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Year: 1876

TRUST.
Searching for strawberries ready TO eat,
Finding them fragrant and large and sweet,
What do you think found at my feet,
Deep in the green hillside?


Four brown sparrows, the cunning things,
Feathered on back and breast and wings,
Proud with the dignity plumage brings,
opening their four mouths wide.
STOPPING lower to watch my prize,
Watching their motions with eager eyes,
Dropping my berries with glad surprise,


A plaintive sound heard


And looking up at the mournful CALL
spied on q branch near the old stone wall


The poor little mother bird.
With grief and terror her heart was wrung,
And while to the tender bough she chung,
She felt that the lives Of her birdlings hung


on still more slender thread. @.
"Ah, birdie,"I said, "If you only knew
That my heart was warm and tender and true =
But the thought that loved her birdlings too


Never entered her small brown head.
And so through this world Of ours we go,
Bearing our burdens Of needless woe,
Many heart beating heavy and slow


Under its load Of care;
But oh II we only, only knew.
That God was tender and warm and true,
And that lie loved us through and through,


Our hearts would be lighter than air.
Year: 1876

From the,Pall Mad uazette, Sept "a


Cardinal Manning. in reply to letter addressed ia
him by Methodist minister at Harrogale. says


So far as know, the English Catholics have made
no rcprAsentato to the government Of Spain In ref
erence to the Protcstants In that country SO far
know the laws In SPAN do not extend to the private
conscience belief of any one, but restrain only the
public propagation OF religious tenets or worship al
variance with tho religion OF the Spanish people Un.
dor these circumstances Catholic would consider
any represent ntaon TO be justified. the Spanish pe0-
pie united in faith and religion, anc fully just.
fed In preserving their country and their households
believing they do that this unity OF
faith and Of worship is divine law, they
hold It 10 be Of the highest obligation to transmit
faithfully to their children Ii the Catholics Eng
land were . majority tomorrow they would modest
matters of religion by civil laws. In pamphlet
written by me last year. in answer to Mr. Gladstone,
you will find this moro fully treated than am able to
do The principles on which answered then, and
now, are these:-1. SqAong as the unity Of .
people IN faith and worship exists unbr0ken, It Is the
duty Of such people preserve from bong broken
by public law. When once that unity is broken up
by the religious conflicts OF people, no civil laws
restore unity, which can bo restored only as IL
created-that is, by the obedience of faith. a The
public law OF such country do no more than pro-


ect the freedom and welfare OF all its subjects by
sIrainng what is injurious to human society," such
the propagation OF basphcmy, impety, polygamy &c.
There Is therefore, no parallel between SPAN and
England, nor between people united in one faith an6
people unhappily and hopelessy divided
Year: 1876

1t IS stated that some of the members of
the Democratic Caucus Committee are dis
posed to abandon the effort to reconcile
conflicting views on the financial question.
while Others think compromise can be
reached. A vote was taken on Saturday on
proposition to repeal the time fixed by
law Tor the resumption of specie payment,
and to require the banks and the Treasury
TO set aside specie reserve of three per
cent, and the result was tie. The oriei-
nal Payne bill which requires a-reserve of
i've per cent, is before the Committee on
Banking and Currency.
Year: 1876

As soon as my legs could take me to the police station, made known my loss to the authorities. and force of detectives was instantly put upon the track of tha false Ms Buffins but she had availed herself of my brief interview with Mir. Dorle, and, in the interim, had made good her escape with her i'll gotten booty.

 I never heard from her or missing prop erty again but I consoled myself for this treEle disaster by summarily dis. charging my genteel man-servant, ''Jenks'' who, l suspected, laughed in his sleeve at my simplicity and credulity. I don't know whether could positively prove it ; but it was enough to see that I was the laughing-stock of every middling lawyer and petifogger, from Chambers Street to the purlieus of the Tombs and though l strove manfully against the torrent of rldicule which engulfed me, it proved too much for young man of my slender le- gal attainments and in a few weeks I quietly hauled down my sign and became brokers clerk, with no lingering ambi- tion to figure as. a "notary public" or even to enroll my name among the dusty files of the police court.
Year: 1876

An Assault on the Flag Of our Uniea.


The tattered and torn appeara nee Of the
United States flag suspended across Camp
street, belonging to the American Union
Club, told yesterday q sad tale of New Or
leans hatred to our national colors. Late
on Sunday night it was assaulted by q
crowd Of young men, who sadly dubbed,
thrown going completely through the bunt-
ing, leaving ugly holes as marks of spite and
disloyslty, which must have existed in the
minds of the msrauders. There is no doubt
but what if the fl ag could have been reached
from the street it would have been
torn down and trampled in the dust
The policeman of the beat states
that when ne approached the scene
of outrage the mob fed toward
Canal street, and scattered, eluding his
pursuit. The young rowdies roa ming at
large in this city may think it smart
thing to destroy the property of the Ameri-
can Union Club, and the act IN that light
may not be generally condemned; but the
loyal North, battling against Democracy
and the newly oonfederated South in the
party field, will not lightly regard this in
suit to our colors. The American flag must
be respected wherever it flies, whether or not
it has inscribed on its folds the name Of
Tilden. The "Boys in Blue" have sworn to
protect it, and it is q harm and shame to
New Orleans that the stars and stripee
should receive injury and insult in oul
streets
Year: 1876

The Board of Health, through DR.. Holt,
sanitary inspector of the Fourth District,
is now making scientific examination and
test, more thorough than has ever before
been attempted, of carbolic acid. and ex.
poets to be able to show its exact value as
a disinfectant.


The recent experiments in New York with
the Girondin disinfectant, and the favor
with which physicians there regard it,
have interested all the members, and an
examination of it will be had as soon as
possible.
Year: 1876

From passenger who arrived in the city
Yesterday, it is learned that on Sunday
morning last, a. Elder Hannibal, colored
preacher of some local note, was crossing
the Mississippi river in boat, in company
with several other persons, the boat was
swamped and the elder and seven OF his
companions were drowned. The party
were crossing over to the Acklen place
near the mouth of Red river, for the pur
pose of attending divine service, at the
time of the catastrophe.
Year: 1876

The excited anticipstions of the Demo
cratic press concerning the threatened out
break yesterday 1.-THE eighth days session
of their parish convention) and especially
the Times narrative that IAN armed and
determined body of men" had been selected
to repress violence, proved to have been
altogether unnecessary. These alarm notes
and preparatory musters were based on
the supposition that the short hairs would
not be sat down upon without kicking, but
the sequel showed that .'they took their
Cruel like little men,"


There was an increase of confidence in
Democratic circles yesterday. The destruc-
tion Of He'll Gate, close to New York, gives
hope that that State may yet be carried for
Tilden.
Year: 1876

THE WATER TURNED ON.-The water from
the new reservoir was turned on.the city on
Saturday.


The pressure upon the pipes on Saturday
night at the corner of Ninth aud Broad
streets was twenty-six pounds to the square
inch. At the Chesapeake and Ohio depot
the pressure was seyentyssix pounds.


On Church Hill there was an abundant
supply of water at all points, and elsewhere
in Richmond the people were rejoicing that
they could wash to their hearts content.
Year: 1876

Wild OArs.-"A young fellow
must sow his wild oat.." H. all the
wide range OF accepted maxlms
there h none. take ii for all la all
more abominable than this one ol
the sowing Of wild eats. Look al
Il on " bat side you will, aud We will
deity you 20 make any but a DEVILS
maxim Of II. What "a man-bc hc
young old or middlc-aged--sows
that and nothing else shall be reap
The only thing to DO with wild oats
Is to put them carefully INTO the hot
test part Of the Ore, and get then
burnt TO dust, every seed of them
IL you SOW them, no matter in wha
ground, M they will come.
Year: 1876

From the Atlantic Monthly tor Juy.


There was an incident on the nsugu'
raj programme which tested the stale OF
public opinion and feeling like touch
stone. The President of the United
States came. spo~e and went without
applause. a few scattering cheers made
more apparent the silent indifference
with which he WAS received. Let the
truth be told in spite Of the reporters:
There were more grosns and Lisses
than huzzss ~ he finished his brief adj
dress Ten years ago earth and sky
would have shaken with the thunder of
mis- welcome. What n sublime posses
sion to have thrown AWAY the conlidence
and gratitude of nsti"ni He stood
there, rs il W ere discrowned and tiSown-
cd. the frock coat and black hat typify-
my the loss oi the glory he put ot for
ever with his uniform.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, June 1.-The commit
tee of conference on the so-called silver
bill held long meeting this afternoon,
and practically agreed on report. The
members of the committee are Messrs.
Sherman, Boutwell, and Bogy on the
part of the Senate, and Messrs. Randall,
Landers and Payne as Representatives of
the House. The report will recommend
the passage of measure sub
stantially the same as the Ran
dali bill, providing for the pur-
chase Of silver bullion TO the amount
of twenty millions with any money
in the Treasury, and its coinage and
issue In the shape of subsidiary silver
coin, provided that not more than mil
lion dollars worth shall be pur-
chased at any one time, and provided
also 10y q new clause) that the whole
amount of silver coin Issued in this way
and in exchange for fractional currency
retired shall not exceed S50,000,000. The
Senate amendment striking out the word
'fnow" from the clause authorizing the
issue of silver coin now in the treasury Is
agreed to by the committee. The House
amendment adopting the motion of Mr..
Lsnders and providing for the
revival of the old silver dollar
with legal tender power, is stricken out
by the conference committee; so also is
the Senate amendment repeating the
present legal tender power OF, the trade
dollar Mr.. Lsnders says he intends to
oppose the adoption of theoreport by the
House, and thinks the House will stand
by its former action on his amendment
to- day. . fg CSE. ... .g..rE..


The Robeson Investigation.


At the request of. Secretary Robson,
General Gsrfeld, the chairman, and
Judge Hammock, of Texas, one OF the
Democratic members of the Appropria-
tion Committee OF the last House, we're
called before the Naval Committee, and
testified that the question Of the use and
exchange of old iron on hand in the
various navy yards, and obtained by
breaking useless iron vessels for the pur-
pose of supplying the necessary iron for
the repairs OF our serviceable iron clads
was brought before their committee by
Robson in the winter of 1873 and 1874,
and that his authority 10 make such use
of the iron was conceded, and the policy
of so doing assented to by the committee,
and that the appropriations for the de-
partment were made and graduated by
the committee, with the understanding
that the material should be so used.


The river and harbcr bill, which was
reported to the So".,te by its Committee
on Appropriations just before adjourn.
ment to LAY, is very slightly increased
in its total amount, but large number
of items providing for the improvements
OF minor Importance are stricken out,
and the sums proposed for several objects
of greater magnitude increased.
Year: 1876

AS the virtues Of medicines can only be ascer
tanned by careful observation it is to be regretted
that many of the drugs still prescribed By some
Physicians should retain place in our materia
medical As an instance of this, that vile drug Bal
Copaiba furnishes an example, About the year
1880 the Spaniards in the Island of San Domingo
having become afflicted with certain complaints,
thought, according to the prevailing notion at that
time, that the remedy might be found where the
disease originated. Under this impression Balsam
Copaiba came INTO use, but never has a nauseating
drug done injury, for it not only changes the
nature of the disease to dreadful state than
the original but it ruins the tone of the stomach
and brings Dyspepsia in it's worst forms. To


void this drug and its effects the SAMARITAN
GIFT, pure vegetable remedy is within the reach
of ALL Only ten pills to be taken, and will cure every
time from two to four days. Male packages $a
female 49,
Year: 1876

Been in general use for twenty years. Everywhere
proved the most SAFE, SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL.
and EFFICIENT medicines known. They just
what the people want saving time and money, avert
Dg sickness and suffering. Each single specific the
we'll tried prescription of an eminent physloan.
Year: 1876

TIE HEST VEEK or THE EYHTBTTION


The close of the first week of the Exposi-
ton still leaves in doubt the question whether
it will pay for itself in dollars and cents.
But its success is assured in points infinitely
more important than any purely financial
one. In tho first place, the accommodations
provided prove sufficient To insure the absolute
comfort of the public The buildings and
grounds are so large that n large daily
attendance does not produce crowd. The
great concourse at the gates mclts away into
the vast houses; every man has breathing
room, and that comfortable sense of license
and quiet essential TO thorough comprehension
of the object before him.


Another marked success is the promptness
with which the Exposition il recognized and
received by the masses of our own people, not
rs show place but as school. There il very
little idle sauntering, except by now comers on
their first visit In the groups surrounding an
exhibit the faces Of Americans, keen, alive,
quick-eyed, are distnguishable from all Others.
and the questions asked by them are usually
shrewd and intelligent Specialists, of course,
seek out their own department Of study: art,
mechanics, agriculture. ceramics, etc. But the
Year: 1876

We do not remember any great measure of
legislation which the Democratic majority IN
the House of Representatives has succeeded III
adding to the statute books, hut 1t VIII long
be distinguished Tor its policy OF interference
in tho affairs of the Pos-0llce. This is one OF
the few departments in which the public service
has been conducted with eXaspcratng honesty
ana efficiency, and it is almost the only one
with which the Democrats lave seriously med
died. They nearly cut off the supply OF gas
and water Il few weeks ago. and now we aie
assured that they have determined to cut oil
the fast mail trains, perhaps IA iirst step
toward a return to the old p0ny-express and
stage-coach of the days OF Jefferson
There il large and unfortunately indus
tri0us class of persons in Congress who
cannot he expected TO comprehend the adyan-
tagcs of "thc rapid communication oi Thought
"and intelligence by electricity and stcam,
and to them fast mails doubtless appear to he
needless luxurics of the rich, something Ike
billiard tables and fast horses; but we should
think even these rudimcntary politicians might
have some perception of the popular temper.
Tho establishment of the fast mails has been
hailed all over the country ia one of the most



lion; it il looked upon by the Am rcan peo-
pic with u feeling Of pride; good exam
ple of national energy and enterprise; and the
abandonment of the service Will provoke a
general and angry remonstrance.


The proposed action in this case ia re-
markable illustration Of that vast, varied. and
almost universal incapacity which has distin-
guished the Democratic House Of Representa-
tiyes ever since the beginning of the session.
1t has touched nothing that it has not mud
died, from the impeachment of a Cabinet
Minister to the scrutiny of supply bill. IL
entered upon its work with policy marked
out for it 50 plainly in advance that blunders
seemed almost impossible. This il cam
"paign session." devoted principally to the
manufacture of political capital, and the loud
cry for retrcnchmcnt and reform w'i"h
sounded all over the United States made IT
clear from the start tina. the proper course for
the Democratic majority was to investigate
abuses and cut down the estimates. Both these
things they have indeed attempted, but how
They have cOntrivcd to disgust the whole ma
ton with the very word investigate, by show
ing that they do not know how to discriminate
between sober inquiry and mud-throwing, and
they have almost put the people out o1 the
humor of saving money by a reckless crippling
of the public service in some Of its important
branches, while in other directions they are
supposed to have been equally reckless IN ex-
pcnditurc. Whether in their attack upon the
fast mails they have been misled by some cr-
rOneOus idea of economy, or only actuated by
the same laundering hostility toward an
agency of popular enlightenment which in
spred the postal policy of Mr. llanlin. we do
not undertake TO say; but whatever the mo-
tive OF their conduct, they have committed IA
blunlcr which the people will be sure to re-
member and resent.
Year: 1876

to Shanghai, but their project is regarded un-
favorably by the officials. The people, how
ever, encourage the enterprising builders, and
they are further melted to persevere by the
prospect of railroads becoming general through
out the empire.
Year: 1876

moro important ore. if the Senate passes
bill to substitute silver coin for lee h-tehuei
notes of small denominations, and TIC HOUSE
rejects that also. The country VIII miss
great opportunity, and the people will probably
understand The fact before the next campaign
has closed
Year: 1876

The gathering Of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church, which takes place
to-day at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, gives the
opportunity for a historical review, in other
columns, of the rise and progress of the de-
nomination. Even in respect TO establishment
in this country. the Presbytcrans are nearer
Iheir second than their first centennial, and
the earlier years of their Church were full OF
the arduOus struggles which pertained 10 the
colonial era. Organized efforts for the educa-
ton of their youth in the ministry, and hearty
abors in missionary fields both at home and
abroad have always formed characteristic
features of their church history. The great
division between Old and New School which
rent the denomination in twain in 1885. gave
opportunity for one of the grandest events in
ecclesiastical annals-the reunion of the
Church in 1870. One of the consequences OF
this union is, however, that the Assemblies
have latterly become large and unwieldy.
Year: 1876

In its resolutions against return to q
double. standard of coinage and silver as
legal tender for indefinite amounts, the
American Neurological Society is taking hand
in deciding the great practical questions OF the
day. While the primary object of the Society
is to introduce and hasten reform in weights
and measures, the discussion of a suitable basis
for our coinage leads naturally in the direc-
ton of the important monetary measures which
are under debate in Congress. As the Society
is in possession of large mass of data on
srch subjects, and its membership includes
many profcients in the study of finance and
statistics, advice from this quarter will deserve
consideration.
Year: 1876

It will not escape notice that the testimony


of Major selye against Congressman Morey is
that of an acknowledged blackmailer. Out OF
their own mouths comes the evidence as to
the disreputabls character of the Federal
officials in Louisiana. Put it either way, let
the testimony be true or false. this patent fact
Year: 1876

richness and extent of the mines of Arizona !! What we want is capital, for most of the owners of the mines are poor men who have gone through the heat and burd- en of the day and cannot erect re- ductiOn works without help. So come on capitalists, and no more dOubting.
Year: 1876

The Record Union says: The sheep men in Tehama county are in a bad condition. Wool is low and sheep are worth only about seventy-fve cents head for mutt ton. Projects are on foot for a wholesale slaughter of sheep and converting them into tallow and SOaD.
Year: 1876

has been the great bling block in the path of human progress. Never since the foundation of the world has there been anything proposed for the advancement of mankind in civilization, in the arts and sciences, or in the thou sands of things that have been developed to make man better, wiser and happier, but it has been opposed by the demon doubt There have been men in all ages who seemed to be born before their time. who had sort of pro- phetic vision of the dawn of some new truth or of some discovery or application of science which the common mind could not compre- bend, much less believe; and these advanced minds were met at every step by this demon, who has disputed their progress, not only by doubt and ridicule but by persecution in various forms. As late as 1882 Calico was thrown into prison and tried by the in- quisition for proclaiming the re- voIution of the earth, fact now known and admitted throughout the civilized word. But the old doubters couldn't see it and big oted church pronounced it heresy.

 When Fulton was making his grand experiments in demonsurat- ing the applicability of steam in propelling' vessels, he was met and opposed by flood of doubts, sneets and ridicule, and even pro- nOunced crazy. Bat he saw deep CT and further than the doubters were capable of seeing, and he tri- umphed. Now see the mighty result !! See the thousands of mo- ble steamers and floating palaces, navigating all the seas and navi- gable rivers of the world :! And coming down to our own time, what doubts met Morse in his ex- periments with the electric tele graph ? Only a few advanced minds could'admit that it was pos sible to harness the lightning Of Heaven and cause it to carry messages to all parts of the earth with the speed of thought! Most men thought the project was wis. ionary in the extreme. But Morse persevered and lived to see the grand result of his labOrs in the greatest and most benificent achievement in science that the world has ever seen And thus it has always been. Whenever any new thing has been proposed that cannot be comprehended by the common plOdding mind. it has had to stand the discourage ment of doubt and ridicule. We do not wish to be understood as encouraging credulity. A man should not believe everything he. hears, and should, never believe anything without evidences; but men should be careful how they throw doubts in the way of every thing just because they can't un- derstand it. Some men seem to be born doubters. They doubt everything that they do no actual ly see and some things that they do see. There is but one step be- tween the chronic doubter and the constitutional growler, and the step is an easy one and they are generally found embraced in one character. Some men pretend to doubt the existence of the mineral wealth of Arizona. This is partie- uIarly the case with the capita lists OfSan Francisco, though they have had plenty of evidence of it's existence. They would rath- or confine their operations to gam bling in Nevada stocks than to come out here and use some of their capital in helping to de-