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Year: 1876

making inquiry of him about his mother.
But there was no distrust between them
and no disagreement, and when, as they
were speaking one day of the boys
father, and Perky said suddenly, as if
he had just thought of it, d" "How would
you like to have me for father?" Ben
ny replied, without hesitation and feel
ing, "Oh, that would be splendid!"
Then they walked home without saying
another word, and when they parted at
the gate there were tears in Perky's
eyes. Benny lay awake long time
that night wondering what it could
mean, and fell asleep at last to dream
that his father came to him in the vague
white robe of an angel, with a face that
shone like the sun. And the face was
the face of Perky.


As the summer wore slowly away,
Perky's gloominess grew upon him day
by day, and he could not shake it off. 1t
seemed to him, also, that it took very lit
tie exertiop to overcome him with fatigue
He could hardly walk to the river ford,
and back as far as the Widow Hahn
lines, without a singular trembling in
his limbs, and a dizzy sensation about
the head; and he would often be
obliged to stop and steady himself
against the catalpa tree by the widows
gate before he could go on, he was SO
tired, and there was such a blur just
ahead of him. Once, when he was
standing there, the widow came out of
the house on an errand to neighbours,
and, as he lifted his hat to her, he sank
down exhaustedly at her feet; but he
pretended that he had merely stopped
to disengage a wanton brier from her
dress-skirt, and when she bowed him
her thanks, he rose and stood again like
an athlete. He had harassing cough,
too, and slept fitfully, and in his thin,
pale cheeks were ugly spots of scarlet.
When they told him he was sick and in
need of a physician, he smiled wearily,
and said: only little bilious, that's
all" And on the days when he felt so
weak that he dared not venture out
Year: 1876

War went to his moral death. The
guilty pair are now in very much the
same condition as that of Adam and
Eve, driven out of their Eden. A stain
is upon them that can never be removed,
and wherever they may wander their
crime will follow them. 1t matters
little, SO far as punishment is con-
cerned, whether the Secretary be im-
peached by Congress or not. 1t matters
little whether he be imprisoned or not.
He carries his punishment with him
like the Ancient Mariner. His soldiers
record has been honorable, but IL can
avail him nothing now. Her bewitching
beauty and brilliancy, her diamonds,
laces and yelvets make no amends for
her grievous fault. 1t is sad picture
OF woman's silly vanity and of q man's
moral weakness. 1t would be more
cheerful one if we could only be con-
yinced that we should see no more like
them. But there are other silly, thought
less, vain women who will stop at no
desire that will yield them the oppor-
tunity oil gratifying their love Of show.
There are other weak, susceptible, irres-
olute men who will not hesitate to graft
fy them even at the risk Of wrecking
themselves for lite. The ruin Of this
guilty pair is terrible warning. VIII
its lesson be in yafnp
Year: 1876

BY American Press Association to the STAR.


NEW YORK, March 10.-A special tc
the Post from Washington says that in.
vestigations, which have been worked
up cautiously and quietly, have resulted
in unearthing some startling evidence OF
corruption ON the part OF three Demo-
Gratis Of national reputation, and prob
ably other names are withheld, but the
exposure will be made in O short time
and will create greater sensation than
Belknaps case.
Year: 1876




The Board Of Health beg TO call
attention Of the public to the official list
Of new chsee Of this disagreeable dis
ease published in the morning papers.


II will be seen that the number Of
new cases IL by no means so great as for
the preceding twenty-four hours, and
the endemic may be said to be on the
decline.


The board have been actively engaged
in both fumigating and ventilating the
headquarters whence the disease ema-
mated, and 1t has ordered each Of the
quack doctors In attendance on the sick
to wear lump Of assafGtida around his
neck, in order both to purify the wearer
and warn off those who may be subject
to the disease. The care-worn and anx-
ious expression Of countenance Of those
practitioners IL easily recognized by
those accustomed to seeing such endem-
ics, but for the uninitiated the assafG-
tfda Is thought TO be necessary MS u
W arning. By ORDER.
Year: 1876

We coll attention to the advertise
ment OF this sterling club for their
grand picnic at Delachaise Grounds to-
day. A week ago. q glorious reunion OF
the young people and the solid working
men OF the ward was held at the same
place. There were some OF our well
known citizens who were called upon
for few words Of political exhortation.
and then the young folks had it all their
own way. We expect the same thing
will occur to-day.
Year: 1876

The Cardiff Giant was a carpet-bagger. His
carpet-bag has been discovered near the village
of Manlius. N. Y, 1t is of stone, with a smooth
handle The body Of the bag Is distended, show
ing that the owner was not a light traveller. The
theory is that in coming over the hills from the
direction of Chittenango the giant dropped his
bag while descending the east hill into Manlius
village; that the bag while there became petrl-
fed by the action of lime water or some other
natural process; that some Of the Oldest settlers
of Manlius village, while building a stone wall
near where this Centennial bag was found, picked
1t up and without particularly noticing It's curl
GUS form, put IL into the wall, where It remained
until found a few days ago by Messrs. Flint while
they were taking down their old stone fence for
the purpose of rebuilding it,
Year: 1876

We learn from Saratoga Springs that one ol
the bellies Of that village has had dificult opera
tion performed upon her ears for the purpose Of
reducing them to the ordinary size of such ap
pendagcs. The lady is accomplished and pleasing
to all who meet her, but up to this time she has
suffered great annoyance from the fact that hei
art of the hair-dresser or millIner could be EN-
ployed successfully in hiding this deformfty, and
she resolved TO 90 to New York and have them
cut down. Sac consulted with skilled surgeon
and, refusing to take chloroform suffered bravely
while undergoing the operation. The surgeon
believes that the ears will be all right again
within few weeks.
Year: 1876

NO CONFLICT IN THE MANAGEMENT.
THE PUBLICATION OF LEGAL OPINIONS LAST sATUR-


DAY UNAUTHORIzED-SO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
lFROM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT oP THE TRIBUNE


PHILADELPHIA June 12.-Last Saturday The
Ercning Telegraph Of this city published broadside Of
legal opinions from Charles OCOnor Of York, and
from number OF eminent lawyers In New-Jersey and
Peunsy vania all taking the ground that the Board OF
Finance possesses the right TO the Exhibition,
and that the Centennial Commission IL by law little more
than body OF honorary lOokerson. The appearance OF
these opinions the character OF The TeegruphS com
ments upon them, and the editorials in the morning
papers OF to-day have seriously alarmed the friends Of
the Exhibition by leading them to suppose that the dif-
ferences between the two bodies controlling the enter
prise TO their relative powers have resulted In an
open rupture, aud likely TO lead to scandalous con-


ct that could only be settled by judicial interference


happy to be able to state the authority OF both
Mr. Welsh the Chairman Of tho Board of Finance. and
OF Drecor-Gencral Goshorn. that no rupture OF any
sort has taken place likely to occur that the rea-
the Commission represented by its Ex-
ecutve Committee and the Board entirely harmo-
nous and that the publication referred to was nn-
authorized and ia greatly depored The legal opinions
printed were obtained by the Doard In March April and
May for the purpose Of showing the Commission at Its
annual meeting. that the views OF tho Board as 10 It's
rights and duties were sustained by strong legal
authority. About the same time the Commission pro-
curcl u Datcn OF Opinions ldWlcs VI cpuai
ability Camong them Judge Porter Of New-York
and Judge shellabarger OF Oho) which the Com
mission all power and reduced the Board TO banking
Institution for gathering funds and paying them out as
ordered.


The members OF the Board and the gentlemen con-
trolling the Commission altogether too sensible and
too much devoted to the single aim OF securing the sue
cess OF the Exhibition get by the about any ques
tion OF jurisdiction. They said to each other "We hold
different views to official powers and functions,
but will not quarrel let us appoint committee OF
conference to which all differences that may arise be-
tween in the OF the practical work Of carrying
Oh the Fair shall be referred" SO the committee was
appointed II has met two three times, and each time
the members have shaken hands and adjourned finding
no differences whatever to adjust. n the Philadelphia
papers had the trouble to inform themselves as to
the relations existing between the governing bodies
they would have led their readers into tho error Of
supposing that struggle for precedence, which could
have other effect than to ruin the Exhibition, was
about TO begin.
Year: 1876

American people to bring them forth and utilize them
that should look for delverance from present empar
rassments and for future prosperity At the same tie
national State and city governments must curall
their disbursements. We must be prudent in our credits
We must stop investing in speculative schemes. We
must cease operating In lands for the purpose OF
laying out paper cities We must stop constructing ra
through regions where there are no ana
10 freghs We must not into debt, and thus mort
gage the uncertain earnings OF the future to meet the I'M
provdent ouays Of the present BY such processes we
confidence. revive business, and powerfully
aid In a speedy return to a sound currency.
Year: 1876

the unit rule adopted by the Convention. The
Blaine men have very nearly if not quite majority
themselves and there doubtless several Morton
and Bi1stow men in the delegation. The first meet
ing Of the delegation will be held tomorrow
morning, when resolution will be adopted
to vote for Gov. Hartranft the first bal
lot in order to fulfill the instructions
of the State Convention. 1t altogether likely
that this vote will be repeated for several ballots
The Conkling men will be glad to cover their dis
comfture in this way, and his opponents say they
don't intend to jump the fence until they come to it,"
by which they mean of course that they will be IN
no haste to break the lines until the proper time
arrives. The anti-Conkling men in this delegation
are full of reasons for their hostility. They say
that Mr.. Conklng has always opposed their inter-
ests, and has done it in peculiarly offensive way;
that he has no strength among the people of the
State never having stumped it; and that he has no
hold the people at large. The delegation will
doubtedly elect Secretary Cameron chairman. and
probably designate William B. Mann to present
Gov. Hartranfts name. The New-York delegation
have intrusted the task of presenting Mr. Conk
ling's name to Stewart l.. Woodford.
Year: 1876

This is the kind of weather that makes
man wish either that Adam hadn't been successful as
hncI sder or hat some patriot would invent pair OF
linen trousers that around the neck and have
arln-holes-I Norwich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

Editor WING AND TRIBUNE II saw a
nurseryman in jackson not long since
selling trees. lie was selling a particu-
lar variety at 80 cents each. / can buy
the same tree from other places at 20
cents by the hundred or p cents singly.
If our people would be their OWN nurse
rymen it would soon be a pleasure, afford
them recreation and save them many dol
lars. 1t is so simple an operation that
one cannot but do it properly and sue
cessfuily. They get from these nurseries
what is termed rOOt-grafted trees. Now
1 assert that these rOOt-grafts are not as
good, do not make as long lived or as
good bearing trees us those grated on
the young trees. Nature never
intended for one tree TO be taken
and cut up and make a dzsn or two
of it. 1t is the reverse of the. natural
order of things. BY cutting the top root
of the peach tree you wish 10 graft they
are more likely to live. The varieties
suited to our climate are few and can be
easily obtained-I mean the scions with
which to graft. Now is the time to turn
worthless trees into good ones by graft
ing. Ii makes no difference if the tree Is
in the leaf, provided the scion IS not put
forth. Water sprouts are last to put
forth, and will answer for some time to
come. l have bought fruit trees and
waited years, and then been disappointed.
When l graft myself l know what am
doing and am certain what | am going to
get in the way of fruit For fall apples
get Kentucky streak; winter, ,ShOckiy and
Royal Red; summer, Early Harvest and
Red Astrachan. You can get q better.


Jo.s.RAP.
Year: 1876

REDUCTION or TIE PEEsIDENTLlL SArA-
RY.-We hear without regret of the pas
sage by the Senate Of = bill reducing the
salary of the President to $4,000 after
the 4th of March next. The same pro-
vision having been incorporated into the
Legislative, Executive and judicial APP
preparation Bill by the committee OF the
House of Representative, the measure
viii doubtless become law at the present
session. Thus the only President who
will have the advantage of the $4,000
salary viii be the present incumbent,
who served one term at $2j, 600 a year,
and Is now In the fourth year of his sec
ond term at $4,000. We are To return to
the Presidential salary, if not 10 the Re
publican simplicity, of former years.
Year: 1876

GIVE THE GIRLS CHANCE.-Don't
leave the girls TO learn everything after
marriage; for OF course every fond moth
er expects that her darling viii be loved
by some one, and in spite of the folly and
fashion Of to-day many of ''our girls" do
marry, and their latent good sense deVel-
ops, and they make admirable wives and
mothers. But it is a rough and thOrny
path, this learning TO be housewife, COM
panion, economist and often sick nurse
after marriage. Oh, that every rich girl
snew how TO brOil a beefsteak and make
pan OF biscuits as light as her own heart;
could concoct an oyster stew that would
tempt the appetite OF a convalescent; how
much less hardship would it SEEM TO
both husband and wife when in the GER
tain future "Bridget'' decides 20 leave
upon an hours notice. How delightful to
know that even though you have host
OF servants, your hands can best prepare
some dainty for sick husband or child.
1t is so easy to learn il all. ! often think
that young married people lose great
deal of happiness in not only not know
ing, but not doing, many little household
duties which they place within the
charge of uninterested servants. Mere
anOn.-Aunt Jane.
Year: 1876




\ BRAVE ENGINEHE.-Says the Chicago
Times: "a shaft of the Fullerton axe
nue. conduit is on fire, and five or six
men at the bottom This was the start
ling announcement that ran along the
avenues Of news yesterday forenoon.
shortly after nine O'Clock yesterday
morning fire was discovered in a small
room in the works used by the workmen,
and in a few moments the entire building
or shell covering the shaft and the ma
chinery was in flames. At this time a
shift of six men were working in the
west drift - feet under the ground, and
about 10 feet from the bottom Of the shaft.
They We're in 10 danger Of being burned
by the fire, but unless they could be cX-
tricated they would be surely suflocated.
The only means of escaping from their
perilous position was by the "cage' that
is hOisted and lowered in the shaft by a
wire rope attached to revolving drum
connected with the engine. The alarm
was given to them, and they rushed out
of the drift 70 the bottom of the shaft
only to see above them angry billows of
lurid flame. They crowded into the lit
tie cage, knowing it TO be their only hope.
Could il be possible that the engine was
still working in that sea of fire: And II
so, would or could the engineer stand al
his post? Il was an awful moment for





one against them, but suddenly the rope
tightened, the cage began to ascend; il
rose almost into the heart Of the fire,
The surface was reached; they leaped
from the cage, ran through the smoke
and flame, and were saved. These six
men owe their lives TO the hefoism of
John Ahern. the engineer. lie stood at
his post with his hand on the lever until
his face and hands were scOrched and
blistered by the flames that envelOped
him, and he alone vas injured, seriously
but not dangerously. one of the fea-
lures Of this catastrophe is that in the
room where the fire caught was stored
about five pounds of dynamite, the
amount that serves for days supply in
blasting drifts. The expectation that
this would explode and scatter wide
spread desOlatiOn increased the alarm.
But instead of exploding it caught fire
and quietly burned up. y slight concus-
sion would have saficcd TO let loose the
ten thousand devils it contained. but II
responded gracefully 70 the winning
ways of the flames.
Year: 1876

WHAT II WILL AMOUNT To.-Few peO-
pie have any idea, unless they have had
occasion TO look into the matter, of the
sum TO which regular saving, however
small, each day Will amount to in term
of years when invested in compound in
terest. The following table shows what
would be the result at the end of fifty
wears. by saving a certain amount each
day, and PutJiHg it at interest at the low
l-aTe of six reI- cent.
Year: 1876

A. w. Chase, of the United States Coast
Survey, in note to the editor of the Popu-
Tar Science Monthly, describes as follows a
contest which he and brother officer wit
messed in 1867 on the Purissima, small
trout stream about twenty-four miles south
of San Francisco


1--WE had been fishing on the stream, and
| came to high bank which overlooked a
transparent pool of water about ten feet in
diameter and four feet in depth This pool
was fringed with willows, and had on one
side small gravel bank. The trout at first
sight was lying in mid water, heading up
stream. IL was, as afterward ascertained.
fully nine inches in length, very desirable
prize for an angler. While studying how to
cast our flies to secure him, a novel fisherman
appeared, and 50 quick were his actions
that we suspended our own to witness them.


This new enemy of the trout was a large
water snake OF the common variety, striped
black and yellow. He swan up the pool on
the surface until over the trout, when he
made dive, and by dexterous movement
seized the trout in such fashion that the
jaws of the snake closed its mouth. The
fight then commenced


The trout had the use of its tail and
fins, and could drag the snake from the sur
face; when near the bottom, however. the
snake made use of its tail by winding it
around every stone or root that it could
reach. Alter securing this tail-hold it could
drag the trout toward the bank, but on let
ting go, the trout would have new adyan-
tage. This battle was continued for full
twenty minutes, when the snake managed
to get its tail out of water and clasped
around the root Of the willows mentioned as
overhanging the pool The battle was then
up, for the snake gradually put coil after
coil around the root, with each one dragging
the fish toward the land When half its
body was coiled it unloosed the first bold
and stretched the end of its tail out in every
direction, and, finding another root, made
fast, aud now using both, dragged the trout
out on the gravel bank. 1t now had it un-
der its control, and uncoiling, the snake
dragged the fish fully ten feet up on the
bank, aud suppose would have gorged him.
We ailled the snake nnd replaced the trout
In the water, as We thought that he deserved
liberty lie was apparently unhurt, and in
few moments darted off. That the water
snake of our California brooks will ,rey
upon the young of trout and also the small
Ter and less active fishes, l have noticed, but
never haye seen an attack on fish SO large
or one more hotly contested.
Year: 1876

Standing on the postofflce steps and look
ing down on the smaller boys who wanted to
Fnow why he had plasters on his face and
his arm in sling he said


81 don't care whether you are Democrats
or Republicans, nor how much you hole
on the street, but don't put two ounces OF
powder into an old dinner horn and think
you've got the biggest cannon in town."


"Did you ?" asked small newsboy.


"DidIG Go up to my house and see the
dent in the ground where cvme down-see
mothers left leg-see my old goat in the
corner of the yard waiting fora New York
surgeon to come and pick the powder out Of
his nose You move on small boyP
Year: 1876

We are indebted to kind friend on West
Seventh street fer a handsome present in tic
shape of an ugly Klusas grssshoppar. The
animal came browsing around in Nr, Jones
back yard Yesterday and had eaten ua sever.
al tine pear trees before he wa discovered.
Nls. jones, who has never Travelled much
tilr"ugA tlie country, WIS the fir,t to see the
Illuminating grassho9p,r, and rushing in to
where the family ws, at dinner, hreatAle.,ly
told her father that somebody's COW had
broken IN the yard aud was eating I'D his
fruit trees, Mr., Jones went out and co, :
fron;cd the bug rum the west Just as it hgd
pulled up cabbage head in the garden aud
WAS about TO swallow il Wish the aid of
his two sons aud big dog, the impudent in
sect MAS oHerpowered anl led down to the
Enquirer Office by a Ghain in its nose. In the
absence OF proper cage, we temporarily tied
the beast with two.ply rope to the door
post OF our oHice and went home to supper
When We returned two hours later the gra.s-
hopper was loose. lie had chewed the rope
from of his leg and then ate the rope up to
the doorsill. A new silk umbrella, an old
broom, several pieces of coal, map of west.
era railroad lands, aud three cor ies of An
Agricultural Report bound in cloth had also
been consumed by the queer quadruped, As
we entered he had just reared himself and
was reaching for the fire alarm chart. In
sheer desperation and self-defense we shot
him through the heart with our Derringer.
We hereby notify the public that we will not
accept any more animated presents before
Christmas Cincinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1876

ENCOURAGEMENT FOR YoUTH.-A paper
encourages the young by the example Of a
youth who formerly lived in a hovel, yet
with only his two hands and a crowbsr
opened jewelry shop and now he Is living
in large stone residence at Portland.
Year: 1876

A remarkable game of cards was played
in the basement of house on Washington
street yesterday. The boy of the house had
just turned up diamond and was waiting
for the other toy to lead, when the old man
appeared at the head of the stairs, ordered
the other boy up, turned his own boy M,
discarded some of his apparel, and swung
aclub. The old man played it alone and
made every point, although the neighbt 70
boy cut.-Rone Sentinel