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Year: 1876

British India is rapidly becoming a grain prOduc-
ng and exporting country 1t Is estimated that the
expectation of wheat from Calcutta alone this
son will be one hundred and twenty thousand tons.
The quality Of grain is somewhat similar to that of
California, dry and hard. The vast territory of
northern India with rich lands and abundance OF
cheap labor will hereafter contribute largely to the
grain markets of Europe. Before 1870 the prOduc-
tOn of grain was SO small in the section alluded to
that ii was all consumed by the natives and then
scarcity, amounting almost to famine, was not In
n
Year: 1876

1t would be strange, indeed, if
America did not win match of
skill in the use of the rifle. From
the time of Daniel Boone, and lon q
before that time, the rifle, on th
wide frontiers, was as necessary as
the commonest domestic utensil.
Generations of Americans have
grown up familiar with this truly
national weapon. 1t is not an
American invention or adoption?
Accuracy in the use of this arm is
hereditary with us, and our unre-
strained use of it,and our number
less advantages for exercise either
in sport or defenc e, ought to give
us, as they have, supremacy in q
contest to determine skill. Greed.
moor only proves this.
Year: 1876

The Sportsman says: Goldsmith
Maid is not pony in any sense.
She is little over fifteen hands
high, and she has more proportio-
nate power in the right places than
any other horse we know of save
De xter, who is himself small in
height, but giant in the superior
parts which confer speed and large
ly contribute to establish bottom.
There is not in the world horse
of her size with a better back and
loin than Goldsmith Maid, and as
to any carriage horse making her
tak ke dust hitched to o Concord
wagon, with two men in it, the as
sertion is completely ridiculous.
You do not want lumber to pull
weight upon the road for other
tn an draught purposes.


Dexter is small in the coach
horse sense, but he can pull a ton,
and beat any carriage horse in Mas
sachusetts, any distance, out of
sight. Lady Palmer was light and
bloodlike, but weight was nothing
to her. The same with Flatbush
NJ aid. Charlotte F. is small and
light, but she cares nothing for
weight, and we have heard Dan
Mace and his brother Ben say that
she could pull coal cart and trot
a mile in four minutes. The Bold
Pr rivateer is long, very bloodlike
an d sinewy horse, e,light all over, r,and
not q bit the worse for it, though
the fat mems club might despise
him on that account.


Goldsmith Maid is q mare of
splendid proportions and marvel
Gus constitution. She is not the
best trotter that ever was, because,
take him for all in all, Dexter was,
and is the Eclipse of the course and
the road; but still she is very well
worthy of all admiration in the
country which produced her, and
her namewill be perpetuated among
tho best of that class Of horses to
the fame of which all over the
world she has enormously contribu-
ted.
Year: 1876

A vote for Hayes is vote for Robe.
son.


A vote for Hayes is a vote for Bel
knap.


A vote for Hayes is vote for De,
lano.


A vote for Hayes is a vote against
Retrenchment,


A vote for Hayes is vote for the IN
dian Bureau.


A vote for Hayes is vote for the
Freedman's Bank.


A vote for Hayes is a vote for Bah
cock, Mcdonald and Joyce.


Every vote cast for the Republican
ticket at the State elections is a vote
for Hayes and all the swindles and
swindlers of Grants administration.
Year: 1876

A year ago or so John Hunt, of Brew
erton, took unto himself wife. The
secret history of their lives during the
year which followed shall not be writ
ten; suffice it to say that Mrs. Hunt re-
Gently determined upon fOrsaking her
liege lord, and did so, whereat he was
wrOth. To avenge his anger he resOlv-
ed upon giving Mrs. Hunt dressing of
tar-and-feathers, but he could not make
such a presentation without assistance,
and how could assistance be obtained?
A thought struck him-whisky would
help him out. So he assembled certain
individuals before a bar, where certain
beverages were dispensed, and after all
had freely partaken Of his hberality Re
divulged his plan. They were to 90 to
the house where his wife was stopping,
decoy her into the street, seize her and
apply the offensive coating in a twink
ling, he to give the signal for action by
a whistle. On arriving ut the house,
one of the party entered it and soon re-
turned to the street with Mrs. H., when
the whistle was given. At once the par
ty rushed forward, with the bucket of
tar and feathers which Hunt had pro-
vided, but to his horror their footsteps
were directed toward him instead of
in the direction of his wife. 1t was but
the work of a moment to smear him
from head to foot with tar and cover
him with feathers till he resembled an
Onondaga brave. He was quick to see
that he was the victim of his own ma
chinations, and was glad TO sneak away
without further observation-disclosures
On. ~ Journal.
Year: 1876

A criminal case of more than usual
interest was tried on the Midland Cir
cult at Lincoln, in England, on March
20. William Harrod, only IL years of
age, was arraigned for the willtul muir
der of boy named Hebblewhite on
February 10, last. 1t appeared in evi-
dence that the prisoner left his grand
mothers house on his return home about
dusk that day in company with the de-
ceased. On the next morning Hebble-
whites body was found in a pond, with
several wounds and bruises on the head.
Death, however, had not been caused
by these wounds, which only stunned
him, but by drowning. By the side of
the pOnd-which was onl ly about five
feet deep-were boys footprints and
the impression of a boys knee, as
though the deceased had tried to get out
of the water. After Harrod had been
arrested on suspicion, he wrote letter
to his mother, in which he gave this &C
count of his quarrel with the dead boy:


"He asked me if would have a fight
and L told him no. and he said he
would, and then he drew stake out of
some kids and struck me twice with it
across the legs as hard as ever he could,
and then l pulled another out and struck
him four times across the head and
twice across the face; then he swore at
me; then | showed him in the pit and |
saw that he was in the middle; and then
| ran home across the church-yard, and
now | have told you the solid truth


The theory of the defense, which was
founded on this letter, was that Hebble-
white had attacked the accused and
had fallen into the water in the course
of the struggle; but this theory is not
entitled to much consideration as the
deceased was a younger and smaller
boy than the prisoner, and there are no
marks of violence on the prisoner.
Justice Lindley, in charging the jury,
said that if there had been a fight pro-
voked by the prisoner it would be muir
der, and if provoked by deceased man.
slaughter, unless the violence was out
of proportion to what would have been
warranted. This last question in the
case was the most difficult of all, be-
cause, although a person ever fourteen
years of age is presumed to be capable
of committing crime, if he is under that
age, the presumption is in his favor,
and jury must be satisfied that there
was a wickedness of mind or mischiev-
Gus disposition showing that he was
conscious that he was doing wrong.
In the absence of such evidence they
were bound to acquit the prisoner both
of murder and of manslaughter. After
a short absence the jury found the pris-
oner guilty of manslaughter; and he
was subsequently sentenced to fifteen
years penal servitude. Mr.. Justice
Lindley, however, announced his inten-
tion of communicating with the Home
Secretary in the matter.
Year: 1876

The human frame was intended for
activity, but it must be managed. A
locomotive can run very fast, but if
stopped instantaneously, when going at
a high rate of speed, it is injured; so a
skillful engineer tones down his speed
gradually. In this lies the whole secret
Of not taking cold. After walking, or
running, or dancing, or any exercise
that quickens the circulation, little
current of air from a window, a crevice
from an open door, for few minutes,
just to cause chill, is sure to produce
a cold. Merely stopping on the street
in current of air will do the job. At
ter exercise always seek rest in shell
tered place, where you will be warm,
never being hasty to remove hat, gloves
or cap. Let perspiration subside be-
fore disrobing, if indoors, and if out
doors always keep gently moving until
the usual condition is attained.
Year: 1876

vans was enough to. turn the head of
any average man.


His Excellency Brugsch Bey, who was
the Chief Commissioner from Egypt for
Vienna, holds also the same position
here, and so without doubt the exhibi-
ton will be as well arranged as it was
in Vienna. Brugsch Bey is the most
profound Egyptian scholar in the
world, and is the only person who has
succeeded in decipheriug perfectly all
the ancient hieroglyphics, and has made
the task of others easy in having writ
ten complete hieroglyphic dictionary,
Being so profound scholar in all that
pertains to that land whose buried and
forgotten greatness so much exceeded
our widest fancy, it is impossible for
any other nation to be represented by
any one who brings so sincere desire
to raise their country to its proper place
in the estimation of all the world.
Year: 1876

A young woman of Marshalltown has
been sent to the insane asylum. She is
only twenty-five years of age, and has
been married and divorced. Her hus-
band married a second wife, and to him
was given the charge of her infant child.
This was a great grief to her, and nat
urally she fell into gloomy forebodings
concerning the treatment her little
one received at the hands of the new
wife, and when she learned that it had
been scalded severely, she broke down
all opposition, and gained permission
to see and nurse the child; and though
all was done that human skill could do,
the little sufferer soon died, and the ag-
onized mother went her way only to &C
insane over her bereavement. Ceda1
Rapids Republican.
Year: 1876

A young man living some ten or fif-
teen miles above the city was awakened
one night recently by the suspicious
barking and growing of his dogs in the
yard. Rising lightly from bed, he
peeped out through window pane, and
there, sure enough, he discovered the
cause of the disturbance. Dimly out
lined in the moonlight stood the form
of man. With one hand he was evil
IDENTIFY untying the gentleman's fine
horse, which stood haltered for the
night, while with the other he held a
siX-shooter, pointing directly at the
front door. Taking in the situation at
a glance, our young friend gently
reached for his shotgun, and, passing
out at the back door and round the cor
ner, opened the attack from an unex-
pected and wholly unguarded quarter.
Under this skillful generalship the enc
my came down while just in the act of
mounting, and without even so much
as responding to the first fire. The de-
ceased was buried without the honors
of either peace or war-Waco Exam
irgeT.
Year: 1876

A man in Frederick County, Va,
dreamed that certain railroad bridge
would 90 down when he started to visit
his daughter attending school at Wood
stock. He remained at home, and the
fatal train crossed the bridge in safety.
And it was also discovered that the
bridge was two and half miles the
other side of Woodstock.-C Cincinnati
Commercial
Year: 1876

The contest of Indiana shows
plainly that the greenback fight is
made in the interest of Democracy,
and that only; the matter has become
so plain in that section, that the
Cooper men are open in their advo-
cacy of Tilden and all tho Democrat
ic candidates. Will Republicans be
carried away by that gauzc? We
think not Democracy hopes to elect
Tilden, and with the greenback dodge
they are trying to receive an occa-
sional Congressman in such States as
Iowa, that he may have n Congress
in sympathy with him.
Year: 1876

Is the man who opposed the war for
the salvation of the Union safe man to
place at the head of the national govern
ment?


What party sought to dissolve the
Union and perpetrate slavery? The Dem
ocratic rebels aided by their Democratic
allies.


What party saved the Union, emaDci-
pated slaves, broke the chains Of human
bondage and made free citizens of mil
lions Of bondsmen? The Republican
party.
Year: 1876

4 Where the hour is not Istated, the local CON-
mittees will choose the time best suited to their
respective localities being careful to appoint an
hour that win permit the speaker TO reach his
next appointment on time. Also please notify
the speaker Of the hour you have chosen.


HENRY @. LEIGHTON,


Chairman Republican State Cent. Com,
Year: 1876

Francis Mcclure, who was placed trial before
Judge Sutherland the Court General Sessions on
Tuesday afternoon for murder in the second degree
for killing his wife, yesterday found guilty OF that
crime and sentenced confinement IN tho State
Prison at hard labor for life. Mcclure stabbed his
wife with a butcher knife at their homc No $50 East
Thirty nth street, Sunday night. the 18th OF
August last in tho course OF verbal quarrel lie was
ably defended throughout tho trial by Mr. A. Oakley
Hall and Mr. william u. Kintzing, but tho evidence
him. Mr. Han summed up the case Tor the dcrcnco
Wednesday afternoon in long address, in which no
argued that the prisoner had been provoked by his
wife into passion, and that. nndng the fatal weapon


n hand no struck tho blow without prcmedtaton and
without an intent to Kill. When the court convened
Yesterday morning, Assistant District Attorney Bell
summed up the testimony for the people.
lie expressed mis- regret that the prisoner
the first degree and declared his belief that he could
have been convicted OF that crime. That the deed
mad been prcmeditaed he sad, was shown by the
threats Of the prisoner kill his wife at various tmcs
during tho past two years, and IN proof that he IN
tcndcd kil when he struck the blow he cited the
testimony Of witness who stated that thirty minutes
after deed the prisoner returned TO The scene OF
his crime and on being spoken 20 about wound
declared that he sorry he had cut the throat
OF his victim. Mr.. Bell ended by declaring that
should The Jury disagree he would endcavor to procure
q indictment Tor murdcr IN The nrst degree Dur
ing address the prisoner sat by the SIDE OF Mr.
Kinizng and frequently turned 20 that gentleman for
consolation seeming 10 be much affected by tho points
o Mr.. He'll


Judge Sutherland made somewhat extended charge
20 the Jury Ia which he reviewed the testimony and
clearly defined the law bearing upon tho Counsel
ask ed MIN to charge the jury upon several specific
absence OF fifteen minutes tho Jury reformed
0waiee sf 'Guiliy Of murder In tho second degree
Year: 1876

Mr. Bell Immediately moved for sentence Upon being
asked by the clerk what he had 10 say why The judg
OF the Court should not be pronounced against him
his counsel mr. Kintznrl said Nothing" McGulrc,
stunding with bloodshot, fearful eyes and his
was sentenced TO State Prison at hard labor
Tor the term or his natural life. In sub
selncnt comments upon tho the general feeling
expressed that this OF the atrocious
and revolving murder cases that had been tried thus


lar during the present term OF the court and great
surprise was expressed that tho indictment not
Tor murder In the nrst degree, when, the facts
sanding as they did uncontraacted verdict Tor The
evtuble result
Year: 1876

Building Stone-I am prepared
to furnish builders with any quantity
from one to five hundred cords of as
excellent building stone as can be fur
nished from any quarry in Wood Coun-
ty. Apply to


tt HENRY OSTERMAN
Year: 1876




Looking .vel the field of preparation
for the grand political race for the Presi-
dency in November, we cannot withhold
expressing our pleasure at the gravity
and the conservatism that pervades the
Democratic party in their conventions in
every State. They are evidently de-
termined to work to win; and there is
8 a ely doubt of favorable result, if
a man in whom the people can repose
implicit confidence is chosen for the
standard bearer and, with such names
as are now before the people to choose
from we cannot see how mistake can
be made.


We are confident that the people want
and expect to see strict Democrat
nominated-a man who will fully repre-
sent the plain, old economical and con-
servative principles Of that party. And
with such man at the head Of our
standard the ticket would be carried with
Just such an overwhelming vote as was
given to Franklin Pierce in 1852.


The people Of this country now know
that there is no hope for Reform from
the Republican Party leaders, and that
the election of q Democrat is sure tc
result in Retrenchment at Washington
and as a consequence all over the coun
try. The strong feeling that has mani
Tested itself in most of the States in ia.
vor of Senator BAYARD is one of the
sarest evidences Of the displeasure in
which the great mass OF the people hold
the managers Of the Radical party. They
are seeking pure man to place at the
head of the nation, and no one fills the
measure of their ideas in this regard as
the Senator from Delaware. Added to
this, they see in him gentleman of the
finest ability-just in the vigor of man.
hood, one who can neither be driven by
partizan threats nor coaxed or cajoled by
the allurements Of money to 60 single
step beyond the point of honor or moral
reetitude. His own Roman-like conduct
and economical and laborieus habits
would lead to economy and industry in
all the surroundings of the position al
Washington and elsewhere in the dis
charge of official duties, and could no
fail to inaugurate new system TIA
would prove of incalculable benefit t,
the whole country.
Year: 1876

The Use OF Opposition. IF the
present House of Representatives has not
been able with Senate of opposite DO
hticalv views, to enact much positive legis-
alton for the good Of the country, it has
at least prevented good deal of mis-
chief, which, il the House had been Of
he same political faith as the Senate.
would have been inevitable. The ku-
klu1, the prosecuted negro and the An.
Jacksonville horrors would have been the
staple of Congressional oratory; while
the conduct of the guilty federal officials
in various departments would have es.
capped all investigation. Belknap would
still be in the cabinet Babcock would he
unsuspected, and whisky and other rings
would continue to steal without fear of
c onsequences. When Belknap was ex-
posed the Senate was engaged in the
bloody shirt business, and the party
machinery which in times past had
worked SO wellto party advantages in the
South was being put together to run
once more in the interest Of radical as
tendency, But the exposure of corrup-
tien in the party household, which with
House of opposite politics, would have
been impossible, have rendered it idle to
attempt to delude the people with tales
OF rebel violence.aud disloyalty. The
suspicion is now become strong and W ide
spread among.intelligent linen that, to a
large extent, the tales OF rebel mis-.
deeds have been invented to call off at.
tention from the felonies and frauds in
which men in Office were engaged.-Balt
Sun.
Year: 1876

Ter from NJ. Thompson il effect that lie
was tired Of being class with rogues, es-
pecially such as had won fame and name
in the Republican party, and he was
ready for any investigation or impeach-
ment that could be had nor did he have
any demurrer or plea to jurisdiction to
offer.
Year: 1876

common power Of voice and skill
in modulating it, was employed to
teach psalmody, and the boys were
naturally attracted to his school as
a recreation. 1t often happened
that the teacher was an enthusiast
in his vocation, and thundered forth
the airs set down in the music
books with a fervor that was con-
tagions.~.-A few Of those who at
tempted to~>iearn psalmOdy were
told that they haGs no aptitude for
the art, and were set asr but that
did not prevent their att ndance as
hearers Of the others. In those days
a SET Of tunes were in fashion mostly
of New England origin, which have
since been laid aside in obedience
to a more fastidious taste.


The streams which bickered
through the narrow glens Of the
region in which | lived were much
better stocked with trout in those
days than now, for the country had
been newly opened to settlement
The boys were all anglers. Iconiesl
to having felt strong interest il
that "sport," as l no longer call it
l have long since been weaned from


the propensity of which | speak


but have 10 doubt that the in


stinct which inclines so many to it


and some Of them our grave di


vines, is a remnant Of the origina


wild nature of man. Anothe


sport" to which the young me-


of the neighborhood sometime


admitted the elder boys, was til


antumnal squirrel hunt. Th


young men formed themselves int


two parties equal in number, an
fixed a day for the shooting. Th
party which OH that day brough
, down the greatest number Of squiI
f rels was declared the victor, and tn
. contest ended with some sort {


festivity in the evening.


T ] have not mentioned other spor
q and games Of boys Of that day
. that is to say, Of seventy or eight
wears since - such as Wrestlin
q running, leaping, base ball, an
a the like, for in these there w
a nothing to distinguish them fro
q the same pastimes at the presel
y day.
Year: 1876

The following is the full text Of the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher's address to the Adyis-
ory Council prior to the adjournment of that
body lately.


1t has come to pass that for SO many years
have read of myself and heard of myself
that have ceased in some moods to have any
actual self, and am projected as an idea be-
fore my own mind And if shall therefore
speak somewhat freely after the manner of
men about myself, l wish you to consider it
part of that metaphysics which DR.. Porter
says is so bad. have often read as if were
reading a novel about the bad hero, and
walked up from my dream and grimly asked
myself, ''Is it me that they mean; is it posi-
bic for a man to live as long as have and as
openly, and acted upon SO large theatre, and
been agitated by such world shaking events,
and be so utterly misconceived?' l have had
the reputation of being frank man. 1t is
true that am man of very cautious speech,
and may, therefore, sometimes not have eX-
pressed myself intelligenty, though at other
times have had the reputation of being able
to make myself understood. Nevertheless,
it has come to pass that ! supposed myself
to have been more thoroughly canvassed
and construed in no very enyiable light
than it has befalen any of my contempor-
aries.


am very sorry that it should be so. l
have no love of being hero and have still
less of being such hero as | have been made
to be. | tell you that to hear men talking
whether am or am not guilty makes the very
mother-thought of my soul shiver and blush
in me. For | have that sensibility. l am
open to that


KEENEsT SENSE OF TRUTH AND PURITY
and honor and right, and to be held before q
jury, and to sit six long months, and to have
rained upon me perjury, and professional
abuse, and to feel that over the whole broad
extent of this land was the focal point on
which journalism was eXpending itself, and
that, too, not as to whether was Republican
or Democrat, not whether | was orthodox or
heterodOX, not whether this or that system
eXpounded was rightly held. but whether
was an ineffable culprit. l have not been
hunted as an eagle has been hunted; have
not been pursued as a lion has been pursued;
l have been pursued even as wolves and fox
es. have been pursued as if l was maggot
in a rotten corpse. And do you suppose it is
in human nature to 90 through months and
through years and not to feel it? And yet, if
1t please God, who has enabled me to go
through the desert and the Red Sea, that
should go on. God is my Judge that am both
willing, and | am able to 60 on again anoth-
er five years, for can do all things, Christ
strengthening me, and the life that now live
in the flesh | live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me never so much as now. At the
same time, it may be in my power to defend
myself on every kind and charge. 1t may be