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Year: 1876




woe and trouble so | think we had
better let the body remain where it is,
and fill up the well. 1t will save &
power of trouble and bother.


This proposition was agreed to by the
neighbors as being feasible. and the
work of filling up commenced, Josephui
throwing in all the large stones and
blocks Of wood that he could lay bis
hands on.


There said he. L guess that will
do after they had thrown couple oil
cart loads of miscellaneous rubbish into
the we'll. Jake can fill up the rest,
odd spells and rainy days. Well have
the funeral sermon preached as soon as
I get done hauling wood


Near by the side of Josephus stood a
woman Of about thirty summers or win
ters. and she had been regarding the
solemn scene with mixture of plea
sure and sorrow, intermingled; and
when the rest Of the neighbors took
their departure, she fingered behind to
comfort the aching heart of the bereav-
ed widower.


1t is great pity to be so suddenly
cut down in the prime Of life. like the
flower at noontide,' said she, mourn
fully


Yes said he shifting his quid from
one side of his mouth to the other but
Betty was getting along in years, and
we must be resigned.


Just, SO. Mr. Clark resignation is
cooling balm, as it were, to fill the
void in the troubled breast, and always
thought your wife was too old for such
a smart. active man as you


Did you, really?' answered Clark,
with sudden interest.


To be sure, [ did; always took an
interest in your welfare


Clark was lost in meditation for some
time.


Miss Perkins, said he, suddenly.
'can you make good butter 2


Now, Mr.. Clark she answered,
blushing, you touch me on tender
point; for. if do say it myself, | won't
turn my back to any woman in the
country making good butter


Good cook ?


First rate


Understand housekeeping?'


None better


Then, I'll tell you what l have been
thinking about, said he. picking up
another large stone aud throwing it into
the we'll. Suppose you and | get
married 2


Now, really, Mr.. Clark, you are SO
sudden and take me by surprise; but
my heart bleeds for you in your bereave-
ment, and-and I consent Take me
Il am yours.


The fond couple embraced, taking a

kiss to ratify the bargain.


Mrs. Clark, under the gooseberry
bush, was boiling with rage, but she
restrained herself for few moments.


L say said CLARK, after they had
regained their composure, won't Bettys
clothes fit your


Of course they will. and it will be a
great saving.


And l will take that new cloak of
hers and make me an overcoat-a long
one like the city folks wear, said Clark.


oh! you dear creature! replied she


Sweet angel Of my soul !! said he.


Just then, something lit upon Clark's
back, and he did not know at first
whether it was a wildcat, streak of
lightning. or the devil. but be found
out directly.


His charmer cast one glance at the
apparition and scooted.


Clark has just got around again. He
say it was the worst case of infamma-
tory sickness he ever had


But be is the meekest husband to be
found, and the we'll is filled up.
Year: 1876

INDTANAPoLIs, July "a, 1876.


Gentlemen | have the honor to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your communication, in
which you have formally notified me of my
nomination by the National Democratic
Convention at ST. Louis, as their candidate
for the office of Nice-President of the United
States 1t is nomination which | had
neither expected nor desired and yet re-
cognze and appreciate the high honor done
me by the Convention. The choice of such
a body, pronounced with such unusual un-
animity, and accompanied with so generous
an expression of esteem and confidence
ought to outweigh all merely personal de-
sires and preferences of my own. 1t is with
this feeling, and trust also from deep
sense of public duty, that now accept the
nomination, and shall abide the judgment Of
my cOuntrymen.


1t would have been impossible for me to
accept the nomination if could not heartily
endorse the platform Of the Convention. |
am gratifcd, therefore, to be able uuequiyo-
cally to declare that agree in the principles,
approve the policies, and sympathize with
the purposes enunciated in that platform.


The institutions Of our country have been
sorely tried by the eXigencies of civil war,
and since the peace, bya selfish and corrupt
management Of public affairs, which has
shamed us before civilized mankind. BY
unwise and partial legislation every industry
and interest of the people have been made
to suffer and in the executive departments
of the Government, dishonesty, rapacity and
venality have debauched the public service,
Men known to be unworthy have been pro-
NOTED, while others have been degraded for
fidelity to official duty. Public Office has
been made the means of private profit, and
the country has been offended to see class
of men who boast the friendship of the
sworn protectors Of the State amassing for
tunes by deirauding the public treasury and
by corrupting the servants of the people In
such crisis of the history of the country |
rejoice that the convention at St. Louis has
so nobly raised the standard of reform
Nothing can be well with us or with our af-
fairs until the public conscience, shocked by
the enormous evils and abuses which prevail
shall have demanded and compelled an un-
sparing reformation of our National Ad-
ministration, "in its head and in its mem
bers." In such a reformation the removal
of a single officer, even the President, is
comparatively triling matter, if the sys-
TEN which represents, and which has foster
ed him as he has fostered it, is suffered to re-
main. The President alone must not be made
the scapegOat forthe enormities of the system
which infests the public service, and
| threatens the destruction of our institutions.
In some respects hold that the present ex-
cutiye has been the victim rather than the
author of that vicious system. Congressional
and party leaders have been stronger than
the President. No one man could have
Year: 1876

General Grant thinks that as long as there
is a Bristow man left anywhere in the de-
partments the prospects of Hayes are bad.
He intends to clean out every one of them
and put in men of the Boss Shepherd-Spen-
Ger stripe to work f'r the Cincinnati candi-
dates and reform.
Year: 1876

in the public employ" I hope never again
to see the cruel and remorseless prescription
for political opinions which has disgraced
the administration of the last eight years
Bad as the civil service now is, as all know,
it has some men oftried integrity and proved
ability. Such men, and such men only,
should be retained in office but no man
should be retained on any consideration who
has prostituted his Office to the purpose of
partisan intimidation or compulson, or who
has furnished money to corrupt the elections
This is done and has been done in almost
every county of the land. 1t is a blight
upon the morals of the country, and ought
to be reformed.
Year: 1876




to be reformed.


OUR SCHOOLS


OF sectional contentious, and in respect to
our common schools, | have only this to say:
That in my judgment, the man or party that
would involve our schools in political or
sectarian controversy is an enemy to the
schools. The common schools are safer un-
der the protecting care of all the people than
under tthe control of any party or sect.
| They must be neither sectaran nor partisan,
and there must be neither division nor mis-
approprii ton of the funds for their support.
Likewise lregard the man who would arouse
, or foster sectional animosties and antago-
lnisms among his countrymen as a dangerous
lenemy to ais country. All the people must
be made 20 feel and know that once more
there is established purpose and policy un-
der which all citizens of every condition.
race and color, will be secure in the enjoy
ment Of Whatever rights the constitution
and laws declare Or recognize; and that in
controveESie~yth that may arise the government
is not a RaTisan, but,within its constitution
al authority the just and powerful guardian
of the rights and safety of all. The strife
between the sections and between races will
cease as soon as the power for evil is taken
away from the party that makes political
gain out of scenes of violence and blood
shed, and the constitutional authority is
placed in the hands of men whose pol itical
welfare requires that peace and good order
shall be preserved everywhere.


GOV. TILDEN.


1t will be seen, gen ntlemen, that | am in
entire accord with the platform of the Con-
vention by which | have been nominated as
a candidate for the Office of Nice-President
Of the United States. Permit me, in con.
clusion to express my satisfaction at being
associated with candidate for the Presi.
dency who is first among his equals as :
representative of the spirit and of the
achievements Of reform. In his official ca
reer rs the Executive of the great State o
New York, he has, in comparatively short
period, reformed the public service and re-
duced the public burdens, so as to have
, earned at once the gratitude of his State
and the admiration Of the country. The
F people know him to be thoroughly in earnest
he has shown himself to be possessed Of
powers and qualities which fit him, in an
eminent degree, for the great work ofrefor-
nation which this country now needs and
if he shall be chosen by the people to the
! high Office Of President Of the United States
> believe that the day of his inauguration
will be the beginning of new era of peace
purity and prosperity in all departments OF
our government l am, gentlemen, youl
obedicnt servant,


=, THOMAS 4. HENDRICKS.
, To the Hon, John \. McClernand, Chair.


man, and others Of the Committee of the


National Democratic Convention.
Year: 1876

Under these circumstances we repeat
that the Republican leaders cannot af-
ford to count in Governor Hayes with
out such precautions about the count as
shall absolutely set at rest all doubt upon
the subject They cannot afford it, be-
cause TO do so would outrage the sense
Of fair play and honest dealings which
lies at the bottom of the American char
acter because the uncertainty and doubt
resulting from well founded suspicion
OF wrong would make themselves felt in
the most deplorable depression of bust.
ness in a shock TO national and private
credit in the depreciation of our bonds
in the sending home of American secu-
rites in a general feeling Of insecurity,
which would send gold into the fifties
or higher; would paralyize industry and
trade; would cause thousands of business
failures, and would, in fact bankrupt the
country.


We will grant everything to the Re-
publican leaders; grant that they OBJ
serve every particle of the bad laws that
have been enacted down there grant
that they not only count in Mr.. Hayes,
but carry the count through Congress;
grant that they actually install Mr..
Hayes in the White House on the 5th
OF March; and after all they have not
completely satisfied the intelligent pub.
lie opinion of the country that the count
is just and honest, nothing they can do
will give either content or security or
permanence to the general interest OF
the country. All industry will be struck
with paralyses. No capitalist will ven.
ture on enterprises; no merchant will
dare TO lay in 4 supply OF goods, because
no prudent consumer will buy more
than he needs from week to week; no
manufacture will venture to produce be-
yond his actual cash orders; credit be-
tween man aud man will be gone; the
number of unemployed will increase
teniold; poverty aud want will over
whelm the country.


Now an administration producing
such effects upon the country, and pro-
ducing them by tie mere fact Of lis
holding power, could not hope to exist
beyond the next election. All the
causes which effect public opinion and
turn votes would co operate TO sweep
Republican leaders into iisgraceiul rc-
tirement. Their President would find,
from the time he entered the White
House, an object of suspicion and dis
like to the great majority of hi, fellow
citizens and an object of contemptuous
pity to his personal friends and allies.
At the close of two years he would be
faced by a Congress in which both
Houses would be his political oppo-
nents, sent there by an indignant aud
suffering people. What is the use OF
such victoryi TO such adventures rs
Spencer, Chamberlain, Packard, Kcl-
logg, Elliott, Moses, Whippcr and their
allies in the South anything which will
keep them in power and plnnder for
even another year will be satisfactory.


But there are honorable men among
the Republican leaders of the North.
Can they afford TO sacrifice the ideas for
which they have acted-can they af-
ford to sacrifice themselves in such a
wayt We believe not.-NeW York
| HeraM
Year: 1876

The CHAMPION LAR.-The cham
pion liar of the State is in our county
Jail. A kind-hearted clergyman asked
him how be came tU be there The fel-
low said, with tears in his eyes, that ne
was coming home from prayer meeting,
and sat down to rest fell asleep, and
while he was asleep there the county
built the Jail around him, and when he
awoke the jailer refused to lei him out.
There are indictments against him i'll
every county west of the Guadalupe,
and he has already served out one term
at Huntsville. Talk about newspaper
men deviating from the truth after that.
-Sau .4uton,o Herald.
Year: 1876

The strongest evidence the people
can have that Grant is at the head of
the Louisiana, Florida and South Caro-
lima election swindles is, the names of
tho men he sent there to see fair count
of the vote.
Year: 1876

man Is found IN the fact that she does
not have ito go accounting" 1t must
be confessed that, in these days, the
modern belle does her share of the WOO
ing, but she does not have to dress up
in stiff collar, and pair of boots two
sizes too small for her and walk up to
the cannonis mouth of her inamorata' S
family, consisting of father and mother,
grandmother, and maiden aunt, and a
half dozen brothers and sisters, and
inquire, in trembling voice, "ls Miss
Arabella at homer


Whenever man goes a-courtlng,
everybody seems TO know all about 1t.
His demeanor tells the observant spec
tator the business he is intent upon.
He might just as well placard himself
with the legend 81 so ACQUIRING
Everybody is cognizant of it, and looks
knowing; and ask him if the northern
lights were bright last night about one
o'clock" and how the market is for ker-
osens up to Daddy Browns" and a
score Of other questions equally out Of
place.


We have in our family at present a
young man who is deeply, We trust sue
cesstully, engaged in going accounting;
and our war:nest sympathies have been
aroused for him. When Sunday after
noon arrives it is plain 10 see that some
thing is about to happen-Our young
man is fdgety and non communicative,
and cannot sit in one place half a min
ute at time lie is continually inter
viewing his watch and comparing it
with the old eight day cofin-shaped
clock in the corner He looks in the
glass frequently, and draws his forehead
locks first back aud then forward, and
combs them up, and pats them down,
and Is unsatistied with the effect through
out.


The smell of bay rum and bergamot
is painfully apparent. When he shakes
out his handkerchief musk is percepti-
BILE. His boots shine like mirrors.
There is faint odor OF cardamon seed
ia his breath when lie yawns. He
smooths his budding mustache with at
fectionate little pats, aud feels his invls-
IDLE side whiskers continually, to make
sure they are still there, fact which is
not established to outside observers by
the sense of sight. He tries OIL all bis
stock of neckties without finding just
the thing; and he has spasms OF brush
ing his coat, that commence with vlo'
lence, and last till one grows nervous
for fear the broaicloth will never be
able TO stand it.


He declines soup that day at dinner.
He says it is because he doesn't ieel
hungry, but we know it is because there
are onions in it, and onions, as every
one knows, do not sweeten ones breath
to any great extent.


If spoken to on sudden, he starts
and bushes, and looks as guilty as if be
had been caught stealing something,
and directly one does not speak to him,
he goes back to the delightful occupa'
tion of staring at nothing and waiting
for the hour hand to creep around TO
seven.


And at seven he sets forth, clean and
tidy from top to toe, looking precisely
as if he had just stepped out of band
| box.
Year: 1876

GEMS OF THoUGHr-A humble fare
to the temperate man is as feast.


If you wish TO strike for wages strike
with the axe or hammer.


A good concience, like contended
mind, is continued feast-the foun-
tain of true JOY. ~


Fortune is like good swordsman,
she scorns to encounter q timid, fearful
man.


The affliction of a great mind teach
others to suffer, for ample sorrow has
its sautary influence.


With patience, man can accomplish
everything which comes within the
boundaries of reason.


TO achieve success in lite, the mind
must be firm; not constantly on the
change, like rolling stone, ever shift
ing and dissatisfied.


Remember that labor is necessary to
excellence. This is an eternal truth,
though vanity cannot be brought TO be.
lieve, or Incidence to heed it.


A poor cottage is worth more than
the most gorgeous apartment when
that cottage is coDsecrated by an honest
man under the guard Of his virtues.
In garret the mind creates riches.


A lie may stagger through existence
as a blackguard edges his way by dint
of bullying through crowd; but the
truth, however abused for time, will
triumph and live forever
Year: 1876

third prisoner was boy, who showed
not the least emotion when informed
that his turn had come, but shouted to
the last prisoner, g. | an goingr who
replied Be Grm." 1t was a painful
sight to witness this slight boy led for
ward to the mat, but his courage never
forsook him an Instant, and he marched
as steadily as though he were being led
for an ordinary walk rather than to the
edge Of the hole from which he would
be instantly precipitated into the other
world He spoke firmly to the finish
The last prisoner, Notwithstanding his
brayado, appeared excited, his face being
very red When taken from the ksgo
he marched with peculiar strut, throw.
ing his feet out aud holding himself
quite erect My impression was that
the sake given the prisoners was drugged
10 q certain extent, and that rhe
last man, being of peculiar tsmpera-
ment, the wine affected him differently.
Having no friends remaining to ad-
dress himself to, he sung sony, say
ing be would follow the others, and that
he thanked the people for coming 10 see
him, He then allowed his head to be
rebandsged. There seemed to be more
than ordinary time in arranging this
man for the executiouer. The latter
fdnctionary having arrived before the
Time, the old fellow who prepared the
prisoners necL asked him to wait This
seemed to slightly disconcert the execu.
toner, and instead of performing his
work with cleanuess Of stroke, he cut
somewhat high and only partly severed
the head lie had to tale a second cut
and aiterwqrd tn saw upward
Year: 1876

Walter Scott tells the story of one
of the tricks of his boyhood. In
his class at school he had won his
way upward with great rapidity
until he reached the second place,
but there he stuck. The boy ut the
head never failed or even faltored
in answering a question, and day
alter day Scott watched for an OPP
portunity to get above him, but no
opportunity came. lie studied the
situation with great anxiety, and
tested the weakness of his rivals
character to no purpose. The boy
at the head could not be tempted to
relax his vigilant industry. Atlast
Scott noticed apeculiar habit of the
lad.


When a question was put to him
he invariably took hold of one ci
the buttons on the breast of his
jacket and began to finger it. Scott
conceived the existence Of some
subtle connection between this but
ton and his rivals self-possession
and readiness, and secretly cut the
button off. Next day when the
first question in the lesson was put
to the boy at the head of the class,
he felt for the reassuring button,
found it missing, got amazed and
faltered. His faculties lost touch
and tone, and he failed to answer.
The young plotter went above him
and watched with complacency the
course of his victim as he went
down to the foot, losing place after
place.
Year: 1876

This gentleman passed through the
city yesterday, arriving in the morning
and leaving in the evening, on lis re-
turn from Washington City to his
home in WadesborO.


As representative in Congress Mr..
Ashe has served the people of his dis
trct and of the whole State OF North
Carolina with marked ability and with
great honor to himself, to the State,
and to the distinguished body of which
he was one of its most prominent
members, and he leaves behind him in
the House the enviable reputation of
beng representative man of the
South.
Year: 1876

We venture to say that compare.
lively w of tue residents of Charlotte,
except those who have been here for
many years, are aware of the fact that
man who wcs once Governor of
North Carolina lies buried in this city
We refer to the late Nathaniel Alex
ander, whose remains are inferred in
the old cemetery, in the rear of the
First Presbyteria Church. The fact
is referred to because it will be news
to at least half the people of the city,
as the place is largely populated by
residents who by birth are foreign to
its soil, The grave is covered by O
plain marble slab, on which these
simple words are inscribed:


Sacred


to the Memory of


Doctor Nathaniel Alexander,


Late Governor of North Carolina,


Who departed this life on the


7th day of March, 1908,


in the SD year of his age.


Beside him lie the remains of his
and wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas
and Susannah Polk. He was native of
Mecklenburg, a physician by profess
sion. and was elected a member of the
House of Commons from this county
in 1897. member of the Senate in
1901. and reelected in 1902. LIN 1903
to 1906 he was a member of Congress,
and in 1906 was elected Governor of
the State. He left no progeny. Gov.
Alexander is described as gentleman
of great personal worth and respecta-
BILE talents.
Year: 1876

Hereafter 10 Legal Advertise
mcnts will bc inserted in tho TINE
unless payment is mado when hand
cd IN. 1t requires money to carry
on our business and wo are com
PEELED to adopt the cash principle.
This rule wilt not be doviatcd from
in any case.
Year: 1876

The character of mans life affects
thousands beside himself. Wickedness
cannot be kept inside of a mans heart
any more than the stencil can be kept
in the gutter where it is generated. It
spreads abroad and mingles with the
air of the whole street, and all who pass
the spot must breathe of its tainted
odors. There is moral atmosphere in
which we all live and to which we all
contribute ingredients. We spread
contagion through it or we make it
pure and healthy. We cannot remain
by ourselves any more than the drop of
water can remain by itself when it is
fallen into the stream. We become a
part of the whole and the whole is af-
fected by the part Sin is contagi-
Gus, and therefore we have no right to
harbor it in our hearts. Impropriety
is crime not alone against God, but
also against mankind. The voice of
the entire race is lifted in protest
against the crime and the criminal.
Every day is day of judgment, and
the moral sense of the whole world pro-
nounces condemnation upon every one
that doeth evil.
Year: 1876

GEORGE III. was extremely punc-
tual, and expected punctuality from
every one. Lord H was the most
punctual person who attended on his
Majesty. He had an appointment one
day with the King at Windsor at 12
o'clock On passing through the hall
the clock struck IL, on which his lord
ship. in his rage at being half minute
too late. raised his cane and broke the
glass Of the clock. The King reminded
him that be was little beyond his
time. which be excused as we'll as be
could. At the next audience the King,
as be entered the room, exclaimed,
+" H, how came you to strike the
clock ?" The clock struck first, your
Majesty" The King laughed heartily
at the grave manner in which Lord
H justified himself. the mock So
lemnity of the answer adding zest to
the bon mot