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Year: 1876

Real merit and excellence in merchandise will always command and retain the notices of generous public. and while such in the case we anticipate only success for the carpets made by the Read Carpet Go. D, and sold in Bridgeport by the enterpris. ing Dry Goods house of HALL & READ. This firm is also agent for many kinds of useful American goods and also present 8 carefully selected stock of House furnish ing goods, Domestics, and woolen goods and large stock of Silks and Laces.
Year: 1876

We feel the depression in business more and more in this community Our wool en manufacturers and others have nov ed moderately, and of course employ ees could not earn large. wages. The pocket cutlery and shear business has held good longer than others, but that has recently fallen off. Some have left for want of work, others because they think they cap do better elsewhere, and those who remain say they must be pretty economical to live Would that we could strike bottom and begin anewi4a
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 is as pleasant to take as honey. For constipation, for young or old, there is it is speedy. it is cheap.
Year: 1876

The first want that must be supplied
to sustain animal life, is food; among
mankind, even the most savage, some
kind or bread is considered the staff of
life. Persons at the present day, espec-
tally in cities and villages, know nothing
about the difficulty our fathers had to
encounter in getting bread Now the
bakers will deliver fresh bread every
day In the country, where the farmers
wives and daughters make their own
bread, they have fine -four, good stove,
and every other necessary article to make
good bread


There was not much wheat raised in
Jackson county in the early days. New
ground was not good for wheat The
grain was not full and heavy, most of the
growth going into the straw. Wheat
was generally sowed in corn ground.
But little corn was cut. Wheat was
first sown, and then three burrows run
between the rows Of corn with shovel
plow. When the ground was frozen in
the winter the corn stalks were cut with
hoe, close to the ground. When har-
vest time came, the wheat was reaped
with sickle. This was peculiar kind
of an instrument, curved, and pointed at
one end, and a handle at the other end
The inside had an edge like rasp or
file. 1t was thrust into the grain, and
gathered it into bunch in the bend oi
the sickle, and the grain was then grasp.
Year: 1876

Ladies and gentlemen who shop and
lounge in the splendid streets that dis
play the wealth and luxury of the Ne
tropolis rarely think that they are walk
ing and driving on the shores Of a desc
laiion often as extreme and melancholy
as that OF any disasterridden sea, or, to
change the figure. they are skirting will
dernesses of human destiny, which, like
the mangrove swamps Of Western Afri-
ca, hide lurkingPlaces OF the fOulcst ma
laria and most perilous sayageTy. And
there. among those dim recesses of life
men ply trade which exaggerates dis
ease and adds vigOr to the powers Of
evil Dainty ladies conceive what il
was for Miss Emily Bighorne, under the
chiyalrous impulse OF her nature, TO seek
her brother in and ont among those
shadows OF death


Through city slums, in alleys Of Soho
Year: 1876

Ia WANDERING HEIR.


There was mourning in the house of
Bighorne Ten days had passed since
the departure of the son and heir. and
not a word had been heard of him. He
had with him very little baggage. A
note was left for his father. This was
merely to inform him that the writer
had engaged to go down to Norfolk with
Captain Conistoun for a weeks hunting,
the latter having promised to find the
horses.


Mr. Bighorne accepted the explana-
tion, and troubled himself no further.
Emily was the only one who felt uneasy,
and she kept her anxiety to herself She
could not help hazarding guesses in her
own mind at the reasons of Henry's odd
conduct, but she did not impart her fan
cies to either of her parents. At the end
Of a week, however, driving down Picca-
dilly. her quick eye detected Captain
Conistoun, who executed a rather obvi-
Gus retiring movement down st. James 5
Passage with too great celebrity to be
caught by the servant. She became
thoroughly alarmed Mr. Bighorne, on
hearing that the Captain was in town
without Henry, also grew anxious. He
looked the Captain up. and at the end Of
a couple of hours search, being a deter
mined man, found him at an obscure aud
dubious club. Then he learned, after a
good deal of fencing, that Henry had
asked his friend to keep out of the way
for a week, as he had private business in
the country, and desired to use Conis.
toun's name to explain his absence.
The poor Captain was obliged to get
into n cab and accompany the father
home, where he got it severely all round
! for lending himself to this deception
Year: 1876

Miss Emily putting il to him in . cruelty
sharp way


"He is so greatly indebted to you. Cap.
tain Conistoun, and knows you so inti-
mately. that perhaps it is no wonder he
should have asked you to help him like
this! You know, felt so satisfied when
/ knew he was with you, because, OF
course, one was certain there could be
nothing worse than usual, etc


The Captain afterward said he would
rather have been in the Balaklava charge
than 90 through that ordeal. lie was
now as alarmed as the family themselves,
and for the first time won Emilys APP
proval by the activity and shrewdness
vhich he put forth for the occasion.
'lr Bighorne could do nothing He
was almost paralyzed with apprehension.


Emily forthwith took charge of the
arrangements. She determined to keep
the matter perfectly quiet. but to engage
a couple of detectives. An advertise
ment, the drawing up Of which occupied
the Captain two hours, in a cunning en-
deavor to reach the proper person with
out giving any one else clew, was so
grotesque that Emily laughed at it in
spite of the gravity OF the subject:


To CORNU GRASDE.-Return to your
native Geneva, a n creme Most anxious
to see you again. Your sister Emily


1t was a supreme effort Of the Captains
military genius, and he felt sure its in
genuity would battle the strongest intel
lect among Henry Bighorne's numerous
friends, although he had given them at
least three clews. Emily, however. dis
carded it, and simply wrote:


EyRY-Return to your sister


Her heart told her that il any thing
would bring him back, that would.


The detectives, who were put upon the
scent during the next few days. began to
get up master Henrys history for a
month or two before his disappearance
This was an annoyance to Captain Con
istoun, since the threads Of that history
were continually crossing and recrossing
his recent paths. and sometimes in very
awkward conjunctions As every one,
however, who really knew any thing i'm
portant was interested in keeping it quiet,
the tenth day had come and the police
confessed that they had not even an idea
how this young gentleman got out of
London


COnistoun meanwhile had gone TO Nor
folk. 1t was the blind looking after the
blind, and quite forlorn hope, but EN-
lily had faint suspicion that Henry had
mentioned his real destination.


The Captain shall tell his own story
Year: 1876

The heart may bend with weight OF wo,
And all the world look drear,
While DER its careworn path we go
With nothing bright to cheer;
Yet, in the bosom ever dwells.


Though all things else are dumb,
A low, sweet voice, that whispering tells
OF better days TO come.
Though mortal ills may to us cling;
Foul wrong may silence right;
Within the soul be fostering


Some hurt IL hides from sight;
Still, lit by q celestial spark


That glOws through gloom profound,
Hopes signal guides us In the dark
Till brighter scenes are found.
There is no evil that can slay


The faith beyond the grave;
There IL no might to bar its way


The spirit dare not brave;
And, come what will to stay Its wings,
That seek a better home,
Within its depths the sweet voice sings
or deathless days to come.
Year: 1876

A BRAVE LITTLE GIRL.-Recentlya tramp
called at the residence of an old lady named
Askew, near Covington, KY, and, finding
that the woman and her grandchild-a girl
OF about twelve years of age-were the only
occupants, ordered them to give him some
food. The old lady set before him the best
she hadprepared in the house but he refused
to eat it and ordered some ham and eggs
frIod. The little granddaughter ran into an
adjoining room, and procuring shot gun,
she presented it at the fellow and told him
that if he didn't get out at once she would
blow his head off! The follow saw at a
glance that the child meant business, and
wasn't to be fooled with, and he ran out of
the house and made his way to the road as
fast as his legs could carry him. The little
girl followed him with her shot gun until
he was off the premises, when she marched
back and put up her gun.
Year: 1876

There is talk in Washington of electing
Mr.. Blaine President of the Senate in order
to make sure of an able and vigilant Presi-
dent, in case the Democratic House should
prevent an election by refusing to aid in
the counting of the electoral votes But
Mr.. Blaine says very emphatically that he
could not be President of the Senate if he
would, and that he certainly would not,
under the present circumstances, if he
could. 1t is noticeable that Mr. Blaine re-
CARDS the present crisis as in every way a
serious business. There are no leaders in
the Republican party worthy of consider
alton, who do not take the same view of
it.-N J. Tribune.
Year: 1876

The latest London industry is the collec-
ton of oleagin6us deposits in the mud of
the Thames. tits quite profitable, the mud
gathers making three shillings and sixpenco
day. Small globes made of cork and
lined with hair are planted in the mud at
low tide and the fatty substance in the
water adhere to them. This miscellaneous
grease is manufactured into fresh butter for
the London market.
Year: 1876

From all quarters there come reports of
Southern indifference to the fate of the
national ticket, as compared with results in
the States, and in New Orleans the politicians
are talking of selling out Gov. Tilden as
coolly as if he were a candidate for the pet
TEST Office. These men do not represent,
probably, the better class of the Southern
Democrats, but such as they are, their bear
ing reveals new phase in Southern poll
tics.-N. 7. Tribune.
Year: 1876

To THE Fools WHO TALK FRIGHT-We
copy the following from the New York
Herald for the benefit of those who do not
know what they are talking about. We
chose the Herald to quote from because it
Is not party paper, but is throughly indie.
pendent. 1t says:


Weoccasionally hearof an excitable demo.
crat here in the North who mutters threats
of what may happen if matters do not
eventually 60 to his liking, and who "feels
in his heart that Tilden is elected" It
would be well for the democratic party if
such persons would for the present keep
silence. The country does net forget that
IN 1860 similar threats were made by DEM
ocrats, and that in 1861 the greater part of
that party attempted in violent manner
to overturn the result of fair election,
Nothing can be more damaging to the
democratic party, or can more quickly
deprive it of all public sympathy, than the
Itterance of foolish and perfectly vain
threats


Moreover, if the laws and the men who
execute them are bad in such States as
Louisiana, we beg the democrats down there
to modestly remember how they became so.
II they had accepted their defeat in 1861 in
good faith they would not be where they
are now. We do not countenance injustice.
nor does the North desire it. The recent
election should show the Southern whites
now little the North sympathizes with
wrong-doing in the South and against the
south. Thousands of lifelong republicans
here have voted against their party on this
southern question alone. We warn THE
Southern whites that they will be sorry in
the end for any course which shall make
these republicans regret their votes. The
laws as they exist must be faithfully exc
euted and scrupulously obeyed until they
are lawfully changed. This is the sound
and only rule in a free country. --41&
Year: 1876

Gov. Hayes said to friend at Athens,
Ohio, on Wednesday: "Any man fit to be
President, or even candidate of great
party for the office, would prefer to be
counted out by fraud rather than be count
ed in by fraud of which there is reasonable
suspicion" The conversation turned to
the subject of an elector voting for the
candidate other than he had been chosen
to vote for, and member of the Governors
party said "No man this country has
courage enough to accept the office of Presi
dent if elected by such a vote, and by
courage mean hardihood, bravado, wickid-
ness, and the qualities requisite to such an
act" To which Gov. Hayes promptly and
quietly responded: ~ know one man
certainly who has not''
Year: 1876

Now, supposing Hayes declared elected
by counting the votes from the three
doubtful States as given in the official GER
titicates, the Democrats will have no consti-
tutional means of redress. The very utmost
they could do would be to use force to pre-
vent the Inauguration of Hayes; bat as
President Grant will be still in office this
would be tougher job than any body would
care to undertake. A resort to force would
be treason, and with the army at his COM
mend Gen. Grant would make short work
of treason. We may, therefore, quietly dis
miss all the 'gorgons. hydras and chimeras
dire which distempered and caviling i'm.
agination have conjured up, and accept the
safe conclusion that, let the official count
be as it may, the result will be acquiesced
in by the defeated party and the peace of
the country be preserved.-Ncw York Herald
Independently
Year: 1876

The South as IL section has suffered
no wrongs from the Government that
it is national policy to recognize. The
urgency of the solid South, therefore,
is ian assault that it becomes all who
Justify the use of arms in destroying
the Southern Confederacy to repef.
Aud they will repel it. The solid
South viii be met by the solid North,
with the old result.-CiHcinnatt Com
mereiGI
Year: 1876

The report which comes by cable of mas
sacTe of Christians in Bosnia is happily not
authenticated, and we may be permitted to
question the truth of it. But unfortunately
there is no reason to doubt that Mussulman
fanaticism has been quickened by the dis
turbances in the Turkish empire, that the
government of the Porte has not the power,
even if it has the desire to suppress it, and
that the Christian population of Turkey en-
tertain grave and well.founded apprehensions
as to the safety of their lives and property.
There has ever been bitter hatred between
Islam and the Greek communion, hatred
intensified in Turkey by race-struggle,
contest for supremacy between the Tartar
and the Sclave, and by terrible oppression on
the one side and impatient submission on the
other. The Turk regards the revolt of the
Bosniak not only as political offense, as
menace to the integrity of his empire, but as
a rebellion against the heaven-ordained
power of the successor of Mahomet, an inf.
deity which his religion commands him to
suppress by fire and sword. Fear now lends
strength to his hatred, and his apprehensons
that the rule of Islam in Europe is seriously
menaced impels him to crush out revolt and
heresy ere they become stronger. For the
first time since the downfall of the Janissa-
ries the theological students of Constanti-
nople have besieged the doors of the seraglio
and dictated to the Sultan the choice of his
advisers, and their aim is to raise the green
banner of the Prophet and declare "holy
war;


A "holy war; means that every man who
holds the Christian faith shall be killed, that
his sons shall be murdered, that his daugh-
ters shall be outraged, that his seed shall be
known no more in the land. 1t means arson,
babe-killing and rape. 1t means that whole
villages shall be burned to the ground, that
districts shall be depopulated, that great
provinces shall be laid waste. 1t means that
wild tribes from over the Bosporus shall be
brought into Europe to slay and rob. That
is the significance of the uprising of the
Softas.


When this does come the Mussulman loses
his foothold in Europe forever. He affronts
not only the Christianity but the humanity
of civilization, and his punishment will be
terrible. The Turkish empire will be blotted
out, and the Turks themselves welEnigh ex-
terminated. But meanwhile murder and ra
pine will 60 on. Infamed by the hate which
gives energy to the fanatic and the plunder
which gives courage to the mercenary, the
wild tribes of Turkomans will rob and burn
and slay without stint. The expulsion of
Islam would be too dearly paid for by so terri
BILE sacrifice. The responsibility for that
sacrifice rests with the great powers of Eu.
rope. If they continue their temporizing
policy the holy war will be declared. If they
re-establish the Servian Kingdom in the
Northern provinces of the empire and sternly
repress all outbreaks of religious or race
fanaticism in the Southern the danger may
be done away with. The Christian popula-
tion can be trusted to eventually crowd the
Turk over the strait.
Year: 1876

Secretary Robeson's letter to the House
Wizard experiments is interesting reading.
The Secretary shows that there was reasona.
BILE hope of great advantages from these ex-
periments, and that at the time they were
made good judges anticipated valuable re-
suits. Among those who were desirous that
the trial should be made was Mr. Whit
thorne. the present chairman of the naval
committee. The letter closes with these
pointed remarks: "In response to the last
inquiry of your letter, the Secretary of the
Navy says that though it is not unusual in
the navy, as everywhere else, to find persons
who have but little appreciation of the ideas
of other people, and who, when not called
upon to act themselves are ready to criticise
and find fault with those who assume the re-
sponsibility of action, yet he does not recall
any information or suggestion at the time o.
any contract with regard to these expert
ments, to the effect that they were Without
value to the government; and that if he had
received such suggestion he should still have
acted upon his own Judgment, guided by
the best lights at his command, holding HIM
self to assume the responsibilities of his
office whenever he thinks itlfor the benefit of
the service and the country, and being an
swerable for the practical and judicious exc
ecution of his duty in this regard to the head
of the executive department of the govern
ment, to whom he is, under the Constitu-
ton, responsible for the exercise of good
judgment and ability in his office"
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieatons that are not used.
Year: 1876

The Eastern Democracy OF the scnooi
of which the World is the chief exponent
are industriously putting forward an
ingenious theory of the necessities wnlch
will govern the coming National Con
vention. They assert that an analysis
of the popular vote cast at recent cleo
tions shows that it Is absolutely necess,,
sary to q Democratic success next taii
that the. party should carry the State OF
New York. From this premise they de-
duce the proposition that the candidate
must be chosen with regard 70 this as
sumed necessity; or, in other words,
that New York must be allowed to name
the candidate.


The theory thus propounded is SO I'M
portant it deserves careful examination
and. If it be found incontestable, the
Democratic National Convention must
content itself with ascertaining ana rat
ifying the wish of the Democracy OF the
State which it is so essential to secure.
This. which we may fairly call the Man
haitian theory of the political situation,
and which is q most favorable one. 10
the designs of those who follow the Tor
tunes Of the favorite New York candi-
date. rests itself upon tables of proba.,
bilities deduced from the politics OF
States as shown by their latest cleo
tions. The following is the fairest ex-
hibit of this kind that we have yet seen
Year: 1876

The Washington correspondent OF the
Chicago Inter- ocean thus speaks not
very complimentary Of the Chicago
Tribune:


The sudden and radical change Of
sentiment in the Chicago Tribune in
reference to Southern affairs is causing
much amusement here. remember
that few months ago the Tribune de-
Tended q bloodthirsty White-liner Of
Vicksburg, Miss, who insisted upon
burying me because I was ''too rotten
to be above ground" Now there is
nothing too savage for them to say
against these same White-line Confed-
crates. The change in the Tribune took
place about the 11th of January, when
Mr.. Medill was in Washington. lie
came here to attend the meeting Of the
Republican Executive Committee, and
was taken to task by members Of that
committee and leaders Of the party in
Congress for the course his paper had
been tpursuing on this question-the
most vital and serious to the future
peace Of the country.
Year: 1876

It was unfortunate that the usual plan
Of alphabetical arrangements had to be
followed this year in announcing the
National Republican Committee. Sew
eral Republican journals have had un-
pleasant feelings at the sight Of the
name of Hays, of Alabama, at the top
of the list. The Hartford Post is espe-
cially stirred up thereby, and enters this
commendable protest: ''There is one
thing it is to be hoped the Cincinnati
Convention will insist upon-that the
National Committee shall be purified Of
the inodorous elements that make it dis
grace to the party. There are men on
this committee at present, especially at
the South, standing as representatives
of the party, who have proved them
selves unworthy Of confidence or re-
spect; and if any State delegation SO far
forgets its duty as to present for re-elec-
ton any one of the fellows whose names
stink in the nostrils Of the people, the
Convention should exercise its preroga-
tive Of sending the nomination back for
revision. The Republican party cannot
afford to make itself responsible for
such creatures by giving them a place in
its official organization. "-Nelo York
Tribune.