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Year: 1876

The following protest. which has received the signs
lures Of a large number OF the prominent property
owners resident IN the upper wards OF this city,
will be taken to Albany this morning for presentation
the Legislature by ex-Congressman John B. Has
kin, of Fordham:-


To THE LEGISLATURE STATE OF New YORK;


We the undersigned property owners and residents
OF the newly annexed wards without distinction oi
party do respectfully protest against the passage by
your honorable body OF Assembly bill No ~, being
titled reorPanize the local government Oh
the city Of New York" The effect OF the passage OF this
bill would be place the annexed district completely
under the unchecked power OF the present President
OF the Park Department. For more than three years
he has had complete sway over district, and has
expended hundreds OF thousands of dollars not
single useful Improvement has, up to the present time,
been inuugurated completed Under his ma mage
ment SlS0, 900 have been expended in what called
surveying mapping and monunenting and all that
has been given IN return for the expenditure num-
Der maps (many OF which his associates have wisely
refused adopt representing ''vsiOnary schemes Of
engineers, who have had actual personal knowledge
observation-disclosures which, # adopted and carried
out, and which all honest ana intelligent citizens
should oppose and resist, would cost more than the
present value or all the land in the annexed wards,
clearly shown in an article in tho NEW YORK
HERALD


The invidious retention OF the lone" member Of
the Park Commission who has for years past been in
the receipt large salary, and the abolition Of the
Offices OF the three membcrs-his associateswho have
gratuitUusly rendered efficient and valuable services
In where their taste and good judgment wera
essential his not such legislation - cal
culated to secure reform such economical govern
the people OF our city demand or that Wa
approve of.


change in the present personnel OF the Park Depart
Year: 1876

The spread Of smallpox in Jersey City has
sumed alarming proportions Public School No. 19, in
Wayne street. has been closed in consequence Of the
close proximity OF house In which there a OF
smallpox Tho schoolroom windows open within four
feet OF tho infected house died Of the malady
a lew days ago the schoohouse and means
employed 10 prevent the neghbors holding a
wake" Till tho school was closed The case nearest
the schoolhouse Is that OF young woman who was
taken from New York a lew days ago avoid be-
ing transferred 10 the Smallpox Hospital The Board OF
Health Jersey City complains that it has not She
authority and the County Board Of Health that ~ not
supplied with the funds necessary TO cleanse Injected
dietr
Year: 1876

her Intervention at the Vactican might
now be useful. Cardinal Bonnechose,
the most Bonapartist member of the
French episcopacy. has preceded the
widow of Napoleon III, to smooth
away the difficulties of which she has
been advised.
There is one person who at this juno
ture demands our heartfelt sympathy.
the Duchess of Edinburgh. She is now
at Malta with her husband, who is in
command of ship that. it is not i'm
probable, may have to fight one of her
fathers ships. Her position is much
more painful than that of the Princess
of Wales in 1864, because it was cersain
then that if England went to war at all
it would not be against. hut for Den
mark. Now if England has to fight. it
will be against not for Russia. This is
very sad contingency.


The following is fashionable womans
prayer:


Strengthen my husband and may
his faith and hiS money hold out to the
last?


Draw the lambs wool of unsuspicions
twilight over his eyes. that my firta-
tions may look to him like victories,
and that my bills may strengthen his
pride in me.


Bless, O Fortune, my crimps, rats.
and frizzles, and let thy glory shine on
my paint and powder.


Enable the poor to shift for them-
selves and save me from all missionary
beggars.


Shed the light of thy countenance on
my camels hair shawl. my lavender
silk, my point lace, and my necklace, of
diamonds, and keep the moth out of my
sable, beseech thee, 0 Fortune!


When walk out before the gaze of
vulgar men, regulate my wiggle and add
new grace to my gait.


When l bow myself to worship. grant
that may do it with ravishing elegance
and preserve unto the last the lily white
of my flesh, and the taper of my
fingers.


Destroy mine enemies with the gall
of jealousy, and eat up with the teeth
of envy all those who gaze upon my
style.


Save me from wrinkles and foster my
plumpness.


Fill! both my eyes, 0 Fortune, with
the planitive poison of imitation, that l
may lay out my victims-the men-as
numb as images craven.


Let the lily and the rose strive togeth-
er IN my cheek, and may my neck swim
like a goose on the bosom of crystal
water.


Enable me, O Fortune, to wear shoes
little smaller, and save me from all
corns and bunions.


Bless Fanny, my lspdog. and rain
down hailstones of destruction upon
those who shall hurt hair of Hector.
my kitten.


Smile, O Fortune, most sweely upon
Dick. my canary. and watch over with
the fondness of a ghost my two lily
white mice with red eyes"
Year: 1876

The Sunday edition of this paper. is new
departure from the everyday style of Territorial
journalism. 1t contains articles from the pen
of the editor and his friends. on all sorts of
subjects, industrial, biographical and humor
Gus. Its style is intended principally for the
perusal of working men and those to whom
Sunday is welcome respite from week of
toll. Several gentlemen of good ability have
promised us their assistance in making it a
PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. 1t will be mailed to
any portion of the United States for the low
price of


Two Dollars per Year.
Year: 1876

Our grandmother, dear, has snow white hair, And she loves to sit in her easy chair And Jo loves to climb on grandma's lap, To play with the strings of her snow white

 cap.

 Aud srandmother's voice is broken and slow And sweet are the words she says to Jo. If grandmother ever had any care She has laid it down out of sight somewhere And now all she does is to say her prayer And sit where the sunshine gilds her hair, And play and whisper to little Jo As the shadows of evening come and go. Being so near to the heavenly shore, Grandmother never weeps any more. At twilight she fancies lost loved ones call Sweet voiced from chamber, parlor or hall. Perhaps the last strain of some heavenly

 choir Falls on grandmother's ear as she sits by the

 fire. But she only kisses dear little Jo, And whispers: "Soon, little sweet, we shall

 know; " But Charlie, Willie, Grandpa and Jack, am almost sure, child, are coming back"
Year: 1876

A young man who left the Alleghanies a few weeks ago to fill situation in New York, got an idea that some address society. He left his order with a prin- ter, and in due time received his cards After 8 little reflection he took them back to the office, and remarked : "Seems to me there's @ good deal of blank space on these cards. don't see why you can't put the picture of horse over the name, and you might have a ship or plough, or some such thing, ln each corner. It looks wicked to waste so much space l"
Year: 1876

PoLITIcAL NoTEs.-The pending Presi-
dental contest gives more than the usual
interest to political affairs. Under the
above caption we shall endcaTor to give to
our readers, from time to time, all that is
fresh or interesting ia the political world,
and keep them posted 90 current political
topics. Turn to that column and read the
article from the Philadelphia Times, also
that from the Ne,c York Sun. We are
evidently on the eve Of startling develop
ments in Washington. Acabinet rupture
is imminent, and the differences between
the President and some Of his ministers
are bat lily disguised. Grant is about to
show bis band, or to make his third-term
move on the political chess-bOardi a call from
Congress may force him to do SO somewhat
before bis time. The President win pres
entity exhibit himself to the country 10 a
new role, or We are greatly mistaken in
the indications of passing events. Great
uneasiness exists in the ranks Of those who
were among his earliest and most active
and jealous supporters. A few days. or a
few weeks at most, win develop plans and
purposes, which, for the present, in Some
minds, stagger belief.
Year: 1876

The case of the city of Bridgeton ys. Jacob
Tuck, for violation of Ordinance, was heard
| before Mayor Hustled on Monday morning
The case was conducted ON the part of the
city by the Solicitor who proved by witness
that Mr. Tuck had violated the Ordinance
In relation TO the erection of wooden build
ings within the limits of Fire District. Mr.
Tuck made no reply to the accusation, and
the Mayor reserved his decision until nine
O'Clock, Tuesday morning, when he dealt
out the full penalty of the law, and fined
the defendant $50. 90 and costs. Without
entering into discussion of the merits of
this case of which we know but little. it is
only necessary to say that in this decision
the Mayor has simply followed and carried
out the law. While we are not disposed
to censure Mr.. Tuck, believing that he
has made great improvement, we are vet
OF the opinion that the Ordinance reguiat-
ing the matter of erecting buildings in the
Fire District should either be respected. or
else done away with altogether. There are
other offenders against this Ordinance, and
they too should be made to pay the penalty.
Once let the fact be established that there
shall be no more wooden buildings erected
within the prescribed fire limits, and the
matter will be settled.
Year: 1876

Station Agent Cook at the New Jersey
Southern Railroad Depot, had his flag at
half mast the day of the announcement OF
TIiden's election. A few hours later some
good-natured Democrat cut down the pole,
and ran Off with it.
Year: 1876

In accordance with the law, Surrogate
White was sworn into office for his second
term, on Tuesday morning, in the presence
of the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas. Sheriff Hampton also came before
them, and renewed his bond for another year
Year: 1876

The President has issued his procama-
tion setting apart the Both dayof November
as a period of Thanksgiving. From this
time forth, the poultry business will there
fore be brisk. People generally return
thanks in these degenerate times through
the medium of good dinners.
Year: 1876

We have received extensive coneratula-
tion from our brethren of the press, over the
result in this Assembly District, for all of
which we return thanks. While our edi-
torial friends generally have been thus pro
fuse in their laudations, our local Bro. Of
the Patriot remains silent Congratula-
ton from him would have been greatly ap-
preciated. when the fact is taken into con-
sideration that to his personal efforts"
we are largely indebted for the election.
Jes So
Year: 1876

Get your rooms In advance,


Else you wont stand chance
AZ the good things that roam at Point Clear.
Per all people do tell


Ths. at the Grand Hotel
The visitor makes his Point Clear
Year: 1876

There is in Leavenworth tall, blond
youth, Henry Arnold Green, who, by
the free use of his little pistol and his
wild, drunken sprees, made himself
famous in this city about a year ago.
He is part owner of the Leavenworth
Appeal. He receives regularly large
income from his English estate, which
he devotes to the qualification of his
whims. On Monday last Green felt
more than usually funny. He had seen
a funeral procession, and it pleased him
to have little funeral all to himself.
Having first secured the services OF a
hackman, he directed him TO drive to
an undertaking establishment and there
he ordered hearse and horse, and an
empty coffin.


The coffin was put into the vehicle,
but before the doors were closed the
Englishman said that it was his pleasure
to .sget in there himself" After i'll
structing the hackman to follow a GER
tain line of procession at a given
distance from the hearSe, lie crawled
inside, and, lying down beside the
coffin, lighted cigar The procession
then moved off down Cherokee street,
at funeral pace, the hearsa in front
and hack following. AS they went
down Cherokee street the knight of the
black plumes produced two bottles of
whiskey, which he placed along side
of the coffin, and proceeded to wind up
two days spree. Presently they came
in contact with large crowd, who
were on their way to attend festival,
and who made comments on the strange
funeral procession. The English corpse,
becoming anxious to know by what
authority he was delayed on the high
way, called loudly for the driver to
stop, and while SO doing turned over in
his narrow apartment and with a loud
crash, forced a portion of his body
through one of the largest oval panes
of glass on the side of the hearse. The
crowd could not stand corpse breaking
out of its coffin, jumping through the
side of the hearse, and calling to the
driver to stop further proceedings,
They fled in all directions. After once
more getting in side, the author OF this
adventure was driven to Shawnee street,
and then he returned the hearse and
coffin to their owner.-haaSas City
Times.
Year: 1876

One by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going,
Do not strive to grasp them all.
One by one thy Guties wait thee,
Let thy whole strength go to each,
Let no future dream elate thee,


Learn then first what these can teach.
One BY one (bright gifts from heaven
Joys are sent thee here below,
Take them readily when given,


Ready, too, to let them go.
One by one thy griefs shall meet thee,
Do not fear an armed band,
One will fade as others greet thee,
Shadows passing through the land.
DO not look at life's long sorrow


See how small each moments pain,
God will help thee for the morrow,
So each day begin again.
Every hour that fees so slowly,


Has its task do or bear;
Luminous the crown, and holy,


If thou set each gem with care.
Donot linger with regretting,


Or for passing hours despond,
Nor the daily toll forgetting,


Look too eagerly beyond.
Hours are golden links, Gods token,
Reaching to heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken,
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
Year: 1876

virtue there can be no reasonable hope,
substantial faith. In our life journey,
as we toll along the rugged pathway
which leads us 10 the strand where dash
the dark pillows of the bouudless ocean
of eternity, let us hold fast TO Hopes
eternal anchor, with heart bound in the
mystic ties of Faith. we should carry in
our hands the cruet of oil TO anoint
and soothe the wounds OF an untortu-
nate brother, and when at last, with
earthly duties done, we stand at the
upper gates Of the grand eternal world.
our passport through its shining way
may be written with the grateful tears
of the abject poor.


Brethren, sing.
Year: 1876




who drinks is never, in the end, "the
man who laughs" He is generally the
one who weeps, or fer whom others
must shed bitters tears. He is alas a
member of no particular class of society.
You meet him everywhere, from the
lowest to the highest place of the world,
and always find him not only his own
worst enemy, but the unconscious enc
my of all who trust him.


If among a band of hard working
mechanics you find one who, on wages
others deem sufficient for decent clothes,
tidy rooms and comfortable dinners, Is
always out at the elbows, always at log
gerheads with his landlord, and always
complaining of hard times, ten to one,
he is the man who drinks.


If, on the Judges bench you meet a
man who deals unjustly, who Judges s
unrighteously, who is tacetious in the
presence of misery and makes crime a
lest, and the sentence of some poor
wretch an excuse for stupid puns and
vulgar witticism, there, also you may
know the man who drinks-in his own
snug little room, perhaps not openly,
but all the same a drunkard.


If YOU see woman worn pale and
wretched from some unknown cause,
fear in her eyes, anxiety in her voice,
youth gone too early,>and daily duties
mere sad burdens, ten to one her hus-
band is the man who drinks for who
ever knew that man to keep his VOW,
and love cherish and protect his wife?


The beggar children in the cutters,
ignorant, and vile, and wretched beyond
description, are his offspring. The Jail
opens to let him in. The gallows some
times ends his life.
Year: 1876

We like an active boy, one who has
the impulse of the age-the steam en-
CINE in him. A lazy, plodding snail
paced chap might have got along fifty
years ago, but he won't do for these
times. We live in an age of quick
ideas; men think quickly, speak quickly
and slow coaches are not tolerated,
60 ahead if you burst your boiler is
the motto of the age; and he succeeds
the very best in every line of business
who has the most of the do or die about
him.


$50 all the prize is open,


But only he can take it


Who says with Roman courage


I'll find way or make it"


Strive, boys, to catch the spirit of the
times; be up and dressed always not
gaping your eyes as if you were fast
asleep, but wide awake whatever may
turn up, and you may be something be-
fore you die.


Think, plan, reflect, as much as you
please before you ac:, but think quickly
and closely, and when you have fixed
your eyes upon an object, pull off your
coat cheerfully, roll up your sleeves
earnestly, and with a merry song spring
at the mark at once.


a cheerful spirit gets on quick,


\ grumbler in the mud will stick


But above all this be honest. If YOU
intend to be an artist, carve it in the
wood and ehisel it in the marble; ifa
merchant write it in your day book and
spread it in capitals in your ledger.
Let honesty of purpose be your guiding
star
Year: 1876

The following article, written by a
gentleman of this town, we clip from
the Louisville Ledger, prompted by the
appearance OF the FLOATING Battery,
on the Potomac river at this place, some
Year: 1876

Some one gives the following table
of the order iu which men give up the
luxuries under the pressure of hard
times:


Books 20 first-the book trade fiat
tens under panic; illustrated papers
next, and then daily papers. If the
pressure continues, the trade in pianos
and fine furniture falls off, but the
laboring classes being TO contract on
furniture from start Next it begins to
cut off fine clothes and jewelry, and
then it's pretty tight. Put on another
turn of the screw and tea and coffee
suffer; and then all the fine groceries;
and then the incest kinds of produce.
If the screw still tightens, when worst
comes 10 worst, and there is TO help
from God or man, then whisky and
tobacco being to be cut of. But the
dogs about dead when it comes to
that.
Year: 1876

Confederates succeeded, the American
Union would now have been broken into
fragments, warning against each other,
with Slavery firmly established wherever
the Confederate government held sway.
Sophistry may do its best to eradicate the
difference between the Rebel and the
Union soldier. but the manly, good sense
of the Northern people will make The


proper distinction. and award due honor
| to the boys who upheld the starry banner
| and poured out their lite blood in the name
of Humanity.


Since it has become apparent that the
ex Confederates are determined to keep
up the fight, through the ballot-box and in
the halls of legislation, for the principles
which underaid their effort to destroy the
Union. the greater is the necessity that
the moral distinction between the Union
and Confederate cause should be kept
clearly in sight. The conflict of prirci-
Piles will not be ended until all over the
South the ideas which triumphed at the
surrender of Lees army are acknowledged
and established. That they are not so ac
knowledged is evident from the utterances
of the Hills and fuckers, and from the os
tracism and violence with which republ
cans, white and black, are visited in the
South when they attempt to exercise the
rights belonging TO them. Let us Of the
North do what we consistently can to es-
tablish fraternal relations with the South,
but let us not forget that there can be no
lasting, substantial peace except on the
basis of Justice and Equal Rights for all.
Year: 1876

To-day the living comrades of those
who fell in the. struggle for national life
during the Rebellion will again decorate
the graves Of the patriot dead. Every
city and hamlet within the territory which
was loyal to the Union cause will resound
with the tramp Of men who went out from
their homes to defend the "old flag" now
gathered together from the manifold ways
and works Of peaceful industry, to honor
and keep green the memory of the fallen
brave. And with these men, as they rev.
erently bear their burdens of the fairest
and sweetest of spring flowers, to deck
every hillock beneath which reposcs the
dust of soldier. there will 60 throng
Of sympathizing hearts-many that still
battle or by disease or hardship incident
to war.-none whose feelings will not be
deeply touched by the hallcwed rites of
the day. Tender and loving hands will
prepare expressive tributes of affection
and respect. The old and middle-aged
will live over in memory the bloody strife
that closed eleven years ago. The young
viii learn the lesson of duty to country.
Eloquent lips will recount the deeds of the
heroic dead, how they suffered and bled
and died that the nation might live. So
should it be. Thus will the nation be ed
ucated in patriotism. The flowers strewn
upon the soldiers grave will wither, but
the impression made upon the young by
the ceremonies of Memorial Day will
never be obliterated.


There are those who sec or pretend to
see no difference between the Union dead
and the Confederate dead. They would
as readily deck the graves Of the one as
the other. Both they say were brave in
battle. each was actuated by patriotic ar
dor, there is no difference between them
except that the one was defeated and the
other victorious. Such language is fire.
quently seen in a certain class of newspa-
pers, and sometimes heard from inconsid-
crate speakers. This view is not only
shallow, it is unpatriotc, and of vicious
tendency. 1t makes no distinction be-
tween right and wrong motives. 1t pla-
ces the rebel against the best government
the world has ever seen and the defender
and supporter of human slavery equal
with the man who sacrificed his life to pre-
serve our republican institutions and make
human bondage impossible within the Dor,
ders OF this country 1t exalts the brute
instinct of courage, which the murderer
who was hung the other day may have
been possessed of. above that moral cour-
age which fights for the right because it
Is right. The cause iD which each was
engaged is lost sight of. Let the Confed-
crates strew the graves of their dead with
flowers If they please, but if by that they
mean to express respect for the cause in
which they fell. what man who loves the
Union and the blessings of freedom could
ioin with themp The loyal men of the
country intend far more by their rites to-
day than to honor the bravery of their fall
len heroes; they mean most of all to honor
and strengthen the cause for which they
died. They died for the Right. for the
cause OF Humanity and Justice. Had the
Year: 1876

Another attempt to smirch Mr.. Blaine
and another failure. These despicable ef-
forts to blacken his character become more
frequent and desperate as the time OF hold
ing the Cincinnati Convention approach
es. Thus far he has been the gamer by
them. The public sense of justice rebels
against the scoundrel methods taken to
hunt down Mr. Blaine because of his
prominence as candidate for the nomi-
nation for President. His strength has
increased with every new SANDER flung at
him.