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Year: 1876

We felt the grass flow round our feet
In currents cool and palpitsnt;


The cherry blooms above hung sweet,
Through riffs in which, with horn aslaut,
Aud clear as ice, we saw the moon
Swim in the suns bright wake at noon.
She Was so young she knew not love,
But b!ushed for Joy, rs flowers do


When winds blow warm. It Was enough
To heat a mans heart through and through
To see her eyes and feel them lure
His own to plunge in deeps 20 pure.
I could not frame phrase whereof
The import might in tender way
Make her hearts fountain gently move;
Somehow my words were all astrsy;
Save those to name the simplest thought
The cunning Of my tongue was naught.
Oh, blundering olod! Oh, timid sot!
To let life's crowning crisis pass
To be king and know it not!
The sharded insect in the grass
Had better nerve and clearer brain!
But who can call time back again?
Year: 1876

DR.. Dio Lewis having learned the
minimum quantity of food on which
life can be sustained, advises all young
men to marry and settle down in life.
His idea is that "until man is married
his life is lackiug in that which best de-
velops his manhood" He gives cold
bachelors" some hard raps in letter
published lately, and then ministers
this rebuke to that class who are anxious
to see the world before marrying: "See-
ing the world as tho young man does
who has to earn his living as he goes
al 'Dg amounts to very little. What he
does see is nothing that helps him fight
the battle of life more successfully. It
only keeps him in habits which are in
direct antagonism to correct and happy
and successful life, and when he gets
through knocking about he has moth
ing to show for the misspcnt years save
the habits which he must overcome if he
would make anything of himself. Do
you call that gain or loss ? SO, young
man, take the advice of man who has
kept his eyes opened for moro years thaa
you have lived, probably; and don't
knock around If you think have
ovcrdrawn the picture, look around
you, and out of the men you know se-
lect those who have knocked around" ="
and sec if they do not bear witness to
the truth of every assertion have made
concerning the class they represent.
Are they men you envy2 tell you,
boys, knocking around makes man
good for nothing else, and 1 take it you
have desire to be good for something
hi2 her in life."
Year: 1876

Not long ago a married woman on
Pine street, Chicago, asked her husband
for new summer hat and suit, so that
she could make that hateful creature in
the next block see that there were other
people beside her ladyship that could
dress decently. Owing to the stringency
of the money market he declined to fall
in with her overtures. She did not
press the subject, but o few days after
ward she came to his side, and leaning
her head softly on his shoulder, said !:
"Darling, If you were to be hit on
the head with o hammer, or something
of the kind, so that it wouldn't kill you,
but hurt you good deal and put you
out of your mind, wouldn't they make
me your guardian, and administrator Z"


"Very probably they would, pussy"
he replied, fondling her golden curls,
"but what funny question for you to
ask" "And then" she continued, ap-
parently not having heard the latter
part of his sentence, "and then I could
do all that liked with things, and my
name would be the same as yours at the
bank and 80 oni" "Certainly, pet, he
responded, and she, giving him an affeo-
tionate embrace, hurried away. Tho
thing somewhat perploxed him, but he
dismissed it from his memory until very
recently, when he met hardware dealer
of his acquaintance, who said: "Tell
your wife I sent her the biggest ham,
mer we had, but what in thunder did
she want 80 large hammer for o"


Then cold sweat broke out all over
that young man, and Fastening home, he
told his wife he had just collected bad
debt, and here were $3.50 for her to get
that suit and hat with. And she kissed
him and said she would not take it all,
since times were 80 hard, and they must
make every cent go as far as they could;
but he insisted that she should, and she
yielded like dutiful wife, and when he
had gone out she took the hammer from
behind the washstand, sent it back to
the hardware store, and told them she
wouldn't need it, but to send her its
worth in self-sealing preserve jars.
Year: 1876

In Vessel there is restaurant keep
er, twenty-seven years old. measuring
around the waist feet five four inches,
and weighing over four hundred pounds.
When the landwehr was lately mustered
to attend the artillery practice no proper
uniform could be found for this eItraor-
binary man, and as he was absolutely
good for nothing so far as activity was
concerned, he was granted his dismissal
which he very willingly accepted.
Year: 1876

ing to get him to 60 to Sunday school.
He says his father has brass idol that
he keeps in the gsrret, and Bill says he
has made up his mind to be a pagan, and to
begin to 60 naked, and carry q toma.
hawk and bow and arrow as soon as the
warm weather comes. And to prove it to
me he says his father has this town all
underlaid with nitro-glycerine, and as
soon as he gets ready he's going to blow
the old thing out, and bust her up, let
her rip and demolish her. He said so
down at the dam, and tole me not to
tell anybody, hat l thought they'd be
no harm in mentioning it to you.


And now ] believe / must be GO
ing. ] hear Bill whistling. Maybe
he's got something else to tell me-"


The Smith boy, we think, will be pro-
fitable to the youth of this community.
Mar .adeier in Philadelphia Bulletin.
Year: 1876

ARGUMENT IN THE BELEEAp Case.
Judge Black was right. He knew
the Senate and the accepted standard
OF political integrity better than we sup
posed. when he demanded the acquit-
tai of Belknap because he had done, i'm
small way, what greater than he did
in great way. Had the distinguished
lawyer and advocate been before a
jury Of "the frosty sons of thunder"
away up in the glades of Somerset,
where he once learned that law is the
perfection OF human reason. he would
not have made the speech he did to the
first legislative tribunal of the nation.
He would have exhausted the techni-
calities Of the law i'm defense of his
client, but his respect for the inherent
integrity Of his jury would have forbid
den the plea that little official steal
is of no moment and should be pardon
ed because the highest officials accept
gifts with impunity as rewards for off,
cial favors. We say that Judge Black
is right. He understood his court. and
gave its members the arguments that
best reached their judgment. He made
Q beautiful rhetorical picture Of our
rulers as class Of banded gift-takers,
and what is worse, he proved it by the
plain teachings Of our present history.
lie made Senators, who are the subor-
dinates Of executive and ministerial
power tremble at the fearful consequent
ces OF impeaching great men. Of high
crimes and misdemeanors IN Office after
they have resigned or otherwise retired
from public trust, and right well did he
drive home the logic that pointed to the
possible conviction of greater than Bel
KNAPP, and the disgrace Of Senators and
their partisan dependents by the deveI-
opments Of such trials. The Senate
listened with delight, and vindicated
the wisdom and professional skill Of
Judge Black by the acquittal Of the con-
fessedly guilty Minister OF War. So,
while the great trembled the little spec
ulator in military posts is acquitted.
With a single exception, Eaton, Of Con-
necticut, the votes fer acqulttal were
devoted friends of the new civil ser
vice reform taught by Schurz and
Hayes.
Year: 1876

George Eho, says that young
mans eyes first open to the world when
he is in love. This is rot alwsys so.
Usually it is when he has gone away
from home and had his washing sent
out for the first time, and finds among
il when it is returned an odd stocking
with two red stripes about the top. and
loag enough 10 button around his neck.
Year: 1876

denotes of individual temperament
In the vast majority of cases the
habit of searching self-scrutiny is at
tended with little if any risk of
nourishing this unhealthy anxiety,
and Its effect can safely be regarded
as exclusively beneficial.


CoynhiU Md0dziae.
Year: 1876

FrugaIity is good if liberaIty is
Joined with it, The first is leaving off
superiluous expenses; the last bestow-
ing 10 the benefit of others that need
The first without the last begins covet.
BUSINESS; the last without the first be
gins prodigality. Both together make
an excellent temper Happy the place
where that is found.


Never abandon your hopes Hope is
better than enjoyment Hope is often
the cause and effect of youth. Is is Ger
tainly very plensing and healthy pas
sion. A hopeless person is deserted by
himself: AMI he who forsakes himself
is soon forsaken by his friends and for
ture.


The noblest spirits are those which
turn 10 Heaven, not in the hour of sor-
row, but in that of joy; like the lark,
they wait for the clouds to disperse,
that they may soar up into their ma
tive element


Mems lives should be like the days.
more beautiful in the evening; or like
the spring. glow with promise; or like
the autumn, rich with golden sheaves.
where good works have ripcned on the
field.


Smiles arc To life what the sparkle
is to wine. or scintillations To the dia-
mond, intensitying its beauty. and
clothing 1t with the superb hucs of the
rainbow.


II is easier To find a score If men wise
enough 10 discover the truth than t.
find one intrepid enough, in the face OF
all opposition, 20 stand up for the
same


Men Of force and industry every
where will tell you that it is The
hardest thing III the world TO do moth,
ing


Reason is the direction Of mans will,
discovering what is good for the laws
of welt doing arc the dictates of rea.
son
Year: 1876

from the New York Journal OF Commerce.


We have had several anonymous inquiries


lately concerning the time required to trans
nit message by cable from England. Two
OF these inquiries were to the same pur-
port "Could 4 message come from London
to this city by telegraph in four minutes ?'
We threw these letters aside because no re-
responsible name was attached to them. A
day or two since another similar inquiry
came, this time with signature, but while
we have been preparing the answer we have
mislaid the letter. 1t is evident there is
considerable interest in the subject, and
few facts will doubtless interest wide cir
Gle OF readers.


There is no fixed velocity for electricity.
After contact with conductor at the other
end of an ocean cable no effect is percepti-
BILE at this end for about two tenths OF a
second; then q faint force is received,
which increases perceptibly. After four
tcnths of second only about seven per
cel.t. OF the maximum force is ut hand. In
one second it reaches about half its final
strength, and after about three seconds its
full strength is attained. 1t does not there
fore come in single shock, but with in
creasing force for three seconds. 1t takes
four tenths Of n second rs rule to make
any signal felt, but the length OF time it
takes to send word through the cable Is
governed, as it is in writing, by the length
of the word, or the signals necessary to de-
liver it. 1t requires an average OF three ana
half signals to letter. II we take an
average Of six letters to Il word it requires
twenty-onc signals to transmit 1t, ana 2lO
signals to send Il message OF ten words. IL
every signal required four tenths OF Sc
cond. then eighty-iour seconds would be
| nf words
after the electricity has been applied the
succeeding signals do not take rs long as the
first. The cable, therefore, when in good
working order, will send about twelve
words per minute; undcra pressure fifteen
and even seventeen words have been sent in
Il single minute.


Cable messages of twelve words have
been sent all the way from New York to
London inside OF two minutes. The return
service from London is not as prompt. Ihe
attention OF scientific people has been called
to this fact. Most of them laugh at any
suggestion that this difference is due to ln-
peratiye natural causes. They say the Eng
iish clerks are dilatory, full of angularlty
and the spirit Of red tape, not prompt or
pushing-in short, not as Wlde-aWake ana
active as their American competltorS. In!s
may be a partial reason for the delay, but IL
does not account satisfactorily to our NINA
for the indisputable phenomena OF the pass
ace. There seems to be more slugSlshnesS
in the messenger going eastward tllan west
ward, and we await the result OF some III.
vestigation now in progress with view Of
settling this question.


There are many readers who may be glad
TO learn the average time of business over
the cable. Through the kindness of Chief
Operator Downer, in the Western Union,
we have been furnished with the average
OF the entire business OF Saturday, the 10Th
ultimo, taking the messages long and short
together:
Year: 1876

MORE CoLoRED TILDEN CLUBs.-We hear
that the colored BARRIERS Of our city are about
organizing large Tilden and Hendricks
club. A club with forty members has been
organized in Petersburg, and others are be-
ing gotten up all over the State. The day
OF peace and goodwill between the white
and the colored people is evidently at hand.
Year: 1876

Not Case.-The Mayor left the city
Tuesday evening, and he might as well, as
there was not case on the police record
yesterday morning. During the absence OF
the Mayor Senior Justice j. A. Gentry will
Year: 1876

HERE IS suggestion to the obstinate
Jury Of the day. In the Bartlett county
c'rcait court in Colorado, jury decided
case by game Of euchre. The verdict
was, "0uilty Of assault and battery"
Year: 1876

IT is hardly likely that the proposed
tax on tea and coffee will succeed, nor
should 1t while there are so many ways
and means among the rich to raise all
the revenue the government needs.
There are plenty Of the luxurics of life
to tax without hunting among its neces-
sites.
Year: 1876

LET the man who is accustomed to
handling large sums Of money read
this: During the war our government
expended eight thousand millions of
money, and since the war seven thousand
millions more. Although it is hard for
ordinary people to realize the greatness
OF this sum there are those whose interest
in enormous English estates has accostom.
ed their minds 10 the computation of like
sums, and they easily grasp it.
Year: 1876

New LONDON, February 12-The
amount Of money recovered from Pack
er, teller Of the National Bank of Com.
merce, is one Thousand five hundred and
ten dollars short of the amount stolen,
but the bank is fully Unidentified for the
loss by mortgage security on Packers
house. The robbery was not committed
Tuesday night, but Wednesday morn
ms. The vault has three doors, and no
one of the bank officers can unlock them
all. Packers door was the outside one,
and when he left the bsnk Tuesday
evening. he locked bis door only, 1t is
supposed. He was the first at the bank
Wednesday morning. He pslsIstently
asserts thai he had no preconcerted pur-
pose Of taking the money, and the crime
was the result Of sudden and irresistible
impulse. A bond for fifteen hundred
dollars was missed month ago, and
Packer is supposed to have appropriated
it, but he stoutIy denies it. Sympathy
for Packer is very strong on account Of
his previous excellent character, and in
view of the fact that he .bas young
wife and two children. His age is not
over twenty-five. He will be tried at
the March term OF the superior court.
His tail is fixed at five thousand dollars,
which he will probably furnish.
Year: 1876

How many heart has been panied
to see tho coolnoss and indifference
which il often manifested for an ag-
ed and dependent mother.


Ago may waste u mothers beauty
and dim the lustre of her eyes, her
strength may depart, her limbs may
refuse to support her tottering
frame, or she may become helpless
as an infant, hut shall wo love ber
less Is sho not our mother still ?
Has she not toiled and watched over
our helpless infancy And in youth
she has tried TO lead us in the
straight and narrow path And in
sickness the was our ministering an
gel, Who but mother could be
so patient. 30 kind and aifcctionate,
so gentle and 30 selfsacrificing rs a
mother.


If we have bcen tempted into for
bidlen paths, it we have followed in
bad counDels and have gone astray, if
we havo chosen evil cDinpanious and
forgotten the good counsels of our
youth, who is as ready to encourage
and lead US back to honor aud virtue,
as mothery She is ready to forgive,
to love and cherish us still.


Who can fithom q mothers love 7
Sho is our frioud when all tho world
iorsakcs Va. She will cling to us, will
die tor us If necessary.


A mothor's lovo is strong, tender
and true. Hard INDEED must bo tho
heart that can neglect and abuse q
dear oil mother.


She should never feel that she il not
welcome, never shonll her sensitive
heart be pained by an unlind look
or word. How little do we appreciate
II mothers tenderness aud love while
living-bow little do We think of her
anxiety for us? But when she il gene,
aud we see lbe old arm chair, the
the vacant place ut tho lablo, and
hear no more her dear voice, then
do wo know she is gone, never moro
TO return aud We cell her back. She
has gone and happily for us If we
can say we have been faithful and
made her happy. and could look for
ward to meeting beyond this world.
Year: 1876

In the midst of centennial rejoicings
comes news from the Indian territories of
the most startling characteristic death Of
the gallant Clusters, and the almost total
destruction Of that portion Of the Seventh
Cavalry Regimen: which formed the column
under the immediate command Of General
Custer While We are rejoicing at the one
hundredth anniversary Of the nation, we
had forgotten the noble red American who
once owned the land. America has been
psopleG by q new race. while the aboriginal
has been driven toward the setting sun. 1t
hsa been demonstrated that the red man
car nc. be transformed into useful citizen.
The poi:cy Of the government has been TO
treat Tim kindly. To feed and clothe him
during the winter months, and keep an eye
on him in GUNNER. General Sheridan has
even been ordered to protect the Indians in
their pretended rights to the Black Hills,
and stsnd guard between them and the
advancing white miners. The latest news
calls for different line of action. The
death Of Custer and his men calls for speedy
vengeance. 1. is mistaken policy for
good men to pray with the Indians while
bad men sell them guns; and it is a
mistake to send a detachment of 500
scouts against band Of 1000 warriors
Force must meet force, ard the army
should be turned loose to punish the war.
like tribes in an effective manner. The
Indians fight to xiii. They take no prison
ers and show no mercy. They have N
vaded rich section of Montana Territory
in the vicinity Of the Yellowstone and Big
Horn rivers, and there the terrible battle
was fought. 1t is probable General Sheri
dan will now be allowed to end the Indian
war in his own way, and he can lot do j,
too soon.
Year: 1876

Dispatches this morning announce that
of the President of the United States,
indicted ss II rorspirator to defraud the
government. has been acquitted. The
verdict WAS not wholly unlocked for, the
utmost that ever was expected in the
direction of conviction being a hung
Jury. This expectation was based on the
following reasons:


First-He was the Presidents private
secretary, and the conviction of such an
officer for such crime would have pre-
sented US in a most Illuminating light to
the world, especially since the President
himself was so anxious for acquittal.


Second-The prosecution was most
lame and impotent, it being clear to any
casual observer that the efforts put forth
were only for effect, and, as one of the
counsel for the defense said, without
any heart"


Third-The charge of the Judge to
the Jury wss entirely in favor Of the de-
iendsnt, amounting virtually to direc-
tion TO acquit.


FOURTH Because Colonel HENDERSON,
special counsel FOR the prosecution, had
been too zHalous i'll cpnvicting so many
others of the indicted conspirators, and
had been removed.


1t may not be proper now that these
"rebels" and "hard headed, ignorant
grangers" ss BAB was plaaSed 10 denom-
mate them which composed the jury
have pronounced verdict of mot guilty
TO say that the defendant was never;he-
less mixed up in the whisky conspiracy
But certain it Is that three fourths, 81
l,ss., of the people of tits country be-
lieye to-day that he was saved from the
penitentisry more by legal technicalitie'
than anything else, and that he WAS
too suspiciously connected with the
whisky ringsters for the honor Of the
country. One good effect will result
however. BAB will no longer be engaged
in sending anonymous and cipher dis
patches to governmental swindlers, but be
will be very careful hereafter to attend
closely to the legitimate duties Of. his
office. and strive to b. satisfied with his
proper income
Year: 1876

NEW YORK, February 24.-The morn
ing session of the Advisory Council OF
Plymouth Church was almost entirely
taken up in the discussion of the report
of the Committee on the Nine, appointed
TO frame the final report OF the council.
The conclusions on the first five questions
are ali in favor of the action of Plymouth
Church, and these were discussed st
length. the addresses Of the delegstes
being for the most part expressions OF
their feelings in relation to the questions
and cases to which they relate.


Rev. Lyman Abbott, chairman OF the
Business Committee, reported adversely
the resolution offered by Rev. DR.. Bell,
10 the effect that the council declare Mr..
Beecher innocent of the charges prefer
red against him, and the report was
adopted.


DR.. Bell, IN personal explanation,
said he thought it was only
proper that the community at large
should know the feelings of the members
of the council, and for that reason he
mad offered the resolution. The dele
gates brought up the question OF giving
news to the press, and DR.. Bell admitted
he had done 50. he said that before be-
coming a delegate to the advisory council
he had acted in that capacity, both in
ecclesiastical and legislative bodies when
they had been in secret session, and was
of the opinion that he could discriminate
az to what should or should not be given
ont He was not rcsnOnsible for the de-
tailed reports in the newspapers.
Year: 1876

At the opening Of court this afternoon,
the motion for new trial in the Mex ee
case was taken up, and the argument
begun At % minutes past O'Clock.


The jury in the Babcock case sent in
word that they had found verdict, and
they were Immediately ushered into
court. On taking their seats the foreman
handed the verdict to the clerk, who read
it as follow.: "The jury ind the de-
fendant not guilty


The same demonstration in favor Of the
defendant was made, but it was quickly
stopped. There was general handshak-
however, and Gen. Babcock crossed over
to the jury, and most heartily and feeling
ly shook the hands of each iuryman and
thanked them kindly for their verdict
The General and friends then left the
Court and started for their hotel. On
reaching the street the party was heart, Y
cheered by great crowds congregsted IN
front of. the Custom House, and almost
everybody seemed well pleased at the re-
suit.