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Year: 1876

NEW YORK, March IA The Bank of the
State of New York, and not the Bank of
New York. has closed doors. The follow
ing are some Of the particulars On Satur-
day last, che bank examiners reported to
member of the Clearing House Committee
that the affairs ot this bank were in such a
condition as to require the attention of the
Clearing House Committee. The Commit
tee was called together late ou Saturday
evening, and after a discussion, decided TO
call in the Conference Committee. The
meeting OF the Joint Committee was held
this morning, and thev called before them
the President and Vice-President of the
bank, and not receiving satisfactory
explanation, unanimously decided to sus


pend the bank from the privileges of the
Clearing House until full meeting of that
body can be had. The capital of the bank
is impaired to the extent of about One-half.
Year: 1876

We urge upon advertisers the inn
pOrtance, for their sskes IS for ours, Of
sending IN their advertisements for the
SUNDAY APPEAL at as esrly an hour
Saturday IS possible. BY SO doing they
will secure favorable positions, and ELL
able us TO give them proper display.
Year: 1876

Active preparations are already being
made for the annual ball OF the Washington
Fire Company of this city, which will take
place on the 22d Of February.


The managers intend to render this the
Centennial Ball of the Company, an affair,
which in gorgeousness and brilliancy will
completely shadow anything of the kind
that has ever occurred in our city. The
Opera House will be tranformed into very
,airy garden, and everything CONNECTED with
the occasion will be on an unprecedented
scale.
Year: 1876

HOTELS AND THE CENTENNIAL.


Some time ago we mentioned that there
would be active preparations made by our
hotels for an increase of business during the
Centennial. Already some of them have
made their arrangement, and the Clayton
House has issued card stating that in view
of the Exhibition the proprietor wishes to
call attention, &c.
Year: 1876

We have just received FROM the
Ohio Centennial Educational Commit


tee two volumes of about six hunGred
cages each, the one containing bistor'
ical sketches OF all the public schools
of prominence in tic State. and the
Other i'm like manner, those OF the
higher educational institutions. They
are printed and bound in good style,
and are illustrated with cuts OF school
buildings. Much valuable informa-
ton aud many facts of general and To-
cal interest connected with the growth
and development of our school system
as it were fast passing out OF mems
memories are thus for the first time
gathered up in shape to be preserv
Year: 1876

IT is accepted as an axiom with many
that while the State may attend to
the education of youth in the branches
higher education should be left to pri-
vate enterprise, and especially to de-
nominational control. The truth is
just the reverse. Sectarianism is by
its nature untitled for an educational
agent, except in the line of its particu-
lar theology. So much effort must be
put forth to perpetuate itself that little
force is left to apply to secular educa-
ton. So much material means is used
up in oiliug the running gear OF a
church that little is left to apply to
practical education. Colleges are sue
cessful in the direct ratio of their
secular character-NdlionGl Teachers
Monthly.
Year: 1876

LIT it be your intention not to be
interrupted during a recitation by any.
thing of an ordinary character If a
child asks for your attention, do not
neglect it. Let your whole attention
be given to it; and suspend all other
work until the matter is disposed of.
When once il is understood that one
scholar can be accommodated only at
the expense of the many you will not
often be annoyed by-''May go outl'
May Speaka'' or by like trivial in
terruptions. The pupils sense of JUS
tice and generosity will not permit him
to inflict such a wrong upon his fel-
Iows.-E o. Vale.
Year: 1876

A horse in the midst OF meadow suppose,
Made fast to a stake by line from his
nose;


How long must this line be, that, feeding


all around,
Permits him to Craze just an acre OF
ground:
Year: 1876

We understand, from what we deem
reliable authority, that the owners of
tract of about eight thousand acres
of land lying on the shore Of the Bay
of San Diego, and altogether the finest
large tract of land lying on the Bay,
are about to enclose a part or the
whole of it with rabbit proof fence,
subdivided into five and ten acre lots,
approached by wide streets and sell on
the installment plan, price TO be low
and time easy; and also that water for
purposes of irrigation will be furnished
and delivered into reservoirs on each
tract of five acres, at the rate of about
one dollar for filling ten thousand
gallon reservoir. We hope the public
will hear more of this matter at once.
San Diego Union.
Year: 1876

Some of our merchants are reported as making speciality of line of cali coes which are remarkably cheap. That's where they make a mistake. If they were only a little higher priced than anything else every lady in the land would want some of them.
Year: 1876

CARL SCHURz spoke the truth when
he said: "Ask those who in that
party honestly strove to arrest the cur
rent of usurpation and corruption, and


they will tell you they found themselves
running against combination of despot-
ism and submission as against a wall
deaf to the appeals of reason and iEac-
cessible to shame. AS one of them, l
have stood on the floor of Congress and
know whereof l speak. ! have stood
there startled at the cynicism with
which, to shield those in power, the
most evident facts were denied, the
most obvious conclusions rejected, the
light of truth itself turned into dark
ness. l have stood there amazed at
that cowardly courage, born of desperate
causes, with which to justify the abuses
and misdeeds of the government, >princi-
pies were set up and doctrines were adj
yauced such as would make every friend
of popular freedom grow pale and the
fathers of the Republic turn in theil
graves. have stood there overwhelmed
with shame and sadness at the very deg


ration of manhood 1 saw before me.
have stood there bowed down under th,
| conviction that under The pressure o


such influences the struggle for goot
government must be supreme folly, ant
Year: 1876

The Democratic plan of battle in this
contest is in vivid contrast to the tactics
adopted by the Republicans.


The Democratic strategy is simply,
'" Let the people have light" Show the
books. Their tactics in actual debate
are in accord with the general strategic
design. They shirk no comparison of
detailed facts or figures, but constantly
endeavor to force their opponents
such comparison. This policy is based
upon the profound faith of their leaders
in the intelligence and virtue of the
American people.


1t has always been the policy of
Samuel ]. Tilden, who has constantly
held that victory was to be won emily by
fearless exposure of the whole truth,
with no regard to whom such exposure
might hurt or offend. The truth always,
in season and out of season, in every
place and on every occasion-the naked,
bold, aggressive, incisive truth, has been
the whole policy of his public life.
When Tweed was mighty among the
mighty, Tilden knew that truth was
mightier still. He trusted in it and
conquered by lit then just as he
trusts in it and will conquer by it
now. His favorite maxims are "Truth
crushed to earth will rise again." and
"Great is truth, and it will prevail"
Hence the Democratic campaign is cam
paign of intelligence, and the chief
weapon used is the press, and it is used
in the dissemination, not of vague and
infammatory appeals to prejudice and
passion of the people, such as are poured
forth from the Washington headquarters
of the Radicals, but of solid facts which
cannot be disputed and figures that do
not lie.


The campaign of intelligence is the
true campaign, and the only one worthy
ofour free institutions. The results will
show for glorious triumph over the radi-
cal strategy of prescription, SANDER and
| falsehood,
Year: 1876

The Democratic candidate for Cover.
nor of New York put this pertinent
question in his Albany speech: "Is it
anywhere recorded in the political his
tory of this country that any party,
corrupted by the long possession of
power, ever reformed itst If and corrected
its own abuses? 1t has never been done,
and willnot be without change of Ad-
ministration." This is, or ought to be,
the keynote of the campaign. 1t is the
thought which most impresses the minds
of the great, independent, honest body Of
voters who sincerely desire thorough
reform in the Administration. If the
opposition speakers and editors would
abandon their abuse of Republican can
didates-leaving libels aud harsh
epithets wholly to the other side-and
make their fight on the issue so well
phrased by Mr.. Robinson, they would
xain doubtful votes from this time on to
the election.


History" says the proverb, ais phi
losophy teaching by example" Mr..
Robinson safely appeals to its records in
the United States-and he might have
added EDgland-for single instance of
the voluntary purifcation of itself by
party stepped in corruption and abuse.
No such miracle has ever occurred, nor
will it ever happen. 1t would be con-
trary to what we know of human nature
and the laws of party organizations. The
longer aparty remains in power the more
hopeless are the efforts of its best men to
reform it. Every year adds TO the bad
precedents that must be followed. These
cannot be repudiated without selfcon-
demnation. Every year intrenches the
position of the office-boldels, who
have elected and sustained the Ad-
ministration, and upon whom it
depends for support. These men
can not be turned out of Office with
out breaking up the party-for they are
the party, or the life and soul of it.
Only by revolution OF the executive
power can any but superficial reforms be
achieved. This is well understood in
England, and it is pity we have not an
equal facility of shifting the political
control of things here. When a Tory
ministry is defeated by majority Of the
House of Commons, the Premier does moi
try to mend matters by forming another
Tory minority who may be less objec
tionable, but he and his associates al


bundle out and let the Liberals take
their turn. This radical step, and thii
alone, secures the correction of abuses
and the adoption of reforms de
manded by the people through


the House of Commons. And so il


this country the only process by which
the executive department of the Govern


ment can be reformed is not by substi
tuting one Republican administration
Year: 1876

Washington Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer. !


The fiat of Grant, Chandler & Co., Or
dering the army to do Republican police
duty in South Carolina is exciting much
comment in political circles. The house
hold organ and Administration Repub-
licans profess to feel that the order in
sures the election OF Hayes, but the
weight of public opinion appears to be
the other way. A careful examination
Of the verbiage of the proclamation
shows one or two rather striking eccen-
tricities about these "Disperse, ye
rebels" documents. Both Grant and
Chamberlain appear to have fatty mis-
stated fact in their proclamation, as
they both assert that the Rife Clubs
have no legal existence, which does not
appear to be the case.


The President, in his proclamation
Year: 1876

for another-even though the chiefs of
the second may be great improvement
on the first-but by giving the innings to
the other party. A party is not bound
to follow bad policies and perpetuate
abuse because they have existed for the
past sixteen years, or to retain dishon-
est and incompetent men in Office be-
cause they have claims on the Admin
istration or are in its secrets. Being
thus free to introduce a new order of
things, and its candidates being fully
equal to those of the Republicans in all
desirable respects, it seems to us that a
change-if only for the sake of change
must commend itself to all discerning
men.
Year: 1876

New YORK Commercial Advertiser: A
scientific gentleman casually inquired of
a young bank clerk, the other day,
whether he knew anything in reference
to Laryngoscopy. The young man re
piled that he did, but only by hearsay.
The individual never had any account
at that bank, he said, but he'd often
heard his father speak of having known
him when boy.
Year: 1876

Gen. 7srry's Good Work at Standing


Rock.


Bismarck, Oct. 26.-General Terry
was still at Standing Rock Agency last
evening. He had succeeded in disarm-
ing and gathering in the ponies of all
the Indians at the Agency. 1t is be-
lieved that the Indians have hid most
of their arms, as they had days
warning, and only about two hundred
stands have been found, including shot
guns and revolvers. A large number
of ponies will yet be brought in. About
six hundred have already been surren-
dered. The Indians seem to take kind
ly to the move, as they come to UNDER
stand it, but some were at first disposed
to resist. General Terry informed
them that the property would be sold
and the proceeds invested in cattle and
such things as would be useful for
them. None outside of General Terry
and those Immediately connected with
him have any idea as to where he will
go next, whether to Cheyenne Agency
or to strike the hostiles.
Year: 1876

EARTH CLOSETS. The Wakefield earth
closet is said to be the great blessing OF
the 10th century by those who are so for
tunate as to possess enc. They are not in
tended for invalids alone, many family
in robust health use them in preference to
a vile privy with obnoxious odors enough to
knock strong man down, much less a
weak woman. The secret of their emitting
no odor lies in the fact that the earth with
which the vessel is filled is deodorizer
and destroys at once all offensive odors.
They are portable, and coming into general
use. In the sick room they are an indis
pensable article of furniture. Dubuque
Herald.
Year: 1876

TRY THE ENAMELLED PIPE, IT WILL Non
! Rust or crack and costs only q trife more than
common iron pipe. Is positively THE BEST thing
FOR water service pipe. have the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED HASS


Store in Star Block.
Year: 1876

FASHIONABLE DRESS MAKER,
Commerce Street IA room at the widow Bells below


Main St., Smyrna, Del.


Is now prepared TO do all kinds of Fashionable Dress
Making and hopes to give perfect satisfaction to all
who may favor her with their patronage. Please
give her trial dec02-iw
Year: 1876

The Bardstown (Ky.) Record says
Never has it been our lot to chronicle 9
more horrible and melancholy death
than that Of Mr.. W. b. Bemiss, an old
and respected Citizen of Vaudeville,
Anderson county.


Mrs. Bemiss and her children were
absent on visit. No one was at home
but Mr.. Bemiss. At ten o'clock he was
seen by a neighborat his residence. he
was not seen again until two O'Clock in
the afternoon, when his little ten-year-
old son, who had returned home with
his mother, heard q groan in the direc-
tion of the stable. and on entering it
was Mortified at seeing his father lying
in the agonies Of death and large boar
hog eating at his face. He endeavored
to drive it of, but the animal had be-
come mad from the taste of human blood
and attacked him. The boy retreated
to the ya.d, whore he secured an Ak,
and returning, succeeded in killing the
infuriated beast. He then ran to the
house and disclosed the sad intelligence
to his mother, who was so shocked as to
almost lose her reason.


On examination it was found that Mr..
Bemiss was still alive, and as quickly as
possible he was removed from the stable
to the house, where he fingered in IN
unconscious state until he died.


Mr.. Bemiss had been threatened
with apoplexy or paralysis for several
weeks and it is probable he fell in fit
and was attacked by the hog. How long
he was in the stable is unknown, but
those who were present when Mr..
Bemiss was removed are of the opinion
that he was there several hours.


The deceased was in his sixtieth year.
he was born in Nelson county, where
he lived most of his life. OF late years
near Wardsville.
Year: 1876

A few weeks ago Jacob Kinck, q
farmer near Fox Chase, Pa, was saving
down a large chestnut tree when the
teeth of the saw came in contact with
some metallic substance. Fearing the
presence of something explosive, he di-
rected the workmen to saw on the other
side of the tree. They did 40. After
the tree had been felled a gold watch,
two gold pencil cases and q gold chain
were found imbedded in the wood,
eighteen inches from the surface. They
were wrapped in soiled sock. The tree
was sawn off close to the ground, and
they had evidently been hidden at the
junction of two roots and the wood had
grown over and inclosed them. Tho
watch was old fashioned, having case
which could be detached. and was in
scribed with the date 1740. One of the
pencil cases was provided with pen.
The other had only a pencil and was
minus the seal. The chain was longand
was intended to pass aroand the neck OF
the wearer. There was also gold watch
key, which, however, did not fit the
watch. The tree had attained great
age, being about six feet in diameter.
An old mansion once stood near by, and
il is supposed that the articles in ques-
tion we're buried during the war Of the
Revolution. The watch was uninjured,
except that the hands we're rusted of.
Year: 1876

The American girl is left wholly to


her own guardianship. She has half a


dozen intimates among the young fel-


lows of her set; she corresponds with


them, accompanies them to concerts and


the opera unchaperoned, and sometimes


winds up the evening by supper at a


restaurant which ends in the small


hours. They are not ostensibly lovers
they are friends, bons canaarades.


She finds the half-friendly, half-pas-


sionate intercourse more Intoxicating


than love-making. She opens the


depths Of her innocent heart to the vul-


gar prying eyes; the favored intimate


becomes an Aabitue of the house. In a


few months, perhaps weeks, he knows


more Of the secret feelings, desires,


aims OF the girl, than her sister or broth
or, or the mother who bore her. He
treats her personally with a liberty


which is graduated by her individual
character. But it is inevitably liberty.


The girl as inevitably ends by loving
him; the more unworldly, the more pure
she is, the more likely is she to mistake
his course as honorable. In the mean
while, the man has not the slightestidea
of marrying her; very small minority
OF young men are in marrying mood in
these hard times; he has just as little
idea of dishonoring or even injuring her
in public esteem, but he accepts the in
timacy or friendship of q young girl as
one Of the good things which society
offers him; he would be dull fool If
when lovely That's is left to sit beside
him he did not take the goods the gods
provide him. Meanwhile American So
ciety rules that the father and mother of
the girl shall remain perfectly passive.
The man may be the most desirable or
unsuitable husband for their daughter,
but they have no right to interfere until
he formally proposes. If they should
ASK his intentions" according to the
rational custom of our forefathers, the
girl herself would be the first to rebel
on the ground that she was made rilicu-
lous, and that her "friend" was mis-
taken for her lover. When the friend
betakes himself to fresh fields, the woman
controls her disappointment as she can,
and marries somebody for an establish
ment or a home; or finds her ain too
sharp to bear, and there is a murder or
a suicide, and the usual chatter of in
sanity.
Year: 1876

A newspaper thus speaks Of DAME


Drew, who lately failed on Wall street


First bare legged farm boy in Putnam


county. then q drover, next a cattle


speculator. then working into steam


boats and railroads, and at last rising tC


the eminency Of monarch among stock


dealers, Drew pressed steadily on by


sheer shrewdness and cunning and


made enough money, had he been able


to keep IL all, TO be as rich man to-day


as Vanderbilt or Stewart. His plan


from the first was to sell short and rake


in big profits when the periodical Wall


street panics came along. This served
him we'll till Gould and the late Horace
=. CLARK caught him in the Northwest
whirlwind and took 81. 225, 900 from him
at ono sweep. He had been selling
Northwest short at seventy to eighty,
and Gould and CLARK alraneod 10 buy
up oil that Drew sold and as much more
as they could get. When their trap
was ready to spring, they notified Drew
u deliver the stock. This was impossi-
BILE, for it was all locked up in the safes
of Gould's brokers. The upshot was
that Drew settled with Gould at q lossof
q million and quarter. But he was not
often caught that way. Vanderbilt once
tried to nip him, and got badly bitten
for his pains. Drew was president of
the Erie railroad at the time. He owned
q few millions of Erie bonds, which were
secretly converted into stock. The stock
was selling at par, and Drew was known
to be q heavy seller on the short side.
Vanderbilt began to buy, with view Of
Drew in a corner. He bought,
and got his friends to buy, till he
he controlled all the stock in
the market. Then he called upon Drew
TO deliver. The old man was wide awake
and ready. He not only delivered all
the stock that Vanderbilt claimed, but
he threw q lot more on the market and
broke the price down to forty. Wander
bilt was furious, and set the law upon
Drew, who ran away and entrenched
himself in New Jersey; but the two
sfterward became very good friends.
never sold short. When ask
I'd for advice about stocks his reply
always was: "Don't you ever go and
'ell what you haven't got."
Year: 1876

The latest amusement is termed the
printers Delight" and is performed
in the following manner: Take sheet
of note paper, fold it up carefully and
inclose a bank note sufficiently large to
pay up all arrears and year in advance.
And what adds Immensely 10 the feat
is 10 send along the name of . new sub
scriber, with cash to balance. Keep
your eye on the printer, and If you de-
tect q smile the trick is q success. Try
Year: 1876

The explosiveness of air in coal mines,
which is simply laden with fine coal dust,
and contains no gas at all, has been de-
monstrated by some meexperiments recently
made in France, which show that in col
leries, where such air is present, an ex-
plosion may be occasioned not only by
the use Of gunpowder blasts, but by the
mere exposure of an uncovered light.
Year: 1876

Happily for the city of Chicago, the
rule of the notorious gang Of politicians in
that city which has been nearly as profit
gate and shameless as was the reign Of
Tweed in New York, and the Pilgrims in
Philadelphia, has been broken. The in
dignant people of that city, have as we
predicted they would, in former number
Of the Herald, overthrown a ring Of
thieves, who have long been engaged in
plundsring the city, and have actually
stranded the public treasury upon the
shoals Of bankruptcy. There is an impor-
tant lesson to be learned from the late
political revolution in Chicago, for it de-
monsrates the fact, that although COM
munity may patiently submit to arrant
oppression on the part Of its rulers, the
hour will finally come when the people
will arise in their might and wrest the
power from the men who have reigned for


their own profit and aggrandisement.
The rule Of the repeater and ballot-box
suffer" became SO oppressive in the Gar
den City," that long slumbering public
wrath was kindlsd into q fury, before
Year: 1876

TIE residents Of the city of New York,
because of the high price and poor quality
OF gas and the dangerous quality of coal
oil, have resumed the use of common lard
oils and lamps for illuminating purposes
They are right in preferring safety to the
use Of such dangerous explosives, and the
impositions of gas monopilies.