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Year: 1876

A PURE judiciary giving equal justice to
all bonded dett al reduced interes. ; a
sound currency; restored nationality and
universal freedom to all Americ ms are
among our rich requirements, despite the
fierce opposition of the Democracy. They
now sweetly slAg that if given power they
will aIloS us to retain the costly and sacred
privileges we rescued through or by the
war, and they will not attempt again to
manple them
Year: 1876

WHEN troops were sent pell nell by the
General Government, under direction Of
Democratic Presidents all over the coun-
try, for the return of fugitive slaves, there
was no complaint of Federal interference
from the Democratic press. Now. how
ever, that the slaves are free and troops
are legitimately used in protecting their
rights as freemen there is no end Of CON-
plsint and denunciatiOn.
Year: 1876

WHILE some of the people Of the North
desire ga change" as they term it. and
are therefore inclined to vote for Tilden,
they forget that, according to precedent,
the change that would follow his success
would simply be repetition of the situa-
ton preceding the war which brought
about the hard times of which they now
coronlain
Year: 1876

UNION men feel free to vote according to
the country's needs. What secessionist has
any option as to his Presidential vote Not
one in ten thousand dare favor a Republi-
can. So Tilden can promise freely before
the election, and still own the solid seces-
sion vote We may trust the secessionists
to manage him after the election.
Year: 1876

THE solId business men of the East have
been awakened to the necessity of rescuing
the country from the threatened danger of
Tilden's election danger emb 'died in
the few words, a change of our national
financial nOlicV
Year: 1876

THERE is gentleman in the West. The
Republican party has nominated him. II
there is sharp lawyer in the East, the
Democrats have nominated him. Can a
gentleman be elected President?
Year: 1876

1T IS true that tue mug who aimed d
murder on Sixth street, on Tuesday night,
did not come out OF the Delaware engine
house. He was at the corner of the closeo
door way, "and came FROM" not out of tie
engine house. There can be no mistake h,
TO where his confederates went--they wen
tothe Republican meeting room in saviIle's
Building.
Year: 1876

The EXPLOITATION OF COTTON G eops.
The Boston Advertiser" says there
is no doubt that the expectation of
cotton goods is already growing very
fast, and much of this rapid increase
is due to the excellent character of the
60 eds manufacturers have sent over.
A large commission house in Boston
received an offer for lot of bleached
cotton at figure little OFF the mar
ket price short tipe since, but they
declined 1t. They Immediately re-
ceived an offer for sixty cases at their
prices, and the goods went by the next
steamer. A Chicopee firm has just
shipped 500 bales of cotton sheeting to
Liverpool, and Lowell is already send
ing considerable portion of its cotton
goods to China and south America,
and the demand from these markets is
said to be steadily increasing.
Year: 1876

81


Ludicrous as well as grave events occurred
last week in Galveston in the midst of q
magnificent assemblage of seven or eight
hundred of the leaders of the people of Tex
as. OF these there were probably one hun
dred gay young gentlemen who could
hardly govern themselves when at endless
tables burdened with luxuries they sat
in Armory Hall. With each of a thousand
champagne bottles there were as many
throats uncorked and each delegate ran
over until he was gaseous; and pungent and
exhilarating were the speeches made. Late
in the evening there were quite a score all
speaking at the same time, and the scene OF
confusion was ludicrous to the last degree.
The excellent orator, John Henry Brown,
who had no opportunity to ventiIate his
notions while the convention sat, occupied,
at this noisy hour, one end of long table.
He spoke with infinite vehemence standing
in chair, and then he rose upon the table,
still seeking the attention of the multitude.
OF course he failed, and grew angry and
waxed exceeding wroth, condemmng the
noisy throng very violently. Meanwhile,
Col. Finley occupied the other end of the
table. He, too, seemed irrepressible. But
he never grew angry, and while he gesticu-
lated vehemently and his face evinced much
excitement, and eyes flashed forth all
the brilliant rainbow hues that
are evolved from unsealed champagne bot.
ties, his bps were sealed. He opened not
his mouth. Men seeing him 'smuch moved, y
and conscious of his power and wit, gathered
closely about him. Those nearest soon dis
covered that he was pantomimist and tina,
in action only was he copying our friend
John Henry Brown. As the multitude com
pretended the facts and the practical jok,
was appreciated, Finley's silent eloquenct
gained frrsh admirers, and the uproar at the
close of each supposed terrific sentence wa
simply fearful, and the greater the deafen
ing applause provoked by Finley, the great
er the impotent rage of the excitable Mr.
Brown, and the process of imitation OF
Browns side and contraction on Finley's wal
progressive till Brown burst and subsidized
and Finley collapsed amid fOars of laughter
and the multitude rosred.


We were told that the scene was fatal Il
the capacity for locomotion of several mem
bers of the grave convention who passed tn
night on the spot, and of truth a jollie
night was never spent at festal board thai
at that spread by the people of Galveston
whose generosity was as boundless as tn
capacity for enjoyment of their delighted
Year: 1876

ipate large increase of foreign Immigration
in consequence of the success which has at
tended the importation of live stock into
the English market. A live stock transpor-
tation company has been organized in Eng
land, which, by way of experiment, shipped
last spring over 1000 horses and cattle by
steamer from Rockport to Liverpool, and
the venture resulted so profitably that the
company reorganized, the capital increased,
and 1t is now proposed to put eight first
class steamers in the trade. As the company
will rely mainly on their transportation of
stock for their profits, they will be able to
bring out immigrants at very low rates


"The natural advantages of Texas are very
great, and now that 1t has freed itself from
the domination of the Grant officials who
nearly bankrupted it with their jobbery
and extravaganza, there is every reason to
believe that it will increase in prosperity"
Year: 1876

THE most extraordinary act of magnanim-.
ity ever done was that of Major Buck Wal
ton. When large majority in the Gal
weston Convention, and really every thought
full, intelligent citizen of Texas, could name
no one more thoroughly qualified for the
Attorney Generalship, and when he had re-
ceived a large majority of the votes of the
Galveston Convention-the rule requiring a
two-thirds majority-then it was that Buck
Walton claimed the attention of the vast
concourse, and in choicest words of simple
eloquence withdrew from the contest. He
tor appeared before the assembly that he
had lost an ann in battle, and that when he
fell that with the unharmed hand he
pointed the way and urged his comrades on
shattered. Major Walton said that he con-
fessed the fitness and supreme worth of his
competitor, and that he himself was no
longer candidate. The audience did not
as sent very gracefully to Major Wal
toms proposition, but his assertion of
purpose was inexorable and the manned
soldier was nominated. The nobility
of Walton's nature is confessed, but
the wisdom of the convention may be
questioned. A public Office is not Green
wich hospital for MANNED and laned sol
diers or sailors. If these must be cared for
it were cheaper and wiser to provide fixed
stipends and charities and suffer offices to
be administered by the capable and learned
than to crafty sense of public gratitude
or popular admiration by conceding Offices
to the incapable. But in this case i. seems
that the heroic soldier is also learned and
able lawyer, and those who knew him per-
sonally declared his perfect fitness for the
position to which the convention propose.
to assign him.
Year: 1876

FACTS Of an astounding character are
said to have.been brought to light connected
with the sale Of property captured Or
abandoned during the war. Our readers
can therefore stiffen their systems for an
other shock. A new line of fraud has been
discovered and q committee is unravel-
ing It.
Year: 1876

TIE religious newspapers are after Sec
retary Taft for his Sabbath breaking tour
of inspection to Fort Hamilton. Thus is
the Secretary already beginning to receive
tho rewards of office,
Year: 1876

God has not been content 10 "lose Him
self in light" and live alone in His ineflable
radiance throughout eternity. lie has filled
the universe with life and love and His own
awful joy, so far as we may catch the glitter
of its sheen, must consist in loye-in loving
those whom lie blessed, aud blessing those
whom lie loves. Whatever other mysteries
of Joy are hidden in Him. what delight He
may take in the beauty Of His glorious works
or the rythmic dance of the clusters of suns
or yet in sources of happiness utterly incon-
ceiyable and unknown TO us, there must re-
main, even for Him, one joy greater than
these the Joy of infinite love and eternal
benediction. As we climb up, age after
age the steps of the interminable ascent,
nearer and more like to Him. Aloft, aloft,
from terrace to broad-terraee evermore," we
must share that Joy; and il we could lose
ourselves at all, it would rather be in the
ocean of love than in the unbreathahle ether
of a purely intellectual existence. Frances
D1lger EoILe
Year: 1876

Mr., Spurgeon once went TO preach in a
church a little outside Of London. The day
was wet and muddy, aud the pants OF Mr.
Spurgeon were plentifully covered with dirt.
A good deacon in the vestry said Brother
Spurgeon, let me get brush and take of
some OF that mud you can't go into the pull
pit in that state" Don't be foolish, Dea.
con !" said Mr.. Spurgeon, in his usual good
humored way, "don't you see the mud is
wet, and if you try TO brush it off now, you
will rub the stain into the cloth Let II
dry, and then it will come off easy enough
and leave no mark" There is an admirable
hint here for every one. When evil is spoken
against us, as it may be for the sake of the
truth, and men throw mud at us, don't bC
in a hurry about brushing it off, Too great
eageness in this respect is apt to rub the
stain into the cloth. Let it dry, and then
by-and-by, if need be, it can be removed by
little effort. If there is little trouble in
the church, don't foster it by haste and
hurry in doing something. Let it alone, let
it dry, and it will be more easily settled than
you think now. Time has a wonderful power
in such matters, and it is surprising how
many things in this world would be far bet
ter arranged and how many difficulties easily
got over by iudiciously letting them dry
Hdpiid Sfaiddm
Year: 1876

When our late war was going on, mother
received message that her boy was dying
She took the train and reached the camp
She got through the lines. She found out
the hospital and the ward where he lay. She
asked the doctor if she could see her boy
He said We have just got him to sleep, If
you wake him now it may make him worse"
She says, Well, doctor, may just sit by
his side and look at him 2" At last she got
permission and she drew near, but when she
saw him, she couldn't help it-she laid her
hand upon his forehead. Aud the boy felt
the hand he knew whose hand that was.
Before he opened his eyes. he said Mother,
have YOU come 2" There was sympathy in
the touch. May God lay His hand upon
your heart, to-day, and may you feel Ills
magic touch, this afternoon, aud may YOU
think well of Him i-M00Iy.
Year: 1876

Talk of preachers there was more truth
in one Of Christ's sermons than in a thou
sand to-day; and how many sermons are
made out of few words that lie said 7
His words have come along down the ages
TO us. All lie was preacher that children
could understand. My little boy comes and
tumbles into bed very early mornings, some
times earlier than | want him toby five
o'clock he comes and leases me to tell him
a story, and he generally wants some story
about Jesus What stories Jesus told |
Why, lie saw bird flying through the air
and he said "rhe foxes have holes and the
birds of the air have nests, but the Son of
Man hath not wnere 10 lay His head" You
cannot see a lily of the valley now, or a
sower sowing his seed but what you think
of Christ.-MoOdy.
Year: 1876

l believe no two good soldiers will
widely disagree as to their sensations
during battle. / take it to be piece
OF bravado IN man to assert that he
had no fear during the progress of a
long and severe engagement A battle
is veritable hell upon earth not to be
in serious apprehension while it lasts is
TO be either drunk, crazy or insensible.
The highest type of bravery is that of
the man who realizes the full extent of
the peril, but sticks resolutely to his
duty. 1t was my experience, and that
of all those about me, repeated dozen
times, that shell-tiring is not ordinarily
nearly so demoralizing as that of musk
etry. 1t is not often that shells are
thrown so that their fragments scatter
death and wounds, and their loud hum
ming overhead does not cause that nerv-
GUS tingling which always fellows the
sharp zip OF the rihe-bullet. The peep
liar cutting of the air made by halt =.
dozen of these at once is apt to give tie
soldier the idea that the whole air is
filed with them, and that he is certain
to be struck with one of them. All, l
believe, will agree as to the sensation
first caused by the impact of bullet.
1t is stunning, numblng feeling, which
for timeover powers the local pain of
the wound. In my own experience
single buckshot near the hip knocked
me fiat, and for two days after gave me
such acute pains and such muscular dis
turbance from knee to shoulder that /
could not stand erect. Soldiers have
frequently been prostrated by spent
balls. A curious effect of shell wounds
is that they DO not bleed the hot frag
ment sears the torn blood-vessels and
stops the effusion. A Minnie ball ex-
tracted from the human body presents
remarkable sight. 1 have seen them
where the resistance of the flesh had
turned back the pointed end on all sides
with such regularity that the ball resem-
bled a saucer or a fiower.-Ne1O York
Times
Year: 1876

But the groundwork of this is the
discharge and completion of business;


there is no higher duty than the good of


the whole world. All my efforts are to
remove sin from created beings, to make
them happy here below, and to enable


them to gain Heaven hereafter. For
this purpose / have inscribed the pres
ent law; /; may it be long preserved, and
may my sons in the same manner strive
after the good of the whole world. ."
Such was the fruit of this gentle faith in
a monarch's heart. Setting aside the
superstitious excrescences, it is evident
that our divines and philosophers might
protitably examine with attention and
respect these ancient religions of the
East, which have so many points of noble
morality. The gentle politeness of
Buddhistic races, and their prevailing
kindness to animals, are testimonies to
Gautama's influence which the most care
less traveller would observe in Ceylon or
Siam. The injunction of harmlessness
-ahinsa-and the sublime doctrine that
every good or evil act and word and
thought has its inevitable consequence
for the benefit or hurt upon each souls
course and destiny, are teachings the mark
of which is stamped deep upon the
oriental people.
Year: 1876

There Is nothing so annoying to a
young girl as an imperfect skin. If we
address any one we imagine that per-
sons atteL ton to be Immediately drawn
to our one source of discomfort, broken
out face; if they speak to us we are pos
itively diffident on account of our mis-
fortune.


Dear girls, the writer has had expert
ence in this, and can sympathi2e with
you. For three years my face would
keep breaking out with sort of rash,
not large unsightly blotches, for such 1
never had; but feel sure if what L used
did help me, it would benefit those who
were worse than was.


tried everything of which / had ever
heard; and also plenty of which l never
had, without avail. | became disgusted
with everybody, and especially myself.
Every day 1 met girls coarse and litter
ate, who knew and cared nothing about
education and refinement, whose faces
were smooth and rosy, while | was des-
tined to wear an irritable and pimply
skin, and L became morose and low
spirited.


But one day while reading maga-





attention. ] determined TO try it. |
bought four pounds and have used it six
months. / have used it twice day all
the time.


l take the dry meal, little on a pre-
serve plate, pour on just enough cold
water to make it thin, strain through a
small seive, and dipping cloth into the
water, wash over my face once or twice,
and let it dry. This does not require
more than five minutes, and the result
is, whatl All my friends exclaim about
my beautiful complexion.


Please follow my example, and You
will not regret the trouble when you see
the result. HOpsehOH


THE present yearly municipal expen-
diture of Boston is greater than that of
the United Stats Government in the
year the present i'oston city charter was
adopted-1S22.
Year: 1876

The great popularity of seal-skin
jackets will receive severe set back
from an incident which recently oc-
Cured in Liverpool. A lady wearing
one of those fashionable garments was
waiting at railway station when polar
bear who happened to be passing in a
barrel, seized her around the body, and
she was severely squeezed before
the animal could be induced to release
her. On an action for damages against
the railway company, counsel for the
bear excused his conduct on the ground
that he probably mistook the lady for a
seal but the jury gave the plaintiff
$500. Hereafter we hope no lady wear
ing seal-skin jacket will trust herself
near barrel unless she knows what is
i'm IL.
Year: 1876

The aboriginal man IN geology, and in
the dim light of Darwin's microscope,
is not an engaging figure. We arc very
glad that he ate his fishes ana snails and
marrow bones out of our sight and hear
ing, and that his doleful experiences
were got through with so very long ago.
They combed his name, they pared his
nails, cut OFF his tail, set him on end,
sent him to school, and made him pay
taxes, before he could write his sad
story for the compassion or the repudia-
ton OF his descendants, who were all
but unanimous TO disown him. We
must take him as we find him, pretty
well on in his education, and in all oar
knowledge of him, an interesting Great
ure, with will, an invention, an imag
nation, a conscience, and an inextin-
CIiiShable hone.
Year: 1876

A gentleman from North Creek, War
rem County, \. Y, in the Adirondack
region, in speaking of the mild winter
we have had so far, related as something
very remarkable the appearance of black
bears in the villages in his neighbor-
hood. He says that four bears appeared
in one day in North Creek in broad day
light; that their presence had been dis
covered by their visits III the night time
by the loss of sheep and hogs, but Bruin
had not been bold enough to come in the
daytime. On Sunday, about three
weeks since, large bear entered the
church at North Greek, just after the
minister had commenced his sermon, and
walked lelsurely up the passage way
until he reached the middle of the
church. The women jumped upon the
tops of the seats and screamed at the
height of their voices, all was confusion
and the services came to stand still.
Bruin raised himself up on his launches
and calmly and iii his native majesty sur
veyed the scene with n look as much as
TO say, "What is all this confu-
sion aboutF" and seeming satisfied with
his scrutiny, deliberately walked out.
Several men Immediately followed him
out and lively scrimmage was indulged
III. But the bear got away. II is prob
ably unnecessary 20 say that the services
were brought TO n speedy termination,


the congregation all going to the bear
hunt. A remarkable thing is noticed 10y
the Inhabitants of the Adirondack
region, namely: that the bears are very
Year: 1876

There are many reasons why duels
rarely end fatally. All the gunsmiths
keep pistols warranted not TO hit barn
door at ten PAGES. They are grooved all
sorts of ways; they are made so light
that the least load of powder SENDS them
to the skies; the trigger is made so hard
the hand pulls the pistol higher than
even the skies; the hammer is weighted,
and has such powerful spring the bar
rel is knocked down. Moreover, the
seconds always take care to overload,
that the pistol, no matter how carefully
aimed, may bounce over the object.
Lastly, but by no means leastly, there
is the emotion inseparable from maiden
appearance in the part OF target for an
enemys loaded pistol. 1t is incredible
how fast eyelids will snap under these
circumstances.
Year: 1876

Turkey has fifteen immense ships OF
war. which cost nearly 50, 900, 900 apiece.
They lie idle in the Bosphorus all sum-
mer. their only use being to fire salutes
every Sunday when the Sultan goes to
mosque. They never go to sea, and if
thew did would founder in the first gale,
for they are very unwieldy, and the Turks
are miserable sailors. The only voyages
they make are when in the spring they
are taken out of the Golden Horn and
anchored in the Bosphorus, distance
of about two miles; and when in the fall
they are taken back to their winter quar-
ters in the Golden Horn.
Year: 1876

The following is the approximate esti-
mate of the present cash value of the
metals now known, rare and common.
The rare metals have no market value,
but they can he purchased at about the
prices below. The price is given per
pound, or Is OF. avoirdupois
Year: 1876

1t is all we'll enough for the Democrats
TO protest against reviving "old war issues"
but they should be careful lest they stir
them up themselves. Such paragraph as
the following from the Mobile Register re-
wives suSpscions which the most magnani-
nous Republicans find it hard work to
keep down: "Thc grave question to be
settled at much cost is: What is to be done
to get rid of the negro as voter? Sooner
or later with more or less dispatch, he will
be disfranchised and thrust out of politics.
White men of all parties and of every grade
of religious or moral conviction may as well
come quickly to the consideration how to
get the negro out of politics with the least
confusion and cost. He must go, and
there is no profit in standing long upon
the order of his going. The question of
suffrage belongs to the States respectively.
When the organized Democracy of 1876
goes into office, each State shall beallowed to
settle this and other social and domestic
issues for itself and in its own way, without
any Interference from the General Govern
ment. Then we can begin the work of
resetting our shattered political and our
demoralized social institutions upon correct
foundations"
Year: 1876

How To KEEP APPLES One YEAR.-Years
ago when We produced large quantities of
fruit, we always kept apples in excellent
condition during the entire year. At q
recent agricultural convention in Utica,
y. Y. quantity of fair apples were ex-
hibited which were plump, fresh and OF
good flavor, as the apples are ordinarily on
the approach of spring. The apples had
been put up in refuse boxes the year
previous, and in the following manner: A
layer of dry sawdust was sprinkled at the
bottom of the box, and then a layer OF
apples placed in, so that they do not touch
each other. Upon this was placed layer
Of sawdust, and so on till the box was
filled. The boxes, after being packed in
this way, were placed on the wall in the
cellar. up from the ground, where they
kept perfectly, retaining their freshness
and flavor until brought out-N J.
HryR