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Year: 1876

SEPTEMBER II, 1876.


To the Editor of the National Republican:


SIR: Will you spare us enough Of your val
liable space to reply to the following notice,
which appeared in the Herald of yesterday:


"The Gem base ball club notify the public
that they claim the championship over the
Our Boys;' also, notify the public that they
will play no more, as they are no fit club to
play with" The above notice both amuses
and pains us. We are amused that the Gem
"claims the championship over u.s." but the
announcement that ''they will play no more"
makes us sad, and when they notify the public
that "they are no fit club to play WITH" our
sadness takes the form OF uuspeakable an
guish. Let us hope that the man who runs
the grammar OF the Gem has made blunder.
We will not admit that the sparkling little
Gem is ''no fit club to play with" although
the announcement comes from such an author
itatiye source. 1t is true that the Gems lost
their temper in the game with US on Saturday,
charging that the umpire had been bought,
etc. This, however, in charity, we attribute
to the excitement which not unfrequently at
tends defeat. The facts are these. The play
ing was much below the average of either
nine, the score at the end of the eighth in
ming standing Gem 10, Our Boys II. The Gem
made two runs in the ninth inning, aud before
the Our Boys went to the bat the umpire
called the game on accouns of the darkness,
when it was decided in the Our Boys favor by
a score of IL to 10. 1t is unnecessary to say
to those who know the umpire, Mr.. George
Kane, that his rulings were strictly impartial
and just. "OUR BOYS"
Year: 1876

20 Mr.. Peter Skidmore, of German
town, playsa little on the bugle. One
night last summer he went into the
parlor in the dark and felt oyer the
top of the piano folsthe horn. 1t hap
pened that his aunt from Penn's Grove
had been there that day and had left
her brass ear-trumpet lyin. ON the
piano. and Peter got hold of this by
mistake, as the two were of similar
shape. lie took it. in his hand and
went out on the porch, where Miss
Mills was sitting talking to his sister.
lie asked Mills if she was fond of
music on the horn, and when she said
she adorsd it. he asked her how she
would like him to play Ever of Thee
and she said that was the only tune
she cared anything for. H4n


So Peter put the small end of the
trumpet to his lips and blew. He
blew and blew. Then he blew some
more, and then drew a fresh breath
and blew again. The only sound that
came was q kind of q hollow moan,
which sounded SO queerly in the dark
ness that Miss Mills asked him If he
was not we'll, And when he said be
was, she said that he went exactly
like q second cousin of hers that had
the asthma. s eiw sHent ,4


Then Peter remarked that somehow
! the horn was out of order for s."Evel
of thee" but if Miss Mills would like
to hear "Sweetly dreamed, love" he
would try to play it; and Mics MILL
said that the fondest recollection
clustered about that melody ati


~ So Peter put his trumpet to his lip


again and strained his lungs severely
in an effort to make soma music.
wouldn't come. but he made . yer,
Year: 1876

!.
singular noise. which induced Miss


Mill TO inquire if the horse in the sta.
bic back of the house had the heaves
Then Peter said he thought somebody ,
must have plugged the bug'e up with
something, and he asked his sister to
light the gas in the entry while he
cleaned it out. When she did so the
ear trumpet became painfully conspic-
uous, and both the girls laughed
When Miss Mills laughed. Peter
looked up at her with pain in his face,
put on his hat and went ont into the
street, where he could say over some
sensational language to himself.
He is counting another girl now, ,and
learning to play on the piano.
Year: 1876

WHEN q man goes home at two
O'Clock in the morning aud turns the
key of the front door and pushes the
bolt conscientiously, and all the tim .
does this while the door il three feet
open. he ought to GO the next night to
| the hippedrome.
Year: 1876

cree voters; the Democrats only deny, what
overwhelming evidence proves, that IN some
quarters whipping, assassination. and massacre
are resorted to when other means fail. BE the
methods what they may, solid South means
complete denial to the colored voters OF that
freedom of choice which the Constitution guar
antees to them as to ali other citizens.


What difference does it make whether the
Fifteenth Amendment is nullifed by states or
practically defeated by coercion with or with
ont intimidation and murderR In either case
free government does not exit and the SUI
preme law of the land is deied. 1t Is time
for the Southern Democrats to understand
that neither the Fifteenth Amendment nor
any other part of the Constitution can be
nulifed with impunity. The people OF TINS
country added that amendment to the Constl-
tuition very deliberately because profoundly
convinced of It's necessity. They will rot per-
NIT it to be set aside, whether by refusal OF
employment or by massacre. Because they
understand that solid South means defiance
of the Constitution ana war upon free govern
ment the answer will be a solid North.
Year: 1876

While there can be no question OF the result
In Ohio, the Republican majority will MT be
large enough, as a letter in another column
shows, to carry the Republican cause through
to victory in the great November States 1t
is likely to be so small that the Democrats
will not abandon hope of carrying Ohio itself
In November Even should the withdrawal of
the Greenback candidate in Indiana bring a
Republican majority in that State, as seems
inevitable, every inch of ground in this State
will be fercely contested by the Democrats.
No time should be lost. The still hunt has
been in progress for weeks past. 1t is time
the fair fight in open field began.


News comes from Indiana of an i'm
'portant move in campaign strategy. The
Greenback candidate for Governor withdTaws
from the canvass and in letter to his sup
porters urges them TO cast their votes for Gen.
Harrison. lie does this because he sees that
nothing can be accomplished by the Green
back party at this election, and he is too
much of a Republican to be willing, by OBJ
stinately remaining in the field, to help the
Democrats to power in the State and possibly
~ the nation. A Late dispatch announces that
Year: 1876

There is no shutting or indefnteness in the
resolves of the Bankers Convention concern
ing a return to specie payment. TO facilitate
this return they prefer the method which Mr..
McCu!loch has specified, of making legal ten
ders exchanSeable for Ter cent gold bond.
if the bankers, on whom the main difficulty of
meeting resumption must fall-snce national
bank notes as well as legal tender will have
TO be rcdCemable III specic-arc confident that
Che thing can be accomplished, there should
be no objection on the part Of outsiders who
not only do not have to provide the specie,
but will have the privilege of drawing 1t from
those who do. Mr.. Hayes performed good
service at the convention by pointing out III
detail the losses which chiefly Occasioned
the panic of 1878.


The soldiers demonstration at Indianapolis
seems to have been an uutOUbted success eA-
ccpt in the fact that it was not "a denonstia-
ton of soldiers. There were fewer bngadierS
present than you might have counted on any
aagstone in front of Wizards i'll the early
DAYS of the war, and the rank and Tile were
swellcd by recruits from all points OF the com
pass, who never wore the blue, but who came
with a free pass for a free lunch and, perhaps
election day will show for free fight. the
speeches seem to have been commonplace ana
the incidents of thc day rather trivial than
otherwise. There wa no such spirit abroad as
that which animated the recent Republican
gathering. The csrlicr demonstration rose to
the dignity of a declaration OF loyalty that
lust ended was a mere counterfeit, and seems
to have been composed Of "a poor material as
the average Democratic mass meeting
Year: 1876

What Danlcl w WeDStef FroOiCS0O.


In one Of hi. speeches, in lS49. Daniel
Webster said:


"Twenty seven years more and cen.
tury shall witness grand anniversary.
Many here this day will participate In
the demonstration to be born on that
proud day. The constellation. robe 10 the
azure light Of sixty centuries, will attend
the morni g's first rays. Our Tag, com.
bining etheral blue with the red and
white, will wave a greeting 10 the morn
ing stars as they retire to the chambers Of
the Almighty, and vail their forms from
mortal vision. The people will gather
together to rejoice and to celebrate with
their whole hearts. The Declaration OF
Independence will be read with the fsrvor
and with the patriotism with which u
was read in 1776 Orators viii burn
with the eloauence Of John Adams; the
fife and drum will play our National An
them with martial ardor: band OF music
will swell the chorus Of the Star Span.
gled Banner, and Hail Columbia will
vibrate upon the swell Of each passing
breeze. With National salute to the sun
as he sinks from view behind the golden
waves of the Pacific, bon6res will illum-
the heavens. rockets will scream through
the air, and general joy will witness the
close of the pageant. Heaven will look
down approvingly. for this people VIII
never forget that in the hollow Of ms
hand is the destiny OF nations
Year: 1876

without specifying names. Ton do an injustice to the people to allow such men as have Gas al legged by you) been bribed by these fraudulent bonds to still palm themselves off as honest men. Give us their names. Point cut the identical men that we may discard them from our esteem and confidence. Point them out that the fair names of innocent men may not suffer by your very serious charges. You have no right to lock such con duet and the names of the guilty parties up within your own breast. By doing so you place yourself inhut little better attitude than they deserYe to occupy. If such occupations as Mir. Fishbaek charges upon these leading poli- ticiaus are piled, and he screens them and thus allows them to re- main in the confidence of the peo- pie, enjoying further opportuni- ties for committing rascally con duct; what better is he than they. The only difference we see is that he does not share the spells.

 We call upon Mir. Fishhack for the names of the crooked ones.
Year: 1876

have felt Respondent, for such q support to the endorser of Grant would have meant flat the Amer ican people were only fit to be governed by despot. But such is not the case. The wide spread satisfaction evinced by the first month of the campaign tells that the people arc in earnest-that they are tired of nepotism, incom- potency and perscnal govern ment-that they think more oi the common country than they do of sections and parties. Ev- cry indication now points to a complete change in the character and personnel of our coming ad- ministratiofi-a change which is the only thing that will tmnnd the many evils of the present regime.
Year: 1876

aspires to q Seat in the next legis- lature pledge himself emPhatical- ly to use it's best efforts to secure a better school law. The enlight- cnment of the masses is tie only safeguard to our liberties. An enlightened people cannot be en- slayed, or made dupos to schem- ing sharpers. Fine schools and colleges, which only the wealthy can attend, don't answer the pric- pose of cnlIghtening the masses who wield the votes in this gov ernmcnt. l, is the free public schools that must do the work. A good efficient system for Free education of the masses is the grandest institution of our got ernment,

 Vote for no man who will not unequiyocally pledge himself to devote some of hI5 time to the cause of free schools. Of the generation of children who are now young there should not be q single one without 2 good com mon cdncasion when he or she ar rives at the age of sixteen.

 There IS now q pressing reces- sity for a law in regard to the publication of legal notices. Such q law is necessary for the protec- ton of all who are interested in estates. It is essential for the protection of all wh5 may be so unfortunate as to have property offered for sale at Sheritf's sale. It is necessary ill many ways. It is an easy matter to perpetrate fraud under the srstem of posting important notices, oftentimes in yolving large interests, on trees, on doors and on fences. Let the county newspaper be the estab- lished medium for all legal no tices and everybody will know just where to find them.

 A law of this kind was made the subject of notice ill Gov. Gar l2na's last message and he strongly urged the necessity of it. See that your caadidates are com mitted to this measure.

 Economy is the great need of the State at this time. Without economy in the expenditures it will be 8 useless task for us to try to reduce taxation.

 Make each candidate pledge himself for economy. Make him pledge himself to go to the legis- lature to work hard and feithfully as long as there is important leg islation to do, and when it is done let there be an adjournment. A legislature is a costly machine and we can dispense with all sur plus and insignificant legislation now while wc are so greatly in debt. The, session should be as short and with as little expense at- tached to it as is compatible with the pressing needs of tho time.
Year: 1876

drop back into line with the mountebanks and mercenaries he has so accurately described and So bitterly denounced?

 ! No one will pretend that Hen drieks is sufficient reason. That must seem absurd to Schurz him. self. It is-a thing not unusual with men of his peculiar buiki-- that sore disappointment w:5ii Ethings real, and much buifeting with adverse elements on every hand, have at last had the effect to throw him quite ont of hls reckoning, and to make his error of judgment seem the more sig nificant, being so unexpected, SO unsupported and so conspicuous. Even if Tilden were a worse man than Hayes, Schura should be for Tllden because of Tilden's ten dencies and capacity. Even if the Democracy were not sincere in its reforniatory professions; no more is the Republican, and Schurz should hail with joy the opportuny to set up his standard where, according to him, it never waved before, and does not now wayc in earnest, for the sake of driving out the yandals whose hands are crammed with pillage and whose influence is still on the side of prescription and cor ruptien. Under no circumstance es can he justify his present atti- trdo; for Hayes is merely make shift, the fell spirit and purpose of Grantism being at the bottom and at the top of the Republican campaign. A change of parties IS an indispensable condition to reform. We can not progress one inch toward reform unless we have a change of parties. That achieved, it will be for the future to determine whether the progpostication Of Democratic in sincerity and imbecility be real ized. In that event, the reform spirit could still reorganize it's forces in opposition and move forward, having obtained a victo- ". It would be time enough then for Schurz, and men like him, to arraign the Democratic party for bad faith, and then ar raignmcnt would be to some pur- pose. As it is, they withdraw themselves from the opportunity to do real service in the cause of reform; they disered;t reform by discreditlng their practical wis dom as reformers; and they make themselves moro potent as instru ments in the hands of the party which has well-nigh stolen ail there is to steal, than ever they were as vallants under the spot less banner which they trail in the dust

 We shall not allow ourselves to be betrayed into one ungenerous thought or unkind word fer Schurz. Yesterday he stood be tween the two opposing lines of fire, 3 gallant If an eccentric fig ure. To-day he falls back upon a line with the pot-wollopers, by 10 means their peer but their companion. Nothing occurred at Cincinnati but what disgusted and affronto him. Nothing oc- cured at St. Louis but what shonld have gratiiied him, In both instances the results wore net surprising. That he should make either reason for his aban- donmcnt of a line held splcndidly during six years, shows that he has lost his reason.
Year: 1876

The people want to know, and have right to know, how all gentlemen stand on certain points all gentlemen, we mean, who are aspirants for the legislature.

 Now IS the time for people to demand an expression from aspi- rants on questions which effect the common interests of all peo- pie. We will give a brief synop- sis of points on which the people should demand soundness in can didatcs for the legislature.

 They should make each candi- date pledge himself to q careful investigation of the financial con dition of our state. This ques- tion will come before our next as scmbly, and each man should be required to pledge himself to tic protection of the States interest by declaring against tho payment of the millions of unjust and fraudulent claims which are held against the State. Require them also to pledge themselves to do all iH their power to secure the faith fal discharge of every just and honest debt.

 There is a deficit in the State Treasury of $5S,000 on account of ex.Treasurer Ncwton's very cui- pablo slackncss in the discharge of his duty while he was Treasu Ter

 Require yonr candidates to pledge themselves to the work of iustituting direct proceedings against Newton ana his bonds men for the recovery of this money.

 The present penitcntiary con tract system is crying evil. Sc. cure pledge from your condi- dates that they will work for such reform in this matter as will pre- vent convict labor from coming in contact with free labor, and put stop to the wholesale turning loose of criminals who have been convicted at immense cost to the honest people.

 Exact 9 pledge from each one that he will vote for A. H. Car land for [. E. Senator

 You are al paying school tax every year. It benefits you but little. You need the benefit which the money paid should se- cure you The reason you don't yet it is on account of the imper- t.ctions of tine public school law ol the State. The law Is imper feet defective and almost worth 'e.e, because your Legislators heretofore have not given it thai attention which its iiapoltanee lemarAa. Make cach mm wno
Year: 1876

"Do YOU very much like to have
me kiss you, George ?" she said,
softly, as she stopped over him and
left the Monogram Of her lips on
his marble brow, 81 do, indeed,
DEAR" he eaid. 81 just shut my
eyes and try to think / feel the
touch of one who was dear TO me
in the days long gone by, before
You and | were married." He had
scarcely finished the remark before
he exclaimed go, don't, don't do
that" as a large copy of the New
Testament hit him suddenly three
or four times on the spot where he
had been kissed.
Year: 1876

A party of colored individuals took the
Southwestern Railway to visit some rel
atives near Bakersport, KY Upon ar
irving at the depot the aforesaid passen-
gers stepped out upon the platform of the
car preparatory to getting off the train,
which was passing the platform at the
depot.


The conductor. seeing the danger they
were in, haHooed to them not to jump
off ta tat


The old negro said: :" I is going to git
of here, white man; you can't fool me;
| is rid on these here thing before


So saying he leaped from the car upon
the platform, and. it being covered with
sleet, he skated off and fell upon the
ground beyond, which lay at least ten
feet below.


The old woman followed his illustrious
example. and over she went on top of the
old man. 1e


The girl, who weighed about three
hundred pounds. followed her mother
and became the capping stone, so to
speak, though if an artisan had seen the
pyramid he would have thought the base
of it had turned up. g,aaHS


By the time the train stopped the old
African presented himself at the end of
the platform, much fatter in appearance
than when he made his exit.


The last we saw of him he was railing
at the top of his voice: ~


"jist like woman always wants to
visit in bad weather! And now will
have to su de white folks of dis train in
de Federal Court for my damages and
rights. rs going to do dat very thing,
# God spares me and / can gita lawyerl''
Louisville Commercial f-' .,. -.
Year: 1876

RUBENsTE1N, the murderer of his cousin.


the Polish Jewess. Sara Alexander, diving
In the condemned cell. undeniably com
mitted suicide beneath the noses of his
vigilant keepers. Despite all his protes-
tations of innocence, the man was well
aware of his own guilt. and had a new
trial been accorded him an astound-
ing amount OF, new testimony could have
been produced to fasten the crime upon
him more decisively than the prosecution
did in the first instance. There was
newly developed evidence Of his criminal
intimacy with the murdered girl and of
his application to have an operation per-
formed on her. The case it appears was
adjudicated upon, prior to the murder,
by the synagogue to which both assassin
and victim were attached. Still as the
manners and customs of the singular
community of Russ Polish Jews, estab-
llshed on the east side of the town and
completely isolated from English speak
ing residents of that quarter are so thor
oughly unfamiliar to the police, q consid-
cradle time elapsed before the fact was
known of ecclesiastical Judgment having
been given. 1t now appears that the
petty synag0gnes. attended by the Polish
Jews. one on every other block, are the
sole tribunals to which these fanatics at
fach moral Importance and their DEGREES
are implicitly obeyed It is said that
Rubenstein finding Sara Alexander to be
pregnant and consequently by their law
an adulteress. caused his case, he being
also an adnlterer. to be brought before
the tribunal Of this particular people,


which adjudged the girl to death, and
that he. the father of the unborn child,


must be her executioner. his punish
n1ent to be in the world to come. In
pursuance of this rigorous decree Ru-
benstein murdered the girl and, detected
and condemned. starved himselfto death.
Year: 1876

The old lady deposited her band-boxes
and bundles in seat, and then rushed
out OF the car. But before starting she
requested stranger in the next seat to
Jest watch that passil, if yew please.
while get me some Coffee Rain was
pouring down outside, and seats were
scarce inside the car, which soon filed
up. The old slady's ''passip or parcel
monopollzed seat. and attracted the at
tention OF brakesman. He went for that
paper parcel ruthlessly. He bounced it
tiercely and let it go as suddenly as he
seized it. and rushed out of the car swear
ing terribly. Then young gentleman
escorted lady to the seat, and proceeded
to push the parcel aside. He merely
made one push, and then with sup
pressed exclamation of pain and surprise
proceeded to pick something ouf of his
glove. The lady pumped herself down
alongside the parcel, but bounced up
again quicker than she had sat down.
And with b look of anguish upon her
beautiful face. rushed frantically to the
ladies' saloon. Next a stout German
came foundering into the apparently va
cant seat, and fopped over upon that
innocent-looking paper parcel. Whew!
but what a yell he uttered as he bounced
up out of that seat. Then the other pas
sengers became interested in that vacant
seat. The conductor, too, came with the
suffering brakesman to see what the
trouble was about. just as the old lady
came waddling into the car. Pushing
her way to the seat, she smiled blandly
upon the passenger in the next seat as
she said ..4, ~ -...,. .-.


That's present for my son Ephraim
in Illinoy. It's the prettiest bunch of
cactus could find down on the picket
wire. down in Colorady. Amt it a
beauty p


And the innocent old soul opened her
"passil'' and displayed to the amused
passengers the cause of the brakeman's
profanity. the young lady's agony and
the Germans surprise - a bunch of
prickly pears. But it had kept her seat
for her.
Year: 1876

A western editor met well educated
,armer recently. and informed him that
he he would like to have something from
III us pen. The farmer sent him pig and


Charged him So rs for it. Is 3lT.