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Year: 1876

4 Mas ALMOST BURIED ALIvE,-An
incident, published in our local items
Yesterday, should not be suffered to pass
without further notice. A labOrer fell
in some form of fit, grew stiff and cold
and was supposed to be dead. He was
carried to the shop of an undertaken and
put Immediately into a coffin and the
lid was screwed down, preparatory of re-
moving him to his residence. Before his
removal he recovered from his fit, kicked
the coffin to pieces and returned 10 his
work. There would seem to have been,
in this case, a want of good judgment,
of common sense, and of consideration
amounting to gross culpability. 1t must
he decidedly unpleasant to find ones
self enclosed in coffin, and to some per
sons with some diseases, the shock from
this alone might be sufficient to cause
actual death In this case, if the coffin
had been stronger and more perfectly
air tight the man would soon have died
from sufiocation. so far as our report
shows there was no medical examination
of the case and no corOner's inquest
upon the body. Such an occurrence
should be absolutely impossible in any
civilized community.-PrOridenc Jour.
Year: 1876

Justify their action on the promise contained
in the sultan's Grade Of full and perfect
equality with the Mohammcdans. The sub
lime porte refuses to accept on the grounds
that the Christians are not to be trusted IN
his aTmy
Year: 1876

A NEW electric light, experimental
upon some weeks ago on the roof of the
Siemens-Halskc works at Berlin, proved
SO successful that ordinary writing could
he read by its aid at the distance of a
mile. When the light was thrown to-
ward the clouds by means of a mirror a
luminous train appeared thereon, which
much rcscmbled the tail of comet, and
drew together great crowds of spectators
in the streets. Signals made by the in
strument were also repeated upon the
clouds, becoming thus visible at very
great distance. The experiments were
made in the presence of a large number
of officers of artillery and of other
branches of the government service, and
were continued for nearly two hours.
The instrument, which is provided with
locomotive engine, will be set up in
the Tegel artillery polygon for further
experiment, the German war department
having the intention of purchasing sew
eral of the machines for military Use,
both ahoat and ashore.
Year: 1876

MRS. SWIssHELM says, very pertinent
ly, concerning the Belknap affair: 1T
isright that the women who have tempted
those dearest to them to do wrong should
bear their full share of the punishment,
and the best way to cure the evil they
represent is to make it odious, and let
them have their full share of the odium !;
but the great mass of the American peo-
pie are called to repentance by these de-
velopments; and men more than women
need to cultivate taste for simplicity ;
for women will always strive to be what
is most agreeable to them, and if men
had not admired the reckless cxtrava-
gance which led Belknap to ruin, that
extravaganza would not have existed.
Let the press stop its cunning hattery Of
stunning toilets and the work of rcgen-
Grafton is half done"
Year: 1876

New YORK, May 18.-A Washington
dispatch says the foreign mail, yesterday,
brought the reply of the Earl of Derby to
Mr.. Fish's protest to the government OF
Great Britain against the violation of the
terms of the extradition treaty. 1t does
not yield to the position taken by Mr.
Fish in the slightest and the ground is
assumed by the British foreign Office that
the act of 1870 has nothing necessarily te
do with the case in dispute so far as the
provisions of the treaty relate to the ex
tradition of Winsl0w,
Year: 1876

New YORK. May 1S.-A strike Of
printers in an Office engaged in the issue Of
the city directory had made necessary the
payment of union prices by that house
Other employing printers then had con-
ference and renewed the determination to
ignore the union and be no longer subject
to its dictation.
Year: 1876

From the Truckee Republican.


This is only simple story. 1t Is true
one, however, and the scene is laid near the
northeast shore OF Lake Tahoe. The boy Of
the family got steel trap to catch a
grounding. 1t was about 4 quarter OF q
mile away from the house. Along about
dusk he went out to look at the trap, and
found skunk caught therein by the fore
foot. The boy returned to the house and
reported progress. He needed assistance in
getting the varmin" out OF the trap. The
entire family, young and old, proceeded
with the young gentleman to the scene Of
action. The skunk seemed not the least
bit disconnected by the formidable array


He cody watched the procession as it ap-
preached, and acted as though he consider
ed himself master of the situation. Il
wouldn't do 10 leave the animal to die in
the trap, because it wouldn't be at all likely
that anyone could approach after the skunk
was dead.


\ long rope confined the trap and the
skunk's foreleg to peg. Paterfamilias hit
upon plan that he Immediately proceeded
to put into execution. Slipping up to the
peg he carefully united the rope. The
skunk carefully eyed him through the op-
Grafton as if wondering what would come
next. Pateriamilias gave gentle pull at
the end of the rope. The skunk tried to
turn around for the purpose Of fleeing or
otherwise, but pull at the rope kept him
heading toward the man. And SO they
went, the man pulling, the skunk squirm-
ing and following, and the family
bringing up the rear at respectable dis
tance behind. The lake was a quarter Of
mile away, and in that direction they pro-
ceeded. All went we'll. The father was in
high glee over the success of his plan. The
skunk could not help keeping pointing
toward the man, and that didn't seem to
satisfy him. At last the ekuBk got q
glimpse over his shoulder of the women
and children, and made up his mind that
they we're within range. simultaneously
with this conclusion, the air was filled with
screams and calculations from the group
who were following. The air was also filled
with something else. There was hasty
examination of clothes, holding of noses,
and a scampering. Each member Of the
group insisted tha; every other member was
hit. The procession tor the rest of the
journey consisted only of paterfamilias
and the skunk. The crowd smelled the bat |
tie from afar. When the lake was reached |
paterfamilias gathered all his energies for .
final effort. The intention of paterfamilias |
was to twitch the rope SO violently ~ to |
throw the skunk into the lake. The inten- |
ton of the skunk was-well, both accom- |
plished their purpose. The skunk went |
whirling through the air and landed on pa |
terfamilias. Both we're horse de combat. The
skunk was drowned, and paterfamilias went |
off and buried himself
Year: 1876

The two great political parties, assuming
to speak for the country, have declared q
profound contempt for the Chinese, and
have taken steps TO secure their exclusion
from the United States. Yet The people Of
the country will begin on Mondsy-they
have indeed began already-to celebrate
what they are taught to regard a the great
est event in history in c purely Chimes
manner-by exploding 6recracken and
making a continuous and hideous noise BY
every conceivable method. We distrust
Chinese civilization, and yet We offer it the
sincerest fiattery by initiating it Our bar
barous national custom is all the more
idiotic becan,e it is not indigenous
York Erening Pda.
Year: 1876

THn OLD YOUNG GUARD.--The members OF
the company known before and during the
war as the Young Gurd will meet in the
hall 1414 Franklin street Friday night TO
take measures looking TO the celebration OF
the company 's anniversary. ~
Year: 1876

Throughout the management Of this cam
paign by the Democrats the devices of the
old school of Southern politicians have been
manifested. Their influence is so great that
they have virtually controlled their party can,
vass, and the observer is continually reminded
of the old Buchanan days. Indeed, so far
has their influence gone that they have in
troduced into the contest the favorite South
ern game of brag, and are attempting to
bluff the people out of their votes as they
bluff the passengers on Mississippi steam
boat out of their money.


In pursuance of orders from the Liberty
Street Bureau, the present business Office of
the old firm of Solid South and Northern
Doughfaces, Democrats everywhere are blus-
tering and Dragging and claiming everything.
These are the very words of one of the cir
culars issued from the New York shop:
"From this time on claim the national con-
test and your own state if possible. Do it
exultingly and with the utmost confidence.
Don't be lukewarm in this but fervent."
How thoroughly these instructions are car
ried out is shown by the talk of the Demo-
Gratis in this state who, foolshly adhering to
the very letter, make an absurd claim to
Maine.


The careful observer who asks what
grounds there are for this assumed confidence
is told that the Democrats are inspired with
hope by the Indiana and Ohio elections.
What an absurliiy! Those States went just
as the Republicans expected they would go,
except that greater gains of Republican Con-
gressmen were made than anyone looked for.
In Ohio the Republican majority is increased
over last year, and five Congressmen have
been gained. In Indiana the Democratic
majority of 1000 has been reduced to a plu-
rality of 5000 and the Republicans have
gained four Congressman. If the loss of
nine Democratic Congressman be a Demo-
cratic triumph the Democrats will have plen-
ty OF triumphs tomorrow. All the gains are
on the Republican side and all the losses on
the Democratic. That is all the foundation
there is for the Democratic game of bluff. To
use the iargon of that sinful game they are
pretending to bet on pair of aces, New
York and Indiana, backed by the Solid
South for the rest of the hand. But as New
York is Republican, Indiana doubtful, and
the ''Solid South" broken by the probable
detection of North and South Carolina, Lou
isiana and Florida to the Republicans, they
in reality have an extraordinarily poor show
for their money. Tomorrow they will be
compelled to show their hand, and there will
be no little surprise at its poverty. In truth
the Republicans are the only men who have
reason to be confident. With New Jersey
virtually conceded to them, with New York
made secure by the action Of her business
men, with strong probabilities of carrying
four Southern States, and with "a coed fight
ing chance" in Indiana and Connecticut,
they have every inducement to confidence.
The Democrats are making desperate at
tempt to influence the doubtful vote. That
is the secret Of their game.
Year: 1876

The Republican party is the bull
wark of freedom. To allow its
defeat wOuId be TO destroy the only
defense of civil and religious
liberty. Freemen everywhere,
irrespective of party, must rally
TO its support, for the victory of a
solid South means the conquered
rebels of 1865 transformed into
the rulers of 1876.
Year: 1876

THE minor courts in New York are kept
busy just now in disposng of Democratic
repeaters who have falsely sworn their names
upon the registry. Instead of voting for Til
den scores of these scoundrels will have to
amuse themselves with studying his biogra-
ply in prison.
Year: 1876

We DO not read anonymous letters and eommuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
uications that are not used.
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley 7
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1876

and towards, false to your country and
your God, but horrible will be the judg-
ment you will bring upon your heads and
the heads Of those that love you. 1 tell
you that England will never conquer.
know it and feel il in every fiber of my
heart Has God led us so far to de-
sert us nowp Will He, who led our
fathers across the stormy winter sea, for
sake their children who have put their
trust in Him9 For me, stay with my
country, and my hand shall never touck
the hand nor my heart cleave to the
heart, ofhim who shames her"


She flashed upon her husband a gaze
which dazzled him like sudden light
ming.


Isaac, we have lived together for
twenty years, and for all of them | have
been true and loving wife TO you. But
/ am the child OF God and of my country,
and if you do this shameful thing, | will
never again own you for my husband"
My dear wifei" cried the husband
aghast, " you do not know what you are
saying. Leave me for such a thing as
thisr'


For such thing as thIsr' she cried,
scornfully. what greater cause could
there beY l married a good man and
true, faithful friend and a loyal Chris
| tian gentlemen, and it needs no divorce
| to sever me from a traitor and coward.
If you take your protection you lose your
wife, and IL lose my husband and my
| home"


| With the last words the thrilling voice
broke suddenly with a pathetic fall, and
film crept over the proud blue eyes. Per-
haps this little touch of womanly weak
ness moved her hearers as deeply as her
i Ill
towards at heart, only touched by the
dread finger of panic, which, now and
then, will paralyze the bravest. Some
had struggled long against it, and only
half yielded at last. And some there were
to whom old traditions had never quite
| lost their power, whose superstitious con-
science had never become quite recon-
ciled to the stigma of Rebel, though reason
and judgment both told them that,
borne for the cause for which they
! bore it. it was title of nobility. The
words of the little woman had gone
straight to each heart, be its main spring
what it might. Gradually the dropping
heads we've raised, and the eyes grew
bright with manliness and resolution.
Before they left the house that night, they
had sworn a solemn oath to stand by the
cause they had adopted and the land of
their birth, through good or evil, and to
spurn the offers of their tyrants and foes
as the deadliest insults.


Some of the names of those who met in
that secret council were known afterward
among those who fought their country's
battles most nobly, who died upon the
field of honor, or rejoiced with pure hearts
when the day of triumph came at last
The name of the little woman figured on
no heroic roll, but was she the less hero
| inc?


This story is a true one, and, in this
Centennial year, when every crumh of in
formation in regard to those old days of
struggle and heroism is eagerly gathered
up, it may not be without interest.
rietta II. Holdich. in N. Y. Obseruer.
Year: 1876

ONE day during the haying season of
1875 a son of John Haner, who lives some
three miles from the village of Sinclear-
vile, while pitching off load of hay in


the barn, in some way drew full head of
timothy grass into one of his lungs. AT
the moment he did not, it seems, realize


that he had drawn so ugly IA foreign sub
lsance into the air passage, being so occu-
pied, probably, with his work that he had
no thought of the grasshead in his mouth


Soon after he was taken sick, and his ply
sician pronounced his disease pneumonia


Ere long grave fears were entertained that
the young man was going into quick
consumption. The symptoms ofphthisis
were decidedly marked. The expectora-
tion was very cOpious. To the surprise
of many, the sufferer began to convalesce
so that he was able 10 be about Recent
ly, however, he was worse, and on Thurs
day of last week the head of grass, which
had been in the right lung SO long, was
thrown out in paroxysm of coughing,
Hopes are now entertained that, if the
lung has not undergone too much disor-
ganization, the young man viii recover.
The head of grass is in the possession OF
Drs. Harrison and Stevens, of Sinclear-
Vile. Ii is two and a half inches In
length, and is not at all decomposed by
its Incarceration in the lung Of human
being.-Bg1dkO Express. Ff
Year: 1876

NJ. DE LEssEPs has just returned to Paris
from his tive-months' trip to SueZ, and
on taking his seat in the Academy of
Sciences gave some details concerning
his observations. He has found thai
Port Said is in no danger whatever of
being filed M with sand, and that there
is no need of prolonging Tie piers as pro-
posed. That operation might prove
source of danger, for one single pier
there might change the current in very
marked way. The dredging machine
made for the company works regularly
and well, and suffices to keep the channel
clear. Moreover, it does not I'LL up as
rapidly as supposed, for the work done
last year is still free from sand, and two
very large ships have recently ppssed
through the canal without difficulty. One
was the Serapis, 5,110 tons burden; the
other an English frigate drawing over
twenty feet of water. As for the course of
the current in the canal, matter discussed
by great many people, there is no longer
doubt During the winter the excess of
water in the Bitter lakes runs into the
canal, causing the current TO set in toward
the Mediterranean; but during the sum
mer, when these lakes are lowered by
evaporation, the current runs in an oppo,
site direction. M. de Lesseps states one
important fact: Formerly rain was un-
known on the Red Sea, but since the
building OF the canal there are showers
about once fortnight. This mas started
vegetation up even upon the Asiatic side,
where the inhltration is only OF salt water.
The study of the ancient geography and
history of that section has been begun
again by order of the Khedive. Recently
pieces of splendid monuments were found
upon the site of one of the old cities OF
khamses. NJ. de Lessers laid two speci-
mems before the academy One was
young shark with the umbilical cord,
which attached it to the mother, still in
tact; the other, some 0yster-shells, taken
from bed fourteen feet above the level of
the sea. These details appear trif1ing,
! hut thew are imnortant 10 the saYans.
Year: 1876

hotel bOot-black has many minutes to spare
to think how to better his condition. The boot
black at the National has been thinking over the
matter for some time, especially as he has been
contemplating mstrimony, and he decided that
by one the spoons disappeared and the conten-
tion among the boarders over the few spoons kept
increasing. All Of the missing articles were dis
covered yesterday in the b0ot-blsek's trunk.
Owing to the fact that he is piously studying for
the pulpit, he was not prosecuted, and for the
same reason his name is suppressed, hut there Is
vacancy in the boot-blacking department Mt
the National
Year: 1876

wisest, ablest, and most Websterian
speeches of his political career. After
adverting to the organic questions which
engrossed the minds of our best men for
three-quarters of century, he comes at
once into the heart of this political one
of reconstruction, as viewed in the light
of both the Federal and State organizes
tions; and most important to us, in the
light of our practice while the European
races have been in the last quarter of q
century crystalizing into this homogene-
GUS American people. 1t is speech
breathing Just and magnanimous spirit
toward the colored raoe-a desire to have
them enjoy, now that they are free, all
their rights, unmolested under the laws.
1t takes up in liberal spirit the condi-
tion and the relation of the white people
of the South to the colored; it deprecates
all antagonism of feeling; it discusses
the question of a nevitiate of the Euro
pean races before admitted here into
political rights, and the race problem as
only the Christian statesman would
view it.


1t is precisely in this spirit, and with
enio ineCliiSCupj OOlAnOh cChoO OVuloO
that Governor Tilden would bring back
the South to the best fraternal feeling,
and advance their happiness as a people.
This question of the South desiring to
control the policy of the nation, to rule
the North, has no foundation in truth, as
would be seen in his wise and prudent
administration.


If elected by the people to the high
Office of President, he will, in the spirit
of Lincoln, consecrate all his powers
physical, mental, and moral-to its
sacred duties, unmoved by calumny, and
unsweryed from the right by the pressure
of partisan friends or enemies.


This was the first reply to his nomina-
ton :'"Should your choice be ratified
by the people, 1 shall enter upon the
great duties that would fall upon me
very much in the spirit of conservation
in which the soldier enters BATTLE"
Year: 1876

1t was the perfect conviction of Gov
ernor Tilden that when the war was
ended, slavery abolished and no longer
an element in reconstruction, that the
plan of President Lincoln, as well as the
magnanimous spirit he evinced of
charity for all, malice toward none"
would speedily restore the South to a
better feeling, and, in time, to a fellow
ship stronger than ever. And now, with
the sad mistakes and complications of
the government. with the impoverish-
ment and distress which ten lyears of
false policy have entailed upon her; his
earnest desire is, by every legitimate
measure, to assist the South in her sore
need; to assist her with capital for the
development of her resources; to let by
cones be by-gones, and to the fullest ex-
tent possible overcome prejudice, and
seek to bring back complete fraternal
feeling.


His great speech on reconstruction,
made in 1868, shows how profoundly he
had studied every phase of this import
ant question. 1t is at once one Of the
Year: 1876

From this time on, Governor Tilden
holds the game in his own hands. The
American people love fair play. They
rebel at any attempt at political perse-
cution. They see now that Governor
Tilden has endured quietly and pa
tiently for weeks storm of vile abuse
which he in no wise deserved. The New
York Times, to sustain its foolish charge
of perjury, went to work and invented
an income for Governor Tilden, scarcely
any part of which he ever received, and
then proceed to make him out de-
frauder of the revenue. Now Cover
nor Tilden's answer through Judge Sin
mott shows the utter falsity and absurd
ity of the charges, and the wantonness
and malice .of the men who made it.
The people will recognize in this an in-
famous attempt to break down an hon
orakle reputation earned in long
and blameless lifetime, and to defeat
the election of man who has distin-
guished himself, not by defrauding the
Revenue, but by pursuing and punish
lust such thieves as those who are now
trying to fasten shameful charge upon
him. The people will rebuke the un-
scrupulous men who seek to destroy q
good character simply because it has
been made conspicuous. The men who
have been prosecuting Governor Tilden
have insured his election as President OF
the United States.
Year: 1876

The winter of 1S71-72 was unusually
severe in Arkansas. The ponds and the
smaller streams to the north were all
frozen solid, and the buffalo were forced
to the rivers for water. The Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was then
in process of construction, and nowhere
could the buffalo be better studied than
from its trains. If a herd was on the
north side of the track it would stand
stupidity gazing and without symptoms
of alarm, though the locomotive passed
within hundred yards. If on the south
side of the track, even though at dis
tance of one or two miles from it, the
passage of train get the whole herd in
the widest commotion. At its full speed
and utterly regardless of consequence, 1t
would make for the track on its line OF
retreat. If the train happened not to be in
its path it crossed the track, and stopped
satisfied. If the train was in the way
each individual buffalo went at it with
the desperation of despair, plunging
against or between locomotive and car,
lust as the blind madness chanced to
take them. Numbers we're killed, but
numbers still pressed on to stop and stare
as soon as the obstacle was passed.
After having trains ditched twice IN one
week, conductors learned to have very
decided respect for the idiosyncrasies OF
/
the buffalo, and when there was pos
sibility of striking herd on the ram
page" for the north side of the track, the
train was slowed up and sometimes
stopped entirely,