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Year: 1876

saw two children intertwIne
Their arms about each other,
Like the young tendrils Of a vine
About its nearest brother
And ever and anon.
As gayly they ran on.
They looked into each others face
Anticipating an embrace.
l saw these two when they were men.
watched them meet one day,
They touched each others hands--and then
Each went on his own way.
There did not seem tie
or love-a bond OF chain
To make them turn their hungering eye,
Or grasp the hand again.
This is page in our life's book
We all of Us turn over.
The web is rent.


The hour-glass spent,
And, OH the paths We once forsOok
How seldom we recover.
Year: 1876

Awful is the word.
Every awful minute
For it's an awful word.
With awful people in e.;
Some are awful short
And some are awful tall.
Some are awful large.
And some are awful small;
Some are awful fat,
And some are awful lean
Some are awful good.
And some are awful mean.
Some girls are awful sour.
And some are awful sweet,
Some wear awful chgnOns,
And some have awful feet;
Some are awful silen.
And some talk awful loud.
Some are awful modest,
Aud some are awful proud.
Some chaps are awful silly.
And some are awful wise;
Some wear an awful mustaehe.
And some heaye awful sighs.
Because their awful hearts
So awful soft are found,
That eupid's awful darts
Their awful core have found.
And 50 It's awful, awful,
Awful is the word
From every awful mouth
Some awful things are heard;
Some folks are awful nice.
Some girls are awful pretty.
Some men awful wise.
Some women awful witty
In the awful msrning.
Fiom awful sleep we wake,
With the awful warning
That it's awful hate
And through the awful day.
We hear the awful clatter,
OF awful, awful, awful
That's what's the awful matteri
Year: 1876

AND Mr.. Merriwother paused at the
gate, as lie adjusted his Continental oil
cloth coat and gave his torch the proper
slant over his shoulder, to shout to his
neighbor across the way:


. 1t is time that demands men, men
of nerve and intelligence and courage /;
men of clear IDEAS and pure convictions,
and the citizen who stands idly waiting
when the country calls him is heartess,
md negligent and unpatriotic.


And then Mrs. Merrwother's voice
was heard floating over the front fence
like the song OF bid in the night:


"Erastus Merriwether, if you go off
without splitting up enough wood for the
kitchen stove, III do some haymaking
in that carroty hair o yourn that'll make
you wish this country never had Presi-
dent !!


And it is just such chilling in 1uences
a. these that shut SO many Of orr best
men out Of public life.
Year: 1876

AS Englishman who insulated his bed
stead by placing underneath each post a
broken of bottle says he had not been free
from rheumatic gout for fifteen years,
and that he began to improve immediete-
ly after the application OF the insulators.
A paper quoting this wisely adds =
" There's many a fellow who could cure
his gout if he would break off the bot
toms Of his glass bottles II time.
Year: 1876

These three Cinnamon who took wa
tarnelon home and cooked it, say that
they foel able to worry along on rice a
short time longer without fooling with
any more new-fangled arrangements in
the vegetable line.
Year: 1876

SIZE wouldn't stand to have tooth
pulled FOR one million two hundred thou
sand dollars, she said, and yet she walk
ed Canal street all day in tiny CATERS,
two sizes too small for her, and thought
nothing Of it i; but then nobody saw that
tooth, and several saw the gaiters.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, May 25.-For some reason
or another the friends of Simon Cameron are
industriously circulating the story to-day that
his son, Don Cameron, has not yet concluded to
accept the portfolio OF the War Department
They say that this honor was not the seeking Of
either the Senator or his hopeful son, but that
II was thrust upon them, and as 1t came without
their solicitation. they feel that they can ma
turely consider the whole situation before
making up their minds as to whether they will
allow tho unsought honor to be thrust upon
them. Very few are inclined to believe these
stoiies, and many believe that 1t is only
n dodge OF the cunning senior to making
people believe that he has not been
persistently seeking Don's promotion for years.
There are, however, others who say that the
events OF the last day or two may nave made
the wary old Pennsylvania fox pause and reflect
wbe her he bad not taken passage 10 the wrong
boat. IL looks now as II Blaine was going to
have votes enough to nominate him on the sec
ond ballot without Pennsyivana, and II this
should happen tne CamerOns would be left out
In the cold entirely. 1t Is not too late to make
some sort OF terms with Blaine and nominate
him on the nr,t ballot. ami therefore Don Will
stand on and say he Will Tor the present rema ain
Ia private life.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Edward Atkinson yesterday read ON
interesting paper on the true condition of
the country before the Social Science Asso-
citation at Saratoga. in which he presented
some important facts and suggestions bear
ing upon the depression and hard times.
In regard to the cry for cheaper transporta-
ton he remarked that healthy laborinc
man consumes about five hundred pounds
of meat and bread in year, and that tho
railroads at this time carry q quarter of
ton, or five hundred pounds. from Chicago
to Boston for dollar and quarter, or less
than days wages Of laboring man.
Freight charges cannot, therefore, be con-
sidered q burden upon the cost Of provisions
in the East.


AS to the power of accumulation. he counts
that the population of Massachusetts owns,
in fact, about an average Of six hundred
dollars per head; that it produces an average
Of three hundred dollars per head per an
mum, and that if it ceased to labor it would
consume all the accumulated wealth of the
State, its surplus or capital Of every kind, in
at most three years. Small as the surplus is,
he remarks that in modern times there is
no nation which cannot support much
larger population than it has; and adds
that in this country there never was SO
great an abundance of all material wealth as
in the present year of poverty and depres-
sion. The East is crowded with manufac-
tured products, the West with grain and
meat, the Middle States with coal and iron,
the South with cotton, sugar and corn.
Everywhere there is abundance and even
for from two to three per cent This is true !;
and he adds the striking remark that we are
acting as though we should never need any
more mills, mines, roads, tools or imple-
Year: 1876

What we have 80 often predicted is proved
to be only too true-the Indian campaign is
practically at an end Our dispatches from
General Terry's column this morning show
his troops to be on the move, but hold out
little or no hope that either he or Crook
will be able to overtake the savages.
Neither of these leaders has the faintest idea
of where Sitting Bull and his braves have
gone. TO all Appearances, except for the
moving columns in search Of an invisible
foe, we are as completely at peace with the
Sioux as we were year ago. It is scarcely
possible that we shall find the enemy before
the approach Of winter compels the with
drawal Of the troops, and so in the spring we
shall be only as far advanced as we we're at
the beginning of this campaign with sum-
mer before us equally fruitless, perhaps.
All the prestige of the Sioux war has been
gained by the Sioux, and We have only the
disgrace and shame of disastrous campaign.
But if our wars with the Indians are to be
thus fruitless it does not follow that we are
to pursue our old time folly of feeding our
enemies in winter that they may be the
better able to fight us in summer Sitting
Bull and his warriors must at least be kept
in the hills and away from the reservations.
Every tribe that was faithless this year must
be cut off from the support of the Great
Father. We want no false philanthropy or
false humanity toward these treacherous
foes. All who chose to fight us in summer
must be allowed to starve in winter for if
they are permitted to impose their penitence
upon us, now that the campaign is ended, it
will only be to turn upon us again in the
spring and compel an abortive campaign like
the one just finished.
Year: 1876

While we regard the rife and adopts at
its use as an important factor in the gravest
calculations affecting nations we also $3.50
ciate it with a delightful and manly
sport, which now, happily, monopolizes our
attention, to the exclusion of thoughts
on its warlike application. We arc
about to engage in friendly con-
test with friendly visitors to our
shores, who come to US filled with con-
fidence in their ability to prove their
superiority as rifemen at the expense of our
well-won fame. They gallantly seek us on
our own ground and at o time when our
national susceptibilities are aroused to the
highest degree by the completion of the first
century of our independence. Moreover,
they come at our own invitation and have
honored US in SO doing in n manner that
should make us at the same time proud and
grateful. In the coming matches at Creed
moor we really possess all the technical id
vantages that should assure US of victory.
and our failure to win will be wholly at
tributable to the neglect of our representa-
tive rifemen in making proper use of them.
We do not desire to dishearten our marks
men by suggesting to them the possibility of
defeat. neither would We approve of a blind
over-confdenoe, based on former successes.
All we ask of them is to strive with all their
individual and collective power for victory.
Harmony and discipline among the men,
bers of the team, together with their nc
knowledged skill and experience, can
secure this desired result in the approaching
contests. Let them emulate the example Of
our friends, the enemy, and make the sacri-
fee of personal opinion and individual con-
venience and interest to the general good
the basis of oil their efforts. The exhibition
of these grand qualities by any of the COM
peting teams will rob even defeat of its
sting and will add its chief glory to an
American victory.
Year: 1876

TALE OF Tup.-The meeting yester-
day of the Democrats State Central Execu-
tive Committee derives interest from what
was said by the leading members about the
Governorship. Mr.. Calkins explanation of
the mistake ut Saratoga will not be generally
accepted. 1t is very possible that dispatches
fled at Utica at ten o'clock in the morning
we're not received at Saratoga until three in
the afternoon, but it is not probable that
they were stopped by republican influence
TO prevent the Convention from knowing
Governor Seymour's irrevocable decision.
Telegraphing is SO easy in these days that
the committee in Saratoga should have had
unbroken communication with their agents
in Utica The suggestion that Governor
Morgan's 'large telegrsphic interests" could
or would be used to stop important de-
spatches will not be believed outside Of the
marine corps.
Year: 1876

The precipitation was greater on che south
ern and eastern margin of the rain area
than on the northern and western, tho
heavy fall above given at Omaha and Keo-
kuk being at and near the centre OF
the atmospheric depression. Toward noon
the rain area moved further east
and extended over New York and
New London and southwark to Galveston and
New Orleans but the rainfall became lighter
than during the preceding night. The
effect on the Western rivers is already being
felt A rise of three feet has taken place in
the Mississippi at st. Louis. where the river
is now seventeen feet two inches above low
water level To-day the weather in New
York promises to be cloudy and warm.
with rain.
Year: 1876

democratic side. Such democrats as would
vote for Mr.. Tilden in any event will con-
tinue to cry him up as the reform candidate,
but they can make no impression on the
public mind SO long as injurious charges,
resting on apparent proof, are not met by
adequate refutation.


The democratic muddle in this State will
exert the same kind of influence in Indiana
though in lesser degree, which defeat in
York. This wretched and laundering
.tiasco tends to convince the Indiana demo
Gratis that John Kelly aud his associates may
have been right in their emphatic declara-
tions at St. Louis that Mr. Tilden cannot
possibly carry his own State. The sup
porters of Hendricks believed those state
ments then. and it will not require much
new evidence to bring them back again to the
same mind. The democrats of New York are
not acting like party which has any serious
confidence in its own strength. Their
desperate clutching at Mr.. Seymour, like
drowning multitude at o stray piece of
floating timber, may easily be interpreted as
a spectacle of despair. When before has
the salvation of party been felt to depend
on one man, and that man poor remon-
strating invalid who declares himself in
capable of the task assigned him ? If Tilden
is strong why was this frantic attempt made
to buoy him up with Seymour? If the
democratic party of New York has conf
deuce in itself why should it have hung out
that flag of distress and persistently cried
to an old gentleman in broken health to
come and save it? political party is in
bad way when the consent of any one man
to be its candidate is deemed Of so much
importance. The Indiana democrats. who
believed John Kelly when he asseverated
that Tilden could not carry this State, have
reason to believe that he told tho truth at
ST. Louis, or else that he is now scheIning to
verify his prediction because he does not
want Tilden Collector in the Custom House
to interfere with his control Of the local
patronage in this city. View it on whatever
side we may, the democratic canvass does
look encouraging.
Year: 1876

JoHN KELLYs CANVASS There was a
thrifty parson who expressed his indifference
as to who might sway the destinies Of Eng
land SO long as he was himself Vicar Of Brny,
and the position Of John Kelly is like that Of
the famous parson. Tilden may come or go;
Morgan may have the State and Hayes the
Presidency but if John Kelly can have tho
city of New York hope will not bid tho world
farewell. Kelly is as much Boss US ever.
and may be more Boss than ever in the DEM
ocratic disorganization. He intends to have
his candidates as hitherto. Mr.. Augustus
Schell is his candidate for Mayor. without
the Sachems or in defiance Of them. It
seems to us tho poor Sachems should be
consulted in this.
Year: 1876

FUoITIvE FIsHEs.-The fnny tribes are
leaving the garbage befouled New York Bay
for the pure waters of the inlets along the
coast. 1t is no wonder that the poor things
leave us. We have been and continue dis
charging the sewage of New York, Brooklyn
and Jersey City into the Hudson and East
rivers and covering the bed of the Bay and
the fishes feeding grounds with deposit that
is foul enough to scare off Havana dog fish.
This diet served with petroleum makes bad
food for fishes.
Year: 1876

THE HE'LL GATE DISASTER the invessi
cation of this terrible occurrence proceeds
severnl important facts are coming to light
which will help materially to determine
where the responsibility should rest. We
have already proved that the nitro-glycerine
was brought to the works in cans, wrapped
around with brown paper. witness of the
actual explosion tells us how it occurred, so
that little remains for the Coroner's Jury
to do except to fix the responsibility
The explosive power of nitro-glycerine, even
in small quantities, is very remarkable. We
give elsewhere list of the fatal explosions
of this compound since it's introduction into
the United States and other parts of the
continent. Any ono of these furnishes all
the evidence needed as to the enormous cx.
plosive force of nitro-glycerine and of tho
dangers that constantly attend its use
Year: 1876

The DELAWARE DEMOCRATS still believe that
this is country for white men, and that
no others need apply. This is bad for the
Democratic party. as is all bigotry and old
fogy s-rc. But what can be expected Of .
State which keeps up the whipping post
probably with the idea that it may be yet
needed for the negroes7
Year: 1876

A FALSE ALARM was created yesterday by
o rumor that there were two cases of yellow
fever in Brooklyn. On investigation it
turned out in one instance to be only an
ordinary case Of chills and fever. and in the
pther that the story was made out Of whole
eloth
Year: 1876

The BROOKLYN BRIDGE.-An excellent res
Dlution was adopted by the Board of Trus-
bees yesterday. to the effect that in contracts
no bids would be received from any company
in which any official connected with the
bridge has An interest. The public will
heartily approve this measure if it is en-
forced
Year: 1876

Everybody will exclaim against the dis


gusting fight which took place yesterday be-


tween Allen and Goss. Yet, bad as it was. il


was not as disgraceful as the inaction of the


authorities who permitted it. The great


est publicity had been given to the event


The arrangements were as open as thos<


for q picnic. Railroad trains were sna


gagged, tickets sold for an excursion, and


the managers of the road did all


sion successful. The very spot was


known where the men were to fight It waa
a kind of parade in defiance Of the law.


Governor McCreary was compelled to notice
it by calling on the military to aid the civil
authorities in preventing the fight or arrest
ing those connected with it. But nothing
was done A thousand rovdies invaded
Kentucky, tho ring was pit,hed and Goss
and Allen began to fight IN the pleasing
manner which is picturesquely described
elsewhere The militia of Kenton county
looked on for while and then stopped the
contest But not ON arrest was made. The
crowd crossed then to Boone county, the
cars having been kept waiting their conven-
ience and the battle was resumed. Here
the Sheriff having gone through the comedy
ofsuggesting on armistice, was complimented
by three cheers, and, having done his duty,
took seat to enjoy the spectacle. The fight
then went on peaosably, as it were, to the
end, and the authorities attempted no fur
ther disturbance.





Tom and Joe are trained gladiators, who
seem to be delighted with the trade. They
enjoyed their punishment and smiled at
each other so far as the swelled condition Of
their mouths would permit of smile.
They are not incapable of generosity, for we
are told that Joe waived claim of foul,
saying he did not think Tom intended
to hit him when he was down. At the end
of the beastly fight they shook hands, a.
they had previously stopped fighting in ~
middle of bloody round to shake hands
with a lady, who, gracing the scene with the
sympathy of lovely woman, was ambitious
of having that distinguished honor. Tom
and Joe are educated brutes who
know no better. But it is very
different with the authorities Who
pretended to prevent the fight while they
were really anxious to see it. The SheHf in
the New Jersey fight where young Walker
was killed showed moro resolution. II ID
useless to denounce prize fighting SO long
as the civil authorities show "a


little disposition to stop it. Possibly
some good may come of the recent
affairs, rs the principals in the New Jersey
homicide have been arrested and Allen ID
lodged in Jail at Newport, Ky. In prison
they should stay as long as the penal code
allows, for the firm execution of the laws il
the only way by which such men a. Tom
and Joe can be made to hold them in respect.
Year: 1876

For the last two days the workmen the big bridge
have been engaged in splicing the cables stretched
tween the abutmenta The inch and three quarter
wire rope which is to be used carror has not yet
been completed and will not be adjusted TIL next
week On It large cables OF twenty 1--we tons weight
are TO be conveyed across.
Year: 1876

E9- La mel said Mrs. Burlington beam- ing mildly through her gold-rimmed spec tacles, women do make such fuss about lmpairing boys clothes. Now there's Isaac, who hardly goes day without tear ing something. He used to keep me about detracted with work till went and bought me sewing machine. l was very careful to get one that had plenty of room under the arm, so that when he tore his pants l could put them right under the machine without taking Isaac out of them. The machine is in the rejoining room Doctor, and I'd like to have you gee it, saying which she led the way to where Ike was discovered seated before Light Running Domestic busily sewing the cat up in the good old lady's rag-bag
Year: 1876

The New York Nal says that many f the brown stockings worn by ladies are so poisonous as to endanger life. Those who wear them assume an unlovely yellow col or. You've got your cue now, dear read CT, When you see lady friend assume an unlovely color, you should pull her stock ings right off, and light out for stomach pump,-.Danbnry Nesos.
Year: 1876

THE BELFRY MURDER.-Piper, the man accused of the 'belfry murder in Boston, who is now under sentence of death, has suddenly made himself famous by re- markable story promulgated last Friday. He professes to tell the full story of the horrible affair that he is condemned for :; he tells it evidently without being coached by his counsel in any way; and he tells 8 story that is equally at variance with the plea that he made for acqulttal and upon which he was convicted. The de- fence was an alibi. His explanation is that on the day of Mabel Young's death, the church being too warm, he went up into the belfry, and opening trap door left it propped up by bat. As he came down he met the little girl, who asked him what was up there, and he sad nothing but pig cons. She asked permission to go up, and warning her not to touch the bat, he let her go.

 Soon afterwards he went up and found she had removed the bat, the trap had fall en upon her and she lay there dying. He was frightened at the thought that he might be accused, and so running of, he lied about the affair. as it gradually came to light. His new story IS full of details. He gives the narrative in very circumstantial manner, and apparently good deal can be done to test it's truth. To many it may seem improbable, but to those who have Fl L. ways of the class that Piper belongs to, it bis very likely to come of full force. It is almost incomprehensible to ordinary per sons the extent to which ignorant men and women lie when in the presence of suspi- | cion. Cases are numerous where voluntary confessions have been made of crimes that it was absolutely certain the confessors had never committed. Fools speak the truth, but only sometimes. and their wise reputa tions are largely fictitious. The criminal is always more or less fool, and there k the strong possibility that Piper's story which he told his counsel at first and the plea that he risked his life upon may have been based merely on the product of COW ards hasty invention. There is plausabil ity about the new account that makes it, a all events, worth careful inquiry. Some competent body ought to find out whether he is simply fool or knave and fool both l-Hartford Courant.
Year: 1876

About the first of April, man by the name of Heath, of this town, suddenly dis appeared, being last seen toward night on town meeting day near the covered bridge over the Housatonic river, a little east of this village. and has not been heard from since, although there was body seen in the river in several places below here. When the body was finally taken. from the | water, Mir Orrin Clark of Sheffield went down, taking pieces of MT. Heath's cloth ing to compare with that on the body, and found that it was some other person un- known to him. A manin this place now tells strange story. About three weeks since, he, with another man, was driving from Burlington, and when about mile south of the village he saw man on the Housatonic river in a boat, shooting musk rats, and reaching out for something the boat overturned and went down stream an6 the man disappeared, and that was the las

 he saw of him. He said he could not leave his team very we'll to do anything, and the man probably drowned without anyone making the least effort to save him, The body found below here may have been the same, but it seems very strange that, who- ! ever 1t was, he had not been missed and eff | forts made to find him. SUBSTITUTE.