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Year: 1876

north OF ana around Dcadwooa lately. mail courier
was killed Crook City few days ago, and miner
was killed on Falscbottom, spearh,h. Flour was
only IS at Crook City, and Crook can get plenty Of
supplies


cRooK's INTENTIONS


believe the General intends to make Custer City
his base OF supplies for the and fight 1t out on
that nc The wagon train from Fcttcrman would ar
rive the day ieft Custer. There were many sick
with dyscntery In the command aud few felt hungry


HORSE NEAT


tasted good the 4th of this month, and hardtack
was moro precious than Black Hills nuggets
credi. for dashing charges and cool bravery; also
Patteozee, or Big Bat as we call him. Had whole
command bcen up would have accomplished much.
Four hundred head OF stock got away at least


INCIDENTS OF THE Plight


Your correspondent and myself had FIRST pick out OF
the Indian herd after the officers who charged got good
onos Lieutenant Won Len.witz was brave and cool
The Doctor amputatcd his right leg above the knee.
Charley White. one of my scouts, was shot through
the heart He was connected with Buffalo Bill and was
much thought Of expect to your correspondent
al Custer City my return, and will gvo him all the
news as MS get rested and collected.
Year: 1876

Commodore Vanderbilt received no visitors ycstcr-
day except members OF his own family. There no
noticeable change In his condition, sud the expectations
OF his physicians at eleven O'Clock were that no would
pass a comfortable night.
Year: 1876

We owe an apology to the people fol
the non-appearance ef THE SUNDAY
TABLET yesterday. The reason Of this
greater disappointment to ourselves than to
the people was the failure Of certain por.
tions of the material to reach here in time
The paper could no doubt have been gotten
out, but not with that neatness that we SC
much desire the tirst number 10 present. Ii
is our desire to make TIE SUNDAY
TABLET frst-elass in every respect, and ii
is for that reason that we do not care 10
produce it with the stamp OF hurry
written upon every portion OF ii. Next
Sunday it will certainly appear complete
in every respect, and We are confident will
receive full approval from the public.
Year: 1876

1t is not question so much of the
amount Of money that is lost by not open
ing the Exhibition buildings in Philadel-
phia on Sunday, as it is the privileges that
are denied to the working man. If it is ow-
ing to conscientious scruples about receiy-
ing money for admission upon the Sabbath,
it could be very easily overcome by ad-
mitting those who are too closely confined at
their labors during the week to attend,
free of charge. None but working men
need be admitted upon that day. Ip1po-
sition ssupon this forced charity from the
managers could be prevented by issuing
tickets of admission 10 the working classes
for that day, and to none but those who
came recommended from responsible par
ties: In this way no law of the Sabbath
would be violated, the amusement would
be no more hurtful to a moral standard
than Is done to the church member who
.ahes an afternoon stroll on the Sabbath
and view. the works of nature. We
would favor this proposition not to oppose
any law oi the Sabbath, for We respect the
ay and the holy purposes to which it i,
consecrated as much as any one. But We
speak for the working man and what i:
fair and right.
Year: 1876

selves upon their faith, though
great enough to perform miracles
but bavo neglected good works,
shall be rejected.


Ito protessed that he came not
to call the righteous, but sinners
to repentance, which implied his
modest opinion that there were
some in his timewho thought them
selves SO good that they did not
hear even him for Improvement;
but nows a days we have scarce a
little parson that dose not thinx
it the duty of everyman within his
roach to sit under his petty min
istrations,and whoever omits them
effcnds God! wish to such more
humility, and to you health and
happinest, being your friend and
servant,
Year: 1876

PRAYER OF DR. FRANKLIN.


Merciful God Wonderful Power
Increase in me that wisdom which
dicovers my truest interest;
strengthen my resolution to per-
form what that wisdom dictates,
and accept my kind offices to Thy
other creatures. as the only return
in my power Thy intite goodness
to me!
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, March 24.-Gen. Sher.
man arrived this morning and called on
the president, previous to cabinet meet
ing. The general was also at the wal
department and had private converse
ton with Secretary Taft The secretary
thinks General Sherman could resume hi:
station here and to the fullest extent have
charge of the ordinary business belonging
to his Office. The consultation to-day wa.
brief
Year: 1876

FIFTEEN years ago il would have sur
prised our citizens to see twenty or twenty
Eve thousand dollars worth Of goods
brought to town for single house and for
sale during one season. 1t may even sur
prise them now to examine the splendid
stock Of Hayden Brothers, just received.
From basement TO the second floor, all the
shelves and spaces, counters and all, are
filed. We have never seen the like before
in this part Of the State.
Year: 1876

GEORGE BArS. the eloquent temperance
lecturer, made one Of his most effective
speccht. in the Courthouse last Friday
night aud Notwithstanding the unfavorable
weather, the house was full, and much en-
thusiasm was manifested. There were
twelve additions to the Lodge, which is
nov one Of the best working Societies in
this part Of the State. There are but few
young men in this town who do not belong
To il, and more moral or sober commu-
nifty than ours no place can justly boast Of
Year: 1876

Been in general use for twentyyears. 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
well tried prescription of an eminent physician.
Year: 1876

About year ago, the ladies of cer-
tain Dorcas Society made up q large
quantity of shirts, trousers and socks,
and boxed them up and sent them to
missionary station on the West Coast
of Africa. A man named Ridley went
out with the boxes, and stayed sever
al months. When he returned the Dor
cas- Society, of course, was anxious TO
hear how its donation was received,
and Ridley one evening met the men,
bers and told them about it in a little
speech. lie said:


"Well, you know, we got the clothes
out there all right, and after while
we distributed them among the ma
tives in the neighborhood. We though
maybe it would attract them TO the
mission, but it didn't, and after some
time had elapsed and not a native
came to church with those clothes on,
1 went out on an exploring expedition
to find out about it. 1t seemed that
on the first day after the goods were
distributed one ofthe chiefs attempted
to mount shirt. He didn't exactly
understand it, and he pushed his legs
through the arms and gathered the
tail up around his waist. He couldn't
make it stay up, however, and they
say he went around inquiring in his
native tongue what kind of an idiot it
was that constructed garment that
wouldn't hang on, and swearing some
of the most awful heathen oaths. At
last he let it drag, and that hight he
got his legs tangled in it somehow,
and fell over precipice and was kill
ed.


Another chief who got one properly
went padding around in the dark, and
the people, imagining that he was a
ghost. sacrificed four babies to keep
off the evil spirit.


And then, you know, those trousers
you sent out? Well, they fitted one
pair OH an idol and then stuffed most
of the rest with leaves and set them
up as kind of new-fangled idols
and began to worship them. They say
the service was very impressive. Some
of the women split few pairs in half
and after sewing up the legs, used
them to carry yams in, and L saw one
Chief with corduroy leg on his head
as kind of helmet.


1 think, though, the socks were the
ulOSt pOpuldT. All tuC uSutihS uACh
went for them the first thing. They
filled them with sand and used them
for war clubs. I learned that they
were so well pleased with the efficien-
cy of these socks that they made raid
on a neighboring tribe on purpose to
try them, and they say they knocked
about eighty women and children on
the head before they came home. They
asked me if L wouldn't speak to you
and get you to send out few barrels
more, and to make them little stron-
ger SOS they'll last longer, and l said
l would.


This Society's doing a power of good
to those heather, and I've no doubt If
you keep right along with the work
you will inaugurate general war all
over the continent of Africa, and give
erybody an idol of his own. All
they waut is enough socks and trous-
ers! I'll take them when I go out
again."


Then the Dorcas passed resolution
declaring that it would perhaps be
better to let the heather go naked and
give the clothes to the poor at home.
Maybe that is the better way.
Year: 1876

[From the Argus of the 20th.l


We hear it stated that a change has
been made in the poetical genius for
the Centennial Fourth, Mr.. George
Otis being substituted in place of A.
Kearney.


More murders are occurring in our
county at the present time than have
taken place for years. Crime seems
to walk supreme, and although our
courts are quick to punish, little fear
is held. If one man insults another,
or makes a motion as if to draw
deadly weapon, he is held justified to
take the other mans life.


The man who was shot in San Cor
gonio, on Sunday last, was brought
into town early yesterday morning
and deposited on the middle of the
sidewalk in front OF the Court House,
and allowed to remain there with only
a blanket over him until o'clock in
the afternoon, his body exposed to the
broiling rays of a Summers sun, with
no one in charge to look after the
corpse. If we live in civilized COM
munity we would like to know it.
Where rests the blame? A nice ex-
ample we set to our children!


When we see great big double
listed, double-jointed six-footer hunt
ing for bugs and flowers, we always
think there is something light in his
upper story. That occupation should
be strictly reserved for weakly persons
who need outdoor exercise. But these
robust persons ought to follow the
plow or handle the sledge hammer.


The Disunited and Lop-eared Hor-
rible Order of the Antediluvian Cali
thumpians will hold their first dis
turbance in the rear Of the China wash
house not long ago. The disguised
public are requested to listen and be
happy. Recruits can register their
names at the boot blacking establish
ment of DIR. Edward e. Carter, in rear
of the horse stable on the other side of
the way. Don't it?


On Sunday an Indian, after being
supplied with fire-water by some sneak
thief, concluded that he would have
jollifcation, and began by running his
horse full speed through town. An
officer gave him chase down Salt Lake
street. While his horse was in mo-
ton the Indian threw himself upon
the ground and lively foot race en-
sued, which resulted in the capture
and caging of Mr.. Big Ingin.
Year: 1876

In preparing the present edition for the
press, it has accordingly been the aim OF
the editors to bring down the information
to the latest possible dates, and to furnish
an accurate account of the most recent dis
coveries in science, of every fresh produc-
ton in literature, and of the newest inven-
tions in the practical arts, as well as to give
succinct and original record of the prog
ress of


POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL EVENTS.


The work has been begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the
most ample resources for carrying it on to
successful termination.


None Of the original stereotype plates
have been used, but every page has been
Year: 1876

which are introduced for the first time in
the present edition have been added not
for the sake Of pictorial effect, but to give
greater lucidity and force to explanations
in the text. They embrace all branches of
science and of natural history, and depict
the most famous and remarkable features of
sceneryA architecture, and art, as well as
the various processes of mechanics and
manufactures, Although intended for in
struction rather than establishment, no
pains have been spared to insure their
Year: 1876

have been made by the indefatigable ex-
plorers Of Africa.


The great political revolutions of the last
decade, with the natural result of the lapse
of time, have brought into public view a
multitude of new men, who's names are in
every ones mouth, and whose lives every
one is curious to know the particulars.
Great battles have been fought and impor-
tant sieges have been maintained, of which
the details are as vet preserved only in the
newspapers or in the transient publications
Of the day, but which now ought to take
their place in
Year: 1876

A piok-pooket, working in q crowd
one dark night, relieved one man of a
well filed envelop that he thought
might possibly contain valuable papers.
When he came to examine it he found
it to be a Domestic Paper Fashion. "
Year: 1876

Well, we are lazy in, Norfolk,
says a correspondent, that's a fact.
But there is no need of working
here. If a man has energy enough
to dig a worm he can take pin
hook and sit down on the wharf
and catch enough fish in one day
to last him two. If he is too lazy
to dig a worm, he can tie a piece
of flannel rag on string and catch
enough crabs to last him a day or
two, and if too lazy to tie a piece
of flannel to string he lays down
on his back on the sand at ebb
tide, opens his mouth and when
the tide comes in, the crabs run
into it. What need is there of
work in a country for which ma
ture did so much.
Year: 1876

1t seems that in old times wo-
men wore an iron ring around
their ankle when they were mar
ried, as a sign of bondage, After
a newly-married man has had
his night.key taken from him,
and become accustomed to being
kicked out of bed at S o'clock ev-
cry morning to let the .milkman
in, it pleases him to read an item
of this kind.-NorUich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

FIT. tfeTFcpOni SNdfHt.


LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,


LONDON, August 30, 1876.


EDITOR N. Y. HERALD In jour-
nails which reach me from New
York I see what purports to be
questions from me, sent some years
ago to a professed medium touch
ing family genealogy. As the mat
ter happened long ago, cannot
state whether the report is accurate
or not ; but several years since [
and several well known gentlemen
of New York were together making
investigations and applying tests to
a number of so called mediums. We
were making them, not publicly,
but privately, and trying to find
out how much truth there was In
what seemed difficult to explain.
Whether it was pure deception,
mesmeric jugglery Or mere delusion,
We could not discover, but we con-
cluded that it was worthless at any
rate, and dropped it entirely. I
have never taken the slightest in
terest in it since.


l was quite surprised las would
the other gentlemen be- to find my
private and harmless investigations
made the subject OF public discus
sion. I never tried to influence
any one ; I only tried to find out
how the phenomena were produced,
but could not, and gave it up, think
ing that there was some kind of a
delusion in the matter. This seems
I'd have been the basis of an attack
about my Christian name. The
"Joshua" spoken of was a simple
falsehood. In my youth. my col
iege days, and in my fathers will,
my name was written Munson Ed
wards Pierpont. l think it is now
thirty-seven years since [ dropped
the first name. Surely 10 one was
injured or aggrieyed or cared about
it. I am a direct descendent of
Joseph, the third son of the Rev.
James Pierrepont, of New Haven.
l leave the truth, in its slow way,
to oyertake the lie, and the good
when in public and private
life I have sought to earn. leave to
the just judgment OF my fellow men.
[ venture to suggest some doubt
whether even the bitter strife for
Presidential power, now violent in
our country, will justify such wan
ton attacks upon men i'll the public
service from personal malice or for
political effect.


Unless it be a crime to seek the
reward Of honor by the faithful dis
charge OF public duties, it cannot
be well for the government, nor for
the best interests of the people, to
make the holding of public Office
or the aspiration for public place
the pretext for personal calumny.
I am respectfully yours,


EDWARDS PIERREPoNT.
Year: 1876

The Rev. William Gift of Mystic,
Conn, stated in a recent sermon
that the period Of human life had
been on an average increased by at
least ten years in that vicinity dur
ing the period covered by the last
fifty years, the number of septuage-
nerians and octogenerians having so
largely increased as to be almost
rule and this mainly owing to the
more temperate habits of the ponu-
latiOn.
Year: 1876

Gambetta is about to publish a
book, written long ago--a novel,
with romantic and impressionable
hero. When he wrote it. twenty
years ago, some lady friend who
had read the manuscript and found
it charming, implored him to pub
hsh it, but he replied that he would
keep it till he was forty, when he
should have become a statesman
and had his fill of honors, and then
publish it, so as to give the impress
ion that through all his life he had
kept the faiths and Illusions of his
youth.
Year: 1876

BITTERs.-People of sardonic h IL
NOR have intimated from time to
time that the familiar inquiry,
''What will you take to drink?"
should be, for perfect accuracy,
SIN what form will you have your
poison?" But the truth of this jest
has never been shown with such
brutal nakedness as in the current
chronicle of the barkeeper who,
mistrusting the fatality of his bran
dy, Keeps a solution of prussic acid
on the bar for the concoction of
more effective beverages. 1t is truth
which needs to be brought to pub
lie notice occasionally by eases like
the one to which we refer, that the
brilliant colored fluids which deco
rate the average bar deprive the
least of their flavor from either grape
or grain, but are the fabrication of
so-call 1 ''liquor compounders,"
and are in reality mixtures compared
with which the 'hell BROTH Of Mac
beth's witches might be called an
innocent and nutritious soup.
Year: 1876

People who imagined that ex-
Queen Isabella would MAINTAIN a
perfect non-interference in Spanish
politics, as the price of her being
suffered to return to that kingdom
which he had so abused, and from
which she was exiled, begin to have,
their eyes opened to another state Of
facts. The numerous Cabinet chan
ges now pending are laid to her. A
restlessness on that account begins
to manifest itself, and if she values
her sons peace of mind she cannot
show her motherly affection for him
in better way than by leaving the
kingdom at once and forever.
Year: 1876

glimpse OF my benign old gentle
man placidly leaning back in his
seat, his hands folded over his we'll
filed waistcoat, and that same be-
nevolent smile petrifed on his
countenance. He was fast asleep.


Immediately tall, cadaverous
person, in q scant funeral garment,
emerged from somewhere, and
touched the sleeper on the shoul-
der. The old gentleman unclosed
his eyes slowly and with difficulty,
and was so far from taking in the
situation that he made a gesture as
if to shake hands with the tall, ca
dayerous person. Then it all
heaped upon the dear old boy, and
he dropped to his knees with SO
comical and despairing an air of
contrition that the presence Of forty
| thousand Popes would not have
prevented me from laughing.


Another dlscOmposlng incident
occurred at this iuncture. Two
removes below me was smooth
faced German Of gigantic stature;
he must have been six or seven
inches over six feet in hight, but so
absurdly short between the knee
cap and ankle that as he knelt he
lowered head and shoulders above
us all, resembling great overgrown
school-boy, standing up as straight
as he could. 1t was SO he impressed
one of his ghostly attendants, who
advanced quickly toward him with
the evident purpose of requesting
him to kneel. Discovering his
error just in time, the reverend
father retreated much abashed.


All eyes wero now turned toward
the Pope and his suite, and thii
triAing episode passed unnoticeC
save by two or three individuals il
the immediate neighborhood whc
succeeded in swallowing theil
smiles, but did not dare glance a
each other afterward. The Pope
advanced to the center of the up
per end of the room, leaning heav
lily on his ivory-handled cane, thu
Princess in black and the Cardinal
in scarlet standing behind him il
picturesque groups, like the chOru
in an opera. Indeed, it was al
like a scene on the stage.
Year: 1876

Just now the lobster question is
being discussed in Halifax with a
great deal Of animation, 1t has
been said that there is a great fall
ing off in the product of the Nova
Scotia fisheries of this kind, and an
order has been issued forbidding
any person from fishing for, buying,
selling, or having in possession any
Holsters between the 10th of July
and goth of August of each year.
This prohibition has excited oppo-
sition, and one man, largely en-
gagged in canning, contends that
the supposition that the production
is falling off is an erroneous way.
He says that on the American coast
lobster fishing is good, and is briskly
carried on through March, April,
May and June, the close season not
commencing there until July 1st
Further north and east the season
is much later, and along the shores
of Nova Scotia no fishing can be
done to pay before the first Of June.
1t is not because the spring is SO
much behind in Nova Scotia as
compared with Maine, but because
the coast waters, are chilled by the
drift-ice from the Arctic regions,
thus keeping back for several weeks
that rise in the temperature of the
water without which the lobster will
not seek the shore. Further north
and east along the shores of New
foundland, where, as this writer af-
firms, there are lobster fisheries
practically inexhaustible, though as
yet scarcely utilized at all, the sea-
son is still later, owing to the abun.
dance Of ice coming down from the
far North.
Year: 1876

NOW lOIk Almos'l


AT the Methodist preachers
meeting yesterday Rev. Mr.. Bow
ditch, on behalf of the committee
appointed to investigate the sub
iect of providing unfermented wine
for sacramental use, reported that
good unfermented wine, which will
keep for Iany length of time, can
be made as follows: "Take any
kind of ripe grapes and boil with a
small quanty of water until reduced
to a pulp; strain through fine mus
lin, and to every gallon Of juice
thus obtained add from three tc
four pounds of common sugar; then
hoil the juice over again, and pour
while hot into air.tight jars or bot
ties, which must be closely sealed
The wine will begin to ferment il
a few days if exposed to the air
The cost of this wine is about ONT
dollar per gallon The repor
was accepted, and the meeting
shortly afterward adjourned fO
one week.