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Year: 1876

ST. LOUIS, August "a new depart.
ure in steamboating on the Mississippi
was made to day, by the keokuk and
Northwestern Lane Packet Company.
Commander Davidson, President OF that
company, has for long time believed
that line Of fast steamers To ply be-
tween here and Keokuk, Iowa, to carry
passengers and light freight OF ly would
result in bringing back to the river the
large passenger traffic of former years. To
test this matter, the company has this
season built two very last and elegant
steamers, the War Eagle and Golden
Eagle, and to-day the new enterprise
was inaugurated by the departure OF the
War Eagle on her first trip, under the
most favorable auspices. The design Is
to compete with the railroad rs to speed,
comfort, safety and cheapness. The line
will be daily and the boats run by
schedule time.
Year: 1876

One of the Radical nominees for seat
upon the bench Of the Supreme Court of
Appeals of this state, FLICK by name,
after his nomination at Parkersburg'
rushed out to Grafton and made bitter
partisan political speech at meeting
held to rstify the nominations
state and national. This unseemly
act the REGISTER condemned at
the time as did all right thinking peo
pie of both parties. Ever since that the
Radical papers of the State have been
seeking sons plan by which to break the
bad effect of this miserable behavior on
the part of their nominee, but finding
nothing, they concluded to manufacture
something. So they commenced
asserting that Hon. OKKY JOHN
SON, one of the Democratic
nomi nees for the Court of Appeals, had
made a speech at Philippi at the Demo-
cratic Senatorial Convention, held some
weeks ago. But here comes the Phil
ippi Plaindealer which says there is no
word of truth in the assertion. "OKEY
JOHNSON made no speech here" says that
paper.


We were sure from the first that the
story was manufactured, because Mr..
JOHNSON is both wise and discreet
man, and he fully appreciates the high
position to which he is soon 10 be called
and the respect due from him to that po'
sition
Year: 1876

ROME, August 2s.-lt is affirmed that
the Cardinals have unanimously agreed
t. omit certain ceremonies in the con
cIave 10 be held when the election Of a
successor TO Pope Plus IN. becomes
necessary. The object is to hasten the
election of new Pope TO keep the con-
clave free from foreign influence.
Year: 1876

James Payne a stock dealer, while
sitting on gallery, to-day, broke through
and fell distance of fifteen Ieet and was
instantly killed.


A boy aged about sixteen years was
killed by Canal street railroad steam
train tonight while attempting TO board
a car when the train was in motion.
Year: 1876

SHREVEPORT, August 29.-Capt- Ten
nison, in charge Of the government
steamer, received orders TO clear out the
distractions in the raft region formed by
the late overflow, in accordance with the
appropriation made in the last session OF
Congress.
Year: 1876

There seems to be modification of the Centen-
nial tree planting mania, and the minds of patri
otic men are being turned by the suggestions Of
the New York Times to the proposition-that on
the morning of the 4th of July, 1876, we shall all
begin the day by planting cat in his back yard.
Who can tell the result of such catastrophe !!
Should this feeling purr-vade the community,
where will be the nightly. restful concerts. 1t is
BY no means certain that we need single addi-
tonal tree but the next wall that sweeps from the
back fence will convince every thoughtful man
that we have at least SO 900 900 cats in of
our requirements. What a magnificent spectacle
would America afford the civilized world if this
vast array of cats was to be solemnly slaughtered
as slight expression of our patriotism and our
love for free institutions! The thing is perfectly
feasible. The cats are within our reach. and
every citizen can, at a small expense, provide
himself with Centennial cat within the course Of
the next three weeks. Let US then resolve that
we will not waste our time by setting out unnec-
essary trees but that when the sun of the next
Fourth of July morning sends his beams into our
back yards they will fall like so many aureoles
upon the brows of the precise number of freemen
mentioned in the last census, each one of whom
will be in the act of digging Centennial grave in
which to lay the Centennial cat that thoughtful
and intelligent patriotism has carefully prepared
for so noble and impressive ceremony.
Year: 1876

be true that he that is unfaithful in
that which is least is also unfaithful in
much. New York is modern Sodom
"a perfect sink of iniquity, where a cut
throat and gambler is sent to Congress in
preference to a pure man. And New
York is democratic city. We must de-
eide, therefore, that our democratic friends
don't really mean what they say in their
leading resolution.


The second resolution is as gauzy as the


first. but the democrats have the credit oil


holding the first convention that has discov-
cred in the transactions of the present
democratic House of Representatives in
Congress. anything worthy of public
thanks. Carefully watching the proceed
ings, we can detect no measure that has
passed the House calculated to tighten the
public burden or diminish taxes and les
sen offices. though we find the re-
publicans voting for those measures
every time. We do find the dem
ocrats, on the very threshold OF
their newly acquired power, discharging
crippled union soldiers from petty offices,
and putting confederates in their places
giving rebel generals important positions
upon committees; consuming valuable
time instituting investigations for purely
party purposes. The people have tried
great political experiment, and not from
the democratic party should thanks TO
Congress come, but from the people that
they will have opportunity this fall to en-
ter their solemn and emphatic protest
against such misgovernment and abuse of
power.


We don't see how the third resolution
for hard money is to jingle with the atti-
tude of their party in Congress against
the resumption act. The democrats of
Maine may be in favor Of hard money,
but the democrats of Maine, even though
they swear by Sam. Tiden, are neither
omnpotent OR very influential in the coun-
ellis of the national party. This little hard
money boy from Maine, will be duly
spanked and sent to bed, at St. Louis,
while the western inhationists will run the
machine or smash it. The party, as a
whole, are no more to be trusted on that
question than on any other Of grave i'm
portance.


So, gentlemen of the democratic party
of Maine. you must excuse us from taking
stock in your public utterances made ct
Bangor. We don't believe you mean
what you say, and we shan't believe it
though Pillsbury should reiterate it.
Year: 1876

1t is q significant fact that representative Of a
Manchester (England) house is in this country for
the purpose Of securing the shipment of certain
kinds of American cotton goods to England.
Buyers in that country have become satisfied of
the superiority of our best bleached sheetings


and the demand for them is steadily increasing


While it makes difference to manufacturers, for
the moment, whether one kind or another of our
goods shall find an export outlet, this is matter
which will soon regulate itself. Let it once be
shown that we can proftably compete with En-
gland a respects her own consumers, in any one
direction, and we have secured the beginning of
the end. That we shall speedily oust her from
her home market is not to be expected; but there
is evidently an uneasy feeling there in regard to
cotton manufacture. 1t is depressed as it is here.
At present the English manufacturer has the ad-
vantage in cheaper mach inery and money. We
have the raw material, lessening cost of labor


and superior inventive genius employed of ma


chinery. At the bottom, however, lies the ques-
tion Of the currency. That must be settled be-
Year: 1876




OF THE WEST on MR.. BLAINE.


The Cincinnati Enquirer, the 'leading


democratic paper of the West, reviewing
the Cincinnati Convention, speaks thus
of Mr.. Blaine:


"He has not reached the prime of life. He is
still young man. One of the most lovable of the
sacred writers says: 81 have written unto you,
young men, because you are strong" Less than
week ago it seemed certain that Blaine was out
of the race, that he would scarcely be entered.
But the doubts as to his high integrity have since
been drowned in admiration of his matchless


daciiy, his unexamped pluck, his extraordinary
fnesss. He has shown himself to be made Of the
stuff that enters into commanders of men and has
crowned q brief, brilliant public life covering
some of our most eventful years with q specimen
of daring, of invincible bravery, perhaps unprece
dented in the Capitol. He had before shown the
qualities of q leader but he this week displayed
the indomitable will Of an Armand Richelieu
He stood before the country charged with jobbery


but he took captured correspondence, supposed to


contain his political deathwarrant, to the floor of
the House and read it to the country. Had it
been read by any one else. had it gone to the
country through the Investigating Committee,
took the bull by the horns. He went before a
House of Representatives with majority of sew
enty against him, bullied the House, buied the
Chairman of its most digniied Committee, and
nelu the entlre OOuy AT Day lie WAS unuer lnveS-
tgation by committee Of the House. He goes
next day before that committee and. by the sheer
force Of his mtless, defiant audacily, investigates
and bnllies that Committee till it almost seems
be the committee and not Blaine that stands be-
fore the country charged with offenses. He was
ordered to keep SILENT but keep silent he would
not. He handled the Judiciary Committee as
though it were composed of school-boys
such he used to handle while teaching school in
the State whence comes its chairman. Thsd
Stevens, shaking his bony fist in the face Of one
half his own party in the House and of all the op-
position, and Ben Butler, hurling his husky SEN
tences of defiance at any opponent, were never
more conspicuously belligerent or aggressive.
Out of the events and the disclosures which
would have crushed another man Blaine has made
friends, and we not discover that he has lost
any, for all men love pluck and Blaine has it, of
the most lordly quality. He will enter the Con-
vention with larger vote than that Of any other
candidate, and he has fastened his friends TO him
by his mastery manner within the last few days.
Men will not to read those letters, or, read
ing them, will see nothing wrong in them. They
will only say, He drove the Judiciary Committee
before him like sheep, and cowed and captured
the House. He bearded the lion in his den the
Douglas in his hall Add his pertinacious skill
in management, which seems already to have COW
cred the country, and it is not difficult to see that
Blaine of Maine, is prima facie, the most formid
able candidate before the Convention
Year: 1876

An intelligent correspondent writes
viz: 1.-The question ON every lip in the ru-
rul districts now are: How is Blaine
Will he get the Nomination. We never
knew how much we loved him till the late
onslaught upon his character and integrity,
and when the news of his illness came,
we all felt that if he was not hunted to
death it must be by Gods especial bless
ing to him and the American people, that
he was sustained and kept"
Year: 1876

The effect of the greathst triumph in medicine
an be only transitory, VIII list man persists in the
qualification of vicious and pernicious habits
and


Strength to subdue the passion is the best guar
antec of mental vigor, and Of becoming strong
and long lived man.


There are very explicit directions on this point
accompanying Fellows Hypophosphtes, for, how
ever quickly patient may recover and approach
towards robust health, he must abolish the habit
and practice which induced the disease and which
may tend to hopeless irrecovery.


iuuel4.+&wlW
Year: 1876

DECAY OF TEETH.-The causes of the
decay of the teeth are two-acids and mi
mute fungus, abundantly found in the
mouth called leptOthrir Juccalis. All acids,
both vegetable and mineral, act promptly
on the teeth by dissolving the enamel and
softening the dentine Sour fruits and vim
egar salads are likely to injure the teeth,
unless the mouth is carefully washed out
after eating them. The little parasitic
fungus can only be removed by alkaline
mixtures. Soap is one of the best of den
tifrices. 1t appears that the parasites grow
and multiply very rapidly, and especially
between the teeth. 1t would be advisable
therefore, for those who wish to preserve
good teeth to carefully use the toothpick
and scrub the teeth with soap and water
after every meal, or at least twice day.
Year: 1876

WooD DAsHEs.-The Scientific american says;
"The point to which we now call attention
is, that our farmers and fruit-growers have
ignored, or rather have been ignorant OF
the Importance of wood ashes as vegeta-
BILE stimulant and a leading constituent of
plants. Even coal ashes, now thrown away
as useless, have been shown both by expert
ment and analysis to possess fair share of
alkaline value. We will relate only one
expirment. Some twenty-five years ago we
treated an old pippin apple tree as follows:
The hollow to the height of eight feet, was
filed and rammed with composite of wood
ashes, garden mould, and little waste
lime, (carbonate). The filling was securely
fastened in by boards. The next year the
crop of sound fruit was sixteen bushels
from an old shell of tree that had borne
nothing of any account for some time and
for seventeen years after the filling of the
old pippin tree continued to flourish and
bear we'll"
Year: 1876

Its estimated that we produce 100000
600 pounds of butter and 2OO00OAO0
pounds Of cheese annually in til a4..y,
and yet our leading thinkers upon the sub
ject consider the trade as yet in its infancy.
Though the American people fully appre-
ciate the excellency Of butter as an article
of food, they have little conception of the
superiority Of cheese as an excellent and
cheap article of diet. The English eat Al
pounds per capita to our II pounds, and
they are probably the best authority upon
the relative values of foods of any nation in
the world.
Year: 1876

How To CLEAN PAIST.-If cleanliness
IS, as some folks say, one Of the arts, all
that helps it should be made known.
Doors, walls, Or anything that is painted.
may be cleaned with piece of soft fan
mel dipped in warm water, then wrung, and
sprinkled with finely powdered French
chalk The paint on being rubbed with
this will become quite clean, and win be
saved from the destructive action of soap.
Year: 1876

SPIRITS OF AMMoNIA.-A farmers wife in
the Country Gentleman says she got green
spot on her carpet, which she could not
remove until she tried ammonia, teaspoon
full in tea cup of hot water. The spot
was wet with it thorougly and gently rubbed
with a cloth till it was gone. She finds it a
nice thing to clean silver with, also looking
glasses and windows.


A few drops of ammonia in warm water
will clean coat collars, hats, etc. One part
of ammonia to two of olive oil makes an
excellent external application for sore
throat. Applied to the nostrils it restores
from fainting. If used Immediately it is
the best antidote to prussic acid. 1t is
itself poison in large doses. The readiest
remedy is vinegar. Ammonia exists in the
atmosphere in the form of carbonate.
Year: 1876

THE TYPE WRIrER-An admirable
little machine is now in quite general
use, the purpose Of which is to save
the mechanical labor Of writing with
a pen, and to give legible reading in
place of pcrplcxing and unintclligible
chirography. It is called "Thc Type
Writer" In fair, typc-likc letters it
executes its work with delightful
ease and facility.


With pen about thirty words can
be written in minute, by rapid pen
man. With "The Type Writer" from
forty to sixty can be stamped in the
same length Of time, and every word
will be as clear and Ineligible as
those printed on the page of a book.


The letters are made by the use ol
keys, the action Of which Is like that
of the keys to piano. It is very
simple, and the "mode ofwriting" very
easily learned.
Year: 1876

Because Graham 6opr Is reeo,n o,nnezd
ed = : very healthy article of food, II
should not Be considered that I'll Ora
ham Aour i rapidly coming 70 be =.
much an article Of suspicion as ground
coffee or spices Or any other Of the
thousand and one adnlterations that
are daily practiced. The commonest
form IN which Graham flour Is seen II
that made from medium or poor.
class wheat, and while not properly
adulteration, it may be justly charac-
terized as swindling Of the meanest
kind, for the reason that the prodpct
is largely used By dyspeptics and 9th
ers in imperfect health. The miller
who palms off on his customers Gra-
ham -four made from anything save
the choicest Of wheat is one Of the
mcanest Of oil villains, and if he IS not
aware Of it should be told 80. Gra-
ham -four properly made is nearly as
costly an article as bolted -four ground
from the same wheat, and, therefore,
when you are offered Graham at much
less than the best bolted -four you are
being victimized; it is either adultera-
ted or it is made from inferior wheat.
A common form Of adulteration, and one
that is practiced BY at least one retail
-four dealer in this city, is to take
barrel Of flonr costing about S., add
to it about sixty pounds Of bran, TWEEN
ty-fve pounds middlings, and the
same quantity of corn meal. The re-
suit Of the mixture is BOG pounds Of
stuff costing about $6.45, or . fraction
over 3 cents q pound; while Graham
-four made from the best wheat can
not be sold at less than 81 to 4 cents
pound. And yet this vile stuff is
being swallowed BY people in search
of better health, when they would do
about as well on diet Of hot white
biscuit. There is q fortune IN store
for the miller here in st. Louis who
will make q strictly pure article Of
Graham -four from the best Winter
wheat, from which The outer husk Of
the bran shall have been removed be-
fore grinding. That man will estab-
lish good reputation, make money,
and confer blessing upon thousands
of his fellows. Louis Trade Jour


nal.
Year: 1876

To those of our Republican readers who
have not voted, upon reading this, we say
do 80 at once, by all means. The election
is of Importance in itself, but further than
that will be taken as some indication of
the way the current sets. Hundreds Of
Republicans habitually neglect it. and
their neglect ought to be as far as possible
made up. The polls close at g. p. m.
Year: 1876

John Bright said at Manchester last night
that the calling of Parliament would result
in entirely a new policy in Turkish affairs,
aud Turkey would be left to the fate which
her corruption so richly deserves.
Year: 1876

Now Mr.. Murphy adds duplicity to
disloyalty by claiming to have been in
sympathy with the saviors of the
Union and TO rejoice i'm the achieve
ments OF the party who upheld it
against armed foes in front and MUIR
phys in the rear. Il it possible the
second District of Iowa wishes to send
such man to the assistance Of the
Confederate Brigadiers In Congress /?
We rather think not!
Year: 1876

Mr.. Murphy makes defence against
the charge Of opposing the war in 1862,
as copied in these columns last week
from the Davenport gazette. This
defence consists of just three parts
First, his own affidavit that the charge
was not true; second, the affidavit of
several acquaintance that Bowen is
not a reliable witness; third, the affi-
dayit of two union officers that Muir
ply assisted them in recruiting their
companies.


A. to the first feature Of his defence
it is worth just what weight should
attach to the word of a political dema-
gogue who is crazy with desire for
Office. The second part has been borne
down by and buried under voluntary
aiiidayits from some ftCcaty Of the most
responsible citizens of Montezuma,
where Bowen resides, to the effect that
said Bowen is entirely reliable and
trustworthy. In addition, two Of
Murphy's affidavit-makers 20 back on
him-one saying that he never swore
to such statement at all, and the
other that he signed without reading
under misstatement Of facts. A. to
the third part of the answer, it only
affords another example Of the du-
plicity of the man. There were many
Democratic politicians beside Murphy
who in those days were forced by
circumstances to make occasional pub
lie speeches in favor Of enlistnents,
while in secret they planned and
plotted on the other side. Just like
his twisting on the public school ques-
ton, ii is evidently only another in
stance where Mr.. Murphy desired one
sort of people TO think he stood with
them while very different sort E,eW
that he was their man.


In a week from to day President
will be elected and an Administration
chosen. The Government will he
confided to Gov. Hayes and the Ma
tional Union party; or it will pass into
the hands Of Tilden, Tammany Hall,
and the Solid South. Are there any
Republicans who really and sincerely
believe that the Government of the
American Republic will be better
administered by Tilden, Tamany Hall,
aud the Solid South, than by Gov.
Hayes and the Republican party?
What "reform" do they anticipate
will issue from Tammany Hall, and
what from the Confederate holders of
two thousand millions of Southern
claimso
Year: 1876

HANDSOME SIGN. Harvey Pike,
the well-known sign writer, is at
work on a sign for Val Wildman OF
Vanity Fair that willexceed in beau
ty as well as in cost, anything of the
the kind ever got up in this Terrific
ry and probably on the coast. The
sign will consist Of the words Vanity
Fair" each letter being separate and
on separate block, and they are at
tached with hooks to the sign board
SO as to be readily detached. The
letters will be heavily inlaid with
silver, more than $500 being used
on the ten letters that make up the
words, and the whole costing 5000
Year: 1876

TIE old buildings adjoining Col.
mans new building are being torn
down and the ground cleared for
Frauenthal Bros new brick build
ing, work on which will commence
at once. The new building will con-
sist of one story and basement,
the latter of stone and the rest of
brick, with handsome iron front.
The dimensions are 30xS0 feet, max
ing it considerable larger than Col
mans building. The building will
be ready for moving into within the
next three months, and when finish
ed will be one of the most substan-
tial as well as handsome buildings in
town.
Year: 1876

The steamer Dakota arrived in
Esquimalt harbor last evening at Z
o'clock and leaves there tonight at
the same hour. She has quite a
number of passengers and consider
able freight for this place.
Year: 1876

METHODIST MAss-MEETING.-To-m
afternoon at O'Clock all the Methodists OF
Richmond are to have grand mass-meetlnS
at Centenary church for the purpose OF eX-
pressing the views OF the lmty IN relation m TO
the late action of the commissioners OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South at their Cape
Nav meeting.
Year: 1876

THE Servians having been defeated in the
field are now relying on the fall rains for vic
tory, at least for escape from annihilation.
An armistice of ten days has been granted by
the Porte and in that time it is hoped that
Providence will deluge the earth with suf-
ficient rain to render military movement on
the part of the Turks impossible. In Eng
land the policy of the government towards
the belligerents is becoming party question
and it is by no means impossible that the
wave of indignation excited by the Bulga-
rian atrocities may be sufficient to swamp
Mr.. Disraeli's administration.
Year: 1876

IT is rumored that Gen. Buffers retainers
are meditating an assault upon Gov Rice if
the Republican newspapers do not let up
upon the "widow". Fortunately for Gov.
Rice and the Republican party, MIR. Rice's
administration has been an remarkably
pure and able one and he is absolutely invul-
nerable. With Gen. Butler the case is far
otherwise and he will doubtless find that his
threats will have no other effect than to in
crease the number of his opponents in the
Republican party and add force to their op-
position.