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Year: 1876




Our readers cannot have failed to
notice the very general impression, as
expressed in the newspapers and re-
ported from Washington, that Mr..
"Don" Cameron is put in the War De-
partment in the interest of Mr.. Conk-
ling, and with the Intention of advan-
cling that gentleman's chances for the
nomination to the Presidency. 1t is
not necessary to consider the grounds
Of this impression; it is sufficient to
note Its existence, and the fact that
there is nothing in the antecedents of
any enc concerned in the Cabinet
changes to make 1t impossible or even
improbable that they were made from
the motive which public opinion so
generally assigns for them. MIR. Cam
eron. like his father. is Pennsylvania
politician, and quite ready TO assume
| the part in national affairs which old
age will shortly compel the latter to
abandon, He is therefore, open to the
suspicion of driving trade for the
influence of the family in the present
contingency. If Mr.. Conkling thought
it worth buying, there is nothing In
Mr. Cameron's character to prevent
the arrangement. On the other hand,
there is no reason why Mr..
Conkling should not be supposed to
be willing to enter on this sort of in
trigue, especially if he can induce
President Grant to furnish the neces-
sary consideration. 1t is certainly moi
incredible that the Senator can OBJ
tain and would employ the gifts ol
the administrator fer his own ad
vancement. 1t is most notorious
fact that his influence in the State OF
New \ ork for the past seven years has
turned on his actual and supposed en-
jOymcnt of Administration favors. Ii
there should be counted out from his
adherents all who have received Fed,
eral patronage from his hands, and al
who expect to receive it, the Senator
would have very different following
from that which he now possesses
Certainly there Is no reason why Mr.
Conkling should not push his persona
objects in Pennsylvania by the sam,
means which he has been lucky or un
lucky enough to be able to employ il
his own State.


| But Mr.. Conkling's investment o.
administration patronage in this State
large and ingeniously distributed as i
has been, has not given him grea
deal of intrinsic strength outside o
those who are Immediately dependen
upon his favor, and who may there
fore. without injustice, be said to b.
in his pay. 1t is the misfortune of tn
Senator, that men who live by poll
tics, and who are ready to take otfic
as reward or inducement for politica
services, do not very seriously affec
public opinion. They do, indeed
manipulate some OF the agencies b
which public opinion is in part e,
pressed. They influence a certai
kind and number Of newspapers, an
they can handle primaries so as
make them "reply," as Mr.. Cornel
would say, to the criticism of bodie
like the Union League Club. But
after all, the public generally know
them too well to listen to them, an
instinctively recoil from any on
whom they champion.
Year: 1876

Nine cadet midshipmen of the Sec
ond and third class at Annapolis were
requested to resign from the Naval
Academy for stealing gentlemen q
furnishing goods, the property of a
Baltimore drummer, from the room of
first class cadet, Their names are
not made known.
Year: 1876

A young man from New Jersey has for
some weeks past been lying at the point of
death at the house Of a friend on West
Adams, and his fatal illness was rendered
the more sorrowful by his constant and pitt
full longing after the home he was destined
never to see again. On Wednesday evening
it was plain to be seen by the grief stricken
watchers that the end was near, and they
asked him if they could do anything to
smooth his pathway to the tomb. The dy
ing man, in voice that was scarcely audible
replied: ''Oh, if l could only taste shad
once more!"


What was to be done. There was no shad
attainable in the Chicago market, and the
dying mans pillow promised to be un-
smoothed by the only attention he coveted,
when suddenly one of the mourners, with
the remark, FI'll play Rebecca and Jacob
with the cuss," rose and hastened from the
apartment, and securing a paper of pins
fried it in butter and lard. Returning almost
Immediately, he placed the dish before the
dying man, who gratefully put layer of pins
between his lips, and feebly chewing at the
fried paper, said in low voice, while ray
of ecstatic glory and peace filled his face: "It
is shad feel the-the bones," and imme-
dialely climbed the golden stair.
Year: 1876

But the funniest incident of the whole ses-


sion was when Richard H. Dana was address


ing the convention, the joke being at his


expense. He is a fat, puffy sort of man,


with a general disposition on the part of his


body to fill his clothes quite full and run over
little He was seconding the nomination
of Bristow, and assuring the convention that
PC other man could carry Massachusetts, etc.


His remarks were not well received, his man
ner was offensive, and the convention made
no concealment of its impatience. Finally,
at the close of one of Mr.. Dana's sentences,
when he paused moment to gather breath
and inspiration, some one in the gallery
shouted ''pull down your vest" The idea of
saying such thing to blue-blooded gentle
man from Massachusetts, was funny enough
in itself, but the fact that his vest did show
tendency to secede added infinitely to the
humor of the thing. The hit was at once so
audacious and so palpable that the conyen-
ton fairly shouted, and the digniied gentle
man from Massachusetts was himself visibly
embarrassed. He probably goes home more
fully convinced than ever that Western
civilization is failure, and that the true, the
beautiful, and the good find their only safe
abiding place in Massachusetts,.
Year: 1876

AT Fanny Davenport's benefit in New York
the other day, John Brougham sent her fan,
accompanying it with the following delicate
mot


A fan to Fan, although gift not great
fancy may be deemed appropriate:
For when your tanning Fannie don't YOU see
You'd have to think OF your warm friend,
Year: 1876

AN eccentric Londoner of nearly ninety,
who has given special attention throughout
more than half of this period to the collec-
ton and classification of reports of criminal
trials, is getting discouraged, and says: cit
may be that my increasing years render the
task more difficult, but my opinion is that
crime OF the worst character is becoming so
prevalent that no one man can keep pace
with it. My books of murders are far in ar
rears; | am far behindhand with my divor-
ces, and my forgeries have so accumulated
on my hands that | have been compelled this
week to employ a young man to aid me in
posting up the records"
Year: 1876

the TAVages o: Drunkenness in Great Britain
are nov exciting renewed attention there and


the scientific ciasses, aa we'll as the clergy, are
Trying t" discover some practical way CT deal
ing with the evil. The Archbishop of Canter


hory recently addressed the House of Lords on
tho subject, being induced to do SO by me-
mortal from eight thousand clergymen of the
Established Church; and the House of Lords
"pPolnted select committee to undertake the
desired inquiry. The Pail Mall Gazette dis
ousses the question as one of great Importance
to the British people, but finally falls into
state Of discouragement, and closes thus:


1t is quite possible that the real remedy for
drunkenness is TO be sought in the discovery Of
some non Intoxicating drink which shall be at
once palatab!e, cheap, and easy of distribution
1t cannot be sal that any drink now exists
which combines ell these Recommendations
Year: 1876

Editor Morning Star:


: isupposed you noticed in the Pioayuns latel,
! that touching appeal in behalf Of our "Stree


Arabs" l doubt not some good hum manitariar


will yet take hold and do some good for thi.


poor, friendless class, which in a few years will


be 30 powerful for good evil in our midst.


The foremost thought to me is, that o large


majority of these little nomads are the baptised


children of Catholic parents, and hence have
special claims on Catholic guardianship; and


what want to know is, if there be not in this


large and charitable community at least one


devoted Catholic man or woman willing to step


forward and save from impending ruin few
OF these immortal sonls which God certainly
| created for his own bright Heaven.


NOW that so many of the currents of industry
are exhausted, the number of these unproyided
boys ls greatly increasing from the non en-
pIoyment OF their parents; and consequenfly
there IL "a greater necessity of locking after
them.


IL Won't do 10 say the timas are TOO hard
now t" undertake such WORK" for lot rs re-
member tre fact, that these boys are now living
ana VIII continue TO live at somftoGys erpense
ANA srlce the community is TINS bound TO sup
pert them, whether wild tame, how much
better 1t will bc to take them under control
AID raise them mp to be good and useful men
than leave them in their present semi.4avage
state, which must lead many of them to the
Penitentiary, and some, alas! even to seats in a
Radical Legislature.


10 prevent this calamity, there must be |
gifted man among us, whose dfildence has kept |
him back till now. Let him reflect that the
time of his mission is at hand, and the longer
he delays the greater will be his responsibility.
Let him so to work this very day If he be able
TO take care of only one poor boy. God will
'oon show him the way to provide for others
aud let Us hope that 10y this means New OrIeans
nay shortly be able to point with pride and
happiness to her own "FATHER NUGEST.S u
Year: 1876

Why did he alone perish out OF the au-
dience present at Ford's Theatre that
night? Was ii warning to keep good
people like himself away from the thes-
tres and thus leave such places wholly 10
the wicked.


With all respect to lhOsr who DO not
approve OF theatre going we think ii is
about time to stop drawing far.ietched
aud irrational infsrences touching the
displeasure OF the Great Maker Of the
Universe towards this one particular Ay
speck on the moral disc Of his great crsa.
tion.EE
Year: 1876

= Tho Scientific American asserts that .
little soap lather mixed with starch will pre-
vent the fat iron from sticking to linen, and
gives the gloss so conspicuOusly absent in the
home laundried article.
Year: 1876

Long Branch was too near New York
The reporters, lynx-eyed, sleepless, and
as numerous as the great American grass
hopper, were always swarming down
from the city. Above all, there came in
what Ben Butler called the "she cor
respondent" who put new face ON the
politico-social question. This addition
to our current army of meddlers has
played such havoc this last season in
Washington that no politician or politi-
cal woman can henceforth hope to hide
his or her inner soul from the public.
Until the she correspondent lit on the
political perch there was always some
immunity for the social side of the
most dastardly politician. He used to
say Interview me, expose me, de-
fame me as much as you please while
am in my bureau or Office, but when
/ shut that official door let me alone. y
And, as a rule, he was let alone, until
within few years. Now he not only
has his public transactions turned inside
out, but his private emotions as well,
If his wife gets little present of 9
diamond necklace, there are sure to be
half dozen of keen women with pencils
in their hands at his reception, or sitting
on the fences of Pennsylvania avenue
waiting for him to drive by. If he gets
tripped up, his wife's tears, her ward
robe, underclothes, her false teeth, hel
glove bills, her whole physiognomy be
come public property.-Cor. Me,o Yori
Herald.
Year: 1876

When they grow hungry, the long file
spreads itself through the forest in
front line, and attacks and devours all it
overtakes with fury that is quite ire
sistible. The elephant and the gorilla
fly before this attack. The black men
run for their lives. Every animal that
lives in their line of march is chased.
They seem to understand and act upon
the tactics of Napoleon, and concentrate
with great speed their heaviest forces
upon the point of attack. In an incred-
IDLY short space of time the mouse, or
dog, or leopard, or deer, is overwhelmed,
killed, eaten, and the bare skeleton only
remains. They seem to travel night and
day. Many time have I been awakened
out of sleep and obliged to rush out of
the hut into the water to save my life,
and, after all, suffered intolerable agony
from the bites of the advance guard, who
had got into my clothes. When they en-
ter house they clear it of all living
things. Cockroaches are devoured in an
instant. Rats and mice spring around
the room in vain. An overwhelming force
of ants will kill rat in less than min
ute, in spite of the most frantic strug
giles, and in less than another minute its
bones are stripped. Every living thing
in the house is devoured. They will
not touch any vegetable matter. Thus
they are, in reality, very useful Gas well
as being dangero,ls) to the negroes who
have their huts cleared of all abounding
vermin-such as immense cockroaches
and centipedes-at least several times a
year. When on their march the whole
insect world flies before them, and have
often had the approach of bashikouay
army heralded to me by this means.
Wherever they go they make clean
sweep-even ascending to the tops of
the highest trees in pursuit of their
prey. Their manner of attack is an i'm
mense leap. Instantly their strong pin
GERS are fastened, and they only let go
when the piece gives way. At such a
time this little animal seems animated
by kind of fury which causes it to dis
regard entirely its own safety and to
seek only the conquest of its prey. The
bite is very painful. The negroes relate
that criminals were, in former times, ex-
posed to the path of the ants as the
most cruel manner of putting them to
death.
Year: 1876

The br adsword lcoses Its glitter


AS it hangs in the ancient hall:
Rusted and blunt grows the keen edged


blade
That once so gallant n champion made


As it cleaned from the castle wall.
The jewel losps its lustre


AS it lies in its velvet nest,
Till dull and dim is the COED red gold
That showed such royal liz hit OF old


AS it flashed from a beauty's breast.
The blue eye loses its power


AS age comes creeping on;
The fair form dr0ops from it's stately grace
The ros es fly from the care-worn face,


The charm from the trembling tone.
The color fades from the canvas,


The magic from ringing rhyme;
Nor is there joy in this world OF ours,
Riches. or glories. or hopes, or flowers,


But dies at the touch of time?
Ay, Love in his pure serenity


Can the pitiless spell defy,
For tears cannot drown or absence dim
And death himself may not conquer him,


For true love never can die.
Year: 1876

PROPOSED CANAL.-At meeting of the
Grange Council held yesterday, the matter Of
Juilding canal from some place near the
mission was freely discussed and a committee
appointed 10 report on its feasibility at the
next regular meeting.
Year: 1876

CURFp MENTs.-A practical man is now
in this valley looking around for the pnrpo@e
Of learning the iuducemeu's presented for the
establishment of beef and pork packing
establishment II our farmers would give
more attention TO rnieins hrga feeding them
their surplus grain, this would be n fine
field for a pork packer The time will soon
come for enterprises If the kind.
Year: 1876

NoTIoN STORE-Prter Keefer will open
a notion store, next Monday. one door below
the Star Meat Market, between Third and
Fourth streets. As Peter is crippled, he
should get liberal share of public patronage.
Year: 1876

Ambition is notable cause of sui
eide. Some one has said in the case
Of Hayden, if he had only spent The
time in painting which be did in try
ing to persuade his countryman that
he could paint, he would have become
the painter he wished to be. Not be.
ing a great painter, he shot himself
Trivial causes sometimes lead to it,.
A Frenchman killed himself from the
ennui of pulling on his trowsers every
day; another from the monotony of
natures color, saying distraction, and
that he desired to see everything in
red for n change. A man of seventy
five years hung himself leaving this
apology ; Jesus Christ has said that
when a tree is old and can no longer
bear fruit, it is good that it be destroy.
ed" The search after notority has led
men to self destruction. One man
jumped into the crater ofMount Yesu-
vius. Abont year ago frequenter
of the masked. balls of Paris, gayly
habited as Pierrot, jumped into the
Seine, with, of course, his "last word"
PINNED to his garmants, on which he
had written that be had got his cour-
age up to the jumping point by means
of abstinence. He had already in i'm.
agination seen himself in junketing
attire streaehed on the marble slab of
the Morgue. This was the price OF
life.- GALAXY.
Year: 1876

| This gentleman is quite well known
throughout the district as the hand
soonest man in it. Yet he is better
known as the mildest, not to say weakest
speaker, that has had the temerlty TO
take the stump heresbout since the open
ing of the campaign. AS specimen OF
the effective chunks of powerful oratory
and wisdom that escaped into the air last
nigh. and was eagerly caught
up aud treasured by the vast null
titude of animated and intensely
interested listeners I we reproduce rerba-
tin, ad Hteratam the following climax to
his remarks about the financial question:


.Ifit had not been for the opposition
of the Democrats, they, the govern
ment. could have issued bonds and sold
them at par without interest Now
Just Whist meaning Sweet Charley
intended to convey in this powerful ch-
max we are unprepsred to say. But if he
really meant what he did say, what a
nut to crack it will be for
our bankers to calculate in dollars and
cents the value of such q magnificent in
vestment. But maybe he didn't mean
what he said, or he didn't say what he
meant, or analyzing the problem still
further; he neither said what he meant
nor meant what he said. He might, just
then, have felt good deal like the boy
who remarked, " would if | could, but
if couldn't how could l? couldn't,
could you?" Just SO, exactly, and
no doubt so thought the Hon. n. W.
CAMPBELL, who sat behind him, taking
it all in, and by this time began to scowl
very perceptibly, and occasionally cast
look OF amszement at the speaker. If
there be one pleasure more than another
that Mr.. SCoTT's constituency will desire
when he (SCoTT) becomes Rep
resentative to Congress from the
First district, it will be to hear this
modern statesman advocating the pas
sage of som important bill in language
as eloquent and forcible as ths: quoted
above
Year: 1876

"THERE is but one step from the sub
lime to the ridiculous" and all fanatl-
cisms end in the absurd and contempti-
Bile There was almost a sublimity in
the purpose and determination with
which the old abolitionists fought for the
emancipation of the colored people.
There was a contemplate baseness in
the way in which they were plundered
by the Freedman's Bureau and other
means of fraud and peculation. There
was an absurd and contemplate policy
by which such a mass Of ignorance and
incompetency was thrown upon the elec-
toral franshise by those men who, here
and elsewhere, are following the
crowds of white men, who have
risen in the majesty OF their
dictoral rights to vindicate the rights of
labor, with the approbrious epithets of
"a bowling mob and "a commuhistic
rsbble." Are the white race less FL to
carry on the Republican tol m of govern.
ment than the descendents of Africa? Is
the republic safer with the franchise of
the men of the latter class, using force,
plundering and killing to secure.the cleo
ton of base and brutal partisans, and
encouraged in their work of destruction
by the bayonets of such apsrty in power,
than by the free election of the white
race? Whether this is so or not, the
men who are attached to the Constitu-
tian and the liberties of America, must
iIillrn
Year: 1876

ANOTHER Democratic sham has been ex-
posed. The committee on accounts began
their work of economy in small things by
cutting down the number and pay of COM
mittee clerks; but since the committee have
begun business one additional clerk after an
other has been appointed, until the number is
greater now than ever before in the history
of Congress, and at least two more commit
tees are still clamoring for clerical assistance.
Some of the new appointees are grossly in
competent, being fitted for their present
places neither by nature, experience, nor ed
uca.ion. One of them recently refused to
allow a certain member of his committee to
enter the committee room for the purpose of
showing it to a party of friends, and in the
course of an alteration which ensued called
him rascal. The member at once wrote
note to the chairman of the committee, say
ing that he should not attend another meet
ing of the committee while that clerk re-
mained.
Year: 1876

Murderer Stokes got small comfort from
Judge Dykeman at White Plains, Saturday, the
judge denying his petition for release after
hearing the arguments and remaEdng him
back to Sing Sing to serve out the rest of his
sentence. The hearing gave Stokes counsel an
opportunity to file bill OF exceptions to the
general term of the Supreme Court, thus start,
ing fresh litigation and chance for additional
fees, without adding to Stokes chances for re-
lease the equal of straw TO drowning man.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Ct good faith


We cannot undertake to return OF reserve commu-
nications that are not used
Year: 1876

Let's zee how We ell started after the
war ended. We were poor aud proud
to begin with. The men who had been
rich met mp with good fellows who
knew them when they were rich and
good fellows who had speculAted and
eaten dirt aud made good piles of
money now thought it an honor to
offer to lend it and the quopdam rich
accepted the joanS as If sure enough it
WAS an honor to the good fellows to
offer it and this made borrowing
fas hiorable aud SO we started and all
things began to look like old times and
everybody seemed doing well" No
body had any idea that anybody else
was borrowing money except them


selves and the men that d,da't
borrow but toiled on in patched
clothes and lived from hand to mouth
were considered poor shiftless creatures
AMI quite beneath the level of the ordi-
nary run of mankind. But finally pay
day dawne1 somewhere and borrowed
capital began to explode and the whole
country has been going off ike a crazy
shotgun ever since. It now becomes
US in this centennial year to touch
plain bottom and realize that we are
very poor and must live accordingly
and not borrow or go in debt and best
of all not be ashamed of the work we
do but blush like a thief if we are
caught trying to- live without it. Then
the centennial year of sure prosperity
will begin and while We may not pros
per faster it will be a prosperity that
is sure and steadfast because it is hon
est in the sight of God and honest in
the sight of all N n.-R0teigh NeaUs