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Year: 1876

1t is truly mortifying to find so many
Democrats left off the assessment lists.
There is complaint of this kind all over
the State. We have remained silent on
the subject as long as it is possible. The
Assessors must be made to perform their
work more thoroughly. But how to do
this is difficulty which has always met
those in official position.


1t has been the trouble of the Demo-
cratic Party for more than thirty years
of our own experience. The active dill
gent men of the party twenty years ago
were always required to call meetings and
appoint men to examine the assessment
Lists, find out such voters were lett of
and have them put on at the meeting of
the Levy Court. When the Democratic
and Wing parties were close in this
county, the majority was often secured
by work of this kind. The same difficulty
exists although laws bearing upon the
assessment have chang0d. During the
war and few years succeeding, it was
the custom of the Radical assessors to
leave off many Democratic voters, and
We believe the number omitted in our
city alone some years reached as much
as twelve or fifteen hundred.


Finally when it was discovered that
these whit men were left off and almost
as many names of neb-oes put on in
their place, the disgust at the Radical
party became general, and a regular
stampede Of their voters took place car
rying the Democratic ticket in its en-
tirety with a swelling majority as it
spread over the county and State.


The mes ,oes at that time had no legal
right to vote in Delaware, but under the
dictaticn of the Ring urged on by the
Wilmington Commercial efforts were re.
peatedly secretely made to systematically
disfrancnise white voters and put the ne.
gro element in the ascendency, and
were thousands of negroes votes
taken, hundreds of those who cast
them never had residence in the State
and were no more entitled to vote her,
than the stranger in our midst.


But what We wished to say to our par
ty and its assessors, is that they must b,
more careful. Our active men find i
difficult now when the population is s.
shangable to get the names of Demo
Gratis to put them on the lists. The 9th
er party does not meet with this diff
Guilty; a. they have to do is to find ou
who OF the negroes are left off. The
don't have to enquire how a man voter
avery delicate bus ness-as the Demo
Gratis have to do-they simply see he is
negro and put his name down. This ha
been the last labor of the ruling Radica
cliques, and we hear they carried lonj
Lists Of names to New Castle, many @
whom were not even known to the part
that registered them, and the presumr
tion is that they were copied from som
Radical list in Maryland or Virginia
They should not vote in Delaware.
Year: 1876

The OLD INDEPENDENCE BELLA
joint committee of the Philadelphia
council on the centennial has unani-
mously reported against the PROPOSE
lion to repair the cid independence
Dell IN order that it might be rung on
the 4th July. The committee agrues
that tie cid bell would be far dearer
in the minds of the people in its pre-
sent historic condition than it could
be if repaired.
Year: 1876

An ADDRESS TO TIL L 81 G K
boy you want to purify the system!
DO you want to get rid Of Biiousnesa
Do you want something to strengthen you
10 you want q good appetite?
Do you want to get rid Of nervousness?
DO you want good Digestion
DO you want to sleep we'll?
Do you want to build up your constitution
Do you want brisk aud vigorous feeling


If you do, take


SIMMONS
LIV ER REGULATOR R


puRELY VEGETABLE.
Year: 1876

Within day or two very important testimony
has into the possession OF the Queens county
thoritcs, in The of little Maggie Bauer, SO fouly
murdered at Fosters Meadow the 18Th OF August
last There has all along been strong suspicion that
more than one person must have been engaged IN the
commission OF the erime, ana this now Testimony
tends TO a confirmation OF this suspicion. II WAS in
evidence before the Coroner's jury that Kate Hoffman
was by the side OF the road leading from Hemp
stead village Fosters eadow, the forenoon
Of the fatal Monday, IN company with a man. IL Is
shown pretty conclusvely that this
Frank Connor, against whom suspicion was at trst d
rected but who seemed able to establish alb II is
further shown thar Connor, on the evening of. the
murder called at house where he was acquainted and
asked for Shirt as he wished change He is said to
have used the expression, ..For Gods sake give
another shrt!" The one he took OF has since been


found, carefully hidden behnd bin in the barn, and
examination shows 1t to be bloody There is blood
print, of ear, OF the sleeves, and largo
stain below, as though blood bad run down upon IL
The officers are looking for Connor
Year: 1876

RESOLUTIONS BIZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IN


REVERENCE TO THE DEaIsB OF ITS CHIEF


OFFICER.


Al full meeting OF the New York Associated Press,
held at the associations executive rooms Western
Union Telegraph Building, on Tuesday last the follow
Ing resolutions were read and adopted:-


Resolved. That the of the New York Assoc
Press have heard with profound the death
seph Wa-ren. President Of tue New YORK Associated
Press and for identified editor pro
petor with OF the eaing journals "f the In all
tbese be dis -ishcd honorable. intelligent
and in the chosen profession Of his lite aud
the public service OF the community where he resided lhe
long and intma. busnes. ations Mr. Warren
and ourselves express deep OF
loss and that Of the OF the country We
sincerely dcplore the sudden death days
since In the midst OF struck down in the
ridiau OF his me- desire
pathy with the family Of the their be-
reavemcnt


Resolved That copy OF these resolutions signed by
this
the ased. aud Of tho
eiated Press
Year: 1876

Nine. Blanc, the victim OF her husbands Jealousy,
is still alive. Thanks to the opiates which had been
given her she passed the night before last rather
quietly. Most OF the tlme however she is entirely
unconscious "Her case is an expec'ant case" said
DR.. Hoag, the attending physician, to a HERALD re-
porter There Is no immediate danger for the next
two three days. and she may recover though that
would be something very extraordinary" J"
This morning the business manager of the
Aimee troupe visited the hospital, having been sent
down especially tor this purpose by Nile Aimee. he
SAID thai all Nine Blanc's baggage Was on the ,ran
that conveyed the troupe from New York. He not
of Ter absence until he began TO count his
tickets The morning after the newspapers told them
the whole story This seems 10 corroborate the theory
that The horrible tragedy was committed in n IL OF
jealousy by the furious husband when he that his
endeavors to keep his wife from travelling with tho
troupe were unavailing.
Year: 1876

Mir. Proctor, in one of his lectures on the subject of " Other Suns than Ours" declared it fixed fact that all stars were suns. Every star visible to the naked eye on the dearest night was the center of system of worlds like our own, and although the most powerful telescopes were still unable to reveal the circling planets, the imagination could certainly discern the millions of worlds clustering around each of these hun dreds of thousands of bright suns. The nearest star to our system was Aldebaran, in the constellation Centaur, star only visible in southern attitudes. This star was 200, ,0O0 times as far from the earth as the sun is, and it's size was much about 1, 125, 900 miles in diameter. The next nearest star, Sirius, was much larger than Aldebaran. Astronomers knew that this star was at least certain number of billions of miles from our system, but how much more distant they could not tell. The lecturer supposed that the progress of life in this myriad of worlds was about the same as it is in our system, and for every inhabited world there were thousands of worlds upon which life was either extinct or had not yet begun. The thought that death and desolation were so predoni- nant in the universe was not so melan- choly to the lecturer as it might be to many others. The same change was go- ing on in the life and death of all those worlds as is seen on every hand and among all things that are at any time endowed with life and being.
Year: 1876

Mysteries of fire are of three kinds the mystery of fraud, the mystery of carelessness, and the mystery of ignor- ance. The latter characterizes people of all ranks in life, and is, seemingly, as persistent as carelessness, and some times as culpable as fraud. For in- stance, how many people know precisely what defective fue is2 How many know anything about spontaneous com bustion2 How many know that hollow walls are actual fues, which have the power of carrying flames from the bot tom of house to the top, almost in- stantly7 How many know that the heat of stove, even when separated by some little distance from wood, will, in the course of time, so char it that 8 spark will fire it How many know that, under favorable circumstances, fires will smolder for hours, ready to flash into actual flame when famed by the opening of door, or the slightest current of air caused in any manner whatevera In brief, how many know anything of hundred and one circum- stances that will cause mysterious fires, which slight degree of practical knowl- edge might easily preventf
Year: 1876

I believe, writes a veteran, no two good soldiers will widely disagree as to their sensations during battle. take it to be Q piece of bravado in any man to assert that he had no fear during the progress of long and severe engage ment. A battle is a veritable hell upon earth not to be in serious apprehension while it lasts is to be either drunk, crazy, or insensible. The highest type of bra very is that of the man who realizes the full extent of the peril, but sticks reso- lutely to his duty. It was my expert ence, and that of all those about me, repeated dozen times, that shell firing is not ordinarily nearly so demoraliziDg as that of musketry. It is not often that shells are thrown so that. their frag- ments scatter death and wounds, and their loud humming overhead does not cause that nervous tingling which always follows the sharp zip of the rife bullet The peculiar cutting of the air made by half dozen of these at once is apt to give the soldier the idea that the whole air is filled with them, and that he is certain to be struck by one of them. All, I believe, will agree as to the sensa- tion first caused by the impact of a bullet. It is stunning, numbing feel ing, which for a long time overpowers the local pain of the wound. In my ex- perience, single buckshot near the hip knocked me fiat, and for two days after gave me such acute pains and such mus cular disturbance from knee to shoulder that I could not stand erect. Soldiers have frequent fly been prostrated by spent balls. A curious effect of shell wounds is that they do not bleed the hot frag- ment sears the torn blood vessels and stops the effusion. A Mimic bali ex- tracted from the human body presents a remarkable sight. I have seen them where the resistance of the flesh had turned back the pointed end on all sides with such regularity that the ball resem, bled saucer or a flower.
Year: 1876

They tell the story at the expense of the solons at Albany. Reference was made by speaker to the ninth com mandment and all were anxious to know what the commaud WAS. The book passed from one to another until 8 little page solved the mystery by informing the gentlemen that the missing articles might be found in the 20th chapter of Exodus, and many minds were at once relieved.
Year: 1876

A correspondent writes to the Drug gists' Circular, describing a mode of treatment for lime in the eye. He says A colored man came to me in intense agony, some unslaked lime having got into his eye That the lime must be neutralized at all hazards I felt certain. I chose sulphuric acid. I put one drachm and half of the diluted acid in four ounce graduate, filed it with water, and told him to wash his eye with the liquid He did as he was told, and was relieved almost immediately. Then made him rinse his eye with pure water, and after that I told him to anoint it with olive oil and to continue the application for some time. To-day he is almost well, and can see with his eye again. In an other similar case no remedy was imme- diately applied, as doctor had to be sent for from some little distance, and the man lost his eye entirely.
Year: 1876

To-day is the day that Is to decide the
momentous question whether Tilden OF
Hayes will occupy the Presidential
chair for the next four years. The
voters so far have come out In force, and
this mornings poll-books will show
nearly as heavy vote as that cast at
the October election.


The weather is quite favorable. A.
cool and bracing air renders activity
necessary. The rallying committees OF
both parties are doing effective work.
seemingly animated by the determine
tion to bring out the full vote OF every
ward. Up to this writing there has been
no lawlessness displayed, and it is gem
orally thought that the day will pass off
without any scenes OF violence.


Party spirit is running high, but the
rougher element are kept In check by the
presence and influence OF the better
class, who to-day are out in larger mum.
bers than usual. The prospects now
are that larger vote will be polied in
the respective wards than was a month
ago.


The details of extra policemen made
by the police authorities are doing all
that is lett for them to do-to exercise
their vigilance, and be ready tor trouble;
but this is not apprehended. A few AZ.
rests have been made, this morning, of.
Illegal voters and those attempting to
snte illegally. but their number is small.
Year: 1876

SAVANNAH, Ga, Nov. IL, 1870


The following Is tho report Of tho Savannah Cottoa
Exchange for October. 1876


Eighty nine replies from forty.eiRht counties Of the
average date OF October 20 have been received The
weather during tho past month has been clear and
warm and exceedingly favorable for gather.
more las favorable than last last season., % a: shown Ssu
by the superior grade OF cotton. There has been no
killing frost In the State. About tho beginning and
middle Of the month some injury done to cotton
in tho lewlAnds. In portions OF tho State the
crop has bcen gathered In more favorable sections
the picking will be finished by the end
OF November Tho crop last season throughout
large portion OF the State small, while the yield
this year. II 1t Will not bo ovcr average will exceed
last years by fifteen per cent The extreme heat
dry weather In August brought the forward, and
the no weather since enabled t 10 be gathered faster
and in better condition


Twenty replies from twelve Counties under the
weather In the eastern and middle portions Of the
the month exceedingly unfavorable In the western
part the State the has been favorable
There has been killing frost yet The crop hal
been to largo extent gathered, although
labor very much demoralized and
picking interfered with by numerous gatherings fol
cectioneering purposeA Tho balance o the crop will
be nearly housed by tho middle Of November. The
crop has been shortened by rust and two weeks
steady during tho best part OF the packing
and will not exceed that Of last year, which was
ghort one.
Year: 1876

THE REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS.


There was absolutely no excitement at tho Fifth
Avenue Hotel yesterday Tho location Of the private
room Of tho National Committee being known only to
fcw ones, thero necessarily few visitors
No new dispatches were received from tho Southern
States matters remained in about the shape
as they did the night before Many despatchos were
received asking for the situation of affairs Tho re-
plies all claimed the election OF Hayes There was NO
change In tho sentiment OF the National Committee, It
being positively asserted that Hayes is elected.
Year: 1876

Last week, two gentlemen on Usage street,
living adjoining neighbors and using the
came well, discovered strong mineral
taste in the water, and concluding at once
that their fortunes were made, kept the
matter quiet. The water got stronger and
stronger, and finally it was concluded TO
have the well cleaned out and the matter
investigated. A colored man was set to
work, and he complained of sort of cot
ton floating on the water, and brought some
up As sample. Now, while this other new
fortune OF the spontaneous growth ol cotton
was going on and being carefully exam
ined, arother neighbor appeared on the
scene, asking if they had seen anything of
her white cat which had mys;eriouslv dis
appeared about ten days previous. A blank
look Of astonishment overspread the cOun-
tenance OF the well owners, who left with
their hands on their digestive organs, just
as the well cle'ner appeared with the body
OF a dead cat, supposed at one time TO be
white-who, throwing it Suddenly on the
ground, left also. You have Just to men
tion mineral water in their presence, and
see them quit-they have sudden call.
Year: 1876




Left on the Prairie for Dead.
An ordinary looking man about 81 years
old came into Kansas City on the Fort
Scott train from Southern K ansas Saturday
afternoon. He looked in bad health, and
on leaving the cars at the depot inquired
the way to the Sister, Hospital. Seeing
that something was the matter, Times
man made an investigation and obtained
the following information in regard to the
man. His name was George Brown, and
for the past few months he has been employ
ed as herder for large cattle dealer down
in Indian Territory, below Baxter Springs.
About two weeks since on dismal, rainy
afternoon, as he was on the way from camp
to Baxter, he was shot from his horse by a
cowarily assassin and left on the prairie
for dead. He remained in an uncor scious
condition until about noon the next day.
On coming 10 his sense he found that he
had been shot through the right lurg, the
bullet coming out of the back. lie stop
ped the flow Of blood as be best he could,
and started on foot for the nearest house,
81 me- 3 miles away. Ee was not able TO go
far the first day, but late in the afternoon
OF the second arrived, and was kindly taken
care uf by the "squattier" lie rapidly re-
gained his strength and at last was taken 10
Kaxter. lie then heard OF the Sisters
Hospital in Scripiowi, ard purchasing a
ticket went there a. ABOVE described 10 be
taken care oil.
Year: 1876

One OF the q. S. Mail Boxes Broken Open.


Sunday night, as a man and his wife
were returning home from church, at about
half past eleven, they discovered person
tampering with the U. s. mail box at the
end of Fifth Avenue, near the residence Of
Judge III. W. Ide. When he saw the
couple he threw the letters into
the yard, and ran. The man
came over to police headquarters, and re-
ported the facts. Officer Hissock went 10
the place mentioned, but found nothing but
the mail, all of which had been opened.
The criminal has not yet been arrested.
The man and woman are unable TO say who
the perpetrator OF the crime is. At a late
hour last night, the police officers stated
that they had not yet arrested anyone, but
that they had some information which
might lead 10 a capture.
Year: 1876

The Ladies' OF Boston to the Rescue
Ey Associated Press.


BOSTON, July 1S.-A number of pominent
Boston ladies have purchased the Old South
Church Building, and if they cannot raise
the amount required to purchase The land
In sixty days, will take down the buildings
and RET erect it elsewhere,
Year: 1876

There is no doubt Of the fact tina t
Charleston and Wheeling are the two
sensitive points as regards public feeling
on the Capital question. The status Of
all other communities Is purely one Of
sympathy-sympalhy moro or less active
sympathy largely controlled by proximi-
", Tire counties Of the Third district sym
pathize with Charleston, and those that
border OH Kanawha county partake
somewhat Of her excited local feeling.
Further away the feeling is passive, and,
still further away, almost Indifferent
Aud this is true Of the First District
TO certain extent. The explanation
Of the passage Of the Minority report at
ParkerSburg is found in this feeling. So
far as the general feeling throughout the
State is concerned, its status is we'll shown
by the suppression Of the whole matter
In the Committee on Resolutions, where
the subject was debated long and warmly
until late hour in the afternoon, aud
where the Minority report was over
whelmingly voted down. The counties
that were thus represented in the Com
mittee and that voted against the Minor
ity report contain two.thirls Of the pop.
ulntion Of the State, the ratio being, 40
cording to the report to the State Senate
last winter, 34l, ,6SS to l92,77s. This shows
the status Of the public feeling in regard to
the Capital question. Tho representatives
Of S4l ,G3S people were willing to let it
rest rs it now stands, but the representa-
tivcs OF the 1878 were determined TO
have an expression on the subject. Once
The matter was brought before the Con-
yention il assumed u very different
phase from what it did before the Com
mittee. The proposition was simply this


As argued :by'Mr, sturgiss, Judge Smith
aud others, viz: shall the question of the
permanent location Of the Capital be re-
mitted to the people for final settlement,
or shall ii be Sgitated year after year in


the LEGISLATURE The special point made
by the latter was this, are we afraid to
trust the people on this subject2 Do we


want to keep it in the hands Of the pol.
iticians all tho timer These were the
questions that were followed up and elab.
GRATED, and pressed, by the various
speakers from Kanawha who addressed
tho Convention on the subject. An issue
was thus made before the representatives
Of the people throughout the STATE
as to whether they were willing
10 let their constituents vote on the
subject at some future day. They
were appealed to to let.their own people
Year: 1876

brought fully us much, If not more, than
it would have brought three years ago.
Wheeling has thus FAR come through the
panic in very fair style. She feels 1t
severely Of course, but up to this time
her factories have nearly all kept going,
and we are in hope that the abundant
harvests now being gathered throughout
the West will tell in our favor in the way
OF a.good fall trade.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, July 3l.-The Commit
Tee on Banking and Currency this morn
ing failed to come to n vote. Goode was
absent which left the hard.money men in
the majority. A proposition is under
consideration to appoint subcommittee
TO sit during recess and refer to it the en-
tire subject including the imitation, re-
sumption Of currency and the silver ques-
lion, with instructions to make thorough
investigation Of the whole subject.


REVISION COMPLETED.


The Senate Committee on Appropria-
ations has completed the revision Of the
River and Harbor appropriation bill,
the aggregate Of which they limit to
Year: 1876

q


The Providence Journal has an account
Frederick E. Luke of Woonsocket, after
twenty years silence. 1t says: .'He
was suddenly deprived of speech, and for
the last twenty years he with his mother
and his brother, Mr.. Sylvester Luke have
constituted most of the time the house,
hold He was for a time in failing health,
and confined to the house. taking rest only
in sitting posture in chair, and at times
very much troubled in his respiration. He
confined himself to a cold room, even in
winter, and used ice freely about his head
and chest. During these twenty years he
has only been able to make himself un-
derstood by signs. For few years past
his general health has improved, and no
has been able to go out OF doors, and have
the care of flower garden. A week ago
Yesterday morning he suddenly felt the
removal of a restriction, and realized that
the mpediment to his speech had been par
TALLY overcome, so much that he could
speak. He went out Of his room and
grasped his brother by the hand. and
greeted him in an audible voice, much TO
his surprise and joy. The event caused
much rejoicing among his friends, mingled
possibly with the fear that the change
might not be permanent, but we learn
that his condition has rather improved for
week. and that he is now able to con-
verse without alphabet or sign. though
his enuncation is not fully restored. Dur
ing the early stages Of this malady physi-
clans were consulted, but no one ventured
positive opinion as to what the difficulty
was"