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Year: 1876

Bridgeport is fast becoming a great centre for the distribution of Dry Goods and Carpets for lower Connecticut. Messrs HALL & READ, the principal Dry Goods. and cat pet establishment of that city have by untiring energy and fair dealing gain ed an enduring reputation for selling the best goods. always keeping pace with the times, and always presenting tue newest and most attractive goods at the lowest market rates. The great feature of the carpetings, If
Year: 1876

MOTHERS can secure health for their children and rest for themselves by the use of Castoria, perfect substitute for Cas- tor Oil It is absolutely harmless, and Wind Collie. Sour Stomach, Worms or constipation, for young or old, there is nothing in existence like it. It is certain, it is speedy. 1t is cheap.
Year: 1876

The Hon. John Cotton Smith. of Shar- on, is appointed chairman of the Woman Suffrage Committee on the part of the House. He is knoa n to favor the meas ure and is so far Progressive. He took occasion, last week, however. to renew an old attack of his on the State Board of Education which looks little Bourbon ish. Our present school system is by no means what it should be. but the times, we imagine, were still worse.
Year: 1876


During the past week the foreign produce
market at Mincng Lane has been duh and unsettled
with downward tendency The only feature In sugar
has been a decline of one and sixpenco per hundred
weight on crystalcd DencTara The coffee market mas
been well supplied with foreign sorts. which went slowly
many parcels remaining unsod Numerous cargoeS OF
rice have arrived OF the few of these have been
sold at barely former terms.


There have been q number Of minor faureS In various
branches OF trade throughout the country during the
week.


The discount demand is inactive and the open market
is rather weaker under the competition for tho few bills
Off ring
Year: 1876

When man detects missing button after
getting on clean shirt. in the house is aware o
the fact. He takes on the shirt and puts on another
quietly smiling all the while He never never speaks OF
il to n s0ul.-(Danbury News
Year: 1876

of exhaustion! All me, the stairs! Those


headaches; those pains; those signs; tha


face so sadly spiritual at times! All me, The


studies! How thankful | ought to be tha
/ the good doctor advised me in season! What


dear good man he Is. How well he under


stands darling's delicate physical organizer


ton! How fully he AZ preciates the intensity


of her mental appllcalons!" Thus solilo
quizes the mother as she goes home to exc


cute the doctors orders.


Now we submit whether 1t might not be
well to have the diagnosis of school girl's
ailments varied u little occasionally fiom
that above. Let some such questions AS these
be propeunded: Does your daughter go out
several evenings each week TO sOciables,
dances or parties? Does she often stay Out
till midnigh or later? Does she take stimu-
lating food and drink tea and coffee and at
unreasonable hours? Does she literally pa.
tronize the confcctioner? Does she not often
dress less warmly than she shouldy Does
she squeeze herself into tight dresses and
tighter corsets, TIL the vital organs are pack.
ed like passengers in an onnibus-till the
blood fails to find half Its channels, and the
lungs do not admit air enough to vtallze
even the little that still circulate! Does she
not read much of the silly trash found in
cheap novels, and in almost equally perni-
cious Sunday school books? Does not her
mind dwell too much on the other sex, think
ing more Of boys than Of books-mOre OF
love than of learning? If these questions be
answered in the affirmative, as most of them
would have to be, in some cases, If answered
truthfully. then let these additional ones be
asked, and with an carnestness that shall
startle: How, in the name Of common sense,
which every mother should have-in the
name of human nature which, at this deli.
cate period of girlhood, demands so careful
and constant watchfulness can you expect
your daughter to have good health while suf.
fered to indulge IN so frequent and SO ex.
haustng disslpations and excesses? Can
you be ignorant of the greater, the more terri
bic evils that too often and too surely follow
close upon these!


Quite likely such questions might fall less
kindly on the maternal ear-mlght receive
less gracious maternal response-might exalt
the questoner less highly IN the maternal es-
innate of his professional skill as well as of
his acute appreciativeness of the lovely and
the intellectual. Still, we think it possible
they might lead to quite as sure and radical
cures as questions whose beginning, middle
and end are about stairs and studies There
is room for grave doubt whether it IS alto
gether wise to take the young lady invalid
from school, where she is Obliged to make
some mental exerion and thus give her all
her time to devote to the very excuses which
have brought upon her the ills she would be
cured Of THOMAS H. CLARK
Year: 1876

Daniel Webster had an anecdoie OF old
Father Searl, the minister of his boyhood,
which is too good to be lost. 1t was custo-
mary then 20 wear buckskin breeches in cool
weather Que Sunday morning in autum,
Father Scarl brought his breeches down from
the garret, but the wasps had taken posses
sion during the summer, and were having a
nice time OF it in them. BY dint of effort he
got out the ntruders and dressed for meeting.
But while reading the scriptures to the CON
gregation he felt II dagger from one OF the
enraged small wasted fellows, and jumped
around the pulpit slappng his thighs, Bat
the more he slapped and danced the more
they stung. The people thought him crazy,
but he explained the matter by saying
Brethren, don't be alarmed; the word of the
Lord is in my mouth, but the devil IS in my
breeches" Webster always told II with
great glec to the ministers
Year: 1876

When a man is chopping kindling wood


and stick with a ragged edge takes him be


tween the eyes, he kurls the hate het far away,
nurses his head with one hand, and hops
around as if he had the spring halt in his
right leg. All his physical agony is nothing
compared to his ineXpressible feelings when
his wife pokes her head into the woodshed
and mildly inquiries, "RiGhard are you hurt -
Year: 1876

One by enc, one by one,
In the kindred light of the April sun,
While primrose and snowdrop gem the ground
And the birds mating and building around,
While violets blossom their steps to greet,
With laughing voices and dancing feet,
With wakening fancy and budding hope,
Beyond my reach and beyond my scope
They pass, while in fear and doubt 1 stand,
Out of my hand, out of my hand.
Baby pleasure and baby care,
Not one of them but was mine to share;
Not q tear, but dried it with kiss
Not smile, but Joined in its eager bliss.
Now the young knight arms for the coming strife,
The sweet lirl-faReies start to life;
They nestle, the maiden shyness beneath,
As the bright buds hide in their slken sheath
By spring dews nourished, spring breezes famed,
Ont of my hand, out of my hand.
I dare not trench on thy realm, my hoy,
Nor roo thy sway of one virgin 10y;
dare not touch with my faltering fingers
The blooms where the light of sunrise fingers,
Nor drag to the garish light of day
What youths proud reticence would delay,
can but wait outside it all,
Where the cold wiLds sigh and the brown leave


fall.


Out of my hand, ou OF my hand
Yet did not bear them in peril and pain;
Did not lavish and watch and refrain;
Quitting the pleasures of parting youth,
The glories of science and art and truth,
That the paths for those little feet might be
Fresh and sunny and safe and freef
Scheme and vision and hope of mine,
They were but those golden heads to shine.
Now, alone and tired, slow drops the sand,
Grain by grain from my falling hand.
Father of ALL Savior of all,
Behold at thy altar-steps fall.
Thou wilt not disdain that come at last,
With my treasure spent and my monday past,
Take thou the guidance that 1 resign;
Take this hard, embittered heart of mine;
Take the baffled ambition, ungranted prayer,
Baseless terror, Ieplning care;
Guide each fairy bark to the heavenly strand,
Take my darlings, my darlings to thy hard.


An the Year Round
Year: 1876

came to my possession, this mule was


seized with acute rheumatism of so vio-
lent a character that the poor animal
could not walk. Before this time, he
with other animals, had been removed to
a new stable that l had built, in which
lie was kept for several months without
being used for work. He gradually got
better of his rheumatism, but his deafness
continued until this spring, when he re-
covered entirely, both from his deafness
and rheumatism. Over each of the doors
of this stable had caused to be placed a
transom, with panes of blue and colorless
glass therein. The stall of this mule was
before door with such transom over
it. When the sun arose in the morning,
he cast his light through this transom on
the neck and top of the head of this mule.


Before he set in the afternoon, he threw


his light again upon the head aud neck
of this mule through the transom OF an
other door on the northwestern side of
the stable. The effect of this light upon


the animal has been the cure of his rheu-
matism and the removal of his deafness" ]"
Year: 1876

The notion that the moon exerts an
influence on the weather is 70 deeply
rooted that Notwithstanding all the at
tacks which have been made agalnst 1T
since meteOrology has been seriously
studied, it continues TO retain its hold
upon us. And yet there never was a
popular superstition more utterly with
out a basis than this one. If the moon
really did possess any power over the
weather, that power could only be exer-
cised in one OF three ways-by reflection
of the suns rays, by attraction, or by
emanation. Now, as the brightest light
of a full moon is never equal IN in
tensity or quantity to that which IS
reflected toward us by white cloud
on summer-day, it can scarcely be
pretended that weather is affected by
such a cause. That the moon does exert
attraction on US is manifest-we see It's
working in the tides but though 1t can
move water, il is most unlikely that IT
can do the same TO air, for the speclhc
gravity of the atmosphere is so small
that there is nothing to be attracted.
Laplace calculated, indeed, that the
Joint attraction of the sun and moon to-
gether could not stir the atmosphere at
quicker rate than five miles day. AS



for lunar emanations, not a sign of them


has ever been discovered. The idea OF
an influence being produced by the
phases OF the moon is therefore based on


no recognizable cause whatever. fur-
tbermore il is now distinctly shown
that no variations at all really occur in


weather at the moment of the changes Of
quarter any more than at any other or
dinary times Since the establishment
of meteorological stations all over the
earth, it has been proved by millions of
observations that there is no simultane-
eusness whatever between the sup
posed cause and the supposed effect.
The whole story is fancy ano supersti-
ton which has been handed down TO us
uncontradicted, and which We have ar
cepted as true as our forefathers believed
it.. The moon exercises no more infu-
ence on weather than herrings do on the
government of .BtdcklcoOd.
Year: 1876

If we look at disappointment as a
lesson, we soon take the sting out of it.
A spider will teach US that. He is
watching for fly and away the nimble
fellow goes. The spider runs round his
net to see whether there be any holes,
and to mend them with the pious ejacu-
lation of better luck next time"
Year: 1876

SIXTEEN dollars in silver weighs one
pound. That is not an immense sum.
There are many people who always have
at least that amount of money in small
denominations on their person. The
beauty of carrying it may be tested by
going into grocery and either sticking
aPOund weight in one pocket or balancing
the matter better by thrusting a half
pound weight into each pocket.
Year: 1876

It cannot be that this earth is mans only abiding place; it can

 not be that our life is a bubble, cast up by the ocean of eternity to float for a moment on it's waves, then sink into nothingness. Else why is it that the glorious aspir

 ations which leap like angels from the temple of our hearts are for ever wandering about unsatislied :: Why is it that the rainbow ands the cloud come over us with as beauty that is not of earth, andA then pass of and leave us to muse upon their faded loveliness? WhyB is it shat the stars which hold theil X festivals around the midnight throne are set so far above thcs grasp of our limited faculties, for-I ever mocking us with their unap

 proachable glory? And finally why is it that the bright forms of human beauty are presented to our view bnt for a moment and then taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of affection to flow back to Alpine torrents upon our hearts? We are born of high CT destiny than that of death; their is realm where the rainbow ney

 CT where the stars will be spread out before us like the islets that slumber on the ocean, and where the beautiful beiags that here pass before us like shadows, will stay in our presence forever.
Year: 1876

A NEW ENGLAND PLUM Pup pING.-Open and soak about a dozen large crackers in new milk the night before it is made, or use the same quantity of sliced bread. Some good cooks butter each half-cracker. Use tin or iron ket- tie that holds about a gallon. This should be previously swabbed inside with fat, that the pudding may turn out in a good shape. Mix i beaten eggs with , cups of sugar-equal to a pirt-a tea spoon of salt, teaspoon each of ground cloves, allspice and cinna- mon and one grated nutmeg. Half fill the kettle with alternate layer of crackers or bread, the egg mixture and good muscatel box-raisins, using pound of the latter. Make the kettle three fourths full with milk, if to be baked in stove oven, as it swells and runs over; but it may be fill ed to bake in q brick oven. It re- quires three hours to bake in a brick oven and some less in a stove. 1 (The baking capacities of stoves difIer.) ] Cover it while baking ii likely to burn. It is better cold than hot, but nice either way and may be served with or without sauce.
Year: 1876

The commission appointed to select a pave
ment and supervise the paving of Pennsylvania
avenue have awarded the contract to the Gra-
hamite Paving Company to pave the Avenue
from Sixth to Fifteenth street at 1913 per
yard, eight inches foundation, three inches of
surface, and twelve cents for every additional
inch added thereto. 1t is understood that
from Sixth to First street will be awarded to
another company, probably the Neuchatel.
Year: 1876

Upon reference TO or advertising column:
it will be observed that Hamline NJ. E. church
joins with the Lyceum Bureau in the excur'
sion Wednesday evening. This combination
was arranged for August ?, but the rain OIL
that day made it necessary to postpone the
trip. The excursion given by the Bureau in
connection with Hamline church earlier in the
season was one of the most successful of the
series.
Year: 1876

don't take down their signs in dull times nor
stop advertising.


Small Handbills printed for seventy five cents
per thousand at the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
Job Office.


Business Cards printed for $2.25 per thou
sand, at the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN Job Office.
Year: 1876




will meet this evening at Clarke's hall, as will
be seen by reference to our advertising columns.
Interesting reI orts, speeches and campaign
songs promise to instruct and entertain the
audience. Other Republican associations, and
all who are interested in Republican success in
the South, are invited to attend the meeting.
The interest which has latterly crystallized
around the prospect of seeing several of these
States carried in the face of large Republican
majorities by outrages, frauds and murderous
intimidation on the part of the rebel Democ-
racy should call together an enthusiastic meet
ing. The true friends of free, representative
Republic will recognize that the highest of
rights and privileges of American citizens ere
based upon the fundamental principle of our
institutions, that the right to the free and un-
intimidated ballot must and shall be main
tained
Year: 1876

Mr.. Willis, of New York, yesterday offered
the following preamble and resolutions in the
House, and they were REFEREED to the Commit
tee on the District of Columbia


Whereas it is the duty ot Congress to pro-
vide for such an organization of the public
schools of the District of Columbia as shall
most efsctually promote the cause Of popular
Year: 1876

This little declaration is a succinct state
ment Of theory as to murder in which
the world once had robust and i'm
shaken in the later times. 1t is supposed
that there have been several cases in which
the crime of murder has been committed
without the fact becoming known even that
murder was done, and other cases in which
with the crime known the murderers have
remained undiscovered. People have paid
the less attention to this subject because it
has become matter of very little conse-
quence with us whether murder will out"
or not, inasmuch as the result is the same
the murderer commonly going free in either
case Indeed, it might be laid down as
convenient for the murderer that his crime
should become known ut once, inasmuch as
he is then tried and discharged and hos no
further trouble while in the other event he
is for years tortured with anxiety, inasmuch
as he always believes justice to be severer
quaintance But the verdict against Lee
in regard to the Mountain Meadow massa-
ere seems like case of the real old fashioned
sort, and may in some degree revive the old
fashioned faith. His crime has been brought
home to him after twenty years, and it seems
highly probable that the punishment will
follow. 1t may be remembered that whole
train of emigrants-men, women and chill
dren-were murdered on that occasion by
the Mormons, who had some Indians with
them to give color to the report they spread
that the murders were committed by the
savaQeS
Year: 1876

We think that the general feeling among
our citizens regarding the result of yester-
days contest at Creedmoor will be tinged
with regret that our gallant visitors,
the Irish rifemen, did not carry
off the victory. "'Tis not in mortals
to command success" but surely no
number of gentlemen more fully
deserved it. If it has fallen to our marks
men to defeat them in four successive con-
tests the Irish rifemen have not undergone
the ordeal without gaining the admiration Of
their opponents and the esteem of Americans
all over the Union. We are fully aware
of the difficulties of getting together
team "sure to win" in country where the
possession Of q rifle by private person is a
matter of direct governmental grace and
special license; but narrow as this, restric-
ton makes the choice, Major Leech
must at least be congratulated on the
character of the marksmen he has found
himself called on to lead at Creedmoor
and Dollymount. AS Miner and johnson
found their way with such unerring pre-
cision to the bull's-eye, SO the whole team
has made a mark upon the affections of
America which will not soon be effaced.
In the course of the matches the
HERALD, by publishing its diagrams
of the shooting, has endeavored, and
with flattering success, to second the
efforts of tho rifemen to bring beautiful
and manly sport into merited prominence.
1t is gratifying to know that while subserv-
ing this good end we have contributed
to swell the chorus of appreciation which
has greeted the efforts of such excellent
gentlemen and fine shots. The international
communion in manly sports will do more to
preserve the peace and good nature of the
world than all the treaties that the most
careful diplomatist could draw. The puff
of the rifle has become among us the calumet
of peace. We must smoke yet another such
as yesterdays with our Irish friends.
Year: 1876

The boys in blue are making hne demon
stration at Indianapolis. They muster IN
goodly numbers in the Western city and
their meetings and marches are full OF On.
thusiasm. A great number of generals ara
there but many of them are more famousin
civil than they have ever been in military
contests. The gathering of these heroes haa
q political object. 1t is intended to aid the
republican cause, and their songs, with the
wornout burdens of "Oh! have you heard
the news from Maine?" and 'Carry the news
to Tilden," would sound more becoming
in purely political meeting than in
q reunion of the soldiers who fought
in the war; After oil, these conventions Of
the ''Boys in Blue" called always about
election time could be very we'll dispensed
with. They are at bottom neither more nor
less than Northern white leagues. The
Southerners commenced the foolish policy
of organizing such combinations, but that is
no reason why the Northerners should fol-
low the example. The war is over. If we
are to have political organizations of boys in
blue ut the. North there is no reason why
there should not be political organizations
of boys in gray at the South. Yet any
gathering of the latter would be regarded as
q reopening of the rebellion and an unpatri-
otic movement. On the Union side demo-
Gratis and republicans fought shoulder to
shoulder. The politicians who affect so
much affection for the boy in blue love him
only on condition that he will vote on their
side, and not because he risked his life on
the field of battle to preserve the Union. The
sooner the blue uniforms and the gray dis
appear from our national politics the better
will it be for the country.
Year: 1876

In the case of the man Roach and his


daughter, both of whom died suddenly


and as was thought from poison, it is
now reported that on autopsy has demon
strated that the cause of death was
cholera morbus and that no trace OF


poison was found. That no trace of poison
was found does not prove that the persons
did not die from poison, and cholera morbua
is rather name for group of symptoms
than for distinct pathological condition.
and the one fact in it's pathology is as likely
to be the consequence of poison as of any
other cause. All the family ate of meal and
two of them drank of beer with some drops
in it, and these two died, while no one else
was ill. 1t is not the meal. therefore, but
the beer or the drops that are indicated as
the sources of mischief, and there should be
further inquiry in regard to them. They
were either some favoring extract or some
one of the many cordials used by people who
compound. Only few days since dose Of
prussic acid was given to woman in the
form of one of these cordials in q liquor shop
in the city, and they are commonly virulent
poisons. In this case, if the drops were not
themselves poisonous, they probably COM
bined with some substance present in tho,
beer and thus made poisonous compound