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Year: 1876

The number of converts to Judaism in the city of New York has been SO large lately as to excite comment on the part of the secular papers of that place. Thirty-eight Christians were united in matrimony last month to members of the Hebrew faith, all of them abiuring their original church The prOselytes, singular to say, are all males, and in almost every instance were in such financial circumstances as would remove every shadow of sus- picion IS to the honesty of their con version.

 There isn't anything wonderful or unexplainable, or even extraordinary, in this frequent and extensive conver- sion Of males to Judaism. The mental and physical attractions of the Jewish maidens are such that if they once un- dertake to convert a man, there is no earthly show for him. IL is one sided

 fight altogether. If there were any at fractions in that quarter and one of these .maidens would go to work in car nest, she coEld convert the pope of Rome, in twe hours and half,-mean time
Year: 1876

The Oakland News says that there is firm in San Francisco who pur- chase the thousands of dogs slaughter ed by the pound-master of shat city, or that may have been otherwise killed, for which they pay forty cents each. The carcasses are conveyed to their manufactory at South San Francisco, where the skins are removed and sold to the tanneries, the hair taken off and re.sold to plasterers, the hide tanned, and made into gloves and sold in the market. The denuded carcass is then thrown into huge caldron andI boiled until the bones are easily sepa- rated from the flesh, when they are re- moved and sold to the sugar refineries, where they are ground to fine powder and used to clarIfy sugar The oil that rises to the surface of the boiling mass is skinned of and manufactured into cod liver oil, and the remainder is can ned for mince meat

 There is the finest kind of an open. ing for a branch factory in Tucsen.
Year: 1876

Don't talk to me about dew-drops,

 I'm not in the mood tonight; Or of beauty in grass or flowers,

 When there are no flowers in sight; Or of being thankful that I'm not blind,

 Or deaf, or sick, or dead; But tell me how I can pay my rent

 Or work for my daily bread. You see, it's all very well for you

 To talk philosophy, Who might manage to live on a mOuldy

 crust,

 Or even go hungry day; But what If you had slckly wife,

 And three poor babies beside? reckon you would't talk of art

 While the starving children cried. You look at me hard, as who should say. "I didn't think this ofyou;" Well, Will, kept stiff upperlip

 Till my very faith fell through. It's cruel, cruel thing to say.

 But the want has forced 1t out I'd rather my little ones would die Than grow up 10 hunger and doubt. God knows my wife she's true one; she Has kept me straight while she could; But alas! to think Of her lying there

 Without either ire or food! I sometimes fear that my brain will turn Is it wicked to wish it might?- And then never should feel again The want have known this night.
Year: 1876

It begins to look as if the threadbare title of Colonel is not to last much longer People who have been reading the newspapers regularly for the last twelve months must have observed the falling of in the use of this hitherto universal title. The Colonel is going; he

 may be entirely gone presently. He goes to give place to the Majah The Majah, after g protracted obscurity, comes forth, and the Colonel, long supposed to out rank him, steps down into oblivion. The two St. Louis editors who fought d duel in Illinois recently, though one of them was a Colonel, were both publish ed as Majahs. The Majah is begin ming to arrive at the hotels. He has begun to- buy goods and edit newspa pers. There is yet some talk of Briga- diers ill Congress, but the Majahs are the men who are going to settle the affairs Ofthe country. The supercilious General, the antIquated Colonel, the vulgar Captain. even the abominable Esquire who is not as Esquire, must step aside for the blooming, the chIval- ric, the prominent" Majah. If we know the times, as we all think we do, we must now make way for the Majah. The Majah he has come.
Year: 1876

We frequently crihcise and find faul

 with the San Francisco Bulletin, fo

 the reasons, and in the sense, that W,

 do the same frequently with men anC

 things of the greatest ability and tn,

 highest yalue,-simply to object tC

 properties which seem out of accord

 with others, which we recognize anC

 value. And then perhaps we see nor,

 Tn it to find fault with, because ther,

 is so much there to merit study and at

 tention. Of course every newspaper editor on the coast knows the value ol The Bulletin, and knows that it fills {

 position as newspaper which would otherwise be .dIsastrously vacant But the country reader, for whom VIC more immediately write, may not have noticed the care with which that paper is edited, its convenient arrangement of news, the immense amount of mat ter condensed in its columns, and the broad sense and application of it's ed itorials.

 There has been vast amount of comment made in the Pacific coast newspapers, upon the circumstances and subsequent action, growing out of the late attack of a member of the present California Legislature upon a newspaper correspondent A great deal of this comment has only tended to muddle matters, to present wrong premises, and draw irrelevant conclu- sions. The Bulletin comes to the res cue, and with its usual sense and a few terse sentences, throws this light on the matter,

 The Press is generally doing a great and beneficent work. It is the tribune of the people. Its harshest criticisms are thousand times better than a tame acquiescence in great public wrongs There is not man who has been head ed off in some corrupt job through the influence of the Press who is not ready today to cripple its influence and to harass it by any amount of unjust legis- latiOn. A general attack on the Press is an attack on the rights of the com and it never can originate where only fair play is wanted. Just now the Chronicle is not happy either m the role of martyr or bully. It has done some mischief and may do more It has provoked members of the Legis- lature to some unwlse legislation, which, we trust, influences quite be- yond the reach of that paper may yet modify. But when hOodlum or plug ugly is squarely hit, we do not con ceive that it is the business of better people to rush wildly 10 his defense, or to assume that everybody is to suffer from the collision.
Year: 1876

If Banquo's ghost was any harder to "down" than some of the spectres and goblins damned that haunt American literature, we pity the sensitive people ofhis time. Here is Eli Perkins again before us,-tbis time with book, And such a book. We may be mistaken, but we get the impression from what we have seen of this book that it was intended to be taken as a dirge. If so the work is very uneven in its tenor. Here is an attempt at levity in fashion gossip, at Saratoga;

 Shoes are worn high in the neck, hOunced with aqGille lace, cut on the bias. aiga heels are common in Sara toga, especially in the hop room. Cot ton hose, open at the top, are very much worn, some of them having as many as three holes in them.

 He couldn't be better posted if he took in washing for flying, although he would be entitled to more respect and cOmmendatiOn.
Year: 1876

AN interesting rhlno-plastic operation which cannot fail to edify the medical fraternity IS reported from Silver City, in the case of a man who, some time ago, had his nose bitten off in rough and tumble encounter. Dr. Kirby be- ing called upon to attend the unfortu- nate, and cOnceiving of nothing better with which to mend the mutilated pro- bocis, at the suggestion of the victim cut off the tip of pointer dogs tail, and transplanted it to the mans face as the finishing point to the deformed nose. All worked well in healing and the man has a fine and naturaLlOoking nasal organ. But here is the difficulty The moment the man meets an old ac- ouaintance the confounded nose starts in and wiggles him off the side walk before he can shake hands.
Year: 1876

THE Milwaukee Commercial Times makes life little more endurable than usual with this item.

 Cliff Thurston exhibited at the Com mercial-Times office this morning, a rare curiosity. It was the skull of an Aztec, found lately at Waukesha. The evidence is adduced proving, beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt, that the former inhabitants of our western suburb were of the singular race whose labors exist only in Arizona. The singular thing about the skull was a glass eye which yet remains firm in its socket, going to show that the former inhabitants of Waukesha were cultiva- ted and enlightened people.
Year: 1876

\ MAN in Patterson has bought from a saloon-keeper a horse for which he is to pay in Installments, to be as large or small as the buyer may desire, the salOonist 10 stand treat whenever an installmens is paid. The horse Is be ing paid for in installments often cents, and its happy owner is now looking for a blanket to be paid for in the same way.
Year: 1876

A SINGULAR death took place the other day at Lincoln in England. A grocer named Picker, who keeps fowls, was last week feeding them, when q bantam cock spurred him in the left thumb. Modification set ill and all efforts to save the unfortunate mans life proved unavailing.
Year: 1876

name we were not able to learn from the
authorities, appeared at the police station,
and made very serious charge against
Ed. Francis, barber of this city. She
stated that he had committed an unmen-
tionable crime upon her person.


The matter has been kept very quiet by
the police, and we were unable to learn the
particulars of the very grave charge which
the woman has perferred. The man was
not arrested, but is under striek surveillance
and the trial will take place this morning
at nine o'clock at the station before Mayor
Whitley.
Year: 1876

There are rumors upon the street Of de-
falcation of an ex-city:offlcial. The gentle
man to whom the rumors point mas nltherto
borne such high character Tor honesty,
and his family surroundings are so pure,
that we cannot believe, and ask our readers
not to believe without full proof that the
gentleman has tarnished an unoiemlsned
Character for honesty and fair dealings.
Year: 1876

long standing creates many bitter foes
and attracts few supporters and
lucky will it be for him if in the end
the rogues whom he has brought to
grief do not con,rive to make out his
character blacker than their own.
That was very wise warning of Col.
eridge, "Tru,h is good dog ; but be-
ware of barking too close to the heels
of an error, lest you get your b'ains
kicked out. "Mr. Tilden is barking
close at the heels of . great fraud, and
he will get much encouragement just
now plenty Of people will spur him
on but when we are told that he
looks for public gratitude after his
work is done, we must dismiss it as an
idle tale, for Mr.. Tilden is a shrewd
man, and knows perfectly well what
sort Of a world we are living in.
Year: 1876

She breathed her last SO peacefully,
She made no moan Of pain,
We knew not when the tide Of life,
Ceased flowing through each vein.
She passed away 30 peacefully,


we thought her sleeping there;
we knew not when her spirits wings,
Far upward cleft the air.
We laid her in the quiet grave.


one calm, fair, summer day,
When the bright sunlight on the EARTH
In golden beauty lay.
He died amid the whirlwind rush.


Of horsemen, line on line,
Their steel blades flashing in the air,
Like diamond. from the mine.
He fell amid the charging host,
His couch the crimson ground,
He fell, the life-blood oozing fast,
From many CHASTITY wound
Tho roar of a thousand cannon.
That wint'ry morning drear.
Cries. shrieks and groans, and clang OF stee
Smote on his dying ear.
O lovely peace cruel war


How different are ye
Sweet flowers deck her quiet grave,


No burial had he.
Year: 1876

The campaign against the Canal
Ring is fairly begun, and the first adj
vance upon that stronghold of fraud
and corruption was made by Gov
Tilden, who sent his anXiously looked
for message on this subject to both
Houses of the Legislature to-day. The
docume mt is a strong one, but Is no'
to be deemed inexhaustive on the
subject. A perfect state OF panic ex-
lists among all those who have beer
and are involved in the matter. Since
the contents of the message have be
come known, it is everywhere admit
ted that no such assault had ever be-
fore been made en- this Ring, and tha
its momentum was too great and too
direct to be either resisted or averted
From the N Y Times, March ~
1875.


| U,to +or PTNGHAM AND RE
Year: 1876

National Banks can rob the peo-
pie with mpuuity. They hold their
charters from the Federal Govern
ment. The representatives of the
people have no power to reach them
through the Legislature. Their VIC
tins have partial remedy IN the
courts. Every National Bank in Yer
m ut which has violated the law OF
t. IL, State by taking more than SIX
Der cent. from its customers, is liable
TO refund double the amount OF the
excess. Is it not time that these
Shaving Mills are taught shat they
are not superior to the law! Wonid
it be unjust if they should return &
small part Of the large surplus which
they have extorted from the people
to those from whose pockets it came
WHIT other business pays ten PEI
cent dividends in these dark days
and piles up surplus of undivided
profits often equal to the capital? Car
You do 1t, farmer, with butter at 2i
cents per pound, potatoes 25 cents pei
bushel, corn so cents, and beef ant
pork at seven dollars per hundred


Can you, laborer, while standing upol
the corners of our streets seeking II
vain for Il job, or working on halftlm'
for half wages! Can you, merchant
with your goods upon your shelve
unsold? Can you, manufacturer
when you find it almost impossibl


with all your care and skill to get bac|
new dollar for an old one.
Year: 1876

TIE kind and immediate attention Of
the Relief Society and all charitably in
clined persons is called to the wants of q
destitute and suffering family out on Cedar
street. the struggling husband and
father of which owns seven dogs, and
was down at the freight house last even
ing looking for two more he had ordered
from Aurora.-Burliagt0H HaWk-Eye.
Year: 1876

DEATHS BY CONSUMPTION will become less
and less frequent as it becomes more and
more widely known that HALE's HONEY OF
HoREHoUND AND TAR is an infallible cure
for coughs and colds.


Pixies Toothaehe Drops cure In minute.
Year: 1876

Some days ago, in France, a gentle
man named NJ so far forgot himself
in heated discussion as to give blow
to X, the brother of an actress. A
duel was arranged, but M, on refiec-
tion, seeing that he had been, in the
wrong sent in a note Of apology by his
second to x. The latter responded
that he would only decide whether to
accept the apology or not when they
met on the duelling ground. On the
appointed morning they met, and X,
walking up to his antagonist, said Il
have received your letter, and / am
willing to accept your excuses, not
wishing either to kill you or be killed
myself; but l have one question to ask
you first; Ii you were in my place,
would you deem o like apology a com
plete reparation for such an insult !?
Yes or no ?" Yes" answered M.
Are you sure of it? Certainly" ;"
:" am charmed to learn it.. said x,
giving M vigorous blow on the
cheek with one hand, and at the same
time with the other presenting him a
copy OF his own apology.
Year: 1876

Get your rooms in advance.


Else you wont stand chance
AT the good things that roam at Point Clear
For all people do tell


That at the Grand Hotel
The visitor makes his Point Clear"
Year: 1876

LAWRENCE KANSAS March GOTH 1s76.


EDITOR CHEF:-After experiencing such sweet sun
shine and moderate temperature have had for the
past two months it makes and sulen to be com
PEELED endure the observation-disclosures Of and pierre
ing winds at this of the year. Occasionally a
sleigh passes with jncng bells and merry laughter
and then we a dozen more boys making the most
bosteous and joyous hallooing each of whom is trying
seat himself upon a sled with surface OF about two
square feet before which stands donkey. When the
people awoke yesterday morning. and saw what pure
white sheet there was stretched all the ground they
did be surprised We have felt snow in the
penetrating east wind for the last three days


The Methodist Conference which has been in session
in this city nesday last closes to-day great
of important business has been transacted and
much interest manifested by the ministers who were
present. 1t announced by Bishop Peck, that the
General Assembly would meet in Baltimore some time
next May.


most melanc holy and fatal accident occurred last
Wednesday at Bismarck station about half mile from
Lawrence, the Kansas Pacific Railroad. As Rev. X.
E. Chalk, of Armstrong attempted to jump from car
he missed his footing and fell upon the track, directly
beneath the wheels which crushed the head entirely be-
yond recognition. The unfortunate man was Metho
dist preacher of high standing and had left home with
the intention of attending the Conference.


Business is quiet and there good deal of grumbling
though there few who to be satisfied if they
only make living CARLOS NOGGS.
Year: 1876

SEVERANCE, March 81, 1876
EDITOR CHIEF Who is to be next m ember Of Con-
gress After extended trip through the Northwest
ern Counties find Gen W. W. Guthrie Of AtehisOn, to
be the coming Even his political enemies have not
word to say against him. They say they will support
men instead of parties He stands to day at the head of
the Republican party in Northern Kansas He is without
exception Of the most honest and honorable in
the Statei one of oldest citizens, and self made
man. Of the people He is virtually greenback
man and though living in Atchson, is much a resi-
dent of this County of Atchson he is working
era large farms here He would get the united vote Of
this County don't believe that the Democrats would
make nomination against him in this District, it
would be useless. He would be honor to State,
in these days of corruption in the National Legislature
hope this County will send Guthrie delegation to
District Convention, the West is unit for him.


A REPUBLICAN.
Year: 1876

" Rev. Pardee Butler has written a letter to
the "Reform" State Committee declining to act
with them, and saying there is a more direct road
II lie wants to join the Dem ocracy 1t is pity
that Pardee did not think of this four years ago


when he went into the Greeley movement. 1t
was more of a Democratic movement then than
1t is now, for the Democracy have now set up
business on their own hook. 1t is a little singu-
lar, that people who have been the most misused
by party, are frequently the first to join with
them against those who were their friends in
time of need. Pardee Butler, who was tarred
and featbered and sent down the river on a raft
by the Kansas Democracy, and Sam. Wood, who
was not allowed by them to rest or to sleep in a
house for weeks at time, have, during the past
few years, been doing all they could to place that
party in power. They have failed, and now But
Ter comes creeping back, with an "open letter.
to his recent allies.
Year: 1876

q A person who read that very scientific ar
tele IN the Reporter, about man burning copies
OF the CAi5 in his garden as fertilizer. tboupbt
he would see if the Reporter wouldn't answer the
same purpose, and prepared to experiment on a
cgar-box full of DIRT which he had fixed for early
cabbage plants. But he discovered that there
were SO few of the papers taken in the County
pertinent.
Year: 1876

prosperity and brilliant official hopes are
laid out with the inanimate form OF the
last Democrat. The types and good Will
Of the concern are left standing. Let
Childs inscribe on simple slab:


If 20 soon the thing is done for,


Whist, then, was it begun for.
Year: 1876

i the interests of the Democratic-C -COnserva-
tive party and of the people OF Louisiana
would be greatly served by having repre-.
sentative paper in this city, and they CON
tributed largely from their means to carry
it on. The editors and prOprietors have
made many sacrifices and have done an IN
their power with the very limited means O.;
their disposal, to make the enterprise puc.
cess, But it has met with little or no sup.
port from the business community. and
fhough Democratic have been liberal in
praise and encouraging words, they have
literally done nothing for tho paper: The
country parishes have evinced q liberal
disposition to sustain the Democrd1'
and it's country patronage cd mas Igen sSaa
has. in the last six weeka, been rapid
" gaining, there is no doubt that. IT the
party in the city had given any aid what
ever, the paper would have been success.
The proprietors have no complaint to make
against any one. They believe that If this
public desired q paper OF the opinions OF
the Democrat. they would have suPPorteo
IL. As they have not supported it, they as
ssume that there is no field here for such
Journal, and therefore shall withdraw 1t to
morrow evening.


All persons who have paid their sub
scriptiOns and advertisements IN advance
will have the balances due them promptly
paid; and, upon the other hand, We request
sll indebted to the paper to pay their dues
without delay.


This is . very frank statement Of the
case. The publishers conclude that the
people do not want such paper as the
Democrat honestly tried to be, and they
are not disposed to thrust it on the public
ct their own expense. The paper received
great deal Of praise but little financial
support. The manager steps before the
Ecurtain and bids farewell to his audience,
offering to return money at the door to al
Who did not come in as deadheads. Party
Year: 1876

A parting shot, and we close: Does the
Gazette say Its fair for a public officer
To charge for coffee, and give burnt ryeP
--MdTssiag Herald. t.:D.-.


No! Nor do we know that any one has
done 80. Nor is it fair for man to at.
tack another falsely and under cover Of
others who would not do so. This Is q
kind of smartness and cunning thav will
not be allowed in Delaware. 1t is of the
Bill Mann stripe, and may be practiced
where character is of no value and pub
lie Officers are expected to be made of
scoundrels; but in Delaware we hold that
our public men and our public officers
shall be honorable and upright citizens,
who are entitled to and shall have fair
play. This is all we claim for any of
them.
Year: 1876

FALL IN THE PRICE OF CoAL.-The New


ork papers claim that the price Of
coal is too high, and that the coal COM
bination ought to be broken down. They
say that bitnminous coal is sent TO this
country and sold cheaper than anthra-
cite, although a duty of seventy-fve cents
in gold per ton is paid on it. They refer
to the fall Of the prices of anthracite in
Boston, seventy-tive cents per ton, and
say corresponding reduction will take
place all over the country if the people
will refuse to lay in their winter supply
until about November. So far, compare
lively very little anthracite coal has Leen
distributed this season. The public
leave the combination to store and carry
immense accumulations of coal, which
in other years had already in May and
June been snugly slowed away in the
cellars of our citizens, while the arbitrary
sums exacted from the consumer, amount
ing in the aggregate to millions of dol
lars, were gratuirously enjoyed by the
coal companies for a period Of FIVE
months. They say further that anthra-
cite coal would pay very handsomely if
retailed in the New York market at so
& Dor ton, delivered. 1t could be sold at
lessthan that and still pay fair profit,
basing the calculation on a regular and
continued production at the present
price Of labor. The Saa asks. Who will
firs' raise in this city a standard which
shall bear the inscription, "steady work
for the miner; cheap coal for the con.
suusrp" s....s-. .....
Year: 1876

The rich men in Congress are the most
tenacious Of high salaries, and they are
the least seryieeable- their grand dinner
parties do incalculable harm and are
frmtless of good. Ben. Butler was a


mple, old Cameron lie another.