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Year: 1876

At this writing, it is not known who
will be the st Louis nominee, and Repub-
lcans universally feel that it makes little
difference who the Democrats put up
there as their man of straw, for Repub-
lican triumph is almost certain to follow in
November. With HAYES and WHEELER
for our standard bearers, we feelno fear for
the general result. The people are arous-
ed, and feel that the out-croppings of the
Confederate House is but sample of
what we would have to endure if Demo
crat was elected President with a Confed-
crate Congress to back him. All see the
danger, and likewise will avoid it, for they
feel that a nations life is in peril. No
Democrat stands ghost of a chance ex-
cept he receives the votes of the rebel
States, and should he be foisted into pow
er by this element, of course they will die
tate the policy of his administration, and
the past year has fully demonstrated
what that will be. Payment of rebel
debt; payment for liberated slaves; pay
ment for all kinds of bogus rebel claims !;
reputation Of the National debt. These
are dangers that Democrats would blind
the eyes of the nation to, but the cloven
foot has been so plainly brought to view,
that no man who reads at all can for a
moment doubt that many if not all of
these measures Will be carried out at
the first practicable momentof Democratic
supremacy. Republicans feel the danger
and they will not be found sleeping on
their posts when danger is ahead. In
Iowa we will have such large majority
that we will hardly have time to count it
up before Christmas, but there are two or
three districts that may be endangered
We must organize. Let us form our
clubs all over the land, and begin our
work, and each do his part in rolling up
the grandest majority the State ever gave.
Let every district, and county, and town.
ship, and ward have its clubs, and let us
all work for victory. Let us leave no
honorable means untried to give HAYES
and WHEELER 10000 majority. Organ
ize now. Get in working order. Get up
wide awake companies, have torch-light
professions, make the campaign one of
enthusiasm from the remotest country
hamlet, to the most crowded thoroughfare
of the largest city, and show the party in
the doubtful States that we in Iowa, the
"Gem of the Union" are with them hand
and heart in the glorious warfare, and
that we propose to stand in the forefront,
with the largest majority, and claim the
proud title of banner State in the
Union"
Year: 1876

President Grant in a private converse.
ton recently, said the South shall have a
fair vote, if in the power of the executive
to give it. That is the kind of talk we
want to hear. All we are ask for South
ern Republicans, is the same rights we
enjoy in the North, the right to vote their
own true sentiments, without being driven
away from the polls at the mouth of re.
volver. If the executive cannot give them
this assurance of safety and protection,
then it is time to know why, and if the
States are in rebellion, let us put stop
to the thing as we did once before. Sew
eral States in the South are really Repub.
lican, though with the reign of terror
now carried on by Kukluk, we can hardly
hope to carry but one, and that is South


Carolina, where the negro element is in


the ascendancy. Mississippi, Louisiana,
Arkansas and Florida would all give Re-
publican majorities if an honest vote
could be had. Let us have it.
Year: 1876

The New York Tribune, Independent
or Liberal, endorses the Republican nom-
inees, and virtually takes its place again
in the ranks of the party where it fought
so many years. Of course such recogni
ton of HAYES and WHEELER is pleasing
to Republicans, and while we believe that
the action of the Tribune will be more
for its own good than for the party, yet
must acknowledge that it is an element of
strength with the Liberal portion of the
party, though exerting but 1.-THE Of the
influence formerly held by it, before it
renegaded. 1t says of the nomination:
'The combination is indeed one of the
"most favorable that have been suggested
"on either side, and it seems almost GER
'tain that Hayes and Wheeler are to be
'inaugurated next March"
Year: 1876

1t is surprising to note the unanimity
with which the radical, the liberal, the
conservative, and even the sorehead ele-
ments of the Republican party, join in Of
fering cordial and hearty support to
HAYES and WHEELER. No Presidential
ticket ever received warmer or more gen.
eral support from all the elements of the
party, than the present one.
Year: 1876

us Christ who has been saving q board, raising
himself from bis work ard stretching himself.
Mary has been looking at the present the three
Kiugs brought her son when he born, and which
Mr. Hunt imagues her TO have kept all these years In
chest Reused from her yearnng meditation on these
relies by the movement Of her son. she turns and sees


his shadow thrown upon the wall in the form of cross,
and the prophetic voice In her heart tells her that Is ms
doom This might be allowed pretty fancy for Christ
hook bat surely there is nothing here to make 1t
worth mans while to spend years labor on. Ana
Mr. Hunt with bis English realism and conscientious
took II out of pretness and fancy and tried 10


make OF it piece of iRan founded on fact And
unlueky for his case lie was trpped mp In one of hr
main facts having made his Carpenters Son standing
on the wrong side OF the plank he was saving
The old painters saved from such bunders by the
sound common sense that taught them to think iirst
what could be painted and what could not lie painted
and next how tell their story in the plainest way
Even the ystcs rarely leave anything in their pictures
to be guessed at and the narrative painters preferred
rs rule be rcpreached for the badness of their mar
ratve rather than to leave any part OF n obscure But
all of them the mystics like Angelica the storyteers
Ike GiOttO and the painters proper like Titan aimed
most Of all at beauty. No Of these would have
known what 10 make OF Mr. Huut who Las neither ln-
yenIon nor power to draw, nor any love OF beauty
either ia color FORM Ingenious he s and weu mean
ing and conscientious but this small pieture OF Isabella
and ner Pot Of Basl" is good dozen of his pictures
TO prove that he prefers ugBess TO beauty ana tn ~
trsnslating the loyeliest poem the poetry lheEaoy
aE EausgS nfuI
Year: 1876

with the condition that before ship
ping they shall be examined piece
by piece by a tribunal Of four
butchers, whose services you will
have to pay, in order to state that
no bones of Moslems are found
among the lot, for you understand
that ! never could consent to have


knife-haudles and buttons turned
out of the sacred remains of my
forefathers." The bones in question


are lying vet at Rabett.
Year: 1876

TIE San Buenaventurans in Califor nia were moderately happy when a soap mine was discovered in their Vi cinity, they warmed up little in en thusiasm when an adjoining coal vein was found al a later period, but they are now blissful at discovering a well developed ledge of unmistakable cheese near by their other finds.
Year: 1876

A correspondent Of the New York World sends that journal the following Here is a aremedy for rheumatism which I have tried in my family and found most excellent for inhamatory rheuma- iism-it is a charity to print it: Four ounces saltpeter in one pint of alcohol ; shake well and hathe parts effected, wetting red flannel with it, lay it on. Itdoes not cure but takes away the red ness, reduces the swelling, and relieves the torment and agony.
Year: 1876

engaged in a game in which bright
new half-dollars passed for checks,
and gold pieces occasionally passed
current. One of the women, a "girl
of the PERIOD" smoked her cigar
with the nonchalence of an adept,
while her neighbor on the right, a
middle-aged woman Of means, kept
a record Of the game on paper.
They appeared to be playing whist.
AT two small tables in the far cor
ner of the room six or seven women
with one or two men were inter-
ested in games of chance, appar-
emily poker or euchre, and money
appeared to be passing freely but
rather silently. Taking down a
billiard cue we accepted the chal-
lenge of Madame Burgoine and
engaged, with our friend, and girl
who had just prepared to start fer
home, in a friendly game Of bill
lizards. These are a few of the
observations made during a short
visit to a retreat whose existence is
unknown to even the business men
in its vicinity. You can use these
notes as you please"


The above statement was handed
in about four days ago by an oc-
casional contributor to these col
umns. But the denouement was
so strange no mention was made o.
the reported existence of the female
gambling house until a reporter hal
been sent to investigate for himself
! 1t was found more difficult to obtair
entrance to the place, as "newspa
per men" are tabooed the precinct
of this pagoda of mischief. A
deputy, however, obtained admit
tance, and more than confirmed th,
observations of the writer of las
Tuesdays communication. A fe
male gambling house does exist il
this city, to which women moving
in respectable society resort t
spend the evenings. No liquors o
any kind other than lightwines ar
used. Women of all shades Q
virtue come and go, and the fasci
nation of the game is such tina
dozens of men nightly assemble t
squander their money with women
old and young, who deal the card
like adopts, and who bet their stake
with the temerity ofold sports" |
is u strange but DER true tale, a
many a man and women in thi
city know to their cost.
Year: 1876

While piece work is strongly resisted by the association of the Amalgamated Engineers in England in its corporate capa city, and by certain proportion of the workmen is much disliked in many important districts, the men who have learned its value to the able and industrious mechanic would strenuously oppose any proposal to limit its opera tions.

 Here I cannot do better than give an extract from MT. Brassey's essay on "Work and Wages" recording the ex- perience of the authors father, whose testimony is emphatically in favor of piece work.

 My father, says MT. Brassey, always preferred putting price upon the work rather than paying by the day. This system was modified to suit the usual habits of the people with whom he had to deal. Piece work could not in all cases be adopted without some comph- cations and difficulties; but my father always looked upon day workas losing game, and all his work was carried out, as far as possible, by sub-contract, which is piece work on somewhat larger scale. Even the scaffolding for the erection of an iron bridge, such as that over the Severn, near Colebrook dale, of 200 feet span, was carried out upon the principle of sub contract; and the same system was adopted for the excavation of shaftsand adjacentlengths of tunnel. Payment by piece is benef- cial alike to the master and the man. The man earns higher wages while the master has the satisfaction of obtaining an equivalent for the wages he has paid, and completing the contrcct which he has undertaken with far greater rapid ity. On public works the difference in the earnings of the men paid by piece work and the men working by the day was always remarkable. In the canal making days men working in sutty gangs would earn four shillings, while others working on the day system would not earn more than from two to three shillings day. ..-.

 It seems to me that piece work is one of the many instances i'll which friend has been mistaken for an enemy; and that great calamity would befall those who have denounced it if their denunci- ations were carried into practical effect.
Year: 1876

The inhabitants of a country town in England, says Louis Jennings, if not jolly, are contented. The squire in the neighborhood is not quite such a despot now as he used to be-once the pros perity of any man in the town near him depended on his nod.. The idea of set ting up shop without his gracious pa tronage would have been mere madness. He was generally very much opposed to more than one child in the family being sent to school, and had no very good opinion of workingmen who could read and write. Now all is changed-the owner of the large house and park is very liberal in contributing to the sup port of schools and churches, and al- though he is still person of import ance in his neighborhood, the people are no longer afraid of him. His custom is worth having, but in these days the bulk of his supplies for the house is brought from London, and vegetables, fruit and game he gets from his own estate. The shopkeepers, therefore, make very little out of the big families," and ofteu wonder how they manage to live. was talking the other day to poulterer and fishmongey, and he told me, con6den- italy, that it was hard to make both ends meet.
Year: 1876

Such incidents as the following are still common in stage coach travelling in California The coach contained eight men and four women, all unarmed. When the coach reached part of the road lined by thick growth of brush, into which it is impossible to turn a loaded wagon or even light ono, two men sprung up and commanded the driver to stop ard throw out u . express boxes. Both men wore whise cloths under their hats, one el;d being thrown up over the front of inc hat and the other, with eye holes, covering the face. One man, with double barreled shot, gun, aimed at the driver, and the other a5 tue body uf the coach where the pas sengers mostly were. After a short barley two boxes of treasure were thrown cut. and the driver was compelled to drive on, the shotgun covering him until he was hidden by turn in the road.
Year: 1876

It is noticeable fact that the Oenten- nial has been a great hastener of mar riages. People have rushed into matri- mony so as to go to the Centennial and on their wedding tour at the same time.
Year: 1876

To surprise Chinese gambling party i1a J7GgrGnte delScto is considered the acme of police subtlety and daring. On every block is to be seen one, two, or three quiet faced watchful old China men, sitting on little stools in narrow doorways, set some twelve feets back from the sidewalk. John passes Ger berus unchallenged, threads the pas sages easily enough and finds himself in the temple of fortune, reduced to dirty little gambling shop. But should officers X, Y and z Cor any other un- known quantity) make rush on any of these little, old, watchful men, there are hundred chances to one that they will be quick enough to prevent him pulling cord that sets bell a-tinkling. Once let that bell tinkle and though the invading force were fifty strong all would be in vain. For suppose they skurry past Cerberus and try the as- sault. Obstacle number one is big door, three, five, six inches thick, with heavy crossbars of wood and iron on the wrong side which would defy the whole force used collectively as bat tering ram and even were that door passed in the first sweep, the passage is found to be maze, with barricaded door at every angle ingenious mechani- cal contrivances slip bolt and bar into their heavy sockets quick as light, while the tinkle of the bell has sent the gamblers flying by some rear exit or up to the roof. One memorable time, a certain wonderfully active and efficient officer, while hotly pressing some flying pigtails in one of these passages, sud denly found himself hauled up to the ceiling, with his neck in 8 moose, and there he dangled until cut down by his brother stars.

 LOTTERIES.

 Closely related to gambling are the lotteries, in which almost every Chinese storekeeper deals. On every ticket eighty Chinese numbers are printed, the buyer having the privilege of cross ing out five or more of these numbers, and if any or all of these numbers when drawn are found to be prizes the money called for is paid. The prizes are five, and vary from twenty five cents to one hundred dollars, the price of the tickets being from ten cents to one dollar. The drawings take place twice day. This much you are told. White people patronize this petty system of robbery extensively. No drawing party has yet been seized, and the whole business is intangible and shady.-Scri6ner's.
Year: 1876

long enough for it to call it mine," and
Uncle Ben looked unutterable things.


"Aunt Mariory has worked hard
enough and long enough to call some of
your money hers. Had been in her
place, 1 should have demanded back
pay and gone to the Centennial too"
retorted.


'It does beat all You women have
all gone crazy! AS though a man
didn't support woman all for nothing,
and then she must talk about back pay!
am sure 1 should feel that Jared well
if got supported without having any
trouble about it myself Back pay!
Back pay"'


'If she had worked for any one else
half so hard as she has worked for you
these twenty-four years, she would have
had more than three hundred and fifty
dollars to show for it now. You have
taken what she has helped you to earn,
and spent it all on yourself That is
the true state of the case"


When l said this he launched out in
TRADE against lOOmdn'S rights, because
it always disturbed the peace of fam
lilies This would probably have lasted
the rest of the day if it had not been
that peddler cut it short by walking
in and displaying his wares. Among
them were some silver thimbles, and
Aunt Marjory was on the point of buy
ing one when Uncle Ben interfered by
saying that thin6Ie was not worth so
much, and he knew she didn't need it.
Then I couldn't help saying, eyes, it is
a fine thing to practice economy on
Aunt MarjOry's thimbles after spend
ing three hundred and fifty dollars on
yourself that you have nothing now to
show for ~ Then his wrath exploded,
and we couldn't pacify him in any way.
1 know I was rude, and think Aunt
Marjory thought so too, aud it took her
week to bring matters right again.
Since that time have relapsed into si-
lence on the "vexed question:" but
don't see why telling the truth should
make a man boil over so.


MADGE BRIGHT.
Year: 1876

George Eliot says that young mans
eyes first open to the world when he is
in love. This is not always so. Usu-
ally it is when he has gone away from
home and had his washing sent out for
the first time, and finds among it when
it is returned an odd stocking with two
red stripes around the top, and long
enough to button around his neck
NOrUich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

One still has to go from home to
hear the news. A letter dated Los
Angeles, May 11th, is published in
the San Francisco Chronicle of May
3lst, which bears the earmarks of a
council pettyfogger. He attempts to
explain the cause of the popularity of
the Board of Public Works. The
writer assumes that the Board is sup
ported by the two influential papers
of the city. The reason why those
papers do SO. are in the opinion of the
pettyfogger as follows:


In the first place the position of the Herald
is explained by the fact that tnat paper Is the
property of the men whose genius brought
forth the body under consideration. They
hold the lease of its building, own its presses
and type and pay its employees. The Std1
maintained q position OF neutrality until
the obnoxious character OF the new organiza
tion bade fair to fire public Indignation and
produce acts at once disgraceful TO law anc
order on the part Of otherwise good citizens
Hence the necessity of newspaporial white
wash became apparent, and brought the rep
resentatives of the Board scheme to a bust
ness conference with the proprietor of the
Star. Hence an opinion has gone abroad tha
the subgovernment f0isted upon us has the
sanction and support Of the people of Loi
Angeles.


This is good, almost as good as if i
had appeared in the Express. In fact
the communication reads very mucl
as though it had emanated from tn
Office of that paper.
Year: 1876

THE testimony taken in the Bulie-


tin libel suit against the Alta has
brought out a large amount of evil
nence concerning the bank of Califor-
MIA of nature which enables the Pa
cific public to indulge in their too
common habit ofassuring the world
after the event has transpired, that
they were perfectly well aware the
cow would eat up the grindstone. A
vast number of our shrewd citizens
are now ready to claim that they were
positively certain all along that the
management of the bank was terrible
bad; that they knew RALsToN was
squandering the money of depositors,
and stockholders on every conceiva-
BILE scheme of wild and unpracticabIe
speculation and that nothing was
more certain than an early suspension
of the bank. Bosh, all bosh. IfRAL-
sToN were alive to-day and pursuing
precisely the same policy as before
his death he would have no more dirt
eating toadies than the men who now
say they knew all the time he was a
dangerous and untrustworthy man.
Year: 1876

Under the above head a valued con-
temporary makes the following re-
marks:-"It is presented to us that
the immigration Bureau established
for the purpose of caring for immi-
grants on their arrival here and point
ing out to them the way they should
go, is in need OF assistance to sustain
it in its work. 1t seems to us it is an
institution which should commend
itself to the good will of our wealthy
men and large landowners whose in
terest it should be to attract hither a
desirable class of immigrants. There
is no place for such persons now to
abide temporarily while they are look
ing about them for settlement. In
New York the immigrant is taken in
hand as soon as he arrives and pro-
tected from the sharps that infest the
boats, cars and landing places, while
here the stranger is left completely at
the mercy of those cormorants. This
should not be, and it is to be hoped
our men of means and public spirit
will not allow such state of things to
continue forever. If we do not want
entirely to repel immigration, let US
do something to protect the immi-
grant until he can protect himself"
There is more truth in these remarks
than many would suppose; and it is
quite time that something was done
in the direction indicated. What Cal.
ifornia needs, and more especially
Southern California, is the immigra-
ton of class of settlers who have
both the means and the will to con-
tribute to the full development of our
resources. Capital is wanted, and la
Dor is needed and both should receive
aid for their practical investment. In
telligent labor is the real capital Of
the State,-money furnishes the mo-
tive power. 1t is to the interest of this
section that the Bureau should receive
aid, in the direction suggested. We
have unlimited resources, inviting de.
velopment, and what is especially re-
quired is the proper appreciation of
the result. We commend the sugges-
tions of our contemporary to the con-
sideration Of our property holders.
Year: 1876

The very violent attacks upon our
late Representative at the Court of St.
James have been overdone. We be-
lieve in justice on every hand, and
think that while occupying the posi-.


tion that he did, his discretion, if
worthy to occupy the place he held,
should have prompted him to keep
aloof from everything that appertain-
ed to speculative or political move
ments. There is real influence con-
nected with social or political posi-
ton that commands or obtains popu-
lar acceptation, and the more potent
it is the more sacredly should the use
of 1t be guarded. Schenck simply for
got his official dignity, and yielded to
personal impulse which is reprehen-
sible in the highest degree. Men are
human, whether they live in the pal
ace or hovel as the meanest peasant.


The real fact is that Schenck saw the
opportunity to make dollar and ac-
cepted the benefit of it. 1t is not q
creditable act on his part, and it is
quite humiliating for us to admit that
men in high places will for mercena-
ry purposes stoop to the use of the
tricks of brokers; that one occupying
such position as that of Minister tc
a foreign power shou Id stoop to the
vocation of a stock broker is indeed 9
sha me, and as a cotemporary remarks
"The whole affair is to the last degre,
disgraceful. That a Senator of tn,
United States and an American Min


lister of the fist rank, should put up 6
job of this kind is something that il
the earlier history of the Uni


ted States would not have beer
possible; but it is characteristic o


the whole Administration sine