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Year: 1876

1t is said that propositions have
been made to Gen. Wade Hampton,
both before and since the election,
to allow him to be inaugurated
Governor, if he would consent that
the Electoral vote should be cast
for HAYES. Senator John B. Cor
don is authority for this.
Year: 1876

The pencil marks yop see around this
paragraph lthu1 mean that your sub
seription Is out or t,npaid, and that you
are requested 70 pay up at once. we
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to cur friends and patrons, but
cash alone win yay our expenses, ana
we are forced 70 adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate tho necessity OF such :
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


- We enter no new names on our
hooks without the money in advance.
Year: 1876

Sc Iple extract from a Northern
Republican organ: ''The boom Of
the first cannon fred by q South
Carolinian in 81 woke the thunders
of the Union. The crack of the
first rifle fired by Wade Hampton's
legions in South Carolina will bring
swifter and sharper response.
Woe to South Carolina if a second
rebellion begins within her bor-
dersr'


In all this Cabinet minister was
prime mover, a president was an
active agent and the entire admin
istration was a co-operator. In ali
the steps to be taken to remedy and
punish these terrible wrongs. the
North must now take the response
bility Of decision and of action.
Let the whole South disappoint its
enemies, and the enemies of right
and justice, By possessing its soul
in patience and in peace World.


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II a sound thrashing could be
communicated by letter a great
many people would use the post-of.
fee who hesitate about delivering
their own missives. It is 80 much
safer to get behind g fence and see
our enemies punished than it is to
administer the punishment our
selves, that until some such device
shall be invented a large amount Of
forgiveness shall lie latent in hu-
man nature.
Year: 1876

dead time She tied the rope to hook over the
door OF her IA stated that she was very eccen-
trio and that her strange ways had been frequently
marked. IL II believed that she committed te 2ct Whe


abOring under temporary insanity
Year: 1876




The fact has just come to light that young lady,
resident Of South Brooklyn, who died some time
since, was the victim Of malpractice. Tho detectives
are now working on the with the hope Of 6ndna
al the guilty parties connected With the transaction
II s alleged that the young lady persuaded by bc
seducer who II Is said is respectfully connected,
visit the house Of an abor.ionst, midwife in Now
York, and only short time after the vssii
she died, death being caused by the rough
treatment she received Chief OF Police Campbell,
when the facts told him, did not think II his
duty Investigate the case az the crime committed
in New York Last night however. he do
cded 10 take action in the matter, arresting
Enik Fritch at his residence In Pacific street,
aud will hold him important witness
The police think be has been great friend 10 both
parties he must certainly know something concerning
the He claimed that he knew nothing about the
parties but important letters throwing some light ON
this strange affair were found In his trunk The
parents positively refuse 20 say anything about the
matter feeling the misfortune keeniy. Further facu
will be developed in short time.
Year: 1876

Boyd has challenged any crew in England 10 row
over the championship course the Thames or Tyne
this challenge not accepted he will the
title Of champion The four will then proceed to
America as the representative English crew.
Year: 1876

BosTON, March 10.-E. D. Whitcomb,
the obstinate witness who was committed
to jail last evening for contempt of the city
court in refusing to answer questions of the
Committee of Investigation into the charges
Of bribery and corruption in connection
with the location of the new city market,
upon advice of counsel will 90 before the
City Council this forenoon and purge him
self Of contempt. 1t is the opinion that the
city government exceeded its authority in
the matter, and that the city will be held
liable in damages for unlawful exercises of
power in depriving citizen of bis liberty
and subjecting him to degrading punish
mcnt for such cause.
Year: 1876

In speaking of the comparative COM
forts and conveniences enjoyed by our
ancestors in their homes of a thousand
years ago, with their descendants of
this generation, DR.. Nichols, IN the
Boston Journal of Commerce, says:


Our fathers were cropping in almost
utter darkness, so far as science was
concerned, and but little progress had
been made in invention and the arts !;
scarcely one of the modern cOntriv-
ances for cooking and for warming and
lighting dwellings was known. Not
a pound of coal or cubic foot of illu-
minating gas had been burned in tEe
country. No iron stoves were used,
and no contrivances for economising
heat were employed, until DR.. Franklin
invented the iron-frame fireplace.
which still bears his name. All the
cooking and warming, in town and
country, were done by the aid of fire
kindled upon the brick hearth or in the
brick oven. Pine knots or tallOw can
dies furnished the light for the long
winter evenings, and sanded floors sup
piled the place of rugs and carpets.
The water used for household purposes
was drawn from deep wells, by the
creaking "sweep," and it is a curious
circumstance that both the well and the
building meeting the necessities of
water-clOset were often at long dis
tances from the house. In a cold night
to be called toward either of them was
something dreadful to think of. No
form of pump was used in this country,
so far as we learn, until after the COM
mencement of the present century.
There were no friction matches in those
early days, by the aid of which fire
could speedily be kindled; and if the
fire went out on the hearth over night,
and the tinder was damp, so the spark
would not ''catch," the alternative re-
manned of wading through the snow a
mile or so to borrow a brand of a
neighbor. Only one room in any house
was warmed (unless some one in the
family were lily, in all the rest the tenn
perature was at zero during many nights
in winter. The men and women of hun
dred years ago undressed and retired
to their beds at night in an atmosphere
colder than that Of our modern barns
and wood-sheds, and they never COM
planned.
Year: 1876

He was a seedy-looking individual,
and as he stood upon the corner gazing
wistfully at the disappearing form of a
newsboy who had just picked up a
good-sized stump and was making off
with the prize, there was vague aspect
of despair in his attitude which was
very touching. Perhaps it was this
which attracted the attention OF mild
looking party who was passing by, and
perhaps it was something else; but
however this may be, the mild-looking
party stopped, and gazing at the sohta-
rv figure, addressed it thus:


"Old man, wouldn't you ike to have
a drink this morning?"


"YOu've read me as accurately as
though my thoughts were printed
on an open page" replied the
solitary, taking his quid from his mouth
and passing a dilapidated coat-sleeve
over his lips.


al thought so," murmured the mild
looking party, while a tear trickled
down his cheek; "but conquer the de-
sire. Fight tia you would legion OF
devils, for drink has ruined many a
man who had a more expansive fore
head than you've gOt!"


And then the mild-looking party con.
tinued on his way, and the solitary gaz.
ed dreamiy into space and communed
with himself.-LouisvtIle Argus.
Year: 1876

Either man must be content with
poverty all his life, or else be willing to
deny himself some Injuries, and save,
to lay the base of independence in the
future. But if a man denies the future,
and spends all he earns (whether his
earnings be one or ten dollars every
dav), let him look for lean and hungry
want at some future time-fOr it will
surely come, no matter what he thinks.
To save is absolutely the only way to
get a solid fortune; there is no other
certain mode. Those who shut their
eyes and ears to these plain facts will
be forever poor, and for their obstinate
rejection of truth, mayhap will die in
rags and filth. Let them so die and
thank themselves. But no! They take
a sort of recompense in cursing fortune.
Great waste of breath. They might as
well curse mountains and eternal hills.
For l can tell them fortune does not
give away real and substantial goods.
She sells them to the highest bidder, to
the hardest and wisest worker for the
boon. Men never make so fatal a mis-
take as when they think themselves
creatures of fate; tits the sheerest folly
in the world. Every man may make or
mar his life, which ever he may choose.
Fortune is for those who by diligence,
honesty and frugality, place themselves
in a position to grasp hold of fortune
when it appears in view. The best ev-
idence of frugality is the five hundred
dollars or more standing in your name
at the savings bank. The best evidence
of honesty is both diligence and frugal
ity.
Year: 1876

On Friday afternoon last, dressed in
a rather shabby coat which betrayed a
rip in the shoulder through which the
lining proruded, a pair of trousers
which once were new, and a slouch hat
shading his eyes, His Majesty was in
tently examining some exhibits in the
Main Building when he overheard a
lady and gentleman regretting that they
had failed to see the Emperor of Brazil.
The lady calculated, eff he is here |
can't enjoy any thing till | get a good
look at him. and her escort comforted
her with the remark that he had been
looking for the Emperor for a week,
and was satisfied he had not been at the
Exhibition. Dom Pedro evidently
thought it a pity they should longer
waste time in fruitless search, and not
caring to collect crowd by revealing
his identity he pointed to his valet, who
stood at a respectful distance with a
princely feather in his military hat, and
said quietly, "He is at leisure now
90 and introduce yourselves. "-PhHq-
delphia Inquirer,
Year: 1876

All through the extensive cedar for
ests in Marshall, north of the river, and
in the extensive belt of cedars in the
northeast portion of Maury County, un-
told millions of kind of worm, ,encased
in a cocoon or web, have attached them
selves to the cedar trees-hanging to
the limbs of the trees-in many thou
sands apparently to the tree. The trees
appear to be thickly covered with these
destructive insects. In sections con-
tanning many hundred acres of the finest
red cedar in the State-the timber at
tacked-much of it is already killed,
and nearly all that the pests are on ap-
pears to be in dying condition.; grave
fears are expressed by many that they
will, in the future, almost destroy the
cedar timber as they multiply. They
seem to be indigenous TO the cedar, hav-
ing as vet molested no forest tree but
it. The young apples in the orchards
near the affected forest have been at
tackled, the fly having apparently laid
the eggs on the bloom or apple.
Thousands of little Oblong cocOons may
now be seen sticking to the young ap-
pies; within the ball or cocoon is a
small black-looking worm. The apples
that they have been on are knotty and
SCARED, and stunted in growth, and can
not make good apples. The little worm
in his silken web seems to suck the ap-
pie, as there are now many acres of
timber that have been already killed by
them. Some one skilled in entomology
would confer a favor by explaining
what they Columbia (Ten1s.)
Herald
Year: 1876

Oft I've heard gentle mother,

 As the twilight hours began, Pleading with son on duty, Urging him to be man. But unto her blue-eyed daughter,

 Though with loves words quite as need. Points she out the other duty

 Strive, my dear, to be lady" Whats lady Is it something Made of hoops, and silks and airs: 1 Used to decorate the ParlOr, Like the fancy rugs and chairs Is it one that wastes on novels Every feeling that is human? If 'tis this to be lady, 'Tis not ths to be woman. Mother, then, unto your daughter Speak of something higher far. Than to be mere fashions lady.

 "WomaB; is the brightest star" If ye, in your strong affection, Urge your son to be true man, Urge your daughter no less strongly

 To arise and be woman. Yes woman brightest model

 Of that high and perfect beauty, Where the mind and soul, and body

 Blend to work out life's great duty. Be woman, naught higher

 On the gilded list of fame; On the catalogue of virtue,

 There is no brighter name. Be woman on to duty;

 Raise the world from all that's low, Place high in the social heaven

 Virtue's fair and radiant bow Lend thy influence to each effort

 That shall rise our nature human; Be not fashions gilded lady

 Be a brave, whole-souled woman
Year: 1876

however, that the journal herein alluded


to should regard all these things as the


outgrowth of civilization. since it dubs


itselfthe journal of civilization"


The next point made by the journal is


easily disposed of. 1t says 1.-The Demo
cratic party is the organ of the South"


while "the Republican party represents


Northern enlightenment and culture"
and therefore, in its opinion, the North
cannet afford to let the South win, for
there is an "irrepressible conflict" between
the two sections.


Such an expression when considered in
connection with what we have already
said regarding the alleged "Northern en-
lightenment and culture" becomes very
absurd. 1t is only worth notice on ac-
count of the spirit it displays. 1t
simply shows that MORTON and BLAINE
in their recent TRADES in Congress, did
not speak entirely from impulse. They
had determined in cold blood that, onein
the Senate and the other in the House,
should strive to rekindle sectional feeling
hoping to make it strong enough to offset
the damaging charges against their party
and give it success in the Presidential
fight, while to aid them in their designs,
the press should take up the cry, and
keep it before the people. But Fortunate
ly the people of the country, North and
South, have spoken out their sentiments
on several occasions, and every time
these sentiments have been as death
blows to the aspirations of those who
hope to mount into high official position
through sectional hate. There is indeed
an "irrepressible conflict" in the land,
but 1t is not such conflict as the "Jour-
nal of Civilization" declares, nor as it
would like to see. 1t is conflict be-
tween the people and Radical vindictive-
ness, and the people have their own INTEL
ests too much at heart TO permit them
selves to be overcome. This Centennial
year will witness, we believe, general
reconciliation between North and South,
and those unhappy malcontents-the
Radical politician of the North, and his
brother, the carpet bagger of the South,
will be consigned TO apartments by them
selves, where, to express it politely, they
can kick up little blades" oftheir own.
Year: 1876

The great howl among the Democratic
speakers and politicians in this nelghborhood
at the present time is '.Let us have change" I"
In reference to this matter we clip the follow
ing able article from the Chicago Tribune:


"The burden of the whole Democratic ar
gument in the present Presidential canvass is
''Let us have change; let US put out the
men in office and put in a new set; any
change must be for the better" If the elec-
tion of Tilden had no other effect than the
mere substitution of one set of oficeholders
for another, despite the necessary disturbance
and consequent evil of such sudden and uni
versal change, there would be no particular
lament. The people as whole care very lit
tie who fill the offices, have no respect for
''ciaims" to office and rarely shed many tears
over any mans dismissal. They take no more
interest in the removal of a clerk in public
office than they do in the dismissal of book
keeper in hardware store or a teller in a
bank. But this election is not mere strug-
gle as to who shall hold office, who shall
draw salaries from the Treasury, and who
shall become charges upon the public revenue.
The election of Tilden means something
more. 1t means political revolution, not
merely of the offices, but of the men who are
to administer, and of the politics and charac-
ter of the Government. 1t is not the mere
substitution of one party in place of another;
it is revolution, peaceful to some extent in
its operation, but in its effect and all its re.
suits the practical success of the same move.
ment which in the form of q civil war against
the Union proved failure What was the
aim of the rebellion of 1861? 1t was to dis
rupt the Union, break down the Constitution,
and the reorganization of the Republic upon
the recognized principle of confederation Ct
independent States, in which the servitude Of
the African race was to be beyond and above
all law save such as each State should adopl
for itself. The complete supremacy of the
white race and the exclusive property charac


ter OF the negro was to be Fundamentals
! principle. This was the kind Of Government
Year: 1876

When the very existence OF the Nation was
at issue, the patriotic people pid not permit
minor questions to distract their minds, nor
did they let go their vital issue to take up ex-
ceptions raised in matters of detail, by those
who worked to defeat the main object. At
that time the leaders of the Democratic party
developed very lively jealousy for the integ-
rity of the Constitution, and for all the legal
impediments that could be invented to hinder
the energetic action of the Government in put
ting down secession. They offered to the
people very fine regard for the Constitution,
and high standard of the enforcement of law
against any means to put down law breakers.


According to their own statement they Of
fered for the service of the people a set of
virtues far superior to those of the Republican
party, which was fighting secession. Accord
ing to their list of their own merits, the peo-
pie could have had reform Administration
by the simple operation of putting out the
Republican, and putting in the Democratic.
But there was one ideaism in the people,
which led them to persist that the job to be
done was to suppress the rebellion, to stop
the slaughter, and devastation, and expense,
and to establish the supremacy of the Govern
ment. And instinct gave them the somewhat
logical notion that the Nation, and which
alone cared TO save it, was the safest party to
trust with the minor matters and details.


The same appears to be the case now.
Northern Democrats offer the people fine
scheme of reform, by the simple process of
turning out all the public officers and clerks,
and putting in Democrats. They present
taking platform, of which nine resolves begin
with tie word reform, and in which the same
word is repeated many other times. They
give to the people platform which shows a
soft money side to the West, and hard
money side to the East, and letter of their
candidate, with a complete labyrinth of
words, through which hard money becomes
soft, and soft money hard, and resumption if
to be brought about by a thimble-rig-
ging slight of hand, which shall make both
paper money and specie abundant, to every
mans content.


All this sounds very attractive, but some
how the people seem to see that the party
which would come into power, if Tilden were
elected, would be the solid Southern Confed-
eracy. Therefore, they conclude that they
will see about this first. They appear to be
no more inclined to let their minds be divert
ed from the main issue by such questions of
administrative detail, now, than they were
amid the sounds of war with this same Con-
federacy. And now as then, they have the
intuitive and somewhat logical idea that the
party which saved the very life of the Repub-
lie is safer one to trust in its government
than the one which fought to break it up into
warning States, and which has to confess that
if it had prevailed, there would be no National
Government now to be captured by the South
ern Confederacy.-[C Gin. Gaz.
Year: 1876

A little mound of earth alone,


With matted, stunted grass o'ergrown,


A lonely haunt in graveyard plot,


By every former friend forgot,


Yet stranger steps l could but choose
Stay by that grave, not knowing whose!


What need of sculptured stone to tell
Who slept beneath was sleeping well?
What need to know the sleeper's name?
To us or him twas all the same!
Life's story still could pursue,
Beside this grave, not knowing whose.
''Dust to dusti" the end of earth,
The end of dreams our life gives birth;
The summing up of all our fame,
Was here, a mound without name.
A matted sod, lonely spot,
By grieving friends at last forgot!
Not knowing whose, what worth to us
His name, his age, or history?
Did earth resound once with his crime,
Or mayhap with his deeds sublime;
What boots since o'er him hangs the pail
Oblivion weaves and spreads for all?
One of the millions gone before,
Whose steps are washed from off times shore
A matted sod the only trace
That's left as landmark to his race,
Whene'er like me one comes to muse
Beside the grave not knowing whose
Year: 1876

CastOria is aperfect substitute for Castor
Oil, without any of its objections, for it is
pleasant to take, and does not nauseate or grippe.
For costiveness at any age, but especially for
Sour Stomach, Wind Collie, Worms and the
Disordered Bowels of Children, it is the most
effective remedy in existence. 1t is harmless,
it is reliable, and it is cheap.
Year: 1876

A minister while tying the hymeniaI
knot for couple of rustic lovers was
quite puzzled with the brideeroom's
reply to the usual question If he was
willing to take the maiden for his wed.
ded wife. The would.be Benedict ran
his hand through his hair and paused
for the answer, which came: "Ay,
Pm willing; but I'd rather have her
sister,"
Year: 1876

There is no need of pain where
Centaur Liniment is used Burns and Scalds
are healed without scar. Rheumatism,
Sprains, and most flesh, bone and muscle all
ments can be absolutely cured. There are
two kinds The White Centaur Liniment is
for family use, the Yellow for horses and ami
mails One trial will convince the incredulous.
Year: 1876

The President having signifed his in.
tention of going to Europe after the 4th
of March next and remaining there for
a season, the Chicago Times has the i'm.
pertinence to suggest that if he is in a
hurry about it he may as well resign the
Presidency and go forthwith,
Year: 1876

Clara and Mary Merwin, sisters
and orphans, were in the drawing
room of their pleasant home on the
edge Of village near the Missouri.
Their mother had been dead sew
eral years their father had lately
died, leaving them an estate, as
they supposed, of the value of some
forty thousand dollars, but they
had learned quiet recently the
property was encumbered to snch
an extent they were likely to be
deprived of it all. This discovery,
as may be supposed, filed them
with sadness and anxiety, and they
were seated in silence, unable to
read, to converse, to work, to do
anything but brood over their mis-
fortune.


While they were thus occupied
with their thoughts, buggy drove
up in front of the house, and a
man alighted, and the buggy drove
away.


The man must have been on the
shady side of fifty, to judge from
his gray hairs, although his face
was indeed fresh and unwrinkled.
He was dressed with remarkable
ueatness, and his manners indicat-
ed briskness as well rs precision.
In one hand he carried q small va
lise, and in the other an umbrella,
and he stepped quickly to the door
and rang the bell. In a few min
utes he was ushered into the pres
ence of the young ladies.


am obliged to introduce my
SELF" he said, smiling and bowing
in q courtly manner-"Abner
Pierce. Here is my card-profes-
sional card. You will perceive that
| am lawyer in st. Louis, and
presumably a respectable man.
Don't be afraid; Tn not here Ia
Year: 1876

The economical tendencies Of the
House Of Representatives render it
necessary for the Post Office Depart.
ment to curtail expenses. The appro-
priatioDs will not meet the wants OF
the department as it now exists, conse'
quently, the Post Master General will
be compelled to discontinue some four
or ave thousand Of the smaller post
ufices and decrease the service on


many routes. This feature Of demo.
cratic economy will not strike frontier
settlements tavorably. In fact the
democratic House is too much occu
pied with legislation tha: will serve as
political capital to do anything sensible