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Year: 1876

The lot of the political editor at
this season is hard, and be makes the
fate of those who listen to him still
harder. While the mercury goes up
to hundred in the shade and the air
is like blasts ola furnace, and the glare
Of the sun on the brick walls and stone
pavements daZzles like the fash of
a cannon, and the people drag them
selves along in !istless sort Of way,
going about their business as mere


matter of habit, be devotes himself
to rouSing the passions and kindling
the enthusiasm Of his sunstruck fellow
citizens. While the Northern body
is melting he is earnestly firing the
Northern heart. AS be sits gasping
before an open window, through
which of long intervals a cool breeze
comes Ike benediclion, be is not
only physically warm, but intellect
uaily glowing. His blood boils at
the thought Of the Hamburg riot, and
his heart burns over the details of
the shooting of Twitchel at Coushatta.
The hot blush OF Indignation suTuses
his cheek to think that such things
can be done in the Centennial year Of
the republic The flame of manly
scorn leaps to his eye, and with
scorching wrath and scatbing rhetoric
he brands the hellish- minded rebel


He pictures in vivid colors the tur-
MOL in the South. Society is shown
as seething caldron of hate and cor
ruption, Kissing and steaming over
the embers Of seditition and ashes of
civil strife. The smell of burning
powder is in the air, and the whistle
of the bullet is heard instead of the
call of the cat-bird, and the smoke of
the negro cabin wreathes to heaven
like incense from an altar The Ku-
kluX glareS from the thicket, and the
/ onlederate flag lit with the hues of
treason flares over the landscape.
Verify it is hot work, and when he
exhorts his Republican friends to fuse
into one molten mass of vengeful en-
thusiasm, and pour forth like stream
of lava from volcano, casting a dull
CLEAN upon the midnight skies and
carrying destruction in it's path, we
feel that we should like to be put out
of the way, in nice cool grave, six
feet under the ground, with green
grass wet with dew and cool with
sylvan shadows over US. Ina WORD
the political editor in dog-days is g
public enemy. Inso far as be acceler
ates the public pulse single beat, be
conspires against the public health ant
should be considered as an outlaw
~ Y World.
Year: 1876

testified that Miss Stuart's account was
quite true he had taken her money
and spent it gambling, and to save
her be had executed deed Of gift ~
her, conveying the furniture Of the
house, all Of which had been bought
with her own money. One would
have thought that this would have
been sufficient, but the jury We're OF q
different opinion, and they gave a
verdict against poor Miss Stuart, who
thus loses all her traps, and is left
once more pennilcss, save the 800 a
year which she has from the drawing
master. CATHCART
Year: 1876

A vegetarian who was lodging an
infuriated bull behind tree, exclaim--
ed: "You ungrateful beast! you
toss a vegetarian, who never ate beef
in his life Is that the return YOU
make Z"
Year: 1876




TALKING TO HoRsEs.-Horses can
not understand our language except so
far as il is associated with action. To
teach colt to stop we must first pull
on the halter or bride and then
say "hor" If he obeys, we should
always caress him or give him some
thing to eat, and thus continue asso-
ciating the word with the action until
he obeys readily. In the same way
we should teach him to go on, touch
ing him lightly with the whip as we
give the word if he obcys, reward
him as before, Now, the secret of
training properly lies in using uniform
langage, always employing the same
words every time you want the horse
to do certain thing. This ambiguous
use Of language is prevalent fault.
How frequedtly we see a man get into
saddle or buggy, gather up the lines
or rcins, give his horse cut or two
with the whip, and say, "Come here"
And again, when he desires his horse
to change from trot to walk, hc
will say "hop p or if he wants him TO
quit gnawing at post, pulling at tho
halter, or to reprove him for shying,
and for a dozen other things, he uses
the same word "ho" This common
FAULT with most men; they talk too
carclessly in training their horses, and
in managing them. Be uniform in Ian
guage. Select different word or sig
nal for every command, and always
use each IN its proper place and no
other. This would abolish, in great
measure, the abominablc jerking, pull
ing, whipping and otherwise abusing
this noble animal.
Year: 1876

There is at this time question of more
vital importance for the whole business
community, as well as the laboring popu-
Iatior, to consider than all others, perhaps,
which necessarily enter into the discus
siols Of this DOW closing campaign; and
that Is, the past and present, and whatmsy
be the future policy, financially, of the
Government. 1t is question which has,
within the last few days, caused the capi-
taIist, merchant manufacturer, as well the
agr;culturist. to pause and reflect upon
the results which may follow If the present
dominant party is overthrown and another
permitted to succeed it in power just at
this important crisis in our business and
monetary affairs, when a restoration Of
confidence in the credit of individuals, and
almost every description Of commercial
values, including most Of our leading pro-
ducts like coal, iron, cotton, wool, oil and
cereals, in consequence of q demand which
is the result Of the necessities of consumers
at home and abroad. To check this now
upward movement and gradual restoration
to cur former condition of almost unpre
cedented prosperity would be an act on the
part Of those interested in tue varied
branches of industry throughout the coun-
try of the most stupendOus folly, and one
which the intelligence we have been cred
tied with possessing should prevent US as
people from being instrumental in consum-
mating.


IT, on the morning of the Sth of Novem-
Der, the success of the Republican caudi-
dates and cause should be announced-lud
but few doubt that it will be-there will be
no further cause for existing doubts con-
ceIning the future, for by such an an
nouncement the safety of our credit among
our own and the people Of other nations,
upon whom we have depended ia our time
of necessity, and the welfare of our own
great population will, for the coming four
years at least, be made secure. Whether
the policy insugurated by the Republican
party during the early stages Of its ascend
ancy to q national position was the best
which might have been adopted, we will
not attempt to discuss. One fact is para
mount, they were governed by 1t, and their
prosperity exceeded that Of any former de-
csde. To attribute the disturbance which
vas caused by the announcement in the
Year: 1876

R. N. T. HUNTER, a leading exponent
of the Southern Democracy, and one Of
the born rulers of the Democratic party,
claims that the General Government is re-
sponsible to the ex Shareholders of the
South for the loss of their slaves. As q
national man he is entitled to speak not
only for his section, but his party at large.
His argument is printed elsewhere, and
furnishes q sufficient answer to Tlden's
specious anti-Southern claim letter.
Year: 1876

GovERNoR TILDEN's letter regarding the
so-called Southern cllims is a weak, though
pretentious document. shrewdly put forth
IN tice to affect the Northern vote, but too
late to disafect the Southern vote, because
it Is impossible in the brief time before the
election for it to obtain general circulation
in the sparseIy settled South.
Year: 1876

Those who have affected to believe that
the affection of the dog was for persona
and of the cat for places have to con,
slider the.faet that the Pawnees who
Gently left their teseryati6hin Nebraska
for one in the Indian Territory, were un-
sole to induce their dogstc accompany
them Itwss very reluctantly that the
Indians parted With theft pets, but the
dogs would follow but short distance
and then return to the old camp. People
from the reservation, report that hun
dredS Of bowling, yelptng ours are run
ming around the old camping grounde.
hunting for something to sAt. n BostoR
advertiser.
Year: 1876

Not dollar we saw--not u single note,


As fast through the streets we hurried
Not friend from his locker lend US shot.
And we felt confoundly fiuried.
We Skinned il hard at the middle of day
The alleys and corners turning,
Meath the heated rays of an April sun,


With our flushed checks hotly burning.
Shert and long wore the prayers that we said,
And our face bore the impress Of sorrow,
But the brokers to lend us we saw were afraid,
And We bitterly thought of tomorrow.
No useless pity disturbed their breast,


Self interest only had bound them,
As We cnvied the shavers taking their res,
With their stock certificates round them.
We thought Ms we went from the street to the dock
It was half-past two we ran fast,)
How the holding of our paper would bare the stock
When they heard we'd laid over at last,
Darkly they'll talk Of the merchant that's gone,
And DER his sad protest upbraid him,
But little he'd stopped if he could have gono on,
And his debtors had duly paid him.
But half the needful funds we had raised,
When the clock struck The hour for protesting,
Aud we knew our shortness of brads would be


blazed


by the bank where our note was resting. s..
Slowly and sadly We sneaked about
From the scene of our shame flushed and sor-


row;


No dime could we crave, so we raised not a doubt
But the sheriff would wind up the story.
Year: 1876

AS the virtues of medicines can only be ascer
tanned by careful observation it is to be regretted
that many of the drugs still prescribed By some
Physicians should retain place in materia
medica. AS an instance of this that vile drug Bal
sam Copaiba furnishes example. About the year
1880 the Spaniards in the Island of San domingo
having become afflicted with certain complaints,
Thought according to the prevailing notion at that
time that the remedy might be found where the
disease originated Under thus impression Balsam
Copaiba came into use, but never has a nauseating
drug done more injury for it not only changes the
nature of the disease to dreadful state than
the original, but it ruins the tone of the stomach
and brings Dyspepsia in its worst forms. To


void this drug and its effects the SAMARITAN 8
| GIFT, pure vegetable remedy is within the reach
of ALL Only ten pills to be taken, and will cure every
time n from two to four days. Male packages $2I
| female SO.


| SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Year: 1876




4Screation. 1t often happened that
The teacher was an enthusiast in his voca-
ton, and thundered forth the airs set down
in the music books with fervor that was
contagious. A few of those who attempted
to learn psalmody were told that they had
no aptitude for the art, and were set aside,
but that did not prevent their attendance
as hearers of the others. In those days a
set of tunes were in fashion mostly of New
England origin, which have since been laid
aside in obedience to a more fastidious
taste.


The streams which bickered through the
narrow glens of the region in which / lived
we're much better stocked with trout in
those days than now, for the country had
been newly opened to settlement. The
boys all were anglers. confess to having
felt strong interest in that "sport, ;" as l
no longer call it, have long since been
weaned from the propensity of which /
speak; but have no doubt that the instinct
which inclines so many to it, and some Of
them our grave divines, is a remnant of the
original wild nature of man. Another
"sport," to which the young men of the
neighborhood sometimes admitted the elder
boys, was the autumnal equirrel-hunt. The
young men formed themselves into two
parties equal in number, and fixed a day
for the shooting. The party which ON that
day brought down the greatest number of
squirrels was declared the victor, and the
contest ended with come festivity in the
evening.


have not mentioned other sports and
games of the boys of that day,-that is to
say of seventy or eighty years since, such
as wrestling, running, leaping, base-ball,
and the like, for in these there was nothing
to distinguish them from the same past
lines of the present day Vim. Cullen BrV-
ant, 81. Nicholas, for Dec.
Year: 1876

The famous wolf-hunting exploit of Is- real Putnam has been successfully initiated by Sacramento man, who was lately hunting with party from the same city in Mendocino county, California A bear was discovered and tracked to crevicc opening into cavern in ledge of rocks. One of the hunters crawled in with his rifle, after taking the precaution of having rope tied to his ankles by which his comrades could drag hlm' out in case sudden retreat to the base of supplies became advisable. He carefully made his way through the hole until he caught sight of bruin, and taking careful aim fired. The bear responded with roar, which terrified the party out side, and thinking the bear was about to emerge they dropped their guns and took to their heels. They did not altogether de- scrt their braver companion, however, for they held fast by the rope, dragging him out of the hole and over the ground with great speed. He yelled for them to stop, but they thought the bear was in pursuit and never halted until they reached their wagon. The adventurous hunter was bad lv bruised and lacerated by being dragged oyer the rough ground by the heels, but not seriously hurt. His shot had taken good effect, for the bear was afterwards found dead in his lair
Year: 1876

Our Walter is farmer who puts things through when he gets started. He had put through his having, had put through his harvest, had put through his oats. and had not forgotten to put through the potato bugs, and he came to the conclusion that he would visit the village of Ct. Burlington and see If he could put something through there. He began by calling at saloon in Railroad street and putting through small supply of apple jack, which only increased his bump of putthroughativeness, so that he thought he would put through little old rye. The old rye did not by any means lessen his desire for putting things through, and by the time he had perambu- lated the village he began to feel as if he owned all Sekonk and large share of Bar rington. He was eloquent in language and his efforts at oratory attracted the attention of the boarders at the hotel, and Capt. Clark of tue police asked him to move on, but he thought that was the place to get something to satisfy his awful thirst, and as to his drying up, that was not to be thought of. As he owned the town he thought he could manage his own affairs without Capt. Clark's assistance, and as for his taking lodgings in Capt. Clark's stone edi6ce, that was not to be thought of. But the next morning found our Walter in very different mood, as he had had all the put through he wanted. He came out of the District court less a fine and cost, and was evidently willing to get along here after with smaller doses of put through when he visits our village.

 LooKRR ON.
Year: 1876

How long docs it take to transmit a mes- sage through the Atlantic cable? The New York Journal of Commerce has been in vestigating this question, and simple as it looks at first sight there are many singular and interesting points in the answer. When the electricity IS applied to the cable at one end, two-tenths of a second are consumed before the full force of the current is in action. The first signal is felt in two-tenths of second, but the following lines go through more rapidly. As many as seven teen words have been sent over the Atlan- tic cable in one minute fifteen can usual ly be sent under pressure, and:twelve words minute is good working rate. Messages of twelve words have been sent all the way from New York to London in two minutes. A fact rot yet explained by the scientists is that the electricity does not move as rap idly from New York to London as in the opposite direction.
Year: 1876

CORNWALL

 Quite an excitement has been caused in Cornwall by the wandering off of Mrs. Ben jamin Taylor, while laboring under tenn porary fit of insanity, on Wednesday the 29th inst. Her husband having been absent from the house about fifteen minutes, came back and found that she was gone, and he and some others started in pursuit, but were unable to find any traces of her. The search was continued during the rest of the week by persons from Milton and all parts of Cornwall. Over three hundred men were engaged in the search at different times, but it was intellectual until Monday the 29th, when she was found about half a mile from home concealed behind rock, in better condition than one would suppose possible after having passed five days and nights with no food except what she could gather in the felds.... 1.-The Rev. Dr. White preached his centennial sermon on Sunday. It was preached from the first pulpit that was ever built in this town. It was built in TAO and placed in church which stood

 

 was taken from there and brought down to South Cornwall, and when taken out of there was considered not quite modern enough and was not used. It consisted of pine log hollowed out and covered with boards, but it is very likely that as much sound truth has been uttered over that old pulpit as ever some of the more elaborate ones of modern days. The sermon was a very interesting one, being history of the church and it's pastors from TAO up to the present ime......Several of our young men spent the Sabbath in the "tented grove, J but report the dust so thick that their or gans of hearing were in large degree i'm paired, and they did not take in as much as they otherwise would, and they have spent most of the time since their return in brushing, washing, ,etc......The tobacco cror IS hearty all secured. It having been g good season the growth is as large as usual Corn IS drying up, and nearly all fields are more or less troubled with smut. If the drouth continues few weeks longer the stalks will have to be feed to the cattle tc prevent starvation. K. '. z.
Year: 1876

Harrington NO.2.

 One of those incidents beautifully exhib- iting the unseen agency which furnishes shield and succor under impending ill oc- cured here yesterday. Charles Patterson, one of our youthful scholars, was standing not far from horse that was hitched to 8 post on Railroad street. The sound of the cars caused the horse to break from his fas- teuings, perceiving which the young gentle man, by an impulse, threw his arms about the neck of the horse tbls with force sui ficient to arrest for O moment the startled animal. The next moment he was himself entangled ln the thills and dragged few paces, while many witnessed the hazard. MT. Charles Brazee by sudden dash in tercepted the horse. With great agility and skill grasping him at the nose, he held on with grip long enough for the other to get free. Instantly the move of the horse was to run into another team, which had that been done before the intervention it must have proved a life-destroying crush. The horse planted foot on one foot of the imperiIed youth with such pressure as to hold fast the Cox shoe. The jerk to with. draw his foot from that of the horse shook off all his entanglements, and also the foot was set loose by the shoe parting at all the seams and remaining beneath the hoof. At that moment insensibility followed and helping hands came to the rescue.

 The generous bravery ard horseman's tact in restraining an excited horse, with head-stall gone, of young MT. Brazee, was something to be recorded with admiration and gratitude. Concerning the effect OF the injured young man it is hoped that the small gashes on his knee and various ind cations of harsh usage will all yield to the excellent care for him of his friends

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Year: 1876

A Novel Enterprisc-where the FOun-

 datiOn of his Fortune was Laid.

 A great many people seem to think that Peter Cooper was always successful and that everything he ever attempted turned out profitable. This is not so. Mir. Coop CT had hard row to hoe when he first came to New York. l knew him when he first came here from the country. A tall, rswboned young man, with any amount ot energy, but the most Quixotic ideas He was full of them, however, and some led to disappointment, others to prosperity.

 He started grocery about where the Cooper Institute stands now, with all kinds of truck in front and neat little sample room in the rear. All groceries sold whisky in those days, and nothing was thought of it. His wife tended the store, dressed in a homespun petticoat, with a white cotton short-gown. The concern was very popu- lar. and Peter made considerable money. Then one of his brilliant progressive ideas took possession of him, and be went to work with 8 will to execute it. ...

 

 His scheme was 10 provide rapid transit from the foot of Ortley street (East Eighth street now) to point where Bellevue hos. pilal stands at present. There IS 8 clear stretch of water from one point to the oth- CT, and Peter thought ferrY-boat run by an endless chain would be very profitable. He bought great ferry-boat, purchased an enormous chain about two miles in length, and started business. At first the concern was great novelty, and was well patron ized. But by and by accidents happened by which the farmers and people using the ferrybost were detained in the river. The traffic grew lighter, and one fine morning the sheriff bounced down upon all of Peter Cooper's possessions.

 The next day he took walk early in the morning out of town, up where the Murray Hill residences now stand. In the midst of 8 pasture stood the old powder house. used for the storage of ammunition during the revolution. He thought what fine build ing it would be to occupy for the manu = fracture of glue. He went home, consulted his wife, and calling upon some of his friends obtained the requisite means. In that place the foundation of his immense fortune was laid, and when the growth of the metropolis obliged him to abandon the building as 8 glue factory he was very wealthy man..
Year: 1876

George Elliot says that young mans eyes first open to the world when he is in love. This is not always so. Usually 1t is when he has gone away from home and had his washing sent out for the first time and finds among 1t when it Is sreturned. an odd stocking with two red stripes about the top and long enough to button around his neck.
Year: 1876

Sympathy is quality of the human heait that gives kirdly bias to mems actions. Without it this world would be poor indeed, and human nature would be destitute of one of it's most beautiful attributes. Re- move sympathy from the human breast and there is a vacuum created only to be ex- ceeded in size by that produced by the removal of a Light t-Running Domes- tic" from the midst of family where it has been for years. Get a " Domestic"
Year: 1876

POSTAL CARD CoMpLIcrTIEs.-Th postal card has been source of more worry to

 the postmasters than one would suppose

 could have been got out of bit of paste board. First the clerks wer ordered un- der no circumstances to read anything but the addresses, and then immediately after were ordered to stop any cards of disrep utabe nature, though how they were to find that out without reading it nobody knew. And then the country postmaster finds that they give him great deal to do. The writing is often bad, and he gets the gossip of the nelghborhood hopelessly mixed. Occasionally, as we have heard of postmaster's doing, he calls in outside as slstance to help him untangle some twisted sentence or semi-legible word. The latest thing in postal cards, however, is the frank ness of Yankee postmaster, who ran out from his wayside station the other day, flourishing card and calling out to lady as she drove up to meet a lacy friend, "You'd better read it. She ain't comin'"
Year: 1876

Canaan Tax List. Below we publish the list of taxpayers of the town of Ca naan, who pay twenty five dollars and over. The rate is one cent and a quarter on the dollar. Mir. Town Clerk Dean of Falls