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Year: 1876

Governor Tilden profoundly depre-
Gated the civil war. He appreciated
more clearly than most persons around
him the disastrous consequences to life
and treasure. He attended meeting of
the leading men of both parties in the
winter of 1S60-61 to consider if there
was any practicable way to avert armed
collision. He was, at first, one of the
few who sought some possible way of
reconciling the antagonisms of the North
and South, especially in view of what
he and many others felt to have been
the irritating causes which might have
been avoided. But he urged upon the
South Difference to the will of the ma
jority; respect for the provisions of the
Constitution, within which they could
tind the only adequate protection, and
he warned them that outside of the Con-
stitution they could not expect protec-
tion for themselves or property.


And when he was convinced that the
South meant nothing less than the de-
struetion of the Union; when he felt
that they were determined to maintain
the institution Of slavery to the destruc-
tion of that wise government which our
fathers had established at such an i'm
mense sacrifice he sought no further
way of reconciliation.


AT a meeting, held in the house ot
General Dix, just after the call for 75, ,o0C
troops, he expressed the opinion that we
were on the eve of great war, and
urged the call of 500, 900 troops, one-hali
for immediate service, and the other tc
be put in camps of instruction. He ad
yissd with President Lincoln and Cabi
net. From his great knowledge of the
history of the finances of the nations il
peace and war, he gave to Secretary
Chase advice in providing money for the
exigencies of the war, which, if followed
Year: 1876

The last six years have brought Gov
ernor Tilden i1to struggle both profes
sional and political, which has tasked
his great resources beyond all previous
experience. With aself-sacrifce worthy
of all honor, he threw himself into the
breach to meet conspiracy and to over
throw municipal ring without parallel
in magnitude or iniquity in the history
of cities.


Nothing could more completely falsify
the history of this contest that he came
into it when the battle was over. In
1859 this ring was fully organized and
had complete possession of the city gov
ernment, its offices, its treasury, and its
judiciary. 1t could make or abolish de-
partments and Offices, with their emolu-
ments, by the corrupt use of the funds
of the city, with the legislative or law
making power, and by The same infu-
ence it controlled largely the administrz-
tion of justice in the higher courts. 1t
had completely intrenched and fortified
the citadel of its power against all ordi-
nary attacks of the ablest men, or even
the ballot of the people. Ali honest,
law-loving citizens will long remember
their sense of helplessness to over
throw it.


This ring was stronger and more cohe-
sive than any which could have been
formed simply from the elements of the
Tammany and Anti-Tammany factions.
Though controlled by corrupt members
of Tammany. it could never have been
formed or held its absolute sway by and
through the elements of that society
alone. 1t was doubly ring, which in
the very meaning of the word encircles
enough of the corrupt leaders of both
parties, Republican and Democratic, to
control the action of both party ma.
chimes. 1t had its origin in the Board OF
Supervisors, created by an act of the
Legislature in 1857, in connection with
the city charter of that year. This act
provided for six Democratic and six Re
publican Supervisors, whose term Of
office was at the next session extended to
six years. 1t was a ring between the
Republican and Democratic Supervisors
of the city finances, and soon grew to be
a ring between the Republican majority
at Albany on the one hand, and these
Supervisors (half and half and few
Democratic officials on the other.


For thirteen years previous to 1868
and 1870, when the ring power was COM
plete over all city affairs in the person OF
Tweed and his allies, the Republicans
had had in their hands the Legislative
power Of the State. In this entire period
the Democratic party had never a ma
jority in the Senate, and only once in
the Assembly. These facts are in proc
Year: 1876

The result of Tuesdays election is now
known to the people of the United States.
The defeat, for such it is, of Hayes must
carry dismay to the ranks of the Repub-
lican party. With millions of money at
their command, which they used in this
State and Indiana; the telling effect of
the mighty power and the influence OF
the Administration; with their renowned
Year: 1876

ss- Twenty Brooklyn ladies voted
OH the question: Has q young lady
the right to kiss gentleman with
whom she takes an evening drive:
There were nineteen affirmative votes.
The one negative note was cast 10y a
woman with red HAIR and glass eye.
Year: 1876

There comes time when We grow old,
And like sunset down the sea
Slope gradual and the night wind cold
Comes whispering sad and chilling;


And locks are gray


AS winters day,
And eyes Of ssddest blue behold
The leaves all weary drift away,
And lips OF faded coral say,
There comes time whom We grow old.
There comes time when joyous hearts,
Which leaped as leaped the laughing main.
Arc dead to all savo memory,
As prisoner in his dungeon chain,


And dawn Of day


Hath passed away,
The moon hath. into darkness rolled;
And by the embers warm and gray,
Ibear voice in whisper say,
There comes time when We grow old.
There comes time when manhoods prime
Is shrouded In the mist Of years,
And beauty fading like dream,
Hath passed away in silent tears;


ana then now DARK!


But oh the spark
That kindled youth to hues Of gold
Still burns with clear and steady ray,
And fond affections lingering say,
There comes time when We grow old.
There comes time when laughing spring
And golden summer cease to be,
Aud We put on the autumn robe,
To tread the last declivity;


But now the slope,


With rosy hope,
Beyond the sunset we behold
Another dawn, v th fairer light,
While watchers hisper through the night,
T: ere comes tim when We grow old.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Boernemann, of Philadelphia, has
arrived home. He had engaged passage
in the Mosel, and at the time OF the
dynamite explosion he was standing on
board the vessel, about couple OF PAGES
from the steps Of the saloon door. He
suddenly felt terrible shock and heard
q dreadful noise as of heavy artillery.
To his utter horror and CONSERVATION
he saw a cloudy mass of human beings
thrown up into the air as far as his sight
could reach. He felt an immense shock,
as if some ponderous body had fallen
upon him but he was not physically
hurt, although the shock to his nervous
system was so great that he has been
sick ever since. The blackened, burned
and torn limbs of the unhappy victims
fell in a shower on the deck, bespatter-
ing it with their blood and shapeless re-
mains. The explosion took place amid
ships, between the second cabin and the
wheelhouse. Mr.. Boernemann was
thrown off his feet by the shock and con-
cussion. The scene was horrible to wit
ness. No one knew what to do. -Four
dead bodies and large number OF
wounded people fell on various parts OF
the ship. It seemed to be- common
impulse for those who had escaped un-
injured to rush toward the stern OF the
ship. The vessel was very seriously
damaged forward /; part of the bow was
blown away and the bulwarks rent in


n;aoea. Aftha moment of the explosion
the stesmtug Simson came along under
the bows of the Mosel and two wagons
approached her from Lloyds' Hall, one
with the mail and the other containing
goods. The whole was taken toward the
steamer by hand carts; and when the
last of these, having four cases and a
barrel on board, was unloaded on the
steamer, the great explosion was heard.
Eighty persons were killed or have died
of their wounds, and two hundred SUI
fered injuries more or less serious.
Year: 1876

Perhaps there is no more painful time
in woman's life than the time of trar-
sition, when the assiduous lover is pass
ing into the matter. of-fact husband, and
the wooer is gradually changing Into the
master. Women, who are 80 much more
sensitive than men, more sentimental,
too, and less content to trust in silence
to an undemonstrative affection, are far
the most part happy only while they are
being made love to. It is not enough
to be loved they want to be told twenty
times a day, and to have the harmonies
of life enriched by a crowd of "occa-
sional notes." embroidering the solid
substance by which they live. Men, on
the contrary, get tired Of making love.
When they have wooed and won, they
are content to be quiet, and to take all
the rest for granted. They are not cold,
however, because they are secure; and
to most-and those the best-practical
kindness is better than fattery, security
ranks before excitement and hysteria,
and life passed in serene friendship,
fearing no evil, knowing no break, and
needing no praisiug, is better than life
passed in a perpetual turmoil of passion,
where there are scenes and tears, and
doubt and broken hearts, if there are
not endless courtship and fatiguing
demonstrations.
Year: 1876

In San Francisco we have case OF q
marked reverse in journalism. We refer
to tho Alta California, which has the
opportunity of becoming the most pros
porous newspaper on the Pacific coast:
It is more twenty-five years old. 1t
achieved success by an accident. In1856,
the famous vigilance committee having
been Brought into existence BY the
shocking murder of James King OF
Williams, editor of the Evening ButIe-
tin, the question arose what policy. the
Alta would adopt-whether one OF ap-
proval of the vigilantes, or of opposition.
Deciding the question by the toss OF a
silver half dollar, it gave its Endorsement
to the vigilance committee, and thereby
had transferred to it tho entire advertls-
ing patronage of the Herald, the then
leading paper of San Francisco. Inc
Herald, which was edited by a former
reporter of the New York Herald, and
opposed the vigilance movement, was
killed in day by this move OF the Atta.
It had enjoyed oil the advertising
patronage of the city before that. The
morning after the Alta's appearance on
the side of the vigilance movement, the
Herald came out in tho form of half
sheet, and soon afterward was discon-
tinued. The Alta, OF the moment OF this
extraordinary change Of circumstances,
was on its last legs. 1t was doubtful
whether it would hold out q week longer.
In one day it became fortune to itt
proprietors.
Year: 1876

What shall We do with old horses, is
question of some importance to the
owners of that valuable animal. After
years OF faithful service under the sad
die and in harness, this old friend of man
becomes superannusted and no longer
able to do effective work. What shall
we do with him To turn him out to die
would be cruel in the extreme; to sell him
to some animal in the shape of n man
who would overwork him, and half starve
him, would be worse ; to keep him up
and take good care of him. would be
troublesome and expensive, especially to
afarmeror other person who is compelled
by his occupation to keep ten OF twelve
horses. Some individuals would be dis
posed to end his suherings by poison or
by violence, but that is revolving to
person of ordinary sensibility +; therefore
the question comes up, "what shall be
done with him 2"
Year: 1876

taking. his wife's money, but she insisted
on giving him the money. It was her
will, and he must submit. So he went
down and paid the grocery bill, and on
his way home he sold his gold chain for
thirteen dollars. he felt happier now,
and was ready to commence the next
quarter.


On the next Monday morning tho
Young man went into the meat store to
send home piece of beef for dinner.


"How much will you have Z" asked
the butcher.


80, three or four


Charles got thus far, and then he
stopped. He had always been in the
habit of ordering an indefinite quantity,
and leaving the butcher to cut it off at
the highest figure, and charge the high
est price and then he remembered how
much was usually wasted.


"Let me have two pounds" he said.
He stopped and saw it weighed and then
paid for it. ... -;


When he went home at noon, he
found that his two pounds OF beet was
enough for o good dinner. The next
morning he went to the store. MIR.
Waldron had some nice figs just come
in which he showed. They were only
twenty-five cents pound. For mo-
ment Charles hesitated, but as he re-
membered that he had got to pay for all
he bought he concluded not to take
them. He found that things were not
so enticing when it required cash to get
them as when the. payment could be
postponed. He paid for what he bought
and went his way and thus things went
on through the week. When it came
Saturday night he knew that all the
money in his pocket was his own, after
deducting the rent.


That evening he went over to the mar
ket with Wilkins and bought as much
vegetables and meat as he thought would
last through the week. He found he
had made saving of at least twenty per
cent, and when the opportunity offered
he made the same saving in other mat
ters.


At the end of that quarter Charles
Matthews did not have to get slate.
He paid his house rent, and then he
found he had thirty-fve dollars left in
his pocket. That was his-he did not
owe penny of it. -.


"Ah, Hannah" said he, as he held
the money in his hand and looked it
over, "now I know how easy it is for
man to be wrong md his wife right.
This money all comes Of paying as / &c
along. It is very easy and simple to say:
Just charge it, and man can easily
buy things under such circumstances,
but when the day of reckoning comes.
these three simple words, that sound SO
innocent when spoken, are found to be
costly things. I did not believe it until
I tried it. I could not have believed
that man would purchase many articles
simply because he could have them
charged. But I see it now, and if I re-
fused to follow your advice at first, I
have gained experience enough to lead
me to follow it more explicitly now."


Charles Matthews never again allowed
himself to be carried away by the credit
system, but has followed the cash rule,
and the consequence has been that he
could buy produce, COAL ETC., at the
cheap prices, and he has now cut off the
expense OF house rent, for he owns
snug little &C ttage, and it is al ]paid for.
Year: 1876

One of the ablest men that this coun-
try has ever produced, and with whom
it was our good fortuneto beacIuainted,
used to say there was no regular bust
ness man could not make fortune out
of if he would devote himself to it and
refuse to be diverted into anything else.
And this is very true. But the history
of many Of our business men is his
tory of fortunes made in regular occupa-
tions, and lost in outside operations and
ventures.


Stick to your business, whatever that
business may be, is the only wholesome
and safe rule to follow. Let our young
men set out in life with this principle
firmly fixed in their minds, never to be
departed from. Their success may seem
to be delayed, but it will be sure; and
that the slow tortoise outstrips the
lnimble hare is more fact than fable.
Stick to your business, and your bust
ness will ultimately reIspy your devotion
Year: 1876

The general failure of the agricultural
portion Of the centennial exhibition can no
longer be doubted or hidden from those most
interested in its success. The management
has been full of good intentions, which have
been il-carried into execution. Agriculture
has been specially marked for misfortune,
and this result may have been reached
through the selection Of managers whose
acquaintance with agricultural matters was
neither extensive or profound. The field
trial of implements came to nothing, and ex-
cept the owners Of some Of the machines
aud few specially interested spectators, no
one is the wiser for the days spent beneath
the broiling sun upon these naked and al
most bare fields. The dairy department is
most disheartening and surprising failure for
those who expected to reap some benefit for
their investments Of money and their trouble
in preparing exhibits. This, however, is a
side issue, unconnected with the main exhi-
btion, and doubtless some searching inves.
tigation will be made at the coming dairy
mems convention as to whose account the
failure must be charged to. And now, the
greatest feature of all, the exhibition Of
stock, threatens to become q total failure.
Under present arrangements, which are al
together different from those originally made
and published, there are but small hopes
that the owners Of stock will take the trouble
or incur the expense and risk of exhibiting
their valuable animals. The only induce
ments outside Of the patriotic motives or
personal pride IN their choice animals has
been removed, and besides this, the manage.
ment of the department is not calculated to
give any security that the necessary provi-
sions for the comfort and safety of the stock
will be at all satisfactory. Two members Of
the Advisory council, which was requested
to assist the managers, who were not well
acquainted with matters relating to live stock
have felt called upon to resign their honorary
office. Those two gentlemen were Messrs
Wing and Thorne, Of the state of New York
whose well known reputation as stock breed
ers will have much weight, and give much
influence to their remonstrance and protest.
1t is much to be regretted that the agricul-
tural part Of the exhibition should be doomed
to at least partial disaster; the more so for
the reason that at Vienna the agricultural
department was one Of the most interesting
and instructive features Of the exhibition


and that great hopes have been EXTENDED tina
we should greatly surpass at Philadelphia
all previous efforts in this way. Unfortu
nately, the agricultural branch of the exhi
bition at Philadelphia is shining example


of how incompetent management may ruiI
the best opportunity and the brightest hopes
-NelO York Times.
Year: 1876

Tho great fatality amongst young poultry
and pheasants occasloned by the presence Of
the cape worm (Sclerostoma syngamus) in
the windpipe, is well known, Many yards
are wholly free from this pest others arc
declmated, or even more extensively depop.
ulated by it.


OF the prevention Of gapes nothing is
knownb nbeyond the dcsirability Of shifting
yearly to new ground, and the necessity Of
extreme cleanliness. The cure is by no
means easy or certain. Removing the worms
| by a feather or twisted hair is troublesome,
and the operation is not always successful
Fumigaton with tobacco smoke is rarely
Of much avail. The administration Of tur.
pentine is attended with danger to the
chickens, and opening the windpipe and ex.
tracing the worms whilst the bird is under
the influence Of chloroform requires surgical
! skill. Hence a new, and as far as [ have
yet tried, a perfectly successful mode Of
treatment is likely to be received with favor
knowing the extremely active influence Of
carbolic acid on the lower forms of animal
life, determined to try the effect of the in.
halation of its vapor in the cases Of gapes
that came under my notice. During the
present season, have operated three several
times on chickens that we're suffering severely
from gapos, being almost choked by the
worms. Each bird was placed in a small
deal box, the open top being covered by a
cloth. then took one of Savory's carbolic
acid fumigators, which | happened to have
at hand. This consists essentially ofa small
metal saucer, heated by spirit lamp below.
On the saucer l placed about one dozen
drops of carbolic acid, lit the lamp, and put
the apparatus in the interior of the box, and
being Of necessity rcspired by the bird, came
at once into contact with the worms. The
operation was continued in every case until
the birds were in imminent danger Of suffo-
cation. They soon, however, recovered on
exposure to the air, and on the day following
the treatment were running about perfectly
free from any symptom Of the disease. The
chickens operated on are not now to be dis.
tinguished from those of the brood that were
not affected.


l write to commend trial Of this plan to
those poultry and pheasant breeders whose
young birds are afflicted with gapes. Nc
special apparatus is required, as any little
arrangement which will serve to voatilze a
few drops of the acid will answer but |
used that Of Messrs. Savory and Moore
having it at hand, and it being conveniently
adapted for the purpose.


In my time l have had good deal of ex.
perience with birds afflicted with the gapes
but have never found any treatment at all
approaching that Of carbolic acid in efficiency


Since writing the above it has occurred to
me that as everyone has not a spirit lamp,
the vapor Of carbolic acid might be used by
putting hot brick into the box, and pouring
few drops of the acid upon it.-W. NJ
Tegetmeier IN London Field.
Year: 1876

The New York Times has the following
on roadside weeds.


Another favorite haunt of weeds is the
roadside. Comparatively few farmers seem
to know that abutters on roads own the land
on which the highways are made. All the
title which the public have is the right of
way and the use of such material by the
roadside as may be necessary for constructing
and repairing the road. In most Of the
States the abutters are not compelled to fence
by the roadside, and many cultivate the
land down to the travelled path. In many
places farmers are removing the fences from
the side of their mown and cultivated fields,
and are thus saving themselves much expense
in fencing, and adding much cultivatabe
land to their estates. Not the least of the
advantages Of this new order ofthings is the
eradication of the weeds which generally in
fest roadsides. There may be greater i'm
proyementS in modern agriculture than this,
but they are not many;


Whether the roadside fences are removed
or not, the roadside should be cultivated
enough to be mown, and this will extermin-
ate the weeds. Our village improvement
societies, which are doing so much for the
asthetic culture Of towns, can do no better ser =
vice than to send man with his scythe to
cut down the thistles that disfgure the road
sides leading into the village. If they can't
do this, they can at least educate the neigh
boring farmers to take a little pride in keep
ing the roadsides in decent condition. We
recently rode through a village which claims
TO be "the lovelest Of the plain" and in
which there Is one Of the oldest village i'm.
provement societies Of the country-we think,
the original Of all the others-and we were
not quarter of a mile out of the village
when we encountered rank growth of
thistles by the side of the road. The vii.
lage looked beautifully neat, but the effect
was marred by this show Of vilainous weeds
in such close proximity. 1t is a narrow pol
icy that looks only to improvement Of the
village, with such utter disregard of the sur
rounding country into which the drives and
walks extend.
Year: 1876

II. Goodman Of Lenox writes to an ex-
change on this subject as follows.


One of the most common modes of tortur-
ing these noble animals is to drive them in
heat, rub them off slightly, give them taste
OF water and then give them their feed and
shut the stable for the night. When the
oats and hay are consumed, an intolerable
thirst sets in, and then the poor creatures
suffer unmeasurably the torments of Dives and
would give much for little of the beverage
he wanted to cool their tongues and moisten
their parched throats In the summer es-
pecially, a humane man should water his
horses the last thing before going to bed.
1t is safer on account Of this dreadful thirst
from dry hay, to give the last feed of cut
food well moistened.


Another abuse is smooth shoeing in billy
country, even in summer. 1t will do for
level roads and sandy regions, but in hilly
and clayey districts, especially after storm,
the strain is tremendous on the feet OF a
smooth shod horse with any load behind him
Don't cut the frog even, nor pare away the
roof of the foot, but add to the shoe, how ever
light, either irregularities on the surface or
very slight cork on toe and heels.


1t is death to horse, as it would be to q
man, and the animals are a good deal alike
to wash his legs when he comes in warm and
leave them wet.