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Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, April 24.-The Democratic
members of al least one Of the House Com
mittees to-day discredited themselves far more
than they can hope to disgrace the Admins
tration in the history of the session. Thus far
the cutters of politics and society have been
raked to make a case against the Cabinet.
Bank accounts have been ransacked, the tattle
of frontier camps has been listened to, and de-
tectives have been made oracles to prove high
officials of the Government guilty of crime.
1t was only few days ago that a committee
permitted false and malicious statement to
lie telegraphed throughout Christendom that
the President had been detected in taking
money from the Treasury to purchase votes,
but it was left for the Committee on Expendi-
lures in the Interior Department to-day to
surpass all others in the attempt to "catch
Grant.


The Democrats on the Committee had
caused all the Republicans to be notified that
an important witness was to be examined, and
that all should be present. No hint was given
of the nature of the expected evidence, but the
fact escaped from some of the less careful
Democrats that the Committee held President
Grant in the hollow of their hand. The Com
mttee had been sitting with open doors, but
mysterious witness was produced, and the
doors were barred for two hours. The witness
upon whose lips the fate of the President of
the United States hung was an ordinafy-look-
ing business man. The Democratic members
were on tiptoe with expectation. Republicans
were interested but ignorant of the forth
coming result. The witness was almost indif-
ferent. His marvellous story was this:


Some years ago a person in high station did
him great injury. 1t became important to
the peace of mind of that great parsonage that
the witness should be harmless. He hired q
detective, and soon hurried him to the Govern
ment mad-house. He was kept there, friend
less and powerless, for months, when one day
an agent of this great parsonage approached
him, giving him the choice between life i'm
prisonment with lunatics, or life of exile in
Europe. He chose the latter. Detectives
ACCOMPANIED him to the steamer, and he LETT
for Europe. Becoming weary of Europe, he
returned and appeared before the Committee
today to tell his story. The Committee seem
ed paralyzed-in part with astonishment, in
part with diabolical joy. Who was that great
parsonage that wronged you, asked the Chair
man. "The President of the United States, !"
was the reply. What wrong did he do you


There the witness paused. He would die
before he would tell It was q delicate sub
ject and should not be mentioned. For an
hour the Committee piled him with questions
They threatened him with imprisonment with
.evere punishment with the terrors OF con-
tumacy. The witness yielded. He. said the
President of the United States had done him
mortal wrong; that he had ruined his the
Year: 1876

Witnesses betrothed, and since that time the
witness had been prescribed and prosecuted
man.. Hence these detectives; hence these
mad-house liars.


The President Lad frequently come to the
house of the witness about it at the dead of
night, and had importuned him at his bedside
not to ruin his great fame


''But," interposed Republican member,
chow did the President get to your bedside at
that time Of night did he ring the bell =


The climax had come. Democrats were en-
thusiastic in their sardonic joy, and were just
ready to render their verdict against the Pres
ident, when the witness quickly interposed: ::
II want you to understand, gentlemen, that
President Grant in the body never did me or
mine harm; he has only done me that great
wrong as a spirit"


The collapse came. The witness was mad
man. The Committee instantly discharged
him, Immediately ordered the stenographer to
suppress his notes, and begged the Republican
members to keep the matter silent. One of
the latter, with a good deal of indignation,
said that he hoped he might be as mad as the
witness if he kept still.
Year: 1876

THERE should be an arrangement by
which the opponents of the silver cur
reucy should frame . consistent course
of hostile operations. One lot Of the
persons who are disturbed by the sp-.
pearance of the bright aud beautiful
preciou, white metal, claim that as its
value per dollar 10 less in gold than the
greenback, the laboring man who tskes
the silver is robbed. The difference u
very small, however, and, like the sur
reptitious baby, is such little one thar
there need not be much fuss about It.
Another lot OF persons are claiming
that silver will be boarded, and can not
be kept in circulation, because people
prefer it 80 much to the fractional cur
rency that they will not allow 1t to slip
through their fingers. Now, both lots
OF persons can not be right, and both
are actually wrong. The Substitution
of silver money for the fractional, dire
soaked paper does not wrong anybody
and silver is Just in such relations %
the arser green nbacks-both silver and
greenbacks being OF less face value Than
gold-that 1t will hoat.-C6lcss''ots
Commercial.
Year: 1876

DoNS PIATT is "Reformer of the noisi-
est kind. Yet he took fee of 100000, in
the way of percentage, for using his influence
with Belknap in favor of a moth exterminator
for use in the Bureau of Clothing, in the War
Department, and when the percentage was
stopped he denounced the exterminator as
fraud,
Year: 1876

The Democratic Committee the other day
had madman on the stand to testify against
Grant. The insanity of the witness was not
discovered until he had been testifying to con-
siderable nonsense. He was then dropped.
Year: 1876

OF S79, 900; and the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, Ii ! remember correctly,
took half the amount at the same rate.
This was done not for the corporation
itself, but for an interest largely epgag-
ed in the construction of the road.
With the circumstances attending the
negotiation with the Atlantic and Pa
cific road / was entirely familiar and
with several of its officers have long
been well acquainted. also knew all
about the negotiations with the Mis-
seuri, Kansas and Texas road, though
| never to my knowledge saw any of
its officers and never had An interview
with any of them on any subject. But
in the case of both roads, i desire to say
that the bonds sold to them did not be-
long to me, nor did have one dollars
pecuniary interest in the whole trans
action with either company.


The infamous insinuatiOn made in
certain quarters that 1 engaged to use
my influence In Congress for The Attain
tic and Pacific road and also for the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas in con-
sideration of their purchasing these
securities hardly merits notice. The
officers and directors of both companies,
so iar AS l have known the one and
heard of the other, are iight-minded,
honorable gentlemen, and they would
have justly spurned me from their
presence had ! been willing to submit
an offer SO dishonorable and mutually
degrading. had no pecunisry stake
in the negotiation and / should have
loved infamy for infamy's sake, had 1
bartered my personal and official honor
in the transaction. And lam sure that
every man connected with either COM
pany would repel the dishonoring sug-
gestion as warmly as do myself. The
whole affair had no more connection
with Congressional legislation than any
one of the ten thousand similar trans
actions that are constantly occurring in
the business world.


OF like character with the insinua-
ton just answered is that which. in an
irresponsible and anonymous way, at
tenpts to connect the ownership of
Little Rock and Fort Smith bonds with
the legislation of last winter respecting
the State government Of Arkansas.
There are some accusations which 1t is
difficult to repel with sufficient force
because of their mixture of absurdity,
depravity, and falsehood. / never
heard this stupid SANDER until within
few days, and venture to say there is
not responsible man in the country of
the slightest sense who can discern the
remotest connection between the two
things that are alledged to have an in
tinate and infamous relation.


The concluding remarks of Mr..
Blaine were published in our last issue.
hence they are omitted from this re-
DOrt,-Ed
Year: 1876

One of the worst features Of our pres
ent sad political situation is the manner
in which the leading newspapers have
been subsidized. A Democratic friend
in this city tells US that he was present in
the office Of an Iowa editor the other day
when he received an elaborate puff of
Iilden, accompanied by draft Tor $25.
The editor showed it to him and laughed
and said, eof course he would publish
it,"


We clip the following report OF con-
versation with Hon. Peter Cooper from q
late issue OF the New York Irish World:


1--WE look too much at men," observed the
philanthropist, ''and forget the necessity Of
looking at principles. The Constitution shows
us what to do Nowadays people. know very
little about the Constitution, and care less.
Reserring to the foreign press OF New York, he
said: II sat next to Jonas, Of the Times; at the
Chamber OF Commerce dinner the other day ,
and went all over this question with him. He
assented as went along, and then said: "You
are correct, Mr.. !. ooPER; this is all As you say;
but we cannot say so in the Times. The fact Is,
the papers are subsidized without knowing it
absolutely overshadOwed by the power and
wealth Of our great corporations" What Mr.
COOPER says OF the Times may with equal truth


b- said OF almost every daily journal in this
city They are directly under foreign control,
or else under tn. influence Of those who are la
boring for foreign interests. The sooner the
people come to understand this, the better fol


the people. They have been led on blindly too
long by q hirellng foreign press, sailing under
tAlse coOrs.
Year: 1876

sumption of specie payments at time when
resumption will be practically impossible, and
that true financial policy would induce Con-
gress to set apart portion of the specie de-
rived from import duties for the gradual re
demption Of greenbacks.


s. The separation of the money or the gov
ernment from all banking institutions The
national government only should exercise the
high prerogative Of issuing paper money, and
that should be subject to prompt redemption
on demand, in gold and silver. the only
equal standards Of value recognized by the
civilized world.


How handsomely this 'ontrasts with
the disn-watery utterances OF the Repuo-
licans aud Democrats on the same
subject. 1t is in the main, incontrovert-
ible truth, handsomely expressed. We
do not quite agree with the closing words
OF the last resolution. We do not be-
lieve that this debtor nation can per-
manently retain within its own borders
enough gold and silver to redeem the
greenbacks required by the business OF
the country, but it they were fundable
in bond worth par in gold it would
answer the same purpose.


We congratulate the Temperance-Re
formers on the boldness and good sense
they have manifested in this matter.
Year: 1876

Icount.every attempt to rake up the old
nation nation and our great Anglo-Saxon family, and
am ashamed Of the men Of my own state, who
could say the things that has just been said in
our own State Capitol. that they might add
woemwood to gall We are one family North
and South We can only work out that des-
tiny through peace and good will. ROBERT
CoiLYsR, At raK DECORATION OF THE soLDIkRs
0RAv ss IN CHICAGO.


So speaks the great preacher OF the
West, himself Republican. And vet
the Republicans are proud OF Blaine, be-
cause in this Centennial year he sprang
into the congressional arena. and before
the whole world, tore open the hall
healed wounds of the civil war, and
dragged the mouldering dead from their
shallow graves and Haunted their bones
in the face of the civilized world. And
they are proud of this latest specimen OF
American statemanship and compare
him to Webster.


God help the Republic.
Year: 1876

A correspondent OF the Inter-Ocean
writing from Philadelphia under date OF
June Sd says


To-day for the first time since the opening,
we have had what might be termed a hot day.
The mercury assembled to 95 in theshade, but IN
the glare of the sunlight, on the asphalt pave
ments or beneath the reflected warmth from the
sides of the buildings, thu scale marked 40.
This gave US foretaste Of what is to come dur
ing the warm days Of midsummer, and the
prospect is not refreshing. Inside the build
fngs the atmosphere was stagnant, outside the
breezes were changed with holiness, aud there
was no comfort anywhere.


Read this, Minnesotians, and thank
God for YOUR cool and bracing climate.
Who would not rather endure a little
more cold in winter if he can escape
such toried heats in summer? You can
fence out the cold; you cannot fence Out
the heat; while the cold is invigoratlnS
and the heat debilitating.
Year: 1876

April 70: :,


The announcement in this mornings cable
dispatches that Hindostan is sending large
quantities of wheat to the English market,
which finds ready sale at prices lower than the
lower grades Of American and English can be
sold for. is creating some little stir among the
trade here. At the Produce Exchange the mat
ter was much discussed, and it was agreed on
all hands that if Hindoo economical labor and
cheap lands, along with cheap transportation
via Suez Canal, are thus coming in competi-
ton with us, it may he ere long serious busl-
ness for our farmers, unless they can find ways
and means to cheaper production. How that
is to he done no one ventures to say, but done
it must be, if we are to retain England as our
principal customer.


SINE dealers were inclined to pooh pooh the
matter. intimating that the story had been got
on reference to printed clrcuars and market
reports Of previous date by mail it was found
that there was no doubt whatever that wheat
from Calcutta has been placed in the Liver
pool market, and that it was meeting with
ready sale.


They might just as well attempt e
break down the cotton market by spread.
ing report that immense quantities o.
cotton were coming forward from Mime
sofa. Wheat is the product of temper
ate climates: it will never be raised II
large quantities in tropical region likt
H;ndostan. It is true there are higf
lands near the Himalayas on which
wheat might be raised but they are IA
inland and devoid of means oil transpor.
tation, and we need fear nothing tron
any such competition.


Give us successful selfbinder and W
can defy the world.


Hon. P. H. Rahilly has ordered from
Lake City machinist q threshing machin
that will thresh 1900 bushels Of whes
per day!


With cheap lands, rich soil and labor
saving machinery we need not tear to
whole world in the matter OF whes
raising. And that is our staple, and ou
great reliance for growth and grea
ness.
Year: 1876

A New JERSEY editor lost his best
gold pen and holder few days ago.
After making thorough search all
over the Office, and accusing dozen
tramps Of its theft. he happened to re-
member where he last placed it, and
bending down the top Of his ear, dis.
covered no less than fourteen pen-hol.
ders qf various styles which he had
lost during the past two years.-Nor-
ristelCn Herald.
Year: 1876

The future pitcher and catcher Of
some champion base ball nine were
observed yesterday practicing with a


half brick done up in an old stocking.
This is what may be called the ragged
edge of the game.-Boston Transcripts.
Year: 1876

skiff alongside, and was off up the river
before the oswegO had been made fast
Ii was easy enough to get from Buffalo
into Canada. but was two months get
ting back into the COnfederaey and had
scarcely entered service again when
Yankee bullet drove me out of it forever
BY shattering my elbow in such a horri-
bic manner that the arm had to come off
Year: 1876




Did you ever see q man try to find a
shirt or handkerchief. or something in
the bureau drawer where his wife keeps
her clean linen IL mostly happens
when he's in hurry, when be has got
his fireworks temper on, aud his wife
has got the baby on her lap. or she is
''up to the elbows" in dough. He finds
the white clothes laid in such symmet-
rical layers as only q woman. after long
practice, can accomplish. and he dives
in good deal as he would fish for nubs
Of kindling in a barrel Of shavings.
pitching everything right or left on the
floor, meanwhile, as he fails to get the
required article. strewing and swearing
and offering select expressions of relief
to his feelings in suppressed tone of
voice, in way especially designed 10
reach the ears of his wife '1hat it does
beat the old-what's's name pa thing
can't be put where it can be found" !"
About this time his wife yells out from
below that the article sought is right at
the top, when he sarcastically wants to
know if she suppOses he has "gOt no
eyes" then tears round into that linen
at more furious rate than ever, swear
ing that the shirt amt there, for he has
got clear to the bottom. And then he
gathers everything up in bunch and
rams them back anyhow, just as he can
grab them, in savage handfuls, tearing
around and jerking things all over with
q nervous looseness. Then he sings out
in a sort Of abstract way, as if address
ing no one in particular, that he can al
ways tell where to find anything he
needs at his place of business in mo-
ment, that he keeps place for every
thing, and everything in its place. Just
about the time he has worked himself
into red-hOt worry of bOiling-over i'm
patience, and got the whole room into a
litter. his wife glides in and lays her
hand on the missing article-right in
the drawer where he had jerked it out
and rammed it back again-in that qui.
ct way woman has Of maddening a
choleric husband into fit state for the
lunatic asylum.
Year: 1876

Omaha, May r poftsffom this
section say that there. is the finest
fruit promise ever known in The his
tory Of the state. The acreage sown
THIS sPfi9g in small grains is very
large and though the season Is some
what fa'rneopte are confident of a
good crop.
Year: 1876

misunderstood me If you suppose
anything otherwise"


~ want to be married. want
you," was the response, "and / am
willing to wait till you are ready to
see I shall make a good husband"


"But don't want husband and
I think you would have lost less
time had you spoken more English,
with less Scotch accent. What have
you meant by it?"


81 mean it's hard work to spea k
clear English, and hope you will
join with me in all respects. / want
to teach you the Scotch, as it is more
homelike and comfortable for the
family. 1 thought you made out
very WE'LL"


"Indeed l did not, and If you have
been love making all this time did
not know it, or l should soon have
shortened your labor


The Scotch Doctor was in no hur-
ry to accept or be dismissed, but
still kept on urging his cause till
some one called Hetty, whom she
had to attend to.


ITO De cORtinued.)
Year: 1876

Preventive and Cure for Summer Complaint.


Numerous of our physicians now prescribe pure
raspberry or blackberry wines to their patients
afflicted with various forms Of summer complaint.
The genuine article can be obtained at Chris.
Xanters No gil Seventh street northwest
Year: 1876

BLAINE ON THE Floor OF THE
House Talk of the gladiators! Was
there ever a man who buckled on a
shield and welded sword with such
confidence and power as he has display
ed on the floor Of the House this week?
There is something about him-I think
it is this royal energy aud force which
makes him seem like very giant in
debate, and the men who are pitted
against him seem like pygmies. Other
members speak in their seats, or, if the
occasion be an unusual one, extend
their seiz;no over a pair Of desks aud
kick the chairs out Of their way. But
Blaine takes the whole aisle for his
stamping ground, and woe to the page
or anybody else VINO ventures to pass
through it while he is on his feet.
Butler used to have a way of filing
the eyes Of the House by coming out
into the area In front Of the Speakers
desk, and whirling around occasionally
to fling his fsrs at those who sat be-
hind him. But Blaine prances back
and forth from the outer to the inner
row of seats, gesticulating and vocifer-
ating all the time. His favorite
method of emphasizing statement is
to hold book in his left hand and to
bring down his right with tremendous
torcc upon the open page 8ai -


CROOKED Ness PORK. by
collision Of two freight trains on the
Vandalia Road, car containing a
number Of barrels marked "Mess
Pork" was wrecked, and one of the
barrels smashed, disclosing the fact
that it contained whisky. An official
admitted the whisky was in Jeffer-
sonville, Madison and Indianapolis
car, and bound westward, but was un
able to say whether it was from Louis
vile or the East. It is believed the
whisky came from or through Louis
vile. The matter is being investi-
gated by Revenue agents, and ad-
ditional developments may be soon ex :
pecied.
Year: 1876

The Geological Survey of the state
of Wisconsin has been conducted for
the last few years with great assiduity
and success. Many very valuable dis
coveries have been made, and iraport
ant conclusions arrived at in references
to the economic and industrial inter
ests of the state. From the SYNOPSIS
Of the report which have been made
during the last twosyears, it is evident
that 1t would be prudential measure
for the Legislature to authorize the
publication of at least portion of
Dr.. Latham,s elaborate report. We
understand that Prof T. G. Chamber
lain, who has been for several wears
an assistant on the geological corps
OF the state, professor OF geology, zo-
ology and botany in Belait College,
has plan for the publication of those
parts OF the general report, which can
be made available for use in the public
schools Of the state. Such a scheme
seems to be reasonable. and we hope it
will be prosecuted to its consummation.
L is one which has been brought be-
fore the State Teachers Association
and received their hearty endorsement.
- Christian St0tesmon.
Year: 1876

Washington will be the side-shoW Of the Cen.
tennial. Every foreigner who comes to visit the
Centennial Will feel that his mission is but half
performed II he does not visit the capital Of the
nation and inspect its famous buildings and his


torieal associations. Every Western man who
goes TO p Philadelphia will ofcourse come to this
city. Seeing the Centennial without seeing
Warrington would be making Q patchwork joo
Of the entire matter. Such being the case, the
probabilities are that hundreds Of thousands
will come TO the capital during the six months of
the Exposition and thus the city will be overrun
with strangers the while. Many Of our cItizens
convinced OF these facts, are already beginning TO
refUrnish their houses and prepare for the emer
Eency. The lookout for a brisk summer season
is sxceedipgly promising, and those who desire 70
cell should secure the services of those who can
Est the best prices, and no hrm IS better known
ior hs energy and promptness as auetioneers than
that Of DuHcansOn Bros
Year: 1876

the fashionable Fabrics from the best looms of this and foreign lands
We employ intelligent lesladie
curing efficiency and have the business

3d We divided nine different Each Department



Efficiency andE
belief
this do which but

treated alike



Others viz The entire line White Goods and Linens full line Of Black
MohaIrs Hamburg Black
including line of Black Silks of which will receive



possessed BY other house in the West.
of cherfuly



five allow for
The hand



Buyers New York purchase job
Of special
making all
accessible with
building lgive
Year: 1876

DR. Price has, after long series of ex-
periments discovered a new process Of ex-
tracing the subtle flavor from every delic-
iuus fruit and aromatic. In his havoring
Extracts the characteristic taste and fresh
ness of the real fruit ia preserved and by
his process SO highly concentrated that but
a sma quantity is required TO impart their
peculiar flavor to any article in which they
may be used. Ladies thai wish something
superior in the way of havoring extracts or
baking powder should purchase DIR. Prices,
for We can assure them that they have NJ
equals. DIR. Prices Powder is not sold in
bulk, loose powder sold as his is fraud
upon the public. eod&w