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Year: 1876

The guillibillity of some people is beaut-
fully displayed in the career Of the so-called
Cooperative Credit Bank, Of London, which
has recently been compelled to shut up shop
with only lis. lid. in its drawer. For months
the manager of the concern has been adver-
tising in the English papers, inviting de-
posits. and promising interest upon them at
the rate of one and a half per cent per month,
or eighteen per cent per annum. although
everybody who had any knowledge OF the
money market knew perfectly well that the
best obtainable interest consistent with good
security was less than five per cent per an
mum. Evidently. his purpose was to pay the
promised interest out OF the principal, as long
as it lasted, pocketing in the meanwhile a
handsome salary aud then let the concern
collapse. This is just what has happened,
and although the rogue is in the clutches of
the law, his dupes will never get another
penny of wha. lie owes them.
Year: 1876

The lady friends OF Home Hook and Ladder
Company will, on Saturday evening. the 29th
inst, give Leap Year reception and mas
auerade soiree dansante at the hall of the
above company.


The announcement of the above entertain
ment has created considerable excitement
among the young bachelors of the Sixth Dis
trict, many of whom, We understand, will
carry the written consent of pa and ma, which
they will produce if any of the young ladie
should propose.


Being married man. our reporter will avail
himself of the polite invitation to attend.
Year: 1876

One of the most popular social organizations
in our city is the Thalian Coterie +; its soirees
are characterized not only by the select at
tendance, but by the general elegance and
exquisite taste displayed by the management
in all the details. 1t will be an item of good
know that the second soiree of the current
season by the club will be given on Thursday
evening, February 18th, at Grunewald Hall.
The neat and tasty invitations admonish us of
the fact that COSTUME de rigueur' will be ex-
pected on the part Of the guests of the evening
Year: 1876

The Shoe and Leather Reporter is of the
opinion that "the opening of autumn brings
with it some good signs. Gold is nearer par
than it has been for great while. The fnan-
cial problem is working itself out-very
slowly to be sure-but naturally, and there
fore correctly. The balance of trade is in
favor of America, than which nothing could
be more desirable at this juncture. A spirit
of economy pervades the community, instead
of the waste of which there was enough dur
ing the paper decade to have made the ma
tion rich. Take it all in all, there are suffi
cient indications of an improved condition OF
affairs to warrant sanguine anticipations of
good time coming"
Year: 1876

CHARLESTON has been favored with the
performances of Professor Nixon, Egyptian
prophet and enchanter." One of his feats
was to allow himself to be boxed up In
coffin and buried in deep grave and after
some time pop up through the earth like a
hill of beans. He accomplished the feat sue
cessfuly, but it was afterwards discovered that
the grave had sort of subterr anean l. con-
nected with it into which he crawled from
the easily-opened coffin and remained until
it was time for ''resurrect," when all he had
to do was to force his way through the few
inches of earth that covered him.
Year: 1876

Now that the hot season is over there may
be no improperly in mentioning that one of
those horrible analytical chemists has dis
covered that the color of claret is ''improved"
by the apiline dye known as magenta, and
that the wine thus doctored causes deep red.
ness of the ears, intense itching of the mouth,
and swelling of the gums. So when you see
man with red ears stop him and remon-
strate with him mildly but firmly. If he de-
MES the impeachment ask to look at his
Year: 1876

ONE OF the newspaper correspondents who
has been visiting the Centennial exhibition
dlned at the French restaurant, and is de-
lighted at the readiness ofthe people there TO
correct mistakes. When the bill for the meal
was presented to him he intimated that his
boiled egg contained chicken. The polite
waiter said that he would have the bill cor
rected, and soon returned with new bill,
upon which the charge of thirty cents for
eggs" had given place to an item of sixty
cents for chicken,
Year: 1876

We DO not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty CT good faith.


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

Mir. Collumber informs us that the resi- dence of MT. Lambertson, at Walnut Grove, was blown down on Friday last Mrs. l.. narrowly escaping with her life. When she found the house was going she ran out at the door on the windward side, whereas if she had gone in the other direction she would have been crushed to death. Mir Collumber informs us that the day had been calm and as he was in his field he saw a narrow streak of dust arising which indicated that the streak of wind was but a few hundred yards in width and travelling in straight direction. The full force of the blast did not reach him but took MT. Lamberson's house directly in it's course. MT. c. T. Rogers informs us that in passing the house of Mir. Stearns in the lower end of Skulls Valley, on Friday, he found that gentleman's house blown down; one corner down in the cellar and another sticking up in the air. The house was not broken up, and he did not learn that any one was injured. James Douglas, of Williamson Valley, was in town on Monday and reports that perfect hurri- cane visited that Valley on Sunday, but did no special damage other than to fill peoples eyes and mouths with sand, dust and gravel with which the whole atmosphere was charged.
Year: 1876

OUR NEW PREss.-We have been expect ing to hear from Mir. sherman ere this with reference to the purchase, in Chicago, of a new cylender press for this office, but have received no word as yet. We are anxious to enlarge the paper so as to do justice to mat ters of local importance that are constantly pressing themselves upon us, as we'll as to give more attention to news from abroad which we are concious of our inability to do with the present cramped facilities. When the new press arrives We shall run four more columns of reading matter and lengthen the columns ill proportion to the increased size of the paper. Until then, which we prom ise shall not be great while, we ask our patrons to bear with us and the meagre amount of reading matter We are able to give them on the small press we now have in use.
Year: 1876

The practice so freely indulged in by some of our people, of beating gongs, old tin pans and cans, ringing cow-bells and the like on marriage occasions is becoming a nuisance rather than an amusement. If there is really anything in it' other than the drink it is supposed to elicit from the groom, and which can be had at any bar for two bits, it is certainly difficult to see in what ii consists
Year: 1876

Under the proper head to-day the reader will notice the marriage of Orlando Allen to Miss Oswald, of Walnut Grove. We have already given description of their Villa at Las Flores Ranch, where they are settled as costly as two doves.
Year: 1876

GOLDSMITH MAID has again punished
Smuggler badly, but did not murder him.
The significance of her victory at Hart
ford lies in the number of heats trotted
under 2:20, and in the fact that Snug
pler won the first two. The third almost
gave the horse the victory, the racers
coming in head and head. In the next
three heats the Maid had 1t her own way'
Smuggler not having laid out for any
such amount of trotting, and won them
all. That's the use of "bottom' as we'll as
speed.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, September 2.-1n the
appeal case of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad against Andrew l..
Bell, who improved some land belonging
TO the railroad and desired TO enter it rs
a homestead, the Secretary of the In
terror has given decision in favor of the
railroad company, on the ground that
the title TO the land in question was not
wrested from the railroad company by
the act of Congress relied upon by Bell.
Year: 1876

Everybody read the story OF brutality
and death that was told in the papers


Friday morning. There were two prin-
cipal ruffians and seven or eight hundred
accessory rufisns who crossed the Della
ware to point on the New Jersey shore
below Philadelphia, early on Tuesday
morning, to form the actors and audience
in what the newspapers given to sporting
parlance term "a mill" Two brawny
bruisers, by name WALKER and WEEDEN,
were to pummel each other, and the man
who proved himself able to stand the
hammering the longest was to be the
winner of some two or three hundred
dollars. The principals and the
select congregation elected to be worthy
of the privilege of attendance started
off from wharf of the Philadelphia river
front by daylight of Thursday. The
Philadelphia police did not interfere with
the expedition. The pugilists met at the
appointed place on the New Jersey
shore, and the fight was fought The re-
ports which we have at hand state that
the two men battered each other through
seventy-six rounds. As the ehd of the
brutality approached, WALKEEgave evi'
dence of his terrible plight. One report
says that in next to the last round
"he looked very stupid as he was roughly
taken to his corner by his seconds
lie was already beaten, but he was
forced up to another trial, although "his
face was shspeless and his eyes near y
closed" When he was brought up again
"his hands were open and hanging by
his side, though instinctively he clutch
ed them for an instant, but did not bring
them into position" After this the at-
fair was simple butchery. "WEEDEN,
perceiving WALKERS plight, rushed ut
him with his whole might, mashed
him with his right and left with
the force of cannon balls, and then
catching him flung him down and
again fell on him with his full weight"
This was the end of the fight, and the
victor was called off. There WAS feeble
and Intellectual intervention by the
sheriff, which amounted to nothing, and
IN the face of it the mob Of ruttans
cleared out and started across the river to
Philadelphia. They had their sport in
despite of the authorities, and they left
the field in the wake of the victor. They
had fired few shots over the head of the
county sheriff, and after that manifesto
ton of their dangerous propensities he
had let them severely alone.


Now. here WAS case of murder, clear,
clean and complete. WALKER died in
consequence of the blows of WEEDEs,
and WEEDEN is, in the eye OF the law,
his murderer, the murder being commit
ted on the New Jersey shore within sight
OF the lights of Philadelphia. The ques-
ton now is whether or not WEEDEN will
be arragned, tried, convicted and pun
ished Tor the crime ne has committed.
The majesty of the law demands that he
should be, and that this punishment
should be an exemplary one.
Year: 1876

Mr.. PETER COOPER is q very elderly
gentleman. with well preserved mem'
ory. 1t was not necessary to remind him
that he is candidate for the presidency,
so he made speech In New York the
other night for Cooper and Cary, but
skillfully avoided saying whsther he
would or would not be candidate for a
second term.
Year: 1876

To the President of the United States:


The fact that am q candidate for the
Office of Governor in the approaching
election renders it proper that l surren-
der the office of which / sm the incum.
bent. l therefore tender you my resig-
nation of the Office Of United States
Marshal for the District of Louisiana, to
take effect as soon as successor is ap-
pointed and qualified. | avail myself of
this occasion to express my high regard
for you, and my gratitude for the gener-
Gus and assuring confidence which you
have bestowed on me during my Of
fetal relations to the Federal govern.
ment, extending through continued
period of more than seven years, much of
the time under circumstances of extraor-
binary difficulty. In view of my relation
to the impending canvass in this state, l
respectfully suggested that the vacancy
bs filled with rs little delay as is consist
ent with proper selection. l have the
honor to be your obedient servant,


GSigned. I s. b PACKARD,


II s. Marshal.
Year: 1876

The Democratic factions will probably
compromise on the Payne bill, a financial
measure which undertakes the impossible
ty of resumption without contraction,
and approves the wasteful and costly
expedient of boarding gold in the Treasury
for score of years. The bill will be found
inefficient II not injurious if it becomes law,
and will then be soon repealed. But by that
time the presidential campaign will be safely
over and the Democrats free to declare for
repudiation
Year: 1876

geuine Oatmeal Soap is known world wide as ROBIN
SONS OATMEAL GLYCERINE 1t is the cheapest fine
toilet soap in the world and the only perfect winter
soap. Ask for ROBINSON'S OATMEAL SOAP.


feb18 G4wt
Year: 1876

MR.. H. R. STEVENS:


Dear Sir-I will most eheerfully add my testimony
to the great number you have already received in ia
yoT Of your great and good medicine, VEGETINE for
do not think enough can be said in its praise for
was troubled over thirty years with that dreadful
disease Catarrh, and had such bad coughing spells
that it would seem as though never could breathe
any more, and VEGETINE has cured me; and | do
teel to thank God oil the tie that there is SO good
medicine as VEGETINE, and also think it one of the
best medicines for coughs and weak sinking feelings
at the stomach, and advise everybody to take the
VEGETINE Tor can assure them it is of the best
medicines that ever was. MRS. L. GORE
Corner Magazine and Walnut Sts. Cambridge Mass
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley It.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal,
Year: 1876

We do not read Anonymous letters and eommuni-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty Cf good faith.


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

Tor the success of the Democracy is the spc.
C0'' Vi It's leaulng spirits, the men of the
SOUTH who have always controlled il by yir-
tue OF superior ability, and stronger will. and
finer state-craft. Ifit is necessary in order 10
secure the goodwill of the South to turn over
the government to them, we shall find II
more prudent to let them remain discontent-
cd while longer. 1t is wise and more con-
duclve to lasting friendship that we should
rl9'dly insist, even at the expense of some
present irritation, upon final settlement up
on Vexed questions between the sections and
so have them put out of court, than by Weld
ing to the immediate demands of good-rel.ow-
ship, invite repetition through years to
come of the stormy discussions of the two
decades before the war. This is the view
taken of the centennial stuatlon' by the
Republican party, and this is the position
which, with all kindness toward the South,
IL VIII hold in tie presidential campaign close
at hand. There are other questions at issue
in mat campaign, it is true, questions of cur
rency and administrative reform, ami If it
can be shown, as we purpose hereafter to
demonstrate, that the Republican party offers
the fairer show on these other questions,
then its position is so much the stronger


The Shoe and Leather Reporter in re-
view oftEe business situation, in which ii
very clearly shows the cause of the shrinkage
OF nominal values, comes to the conclusion
that "the greatest drawback at this moment
to restoration of healthy activity of business
is the uncertainty of the financial situation.
The clamor for indefinite postponement Of
the consideration OF the subject of return to
coin redemption is doing incalculable injury
to every man who is in debt. The vote of
the last Congress, fixing the 1st of January,
1879, as the day presumption, is step in the
right direction. but only halting, hesItating
step; one year is ample time for preparation.
When the resolution is once formed, the exc
cution Of it should be carried into effect at
the earliest possible moment If Congress
could be persuaded to enact a law declaring
that all Government issues should be re-
deemed in gold or silver on and after the 1st
ofJanuary next, and authorize the Treasury
Department to make preparations for such
redemption, we feel confident that within
sixty days from the passage of such act new
life and ygor would be infused into every ar
terry of commerce. Such measure would
relieve US of all the terrors which dread OF
contraction has evoked, and inspire the capi-
talists of the country with conference.-the
only thing necessary to insure their ready Co
operation in the resusctation of the lifeless
industries of the nation"
Year: 1876

him from the privileges of the lodge.
Nor is there ever any scisms, or divi-
sions among those who truly love the
Order, they are not sensitive, except
when their veracity or the honor of
the Order is assailed. 1t is a source of
the deepest regret when Masonry, by
accident, confers the degrees upon per-
sons who turn out to be only holiday
members, or show by their subsequent
conduct that they only sought the
benefits of the Order, for their individ-
ual advancement. "By their fruits
we shall know them" We regret that
it is necessary to make any allusion
of this kind public, but Masonry must
not be held responsible for the delin-
quencies of every man whose name is
on the record, or who holds his demit
in his pocket.
Year: 1876

A party from Austin, Texas, with
the Black Hill fever arrived in Chey-
enne on the 9TH of March. One of
the party writes to the Statesman
thus: Yesterday struck man who
had just come from the Hills. He had
been out there two months, and he
says there is no water around Gus
ter City and instead of there being
several hundred houses there, there
are only few completed, rs altogeth-
er, and most of them pole pens Sxl0,
without any roof. There is no de-
mand for labor of any kind. Men are
willing to work for their board and
do their own cooking. I find the
whole thing one of the baSest frauds
ever gotten up.n This is bad on the
boys and we are all sorry for them.
But men will only learn by experien-
ces, and the more they pay for it, the
more impressive the lesson. We have
ten thousand acres of placer mines in
this country, that would run the world
crazy If it lay in some remote region,
difficult of access. There is hardly a
pan of earth on that whole area from
which you could not get from one to
ten cents gold. But this rich gold field
is almost in sight of the city-can be
reached in four hours walk from the
neutrality-suspicious. are plenty and
cheap-no snow clad mountains to
cross-no Indians to fight, no mules
to pack, no dangers to encounter, hence
they are not attractive. Men love
mystery and novelty. Distance and
danger always lend enchantment.
The people Of Los Angeles are more
excited about the Black Hills to-day
than they are about the San Fernan-
do, the Castac, Peru or San Gabriel
mines. We have known strangers
who visited Los Angeles for the pur-
pose of examining those mines to be
persuaded by our own citizens not to
do so. A few men, however, with
little means and good sense, have in
vestigated in these placers, and gone
to work, who will make immense for
tunes. Our townsman Mr.. Jones
brought his first cupfull of gold in
the other day, and when his ditch is
completed he will bring it by larger
measures. We have heard old miners
say there are no better mines on the
coast, and all that is required is capi-
tai to put the water on them.
Year: 1876

The Erpress of this city thinks
''It is a base and disgusting practice
to set detectives upon the track of a
man like BLAINE-that the man who
aims to be President should have Gu
ticle as hard and as thick as that of a
rhinoceros. This brutal and indefensi-
BILE scandalizng of prominent men
should stop" This is remarkable
position for a journal that processes
to be defending the cause of the peo-
pie. Does it wish to cover up the
scoundrelism of public men? Is Mr..


BLAINE any better than any one else,
that his acts should be shielded from
the public? If he seduced woman
and took bribe of $65, 900, we should
think his hide was thick enough to
make a Presidential cadidate to suit
the EapreSS. 1t further says: 1.-THE
ordeal killed the sensitive GREELEY


We were not apprised that Mr.. GREE
LEI was StttdSCo vi GCduIllOh Vi Olip-
cry. If he was, and was guilty, it
ought to have&illed him; and if Mr..
BLAINE is guilty we hope it will kill
him. We can bear the death of all
such sensitive men with great Chris
tian fortitude. If Mr.. BLAINE is in
nocent the more they probe his con-
duct the better for him, nor will he
die under the ordeal. The only safe
cuticle for public man is pure rec
ord. All guilty men should be made
to understand that the only way to
hide their crimes is to retire from the
public arena-keep themselves in
the shade - let none but hon.
est men come to the light.


We deprecate the slandering and ma
ligning of men in official position as
much as any one, and we believe that
such things are doing great harm to
our Government. But when crime is
ferreted out we would not hide it for
any man living. The only effectual
way we have to rid the Government
of such scoundrels is to hunt them out
and hold them up to public reproba-
ton, and if possible put them in the
penitentiary, and it would be possible
if we could once get a majority of hon.
est men in control of the Government.
Year: 1876

Free Masonry is the oldest organiza-
tion on the face of the earth, and con-
tains within its membership the best
talent, and purest morals in the world.
Its pathway through the ages past,
has been watered with the tears of
grateful widows, and lighted by the
smiles of helpless orphans, whose


wants have been supplied by the char
liable hand of the Order. They have


sacrificed more for the Bible and for
the church, and have silently endured
more prosecutions than all other or
ganizations among men. They are
the fathers of the different orders of


architecture, and have ever been the


truest friends of science and progress,


and always ready to lay down life and
wealth for the maintenance of truth


and morality. There is much in their
history of which they may justly be


proud, yet boasting is never heard.
There is much In the revealed tenets

Of the order that the outside world can
understand and admire. Their SYM


bolical lessons are highly Intellectual
and instructive. Their code of morals
are refined and pure. But while there


is so much to admire in Masonry Der
se-there are few things among the


members In certain localities which
do not come up to the high standard
ofthe tenets fthis renowned old Order
He is not Mason who is only one
outwardly the great principles of the
order lie deeper than the surface and
he who takes upon himself the sacred
obligations of the order through sinis-
ter motives, does not possess tIe first
qualification essential to Masonry.
A true Mason at heart is always at his
post, always ready for duty, unless
providentially prevented. No trivial
excuse of a private nature will make
amends for delinquincies, neither will
. true Mason permit any little private
pique, of personal nature, to debar
Year: 1876

God knows what keys in the hui
man soul to touch, in order to draw
out its sweetest and most perfect har-
monies. They may be the minor
strains of sadness and sorrow; they
may be the loftier notes of joy and
gladness. God knows where the melO-
dies of our nature are, and what disci-
pline will bring forth. Some with
plaintive tongue must walk in lowly
yales of weary way; others in loftier
hymns sing of nothing but joy; but
they all unite without discord or jar as
the ascending anthem of loving and
believing hearts finds its way into the
chorus of the redeemed in heaven.