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Year: 1876

A few days ago 1t was rumored about
the streets that a prominent member OF
the School Board had obtained the ser
vices Of three Of the lady teachers Of our
public schools to solicit contributions Of
money for his support, stating to them
that he was in sick and destitute con-
dition and had not even money enough
to purchase medicine. Z


Our reporter, on hearing the report Of
Dame Rumor, started to work to inves-
tigate tho matter and discovered that
the member alluded to was no less q
parsonage than the negro James Ingra-
ham, who had either asked or forced
the three young lady teachers above
mentioned to go around among their
sister teachers and get money for his
support.


The teachers, whose livelihood de-
pended upon their doing this, are well
known In this community and are con-
nected with some Of our best families,
but as we know they are all bound to
knuckle to the whims of those degraded
characters known as the School Board
Of Education, we suppress the publica-
ton OF their names.


We cannot say In what light Ingra-
ham views this matter, but in our opin-
ion 1t looks as IL this brazen negro has
robed his senegambian body In a coat
OF black mail, and has taken advantage
Of the power he wields over these un-
frrfuua4o +oaohora foro;vrr ~ than ~ a,,h.
NIT to the modification of begging for
good for nothing character, who is
paid by the United States Government
at the rate OF nine hundred dollars a
year. And yet the teachers who have
not been paid for seven months, and
whose certificates are only worth nine
teen cents on the dollar, are bound to
subscribe money for the support OF this
demagogue. Ma


Our reporter visited several Of tho
lady teachers, and learned from them
personally that they had given money
out Of their meagre earnings to the sup
port OF Ingraham, and that he had
accepted the same, at the same time
warning them not to mention the fact
that he Qngraham) had accepted any
favors at their hands.


There was also combined effort on
the part Of several prominent members
OF the School Board to prevent our re-
porter from getting the required infor-
nation and proof Of the nefarious work
ing OF this director, but with q little
perseverance, we have surm ounted the
the many obstacles, and are able to give
it to our readers. Fuy
Year: 1876

The Mississippi Legislature might
make q note OF the above paragraph
and get rid OF Ames in similar way.
But when we get Ames in the peniten-
tiary, 3 guard of fifty men ought to be
detailed to keep strict watch over him
and not allow him to escape like Tweed
the first did.-H,ads County Gazette.


but they have not been sufficiently nu-
Year: 1876

The New York Herald thinks there is
no word that has done the southern
states more harm than the word carpet
bagger. 1t says: It's meaning in the
south is clear enough. 1t is intended to
apply to adventurers from the north who
went south after the war for the purpose
of plundering the inhabitants and re-
turning home with their plumber. 1t is
regarded in the north as a term of
reproach, and has had effect of deterring
from the southern states thousands Il
honest northern men who would have
been glad to go south, on account of the
climate and the natural richness of the
soil. The Maine citizen may go to Col
orado and California and be welcome. 1t
is no reproach to him that he was born
in the east and votes the republican
ticket. Let him go to Georgia or Caro-
lima, and carry with him his principles,
and his fate is social, personal, political
ostracism. He can assert no indepen-
dence of judgment without incurring
the worst forms of reproach. Something
of this may be due TO the soreness occa-
stoned by the war. But while this was
natural it should not last always. The
word carpet-bagger may serve the pur-
puse of flippant politician like Mr..
Cox, but it should have no place in our
literature. If we go into the matter
deeply we shall find that we are all
carpet-baggers, with the exception of
Sitting Bull and his people,"
Year: 1876

An effort is now making to secure the
laying of an ocean cable from the west
ern coast of this continent to Asia. A
bill favoring such an enterprise passed
the United States senate q short time
ago, but has been recalled from the house
for further consideration. 1t is stated
that under present arrangements a
message from the Pacific states to China,
japan or Australia has to travel twenty
five thousand miles to reach its destina-
tion, with corresponding cost, while, if
the proposed cable be laid, the distance
will be reduced to six thousand miles
and the cost of communication reduced
at least sixty per cent, an item of con-
siderable consequence to business men.
The foreign trade of the seaports of
China and Japan now amounts to over
two thousand million of dollars, while
that of Australia is heavy and rapidly
Increasing. The exhibits of the countries
at the centennial have opened the eyes
of Americans to the character of their
trade and the desirability of turning
as much of the stream as possible in this
direction. The telegraph is now one of
the recognized agents of commercial
intercourse between nations separated by
land or water, and that nation viii reap
the richest harvest of results that makes
the fullest use of the wonderful invention.
Year: 1876

In his pretty little speech to the peo-
pie of Fremont, Gov. Hayes said he
wanted the coming presidential campaign
conducted in spirit of mutual cOncilia-
tion and in a friendly kind of way. If
the governor was sincere in his utterance,
and there is no reason to suppose he was
not, he must be disgusted with the course
of some of the little editors who have
taken it upon themselves to elect him
president. He wants to be elected, and
he is bright enough to know that an at
tempt to revive the old sectional feeling
against the south will hurt more than it
will help him. When, therefore, he
reads in the party papers that Tilden is
''the confederate nominee for the presi-
dency" he must curse the i'll luck which


has given him the support of such small


minds. Finding that his volunteer
friends are trying to make votes for him


bv CRYING out that the confederate flag
waves at many of the large towns in the


southern states, with the names Tilden


and Hendricks on it" it would not be


strange if he prayed to be delivered from


friends so madly indiscreet. II we are TO


believe the public utterances of the re-
publican candidate for presidency, he


does not wish to fight the campaign on


sectional issues; he has taken advantage
o. every opportunity since his nOmina-


ton to assure the people that he tavors


the uni icatiOn and pacification of the


country; he knows that every howl OF a


northern editorial maniac against the


"confederates'' takes from him the SYM


pathy and support of hundreds ofvoters,


and we can imagine with what joy he


would hear that half a hundred of the


papers which now think they are put
ting in big licks" for him had taken
down his name and hoIsted that of g the
confederate nominee" But the loyal
editors perspire and rave as If they
thought they could run their man IN by
appealing to the supposed preludlces OF
northerners against rebels. We can as
sure them that they can frighten nobody


but themselves. 1t is generally believed
that there are no confederates here, and
that consequently there can be no such
anomaly as a confederate nominee for the
presidency. If the southern people pre-
fer Tilden to Hayes, so much the better
for Tilden. If there be any corner of this
country which hasn't right to express
a preference between the two prominent
candidates for the presidency, the best
thing the spokesmen of the republican
party can do Is to carefully suppress the
fact Will the superserviceable editors
take this subject under consideration,
and restrain their too ardent enthusiasm
in the further prosecution of the war?
Year: 1876

The democratic party is marching un-
der the starry banner of reconciled re-
pubIic fraternal and free.


The republican party marches under
the BANNER of the bloody shirt.


There is no question as to which flag
is preferred by the people of this restored
republic. re They have had enough of
core. of misrepresentation, of angry and
fnmuItuous conflict. They demand
neace and order, prosperity and law.


The bloody shirt is the ensign of the
brigand. The desperadoes who carry it
have robbed the south of many millions
Of dollars, and the republic of millions
more. And by their plots and censpira-
cies. they have set the rabble of the south
ouarreling with each other; and then
used the fire tbe neythern sne heart art into
Ip,terpetuating their power to plunder the
Governor Tilden viii preserve law
Year: 1876

Washington Special TO the Boston Post.


President Grants condition is a source
of constant anxiety to the leading re-
publicans here. The announcement in
the household organ that he is laid up
with neuralgia headache has grown
more and more frequent as the weeks
have rolled along, and all the while it
has been the town talk that each one
meant that he was recovering from the
effects of too much liquor. The accusa-
tion is undenied that his acts of last
week was done under the influence of
liquor. Toward the close of the week
he is reported to nave become unman-
ageable, and finally got so bad that one
day, when well known lady called upon
him, he seized her by both shoulders and
shook her violently. At last Mr.. Fish
went to him and persuaded him to 90 out
to Deer park to spend Sunday. Fish is
the only member of the cabinet who has
any influence over him. For his opinions
Grant has the highest respec5, and be-
lieving, as he does, that Fish has never
tried to manage him, he will generally
do what Fish requests, and always gives
great weight to his opinions.
Year: 1876

Traisii,1O HIS Guns on H,e Helpless South


4 Reform Programme.


Washington special to the Baltimore Gazette.


The desperate straits into which the
administration and the leaders of the
republican party have been brought was
confessed to-day by the president to T.
Morris Chester, a colored lawyer from
Louisiana, who had an interview with
Grant, in companay with the secretary
of war. The president admitted that
North and South Carolina and Louisiana
were the only southern states which he
hoped to carry at the next election, and
if there was any doubt about Louisiana
the administration would promptly aid
the party in that state to insure success.
This implied liberal supply of troops,
a generous donation from the campaign
fund and measures that would strengthen
the supporters of Hayes and Wheeler
throughout the state. In this connection
it can be stated that another part of the
party is that if the democrats carry
Mississippi it is certain that the United
States senate will not count the vote.
This was predicted by Jere Harralson,
the colored congressman from Alabama,
in speech made by him at Selma on the
18th instant, and he added-"I have
talked with senators and l know what |
say" Harralson is a member of the
republican national executive committee
in place of Spencer, and Harralson has
right to say that he knows whereof he
speaks in regard to the proposed attitude
of the senate ON the electoral vote of
Mississippi.
Year: 1876

We ought never to be afraid to re
peat an ancient truth when we feel that
we can make it more striking by neater
turn, or bring it alongside another truth
which may make it clearer, and thereby
accumulate evidence. 1t belongs to the
inventive faculty to see clearly the rela-
tive state of things, and to be able to
place them in connection, but the dis
coveries of ages gone by belong less to
their first authors than to those who
make them practically useful to the world.
- VduUendrQues.
Year: 1876

JOHN G.. WHITTIER is bachelor.
His poetry is not so good as 1t would De
if he were more domestic; but he ism, I
always on the ragged edge lest his
darling child shall elope with an average
Young man, and he doesn't have to run
about for half the night to find out when
ofthe station houses young Whittier lsln
Year: 1876

abiding liberty, viii maintain orderly
progress, with Jacksonian frmness. At
the same time he will clean out the pes
tiferous brood of public plunderers who
have stolen the people poor.


Hold high aloft the flag of the free !:
push forward the standard of the aveng-
er of thieves
Year: 1876

The constitutiOnality of polygamy is


about to be settled forever by test case


of considerable importance which is soon


to come before the supreme court of the


United States. George Reynolds, Of


Salt Lake City, was convicted in the dis


trict court of the crime of having a plu-


rality of wives, and sentenced to fine
and imprisonment. The case was then


reviewed by the supreme court of Utah,
which confirmed the sentence, where
upon an appeal was taken to the supreme
court of the United States There can
be no doubt that the decision will be
against polygamy as a crime against
the state rs well as a crime under all
canon or church laws and cognate rules
of polity. In 1870 the attention of con-
gress was called to the developement of
Mormonism, and that body declared the
practice Of polygamy to be an offense
punishable at common law. The legal
prohibition has, however, not yet been
in the Mormon territory. The
decision of the supreme court
of the United State will, it is hoped, lead
the way to the extinction of this foul
blot upon the national character and civ
ilization of our country.
Year: 1876

shout that company of men made the air
ring, when they saw the child that had
been lost and was found. Likewise l
say unto you, there is joy in the presence
of the angels of God, over one sinner that
repenteth ~
Year: 1876

IN a letter received recently from BuE
fslO Bill, he says: "There is going to
be the damnedest Indian war ever known,
and no man can FAY when it is going to
end. The Indians have thus far whipped
every command they have met. They
have one village that numbers ten thous-
and fighting men. They boast that in
mountainous country they can whip all
the whites that may come against them,
and many a white man will turn his toes
before they are conquered. L expect to
hear of volunteers being raised'
Year: 1876




Suspension bridge over the Niagara river
is going to falls one of these days, not
from any defect in construction, but
simply because iron suspended, either
horizontally or vertically, ultimately
becomes granulated and brittle, and, in
this state, breaks easily by vibration,
while to this change in structure is to be
added the inevitable weakening of the
iron by the alternate contraction by cold
at a temperature of twenty-four degrees
below zero, and the expansion by heat
of ninety degrees above zero.
Year: 1876

As the republicans by their 1omina-
ton of governor Hayes have selected
Ohio and Indiana as the battlefield most
favorable in their own judgment to their
hopes, it is clear that, while the repub-
lican victory in Ohio in October would
signify comparatively little as to the
prospects of the presidential contest in
November, a democratic victory there in
October would mean not simply defeat
but annihilation for the republicans in
the succeeding month. 1t can be shown
by the election returns of the last ten
years that on a full vote Indiana really
is a democratic state, and that in Ohio
the chances of the democracy, if united,
are at least as good as those of the repub-
icans this year: The following table,
copied from the World almanac for Is 876.
exhibits the vote of Indiana at all of the
general elections held since the close of
the civil war:
Year: 1876

The new railroad which passes through
Just north of Earl township, Lancaster
county. Pa, has received another quietus
The officers or inspectors of the Pennsyl-
vania company have been viewing It, and
the result Of their inspection has been any
thing else but satisfactory. They have
pronounced it the worst graded railroad
they ever saw, and condemned a great num-
Der of the ties, saying they would not put
any of their rolling stock upon 1t unless the
road was put in first class condition. At
the deep cut in the Welsh Mountain, some
huge rocks overhang the road, and these,
this great corporation says, must also come
down, before they will run any cars under
them.
Year: 1876

A few nights since, thieves entered the
store of Isaac Bailey, station agent at North
brook, on the line of the Wilmington and
Reading road, and stole $65 in money, q
silver watch, and other valuables. They
effected an entrance by boring through the
front door of the store with brace and bit.
The money and watch were taken from Mr..
Bailey's lodging room, and so effectually
was the theft committed that nothing was
known of the transaction until the following
morning.
Year: 1876

If the Enemy of mankind was permit
ted to exert his diabolical ingenuity in
the invention Of a new disease, he could
scarcely devise one more worthy of his
genius than dyspepsia. The dyspeptic
sufferer is tormented by symptoms resem-
bling those of almost every known mala-
dy, and is often worried into monomania
by these conflicting and perplexing man
itestations. A favorite though absurd
hallucination of the victim of chronic in
digestion is that he or she has heart dis
ease. Dyspepsia has often been pronounc-
ed incurable, but experience has shown
that Hostetter'sStomach Bitters will van
quish it, together with the constipation
and bilious arrangement which usually
accompany it. Diseases of the kidneys
and supposed rheumatic pains are also
frequent concomitants of dyspepsia, but
they, too, succumb to the above named
invaluable corrective.
Year: 1876

New YORK, July y. "A violent storm
of thunder and lightning, attended by very
heavy rain, visited this section last even
ing. The rain was very beneficial and,
excepting the shower in the afternoon, was
the first in 20 days Lightning caused
some damage. The storm gave to the
people relief from the period of intense
heat which was causing alarm by the daily
increasing of the numbel of sudden deaths
Year: 1876

Special to the IntellIgencer


Great preparations are being made in
our town to give the birthday Of the Gen.
tennial year a grand welcome. AT mid
night there will be ringing Of bells, blow
Of whistler and firing of immense torpe-
does; OF the latter, one for every State in
the Union. The national flag will wave
from every business place in town. Long
may she wave. REPoRTER.
Year: 1876

"No smoking" is posted in most decent
factories. 1t ought tc be posted in every
barn. There is not much difference be.
tween having a horse-thief around the
stable and man cleaning Of horses with
pipe in his mouth; and there is no
hired man much meaner than one who,
when his employer come around, slips his
pipe into his pocket, or holds his hand
over it as if it were little bird. All
such fellows should be paid off, started
off, and kept off. As for the farmer him
self going into the barn with pipe in
his mouth, no complaint can be made /;
bat if his establishment burns up nobody
should cry, unless it be the wife and chill
drcn. Lightning and incendlaries snd
spontaneous combustion combined do not
cause as many barns to be burned as the
pipe; anG generally, at least, one good
horse goes also. 1t would be much bets
ter If the smoker could 60 up with the
smoke, and have smoke enough for once.
Year: 1876

In the first place, it is an imposition on
any wcll,bred girl to keep her up later
than halt-past 10 o'clock when you have
the opportunity of seeing her often. If
You always leave her with the wishes that
IN her heart tlat you had stayed longer,
you gain so much. Never run that risk
Of wearying her with your presence.
BE just as earnest and straightforward as
in your honorable dealing with men.
Impress your friends with tie worthineas
and seriousness Of your love, so that vul-
gar and sonSelcss bantering will appear to
them as much. Love in religion tue
supremest happiness, wear it manfully and
proudly, but holly. Woo woman
bravely. If there is anything humillat,
ing to n woman, it is to have lover,
whom she wishes 20 honor, week and W.
pid, ever yielding and half afraid of her.
She longs to tell him to "act like a man
The man VINO couceals or denies his love
for fear of being Laughed at is a coward.
y love that has no element of divinity in
it is not love, but passion, which of itself
has nothing enno6ling. That was beau,
tiiul inscription on an engagement ring,
Each for the other aud both for God
Year: 1876

The past winter and spring clearly
dem Onstrated the great value of rye for
winter and spring pasture. The unusual
scarcity OF grain and hay for stock couse,
qnent upon drought and grasshoppors
droved beyond question the profit in a
field of fall sown rye. 1t served not on,
ly for fall, winter and spring pasture,
but where stock had not leen allowed
to run upon the field during wet weather
good crops Of grain were harvested. The
rye pasture is especially good for young
stock of all kinds, and where farmers do
not feel able to put in large area for
their entire stock, small patch for the
weanlings will richly pay. Prepare the
ground well and SOW early.-Kansas
Furmer.
Year: 1876

The early history of Cooper county i,


full of Interest and romace. About the


year 1920 there were but few famiie.


living on the south side of the river


Ibo most prominent were by the name oil


Cole, who had fort about two miles be.


low Boonvillc, into which they retreatod


when in danger from Indians. Such a


thing as a Wedding was rare occurrence


MS the population was very scattered. and


1t was lncon7enient to assemble, as people


lived so far from each other. About this
time the Cole family was invited to attend
wedding in Cooper's Bottom over the


river in Howard county, and about eight


niles off. The elder Cole, his wife, and
all Of the children except boy named
Sam, about sixteen years old, got ready
20 attend the wedding, aud for that
purpose all the clothes belonging to the
family were brought into requisition


They started early in the evening
as they had to travel considerable dis
tance and cross the Missouri river, and
eft Sam By himself at home, Towards
evening he commenced to muse on the
subject of the wedding, and his curiosity
became intensely excited to witness the
event. But there Was no horse to ride,
the river was to cross, and it was too late
to cross by the ferry. Besides, all the
clothes were gone lit was in the summer
time) and Sans only garment was tow
shirt. Fortunately just as the sun was
going down Sam espicd his fathers pet
bull slowly making bis way up to the fort
and an idea occurred to him, here was d
way to get to the wedding. He imme-
liately improviscd bride of hickory
bark put it on the null, mounted him,
and started inst as he was. He got to
the river just at dusk, went about three
hundred yards above the ferry landing,
and BOLDLY urged his steed INTO the foam
ing current of the Missouri river. lie
landed on the other side at the usual
place safe and sound, and ascendcd the
bank and took up bis line of march to
tue wedding, got to the cabin in time, an.
chored his bull opposite the open door,
where he could see, laid down on the
back OF his steed, aud gazed for the first
time on a wedding. lie lay on his bull,
where he could see all that was going on
and not be seen himself, till late in the
evening, when, as he declined to 60 in to
the company, he vas slowed away out of
sight till morning, when he returned with
the rest of the family home.


The hero of this incident is still living
in this county, enjoying a green old age
and reputation surpassed by none of the
many prosperous farmers of this county,
and no man stands higher in the estima-
ton of his fellow. citizens than Captain
Sam. Cole. BoonUiUe AdccrliSer.