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Year: 1875

ably expected to arise in the convention
(Pal Republican (repl


The Louisiana Legislature will meet January 3, aud
II is expected resolution appoint investigating
committee in relation to the election OF United states
Senator West will be Immediately presented


The Alabama Legislature met December % Among
It's earliest business will be investigation into the
nods op1nd OF the election OF United States Senator
Spencer.


Referring to Governor Hendricks acceptance OF an
invitation to deliver the address at the opening of the
Southern Exposition in New Orleans the 26th OF
February the Times OF that city remarks -''I II can
hardly be said that there is any political significance
attached TO Governor Hendricks visit here, and yet
his coming at such time and the OF the ire
mendous campaign Of 1876 in which he Is certain to
take an important place, will exert influence which
We cannot now foresee perhaps, but which may
have occasion to remember and be thankful for long
aflerward.n


Grant wants to euchre the other candidates, and with
this view steals Morton's thunder We await with
curiosity the unfolding OF plan for crushing Bristow-
San Francisco Examiner tdenA
Year: 1875

A Busz on Detaware Aocmwe--Bees on


Me War Path.


Quite an excitement was created
yesterday in the neighborhood of Del
ware Avenue and Eleventh street, by
a hive OF bees, swarming upon a rec
in a gentleman's garden. A man, pro.
perly protected from the attacks of the
bees, by wells and gloves; ascended the
tree, and sawed of the limb the bees
were on, and was aboutto remove
them to the hive, when they left the
branch and swarmed on q fence, near
by.


The tactics practised before would
not answer now, as to cut away
the fence on which the little busy bees
were reposing would involve too muck
labor. Tin pans and copper kettles
were then brought out and performed
upon, in hopes that the noise would
induce them to settle in more conve.
nient place, which it finally did, and
they were recaptured.


From time to time little skirmishing
parties of bees, would leave the camp,
and by their attacks, cause temporary
excitement among the spectators. The
ubiquitous small boy, was early in
the scene of action, and added to the
Excitement by getting behind the
more mature spectators, and touching
their ears or necks with small sticks,
causing them to think the bees were
after them, and to retreat.


We noticed among the rest, one lit.
tie gGnain. whose breeches were on the
ragged edge ofdespair, and who would
creep behind an interested spectator,
and draw the tip of switch, across
his neck, at the same time, initiating
the buzzing of a bee. The man, would
lump as if earth had no further charms
for him, while the boy would smile
a smile, and pretend to be searching
for pins, in the cracks of the pavement
in short time, he would find another
interested victim, and cause him to go
through course of involuntary calls
thenic exercises. And so the fun con-
tinucd, until the bees ceased to appear.
Year: 1875

CoMPLA1NTs.-Complaints are COM
ing daily to the President of the Board
of Health, In regard to filthy CUTTERS
in various parts OF the city. These
complaints have become SO general
that the Street Commissioner should
give the matter particular attention and
endeavor to remedy the evil complain.
ed Of.
Year: 1875

more than was to be expected, as they
we're compelled to this resort to maks a
Of Sduty toward heir client
But as We havsbefore said,it may tend
greatly toHard The restoration Of the child,
which the public generally seem to think
will be the case. This consummation would
not only relieve the terrible. agony that
the parents must tuftr, but also the
painful anxiety that the whole country
feels in this startling case of crime.
Year: 1875

A young lady by the name Of Miss Wal
lace, residing in Washington township,
York county, some days ago, to ease pain,
took teaspoonful Of iaudanum and as that
did not have the desired effect the dose was
repeated, and lshortly after that she fell
asleep and did not awake for five days and
hye nights. At last accounts she was
doing well.
Year: 1875

ECONOMY is beautiful virtue with Gov ernments as we'll as individuals, and if tho War Department will apply the same rule to officials, contractors and ring thieves, who plunder the treasury by wholesale, that i. has adopted in our case, and cut down their services to less than half what they are actu- ally worth. we can soon afford to keen A standing army of ten millions of men, and not feel the burden. Why we should be singled out, however, to inaugurate the re- form in advance of any general movement in that direction Is not apparent to the naked eye.
Year: 1875

GOVERNOR SAFFoRD had an interview with some of the head Chiefs of the Haulpais while in Mohave County, and concides with the view taken by General Kautz and Dr. Ionner, that it is the better policy to let them alone for the present.
Year: 1875

OF all timber trees, the black walnut
at present time believed to be the most
profitable. Prices have been so temp.
ting that in many localities no more
OF any consequence are to be found.
Ohio and Indiana have of late years
been the great source OF supply. From
these States large quantities have been
sent to the furniture factories East. At
the present time Kentucky is shipping
walnut timber largely. While however
the older States are being depleted of
this valuable wood, the States that may
be called timber planting ones are
rapidly coming up with supply. 1t
is found to grow with great Tapidity
in some of them, and especially in
Nebraska. In this State several acres
set out within the last ten years are
already producing nuts in abundance,
and these il is said, have already paid
the expense of planting and care, Many
people, in view of the growing scarcity
of walnut, fear its disappearance from
market in a short time. 1t would be
no matter for alarm If the extensive
Western plantations were better
known.-PreSs.
Year: 1875

There is the element of physical
magnitude. if not of mental power,
says the Philadelphia Press, in the
proposal to run the Atlantic ocean in
the heart of Africa, so that white
winged commerce may scatter her
wealth, and also its attendant pro-
gress and civilization int the desert
Of Sahara. If this can be done and
is done, SO much tho better. As to
the practicability-we have seen the
construction and success of the Suez
canal; we know that, with patient
toll, calculating science, and not un-
reasonable pecuniary outlay, the Haar-
lemmer meer was drained, and there
by converted into fertile meadows.
We know that even in our own time
what is called "the Bedford level" was
literally rescued from the ocean in the
east of England, and it is well known
that even now practical scientists are
confident that a great part of the Zuy-
deer Zee can be pumped dry, SO as to
recover for North Holland the large
district which was submerged by
great inundations in the thirteenth
century.


At all important public meeting
held in London the other day, and
we'll attended by leading city men and
others interested in commerce, civil.
cation and science, it was shown by
Mr. Donald Mackenzie, who has stud


led tho subject for years, with repeat
ed personal examination of the ground
that nothing can be much easier thar
to make q cutting some five or 81,
miles long through the barrier Of sant
at Cape JUDY, exactly opposite tn


Canary Islands, SO as to admit the At
lantic into the great Sahara desert,
Year: 1875

tone of meaning in tho thud Of the
wheels along the rails. Many q
sleeper turned TO listen a moment, and
then forgot that there was anything
passing strange in the sound-forgot
it until afterward.


A flaw in the iron! Who knew it
was there? Hidden away in tho heart
of it. flaw. Did the workman who
cast the wheel know it7 Did the
great manufacturer know, when car
wheels were made out of that iron
that it ought not to be nsed for such q
purpose? Did he, to build up his
own fortune. thus risk the life of his
fellows? Somebody was in fault
Possibly it was the man whose duty
it was to examine every wheel of that
train. Because the night was csld,
and the cars many, and his ears well
muffied and he was tired, did he pass
that one by? Possibly it was the con-
tractor, or the president, or the poor
est empleye on the road. Somebody
was to blame, and, of that man, whe-
ever he may be, the voice of the Lsrd
God was asking, "Where 10 thy broth
err"


Mrs. Dee turned the gas low and
looked out upon the night. Some
thing in 1t made her very soul shiver,
and she turned it for warmth toward
Heaven, asking what of blessing for
her husband she knew not. She saw
through the dim light, when she rose,
the sweet face of Mary, asleep on her
husbands pillow, 1t made her think
of that other little face, asleep some-
where, under the light ef'a thankful
mothers love, and she went to sleep
with blessings in her heart for her
noble husband.


The broken wheel, the treacherous
axle, whatever it was, executed its
fearful errand. There is rumbling
thud, corner of the car touches the
earth; it breaks up and fills the way !;
others, forced along, all piled on it.
until, at last, both tracks are numbered
with wreck. Frank Dee is all alert.
1t is place where accidents have been
times past, and he looks carefully out
for the smallest signal of danger but
all is well, white lights stream through
the moonlit air, and, en- he goes.


Suddenly, like red hot ball shot
from the cannon's mouth in time of
peace, comes blood-red glare upon
the track. The engineers hand flew
to the lever; tine whistle sounded for
the brakes, and a voice sounded from
the rear. "Jump, Frank, jump!" But
something held the engine driver to
his post, and no man knoweth or
Or imagineth how he passed
into that angelhood. of which he
thought but span of time age. Down
below the cold, black waters, We
know that angel hands ministered to
brave Frank Dee, and caught his ex-
piring thoughts from the wreck Of
ruin, even as he, with his human
hands, had caught the fair-haired child
from the crush of death that day.


In the little house up town, there is
such sorrow as God alone can still.
We dare not go near it with word or
thought. Only this thing we know,
for sorrows self taught the truth, that
as the days so on and the wife and
children live out their time, sweet and
sweeter will grow the thought that
the engine driver went into the future
through the gateway of duty.
Year: 1875

terrupted debauch of many weeks,
staggering along the street or sleeping
with his head on his arms in saloon,
aud the next morning, if you called at
his office, you might fnd him seated
snugly in his old cushioned chair, die
tating articles and paragraphs with that
subdued eagerness and mufiled vigor
which proclaimed him entirely himself,
and apparently altogether oblivious of
his late obliviousness The spring of
his elastic constitution was all but in
Simultaneous. His faculties rose from
the darkness and torpor Of intoxication
with the suddenness of an equatorial
sunrise. Perfect day quickly followed
perfect night. There was no twilight.
The truth is, Prentice was emphatically
worker. His genius was working
one. Work inspired him.
Year: 1875

A love of activity, desire to excel
and to gain position in the world are
commendable. They who bless the
race, elevate man, inspire him with
true courage, soften the induntions of
our being, increase mental and moral
power arc the true heroes and hero
ines. They are the beneiactors OF the
world who leave Il better for having
lived in IT, But he who encourages
cruelty and delights in blood, either on
the field of baltic or in the retired
waysidc is the native and true ruillan.
He who kills, prompted bya love of
glory (O Is not less q murderer than he
who steals stcalthy on bis victim to
crafty an uncomfortable hate, while
the cnorinity of the crime must be
graduated by the number of lives sac
riiiccd in the injury sustained lie
who robs milton Of its wealth de-
stroys its material growth, abridgcs
its peace, happiness, It's prosperity, its


mind, muscle and morals by war Is
not less robber than he who takes the
private purse and then kills. The
more guilty one Is he whose deprcda-
tons are on the most extensive scale.
Music, gay tinsclry and dazzling nc
coutrcmcnts can never change the
real nature of crime. To murder Is to
maliciously take life. The moro lives
taken, the greater the turpitude, the
deeper the criminality. TO rob is TO
take wealth, material, mental or moral
--ruthlcssly, while the moro extensive
the scale the more robbery iscommittcd.
Year: 1875

FoRoorrES.--Generation after gen
Grafton have felt as we feel, and their
fellows were us active in life as ours
are now. They passed away as va
por, while nature wore the same as
pect of beauty as when her Creator
commanded her TO be. And so, like
wise, shall 1t be when we are gone.
The heavens viii be as bright over our
graves as they are now around our
paths the world will have the same
funeral winding on its way, and the
attraction for offspring that she once


bad for ourselves, and that she has now
for our children A little while and all
this will have happened. The throb-
bing heart will be stilled and we shall
be at rest Our prayers will be said
and the grave clods will be thrown in.
and our friends will all return, and we
shall be left behind to darkness and to
the worms. Aud it may he for some
short time we shall be spoken Of but
the things Of life will creepin, and our
names will soon be forgotten. Days
will continue to move on, and laughter
will be heard in the very chamber in
which We died and the eyes will gls-
ten again with JOY and even our chill.
drcn will cease TO think of us and will
not remember to lisp our name
Year: 1875




MAX ADELER's OPINION on THE SUBJECT.


We always think of great men us in


the act ofperiorming deeds which give


them rcnown, or else in stately reposc,


grand, silent and majestic And yet


this Is hardly fair, because the most


gracious and magnificent Of human


beings have to bother themselves with
the little things of life which engage
the attention of us smaller people. No
doubt Moses snarled and got angry
when he had a severe cold in his head.
and if n fly bit his leg while he was in
the desert, why should we suppose he
did not jump and use violent language
and rub the sore place? And Cesar
isn't il tolerable certain, he used TO be-
come furious when he went up stairs
to get his slippers in the dark, and
found that Calphunia had showed
them under the bed, so that he had to
sweep around them wildly with a
broom handle. And when Solomon
cracked his crlzy-bone, is it unreason-
able to suppose that he ran around the
room and felt as il he wanted TO cryY
Imagine George Washington sitting on
the edge of the bed and putting on a
clean shirt, and growing atMartha be-
cause the buttons were off; or ST. Au-
gustinc with an apron around his neck,
having his hair cut; or Joan of Arc
holding her front hair in her mouth. as
women do, while she fixed up her
back hair; Napoleon jumping out of
bed IN n frenzy to chase a mosquito
around the room with q pillow; or
Martin Luther, in a night shirt, trying
TO put the baby to sleep at two o'clock
in tho morning; or Alexander the
Great, with the hiccoughs F.; or Thomas
Jefferson, getting suddenly over fence
to avoid dog or the Duke of Well
ington, with tho mumps; or Daniel
Webster, abusing his wife because she
hadn't tucked the covers at the foot of
the bed or Benjamin Franklin, pairing
his corns with a razor; or Jonathan
Edwards, at the dinner table, wanting
TO sncczc just as he got his mouth full
of hot beef; or Noah, standing at his
window at night, throwing bricks at a
cat.
Year: 1875

SPEAKER Blaine has sounded the keynote
OF the coming political contest in his adnira-
BILE speech delivered In New Haven Friday
evening, an abstract of which appears else
where. He remarks with great force that the
reason the political struggle is continued on
the war issues is because the southern Demo-
Gratis force that policy. Tho speech calls for
the close attention and careful considerations
of all thoughtful Republicans.
Year: 1875

THE editor OF the Presque Isle Sunrise in
forms his readers that he sends that journal
to all of the Maine Central directors living
beyond Maine, except one, lat his own expense.
This is remarkable deed Of charity to poor
men-but why discriminate against the ono
and the seven living in Maine?
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily fol publication
but a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used
Year: 1875

Spelling, in its earlier stages is rather
pleasant 1t consists in letting ones darling
have its own precious little way on all oc-
casious and the way is such pretty, roguish,
winsome way, nobody can see any harm in
it. Grown-up willfuln0ss is quite a different
thing from baby willfulness. 1t gets teeth
and claws, so to speak, and isn't nice to con
template. Spelling appears to mean a great
many different things. One OF its mild
forms is total disregard for the feelings and
convenience Of others. II you meet pc
culiarly upsetting woman on a journey or
party of pleasure, who ought to be square
when She is triangular, and triangular when
she is square, you may set it down that she
was a spoiled child


There are parents who would stint their
allowance of fire or food, in order to indulge
their children's whms. The idea Of pa
rental sacrifice becomes morbid especially il
the child happens to be admired or praised.
There are mothers who pinch their own
wardrobes 10 bedeck their little girls in ex-
pensiye garments, fostering taste for ex-
trayagant dress which they cannot honestly
indulge.


Although people in the lower ranks Of the
middle class do contrive, occasionally, to
spoil their children by indulgence, the bust
ness Ia not carried on at wholesale, rs it is
among the rich, Necessity Is a severe, and
yet a kind step-dame Her motto is severe
and service Is the salt of life. III u large
family, not very well TO do, the older chill
dren educate the younger ones. They feel
almost as responsible as the parents, and
perhaps exert more influence in their little
way. Such chld-life seems bald and gray,
compared with the fairy scenes through
which richer children dance and sing; but
it, in reality, keeps young tastes fresh and
pure, and whets the appetite, instead of cloy-
ing it with enjoyment. This is only a part
of the benefit derived from childhood taxed
with some responsibility, and judiciously de
MED as well as INDUCED.


Self-control is the one thing spoiled chill
dren never learn, Their desires are always
rampant. We see the features of the little
boy who kicked his nurse and browbeat his
mother, in some passionate, dissipated, ir-
regular young man, and we shake our heads
and say, We knew how he would turn out"
The spoiled girl developes into an exacting,
INSCRIPTIONS woman. Life must center
round her, the world must wait upon her
not because she has any special merit not
because she has ever done anything, but
merely because she was a spoiled child


Her husband is a martyr. | have gener-
ally noticed that such girls marry meek little
men, who seem TO consider it their principal
business in life to carry about a load of
shawls and attend to the poodle
Year: 1875

For six thousand years God has been lift
ing the world up toward the realization of
love. lie has been tempering the spirit Of
nations. The old idea that might is
right has been fading away in the atmos-
phere of love. Arbitration is substituted
for the spirit Of war lie has been correct.
ing the church, and attuning its various dis
cordant sects to the key Of love. lie has
been bringing up individual human nature.
Many have entered into the experience Of
perfect love many more are entering.
Slowly some of these elements are rising
more rapidly others but one day all will
b. mp, Then will be brought to pass the
prediction Of Isaiahi


The wol AZ shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard Al lic down with the kid (;
aud the calf and the young lion aud the fat
ling together; and a little child shall lead
them. And the COW and the bear shall feed,
and their young ones shall lie down to
gether and the lion shall eat straw like the
OK. Aud the sucking child shall play on
the hole of the asp, and the weaned child
shall put his hand ON the cockatrice den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy mountain for the earth shall be full of
the knowledge OF the Lord, as the waters
cover the sea"


What picture OF concord The story Is
told Of Mendclssohn, that when boy be
was so proficient ia music that he seemed TO
inspire an instrument whenever his fingers
touched il. On one occasion his father took
him to an old Cathedral, aud in the interim
Of service, conducted him TO she organ loft
and sat him upon the scat Of the organist
After instructing him IN the use of the stops
and pedals, he pumped the bellows while
the 10y played. Such music had never be-
fore been produced upon that organ. The
monks from the adjoining monastery came
in, one by one, and ascended to the top of
the stairway, On reaching this point they
were held spell-bound


Well, when the day comes that the world
shall be attuned TO love, and God shall run
his fingers along the keyboard. as he is ever
doing in his providence, no more shall the
harsh notes Of discord be- heard but from
the old organ Of human nature shall 90
forth music so sweet that the angels and all
the hierarchy of heaven will hasten 10 the
confines of this world, and stand enropturcd
by the completeness and richness OF the
harmony.


Z" lie which testifeth these things saith


Surely come quickly; Amen. Even so
come, Lord Jesus q. +. Wearer.
Year: 1875

FoR tell me, what would be wanting TO
make this world kingdom Of heaven, if
that tender, profound and self-denying love,
practiced and recommended by Jesus, We're
paramount in every heart
Year: 1875

The floating hospital of st. Johns Guild. de-
signed for the use Of sick babies and their worried
mothers which will be used to give daily free ex-
cursons on the salt water to these classes OF suf
ferers during the hot days OF summer, IL now
complete. A trial trip Will be made Dy an invited
company starting from he foot OF Twenty-tnrrd
street, East river, two O'Clock this afternoon
and from the Battery at three O'Clock. Next week
the hospital will commence her regular work Of
ham
Year: 1875

IT costs Nebraska $1,S00,000 a year for
coal. She is minded to economize, and so
directed Professor Hayden to go out and
hunt Up some coal mines. That eminent
geologist reports that no coal is to be found
within the limits Of Nebraska. The people
of the state are very mad, and insist upon
the creation of the Office of state geologist,
the duty of that gentlemen to be ''the study
and development of our mineral resources"
If mineral resources mean coal, the office
will be sinecure.
Year: 1875

convention: "Stand by your party and your
president where they are right If in any
thing they are wrong, admit it and strive to
set them right" This is the true policy in
nutshell. 1t may require courage to adopt
it, but this is not time for "weak-kneed Re-
publcans," and it is onlysuc who are afraid
to do right, and trust the future for results
Hartford Courdnt.
Year: 1875

THE enterprising nature of Chicago jour-
nalism has just received another illustration.
A reporter OF the InterOccan is credited
with having asked prominent criminal who
was Just about to be swung off, if he would
be kind enough to wriggle his little fingers so
long as he was conscious, SO that the report
ers could form some conception of how long
a man felt that he was being hanged. The
criminal said he would, but with unparalleled
perfidy broke his promise.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
munications that are not used.