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Year: 1876

IT DIDN'T SuIT.-A Detroit boy, after
finishing the last chapter Of book call
ed "The Pleasures of the Deep" plead
ed with his father to let him ship aboard
lake schooner. The old man smiled a
grim smile, took the case under consid-
Grafton, and in few days the boy was
on the rolling deep, having shipped as
greenhorn on vessel in the lumber
trade. He sailed to Saginaw, came down
and crossed to Toledo, and next day he
appeared in Detroit, lame and stiff. his
throat sore, one eye nearly shut and a
feeling of humbleness running all thro'
him.


What back again 2" cried the old
man, as the boy entered the house.


"Yes. father, | want to saw all the
wood for winter, bring in all the coal.
clean out the cellar and paint the barn,
and you needn't give me but two meals
a day."


Don't you like sailing ?"


Father. you don't begin to realize
anything about it. The captain sailed
right along on Sunday, the same as any
other day, and ] believe he swOre even
harder. He wouldn't give me an um-
brella when 1T rained. be made me sit
up most all night, and two or three times
he called me up at midnight and made
me haul on ropes and drag old sails
around. There wasn't single night
when all Of us got of to bed at nine
o'clock. and there wasn't day that he
didn't boss us around and break in on
us every time we got to oreading anything
good | like land. father, and | wish
you owned a farm !"
Year: 1876

TnE New York legislature has bill he
fore it providing that the various county
boards shall fix the salaries Of the county
treasures, and that all money shall be
deposited in bank to the credit of the
county and State. The county treasurcrs
have defeated similar bills for two success.
sivc sessions, and will make strong
fight against this one.
Year: 1876

The eastern papers have nothing to say
about the mildness Of the present winter
in the Northwest, They endeavor to
teach their readers that this is hypobo-
rean climate unfit fer human beings to
occupy, and are very eager to give oil that
is going regarding bad storms. accidental
freezing, ETC., but when there is On op.
portunity for saying that such enjoy able
weather seldom was known as that of the
present winter in this region, they have
nothing to ssy.
Year: 1876

CARS are now running in New York on
the FIRST division of the elevated rail.
way. The line extends from the Battery
to Central Park. Forty trains day will
run each way, making the distance in
thirty minutes.
Year: 1876

TIE direction throughout the country
is towards uniform day for holding elect.
ions. In Maine an effort will be made
to change the time for holding elections
from September to November. There
are many reasons why uniform day
would be Of benefit to the country. 1t
would prevent the grand caravan Of
stump speakers from emigrating from
State to State, at such IN expenscto to sup.
porters Of the respective parties.
Year: 1876

YALE college has withdrawn from the
rowing association, but it is hoped she will
not disband as University. The insti-
tuition had very good reputation before
the days Of rowing, and it is not impro-
bable that she can still keep agoing her
minor functions and exercises without it.
Year: 1876

The indications are that there will be
a revival Of railroad building, the coming
season. Last year but very few miles
were constructed in the Northwest, but
already contracts are let for the building
Of Several hundred miles in 1876.
Year: 1876

public lands in this State, and such other in
formation a. may be in the possession Of the
Governor as to the nature and amount of such
claims and the amount remaining unpaid. On
Auditor was ii requested to submit his ia annual
report without further delay.
Year: 1876

SUNSET Cox in the House Saturday,
showed that the old Copperhead virus still
fingers in his system, when he sneered at
MIR. Smalls one of the colored members from
South Carolina and asked who would vouch
Tor his word. Smalls was the brave man
whose devotion to the cause Of freedom i'm
PEELED him to risk his life during the war by
carrying into effect a rash design of his own
to run away with Confederate steamer in
Charleston harbor on which he was pilot,
and turn the craft over to the Union author
tiles. This hazadous undertaking the brave
man carried out. Did Sunset Cox do as much
for the Union cause in those dark days?
Year: 1876

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter expresses
the situation when it says: There are great
many valuable lessons in the science of polit-
ical economy which the nation has got 10
learn. But the first of these, the very alpha
bet ofthe course, is that doing business with
deprecated currency places the adyenturer
and speculator at an advantage over the
painstaking mechanic and merchant at the
outset, though in the end they are too apt
to be engulphed in common ruin.
Year: 1876

and the large number of testimonials which are con-
stantly being received from persons who have been
cured by its use, conclusive proof of its great
ecaries As a Blood-Purfer and Health Restorer,
it has no equal.


VEGETINE is not prepared for fancy drink made
from poor liquors, which debltates the system and
tends to destroy health instead of restoring it.


Are not the many testimonials given for the differ
ent complaints satisfactory to any reasonable persons
suffering from disease that they can be cured? Read
the different testimonials given, and no one can
doubt. In many of these the persons say that
their pain and suffering not be expressed as in
cases of Scrofula where apparently, the whole body
was one mass of corruption. If VEGETINE will re-
leve pan cleanse, purify and such diseases re-
storing the patient to perfect health after trying diff
terent physicians, many remedies suffering for years.
is it not conclusive proof if you sufferer you
can be cured? Why is this medicine performing
such great cures? 1t works in the blood in the cir
culating fluid. 1t can be truly called the Great
Blood Purifier. The great source of disease origin
ates in the bood and no medicine that does not act
directly upon it, to purify and renovate has any just
claim upon public attention. When the blood be-
weather climate, want of exercise, irregular diet
or from any other cause, the VEGETINE will renew
the blood, carry off the putrid humors. cleanse the
stomach, regulate the bowels and impart tone of
vigor to the whole body The conviction is, in the
public mind well as in the medical profession that
the remedies supplied by the Vegetable Kingdom are
more safe, successful, in the cure Of disease
than mineral medicines. VEGETINE is composed Of
roots, barks and herbs. 1t is pleasant to take and
is perfectly safe to give infant. Do you need ii?
Do not hesitate to try it. You will never regret it,
Year: 1876

THE Argus has the impression that City
Hall was "very well filled" Saturday night
at the Democratic ratification. That's differ.
ent from the opinion of a leading Democrat
who said it was mistake to hold a meeting
SO early before the people were stirred up.
Doubtless each of the hundred eyes of the
Argus saw double when the audience was
counted,
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Ct good faith.


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

When Protestanism shall have reached its
logical extreme of no organization at all,
and every Bible reader shall be Church and
priest unto himself, it will And itself at the
same time in the throes of dissolution. 1t
will find too late that nothing but the first
elements can exist without organization,
and that no organization is immortal unless
divine.
Year: 1876

MAILS BY THE JACKSON RAILRoAD-We hear


great deal of complaint about the delay in
the mail by this route, there being scarcely
day that it is not two or three hours late. But
our merchants should know that the fault does
not lie with the jackson Railroad, the trains of
which have to wait at Milan, from one to five
hours, for the mails from the connecting line
above. The local trains are nearly always on
time, and we have no doubt the mail would be
so, if the lines beyond their Jurisdiction made
close connections as they should do.
Year: 1876

LET us suppose now that you never saw
pyramid. You may have reserved those
at Geezeh for the last, and if, in your
reading, you have ever stumbled upon
any speculations as TO the original design
and motive of the Pyramids you may pos
sibly have turned from it as an extremely
moldy and uninteresting topic; hut as
your donkey, making his last turn, clears
the shadowing palms and brings you out
upon the desert you are confronted with
something concerning which, as 1t rises
there before your eyes, it is just as i'm
possible not to be curious as 1t is not to
breathe. That huge and towering mass
of stone whose very simplicity of outline
and utter absence OF ornament lends to II
a majestic grandeur and dignity which are
all its own-who reared II thereY What
does it meany How was it buildedY
What did it hideS And whether or not
you have an answer ready for these ques-
lions, tins at least you know, that those
mighty monuments have not been reared
in vain. If they were meant TO perpetu'
Year: 1876

THE following analysis of the time made
by the famous trans continental fast train
over the Chicago & Northwestern Rail
way, between Chicago and Omaha plain
ly indicates that the general average time
made by this train, from its starting-point,
suffered no shrinkage at the hands of the
management of the popular Northwestern !;
ard it must be gratifying to every true
Chicagoan to find that they possess in the
above road Western line over which
equally as fast time can be safely made
as any of the boasted fast time hitherto
claimed by the Eastern lines as an Incl
dent to the superiority of their roads over
Western lines. Time was when this claim
could have been allowed, but now that
the Chicago 81 Northwestern Railway,
with its well-ballasted roadbeds, equipped
with steel rails, and all modern appliances,
can be compared favorably with any
model road in the East, there is no longer
any reason for the Eastern lines claiming
a monopoly in fast running. The con-
densed time given below shows the leav-
ing and arriving time of this fast train at
terminal stations; the speed per hour he
tween stations, and the speed per hour
for the distance run, over the Chicago u
Northwestern Railway:
Year: 1876

IT is one thing to be fortunate and an
other to deserve the smiles of the tickle


goddess, and when a case occurs where
one who is in every way worthy a wind
fall, receives an unexpected present in the
shape of farm, without knowing the
name of the donor, that case should be re.
corded and kept as one of the good things
that may be brought about by previous
good behavior. such a case came TO our
knowledge yesterday, the recipient being
a young farmer whose name is Leslie
Brownlee, the circumstances of which are
about as follows: Some time last April,
young Brownlee, who is the head of a
small family, and lives about twelve miles
southwest from the city was visited at his
home by an oldish looking gentleman,
who stated his name, and required of him
promise Of Utmost secrecy as to its di-
vulgence, which was given, The stranger
then stated that he had been authorized 10
present TO his astonished host either a sum
of money or deed to the farm upon
which he was living as tenant. Think.
ing the matter joke, Mr.. Brownlee said
he would prefer the farm. The stranger
said all right, and requesting few days
Year: 1876

The first straw hat of the season ap-
peared on the street Monday afternoon. 1t
was in the middle of the street. 1t was
moving along on its ear, with every indi-
cation of safe and speedy trip. A man
was about five yards in rear of the hat.
He was popularity supposed to be the
owner thereof. He was bareheaded He
was going fast. His face was scarlet in
color. He looked hot and embarrassed.
Still ii bowled along. SO did he. Once
il almost stopped. He slackened his
speed. Then il turned over ON the other
ear and shot ahead again. Then he
picked up his feet more abUndantly. Men
in wagons stopped their teams 10 look
Merchants followed their customers TO the
door to look. People on the walk dropped
every other subject and bent all their at
tenlion on the chase. Tie hat went un-
der one wagon and then passed beneath
another and skinned across tue street,
and finally brought up against tree.
The bareheaded man, who had twice
given up the pursuit, and had each time
declared that lac didn't care a snap for the
old thing anyway, now put forth a third
effort and secured it, Then he set ii on
his head and pulled il down until the
brim cracked halfway round. Then he
got over fence, passed through a yard
scaled another fence, and continued his
way home by the same unostentatious
route. DdRbury Neios.
Year: 1876

Articles on which flour paste has been
used are often injured by rats, even after
the paste has become dry and hard. This
can be prevented by mixing a small
quantity of corrosive sublimate with the
paste. Those who have tried this pro-
il, and complete safeguard against the
rats.-RurdL Nep Yorker.
Year: 1876

FIVE white and one colored men we're
recently killed by lightning near Spring
field, Tenn. Two other. white men were
injured, one fatally. They had taken
refuge, during thunder storm, under a
Year: 1876

Another modern tendency that seems
to have nearly run the length Of its
tether, is toward what is generally
spoken of as nsassive furniture. We
have been making our furniture SO
heavy Of late. that the amount Of solid
wood in it, added to the carving. inlay
ing, and veneering with different woods.
has made it very expensive. Of course
the Bowery and Canal street have fol-
lowed Broadway and the Fifth Avenue.
and we can hardly tell cheap furniture
from dear, by the price. The so-called
"East- lake" furniture has had much to
do with keeping up the tendency we
speak Of. The one thing the designers
Of it seem to be after is to make it look
'solid." and the one thing they seem
in "mortal" dread of is that it shall be
graceful or elegant. Some Of the pro-
ductions of the mills that turn out this
uncomfortable lumber are wonderful to
behold. One is not surprised to hear
Of people being killed BY such furniture
falling on them. Most Of it would look
clumsy in an Italian palace. In our
American parlors and bedrooms it is
not at home, Many persons, however,
who do not like it in parlor think it
is just the thing for dining room ~
Why we should consider that the fur
niture Of the dining-room ought to be
so much heavier than that of the parlor,
I do not know.-Csarence Cook. IN
Scribncr for October.
Year: 1876

THE WINDSOR CASTLE OF TODAY.


The Queen still comes to. Windsor for
some part Of the year, and now and then
a foreign prince makes brief visit. and
the Castle wakes up to something like
the gayety of old; but it is not the
same Now and then. too, the married
sons aud daughters come and fill the
old house with their children-fresh
voices, always cheerful. with sgain and
again q new Victoria, to renew the re-
collection of the others. L cannot tell
you how many these children are; al
ready they have grown beyond counting
and make little tribe in themselves.
But better than the stately towers Of
Windsor the Queen loves Highland Bal
moral, with its Scotch French turrets-
this .'dear paradise, as she calls it.
.where all has become my dearest Al
bert's own creation !" or Osborne, by
the sea, where "he delighted in the song
of BIRDS"


But our Castle, hospitable and calm
in its stately old age, does not resent
even this desertion. The trees rise
round the gray walls as green as ever ;
the music peals as sweetly through St.
Georges the sun shines as in its
brightest days. These towers reign in
a tranquil, unbroken sovereignty over
the broad rich country as far as eye can
reach; more proudly royal when the
great standard floats from the Round
Tower. yet never less than kingly; as
fine an embodiment Of state and strength
and beauty as ever was made in stone.
How many lives have come and gone
under their shelter! How many touch
ing stories Of happiness and suffering,
and love pity. cling to the old walls.
which are so much older than most
things; older than steamships and rail-
ways, and all other modern discoveries
which we are SO proud Of; older than
your America-nay, older than Shaks-
peare and all our poets!s England had
no literature, and the great Republic of
the West no existence, when the circle
of the Keep first wore the English flag
to show that the king was there; and
we shall all Of US be moldered into dust
and forgotten. before decay will be able
to gnaw away this almost everlasting
stone.-Mvs Okphant, St. Nicholas
for October.
Year: 1876

She was very pretty. wore pleasant
smile, and when she entered the street
car there we're seven young men who
Immediately vacated their seats and
delighted themselves by casting alter
nate glances at the fair one and the
vacant place She took the nearest
seat with nod to all and bewitching
smile: six young men bowed and sat
down, while one young man bowed and
stood up and imagined himself martyr


She carried beautiful child in her
arms, and it was playful. One young
man thought she was its aunt, and two
others were quite positive she was moi
its mother. Meanwhile the child
amused itself i climbed and crowed,
and laughed and played, and the lady
laughed and petted it.


One Of the young men, sacriligious
wretch, commenced humming II wish
| were baby" when the child. kick
ing in playful mood. knocked a hand
kerchief from the lady lap on the floor
There were four Of the young men who
made simultaneous dive for the mus
lin, and two Of them got it /; they came
up smiling. neither willing to relax his
grasp, and two hands extended it to-
ward the fair one. An old lady on
the opposite side Uttered. and the young
lady held the child in front Of her face
and blushed The young men looked
at each other and then at the.
Their mouths and eyes opened; each
handed it to the other; something fell
upon the floor, and two young men
silently departed from the car. The
other young men looked out Of the win
dows, and somebody whimpered ''lt
wasn't handkerchief"
Year: 1876

It was long, long time before re-
gained my strength.


Every person petted and praised me.
l was the heroine Of the neighborhood
Henry Vincent never tired Of descant-
ing upon my bravery. and devoted him
self to me in a manner that would have
been very aggravating to his young
lady friends had / been few years
older.


My "lodger" was sent to prison ia
mediate for some years.
Year: 1876

A Washington paper says when q
Pacific Coast member Of Congress is
dangerously sick, it is edifying to watch
the glee Of those members who expect
to be detailed to escort the body home
1t is such a nice trip, you know!
Year: 1876

General James Shields is doing


good service for Tilden. There are
few men that have had the national
experience that he has had. He
has been a member of the United
States Senate from two States; he
served with distinction in the Mex
lean war, and received a wound
large enough to allow the drawing
of a heavy silk. handkerchief en-


tirely through his body. In the
late war he served on the side OF
the Union, and received several
wounds. He had the honor of ad-
ministering to Stonewall jackson
the only defeat that this famous and
beloved general ever sustained.
General Shields is now about sew
enty years OF age, but he is still
trying to serve his country. He is
telling the people of Indiana how
to vote. Certainly there is no one
better qualified to advise them
General Shields wants reform in the
administration of our Government


We sincerely wish that he may livt
to see it and enjoy its good fruits
Year: 1876

Deacon Smith, the pious man of
the Cincinnati Gazette, charges that
the Democratic party wants to keep
poor people from marrying, and
some of the newspapers call this a
good joke on the party. For our
part, we think the joke falls hardest
upon the poor folks, or those of
them who are nightly inclined to
commit matrimony, particularly the
we were about to say the girls,
but we shan't. But, laying the joke
aside, we think there are a great
many more persons married now
than are doing well under the Re
publican administration. And we
believe we can say in truth that the
Republican party has kept thou
sands upon thousands of persons
from marrying, by robbing the Gov.
ernment and depressing the bust
ness of the country. Now, our ad
vice to those poor fellows who want
to marry is, that they vote the
Democratic ticket, in order to sid
in bringing about good times, and
when the good times come, let eacl
mothers son Of 'em marry the frs
pretty girl-or the first homeIy girl
for that matter-that he thinks vii


make a good wife; provided, always


that she is willing. We don't be
| Heve in any sort of foolishness il
the matter of marriage. Bushes
is business.
Year: 1876

I sent to Pulsski TO buy little bacon,
The servant returned, was sadly mistaken;
The citizens had plenty and willing TO divide
If the poor orphan widow would take whole


side.


If a rich man had stepped in and wanted
The polite little clerk would have eutit so nice.
If he bad wanted it cut thin or wanted it
The nice little clerk would have cut it so


quick.
But the poor orphan widow is set Otfone side,
When the time rolls round for her to want


bacon side.
Ny father and motheTlthey always had plenty,
But now they are gone, my poor cupboard is


empty.
I think Of the turkeys the chickens and steak
Of the beautiful brown hoe cakes that we used


to bake;
But now they are gone, I have no chickens


or steak,
With scarcely any meal to bake me hoe cake.
If had at this time one bushel of meal,
AS long as it lasted how pleasant I'd feel;
used TO have lite bread and butter for supper,
When that was the case I had no cause to


mutter.
Sometimes had crackers, and sometimes


had cheese,
And then you may know was easy to please,
My Heavenly Father is rich you all know,
He never will turn me away from his door;
May Jesus protect me, may God be my guide,
TIL escorted by angels in heaven to reside.


Mrs. 1. L. MOORE
Year: 1876

One of our best-to-do citizens
keeps up with the times in having
a splendid carriage. The other day
he saw it driving down town and
noticed the horse lame in a fore
foot. He stopped it and went out
and picked up the horses foot and
leaned over to look at it, with his
back to the animals head. He was
just in the midst of making up his
mind as to what he was thinking
about, as he admired the excellent
proportion of the frog,and wondered
how horse shoe nails could be sold
so cheap, when he felt something
behind. He didn't know whether
it thundered, whether the court
house had fallen, or whether the
steam mill had bursted, but he was
well convinced that something had
him behind. He stopped about the
eight hundreth part of a half sec
ond to think which was the best
way to jump; but while he was
thinking, the darned thing jumped
itself. All of him didn't jump
however, for when he felt himself
free and looked up to see if the
moon was falling, he cast a glance
around and discovered the best par
of the seat Of his pants and part o.
himself dangling from the heartlesi
horse's teeth. A near drug stor,
furnished the liniment and ht
pinned his handkerchief to his coat
tail and hoped off up home. HI
now offers a reward to the man wht
will invent a new place to sit dowr
on. There is walking ahead of hin
for some time.
Year: 1876

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thusl mean that your sub
seription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure IN extending
credit 70 our friends and patrons, bat
cash alone win Yay our expenses, and
We are forced TO adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you VIII comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit Jour favor.


G We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance.