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Year: 1876

To ALL, particularly invalids, spring is trying sou Indications of sickness should be attended to- Fatal diseases may be caused by allowing the bowels to become oonstpated the system remain disordered condition until the disorder has time develop itself An ounce of prevention Is worth pound of cure, is old and truthful ssyng Therefore, advise all who troubled with the complaints now very indigestion, dsordered liver. want of appetite nausea feverish skin to take with out delay Sohenok's Mandrake Pills. We know of no remedy harmless and decisive in its action. It at once strikes at the root of the disease and produces healthy tone to the system. People need suffer from any disease arising from disordered condition of the liver if they would take this excellent medicine when they feel the first indications of the malady. Families leaving home for the summer months should take three boxes of these pills with them They have an almost instantaneous effect They will relieve the patient of headache in one or two hours and will rapidly cleanse the liver of surrounding bile, and W Il effectuay prevent bilious attack They sold by all druggists.
Year: 1876

The way to get credit is to be punctual the way to preserve it is not to use it much.

 Settle often have short accounts.

 Trust no mans appearance appear ance is deceitful, perhaps assumed for the purpose of obtaining credit.

 Beware of gaudy exterior roughs usually dress well. The rich are plain trust him, if any one, who carries but little on his back.

 Never trust him who flies into a pas sion on being dunned, but make him pay quickly, if there is any virtue in the law.

 Whenever you meet man who is pro foundly fond of argument, you will meet one profoundly ignorant of the operation of the human heart.

 Mind your own affairs; let all the errors you see in others management suggest correction in your own.
Year: 1876

There seems to be general desire at least in many parts of our country that this centennial year should witness the planting of numerous shade trees. Special efforts are being made in some New England towns to accomplish this result. The time for tree planting is at hand, and all who engage in this good work may have the satisfaction of feeling that they are doing a substantial service for coming generations. The beauty and healthfulness of many a city and village would be greatly increased by the addition of shade trees.
Year: 1876

BALD Mountain has again gone
to shaking and rumbling, If the
democratic committee continues
to stir the foul odors and corrup-
tions of the present administration
the whole country will contract
chills and fever and give acoustic
vent to borborygmus of the most
unexamplod sort. Bald mountain
is excusablc.
Year: 1876

To day John Warfeld looks out upon
q little strip Of Gods green earth from
behind the bars Of madman's cell and
to day John Warner wanders up and
down the world, haunted, remorseful


man. He is under the shadow of the
curse of Cain; for him there is no rest
here nor hereafter.
Year: 1876

Gen. Eckert is q practical man. He makes no
boasts but goes steadily about his business. What
ever may bo the motives which inspire the
policy of his telegraph company, there can
be no doubt Of the substantial service
he is rendering the press aud the public Telegraph
ing between the principal cities of the country and
to a multitude of points throughout the West is
now on all the lines, from one-third to half
cheaper than it was year ago, and
in some instances the reduction has been
even greater. new scale of reductions, applying
to all points on Gen. Eckerts lines which have not
hereofo been touched goes into effect to-day, and
is advertised in another column. 1t will doubtless
be promptly followed heretofore, by tho Western
Union. The reductions range from 10 to - per cent
and apply to the entire service east of the Missouri
River Gen. Eckert was known during the war
as one of the most systematic and thorough
Assistant Secretaries of the War Depart
mont whose services the Government enjoyed
at any time during the great struggle. As
an organizer and executive officer his mer-
its were equally conspicuous in the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, and he
has certainly succeeded, since assuming the
presidency of the opposition lines in working them
into such shape as to DO now rendering the public
most efficient and valuable service
Year: 1876

candidate OF the South par ereence but the candt
date of the Democracy of the whole Union candidate
who will know neither North South In Washington,
ana who with such nomination as the whole South,
West can give him, Will be-, in March next, the Reform
President FREE prosperous and reconciled Republic
North and the South and the UnOni With these watch
words the DemOc acy shall conquer"
Year: 1876

date for the Presidency than to 90 into the
canvass trusting to the rotten boroughs OF the
South; and nothing could do Senator Morton


more mischief than the means which the Pres
ident has just adopted apparently to help him.
Year: 1876

BY sending both artisans and laborers to
study our industries exhibited at Philadelphia
France pays a gratifying compliment to our
progress in manufactures and agriculture
Fifteen years ago foreign mechanics could not
have learned much from us. Now they can
acquire a great deal of useful knowledge in
nearly every ars.
Year: 1876

The exposure of fraud in the New-Orleans
Custom house is now enlarged by the evidence
hat money was drawn on fraudulent pay
oils furnished by Congressman Sypber. While
he character of the witnesses IN this lnves-
igation is not assuring, it seems not unlikely
nat the officials who winked at smuggling
Eers also ready to take hand in forgery.
Year: 1876

This has been a very unfavorable day for
slobt seeing and Centennial business generally.
The thunder shower Of last evening developed
into tlreary drizzle of rain, with n cold east
wind and the weather predictions give no
promise of present amendment. The attend
ance ut the grounds has been small, for every
body who has once experienced the qualities of
the mud of this region, which sticketh closer
than a brother, won't q second time encounter
it upon slight provocaton. OF those persistent
people who were out, it is observable that
gentlemen with polished boots skipped with
great agility, and ladies elevated their skirts, as
they ioined the innumeruble caravan of umbrel-
las that filed through the gates. The grounds
were dripping wet and the guards had L forlorn
and bedraggled rooster appearance very differ
ent from TIE gay and soldierly air of yesterday.
but it has been good day for those who really
went to observe things carefully and quietly,
for there was room and verge enough and no
crowding around matters of special interest.
But the receipts at the gates must have been
seriously affected. And the grounds and build
ings are SO vast that any number less thar 25,-
900, looks lonesome therein. Besides this, there
must be Il pretty extensive attendance to pay
the running expenses. Those of the managers
who have figured it, say that daily attendance
of 10000 will be required to pay the bills, ex-
elusive of any dividends on the stock. This has
not been reached on any day since the opening,
and it looks as though, however great success
the Exposition may be in other respects, 1t Is


likely to be failure financially. The attend-
ance may increrse, as settled weather comes on,
and the various plans for associated attendance
are developed. Undoubtedly the hard times are
seriously affecting the matter. The mass of the
people are feeling poor, and find it difficult to
take sufficient sum from their shrunken in
comes, even 20 serve patriotic purpose and
crafty desire so laudable


The people who feel and look the bluest are
the proprietors Of the large hotels that have
sprung up in the neghborhood of the Exposi-
ton. designed to accommodate people by the
thousand, and to make the owners wealthy in
short six months campaign of bed and board.
Year: 1876

What are the effects of drainage?
Thorough drainage deepens the soil. Of
what use is it to plough deep and manure
heavily, while the soil is full Of water?
The roots of plants will not go down into
stagnant water; the elements Of plant
food are not at all on the surface many
Of them have been washed down by the
rains; some OF them are found in the de-
composing rocks themselves. lake away
the water, and the roots Will find them.


Drainage lengthens the seasons. In our
climate this is an important point to be
gained il by drainage one or two weeks
could be gained it would be quite a relief
III our backward springs, when there is SO
much to be done in a short space OF time.
Drainage Increases the effect of the appll-
cation Of manure; the soil being drier, is
more easily worked fine; the manure is
also more evenly distributed The water,
also passing through the soil, carries fer
tilizing matter down to the roots OF the
plants. When there is stagnant water,
manure must decompose slowly. ii at all
but let the water pass eff. the air is admit
ted, and decomposition takes place. What
observing man is there who does not know
that his crops are improved in quality by
drainage? Sweet English grass and clover
take the place Of sedgc and rushes
Year: 1876

N it is the desire of farmers to raise
trge and paving crops of the carrot, such
IN be produced with a great degree of
ertainty by a liberal dressing of good and
we'll decomposed manure to the land,
which should be well ploughed in as early
the spring as possible. AS soon as the
weeds have come up, the ground should
De cross -ploughed as fine as possible with
a swivel plough the land should then
ne narrowed and rolled, when it will be
e1dy for the seed.


The seed should he soaked in warm
water twenty-tour hours previous to plant
lng, and summed short time to dry the
surface moisture, that the seed may not
clog in the sower. The seed may be
planted with any suitable machine that
will sow thin. Two pounds of seed per
acre is more than enough if judiclously
planted Too thick sowing results in very
unnecessary and expensive thinning or,
It neglected, in n small growth of roots,
expensive to harvest and to handle. The
seed may be planted from early in May to
The 10th Of June. Our practice is to plant
IN straight rows twenty-five inches apart,
and thin the plants to three or four inches
apart in the row. The after cultivation of
the carrot should be always prompt; "hoe
the ground and not the weeds' should be
The motto The horse hoe can be used in
me cultivation OF the carrot to a very con-
siderable extent. and our cultivation is
very like that given the mangold. Eng
Ilsh turnips can be sowed between the
rows with the seed sower, by the goth OF
July, without injury to the carrot, and
wlll add materially to the product of the
land. 70. B. Hadwen.
Year: 1876

The earth Is wrapped in dream of bliss,


In Il rest complete;
And the touch of the air is like kiss,


Comforting, sweet.
Aud the tiny creatures are singing low


AS lullaby;
And the watching silence doth stir and glow


As the wind creeps by.
And there is the suns own mantle flung


On the chestnut tops,
And yonder are tangled rainbows hung


With shimmering drops.
And over the things so soon TO die


Is a gentler law,
A hush of peace and tenderer sky


Than the summer saw.
Open the windows wide to-day,


Where soul may dwell
In the heart of palace grand and gay,


Or a prison cell.
Q look, ye happy, till pleasure grows


To nobier thing;
TIL you bring your Joy as the amber flows.


For an offering.
And look, We weary, till grief and pain


Transhgured shine;
Rejoice for the crimson glOry's gain.


The holiest sign.
. mourn ye never that hope Is lost.


That rest delays,
They are after summer and after frost,


These sweetest days.
Often and often will skies be gray,


And hearts be sad,
But the Lord hath.made US perfect day


Let US be glad.
arl Spencer.
Year: 1876

The exciting question in California.
next in interest to the Mongolian immi-
grafton, is the condition of the Nevada
bonanzas Are they becoming exhausted
or are they as rich as everP Senator
Jones of Nevada, in his speech in the Sen
ate in favor of making silver equally with
gold legal tender, gave it ''as the can
did opinion of man who has devoted
nearly thirty years of his life to the prac-
tical working and management OF gold
and silver mines, that SO far as the Com
stock lode is concerned, we have arrived
at the beginning of the end"
Year: 1876

There was exhibited in Hartford last
week recent invention, which may rev.
olutionize the cooking stove 1t is an oil
cooking and officiating and Illuminating
stove, made of galvanized cast and Rus
sian iron. 50 that it will last Tor years
without repairs. Ordinary Kerosene oil
is used, and the combustion is SO perfect
that the gases are consumed, and no
smell of oil, gas, or smoke is emitted a
child can work the stove. and accident is
well-nigh impossible, as the stove is insu-
lated from the oil reservoir, and heat can
not radiate to the oil At trial of the
cooking stove recently, the first batch Of
bread was perfectly baked in 25 minutes,
and the second batch in 23 minutes, at a
cost of less than one halt cent for bak-
ing, and cold flatirons were made Kissing
hot in six minutes.
Year: 1876

~ Gen. w. G. Whittliorne was
re-nomihated for Congress by the
Convention which assembled at Law
recently. There were sew
en- or eight aspirants, and it was
found impossible to harmonic upon
any of them, and it was decided to
re-nominate the Admiral in spite of
his repeated declination to again be-
come a candidate. We think the ac-
tioH Of the Convention was wise. The
longer a good man stays in Congress
the more effective he becomes.
Year: 1876

The Indians perform an act of
charity who drive the farmers
out Of some parts Of Dakota
Owing to the poverty OF the soil,
it is a days journey between the
corn hills, a mans scalp is in
danger who travels it, and at
harvest time there is a crop OF
col BILE stones and no market for
Year: 1876

General Grant should issue an or
der at once turning every Indian
agency over to the military, This
is necessary as war measure. We
hear of wounded Indians coming in
to various agencies. Indians were
disabled in the late fights with Crook
and Curter. OF course Sitting Bull
vii be too happy to have his iswound-
ed carried into an agency and nurs-
ed. The Indian warrior is always
anxious about his dead and wounded.
Even if Indians are friendly, like
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail-they
have been great chiefs in their day
their hearts are on the warpath,
and they would never refuse succor
to wounded friend. Unless the
agencies are closely watched they
will become hospitals and basis of
supply for the fighting Indians.
When Sitting Bull plundered Gus
ter's command he obtained good
sum Of money, as the troops had
just been paid. With this money
he could purchase arms and ammu-
milton for a new campaign, and there
is not rascally Indian trader on
the Plains who would not be glad
to sell him all he wanted. Now the
way to prevent this is for the sol
diers to take charge of every agency
in the Sioux region and prevent
Sitting Bull from using them to
make war upon the whites. Y.
HerUII
Year: 1876

From the Rochester Union, Feb. 81


The Opera House this week seems destined to meet
with great deal Of involuntary advertising some Of
which no doubt Manager Hall would gladly dispense
with, especially the occurrence which calls for this
article. 1t will be remembered that Monday evening
last at the first presentation OF "Arouud the World in
Eighty Days" Miss Bette Remmelsberg the premiere
ddnseuse Of the ballet troupe came being made
sacrifice the flames by her dress catching nre from
the iootIghts and last evening explosion occurred
behind the scenes which, although attended by con-
siderable pecuniary damage, fortunately did no harm
to any individual. The house at the time was
crammcd with spectators and the curtain had
Just risen on the second act 1.-THE Suez
scone) when the audience was startled by loud ex-
plosion and the whole house was Immediately
shrouded in complete darkness, every gaslight
entiuguished by the conclusion. Mr. Hall the
stage at the time and although covered with the dust
and debris of falling wood, &C. he with great presence
OF mind held the startled audience in their seats By as
suring them that there was no danger The curtain
was lowered behind him, match was procured and
the gas Jets in the orchestra lighted, when Mr. Hall
standing there, surrounded by clouds OF dust
and smoke that welled out from behind the curtain
At his request the orchestra struck up lively tune,
the lamps In the auditorium were lighted, and one or
two OF the side windows were opened 70 allow an es-
cape for the smoke on being able to see each other
again everybody asked everybody what the matter,
but no one knew and when the curtain again drow up
about fifteen minutes aiterward tho incident was al


It's dicull to arrive the true Of the accl-
dent In this piece calcium lights are used which
are placed the galleries at the opposite sides OF the
stage These galleries raised about teen feet from
the stage the the eft hand being used ordina-
ry as the carpenters workshop. Newton oakley was
suDerntendng the apparatus this gallery, and for
that purpose he had two large rubber bags one lled
with hydrogen and with oxygen. In order TO pre-
vent explosion It was necessary that these two
gases should not meet until they gnited and the
suppositon is that by some unaccountabc means the
pipes running from these bags became connected and
the explosion followed The rubber bags were
Knocked "higher than kite - large hole some seven
feet square made in the woodwork OF the gallery
the carpenters bench destroyed and all the panes OF
glass on that side of the building blown out
Year: 1876

The just past has been little satisfactory to
bulls as 10 bears feeling OF confidence in continued
advance IN prices and belief that the Phiadeipha
display was 10 serve sort of Boyton lie SUIT 10
struggling brokers who noundenng about IN the
breakers Of impecuniosity had got nrm hold OF the
market But confidence sis plant of slow growth"
and its budding sprouts are likely to be nippeo oy
man of favorable weather whether the shrub springs
m in the garden of finance or that of society. The
unshine Of a belief in higher prices prevalent last
week has been shut by the clouds of uncertainty
rhere has followed ''npping and eager air" and
he advance for the time being has been chilled to the
,ore Jav Gould has played many parts in his
sueradna with the stock market that begin to de-
lect him. be he ever well disguised. He was Nephs
lopheles yesterday he is Jack Frost to-day and the
green shoots Of prosperity, which had just begun to
show themselves have been touched by his icy finger


Leaving aside metaphor, Mr.. Gould has apparently
elected that the good time coming (Which stockholders
were led to believe close at hand be post
poned while yet with great advantage to himself
1t is going to pay better his judgment, to start
campaign first class iconoclast than modeller
OF the image OF a reviving trade. lie tells that
hopes are plaster casts durable bronze and that
he won't let US be humbugged by any such pretcnce
So Pacific Mail is threatened with the Panama opposi
ton Lake Shore falling Oft in its receipts, and West
ern Union, thing of shreds and patches, or, what is
the same matter of poles and wires, worthless either
for kindng wood or the melting pot


Not week ago the cry all the other way: There
was nothing too dear in comparison with its excel
lence all packages contained prizes and figures mat
tered not as long could get in. Certainly this
change Of base, this presto pass business is just the
thing to attract the public the purcus of the Stock
Exchange If they study the matter at all they must
purely see how entirely safe the business Of stock
gambling is-wheher safe to win or TO lose they must
make up minds to- Iftime is the eddz rerNnl
they are likely to find account at brokers' office
quite as greedy devourer Of their substance-that is,
30 long Jay Gould remains the ghou of the street
When this disturbing spirit is exercised and dealings
In shares are placed upon foundation that will permit
of some reasonable chance of success we may expect
10 see some pubic interest taken in market which is
now left to the Vaccinations of professional touts and
Jockeys
Year: 1876

LONDON, Jan. 22-3 O'Clock A. NJ
The train just arrived brings further details OF the
ribe accident the Great Northern Railway but dis
astrous has been the nature OF the collision that
at present accurate figures be given TO the
numbers killed and injured Of how it happened that
tho second or down train allowed to run into the
remains Of the Scotch express.


RESULTS
of the collision described by the passengers in the
lay piled on the top while the foremost carriages
were smashed TO hrewood The hinder part OF the train
thrown across the down line Tho driver not
much hurt but the sokers said to have been seriously
injured the guard who had been in three previous
cidents, escaping scatheess


THE PASSENGERS
who had not been seriously injured Immediately
jumped out and 1t was fortunately only the work of a
few minutes to remove others Scarcely ten minutes,
It is said had elapsed when the down train rush
ing along at great speed and crashed into the debris
which covered the line of rails which it travel
ling. The in charge of the Scotch express state,
said that they had taken precautions against such
catastrophe, but II may well be that II such
the the darkness and the snow storm concealed
the signals from the driver OF the coming train. This
second collision caused such utter confusion, in COM
parson with the previous disorder, may wel
plain the slowness with which full details OF the acci-
dent are reaching London.


DRIVER,


bravely remaining at his post and doing his utmost to
lessen the force of inevitable collision had his right
hand cut completely OIL Two gentlemen who we're
travelling In the of the train, and TO whom
indebted for many of the details to the second
collision state that its force great to throw
them most violently against the opposite side Of the
compartment inaicting some bruises but neither
breaking any limbs nor much inJurng the carriage In
which they were travelling


Just previously the unInjured passengers and ohi-
cials had been at work the wreck OF the express
and already


LITTLE
had been got out dead with his neck broken, his
body lying uncovered the side Of the
railway. Other passengers severely injured
were being helped from the down train or,
where themselves unable to move, lifted from
among the splintered beams and shattered carriages.
'The scene, said our informant turning away with
shudder twas terrible" Assistance soon on the
spot and the surgeons able TO bind up the wounds
of some OF those least injured and despatch them TO
London by the train which made up at Hunting
don and brought up the passengers from the different
stations who would have travelled by the express.


OTHER DEAD BODY
got was that of Scotch barrster from Edinburgh
whose name is supposed to be Miller


AT the time the made-up train for London left. how
ever The full extent OF the injuries neiicted by the
double collision had not been ascertancd


BY 1t there returned To London Lord Colvie and the
Russian Ambassador, both Of whom were travelling by
the down train and who being the hinder part of IT,
fortunate to escape uninjurod, with the
ception Of a severe shaking
Year: 1876

foreign prospecting parties have been organized and
accompanied by professional mneralOgIss and experts
are now engaged in making explorations AS the
result OF one OF these expeditions large num-
ber of locations have already been purchased and


the necessary funds furnished prosecute the work Of
development In this connection il may be stated that
something is being done with the various silver aud
copper mining properties in the vicinity Of Thunder
Bay Lake Superior, where deposits have been dscov-
cred that promise be fruitful wealth as those Of
the famous Comstock lode.