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Year: 1876

EMINENCE is not reached by frantic
struggle. The road to it is much more
commonplace. He that would dazzle
must first dig.


The man who can leave fruit store
without hooking handful of peanuts as
he goes out is the one green oasis in
great moral Sahara.


DON'T live single hour of your life
without doing exactly what ought to be
done in it, and going straight through it
from beginning to end.


If you want to find out mans real
disposition, take him when he is wet and
hungry. If he is amiable then, dry him
and FIJI him up, and you have an angel.


A VIRGINIA coroner will help to hang
man and then instruct his jury to bring
in verdict of "death from unknown
causes" However, no man can be per-
| feet.


CHICAGO Times: There's a mining
town out West called "Nowhere."
That's where a man has always been
when his wife lets him in at two o'clock
in the morning.


A CLERK in one of our grocery stores
fell down the cellar stairs with a basket
of eggs the other day, and when he came
up the proprietor thought he had been
painted up to take part in the Fourth Of
July parade.


THERE'S beauty all around
When there's love at home;
There IL Joy in every sound
When there's love at home.
Peace and plenty here abide,
Smiling sweet on every side
Time doth sofly, sweetly glide
When there's love at home


SOME people were talking with Jerrold
about gentleman as celebrated for the
intensity as for the shortness of his
friendships. eyes" said Jerrold, "his
friendships are so warm that he no sooner
takes them up than he puts them down
again."


The Cairo base ball club is called Qui-
Nine. The Vassar club is known as the
Femi- -Nine.-Graphic. If these be the
names of Cairo and Vassar, how would
it do to call the National Base Ball AS
sociation the Assy-Nine ?-Philade!phia
Bulletin.


MARQUETTE Mining Journal: Somebody
wants to know, if all men are created
equal, what the difference is between a
nice little Sunday-school scholar and
boy of the cannibal islands. The differ
ence is that one keeps cent for the mis-
sionary plate, and the other a plate for
the missionary sent.


Norwich Bulletin I" 1 make it a prin-
ciple not to lend money" said a good
man to friend yesterday, but in your
case, 1 sacrifice principle for interest"
And when the latter found he had
charged twenty per cent, discount, he
said he thought he did.
Year: 1876

ARGRICoLA, writing to the New York
Herald, tells how he learns horse to step
between thills. never draw carriage
up to horse when he is about to be
hitched before it. No matter how awk-
ward and laundering he may be, he is al
ways taught to step over one thill to the
desired place between the shafts. Before
horse has been trained to step over one
shaft the two shafts are placed on small
bench. eight or ten inches high. Then
the animal is led along the side of the
carriage and taught carefully to step
over one shaft with the fore feet, and then
to place his hind feet between the shafts.
If he is awkward at first exercise patience
with his stupidity, and lead him forward
again and bring him around until you
induce him to understand what is de.
sired of him. A tractable animal (if his
driver knows half as much as the horse)
can easily be taught to step between
the thills and never touch them with his
feet
Year: 1876

The Government of England will
shortly be askt to grant a charter to a
large and influential company of Eng
lishmen, empowering them to hold, oc-
cupy, and use vast tracts of land on the
west coast of Africa. The movement
will be modelled upon the old East India
Company, and the arguments for its ne.
cessity are supported by the fact that the
present system of trading in that region
means very little more than selling rum
and tobacco to the natives and encourag-
ing them to keep up the slave trade.
The government under the present dis
jointed system of rule in West Africa,
can not reach and correct the evils COM
planned of by civilized nations. But a
great organized company, it is claimed,
like that which ruled India, could and
would do what the home government
is powerless to do.
Year: 1876

Away from the roar and the rattle,
The dust and the din OF the town,
Where to live is to brawl and battle,
Till the strong treads the weak man down
Away to the bonnie green hills
Where the sunshine sleeps on the brae,
And the heart OF the greenwood thrills
To the hymn Of the bird on the spray.
Away from the smoke and the smother
The veil OF the dun and the brown,
The push, aud ths plash, ard the pother,
The wear and the waste Of the town;
Away where the sky shines clear,
And the light breeze wanders at will,
And the dark pine wood mods near
To the light plumed birch on the hill.
Away from the whirling aud wheeling,
And steaminR above aud below,
Where the heart has no leisure Tor feeling
And the thought has no quiet to grow;
Away where the clear brook purls,
And the hyaciuth droops in the shade,
And the plume Of the fern uncurls
Its grace In the depth of the glade.
Away to the cottage SO sweetly


Enibowered meath the fringe Of the wood,
Where the wife Of my bosom shall meet me
With thoughts ever kindly and good
More dear thau the wealth Of the w0rld,
Fond mother with bairnies three,
And the pump.armed babe that has curled
Its lips sweetly pouting Tor me-
Then away from the roar and the rattle,
The dust aud the din OF the town..
Where to live is to brawl and to battle
Till the strong treads the weak man down.
Away where the green twigs nod


In the f,a9rlnt breath OF the May,
And the sweet growth spreads on the sod,
And the blithe birds sing on the spray.


Sunday Magazine
Year: 1876

WESTERN grain dealers always manage
to discover short crops and bad harvest
about this time, and 1t is not surprising
that they have found pretexts for bear
operation this year. But all trustworthy
accounts agree that the wheat crop this
year is unusually large and fine, while
that of California is estimated at more
than 100000, greater than last year. Our
cotton crop never promised be.ter. The
hay crop IL heavy, and the yield OF corn
now bids fair To outstrip that OF any
former wear. IC almost seems as though
the earth were joining with the people in
celebrating the Centennial in the abund-
ance and exuberance Of It's yield. The
foreign demand for our produce is likely
TO continue without abatement, and with
cheap transportation there can hard y
help being large amount OF business in
the fall and through the winter.
Year: 1876

ONE of the very best things TO remem.
Der in the accomplishment Of road work
is the fence corners Too often the sides
of the road become the nursery for the
vilest of weeds, and far better than turn.
ing over the rail 10 no purpose Is the re-
moval of these miserable pests.
Year: 1876

TEARS are copiously showered over
frailties the discoverer takes malicious
delight in circulating; and thus, all
granite on one side of the heart, and all
milk on the other, the unsexed scandal
moDger hies from house to house pour
ing balm from its weeping eyes on the
wounds it inHicts with its stabbing
tongue Whippk.
Year: 1876

The telegraph brings news of deadly
battle between band of United States
troops led by Gen. Custer and the In
dians, on the Little Horn River. The
report is sufficient to show that our
soldiers met with crushing defeat.
Not a man of the detachment which
made the attack was left to tell the story.
The gallant Gen. Custer and his two
brothers were killed at the head of their
columns, and nearly three hundred men
shared their fate. 1t was dreadful en-
counter, and the worst feature of it is
the encouragement which the Indians
will draw from their success. Hence
forth they will fight with new courage,
and it is impossible to tell how many
more lives of our best soldiers will be
needed to subject them. The fight pre-
pares the way for long and bloody
Indian war.
Year: 1876

ABDUL AZIZ never maze hail so much
noise in the world during his life as he
has made since his death. His friends
and family are doing their best to prove
that he must have been crazy for years
past, and very likely he was. Absolute
power made the Caesars mad, and the
Sultans are of no sterner stuff Caligula
and his horse are fairly matched by
Abdul Aziz and his cock. 1t seems that
the Commander of the Faithful walking
one day in the superb gardens of one of
his thirty-one palaces, was captivated by
the scarlet comb and splendid plumage
of an arrogant young cock strutting and
growing about under the pleached
bowers. He sent for the steward of the
poultry and ordered the bird to be dis
patched to his own royal apartments in
the Bechiktach palace. There the Sultan
fed the bird himself, delighted to hear
him crow at all hours, and generally
treated him like great parsonage.
Finally, one morning he called the
Council together and ordered the
fortunate chanticleer to be made Grand
Officer of the Imperial Order of the
Osmanie, founded by himself in 1861
This was done, the Grand Chancellor o
the Order passing the Gordon of the
Order solemnly around the neck of tn,
astonished bird. And yet there are
people who pretend to be surprised tha
Abdul Aziz should have killed himsel


with pair of scissors.
Year: 1876

AN English inventor has introduced a
unique implement in the shape of a
grooming apparatus, which is said to be
decidedly valuable for the purpose. The
winch handle projects from fy-wheel
around the periphery of which an end.
less gut band passes over small pulley
below. The framing of the machine is
bolted to the floor. There are three
arms of different angles, these being
tubes, and each having rotary spindle
in 1T; these are connected to the spindle
of the pulley above-named by the miter
gear of each articulation, of a circular
instead of conical form, so that the
spindles are actuated, whether at an
angle or in straight line. The brush is
on the end of the spindle in the tube
arm, held in the hand of the operator.
The weight, with cord over the pulley,


ounterbalances the arms, thereby re.
lieving the operators hand. The three
arms bend in any direction and, by con.
ncction with the spindle of the pulley
they have also rotary motion, enablino
the brush to be applied to every part and
angle of the body. When the operator
holding the brush, turns the spindle oI
the pulley in the direction in which IL /,
rotating, it is in favor of the person al
the winch but wien il is turned the op.
posite way, the reverse is the case. The
brush may be taken of, and a polisher,
consisting of cylinder about the same
size az the brush, composed of disks OF
thick felt material, put on.
Year: 1876

A TUMULUs of unusual size has lately
been opened near the Nordford in Nor
way, dating apparently from the year
500. 1t was stored with all the magnif-
icent belongings of viking chieftain.
A bow, of precious enamel, store of
amber, a massive belt of bronze, rank
among the most splendid trophies of the
viking period which have come down to
us. There were also some stone balls
fattened on one side, with dint in the
center of the base, which some regard as
marbles, fattened for use on board ship
but others argue that they belonged
rather to a peculiar game now no longer
in vogue and played on shore. This
theory is supported by references found
in the ancient sagas.
Year: 1876

All honest citizens of whatever party will
join with the Central Association of Penn
sylvania Democrats In the demand that the
alleged attempts to issue fraudulent tax
receipts shall be promptly, vigorously and
fully investigated and those found to bs
concerned In 1t prosecuted without fear or
favor. This, and no less than this, the
public must demand. But the Central
Association, which may fairly claim to rep
resent the decent portion of the Democratic
party in Philadelpbia, goes further than
this, and proposes to seek security for tho
future as we'll as indemnity for the past. It
has appointed committee to confer with
the Mayor and tho leading men Of the Re-
Publican party, with view to the organi-
zation of . joint committee of citizens Of
both parties to watch every election poll
where frauds are anticipated and Ito cause
every man who shall be detected in the
commission of fraud upon the ballot box
en- Tuesday next to be punished to the full
extent of the law"
Year: 1876

Two bells OF this city lately came homo
from Philadelphia shorn Of their wealth Of
raven tresses. After they had taken In oil
all the points At the big show and mad made
many purchases before they knew It, they
had spent all their money, and what was
worse had lost their return excursion tickets.
They had no friends In Philadelphia and no
time to write to Reading. They therefore
resolved to make raise; so they skipped
away into barber shop and strnck bar
gain for their back hair. The barber offered
S2.76 each for what they had. In short
time they we're nicely shorn, and thus they
wore able to got back to their native land.
Year: 1876

The excursion to Chester last evening by
Democratic clubs from this city on the
steamer Alice E. Preston, attracted large
numbers to view them on their route to the
wharf at tho foot of Fourth street the point
of embarkation. The cluos that took pas
sage were the Hickory, Bsyard and Terra
pin. Besides these there were large mum.
ber of citizens making altogether nearly
three hundred.
Year: 1876

The Jefferson club of this city, have en-
gagged fine band of music from Philadel-
phia, tor the parade tonight, and will have
In the line the first calcium light ever
used by any party In procession In the
city.
Year: 1876

WHERE HER HUSBAND WENT.-At a
dinner party there were two sisters
present, one widow who had just emerged
from her weeds, the other not long married,
whose husband had lately gone out to
India for short term. A young barrister
present was deputed to take the young
widow down to dinner. Unfortunately he
was under the impression that his partner
was the married lady whose husband had
Just arrived in India. The conversation
between them began with the lady's re-
marIing how extremely hot is was. =" Yes,
it is very hot" returned the young barris-
ter. Then a happy thought suggested
itself to him, and he added with a cheerful
smile, But not so hot as the place which
your husband has gone The look with
which the widow answered his happy
thought" will haunt the young barrister
till the day of his death.
Year: 1876

WOMEN AS LAwYERs.-In the Supreme
Court of the United States on Monday the
application of Mrs Belva Lockwood for ad-
mission to practice as an attorney in said
Court was refused on the ground, as stated
by the Chief Justice, that by the uniform
practice of the Court from its organization
and the fair construction of its rules, none
are admitted to practice before it but men.
The Court does not feel called upon to
make a charge until such change is re-
quired by statute or a more extended prac
tice in the higher Courts of the States.
Year: 1876

A TRAGIC WEDDING.-At Marc, ILL.,, while
a wedding party was at supper at the house
of Mr.. Shonk, father of the bridegroom, a
cousin of the bride accidentally Knocked
down hanging coal oil lamp, which struck
the bride and was broken. The oil poured
over the bride and groom and took fire,
burning them and several of the guests in
a terrible manner. The bride is dead, the
bridegroom cannot recover, and Mrs.
Sergeant is in critical condition. The
cousin who knocked down the lamp is
nearly distracted
Year: 1876

An American woman, Mrs. Susan Ellis
Laura Smith, believing "that it is the duty
OF every member of the human family to
devote their bodies after death to scientific
examination until the principals of physi-
illogical science are thoroughly established" :"
has willed her body to the Royal College Of
Surgeons of England, to be dissectedimme-
diately after death. She winds up her tcs-
lament with the following clumsy but
cheerful permission: 81 should also wish
that if any of my friends should desire to
have remnant of my said body, they
should be at liberty to do so.n
Year: 1876

To CONTROL Vicious HoRsEs.-Says a
writer in Swiss paper: A horse, no mat
ter how vicious and obstinate he may be
when attempts are made to shoe him, can
be rendered queit manageble by making
him inspire during the operation a few
grains of the ETHEREAL oil of parsley dropped
on a handkerchief. A large number of
trials of this substance have been made
with the most troublesome and violent
animals, and in every case with perfect sue
cess
Year: 1876

Coon TINES AHEAD.-The financial editor
Of the Philadelphia Ledger, in Saturdays
issue, says: Business continues to in
crease in volume and extent, and the
movement is snoticeable all over the country.
All the indications now seem to point to
still further progress in the right direction.
It will take time, of course, to restore real
business activity after so long period of
depression, but the substantial character of
the conditions upon which the progress
already made has been based, and the
alowness of the recovery, are hopeful signs
that it is to be enduring and continuous.
Year: 1876

Among the efforts made to utilize the
grape crop of California no scheme seems
to promise better at presant than that of
making the juice into syrup for the table.
1t is estimated that two tons and half of
grapes will be required for hundred
gallons of good syrup, and the syrup is said
to be equal if not superior to the article
known as the best golden syrup.
Year: 1876

We learn that the agricultural society of
the lower Seine, of France, offer a prize of
gold medal and 700 francs to the inven.
tor of an instrument capable of indicating
if milk has been skinned or watered.
Year: 1876

THE pubic is perhap5 not aware that
union railroad depot scheme Is at
tempted ID be pushed throt Oh the boards
OF sldermen and cOlncilmen. Hold on,
gentlsNeD, don't be iu 8 hurry about
this. Move slowly aud LEI the PEOPLE
know exactly what you are up to, 9th
erwis5 II may cause talk. a clesr ven
tilStiOn Of the suti sct will rot hurt, and
stirring up will not use bad smell if
everything is wholesome. We design
making a sCTutin zing inspeo ton OF the
scheme, and we desire those who are at
work on it in tie council to make haste
very slowly Sd as to give us and the pub
lie chance.


We copy the above from the Ledger
o. yesterday, and approve it. We want
a union depot, and desire to see all the
railroads consolidated under one roof
But we think the tax-paying neOple Of
Memphis ought to be allowed some say
IN regard to the way in which 80 desirs.
bic WORK is TO be consummated. To
that end we trust we sbaIl have at the
hands Of the general council sucn foil
and complete discussion as will enable
us to judge Of the desirability aud legal
ity Of the mode about to be proposed to
the council. We believe there is o law
Of '75 to be consulted.
Year: 1876

The gigantic river steamer Grand he
public, a full description of which lately
appeared in the REPUBLICAN, Is now iuiiy
finished, and word was received in this city
Yesterday BY Colonel L. I. johnson from
Captain w. H. Thorwegan, at st. Louis,
that the boat expects to raise steam to day,
and will leave for this city on the fifteenth
instant. She will arrive here about the
twenty first of April. and will bring down
an excursion party to visit the jetties at
Soufh Pass.
Year: 1876

Boston. Mass, April 6.-The Spring
field Republican of to-day says that in
settling the affairs of Patrick Donahoe.
proprietor of the Boston Pilot, who recent
ly went into bankruptcy. facts of the most
disgraceful character came to light. For
many years Donahoe had been in ihe habit
of receiving money from people who
placed it with him for safe keeping. He
had the unlimited confidence of the pub
lic-especially of the l-ish Catholics.


Donahue as president Of the Enligrant
Savings Bank also suggested to ignorant
depositors that he would receive their
money the same as the bank did and would
invest it for them and pay them per
cent interest. In this way thousands of
dollars were taken.


1t is found that trust funds confded to
his care and money received on deposit
have been put into his business and lost


The suffering which will follow this
breach of trust cannot fail to be very great
Year: 1876

river have shown no disposition to be
liberal in this matter, and having. in the
opinion of we'll informed parties. forfeited
their charter, the city has perfect right
to put in ferry, or build a bridge. as may
seem best If the city is going to build a
bridge let it be done at once, otherwise
give us the ferry. There has been entirely
too much taE on this question and it is
time something definite was done. There
has been too much disposition to cater to
the so OF the present owners. Less
buncon,be and more scork is what the
people want at present.


Monthly Report Of the Moline Public


schools, for the Month OF


March 1876
Year: 1876

TRY THE ENAMELLED PIPE, IT WILL NO1


! Rust or crack and costs only trifc more than
common iron pipe. Is positively THE BEST thing
for water service pipe. have the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED HASS
Store in Star Block
Year: 1876

LOUISIANA proposes General Hancock as
the Democratic candidate for President.
We object to this. Let General Hancock re.
main where he is. He is Q gallant, true
man but his place is in the army. We have
had enough OF soldiers in civil life for all
time to come. We propose 10 keep the
Army and the Bench out of politics. W.
hope the American people will never have
another military President. We think l,
i'll becomes any party which wishes to re-
form a corrupt government, to take Pres
idential candidate from either the Army OF
the Bench, and most especially would it be
ill-becoming in the Democracy, after the
example that has been set it, to nominate
a military chieftain.
Year: 1876

The New York Herald says the horse
railroads are fighting rapid transit with a
bitterness expected from the monopolies
The Sixth avenue road has obtained tenn
porary Injunction against the Gilbert eleva-
ted road, and if the courts can be induced
to help the horse car companies, there will
be no rapid transit. The people are jeal-
ously watching the result of the case. The
question of rapid transit is one of public
necessity and the highest public interest.
Year: 1876

The people are looking with deep in.
terest for the report Of the Committee OF
Congress which has been investigating the
matter of the Freedmen's Bank. Ii is ev-
ident that the money which had been col
lectcd from poor and creiulous negroes
under the impression that they were lend
ing it to the Government as depository
they could trust, was taken out of the bank
and squandered. The money was loaned
10 members Of the Washington Ring, Sen
Year: 1876

The Presidents permetory order that no
original papers shall be suffered to 60 out
side of the various departments to which
they belong, has put all the various COM
mittees on expenditures in the different de-
partments to q stand still. The President
evidently means to throw every obstacle in
the way Of the Investigations ordered by
the House, and his order in regard to origi-
nal papers is only part of the general
policy which the leaders of the Republican
party have determined on.
Year: 1876

BELKNAP is baby. What was deemed
q chivalrous desire to screen his wife has
now changed to virtual public acknowl-
edgement that she and not he was
bribed. He first said he resigned to escape
punishment and the consequent exposure of
his wife, and now he asks to be spared a
trial on the ground that his resignation was
thus forced upon him.
Year: 1876

The attempt of the New York clergymen
to keep the revival after the departure OF
Moody and Sankey does not promise sue
cess. The initiative preachers and singers
are unable to produce religious excitement
The multitudes do not flock to their meet
ings, nor do anxious sinners crowd their
inquiry rooms. .
Year: 1876

JAPANESE journalists are favored class
A recent decree of the Mikado gives COM
plete freedom of postage to journalists, each
of whom is now allowed to send whatever
communication he may think fit from one
part of the Empire to the other free OF
charge
Year: 1876

The Democrat who can sit calmly
down and make no effort in behalf OF
Tilden and Reform must have heart
made Of stone. No man who wants q
change in this government has right to
field bis hands and play the part Of apa-
thy. We are all in the same boat and
alike we share its safety and its dangers.
Holly Springs Reporter.