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Year: 1876

About one month ago the importation of
gold in large quantities into this country
from Europe was begun for the fret time
since the panic which occurred in 1873, and
within the time indicated there have been
about 5000, QUO in gold received in this city
from abroad. In order to learn the cause
of the sudden influx of such comparatively
yesterday called upon 3 number of promi.
nent bankers and capitalists in Wall street,
and in every instance received the same
answer to his questions in regard to the
matter. They said that the balance of
trade was in favor of this country, and that
as it cost less to remit specie than to
buy bills Of exchange, the balance was set
with said: 1.-THE reason for this is very plain.
We are now clothing, feeding, and lighting
q large portion OF Europe, and We arc not
importing anything like an equal amount
of merchandise from them. The goods
they get from us must be paid for, and as
exchange is high they prefer to make their
REMIT ances in geld. l can not give you
the exact figures, but within the last ten
days 300 900 barrels Of refined petroleum.
this country to Europe, and that amount
alone is undoubtedly large enough to affect
the price of exchange. Besides the petro-
leum, the large amounts of cotton and


grain and other products sent ont must he
taken into consideration. A great part of
the money now coming in GOES into the
hands of the thrifty, saving portion of the
community, and they are taking care Of it.
and are not inclined to spend recklessly."
In reply to q question as to why the price
of geld did not decline, in view OF the
largo quantities being imported, another


gentleman said that he sscribed it to the


present unsettled condition of the political


aft airs of the nation.


There were SO many incendiary speeches


and threats made by the Democratic ora


tors and editors throughout the country


that the people were timid. and were dis


as the presidential question should be def
nitely decided, however, he believed that
the price of gold would be much lower.


Another said that, besides the primary


cause.-the balance Of trade in favor OF


this country-it was thought that the
Roth child. Morton syndicate might have
something to do with the sudden inc ease


in the amount of the importation Of gold.
They might be sending gold here and de-
posting it in the United States sub-treaeury
in order to pay for the four and one half
per cent government bonds subscribed for
by them. He could not cay how long the
present condition of affairs would last. but
it might possibly come to an end within
three or four weeks, as large impOrtstions
of holiday and other goods generally made
about the middle of December. Orders for
them might be sent ut any time by cable,
and they could be shipped to this country
by frst steamer, and in that way the diff
ference might be made up. or At least ma
terially reduced.-Ne,o York Times.
Year: 1876

To clean and restore tho elasticity of
cane chair bottoms, turn the chair bottom
upward, and with hot water and sponge
wash TIE cane work we'll, go that it is we'll
soaked should it be dirty, use soap let it
dry in the si:, and it will be as tight and
firm as new, provided none Of the canes are
broken.
Year: 1876

1t is as unnecessary for child to
die Of scarlet fever, says Good He0lth,
as it is that it should be blind with
cataract. Let us see: At any time
before the body has finished its in
effectual struggle we are able to help
it, not by wonderful medicines, but
by the knowledge of anatomy and
the application of common sense
We consult the sympathetic nerve,
and do what it commands us to do.
We must give this child salt when it
wants it; we must give it acid when
1t has feyer-not vinegar, but lemon
juice, because the first coagulates al
bumen, and the other does not, on
account of the surplus oxygen which
1t contains. To initiate the soothing
mucous in the intestines, which is
now wanting, and to give some res
piratory food at the same time, we
add some gum arabic. TO restore
and relieve the injured nerve we APP
ply moist warmth. In practice we
can fulfil all this with the following
simple manipulations. Undress the
child and bring it to bed at the very
first sign of sickness. Give it, if it
has already fever, nothing but warm
sourish lemonade, with some gum
arabic in it. Then covert its abdomen
with some dry flannel. Take we'll
folded bed sheet and put it in boiling
hot water; ring it out dry by means
of dry towels, and put this over the
flannel on the child's abdomen. Then
cover the whole and wait. The hot
clothes will probably require repeated
heat. According to the severity of
the case and it's stages Of progress,
perspiration will commence in the
child in from ten minutes to two
hours. The child then is saved; it
soon falls to sleep. Soon after the
child wakes 1t shows slight symptoms
of returning inclination of food; help
its bowels, if necessary, with injec-
tions Of oil, soap and water, and its
recovery will be as steady as the
growth of a greenhouse plant, if well
treated. of course, if the child was
already dying, nothing could save it;
or if it has effusions in the lining of
the heart or brain; it is much better
/ it should die. But if the above is
applied in due time, under the eyes
and directions of competent physi-
clan, | will guarantee that not one in
a hundred children will ever die of
scarlet fever. | know this will startle
some of my readers, especially those
who have lost children already, but I
shall 60 still further. | maintain
that a child will never get scarlet
fever if properly treated. If child
has correctly mixed blood, it will not
catch the disorder if put in bed with
a sick child This is still more start
ling, but nothing is easier of proof
Year: 1876




Western and Southern newspapers
are busy trying to discover the polit-
ical learning of Gen. George II.
Thomas, before the war Having
had the honor of knowing Gen.
Thomas for some years, one of the
editors of the Philadelphia Inquirer
can speak somewhat positively on
this subject This illustrious officer
was poor Virginia lad, rescued by a
faithful negro nurse during the hor-
rible Southampton insurrection as the
only member Of the family unmassa-
cred Friends found him and he
was educated, and finally introduced
to President Jackson, who appointed
him a cadet at the West Point Aca-
deny. He was always Democrat,
as he felt he ought to be, but he was
not Secessionist, and never for mo-
ment thought Of deserting his flag.
Had he been placed in command
when the war broke out, he would
have been found a full match for
Lee, his old army comrade, for he
was one of the few generals that the
late war developed. His plan of op-
erations was to have taken the south
bank of the James River at once, and
he would have done what Sherman
did later with such splendid effect
cut the Contederacy in two. But
the powers were afraid to trust him
bcause he was Firginlan, and his
plans were rejected. 1t is detraction
even to hint that he was kept from
treason by his excellent wife. She
is worthy of all honor; but the fact
is, George ii. Thomas never knew
anything but his duty, and would
never have fought under any flag but
the Stars and Stripes. He used to
say, "The army is my father and
mother; l feel as if l was born in it,
and God willing, | will die in it,"
And he did.
Year: 1876

Never be idle. If your hands can
not be usetully employed attend to
the cultivation of your mind.


Always speak the truth.


Keep good company or none.


Make few promises.


Live up to your engagements.


Keep your own secrets if you have
any.


When you speak to a person look
him IN the face.


Good company and good conversa-
ton are the very sinews of virtue.


Good character is above all things
else.
Never listen to loose or idle con-
versation.


Your character cannot be essen
TALLY injured except by your own
acts.


If anyone speaks evil of you let
your life be SO virtuous that none will
believe him.


Drink no intoxicating liquors.


Ever live, mistortunes excepted,
within your income.


When you retire to bed think over
what you have done during the day.
Never speak lightly of religion.
Make no haste to be rich if you
would prosper.


Small and steady gains give COM
potency with tranquility of mind.
Never play at any kind of game.
Avoid temptation through fear that
you may not withstand it.


Earn your money before you spend
it.


Never run in debt unless you see y
way to get out again.


Save when you are young, to spend
when you are old.


Never think that which you do for
religion is time or money misspent.
Read some portions of the Bible
every day.
Year: 1876

Men cannot succeed in anything
good without Il definite aim. In or,
der to get mental Improvement there
must be dafnlte aim. In order to
do good there must be definite aim;
general purposes, general resolutions
will not avail. You must fix upon
something distinct and definite as an
object, and go steadily forward to it.
Thus only can you success.
Year: 1876

The officers of the Louisiana Associ- ated Veterans of the Mexican war have issued an address, calling upon the whole people of the State to unite in a celebration of the Centennial in New Orleans. They say: "It is very impor- tant to impress upon the rising genera tion, as well as upon the great number of our citizens who have, in person or by immediate ancestry, immigrated to the United States during the period of peace and prosperity, the sacrifices necessary to secure the form of govern ment and immense progress thereby &C., complished. A very small portion of our people can visit the Centennial celebration at Philadelphia on account of the cost and distance. A State cele- bration would, then, unite our whole people on practical perception of the value of our Union, and especially of the sacrifices necessary to establish and maintain it. They would be less dis posed to think slightly of the treasure which they have inherited, and which they should not waste or barter away. 1t would, indeed, be well if the whole American people could unite at their homes in a common acknowledgement, on the same day and hour, of the favor which God has vouchsafed our country, with a sincere and simultaneous prayer that he will continue the same protec- tion for centuries to come, or so long as the public and private virtues of the American people deserve it."
Year: 1876

A Norwich correspondent of the Utica O6serVer says: The other night your correspondent was late at church. He had good cause, for he had been to see the smallest specimen of humanity that trods the footstool. His name as he gave 1t to us is " Master Frankly Flynn. D His age is four years and half. We went to see him expecting Tom Thumb or Commodore Mutt to walk in before us. Imagine our surprise when his grandmother brought him in as one would good sized cat. He is not so large as one of Tom Thumbs legs. In Tom Thumbs s carriage he would look as lonesome as an ordinary man in circus band wagon. To sit upon one of Tom Thumb's s easy chairs would be to him what it is to the ordinary boy to perch upon gatepost when the spring comes. He is smaller than any one can conceive who has not actually seen him. He had on two pairs of stockings, and even then the smallest sized baby shoes were too large for him. His wrist is of the size of an ordinary mans thumb; his ankle but slight increase. He was dressed in full suit like man. He stands twenty-three inches in his shoes, and weighs, clothes and all, twelve pounds. This is the most he ever weighed in his life. Still he is a lively, sprightly boy, very active, climbing into chairs and getting down; walks around with bis hands back of him, "ike his grandpa" |" and talks and laughs, and is as cute as any boy of his years. He is no larger than he was when one year old.
Year: 1876

The London Lancet discourses at some length upon the fashion of the present day of feeding invalids and children upon food sold in dramatically sealed cans, the composition of the food being unknown. Doubtless these preparations are often valuable, or at least harmless but the Lancet urges that the public have right to know of what they are composed. and that a plain statementof the ingredients should be placed upon the covers. We think this same suggestion might be applied to numerous other articles; for example, when coffee and chicory are mixed to- gether for sale, the purchaser would choose to know the fact; and so in hun dreds of other cases.
Year: 1876

eyes never changing a hairs breadth

 from their position.

 At breakfast I sat one remove iron

 the captain. We begun, of course, talk

 ing of the thing we had seen, but tho

 captain, for some reason we could no

 then understand, seemed to dislike tho

 subject, and soon we abandoned it, fall

 ing then into absolute silence, for we

 could talk of nothing else. When we

 went on deck again-we were only 6

 few minutes at breakfast-we found the

 thing still following steadily in ou1

 wake. The children had in great meas

 ure got over their fear, and had made 6

 long line by joining hands, and the whole lot of them would now crouch down and then suddenly rise up, open their mouths at the thing, and cry out at it. No notice apparently being taken of this, they grew bolder, and at last shrilly.

 Suddenly the hideous creature seemed reused by these cries; it raised it's head In the air, uttered strange below, and came forward at great pace toward the ship. None of us could at first move from fear; the thing seemed to have grown in size, it's eyeballs were more burningly bright; the children fell on the deck crying, and some of the women tainted. It came swiftly up to the ship, always uttering the same peculiar cry or below. When but few feet from the stern, it suddenly turned and came up close on the port side. Here the side awnings had been put up to keep of the sun; but three of us rushed up to the awning and quickly got it down, that we might the better watch the thing. For myself must say that while doing this I was still suffering from extreme fear, but my curiosity was so intense, so irresistible, that I could only act as did.

 No sooner was the thing level with us than it raised itself with a sudden move ment out of the water, till it's head was thirty or forty feet above us. It still ut tered the same peculiar cry or below. We stood out on the bulwarks to follow it's movements. It opened 8 great mouth, cried more loudly than before, and made three blows at the mainmast. The last of these touched it, and caused the ship to sway violently, so that we were nearly cast off into the water. When we again looked for the thing it was gone. There was no ripple, no dis turbance of any kind to show where it had been. It was gone absolutely. We looked constantly for it during the rest of that day, but not the slightest trace did we again discover.

 1 may state that when the thing raised itself up and struck the mast it was ap- parent that the seaweed-li like mass was a long coarse hair, covering dark, thick neck. But the thing could not possibly have been serpent; for to raise so pro digious length of neck above the sur face huge body below the surface was of course required.
Year: 1876

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, November 8.-A most
dastardly attempt was made last night to
steal the bones Of President Lincoln from the
cemetery vault here. The plot was suspected
United States Detective Tyrell and assistants,
watched the vault. Last night the scOun-
drels broke in the outer and inner doors of
the vault, opened the several cases Of sar-
cophagUls and were about to make Of with
the remains, when the detectives sprang out.
The accidental discharge of a pistol alarmed
the robbers and they fled precipitately, es-
Gaping in the darkness. A slight clue to their
identity remains and their capture is prob
Year: 1876

SOMERvIILE, November 9.-The vote Of
this county is SO close it Will be impossible to
tell how the county viii go until we get in
The full official vote. Thomas will lead the
Radical ticket probably fifty votes. The Re
pubhcans are one hunded ahead, and some
precincts to hear from, of which two are
Democratic, one Republican, and one doubt
full. There cannot be over fifty votes differ
anca
Year: 1876

OF government which will protect all classes
of citizens in all their political and private
rights. What the South most needs is
peace, and depends upon the supremacy of
law. There can be no enduring peace if
the constitutional rights of any portion of
the people are habitually disregarded A
division Of political parties resting merely
upon distinction of race or upon sectional
lines is always unfortunate, and may be dis
astrous. The welfare of the South, alike
with that of every other part of the coun-
try, depends upon the attraction it can of
fer to labor, to immigration, and to capital,
but laborers will not 90 and capital will not
be ventured where the Constitution and the
laws are set at defiance, and distraction, APP
prehension and alarm take the place OF
peace-loving and law-abiding social life. All
parts ofthe Constitution are sacred and must
be sacredly observed, the parts that are
new no less than the parts that are old
The moral and material prosperity of the
Southern States can be most effectually adj
vanccd by a hearty and generous recogni-
ton Of the rights of all by ala recogni-
tion without reserve or exception. With
such recognition fully accorded it will be
practicable to promote, by the influence oi
all legitimate agencies of the General Gov,
ernment, the effort of the people of those
States to obtain for themselves the bless
ings Of honest and capable local govern
ment. If elected, [ shall consider it not
only my duty, but it will be my ardent de-
sire to labor for the attainment Of this end
Let me assure my countrymen Of the
Southern States that if | shall be charged
with the duty Of organizing an admins
tration, it will be one which will regarc
and cherish their true intcrests-the inter
ests of the white and Of the colored people
both and equally y-and which willput fortl
its best efforts in behalf of civil policy
which will wipe out forever the distinction
between North and South in our common
country. With a civil-service organized
upon a system which will secure purity, ex
perience, efficiency, and economy a stric
regard for the public welfare solely in ap
pointment, and the speedy, thorough, anC
unsparing prosecution and punishment O
all public officers who betray official trust
with sound currency, with education un
sectarian and free to all, with simplicit,
and frugality in public and private affairs
and with a fraternal spirit of harmony per
vading the people of all sections and clas
ses, we may reasonably hope that the Sc
cond century of our existence as q natioI
will, by the blessing of God, be pre-eminen
as an era of good feeling and a period G
progress, prosperity and happiness.


Very respectfully, your fellow-citizen,


r. B. HAYES.
Year: 1876

The Troy Times says "Thc chief
mental characteristics of Mr.. Tilden are
cunning and an ardent devotion to his own
personal interests. He is clear-headed,
cool, sagacious, and preserving in the pur-
suit Of his objects, and perfectly unscrupu-
lous as to the means he EN- ploys For
years he worked in close relations with
Tweed and the other robbers connected
with the Metropolitan ring, in the prose-
cution Of political ends, and the good
understanding between them was broken
only after the exposures made through the
columns Of the New York Times rendered
further intercourse with the gang danger
Gus to Mr.: Tilden's further prospects.
The latter then remorselessly turned upon
his old friends-of whose rascalities he
could not have been ignorant, and aided in
bounding them down. Upon this exhibi-
ton of treachcry he has since based
claim to be regarded as 'reformer' Pre-
vious to his nomination for governor he
had also been in close communication with
the leading members of what was known
as the canal ring. Some of them, however,
had the temerity to oppose his nomination,
and IN consequence, immediatel y after he
came In power at Albany he opened war
upon those who stood most prominently in
his way, concerning the details of which
the public is already pretty thoroughly in
formed. And this piece Of revenge, also,
he seeks to use for the purpose of main
tanning his claims as a champion of reform
But from all that he has done it is impos-
| sible to discover that the people have de-
rived appreciable benefit. He was moved
by vindictive desire to punish those who
had obstructed his way to preferment, but
of course he was not unwilling to derive
such incidental benefit from the perform
ance as could be made available. His zeal
for reform, is palpable sham, pretense
so thin that it is a wonder anybody can be
deceived by it. But he does enjoy get
ting even with those who offend him, and
Democrats who have resisted his nominal
ton for the presidency will find, in the
rather improbable event of his election,
that he has neither forgotten nor forgiven
| them"
Year: 1876

An English journal gives the following
advice to housekeepers whose carpets are
in danger from the attacks of moth ''Take
a sheet or other cloth, lay it upon the car
pet and then run hot fat-iron over it, so
as to convert the water into steam, which
permeates the carpet beneath and destroys
the life of the inchoate moth"
Year: 1876


'Tis well to WOO, tits well to wed,
For so the world hath done
Since myrtles grew, and roses blew,
And morning brought the sun,
But have a care, ye young and fair,
Be sure you pledge with truth;
Be certain that your love will wear
Beyond the days Of youth
For II you give not heart for heart,
As well as hand for hand,
You'll find you've played an unwise part,
And "built upon the sand"
'Tis well to save, tits well to have
A goodly store of gold,
And hold enough of shining stun,
For charity is cold.
But place not all your hope and trust
In what the deep mine brings;
We cannot live on yellow dust
Unmixed with purer things;
And he who piles up wealth alone
Will often have to stand
Beside his Golfer chest and own
Tis "built upon the sand"
'Tis well to speak in friendly guise
And soothe where'er we can;
Fair speech should bind the human mind,
And love link man to man.
But stop not at the gentle words;
Let deeds with language dwell;
The one who pities starving birds
should scatter crumbs as we'll.
The Mercy that is warm and true
Must lend n helping hand.
For those that talk, yet fail TO do,
But "build upon the sand"
Year: 1876

The firm of which Mr.. Bighorne was
the senior partner was one OF the most
energetic and successful in the spirit
trade. Beginning forty years before, as
mixers, diluters, and sweeteners of pure
spirit, to create the noxious pleasure
called gin, they had gradually pushed
their business in every quarter and ex-
tended it to the distilling of spirit and
manufacture of brandy. They paid near
ly million sterling year to the excise,
thus finding the country on an average
about one-eightieth of its revenue-a
fact which, on the face Of it, entitled
them to the position of being its most
Year: 1876

Where will be found day or night, ready to
accommodate all who will favor me with their
patronage.


MY PRICES FOR LIVERY AND FEED
will be as Low as can be obtained at any 9TH
er stable in jackson.


January Q, Is7s.-tf