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Year: 1876

PHILADELPHIA, May l6, ls76


EDITOR srArEs,iAS For the part six days AT hast
Philadelphia has been the focus toward which W Re
directed the thoughts OF ali the people Of this land if
indeed may not say of all the civilized world Dur
ing the past five days We have behelI here the Hwer
and first fruitiu from the seed planted by r.tyiot
Ism aud 50 patiently end earnestly and bovefuIIy
cultivated through four years Of labor that nov, la,
ITS crown. II is four years since the fst
was effected IN preparation for the centennial el-
tion but 1t Is less than two years since the work be-
gan upon the beautiful and massive structures that
are to-day devoted To art, 70 industry and to pat
rlOtism


The readers Of the STATESMAN Will no doubt in
common with the people throughout this land OF pat
notlSm ani enterprise feel deep interest IN what Is
t"nsprlng here al this time, and 1t shal he the AHA
oi your correspondent TO give that which Will be
SOUGHT after by tie general reader


THE GROUNDS AID BUILDINGS


The visitor on de. ostiny his half dollar, passes
ta'oush one OF the groups Of the turnstles, which
Ieisters his entrance finds himself in great grassy
quadrangle, with the main building upon the right
and machinery Hall upon the left. Crossing tins
space he reaches the avenue Of the republic broad
street extending along lie fronts of two great build
ings. occupied By various departments Of the exhb
tion, the judges pavilion being the most conspicuous
To the right Of these Is the wagon bdiIliug a great
shed OF corrugated rOn and still further TO the right
raised upon terrace, is Memorial Hall Tie build
ings at the entrance closely grouped that a
comprehensive view cannot well he had here, but by
walking along the avenue Of the republic, toward the
head OF the artificial lake which, with its grassy
banks, looks as though II might hive been tn re
always, one can take n the great extent Of the
gr und-, the beauty OF which 20 bring forth
expression OF adu.iIation the beEolder. SVa.e
wall not permit describe infinitely IN this letter
but three bH''ings-the main building, memorial
hall and agricultural hall
Year: 1876

A correspondent Of the New York
Times, writing from Bsrlin, Mary
land, does not give very gratifying
report of the peach crop in that Sec
ton. He says:


1t may safely be asserted that the
peach crop on this peninsula will be
less than one-fOurth OF what it was
last year. or this there is no doubt,
and the growers will be most for
tunate II they get even One-tenth as
much 1t will certainly be an unu-
sual occurrence II they d.. Peach or
chsrds seldom produce any crop at all
following such abundant yield as that
of last year. The supply Of peaches
has been kept up by the upper part of
the peninsula yielding n crop one
year and the lower the next, and
so alternating I; but in 1874 the
crop wSs exceedingly light
all over the peninsula, scarcely
amounting to anything, aud whole
orchards netted the grower as high as
81 IS per basket. Last year every tree
on the peninsula bore fruit in greater
abundance than ever before known,
and il the orchards produce anything
of consequence this yearit will be
phenomenal crcp. AS suggested by
the authority quoted, the wet months
Of August and Septembe Of last year
may perhaps save the crop to some
extent this year, but il the Delaware
peach crop OF this year reaches zoo, 900
baskets, or one tenth of what was
grown last year, it will be q surprise
to old peach growers.
Year: 1876

II was once upon a tlme-but what time !


cannot say
That there lived a little girl who had Z


naughty way.
or making ugly faces whenever anything


teased her,
And, TO make the matter worse, nearly


everything dIspIeased her.
She did kot like to get up, and she hated to


es TO befs ----se
She did not like TO read, and she hated to


hear things read
She did not like 1t to rain, and she hated
the sun to shine;
She was never ready for dinner, and-well,
she did like to dine.


bewitehed her;
They reasoned with her long, and finally


they switched her;
But the more they switched and reasoned,


the worse their darling grew,
Until they owned-to each other-they


didn't know what TO do!
It was just about this time she went for q


walk one day.
Because she had been told on no account to


stray
Outside the ace-garden,-you've read in


many a rhyme
The folks always lived in palaces, "Once


upon a time"
So she strayed away from home as far as


ever she could.
And found herself at last in a dark and dis


NAL wood,
When all at once she saw,-you may think


she was afraid
Lying loose among the trees, all the faces


she'd ever made.
There was the face she made to frighten her


little brother;
And a worse one still she made when she


would not mind her mother
And as she looked around they still grew


worse and worse
There was every single face she had ever


made al her nuisel
And many more beside,-she'I done IL for


years, you See
So the place was just as full of faces as IL


could be.
She turned and ran, poor thing, as well as


she could for fright,
And when she did get home they found she


was crazy, quite.
They sent her to an asylum az once; but
there alasI
By way Of amusing her, they gave her a


looking-glass.
When they opened her door next day, there


was nothing In the place
But broken looking glass, and terrible


ugly Face
Margaret Vandegrlr, in april WIDE A1Oake.
Year: 1876

The Boston Commercial Bulletin
thus states the condition OF the
market in that city:


The wool market has had little
more business the past week, wholly
of miscellaneous character. There
have been number OF large buyers in
the market who were willing to clean
up a number of full lots OF fine and
No. fieeces bot holders were q tri-
fie too stiff in their views. This does
not suggest any advance in prices or
any stronger tone but re- ther dispo-
sition among sharp tuyers TO force


values down to a still lower level.


Prices really are nominal. What q
week ago would have been consider
ed a high value on a good O1io at 44c,
some good cash buyers would refuse
to touch at less than 43c, while others
might take it at a shade of 1c. if per-
chance q customer came along want
ing just that very lot. Its style, con-
dition, and quantity being his exact
measure, a bargain doubtless would
ensue without q shading of more than
an eighth of 2 cent on the quotation.
But the number who come to market
in such definite convictions OF mind
are extremely few when they do, a
three or five-thoussnd pound lot an
swers all their necessities. The sale
of Lick clip, go, 900 pounds by SAM
pie, from Wheeling. couple of weeks
since, to the Middlesex Mills, was
under some such pressure as this.
The wool is now coming forward.
The market has lots of gossip as to its
costs ranging from 43c at the ship
ping point to Ass both there and laid
down here. The wool is quoted as q
choice lot Of the finest OF that Sec
tiOn.
Year: 1876




Celia Logan knows of "a Washing
ton young lady. q very excellent man
ager in point of toilet, who received
this winter three different Invitations
to balls. She has had but one ball
dress, beautiful white crepe, brought
here from China by sailor brother.
Go to these balls in the same dress
she would not, and she could not talk
papa into buying anything new so
she wore the white crepe to the first
ball, and had it dyed pink for the
second, had the dye extracted and the
dress re-dyed blue for the third, and
all for the few dollars her father gave
her for gloves, fan, etc. If she receives
another invitation to party, she says
she will have the blue dye taken out
and have it white again."
Year: 1876

The New Bedford Mass Mercury
tells this: "a day or two since five
dogs were shut up in q yard in this
city by the gate swinging together
after they passed through it. When
they wished to go out they were un-
able 70 open the gate, as IT swung in
ward The animals had an apparent
consultation for few minutes, after
which big NewfoundIand cIambered
over the fence. Oc reaching the
street he at once pushed the gate open
and released the pFisioners."
Year: 1876

He was an active stepping old fell
low, with dyed hair and fiashy ap-
pearance, and when the conductor
offered to stop the car to let him OF
be proudly cried out "Dont you DO
it-don't do il, young man I'm
none of your banged-up old stock
that can't get of q car when it's in
motion" And springing lightly from
the car he sat Immediately down-sat
down on the hard pavement like q
piIe-driver on exhibition at fair
But he got right up again, and while
he shook his head at the grinning
conductor In the distance, he hobbled
slowly of, muttering q prayer or
something to himselt,-C Chicago
Journal.
Year: 1876

Mr. krell has made frequent visits to
the poor house, having occasion to go there
two or three times month on an average,
and he has always found the management
excellent and the discipline very strict.
He believes Nesler's story to be as false as
it is malicious. Mr.. Krell, however. pro-
poses thorough investigation next Thurs
day. He will go out, accompanied by his
fellow w-committeemeD, Supervisor Thomas
Kerr; Supervisor Smith, of Andalusia,
and justice of the peace, before whom
the inmates of the poor house will be
sworn Union.


Did he find the management excellent
when Nesler showed him box of stolen
sheets pillow cases, meat, etc., hidden un-
der bed? Nesler told Krell yesterday
that he (KrelD then said he couldn't do
anything about it?


We are glad to hear that an investiga-
tion is proposed, and we hope the damag
ing reports about affairs at the poor farm
will prove to be false.-but we warn the
committee before hand, that it is not their
business to try and prove the reports false,
Mr.. Nesler says that he has journal of
affairs at the poor house, while he was
there, kept in the German language, aud
written at the time or near the time Of the
occurrences he reports He says it is not
6xed-up journal for the occasion, but
was written at or near the date of each
transaction recorded. He also says he can
give the committee the names OF witnesses
who are not inmates of the poor house,
and who can substantive or corroborate
his statements. The committee will do
well to remember that they are not EN-
ployed for Mr.. Bailey they are employed
for the people. and the people will expect
them to hunt everything, either 10 the poor
house or out of it, tending to show any
thing improper there. There are plenty
Of persons in the poor house who. for a
drink of whisky, will tell any story that
may b. needed to sustain the present
management. They dare not do otherwise,
for they have to live there. 1t is the cyl
dence of people who are out of the poor
house and away from the influence of the
steward and others there that is wanted
people who are not afraid to tell the truth
and who have no interest in covering up
anything. We warn the committee before
hand that they are in darger of becoming
advocates of Krsll, Bailey & Co., instead
of advocates of the people. They should
keep this in mind and secure the testimony
of every witness who can throw any light
on suspicious transactions.
Year: 1876

The GRAND UNION" This hotel has
gained a wide popularity both on account
OF its eligible situation-it being directly
opposite the Grand Central Depot-and
the excellent manner in which it is kept
by stopping at this house, guests save the
heavy expense of carriage hire and ex-
pressage, baggage being carried to and
from the depot without charge. 1t is first
class in every respect, and yet the rates of
charges are lower than at any other frs,
class house in the city. 1t is conducted
upon the European plan
Year: 1876

Would it not be veil for Krell to make
some public explanation of how he sent old
man Butterworih to the poor farm, and
then, after Butterworth committed suicide,
how Krrll disposed of his house and lot
and what became of the proceeds. These
public acts of our servants ought to be uu-
derstood by the people. But if Krell wont
make any reports how are the people to
know about them.
Year: 1876

AT GATES New Day GOODS STORE,
opposite the Boston Bazaar, will be found
a complete aud strictly first class line Of
dry goods and notions. direct from Boston
and New York, which will be sold at prices
beyond competition. Call and examine
for yourselves.
Year: 1876

Shortly after o'clock last evening an
alarm of fire was sounded from the First
Ward and the fire companies immediately
turned out The fire proved to be in the
old frame barn connected with Mr.. Negus' s
former residence and which is now ac-
cupied by W. W. Eggleston, corner of
Front and Beaver streets There was con-
siderable hay in the barn and the fire, aided
by stiff northeast wind aud considering
that the old building was very dry, was
not easily checked, and altho' the fremen
we're unusually prompt in throwing water
the building was destroyed.


1t is thought that the fire was caused by
the carelessness of some boys who, it is
said, were in the barn looking for pigeons.
Year: 1876

Mr.. COOLEY suffered a good deal last
winter from rheumatism in his breast, and
his wife was badly frightened about IL for
fear il should end in consumption.
Cooley could not be induced to try any
remedy for the trouble, and Mrs. Cooley
was nearly worried to death about it. At
last she determined 10 try strategy She
made up a dry mustard plaster, and one
night while he was asleep she sewed it
upon the inside of his undershirt, so that
it would Just about cover the rheumatic
place. Cooley dressed himself in the
morning, wholly unsuspiciOus of the pres
ence of the plaster, and went down stairs.
At the breakfast table, while he was talk
ing to his wife, he suddenly stopped,
looked crOss-eyed, and spasm of pain
passed over his face. Then he took up
the thread of the conversation again and
went ON. He was in the midst of an ex-
PLANTATION of the political situation, when
all at once he ceased again, grew red In
the face and exclaimed:


"I wonder what in the--no, IL can't be
anything wrong"


Mrs. Cooley asked what was the matter,
and Cooley said


"Oh, it's that internal old rheumatism
again, come back awful. But | never felt
it exactly the same way before. Kinder
stings me-" Mrs. Cooley said shewas sorry,


Then Mr.. Cooley began again, and was
Just showing her how the ravages of the
grasshoppers in the West last summer and
the potato bug in the East would effect the
political result next fall by making the
people discontented, and so likely to strike
at the party in power, when he suddenly
dropped the subject, and, jumping up,
he said;


Thunder and lightning, what's that
Year: 1876

THERE are two sides TO the tramp bust
ness. The scamps who are prOwling about
the country, refusing to work, but neglect
ing no opportunity to steal and commit
other crimes, deserve to be severely dealt
with, and should have no encouragement
from any quarter But it should be re-
membered that for three years times have
been exceptionally hard. Factories and
furnaces have stopped mechanics have
stopped business. and honest and indus
trious men have found it impossible TO get
work to do. Every week or two our city
working people are told to go into the
country, where there is work enough at
fair wages for whoever will do it, and the
words of the ancient philosopher, Go
West, are perpetually dinned in the poor
laborers ears. These people start for the
land of promise without money, and soon
become sunburnt and foot-sore. They ask
for work and are refused as vagrants, and
beg for bread only TO be turned away as
thieves in disguise. In some towns they
are locked into the police station at night
and kept at work on the highway till elev-
en- O'Clock in the morning to pay for their
lodging, and then turned adrift under the
threat of Imprisonment il they return. If
any quicker or more etfectual way has
been devised for turning man in quest of
work into frst-class vagrant and thief
than this, it has not been divulged. The
whole theory is wrong from top to bottom,
and the first step toward getting rid of the
tramp nuisance is in providing work for
the poorpeople 10 do atnominal rates. There
is work enough in every city and town in
the country that ought to be done, and can
be prohtably done now when labor and
materials are exceptionally cheap, and 1t
is hundred per cent. better in the long
run to keep laborers at work than 10 keep
them in idleness or drive them out as
tramps. More work and less penitentiary,
1t doesn't abate nuisance to roll it over
into the next town.-N. y. Graphic.
Year: 1876

A MOST touching incioent took place at
the County Jail yesterday. A young girl,
whose mother resides on Cass street, be-
came slightly insane about ten months
ago. through religious excitement, and she
was conveyed to the County Insane Asy-
lum at Jefferson Her mother visited
her there very frequently and short time
since was induced to take her home again
by her incessant pleading. A day or two
since one of the daughters mild
paroxysms came on, and the mother
concluded that it would be convenient to
have her confined in the asylum again.
The proper papers were made out, and
yesterday Margaret was taken to the
County Jail to awaitthe conveyance which
was to remove her to Jefferson The
Courier reporter stepped in there at about
two o'clock, and in one of the halls saw a
most pathetic sight. Margaret was kneel-
ing at her mothers feet, kissing her hands.
Then she arose and clasped her in her
arms and kissed her face again and again,
imploring her in the widest and most i'm
passioned words not to send her back to
the asylum. " Oh, mother" she said,
q will be good. Oh, mother, for the
love of Heaven don't send me back there
to die. Oh, mother, will soon be well if
stay at home" Her face was pale
and pinched with agony and woe.
Her eyes glittered with frenzy, and
her full rich voice trembled with
pathos beyond description. The mother
and daughter went into an interior room,


but soon came out again, when Margaret
renewed her supplications in heartrending
tones that word painting cannot give the
slightest conception of. The reporter was
touched to the hearts core by the girls
awful agony. She appealed to everyone
to save her from madness in the asylum.
She grasped the reporters arm and said:
Oh, plead for me with her." which he
did forcibly, firmly believing that she
would he driven to the widest delirium
and possibly TO death, if torn away to the
place she dreaded with such awful fear.
The cruel hearted mother said in response;


1t is better she should die; she is so
troublesome" When the time came to
place her in the omnibus, her anguish was
so fearful to behold that stout-hearted
men, who had seen death rush forth in


blood" many a time and oft, turned away
from the agonizing sight, pale and shud-
dering. The cold, unfeeling mother was
hardly affected at all by her daughters
misery. The poor girl was borne to the
omnibus by tender, careful Aanus, keep
ing up the pitiful cry of Father, Father
in Heaven, save me! save mel" until she
was out of hearing. .-Chtcdgo Courier.
Year: 1876

AN attack was lately made upon a
French mission chapel in the city of Ming
Kooe, in China, by an armed mob, during
the celebration of a mass. The priest and
many of his congregation were killed.
Year: 1876

THE Centennial Commission have voted
TO admit all persons to the Exposition on
the last two Saturdays Of each month, on
payment of a twenty-five cent note, in
stead of a fifty cent note, as heretofore.
Year: 1876

A NEW circular has been recently issued
by the British Admiralty in relation to
fugitive slaves, in which commanders are
instructed to entertain no demand for the
return of fugitives on the ground of
slavery. s
Year: 1876

As the season of the year is at
hand when the farmer makes his Sc
lections of stock to sell and keep, it
is proper that we should stop and
consider how we shall make the Sc
lection to our best advantage In hogs
and cattle it matters not what our
stock is, we always have some infe
rior ones, and it will pay to keep the
best and sell the poorest. i do not
wish however, to be understood as
recommending putting half f-fattened,
unstable stock on the market. ] adj
wise all to sort out the inferior ones
and give them extra attention and
feed; get them in good condition,
and then sell them off. Save for
yourself, nothing but the best, and
you will soon see a great change in
your stock. Also expend a few dol
lars for pure blooded or high graded
stock, and in few years you will
get back your money with hundred
per cent added. You will also dis
cover that it does not cost any more
to raise a three -year-old steer that
will weigh 1 400 to 600 pounds than
it will scrub that will weigh from
700 to 1000 pounds, and the same
holds equally good with hogs.-Cor.
Country Gentleman.
Year: 1876

At the north COWS are fed in win
ter on corn stalks. They are said to
do better than on good hay. This
may be doubted, but still there Is no
doubt that they do consume vast
quantity of the corn stalks that are
cut up and fed to them, and thusthey
serve useful purposesas 81 roughness I
In feed and manure afterwards. Mill
ions of corn stalks are annually
wasted in the south. Instead of
standing in the fields to rot, let them
be cured, cut up and feed to cattle,
as stock raisers do elsewhere. When
thus treated they are said to contain
more nutriment than thefodder does.
IF any Of our readers have tried the
plan of cutting and feeding corn
stalks, we should be pleased to have
them give it.-lSoatthern Farmer.
Year: 1876

A statement is made in the Trans
actions of the Illinois horticultural
Society, of an experiment performed
by E. J. Ayers, to protect his peach
orchard of 500 trees from the intense
frOsts Of winter The trees were set
sixteen feet apart. he placed a pile
of wood in each alternate row each
way, that is, as we suppose, for each
four trees. A few gallons Of coal oil
were poured on the heaps, which
were supplied with kindIing wood.
On the coldest nights he fired all the
heaps, and the weather being free
from wind, the smoke hung over the
orchard the next morning like a
cloud, and no frost was to be seen on
the ground beneath it. The fruit
buds were not killed, and there was
nearly full crop. A partial crop
was obtained elsewhere. Repeated
experiments would be required to
prove the efficiency of this treatment,
and so determine whether it would
pay. 4sf@
Year: 1876

1t requires six men, according to
the San Francisco News Letter, to
put up car window. A young
lady gets il, and having bumped
around in her seat for about five
minutes, she turns and requests the
gentleman just behind her to perform
that service. This is near-sighted
individual. who peers around the
window frame some time for the
catch, and then-of course the win
dow stick jerks his finger nail half
off ard sits down with q read face
amid the gigling of school girls op-
posite. Next, the man in the front
seat puts his layender-colored knee
on a paper Of cherries besides him,
clutches and yanks at the knob, and
finally falls over into the young
lady's lap.-The cause of all this
misery now, remarks that sit doesn' t
matter" and then smiles sweetly at
pale young man with long hair.
This martyr turns white rises aud
buttons up his coat for the death
struggle. On the eleventh pull he
bursts a blood vessel and goes into
the toilet compartment to bleed


A simple minded mechanic now
comes forward with his tool-bag,
from which he takes crowbar
Just when he is about to use this the
conductor happens by, and slides
the window airily up with gentle
twist of the wrist.