least hesitation, she jumped off
the chair. Death was almost instanta-
neous, and she expired without the least
apparent struggle. So deepan impression
did her heroic appearance make upon the
juvenile portion of the spectators of this
curious scene, that the next day some
boys amused themselves by making
believe to follow her example. BY a
misadventure, while one of them was
adjusting the rope round his neck, his
playmates ran off, and on their return
they found that he, likewise, had
ascended to heaven on the back of q
stOrk +"
Year: 1876

Virginia City New Enterprise.


We were yesterday shown piece of
common bar-soap, upon the sides of
which were clinging.and growing several
foims of minute vegetation, which
seemed to be sort of connecting link
between very fine grass and that common
outgrowth of microscopic vegetation
called mold. The bar had recently been
taken from the box, and the pale yellow
ness of the growing substance was plainly
indicative of production forced away
from much light. The probable theory
of the case is this: That the bar of soap
had been made in some place, or stored
in some place, where there was warm,
damp atmosphere, and that while there
spores, or the minute parts of fowerless
plants by which they are reproduced,
found their way into the box and there
germinated. These spores are light
enough TO float in any ordinary humid
atmosphere, and are, in fact, the cause
of what is commonly known rs mold ;
but in the present instance the species OF
outgrowth was 30 plainly unlike the or
dinary kinds of mold as to attract es-
pecial attention. Some of the specimens
grew nc the distance of an inch or more
from the others, and were two and hall
inches in length, and of the consistency
Of hair. The spores having hoated in
and lodged, and termination having once
bten started in an atmosphere damp as
well as warm, il was continued after the
soap was transferred to our dry climate,
sustenance being drawn from the soap.
Year: 1876

King Alphonso, of Arragon, who was a
good and pious man, heard with pain
that the pages Of his court had quite
given up the habit of saying grace either
before or after their meals, or even OF
saying their prayers; so he thought he
would give them lesson. One day these
boys were invited by the king to dine
with him at his own table. Dressed in
their best attire, and delighted at the
idea of the honor they were about to re-
ceive, the pages came into the royal
dining-room. They were sE Eown their
seats at the royal dining table, and king
and guests sat down to dinner, no bless
ing being asked as usual before they be-
gan the meal. This was, indeed, arranged
beforehand by the king.


During dinner, to the surprise of all,
there stepped into the dining hall beg
gar, who, in spite of his rags and his dirt,
went up to the royal table, sat down,
and, without n king an apology or ask
ing leave, began to eat and drink to his
hearts content.


The pages, exceedingly surprised, kept
looking at the king as if TO ask his leave
to turn out this unlimited visitor. The
king himself had planned beforehand
that the man should come in in this bold
way, without being asked, and he, quietly
and patiently, sat watching him eat and
rink without saying anything or appear
ing to take any notice. At last, after
having made very hearty meal, the
beggar got up and went away, without,
however, having, by word or look,
thanked the king and his courtiers for
the feast.


Turning to the pages, King Alphonso
then said: "Well, gentlemen, how do
you like this man?'


/" Not at all, your majesty" they all
replied. "Never did we see a man SO
rude, so ungrateful, so shameless, as that
beggar!"


Upon hearing this reply, the king rose
up and said, in a loud, solemn voice,
which could be heard by all present:


"You yourselves have been as rude and
ungrateful as that poor man. Every day
you have been richly fed by King far
greater than / am-even by our Heavenly
Father, who giveth us richly all things
to enjoy; but you have sat down and
risen up again, day after day, without
thinking for moment of the Giver of all
these good things"


The boys blushed, and slipped away
from the royal table without single
word. but never again did they pass Il
single day without asking Gods blessing
and thanking Him for His gifts.
Year: 1876

NINE. DoBRovoLsKA, who shot at
Prince Gortchakof at Berne, is said to
be mad woman, well known to the
Russian Embassy of Paris. The follow
ing particulars of the attack OH the
Prince are given in an English paper:


On the 9th, at five in the evening, he
was returning to his house, when a lady,
very elegantly dressed, fired at him with
revolver loaded with small shot. The
Prince, who was not struck, turned to-
ward her and himself disarmed her. He
asked her what motive she had for such
an attempt, and she stated that she was
named Dobrovolska, and had causes of
complaint against his Government. The
Prince handed her over to the police,
and judicial investigation has been
commenced"
Year: 1876

The following were the receipts and shipments
OF the leading articles Of produce In this city
during the twenty-four hours ending at o'clock
on Saturday morning, and for the corresponding
time last year:
Year: 1876

She il not that erect, gray haired matron
who is Chairman of the Centennial Committee
in her own State, and Of dozen other soci-
eties besides, useful and reformatory; she Is
not tho pretty, wIde-awake little NJ. ID. who is
fighting bcr way to work and wages in the
next street; she is not the rapt but very self
conscious poetess beating up scenery and ho-
tells from Maine to California for materials for
her muse, subscriptions to her book. and
chances to lecture; least of all is she the faded
clever beauty, whose woes and experiments in
marriage and divorce have so long furnished
gossip for the country. These are the people
uho like the stage Yankee represent us to
other nations; and verify in so doing they have
their reward. The typical American gill rep
resents us nowhere. She is one of those I'M
picturesque and commonplace people born to be
tho confusion of artists. Anybody can take
likeness or point an argument or joke with
hgh-featured pronounced woman. such as
the clever chairman the little hobby riding
NJ. d., rs a subject; but what can you do with
the wholesome, insignificant farmers daughter,
rcduplicatcd in days journey thousand
tincsf


This obscure member Of society is very busy
just Now. In May Ito come down to the COM
msnplacc surroundings of her commonplace
life) the dairy work presses heavily; she al
ways works out the butter for market her
self; then there are now hands brought in for
tho Spring planting; she is baker and cook for
the whole establishment, and not only father
and the boys but the black plowman will
grumbc if bread and pies are not to their
liking. She knows just how long the canned
tomatoes and the preserves and the salted meat
will last. for it was she who superintended
canning and sailing them, if she did not do it
with her own hands. Then there is the Spring
sewing; what with her own pretty chintzes
and shirts for the boys at college and n
little tailoring for father, her machine
buzzcs late into the night and soon, too,
the house is to be cleaned. She will
scrub paint and tack carpets and hang the
new paper on the parlor all day, and in the
evening pu. on her one silk and dance until
midnight or sit cozy mt homo to read Tho
AtIanto or Scrbncr's aloud to the old folks.
There is change in the furnishing of the
bookcases since she came from school and
the boys from college. Youat. on the Horsr,
and the calf bound rows of sermons by eminent
Presbyterian divines have been ele,at.al to
the upper shelves, aud new cOmers IN perish
able cloth arc IN thcir places. You do not find
single rare edition among them. Our farmers
Year: 1876

The amount of dependence to be placed upon
the professions and promises of party plat
forms and party managers is clearly shown by
the action of both parties with reference to q
subject which was very prominent In political
discussion four years ago, and upon which
Year: 1876

Much of the time of the Presbyterian Gen.
eral Assembly was yesterday devoted to hear
Ing accounts Of the work done in home mis-
sions. 1t is far mere extended and useful
labor than is generally supposed by persons
who have not given it special observation.
The Chinese immigrants are numbered among
be many who are greatly benefited by these
Year: 1876

The County Courthouse has been fright
fully expensive building. Not even the millions
squandered nominally upon it by the Ring, nor
the funds yet needed to complete the structure
represent its total cost. TO all else must be
added the injury which it has inflicted
upon the courts compelled to sit in the
building. The odor of corruption has lit
orally hung about it, and the unscientiiic
ventilation attempted has made bad worse
till nearly all the Judges of the Supreme
Court arc now on tho sick list, poisoned by
foul air. 1t would have been good economy
to burn down the Courthouse years ago.
Year: 1876

There are, of course, obstacles raised by the
opponents of Capt. Eads's ietty system for I'M
proving the Mississippi, but they will not be
allowed materially to interfere with the work.
If he can clear the mud ont of South Pass, no
red tape at Washington will check his prog
ress. The opponents allege that the mud dis
placed by the current between the jetties VIII
form a new bar to Obstruct navigation. But
if the new bar is to be formed where there
are now forty or fifty fathoms of water, there
is not likely to be trouble from it for two or
three score years.
Year: 1876

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There are plenty of incidental disturb&


ances. If the wind be blowing down


the range the bullet is lifted along, and


with flatter trajectory or greater
speed, would slip over the top of the


target. Down comes the elevations.


ten, twenty, or thirty inches, and bul's


eyes are made. IF the wind is varying,


each shot must be fired from the lesson
o. the last and the changes in the mean


time. If the wind IS blowing up the


range the bullets are retarded and drop


to the ground before the target. In the


case OF q left side wind, the sight il


moved right or lett to throw the mnzzle


OF the rifle against tile wind. The


growing of the rifle may give the swift


revolving leaden bolts natural 'sdrift''


to the right. This is q permanent va


ration aud may be corrected but the


wind rises and falls, and to gnage it a


vernier similar to that on the near up


right sight permits lateral notion.


One one. b,lndredth here corresponds 10
a change Of twenty inches on tile target,
and it is no unfrequent thing to have
lnarksman using fifteen sspoints of
wind,'' or, i'll other words, actually
pointing the muzzle of the gun twenty
five or more feet away from the bulls
eye. Given fish TAIL" wind partly
up or down the range and partly across,
and variable in strength as we'll, and
some idea may be gotten Of the per-
plexity which surrounds good Judge
Of the wind. Some days the pressure
ofthe air is greater tl.an on others, and
this must be allowed for A hot sun
pouring down upon damp range rises
simmer OF mist which gives the
whole target dancing look, precisely
as one would see an object across the
room when looking over Lot stove.
This is perplexing. The variation of
light and shade seem to lit or depress
the target center. Heat ani cold af-
fccts tile gun metal and depress or ele-
vate The flying bullet. But before
those matters are attended to the rifle
man must be sure of his weapon, conti-
dent ot his accuracy; his powder must
possess the same strength each d
every day, and from charge to charge
tie bullets must be without air holes,
without dent or scratch, of the same
hardness ofmetal and accurately shaped.
Tie rifle must be uniformly clean from
shot to shot. And then, when the
man as mastered all these items, and
can hold his rifle true to the little buh-
BILE of the spirit guage that rests across
the barrel between the front and rear
sights; can hold it with a sisc like
grasp, ca repress for moment all mo-
lion and hold lis head as steady as
rock, and pull OFF three pounds of re,
,istanee of the trigger and care not at
Ill for the 200 pound kick which the
lie rifle gives, then, if he has not mis-
Judged in any particular, may he hope
o see tie rising Of the white 1disk
over the black bulls face.-N. y.
Uorld.
Year: 1876

Special CnTTespondeneesQf The Ts1buns.


WAuKEGAN, June 2.-The different commit
tees appointed to perfect arrangements for the
coming Fourth have been and are laboring
faithfully towards its success. The Committee
on Grounds, in selecting the Courthouse
Square for the purpose, acted wisely and we'll,
and much more interest will be manifested In
the exercises that will be conducted there than
Ii some more remote place had been selected.
To further demonstrate the immense time an
ticipated on that day, it would not be amiss to
read the following programme: National salute
at sunrise, aud reveille BY martial band; grand
procession, composed OF the following iu the
Year: 1876




a few mornings ago a Young lady came
into Bingham's photograph gallery, Il
would have come before she explained.
abut there has been sickness in The family;
grandma died this morning, and this is the
first chance I have had 70 have M picture
taken since we came to town. ] thought
/ would step over. and look at the styles q
pictures and price them while they are lay
ing her out


Here the poor creature broke down, coy.
cred her face with her handkerchief and
sobbed conFulsively.


aWbat does that size picture cost rs she
added, pointing in mute agony to a photo
graph as big as a soup plate on the wall.


Bingham dashed the back Of his hand
quickly before his eyes, and said husbiIy j:


"fn the midst of life we are in death
that size is $40, without the frame Aud
he sighed heavily.


# yoa knew whatI have gone through,
Joa wouldn't say Sl0 SO coldiy That's
just what the coffin CONES tof and she
gazed at the SO picture with swimming
eyes.


Perhaps you had better come after the
funeral is over, when YOU feel better" re.
marked Bingham, feeling uncomfortable
himself.


After inquiring how much it would cost
to take the whole funeral procession, with
her in the front carriage, alongside Of the
preacher, and saying she was going to find
ousthe price At the other Photographic gal
Ierfes first, she pressed her handkerchief
to her face and took her departure.
Year: 1876

By ASsOclated Press.


BosToN, July 7.-Subseriptions to the
fund for the purchase OF the Old South
Church have accumulated so rapidly tina,
the committee propose to raise Sl5O,00O by
the 18th inst, in expectation that further
time nay be given in which the property
may be purchased either by the city or by
subscription.
Year: 1876

The burial of the dead actors and other
victims of the last horror was performed IN
Brooklyn under the most imposing and I'M
pressive ceremonies, the details of which are
furnished US by the associated press, but are
unaYoidablv crowded out.
Year: 1876

New York World


WASHINGTON, December THE result
yesterday in the electoral colleges has been
the absorbing topic of public discussion in
Washington to-day. The final decision of
the great question, it is universally conceded
Is now delayed till congress counts the vote
in February. The single vote IN Oregon for
Tilden has greatly complicated the situation
for the Republicans, many of whom concede
his election. The defenders of the iniuuitous
returning boards have been prating since the
conspiracy was set on foot to use them to
change the result, that the vote must be
counted by congress on the primo facie case;
that If the forms OF law were complied with
there was no power to go behind the certif-
Gates of election and investigate whatever
there was Of fraud, and that the vote must
be counted as received in the absence of the
joint rules providing otherwise. Since the re-
suit in Oregon mas become authenticated,
they take quite a different view of it,
and declare that the vote in that State which
elects Mr.. Tilden must be thrown out;
that the senate or president pro tenn. thereof
will refuse to open the Oregon certificate for
the Democratic elector or to count it.. If such
a hlghhanded assumption as that OF counting
by the president pro tenn. is to be made, this
of course establishes a precedent by which
the palpable frauds of the returning boards
can be thrown out by the Democratic house
or by the joint convention.
If the senate should propose a conference, it
would doubtless be better received by the
house than plan originating on the Repub-
hcan side of the latter, The more radical of
the Republican senators, however, do not in
cline to JOINT conference IN this connection,
if what they are doing informally is any in
dication. Thus far it is proposed to displace
Ferry as president pro tenn. of the senate,
and put in Sherman, of Ohio, or Logan
probably Sherman, as he is a senator holding
over, who would not hesitate to do anything
demanded by his party. Ferry, they find,
does not think he has the right, under the
constitution, to count tbs vote in the Joint
convention.
Year: 1876

posed to be dying. TIe attended her, God
raised her up, and while conYelescent she
came to the Commandant's house, at that
time hospital, to nurse an unfortunate wo-
man. She gave up her life and Is now buried
in E1mwood with marble shaft above her
grave, bearing the inscription: Greater love
hath no man than this, that a man lay down
his life for his friends And when she was
about to die, the cry that came from the fallen
woman he would never forget: "0h, God we
are outcasts from heaven because we are
fallen women. Never before did he go
with eageness TO assure her that although an
ontcast from society and life here, she was
not an outcast from Gods love and
mercy. He remembered going with Rev.
DIR. Ford and told woman who had
made this cry that she was mistaken, for God
was her friend. That night she was taken
sick with the fever, and brought to this
asylum. BY the providence of God she re-
covered, ana went home monument of faith
in God. So ltasg as the sun rises, so long as
they who have this Home in hand are guided
BY an earnest fiith in God and the conscious
ness of doing their duty in the Father faith,
Just In that proportion is success certain. He
prayed God that this faith would abide, and
that they succeed in their noble work His
heart was in the work, which, if for Gods
cause, will last IN the lives of those redeemed
from ruin. May suSh be the work and such
its destiny was his PRAYER,