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Year: 1876

America; and the deserted hus-
band and his son demanded that
the captain should send the runa-
ways on shore. While the captain
was explaining that the law gave
him no such power the runaway
happened to pass along the deck
near where the group were discuss
ing the point. She recognized her
husband. A fit of repentance
seized her. She at once forgot her
new love, and now only thought of
the old Exelaiming, q Oh, John,
are you here = she embraced her
hnsbandsand kissed, him. Her son,
too, she salutedi in a most affection
ate way. But while the prelimina-
ries to reconciliation were going
on, the faithless wife's companion
made his appearance on the scene,
and plaeidly asked what cit was
all about" The deserted husband
implored his former spouse to re-
turn to her home in Wednesday,.
This she consented to do, but made
it sine qua non that the compan-
ion of her fight should be allowed
to return with her. The husband
accepted the terms thus dictated
The master of the Moravian, seeing
that an arrangement had been come
to, facilitated the return to the
shore of the troublesome party who
had for a time disturbed the deco
rum observed on board his steamer.
When the party arrived at the stage
they were jeered by a crowd who
had heard of the strange elopement
and the wonderful reconciliation.
Wife and husband walked arm in
arm lovingly along the stage, and
the slower" as if to make atone
ment for his wrong-doing, walked
meekly behind, carrying the lug
gage.
Year: 1876

| am very sorry that cannot be
with the Knights of st. Patrick to-
morrow evening. In the Centen-
NAL year we ought all to find a pc
culiar pleasure in doing honor to
the memory Of a man whose good
name has endured through fourteen
centuries. We ought to find pleas
ure in it for the reason that at this
time we naturally have a fellow
feeling for such a man. He wrought
a great work in his day. He found
Ireland a prosperous republic, and
looked about him to see if he might


find some useful thing to turn his
hand to. He observed that the
president of that republic was in
the habit of sheltering his great
officials from deserved punishment,
so he lifted up his staff and smote
him, and he died. He found that
the secretary of war had been SO
unbecomingly economical as to
have laid up $4,000 a year out of
salary of $4,000, and he killed
him. He found that the secretary
of the interior always prayed over
every separate and distinct barrel
of salt-beef that was intended for
the unconverted savage, and then
kept that beef himself, $50 he killed
him also. He found that the secre-
tary Of the navy knew more about
handling suspicious claims than
he did about handling a ship,
and he at once made an end
Of him. He found that a very
foul private secretary had been en-
gineered through a sham trial, SO
he destroyed him. He discovered
that the Congress which pretended
to prodigious virtue was very anx-
iouS to Investigate an ambassador
who had dishonored the country
abroSd, but was equally anxious to
prevent the appointment of any
spotless man in a similar post; that
this Congress had no God but par
ty, no system of morals but party
policy, no vision buta bats vision,
and no reason orexcuse for existing
anyhow. Therefore he massacred
that Congress to the last man.
When he had finished his great
work he said, in his figurative way,
"Lo, / have destroyed all the rep
tiles in Ireland"


st. Patrick had no politics; his
sympathies lay with the right, that
was politics enough. When he
came across a reptile he forgot to
inquire whether he wasa Democrat
or a Republican, but simply exalted
his staff and "let him have it."
Honored be his name-I wish we
had him here to trim us up for the
Centennial. But that can not be.
His staff, which was the symbol of
real, not sham reform, is idle. How
ever, we still have with us the sym
bOlof truth-George Washington's
little hatchet-for l know they've
buried it.
Year: 1876

He looked like Prince, or retired
Major General, as he stepped out of
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Re-
quena streets, opposite the U. S. Ho-
tel, with new black beaver suit,
which he had just paid $lS for, and as
he walked down Main street the eye
of envy was OH him, and numerous
were the inquiries of where he had
that splendid fitting suit made; and
astonishment was depicted on every
countenance as he answered that it
came from the Bazaar, and he had
only paid SIS for it. There are a few
more left, so hurry up and get one be-
fore they are all gone. dec1l-lm
Year: 1876

D. A. Williams has sold his interest in the
Cottage Photograph Gallery TO Mr.. ]. C..
Tucker. The business will be conducted as
usual at the old stand, near the corner OF
First and Spring streets. All work done at
this place is OF the latest style and superior
finish. All bills due the old firm will be paid
to the new firm. jan4-lw
Year: 1876

The back mails have arrived and
the Pacific trains are all in and run
ming on time. 1t is much to the
credit of Superintendent Hewitts adj
ministrative ability, that although
two miles of the San Fernando branch
were was he'd out, yet lie neer missed
a mail. The road is again in good
shape and everything on time.
Year: 1876

EDITOR HERALD: slime Grove
Ownern must be anxious to occupy
the ground alone, and therefore under
takes to scare others so that they will
not plant lime trees. If Mr.. Lime
Grove Owner" thought there would
be no sale for lines he would certainly
sell his grove and say nothing about
future prices, as there is great tie
mand for these trees in bearing. The
facts are those who own bearing trees
wish to keep up the old prices of 1s49.
Lines are now selling at one cent n
piece, if they were reduced to one
quarter of cent they would still pay
very remunerative prices, as you can
plant at least two hundred Mexican
lines on an acre and raise from eight
hundred to one thousand to tree.
Thus two hundred trees bearing eight
hundred lines, each at one quarter of
a cent each, would bring revenue of
four thousand dollars per acre.


If Mr.. Lime Grove Owner" and
others, will put the price down so that
the people who use lemonade can af-
ford to buy them, and not have to buy
foreign expressed lime juice, then L
think they will have market for
their lines. This is something like
the history of the early discovery of
gold in California. l often used to
hear 1t affirmed in those days that
there would soon be no market for
gold and that it would be worth no
more than silver, and some feared that
it would be reduced to the value of
copper or lead. But there is as much
demand for gold now as in 49," which
Will be the case with Lime Grove
Owners lines when other peoples
trees commence to bear as the market
will be increased, for it will not be
long till the railroad will connect us
with the Eastern States and open a
market in Prescott, and many other
towns on the road clear through to
Texas.--ONE WHO INTENDS TO
PLANT A LIME GROVE.


Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 10.
Year: 1876

The danger of fellow who doesn't
W ear suspendors going three jumps
" hen hc has fed on spare ribs and fatty
bread two or three weeks, was exempli-
fled the other day, when a young man
walked out and proposed TO jump for
some young ladies, which he said would
surprise them. The first lunge be shot
out Of HE pants and did what he said he
would do. They were so surprised that
they retired in great disorder.
Year: 1876

To THE EDITOR or rHx HgRALp:-


Having travelled from Chicago only fev days
previous to my walk with Miss Won Hillern and feel
Ing that have not pshod what desired
attribute to the want Of necessary tPaining-I now
challenge Mr.. William Van Ness, or any man, for match
for $500 side TO walk for three consecutive nights
twenty miles each night to commence Thursday or
next week and end on Saturday night the winner Of
in the hands Of she proprietor OF the Central Park
Garden. Miss NARY MARSHALL.
Year: 1876

Governor Tiidcn remained confident and agreeable.
as is his won't yesterday, though busy In the reception
Of guests and the transaction OF pecessary busi
ness. Although the day was Sunday thero werc many
callers At mis- house The Governor enjoyed ride In
the saddle during the morning, but at homo the
rest OF the day. His house cosey observed by all
passers BY, who all desired 10 obtain glimpse Of tho
great man.


To all the gentlemen with whom he converscd during
the day Governor Tden expressed his complete con.
hdence In his election TO tho Presidency. provided
there fair count Of the votes cast IN Louisiana,
Florida and South Carolina He did not seem TO be ~
all exercised the uncertainty of the result Of the
election, but apparently quite willing 70 await the
coming of the official returns and to let them decide
the disputed point without any further anxiety.
Year: 1876

Love lives to labor; it lives to give
itself away. There is no such thing as
indolent love. Look within your heart
and see if this is not true. If you love
any one truly and deeply, the cry Of
your heart is to spend and be spent in
your loved ones service. Love would
die if it could not benefit. Its keenest
suffering is met when it finds itself un-
able to assist. What man could see the
woman he loves lack anything and be
unable to give it to her, and not suffer :?
Why, love makes one slave! It tolls
night and day, refusing all wages and
all reward save the smile of the one
unto whom it is bound, in whose SER
vice it finds its delight, at whose feet it
alone discovers its heaven. There is no
danger that language can be too strong
or too frequently used to portray the
service Of love. By cradle and couch,
by sick-bed and coffin, in hut and palace
the ministries of love are being wrought.
The eyes of all behold them; the hearts
Of all are moved at the spectacle.
Year: 1876

The day has passed when woman
must be pale and delicate to be called
interesting she must be totally
ignorant Of all practical knowledge to
be refined and high bred-when she
must know nothing Of the current polit-
ical news Of the day, or to be called
strong minded. It is not a sign Of high
birth or refinement to be sickly or ignor-
ant Those who affect any thing Of this
kind are behind the times, and must
shake up and air themselves mentally,
or drop under the firm strides of CON-
mon ideas and be crushed into utter in
significance. In these days the active,
rosy-faced girls, with brain quick and
clear, warm, light heart, a temper
quickly heated at intended insult or in
jury, and just as quick to forgive !;
whose feet can run as fast as her tongue
and not put her out of breath; who is
not afraid Of freckles, or to breathe the
pure air of Heaven unrestrained by
drawn curtains Of close carriage ; and,
above all, who can speak her mind and
give her opinion on important topics
which interest intelligent people, is the
true girl who will make good woman
This is the girl who wins in these days.
Even fops and dandies, who strongly
oppose women's rights, like woman
who can talk. if she is no: handsome.
They weary Of the most beautiful crea-
ture if she is fool They say, cav,
ya-as; she is beautiful and no mistake,
but she won't do for me-lacks Grains, !"
for which commodity it would seem she
could have little use in her association
with him. However, to please even an
empty headed fop, woman must know
something.
Year: 1876

THE DRUNKARD's W1LL.-Know all
men by these presents, that I I--o Of
the county of Mecklenburg, and State
Of Virginia, being of sound and depos-
ing memory in view of the uncertainty
Of life, and the certainty of death do make
this my last will and testament, to-wit


I die a wretched sinner, and leave to
the world worthless reputation, a
wicked example and memory that is
only ft to perish.


l leave my parents sorrow and bitter
ness of soul all the days of their lives.


I leave my brothers and sisters shame
and grief, and reproach of their ac-
quaintances


l leave my widow and broken-hearted
wife a life of lonely struggle with want
and suffering.


l leave my children tainted name,
reviled position. pitiful ignorance,
and the notifying recollection of q
father who, by his life, disgraced hu-
manity. and at bis premature death
joined the great company Of those who
are never to enter the kingdom of God.
I pray God that those who are yet liv.
ing may take warning and profit by the
above.
Year: 1876

The address to the people Of the


United States. stating nothing but the


actual facts of the difficulty in South


Carolina, is another corrobration Of the


charge that the use Of troops, in that


unhsppy commonwealth, is intended
merely to overawe the Democratic ne
groes, and drive them into voting for
Chamberlain and his minions. Com


ing as it does from the leading divines
and business men Of that State, it can
in no way be considered of partisan
character, for the men who have affixed


their signatures to that document are
men whose probity and sincerity are
above suspicion. That the black Ks in
the recent collisions were the aggressors,
and that they are evidently encouraged
and protected in their lawlessness by
the Republican authorities, are also
clearly proven, and show to what des-
perate extremities the corrupt State
government is driven, in order to per-
petuate their power and secure that
''tive years of good stealing" which
Senator Patterson so UNANIMOUSLY re-
marked was left in South Carolina yet.
In Governor Chamberlain's call for
troops. stress was laid upon the fact
that the Legislature could not be assem-
bled in time to make proper application
to the President, and also upon the
want Of money to pay the members.
But correspondent of the New York
Herald writing from Columbia says
that the Legislature is accustomed to
assemble without pay. and that in
1868 and 1873 it did assemble. at both
of which times the treasury was empty.
That the treasury is now empty is also
the fault Of Chamberlain, who, against
the protest of the State Treasurer, de-
posted 100000 in the Bank and
Trust Company, Of Charleston. This
company was insolvent at the time. the
deposit was made, of which fact Cham
bellaine must have been aware. as he
was one of the directors Of the bank
and one of its attorneys The bank
shortly after collapsed the State losing
the 5000, 900, had no money to pay,
and, consequently, Chamberlain had
the long wished for pretext to call on
Grant for troops. These facts cannot
be refuted, and although the truth has
slowly but surely come to light in re-
gard to the true inwardness of Cham
berlain's plans, it must be born in mind
that none of these tales have been writ
ten from Democratic standpoint ; but
are the actual observations of impas-
sionate observers. The following para
graph. clipped from the address Of the
representative ministers and business
men of Charleston, tells the whole story
in few words. and entirely refutes the
charge brought BY the Republican jour
mails that Hampton's partisans are the
only real aggressors: 81 /.


''It is not true that in the recent
race collisions the white people have
been the aggressors. Their forbearance
as in the Charleston riot, the unpro-
vokcd Cainboy massacre, and the still
more recent assassination Of . white
citizen at Edge6eld, has been wonder
full. The truth is that the leaders of
the colored people, fearing that the day
Of their power is drawing to close,
have excited their ignorant dupes, have
supplied them with arms, have aroused
their fears for the loss of their liberty,
and have thus encouraged them to COM
NIT deeds of violence"
Year: 1876

A piece of engineering enterprise o1


great magnitude and Importance is just


now making rapid progress. l allude


to the new viaduct across the estuary Of


the Tay. Some particulars of this great


work may not be out Of place in this


letter. The first stone of the Tay


bridge was laid on the Fifeshire side OF
the Tay in the month of July, 1871
The estimated cost of the undertaking


was 9220,O00 The object Of the un-
dertaking was that of connecting the
important manufacturing town of Dun
dee with the North British Railway
Company's branch between Edinburgh
and Tayport. The length of the bridge
is 10,321 feet, and in shape it is not
unlike the letter s. 1t is the longest
bridge over a running stream in the
world. On this account its construc-
ton was looked upon as one of the most
important engineering works of recent
times. Nor was it in respect Of length
alone that it claimed to be unique, and
threatened to tax all the constructive
resources of its builders. It was beset
with even greater trials, on account of
the Tay being tidal river, liable to
enormous floods, and exposed to blasts
of wind from east to west, which SEEM
ed likely not only to hinder the pro-
gress of the work, but to destroy such
progress as had actually been made
But Mr. Bouch, the engineer, the con-
tractors, and others who were directly
concerned in its completion had full
confidence in the practicability Of the
undertaking. and the advantages which
it promised were SO obvious and so con-
siderable, that when the needful act Of
Parliament was obtained and the scheme
fairly Aoated, the shares for the requir-
ed capital of 100000 were soon SUBJ
scribed as special and separate under
taking. For long time very little
progress was made in the work of con-
struction, on account of the experiment
tai character of the operations and the
frequent accidents that befel During
the last eighteen months, however, very
substantial progress has been made
The work has been thoroughly system
atized, difficulties have been readily
overcome, and the laying down of set
programme for each week and for each
month has enabled the contractors to
estimate with Approximate accuracy the
date of completion. That date has been
placed at only year hence.-"A. K"
an the Pictorial World.
Year: 1876

Forty years ago there lived in Prov


idence, within a stones throw from


where Grace Church now stands, g


young man of great intelligence and


wonderful mechanical ability, who spen'


a small fortune in the vain attempt al


making a perfect representation of Rus.
sia iron, and after as many failures a,
attempts in this undertaking he became


utterly ruined financially. His ambi.
ton for the secret increased as his for.
tune grew smaller and smaller, and


when absolute want stared him in the
face he became possessed with the deter
mination to accept of the only means Of
obtaining one of the greatest secrets in
mechanical art, and to gain this he must
suffer penal servitude in the dungeons
of Russia. The rulers of Russia are
the only possessors of the art of making
what is known as glazed Russia iron,
used extensively for all kinds Of stove
and stove-pipe work. and which has for
nearly century been made within the
walls Of Russia's underground prisons.
None but life convicts are allowed to be
initiated into the secrets Of the manu-
facture Of one of the principal means of
income to the Russian Government, and
when once within its walls no one need
ever hope for pardon, for none has ever
been granted, while but one has ever
been known to have escaped, and when
the door is once shut to the outside
world it is never known what has been
the fate of the unfortunate. This, then,
was the Providence mans last resort for
gaining possession Of the secret which
had become his only ambition. He left
his home for Europe. and the simple
rumor Of the attempted assassination of
the Czar by an American, supposed to
be insane, was all that was ever known
to his friends Of what became Of the am
bilious mechanic, and, as nearly half a
century has ratified on since he set out
upon bis perilous undertaking, hardly
a person living will remember the cir
cumstance which is here recorded
Ihere is one person, however, IN Prov
idence who remembers well the day the
hero Of our sketch bade her fearful
farewell, promising that before she
reached her twentieth birthday be would
return to her and fulfill his promise. .-
Ali through these long years she has
never forgotten her promise to wait for
her lover, nor ceased to believe he would
yet come to her. She now lives within
a moments walk Of the chimes Of Grace
Church, and is still we'll preserved, and
her grace and beauty make her more
attractive than many whose years are
the same as were hers when her lover
separated from her SO long ago. Last
week she received the glad tidings from
far away over the water that he who
had 50 long kept her SO patiently wait
ing was on his way to fulfill his promise
Of forty years ago, and let us hope he
may bring the secret he paid for so
dearly, and that he may live to see
some reward for his great sacrifice
Providence Press.
Year: 1876

FORMATION OF CHARAcTER.-Have
you ever watched the icicle as it form
ed? Have you noticed how it froze,
one drop at time. until it was a foot
long, or more? If the water was clean
the icicle remained clear, and sparkled
brightly in the sun; but if the waters
was slightly muddy, the icicle looked
foul, and its beauty was spoiled. Just
SO our characters are formed. One
little thought or feeling at time adds
its influence If each thought be pure
and right. the soul will be lovely, and
will sparkle with happiness but if i'm
pure and wrong, there will be deformity
and wretchedness.
Year: 1876

More and more it becomes evident


that the hope of the Republic is the
personal virtue Of its inhabitants. Such
outside reforms reforms Of mere sys-
tem-as that Of the Civil Service, are
chiefly valuable for their effects upon
individual character. They are of great
immediate Importance in the conduct Of
public affairs and in the publication Of
politics but they are Of wide import
ance in educating the people toward a
higher standard Of honor If men were
as good as they ought to be, such legal
checks and regulation as it is desired to
institute would not be necessary; every
one would act upon principle; no one
would think Of bestowing an Office upon
an incompetent persons, and no person
who felt himself incompetent would
think Of accepting an Office; and espe-
pecially would it be impossible for any
one either to give or to take public
position merely as a reward for party
services. Now, after you have sue
ceeded BY new method Of appointment
in getting good man into power, it
will be Of no avail if this good man de-
generates in character, yields to tempta-
ton, and comes at last to administer a
public Office for private purpose
Everything depends, it will be seen,


upon his personal continuance in up
rightness. And besides, supposing the
country to be composed of two classes
Of citizens, those morally fit to hold
Office, let us say like General George
Washington, and those morally unfit
let US say like General Benjamin F.
Butler; it is manifestly in the interest
of the country that the number Of elig-
ible citizens should be increased, and


the number Of ineligible citizens dimin-
ished. Therefore, every public device
like Civil Service Reform is valuable,
not only in its immediate effect, but
more deeply and widely in its indirect
and widely diffused moral Effects
Therefore it is absolute and "practi-
cally" true and demonstrable, that who
ever cultivates in himself and in his
neighbors a keener and clearer moral
sensitiveness. is, in fact, carrying on a
reform, not only in the interest of
spiritual and eternal things. but in the
interest Of the commonwealth. -" The
Old Cabinet" Scribner for November.