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Year: 1876

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ald'' Is conceded to be the "Greatest News
paper of the Age" both in point Of circula-
tion and popularity.


The Weekly edition of the "Herald." as
is evidenced by its large and constantly
rank among the weekly newspapers of tho
country.


We are determined to spare neither
money nor labor in still further improving
our Weekly edition, in all that is necesas-
ry to make up q great newspaper, worthy
Of it's worldwide reputution.


Each number Of the weekly will contain
a select story and the latest news by tele-
graph from all parts of the world up to the
hour of publication.


WEEKLY HERALD.
Year: 1876

Il have tried the PERUVIAN SYRUP and
the result fully sustains your prediction.
It has made a new man of me, infused
into my system new vigor and energy
l am no longer tremulous and debilitated
as when you last saw me, but stronger,
heartier and with larger capacity for
labor, mental and physical than at any
time during the last FIVE years.
Year: 1876

registered this year numbered 5,134 the
colored 13, 2444-a majority Of S,110. If
by intimidation and violence the
democrats could secure in each Of those
parishes a majority al immense gain
would thus be achieved, for if the board
should, upon a canvass, reject all, it
would be powerless to administer that
complete justice which would consist
only in declaring for the republicans
such majority ia each parish as but for
intimidation and violence would have
been cast for other candidates."


:. This is from the report Of the repub-
iilcan committee who visited New Or
leans.


The republican party will now try to
make the whole issue turn upon these
outrages and murders; and while they
concentrate public attention upon them
q pernicious financial system will cons
tinue to work out its legitimate results Of
suffering and bankruptcy.


The Independents can only fold their
arms and let events drift. The hand of
God may save us from that destruction to
which both the old political partie es seem
determined to consiga US.
Year: 1876

PRESIDENT Or EMPEROR. WHICHs


A correspondent of the Indianapolis
Sun says:


"As the complications growing out et
the recent Presidential election multi
ply. and the prospect of an early and
pescable settlement of the issues passes
away, the conviction is forced upon the
minds OF many that there is really
something rotten in Denmark. As .
possible key to the situation in the
South, l desire to lay before the readers
OF tho Sun the subject matter under dis
cussion in . secret council of politicians
held in one Of the rooms Of the Grand
| Hotel in this city. = few days prior to the
| presidential election. This council was
composed OF prominent Republican pols
iticians from various parts OF this State,
many Of whom are personally known to
the writer. and can b named if neces-
sary, and prominent among them was Z
member Of President Grants cabinet
The political situation was thoroughly


discussed. and it wss agreed that tht
Year: 1876

In the midst of the gloomy forebod>
iugs With which the people are looking
forwsrdlko the near future. the Indepen-
dents can take to themselves this conso-


lstiou. that no act or word of theirs has
helped to precipitate this crisis. They
haye added no fuel to the fame of Sec
tional hate they are not responsible for
tho crimes or tollies Of either faction
on the contrary they have everywhere
preached peace and good win and
warnsd the people Of the Danger
| which would inevitably arse Il ths poll,
Year: 1876

The NEW York papers. in speaking OF
the substantial success of the explosion,
say:


"With regard to the more substantial
success of the explosion, Gen. Newton and
| all the engineers who were present say that
nothing can be definitely known till the reef
has been carefully surveyed and sounded,
though they have every reason to hope that
the reef was entirely blown to pieces. One
piece of indirected testimony can be adduced
by the writer in favor of this surmise. In
addition to being well acquainted with the
position and general outline of the reef and
the arrangement of the headings and gal
leries of the mine, he had taken the pre-
caution to have in his hand at the moment
of the explosion a small diagram of the
| reef.


When the small columns or series of jets
of water first thrown up the explosion had
fallen, but while the disturbance Of the
water was still in full bubling activity from
the escape of the liberated gases, he was
enabled to compare, momentarily, the shape
of the water disturbance with the shape of
the original reef. They corresponded in a
remarkable degree, the only notable differ
ence being lesser surface disturbance as
the depth of water increased over the reef.
This would appear to point to an equal
action in the mine of the explosives and to q
correspondingly equal break of the rock.
As to the success of General Abbott's inter-
esting experiments with regard to the shock
wave nothing can be known till he has col
tected his data from his various points of
observation and his calculations and deduc-
tions. This is impossible for day or two,
and any statements of the results of his
labors will be mere guess-work and totally
unreliable. As a mere matter of science,
General Abbott's deductions will be most
interesting and valuable, for practical pur-
poses the He'll Gate explosion has shown,
by its Innocence of all harm, that they are
important. No one will again fear any
great shock from submarine explosion of
dynamite.


Too many thousands of persons have Sc
cured mementoes Of the comparatively
lambike explosion of He'll Gate, ih the
shape of pieces Of the insulated wires which
conducted the electric current which caused
, it.
Year: 1876

An outrage came to the knowledge OF
tie officers of Chapel district last week.


There is an old halfwitted fellow who has
no particular home, but has been hanging
around Long Woods for several years, work
ing day DOW and then as the notion would
strike him.


He was at last induced by man and his
SONS to come to work for them. After they
got him on the farm they made him work
by their side all day (not allowing him to
be out OF their sight for moment) and at
night they would chain him by the leg in a
loft, to insure his presence next morning.
This was continued till the chain had cut
nearly into the bone, when one night Jim
broke his chain and got away. The next
morning when 1t was found that he was
gone, the sons started in search of him.
They secured the services of negro man TO
assist them in their search. They found
him that night, when the negro man, Tom;
"went down on him with stick" A neigh
Dor interfered, and the matter was brought
to the notice of Justice Slaughter, who i'm
mediately issued writs for the parties. 1t
is to be hoped that by the end of next No
vember term of court, they will find to their
sorrow that simpletons are entitled to the
protection Of the law.
Year: 1876

BY Annotated Press.


WASHING TON, Sept. 25.-The rifle match
between the foreign and American teams at
Benning's Range will begin tomorrow,
with the eight hundred yards range, to be
followed by the nine hundred range on
Thursday, and the one thousand range on
Saturday.


The matches will be for team and indi-
yilual prizes, each distance to constitute a
match, which will be closed by one days
shooting. The captains of the four teams
to constitute q committee to make the
awards and to have the authority to select
the umpire and referees for the matches.


The shooting will commence each day at
10 A. M, and continue without delay to the
close, each contestant to have Is shots over
each distance. The medal to be presented
by the Irish citizens of the district to the
member of the Irish team making the lar
gest score, consists Of beautiful five point
ed star, depending from pin in the form
of an eagle with outstretched wings.


The weight of the medal is 60 penny
weights. A diamond is embedded in each
point of the star. In the centre of the star
is an engraving of the capitol building, on
one side of which are the figures 1776 and
on the other 1876. At the lower part of the
star is black and white enamelled target,
with diamond as bulbs eye.


Crossed over the upper portion of the
star are two rifles Joined together at the top
and secured at the upper point of the star
by miniature representation of laurel
wreath in gold. From the talons Of the
eagle which are Of solid gold in bold relief,
are stretched to either side the American
and Irish flags, done in enamel.
Year: 1876

PRIVATE dispatches from Soutn Oarollnd
bring a version of the cause of collision be-
tween the whites and the blacks at Cainhoy
different from the story as told by the Associ-
ated Press. II seems that a crowd of white
Democrats went up from Charleston appa-
rently for the purpose of creating disturbance
by demanding that they should have half of
the time of the meeting. The negroes, feel
ing themselves numerically able to hold their
own and protect their rights, refused to have
their meeting interfered with. The whites
offered violence, but the negroes not only
stood their ground, but attacked the rioting
whites and drove them off. South Carolinians
say that this result shows that, the Wade
Hampton rifle clubs cannot undertake to exc
cute their programme in that portion of the
State. Wherever the negroes are in a large
majority their numbers give them confidence;
and they are not cowed as they are in the up
hill country, where the intimidation is so
great. The delegation at Washington believe
that the rifle clubs will not attempt any Vio-
lence in Charleston county, or in the other
counties south of that, as the negroes there
are abundantly able to protect themselves
against White League aggressions and have
the courage to do it.
Year: 1876

control during the next four years such a re
construction of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States as will make that judicial tribunal
of last resort the mouthpiece of the Demo
cratic party to decide all questions in the in
terest of the late rebels of the South. The
question of securing the enfranchised colored
race in the rights of citizenship, the question
of permanent prohibition of the payment of
any debt incurred in behalf of the rebellion ;
and the question of prohibiting forever any
compensation for the emancipated slaves, all
hang upon the sound and honest construction
by the Supreme Court of the valid adoption of
these Constitutional amendments. very
large and influential section of the Democratic
party hold that these amendments are invalid
a5 initio, because not ratified by what they
hold to have been the requisite constitutional
majority of States. If these dangerous doc
trines should prevail, unsettling questions sup
posed by the people of the country to have
been permanently settled on principles of jus
tice and fairness, all the political battles of
the last ten years may have to be fought over
again. There is no doubt which side would
triumph in the contest. The side of the rights
of man, the side of justice and freedom to
every soul that lives beneath the banner of
the Republic, would again be sure of victory.
But the costliness of such struggle; the
throwing of the whole country into agitation
and strife; the postponing for years of the
commercial and material welfare of the people
by an embittered political struggle-would all
be chargeable to the Democratic victory of
1876. That party of retrogression, as desti-
tute of living principles as ''the United South"
is of actual grievances, would unquestionably
renew its disgraceful career of subserviency to
the South in all the legislation of the country,
adding to ii degree of public profigacy and
a carnival of jobs such as the country has
never yet seem Gin. Com.
Year: 1876

moved out of the way by the us of suf-
ficient force, and if it becomes neces-
sary to shoot them in order to remove
them, then We must be prepared to
shoot rather than be prevented from
redeeming the State from Radical
rule"
Year: 1876

SPECIAL SESSION or TIE LEGISLATURE UNABLE TO


HELP MATTERs-wHAT THE LAW Is


lBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNg.l


WAsHINGTON Dec. 3.-The complication as TO the
Nebraska electoral vote will not necessarily be set
tied by the assembling of the Legislature on Mon
day. The Legislature has been called by the special
telegraphic request of the Acknowledgement for the
purpose, as was understood of curing the defect in
the law relative TO the time within which the cleo
toral vote should be counted Under the present Jaw
technically the electoral vote could not be canyassed
until January when the Legislature meets. This
WAS the case four years ago when the last electoral
vote was counted At that time the Governor can
vassed il rs he proposed to do nOw and no objection
was made. The Attorney General, however, was
concerned lest tcchnicalites might be urged against
the validity of such count and desired the Le gls-
lature cOny ened that law might be passed author
izing the count of the vote the 9th of December
by the Legislature. Ii happens, however, that at
the last election new Constitution adopted in
Nebraska. That Constitution while providing that
the present Legislature should not count until Jan
uary, also provided that no new law could be passed
after the adoption of the Constitution except on
three days notice in each House. In other words,
that 10 law could be passed until the end of the
sixth day from the time the Legislature convened.
The point is now raised that although the present
is the Legislature elected under the old Constitution,
it is bound as to making new law, by the six day
provision of the new Constitution that in fact n
law authorizing the Legislature TO canvass the votes
before January cannot be constitutlOnaly passed
until six days from tomorrow


This point IL made by Nebraska lawyers here If
il is sustained the calling together of the Legisla-
turc by the Governor will be nugatory. as that body
win not be able under the Constitution of tnat state
TO canvass the vote before January. or to enact a
law permitting it be canyassed prior to the 9th OF
Year: 1876

of insolvency among the lifeinsuranco companies OF
the country has involved less than one-sxieth part
of the business. While the aggregate market yaiue
of the salabe real estate of the country has actually
fallen full 40 per cent the value of the investments
of these companies most of which are secured upon
real estate IN some FORM has increased, and the en-
tire amount Of losses which they have suffered Dy
the depression isa small and insignificant percentage
of what they have in hand.


This fact deserves especial attention inasnuch as
the failure, partial and technical failure, OF the
Continental Life" of New-York has given the pub
lie very different impression 1t has been hastily
reported that this company failed because of its
losses mortgage Investments caused by the fall In
real estate; and that the same cause has largely
impaired the securities of other similar companies.
Neither assertion is true. The company in question
failed by the grOssest mismanagement, and could
have stood if there had been no fall in real es-
tate whatever It's losses by failing mortgages have
been Insignificant and even these have been, IL
current report is true, such ought to have been
avoided by them and have been avoided by other
companies.


The whole secret is this: the life companies have
loaned their money ON land and houses at from 80
to so per cent Of their value. The largest compa-
nies have never habitually loaned than 40 per
cent of low cash valuation. They loan only on inn
proved property, where actual rental is ample Sc
curity for taxes and interest. Thus even the most
terrible depreciation in real estate, even panic
which should destroy half its value, would leave
their interest unharmed. No such violent fiuctua-
tions have ever been known in this country In the
value of land and houses as could seriously impair
the security of these investments.


The country is doubtless now approaching, or has
reached, the end of the most trying period in its
o,oIA A oln hno
skies brighten there will be gradual recovery Of
every branch of industry and commerce. But the
first to rise and the surest to advance viii be those
which have best endured the strain The fact that
tho life insurance companies have suffered least Of
all the great interests of the country cannot but
direct attention TO the secret of their extraordinary
security. If this is not mistaken view, the conf
dence of the public, of trustees, investors, and
courts in real estate mortgage investments is sure to
be greatly strengthened and extended by the ex-
perience of recent years in this country.
Year: 1876

my TELEGRAPH TO THE TRTBUNE.I


COLUMBIA, s. c., Dec. St was last evening alb
solutely known that one of the claimants from
Barnwell County, who was sworn in a member by
the Speaker on Wednesday last, has not left his
home in Barnwel County during this week. Some
one has personated the absent claimant. and was
sworn in and pretended to act as member. Who
deceived the Speaker or did he know of and abet
the fraud are not yet known. The name of the
claimant is Silas Cave.
Year: 1876

der the Sioux? Perhaps not. But
she may balancethe account by call
ing our attention to the Treaty OF
Washington and requiring us to
prevent the invasion of her soil by
hostile expeditions prepared on our
soil or to pay the penalty in cash.
Year: 1876

The French who settled in Canada
formed one of the happiest. best order
ed and most peaceful communities in
the world, and after history of a hum
dred years, and after suffering conquest
by the English. that community remains
French, still unabsorbed, with life
and society and mental atmosphere
all its own.
Year: 1876

On o recent occasion, as the mar


riage ceremony was about to be per-
formed in church, when the clergy
man desired the parties wishing to
be married to rise up; a large num-
Der of the ladies Immediately rose.
Year: 1876

The Greeks had proverb which
ran thus: "To dispute on the shad-
ow of an ass" This took rise from an
anecdote which Demosthenes is
said to have related to the Athen-
ians, to excite their attention during
his defence of a criminal, which was
being but inattentively listened to.
"a traveller" he said, ''once went
from Athens to Megara ON a hired
ass. It happened to be the time of
the dog-days, and at noon. He was
much exposed to the unmitigated
heat of the sun; and not finding so
much as bush under which to take
shelter, he bethought himself to de-
scend from the ass, and seat him
self under its shadow. The owner
fthe donkey who accompanied him,
objected to this, declaring to him
that when he let the animal the use
of its shadow was not included in
the bargain. The dispute at last
grew so warm that it got to blows,
and finally gave rise to an action at
law. After having said 50 much,
Demostnenes continued the defence
of his client ;but the auditors, whose
curiosity he had piqued, were ex-
tremely anxious to know how the
Judges decided on SO singular a
cause. Upon this, the orator com
mented severely on their childish
injustice, in devouring with
attention a paltry story about
an ASS shadow, while they turned
deaf ear to a cause in which the
life of human being was involved.
From that day, when man showed
a preference for discussing small
and contemplate subjects to great
and important ones he was said 'to
dispute on the shadow of an ass. >
Ne,rsD031ej. P1JnOJnDJ.
Year: 1876

THE EGTRADIrIoS OF SITTING
BULL.--It is reported from Wash
ington that if Sitting Bull and his
redoubtable warriors shall take ref
uge from the pursuit of our troops
by crossing the frontier into the
British Possessions our government
will demand their surrender from


the British government, that they
may be punished for their crimes.
This is, apparently, the comic aspect
Of our relations with the Sioux and
with England. 1t is true that the


pursuit of our troops has not yet
pressed the Sioux so sorely that they
are in great need of refuge. Indeed
if there were not such painful Incl


dents in the case the country would
already be comparing the pursuit
OF the Sioux by the troops to that
famous pursuit ola wolf by a trusty
hound, in which, when last seen,
the hound was little ahead. With
the whole Of the country open and
no other obstacle to their move
ments than the army under Crook we
do not see why the hostile Indians
need trouble themselves to winter
in so cold a country as Canada. That
they may do SO, however, seems to
be deemed possible by persons who
should be regarded as experts in
knowledge of the habits Of the In
dians, and we would not oppose our
opinion to their Judgment. Should
the Indians do this thing and should
our government demand their sur
render from England the world will
be treated to the monumental spec
tacle Of the age in international re-
lations. Ii Secretary Fish is ever
W Uc puL DtSINC 1hI. t5cHdIu III
bronze because he has been Govern
or and Secretary Of the State, and
if the artist who is to do him is still
in the flesh, that artist should en-
deavor to catch the expression of
the great Secretary when he directs


his subordinates to make the requi-
sition on the British government
for four thousand Sioux, '.'be the
same more OF less" It is not a
statuesque countenance in its ordi-
nary moods, but glorified by the
sublime faith in red tape that this
demand will imply. One cannot say


to what heights of splendor it may


rise. How will England respond


to this demand? Will they -surren-
Year: 1876

night that I knew it all? When 1
saw those white ecrysanthsmums they almost
broke my heart; for they brought an old
pain back so keenly. had gathered them
once myself, and put them in the chamber
of my fathers new wife, as you had done in
mine; and 1 had suffered just as you
did. But long afterwards knew that
blessing had come to ME with her; and
meant to be a blessing to you if could"


Still Marian did not speak but she bent
and gathered little knot of the white
chrysanthemums-the purest and brightest
she could find. She touched the little posy to
her own lips when she had madeit, and then
fastened it in her step-mother's bosom.
The white chrysanthemums had been
flowers for the burial and Cor the bridal, and
now they were the blossoms of reconciliation.
Wide A,0akc Magazine.
Year: 1876

Bill Jones locked the secret in his breast,
but did not die in silence unconfessed.
Two years ago he entered Little Rock, Ark,
with hang dog look and a mysterious air,
and said that he came from nowhere" but
as he paid his bills and worked faithfully the
prejudice against him wore off. A cold
brought on pneumonia, and fortnight ago
his physician abruptly told him that he
was at deaths door. Then he cleared his
conscience as with a sponge. His name he
said, was not Bill Jones, but only Theo.
philus Williams, and he had not come ''from
nowhere" but from Nashville, Tenn, where
he had murdered a man and he was not
afraid to die with u murder on his soul, but
thought it would be as well to mention the
fact that he had killed the fellow, and he
wanted to get well because he thought he
was too young to die. But Bill Jones died
in spite of his youth. The breath and the
secret went out of him together.