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Year: 1876

The way the thing is sometimes
done is let out in letter sent to the
President of the Chilicothe Council,
and member of the Board of Public
Works, by Samuel Swartz, contractor,
and published in the Scioto Gazette,
with the consent of the President,
Schilder. The industrious, energetic
Swartz wrote to Mr.. Schilder that he
wanted to build bridge the county
had decided to construct. The fol-
lowing sentences viii show how the
thing was to be worked:


I now make you this proposition
Tin confdence,) that | will allow you
ten per cent. of contract price on all
bridges you get me to build. And
1 authorize you to say that my prices
shall be lower than swing bridges,
built good and substantial The
best way to accomplish success is to
hold back my bid until we know
what swing bridge viii cost, inclu-
ding foundation.


1t did not work Schilder refus-
ed the promising offer, gave the letter
to newspaper, and Swartz has come
o grief. The lesson may not teach
him never to do so again, but it will
make him beware of honesty.
Year: 1876

The glorious Eighth of January
passed away without so much as one
solemn toast, standing and in silence,
to the memory of Old Hickory
The fact is, Old Hickory, with his
halter for nullifers, and his stringent
treatment of rag babies, is no longer
a good representative Democrat,
North or South.-TO. S. Journal.
Year: 1876

Senator Thurman has been talk
ing Finance. He proposes to "show
that both the Government and the
National Banks can resume" He
intimated that he was as warm a
friend of specie resumption as any
man. May we not now expect a
howl all along the imitation line?
Year: 1876

The Rev. Moody. admits that it
takes four times as long to convert a
man who has money out at usurious
interest, as it does cultured gentle
man who goes home by the alley to
avoid his butcher.
Year: 1876

A Boston woman writing to friend says,
"there is large class OF highly educated
persons in New England and New York
who would most thoroughly enjoy and ap-
preciatc the Centennial Exhibition if some
arrangement" like that which she suggests
could be made. The plan is, without
doubt, perfectly practicable, and light be
AIKEN up and crystalized by parties OF ladies
or gentlemen) in other sections of the coun-
try to their advantage. While the charges
for board and lodging in Philadelphia
and vicinity during the progress of the
Centennial Exhibition will not be so exor-
bitant as some papers insist, there is still an
opportunity for persons of moderate means
who may desire to visit the Centennial, see
everything worth the seeing and enjoy them
selves accordingly, and that without the
outlay of an extravagant amount of money.
Not only in New England and New York,
but throughout the entire country, there
are thousands of highly educated and in
telligent persons who will desire to give
themselves the pleasure Of visit to the Ex-
hibition. This pleasure they can give
themselves if they are inclined to bestow
Year: 1876

little care and thought upon the proper ar
rangements for a visit. We subjoin ex-
tracts from private letter written by the
wife of one of the Harvard College profcs-
sors, in order that friends further away may
take from it such hints as will be of service
to them in arranging visit during the
summer.


The letter begins by speaking of the
"money outlay" contingent upon visit to
Philadelphia, and then goes on to say: " II
they could go somewhat in the way people
90 in summer to the seashore, on sort: of
camping-out principle, they could form
parties and share expenses, and 30 be able
to go, when regular boarding house or
lodgings would seem too expensive to be
thought of. The plan proposed was to take
a house in some town or country village on
some railroad, near enough for the fares to
be cheap. A small, plain house, say parlor,
dining-room, and Kitchen on the ground
floor, and perhaps one more room as bed
room-four bedrooms above. Furnished
very simply with tables, chairs, and cook
Ing stovs, and o few cooking untensilsi tea.
Year: 1876

sions are placed along the sides of the build
ing, in close proximity to the products ex-
hibited. Offices for the administration are
at the ends. The design of the building is
such that all exhibitors will have an
equally fair opportunity of exhibiting their.
goods to advantage. There is comparative
ly little choice Of location, as the light is
uniformly distributed, and each of the
spaces devoted to products is located upon
one of the main thoroughfares
Year: 1876

This structure is located west of the in
tersection of Belmont and Elm avenues, at
distance of 542 feet from the west front OF
the Main Exhibition building, and 274
feet from the north side of Elm avenue.
The north front of the building is upon the
same line as that of the Main Exhibition
building, thus presenting frontage OF
1924 feet from the east to the west ends ol
the Exhibition buildings upon the principal
avenue within the grounds.
Year: 1876

~ Il ttaiartesNon news and Cour1er.I unffoY


The SOUTHERN Congressman must be
urged. to vote against as much of the
Hawaiian treaty as admits the rice from
the Sandwich Islands free of duty. They
can claim this as due to their white con-
stit,lents who, on the faith OF the pres
ent duty, have invested millions in rice
plantations las due to the colored labor
ers, who find on tie rice plantations
work that they can find nowhere else,
as due to the Southern ports where rice
is an important article OF trade; and as
due TO the Southern people who. Tree
traders By instinct and education, insist
that the dyties which protect their In
dustries shall not be removed while
those which protect the interests Of
other sections are carefuIT maintained.
Year: 1876

BRANCHING OUT.-Mr. Wm. Todd,
of the City Meat Market, ha, made an
addition to his business by the receipt of
quantity of Groceries and Provisions
which he offers to the public ut reason
able advance on San Francisco cost. 1t
is his intention to make such further ad-
diLions to his BUSINESS as the trade will
Justify. See advertisement in another
column.
Year: 1876

Mr. WALSH is fine looking young
man and is courteous and gentlemanly
in his language. But we think that when
he draws illustrations from ancient his
tory he should not presume his audience
to be ignoramuses. And that is wha; he
must have thought Of his WeaverviIle
audience on Wednesday night. If he
had taken the trouble 20 inquire little
he would have found that mining com
munity possesses fully as much intcll-
gence as any other, aud would perhaps
not have fallen into the errors he did.
Year: 1876

Rich QUARTZ.-A few weeks ago we
made mention of new discovery in
quartz on Deadwood Gulch, above Lew
iston, By Muncey & Belleau, who were
then erecting IN arastra at the NINE
Since then they have crushed two tons
.Yt rock. from which they got over $500
and Mr. Muncey is well satisfied that if
they had cleaned the bed Of the arastra
thoroughly at least 500 more would have
been secured. They are now down on
the lode to the depth of thirty feet and it
is six feet in width. Specimens of the
rock brought TO town are rich in gold,
much of which is visible to the naked
eye. Four hundred dollars to The ton is
certainly good yield, particularly when
obtained by the crude process of an aras
ira whereby a large percentage of the
gold is lost that would be saved by reg


ular milling process.
Year: 1876

Capt. E. S. Fowler. one of the foun-
ders of Port Townsend, who has lived
there for more than quarter of cen
tury, died a. that place last Monday
He had been ailing from a cancer for a
number of years, and death came to
him like a welcome guest. He was a
man of limited early education, but pos
sessed of good native judgment. He
came there to find it wilderness, and
left it garden of roses. bequeathing to
his children a fair worldly competency,
and the priceless legacy of an unsullied
name.


So they pass away, the bold and
energetic spirits who laid the corner
stone of new empire on the SHORES of
the sunset sea. The pioneers of the
Pacific were a peculiar people, possessed
of all the Puritan fortitude IN danger,
and more than Puritan federation
Courage, simplicity and honor, were
the distinguishing traits of their char
acter. If they lacked the polish ohar-
acteristic of an older and better per
fected state of society. they lacked its
vices also. They stand out in bold
relief before the future historian, grand
in their rugged honesty and homely
heroism. They toiled and endured
many privasions to bring about the
blessings We now enjoy. Let us cherish
the remnants of the "Old Guard" and
make the autumn days of their lives full
Of the peace which blesses only the
brave and the true.
Year: 1876

Following the laws of custom, the
President of the United States and the
Governors of the various States and
Territories, have set apart this day fol
the purpose of Thanksgiving and
prayer. This custom originated shortly
after the landing of our Pilgrim Faith
ers. From the New England states the
custom has spread. until now, it is rec
ognized as a National day of prayer and
festival. For many reasons have we,
as people, cause to thank our God for
the blessings he has vouchsafed US.
We have had abundant harvest, no
wars either foreign, civil or lnternecine.
The business prospects of the country
look more brightly than ever, end " III
once more be on sound and healthy
basis. We have just peacefully passed
through one OF the most exciting and
momentous Presidential campaigns the
country has ever witnessed, and more
than all-our country has taken, by the
direction of an All wise Providence, the
step that will fade into oblivion. the
times when brothers hands in deadly
warfare smote each other.


For these many blessings, and sure
ly gratitude is component part of the
soul of man-we have cause to be truly
thankful. Whether Christian, Israelite,
Mohammedan, or Infidel. whether We
render thanks in one form or another,
it is but tribute to the aching Of the
spirit that dwells in the heart of man,
to pour forth his gratitude in praise, on
day commemorated by the people Of
his country, for the purpose of thanks
giving and prayer to the "All-wise Pro-
whence that shapes our ends. +" But
amid the prayers that will arise from
the devout, from one end of the land to
to the other-the most powerful appeal
will be heard in the petition that in the
present crisis of the country, no resort
to arms will be made, and that Justice
alone will determine who shall preside
over our destinies for the next four
Years.


To many this day will bring reminis-
ences of days gone by, when the family
reunited, encircled the homestead table,
and wonderment if they, so far away,
have forgotten him who once occupied
the now vacant chair.
Year: 1876

We have hitherto omitted to mention
the death of the wife of Donald Mac
leay, Esq, of Portland, a lady whose
presence was dream of perennial sun
shine. Bred to life Of ease and lux
ury, she bore no part in the many fri
volities of fashion, but rather regarded
wealth as d Heaven-born gift to the
rich, to enable them to alleviate the
sorrow of the hard -faring poor. She will
be better known. by the void her death
has left, than to the place she filled in
life. A vessel bears her name. and will
float her flag in many port beside our
sunset seas; hut the most enduring
monument to the departed lady is erect
ed in the hearts of the poor whose bur-
dens she lightened with her welcome
presence. She was true woman-God
rest her.
Year: 1876

Indians have taken TO garroting peo-
pie in the streets of Victoria at night.
Well have none O. that kind of work
when we go over there to eat our Christ
mas beef and pudding with Jack How
ard. Why don't they wallop the black
devils at the carts tail, like they do in
England Sitting Bull would have a
hard time garrotlng John Bull. The
old man with the big dog and top boots
carries too many guns for him.
Year: 1876

Many of the leaders of the Demo
cratic party in the East have expressed
astonishment that the three Pacific
States went solidly for Hayes and
Wheeler, and are unable to account for
it. The solution is easily seen when
the facts Of the case are known, as any
body can see. The Republican press
of the Pacific Coast have an almost alb
solute monopoly of the Associated Press
dispatches, and consequently we, of this
Coast, hear of nothing but Southern
outrages, and the State of public affairs
except through Republican versions.
Only when our Eastern exchanges come
to us, can we get anything but an ec-
Darte statement of how things exist in
the East.


Especially is this true in Oregon. In
that State, the Oreqonian, under the pat
ronage of senator Hipple- Mitchell. or
Mitchell Nipple, is the only paper that
f6CelNcS luG ttSSOCldttu 1883 tli0 pdtCuOo,
and this because the Repub lean party
are rich and diplomatic enough to con-
troll the balance of power in that State,
by thus giving the people nothing but
Republican dispatches to read. 1t is
even admitted by Republicans that with
any sort of attention on the part of the
Democracy to Oregon, that that State
would have Cast its vote for Iilden and
Hendricks. We call attention to this
state Of affairs, that our Democratic con-
temporaries of the East. belonging to the
Associated Press, may insist that here
after their -partisans of this Coast
shall have at least fair show in the
matter of telegraphic dispatches.
Year: 1876

Mayor Wickham of New York ordered
display of flags on the City Hall in
honor of the result of the Presidential
election, and all the Republicans and
Republican papers fall to abusing him
for using the public bunting to exult
over Tilden's success-thus unwittingly
acknowledging their convictions that
1ilden is the duly and legally chosen
President
Year: 1876

We shall hold the daily press of this
city to a strict accountability for all the
evils that have been, or hereafter may


be, perpetrated bv the baser elements Of
society in their lawless raid against the
Chinese. Their incendiary appeals, re-
peated day after day for consecutive
weeks. were concocted with no other in
tent than to provoke the lower orders to
the commission Of outrages against peo-
pie who are among US under information
al treaty stipulations, and have as much


right to be here as the comers from any


other foreign land. Protestations to the


contrary, with now and then a hypocriti-
cal expression Of hope that no violence
shall be employed against the Chinese,
are not sufficient to deceive ybody who
is willing to give the question an impair
tial, manly consideration. The disgrace
ful scenes at Antioch have not only been


publicly indorsed by certain clubs in this
city and other portions Of the State, but
the privilege Of an American citizen to
employ whom he chooses has been de
nounced with threats and covert nssur-
Ances Of cowardly vengeance. Thirty
prominent citizens of Vallejo have been
the recipients Of postal cards bearing the
| following menace: You are hereby no.
tilted to discharge your Chinaman at an
early day for your own safety IL has
already come TO pass that the Chinese
have been iorc;hly driven out Of Antioch,
their homes burned to the ground mobs
collected in this city TO waylay and mo


lest them on their route from the steam


ers; clubs organized for hostile action
against them, and our own people th.eat


ened with some dire calamity unless they
discharge them. What will be the mex
heroic sxPlsit in this interesting pre-
Year: 1876

The religious journals have been filed
for several months past with the welcome
reports of widespread revivals These
have been often spoken OF as honest sea
sons in the various churches. But the
phrase is an erroneous and misleading
one. Conversion is rather a planting
time with a soul than its harvest" II
is a beginning of better things; not a
contamination completed. Those pas
tors and evangelsts commit fearful
mistake who feel that the conversion of
sinners is the one main object of all Cos
pei effort; whsreas conversion is only the
means, the essential first step to the great
end of all true Gospel effort, which is the
service of God by a genuine godly life
Those young converts make q still worse
mistake if they sit down happy and CON
tented with having confessed Christ
and united with his Church. The clock
that strikes one is expected to strike
two.


What is conversion? 1t is turning
from the wrong road into the right one.
The journey is yet to be performed be
fore Heaven is attained Too many,
alas set out on this straight road and
fall away before they reach the mark OF
the prize Conversion is simply an en-
listing in the army of Jesus. The battles
and the hard bivouacs are yet before you
Let not him that girdeth on his harness
boast himself as he that putteth IL otf
We want to impress it upon the mind oi
svsTy young sonVsTt that the real eon
Year: 1876

NO IMMEDIATE REDUCTION ON WEsT-BoUND


FREIGHTs AND PASSENGER TRAFFIC EXPECTED.


The railroad controversy has not taken any
more definite shape within day two aud the beief
Is generally expressed by railroad that there Will
not be an open rupture The Secretary Of the Pennsy
yania Central Company stated yesterday that the price
of tickets had not been changed and that he saw no
reason TO anticipate any Immediate reduction. He
thought it would be disastrous to all concerned If any
combination to reduce rates should result from the
action of the Grand Trunk Company. The general
freight and ticket agents of the Baltimore and
Ohio Road expressed yesterday the conviction that the
Importance Of the controversy had been exaggerated by
current rumors and said that far as they could
tain there was no present danger OF break In regular
rates Rates on freights have been nominal
for fortnight Western agents making the best contracts
ossibe under circumstances but frelghts
remaln uniform and unbroken This opinion was sus-
famed by the statements Of prominent Tea ana sugar
brckens OF this city, who said that as lar as they were
he 10 learn DO reduction had been made ON any of the
through lines from east 10 west.


ON the other hand some freight agents stated yestcr
day in the subjec; that though no sc
nowledged cutting had been DONE 1t was generally
known that large special reductions were constantly


made and that there could DO only one resu and thss
Year: 1876

Up to late hour yesterday the Anglo
American Cable Company had not succeeded In obtain
ing any OF the lost cables. The Western Union Teie
grap COMPANY however announced that 1t would take
dispatches up to D. H., and would make connection by
steamer between 1t. Pierre and Pacentia


The Direct Cable Company has issued through its su
perintendent the following circular:


In consequence OF the great volume OF telegrams
which fbe iterrupton to the cables of the AngOAmcr
lean Company has thrown upon this Conpanys cable
and in answer the many inquiries made at our Offices
in relation 10 tariff am instructed To officially announce
that no increase win be made IN the rates heretofore
charged either TO the public the press Al the same
time in order to enable do justice on one cable o
the work usually performed by five, respectfully sug
cet that tciecrans made brief as possible We are
sparng no effort to make the transmission prompt as
well as efficient and 10 perform the best service Tor each
and all Of our patrons We trust that under ms extra
ordinary pressure shall receive patient consideration
Year: 1876

About o'clock last evening the wife OF
John Falkenberg, who resided on Garden-st Hoboken,
on her return from market Mortified TO find her hus-
hand hanging suspended from nail by the neck. She at
once raised an alarm and the body was cut down. A
physjcan was soon in attendance but found Lis Efforts
futile TO restore animation. For some time Falkenbcrg
had been suffering from smallpox and he had often
pressed his of the oahsome disease and his dread
Of diving from 1t. His widow is Therefore that the
drcId OF n caused him take his life he did 1t is
doubtful If an inquest will be held the body owing to
the difficulty obtaining twelve to view the body


of any person who has been afflicted with SMALL pox
Year: 1876

crisis in city affairs. The City Government
by which We mean the protection of life
and property go on unless the money
is realized from the sale of these warrants to
pay the policemen, and fremen, and the gas
companies for the lighting of the streets.
There is and will be no money forthcoming
from taxes for years time which can be
used to pay these current debts for services
rendered The money now coming in from
the ta1-leyy Of 1876 should and must go to
the payment of claims for services rendered
in 1875, and the tax-levy Of this year is not
collectablo before July Of next year. There
is, therefore, positively no other way Of
running the Government meanwhile except
by the means now proposed; and, if the
people Of Chicago do not come forward with
liberal subscriptions, there will be no alterna-
tive but an abandonmento Of all that protection
Of person and property for which municipal
government is instituted
Year: 1876

An unusually brilliant meteor passed acros.
the Chicago sky at Sh. Aim. on Saturday
evening, lighting up the ground ten or twelve
times more than it Is Illuminated by the full
moon, and leaving very bright track, which
was visible for fully four minutes. As seen
from station one mile west from the TR1BusH
Office, the meteor passed almost precisely ore,
Epsilon in Delphinus, and thence to Gamma IN
Cygnus, disappearing opposite 41phaIn Cygnus.
II equally close observations Of its path
were made elsewhere, and the results
made known, it would not be difficult
to calculate the actual path OF the meteor in
space. It probably passed out Of the earth's
atmosphere, and continued to journey around
the sun, but in IN altered orbit. Our celestial
yisitant, that came near to losing its indiridua-
ity and becoming part Of the earth, is prob
ably small asterold-at least several yards in
diameter.
Year: 1876

The great Republican mass-meeting last
night was an auspicious opening of the po-
itcal campaign in the Northwest. Tho vast
concourse assembled at Market and Madison
streets to ratify the nomination Of HAYES
and WHEELER was composed Of the best and
most substantial voters of the city,-meH
not given to rabble-rousing demonstra-
tions, and whose presence there was
an indication of the deep interest
they feel in tho approaching Presidential
contest and in the success Of the grand old
Republican party. The speech of the Hon.
SHELLEY M. Cu1LoM was in admirable spirit,
and Was well received The emphatic re-
sponses Of the vast audience to his dissec-
ton of the pretensions Of TnDEv, the rail
roGd king, operator, and associate Of Boss
TWEED, to be reformer, showed that they
remembered the record TuDES made for him
self during the War, and as d member Of
the Committee OH Resolutions Of the Demo-
cratic National Convention Of 1864 which
reported the infamous peece resolution.
Throughout, as often as contrast was made
of the record, aud pretenslons, and promises
of tho Democratic party, it was manifest,
Enthusiastically, that the intelligent masses Of
this city have not so forgotten the history of
the past fifteen years as to look for reform
from the Democratic party, nor to intrust it
with the administration Of affairs. Tho yast
outpouring of the people last night to ratify
the nomination of HAYES was, in short, but
an earnest of the tremendous majority BY
which they will in November ratify it at the
Year: 1876

In the interesting little city Of weimar, re-


nowned as the resort and residence of more than
OF the greatest philosophers and poets Of Ger
many, many q traveller must have seen and admired
the charming statues Of GOETHE and SCHILLER,


standing side by side and hand in hand, on single
pedestal, and offering, it were, the laurel
wreath Of literary priority emtnence to each
other. Few noblcr works Of art, in conception or
execution, can be found on the Continent of
Europe. And what could be worthier or juster
comuemoration Of the marvellous coincidence Of
which have just spoken, and Of the men who
we're the subjects OF it. anu Of the Declaration with
which, alike in their lives and in their DEATHS thev
arc peculiarly and SO aignall3 associated, tint