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Year: 1876

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"The increasing opinion in favor of
u "third term " is very marked. There
Is no more advocacy of the renolnna-
ton Of Grant, perhaps, than has been
heard previously; but the number OF
those, both inside and outside govern
ment circles, who believe such an event
next year to be inevitable is rapidly
growing. A leading Republican from
Pennsylvania, who Is here, expresses
the opinion that unless the party
unitedly declare against third term
within the next thirty days, the renom-
ination OF Grant cannot be prevented;
but of course such IL declaration will
not be made. There is a very slowly
aggregating sentiment making Grant
the party candidate again next year.
The opinions of Grant himself do not
change in any quarter, nor Is there
evidence Of any increase OF his pop
ularity; but the exigencies Of the party
are forcing q recognition Of the third
term idea on Republicans who have
hitherto secuted 1t as at once absurd
and impossible. Boston Herald.


"But the exigencies Of the party are
forcing recognition OF the third term
idea." This Is the only cry. Exigen-
cies of the party" not OF the nation,
demand Grant for third term. None
of his supporters claims that the exigen-
cics of the nation demand any man for
a third term, much less President
Grant. Why this everlasting cxalta-
ton of party above country. LIS it
because there is closet OF skeletons
which the party is afraid may be
brought forth and exhibited to the
disgust Of honest people ? 1t looks
very like it. Are there no men in the
Republican party the equals Of Grant ?
Where is Morton, Butler, Blaine,
Jewell, Waite and Carpenter, each and
all his intellectual and executive peers?
III these will not do, the Democratic
party might consent to the nomination
of Charles Francis Adams, Gov. Tilden
or Gov. Hendricks, the equals oil any
man or men in the nation. Dry up this
croaking of the exigencies OF the party,
and tell MS of the necessity OF d strict
construction OF the Constitution and
the laws and the speedy and sure
punishment of government swindlerS
and defaulters, high or low. The people
will then believe that an honest effort
will be made to correct the abuses that
have crept into the administration OF
national affairs and may give the same
support to the dominant party that it
has in the past. The members OF both
parties must insist upon strict con-
struction and honest execution OF the
laws IL they expect to long maintain our
present form OF government.
Year: 1876

A BOY 20 MONTHS OLD KILLED BY


STREET CAR.


Yesterday about o'clock, car No. al
OF tho Chippewa and Annunciation
street line ran over n little boy named
Christian Kern, 30 months old, at the
corner of Annunciatioh and Second
streets, killing him instantly, the hind
wheel passing over his skull. The child
was picked up by a colored boy and con-
veyed to the residence Of its parents,
No. 517 Annunciation streets.


The neighbors living in the vicinity,
and who saw the accident, attach no
blame to the driver.


Our reporter visited the driver, John
Coppersmith, at the Sixth Precinct, and
received the following statement:


The little fellow was playing in tho
street near the track when my car was
passing, and in attempting to catch on
the side Of the car stumbled, his head
falling ON the track between the wheels
on my left hand side, and the hind
wheel passing over and crushing his
skull before / knew he was even near
my car. / Immediately surrendered to
Officer Powell, who brought me to this
station.
Year: 1876

A Legislative correspondent Of the
Alexandria Post. writing of the de-
feat Of the Centennial appropriation
bill in the House, says:


"Its defeat is : monument TO show that
our great daily papers cannot always die
tate to or drive Our rural members. These
sometimes have minds of their own."


This. truly, is an intelligent reason
to offer for the defeat of the most i'm
portant bill yet acted upon by either
branch of the Legislature the present
session. The "great daily papers"
favored snch an appropriation a.
would enable Minnesota to make q
respectable appearance At the nation.
al Centennial, and supported their
position with arguments which ap-
pealed convincingly to every inteili-
gent citizen. Nearly every weekly
paper in the State took similar
ground. Public sentiment was and
is overwhelmingly in favor of the ap.
preparation. But the rural men,
bers" were not to be dictated to or
driven in any such way. They had
minds Of their own! They could
give no good reason for thrusting
Minnesota into the background at
the great Exposition; they had no
arguments to offer in support Of their
action by which an almost irrepar.
able damage should be inflicted
upon the State they had been elected
to serve; but they had "minds Of
their own" and were determined to as
sert the inalienable right Of mem.
Der Of the Legislature to make an
ass of himself and to do it so unmis-
takably and so conspicuously that all
the world should see and take notice.
And they did it. Whatever points
Of superiority other States may lay
claim to in this Centennial year,
Minnesota can boast ofhaving a Leg
islature which contains more mul-
ishness and stupidity to the square
inch than can be found elsewhere in
the Union. Of this the defeat Of tho
Centennial bill will stand as an ever.
lasting monument" When Peter
Simple, Hans Dunderhead and the
large majority of the other rural
members' of this Legislature ."sleep
in the valley" this will be their most
conspicuous monument" and their
children will be wise enough to ques-
ton as to why they should have
had simpletons for fathers. There
are few good and intelligent men
in the Legislature, but they are so
very few that they must must feel
drearily lonesome.
Year: 1876

Impressed Oy tnese CONSIDERATIONS we
went to the Exhibition and instead OF
wandering around, gaping at every
thing, as did those not so we'll posted,
we gazed neither to the right nor the
left, but marched directly up to the
popcorn man, which individual if
not distinguishable like Daniel by
a blue Cor was it green?). cotton um-
brella, was yet to be easily recogniz~
ed by a throng Of munching admir-
ers who crowded about his enclosure.
True enough, there he stood, as one
fully conscious of the exalted posi-
ton he occupied in the estimation of
an appreciative world. There was a
barrel Of the prepared grain, which
the master and proprietor aided by
several assistants bedewed with melt
ed sugar dipped from caldron of
the boiling liquid, and, with the use
Of machinery, formed into tempting
snowy balls, and when rolled in tiny


squares of white tissue paper and
handed to us and we really did find
them to be hot-we were completely
won over; our confidence in human
nature firmly established; all remain.
ing doubts and lurking suspicious
then and there disappeared-so did
the corn, which though it exceeded
the sugar as ten to one, the prevail


ing flavor being Of q mild, saw-dusty


character, yet IN the hilarity of our
spirits we unanimously pronounced
the Pittsburg Exposition a grand sue
cesa G..
Year: 1876

of folly to posterity. The common one is
that the leaders of the moveme It will make
a grand haul Of the finances. This latter, at
least, we know to be an iupossibilty. There
never was cause yet assailed by such wa
terry arguments, and which eviuce such an
evasion of the terms right and aorong. Their
opposition is mere blind, to prevent, If
possible farmers ~from joining the society


10 Illustrate: the merchants Of q certain To-
cality in the county of Peth challenged the
grangers to a public discussion as portion
Of the programme at q rural picnic. Their
object, Of course, was to crush the Grange
out by any means whatever; deeming that,
as farmers are not generally fluent on the
platform by the gloss ofeloquence which was
available against them they would be led
away. One speaker alone spokein favor OF
the order. and his statement of facts and ar
guments were SO conclusive thatnone of the
many Of the opposition dare accept the cor
dial invitation rendered and the opportunity
offered to rcbut them. 1t behooves every
brother and sister to make him and her
thoroughly acquainted with the aims and
objects Of the order. IF they do so each can


be a David in right and easily slay the Go
Hath of wrong, having recourse to no assist
ance but that Of justice and truth Canada
Granger.
Year: 1876




There are two kinds of Patrons, lust os
there are two kinds Of men or two kinds Of
bees-one workers and the other drones-of
course each know their own position and oc-
cupy it.


The Patrons of the Clarksvilie Tobacco
District are an example ofwhat wlde-awake
business men can accomplish. They have
learned the benefits Of cooperation and are
profiting by it. We commend their enter
prise and zeal to the careful consideration Of
drones and grumblers. Their warehouse
enterprise has been brought to focus bv
the purchase Of the large Cumberland Ware
house and lot adjoining, covering q space of
neorly four hundred feet. Vhe Council has
elected a Board of twelve Directors, Who
met on the 1tth inst, for permanent organ
ization. They have ten thousand dollars in
money to start on-plenty more promised.


The wonderful Improvement in farming
in those sections where the attendance on
the Grange is regular, is quite apparent, and
the mental culture and advancement IS be-
ginning to be felt by monopolists. They
find that men Of thought have been devel-
ODcu IFOm Will bHCy COIlSllCICl
Doors and clodhoppe-s, who are determined
to have their rights aud to no longer submit
to unjust extortions and wholesale plumber


Secretary Kelly OF the National Grange in
forms us that several secretaries Of State
Oranges are unable to make their reports,
owing to the neglect Of secretaries Of subor-
dinate oranges in not having made their
quarterly returns, We have frequently
urged up OH Masters the Importance of hold
ing the Secretary up to his duty, and can but
feel that the Master is as much Or more to
blame than the Secretary, for it is the duty
OF the Master to see that each officer '.acts
well his part,' and to report to the Grange
any neglect or ineflicency upon the part of
an officer, that the Grange may supply the
place with one Of trust and ability. We
trust masters will give this matter their
prompt and immediate attention. Agricul-
tural and Grange papers will please call at
tention to this matter, and urge the Oranges
in their several sections to remedy this evil.
Year: 1876

Remit by Express. Postal Order, Bank
Draft, Certified Check, Registered Letter. or
order through any bank or banking house.
Industrial Exhibition Company, u East nth
Street, New York. Specially chartered By the
state Of New York, for tho purpose Of build
ing in New York
Year: 1876

We drove around the Burg, or
"rock-throned CASTLE" where the old
Electors used to live, and which the


King of Bavaria visits occasionally,
even now. Then we visit the Jung
Frau Prison, which contains the tor
tuous instruments used to put to
death those who we're so sentenced


in olden times. 1t was a dismal
place to visit, and it makes me
shudder, even now, to think of it.


We first descended a dozen or more
crumbling steps. down into a dark,
damp place, under ground the guide
carrying a torch, which threw an un-
certain sort of light about us, and
gave all distant objects an indis-
tinct and mysterious appearance
as if they might start forth from the
shadow. The first thing pointed out
to our dismayed vision was the rack
"A machine for stretching people
until every joint was dislocated. then
an iron cradle, full Of sharp spikes,
in which they used to rock thieves.
The last time il was used was in


1903, when an old man and his wife
were sentenced to be rocked in it a
certain length of time. usually more
than requisite for death; and the
old woman died; but, strangely
enough, the old man didn't die in
the cradle. Consequently he was
sentenced to solitary confinement
for the remainder of his life, which
lasted eight years, and it was after
ward discovered that they had both
been unjustly condemned! There
were numbers of other things that it
tortues me to think of; but the most
dreadful of all was the iron Jung


Frau. The sight of it fear prepar-
ed a chronic night mare for me, and


nearly gave the rest of the party the
Mysteries. This we found to.be the
iron statute Of woman enveloped
in a cloak which covered her head
and hung down to the floor, leaving
only her face exposed-a fine-fea-
tured. handsome face. The whole
figure was covered with rust, and
glistened with water. which came
oozing out of every crevice in the
cell. A large drop fell on Miss
IS shoulder, and j thought she was
going directly up through the cell
ing, she gave such start. She said
she didn't know but the Jung Frau
herself had laid her clammy finger
on her, marking her as yictimls
As the guide went on with the ex-
position we began to feel more ac-
customed TO it all. He marched up
to the figure, and pulling open the
two sides of the cloak, which proved
to be two doors. disclosed the inside
of this immense statute. 1t would
just hold a person, and was lined
with iron spikes, which bristled from
the doors and back in terrifying
numbers. The doors shut upon the
miserable victim, who was run
through in every part of his body.
Under the figure was q trap door,
which opened and let the body down
upon a dozen or more sharp knives,
which revolved and cut the already
mutiIated remains into atoms. The
guide raised the trap and threw
down a piece of lighted paper, to
show as that this horror was really
there. You can imagine with what
alacrity we ran up the old, worn
stone steps leading to the daylight,
aad what q long breath of fresh air
We took on reaching it once more.
Year: 1876

Saw There.


To the Editor Of the Morrissown Gazette:


I will give you a few notes from
this section, recounting something of


the place and manner in which we


bid adieu to the Old and Welcomed


the New Year.


Friday morning party Of us, on
horseback, started for the section of
country known as Richland Knobs,
After noticing much of interest by
the way-side. eleven O'Clock found us
in that locality. We. called at the
residence of j. G.. McCarty, ESQ.,,
took some refreshments and had
pleasant chat with our host and his
family, whom we found very accom-
modating. Late in the afternoon.
we ascended one of the lofty peaks
that stands near and on its sumit we
bid adieu to the SUMS last rays as it
said g farewell. 1879" Although we
were a merry party, we could not
help seeing a shadow of sadness fit
over each face. Eighteen hundred
and seventy-fve would henceforth be
numbered with the years that have
been, In the twilight we returned
to the residence of our host, and af-
ter spending the evening in social
conversation with the family and a
few friends who had come in. at
late hour we retired to rest and to
give farewell thought to the clos
ing year. We thought of the most
prominent deeds of our life through
the past year, and then committed
our all into His hands, who does all
things well, for safekeeping through
the coming year.


We awoke with the dawn of day
and when the sun began to spread
his bright, genial rays over mother
earth, we again repaired to the sum-
nit Of .one~of the lofty peaks from
which point we could see pictured
out in bold characters some~of the
handy works Of the All-Wise Creator.
Down in Richland Valley the fog had
settled so densely that it looked to
be one vast body of water. We
could. see, Clinch nountain towering
toward the: heavens as it did in the
days of yore, pointing upward as if
to say, in their silent way, "trust in
Him who is able and willing to
save, even to the uttermost, all that
will come unto Him." As we .heheld
the surroundings, we were made to
exclaim : g How owmagniicently grand
are all Thy works, o Cod


We descended from the peak and
returned to the house of our host to
examine chalybeate spring near by.
We found it to be of excellent quail
ity, and we think superior to any
thing of the kind that we have seen
in the State. In the afternoon, we
turned our steps homeward, impress
sed with the fact that we had never
received moro enjoyment in the same
length of time. So began our New
Year. j. r. NJ.
Year: 1876

The Memphis AvaEancite is inaccu-


rate in the statement that in Middle


Tennessee ssit is argued that the


present ten per cent. law drives out


capital, and that restoration of six


per cent. will make money plentiful"


The only arguments presented that


we have seen, were those by various


correspondents of the Anserica'a, and


these were, substantially, that the


tracted. capital from abroad and


that six per cent. maximum would
cheapen it by four cent. Some of
the correspondents have urged the
reduction to a three per cent. maxi


mum. It is argued in Middle Ten
nessee that the ten per cent. law
has not brought money into the
State for the simple reason that the
enhanced price of money has so de-
preciated the property TO be mort
gagged that monied men don't want
that kind of security. On account
ofthe undoubted security and prompt
payment of interest, home capital
lists invest in United States bonds.
which only pay (just now five and a
half per cent. interest i1s currency on
their present market value? 1t is
further argued in Middle Tennessee
that there is. no business or Occup0-
ton that cetn pay ten per cent. interest
the successful business men of
the country are not willing to pay
skin fact they won't borrow much
money at any rate of interest, they
cannot afford to do 1t. 1t is argued
and believed that more money would
be invested in mortgages on lands
and town property at FIVE per cent.
than at ten. If money were made
cheap-realty would become valua-
BILE, and would be sohat 1T ought to be
the most available security that
could be offered. We suppose that
Middle Tennessee would not object
to the relief which the AUdttatche
says must come through reduction
ofthe government rate of interest to
three per cent. With that reduc-
tion, even a six per cent. maximum
as the legal rate would give real es-
tate the call on United States bonds.
Year: 1876

There may be, and doubtless is,
wide difTerence Of opinion as to the
time ih HE at which a person should
begin church-going but we have new
er been able TO see much eternal fit
ness in the attendance of a young
lady sc the fascinating age of two
months.
Year: 1876

Mr., Henry G. Bowen delivered an addres:
at the fair in Woodstock, Conn, in which
he made the following remarks in closing


The time is not far distant when the peo
ple in all towns and villages will organize
and 90 Systematically and joyfully to work
In making public improvements. Those
places which move the soonest will reap the
earliest and greatest rrnown, for they will
gain in population the refined, the most en-
terprisns aud wealthy, and will permanent.
ly secure their prosperity. Real estate will
increase in value, taxes will decrease because
OF the increased value ofproperty and of
population, and everybody will be made
happier and better by the change. 1t is
time to think of the improvement of your
public streets and highways. 1t is time to
think of sidewalks and sh ,de trees along all
your highways of public parks and foun.
tains, of bathing houses and boat.houseL of
flowers and shrubbery-of grading and
lcyelingTof dining everything IN your power
to make all these beautiful hills and valleys
bud and blossom as the rose, and 10 more
and moreyour pride a'djoy. In this good
work you must unite, harmonious, and per.
severing and the blessed yearly inves ment
of time and money you will make will re,
pay you atllisidend every day the year
round and al your life long, and thousands
shall share in our investment when you
are dead and forgotten. Let every man,
womana and child do something in this mat.
ter, and do it promptly. You can at least
plant on elm or rose Lush every year, and
you will not have lived entirely in vain. A
single word more under this head I hope
the time will speedily come when it shall be
called punishable offense for any man to
make the public highway depository for all
his broken carts, and stone heaps, aud old
rubbish from his garret and barn, from Gel
lar and dooryard. Such action is harmful,
-demoralizing, and public nuisance, and it
should be rigidly forbidden and prevented.
You have the power thus to do, and hope
you will have the disposition to enforce it,
1t is for the public good that this should be
done, and that is reason enough Aud here
after, if man wants-a nuisance, let him
have it in his own dooryard, where he can
see it, ponder over it, and smell it every day,
all by himself. Those towns and Villages
will most prosper which fastest multiply
their local attractions. You will all, of
course, vote for schools, churches, and work
shops, and this is right, hut you must march
onward beyond these points as fast as you
can with proper regard to other duties.
Look out for public institutions and endov
them. Look out for your streets and high.
ways, and improve them. Make your town,
your village, and your home more and more
beautiful every year. Your hearts will
be made better, and your souls will be richer
for 80 doing Pardon this friendly criticism
and accept my best wishes for your continual
prosperity.
Year: 1876

The Berlin war office seems at last t. have
torndout the way to make compulsory mill.
tary service thoroughly unpopular. Having
raised the ply standard OF the recruit
SO high that there ia no longer in practice
any chance o!escape for those who come up
TO it-nineteoa out OF every twen.y who
:clly reached it last year were taken on the
POLLS it 10 now making the autumn maneu.
vers 80 severe as to raise general Outcry in
the press over the number Of sck sent to the
hospital from them. 1t is plainly q serious
matter when we find in paper usually
known for its patriotic sentiments, as the


W,SerZritung is, such expressions as the
following: This excitement reigns in those
particular circles where there is the warmest
sympathy for the army and the highest re-
spcct for its officers And there is quite dis.
cernment enough among this part Of the
public to know that exertion and even dan.
ger are inscparalle from the making of a
soldier. But there is due moderation to he
observed in all things, and it is naturally
asked whether this can have been observed
when marches have been ord red without
any necessity on which strong men have died
like flies. These remarks will certainly not
be thought too strong by those who learn
that one division Of the Fifteenth corps, dur.
ing its late maneuvers, managed To kill four
teen of its infantry soldiers, and that single
company Of the other division (of the Ninth
Bavarian infantry, by the way had forty five
patients in hospital Mt last.
Year: 1876

a


The Times in leader up the latest phase OF tho
situation as follows: "On Turkeys decision TO-DAY In
regard to the conference hangs the question of peace OF
war. There may be war though the conference
meets but it be taken that Turkeys refusal to par
ticpato in the conference weud be considered Us her
acceptance OF war"