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Year: 1876




The time to make preparations for
the comfort of animals during the
winter months Is immediately. Farm.
ers who are able TO make warm sub.
stantiai stables for their stock, have
Of course, already attended 10 that,
but there are thousands who mus,
make the old stables, sheds and pig,
sIys answer until they have accumu.
lated little more, and such must re,
sort to the less expensive methods OF
excluding the cold air, and saving the
amount Of food necessary to preserve
their animals in good condition.
Every grain growing farmer, has, Of
course, his straw stack, and straw is
an excellent nonconductor Of heat.
Stables, with only an outside siding,
can easily be lined with old boards,
and the space between the lining and
outside stuffed with straw. In this
way stable can he made rs warm as
in close clapboaried barn. If boards
are scarce it will not be necessary to
nail the Inning close together, only
close enough too keep the straw in
place.


Cattle should not he left under open
sheds, or 20 crouch under the leeward
side of straw stacks. If yon have
nothing better ;han open sheds for
your cattle, try mailing mp two tiers
Of old boards in front, filling in be-
tween with straw, line the closed sides
and ends, and lie up your cattle 50
they NAV not hook one another.


We have known sheep provided
with very comfortable quarters in .
low shed covered with straw AMI
banked up around with the same
material, being lett open in front. If
sheep are kept dry they will endure
quite low degree of cold without
detriment to health. But when they
are exposed to cold rains, and their
wool is filled with water, they part
rapidly with flesh ana strength.
Olher animals, swine, poultry, DC,
will make liberal returns for httle
labor judiciou>ly expended in making
their habi;a}ioHs warm and dry. 1t is
poor economy 20 ALLOW swine TO wade
or wallow in mud. They should be
promptly removed when saturated
with ilth. 1t will make good manure,
but Is poor material for even hogs to
make their bed on.


Ii straw should be Scarce, earth
and Gods can be used to good alivan-
tage in excluding the cold. Farmers
frequently bank up around their
dwellings with earth, but how seldom
do they nSe the same abundant ma
terial 10 bank up around their barns
aud sheds, set it w0ad undoubtedly
be quite as ctliraci in the one case
as III the other. SUds might also be
used aS covering for temporary sheep
sheds in the absence of better materl-
al. In banking up around barn, the
bank should be raised high enough TO
cover the sill so rs TO exclude the air
that Cflen finds entrance between
wall and sill. If only left during
cold weather, it will do but little IN
jury 10 the siding.
Year: 1876

Ara city market the other day, pale
faced, solemn man took of bis hat, smOothed
back his hair, and said "Ny friends, We
know not how soon We may fall by the way
side. We stand here to-day-ne1t week we
may sleep with the dead. I feel that have
Only few weeks more to stay, and 1 wi-h
some Of you would lend men fifteen cents 50
that can get dish OF baked beans" The
crowd at once moved away.
Year: 1876

My friend and I, IN playful mooi,
RoaIned by the sea and through the wood;
wrote my name on the sand, and he
Cut his in the bark of IA maple trte.
Thousands Of names have been writ on the sand
Destroyed by the oceans earessing hand
But one is cut deep in the maple tree,
And there must the scar forever re.
Ny name was TO him the pet of the day.
Forgotten soon and thrown away
His name WAS cut deepin my heart, and lie
Must now and forever I've dear TO nue.
Year: 1876

Sing me song os Summer,


When God walks forth in light,
And spreads his glowing mantle


Ger the blank and grey of the night
And where he GENES, his quickening touch
Revives the insensate dead,
And the numbed and frozen pulse Of things
Beats music to his tread.
Year: 1876

E0- The following extraordinary account
we find in the LyDChburg Ncws, which says
1--WE vOuch for the truth of this strange
story"


Several negroes were together in Camp.
bell county fOw days ago, during thunder
storm, and the question as to whether there
was God csme up for discussion. One of
them, seconded By companion, vohemcptly
opposed the idea Of the existence of God or
any fear Of His action OF control. During
the conversation bolt of lightning killed the
two who opposed the Scripturnl doctrine, and
only slightly injured the others


but the strangest part is yet to be told.
Upon the breast of the chief spokesman the
surgeon who examined the body found these
letters:


sc. o. D." in a Triangle"
Year: 1876

DR.. BEARD states that from all anal
ysis of the lives of thousand repre-
sentative men in all the great branches
of the human family, he made the dis
covery that the golden decade was be-
tween 40 and SO; the brazen between
20 and 30; the iron between SO and
60. The superiority of youth and mid
die life over old age in original work
appears all the greater when we con
slider the fact that all the positions of
honor and prestige-profes
and public stations-are in the hands
Of the DID,. Reputation, like money
and position, is mainly confined to the
old. Men are not widely known until
long after they have done the work
that give them their fame. Portraits
of great men are delusions; statues
are lies! They are taken when men
have become famous, which, on the
average, is at least twenty-five years
after they did the work which gave
them their fame. Original work re-
quires enthusiasm. If all the origi-
nal work done by men under As were
annihilated, we would be reduced to
barbarism. Men are at their best at
that time when enthusiasm and expe-
rience are almost evenly balanced.
This period, on the average, is from
3S to 40. After this the law is that
experience increases, but enthusiasm
decreases.
Year: 1876

A Los Angeles dispatch narrates
terrible tale of suffering on the Color
ado desert. Henry Smith from st.
Louis, with one companion and pack
train, left Yuma for Los Angeles, and
wandered four days on the desert
without water. Smith opened the
veins of his arm and drank the blood,
which clotted in his throat. He then
cut his wipd-pipe to remove it and
died in few hours after. His COM
panion reached the station in the last
stage of exhaustion.


The survivor himself presented q
terrible spectacle of want and suffer
ing. He was emaciated to the last
degree and capable Of telling his sto-
ry only after being strengthened by
food. There is no doubt of the truth
of the story in any particular, the ap-
pearance of the relator himself bear
ing out the confirmation of his owE
part of the terrible experience.
Year: 1876

description OF the struggles OF hon y.
J. Talbot against the demon of drink
| is an extract from one of his own lect-
ures:


But now the struggle is over, ] can
survey the field and measure the losses.
| had position, high and holy. This
demon tore from around me the robes
of my sacred office and sent me forth
churchless and goddess, a very Kissing
and byword among men. Afterward
| had business large and lucrative,
and my voice in all large courts was
heard pleading for justice, mercy and
the right. But the dust gathered on
my unopened books, and no football
crossed the threshold of the drunkard's
office. had moneys ample for all ne
cessities, but they took wings and
went to feed the Golfers of the devils
which possessed me. / had home
adorned with all that wealth and the
most exquisite taste could suggest.
This devil crossed its threshold and
the light faded from it's chambers; the
fire went out on the holiest of altars,
and leading me through its portals
despair walked forth with her, and
sorrow and anguish fingered within
[ had children, beautiful. to me at
| least. as dream of the morning, and
they had so entwined themselves
around their fathers heart that no
matter where he might wander, ever
| it came back to them on the bright
wings of fathers undying love. His
destroyer took their hands in his and
led them away. had wife, whose
charms of mind and person were such
that to see her was to remember, and
to know her was to love.


For thirteen years we walked
the rugged path of life together, re-
ioicing in it's sunshine and sorrowing
in it's shade. This Internal monster
couldn't spare me even this. ] had a.
mother, who for long, long years had
not left her chair, victim OF suffering
and disease, and her choicest delight
was in the reflection that the lesson
which she had taught at her knee had
taken root in the heart of her young
est born, and that he was useful to his
fellows and an honor to her who bore
him. But the thunderbolt reached
even there, and there it did its most
cruel work. Other days may cure all
| but this. Ah! me; never word Of
reproach from her lips; only a tender
carcss; only shadow of great and
unspoken grief gathering over the
dear old face, only a trembling hand
laid more lovingly on my head; only
closer chnging to the cross, only a
more piteous appeal to heaven if her
cup at last were not full. And while
her boy raved in his wild delirium
1000 miles away, the pitying angels
pushed the golden gates ajar, and the
mother of the drunkard entered into
rest.


And thus / stand, a clergyman
without a cure, a barrister without
brief or business; father without
child; husband without q wife; a
son without a parent; man with
scarcely a friend; a soul without a
hope-all swallowed up.in the mael-
strom of drink.


DEATH OF HON. J. ]. TALBOT.
From the Ekhart Review, Sept. q


Hon. j. ). Talbot, of indianapolis,
who has been sick in this city for
sometime past at the residence Of Mr..
and Mrs. Molloy, died shortly after
three o'clock this morning. The i'm,
mediate cause Of his death was inflam-
Year: 1876

A democratic editor out West, who
last week expressed his pride in the
fact that" Tilden had carried New York,
the most thieving city in the country"
now has the audacity to insist that he
wrote thriving" Perhaps he uncon-
sciously hit upon tAe truth.
Year: 1876

The show windows of our merchants
are beginning to fill up with holiday
goods, the selection of which will per-
plex the parental mind after the presi-
Dental question is settled, if not before.
Year: 1876

SCHENCK's REsIdSATToN.-We learn
by dispatches from London that Mr..
Schenck has resigned, and by dis
patch from Washington that bis re.
signation has been accepted. The
only appropriate comment on this
news Is an expression of regret that
/ the resignation and acceptance have
| been so long delayed. We will ex-
press no opinion as to the legal guilt
OF innocence of Mr.. Scenck's tranSac,
tions in connection with the scandal
Gus Emma Mine, but certain it is that
his usefulness as the representative OF
the American government was fatally
impaired from the moment when that
disastrous speculation exploded. To
say that he was himself deceived and
was himself a victim is no valid ex-
cuse. He should not have permitted
his name to be used a: all in further
ance of any speculation. Had it been
his own name as private gentleman
which he thus lent or sold to promote
the speculation the transaction would
stand in a different light. What he
really did was to give the prestige of
his great station, which lie held as a
public trust, 20 a scheme for drawing
money from the pockets of the English.
Had he been a private American citi
zen soiourniDg in London he would
have been at liberty to promote such
a speculation, subject, of course, to his
personal responsibility for the truth of
his representations. But be had no
shadow Of a right TO traffic in the hon.
or of his government and inveigle un-
suspecting people TO purchase worth
less shares on the faith of his standing
as the American Minister. Even if
he had not consented TO he share
owner himself, his Endorsement OF the
speculation would have been indetensi-
bic. But when he had a personal in
tereSt, and that personal interests had
been gwen him az meaDse of pur-
chashing the influence of his official
position, every sentiment Of honor,
deIieaey and Propriety was violated
permitting the speculation to be boosts
ed into Fictitious credit on the strength
of his Endorsement. Instead of wait
g,until he got into very hot water
and then accepting his resignation the
government should have demanded it
at once, as soon as it was appriSed of
the facts.
Year: 1876

SENATORS AND PATRoNAGE.-It is
said that one of the reasons why
Pinchback is not admitted to the Sem
ate is that West, the Senator now in
his seat from Louisiana, is anxious to
have monopoly of the patronage.
This whole question of patronage has
grown into a monStrous scandal, so
far as the Senate is concerned. The
Senate has adopted custom, which
is virtually a rule, that it will not
confirm any nomination made by the
President unless i: is satisfactory to
the Senator from the State of the
candidate named. Consequently if
the President should send in a good
man the name is hung up unless the
Senator should acquiesce. This was
seen when the President sent IN the
name of Pardee for judge from Loui-
siana. West did not like the nomi.
nation, and it was withdrawn and the
notorious Billings nominated in his
stead. Consequently the author of
the Billings nomination is West. We
can scarcely imagine a more fragrant
violation of the spirit Of the consti-
tuition than is involved in this rule.
The Senate is rapidly becoming an
oligarchy which may be dangerous to
;he liberty of the country. If we
ever do have a truly democratic par>
ty it must address itself 10 the buSi-
ness of limiting the powers of the
Senate by repeating rules" like this
which makes an adverturer like West
the dictator OF patronage for sover-
eign State like Louisiana.
Year: 1876

The BoTToM FACT IN WuisKEY-
This whiskey business is deplorable
scandal, however we view it. The
fact that the Presidents private secre.
tary and trusted friends should be in
a prisoners dock before jury on the
charge Of fraud is very sad. The
spectacle of President examined
and cross. examined to save his favor
ite and friend jars on the sensibilities
of every selfrespecting American.
These clouds upon The supreme Office,
these stains upon our throne, are not
pleasant. We learn all through his
trial that whenever a whiskey thief
desired 10 cheat the government he
went TO the President and asked that
officers be removed or assigned so as
to I" help the party" The ring in ST.
Louis was political ring. Its lead


ing member outside of the officials
was the editor CT The principal repub-
lican organ west of the Mississippi.
Here was the influence of a popular
citizen, an intiuntial editor and
prominent politician on the side ofthe
thieves. Money stolen from the
Treasury was applied to help the
party" The President in bis testi-
mony says that two or three Senators
interested themselves to aid the thievss.
Year: 1876

Bob Senators Mitchell and Kelly, and
Representative Lane, are working nanfuliy
TO secure the appropriation, and if it fails, nc
blame can be laid at their doors. In every
thing tending to promote the material inter
ests of your section they are unit, and
work together as one man, leaving nothing
undone 10 accomplish the end in view. They
deserve credit, not because they are doing
their duty, but because they have the cour-
age. in the face of Z bitter opposition, tO
claim for their constituency that which has
been granted to others. 1t is one thing 10 do
your duty when the world looks on and ap-
plauds, but it is far different when one Is
beset on all sides by opponents In one case
the yeriest coward can successfully perform
his mission in the other, the courage and
endurance of lion is required. c.
Year: 1876

THE fall meeting of the National Jockey
Club begins to-day, and the large number
of entries of first-class thoroughbreds for
each race gives every promise of brilliant
days racing. In the three-quarter dash
there are nine entries; in the mile heats
there are SIX, and in the hurdle race there
are nine again. 1t is gratifying to know
that the effort of number of public-spir-
tied gentlemen to establish running races
as permanent institution and attraction of
our city bids fair to be successful The
beauty and fashion of Washington will
grace the grand stand during the Jockey
Club days, and the long list of flyers now
at the Park are ample assurance that those
who attend will witness series of exciting
contests
Year: 1876

THE solid men of New York have spoken.
This explains the Unexpectedly large regis
tratlon of voters in that city. The honest
men are coming to the front now, intent
upon voting for the right, as they did when
they voted for the overthrow of Tweed
and Tammany. This time they will vote
for Hayes, the patriot, as against Tilden,
the partner of Tweed and the Tammany
candidate for President
Year: 1876

VIM. N. EvARTs tomorrow night will
by invitation address the solid men of
New York in behalf of Hayes and Wheeler.
This is a straw showing which way the
wind blows, and from its velocity there is
every reason to believe that hurricane
follows in Its path.
Year: 1876

THERE is everything encouraging in the
signs of the times to the Republican party.
At the most propitious moment the Mer-
chants of New York put their shoulders to
the wheel and urge forward the car Of
victory.
Year: 1876

fruits to fall back into the regular
apathetic condition.


Can we avoid the conclusion that
many a good preacher has been dis
missed by his congregation because
of their regular stupid feeling in
church from bad air, which they
charged to his sermons? Brother
Moodys statement makes yentila-
ton essential to the work of the
church in saving the world. The
experience which he has gained in
the wonderful work he has carried
on, gives his opinion the highest
practical authority. And it is con-
tirmed by physiological science, and
by common observation. They who
corrupt and repress religion by cor,
rupt air in the meeting houses, in
cur a heavy responsibility. We
hope they will take heed to it.
Year: 1876

is it not little singular that all the


outrages" on the poor negro are perrre-
trated in states under Republican rule?
Where Democrats are at the front every
thing is peaceful, and the black man
enjoys his nights equally with the white.
Look at North Carolina. Georgia and Ar
kansas, and contrast the peace and pros
perity of these states with Louisiana and
South Carolina And it is the same all
over the south.


Custer and his galleut fellows did not
go down alone The latest reports inform
us that Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and
some four hundred others Of the noble
red men" were carried down with them in
the canyon of DEATH History will canonize
the heroes of that charge and place them
on level with Lconidas and his men at
Therymopyle and the race into the val
ley of death at Balaclava.


Since Mr.. Pierrepont prepared that
letter which Babcock made public, he has
not been accused of preternatural good
sense on this side Of the water. His first
speech in England closely resembled the
| Babcock letter-it was a very good thing
not to make public. Mr.. Pierrepont's last
public appearance as dinner orator here
ought to have taught him prudence.
Some friend now should take him by the
ear and say to him sterniy, THE first duty
of a diplomatist, sir, is to know how to
hold his tongue. ~. y Tribune.


The Republicans have their special
burdens to carry. They have the burden
of sixteen years Of power, Of Belknap' S
impeachment and the proposed impeach.
ment of Robson, Of the whisky rings and
the Washington rings, of Grant and his
new feat of Caesarism in turning out of his
cabinet conspicuous Republicans like Jew
ell. They have the southern states
against them like a unit. They have to
fight in season of unusual depression il
business-a falling off of all kinds of trade
They came into power when everything
was going up; now everything is going
down. The country yearns for change
for new faces, new ideas, new men. These
are strong influences to fight, even when
we consider that there is a regular army
of $4,000 office holders ready for the con
test.-N. Y. Herald.
Year: 1876

CINCINNATI, July 26.-Early this morn
ing several hundred unemployed workmen
assembled on the Esplanade. in Fountain
square, in pursuance of call in yesterday S
paper, and after listening to speeches from
Samuel Cary and others, upon the deplor-
able condition of the working men, etc,
OF the mayor bread or blood" as an
nounced by one of the leaders, but upon
their arrival at the building no one seemed
willing to wait upon the mayor with the
demand After an hours waiting and
discussion, the crowd dispersed. The
mayor had been apprised of their coming
and had placed a strong guard of police
around the building
Year: 1876

fathers new wife, as you had done in mine;
and had suffered just as you did. But
long afterwards knew that a blessing had
come to me with her and meant to be
blessing to you If l could"


Still Marian did not speak but she bent
and gathered little knot Of white chry-
santhemums-the purest and brightest she
could find. She touched the little posy to
her own lips when she had made it, and
then fastened it in her step-mother's bus
ON. The white chrysanthemums had been
flowers for the burial and for the bridal,
and now they were the blossoms Of recon-
ciliation.-W Wide Aaodke Magazine.
Year: 1876

The Kentucky Changers have large numer-
ical force in the Legislature, yet lack the ex
pertness to carry through the measures which
from the results Of their legislative expert
ment. Exchange.


they most earnestly desire The Courier
Journal says the Granger i'll politics will soon
be problem entirely withdrawn from the
aeld of speculation, "if we may Judge


The explanation is simale the Gran
gers remained in their old political par
ties and, were subject to party discipline
enforced by party caucuses. The dem
ocratic grangers and the republican
grangers found themselves arrayed
against each other.


The farmers must either unite in one
party. or, as the Conrier-Journal says
they will "soOn be entirely withdrawn
from the field of speculation that is to
say, they will soon be OF not the slight
est political consequence or power.
Year: 1876

The st. Paul Dispatch is a very able,
sprightly journal. but,-we are sorry to
say it,-joined in the hue and cry about
rag babies" and "rag money"


The light is at last dawning in its be-
nighted intelligence, and a day or two
ago it gave forth this sensible utter
ance:


The sentiment in the country in favor Of the
repeal Of the resumption act is Oh the increase.
The fanatical fnancers keep up the rag baby
shout, but this does not intimidate. AS earn
est friends of hard money as the country af-
fords, favor the repeal Of that act. In short, it
has become apparent that resumption must be
more gradual, and it is suicidal madness to at
tempt such a result within the time named.
It is useless to look for any marked improve
nent in business until the act is repealed.


Good. We trust brother Hall will
persist in the new departure he has
taken.