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Year: 1876

to authorize Tue President TO accept the
services OF volunteers to aid in suppress
ing the Sioux Indian hostilities in the
northwest was taken from the tribe and
referred to the Committee on Military
Year: 1876

WE'RE drifting out to isles of peace,
We let the weary world go by;
We sail away DER summer seas,
Ny wife and 1.
We bear to rest in regions fair
The faltering spirit of the mind;
The kingdom wide of toll and care
We leave behind.
How poor to us the proudest prize
For which earth's weary millions sigh
Our need We zee in two dear eyes,
My wife andI.
This way and that the races go,
All seeking some way to be blest;
Nor dream the joy they meyer know
Is how to rest.
The Travelling nations rise and fall,
They lift the palm, they bear the rue;
Yet bliss is this, to know through all
That one is true.
They perish swift, the gala flowers,
The landing people love to fling;
Waits silence. dearth and lonely hours
The once-crowned King.
But never shall he faint or fall
Who lists to hear o'er every fate
The sweeter and the higher call
OF his true mate.
hear it whercsoe'er rove;
She holds me safe from shame or sin;
The holy temple Of her love
l worship in.
We're drifting out TO realms Of peace;
We let the weary world go by;
We sail away DER summer seas,
My wife and l.
We sail to regions calm and still,
To bring in time TO all behind
The service of exalted will,
Of tranquil mind
The fading shores grow far and dim,
The stars are lighting in the sky;
We sail away to oceans hymn,
My wife and l.
Mary Ciemner, in ". Y. independent.
Year: 1876

The great and only secret In raising
turkeys is to keep them dry and warm.
They must at the same time, have such
grass, bugs, flies and gravel as they would
pick up If running at large. Make a pen
OF any old boards, not less than two and
one-half feet high (more would be better).
and so tight that the chicks cannot get
through it, in corner of the meadow or
chard. calf pasture or house yard. Six
teen feet square will be large enough for
brood of ten or fifteen, and half dozen
such broods may be kept in O place sixteen
feet wide and forty or fifty feet long. Let
the chicks remain in the nest twelve to
twenty-four hours after they are hatched,
then put them In the pen towards even
ing, after the heat of the sun has passed
and long enough before evening 10 ex-
plore their new quarters and get tired
before dark. A little before "roosting
time" give them liberal feed of bread
soaked in milk, and hard-boiled eggs
chopped fine, throwing in some course
grain at the same time for the old hen


After disposing Of this they will 60 quiet
ly to roost under the old one, and re-
main in there until daylight. .taad
$50 far so good" but now comes the
point at which most of the failures are
made. The turkey is emphatically an
'earlv bird" and a wanderer, and before
you are aware of it, the hen will hop over
Il low fence, and try to coax the chicks af-
ter her for their breakfast. In order to
prevent this. you must get up in the morn
ing, and, have ready for both hen and
chicks bountiiul feed, after partaking of
which the hen will again cover the little
ones, and keep them warm until the dew
is gone. Feed them at least four times q
day for few days, after which three
times day for few days, will be sufii-
cient; supply them with fresh water daily !;
let them remain in this pen until they are
old enough to get out themselves, and If
you do not raise more than twice 'five
out of fifteen hatched," you will have
worse success than have. The hen will
fly out often during the day, and use every
effort to get the chicks to follow her, but
finding they do not come to her. she will
return to them. An old door, or bit of
wide board, leaned up against one side of
the pen, and fastened so that it cannot fall
down and kill any OF them, will afford
them shelter from the sun by day. and
dew by ght.-POultry World
Year: 1876

Of course moderation in "society" is
more difficult in this country than else
where, for the reason that education, char-
acter and refinement have no support in
rank. A duchess may dress simply, live
economically, and entertain plainly. She
is always duchess, and in the best So
ciety, and to cross her threshold is 10 be
admitted to it. But lady who 10 not
duchess, who has only the vague tradition
OF "good family" upon her side, must be
very exceptional person if without money
she maintains any kind of corresponding
position. In Washington, for instance. ,
high officer Of state who should live upon
his salary, and hope to save something
from it against the evil day of his removal,
would find it very difficult to maintain in
a boarding house. and without carriage
and without entertainments, the social
standing which an ambitious, clever, and
daring wife might require. Set by his po-
sition she would be necessarily exposed
to the splendid rivalry of luxury and pro-
fusion of every kind; and if she sold her
influence, it would be that she might shine
and conquer by magnifcence. Such a
woman-we read of them in novels, and
smile at the bold invention of the author
would carry her CAV audacity to the
very moment of disgraceful exposure and
ruin. In her house. superbly furnished
with fraud and richly decorated with cor
ruption. she would stand supreme and
queenly In a costly robe woven of lies and
embroidered with bribes; careless, know
ing. as she graciously bowed and chatted
and greeted the bright guests of mo-
ment, that the scene was all hideous
phantasmageria of deceit, that the naked
sword hung by hair just above her state
ly head. and that at any moment the
ghastly meme. meme, would glare upon her
walls in the appalled, eyes Of her blithe
company.


What is the moral of this sermon? The
text, indeed it is not necessary to an
nounce. What is but the old one that If
we are to be saved from the swift dry.rot
of corruption, the foul decadence Of older
states, one way to begin is individually
and unitedly to discountenance extrava-
gance. Intelligence, refinement. wit,
shrewdness, cultivation. are still more
lovely and desirable than vulgarity and
display. They can set Fashion" IL
they will. II they choose, they can make
extravaganza vulgar by confining 1t to
those who can be nothing but extravagant.
-Editor's Easy Chair IN Harper's Mag
azine for May.
Year: 1876

WE have received a copy of the
San Francisco Journal of Commerce
containing an annual review of the
trade and commerce of that city for
the year 1875, and also of the State
of California for the same time The
report is bristling and exhaustive
with statistics, showing not only the
material progress that State has
made during the past year, but af-
fords a foreshadowing of the future
commercial Importance of its chief
city, San Francisco. The exhibit
is well calculated to surprise distant
readers, accustomed as they have
been to the extraordinary accounts
ofthe wonderful resources and splen-
did future prospects of that country.
Accompanying the report is large
and finely engraved map, showing
the commercial connections of San
Francisco with the principal ports Of
the world, as well as all the steam
ships and sailing routes between the
chief ports of each mercantile nation,
telegraph lines, ocean cables, etc.
IN fact, San Francisco is represented
as being the centre Of vast future
trade, greater than that which has
been enjoyed by any city, ancient or
modern---and we sincerely hope this
city will realize the dream OF
its ambition at no distant day; for
with her growth degree Of progress
and prosperity is extended all over
the coast.
Year: 1876

THIRD TERM.-General Banks in
a recent letter to the New York
World, refuting the statement that
he is candidate for the Vice-Presi-
dsncy, says he-has no hesitation in
saying that he "belieyes General
Grant will be the candidate of the
Republican party for a third term"
Year: 1876

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before after its use accompaniment of any
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Year: 1876

any smart man who wishes TO make $4,000 year on
a SMALL capital to commence in our lue of BUSH
ness ROOFING Is A SPECIALITY. There is
one in your county who carries the business. You
can learn it in one week by studying instruc-
tons which send to all who ask for Them Amy
man having 300 capital to start with, can purchase
enough material to roof three ordinary houses. The
sum realized from sale and profit on this supply,
added to the regular pay for labor roofer, should
amount to not less than 5000. An expert man
could easily do the work in nine working days Two
persons of small means can Join together to advan-
tage one canvassing while the other attends to the
work Send for our book OF Instructions Gree II you
write at once) and study it, Ask for terms. II you
unable to advance the money, sent the matter
it over with him. He will be glad TO furnish the
stock and divide the profit with you. We will guar
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Address = = . -. -


Limited, 4 Cedar ST., N. Y, and mention


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Year: 1876

Ear Discharges and Partial Deafness Cared.


That the timid and disappointed may feel the
utmost assurance and confidence in the good
faith Of Doctor Hartley, he generously proposes
to attend all persons rich or poor free oflcharge
until the best evidence and most convincing
proofs Of his success have been realized from his
treatment. Ofice and residence 935 E street
northwest.
Year: 1876

ADzughter shamed-A Father Grief Stricken.


nwas Just after dark last night. Ayoung
man and woman walked slowly and apparently
unconcerned along D street. She was dressed
fashionably and expensiyely, and her pretty
face wore timid, half scared look as she
drew back from the gaze of passers by. When
they reached the sidewalk in front of q certain
house of ill-rcpute, they stopped, looked
quickly back to zee that they were not OBJ
served, and then FASTENED up the rickety steps
at pace quite at variance with their former
slow gate. The door was opened, and the
couple disappeared in the dark hallway.


The door had hardly closed upon them
when the figure of an old gentleman appeared
on the corner last turned by the guilty couple.
Up and down he looked, straining his aged
eyes to catch sight of somebody who had evil
IDENTIFY disappeared around that corner just
before he reached It. Not seeing those for
whom be was looking, he tottered along the
walk, Peering into the store WINDOWS as ne
pass ed in hopes that he might thus find them.
His pained and furtive look attracted the at
teptiop of several. One who observed him had
also observed the sudden disappearance of the
young couple, and he quickly discerned how
matters were situated.


He communicated with the old gentle
man, and informed him of the whereabouts of
the couple. The old man mounted the rick
ETY. steps and disappeared in the dark hall,
and learned his daughters disgrace. About q
quarter of an hour afterward the old nan re-
appeared upon the steps with face white
with agony and lips tightly compressed. A
young woman, veiled closely, and bowed with
shame more than the old man was with age,
clung to his arm. They moved down the
street; the one disgraced and in deep shame,
the other a broken-hearted old man. Not q
word was spoken, and nothing broke the
silence between them except now and then a
sob from underneath the veil. They moved
away and disappeared in the restless throng of
wayfarers.
Year: 1876

MAYORS and Governors and Judges Of the high
est dignity in the State; his daring sacrilege
upon The ballot box to affect national elections
his fagrant robbery of the public treasury BY
felony and forgery; his seizure b. the aid Of corr
Tupt Judges Of great corporations, Of soulless
railroads and charitable trust companies; his In
sOlent .dictation to caucuses, conventions and
Serates; the shameless debaachery and almost
social liie-all these Incidents, only half re-
yealed to public gaze, have in them less Of the
elements Of pure romance than the events
Of the past year
probably q short, sharp trial leading inevitably
TO State prison. We hear Of one contingency
that promises him some relief, but the conditions
are so lar removed from the seeming possibilities
high in ofice and position that they may yet
serve him that we anticipate no result alike ad-
yantageous to the public good and to the pris-
oner. But in any event, whether he seeks safety
and silently suffers his punishment, the end for
him is hardly different. In the one case q brief
delay in a contracted cell OF the debtors prison.
a short, quick trial with overwhelming evidence
against him, and only technical bubbles in his
defense, and then long confinement in State
prison. In the other event, a longer delay under
civil attachment. but finally release, banishment
and infamous obscurity. Neither fate is to be
envied; either sacrifice Tweed may well shudder
to contemplate.


Another feature of the altered situation is one
which has more terrors for others than for Tweed
himself, if 1t be true that Woodward can estab-
lish as well as Tweed the corruption and fraud by
which men still high in authority obtained their
power What 1t is possible TO prove In this direc-
tion, how far the further reformation of courts
and Legislature and State Offices is concerned
through the instrumentalty Of the present cap
tives, remains o problem whose future solution
terry is a source Of constant anxiety to many
hearts.
Year: 1876

notwithstanding the multiplicity Of saloons
existing in this city the fact is patent that
there are very few where gentlemen can OBJ
tain the choice productions Of the market
cooked and dressed to their tastes and fancy.
This want will now be supplied. Messrs.
Tally & Heath, gentlemen we'll known to this
community, have taken steps to remedy this
fault. They have erected a fine building on
E street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets northwest, which will be known in
the future as 1.-THE Exchange" There they
propose to have as elegant an eating and
drinking saloon as the city can boast. The
bill of fare will embrace the best that land
and water can supply, and the wines and
liquors will be Of the finest brands. The pro-
prietors intend to give their personal and un-
divided attention to the establishment, and
its success is, therefore, assured. This after
noon at 5 o'clock they extend compliments 10
their army of friends and bid them welcome
to their house-warming. Let all attend the
opening matinee.
Year: 1876

Benson's Capcine Porous Plaster received
the highest and only reward Of merit at the
Philadelphia Exposition over all articles Of
like character, proving by the highest medical
authority in the world that they are greatly
superior to ordinary porous plasters, and not
a patent medicine, as no nostrums were al
lowed to be exhibited there. Benson's Cap
cine Porous Plaster is positively the best ex-
ternal remedy ever devised. They relieve
pain at once, and cure where other porous
plasters only relieve after long use. Over
three thousand physicians now recommend
their use, and they are sold by druggists
everywhere. Price, % cents.
Year: 1876

The willows growing by the brook,
How brigb, and beautiful they look!
Curving and winding through the vale,
Swayed gently by the Southern gale,
While sunbeans scorch the up and void
And scathy drought asserts It's hold,
See the green willows by the brock,
How fresh and beautiful they look.
Their plant branches bend and droop,
And kiss the waves in graceful stoop.
And dipping in the living tide,


Show glrieTing diamonds tar and wide.
And bark what strains of music gu,h
From piainrive nightingale and thrush,
Singing in yOnder quiet nook


Where leafy willows shade the brook.
The swallow skins along the stream
As silent as in dream,


And a gay king fisher fits by


In plumage rich-with sudden cry
The moor hen TO her shelter shoots.
And hides among The tangled roots
But all along the running brook
How green the growing willows look.
Now while the Summer sun is bright,
And summer glories at their height,
Come, wander in the widows shade,
And quaf the fragrance OF the glade.
See! how the trout in yonder deep
In gambols sparkle as they leap;
And the fresh willows by the brook
How bright and beautiful: they look.
Year: 1876

change all this. The President elect mas
already, in his letter of acceptance, taken
position upon the question so positive and out
sDoken that it gave Ofiense to President Grant
He has only to pursue the line OF policy lniIi-
Gated in that letter to take away from the
Southern white citizens their last and only
excuse for acting with the Democracy. we
believe Gov. Hayes appreciates the. need
of taking into his cOunsels the repre-
sentatives of the conservative sentiment
of the South; that he is conscious OF
the necessity of consulting upon Southern
affairs different class of men from those who
have surrounded Grant, and that he intends to
signali2c his administration by the pacifcation
of the South and the establishment there OF
peace, order, and material prosperity. Nor
do we think it is too sanguine or too hopeful
q view to take Of the present situation that
we shall sec shortly after the Inauguration OF
Gov Hayes-an event which will be cOnsum-
mated in q peaceful and orderly manner-the
conservative representatives from the Sonth
cooperating cordially and heartily with the
Administration in its Southern policy, and both
together making rapid progress in reestablish-
ing peace, order. and tranquility throughout
the Southern States. The Southern represent
atives and Southern people care great deal
more for that than they do for Mr.. Tilden or
any other candidate.
Year: 1876

and enormous SUMS given to support thes.


charities in the city, there Is no occasion far
such want and suffering. There are Homes,
Asylums, Societies without number, seenlar and
religious, which ought to meet every case of need


The individual citizen who, let us hope, contrib
utes his quota to the support of these. gladly
shifts the responsibility of the poor on to them.
He expresses horror Of tramps and profes-
sional beggars, and is jealous In denouncinf
indiscriminate almsgiving to paupcrs on the
street or at the door, as " destructive Of the
true principles of social economy Now, dur
ing this Winter it would be wise to be little
less considerate Of the welfare of social econ
omy. The fact is that the actual want threat
ems to be so great among us that the public
and church societies cannot meet it. especially
with the diminished resources of many of them
in consequence Of the hard times. There are,
too, always, perhaps necessarily, much delay
and red tape observance in the conduct Of
these charities. They are intended TO meet
especial cases and can relieve no Others. Julia
Deems with her freezing baby might have ap-
Piled at a dozen Homes for the Aged, Inebri-
ates, Disabled Workmen, &C., before she
found one that suited her case. In as many
more the safeguard Of inspection by Dis
" trict Visitor"" ticket from responsible house,
"holder,r &C., would have been required. All
praiseworthy caution, no doubt. But in the
mean time Julia Deems's baby froze to death.


The case narrows itself down to this. The
people responsible were those who passed her
by, turning deaf ears to her cry for help. The
only remedy for the want coming this Winter
is for every man and woman TO bestir them
selves to examine and relieve such cases Of
want as come under their own eyes. We have
shunted our Christian duty on to societies
long enough. The danger is exceptional now.
Men are out of work now who have lived
comfortably all their lives; cold and hunger
are felt by people who will be the last to apply
for help to societies. Great bodies of workmen
are tramping through the country from mill
town to mill town, in search OF work, often
ragged hungry, and-God help theln-beggars.
1t is not their fault that they are tramps."
They would travel in decent cOnveyances if
they could. 1t is high time that we dlscriini-
mated between them and the gangs of idle
paupers who belonged to more prosperous days,
and time, too that each one of us individually
helped his needy brother whom he finds faint
ing on the highway. If we pass by, like the
priest and Levite leaving him to the care Of
societies and the police, our morning meal
will be often disturbed by the story of such
cases as this woman and her child.
Year: 1876

The official returns of the late election are
not quite complete, but they suffice to estab-
lish two remarkable facts The Republican
party was stronger at the late election than it
had ever been before in nearly every State.
Mr.. Tilden's popular majority was entirely due
to the peculiar tactics by which the Republican
vote was reduced IN three States. As these
facts are of the utmost importance i'll their
bearing upon an equitable settlement of the
pending dispute, we proceed to establish them
in detail, using the latest figures published,
which, though not in all cases complete VIII
approximate very closely to the official re-
turns. In the following the Presidential vote
of the Republicans in the twenty-five Northern
States is contrasted with the largest vote ever
before cast by that party in those States:
Year: 1876

On last Friday night an officer found a
woman sitting on the curbstone in Frankfort
st., holding her dead baby to her breast She
had been driven out of doors by drunken
husband and the child had literally frozen to
death while she sat there asking for help in
vain from Christian people who passed by.
There is the story, which no doubt our
readers have already heard; and there is not
mother among them, perhaps, to whom it
has not given shock Of horror. TINS poor
beggar had her mothers heart as well as
they her baby was more to her than If she
had dwelt softly and gone clothed in purple.
1t was all she had homeless and starving on that
Winters night. She refused to be comfortcd.
and when the dead stiff child was taken from
her breast. fell senseless on the ground.


Now, what is to be done The first remark
made by every New-Yorker on hearing such
cases as this, is that, with the vast charities
Year: 1876

We may be unjust but it is getting little
monotonous to read of the daily official visits
to the theaters with the customary verdict
that everything is all right. The inspectors
may as well DO little inspecting.
Year: 1876

A correspondent sends us the fol-
lowing item, clipped from our report
of the last meeting of the Common
Council, together with the subjoined
interrogatory:


The Board reported that the prop
erty known as the pest house is being
destroyed, the windows and floor hav-
ing been taken away. They advised
that the property be leased to any one
who will repair and occupy the build
ing. Approved.


Would it not be much safer to burn
the pest house? G.


We commend this subject to the
careful consideration of the City Coun-
ell. 1t would be the subject of a de.
cision by the City Physician, if we
had one. Rather than endanger the
life of anybody, or risk the spread of
disease, We would say burn the pest
house, certainly.