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Year: 1876

On Thursday, as Mir. George Harrison was throwing hay from one of his mows Tn his barn on Dibbie Hill, to fodder his cattle, his fork struck something hard, and, upon removing the hay some two feet below the surface of the now, he discovered the body of Newton Cogswell who shot his wife on the 3lst of Dec. As there is no reason to doubt that his death occnrrd about that time the onely proof of its identity was the clothing and the picture of his wife hich was found in his pocket. An inquest was held on the remains which were buried on Friday. The night on which he shot his wife, after committing the deed, he returned to his fathers honse. and said that he had shot Mary but was not going to be hung for it either, and that his body would be found in Harrison's ba n. He changed his boots, took what opium he could find in the house and left. The next morning, the authorities tracked him to this barn but were unable to find him. .

 The old folks concert given last We'd nesday evening at Falls Village was suc- cess. The receipts were oyer $100. b The last two weeks have been, very favorable for securing the ice crop and wood piles.

 Miss Monroe who has been spending the winter with us started for her home this week, to the regret of the many friends she made during her short stay in town.

 Fifteen persons united with the North Cornwall church on profession of their faith on Sunday of last week.

 Eugene Wickwire has rented the Noah Rogers farm for the coming season.
Year: 1876

Have been made by the indefatigable explorers of Africa

 with the natural result of the lapse of time, have brought into public view a multitude of new men, lives every one is curious to know the particulars Great battles have been fought and important sieges maintained of which the details yet preserved only newspapers the transient publications day but which ought to take their place in
Year: 1876

In prepal ing the present edition for the press it has accordingly been the aim of the editors to bring down the information of the latest possible dates, and to furnish accurate account of the most recent dscov

 cries i'll seience of every fresh production in era- ture, and of the newest inventions in the practical arts well to give succinct and original record of the progress of
Year: 1876

Which introduced for the first time in the present edition have been added not for the sake of pictorial effect but to give greater lucidty and force to the plantations in the text They embrace all branches of famous and remarkable features of scenery archec- ture, and well the various processes of chanics and manufactures Although intended for instruction rather than establishment, pains have hARn n inEnra their
Year: 1876

Bhe work has been begun after long and careful preliminary labor and with the most ample resources for carrying it on to a successful ternination.

 None of the original stereotype plates have been used, but every page has been
Year: 1876

The St. Louis Republican tells this touchingly sad story: She was to meet her promised husband here, but he came not, and her child was born in the poor house. The mother is getting strong again, her face is cheery and her eyes-never downcast-are bright and full of the light of hope. There is not shadow of shame OH her features. If shadow thought ever comes, faith in her lover meets it, hope in their future drives it away and the charity all around shuts the cold world out. Some philan, thropic ladies enter. They come on mission of good, as they believe. They talk of her room as chamber of sin and shame, of her as & fallen woman. They picture her degradation. They ask her to make them promise to sin no more. They kill her with this intended kind. ness. They had mistaken their woman and their mission in this case. The shock to that shrinking, true womanly nature is fatal. Conscious of her own heart innocence, knowing that she is true to her love, and believing that time would crown her love with wifehood, as she already felt crowned with mother hood, this rude charge of shame is her deathblow. Faith and hope and charity and life are extinguished together. Speechless she turns her face [ 3 the wall and folds her babe to her br' lst. The philanthropic ladies leave, si hing over her as a hardened, incorrigi ble case. Her heart broke. When the next atten- dant entered the room there 'ay dead mother clasping her living cEild.
Year: 1876

A grocer in the town of Santa Clara, Cal, has adopted an original method of busine s. Each side of the store is fitted up for business on it's own account. In the general arrangement each side is a duplicate of the other, the difference being that one side is cash and the other credit. When customer comes in, the first question asked is: "Do you wish to buy for cash or on account 2" If it is 8 cash customer the goods and prices on the cash side are shown, but if it is one who wants credit, he is shown the other side. and made to realize the value of ready money.
Year: 1876

EDITOR HERALD: In my connmu-
nication of the Sth inst. only stated
fact "that we have no market for
our limes.n Now l will say that "last
year we had no market for our lines"
and unless market can be establish
ed by the expressing and sale of lime
juice, then we never will have mar
ket for our lines. / think the man
"who will plant q lime grove " and
rely on future connections with Pres
colt for market, quite visionary, for
the reason that one dozen lime trees
would supply the present demand in
Prescott, and the Eastern cities are
supplied from the Gulf of Mexico and
the West Indies for less than we
would have to pay for freight. We
don't want "49" prices for our lines,
on the contrary we are anxious and
willing to sell our lines at $3.50 per
1000, or a quarter of cent piece,
and why are they worth cent when
they can be bought for a quarter Of a
cent? One of my neighbors bargain
ed his lines for $3.50 per 1000, and af-
ter having picked them the bargainer
backed out, and if Zone who will
plant lime grove" will go to that
neighbor he can get lines at even less
than his own price, also at the grove
of the subscriber.


The fact is it costs both money and
labor to raise lines here, and one who
has the produce of his labor rotting on
the ground, maybe lone who owns a
lime grove" sold trees with 1000 lines
on for Sc per tree, and has more OF the
same sort to sell at the same price,
and if you want to know who it is,
LIME GROVE.


Jan. Sth, 1876.
Year: 1876

If the two parties who, after having
repeated and sundry drinks by invita-
ton out of certain small dimijohn
in Temple Block yesterday evening,
and then had the audacity to effect an
entrance into the Office where it be-
longed and carried the same off, donot
wish to be prosecuted and be forever
considered the most ungrateful of
wretches, they will please return the
same Immediately filled with better
whisky than they drank out of it.


Some of the prominent citizens of
Wilmington have been victimized by
sharper named Lawlor, who pre-.
tended to be a matchmaker, and got
quite number of watches into his
possession for the purpose of repairing
them. On Sunday last he disappeared
and word was telegra phed to Anaheim
to arrest him, which was done, and
day before yesterday he was returned
to Wilmington, where he will have
chance TO explain why he did not fix
the watches before he left.


1t turn- nllt that the man reported
to hav, been shot at Wilmington, was
shot witt tue bntt of the pistol. The
circumstances are these: Two French
men, both sheep men. quafreled, and
one snapped two caps In an effort to
shoot the other, but not succeeding in
getting tb, pistol 10 go off he battered
the head of the other with the butt,
when becoming frightened, he ran off.
The Justice and another man went
out to the hills to arrest him, and
while they were gone the man re-
turned and gave himself up. The
man that was shot is but slightly in
jured.
Year: 1876

He looked like Prince, or retired
Major General, as he stepped out of
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Re-
quena streets, opposite the U. S. Ho-
tel, with new black beaver suit,
which he had just paid SIS for, and as
he walked down Main street the eye
of envy was on him, and numerous
were the inquiries of where he had
that splendid fitting suit made; and
astonishment was depicted on every
countenance as he answered that it
came from the Bazaar, and he had
only paid SIS for it. There are few
more left, SO hurry up and get one be-
fore they are all gone. decll-1m
Year: 1876

They met by chance at the Centennial.
She sweet twenty and he sweet thirty, both
from the Faderland. She gazed upon him
and he gazed upon her. They went to
Chester, made the bargain over quafing
lager and limberger; let the barkeeper into
the secret, and Lutheran minister tied
the knot ten minutes afterward.
Year: 1876

On Wednesday evening the train south on
the Wilmington and Reading Railroad, due
here at Z 35, did not reach here until mid
night, because the tender got off the track
and could not get on easily.
Year: 1876

A dispatch received in this cit,
on yesterday by the Philips & Colby
construction company, and sen
from Boston by c. L. Colby, q
member of the company, i! forns u,
that needtul funds have been raised
and that the work Of building the
road of the Wisconsin Central from
Wore ester to Ashland, distance sc
miles, will be entered upon at once
and pushed with all possible rapid
ity, and it is hoped that sufficien;
force can be worked to cover the
gap, and furnish a through route to
Lake Superior before the close OF
the present season.


From other information eceived
it is learned that work has also
been inaugurated on the line of the
road between Portage and Stevens
Point, telegram received yester-
day stating that track-laying from
Hancock station south was begun
yesterday, and will be crowded as
rapidly as possible until the work OF
this division is complete. 1t was a
purpose of the company, which
would doubtless have been realized
had the weather thus far during
the season been favorable, to have
this branch of the work completed
by July 4. That, however, is not
now possible, owing TO the hind
RANGES which have occurred, but it
is announced as a certainty that
August lst will see the work con-
pleted.
Year: 1876

There is true humor in the following
story: Once upon a time there lived
an old gentleman in a large. house
He had servants and everything ht
wanted, yet he was not happy, and
when things did not go as lie wished,
he wa. cross. At last his servant left
him. Quite out of temper he went to
a neighbor with a story of distress.


''It seems to me-" said the neighbor,
sagaciously, "'twould be well for you
to Gil yourself a little"


ITO oil myself"


eyes, and will explain Some time
ago one of the doors in my house
creaked. Nobody, therefore, liked to
go 10 or out by it. One day i oiled it:
hinges, and it has been constantly used
by everybody ever since"


Then You think I am Ike your
creeking door," cried the old gentle.
man. ''How 90 you want me to oil
myselff


''That's an easy mater" said the
neighbor; "go hone and engage q ser
want, and when he does right praise
him If on the contrary, he does some
thing aIniss, do not be cross; oil your
voice and words with the oil of love.


The old gentleman went home, and
no harsh or ugly word was found in his
house afternard. Every family should
have a bottle of this precious oil, fol
every family is liable to have creak.
ing hinge in the shape Of a fretful dis
position, a cross temper, or q fault
finding spirit
Year: 1876

growth bend beneath the weight oi
'hoppers until the tops touched the
wheat growing alongside. Ihave been
more exact than this; / have counted,
and found, in twenty places in an oats
field, an average of Is to 90 grasshop-
pers on each stem; the corn covered
the same way, in proportion to its
available space, and the ground pretty
thickly strewn besides. This is not
for any one particular spot, but for the
whole county, aye, the whole region
of country from here to the British
possession, and from 80 miles East oi
here, as far West as We can hear of
But the near future is more dreary
looking than the present or the past,
1 for the farmer here, from the fact that
those which were here, destroyed oul
crops and have gone South, have de-
posted eggs until the ground is liter
ally full of then-the surface looks
like the face of nutmeg crater. A
friend of nJiEe dug up six inches square
of clay, counted the eggs therein, and
found bordering on sir thousand.
While they may have been unusually
thick in that particular spot, yet it is
an index which points out tina. a most
! overwhelming destructive force Will
hatch out here next year, that will
prevent US from raising any crops, m.
less some improbable human or divine
agency interferes to save Us.


There are scme peculiarities of these
devils which, TO you grasshopper
greenhorrs, nay be worth noticing.
This years band of them would travel
no other direction but South. When
ever we had north wind they would
rise and go, but the moment it changed
they would settle again Ghis fact,
coupled with the elementary fatality
which gave US ten days South wind
after their arrival here gave them a
better chance at us than otherwise.
This also explaines why you will hear
of some localities la their track almost
uninjured.) Their eggs do not hatch
out in this climate until they lie a win
ter in the ground.


The male hopper bores the hole and
the female comes along and deposits
the eggs. They move in columns, and
do not vary their line of march to any
perceptible degree; 'onward, right
on" is their motto. What had we
better jo2" is the question upoi: which
many farmer in the Northwest LAS
been and is pondering. 1t is easy
enough fer new settlers and small
families to seek, temporarily, some
more prosperous country, but take a
man WHO for seventeen or eighteen
years has braved the trials and storms
of Northwestern Iowa, in raising a.
family and making a comfortable
home. How. is he goiIg g to 'puil up
stakes" sacrifice the result of long,
earnest toll, and in some other region
start afresh, poor as he began9 l know
that by staying here we will undergo
some difficulties in making respecta
bic living during the next year or two,
but believe that in the end we will
come out all right. This is beautiful,
fertile, healthy country, and, free from
grasshoppers, there is no place would
sooner live 1t is hoped that we will
see them no more after this matching"
leaves us. Yours, &C.,


JAMES II. MoREHEAD.
Year: 1876

They seek to place in such hands the
balance of political power, and taini
the glorious rece I'd of Republicanism
with degradation, humiliation and ruin.
I am, however, badly deceived if the
intelligence of the American people
will permit themselves to be guilty of
such self qualification as again to trust
power in the hands of the worst element
OF the country of which the Democratic
party is composed. The past session
of the present lower House of Congress
is an example. 1t is a fine precedent
OF craftsmanship. 1t was grand, mag
nificent and ennobling; so was seees-
sion.


L understand how it is when you say
that Hancock county is '.red hot' for
Tilden. Don't you know those fellows
who vote eternally Democratic back
there, are not governed by the dictates
of reason and sense2 They simply act
and are led by a blind passion. The
Democratic ticket is voted through u
sense of stubbornness and political ha-
tired. They have no other conception
or higher motive they know very
well that their party has history as
black es hell ever was in its palmiest
days. They know very well that the
Democratic party sustained and are
directly responsible for the blackest
Institution on record, the institution
OF slavery past the middle of the nine
teenth century, and finally to bind
more firmly tie yoke of human ben
dage on weaker race brought about
the greatest war OF modern times.
They know, too, that the damnable
institution, smirched with inbumanity
and injustice, and defied the higher
laws, the laws OF God. Notwithstand-
ing all these things, they continue to
read the Hancock Courier and cast
their ballots in favor of the internal
party and of mockish sentimentality.
But It is the policy of the party TO op-
pose. They have opposed every grand
idea ever conceived. They have op-
posed every popular sentiment of the
age and defeated the same, if in their
power. Your brother,


]. B. POWELL.
Year: 1876

now frequent At these, the beauties
| Just returned to town, after some weeks
sojourn by the sea and among the noun
tains. with the flush of health ON their
cheeks, and with the pleasure of turning
over the latest styles, are seen to great
advantage. The modes which these
openings disclose, show considerable
change from last season, and generally
for the better. Hats are worn less on
the nap of the neck and more ON the top
of the head. The colors of the hat itself
are generally very plain and even Quak-
er like, but the trimmings are very gay,
cardinal red especially abounding. Feath-
ers are much worn, especially small
white ostriches. The dresses are more
trimmed than ever. AT the opening of
Fifth Avenue theatre Wednesday even
ing, the dresses of the ladies on the stage,
which are always in the latest style, were
most elaborately trimmed especially with
strongly matched colors, as for instance,
red and yellow in bands, one above the
other These light up well with gas light
and therefore are better for evening wear
than day receptions, at which more sub
dued colors are likely to prevail.


But the ladies of New York who go to
openings, by no means compose all of
their sex in New York, and many of them
are occupying themselves in ways and
means to provide for


THE POOR,


whom we have always with us, but of
whom we are likely to have more than
ever the coming winter. The army of
the unemployed is vast and does not
grow smaller, and if The winter be
cold one great suffering is likely to come.
The difficulty will be complicated by not
being able to distinguish. IN many cases
the deserving poor from the tramps by
trade, of whom hundreds are focking
hither to spend the winter. But at all
events, relief associations of various
kinds, are already forming by benevo-
lent ladies, and some effort will be made
to tighten the distress. One ofthe effects
of the hard times has been to decrease
the number of


TRADE UNIONS,


of which several have gone out of exist
ence altogether and more are likely to
dc so shortly. When a mechanic, his
wife and children are in want of food,
he is not very likely to allow himself 10
be dictated by trade union, he takes
what he can get and lets the union go.
This decadence of trades unions is not
to be deplored. Useful institutions in
some respects, they became during the
flush times that followed the war, an in
tolerable tyranny, and interferred so
much with both employers and employ
ed, that portion of the hard times may
be fairly attributed to them. Forced to
come down they will descend 10 their le-
gitimate level.


New YORK, Get 8, 1876.
Year: 1876

DARBER SHOP is THE PLACE WHERt
X Won can oct the best of work done in the
neatest possible style. Ladies' and Children I
HaIr Cutting nd Shampooing speciality.
Stop Opposite Old White Corner. Two SnaIrs
always found ready for business Call and
see him and get n Good lob. Ladies desiring
work DONE by leaving word al the shop ne
will call at their residence. IS
Year: 1876

There is famous line in Virgil
which may be freely translated thus /:
Perhaps hereafter it will delight us to
remember even these things also" 1t
was spoken to the weary band of Eneas,
who had sailed so long over stormy seas,
met so many battling disasters; but it
belongs to us as we'll as to those old he
roes. There is scarcely any trouble so
dire that there is not certain halfmel-
apcholy pleasure in recalling it when it
is all over. While they are passing, our
woes are very apt to seem interminablef;
but as the slow days go on-the weeks
and the months-at last we have
ceased to suffer, and happiness has sprung
up like flower in our pathway. Human
pain is hard thing to contemplate, and
yet if it endures but for night, and JOY
cometh in the morning, we can meet il
bravely. Nor should an immortal soul
be conquered by any mortal woe. We
have never been cheated, says Emerson,
by any other-every man who is cheated
has cheated himself: and we can never
be wronged unless we ourselves consent
to it. These sentences seem untrue tt
the shallow reader, for their truth lies
deep in the foundation of things. 1t il
because the immortal part of us is all
which seems to the philosopher of value


that any merely temporal loss is not
worth reckoning. Does some one rol
us of our gold ?-but before the century
is over, we shall have left all that behind
us, and gone on. Does the enemy cut OF
our right hand but soon this wornout
garment of the body will be no more
needed. The wrong that hurts the SOU


is the only real hurt, and to that We
must consent before we can suffer 1t.
Year: 1876

The debate on sthe usual address in
answer to the Queens speech in the Eng
lish Parliament touched upon but one
topic which demands our attentiOn-t the
purchase of the Suez Canal shares. In
the House of Commons, the Marquis of
Harrington, the Liberal leader, struck
the vital point by demanding TO know
how this purchase could secure an unin-
terrupted passage to India, for he appre-
hended that in case of war the Khedive
would at once close the canal. In reply,
Mr.. Disraeli declined to expose his hand.
He justified the purchase on the ground
that it was made to keep the canal from
falling into the hands of France, who
was negotiating for it. He considered
that the purchase gave additional Sc
curity to freedom of intercourse with
India but declined to enter into an ex-
planation as to what England would do
in time of war. In the House of Lords,
Earl Derby declared that the purchase
was made to secure an uninterrupted
passage through Egypt, and to prevent
the establishment of a foreign monopoly.


1t is quite clear from this debate, if it
ever was in doubt before, that the Dis
idSit hhhioeiy hdNC iiupOituuJ pIOJcCuS
behind the purchase which they do not
wish, as yet, to expOse-projects which
contemplate an unbroken and perma-
nent right of way to India through the
Mediterranean and Egypt. The mouth
of the Mediterranean they hold with the
impregnable fortress of Gibraltar; and
the other narrow portion of that sea be-
tween Cape Bou and Sicily they COM
mand with the Isle of Malta and its ac-
companying fleet. Given path through
Egypt, and the short route to their In
dian Empire is fully in hand. 1t is
clear that they intend much more
permanent footing in the Khedive's do
main. We have already called attention
to steps toward securing control of his
railways, and the mysterious mission of
Mr.. Cave, on which Disraeli also refuses
explanation, indicates a purpose to effect
some offensive and defensive alliance,
even if not complete possession, which
shall make Egypt, to all intents and pur-
poses of defense, a British dependence.
This is altogether the most important
step in European policy since the treaty
of Paris; and we are far from hearing
the last of it.-Cincinnati Times.
Year: 1876

A New York dispatch contains infor-
nation of interest to very large ele-
ment of readers. 1t relates to the new
departure in base ball matters, being
the disruption of the National Associa
ton, and the formation of new organi
zation consisting of the eight leading
professional clubs, four from the east and
four from the west, to the exclusion OF
several weak clubs whose participation
In contests for the championship can be
dispensed with 10 the advantage of the
game in general. The step taken by the
eight leading clubs is purely in the in.
terest of financial protection, and will
be received with great favor among. the
admirers of base ball. The plan had its
inception in the sporting columns ol
the Chicago Tribune In October last.