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Year: 1876

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD IL
dreamed that dwelt in peace Of a coun-
try, where nobody ever took Q nip In the
morning or in the evening. Few people
knew the taste of that which the Indians
have most appropriately termed fire water.
Every body took their water without an
introduction to stranger, It liked to keep
It's own company and whenever 1t did mix
with anything else, it got tangled, and re-
minded the drinker that there was sort of
miniature He'll Gate going on inside of him.
There was but one man In this land of my
dreams whoever did mix these properties
on the sly, and be received the nomination
for Congress on Temperance ticket. He
was man of remarkable piety, never
chewed, never smoked, and wore a standing
collar and a white necktie. He sat in the
Amen corner and wiped his eyeglasses with
q red bandana. Everybody promised to
vote for him. He carried glass of water
In one hand and wee drop Of the creature
in the other hand. When he came to
crowd that seemed pretty lively and knew
W hat good thing was, he told them that a
little for the stomach's sake was all right,
and that 1t was the abuse of good thing
and not the use of 1t that spoiled 1t.


He told of where the Bible spoke about eat,
drink and be merry, but the scene changed
when he came across crowd that never
"took stick in them;" his face was as
calm then as an Italian lake In sunset, his
countenance looked as though It had never
been shaken by smile, he produced the
hand with glass of water In It, while he
held the other hand and Its contents under
his coat tails. The faces all looked up to
time and said "age, verify, num-" and
while they were looking so closely on the
orator the water turned to ice and the man
froxe to death. awoke and found that I
was In Wilmington.
Year: 1876

"Stand up there and keep your hands out
of your pockets" said the Mayor yesterday
morning as great, burly fellow in the
police court shambled into his presence
"Beat your wife. pulled her hair, smashed
her chignon, and threatened to send her
where the voice of the turtle is never heard
And what for? Why did you do this?"
II thought I had a right to do it, as much
as she had to nail me with flat IRON" ~
have the right to require you to pay the
costs, and you shall do it," The amount
was fshed out from among lot of loose
tobacco and old buttons. The Chief put it
in bank.
Year: 1876

Sometime ago the property owners on
each side of the New City Market House
on East Second Street, petitioned City
Council to have the bed of Second, between
Market and King streets, repaved. We un-
derstand the property owners are willing to
pay the difference between the cost of cubi-
cal blocks and the ordinary stone paying.
This matter certainly deserves the prompt
attention of the Street Committee and the
Council, as the present condition of the
street is pei feet nuisance.
Year: 1876

Proprietor.
There will be found at this hotel an ex.
cellent ward for the accommodation OF all
kinds Of cattle. It is q station OF one OF
the best cattle markets in this section.
sept2O-3m
Year: 1876

VOICE FROM THE BANNER COUNTY OF


THE EASTERN SHORE.


In alluding to the proceedings of the
Somerset County Democratic Conven-
tion, the Princess Anne True Marylander
says:


If, indeed, the deliberations Of the
State and National Conventions, that are
now soon to follow, shall be as harmoni-
GUS as the proceedings of this Conven-
tion, and if the people throughout the
country be as firmly determined to root
out the selfish politicians Of the general
government en- next November, the 7th
day, as now they seem to be, and if the
National Convention will give the Demo-
cratic party standard bearer for Presi-
Dental nominee with statesmanship
record as clean, unsullied and bright, as
heroic, chivalrous and able as that, for
instance, Of Thomas F. Bayard's, Of Del
aware, then is the battle won before
the contest and the sounding Of the key
note of the campaign will be the death
knell Of the Republican supremacy.
Year: 1876

Recently Hiram Kuhns, of Mullen
berg College, called upon DR.. Van
Buskirk 10 have. "a tooth extracted. The
student suffered from a swollen face
caused by an alveolar abscess. The
doctor extracted the tooth, cut off the
abscess, scraped off part of the decom>
posed membrane surrounding the
tooth, fang, syringed the socket,
filled the tooth, and reinserted il in
the socket, where it has since grown
fast and is as serviceable a tooth as
any possessed by Mr.. Kuhns. There
are great many people who neglect
their teeth because they cannot spare
the time to have them tinkered at, but
by the advancement IN dentistry a
man can cell arouud in the morning
and leave tooth for the dentist to
work at while he continues to transact
his business and can call for it and
have it reinserted in t!me to so to
dinner.
Year: 1876

The state of the political betting market
seems to be considered important by those
who make bets, and good deal of informa-
ton is communicated to the public upon the
subject which may also be interesting to the
same class. Those who are not accustomed to
disport themselves in the pools may not under
stand the meaning of the words "bluf'' and
"brag:'' but those who do will comprehend
that there are in the betting business wheels
within wheels and that when a speculator
offers long odds he may not be SO much back
ing his own opinion as trying to break down
the opinion of his opponent. A big bet by no
means proves big hand In 1910 the DemO.
Gratis continued to bet handsomely on the cleo
ton of Van Buren, up to the last moment,
though his chance had become little thinner
than ghostly. Ever since his nomination tha
supporters Of Gov. Tden have been trying the
experiment of unmtigated and unprecedented
boasting, taking his triumph for granted from
the start. although there has never been TINT
when the odds really were not decidedly againss
him. The sporting men of the party have
their orders; but those who make bets do not
always by any means put up their own money.
N Y Tribune,
Year: 1876




Once more the Republicans of Maine are
called to go to the polls to demonstrate anew
that Maine proposes to stand by the princi-
ples.of government which appeal to the good
Judgment of so large majority of thought
full citizens. 1t might naturally be assumed
that the great uprising in September would
definitely satisfy the Democratic hordes that
there is nothing for them in Maine. But the
lust for power and the greed of gain which
inspire that motley crowd are too potent for
reason and discretion, and they are again be-
stirring themselves in the vain hope that they
may catch the Republicans mapping and sub.
stantially reduce the September majority, or
even-such is the brainless audacity of these
people-capture the state. With foe so
tenacious of life and with such power of con-
tinuous fighting, eternal vigilance is neces-
sary and Republicans must bear in mind that
their political duty for the year is not done
until they have deposited their ballots on the
seventh instant for the Hayes and Wheeler
electors.


The Democratic State Committee has is
sued an address calling upon the faithful to
rally to the polls and promising great results.
If this were all no special notice need be TAX
en- of their movements, for this is kind of
Chinese thunder which has habit of rum
bling from that quarter. But there is good
reason to believe that they are making stren-
uous efforts in a sly way to get out their full
vote of September and, possible, to increase
it. In some tow2s, notably in Augusta,
they are making extensive naturalzations
and preparing for large registration. In
spired by glowing promises-if not by more
substantial INSTRUMENTATION Tilden's head.
quarters in New York, they are vying with
each other in zeal for the cause and are COM
peting Justify for the prizes which they fatu-
ously hope will be at the disposal of Mr.. Til
den during the next four years. 1t has al
ready been shown in the PRESS how they
fatter themselves by figures drawn from
former November elections. The vote
has hitherto been much lighter at
those times than in the preceding Sep
tember. Assuming that the Republi-
can vote will fall off as usual and
that theirs will be increased they hope to
make such relative gain as will help them
in the state election of next year-for these
people are greatly addicted to looking for
ward, since the future is much more attract
i've to them than the past, and fancies are
more alluring than facts.


Since these things are so it behooves all
Republicans and all citizens who have the
honor and stability of our institutions at
heart to rally at the polls, to see that their
neighbors are out and to help swell the popu
| lar majority which shall sustain the election
of Hayes and forever silence all captious
questionings of the beaten and disappointed
adversary. Let US not permit the willy foe to
deceive us by the ''still hunt tactics nor
allow our consciousness of superior strength
| to lull us into inaction or apathy. There is
solemn responsibility upon every good citi-





detriment through his neglect.
Year: 1876

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND OUR CREDIT
IN EURoPE.-The following paragraph, from
the London Economist, shows very clearly that
they are not deceived over there by Democratic
promises:


"The platform of the Democratic party in
America as to the resumption of cash payments
is the repeal of the act which makes that re-
sumption compulsory on the 1st of January,
1879, and this they profess to desire, not on
soft money grounds, but on hard money
grounds, as means of accelerating resumption,
not of postponipg it; and as this is at first sight
curious, we have searched the letter OF their
Presidential candidate (expounding his princi-
ples) carefully, for a clear explanation, but we
regret to say we cannot find one; aud this is
the more remarkable because Mr.. Tilden is
known to have studied political economy, and
is believed to understand it, He tells MS un-
doubtedly that fixing a day for resumption
without preparing for that day is very wrong
and very absurd but then there are still more
than two years to the fixed day, and the work
of preparation will scarcely take longer than
that. When the preparation is complete an
early day can be fixed. The Republicans may
have been wrong in fixing a day without begin
ming to prepare, but the Democrats will scarce
ly advance the preparation by leaving the re-
sumption sine die The Republicans, so to say,
fixed the hour of dining, though they did not
begin to cook the dinner; but the Democrats
want to ensure the cooking the dihner by not
settling when they will dine; and of the two
this is the absurdest
Year: 1876

The general political outlook is daily grow
ing brighter for the Republicans. New York
is the central battle ground. and 10 her all
eyes are turned. From the interior of the
state the reports are uniformly cheering.
There are indications of such great up,
rising of the people as will overwhelm the
organizers OF fraud in the city in hopeless
defeat. A majority of $4,000 outside of New
York city and Brooklyn is confidently prom
ised and this cannot be overcome in those
cities especially as the United States govern
ment is taking special pains to check frauds
and protect the purity of the ballot box
With New York added to the sure Repub-
lican states Hayes will have substantial
majority. But more than this may now be
expected. New Jersey has become hopeful
ground and the Democrats are getting in
state of mind about Connecticut-states
which from the first have been practically
conceded to the Democrats. AS to Indiana,
Gen. Harrison, late Republican candidate
for Governor, told gentleman of this city
last week, that the fight is kept briskly up.
and that he himself had firm conviction
that the Republicans will win. He said that
some local issues disturbed the contest in
October which will not appear in November.
1t is. then, quite possible that the Democrats
will not carry a single one of the old free
states.


Looking southwark the prospect is not so
hopelcssly gloomy as it has been during the
summer. The conspiracy to secure "sold
South' for Tilden by aid of the shotgun and
revolver will fail in some quarters, though to
our shame as free nation it will doubtless
succeed in others. Mississippi with legiti-
mate Republican majority of 5000 will go for
Tilden under impulse of the most wicked and
wanton series of murders and tortures that
ever dsgraced any civilized nation. But
South Carolina, where the crack of the rifle
and the yell of the rebel are silenced by the
benefcent presence of United States troops,
will choose Hayes and Wheeler electors by a
large majority, while in North Carolina,
Year: 1876

IT will not fail of observation, as a signifi.
cant circumstance in connection with the
extraordinary zeal manifested by Southern
Congressman in telegraphiDg their approval
OF Tilden's letter on Confederate War claims,
that, with scarcely an exception, each one of
these Congressman at the last session of Con-
gress introduced from one to dozen bills for
the payment of War-claims. The proof is
found in the pages Of the Congressional
Record; but it will probably be urged in ex-
planaton that these bills were in support of
claims for loss and damage Suffered" not
incurred" by the various claimants during
the war. That there is a perfect under
standing among these Southern Copgressmen
as to the true meaning and intent of Tilden's
declaration on the subject of claims, no one
can doubt
Year: 1876

THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS MUST BE PAID.
From the Tuscumbia, Ala Times ex- Congressman


Joseph H. Sloss, Editor, Oct. "a.


1t matter of surprise to see Southern poll
ticians and Democrats of the North asserting
that if Tilden and Hendricks are elected the
just claims due the Southern people will not be
paid. We are disgusted with such moral cow
ardice as will lead those who should be friends
of the South to thus show the white feather be-
fore the ''bloody shirt banner of those who
would rob the people of the South of their Just
and legal claims. We have always believed,
insisted that claims for privste property taken
ftom our people during the war, and used by
the Federal army, or sold, and the proceeds
carried into the United States Treasury. should
be paid; ar d we are satisfied that when preju
dice and bitterness cease to control our rulers
and legislators, every one of these claims will
be paid. While member of Congress we vot-
ed to allow the claims of loyal citizens of the
South for every cent of the value of property
taken from them by the Federal army. We
also voted to pay for school-houses, churches
and buildings belonging to charitable associa-
tions which were wantonly destroyed by the
Federal army. In thus voting we thought We
strict accord with established principle. believ-
ing that private property cannot, in any case
be taken and used by the public or by the Gov
ernment'without being paid for; and we shall
continue to insist that not only should the
claims of loyal citizens against the Government
for private property taken or destroyed during
rhe war by the Federal army be paid, but that
in every case where private property was taken
and used by or for the benefit of the Govern.
ment, it should be paid for.


1t is high time that our people should insist
upon simple justice being done them, at least
by those they send to Congress to attend to
their interests, and that no backing down from
determination to assert and insist upon eur
legal or equitable rights should be permitted
Let the candidates for!Congress be interrogated
as to their intentions as to such claims and if
either one is not in favor of demanding and
working for our rights, let US vote for those
who will.


THE COTTON TAX UNJUST.


(From the Macon, Ga Telegraph and Messenger.)


Tilden comes out with sweeping declara-
ton against all Southern war claims, including
even the refunding of the unconstitutional and
oppressive cotton tax. We think Tilden has
gone too far in this matter. The cotton tax,
which was a punitive tax, and wholly uncon-
stitutionaI, ought to be refunded after the ques-
tion has passed the ordeal of the courts and of
Congress, and no President ought TO oppose an
executive veto to q clear measure Of justice
and rectitude, so decided, simply because that
measure inures to the benefit OF quondam reb-
els and insurrectionists, SO called.
Year: 1876

The great issue is not hard or
soft money, civil service reform or
the tariff question, but whether
violence and disorder shall control
this Government or the sentiment
of the law-abiding people. The
South would secure the control Of
the Government by violence, and
the Democratic party is but the
ally of the South.


RrnE
Year: 1876

Louisiana and Florida the Republicans have
fully an even chance.


Under these favorable prospects the friends
OF good government are everywhere becom-
ing more and more hopeful and cheerful and
are looking forward with bright anticipations
of pleasant news on Wednesday next. GOD
SAVE THE REPUBLIC.
Year: 1876

THE Catholic Bishop Lynch, of Charles
ton, who certifes that all is peace and har
mony between the white Confederates and
the colored Republicans Of South Carolina,
is the same Bishop Lynch who in 1861,
when the rebel cannon were loaded and
sighted for firing on Fort Sumter. issued an
address assuring the people of the North
that South Carolina was peaceful and order
ly, and loyal to the national government.
Bishop Lynch is about as near right now as
he was fifteen years ago.
Year: 1876

WHILE some of the people of tie North de-
sire ga change" as they term it, and are
therefore inclined to vote for Tilden, they
forget that, according to precedent, the
change that would follow his success would
simply be repetition of the situation preced-
ing the war which brought about the hard
times Of which they now complain.
Year: 1876

THERE is everything encouraging in the
signs of the times to the Republican party.
At the most propitious moment the Mer-
chants of New York put their shoulders to
the wheel and urge forward the car of
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
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 a guaranty Of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return OF reserve commu-
nicatons that are not used.
Year: 1876

LOUISVILLE, Feb. 1S.-Geo. Webster, the
manager OF the Kentucky State Lottery,
was found dead in ditch near his residence
A horse and buggy was found near by, and
the suppositon is that he may have been
kicked by the horse into the ditch and
drowned
Year: 1876

The local branch of the Irish Catholic
Benevolent Association, of Philadelphia !
met again on Sunday last, and made q
further advance in arrangements looking
to practical relief from our stagnation in
labor and living Honor to the Irish
Catholic Benevolent Union which provides
money, pre-emps government lands and
iounds colony to which it invites the un-
employed. This union is going ahead,
and is a wise and benihcent movement of
Western emigration.
Year: 1876

tN THE PEEBOAEGA TxSTAO0s


We have in former numbers Of the
HERALD referred 10 the scheme now seri-
ously agitated and strongly advocated,
which contemplates the speedy construc-
ton of pipe lines leading direct from the
oil regions Of Pennsylvania to Philadel-
phia, New York and Baltimore The
monopoly of productive oil which Penn
sylvania possesses, has hitherto only been
utilized to limited extent, as immense
quantities of the oil has been sold
abroad at rates that paid little more than
the cost of pumping, refining, barrelins
and transporting.


The recent rise in the price Of this ia
NOUS product Of Pennsylvania promises to
be an event Of great commercial impor-
tance. Few events have ever instanta-
neonsly effected such an immense saving
as the discovery that nature had stored
away in great natural reservoirs within
the reach of man substance that could
advantageously be substituted for all the
expensive oils used in the production Of
light. Pennsylvania has supplied lhe
markets Of Europe with generator OF
light of such extraordinary cheapness, that
its price has at all times been considerably
less than one-half the price Of any article
that would possibly come into successful
competition. Domestic consumers will
suffer slightly from the advance, but they
may still console themselves with the fact
that petroleum is still great boon, and if
they universally adopt the practice OF
using its only thoroughly refined products
there will be but very slight extra ex-
penditure, and little care will avoid all
accidents and save all the lives. now lost
by the reckless use Of dangerous illumina-
ting oils. Economical considerations first
induced its use into families. They found
it better and cheaper light than all other
competing illuminators, and now if even
its price is doubled, they will still find its
cost less than that Of any other substance
that yields an equivalent amount Of light.


Experiments with pipe lines for the
conveyance Of oils have proved successful
in the western portion of Pennsylvania,
and there is no doubt about all the me-
chanical and engineering difficulties in
volved in the contemplated project being
surmounted. The demand for petroleum
has kept increasing constantly during a
period when the continued influence Of a
partial diminution in the number Of new
oil wells and the destruction of large
quantities of the oil stored in tanks by
fires led to serious reduction Of stock on
hand, and this new relation between sup
ply and demand, is one Of the main causes
o. the rise in prices and since it has Sc
cured, it will be fortunate thing for
Pennsylvania and the whole country if the
advance is maintained, as the bulk Of the
product is consumed abroad and the chief
gain made from the people Of other coun-
tries. The recent rise in this famous pro-
duct of the Keystone Of the Federal arch,
promises to be an event of immense pro-
portions. Let the pipe line be pushed 10
successful termination.
Year: 1876

To the Editor of The Tribune.


CHICAGO, Nov. 1l.-My attention has been
called to letter in THE TRIBUNE in which the
writer gives the translation of an article pub
1ished in Belgian paper treating upon the
warming Of railroad cars in that country, and
suggests that some such method be adopted in
Chicago for heating strcetccars.


Having always taken IN interest in such mat
tors, and feeling that an improvement Of this
kind would promote the comfort and conycn-
ience Of the great mass Of people IN our cities
who find the street-cars not only 4 convenience
but necessity, 1 should like to suggest n
method though not altogether new-by which
additional expense to the present cost to street.
railway companies. The method that would
suggest is through tho means Of heated
metal, which I consider much more practical
than the use OF gas would BE-, and less e1-
pcnsiye. The floor Of each car could be so
arranged with registers that the heat rising
from heated metal placed in iron boxes beneath
the floor Of each car will ascend through these
registers, and with proper ventilation keep the
mospf1ere in q much more pure and healthy
condition than it now is under the present sys-
ten Of vcntilation-by the rear door.


The only expense in running cars By this
method, after they are once in use, would be
the cost of operating :wo furnaces, ono at each
end of the line, where the metal could be heated
ready for use


arranged, By means OF non-c0nductors, as to
prevent any very great loss Of heat through any
outside influence.


think, upon trial, this method of running
streetrcars would prove to be not only practical
but economical. c. H.