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Year: 1876

humor, but though surliness 10 each othei
and discourtesy to women are but too COM
mon, the million or two of passengers never
let their indignation at the companies go
beyond a growL We want rapid transit
badly, but comfortable and healthy transit
is just as much needed. Can the companies
stihe legislation on this point as effectively
as they induce the passengers to stife each
ofher2
Year: 1876

ANOTHER MUTNoUs SCENE on an American
ship is reported from England. The riot in
this case seems to have arisen from shipping
q drunken crew. The master of the Caravan
was wrong in attempting TO put TO sea with
his men in such beastly condition as the
despatch describes, but we fear the habit of
taking crews in any state has made master
mariners callous to the probabilities of q
knurderous unity among the maddened
wretches Seamen out of work are probably
scarce on the Mersey, but delay of single
tide would probably have obviatod -
xnutinv.
Year: 1876

LIBERTY OF THE Press is in its extreme in
fancy in Germany. The select committee of
The Reichstag has resolved to oppose the
government plan, which would deprive
those accused of press offences of trial by
Jury. This is small beginning, but one
must begin somewhere.
Year: 1876

The ENGLISH BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY
into the disgraceful doings on the bark
Island Belle discloses a strange arrangement
by which one man is nominal and another
real captain. This is intended to circum-
vent the law which requires the captain to
hold q certificate. The death of the man
Lewis was not commented on in the finding
of the board of inquiry; but seaman's life
may be small to them beside an attempt TO
dodge the Shipping act
Year: 1876

The gay life of the French capital has not
bubbled so much at the surface during the
past week as is its won't The coming
elections, doubtless, act as discouagingly
on it as the cynic Tennyson sings of would
on the poets fountain if the worldly man
went near it. Even in politics, however,
gay Paris must have its little joke,
and NJ Duval, with his gallant
six hundred cabmen riding down. with
republicans to the right of them
and republicans to the left and in front Of
them, to restore the Empire, is sufficiently
comical to tickle the strikers" of our own
elections, who often ride off with great
show in one direction, hoping some
body will think it worth while
to pay them to drive off in the opposite.
Then, too, the gandinS are off skating on the
lake in the Bois de Boulogne and will return
in good time with good words opropoS
deS pdtinS We cannot, moreover refuse q
laugh to the saucy and wilful little Lucca,
who, with her successive husbands,
her sweet will over Europe in defiance
of Mr.. Gye, who, having failed to enmesh
her at Brussels, now hopes to bag the plump
little woman at Vienna She has slipped
through the fingers of great many man
ayers in a great many European capitals,
and wherever she goes the public always
takes her part against the manager she de-
serts They win by it, and this suggests a
thought for our young poets, who
may symbolic her in the form of bird
that can always win its welcome with it's
notes. The gift of song is divine, and hence
the people of any city will pardon the fly
away foibles of the songstress, if they only can
catch little of her melody when she hops
on their twig. We are to have Rossi, but not
until next September The American prize
play project has bsgged FIVE good dIamas


and that is something American colony
gossip points to wedding breakfast.
Year: 1876

COLORADO BEFTLE-An old farmer gives
his experience with these pests as follows
" AS soon as | perceive the larvae have form
ed and commenced operations on the leaves
OF the potatoes, choose a dry day when
the top of the sol about the hills is drv and
dusty, commence at one end of the rows and
grasp handful the dust and throw it sharply
against, the tops which knocks off a large
number, and those that remain on the top
are so nicely busted that they will die from
the effects Of the dust; they are so moist the
dust sticks to them very readily. In few
days after first drsting look over the piece
again, and If any remain, dust them again.
and have no more trouble with them. 1t
don't take much time to go over an acre.
Let every farmer who is troubled with these
nasty things do this and we shall soon head
them off.
Year: 1876

Retrospective Investigations by laborers in
any branch of science or art, are often nee
essary in order to prevent them from becom-
ing too egotistical and confident in their real
or supposed advancement.


Our pomologists are not wholly free from
faint of self-laudation of their great pro-
gress, and while we are not disposed to check
enthusiasm, which tends to promote the
happiness or welfare of the masses or even
individuals, still it may not be amiss in this,
our Centennial year, to take retrospective
glance over the past century and note some
of the important changes which have taken
place in the production of certain kinds OF
fruits.
Year: 1876

and grow more thriftily and ripen better, if
the seed be soaked in salt brine or copperas
water few houls and then rolled in plaster.
lime or ashes to dry it fit for planting; be-
sides, another benefit is derived from this
brining grains ard other seeds-it does much
to prevent destruction by birds, vermin and
insects
Year: 1876

Among the most useful plants of New
Mexico is the soap weed, the roots of which
are used as soap. Those who are in the
habit of using the plant prefer it to soap,
and claim that it extracts all dirt and grease
much more readily, and that it restores the
lustre to the goods
Year: 1876

ENTERPRISE IN FARNIING.-There can be
no question that the lack of enterprise in
farming is one great drawback to the pro-
gress of agriculture but it is not the great
est by any means. The great clog to i'm
provement in farming is the lack of infor-
mation-of that knowledge necessary to
sllillful and well directed labor. A farmer
should be educated in his calling, and if he
has any industry he will be an enterprising
and successful cultivator. Every spare mo-
ment should be spent in reading and study
ing some good work on agriculture.-Am.
Stock Journal.
Year: 1876

AND GLASS OF LAGER REER OR A


sEGAR THROWN IN.


In New York the Union BARRIERS held
meeting to take action against the cutting
down of prices in shaving and hair cut
ting on the part of non-union men.


1t was asserted that there were over
twenty shops in which shaving was done
for five cents. Indignant members relat-
ed.that not only was shave given for
five cents at some ofthese places, but a
cigar was thrown in for the purpose of
drawing custom. Other members men
toned places where shave and glass
Of beer were given for five cents. Then
member exhibited printed circular, in
which "a good shave with good cigar"
for ten cents" An excited united barber
in the back of the room said that he knew
shop where 'schooner" of beer were
given for five cents. This was confirmed
by another united barber, and was regard
ed as the crowning atrocity. A section
was adopted in the constitution, prohibit
ing all BARRIERS keeping, or working in, the
five cent shops from becoming members
OF the association. 1t was also decided
that no boy who learned his trade in a
five-cent shop should be admitted to
membership, or be allowed to work in
the shops of members. In the discussion
it was suggested that the keepers of the
five-cent shops be persuaded if possible to
conform to the customary prices. The
members said that if persuasion would
not do, the organization would set up
shops in the vicinity of the refractory bar
bers and shave for three cents, or even for
nothing.
Year: 1876

MYSTERY OF DREAMs.-It is related
that a man fell asleep as the clock telled
the first stroke of twelve. He awakened
ere the echo of the twelfth stroke had
died away. having. in the interval,
dreamed that he committed crime, was
detected after five years, tried and con-
demned the shock of finding the halter
about his neck aroused him to con-
sciousness, when he discovered that all
these events had happened in an infn-
itesimal fragment of time. Mohammed,
wishing to illustrate the wonders Of
sleep, told how certain man, being a
sheik, found himself, for his pride. made
a poor fisherman; that he lived as one
for sixty years, bringing up family
and working hard and how, upon
waking up from this long dream, so
short time had he been asleep that
the narrow necked gourd bottle, which
he knew he overturned as he fell asleep,
had not time in which to empty itself.
How fast the soul travels when the body
is asleep! Often, when we awake, we
shrink from going back into the dull
routine of sordid existence, regretting
the pleasanter life of dreamland. How
is it that sometimes, when we 60 to a
strange place, we fancy that we have
seen it before? Is it possible that when
one has been asleep the soul has foated
away. seen the place, and has that mem
ory of it which SO surprises us? In
word, how far dual is the life of man,
how far not?
Year: 1876

Your father and Benny were nearly
dressed and were wild with delight.


"1'm going to see my mother! I'm
going to see my mother!" Benny kept
saying, as one Of the sailors was but
toning his jacket and lacing up bis
shoes.


Then we scrambled on deck. 1t
seemed such time getting from Bun
ker's Island up to the channel. Long
before we got to the wharf people had
spied US through their glasses, and the
word had spread. 1t seemed as if half
the town was at the wharf, and you
may be sure your grandmother and
Benny's mother were not in the rear.


You can imagine the rest as we'll as
I could tell it. It's a part of the story
I always skip. I will only say that
Captain Crowell, who brought us home,
and who was discharged at Boston,
was offered the command of one of the
finest briggs that ever sailed out of Var
mouth, and went down in her in
storm off the West Indies, ten years
Afterwards.
Year: 1876

LAFAYETTE, IND, June 11.-Jamea


A. Moore. aged about thirty-fve, liv-


ing on farm near the Farmers Insti-


tute, about Is miles south of this city,
committed suicide at the Lake House in


this city last night. He leaves a wife
and three children. No cause is known
for the deed. The manner in which it
was accomplished is perhaps unparal-
leled in horrid ingenuity. He came to
the Lake House Saturday, said be was
perfecting an invention, and would prob
ably stay a week, but would visit his
home Monday. and prepaid his bill till
that time. He called at the machine
shop Of Harding & Sons, had large
broad.axs and two bars of three inch
wide by one inch thick iron, sixteen
inches long. which he had rivetsd to
the head of the axe On either side,
fastened to these bars in the shape Of a
handle to an axe. he had q system of
wooden bars eight feet long, the ex-
treme end of which was fastened to a
cross-piece. secured to the floor by
hinges. The axe was raised and held
to its nearly perpendicular position by
double cord, fastened to the WALL
Between the cords stood q candle ar
ranged SO that when the candle burned
down to the cords it would burn them
off, and the axe fall. Where the axe
would fall be placed small box, open
on one side, in which, when found, was
his head With some cotton, which had
been chloroformed. His chin was held
up from his neck by a stick run across
the box, through holes on either side,
holding his head firmly in position.
He was strapped tightly to the floor
with two straps, one around his legs.
another about bis arms and breast. The
straps were both screwed to the floor,
rendering it impossible to move. It is
supposed that he set his axe, lit the
candle, and strapped himself to the
floor, put his head in the box with the
chloroformed cotton, and was probably
insensible when the axe fell. The axe
and ixings would weigh about so
pounds, and would fall a distance of
from 10 to Is feet. His head was COM
plctely severed from his body, and the
axe buried in the boards beneath.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1876

My neighbours house is not SO high
Nor half so nice as mine;


often see the blinds ajar,
And through the curtains fine,
It's only muslin, and the steps
Are not of stone at all


And yet long for her small home
To give mine all in all.


Her lawn is never left to grow
The children tread it down,
And when the father comes at night,
l hear them clatter down


The gravel walk; and such a noise
Comes to my quiet ears,


As my sad hearts been waiting for
So many silent years.


Sometimes peep to see them seize
His coat and hand and knees
All three so anxious to be first;
And hear her call, "Don't tease
Papa"-the baby springs
And then the low brown door
Shuts out their happiness, and
Sit wishing as before
That my neighbor's little cottage
And the jewels of her crown
Had been my own; my mansion
With its front of granite brown,
It's damask and its Honiton-
Its lawn so green and bright
How gladly would give them
For her motherhood tonight,
Year: 1876

| PLEASE DO NOT PILE ANYTHING ON MY
LITTLE ONES.


Monday evening, as the train bound
East in charge of Conductor Dunham,
stopped here for supper, we noticed a
young woman attired in deep mourning
alight from one Of the passenger coaches
and walked down the platform, attended
by a gentleman. She had a handker-
chief to her eyes, and, with her head
resting upon the shoulder of her escort,
her body quivered with emotion, as the
hot tears ran down her face. We did
not suspect the cause of her grief until
she passed the baggage-master leaning
against this car. AS she did so, she
lifted up her head, and with the tears
still streaming down her pale face, she
said, in tremulous voice: "Please do
not pile anything on my little ones !"
and then. giving up afresh to the in
tensest grief, she sank her head on the
shoulder Of the gentleman, and passed
back to the coach from which she came.


As soon as she was gone from sight,
we stepped up to the baggage man and
inquired the cause of the lady's action
He thereupon told us that only three
weeks ago she had passed up the road
with family of three little children.
She and they were, at that time, enjoy
ing good health, and were happy in one
another's love. They were beautiful
children and the mother idolized them.
Having reached their point of destina-
tion in the Western portion of Kansas,
they were suddenly taken sick, and the
three little ones died within few days
of one another, and there was nothing
left to the mother but to bear their
corpses back to her home in the East,
and SO they were in the car.-Sedalia
Rr01on
Year: 1876

The Rochester Union tells the fol-


lowing story concerning "a medium


sized black and tan dog of unusual


spirit and intelligence" owned in that


city: On a recent occasion, when ont


with its master, a COED sized wood
chuck was discovered by the dog par


TALLY concealed under q. large tree, and
in such position that it could not be


dislodged by ordinary means, and could


not be reached by the eager terrier.


who was wild at the prospect Of his


prey escaping him. It occurred to one


Of the party that by pouring water in


the burrow the grounding would be


forced to evacuate his quarters and


give battle to the dog. A creek ran


near by, and, finding an old tin pail,


water was carried to the root of the tree


and the chuck flooded out. His fate


was soon decided by the dog, who is
said to have shown more than ordinary
satisfaction at the result, and from the
after result must have taken mental
note of the means by which the burrow-
ing animal was brought within his
reach. This occurred several weeks
ago, and had almost passed from the
recollection Of the dogs owner, when it
was recalled by the following strange,
if true, incident: In taking his GUS
tomary constitutional in the woods,
the gentleman not thinking of any such
thing as the destruction Of wood
chuck, was astonished to see his dog
stop like we'll trained setter on the
bank Of small creek, and sniff eagerly
at something on the other side It
hesitated but moment and then dashed
into the water and was soon digging
with vim at the root Of an old tree
and looking up anxiously toward his
master, as if conscious that the assist |
ance Of the latter was absolutely neces-
sary to the success of his design on the
woodchuck which he had found. His
owner, not wishing to disappoint the |
dog, went over to see what was up.-l
He found the situation to be similar to |
that of the occasion when a deluge en-
abled the dog to make away with his
foe. But this time there was no pail |
at hand, and it appeared as if the wood
chuck would escape. In this emer-
gency the dog suddenly disappeared,
and it was not known where be had
gone. He was absent five or ten min
utes. and on making his appearance
astonished his master by bis frantic
efforts to run along with an old tin pre-
serve can, which he was carrying in his
mouth, althoughit partially covered his
eyes.
Year: 1876

There is no pathological fact more
clearly ascertained than that the most
formidable phases OF nervous diseases are
directly traceable to imperfect digestion
Insomnia, with its train OF diretul conse-
quence, proceeds more frequently from
weakness of the stomach than from any
other cause, Mere sedatives are power
less to cure nervousness, and soon cease
to pallate its symptoms. The true way
to strengthen the nervous system is to
invigorate the digestive and asslmlatlve
organs, upon whose unobstructed action
its equilibrium is absolutely dependent
The daily use of Hostetter's Stomach BIT
ters will do more to brace and soothe the
weakened and irritated nerves, and IN
duce sound, refreshing sleep nature 8
grand catholcon-than all the so-called
nervines to be found in the pharmaco-


pgia or ont of it. A wineg OF the
Bitters should be taken before each meal.
Year: 1876

The GAME LAw.-The last Legisla-
ture amended the Penal Code relative
to the game law so as to read; Every
person who between the first day of Jan
uary and the first day Of September in
each year takes, kills or destroys elk,
deer, mountain sheep or antelope, is
guilty of misdemeanor." The law as it
now stands also makes it misdemeanor
for any one TO kill the same at any time,
unless it be used or sold for food. This
is to prevent the killing Of deer for their
skins.
Year: 1876

A Grand Centennial Cele-
bration, beftting the Com
memoration Of the ON E
IIUNDREDTH Anniversary
Of American Independence,
will take place in Weaver
vile on the approaching 4th
Of July, and an invitation is
hereby extended to all the
People OF Trinity County to
attend and take part in the
Festivities of the occasion.


1t is intended to make the
DAY one Of General Rejoic.
ing and Jollifcation, and to
this end the Committee asks
the assistance and hearty CO.
operation Of
Year: 1876

A NUMBER OF cases OF smallpox have
resulted fatally in San francisco. The
beauties Of Chinese immigration are show
ing themselves. In some of the lower
country towns people are vaccinating in
anticipation of the disease spreading.
Year: 1876

THIRTY-oNE prisoners were discharged
from the State Prison on Tuesday May
Both. Beside this wholesale Jail delivery
there were escapes. We ought not to
need branch prison at this rate.
Year: 1876

On! IF Boss TWEED were only here to
"help US raise money to carry Indiana, "
is the exclamation of many an innocent
Tildenite in New York. But Tilden him
self is not so anxious for the return of his
former partner in iniquity. They practiced
the true Democratic civil service reform
together in the good old Tsmmany days, "
when Tweed was wont to give Tlden
S., 600 check on more Insignificant occa-
sions than the present canvass, and the
latter tr mbles in his boots whenever he
thinks O: the possibility that Tweed might
be 1nduc, d 10 tell how the money was
raised. Verify, the way of the trausgressor
is hard
Year: 1876

The Democrats are raising money in
New York with which to carry the In
diana election next month. The Tammany
office holders have been assessed for that
purpose, and business firms in trouble
with tie revenue bureau have BEEN COM
pellCd to contribute. This is civil service
reform with d vengeance.
Year: 1876

BOTH Tweed and Tilden now regret that
sweet William did not go to Great Britain
instead of Spain. Derby would not have
surrendered Tweed, and Tilden would not
be shaking with fear at possible reveal
Year: 1876

The latest explanation of Tilden's income
tax is that the $1,000 check given to Tweed
was given for the latter to carry to the col
lector Of internal revenue and pay Tilden's
taxes, but that Tweed appropriated the money
in another way, and put it where, in his own
judgment, 1t would do the most good.
Year: 1876

Lately grass was discovered to cause in
toxication, and it is called "stipa." We sup
pose hereafter, when person is found to be
intoxicated, in polite language he will be said
to be con-Stipd-ted.
Year: 1876

for the afflicted people at Savannah andJ5runs-
wick tomorrow Who can more appro-
piately move in Washington in reference to
this matter than those who preach the gospel
Of Christ for a common humanityl The i'm
poyerished cities of the South are sending their
dollars, their doctors ard their nurses; Balt-
more, Boston and New York are responding
to the call of the suffering. Shall the Capital
of the nation manifest not throb of common
humanityl Let each preacher tomorrow tell
the story of woe and invoke liberal gifts, and


send at once, each for himself, the offerings of
Year: 1876

WILMINGTON is troubled with an adjunct
of church edifces, known as sexton, that
through his ingenuity in studying to please,
gets his foot deeper in the trouble, and pro-
vokes annoyance and embarrassment. He
studies to make the congregation appear to
advantage, as much as the usher of thea
tire, by strict cuteness of ushering that
makes small audience fill up the building
by scattering process, to look like a really
encouraging attendance. The visitors are
his especial victims, and under the full gaze
of eyes upon all sides, they are conducted
forward and sprinkled among the front
benches. The visitor may have on tight
boots that give nervous creaking as an
accompaniment to the tramp forward, but
it is his duty as sexton with an eye single
to business, to regard such things as OF
small consideration, and the greatly an.
noyed victim has to submit as resignedly as
a candidate for initiation in an order.
Year: 1876

TEE barber business in Wilmington has
received quite revolution In Wilmington
recently. Heretofore law has prevailed
preventing the opening of shops on the
Sabbath, and the young man who intended
visiting his lady-love on that day had to be
shorn of superfuous beard on the Saturday
night before, or 60 into her presence with
an uncleanly face, unless he could borrow
the razor Of neighbor. A few weeks since
a barber was arrested at tho instance of
another for shaving on tho Sabbath. Mayor
Whiteley promptly dismissed the case, and
now the razor and brush are welded with
safety upon the seventh day Of the week,
and the revenues Of the BARRIERS have greatly
increased.