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Year: 1876

Ane private market absurdlty may be
considered taken from the district courts.
They have gone as far az possible. All the
contumacious defendants that have been
captured have been confined and released
On the release Of the last one, Hery, Judge
Lynch sent Tor the criminal sheriff. Capt
Tobin and Captain Pegram visited him in
his private Office. In answer to his que stion
as to why his order to disobey any order Of
Judge Meunier was not obeyed, they made
no definite reply, except that they would
obey the order of any district court. Judge
Lynch requested Captain Tobin to rearrest
the prisoners discharged by Judge Meunier'
and he Immediately refused. He said he
would arrest them on written order, but
if Judge Meurier issued an order to release
them he would obey that.


Judge Cotton came in about that time
and suggested Justice Morgan, but there
seemed to be nothing presented that would
relieve the embarrassment of anybody.
Messrs. Tobin and Pegram strolled off a.
they had come in. Judge Cotton presented
the appearance of having momentous idea
and took it away with him. Counsel for
the public mxrketmen seemed to think it
was an affair of the court and they had
done their duty. Perhaps some unliquida-
ted charges might have been in their
minds. Judge Lynch said he would see
what he could do. and went away. The
butchers had gone long before and soon
there was no one left but clerk making
up bill of costs and man who "told You
how it would be-"


There must be q new move after this if
the meat monopoly is to be enforced before
the Supreme Court meets. In the opinion
of those who have contributed to the fund
since the market bill astonished the Leg is
lature by its green back and edge, an in
junction without Jail behind it is of less
value than broken skewer. And when
the merits of these cases come up to he
tried the defense will have as fair show as
anybody else, for it can ask for Jury and
60 to the Supreme Court on more than half
the questions to be decided.


Besides that, it is rumored, though with.
out . particle of authority, that Justice
Morgan does not wish to act when Justice
Howell, his senior, is in town. The shrewd
ones remember thstJ ustice Howell was one
of the judges who dissented in the Stafford
case. They have no means of learning
what either Justice thinks, but


suspicion always haunts the guilty mind,


The thief doth fear each bush an officer"
Richard III. said that once, and why should
not another butcher imagine it today
Year: 1876

A PERPLExED PIUTE. = Somebody
dropped some quicksilver on the side
walk on Main street to day, and an In
dian tried to pick it up. First he made
q grab at it with his thumb and forefn-
ger, and was astonished when he found
he couldn't pick it up. He was deter
mined to have that quicksilver, anyhow,
SO he unwound a handkerchief from his
hat, and spreading it on the ground got
a chip and scraped the quicksilver into
it. A look of triumph shot from his
eagle eye as he gathered up the four
corners of the handkerchief, but it was
replaced by one of horror and disgust
when the metal ran through the fabric
like water through sieve. Looking at
the metal as it lay on the ground, In
puzzled sort of way for moment, he
launched a vicious kick at it, and utter
ing the ejaculation used By keno play
er when some other fellow makes keno,
he turned On his heel and left the quick
silver for some other untutored son OF
the forest to experiment on.
Year: 1876

The yellow fever must be lingering
around somewhere, when the Chief of the
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of Navy
at Washington, would instruct the COM
manding officers of the vessels of the
North Atlantic Station to have their ves-
sells Thoroughly disinfected, so as to prevent
the appearance Of yellow fever on board
if possible. They have also been cautioned
to keep their vessels isolated from merchant
vessels, so the disease cannot be commu-
nicated from any vessel hailing from an in
fected port.
Year: 1876

CIVIL service reform imperatively demand
fifteen dollars from each letter carrier in
the city Of "Brotherly Love-" to carry on
the election canvass. The police under
Stokley dance up to the music of the lead
ers and hand in their cash without mur-
mer, but some of the letter carriers object
to General Bingham's political treasury
cry for fifteen and halfdollars out of their
small salary,
Year: 1876

THE Washington Monument Associa-
ton informs the people of the Union that
they have not money sufficient to complete
it, and desire that the generous and patri-
otic send in subscriptions IN order that the
shaft may be completed. 1t was begun in
ls4S, more than a quarter of century
ago, and, until this spring, stood in an un.
slightly square of mud. Now it stands in q
pleasant park and has been raised to the
height Of one hundred and seventy-fou,
fee, and has cost two hundred and thirty
thousand dollars. How much more viii
complete the structure the Association does
not say.
Year: 1876

IT is creditable.to to know that the triumph
of our American riAemen was one of
method and practice, as we'll as one Of
skill. The excitability and nervousness Of
the Americans, compared with the quiet
reserve of the Scotch and English, it was
feared would be against them, but they
showed the least annoyance at the crowd
and its hustle and cheering than either Of
the other teams. They put in their very
best shots at the time when their nerves
must have been most tested.
Year: 1876

BOTH parties have commenced the cam
paign in earnest, and from this time on
there will be hot work and plenty of it.
The preliminary arrangements for the
campaign, on the part Of the Democracy,
required time, thought and work that does
not appear on the surface, and, notwith.
standing the lack Of enthusiasm at first
shown, the contest will be fierce and hot.
Year: 1876

One Of the Republican members
Of the Naval Committee is reported
as saying that nothing can save Sec
retary Robeson, for the evidence
against him is conclusive and Of the
strongest kind.
Year: 1876

CHARLESTON AS A CoTToH MAHKEr.
"A Greenvillc merchant. who re
Gently shipped two lots of cotton
Of tho same clmGs--ohc to New York
and the other to Charleston, inform
ed us yesterday that the lot shipped
to Charleston nctted u quarter Of n
cent per pound more than the lot
sent to New York.


We take tho above from the
GrceuriUc Nc~s, and will add that
we have often heard cotton buyers
of this placc sny they could do bet
ter by shipping to Charleston than
to any other market. In fact We
have seen sales Of tho same day IN
Charleston and New York compared
and they were always in favor Of
Charleston. SO well known to our
shippers is this difference that only
those who have demands to meet in
New York or Baltimore now ship
cotton to those markets and VIC are
not so sure but that, taking tho diff
ference in the prices Of goods and
the higher prices obtained for cot.
ton in Charleston, our own seaport
city il the hest to buy and sell at
Union Times.
Year: 1876

1t is reported that President
Grant is anxious to sell the Long
Branch mansion before tho expira-
ton of his term, and that he is
looking for purchaser. 1t is also
said that the President will spend
the summer at Newport instead of
tho Branch, this year.
Year: 1876

The following is tho Testimony Of
DR.. Loring concerning Hungarian
grass: II believe l can make more
milk with this grass cut and mixed
with corn meal and shorts than /
can with the best timothy hay, cut
and mixed in the same manner
And when you remember that you
can raise, on ordinary land, by SOW
ing the scod of Hungarian grass late
in June, from t~o and ono half 70
three and one half tons Of good fod-
der to the mere, and that this crop
can be sowii after We have asccr-
tanned whether we are to have agood
crop of hay or not, you will geo the
value of this grass. I have such n
high opinion of it that on my own
farm, this year aid last, ! raised
from scronty-fve to ono hundred
tons of 1t for tho purpose Of feed,
ing to milch COWS during the win
ter,
Year: 1876

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


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

IT is said that the Democrats in the Con-
necticut legislature gathered in group after
arranging for the sale of the Senatorship 10
Barnum and sang the following stanza from
Whittier's Centennial hymn:


For art and labor met in truce


For beauty made the bride of use,


We thank Thee. while, withal, we crave


The austere virtues strong to save


The honor PROOF to place or gold


The manhood neUer bought nor sold
Year: 1876

new variety of correspondent has put in
an appearance. This one is neither from
Washington nor from Philadelphia, but dates
her epistles from the ashore. In one par
ticular she widely differs from her brothers
and sisters, for she is not facetious-that is,
not Intentionally So, and for that she deserves
thanks. Nor does she purpose to sit by the
sounding sea and sentimentalize over sheeny
waves and shipwrecks. There is not even
hint in her letter that she intends to toy with
old Oceans tawney name or take any other
liberties with him. For wonder no purpose
is expressed to describe a storm at sea, and
to pile on the agony and the waves in dis
eliminating proportion. We hear nothing of
the pillows breaking their silver walls against
shore and cliff with the thunder as OF cannon
and the roll of hundred drums. No quota
tions are discoverable. A careful perusal of
the letter fails to bring to light curving lines
of creamy spray, nor do we get the impress
sion from anything our would-be correspon-
dent writes that the wrinkled sea beneath her
crawls. Whether this be her fault or the
oceans we are unable to say, but a seaside
letter without these things is like soup with
out sauterne or goose with the stufing left
out. However, though she fails in the
sentimental part of her profession she has all
the enthusiasm of the average correspondent
for hotels, and discourses, after the manner of
her tribe, at considerable length on bills of
fare. She evidently holds that the sea is
made for Boniface and not Boniface for the
sea. Still, despite these drawbacks her let
ters must be very entertaining ones for she
says, 81 avoid prolix descriptions, and give a
slight touch of the sensational combined with
high moral tone" While confessing to
harassing doubts in regard to the merits of
this mixture we are inclined to think that
correspondence a la Talmadge would be ex-
tremely funny reading, and have no hesita-
tion in recommending the fair and sensational
moralist-to other papers.
Year: 1876

JOB TRoTTER, now on the editorial staff
OF the argus, who has been weeping oceans
OF tears over alleged astounding frauds in the
Treasury Department, will perhaps be as
founded to learn that the charges have no
foundation. Prender, who started the re-
ports, and who has been brought to Wash.
ington at considerable expense from from
tier signal station, was examined last week.
His explanation of the charges is very similar
to the answer to the favorite conundrum Of
the boy and his sister: viz. the boy lied.
His original statement was that notes and
bonds, sent to be burned as retired, were
saved and dishonesty put into circulation
again. He now acknowledges that the notes
in question were imperfect ones printed only
on one side and consequently worthless, and
that instead of being put into circulation they
were cut up into strips and used to bind
round money packages. The committee has
no stomach, on the strength of this story, to
continue the investigation. The Democrats
are beginning to learn that the testimony of
Year: 1876

II is we'll to remember that the report upon
the management of the government print
Ing presents but one side of the case.
MIR. Clapp has yet. to be heard. He
may or may not have been corrupt,
The charge has yet to be proved. The
report is merely document signed by
two Democrats who presumably have the
manufacture of campaign capital in mind.
The Republican member of the committee,
himself practical printer, refuses TO sign it.
Year: 1876

a correspondent writes as fol-
lows:


"Enc'osei find $3.50 to pay for my paper
till Aug. lst, and do not send it after that
date. am democrat: as you well know,
and DO not care to support a paper which
opposes my party. If you had continued
the GRANGE ADVANCE as an advocate Of the
antl-nonopoly or Independent party, I
should have continued to patronize you.''


OF course you would, for, in that
case, we should be doing the demo-
cratic party more good indirectly
than any democratic paper in the
State is doing by directly advocat-
ing the claims Of that party. But
you are an intelligent gentleman,
and you know very we'll that neither
we nor any other sincere friend Of
reform can consistently aid, even
indirectly: in securing the success
of party which has persistently op-
posed all reformatory efforts, by
standing in the way of those who
We're laboring to that end. And
those independents who are advo-
eating the third party movement, in
the face of existing circumstances,
are justifying the suspicion that they
are either wilfully blind to the con-
sequences Of their own conduct, or
are the willing tools of democratic
tricksters, whom they allow to use
them for the furtherance of the
schemes of that organization.
Year: 1876

The latest reports from the
Black Hills country indicate that the
Indians are separating into small
guerrilla parties, and intend carrying
on the war in that manner until they
can induce the command of Crooks
and Terry to divide into smaller
detachments for more facile and
rapid pursuits. In that event, they
will probably rapidly concentrate
their forces in sufficient numbers to
attack the detachments successfully.
They have burned the prairies and
nearly all the drift wood along the
Missouri river with view to destroy-
ing the forage for cavalry horses and
deprlvlng steamers of available fuel.
Year: 1876

To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA:


Eleven years after the overthrow of the
rebellion we find the men who forced it
upon the country again preparing to seize
the Government. 1t is the old Confederate
army united upon the old Confederate
heresy. They have never abandoned their
cherished idea-they still think with Mr.
Tildcn that ours is cOntcderacy, and not
nation. They have made him their
candidate because he never abandoned his
declared conviction that ''the Constitution
of the United States is only orgnized revolu-
ton" and that ''any State has the right to
snap the tie at its pleasure"


This was the heresy that fired the rebel
gun from Charleston against Sumter in
1861 and this is the heresy they are
remarshalled in 1876 to re-establish.


TO this end they have crushed out Re
publican opinion in every Southern State.
To this end they have made the white Re
publican an outcast and the black Repub-
lican a vassal To this end, coercion of
Republicans is their stern discipline By
force their Confederate heresy is again the
cement to make Solid South.


The Confederate army is far more united
to-day in the new effort to seize the Govern
ment than it was fifteen years ago in the
mad effort to destroy it. To-day treason
is aided by their sympathizers in the
North. They have concentrated the strug-
gle upon a single issue-the reUoIution Of
the Government They sink every other
question out of sight, and therein they
teach as oar duty.


Shall they recover by the ballot; con-
ferred upon them by Republican magma
nimity, what they lost on the battlefield
in conflict with the people they betrayed !?


We have met and vanquished their as
saulting columns five times since the first
Tuesday of September, 1076-in Vermont,
Maine, Colorado, Ohio, and Indiana-gain-
ing ten members of Congress, eleeting FIVE
Legislatures, including that of Indiana
which even the rebel raiders from Ken
lucky were not able to capture.


Democratic victories in the South are only
evidences of Democratic terrorism over
Republicans. Sixty-fve thousand Demo
cratic majority in Georgia means $4,000
rebel shotguns at the polls.


Three weeks only are left to us to meet
the new crisis forced upon us by these men.
What aciU PeansylUanjaa do? Our enemies,
confident of successful coercion all over the
South, have resolved to make another
attack upon this great State. They leave
the South in the safe custody Of the re
organized Confederate army, and they are
now, as in 1868, marching upon Pennsyl-
vania in determined array, and their rebel
yell already is heard within our limits.


Let us be prepared for them. Our great
Commonwealth has always been the strong
hold of nationality. During the war she
gave her treasures of men and money to
the cause of her country. Standing be-
tween the two sections, she has always been
the foe of sectionalism. She stood by
Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and Meade dur
ing all the struggles Of the war. The peo
pie believed that when Vicksburg and
Gettysburg fell on the 4th of July, 1868,
the great work of restoration was accom-
plished and the rebellion was dead, but
they are now brought face to face with a
Year: 1876

from the Germantown Telegraph


The ground-squirrel, which the Potts
town Ledger mentions as having been prob
ably swallowed by a huge bass, more likely
fell victim to large eel This is very
common habit with this fish in marshes OF
the Delaware when the tide is up and rail
shooting is in vogue. One has to be quick
in picking up the birds when Slot, as we
have known eels to seize and make off with
them. This is particularly the case with
fiuttering wounded birds. Water snakes of
large size viii do the same. We have
often seen good sized fish in the mouths
of even small snakes.
Year: 1876

Bow.legs and knock knees are among
the common deformities Of humanity; and
wise mothers assert that the crookedness
in either case arises from the afflicted
one having been put upon his or her feet
too early in babyhood. But q Massachu-
sets physician, who has watched for the
true cause, thinks differently. He attri-
butes the aforementioned distortion to a
habit some youngsters delight in Of rub
bing the sole Of one foot against that Of
the other, some will go to sleep with their
soles pressed together. They appear to
enjoy the contact only when the feet are
naked; they do not attempt to make IL
when they are socksd or slippered. So
the remedy is obvious; keep the baby's
sole covered. Knock-knees ths doctor
ascribes to different childish habit, that
Of sleeping on his side, with one knee
tucked into the hollow behind the other.
He has found where one leg has been
bowed inward more than another, the pa.
tient has always slept on one side, aud the
upper member has been that which has
been most deformed. Here the preventive
is TO pad the insides Of the knees SO as to
keep them apart, and let the limbs grow
freely their own way.
Year: 1876




There are two little arteries which supply
the whole face with blood, one on each
side. These branch of from the main
arteries on each side Of the wIndpipe. and
running upward toward the eye, pass over
the outside Of the jaw bone, about two
thirds of the way back from the chin to
the angle Of the Jaw under the ear. Each
of these arteries, of course, supplies lust
one-half Of the face, the nose being the
dividing line; the left nostfiI is supplied
with blood by the left artery, and the right
nostril BY the right artery. Now, suppos-
ing your nose bleeds by the right nostril,
with the end Of the fore-fnger feel along
the outer edge Of the right jaw until you
feel the beating Of the artery directly
under your finger, the same as the pulse
in your wrist, then press the finger hard
upon it, thus getting the littIe fellow in a
tight place between your finger and the
jaw bone; the result win be that not a
drop of blood goes into that side Of your
face while the pressure continues, hence
the nose instantly stops bleeding for want
OF blood to flow. Continue the pressure
for i've or ten minutes, and the ruptured
vessels in the nose will by that time prob.
ably contract, 50 that WHOM you let the
blood in them they will not leak. Bleed
ing from cut or wound anywhere about
the face may be stopped in the same way.
The Creator probably placed these arteries
as they are, that they might be controlled.
Those in the back Of the head, arms and
legs are all arranged very conveniently for
being controlled in like manner.
Year: 1876

Age, whitening for the tomb, is q
worthy object of reverence. The passions
have ceased hopes of self have ceased
The old linger with the young- -and oh
how careful should the young be to reward
them with tender affection and with the
warmest love, to diminish the chill of ebb.
ing life. The Spartans looked on reysr-
entail respect for old age as beautiful
trait Of character Be kind to those who
are in the autumn Of life, for you know
not what suffering they may have endured,
nor how much Of it may still be their por-
tion. Do they seem unreasonably to find
fault or murmur? Allow not your anger
to kindle against them rebuke them not,
for doubtless many have been the crosses
and trials Of earlier years, and perhaps
their dispositions, while in the springtime
Of life, were less flexible than your own.
Do they require aid?


Then render it cheerful. Forget not
that the time may come when you may
desire the same assistance from Others
that you render to them. Do all that is
needful for the old, and do it with alaeri-
ty, and think not hard if much is required
ut your hands, lest when age sets it's seal
upon your brow, and fills your limbs with
trembling, others may wait unwilling, and
feel relieved when the coffin has covered
you forever
Year: 1876

But the centennial commission forbade
the exaction Of the admission fee and this
house may now be entered without pay
ment at the door, The performers are
three men, woman and little girl, all


10 Turkish costume and sitting in native
fashion upon stage at the far side Of the
room. The men play upon the violin,
tambourine, and the guitar, the latter In
strument being picked with quill The
little girl and woman perform on pecu-
liar drum with low monotonous chant.
After this has been kept up for a while
the woman begins to move backward and
forward waving two bright kerchiefs.
The woman has grace and fine figure,
but the dancing cannot be compared with
our ballet G.
Year: 1876

SILENT INPLUENcE.--We are touching
our fellow beings on all sides. They are
affected for good or for evil by what we
are, by what we say and do, even by what
we think and feel. May flowers in the
parlor breathe their fragrance through the
atmosphere. We are each of us silently
saturating the atmosphere about us with
the subtle aroma Of our character. In
the family circle, besides and beyond all
the teaching, the daily life of each parent
and child mysteriously modifes the life of
every person Of the household. The same
process, on wide scale, is going on
through the community. No man liveth
to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
Others are built up and strengthened by
our unconscious deeds; and others may be
wrenched out Of their places and thrown
down by our unconscious influence.
Year: 1876




Where all other means have failed to
exterminate bedbugs, sulphurous acid has
succeeded. Take everything oat Of the
infested room, plug up all the windows
tightly, close all chimneys, and empty
about ] o. of powdered sulphur on a pan
of hot Goals, placed in the middle of the
floor. Shut the doors and cover all cracks;
let the sulphur burn as long as it will.
Where the room is large, it is good plan
to fasten bit Of tin tube to the bottom
OF the pan, and to this connect enough
small rubber pipe to lead out of the near
est door BY blowing into the end Of the
pipe with the bellows, the sulphur will be
caused to burn more quickly by the draft
created, audtogive denscr smoke. After
the sulphur has burned out, paint all the
cracks in the floor and around the mop
board with strong solution Of corrosive
sublimate, and treat the furniture to the
same before replacing IL We have seen
a room frightfully infested completely
freed by this plan.