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Year: 1876

II is impossible yet 70 estimate tho amount re-
ceIved from the recent Martha Washington Reception,
but il is supposed 10 be quite large enough to pay or
the debt on the Floating Hospital OF ST. Johns Guild,
amounting to $4,000 All OF this money is devoted TO
this object and to tho summer for the bene-


t OF sick children The feeding Of the destitute poor
OF the city Is quite distinct Affair." and this is almost
stopped now for want OF funds. The very cold
weather OF the last few days has caused great suffering
among destitute families A liberal supply OF money,
groceries, fuel clothing &C, Is needed Immediately
and the donations OF our citizens are asked
Year: 1876

A Butterfly Poem.


BY PEARL RIVERS.
Yesterday blissful sadness,
That the Singer only knows,
Fell as softly on my spirit,


AS dew drop on a rose
And feeling like the folding
And unfolding of soft wings,
Made my heart swell in my bosom,
Like BIRDS throat when it sings.
1t was long since any warning
Any faint prophetic sign
OF the presence Of Poem
Had disturbed this heart Of mine.
But the flowers buried under
The cold silence of the snow.
Keep warm hearts and know rs April
BY their need to bud and blow.
And the birds, by intuition,
Know when it is time to sing,
Though they only hear An echo
OF the bugle call of Spring.
And my heart was not so heavy,
Or so dull as net to know
That it was a captive Poem
Made 1t thrill and futter so.
While sighed and smiled and wondered
When and where it had been caught
Like butterfly it bursted,
From the crysalis of Thought.
Like butterfly the Poem


Will not live beyond day
But as butterflies are banners
And the painted signs Of May
So while poems seek the flower
OF my heart, know tits true
That the flower keeps its fragance,
And its honey and its dew.
Year: 1876

To CLEAN A RUSTY PLow.-
Take a quart Of water aud pour
slowly into it half a pint of sui.
phuric acid. The mixture will he.
come quite warm from chemical
action, and this is the reason why
the acid, should be poured slow
ly into the water, rather than the
water into the acid, and let it re.
main on the iron till it evapora-
tes. Then wash it again. The ob
ject is to give the acid time to dis
solved the rust. Then wash with
water aud you willperceive where
the worst spots are. Apply some
more acid, and rub on those spots
with a brick. The acid and the
securing will remoue most Of the
rust. Then wash the mould hoard
thoroughly with water to remove
all the acid, aud rub it dry. Brush
it over with petroleum, or other
oil, and let it be till Spring.
When you 90 to plowing, take u
bottle Of the acid water to the
field with you and apply it every
bout to any spot of rust that may
remain. The acid and the securing
of the earth will soon make it per
fectly bright and smooth. If all
iron work be washed off with De
trOleum as sOOn as we put our
tools, implements, and machines
aside for the winter, it will keep
them f,Om rusting. and save q
great deal of trouble and annoy
ance, to say nothing Of deprecia
ton and loss.-Rurdl World.
Year: 1876

The small boy who goes to
school, the COW with a rightyoung
calf, and the cow with the year.
ling calf, are all inclined to play
hockey this time OF year. The
hockey furnished by the COW with
the young calf is, however, the
most to be dreaded by the milk.
maid.
Year: 1876

There seems to be a terrible
state of affairs in st. Louis. An
awful editorial in the Republican
saws: "We must shiver the secret
assassin's dagger before the rising
generation take it up as a national
weapon" Good gracious
Year: 1876

Our State Legislature has got to work,
that it has not yet had time to practice, and
the honesty which, if it has any, it will in
due time take care to parade. We note that
yesterday the mill of the Assembly was in
motion. Gnarled subjects, studded with
knots and covered with thorns, lay before
the Judiciary Committee, to be shaped from
the rude form in which they came from the
rustic members to the smooth straight, poll
ished articles which adorn the pages of our
statute books. Now, said the Chairman,
let buncombe bound from bench to bench in
the chamber there ours be the task to think
and ponder and debate upon the weighty
things that lie before us. All, fellow mem
bers, the courts, the laws machinery and all
that thereunto belongs right hefty is but
here is heavier matter for our minds Say
shall the festive French and the German
gay wear masks at public balls or no?
Concentrating their intelligences upon the
bill, they altered comma here and full
point there as solemnly as Lycurgus draft
ing the Spartan code, until they bore the
precious bill before the House. There
mouths still hot with inhamed language in
denunciation of dishonesty hastened to stop
themselves that the Masquerade bill might
go through. Once when Ireland was on the
verge of rebellion, the English Houses of
Lords and Commons stopped everything to
read three times each and so enact the sus-
pension of the Habeas Corpus act. 1t was
done and England was saved Such an
emergency was before the Assembly. Either
they should pass the bill, or the Germans
would come to Albany as the Marseillaise
went to Paris to overawe the Convention,
or the ten thousand Cornishmen went to
Exeter Ito know the reason why" They
would barricade all the avenues to the Capt.
tol with beer barrels and play from ten thou
sand groaning wind instruments Wagnerian
music by day and Bach fugues by night until
the Legislature surrendered. The French
would proclaim the Commune and the gore
of the Assemblymen would fill the cutters
Hence everything was surrendered to Momus
buncombe was bunged up, gush died on the
lips and the bill passed the Assembly. New
York has much TO hope from an Assembly
that has such keen perception of the
raonla's needs
Year: 1876

1t is only when an event happens like the
escape of Chatterton and the drowning of
Gardner that we get an insight into the mis-
management of the institutions on Black
wells Island A more remarkable case has
not come to the public knowledge in long
while, and tits not even necessary to assume
that Kidd, the fireman, murdered one of the
prisoners and deliberately allowed the other
to escape to fix a very grave offence upon the
Workhouse officials and the Commissioners
The proof of q complete want of discipline
in the institution is equally clear whether
the charges of the colored boatman or Kidd's
explanation is accepted. That a fireman
should be afforded any such opportunity as
that which Kidd unquestionably had is a
fact which cannot be explained away. The
Commissioners had so many previous warn
ings of the mismanagement of our institu-
tions on the Island that its continuance is a
surprise and disgrace. When the
present Board was appointed the Stockvis
case was attracting general attention, and
that brutality as well as negligence existed
in the department was only too clearly es-
tablished. We hoped that with new Com
missioners a better system and more thor
ough discipline would be inaugurated. The
action of Kidd demonstrates how vain was
that hope. Prisoners, it seems, are allowed
to walk about the Island, and in this case
they were able TO procure a boat and come
to this city, There can be no discipline
where such results are possible. The crime
charged against Kidd is in reality the least
important consideration affecting the case,
for had the discipline of the institution been
what it should be his offence would have
been impossible A great reform in the
management of our penal and charitable in
stitutions is needed, and it can be obtained
if the responsibility in the present case is
put where it rightfully belongs.
Year: 1876

force them would be useless, and so the pro-
posed conference must prepare scheme
which shall include board that is perma-
nent The subject is one of the greatest inn
portance in itself, and the adoption of the
plan which the German government sug-
gests will be another step toward the fedora
tion of the world, which has become the hope
ofphilosophers as well as the dream of poets
If such a tribunal results from the Deutsch-
land disaster the lives of her passengers
will not have been sacrificed in vain.
Year: 1876

federal interference and enjoying peace and
renewed prosperity, with that of Louisiana,
to see how dangerous and injurious is such
policy


Whatever the people may forgive the re-
publican leaders, they will not, we believe,
again trust them with power if they con-
tinue to support unconstitutional and vio-
lent methods of government. Nor ought
they. If the republican party is to be ami
mated and moved by the spirit of Grantism ;
if it means to accept the violent and illegal
policy of General Grant if this spirit is to
rule in its councils what difference
can it make whether il renominates
Grant or takes some other man who
will but repeat and continue his errors?
What the people want is a change of policy;
a return to the safe paths of the constitution;
peace and good will, which cannot be got so
long as the party in power governs in def
ance of the fundamental law of the land and
of public opinion and public safety. If Sen
ator Mortons motion shall prevail in the
Senate, and if the republicans in that body
thus publicly and formally declare that they
do not hold themselves bound by constitu-
tional limitations, but that they will trample
on the fundamental law of the land for the
attainment of merely partisan purposes, they
will ALLEVIATE from their party justly and in
evitably, great mass of intelligent voters
without whose support they cannot hope to
carry the next election; and they will de-
serve failure, because their success under
the circumstances would be grave peril to
the country
Year: 1876

THE BOARD oR ALDERMEN, in pursuance Of
their policy Of rejecting the nominee for the
position Of Commissioner Of Public Works
who identified himself with the reduction Of
the laborers' wages last year, gave the quietus
yesterday to Fitz John Porters candidacy.
Mayor Wickham at the same time begged to
withdraw the nomination Ia request in which
General Porter somewhat unnecessarily
ioined), and then sent in the name of Mr.
Allan Campbell, on whose claims the Board
will incubate for week.
Year: 1876

MANHATTAN ISLAND, we learn from the
Superintendent of Buildings report, has
eighty-four thousand two hundred build
ings, of which sixty-seven thousand one
hundred and ffty-six are dwelling houses and
sixteen thousand four hundred and thirty
four are business houses. There are four
hundred and ffty-eight churches, thirty
three Of which are not yet ready for the
harvest Of the Lord
Year: 1876

The invitation Of the German government
to the other maritime States to unite in an
international conference to devise common
mode of inquiry into shipwrecks and dis
asters to shipping is very important step
in the right direction. In no other way can


the causes of accidents at sea be properly in
vestigated, or any effective measures be de-
vised for the prevention of the direful
calamites which are now Of such frequent
occurrence We showed some time ago that
our own laws are entirely inadequate to the
punishment of criminals like Thomassen, or
even of offenders of less fendish crimi-
nality. For inquiry into the causes Of dis
asters at sea we have no effective machinery
whatever, and it is very seldom that the loss
of q ship in the merchant service, either in
this country or in England, is made the sub
ject of searching investigation. Punish
ment is even less frequent Evidently new
rules Of international maritime law ought to
be adopted for the merchant service, and
Germany's suggestion is the first step in that
di-ection. Rules without a tribunal TO en-
Year: 1876




Chess is one of the few games that are
purely intellectual. Almost all our intellect
ual amusements include the element OF
chance or luck as in all games of cards.
while others require physical fitness, as in
rowing shooting billiard playing and
yachting Here the mental calculation must
be supplemented by the trained eye and the
steady nerve. But chess is absolutely an
abstraction. 1t can be played without boards
or men. Chance is excluded from its pro-
cesses. 1t is true that if two lunatics were
to sit down to play one of them might acci-
dentally mate the other by pushing tbs
pieces about-and this, it is said, has hap
pened-yet to infer from this that chess il
ever game of luck would be as erroneous
as to say that astronomy as a science admits
of chance because an idiot looking through
Lord Ross telescope might happen to dis
cover a new comet. Chess must be played
by thought alone. We do not say
it is superior to the other partially
intellectual amusements we have re-
ferred to; on the contrary we are inclined
to consider this a mark of inferiority to
sports which are more useful or more fully
develop the powers of man. Still, as one of
the Oldest amusements in the world. and as
peculiar method of thinking, chess must
always hold an unchallenged place among
the marvels Of human invention.


That there should be a chess congress held
at the Centennial Exhibition is not disputed
At the international expositions at London.
Paris and Vienna congresses of the kind
attracted the attention of the world. When
we consider that America has produced in
Paul Morphy the greatest player of the
world since La Bourdonnais, the Importance
of maintaining our reputation in the game is
clear. We have many fine players who would
take part in tournament, and some Of the
greatest professors of chess in Europe would
undoubtedly cross the ocean to conquer new
worlds. We have recently reported the fine
games contested by Mr. Mason with Mr..
Bird one of the most brilliant of English
players, in which the young American was
victorious. Mr. Bird will probably return
here next summer, bringing with him Black
ourHe, tAe DliHulolu payer, anu juliet celep-
rites. We may also have Steinitz, Kolisch
and Paulsen. The best of the European
visitors would find vigorous antagonist in
Captain Mackenzie, who, next to Pau
Morphy is generally conceded to be the
strongest player in America, and who knows
that such an assemblage of chess magnates
might not tempt Morphy himself from his
long retirement? But nothing has yet been
done toward the organization of congress,
and we would remind our leading players
and clubs that but little time for proper ac
ton remains.
Year: 1876

THE EUROPEAN Powers are at present en-
gagged in coaxing the Sultan into an accept
ance of Count Andrassy's scheme of reform.
The Sick Man may now learn what death is
more awful than the bastinado, as all the
ambassadors are addressing him on the sub
iect of reform
Year: 1876

TIE CONVICTION OF LA PAGE of the murder
of Josie Langmaid condemns wretch to the
gallows who richly merits his fate. He has a
year of grace allowed him before the execu-
tion of the sentence, according to the law of
New Hampshire.
Year: 1876

President MacMahon's proclamation to the
French nation is not the kind of document
we should be pleased to see our chief Ex-
ecutive issue on the eve of a general election;
but, remembering the kind of Republic the
hero of Magenta presides over, it must be
viewed as moderate, while it's chief signature
is an assurance that it is dignifed and out
spoken. 1t is important as marking the
bounds to which he can go in urging the
election of candidates who support the
government as at present administered.
From the fears it expresses we can plainly
Judge that the Marshal does not expect q
majority in Senate and Assembly of the
same conservative order as that from which
all the liberal features of the constitu-
tional laws were dragged piecemeal. The
proclamation is intended rather as
an appeal to France not to imperil
what has been won thus far by elect
ing men who would seek to overturn
the governmental fabric. We should call
that an insult to the peoples common sense
in America; but in unsettled France, with
its wild history of ninety years behind it, it
is probable the extreme republicans will only
wonder, nay regret, that it is not stronger.
To the conservative republicans it will prove
dstasteful but as their present programme
does not go perceptibly outside the limits
set by the President they can fight inside it
and win. In point of fact this opposition
to the republicans is growing in France to
be cognate to the ''bloody shirt" cry of our
politics, and to be ridiculed accord
ingly. There has been general re-
publican advance, which, from its
gradual nature, is guarantee against
reaction on one side or excess on the other.
MacMahon gives it distinctly to be under
stood that until 1880 the present form of
government will be upheld without weak
ness This is a sword cutting two ways.
1t secures the Republic against the monarch
lists as we'll as the radicals. At the same
time there is no indication that any force in
the coming Legislature will be strong enough
to upset anything more than the Ministry.


The Marshal says, in one of his most nota-
BILE sentences, that the present institutions
fought not to be revised before they are
honestly tried" This common sense will
concede but, inasmuch as the details of the
work give perfect satisfaction to no party, it
is idle to suppose that they are not suscepti-
BILE of marked improvement, and that, sooner
or later, the task Of amendment will be un-
dertaken. Altogether, the proclamation
although the army is quietly drawn up be-
hind twill not help the reactionists of the
Monarchy or the Empire, and the cool judg-
ment of France may safely be trusted to say
how advanced shall be the majority of the
legislators it is about to choose.
Year: 1876

SIX JUReRs have been selected in the
Tweed one million suit. There seemed q
good deal of poor opinion Of the runaway
defendant prevalent among the citizens
summoned. Fancy New Yorker who has a
difficulty in believing that Tweed is bad
man.
Year: 1876

Many families owe their prosperity
full rs much to the fact of feminine man.
agement as to the knowledge and ac
tivity of the father. The managing
woman is a pearl among women; she is
one of the prizes in the great lottery of
life, and the man who draws her may
rejoice for the rest of his days. Better
than riches, she is fortune in herself
gold mine never failing in its yield.
The woman who is able to sympathize
and carry on smoothly the work of an
ordinary family, illustrates higher sa-
gacity than Is called for by seven.tenths
of the tasks done by men. Men take one
trade and work at it; mothers and
hOusekeeper's work requires q touch
from all trades. A man has his work
hours and bis definite tasks; a woman
has work at all hours and an incessant
confusion of tasks; his work brings the
money, but does not tax the head, heart
and hands as woman's work does. Every
wife should know her husbands income.
That knowledge should be the guide OF
her conduct. A clear understanding re-
specting domestic expenses is necessary
to the peace of every dwelling. If it be
little, better is palmer meal where love
is, than an overloaded stomach and ha-
tired Herewith. If it be ample, let it be
enjoyed with all thankiulness. When
the wife, seeing her duty, has made up
her mind to this, she will brighten her
home with smiles, which will make it
region of perpetual sunshine. A saving
woman at the head of family is the
very best savings bank yet established
one that receives deposits daily and
hourly, with no costly machinery to
manage it IN, The idea of saving is
pleasant one, and if the women would
imbibe it at once and adhere to it, be.
fore they are aware OF 1t they would lay
the foundation for competent security
for stormy time and rainy day, but it
is an excess in saving when we deny
ourselves of everything that will make
US comfortable and our surroundings con-
venient and pleasant.
Year: 1876

MISUNDERSTANDING the many i'm.
provements recently added or to be
added to the Snohomish Exchange,
isa fine cooking range, bath room
with hot and cold water and barber
shop. Mr.. Cathcart is bound to keep
pace with the growth Of the place, and
eypend his money at home. The Ex.
change, when finished as he finally in.
tends to complete it, Will be as fine a
hotel of its size as can be found in our
Territory.
Year: 1876

I'VE are told OF grass in Colorado that
is so short that you must lnther it be-
fore you can now" There was man
who stood ON his head under pile
driver to have pair of tight boots driv-
Ell on, He found himself shortly after
In China, perfectly naked and without
cent in his pocket" There is a man in
the West who is so bow.legged that his
pantaloons have to be cut out with Il
circular saw" A Western editor said of
tornado, ut was wind that just sat
up on its hind legs and howled. - Weiss.
Year: 1876

Miss Thurston, the young woman who
went "up in a balloon" from Oswego a
short time ago, nearly came to grief. 1t
seems that the valve had been tampcred
with before starting by some persons on
the ground. After ascending to an alti.
tude of more than a mile Miss Thurston
opened the valve and the balloon began
rapidly to descend, hut when she at
tempted to close it she found she could
not do 50. She threw out ballast, but
to no avail, and finally, when near the
earth, Prof Squires, proprietor Of the
balloon, set out to catch it, and after a
race of tour miles came up TO it, though
not till it had been caught by farmer,
who, in his attempt to stop it was un-
tremendously dragged over fences and
in the iveliest manner imaginable, but
with true grit he hung on, for, 'as he
termed it, he WAS bound to save the
GAL
Year: 1876

The Detroit Pree Press reports that
careful estimate by competent old ladies
shows that the number OF Detroit girls
who daily go out after autumn leaves is
AGO, the number who get any leaves is
0, and the number who find bcaux and
forget al about autumn is 45l.
Year: 1876

Editors of the Dispatch::


In this present time OF excitement upon
the subject of our municipal iecttons beg
that you win grant to me o small space In
your patriotic paper for q word OF exhortas
ton to such Of our fellow-citizens as agree
with me in the political axiom that the
greatest good to the greatest number should
be esteemed paramount to all personal aspt-
rations or partisanship. For the attainment
OF this immensely important end let us put
q check upon all aspcrity Of feeling, Gnd
calmly reason about the best mode OF ae-
.complishing il, keeping in view with . lit-2
eral spirit that the qualification OF each tn-
dividual's wish is scarcely to be expected.
doubt whether every individual was satis-
fed with General Washingt TOMS election 10
the presidency. Let us not, then, indulge
in any murmuring about any plan that may


be adopted by the Conservative Committee
for the regulation Of the primary test OF
the public preference for any candidate
for any Office. Probably any plan they may
adopt will be rs good as another for satisfy
ing the wishes OF everybody. And let US
recollect, too, that this committee are enti-
tied to the support OF the party they repre-
sent. as they were chosen by their free sui-
frages, and I think fairly entitled to the
confidence of everybody on account OF their
respectability Of character. And after the;
arrangement is made for the election, what
ever it may be, let the inquiry OF every citi-:
zen be, before casting his vote for any cam
didate, "Is he honest? is he faithfulp Is he
capablen? And by observing this rule
for the guidance Of our choice, having freed
ourselves from the influence Of party aspe-.
rites, we may hope to attain the all-impor-
tant blessing Of the greatest good to the
greatest number. SENEX. #
Year: 1876

Nominating Conrention.-A Conservative
convention will be held ut the old court
house in Chesterfield county tomorrow, for
the purpose Of nominating candidate for
the office Of Commemorative attorney.
Thus far there are only two candidates in
the field .