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Year: 1876

At the moment of this writing, it ID estI-
mated that the Repu blican majority in Yer
mont is 25, 900. This is gain of 5000 over
their majority at the last election for Gov
ernor. At first glance it is hard to see
Democratic triumph in this, but moments
reflection will make it clear.


The vote this year is much fuller than at
last election, and, if both sides are relatively
as strong now ss then, the increased vote
of each would be in proportion to the
vote then cast. Thus, if the Democratic vote
then was one half az much as the Re-
publican vote, the same relative strength
would require it to be exactly one half this
year also. Therefore, the Republican gain
would have to be twice as much as the De,
mocratic gain to keep thir relative strength
the same. 1t is clear that, if the Repubi-
cans are in majority in Vermont and if
the general vote is fuller this year than at
last election their majority will have to be
greater now than it was then to show the
same relative strength.


But this is very far from being the case.
The last returns up to this moment do not
give the totals as compared with those OF
the preceding election, but a previous dis
patch gave figures from which we computed
that the Republican gain, ia the towns given,
was 40 per cent, while the Democratic gain
in the same towns was &c per cent. Here
was an immense retatire gain by the Demo
Gratis, get the 40 per cent of the former
Republican vote amounted to much larger
figure than the &c per cent of the FORMER
Democratic vote and, therefore, increased
the previou Majority. 1t is plain, however
that this is really Democratic advance
! for with the same ratio of Republican anC
Democratic gains every where, say 40 tt
76, Dem ocracy would sweep the country
almost without q contest. Take State, fol
in Instance, of 100000 votes, which OF las
election stood 100000 for each party, a
the rate of gains made in Vermont, i
would now give the Republicans I40 00(
and the Democrats 176, 900, clear Demo
cratic majority of sc 900.


We may therefore regard the Vernon
election as splendid triumph of Demo
cratic progress. If it may be taken as an.
indication of the relative gains to be mad
elsewhere, it shows the existence of spiri
which will give Tilden an almost unani
nous electoral vote.
Year: 1876

Pinchback has received the price fixed for
his services to be rendered in the Hayes and
Wheeler campaign, by drawing full pay for all
the time he was claiming seat in the Senate
of the United States, to which he aspired with
about as much right as he might have done to
the throne of the Sultan of Turkey. On the
25th of August he was paid from the contin-
gent fund of the Senate sic, G,OGG.9O. every dime
of which was barefaced plunder.
Year: 1876

Although the position of "A naval officer of
the watch is in the present age most RESPONSE
BILE, as n slight mistake or loss of nerve in n
critical moment may send millions of money
and thousands of lives to tho bottom of the
sea, it is nevertheless au extraordinary fact
that British naval officers not required to
pass au examination even in the leading fea-
lures of tleet marwuvrjug and tactics.
Year: 1876

John Chiddy lost his life in rolling stone
out of the way of an English railroad traln'
thus averting great disaster. Praise OF the
deed was general; yet an appeal for money
to save his family from want resulted in raising
only about "a, the railroad company giving
nothing.
Year: 1876

The largest lantern ever made will soon be
erected ut Galley head, on the coast of Cork.
1t will consume 1900 feet of gas per hour, and
the fashng'iight will be visible through the
fogs The power of the light will be equal to
100000 canGies
Year: 1876

FEAST OF TIE Holy NAME OF MARY, IN Al
oIERs.-To-day Is the patroual feast of the


beautiful church in Algiers under the care
of the Marist Fathers. Blessed under the in
vocation of the Holy Name of Mary, every re-
ourrence of the feast of that Holy Name wit
nesses the most tender devotion on the part of
both clergy and parishoners and their most
strenuous exertions to adorn and embellish the
the really magnificent structure which their
faith and piety have erected as the chief glory
of Algiers. Devotees of that Holy Name will
be gratifed by participating in the celebration.
Year: 1876

The candidacy OF Lieut. Gov. Penn
for the nomination of the Democratic
Conservative party, announced by the


Times Sunday morning In q double
loaded leader, Is to US not an unwelcome
sign in the political horizon. We are
not in favor OF the nomination OF Lieut..
Gov. Penn for several reasons. Never
theless we are glad that he has been


brought out as a candidate for the


Baton Rouge Convention. He belongs
to that wing Of the Conservatives most


widely differing with the straight De-


mocracy. and the third party men


have used his name and high position
to give strength and shape to their un-
wise scheme. Gov. Penn's candidacy


for the Democratic. Conservative nomi-


nation robs the third party Of its
strongest hope, and indicates that the
great mass Of our conservative people
are looking to no absurd third party
folly, and that they recognize the
present Democratic Conservative or
ganization as the one which is to make
the fight against Radicalism in the in
terest of the State, and are determined
to cooperate and work with it. Gov.


Penn, we are assured, will abide the
action Of the convention and will
gave his earnest and cordial support to
its candidates. As We have said above,
the Lieutenant Governor is not our
choice for the nomination, though We
appreciate his personal worth, and hail


his candidacy with pleasure. a. tending


t. defeat the plans Of those who are
seeking to disorder our ranks and


divide our strength In the face Of the
enemy.
Year: 1876

The picavune quotes the fifteenth and sixteenth
planks Of the Cincinnati platform as plainly In
dicative Of the intense desire Of the Radical
party 10 revive sectional feuds and animosities
The fact Ia. the hatred Of the North against the
South Ii the only idea left for the Republican
party to eubsist on and its leaders are now using
It az forlorn hope for the approaching battle.


Concerning the anti Chinese movement In
California. II says that the Califorhians are
asking that the cheap Chinese labor Of which
they complain be driven AWAY from their own
shores but on the other hand they are seeking,
through the confirmation Of the Hawaiian treaty,
to encourage this same class Of labor In the
Sandwich Islands to the direct and serious In
Jury OF Southern industry. Let the Southern
representatives see that their sympathies are
not lavished on those who advocate measure
cruelty hostile to their own section.


The Times has obituary notices Of Bristow and
Blaine. Bristow Is q good and honest man. he
was not positively great lnancier. but, as
Treasurer. his abilities were equal to the task !;
now he has resigned. rs he said he would do.
after having undertaken the Herculean task OF
cleaning his particular stall In the Augean
stables at Washington.


Blaine challenges general admiration for
his dauntless pluck and eonsuminate abil1-
ty. In short. he died game. The backbone
of his support wns the old war feeling
and sectional hatred. He was defeated says The
Times but the spirit which almost forced him on
the Convention I'M spite Of the terrible load he
was carrying will appear In the canvass In
much more dangerous and formidable manner
This ought to be thoroughly comprehended by
the Democrats II they do not comprehend II
and take the proper steps TO counteract 1t, they
will simply be overwhelmed
Year: 1876

The Campaign WEEKLY DEMOCRAT, q
large eight-page paper, will be fur-
nished from the 1st Of July to the list
November for the small sum OF One
Dollar. Every man In the State should
subscribe. Every Democratic and Con-
seryatiye club should subscribe for
from twenty Ave to one hundred copies
for distribution.
Year: 1876

Mr.. j. Wilkinson rural architect of much
experience, has hit upon the following plan for
improving the construction of stable floors:
The floor is made level. fore and aft but having
a gentle slope from each of the two sides to the
centre, or half the width of the stall. The
planks are laid crosswise, inciniDg to the CEN
tire, leaving an opening between the ends in
the centre just wide enough for the urine TO
drain through and into metal gutter under
the floor, which conducts it outside the build
ing to hogshead or TO the manure pit. This
prevents it from being absorbed IN the bedding,
which, otherwise, is wet, fetid and uncomfort-
able to horses The cleanliness of this ar
faDgement of the floor, over every other, should
render its adoption universal. The little slope
in the floor in another advantage, as 1t admits
of the animal lying as he always does, where
he can, in pasture fields, with his back up the
grade Then the floor, being always kept dry,
makes good bed for the horse without litter
during the summer months besides being cool
er and freer from he ammonia which the lat
ter exbales.-Iurf Field and Farm


Open and Close Barns.


1t has been the custom to side up barns with
green boards so that in shrinking they will
leave wide cracks for the access of air to hay
mows. An important principle has been here
overlooked. Fermentation like combustion,
requires oxygen to carry it on. Many farmers
have learned that manure will ferment when
well trodden SO as to exclude the air, and that
1t seldom firefangs when thrown where the cat
tie can tread upon it, The class above all 9TH
ers interested in grass and hay is diarymen.
They have ascertained by experiments directed
by science that hay will keep better in clap
boarded or battened barns than in the open hay
stack That the heating will be so moderate
as to only dry out the hay without moulding
If this is fact that hay may be safely put In
to large mow in tight barn less cured than
ordinary usage requires it is very important
fact for farmers, as it will enable them to
gather their hay crop quite independent of th g
vicissitudes of the weather, for even when the
hay /, in the cock the exterior surface is injur-
ed by the rain or dew-Rurdl Home.


BAD WATER IN WELLs.-A subscriber at
Gorham, Me-. wishes to inform the readers of
the Farmer who, like himself may have been
troubled with bad water in their wells, how he
cured his, and has had the best of water for the
past four years. The well Is in the house eel
lar. is 13 feet deep, and in soil that is made up
largely of clay. The water was bed from the
first amp quite unfit for drinking purposes. 1t
reminded one of clans when boiling. After
trying various methods for improving the
watei, he concluded to treat the case like a
"drive" we'll In the bottom was set lime
cask filled with coarse gravel, and in this the
end of tube like those used in drive wells,
having strainer nm the end The we'll was
then filed with fine sand, and the water has
been excellent ever since. The experiment
may be worth repeating in similar cases.-N.
e. Farmer
Year: 1876




Those Republicans who always believe
in running with the "machine" men Of the
party will probably turn up their noses
at the call that has been made for con-
ference in New York. The ax.grinders
and bunmers OF the party will all look
with dsfavor on that conference. What
they want is the nomination Of some man
who will give them an Office and with
whom they are already in some sort Of di.
rect OF indirect intercourse looking 10
that end. They have no use for man
who will simply represent the prevailing
feeling oil the disinterested Republican
masses for reform. Their beau ideal OF
candidate is a dispenser Of political
aims. No odds who this man may be, II
they can only get hold Of him in time to
fleet an understanding. They are not
particular as to the man so that the un.
derstanding Is effected. They look
upon the New York conference as
an irregularily-as something that is cal
culated to interfere with prior under
Standing in reference to the Offices. With
them an election means business.


No SO, however, with the men who have
called this conference at New York. Not
50 with the large mass Of public senti.
nent that has found expression in that
call. To all such 1t does not mean busi'
ness, in the dollar and cent Specification Of
that term, but only in the sense Of a sim
cere and earnest effort TO so bring to the
surface theu we'll understood sentiment
of the Republican party as regards re-
cent events al Washington City, as 10 un.
mi,takably disclose to the men who, for
private ends, will seek to control the Gin
ciunati nominations the danger OF defeat
at the polls in case Of their success in
Convention.
Year: 1876

Quaint though the construction be of the
following poem, yet never has the story
of the cross been told with more truthful
simplicity: .s.ss-


Blest they who seek,


While in their youth


With spirit meek


The way of truth.
To them the sacred Scriptures now display
Christ as the only true and living way
His precious blood ON Calvary was given
To make them heirs ofendless bliss in heav'n
And e'en on earth the child of God can trace
The glorious blessings of his Savior's grace.
For them he bore


His Fathers frown,


For them He wore


The thorny crown;


Nailed to the cross,


Endured its pain,


That His life's loss


Might be their gain.


Then haste to choose


That better part,


Nol cen dare refuse


The Lord thy heart,


Lest He declare,


81 know you not"
And deep despair
Should be your lot.
Now look to Jesus who on Calvary died,
And trust to Him who there was cruciied.
Year: 1876

1t was the new philosophy, operating up
on Il taste radically false, that led Mrs. Belk-
nap astray; the ceit of costly display; the
notion that money is 4 principal instead OF
an agent The Shepherds, the Robesons, and
the Stewarts were never able to see anything
noble i'll the self-respecting and dignitied use
OF honest, hard-earned money. They turn
up their noses at impecunious pride. They
sought for their famlliars, the toady and the
theft Yet, for all the decentralization they
brought into public and private life at Wash
ington, they were able to quite root out and
exnrpate the genius OF genuine manhood and
the grace of a really pure and simple woman
hood. During few years there was an es-
tablshment within the shadow of the White
House that overshadowed It, Not by routs
and balls; not by dinners and orgies; not by
external show of any sort. Yet it was sought
by the great of every party, and by eminent
strangers from all parts of the world. 1t
came to be regarded as the headquarters of
culture in the city of magnificent jobs and
jobbers. OF course we refer to the home of
Schurz. The Belknaps, for all their finery,
could not rival the unOstentatious receptions
OF the Senator, who, upon small salary.
more than held his own for years against the
entire gang Of rich and fashionable nobodies
set up by the Administration. Shoddy won


dered and bit its lip, but it could never COM
prehend the cause, as it could never obstruct
the way of social prominence based upon
genius and merit.-Henry g. Watterson.
Year: 1876

Step out into the purest air you can find;
stand perfectly erect, with the head well up
and the shoulders back, and then fixing the
lips as if you were going to whistle, draw
the air, not through the nostrils, but through
the lips, into the lungs. When the chest is
about half full, gradually raise the arms, keep
ing them extended with the palms of the
hands down, as you suck in the air, so as to
bring them over the head just as the lungs
are quite full. Then drop the thumbs in
ward, and after gently forcing the arms
backward and the chest open, reverse the
process by which you draw your breath till
the lungs are entirely empty. This process
should be repeated Immediately after bathing,
and also several times through the day. It
is impossible to describe to one who never
tried it, the glorious sense of vigor which fol-
lows this exercise. tits the best expectorant in
the world. We know a gentleman, the mea-
sure of whose chest has been increased by
this means some three or four inches during
as many months.-Home Journal.
Year: 1876


mightn't we put on an other layer Of poultices
and"


did not finish, because l was interrupted
lugged wood up from below for some little
time, and then turned in and fell to snoring
as only man can whose strength is all gone
and whose soul is worn out.


AT last, at broad daylight, felt grip on
my shoulders that brought me to my senses
suddenly. My wife was glaring down on me
and gasplng. AS soon as she could COM
mand her tongue she said, 1T is all over
All over! the child's perspiring! What shall
we do?"


"Mercy, how you terrify me. Idon't know
what we ought to do Maybe if we scraped
her and put her in the draft again."


90, idiot! There is not moment to lose.
Go for the doctor. 10 yourself. Tell him
he must come, dead or alive.'


dragged that poor sick man from his bed
and brought him. He looked at the child
and said she was not dying. This was joy
unspeakable to me, but it made my wife as
mad as if he had offered personal affront
Then he said the child's cough was only
caused by some trifling irritation or other in
the throat. AT this thought my wife had a
mind to show him the door. Now'the doctor
said he would make the child cough harder
and dislodge the trouble. So he gave her
something that sent her into spasm of
coughing, and presently up came a little wood
splinter or so.


''rhis child has no membranous Group"
said he ''She has been chewing a bit of
pine shingle or something Oft the kind, and got
some little slivers in her throat. They won't
do her any hurt"


'No," said l. IL can we'll believe that
Indeed, the turpentine that is in them is very
good for certain diseases that are peculiar to
children. My wife will tell you So"


But she did not. She turned away in dis
dan and left the room; and since that time
there is one episode in our life which we
never refer to. Hence the tide of our days
flows bY in deep apa untroubled serenity.
Year: 1876

A dreary place would be this earth,


Were there no little people in it;
The song of life would lose its mirth,


Were there no children to begin it.
No little FORMS no buds to grow,


And make the admiring heart surrender,
No little hands on breast and brow,


TO keep the thrilling love-cords tender.
No babe within our arms to leap,


No little feet toward slumber tending,
No little knee in prayer TO bend.


Our lips in sweet words lending
The sterner souls would get more stern;


unieeling natures more inhuman,
And in stolc cOldness turn,


And woman would be less than woman.
For in the cline toward which we reach
Through times mysterious dim unfolding,
The little ones with Cherub smile


Are still our Fathers tace beholding
LIES song, indeed would lose its charm,
Were there no babies to begin it,
a doleful place this world would be
Were there no little people in it.
Year: 1876

Would you have the shining metal?
DO not Ger the wide world roam,
Following tleeting phantom


Stay and dig for it at home.
Do not heed the Turing story


Treasures distant hillsldes hold;
Ten adventurers, disappointed,


Stand for every ounce of gold.
Wishing still for something better
Many tancies youth will rear;
Mountains of the yellow mica,


In the distance, gold appear.
And the longing is contagious.


Drinking from laden cup.
For the means of grander living.
On highways to pick it up.
But dame Fortune is too tickle


La her train afar to roam,
Would you win her golden treasure
stay and dig for it at home.
In the lane that lies before you


Find your wealth by honest toll:
Never votary disappointed


Rightly sought the generous soil.
Only faint weak hearts repining
Cast away the good at hand;
Fortunes smile will rarely crown them,
Sought for in a distant land.
But success rides on before you,
Grapple it and you will win;
Lo! cen now, the mists are rifting


And the tides are rushing i'll.
Let no foreign expedite n


Lure yOufrcstess steps to roam,
Gold is nearer thar the mountains,
Stay and 0ig for it at home.
Year: 1876

AN article on the relations between Church
and State by Professor Bluntschli, in Ger
man magazine, attracts much attention in
Europe just now, as it expresses Bismarck's g
opinion, and indicates the course the Ger
man Government may adopt. 1t says that
the Pope may be recognized officially, but in
that case he must in return recognize the
authority of the civil law, and the State in
which he resides must be responsible for any
violation of international law by him. This
last condition seems to imply that Victor
Emmanuel may be taken to task for Papal
encyclicals and accommodations. Punish
the sinner for the offences of the Saint!
Year: 1876

variety entertainment given last evening at
the Charity Hospital on Blackwels Island for the
amusement OF the patients The affair managed
by Or. d. H. Kitchen chief OF sta and the programme
interpreted afforded great fun to the spectators These
concerts doing great deal OF mental and physical
good 70 the Inmates Of the hospital
Year: 1876

she had imagined; nevertheless she
felt she ought to try it in some way,
or she should never have true Cali
fornia experience. 1t was easy to
enlist her boarders in her cause, and
they, one and all, voted to give her a
lift, provided she would stake out
claim and let them work one day in
the week for her; but she could not
be persuaded that she had any right
to take their labor without pay, and
concluded to employ them for a time
at intervals as they could get oppor-
tunity. In this way she hoped to be
able to do something more for her.
self than she was doing. "Never con-
tent" wa, written on everything in
California at that time. Nobody ex-
pected to stay; everybody was in a
hurry, and, after little, everybody
expected to be away enjoying their
accumulated fortune somewhere else.
Nobody knew better than Hetty the
uncertainty Of everything, conse-
quently she felt that to make hay
while the sun shone was absolutely
necessary, and to get as many irons
in the fire as possible was her way of
doing SO. She did not know whether
her men were honest OF not, but be-
lieved in them, and their apparent
good will gave her every encourage
ment. The chivalry of her attaches
was about all there was to be depend
ed on, bat that chivalry was not to
be distrusted whilst its loyalty was ST.
very app aren't, and with great hopes
she continued on her way.


To he cnnkinMe6
Year: 1876

\ spendthrift, like race horse, soon
runs his course.


To reduce debt is by far the best way
of contracting one.


knowledge can not make wisdom, but.
on the contrary, may smother it.


Fortune is kind to only few, the for
tunate should be kind to the rest.


Two pairs of lips, in close league, can
speak language sweeter than words.


Languid war can do nothing which
negotiation or submission will not do bet
ter.


The bad example which man is most
apt to follow is the one that he set him
self


Cententment is a beautiful invention
for the exclusive benefit of the lower
classes.


A melancholy man preys upon himself
as distressed monkeys are said to eat their
own tails.


With magnificent diamond, a man
can generally cut his name upon the hard
est female heart.


But few men can handle q hot lamp
chimney and say there is no place like
home, at the same time. =


Mrs. Smith says she celebrates her
wooden wedding every day. She married
stick, and that's how it is.


You may buy house, but, probably,
you will not be able to keep it long If
your wife isn't good housekeeper.


A little girl of eight or ten summers.
being asked what dust was, replied that
it was mud with the juice squeezed out.


Very few poets can, like Titan, steal
fire from heaven, but some of them steal
the wood and coal their fire is made with.


Nature has supplied remedies for great
evils-has balanced genius with adversity,
ambition with pcrils, virtue and calumny.


One of the easiest and best ways to ex-
pand the chest is to have a good, large
heart in it. 1t saves the cost Of gymnas-
| tics.