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Year: 1876

ours who would willingly climb In a back
window of that custom-house, bind and gag
the officer, and forcibly release those pretty
stones from the stern clutches of the revenue
law. But they keep ten-psnuy nail over the
window, and the feat is thus made imprscti-
cable.


IN his editorial correspondents to the Ohio
State Journal, General Comfy, speaking of
official turpitude and private extravaganza,
says: "0fiicial life is corrupt enough, Heaven
knows, but it is never more corrupt than Co
temporary private life. The stream Is not
purer than the fountain head. If we would
purify official life we must begin at the fount-
ain, and purify private life. In this country,
where the stream from the people to the Gov
ernment is so rapid and the fow so direct, we
shall scarcely see the work begun at the
fountain head before the scum and dregs will
disappear from the stream. II the recent ex-
posures of Belknap and Pendleton-the thou
sands Of defalcations in private business which
load the columns of our newspapers daily
the fsithlessness of honored and heightened
men in places of trust-the more faifh-killing
hypocrisies and crimes Of spiritual teachers
~ al 1hSSOI ahu Hoic, uo uVt nuluSc W SEeate
an imperious yearning for republican sim
plicity and chivalric good faith and honesty,
then the good people of the United States had
better spend the Centennial year in building
salamander arks. We shall certainly have
either a shower Of birthstone, out Of which no
one but the Independent editor will escape, or
we shall make the year memorable by bring
ing forth fruits meet for repentance"
Year: 1876

There will be four hundred and eIghty-scren
members in the next New Hampshire House
of Delegates. If it had not a round Republi-
can majority it would Ike the Commonwealth
above all others in this country deserving of
the generous sympathy of a compassionate
world.
Year: 1876

An East"rafrp paper having had con-
siderable to say about raising chick
ems by hand" the Galveston NeWs re-
spends thus: "Such information is
not needed in the South. The whole
colored population know how to do it,
and an enterprising freedman can
raise more pullets in a single night,
on his way home from prayer meeting
than that eastern editor could raise i'm
year, with all his science
Year: 1876

n Democrat down South in a tre-
mendous effort to make an audience
OF colored people believe themselves
injured by the emancipation proclama-
ton, asked them what they owned
now that they did not have before the
war" An old colored man arose in
one end Of the hall and answered: II
believe we own our wives and chill
dren now, and We certainly didn't
own 'em before Massa Lincon,s time. ~
This was sumner. The speaker en-
tered upon learned dissertation upon
the necessities of reform
Year: 1876

being sent in Lord Percy's carriage. I myself was attended by Ensign Plympton, a young Tory, and member of the Loyal American Fencibles, the only American company, if remember rightly, organiz- ed in support of the British. But we saw nothing of the play for it was interrupted by rumofs of fighting in Charleston, which was indeed the beginning of the siege. 'Shortlie after this, on the l7th of March, General Howe and his troops sailed away from Boston. Many of the Loyalists went with him, some to New York and some even to England. Among this namber were the Fencibles and DF. Gamer, who carried off with him the church registers, plate, and vestments. think my amt would have gone too, had it pot been for this recent affair with the Colonel but her former liking for him was changed in- to as lively repugnRnce. SO that she was glad when the fortunes of war Aeparated them. Washington now took peaeeable possession of the town, and my father coming with him, was welcomed gladly and in a right sisterly manner by my amt.

 As it was a raw and chilly day, when the evening was come he besought my aunt to prepare him tankard of flip, whereat shade crossed my annt's conn- tenance, for she was minded of the might of the robbery, and, of her lost jewels. However, she bade me place the logger head to heat in the fire, and rang for Jack to bring up the beer and the condi. ments. When opened the little closet in the chimney, to my great bewilder- ment drew from the recess not the iron .loggerhead but the sapphire necklace and buckles. Whereof the true explanation seemeth tha to be be that my aunt hsypg drank the loggerhead and the jewels, ,insomuch that the Colonel did break into our house to rob us of paltry rnorsel of iron. My aunt was so shamed by this occurrence that never after. until the day of her death, could she be persuaded to brew or to drink any kind of ardent liquor.

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Year: 1876

go away from Roxbury. He smiled sad- lie, and said, T too am going away, Se- rena. have joined the light infantry, and shall march away next week. l have dreaded it much, but it will not be so hard if you are no longer here." Then I treinbled from head to foot, for felt that more was c0ming, and 1t Was the first time that one had told me, that he loved me. But methinks that when I entered my fathers door I was not so sad, for l wore upon my finger q ring with two hearts joined, and inside thls posie, My heart and hand you shall command" It was Consider. Dilla|ay's mothers we'd ding ring. and 1t would be mine some day. In return, had but filled his hands with the roses that grew over the porch; had but given him the roses, kiss, and a promise-tritiing and perishable things. all three. which cost nothing to give. and were alike to pass away and be forgotten.

 n.-TnE SAPPHIRE BUCKLES. ..

 My aunt Phylie was woman of consid- erabie fortune. v Her house stood in the most fashionable part of Boston, overlook Ing the Common. As she had no child fen. she was right glad to have us with her. l was company for her, and gave her an excuse for giving dinners and drums, which, as she was still fond of so- ciety, and was a notable whist player. she greatly enjoyed. Of my little brother Obadias she was not overfond. However. as took the charge of him, and he came not greatly under the her notice, all went smoothly enough. She would not suffer that we should speak of our father who she said, was pestilent, rebel and de- lnded man, who had deserted his child ren. Nevertheless, she was most generous, and dressed me in such manner that, though had thought my pink padusay fine, itNas but as one of the plainest |, of crowns which now wore She also took much pleasure in my voice, and caused her spinet to be new tuned, to the end that I might sing and play to her every eyeu- Ing; but she would hear to none of the songs that I had been accustom- ed to sing hitherto. Her psalms were more often to the King George than to that the King of kings, as witness this following, which was sung each morning at family worship:
Year: 1876

human spirit which marked it in all its
stages, your power of language ex-
ceeds mine. 1t presents a darker
picture of human cruelty than the
slaughter of Custer and his soldiers,
for they We're shot in open battle. The
victims at Hamburg were murdered in
cold blood after they had surrendered
and were utterly defenseless- No oe-
casion existed for causing the presence
of single armed citizen at Hamburg
on the day of the. massacre. No vIo-
lence was offered or threatened to any
one. 1t is, indeed, said, as usual, that
''the niggers were impudent," but the
evidence shows that all the actual
physical aggression was on the part of
the whites; that they made a demand
which they had no right to make, and
when that demand was refused, as it
should have been, they proceeded to
enforce it by arms and crowned their
success in enforcing their demands by
brutal murders. Shame and disgust
must fill the breast of every man who
respects his race or human nature as
he reads the tale. To me in my official
apacity-wherein, as you will testify,
have done my utmost, at no little
risk of my personal and political de-
traction from my political friends, to
remove abuses and restore good gov
ernment and harmony to our people
the occurrence of such an appalling
example of human passion and deprav-
ity comes as a deep modification and
discouragement. What hope can we
hny w
thirsty spirit waits in our midst for its
hour of qualification ? Is our civiliza-
tion so shallow Is our race so wan
tonly cruel? Such acts call for eou-
demnation and punishment: for con-
demnation as a bloody blot on the
record of your race and mine, as a
cruel affront to a race whose long suf-
fering, patient forbearance challenges
the admiration and gratitude of the
world; as a shameful dishonor to the
name of South Carolina; for punish
ment as a violation of the laws of the
State and a wanton blow at the peace
and happiness of our State. l am glad
to testify to the horror which this event
has excited among many here who
have not been wont to heartily con-
denim many of the past bloody occur
rences at the South. Nothing, however,
short of condign and ample punish
ment can discharge the obligation of
society and our State toward the
authors of this causeless and cruel
massacre. Very respectfully, your
obedienr servant,


ID. III. CHHMBERLIN,


Governor of South Carolina.
Year: 1876

The medical value of n mustard plaster is
understood In every family. Much time is
spent in preparing a roultice and often the
mustard is of poor quality and will not act,
causing great suffering. This trying incon-
venience is now perfectly overcome by Ben
sons Prepared Mustard Plaster. 1t is a great
improvement on the ordinary article. 1t is
very clean and can be applied and removed
without discoloring the clothing or soiling
the skin. II does not deteriorate with age.
Itisalways reliable, as only the best quality
Of mustard is used in its preparation. 1t is
ready to use at any moment, by simply dip
ping 1t in water. II is sold in half yard pieces
at % cents per roll. by all Druggists, or mailed
on receipt of price by


SEABURY d JOHNSON,


Sly Pharmaceutical Chemists. n, Y,
Year: 1876

There are gentlemen of large turn OF mind
who regard with profound contempt the small
indictments TO which our American candidates
are often called upon to plead. IL is thought
that such scandals take the dignity out of
politics; if SO, we do not see how that catas-
trophe, or the other one of the dignity taken


ont of the candidates, is to be averted. The
charges which have put Gov. Tildcn and his
friends upon tho defensive, where they will
probably stay for the rest of the canvass, are
not charges of murder, nor OF any other olense
made capital by law; but on the other hand
many unfortunate men who have made
imaginative and more than dubious depostions,
respecting revenue matters, have been sternly
dealt with by Government officers and
have even been sent to the penitentiary,
for the reason, maybe, that they were not
running for the Presidency. The evasion of
the income tax, if there was an evasion, kept
money IN the Governors pocket. If there were
false oatlls sworn, they had financial squint.


This was the characteristic OF the Congress
sonal corruptions which few years ago, in
the very thick of Presidential canvass were
uuearthed and coin colors many of the charges
made against the present Administration and
same of its supporters The people like to
have the public hands clean, be they the hands
of a Secretary of War or only of q candidate


These doubts of Gov. Tildel''s pecunary purity
come at very inopportune moment. peo-
PIE oppressed by taxes, at period of great
commercial depression, and anxious for an
entire reform in the financial management
of the Government, cannot help paying atten-
ton, when they are told that a distinguished
man who is named for the highest of public
offices. has in private life been guilty of de-
Year: 1876

were altogether a new thing, to be one which
ON the face of it suggests the unpleasant
significance of the word inancieringT AND
vet the managers of these roads are men OF
fair repute as to shrewdness anG integrity, and
have only done what has been too commonly
done in American railroal management, al
though it is noticeable that the "water" In these
companies has been put inUO bonds more than
into stock. The roads have had monopoly,
practically, in carrying one great staple article;
they have largely increased their traffic; their
managers have felt the possession OF power,
have used it imperially, md lnve doubtless
enjoyed it they have been successful, as we
reckon success I; but is their financial position,
where their strength is tested and to be tested,
really so very successful Supposing that tley
are all amply able to meet every obligation
and that they remain so, is this result as great
a success as to have kept the debt small would
be, even had the traffic been somewhat less
Where ought the stocks, now well below par,
10 be, had the growth of traffic been secured
without the disproportionate growth OF debtf
We incline to wonder at the latter, because lt
seems to he the one sort of growth which had
no definite restriction. COncelvably, the man
ayers could make statement which would be
intelligble-nO matter how many mysteries
and discrepancies Offer-when you understand
the system; but could they answer in short
sentence in plain way, without tables OF
figures, the question, What have you done with
Al.
Year: 1876

frauding the Treasury. The mere sum total
becomes of no importance, and the story much
more than mere gossip. Indeed, it goes to the
very root of the discussion. In almost all
State affairs, frauds are money frauds, and
venality and peculation and iobbely are the
chronic diseases of politics. man who In
private life avoided tlIc payment of his income
tax-would he probably be wholesomely
vigilant in guarding The public moneys and In
detecting defaulters' This is the matter In
nutshell. 1t is admitted that we must have
reform or ruin and il is natural for people TO
ask whether one who is singulaIly sklilful III
not paving his taxes would be safe guardian
of the moneys which taxes are imposed TO
raise.


Again, all these matters go to general public
character; and they are also singularly easy OF
public comprehension. The wayfarlng man.
though fool, can comprehend that OF
two candidates, otherwise equal, it will be
safest to vote for the one whose integrity Is
the most scrupulous. Gov. Tilden was noml-
mated partly because he was supposed to be
that rare character perfectly honest poll
tician. He is supported now upon the same
grounds. Evidence that he Is not exactly
honest is therefore in order. Evidence that
he has been cruelty maligned will also be in
order. Before making any man President 1t
behooves the people to know precisely what
manner of man he is. Several times they
have been dreadfully deceived. Are they
about to be deceived again Z?
Year: 1876

The special motives of the cOal-carrying
companies who formed the recently broken
combination, as well as the conditions of the
compact are still the secret of the members,
and may or may not be divulged, according to
what follows hereafter in financial movements.
But the struggles of great corporations among
themselves and with the public-with the


latter to fix rates of transportation, and with


the former to maintain them-arc among the
most interesting and important of commercial
phenomena; the coal struggle is even more OF
because the parties have become producers and


venders, as well as carriers, OF an article or
prime necessity, and because they have
sought to become monOpolists in the former
capacity in consequence of having first become
such in the latter Mr.. GOwen, in his argu-
ment before q committee of the Pennsylvania
Legislature about year ago, took the ground
that the Reading road was practically forced
by circumstances which it neither made nor
controlled to mine as well as carry coal ;
however this may be, the operations OF the
PENNSYLVANIA railroads with coal form an un-
written and very interesting, as well as in
structve, chapter of history. The events
forming that chapter are not all past yet, and
as memoranda closely related to what may
probably follow in it, the past financial history
of the coal roads is subject for instructive
study. The following shows the capital stock
and funded debt of four roads in the combi-
nation at different times. the fgutes given as
total debt including some items not specified: !:
Year: 1876

Learning, ability, patriotism, capacity for
public affairs, and even the minor accomplish
ment of good speech-makng, they do not too
often carry to Washington; but in appreciation
of their own importance they lack nothing, or
if they do, their wives make up the deficiency
Year: 1876

The coal corporations after sowing the wind
for four years. are now reaping the whirl-
wind, and tho first blast sweeps by the miners
cabin. The reduction of wages is the leglti-
mate result of the collapse of the combination.
The companies have only to stimulate con-
sumption by keeping prices at their natural
level and to open market abroad and the
miners will have steady employment.
Year: 1876

Our new 4l2 per cent loan is introduced at
o favorable time in London. Money is abund-
ant there aud realizes little interest Bond
holders who have received 8 per cent in gold
from us regularly since the war will now feel
induced to take our securities at less interest,
seeing that they cannot do better without in
curing considerable risk. Banner Oakley
promised his dupes is per cent, but in a short
time he paid neither interest nor principal.
Year: 1876

An animated canvass in n State that has
never been carried by the Democrats is some
thing of an anomaly. But the Vermont Re-
publcans are wise in their generation. There
is nothing that succeeds like success, and tho
momentum that viii be gained by an over
whelming victory among the Green Mountains
next Tuesday will carry the Republicans
long way forward in the national campaign.
The canvass has been conducted systematically
and judiciously. although on lower level than
might have been chosen. The Republicans
have higher ground than their opponents.
They ought to intrench themselves upon it,
and force the fighting on a plane where they
have all the advantages of position.


Our Washington correspondent gives us a
peep into the domestic lodges of some men,
bers of Congress, and elucidates the way in
which they secure good house-servants some
what at the public expense. Our chief impress
sion in reading what he has TO say about it is
that the phases of patronage are not to be
enumerated, and that of place trickery there
is no end. The members OF Congress who
believe that the whole Republic belongs TO
them are becoming more and more common.
Year: 1876

4 KNOWING DOG.-The Austin New
Reueie of April 18th is responsible for this
incident in canine history: a. He told this in
the Sazeree Lying Club: Back in the She
uaudoah Valley, in early days. the whole
country was covered with Methodist preach
ere and a. yalIer-leg" chickens The preach
ers used to visit the people who owned the
chickens, always bling accompanied by an
umbrella and a pair Of saddle-6ags, and when
the preacher took his departure there were 9
good many chickens less on that farm than
than there were when be arrived. AT his
uncle's there was yellow hound which had
been taught to chase and catch chickens
when any were wanted for the table; and
that hound got 20 know the preachers pretty
well and whenever man appeared on that
farm with an umbrella aud pair OF seddls-
bags, that dog would not wait for orders,
but would make straight break for the
chickens. a number Of which he would catch
and carry, to the house To save theis
chickens, the people oa the farm either had
to turn Presbyterians or kill the dog, and
they chose the former"
Year: 1876

Coon CARE FOR DAIRY Cows


Very few dairymen have any idea
how greatly the yield of the cows
may De increased by better feed and
care. We think ii 4 great folly for
men, who are making only one hun
dred TO one hundred and twenty. five
pounds of butter per COW, to try TO
increase their produce by the intro
ductiou OF Ayrshire or Jersey blood.
There is no common herd, selected
with the ordinary skill that every
dairyman should possess, that will not
give one hundred and fifty pounds Of
butter and upwards TO q COW, if they
are properly taken care Of. The im-
proved breeds aud their grades are no
better, if as good, as common stocks,
under neglect and poor feeding. A
correspondent in an exchange says;
" | have made thousand pounds of
good butler IN q season from four
COWS, and not one OF them was regis
tered OF had fashionable pedigree, or
was bought at price to exceed $50 )
and adds, In my own experience,
when | have bought COWS of s,ingy
feeders, they have nearly doubled
their product, and that, too, without
the aid of warm or steamed food"
Such has been the experience of not a
few. y man once Dragged that he
had sold US the poorest COW in his
herd. Sic was a small and tlmid
heiter, and was mastered by nearly
every other in an ill-kept herd that
averaged little if over three hundred
pounds a year. y test Of her milk, a
few days ago, gave twenty five and
half ounces of butter from q days
product. How could such a man tell
whether he cheats another when he
sells a COW, OF not? His strong holt
is in cheating himself Vermont
Farmer.
Year: 1876

The boldest robbery Of the three ihAt has
been committed on the Silver City road since
last November, was on yesterday morning.
The three stages, Umatills, Silver City and
Overland are all intended TO start at 3 o'clock
in the morning. They all drive up 70 the
Northwestern Stage Company's office in ro-
tation; they first take on the mails at the
pos,ofhee, rs yards this side of the stage
Office which is 10 the Overland Hotel build
ing SO that passengers get on at that point
when the stage stops opposite the Office. The
Umatilla stage is ahead and loads and starts,
the Silver next and the Overland last. They
come so near together that they are all wait
ing one for the other, and not to exceed ten
minutes difference between the starting of
the first and second and the second and third
stage. This fact must be known to the rob
bers, and when they were about TO commit
this robbery on the Silver stage, as they did
yesterday morning, it would have TO be fast
work, for the Overland would be along in
ten minutes at the most. But nevertheless
this seeming objection did not deter them,
and they did the work within half mile Of
town and got away with it in good shape
before the Overland Stage got along. The
Silver stage was driven by Charley Downey,
the same driver who drove when the stage
was robbed last November about mile and
a half beyond this point. The stage had
four passengers One was Andy Baker, d.
vision ageut, Ed. Paine, a stage driver, Mrs
Adams, who Were inside, and Francisco Soto,
a Spaniard, outside with the driver. The
lamps were lighted, but it was a bright star
light night. cold and some white frost on the
ground. When the stage arrived at the
first bridge, man nearly in front of the
horses with gun in hand sang out Haiti"
The team st this point had slackened pace as
it WAS ascending and about 10 step on the
bridge and of course stopped quickly; at this
instant another man from the same side
standing in the door of the old vacated ferry
house. called out in n gutteral voice, Throw
out that bOXl" There was some baggage
on the box and the delay in getting II out
caused him to sing out again in the same
manner to the driver; the box was thrown
off and the stage drove on. 1t was broken
open by cutting The catch of the paddock
with a cold-chisel. but there was no treasure
In the box and the robbers got nothing. The
Overland stage was on time and passed in
ten minutes, bu: neither saw or knew any.
thing of the robbery until it crossed the SEC
ond bridge a quarter Of a mile beyond and
got 10 Fnit's ferry house where Baker aud
Paine had got out. Paine, Baker and Fruit
came back soon as possible, but could get
10 trace Of the robbers. The place has been
examined by Mr.. Morris, superintendent OF
the Stage Company, Sheriff Agnew and
Marshal Pinkham, but 10 trace can be found
which leads TO the suspicion of any partIular
person. -B0ie Statesman.