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Year: 1876

A minister travelling through the West some years ago asked on old lady on whom he called what she thought of the doctrine of total depravity. 'Oh,' she replied, I think it is good doctrine if the people would only act up to it.
Year: 1876

It is given on the authority of New Orleans paper that there is in that city Q hog with his ears so far back that he can : not hear himself squeal.

 Here now, mono of your slack as the potato bug remarked when a farmer came at hlm the other day with handful of lime.
Year: 1876

w We are informed by postmasters the fol- lowing named subscribers have left the places where they have been regularly receiving THE NEWS, and as they did not notify us of their change of post-ofice. and are in arrears to the amounts placed parallel with their names we pub fish their only address known to us, and if any of our readers know of the whereabouts of any of Is it exactly HONEST treatment. to receive a news

 paper till several dollars are due. and then leave the postmaster to inform us the paper is not re- ce ived, and the subscriber gone, nobody knows where1 The following have done this: Does
Year: 1876

sof sectional differences faith in one currsn
cy, subserviency::of political proclviies
to. the national benefit and the safety Of
national institutions. Until these things
shall have been attained .there:will be the
same friction between business and capital
Money is the motive power only, and if any
of the auxiliaries are derelict then there
must be clog in machinery. These seem
like very severe exactions, but until people
are settled, business cannot be- settled, un-
rest with one, means unrest with the other.
The cry of hard times will continue until
some or all of these things have been at
tanned. But we think that the principal Of
them all is confidence in political trusts,
and those who are the guardians Of the
governmental institutions.
Year: 1876

Hints ON Banking.


The depression of all business interests,
naturally calls into discussion the moneyed
status Of the country. 1t is not unfre-
quently stated in this discussion that, the
money is scarce, Or being boarded by the
capitalists, is kept from its legitimate
uses; bulked in the bank vaults as pro-
lection against its Investment in uncer-
,tainties. To ascertain, if possible, whether
this applied to Wilmington, an atoehe
of The HERALD, yesterday, called upon
an officer Of the Union National Bank and
had lengthy conversation with him on
the subject. He stated, in this latter re-
spect, the public labored under a great
misapprehension of facts. There is no
reason to doubt that money is boarded
Wilmington cannot be exempt from it
any more than other places. But if such
was the rule with desirable class of de-
positors, those in the Union National were
certainly an exception.


The cash capital of the bank is $500, 900,
and the deposits show no more in proper
ton than those banks of Philadelphia,
which are doing business with a cash cap
ital Of 100000. This shows that there
cannot be an unusual accumulation of de-
posits. The deposit is an even, steady
one, and shows that there are no rises or
falls indicative of distrust in the emergent,
critical periods of the market investments.
In the New York banks there are vast
accumulations because so many of the de-
positors are men who have no recognized
business, and employ their money only in
sporadic speculations; when the relax
occurs, this money, with all the
increase of gain, is thrown into bank,
and the accumulations are therefore very
large. But in Wilmington we have no
ready markets for speculatious such as the
larger cities have and consequently capi-
tai has not the same opportunities forspec-
ulative uses.


The bank officer then stated that he sup
posed the newspaper representative was
actuated principally in his interview, by
the object, to ascertain 'ifthe surplus capi-
tai was usefully employed. Ofcourse he
as an officer of one bank could not speak
for all the banking institutions Of the city,
but then one bank could be taken as fair
basis tor estimating the experience Of other
banks in this feature of banking business.
Then we take, said he, the Union Nation.
al. Ithas seven hundred depositors, and
dividing the amount of the total Of deposits
among them, and we find that they have
not more than an average of five hundred
dollars each. This shows you at once, that
there cannot be much of an accumulation,
and that there must be the same steady de-
mand all the time upon what is deposited,
and that il is used in the demands of business
and trade; that it must go into the usual
conduits of business, or this would not &C.
cur with such regularity. This even tenor
in banking money must show you that
there is no feeling of unrest among those
who are possessed Of large capital, and that
though business Of all kinds is very much
depressed, still money remains the same,
unless it may be largely employed for
usurous purposes. That we do nothing in
Year: 1876

The other Sunday a Cincinnati preach
er delivered an eloquent discourse on the
subject of charity for sinners. and when
he got through, he found that some sim
ner had crawled in through the Vestry
charity he felt lust then for that sinner
must have been as sweet and beautiful IS
a dream.
Year: 1876

The two parties in the Presidential
campaign are the Republican party on
one side, and the Southern Confederacy
on the other. This is the tremendous
fact of the situation. Ifthe Republican
party should be put out of the Govern.
ment, the Southern Confederate party
would come in. If Tilden should be
elected, the solid Confederate vote
would elect him. And the body which
elected him would govern.


The political changes which would
bring in Tilden, would bring in Dem
ocratic majority in both Houses of Con-
gress, and of that majority the South
ern COnfederacy would have three;
quarters. The Southern Cunfederacy
is as completely united now rs during
the war. 1t is more so; for whereas,
then the National army kept some OF
the Southern States from secession, and
governed them, they are now all con-
trolled by the Confederates, and all
form solid political Confederacy, pos
sessed by the same Confederate spirit.


By even more savage means than
those by which they suppressed the op-
position of Southern Union men to the
war of secession, have they suppressed
the Republican vote, and made the
South solid Confederacy. The issue
is whether the ''lOst causen shall be
made triumphant by surrendering the
Government into the hands of the
Southern Confederacy.


That the candidate is by residence a
Northern man matters nothing. II
the war he was an ally of the rebels,
and he would be their humble instru-
ment if elected President.


There are Northern Democrats run
ming for Representatives in Congress,
and affecting to talk of the Democratic
party as If it were something different
from the Southern Confederacy, and
twaddling of reform and of measures to
make money plenty; but the party
which is running is the Confederate
party and they are merely its tools to
dupe the Northern people. OF what
account would be Sayler and Banning,
if the solid Confederate vote had
brought in the Administration and
Congress? @


Does any one fancy that the Southern
COHfederacy, with the National Gov
ernment in its hands, would not use
its power? Or that it has forgotten
that it was conquered by military pow
or, its fields devastated, its Govern
ment put to rout, and its financial
bonds and its currency turned to waste
paper? Or that when it gets the pow
er 1t will not try to get even? Or that
the dOugh-face Democracy of the North
will not meekIy sink to its former
place Of serfs to this Southern domina-
ton?


Tilden, and the twaddle of reform,
and the talk of ways of initiating to
specie resumption. and maze OF un-
meaning words, have been set ur as
blind to the real situation. But in the
presence Of the issue of surrendering
the Government to the Southern Con-
federacy, all others sink to insignif-
canoe. And though Tilden be the
champion knave of this Nation, yet his
for knavery is but small dam
ger compared to that of placing the
Southern COnfederacy in the control of
the Government.-Cin Gazette.
Year: 1876




BE content with what you have,' as
the rat said to the trap when he left his
tial in it.


Why was the first of September like
the transgression of Adam? Because
it was the beginning of the Fall.


Awkward Ornaments.-A well.
moulded arm is prettier without brace
lets; besides. they are liable to scratch
fellows ear.


Nearly all the post-offices in Texas
are in charge of females" 1t works
so well that tho males now arrive and
depart every hour in the day.


George L. Fox, the clown, is recover
ing. When he got hold of bad egg
the other morning he made up one Of
those old faces just as easily and natur-
ally as ever.


1T is easier for acamel to go through
the knee of an idol than for rich man
to enter heaven" il the Interpretation
with colored preacher gave to the
Scriptures.


Marriage il promotion" saws
George Elliot. In the eyes of such a
reasoner a man with his third wife
would doubtless pass for a brieadier
general.-Rochester Democrat.
Year: 1876

provisions of the law in Los Angeles
county, one was upon unclaimed pub
lie land, and the proprietorship re-
mains undisputed, while the other,
falling upon Mexican grant of course
came under the provisions of the law
of 1859. There was no system of allot-
ing these Lieu Lands as every claim
ant located wherever he could find a
place that suited him; consequently
the unsettled titles are scattered
broadcast over the county and State.
The Rosecrans land lying closely ad-
jacent to the Agricultural Park is one
of these disputed claims. 1t thus
transpires that many of these tracts
whether honestly located or not have
passed into the hands of third, fourth
or fifth innocent parties by whom a
fair equivalent was given for them.
The lands have also greatly apprecia-
ted in value, some Of them near this
city being held all the way from 500
to $500 per acre, aside from the i'm
provements which may be of greater
or less value and of many years stand
ing. 1t would be manifest inj Justice
to turn these valuable possessions over
to a lot of adventures whose only
right is based upon the fact that they
have erected a two-by-four shanty on
the premises, slept there one night
and entered claim. An official re-
quest has been forwarded to the Cover
nor asking him to declare these dis
puted tracts public land and, in behalf
of the State refund the original pur-
chase money to the innocelt holders
who had possession of the land before
it fell under the claim of the squatter.
But it is hardly probable that this
measure will be taken. In the orig
inal claiming and proving up
of the land, the State acted only as an
agent between the individual and the
Government. 1t is therefore more
reasonable to suppose that she will
stand aside and allow the dispute to
be settled between the principals in
the transaction. A more probable rem.
edy is looked for in special legislation
of Congress on the subject, ,quieting the
title for the first holders of the land
ana summarily dismissing the swarm
of squatters. If some legislation oil
this kind is not secured we may look
for continu al volume of litigation
upon litigation for the next ten OIL
twenty years. The HERALD holds nc
animosity to these people who have
lately set their claims upon the prop.
erty in question. But We previously
advised them in all sincerity and fol
their own good. that they were throw.
ing away their time and wasting
their energies upon a project which
might turn out myth or involve
them in an expensive and reverend.
ing law suit. That advice we now
candidly and honestly repeat.
Year: 1876

For the past year the Express has
advocated a certain class of "honest"
men in our city through evil as well
as good repute, in season and out. 1t has
besides yelped 'Ring" all this time
at the highest pitch of its voice.
The HERALD's exposure of these
"honest'' men has shown the people
that either the judgment or the hon.
esty of our neighbor is sadly out of
joint. The persistent cry of wolf where
there was no wolf excited no more


attention than the rawlings ofa luna
tic. We claim that the Erpress has at
tempted to mislead the people as to
who constitute ring in this city, and
to prove our assertion we would re-
quest an answer to the following que
ries: Who caused the city money to
be kept in the bankrupt and tottering
bank when it was well known fact
that the institution must go to the
wall? Did not this paper cry "ring"
at everything and every person not
connected with this same rotten bank
ing institution? Through the assur-
ances Of this paper were not numbers
of people inCuced to leave their all in
those shaky vaults, to be engulfed in
the common ruin? 1t looks very much
as if the ring has been broken, and
that all we have left of it is the Er-
71roaa
Year: 1876

Ten per cent. on the day of sale; one-third
on the delivery of the contract; one-third in
ninety days; the balance in one year. Inter
est at the rate of one per cent will be charged
on deferred payments.
Year: 1876

~ PERSONS wishing to breed
~ to this fine MESSENGER


Horse will apply to the SUBJ


scriber, who will take pleas


ure in showing some of the


colts OF the get Of 1873. Colts


that will prove the ability of
Year: 1876

The WOMAN WHO HAS THE CHARN OF
NEArNEss.- is difficult to be rude or
rough or course in her spotless presence;
it is impossible to be unduly loud and
familiar with q woman whose dress
bears the impress at ence of refinement
and reserve. "Cleanliness," says st.
Paul, sis next to godliness," and even
the ungodliest man is ready to put Off
his mental shoes and acknowledge he is
on holy ground in the presence of a pure
and spotless woman. We do not like to
think of any lady having to rush away
in abject terror if bv chance one of her
husbands friends should call duping the
forenoon. Dress is not without its in
funce on address. A woman in her
night. gown will seldom be in her wrong
temper. She will feel at ease. not racked
as to tho 'sit Of her bib aud tucker, or
exercised "a to the angle of her topknot.
Not needing to think of herself. she will
be better able to think of her guests, and
will enter into the conversation of the
moment with gsysty and gusto that
will charm her visitors. Should, on
the contrary. her gown sag her shoes
be down at the heel, her hair untidy,
embarrassment and preoccupation will
sit heavy upon hcr.-lFraser's Maga-
zine.
Year: 1876

! WASHINGTON, March 24.-The movement
| in favor of a ncn-psrtisan currency Dill


seems to be gaining strength every DAY.
| Several Of the most prominent Repuoii-
! cans have indicated their willingness to


support IL. and have expressed the opinion


that Republicans. with exception of those
who voted for Mr.. Atkins's bill last Mon
! day, can be united In Its favor. The repeal


OF that clause In the Resumption act OF 1879
fixing Jan. I, 1879. as the date when Uni
| ted States notes shall be redeemed In coin.
will no doubt be one of the features ofthe
bill, but it Is proposed to retain those
| portions of the present law which provide


for free banking and withdrawal from circu-
lation OF an amount in greenbacks equal TO
| so per cent OF the volume of new bank cur
rency issued. Advocates Of the new meas
| sure are almost unanimous in the opinion
| that since IL Is impossible for the Secre-
| tary Of the Treasury to carry into effect
| the Resumption act OF last year without


additional legislation, which Congress in


its present temper will not pass, the next
best thing Is to allow the Treasury notes


20 be funded gradually at the option OF


holders into interest bearing bouds pay
able In gold at some future fixed time.
The effect OF such An act would b: to raise
the value OF our paper currencv Mt once,


and without forced or violent contraction


to bring 1t to par with gold within very


short time. Although this would not be


specie payments, which the anti-resump-


tionists now urgs against every measure


of currency reform. The most serious
objection that has yet been suggested to
the proposed Funding bill is that it will


increase the interest bearing debt Of the
country. Its advocates reply, when this
objection is urged. that they expect only
a very small portion Of the greenbacks to
be funded under such bill as this, since
they hope that the premium on gold would
be gradually reduced, and that a revival OF
business would very soon make a demand
for money SO much greater tina, ii could be
invested in legitimate business enterprises
which would yield more than per cent
profit
Year: 1876




The Lamoine Cornet Band gave an
entertainment at the school house In Dist.
No 2 consisting of songs, instrumental
music &c. and the popular drama ''Down
by the Sea-" All was well played. and
those who like to relax their facial muscles
got more than their moneys worth.


Luther d. Coggins formerly of this
place is here on visit to remain short
time His home is now on the Plains.
near DeRrer. Col. His business is stock
raising and dairying. He turned out last
tall three hundred and eighty head OF cat
tit. besides twenty-five horses. Herding
time commences about the first Of May
when they will be hunted up and driven to
some spot well adapted to grazing. They
are scattered now as far from his rancho Al
forty or fifty miles, yet he expects to finc
them all right.
Year: 1876

Bar Harbor.


DAMAGE AT EGG RooK. - During the
gale on the 2lst the bell and boat houses
connected with the light house were swept
away The bell tower was displaced and
badly shattered. Capt. Wasgatt was
obliged TO get out fastenings 10 keep the
bell tower from being driven against the
light house. The surf was forced against
and into the light house which was flooded
on the lower floors. By the loss of the
contents of the boat house the light keeper
loses considerable.
Year: 1876

A LADY correspondent at Washing
ton was recently caught in the act Of at.
tempting to steal a photograph Of Mrs.
Beiknap from the Album OF Mrs. Bristow
The correspondent had been offered Sl2j
for the. photograph by the managers OF
one OF the New York illustrated papers.
Year: 1876

The SIGNAL SERVICE. The value OF the
signal service TO the thousands of mariner ;
who frequent our coast was fully demon
strated during the recent equinoctial galr
At one point alone. Thatcher's Island, Of!
Cape Ann, feet Of several hundred
vessels were warned Of approaching danger
In time To put out to sea or seek safe
hsrbor. II may reasonably be assumed
that the amount of property saved by this
Que signal more than covers the cost Of
the signal service tor whole year.
Year: 1876

BY reference to our advertising columns.
, it will be seen that an application has been
! made for the appointment of a receiver to


wind up the business Of the Bucksport
Savings Bank. There are some, however,


interested in the Bank. who prefer that
this institution should be put into Bank
ruptcy.


We can hardly believe that there can be


fonnd many who are willing to advise this


course, so suicidal TO the interests of sll the


depositors. 1t is bad enough for them to


lose the larger part of their deposits. with
out incurIiug the lang and expensive pro-
cess of bankruptcy proceedings which
must necessarily absorb quite an amount
OF its assets. a cursory glance at the
simple. un-xpensive manner. in which the
affairs OF bank may be closed up. and the
ample provision made for are equitable
division ofits proceeds among its creditors.
provided ia the statutes OF this State must.
we think. convince every one that this is
the wiser and better course to pursue.
Year: 1876

MIR. DREW had daughter who was
widow and very rich. Her father was
trustee, and had the handling of her
money. He kept her money with his own
and ii was all mixed up financially and
speculatiyely. The lady married min
lister, and the father did not object, sup
posing that simple hearted minister
wouldn't look very closely into the man
ner in which his wife's money was invest
ed. He had rich wife, and that was
enough. The man had an eye to bust
ness, and as soon as the honeymoon was
over, he began to overlook his wife's es-
tate lie did not believe that it was wise
or safe that a woman's property should be
floating about the street. He called Mr.


Drew's attention to the matter, demand


ing an accounting, and insisted that his
wife's property should be Immediately
and safely invested. The great bear was
astonished and indignant, and reminded
the minister that he had better attend to
his own affairs. He thought that rescu-
ing his wife's property from the mael-
srom OF speculation, and guarding her
against bankruptcy and want, was part
of his business. He pressed the matter
till his point was carried, and now the
schedule of Mr.. Drew's debts does not
embrace a million or two due 10 his
daughter N. Y Cor. Boston Journal
Year: 1876

The country never possessed so many
beautiful marriageable young women as
it does at the present time. And why do
we not have more marriages. We an
swer, because marriage for love is the
exception and not the rule. The young
people of this age have gone fashion and
money mad. If the dandy bank clerk
who pays one-half of his income for board
and the other half for clothes cannot i'm
prove his condition he will not marry
The shop girl who earns good wages and
cannot be distinguished by her dress from
the bankers daughter, certainly will not
plunge into matrimony unless she can
better her condition in life. If a man is
fortunate enough to possess money, it
matters not how old or ugly he may be,
hundreds of intelligent handsome young
women can be found only too willing TO
become his wife. Love is an after consid-
Grafton. They marry TO be supported and
dress extravagantly. How often do we
hear the remark, Better to be an old
mans darling than a poor mans slave"
Alas! too many of them are not satisfied
to be darlings. They will persist in loving
other men after they are married.


1t cannot be denied that a great number
of unmarried men are adventurers, looking
for wives who can keep them without
working for living The peace and con
tent of happy home are not taken into
consideration. They are willing to suffer
hell upon earth if they can be kept in
idleness. If our people do not abandon
this extravaganza of dress and greed for
money, our country will be filled with old
bachelors and old maids We must have
more genuine courtship and marriage, to
have prosperity and happiness in this
world Too many marry for money, only
to be disappointed and unhappy tue rest
Of their lives.-AlbaAy argus.


Natura IL the hattle field of life There
Year: 1876

An Illinois farmers wife declares
TO goodness that after all the pamphlets
which have been written about egg. laying,
she can't see that the hens take hold and
do bit better than they used TO twenty
years ago,
Year: 1876

&


About 2 o'clock on Sunday morning three
men were in q saloon on lower Market
street. Only one of them appeared to have
any money, The whole party had been In
dulg1ng freely at the noneyed mans ex-
pense. At last he got tired of this but the
others insisted on their continuing to treat
them. He refused and q quarrel ensued.
The party adjourned to the street. The
moneyed man was struck on the head with
a porter bottle and badly cut. The cut ex-
tended from the top of the head down to
the base of the nose. The severed scalp
hung down over one of the eyes and 1t re-
uuired six stitches to close the wound. 1t
ia claimed that the man struck with the bot
tie had stabbed one of the party in the
head, but not the one who struck the terri
BILE blow. .u,l


Officers Frank Wilson and Stewart were
on the ground and were about to make the
arrest when they were assured BY the man
cut that he would not prosecute. The off,
GERS took the wounded man to the Station
House where his injuries were attended to
by DR.. Mott. The patient then went home.


About II O'Clock on Saturday night
lady was assaulted by three men on the
edge of Ship Creek woods, who attempted
to commit O nameless crime. The lady ran
away screaming and gained admittance to q
house near by. She thinks the rutiians BE-
long to Upland. " 't