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Year: 1876

The work originally publisher under the title of THE NEW AMERICAN OYCLOPEDIA was completed. 1885, since which time the wide circulation which it attained in all parts of the United States the signal developments which have taken place in every branch of science literature and art, have induced the editols and publishers to submit it to exact and thorough revision, and to issue new edition entitled
Year: 1876

tainment, at one time or another, to
almost every new idea. And now it is
cremation. "a strange and solemn
event has recently occurred" in Marion
s. c., says the Charleston News and
Courier. The Generated" party was a
Mr.. Berry, s.highly respectable, of rare
tact, industry and economy, - and con-
sequently rich. The shock once receiv-
ed from removing relatives remains
determined him ON the course that his
heirs should pursue at his obsequies, on
pain of disinheritance- He fixed the
spot and indicated the kind of wood
for bis funeral pyre, and on the l1th
instant the ceremony was carried out
His antipathy had not included relig-
ious services, which were duly held.
He did not even seorn the trappings and
the suits Of woe, the esquare box
which received his remains being made
rich with velvet and trimmings. Al
the spot selected three large light wood
logs from a selected tree were placed on
the ground, and ON these the box, which
was then covered with fuel to the height
of eight feet. The torch was applied
and soon the column of pithy smoke
was seen far and wide. Fresh fuel was
needed to complete the rites and dissi-
pate all traces of mortality, as the old
gentleman had desired. 1t was a six
hours funeral, that time being consum-
ed in this elaborate consumption
of body that might have been
disposed of in much less time but for
the former possessor's thoughtful regard
for those who might have to remove it
some day
Year: 1876

ONE OF THE THREE HUNDRED.
Far away ON the wild frontier
Stands the cot Of the pioneer.
Loud he calls to the soldier bands.
Drive ye the savage from our land!'
The word is given, the charge is led.
And the red soil groans with the martyr
dead.


Hark yet what is the sound that swells?
Crack OF rifie and savage yellsi
Poisoned arrows and kissing shot
Pour from the ambush thick and hot.
Red blood, flowing from manly veins,
Dyes with crimson the burning plains.
Looki how silent a brave form lies,
The sun glares down from the fearless
skies
No soft hand touches the matted hair,
No lips OF woman are resting there
Only a veteran, stern and grim,
Pauses a while with eyes grown dim.
There's pictured face ON the blood tain
Ger the smiling eyes no shadows pass.
There are other eyes that are dim with
That will smile no more the coming years.
That turn in pain from the cherries moon
As the weeks bring round the month OF
June.


And lips that whisper a simple name
That has never rnng on the blast OF fame-


lHarpers' Weekly.
Year: 1876

| never drew a carriage up 10
horse when be is about % be hitehed
before it. No matter bow awkward
and laundering be may be. be is al
ways taught 20 step over the thrill
to :he desired place between the
shafts. Before horse has been train
ed to step over one shalt the two
shafts are placed on a small bench,
eight or ten inches high The animal
il led along the side Of the carriage
and taught carefully TO step over one
shaft with the fore feet, and then to
place bis bind feet between The shafts
II be is awkward at irst exercise pa
tience with bis stupidity, ana lead
bin forward again and bring him
around until yon induce him TO IN
derstsnd what is desired Of him A
traetabIe animal (if bis driver knows
half as much as the horse can easi-
IL be taught to step between the
thrills acd never touch them with bis
feet.
Year: 1876

1 What shall be done


| answer, first we must speak, and
speak in no uncertain way. i very


much fear that we have been too ST.


lent. The whole subject has been


made political question, and the pull


pit has been dumb under this view Of
il. II is not pleasant to be made the


target fcr tauDts and criticisms And


so the accumulating wrongs have gone


on unrebuked even by the pulpit. /


never spoke upon it 10 public myself


until the scenes of the past week star


tied me from nv apathy.


And vet imagine that all the


wrongs committed ia this land for fif-


teen years past turn pale in presence
OF this one. Every bad passion which


flames 10 an Indian massacre is more
than parralleled here. We burn with
vengeance for Custer and bis brave
baud, and yet the dead who have
been slain by these outrages in the
South are more than FIVE times the
number Of both armies which con-
fronted each other on the plains be-
fore Custer fell. And so We must
speak. We cannot be true 10 our
broad mission of right and charity
and be silent


The church OF Christ, with an open
Bible before her, can take but one
view Of the question. To beindItfer-
ent concerning it would be to give
The lie to all her professions Of broad
charity and love for the right Shall
we send millions Of money TO heath
en- lands for the education and saliva
tion Of foreign nations, and then 4
quietly sleep on while in our own
land the assassin's rifle crashes
through the night, accompanied by
shrieks of women whose husbands
are murdered and the wall Of oroban 1
children Shall we sympathize with ,
the Servians in their struggles for
freedom against the Turks. and then I
smile and call it fun, or seowl and 4
call it politics, while regroes run
through our own streets..and fields try
ing TO dodge the bullets Of murder
ers II there were no politics 10 il,
and fail TO see how ber duty is at
slI different now Her Bible, her
Saw our. her God, ber martyrs. ber
heaven, all ber history and all her
hopes pledge her TO one view OF the
subject. These murders are "eyii,
,nly evil, and that continually" and
are to be punished and stopped


The government should handle the !
:ase with less delieaey. We are so
afraid Of military interference IN this
Year: 1876

TUESDAY, Dec. 1916 r.
Slippery sidewalks suggestive or tumble, probably
conveyed 10 the bull clique the advsabIty OF sliding
out Of their holdings while tho market renamed
strong enough TO bear them, and the "ba" OF con-
Gdence still remained sup"


Acting upon this idea. and possibly doubling that
any upward at this time could be more than
skating uron the outside edge OF speculation, the
bulls of tho days early this morning exhibited
lessened avidty for shares but sharp appetite for
their qxid pro quo in grcenbackS


There were pleasant profits TO handle when once the
conversion mad been made land profits have lately
been AS leaves In vaombrosa In -wnter),
and thero was a short interest mainly closed up,
which took just many customers away from the
MARKET and altogether the surrounding circumstances
were favorable for making a turn and the turn was
made accordingly. In tho realizing process Lake
Shore fell OF from COS to 59% and Michigan Central
from AK to 46z, without recovery at the close.
During the animation OF the opening hours the North
westerns the vigorous half OF the list and
advanced 37. and 5s7s respectively; but they are
no Atlas like Lake Shore able carry the world OF
declining market on its shoulders, SO when weakness
sot In they staggered also and lost nearly all OF the I'M
provement
Apart from the desire 10 harvest gains aud tho SELL
Ing movement thus engendeEed there was an addi-
honal weakening element In certain misrust in tho
efficacy Of the railroad agreement II certainly is not
thoroughly satisfactory, and ancipaons OF its dura-
blty OF strong. while al one time to-
day. when a report obtained that the meeting of freight
agents had broken DIP In wrapele it was affirmed that
chaos again and that railroad contracts were
no reliable than lovers VOWS. Leaving Lake
Shore and Michigan Central out OF the question, the
remainder OF the list irregular and variable
pressed by the weakness Of the St Paus the advance
OF Illinois Central and the 1rmness of Western Union
while tho coal stock remained as fiat small beer.


Gold dropped to 1918, tho political alarmists and
their friends having secured quite as much as they
find It comfortable 10 support under the tax Of Z
per cent carrying and the difficulty Of pcrsuadns
the community at largo to think and act with them.


The heaviness OF gold has at last penetrated the
money market also, and loans were made to-day as
high as per cent call. though final transactions
were made at4ls.


The reaction to-day Is looked upon by tho bulls as
natural one It predicted that the favortcs will
lhorty upon their feet again. waving the banner OF
progress and scaling the slippery ascent to higher
prices.


OPENING, HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES.


Tho following table shows the opening, highest and
Year: 1876

EFFORTS FOR ITS coMPLETIoN-AsKING


THE MARYLAND LEGISLATURE FOR AID.


There seems to be some prospects Of the
building of another Railroad down the Pc
ninsula. For some time past there has beer
8 PROJECT on foot to make continuation OF
the Delaware and Dorchester Railroad from
Cambridge on the delaware Bay. The Leg.
islature Of Maryland has been asked for an
appropriation to complete It, and the action
Of that body is looked for with interest
down the Peninsula. The road will be
twenty miles long and the terminus is in the
very heart of the oyster beds, where the
water is deep, and navigation is never sffec
ted by ice. The track will pass through =
vast territory Of woodland of over ten
thousand acres Of fine ship timber. The
building Of this road will open up and de-
velop rich and valuable section Of country
and must necessarily become one Of the
most important and profitable links in the
great chain of the Peninsula railways. II
will materially enhance the value of the'D.
& D. X. r. as feeder to the Delaware Rail
road. Its construction will probably revive
the question Of the construction of the Sea.
ford and Georgetown road.
Year: 1876

restore that Southern prspouderauce In
Iall branches Of administration which
existed before their rebellion, and
which would now be their right. The
Government would be Solthern-it
would be Confederate. Was ever q
more arrogant lot d political leaders
known than the Southern? Does any
one fancy that they would abandon
their determination to have satisfaction
for their losses by the war: Would
suoh self-seeker as Tilden try to with
stand them?


This is only Mr.. Tilden's personal
declaration, made to serve an election
necessity. Had any one proposed such
declaration for the platform of the
ST. Louts Convention he would have
been driven out of that body. The
Southern leaders will not regard this.
They will probably pass 1t by, as by an
understanding, but none OF them will
abate their pretensiOps, In such con-
ditiOns, when If Fiiden sheuld come in
the Confederate South would be abSO-
Lutte, what sham it is for him to talk
as if he would be the autOcrat, and to
give his personal pledge on these af-
fairs, as il it were personal matter!
And even if Tilden had character
which entitled him to the public conf
idepce. and il he were sincere in this,
would il he wise to trust our safety in
these Affairs to himNnd the solid South
over him, instead of Hayes, whose pub
lie services and character leave no room
for any such pledge, and the Republi-
can party, which saved the Republic
from Southern accession. and which
has no cause for making pledge that
il il shall be trusted with the Govern
ment of the Republic, it will not use Il
to indemnify itself for the losses it suf,
fered in the attempt at its destruction?


Gin. Gazette.
Year: 1876

BEAR it steadily in mind that while Tilden's
o-gans in the North are trying to convince the
the people of his loyalty and Union sentiment
during the war, his Literary Bureau, the
members of which are paid by him, are prov
ing to the rebel Democracy of the South that
he is as good a secession:st as was Calhoun or
Breckenridge. This conclusively proves that
Tilden, if elected, would be entirely in the
control of the rebel element of the Democracy.
Year: 1876

81, 4SS, 241 ,351
Or in round numbers an amount
equal to the national debt at the close
of the rebellion. And these are but q
moiety of what will awaken into life
and contest in the event Of Tilden's
election.
Year: 1876

Col. Brooke has been sent to Baton
Rouge to do just such things as this.
His purpose in Offering the troops was
not to aid in the arrest Of law-breaker
he wanted the Sheriff to 60 marching
through the parish with an armed body
OF soldiers, that a sensation might be
created He would then have immedi-
ately telegraphed the transaction to
headquarters one Of his henchmen
would have telegraphed all over the
country that cruel outrage had been
perpetrated upon an inoffensive negro,
and that the military had to be called
In by the civil authorities to arrest the
perpetrator OF the deed.


It Is easy to see what an effect this
would have had on the Northern mind,
already deeply prejudiced against the
people Of Louisiana. Col. Brooke's
miserable scheme, In this instance at
least, was thwarted by the GOODNESS
and resolution OF the Sheriff. The
facts of the case, however. show the
line on which Col. Brooke has had his
orders to move, and we shall not be
surprised, during the canvass, often to
hear OF this gallant officer raiding upon
political meetings, arresting peaceable
citizens and finally driving Democrats
from the lot-boxes, while worthier
men and better soldiers are yielding up
their lives on the frontier.


The declaration OF Beckwth the
order Of Gen. Auger; the recent demon
stration of Col. Brooke, and the
energy and industry with which
the Radical press is manufacturing and
circulating the most scandalous lies OF
the atrocious cruelty Of the whites OF
Louisiana. all indicate the policy by
which the Radicals propose to hold this
State. In view Of this scheme prudence
must be practiced by our people; but
they must also be determined and
courageous. They have wrongs to re-
dress deeper than the insolent meddling
in their local affairs by army officers who
are content to be the dirty tools of dirty
politicians, when their braver comrades
are winning honor upon the battlefie
Our people have the destiny of Louisi-
ana in their hands, and they must bear
themselves as men who have holy
cause to win, and who are too cool and
brave and resolute to throw it away
to redress q minor wrong.


1t may be we'll, In this connection, for
us to say to the country on behalf OF the
people Of Louisiana, that there is no
disposition on the part Of the whites to
wrong, much less murder, the negroes
And il trouble shall come, it will come
through the Vaccinations Of the rascals
who are running the Radical party, and
who have determined to provoke strife
If thew can
Year: 1876

The Campaign WEEKLY DEMOCRAT, a
large eight-page paper, will be fur
nished from the 1st of July to the 18th
November for the small sum OF One
Dollar. Every man in the State should
subscribe. Every Democratic and Con
servative club should subscribe for
from twenty five to one hundred copies
for distribution.
Year: 1876

Cleveland Herald


If there should be a general
Sioux war, as there is now too much
reason to fear will be the case, those
who expect that it will be speedily
suppressed and the Sioux easily sub
dued and exterminated, may have
occasion to change their views after
one summers campaign. The
Sioux are born fighters. OF the
whole Indian race they are the most
formidable as foes. They despise
labor and prefer starvation to indus
try and fighting to either. Other
tribes may possibly be brought to
the arts Of peace, at least to lin
tied degree, but the Sioux are in
tractable.


They are still powerful in num-
bers, and if the various tribes could
be gathered under one head the
government would have no light
task in overcoming such a foe. The
region in which they are now ope-
rating is in favor Of their mode of
warfare, as they can scour the
plains on their fleet ponies, making
forced marches of fifty miles a day
if necessary, and when hard pressed
take to the hills, which afford them
safe retreat from the regular
troops. When well mounted they
are most formidable, horse and man
seeming but parts of the same body,
and to kill the rider it is first nee
essary to kill the horse. Indian
fighters say that for a short battle
they dread a well mounted Sioux
band armed only with bows and ar.
rows more than if armed with the
rifle. They can fire with unerring
precision whilst going at full speed
with their bodies concealed behinC
the horses, and with such rapidity
that the air seems full of flying ar
rows. When worsted they are away
at full gallop, and only the mos
daring and well-mounted cavalry
can hope to come up with them.
Year: 1876

An English servant once sued an
employer for wages due him to the
time he quit. "He sets me such
funny jobs" said the servant,
"such as standing on a gate-post
to whitewash the moon with a pot
Of blacking; at another time, to
fetch a load of clouds to litter the
horses. He told me the other Sun
day, when l wanted my dinner, to
cut Bath brick into mutton chops,
and fry them in four-wheeled
wagon at VishuIious. 1t amt likely
that | can do them conjuration
tricks" Ridiculous as this appears,
there is q moral to be drawn from
it; 1t is-work at something.
" Better" said Christina of Sweden,
." to be doing wrong than doing
nothingw That goes too far, but
the strange queen wanted to ex-
press her disgust Of Sloth in the
strongest words. Whenever bust
ness is dull, and hard times come,
many people complain of want of
confidence more than a want of
work. This complaint becomes
chronic, and those who grumble
the most do the least to bring indi-
vidual confidence up to its healthy
point. Labor, unintermitting and
wisely directed, is a catholicOn for
nearly all the ills of hard times,
Work at something, and with q pur-
pose, and the crust Of business stag
nation will soon begin to show
signs of breaking.
Year: 1876

Appleton's Journal.l


1t is notorious that a woman will
submit to every suffering and un-
dergo every penalty required by
fashion. She will sacrifice her
beauty and comfort in dress, and
jeopardize her dearest prospects of
life, to the requirements of usage.
A wedding tour may have untold
discomforts it may embarrass her
modesty, endanger her connubial
bliss, injure her health, lay the be-
ginning of chickering's and differ
ences; it may have known every
disadvantage, but it will be insisted
on if society utters its behestS to
that effect. 1t is women who are
specially anxious that marriages
should multiply, and yet it is wo-
men who have given the wedding
ceremony such elaboration of dis
play and loaded it with such costly
expenditures, that marriage, with
a majority of men, is impossible
Fashion, or common sense, or some
other power, should dictate that
marriage ceremonies ought to be
simple and unostentatious, and that
after the ceremony is performed
the calm of some sweet seelusion is
necessary, not only for the future
health of a wife whose nerves are
already overstrained by the excite
ment of what is to her a tremend-
ous event, but the foundation of
an intercourse between the newly
married couple that shall be sweet
and lasting, Have any of our peo-
pie the courage to defy usage, and
act according to their own inclina-
tions at this important period2
Year: 1876

The two armies are in presence;
both are anxious to fight. 1t re-
mains to be seen on which side will
be the victory, for it may be truth
fully said Of both, "which is the
best is not the question; which is
the worst is a tosS-up." Rarely, in
the annals of modern warfare, has
anything been seen so radically
worthless as the Servian and Turk
ish forces. No military man would
dare to hazard an opinion as to the
result. Both have brave soldiers,
perfectly undisciplined and COM
manded by the chiefs of equal in
competency. The Turks have the
best artillery, the Seryians have
the advantage of position. Both
have cavalry, which is almost as in
efficient as that of France. The
numbers of the infantry are about
equal. In short, it is a case Of pull
Dick pull devil, and the success will
be on the side which will make the
feweSt blunders.


The grand total, on paper, is
100000 men now under arms, to
whom must be added 10000 Redifs
of the first ban militia of the first
reserve), who will turn out gladly
if a holy war will be preached, but
who will decline under ordinary
circumstances to leave their tents;
and forty-three battalions of the
second reserve in Syria, about fif-
teen thousand more. In compari-
son with what we have seen in
America, this war will be very
triAing affair, but its results will
be most important to the peace Of
Europe.


Neither side will be able to profit
by ysuccess. Russia will never per-
nit another Turkish occupation of
Servla, and 1t Will scarcely De Ine
policy of England to look on calm
liy at the dismemberment of Tur-
KEY and the establishment of Rus
sian protectorate on the shores of


the Bosphorus. The individual who


will probably profit most personally


by the conflict will be Prince Dan


lilo of Montenegro, who is backed


up the Czar, and who aspires to the


position of future sovereign of the


proposed Selavonic empire. The


Turks maintain that without Mon


tenegrin sympathy they would long


ago have stamped out the Herzego-
vinian insurrection, while the Mon


tenegrins swear that but for then
f good will the garrison Of Niksik
f could not have been reyictualled,
, In the meanwhile the warlike pop
ulation of the Black Mountains il
, mastering in arms on the frontiers
, Of Tenernagora, and, as the semi
Year: 1876




The Journal Of Health says To re-
gain or recover health, persons should
be relieved from all anxiety concerning
diseases. The mind has power over
the body. For person to think he
has disease will often produce that
disease. This we see effected when
the mind is intensely concentrated up
on tho disease of another IL is found
in the hospitals that surgeons and
physicians who make speciality Of
certain diseases are liable to die Of It
themselves; the mental power is so
great that sometimes people die Of dis
cases which they only have in imagina.
tion. We have seen person seasick
in anticipation of q voyage before
reaching the vessel. We have known
person to die of cancer in the stomach
when he had no cancer or any other
mortal disease. A blindfolded man,
slightly picked in the arm, has tainted
and died from believing that he was
bleeding to death. Therefore, we'll
persons TO remain well, should be cheer
idl and happy; and sick persons should
have their attention drawn as much as
possible IRON themselves. II is by
their faith men are saved, and il is by
their faith that men die. II he wills
not TO die he can oten live in spite Of
disease and If he has little or no at
tachmcnt to life he will slip away as
easily as q child will fall asleep. Men
live by their souls, and not by their
bodies Theirbodics have no life in them
selves they are only resources of life


-tcncmcnts Of their souls. The will
has much to do in continuing the.
physical occupancy or giving u MP,
Year: 1876

went to the house and asked for six
pieces Of bread, well spread, stating
that there were four of them, and that
he had not time to stop and eat as his
companions were waiting for him In
the woods. Having secured the food
the bold thief sought his comradc and
the two went on their way rejoicing,
thinking they might get through and
secure their horse and buggy.


TnE PICKET GUAnr.


But these evil doors were again
doomed TO disappointment The news
of their bold exploits had preceded
them, and thirty or forty persons had
already been there the evening before
and taken possession Of the horse aud
buggy. Pickets were stationed all
around watching for their appearance,
d;d dd not approach near enough to fall
n,u III tno nSt ,Ii,{p nj mat was set for them, and
again took to the woods and got out OF
the valley as soon as possible. Find
ing that they did not put in appearance,
the guards. took the horse and buggy
and removed them TO the hotel OF
Daniel Kindt, in Elimsport, for safe
keeping, where they will remain until
further information is obtained as to
the ownership.