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Year: 1876

An old Detroiter brought home two
jugs the other day one labeled 'boilcd OIL
aud the other "turpentine." They were
placed in the barn, and pretty soon it was
noticed that the old man had business there
at regular intervals His Oldest son slyly
followed him and saw him taking deep
draught from one of the jugs. The old man
heard a step outside, and before going out
he arranged those jugs according to his
artistic taste. He was hardly gone when
the son skipped in and took drink from
the jug out of which he supposed his father
drank. The next moment he was sputter-
ing, coughing and gasping, and the old man
entered and asked


"Turpentine dosen't agree with you,
does it p


But I saw you drink it, exclaimed
the injured and indignant son.


"That is true" said the old man, while
a beautiful smile played over his face, ''but
it dosen t necessarily follow that the rest
of the family must relish turpentine be-
cause do p
Year: 1876

An old man of experience says | have
seen young man who despised the coun-
sci of the wise and the advice of the good,
and his career end in poverty and wretched-
ness.


have seen a prudent and Industrious
wife retrieve the fortunes of family when
the husband pulled at the other end of the
rope.


have seen the extravaganza and folly
children bring their parents to poverty and
want, and themselves to disgrace.


| have seen man depart from truth
where candor and veracity would have
served him to a much better purpose


have seen man spend more money in
folly than would support his family in com
fort and independence,


[ have seen young girl marry young
man of dissolute habits, and repent of it as
she lived.


| have seen a farmer travel about so
much that there was nothing at home worth
looking at.


| have seem a young man sell good
farm, turn merchant, and die in an insane
asylum.
Year: 1876

On passing through potatoe stubble re-
Gently, We saw large flock of crows very
busy on the loose ground. The owner of
the field had before stated that the Color
ado beetles had descended upon his crops
in immense numbers, but being too late to
do any damage, he had not disturbed them
On examination We found a good many of
the beetles lying dormant in the loose soil,
and numberless places where the crows had
dug up the ground. Evidently the crows
were feasting upon the beetles, and it would
doubtless be an excellent thing to give the
crows ample opportunity to feast all they
want to. As a help We would suggest Il
light blowing of potato ground this season,
to expose the beetles.-American Agricul-
turist.
Year: 1876

A Salt Lake paper, not having the fear
of the great prophet before his eyes, dis
coursed thus about Brigham Young 1--WE
are pleased to chronicle the great improve.
ment in the old fraud health, and prophesy
it will be permanent until he is again needed
In court on account of his murders OF lust
ful proclivities, when he will doubtless pro.
duce score of medical certificates to the
effect that he is about to enter the valley
of the shadow of DEATH
Year: 1876

We have not criticised the bill
introduced to the State legislature,
providing for the appointment of a
chief and subordinate commission
ers for the grading of wheat, because
we do not regard it worthy of criti-
cism. The exercise Of grain of
common sense will show that such
legislation is folly. Suppose there
were such commissioners and that
they should fix the grades of wheat
to satisfy the farmers, does any man
suppose that buyers would pay a
cent a bushel more for 1t than they
do now? Admit that buyers do
now sometimes cheat the farmers in
the grading Of wheat, what security
could the latter have that such COM
missioners would not conspire with
buyers to cheat them to a greater
extent? Are public officers always
honest? No such legislation can
help the farmers. What these need
is a healthy financial system and
properly regulated transportation,
SO as to render the monopoly of
buying in,practicable, because of
the existence Of facilities for compe-
tition.


While the currency and railroads
of the country are susceptible of
being controlled by few scores of
monopolists, competition is impossi-
BILE, for the monopolists command
the markets, and those who produce
and those who consume all the
products of industry must be at their
mercy. Give the country an honest
currency system and place the trans
portation companies under proper
Legislative restrictions, and competi-
ton in trade will soon bring the re-
quired relief. All such quack rem
edies as this commissioners project
contemplates are mere waste Of
time, and cannot even alleviate the
difficulty.
Year: 1876

We are not disposed to abuse those
members Of the legislature who refused
to vote for the centennial appropria
tion. We know that several of them
are sincere and worthy gentlemen, only
anxious to do what is right, and because
they entertain an opinion different from
ours is no reason why we should suspect
their motives. We do think, however !,
that they did wrong in objecting to this
appropriation, and we believe that they
themselves will be convinced of this
within few months hence.
Year: 1876

1t is reported that the Wiscon-
sin legislature has so modified the
railroad law as to satisfy the railroad
companies. We regret this exceed
ingly if it shall prove that the modi-
hcation has been to an extent which
will permit the companies to resume
their extortionate practices. There
is no doubt, however, that the law
was susceptible Of Improvement and
if the amendments extend no farther
than to remedy defects, it is we'll to
have made them.
Year: 1876

And officers of the Agricultural So
ciety are earnestly requested to meet
at the Court House at one o'clock on
Saturday, the 9th of August, to make
some very necessary arrangements
for our Fair. II is hoped that all
will be present, AS the counsel and
advice of all are necessary to deter
mine how best to make the Fair, as
we must make il, worthy of the at
tendance of every person in oui
county. III. CANFIEID, Prest.
Year: 1876

Two men, James Smith and man
by the name of Hubbleton, at Mon
roe, Jasper county, were poisoned to
death by drinking carbolic acid for
whisky. Smith was special police
man and Hubblcton drayman and
two together had been drinking some
during the day of whisky bought of
a druggist OH the sly. They return
ed and asked for more. He commence
ed to prepare the whisky as asked,
but meanwhile, the two men went
out. They returned soon, and the
druggist who was waiting on other
customers winked at them and point
ed towards the counter where two
bottles lay. One was carbolic acid
and the other whisky. BY mistake
Hubblcton picked up the bottle con
tanning carbolic acid and marched
out with Smith, and Garrison did no


discover the mistake until too late.
/ The first one to take drink wa


too drunk to notice the difference


The other then took drink and dis
covered the difference and Informed
the druggist but it was too late, AM
, both men died within an hour. w
CLEAN from the Register.
Year: 1876

L.. r. Flint has purchased third
interest in the SPIRIT Of the Times and
becomes associate editor thereof. We
welcome him to the newspaper field
in this city, and wish him success f.
nanclally.
Year: 1876

Don't be pounding around in your
heavy farm wagons, when you can
buy a platform or three-spring wag-
on at Durfee & Pollard's that will
carry you to church or market in hall
the time and rs easy as you could sil
at home in your arm chair. Prices
low and terms reasonable. 26-w2l
Year: 1876

The adventists are now holding a
camp meeting at Clear Lake. They
have not announced when they arc TO
don their ascension robes and fly
heavenward, but we don't know of a
better place to get good breeze to
send them a kiting than at Clear
Lake,
Year: 1876

LITTLE Rock, July 3l.-Hon. J. NJ.
Laughborough, State Senator from this
district, was found dead in the hall of
his house by servant, about ! O'Clock
this afternoon, shot through the heart.
| He had been at his law office during the
morning attending to his business rs
usual, and went home about ~ o'clock,
apparently IN good health, though he
had been quite unwell last night. The
evidence adduced before the cor
oner's jury showed that al
ter reaching home, he went
up stairs to his bedroom, took his shot
gun cut of the wardrobe, and went into
the hall, and under temporary aberrs.
tion of mind, or by accident, shot him.
self through the heart. HIS family was
away from home, at st. Louis, and he
was alone at the time. His body was
discovered on the floor, lifeless, soon after
the fatal shot when his servant went up
to his room TO call him 10 dinner. The
alarm was given, and Immediately there
was rush of citizens to the
residence of the deceased, so great
that sentries were placed at
the gate by the sheriff, to prevent their
entrance. The most profound sensation
prevails throughout the city, as Col.
Laughborough was regarded as one of
the leading men of the state, and the
leader of the State Senate. His loss is
considered almost irreparable. For many
years he had been connected with the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Rail-
road as land commissioner, position he
recently vacated, and commenced the
practice of law in this city. He was the
attorney of the company at the time of
his death All classes of the community
mourn his loss.
Year: 1876




THE impsrtislity of the cable reports
from Europe cannot be considered with
out admiration. One days dispatches will
announce great battle on the frontier
and the complete rout of the Turks.
The next days dispatches will announce
the same battle and q glorious victory
for the insurgents. Thus the fact of .
battle is established, while the result is
declared in favor Of both sides, so that
sympsthlzers with either may choose for
themselves and be satisfied; the dis.
patches merely stating the case, and
making no effort to influence the judg-
ment Of their readers. This is true en-
terprise. The news-shop at the other
end of the cable does not con6ne itself 10
the mere article of truth. 1t is q gen.
eral shop, like country store, which
keeps and furnishes all sorts of goods to
SUIT all sorts Of people, and you may
take your choice.
Year: 1876

From the Rome (GeOrBIa) SentineI.


Our readers will thank us for the fol-
loving sure preventive against hydro
phobia in dogs: Boil three teaspooniuls
of salt and an ounce of carbolic powder
in pint of water, squeeze in lemon,
and then let a piece of meat simmer in
the mixture to give it an attractive taste.
Take out the meat, and put the liquid in
a cool place. Then, while the remedy is
cooling, lead the dog out behindthe barn
and shoot him between the cyes with a
Remington rifle. One pint of the liquid
will be found enough for hundred dogs.
Year: 1876

Should any elector die or be disabled.
there is no legal method OF filing his
place, except where the State has made
provision, and should one OF the cleo
tors absent himself for any reason from
the meeting of the electoral college,
which meets in every State capital on
the first Wednesday of December, the
result might be entirely changed.
Year: 1876

1t is reported that II Congress passes the
river and harbor bill, the President will
veto It. No act of his official life would
do him more credit than the veto of q bill
that proposes the most outrageous dip into
the public treasury ever perpetrated. Be-
tween the two houses the items OF plumber
have grown TO tremendous figures, and there
Is no telling how much more they will be IN
creased In conference committee. The Presi.
dent would deserve the gratitude of the ma
ton by vetoing this log-rolling scheme of
public plunder.
Year: 1876

When Augustin Daly's "Under the Gas
light" with It's startling s'railroad scene"
was brought out, and the latter was subse-
quenfIy crib5ed by many initiative play
wrights, including BOucicault, the particular
scene alluded 10 was regarded as an exag-
eeration-as illustrating something without
q parallel in real life. And yet, since the
production Of the play, several parallel cases
have occurred. One took place in q western
state q few years ago, where man who was
bound and tied to q railroad track had an
arm crushed, he having partially worked
himself of the track before the train passed.
Yesterday the telegraph brought the fact
that man who had previously been boun nd
and placed on the Central Pacific track, near
Truckee, was run over and crushed to death
by passing train. The last recorded at
tempt at this manner OF diabolism took
place IN New Jersey, where an italian
named PiZzano was drugged and robbed
and subsequently tied to q railroad track.
Fortunately his perilous position was dis
covered by persons living near, who rescued
him just before an express train came thun-
dering by. The query that occurs Is,
Had the Introduction Of the "railroad scene,
on the stage any thing to do with suggesting
disposfng OF their victims? Several years
ago two youths were arraigued In New York
for piayi the role OF highwaymen. When
arratgned they stated that on the night on
which they had made . traveller "stand ana
deliver" they had been to one OF the east
side theaters and witnessed the play of
"Dick Turpin," "Claude Duvall," or some-
thing similar; that they admired the cour-
age and dash Of the hero; and that on leaving
the theater they agreed to 60 on the outskirts
or the city and demand the money or the life
OF the FIRST passer by, not because they were
actually In need OF money, but because OF
the romance OF the act. The judge, who
seems to have been of q very unromantic
turn, very properly gave them term In the
penitentiary. Here Is At least one instance
where pernicious play exercised q per-
nictous influence and induced two young
men TO take their first step In crime.
Year: 1876

The river and harbor bill Is a fruitful
source Of poll teal discussion In the Senate,
and has already afforded quite a number of
Senators an opportunity, which they did not
fail to improve, for delivering themselves of
set campaign speeches. Some OF these pro-
ductions are good reading, but they can
scarcely be regarded as germane 70 the bill.
The latter is, to a great extent, just what 1t
has been termed by several Senators-a fraud
on the people. Unheard OF creeks and coves
must have q moderate slice of the loaf, and
they usually get 10, while a harbor OF i'm
portance, like that OF Washington, does not
receive a dollar OF the appropriation. Every
member OF Congress is exceedingly careful
TO see that liberal sums are appropriated TO
be spent In his district or state, but none of
them seem TO remember the importance OF
improving the harbor OF the nations capital.
Year: 1876

Every one has noticed how many
singular sounds are heard at night
noises apparently unexplainable, and
consequently mysterious. Many
ghost story has sprung up from an
unaccountable noise; many a person
terrified beyond measure by an unex-
pected sound at midnight. Sir David
Brewster gives an excellent account OF
a mysterious night sound which would
have frightened many persons, but
which proved innocently harmless
when tested by steady observer, A
gentleman heard strange sound every
night soon after getting in bed; his
wife heard it also, but not at the time
when she retired, little earlier than
he. No probable cause could be as
sigened, and the effect upon the imag-
ination became very unpleasant. He
found some time afterward that the
sound came from a wardrobe which
stood near the head of his bead. He
almost always opened and closed this
wardrobe when undressing; but as
the door was little tight he could
not quite close it. The door, possibly
affected by gradual changes Of temp
ture, forced itself open with a sort of
dull sound which is over in an instant.
From the lady not being in the habit
OF using that wardrobe, the mystery
became associated with her husband
only. Had they given way to imagina.
tion, and never Investigated the affair,
another haunted house would have
beeen added to the long row already
standing.
Year: 1876




The proposal has often been made
that as man considers it to be his duty
to put great numbers of animals to
death, some means should be tried


which shall make the killing an in
Simultaneous act. If this could he done,
not only pain but terror would be elm
mated. But this proposition has never
gone beyond the expression of hope.
In fact the sympathy for brutes ap-
pears to be of a very inactive and lazy
sort. One celebrated experimental,
who is busy defending the principle
and practice Of vivisection, and who


has tried to find some means of accom-
plishing this painless death, declares
that there is no public sentiment in it's
favor. He has settled upon the inhal-
alton of carbonic acid gas as the most
effective mode, but he says: ''There
is great deal of talk and great deal
of sentiment abroad on the question of
the sutferings of the lower animal
kingdom, but when an attempt is


made to relieve those sufferings by
the invention of methods for operating
surgically without the infliction of
pain, or for painless killing, the true
and vital sympathy which one would
expect in support of such practical
and humane efforts, until they are
made perfect and universal, can
scarcely be said to be found at all.
With the exception of a few, not a
dozen altogether, of really humane
ladies and gentlemen. have found no
one, out of the ranks of science, in the
least interested in the saving of suffer-
ings to which l am now directing at
tention. The man of science stands
and wonders at the strangeness of the
psychological problem before him +;
and, in spite of himself, is forced to
the conclusion that, practically, the
noise that is made at him in the name
of humanity is, after all, sounding
brass and tinkling cymbal."
Year: 1876

A Gentleman of Colyton, Devon, tells
the following story, as showing the
amount of sagacity in the common
fowl.


For some time past he has had a
tribe Of fowls, which, instead of roost-
ing in the house intended for them,
have persisted in taking for their
abode at night a fine Portugal laurel
situated in his grounds. During the
last few months neighbor's hen has
been in the habit Of joining his fowls,
and roosting with them. The neigh
Dor, after various vain attempts to
keep the hen on his own premises: at
length bethought. himself of tying the
hens legs with a short string, in a
similar manner to that in which a
horse is 'hobbed.' But the bird soon
overcome this impediment, and re-
sumed her old haunt.


Shortly after her return in this
snobbled' condition, the whole house.
hold was startled just before dusk one
evening by strange noise outside
the house, and on looking to see the
cause, they found the cock belonging
to the above mentioned brood of fowls
walking up and down in very excited
manner, and giving utterance to a
shrill noise, which more resembled a
rapid succession of crows than any
thing else. At length they went out
to him, and he fed, still scream, towards
the Portugal laurel, where, on follow
ing him, they found the poor shobbled'
hen suspended by her string from ono
of the branches, and they cut her down
in time to save her life. Did not this
show sense in the male worthy of a
higher name than instinct!
Year: 1876

Capitol. No story that comes to their
ears is too gross for immediate belief.
No charge against officers Of the Gov
ernment is SO outrageous that they are
not ready upon the slightest testimony
both to accept it themselves and to
spread it before the public. --New York
Tribune. Is
Year: 1876

STAGE ACCIDENT.-The Arizona and New Mexico stage which Jeff here at F. M. yesterday with seven passengers met with an accident a short distance beyond the Emile station, by which Mrs. D. C. Thornc and her youngest child were hurt, hut as we understand not seriously It seems that two men suddenly appeared at a turn in the road which frightened the leaders and caused them to turn the coach over.

 Mrs. Sheriff Bowers was also in the coach with her three children but all escaped unhurt except Mrs. Thorne and her child. Mir. Thornc who was accompanying his wife as far as Wickenburg, on her way to visit friends in the East was hold- ing their oldest boy, and when be found the coach going over threw him out into the sand on the upper side and he escaped without injury
Year: 1876

A Vermont editor says that a
man in PrOctersville caught a
pickerel wigh ing two and a half
pounds, inside of which was an
other pickerel which measured
nine inches in length, and inside
of this was another, five inches in
length. We don't question the
truth of this story. The only re-
markable thing about it is that
the man didn't go on finding sim
side" pickerel as long as the in
ches held out.
Year: 1876

and framed of chestnut timbe
and mill-Worked plank. Adjoin-
ing this are the dOrmitories, con-
tanning 100 sleeping apartments,
a large kitchen, laundry dining
room and public hall. The cost
of living at the encampment will
be dollar a day for room, and fif-
ty cents for each meal.


Among the most attractive of
the arrivals at Machinery Hall,
although we cannot conceive why
they should be consigned to that
department, are several beautiful
paper boats from Waters factory
Year: 1876

IT Is to be hoped that the humanitarians
of the House will concur in the Senate res
olution to extend the old appropriations for
ten additional days. Hundreds of INDECENT
females, who exc out wretched existence
upon the scanty wages they receive from
the Government, daily offer up orisons
that they may not again be debarred the
poor privilege of earning their daily bread.
By all means let another ten days be
granted, and thus give the dead lock time
fo unlock
Year: 1876

Brown, to the present day; in fact, his
paper, the Globe Democrat had formed the
nucleus or rallying point around which Re-
publicanism in the old slave State of Mis-
souri, gathered and f1ourished. And 1t still
remained true to the party and flag. 1t
was thought certain that the Administra-
ton would intervene to protect and preserve
such friend and power, either before con
viction or by clemency thereafter. Mr..
Mckee had grown old and gray in the ser
vice of his party, in city and country, too,
where the principles of Republicanism are
not to this day of the sweetest SAVIOR. The
consplrators knew it would be easy to
convict him if a jury were taken from the
Copperhead Democrats of the State, for the
political prejudices of the average Missouri
Democrat, who hate Republicans with a
relentless hatred, are quite sufficiently
strong to overcome reason and evidence.
They hated Mckee for the loss of their
slave property. His conviction was assured
through a prejudiced jury, false testimony
and the constant efforts of jealous, ma
levolent opposition and rival press, just as
had been preconcerted by the chief con-
spirators.


Now the question is, if these facts are
fully authenticated and made apparent
beyond preadventure, should the Execu-
tive clemency intervene? No doubt at the
proper time it should. But the utmost
care should be taken at the same time to
prevent those guilty persons who designed
and fostered and completed this plot from
deriving any of the benefits from it Of
which they have so fondly dreamed. When
the pardon door is opened the order and the
motto should still be, "Let no guilty man
escape?' Let those innocent parties who
have been the victims of persecution and
perjury be released, and passing through be
restored to their places in society; but let
those vile, brazen, confessed thieves, con-
spirators, despoilers of the fortunes and
characters of their fellow men, who have
thrived upon this perjury and corruption,
still remain disgraced by the felon's brand.