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Year: 1876

The Pittsburgh Commercial OF June
) saws: As the steamer Carrie Brooks
was passing up the Ohio River at VIII
low Island, at midnight Friday I'd lnst-'
Pilot VIM. Gordon, at the wheel was
started by splash rs of the fall OF some
heavy body overheard on the port side.
Looking back he saw u mans head
coming to the surface in the brilliant
moonlight. Giving the alarm OF I" q
man overheard" he stopped the boat
and backed her Immediately. The
second mate QIubbard) on watch Or
dered the yawl lowered, and the whole
forward watch on deck ran back as
soon as possible, and got the yawl into
the water. Owing to its being some
what hampered it occupied minute or
more, but as soon as lowered Stevedore
John Iissom and Clerk Ferd Stultz
sprang into it, showed off and made for
the floating man, who had by this time
drifted some distance from the steamer.
Pilot Mclaughlin and others, who had
been awakened from their sleep by the
alarm, stood on the roof calling to the
swimmer to keep cool and sustain him
self where he was until the yawl could
reach him. On getting near him the
yawl was turned round and backed up
to prevent any sudden effort on the part
of the endangered man to climb IN oy
the side and so oyerturn the boat. As
soon as he came within reach an oar
was handed him by Stultz, who drew
him up to the stern of the yawl and
there secured him by passing the stern
fall around his chest, under the arms,
until the yawl again made the steamer,
where the whole party was holsted
aboard, and the steamer proceeded on
her way.


As she drew him up to the boat, the
clerk was surprised to find the hero OF
the adventure was a fellOw-tOwnsman,
Mr.. w. w. Pyle, late editor of the Lou
isvile Sunday Times, who had taken
passage on the Brooks for New Cum
berland, and who was supposed TO be,
at that moment, enjoying the sweet re-
pose of the virtuOus and laborious hter-
ary man in room II.


Mr.. PYLE explains that he had a very
vivid dream, supposed to have been IN
duced by the ample justice ne did to
the boats supper; that he saw MS
little boy in the water, and beng IN
somnambulistic state, and clothed only
in his night dress, he incOntiaently leap
ed from the upper guard to the rescue
of his child, only to find himself in need
of rescue. On finding himself in the
water he suddenly realized where he
was, and seeing the steamer move on
up stream, struck out for shore, but
hearing the alarm given and finding
that his critical position was discovered
he ceased to make any effort further
than to sustain himself in the water un-
til the yawl should come up. Mr.. Pyle
is to be congratulated for his coolness
and presence of mind under the start
ling and sudden realization Of deadly
peril in which he found himself waken-
ed up from supposed security to find
himself in the middle OF a great river
at midnight, his friends and all possi-
bility of outside help swiftly passing
out of sight. 1t is safe to say that nine
men out of ten, good swimmers though
they might be, would have been over
come by the shock, lost all control over
themselves, and sunk before help could
have reached them.
Year: 1876

The Leavenworth Ks. } Times says
It is one thing to be fortunate and an
other TO deserve the smiles of the tickle
goddess, and when a case occurs where
one, who is in every way worthy of a
windfall, receives an unexpected pres
ent in the shape of a farm, without
knowing the name of the donor, that
case should be recorded and kept as
one of the good things that may be
brought about by previous good be-
havior. Such a case came to our knOwl-
edge yesterday, the recipient being a
young farmer, whose Lame is Leslie
BrOwnlee, the circumstances of which
are about rs follows: Some time last
April, young Brownlee, who is the head
of a small family, and lives about II
miles southwestern the city, was Wis
tied AZ his home by an Oldish-looking
gentleman, who stated his name and
required of him promise of utmost
secrecy as to its divulgence, which was
given. The stranger then stated that he
had been authorized to present to his
astonished host either a sum of money
or a deed to the farm upon which he
was living as tenant. Thinking the
matter a joke, Mr.. Brownlee said he
would prefer the farm. The stranger said
all right, and requesting a few days
time, drove away. Yet thinking his
visitor some one who was trying to
humbug him, Mr.. Brownlee soon forgot
the occurrence, and was attending to
his farm as usual, when one day after
ward he was called to the house, and
there found the same individual, who,
to his further astonishment, presented
him with clear deed to the promised
property, in the VISITORS name, and
told him that it had been drawn up in
order that he might not discover the
right name of the true giver. Hethen
told him to ask no further questions,
but that he might expect to be visited
again next fall by party of workmen
who would procure material and build
for him a 'comfoftablel house on the
premises. The stranger would answer
no qaestions, and would talk no further
than to say that he was the agent of a
gentleman whose income was $50 day,
and who preferred for the present to be
incog. E-,sl d


Shortly after ne left, Mr.. Brownlee
received a postal card, which informed
him that if he would call at bookstore
in this. city, he would find a book which
would be worth his while to look after.


He went to the store and there found
a fine $50 Bible, with an inscription on
the title page, which read: " This is
from q friend and relative. Read it
and profit by it,


Mr.. Brownlee, who was in the city
Yesterday, says he has no knowledge of
the giver of his most acceptable pres
ents, but thinks he is the second hus-
band ofhis grandmother He, it is said,
enlisted and went to the Mexican war,
and was never heard from, and was for
q long time supposed to be dead. BIS
wife, Mr.. Brownlee's grandmother, was
taken in charge. by her grandson, and
cared for until her death, and he thinks
that the old gentleman, m payment for
his care, is thus making him the recipi-
ent of his attention.
Year: 1876

A BALLooNIsr at Allentown, Pa, had
a narrow escape recently The basket
was attached with its occupant, Miss
Mary Jane Leon; the ropes had been
concentrated and fastened to the hoop
at the mouth of the balloon, and the
trapeze bar swung below the basket,
when the word was given let go"
Unfortunately the balloon did not rise
higher than a few feet, and dragged the
basket over the ground, spilling out its
fair occupant unhurt. The basket was
then detached and SignOr Phillippi rose
in the air about 20 feet, when the bal
loon collapsed and the aeronaut fell to
he-eartn. covered with a mass OF cam
brio. The crowd rushed to the spot
and dragged the material from him.
when the 81 signor" stepped gally out
without 8 bruise.
Year: 1876

We hardly think it fair thing for
our lady friend to stop at the age of 80,
as there are very few ladies who have
arrived at that age of single-blessedness,
from whose hearts have been ex-
tinguished hopes of ever seeing the
chosen one. No, indeed, so long as
there is still an old bachelor left, we
say give the old maids a chance. and
don't blame them for still clinging to
Cincisnati Enquirer.
Year: 1876

Swinging in a hammock is the very
luxury of repose. 1t is restful Just to
think of it; and to pass by clump of
shade trees, or vine-curtained veranda.
and watch the lazy swing of one of these
aerial couches. without envy, is an example
OF virtue that is not often vouchsafed to
one with generous capacity for resting.


The general idea is that hammocks are
only for the wealthy, "the stylish" the
professional time-kllers. 1t is a great
mistake. Every well-to-do farmer, every
owner of cosy village home, every
member of city stay-at-home club who
commands spot big enough to swing
one, should have hammock. Very good
ones may be bought for 81 so to $4; and
the last Agriculturist has cut showing
how they should be hung-where there
is good afternoon shade, and if intended
in part for children's use, so low that
small children can get into it by the aid of
a box or low stool, and over soft ground.
so that the numerous tumbles that are
probable will be harmless. If no other
place is available, it may be hung between
the pillars of a shady veranda, a place
we'll enough for the older people who use
it, but undesirable for children, on account
of the lack of soft turf, as we'll as for the
noise which accompanies its use by the
youngsters. When children only are to
use the hammock, the manner of handling
it is important, but if provided for the use
of grown persons, it should then be so
suspended that the head will always be
considerably higher than the foot, and


much of the comfort of the one who uses
this. depends upon a proper observance of
| this fact. If you have no more suitable
place, suspend it from the columns of a
| veranda. The hook which supports the


head end should be IA feet from the
floor, and that for the foot end 8 3-4 feet,
and these proportions should be observed
wherever it may be hung, to secure the
most desirable curve for the ease of the
occupant. Another point to be Observed


the head end should be fastened to the
hook by rope. less than a foot long-just
enough to properly attach it, while at the
foot is rope 4 12 feet long. This gives
the greatest freedom for swinging the
lower part of the body. while the head
moves but little. This is point which
cannot be observed in hammock for
children, who think more of it as a swing
than as a place for comfortable repose.
When trees serve for supports, ample pro-
vision should be made to prevent injury
to the bark, by means of stout canvas OF
heavy bagging between the ropes to
which it is suspended and the bark. If
the hanging be so arranged that the ham,
mock can be taken in during long storms,
it will last much longer.-Golden Rule.
Year: 1876

Alate mass meeting of Milwaukee Re
publicans was rather unlucky. When
Mr.. Lindblom had ceased to saw the air,
there were calls for /" Godfreyi Godfrey"
So Godfrey mounted the stand, and this
was Godfrey's speech, all quite unex-
pected:


My education and my course of thought
and study for the last two or three years
have untitled me for making such harangues.
] am an honest man and an American citi-
zen, and belong to no party, and can not
at this early stage of the campaign make up
my mind which candidate to support.
have travelled all through the South, and !
sions which have Just been expressed regard
ing her course. ] have talked with the
leading men Of the South, and / find that
they accept the situation, and are working
seriously and earnestly, and no danger of
any kind is to be apprehended from them.
The bloody shirt is huttered, and an attempt
is made to arouse the old feelings, but it is q
failure as far as the South is concerned, and
always will be. The South is Inundated,
PROSTATE, weak, and powerless for evil; she
could not renew the struggle if she would,
and her leading men intend no mischief.
They accept the issues Of the war, and
are working quietly to rebuild the shat
tered fortunes of their section. / am
not afraid Of the South. She neither will
nor can do any harm. What fear is the
piling up of the debt of the country, the
perpetuation Of the national debt which is
tying our hands, and will letter the hands of
our children. As l said do not know
which party to support. Between the two
men | could soon choose, but between the
parties can not, and I think shall wait
the issue of eyents, and see which way the
cat jumps. do not fear the advent of the
Democratic party to power this year; be-
lieve the country advances step by step (the
speaker suited the action to the word, and
stepped most emphatically )inot lin this way
(and he illustrated his meaning by hopping
on one foot), and while the Republican par:
ty, if it returned to power, would go back
where it could learn nothing, the Democrat.
| ic party has been, during the last fifteen
years, learning its lesson, and waiting, and
that is why l think it would be well that il
should control the Government for a term
Then the Republican party would learn its
lesson, and then it should have its turI
! again, and SO theeountry would progress, in


stead of one party remaining in power til


it has forgotten everything and become use


less. Until two, years since was, and al


ways had been, q red-hot Abolitionist,


regular dyed-in.the-wool Republican, but


can not swallow Grants last term; it ha


disgusted me, and there are many things il
| the present platform which l totally disa
| gree with. st ~
Year: 1876

from twice to eight times as much as
they were worth before.


The present managersof the road, who
are not the persons who employed Mr..
Tilden, and have, 50 far as it appears, no
relation with him of any kind, new make
a claim upon him and the members of
the Committee for an account, to which
he and the other members reply that it
is none of their business. One of the
members of the Committee has very
| frankly told the plaintiffs that he does
otpretend to understand the legal rights
of the matter, that he has a number of
the bonds, and is perfectly willing to sur
render them if ordered to do so by any
competent authority. The only ques-
tion apparently involved in the case is
one epurely legal, whether there isany rela-
ton of principal and agent
or trustee and beneficiary existing be-
tween the Purchasing Committee and the
road, as it at present exists, which
authorizes an accounting between them,
and the litigation is'of q kind to which
any lawyer might uHavoidably become a
party. The road says there is Mr.. Til
den and the other members of the Com
mittee say there is not, and naturally de-
cline to give up their books. 1t is
obvious that in doing this they simply
act SO as to guard their own rights, for it
must be remembered that they admit the
existence of persons to whom they did
stand in the relation of agents; and if
they have any property in their possss-
sion for which they owe any account, it
may be to these principals that they owe
it.. and if they do not want to pay it
twice over to two not Mt sets of people
they must resist with every means in
their power the claim now made upon
them. There are no indications of fraud
about the case, and, so far as appears,
its use by Republican organs in its present
unsettled state, to prove Mr.. ,Tilden a
railroad robberV or shark is a scan
dalous abuse of the power of the press.
We have gone into this !" CHARGE at
considerable length, because, it illustrates
the straits to which the Republicans
have reduced themselves for campaign
powder. In the present campaign all the
benefit that can be extracted from
charges will be reached by Democrats,
who can prove by undeniable evidence
corruption in the dominant party of the
most gigantic extent, widespread
throughout all the departments of
Government, and practically encouraged
by its head. SO, lssb sis5 ~ - 0.
Year: 1876

want any reformers, not looking for reformers
we want the same old thing had. endorse
Grant and his administration" And TO Bristow and
faryan, and Wilson they said "get your hats and
take up your beds and walk lAppause1 That IL
the rpirit that prevails in their party Ny friends
the spirit OF justice and right upon side They
are in the bonds of iniquity. Let us shoulder to
shoulder IN the good cause. We have q good plat
FORM We have good principles We have good can
didates. Ii is Democratic from end TO end / was
for Mr.. Hendricks. l worked for him day aud night
The convention decreed otherwise and placed him
candidate for the second place in the gift of the
American people, and did il in a manner and under
circumstances so complimentary, that Indianians
came kome from st. Louis with no sense
Of defeat in our heartsr 1t is gratif-
cation TO know that at one end Of the
ticket dieciple of the silas Wright Democracy of
New York, rocked in the cradle OF Jefferson, who
never knew anything but Democratic impulse and
constrnes the constitution from Democratic stand
point and at the other end Of the ticket is eur own
beloved, our own true, tried and able Thomas A.
Hendricks i feel differently from what / did
four years ago. Hike the diet this year There is not
even the smell, let alone the taste of Laugh
ter IL is ticket for which every Democrat old
and young, can fight with his head up.


STATE TICKET.


Your state ticket likewise calls for your pride and
appreciation. am sorry that our gallant leader is
not here to-day We have, t ue TO the Democratic
to vo.e s6T gisen soI you son 9f the soil
who has been for thirty years connected with
the state Legislature of Indiana and never has there
been one solitary word of suspicion brought against
him. They talk about him wearing blue
leans-some in Congress saying il was
badge to deceive. He had always worn blue jeans.
and when he went to Washington he
wore the same. He has done his duty.
By his chairmanship on the committee on accounts,
he has saved over $40, 600 to this people / have
heard much about the grangsrs; 1 have understood
that it was an organization to bring the labor
ing men together without respect TO party;
1 have heard that il an association
to dignity the tillage of the soil. L have always
sympathzed with it In all my speeches Long before
the granger movement was heard Of coutended that
the farmers the neglected ofall classes We
have given you chance to select Il of unques-
Toned ability, and of stainless integrity, and of
Roman simplicity Of manner and life. / thank you,
ladies and gentlemen. Continuous cheering.l
Year: 1876

A gentleman residing On Aberdeen
street was until Friday last inclined
to favor female suffrage. His wife
had prudently delayed moving till
after the 1st so as to take advantage


of the fall of house rents. The


house to which they moved had a
tremendously steep flight of stairs
and an oil-clothed hall. The wife
had the stairs scrubbed down, and
left the soap on the top step. Her
husband was up stairs with q basket
full of clothes-pins in one hand and
a clock under the other arm, when
his wife, who was down stairs, saw a
mouse, and shaking her skirts mad-
ly bounded up on the table and let
off series of shrill shrieks, begin
ming on high III above the clef.
Her husband, thinking the house
was on fire at the very least, started
to run to her rescue, and, stepping
on the piece of soap that she had so
thoughtfully left on the stairs, sat
down vehementsys at the top of the
fight, and slid down with the speed
of thought. Fire flew from his false
teeth as he hit the edge of each step
volleys of clothes-pins were dis,
charged into the air and fell rafting
and rebounding on the oil-eloth, and
the clock shed its inwards over the
universe. The injured husband had
little time for reflection when he
reached the glaze. -oil.eloth of the
hall, and shot. across it, with scarce
ly diminished velocity. literally
making the oil-cioth and the seat OF
his pantaloons smoke with friction,
and finally bringing up against the
door with a violence that threatened


to burst the side out of the house.
The fearful concussion startled his
wife, who turned a back somersault
from the table into tub of soap
suds, in which she was so tightly
wedged that she had TO throw a
handspring and eanter on all-iours
like turtle with tub on her back
and cataracts of suds inundating her.
Meanwhile, the hired woman fell of
the step-ladder with crash like a
pile-driver. and Jared down most OF
the plaster corniee. When the man s
wife had sloughed her tub she saunt-
cred calmly into the hall and re-
marked, "WeIl, men are the clum-
siest-and the hall had just been
washed, too.' Her husband did not
say much, but he thought a good
deal; and now, he says. just let
Susan B. Anthony come and lecture
here again, and IL no other man has
the courage to hiss, lie will, so help
him Jasper Packieme-ton. VI
Year: 1876

In compliance with custom made ven
erable by long observance the President
has set apart the


Thirtieth Day of November inst.
as day of THANKSGIVING TO ALMIGHTY
GOD for the blessings that have crowned
the now closing year.


The watchfulness Of an Omniscient Eye
and the guidance of Divine Hand have
been manifest through all the domains of
nature. The order and harmony of the
universe; the succession Of the seasons
spring time, with its garniture of flowers
summer with its seed time; autumn with
its fruits: these attest the wisdom, power,
and loving care of the Father Of all.


It is, therefore, recommended that the
good people Of Idaho, remitting their ac-
customed employment, do consecrate the
day to a grateful recognition of the Divine
goodness. Let offences be forgiven and
the veil of charity drawn over the errors
and injuries of the past Let families as
semble, and neighbors greet each other
with gifts, not forgetting the stranger nor
withholding from the children of want and
sorrow on whom the Christening hand has
been laid.


Let all who are so minded assemble in
their houses Of worship and in their man
ner sing praises and give thanks. Give
thanks for the life that is and the life that
is to be. Give thanks for our national
preservation and unity, and for the hope
of that perfect brotherhood which is the
offspring of perfected liberty. Give thanks
for constitution that permits no man to
lay burdens upon the conscience of his
fellow; that secures free suffrage, free
speech, free schools and free press. And
while the incense of grateful thanks for
past mercies ascends from pure hearts and
affairs, let fervent prayer be
made that Heavens blessings may rest up
on our favored land, and that tomorrow
may be even as this day, but still more
abundant.


In testimony whereof | have hereunto


set my name and caused the seal
SEAL of Idaho Territory to be affixed,
06Nattested by the Secretary.


Done at Boise City this second day of
A. d. 1876.


NJ BRAYMAN, Governor.
Attest:


E. ]. CURTIS, Secretary.
Year: 1876

10 the Working Glass. I'VE are
now prepared to furnish all classes with
constant employment at home, the whole
of the time, or for their spare moments
Business new, light and profitable. Per-
sons of either sex easily earn from 80 cents
to So per evening, and proportional sum
by devoting their whole time to the busi-
ness Boys and girls earn nearly as much
as men. That all who see this notice may
send their address, and test the business
we make this unparalleled offer To such
as are not we'll satisfied we will send one
dollar to pay for the trouble of writing
Full particulars, samples worth several
dollars to commence work on, and copy
of Home and Fireside, one of the largest
and best Illustrated Publications, all sent
free by mail. Reader, if you want perma-
nent, profitable work, address, GEORGE
STINsoN q Co, Portland Maine
Year: 1876

"MR. ToMPKINs," said young lady
who had been showing off her wit at
the expense of a dangler, "you remind
me of barometer that is filled with
nothing in the upper story" "Divine
julia" meekly replied her adorer, 'in
thanking you for that compliment let
me remind you that you occupy my
upper story"