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Year: 1876

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 The great political revolutions of the last decade, with the natural result of the lapse of time, have brought into public multitude of men, whose names are in every ones mouth, and Of whose battles been fought and important sieges maintained, of which the details yet preserved only in the newspapers in the transient publications of the day but which ought to take their place in
Year: 1876

An Eastern paper having had consider. able to say about raising chickens by hand" the Galveston News responds. s'Such information is not needed at the South. The whole colored population know how to do it, and an enterprising freedman can raise more bullets in sim gle night, On his way home from prayer meeting than that Eastern editor could raise in year with all his science.''
Year: 1876

In the Spring of 1869, a little girl died
of consumption in Frederick city, aged
eight years and three months. A few
days before she died she called her
father to her bedside and said, "Papa,
when l die, don't bury me deep-not
more than so Deep" holding up her slen-
der and emaeiated arm and measuring
from her shoulder out 30! it is so hard
to be put down so deep in the cold, damp
ground; and please don't place any mar
bic slab on my grave, it will be so dark
under it, and it will press so hard on my
little breast Sod my grave nicely, ard
plant tree at its head so that the wild
birds can gather in its branches and sing
for me-" And after a pause, she con-
tinued. "But it seems to me l would
rather have our birds sing for me thar
the wild birds. Could Mt you let brother
Willie and sister Emma bring our cage
Of little birds out to the oemetary every
Sunday morning and leave them to sing
for me all day? Then when you are all
at church in town it won't seem so lone
some out there by myself" a few days
after this Annie died, and her affection
ate parents did every thing as she request
ed. She was buried shallow, the grave
nicely sodded, and tree planted at its
head And yet every Sabbath morning
Willie and Emma can be seen going out
to the cemetary with their cage of little
birds to Annie's grave.-[Sunday
School
Year: 1876

a Christian man was dyiTg in Scot
land. His daughter Nellie sat by the
bedside j was Sunday evening, and
the bell Of the Scotch kirk was ringing,
calling the people to church. The good
old man, in his dying dream, thought
that he was on the way to church, as he
used to be when he went in the sleigh
across the river; and as the evening bell
struck up, in his dying dream be thought
it was the call to church. "Hark, chill
dTen, the bells are ringing; we shall be
late we must make the mare step out
quick p He shivsred, ard then said,
Pull the buffalO-robe up closer, my lassl
1t is cold crossing the river, but we viii
soon be there, Nellie, We will soon be
theryW And he smiled and said: "Just
there no1o." No wonder he smiled. The
good old man had got to church. Net
the old Scotch kirk, but the temple in
the skies. Just across the riUer.


How comfortably did God hush that
old man to sleep "As one whom his
mother comfortsth, so will comfort
you"


"Let me die the death of the righteous,
let my last end be like his"
Year: 1876

A Ltsly elbow leans upon your knee,


Your tired knee which has so much TO bear;
ohild's dear eyes are looking lovingly


From underneath a thateh Of tan gIed hair.
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch
OF warm, moist fingers, folding yours Sc tight
You do net prize this blessing over much
You almost are too tired to pray tO-night.
But it is blessednessl a year ago


did not see it as I do to-day
We are so du Il and thanklsss-and too slow
To oasch the sunshine till 1t slips away.
A nd now it seems SURPRISING strange to ms,
That while 1 wore the badge of motherhood,
did not kiss more oft and tsnderIy,


The little child that brought me only good.
And it, some night when you sit down to rest.
You miss this elbow from your tired knee
This restless curling head from of your breast,
This lisping tongue that ohatters constantly.
If from your own the dimpled hands had slipped,
And ne'er would nestle in yosr palm again
If the white feet into their grave had tripped.
IoOuld not blame you for your heart-ache then.
I wsndsr that mothers fret


At little children cllaglng to their gown
Or that the foot prints, when the days are wet,
Are aysr black enough to make them froBn.
If could find little mud dy boot,


Or cap, Jacket, on my chamber floor
If I could kiss rosy. restless foot,


And hear it patter in my hsuse once more
III could mend broken cart to day,


Tomorrow make kite TO reach the sky
'bar 5z = n
That she blissfuIly content than 1!
But ah the dainty pillow next my own


Is never rumpled BY a shining head
Ny singing birding from its nest is fown,
The little boy used to kiss is dead
Year: 1876

This country contains q, lot Of sore
headed politicians who left the Republi-
can party because they could not run it,
and who "looked back" over their shoul-
ders, expecting to see the grand old party
going to flinders at express train speed,
but to their astonishment they saw it
only rising higher and higher when re-
lieved Of the load of their presence, while
they were turned to pillars of salt, but of
such as had not the SAVIOR.


They haye found out their mistake in
the years they have been rusticating, and
because Republicans have seen fit to in
vite Liberals and Independents to return
to the fold, meaning the masses through
out the Union, they wish to believe we
meant them, and like the coquette, while
aching to say yes they not only stand off
and wait for the invitation to be repeated,
but get up little side-show, and try to
dictate terms to the Republican party, as
to who it should nominate to gain their
favor Some weakened Republicans
scared at the blow about the Liberal vote
are inclined to listen to these cheeky
fellows, but most of the party feel like
saying to them, "come back into the party;
he lp make the nominations, and support
the nominee, rather than stand out under
the caves and say to us nominate the
man we want, or we'll 60 to the opposi-
ton" We feel like saying to such, "go
as soon as you like; we have no use
for YOU" We want the Liberal element
to act with US, but we by no means
acknowledge that their presence is abso-
lutely necessary to success. We gained
the most overwhelming victory the party
ever had with that element against us,
and can do it again, but we think the
place for most of them is in the ranks of
the Republican party, and hence would
like to see them there, and have them
work with us, but we by no means think
their presence is absolutely required to
insure victory. Again, these self
appointed leaders do not represent the
rank and file of the party, neither can
they control the Liberal vote. 1t is an
unwieldy mass, that has broken loose
from party ties, and will be found politi-
cally, pretty much wherever the individual
tastes of its voters, may lead them, and
Carl Schurz, Horace White, Charles
Francis Adams, Woolsey, Eaton, ct al,
can no more handle that element than
one of them can reach the desideratum
which the presidential maggot in his
brain contemplates We hope our party
will pay no attention whatever to these
self-styled Liberals who stand aloof from
party work, and try by threats to say who
shall be the nominee of the Republican
Convention.
Year: 1876

Republican party, of course, and has a
double-headed financial plank, the whole
written in John p. Irish's bombastic style
The resolution says: ave favor an early
return to specie payment" and then they
"demand the immediate repeal of the re
sumption act" If anything can be more
double faced we would like to see it
There is a divided opinion as to the feel
ing of these delegates on the Presidential
question. Tilden and Thurman mer
each claiming u majority.
Year: 1876

fodder, green oats, green grass, grain, and
even dry English hay, all they need The
aim IS to keep them just as we'll as in
winter, when they have the best Of hay.
They are turned out every day in i small
yard, for water and exercise. and tor a
day OF two they look towards the gate
that opens to the pasture, but after a week
at the barn they are as contented as in
winter.


In this way, get from my pasture all
the feed that ought to be spared, while |
am as perfectly independent Of droughts
rs it is possible to be. The cows keep up
their uniform flow of milk during the
Whole season. and they also keep healthy
and in good condition. Having the cows
at the stables during several weeks in
summer, gives large addition to the ma
nure pile, which, being used for growing
another crop of fodder corn, keeps the
fertility and productiveness Of the farm
increasing, rather than diminishing, cs-
pecially il considerable quantities OF grain
are purchased to be used with these soil
ing crops, 1t is quite probable that soil
lng COWS may not at present pay AS well
in Vermont as in eastern Massachusetts,
as Il principal system of feeding, but that
II system of pa1iial soilng will aid the
Vermont farmer to more fully utilize the
feed that grows in his pastures, and at the
same time leave him more independent of
droughts is my firm conviction
Year: 1876

Rolls the long breaker in splendor, and glanc


Leaping in light!
Laughing and singing the swift ripple dances.


Sparkling and bright;
Up through the heaven the curew is fying,


Soaring so high!
Sweetly his wild notes are ringing, and dying


Lost in the sky.
Glitter the sails to the South wind careening,


White-winged and brave
Bowing to breeze and to hollow, and leaning


Low o'er the wave.
Beautiful wind, with the touch of lover


Leading the hours,
Helping the winter worn world to recover


All its lost flowers.
Gladly hear thy warm whisper of rapture,


Sorrow is DER.
Earth all her music and bloom shall recapture


Happy once more!
Year: 1876

A New Orleans wrecker lately under
took to complete a contract in Il given
time, but as the final day approached
found that his divers were making little
progress with the work, and that his con
tract was in danger of being forfeited
Procuring diving armor he descended
on tour of investigation, and having
reached the bottom found his seven work
men intently watching seven crabs, Close
examination discovered that the name OF
some celebrated race horse was inscribed
upon the back of each of the crustacea,
and that they had been matched for Il
series of races, one of which was in pro-
gress at the time. The cause of the de-
lay was explained.
Year: 1876

A philosophical woman writes to the
Chicago Times to inquire why is it that
Just at the moment when a young man
finds out that his girl will have him he
wants to back out Of the engagement"
Year: 1876

A touching incident is reported from
Chattanooga. An utter stranger called
on a respectable farmer last week, and
asked him if his house had not been rob-
bed during the war. The farmer replied
that it had. l." said the stranger, "was
one of the marauding party that did it. |
took a little silver locket." That locket,
said the farmer, chad been worn by my
dear child" Here it is" replied the
stranger, visibly affected. Il am rich; let
me make restitution. Here are twenty
dollars for your little SON. He gave the
farmer $50 bill and received $50 in
change. He then wrung the farmers
hand warmly and left The farmer has
since dried his tears and loaded his shot
gun The $50 bill was bad one.


The last capillary song is ''Only Gray
Hair, Darling" but when his wife, whose
own hair is short and red, came to exam
inc 1t more closely, she saw that it was
yellow as saffron and nearly three feet
long, and she knew in minute where it
came from, and before he could begin to
explain how it got on the shoulder of his
coat, the air was SO full of his own hair
that he thought one of Professor Tice's
cyclones had come along that way
Year: 1876

WEDICINES.
A ADD RESS TO tn L S K.
Doyou want to purify the system7
Do YOU want TO get rid of Bliousness?
Do you want something 10 strengthen you
Do you want good appetite?
DO you want to get rid of nervousness
DO you want good Digestion
DO YOU want to sleep we'll :?
Do you want to build up your constitution?
Do you want brisk aud vigorous feeling


If you do, take


SIMMONS
LILY Err REGULATOR. r


PURELY VEGETABLE,
Year: 1876

A MAN has got to be an awful good
Christian to reach right over and put
silver quarter in the collection box
without first feeling down in the cor
ner of his pocket to see if there isn't
two-cent piece there.-FwIton Times.
Year: 1876

THE Austrian Government has lately
passed law compelling all dealers in
beer at Vienna to mark ON their glasses
line below which the froth must not
subside. TIE glasses are gauged by
government officials. What paradise
for the beer-drinkeri
Year: 1876

Owing to the sudden and severe illness of
the wife of Chief Marshal Brady, change
was made necessary, and Captain James
Park Postles was appointed in his stead.
The Captain performed the duty assigned
him III q satisfactory manner.
Year: 1876

The high rates of fare on the railroads
will be a serious loss to the receipts of our
big show. Railroad companies can afford
to carry Senators, members of Congress
and Government officials free OF charge,
but cannot afford to carry the common
herd for less than their regular high fare.
Railroad companies and Philadelphia ho-
tel keepers intend to make money at the
expense Of patriotic feeling Mr.. Craw-
ford, of Kansas, one of the Commissioners
says, that ten thousand visitors to the Cen
tennial Exhibition would come from his
State if the fare was reduced to a reasona-
bic rate, but as it is, there will be not one
fifth of that number.


The surest way to make the Centennial
a success, would be for the managers Of the
Exhibition, hotel keepers and railroad
companies, to bring everything down to
the smallest price. If the hotel keepers of
Philadelphia were governed by the least
sense of honor, or by sense of what is
due to their city, instead of increasing,
they would reduce their rates. No hotel
in the city should charge more than So
per dav.
Year: 1876

WITH the evidence before the Committee
on Naval Affairs, they regard, it improper,
that Paymaster Bradford, who has been
Purchasing Paymaster in London, should
remain. The evidence rejecting on him is
such as to cause the Committee to request
Secretary Robson to have him recalled.
The Committee regards it as disgraceful
that he should be continued in his position.
They also desire to have Bradford as wit
ness.
Year: 1876

In order TO awaken a popular interest iu
the new Independent movement of the Re-
publican "Reform Club" mass meeting
will be held at the Cooper Institute of the
Academy of Music. The Executive Com
mittee are sending out invitations
distinguished speakers who are likely
to respond. They appear to be
well supplied with funds, and to be anoint-
ed with all the enthusiasm that usually
characterizes a young organization.
Year: 1876

THE question of opening the Exposition
seems to be difficult one. As matters now
stand, both the people of Philadelphia who
have no leisure day but Sunday, and those
people outside of the city who only hope to
see the Exhibition by going to see it on
Sunday evening and going home on Monday
morning, aye debarred from seeing it at all


About the propricty of opening the grounds
on Sunday there should be no two opinions.
Year: 1876

THERE is a peculiar fitness in the plan
suggested by Mr. Mackey of Pennsylvania
for finishing the Washington Monument.
He suggests $780, 900 of the money taken in
at the Centennial Exhibition be appropriated
to the completion Of the monument. This
should find responsive echo in every
patriotic breast throughout the Union.
Year: 1876

NOTWITHSTANDING those who favor
repeal of the specie resumption act, have
failed, they still have faith in effecting their
purpose. They hope to succeed although
at present the friends of repeal have not
numbers enough to carry such PROPOSE
ton under the rules.
Year: 1876

If the Senate unites with the House, the
obnoxious postal law of Senator Hamlin's
applicable to third class mail matter will
soon be repealed. Every time, one licks two
cent stamp on paper that went for one be-
fore. he wishes old Hannibal in some place
where he would not freeze
Year: 1876

Chief Of Police Loan, on his arrival in
the city yesterday, and being informed
OF the shooting affray which took place
on Bourbon street, Issued orders to all
stations to arrest j +. Barrett, Jr., on
sight. on the grounds that he was either
an accessory before or after the fact to
the shooting, and also placed guard
over Matt Hogan at the Charity Hospi-
tai. 1t was stated by prominent
lawyer In this city, who will act for the
prosecution in this case, that the orders
were issued to prevent Barrett from
tcstifying against Hogan and Houlihan
in the murder of Laresche.


Up to the hour of going to press Bar
rett had not been arrested.


Our reporter called on Matt Hogan ut
the Charity Hospital to-day, to get his
version of the shooting on Wednesday,
but he refused to make n statement.
His condition IS much improved, and
his recovery looked for
Year: 1876

Mr.. Manton Marble has sold the New
York World newspaper to Mr.. WIN.
Hurlburt, who has long been associated
with him, and who Is one OF the most
brilliant writer's connected with the
press His articles In the World have
been among its most pleasing features
What the presentation OF the name
Of Mr.. Tilden for the Presidency has to
do with this transfer, does not clearly
appear
Year: 1876

Remit by Express, Postal Order. Bank
Draft, Certified Check, Registered Letter. or
order through any bank or banking house.
payable 70 the order of the Secretary Of the
Industrial Exhibition Company, II East 18th
Street, New York. Specially chartered by the
State Of New York, for the purpose Of build
ing in New York
Year: 1876

AMONG the organizations formed
in the interest of political and ad-
ministrative reform is the National
Reform league of New York, and
calls for the formation of auxiliary
organizations in other parts of the
country. Reform is the popular cry,
and the number of movements"
shows a large class of voters pre-
pared to break away from party and
60 for the best man. The only way
for a party to win this year is to put
up the best men.
Year: 1876

For several weeks the storekeepers OF
Wilmington have been holding series OF
meetings for the protection of their husi-
ness interests from the undermining in
Auences that the street markets have upon
business that completes with them in the
same line Of goods. Those who constitute
the street karket mer, are countrymen,
who offer their produce and ether market
able goods, in any portion of the streets
contiguous to the market houses where
they may by chance, as it were, find stand
ing room. They are here to-day, and
may not be tomorrow; they are compelled
by no law to establish fixed rates, and
species of cut throat prices is carried on
that the man with an established stand or
store, can not compete with and meet all
the expenses Of rent. license and support a
family.


1t is contended by the storekeerers that
these street markets divert the trade from
the stores where it should fow, by reason
of much lower prices than storeke keepcr
could afford to sell for, and this is tire
reason in a great measure that the no.ire Of
the Sheriff is displayed SO numerously in
The city. They are compelled to pay =.
cense, gas bills, house rent; fuel and wa:er
rents, and a certain per centage on all re
ceipts over thousand dollars. while the
street market man is granted license ior
1--WE dollars and sixty cents by the Clerk o
The Court, and this while the State law
names the license AZ fifteen dollars, to peI-
dIers, who shall be itinerant. Another in-
furious effect that the street markets have
had that is very noticeable, is that patron
age has been diverted from two markc,
houses altogether; the one on Front stree,
and that on Twelfth street having been
broken up in this way. What the
storekeepers wish is that the ordinance
giving license to the street market men be
repealed by Council as matter of protec-
tion to those who are compelled to pay all
the taxes required Of citizens in support of
the city. The custom that goes to this
class Of hucksters is all cash, while the
storekeepers are compelled to give credit
and as the law of attachment upon wages
has been repealed, they are guaranteed nc
protection in the credit system. What
credit is given is done at terrible risk,
and the huckster doing a cash BUSINESS is
not subjected to any lisk, thus having a
large advantage over storekeepers, and
those who hold regular market stands.


If the ordinance is repealed, then the
countrymen will be obliged to take per-
manent stand, pay license and taxes, and
become an equal competitor with the others
The plea of the storekeepers is given here
just as they state it, and IS apparently es-
tablished upon grounds, that have every
degree of fairness.
Year: 1876

The third party which is now holding a


conference in New York, may be sim


cere movement with some, but we do not


regard it as a movement that will have


any potency in the Presidential election.


1t is combination of the same forces that


led the Democratic party into the fatal


errors committed. at Cincinnati when


Greely was nominated. 1t is precisely the
same contingency that we have had to
deal with in certain class of politicians


fot years-a few of the malcontents who


are dissatisfied with the minor positions


they hold in the ranks of the organized


parties striving to get at the head, and
the only way it is to be attained is by the
organization of third party, with a strag-
ling band of followers. There is the
usual cant about reform, which we too
well know is needed, by the way official


position has been corrupted. But party


in the name Of reform cannot bring about
that great boon in government
any more speedily than a
party that has it as cardinal principle
in their platform like the Democratic
party. 1t is the green spots left here and
there in the decay of the Liberal move
ment, which so ingloriously failed four
years ago. As we have said before it is
aparty serving themselves under the cloak
of reform. This is patent to all, who
have not been misled by their seductive
professions of virtue. There are number
of gentlemen in The Conference who it is
claimed are disiaterested. This is done to
distinguish them from gathering of dis
masted Republicans, as the body really is,
being made up of the soreheads eff the Re
publican party. These disinterested gen
tlemen, the New York "Herald' claims
are eminent and venerable in their own
walks of life, hut are babes and sucklinss
in politics. The fight of this year is to be
between the leading parties, and the third
party will be of about as much use in poll
lies as the fifth wheel of coach is to the
|ocomotion of that vehicle.
Year: 1876

A FoRcIBLE argument of progress in the
mechanic arts in America during the past
century is the excellent display of Ameri-
can machinery at the Centennial. That OF
English make shows marked Improvement,
but the contrast is very striking by the side
of that which their cousins on this side of
the water have brought to perfection.
Year: 1876

his is constant sneeze, sneeze sneeze, unit
your head seems ready to fly Off until yo1: nose and
eyes discharge excessive quantities of mucus, thin
acrid and poisonous, until. unfit for business or
pleasure, you number yourself among the most af
tlcted of mortas. destined to suffer periodically
the greatest distress without relief or consolation
Every draught, every breath of air seems an enemy
In disguise This is properly called Acute Catarrh
and commonly Cold in the Head. Its constant re-
currence is due to consttutionaly weak diseased
nasal organs, and enfeebed action of the perspira
tory glands. In the permanent of this distress
ing malady SANFoRDs RADICAL CURE FOR CA
TARRH is a never falling specific. Instant relief fol


lows the first dose. Its use destroys the morbid
sensltiveness TO atmospheric changes which predis
pose people to this disease, and is sure TO prevent
an attack Of CHRONIC OR ULCERATIvE CATARRH