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Year: 1876

Eighteen hundred and seventy-six is the Centen-
nial year. 1t is also the year in which 0pposi-
war, will be in power at ashington and the year
Of the twenty third election of President of the
great interest and importance, especially the two
latter; and all of them and everything connected
with them will be fully and freshly reported and ex
pounded in THE SUN.


The Opposition House of Representatives, taking


me will sssTnIY 9 apa age ~
ruptions and misdeeds of GRANTS administration
and wi it is to be hoped. lay the foundation for
new and better period in our national history. Of
all this THE SUN will contain complete and accu-
accounts furnishing its readers With early and
trustworthy information upon these absorbing top
The twenty-third Presidential election. with the
preparations for it, will be memorable as deciding
upon GRANTS aspirations for a third term of power
and punder. and still more deciding who shall be
the candidate Of the party of Reform and as elect
ing that candidate Concerning all these subjects,
| those who read THE sun will have the constant
means Of being thoEoughly well informed,


lation of over eighty thousand copies already has
its readers in every State and Territory. and we
trust that the year 1876 will see their numbers doub
led 1t will continue to be thorough newspaper.
All the general news of the day will be found in it,
condensed when unimportant, at full length when
of moment and always trust. treated in clear,
Interesting and instructive manner.


It is our aim to make the WEEKLY SUN the best
family newspaper in the world, and shall contin


to give in its columns a large amount of miscel


laneous reading such stories, tales poems, scien


tihc intelligence and agricultural information. for
which we not able to make room in our daily
edition. The agricultural department especially is
one Of its prominent features. The fashions al
so regularly reported in its columns. and are the
markets of every kind.


The WEEKLY sun eight pages with ffty-six
broad columns is only SLID year, postage prepaid


As this price barely repays the cost of the
discount be made from this rate to clubs agents.
Postmasters, or anyone.


The DAILY sun, a large four page newspaper Of
twenty-eight columns, gives all the news for two
cents copy. Subscription. postage prepaid, 55c.
month. or $3.50 year. Sunday edition extra sl.l0
per year. We have no travelling agents. Address
5S-5 THE New York City.
Year: 1876

HAPPY EVERY DAY Sydney Smith
cut the following from a newspaper and
preserved it for himself: When YOU
rise in the morning, form the resolution
to make the day happy one to fellow
creature. 1t is easily done; left of
garment to the man who needs it : a
kind word to the sorrowful; an encour-
aging expression to the striving-trifes
in themselves as light as air-wilI do at
least for the twenty-four hours. And if
you are young, depend upon it, it will
tell when you are old f.; and if YOU are
old, rest assured it will send you gently
and happily down the stream of time to
eternity. BY the most simple arithme-
tieal sum, look at the result. If YOU
send one person away happily through
the day, that is three hundred and six
ty-five in the course of a year. And
suppose you live forty years only after
you commence that course of medicine
you have made $4,000 persons happy
at all events for time.
Year: 1876

A Wisconsin editor illustrates the pre-
vailing extravagance of the people now
a-days by calling attention to the costly
baby carriages in use, while when he was
baby he hauled him around by the
hair of his head
Year: 1876

How TO PREVENT WET FEET.-A
writer in the Mechanics Magazine, says:
l have had three pairs of boots for the
last six years and / think | shall not
require any more for the next six years
to come. The reason is that | treat
them in the following manner. put a
pound each of tallow and rosin in pot
on the fire when melted and mixed, /
warm the boots, and apply it hot. with
a painters brush, until neither the sole
nor the upper leather will soak in any
more. If it is desired that the boots
should Immediately take polish, dis
solve an ounce of wax in teaspoonful
of lampblack.


A day or two after the boots have
been treated with the tallow and rosin,
rub over them this wax in turpentine,
but not before the fire. Thus the exter-
ior will have coat of wax alone, and
shine like mirror. Tallow or grease
becomes rancid, and rots the stitching
and leather but the rosin gives it an
antisepic quality, which preserves the
whole. Boots and shoes should be so
large as to admit of wearing cork soles.
Cork is so bad conductor of heat, that
with it in the boots, the feet are always
warm, on the coldest stone floor.
Year: 1876

The arrest of LEDYARD, the Cashier
of TEMPLE & WoRKMAN's Bank, is,
when we come to look at it, rather
singular proceeding. First, the man
is arrested on charge of embeZzliDg
$16,500. Embezzlement is criminal
offense, yet we cannot understand how
the taking of this amount of money
In the manner that he took it can be
construed into embeZzlement, for the
transaction took place some two years
ago and the money was duly charged
up against him on the books of the
bank. This being the case, the pro-
prietors must have known that he
owed them the $16,509, and after ac-
cepting it for two years as debt it
will be difficult, at this late day, to
shape it into embezzlement. Mr..
LEDYARD cannot be held on this COM
plant and his discharge will speedily
follow the hearing, which is now post
poned until some time next week.
Since his arrest for embezzlement a
civil action for the recovery of SIC, 500
has been commenced against Mr.. LED
YARD. No one knows better than the
plaintiffs in the case that not dollar
of the claim can be collected. He will
no doubt confess judgment and the
criminal action having been dismissed
nothing is to prevent him from going
Year: 1876

"new countries for to see.u The en-
tire proceeding is singular to say the
least of it, and if we should give
guess as to the motive which prompts
these actions, it would be that it is in-
tended to drive LEDYARD into exile,
and then hold him up as the party
who has done all the mischief. By
this procedure, other parties who are
as deep in the mud as the Cashier is
in the mire, will have freed them
selves of an accomplice, or partner
who might tell more than they wish
to have known, and be enabled to say
to the defrauded creditors, cit was not
|, but he that did it.n
Year: 1876

A DAY or two ago we published a
dispatch from San Bernardino which
read as though the MCFARLAND Bros.
had stolen some bullion and were
about to be captured. The truth is
that the MCFARLAND Bros. are among
the most respectable citizens of San
Bernardino county and it was fro N
them the bullion was stolen. We
published the dispatch just as receiv-
ed but in justice to the worthy gen.
tlemen whose good name could suffer
only where they are unknown, by the
transposed words of the item, we make
this explanation and trust those of our
contemporaries who have given pub
licity to the error will also make cor
rection..
Year: 1876

The recent fires in this city suggest
the necessity of more speedy way of
announcing the alarm of fire. In
most cases from ten to fifteen minutes
are lost in reaching the engine house
and giving the alarm, during which
time the fire is so far advanced that
nothing can be saved. The engines
are of no use except to prevent the
spread of the fire. A system of tele-
graph can be established at very low
cost, as follows: wire per mile at $40 !;
25 posts per mile at $3.50 cash, set up I;
insulators per mile $3; labor about
$50 per mile; the total cost per mile
to set up reaches Sl2O; one battery
$50. Construct one line to reach the
end of Sixth street at Pearl street.
One line down Main street towards
CHILDs. One line through upper Main
street. In each case follow the most
densely settled line. About four miles
Year: 1876

the following description of Wash
ingtOn's personal appearance, written
in IT'S says an English newspaper,


"by q native of America" contains
some points not generally known :
General Washington is now in the
fOrty-seventh year of his age. He is a
tall, well-made man, rather large, and
has tolerably genteel address: His
features are manly and bold; his eyes
are OF blush cast and very lively; his
hair deep brown; his face rather long,
and marked with the smallpox his
complexion sunburnt and without
much color; and his cOuntenance sensi-
BILE, composed and thoughtful. There
is remarkable air of dignity about
him, with striking degree Of grace
fulness; he has an excellent under
standing, without much quickness is
strictly just, vigilant and generous an
affectiOnate husband, faithful friend,
a father to the deserving soldier, q gen.
tleman in his manners, in temper rath-
er reserved total stranger to religious
prejudices which have so often excited
Christians of one denomination to cut
the thrOats of those of another; in his
morals irreproachable he was never
known to exceed the bounds of the
most rigid temperance"
Year: 1876

Do not laugh at that drunken man
reeling through the streets. However
ludicrOus the sight may be, just pause
and think. He is going home to some
tender heart that will throb with in-
tense agony; some doting mother, per-
haps, who will grieve over the down
fall of her once sinless boy; or it may
be fond wife, whose heart will al
NEST burst with grief, as she views the
destruction of her idol; or maybe a
loving sister, who will shed bitter
tears over the degradation of her broth
er, shorn of his manliness and self
respect.


Rather drop tear in silent sympa-
thy with those hearts so keenly sensi-
tive and tender, yet so proud and 10y
al that they cannot accept sympathy
rendered them either in word, look, or
act, although it might fall upon their
crushed and wounded hearts as re-
freshingly as the summer dew upon
the withering plant.
Year: 1876

The St. Louis Republicans advice to Bras-
tow is Let him stick. He represents the peo-
pie; the people expect him to do his duty TO
the end, as he has done it thus far, and they
viii sustain him. Let his sacrifice his person.
al pride for their sake, and thus compel the
President either to endure the rebuking pres
ence of the best Cabinet officer he has ever
had, or by dismissing him, to come forward
into the full blaze of popular condemnation
as the avowed champion of the ring.
Year: 1876

The protracted agony of the Democratic
Caucus Committee over the financial question
came to the termination last week with an
agreement to disagree. Eight members, in
Guiding the four Senators, Thurman, Bayard,
Bogy, and Mcdonald, will report in favor of
adopting the Payne compromise, with some
notifications. The other five members, with
Holman at their head, are for the uncondi-
tional repeal of the Resumption act, and
there is little doubt that they represent the
feeling of the majority of the Democrats in
the House. The only thing that may be re-
garded as settled in this controversy so far, is
the hopeless split in the Democratic party.
Year: 1876

Prof. Wilder, of Cornell University,
gives these short rules for action in case
of accident:


For dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing;
dash cold water in them remove cin-
ders, etc., with the round point OF a
lead pencil.


Remove insects from the ear by tepid
water; never put q hard instrument
into the ear.


If an artery is cut compress it above
the wound if vein is cut compress it
below.


If choked go upon all fours and
cough.


For slight burns dip the part in cold
water; il the skin is destroyed cover
with varnish.


For apoplexy raise the head and
body; for fainting lay the person Hat.
Year: 1876

From the New Ork W 0rld.


If every honest Democrat East and
West, North and South, who desire to
see a Democratic Presidnt enter the
White House on the 4th of March,
1877, will cut out, ponder, digest and
press upon his friends the following
plain table af figures which are facts,
we shall soon have an end Of all the
gable of all the 'Soft-MOney' palaver-
ers in the land. The Soft Money pal
AYERS are showing ms all the time how
to catch the larks if only the skies will
fall. The skies will not fall-but here
are the larks already caught. Here are
the birds in hand. Let honest Demo-
Gratis hold them fast, and leave the
palaverers to cratch their own eyes out
in the bush.
Year: 1876

Some people are inveterate readers,


yet they rarely remember what they
read. They peruse a book or paper
merely to vile away an idle hour-not
with view to mental improvement.
One Of these Loose readers once said he
had recently read in some paper, he
couldn't remember where il was, Of q
man named Johnson-he believed his
name was Johnson-who had raised o
thousand barrels Of potatoes 70 the
acre-he believed II was barrels, it
might have been bushels; he was quite
sure il wa, polatoes, though possibly
it might have been apples; it seemed
a good deal for an acre, he might have
been mistaken about that-really it
was impossible. it must have been
more than an acre. Now reading af.
ter this fashion is Improbable. Give
your attention to what you read. 1t
is very good practice after laying a
book down to take up a pen and see
how much you can write Of what you
have read. After trying it regularly
for week you will be pleased to 6nd
how much more you can remember
than you could at first. So rapidly
does the habit Of concentrating ones
thoughts grow with cultivation.
Year: 1876

The sad accident near Danxille re
Gently, in which q little son Of MIR.
Irwin. aged about eleven years. lost
his life. should admonish parents Of the
Danger attending the use Of guns and
pistols by small boys. The little fsl
lows head was blown almost literally
of by tine accidental discharge Of Z
gun in the hands Of his companion
while they were out hunting.
Year: 1876

The Charter Of the Kentucky Cen
tral railroad will be amended by the
present Legislature. aud the road is b
be extended in the direction Of Knox
vile. by one of four route. This is
deemed essential to the interest Of the
company. as the Knoxville branch and
the & 8. r. r. will swallow up the
travel and freight If their line is NOT
extended.
Year: 1876

IT /. not proper that the remains OF
General Taylor should lie in a private
burial ground in the country, scarcely
markell by a slab. His services as the
hero Of the Mexican War. and as
President ofthe United States, entitle
him to more respectful intermen'.
Kentucky owes it to herself to pace
his remains in the cemetery at Frank
fort
Year: 1876

The severe rains of the past two weeks
have injured the wheat in this county to
a considerable extent, principally by
laying it down before it was ripe, there
by preventing its filling as it would
have done standing, and making it very
difficult to harvest. We are glad to
hear from farmers that there has, up to
to-day, been no sprouting in the heads
of standing or shocked wheat, and hope
that the weather from this time on NAV
be more propitious. Corn is growing
well. though a little backward from a
cold spring. What has proved an evil
to wheat and corn growers has been q
boon to tobacco planters, as they have
had long and favorable "seaso2" fol
setting out their plants.
Year: 1876

ing dispatch to the St. Louis Globe
Democrat:


ssLEx1NaroN, Mo-, June 2S.-The news of
Tilden's nOmIn alton was received with JOY IN
this hot-bsd of the late Southern Confederacy.
When the announcement WAS made the old
familiar rebel yell Of 1861 could be heard ascend.
ing to high heaven from the Confederate soldiers
and their sympathizsrs. Some boys and u lew
Democrats are now burning powder out OF
couple Of anvils in honor OF the nomination.
The Republicans are jubllsnt and consider Til
den the easiest man to beat that was before the
Convention"


This re-echoes the stock in trade OF
the wavers of the bloody shirt. "The
old, familiar rebel yell" We do not
know who wrote the article, but we
will wager something handsome that
his patriotism was not of that order
which impelled him to defend his coun-
try during its time of peril at the risk of
his life. There was no such thing as
rebel yell at the meeting Wednesday
night, and though there were boys upon
the ground, there was q large and en-
thusiastic crowd of men-democrats
who had served under blue as well as
gray jackets; and of the five speak
ers who addressed the assembly. three
of them were Union men, and two
southern. during the scar, and they
are all better Union men to-day, more
of patriots and lovers of their country
than any man who is disposed to keep
up the animosities of fratricidal strife
eleven years after peace has been agreed
upon. There is not Union man in
Lexington who loves his country better
than do those Confederate soldiers"
who attended that meeting, and who the
next day threw to the breezes the proud
est and most beautiful banner on earth,
with the names of Tilden and Hendricks
inscribed upon it, and the only Confed-
crate soldier who spoke, in the only al
lusion that he made to his having been
a Southern soldier, made the remark to
tell how on his return from Mexico, at q
sea port, he first saw the star spangled
banner proudly waving at the masthead
of noble vessel, and how out Of many
ships which he might have taken, he
took passage upon that one, because it
bore the ensign of his country, dear to
him from thousand ties and assocla-
tions, and which is dear to him from the
fact that his fathers helped to make it
possible to fly that flag instead of Eng
lands royal banner. When will repub
icans, with malice in their hearts, learn
that the war is over, and that their con-
temptuous "rebel'' carries no oppro-
brium with it to men whose ''rebel'
fathers fought and won the independence
of this country from the tyranny of
England. A tyranny which was no seve-
rer than has been that of the republican
party with its bayonet rule, its internal
revenue inquisition and its stamp acts.
How long, Oh Lord how long, will the
earth be numbered with such people.
Year: 1876

Much of the depressed condition of
the oceanic trade undoubtedly is due to
the falling off of emigration within the
past few years. and the decline or rather
non-increase of traffic between Europe
and the United States. Yet it must be
borne in mind that the oceanic steam
lines increased unduly. More steamers
were built, more lines organized than
commerce as required rapid tran
sit-would justify, and the result natu-
rally is severe competition, reduced rates,
and decline in the values of steamship
nronorfu
Year: 1876

II was talked about that Mr.. Hen
bricks would refuse the second place
upon the ticket. We thought that we
knew him better. and that his patriot
ism would forbid any such feeling. and
we are glad that the result has borne US
out in our expressed opinion.
Year: 1876

Wait until those shouters against
Tilden, who were imported to St. Louis
by Tammany, get back home and be-
gin besieging the governors door to
assure him that they cried themselves
hoarse to secure his nomination. Then
we will hear no more of the cry that
Tilden can not carry New York. That
is how John Morrissey estimates them,
and if nothing else he is good Judge
of human nature
Year: 1876

"a rebel-devised dead lock in the
governmental machinery" is what some


of the radical papers call the attitude Of
the House on the appropriations. Dc
these gentlemen think that the people
cannot see why there is dead lock !?
The House has passed appropriation


bills in the interest of the people, the
Senate wants to pass them in the inter-
est Of its appointees the Office hold
ers. That is the situation in a nut shell.
Year: 1876

The machinery of the republican party
will be stronger than Hayes if he should
be elected. Tilden is a man who can
not be swerved from the path of duty by
political pressure, no matter how strong,
vide the opposition OF Tammany.
Year: 1876

The grangers OF the northwest have
repeatedly passed resolutions demand
ing reformation of the civil service OF
the country. The democrats have nom-
mated reformer on reform platform.
Will they support himP
Year: 1876

A good showing. Not one piece of
manufacturers paper made in Fall
River has gone to protest within thirty
five years, and OF the thirteen hundred
thousand spindles in the forty-four mills
not spindle is under mortgage.
Year: 1876

Wefeel little sorry for our neighbor,
the Kansas City Times. 1t can only
redeem its foolish course by eating
its humble pie as rapidly as possible to
get it out Of sight, and throw up its cap
for Tilden.
Year: 1876

DANCING SCHooL.--Our young people
and possibly some of the old coons-'
will be pleased to learn tha: the popular
teacher of the Terpsichorian art Prof,
S. Brotherhood. will I've here to establish
a school on the sth instant. Aside from
music, there are few accomplishments so
requisite as dancing to the person who
would make a respectable social entrYe :.
hence the opportunity now presented
should not he neglected
Year: 1876

PILL CHUCK.-We would advise all
new comers who are in search Of farming
lands, to take look up Pill Chuck val.
ley before going too far away. In all
probability a little town will spring up
at GIenwid, the site of Bennett & Whit,
ter's saw and grist mill They will have
the advantage of getting lumber and
Hour right from the mill, more conver


lent than in any other neighborhood.
There are two logging camps, run by
hrst.class men, already established, and
that does not include the BlNckman
Bros. who are close by. The lands up
that stream increase in richness, and the
heavy clearing diminshes the farther up
you go, until you reach the main source
OF the south branch of the river, Lake
Stevens. Ere long Il school district will


be established, and all the comforts Of u
/, prosperous settlement will be added, in
n MVudmg, perhaps, store at Glcnwild.
Year: 1876

THE FUNNY MAN oi our little town
(every town has its funny mani came
into our office this week and read his
funny piece. As he proceeded, smiles
gradually (according to Darwin evo.
luted into mild grin, the grin devcl'
oped to still broader extent, until every
pair of ears in the room would have had
to he set little further back on the head
in order to allow proper clongation for
the facial muscles that encircle the hash
trap. The reading went on remorSelessly


Every body went into convulsions. Type
in the stick and galley was shook into
pi. At the conclusion a regular hyena
roar howled through the room. We had
him arrested and shot on the spot-he
was hit in the neck. There was u gurg.
ling sound in the throat, and all was
over. Win, of the Cosmopolitan, sent
over the cigars He has the manuscript,
Year: 1876

We may shred the moss-veil from the ros.
The blossom from the spray; M
The bloom that pearls the luscious grape


A touch will brush away;
The vine may loosen from the tree,
Which once it clung to fast; ..J
But the heart will keep its memories


Till life itself be past. ,r .f
The gold must die from the sunset skies,
The purple from fair hills
The foam flowers fade from opal waves;
Drought hush the babbling rills;
The earth grows cold and passionless


Meath Winters bitter blast;
But the heart will keep its memories


Till lifo itself be past. ..r.., .es...
The flush will fade from cheek and brow,


The sweet smile wane and die;
The freshness leave the coral Ii s,


Tears dim the brightest eye;
Youth, beauty, hope and happiness,


And love may die at last;
But the heart will keep its memories


Till life itself be past.
Year: 1876

Judge Bond has discharged the South
Carolina Board of Canvassers. on the
ground that the State Court had no juris
diction over them. But from what source
does he derive his jurisdiction to make
the discharge ?-N. Y. Herald


& The bill introduced by Senator Mcrri.
mon, in the U s Senate, provides that
the Secretary OF State, or in case of bis
death, the Secretary of the Treasury. shall
succeed TO the Presidency in the event OF
the death, removal or resignation Of both
President and Vice President.