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Year: 1876

a MEETING Called for the Third Ward
Saturday Night.-A meeting has been
called by Mr. j. r. Cogbill, the secretary OF
the Third Ward Club, with the approval OF
the City Central Committee at its meeting
of Wednesday night, to take place on next
Saturday night at O'Clock for the purpose
of electing an alternate to the Congression-
al Convention and to express the preference
OF the ward for the congressional candidate
from this district. It is hoped that the
voters OF the ward will come out in full
force in order to have full and fair ex-
preston Of the sentiment OF this ward at
this meeting.
Year: 1876

Disappointed.-Q -Qpite number OF the
stone-cutters and others who were em-
ployed at the Old Dominion Granite Works
previous to the suspension were disap-
pointed in not being able to obtain Job
when the force was put on yesterday morn
ing, and are somewhat out Of joint in con-
sequence. Your turn next" boys.
Year: 1876

That Bridge.-The citizens Of the Fourth
Ward are anXiousIy awaiting the completion
Of the bridge at the intersection Of Cowardin
avenue and the Petersburg railroad. The
want OF this bridge is a source Of much in
convenience to the people in that portion OF
the city
Year: 1876

FsFcut.-A personal rencounter took
place between two wcll-known young men
in Yard in the upper part Of the city yes
terday' afternoon. Neither OF the parties
were injured. No complaint was made,
consequently no arrests have been made,
Year: 1876

The Ielegraphic Connecti0n.-A majority
OF the members of the City Council favor
the proposed connection of Richmond and
Manchester by telegraph, and the matter
will no doubt come up before this body at
its meeting tonight.
Year: 1876

AN EMBLEMATIC ANswER.-Amongst the
most significant replies received to our in
quiries in regard to the tobacco crop was
an envelope with nothing in it but a hall
consumed match. This was to signify that
the crop was burnt up.
Year: 1876

Jennie June proposes this prayer Tor the
women:


ooh! Lord, Thou hast freed the slave
and given the colored man right, In com
mon with his brethren, to vote. NO other
important question being now before Ihee,
NAV it please Thee to pay some attention to
women, and first OF all teach them little
common sense in regard to their dress, and
Thine be the praise forever and ever.
Amen. JENNIE JUNE"


There is said to be great indignation In
Boston over the failure Of the Governor OF
massachusetts to affix his name to the war
rant for the execution Of the boy-murderer,
Jesse Pomeroy.
Year: 1876

A gentleman who had charge of a Re |
form School was in the habit of going up
every night after the boys were in bed to
see that all was right and safe.


One evening he was passing as usual
along the long hall on each side of which
were the sleeping-rooms. All was still
except the large clock ticking the seconds
or he thought so at first. But as he
passed one Of the doors he heard low sobs
1t was then between ten and eleven o'clock.


Can't you get to sleep, Tommy?" said
he, going to the bed.


"No, sir" said Tommy.


"What is the matter, my boy p


40 DEAR" sobbed Tommy, ~ was think
ing of my mother. l made her feel so
badly, and want to ask her to forgive me,
but 1 can't-she is dead. never can see
her again."


Tommy sobbed harder than ever.


Poor Tommy. Itwas very sad. Perhaps
he broke his kind mothers heart by his
willfulness. But though his case was very
sad, it was not a hopeless one. Jesus
Christ, who is faithful and ready to forgive
our sins if we repent of them, could take
away the sting from Tommy's breast, and
make him happy. in the hope that when he
died he might see his mother, and find
how fully she had forgiven him.


But how much better it would have been
if Tommy had always done every thing he
could to make his poor mother happy
woman all the time she was on earth.


Though it is too late for Tommy to dc
this, it may not be too late for some Of you
dear lads, to make your mother happy.
Never speak in disrespectful or surly
tone to your mother. Speak politly anC
, kindly to her. Make her proud of you
Don't be headstrong or willful. Even i
your mother has weak, womanish fears, d
, not look at he with contempt. 1t is onl,
! manly to treat woman with great tender
| ness and kindness, and if poor care.wor
, mother is nervous lest you come to som
: harm, even though she is causelessly Sc
: should you not, so much the more, be kin
t and gentle to her?


J, There is a great blessing in store for boy
, who treat their mothers with considerable
J and love. God will labundantly bless then
Y To feel that you have never said one wor


to cause unhappiness to father or mcth'
rs must be a source Of great comfort to you
n you live to be man. know one ms
r. who has this consolation. He is man b





y loved of the Lord, like the Apostle job
Year: 1876

The pen with which President Grant
signed the Centennial bill was made from
the quill Of an American eagle shot in the
vicinity of Mount Hope, Oregon. The pen
and the eagle will be exhibited at the Cen.
tennial.
Year: 1876

Eight years ago this very year, the bad men
belonging to the Democratic party in the
state of Louisiana, undertook TO strike terror
into the hearts of the negroes of that state, so
they would not dare to go to the polls on elec-
tion-day. A committee, of which George f.
Hoar was prominent member, went down
there afterward and inquired into all the facts,
and they actually proved over eight hundred
cold-blooded murders within week in that
state Since that evidence was put on file, 1
have not been able to regard southern civiliza-
tion as fit to live in this country. 1t may he
very wrong to stir up anew the passions of the
war for the sake of personal success, but am
absolutely sure of one thing; namely, that the
country cannot afford TO take the risk OF allow
ing the south to govern it for many years yet;
not till there can arise southern statesman
good enough to admit that slavery was wrong,
and the civilization which it fostered IS wofnl-
ly deficient iu some respects. No such south
eruer sits in the present Congress. One and
all seem to think that nowhere on the face of
the earth is there intelligence, honor, aud true
philanthrophy, though the southern people do
hate the negroes, and see nothing inhuman in
the employment of blood.houuds to catch es.
capped military prisoners.
Year: 1876

The Chicago common council has appointed
committee to enforce the ordinance of the
new city charter which provides that all foreign
insurance companies doing business there shall
pay tax into the city treasury of $500 on
every S100 of their net receipts


The reduction of the rates by the Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph c., went into effect be-
tween the principal cities yesterday. The re-
duction varies from 20 to 80 per cent
Year: 1876

WHATEVER may be the cause of the re-
fusal on the part of the Turkish government
to permit Doctor Schiemann to continue his
subterraneau explorations, the general pub
lie, as well as scientists, will very sincerely
mourn the check thus given to his work. His
discoveries, fortunately, have been so except
ionaly valuable that Intervention of Euro
pean governments in his behalf may be ex-
pected, and we may therefore hope that the
Interruption OF his useful labors may be but
temporary.
Year: 1876

IT is very funny to hear Democrats taking
credit to their party because no deficiency
bills are to be reported this session. The
credit belongs to the Administration which
has so reduced expenses that the appropria-
tions made were sufficient, and to tine pre-.
ceding congress which made SO ample .provis-
ion for the necessities of government. It is
safe to say that if the Democracy persist in
crippling the departments there will be hosts
of deficiency bills next session. But the
Democrats don't care for that, for the Presl-
dental election will then be over.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty tf good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nicatiOns that are not nsed.
Year: 1876

tin rings are made OF gold " ire coil.
Ell round like a snake into four or five
strands, the head raised and i!attrnrd.
SO that diamond or opal Of size may
be set in 1t, and form its one clttering
eye.
Year: 1876

WHAT WOULD FOLLOW If CERTIFICATES WERE RE-
FUSED REPUBLICAN ELECTORS IN OREGON
THE OPPORTUNITY DESIRED BY THE HOUSE OF


REPRESENTATIVES.


To the EDITOR Of The Tribune.


SIR Some of the possible complications that may
arise to test the selfcontro of the American people
have been well pointed out in the letters of your
Washington correspondent but the phases which
this contest may assume before President Grants
successor is inaugurated are SO various that it may
not be inopportune, since suppositons are IN order,
to suppose another case If the Returning Boards of
Louisiana and Florida give the electoral vote of
those States to Gov. Hayes, while there remains the
most shadowy basis for contest By the Democratic
managers, of course they look to the House of Rep
resentatives as their final hope. 1t is not two Presi-
dents who needed the chances from such con-


ct would be too slender to warrant the trial. They
want one President only, but that one must be Mr.
Tilden, and under the circumstances he could only
be elected by the House.


Now suppose that in some way there happened to
appear less than 1S5 officially certified Repub-
lcan electors. Suppose, for example, the Gov
ernor of Oregon should refuse a certificate upon
the ground of some technical objection to one
of the electors of that State. If Congress has
no authority to go behind the certificates,
the result would be tie and therefore the
election would be left to the decision Of the Demo-
cratic House. But suppose it held by Re
publicans that the Governor of Oregon acted
contrary to law in not issuing certificates to all
three electors, who is to exercise the authority OF
revising and oveIruling this actlOn' The President
of the Senate can only the vote of properly
certified electors and personally he has no power to
add to nor subtract from this number If then the
Senate should assume to delegate to him the power
of counting the three votes for Oregon to which the
State is entitled, the opportunity for which the
House is waiting is at presented. For If the
Senate claims any jurisdiction in the premises the
House will assert corresponding right and will
reject the votes of the questionable Southern States


lt would seem from this view that any action from
any Quaser which would place the Senate in the
dilemma of submitting to what they would consider
the unjust suppression OF a single Republican
electoral vote on the hand. or of opposing such
an Injustice the other would either give MIR. Ilden


majority of the electoral votes insure his cleo
tOn by the House of Representatives. In the special
case supposed, the GOyernorOf North Carolina might
retaliatc by withholding certificates from the Demo-
cratic electors of that State, which would leave
Gov. Hayes with the majority of the electors whose
appointment was officially certified under the great
seals of the several States. But even then might
be held that 1S5 vOtes-a majority OF the full col
lege-were necessary Tor q choice, and this number
not being found thr election would still revert to
the House. ..


Xelc- York, Nov. 81, 1876.
Year: 1876

impossible then to'make any estimate OF the damage
which probably will be large


At 2:O5 a. M. a dispatch received at the Polics
Central Office from the ne-hundred-and-twenty-nn
Street Police Station that the fire was under control
The police were unable at that time to form any estimate
OF the extent Of the fire the amount Of the loss From
the fact that the burning nearly two hours before
1t under control and the character OF theproperV
involved it is believed that the loss win be heavy.
Year: 1876

All that is needed to secure the purchase OF the
treas Tres from Cyprus $4,000 and the trustees OF the
Metropolitan Museum appeal urgently for this amount
Contributions toward this object either be sent 10
the Museum at No 1923 West Foureenth-st. or 10 THE
TRIRrrNE Office checks being always drawn payable to
the order of the metropolitan Museum OF Art.
Year: 1876

Yesterday the pressure Of the air increased steadily
except during few hours Of the evening, when light
rain was falling That rain formed part OF the storm
Sunday and Monday; it the fringe Of another
not nearly severe which the greater part is likely
pass the north Of this latitude Temperature has
very slightly risen.


For this city and vicinity partially cloudy skies may be
expected to-day aud tomorrow. On Thursday the
weather Will probably be colder.
Year: 1876

EFFECT OF TEA ON THE SKlN,--If you
drop few drops of strong tea upon Il
,,ieaa of iron, knife blade, tor instance.
the tannate of iron is formed, which is
black lr you mix with iron filings or
pulrerized iron, you can make fair arti
Gle OF ink. Ii you mix it with fresh hu-
man blood, it forms with the iron Of the
blood the tannate of iron. Take human
skin and let it soak for time in strong
tea, aud it will become leather. Now,
when we remember that the liquids which
enter the stomach are rapidly absorped
by the veins and absorbents of the stom-
ach, aud enter into the circulation and are
thrown out into the system by the skin,
respiration, and kidneys it is probable
that drink SO common as tea, and so
apuudanty used, will have some effect
Can 1t be possible that tannin, introduced
with so much liquid producing perspira-
tion, will have no effect upon the skin 7
Look at the tea drinkers of Russia, the
Chinese, aud the old women of America.
who have SO long continued the habit OF
drinking strong tea Are they not dark
colored and leather. skinned? When
young they were fair skinned.
Year: 1876

A CUTE Connecticut chap proposes to
fit up = steamer and tow IN iceberg to
India, where it would sell for eight cents
per pound. A better way would be to fit
= propeller to the iceberg itself. and run
it with Keeley motor, and thus save the
expense Of shipbuilding.
Year: 1876

Missouri is not entirely pure in its
county government. Only last week The
collector for Hickory county absconded
with some twenty-five thousand dollars
Of public money. Strange as it may seem,
the papers fail to state the complexion
Of his politics.
Year: 1876

How: long will it Be before all men will
learn that it is not safe to be dishonest
It may appear to sbe safc to-day. but it
is never safe to indulge is swindling, bribe-
taking.or cheating. Recent events in
Washington fully illustrate the truth Of
this. Even at the very beginingit was
said, be sure your, sins will find you out.
Year: 1876

ARCHBISHOP WOOD, like most Of his
fellow clergyms ~ Of the Catholic
church, has sensible views On the Sun
dag question. He says he would not
like 10 see the Exposition opsn sn day
on Sunday, but he adds, after an able
argument, that among the means Of
innocent relaxation Of soul and body I
eau sos none more harm less than an sf-
terroon visit to the Exposition, where
the poor and the lsboIing classes land
they are most Numerous among us) may
enjoy q few hours OF rational pleasure.
Indeed, believe that it will
have a most beneficial effect; that it will
tend TO prevent msny disorders, and to
check TO great extent that desecrstiOn
Of the Lords day which is, unhappily,
a growing evil in the community"
Year: 1876

Iris considered probable in Washing
ton that the committee on pOstoftioes
and post roads will recommend that
communications on official business
may be sent free by congressman, and
also that the present useless expensive
system Of official stamps now employed
by the executive departments be sbol-
--.L-----L
Year: 1876

II had been dull, cherries, and, for
the most part, rainy day-one OF the
kind that not only saturate the outer COW
erlug. but chill the traveller TO the very
boue-that tire out horseilesh and make
the rider glad to gain any kind of shelter.


This was especially the case with one
who had been plodding along through the
early spring mud OF the Mississippi valley
in the Cat almost any time) far from pleas
ant employment of hunting up lands for
new residents. But John Sharp was ac-
customed to roughng ito sleeping out
in wood or prairie, for want of better ac-
comodation-making hi, bed according to
circumstances, and, dressed ittiDGly for
his business. ne cared little, as general
thing, for wind or weather. or what incOn-
veniences he might labor under.


But now he rode grumblingly along.
The previous night had been passed in the
forks of a great cottonwood tree; he had
ridden all day through the cold rain, find


ing road, as best he might, through the
tangled vines and parasite creepers, and
was anxiously looking for some place
where he might obtain rest and food. His
knowledge of Tie country and his COM
pass assured him that he could not be far
distant from the river. and though the fare
of the wood-choppers, whose cabins were
builded upon its banks. was not inviting.
still it was better than none. So he urged
OH his jaded horse, muttering anything out
complimentary remarks upon the fools
who invested in wild lands without. know
ing anything OF their value. and vowing
that upon his return home he would for
ever quit that kind ,.Of lite, marry a little
prairie flower he knew of, settle down and
patiently wait for his corner lots and pre-
emptiOn claims to make him rich.


IL was pleasant picture he drew of his
future home and pretty blue-eyed wife-a
cottage nesting in the midst of trees. and
well, many other things, and 1t served
to make his present still more wretched,
especially as. The rain increased and dark
ness was swiftly coming on. The latter
would have been thing but little cared
for on prairie road. but it was entirely
the reverse here, and rendered travelling
impossible. Then, too, it would force him
tO pass another night perched up in tree


and he was growing forth his discomfort
when he stumbled into q wood road, then
into q little clearing, and saw the river and
Year: 1876

THIsTLgS IN THE HEART. few years ago
d little boy told his first falsehood. 1t was
a little solitary thistle seed. and no eye but
Gods saw him as he planted it in the mel
low soil of his heart. But it sprung up
oh, how quickly! and in little time anoth-
er seed dropped from it to the ground each
in IT'S turn bearing more and more thistles.
And now his heart is overgrown with
bad habit. 1t is as difficult for him to
speak the truth as it is for gardener to
clear his land of the ugly thistle after it
has once gained footing in the soil.-Myr-
tie.
Year: 1876

1t is said that when u clergyman In
Western Mass. recently inquired OF GER
tain lady il she 'was ready to give up
worldly pleasures" she answered by ask
ing him if he was 'ready to give up chew
ing tobacco In the presence of ladies!"
Year: 1876

Already the HERALDs campaign against
the street railways is producing beneficial
results. Yesterday the Third avenue line
added twenty-four extra cars to those pre-
viously in use, and to that extent over
crowding was diminished. This concession
will not suffice, however, and the companies
must understand that seat for every pas
senger will be required to satisfy the public.
According to careful estimate of the travel
on the Third avenue line in 1873 that road
alone carried 73, S35 passengers per day. We
may assume that at the present time the
number is at least rs, 440. To accommodate
this immense travel the company runs only
255 cars. OF these 100 go through to Har-
lem, making four round trips daily, and 125
run between Sixty-ffth street and the City
Hall, and 80 go to the Grand Central depot,
each making eight round trips. On this
basis, which is below rather than above the
mark $3.50 cars pass over the line every
day, and each would be compelled to carry
% passengers to accommodate the travel.
1t will thus be seen that if the
company was able to distribute their passen-
gers to make each car carry only its share of
the aggregate one person would be required
to stand every trip. AS the travel is mostly
confined to q few hours in the morning and
evening the overcrowding is easily under
stood. Now it strikes us that with an in
come of SO, 772 per day the company ought
to be able to run more than 255 cars, and the
managers of the road will find that the addi-
tional "a cars put on the line yesterday are
insufficient in view of this showing 1t also
appears, from an article which we print else
where, that most of the companies have failed
to pay their license fees to the city, and that
the charters of some of the roads may be for
feited in consequence. These are facts
which must not be lost sight of in this con-
test. In compelling the railways to provide
seat for each passenger no effective weapon
must be left unused. The half million dol
lars now owing the city treasury may be-
come the means of this great and necessary
reform. These grasping corporations not
only make money, as we have shown, by
packing the patient public into their cars
like sardnes in box, but they even fail to
pay their takes. They must be taught that
they have duty in both directions and be
made to perform it.
Year: 1876

From the various caic,ii,.::tions upon and
analyses of the political faiths o. s14ss 4ev
Senators it becomes clearer and cleafsr snas |.
enough constitutional republicans have been
elected TO secure the Republic against all It's
internal foes. M. Gambetta's organ claims
one hundred and sixty-seven, one hundred
and ffty-one being a majority Of the entire
Senate. Until the new Assembly has been
elected it may not be prudent to rejoice with
the friends of liberty over this decided
intrenching of popular institutions IN
France. 1t has, however, so generally been
conceded that the Assembly will have
republican majority, and recent events will
so strikingly assist toward that end, that we
may without much stretch of probability
look forward to moderate republican Cabl-
net, with the monarchists of all shades
where they should be-in opposition. The
personal defeat of M. Buffet, the Prime
Minister, and the almost unanimous cleo
tion of M. Theirs, are two very suggestive
facts for MacMahon to consider when he
shall be looking around for popular and
able director of his parliamentary policy. 1t
is pretty generally understood that the hero
of Magenta has an incurable dislike to poll
tics, and hence has had to trust himself to
the guidance of the ablest or suPplest
man near him His election, on
the defeat of Thiers, threatening, as it did,
the very existence of the Republic, threw
him into the hands of the monarchists, who
have since used him to crush republicans in
the name of that badly disguised monarch
servatism, but which every man who under
stood it named reactionism.


The monarchists who controlled Mac
Mahon could not, however, control the
Assembly, for there they were confronted
by the able and willy Thiers and the more
direct, if less able Gambetta. These men
had to make giant fight. They knew that
the pulse of France beat in unison with
theirs, but it required a sleepless vigilance
and, we are sorry to say many strange
device, to keep their flag flying long enough
for the relief to come up in the
shape of a general election. In Eng
land, where there is also "a responsible
Ministry" Thiers or Gambetta, or both,
would be called to power and Bullets fol-
lowers would be sent into opposition, and
herein exactly lies MacMahon's great oppor-
tunity to place himself abreast of the nation
he has been appointed to govern. Up to the
present he has Jagged behind, advancing
only when dragged step. There is a GER
tain appearance of admirable prudence in
this, particularly as MacMahon was not sure
whether he wanted to go forward or back
ward and was only certain that he could not
remain still. He need not be afraid of in
trusting himself to Theirs, whose republi-
canism is just of that conservative kind with
which France is in thorough and healthy
sympathy.