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Year: 1876

SHORT ROAD TO M1sERY.-Begin by
fancyirg that no one cares for you, that
you are not Of use to anybody sort
of nonenity in the household, where your
place would not be missed, but easily
supplied. Reflect on your want of beau
ty, and lead yourself to Believe that no
one can love plain face, or think you
agreeable because there are others more
charming. Fancy that every one who
looks upon you makes mental compar-
isOn which initiates against yon in favor
of some one else. Imagine that every
word said in jest is only meant to cover
deeper and more painful meaning
that every article Of wearing apparel
you don is criticised and ridiculed. Do
all this, and your tendency to morbid
ness Of feeling will so increase that in a
very short time you will become one Of
the most miserable Of human beings.
Year: 1876

LORD JOHN ScorT.-A good story was
told by the chairman of a public din
ner lately given in celebration of the
Duke of Buccleuch' birthday. to
illustrate the aptitude for business dis
played by the duke and his brother,
Lord John Scott. in early life. About
forty years ago. he said. when there
had been severe distress in the manu-
featuring districts, and among other
places in Hswick, where the duke pcs


sesses large property, this nobleman
and his brother went from one weaving
shop to another, making inquiries as to
the wages paid for this and that bit of
work. At last they came to a shop
where they were weaving woolen hose,
the men assured his grace they could
only get three pence q pair, or about
nine pence day. That is little, said
Lord John to the man sitting at the
loom: will you allow me to try my hand
at the loom, and see if I can't make
more than you ? Your lordship will
make little of this. said the man. Lord
john however, sat down, took up the
shuttle and worked away. the men all
the while looking on in wonder. After
short time he pitched off one hose,
then took out his watch and worked an
other, and at last exclaimed, i could
make fifteen pence a day at this work.
Year: 1876




The WEATHER.-The weather
during the last 24 hours has
presented every aspect possible.
Yesterday afternoon at different
times there was rain, sunshine,
wind and sleet, winding up in
the evening with violent hail
storm, which however, lasted
only a few minutes. This morn
ing it settled down into a heavy
snow storm which kept up all
forenoon, and as it melted near
ly as fast as it fell, it made walk
ing very sloppy and disagreea-
BILE.
Year: 1876

The LEWIS BRos.-The Lewis
Bros. will give the last of their
performances tomorrow night.
They have succeeded in getting
larger audiences for a greater
number of nights than any show
of the kind that ever visited this
place, and their performances
have deserved the patronage
they received. We hope they
will meet with as much success
tomorrow evening as on. the
previous occasions.
Year: 1876

Ear A wooden bowl factory
is to be started at this place
shortly. The machinery is al
ready in town and it is proposed
to put up small building near
Nations foundry for the factory.
Year: 1876

E# The recent election In Jersey City,
N j., resulted in the choice of Charles
Seidler for Mayor, the first Republican
elected to that office for years.


gF- SO much is said nowadays about
assessing employees of the Government for
political purposes, and ignorantly, too,
that it may not be out of place to state
that no assessment as such has ever been
made by authority of any Republican
National or other Central Committee /;
that, Of the contributions make by office
holders, over eighty per cent. has always
gene to the payment Of printers bills !;
that not over fifteen per cent of all the
Government employees have ever paid a
dollar TO aay such fund; and that the
name of no man has ever been presented
for dismissal in consequence of such non
payment. .-RepubLto Magazine.


~ The most artistic feat in the way of
gerrymandering in the apportionment for
Congressional districts has lately been
completed by the Mississippi White
Line Legislature. The entire bottom-land
region along the Mississippi River and the
Louisiana border, for a stretch of nearly
400 miles in length, and in many places
not over twenty miles wide, has been
thrown into one district But il will not
make it a Black Republican district-not
by great deal. 1t is altogether too con
venient to the Arkansas and Louisiana
border across the river for that to be
taken as granted But it masses the negro
majority so as to make sure that the rest
of the districts in the State can be carried
by the White-Liners without the use OF
shot-guns to any great extent, so that il
will work a great saving OF shot and am
munition. C6icdgO Tribune.
Year: 1876

The employees of the Government must
be overpaid, for the entire force Except
two who died in the cffOTt) Of one of the
bureaus of the Treasury Department were
able to live without incomes at least thirty
days before the contribution box was
passed around to keep them from actual
starvation 1t matters little how they ex-
listed, the very fact that they lived until
charity came to their relief is proof posi-.
tive-from the Democratic standpoint
that, while at work, they must have been
overpaid.


The clerical force of the Departments
must have been greatly beyond the actual
necessities of the service, because said
Departments have been able TO furnish
cords of copies of official records to the
numberless investigating committees of
the Democratic House, and yet have been
able to keep their doors open for the
transaction of public business.


The appropriations made by Repub-
lican Congress must have been enormous
ly extravagant when it is considered that
with siX-feet burners--when five ght
have answered-the public buildings
have been lighted nine months out of the
twelve before the fund supplied was ex-
hausted


The appropriations for water and fuel
must have been equally reckless and eX-
travagant when it is known that by using
more whisky and less water the water
funds would have held out for year, and
by the economic internal heat thus gen
Grated less fuel would have been required.
Here is proof positive that the Democracy
could run the Government at least twenty
per cent. cheaper on whisky basis than
Republicans can on cold water.


Of course our diplomatic service is
overpaid, because it is well-known fact
that at least one representative OF the
country abroad has actually reached his
home after an absence of five years with
out borrowing dollar from his landlady
or leaving unpaid his board bill abroad.


With such clear proof of the necessity
of economic reform is it any wonder that
Democratic House feels justified in ex-
pending $00,0 900 for witness fees alone,
when out of the mouths of these witnesses
it may be able to gather sufficient data on
which to base saving of $25, 600?


Is it any wonder that Democracy allows
the public buildings to go without gas
and water, and the Centennial importa-
tions to go without protection, and the
idle employees of the Government to go
without work?


Better general suspension of the pub
lie business, and the starvation of every
public official than such wastaful extrava-
gance as Democracy has discovered. =
ReDubLic MaQGzt,le.
Year: 1876

and violence" thus employed in controll-
ing the votes Of that class threaten
through these to control both the execu-
tive and legislative branches of the Gov
ernment and thus to dominate over the
whole country What good of honest
elections in loyal States if theresult is to
be dictated by fraud and violence in the
disloyal States


This view of the case makes entirely
plain both the interest and the duty Of
the people of the entire country in the
Investigation proposed. Whatever men
aces the ballot-box in one section, IS an
assault on free government in every sec
ton; and the people Of whate yer section
who silently stand by and see that sacred
agency attacked, show themselves to be
untrue to both their rights and their duty.
Then let this investigation go on. Let the
facts be thoroughly sifted If the reports
as to Mississippi be incorrect, it is due to
truth that the facts be made known; and
if they be truthful let that fact be estab-
lished -T'OLed0 Blade
Year: 1876

A REPORT drawn up by the chief local
antiquaries on the remarkable discovery of
the place of the sepulture near Neutchatel
of the lake-dwelling Swiss race, gives the
following results The tombs found may
be classed as of the stone-cist variety, al
lied in character to the dolmen, but differ
ing from it in having been formed from
the first beneath the natural surface Of the
earth, after the custom Of our graves.
They were not quite long enough TO re-
ceive the bodies of adults stretched out,
and it is probable that these were inferred
in the sting posture much practced else
where in pre-. historic days, and propped
by the large pebbles which were found in
numbers in the cavities. The height OF
the adults was. if anything, rather below
that of the Swiss Of the present day, and
the skulls present no real typical differ
ance OF form from those OF the latter, eX-
cept that the forehead is mere contracted,
or, as it might be more correctly said, less
developed, The actual discovery of the
admixture in these tombs among the same
set of remains or bronzed ornaments with
those Of the pierced teeth of carnivora
generally assigned TO the age Of stone has
a double importance. 1t proves conclu-
sively that the notion Of some antiquaries
that cremation was everywhere a charac'
teristic of the bronze age, as opposed to
the simpler interment used in that of stone,
is not universally true, 1t also establishes
the fact of the gradual passage--in Swift
zerland, at any rate-from the one era to
the other, and so makes II doubtful
whether "a hard and. fast line can really be
drawn between the two anywhere.
Year: 1876

A RECENT Chattanooga (Tenn.) special
says At 3 $50 p, m. to-day large por-
tion of the rock at Bragg's Bluff, Lookout
Mountain, which has been moving from
the parent ledge for two weeks, weighing
about 1000 tons, was forced down, falling
fully forty feet and striking the mountain
road at the edge of the bluff. Here it was
dashed into pieces, and hundreds of these,
many ten feet or more in thickness, were
hurled down the side OF the mountain
where the incline is some fifty degrees.
The crash was terrific, and as the large
masses went rolling down the mountain
side the tops of forest trees were twisted
together, their trunks were snapped like
reeds, and everything was swept before
them. Immense clouds Of dust were
raised, and the earth was shaken for a
great distance around. The shock was
violently felt by men quarter of mile
distant. The effect combined all the sub.
Unity of thunder storm and the terror
Of an earthquake. The air appeared
laden with mist, as it did during the
famous battle which occurred there few
years ago. The rest Of the ledge is ex-
pected TO tall ere long
Year: 1876

The Democratic policy Of driving out Of
Office all the old Republican employees of
the House Of Representatives, and filling
their places with set of clamorous and
hungry Democratic ofliCe-seekers, has re-
suited, says the Detroit Tribune, in serious
inconvenience and injury to the public
service in many respects. The latest
illustration of the bad effects of thus re-
moving experienced officers and filing
their places with new men whose only rec
ommendation or qualification is that they
have been useful Democratic politicians,
is thus stated in the Washington dis
patches to the Cincinnati Gdzette:


"The Democrats have been obliged to
confess that in one important matter,
namely that of ventilating the hall OF the
House, they let the rage for bouncing all
the employees about the House go too far.
A Democrat has felt called upon to offer a
resolution directing the Clerk to discharge
the chief engineer of the House. AT the
opening of the session, on account of the
rush for place, the old and skilled man
ayers Of the heating and ventilation were
discharged, and very green men, who
knew nothing about their duties, were ap-
pointed. AS result there has been con-
stantly increasing sick list among the
members, arising from the fact that cold
air has been blown in ON their feet, and
been at times poured down on their heads.
There have been currents where there
ought to be quiet, and drafts where there
should be none. AT times the House has
been as cold as the bitter outdoor air, and
soon after as hot as coal could make it.
The sickness and discomfort have brought
the Democrats to terms, and now they are
looking for some one who can run the
machinery for heating and ventilation on
different principles from the tactics en-
ployed in running ward politics"
Year: 1876

-Munchausen revives in the person of
the editor of the Abbeville Is. c. Press
backed horse out to die, and the animal
had been forgotten until it returned few
days ago, with small oak growing out
OF its back. 1t is thought an acorn fell
into it, from which the bush grew"
Year: 1876

WLHELMINA ScHoPERFAR, daughter Of
a German widow of Warrick County, In
diana in attemptingto fill n coal oil lamp
the other night, upset the can on the
stove. An explosion followed, and the
girl and her mother were badly burned.
The girl died the next morning, and the
mother would probably not recover. The
house was partially burned.
Year: 1876

IT was recently reported from Wash
ingtou that the Treasury Department had
purchased two months supply of silver
bullion at the low rates which prevailed a
few weeks ago, the average price paid
having been about three cents per ounce
less than the present market rate. This
stock, together with the bullion fund, will,
it is believed, be sufficient for the coinage
until the annual statements of the mints
which will be made in June.
Year: 1876

known that it is the fixed purpose of the
government to carry out the spirit of the


proclamation and to sustain it by the mill
tary force of the general government, sup
plemented if necessary by the militia of


the various states.
Year: 1876

them taking the close wire and
tide it round the doar Boalts and


tide it tree and we was inside
the house and the dOrs tide |
rested casey till moning and i got
up and try 2 git out to Onti the
Other side i don't no what 2 rite
think there will be something in
her home and will have shil-
ling or so 2 there was hi water
laste sunday and Broke up every
Body it was a Bad scould on
pipel and the dam is very hi now
i am fraid tha will be another
Bad seould Some of my ground
is under water cante worke now
have planted some corn cante
work on a count of the water i
went 2 ploW the other day and
my man walked so taste thugt
tha was another Bad scould i
haft 2 worke very hard to make
a living it Beets pu nching the
Breeze donte care for that for
punching is harde hear it is
harde country 2 make living it
is a heape harder country hear
than out where you live would
like 2 G you very mutch give
mi best respects 2 Bill pulfer and
Frank tOunsen and tell them i
woulde like to G them very much
When come home i thought i
wolde come Back out thare But i
will Stay Bout years and make
a crop and come Back out thare
and live i can make a heape Of
mOny hear the water will lay
down and not stay up So long il
want ye 2 anser this letter and tell
me all the news you no and Be
sure and send me news paper a
late paper I am sorry cante rite
any more i have r0te you all i
can now i wante you to excuse
Bad riting and Bad Spelling and
Blunder5 rite sune and send me
a paper and tell me the news give
my Best respects to all my Friends
But received the Best love and
high esteam to your self So no
more at present good By i will
rite more the next time yours
truly PUNCH THE BREEZE to
lyman smith
Year: 1876

Come te me, oh ye children,
For / hear you at your play.
And the questions that perplexed me


Have vanished quite away
Ye open the eastern windows,
That look towards the sun,
Where thoughts are singing swallows,
And the brooks of morning run.
In your hearts are the birds and the sur


shine,


In your thoughts the brookIet's flow;
But in mine is the wind of autumn,


And the first fall of the snow.
Alb what would the world be to us


Ifthe children were no mOrel
We should dread the desert behind us


Worse than the dark before
What the leaves are to the forest,


With light and air for food.
Ere their sweet and tender juices


Have been hardened into wood,
That to the world are children;


Through them it feels the glow
Of a brighter and SUMMER climate


Than reaches the trunks below.
Come to me, oh. ye children!


And whisper in my ear
What the birds and winds are singing


In yOnr sunny atmosphere.
For what are all our contrivings


And the wisdom of our books
When compared with your caresses


And the gladness of your looks =!
Ye are better than all the ballads


That were eyer sung or said,
For ye are living poems,


And all the rest are dead LongfellOw
Year: 1876




The following letter from Illi-
nois, written by an old resident
of Yuma, was handed to us by
the gentleman who received it,
with the request that we publish
it uerbatins, which we do. All old
Yumaites will remember "Punch-
the-Breeze Smith,"


May II 1876 white County I'LL
nois dear friend i take the oppor-
tunity this eavning 2 rite 2 you a
few lines 2 let you no am we'll as
can be i went a fishing a few sun
days go an it had raind and i
walk out a hi log a Bout 10 foot
off the ground and with miss fort
tin 2 me my foot slipped and caut
a hard fall and hurt my Belly and
i am taste getting over it now
i hope thiss few Bad riten lines
will find you hapy and In good
health i got home all safte and
sound arrived at home on the
25 of februry founde heape of
my old friends alive and crate
meny of them ded i founde my
brothers and non of them inde-
pendent all so founde me a wife
/ was marred on the 5 day of April
i am 2 my self am we'll satisfide
i new her very we'll when was
at home Before i new her just as
far as i Guild G her she was about
the likelest woman i met when i
got down home from arisona her
name wos Fanny Bragher now it
Fanny james shi was marred
when come home her husban
dide rite way an we got marred
in shorte i dident get mutch
all wanted was her we have
some cattel and horses and a fealde
of Wheate i donte no how mutch
Is ackers i CESS and we have 2
children one 8 and one 6 girl and
a Boy and Fanny is a littel woman
she only ways 100 and 85 i am
we'll pleased with her she is good
to me and i is good to her and the
children i have only Bit her one
time she put her arm over my
shoulder one mite and i was asleep
and i Bit her on the arm i tell
YOU took the peal clean off Before
i avoke was so sorry for her
But she took it all in good harte
i have to be very cearfel in my
sleep 2 not Bite my wife i am
passing time will hafe 2 thomp
and Bong 2 make a living But i
donte care for that i have got a
woman that will worke some men
when tha get marrid and tha hafe
2 By so mutch Before they can
keep house iJust had to BY the
like and i marid and went home
we Catch hell the mite we come
home tha shiverd us But donte
care for that as mutch as i did for
Year: 1876

THg TABLES
Will be supplied with the BEST
the markets afford, and the
COOKING will be In


Superior style.
The Proprietor is determined that here
The Tired Traveller,


The SotOurner and the


Transient Guest,
Shall and the comforts of Home.
Year: 1876

his eyes; his grief was to despairing
for tears; it preyod upon his heart,
drank the vital streams of his life
and. burst in convulsive sighs from
his burning bosom.


The day appointed for his execu-
tion drew near his past and approach
ing fate filled his breast with sympa.
thetic sorrow.


He saw his venerable father. his
mother, his friends and acquaintan.
ces, with several pious clergymen, who
entered his cell to comfort him. His
mind sOftened by their advice and
counsel. Frequently would he burst
into tears. Often in tho solitary hour
of the night was he heard addressing
the Throne of Grace for mercy and
forgiveness.


But the grief that preyed at his
heart had wasted him to mere skele-
ton. A slow but fatal fever had con.
sequently implanted itself in his con.
stitution. Exhausted nature could
make but weak struggle against dis.
ease and affliction like his and about
week previous to the day appointed
for his execution he expired in his
mothers arms, with the name of his
loved and lost one upon bis lips
leaving conclusive, incontrovertible
evidence Of the evil Influence of jeal,
ousy.
Year: 1876

The Indians left their dead and admit having moro
wounded They also lost SIX ponies Their friends
at Red Cloud say they never dreamed the Fifth cav
alry could get there in time TO head them on


The regiment sustained no loss. II arrived at
Laramie yesterday and leaves for Crooks camp to-
morrow.
Year: 1876

\ farmer IN this county, says a North
Carolina paper, has a D1ule so awfully
contrary that be can do nothing with it.
Put him in harness and it IS hard to say
which way he will travel. Put saddle
on him and he appears to doze, but try
TO mount him, and he will, all of a
sudden, begin TO kick every way
straight ont, straddlebng, with all four
legs at once. As to eating, he will eat
anything, from his feed-trough up to
wooden saddle Tie owner took a
notion to have him shod, but lie kicked
out tile blacksmith shop and returned
home. The owner tried to kill him,
sometime back, SO he tied his ears with
a trace chain and rode him for six con-
secntive days and nights as hard as lie
could under whip and spur. The fact
is, that he killed himself III the effort,
and had to be carried mp stairs to bed,
and his firm belief was that the mule
would die that night; but to his aston
lshment the next morning he found that
the mule had kicked to death Chester
sow weighing 300 pounds, bit piece
out of his horses shoulder, ate up a
saddle, blanket and brldIe, tore down
the fence, and was splurging about
more devilish than ever to find some
thing else meaner to do.
Year: 1876

ter. and the miasma that is in the air is
something frightful. Agne and Bilious
Fever is more prevalent than it is in
Indiana, and the variety is of the most
malignant. Bilious Fever means more
here than it does in the country, and
when it comes to Typhoid, look ont.
There is poison in the air that is ter
rible, and children and weak adults are
dying at a rate unheard Of. Unless
steps are taken at once to clean the city,
the summer will bring a postilence. 1t
is a shame that it should be in such
condition. when the anouut of money
paid each year for the purpose of clean
ing it ought to keep it as sweet as a
fewer-bed.


RELIGIOUS.


The advent of Moody and Sankey,
and the enormous audiences they have
attracted, have had the effect to set
Christians to thinking of various things.
Among others the system of renting
pews is being discussed with much feel
ing The more earnest workers insist
that the churches shall be tree, that the
seats shall be free, and that the system
of ssfirst come, first seryed,'' shall be
adopted. They insist that only in this
way can the masses be brought into the
churches and under gospel influences.
On the other hand the holders of pews
hold that as there are always sittings fer
all who come, there is no reason why
those who desire it should not have
their regular seats, and continue the
regular family idea of the church. The
matter has got into the papers and much
is being said pro and con. The preach
ers are taking it up, and the Christian
world is being divided into pew and no
pew parties. I shall not attempt to
settle it, but will give my notion in
speech made by an advocate of the pew
system. sIalk," said he, "of the neces-
sity of bringing sinners in to hear
preaching. Who needs it more than
tce do? And who needs inducements
more than we do 90 as he was a
pillar in the church his statement was
a most candid conis ioa. PIETRo.