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Year: 1875

words that would seem old and hackneyed and worn out, were it not for their beautiful significance, and that no other words can be found to exactly take their place. Yes, this salutation is very old. It has sounded thro' the world once year, ever since the stars sang together with joy. and the Angels shouted, "Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth and good will to men," It is uttered by fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and friends, wh er- ever Christianity is known and good will is felt. It is heard in the cottage of the poor as we'll as in the palace of the wealthy, and though often uttered lightly, is perhaps as generally used with true feeling and fervor, and with as full a realization of it's import, as any other pharse in human language. It is a season of joy and festivity. It is a season of reunions, when old friendships are cemented and new friendships formed, when the asperities and chickering's that will arise among men, should be forgotten and laid away forever.

 Thus with a heart full of good will, we send greeting to the readers of the SENTINEL and the rest of mankind, including, of course, all womankind, A MERRY CHRISTMAS. To all our friends, especially, everywhere, we wish health. happiness and prosperity. May they partake in full of all the joys of the festive season, and as you gather around the social board, or the hallowed domestic hearth, think of those who are far away; think of the poor, the sick and the unfortunate, and let your pockets answer to the calls of humanity. Remember that in every community, however pros porous, there are always some afflicted persons, to whom the holidays bring no pleasure, un- less the hearts and hands of their more fortunate fellow-beings are opened to them. Let them not be forgotten. And particularly remember the printer. Swell his subscription list, fill up his adver- Using columns, send him good things and the season will be blessed to you. Remember

 "He who takes the papers,

 And pays his bills when due.

 May live in peace with all mankind,

 And with the printer too"

 To our enemies, if we have any, we would say. may the genial in- fiuences of the happy season soft en and turn their hearts. We have never Intentionally injured man, woman or child in tbe world. We are not infallibIe. No man is. That is an attribute of God alone. We know that we are liable to make mistakes, but they are "errors 0f the head and not of the heart" But if we have an enemy just because he wishes to be so, out of the pure bitterness ofhis heart. he has our permission to go to the Devil.

 Friends, before we can greet you again in the columns of the SENTINEL, the year 1875 will have passed away and 1876 dawned upon the earth. What the new year has in store for us is locked up in the womb of the future. But it is a good time to review the past, and where we find we have erred. endeavor to improve upon it in the new year. Let all un- pIeasantness between man and man, and man and woman, be buried with the old year, and let us commence the new year with clean sheets and clean cOnsciences
Year: 1875

Subscribers finding blue mark
across this notice will understand that
their subscription will expire in few
days and they are respectfully request
ed to renew without delay. A red
hear from them immediately, we will
be compelled to discontinue the paper.
Year: 1875

Brother Glover was a pretty big man.in certain old Connects cut village. He would swear a little sometimes, but when he subscribed five hundred dollars toward rebuilding and reftting the old church, that special act Of charity covered multitude of sins.

 Brother Glover had a big voice. There was no time, tone or tune in it, but he beloved as he pleas ed in church singing. When the new church was finish it had to be dedicated, and a choir was carefully trained to do the sing ing. Brother Glover was not one of the choir, and the intention was to rule him out of the vocal exercises.

 The choir had carefully re- hearsed a new dedicatory hymn, and everything was ready for the interesting ceremonies. The church was crowded, and Brother Glover was in his place in front pew, as large as life. The new piece was struck up, and Brother Glover's voice rose loud above the organ. There was. pause. The organ and choir were mute and the latter mad. The minister looking at fly on the ceiling, ex- plais.ea the+ 1t --evs- nor pieces which the choir alone had prac- ticeG, and requested the congre- gation not to join in the singing.

 The piece was recommenced,s and again Brother Glover's big voice broke 1t up. The preacher then fixed his eyes on Brother Glover and requesed him to keep silent during the performance of the new piece, which he did not understand, and Brother Glover, looking at his beloved pastor with his big round eyes, replied sin q big voice.

 Look a. here, Mir. Barnhart, l paid five hundred dollars towards. repairing this darned old gospel box and by thunder l will sing" The preacher gave up, and so did the choir.
Year: 1875

I have lived abroad under many regimes, and often had cause to blush for the official rep |.resentative of my country for drunkenness, meanness, profiga- cy, ignorance, incapacity, venali- ty; but until I lived under the protecting presence Of Gen. Schenck have never had to de- precate, as an American, Q con nection with swindling.

 I doubt if there is another civ ilized Government, the meanest under the sun, that would dare so to outrage the self-respect of it's respectable citizens as to compel them, year after year, to endure the humiliation of seeing their representative protected by his official capacity from criminal suit, and hearing the head of their Gov ernment commonly and plausibly accused of participating in the swindle-of hearing his country identified in it's highest personali- ties with Q mean and fragrant fraud.

 Every honest American in Eng land runs the risk every time that he dimes with party of English men of being made to blush by an allusion to the Emma Mine or Gen. Schenck, and he must blush in silence, for there is not one word that can be said in mitiga- tion of the disgrace: whenever he takes up a morning paper he may see that some beggared victim of Grant and Schenck has instituted a criminal action against the American Minister for complicity in a swindle, which but for his name might never have been q swindle at all, and would certain ly not have been a successful one; that he cannot go to his Ministers reception with self-respect, or, if he went, meet there an English man who has any.

 That's the way we stand, and I wish that, since Gen. Grant and his official advisers are lost to all sense of diplomatic propriety, every honest editor in the United States would hear our complaint, and repeat it till the whole coun- try felt the shame.

 w. J. STILLMAN. LONDON, Feb. p.
Year: 1875

Printers are naturally in for a joke. They are proverbially fond of fun; but to look at them you wouldn't think it. Here is a good joke a "printer man" played on his fellow-lodger in Pottsville. A certain insurance man in town, who boards at the same hotel with one of the night compositors of the Journal, in order to save the subscription price to q newspaper, entered into an arrangement with the printer to get the news as soon as he got up. The printer was to write out brief sketch of all the news and stick the paper under the insurance mans door. A few mornings since the latter got up and dressed himself, ex- cepting one boot and stocking and his coat, when he espied the paper under his door. He picked it up and read as follows: 'sGrant assasslnated. Country in an up roar. Mrs. Sartoris and Mrs. Grant carried off by masked kid nappers while insensible. A mem Der of the cabinet supposed to be the assassin. $l00,00O reward of tered by Congress-" Without completing his toilet, he rushed out of the room and wakened up several boarders, told them of the great news, and scared them out of their wits. We leave our read CTS to conjecture, if they can, the 1,1 \ si 1ii,ssSnet8i the whole party when they found how hey naa been sold. The insurance man

 sworn to subscribe to a daily paper.
Year: 1875

helpless and dependent condition. The Civil Rights bill has not altered the colored mans rights at all frora ~nat they were before under the common law applicable to nearly every state in the Union. It has only given him greater power to enforce that right to meet the exigency of combined efforts to deprive colored citizens of 1t; and all idea that the Civil Rights bill allows him to force himself into any mans shop or in to any mans private house or in- to any eating house, boarding house or establishment other than those have named, is simply an exhibition of ignorance, as well as in some cases, ofinsuferable prej- udice or malignity. And while l would sustain any colored man in firmly and properly insisting up- on his rights under the Civil Rights bill, which were his at common law, as they were the right of every citizen, yet l should oppose to the umost of my power any attempt on the part of the colored men to use the civil rights bill as a pretense to interfere with the private business of private parties. It's beneath the dignity of any colored man so to do, and all acts, such as shutting him out from drinking saloons, may be we'll left to the ignorant and gen erally vicious men who keep them as q badge of their superiority to the colored race. I Ihave the hon or to be, &c., B. F. BUTLER,

 R. Harlan, Esq, Cincinnati, o.
Year: 1875

love more and more fervidly, un- til with him the game becomes downright earnest. He proposes and is rejected, and goes round everywhere swearing that that girl is the most comsummate flirt that ever existed. But does he speak the truth? Is she not right to be careful to look before she leaps? Good people, do not iudge her too harshly because she is hard to please.
Year: 1875

l. las tae largest circulation Of any paper in the State, outside Of Little Rock, and is not surpassed by any other paper in the south vest being circulated in nearly every town aul city in the south and west, and read by an intelligent, enterprising people,
Year: 1875

jF w WASHINGTON, Marcn lo, lSfO. Sir: I have the pleasure to ac- Knowledge receipt of yours If the 14th, containing Expressions of appre- Citation of my efforts in behalf of the Civil rights Bill, for which ac- |cept my thanks. You further ask: |"Will you be kind enough to in- form me if colorcd men are cnti- tied to the priyiledges of saloons and barber-shops under it's pro- visions?"

 AN UNENvIED PRIVILEGE.

 To this I answer:-I understand by saloons" you mean drinking saloons, and am happy to say that the Civil Rights bill does not |give any right to colored man to go into a drinking saloon without bhe leave ofthe proprietor, and am IFery glad that it does not. l am willing to concede, as friend to

 he cplored man, that the white hce may have at least this one superior privilege to the colored man, that they can drink in bar rooms and saloons, and l never shall do anything to interfere with the exercise of that high and dis tinctive privilege. l would not advocate bill which should give that right to the colored man. Ii I were to vote for any bill on this subject at all, it would be one to keen the colored man ont of the drinking saloons; and hope no bar-keeper will let colored man have glass of liquor at any bar open for drinking. Indeed, l should be glad, whenever a col ored-man should go into a drink ing saloon for the purpose ofdrink- ing at the bar, if somebody would at once take him and put him out, doing him as little injury as pos sible. He could do the colored man no greater kindness.

 PRIVACY OF A BARBER SHOP.

 As to the other branch of your question in reference to barber shops, let me say that the trade of a barber is like any other trade, to be carried on by the man who is engaged in it at his own will and pleasure, and the Civil Rights bill has nothing to do, and was in tended to have nothing to do with its exercise. A barber has a right to shave whom he pleases as much as a jeweler has right to repair a watch for whom he pleases, or a blacksmith tc shoe such colored horses as he pleases. In other words these arc not public cm- ployments, but private business, l in rfr .wxhich the law dosa. t.si4telz fer'.
Year: 1875

1T ASSUMES MORE SERIOUS FoRM-IScREAsE IN


THE CITY.


BALTIMORE, Oct. Z.
Owing to the rain and cool weather Of yester-
day the horse disease assumed more serious
form. Most Of the horses in the city are affect
ed with a severe cough and quite number Of
them entirely disabled from work.


Most of the horses of the City Passenger Com
pany have been taken sick with the epzootic,
but with very few exceptions all are at work.
sixty horses Of the York Road and Towsontown
Passenger hallway Company are suffering from
the disease. All the horses belonging to the
Fire Department are similarly affected, but not
seriously enough to disable them from work A
large number OF physicians are compelled to dis
pense with their vehicles in making their rounds
to natients
Year: 1875

face of the ground having only enough
slope to secure drainage, and only two
foot paths between the beds. First a
six-inch layer of cold manure or litter
is spread upon the ground and sprink-
led, and then successive layers of hot
manure of same thickness until of the
desired depth, giving to each layer
good sprinkling and tramping down.
My experience is that if every third or
fourth layer is of fresh manure un-
heated, the bed retains heat longer. For
our earliest beds in February, we usual
ly make the manure fully three feet
deep, and gradually lessen the depth un-
til the beds, in April, sweet potatoes and
other plants, are only from IL to Is
inches deep. When within few inch
es of the required depth the frame is
placed on the manure, and one layer
piled within and without the frame.
The sash, or covers, are then put on
and kept closed until the heat rises,
usually two to three days, when air is
given. The first heat is usually too
high for any seeds to endure, 1902 or
more, and the bed must not be used
until it recedes to 900 or less, and the
rank vapors have passed of, usually d
couple of days more. Z.


If heat does not rise in the piles, or
in the bed, or any particular parttof
the bed, because of frozen Jumps or
other reasons, few peils of boiling
hot water will help to start it. If any
portion or all the bed be too hot, the
temperature can be lowered by punch
ing holes with crow bar or stick, in
different parts of the bed, and leaving
them open day or two. A consider
able revival of heat can be induced in
old beds by removing the old manure,
from the edges and renewing with that
which is fresh and hot.
Year: 1875

bwIrregular feeding of sheep Will
show in the wool. Every time the
sheep falls off in condition, there will
be a weak spot in the fiber, and the
wool will snap there when stretched.
Wool buyers don't neglect to look for
this, and the wool loses 5 or 6 cents u
pound in value, where they find it.
Regularity in poor feeding is not so
bad as good and bad feeding alternate
ly. The sheep do not suffer so much.
Half a pint of grain a day will keep
sheep in good condition, with good
straw or sweet corn-fodder. A little
sulphur in the salt is "a preventive of
stretches" which is simply indiges-
ton. e.s
Year: 1875

About halfpast 10 o'clock Friday
morning, a lady, leading little girl,
entered the Fifth district court room
and took seat in the lobby. She
was neatly dressed in black and quite
pretty. After awhile witnesses, jury
men, clerks, and then the Judge came
in and the cricr opened court. A
prominent attorney stepped forward
and read petition setting forth on
the part of the husband that his wife
had strayed from the path of virtue,
and had taken up herresidence in a
house of ill-repute, and that she was
not the proper custodian Of the little
girl. \ writ of habeas corpus was
prayed for. Judge Collum took up
the case, and, after hearing witnesses,
decreed that the father was the prop
er custodian of the child. After the
Judgment had been rendered, the
mother still held on to her offspring,
and walked out of court hurriedly
carrying it. At the head of the stair
way the father stopped her and said
to her that the court had decided in
his favor. He took hold of the child
when it commenced to cry "Mamma!
mammal" The mother retained some
of her womanly nature, as the fast
falling tears showed. A large crowd
gathered, silent spectators Of the sad
picture. At last, choking with emo
ton, the father was prevailed to take
the child quickly from the mother,
which he did, the little one crying
for it's mamma. One went out of one
gate, the other the other, and proba-
bly, their course through life is divid-
ed forever.
Year: 1875

A large number of the pastors of
churches in Brooklyn, including min
listers of all denominations, have sig
ned the following letter to Henry
Ward Beecher:


Rev. Henry Ward Beccher--Very


Dear Brother:


The neutrality-suspicious. of churches
of different denominations in the city
Of Brooklyn, and ministers of the Cos
pei residing here, desire to give you
assurance Of our sympathy with you
in the severe trials through which
you have been passing, and to ex-
press our confidence in your chris
tian character and innocence of the
charges preferred against you. We
regret that others, whose opinions
and feelings we know, and who would
gladly join with us in this expression
Of sympathy and confidence, are now
absent from the city during the sum
mer vacation. We have heard in
courtroom, and read in the published
reports, the testimony offered in sup
port of these charges, with the ad-
vantage Of knowing, by our residence
here, the social standing and credi-
bility of those principally concerned
in the case as parties and witnesses.
None can be more jealous than our
selves of the honor of our sacred call
ing, or less willing to uphold as a
minister Of Christ one on whom Just
ly rests shade Of dishonor. 1t is
because we believe you to be victim
of a wicked conspiracy, directed as
much against the cause you serve as
against your person, that we hold it
to be our duty to God, as well as to
our fellow-laborers in this cause, to
declare our convictions, after q full
and careful scrutiny, of the falsity of
the monstrous charges alleged against
you by His enemies and yours. We
are grateful to God that strength has
been given you to endure SO long the
severe strain upon your physical and
mental powers, through all these
months Of suffering, that you have
been sustained through the numerous
and exhausting labors of your minis
try. And permit us to say, dear
brother, that we are no less grateful
for the grace given you to bear with
Christian patience the cruel wrongs
you have suffered, that you have ut
tered no word Of unkindness or dis
paragement against those who were
seeking your ruin, and under all PROV
ocations, you have manifested the
spirit Of your Master and ours, "who,
when he was reviled, reviled not
again." May the God in whom you
trust, and the Master whom you
serve, reward you with that peace of
God that passeth understanding, and
guide and abundantly bless you IN
labors OF your future ministry.


Your brethren in Christ. Dated
Brooklyn, July u, 1875.
Year: 1875

We have man in Cuthbert, 64
years old, says a Pennsylvania news
paper, who has not taken a drink of
ardent spirits in over quarter of a
century, never drank a cup of coffee
in his life, or ate pound of meat of
any kind. A few days since, in read
ing newspaper, he saw an adver-
tisement where it was proposed to
furnish receipt for S. which
would teach man how to live on 35
cents week. At this proposition he
became indignant, and said it was
sheer extravaganza for a man to
spend that amount, asserting that his
provisions are not worth $40 a year.
He subsists entirely ON corn bread
and water, declaring that he would
not change his diet for that of king
or prince. His clothing costs him
about SO per annum. He is a. man
Of family; and we pity his family.
Year: 1875

The London Anthropological Soci-
ETY. did more than it knew when it
admitted women to membership
Their presence is already felt and is
leading to strange developments. At
the last meeting Mr.. Herbert Spencer
read paper in which he stated that
women are far more conservative
than men, in fact they are quite desti-
tute of progressive impulses. He
illustrated this position by referring
to 4 certain barbarous tribe in which
both sexes formerly went without
clothing. Lately the men have
adopted some light attire. The wo-
men, however, persist in adhering to
their primitive fashion and cannot be
induced to wear the smallest strip Of
calico. This statement was received
with astonished silence by the ladies.
But their silence led a gentleman to
boldly assail Mr.. Spencer's position.
He said that women were as great
innovators as men in every depart
ment of human life in which they
felt interested, and in subjects with
which they were familiar. Untortu-
natcly for Mr.. Spencer, he is 4 bach
elor. If he were married and had
any experiences of domestic life he
would find that women arc quite as
remarkable for the spirit of innova-
ton as men are in politics or business.
Mr.. Spencer not being a father, he
cannot know how strong the progress
sive instincts are in children, and
equally in the girls as the boys. The
MOI al of all which is that it is not
safe, even for a philosopher like Mr..
Spencer, to draw conclusions without
premises, or undertake to evolve the
mental characteristics of little girls
from his own moral consciousness.
Year: 1875

The January number of the Catholic
World contains a remarkable article upon
President Grants speech at Des Moines,
Iowa, at the Convention of the Army of
the Tennessee, on September 90. 1t pro-
fesses to find that all Grant said of the reia-
tions of Church and State and of the con-
test which he predicted might occur be-
tween patriotism and intelligence on the
one side, and superstition, ambition and ig-
nUrance on the other" is in perfect accord
with the teachings of Catholicism. The
speech expresses" says the Catholic World,
better than many imagine the common
sentiments of the American people" and of
Grant it declares, ''all must admit that he
is true American, formed and moulded by
the events in which he has moved, and
truly representing the country and the
times" Itaffirms that if Grant recommen-
dations in the speech are adopted the
Church will be content. The article is very
ably written, and the process of reasoning
by which the President is made TO appear
the champion of the Roman Catholic
theory of the common school system is
really ingenious. But whether the Presi-
dent will accept this argument as the true
Interpretation of his speech is an interest
ing question.