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Year: 1876

which will be open from to 10 o'clock D. M of each
Gay. Meals will be served upon the European plan,
and the charges will be moderate. The arrange
ments will be such that all who desire can be
furnished with supper each day.
Year: 1876

The city of New Ulm is about
adopting new charter. The old one,
under which they have been living for
three or four years. Was very defective
aud gave the officials considerable
trouble.
Year: 1876

The legislature of California is con-
sidering bill for the punishment of
wife bcaters by fogging. The whip.
pingpost is relic Of barbarism, but
there are several relics Of barbarism
which are good to keep, and only need
adaptation to the new exigencles Of the
times in order to reach a high grade
Of usefulness-and fogging is one Of
them. A man who is so brutal as to
strike his wife is inscnsihle to any
punishment which does not give him
physical pain. Let the wife heaters
be sound y flogged. The poetic justice
in It amounts to the morally beautiful


The New York Evening Post charg-
ed that the ante e-bellum duelists show.
ed themselves to be arrant towards
during the war. The Sun Indignantly
denied the statement. The Post in
turn quotes General Longstreot as
authority, and publishes the letter of
confederate soldier from Louisiana
who says that "not one Of the duelists
(ot his state) took part in the war;"
and that the charge made by the even-
ing Post lis the expressed experience
Of the Southern people" Thus tho
dusllo Is sharn Of the only redeeming
feature, courage, that any one ever
claimed for it.. ..
Year: 1876

COOP AND BAD YEARs.-Farming
is not the business Of a year, however,
but that of lifetime, and the wise far
mer will leave a wide margin in his
account for unfavorable seasons, and
doing this, will come out all right in
the end. The man who undertakes
to farm on the basis Of call good
years" will be badly disappointed, aud
had better try something else. Unfa-
vorable weather and seasons will come
as they always have, but that they are
growing worse every year, as some
have declared, is not true. Take
them one with another, they are as
favorable now, as ever, labor wisely,
judiciously and skillfully applied to
agriculture brings better returns than
in any other occupation, Ohio Farm
er.


A USEFUL BooK.-Every farmer
should own a scrap book in which to
paste agricultural items. Almost any
man in reading paper will see things
which he will wish to remember. He
will perhaps see suggestions, the value
of which he will desire to test, or hints
which he will want to be governed by
in future operations. And yet. after
reading the paper, he will throw it
down and will probably never see it
again. In such case all the valuable
articles will be lost. To prevent such
loss every reader should clip from the
papers such articles as he desires to
preserve and paste them in q book.
Such a book at the end Of year or
two will be interesting and valuable.
Year: 1876

present House has got at the key to
the mystery, and it is to be hoped that
the patient efforts of Mr.. Proctor
Knott and his fellow committeeman
will succeed in dragging the authors
to tho light and to punishment.
Year: 1876

Bad luck is simply a man with his
hands in his pockets and his pipe in
his mouth, looking on to see how it
will come out Good luck is man
Of pluck, with Lis sleeves rooled up
and working to make it come ont ali
right.
Year: 1876

ST. LOUIS, August 23.-Fuller retnrns
OF the election yesterday show that while
the city gives the scheme and charter a
majority Of about 1000 the county will
probably defeat the scheme BY some
5000. The whole proposition will there.
fore fail by about 1000 majority against
Year: 1876

LIFE AND LETTERS OF THE REV JOHN MCLIN'


pp 4l0 Nelson a Philips


The biography of the learned and modest
scholar contained this volume presents sketch oi the
studies which were at the foundation OF his services To
American letters and Of MS personal influence III oeha1
of the Federal Union during the dirk crsi OF the CIVIL
war There was a certain magnetism in his character
which always the sympathy Of his acquaintance
and challenged he interest in the of sound learn
,ng, pure religion, and ardent patriotism. which were
the supreme motives of his life Dr MCliuock waS
eminently practical in point OF executive abt'
he had equals, he always had an eve to vaiuaoi'
uses for the benefit OF Church aud Satei but there wa
no object to which he was enthusiastically devoted
than the promotion Of high and generous culture No
the union intelligence and picty in the communion of
which he was so bright Oruanrpt lie clung to .
elevated standard of scholarship resisting every
temptation TO lower it in accordaDc" with the
demands of popular expedency, and strenuOus'y main
tanning that the Church should keep abreast with tb
most advanced science and literature OF the age III all
the relations of private life he snSuariy attractive
He was the object aectonate reverence with large
circle including in fact that enjoyed the priv
ncge OF knOw wing him intimately. He man OF wa III
friendships. blending the ardor Of personal affection
with remarkable saneness of intellect Residing III
PTls during slOOmest stages of the his sutr'
influence on public opinion hardly be Overrted. His
house the gathering point - Ame iean sentiment
cheer OF his example and the force of his reason


ing contributed small gree the reinsurance and
encuu OF his contrymen Ia the French capital
In describing his career. Dr. Crooks has drawn largely
his Journals correspondence IN which he revc Is his
innost fee ngs and dearest purposes, with simplicity
and rankness that present the charm Of unconscious
autobiography The volume affords vivid illustration
Of an interesting phaeb American hfc ana will reward
attention beyond the ig"us persuasion to which
must be an object OF just and homo able pride.
Year: 1876

The cause OF the internal hubbub which
the Chinese residents of Alder street
have heen keeping up for several nights
past, is the receipt of a bran new god,
from China via San Francisco, steamer
Geo. W. Elder. This divinity was man
uiactured in China at considerable eX-
pense, expressly for the Celestial inhab-
itants of our city, and is said to be as
ugly and disgusting a compound of wood
paint, gold trimmings and wax, as the
art of man aided by the Devil could pro-
duce. We hope that our heather friends
will enjoy their new God, hut wish that
they would make little less noise about
it.-Bee.
Year: 1876

his little plan, and each has made miss and
a mess of it. If they were really clever, as
they are not, they no longer hold the cards,
and perhaps would not know how to play them
if they did.


To the virtuous, and even to the decently
honest, all this must be exceedingly refreshing.
The Hon. Mr.. Tweed will hardly be greeted
by the politicians who once fondly called him
"Boss." The Hon. Mr.. Woodward, ex-mem-
ber of the Connecticut Senate, once potent
and rich, grave and greedy, reverend and
rascal, might possibly buy his way back to the
old seat of dignity and honor, but it would
cost him more than it once did, and much
more than he will be able to raise, even
though the people of the State of New-Iork
could be persuaded to part with him. And
now that the taxpayers of this city know OF
what slim stuff these thieves were made, VIII
they allow themselves to be swindled in like
manner again Or will they determine here
after 10 keep one eye at least half Openf
Year: 1876

They have been educated to hate Mr. lilden
and the New-York Democracy, and it would
not be surprising if one in a hundred OF them
should refuse to vote in November next, as
one in eight of the Indiana Democrats did
refuse to vote in 1872. But loss of less than
one per cent of their total vote would ap-
parcntlv insure a Republican victory.


V. Finally, the most disheartenDg Tact To
the Democrats is now cOncluSively esta0llshcu'
namely, that the hard times, the demand tor
change, and the cry of reform, produce no
effect Whatever. The Republicans hold every
State at the North which they carried prior to
the election in 1872; they show much more
united and solid array; they poll a larger
vote, and manifest greater confidence ana de-
termination But the Democrats have rehcd
with absolute confidence upon the cry of re-
form, the hard times and the desire Tor a
change.


These being important, as the elections IN
Maine and Vermont Indiana and Ohio con-
cusively prove, the Democrats Will presently
hecin to understand that it is the same old
fight over again, upon issues which have
never failed TO secure Republican victory,
against Republican party strengthened 10y
thousands of Liberals and Independents who
have at times opposed it. The dream of a
"tidal waven melts away. Disgust disheart-
enment, conviction that defeat is inevitable,
will take possession of Democratic minds in
spite of all the boasts of leaders. Reform and
the hard times were their strong cards, and
they fail. 1t will not do for Republicans to be
over-confdent. They have a hard fight before
them in this State. But it will be their own
fault if they do not triumph.
Year: 1876

Three Egyptian armies have been destroyed
in succession during the past twelve months
by the AbyssiniaDs who have lured them into
defiles and then shown them no quarter. The
Khedive cannot too soon abandon this disas-
trous conflict. The Abyssinian King is worse
than Sitting Bull
Year: 1876

kept the secret with admirable tenacity till
they had themselves secured the prize. 1t is
announced that the vein was found to be OK
hausted Just when the schooner Era had COM


pleted her load. This seems rather too rounded
and complete for prompt acceptance on the
part of enterpnsing rivals IN the mica business.
Year: 1876

Poland exists as nation only in the firm
faith of her people at home and in exile that
she will regain her freedom and reGstablsh
her power. The centenary address and medal
which the Poles gave Minister Washbuue
yesterday are not the less welcome on that ac-
count. America may well feel grateful for the
good words of the countrymen OF KosciuskO.
Year: 1876

The Democratic factions are engaged in a
vulgar dispute over a vulgar fraction. 1t has
been conceded that Anti -Tammany shall have
one-third of the offices, but the question is
fiercely debated, which third, and how much
one-third is. This is problem in political
arithmetic, beside which the issues of reform
in the civil service and return to specie pay
ments seem small indeed.
Year: 1876

ditional strength to acts OF this
kind had they ever been rejected
on account OF the unconstitutionality.
the power being conceded and the OBJ
jcct being right, he could not see how
Congress could deny the appropriation.
The country could not be relieved Of the
obligations 1t had entered into, and
must meet any reasonable and just de-
mands that were made. But for the de
preston which had 50 universally pre-
vailed, he said, the people would have
contributed to help out the cor
poration, and there would have
been no call made upon the
House for this appropriation.
He closed with an allusion to the party
bitterness which prevailed, and said he
had no appeal to make to either party.
He appealed to the august body of the
people, who knew that peace came
through reconciliation and devotion to
the laws. Applause He referred to
the visit Of the 9Th Maryland regiment
to Boston, and said he had on the 18th Of
June last seen scene that he never ex-
pected to see again-the unity Of feeling
Of the people In relation to u restoration
OF peace and the Union while they were
fighting the battles.
Year: 1876

Capt. j. Il. Beckwith, an old lake cap
tain, and OF late years a marine insur-
ance agent, of Chicago, was in the viii
lage yesterday. looking over the place
with view to taking up his residence
here. as an agent of all the insurance
companies, TO look after disasters. &c.
The need of such an agency has long
been felt here, but no one company has
felt able to keep man OH the ground.


The arrangement which is now con-
templated would obviate this difficulty,
and at the same time accomplish all that
could be done any way. The losses sus-
tained by the various companies every
year i'm the vicinity of the straits are very
large, which an agent on the ground
would tend to reduce very much. Capt.
Beckwith is on his way to Buffalo to con-
suit with the insurance companies at that
point If they look with favor upon the
project, he will then decide whether or
not he will accept the appointment. We
trust that the arrangement will be made


and that Capt. Beckwith will receive a
favorable impression enough OF the place
to come and take up his residence here.
Year: 1876

Next Monday night occurs the regular
meeting of the village council. The


principal busipess which should occupy
the attention of that body is the consider
alton of the subject OF fire protection. 1t
can be called nothing else but very
fortunate circumsta zee that there is any
need of the consideration Of this subject.
Had there been Il strong south wind there
would have been very little of the town
left to consider about. But as there is.
II e council should take the matter i'm
hand and act energetically. There should
be 10 delay. We cannot expect TO get
any new machinery here, even If it be de-
cided to secure some, for several weeks +;
but there should be some arrangements
for the proper repairs and management
of the old hand engine, Immediately.


Put i'm proper condition, the old engine
can be made to do effective work. Be-
cause the engine cannot be expected, un-
der the best Of circumstances, to do rs


much work as properly managed
steamer, is no reason that nothing st all


should be done with it. A poor machine


we'll managed is often times better than
a good one poorly managed. We fear
thar, had the village been possessed of
first-class machinery at the tine of the
fire, that there still would have been
some trouble. 1t is interest which was


wanting, as we'll rs machinery. There


was not interest enough to do the best
that could have been done with the
means at our hand. What more, then,
could be expected under different cir
cumstances


1t is not right to lay all the blame
upon either the conncil or the machinery
Had the citizens of the place had proper
interest in this matter the council would


have been forced to take action. 1t cam


not be expected that the council will


move much faster than the public seLti-
ment of the people back them.


If any organization be perfected, to be
successful it must be composei of our
business men and property holders
those who have an interest in the place.
Ii made up of any other class of men the
interest will soon flag aud die out, and
by the time another fire comes we may
be i'm no better condition to meet it than
we were last week.


Let every citizen ponder over these
conditions.
Year: 1876

Arrangements are already under Way
to celebrate the comiug Fourth of July
in becoming manner at Mackinaw. The
arrangements are i'm such a stage of for
wartlness that a celebration there can be
considered a fixed fact. Jas. j. Brown,
OF this place, is spoken of as orator. The
history Of the Island. il properly prepared,
will be very interesting, and will go back
into the early history of the country
about as far as any county in the state.
Mackinaw, from its earliest history, has
always been place of interest and re-
nown,. and its history written for the
coming Fourth of July will be docu-
ment OF national. as well as local inter
est; and if properly prepared will have
a very large circulation.
Year: 1876

she was yet attending school in Winona,
and after having finished the course in
the high school there, she was persuad-
ed to devote a year to the study of elo-
cution, under an accomplished teacher
in Chicago. The result was that her
performances at private gatherings ex-
cited such general admiration that she
was finally induced to give a public ex-
hibition of her powers. This was so
entirely satisfactorily that she has since
been called upon frequently and in
every instance her success has been un-
questioned. The press and the people
everywhere, on hearing her, have united
in commencing her very highly as a
most entertaining and pleasing reader.
Her repertoire is said to contain an
agreeable variety Of tragic, sentimental
and humorous compositions. She ap-
pears here in response to an invitation
extended by Mayor sterrett, and the
proceeds of her entertainment will be
devoted to the organ fund of the Episco-
pal church, thus giving our citizens op-
portunity to contribute to a worthy
object and, at the same time, enjoy an
interesting and instructive entertain
ment. We hope there will be a large
attendance.
Year: 1876

The FairmOunt Park Commission have
dcciled to l,t the main exhibition build
inr remain, and by their sction, though
,he Centennial exposition will positively
close on the 10th Of November, pcrma-
nent exhibition will open before the lst
of January. Already most of the Amer
;can and foreign exhibitors have signi-
fed their intention to let their exhibits
remain, and more space has been applied
for than the building can actually afford.
The following are the restrictions upon
which the concession to let the building
stand was granted:


First. That the said building shall be
removed and the grounds restored ut the
expense OF the incorporation within two
wears after notice from the Park Commits.
sion.


Second. That the building and
grounds shall be kept in good order, and
be surrounded by an iron or other suit
able railing, satisfactory to the Park
Commission, il required by them.


Third. That the Park police shall at
all times have access 10 the building and
grounds for police purposes, and the
Park Commission, or any member there
of, at all times.


Fourth. That the license is only Civ.
en- for the purpose Of an exhibition, for
the pleasure and instruction of the pub
lie, and not for the sale Of goods, except
such as are necessary for carrying out
such design.


Fifth. That all laws, ordinances, rules
and regulations relating to Paramount
Park shall he strictly observed.


Sixth That this license shall not be
construed to dispense with any special
permission now required by law, ordi.
nance or rule,


Seventh. That the maximum charge
for admission shall be twenty-five cents
for five days in the week, and each Sat
urday ten cents shall be the maximum
charge, and If the revenues derived shall
be in excess of the amount required to.
pay needIul expenses, additions and
maintenance, with six per cent, interest
on the capital invested by the company,
then the admission fee shall be reduced
so that the public may enjoy the Exhi-
bition at the lowest possible charge.


Eighth. That no claim, demand or
liability, either present or prospective
shall exist or be made against the city of
Philadelphia or the Park Commission.


Ninth. That the violation of any of
the conditions of this license shall nu-
thorizc the commission to revoke the
same, and to require the removal Of the
building forthwith.
Year: 1876

A SheriiI's officer was once asked to
execute writ against Quaker. On ar
irving at his house, he saw the Quaker's
wife, who, in reply to the inquiry whcth-
or her husband was at home, said he was;
at the same time requesting him to be
seated, and her husband would speedily
see him. The officer waited patiently
for some time, when, the fair Quakercss
coming into the room, he reminded her
of her promise that he might see her
husband. "Nay, friend; l promised
that he would see thee. He did not like
thy looks; therefore, he avoided thee,
and hath departed from the house by an
other path
Year: 1876

The Parish Prison, or rather the
building once entirely occupied by the
criminals of our civ, is now divided
in two, and the northern side has
been given up to the officers of the
Fourth Metropolitan Precinct, for a
s,a,ion-hOuse, in which to lodge
prisoners before their arraignmeht.


Why it is that such dread should
hang about this latter portion we can
no, ,ay; but 50 well known is this
dread Of criminals against being lock-
ed up there they frequently go beyond
the limits Of the precinct before
transgressing the law.


1t appears, a number Of years ago,
an old woman, clad in a ragged calico
dress, was locked up there charged
with being drunk anl disturbing the
peace. During the night, she, with
the strips from her dress, managed to
suspend herselfto the iron bars OF the
window until life was extinct. Since
that time, a pail seems to hang over
the place, and it was but a short time
afterwards, when in the same cell,
another prisoner attempted to take his
own life.


After he had been cut down and
brought back to life this would-be
suicide stated that there had appeared
to him this same old woman with the
red cloak, and it was due to her per-
suasion that he attempted suicide.
This report spread, and superstitious
people began to wink and nod, as
much as saying: 81 told you So"
The turnkeys knew of the dread ex-
listing about these cells, and SO, to put
the matter to a crucial test, when tw o
! English sailors were brought in drunk
they put them in the haunted cell in
order to thoroughly put the ghost
matter at rest.


Singular to say the two sailors
hung themselves that night, and the
turkeys who were watching cut
them down in time to save their lives
Since that time fully twelve person:
have taken their lives in this place
In fact, 80 strong has the belief be
come, it was deemed necessary tt
nail up the door of No. II, so that M
more prisoners might follow the un
fortunates who had seemingly fol
lowed the beckonings of the mys
terious "old woman in a red cloak"


But few nights since patrolmaI
passing into the yard thought be saw
figure moving along the gallery, OF
which the cells open. He at onc'
went up stairs, and although be saw
feeting shadow, nothing was found
With the other ysterius stories abou
this place, it is related that some thre'
weeks ago a prisoner, who hal beel
locked up for fighting, suddenly mad
his appearance down stairs in tn
Office, and when questioned as to hov
he had broken out, said that an oil
woman, in q red cloak, had locke
through the bars, unlocked the door
and told him to 60 home.


How much of all this is true W
have no means of knowing, but on


thing is evident, that all the officer
, are satisfied that any prisoner locke


up in No. II will before day attemI
, suicide.
Year: 1876

It appears that this is going to he
an easy winter for the poor. There
has been decline in the price Of back
hraids ncw dollar stores are spring
ing up all over the land the religious
papers are Offering every encourage
u.tn; in the way of chromos, aud an
Imitation coral necklace can he bought
for a quarter. With the necessities of
life thus placed within her reach. no
true-hearted woman will complain Of
the price Of coal.
Year: 1876

About two o'clock yesterday morning q
collision occurred between two freight
trains on the jackson railroad, this side of
Kenner, about eight miles above this city.
The jar, though it threw no cars from the
track, caused an explosion in car loaded
with powder and other inflammables, and
the result was the burning of ten cars filed
with general merchandise. No one was in
iured save brakeman, who was slightly
burned. The track was cleared during the
day, and the evening trains came and went
on time.
Year: 1876

Yorkville Enquirer-l


Tuesday morning almost witnessed a
difficulty between some negro Radicals
on one side, and a colored Democrat,
backed by some whites, on the other side.
The offending negro had joined the Til
den and Hampton Club on the previous
evening, which was considered by his
colored bretheren an act of great iniqui-
ty, and one deserving of immediate pun
ishment. Tuesday morning was the
time, and Main street the place selected
for administering the whipping but to
their surprise and astonishment, they
soon found the Democratic negro rein
forced by some whites, who told him to
stand firm, for they were at his back.
1t is only necessary to say that the ne
gro Radicals deemed it part of wisdom
and prudence not to whip the Democratic
negro that morning.