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Year: 1876

detroit Free Press.l


BOYS Of ten or twelve. seen on the
street. appear heartless and without
sympathy, and yet you wrong them.
Among the houses on Clinton street is
one which has missed many pane Of
glass in its windows. Rags and papers
are used to keep the cold air out. or it
may blow i'm and whistle through the
desoIate rooms without let or hindrance.
A girl Of ten. whose life had been one
long period of hunger, pain and unhap-
piness, was taken sick one day in March.
and people passing by could see her
lying on q miserable bed near one Of the
windows. 1t was curious that any of the
boys coming or going should have
stopped to think or care about it.
but they did One Of them, feel
ing sad at sight of the sufferers pale
face. handed an orange through a
broken pane saw it Clasped by slender
white fingers, and then ran away. He
wasn't day that some lad didn halt
at the window to pass in fruit or flowers.
None Of them knew the family or ever
spoke to the girl, and 50 they gave her
the name of Gertie. and called her their
orphan Boys went without marbles
and the other things which belong to
boyhood sports that their pennies might
buy an orange. lemon. or some simple
flower for Gertie. and their anxiety for
her to get well was fully as great as the
doctors or the mothers. Whatever
present they had they handed it through
the broken pane. waited for her to each
up. and never fingered longer to
hear soft "thank you" from her
lips. Days went by. but the boys
did not grow weary, nor did
they miss day. It was romance and
charity 50 well combined that it glad
dened their hearts and made them fond
OF each other. Yesterday morning a
lads hand, holding sweet flower and
a big orange, went up to the window.
No white finger touched his as they
grasped the Offering. He waited n mo-
ment. and then with beating heart
looked through into the room. The bed
had been taken away. On table rest
ed a pine coffin, and on the coffin was n
bunch Of faded flowers which had been
handed through the window the day be-
fore. Death had been there, and the
boys no longer had mission.


You might not have seen the boy
hiding in the doorway and wiping tears
from his eyes He was seen, however,
and when asked the cause OF his sorrow
sobbed out the whole romance in four
words;


"Our Gertie is dead''
Year: 1876




The Examiner on the Ist of Jan
uapy, 1876, will enter upon its third
year of the cash. in advance system.
We are better pleased with it as we
go along, and advise those of our
contemporaries who still adhere to
credit plan to drop it at once. We
have given 1t a fair trial of two
years, and know by experience that
it is the only safe and satisfactory
method upon which to conduct a
newspaper. We always know what
we are dong and can tell in five
minutes, how we stand pecuniariIy.
And Notwithstanding we inaugural
ed the pay-in-adyance rule in the
midst of the seyerest monetary times
known 70 this generation, and a
great many of croaking friends pre-
dicted that it would not do, we have
demonstrated that We were right
Here and then we encountered one
who did not relish being cut of
when his money gave out, and who
thought that he ought to have been
credited, but generally, We have
educated our patrons up TO an ap-
probation Of the justice Of the rule,
and we believe that the news paper
publisher who rigidly exaets his
dues from all, without favor or par
tiaiity, in the long run, acquires, and
retains their respect the more GER
tainly. And they think more Of the
publisher and his paper, and he
more Of h'mself-Gallatin Examin
er.
Year: 1876

Mr.. j. L. Hays superintendent of
hands on the farm of NJ. w. w.
Reed, near Poplar Hill, found
quite a curiosity the other day. In
clearing up a piece ofland, he found a
chestnut that he wanted felled and
on chopping well into it it was found
hollow, and in the hollow, a perfect
tree, with its own proper coating of
bark. And a strange feature of the
curiosity is, there are distinct hacks
of an ak on the body of this inner
tree. How come they?
Year: 1876

The practice of buying on credit
all the necessary articles of the
household is fatal to good economy.
The housekeeper has always to pay
dearer when she does not pay cash.
The tradesman must have interest
for his money, for man will never,
in a business community, be willing,
and seldom is able, if he were will
ling, to forego it. To the ordinary
cash prices o. the article, he there
fore adds the interest which may ac-
crue during the time that credit is
allowed. This, however, is not all.
There must be q premium exaeted
by the dealer for the risk he runs in
trusting his goods to that class of
moresor less dangerous customers,
who never pay ready money. The
most honestly disposed of these are
generally such as are imprudent
enough to anticipate their incomes,
and to overrun them in expendi-
lures. The credit system, more
over, is a temptation to unnecessary
purchases. There is a sort Of check
in the sight and touch Of the hard
won money to the disposition to
dispose of it lightly. On tile other
hand, there is something in the ia
cility of credit, removing as it does
the disagrecable necessity of pay
ment to a vague future, very sedue-
tive to the buyer, who can crafty
his love of possession with mo-
mentary sense at any rate, that its
qualification costs him nothing.
There is no such cheap and cautious
purchaser as cash.
Year: 1876

We have been a friend to John
Phillips, and he promised to keep
us posted as to matters in his beat,
but neighbors, would you think it?
he has never opened his lips to US
about that adventure Of his in the
channel of Pigion Roost creek, with
a buggy lying on him. Well give
him one more week in which to
post us about this dexterous feat of
driving which resulted in a capsize,
and if he don't come up with the
confession, we shall have to tell all
about it. We dare say, Adam like,
he win say my Eve did it.
Year: 1876

The established laundress bill in
town, is 50 per month. But we
know Of crusty bachelor who of
choice, pays an extra half dollar,
per month, for the privilege o.
quarrehng with his washerwoman.
That surly cynic will be spotted if
he can be found out.
Year: 1876

We have heard a good thing on a
fisherman friend ours, but as we are
are not allowed to call names,
a short notice must suffice.
Briefly, his last turkey is gone, and
we commend him to MaJ. Crawford,
our insurance agent.
Year: 1876

A tombstone lately erected in the
Nashville cemetery says of the de


ceased: "His accounts were found
square to cent" There are lots
of people who scof at the idea that
any one is buried under that stone.
Year: 1876

Mr.. John B. Murray, OF New
York, owns sthe original printing
press used by Benjamin Franklin,
and it is his intention to have it on
exhibition at the Centennial By the
side Of a Hoe lightning cylinder OF
the latest construction. He really
oughtn't to do that. It win make
the poor thing feel ashamed Of itself
Courier Journal.
Year: 1876

You can stop a clock at any mo
ment, but you can not stop a watch.
So it is with the talk of men and Of
women. Man is great ugly, coarse
machine, but you can silence him.
Woman is a beautiful, fragile, Jewel
ed shing-but she will run on till
she stops of herself.-Sir John Ben
nett
Year: 1876

Mr.. EDITOR - am willing to
dismiss Dave Parsons on certain
conditions herein named. But first
let me say that he has recently
given stronger proof of his mental
imbeeility by the employment of
a briehessattorney, who run for law
Ter and got beaten badly. And then
as to the pine top, Dawes gimlet han


die shape is proof sufficient to estab-
lish my theory Now then, as have
been the instrument of eliciting
from him the first prayer of his
life, Though made by proxy that
of being delivered from my clutches,
1 agree to dismiss aim if he will
erect a family altar at home, and do
mis- praying there, and invoke the
good Father to deliver such a way
ward sinner from the clutches of
satan. d. X. Cox.
Year: 1876

About two months ago widow lady
arrived at San Francisco from an East
ern city. She was very poor and in
i'll health and being stranger in
strange land she looked for employ
meut i'm vain. She boarded her scaity
resources but she saw with anguish
ineXpre SSH BILE that a few weeks w ,Uld
"play her out" On looking over the
paper one day her eye caught sight of a
"put" and "calr" advertisement. She
studied the theory of Stock Privileges
and recOunting her coin she thought
that she would invest $40 and take
the chances as that amount would not
save her from want; so she took out
Call for ten days Oh one of the priu-
cipal stocks and then she watched
with anxi ty the quotations as pub
lished ,ch day. On the morning of
the tenth day she looked at the report
(-he had by this time given up hope
of realizing anything from her invest
ment and oh! now her bosom thrOb-
bed and pulse run high, as she figured
up the difference due her OH the
$40 investment and on presenting her
certificate the golden coin was paid
over. Ladies why can't you invest
some of your pin money in put"
or "call." If you win you will have
the proud consciousness of knowing
and feeling that instead of being an
incumbrance on your husband, you
could aid him, and perhaps be the
means of helping him 10 wealth and
fame and all this through investing
the paltry sum of $40 on put" or
zeal" " on some one of the impor-
tant stocks. Call and see Archibald
b. McCaw, dealer in Stock Privileges.
Office with Butler & Severance, cor
ner Temple and Spring streets.
Year: 1876

After beautiful day and balmy air,
with an early evening as fine as the
most romantic could desire, about II
o'clock the fog came upon US as a re-
minder that We are near by If not re-
siding in the city by the sea.
Year: 1876

TIE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
The Democratic State Convention, for
the selection of delegates to the st.
Louis Convention, is in session al
Dover this afternoon. The attendance
of delegates and others from this end
of the County was generally large
Full proceedings of the Convention
will appear in to morrow's GAzErTR.
Year: 1876

SELF-KILLING FOR TRIVIAL CAUsEs.-Am-
bltion is a notable cause of suicide. Some one
has said in the case of Hayden, if he had only
spent the time in painting which he did in try
ing to persuade his countrymen that he could
paint, he would have become the painter which
he wished to be- Not being great painter,
he shot himself. Trivial causes sometimes lead
to it. A Frenchman killed himself from the
ennui of pulling on his trowsers every day;
another from the monotony of natures color,
saving that the eternal green annoyed him to
distraction, and that he desired to see every
thing red for a change. A man of seventy-fve
hung himself, leaving this apology: "Jesus
Christ has said that when tree is old and can
no longer bear fruit it is good that il should be
destroyed" The search after notorety has led
men to self destruction. One man jumped
into the crater of Mount Vesuvus. About
year ago frequenter of the masked balls of
Paris, gaily habted as Pierrot jumped into the
Seine, WITH of course, "his last word" pinned
to his garment, on which he had written that
he got his courage up to the jumping point by
means of absinthe. He had already in lmagin,
alton seen himself in junketing attire stretched
on the marble slab of the mOrgue. This was
the price of life -Gdldry.
Year: 1876

CONGRESSMAN Walling. who is Chairman
of the Democratic State Committee of Ohio,
has written letter favoring an early State
Convention, and saying: "In regard to any
influence from Wall street affecting my action
in this or any other matter, my consistent
votes here, shown by the record, against all
subsidies, in favor of an honest and economi-
cal administration of the government, and in
favor of an immediate, unconditional repeal
of the Specie Resumption act, and stopping
contraction of the currency, furnish, think,
a full and satisfactory answers
Year: 1876

A NICE little trick contemplated by the
Democrats in the House has been exposed.
Several Democratic Representatives have
made novel proposition to Democratic SEN
ators. They argued that the country would
closely scan the actions and measures of the
House, because it is Democratic, and that
little attention would be paid TO the Senate,
and that inasmuch as the House had started
on Ietrenchment platform it would be fatal
to abandon it. 1t was therefore proposed by
these members that they would advocate a
reduction of the pay of Congressman, and
secure the passage of an act through the
House reducing it to $4,000 year-the un-
derstanding they desired to have with the
Senators being that they would kill the reduc-
tion in the Senate, and thus retain the pres
ent salary. The fact would then, as the
members argued, so to the world that a
Democratic House passed the reduction bill,
but that a Republican Senate had refused to
concur.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

forgotten with Confeder-
ate sympathies are always willing to
put back the hands OF Time. That
any military Confederates are in the
House Of Representatives il an anchor
ISM and a proof Of what the struggle
will he. Instead Of being overwhelm-
ed with shame at their crime, they all.
parrot-liks, bewail the national distress
Of which they are part authors. and are
willing to confederate with the North
eru Democracy OF the Bourbon stripe
10 prolong financial troubles and des-
troy the public credit. Next TO the
suppression of the rebellion, the most
glorious achievement OF Republican
statesmanship was the establishment
and building mp Of national credit.
Every Confederate proposition has
been aimed at its destruction; and it
will need the united action OF Republi-
cans To preserve the national credit in
its integrity. This can be done only
by keeping on the statute book the
laws which the Republican House en-
acted, and which prepares the way for
resumption in 1879. The word has ac-
cepted Republican Legislation as n
pledge, guarantee OF the Nations
honor. And, indeed, where else could
the people look except to the Republ-
can party? The world, in no sense,
could trust the Democracy for their
connivance ut the rebellion on its out


break. II could not trnst the unrecon-
structed Confederate Democrats; for if
their patriotism was shown when they
fought TO rupture the Union OF the
States and hinder the cause Of freedom
and justice, what evidence could they
produce that they would not pursue
politically the accomplishment Of what
they had sought when beaten in the
field? This. then, is the true position.
The Republican pIrty is tae only party
the Nation aud the world can trust.
It's principles are those OF civilized
men everywhere. 1t upholds honor
between nations and between man and
man, aud will fulfill it's pledges; while
the Democratic party and the South
ern Democracy have history which
renders trust in them impossible, be.
cause they have failed TO exhibit any
other craftsmanship than what is Sec
tional and partisan as opposed to what
is demanded for the national welfare.
Year: 1876

We have published in another column
an argument on the unconstitutionality OF
the appointment of members of the
Legislature under the new judicial law.
Without pausing to discuss this point, the
fact Is indisputable that there is strong
sentiment against making selections from
that body, and the public are gratifed
by the assurance that Governor Stone
will plant himself firmly upon the deter
mination not to make appointments from
that quarter. This intention can have
no reference to the legal talent and emf
nent virtue of the legal profession in our
Legislature, because all the essential
requisites of an excellent Judiciary are to
be found there; but it is based upon other
grounds. The present State administra-
ton is the result of Reform movement,
and it must not only be pure in its acts,
but above suspicion. There should be
no taint Of self-seeking in any Of the meas
ures it may adopt. The reasons why,
under the circumstances, such appoint
ments should not be made, are cogently
set forth in the following extract of let
ter from one of the most sagacious and
purest and best men in Mississippi:


The Governor ought not to appoint any
member of the present Legislature to any
important Office, or for that matter to any
office at all. Especially ought he not to
appoint any member to a judicial station,
and most especially ought he not to appoint
any member to any office who has been at
all conspicuous in the business of impeach
ment.


L am not mistaken in supposin2 that
every movement in Mississippi is watched at
Washington with an eyesingle to an advan-
tage over us. Already it is charged that the
whole business of i'm mpeachment was but the
outgrOwth of conspiracy to displace Ames
& Co., and thus open the way for the pro-
motion of the conspirators. We cannot af-
ford in view Of the immediate future to i'm
pose on ourselves the necessity of refuting
charges like this. To appoint members of
the Legislature to office and especially
prominent members, to high offices will
give plausibility 10 the charge, and outside
of the State will, in my judgment, do us
incalculable mischief In expressing this
opinion, cannot be suspected of any inter-
| ested motive, since there is nothing, and in
the accidents of life there never will be,
anything in the gift of the Governor that
desire or would accept. a. G.,B.
Year: 1876

The Senatorial Mississippi investiga-
ton is delayed until a bill can be put
through Congress, making an appropria-
tion to pay the expenses of the Commit
tee. This will be speedily done.


The object of the inquisition is to
manufacture electioneering capital for
the Radicals, and to give a coloring of
truth to the charge in ex-Gov. Ames'
regular message, that the present Legis-
lature is an illegal body, and all its acts
are binding only so far as they can be
put into execution by brute force. But
as our people will not shun investigation,
and only ask that it be full and impair
tial, the Legislature, whose legal exist
ence is assailed, will, we trust, take such
measures as will facilitate the investiga-
ton that the ends of justice may be sub
served. Logically and necessarily, THEM
quiry will include the conduct of the Rad
ical party which led to its overthrow at
the ballot box, and will expose to the
gaze of the nation a mass of villainy such
as no people on earth were ever before in
flicted with by their rulers.


To the end that the efforts of the Leg
islature to secure full investigation
may be seconded, we would earnestly
advise the Chairmen of the Democratic
and Conservative county and beat organ
izations in localities where the investiga-
ton will most likely be made, to busy
themselves in getting up witnesses and
arranging for the deliverance of testi-
mony Let it be from credible sources,
and without regard to color or previous
condition, etc. Morton's committee are
hunting for wool, but will be badly shorn
before they get through with their labors.
Year: 1876

This is the sign by which the Democ-
racy of Connecticut fought and conquer
ed in the late election


This party declares in favor of state self
government and against Federal interfer-
ence by the undue use of patronage and
military force in the affairs of a sovereign
commonwealth. Extravaganza in the ad-
ministration of the government is deprecat-
ed and reform promised; a tariff for revenue
only is advocated, and it is held that taxa
tion should be only imposed for the neces-
sary expenses of government and for a
gradual reduction of the national debt !;
subsidies TO corporations and spectators
are condemned the course of Democrats
in Congress is approved; a currency based
on gold and silver is declared to be the only
one known TO the Constitution, and Con-
gress is asked to adopt such measures as will
lead to speedy resumption of specie pay
ments but the act of 1876, fixing upon 1879 as
the date eofresumption, is denounced as mere
ly a measure of eXpendience, intended to
catch the votes of the unthinking, and injur-
ious in its effects upon the business interests
of the nation.
Year: 1876

"YAzoo" puts the question of figures
strongly. There is no reason on earth
why the glorious banner county should
be put under Radical dominion. Is she
to be slaughtered in the house of her
friends and forced under the yoke for
rolling up four thousand ajority for the
Democratic ticket
Year: 1876

about reaction and see if I can't
live the longer. You have played
me q mean trick, Mrs. Hetty, and
if do not get even with you, I am
mistaken"


Do not be too hard on me,
Judge. you must remember I have
not been long enough in California
to get over all my idea Of virtue.
Give me time, at least as much as
you have had, and then judge who
is the wisest."


Hetty was not disposed to make
an enemy Of her lover. She felt she
was somewhat in his power, he
being a man Of position and she a
woman without one. At the same
time she meant to be weak, and
also to be strong. But the Judge
went away with the firm conviction
that che meant more than she said i,
and felt happy accordingly.


ITO be continued.)
Year: 1876

A DIVORCE WITH A TERRIBLE ORIGIN.
News says /: There is in this city one
most amusing low comedian who has
reason for never smiling. In his youth
he was the father of little girl of re-
fractory, obstinate disposition. One day,
to punish her for something, he locked
her in the bedroom, and with his wife
went down stairs to dinner. Soon the
child began to scream in a terrible man
ner, which the parents considered was
only temper but as the shrieks contin-
ued the wife became alarmed and desir-
ed to go to her. He, however, forbade
her doing SO, as he said the child must
be taught obedience, and that she should
not gain her end by screaming. They
went on with their dinner. the fearful
shrieks continuing for awhile and then
ceasing. AS they were about leaving
the table, smoke began to pass through
the house. There was fire somewhere.
Rushing to release the poor little girl,
they found her dead. Her clothes had
evidently caught fire from the CRATE, and
while the parents were eating, the child
was dying. The comedians wife took a
horror and hatred of her husband after
this, as she believed that if he had al
lowed her to go to the poor infant she
might have saved her life. They were
divorced no wonder that man never
smiles off the stage.
Year: 1876

HEAT OF THE HUMAN BoDY.-Some e
remarkable observations have lately
been made in regard to the heat of the
human body. By means of an ingeni-
Gus instrument recently invented by DR..
Lombard; of New York, it is ascertained
that a woman's S body is warmer than that
of a man by about three-fourths of de-
gree, and sometimes as high as one-half
degree, while in no instance has the
warmth of males body been found to
be greater than that of female. It is
also definitely ascertained that children
are decidedly warmer than adults, the
difference being about one degree Fahr-
enheit, and that the younger the child
the greater the diversity. A difference
in the heat of the sides of the body is
discovered to be an invariable law. The
left side of the head, and extending
downward to the base of the neck, is
much hotter than the right side. These
curious facts open up to medical men a
new line of research and inquiry.
Year: 1876

WONDERFUL BEANs.-A gentleman in
st. Louis has lately had sent him by a
friend from California, two beans resem-
bling in shape beechnut, which are
possessed with remarkable power of
animation, which they show in advanc-
ing, retreating, and turning sumersaults.
Their antics are Indeed wonderful to
witness. They are known in the State
from which they come as the jumping
bean. He keeps them in small box,
and if left at night in a bedroom upon q
table, they make sueh a racket he is
obliged to shut them up in drawer SC
he can sleep. To some this article may
seem Incredible. Others may have seen
them.