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Year: 1876

Johnny Davenport, tie ardent lover of
pure ballot, who was willing to lay down
his bottom dollar, and who with disin-
terestedness not generally displayed,
adopted a kind OF private system OF
registration, the expenses connected with
which SO nearly impoverished him that
he was compelled to call on the President
for aid, is one Of the most VIGOROUSLY un-
scrupulous political scoundrels in the city
Of New York. In his line Of villainy he
has not peer, unless one could be found
among the Philadelphia Pilgrims. Johnny
too, like Mcdonald and Joyce, Was one of
our Presidents familiars.


This self sacrificing Johnny, in the
ardor of his love for pure and honest
ballot managed to expend $4,000 in the
city Of New York alone, during the last
Presidential campaign, and with such sig.
niicant results that all will agree it was ap
piled where it was circulated to do mos
good for his familiar friend the President
Next to Don Piatts shameful adnis
sion in the moth contract case, the coolies
thing on record is Johnny Davenport
testimony before the Committees on Ex-
penditures in the Department of Justice
How telcitous our worthy President ha
been in his personal associations.
Year: 1876

THE NEW SILVER BILL.


The provisions Of the new Silver Bill
introduced in the United States Senate re-
quire very serious consideration before be-
ing adopted. This bill which has been re-
ported by the Finance Committee, provides
for the coinage and issue Of silvsr dollar
weighing 412.8 grains, and making this
coin legal tender, in sums not exceeding
$20 for everything except custom duties,
and interest on the public debt. The
making of silver legal tender in sums as
large as $40 is q step in direction quite
opposite to that in which the world at
large appears to be moving as regards
coinage regulations 1t will tend to bring
a very large amount Of silver into circula-
tion and may prove a step towards the es-
tablishment of = silver instead of a gold
standard-a result which would of course
be very acceptable to the bonanza kings
who want a market for thesr bullion, but
would give MS very cumberous coinage,
Of which it might be very difficult to rid
ourselves Of.


This dollar will be less than the trade
dollar by ~ grains, while it will exceed
the tive half dollars of the present coin
age by abont 81 grains. 1t is not to be
csined for private parties as the trade dol
lar now is, hut, like the smaller silver
coin, is to be issued by the government on
its own account alone, the difference in its
intrinsic and economical value going into
the "silver profit fund.- for TIE benefit OF
the Treasury. In the case of the trade
dollar, the difference has hitherto gone
into the pockets of the persons getting it
coined. In other words, the Government
has allowed them 10 bring bullion worth
little over ninety cents, get it coined and
stamped as trade dollar, and then pass
i, Of in sums of five dollars Or less, as the
equivalent Of gold dollar. This anoma-
lous privilege, the result in the first place
of a legi. at:ve blunder, the preseut bill
very properly proposes to take away.


The Intrinsic value Of the proposed dol
lar, a. The present price Of bullion, is abou,
ninety-one cents, and this coin is to be issued
in exchange for g-eeabacks, which are
now worth eighty-seven cents. Under
these circumstances there will of course be
considerable demand fer the new coiR,
and this very demand will increase the
price of bullion, and thus strengthen the
inducements for converting greeabacks
into silver. We epresume the bill, even if
itpass the Senate, will be defeated in the
House, on the ground that the purchase Of
bullion for the purpose contemplated will
involve too great an addition to the in
tsrest bearing debt of the country; and
though this may net be the best reason fol
rejecting it, we think its rejection Is, on tht
whole, thing to be desired.


That feature of the bill which does away
with the trade dollar, is very important
one, especially to the people on the Pacific
coast, who are already suffering grave in
convenience through the the excess .
these trade dollars in circulation; and il
the present bill should not pass, another
shsuld be enacted for the express purpos


Of abolishing the anomaly in question b,
providing that the trade dollar shall no
be . legal tender for any amount whatever
Year: 1876

TIE colored brethren of Ohio are very
much dissatisfied with the result of the Ma
tional Convention in Nashville. There Is
much severe criticism on the proposition to
unite with the Southern whites.
Year: 1876

GREEN PROLIFIC STRAwBERRY. There
is vast difference in the value Of straw
berries for market, and the best sorts to
transport are not always best in quality
for the table. Last season we fruited
fifteen varieties and of them pleased
our palate like the Green Prolific. Its
color is not as rich as the Wilson, Tri-
umph or Colonel Cheny, but the flavor
is very delicate. It is very soft and will
not bear transportation, but for family
use nothing is superior. 1t is pistitate
variety and must be planted by some
variety with stamens that it may be fer
tilted. The vines are vigorous and
quite,hardy. For home use we would
recommend nothing higher.
Year: 1876

Coal oil will not explode on very slight
provocation. The trouble is not from
the oil itself, but in the gas which rises
from it, and the oil is dangerous or safe
in proportion to the amount of gas it
gives off. There is fire test" stand
ard for determining the relative safety
of the illuminating oils offered in the
market, and everything under ITO degs.
Gre test is considered unsafe. Three
simple rules, if faithfully observed, will
make coal oil as safe as gas: Buy from
a merchant whom you can depend on for
having the oil he sells properly tested,
keep the oil in your lamp above the mid
die of the chamber, and be sure that the
wick fills all the channel designed for it.
Then you can carry the lamp about the
house, blow down the chimney, or do
anything else you please with it; your
only remaining chance of becoming a
martyr to kerosene is to attempt to
" help" the kitchen fire with it. That
seldom fails.
Year: 1876

Is very complete and to those intending purchase ing can offer great bargains in SPECTACLEs and EYE GLASSES. have full line, and can warrant perfect fit and satisfaction at prices lower than ever before offered.
Year: 1876

An instance of remarkable self-centrol
and presence of mind under sudden and
intense suffering recently occurred In
Belgium. Two workmen were en-
ployed at Ville-sur- Oarthe, in fastening
a lightning conductor at the top OF a
steeple seventy feet from the ground.
One man stood upon the shoulders OF
the other, and sudden gust Of wind
caused him to spill some OF the molten
lead he was using. It fell upon the
hand and arm Of the other, and he had
the nerve to stand still while the hot
metal burned into the flesh. The
slightest movement might have thrown
the man on his shoulders to the ground.
The hero who saved this life deserves to
be recorded, and we print his name be-
low, that if there be any immigrant in
America who recognizes it he may be
proud of his countryman. To face dan
ger deliberately for the safety Of others
Is high courage. But to do this while
suffering from intense pain, when ply 81
cal nature ,instinctively finohes, shows
o degree Of fortitude as well as courage
which we'll deserves to be called heroic.
The name OF this man Of nerve and
courage is N. A. Karis.
Year: 1876

A German paper relates the following
anecdote: In an imperial city, lately, a
criminal was condemned to be beheaded
who had strong itching to play at nine
pins. When the sentence was pro-
nounced he had the temerity to offer a
request to be permitted to play once
more his favorite game at the place Of
execution, and then, he said, he would
submit without murmur. As the last
prayer of the dying man, his request
was granted. When he arrived at the
solemn spot he found everything pre-
pared, and the pins being set up and
the bowls ready, he played with no little
earpestness,
Year: 1876

There is something peculiarly mourn
full in what the editor of the Fort Dodge
Qowa) Messenger, personal friend OF
Mrs. General Belknap, says: $50 she
has been sitting at home all these
months in the bitterness Of anguish,
daring not to go on the street, where
she would be subjected to indecent
badinage, having no way to be heard,
being the subject of gossip in every
newspaper in the land and in almost
every home, knowing herself the victim
of abusive criticism and ignorant false
hood and yet having to sit still and en-
dure II ALL"
Year: 1876

(Eichmond County n. Y. Gazet' e.


A bog coming by Southern mai! was pref
ty well battered when It reached her hands.
and, with strong piety for the poor crushed
flowers she supposed were within, she raised
one end of the broken cover to make the
parcel little more ship-shape, when 10 and
behold therefrom living creature darted,
and the voice of that postmistress was for
time neither low nor sweet. This specimen
of animal life when captured, proved to be
a species of alligator, sent by lever to the
lady of his affections. The postmistress
prays that hereafter all love tokens intended
to pass through her hands may appertain to
the vegetable or mineral kingdom, as she
does not fully understand the "Love me,
love my alligator" state of mind.
Year: 1876

From the Charleston Is. C.) News snd


Courier.


The most captious critic will scarcely find
fault with the tone and temper Of Governor
Chamberlain's proclamation on the subject
Of the lynching of the Harmon murderers,
for the whole purpose Of it 10 to point out
the danger to society Of such acts, however
provoked, and to remind the public, in their
own interest of the inexorable need Of main
tanning the laws supremacy. As the Chief
Magistrate of the State, Governor Chamber
lain could say no less than he has said, nor
could It bs said with mere kindly dignity.


We have not pretended to justify the
killing of the Harmon murderers. What
we could not do when tho horrors of the
deed for which the murdsrsrs died were
fresh in our recollection we cannot do at
this later day. But Governor Chamberlain
must remember that confidence lie plant of
slow growth, and that for years past the
people have had reason to doubt the eff
cheney of the courts in this State as a means
of Furnishing criminals. The records OF
the courts are covered deep with mis-trials
and acquittals through the fundamentally
of ingenious lawyers or ignorant juries, and
for tive years, In common opinion, pardons
could always be had by those able and will
ing to pay for them. 1t was the fear that
the Harmon murderers would escape, as
other criminals had escaped which provoked
the Edgefeld !ynching. The better course
would have been to try the law once again,
and resort to Judge Lynch only when TIE
constituted tribunals of justice had failed to
mete out to the murderors the doom they
deserved.


In reading the accounts of the lynching IT
will doubtless have been noticed that q
number Of influential gentlemen strove hard
to persuade the lynching party from carry
ing their determination into effect. And We
remind the public that in such inability tc
control bodies of men whose passions are
exsatsf lies the danger of mob law
law q, any kind and under any circum
stances. Tho brutal deed of the Ku Klu1
ia South Carolina.
Year: 1876

The State House Is unusually quiet and
summery. Warmoth's office, Just oppo-
site, seems to have attracted away the
usual crowd Of politicians and bummers
It Is almost impossible to pass along st.
Louis street for the mass OF visitors to
his -Excellency. Not only the big
politicians collect here, but even the
little negro shoe blacks gather around
to get q glimpse, leaving the State
House as solitary and mournful as It
was In the fall Of "a.


Not much interest is taken In the Port
Hudson affair. It don't pan out we'll at
all. An tnquiring telegram, requesting
the Sheriff OF the parish OF East Baton
Rouge TO send the facts, figures and list
OF killed and wounded, was answered
by him with the intelligence that he
had heard some vague rumor floating
around to the effect that something was
wrong up n the direction OF Port Hud-
son; and that II he could get 3 posse to
ensure salety he would start up there,
look around and see what was the mat
ter. "Only this. and nothing more"
Year: 1876

ALLOW me to call attention to au-
other fact. In the Indian Territory
there are five civilized tribes; there
is not blanket Indian among them.
They are an intelligent people, civ
ilized people. They have no particu-
lar interest in this bill, because nei-
'her the War Department nor the
Interior Department has but little to
do with them. Every delegate or
member from those civilized tribes
who has been here protests against
this proposed change.


Many Of these military men say
that it would be good thing for the
Indian, but bad thing for the army,
to make this transfer to the War De.
partment. That very argument itself
is enough to condemn this PROPOSE
ton, for if there is anything under
heaven that is curse to 4 nation it
is demoralized army.
Year: 1876

On Monday night of last week a


number Of men met at house on


North Tow river, Mitchell county,


n. G., for the purpose Of a general


spree. As usual in such cases,


quarrel ensued, and in a fight be.


tween young man named Davis
and drunken companion named


Tooley, the former was stabbed in
the abdomen, ard portions of his en-
trails produced from the wound. In
this condition he was placed in
blanket, pole run through loop in
the same, and the ends shouldered
by two men, who attempted to carry
him where he could get surgical aid.
Their path led along the side of a
ruggid mountain, and they had borne
him some distance when the knot
through which the pole ran, loosened
and the wounded man was thrown
down the mountain, his intestines
catching or bushes and winding
around him as he rolled down its pre-
cipi,ous side. He was alive when
picked up, and his friends carried
him to house in the neighborhood.
We are informed that an old mid
wife was called to attend him. She
pushed back the entrails and sewed
up the orifice with pack thread. Later
in the day DR.. Dugger arrived, who
gave it as his opinion that the opera
tion had not been properly done
that Davis "paunch'' was not in the
proper position, and that some of the
minor cntrails were missing. This
he ascertained by giving the patient
several hearty shakes; he said "the
sound was too hollow" At his order
the man was again ripped open, while
parties were sent in search of the mis-.
sing entrails. They found several of
these indispensables to the progress
Of dges ion, and hurrging back to the
house, handed them to the NJ. ID. AS
they were very dirty, he rinsed them
in cold water, splinkled a little salt
over them as preservative, and then
put them in the patient. The wound
was reserved, and when our inform
ant left it was thought that Davis
would recover. If he does, life in
surance policy would be the greatest
extravaganza he could indulge in
Y. c. Pioneer.
Year: 1876

We always think of great men as in
the act Of performing deeds which
gave them renowD, or else in stately
repose, grand, silent and majestic
And yet this is hardly fair, because
the most gracious and magnificent of
human beings have to bother them
selves with the little things of life
which engage the attention of us
smaller people. No doubt Moses
snarled and got angry when he had
severe cold in his head, and if fly
bit his leg while he was in the desert
why should we suppose he did not
jump and use violent language and
rub the sore place? And Caesar
isn't it tolerable certain he used to
become furious when he went up
stairs to get his slippers in the dark
and found that Calphurnia had SHOW
ed them under the bed so that he had
to sweep around them wildly with
a broom handle? And when Solo.
mon cracked his crazy bone, is it un-
reasonable to suppose that he ran
around the room and felt as if he
wanted to cry? Imagine George
Washington sitting on the edge of
OF the bed and putting on a clean
shirt and growing at Martha because
the buttons were off; or St. Angus
tine with an apron around his neck
having his hair cut; or Joan of Arc
holding her front hair in her mouth,
as women do, while she fixed up her
back hair; Napoleon Jumping out of
bed in frenzy to chase a mosqueto
around the room with pillow; or
Martyr Luther in ight-shirt trying
to put the baby to sleep at 2 o'clock
in the morning; or Alexander the
Great with his hiceoughs; or Thomas
Jefferson getting suddenly over a
fence TO avoid dog; or the Duke of
Wellington with the mumps; or Dan
iel Webster abusing his wife because
she hadn' tucked the covers at the
foot Of the bed; or Benjaman Frank
lin pairing his corns with a razor; or
Jonathan Edwards, at the dinner ta-
BILE, wanting to sneeze just as he got
his mouth full OF hot beef; or Noah
standing at his window at night
throwing bricks at cat.-Mar Id
eler.
Year: 1876

On the eve of the recess Gov. Ames
sent in a message vetoing the Penitentiary,
bill. We presume the Legislature will
speedily dispose of the question by pas
sing the measure by the Constitutional
majority of two-thirds. Reform in the
management of the Penitentiary and
reduction of the expenditures on account
of that institution, are no less the policy
of the Democrats and Conservatives in
the Legislature than any other reform
they have set out to accomplish and we
are sure they will not be baffied in their
purpose. The official reports show the
necessity of change, and the testimony,
which will be adduced at the trial of
Gov. Ames, will present to the public
gaze astounding revelations of conspira-
cies, by which moneys, which properly
belonged to the Treasury, have been put
into the pockets of ring through the
approval, if not the direct agency, of
Gov. Ames. By all means let the nail
be clinched in the Penitentiary bill
without delay, the veto Notwithstanding.


The House has re-affirmed its action
by the requisite majority; and We are
confident the Senate will do likewise.
Year: 1876

Referring to the selection of ST. Louis,
as the place for the assembling of the
National Nominating Convention of the
Democratic party, Col. Nordhoff, of the
n. Y. Herald, says:


So far as the action of the committee
tonight may be taken as criterion
and the value of the criterion is within
everybody's power to estimate for him
self-the first choice for the Presidential
nomination seems to be Hendricks. the
second Thurman and the thnd General
Hancock. The Western Democrats are
disposed to break up the two-thirds rule
for the National Convention, and the
discussion thereupon was most signif-
cant portion of the proceedings tonight.
The money question was resolutely Kept
out of sight.
Year: 1876

THERE is very general inquiry
among the people why bill has not been
passed, as contemplated, dissolving the
existing organization of the Lunatic
Asylum, and the adoption of a plan of
management under other control imbued
with the spirit and motive of reform.
Besides, the present Superintendent,
Doctor Compton, has been in possession
of the office for six years, and it would
be no hardship to him if the wholesome
democratic doctrine of rotation was ap-
piled.
Year: 1876

We are glad that Gov. Hendricks has
had the good sense to decline the Ova-
ton, and the invitation rendered him to
deliver an address, in this city. His ac-
ceptance would have been regarded as
an electioneering maneuver and subject
ed him to censorious comments; and, be-
sides it would have been construed as an
indication of preference for him by the
democracy of this State over other wor-
thy men who are spoken of in connection
with the Presidency. 1t is neither the
interest nor the wish of the voters to
take any action whatever at this time,
which would bear that Interpretation.
Year: 1876

THE CLARION says Governor Ames
must be impeached as a "party meas
ure. Pilot.


Why didn't you state that THE CLAIR
ION explained its meaning to be that the
duty of arraigning Ames and his Cocoon
spirators would devolve upon the Demo
Gratis and Conservatives and they would
have to perform the service required at
their hands as an organization, for the
reason that the Radicals would never
perform it. When have they ever been
known to call to account one of their
own "bosses" for crimes and misdemean-
ors? Did they accuse Davis? Did
they not elect Cardozo at the very time
he was plying his trade of embezzlement
and forgery in Warren county? Have
they ever uttered syllable in con-
demnation of the corrupt practices
and usurpations of Ames Look at
the conduct of the Administration in
the trial of Babcock. Though his COM
plicity with the whisky thieves was
notorious, its whole power was employed
to acquit him; and Bristow, the only
man of the Administration who showed
a disposition to bring to trial the govern
ment revenue robbers, is under the ban.


We repeat that it is the business of
the Democratic party to reform the State
Administration to put the public male
factors on trial, and infict upon them
the penalties which their crimes have
deserved. They were elected for that
purpose, and will lean upon a broken
staff if they depend upon the Radicals,
under whose organizations all these
wrongs have been perpetrated.
Year: 1876

LII is good news from Washington that
the Pacific Railroad Committee, by a
vote of to 4, laid the consideration of
the Pacific road aside, subject to be called
up by majority of the whole committee.
which is seven, at any time We hope
it means that the question is laid aside
for the present in order that the pressing
work of the hour, the reduction of ex-
penditures and the villainies of the party
in power, may receive attention.
Year: 1876

The most astounding case of corrup-
tion is now brought to light. This time
1t is member of the Administration.
Belknap, the Secretary of War, has been
impeached by a unanimous vote of the
House Of having been bribed to confer
official favors. The sum paid him
Through his wife) was SO, 900 cash and
$4,000 year during the continuance of
the job. He has confessed his guilt and
sought refuge from the consequences by
resignation. 1t would seem that the
present Administration is a putri1 mass
OF corruption. Only the other day
all Its power was exerted to save the
confidential Secretary of the President
from the penitentiary, and now a mem.
ber of the Cabinet goes by the board.
The President himself has made a for
tune by gitt-taking, and is it any wonder
that his corrupt example has extended
through all the Departments of the Gov
ernment, until its present management
has become kissing and by-word of
scorn? The House of Representatives
may impeach, and the Senate may con-
vlct' but the only salvation of the conn.
try from disgrace, is for the people to
arouse IN their majesty, hurl the evil.
doers from power, and put honest men
on guard.