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Year: 1876

FINE PHoToGRAPHs.-We were shown q large number of beautiful samples of work in the Pho ographic line the other day at the old Gallery on Cortez street, the work of Mr. Hunt, who has recently established himself there. These pictures were taken by NIT. Hunt at Junction City, Kansas, and Mem phis and Knoxville, Tenn. Mir. H. assures us that they are in no way superior to work he can and will do here; in which case, we feel safe in saying that as good 9 picture can be taken in Prescott as anywhere in the world
Year: 1876

Dock Hess has at last become reconciled and no longer holds any malice on account of the publicity we gave his attempt to cap ture the Sacramental bottle. Still, he wishes it understood that his intentions were not en- tirely wicked, but were devotional to this prey-on the wine bottle
Year: 1876

s. O. Frederick is having some trouble with the amalgamation of the Senator ore, having run in:o body that is remarkably base, though not so entirely so but that it still pays to work by his old process with copper plates, notwithstanding the great loss he is obliged to submit 10. He is trying the Paul, or barrel process, on small scale as an experiment, and has hopes of making a success of it in that way.
Year: 1876

Tie boys about town got quite spell of horse-racing on the brain the latter part of last week, but it seems to have all subsided. Those who want to know anything about the rules of racing can learn by calling on Doc Tompkins.
Year: 1876

Col. Bigelow went home with Tip Wilder last week, and, we hear kept on to Mineral Park, intending to go thence to Blackberry to attend to some mining interests there which he and George Opdyke have some thing to do wi.h.
Year: 1876

This gentleman died suddenly at his residence in
this city, after short illness Saturday last. He
was born in Wcstchcster county, and oary life
moved to this city, where he engaged the clothing
business During the existence OF the old Volunteer
Fire Department deceased connected with Il. and
was at one time foreman OF Eagle Hose No. l. He
permanently identified with the republican party, and
OF late years active worker in the Fifteenth
ward. He was also vice president OF tho we'll known
Lincoln Club
Year: 1876

in the Western States, to learn the busl-
ness; they can get twice the wages in
New York; and so on. Now, would
like to have you give me your opinion on
the subject, whether New York is the bes'
place for young apprentice. or the
Western States. YOUNG PRINTER.


The men who preach such doctrines are
frauds. Unconscionable scamps, they
endeavor to inculcate such teachings that
boys may be prevailed upon to leave their
masters and give the entire field to them.
Our answer to the query is emphatically,
mo" Boys who como to New York,
attracted by the prospect of higher pay,
are losers in every sense. They sacrifice
their chances of becoming expert work.
men, Tor they are kept type-setting, and
get no show Tor miscellaneous work; they
do not earn much more than will keep
them they surrender home comforts, and
are forced into indiflerently kept cherries
boarding houses; they are not held in
respect by good workmen; they are
exposed to trying temptations, and often
are mere wrecks before manhood is fairly
on them. Country offices turn out best
workmeu. Every boy trained in them
gets u general practice OF the trade,
whilst in big city offices apprentices often
know only as much as can be learned in
one department.
Year: 1876

week. When it came Saturday night he
knew that all the money in his pocket
was his own. after deducting the rent.


That evening he went over to the mar
ket with Wilkins and bought as much
vegetables and meat as he thought would
last through the week. He found he had
made saving of at least twenty per
cent. and when the opportunity offered,
he msde the same saving in other mat
ters.


At the end of that quarter Charles
Matthews did not have TO get slate.
He paid his house rent, and then he
found he had thirty. five dollars left in
his pocket. That was his--he did not
owe penny OF it.


"Ah, Hannah" said he. US he held the
money 10 his hand and looked il over,
NOW | know how easy it is for man to
be wrong and his wife right. This
money all comes of paying as go along.
1t is very easy and simple to say Just
charge it, and a man can easily buy
things under such circumstances, but
when the day OF reckoning comes, these
three simple words, that sound so limo
cent when spoken, are found TO be costly
things. | did not believe it until tried
it. | could not have believed that man
would purchase many articles simply be.
cause he could have them charged. But
see it now, and if refused to follow
your advice at first, have gained expe.
riencc enough to lead me to follow il
more explicitly now"


Charles Matthews never again allowed
himself to be carried away by the credit
system. but has followed the cash rule.
and the consequence has been that he
could buy produce. coal, etc, at the
cheap prices. and he has now cut off the
expense of house rent, Tor he owns
snug little cottage, and it is all paid
for.
Year: 1876

The discussion ABOUT the reading of the
Bible in the public schools will, is to be
hoped, do this good, il no olher-namely
draw attention to the subject OF Bible
reading in general. The Bible is read
altogether too much. Of course, it is not
read too much by people who do nOtread
it enough. or who DO not read it at all, or
who know how to read il 4 great deal,
aud TO edifcatiou. But there is not
another good book in the world with
which so many Christian people bore
themselves, and bore their ueighbors.-
some people read and read the Bible till
lis beauties and consultations have little
or no effect upon their minds or souls
In fact. the Bible has been made so trite,
that only by indirection and at rare inter-
walls are we apt to get clear impressions
OF its incompatible wealth Of poetry,
passion and religion. We knew good
soul who used to read his Bible literally
"on his knees" who read il three times
q day; who read the genealogies with the
same steadiness of purpose, as the Psalms
or the Beatitudes, and who confessed that
he got less good out of the book than
when he became kind OF heather and
stopped reading it almost altogether
The experience of this person suggests
an Intelligent middle course. which we
leave for the parsons to point out The
Old Cabinet in ScriJner'S Monthly.
Year: 1876

'Tis most extraordinary He did not


laugh nor wink, but made his remark


with a simple sincerity that was irresistI-


BILE. There was a moment OF silence
Then came the echo Human wit had
spoken, and human heart answered.-
"What cussed fools we are !" said one OF
the crowd, sententiousyi and loud
laugh followed, which scattered like q
burst of sunlight the gathering cloud of
mischievous intention. A little tact had
been hundredfold more effectual in
melting prejudice than series of SOL
emn lectures. --HaTper's Magazine.
Year: 1876

This well, which is over four thousand
feet in depth, is in the village of Speren-
berg, about twenty miles from Berlin
1t was begun about five years ago by
the government authorities, to ascertain
the existence of rock salt beneath the
strata OF gypsum occurring in the local
icy. At q depth OF Two hundred and
eighty feet the salt was reached. The
boring was prosecuted by steam until
the final depth was attained. At the
lowest point, the salt deposits still con.
tinue
Year: 1876

Gath says Gen. Grant is poor, very
poor, and that his paper promises to
pay are not uncommon on Wall street.
If this be the case, it is shame and a
discredit to him. No other President
ever received so much money and valu-
ables, in the shape of salary and gifts,
and it is we'll known that the enormous
sums that have found their way into
his exchequer have not been spent in
extravagant living. They have been
lost in stock and other speculations, a
fact which, as far as we know, could
never he said of any other President. :
Philadelphia Chr ontcle.
Year: 1876

The District ring have resorted to a
clever devi@ for rescuing Hallett XII
bourn. the recusant witness, from the
stern grip of the House. They have
had him indicted by the grand jury
under an obscure law making a refusal
to testify before any House committee
an indictable offense, ,and now demand
possession of him. The House refuses,
and we think very properly.
Year: 1876

The steamer. Morgan City, of the Morgan
line, left her wharf on the morning Of the
fourth instant for New York via the South
Pass and the jetties. She entered the head
of South Pass at two O'Clock in the after
noon, and grounded on the bar at that
point. She swung around across the chan.
mel, and at last accounts was fast aground.
She drew fourteen feet three inches forward
and fifteen feet two inches aft. Tugboats
were at work yesterday trying to pull
her off.
Year: 1876

candidates are well selected; they are the
peers in point of intellect with any the
Democrats can place in the field against
them, while as members of reformed and
reconstructed Congress, they will be
enabled to undo much of the mischief that
has been done OF late by the Confederate
DemOcracv
Year: 1876

The pavement which the great thorough
fare of city fast becoming almost smooth as
the old Russ. The constant travel u from Four
teenh street to the Battery has down the edges
and horses find II very difficult travel The Broad
fall
Year: 1876

The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty -four hours In CON-
parson with the corresponding date OF last year
dicated by the thermometer at Hudnups pharmacy,
HERALD Building
Year: 1876

The Washington correspondent OF
ths Cincinnati Gazette on the 18th
has the following


Those Democratic speakers and
newspapers which cite the COnstitu-
tionAI provision against paying the
rebel debt as q sufficient answer to
the charge that the rebel Democracy
intend to have those debts paid, are
feeding their hearers and readers on
ehaff. While 1t has been clearly
shown that large class of southern
claims are not covered by the amend
ment, there is q method which has
already been openly proposed by Rep
resentative Walker, formerly Gov.
Walker, of Virginia, by which nearly
every class Of them can be paid.
This scheme was prepared with 3
q view to its presentation when both
Houses of Congress were Republican.
It was deemed so plausible, and the
margin, to meet all expenses Of the
most reckless lobbying, was so great,
that its authors, for 8 time, felt conf
dent that they could pass it through a
Republican Congress on the plea of
doing justice, and being generous to
the South.


The plan WAS developed in a bill
providing for lOaning the credit Of
the United States to the various
Southern States in order to enatle
them TO pay their debts, and, in
measure, repair the waste and desOla-
tiOn of the war.


All the influence which can be so
readily set at work in Washington
upon such schemes had been consult
ed, and were ready TO begin their ls-
bOrs. Gen. Butler was relied on to
support and push the matter in the
House. An expose Of the amount in
yOlVed, and some of the methods Of
working, caused a delay in its pre-
sentation beyond the session for
which it had been arranged, and,
thereafter, its authors did not find
time when they deemed it expedient
to present It, in the face Of the uni
Yersal demand for retrenchment.
There is little likelihood Of this
scheme being revived. Nothing so
modest as this will ever come from
the South again. Its inventors and
advocates have passed beyond any
such moderate limits. The Riddle
DILL -ulEeCtiuk COup pcAtsattOu " Dc
allowed for the use and occupation Of
property by the United States Army
during the late war" is the standard
now.


The Walker plan and bill are sig
nifiicant as showing the means by
which the Constitutional provision
against paying the rebel war debt can
be avoided, and also as indicating the
length to which the Southern leaders
thought they might go with Repub.
lican Congress, The question for
Northern taxpayers TO consider is
how far such men will venture iD esse
Congress and the Executive fall into
the hands Of the Southern rebel and
the Northern doughface Democracy.


Information from all parts OF the
South warrants the statements that
the general hope which has been ex-
cited, that ali classes Of SOutherD
claims will eventually be paid, in case
the Democracy succeed, Is the most
powerful element at work for Tilden
in the campaign. 1t Over-shadovs
Year: 1876

the hatred Of Republican State rule,
and even the brilliant prospect which
the anticipated possession of all the
National patronage created for them.
At best the Offices will be for the few
They can not be made to go around.
Bat every prOperty-hOlder will In the
end be benefited, ifOnce the payment
OF such claims as were embraced
among the House bills OF the last ses-
SION can begin. For then, just In
proportion as the North vas weighed
down by the increasing burdens OF
taxation which the war impossd, viii
the South begin to 6e relieved, and
lifted up financially. The table will
be fully turned and the North, hav-
ing paid or assumed the Indebtedness
OF the war for the Union, will then
begin to feel the new load OF paying
for the war against the Union.
Year: 1876

tendance was 81 per cent. Of those Oh
the rolls now it Is 30 per cent. Of
those on the rolls. Hence Birming-
ham has not only increased greatly
the number of children sent to school,


but has increased greatly the regulari-
ty Of those ehildfenis attendance. In
Glasgow, before compClsiOn, the
average Humber Of attendance was
79 per cent. of those on the rolls, (the
greatest proportion Of all and now,
after very considerable increase in
the number Of children, it Is still
sevsnty-eight per cent, I. e., not quite
so large a proportion as it was, but
stiIl much the largest proportion in
any of the three cities. And as OF
course il must be remembered that
the effect of compulsiOn is 10 bring a
great number of unwilling children
into nominal attendance, the natural
tendency Of compulsiOn-st least
among a population where school at
tendance was already the rule-is to
increase the difficulty OF keeping the
attendance as regular as before. No
doubt we must remember that, so far
at least as the Scotch population Of
Glasgow goes, there Is clearly a very
much larger public opinion in favor of
school attendance than In the great
towns of England. Scotland has
been for two or three hundred years
country which has valued and loved
education, and consequently it is
hardly fair TO compare Scotch town
with an English town, as il they were
on the same general level as regards
education. However, Glasgow Is
really by no means purely Scotch
town. The Irish colony in it is so
very large HI to affect very greatly
the number of the inhabitants, and
on this account, no doubt, the COM
parisOn Is fairer thar Il would other
wise be. On the whole, it cannot be
doubted that Prof. Jack has inside out
a very strong case indeed for the su-
peri1r efficiency OF a system Of veiled
cOmpulsiOn-that is, not indirect COM
pulsiou, but direct cOmpulsiOn, sup
plemented by so much sympathy,
persuasion, and popular use OF the
few examples" furnished by legal
prosecutions, that the great majority
of the people are rather convinced
that it will not do To keep their chill
dren hack from school than menaced
into sending them and no kind of
cOnpulsIOR is 80 efficient as this.
Year: 1876

A little girl in Goshen, taking COM
passion on sick chicken, placed it
behind the kitchen stove, where lit
tie pet kitten nestled down beside it,
and afterwards became its companion,
following her about and playing with
her. After laying her first egg she
supposed 1t was not hen-like 10 sleep
behind the stove, so selected a rOost-
ing place in the shed. Poor pussy
was quite troubled at first, but In the
evening was found quietly rOOsting
beside the chicken.
Year: 1876

There is a growing conviction In
the minds Of smokers that 3 vest
pocket should be made deep enough
to entirely hide q cigar from the
serutinizing gaze Of the man who
never has any.
Year: 1876

The collection OF real and personal estates for
the present year will reduce this total amount 10 less
than S12O,O 900 by Dec. 81. The numerous street
improvements and other public works. authorized by the
Common Council recently, will swell the issue of bonds
next year and largely increase the permanent debt Of
the city.
Year: 1876

A colOred man in San Diego Cal, was chai'
lengcd the poll, the ground that he Was NOT icl
dent of the comfy Use been In dis yer town lore u
brush WAS cut of," he exclaimed and lac voted.
Year: 1876

In pamphlet issued by the Council OF Political Reform
in 1885, showing the debt and taxes of this city from
1900 to 1874 the city debt during Controller Green's
term Of office is put in the figures following;
Year: 1876

THE shameful sale of Senatorship in
Connecticut is calling forth many stinging
remarks about the Democratic party and its
corruption. The Springfield Republican re-
marks:


A very impracticable idealst, name of Pla-
to, lays it down as universal law of politics
that, when riches and virtue are placed togeth-
er in the scales of the balance, the one always
es and rich men are honored In the state, vir-
tue and the virtuous are dishonored." The re-
cent political history of this country furnishes
some rather striking illustrations of this as
sumed law. Certainly the results to date of
the rich candidate plan in our neighbor state of
Connecticut, for instance, are not of sort to
recommend it to the favor of people who pre-
fer their politics clean.
Year: 1876

The election of Democratic House filled
Washington with ex-Confederates to run
that branch of Congress. Should the Dem
Gratis get entire control of the government it
would fall into the hands of the Southerners
who have entire control of them. 1t is time
to be looking about US.
Year: 1876

ana one rises from its perusal with hearty ad-
miration and respect for him. The COM
p'ete WORK is the most interesting biography
published OF late on the other side of the wa.
ter, and should find aplace on the book-sheyes
of every reader of taste and sensibility
Year: 1876

We announced recently that information had
been received by the Hon. f.. II. Apgar, Sec
rctary of the Democratic State Committee, and
by him officially promulgated, that 1.-TWO artists
lard one doctor" had declared for Tdcn and
Hendricks in Western Ncw-lork. While Mr..
Apgar is engaged in the clocutionary part of
his duties. we have no doubt he will be much
Obliged to MS if we keep tally for him of his
party's daily acquisitions. Has he head of the
deaf and dumb gentleman who writes to the
Democratic newspaper in this city that lie has
determined to vote for Iildcn One deaf and
dumb freeman brought to see the error of his
ways would not be overwhelming, but it is
little startling 10 learn from this cOmmunica-
ton that all the deaf and dumb voters of
New YOrl, City are decidedly the foes of Hayes
and Wheeler. At the announcement of fact
so curious, we are filed with philosophical spec
ulation, and find ourselves saying involuntarily,
Whyl wherclOrci for what rcason2 Prof.
Huxley has gone hOme and 50 we cannot ask
him; but if some of our numerous scientific
correspondents will tell us why an unfortunate
gentleman who cannot hear or talk should
therefore favor the election of Tilden and
Hendricks, it will give us pleasure to print the
rationale of the matter conspicuOusly. For our
part we do not believe word of it, We
don't believe that the deaf and dumb gentle
men are any such persons. We attribute the
statement to that spirit of rare and curious
brag which seems to have taken possession of
the Democrats, and which leads them to claim
the conversion of all sorts of folk. We are
still looking for something still more curious
We expect presently to be told that in some
far-Off and northumberland corner, all
the red-haired male population has bolted
from the Republican ranks, while in an
other place all the citizens between the
ages of twenty-seven and ffty-three have
gone and done likewise and mean to vote ac-
cordingly.


We have reason for this conjecture in
Year: 1876

Yesterdays registration reaches a total Of
56,s29, against 31,OO6 on the first day of
registration last year. This marked increase,
nearly doubling last years figures indicates
either a sensible determination on the part
of citizens TO perform this important duty
promptly, or an exceptional interest in the
coming election. Probably both things may
be justly inferred from these figures 1t Is to
be hoped that the next day OF registration,
one week from to-day, will make as good
showing Some of the largest figures OF IN
crease are in very respectable districts of the
city, and we shall be glad TO believe that they
show a determination on the part of the better
class of our citizens to take more active part
in the work of choosing public servants.
Year: 1876

People who are disappointed in the results of the
October elections will find great comfort in the
thought that a white whale has been captured and
put on exhibition at the Aquarium. 1t is proposed
TO give him liberal education and set him 10 draw
ing pleasure boats. THIS will furnish the whale
with employment sufficient TO occupy his mind and
reconcile him to the tank while it will serve also TO
amuse the public. They had an educated white
whale in Boston once which was so employed for
eighteen months without bubber; and Boston
took great delight in him.
Year: 1876

TIE TINE FOR TARIFF REFISION.


When the Morrison Tariff bill was under
discussion, The TRIBUNE expressed the hope
that action upon this matter might be de-
laycd until the next session of Congress,
so as to give the opportunity tor fuller con-
sideration of the interests involved. There Is
danger that in the excitement of the political
contest this opportunity may be lost. In that
case Congress will again assemble with as
little information before it as at the last ses-
sion, and if there should be any legislation OH
the tariff it is likely to be as crude and
ill-considered as that with which we were
threatened in the early part of the Sum
mer. A thorough knowledge of the interests
involved in any proposed changes is not to be
gained by hasty skimming in the committee


room, nor from the brief remOnstrances which
the representatives of various interests may
make before a committee. Still less is
proper conclusion likely to be arrived at by
log-rOlling process in Congress itself, when
one member secures consideration for his pet
measure in the Tariff bill by agreeing to support
the pet measure of another member. Some
notion as to the time and research really re-


duired may be formed from the statements
made by the National Association of Wool
Manufacturers i'll a letter dated March .25,
Year: 1876

Verdicts of corneIs juTies are proyer6lally
mealy -mOuthed that upon the Europa disaster
follows the usual fashion, and nobody is CEN
sured. There seems to have been no special
excuse for the employers who sent wOrkmen
into the oil-saturated hold with lighted candles;
but the evidence goes to show that this has
been the usual way, and therefore the verdict
is given that the firm having charge of the
work are in no wise blamable." Perhaps
to the average juryman the fact that
things have always been done in one way is
sufficient reason for continuing to do them
thus. The logic will be satisfactory to all ex-
cept perhaps the friends and relatives OF the
unfortunate men who were killed. The recon-
mendation that the Board of Health make in
vestigation as tO the recurrence of similar
Year: 1876

1t is almost full generation since the Noun
tain Meadow massacre shocked the whole
country by its atrocities, and it was not until
yesterday that this tragedy, long since grown
painfully familiar, reached its final act IN the
sentence of John ID. Lee, a Mormon cOnspc-
nous in that bloody deed. 1t is strange incl
dent in its history that the chief Of the GRIM
inals, being allowed to choose the manner
of his death, should prefer to die as the
victims of his own hand died so many years ago
For once the law of blood seems satisfied to
the letter.