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Year: 1876

issued daily. The items alone are only
to be known to be appreciated by those
doing business at this day when so many
are engaged. and the trade Is in such an
unsettled condition.


The office of the agency is situated
over Peterson & Savages's Insurance
Office, No. 1150 Main street. The rooms
are elegantly furnished and fitted up to
suit the business and everything is sys-
tematized that any information desirable
can be obtained in few minutes. We
cheerfully and heartily recommend to
the business men of this community and
State, the McKillop Commercial Agency:
feeling that it will be to their interest to
do so.
Year: 1876

TO the People of the Second Congressional


District of Vest Virginia:


The duty has devolved upon me as
your Representatives. Congress to make
the appointment of Cadet of the United
States Military Academy, at West Point.
As | desire to secure the best youthful
talent and capacity in my district, l give
this early notice of this intended appoint.
ment that all may file their applications
who desire to compete for the position.
To enable me to discharge this duty
with the greatest impartiality to all who
shall apply, | shall establish Competi-
tive Board of Examination to meet at
some suitable point in the district to de-
termine upon the capacity and merits
of the various applicants.


The annual examination at the Mill
tsry Academy will thi, centennial year
take place in april instead OF the ordi-
nary period in June; and any one who
NAV be appointed by me as cadet will be
expected to be at West Point not later
than the oath of April next. Due notice
OF the place of meeting and Of the per-
sons composing the competitive board
will be given. In the meantime, all
who desire to become competitors for the
rosition will announce their purpose by
letter addressed to me at Washington,
DC.


Papers of the District are requested to
copy. CHAs' y. FAULKNER
Year: 1876

In the impeachment trial yesterday
several witnesses were examined. The
princial point endesvored to be made
by the Managers was that WILLIAM L
BURpErT obtained loan from the
Shepherdstown bank at an unusually low
rate of interest. This was negotiated
for the purpose of paying for stock in
the Ksnawha Valley Bank which
was paying ten per cent
the condition on which this loan was
made being that an average deposit Of
State funds should be kept IN the bank
This evidence was demanded, as Mr..
CAsLlLE expressed it, for the purpose of
proving conspiracy link by lihk.
Nothing of any great Importance, how
over, was elected.
Year: 1876

URE OF THE PROPOSED BRIsrow COMBINATION


JUDGE POLAND 10 NOMINATE DRIsT0w


lBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRIDuSEl


CINCINNATI, June Livery little remains
10 be said tonight about the relative strength oil the
Presidential candidates who To be voted for to-
morrow. There not upon the SURFACE nor
"a far beneath it as he seen any signs OF the
weakening OF the Blaine column. The managers, In
behalf the Speaker, have RENTED none OF their
vigilance, and report losses but on the other hand
many gains the second and third ballot The enthu-
sasn in favor of Blaine also to be increasing
hourly While brass bads and speeches, and fireworks
and shooting do not votes In the Convent on
they are apparently in this measure OF Mr Blanes
popularity with the thousands OF people who are
gathered from every State and Territory n the country
and cannot have their effect The friends Of other
candidates report O detection from Mr. Blaine
and say that whole delegations will leave
him on the second ballot. When the dele
gallons named are examined tho evidence OF their
wayerng not discovered Blaine may be said to be as
strong tonight, not only the first but on the second
and third ballot rs has been The tendency hero
seems toward him. and 1t really appears w though 1t
Year: 1876

that under!es whole creed. Do not go back on IT,
Never fear your enemies bold fight is the best We
should advance and not retrograde But Sir. ought
not to have consented to here at all Frederick
Douglass IL in the hall. He is not much blacker than
hm but he 10 smarter and hope you will give him
Year: 1876

1873 and 1874 were objected to on the ground
that they were made In accordance with the city
taxation law. That objection cannot be urged
against the leyes Of 1875 and 1875, which are
made In accordance with the provisions OF the
general taxation law.


Aid. A1cCrea-I don't believe the people can
take advantage Of their own mistakes in the
way now proposed.


Glr. Farwel-The spirit Of the law Is that all
property shall contribute its fair proportion for
maintaining the expenses Of the Government.
am under the impression that there is pro-
vision still in the statute which says thnt, where
the tax on any property shall fail to be collect
ed it shall not he utterly and irretrevably lost.


And beyond this opinion neither Of the gen
tlenen had anything to say Oh the subject.
Year: 1876

The new hat-srore Of A. P. Harris d Co. ha:
been doing an immense business this last week.
No one wishing to buy hat should fail to give
them call The prices are the lowest in the city.
Year: 1876

A new fabric for overdresses is Of silk
and wool in damask figures with rough
knotty surface.


One thousand dollars is the price OF
flne "crown sable" set, muff and boa,
but the finest sets bring 81, 600.


"Marie Antoinette and elbow sleeves
or tight fitting coat sleeves down to the
wrist are both worn for evening.


A new way OF ornamenting the bot
tom OF dresses is to use thick fringes
falling over box or knife plaitings.
Black is the favorite color for dol
mans, but lighter ones for mild weather
are made Of gray or dark camel's hair
cloths.


A fan-like effect is given to the back
OF dress skirts by running draw string
in casing across the back breadth
just below the knee.


Mourning yluitKs are trimmed with
titan or basket woven braids, put neavy
lusterless silk bands, cut bias, are pre-
ferred by conservative ladies.


For second mourning, or when Grape
and bombazine are discarded, the hat or
bonnet is of plain, lusterless black silk
or felt, trimmed with such silk.


New felt balmorals have no plaits or
gathers around the waists they fit
smoothly around over the hips, with n
slight fullipg, made by draw string in
the back.


A pretty, new caprice in sleeve trim
mings is to place band of ribbon or
galloon just above the elbow, fastening
It down with button, loop, and two
short ends.


For mourning handkerchiefs there is
no departure from tho plain linen cam
brio ones, with plain black hens or
borders, and the initial or monogram in
black in one corner.


Dress skirts are not lined; moaistes
use horse hair facings that are very
strong but not stiff. These facings are
half yard deep, covered half way up
from the bottom with an alpaca facing.


Dress skirts are bound with braids
this winter, but faced with a wide
alpaca galloon, which peeps below the
bottom of the skirt like a piping. 1t
requires two rows of stitching to keep
this braid in its place.


Polonaises that are to be worn in both
the house and street are provided with
an extra lining, extending below the
hips, of gray, red or white flannel,
which is bnsted in for street wear. The
lower edge of this lining is simply
rinkad
Year: 1876

A man was saving wood in back
yard, at Salt Lake City. He severed two
sticks as thick as your wrist, and then
went into the house. "Mary," said he
to his wife, "my country needs me;
there's no use talking, 1 must go to
slaughter all these Iniuns; no true pa
triot can be expected to hang around a
woodpile these days"


"John," said his wife, "if you fight
Iniuns as we'll as you saw wood and sup
port your family, it would take one hun
dred anil eighteen like you to take one
sauaw, and yOu would have to catch her
when she had the ague by throwing pep-
per in her eyes" John went back to the
woodpile wondering who told his wife
all about him.
Year: 1876

FARM LABoRERs.-A north # Eng
land paper has made careful cumpari-
son of the condition OF men and women
regularly employed on farms in Oumber-
land in 1853 and now. In brief it ap-
pears that the wages of men and women
permanently employed on a farm are
no less than SIX times greater, and that
on an average tho cost of the essential
articles of food is a little over three
times higher. The wagea in the north
Of England are usually at least one-third
higher than in the south.
Year: 1876

A Homo Recipe for OItO Of Roses.
St. Louis Globe-D DOmocrat.l


At this time Of the year, when
so many rose leaves fall to the
ground and are wasted, every lady
can, if she chooses, manufacture a
delicious perfume at a cost of less
than fifty cents, and in a few min
utes' time. Take a two gallon
glass jar, and fill full of clean,
freshly picked rose leaves. Then
cork it tight, and take d two-ounce
vial and fit the neck, into the cork
of the two-gallon jar. Cut some
sponge into narrow strips; soak
them in good oil, free from smell or
rancidity, put the strips into the
small vial, turn it upside down, and
put the neck into the bung of the
large jar. Place them in the sun
for four days, and the heat will dis
till the rose leaves, and the aroma
will ascend and saturate the oil in
the sponge, Put in fresh leaves
about four times, and you will have
small vial of the finest otto of
roses that can possibly be made,
and in quantity sufficient to scent
the clothes and handkerchiefs of a
a family for a year. Pure otto OF
roses cost thirty dollars per ounce,
Be sure and keep it well corked Oh
it will evaporate.
Year: 1876

London Times. May I'll


The picture which had already
become famous for having been sold
for 10,1O0 guineas ($53,025), the
highest price ever paid at an auc-
ton for a portrait, has now been
rendered still more so by having
been stolen from the gallery in
which it had only recently been
placed for exhibition, known as the
New British Institution, No. BOB,
Old Bond street. The greatest ex-
citement arose in the neighborhood
when it became known yesterday
morning, soon after z o'clock, that
this extraordinary and daring rob-
berry had been committed. The
large printed placards in the win
dows inviting attention to the pic
ture were soon surrounded by little
crowds, who read with no small as
tonishment the written notice that
during the night some malicious
person had cut the picture from the
frame and stolen it.


From inquiries made on the spot
it was found that the picture had
been very neatly cut from the
stretching frame after it had been
removed from the gilt frame in
which it hung against the wall,
near the window above the door
way on the first floor., The stretch
ing frame was seen leaning against
a sofa opposite the now empty gilt
frame, and it showed that no un-i
practiced hand had operated upon
the canvas, as the picture itself had
been completely removed, leaving
nothing but the clean cut canvas
at the edges on which it had been
mounted when lined. The gilt
frame had the nails simply bent
back and not extracted, 50 that the
thief or thieves lost no time in
needless trouble.


The apartment in which the
picture was exhibited showed
scarcely any marks of what has
been done, beyond some crumpling
of the drapery hung in front Of
| the picture, This room is not
more than ten feet square, having
only one window opening into
Bond street, theother being blocked
and covered with cloth hanging
like the walls of theroom. A pas
sage opens on to it from the large
gallery where the water-color draw
ings are hung belonging to Messrs.
Agnew. But the one window was
found open about two feet, and on
examining the lead outside there
was distinctly visible the mark of q
nailed shoe. The window had no
blind to it, consequently if any
light had been used during the
work of the thieves it would in all
probability have been noticed by
the policemen in the street. who
J were aware that no one resided in
the house after the doors were
closed, and the premises left locked
up for the night. 1t appears that
/. a porter was employed by Messrs
/ Agnew to see to the fastening Of
the doors, and that the same person


was entrusted with the opening Of
: the doors in the morning. As fal
2 as is at present known, all the
! doors was found fastened as they
\ had been left.


f'ilft M
Year: 1876

A few weeks ago Jacob KIinck, a
farmer near Fox Chase, Pa, was saving
down large chestnut tree when the
teeth of the saw came in contact with
some metallic substance. Fearing the
presence of something explosive, he di-
rected the workmen to saw on the other
side of the tree. They did so. After
the tree had been felled o gold watch.
two gold pencil cases and q gold chain
were found imbedded in the wood


eighteen inches from the surface. They
were wrapped in soiled sock. The tree
was sawn off close to the ground, and
they had evidently been hidden at the
junction of two roots and the wood had
grown over and inclosed them. The
watch was old fashioned, having a case
which could be detached, and was in
scribed with the date 174O. One of the
pencil cases was provided with a pen.
The other had only pencil and was
minus the seal. The chain was long and
was intended to pass around the neck of
the wearer. There was also q gold watch
key, which, however, did not fit the
watch. The tree had attained q great
age, being about six feet in diameter.
An old mansion once stood near by, and
it is supposed that the articles in dues-
ton were buried during the war of the
Revolution. The watch was uninjured,
except that the hands were rusted off.
Year: 1876

The American girl is left wholly to
her own guardianship. She has half q
dozen intimates among the young fel.
lows of her set; she corresponds with
them, accompanies them to concerts and
the opera unchaperoned, and sometimes
winds up the evening by a supper at a
restaurant which ends in the small
hours. They are not ostensibly lovers
they are friends, bons can,arades.
She finds the half-friendly, half-pas-
sionate intercourse more Intoxicating
than love-making. She opens the
depths of her innocent heart to the vul-
gar prying eyes; the favored intimate
becomes an ha6it,te of the house.. In a
few months, perhaps weeks, he knows
more of the secret feelings, desires,
aims of the girl, than her sister or broth
or, or the mother who bore her. He
treats her personally with liberty
which is graduated by her individual
character. But it is inevitably liberty.
The girl as inevitably ends by loving
him; the more unworldly, the more pure
she is, the more likely is she to mistake
his course as honorable. In the mean
while, the man has not the slightestidea
OF marrying her; a very small minority
OF young men are in a marrying mood in
these hard times; he has just as little
idea of dishonoring or even injuring her
in public esteem, but he accepts the in
timacy or friendship of a young girl as
one of the good things which society
offers him; he would be a dull fool If
when lovely That's is left to sit beside
him he did not take the goods the gods
provide him. Meanwhile American So
ciety rules that the father and mother of
the girl shall remain perfectly passive.
The man may be the most desirable or
unsuitable husband for their daughter,
but they have no right to interfere until
he formally proposes. If they should
"ask his Intentions" according to the
rational custom of our forefathers, the
girl herself would be the first to rebel
on the ground that she was made rilicu-
lous, and that her "friend" was mis-
taken for her lover. When the friend
betakes himself to fresh fields, the woman
controls her disappointment as she can,
and marries somebody for an establish
ment or home; or finds her pain too
sharp to bear, and there is murder or
a suicide, and the usual chatter of in
SANITY
Year: 1876

NEW YORK, March 17th.-Belmont,
the newly-elected President of the
Bank of the State of New York, states
that, after strict examination of the
accounts and assets, he found that the
Bank would be able to more than
meet its liabilities. The Bank will
probably open for business on Mon
daU
Year: 1876

These are letters Robinson


sent,
To be pigeon-aoled by the:


President,
Complaining that soldiers


at Fort Sill
Were charged for whiskey a


dollar a gill,
To reimburse Marsh and Ev-


ans for
The Bribe that took and


didn't abhor
The model Secretary of


War
That was put in the Cabinet


Grant built,
Year: 1876

1t may be Of some value TO housekeep-
ers who have marble.top furniture to know
that the common solution of gum arabic
is an excellent absorbent, and will remove
dirt, &C., from marble. First, brush the
dust of the piece to be cleaned, then ap-
ply with brush good coat of gum
arabic, about the consistency Of thick
Office mucilage, expose it to the sun or
dry wind, or both. In a short time it
will crack and peel off, If all the gum
should not peel of, wash it with clean
water and a clean cloth. OF course, if
the first application does not have the
desired effect it should be applied again.
Second, make paste with soft soap and
whiting, wash the marble with it and then
leave a coat Of paste upon it for two or
three days. Afterward wash off with
warm (not hot) water and soap--Scien-
tifc american.
Year: 1876

To improve the appearance of furniture,
the Industrial Monthly advises its readers
to take soft sponge, wet with clean, cold
water, and wash over the article. Then
take soft chamois skin, and wipe it clean.
Dry the skin as well as you can by wiring
ing it in the hands, and wipe the water off
the furniture, being careful to wipe only
one way. Never use a dry chamois on
varnish work. If the varnish is defaced
and shows white marks, take linseed oil
and turpentine in equal parts, shake them
well in vial, and apply very small
quantity on soft rag until the color is
restored; then with clean soft rag wipe
the mixture of. In deeply carved work
the dust cannot be removed with a sponge.
Use stiff.haired paint-brush instead of a
sponge.
Year: 1876

The Two WEBsTERs.-When Mr..
Webster visited England, after he had
attained fame enough to precede him, an
English gentleman took him one day to
see Lord Brougham. That eminent Briton
received our Daniel with such GOODNESS
that he was glad to get away and back to
his rooms. The friend who had taken
him at once returned to Lord Broueham
in haste and anger.


"My lord, how could you behave with
such unseemly rudeness and discourtesy to
so great lawyer and statesman 1t was
insulting to him, and has filed me with
modification"


"Why, what on earth have done, and
whom have been rude to2"


'To Daniel Webster, of the Senate of
the United States"


"Great Jupiter, what a blunder! /
thought it was that fellow who made a
dictionary and nearly ruined the English
language


Then the great Chancellor quickly hun
ted up the American Senator, and having
other tastes in common besides law and
politics, they made royal night Of it.
Year: 1876

Some time since lady happened to see
in the streets Of London monkey begging
pence from the public in the prettiest
manner for the benefit of his master, an
organ grinder. She took a fancy to it,
bought it, dressed it in the gaudiest of
raiment, and at fashionable reception
her pet was the wonder of the room. In
the course Of the evening young lady
sat down at the piano, and sang with
exquisite taste little drawiDg-room song.
As soon as she had finished, the monkey,
who had not forgotten his former duties,
seizing hat, to the amusement of every
body, went round Of the guests and collec-
ted large sum. His task ended he jum


ped upon the knee of the singer, amid
shouts of laughter, and deposited the con
tents Of his hat in the lady's lap. The
collection was devoted to charitable fund.
Year: 1876

Spurgeon tells the following story "a
poor man, who had large family, gave
them very comfortable support while he
was in health. He broke his leg, and was
laid up for some weeks As he would be
for some time destitute Of the means of
grace, it was proposed to hold prayer
meeting at his house. The meeting was
lead by Deacon Brown. A loud knock at
the door interrupted the service. A tall,
lank, blue-frocked youngster stood at the
door, with an OK goad in his hand, and
asked to see Deacon Brown. "Father
could not attend this meeting" he said,
"but he sent his prayers, and they are out
in the cart" They were brought in, in
the shape Of potatoes, beef, pork and corn.
The meeting broke up without benediction.
Year: 1876

Archbishop Whately did not despise
pun, lin fact, he rarely let an opportu-
nifty pass Of perpetrating one, and some
times, at jolly dinner, would exert
himself to make the worst pun of the
evening. He thought gardening dan
gerous indulgence for lunatics, because
they might grow madder. And il is to
him We owe the valuable information that
Noah's Ark was made Of gopher wood,
but Joan Of Arc was Maid Of Orleans.
Year: 1876

Universal suffrage as the basis of city gov
ernment, which commits the levying and dis
bursting of revenue to persons who have no
fixed interest in the immovabie property of
such cities, is worse than failure; it is an
unmxed evil, and the source of innumerable
evils, which, sooner or later, will inevitably
ruin any city that exists, or that is likely ever
to exist, on this earth. There is no wisdom
in seeking to conceal this pregnant truth
from the understanding of Americans
Chicago Times.


The Republican newspapers generally are
of opinion that the time fixed for the Cincin-
natl Convention assures long, vigorous, and
aggressive campaign. The call is spoken Of
as being addressed to the best sentiment and
highest intelligence of the country. The
Cincinnati Gazette thinks the choice of that
city as the place of meeting places Messrs.
Blaine, Morton, Bristow, and Hayes on an
equal footing, and says "there will be no local
or sectional power to create an external pres
sure to bias the deliberations of the Conven-
tion."


The Democratic leaders have come to the
conclusion that something must be done
about the finances, but what that something
is they are not quite so sure. Can't you let
it alone ?" the question of an old statesman
when troublesome problem faced him, must
be answered with negative in this case. So
the Democrats have resolved to take the diff
ficulty, and they propose to do it by repeating
the resumption act, and introducing a totally