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Year: 1876

AN EXCITING SCENE The enthusiasm with
which Senator Blaine was greeted at Cooper
Institute Monday night, was simply unbounded
He was cheered to the echo as he entered and
took a seat on the platform. The audience
applauded continuously at every break in the
address, and when he asked permission to say
good night the scene was 50 exciting and the
cheers so deafenng that it was impossible to
catch the closing words. Several hundred were
unable to gain admittance, consequently there
were overflow meetings. 1t was as much as
the Captain of Police could do to keep the
crowd out, even after the huge hail was filed
to suffocation. Ths general cry was: 1--WE
want to hear Mr.. Blaine"
Year: 1876

your successor, Governor Chamberlain But Of
your triumphant reelection ESQ well deserved
az the hand of every voter) there can be no un-
certainty, provided these methods are rot re-
sorted to, to the driving sof thousands of your
warm and grateful friends from the polls. You
dering a legal choice impossible. Whatever
may be the result you have the proud con-
seriousness of having acted well your part and
faithfully discharged every official duty and
obligation. Yours is position as sublime as it
Is critical. Faithful and fearless to the end,
by the side OF the foremost champion of liber-
tY and Justice
Year: 1876

We do rot read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
A cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Ct good faith


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used
Year: 1876




number Of wealthy Cubans for several years resi-
dent in the United have become mucn infatuated
with trotting SPORT and think that If properly AZ
ranged track should be laid out noar Havana, the
sport would become popularized and soon DO
s,dered permanent institution. With this view they
have purchased in the vicinity of Havana pleasant
location for first class troting track and rapidly
laying It out upon the most approved plan They are
confident that the track when finished will bc equal in
all respects tho best appointed course in America,
as no expense will be spared TO reach this end The
stables Tor accommodation OF horses will be sub
stantal and roomy, that the stock will be CON-
Portable and have all the advantages One OF
their agen,s, Colonel Dc Lay, in
this city securing control OF several OF prominent
trotters and has already purchased number OF last
ones which have made u good record on the turf II
is expected that, when everything is finished, sui
uc,ent Inducements will be held out for owners Of fast
trottcrs instead of wntering their horses in the cold
wIntry OF the North that they will be persuaded 10
transport them Cuba and trot them through the
winter months The climate of the Ever Faithful lslo
Is delightful during the winter season When In tho
North every thing Is frozen and no exercise can be
given troting stock In Cuba everything iul OF lie
and enjoy ment, nature bursting with tho luxuriant
growth Of tropical temperature We are conldcnt
this movement VIII result IN telling success
Year: 1876

further, and we soon had them on
board. There were thirteen, of
various colors and conditions
among them a woman. They had
been three hours in the water, and
were nearly dead with cold and
fright. From all that we could
learn, more than that number had
perished before we saw them. Some
Of them were merchants en- route
to Cairo to make purchases, and, in
their alarm, had thrown away con-
siderable sums of money. Our
sailors were very prompt in saving
them, and, when we had them on
board, were as kind as possible
in giving them food, drying their
clothes, etc. Scores of native boats
must have passed close by them
without an attempt at rescue. Soon
after they were safely on our boat,
Achmet told me that the crew were
anxious that Ishould shield them
from any harm for their good ac-
ton. Naturally, was astonished,
when it at length appeared that
the cause of apprehension was the
same that had prevented the native
boats from rendering assistance. 1t
was the fear that, had any persisted,
all who took part in the deliyerance
would be thrown into prison as wit
ne0ses; and orce get a man into
prison, no matter for what cause,
his chances Of egress are faint in
deed. The fear of the authorities
is so great that these naturally
kind-hearted men will see a fellow
cresture die rather than incur the
risk of saving him. 1t appeared
that the woman had been to Minieh
to visit her son, a mere lad, who


was in prison. Her story was, that
the sheik Of her village had given


him some order which he had for.


gotten to execute, whereupon, as


the readiest method Of improving


his memory for the future, the sheik


cooked him until he fell senseless


Therefore his numerous brothers


and sisters, thinking him dead


howled as 0rientals only can ; 81


by way of teaching the family mo-


to make a fuss about trihes, tn,


sheik sent the boy to prison for TIVE
months. When the Governor o
Minieh called in the evening, ant
expressed his thanks for the rescu
: of the people, / asked the favor 0
the boys release, provided tn
mothers story was true. Next da
he was released, and | was informe
: that his sentence of two months
: imprisonment had been for feignin
@ DEATH
Year: 1876

WHAT CAME OF A DECIDEDLY RECKLESS
ASSERTION.


John Dove is a very indiscreet youth
of35 or 40 years. Lasl night John pranced
into Nolen's saloon, on the corner of Six
teenth, and O'Fallon streets, s,sanguine and


brisky, with knife something less than a
yard long in his hand, and related that


he was willing to eat his grandmother if


he couldn't whip thunder out of any of
them in the house, and that's the kind of


hair pin he was. 1t is hard to believe
that he realized that he was in the heart
of Kerry Patch when he advanced this
proposition-for such degree of reck-


lessness is past credibility. However that
may be, the knights of Kerry never let a
man languish for want of fight, and John
was accommodated. They wiped the
floor with him and used him for billiard
cue, and wore him out. When they got
through with him they rolled him out
doors, and two police officers collared him
and his scimetar and locked them up. He
sent out for about bolt of calico and


some fresh beef, and this morning when
he came into the police Court he was
something little more gaudy than the
famous ring tailed monkey. Concealed
weapons was what they called Johns
scimetar, and he couldn't rebut the thing.
The Court fined him one hundred dollars
and sent him to the rocks. He isn't able
to do much in the way of pounding


macadam, but he is filled with admiration


for the thrashing machine that he ran


afoul of and, and all he wounders at is


that he came out alive.-(St. Louis Re
Rublicdn.)
Year: 1876

There is some loose talk floating
about on the newspaper air that upon
the completion of the Southern Pacific
Railroad of Los Angeles the steamer
lines plying between San Francisco
and the lower ports will reduce their
rates to $40 per passenger. If they do
it will be the result of competition,
for which the people will elevate
themselves on end and call the rivals
blest.-Press.
Year: 1876

| was tired of washing dishes, | was
tired of drudgery. 1t had always beer
so, and was dissatisfied. | never sa
down moment to read, that Jamie didn
want cake, or piece ofpaper to scrlb
BILE OH, or bit of soap to make bubbles
I'd rather be in prisan,' | SAID one day
ethan have my life teased out so,' as
Jamie knodked my elbow, when ! was
writing to friend.


But morning came when l had one
less chrir to set away by the wall in the
dining room, and one less plate to wash
when Jamie's little crib was put away in.
to the gxrret, and it has never come down
since. had been unusually fretful and
diseontented with him that damp May
morning that he took the Group Gloomy
weather gave me the headache, and
had less patience than at any other time.
BY and by he was singing in another
room. /" want to be an ANGEL and
presently rai.g out that metallic Group
cough. never hear that hymn since,
that it does not cut me to the heart, for
the Group cough rings out with it. He
grew worse towards highs, and when my
husband came home he went for the doc
tor, AT first he. seemed to help him, but
it merged into inflammatory Group, and
was soon over.


II ought to have been called in soon
err said the doctor


l have q servant to wash the dishes
now, and when visitor comes, can sit
down even and entertain her without
having to work all the time. There is
no little boy to worry me to open his
jack knife, there are no shavings The
magazines are not soiled with looking at
the pictures. but stand prim aud neat on
the reading table, just as leave them.


Your carpets never look dirty say
weary worn mothers to me


"Oh no. | mutter to myself, "there
are no muddy little boots to dirty itnow"


But my face is as weary as theirs
weary of sitting in my lonesome parlor
at twilight, weary with watching for the
little arms that used to twine around my
neck, for the curls that brushed against
my checks, for the young laugh that rang
out with mine, as we watched the blaz-
ing coal fire or made rabbits with the
shadow on the WALL waiting nerrily to-
gether for papa to come home. | have
the wealth and ease longed for, but at
what price And when see other moth
ers with grown up sons driving up to
town or church, and my hair gray, think
what might have been, had murmured
less at the providence of God.


Reader-young mother you may be
had you heard this mother tell her story
yon would have felt disposed with me to
say" will be more patient with IN,
little ones-I will murmur less >
Year: 1876

warranted not to cut in the eye--not a head
ache in hhds. of tit is no sooner in your
belly than its on your back in pound of beet
and it carries bead like a necklace: for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN.
Year: 1876




WINTERS DUTIES. lit is winter now
but if We have done our whole duty we
are not to be daunted by the cold and
cheerless aspect Of nature without. 1t
is true the focks and herds are thrown
upon our care, and are almost helpless
ly dependent upon US, for food and
shelter. Some folks seem to envy the
farmers Of milder cline, where the
cattle can Craze 10 pas lures still green,
and take care Of themselves. | don't
take etock in this sentiment. It is not
merely a matter Of necessity. but real
pleasure to take care Of stock at this
season Of the year, but then it ought
to be borne in mind that the stalling of
cattle 10 requisite to the successful pur-
suit Of any system Of farming. and that
real progress turns upon it since it is
the natural mode of keeping up and in
creasing the fertility of our lands. The
economy Of manures is founded upon
it. and 50 we find that where the win.
ters are so mild that the cattle are not
stall fed Of necessity. the soil becomes
exhaus ed. We must submit to 1t any
how, and let us make up our minds
that it is all for the best. Get little
time to attend the farmers club, and
take hold and help on the sooiability of
the neighborhood. d.-Nd Farmers A.
naanac. y tt-
Year: 1876

A Danbury man is confident that in


time passenger trains will be run at the


ate::of mile minute He is revolv-


ing a plan for taking on passengers


without stopping the train. and thus
save this time in running He thinks
a rack formed Of a scoop made Of net
ting. with back to it, and horizon
tai bar ten inches below. will do it.


This is to be attached to the cars and
worked on powerful hinge. He was
iu Horriifftes grocery with a rough model
Of his machine, last evening. explain
ing its working to an interested audi
tory. His idea is to have the passen-
gers stand 10 line on the station plat
form, with their backs to the approach
ing train, and near enough to where it
will pass to bring them within range of
the scoop. On the approach of the
rack the horizontal bar strikes the ex-
pectant passenger 10 the hollow back Of
the knees which causes him to lop
backwards, when he is caught in the
scoop and whirled into the car and
the next rack back takes the next for
ward passenger; and so on until all
are taken up.


''How are you going to land them
people who stop at way stations ?" ask
ed disagreeable person who was sit
ting on a soap box.


Land 'em 2" cried the inventor in q
tone of unqualified disgust. "Who
said anything about landing 'em ?
That's their own lookout. I guess A
railroad takes them to place where
they are going. an that's all it agrees
to do. l suppose you'd expect rail-
road company to hunt you up hotel,
an carry your trunk up to the room.
an cook your supper, an tuck you up
in bed, and wind up your watch.
wouldn't ye?" and the speaker glared
at the Interrupter with such intensity
az to cause him to shrink up fully one.
half.


"A hogs hog wherever you're a
mind to put him" explained the inven-
tor as be picked up bis model. and
straitway left the store.
Year: 1876

During the past year | made limit


ca experiment ID the use Of grass sod


as fertilizer. 1t was desired to plant


piece of worn out land in cabbage.


Home made manure was exhausted,


and it was doubtful whether CONNER


cial fertilizers would pay on land so


utterly destitute Of humus and all other
carbonaceous matter. Burrows were
opened four feet apart with a one horse
turn-plough which was run twice each


way, opening to depth and width Of
about ten inches The roadsides we're
resorted to for wild grass sods, which


we're taken up with spade, of a width
to suit the furrows. and Of such length
as the sod would allow. These were
turned bottom upward in the burrows,
which we're then filled full Of loose
earth with a hoe. After the first rain,
the plants, which we're of good size,
were dibbled into the loose earth, the
roots reaching down generally to the
sods. The plants gained rapid growth
within few days. and the result was
such crop Of cabbages as have never
seen produced except in soils in high
state Of fertility previously, or made SO
for the special crop by very liberal
of fertilizers The sod was
a source Of both moisture ana fertility,
and maintained q thriftineas in the
plants during a drouth, which seriously
affected adjoining crops.-Plantation.
Year: 1876

CORN-FED HENS do not lay in the
winter, for the simple reason that there
IS no albumen material 10 the corn.
When wheat is given to them, there is
enough fat in it to supply all that is
needed for the yolk. and albumen
enough to make the white. and lime
enough to furnish the she'll it does
not seem difficult to understand Why
corn-fed hens should not lay. as they
do not, and Why wheat-fed hens should
lay as they do.
Year: 1876

Allan Campbell, whose nomination has been so un-
expectedly made, is gentleman who has so long
been identified with the leading public improve
ments ofthis and other States that he Is well known
to business men OF the city and capitalists through
out the country He is native OF Albany and civil
engineer, in which profession he has few II any SUI
periors in this country He Chief Engineer in
the construction OF the Union Pacific Rail-
road. For nearly twenty years he Engineer
and Superintendent Of the Harlem Railroad and he is
still connected with Commodore vanderblt's enter
prises-notably so with the Fourth avenue improve
ment, Of which he is one of the engineers. Mr.
Campbell Is also connected as stockhoder, director
engineer with number OF coal corporations, and he is
al present the President OF the Consolidation Coal
Company Mr. Campbell who Is about sixty years OF
age, Is siill in full vgor and II he accepts the Office
will bring to IT the best professional talent One of
his sons is Thomas Cooper Campbell member Of AS
gombly
Year: 1876

The Portland Press commenting upon
the recent railroad meeting in this city,
remarks that the proposition to loan the
credit of the city tor 5000, 900 must have
thrown GOODNESS over the Augusta por-
ton of the meeting, and that people
amt quite so willing to vote railroad aid
as they were."


To those who were present at the meet
ing the remark of the Press about the
Goodness" which came over the meeting
at the announcement that city aid would
be required is simply laughable. The
hearty applause which greeted the remarks
OF the speaker who made the announce
ment, and the enthusiasm manifested un-
til the meeting adjourned with loud cheers,
gave no sign of any Goodness" 1t was
q business meeting, of business men,
called together for sensible purpose, its
objects being as well known to our citizens
before the assemblage met as after it adj
journed.


The building of the Wiscasset and Que
bee railroad is no new topic to our citi-
zens. The enterprise has been agitated
many years, but movements in Canada
have been awaited At last As miles on the
Canadian side have been built and means
secured to build the whole route to the
boundary line. On this side of the line
25 miles have been constructed and the
cars are running over it daily. Augusta
now being assured that the Canadians are
in earnest to have the line built through
to Wiscasset, finds that the time has
come for her to move. Hence the late
meeting.


While it is true that in some localities in
the country, owing to unfortunate expert
ence in the construction of railroads some
'people amt quite so willing to vote rail-
''road aid as they were" the experience
of Augusta in voting railroad aid has been
such as to encourage her to 90 forward
twenty-five years ago Augusta voted aid
to the Portland and Kennebec road to the
amount of 100000. The road could not
have been built without such aid 1t was
a hard struggle to obtain it, but when the
test came the people voted almost unani-
mously for it. The liabilities then incur.
red have been paid, without expense to
the city treasury, and the city is entirely
free from its obligations. Certainly such
an experience as this in voting aid should
be favorable rather than unfavorable to a
second venture of similar kind.
Year: 1876

Connecticut has gone democratic, as
was generally expected before the elec-
ton. The result shows republican gain
on the gubernatorial vote, enough to
ground the hope upon that the State will
swing into the republican line in Novem-
Der. There were some distracting elements
among the republicans that rendered the
republican efforts less efficient than they
might have been, while the democrats
applied every resource to prevent the fatal
effect that the loss of the State would have
had upon their Presidential prospects.
The republican candidate for Congress in
the third district is elected.
Year: 1876

WE would respectfully call the attention
of the Legislature to the Importance of
passing the bill regulating the practice of
medicine. The Constitution provides for a
bill of this sort. The best interests of So
ciety demand it, and the consideration due
liberal profession dictates the paramount
necessity of such law. The existing law
becomes imperative by virtue of its con-
fict with the rev Constitution, and one OF
the most sacred interests of society is i'm
periled unless its provisions are renew ed.
The bill introduced has received the high
est encomiums of the profession at home
and abroad, ard was framed to subserve at
once the dignity of great calling, and the
safety of helpless public. Every princi.
pie of enlightened policy and discerning
justice demand its passage at the present
session, and failure to attend to this cry
ing need will be an unwarranted betrayal of
public trust and confidence.
Year: 1876

The Dallas Herald insists that if Tom
Scott's reservation had been declared for
feited it would have been seized by the
holders of International scrip Nothing is
moro ABSURD. The very act asserting the
forfeiture to the State would have provided
for the appropriation of the property to
uses of educational institutions. Robbery
of the. State was not contemplated BY those
who proposed to prevent its robbery by
Tom Scott
Year: 1876

The Unitarian Revie,0 for January and
February, among other articles, has one on
the Business Situation" in which the
present stress of the times is ascribed to
over production-the gorging of the market
with more of those commodities which are
in general use than the market can bear.
This position of the writer is thus stated


1t is due simply to the introduction,
during the last twenty-five years, of such |
an enormous amount of machinery. There |
is nothing in our modern civilization which |
is more wonderful, more significant, more !
a new thing under the sun, and destined to
be more wide-reaching in its relations, than
this use of machinery. A single pegging
machine will turn out more boots and shoes
now than whole village of cobblers at
work in their little cubical shops fifty years
ago. The cloth woven in any of our large
mill towns is probably equal to half of what
all Indies used to produce by the slow hand
methods of the middleag ages. Steam engines
alone are doing work which without them
would give employment to ever one of the
multtudes of men and women who are
now lying idle in our country. California
few years ago was groaning over the in
PRODUCTION of so much "Chinese cheap
labor;" and yet, at that very time, most
inconsistently, was giving a welcome to
mowers and reapers and mining apparatus
which for cheapness and facility of use
| A., i L.,


when it is seen how these muscles and


nerves of iron and steel are employed in


every department of industry, from carving


into shape a shaft of iron weighing twenty


tons, down to the finishing of cambria


needle, and from the sewing of a button


hole to the sowing and reaping of whole


States, who can wonder that the market is


overstocked?


Of course this increase Of facilities for


doing work increased for a while the


amount of work to be done. But such 9


progress could not 60 on forever. There


was limit even to the number of stitches
!, which could be put into lady's dress, and
, to the amount of wheat which even al
American family could make way with
; And this point has last been reached
The occurrence of our civil war, with it
: enormous destruction of property, and it
withdrawal of energies into the battlefield


put off the day; but the end of the war
Q and their return again into the pursuits o
r peace, soon filed up the gap, and brough
= us to the point where it is hardly possibl
}, to consume half of what was being pre-
e duced-the point, therefore, where bus
e ness was obliged to stop.
Year: 1876

81 believe writes a veteran, "no two
soldiers widely disagree as to their sensa-
tions during a battle. l take it to be
piece of bravado in any man to assert that
he had no fear during the progress of
long and severe engagement. A battle is
a yeritable hell upon earth; not to be in
serious apprehension while it lasts is to be
either drunk, crazy or insensible. The
highest type of bravery is that of the man
who realizes the full extent of the peril,
but sticks resoIutely to his duty. 1t was
my experience, and that Of all those about
me. repeated a dozen times, that shell
firing is not ordinarily so demoralizing as
that of musketry. 1t is not often that
shells are thrown so that their fragments
scatter death and wounds, and their loud
humming over head does not cause that
nervous tingling which follows the sharp
zip of the rife bullet The peculiar cutting
of the,air made by half dozen of those al
once is apt to give the soldier the idea that
the whole air is filed with them, and thai
he is certain to be struck by one OF them
All. I believe, will agree as to the sensation
first caused by the impact of bullet. 1t il
a stunning, numbling feeling, which for
long time overpowers the local pain OF thu
wound. In my experience, single buck
shot near the hip knocked me Hat, and 10
two days after gave me such acute pain
ond such muscular disturbance from kne





10 shoulder that could not stand erect
Soldiers have frequently been prostrateo .
spent. balls. A curious effect OF shell "ouho
is that they do not bleed the hot iral
ment sears the torn blood vessels and stoI
the efusion. A Mimic ball extracted froi
the body presents remarkable sight.
: have seen them whore the resistance
! flesh had turned back the pointed end Q
, all sides with such regularity that the ba
0 resembles saucer or a flower"