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Year: 1876

Gen. Banks is still on the fence. He
thinks it possible that he should vote for
Hayes, but has not yet definitely made
up his mind on the subject. The sober
second thought will prompt him to take
the opposite course, we think.
Year: 1876

ANOTHER correspondent desires to know
why 1t is necessary to have an electoral COL
lege. 1t is not necessary, and why il still has
an existence is one of those things which no
teller can find out. 1t was the intention OF
the trainers of the constitution that the elec-
tors should use their own judgment and Sc
| ect for President the man whom they thought
most suitable for the position. But it soon
became the custom that the electors should
simply record the will of those who close
them. The electoral college is now mere
form
Year: 1876

THE British Arctic expedition seems to
have succeeded in only one thing, and that is
in inventing new word. Since its return
home its commanders have christened the
ocean that surrounds the pole the "Paleo-
crystic Sea-" that is, the sea of ancient ice,
their belief being that the ice there has been
accnmulating for centuries and that the sea
is never free from it.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

Executive Council, do hereby appoint


Thursday, the Thirtieth day of November,


Instant,


AS day OF PUBLIC THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE to
Almighty God and recommend to the people Of
this State the employment of the day thus set apart
in otering the grateful Acknowledgements due to Him
for the well being of country our State and our
homes during the that has passed, and in pre-
frring petitions for the continuance of His low
ing kindness towards us.


The custom of our fathers endears to us the hold
ing of family festivals upon that day beautiful
and appropriate feature Off observance If. amid
the gadness of happy reunions of parents and chill
dren and children's children round a common
hearthstone gratitude for the good that we and
ours enjoy shall extend our thoughts to the great
family which embraces us all, shall awaken in our
hearts fresh sentiments of love and goodwill to-
wards our felow-men, and strengthen our deter-s
minaon to support the institutions and aid the in
fuences which tend to benefit them, and to lessen
human wretchedness and suffering, then will the day
of our Thanksgiving be most blessed.
Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta this third
day of November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy six. and of the
Independence of the United States of America, the
one hundredth first. SELDEN CONNOR.
By the Governor.


S. j. CHADBoURNE Secretary of State.
Year: 1876

A p r Q @ L A MI A It o N,
In conformity to the proclamation of the Presi-
dent of the United States and by the advice of the
Executive Council 1 do hereby appoint
Thursday, tho Thirtieth day of November,


Instant.
Year: 1876

ON which pair of Stockings will be finished inside
of fifteen minutes, has been presented to the Fair,
and will be exhibited in operation every afternoon
and evening. An Agent will be present to give
information and establish agencies throughout the
Year: 1876

The Duke of Wellington is reported
to have said, in one of the early rail-
road debates in the House of Lords, that
in dealing with the new system it was
above all else necessary to bear i'm mind
the analogy of the kings highway.
Parliament did bear it i'm mind, and up
on this analogy, naturally enough, the
railroad was first established. The pro-
prietor of the roadbed and the carrier
over it were to be different persons.
Provision i'm this respect was especially
made i'm all early charters, and it was
supposed that the power of using the
road, which was reserved TO all the
world on certain fixed terms, would
make impossible any monopoly of the
business over it. Experience, of course,
quickly showed how utterly fallacious
this reasoning was. The analogy of the
highway was, however, not at once
abandoned. Recourse was had to sy--
TEN of fixed maxima charges, and the
old tollboards of the turnpikes were in
corporated at enormous length into the
new charters as they were granted.
One of these, for instance, which went
through Parliament in 1874, consisted
of three hundred and eighty-One dis
tinct sections, in which, among other
things, it was prescribed that for the
carriage of "hOrse, mule, or ass" the
company might charge at rate not to
exceed three pence per mile, while for
a calf or pig or 'other small animaP'
the limit was a penny. Naturally, this
attempt at regulation proved no more
efficacious than the other. and with it
the analogy of the highway seems to
have disappeared Atlantic Monthly.
Year: 1876

In connection with the reported re-
mark of gentleman, who said that he
didn't believe the ladies he met in
Washington street knew that the times
are dull, and that their husbands are
having a hard time to keep their heads
above water, the Boston Journal relates
the following: "An husbands do not
make their financial affairs topic of
conversation at home, and some better
halves know less of their own husbands
affairs than they do of their neighbor's.
Some week since lady was first in
formed of her husbands suspension by
reading an announcement in a paper
which she accidentally took up in a
store while waiting to have an order
filled. Whether it was pride or fear
that prompted secresy cannot be stated,
but what can be expected from wives
in the way Of true economy if they are
only silent partners in the matrimonial
copartnership? In 1857 large jewelry
firm sold costly set of jewels to a lady.
The firm knew that her husband was in
failing condition, but the lady had
been a long and profitable customer.
When the partner told his clerk not to
charge the goods which were delivered,
but to make memorandum on the blot
ter, he paid the lady's integrity high
compliment. When the husband failed
the jewelry came back with a note
couched in such terms that the dealer
only regretted that q gift of the set
would be construed as an insult.
Year: 1876

the door may be found at the bakers OF
the tailor's or the sboemaker's over the
way. But the possessor is forbidden to
loan It, unless there happens to be a
fire in the neighorhOod and the spirit
is wanted to go on an errand. So, in
order that We may have a peep within,
We will enlist the services Of a friend of
mine who is a city fireman, and who
carries duplicate key in his pocket.


When the door is opened, we look in
to the front room; let US call it the par
lor, and, like many other parlors. it is
cold and bare. The only furniture is a
little knob projecting from one of the
walls. The back room, which the fire.
man opens with another key, is much
more interesting, however; and it is
here that the wonderful spirits impris-
Oned in a curiOus-looking machine,
with brass cOgwheels, levers and
springs, which is set in motion by that
simple knob in front.


He is on duty all the year round.
Pull the knob, and he will fly like a
flash of lightning over the wire that en-
ters the house from behind, telling the
firemen throughout the city that they
are wanted, and where. His name is
Electricity, and his house is called q
fire-alarm telegraph-box. So you will
see that am writing something more
real than fairy story, although the
facts have to relate are about kind of
giants and dwarfs.-St. Nicholas Month
Year: 1876

In very interesting lecture which
Cardinal Wiseman once delivered i'm
England, he pointed out to his audi
ence that the old vases and cups and
boxes and other objects which were
kept carefully under glass in museums,
which were so graceful and refined in
form, and were treasured by us as pre-
ciOus relics of an extinct art, were the
ordinary vessels of the uses and conve-
niences of the life of the times from
which they descended. Is there any
good reason that the wash-bowis and
pitchers and jugs and jars of old Rome
and Athens should be beautiful, and
ours, designed for the same purpose,
clumsy and ugly? And if we can not
invent new forms of beauty for our
selves, may we not copy pleasing
models rather than unpleasing?
Whether we go back for our model a
year or thousand years, there is really
no need of selecting an ugly one. So
in the cost of finishing and furnishing
the house, the pumpkin in Cinderella's
kitchen did not more surely hold the
gilded coach, nor her own ''filthy rags"
the most magnificently jeweled robes,
than every little dollar is full Of neat
ness, fitness, and beauty, if we have
the gift of seeing them and extracting
them.


1t is subtle gift, indeed, for it is
taste. All the dollars in the world will
not buy it. 1t is like that ear for music
which those who have it not deride and
deny. Yet good taste is, not the first
but the second, household magician.
The first is good temper. Good temper
will make hard, stiff, horsehaIr chair
delightful;l but good taste, without
good temper, will make the most luxu-
rious and beautiful lounge uncomforta-
BILE. The two combined make the pan
feet household. The minor magicihe
indeed, has one advantage over the
other, and it is that she develops her.
Good taste promotes good temper, but
good temper no more promotes good
taste than the smile of the gardener
ripens strawberries. On the other hand
good ten per has an advantage. 1t can
not buy good taste, but it may buy its
works. You may not know mushrooms
from toad-stools. But if an honest man
.IhO, as you know, can distinguish
them, offers to sell you mushrooms,
you may buy in tolerable confidence
that your fillet will not be garnished
with poison. 1t is so with the mystery
of household art. You may not per-
ceive the harmony of eolors, nor the
superior grace of one form to another.
But If a person whom you know to be
an expert assures you that this paper
and that carpet are harmonious, and
that this or that table is graceful and
pleasing, if you really do not know,
why should you not trust him? Mrs.
Potiphar perennially shows her conf
dence in Mr.. Narcotic by giving him
cdrte-bldnche to redecorate and furnish.
She does it, perhaps, quite as much be-
cause of his fashion as of his taste. Put
what she does extensively for fashion,
may not you do economically for taste?
In word, it is the apparent mission
of what is known as household art to
show that cheap and nasty are not syn
OnymOus
Year: 1876

Fastened to the telegraph-poles in
New York City are five hundred and
fourty eight little houses, in each of
which dwells an invisible spirit with
greater powers than the fairy godmOth-
er who made a carriage for Cinder-
ella out of pumpkins and horses out of
mice. They are built of iron and painted
green, and look for all the world like
postoffice boxes. Indeed 1 have been
told that honest country folks visiting
the city sometimes almost wrench them
to pieces with their umbrellas trying to
get their letters in.


Under the caves of these little houses
there is bit of glass window, behind
which is blind with some printing on
it, and the printing says that a key to
Year: 1876

He who frets is never the one who
mends, who heals, who repairs evils ;
he discourages, enfeebles and too often
disables those around him, who, but
for the gloom and depression of his
company, would do good work and
keep up brave cheer. The effect upon
a sensitive person of the mere neighber-
hood of fretter is indescribable. 1t is
to the soul what cold, icy mist is to
the body-more chilling than the Bit
terest frost, more dangerous than the
fiercest storm. And when the fretter is
one who is beloved, whose nearness of
relation to us makes his fretting even at
the weather seem almost like personal
reproach to US, then the misery of it
becomes indeed insupportable.-Our
Dumb Animals.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Platter, the celebrated lutanist, or
lute-player, one evening dropped asleep
while playing, after partaking of an un-
usual liberal supper. He continued to
"discourse sweet music" correctly and
tastefully until reused from his drowsy


nap by the noise of his lutte falling on
the floor. A "reader" i'm a printing Of
flee fell asleep while reading for the
correction of proof, but continued read
ing down to the bottom of that page.


In this case the probability is that his
sleep only went to the extent of drowsi-
ness; at any rate, when reused up he
could not remember the words which


he had just been correctly reading.
Sir John Moore during his ever memora-


BILE retreat to COrunna, had to make
forced marches night and day, as the
only mode of averting capture by vast
ly larger French army; his poor tired
soldiers often slept as they marched or
maeched as they slept. A truely
remarkable manifestation of sOmnam-
bulism is that which can be brought
about by the influence of some other
person on the sleeper. External voices
and sounds can move him to action
even when his consciousness is asleep.
DR.. Carpenter and other Psychologists
have recorded many instances of this
kind. A young naval officer, signal
lieutenant to Admiral Lord Hood, at
TOulon sometimes continued his an nxious
studies for eighteen or twenty hours at
stretch; going to his berth and falling
instantly asleep, his mind was never
theless so far awake on one particular
subject that If a cOmrade whispered Sig
nal = i'm his ear it reused him at once
and irresistibly. A young military Of
ficer voyaging with his regiment in
troopship displayed tendency which
the mischievous wags about him took
an unfair advantage of. When he was
asleep in his berth they would whisper
in his ear, giving him all the details of
a duel, shipwreek, or battle; his
mind uncOnciously followed the narra-
tive, until he was reused to action by
the climax. and awoke by springing out
of bed; fortunately for society such
cases are rare,-Chdmber's Journal.
Year: 1876

Disdgrcedble Enthusiastically all the
disagreeable habits which people take
up come at first from mere accident or
want of thought. They might easily
be dropped but they are persisted in
until they become second nature. Stop
and think before yOu allow yourself to
form them. There are disaRreeable
habits of body, like scowliDg. winking,
twisting the mouth, biting the nails,
continually picking at something,
twirling key or fumbling at a chain,
drumming with the fingers, screwing
and twisting a chair, or whatever you
can lay your hands on. Don't do any
of these things. Learn to sit quietly,
like a-gentleman. was going to say,
but l am afraid even girls fall into
such tricks sometimes. There are
much worse habits than these, to be
sure; but we are speaking only of very
little things that are only annoying
when they are persisted in. There are
habits OF speech also, such as begin
ming every speech with "yOu see," or
you know" "now-a,n 81 don't care"
tell ye WHAT tell We now.- Indistinct
utterance, sharp nasal tones, a slow
drawl, avoid them all. Stop and think
what you wish to say, and then let
every word drop from your lips just as
smooth and perfect as a new silver
coin. Have care about your ways of
sitting aud standing and walking. Be-
fore you know it, you will find your
habits have hardened into coat of
mail that yOu cannot get rid of without
terrible effort.-Littie Corporal.
Year: 1876

TnE SUNDAY DRINK WAsTE.-n a late
address in Exeter Hail. London, Mr. Whit
worth, j. T., said Z" am connected with
concerns in this country employing forty
five thousand men, and paying about four
million pounds every year in wages. | will
just give you the Sundays drinking in one
of those concerns We pay ten thousand
pounds a week, and employ between seven
and eight thousand hands, We never com
mence work on Monday because We find
the men do not come in sufficient numbers
10 make it worth our while 10 get up steam
to turn the machinery. Now have calou-
lated very minutely what the cost of this is
TO that concern. II is thiry-fve thousand
pounds year Of loss--equal to four per
cent on the capital employed. want to
know how long this country can stand such
drain as that, We are competing with
the whole world, and ! say that with a
weight like that We shall not long be able
To compete with it,
Year: 1876

INpUsrRY.-If there be one thing which
will make all things pleasant, and all diff
culties easy-it is industry, the great oppo-
nent and conqueror of that rust Of mind, IN
dolence. 1t is the philosophers stone, and
turns all metals and even stone, into gold
As Incidence makes all things difficult and
gives a man pain even to walk to his door
and loll in his carriage, so industry makes
all things easy. 4" He who rises late writes
old Fuller, as wisely as quantity, "must trot
all day, and shall scarcely oyertake his busi-
ness at night. Laziness, on the other hand,
travels so slowly that poverty soon oyertakes
her. This law is universal. Ii may seem
all very pleasant to be able to indulge in idle
dreams--to fold the arms-to loll about and
do nothing but the man who does so does
it at his own cost and peril, and soon sorely
nes it. His body cannot be so healthy, his
mind must stagnate, his soul become corrupt.
Idleness is truly the mother of all the vices,
and very prolific mother she is, too.





ANY great movement for good in social
life begins at home. 1t begins with fathers
and mothers. The first and highest social
duty is to make home cheerful and active.
Husband and wife must do this for each
other Without this their mutual affection
will dry up. If they have children, it is
their duty to make home sweet and precious
TO them. Children with good homes seldom
go TO the bad, Girls who have learned TO
trust their mothers in their whole round of
thought, seldom get talked about. Boys
who are made to feel the strength of a
fathers, and the tenderness of mothers
love, seldom run wild. Their natural love
Of fun and mischief does not bind them over
to the DEVILS service. Pleasant, cheerful,
bright homes, then, are the great demand.
They may be poor, but they can still be
pleasant and attractive and good. The heart
and spirit are more than furniture and dwell
ing Chwehman.
Year: 1876

THE Pennsylvania Avenue Paving Com
mission have made an excellent move in
partially circumscribIng the character of
the materials from which they will con
struct the new pavement. The next step
which it should take is to select the very
best known material from the remainder in
th eir list and then proceed to prepare the
foundation and to lay the pavement under
the personal supervision of one or more OF
its members. The appropriation is suffl-
cient TO pay for frst-class pavement, pro-
Vided it is utilized and large proportion
of it is not frittered away in contractors
profits Labor here is very cheap. Men
of intelligence Can be had to superintend
laborers at lower rates than at any time
during the laying Of pavemeuts by the
Board OF Public Works the material re-
quisite to first class pavement can be OBJ
tanned twenty five to thirty per centum
cheaper than the same cost that board, and
the patent right to lay and use the best
pavement we have in use can be purchased
for reasonable sum. With all these ad-
vantages in their favor the commissioners
owe it to themselves, to their reputation as
engineers, as well as to this community
and to the country to take none of the
Year: 1876

VIRGINIA WINGS OPENING THEIR EYES.


The old Wings of Virginia are beginning
to "see things as they are" and we trust
the day is dawning when they will see that
the old secession Democracy of that State
has done little else since the war than make
"hewers of wood and drawers of water" Of
the Wings. In the Fredericksburg district
we notice that Mr.. John Critcher, an old
Whig, and formerly member of Congress,
is making a vigorous fight for the Congress
sional nomination against Bev. Douglass,
the present incumbent. Critcher and his
friends very justly complain that they have
been used about long enough to draw Dem
ocratic chestnuts out of the fire, and that
it is about time for the Wings of the State
who act with the so-called Conservative
party to have share Of the spoils. In
view of the fact that in dnte-belIum days
the Wings were but four or five thousand
in the minority in the State, and that the
present representation in Congress consists
of one Republican and eight so-called Con-
servatives, seven of whom were original
secession Democrats, the point is well
taken. We await with some curiosity the
action of the nominating convention. Our
own impression, judging from the past, is
that Douglass will be renominated, for the
simple reason that the Democracy never
have allowed Wing in Virginia to hold
political office that Democrat could be
found to fill. 1t would do well enough to
exhibit show of fairness by nominating
Critcher Immediately after the rebellion,
when there was but little chance of an
election, and still less of the admission of a
secession Democrat, should one have been
elected but "the case being altered. alters
the case," and as there is no question now
unfortunately about the admission of the
most virulent Union -hater, Douglass, being
of that class and Democrat to boot, must
have the place. Our curiosity, therefore,
is aroused to see whether, in the event of
Critcher's defeat in convention, he and his
Wing friends will continue to kiss the hand
that has been engaged in shifting them for
a period whereof the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary" or whether,
on the other hand, they will assert their
manhood by boiling from the unholy alli-
Year: 1876

How LONG do the Southern whites ex-
pect that they can suffer their EARNED
banditti to go on scourging and assassi-
mating colOred citizens with impunity,
making no effective efforts for the punish
ment of these crimes, before the initiative
characteristics of the negro will lead him
to efforts at the most fearful retaliation
Do they ever think of this? 1t is time
fhau did
Year: 1876

THE Republicans of the Second district
of California have nominated the Hon. H.
F. Page for Congress by acclamation. This
we believe is the first third term that was
ever given to any Congressman of the
Golden State. The Republican party and
Mr.. Page will please accept our hearty con-
gratulations.
Year: 1876

Tilden and Hendricks have ungracefully
swallowed each other, and gulped down their
own principles at the same time. But while
the dog and tail wagged each other in the let
ters of acceptance, the tail wagged the dog in
the Committee on Banking and Currency. 1t
is very waggable affair all around.
Year: 1876

There is truth and wisdom in the following short words of warning. No man is reliable or trustworthy who cannot govern and control his appetite for the degrading cup. Men who drink arc liable to get in a condition at any time which will lncapacitate them for the discharge of any business. The only safe plan is to choose only sober men for your officials:

 Nearly every state and county has suffered more or less from drunken officials, and as we are about to have another election we plead with the voter to be careful and not cast his ballot for any but sober men. A drunken sot in a legislative body is bore and . nuisance, and if sober men cannot be found, competent to discharge the duties of Legislators, go un- represented. It is dangerous to elect drunken sheriils or clerks. In truth the sot's place is not in tho state-house nor courthouse, but in the saloon, so long as he has the dimes to pay for his drinks and then in the mad house, jail or poor house. Vote for no man who is not sober for any office in your gift. You will bnng disgrace on your party, your state and your county by elevating incorporate men to oilice.--State Grange,