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Year: 1876

precious metals. To this enterprise the great
monopoly Is bitterly opposed, and Is doing all
In Its power TO prevent favorable action In
Congress.


It Is time that the Western and Southern
press should speak out on this subject, second
ing the views set forth In the National Rail
road convention held in St. Louis, and de-
manding some share of justice, not only to the
West and South, but to the people of the
whole country.
Year: 1876

All the employees of the Pension bureau
have signed card denouncing the attack of q
morning contemporary on Commissioner Atkin-
son as being scurrilous article, and without


foundation, decency or a semblsnce of truth.
Year: 1876

When the West Point bill reaches the Senate
it will receive the check which it deserves and
which the people demand. They have too
high an appreciation of the national and last
ing benefits derived from that great institution
to quietly submit to having it crippled by the
wild and parsimonious legislation of their
servants in Congress; and, should this bill
pass, the odium will fall upon the Democracy,
the results of which will be materially felt by
that party when the public will is expressed
in the great campaign that is coming on apace.
Year: 1876

The "summing up in the Lands trial COM
merces to-day. The friends Of the accused
are confident Of his acquittal. But, after al,
it seems very hard that even in these degen-
crate days an editor can be cornered in his
own composing room and shot like wild game.
If such things are allowed TO 60 unpunished
the time will soon come when longevity will
be unknown in the profession of journalism.
Year: 1876

Now they say that if tie poor mans home
was made more pleasant he would not spend
his time in the drinking saloons. We have
always insisted that the wife should fix up
lager-beer garden in the back yard and secure
a troupe of ballet dancers and music and
Chinese lanterns if she expects it is possible
for the husband to stay st home away from
the evil influences Of the restaurant
Year: 1876

Liberia has exhausted her resources in SUP
pressing her miserable insurrection, and will
have to withdraw from the Centennial because
of her poverty and distress. Where is the
philanthropist who will aid this patriot people
to secure the benefits of the great Exposition :
Year: 1876

Belle Isle Nail TVorhs to Resume To-Day
These works, which suspended work about
a month ago, will resume operations this
morning with their full force. These works
give employment to five hundred hands,
most OF whom live on the island and in
Manchester, and the knowledge that they
will have employment again, after months
idleness, is most welcome news to these
men. The Old Dominion Nail-Works are
amongst the most extensive nail and spike
manufactures in the South, and their goods
are popularly and eXte tensively known all oyeI
the country.
Year: 1876

THE GEsASGvEREIN VIRGINIA.-This pop
ular musical association, which recently
purchased a hall on Seventh street, and Is
sued stock, is now paving interest on the
shares. May they be able to give ere long


new beaver hat and brown-stone front to
each member.
Year: 1876

The unhappy Spaniards, says the New


York Herald, seem again on the verge


OF civil war. This time the danger again
threatens from the northern provinces,
which are rendered more hostile than
ever to the Madrid government through
the destruction of their ancient privil-
eyes. The position of poor little Alfonso
is really pitiable. On the north his
throne is assailed by the Carlists, and
everywhere else the republicans arc
doing their best to render his reign as
short and as uncomfortable as possible.
The reactionary policy adopted by his
government since the return of the ex-
Queen Isabella has deprived the throne
of all popular support, and it may now
be said to rest on the bayonets Of the
soldiers-a very unstable support, as bis
mother can tell the youthful king. Had
monarchy in Spain shown itself pro.
gressive Alfonso might have secured
long lease of power from a people dis
gusted with the blundaring Of the repu-
blican party but the reactionary policy
has reunited all The liberal elements
without conciliating the high conserva
tive party which looks to Don Carlos az
it's legitimate chief. This unsettled
state Of the public mind, even if it does
not Immediately plunge Spain once more
into civil war, must render her mere
spectator of the important events trau-
spring in the East, in which she is
deeply interested. This is what she has
gained by her reactionary policy.
Year: 1876

A gentleman travelling through one of
the rural precincts of county, few
days since, rode up to q farmhouse and
thus accosted curly headed urchin,
who was seated on the top of gate
post : Bub, where's your paa" The
youngster replied: He is Just gone
down beyond the cowshed to bury our
old dog Towser. The old fool killed
bisself barking at candidates for
sheriff I; be you enc 2"
Year: 1876

A mother on the green hills of Yer
mont was holding by the right hand q
son sixteen years old, mad with love of
the sea. And as he stood by the garden
gate one morning she said:


Edward, they tell me-for / never
saw the ocsan-the great temptation of
q seaman's life is drink. Promise me,
before you quit mothers hand, that you
will never drink"


"And," said he Oor he told me the
story, "I gave the promise, and went
the globe over, Calcutta and the Medi-
terranean, San Francisco and Cape of
Good Hope, the north pole and the
south. I saw them all in forty years,
and never saw glass filed with spark
ling liquor that my mothers form by
the gate did not spring up before me,
and to-day am innocent of the taste Of
liquor"


Was not that sweet evidence of the
half.


For yesterday came into my count
ing-room man of forty years..


i" Do you know me''


"No."


Well, said he, "Iwas once brought
drunk into your presence on shipboard
you were passenger; they kicked me
aside; You took me to your berth and
kept me there till had slept off the i'll
toxication then asked me ii J had
mother. ] said I had never known
word from her lips. You told mo u
yours at the garden gate, and to-day I
am master of one of the packets in New
York, and came to ask you to CONT
and see me-"


How fur that little candle throws ih
beams That mothers words in th.
green hills of Vermont Oh Goo b,
thanked for tA> mighty power of
single word!
Year: 1876

From the New York Sun Of Oct 1871


The vote in the West shows that the
Germans are deaf to the appeals of the
bloody shirt orators, that Carl Schurz
has lost power with them, and that
they discern that the overmastering
issue of this campaign is the reform Of
the abuses which sixteen years of Re.
publican dominance has established in
the administration of the Government.
The Germans of the East arc of the
same mind with their brethren of the
West, This fact, with others, give
promise of q heavy majority for Tildcn
in this State, where the great battle
will be fought. The Republican ora
tors, released by the close OF the can
vassinOhio and Indiana, will be brought
hither to wave the bloody shirt; but
they will find that it is not standard
which will stir the enthusiasm of our
voters. The citizens of New York
know Governor Tilden. They person.
ally benefit by his reduction of taxes
and the reforms he has introduced at
Albany.
Year: 1876

the Federal power for troops TO helr
him carry out his scheme. 1t Is very
difficult for any one to believe that he
is not an INSCRIPTIONS and very dan,
gerous demagogue. If he means hon.
estly why does he not call upon Gen
Hampton and the other Democratic
leaders throughout tho State to assist
him in restoring and maintaining the
peace, which he says is not only men.
aced, but brokenY These gentlemen
have pledged themselves in the most
solemn and public manner to see fair
play between the two races. Governor
Chamberlain has on u number of occa-
slons publicly admitted that they have
given him valuable and bipartisan
help in managing the affairs and main
tanning the peace of the State. They
would not dare refuse him now, even
if they wished TO, which we do not be-
lieye. Ii there are such disorders as
he prctends, but as other reputable
and equally eminent Republican citizens
deny--if there are such disorders, why
does he not call on the Democratic
leaders to help him in putting them
down Z 1t would be his first act if he
were sincerely dcsirous of an orderly
community AMI fair election.





lfr0m 'no NC" i0rk Herald oct' w. 1901


NONSENSE FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.


That there are great II any men in
Sonth Carolina who are not Of the same
opinion on many points as the Govern
or of tat State is likely; but il there
is an insurrection in that State the
press of the whole country must be
poorly served not to have some knowl-
edge on the subject. As no insurrec-
ton is reported it is safe TO assume
that none exist, and we respectfully
suggest that the forces to which Gov.
Chamberlain proposes to appeal, can
not be brought into operation where
there is no insurrection, and were not
provided TO determine mere differences
OF opinion. Governor Chamberlain
says that in certain contingency he
Year: 1876

IrrVH 'Hu bHIIIIHOfe UHtolIri UcI III


Grantism is crushed to earth never
to rise again. The bloody shirt will
be bleached Chandler, Blaine, Nor
ten, and the rest may cease to trouble
themselves about the solid South, for
they will have enough to do to pre-
serve solid North. For every vote
the Republicans may secure by bayo-
nets in the South, they will lose five
in the North. The battle will now be
transferred to New York, but no fear
need be entertained in regard to the
State that has twice given majority
for Tilden.
Year: 1876

This seems to us q iair view of the
political situation. The balance OF ad.
vantage is ON the side OF the Demo
Gratis but only on the condition that
they show wisdom, courage and mod.
GRAFTON in their canvass.
Year: 1876

The Federal troops have already
been called to aid the State govern.
ment to keep order and secure freedom
of election in South Carolina. This
state of things is what the Chambers,
and the Mortons, and the Boutwells,
and the Buffers of the Republican par
ty have been eagerly looking for. If
they can resuscitate the hostilities of
the civil war, they will have no diff.
Guilty in diyerting the Northern mind
from the less sensational question of
reform, and then the election of Mr..
Hayes will mean simply the prolonga-
ton of the present system with u new
figurehead. The attempt to turn the
drift OF the campaign aside to the
question OF Southern outrages will not
we may hope, be successful; foras the
most enlightened Americans perceive,
the Generalization OF the Republican
party is due mainly, if not altogether,
to the fact that politicians are able to
prove themselves righteous" at a
cheap rate by abusing the South, and
associating the South with the Demo
Gratis.
Year: 1876

Since the opening of the Centennial Ex-
position thieves and confidence men have
reapinr rich harvest from what is known
to them as "suckers," or people from the
rural districts visiting the show. On Satur'
day man, evidently a farmer, left bun.
die containing twelve new shirts for which
Fifth and Chestnut streets, promising to
call for them in the afternoon. A number
Of men were in the place at the time, and
later in the day man stepped in, took q
drink, and left bundle similar to- to ina, Ia
deposited by the countrymen. In about ar
hour and shalt the fellow called, remark
ed ~ guess I'll take that package now"
and decampel with the shirts belonging to
the gentleman from the rural districts. In
the evening the farmer claimed his bundle,
and in lying It upon the bar one end wat
accidentally torn open revealing bundle o.
old newspapers. The farmer still mourn'
the loss of his linen.
Year: 1876

The Warrensburg Journal has Just
come into the possession of facts the
most astounding, daring and reckless
petrated in an election. The radical
leaders are desperate. They know that
with fair election Tilden will be the
next president, democratic congress
and senate to back him, and to therefore
defeat this-the will of the peoples
determined upon, and money, fraud,
perjury and every system and species
of rascality that devils and human in
genuity can devise will be resorted to.
The radical leaders have men now en-
gagged in taking a list OF all voters in
every county town and school district in
the United States. These reports when
completed are to be sent to the chairman
of each state central committee. and
there to be compiled and rearranged
and sent to Zach Chandler, chairman OF
/ the republican national committee. and
the general orders from the Grant head
quarters will be issued to transfer white
and black voters from states, counties
and districts to where they will do the
most good. In this way Kentucky,
Missouri and Arkansas are to furnish
voters enough to carry Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois. Cass and Lafayette coun-
ties are to furnish negro votes to carry
at least one of the representative districts
in johnson county. One or two of the
congressional districts of this state are
to be carried in the same way Negroes
are to be concealed IN the cabins and
haunts of their friends. We hope that
| the state and national as well as local
committees will take prompt and de.
cisive action to defeat this nefarious
scheme to defraud the people Of theil
dearest rights.
Year: 1876

An editor who wrote an amusing
sketch of the manner in which woman
reads Il newspaper omitted one impor-
tant particular. 1t is remarkable fact
that if an item happens to have been
clipped out Of a paper, the woman loses
all interest in everything else that is in
that paper, and concentrates her atten-
ton on the item that isn't there. She
will exhaust herself in efforts to guess
what could have occupied that empty
space. Then she will wonder who cut
it out and why it was cut out, and ten to
one its absence will engender some hor-
rible suspicion concerning her husband.
Finally, she will throw down the sheet
with the declaration that she can't take
any interest in newspaper when the
only thing she wanted to read has been
cut out
Year: 1876

In speaking of Attoney-General Taft's
order, Senator Bayard says: 81 view
the action of President Grant, with his
secretaries OF war the navy and the in
terror, and his attoney general. acting,
as they are represented to have done, in
consultation and concert with Sherman,
the general of the army; Chamberlain,
the governor of one of the states; and
Patterson, a so called senator from South
Carolina. in no other light than as a
conspiracy to invade the right of free
elections. If such attempts escape
public reprobation, or it the people of
all the states remein blind to their dan
ger and permit themselves carelessly or
wiltully to be led and SO sustained, my
hope of constitutional liberty on this
continent will have fled.''
Year: 1876

There can be no mistake about the at
tltude of the republican committee man
ayers towards Schurz. They never
sought his aid, and only accepted it at
the earnest personal solicitation of Hayes.
Hayes has never had any controlling
influence over them, but they were
willing to humor him so long as it did
not cost much, and Schuz's engagement
was bit of humoring. But as soon as
Schurz made his Cincinnati speech they
compelled Hayes to disavow the ''au-
thority" by which Schurz declared he
spoke, and then they suspended the re-
mainlng engagement of the latter. The
affair has thrown the Hayes camp here
in Ohio into


A FRENZY OF EXCITEMENT


and alarm for Schurz was the reed on
which the local Republican managers
leaned to save them from the conse-
quences of total stampede of the Ger
mans in the state. Hassaurek, Stallo,
Reemelin, Mueller and a dozen other
German leaders of lesser note going
over to Tilden had already terribly
shaken the Teutonic element in the re-
publican party, and now that Schurz
had been forced out of the ring by the
bull-headed and besotted managers in
Washington, the committee headed by
Wykoff is at its wits ends for a device
to avert destruction. Their last hold on
the Germans-slender at best-is totally
gone now, and there is no possible
method by which it can be regained.
But there are no signs of relenting at
Washington.


Chandler with his usual bull-headed
obstinacy, swears that che is running
this thing and he'll be blank blanked If
any Dutch son of blank shall be al
lowed TO abuse the president and the
administration under the auspices of his
committee"


SCHURZ WILL PROBABLY SUBsIDE.


There are rumors that he will soon
come out with a statement to the effect
that he went into the canvass suppos-
ing Hayes to be independent of dicta-
ton from Washington, and superior to
the appliances OF Grantism; and that he
has discovered that he was mistaken,
etc. But do not think he will venture
upon this step. 1t might lead to the
publication OF fac SMILES OF certain
drafts drawn by him on the republican
committee last year. and to other un-
pleasant consequences. 1t is very
pretty muss as it stands; and if it should
amount to nothing more than the effec-
tual silencing of Schurz, it will at least
have the merit of dlsposing OF one
large humbug. B.
Year: 1876

The republicans have such 4 burning
and blistering anxiety to effect the great
est possible amount of reform within the
party in the shortest possible time that
they have nominated Ben Butler for
congress.
Year: 1876

Congress has done its very best to
render silver worthless by legislation,
done at the dictation of the agents of the
Rothschilds OF Europe. Still, everybody
is glad to get hold of dime or a quar-
ter. The wants of business demand
them, and the people are eager to use
them.
Year: 1876

The radical disunion leaders are as
founded to find that they cannot rely
on the colored vote in any southern
state. Everywhere the negroes are find
ing that their interests do not lie within
the color line, and. led by their judg-
ment and the detestation they feel for
the scoundrels who have cheated and
plundered them equally with the whites,
they are flocking to the democratic camp.
Intimidation, threats and murder fail to
stop the stampede, and the bloody affair
at Charleston, carefully plotted by
Chamberlain, not only failed of its aim,
but reacted against its authors. We
speak not only confidently, but advised
ly, in saying that so large will be the
conservative cOlored vote that the dem
ocrats will carry every southern state,
including South Carolina.
Year: 1876

We call attention to the advertisement OF
the discovery from the cotten plant' one OF
the most remarkable. perhaps, ever made
in the science of medicine, and which is
destined to mark new era in the treat
men5 of fevers. The theory OF its action ia
based upon a new law in physiology, and
its wonderful effects are attested by some
of the most reliable citizens of our city.
We advice q trial. Every bottle is sold
under guarantee. 1t can be found at NJ :.
B. Morrison g. Co.'s, corner Magazine and
Canal streets.
Year: 1876

THE LAST WEEK-Everybody should
bear in mind that this is the last week OF
the great clearance sale at the popular dry
goods house of N. L. Byrne & Co., No.
1853 Canal street. Those who wish to pur-
chase elegant winter goods far below their
value will do we'll to give them call. After
this timely warning those who fail to sup
ply themselves will have only themselves
to blame.
Year: 1876

Ben. Hill disowns the version of his
celebrated harangue on the amnesty ques-
ton which has been printed in pamphlet
form by the National Republican Com
mittee for circulation as acampaign docu-
ment. He claims that it is garbled and
distorted, and is anxious to have it be-
lieved that he never said what is imputed
to him. Unfortunately for the Georgia
Confederate, the pamphlet in question
contains a literal and exact transcription
of what he said on that occasion, and the
only garbling or elimination that has been
done was done by himself when, per-
ceiving the damaging effect upon the
Democratic party of his uaitorous dia-
tribe, he revised and remodeled his speech
for the Congressional Record, emitting the
Objectionable language, and inserting
matter never spoken by him. The cam
paign document is doubly effective be.
cause of its entire accuracy and truthful
ness .-Chicdgo Tribune.
Year: 1876

No STYLE ALLowED.--A few days
ago. a stranger at one Of our hotels
asked tor a napkin at dinner. The
landlord refused to give him one.
But" said the guest, that man at
the other table has one" That man
is regular border. and has just got
back from the Centennial, and | have
to pander to him for few days. but it
wont be long before he will he wiping
his chin on the table.cloth. and clean
ing his nails with fork like the other
gentleman. No, stranger. We don't al


low any style here as general thing.
but We can't help ourselves sometimes '
Year: 1876

Ii you drop few drops Of strong tea
on piece Of iron, a knife blade for in
stance. the tannate of iron is formed
which is black. II you mix with iron
filings or pulvurized iron, you can make
a fair article Of ink Ifyoa mix it with
fresh human blood, 1t forms with the
iron OF the blood the tannate of iron.
Take human skin aud let il soak for q
time in strong tea, ana it will become
leather. Now, when we remember that
the liquids which enter the stomach are
rapidly absorbed by the veins and alb
.orbents of the stomach. and enter into
the circulation and are thrown out OF
the system by the skin, respiration and
kidneys. it is probable that drink so
common as tea and so abundantiy used,
will have some effect Can il be posi-
bic that tannip. introduced with so
much liquid-producing pcrspiration, will
have no effect upon the skin Look at
the tea-drinkers Of Russia. the Chinese.
and the old women of America. who
have 81 long continued the habit Of
drinking strong tea. Are they
not dark -colored and leAther-skinned .
When young they were fair complex
toned
Year: 1876

in ten minutes thereafter was a lifelcss
corpse. She was young, beautiful and
unphilosophic-alas. poor girl.


"A'aS! the love Of woman, II Is known


TO be a lovely and fearful thing:


For all of theirs upon that die il thrown,
And ifris lost life ha n no more 10 bring
To them but mockeries of the past alone.


learn that a pcsimortem examina-
ton revealed her purity of character
and spotless virtue.


write this in great hurry, but will
next week take time and send another
letter to your valuable paper. = X
Year: 1876

THE verdict of acquittal.in the Lands
case gives encouragement to what is, to say
the least, very unpleasing rule of conduct.
The defence contended that the pistol ball
put into the head of Carruth "was safely To-
cated'; that ''it had become encys.ed, and
was a harmless tenant of the BRAIN" and
that it wasvery wrong in Carruth to make
any attempts to have i6 removed, as by so
doing he came to his death. The jury SEEM
ed to labor under the impression that
they were trying the dead Carruth instead
of the living Lands, and doubtless, had they
been permitted, would have brought in a
verdict of suicide against him. 1t is certainly
bad enough to have bullet in ones brain; TO
be forbidden toremove it under pain of death
seems trifle unreasonable.
Year: 1876

THE Prince of Wales does not succeed ad-
mirably well in the noble sport of pig-stck-
ing, and it is quite evident that our Ameri-
can sovereigns of Cincinnati can give him
points every time. But he has better success
than the German princelng who is his tray
cling companion and who came near break
ing his neck the other day while pursuing the
ferocious and untahed porker through the
iunples
Year: 1876

We do not read Anonymous letters and commuDI-
cations. The name and address of the writer are In
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Ct good faith.


We cannot under take to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.