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Year: 1876

1t may be necessary to say that in Ireland
there is little body of prosely tisers which has
organized itself to missionize the benighted
natives who still speak the Irish tongue. Many
of our readers probably know nothing of this
society, for there are so many agencies at work
to convert the Catholics of Ireland that one
loses count of them. Last week it's annual
meeting was held, aud it's shining lights took
occasion to air a considerable quantity of the
foulest abuse against the religion of five-sixths
of their country men-which abnse by the way,
was carefully suppressed by the PROTESTANT
organs and liberaIy reported in their Catholic
contemporaries. We learn from the speeches
that $40 600 of the Irish people still speak
their native language, though probably less
than half of that number nee it exclusively.
To reach these through the medium of that
rhythmic tongue is the grand aim, and the
main argument offered is thar the most fervent
Catholics are those in the diocese of Tuam,
where the great Archbishop prescribes regular
courses of sermons in the vernacular. One can
not but pity the prevalence of the wild delusion
that such flock as John of Tuam rules over
could be induced to embrace the miserable
mockeIy the propagandists would offer for the
old and firmly rooted faith of the West. But
we are at q loss toknow why missionaries nced
be taught Irish to proselyt a small section
when there are millions W no can be approached
in English. Why not try the peoples of
Ulster where the magical beauties of Protest
autism are daily hauntedf Why concentrate
all the energy, all the CASA, all the light of the
gospel on Connaught alonef Simply because
the natives are never hungry elsew here, and
can only be Influenced through their consciences
that is to say, canhot be Influenced at all by
Protestant controversialists Never mind the
heart while the stomach affords hope of
yielding. Still, we feel bound to ask what it is
the people are offered in change for the beliefs
they have clupg to through untold woe and
disaster. A patch work thing, which no one
can define; vexing thing, over which it's
owners are daily Bghtipg with the animosty of
deadly enemies; delusive thing, which makes
fair promises and only creates void it is
powerless to fill up; an uncharitable thing,
which hopes to hide it's own inherent incon-
eruities by loud mouthed slanders of it's neigh
bors; @ shattered thing, which is held in
apparent union by the strong arm of the State,
aud must split to fragments the moment the
grasp is Withdrawn. Truly, worthy Offering
for the children of St. Patrick!
Year: 1876

lie opinion cannot too soon be brought to
bear on this important social question. II
the matter were duly considered, there is
no doubt that some practical means of
dealing with it would suggest itself.
Year: 1876

it upon the stage of Holiday street
theater. 1t was caught up in the
camps, sang around bivouac fires and
whlstled in the streets, and when
peace once more settled over the
loved land, carried to thousands of
fresides as the most precious trophy
of tho war of 1872. The During
brothers lie in unknown graves.
Francis Keys dust reposes in Mount
Olivet Cemetery of Frederick City,
with but the distance of a pine trees
shadow between it and the tomb of
Dame Barbara Freitchie, and ere an
other Centennial the record of them
all may have passed away; but that
song will live as long as our country
wears its bonny old flag or there re-
mains an American boy to sing its
praises.
Year: 1876

At Democratic primary held at
Eastport in Fremont county, the 9TH
or day, two prominent Democrats
had quite On argument as to which
was soundest in the faith. The dis
pute waxed pretty warm until at last
one OF them, who was in the rebel
army, put quietus to the controver-
sy by pointing to a scar received at
Pea Ridge, with the remark: / have
proved my Democracy by my works"
That fetched the other fellow. He
was forced to acknowledge the corn.
Year: 1876

es I complete the list. The majority of those who went can home much tired nearly used up. and in some cases quite unwell It was not my good or ill fortune whichever it may have been--to attend; but had done so, two items of prepara- tion would have been bottle of wine or other stimulant, and a pound or so of Sliced, dried or roast beef. 11ien. when wandering about inspecting the sights, mind-weary and limb-weary. ignorant of the exact locality of restaurant, or too far from one to reach it handily, or per haps utterly unable to do so on account of the crowd, an occasional bite, an occa- sional sip, would have revived the droop- ing spirits. Had these or similar precau- tions been generally adopted, especially by middle-aged and elderly people, there would have been. in my opinion. much less wearines and sickness on returning home. make these remarks partly for the benefit of those who shall attend our country's next Centennial

 PLYMoUTHEAN.
Year: 1876

dred. Price is member of the M. E. church and strong temperance man, and it is thought whisky is at the bottom of this as of most other crimes and casual ties.

 The question is beginning to be serious 1y asked whether liquor is not answerable for more crime and suffering than the Turkish Bulgarian atrocities, at which the nations thriveing on the whisky business are holding up theirkhands in such holy horror. A few days since drunken wretch started from town with load of lumber, running his horses up hill and down till he was finally thrown from bis wagon about mile out; his team running on a short distance, piled upon or over another man and team with light wagon, and all fell into an inextricable mass, except the head horses which broke loose and ran of, leaving their driver a mangled mass of flesh and bones, with head cut, torn and bruised almost beyond identification. He was picked up and brought to town and lay in an unconscious state for over forty eight hours, and was given up by the doctors, but being of an iron constitu- tion he is beginning to revive and there is now hopes of hls recovery.

 When boy used to look at the big pile of wood ill our back yard and wonder if the winter would suffice for chopping it all up; one of our mill men has just con- tracted with lumberman to cut and float t'0entyJfre million feet of logs for hlm this winter,- he does not do it all himself, he gets about two hundred hands to help him.

 Humpty Dumpty, John B. Cough, an organ concert, theatrical performance, and several minor entertainments are in pros- pect between this and the holidays, revival" thrown in, of which more anon.

 Politics still run high. A young gent visiting his intended few nights since, got into an argument with her father, which grew in interest till words came to blows and the old man tried to smash a chair over the young mans head. Failing in this, he went for his revolver, and snapped it twice at the receding form of the lover. but fortunately no lives were lost. Our little girl came home from school one day with bloody crest. She said ''she had been plaguing some Demo- crats' and one of them got in stinger on her mug, drawing first blood. It was partly accidental and was soon made up.

 A. B.
Year: 1876

have not ascertained the exact num- Der of those who from this town attended the Centennial Exhibition. Probably it exceeds one hundred. purpose to trea-. sure their names for future reference, and also for transmission along down to the next great national show. If, desired for publication will forward them as soon
Year: 1876

FACTS FOR THE GENTLE GRANGER.


The report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture, accompanying this mes
sage, will be found one of great inter-
est, marking, as 1t does, the great prog
ress of the last century, the increase of
the produce of the soil and of the
knowledge and skill in labor of pro-
ducing. saving and manipulating the
same, to prepare them for the use of
man, in the improvements in machine-
ry to aid the agriculturist in bis labOrs,
and in the know ledge of those scien-
! tiiic subjects necessary TO thorough
system of economy in agricultural
productions, namely: chemistry, bot
any and entomology.


Tins report by those interested in
agriculture and deriving their support


from it will find it of value in point


ing out those articles which are raised
in greater quantity than the needs of
/ the world require, and must sell there
| fore. for less than the cost of the pro-
ducfion, and those which command q
profit over cost of production, because
there is now an Over-production.
AN AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION.
l call special attention to the need of
the Department for new gallery for
the reception OF the exhibits returned
from the Centennial exhibition, in
Guiding the exhibits donated by very


Concluded on Fourth Pagel
Year: 1876

If we had poet like Hood, whose tragical
touch could bring the horrors that writhe
and tester under the surface Of everyday life
home to our hearts, what theme to stir
humanity with indignation could he find in
the night vigil of James Young over the
corpse of his wife, as it stirred with horrid
semblance of life to the pulsing, heaving and
tapping of the dark waters of the East River
But ii does not need the aid of verse to tell
this story in tones as sad and heart-wringing
ms hers who plunged into London's lamp
rejecting river, glad 10 be anywhere
out Of the world" He had missed
his wife from home on Monday night. On
Tuesday morning he left his little ones to
seek her. Gruff official routine at Police
Headquarters scarcely turned its head to
help him. He had heard of a woman found
drowned, but hope deafened his ear until
he saw q crowd of idle wonderers standing
by the rivers brink gazing at dark object
in the water. Something smote him at the
heart, and he rushed among the crowd to
find that the dark object was all that was
mortal of his wife. 1t was fastened by a
rope to the pier it had floated face upward
or face downward, as the tide willed, for
hours, and he piteously begged the law that
stood deany by, in the person Of an officer
Year: 1876

That most terrible of all seasons in New
York, the season of house hunting, is again
upon us. Bills with ''To Let" printed on
them stare boldly from the fronts of nearly
one-half the houses in the uptown streets,
and gangs of house hunters go up and down
the thoroughfares of the metropolis like so
many chifonniers seeking for treasures where
there are none. This annual migration of
our people, the weary hours spent in find
ing q new home which at best is not better
or cheaper than the old one, the irruptions
of hordes of house hunters into what ought
to be quiet and peaceful households, the la
Dor and discomfort and wear and tear of
moving day, is simply nuisance. We are
nomadic race, going about from place to
place for no other reason than the desire for
change. In many cities the annual Directory
is useful for five years at the least. Trows
and Goulding's undergo complete transfor-
nation every year. Change with us is dis
ease and discomfort with our abiding places q
chronic ailment Valued friends exchange
addresses nearly every time they meet, and
if Broadway was not q universal thorough
fare would lose sight of each other alto
gether. This spirit of constant change is
a sign of an unsettled state of society,
and is to be deprecated as an evil. We
want more home stability for the culti-
vation of homely virtues and the growth of
social culture. No people can be thoroughly
happy until their affections centre upon
some spot made dear by many associations.
Old people die when transplanted from the
hearthstone around which the period of their
youth and manhood was spent, but that old
age must be cheerless indeed which has
never known the same hearthstone for more
than year at o time. Such is the lot of too
many denizens Of this migratory city. When
the spring comes the house hunting fever
breaks out, and it burns with increasing heat
until the inevitable moving day is past. Let
us all discourage this ;; landlords by an hon
est effort to secure and retain good tenants,
and householders by determination to re-
main in good home when they find one
We must learn to consecrate home by the
tenderness of its associations and discour-
age the nomadic tendencies of our people. If
one spot is better than another it is where
children were born or dear ones have de-
parted; and until we learn to value these
things we must continue to be what we have
been too long already, cheerless and un-
happy race, seeking relief in change and
constantly recurring rounds of house hunt
ing.
Year: 1876

swinging his club, to place the body on the
shore. He begged that, until the law deigned
TO move, the form Of her who had borne his
children and nestled in his breast might not
sway and rise and fall with the coming and
going of the tide. But no. not even that poor
boon. So, mad with his grief, he hurried
away to beg the law to move. At sta
ton house and Coroners' Office he sought
the aid of the law in vain Think
OF 1T The womans body had lain
eight hours in the water, as James
Young returned at nightfall. helpless
and heartbroken, TO take up his long vigil at
the rivers edge, with the grutf policeman
still there. James Young is poor man, of
rough occupation but what pen can tint
the horrors of the hours of that watch of his
by the floating dead that was to him so dear
IN life2 The poor man mourned in the
night by the lamp-refecting river with the
corpse swaying at his feet the law, like an
immovable, ferocious brute, by his side, and
the thought of the little ones beyond the
river, waiting in vain for their mother,
knocking at his heart He waited till mid
night, when the cry of the little ones grew
louder in his ears, and from the black de-
spair around him he fed to comfort them.
AT early morning he came back to beg his
dead but not even now. He went to the
Coroner's again he returned once more to
the river. At last the dead wagon came, but
the brutes who tended it would not even
tell him where they would take the corpse
that had lain in the water twenty-four hours.
Again to the Coroners' Office. The Coroner
was away. He hurried after him, and there
Coroner Croker before he would listen to
James Young, made him serve on coroner's
jury over the body of burned child This
is horrible almost incredible. Habit may
bring man to look on the greatest suffering
with an Indifferent eye, but there is grim
brutality about this shocking to human
nature. Yesterday morning James Young
got the body, but it is doubtful if any in
quest was held over the remains.


What, then, have the officers of the law
police and Coroners-to say to this outrage
on decency-this gross wrong? They shrug
their shoulders. The body could not be





body to give one. The coroners had gone
home. Red tape ceuld not weave harder
knot than this case presents. They have
police, telegraphs coroners, dead wagons,
attendants, Morgue-all that the pity of
great community could provide to meet
such cases. but because the man was poor
and coroners lazy and brutal and police
men heartlessly Indifferent James Young
could beg the law to move his wifes body
from the water in vain. When Coroner
Croker was lodged in Jail charged with
murder another Coroner could hurry at o
politicians beck to violate the law and let
the accused murderer go but none of them
could turn step to have Rose Young's body
removed from the river. James Young must
be a patient, law-abiding man, for not few
men in his place would have taken the law
into their hands, cost what it might. Is not
reform needed?
Year: 1876

THE EMIGRATION CoANIss1oS.-w cam
not look forward with any complacency to
seeing the care of the thousands of immi-
grants arriving at this port turned over to the
steamship and railroad lines. Emigration
from Europe has fallen off considerably,
and we do not care to have the rate still
lowered by allowing the report to go abroad
that the peasant who comes here will be
handed over to the harpies of our cities
as soon as the steamship lines
have done with him. Congress should
take hold Of this matter at once and provide
for a continuance in some shape of system
which, in spite of some faults, has worked
well, giving the poor immigrants breathing
time and fair chance to. get started IN the
New World without first paying heavy roy
atty to the predatory classes that fourished
long ago in the First ward.
Year: 1876

the stages of legislation is small. II some
body could put into that bill one plain pro-
vision declaring that if any person holding
office under the United States governments
should SIT as a member of any political or
party convention or take any part IN the
proceedings of such convention his otfice
should thereby become vacant, and it should
be the duty of the Executive to appoint
another person to that Office, that somebody
would almost give us good civil service
system at a single blow
Year: 1876

IT Is No INJURY TO RELIGION to see q
scoundrel take a pious garb TO serve the
devil in. but each such case points the moral
that mans honesty is not to be gauged by
the extent to which he shows the white of
his eyes. The operations Of the pious book
keeper charged with embezzling twenty
eight thousand dollars of the Marine Bank s
money may be read with profit.
Year: 1876

From his latest statement of his connec-
ton with that Kentucky Central Railroad
claim it would appear that the finest speci-
men of q democratic gentleman which the
West can produce has an account to settle
with common honesty on new point. He
defends himself from the charge of hav-
ing taken an improper advantage of his
infant wards by the allegation that when the
claim was allowed the portion of the rail-
road regarded as the property of those
wards had been adjudged by the courts to
be not their property but the property of
certain counties of the State of Kentucky


If it was not to the Bowler children as
owners that the claim was due he did them
no injustice in agreeing to give himself so
large a share of it and if he only wronged
certain counties of Kentucky, why, what are
counties that anybody should be affection
ate and honest on their account? But it is
further reported that though the road was
the property of the counties through which
it ran, and not Of Mr.. Pendleton's wards, that
this gentleman nevertheless paid to these
wards, and not to the counties in question,
that part of the claim which under his
agreement belonged to one or the other. If
it did not belong to his nephews and nieces
he did them no harm by an unequal bar
gain but if it belonged to the counties why
did he pay it to his nephews and nieces?
Year: 1876

The IMPERIAL EUROPEAN POWERS are about
10 do for Turkey what England is doing for
Egypt-namely put her finances in good
order In both cases, we suppose, the
Powers are anxious to know definitely what
they will have to pay for their next territorial
dinner in other words, what debt they will
have to assume when the annexation begins.
Year: 1876

WE HAVE yet to see the first opponent of
Mr.. Conkling in the Republican Convention
who is not inspired by some selfish, personal
reason. The cry of "Grantism" is cant,
coming from men who have followed Grant
with slavish adulation.
Year: 1876

A VERDANT ENGL1sHAfAN, who sits in the
British Parliament, wants his Foreign Office
to tell him if our government have five or
ten millions of the Geneva award that they
cannot find legitimate claimants for. We
think Uncle Sam has some claim, so the
British lion need not worry, trying to twist
its tail into an interrogation mark about it.
Year: 1876

EMPRESS OF INDIA division in the
House of Commons yesterday on the final
reading of the Royal Titles bill shows more
determined effort on the part of the opposi-
ton to defeat it, but the majority was still
large enough to give the Ministry confidence
in its popularity. 1t now goes to the House
of Lords, where assent is certain
Year: 1876

A CENTENNIAL CANDIDATE Would it sur
prise the bookmakers to see in the last
quarterstretch, as the horses strain their
pace, the colors of Washburne creep slowly
to the front? We should not only feel no
surprise, but would throw up our hat with
the crowd
Year: 1876

THE ARREST OF CHARLES RAIsroN sees, we
are told, the last of the Roberts gang of
forgers, robbers and swindlers safe behind
bars The story of the crimes he is charged
with will be found elsewhere, and if his long
immunity and final arrest impress on the
young and the tempted the certainty with
which punishment comes at last to those who
war on society, the country will not be at a
loss in boarding him free for few years
Year: 1876

A CENTENNIAL CANDIDATE.-If Edwin d.
Morgan had not magnanimously withdrawn
in favor of Mr.. Conkling he would have been
q formidable candidate. The name of Nor
gan as the representative Of the first COM
mercial city of New York, may be quoted as
first class, prime, gilt edged paper yet,
especially if Lord Roscoe will write his
gorgeous signature across its face
Year: 1876

WHAT great thing it would have been if
Mr.. Curtis had addressed the Convention
upon some of those social themes which he
has been treating for SO many years with
:haste and glowing eloquence in the fashion
newspapers, and if Mr.. Roberts, the great
country editor, had read one of his tremen-
aous leaders as to the proper time for plant
ing pumpkins! The Convention would have
received instruction as well as amusement
Year: 1876

OFFICE AND PoLr1cs Congress is en-
gagged on a bill ont of which, by
some lucky accident, may come good
and important law. Its most important
provision is to prohibit officers of the gov
ernment from contributing money for politi-
cal purposes. This will. if it ever gets
through, save the poor laborcrs in custom
houses and post Offices from the exactions
of those unmasked burglars and highway
men who collect an assessment on the sala-
ries of these men for election expenses. But
if the bill accomplishes no more than that it
will be OF small consequence in its effect on
elections, and if it is intended to accomplish
more than that its chance to get through all