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Year: 1876

President Washington ordered him
presented with medal, the first ever
presented to a foreigner by this coun-
try, in remembrance of his humanity.
In view of these simple facts so we'll
known to all, the dispay at both the


Agricultural and Horticultural shall.
have an interest in them beyond even
the beauty of Memorial Hall or the
strange enchantment of Machinery
Hall; and we would linger here longer
to-day, but for the strange tumult
without-the loud huzzahs and the
sudden musical outburst. We mental.
ly decide that 1t comes from a nomina-
ton having been effected at Cincinna-
ii, and it is so. Loud shoutsifor Hayes
and Wheeler rend the air. The peo-
pie are running to and fro, mad with
the sudden excitement, and catching
the spirit Of contagion, we leave our
flowers for time. MACK.
Year: 1876

bullets would ny rather too thick for the COM
fort of steady going people. The cause for
such disturbance was generally a quarrel over
the gaming table. The regulations Of the
boat usually required that all such amuse.
ments should be conducted in room provi.
ded for that purpose in the officers cabin, Sit
uated on the hurricane deck, but the sporting
gentlemen were by no means careful to OBJ
serve this rule, and the gaming was mostly
carried on at the dining table, in the main ga
loon of the steamer, to the annoyance of two
thirds on board. Many professional gamblers
used to make these boats their home, travelling
back and forth With them, fleeing all who
we're foolish and verdant enough to fall into
their hands. So we'll, indeed, was the system
managed, that the various members seemed
to have their different steamers marked out
for them by common consent, 90 that no one
would trespass upon the domain of the other.
Of course these men we're warm friends of the
officers Of the boat, who were either too sin.
eere in their friendship to put stop to the
practice, or too much afraid of the gamblers
to care to provoke quarrel with them; for,
in those days, it was common affair for such
men to resent any fancied insult with pistol
shot. One of the most remarkable men of
this GLASS was Daniel 6turdivsnt, q Frenchman
and son Of broken down scion of nobility,
who had settled in New Orleans before the
transfer of Louisiana to the United States,
sturdivant had been raised gentleman" BY
his aristocratic father, but, on coming Of age,
and finding bis fortunes very bad. had taken
to cards as means to better them. His sue
cess in this field was so great that he was In.
duced to continue it, until at the time Of
which l write, he was one of. the most noto-
rious gamblers between st. Louis and New
Year: 1876

To be poor in a great city is to
have nothing, to be nobody, to be
ever struggling and planning for
bread alone. This fact might have
entered the mind of a lad who, one
day, two or three weeks ago. while
walking past cottage tenanted by
poverty and despair, tossed his paint
ed rubber ball to a little ragged girl
sitting on the doorstep. 1t was a
prize more valuable than the child
would have dared to ask for, and, as
she played with it. there. was.more
sunshine in her heart than ever be-
fore, Wealth and. poverty may be
found with only a fence between
The next house is almost a palace,
and one day curly-haircd boy clim-
ed upon the fence, saw the ball in
the hands of the ragged girl and
he wept because he had none, though
he might have had a hundred for the
asking. He did not climb up again,
but, a week later, the knot of white
and black on the door told that he
was dead, The ragged girl heard
his name spoken, and, while weep
ing relatives and grieving friends
were moving softly about, she ascend
the steps, stood in the open door and,
handing out the ball, softly whisper
ed:


"Plcase, ma'am, but your little boy
cried for my ball, and l didn't give
it up, and now he's dead, and if you'll
put it into his coffin I'll play with a
ball of mud and never be so stingy
again!"


Poverty is sometimes wickedness
and degradation, but anoble action or
a greater offering could not be made.
The millionaire who had offered half
his wealth would not have offered
whatpovorty's daughter did.-Dctro
Free Press.
Year: 1876

Albany Argus: The action of the
Democratic National Convention will
inspire the country with new hope,
and give fresh inspiration to the
millions who are struggling for re-
lief from the crushing expressions of
u crushing oligarchy, The despond-
cncy of business circles, the despair
of the laboring classes, will be dis
PEELED as the people recognize in the
proceedings of the convention the
sign and surety of u great deliver
unce. The platform is the most Wig
orous and sinewy expression Of the
principles and purposes of great
party ever formed; and the Argus
adds, New York has pledged its cleo
toral vote to Samuel j, Tildcn, That
pledge will be sacredly redeemed,
Year: 1876

Tomorrow may never come to us.
We do not live in tomorrow. We
can not find it in any of our little
deeds. The man who owns whole
blocks of real estate, and great ships
on the sea, does not own single
minute of tomorrow To morrow?
1t is a mysterious possibility, not yet
born. 1t lies under the seal of mid.
night, behind the veil of glittcring
constellation.
Year: 1876

This is the kind of weather that
makes man wish either that Adam
hadn't been so successful as II back
slider or that som patriot would in
vent a pair oflincn trousers that but
ton around the neck and have arm
holes.
Year: 1876

&ho,intena Entertaining that statl
that we here publish it for the-bene-
fit of such persons, Preserve sac


redly the priyacies Of your own house
married state and your heart,
Let no father, mother, sister or bro
ther, ever presume to come between
you two or share the. Joys and the
sorrows'that belong to You alone
With Gods help, build your. own
quiet word not,allowing your dearest
earthly friend to be the confdant Of
aught that concerns your domestic
peace, Let moments of alienation
if they occur be healed at once. New
er, no, never speak of it outside; but
to each other confess and all will
come out right. Never let the NOR
rows sun find you at variance. Re-
new and review your vow; it will do
you good, and thereby your souls
will grow together, cemented in that
love which is stronger than death,
and will become truly one.
Year: 1876

Some mistaken genius has invent.
ed a pocket photograph apparatus
You meet u woman who pleasos you;
YOU draw the machine, and before
She has time to be astonishcd you
have her likeness in your pocket. A
man operating with such an appar-
atus is warranted to have and eye
poked out with q parasol several
limos q day.
Year: 1876

A young man who started for the
Black Hills, halted twenty miles this
side of the objective point and com
menccd to dig, and the result was u
quarter of a pound of lead inside of
fifteen minutes. He dug it out Of his
leg, where it had been deposited by
a Noble Red Man.
Year: 1876

To the demonstration of Professor
Huxley that the horse is an cvolu-
tion from the orchippus, the Buffalo
Express very pointedly responds;
"No reputation is safe in these days.
This scandal would never have come
out if the horse hadn't been running
for something"
Year: 1876

Here is a passage from the last let
ter traced by the hands of George.
Sand, which is singularly like to a
saying of Goethe on his deathbed:
81 am not one of those who shrink
from submission to great law and
rebel against the end of universal
life" 1t is told of the great German
that he broke a long silence by this
wise and consolatory utterance; "Af-
ter all, this death is SO general
thing, it can not be an evil thing"
Year: 1876

carried to their mouths or pores, We're
placed on straight line one after an
other, their length would be % miles,
fact that most patients are apt to
learn in tn air first visit to a doctor
here. The hot baths excite the skin
and the glands to vigorous action pu-
rlfy his blood wash him inside and
out, in a word make a new man out of
him. At home and in the country
people would say that men were cured
here by having their complaints
sweated ont of them. Elsewhere pro-
pie are content to make their bread by
the sweat of their own brows, but more
dainty here the citizens make other men
sweat for 1T. SO we'll recognized is it
that good sweat Is contamination
most devOutly to De wished that the or
dlnarY friendly form of greeting is to
ask what sort of sweat did you have
to~day s.
Year: 1876

No North Carolinian can fail to fee


the greatest qualification that the voice


of his State is once more heard in the


Councils OF the Nation and better still


that it is most properly appreciated


throughout the country. Not mere
| dunno driven cattle, but rather heroes


in the strife of the Congressional arena
our delegates in Washington, whether
in the s mate or in the House of Reps
resentatives have shown themselves
worthy of the high trust confded to
them.


From the mountains and from the
seaboard. and from the centre too, our
representatives are making a reputc-
But the freshest and the greenest laur-
els just now perhaps are those upon
the brow of our own immediate repre-
sentative from the Cape Fear District
Hon. A. M. Waddell and won in his
recent speech rebuking Mr.. B.aine for
his selfish efforts TO open the now fast
healing wounds of the war and appeal
ing to Southern members to vote for
the Centennial Appropriation as the
very best possible reply thereto.


The spectacle presented by the lead
ers of the Radical party in Congress-
Mr.. Blaine in the House and Mr.. Nor
ton in the Senate, seeking by misrep-
and falsehood of every
degree, by the strongest appeals to the
basest passions of mans nature, to stir
up the hates and strifes of the past,
while the leaders of the Democratic
party, regardless of section or cline are
seen exerting themselves to the utmost
to bring about union, harmony, peace
and concord among the heretofore dis
cordant and discovered sections of COM
mon though bslligerent country, vii
the thoughtful consideration |
of patriotic men everywhere.


Neither the country nor the South
is losing anything in the conflict now
going on at Washington. The day of |
the bloody shirt is at an end.
Year: 1876

can visit this place and the huts and


bowels near by, without seeing sights


to make the most hardened shudder.


Hot springs can be found almost every


where on the east mountain, SO that
one has but to dig aud have at least a


mud bath. Owing to this and to the
free bath, quite a settlement has
grown up On the mountain, composed
of people who have no means to pay
hotel and doctors bills. Some of the
people have neither shelter nor beds.
nor blankets nor indeed 70 ID save
such as they ges from charity. And of
the shelters that some have, there be
mtuy, from the rough frame board,
house to the brush heap. The man
that can get tent, no matter how old
or patched, think the gods have in
deed blessed him. The place is a
queer one, bat kindly one, and lam
told that those able to do so, cheerful
ly help those who are worse off than
themselves.
Year: 1876

A full bath as now given consists of
three PARTS, that is to say the INNER
sion, the vapor, and the pack. The
usual direction is six min Ites for the
i'm mersion, two or three for the vapor
and six for the pack. The immersion
is nothing but the ordinary long tub
bath with the temperature of the wa
ter reduced so that it shall range from
92 Q to 98 Q Fahi enheit. From the i'm
mersion the patient steps into the va
por room or "the kitchen" as the ne
gro attendants call it. The vapor room
is at the end of the bath room. about
by feet, and above a rest 'oir of hot
water and separated from it by floor
of narrow Stats. Through the inters-
stices the heat and steam from the wa
ter below come up freely filling the
room with vapor. The name of
t.Kitchen" is fully justified by the
heat. When in the vapor room the
patient puts on a flannel bathing
Year: 1876

The New York Times says It is now
said, by persons who profess to be we'll
informed, that Tweed has not made his
flight to foreign country, but is still
within easy reach of New York, and
that he proposes to offer a compromise
of the claims against him, and to divulpe
the secret history of the Tammany ring.
He will give up the names of all who
shared in the plunder, and expose the
men who worked with him and for him
ia the days of his power, and who turn
ed upon him so relentlessly after his
downfall. This would be very curious
narrative, and there are many who now
live in "brown- stone houses" and who
hold their heads up very high, who
would 60 in fear and trembling, If thew
believed that Tweed really meant to
carry out the purpose ascribed to him.
We know something of the men
who acted as the confederates of Tweed:
but it is Tweed alone who can give the
necessary proof of their completely in
the ring frauds. Most men would have
made clean breast Of it long ago. but
Tweed has held his tongue. The con-
sideration which he has shown for his
accomplices or friends, they have taken
care not to return. There was a story
in the Sun lately about a /" journalist -
whom Tweed is said to have described
as a man whe had once levied blackmail
upon him, and who now pursues him
with great show of wrath. La this a
solitary case2 We rather suspect not.
How many lawyers arethere about whom
Tweed could reveal fatal secrets How
many large tax payers gave him the
benefit of their countenance and support
in return for having their assessments
reduced2 Hundreds Of persons in New
York city had great load of fear taken
from their minds when they heard that
Tweed had escaped. Their one wish
now is that he may never be heard of
again.
Year: 1876

DR.. Holland, in Scri6ner's, gives us
the following: What is the cure for
gossip3 Simply, culture. There is a
great deal of gossip that has no malig-
nifty in it. Good-natured people talk
about their neighbors because, and only
because, they have nothing else to talk
about. AS we write, there comes to us
the picture Of family of young ladies.
We have seen them at home, we have
met them in galleries of art, we have
caught glimpses of them going from a
bookstore, or library, with fresh vol
ume in their hands. When we meet
them, they are full of what they have
seen and read. They are brimming
with questions. One topic of CONVERSE
ton is dropped only to give place to
another, in which they are interested.
We have left them, after delightful
hour, stimulated and refreshed; and
during the whole hour not neighbours
garment was soiled by so much as q
touch. They had something to talk
about. They knew something, and
wanted to know more. They could lis
ten as well as they could talk. Tospeak
freely of neighbor's doings and be-
longings would have seemed an imperti-
nence to them, and, Of course, an impro-
priety. They had no temptation to Cos
sip, because the doings of their neigh
bors formed subject very much less
interesting than those which grew out of
their knowledge and their culture.


And this tells the whole story. The
confirmed gossip is always either mali.
cious or ignorant. The one variety
needs change of heart and the other q
change of pasture. Gossip is always
personal confession either of malice or
imbecility, and the young should not
only shun it, but by the most thorough
culture relieve themselves from all temp
tation to indulge in it. It is a low,
frivolous, and too often dirty business.
There are country neighborhoods in
which it RACES like q pest. Churches
are split in pieces by it. Neighbors
are made enemies by it for life. In
many persons it degenerates into a
chronic disease, which is practically in
curable. Let the young cure it while
they may.
Year: 1876

Washington, May 25.- Hamilton
presented the memorial of the deiega-
ton of Crete Indians in relation to the
funds due them under the treaty Of
1882 and the act Of 1887, for the sup
port of the orphan children of that
tribe. Referred. Wright reported
back the bill fixing the salary OF the
President of the United States at S25,-
900 per annum together with the
message of the President vetoing the
same, and recommended that the bill
do pass notwithstanding the objection
of the President. Wright said he had
been directed by the committee to re-
quest the Senate to act on the bill as
soon as possible. Placed on the calen-
dar. At l2:35 Legislative business was
suspended and the Senate resumed
confederation of the the Belknap inn
peachment with closed doors.


HOUSE.


On motion of Cox the Senate amend
ments to the hill authorizing the ap-
pointment of receivers of national
banks, were non-concurred in. The
House then went into committee of
the whole on the bill to revise and
simplify the existing laws imposing
duties on imports and to reduce taxa
tion. Harrison proceeded to address
the committee in explanation of til e
bill.


The Emma mine report went over
till tomorrow, and Hendee, a member
of the committee on the District of
Columbia, presented TO the House as a
privileged question the fact of the
cIandestine procurement Of the report
Of TINT committee which the chairman
Of that committee had prepared. and
Year: 1876

of its publication in the New York
Tribune and in the Washington Star,
rs that paper had gone TO the country
as the report of the committee. He
declared that no report had been
agreed upon. and it had not even been
discussed for more than an hour. He
offered resolution instrueting tae
District committee to inquire as to the
manner in which the copy of that
paper had been obtained for publica-
ton, and by whom aud from whom 1t
was obtained. Adopted. Adjourned.
Year: 1876

Mrs. Wilson, whose maiden name was
Harriet NJ. Howe. died in May. 1870.
She was lady of unusual mental and
personal attractions. At the time of
her death Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames
thus wrote:


within the last week the body of
one has been laid in her native earth,
whose lovely presence viii long be miss
ed in Washington. Mrs. Wilson. the
wife Of Senator Wilson, went out from
among US in the fair May days, and the
places which have known her so long
and 50 pleasantly, will know her, save
in memory, no more forever. She was
gentle. Christian woman. Ihave nev-
e- yet found words rich enough to tell
all that such woman is. Ny pen lin
gers lovingly upon her name. | would
fain say something of her who now
lives beyond the need of all human
praise that would make her example
more beautiful and enduring to the iv-
ing. For, in profounder intellectual de-
velopment. resulting from wider culture
and larger opportu nifty, are we in no
danger of losing sight Of those graces Of
the spirit. which, however exalted her
fate, must remain to the end the su-
preme charm Of woman. There is moth
ing in all the universe 50 sweet as a
Christian woman /; as she that has re-
ceiyed into her heart, till it shines forth
in her character and life. the love of the
divine Master.


Such woman was Mrs. Wilson In
this gay capital When great sorrow
fell upon her, and ceaseless suffering
the light from the heavenly places fell
upon her face /; with an angel patience
and child-like smile. and an unfalter
ing faith, she went down into the val.
ley of shadows. She was conversan
with public questions and interested il
all those movements Of the day in which
her husband takes 50 prominent a part
Retiring by nature. she avoided instinct
lively all ostentatious display but wher'
help and encouragement was needed b.
another the latent power Of her charac
ter sprang into life and then she prove
herself equal to great executive effort
No one can praise her 50 eloquentIy a
he who loved her and knew her best
To hear Senator Wilson speak Of hi
wife when he taught her a little girl il
school when be married her. the love
hest girl 10 all the county : when be re
ceiyed into his heart the fragrance o
her daily example when be Watehe'
over her dying. only % marvel az tb
endurance and sweetness and sunshiB
Of her patience, is TO learn what a fore
for spiritual development. what cease
less inspiration was this wife 70 her bus
band Precious 70 those who live. j
the legacy Of such life.
Year: 1876

aud then came the climb up the coo
feet which | had at first descended. BY
the time bad reached daylight | was
about as near exhausted as | care TO
get aud had determined next time to
ride up and down on the smutty coal
cars. rather than take such tramp.


These underground tracks extend for
almost incredible distances. At Nes-
quehoning. seven miles from Maueh
Chunk where | was stopping. one can
enter a mine and come out at Tamaqua,
sixteen miles from the starting point,
without seeing daylight In other
places the tracks extend further yet.
As We sit around our glowing coal fires.
how seldom do we think Of the men who
toll in the darkness TO bring forth this
light and heat W. II. WHEELER
Year: 1876

Then shall the kingdom of Satan be
likened to a grain Of tobacco seed which
though exceedingly small, being cast
into the earth, grew, and became great
plant. and spread its leaves rank and
broad. SO that bugs aud vile worms
found habitation thereon. And it
came TO pass. in the course Of time,
that the sons of men looked upon it, and
thought it beautiful to look upon. and
much to be desired to make men look
big and manly. SO they put forth their
hands and did chew thereof, and some
it made sick, and others do vomit it
most filthily.


And it further came 70 pass. that
those who chewed it became weak and
unmanly, and said. we cannot cease
from chewing it. And the mouths Of
all that were cnslaved became foul. and
they were seized with violent splitting,
and they did spit even in ladies' par
lors, and in the house of the Lord of
hosts; and the saints of the Most High
were greatly displeascd thereby. Aud
it came to pass in the course Of time
that others did snuff it, and they were
taken suddenly with fits. and they did
sneeze, insomuch that their eyes we're
filed with tears, and they did look ex-
ceedingly silly. And yet others cum
ningly wrought the leaves thereof into
rolls, and did set fire 10 one end thereof,
and they did look exceedingly grave and
calf-like, and the smoke Of their tor
ment ascendeth up forever. And the
cultivation thereof became great and
mighty business in the earth. Mer-
chantmen waxed rich by the commerce
thereof


And it came TO pass, that the saints
Of the Most High defled themselves with
it even the poor. who could not buy
bread, nor shoes, nor books for their lit
tie ones, spent their money for it. And
the Lord was greatly displeased there
with, and said Wherefore this waste ?
and why do these little ones lack bread.
and shoes, and books Turn now Jour
fields into corn and wheat, and put this
evil from you, and will bless you, and
cause my face to shine upon you. But
with one accord they all exclaimed We
cannot cease from chewing, putting and
snufhng We are slaves. And the
Lord was sore displeased with his peO-
pie. who raised this plant on the Con
necticut, and cried, Repent. or ] will
come and curse your lands with a sore
J curse "-,Segecged