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Year: 1876

The Oxford Falcon of a re-
cent date says: Among other
things, Judge Hill, of the
Federal CourU, charged the
grand jury last week, that a
farmer who purchased for,and
sold to, his labofers tobacco
without charging any profit
on the same, was not a dealer
in tobacco under the law and
was therefore not thereby
guilty Of any violation of the
revenue laws of the u. States.
We think this is good com
mon sense and justice.
Year: 1876

The SILVER LINING.-The
Grenada Rural Gentleman of
June 22d says: The time is
fast rolling around, when the
Farmers o. this country can
look for a brighter day. Gra-
dually and firmly has the true
motives of the Grange laid a
foundation for future work;
gradually the stormsand hard
ships endured so long,are fast
beginning to cease, and rscoil
on those who fear them most.
1t is not the true nature Of
the Farmer to give up under
adverse circumstances he,
like the eagle after having
labored to seize his prey, ON
being assailed for it, will de-
fend his rights. There is no.
thing in the world to prevent
his being, and living asindc-
pendent as a wood sawyer
He has his Farm,his farming
utensils, his stock, and what
is to hinder him from raising
the necessaries of life? is it
being in debt? No; that's the
way to get out. 1t is not sure
ly for the sake of getting
few dimes that he pursues
this course. Money saved is
money gained. Now, it is
high time theinterests of our
selves were being studied
more. This way Of letting
some dlslnrerested pan " plan
for us, is not at all practical.
We have lived and seen too
much of the workings of trick.
cry, to be caught in the same
old snare so often. AS the
gear advances, You may look
back and see where the dis
advantages and expense YOU
are put to, in not planting
this little cdible,and that lit
tie patch of stock food, or
something else equally as use
fnl to you, and next year let
experience tell YOU all.-it is
a wise teacher-and abide as
it directs. Rome was not
built in a day. 1t takes time
to do all things. Do not ex-
pect to get rich in a year; it
is utterly impossible. Study
fol yourself, think for your
self, and work for yourself,
and at the proper time, by
proper management, the bot
tom rail shall be on top.
Year: 1876

Read, ponder and--PAY UP Why
don't you take the papers they're the
lite of my delight, except about election
time, and then read for spite. Sub
scribe, you cannot lose cent; why
should You be afraid for cash thus
spent is money lent at interest, four-fold
paid, Go then, and take the papers,
and pay today, nor pay delay. and my
word it is Inferred, you'll live until
you're gray. An old neighbor of mine,
while dying OF cough, desired TO hear
the latest news while he was going of.
/ took the paper aud read Of come
new pills in force he bought box
and he is dead no-hearty as horse.
i knew two men as much salike aae'eF-
you saw two stumps; and no phrenolo-
gist could find difference in their
bumps. One takes the paper and his
life is happier than kings, his chill
dren can all read and write, and dream
of men and things. The other took no
paper, and, while strolling through the
wood, tree fell down and broke his
crown, and killed himssvery good"
Had he beer reading all the news, at
home like his neighbor Jim, Tll bet
cent that accident would not have hap
pened him, for he who takes the paper,





and pays his bill when due, can. live in
peace with every man, and with the
printer too.
Year: 1876

Is slowly improving, but it is nothing
to speak OF; the country merchants are
here in some force, but they are buying
very closely, as all of them believe that
prices have not as yet struck bottom.
The failures for the week aggregate 123,
none of them very large. As an CYL
dence of the closcness i'll business mat
ters, there are 164 empty stores be-
tween the Post Office and 18th ST., and
they are likely to stay empty for some
time to come. They cannot be rented
for there is no business TO do in them.
There will be no building of any conse-
quence this season, tor there are thou
sands of empty houses.
Year: 1876

summer, come prepared to stay long
enough to see what a great city really
is. Walking down broadway and
going up to Central Park is not seeing
New York. You want to get down in
among the poor; you want to see the
shipping; Wall street ought to take up
two days; and tho n you ought to pene-
trate the interior of the great business
warehouses in the lower part of the
city, aud see something of the magui-
tude of their operations. BY allmeans
get into the inside of such an establish
ment as Harper's, and go over to Sta
ten Island and up the East River, that
you may enjoy the finest water-yiew in
the world and the finest suburban resi-
dences 1t wouldn't hurt you any to
spend day or two at Long Branch to
to see the frivolity of a summer water
ing-place. All this can be done for a
very little money if yoa only know how.
Your wives and daughters will, of
course, want to see Stewards aud the
great jewelry stores; and if you have
any taste for art, the picture galleries are
open all the time. To do this cheaply,
go to the clearinghouse to live, use
the street cars and stages, and by no
means allow yourself to be seduced into
carriage or cab. Street cars run
everywhere in the city-indeed, on
some of the lines you may ride seven
miles for five cents. And on Sundays
of course you viii want to hear Beech
er, Tying, Frothingham aud dozen
more of the great lights with which the
city abounds, and in all their churches
You will find plenty of free pews and
good, Christian courtesy and considera-
ton. In all the metropolitan churches
especial pains are taken to make stran-
gers entirely welcome and at their ease.
By the way, don't fail to attend service
once, at least, in old Trinity, where you


will hear the best church music in the
city. Come, by all means, aud have a
good time.
Year: 1876

Bishop Pierce, in a letter from
Texas to the Southern Christian Ad-
vocate. offers the following rational
advice to his Southern countrymen:


Verify King Cotton, like other kings,
is consuming the substance of the
people. Prosperity in this article of
production, it seems, "tendeth to pow
erty." A very heavy crop has been
made, and yet the people are on the
ragged edge" of insolvency The
more we make the poorer we grow.
And yet the desperate bet is laid on
another crop, in the face of ten years
unbroken uniformity of results. The
heather adage, Whom the gods mean
to destroy they first make mad" is
being actualized. No soil, no fertili-
zer, no seasons, will save the country
on the line of its present agricultural
policy. The result is just as disas-
trous on the virgin soil of Texas as on
the wasted lands of Georgia. The
man who loses money in making ten
bags of cotton, will loose yet more in
the production of hundred. This is
the fact in experience, in spite of the
ory and figuring. Forgive this episode,
for l am really distressed at the pros
poets of the country, financially. Bad
government may destroy US and our
property, but no legislation can lift US
out of the present slough of des-
pond without home supplies. Bread
and meat must be made, not bought.
The great burden of expense lies right
there. The stomach costs more than
the back. Make bread, raise meat,
live at home, be self-supporting.-
Neither imitation, nor contraction, nor
the financial plank in the coming plat
form, will save US. Help must come
out of the ground, in breadstuffs.-
You may go to Texas-all cotton will
swamp you; you may stay in Georgia
and grow fat and rich on peas, potatoes,
wheat and corn. Let US fill our gar
ners with all manner of stores then
our oxen will be strong to labor, our
sheep will bring forth thousands; then
there will "be no breaking in nor 60
ing out" in quest of food-plenty and
peace will hush complaining in our
streets" and we shall be a happier
and better people.
Year: 1876

A century ago, il was respectable to
be old.


Children were taught to venerate
old age. The school-boy were in
Ssructed to lift their hats, and the
schoolgirls were taught to courtesy, ("
whenever an old man or woman passed
them by.


Everybody gave way to old age
The warmest place blythe fireside, and
the softest chair in the house, belonged
to grandfather and if grandmother
lost her spectacles, or dropped a stitch
in her knitting work, young hands and
young eyes were ready to serve her at
once.


Father used always 10 be consulted
in all business matters and mothers
advice aud counsel were needed and
respected.


Honor thy father and thy mother,
that thy days may be long in the land
which the Lord thy God giveth theel"
was taught to the children along with
the lesson


who was the first man ?"


Who was the first womanY'


Reverence for old age was inculca-
ted from infancy, and the reckless
youth who would have dared venture
a scoff at the expense of gray hairs and
tottering footstep, would have felt the
rod of which Solomon was the advo-
cate.


How is it now?


Father is "the old man." or "the
governor" Mother is ''the old gal"


Young men, in their strength and
thoughtlessness, push rudely past the
aged in all our public Assem- blies, and
occupy comfortable seats in our street
cars and railway carriages, while the |
old man and woman stand unsteadily, |
and support themselves by canes or
crutches.


Yong ladies, rosy and blooming
just as that poor old tottering woman |
once was-will crowd her away from
the fire in our public halls, and laugh |
with their gay young companions,
when her scanty garments of fash
ion ten years ago obsolete, meet their |
eye.


Old age is laughed at. Gray hairs
are fiouted. Wrinkles are made a jest |
of, and young America goes on all un-
mindful of the fact that few more |
springs of bloom, and few more au-
tumns of decay will bring gray hairs to
take the place of the brown locks upon
his temples, and wrinkled burrows to
displace the bloom upon his smooth |
forehead.


Pause and reflect


Old age is what we are coming to |
Nothing can save us from it but the
grave


And if In the years coming, when
and decay shall fall upon
US, we would be respected and cared
for by those around US let Us now, in
our youth aud strength, be thoughtful
of the aged, for it is not truer that
God liveth, than is the divine asser-
ton


With what measure We mete it
shall be measured to you again"


KATE THORN.
Year: 1876

The Sacramento Record has doubts
as to Grant, and itreasons in this way;
"If policeman Of an imaginative turn
should catch the impression that cer-
tain man whom he found on the stoop
of a mansion at night was a capitalists
taxing the air, and should cling to this
belief Notwithstanding the mans OBJ
vious endeavors TO remove the lock of
the door with an 'undoubted jimmy,
confusion would inevitably arise in the
policeman's mind, very apt to facilitate
the burglars escape. Ii, however, rhe
officer entered upon his beat void Of
preconceived ideas, and caught the
burglar at work, he would never doubt
for q moment that the conditions justl-
fed him In making an immediate ar
rest, and he would feel a comfortable
assurance that the court would reason
from the jimmy to the penitentiaTy
without the last hesitation. In the
presidents case what is wanted just now
is this cold blOoded and unimaginatiye
kind Of reasoning, and perhaps il is as
soon as it can be looked for, the CLAM
our Of General Grants military services
having warped the public Judgment Sc
riously for many years. The question,
is he an honest man ? must, however,
be answered before long, and # itisto
be answered correctly the report must
be based upon the evidence. We do
not believe that honest men choose no.
torious scoundreIs for bosom friends.
Year: 1876

All reports that come to US from iron
men from the North and West from
the papers that are published in the
iron interests, bring the facts that the
business of producing and manufactur-
ing iron is still on the decline. One
feature in particular we cannot avoid
noticing, and that is the extremely low
price of cold blast charcoal irons that
are intended for cur wheels. A recent
sale OF this metal in one of the North
ern cities only realized about $1,000
per ton, from which, if the usual COM
missions, &C., are deducted, il would
probably bring the price down to about
$24. 90 to $500. This kind Of iron
cannot be made for that, and when fur
naces attempt to run upon this Kind Of
iron they must eventually suspend.
How far these remarks will apply to
the furnaces in our district that are
running upon this grade of iron we do
not know. We understand from men
who are interested in these furnaces
that some Of them are yet etrunning with
some profit. The very low price at
which they are supplying their furnaces
with ore Considerably less than one
dollar per tom and the immediate prox-
unity of large forests of loDg-leaf pine
enables them to furnish a supply Of
charcoal at very low figure, and in
this way they are enabled to run and
probably make some money.-Chdttd-
noOgd Commercial.
Year: 1876

IT is painful to hear loyal Union
soldier, like the editor of the Indian
apolis Herald, go on in this way I'VE
wish the Republican party could be
disabused of the erroneous impression
that its fortunes are indissolubly
linked with those of the vulgar, dis
honest, drunken reprobate who poll
lutes the air of the White House.
The country has suffered too much
from bull-puppery in high places
And it isn't such difficult matter to
shuttle off president, after all. The
wings did it in the case of Tyler, and
the Republicans did it with Andy
Johnson much better and stronger
man than Grant ever was.
Year: 1876

The Hopkinsville Democrat indulg-
es in these few reflections Ii is really
wonderful how much the press OF Ken
tucky can do in electing men to Office.
and how little the elected can do for
advancing the interests of the press.
If the newspaper men ever expect 20
hear Of the passage OF the advertising
bill they will have to make il an issue
support no man who is not in favor
of IL.
Year: 1876

THE Winchester (Tenn,) Journal
quotes scripture at the party in power:
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can
never have enough, and they are shep-
herds which cannot understand they
all look TO their own way, every one
to his gain from his quarter"
Year: 1876

Memphis was trying to put on airs
over the fact that G, 300 glasses of beer
had been guzzled in that city on Mardi
Gras day, when New Orleans arises
with the remark that on that day one
saloon in that city alone disposed of
z. .140 glasses.
Year: 1876

WHAT the country needs at this
time, what the plain people want, what
they will insist upon and get If they
are wise. is new deal" Anything
short of that will not meet the urgency
of the case. 1t is case for root-and-
branch work, if there ever was one
Springfield Republican.
Year: 1876

The South Carolina Supreme Court
has recently rendered decision that
the homestead law of that State does
not protect the homestead from sale
under mortgage, nor can the home
stead be reserved out Of the proceeds.
Year: 1876

We are now offering, at from so cents to $3.50 less
than market price, large lot of nce late style Fur
hats great many of these goods are less than half
cost. Don't fail to see them.
Year: 1876

SterS.


When Mr.. Webster visited England,
after he had attained fame enough to
precede him, an English gentleman
took him one day to see Lord Brough-
am. The eminent Britain received
our Daniel with such coolness that he
was glad to get away and back to his
room, The friend who had taken him
at once returned to Lord Brougham in
haste and anger.


MY lord, how could you behave
with such unseemly rudeness and
discourtesy to so great a lawyer and
statesman? 1t was insulting to him
and has filled me with modification. +"


''Why, what on earth have L done,
and whom have been rude to ?"


ITO Daniel Webster, Of the Senate
of the United States"


"Great Jupiter what O blunder! 1
thought it was that fellow Webster
who made a dictionary and nearly
ruined the English language"


Then the great Chancellor quickly
hunted up the American Senator, and
having other tastes in common besides
law and politics, they made a royal
night of it,
Year: 1876

Bishop WhIpple is reported to have
said thatif he could lay his hand soft
ly on Sitting Bulls head and give him
his blessing, he could turn the savage
warrior into a tender and peaceful
citizen. If ever Sitting Bull gets
where he can lay his hand on the
Bishops head, he will turn that into
something more tender than peace
ful citizen.
Year: 1876




Mr.. RoBKsoN.


NEWPORT r. l.. Sept. 2l, 1876
Tho mysterious suicide on the steamer Newport has
at last been identified by young arriving on tho
Fall River boat this morning for that purpose. Ho
recognized the body as that of Frank u. Smith, pri-
vate secretary Of the Secretary OF the Navy instead
OF as "Frank Wheeler" tho given by the
deceased before his death. He called upon Coroner
White and atcr his arrival identified the BODY
which had been placed in the receiving tomb and the
various articles belonging TO him. He stated that
Smith assumed tho nnmc Of Wheeler few weeks bo-
fore his death, companion OF his bearing that name
and tho request to publish the card which found
in the mirror IN tho NKw YORK HERALD was for the
purpose OF notifying his friends OF his death in quiet
q manner as possible


FoRGwARSISG MS FRIENDS.


Just after his departure from Now York, being evil
IDENTIFY determined to commit suicide, he forwarded
note to that effect to his friend and in fact he told
him that he should commit tho decd that very night
In the noto ho gave instructions about paying his
just debts, and expressed wish that the Fall River
authorities might inter his body before those outside
Of his frichds knew his real name.


UNREQUiTED LOVE.


few weeks ago he lost his sister, which, together
with the refusal OF young lady In New York TO re-
cprocaIe his Affection ie. his friends suppose that
be would do something rash


Lost week no was handed number OF Official de-
spaches by Secretary Robson, with which he
ordered to proceed to China After completing ar
rangcments his journey proceeded to ew York
which city he reached on Saturday last He stopped
at the Hoffman House, where he renamed unit! Mon
day noon, when he stepped board the steamer
Newport and applied for passage to Fall River, al-
ready reported In tie HkRALD


He has a married sister, who resides Staten
Island. His father and mother arc both dead. II
secrecy had been possible identity the inten
tion was to let the body remain at Fall River TIL the
affair had blown over, when II would be taken to New
York for intcrmcnt; but as tho public have got tho
facts IL is possible that the body Will DO forwarded



Secretary Robcson was in New York few days ago.
and when he heard Ol the affair no concluded at
once that the victim was his secretary.
Year: 1876

SALT LAKE CRY, Sept FL, 1875
In the Beaver court to-day MIR. Bishop, Of counsel
for tho Defence asked for dolnv Of days before
sentence is passed on Lee, to gvo him time to ne
grounds of appeal In the Lee is and threaten.
ing at times There n that he intends to ex-
pose more than is already known.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Henflicke is one Of the best OF


politicians, but not always an obliging


husband. Mrs. Henfiicke has tall and


stately rosebush sitting in tub, which


she wanted Mr.. Henficke to remove to


the house for safety against the frost.


Mr.. H. had promised on several occa.


siODs to attend to it, but did not do it.


Friday night he was out to help fire of


the cannon in honor of a political victory.


1t was nearly one o'clock when he ap-


preached the house. Mrs. Henflicke
despairing of his help, had covered the


rosebush with a sheet. The singular
spectacle confronted Mr.. Henficke just
as he was about to open the gate.


Hi, therep he impulsively observed.
Then he paused and started at the an.
partition. with protruding eyes. The
sight was 30 strange, so weird and so un-
expected that the unfortunate man felt
all the principles he had imbibed in the
evening slowly dissolve and Ooze from
his being.


Hi, there (" he gasped a second time,
as if to gain some explanation of the
creatures presence, and yet prepared to
retreat Oh the first demonstration. His
eyes protruded still farther, his face
grew white, and his hair, relieved from
the pressure of the hat which fell off at
the first shock, stood straight on end.
The gate trembled under his grasp.


For full moment he stood there with
his eyes riveted upon the apparatiOn.
But it did not move. Then he slowly
backed away, still keeping his eyes upon
the specter, until it was out of his sight,
then he turned about and ran with all
his might around the corner to q back
street, and thus gained the rear OF his
garden. He clambered hastily but
softly over the fence, and flew noiselessIy
across the grass to the back door. He
took hold of the knob with nervous
grasp, but the door was locked. If there
was any color in his face until now it
went entirely ON this discovery. His
limbs trembled with such violence as to
precipitate him from the stoop. He
felt his reason forsakipg him. At this
juncture he thought OF the window.
With trembling haste he tried the sash
it lifted. Concentrating all his re-
naming strength he lifted his body up
to the sill, balanced thereon for an
instant with his mind agonized and his
marrow chilled by the awful, sickening
reflection that his extremities were ex.
posed to the grip of the specter, and
then toppled over into the room, and
across tub of clothes in soak, with an
agonizing shrek of expiring conscious
ness. The grateful GOODNESS of the tubs
brought him back to life almost
as soon as his scream had brought his
wife to the scene. He jumped up from
the tub, fell upon his knees before the
startled woman and with an eloquence
which brought to her throbbing heart
of the old time, and fell like
sweet music upon her ears, he implored
her forgiveness for all his neglect and
temper and meanness, and made promises
which would have caused lottery
to feel uneasy. The
astonished but happy woman helped him
10 bed and forgave him everything, but
took the precaution to arise in the morn
ing before him, and to remove the sheet
from the bush.
Year: 1876

Every school-boy remembers the
story of the elephant who put his trunk
into tailor's shop in search of something
good to eat, and received only prick
from the tailor's needle, and how he soon
returned with trunk full of muddy
water and deluged the little tailor's shop
for revenge. No doubt that lesson was
never read by one of the supe's of the
Grand Opera House, or he would not be
suffering sore bruises on various parts of
his body. 1t happened few nights ago
he gave to the elephant that belongs to
the stock company of Kiralfy Brothers
show, chew of tobacco. The elephant
gave no signs of indignation at the time,
but quarter OF an hour afterward, when
the offending "supe next came within
reach of the insulted animal, the handy
trunk reached for the bad young man,
selected him unerringly from group OF
half dozen, caught him and tossed him
up into the air, and allowed him Ia fall
heavily on the floor. There can he no
doubt now about the authenticity of the
story Of the tailor and his needle and the
muddy water.