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Year: 1876

Cornwall.

 What beautiful winter weather every one says. Yes exclaims the grumbler, i've shall get our pay for this; it will be cold along in spring. We do not believe in back pay, and therefore hope for the best......Our cemetery has been further beautifed by the erection of beautiful granite monument, in memory of himself, by J. T. Andrews, Esq. We learn that nu- merous others are in process of construc- tion and we expect that before long our village will be as famed for it's monument as Baltimore. Surprise parties are now in order. One was held few weeks since at which the victim Gan aged man) utterly re fused to be surprised; but after they had torn up his carpets, smashed the backs of his chairs, and ended up by one young man throwing another through a window, they departed, feeling that the object of theil visit was accomplished-they had surprised him.. The new saw mill of Kellogg & Pierce is being pushed rapidly towards completion. It is to be built on the site oi l the old one which was burned short time since, and is to be much nicer mill thar the old one, and we trust that it may stand without being burnt up......We learn that { young man in town is going to open gal lery of paintings and music at an early date. We hope he will succeed. We learr he has already secured several large pic lures, etc......The sanitary management O. the church has again changed hands, ant has much improved under the new system The new manager gave it thorough over hauling, and while renovating the chape he discovered what he supposed to be quid of tobacco pasted on one of the brack cts overhead; failing to dislodge it with

 long pole, he got ladder and climbed ul and found much to his surprise that tn painter had made it for knot in the wood so he concluded to let it stay. X. Y. z.
Year: 1876

CENTENNIAL LEGIoN.-One of the most attractive incidents of the coming Centen- nial celebration will be the appearance of the Centennial Legion,' now forming, which is to consist of one military organl. zation from each of the original thirteen states. The project was originated in Bos- ton at the time of the Bunker Hill Centen- nial, the first suggestion coming from the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, s. O. The legion is to consist of ten com panies of infantry, two companies of cav airy and one battery of light artillery. The first intention was to have each state repre- sented by a veteran organization, but it has been so modified as to take from this state that excellent active company, the New Haven Grays, although it would have been more appropriate to have company from the Governors Foot Guards, whose organ ization is older than that of the nation. Il is probable that an effort will be made to have the legion attend the centennial of the battle of Fort Moultrie on the 18th of June next, after which they will probably return to New York, where they will be hand somely entertained prior to their departure for the grand celebration in Philadelphi, on the 4th of July.
Year: 1876

A Detroit boy paid his first visit to one of the union schools the other day. as a scholar, and as he came home at night his mother inquired: Well. Henry how do you like going to school r Bully he re- piled in an excited voice. I saw four boys licked, one girl get her ear pulled, and a big scholar burned his elbow on the stove! don't want to miss day.
Year: 1876

At the next general election there
will be a large number of young
men who will cast their first ballot.
Many of this class of voters viii form
opinions and mark out a political
course that will be pursued through
out their lives As the first vote
is the first recognition of manhood
by the State, it is important that
that vote should be considered and
duly weighed before it is placed in
the box, and that the young man
who casts it may be conscientiously
convinced that he is voting right,
and that be is not giving his support
to the PRONUNCIATION of errors that
may eventuate in detriment to or de-
struction of the Government.


To young men who are to cast
their first ballot we would say:
Study carefully the history of the
two parties for the past fifteen years.
Compare the records of each since
1861, and then decide as to which
party we are indebted for united
country and a substantial Govern
ment. Decide within your own
mind which party has been guilty OF
treason and which remained loyal to
the old flag, and by force of arms
sustained and perpetuated the Gov
ernment under which we now live.
Determine which party furnished the
soldiers and statesmen that prosecu-
ted the war and reconstructed the
Government that it did not perish in
the first century of its existence.
Discriminate as to the present posi-
ton of the two parties on the impor-
tant questions of finance, labor, free
schools, Church and State, and all
other questions that concern the
welfare and prosperity of our people
as a nation. This done, you will be
able to vote intellgently, and to de-
posit your first ballot for the party
of the Union
Year: 1876

sit could not but be that a man
educated in cunning, in hypocri-
sy, in iniquity, nominated in cor
ruption and shameless efrontery,
even though his millions could
elect him, would give US the most
corrupt Administration the coun-
try has ever known. Gin. Enquirer.
Year: 1876

Tonight will be presented Bulwer's
sterling play of Money, and We hope
that the weather will be such as not to
prevent crowded house enjoying its
excellent rendition by the Furbish peO-
pie. Tomorrow afternoon Led Astrdy
will again be presented.
Year: 1876

HOME LIFE A HUNDRED YEARS
AGO.-One hundred years ago not a
pound of coal or cubic foot of illumin-
atiug gas had been burned in the cOun-


try. No iron stoves were used and no
contrivances for economiZing heat were
employed until Dr. Franklin invented
the iron-framed fireplace which still


bears his name. All the cooking and


warming in town and country were
done by the aid of fire kindled on the
brick hearth or in the brick oven. Pine
knots or tallow candles furnished the
light for the long winter nights, and
sanded floors supplied the place of rugs
and carpets. The water used for house
| hold purposes was drawn from deep


wells by the creaking "sweep."


No form of pump was used in this
country, so far as we can learn, until
after the commencement of the present
century. There were no friction


matches in those early days, by the aid


of which a fire could be easily kindled,


and if the fire "went out" upon the
hearth over night, and the finder was
damp so that the spark could not catch,
! the alternative remained of wading
! through the snow mile or so, to bor-
row brand of a neighbOr. Only one
| room in any house was warm unless
some of the family was ill; in all the
| rest the temperature was at zero during


many nights in the winter. The men
and women of a hundred years ago un-
| dressed and went to their beds in a tenn
perature cooler than that of our modern


barns and woodsheds, and they never
! complained.
Year: 1876

In the Oregon Legislature a resolu-
ton, submitting the question of Woman
Suffrage to the people, passed the House
by a majority of seven, but was de-
feated in the Senate by three votes.
The NEW NORTHWEST is cheerful at the
advancement of the cause in Oregon,
as it has good reason to be, since it is
so much the result of its own work.
Eight or ten years ago, it says, such a
resolution might have been tabled in
cOntemptuous silence, or overwhelmed
with scornful ridicle.-NelO Age.
Year: 1876

A recent writer observes:-'It is Curl
Gus and possibly little disheartening to
think how terribly a journalist may
toll, and yet leave behind him hardly
any monument to his fidelity and in
dustry.n They are so busy making rec
ords for others that they have no time
to think of their own monuments,
Year: 1876

Sitting in very inferior ''palace"
car with nothing to read, and somewhat
tired of gazing upon the same style of
scenery as we have looked upon since
leaving Richmond "yester morn''-me-
thinks time will fly faster by taking
out my letter and continuing to 'jotn
Year: 1876

Do not jest with your wife upon
a subject in which there is danger
Of wounding her feelings Re-
member that she treasures every
word you utter. Do not speak of
great virtues in another mans
wife to remind your own of a fault
Do not reproach your wife with
personal defects, for if she hassen
sibility you inflico a wound diff
cult 10 heal. Do not treat your
wife with inattention in company
it touches her pride and she will
not respect YOU more or love you
better for it DO not upbraid your
wife in the presence OF II third
party, the sense of your disregard
for her feelings will prevent hel
from acknowledging her fault. Dc
not entertain your wife by prais
ing the beauty and accomplish
ments OF other women. II vo,
would have pleasant home and
cheerful wife, pass your evening,
under your own roof. Do not bt
stern and silent in your own house
end markablc for sociability else
whcro'-.ET.
Year: 1876

The management Of the Post Office in the
city, Of Wilmington in so far as news
paper transmission, and distribution is con-
cerned, is either conducted in discredita-
BILE manner, or in direct hostility to the
circulation of the HERALD. We know that
frequently it takes copy Of the Herald
two days to reach Philadelphia; worse
still, if any important news favorable to
the Democracy is in the paper, it is either
''baggeu' entirely, or reaches we will say
Stanton two days after its issue. We pay
in advance as required by law, and have
the right of transportation from Whining
ton, and distribution at the local Offices.
The LOCAL officials say the fault is in Viii
mingtonSwe know the fault is not at Phil
adelphia. One Of two things are certain,
either the clerks in the Wilmington Office
are negligent, and careless in the discharge Of
their duty, or intent upon obstructing the
transmission of the HERALD's mails. We
have addressed communication to
| the Postmaster General upon this
matter. We have so frequently
complained at the Post Office that
we are led to believe there is one rule
of transmission at the Wilmington Post
Office for Republisan-and another for
Democratic journals. This PAPER IL
MAILED AND POSTPAID IN THE WILL
M1NaToN Posi- OFFICE EVERY MORNING


IF OUR SUBSCRIBERS DO NOT RECEIVE If


IT Is EITHER DELAYED BY NEGLECT OF
THE Posi- OFFICE AUTHoRITIEs,o OR THERE
is AN INTERFERANCEW WITH ITS TRANsMIs


SION AND DISTRIBUTION. " -.ae, ls
Year: 1876

The new vestry room and rector's study, in St Paul's Church, IS completed, and was used for, the first time on Sunday last. It is a very great improvement and convenience. The hour for Sunday evening service has been changed to half past seven o'clock.

 We greatly need some guide boards in almost every section of the town. There are very few to be found. and 'they are for the most part illegible. They should be erected at every cross road, the expense would be very trifing. There is a law regarding thls matter, if we are not mistaken.
Year: 1876

stranger will feel some natural sur
prise on learning that the Board of
Public Works is composed of three of
our most respectable citizens, each of
whom Is under $4,000 bonds for the
faithful performance of their duty,
and that they are acting under and by
virtue of a law which the City Attor-
ney, the Councils legal advisor, again
and again has decided removes from
the the Council all power to act in the
premises. The Council seems to for
get that in accordance with the pub
lished opinion of the City Attorney, it
is itself, on the questions involved, an
unlawful body acting without au-
thority or the color of legal sanction.
1t does not appear to understand that
its warrants for work done that comes
within the province of the Board of
Public Works cannot be paid by the
City Treasurer without endangering
that officials bondsmen. 1t cannot
apparently comprehend that assess


ments for street or other public i'm
provements levied by it cannot be col
lected, and that its members are liable
to arrest for trespass and suit for dam
ages the momen: they touch private
property. The Council cannot realize
these facts though assured of their
existence by the City Attorney. If
our Common Council could be


made to understand anything
it a plain and simple proposition
could be made to come within its


comprehension-it would understand
that the law creating Board of Pub


lie Works and defining the duties
thereof is, no matter whether consti-


tutional or not, in full force and bind
ing until its unconstitutionality is de.
cided by the Supreme Court, and


therefore until such decision is rem
dered, defiance of its officers aud diso-
bedience of its provisions is misde-


meanor or felony as the case may be.
Our Common Council is an autocracy
so far as the people are concerned. 1t
defies them and treats their petitions
with the contempt of tabling without
reading, but it cannot with impunity
defy the law. The people of Los An
geles may submit to the serfdom i'm


posed on them by their law-defying
Council, but the people of the State do


not stand in such dread of our petty
tyrants, and the law will be enforced.
Year: 1876

what amount of evidence would be
needed to convict a confessed crimi-
nal. We are warned by the events of
the hour that the immediate tendency
of the present system is dangerous to
the welfare of our future being as a
nation. Had It not been for the re-
cent exposure of corruption by Demo-
cratic investigation, GRANT would
have been elected for a third term,
and the rottenness of the past eight
years would have continued until the
very life-blood of our national being
had been exhausted. If there is any
thing that would convince us of the
existence of a beneficent Ruler, had
we doubt, it would be the fact of the
tangible warnings we have received
and the most opportune disclosures
that have transpired. These facts and
cautions cannot fall unheeded.
Year: 1876

Many Of the denizens of this health
full locality have apparently gone to
sleep over their surroundings, and
completely ''run down at the heal"
and imagine that Los Angeles has
touched bottom" Now any man
with the sense that comes up to the
school boy standard, can at glance
see that from the geographical position
alone of this city, she will occupy a
commercial Importance which will be
second to that of no city, except per-
haps San Francisco. Los Angeles is
destined in the near future to be a
great railroad centre.
Year: 1876

Messrs. JAMES, KURTz, JACKSON,
LONG and MCKEE, the Board of Edu-
cation, ere out in a manifesto urging
the favorable consideration Of the peO-
ple's suffrage for a tax of $4,000 on
next Saturday. We have all kindly
feeling for the subject matter of edu-
cation, and a like good and kindly
feeling for the members of the Board;
but they have so far failed to explain
what they have done with the funds
heretofore placed at their disposition.
Nor have they or the Council taken
any steps to recover the funds of the
city from those who were made the
unworthy custodians of it. Besides,
the expense attending the assessing
and collecting of this tax will swallow
fifth of the amount. 1t will also be
contested by some-and successfully,
too-as it is clearly unconstitutional.
The poor will pay and the rich will
contest and escape the whole burden.
There is no human being authorized
to assess unless constitutionally elect
ed to the office by the people. No or
dinance or resolution of the Council
can make an Assessor. If the people
have submitted to street assessments
it was because their prudence dictated
policy not to be considered in the
way of progress, but not from any
conscious obligation they were under
to pay the same. This is law and gos-
pei, and there is no lodging the ques-
ton.
Year: 1876

At its meeting on Thursday even.
Ing the Common Council manifested
an exceedingly bitter and uncompro-
missing hostility to the Board of Pub
lie Works, and some of its members,
who are no doubt constant readers of
the Express, so far forgot the dignity


of the position they occupy as to des-
ignate the Board as a "ghostn and ap-
ply the term "fellows" to the gentle
men comprising it. By a, we believe,
unanimous vote they passed resolu-
ton prohibiting the Sheriff from
delivering city prisoners to any but
the Councils Captain of the Chain
Gang; warned the City Surveyor to
be careful of his maps; gave notice to
the stable keeping the city's horses to
deliver that property to none except
those holding authority from the
Council, and directed the City Treas.
urer to pay no warrants save those
signed by the Mayor and City Clerk.
Now all this is discourteous and un-
dignified, and savors of shallow silli-
ness that one would not without proof
believe dozen intelligent gentlemen
guilty OF. The stranger listening to
the speeches of the Council on Thurs
day evening could hardly avoid the
conclusion that the Board of Public


Works of this city was an outlawed
institution, and that its members
were disreputable parties whose
sole purpose was to destroy the
city's maps, steal the city's horses
and rob the city's treasury. After
reaching these conclusions through
the wild rawlings of the Council, the
Year: 1876

ANOTHER DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.-On Wednesday as Mir. A. Wade, prominent citizen of Walnut Grove, was descending the West side of the mountain on the Thomas grade, with four-horse wagon loaded with lumber for the Pinal Company's Smelling Works, something must have given way, at any rate, the team ran away down the moun- tain and injured Mir. Wade very severely, though fortunately no bones were broken. He was bruised almost all over, and the scalp so badly torn that in one place it took comfortable, and his physician, Dr. Kendall, thinks he is in fair way to a speedy re- cOYery
Year: 1876

We nave invariably advised those who have consulted us on the subject, since our election as a Church trustee, that ''it is not sinful to kill bed-bugs on Sunday" but that 'it is as necessary as preaching" and if our Election is good for anything, our first offi- c:al act shall be to grant a plenary indul- gence to all who wish to engage in the slaughter of these innocents, and absolution for those who have already been guilty.
Year: 1876

A WISE PRECAUTIoN.-Recent develop ments in Prescott have shown that woman with hereye blacked in a fight with her hus- band has won any case in Court that may grow out of the melee. Courts and juries require no better argument to convince them of the guilt of the husband. than for the wife 10 come on the witness stand with black eve. Teutonic friend moralizing on this fact, remarks that the face Is not the proper place to strike a woman, and the man who does so, is not properly educated m the art of self-defense as it relates to domestic life. In fighting woman, he continues, always strike her on some part of the body that, if bruised, she will not be so ready to exhibit to the Court and jury, and two to one you

 will get away with the fight without going to the lookup. Never strike woman in the ace,-never, she is too fond of showing it."
Year: 1876

MT. and Mrs. Horn, of Horns Park, have made themselves not only ridiculous, but a nuisance to respectable people living in the Southern part of the town, by the loud and filthy epithets they apply to each other in their drunken quarrels. On Sunday night Mrs. H. applied to Constable Knott and in- duced him to lock her up in the calaboos, to keep her husband from killing her, and at the same time it was thought prudent to lock him in the County jail to keep her from killing him.
Year: 1876

Murat Masterson, Esq, who fought gall lant fight at Tucson in the so called Census fraud case, arrived last night. When we have time and have learned more about it, we may give sketch of how he went single handed, clothed with the breastplate of righteousness, hvlding in his hand the sword of justice, and met and conquered the enemy in force
Year: 1876

I most respectfully offer myself candidate for County Treasurer of Yavapai csunty. Being resident of county for ten years the old settlers are nearly all acquainted with and the new settlers can find out who l by ask:ug almost any old resident My name before you last election for Supervisor and elected by ia;teripg ve'e. but change in my business compelled o resign soon after taking the office which 1 think will be overlooked by my friends who hope will forward with new recruits and

 BENJ. H. WEAVER.
Year: 1876

rich man walked abroad one day.


And poor man walked the self same way,


When pale and starving face came by,


With pallid check and a hopeless eye,


And the palid face presumed to stand


And ask for bread from the rich mans hand.


The rich man sullenly turned askance.


With gathering frown and a doubtful glance
I've nething." he said, "to give to you,


Or any such rogue OF a cantering crew:
Get to work-yet to work, know too well


The whining lies you beggars can tell.''
So he fastened his pocket and on he went.


His heart untouched and his wisdom content
Now. this great owner or golden store
Had built church not long before, Par
As lordly a fame MS . man could raise.
And he world had given him thanks and praise
And all who beheld it lavished fame
On his Godly gift and Christian name. D3ri
The poor man passed, and the white lips dared
10 ask him If y mite could be spared .r--gl
he stood moment. but not to pause
on the truth OF the tale or the charity laws:
He was seekin to give. though it was small,
For penny-a single penny was all. sd s,'.ti
ct he gave it with Kindly word ID T
And the warmest pnlse in his heart was stirred;
was tiny seed his charity shed, a..f.
But the white lips got taste of bread
And the bcsgar's blessing fallowed the crust.
Ihat came like q spring in the desert dust, Sd
The rich man and the poor man died


As allof Us must). and were tried -t
Before the Eternal judgment seat above
For their thoughts Of evil and deeds of love;
rhe balance of Justice there was true, ha
tightly bestowing what rightly was due.
nj the two new comers TIN ough hea aven's gate
'tood there to hear their eternal fate
rhe recording angel told of the things
That Httsd them both with kindred wings,
sur As they stood In the crystal light.
he plumcs of the rich man grew less bright;
he angels knew by that shadowy sign
nat the poor mans work had been most divine
Q they brought the unerring scales to see.
' here the rich nuns falling OF might be,
'nll many deed did the an gels weigh,
Tut the balance kept an even sway
t length the church endowment fund was laid
' 18th its thousands promised and its thousands


. paid aiG-Inhns
md it weighed SO much that the angels stood
Q see how the poor man could balance such


good;
hen 10! a cherub came and took his place
y the empty scale. with a radiant grace;


nd he dropped that penny that had fed
oor starving lips with u crust of bread.
he church endowment went up with a beam.


nd the whisper OF the Great Supreme,
S He beckoned the poor man to His tn rome:
fas heard in this immortal tone:
lessed and holy is he who from great gain
lay give his thousands with a reasoning BRAIN |
mt holier far shall be his part
Tho gives one penny with a pityipr beart