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Year: 1876

Tho County Committee on tho Court
House stone contract have been compelled
by force Of pnblio sentiment, and partly, It
may be supposed, through wholesome fear
Of tiisagrecable consequences, to abandon tho
WALKER steal Of S50U,0oo, aud to voto to
recommend tic award of tho contract to q
lower bidder. To this oxtent victory has
been gained over the corrupt combination
formed with tho intention Of forcing
through the Waller job, but It is not
altogether cloor TINT the ring has
wholly rctinquished Its designs upon the
county funds. Tho contractor who received
the Ring vote in the Committee was not the
lowest bidder, nor Is the question Of conf
potency and responsibility by any means
c1oar. Tho haste md unfairncss shown In
bringing tho matter to q vote suggests
strongly tho existence Of now plot, md 1t
will DO well to keep an eye on tho move
ments OF tho parties, and 10 demand thnt
the full Board exercise proper caution and
inquiry bofore concurring in the report Of
the Committee. It would also be well to
tost tic question whether tho Common
Council Inns any right in tho premises which
tho County Ring is bound to respect.
Year: 1876

Is very complete. and to those intending purchas- ing can offer great bargains in SPECTACLES and EYE GLASSES. have a full line, and can warrant perfect fit and satisfaction at prices lower than ever before offered.
Year: 1876

A N A ID u L E s S TO Fl S l { \ :.
Do you want to purify the system?
Do you want to get rid of Biliousnsss2
Do you want something to 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 well
Do you want to build up your constit tuition
Do you want brisk aud vigorous feeling?


If you do take
Year: 1876

Fraudulent tickets are being distributed,
intended to entrsp the careless, and un.
thinking into voting a ticket, which will
not correct a. to many Of the candidates.
Be sure you get your ticket from such a
person, as will render it morally certain to
be correct; even then examine, and COM
pare it; then vote; but not until then. Be
sure YOU are right.
Year: 1876

The Indian Ring thinks the public credit
would be endangered if the man who con-
victed Tweed, and reduced taxes one-halt
in his State in two years should be elected
President. The Indian Ring are solicitous
about our credit abroad, more solicitous
than they have ever been about our credit
at home. The. truth Of it is, the Indian
Ring want to go on stealing, and they know
that there is to be short stop TO that kind
of thing when President Tilden comes in.
1t is safe plan to vote on the opposite
side from the Rings.
Year: 1876

The Whiskey Ring thinks that Dem
ocratic victory will distroy puplic credit,
and the Ring is solid for Hayes and
Wheeler. The Whiskey Ring has done
considerable in the way of impairing the
public credit, stealing somewhere in the
neighborhood Of Sloo,ooO,oo0. Is it un.
fair to assume that, if the Whiskey Ring
thought the chances Of stealing were going
to be better under Tilden than under
Hayes, they would be supporting Tilden.
The honest people Of the country will be
apt to want to get on the other side Of the
Whiskey Ring.
Year: 1876

WHEN the civil war came, Governor
Tilden was actively on the side Of the
Union, doing an honorable part by his in
Auence and money in sending men into
the field, and exerting himself in holding
in check the disloyal element in his own
party, when it threatened an organized op-
position to the prosecution ofthe war. He
was also the friend and adviser of Lincoln.
Speech ofEon. Geo. w. Julian of Indi-
Year: 1876

The Philadelphia Ring is getting ready
to stuff the ballot boxes for Hayes and
Wheeler. This is done to preserve the
public credit from destruction, to increase
the sale Of our bonds abroad, to give the
nations Of the earth better opinion Of
our honor, and finally to allow the Phila-
delphia Ring to go on stealing. The Rings
are solid for Hayes.
Year: 1876

marked the conduct of the present English Govern
meut.


Mr.. Gladstone evidently felt that the agitation OF
last Simmer and the summOning of this Conference
would be deemed by many public men departure
from the rules of public lfefrom as he phrased IT,
the well-esablished and happy precedent OF leaving
the discussion of such questions to those VINO can
consider them continuously, with full information
and with the right to represent England In the face
of the world. He does not shrink from his own
share of the responsibility for this departure. which
he rightly regards as larger than that of any other
man. Nor is there any ambiguity IN the statement
of the reason which justifes him. He has appealed
from the Government to the people because the
power ami reputation and influence of England
have for long period Of time within these last IL
months, and with regard to this enormous question,
been employed for purpose and to an effect directly
at variance with the convictions of the country.
Separating, however, Lord Salisbury from his col
leagues Mr.. Gladstone avows his wish to strengthen
the hands of that ambassador, in whose honesty he
has confidence which lie quite withholds from
Lord BeacOnsfeld. He wants to cut Lord Salisbury
adrift from the Gudhall speech. Mr.. Gladstone Is
openly for that interference with the Porte which
the Prime Minister deprecates. He charges
the Porte with having itself broken the Treaty OF
Paris, and pronounces that Government therefore
incapable OF appealing 10 lU-an lHcohuoNoi'ioiO
principle of international law. He is not tor the
transfer of the oppressed Provinces from one yoke
to another, but for the development OF their hber-
ties under government by themselves. Not be-
cause he is suspicious of Russia he accepts the as
surances of the Emperor in accordance with his
acts hitherto In this nearly all the speakers agreed
None of them cares to base the foreign policy OF
England on fear or distrust. They would work with
Russia in behalf of the suffering subjects OF the
Turk, and Mr.. Gladstone only spoke, as believe,
for the nation as whole when he spoke of Its duty
to assist in the work of regenerating those Prov-
inces as positive Obligation.


As a whole, tile Conference must be said to have
done at least as much as its most sanguine c0nveners
hoped 1t has been thoroughly i'll earnest; the
speeches most able the same spirit of deternna-
ton manifested by everybody. It's proceedings VIII
be read everywhere its influence upon the nation,
and through the nation upon the Government apo
through tine Government upon Eastern Europe, Is
certain to be beneficial. 1t does not speak, OIL
course, for all England There will still be TURK
ish party but that party has no longer chance OF
leading England blindfold into war with Russia III
behalf of the Turk. G' WIS.,
Year: 1876

n nrocure tugs Steamers arriving last evening report
be ice in the Chesapeake less troublesome than hereto
fore and open below the Paapsco but at he NOUN %
the river heavy drift ice was running 70 eaEenine
temperature of the past two days the ice - @
and breaking up and the prospects are that the nD"
will be clear In q day or tw0
Year: 1876

The college fraternity of Delta Psi is to have


banquet at DelmonicOs this evening at clock which
promnent members are expected to attend. The con-
yenton OF the fraternity held yesterday in the
of Alpha Chapter at No. East Twenty-thirdst. The
session WAS secret.
Year: 1876

ALTHOUGH the manner in which the
Presidents salary was raised to $50, 900
was not creditable to him nor to the Con-
gress that raised it, we question the propri-
ETY. of the recent action of the Senate in re-
ducing 1t at this time. If salary Of 5000,


600 were given to the President it would
curb his penchant for gifts and interest in
jobs. Should the present bill become law
it will not affect the salary of the present
incumbent. But it is not SO much the sala-
ry of the President that should attract the
Senate. If the economists of that honrable
body would scrutinize the contingent ex.
penses of the White House, which annually
costs double the amount of the Presidents
present salary, they could save more than
by the mere reduction of his yearly pay.
Year: 1876




The subject Of reform IN national gov
ernment has awakened the country % a
deep sense the necessity and importance
Of the action Of high public officials being
better known te the people. There has
been entirely too much Of this ring work.
ing wherein the majority, Of the people
are not allowed to have knowledge.
When the House was entirely under the
control Of the Republican party, witt ali
the committees manipulated BY that party.
there was no opportunity for investigation.
In fact it has been stated, and that too
without contradiction, that previous e
the present House the very committee
which has diyulged the Belknap scandal,
was considered as one of the minor COM
mittees, and the Democrat members Of il
found it next to an impossibility to get the
Chairman to calla meeting. This shows
the necessity ofthe various committees
having perfect knowledge of the actions
Of all the officers undcr their surveillance.
II is only through them that the people
for whoru the Government was made can
be kept apprised Of the safe-keeping Of its
different institutions; and if reform can he
accomplished in any way, this is the only
one that it can be done. ... ss.r.


But if the whole power Of government
is to be placed in the hands Of a dominant
party, who are TO be the supreme rulers;
who are to be considered 80 far infallible
as to be beyond reproach; whose action
are not to be investigated the people sub
servient to that party's officers; then
nothing less is to be expected than such
state Of affairs as has recently been devel-
oped in the War Department, and the
stencil of waich is strongly emitted. from
other governmental departments, where
no one dreamed anything wrong was going
on until a committee led by Democrats
discovered one of the greatest scandals
that has ever besnirched our political his
tory.


After this it would be very mistaken
idea for any one to say that there is no
reform, as many Of the doubtful organs
are doing. Let the proper committees
have the matter in hand. Let public
officers actions be known to the people, and
not kept under the veil of party secresy,
and reform is possible. Strict watch anu
everything being known to the peoples
representatives there will be no need Of
reform. But it has been this placing of
high trusts in the hands of dishonest
party that has ruled and controlled 60
government, injecting dishonesty at will,
that has led to the need Of thorough
purgng Of certain departments, with the
skirts Of others considerably bedraggled
The need of Reform is begotten of dis
honesty in office, but if the committees are
under the direction Of the proper men
they must keep down such glaring fraud
as that Belknap practiced upon the gov
ernment.
Year: 1876

IT IS is very strange that we never heard
Of Belknap's Democratic proclivit!es until
he fell. The Republicans try to console
themselves by proclaiming that Belknal
was once Democrat. He surely could
not have acted with the Democratic part,
for many years, and could not have been ,
Democrat when Grant took him to his bosom
and he certainly was not Democrat wher
his itching palm took the bribe.
Year: 1876

The Commercial has lost nothing in in.
terest to its readers by the change in size


What has been lost in this respect has been
made up by increased industry and improve.
ments in all its departments. We welcome
It to the field Of penny journalism.
Year: 1876

IT IS comforting to know, that while the
shallow-minded partisans look approvingly
upon the course Of Blaine and other Repub-
lican leaders in their endeavors to thwart
justice, that all rejecting people view it In
different light. One of the great blundera
Of the minority in Congress is, refusal to
join heartily in the effort to bring Belknap
to proper punishment.
Year: 1876

Now WHILE the investigating Democrats
have their hands in, why don't they appoint
Especial committee to investigate the forcible
pulling Of that reportorial nose! This II
an important subject, and demands that ar
investigation of the great outrage be a,
once undertaken.
Year: 1876

BROTHER ORvILLE was quick to receive
golden opportunities and improve them, and
brother Ulysses was kind when he could mt
decently put brother Orville into position
where he would command big salary, but
did the next best thing he could find a nice
little bonanza, in post-tradership.
Year: 1876

Mayor stokely, of Philadelphis, asks for
an extra police force to protect that part of
the city lying about the Centennial grounds.
An additional force Of five hundred men
is asked for.
Year: 1876

No ASSERTION of patriotism, no patient
endurance through ten years of intolerable
systems of local government, no popular
habits of persistent industry, no support of
candidates for Federal offices because they
fought for the old flag, no condemnation
of Ku-kluxism by the press and public opin-
ION of the South where all the vices of two
armies stuffed off in moral rottenness 20
plague society and organize knavery, no
apology of fact is seen in the North for any
outbreak of violence in the South. A not
in remote parish of Louisiana, where the
negroes are still Africans, such as came on
the Wanderer and such as were sold to our
fathers by the Dutch and New England
such riot, in such district, is pronounced
an illustration of the relations OF the races
everywhere in the South, and the bloody
SHIRT banner of Blaine and Morton is again
in the ascendant.
Year: 1876

Whatever may be the action of the Legis-
lature in reference to the prohibitory liquor
laws, it is certainly true that such legislation
has availed nothing in States that have
adopted it and now that some asinine fellow
has sought to introduce this prohibitory
legislation into the Congress OF the United
States it is time that States reflected patient
Iy before approving the policy. No better
evidence of the unwisdom of an act can be
| adduced than Its acceptance at Washing


ton. Whenever a scheme is SO Objectionable
in States that Congress would fasten it on
the whole country, we should be slow to ap


prove it even when proposed by proper
authority. The New England States that
have tested the virtues of absolute prohIbi-
tion give no assurance that they were wise,
and it is commonly said in Maine, Massachu-
sets and Rhode Island, where the extreme
demands of ''local optionists" have been
tested, that the cause of temperance has been
more hindered than helped. Germany and
France are wisest of nations, and if their
example have value the substitution of ma
tive wine and beer for violent alcoholic
stimuants is more desirable than i'm
possible ''prohibitlon." 1t is quite impossi-
bic, every sane lsw-maker must confess, to
abolish an appetite as old as human history,
and we can only regulate and ameliorate an
evil which, confessedly, we cannot destroy.
Municipal lawgivers everywhere recognize
this principle in dealing with the ''social
evil, " and it is quite as applicable to the
fearful vice of popular intemperance. From
the dawn of the first sunrise of which bib
lical tradition tells, alcohol has poured
down a fiery flood through the heaped-up
ages, and mankind has quaffed and mad
dened. Eloquence, religion and law have
interposed to stay the internal tide in vain,
and they alone have escaped its direst ills
who would restrict and ameliorate its Ca
lamities. The education of popular appetite
| is easier than its extinction, and easier than
the demolition of dram-shops, and it is
truthfully and wisely stated that the extir-
patton of the appetite is the true objective
point. 1t Is very noticeable how, within a
half dozen years, light wines in many towns
and districts have come into use and taken
the place of strong alcoholic liquors. The
drinking habits of our people are undergo
ing a change, and though the quantity of
| liquors of all kinds consumed is greater
than ever before, the amount of intemper-
ance is proportlonately less. But there is
altogether too much intemperance for our
welfare and credit as nation, and every
wise and efficient means of diminishing 1t
should be brought into play
Year: 1876

WE were mistaken IN our issue Of SatuT-
day in saying that the resolution of Senator
Terrell was aimed 1t the Texas Pacific Il
was general, and designed TO have bal
ancs sheet for the first tine between Texas
and all the railroads chartered during the
last tweniy yeazz-
Year: 1876

The Galveston Ness IS strongly in favor
Of strong government and would have . ter
rble police force to maintain order and
authority. From the activity OF the people
in hanging thieves. fifteen per diem, il
seems that the necessity for the costly code
defined BY the Meas win soon ce4setO exist.
Year: 1876

THE CHIEF EVENT OF TIE WEEK


has been the oratorical contest Of the Illinois
intercollegiate Association, OF which full re-
ports have already appeared in TIE TRIBUNE.
While the Northwestern failed to carry oil
either Of the prizes, it had no reason to be
ashamed Of its representative, and the students
should be satisfied with the praise literally be-
slowed by their visitors upon the University
and all its belongings, the extent and complete
Year: 1876

The other day il was reported that in
ono of our villages mao had murdered
his wife while drunk As tue rumor went
abroad, men were seen standing in groups
in every part Of the town, talking over
the terrible tragedy which was supposed
to have occurred, 1t was afterwards
found that though both were drunk for
several days, the woman had died from
inflammation caused by drink, instead O,
from injuries Inflicted by her brutal hus
band. This new version simplifcd the
matter, and made all right. As long as
the murder had been committed in an
orthodox manner directly By the lumsell,
ers, The men dismissed their wondormcnt
and wen; to thoir business as If nothing
had happened.
Year: 1876

'Tis the simplest thing in the world if
any one has a mind to pay the price dc.
manded for it, as the following will prove
to you.


When you purchase an article-nc
matter what-a hat, pair OF shoes, O
barrel of flour or book, look with con.
founded surprise at the sellcr-as much
as to say sis it possible you can put on 0
face to ask so much" Think q moment,
or appear to, and then offer 10 or Is pei
cent less--remarking that you can pur.
chase the same, and know where, for the
price you name. If you cannot get the
article at your price, by beating down
and lying half an hour, you can at least
get off a few con,s So much will be
gained.


1t you want to hire horse to take
your mother OF sweetheart for ride, offer
half it is worth, and make the stable
keeper take his pay out of your shop,
and be sure you charge him fifty per cent,
higher than you usually charge.


When you have returned make your
mother or female f. lend pay half the
horse hire, and all the oatablcs to boot.


When you sell articles, bito one in
two, to make weight, so as not to give
the purchaser a hys weight more than
ho paid for. BE friend TO nobody.
Never lend iourpcnco or half penny,
even to your sick brother. Screw down
everybody you can to tho lowest mill
when you make purchases. Never spend
dollar that will not yield iourfold
Keep at it-work and dig from daylight
I'LL dark. Spend nothing for your pleas.
urc or amusemcnts, and you will grow
rich. There is no mistake about it.
Year: 1876

a great sensation occurred in Syracuse
the other day. 1t was fornd that some
body had furnished bad milk accidentally
or otherwise; and several persons were
seriously, though perhaps not fatally
poisoned. 1t seemed as if the wrath Of
the populaco would boil over. How
queer it is that they should make a fuss
over so small matter. The rum. sellers
are killing people moro rapidly than the
milk.solltrs could if they were to ,ry
Still the people are graciously patient,
Year: 1876

An extraordinary example of the ef-
iccts of drunkenness was given recently
in Dublin, whcrc an inquest on q sailor
drowned in the LiiIey whilo drunk was
followed by another inquest on woman
who also fell into the river and was
drowned when drunk. The chief witness
in the second case could not be examined
in consequence of being drunk and
while tho case was going on, one of the
Jurors was sent away for being also in a
state Of drunkenness.
Year: 1876

[ The following is the last poem by
Hans Christian Andersen, and Is now
for the first time published in English
The translation is by Miss Adamine
Sindberg, of Boston, and retains in @
very happy manner the flavor of the
original:


From pyramid in the deserts sand
mummy was brought to DenmRrkG land
The hieroglyphic inscription told
That the body Smbalmed was three thousand years


old


II was the corpse Of mighty queen,
Examining 1t, they found between
Her closed fingers a corn Of wheat
So wOll preserved was this little seed,
That, being sown, It put forth its blade,
Its delicate atom Of light-green shade.
The ear got filed with repering corn,
Full-grown through sunshine aud light Of tho


morn.


That wonderful power in a corn small
II Is a lesson to each and all.
Three thousand years did not queneh Its gorm-
1t teaches our faith to be strong and hrm.
When such life Is laid in a corn,
Whom out Of the husk new plant could be born
To ripon in sunshine and dew from the sky,
Then human soul, thou spark from on high,
Thou art immortal az thy great sire
Whose praise is sung by the angel choir
The husk, the body, is buried deep,
And friends will go to the tomb and weep;
But thou shalt move on, on wings so free;
For thine is the life OF eternity.
That wonderful power of so small seed
That miracle seen in that corn of wheat,
II puzzles the mind but still 1t Is done,
by the Author Of Life. the Eternal One.
Year: 1876

There is in Kansas, or was up to
three years ago, a society of newspaper
men call the Rob. Ellia's FTiends.n
The society was founded TO perpetuate
the name and doings of a reporter
named Ellis, who made his name
famous on the Pacific coast by his
startling adventures, and whose career
finally closed with balloon ascension.
1t seems that a gentleman who had
made one or two Rscensions had ad-
vertised to go up from a playground on
certain day, and that large crowd
ssembled to witness the expedition.
Ellis was sent to make q report of the
affair, and he took IL into his head to
have ride with the professor and
write up his experience. His company
was accepted, and as the hour APP
preached he took his seat in the car.


The balloon was inflated, but just as
it was ready to rise the professor had
some excuse to leap out. Eased of his
weight so suddenly, the balloon jerked
away from the men, and Ellis alone
went skyward. The man knew all
about newspaper business, but he was
ignorant as to aerial navigation. He,
however, took things as cool as if
nothing unusual had happened. There
was no wind below, and while the
balloon hung over the grounds, half a
mile above the heads of the excited
crowd, the following message came
floating down: Pm all right, and
intend to see the thing through. Tell
the---(his newspaper) TO look out for
a telegram from me tonight 1t was
about o'clock i'm the afternoon of a
June day, and the balloon and its
freight finally tioated away to the
northwest, and at last was lost to view.
No one In that crowd ever saw poor
Ellis again. In fact, it was months
and months before he was heard Of
Days passed, and letters, were written
and kilograms sent, but there was no
news OF the balloon for week. Then
a hunter found this message on the
prairie: "Am still all right, aud am
having heaps of fun. / have found
the valve-cOrd and can descend when
ever / wishl but Rm going TO see the
thing down to a fine point.h He did.
Months and months afterward hun
ter passing through a forest few
miles from the Santee Agency, on the
line between Kansas and Dakota,
/ found the wreck OF q balloon hanging
10 q tree, and, half covered with leaves,
the skeleton Of Robert Ellis.