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Year: 1876

Senator Morton's friends are losing hope.
One of them informed the editor OF the
Cincinnati Commercial recently, with tear
bedimmed eyes, that he believed it was all
over Between the soft money plank in the
Indiana platform and the "betrayal" of
Pinchback in the house of his friends, Mr..
Morton's prospects have been badly dam
aged. -rr. .sr


In q lecture last Friday. in New York,
Mr.. Moncure doorway said, concerning
land, shat people were looking to the
time when all land should be owned by the
State. The time was coming when it would
be necessary that not one acre OF land in
England should be private. All the land
had been originally given in trust, with the
condition that they should be wrought for
the benefit of the State, and they must not
long hence revert again to the State, which
is the people,"


Judge Taft, the new Secretary of War,
visited the Chamber Of Commerce before
leaving Cincinnati, and was forced against
his will to make a speech. 1t was brief and
sensible, and was as follows: ~ have no
business to make speech to-day. l made
a mistake in coming in. ] look forward
TO the duties which have been imposed on
me, and which 1 am about to undertake,
with that uncertainty which hangs over one
when he enters on that in which he has no
experience. have no business to talk, ex-
cept TO say that you are my friends, and,
therefore, could not resist your urging TO
rise before you. | claim nothing on tho
score of honesty more than Others All
can say for the future Is that will do the
best can"


| A letter from New Hampshire to the New
York Tribune says: ''There Is one very no
/, ticeable thing in the canvass, and that is the
complete disappearance OF the negro ques-
| ton. No ku-klux stories are rehearsed by
the Republicans-the bloody shirt does not
| figure as an torifamme;' the party orators
and presses have gone five years back OF all
the reconstruction issues and appeal direct
" to the sectional prejudice Of the North
against the South. All hopes Of permanent
| " holding the Southern States by the coli
ored vote are abandonedl those States will
pass into the hands of the Democrats, and


the policy Of the Republicans is TO withdraw


to their strongholds in the North, force the


Democracy into the attitude Of Southern
party, which it occupied in the days Of


Pierce and Buchanan, and then fight the


old sectional fight over again-not on be-


half OF the negro, but 70 keep the rebels


from getting possession Of the government,


assuming the Confederate debt and pension
ing the Confederate soldiers"
Year: 1876




IT MAY be very bad for Tom Scott, but
every Texan having an intelligent app1e-
hension of the true interests of Texas will
be pleased to know that the Senate Commit
tee on Railroads, having laid aside the con-
sderation of the Texas Pacific Railroad bill,
which called for a government subsidy or
Endorsement, took up the alternative bills
offered by the Texas Central and Ell Paso.
and Southern Pacific Railroad Companies,
which propose to build substantially the
same road for the land grant already made
for the. purpose. 1t is understood actinn
on account of the earnest personal appeals
of Col Scott to members of the committee.
He stated that any action on a rival bill
would be great injury to himself, and that
If there were no unfriendly measures in Con-
gress he might succeed in having his lapsed
land grant from Texas restored to the Texas
and Pacific Company. 1t seems that Scott
intends to hold the vast public domain of
Texas at all hazards. We had supposed,
when he failed to extend his road be-
yOnu OrG w OTUuI as ne musb ldll,
he would quietly subside, leave Tex
as, go back to Leader, sometimes
called Philadelphia for short, because he
is soon curried, and that Texas would hear
no more of the illustrious Tom Scott. But
Tom evidently expects to come down upon
the innocent Legislature soon to assemble
in this city, and ask the extension of his
concession and the exclusive right to own,
control and manage. the railway system of
the northern portion of Texas. If he can
not give us a highway to the Pacific our
own people can very well take care of the
roads within our own confines, and by
using the land alleged to be held by Scott's
road, we can have lines built by Hunting
ton from Ell Paso to Fort Worth, to Waco,
Austin and San Antonio. Has not Scott
done enough for us 2 Do we owe him any
thing Dosen't he always get two dollars
for one, and does he not propose to rob the
South, even after this service done him by
Texas, of the terminal point and riches and
of the trunk line of the Southern Pacific


He is traitor to those who have dealt
most generously with him and, worse than
this, he has made Southern men betray the


land of their nativity.
Year: 1876

Husbands, we have heard most intelli


gent wives complain, do not make the con-
dition of their business affairs known to
them. An exchange tells of lady who
was first informed of her husbands suspen-
sion 10y reading the announcement in
paper which she accidentally took up in
store while waiting to have an order filled


Whether it was pride or fear that prompted
the secrecy can not be stated, but what can
be expected from wives in the way of true
economy if they are only silent partners in
the matrimonial copartnership2 Not very
long ago a jewelry firm of this city sold
costly set of jewelry to lady. The firm
knew that her husband was in failing con-
dition, for the lady had been long and
profitable customer. When the partner or
dered his clerk not to charge the set which
had been delivered, but to make memo
randum on the blotter, he paid the lady's in
tegrity high compliment. When her hus-
band failed the jewelry came back with
note couched in such terms that the dealer
only regretted that gift of the set would
be construed as an insult TO unaccustomed
poverty. But the lesson should not be lost,
as taught by these facts and while we boast
of the truth and purity of the daughters and
wives of Texas, husbands should tender
that tribute to their courage and intelligence
involved in making them thoroughly
conversant with financial facts affecting the
fortunes of the household. Reasons for
such course are numberless and especially
IN a commonwealth in which woman, save
that she does not vote, is recognized as an
integral member of society. 1t is now COM
monty proposed that the sex, to the extent
that they own property in corporations,
may properly become voters and for the
plain reason that corporate governments,
towns and counties, affect property alone,
the State and its courts protecting life, liber
ty and the pursuit of happiness. In nearly
all the States having school systems, the
women are active voters and managers in all
school elections and most honest, un-
selfish and skillful managers they are of
these most benefcent agencies for the anne
Iteration of the woes of society. The sense
of right and chivalrous spirit of Texans
has conceded to the wife a separate estate, of
which, as head of family, she cannot be
deprived by follies or misfortunes of the
husband, and since the very organic law Of
our government thus respects and guards
the rights of the sex, surely such an incident
as that narrated will never recur in Texan
city, and husbands, remembering the lesson
incuIcated, will never forget to make their
wives cognizant of every fact affecting the
condition of their personal fortunes.
Year: 1876

HORACE GREELEY was sadly prophetic
when he said: ''The darkest day in a man s
life is VIXEN he thinks there is better wav
of getting dollar than squarely earning it,
He had reference to the mad hunt for office
that curses the country with such multi
tudes of aspirants for every place under
every government, local, State and Federal,
however mean the salary OF few the perqui-
sites and infuitesimal the honors. In
truth, men no longer seek office for honors
incident to positions once creditable but
now disgraced by thieves and adventures
to such degree that decent people at last
deem the post of honor the private station.
But the evil is twofold. While offices are
won by corruption and knavery the people
are polluted IN tastes an6 morals and the
worse the rascal, in many localities, as suf-
frage is now exercised, the surer his eleva-
ton and the more rapid the degradation of
offices. The calamity is progressive, crea-
ting and multiplying the evils that give it
origin, and the retrogression of public NOR
ais is more and more rapid, and that 'dark-
est day in mans life" of which Greeley
spoke is also the darkest day in the life of
the country and the incapable and unwor-
thy still deem honest toll the last possible
resort of shabby gentility, and gentility be-
comes, in idleness, more and more shabby,
and the thirst for Office, with that for whis-
ky, grows more and more intense, and the
sense of honor and self-respect Is blunted
and the aspirant for position sinks to the
degraded level of those whose votes he
seeks and thus we find the Thad- Stevens
n-Butler-Rutabaga system of universal,
unrestricted suffrage not only destroying
towns and counties but promoting popular
degradation. It is easier to drag a people
down to pollution than up into the pure air
of truth, intelligence, virtue and patriot
ism, and our codes select the easier task and
discharge it we'll.
Year: 1876

THE solemn and wise Leader says that
Hancock's defeat as q candidate for the
United States Senate must be ascribed to
his Unionism. This true, it is also true
that we sent him to Congress three several
times because he was a Union man, and the
three triumphs on this issue will surely be
an offset, in the godly Leaders, eyes, to this
one defeat when he would be Federal Sena-
tor. How often, in order to demonstrate
our fidelity TO this Union, must we swing
into the pearly gates Of the New Jerusalem
of Radical patriotism, holding on to John
Hancock's fugacious coat-tails ? Must we
tote Hancock as . big banner forever
There is bare possibility of surfeIting the
people with processes Of purgation like this
and the mode of cleansing Confederatism
should be varied. Let Us show the coun-
try that an able and true secession
ist and rebel Is and can be the ablest
and truest Of Unionists. We have exhib-
tied the Hancockian Union side of our
character and modes Of thinking often and
long enough, and the whole country, North
and South, demznds change
Year: 1876

ating his great lsbors and anxieties in be-
half of the good of Texas. The Netss can
and the people must see how great and
growing is the debt of gratitude due this
good and painstaking man-especially care
full to have the telegraph do its neat little
Jobs every few days for the Netcs and ring
in the delicious. bubbling name of Han
cock. For all that we want the State of
Texas to have true representative in the
Senate Of the United States.
Year: 1876

We tender cur sympathies TO the patrlouc
people Of Boston. II was hard. indeed, for the
hub Of the universe when cannon were roaring
and Gags were flying all over the Union on our
Centennial Fourth, when even Montgomery, the
birth place Of the late CoDfederaey rejoced. to
have big policemen interfering with Boston lire
crackers and prohibiting Boston boys from
letting them of In the streets. or boldly break
ing into private Boston residences and ordering
the patriotic inmates to haul in their flags, as
they we're taking up too much OF the street. One
gentleman refused to comply with this demand
said he would die like old Mrs. Somebody or
other before he would pull down the old nag
but being hauled around. in consequence, to
the police station, charged with violating eity
ordinance No. 24i7 that forbids any signs
from protrudng more than nine inches from
the house. he was fined s25 and in deault,l locked
up. Think Of It'll and no longer talk about the
people Of the South being traitors. Only nine
inches of flag allowed In Bostonl Half foot o
patriotism Why, you can stick them anywhere
down here without risk Of interference.
Year: 1876

II our ladies' cannot show as rosy complex
ions as those OF Baltimore and Chicago 1--WE
doubt the latter's complexi onsl theirs is the
fault. Powderl powder powder seems to be
the cry, this centennial year. The men want 1t
for pistols the boys for cats the ladies for their
faces Why the ladies love this chalk this lily
bloom and pearl powder that makes ghosts and
spirits OF them. in appearance at least we will
not try to answer. We only want to show them
what bad example they are sitting to our
human imitators.


"The ladies of color" have. OF course. adopted
this powdering system. 1t is somewhat like the
old fable Of tho dog and the jackass; they adopt
powder. and forgetting that they are of different
hue. insist on using white powder on their faces
about az irrational as the coored lady" who
called for flesh colored stockings and few into a
rage because the clerk offered her black ones.
Now. we wish TO assure them that according
to all rules Of painting natural philosophy. etc.
black and white or black and yellow. mixed. will
produce either dirt eoior or dirty blue If
they prefer to be the color of mud instead of a
decent respectable black. we have nothing to
say. but against the blue we energetically pro-
test Glance at any mulattress that has used
powder. and you will see. at once. that her face
is blueish black. vulgarly known as black and
blue. Black and blue faces always affect US dis
agreeably and we protest against them. If the
"colored ladies" insist on them. they can prob
ably get them Of their husbands gratsitously
and without calling In the assistance Of art: but
we hope that they will stick to their original
hue-it is much more pleasant to the eye than
the black and blue compilations that seem fas b.
ionable with our colored bellies.
Year: 1876

We are sorry TO take issue with the canvass
awnings Of Royal street. but We assure them
that such euriosities az men over fve feeJ TWO
do exist. and do sometimes wander down Eoyai
street We advise them accordingly. Tor ther
own good. to pull up little.
Year: 1876

He entered car-door. When the
brakeman came inside and took key
out Of his pocket, unlocked the stove,
put in some wood, and locked the door
again. he asked him what he locked the
stove door for. The brakeman shut his
left eye, and said he locked the door 80
the fire couldn't go out.
Year: 1876

1.-The whole Caster family fell at the
head Of the column" and it is we'll
known dead men tell no tales" so the
ost-traders are now secure and Bel
knap and Grant can bask in the SUM-
shine OF security. Visksburg Herald.
Year: 1876

II having csme to our notice that certain un-
scrupulous Sewing Machine dealers are Offering
as genuine bogus Machine for the SINGER
NEW FAMILY SEWING MACHINE" we
hereby caution the public against buying them.
They are worthless article. and the mere fact
of adopting the word SINGER" to impose their
nefarious trash upon the community Is conclu-
siye evidence of the popularity of this Household
Treasure and must convince all right-minded
people OF the dishonesty of their purpose.


The only place In the city to procure Genuine
New Singer Machine is at the Company's Office.
No. 81 Canal street. or from our authorized can
vassers. who are provided with papers by which
they can be identified.


THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO..


iyo 1w2dp 81 Canal Street.
Year: 1876

IN y DIIllI


He has nothing whatever to say about
the reform Of the hideou5 corruption
and the gigantic political evils under
which the country is groaDing, and from
which the people are suffering.


He has evidently taken the tele-
graphic advice that was offered him TO
say nothing for or against Granti5m.
He does not even allude to that part oi
his platform which indorses Grant and
Grantism.


It is weak letter, notwithstanding
the fact that so many politicians have
assisted him in getting it up. Mr..
Hayes is not the man for the times, not
the Reformer needed by the country.
Year: 1876

friends that he was prevented from
working vengence OH the crowd Of
his tormentors on the spot; duel is
talked about between the principals
in the affair, 30 expect next week
to hear Of pistols and coffee supli--
mented by coroners' inquest. Af,
ter four dreadful days of insufferable
heat on Thursday night we were
blessed by q storm that ragged for an
hour or two with the fury of hur-
ricane; the lightning mover stopped
its lurid glare for a moment and peal
after peal of thunder crashed about
our heads with the roar Of a thousand
cannons; the result was, however that
Friday was one of the most delightful
days of the season.


The attendance has been light. No
returns are given from the turnstyles.
Sunstrokes have been numerous, but
the medical department refuse to
give any Information Of the number.
The Cincinnati Light Guard has ar
rived after its very foolish and wcr-
rlsome march of 800 miles under a
torrid sun; they have been tho past
two months on the road; seven men
have sunk exhausted by the wayside,
and all the rest look worn and hag-
gard; next week if the weather is cool
l shall return to the Art Gallery, till
then | am


Yours truly,


BRoADBoM.
Year: 1876

We have nothing to say in favor Of the
class of tramps who 90 about the country,
year in and year out, begging and stealing
as opportunity occurs, hut we believe, with
the New York Graphic, that there is two
sides to the question. That paper says:


The scamps who are prowling about the
country, refusing to work, but neglecting
no opportunity to steal and commit other
crimes, deserve to be severely dealt with,
and should have no encouragement from
any quarter. But it should be remembered
that tor three years times have been ex-
ceptionally hard. Factories and furnaces
have stopped; mechanics have stopped
bua.ness, and honest and industrious men
have found it impossible to get work to
do. Every week or two our working city
people are told to 60 into the country,
where there is work enough at fair wages
tor whoever will do it, and the words of
the ancient philosopher, 8" Go West" are
perpetually dinned In the poor laborer's
ears. The people start for the land Of
promise without money, and soon become
sunburnt and foCtsore. They ask for
worx and are refused as vagrants, and beg
for bread only to be turned away as thieves
in disguise. In some towns they are
locked into the police station at night and
kept at work on the highway till ii o o'clock
in the morning to pay for their lodging,
and then turned adrift under the threat
of imprisonment if they return. If any
quicker or more effectual way has been
devised for turning man in quest Of work
into . 6rst-rste vagrsnt and thief than
this, it has not been divulged. The whole
theory is wrong from top to bottom, and
the first step toward getting rid of the
tramp nuisance il in providing work for
the poor people to do at nominal rates.
There is work enough in every city and
town in the country that ought to be
done. and can be pro6tably done now when
labor and material are exceptionally cheap,
and it is hundred per cent. Detter in the
long run to keep laborers at work than to
keep them in idleness or drive them out a.
trsmps. More work and iess penitensiary.
II doesn't abats q nuisancs TO roll it ovsz
into the naxt town.
Year: 1876

A correspondent Of the New York Sun
writes as follows


have read with interest all the letters
in the Sun in regard to drunkenness and
remedies for it. As yet none have pre-
scribed what ! know to be sure cure. /
drank more Intoxicating liquor from the
year 1857 to the last day Of 1873 than any
other person ever knew or heard OF !;
and i'll the mean time, knowing this sure
cure, did not practice it on myself, but,
for fun, did practice it on many others,
and effected permanent cures. The rem
tdy or cure is this When a person finds
he must have a drink, let hin. take drink
Of water-say two or three swallows-as
often as the thirst or craving may desire.
Let him continue this practice. His old
chums will laugh; but let him persevere,
and it will not be a week before the appe-
tlte for any kind Of stimulant will disap-
pear al ogether, and water will be taken
to quench the natural THIRST. If at any
time the victim should feel a craving, let
him take the first opportunity and obtain
q swallow Of water, and he can pass anl
repass all saloons. When he goes home at
night he will teel satisfied and be sober
and have money in his pocket. / COM
menced this practice the first day Of 1874,
and never think of taking drink Of stimu-
lants. BUFFALO.
Year: 1876

question Of third term fo- Cvss,r :,
with Rev. DR.. Hopkins. At themasfr5 go
interesting moment of the debate
the engine suddenly began to work
and the next instant a two-incb
stream struck Parker in the stomach
with terrific force and rolled
him over in the gutter. He felt as
if the gulf stream had been shot
through him from front to back.
Then the pipe gave couple of &c.
centric jerks, smashed Dr. Hopkins
hat into black silk chaos, and empti-
ed hogshead of water into his
open mouth. It concluded the ex-
erclses by getting Iinto such posi-
tlon that it could play 100000,
gallons q minute up the left trowsers
leg OF the PROSTATE Mr.. Parker SEEM
ed to lose all interestin the capacity
of that engine. He went home for
his Sunday clothes, and he has sinca
intimated to his confidential friends
that if Grant should spend the whole
OF his third term squirting stream
$4,000 feet high with that diabolical
fire-extinguisher, he Parker, would 2
not go round the corner to witness
the spectacle.-Rtil. Bulletin.


THoUGHTIEssNEss.-H is not Vi
cious, and he has no special malice
IN his heart, but his thoughtlessness
leads to more human misery than
results from the ,premeditated wick
edness of deliberate transgressor.
On Saturday be scattered orange
peel on the stairs and lobby of our
building, and continued this along
down the street as he went, ocea-
sionmg several strains and one severe
fall as his victims incautiously trod
thereon. He belongs to a large
family, all of which throw banana
skins and orange-peel upon the pave
ment, not for the express purpose of
endangering the life or limbs OF the
wayfarers, because they have in their
hearts no thoughtful regard for hu-
man welfare. His brother is the man
who carries an umbrella over his
shoulder, with the point well back,
which describes an arc of three feet
as he swing his body in walking.
Several persons have been injured in
the face, one nearly lost his eve, and
a number of lesser grievances have
been inflicted through his habit, but
he didn't intend to injure any one,
although helwill not stop the prae-
tice unless it is made criminal by act
of the Legislature. His own cous-
ins, quite a number of them, are the
men who cross their legs in the cars
and omnibus, thus wiping their feet
on the dresses and pantaloons of
their fellow passengers. One Of them
is generally found in the cabin of
the ferry boat, either near the door
of the narrow passage by the wheel
house, where his protruded boot trips
every passer who does not go by him
with great care. He would not put
his feet on the floor and draw them
in little while the throng goes by
to procure life-membership IN any
one of the great benevolent societies
he SO fondly patronizes in his Sun
day contributions. His more distant
relatives who stand tattling with a
friend in the middle of the sidewalk,
thus greatly obstructing the travel
or saunter slowly up the street with
curved elbows, or whisk through a
crowd with a cane under their arms,


are al readily recognized without


any further description. They are


a large family, and they are nuisan-
ces IN whatever community they take
up their abode.-.JOatrndI Commerce.
Year: 1876

a TRYING ScENE.-The New Cas-
tie people some time ago got new
steam FIRE engine, the first they ever
had, and of course the entire popu-
lation of the village turned out TO
witness the trial Of the machine. Mr..
Bob Parker secured the post of hon.
or as holder of the service-pipe, aud
he was mighty proud of it The en-
gine was down at the wharf getting
ready to pump water from the river,
and Parker stood almost 400 yards.
of, at the end of . line Of hose, wait
ing for the steam to come, so that he
could squirt it over the courthouse
steepIe. There was q great deal of
delay while the men were fixing the
engine, and Parker incautiously held
the muzzle of the pipe toward his
waistcoat while he discussed the