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Year: 1876

The Sonoma Democrat is responsible fer the following story: A special dance was in progress s.t Rrunsen's ranch, Green Springs, in the lower cad of the county, and after the dancing had got well under way two young men, named Totn Adams and Joe Russian, stepped out, intending to visit neighboring house for the purpose of procuring cigars for social smoke together. The night was unusually dark-absolutel nothing being discernible foot distant Consequently tho two men proceeded slowly, trusting to their knowledge of the locality to carry them to the direo- tion they wished to take.

 Suddenly, and without the least warn ing whatever, their feet slipped from under taen, and the next instant they felt themselves plunged downward, neck deep in slum and water. They had fall en into an old shaft, dropping at least forty feet from the edge. Fortunately both fell on their feet, and the mud in the bottom prevented their being bruised ih the fall. A new danger, however, i'm mediately presented itself, namely: in the ouicksand. Both made desperate efforts to keep their heads above the water, but in doing 50 nearly suffocated from immersion.

 Adams at last caught hold of @ projec- tion on the side of the shaft, and al though possessing but ono arm, sue oeeded in holding on until Russian climbed over him and reached the mouth of the shaft. Russian then called for help, and the party at Bruncen's was soon on the spot. No ropes were pro- curable, and something had to be done immediately to save Adams from death in the bottom of the pit.

 Men think very rapidly in cases of i'm mediate da1ger, and one of the crowd around the top of the shaft proposed that the most muscular foriil them into chain, and drop into the shaft. This was acted upon at once. The heaviest man was held by one urm by several men at the mouth of the shaft, and a second man sliding into the shaft, cling ing to his waist. A third man did like wise, grasping the second mans waist, and each successive hak in the human chain did likewise until the bottom was reached, and Adams dragged from his awful predicament. Through the mu- tual assistance of Adams himself and his | friends he managed to leach the top completely exhausted, as were his brave rescuers.

 It was indeed narrow escape for both young men from horrible death, and a ere litab'e action on the part of those who undertook in this novei and danger ous manner to rescue Adams.
Year: 1876

The flowers we lost will all return; Though dead and buried long ago, Beneath the winters ice and snow, They greet again the suns bright face Each in it's own appointed place,

 And through the summer bloom and burn

 The dead and lost will surely rise; Though buried deep beneath the clay, Through years and years they waste away, Yet in brighter, better land, We hope to take them by the hand.

 And find them glorious In our eyes.

 The flowers will como again, we know. For touch, and taste, and sight, and smell, The truth of resurrection tell. >. Last season brought them back again, And other seasons will, and then

 We do not grieve because they go.

 We do not know the dead will live. They never greet our mortal sight, Beyond the dark we see no light, And we have naught to check our grief, Except shadow called belief,

 And such sense as hops can give.
Year: 1876

A WHITE S1oUx.-Some of the In dians who were in the battles with the Sioux assert that there was white man with the Indians, and that he was not 8 half breed; that he had large white or gray beard. As Indians invariably pluck out all hair growing on their face, this latter fact would seem to indicate the correctness of their assertion,
Year: 1876

The Old South Church, which never did
any harm in its life, but, on the contrary,
has a much better record than either Mr..
Hayes or Mr. Tilden, now stands like
criminal under sentence of death. Old age
is its sole offence, and this year, when Amer
ica is honoring her antiquities, it is strange
that this ancient glory should be On excep-
ton. The very fact that it is old should
save it, OF new buildings there are plenty,
but capital and enterprise cannot create his
torical monuments, unless they do like the
man in the comedy who built what he was
pleased to call ''new ruins" on his estate.
Philadelphia might as well tear down the
State House as Boston destroy the Old South
Church


The Bostonians are not themselves respon-
sible for this proposed vandalism. The peo-
pie know the value of the old church, and
are working hard to obtain reversal of the
decree of death. The committee appointed
to get subscriptions for the purpose are act
ing with energy and zeal. 1t has addressed
u letter to the Standing Committee of the
church. asking for time TO complete the fund,
and proposing to take lease of the building
for three or six months, and to pay fair per-
centage on the market value. Guarantees Of
this payment we're obtained in two hours-a
very encouraging sign. The Grand Army of
the Republic has come to the rescue Of the
church, and many of its influential members
have had n letter sent to GENERAL Horace
Binncy Sargent, Commander of the Depart
ment of Massachusetts, requesting him to
make an appeal to all the posts in the
State All the neighboring towns unto with
Boston in the protest. Quincy, Stockbridge,
Marblehead, Milton Hill, Mattapoisett, Sax
onville and other towns have their subscrip-
ton books and liberal contributions have
been made The friends of the Old South
Church now believe that they can save it.
and the country cannot understand how
they can fail. Boston is patriotic and rich
enough to raise the comparatively small sum
needed and understands that she holds the
building in trust, as it we're, for the whole
nation. Progress, we know, requires that
sentiment shall make way for mercantile in
tercsts; but is that progress which would OBJ
literate our few great historical monuments :?
We received these memorials rs legacies
from the glorious past, and it is our duty to
bequeath them to the future
Year: 1876

The selection of the rifle team to shoot the
return match with the Irish rihemen marks
another step in the preparation for the fall
contests 1t results in placing three new
names upon the list of our first class rife
men, crowding out one of the old team who
would have secured place had he stood on
his old score-Mr. Yale. This result is not,
however, particularly regrettable, as the
young men who have secured the chance of
higher rife honors have undergone most
searching test, and will doubtless hereafter
justify their fine records in the late competi-
tions The difference in the teams only
amounts to three names, and the shooting
force Of the return team is, if anything,
stronger than that of the Centennial. Below
we give in tabulated form the result of the
two selections. So many of the Centennial
team resolved to stand upon their scores
that the difference in the Figures is not very
great but we arc pleased to note that the
tendency of all the shooting is to go higher
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Year: 1876

The republicans in North Carolina have
opened their campaign. North Carolina is
one of the test States in the Union, because
of its peculiar population and the delicate
shades of difference between its politicians.
Before the war North Carolina was generally
a whig State, and this whig element gem
Grated a powerful Union party, which
troubled the Confederacy during the war
and was relied upon by Mr. Lincoln in the
work of reconstruction. In most of the
Southern States the party lines have been
the old resident whites on one side, the
carpet-baggers and negroes on the other In
North Carolina there has always been a
powerful white party, composed of old set
tiers, who remained true to the republican
platform. The republicans have taken a
man of this kind for Governor in the person
of Judge Thomas Settle. The Judge be-
longs to one of the pioneer Carolina fami-
lies He was President Of the Convention
which nominated Grant and Wilson, and is
now, we believe, on the Supreme Bench Of
the State. He has the reputation of an elo-
quent and accomplished man, and in put
ting him at the head of the ticket the North
Carolina republicans mean to show that one
Southern State at least shall not 60 demo-
cratic by default.


We are glad to see old residents of the
South like Judge Settle acting with the re-
pubicans. What we have always dreaded
in the South since the war is the formation
of parties upon color lines or war lines. No
good could come from such division; and, in
deed. most of the evils Of which the South
erners complain may be attributed to it.
We desire to see in the South all idea o.
color, or nativity, or political feeling during
the war; driven out of politics. The cry Of
..carpet-bagger" has, we have no doubt, pre-.
vented hundreds of thousands of white
men-honest, worthy men-from going into
the South They would have gone with
alacrity into warmer climates and richer
fields; but unless they became democrats or
turned upon all the associations of home
they were apt to be received with shotgun.
So with the negro. We believe if there had
been more of the spirit of conciliation toward
the negro the democratic party might to-day
have the best share of his vote. We trust
also to see lively and earnest canvass in
the South. We dread nothing more than tha
restoration of sectional party in the Union.
God knows we have had enough of sectional-
ism. and we deplore its return. Therefore,
when we read the democratic calculations
about carrying all the South on the color
question, as matter Of course, we deplore
them, not because we object to the demo-
Gratis winning, but because any victory based
upon prejudice or hatred of race is a mis-
fortune


The fact. therefore. that the republicans
in North Carolina have found as a candidate
an old resident, man of distinction, who
is neither a carp st-bagger nor a scalawag noR
a negro, is a matter for general congntula-
ton. AS to the issue in this canvass we
have nothing to say. We do not care
whether Judge Settle is chosen Governor on
Year: 1876




follows him. Yet all this time the President
does not say word. lie has driven every
journalist from the White House, and so we
do not have the vague and occasional con-
ISOLATION of an ''interview" as to his pur-
poses. subservient Senate confirms every
act, and there is no one in all the repub-
lican majority with manhood enough to rise
and denounce these violations Of republican
government. We concede that General
Grant is great soldier; that he has rem
dered noble services that he has an illus
trious name But this gives him no right
to be our Cesar or our Bonaparte. Where
in the career of Caesar or Bonaparte can we
find such fragrant violations of the spirit Of
republican government as are now seen daily
in Washington? Where is the constitutional
monarchy that would for moment dare to
strike down honored citizens, right and left,
and not deign to give pretext for its course !?
We repeat, if there are reasons for the dis
missal of Bristow, Jewell, Pratt, Dyer, Var
yam and the rest, let them be known. If
the President has an intelligent reason-one
that commends itself to the country-we
shall be satisfied. But we are not satisfied
to have our government administered on
Ottoman principles, an irresponsible Sultan
at the head, sustained by a subservient
Senate of political eunuchs, gorged with
patronage, and not daring to question the
absolute will of the supreme chief.


The reason assigned for these extreme acts
of authority on the part of the President is
that he was concerned in the Whiskey Ring
and the Indian frauds, and wishes to punish
the prosecutors of Belknap and Babcock
This is the motive assigned by the Presi-
dents enemies but we have too much re-
spect for General Grant to accept it. But is
he not doing all he can to confirm this ter
rible impression? Will not the country
think that this silent, swift vengeance upon
Dyer and the rest is only susceptible of one
explanation Our complaint lies with the
Senate and the House. The President is by
no means an irresponsible officer. He is as
much a servant of the people as Yaryan, and
entitled to no more consideration. 1t is the
duty of the Senate, who advises with the
President upon all of his appointments,
to know why these changes are made
1t is the duty of the House to pro-
tect the people against these constant
aggressions, these daily exhibitions of
personal government We are tired of
this manifestation of Cmsarism in its worst
form. The republicans in the House and
Senate assume q terrible responsibility in
consenting to these tyrannical freaks. 1t is
natural that man so stolid and selfish as
Grant should care nothing about the party.
The party to him is a sucked orange, and so
he treats it. The leaders must end this
business, or else the fair, auspicious cam
paign of Hayes will fall into night, and the
people will rise against him as the only as
sailable representative of C@sarism which
alarms and offends the nation.
Year: 1876




We do not see that there is any good rea-
son for the severity with which Mr.. Carl
Schurz is treated by several prominent jour
nails that support the St. Louis ticket.
Since it has become known that he will 60
into the canvass on the Hayes side he is
assailed as renegade reformer, and pas
sages from the address of the Fifth Avenue
Conference, written by him, are quoted and
a strained Interpretation put upon them,
with view to convict him of inconsistency.
His recent political course is quite as con-
sistent as that of majority Of public men.
All true friends of sound currency justi-
fed Mr. Schurz, last autumn, when he
returned from Europe to speak on the re-
publican side in the Ohio canvass. He has
always been strenuous champion of hard
money, and he abjured in no part his
avowed principles by advocating the cleo
tion of Hayes against wild infationist like
Governor Allen. Throughout that canvass
the chief point of democratic assault was
the Resumption law, fixing January, 1879. as
the date for specie payments. Mr.. Schurz
defended that date in his speeches as tho
one valuable feature of the law, admitting
that the means provided for its execution
are insufficient, but contending that the
pledge to resume at definite date obligates
the government to supply the means Of
doing SO. The st. Louis platform de-
mands a repeal of that part of the
law which fixes the date, and Mr.. Schurz
could not have supported such platform
without retracting nearly all he said during
the Ohio campaign. So far as the currency
question is concerned, consistency bound
him to support Hayes again this year, if he
was to take an active part in the Presidential
canvass.


The natural place of Mr.. Schurz is in the
republican party, with which the greater
portion of his public life is SO closely iden-
tilted. He became estranged by his dislike
of President Grant, but the party will soon
be rid of Grant, and Mr.. Schurz has doubt
less convinced himself that he can do more
for reform as a republi an under such
President as Hayes than he could as dem
ocrat under Tilden. Mr.. Schurz is under
no sort of obligation to the democratic
party and owes it no fcalty. All tho public
trusts he has been honored with have been
conferred upon him by the republicans. On
the expiration of his term as Senator from
Missouri the democrats could have attested
their zeal for reform and sound currency
by re-electing him, but they cared
more for party than for principle.
He had nothing to expect from the
democratic party, and is pretty sure
to recover his former standing and influence
among the republicans if Hayes is elected
President. 1t is quite in the ordinary
course of things that he should return to
the republican party.


But it does not appear that he will carry
any considerable portion of the independent
Germans with him. A strong prediction
for Governor Tilden is manifested by Ger
man citizens under such leaders as Mr..
Ottendorfer and Mr. Hassaurek, and if his
forthcoming letter of acceptance should be
bold and courageous he will stand good
chance for receiving majority of the Ger
man vote.
Year: 1876

antine for cholera and take unusual pains
to keep our ports healthy. But we allow


needless people to generate typhus, diph-
liberia and diseases as fatal as cholera or the
yellow fever. This is what is now doing at
Tompkins square. We trust the city au-
thorities will at once suppress this nui-
sance. We wish there we're some way to in
dict our municipal rulers for manslaughter
in permitting this criminal interference
with the health and happiness of the people.
Year: 1876

SERvrA's WAR-Until the result of Tcher-
nayeffs endeavor to advance is known it
will be futile to judge of the effect upon the
Turkish war of such acts as the closing of
the port of Kick by Austria. The action in
The field is the only tangible test of the fu-
sure of the conflict. Back of the camps are
the cabinets, and back of the cabinets are the
courts, and since the time of the Spanish
marriages diplomatic intrigue has never
been so busy as ut present in Euro
pean courts and cabinets One day
the quidnuncs find Germany and Russia
nose to nose; the next Russia and
Austria are in loving embrace the day
after nothing will suit these loving brothers
but o fight; then England has combined
every other Power against Russia, and so on.
In reality all these Powers are. to use a
phrase more forcible than elegant, 'sparring
for an opening" Meanwhile the Turks arc
handling the Servians pretty roughly, aud
ali the sentiment about the Cross and
the Crescent is laid aside waiting for Ser
vian victory or Turkish massacre before 1t
,ounts for any thing in the fray. Our special
cable despatch gives the latest features OF
the coniss.
Year: 1876

AN ENGLISH AMATEUR Four started for this
country yesterday, to row in the Centennial
regatta. crew from Cambridge University
will start by the end of the month. They
will receive n royal welcome
Year: 1876

How MUcH OF VICTORY was the demon
stration of Mr.. Kelly's friends at Tammany
Hall last night remains to be seen. Tramp
ling out the opposition of the demo-
Gratis who censurcd Mr.. Schell and Mr.
Kelly may do very well once or twice,
but cannot be continued long Mr.
Kelly, who was so eulogized last night
has led his party here to two defeats,
which in any organization directed by COM
mon sense would have insured his overthrow
before he had the opportunity of making his
champion blunder at ST. Louis. The de-
mocracy of New York have created in the per-
son of the Tammany Boss Frankenstein
that they seem powerless to control. He
may be defeated, he may make himself and
them ridiculous, but they cannot unmake
him. And yet if he were dropped on some
snow-clad peak Of the Serras to cool we cam
not believe that New York would miss him.
He thinks differently, but let his friends try
the experiment.
Year: 1876

No News FROM CEook.-The statements
of General Sheridan regarding the probable
safety of the forces under General Crook
and those on their way to join him will tend
to allay the general alarm somewhat but
until he has been directly heard from we
await news with anxiety.
Year: 1876

We print this morning the list of subscrip-
tions that have thus far been received at the
Office of the HERALD for monument in
honor of General Custer and his brave men
who died on the Yellowstone -
Year: 1876




The best answer that can be given to those
who think We are hard, material people, in
whom all sense of patriotism and valor is
dead, is to commemorate in some fitting way
the valor of Custer and his men. A deed
like this on the Yellowstone will shine out
in our history with the splendor of Their
mopyle in the history of Greece The
courage of Custer was high as that of
Leonidas He was sent to hard duty
He was bidden TO pursue and destroy foe
which had lived on our frontiers, killing
women and children. He knew the terrible
alternative. He knew that he must rout and
kill the Indians or they would kill him. and,
if they had the opportunity, with all the re-
finements Of torture. Yet, in spite of this,
duty commanded and he rode into the
grave.


Clusters death has nll the romance, all the
parallel in our history, and few, indeed, in
the history Of other nations. If we would
cherish this spirit, if we would bid our
children emulate this example, if we would
encourage bravery and self-denial, let us
show ourappreciation Of Custer and his men
by building monument to their fame.
Already the HERALD has SO, 2S5 45 as con-
tributions to the fund. The Army and
Navy Club has taken action. In WASH
ington a Custer. Monument Association has
been formed. The work is one in which
the poorest may Join, for none are SO poor
that we cannot respect and veneratc courage
and duty and self-sacrifce. Let us add
another trophy to our Centennial garland by
showing the world what we think of Custer
and the brave men who perished with him
in the service of their country.
Year: 1876

HANDS OFF THE SouTH.-In this canvass
one demand should be made by all who love
their country, irrespective of party senti-
ment-Let Grant take his heavy hand off
the South. Of our soldiers we may say to
him as Richard III. said to Stanley What
do they in the south when they should serve
their country in the west?" Why should
Mississippi be strongly garrisoned while
troops are wanted to fight Sitting Bull in Da-
kota and all that region which is now threat
ened with long, cruel and possibly dis
astrous war? Senator Bayard in a recent
debate showed how Mississippi has suffered
under one of the worst State governments
ever known, and how much moderation
and wisdom are wanted to enforce the
much needed reforms. The views of Mr.
Bayard are not extreme in this case. AIissis-
sippi and the whole South, indeed are orderly
enough, and Presidential campaign is not
the time when large bodies of troops should
be stationed in any State when they are
needed to fight the common enemy. There
is dividing line between caution and RASH
ness, and we hope the administration may
find it.
Year: 1876




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$500 points. 6,654 5000 points. 6. 666
Equal to SO. 175 per cent Equal to S3 33 rer cent
Having advanced thus far with their organ
ization and proved conclusively that there
exists in this country the finest material for
long range craftsmanship we hope to see
team practice vigorously pushed forward.
With cooperation and direction we expect
to see the fifteen selected rifemen of both
teams increase their average at least three per
cent. 1t will require the hardest work to do
this, for our rifemen have been peculiarly
fortunate in their weather heretofore and
only by steady practice through the nine
weeks remaining can they hope to hold their
average in face of 'ugly" atmospheric condi-
tions. On days similar to those on which
the competitions were carried on we think
our rifemen could beat any foreign team so
far heard from, but under conditions similar
to those of the gusty days so common in
Great Britain and Ireland it might give our
lifemen all they could do to keep level with
their antagonists. We shall watch the prac-
tice of the teams with great interest