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Year: 1876

A New Orleans merchant was induced by
a woman, who told pitiiul story of poverty,
to give her Sl4 with which to bury her dead
husband, Before giving the money he went
to the house and saw adiscolored corpse that
he thought ought to have been buried days
before. In his hurry to get away from the
place he forgot his umbrella. When he re-
turned for it be found the corpse sitting up
and counting the $l4.
Year: 1876

In answer to the question, What
shall we teach our boys?" propounded
recently in the Cincinnati Times, Gale
Forest replies as follows:


Teach them to respect their elders
and themselves. Teach them that, as
they expect TO be men some day, they
! cannot too soon learn to protect the
weak and helpless.


Teach them to saw wood, split it,
bring it in. carry water, empty slops,
make the fires, tend the baby, and make
themselves otherwise generally useful
around the house.


Teach them how to run a sewing ma
chine, and properly use needle and
thread


Teach them, by your own example,
that smoking in moderation, though
the least of the vices TO which men are
heirs, is disgusting to others and hurt
full to themselves.


Teach them that to wear patched
clothes is no disgrace, but to wear
'black eye" is.


Teach them that dime novels and
similar reading are an invention of
Satan.


Teach them that playing cards"
may lead to gambling.


Teach them that swearing is an un-
necessary evil.


Teach them that strong drink, in
dulged In, means disgrace and ruin.


Teach them that a true lady may be
found in calico, quite as frequently as
in velvet.


Teach them that common school
education, with common sense, is bet
ter than college education withOutit.


Teach them that one good, honest
trade, well mastered, is worth dozen
beggarly professions.


Teach them that honesty is the best
policy"-that It's better to be poor than
to be rich on the profits of crooked
whisky" ETC., and point your precept
by examples of those who are now
suffering the torments of the doomed.


Teach them that the more they save
before, the more comfortable they can
live after marriage.


Teach them that every two-legged
animal that walks the streets is not a
man, even though he wears the en-
blems.


Teach them that to be man, with
all that name implies" is nowadays
u phenomenon.


Teach them that God is no respecter
of sex, and that when he gave the sew
enth commandment he meant it for
them as well as for their sisters.


Teach them that by indulging their
depraved appetites in the worst forms
of dissipation, they are not fitting them
selves to become the husbands of pure
girls.


Teach them that it is better to be an
honest man seven days in the week,
than to be Christian (?) one day and
a villain six days.


Teach them that "God helps those
who help themselves.
Doallthis and you will have brought
item up ''in the way they should go.
Year: 1876

''Thirty paeesi Heavens alive


Who did it2n


my man--Twain.
"The mischief he did ! Can he dc
it often q is
Well. yes. He can do it about -four
| times out OF five"


/ knew the little rascal was lying
but | never said anything. | never
told him so. He was not of disposi-
ton to invite condolences of that kind,
SO let the matter rest. But it was a
comfort to see those people look sick.
and see their jaws drop when Steve
made that statement They went off
and got Lord and took him home:
when we got home half an hour later
there was note saying that Mr.. Lord
peremptorily declined to fight.


We found out afterward that Lord
hit his mark thirteen times in eighteen
shots-if he had put those thirteen
bullets into me it would have narrowed
my sphere of usefulness good deal.
True they.copld have put pegs in the
holes and use me for a hat-rack, but
what is hat-rack to man who feels
he has intellectual powers.


i have written this true incident of
my history tor one purpose only-to
warn the youth of to-day against the
practice of dueling. and to plead with
them to war against it. | was young
and foolish when / challenged the gem
tleman, and thought it fine and grand
to be a duelist and stand upon the
field of honor" But I am older and
more experienced now, and am infiex-
IDLY opposed to the dreadful custom.
[ am glad, indeed. to be enabled to lift
up my voice against it. / think it
bad, immoral thing. 1t is every mans
duty to do all he can to discourage
dueling.


If a man were to challenge me |
would go TO that man and take him by
the hand and lead him to retired
room-and kill him. H a f
Year: 1876

President Grants stoleism will no
longer save him. When he testified
in behalf of Babcock he made oath
that he had never heard anything to
the detriment of General Mcdonald (;
but now Mr.. Eaton produces letter
to the president in which Collector
Ford directly charges Mcdonald with
gross misconduct, and calls upon the
president to ''squelch him." Here is
a discrepancy that the president can
not explain too soon, and which If he
leaves unexplained will wholly blast
and destroy his reputation, or rather
what little there is left Of it.-Pitts-
LHT0h Post.
Year: 1876

Honest men are yet the rule aud
thieves the exception in this country.
1t is true that for the past few years
honest men have been the exception
in the various offices under the Federal
Administration, but that fact does not
justify the assumption that there are
no honest men in the country. The
people must see that thieves in ofice
are made very rare exception.--Pttts-
bUrgh Post.
Year: 1876

The sculptured memorial Of John
and Charles Wesley in Westminster
Abbey was unvailed By Dean Stanley
on the Both Of March. A number Of
the leading members Of the Wesleyan
denomination were present and took
part in the ceremony. The Deau de-
livered an address on the labors Of the
two Wesleys, in which he spoke Of
them as men whom il was a privilege
for the Church of England to honor,
and he expressed a hope that no mem-
Der OF the Church would question the
claim Of the founders of Methodism 10
a memorial in the venerable Abbey.
Year: 1876

1t is observed by the World that any
effort made by the Democratic House
to reduce the expenses of the govern
ment and secure economy in the ad-
ministration of the departments is re-
sisted by the Republicans of that body
and of the Senate. The latter raise
the cry, and this is taken up by the
Republican press, that the Democrats
are trying to cripple the public service.
The investigations which are now pro-
ceeding, although not yet far below the
surface, show that extravaganza per-
vades every department. To attempt
to cut off this extravaganza is de-
nounced by the Republican partisans
as greater crime than the traffic in
post-traderships, whisky frauds OF safe
burglaries. The fact is the Republi-
cans have profited by this extravaganza
so long that they are now unwilling to
give up the spoils which they have
been pocketing from these enormous
expenditures. The tricks and devices
resorted to for the purpose of retain
ing the old amounts in the several ap-
preparations, show with what despera-
ton they cling to their perquisites
even in spite of the universal cor
ruption proven against them.-Knor-
uiILe Tribune.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, April 27.-Senate.-
large audience crowded the gallaries to-
day. AT 1890 the legislative business
was suspended and the impeachment be-
gan.


Mr. Lord submitted motion that evi-
dence relating to the question Of jurisdic-
ton of the senate be given before argu-
ment relating thereto, and if such plea is
overruled that the defendant be required
to answer the articles of impeachment
within two days, and the house to reply, if
they deem it necessary, within two days,
and that the trial proceed next day after
joining issue.


Mr.. Carpenter, of council for the ac-
cused, moved that the trial be postponed
until the first Monday in December next,
and moved that the time for discussing
this motion be fixed by the two houses for
each side.


Request granted, ,4S to Is, and Mr.. Blair
addressed the senate in favor of the motion.
He argued that it was impossible for the
senate to do justice to the great and i'm
portant question involved on account Of
the advanced stage of the session; that
the counsel had not had time to make
suitable investigation before presenting
themselves to argue this great question.
Again: The house was even now making
investigations with "a view Of presenting
additional articles of impeachment, and it
any additional charges we're to be made
counsel for the accused wanted them
here. The secretary invited the closest
scrutiny into his affairs, and conduct
Mr. Blair referred to his life and stated
that he had won his Way into the councils
Another reason why the senate should
postpone the trial was that it connected it
self directly with the political issues of the
day and both parties were almost com
mitted to his destruction


Judge Black followed on the same side
Year: 1876

CINCINNATI, April 25.-At a German
boarding house, corner Of Twelfth and
Walnut streets, in this city, this morning.
Mary Sherman, German chambermaid,
CONF mplained OF feeling sick and retired to
her small room. An hour later she was
found with her throat cut, the room floor
slippery with blood and the body of new
ly bJrn female child. with its head nearly
severed from the body, under her bed
Year: 1876

No CAsEs-This morning found the
police docket without new case, and no
prisoners in the the cells awaiting trian
People generally are now indulging in q
fit of morality, but the police are getting
rather blue, mt having so little to engage
their attention.
Year: 1876

On the red field Of Inkormani found, wlo can tell
F5y what miracle breathing tho shattered and borne
70 the rear by comrades pierced bleeding and torn


Where for long days and nights with the wound in his
Year: 1876

The following are the words Of the Cent?
nial bymn sung by the chorus Of nine hundr
voices:


Our fathers God! from out whose hand
The centuries fall like grains Of sand,
We meet to-day, united, free,
And loyal to our land and Thee,
To thank Thee for the era done,
And trust Thee for the opening ose.
Here where OF old, by Thy design,
The fathers spake that word Of Thine
Whose echo is the glad refrain
or reuded bolt and falling chain,
To grace our festal time from sn
The zones Of earth our guests we call
Be with Us while the new world greets
The old world, thronging all its streets,
dwelling al the triumphs won
By art or toll beneath the sun;
And unto common good ordain
This riyalship Of hand and brain.
Thou who hast here in concord furled
The war fisgs Of gathered world,
Beneath our western skies fulfill
The oriert's mission Of good will,
And, freigLtsd with loves golden fleece,
Send back the argcnsuts Of peace.
For art and labor met in truce.


For baauty made the bride OF use.
Year: 1876

That portion OF the United States govern
ment building assigned to the Smithsonian
Institution is occupied by a collection illus.
trating our food fishes by collection OF
stuffed specimens of the game and fur-bear-
ing animals, and of useful animal pro-
ducts, and by collection to illustrate the
extent and variety of The useful mineral
products of the county. The fishery col
lection and the animal collection are upon
4 large scale, under the immediate direc-
Year: 1876

DR.. s. s. Herrick, sanitary inspector of
the First District, states in his report to
the Board of Health that not believing the
smallpox hospital proper place, no pa
tients have been sent there. One patient
died there of pneumonia in consequence Of
exposure in being allowed to 60 out; three
others died who ought to have recovered.


This is very serious charge-and an
official one, too-ag ainst public institu-
ton supported by the public treasury.
Common decency and common humanity
demand that q full investigation of it be
made, and proper management m of the
hospital instituted, OF those now in charge
relieved from the odium this terrible accu-
sation places them under.


Unfortunately, no parish grand jury is at
present in session. but the Board of Health
might very properly investigate the charges
made by one of its own officers, and report
the result Of their inquiries to the City
Council which elects the physicians in
control of the institution.


We hope the reputation of New Orleans
will be promptly cleared from the terrible
allegation of fatal neglect Of individuals 50
friehtfully afflicted as necessarily are the
victims Of smell pox.
Year: 1876

We see from posters distributed around
the city that our neighbors, the Messrs.
Montgomery. are offering their large stock
of new furniture at greatly reduced prices,
not wishing to carry it over the summer
months. Parties wishing to take advantage
of this reduction should call at once at their
large emporium, Armory Hall, No. 81 Camp
street, and supply themselves with every
and any article needed in the range of a
we'll regulated household. These gentle
men are we'll known in this community,
and We can guarantee they will give full
satisfaction to ell purchasers.
Year: 1876

In CANvASsING the prospects for the
Cincinnati nomination 1t is well not to
forget that in the not far distant past the
Republican party was well nigh betrayed
by some of its leaders. We refer, of course,
to the pc riod when certain ambitious gen
tlemen were so jealous of President Grant
as to jeopardize the interests and principles
of the party for the purpose of destroying
the Third Term bugsboo. When the bill
to Protect the Electors. e., the ;.,Force"
biil-was pending in the House these gen.
tlemen fought it not only on the floor, but in
caucus, simply on the ground that in their
opinion it placed in his hands the power
to re-elect himself. In their attempts to
eliminate this power from the bill, they
first emasculated, and second, delayed its
passage through the House until the end
of the session, go that the Senate did not
have time to act upon it. The effect of
this action was to leave the Republicans Of
the South without protection against the
murderous and proscriptive tyranny Of the
White Leaguers and Ku Klux Democracy
Of that section. This has been aptly illus
trated by the remark that while these NAL
contents, for they were nothing less, aimed
to hit the rider they wounded the horse.
In other words, while they attempted to
destroy President Grant, they succeeded in
injuriug the Republican party. 1t is well
to remember these facts, because they serve
to indicate the character of the persons al
luded to, and to show how far they can be
trusted with power. There are men who
make gallant fight when they are in the
minority, but who begin to temporize with
their enemies the instant they get into the
majority
Year: 1876

THE venerable "Turfman" who edits
the Sunday Herald has decided that the
starting of the two horses on Friday, Pala-
din and Burgoo, in the last heat, to which
our report entered an exception, was fair.
He adds that the start was satisfactory to
the Judges, who must have known better
than the reporters. Such weight of gu
thority convinces US against our sight even.
But this decision would have been more
acceptable if it had come unaccompanied
with the unkind accusation of unfair
jockeying against the rider of Paladin,
who was all the time little in the rear of
Burgoo at the starting place. 1t is not
easy to see how he could expect to take
advantage of Burgoo's rider in that way,
especially as he had the inside by reason Of
winning the last preceding heat. On the
contrary, Burgoo, being more than length
ahead when he got the word, was at once
pulled in to the pole, to the disadvantage
of his antagonist. This had quite an unfair
look to those 'fyros ofthe localpress, "as the
venerable turfman of the Herald elegantly
designates the turf reporters Of the daily
press. The ancient editor of the Sunday
Herald and Weekly National Iatslliyenesr
is wont to be more polite to these "tyros
of the local press" when he desires favora-
BILE notices of the meetings of the Jockey
Club before they take place. Our reports
of the races were not only unbiased, but
reflected the universal sentiment, so far as
we were able to learn, of dlsinterested
spectators
Year: 1876

THE exoneration Of Senator Spencer by
the unanimous report of the Committee on
Privileges and Elections was to have been
expected, and the fact that Senator Sauls-
bury Joined in 1t should serve to put an
end to the adverse criticisms of the 0ppo-
sition which have bean heaped upon his
head without stint as well as without rea-
son. From the outset this journal charac-
terized the testimony against him as ez
pdrte and hearssy, and the report of the
committee supports that Characterization.
The result will probably have some weight
in settling the unseemly strife between
Alabama Republicans which now threatens
to end in sending two contesting delega-
tions to Cincinnati.
Year: 1876

as the parties who have subscribed do so with
the stipulation that they shall not be called
upon to pay their subscriptions until the whole
is pledged. About the year 1000 the country
may be brought to reflect upon the virtues of
Washington sufficiently to hand over the
requisite dollars. The Germans were eighteen
hundred years ago working themselves up to
the degree of veneratiop necessary to erect q
monument to the liberator Hermann"


Nothing has go alarmed the moral scientists
of the present age as the great increase of
crime among the rising generation. Jesse
Pomeroy is perhaps the best representative of
these young iends. Still there are many
others who in the ierceness of their assaults
and in the diabofical execution Of their wick
edness rival this little devil of the Hub. The
majority of the crimes committed by these
young buffers Is done in q moment of heated
passion. With some slight provocation they
pounce suddenly upon their victims, and in
a moment life is destroyed. Recently in
Philadelphia party of boys while engaged in
a game of marbles fell into dispute over
some trivial matter, and during the melee
that followed one youngster was kicked to
death almost instantly. This certainly was
not in harmony with the sohriquet of "Broth-
erly Love" which is generally applied to that
city. How to check this crime among the
rising young villains Is subject well worth
the earnest attention of the moral scientists
and humane philanthropists of the present
Year: 1876

AND NOW the Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans has been placed under the ban by
the Roman Church. The liberal element
of the Church will undoubtedly protest if
it does not rebel against this arbitrary act
and an excited discussion will follow.
Sooner or later, in the light of intelligence
and modern reasoning, the Church will be
forced to give up intermeddling with the
Durely personal affairs of its followers,
Year: 1876

The New York World of Thursday says:
"Within the past week it has been ad-
United by one of the most accurately in
"formed and Jealous of the Kellogg lead
"ers in Louisiana that the State will
inevitably go Democratic" There is no
doubt of the truth of this statement, if the
present mode of Democratic campaigning
is permitted to continue. One Senator
and his friend shot down by concealed as
sassins one week and between twenty and
hundred unofending and, we have no
doubt, unatmed and unresisting Republi-
cans massacred the next will have a very
powerful effect on the elections, and will
most probably cause the State to ego
Democratic" Arguments of that kind
are generally unanswerable. The logic of
lead impelled by powder is powerful,
particularly when powder and lead can
not be had to answer it.


But we have doubts whether or no this
system of campaigning will be permitted.
The cry of "waving the bloody shirt" and
the sneers at Southern outrage" commit
tees no longer blind the minds of the peo-
pie of the North. They see that hundreds
of colored Republicans are shot down, and
at every convenient opportunity white
Republican leaders are murdered. They
see the Confederate House of Representa-
tives using every means in its power to
destroy the Government and they have
determined to stop it. Besides, there sits
in the White House stern, cool, impas-
slble man, who was made the Chief Ex-
ecutive of this nation by Republican votes,
and he will use the power conferred on
him by the Constitution to protect the citi-
zeDs Of the United States Of all races,
colors and opinions. With this done
Louisiana will not Ego Democratic" but
will elect Republican State officials and
give the Republican candidate for Presi-
dent at least thirty thousand majority.
Thus we answer ives and no."
Year: 1876

WHAT Is WANTED at Cincinnati is a
nominee of decided character and uncom.
promising devotion to principle-one who,
when elected, as he certainly will be, will
be pronounced in his policy. In short, we
must not take up with a weak kneed man,
who will require mustard-plaster to draw
him out or q search warrant to find his Re-
publican principles
Year: 1876

THE croakers who talk of conciliating
the weak-kneed elements of the Republican
party forget that the honest and substantial
voting members of that organization de-
serve recognition and demand ticket
which will arouse their enthusiasm and
challenge their respect.
Year: 1876

The "voting as a unit rule causes no
little chafug amongst the national dele
gates, on both sides, in States where Con-
ventions adopted it Fearing that major
itv of their number may force ConklinS
upon them, some of the Pennsylvania Re
publican delegates already talk of acting
independently and appealing to the Con-
vention to respect their votes, aud there Is
complaint of the rule amongst the Demo
cratic delegates of the same State There
ls no doubt that it is one Of the worst fea-
lures of machine politics" and only like
ly to be of use where propriety and high
sense of public duty would forbid its being
r2sed at all.
Year: 1876

Been in general use for twenty years. Everywhere
proved the most SAFE, SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL,
and EFFICIENT medicines known They are just
what the people want saving time and money, avert
ing sickness and suffering Each single specific the
we'll tried prescription of an eminent physician.
Year: 1876

The gear cf our Lord 1875 was in most re-
earth continued to revolve upon its axis and
journey in its orbit with the same regularity
and precision which had distinguished its
movements for number of years. Straw
hats continued to be in demand at the equator
and furs were a necessity at the poles. The
sun furnished light by day and the moon by
night. There were storms and hurricanes and
famines and pestilence, but still notwithstand-
ing all this wear and tear, we may reasonably
expect that enough will be left in good
condition to celebrate our centennial upon.
The future from that point little concerns US.
Indeed general collapse on the evening of July
A, 1876 might serve to impress the Importance
of our hundredth birthday upon sister planets,
though some obvious objections exist to add
ing this feature TO the celebration AS for the
inhabitants though they have not entirely out
lived the effects of Adams fall, they have he
come 50 Injured to the woes which that event
brought into the world that they bear them
with remarkable equanimity and forttude.
They ate and drank and slept and worked and
shirked in 1875 as in 1874 Some of them grew
better and some worse some prospered and 9th
ers met with only disaster and disappointment;
some began their careers and others finished
them. Whether as a whole the race progressed
or retrograded it is not for the newspaper his
torian who is simply chronicler of events to
attempt to decide. We submit the facts; the
reader can draw his own conclusions.
Year: 1876

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


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

In court trials the suit of Theodore Tilton VS..
Henry Ward Beecher stands out as not only
the most important judicial Investigation of
the past year but as one which more ex-
cited the publ C mind than any in the annals
of court trials in this country. The opening
for the prosecution was made early in Febru-