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Year: 1876

The School Election is in progress
this afternoon,


Sheriff Lambson had quite large
batch OF sales yesterday,


Already persons are applying for the
vacancy made by the death of City
Hospital Superintendent Springer,


The red tea store, No. 3 West Third
street, is selling the very best tea and
coffee, cheap. Only one door from
Market street.


Hon. J. p. Comegys. Centennial
Commissioner from Delaware, was
registered at the Colonnade Hotel,
Philadelphia, yesterday.


Next Thursday afternoon the Re.
publican State Central Committee will
meet in this city and fix the time and
place for holding the Republican State
Convention.
Year: 1876

He BeIiercs Reform. ia Erery


Branch Of the GorernmeHt


Necessity.


The following letter from Gen. NJ Clel-
Ian to a friend in New York will appear
in the New York papers of tomorrow
morning:


OoBURG, CANADA, August 16, 1876.


My DEAR SIR--Your very kind letter
of the tenth has reached me, and quite
concur with you. Deeply impressed by
the grqvity of the issues involved in the
approaching presidential election, and
believing that the honor of the country
aud the well being of the people depend
in no small degree upon the result, feel
compelled to depart from the reserve
that has become habitual to me, and ex-
press the earnest convictions that press
upon me. Under a constitutional gov
ernment the formation of political par
ties is a necessary consequence of the di-
yersitv of human minds and interests,
Sentimentalists in their closets mny
dream of an ideal republic, all of whose
citizens are perfectly wise, virtuous, and
consequently unanimous; but such a.
| dream can never be realized on this
earth. and we must recognize the fact
that political parties are not only neces-
sary but beneficial, acting, as they do,
as checks upon each other. Expe-
rience has shown, in all constitu-
/ = haf nal
possesses uninterrupted power for very
| long time, especially when the minority
is too weak to interpose any efficient
check upon the actions of the majority,
the tendency is that the leaders become
careless and reckless, forget that there Is
any power to which they are RESPONSE
| BILE, look upon Office as a personal pos
session and reward, rather than a public
trust, and learn to regard thei- tenure as
permanent. So, too, the Legislative
bodies become inclined to a system OF
extravaganza, which engenders corrup-
| ton, facilitates the formation of rings
and finally destroys the prosperity OF
the people The only sure remedy in
such case is that the people shall,
through the ballot-box, place the former
opposition in power. That our country
is now in the condition just described IS
proved by the universal and peremptory
demand for complete reform by the peo-
pie, without regard to party. Among
democrats there is no doubt as to the
manner in which the change should be
accomplished. With many republicans
the question is whether they can trust
the professions of their party, or whether
they must take the disagreeable step Of
breaking away from old political nssocia'
tions, by leaving the party under Whose
ADMINISTRATION all the evils Of which
Year: 1876

COMPLETE CREMATIoN.-A plan to
make Mount Vesuvius practically useful
has been seriously broached in London
by a cremationist. 1t is nothing else
than to convert the crater into recep-
tacle for dead bodies. A company will
undertake to run mortuary trains from
different parts of Europe to Vesuvius
and up its sides to the summit, on reach
ing which they will tilt their contents
into the abyss, leaving nature in its
grandest form to do the work of cancel
ing the remains of humanity, and then
take the surviving mourners short ex-
cursion to Naples and its environs. in
order to cancel the last remains of grief


"A writer in medical journal ad-
vises those who have to take long rail-
way journey to use an air cushion as a
footstool. He says the effect il agreeable
and highly beneficial to health, as the
trembling motion Of the cars greatly fa-
tieue the limbs.
Year: 1876




The vote of New-YOrk State has been stolen
before by the Democrats, and may be again.
1868 may be repeated in 1876 The party
is under precisely the same aStute manage
ment now as when the STATE was fIaudulently
given to Seymour. Then a single city con
tributed, by fraudulent naturalization, by re-
peating, and by false counting of the returns,
to the Democratic victory this year, there
is good reason for believing both New-IOrk
and Brooklyn will swell the Democratic vote
by frauds at the polls only less gross and
daring than those Of 1868. The consequences
of another such victory" by similar means at
this time will i'll our judgment be very disaS-
trous not only to Ncw-York but the whole
country, for if the Democratic candidate
steals the State as Seymour did ne may yet
be the next President of the whole country.


We have no wish 10 sound needless alarms,
but it seems clear that the Republicans and the
authorities are not fully aroused to the danger
which threatens ut once the supremacy of
their party and the welfare of the country.
The evidences of contemplated fraud are
very strong; strong enough, at any rate, to
warrant from this time forward the utmost
vigilance and activity. The registration thus
far in Brooklyn and New York is suspicoUsly
large; it is greater than that of any year
since registration was made compulsory by
United States laws and indicative of a larger
vote than that of 1868, when IL Is notorious
that thirty thousand votes were cOTuply added
10 the actual majority of the Democracy in
New York County alone. In some districts
more names are already registered than there
are voters resident there. The courts are kept
busy naturaizing foreigners who are hunted up,
brought TO court, sworn through by pro
"fessonal witnesses" hired for the purpose
and their fees paid by organized committees
of Tammany Hall. Over 5000 have been
already thus naturalzcd, and Tammany Hall
has made arrangements to create 10000 new
voters before election day. Tive courts are
kept running several hours a day i'll doing
this work in a very hasty if not incorrect
manner A system OF col0nizing repeaters one
month before election, so as to give them
LEGAL residence in various precincts where they
NAV vote "early and often" is feature of
this new method of repeating old frauds.


Elsewhere the evidences thus far attainabe
are presented; more and fuller proof may he
ANTICIPATED during the next few days as the
result of the activity of the United States Su-
pervisOrs in Brooklyn and NewYork. Every
honest citizen should lend hand to aid them.
Each should at least take steps to ascertain
that repeaters have not been fraudulcntly reg
istered from his own dwelling. This is duty
readily performed by examination of the regis
tration lists, which are open for correction at
all times.
Year: 1876

a. the Chinese do in California. II is
equally true, however. that our treatment
of them is remiss, clumsy, and inet-
fective In considering the matter from this
point, we put aside all caste distinctions.
Quimbo Apo would be equally witness Of
the ineiiicacy of our criminal law, if he were
of American or of Irish birth. He had thor
oughly demonstrated his untitness for freedom,
vet he was set free without any imprisonment
whatever, or when imprisoned, his term was
considerably and beneyOlently shortened Once
he was sentenced to death, and yet ne escaped
the gallows. Indeed as the reader will OBJ
serve, his offenses were hardly of kind to he
visited by capital punishment They have IN
no instance come up to murder in the first de-
gree; yet he was just as dangerous
a person as if they had done SO.
If long ago he had been put III
prison and permanently kept there, several
lives, not very valuable perhaps, but still lives
which the law was bound to protect, would
have been saved. We waive all considerations
of his nativity. What we say OF his case we
say of all such and once more we call atten-
tion to the pressing necessity of restraining crime
by certain adequate and inexOrable penalties.
Year: 1876




The charges against Superintendent Ellis
have been for some time fOreshadOwcd. The
most suspicious feature about them is the time
at which they are brought forward. GOV
Tilden is naturally anxious to have something
fresh and striking to add to his laurels as
reformer The fruits indeed in this case have
not yet fairly ripcned; the leaves have not
vet reached "their mellOwing year" But
there is little more than fortnight remain
ing before election day; the new laWels
must he picked now or never; and
this may perhaps be the "bitter cOnstralnt
"and sad occasion dear" which compel the
Governor to disturb their season due" mat
most of the savings banks which have failed
have been atrOciously mismanaged Is fact
not open to question. How far the present
Superntendent Is responsible for this state OF
affairs is to say the least of it question at
present open to a variety of opinion in reply.
We print both sides. 1t will be seen that the
friends of the Superintendent think he is no
more IN be held responsible in some of these
cases Ethan a Choctaw chief" AT worst
if appears probable that the extremity
of his error has consisted in hesitation
about winding up banks in doubtful
condition. Considering the heavy loss aud
widespread trouble which follow the closing
of savings bank, it is the part of prudence
10 POSTPONE such a calamity 50 long as there Is
fair hope that it can be avcrted Perhaps it
may be proved that Superintendent Ellis has
been in some instances mised by such hopes,
backed by the promises of bank trustees to
furnish additional security. 1t will be an oc-
cosIon for surprise if more than this error can
be laid at his door.


But the bank failures themselves must be
attributed to very different causes. Chief
among them is the fact that the weak banks
never had a sound foundation. They were
never needed by the community. They were
nearly all organized in the day when Tweed
and his followers ruled this city, and they
formed an episode of that era of the abuse of
public trusts Several Of them were recognized
as "R Ring banks" and the names of men who
were a scandal to our city figured in the lists
of their trustees. After the ruin of the Ring,
their failure was only question OF time,
unless their management was changed.
Laws had been passed at Albany that
on the one side tied the hands OF
the Superintendent, and on the other
left the trustees mt liberty to sprinkle the
bank funds about in all sorts of risky enter
priscs, the preteyt being that considerable
amount of money must be kept in some easily
marketable Investment so as to meet sudden
demands. The Bank Department has given
its labors and influence 10 the utmost in recti-
fying this system and abrogating those laws,
and these good efforts have been at last sue
ccssful. If the savings bank failures are to
form an element in the political canvass, it
should at least be rccollected that the delin-
auent concerns were for the most part the pets
and the progeny of the Democratic Ring.
Year: 1876

Can business men afford to permit Mr.. Tiden
to carry New-York? Can they afford to let
the Democratic party take possession of the
Government The question Is tothem not mere
" one of patriotism, but OF dollars and cents
For


l. Uncertainty as to money questions means
ruin to business. Now, at any rate, Democratic
victory means uncertainty.


9. But that uncertainty is enormously ag-
gravated by the vast accumulation OF South
ern war claims The South is united
and fervid in demanding their pay
ment. Is the Democratic party the
one that can be best trusted To resist It'll Is
there one leading Democrat who dares to
pledge Gov. Tilden, or even to pledge himself,
TO resist it


There is the chief peril of the hour briefly
Year: 1876

A fresh instance of the sleepless vigilance
with which Gov. Tildcn's canvass is conducted
is TO be found in the circular issued from the
Democratic headquarters urging Democrats to
arrange their visits to Philadelphia 50 as to be
at home on election day. Such a caution
is much more necessary in the case of Repub-
Hcan voters who visit Philadelphia doubtless
in much greater numbers than do the Demo
Gratis. A Washington dispatch shows that
probably 5000 Republican voters from Ohio
alone were in Philadelphia shortly before the
Ohio election, and estimates that several thou
sand votes were lost to the party in both OF
the great October States 10y means OF this alb
scntcesm not enough, perhaps, to have
turned the scale in Indiana, but enough to
have senslbly increased the Republican major
itv in Ohio and to have reduced the Demo
cratic majority in Indiana TO so narrow mar
gin that the Republican hopes of rcdcemlng
the State in November would have grown al
most into certainty. Those who have arranged
their visits to the Exhibition for this time can
wait for the week following the formal closing
dav, during which the Exhibition Is still to be
kept open. 1t must be remembered that the
contest is close and the Issue vital, and that
every vote will count.
Year: 1876

This is the last day for registering in Brook
lyn. If the Republicans wish to carry that
city. as they can do if they make the effort,
tbey should not fail to register to-day. The
Democrats have been very active in bringing
all their voters to the registration polls; the
Republicans we are sorry to say, have been
very lax in the performance Of this grave duty
Remember that to-day is the last opportunity.
Year: 1876

The sole remaining chance of peace in the
East hangs upon the decision of Turkey; and
the few days delay of that Power in replying
70 the demands of Russia is favorable to the
chance. These demands prove to be- as was
already reported almost identical with those
made b. England, and the abstention OF the
other European Powers from any present in
tcrferepce in the matter is no less compulsory
upon them than it is prudent. If the Turkish
Government fully understands the gravity OF
the crisis, it will dare the certain evaporation
of its own subjects and accept Rus'ia's pro-
posal at once if not, war must come which
will precipitate its downfall.
Year: 1876

The economical family is now at the
zenith of its brilliancy. Everything is
done by itself, and all the expense of hir-
| about the house is saved. The smacking
OF the economical tamily's lips can be
heard further than any other smacking.
When new paper is to put on the wall a
paper hanger is not secured The econ
omlcal family makes its own paste, cut the
paper, trims Out the border and does the
hanging. All the family is present at this
performance. The man measures the
height of the wall by his eye and cuts the
paper, the woman trims the border and
snaps the children out of the paste. By
one of those perversities of fate which no
one can understand-unless he is paper
hanger by trade-,he first length of paper
is not discovered to lie three inches too
short or divided at the wrong place until
half its surface is clnging to the wall.
This wasn't the mans fault. He never
was more convinced of it than when he is
standing on bis toes on chair, with his
arms strained to their full length, the wet
paper turning over at the lower end and
clinging tenaciously to foreign objects.


This conviction is so strong that he men,
tions it, He mentions it at the top of his
voice. If he can get his eyes in range of
the cool, comfortable looking woman who
| is prOdding him with advice, he becomes


actually inspired. That length of paper


has to be taken off again-taken off very


carefully to guard against loss. 1t is


little unfortunate that man was not
so created as 10 take hold at one time of
every inch of nine feet of pasted paper
Until this error is remeded it is doubtful
if taking down piece of wet wall paper
will ever become national pastime. Still,
it must occasionally be done, and when it
is doing, the lower end of the sheet must
be kept from cling to the operators legs
while the upper end is being removed. 1t
is also deemed best by many people not to
step on it, especially on the pasted side,
and it is also Just as well in removing Il
tight section not TO lean too heavily against
Il loose section. But by carefully preserv-
ing ones temper and working thoughtful
ly, the whole length can be removed and
wrapped two or three times around the
mans form, and be part way down his
neck, and in between his legs when he
steps down from the chair. There are va
rious ways Of getting the paper back
whole on the table, or approach it side
ways, Or crawl under it and come up
through the top, or cut a hole in the CELL


ing above and drop through that way.
But in an emergency like this he rarely
has that control of himself he ought to
have, and it is more than likely he will
have his wife and all the children to help
him. If within the brief space of two
minutes he has not got both his whiskers
and pockets full of that paper. and bolster
ously communicated things which no en-
cyclopHda would undertake to carry,
his then economy is above the price of
rubies and and he is a dangeiou man to
board with. .-Uanbury NeWs.
Year: 1876

The would be Judge Whipeer, of
South Carolina. whom Governor
Chamberlain refuses to commission as
judge, is boiling over with wrath. He
exhibited his qualifications for Judge
in a speech before the Legislature of
that State, of which the following is
brief extract:


When Moses is a saint in heaven,
Chamberlain will be bowling in hell.
ID. Ii, Chamberlain is unfit for earth {:
to heaven he could not ascend, and in
hell itself the devil would spurn him
out. Chamberlain is a black hearted
traitor, and he has gone so far that he
must take the consequences. He has
resisted the will of the people, and
the same spirit which rose in the time
of Charles / will rise now and behead
him, The Constitution commands
the Governor to issue commissions to
State officers elected, and, in refusing
SO to do, Chamberlain proves himself
a perjured wretch. The News and
Courier sanctum smells of hell. feel
it my duty to myself, to my supporters
and to my race to take my seat as
as judge at all hazards, and | will
either be denied that position by law
or be relieved by death, | will die be-
| fore | will resign.
Year: 1876

Success is the need of excellence. The
truth of this has never been more forcibly
exemplifed than by the triumphant career
OF Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. No SOON
er did the people discover the genuine
merits OF this supreme invigorant and
corrective than they fastened to stamp it
with the seal of popularity. The press
and medical profession speedily followed
in the wake Of the public and emphatic
ally endorsed it, Thus from the very
outset the success of the bitters as a rem
edy and preventative was an established
fact, and degree Of popularity which it
often takes proprietary medicines years to
attain, was achieved almost at stride by
the then new preparation. Since that
time every successive year has witnessed
fresh accessions to the favor with which
the Bitters were early regarded, and the
area of its popularity is no longer confined
to the United States, but includes the
British Provinces in North America and
the West Indies, South America, Mexico,
portions Of Europe and Australia. That
it is not only a remedy for dyspepsia, con
stipation, biliousness, urinary and uterine
complaints, debility and nervousness, but
also IL preventive of those maladics to
which air and water, impregnated with
miasma, give birth, has been no where
SO strongly evidenced as in those regions
where climatic conditions untavora6le to
health exist, and where the Bitters have
been long and constantly tested. To call
this superb cordial remedy that has
made its mark, cannot we think be re-
gardec as boasting, since there is probably
no proprietaryremedy more widely known
universally respected and emphatically
endorsed than these Bitters.
Year: 1876

MORE SToRM.-The past week has
boOn another good one tor storm. We
have said so much about good storms the
past Winter there seems to DO nothing
left to say except that this last storm was
better than any of its predecessors. Dur
Ing the week 3.72 inches of rain and l01I
inches Of snow fell in the Basin, and all
the while it was showing on the hills.
Another storm like the last and we fear
the watcr-suplly will be so bountitul and
extended as to leave no time for the min
ers to cleanup. They will either be
compelled to work right along into next
season, or lose portion of the water
from this year. If the claims in Wea-
yer basin don't run till the first Of August
or later we will miss our guess. Every
whe.e water is plenty, without any fresh
ct, and nj erS are doing moro and better
work than ever before. To this date the
rainfall for the season aggregates 40.S2
inches, and the total fall of snow has
been IA inches. Nothing in the memo
ry Of the dest inhaLitant has equalled
the present as mining season.
Year: 1876

MINERS and traders rejoice in the fact
that the present is the Centennial Year.
Ii it was not for the Grand Celebration
at Philadelphia, it would be difficult for
Unity County people to find way in
which to spend all the money they expect
TO make this season.
Year: 1876

WILLIE TINsLEY was in town this
We and 'n'orms us that miners along
The river MS far down rs Coxs Bar are
bu lily engaged in washing gravel, and
That prospects are encouraging. Tues
day evening the river at Cox's Bar had
IN sed about four feet, but there was no
trouble in crossing the ferry boat.
Year: 1876

The medical value of q mustard plaster is un-
derstOOd in every family. Much time is spent in
preparing poultice and often the mustard is Of
poor quality and will not act, causing great sHf-
fering. This trying Inconvenience is now per-
fectly overcome by BsnsOns Prepared Mustard
Plaster. 1t is a great improvement on the ordi-
nary article. 1t Is very clean, and be applied
and removed without discolOring the clothing or
sOillng the skin 1t does not deteriOrate with age
1t is always reliable as only the best quality OF
mustard is used in its preparation. 1t is ready
for use at any moment by simply dipping it in
per roll, by all druggists. Sent by mail, on re-
ceipt Of price, by


SEABCRY s JOHNSON,


Pharmaceutical Chemists, New York
Year: 1876

We understand that the report IF in circulation in different portions, or at least in one portion of our county, that the dissatisfaction in Illinois township with regard to the man ler in whichtheprimary election was conducted, is so great that there is to be another convention held in this township for the pur- pose of putting out new candidates for some Of the county officers. Now we have no besitation in say- ing that there is nothing of this: and moreover we assert that at least three fourths of the democrats of Illinois township are fully satisfied with the manner in which the elec- ton was held, and also with the re- suit. That there are some few members ot the party who are not satisfied, there is no doubt, for there are always some men whom it Is utterly impossible to please unless you just simply allow them to chalk out a line for the majority to follow.

 Almost thirteen hundred votes were cast at the primary election and most of the nominees were chosen by very handsome majorities. It is now the duty of every democrat to fall in line and keep step with the express ed will of the majority or the party. This much we now have q right to expect, and this much we believe we shall have