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Year: 1876

1 The trade dollars made at She Car son Mint are in great disfavor on ac- count of their defective coinage. San tranclsco brokers make a difference of one quarter of one half per cent. be- tween them and the ones coined at the San Francesca mint, with no other test than an examination of the mint mark, while in many cases they are so defective as to sell at two per cent. discount. Out of a lot which were purchased for shipment to China in November, 5000 of those coined at Carson We're returned and sold at the rate, and orders have been received here from China to ship no more Car son Trade Dollars there unless pur- chased Ut discount

 The brokers tell us that the trouble IS not only in the indistinctness of the stamping and milling, and the unfn- lshed appearance of the coins, which are probably caused by defective ma chlnery' but that they are not so bright aS those made at San Francisco. and tarnish quicker, showing that the silver has not been properly worked; that there has been some mistake or negligence in the process of annealing. Santa Barbara News.
Year: 1876

AT Los Angeles, among the busi- ness Een, the best advised opinion seems to lean to the belief that the assets of the bank of Temple < Work man are ample to meet all their li- abilities and leave surplus. There was besides a rumor that E. J. Bald win was quite likely to make an ar engagement by which all the depositors should be paid, as he regarded the transaction safe one to be made Doubtless statement will be made shortly.
Year: 1876

1t is remarked by some writer that
excess Of ceremony shows want OF good
breeding" This is true. There is nothing
so troublesome as Overdone polteness.
truly well-bred man makes every person
around him feel at ease he does not throw
civilities about him with shovel, nor toss
compliments in a bundle. as he would hay
with Pitchfork. There is no evil under
the sun more intolerable than ultra-polts-
ness.
Year: 1876

Many years ago ah old darkey was
busy with her washing in little stone
wash house few rods from her masters
residence on Long island. Her great brass
wash Kettle was hung on a crane over a
brisk wood fire in huge square stone
chimney. Splash went something into the
kettle; the woman turned to see, and there
in the boiling suds, en- top of the family
linen lay fine great fish still alive, though
in its death struggles. The only explana-
ton of its strange appearance was that it
had been caught up by fsh-hawk, that
it was forced to drop his prey just ~ it
flew over the wash house chimney.
Year: 1876

Show Me Thy Face.


Show me thy face


A cheering besm
OF loveliness divine:
And shall never think or dream
OF other love save thine,
All lesser light will darken quite,
All lower glories wane,-
The beautiful of earth will scarce
Seem beautiful again.


show me thv face


The heaviest cross
Will then seem light TO bear;
There will be gain in every loss.
And peace with every care.
With such light feet the years will feet,
Life seem as brief as blest:
Till have laid my burden down.
And entered into rest.


Show me thy face


Aud | shall be
In heart and mind renewed.
With wisdom, grace and energy,
To work thy work endued.
Shine through the veil, Emmanuel.
Until, the veil removed.
In perfect glory behold
The face that have loved,
Year: 1876

Opposition to good cause is certain
to define the character OF the opposer.
The avaricious man sees it as q money
making scheme. The sensualist searches
for, and in his imagination finds lasciy-
iousness to lay to the charge of whatever
he opposes. What man has been
searching for may be known by what he
processes to have found. To know the
general tenor Of mans character, OBJ
serve the form taken by his oppo.
sition. This is true, because men learn to
ngard their fellows with the distrust
they are conscious Of deserving.
Year: 1876

Good bituminous coal is found in mex
haustible quantities 200 feet under the city
Of Leayenw5rth. A mine has been in sue
cesslul operation for many years. Over
one hundred hands have been constantly
employed. Coal is now furnished at four
teen cents per bushel, or $3.50 per ton.
Until the strike last Winter, coal was fur
nished at twelve cents per bushel, or So per
ton. The officers of the coal company as
sure us that when the demand INCREASES TO
10000 bushels per day, they can afford to
sell coal for ten cents per bushel, or $3.50
per ton


At this time the average consumption OF
coal is about 1000 bushels per day.


From all the information at our COM
mand, We are OF the opinion that the Leay-
enworth coal mine is the only one in this
part OF the country that has been developed
sufficiently TO demonstrate the extent OF
the supply. Ten years OF experience and
expense in opening up this mine, has fully
demonstrated that the supply is inexhaus-
tihlc, and that coal can be delivered at
this one mine to the amount OF ten, twenty
Or thirty thousand bushels per day for the
rsxt hundred years This being an estab-
l-hed fact, Leavenworth Is absolutely Ger
tain OF being the most favored spot in all
the west for manufacturing purposes.
Year: 1876

The dispatches this morning announce
that Judge Taft, OF Ohio, has been ten
derei the Office of Secretary OF War, and
that the President has sent his name to the
Senate. Judge Taft is a citizen of Cincin
naii, OF irreproachable character, and high
ly respected by the people of Ohio. Las
ftli he was the choice of the Cincinnati
Gazette and other papers for Governor, but
did not receive the nomination. Hi;
speeches during the campaign were strong
forcible arguments in favor OF honest gov
eminent and the election Of the entirt
Republican ticket. The President will be
heartily commended by the whole countr '
for the selection of such men as Dana and
Taft for the positions of Minister to Eng
land and Secretary OF War.
Year: 1876

He entered car door. When the
brakeman came inside and took a kew out
of his pocket, unlocked the stove. put in
some wood, and locked the door again, he
asked him what he locked the stove
door for. The brakeman shut his left eve.
and said he locked the door so the fire
couldn't 60 out.
Year: 1876

An inhabitant Of Fontenay sous Bois,
suburb of Paris, recently died under
circumstances the most fearful. His
case has attracted much attention in the
scientific world.


The man had been confirmed drunk
ard, and imbibed, on an average, q
quart and half of brandy per diem.
Conscious of the degradation of his be-
setting vice, he kept aloof from his
family, and at times shut himself up in
his room for days together, in order to
pursue his devotion to Bacchus unmo-
lested. He had frequently been forced
to abandon the brandy bottle by the ap-
proach of delirium tremens, but he was
no sooner cured by the doctors than he
returned to his fayorite love.


At length he was seized with an ire
sistible desire to destroy himself, which
the medical sages call the nostalgia" of
alcohols. On Easter Sunday he shut
himself up again; but remaining Sc
cluded longer than usual, the neighbors
broke open his door. An overpowering
smell of spirits struck them on entering
the room, where the remains of char
coal fire were found, and on looking on
the bed, there lay the body of the man
reduced to cindersl The doctors say
that spontaneous combustion must have
taken place shortly after the drunkard
lay down to die.
Year: 1876

Miss Swisshelm, in letter from Ger
many to the Chicago Tribune, gives the
following account of a staring match she
had with a naughty, wicked man:


There were three young ladies with
me from London, and l noticed that,
after we got out of England, the men
along the road seemed to be troubled
with the stares, but no one made him
self especially obnoxious until we ar
rived at the Leipzig Hotel. The train
reached the station at $50 P. NJ, and ii
was ten by the time we had seen our
rooms and got down into the coffee
room for supper. There were six or
eight men sitting at the different tables,
two and two, eating or drinking, and all
but one suspended motion to stare, and
stared as if we had been a menagerie
brought in for exhibition. felt in
stantly that we had found something
new under the sun, and took seat next
the wall, as 1 could best face such folks.
We were all hungry and tired. thought
these critical observers would soon see
that we came there to eat, and, for some
time, took no notice of them; but most
of them kept up their stare, and, when
our meal was about half over, one mid
dle-aged man, who, 1 afterward learned,
was a merchants man : of property
and standing '-nudged his companion
across the table, turned squarely, plant
ed his elbows on the arm of his chair,
his chin in his hand, and made his best
effort in the most insulting stare it was
possible for human face to get up, di-
recting it particularly to the lady who
sat with her profile toward him. I
dropped a hand on each side of my
plate, holding my knife and fork point
upward, fixed my eyes on his, and stared
until attracted his attention. 1 knew
that every man in the room was looking
on to see what would come of it; and he
and 1 had one good, long, dead-level
stare. 1 would have liked to have
thrown our decanter of water at his
head, but did not move a muscle; and
there we sat and stared into each others
eyes until the spirits which looked out
of his owned their master, and sue
cumbed. 1 never saw a man look more
like a whipped spaniel than he did
while he remained in the room. He
turned to the table and tried to go on
with his coffee, but it seemed to stick in
his throat. He turned his back to us,
and seemed really at loss for occupa-
ton while waiting for us to leave, and I
was in no hurry. The amusing part of
it was, that the girls whom he intended
to insult did not know anything about
it, and wondered what 1 was staring at.
We met that man several times after
ward at the table d'hote, when the other
men present stopped eating, according
to the custom of the country, to turn
around as we entered and left the room,
to stare and comment; but that particu-
lar one never saw us after that first even
ing"
Year: 1876

CURLEY, Clusters Indian scout, who
escaped death by drawing his blanket
about him after the fashion of the Sioux,
and dashing through the enemy's line,
says the firing during the battle was g a
continuous roll, like the swapping of the
threads in the tearing of blanket. The
troops expended all the ammunition In
their belts, and then sought their horses
for the reserve ammunition carried In
their saddle-pockets. As long as their
ammunition held out, the troops, though
losing considerably in the fight, main
tanned their position in spite of all the
efforts of the Sioux. From the weaken
ing of their fire toward the close OF the
afternoon, the Indians appeared to be-
lieve that their ammunition was about
exhausted, and they made grand final
charge, in the course of which the last
of the command was destroyed, the men
being shot at such close quarters that
many were killed with arrows. Custer
remained alive through the greater part
of the engagement, animahng his men.
to determined resistance"
Year: 1876

A REMARKABLE MARRIAGE.-An ex-
traordinary marriage took place at Jew
ington, England, the other day, the
ceremony being performed by the Very
Reverend Archdeacon Philpot, in the
presence of very lerge congregation.
The married couple both belong to the
parish Of lexington, but the singular
part is that the bride had no arms, and
the ring had to be placed on the third
toe Of the left foot. At the conclusion
of the marriage ceremony she signed the
marriage register, holding the pen with
her toes, in a very decent "hand."
Year: 1876

AN ExPERnIENT.-An old bachelor at
New Orleans tells how he was deferred
from committing matrimony in the fol-
lowing way: Thinking over the sub
iect, and particularly of the expense of
maintaining family, he set the table in
his lonely abode with plates for himself
and imaginary wife and five children.
He then sat down to dine, and as often
as he helped himself to food he put the
same quantity on each of the other
plates, and surveyed the prospect at
the same time comparing the cost. He
concluded to remain single.
Year: 1876

A BRAVE SoLDKR.-Out of the many
instances of individual bravery which
must have signalized the struggle for
independence, few have been preserved
but one, that has been, lights up the
melancholy darkness of the scene with
q peculiar brightness. At the battle of
Bunker Hill, John Calender, a captain
of artillery, had withdrawn from the
battle, and had disobeyed Putnam's Or
ders to return. The battle over, Putnam
declared that if Calender was not CASH
tered or shot, he would himself leave
the service. A court-martial convicted
him of cowardiee, and dismissed him
from all further service in the Cont
mental army as an officer" Coward or
not, he was brave enough to step down
into the ranks of the company he had
commanded. The 9th of August found
him on the nights overlooking Flatbush.
His captain and lieutenant had fallen,
and his companions were beginning to
retreat. Springing in front of them, he
ordered them to return and man their
pieces. For time his courage nour-
ished theirs; but at length he stood
alone, charging field piece, while his
comrades were swept away by a tremen-
dous onset of the enemy. Counting
death, he made no signal of surrender
when the hostile bayonets were at his
breast; but brave officer interfered in
his behalf, and he was made prisoner.
Washington, hearing of his conduct,
ordered the sentence against him to be
erased. and his command to be restored
to him; and when, year later, he was
exchanged, he gave him his hand before
the army, in token of his great respect
and admiration. He left the service at
the end of the war with an enviable
reputation.
Year: 1876

The Republicans of the Ninth Ward had
an enthusiastic meeting Tuesday evening.
Spirited addresses were made by Major
William d. Green and Captain Peter
Joseph.


The Packard and Warmoth Defenders,
auxiliary to the central club, will meet
regularly during the campaign. Great
efforts are being made to convince some of
the colored voters Of that ward that their
best friends are the nominees on the Demo
cratic ticket, but it don't take. A few of
them were induced to attend meeting of
the unterrified, and they expressed them
selves fully satisfied with the tenor Of the
speeches of the reform Democracy, and
have NO desire for further information from
that house.
Year: 1876

capacity of the people to change their
rulers by civil process. Its realization,
however, will mark the beginning OF an
eraof national proves, progress and glory,
to which every citizen, be he of the one
party or the other, of the north or OF the
south, may look with pride and hope.
Year: 1876

RADICAL newspapers are saying that
Hayes knew nothing about the princi'
pies of the know-nothing organization
that nominated him for the presidency.
Everybody else understood them. II
the radicals desire to place their candi'
date before the public as an idiot, they
are welcome to lay hold of that horn Of
the dilemma.-lS. Louis Times.
Year: 1876

Have you risen from your bed after short sleep to
find yourself nearly suffocated with Catarrhal mat
ter in your nose. head, ahd throat? Have you
noticed what depressing influence it exercises
the mind, bunting its faculties, besides ener-


waiting the body as well? How difficult to rid the
head of this foul matter all can testify who are
afflicted with Catarrh. How difficult to protect the
and bronchial tubes all physicians can testify. 1t is
terrible disease. and cries out for relief. To be
freed from the danger of suffocation while lying
turbed; to know that no poisonous, putrid matter
defles the breath and undermines the system; to
know that the body does not, tn rough its veins and
arteries carry the poison that is sure to destroy is
indeed a blessing. To purchase immunity from
such fate should be the object of all afflicted. But
those who have tried many remedies and physicians
despair of relief They become incredulous.
With such the long array of testimonies from our
Year: 1876

New YORK, Sept. 1.-Two cases of
yellow fever have been reported to the
board of health of this city. The first was
that of John Evans, wealthy business
man, of Savannah, who died at a fashion
able hotel on Broadway. The second was
a sailor who was found sick at the sailor 5
boarding house, l6l Market street.


Evans came here from Savannah to
escape the scourge, Prominent physicians
say there Is no cause for alarm as the
season is too far advanced.
Year: 1876

Call and see the Climax Champion Soft
Coal Base Burner which took the first pre-
MUM over all other soft coal base burners
at the late county falr This stove has
been thoroughly tried and never failed,
which is not the case with some other
stoyes offered for sale in this market
Fred. Hass has already sold over 80 of
them this fall, and has only just commenc-
ed, for he expects to sell at least twice as
many as he did last year, which would be
l6O He does not say buy the 1876 pat
tern, but buy a Climax, for they are all
and have always been good. 1ld4&wl
Year: 1876

As through the whole of his remarkable


career be has been the wisest of men, he


has been the most jealous and earnest of
patriots, SO to day he is the wisest, the
most accomplished statesman in the land,
and he will, by the blessing of God, be one
Of the greatest, perhaps the greatest, of
the presidents Of the United States, be-
cause he will have the opportunity to
rescue this government from the hands OF
the Incompetent and dishonest men who
have controlled it SO long, and made it a
reproach in the eyes of the civilized globe.
Year: 1876

THE RAINBOW in the sky is sign of
Gods promise that the world should not
agaln be destroyed by water; and viewing
the tenacity with which men hold on to
life, it is surprising to all how recklessly
they snap the links one after another. by
paying no heed to the arrangement of their
constitution, because they are SO light as
to soon wear away. Mistaken delusions !!
IF one of the parts of our delicately com
plex organism be injured, it throws greater
strain on the others aud all suffer. Wish
to maintain the animal economy in a
healthful state and to restore lost power,
we have only to use the celebrated HOME
STOMACH BITTERs.
Year: 1876

son alone may refuse to Cooperate with
the extreme Radical wing of their party.
The congressional contest must at once as
sumo u new phase. Mr.. Jones is pledged,
under circumstances here stated, to with
draw from the contest. However deeply
his feelings may be involved, he Is not the
man to forget pledge to the people or TO
friend. He is advised by letters written
by the best members of the Republican
party that If he continue a candidate Davis
or DaVis's designated nominee will enter the
field to defeat both Jones and Giddings.
With these facts before the people of the
district, the duty of Democrats, Wings
and Conservatives becomes too palpSble to
require definitions at our hands. Judge
Hancock's friends will forge: alleged in
Justice done him and rally to the support
of the nominee of the party. Those who
preferred Jones because of his outright de-


clared hostility to Tom Scott's robbery of
the commonwealth will forget the crime
that was done pOsterity and remember the
rights and necessities of the living and ad


here to GiddIngs. The unity of the party
and solidity of party action must be eff
fected at once in every county, town and
hamlet Of this congressional district. 1t is
not that we are SO anxious to nae IOnes


withdrawn or Giddings elected, as these
two men are personally involved, but we
would thwart the schemes of the Machla-
velian potter who proposed to make a Dsm-
ocratic quarrel stepping stone for his
malignIty and an agency for the reproduc


ton Of his demOniacal power in Texas.
Year: 1876

HIS ExcelIency is slightly pulled up, and
seems to think that papers that have made
war upon him have struck at the body and
soul of the Democratic party. He is fasci-
mating and grand and great and eloquent
and learned, and all that; but has not
swollen to proportions so magnificent that
he becomes the embodiment of the party.
He is Senator elect, and, forsooth, because
the people had enough of him as Govern
or; but be isn't such mighty giant that he
covers the continent. We never yet con-
founded Governor Coke with the party to
which we Uelong, and his vanity and
egntism are simply egregioua.
Year: 1876

IT seems that England aud France are
scared off by the combination between Rus
sia and Austria and Prussia, and Turkey is
doomed and the world will rel ice when
the base and barbarous power is stricken
from the face of the globe
Year: 1876

What the explorers have to say may
be judged from the following We copy
from the Sentinel.


The gentlemen who recently made the
trip over theproposed routes for connec-
ton with theL r d F. s. road, have
returned, and We give below the report
of Major b. K Davidson. Professor
Gates is Of the opinion that the people
along either route and at either terminus
would render all the AID in their power
The expense Of a reliable survey will not
he great. and We learn that competent en-
gineers will he employed at once. aud af.
ter that the location OF the road will be
fixed and the work commenced.


REPORT OF MAJOR DAVIDSON.


On the Alma route We found that the
road could he easily built frcm Fayette
vile to the summit of Boston Mountain,
the route being almost straight and the
grade almost imperceptible until within
two or three miles of the summit: and
from that point not very steep To get
from the head waters Of White River to
the head waters of Frog Bayou will re-
quire tunnel about two hundred and fifty


ards long The desc mt from that point
To Alma We foun | more difficult. hut we
think hy a sufficient expenditure Of mon
ev good road may be built over that
route. The distance from Fayetteville,
on direct line, is forty miles; the way
the road would have to run, about forty
eight or fifty.


We found the citizens of Alma alive
to the importance of building the road
and willing to do all in their power to rs
sist. The citizens Of Van Buren, are anx
ious that the road should he built, but
would rather have il terminate at their
city If built to Van Buren,, the distance
will he some five or six miles greater
The citizens of Van Buren, are also will.
ing to furnish substantial aid.


Fort Smith, as she has ever been. is
anxious to have railroad communication
with US. and is willing to help bear out
the burden Of building the road, provid-
ed it runs down the line to their citv
The route through Cane Hill. Dutch Mills,
and down the Indian line tn Fort Smith,
will be an easier one, perhaps. and the
cost per mile less, but the distance will
he greater, being some seventy fva miles
If built in this direction Cane Hill viii do
her part
Year: 1876

The prospects OF large emigration
during the present year, are more prom
ising than they have been at any time
since the early days Of Van Buren, But,
it must be remembered, that, notwith-
standing the pleasant prospective, to re-
alize happy eventuation. there must be
= determined effort, on the part OF all our
people, TO procure is They should not
endeavor to induce emigration by exag-
gerated tales or highly colored pictures,
with reference to our town aud county.
but rather confne themselves 10 the actu
al merits Of Van Buren, and vicinity No
honest effort should be spared in bring
ing TO the notice of those who desire to
change their base of operations" the
fact that this is as good a point as they
can find. Everything that can be truth
fully and consistently said, should be
made use of to increase our population.
Wehave empty stores and dwellings that
we desire to see occupied by business
men and their families We want to en-
courage good class Of people to come
among us to fill up the gaps, which
dath and other causes have made in our
midst. Let us all do all that we properly
eau to bring about result 80 happy in
all its effects