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Year: 1876

legally-secured Republican administration.
They openly ayow a desperate intention of
carrying the State for the Democracy by force,
and, If necessary, by fraud. Such things as
these only aid in strengthening the Republican
party in the North and of making their cause
surely triumphant in the coming colossal con-
test.


The Bourbon organ of New Orleans came
out yesterday with a flaming appeal to the
White League to arm and wrest the State
from Republican rule. To-day our energetic
orators will tell these things to the people of
New Hampshire, and it will help to swell the
Republican victory there by many hundred
votes. Every time this embodiment of Satan
the White League-shows its cloyen foot it
impresses the public more strongly of the i'm
peratiYe necessity of sustaining the party
which preserved and still maintains the Union.


She was In real earnest and somewhat over
anxious to dream about her future husband.
Moved by this desire, she devoured about two
pounds of wedding cake, and wrapping the
cover-lids Of her couch about her, passed
gently away to that wondrous land where the
mysterious Morpheus swsys q magic sceptre
as its king. At the breakfast-table on the
ollowing morning she announced emphatic
ally that she would rather spend her life in an
attempt to hang the ocean up on grapevine
to dry than to marry the man whom she met
with in her dreams.
Year: 1876

THERE is a dismal humor about some of
the features of our Indian warfare that as
serts itself even in the face of the recent
ghastly occurrences. Among other des-
patches from the Big Horn it is announced
that Indians are out of ammunition and will
not fight again at present. This means that
we must wait until they can get to the gov
ernment agencies and purchase new sup
ply from U. S. with the money they have
taken from his soldiers they have murdered.
As the soldiers had just been paid off it is
estimated that the Indians secured $4,000.
This together with their allowance of the
appropriation will afford them capital suffi-
cient to don the war paint again. If there
is any doubt about this, it might be well to
start subscription list for the benefit of Sit
ting Bull. Somewhere in the East would be
good place to begin. Perhaps in Washing
ton. Or if this is not thought best Sitting
Bull could doubtless make profitable en-
gagement with Barnum for the season, and
return to his expectant savages with all the
equipments of brilliant campaign.
Year: 1876

The letter Of Kentucky Republican to the
New York Times, which is published else
where, dscloses the painful fact that in such
states as Kentucky there is still powerful
party who hate the flag which is the emblem
OF national union, and protect if not encour-
age assassns who murder men because they
are loyal to the national idea. These seces-
sionsts are as bitter foes to Union men as
they were in 1864. To them their cause is
not lost so long as there is possibility of a
Democratic triumph.
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley L.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials Of every person claiming to represent
Year: 1876

They are easily terrified. these little
ones, and the mother who would
strengthen the nerves of her children
should have her own under absolute
control. We have more than once
seen woman into whose hands a
child has been given to love and rear,
who never even once imagined that
when she screamed ut the sight of a
venturesome mouse, or the graceful
spinning down of spider, or flash
of lightning, that she SO shocked the
nerves of her child and so thrilled
them that they were never at peace
again. The scream that she utters
may leave no visible wound in the
body of her litlo one. but the hurt is
none the less severe, and the pain will
return again and again to it whenever
it sees the small and very likely harm
les, ,sect which suggested to its mother
the terror which she transferred to her
child. We have seen a mother gather
her children into bed at midday, and
silently lie trembling with dread OF n
lightning flash, until she has made the
young lives of her family Il burden to
them whenever there is promise Of a
summer storm. OF course there is
danger during an electric disturbance,
and mother may tell her children
that the center Of the room, with the
windows and doors closed, if there be
no chimney in the apartment, is a
safer place than doorway or an open
easement; but she need not irighten
them by manifest timidity. The time
of real danger she should make ono of
very serious use to her little ones by
showing them the value of cool self
possession, prompt action, or heroic
patience to teach them how To guard
themselves from danger.
Year: 1876

Ii is not to sweep the house, make
the bed, darn the socks and cook the
meals, chiefly, that man wants a
wife! If this is all, when a young
man calls to see la1y. send him TO
the pantry to taste the bread and cake
she has made, send him to inspect the
needle work and bed-making. or put a
broom in her hand and send him to
witness its use. Such things are inn
portant and the wise young men
quickly look after them, but what
the true man wants with wife is her
companionship, sympathy and love.
The way of life has many dreary
places in it, and man needs com.
pnnion TO go with him. A man is
sometimes overtaken by misfortune
he meets with failure and defeat;
trials and temptations beset him, and
he needs one to stand by and sympa.
tie. lie has some hard battles to
fight. with poverty, enemies and with
sin and he needs woman that
when he puts his arm around her, he
feels he has something to fight for, she
will help him TO fight; that she will
put her lips to his ear and whisper
words of counsel, and her hand to his
heart and whisper worls Of inspira-
ton. All through life, through |
storms and through sunshine, conflict
and victory through favorable winds,
man needs woman's love. The heart
yearns for it. A sisters and a mothers
love will hardly supply the need.
Yet many seek for nothing further
than success in housework. Justly
enough half of these get nothing more;
the other half, surprised beyond
measure. have gotten more than they
sought. Their wives surprise them
by bringing cut a noble idea in
marriage, and disclosing treasury of
sympathy and love.
Year: 1876




The Times this morning gives formal contra
dction TO rumOr circulated III the stock Exchange yes
terday that Lord Beaconsied hal resigned and Lord
Derby would be his successor. The Times adds I'VE
have also authority to state that there s no foundation
Whatever for reports of dissensions In the Cabinet"
Year: 1876

St. Louis papers of the 18th contain
the following:


Between Z and O'Clock last night two
men in a buggy with what seemed to be
a c0lored boy sitting between them drove
on the bridge, tossed the tOll-keeper their
fares and started hastily towards East st.
Louis. When out some distance on the
bridge a cry of " Help, for Gods sake"
issued from the buggy, and the cOlored
boy was tumbled out, when the other Oc-
cupaHts Of the buggy put the whip to
the horse and disappeared in the dark
ness. jerry Miller, the bridge collector,
hastened to the spot, and found that the
seemingscOlOTed boy was a cOlOred wO-
man, who said the men in the buggy
were named Wilson and Holland, and
that they were the parties who robbed
the United States express car on the st.
Louis Kansas City and Northern railroad
a few miles from St. Louis about six
weeks ago. She stated further that she
attended to their room in the fourth stO-
~ of the building 3I4 North Third street,
over the American Express office, and
that she went there about eight o'clock
Yesterday morning and found them look
ing some of the stolen articles and papers
over ON being discovered at this, they
seized and chlOrOfOrmed and gagged her,
and kept her in the room all day. To-
wards evening they put mems clothes on
her and about seven o'clock carried her
down stairs and placed her in a buggy.
She saws she was sensible while being
taken out Of the building, and heard
Wilson and Holland say they wanted to
tie a weight to her neck and throw her
from the bridge into the river; that she
knew too much and must be got rid Of.
Being gagged she could not call for help,
nor could she escape by running away.
But while on the bridge she managed to
yet the gag out of her mouth and scream
ed for assistance, and was thrown out OF
the buggy. When Wilson and Holland
reached the east end of the bridge they
were stopped by the toll collector and
officer Armstrong for fast driving, but
they jumped out Of the buggy and dashed
down the eastern approach Of the bridge
for dear life, and escaped. In the buggy
was found bottle which had contained
chloroform, "A trace-cbain, and sledge
hammer, and car coupling link, which
were no doubt intended 10 be used to
sink the woman after throwing her into
the river. Holland was formerly a rail-
road conductor, but the c0lOred woman
did not know who Wilson was.
Year: 1876

a party of four hundred men has been
organized at Philadelphia to start for the
Black Hills early next month.


Chas. k. Lands, recently acquitted on
the ground of insanity of the murder of Car
ruth, the Vineland, N. Y, editor, has been
pronounced sane by Judge Reed after exam
ination of witnesses and discharged from
arrest.


A bill to abolish the death penalty in
Maine, and substitute Imprisonment and
hard labor for life, passed the senate by a
vcte of IS to II. The measure had previously
passed the house. An attempt to have the
question settled by the people at the next
election was defeated in the senate by a vote
of Is to -
Year: 1876

IT is said that since his release from
confinement, Brigham Young acts as
changed man. 1t i only necessary for
one Of his wives 90 hint that the fire y
low, and ne viii trot out 10 the wood
shed as if he was thankful for the exercise.
Year: 1876

Our whole system of treating double
crimes with one-sided laws, our whole
silly policy Of treating one party to n
double crime as a fend, and the other
party as an angel or baby, has been
not only inefficient for the end sought
to be obtained. but disastrous. The
man who offers hribc to another for
any purpose which involves the In
fraction of the law of the State or ma
ton is, and must be, an equal partner
in the guilt; and any law which leaves
him out of the transaction Is utterly
unjust on the face of it. If is wrong
to sell liquor, it is wrong to buy it,
and wrong to sell because, and only
because, it is wrong to buy. If pros
,itution is wrong, it is wrong on both
sides, and he who offers bribe to a
weak woman, without home or friends
or the meats of life, to break the laws
of the State, shares her guilt in equal
measure. Law can never be respect d
that is not just, No law can be en-


forced that lays its hand upon only
one of the parties to double crime
No such law ever was enforced, OF
ever accomplished the purpose tol
which it was enacted and until we
are ready to hGve double laws fo'
double crimes, we stutity ourselves by
our unjust measures to suppress those
crimes. Our witnesses are all accom-
plices, the moral sense of the commu


nifty is blunted and perverted, ant


those whom we brand as criminals


look upon our laws with contempt o
judgment and conscience.-[Dr. J. G
/, Holland Scribner iorsMay.
Year: 1876

It may be small and poor and lowly, yet
We love it always memory may fill
Her chambers full, and time and care may chill
Our hearts, yet stands the dear old homestead
set
In picture that we never can forget.
At sudden thought of it our eyes will fill;
When we are DID, we journey to it still;
Though strangers live in it, our loving debt
We pay the same.


1 think it is like this
That saints in Heaven, though no joy they
miss,
Look back upon the little planet earth,
And come, upon our bright and sunny days,
Swift-winged angels flying down to gaze
On this cid homestead where they had their
birth.


-Independent.
Year: 1876

Some people are like telegraph
wires. They set themselves high up
in the air and congratulate themselves
upon their subtlety, their fine drawn
sympathies. One might think that
they held all the electricity in the uni.
verse. But below them stretches the
great earth from which they were
digged, giving little heed either tc
them or to their electricity, or to the
mightier currents that run to and tr'
beneath its serene surtace.-[The Ole
Cabinet Scribner for May.
Year: 1876

The New TWENTY CENT PIECE -
The twenty. cent piece is Il feature OF
the new circulating medium which
will prove a novelty. The coin was
authorized by the act OF March 80,
1875, and has never appeared IN pub
lie except In lare instances, when ii
has been an object of great curiosity
Its weight is five grains, and it is q
legal tender at its nominal value tol
any amount not exceeding five dollars
in any one payment 1t is nearly as
large as quarter, and is just like it
except the figures denoting the de
nomination, and is smooth instead o
milled edge the latter renders 1t dis
tinguishable by the touch, though a
the first glance it could easily be mis-
taken for the quarter
Year: 1876

Book encourage-almost create-a
thirst for knowledge in children. 1t
is far easier to give n child a practical
education with six months schooling
per year, with plenty Of reading mat
ter at home. than it is with ten
months schooling and no books and
newspapers in your house. This IS
no fancy, but a positive fact and yet
how many parents there are who will
spare no reasonable expense in send
inc their children to school, but if
asked to subscribe for a newspaper,
will answer. II cannot afford it !!
How stupid and Inconsistent! The
truth is, they cannot afford to do with
out 1t.


Children who are fond Of reading
very seldom seek other amusements
away from home. Who would not
prefer that his boy should sit reading
bv the fireside at home, than roamin
about where he is almost sure to fall
into bad campany and acquire perm,
cious habits


Take a good assortment OF papers,
and let every one in the house have
free access to them. Don't be toe
particular about their Icing scattered
about When you have a few spare
moments you are almost sure to b'
reading one if in reach. Above al
things, let them muss them over, th'
baby and all, for children who arr
brought up among books and newspa
pers rarely injure one. But woe be
unto either that happens to tal into
the hands Of family where they arr
rarity! You might as we'll drol
gunpowder upon red hot stove an'
expect to pick it up, as to look to-
that book again.


Never make a practice Of borrowin!
papers. 1t has been truly said that 6;
newspaper is like wife, because ev
cry man should have one OF his own.
Pay for your paper, and it will rea'
easier and be great deal more enter
tanning and instructive. At all evert
do not ask to borrow mine.


There is always great pleasure il
sending book to q reading person
but it is very dlstasteful to have on
fall into the hands Of one of thes
'Ishmaeites," who read about on
book IN two years, Newspapers, il
particular, were lot printed to lend
They are too perishable and frail.
A man who pays two dollars pc
yea tor paper, aud cannot get tha
amount of benefit from it, sis eithe
a mighty poor reader, or else is read
ing mighty poor paper.
Year: 1876

REVELATION, ch 81, %.
My burdened spirit, why that weary wing
Is heaven too far away for you to gain
May not to morrow on your vision bring
The light and glory of the heavenly plain
The clouds that veil that shining world, how
thin


How transient all that fit across your sky!
Ere long that holy city you may win
Ere long the tree of life may greet your
eye.
Meet then, my soul, meet manfuly the strife /;
The conflict may be sharp few brief hours,
But victory will give eternal life
A peaceful rest TIN heavens perennial bowers.
Yes, heaven is near; my work will quickly
end,


Ny struggling spirit find its home of rest
There waits welcome from my dearest
Friend;


There greetings from my loved ones, now so
blest.
There will my spirit quaff the crystal stream,
My eye will feast upon those verdant
plains
There shall listen to Redemption theme,
That countless thousands chant in wondrous
strains.
There shall sec and walk the golden street {;
The house not made with hands will there
be found
NV tolls all ended Jesus l shall meet,
And with the wreath of endless life b'
crowned.


Il. A. Miller.
UnnastonL vi lima 1874
Year: 1876

If men were stubborn just in pro,
portion as they were right, stubborn
ness would take her seat among the
virtues but men are generally stub
born Just in proportion as they are ig
norant and wrong.
Year: 1876

A New Orleans merchant was in,
duced by woman, who told a pitifu1
story of poverty, to give her Sl4 with
which to bury her dead husband. Be-
fore giving the money, he went to the
house and saw a discolored corpse
that he thought ought to have been
buried days before. In his hurry to
get away from the place, he forgot
his umbrella. When he returned fol-
it, he found the corpse sitting up aud
counting the $l4,
Year: 1876

The amiability of Mrs. Governor Hayes,
and her ability to entertain company, have
been a good deal talked about by the press
of the country since the valiant Ohio Gov
ernor and soldier has become the standard
bearer of the great republican party in the
coming Presidential fight, and therefore
the statement ofhow Governor Hayes won
his wife may not be uninteresting, espec-
tally to lady readers.


After Rutherford B. Hayes graduated at
the Harvard law school, in 1845, he COM
menced the practice of law, and hung out
his shingle in Fremont, Ohio, where he
held forth for five years, and was consid-
cred at the time brilliant, rising young
man. He was Incorporating, intelligent
and handsome, and as it was well under
stood that he was the heir of his bachelor
uncle, Sardis Birchard, well-knOwn
banker and merchant of the town, young
Hayes was considered good catch by
mothers all over the State who had mar
riageable daughters.


In lS49 or 80 young Hayes visited bis
mother at his birthplace. Delaware, Ohio.
1t so happened that Delaware was the
seat of the celebrated Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity, Methodist institution, used ex-
tensively as female college, which stood
there. and does now. in the midst of the
town in the center of a large and beauti-
full park. The park is and always has
been the popular resort Of the townspeople
and especially the beau-catching young
women. The feature of this ground is its


immense spring, which gushes out of the
earth in huge jet, cool and sparkling.
furnishing pure water to all who come.
Around this spring seats have been ar
ranged, and tastefully laid out little flow
er beds embellish it. In the evening this
is most popular spot.


Young Hayes, in company with other
young men, used to 60 to this spring in
the evening. generally choosing their time
when the University girls came there al
so. Among the bevy of young ladies was
one in particular who attracted Governor
Hayes attention. She was sparkling.
bright and witty, and the park always
rang with the echo Of her merry laughter
when she came to the spring. This young


lady was remarkable for her long, flowing
black hair, dark eyebrows, pearly white
teeth and beautiful eyes, and was famous
for her laughter, and, of course was
leader among the girls Of her school.
Before knowing her name the young law
yer fell in love WITH and he made up his
mind that the gay. laughing girl he met
at the college spring evening after even
ing was the one he was looking for as his
wife and future companion in life. and so
he opened his heart TO his uncle and moth.
er. In the course of time the lawyer and
lady were introduced, and she turned out
to be Miss Webb. of Chillicothe, Ohio,
a descendant of most excellent family.
The love engendered at the spring ripen-
ed into true and honest affection. which
was fully reciprocated by the lady, who in
due course of time became Mrs. Hayes.
1t was a true love match, and happy
union it has proven. Mrs. Hayes has done
much toward making Governor Hayes
popular. She is modest and retiring,
with rare faculty for entertaining COM
pany Her virtues are extolled by all who
know her. She will prove an ornament
to the White House.
Year: 1876

SCANDAL CASE IN PHILAGRLPHIA-There
Is lively church scandal Of the Brooklyn
order exciting Kensington, and which is
one Of the matters of common talk every
where. II refers to the Rev. Mr.. Bott,
pastor of the 18th Baptist church, at Rich
mond and ShackaInaxon streets. There
was business meeting at the church last
Tuesday evening at which member made
statement charging Mr.. BOtt with certain
unclerical doings which naturally caused a
great tumult. Finding that he could not
stop the proceedings, the minister vacated
his place in the pulpit, left the church and
went rapidly up the street. Mr.. Bott,
though diligently pursued by the father Of
the young woman who figures without a
name in the story, managed to escape ven
geance for the time. It was this chase
through the streets which gave the whole
affair its particular zest. 1t is said the in.
iuriated parent, in the unwonted vigor oi
MS movements, let fall from his mouth a
set OF artificial teeth, and that the time lost
IN their recovery gave Bott an advantage
which could not subsequently be redeemed
hr. Bott is young, married, and is sreported
70 possess moving" power in the pulpit
which greatly endsared him to his congre
out.
Year: 1876

The SOUTH's CLAIMS OF MoNEY.-Extract
from letter to the New York Eceninq Post:
. am convinced that there is another
question even of paramount Importance,
not that of the bloody Shirt but that
which appears to underlie all action of the
Southern democracy, namely, 'the determi-
nation by its solid vote for Mr.. Tilden to
secure again the control of the government,
IN order to demand and receive its pay.
What this pay is was recently communica-
ted to gentleman in this city by resident
in Alabama, who was his guest. Said he
We are not reconstructed; we intend to
obtain remuneration for our slaves, our cot
ton, our cotton taxes, our bonds, and all OF
our losses-not by force of arms, but by the
acts of the Democratic party. We intend to
carry our States by keeping the negroes
away from the polls, if not by one method,
then by another. This is our PLAN"
Year: 1876

CATHARINE X. SPEAR, late wife of Mr.. Andrew
Spear Leipse, was born at Odessa Sept 26th 1896
She the daughter of Owen G. and Mary A. Crow Of
this place. Much Of her early life was spent in
Smyrna, and she was well known to many of its in
habitants. Those who knew her best will hold her
memory most sacredly. for she a woman of more
than ordinary character Perhaps she was naturally
amiable, but being most decided and earnest chris
tian every natural charm was heightened, and dis
position Of uncommon lOveliness was the result.
Many are the Stories recalled to mind by her unex-
pected departure which illustrate her amiabe
character It is not necessary 10 record them. But il
is due that the death Of pure should not pass
without special notice. The community who knew
her well cannot but be interested to learn how she
met the all-conquering- -king-death. Her death was
very unexpected and has shocked not only her i'm.
mediate family and friends but the entire community
Her faith and patience tested by season OF fear
full suffering, which was met in true christian tort
tude and resignation and her exit was in an exsacy
of triumph. Her end was more than peaceful. When
too far gone 70 speak her Masters praise or testify tc
her spiritual triumph she lifted and waved her hand
in token Of her perfect victory. She leaves sadly
bereayed husband and five children and aged parents


for whose salvation she is known 10 have prayed onf
and earnestlyand not in vain. May her rich legacy
of christian example be greatly priced by her many
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