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Year: 1876

The Democratic ward politicians of New
York have notified the tramps they domiciled
in the city for election purposes that their
services are no longer needed. The tramps
claim the right of domicile until the election
is decided.
Year: 1876

''Here's to who is who, from that which is
what, and how is now to where is when with
Hayesy days for fishing" and then you peep
through the bottom OF your glass and wait the
official count for an answer .-r-
Year: 1876

The crisis now pending is grave one, and
they vino would stir up strife that may plunge
our land into war and hopeless ruin are food
only fit for the gibbet. Let Us appeal to the
God of steady and constantly developing
Providence, and not to the god of battles, for
judgment is His strange work and mercy His
darling attribute. ....
Year: 1876

Prominent Republicans in New Orleans, who
are thoroughly informed as to the latest events
transpiring there, deny most emphaticaily the
truth of the Associated Press dispatch last
night, which gave Louisiana to Tilden by 5000
majority. They maintain and reassert their
knowledge that the result of the count will be
good round majority for Hayes.
Year: 1876

three graves of their early bishops,
with the inscription, 'EpiscOpus
fratum, and on one there was the
additional inscription, Here lies in
peace Here, in the midst of the
remains of hundreds of Christian
Indians, the truly Apostolic men,
Bishops of the BRETHREN quietly
rest. This truly missionary Church
did almost the first effective work
that was done on this continent for
the conversion of the Indians, and
there is probably not to be found
anywhere in the world such col
lection of Indian Christian graves
as in this old Moravian cemetery"
Year: 1876

that's mystery to me. No there's
not SO much sneak thieving done
by them as formerly. You see,
housekeepers have learned by ex-
perience, and now, instead of leav-
ing the beggars stand in the yesti-
bu1e they don't permit them to cross
the doorsill, and if they go back to
the dining-room or kitchen for food
for them they generally close the
front door.


Yes, they are as clannish as
any set of beings on the face of the
earth, and have a vocabulary and
series of mystic signs understood
by no one but themselves. They
mark the houses they call at by
certain signs which indicate the
liberality or illiberality of the
keeper, so that any who follow may
know how to act and what to expect.
They can tell you just what they
are going to get, whether it will be
money or food, and then there are
houses that they shun altogether.


"They make these marks on the
bricks, or window shutters, or tree
boxes, or alley gates. I've seen
them at the work and discovered
their marks, but, Of course
couldn't decipher them. I've heard


some tall stories about some of then
growing enormously rich and own
ing a large amount Of property


but I've never been able to ge


down to it. I don't believe an,


such stories myself. | do know o


soap-iat man who owns quite


large amount of real estate, but


think these yarns about rich beg


gars, so far as Philadelphia is con


cerned, are all rather thin. Thei
pickings won't average more thai
a dollar a day, and they general


shoot it off in Alaska street run
They are good -for-nothing, careles
set that barely live from day to da!
and, if not sooner killed by rum
eventually find their way to th
Almshouse or the Morgue, and tn
: stereotyped verdict, death frol
debility and exposure, forms the
! epitaph."
Year: 1876

years ago; physical science proves that the
first chapters of Genesis are not scientific
account of the creation; historical research
proves that the writers of the Bible were
sometimes mistaken in both their facts and
their figures. We are driven to the con-
clusion that IL is in its religious teachings
that the Bible is absolutely true, and that
in the scientific and historical embodi.
nlents of the religious teachings the sacred
writers simply expressed the notions OF
their times that the Bible does not pro.
fess 10 be divine revelation Of science;
that II would be fatal to many conditions
OF human life were 1t 10 do so. And weak
theologians get frightened they think that
every human element Of the Divine Incar-
nation must be as infallible as the Divine
element. They tremble at the thought Of
having TO use the Bible in the exercise Of
spiritual principles and feelings, and they
cry out in terror, "They have taken away
my Lord, and know not where they have
laid him." AS the one true and supreme
religious book of the world :. as the author
itative record of Gods great revelation 10
men as the book OF transcendent spiritual
truth as the shrine Of the Divine words OF
Christ, the Bible cannot be taken from us.
So long az man has religious soul, so long
will the supreme spiritual truths Of the BIZ
BILE appeal 10 il, and demonstrate itself as
"the word of the Lord which endureth for
ever" II is not the dead letter, but the
living oracle OF the revelation of God.-
From Sermons by Henry Allon, d. d.
Year: 1876

The following story was told by General
Slocum in a speech TO the Independent
Democratic Committee in Brooklyn just
afler the late election.


"a few months amer 1 was sent West,
during the late war, met one of the most
accomplished generals who ever wore the
American uniform-I refer TO General Nc
Pherson. We had been at West Point to-
gether, and this was our first meeting since
we had left the academy. In talking over
the scenes through which we had passed
since we parted at West Point our conver-
sation turned upon the battle of Pittsburgh
Landing, where Mcpherson acted as chief
OF staff to General Grant. Mcpherson de-
scribed 10 me the disasters of the first day
OF that great battle-of how he had been
compelled from hour to hour during the
whole day TO be the bearer of bad news to
his chief. 1t was q succession OF reverses
from morning till night. When night came
on and ii was becoming too dark for the
enemy TO continue the fight, Mcpherson
rode up 10 Grant, who coolly said to him,
We'll, Mac, how do things lookr Bad
enough, General. We have lost, think,
about one-half our artillery and at least
third of the infantry. Ourline is broken in
several places, and we are pushed back, as
you see, pretty near the bank of the river
Grant made no reply, and Mcpherson be-
coming little impatient, finally said TO
him, well, General, under these clrcum-
stances what do you intend to dor Dol
Why, shall reform the lines and attack
them at daybreak. Lord wont't they be
surprised" Grant executed his plan to the
letter, and before o'clock next morning
the enemy was flying in every direction.
Whatever may be mans occupation, If
he meet with disaster, know Of no better
motto for him TO adopt than the words of
General Grant: Reform the lines and at
tack them again at daybreak.'"
Year: 1876

MoRx EXPLANATIONS TO COME E-General
Butler is no sooner nominated for Congress
than the Boston Herald unkindly asks him
to answer a charge made against him in tho
that he had used his position as manager Of
the soldiers homes to put good deal of
money into his own pocket. General Butler
has too large fortune and too profitable a
practice at the Bar to make it probable that
he has made money out of tho management
Of soldiers homes but as he is to attend a
meeting of the managers at Milwaukee this
week he will probably make answer to this
charge. He is too shrewd not to see that
explanations" are in order just now.
Year: 1876

On the subject of Sultans Of disordered
intellect the Koran is positive ; they must
be deposed No discretion is left as to the
time which may be allowed for possible re-
coyery, and thus the fact that Murad was set
aside, although distinguished alienists were
of opinion that he would recover, is not ne
cessarily to be explained by reference to
political intrigue, or to the resolution of the
extreme Moslem party to seize the oppor-
tunity to secure the throne for a prince be-
leved to sympathize with their aspirations.
The proper authorities acted in accordance
with the imperative commands of their law,
and it is fair to assume that they were sim
cere, at least III the absence Of any clear
evidence; that their zeal for the law was
strengthened by the coincidence that its
faithful performance could greatly help their
party People in England do not suspect
Mr.. Gladstonc's humanity because the
causes of humanity and of the liberal party
happen for the moment to be identical, and
this fair play may reasonably be extended
even to Ottoman statesmen.


uuiau coihPieteiy parted company with
his wits, it appears, at the moment when he
heard of tho death of his uncle, Abdul-Aziz,
which news he heard with the mourn
full exclamation, 'My heart is broken |"
But though he was from that moment
utterly lost in tho wilderness of dis
ordered thoughts he had not been for
many weeks previously altogether sane.
He was the victim of terror and of the agi-
tatlon in which men are tossed momentarily
from fear to hope for days and weeks to-
gether. 1t was his terrible fate to be born
near a throne which more resembles q gull
lotine than the safe seat of q rcigning sove-
reign. He was in line of succession which
oftener leads its heirs TO secret murder than
to happy succession of honors. lie knew
Year: 1876

not at what moment the dreadful likelihood
might dawn on the minds Of those in power
that his existence itself was danger to the
Sultan but he knew that if that moment came
his life would be of small account, and any
voice at tho door might be related to this
peril He came at last to live only in this
nightmare Of apprehension.


Dr. Capaleone, his physician, has de-
clared his opinion that the disturbance OF
the Princes reason began with this excited
condition, which itself was greatly aggra-
waited when he was committed to prison by
Abdul-Aziz some three weeks before his ac-
cession to the throne. To escape from the
consciousness of his condition he drank ex-
cessively and thus added to the trouble.
Upon his sudden release from prison he
thought he was on the way to execution; and
though it proved that he was on the way to
a throne the effect Of the fear was not less
severe. He had some affection for his
uncle, who appealed to him by letter foI
mercy to himself, his wife and children,
and when he learned of the murder the
blow was too much. He had been unable
to sleep before, and now this
alarming symptom became moro pos
tive. He was, as his physician reports,
absolutely" unable to sleep. Dr. Leidens-
dorf, of Vienna, having made an elaborate
examination, declared the malady durable
within period of three months but the
removal from the throne was nevertheless
deemed necessary.


Abdul Hamid, his brother and successor,
is but little known but the little that ID
known presents him in the light of typical
sovereign of rather the earlier than the later
sort. He is thirty-four years DID, physically
a Hercules and wonderful horseman. His
mother was Circassian, and he is said to
possess the energy of that race. He is re-
garded as opposed to reforms" and, there
fore, a thorough Moslem.
Year: 1876

they felt moderately sure OF winning they
would argue; it is because they feel them
selves weak that they take to vituperation
and denunciation.


This policy of denunciation, this exclu-
sion of reform and concentration on the
Southern issue is, therefore, blunder Of
the republican leaders in several ways. II
alicnates large mass Of their voters; it
creates feeling of distrust and alarm
among the calculating or "loose" voters, and
it places the party in false relation to the
living issues of the day. 1t may exasperate
and alarm timid and ignorant voters; but it
cannot carry the country. No thoughtful
voter really believes that the country would
be seriously endangered or hurt if the demo-
Gratis should come into power; and that sort
Of nonsense, when it is gravely put forth,
excites as much contempt in sensible men
rs the equally foolish assertion Of democratic
organs that the country would be ruined If
the republicans should succeed. That sort
of stuff is always put forward by both
parties. Excitable speakers and writers
persuade themselves, as the canvass gets
hotter, that the salvation of liberty and the
safety of the Union really depend upon the
election of their particular favorite, be he
Snooks or Winterbottom, and the political
demagogue naturally sings in that key.
The truth is that whether tho democrats or
the republicans win the country is safe in
either case. But if the republican party is
to be for another four years party of pro-
scription in the South, party encouraging
misgovernment and trading on outrage
there, then it is by all means best, for all
our interests, North and South, that the
democrats should come in and this is the
opinion of great many thousand rcpubli-
can voters, without whom the republicans
cannot succeed in November.
Year: 1876

SOUTH CAROLINA PoLrTrcs are very much
mixed. The republicans talk of withdraw
ing Elliott, their candidate for Governor, on
account of his unpopularity, and the demo-
Gratis have decided to withdraw their cleo
toral ticket and candidates for Congress in
order to defeat Attorney General Taft's order
respecting the use of United States troops
to protect the ballot box. This may be
ompromise among some of the party leaders
on both sides to escape the disgrace of
Elliott's election by concentrating upon
Hampton but, whether this is the case or
not, the nows will be unwelcome to Tilden's
Jealous supporters.
Year: 1876

The ELECTRIC WIRES at He'll Gate works
arc destined to play an important part in
the great explosion. We publish to-day
description of the manner in which these
will be employed and the arrangement of
the several conducting wires in relation to
cuts that accompany the description are in
tended to illustrate the general principle
on which the operations will be carried
ont, and also to assist the reader in compre-
hending the nature of the requirements that
will, if fulfilled, insure success.
Year: 1876

ENGLISH SENTIMENT continues hostile to
The position Of the Ministry on the Eastern
question. as is attested by the monster meet
ing in the Guildhall yesterday. The dam
ger to Lord Beaconsfield's Cabinet is almost
ms critical as the position of the Servians and
Turks
Year: 1876

moving eastward 1t il probable that by
Friday next we shall feel its influence in the
form of rain and brisk winds. From present
indications. however, it does not promise to
be serious disturbance The weather in
New York to-day will bo warmer and partly
clOudy
Year: 1876

PRINCE MrLAN's SOLDIERS choose singular
time for proclaiming him King. If he is able
to hold on to his principality without hum
bling himself before the Turk it is about as
much MS he can expect
Year: 1876

TwENTy-NINE INDIANS who were in the
fight on the Little Big Horn have surren-
dered. Most of the braves are ready to sur
render. no doubt, if they can obtain an
assurance that they will be fed until the
time to begin the next years campaign.
Year: 1876

on Thursday, the State day for New York,
tho city ought TO send them. If they are
not needed it is folly TO send them in their
buttons at their own expense. Even police
man might be allowed to enjoy the Centen-
NAL like any other citizen, especially when
he is expected to pay for his pleasure.
Year: 1876

After a great snow storm a little fel.
low began to shovel a path through q
large snow bank before his grand.
mothers door. Hehad nothing but
small shovel to work with.


"How do you expect to get through
that drift ?'' asked a man passing
along.


by keeping at it," said the boy,
cheerfully; that's howl"


That is the secret of mistering al
most every difficulty under the sun.
If a hard task is before you, stick to it,
and little by little it will grow small
ler, until it is done.


If hard lesson is to be learned, do
not spend moment in fretting; do
not lose breath in saying, II can't"
or do not see how" but go at it and
keep at it-steady. That is the only
way to conquer it.


If a fault is cured, or bad habit
broken up, it cannot be done by mere
ly being sorry, or only trying little.
You must keep fighting until it is got
rid of.
Year: 1876

The tie which bound a certain De.
troit youth to a lawyers Office was
severed yesterday, and his parents
were happy. They wanted the boy
to make a great lawyer, but he was
! getting along too fast. He pursued
his studies with an ardor which casts
judicial shadow DER the household
and created considerable neighbor.
hood talk. He got trusted for candy
and repudiated the bill on the ground
that he was minor. He bought 6
dog and went into bankruptcy. He
borrowed pair Of skates and defied
the owner to get out writ of replev'
in. He borrowed fifty cents and then
made the lender his assignee.


But the worst of it was in the fam.
lily. He had legal name for almost
everything, and his desire was tC
prove to his parents that he was just
absorbing dead-loads of law. If he
wanted n potato at the dinner-table
he would remark:


"Father, file my claim against that
baked potato and I'll prove the in
debtedness this afternoon.


If he wanted bread he said


Mother, get me out writ Of at
tachment for piece of bread"


1t was expected of him that he
would buid the morning fires. but no
sooner had he gained an insight into
law than he said to his father:


I'm going to move for change of
venue unless some other arrangement
is made"


He moved for stay of proceedings
when asked to go to the grocery, and
If chided for being out nights he re-
piled


"File your declaration and give me
a chance for jury trial."


When he was in a good humor he
would sit and regale his mother with
stories about how Old Chancery was
going up town one night and met
Old Equity and asked him how De-
cree was getting along. Old Plead
ings and Exceptions came along just
then, and there was big fight, and
the young lawyer would slap his leg
and add:


"If Indictment had only been there
he'd have wbaled the whole crowd ~


The other day the long-suffering
father severed the tie. He was try
ing to bear up, hoping for reform, but
as he sat down to the tea table his son
frightened up and remarked:


"The defendent will now take the
stand and be sworn. Now, sir, did
you or did you not come out of a Girls
void street saloon at eleven o'clock
this morning, wiping your mouth on
the back of your hand? Tell the jury
all about it, sirI"


II was little too much, and the
boy dosen't study law any more. He
plays with wood-pile in the back
yard.-DetrOH Free Press.
Year: 1876

Your.every day toilet is a part Of
your character.


A girl who looks like fury or 8
sloven in the morning is not to be
trusted, however finely she may look
in the evening. No matter how hum
BILE your room may be, there are eight
things it should contain, viz: q mir
ror. washstand, soap, towel, comb,
hair, nail and tooth brushes. Those
are just as essential as your breakfast,
before which you should make good
and free use of them. Parents who
fail to provide their children with such
appliances, not only make a great
mistake, but commit q sin of omis-
sion. Look tidy In the morning, and
after the dinner work is over, i'm
prove your toilet. Make it a rule of
your daily life to dress up for the af-
ternoon. Your dress may, or need
not be, anything better than calico /;
but with q ribbon, or some bit of orn-
ament, you have an air ofself-respect
and satisfaction that invariably comes
with being well dressed. A girl with
fine sensibilities cannot help feeling
embarrassed and awkward In a rag
ged, dirty dress, with her hair un-
kempt, if a stranger or neighbor
comes in. Moreover, your self respect
should demand the decent appareling
OF your body. You should make it
point to look as well as you can, even
II you know nobody will see you but
yourself.-HouSehoLd.
Year: 1876

lHE ADVERTISER is conceded to have no superior, and
few equals, if any, in the State; and we assure our
readers tat 1t shall be kept up, in every respect equal


to its present standard of excellence until we make if
better by various Improvements which we have in view
Just SO soon as times improve among the people f.
nancIay so as to justify in making such prove
mentS.


AT the commencement of the volume just closed
we promised patrons that THE ADVERTISER should
be IN the future better family paper than it had ever
been before; that filled our columns not with old
dead advertisements, but with choice reading pre-
pared with care for variety suit the general reader
Our readers will concede that we have lived up to this
promise We have for the last year carried more
reading matter than any other weekly in the State,
demonstrating that our ambitious declaration not
an empty blow, and that we do not make promises
only to break them.
Year: 1876

We have an especial pride in making an acceptable
local paper, embracing in this feature the entire county
Of Nemaha first, then Southern Nebraska and the
State thus making it desirable medium for cir
culat in other States amongst those desiring correct
sormation regarding Nebraska, and her claims con
nderation asa young State with all the inherent quail
ties of greatness.
Year: 1876

The ADVERTISER is unexcelled among the weekes OF
Southern Nebraska, the State, on account Of its


long established high reputation, its unequaed neat
of mechanical appearance its clear prnt and very
low rates for space.
Year: 1876

Owing to the predictions of the Signal
Service that . heavy northeast storm along
the Atlantic coast Is indicated, the excursion
to Atlantic City has been postponed until
Thursday. August 10th. The postponement
is solely In consideration Of the comfort OF
those who will attend the excursion.
Year: 1876

Two workers I'm one field


1oiled on from day to day:
Both had the same hard labor,


Both had the same small pay.
With the same blue sky above,


The same blue earth below,
One soul was full of love,


The other full OF woe.
One leaped up with the light,


With the soaring OF the lark
One felt IL ever night,


For his soul was ever dark.
One heart was hard as stone,


One heart was ever gay,
One worked with many a groan,
One whistled all the day.
One had fiower-clad cot


Beside a merry mill,
Wife and children near the spot
Made IL sweeter, fairer still
One a wretched hovel had,


Full of discord, dirt and din
No wonder he seemed mad, -
Wife and children starved within
Still they worked I'm the same field,
Toiling on from day to day:
Both had the same hard labor,
Both the same small pay;
But they worked not with one will,
The reason let Inc tell,-
Lo! the one drank at the still,
And the other at the well.