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Year: 1876

The efforts of the bears to affect the credit
of this State, in order that they might buy
in her bonds at low rates, have been more
Widespread and systematic than was ever
suspected by those cognizant of the existence
of the ring. Our new consOl was accepted
with high favor by the thrifty and cautious
Dutchmen, and large amounts were pur'
chased and sent to Amsterdam. To this
point, therefore, did the interruptions bears
direct there lying sh ats and statements
that the Democrats were about entering
into control OF the government and had repu
dated the funding plan, and that no more
interest would be paid we're industriously
circulated.


But, fortunately, with these phlegmstic
and sober minded business men the scheme
failed of fruition. Instead Of becoming
panicked, and sacrificing their property,
the holders simply wrote letters asking
official and authentic intelligence from the
seat of government. Of course all inquiries


we're promptly and satisfactorily responded
to by the executive departments.


Out OF this correspondence may develop
a means of imparting still futher popularity
and confidence to Louisiana bonds in the
great Dutch money mart. The president Of
the Stock Exchange and others at Amster
dam, also Mr.. D. Burger, of Amersforrt, q
large holder of consols, urge that arrange
menta be made to pay interest through an
agency at Amsterdam. The State can moi
establish such an agency under the law and
the constitutional amendment relative to
tke State debt, but the State Fiscal Agent


might arrange to comply with this not un
reasonable demand. The letters bearing
upon this subject will be submitted to Mr.
Oglesby upon his return.
Year: 1876

Live for something. Do good, and leave
behind you monument of virtue that the
storm of time can never destroy. Write
your name in kindness, love and mercy on
the hearts of thousands you come in con.
tact with year by year; you will never be
forgotten: No, your name. your deeds win
hind a. the stars ON the brow of evening.
Good deeds will shine a. the stars Of
heaven.-CRalmers.
Year: 1876

suffrage in tho constitution of the country,
not az white or black men but simply as
citizen.


He closed by saying that there was one
man who kept his forefinger on these
amendments, and the other stretched out to
collar the man who violated them, and
called fer three cheers for S. B. Packard,
which were given with will.


Colonel James Lewis was next called on,
and referred in detail to both tickets, ma
tional and State, claiming that the ballot
box would show q universal triumph tor
Hayes and Wheeler and for Packard and
Antoine. The Democratic party had 80
swallowed the Conservative party that
only tho tail was left. 1t had never
allied itself to any one but what 1t had de-
ceived them, and now called on the colored
men to Join 1t. None would do 80. What
act had the Democratic party ever done for
their benefit to elevate or advance them, or
in the interest Of the poor people, black or
white. One of the strangest things was
that Jews and foreign born people, who had
been persecuted for their race, who had
died by thousands, should adhere to
the party that had committed these
wrongs on them, when only the Repub
lican party gave equal lights to all. He
believed that the going out of the lamps
was caused by purchase from some Dem
ocrat, for Democrat was alway cheating
some body. He would stand shoulder to
shoulder with all in the Republican party
on every occasion. The invitation to meet
in debate had been given the Democratic
party, but had not yet been accepted.
When it was, those who complained that
the ID emoerats could not got oolered men
Year: 1876

FIRST VIRGINIA REGIMENT ASSOCIATION
The First Virginia Regiment Association
holds its regular quarterly meeting tonight
in the Hastings Courtroom. The Histori-
cal Committee Is expected to report.
Year: 1876

AN OUTsPoKEN OPINION OF TIE AMEND
ESTs.-There are several important amend
ments to the Constitution to be voted on at
the November election in this State. One,
and perhaps two, Of these amendments
would be beneficial il made the law OF the
State; but as whole-and as such they
must be either adopted or reiected-we be-
lieve Them unjust, fraught with evil, pro-
posed. linked, and chained together by
small demagogues for demagogical pur-
poses, and we are unqualifedly opposed to
them and hope they will meet with the
unanimous rejection they deserye.-Page
Courier.
Year: 1876

We believe that in certain probable
contingencies Nebraska can be car
ried for Tilden and Hendricks in No
vember ncxt.-Omuhn Herald.


Will the editor of the Herald be
good enough to inform an anxious
public what are the probable contin-
gencies" to which he alludes? We
understand from private sources that
it has been represented by Democrats
resident in this county, that Senator
Tipton's going over to the enemy
was intended that he would take with
him a majority of the Republican
party not only In this county, but in
the State! Now, if it can be shown
that Upton has taken a single indi-
vidual with him in this county, or
any other in the State, "we'll give our
head for foot ball."
Year: 1876

A striking example of the degree OF
favor with which our public school
system is regarded by the 'reformers,
is to be foaad in the District of Co.
lumbia, the only territory which is


wholly and absolutely under the con-
trol of the national government. BY
the limit which Congress placed on
the expenditures of the Commission
ers of the District of Columbia, ii has
been found necessary to so reduce the
allowance for school service, that the
term during which the schools can be
kept open has been cut down to eight
months in the year instead of ten
months, as has always heretofore been
the case. Let it be remembered that
this action is not through refusal to
appropriate the money of the country
at large, but merely an arbitrary ana
unjust refusal to permit the taxes,
which are paid by the residents and
property holders of the District, to be
applied as heretofore in favor of a full
school term of ten months. The
school system OF Washington under
the fostering care of Republican Com
mittees in former Congresses has
grown from a mere nothing to mod
ell, and one that has been commended
and followed in many other localities,
and yet We see the Democracy at the
very first opportunity striking at it in
a manner and with force calculated
to make its friends and admirers stand
aghast. A movement is on foot by the
more earnest and friendly by which
1t is proposed to keep the schools open
through the full term by private sub
scriptions from those most interested.


President Grant has frequently al
luded in his messages to our free school
system as of the utmost importance
10 the country, and not only the plat.
form adopted by the Republican Con-
vention at Cincinnati, but Governor
Hayes in his letter of acceptance urg-
es the importance of fostering the sys-
tenn as the surest means of ensuring
the prosperity and perpetuity of oul
Republic.
Year: 1876

clusively that Tilden is most corrupt
man, politically and otherwise, and
most unfit of oil aspirants to properly
represent and execute laws for the Ia
borer, the mechanic, the poor man
and the agriculturist. Democratic
WITNESSES of this fact are abundant
and sufficient, and this testimony, we
insist, should be weighed well and
candidly considered by all honest men
who want to be informed of the truth
that they may do right and vote right.
Year: 1876

The result of the Changers revolt
against the grain ring in San Francis
Co will be watched with interest. The
ring stood between the farmers and
the ships, and prevented them from
exporting on their own account, or
without paying heavy tribute to the
middlemen. They have now united,
agreed to sell no corn for less than
$l.65 bushel and are arranging to
charter vessels on their own account.
Year: 1876

OF the sangulnary scenes being en-
acted these times in the Black Hills
country, the following is reported:


On Saturday evening, Aug. 18th,
two miners of Deadwood went to hunt
for game, and when about four miles
east they caught peaceable sneaking
around through the brush, and they
shot at him, and it being late at night
they left him were he fell, for dead
The next morning they went out to
find him. When they came close up
to where the Indian lay, he raised his
gun with his left hand, his right arm
and both his legs being broken the
evening before, and shot the two men
named Lew. Mason, of Mich, and
Charles Holland of Sioux City, both
through the heart.
Year: 1876

The Omaha Herald never makes o
serious charge against a public man,
or any other man, without being able
to prove it.-OndItG Herald.


The Herald published an editorial
recently regarding ourself and Col.
Penick's regiment which it cannot
prove, and We hereby denounce the
editor of the Omaha Herald, G. l..
Miller, as malicious liar, and can
prove him such If he thinks it neces-
sary. We never make so positive and
serious" a charge against any man
without being able to prove it,"
Year: 1876

President Grant, says the Wash
ington Republic, was never NOR earn
est than he is to-day. His determina-
to use all constitutional means to put
down political assassinations, and
have the polls kept open, is not to be
trified with. Nor is the temper of the
North to be trified with. The elec-
ton in the South must be as safe and
as free for Republican citizens, white
or black, as in the States of Vermont
or Massachusetts. Let the Southern
Democracy take a note of this. 1t
may be for their comfort. And to
show how thoroughly the work of
protection Is to be done, and how busy
the proper officers are In making pre-
parations for 1t, the following infor-
nation is made public as to carrying
out the election laws:


The Attorney General is preparing,
and will in few days issue, specific
instruction to the United States mar
shals in every State in the Union, in
structing them as to their duties and
rights under the election laws. The
object of the administration, as stated
by the Attorney General, is to secure
to every citizen, in Massachusetts, as
well as in the South Carolina, his full
rights under the law. The marshaIs
having once been instructed as to
| their rights under the law will be eX-
pected to enforce them; and If they
cannot do this with the usual force at
their command, then the military
will be sent to assist them.


Under the order issued to General
Sherman there will be no present
| change in the stations of troops in
any of the States, North or South,
| but the order itself will be issued in
the form of general order, and sent
to all the officers commanding divis-
ions, departments, and posts, and they
will regard it as O sufficient notice to
hold all their troops in readiness to
answer any legal demand that may
he made upon them TO assist In exc
cutting the law. General Sherman, in
speaking of this order, says he does
not believe it Is the intent ton of the
President to interfere unduly in the
affairs of any State, but thinks that
the President has determined, as far
as lies in his power, there shall be a
fair and peaC cable election in every
State in the Union. even if all the
available force of the army must be
used to protect their rights.
Year: 1876

The is one charge that should be
made against Tilden without further
delay, and before so mauy are made
that there will not be room for any
more, and that is that "hestole Charles
Ross. "-PhiLddelphin Times.


So many serious charges are made
against Mr.. Tilden, aOith the proof to
back them. that it is not necessary to
make false charges, even by the most
INSCRIPTIONS or over Jealous parti-
sans. The truth is bad enough. Til
den has made his own unenviable
record, which damns him in the eyes
of all good men as thoroughly as if he
were in reality child thief. A man
who will connive with thief to stuff
ballot box with fraudulant tickets Is
equally as mean as the thief himself,
and q thief Is a thief whether he
steals children or money. The man
who would put upon record false
oath to cheat his government out of a
few dollars of tax, Is meaner man
than the man who stole little
Charley Ross. The naked truth is
sufficient to dispose of Mr.. Tilden's
case.
Year: 1876

In all diseases affecting these organs,
whether they secret too much or too little
water; or whether they be afflicted with
stone OF gravel, or with aches and pains set
tied in the loins or over the regions of the
kindnevs these Pills should be taken accord
ing to the printed directions, and the Oint,
ment should be well rubbed into the small
of the back at bed time. This treatment
will give almost immediate relief when all
other means have failed.
Year: 1876

know best what you ought to afford: 1t
matters little what they think, provided
YOU are true to yourself and family.


Thus, pursuing an independent and
straightforward course of action, there
will spring peace and Joy all around
you. Satisfied and happy yourself you
will make your husband so, and your
children will feel the warm, sunny in
fiuence. Happy at home, your husband
can go out into the world with clear
head and self-denying spirit; domestic
pickering will not sour his heart, and he
will return to you again with contiding
and unceasing love. Depend upon it,
beauty, grace, wit. accomplishments,
have far less to do with family comfort
than prudence, economy, thrift and
good sense. A husband may get tired
of admiring, but never with the COM
Portable consciousness that his receipts
exceed his demands.
Year: 1876

AMERICAN LABoR.-Canon Freeman
tie, in a recent lecture in London on
America, said that no American will en-
ter into domestic service. If this were
right, it would be equally wrong to
keep q servant. But the same people
who regard domestic service as degra-
dation, have no scruple against employ
ing Irish or German servants. The
canon thought there was q truer feeling
in England, where the most honorable
relations are often found to exist be-
tween master and servant. The canon,
however, said he would leave it to his
hearers whether the excessive independ-
ence Of the American, or the depend
ence Of the English workman, was pref
erable.


At station in Boston he found it i'm
possible to get anyone to carry his lug
gage to another station three hundred
yards of, and had to do it himself,
though, as there were several boxes, he
would gladly have paid. When he ar.
rived at Euston Station, London, two
fine fellows ran by the side of his cab
all the way to Gloucester Plain, over q
mile, for the chance of earning sixpence
for carrying in the luggage. Which,
he asked, is the better state Of things
that in which you cannot get q man to
work for you, or that in which human
toll is so cheap, and 50 little accounted
of?
Year: 1876

A good story is told of an eccentric
old parson who was sorely annoyed by
o habit his people had acquired land
which prevails, by the same way, in oil
other churches, even. now and here
abouts, to some extent,) of twisting
their necks around every time anybody
entered the door and passed up the aisle
of the meeting house, to see what man
uer of person it might be.


Wearied by the annoyance the old man
exclaimed, one Sunday:


Brethren, if you will only cease
turning your heads around whenever
the door opens, and will keep your at
tention on me, 1 will promise to tell you
as 1 preach, who it is that comes in"


Accordingly, he went on with his SER
vices, and presently made a stop as one
of the deacons entered, saying:


"That is Deacon, who keeps the
grocery opposite"


And thus he announced, in turn, the
advent Of each individual, proceeding
the while with his sermon as composed
ly as circumstances would admit, when
at last stranger came in, when he cried
out:


"a little old man in green spectacles
and drab overcoat-don't know him
you can all turn round and look for
yourselves, this time"


It is hardly necessary to add that the
good man carried his point, and there
was but little neck-twisting in his con-
gregation after that day.
Year: 1876

1 found the darkness so great as to
render any further progress impossible,
except at a risk of a broken neck, so,
seating myself under rock, waited
on the increasing daylight. Life was
already stirring faint rustles, and once
broken twig, denoted the whereabouts
of antelopes, or, it might be of their
enemy, the leopard, while the calls of
the birds sounded from every side by
and by the rustling became louder, and
it was evident some animal was coming
up the track by which 1 was going to
descend, until at last it got so near that
1 could distinguish the rattle of sharp
hoofs among the powders and stones
below me. Suddenly there was dull
sound as of some heavy body falling,
followed by q confused noise of strug-
Cling, half-choked bleat, which 1 sup
posed 1 recognized as coming from the
throat of an unkumbi, and then silence.
A few steps sufAced to explain the cause
of the noise, for as got round the cor
ner of the rock I came in sight of boa
constructor employed in licking the car
cass of its victim, a young doe of the
species had expected, which lay, o
shapeless mass, within q yard of the
path l was following. No doubt, had 1
blundered on through the darkness an
other five yards, I should at that mo-
ment have occupied its place, even
though the great snake might, perhaps,
have found it impossible to swallow me
after killing me however, the idea was
enough, and without remembering at
Al n IAvr ohAr1I1 5sakx,,1D \
whole bush, leveled the rifle at its
broad head and fred. 1t was not until
the smoke cleared and I could see its
whole body, as it writhed and twisted
in its last sgonies (the bullet having
fortunately severed the backbone an
inch or 80 behind the neck) that COM
pretended its enormous size and
strength. I had no means of accurate
ly measuring it, but have no hesitation
in saying that Is 8feet would be decidedly
under the mark. have, indeed, no
doubt that it was at least 20 feet, while
its girth was considerably more than
that Of mans thigh. It was consider
ably the largest snake ever saw, though
of the same species varying from II to
10 feet. They are, however, but rarely
seen, lying chiefly on the edges of thick
cover, into which they betake them.
selves if disturbed while basking, as
they are fond Of doing, outside in the
sun. Their food consists of almost any
thing they can catch, from a cat or lit
tie bird to q small antelope, though they
no doubt occasionally kill large one,
which, unless of unusual size thems
selves, they are unable to swallow and
I doubt their lives being such an alter
nate succession of feasts and fasts as has
been imagined. No doubt, when they
do catch an antelope and eat it, the after
process of digestion occupies consid


erable period, but such captures, except
in the case of the blue buck, which is a
little larger than hare, are, 1 fancy,
rare, and I have never yet killed one,
small or large, which had nothing in its
stomach, though the contents have been
on more than one occasion sufficiently
miscellaneous.-W Fl. Drummond.
Year: 1876

WHEN DR.. Loring was at the Marble
head celebration, the other day, a min.
lister introduced his little son in hi.
way LET me introduce you to d.
Loring, and mind that you look him in
the face 80 as to remember him, for Won
may vote for him for Governor one Of
these days" The Doctor eyed the strip.
ling with a rueful gaze and quickly re.
piled, " Good heavens have 1 got To
wait till then ?"-N Y. Herald
Year: 1876

A SooTCH minister recently told his
neighbor that he spoke two hours and
a half the Sunday previous. Why,
minister, were you not tired to death !"
asked the neighbor. "Aw nae" said
he; Il was as fresh as rose but it
would have done your heart good to see
how tired the congregation was"
Year: 1876

Let me say a word TO our young
men and boys, and that is : Don't
idle. There is now considerable cum
plaint about hard times and want OF
employment, but one-half the trouble
is the fault of the applicants them
selves. Each one asks for 8 particular
kind of work and not unfrequently
the very kind they know the party
applied to can not furnish, and fall
ing to obtain that, try NJ more, and
go about bewailiug their bad luck aud
the hard times. Now boys that will
not do-if you cannot get work at
what you prefer, take any other hon.
orable employment. Remember that
all cannot be blaeksmiths, or carpen-
tiers, or clerks, or book-keepers. There
never was time in the history of the
world when LABOR was more desirable,
both for the employer aud employed,
when the workman was more in need
of labor than to-day yet we see scores
of persons out of employ, not by rea-
son of want os employment but be-
cause they will not work at Whist the
employer wants dlne or at prices
commensurate with that Of other
Il oOAAC
of our young men and mechanics
walking the streets with cigars in
their mouths, their hands in their
pockets, owing for their clothes and
even ornaments they are wearing, ex-
cusing their idleness in the remark
that they can find nothing to do.
This is disgraceful; tits untrue. be-
lieve to-day that there need be no idle
man or woman in the city of Mish-
awaka. or out OF it for that matter.
There is labor, honest, remunerative
labor, if you will but seek. II you
cannot fad it make it; go into your
shops and work up your material into
something, go into the country and
cut wood, split rails, ditch, anything
to keep busy, and let people know
that you are ready AMI willing to
work. Talk not of hard times, deny
it, get people to believe you, and il
six weeks, if ali will follow the exam
pie, there need not be an idle man in
the country.


Again we say to the young men e
TO work. If your fathers cannot fur
nish you make it yourself. The great
eat gun factory in the world grew
from q play shop, and who can tel
but you may be the means o. organ
izing a similar industry2 At least
try, you will be happier, healthier anC
far more respected.-EI.
Year: 1876

Norwich Bulletin; He was taken
sick IN the night aud 10 her youthful
ignorance she made two mustard
plssters and put one in front and one
behind, and then with h0rrid sarcasm
she asked him haw he feif. But he
was weii-bret man and merely said
that he realized with a tenderness he
had never known before, the true
position Of a ssndwieh IN the CON-
muuity.
Year: 1876

At seven o'clock last night Mr. Hanks proprietor Of
the hotel bearing his name at No. 435 Ninth avenue
hoard low moaning sound in room on the top noor
and going In found Charles Walters, OF the odgers
lying In his bed in pool OF blood dying. A
doctor speedily called, but before his arrival
the man was dead. The police we're then notified
of the case. and Sergeant Brogan, OF tho Thirty
seventh street station, hurried to tho house. He found
the man lying undressed the edge OF the bod his
head hanging over. Blood streaming from both
wrists the arteries Of which had been cut and cash
in the throat let out third stroam which flowed over
his breast and the bed, saturatng tho latter and
orming pool At his side Noar the unfortun ate man
and partially concealed bv tho crimson
bottle filled with a reddish liquid both
soskcd in blood. Tho liquid emitted strong odor OF
chloroiorm. II evident that the man had cnused
his death, and the police, judging from the blood
the bo;te. surmsed that he Gfst cut hts artercs
then perhaps eager to hasten death, took the poison
after which he drew the knife across his throat


A search at the resulted IN the discovery OF
i. a paper. which was written ''Mr. John Clifford,
New YORK. care 3. Schmutz No 415 Seventh avenue, ("
and subsequently, letter was found IN vest dated
year ago Ii referred to a contemplated trip OF tho
deceased to San Francisco, and was signed by John
Clifford


Tho police after much trouble found Mr. Schmutz,
who stated that Walters formerly worked with him as
a cabinet decorator. The deceased bachelor and
sixty years OF age He had been wasting away with
consumption for fonr years, and At the tms OF hts
death he a approach TO living skeleton. He
spent year Bellevue Hospital coming OF that
institution recently on Friday last he took room at
Hanks Hotel He extremely poor, but responsible
and sensitive.


Poverty Is the only known reason for tho act