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Year: 1876

The Centennial Exhibition continues to draw
its thousands of visitors daily, to look at the
wonders of the world displayed there. Our
Exhibition Of Splendid Clothing also has its
countless throng of admirers, and when our
patrons compare our reliable and stylish
clothing, and our exceedingly low prices with
those of other establishments, it is universally
conceded that the best place to procure your
Summer outfit is at the reliable Bazaar Of
BENNETT L Co., 7Oaoer Hall. 51S Market Street,
Philadelphia, where the Large Clock is over
the door,
Year: 1876

You are asked every day through the col
umns of newspapers and by your druggist to
use something for Dyspepsia and Liver Com
plant that you know nothing about, you get
discouraged spending money with but little
success. Now to give you satisfactory proof
that Green's August Flower will cure you OF
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint with all its
effects, such as Sour Stomach, Sick Head
ache. Habitual costiveness, palpitation of the
Heart, HEARTBURN, Water-brash, coming up
Of food after eating, low spirits, &c, we ask
you to 60 to your druggist, DR.. Chamber
August Flower for 10 cents and try it, or a
regular size for IS cents, two doses will re-
lieve you.
Year: 1876

Been in general use for twenty years. Everywhere
EFFICIENT medicines known They are just what
the people want, saving time and money averting
sickness and suffering. Each single specific the well
tried prescription of an eminent physician.
Year: 1876

made regular old "skedaddle' of war times.
But they rallied, after their first surprise and
soon came at their assailants with the weap-
ons by which they were assailed. Then COM
menced the war OF the roman candles. Those
who saw it describe it as one of the most
amusing and inspiring scenes ever witnessed
in the town. For ten or fifteen minutes of the
battle the livid balls of fire went whizzing
through the air with almost terrific fury,
while both sides of the street were volumin-
Gus shower of red-hot sparks, too dense for
the sight TO penetrate. Both sides stood their
ground until their ammunition and money
gave out.


A planned programme Of the kind could
rot have been executed with more success
than was this uniLtentional battle of fire.
Smyrna Times.
Year: 1876

Those who are in the habit of


telling prodigious stories ought TO
have good memories but fortunate
ly, their are generally short. Rich
ard Brinsley Sheridan dealt with


these mendacious pests in a man


ner peculiar to himself. He would


never allow himself to be outdone


by verbal prodigy. Whenever


monstrous story was told in his


presence he would endeavor to


outdo it by one Of his own coinage,


and consign the narrator to confu-


sion by falsehood more glaring


than his own. Once in his hearing
sporting adventure ran thus: "I
was fishing one day, say in a GER
tain cold spring full of delicious
trout, and soon caught large mess.
But what was really surprising not
foot from the cold spring there
was one OF boiling water; so that,
when you wanted to cook your
fish, all you had to do, after hooking
them from the cold spring, was to
pop them directly into the boiling"
The company all expressed aston
ishment and incredulity at this
monstrous assertion, with the ex-
ception of Sheridan. 81 know"
said he, of phenomenon yet more
surprising. 81 was fishing one day
when | came to a place where there
was three springs. The first was
a cold one stocked with fish, the
second boiling spring, and the
third a natural fountain Of melted
butter and parsley! !" "Melted
butter and parsley ~ exclaimed
the first story-teller, impossible I"
Year: 1876

All carpenters know how soon
the butt ends of chisels split, when
daily exposed TO the blows of the
mallet or hammer. A remedy sug.
gested by a Brooklyn man con-
sists simply In saving or cutting
off the round end of the handle SO
as to make it fiat, and attaching by
a few nails on the top of 1t two
round disks of sole leather, SO that
the end becomes similar to the heel
of boot. The two thicknesses of
leather will prevent all further
splitting, and if in the course Of
time they expand and overlap the
wood of the handle, they are SIM
ply trimmed off all around.
Year: 1876


So calm, 40 still, 30 fair,
With ring on ring of hair
In golden color round her head,
We scarce could think her dead,
But only dropped to quiet rest
Her head on Jesus breast.
was a child beside


The little child that died,
And watched the whole long nighttime through
Till day came fresh and new,
But no more days would dawn for her
Nor breath her pulses stir.
As first impressions keep
Their hold till strong and deep
The latter knowledge all despite,
So recall that night
And still think of death as sweet,
A rest and Joy complete
Year: 1876

The pool rooms we'll patronized last evening,
considering the fact that money both hard and SOFT


is said be The events to be decided the
race track at Saratoga tomorrow number four and the
peoples choice be best ascertaned by psrusal Of
Year: 1876

We hate to be cruel to Mr.. Belmont, but he
has uttered such absurd nonsense that it Is
impossible to mention facts without exposing
him. He asserts that change of political con-
troll would not affect the public credit. YET he
well knows that when the last Democratic
Administration was in power this country was
compelled TO borrow money ut twelve per cent
Indeed we have heard that he then advised for
cign bankers not to loan even mt that rate
But now the same Mr.. Belmont advises them
to buy 4ia per cent bonds at price above
mar in gold Then the United States had no
debt OF consequence, and taxes were hight
Novy il has an enormous debt, and taxes are
heavy. But its credit is better, with heavy
debt and a Republican Administration, than it
WAS with no debt and Democratic Admins
trotion, III the ratio of - to 4l2. In otner
words. II per cent interest being required, 4
A., ner cent bond would have been worth
unler the last Democratic Administration just
37l, cents on the dollar. But such bond
now sells for more than 100 cents on the
dollar. Truthful Mr.. Belmont!


What reason is there for supposing that the
public credit would not sink as low, with u
Democratic Administration and heavy debt,
rs it sank III lSG0-1 with Democratic
Administration and no debt Then men were
loath to believe that the South was disloyal;
now we have seen the proof Then men
threatened secession now they threaten repu-
dlation aud the bankruptcy of the Union by
Southern claims. Then the Democratic party
sympathized, though afraid TO show how fully,
and now it has precisely the same leaning
toward Southern demands. Can any man give
q reason for the hope that Democracy with a
great debt would not send the public credit as
Year: 1876

who wish to print ballots at their own ex-
pense, as some have already informed us they
intend doing. Applications should in all cases
be made to the committees for ballots, so as,
if possible, to compel their distribution. We
hope every case where voters are unable to
obtain ballots from county committees will be
made known to us.


Voters should remember that these amend
ments are not mere abstract propositions they
will work immediate reforms. The canals
seem, to be sure, to be well managed-some-
thing for which tho State of New-York should
always be ready to give Gov. Tilden hearty
and generous thanks-but at the best it is q bad
system honestly administered. In the State
Prisons there is corruption as well as waste,
which the investigation now in progress is
disclosing and, by natural consequence, it is
the State Prison amendment against which, it
is said, a conspiracy of men of both parties
has been formed. 1t is one, therefore, for
which every good citizen should take care to
vote. The other, however, is equally dcsery-
ing. No taxpayer, no business man, no prop
erty owner, who must pay his share of the
half million annual deficit in the prisons; no
man who believes in genuine administrative
reform should fail to cast his vote for these
needed amendments to our fundamental law.
Year: 1876

spectacle supporters of Mr.. Tilden will find that
their countenance of this candidate will stick
to them through life closer than blister
They can stop this robbery of the people OF
New-York if they choose. AT least they can
withdraw support from candidate for whom
repeaters swarm even more than they did for
Tweed. Can Mr.. Adams, or Mr. Goodwin, or
such citizens, afford to indorse as "retormer
any man who permits without protest prepa-
rations to be made to rob this State second
time in his namei
Year: 1876

The Frozen Zone still holds its secret Again
band of hardy navigatOrs-ths time sup
ported by liberal means and with every apph-
ance that science or ingenuity could provide
have made an unsuccessful endeavOr to reach
the Pole. Doubtless they are laden with new
data for science. Of the observations made
in previous arctic expeditions very
large proportion yielded valuable results to
the students of the great problems of nature.
In the matter of determining ocean currents
alone these explorations have been of the high
est service. That is one of the innumerable
instances where theoretical science must
prove of great practical value. With
thorough knowledge of ocean currents
far greater accuracy could be attained
in navigation. An ignorance OF them
has been the cause of some of the most
calamitous shlpwrecls, such as that of the At
lantic, which drifted forty miles out of her
reckoning, and consequently struck on the rocks
of the Nova Scotia shore. The day will come
when the varying currents of the ocean will
be as perfectly known and tabulated as the
tides; but to attain that result vast number
of exact observations in different seas
are needed. The study of the habits
and peculiarities of animal life in the
sea has latterly afforded a special means of
determining those currents which is superior
in some respects to the direct record OF the
deep sea thermometer, since if, for instance,
arctic creatures are dredged from an ocean
bottom in temperate zone, it is prima tdcie
evidence that polar current is cOursing through
the lower depths. With facts of a like orderthe
whole modern science of meteOrOlOgy is closely
interviewer, and arctic expeditions have con-
tributed their share toward the present knOwl-
edge of the laws of storms.


No doubt the abundant material of this sort
which the Alert and the Discovery have
brought back with them will be accepted by
men of science as an ample return
for the risks and cost of the voy-
age But to the great world outside, there
will be feeling of disappointment because
the expedition has failed to reach the Pole.
If the figures are correctly reported by cable,
the approach made was within about
465 miles. What were the insuperabe
difficulties encountered in lat. $50 2l.
n, we are not yet informed. No land could
there be found to the northward. The return
of the British expedition, after proceeding
only seventy-fiye miles further north than did
the Poars, will shed fresh lustcr the efforts
made in 1871 to reach high latitude in that
vessel by the late Capt Hall and his companions.
The difficulties under which he labored, the
slenderncsS of his equipment, the weakness Of
his ship these things are yet fresh in the
recollection of most of our readers. With all
such facilities of the best. the Alert
and Discovery have hardly been more success
full, after following the beaten path. 1t be-
comes every year more doubtful whether any
of the men of the present generation will reach
the most northern point of the globe; whether
the Ice King may not for centuries yet be
entitled to the legend which decked the temple
of Egypts god =" Yesterday, to-day, forever;
I" and no mortal hath lifted my vail"
Year: 1876

nor intimidated, but educated. So long as the
fires of race conflict are kinded the prosper
ity and industrial progress of the South are
menaced. We were willing in 1872 to let the
South work out its own salvation. We are
not willing in 1876 to let the South work out
its own damnation. We said what we meant
then, and we mean what we say now.
Year: 1876

Europe still remains in suspense, hoping
that the Porte will accord the armistice de-
manded by Russia, and thus afford diplomacy
another chance to avert a general war. 1t Will
be hard for the Turks to forego the ad-
vantages they claim to have recently gained
in Servia but unless they are able to measure
swords with Russia submission is their best
policy. Their inability to subdue the rebellion
ought to convince them of their helplessness.
Year: 1876

Since the Continental Life Insurance Com
pany of this city passed into the hands of
receiver, many holders of policies in other
companies have become unduly alarmed. The
letter concerning another and larger insurance
company, which we print elsewhere, was writ
ten before the Continental came to grief, and
thus exhibits an earlier stage In pOlicy-hold-
ers' anxiety. Perhaps the questions contained
in this letter can be easily answered, and the
answers may in that case rebound to the com
pany's credit At all events the leading ques-
ton of the letter is pertinent and explicit.
Our local columns also give an account OF
suit against the United States Life Insurance
Company, asking for an injunction: the suit
is said to have arisen out of struggle for
control.
Year: 1876

jefferson County has deserved well of the
State. A Republican county committee that
organizes what promises to be handsome
victory without assistance from the State Com
nittee, and prints hundred thousand cam
paign documents for use on Democratic voters,
is a committee to be initiated. This has been
done in jefferson County, and the result Is
likely to provo the thoroughness of the work.
1t is a little discouraging to encounter hero
in the heart of an earnest canvass the same
complaints of inactivity and Indifference on
the part of the State Committee that have
already been preferred from other sections OF
the State. Such general dissatisfaction could
not exist unless there was some good ground
for 1t. 1t is to be hoped there will be less
Of If. even in the short interval that remains.
Year: 1876

Although Slade has been acquitted on the
charge of conspiracy it is highly probable that
he will be committed for trial under the
Vagrant act, the magistrate having declared
that the prisoner must either prove the
genuineness of his spiritual messages or be
regarded as an impOstor. This decision leaves
little chance for bis escape.
Year: 1876

BETTER THAN PRESENCE OF MIND
One Of the citizens of Danhury, who
had Just returned from the West, was
telling in MerriIl's grocery store OF
narrow escape he had from q terrible
death. He was crossing Z long rail.
road bridge on foot. when he was sur
prised to see a locomotive coming
around curve, and tearing toward
him at a terrific speed. The bridge
was too narrow to allow Of escape at
either side, aud be did not dare tc
jump into the yawning abyss below.
In flash he took IN the situation and
formed his plan of action lie start
ed on q swift run toward the coming
locomotive, and when within few
feet of il, he concentrated all his nerve
and muscle into one effort, and leaped
straight up in the air. The fearful
monster shot unier him, and he come
down on the bridge, saved from death
but seriously shaken up 10y the de~
scent. There was a moment OF deep
silence upon the close of thls narra-
ton. Then one of the company sigh
ed and shut up his knife, and unex-
pectedly said, "What's the use of
presence Of mind when a man can lie
like that 20
Year: 1876

To CLEAN FURYITURE.-Scrapo
little CASTLE soap into about one pint
of water, add three tablespoofu!s of
sweet oil, heat il, aud use while warm
TO clean the piece of furniture, the re
suit will be quite astonishing. Good for
any kind of furniture, polished or not
For carved furniture, it must be put
on with soft brush, and of course
well rubbed with cloth or chamois
after.
Year: 1876

A decision Of some Importance has
Just been rendered in New York Court,
by which it was virtually held that life
policy-holder becoming insane and UNI
able to attend to the payment of his pre-
MUM on maturity, is nor forfeited.
Though this decision on the surface may
seem unfair to the insurance companies,
it is undoubtedly sound in ethics, and
more in accordance with equity than
seizing the opportunity when d policy
holder is afflicted with the most terrible
of all human evils to forfeit it. There
should certainly be distinction between
inability or omission resulting from
Carelessness or want of foresight and
mental incapacity from sickness, and the
judge will be sustained by public opin-
ion. Insurance companies often show Il
heartlessncss in resisting claims which
prevents thousands from insuring their
lives at all, and were it not for the hu,
name intervention Of the Courts the
business would fall into decay. -E1.
Year: 1876

THE Secretary of the Interior has put an eXtinguisher on the hopes oi the Black Hillers that a county gov ernmeat would be set up for them in answer to their petition 10 that effect The secIetary says: "The inhabitants of the Black Hills are there not onIy without authority of law. but in actual violation of law. and SD long as that section of the country is set apart a, an Indian reservation, it would be maniteSlly improper and unlawful ta authorize the setting up therein of any form of civil government for citizens of the United States
Year: 1876

THE other forenoon man who has occupied a seat in Congress, held a State office, being presiding officer al dozens of conventions, and iS looked upon as a man of deep thought and wide experience, was passing down the street when he saw a silver half dollar on the sidewalk He bent down to pick itup and the coin travelled into lhe open door of shoe.shop while the boy who held the string cried out

 Sold again and got the lin-ncXt, ''

 The great sta1eSman and deep think er acted precisely the same as com mon labnrer would have acted He grew red in the face, lnoked around tD see who had witnessed the Incident, and as he hurried on he muttered strange words and spultered out sen tences with three exclamation points after them
Year: 1876

PROFESSOR HAYDEN'S surveying and exploring expedition have finished their work in the field and returned The party surveyed about twenty thousand square miles ID Southwestern and Northwestern Colorado, which completes the survey of the State.
Year: 1876

CALIFORNIA LAND CASE DECIDED BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME CoURT-Washingjon. November l3.- In the Supreme Court, Sherman vS. Brink. In error from the Supreme Court of California In this ease the Court reversed the judgment below, sustaining tine claim of the defendant t) lands in California, under a patent from the Stale, and upholds the patent from the United States to the plaintiff for such lands, holding that the State patent was issued without authority, as a grant from the United States 10 the Sa,e provided that when the grant covered lands which had been taken up by private parties the State should select other land in lieu thereof. and finding that the plaintiff had settled upon the lands and had ever since re mained in possession.
Year: 1876

The annual report of the State Charities Aid
Association develops the fact that pauperism
has increased in New York to an alarming ex-
tent during the past two or three years. Not
only is the interior of the State overrun with
tramps who are either unable to obtain employ
gain support from charity in the cities but
many thousands of industrious people, hereto
fore in comfortable circumstances, are thrown
upon public charity for the means of living


The figures of the report throw some light on
this subject. Of the 25, 900 homeless people
given lodgings last January in New York city,
not more than 1000 were of the utterly vagrant
GLASS known as revolvers" One-fourth Of the
applicants were women, and it is stated that a
very large proportion Of these had been accus-
tomed honestly to earn their support. yet
twenty four tramps we're of American birth.
Year: 1876

A new electric light, experimen ted upon
some weeks ago on the roof of the Siemens-
Halske works at Berlin, proved successful
that ordinary writing could be read by it's aid
at the distance of mile. When the light was
thrown toward the clouds by means of mir
Tor Luminous train apps ared thereon, which
much resembled the taIl of comet, aud Or ew
together great crowds of spectators in the
streets. Signals made by the instrument were
also repeated upon the clouds, becoming thus
visible at a very great distance. The expert
ments were made in the presence of a large
number of officers of artillery and of other
branches of the Government service. and were
continued for nearly two hours The instru-
GIne. will be set up in the legal artillery poly
gon for further experiment, the German War
Department having the intention of purchas-
ing several of the machines for military use,
ranger.
Year: 1876

TRY THE ENAMELLED PIPE, IT WILL Non
l Rust or crack and costs only trife more than
common iron pipe. Is positively THE BEST thing
for water service pipe. 1 haye the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED HASS


Store in Star Block
Year: 1876

What is a silver dollar redeemable
IN You cant exchange it for a gold
dollar because it is not at psf with gold
You cant exchange it for greenback
" promise to pay" dollar. because the
green hack "promise to pay" dollar has
a greater purchasing power by four
cents than the silver coin stamped one
dollar" The silver dollar. therefore. is
only redeemable in the amount Of food.
clothing orrother articles OF use it will
command in exchange. The promise
10 pay" one dollar is redeemab bic in. the
same way. and the gold coin stamped
lone dollar" IS redeemed just the
same. Evansville Courier.
Year: 1876

We learn that sufficient capital stock
has been subscribed 20 complete the
organization OF the indianapolis and
Huron Narrow Gauge Railroad. and
that the organization will be effected in
"a few days. 1t is designed TO pass by
the kaolin mines OF this county
4 Mitchell Commercial.
Year: 1876

The action Of the majority of the House
Of Representatives yesterday in the case Of
the member elect from the new State Of Col
orado was unfortunate and i'll advised I'M
mediately after the roll had been called Mr..


Holman offered resolution to proceed to
the election of Speaker Mr.. Banks, as q
question of privilege, raised the point that
the name of tho Colorado Representative
should be first placed on the roll, SO that he
might participate in the election of a
Speaker, and to that end he sent up to the
Chair the credentials of the new member.


Mr.. Holman and other democrats objected,


contending thnt the election of Speaker
was tho first business in order, while Mr..


Banks and others On the same side insisted
that all members had right to take part in
the election, and hence it was the privilege
of the Colorado member to have has name
placed on the roll. 4 he Clerk of the House
decided in favor of Mr.. Holmans position,


whereupon an appeal from the decision was
taken by Mr. Banks. which, on motion of
Mr.. Cox, was laid on the table. SO the
House proceeded to elect n Speaker with
out admitting the member from the new
State. In the Senate the two Colorado SEN
ators were admitted without objection, took
the constitutional oath and drew for terms.


Under ordinary circumstances there would
be nothing important in the action of the
House. 1t was simply question upon
which members might honestly disagree,


whether the first business in order was the
election of Speaker or whether the admis-
sion of a new member as a question of supe-
rior privilege should take precedence. Com
mon sense, and we believe parliamentary
law, favor the position taken by Mr. Banks.
1t is possible, although not probable, that on
some occasion one-half the Representatives
might be new members, and in that case
where would Mr. Holmans parliamentary
practice leave the House Besides, it
seems only reasonable that every member
should enjoy the high privilege OF partaking
in the election of Speaker. But the error
of the democrats in opposing the PROPOSE
ticn Of Mr.. Banks lies in tho fact that their
course will be construed as foreshadowing a
determination to resist the admission OF the
Colorado member at any time during the
present session, in order to raise the ques-
ton of the completeness Of the admission Of