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Year: 1876

WATER In EAST. WHKELINd.-n
must not be understood that the closing
paragraph Of our short article upon this
subject, in yesterday mornings REGIS
TER reflected the views OF Superinten.
dent CUMMiNs. That gentleman is firmly
convinced that new water works and new
or additional basins are needed.


Our point is, that there is an abundant
supply of water for all needs, if none
is wasted. We are aware that
there is no means of prevent.
ing waste unless an efficient metre can be
found and adopted. 1t is claimed that
there is no such thing. We believe diff.
ferently In the city of Boston, at least,
there is a metre in use that gives COM
plete satisfaction. The only objection to
it, we believe, is ITS expensiveness. But
new water works will cost money. We
concede that one Of two courses will have
to be adopted, and that without much
DELAY, viz: Either enlarge our supply OF
water, or adopt effective measures to save
what we have.
Year: 1876

An advertisement appears in our ad-
vertising columns, inviting all soldiers in
the city and vicinity-those who wore
the Blue and those who wore the Gray
TO meet at the Court House, Friday
evening, to arrange for the purpose of
participating in the celebration Of the
Centennial Fourth. Let all the Boys
attend and show their patriotism.
Year: 1876

q He sat in a railway car. His
head was thickly covered with a mass
of red hair. Behind him in a seat sat
a man with hardly any hair on his
head. He said to him: 81 guess You
wasn't around when they dealt out
hair" ''Oh. yes. l was" replied bald
head, "but they offered me lot of red
hair, and I told them to throw it in into
the ash bin.'.
Year: 1876

tina; but he was evidently rot prepared 10
capture the Regulators with his small
posse. The most he could do was to arrest
the victims, and let the ruf6ans 60 free.
The victims were soon released from the
Baton Rouge jail.


Captain Forman can scarcely be blamed.
He was gallant Confederate officer, we
are told, and Is United States deputy mar
shall When he can be assured of his own
protection under all circumstances, he m ay
have something to say of what he saw and
what he thinks of the perpetrators of the
Mount Pleasant outrages.


1t is time for Democrats even to pause
and try to think how all these disturbances
will end. The colored planters of Mount
Pleasant are among the most industrious
men and valuable citizens of the State.
They have excellent crops growing: they
make business and enrich the ction of
country in which they live. Their votes,
unfortunately, make a Republican ward.
and the white bulldozing, shotgun riders
from afar are ordered there to disturb, to
kill, to make hell Of a peaceful heighbor-
hood, and the citizens are powerless to pro-
tect their colored neighbors, being ITEM
selves lntimidated to such an extent that
they dare not give the names of the Demo
cratic committee having chargs of the
killing.
Year: 1876

A large number of the rice buyers
and commission merchants in this city,
recognizing the necessity and justice of the
'actual tare" system in trade, and desiring
to secure q uniform system of "actual
tare'' on all rice offered for sale in this
market during the coming crop season of
1861, have agreed to purchase no rice on
which they do not receive 'actual tare" OF
in lieu thereof twenty three pounds tare for
the ordinary -four barrels. and heavier ones
in proportion, but nothing lees than twenty
three pounds except actual. This agree
mont to take eject and be in force from
August l, 1876.
Year: 1876

Numerous varieties Of pernici-
Gus and troublesome weeds are
now beginning to oripen their seeds.
A little time spent in going over
the farm now and cutting down
all these weeds will leave much
trouble next year. Nothing looks
so slovenly and badly as farm over.
grown with weeds and no crop
pays so poorly. Every weed al.
lowed to go sedd this season will
scatter the germs of hundreds of
more weeds of the same sort for
next season. We notice many
farmers are taking time by the
forelock and cutting down the
weeds on their places before the


weeds ripen, but q careless neigh
bor who does not attend to the


work will ripcn enough weeds to
| stock whole neighborhood with


seeds Eternal vigilance is the
price ofliberty and freedom from
weeds is secured only in the same
way.
Year: 1876

The perplexing Hamburg mat
ter has some additional light
thrown upon it, perhaps. by a
speech ofJudge Mackay ats Hayes
and Wheeler ratification meeting
at Rock Hill, South Carolina
Though a Republican he combated
the denunciation of General Butler,
by a preceding speaker, as the
author or promoter Of "that great
crime" as the Judge calls it
He says he has considered all the
evidence that has appeared on the
subject, has coversed with Repub-
licans both white and black who
were in or near Hamburg at the
time of the massacre, and that
their conclusions against Butler are
arc not supported by testimony
which would not be. instantly con-
sumed to ashes under the rays OF
judicial test" The Judge then
states in less judicial, perhaps, but
more matter-of-fact Language, that
General Buffers house was burnt
last year by negroes; that his be-
ing engaged in fight with a body
of them at that time was as con-
stables posse to effect the arrest
OF the incendiaries under the au-
thority of a negro trial justice; that
on his being hImse'f arrested for
that act he and his friends went
at once peaceably to Judge
Mackay's court and were acquitt-
ed; that he collected a force oflaw-
abiding white Democrrts to defend
from a mob oflynchers the Jail in
which the destroyer of his own
house was confined, and The judge
asks if the man who acted thus
under severe provocation could
have taken part in the Hamburg
butchery unprovoked as he was
either by injury or insult.
Year: 1876

In his day it was the habit Of the
polite world of the Capital, dressed
in their gayest, to repair to the Sen,
ate Chamber to listen to him when
ever he spoke. He was everybody's
pet. No man has had such adulation
since. No man has got habitually
such splendid and brilliant audiences
as he. Those mere days of grand
debate, when the press had not gain
ed so much pestige-before oratory
had given way in Congress to the re-
porters. There were no holes in the
sky then, and you could not prick an
orator, like a bubble, with a witty
sarcasm. Clay never disappointed
he would not have dared. But he
dared things which no other man
then or now would dare. At the end
of brilliant passage he would pause
deliberately, and walk six steps across
the aisle to Robert J. Walkers snuff:
box, and, taking n pinch gracefully
between his finger and thumb, return
to his desk and put it with such in
effable distinction to his nostrils that
the whole audience was ready to
burst into applause. With any other
man this would have been ridiculous.
Clay made it sublime. 1t was the
great king going to bed in the pres
cncc of his admiring courtiers.
Year: 1876




He was a magnificent Scotch dog
Of great size, braver than a lion. He
had but one bad habit when | had
hlm--to see cat was to fly at it
This ended in his worrying 10 death
tavorite grimalkinlbelong toa neigh
Dor, and the catastrophe raised fear
tul commotion. So, with many re-
grets, sent him to Brechin, fifteen
miles off, There, early on the fol
lowing Sunday morning, Bob WAS
observed with head and tail erect,
and resolute purpose in every look
and movement, taking his way to
ward home. Whether he had kept
the road, or come by some path
across the country, | knew not; but
when Twas leaving the church, about
one O'Clock, | was met by the beadle,
with his old face lighted up with an
unusual expression of G ee, and eX-
clalming-tor my dog and Johnny
had always been fast friends" You
mauna put him AVA, minister, though
he should worry a the cats in the
parish" On going to the manse l
found Bob outside the gate as fiat
and motionless as if he had been
stone dead. 1t was plain he knew as
well as did that he had been ban
ished and had returned without leave,
and was liable to be hanged, drown
ed, shot or otherwise punished at my
will. went up to him and stood
over him for a while in silence. He
lay as if he had been killed and flat
tened by heavy roller, only that,
with his large, beautiful eyes, half
shut, he kept winking and looking
up in my face with most pitiful and
pleading expression. Though I might
not go the length Of old Johnny in
making free of all the cats in the
parish, there was no resisting the
dumb but eloquent appeal. l gave
way, and exclaimed, in cheerful tones:
8" Is that you, Bob?" In an instant,
knowing that he was forgiven, he
rose at one bound into the air, cir
cling round and round me, and, in
his joy, leaped nearly over my head.
Year: 1876

Yesterday afternoon a tragical in
cident occurred in the Geological
Garden. A 71mesreporter happened
to alight from q street car beneath
the railroad bridge III proximity to
the Garden simultaneously with 4
handsome young matron, a nurse-glrl
with a baby in her arms, anda pretty
ohiId about yoarS old Tho lady
was richly attired, and so juvenile
was her appearance that an observer
might have thought she was prob
ably the sister or aunt of the little
one that toddled beside her. a mo-
ment afterward a light wagon, oc-
cupied by y good-looking, well-dress-
ed man. and livcried servant, ap-
preached at rapid gait. As it pass
ed the young man stared inqulsi-
lively at the lady, who was just enter
ing the gateway, looked back, and \
moment aftcrward pulled up, paid
the entrance fee and went rapidly up
the walk in the direction the lady
and her companion had taken. 1t
was evident to the most nonchalant
observer that he was smitten by her
beauty.


On the brink of the skating-pond
the reporter again saw the lady and
her charges, and saw that the little
girl had been intrusted to bear
the burden of the baby, which was
nearly as large as herself. A few
yards away stood the young Adonis,
trifling with his long, tawny mus
tache, evidently desirous of making
an impression. After awhile the lit
tie girl complained that it was cold
and that she wanted to see the bears,
so the party proceeded toward the
pits where the ursine animals are con-
fined, closely followed by the dash
ing young man. While trying to in
ducc one of the sun bears to catch a
chew of "Solace," the reporter heard
Il shrek and saw something white
flutter down into the well of the
black bears adjoining. The baby
had evidently fallen into the pit! In
an instant the chivalrous admirer of
its mother had mounted the railing,
Year: 1876

and, with wonderful agility, sprang
ont upon the barkless tree IN the
center of the well, down which one
Of the bears was descending, with
the intention of devouring the small
child. He reached the ground al
most as soon as the bear, and, pluck
lily grasping the fallen infant, was
endavoring to reascend the tree
when another bear came galloping
with unsteady gait out of the hole
and grasped his coat-tail. The cries
of those above the cage had been
heard by the keeper, and Nash, Scat
tergood and Superintendent Thomp-
son came running up. In his efforts
to hold on the tree the young gallant
relaxed his hold upon the child and
it fell into the paws of the first bear.
All hope for the poor little creature
was given up by the spectators, but
Nash unlocked the gate of their den
and beat the bears back into their
caves.


"Never mind me; save the childm
cried the angilc Adonis.


"Come down out of there, you en-
chanted idiot, or I'll have you arrest
ed" Was Captain Thompson's re-
ply.


He decended and quickly went
through the iron portal of the pit.


"The oaby," he murmured.


"My wife and | are very much
obliged to you for your gallant effort
to rescue our daughters doll, sir,
but do you think the game was worth
the candle?" said a stalwart, rubicund
gentlemen, Mr.. Charles Seeley, Of
Green Street, upon whose arm the
lady who had excited the admiration
Of the bear-defier was now lean
ing, convulsed with suppressed
laughter.


A glance towards the nurse-girl,
i'll whose arms were the headless re-
mains Of large wax doll, satisfied
the chivalric gentleman, and he start
ed for the gate on rapid walk.
Year: 1876




Mr. Samuel Amity, city missionary
and godfather to the Newsboys'
Home, has faded out of his accustom-
ed sphere Of usefulness. He lie a
roamer, without local habitation or
name. Sam has been ''hard bat''
in bis life, and not unfrequently has
come in conflict with the strong arm
OF the law. He came to this city I'M
der a cloud, and for a time was a
roistering, drinking, law-breaking,
heaven-defying hoodlum. But he
turned over a new leaf. 1t was hard
oh, so hard-to hold ont against a
habit which had become second
nature, but Amity did hold out, and
for more than year his conduct was
irreproachable. He was hated by
monte men, confidence swindlerS and
thieves, because he knew all their
ways and exposed them. As Sam
grew into his new life, and began to
feel more and more the dignity and
selfrespect which comes from homes
ty and sobriety, he felt more and
more the sombrc influence of the
shadow of his former life. AS he be-
gan to feel that he had more to lose
he grew timorous and apprehensive
lest some one who had known hlm
in his Eastern life should find him
out. At last the blow came. a
scoundrel recognized him and began
levying blackmail. Fifteen dollars a
month was the price Sam paid for
silence, but finally his prosecutor de
manded more, and poor Amity fled.
No punishment is too severe for the
wretch who would drag struggling
man back into the mire.
Year: 1876

This world with ell its power aud pride,
Is but a vale Of sorrow;
To- day. perhaps, in pomp we ride
Above ambitions seething tide.


Who knows aught Of tomorrow!
A day can call forth many things,


And all does frsm the future borrow.
To day may show the power OF kings,
But who will prune times fleeting wings,
Or say what comes to morrow!
To-day the victor faunts the wreath


And deems the earth too narrow.
Disease, perhaps, may stop the breath
No hand can stay old time and death;
Perhaps twill come to morrow
To-day is tlien the given day,


For deaths unerring arrow
May turn the proudest into clay;
And who could for ambition pray.


If death should come tomorrow!
Then leave the worldly thoughts awhile;
'Tis better to possess than borrow;
To- day might free us from all guile,
And Heavens reconciling smile


May give us joy tomorrow.
Year: 1876

The Noracich Bulletin says:
Washington was once asked to dine
with Judge Jones. The chair in
which he would have sat if he had
accepted this invitation will be ex
hibited at the centennial.
Year: 1876

The Washington Quartette repeated their
entertainment at Nunnally's Hall Last eve.
ming, for the benefit Of the benevolent or
ders OF the city, and it proved equally as
successful as the one Of the evening before.
These concerts will long be remembered BY
the lovers Of music who attended them.
Year: 1876

Wheat and Hour.-The millers must have
been doing lively business yesterday,
Judging from the amount OF -four that went
over to Richmond and OF wheat that came
to the mills on this side.
Year: 1876

The MARKET-HoUsE IN CLAY WARD.-Ai
the matter now stands the following joint
resolution has been agreed to by the Board
Of Aldermen, and next Monday it goes tc
the Common Council for the concurrence
OF that body.


g Whereas the citizens Of Clay Ward, in
public meeting assembled, unanimously
adopted d series Of resolutions looking tc
the establishment Of q markethouse In that
ward, which were presented to the Council
August 90, 1872, and after consideration by
the Council from time to time it was finally
ordained that the question should be
submitted to the qualified voters Of the
ward; and whereas it appears from the
certificate OF the clerk Of the Hastings Court
that at an election held I'm pursuance Of the
order OF the Council OF November 8, 1874,
that the number Of votes cast in Clay Ward
was 400 for and 5 against the establishment
OF a market-house therein; and whereas at
"a meeting of the Committee on Grounds and
Buildings held March IL, 1876, it was de-
termined to recommend the purchase of the
lot at the northwest corner Of Cary and Pine
streets (155 by 199 feet-the assessed value,
S4, ,500) for the location of the market-house
in Clay Ward; and whereas the necessity
for said market-house becomes daily more
urgent, .a


ReSoIved (the Common Council concur
ring), That there be appropriated for the
purchase of ground and the erection of a
market-house in Clay Ward whatever sum
may remain unappropriated in the treasury
on the 31st day OF January, 1877, or so much
thereof as may be necessary; and that il
there be no such balance, or there be less
sum so remaining than shall be necessary,
that there shall be supplied from the esti-
mates of receipts for the years 1S77-'78,
and included in the general appropriation
ordinance, such sum as may be found neces-
sary to secure the purchase Of ground and
the erection of the market-house.


And it is further provided that the Com
mlttee on Grounds and Buildings is hereby
authorized to select any other lot that II
may see fit in lieu Of the one hereinbefore
specified, and to report its recommendation
to the City Council before making any ex-
penditure therefor; and that the amount to
be expended under this resolution shall not
exceed $4,000.


Provided that nothing herein contained
shall be construed to authorize the selection
OF any location for said market-house until
o further report from the Committee on
Public Grounds and Buildings, and the ap-
proval thereof by the City Council.
Year: 1876

About 0 o'clock last night Sere eant
Bergeron while standing in front OF the
Pacific Beer Garden In company witt
Officer w. Obear, overheard the remark
Of a man, named William Short, thai
be was going to shoot n man that was
setting up TO his girls In the beer gar
den. The Sergeant followed him int
the place and was jpst in time 10 pre-
vent him from doing murderous work
as he was In the act OF drawing reyol.
yer. The Sergeant took Short prisoner
but inst sad Of catching hold tof hin
allowed him TO walk out alone. The
moment that Short struck the banquet
he broke into run down Toulouse
street, holly pursued by the Sergeant
and offer Ooear.


The former fired several shots ut the
fugitive, who returned the same, one Oh
the balls teking effect In the left hip ol
Officer w. Obear, severely wounding
him. The sergeant paid no attention to
the wounded officer, being bent on the
capture of Short. Finally, Short be-
came weary OF the chase and sought
concealment In q dancehouse on the
levee. The sergeant saw him when he
entered the house and Immediately fol
lowed.


Short was game to the last and was
not going to Jail without showing fight.
The minute that Officer Bergeron entered
Short covered him with his revolver,
but the officer, being the better mans
felled him to the ground by q lick on
the forehead from the but OF his re-
volver.


At this juncture two Of Shorts friends
who had been lying round loose some
where, loomed forth and was about to
annlhilate the sergeant when he al
lowed them to feel the weight OF his
pistol, which horiZontaled their per-
pendicular. Finally Bergeron blew his
whistle, which brought officers Joe Lee
and Jamison to his assistance, and
Short and his two pals, Alfred Scott
and William Mccoy, were brought to
the Third Precinct Station. Short was
charged with shooting and wounding
with intent to murder officer W. Obear.
Mccoy and Scott were charged with
being accessories to the shooting ana
assault and battery on the officer:


A DEMOCRAT reporter visited the ac-
cused at the Third Precinct, and he
denies having shot Officer Obear. He
stated that he did not want to go to jail
and that is why he ran. He also stated
that the officer struck him several time
over the head with his revolver, and his
head bears signs OF q pretty good beat
ing, but the officer may have been Just1-
fed In using severe measures Win this
prisoner, as he put up desperate hght.
The wounded officer was taken to his
residence, 264 ST. Peter street. ''
Year: 1876

In Mill river, above the upper dam at
Leeds, s,on Sunday afternoon, Joseph Shearn,
Superintendent of the silk mill, was in
boat teaching his eight ycar-old boy to row,
and his little girl Of three years, who had
been sitting in the stern, disappeared. He
at once diyed into the water, and snatching
the child swan to the shore, although en-
cumbcrSo with an overcoat and rubber
boots. Arriving at the bank, he was com
PEELED at once to drop the girl, threw off ex
ira clothing, and swim after the boat,
which was drifting toward the dam. See.
ing that he was not gaining on it, he called
to two men coming down the railroad track
TO save the boy This they were able to do
by the boats drifting within reach OF the
shore. By this time the father was taken
with the cramp in tie middle of the river,
and he might have pershed but for the
timely discovery of an upright stake, to
which he clung until rescued.
Year: 1876

From the New York Herald of yesterday, :,


Thurman, Tiden and Bayard may. il
they will, divide between them the world OF
this great Republic. They, with the Dem
ocratic vote behind them, and with public
sentiment in its present condition, may as
potcntly parcel out the nation as did An
tony, Octavius and Lepidus the ancient
world. With any of these three in the Pres
ilental office, and the other two in the Cab
met, they would give to Democratic ad-
ministration the advantage of great politi-
cal knowledge and experience; great weight
morally and intellectually, and an imposing
prestige. With such President as any
one Of these would make, buttressed and
supported by the others, the country would
regard with confidence the party that 1t
deems it needtul to put IN power, but
that it yet hesitatcs to trust. Honesty IN
office, reform in civil service, hard money,
social tranquility, commercial prosperity,
would be almost guaranteed by an Execu-
tive thus made up. With pledge, or any
political certainty that the two who can
not be elected would be associated with the
Executive by appointment, 1t would be
deemed of less consequence what section OF
the country was really honored by the nom
nation and the formality of the election OF
one of the number. At time when great
part of the nation wanted Mr.. Seward in
the Presidency, and another part Mr.. Lin
con-though the latter was chosen at the
polls and appointed the former-they SO
worked together, shoulder to shoulder, in
the great cause that except for the formal
tiles of the case it really was of no conse-
4uence whatever which one the people had
officially named. 1t would be the same
with three prominent and possible men ol
the Democratic party. West and South
would consent that New York should noni-
mate II they can respectively be sure thai
ther men will be associated with him. New
iork would equally consent that either OF
the other sections should nominally carry
the Convention on the same condition. Viii
there be wisdom enough in the Democratic
councils to secure result like this, or viii
the supremacy of the superior men be lost
through conflict of their friends to secure
lor each one the first place? Will the lions
hght over the prize till it is carried away BY
ajackal?