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Year: 1876

Germany is fast converting her silver cur
rency into oue OF gold The French coin
received in payment Of the indemnity has
been melted and re-coined, and brought into
circulation by tho shipment Of great q1anti-
ties Of the old silver abroad. mainly to India
and China, which are both silver-sinks 4
dollar, thaler, or shilling carried within :heir
borders is apt to stay there forever. The
change in Germany has been successfully car
zied through, though the original idea of an
exclusively gold currency, with no admirture
OF silver, has been abandoned The silver
must be used for small change.
Year: 1876

TIE great DABB1rT defalcation seems to be
growing less and beautifully less, wasting
away Like the soap in which the concern
denis. The soap-case, in fact, begins to
loo2 like al advertisement We suspect that
there is more tnan the due proportion Of lye
in II
Year: 1876

candidacy is concerned, and that
thereby the prospects of the Democrat
ic party are totally ruined. The old
adage applies just here, "let him that
is guiltless throw the first stone," and
still further that "those who live in
glass houses should not throw stones
at all.n 1t is matter for regret that
any one assuming to be a leader of
popular sentiment or an exponent of
public morals dare in the face of the
damning and confessedly rotten rec
ord of party attempt to defend crimes
and misdemeanors of such character
aswere never before attached to the
skirts of any other organization since
the foundation OF our Government.
We do not condemn in anger, but
from a logical standpoint, and indeed
rom rational point of view, we re-
gard the remarks of our cotemporary
as both illogical and absolutely pue-
rile; and after all there is no necessi-
ty for serious discussion of such ut
terances any more than there is in a
conde mnation of the dog that bays at
the moon; the animal may bark but
the moon will ever shine in her pris-
tine serenity. Truth will prevail, and
it is only the CALLED jade that winces.
The Democratic party will stand for
ever by its record on the recent inves-
LEGATIONS. They have nothing to hide,
need no prevarication and desire no
apology from any one as to their Ca
reer for the last sixty years. Let
those criticise who dare. The hypo-
critical lagos are too numerous for the
unfortunate honest OTHELLos to take
them to their bosom. The Pecks-
niffian dodge has become utterly
stale. The handkerchief has lost its
scent. Go to Republican.
Year: 1876

THERE is degree of gallantry and
manly pride in General GUSTAV that
we can but admire. He was a gallant
soldier when in the field; honest in all
of his acts, and his opponents can but
give him credit for military honor
and yet when he tells the truth, (be-
cause he is a Democrat the Chief Exc
cutive of our Government attempts to
disgrace him. AS soldier, an officer
and man, the record of GUSTAV is as
far superior to that of our autocratic
and yet imbecile President as the
bright shining MONDAY sun is more
brilliant than farthing candle. 1t
was a sad occurrence, when such an
officer was compelled, as it were, upon
his knees to beg of his inferior, though
temporarily his superior, the privilege
of joining his command to embark
upon an expedition fraught with more
danger than honor. The President
acceded when the gallant GUSTAV
humbled himself under sore compul-
sion. The honest man will live in
history, ,honored, the brute will be con-
signed to historic oblivion and dis
grace.
Year: 1876

We are glad to recognize the fact
that there is at least one community
in our State that takes the right view
of the Chinese question. The Truckee
Republican says:


A week ago P Grace. who has heretofore
always employed large number of China
men; discharged fourteen of them. and we
are informed will discharge the balance this
week. Mr.. Grace now offers twelve and a
half cents more for wood cut by white men
than he can get it done by Cinnamon. On
the same day George Schaffer sent off all he
had employed out at his cnill and is now on
ly working a few down at his yard. This is a
good start. The emigrant train every even-
ing is loaded with white men and nearly ey-
cry one of them want work.


This is the right method of correct
ing an evil. If every firm would
adobt the same policy there would be
no need of anti-Chinese meetings or
cooperative associations because of
the Chinese laborer.
Year: 1876

We have an able journal in our
midst that assumes to be the organ of
the Republican party. Naturally
enough it assumes to defend both the
policy of its controllers and the party
it assumes to represent, and it calls
itself the Republican. Of course it
cannot be consistent with its profess


sions, if it does not join in the general
Republican struggle for future exist
ence, by attempting in very labored
manner to throw dirt upon the gar
ments of its opponents. In lugu-
brious effort in Tuesdays issue it
makes in a agasping voice, the remark
that in the Investigations lately held
the Democrats have spirited away
witnesses who would by their testi-
mony produce damaging amount of
evidence against the prosecution. Our
worthy cotemporary asserts that by
such procedure, after careful exam
ination into the stupendous frauds
that stand upon the Republican record
with discreditable stain of shame
and disgrace, the animus of the pro-
ceedings were simply a matter of In
timidation, so that frauds on the
part of the Investigators might not be
made public. 1t is alleged in the
same attempt at argument that by a
revival Of the ancient Tammany fraud
the Democracy propose to carry the
election in New York, and that by the
investigation few Democratic aspi-
rants to Office have been condemned
particularly SO far as the Presidential
Year: 1876

Too much credit cannot be given to
the citizens of Los Angeles for the
graceful and dignified manner in


which the matter under discussion
was treated at the anti Chinese meet
ing on Tuesday evening. Never was
better opportunity offered for an eb-
ullition of the baser traits of human
nature, and never a more opportune
season tor the indulgence of the full
spirit ofvindictiveness that sometimes
animates men when smarting under a
sense of gross injustice. The contrast
between the conduct of the citizens of
Los Angeles and those of some other
communities is so great that the event
deserves more than passing notice.
The result of the meeting shows that
education has done its work, and that
at least in one community the intelli-
gence of our people can be appealed to
in times of emergency with happy re-.
suits. Iu view of transactions such as
those at Antioch and other places we
can with honest pride commend the
conduct of our citizens. An
example has been set that can


but prove beneficial throughout the
State, and its effect will be felt every
where. We were standing upon a
magazine that single spark would
have exploded, and yet under severe
pressure discretion ruled the hour.
The days fmob violence have passed,
and there are at this day but few in
any community who dare advocate
incendiarism to correct lesser evil.
Should every community in our State
adopt the same policy that was OBJ
served here, the Chinese question
would stand in a better light at the
East, and with our legislators at
Washington, than 1t now does, and we
Year: 1876

Yesterday morning two ladies took
a walk down New Also street, past
the mil, then crossed over to Old
Also street, took look at the bridge
and essayed to return by the old street.
But there was lake from six inches
to two feet deep, which extended from
one side to the other, and after skir-
mishing around for some time in a
vain attempt to get round it, they re-
turned the way they came and are
still ignorant of the beauties of that
part Of the country. VIII some enter
prisiug individual start a ferry at that
point?


An item in last evenings Republi-
can stated that the wife of a man
named Dougherty had died at the
County Hospital of peritonitus, caused
by an attempt at abortion. The item
induced Coroner Kurtz to hold an in
quest on the body Of the woman for
the purpose of determining the truth
or falsity of the charge contained
therein. The result of the inquest was
that no attempt at abortion had been
made, and that the woman did not die
from the cause above named. She
died of typho-malarial fever.


The members of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Society are particularly
requested to meet at their hall this
morning.
Year: 1876

A great discovery has recently been
made by surgeon in the British army
10 China, in the way of an effectual
remedy for small pox. The mode of
treatment is a follows: When the
preceding fever is at Its height, and
just before the eruption appears. the
chest to be rubbed with croton oil aud
tartaric ointment. This causes the
whole of the eruption, to appear on
that part of the body, to the relief OF
the rest. 1t also secures a. full and
complete eruption and thus pre-
vents the disease from attacking
the internal organs. This is now
the established mode of treatment In
the English army in China, and is re-
garded as perfect cure.
Year: 1876

We are sorry there is a citizen in our


State so destitute of honor in its high


est sense as to cry Reputation. What


is reputation -? However mild the


terms of definition be at the bottom


there is fraud. Would we be willing,


were it possible, to repudiate our debts?


Whatever be our circumstances, pride


and honor dictate an honest effort to


meet them. To this end an honorable


man or people will let every dollar go.


Tennessee is not bankrupt. Her
public debt has been larger With small
Ter resources and a worse cohdition of
organized industries. In 1869 it was
nearly forty millions, now only little
more than half that amount. Is il
true she can not pay? We have GER
tainly passed through two years Of
financial depression. caused, we are
forced to say, by Shylocks who % flesh
IS usury. An affected want of confidence
in the borrower has extorted greater
interest and unnecessary prating about
hard times has spread, until the whole
has been strained to
maintain its credit. He whose cir
cumstances two years ago would have
guaranteed an extension of time has
been pressed and forced into involuu-
tary bankruptcy, while the Shylocks,
who have their claws tipped with gold,
have fell upon their prey and destroyed
in the surrounding neigh
borhood. Now shall this extend to
the State Let it not be so. 1t is a
dangerous precedent. Ifthe State sets
the example corporations may follow
aud the people. What will be the re-
suit? Commercial anarchy and ruined
credit stained by dishonor. Let every
true citizen. cry no reputation, but
coming up like worthy man, help to
relieve the burden. Give her the ad-
of good helmsman, aided by
\ working crew in the legislative halls,
and our ship of State will proudly |
stem through the tide. Let us have a
little of that economy of adninistra-
lion which characterized the old Wing /
party. More love of country and less
greed of power.-Athens Ne,os.
Year: 1876

Redemption from misrule can come
alone from the Democratic party. 1t
alone possesses the organization, the
morale, the power to lift the incubus
of Grantism from the ruiued interests
of the country The tame submission
of protesting Republicans in this State
proves this. No hope, and little CO.
operation, can be expected from COM
planning but listless Republicans. The
Democratic party must be thoroughly
organized for victory. He who does
not to-day cherish higher respect for
it than for the bold, venal and profit
gate party now in power, will end by
voting to perpetuate that party in place,
in spite of all its enormities, and will
protest against his own loss of man
hood even while he does it.-Atbany
Argus.
Year: 1876

If you discover that a person has
swallowed poison by design or acei-
dent, give him water to drink, cold or
warm as fast as possible, a gallon or
more at time, and as fast as vomited
drink more; tepid water is the best, as
it opens the pores of the skin and pro-
notes vomiting, and thus gives the
speedest cure to the poisonous article.
If pains begin to be felt IN the bowels,
it shows that part, at least, of the
poison has passed downward, then,
large and repeated elections of tepid
water should be given, the object in
both cases being to dilute the poison
as quickly as possible. Do not wait
for warm water, for every moment Of
time saved is immense importance, at
the same time send instantly for
physician, aud as soon as he comes turn
the case into his hands, telling him
what you have done. The simple fact
cannot be too widely published. 1t is
not meant to say that drinking gallon
or two of simple water Will cure every
case of poisoning, but it will cure
many, and benefit all by its rapidly
diluting quality.
Year: 1876

has made the above diseases the special study
of his life and 10 the treatment OF these he
brings all his talent, skill and long experience.


1t will, therefore, not surprise those who are
intelligent enough to discern, that physician
who treats the diseases of one organ TO the ex-
clusion of all others, must be superior to those
who pretend to be equally skilled in the treat
ment of all known diseases.
Year: 1876

A new device for securing Artificial Teeth
firmly in place, and rendering them perfectly
comfortable and reliable in Eating, Talking,
Laughing, Singing, Coughing and Sneezing.


Ministers, Lawyers,
and all public speakers who have been greatly
embarrassed by their Teeth dropping at the
most inopportune times, can now get set of
Teeth which will remain firmly in place under
all circumstances.
Year: 1876

New York, May s.-The Herald
has letter from Midland, on Georgian
bay, Canada, stating that Boss Tweed
and two companions spent the winter
on the Muskaka river, thirty miles
from Midland, and one hundred miles
from Toronto. II appears that Tweed
and two men loaded small steamer
last November. just before the close
of navigation, with a great quantity
of provisions, and went to Parks
Mills, which have not been running.
Tweed and his companions lived in a
cottage all winter, the Boss keeping
dumb and it being given out that he
had received a paralytic shock On
the oath of April the steamer that
took them up last fall, arrived there
again with lot of provisions on
board, but did not leave for few
days. On Friday two detectives left
Midland and went to Parks mill,
reaching there Saturday. On being
discovered the whole of Tweed's party
fled on board the steamer by small
boats, the one on which the Boss en-
barked being sunk by ice and he get
ting ducking. Their escape in boats
was covered by some four men on the
steamer with revolvers, and shots
were exchanged with the detectives,
who were on the dock. The steamer
escaped with Tweed to Georgian Bay,
the detectives being unable to follow
but they expect to soon capture him.
Year: 1876

Cleveland, May Sit is reported
that about fifteen old striking miners
went TO work in the Silver Creek
mine this morning, at so cents per
ton, under protection of the Ohio
militia. Ali manner of threats are
making against them by the strikers
still holding out, and it is quite pro-
liable that guerrilla warfare will be
resorted TO at the first opportunity.
Year: 1876

Newark Advertiser.


For many years a learned FTenchman
M. bureau de Ia Malle-took special
notice of the times at which various
birds LEFT their nests and began their
songs or betook themselves to the duties
of the day. For thirty years this gen
tleman was in the habit during a good
part of the spring and summer of going
to bed at seven o'clock in the evening in
order that he might rise again at mid
night and be ready to watch the very
earliest movements amongst his feathered
friends.


The most common birds whose habits
were noted by the gentleman in question
appear to have Z" turned out" in the
morning of May and June at the follow
ing hours: The greenfnch from one
to halfpast one the linnet from two to
three; the quail from halfpast two TO
three the blackbird from halfpast
three to four; the redheaded linnet from
three to halfpast three; the sparrow
from five to half past five; the tomtit
from five TO halt-past nye.


1t will be seen that the greenfinch was
the earliest and the sparrow one of the
latest risers among the birds observed.
Who would have thought that the spar
row would be the most mischlevous and
the most lazy of birds I am afraid
other thieves are lazy as well.
Sometimes the birds are deceived in
the hour. Thus Iinnet awoke at half
past twelve and began to sing on tree
close to a window at which the naturalist
had placed his lamp. 1t had mistaken
the light OF the lamp for that of the
sun, but very soon perceived his error
| and, confused and ashamed, went tc
sleep again.


A tame blackbird, which was in the
habit of returning every evening to it,
cage, left hanging in the court, was for
gotten one evening and the cage was not
taken indoors. At midnight when NJ
de Ia Males lamp was lighted the black
bird woke up and began 10 sing the air
he had been taught. Immediately th'
! wild blackbirds in the gardens anC
Year: 1876

\ New Hampshire boy, now resi-
dent Of Wisconsin, called at Manchester
on his way home to his native town the
other day. He was fine scholar, a
graduate of Dartmouth, and a law
student in Merrimac county. Just
previous to his admission to the bar he
took a severe cold, which rendered him
very deaf, and no medical skill was able
to restore his hearing. This affiiction
compelled him to give up his chosen
profession, and he went west very much
broken down in spirits. For ten years
he has been farming, cultivating about
two hundred acres of prairie, and, as he
expressed it, making q good living and
sailing down something every year"
And he declared TO us that if, knowing
what he now knows, lie was to begin hi:
active life over again, he would do ju5
as he was compelled to do SO unwillingF
ten years ago that is, he would thros
aside his profession and settle down on
farm. Said he to u.s.


"There isn't much glory on hlin'
but you get good sure living. leu
are your own master; you can't stafYe
nor be turned out of business; and as lar
as the work is concerned, in these Gays
of horse power a man needn't kill himself
farming any more than at any o.lef
business. It's brains that win on iarll
as wellas everywhere else, and the smart
man is going to ride while the stup'u one
goes aloot, in the cornfield as well as ID
the bar or pulpit. Ishould ike 10 nave
my hearing again, but would not leave
nv farm if | had il"
Year: 1876

Making a fool of ones self is with
many people part Of their educational
experience in life. Once brought to the
experimental realization OF the fact, one
is apt to be wiser ever after.


A man generally makes a fool Of lIm-
self by wasting his money, or going into
some mad speculation, or believing in
mines and companies that are but tiaps
for the unwary, or by losing his temper
al a critical moment.


A woman manages to do the same
thing through the means of her tongue
or her heart She talks herself into
tribulation, OF she gives her love to some
worthless creature who becomes the bane
of her life.


It is over his empty purse that man
generally stands and clenches his hands,
aud mutters, GIVE made fool Of my
self" It is over her empty Ieart that
a woman usually walls forth the same
words
Year: 1876

The Black Hills miners have hit upon
a new expedient for lowering the market
value of mines. A man who manifested
a great interest in a mine discovered
there, descended into shaft, and while
several parties stood at the mouth of the
shaft, he went through the motions of
" sailing" the mine, so that when the
richness of the new mine was made
known, a dangerous report that it was
salted . kept the price down until Mr.
Speculator bought the property, when it
turned out that he hadn't put a single
color in the shaft, but it was all it
was represented 10 be, and more too.
The man who did it ought 10 ruR for
congress.
Year: 1876

thousands of years after solidifcation
commenced--surface portions Of the
melted material losing heat, freezing and
sinking Immediately, ,eor growing to the
thickness of a few meters where the sur
face would be cool, and the whole solid
dense enough tosink. This process must
60 on until the sunk portions Of crust
build up from the bottom sufficiently
close-ribbed skeleton or frame to allow
fresh ine1ustations to remain, bridging
across the now small areas Of lava pools
or lakes"


This IS a striking picture Of the
growth of the round earth, which was
once supposed to have been made from
the first 80 fast that it can not be
moved" We are rather sorry to be
robbed OF the belief IN tie esatral lava
sxSean sfte-
Year: 1876

A colored man in Virginia was
walking out one morning before break
fast, and discovered fawn lying asleep
near spring. Softly approaching he
seized it, and hosting it on his shoulder,
started for home. But the fawn set up
piteous bleating, and the tables were
very unexpectedly turned by the ap-
pearance of a very formidable buck, iol-
lowed by doe, the first of which charg-
ed to the rescue so suddenly that he
abstracting portion of the colored gen.
tIeman's coat as he was tumultuously
ascended tree. Then the enraged ami
NAL watched for two hours under that
tree. but at the end of that time went
away, and the man descended softly and
skipped homeward.
Year: 1876

France, the destruction Of whose inn
perial army we hailed as the promise Of
disarmament, is now organizing an army
by the side Of which Napoleon's himsy
battalions were q mere train band.
Every Frcnchman who is not positively
crippled or inyalided now belongs to the
army for five years between the ages Of
twenty and twenty-nine; not all serve
this length Of time, a certain proportion
who are drawn by lot hr.ng furloughed
after six months service; another class
in pursuit of a liberal education get oft
by volunteering for one year. passing an
examination in their studies and paying
Communication money Of $500. Then
there are the ''reservists," so-called, the
older men, who are supposed 20 have
graduated from the active army.
One in two years the reservists meet
and drill for a fortnight They have
Just been under drill, the men being
called out in the same order as if
the present organization had been
in force for some years. Nine corps of
10000 men each have thus been under
drill, many Of them veterans Of the last
war, but strangers to the new arm (the
fjsI gras) which has been adopted since
they were in the field. A third grand di-
vision is the territorial army" or men
from thirty TO forty years Of age, who
sro only TO be called out in the defense
Of the district in which they are enrolled.
The whole male population are given
legal status as belligerents, in order to
protect them from any OF those scruples
which led the Germans, it is said, to
shoot citizens in the defense of their
homes because they were irregulars.
But, practically, every man from twen-
t. to forty years Of age is a part of the
g