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Year: 1876

Oliver Crosby was a youth sixteen OF
eighteen years of age. lie was the youngest
of a large family of children, From very
early life he manifested unusual sensibility
and tenderness ON the subject of religion
and the friend whom he made his principal
counselor, and 10 whom he ever unbosomed
his feelings on the subject with the utmost
freedom, was his own dear mother


One day he was reading some work on
education, and his mother was sitting neal
him. At length he stopped, and, addressing
himself TO her said


Mother, you do not know how much You
have been wdtchcd. When | was small,
used TO watch you in everything YOU did
so rs to see what it was right for me TO do
If | ever wanted to do anything that
thought might be wrong, ! used to devise
every plan to find out what goa thought OF
it and if you approved, | always felt safe
in doing it. ! never thought Of going to
faher | used TO think that he had to see
about supporting the family, and that you
had everything TO do about the soul so |
used TO pattern gfier you'


"Why my son, said the astonished
mother, "what did you think when you saw
me do things that were wrong


81 knew replied the son, " that you used
TO sdy that you were a sinner, like other peo-
pie but used to think that everything was
rigli that you did. could not believe that
mother did anything that was wrong"


The effect Of these remarks on the feel
ings of that mother was of course almost over
whelming. She was ready to give herself
up to bitter weeping when she found how
great her influence over her children had
been, and how little she had realized it.
" Had only known" she said, " that was
oJserred IN his uag how differently should
have felt, especially when indulging in feel
ings that were wrong And yet there are
few mothers whose feelings were more uni
form, and whose influence was more salu-
tary, or who have witnessed greater blessings
on their children.


II is most solemn truth that, in most
cases, children do pattern gtier their parents,
and especially their moiheri DO parents gen
orally realize this DO they think that
they are ,catcLed in all their words and ac-
tions, in all their intercourse with each other
and the world, and in all their conduct
towards their children DO they remember
Year: 1876

LEANING ON CnRIsr.-A dear old Chris
tian once said to me, " | want to notice that
word leaning ON the arm of the Beloved.
You give up your arm to lady TO take her
into the drawing-room, aud she just touches
your arm. But you go a long walk into the
country with your wife; she is weary, and
you offer her your arm and she puts in her
hand and presses on you with all her weight.
" Now, sir, he said, that seems to me Just
the difference between the Journalist and the
real Christian The Journalist touches the
arm of Jesus, he does not lean with all his
weight but the real Christian feels his own
weakness and his own WEAKNESS, aud so as he
goes through the wilderness he leans ON the
arm of his beloved, bearing all his weight
upon that beloved arm, and finding power
and strength and the more he leans the more
he feels his own weakness, and at the same
time the more he feels his strength in Him.
-Rer ", Hqy AMen.
Year: 1876

RrsriTUuoN.-You have defrauded your
neighbor. You have done him an injury,
not accidentally, but on purpose. You have
sought your own profit by inilicting a loss
upon him You have taken what does not
belong to you but to him. iou must then
proceed to make restitution. Go at once
Go to-day, if you eau State the facts
frankly and honestly. Acknowledge your
wrong-doing, and repair the harm rs full lly as
you can. 1t will cost you a struggle to do
this. When, however, you have made up
your mind to the struggle, you will probably
find it easier than you expect. But what
your conscience. twill stand between YOU
and God. II is an obstacle which you can.
not get over. You may forget that il is
therei but there it is; and you are on one
side, and Almighty God is on the other
Dean Hows0H
Year: 1876

water. Right il front the diamond
rises in a Aeur.delys-shapsd ornament,
which may be detached and worn as
brooch, a smaller one taking its place in
that case. The center stone of this
ornament is almost unique; it is an i'm.
mense ruby of a glowing fire red hue,
far purer than the ordinary blush red


of rubies in general We're it not for q
milky stain that crosses this superb gem
il alone would be worth $4,000 The
whole valpe Of this regal coronet was
$4,000 Lucy Hooper, in Appletsus'
Year: 1876

much in hts annual Message He did not receive re-
ports from all OF The departments in time and there
fore, obliged to leave ou, Of his Message
many subjects 70 which he would otherwise have
alluded.


DISPOSITION TROOPS.


He said IN response TO question that be would
answer the House resolution and inform them why he
sent troops to tho South. Among other things tho
President said in response inquiries that there were
now GOO or 500 troops Washington. II there should
be any necessity for more he would order them
hither We should have peace n We nave to night for
II Somc days he received nys or SIX
letters threatening assassination but he paid piien
tion 10 them. A crazy once followed him six
months threatening TO his lfe and this person
was, he believed, placed IN the asylum When he
nrst came TO the Executive Mansion he found mili.
tary guard there bu, he Immediately caused 10 be
withdrawn and sent into barracks.


PATH


The President, referring 10 the political compca-
tions said he had abiding faith In the people. AS
We have had rebellion he did believe the peo-
pie were anxious for another and thought there would
be some way out Of our present d.ficultics
Year: 1876

IT goes sadly against Russia's grain
to be compelled to admit that her
breadstuff producing regions have been
completely outstripped in the compe-
titive race with the United States.
The latest statistics show that while
nine years ago, foriy-four per cent Of
the grain exported to England came
from Russia and only fourteen per cent
from America, now forty-four per cent
is received from us and but twenty-one
per cent from Russia. The Odessa
merchants are fearful that matters will
be still worse in the future, and are re-
ported as being ''lost in painful thought
when considering the quantity of corn
America will soon be enabled to ex-
port"


THAT energetic paper, the Chicago
Times has got one eye open, and here
is what it sees. 1t says:


1t is becoming daily more evident
that what SagaciOuS men anticipated
Lefore the meeting of Congress will be
realized, namely, that this Congress
will not even seriously attempt to take
one step on the way of placing the vast
commercial and industrial interests of
the country once more on stable and
safe foundation of honest money. 1t is
becoming daily more evident that the
majority of the controlling combination
in the House, instead of being compo
sed Of men actuated by an honest de-
sire to reutrn to the rule of economy, ia
composed of men who favor a rule of
fraud, which converts the nation, in
spite of its better desire, into nation of
gamblers and rOgues.





Congress has been in session nearly
two months. Two months more of
like performance and non-performance
will probably serve to satisfy the most
trusting believer in the ability of hu-
man nature to remodel itself that the
country has had enough OF that crowd.


What will it say when the other eye
sheds its scales?
Year: 1876

For the benefit of my brother farm
ers by whose contributions have been
much benefited, will send you a re-
cipe for the cure of a bovine which has
taken cold or lost its appetite in any
way, and it is also good for the disease
termed shollow-horn" or ''horn-ail."
Take two pieces of salt pork, about the
size of the two fore-fingers, split them
oren and put in each q teaspOonful OF
cayenne pepper, stand on the right
hand side of the animal, and elevate
the laws with the left arm, and put the
pork between the grinders with the
right hand, keeping the jaws elevated
till the dose is chewed and swallowed,
only putting in one piece at a time.
After they are administered give two
more pieces of the same size If you
choose without the pepper, and il the
animal seems affected by cold, give
water with the chill taken Of to drink
and put on a warm blanket. I have no
doubt that saved the life of valu-
able COW by the above procedure.-LH.
d. EdgertOn, in \. Y. Rural New
Yorker.
Year: 1876

We have been on the lookout for great
Democratic principles. We have discovered
some points, but not enough to equip great
party for National campaign.


The first point is that the Democratic party
is devoted to the Confederate theory of State
rights.


The second point is that the Democratic
party is in favor of all the jobs called improve
ments that have been fixed upon in the late
Southern Confederacy.


The third point Is that, as the majority of
Democratic members of Congress, and the
backbone of the party itself, are of the section
late in rebellion, it is the rebellious part of
the country that must govern the whole coun-
try if the Democratic party comes into power.
T Gin. Com.
Year: 1876

There is quite a sensation in New
buryport, Mass, over the marriage of
James Prrton, the author, TO his step
daughter, the same being forbidden by
the statutes of tnat State. The bride
groom learned his status the morning
after the wedding, and to prevent
further scandal left his home in charse
of his wife and took rooms for himself
at boarding house. He will apply to
the Legislature for a special act sane
tiOuing the marriage.
Year: 1876

Chief Justice White, in charging .
grand jury at Salt Lake City on the 9TH
inst, said: 1--WE had better look It
-quarely in the face, distasteful as it
may be to some. and govern ourselves
by right, reason, and manly discretion
in dealing with it. POlygamy must De
suppressed in this Territory. Nor.
menism may survive, and relieved
from 1t it would stand unshackled and
free as every other creed or mode OF
religious worship, shielded and protect
ed by the Constitution of our common
country. But II MormOnism cannot
sever itself from polygamy, 1t Will Dc
to 1t the bridal of death"
Year: 1876

MR. JEFF. DAVIS was not content with the
He waited until the people were thinking of
something else, and then put in his little let
ter. in which he referred to the Southern Con-
federacy as country" Pleasant companion
is JEFF. He ought to be a delegate to the next
National Democratic Convention. Gin. Com.
Year: 1876

made healthy and strong by regulating their
stOmachs and bowels with Castoria 1t is
more effective than Castor Oil and is as pleas
ant to take as honey. For Wind Collie, Sour
Stomach, Worms and Costiveness, there is
nothing in existence equal TO Castoria
Year: 1876

Yesterday evening pale, thin wo-
man, meanly clad, was seen shivering
on the doorstep Of fashionable man
sion on Ashland avenue. Her whole
appearance betokened poverty and
misery. The master Of the house, r
comparatively young man, clad in q
costly fur ovcrcoat, ran up the steps
at the same moment and gave tho
poor creature a quarter, W which she
received with profuse manifestations
of gratitude. 1t seems romantic, but
it is fact, that eleven years ago that
young woman lived in that same man-
sion, the beautiful, accomplished, and
idolized daughter of wealthy parents.
Two suitors sought her hand - one
was fashionable young man. the
other the plumbers apprentice, who
while visiting her fathers lordly man
sion to thaw out the water-pipec, saw
and loved the beauteous apparitionI
He preferred his suit in blunt, man
lv style, told her that his time would
soon be out, and showed her how the
bills were made out to meet her OBJ
lection as to his lack of fortune. Tho
naughty and infatuated girl rejected
his suit and married :he hanasome
Young man with whom she SEE up
housekeeping in costly manner on
Ashland avenue. Wonderful are the
alternatives of ffortune! The plumber
rose steadily, became wealthy, and
purchased tho family mansion when
the young husband was compelled,
through gong short on No. 2 spring
at an inopportune moment. to self
out his property. The young husS
band took to drink, and finally was
buried in pauper's grave, and last
evening his starving widow asked
and received aims on the doorstep OF
a house formerly her own from the
hands of her discarded plumb-lover,
now its owner and millionaire.
(Slow curtain. )-ChicGgO Times.
Year: 1876

Mules on an average are more VAL
liable than horses, are more easily
raised, are not so subject to disease
are not likely to run away in wagon
ing and plowing, are longer lived,
will do more work aud require less
food and attention. Theyare strong
er, win draw Heavier loads and stand
a great deal more hardship, and are
every way preferable to the horse for
general farm use. Mules, when three
wears old. will do enough work on
the farm to pay for their feed. After
having attained the age of four years
they are ready for any kind of service
The working life of the mule can be
safely estimated at twenty years, and
that Of the horse at ten years. While
a mule is working his life out, two
horses will be required 10 do the
Same service. The mule is less dainty
than the horse about food, unground
grain and dry feed being lust tho
thing for him.
Year: 1876

/ There Is a great deal Of talk In vari-
GUS quarters about the decline of in
terest in the grange, and the detection
from it of influential members. Wheh
fully sifted aud Analysed, this is gen.
orally found TO be without founda-
ton. The true members Of tho
grange - the farmers-arc not de-
scrtng it. Wire-pulling politicians
and subsidized newspapers fail sig
naIly to weaken their attachment to
the Order. Only those who enter the
grange organization to profit by theft
connection with it and who have fail!
ed i'm the accomplishment Of that sell
fish object, are Withdrawing; and so
far as these are concerned, the genu-
inc grangers may heartily say, at is
good riddance." Asall know, when
the movement commenced, there were
not dozen papers in the courtry
that deigEed to notice 1t, but as the
organization grew, one after another
fell into line, until the rank and filc
Of hackneyed politicians, newspaper
men and dead-beats, initiated them
selves, one and all. Certain editors
came into the fold with nubbin of
corn in one pocket and tag lock in
the other. Lawyers took change Of
venure just long enough to get out IN
to the country and get a little hay
seed in their hair, and politicians be-
gan to say, "Your organization is
very desirable one indeed why, was
brought up on farm" The dead!
beats got into the Grange just ih
time to steal lodge dues, ETC., and ere
he was aware the unsuspecting gran-
ger fell into the hands of local Phil
istines, whose sole object was to cheat
and swindle them. This unfortunate
fact is by no means predicable of all
localities, far from it-farmers Of
many quarters were too wise to be
drawn into so dangerous snare-to
surrender the charge and direction of
their organization to politicians. But
where this did take place, there the
grange has not prospered. and there
these defections are taking place.
The parties who are withdrawing are
either disappointed politicians who
have not been able to realize what
they sought by their connection with
the Order, or farmers who do not
wish to remain attached to an organi-
cation in which the influence of poll
ticians and dead-beats is too strong to
be overcome. The grange will not
suffer by the detection of the former.
l. lin IuriIvI Uv"t.iUutU ~ iIs
strength and pcrpetuity to have then,
go. And as to the latter leaving it,
no objection can be made. They can
join other oranges or form new ones
which shall be kept rigi6ly free from
dead.beats or obtrusive Republican
politicians. From these data it is
safe to reason that the occasional COL
lapse of oranges here and there, and
the detection from the Order OF dis
appointed and disaffected individuals,
! will not detract from the strength,
utilitv and continued prosperity OF
| the grange. . ............ .r
Year: 1876




HAVE you ever watched an icicle as
it formed? You noticed how it froze
one drop at a time, until it was foot
longior more. If the water was clean,
the icicle remained clear and sparkled
in the sun; but II it was slightly
muddy the iclcle looked foul, and its
beauty spoiled. Just so our charac-
ters are forming. One little thought
or feeling at time adds it's influence.
If every thought be pure and right
the soul will be lovely, and will SPAR
kle with happiness: but If impure
and wrong, thereis always wretched-
ness.
Year: 1876

Years ago, says correspondent,
when we went to school in a little
weather-beaten school-house, what ex-
citing contests there used to be over the
teachers favOrite exercise of having the
scholars estimate with the naked eye
the size and weight of different objects
in the room! He would hold up his
cane, and have each one tell how long
he thought it was, and it was lucky
child that could come within half foot
of the right length. He would measure
On urchin and then have the scholars
try to reproduce the measure on the
wall. He would mark off an inch or a
foot or yard in some conspicuous
place, and then see how near any bOdS
could come to chalking the same length
upon the blackboard. And it was as
tonishing how wide astray one would
90. The fact is, our eyes deceive us
ridiculously even upon the cOmmonest
things. At first thought, which should
you say was the taller, 3-year old child
or flour barrel? and could any thing
but actual measurement convince you
that the same child is half as high as q
6-footer? There is an old saying that a
child 2 years old is half as tall as he
ever will be; and after a few expert
ments in measuring one can easily be-
lieve it, but not befcre.-B0st0B Tran
script.
Year: 1876

There was one old fox which for a
period of several years had continually
evaded the feetest and keenest-scented
hounds, the scent invariably being lost
in the vicinity of Il house situated in the
woods and far removed from any habi-
tation, and which was used as a store
house for pelts. At last one day the
hounds started the old fox, and away
he went in the direction of the house,
with pack of young hounds in full cry
after him, out on nearing the house he
disappeared, leaving the hounds and
hunters non-plussed as usual. While
the hunters were gathering in and
around the house discussing the fire.
quent mysterious disappearance of the
fox, an old veteran hound came limp
ing up, and entering the door set up a
vigorous barking, and tried to jump up
on the wall. His singular action at
tracted the attention of the hunters, and
an examination being made, the old fox
was found suspended by his tail to a
nail in the wall, keeping perfectly still,
and looking, unless closely observed,
like the pelts with which the walls were
hung. This plainly showed that the
old fox, when too closely pressed, had
taken refuge in the house and hung him
self up on the nail by his tail, which
was the reason for the dogs always
losing the scent in that particular place.
Reese RiUcr (NeU.) ReUeilie.
Year: 1876

One of the uptown churches in this
city was well filled by fashionable con-
gregatiOn about a week ago, on the oc-
casiOn of the marriage of a well-knOwn
society girl to the man of her choice-the
scion of popular Philadelphia sugar
merchant. Probably not a dozen per-
sons present knew the most interesting
fact in the history of the bride. She
was a poor, neglected waif twentyyears
ago, and was found one wintry morn
ing upon a doorstep in St. Mark S
place-then a fashionable quarter of the
city. No clew to her parentage was
ever found, but the family (chosen prob
ably with that object), having no child
of their own, took in the waif, and rear
ed the little girl with as much care as il
she had been their own. A few years
after an application was made to Judge
Charles p DAILY, of this city, for a de-
cree awarding legal custody of the
child to its protectors, and henceforth
she took their name. She was educated
thoroughly. and became Il pet of the
family as effectually as if she had been
born into it. In time she was intrOduc-
ed into society as Miss C., and met
her present husband at a family reunion
in Philadelphia. Now she is honored
and petted by society, and promises to
become reigning favorite. Who knows
but somewhere the real mother of this
interesting woman may not be watch
inc the career of her child, and that,
sometime, may make herself known.
Truly, fact is often stranger than fic-
TOM Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1876

The grounds that the British Minister


assumed in refusing to surrender the for.


ger Winslow, are gradually being aband'


oned by them a. untsnabls. These


grounds are that the act of Parliament Of


1870 imposes conditions subsequent to the


Extradition Treaty Of 1s42. The modified


position now assumed, says the Philadel-


hia Ledger, "is, that the treaty itself i'm


plies that a fugitive surrendered for a


specific crime shall be tried for that crime


only. Then why not let the implied obli-


CATION rest upon the implied responsibility


Of the Government to which the fugitive
is surrendered? The attempt to exact an
express stipulation upon 4 constructive
implication is in no degree more tenable
than the ground first assumed and now
apparently abandoned. Tho fact is the


ministry has erred throughout this whole
controversy in trying to subject a treaty
between two powers 10 an en- post facto law
of one of them. There is reason in the
request that fugitive surrendered upon
one charge shall not be tried upon another.
That practice might lead to political op-
preston. But the method adopted by the
British Ministry to bring about the modi-
fed practice is bad one. Modification
of the treaty is the right course, and fail |
ing Of success in that, notice Of the termi-
nation of the extradition clause should be
the next step.


In the meantime there is no reason to
believe that the American government
will make any concessions. The reply of
Lord Derby has been considered in the
Cabinet and well deliberated, after which


It has been determined to adhere to the
American view of the matter. Informa-
ion from Washington states that the
will this week send an answer
o the English note, in which the Ameri- {
an case will be reafirmed, and then it is :
he intention to transrsit the entire cor |
to Congress for that body to !,
AXE such action as it may deem proper. h
is gratifying to know that the Foreign t
ommittee of both houses approve what v
as been done by the Administration in II
lis matter, so that Congress and the Ex- I
'utve will probably be in accord in s.
hatever final action may be taken. In -
nsland there is evidence of decided


tierence of opinion in reference to the =
and taken by Lord Derby in the case =
ut no disposition is shown by the author v
les in either country to imperl friendIv)
elatlons on account Of this dispute. II
Year: 1876

A queer accident is thus described by the
Reading (Penn.) Times "The wife of a


farmer resident near Alburtis the other dav


was on her way to one of the stores in Mill


erstownwith lot OF farm products-butter,


eggs, &c, the whole bundled up in Dumer-


GUS cloths. A live coal from an engine on


the East Pennsylvania Railroad, alongside


OF the track OF which she was walking, was


driven into her basket, aud the linens gni-
ted unknown to her. She kept on her way,
carrying the miniature cOnflagration with
her until at last cracking noise and COL
umn of smoke rising from her side CAUSED
her to make an n,estigation, when to her
horror part of the butter had melted from
the heat and run out OF the baskets bottom,
while the eggs had cracked, and escaping
from the shell actually baked under the act
ion of the fire to which they were subjected.
The woman after this loss retracpd her
steps homeward to repair damages as far as
The material left would permit.