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Year: 1876

Whenever person from the North on his
T. way to Washington is asked where he is bound,
his reply is always, "Going to see the great
national menagerie, now on exhibition in the
southern wing of the Capitol"
Year: 1876

To do this It is necessary that you should inhale
FREsH and PURE AIR in the rooms you daily


This can only BE- done successfully and without
danger Of contracting Coughs, Colds and their
probably attendant evils, by purchasing and using
Year: 1876

approaching torrent of misery and bloo1l
Will the United States stand indiferently
by and watch patriot race gradually annihi-
lated, while struggling for the first principles
of freedom and the possession of inalienable
rights' This, of course, is question which
the future alone can answer. Yet 1t is one to
which the mass of the American people are
now ready to respond. Our people, always
filed with sympathy for the oppressed, are
with the patriots now; /; and when the time
comes they will assert their sovereign author


ity to act as it may seem to them best.
Year: 1876

The presence in any country ol


immense herds of wild herbiVorous


animals, is of course incompatible


with the Simultaneous existence there


of agriculture, and that the bison


has hardly disappeared from the more


fertile portions of our plains and
prairies before vast fields of wheat
and corn appeared over the same


areas, shows that the time for his re-
striction had already come. If. how
ever, he is allowed to become extinct
without some effort to preserve for
a time his existence in the more
worthless portions of the public do
main-portions that for long time, if
not forever, will be useless for agri-
cultural purposes-it will be- a truly
lamentable and disgraceful fact in
our nations history.


From the facts alredy given it is
evident that the buffalo cannot long
survive unaided by government pro-
lection, and it is greatly to our dis
grace that nothing has as yet been
done to check the wholesale and al
most useless murder of these de-
fenseless beasts. No adequate law
for its protection has yet been en-
acted, either by the general govern
ment OF by that of the different
States and territories which includes
portions of its range. How to best
protect 1t, in regions so sprasely pop
ulated, and where laws are so easily
set at defiance, presents by no means
an easy problem, and yet one not
hopeless of solution. The great
traffic in hides could easily be check
cd and wholly controlled. If allowed
at all, the killing should be restricted
to certain seasons of the wear, and
Tire destruction of the females and
the young wholly prohibited. Gov
ernment inspectors should be ap-
pointed, and no sale of hides be al
lowed without their examination by
these officers, while suitable fine OF
other penalty should follow each vi
olation of the law. Buffalo hunting
should also be wholly prohibited
during the period between June and
October, and the destruction of fe-
males wholly prohibited after the
beginning of December. 1t should
be further made a grave offense to
kill buffalo at any time wantonly,
or without properly utilizing it. In
addition to this, certain portions of
the public land now within the range
of the buffalo, might be set apart as
protected ground, within which no
buffaloes should on any condition be
killed, and within which the pursuit
of them should be prohibited. It is
a matter that demands prompt atten-'
ton, and it is to be hoped that the
present Congress will give it the con-
It's Importance merits.


IL d. ALEen. q
Year: 1876

Another ghastly story Of human
suffering comes from Iceland, to the
effect that on the Westmanna group
of Danish islands lying south Of lee
land, FIVE hundred people are starv.
ing TO death with no possibility OF
reaching them until probably the
whole number are dead.
Year: 1876

Time lost can never be regained. AZ
ter allowing yourself proper time for rest,
don't live single hour of your life with
out doing exactly what is to be done in
it, and going straight through with it
from beginning to end. Work, play,
study, whatever it is, take hold OF it at
once and finish it up sqrarely and
eleanly; then to the next thing without
letting any moments drop out between.
1t is wonderful to see how many hours
these prompt people contrive to make
out of a day; it is as if they picked up
the moments the dawdlers lost. And il
you ever find yourself where you have
SO many things pressed upon you that
you hardly know where to begin, let me
tell you secret. Take hold of the very
one that comes to, hand, and you will
find the rest all fall into file and follow
after like a company of well-drilled
soldiers; and though work may be hard
to meet when it charges you in a squad
it is easily vanquished if you can bring
it into line.
Year: 1876

THURSDAY night, one of the sorriest
men ever looked at applied at the Hart
ford depot for passage to New Haven.
He had only one arm, his leg was cut
badly in two places, he had been shot in
the side, and of a man who weighed one
hundred and seventy pounds when he
went to the war, there was only left
enough to weigh one hundred pounds.
Yet, wreck as he was, this poor fellow
was all that remains of family offather
and four sons who enlisted at the begin
ming of the war.
Year: 1876




THE Paris correspondent Of the London
Times mentions a story which is in circu-
lation as to the cause of the collapse of
the Carlist war. It is said that the late
Duke of Mcdena ordered in his will that
the legacy which he left to Don Car
los wife should not be paid before peace
had been declared, resulting either in the
victory or definite defeat of Don Carlos,
who was to acquire this fortune either on
the throne of Spain.or in exile. Hence,
since he had lost all hope of ascending
the throne, Don Carlos thought it would
be useless to prolong his resistance, and
that it would be better to bring the war
to a close, quit Spain, and take possession
of the fortune left him under these con-
ditions.
Year: 1876

Hon. KEARToN COATES has intro
duced bill in the Assembly, pro-
viding that the State offer q reward
of 100000 to any individual or
company who shall, within ten years,
develop lead ore in paying quantities
below the lower magnetism lime
stone. No money to be paid until
a commission of experts, to be ap-
pointed by the Governor, shall have
certified that the provisions of the
bill have been fully complied with.
1t is possible that men may be en-
couraged by such bill to make a
thorough test Of deep mining in this
country but we apprehend the
State Treasurer will never be called
upon Tor the money.
Year: 1876

WHIST PARTIES are now fashion
able among the gentlemen of Min
eral Point, and there is a diversity
of opinion among players as to
whether it is always good policy to
"play the best card and take the
trick" as advised by Mr.. Smith in
his lecture. Some contend that, as
rule, you should not play second
hand high," though you have the
winning card. Won't some one give
a lecture on this subject before the
Mutual Club!
Year: 1876

THE excellent article ON the pro-
posed change in the jury system Of
Wisconsin, taken from the Chicago
Tribune, and to be found in another
column of this paper, will well re-
pay reading.
Year: 1876

PRoTRACTED meetings are still held
in both Methodist churches of this
city, and great revival of religion
is confidently hoped for by the
earnest workers. Considerable in
terest is manifested in the meetings,
and many have signified their desire
to become better people.
Year: 1876

THE BENNETT-GRAY CONTEST
The Assembly committee on Privi-
leges and Elections have made their
report in the above case. A major
ity of the committee favor Mr.. Ben
nett as having the lawful right to the
seat. They have reported six illegal
votes cast for Gray in the town Of
Highland, and favored the counting
of one for Bennett, thrown out by
the board of canvassers, in the town
of Ridgeway, besides finding many
others of secondary nature, which
are offered to offset those of the
same kind present by Gray. Ac-
cording to the report of the COM
mittee, Mr.. Bennett will receive five
majority. The report is made a
special order for tomorrow, when a
final disposal of it is expected.
Year: 1876

and are to remain outside the enclosure.


VIII L. the remainder arc detailed inside
to preserve order and protect the articles
displayed from injury, This Guard is
composed of picked men and all visitors
once inside the enclosure will he fully
protected. The City authorities will


largely increase the police force OF the
city SO that visitors will he amply pro-
tcctcl from the horde of slarpcrs and
thieves sure to congregate here. An i'm
mcnse amount Of freight is being receiv-
ed daily, some days as much as three
hundred and fifty carloads, but the adj
mirable terminal facilities, arranged by
Col. Scott, enables it all to be delivered
and handled without trouble and with
the least possible expense. The grounds
are being handsomely lail out in avenues
and serpeninc walks, all OF which are
being laid with concrete and numbers of
shade trees are planted. Seats will be
provided throughout the grounds and
every possible arrangement made for the
comfort OF visitors, Every day will add
to the display and the pleasure of visitors.
The railroads have cheapehed the ia re
and do not think the hotels will ad-
vance the prices of living, at least those
of whom have enquired do not propose
to do so. The display will be the grand
est ever made, and every man. woman
and child who can spare the time AMI
money should come here some time du-
ring the Summer,
Year: 1876

The Republican State Convention
was called for the last Of May with
especial view to bringing the county
Convention and primaries jus. at the
close Of corn planting, a. the least
busy time for the farmers in the
spring and early summer. The lats
season has interiered with this plan.
but it is nevertheless to be hoped
that the township caucusses next
Saturday may not be wholly forgotten.
The most important results receive
starting impetus at these primaries
and direction at the Convention d
week later.
Year: 1876

Cotton is positively candidate for
the Republican Congressional nomi-
nation in this district. Nothing could
possibly be quite as disastrous to the
party 10 hiz success in securing il.
Year: 1876

THIS is what Mary Kyle Dallas says
about it: Take man and pin three or
four large table-cloths about him, fasten-
ed back with elastic and looped up with
ribbons; drag all his own hair to the
middle of his head and tie it tight, and
hairpin on about five pounds of other
hair and big bow of ribton. Keep the
front locks on pins all night and let them
tickle his eyes all day; pinch his waist
into corset, and give him gloves a size
too small and shoes ditto, and hat that
will not stay on without torturing elias
tic, and fell to tickle bis chin. and a
little loce veil to blind his eyes whenever
he goes out to walk, and he will know
what woman's dress is. My!
Year: 1876

Here is an anecdotc with a sharp moral
that comes to us all the way from Aus
tralil: Sixty years ago, when | was
teacher in Kilmalcum parish, says John
Fraser, | was using whiskey bitters for
nv stomach's sake. One day | dipped a
piece of cake in it and gave it to the dog.
lie grudgingly ate it, curling up his lips
to avoid the taste. Ere long he became
tipsy-hc howIed most piteously, and un-
naturally looked up in my face as if for
help. He began to stagger and fall IKE
drunken man. The appearance of his
face and eyes was extraordinary. lie
Law on the floor and howled until the et-
fects of the drink wore of. The dog
never forgot the trick. Whenever alter
ward went to the dresser for the bottle
he FASTENED to the outside of the heuse.
One day, the door being shut, he sprang
gt one bolt through a pane of glass, to get
outside. So much Tor the wisdom OF the
dog--infinitely surprising that OF foolish
drinking men.
Year: 1876

STUCK FOR 1T AGAIN.-We learned, last week,
from paragraphs in several papers, that Sol Mil
Ter was to be arrested by order of Judge Wilson,
of the 18th Judicial District, for contempt of his
Court, in the publication of little item, written
and forgotten by us long ago, which somebody
construed or imagined to mean what we did not
mean in writing it. We do not know whether
arrests in that District are made by publication
or not, after the fashion of divorce notices, etc.
when one of the parties is a nonresident of the
State; or whether those newspaper notices of
the evils that await us are merely intended to
cheer us up, and put us in proper tone to meet
our fate, We are not conscious of having writ
ten anything in contempt of the Court of the 10th
Judicial District; but as the District Court
thinks we have, and District Courts are relent-
less when their dignity is invaded, we presume
We shall have to fall into line and march, when
the order comes. We hope it is not in this case,
like that of the Justice of the Peace in Pennsyl-
vania, who asserted that his Court was an OBJ
ject Of contempt everywhere!
Year: 1876

New YEAR-As we shall suspend the publica-
tion of the Chief after this week, until next year
we wish all our patrons a Happy New Year.
Here's their good health, and their families, and
may they live long and prosper. The Chief has
been regular visitor to many for almost twenty
years, and for more than seveteen years has not
missed single issue; and we trust it may con-
Time in the Same way for many times that
number of years, that we may conduct it during
all that time, and that our subscribers may live
to read every number. Here we jump for the
other side of the section line.
Year: 1876

e An accident occurred, a few days aoo. on
the Kansas Pacific Railroad somewhere near tn.
Western line of this State, BIZ the train coing
through bridge resulting in crushing the ex
press messenger, severely injuring the mail rou te
agent, and burning the express and mail car. A
gentleman whose wife died in Colorado Wa.
taking her remains home to her friends in IN.
East, for burial. The body was in the baggage
car, and was completely burned up. Instead of
burial, it received cremation.
Year: 1876

OUR HOME is the name Of the most elegant French Oil
Motto Chrom0ever issued The motto is surrounded by
Of the most exquisite and richly colored wreaths
beautiful flowers dark and is perfect in
all its details Ii is llx5 We send this motto
and the BOSTON WEEKLY GLOBE q large eight page
family story and news paper with agricultural chess
puzzle household and all popular departments month,
for only 60 cents Chrome and paper months for 81.
A beautiful holiday gift. Agents wanted
Address,


WEEKLY GLOBE,


23S Warrington Street,


BOSTON, MASS.
Year: 1876

STICK TO Your BUSINESS il
nothing which should be more fre-
quently impressed upon the minds OF
young men than the Importance oi
steadily pursuing some one business -
The changing from one employment 10
another is one OF the most common er-
rors committed, and TO il may be traced
more than half the failures OF men in
business, and much of the discomfort
and disappointment which rendered
life uncomfortable. 1t is very COM
mon thing for a man to be dissatisfied
with his business, and to desire to
change IL for some other, which, il
seems to him, will prove a more lucra-
tive employment; but in nine cases out
Of ten, il is a mistake. Look round
you, and you will find among your ac-
quaintances abundant verification OF
these assertion. There is an honest
farmer who has toiled few years, got
his farm paid for. Int does not grow
rich very rapidly, as much for lnck oi
contentment mingled with industry as
anything, though he is not aware OF it.
He hears the wonderful stories of Cali
fornia, and how fortunes may be had
for the trouble of picking them up
mortgages his farm to raise the money
goes away to the land of gold, and aft
er many months Of hard toll. comes
home to commence again at the bot.
tom OF the hill for q more weary and
less successful climbing up again.
Mark the men in every community who
are notorious for ability and equally
notorious for never getting ahead, and
you will usually find them to be those
who never stick to any one business
long, but are always forsaking their oc
cupation just when it begins to be
profitable. Scientific American.
Year: 1876

The fact is, that as life becomes con-
centrated, and its pursuits more eager,
short sleep and early rising become i'm
possible. We take more sleep than
our ancestors, we take more because
we want more. Six hours 8. .eep will do
very well for plowman or bricklayer,
or any other man who has no exhaus-
tion but that produced by maunal la
Dor, and the sooner he takes il after
his labor is over the better. But for n
man whose labor is mental, the stress
of work is on his brain and nervous
system, and for him who is tired in the
evening with q day Of mental applica-
tion, neither early to bed nor early to
rise is wholesome. He needs letting
down to the level Of repose. The long
er the interval between the active use
OF the brain and his retirement TO bed,
the better his chance of sleep and re-
freshment. To him an hour after mid
night is probably as good as before it,
aud even then his sleep will not so
completely restore him as ii will his
neighbor who is physically tired. He
must not only be to bed later, but lie
longer. His best sleep probably lies
in the early morning hours, when all
the nervous excitement has passed
away, and he is in absolute rest.
Year: 1876

One WAY TO CIR RrcH. Nothing is
more easy than TO grow rich. IL is on
ly 10 trust nobody, TO befriend none, to
get everything aud save all you can
get, TO stint ourselves and everybody
belonging 10 us, TO be the friend OF no
man and have no man for your friend,
to heap interest upon interest, cent up
on cent; to be mean, miserable and
deslised, for some twenty OF thirty
years, and riches will come a. sure a.
disease and disappointment. And
when pretty near enough wealth is col.
lected by disregard Of all the charities
OF the human hesrt, and at the expense
Of every enjoyment save that Of wallow.
ing in filthy meanness, death comes tc
finish the work; the body is buried, ia
q hole, the heirs dance over IL, and the
spirit goes-where?
Year: 1876

: e6s- One very common habit or prac-
tice we observe both in the city and in
the country among the rural popula-
ton is that Of yelling sharply at hor-
ses before, cart, wagon, omnibus or
buggy, with that Of suddenly and vio-
lently jerking the reins, supplement-
ing Il with sharp shrieks Of the voice,
provided they may make an untoward
fnovement-n habit we deem no less re-
prahensihle than detestable. and one
that should be at once corrected and
Abandoned forever. Gentleness and
Kindness will be found not on the wiser
and better. but the more humane and
elective course in accomplishing the
end desired. Il Boston Cultivator.
Year: 1876

which during the war Justified the now e1
travagant price for eghtpago newspaper have
forced up step BY step the rates Of dverustng In all news
papers having ceas TO operate the effect Of
reduction both reduction therefore,
proportional reduction In the price OF the paper se
will henceforth In the advertising charges and our
adveser while retaining the advantages secured 70 them
by the public win enjoy the benefit also at
once Of reduced and OF greatly increased circulation
fusor
Year: 1876

BALTIMORE ATTORNEY FOUND DEAD IN


GUYS HOTEL.


BALTIMORE, Sept. 26.-The body of Hen
ry Hilgert, we'll known attorney of this
city, was found last evening in private
bathroom, that had not been used for a
few days. An empty vial on his person led
to the belief that had committed suicide.
He had left home last Wednesday morning,
with the avowed intention of going to
Washington, and an Intellectual search had
been made for him by the police and other
wise. Financial embarrassments, it is
thought, led to the suicide.
Year: 1876

After the nomination OF Temperance
ticket on Thursday, we are authorized to
state that q ratification meeting will be
held, either in the Masonic Temple, or at
Fourth and Market streets.


A protracted meeting commenced at the
City Mission, Second and Washington
streets, last Sunday evening, and is being
carried on with considerable promise Of
success.


The Sixth Ward Republicans will hold an
important meeting on Thursday evening, al
the headquarters, 7th and Walnut SITS.
Year: 1876

Why not make your roofs last a lifetime, an save
the expense Of. new roof every 10 OF 10 years Il
can be done; if you use Slate Paint, it will not only
resist this effects of water and wind, but shield you
from Fire.
Year: 1876

Fred w Alexander writes as follows
to the New York II 1ibtNC.


| think Your excellent paper should
instruct the people that the present use
of silver fol fractional currency is not in
any sense to be considered as return
TO specie payments. If hole be bored
IN the bottom OF barrel. all the water
the barrel contains knows how to find
the hole. just so all this silver will
flow to California. where four quarters
will buy gold dollar, and we have not
enough silver to glut California and its
connections: consequently there will be
scarcity of small change in the other
States, and Congress will be called upon
10 provide for new issue Of fractional
currency. Then the intiationists will
point with derision to the silver failure
as an argument against specie pay
ments, when the truth is that silver is
issued because at this particular time
il is worth less than paper.
Year: 1876

Something must be done with Prof
flee. The people of the United States
yMnno. stand him any longer. He must
either be Investigated. or the great I'M
known with the repeating rifle sent
sstcr him. Let him beware, Cassandra
was Just about such prophet as he Is,
and her fate has become classical. He
must either leave the country or quit
clerking FOR the storm department IN
thc weather Office. Last year he was
wicked enough. but in the centennial he
goes beyo.nt all bounds. A heavy frost
and eguinoetial storms in the beautiful
menth of Maf are :things not to be put
~ d
Year: 1876

WAsHINGroN. May The scarcity OF
small change for business purposes has
become SO great that u flood OF com
plants is constantly pouring IN on the
United States Treasurer and Senators
and members. At tho Treasury De
partment more than 100 letters have
been received from various parts of the
country. and che Department is also be-
set by members Of Congress who seek
TO serve their constituents with small
change as well as garden seeds and pub
lie documents The silver substitution
thus far has proved h ialule at least
the Treasury officials seem to 10 Of this
opinion. Trouble seems 70 arise from
what Is sometimes called IL ''rani Ky"
feeling among the people Thry know
tnat fractional currency Is to bc swept
away, and they know as n consequence,
that II must soon be scarce. In this be
lief they are boarding it, Even bust
ness men are laying aside each day, as
they are able to spare it from their bust
ness, an amount Of small currency, in
the belief that they will some day re-
quire il for the necessities OF business