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Year: 1876

One day strange customer came to
a Detroit grocer. He wanted some
goods and he paid cash down. The next
day be made another purchase and paid
cash, and as the days went by his face
and his cash became familiar. One day
he returned with the change given him
and said:


II believe I am an honest man. You
paid me twenty cents too much"


The grocer received it and was
pleased. Two days after that the
stranger returned from the curbstone to
say:


"Another mistake on your part; you
overpaid me by forty cents.


The grocer was glad to have found
an honest man, and was puzzled to
know how be could have counted so far
out of the way. Three days more, and
the stranger picked up dollar bill in
the store and said "This is not my
dollar, I found it on the floor, and you
must take charge of it,


Inc gr0cers neart melted. and he
wondered if the world was not progress
ing backward to old-tim honesty. A
skip of one day, and then the honest
man brought down a wheelbarrow. or
dered eighteen dollars worth of groce-
ries, and would have paid cash had he
not forgotten his wallet. He would
hand it in at noon as he went past, he
said, and it was all right with the
grocer.


That was the last of the honest man !:
morning fades to noon, and noon melts
away in darkness, but he cometh not
There are no mistakes in change-no
more dollars on the floor, and The gro
GERS eyes wear way-off expression, as
if yearning to see some one for about
two minutes.
Year: 1876

New ORLEANS, Feb. S.-A joint resolu-
tion passed the House of Representatives to-
day by vote of ffty-nine to nineteen, IN
structing the Louisiana Representatives IN
Congress to use all their Influence to have
a subsidy appropriated to the New Orleans
& Pacific Railroad, as it is proper for the
road to receive national aid, as connecting g
link with the Texas Pacific Railroad, in
place of the New Orleans, Baton Rouge q
Vicksburg road, as named in Senator West 5
bill. but better known as the Backbone
road. The resolution also provides for the
forfeiture of the Charter of the New Or
leans, Baton Rouge & Vickshurg Railroad.
TeIegraphic Evidence.


Judge Woods has issued an order by
which telegraph managers are ordered and
commanded TO produce before the Grand
jury, upon their demand, any and all dis
patches received at or sent from New Or
leans. This order is intended to cover the
crooked whisky correspondence between
the western distillers and the New Orleans
dealers.


Suit for Damages.
The owners of the ship Success have
brought suit against the Steamer Wimble-
don for $4,000 for damage received by the
collision of the steamer with the ship about


week ago when the ship was on the bar


and the steamer attempting to pass ran
J into her,
Year: 1876

A correspondent, "J. B. r." strongly
objects to the phrase converted actress"
generally applied to Mrs. Lowery, the
female preacher, on the ground that it i'm
plies reproach to the theatrical profession.
This does not follow. Webster defines the
primary meaning of "convert" thus-"to
cause to turn; to turn" and quotes from
Ben johnson the following apt illustra-
ton 80 which way shall / convert my
self?" 1t is correct to speak of Mrs
Lowery as "converted," for she has turned
from the stage to the lecture room. But
such conversion is not necessarily from
bad to good. Corn is often converted into
whiskey, yet no one thinks the change i'm
plies any condemnation of the grain. The
conversion of Mrs. Lowery from a bad
actress to good evangelist is, therefore, no
reproach to the theatre.


The error into which ~. B. r." in COM
mon with many other people, has fallen, is
to suppose that conversion always means
change from evil to good. But it may be
from good TO evil, from one good to another,
or from the better to the best. In the case
of Mrs. Lowery we are inclined to think
the change is public benefit, and that il
there were more converted actresses the
theatres would gain by its loss. This lady
is probably doing the world more good by
her energy and devotion as an evangelist
than she ever did on the stage. We dc
her the justice to presume that she at leas
intends no reproach to the stage in permit
ting herself to be called a converted actress
without protesting. As an evangelist it i
her duty to obtain large audiences, anc
this title is an attractive advertisement, fo
there are thousands of sinners who hay'
never seen an actress in theatre ant
would eagerly rush to see one in church
~ X. Herald.
Year: 1876

At clerical dinner party, some time
ago, says Appleton'S journal, the question
went around to each, as follows: "Were
you ever so placed in public in the per-
formance of a service as to lose all sence of
the sOlemnity of the occasion and be COM
PEELED to laugh in spite of your more serious
self?' and the following are some of the
replies that were made: A very solemn
clergyman and his assistant, who were dis.
turbed in their chancel by miserable
looking street cat, which had come in some
unknown way, and was rubbing itself up
against their legs, meowing piteously. The
rector beckoned to his assistant to put the
cat out, which he did, but in a few minutes
she was back again. Upon this the very
solemn rector placed the poor creature
under one of the heavy box stools in the
chancel, and, placing his foot on this i'm.
proved kennel, gave out the hymn begin.
ming:


"A charge to keep have"


The last experience mentioned was that
of clergyman at his first baptism of in
fants. He was then very young in years
and had never before held baby that he
could remember of, much less hold baby
and book in the presence of a church full
of people. The first infant given into hi.
arms was big, squirming boy of thirteen
months, who Immediately began to cork
screw his way through clothes and wrap
pings. The minister held on bravely, but
in a few moments the child's face disap
peared in the wraps, and his dangling legi
beneath were worming their way to the
floor. Seized with the horrible impression
that the child was tunneling his wn
through his clothes and would soon be on
the floor in a state of nature, he clutched
the clothes violently by the sash-band, and
said to the mother, +" If you don't holc
that baby he will certainly be through hi.
clothes. and l shall have nothing left bu
the dress to baptize."
Year: 1876

carried out, will tend to purify the whole
political atmosphere of our country. For
we seek the greatest good to the greatest
number. We must always bear in mind
that no one by becoming Patron of Hus-
bandry gives up that inalienable right and
duty which belongs to every American
citizen to take a proper interest in the
politics of his country. On the contrary,
it is right for every member to do all in his
power legitimately to influence for good
the action of any political party to which
he belongs. 1t is his duty to do all he can
in his own party to put down bribery, cor
ruption and trickery; to see that none but
competent and faithful and honest men
who will unfinchingly stand by our in
dustrial interest, are nominated for all
positions of trust and to have carried out
the principles which should always char
acterize every Grange member, that the
office should seek the man, and not the man the
office.


We acknowledge the broad principle
that difference of opinion is no crime, and
hold that progress towards truth is made
by difference of opinion" while " the fault
lies in bitterness of controversy" We
desire proper equality, equity and fairness !;
protection for the weak, restraint upon the
strong; in short, justly distributed burdens
and justly distributed power These are
American ideas, the very essence of Ameri-
can independence, and to advocate the
contrary is unworthy of the sons and
daughters of an American republic. We
cherish the belief that sectionalism is, and
of right should be, dead and buried with
the past. Our work is for the present and
the future. In our agricultural brother
hood and its purposes we shall recognize
no North, no South, no East, no West


1t is reserved by every Patron, as the
right of a freeman, to affiliate with any
party that will best carry out his principles.


6. Ours being peculiarly farmers insti.
tuition, we can admit all to our ranks
Many are excluded by the nature of ouI
organization, not because they are profes
sional men, or artisans or laborers, but be





cause they have not sufficient direct in
terest in tilling or pasturing the soil, OIL
may have some interest in conflict with oul
purposes. But we appeal to all good citi
zens for their cordial cooperation TO assis
in our efforts towards reform, that we may
eventually remove from our midst the las
vestige of tyranny and corruption. W.
hail the general desire for fraternal har
mony equitable compromises, and earnes
cooperation, as an omen of our future sue
cess.


7. 1t shall be an abiding principle will
us to relieve any of our oppressed and sui
fering brotherhood by any means at ou
command. Last, but not least, we pre-
claim it among our purposes to inculcate
proper appreciation of the abilities an,
spheres of woman, as is indicated by admit
ting her to membership and position in on
order. Imploring the continued assistanc
of our Divine Master to guide us in ou
work, we here pledge ourselves to faithfr
and harmonious labor for all future time, I
justice, fraternity and political purity Of ou
return by our united efforts to the wisdom
! fore-fathers.
Year: 1876

In the plesent county of Devon, in one
of its sequestered passes, with few Gotta
ges sprinkled over it, mused and sang
Augustus Toplady. When a lad of sixteen
and on a visit to Ireland, he had strolled
into barn in which an illiterate layman
was preaching-but preaching reconcilia-
ton to God through the death of his Son.
The homely Sermon took effect, and from
that moment the gospel yielded all the
powers of his brilliant and active mind.
During his last illness, Augustus Toplady
seemed to lie in the very vestibule of glory.
To friends inquiry, he anwered with a
sparkling eye: 40, my dear sir, cannot
tell the comforts feel in my soul--they
are past expression. The consultations of
God are so abundant that he leaves me
nothing to pray for. Ny Prayers are all
converted into praise. enjoy heaven
already within my SOUL" And within an
hour of dying, he called his friends and
asked if they could give him up; and, when
they replied in the affirmative, tears of joy
ran down his cheeks as he added, ooh,
what blessing that you are made willing
to give me over to the hands Of my dear
Redeemer and part with me for no mortal
can live after having seen the glories which
God has manifested to my soulr ~ And
thus died the writer Of the beautiful hymn,
Rock Of Ages cleft for me-"
Year: 1876

LOST WoMEN.-We commend the follow
ing thoughts to the public: elias it ever
occurred to you what commentary upon
our civilization are these lost women, and
the attitude of society towards them? A
little child strays from her home enclosure,
and the whole community is on the alert
to find the wanderer and restore it to its
mothers arms. What rejoicing when it is
found, what fearful sympathy, what hearth
ness of congratulations. There are no
harsh comments upon tired feet, be they
ever so miry. No reprimand for the soiled
and torn garments. No lack of kisses for
the tear-stained face. But let the child
be grown into womanhood; let her be led
from it by the scourge of want; what
happens? Do Christian men and women
60 in quest of her? Do they provide all
return Of her own notion, do they receive
her with such kindness and delicacy as to
secure her against wandering? Far from
it. AT the first step she is denounced as
lost-lost! Echo, friends and relatives
we disown you; don't ever come to dis
grace us. Lost, says society, indifIerently.
How bad these girls are. And lOst-irre-
trievably lost-is the prompt verdict OF
conventional morality, while one and all
unite in boiling every door between hel


and responsibility. Ahl will not those lost


ones be required at our hands hereafter


Hearth and Home.
Year: 1876

The character of young men depends
much upon that of the young women with
whom they associate. If the latter are
cultivated, intelligent and accomplished,
young men will feel the requirement that
they themselves should be upright and
gentlemanly; but if their female friends
are frivolous and silly, young men will be
found dissipated and worthless. A sister
is the best guardian of her brothers integ
rity. She is the surest incubator of faith
in female purity and worth. As daugh-
ter, she is the true light of home. The
pride of the father oftenest centres in his
sons, but his affection is expended on his
daughters.
Year: 1876

To remove paint splashed upon window
panes, use hot solution of soda, and a soft
flannel.


To clean Drowned porcelain kettle,
boil peeled potatoes in it. The porcelain
will be rendered nearly as white as when
new.


Avoid wearing heavy overcoats or furs
for hours in succession the tendency is to
weaken the powers of resistance of the
wearer, leaving him liable to inflammation
of the throat and lungs.


FooD DURING FEvER.-It has been found
to be successful method to freeze beef tea
and to administer it in Jumps to children
or patients to suck. They will take it in
this form rather than any other kind of
food.


New rope may be made pliable by boil
ing it in water for couple of hours. Its
strength is not diminished but its stiffness
is gone. 1t must hang in warm room
until thoroughly dried, and must not be
allowed to kink.


Mode of cleaning glass which gives it a
great brilliancy: Take finely powdered
indigo, dip into it moistened linen rag,
smear over the glass with it, and then wipe
it off with a perfectly dry cloth. As a
substitute for this, fine sifted ashes, applied
by rag dipped in spirits, will answer as
well. Spanish white is apt to make the
glass rough and injure it.


TO withstand mud and water two or
three inches deep, for ten hours day for a
week, without feeling any dampness OIL
having any difficulty in getting your boots
on or off, give the bottoms good coating
of tallow and tar, and dry it in: then oil
the uppers with castor oil-about one
tablespoonful will be sufficient. The eff
feet of castor oil is to soften the leather
while it fills the pores and prevents the
water from entering.


New CURE FOR PALPITATION.-A cure fo


the arrest of palpitation of the heart ha


been given to the world by medical cor
respondence, an account of which we TAX
/ from the Medical Times of London. As
e great many people are subject to thi
: disease, it would be well for them to take
f note of what the correspondent advises
= Palpitation, when not depending upo
S organic disease, may be almost immediatel
e arrested by bending the head downward,
n and allowing the arms to hang pendant.
s. The correspondent further adds that " tn
e effect is even still more rapidly produce
e by holding the breath for a few second
p while the body is in this bent position"
G To DESTROY RATS AND MIcE.-Mix som
c ground plaster of Paris with brown suga
. and Indian meal. Set it about on oil
y plates, and leave beside each plate
e saucer or pan of water. When the ra
g have eaten the mixture, they will drin
i the water and die. To attract them towar
! it, you may sprinkle on the edges of I'll


plates little of the oil of rhodiun
!. Another method of getting rid of rats is


strew pounded potash in their holes. I'll


potash gets into their coats and irritat
, their skin, and the rats desert the plac


To prevent rats dying in their holes an
:, becoming offensive, poison them by mi
:. ing half a pound of carbonate of baryt


with a quarter of pound of lard. 1t pr


duces great thirst, the rats leave their hol


to drink, and are unable to return.
=
Year: 1876

At Saratoga, the other day, bridegroom
stepped off the cars for z moment and the
train went off with his bride. He followed
by the next train down, and she on the
other hand returned by the next train up,
and they passed each other on the road.
This operation was repeated, each trip
leaving them at different ends of the route,
until peremptory telegram kept the bride
stationary until her husband reached her.
Year: 1876

When man wants plug of tobacco the
grocery three-fourts of mile off is only
step, but if his wife wants a drink of cool
water from a neighbor's well opposite, by
some mysterious agency that we'll suddenly
becomes removed more than mile away.
Year: 1876

Twelve hacks went over to the 4.45 train
yesterday afternoon and brought back one
passenger, which is an average of four cents
hack. And yet people wonder why hack.
men are profane.-Norchich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

What is earthly happiness? That phan-
tom of which we hear SO much and see so
little; whose promises are constantly given
and constantly broken, but as constantly
believed; that cheats us with the sound
instead of the substance, and with the
blossom instead of the fruit.
Year: 1876

A good book and good woman are ex-
cellent things for those who know justly
how to appreciate their value. There are
men, however, who judge of both from the
beauty of the covering.
Year: 1876

A Chinaman in California, whose life was
insured for large amount, was seriously
hurt by falling from a wagon. There was
some doubt of his ever getting better, and
at length one of his friends wrote to the
insurance company, Charley half dead
like half money"
Year: 1876

You should consider well, execute with
vigor, and stick to your purpose, putting
off nothing till the morrow. Resolves not
carried out at the right moments, are like
clouds without rain in sore drought.
Year: 1876

The chairman of a vigilance committee,
who was instructed to duck an obnoxious
citizen, thus reported to his constituents:
"We took the thief down to the river
made hole in the ice, and proceeded to
duck him, but he slipped out of our hands
and hid under the ice All our efforts to
entice him to come out failed.
Year: 1876

An old lady, hearing some one reading
about Congressman at large, rushed into
the kitchen door shouting, "Sarah Jane
don't you leave the clothes out all night :;
mind what l tell you, for there's a Congress
man at large"
Year: 1876

CoUGHING--The best method of easing a
cough is TO resist it with all the force of
will possible, until the accumulation of
phlegm become greater; then there is
something to cough against, and it comes
up very much easier and with half the
coughing. A great deal of hacking and
hemming, and coughing in invalids, is
purely nervous, or the result of mere habit,
as is shown by the frequency with which it
occurs while the patient is thinking about
it, and its comparative rarity when he is so
much engaged that there is no time to
think, or when the attention is impelled in
another direction.
Year: 1876

An ILLUSTRATION OF MORMON LIFE
An illustration of Norman life is found
in the history of young girl who had
engaged herself to marry a young man
named Robinson. She saw Mr.. Stagner,
who had one wife already, and soon she
had vision that she was intended for
Stagner's wife. She was sealed to him
accordingly, but after some years she once
more saw Robinson, experienced another
vision, was unsealed from Stagner, and
married Robinson. Then Robinson had a
vision and took to himself an additional
wife, but she died soon afterward. In the
meantime Stagner's original wife also died,
and MRS. Robinson had final vision which
she made known to Stagnsr. But this
appears to have gone beyond the latter's
faith, and inclination also, for he refuses to
enter the matrimonial relation again for her
or anybody else. BY the rules Of Mormon
belief she is shut out Of heaven If she re-
mains as she is, and her condition is thus
more unfortunate than that Of any widow


mentioned in history or romance.
Year: 1876

and most expeditions remedy have ever
found was 10 catch the old ones when
they made their appearance on the vines.
This will be as soon as the tops of the
potato vines are out of the ground. Last
season caught fifty four from patch
two rods square, some of the hills
not being up yet. They are in
the earth and come to the sur
f.ce as soon as the spring opens.
One of those bugs, l should think, will
lay from 500 to ] 900 eggs. and the young
from that deposi. will destroy a large
patch of potatoes. In looking for bugs
keep your eye out also, for the eggs on
the underside of the leaves. By a little
attention to the catching of the old bugs
at the start a man can save vast amount
of trouble, tor rs soon rs the bugs hatch
they are hard to get rid Of"


The insects have ceased to cause much
fear from them at the West, where
they originated, the use of the Paris
green, and prompt attention to its use,
haAng been found the surest, and We
may add the only remedy to counteract
their operations. Apply the Pa,is
green mixed with plaster or -four in
the proportion of one part of the pure
green to forty or fifty Of the plaster, and
dust il over the vines by means of u tin
box with a perforated top, and with a
long handle attached, so that the appli-
cation may be made without danger of
inhaling the dust. Another plan is to
mix the Paris green with water, and
apply with a watering can or similar
vessel. The powder is not soluble, and
the mixture has 10 be kept agilsted. This
is probably the most convenient and safe
plan to apply the poison.
Year: 1876

Editors of the Register.


The Democrats oil this section OF the
State have concluded to present the name
OF john johnson, Esq, of Grant county,
to the State Convention, on the 9Th OF
June, for the nomination OF State Super.
intendent OF Free Schools. We concede
to the Kanawha district the leading po-
sition on the State ticket, and we think
our section should be represented through
MIR. Johnston for this office.


This IS all we shall ask of the conven-
ton on the State ticket. Mr.. johnson Is
thoroughly educated and highly accom-
plshed gentleman, eminently qualified
for the position of State Superintendent
of Free Schools. There is no man in the
State better qualified to discharge the
duties of tins position than he is. He
has the cause OF education in our State
greatly at heart. and would exert all his
energies toward making our free school
system what it should be. Mr. Johnston
is man of high character and integrity.
There is nothing Of the later day polltl-
clan and office seeker about the man
He has never held an Office in his life.
He was an applicant for a position, some
time since, IN the University, and ought
to have been elected but was not He is
now and has always been true and
faithful Democrat, standing by the or
ganization of the party through thick
and thin.


The people of this section of the State
would greatly rejoice to see him nomi-
mated and elected to this position. They
believe he would be instrumental in ele-
waiting and making useful and beneficial
the school system of the State. MIR.
johnson is II thorough scholar in all the
higher branches.


BE good enough to give this place in
your columns and obhgc. Yours, &c,


DEMOCRAT
Year: 1876

Tux New Haven Register is sure that,
whether the leader be BAYARD, THUR
MAN, TILDEN, HENDRlcKs or any other
god Democrat, all honest and good men
in the party will cheerfully do the work
sssned them. With true and worthy
candidates, and no let up on Democratic
principles the field can be readily won.
Year: 1876

SOMEBODY has been employed to de,
corate Independence Hall and has made
q botch of it.


The Times says:


Next time we should advise the person
employed to decorate Independence Hall
to stick to decoration and not attempt to
soar into the realms of high art. Paste.
board statuary, even by lime-light, is not
imposing, and huge temples of liberty on
canvass but dwarf and dlstigure the
genuine drapery Of flags and bunting and
the hersldic devices are well arranged
and in reasonably good taste; the other
things are abomlnable and should be
taken down and burned at once
Year: 1876

Representatives OF the press Of this
city held a meeting to-day to testify their
respect for the memory OF the late Geo
A Benedict OF the Herald. The Board
of Trade also adopted resolutions of re-
spec. to his memory, and will attend his
fun eral TO morrow in u body.