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Year: 1876

JANUARY z, 1910.
IL. r. STEVENS Esq:


cinated The parties who where vacciDated from
the same virus died from the humor. The humor
spread over me to such an extent that was rolled
In bran to prevent me from scratching my person.
The disease finally settled in my head. l remained
In this condition about twenty years, troubled all
the time with sores breaking in my head and dis
charging corruption from my ear. At this time a
small kernel appeared on my neck, gradually in
creasing in size until tumOr formed of such i'm
mense size could see it by turning my eyes down.
ward. ALI this time was taking various remedies
for my blood without any substantial benefit


l then went to prominent physician in Boston,
who during his treatment of six months, lanced the
tumor eight times, which cost me nearly $780, This
left me with rough aggravated sore without at ali
diminishing the size of the tumor, and in sicklv
feeble condition L consulted another physician in
Natick who after considerable time, succeeded i'm
healing the sore without reducing the size. At this
point 1 commenced to use VEGETINE, through the
earnest persuasion of friend. After had taken
this medicine about one week experienced wonder
full sensations My whole body seemed to be under
going radical change, until, finally the tumor broke
and discharged frighttul quantities From this time
it decreased in size until the bunch disappeared but
my neck still bears the ugly of the sore and
lance. am now healthy ard strong and able to
work every day.


will also mention that have been an acute snf-
ferer from in1ammatory rheumatism ever since can
remember, until commencing the use of VEGETINE
when almost immediately all rheumatic pains ceased
This statement volunteer for the purpose of bene-
fitting other suffering humanity and you will confer
a favor by giving it as much publicity as thought
proper. Very gratefully,


.. NJ. SAVELS, Ashland Mass,
Year: 1876

The Republicans of Maine and all others who pro-
pose to support the candidate of the Republican par
ty In the pending elections invited to send dele
gates to a State Convention to be held in
Year: 1876

A collection of Prince Bismarck's pri-
vate letters has been published by Paris
journal. Here is an extract from one
written from Berlin, to his wife, in 1859:
.tHere am sitting in full Parliament.
In front of me In the tribune is q speaker
who is pitching into me, and to whom i
am about to reply. In the meantime, i
send you news Of my health. A good
deal Of work--a good deal of trouble;
but not enough sleep. However, as in
every thing, the beginning Is difficult.
With the aid Of God things will grow
better. Still, living in a glass house is
not comfortable. By-the-by, l discover
1 have begun this letter on the wrong
page. Let us hope 1t will not be bad
omen. | dine every night with the
Rooms; but for them and my sorrel mare
l should feel very lonely" u
Year: 1876

There is something indescribably fur.
ny in Sunset Cox's picture of himself
and Proctor Knott walking the lobby
during the debate and condoling with
each other because they were too hui
morous to be trusted by their political
colleagues. Now it is the honest opin-
ion OF many people in the United States
who have read Mr.. Cox's magazine ar
ticle on 'sHumor," that he might safely
be int listed with the highest office, il
his humor were the only obstacle in the
way.
Year: 1876

The report on the geology and resources
of the region OF the tEirty-ninth paral-
lei, from the Lake of the w oods to the
Rocky Mountains, by Mr.. Dowson, says:
"From what could learn, / believe that
at the present rate of determination
twelve TO fourteen years Will see the
destruction of what now remains OF the
great northern band Of buffalo, and the
termination of the trade in robes and
pemican, in SO far as regards the country
north OF the Missouri river"
Year: 1876

All Americans, and 6 good part of the rest or the world, arc now interested in the record of bull's-eyes made and making at Creedmoor. What is required of the marks man who would make one at 800, 300 or 1000 yards may be gathered from the fol lowing; If the wind be blowing down the range the bullet is lifted along, and with hAtter trajectory or greater speed. would slip over the top of the target. Down come the elevations ten, twenty or thirty inches and bull's-eyes are made. If the wind be blowing up the range the bullets are retard- ed and drop to the ground before the tar ret. In tho case of 6 side wind the front sight is moved right or left to throw the muzzle of the rife against the wind. The growing of the rine may give the swift rs- yolving leaden bolts natural drift to the right. This is . permanent variation, and can be corrected, but the wind rises and falls, and to guage 1t vernier similar to that on the near upright sight permits lateral motion. One one-hundredth here corresponds to 8 change of twenty inches on the target, and it is no unfrequent thing % have the marksman using fifteen points of wind, or in other words, actually point ing tho muzzle of the gun twenty-five or more feet away from ths bulls eye. Given a .fish.tair wind. partly up or down the range, and partly across, and variable in strength a well, and some idea may be gotten of the perplexity which surrounds a good judge of wind. Some days the pres sure of the air is greater than on others, and this must be allowed for. A hot sun pour. ing down upon damp range raises shim- mer of mist which gives the whole target Q dancing look, precisely as one would sec an object across room when looking over . hot stove. This is perplexing. The Ya- riations of light ard shade seem to lift or depress the target centre. Heat and cold affect gun metal and depress or elevate the flying bullet. But before all those matters are attended to, the rifleman must be sure of his weapon, confident in its accuracy, his powder must be of the same strength each and every day, and from charge to charge the bullets must be without air.holes, without dent or scratch, of the same hard ness of metal and accurately shaped. The siae must be uniformly clean from shot to ehot. And then when the man has master.

 d all these items and can hold his rile true Co the little bubble of the spirit guage which rests across the barrel between the front

 and rear sights. can hold 1t with wise like

 grasp, can repress for a moment all motion

 and hold hls head steady as rock and pull

 of the three-pound resistance of trigger

 and care not at all for the 200 pound kici

 which the rife gives, then, if he has no

 misjudged In any particular, may he hop'

 Eo sec the rising of the white dusk over thu

 black bulls face.
Year: 1876

Bishop Potter of New York undertook to explain, the other day, how it is that the poor people are being crowded out of the churches and deprived cf the privileges Of attending public worship. He finds the root of the trouble in the pew system, and is undoubtedly more than half right. He said that in the Church of England the sys- sem of rented pews was ''as verify decay ing and vanishing usage as is the use of the whipping post or imprisonment for debt. !" In this enlightened country the system IS spreading. even the Roman Catholic Church finding 1t policy to adopt it. The bishop then looked into the cause of the popularity of the system, and found 1t in the assistance it gives people who are struggling to obtain what Is called social position. A pew in a fashionable church is means to this end. and hence acquires money value which debars 6 man in moderate circumstances from aspiring to it's occupancy, even if it would be desirable on other accounts to him. The evils which attend this practice -a practice which results simply in the ex' clusion of the poor from the popular churches-were plainly set forth by the bishop. Nobody need go to New York, though, for examples of its workings. Fancy poor man sitting in one of ouI Back Bay temples of luxury. These churches are nominally dedicated to the service of God. but one of Gods poor who happened to stray therein would learn hi' mistake very shortly. The satirist would be amused by the recital of the circum- stances under which Bishop Potter's re marks were made. It was at the openinl of free chapel where there was to be n' distinction of persons, but it is sad to relst that this free chapel is an offshoot of tn most aristocratic church in the country which having banished the poer from 1t

 precincts makes ludicrous attempt at reE eration by providing a place where the ' may worship and not offend their fastidiou

 fellow men. This will not do. The ric

 and poor meet together. The Lord Is th

 maker of them all. You have got to com

 to 1t sooner or later, gentlemen and ladie'

 and little more practice and less preach

 ing now won't make the future meeting an

 lees desirable. e.-Boston Herald.
Year: 1876

A pickpocket working in a crowd one dark night, relieved one man of we'll filled envelope that he thought might pos sibly contain valuable papers. When he came to examine it he found 1t to be a Domestic Paper Fashion,"
Year: 1876

And believe can give You better article, for less money. than can be bought in any market. they are all new crop and dlaw ireSh and iIa- giant. A trlal will convince you that what say Is correct.

 Also & ,aIge line of
Year: 1876

The latest recipe for true eloqucnce was
given by minister at the Martha's Vine.
yard b ptist camp meeting yesterday.
Here it is Get yourself chuck full OF
the subject, knock out the bung, and let
nature caper.'
Year: 1876

Eg-Horace Greeley used to tell this
story: He once sent a claim for collec
ton to a western lawyer, and regarding
it as rather a desperate claim, told the
attorne if he collected he might reserve
helf the amount Tor his fees. In due time
Mr. Greeley received the following lacon-
c epistle: Dear Sir--I have succeeded
in collecting my half of that clafm. The
balance is hopeless
Year: 1876

LET me say to parents over again


what they must have heard hundred
times already, but what will need to
be said great many hundred times
yet-that every unnecessary absence
is serious injury to the pupil, and q
robbery to the whole school. If you
decide to send the child to a public
school rather than educate him your.
self, you must conform to the prescrib-
ed regulations. That is implied in
the contract between you and the
teacher, and between you and the
whole school You have no more right
to break into the order of school by ir
regularity than you have to stop a train
of cars between two stations for your
own convenience and to the incoDyen
ience of the rest of the passengers.
But not to insist longer on this view of
the case, it is important that your child
should understand that, while he is at
tending school, school is the main thing.
You cannot impress him with the idea
that education is something to value,
and be prized, and striven for with earn
estness and patience; in other words.
you cannot educate him at all, unless
it is made the great thing to which
other things, your convenience and his
fancies. must bend. If it makes no
great matter ii he is an hour late, or if
be stays out day now and day then.
to do some errand for you or to crafty
some whim of his own, why the whcle
thing becomes of no great consequence
in his estimation and to awaken and
keep alive in him any high purpose or
worthy aim in education is an utter
impossibility
Year: 1876

DARKER SHOP Is THE PLACE WHERE
Id you can get the best of work done in the
neatest possible style. Ladies' and Children $
Heir Cutting nd shampooins a speciality.
Shop Opposite Old White Corner. Two Chains
always found ready for business. Call and
see him and get 2 Good Job. Ladies desi-ing
work DONE by leaving word at the shop he
will call at their residence. I9
Year: 1876

A BEAUTIFUL and easily produced
exhibition of crystal formation may
be seen under the microscope, as
follows: Upon a slip Of glass place a
drop of liqlid chloride of gold or nj
trate of silver, with a particle of zinc
in the gold and copper in the silver.
A growth of exquisite gold or silver
ferns will spring up under the delight
ed eve.
Year: 1876

THE impression seems to prevail,
that getting Lesson is like knitting a
stocking-so many rounds, SO much
work done Hence, John is often ex
cused after he has studied his lesson
over half a dozen times; or the un-
lucky urchin is reproved with the ques
ton, How many times did sou study
your lesson over?" By such means
scholars are taught to measure their
effort by false standard. Repetition
is not a substitute for concentration
and reflection The evil effects of such
habit can hardly be estimated. The
thought is not grasped. The words
are not really signs of ideas to the
child. A given amount of time spent
in going over a lesson once slowly and
thoughtfully, is of infinitely more val
ne to a student, than the same time
spent in rapid repetition. Not ouly
will the lesson be better prepared; but
a habit of mind will be encouraged
that the pupil will not haveto break
up. before he can become a thoughtful
and observing man. Teachers, be
careful how your scholars prepare their
spelling lessons 1t is there the vicious
habit is begun; but it soon is carried
into every study.-E. o. Vail
Year: 1876

HAVE the courage to cut the most
agreeable acquaintance you have, when
you are convinced that he lacks princi-
pie. A friend should bear with friends
infirmities, but not with bis vices.
Year: 1876

WRITE we know is written right,
When we see it written Write:
But when We see it written w-r-i-g- h-t
We know il Is not written right,
For write to have ii written right,
Must not be written right or wright,
Nor yet should it be written rite:
But write. for so It's written right.
Year: 1876

There is a growing sentiment in
this com munity against the opening
of places of business on Sunday. This
idea should be fostered. There are
two reasons for this proposition. The
first is that there are many people
who from honest conviction, regard
the Sabbath as the Lords day, and a
Divinely appointed season at which


SECULAR PURSUITS


Should be abandoned, and the mind
left, so far as the nature of humanity
will allow it, to the contemplation of
matters appertaining to the moral and
spiritual welfare of our souls. No one
possessed of an ordinary amount of
Judgment dare attack this reason for
a more general observance of the day
appointed as we were early taught for
rest and reflection. This moral or
more properly speaking, religious sen-
timent commands respect.


ANOTHER REASON


For the more general observance of
the day by all sects and denomina-
tions, is that all men need day of
rest. One of the great evils of our
time and one that most materially af-
fects the sanitary condition of our
communities is that the present gen.
Grafton is too much given to excessive
physical and mental labor in the av-
aricious effort for the requirement of
wealth. The God of most of us is the
dollar. In this regard we may take
a lesson from both the English and
the Germans. There are no national
tiles who enter more fully nor more
philosophically into the enjoyments
of life in rational manner than do
these people. The mind and body of
man can stand just so much strain and
no more, and when the last limit is
reached a collapse ensues.


HUMAN NATURE


Is like river; it can stand so much
force and no more. Too much
pressure in this material point of ar-
plication is demonstrated by many a
practical illustration in dire disaster.
The rule adopted in the past and more
nutural ages than the present that a
given time should be given to the wor-
ship of God, so much to the service of
our feilow-men, and so much to re.
freshment and rest applies as well
now as in the days af King Solomon.
And in making such an argument it
is not in the spirit of Puritanical or
thodoxy, but with the belief that in the
requirements of the religious idea
there should he a liberality of thought
and action. Freedom in the exercise
of the emotional element If our ma
lures is God-given prerogative
vouchsafed to all men. The intellect
of man when properly developed, ac-
knowledges a veneration for Deity;
and yet we cannot all agree in our
methods of worship. Some may find
the greater devotional enjoyment and
comfort at the altar or the shrine or


THE SYNAGOGUE


And others may worship God with
equal sincerity and spiritual as we'll
as bodily benefit in paying their
acknowledgements in the woods and
fields where Nature in her full devel-
opment points in the purest eloquence
to the Maker of all things. These sug-
gestions are not made in sectaran or
dogmatical spirit, but as what we
deem logical reasons for advocating
an observance of the Sabbath in some
form. There should be no restriction
as to the method, but the nature of
our being demands both a period of
rest and change of scene from time to
time as well as a proper regard for
Deity.
Year: 1876

A great sensation is in store for this
quiet little town. A marriage is on
the tapis. A laborer is about to be
welded to one of our wealthiest young
ladies. Secret: This man buys his
clothing at the great Important, under
the Lafayette hotel. Do thou like
uiaa
Year: 1876

There is degree of logic in the cur
rent OF enterprise that prompts
capitalists to look to Los Angeles
county for investment in real estate.
During the last three months there
has been a greater demand for Gov
ernment and other lands than has ev-
er occurred before in the same space of
time in our county, and there is every
prospect that during the coming sea-
son the current of immigration will
increase, and the effort to obtain eligi-
BILE locations will grow in proportion.
The completing of the railroad and
the natural attractions of our locality
as well as the facilities for trade, and
an inevitable advancement in real es-
tate have attracted the attention of
both capitalists of fortune and inves-
tors of smaller means. If the signs of
the hour are not terribly deceptive,
we may look for lively trade in real
estate ere long. There are at this mo-
ment number of visitors in our city
who are canvassing the situation with
a view to investment. While we well
come them, we leave the locality and
and the climate u speak for them
selves.
Year: 1876

We publish in this issue the card
of Mr.. G. q. Goodcll with re-"
ference to the candidacy OF Col.
Egbort for Congress. The repub-
licans have no organ in the District
and we can afford this as act of
courtesy to a political apponcnt
whom we will defeat by a very
large vote. Mr.. Goodell, himself
has done so much to dcvclopc the
material interests Of this section
and has personally done SO many
things to compensate for all the
courtesy, we can show him that we
give him the benefit of the space
desired. Col. Egbcrt is also Il
gentlemen Of whom nothing but
good can personally be said. All
this aside it is useless and wholly
unnecessary to say that Gen. Pride
more will carry the Conservative
party as ga unanimous unit and
be sent to Congress by a majority
absolutely unprecedented in the
District.
Year: 1876

We acceed to the request Of Gov.
McMullin and chccrfully present
his card to our readers. He is
perfectly correct in the statement
that his candidacy was injurious to
the cause of Tilden and Hendricks.
Speculation as to lis chances for
election or defeat are now uses
less, and, while his withdrawal at
an earlier day would have done him
more good, we cheerfully accord to
him the credit of having stepped
aside before it was too late. We
have not been one of those who
accord to him blows without honOrs.
His public course has been one o
great fidelity to the principles Of
Democracy, and his whole life has
been a manly battle under adverse
circumstances from which he has
wrestcd some very proud victories.
We do not believe he has any un-
kind feeling for those who have
supported thenominec. 1t was inn
possible for thoparty to abandon Its
organization nt this critical iunctuTe
the in National struggle. To have
done 50 might have lost Virginia's
eleven votes for Tilden. The
ninth District has done much to
save the State in the past.


One more word. Whatever may
be the best way to make our nomi-
nations, it must be decided by the
party and not by any one man.
Year: 1876

They close and lock the tavern door,


And stand respectful back,
Silent Gs death each citizen


On expectations rack ;
While the Deacon curly headed son
lie peeps in at a crack,
And gives the men Of Podunk town


Tidings Of the attack.
Year: 1876

The steamship Morgan City, of the Nor
gan line, left her wharf on the morning of
the fourth instant for New York, via the
South Pass and the jetties. She entered
the head of the South Pass at two o'clock
in the afternoon, and grounded on the bar
at that point, and swung around across the
channel. She drew fourteen feet three
inches forward and fifteen feet two inches
aft. Two Tug boats were put at work the
following day trying to pull her eff, but
without success, whereupon two of Nor
gan's railroad ferryboats were sent down to
the South Pass for the purpose Of lighter
ing the vessel. About eight hundred sacks
of corn were taken off and the vessel was
pulled off the bar hack into the river yes,
terday by the two terryboats, the steamer
Grafton, and two other tugboats. She was
reloaded from her lighters and yesterday
went to sea through Southwest Pass. This
has proved costly experiment to the own
ers, and it is fair to presume they will seek
deep water hereafter.
Year: 1876

At meeting of the American Union Club
held last evening at their rooms on Camp
street, the following resolutions were
adopted:


Resolrcd, That the American Union Club
reaftirm their a1hersiOn to the principles
and policy of the national Republican party
as made manifest in the convention recently
held in Cincinnati.


Resolred, That we will heartily and earn
estly support in the ensuing campaign the
national and State tickets.


Resolyed, That we will support the car
dinsl doctrine of our party that currency
redeemable in coin is the only true, safe
and honest course to be followed in the
nations financial policy.


Resolved, That we rejoice to see the
liberal spirit in which the cause of educa-
ton is treated by the national party, ana
will do our utmost to procure success for
that policy.