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Year: 1876

COMPOSED BY A SHEFFIELD LADY. Where once men spoke with fear and dread We welcome you with joy to-dsyi The sunshine breaks upon our head

 The clouds of war have passed away. That we might reap these brighter days Our fathers served with toll and tears; We speak their name with thankful praise, And bless them for these hundred years. May we but live our lives as we'll

 Devoted to the true and free; Another hundred years shall tell

 How we have prized our liberty. God bless our landi far freedoms land Protect her from all ways of guile; Teach her by night to trust Thy hand, Teach her by day to seek Thy smile.
Year: 1876

A measure that is necessary to carry into
Effect Tho recent decision OF the United
btatcs Supreme Court, and to cGoctually set
ao the Omaha bridge controversy, is now
psnt'ing beforo tho House Committee on
Pacific Railroads 1t il in the form OF a bill
prohibiting tho Union Pacific Railroad from
charging any higher rate OF toll for the trans
rortation Of freight or passengers across
tho bridge than is charged for an equa1 dis
tance over any other portion Of the road in
other words. it declares tho bridge to be- n
part OF the railroad, and Council Bluffs to be
the c0storn terUiuua
Year: 1876

Tho Democratic House proposes to invite
Itself to go to tho Centennial on tho opening
day and pay Its expenses out of tho Public
Treasury. This IL the Democratic idea Of rp-
ttenchnent and reform. Cut off tho foes OF
starvcing consuls and gorge themselves at
she public expense
Year: 1876

On Friday evening A. NJ. Wright Postmaster at
Whitestone Long Island, fifty years old and promi.
nent member OF the Methodist Church, arraigned
before Justice Williamson a charge of enticing a
little girl into his blacksmith shop by promises OF
pennies, &c, for improper purpose The child
Emma Keith, twelve years old, very small and OF an
innocent unsuspecting appearance was in court and
the prisoner admitted the facts stated by the
panant but by counsel urged that they did not cons
tute any statutory offence He was held In $1,000 to
the third or fourth time similar charges have been
made against him, and the local feeling is very hot
the subject HINTS at applications of tar will prob
ably make Wright careful about too freely exposing
himself to the attentions of his neighbors
Year: 1876

Patrick striokler, aged thrty-hve, OF No. % Third
street. found dead in his room about Ave o'clock
last evening He was shot through the head. He en-
tered his about nine O'Clock in the morning and
not alive after that time. He was then
slightly intoxicated. He Is said to have been in the
liquor business al No u 93 Bowery. The drawers
OF his bureau well stocked with bottles of gin and
whiskey. Three protested notes found upon his
person. On n table In his were two tickets for
box No 10 at the French ball In the Academy OF Music
Thursday night last The pistol with which he shot
himself lay near him on the floor
Year: 1876

The headquarters OF the Arion Society, in ST Marks
place, envened last night by the jolly subjects
ofPrnce Carnival who each covered with tricolored,
betinkng fools cap engaged in their second carnival
celebration. Centennial stance they called It. At
the time the society celebrated the twenty
Anniversary of its foundation
Year: 1876

win be paid BY the company the person giving such nr


nation as shall 70 the conviction Of the offender Tha
above reward will only be paid condition that the said FUN
be communicated 10 the company before the lt
Year: 1876

Among the olive brsnchos that stand
shout the table of the happy father of a
large family, one OF them at least is pref
ty sure to be one of those warm hearted
i ncorrigible, plausible scrapegraces, whose
character, and destiny Scott expressly
sums up in the name of "ne'er do weel. "
They are admirable in all the sentimen.
tai portions of the filial relation, and IN
domestic joys or sorrows perform their
part with a gushing emotion that wins all
hearts. But they are possessed with a
fixed idea that it is their business to spend
as much money as they can upon their
own pleasure ard that il is somebody
ese's duty to supply them with it. From


this idea no lessons of experience, no
lapse Of time, no coaxing and no threats
can win them. 1t is of no use paying their
debts and giving them fresh start; 1o,
before the start is we'll made. the debts
are as bad as ever. They are bottomlcss
pit into which money is flung in vain. No
sense of humiliation at the necessity Of
constantly living upon others; no shame
at tic injury they are doing their broth
trs and sisters, can stir them up to the
slightest eXertion or self.restaiLt, Such
specimens are tolerably certain to fall to
the lot Of all parents whose quivcrs are
passably full.
Year: 1876

A Philadelphia editor thus relieves his
mind on subject familiar to all news,
paper offices. the pub. doc:


I'VE owe our thanks to Judge Kelley
for the latest patent office reports. We
already have sixteen hundred of these in.
tercstlng volumes in our little library, but
they haye been read and re-read so many
times that we know every page of them
by heart. This new volume came oppor-
tunely and gratefully o.. Christmas morn
ing, and that night We grathered our lit
tic family around the fire and read it
through to them. The affecting tale cnti-
tied Improvement in Monkey Wrenches,
seemed to touch every heart, and when
we came to the climax of tile little story
about Reversible Pleboards,' there was
cot dry eye between the front door and
the stable. During the reading of the
pitcOus narrative entitled Cum Wash for
Carriage Axcs,' the whole family gave
expression to boistero,IS emotion. and the
hired girl WAS so excited that she lost
her presence of mind, ard went around to
her mothers Inadvertently with six
pounds of sugar and a butter kettle full
OF flour, aud came home at night intoxi-
Gated. We can never sufficiently thank
Judge Kelley for the innocent enjoyment
thus furnished US. TIE memory OF tha.
happy evening will lingcr III our minds
very much longer than the hired girl ever
fingers when she lights on a lot of sab
stance which she thinks will suit the
constitution Of her aged parent.
Year: 1876

Life would be miserable if men and wo.
men had no grievances. tits highly prob
able, indeed, that large humber. if they
could find nothing to grumble at, would
die Of simple ennn. It is positive enjoy
ment t. many people to have good
growl; they take intense delight in per
suading themselves and those by whom
they are surrounde !, that they are martyr,
on a small scale. They do not act thus
always with the mere intention of invok
ing pity on their behalf. They are actu-
ated by somewhat vague feeling of dis
content. They feel that somehow or other
things are not exactly as they ought to be.
They may have plenty to eat and drink;
they may have good clothes on their
backs, and sufficient money to provide
them with all hcal,hful luxuries, they may
have friends who love them, and COM
Portable homes, and yet they feel dissatis
fed and seize an opportunity of making
their dissatisfaction felt They may be
good hearted people in the main; they
may give money to feed the hungry and
clothc the naked; their eyes may water at
the sight of suffering, and yet, unaccount-
able as it may appear, they will take posi-
tive pleasure in making those with whom
their daily lives are spent temporarily un-
happy.


Humgn nature is made up of such pal.
IL pable there is so much of
instructive bad mixed up with SO much m
.stinctive good in every one of us-that
there is no reason to be surprised at this.
Such being the constitution of many
mems minds, it will readily be conceived
that even such people are exceptionally
prosperous they make point of positive


ly gloating over their trivial trials, making
out. indeed. that they haye as large q
share Of bi.ters of life as any of their tel


lows. Indeed, we may go a step furthe
and say that those who have most trials


talk Least about them. Those whose lives


are one continued struggle to keep the


wolf from the door, have, IN fact. little


time for grumbllng. They have gener-
ally to be content with things as they are


It would be found, were inquiry made,


that the honest, hard workers ere so busi-
|ly engaged thanking Providence for such
small mercies as arc vouchsafed them that
they forget to murmur, except at odd mo.
ments on account Of those which are de-
MED.
Year: 1876

A yoans man who started for the Black
Hills, halted twenty miles this side OF the
objective point and commenced to dig,
end the result was quarter of a pound of
lead inside of fifteen minutes. lie dug II
out of his leg, where it had been deposit
ed by Noble Red Nan-Norristow
Herald
Year: 1876

A man in town yesterday with no hair.
and bullet hole in the calf of lis left lek
says he his satisfied that there is gold In
the Black Hills, He also says Re Is salts.
fed that there are Indians III the Black
|Hl:ls.-Chicago Times.
Year: 1876

A Louisville chap thought he had found
something nice IN the shape Of . laughing,
sunny little witch of girl. and was on
the point of proposing msfriage when she
scattered his fond hopes to the winds by
remarking one evening: you hug and
kiss me more than any gentleman am
acquainted with, except Bill Wallace, and
he Is steamboat clerk, and only comes
here once month";
Year: 1876

The following recipe for "pathetic
marine poem appears in a new English
book: "Take one midnight storm. and
one fsherman's family, which. if the
poem is to be real success. should be as
large and as hungry as possible, and must
contain at least one innocent infant. Place
this last in the cradle, with the mother
singing over it, being careful that the
babe be dreaming Of angels, or else smil-
ing swee,lv. Stir the father well up un-
til he disappears. Then get ready imme-
diate.y quantity of cruel, crawling foam,
in which serve up the father, directly ON
his rearpearance, which is sure to take
place in an hour or two, in the dull, red
morning. This done, . charming saline
efferyescence will take place among the
remainder of the family. Pile up the
agony to suit the palate. and the poem
will be ready for perusal."
Year: 1876

MONTREAL, April l9.-Adyices from
Gaspe state that there is great distress on
the coast The supply of -four and hay is
giving out and unless navigation opens
early it is feared many will die of hunger
One woman died at Percy last week Of
starvation and at Mobile De Borachais
several families are starving Horses are
dying and farmers are already killing off
their whole stock.
Year: 1876

The Owatonna Journal sees in
the foolish assumption of infallibility
for the Supreme Court of South Car
olina, by Judge Willard, "a solemn
warning of a tendency of Southern
education to carry Southern feeling
back to the glitter and tinsel, the
sham show and mockeries of royal
ty!" We don't know but that the
Journal is correct, but, unfortunate
ly for its theory, Judge Willard is a
Northern man, raised and educated
in New England; while Judge Bond,
of the u. S. Circuit Court of South
Year: 1876

eral as to the means by which he rose,
and none more completely for time
than the present writer of his biography.
Much Of Clusters success has been at
tributed to good fortune, while it was
really the result of All unusual capacity
for hard and energetic work, and rap
idity of intuition which is seldom found
apart from military genius Of the high
est order. 1t is only after careful
and complete examination of the char
acter of the man, and the perusal of a
mass Of private correspondence, begin
ming in his days Of obscurity, after the
unconscious revelation by himself Of
his inmost thoughts and aspirations,
that the author has learned Alright to
appreciate the personality of the sub
ject of this biography. The world has
never known half the real nobility of
the life of Custer, nor a tithe Of the
difficulties under which he struggled.
it will be the authors endeavor to rem
edy this want Of knowledge, to paint
in sober, earnest colors, the portrait Of
such knight Of romance as has not
h"nored the world with his presence
since the days Of Bayard.


This may seem exaggerated praise
to some. A few short weeks ago it
would have sounded so to the writer.
He only asks the world to accept it to-
day, as his honest conviction and sober
testimony, arrived at after very thor
ough and careful examination, by one
who entered on the task with very diff
ferent impressions. The current ide;.
on the subject has been largely due to
the expression set aAoat by Custer him.
self, embodied in the words 'sCuster )
luck" but never has there been more
mistaken impression. TO remove that
impression, to show to the world the
dead as he really was-an ideal hero
is the object Of these pages.


This book will be sold only to those
who order Of the agent, MIR. S. w.
Thayer, who is now engaged in taking
subscri ptions. We trust that it will
receive a most cordial reception, for it
is we'll worthy of it.
Year: 1876

MIR. w. S. Thayer, an old resident
of this vicinity, who has, for the last
few years been wrestling with grass
hoppers in Watowan county, and COM
ing out second best, is now canvassing
for the work described in the following:


The ''Life of General CUSTER" which
is now being written by Captain Fred
erick Whitaker, we learn is progres.
sing rapidly to completion. It will be
one Of the most charming biographies
published in years. Both author and
publisher have been greatly surprised
at the vast mass of rich material which
they have been able to obtain. Prob
ably there is not another officer with
anything like the reputation of General
Custer, Of whom so little is accurately
known by the people at large. The
book will be fully Illustrated, and will
give graphic account Of Clusters life,
both in the army and on the plains with
the Indians. His life was romance
from beginning to end. The author, in
his preliminary remarks, says:


This book aims to give to the world
the life of great man, one of the few
really great men that America has pro-

duced. Beginning at the foot of the
social ladder, with no advantages be-
yond those, physical and mental, given
to him by the God who made him, he
rose to the top. His upward career
was so rapid and phenomenal in its
success as to deceive the world iu gen.
Year: 1876

We hope that the result Of the re
cent presidential al election will awak-
en- public attention to the inexpedi-
ency Of a change of the constitution.
The instrument should never be
amended, except to suit new circum-
stances which did not exist when it
was framed. The present plan of
electing the President is as wise as
can be devised. All that we need
desire is, that it shall be honestly
put in practice, remembering that
the office is one which cannot be
contested for by competing aspirants
without involving the country in re-
volution and anarchy.
Year: 1876

The report of the State Superin-
tendent of Education, as we have
already remarked, is a singular pro-
duction. He opens with an argu-
ment in favor of the new method of
apportioning the public funds, i. e.
on the basis of the scholars en-
rolled in the schools instead of on
that of the number of schoolable
children in the district, as was form.
erly done. Of course, he gives
some very sound reasons for ap-
proving of the new plan and points
out distinctly objections to the one
it superseded but we can hardly
agree with him in all his conclusions.
To us the new method seems to be
almost as Objectionable and unjust
as the old, and quite as likely to be
made available for dishonest prac
tices. We would recommend Mr..
Burt to put himself to the trouble Of
walking to the opposite side Of the
statue and examining the color Of
the shield from that standpoint, be-
fore deciding so positively whether
It is made Of gold or silver.


Continuing his argument, he pro-
ceeds to say that other improve
ments in the system ought to be
made, and to show that this is true
points out some of the evils to be
remedied, attacking county superin-
tendents, trustees and teachers, but
dealing far more leniently with the
former than with the other classes,
and growing Drawer and fercer as
his accusations become more gen
eralized and those he censures less
likely to resent. We do not wish
to be understood as finding fault
with Superintendent Burt's criti-
Cisms of the school system. 1t has
the faults he points out, and we are
glad to see that he calls attention
to them, but we regret that, instead
Of ranging all over creation to seek
comparisons with things animate
and inanimate and drag them in as
illustrations, he has not confined
himself to the subject in hand and
labored to suggest remedies at once
practicable and acceptable.


His report, however, is valuable,
in that it will arouse other minds to
the Importance of amendments in
our school system, and it is to be
hoped that it will lead to remedies
being suggested by which it will
speedily be made far more efficient
than it is in affording opportunities
Of education to all the children of
the State. We hope to have fire.
quent occasion to use it hereafter,
and will derive considerable advan-
tage in future discussions of this SUBJ
ject, by information drawn from its
pages; and we hope that it may be
critically and extensively read by
the people of the State.
Year: 1876

WHAT'S the use of going through
the farce of an election if three or
five men, calling themselves Re-
turning Board, can decide who is
elected, without regard to the vote
cast ? A monarchy, where the &C.
cident of birth determines the sue
cession is preferable to this.-Znke
Ciiy Sentinel.


Well, 1t won't cost you much to
move into Canada; and even Ger
many or Russia are open to you, if
you are only willing to obey their
laws.
Year: 1876

of people and especially those who
have to buy Clothing, and it is
question of more vital individual i'm
portance, because it is one that
touches the pocket-books, and when
ever a good and sure place can be-
Year: 1876

where their hard earnings in these
dull times can be most judiciously
invested, and where business is done
on fair and honest principles, it is an
indlsputable fact, ,one that cannot be
Year: 1876

that such a place should win its


way to favor in the hearts of all the


people. l, the undersigned, beg
leave to call your attention to my
new stock Of Clothing for the COM
ing winter seasons demand. It'll
Year: 1876

trustworthy. For instance Gen

 Hampton admits in the dispatch

 to the Herald that Mr. Tilden has run behind the State ticket, which

 was natural, and admits with eyi. dent regret that he has run a good deal behind. The body of New Orleans merchants also speak spc- officially, but moderately, and in deed, to day at least, the Demo crats who communicate with the north by telegraph have a more moderate, a ealmer tone than the republicans, who seem to be getting more and more excited. We recommend both sides to be calm. Loud talking and boasting will not help them. Both parties here in the north are inoxorably determined to sec justice done in all three of the states-on that democrats and republicans down there may as well rely. If the republicans have really carried them they will have them count ed on the Hayes side as sure as the sun rises. If the democrats have earned them they will be counted on that side with equal certainty. And woe to the dema- gogues and scoundrels on either side who shall be caught attempt ing to cheat. A sufficient number of impartial, eminent and respect ed citizens have gone to New Or leans and will go to South Caroli- na and Florida to examine into the disputes there and make a declaration to the nation which will satisfy both parties.
Year: 1876



 HOLLY BEND, Nov. 18th, 1876. To the editor of the DEMOCRAT:

 A word seems to be in demand at this time though it may not be in order.

 l am persuaded to think the habits of this neighborbood must be on a change judging from the number of men who are SC .n passing around these days loaded down with corn juice.

 Now some of these fellows pass ing around with half foot, more or less, of a bottle neck swinging out of their pockets and using language in front of houses not to be found in Websters Diction- ary, seem to be minors.

 /. It may be the best to keep up drinking shops Tn the country, for good reasons (so called) too numerous to mention, but I am not able to see the point unless it is in preparing the young for a home in his Satanic Majesty's Kingdom.

 Mir. Editor I have got of the subject. What l was going to say, is there no healing salve to apply to those who deal out whis- key to minors? Section 1909 of of Gantt's Digest reads thus: "If any person shall sell to or buy for any minor intoxicating spirits of any kind, without the consent or order, in writing, of the parent or guardian of such minor, he shall upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more than one hun dred dollars" Will this mild hint have the desiree effect, or not? Time will tell. Read and inwardly digest.

 The farmers are trying to gath CT the remainder of their crops as rapidly as possible.

 The fall has been very favora- ble and the most of the cotton has been gathered, though there are some corn and cotton in the field yet. l heard one farmer in this township say at the election if his corn to gather, would turn out as we'll as what had been gathered, he had 2,50O bushels in the field yet.

 Mir. Aif. Wick is having a new frame house put up in the bottom. His old one came very near going in the river the last rise.

 Our neighbor Holland across the branch in Yell county, started a new steam gin some two weeks ago. Judging from the sound of the whistle, they mean business,

 Mir. Gibson has reft up agaln and been running some time He moved the engine a short dis tance and is now running in the old Masonic building. Mir, Gib- son is q go ahead man. Yours truly, F.