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Year: 1875

whose face sanetity and curiosity were
soleInnly blended, walked out to the end
of dock on the New York side OF the
East river the other day, and after leis-
urely examining Brooklyn through n
spy glass, shut up the instrument and
walked off again with the satisfied look
OF woman who had only done her duty.


A magnificent array Of bridal pres.
ents on the occasion Of brilliant we'd
ding." says a New York letter writer,
is indeed very pleasant sight to be-
hold Yes, but the pleasure Of looking
at such an array Of pleasant gewgaws
hardly compensates one for the sadness
he experiences on seeing them sent
back to the parties they have been hired
from.


A French doctor, by an examination
of matrimonial statistics, has discovered
that out Of one hundred blonde women
thirty-seven remain old maids by the
waysides, while out of one hundred bru-
nettes only eighteen stop without hus-
band. A little three year old girl, to
whom he impaired this information,
asked him TO make her brunette.


AS stranger was yesterday knocking
at the door Of house on Second street,
q boy came around the corner and in
euired Got anything to sell" "Yes,
| want to sell your mother box of tooth
paste Might as well git off n the
steps, continued the boy, as a smile
broke out around his mouth; she's got
store teeth, aud she cleans EN- with
woolen rag"


Recently man going West from Ro-
chester, New York, 10 alighting fran
car slipped on the platform and broke a
leg, Every sympathized with him
in his misfortune, but he waved his hand
and replied: It's all right; my old
woman was laid up for two years, and
now I've got a chance to get even with
her. Ii she don't have tc do some tall
dusting around and sitting up nights,
then my name isn't Jordan"


Although wooden goods are more en-
ployed than silk, the latter only being
used for trimming, or to make plain un.
derskirts which are entirely covered with
trimming, toilets are as costly as ever.
A dress which appears simple upon
careless examination, if made by fash.
ionable dressmaker will prove to be
quite the reverse. Underclothing is also
very expensive; ruffles, insertions oflace,
and beautiful fine Valenciennes are Law
ishly employed. Costly silk worked
stockings are also in use, and in spite of
their being concealed under CATERS,
their costliness is unchanged.


A pretty linen suit is of dark blue and
blue and white checked material. The
skirt touches the ground; it is of plain
linen, with two shirred hounces sur.
mounted by a plated piece. The apron
is of checked goods, and trimmed with
band of dark blue linen, and has pockets
on each side slanting; FIVE buttons are
on the bands OF the pockets. The apron
is shirred up in the back and trimmed
with a shell shaped piece OF plain linen,
under which it is fastened. The corsage
cuirass is of checked linen, opening on
one side. The collar, bouquet pocket,
cuffs and bordering of the basque are of
plain blue linen. Three mother-of-pearl
butt.ns are on the outside of the cuffs.
Year: 1875

When Jeremy Taylor had lost all
when his house had been plundered and
his family driven out Of doors-he could
still write thus:


Il have fallen into the hands Of publ
cans and sequestrators, and they have
taken all from me; what now2 Let me
look about me They have left me the
sun and moon, loving wife and many
friends TO pity me, and some to relieve
me; and can still discourse, and unless
| list, they have not taken away my
merry cOuntenanee and my cheerful
spirit andra good conscience; and they
have still left me the providence of God,
and all the promises Of the Gospel, and
my religion, and my hopes of Heaven,
and my charity to them, too; aud still
sleep and digest, eat and drink, read
and meditate-aud'he who hath so many
causes OF joy, and so great, is very much
IN love with sorrow and peevishness,
who loves all these pleasures and chooses
to SIT down upon his little handful of
thorns."
Year: 1875

An Agent Wanted for Each Town


and County I'm the United States.


Parties desiring to act as agents must ac-
company their application By letter Of recon-
meRdaiion as to character and responsibility
from and signed by the editor Of newspaper
published in the town or county for which
ageat proposes to act. The agency is to sell
the bonds Of the Industrial Exhibition Com
Year: 1875

THE New York Tribune is inclined to
boast of the fact that it had General
Preston's address at the University Of
Virginia in type several days before it was
delivered, but did not print it when it was
delivered because the faculty and trustees
appealed by telegraph to have it suppressed.
The Philadelphia Press, therefore, remarks
as follows: as.H


"Instead of extenuating the conduct of
the faculty and trustees of the institution,
this only renders their position less defensible.
The offense of General Preston against good
taste, literature and his country was then de-
of the University" ns


The Press might have added that the
Tribune was guilty of an objectionable
offense against truthful and honorable
journalism when it Joined in the conspir-
scy to deceive. the public regarding the
real sentiment which inspired the COM
mencement exercises at Charlotte. 1t
should be remembered, however, that the
T7fbune's recent policy has been to find
out and print everything in the South, to
show that the Democrats of that section
have become political angels since the war,
and that those who doubt their re-
newed loyalty to the Government belong
to the "bloody- shirt " Southern outrage
manufacturing class of politicians, who
will not be satisfied with anything less
than q renewal of the rebellion. OF
course, there is not word of truth in
such charges, but how will the Tribune
explain its course consistently when it
stands selfconvicted of suppressing q
malignant fact for political reasons3
Year: 1875

Nor long ago we predicted that among
the objects sought by the Democrats in
their proposition to revise the constitution
of North Carolina was the removal from
Office of the judges Of the State Supreme
Court, all of whom are Republicans. The
prediction was denied at the time by the
Democratic journals of the State, but now,
that the court has decided the Wilmington
city charter to be unconstitutional, we find
it verified by the following extract from
the Wilmington Journal:


stIf argument was needed before to show
the necessity for changing the constitution
that gave birth to such q court none is needed
now. The issue is now made up, and 1t Is,
shall all power in the land be entrusted to i've
men calling themselves the Supreme Court 7
With this decision before us we know that
those men intend to rule North Carolina.
With this decision before US we know that
they claim and exercise veto power upon the
acts of the Legislature in its most important
functions. The question now is shall the
court rule North Carolina, or shall the peoplei"


In other words, the Journal objects to
the court simply because it has rendered
an adverse decision on question involving
the right or power of the Democratic
Legislature to disfranchise several thousand
Republican voters. As the court is COM
posed of native North Csrolinians, there is
every reason to believe that the decision
will be acceptable to the overwhelming
majority of the people, notwithstanding the
Democratic opposition to it, and it may be
used as an argument against the convention
with good effect.
Year: 1875

A GREAT MANY Northern journals seem
to think that last Mondays celebration Of
the Fourth of July was the first that has
occurred in the South since the beginning OF
the war. This is mistake. Independence
Day has been invariably celebrated by white
and black Republicans in that section
whenever the opportunity was afforded to
them. They were not invited on Monday
last however, to join the Democracy in
the commemoration of our common cause,
common country and common destiny, and
it may be added that the Democrats would
not have exhibited so much newly-found
loyalty if they were not encouraged with
the mistaken belief that loyalty to the Gen
eral Government will soon mean loyalty to
the supremacy of State rights.
Year: 1875

AND this is the way Judge Junius Hill
yer, of Georgia, addressed his fellow
countrymen on Independence Day:


'fNo man would excel me in enthusiastic exul-
tation at the commencement of the Tooth
year of our Government as our fathers gave it
TO us, with our State rights and our normal
glorious institution of slavery, with its clear
social distinctions of race and color, under the
absolute control Of the several States. But
there is something mournfully sad in being
summoned to celebrate the ninety-ninth anni-
versary of country rent and lacersted by
civil war, eliminating in the destruction of
private property unprecedented in the history
of the civilized world. In my heart l feel
that the existence of tine Government per-
ished in 1861. / can't perceive how any
Southern man can, with patriotic pleasure,
participate in the celebration Of the snniver-
sary ef Government that has long since
ceased to exist"
Year: 1875

WHILE GEN. PRESTON was allowed to
do the heroic at the commencement of the
University of Virginia, R. NJ. T. Hunter
was induced to conceal his real political
opinions, and did not even sllude to his
proposition that the United States Govern
ment shall reimburse the South for the loss
OF slave property during the war. The
whole thing was preconceived affair, in
tended to hoodwink the tender-hearted De-
LEVERS in immediate reconciliation; but if
some ofthe believers of this kind will take
the trouble to examine the textbooks in
use at the University they will discover that
the Lost Cause, based as it was upon the
right of secession, has not altogether been
forgotten. In fact, the students are taught
to revere the Confederacy as thing of the
past, but with the possibility of future
Year: 1875

rsshall be remembered. Then, gentlemen.
"let us go at it."


The Republican party in Ohio, and
everywhere for that matter, recognizes the
currency issue as the most vital and all
absorbing one of the times. They see in 1t
the credit and honor of the nation; they
regard it as foundation-stone of national
prosperity, and in the protection OF the
plighted faith of the Government in all Its
financial obligations they see the veal OF
the country for long years to come. 1t will
do for Democrats, born like William Allen,
IN the very dawn Of the asoic age, or be-
ginning of time, to talk now about the
jeopardy in which Estate rights are in,
about the "danger" in which the '1iberty


of the American people is in, and all such
worm eaten nonsense; but the active, think
ing men of our time, those who are abreast
with nineteenth-century thought, the arch
itects and builders of national prosperity
and greatness, have other work to do, and
they are doing it well--so well that in Oc-
tober next the heresies of the Democratic
infationists of OHIO will be buried out of
sight.


The present condition of the canvass
warrants this statement. The Republican
party of Ohio is thoroughly aroused, and
is held together by wonderful unanimity
of sentiment. The German element in
Ohio is one of great strength and charac-
ter, and, being composed of hard,money
men, their reputation of the Columbus
imitation doctrine is complete, and they are
additionally disguised by the nomination
of Samuel F. Cary for Lieutenant Cover
nor, noted prohibitionist, who has taken
q thousand oaths to interfere with their
personal liberty. It is likely that they
will abandon the party in body with
their forty thousand votes. Then, again,
the Democratic Ghegan bill affords strong
grounds for the belief that the Democrats
and Catholics are in league with each
other, for it opens all the public institu-
tions of the State to sectarisn preaching,
and Catholic altar has already been set
up in the workhouse of Cuyahoga county.
The Catholic Telegraph Of Cincinnati has
gone so far as to openly declare the exist
ence of an alliance between the Church of
Rome and the Democratic party. The
Ghegan law was passed under threats
from the priests that they would defeat the
party unless it was passed. These are
some of the reasons why the Republican
party of Ohio will make Mr.. Hays Cover
nor for the 'third term" by majority
ranging from twenty-five to forty
thousand
Year: 1875

ALL the indications from Ohio are favor
able to a Republican victory. The rag
money and initiation dodge Savors SO much
of Reputation that the Democrats them
selves are divided upon the financial plank
of their platform, while Sam Csry's ag-
gressive temperance record is being used to
show how thoroughly inconsistent that
party can be in its professions of regard for
the private rights Of citizens. If Cary
should be elected to be Lieutenant Governor,
and thereby become entitled to appoint the
Senate Committees, the anti Temperance
men would begin to feel the full force of
this strange combination of Democracy and
Prohibition interests. They are beginning
to apprehend it now.
Year: 1875

The citizens of Washington will regret
to learn of the resignation of the gentlemen
comprising the Board of Trustees of Public
Schools in and Tor the District of Columbis.
The reasons given for the course pursued
are various; the more important however,
being an indisposition on the part of a
large majority to continue in position
where they state they are regarded as mere
machines. They maintain that the respon-
sibilities of the position should relieve them
from the many exactions- required, espe-
cially when by practical experience, gained
from daily personal inspection of all that
pertains to successful school government,
they are enabled to arrive at the wants and
correct all that is detrimental sooner and
better than can be accomplished from
theoretical conclusions. The gentlemen
comprising the board, as q whole, are
among our best citizens, and have. consid-
ering the diversified interests represented
in the consolidated form of school govern
ment introduced by the Commissioners,
succeeded in making the public schools of
the District of Columbia second to none
in the country, and it is to be regretted that
the gentlemen should feel constrained to
take the step they have, though serving, as
they do, giving their time and attention to
the detriment Of their private business,
without any compensation other than that
of a conscientious performance of q laborious
duty imposed. The consideration of de-
voting time and attention to such large
school system as ours gratuitously should
not be overlooked by the gentlemen con-
Quoting the affairs of the District, and they
should, as they doubtless will, see that the
gentlemen so placed should have the full
confidence of the appointing power, and
not be subjected to the petty annoyances Of
ambitious office seekers and malcontents in
general. ...
Year: 1875

LITTLE SAMMY" TILDEN moved the
capital of the State of New York to Long
Branch the other day, in violation Of a con-
stitutional provision that the Governor
shall not leave the State except as COM
mander of the militia. None of the Dem
ocratic journals that have lately been en-
gagged in denouncing President Grant for
his perfectly legitimate visit to the same
New Jersey seaside resort have as yet
found time to criticise Tilden, although
some of them, with characteristic partisan
precaution, have admonished him not to go
near the water.
Year: 1875

AMONG the best evidences of cumulative
progress ''out West are indications that
the editor of the Milwaukee SeHtiDe! has
lately washed enough Lake Michigan sand
out of his ears to enable him to hear some
thing that is going on outside of his own
sanctum. He has at last discovered that
President Grant does not desire Third
Term, and in the course of human events
may possibly learn that the Louisville
Courier-JoarndI cannot be accepted as re-
liable authority regarding the affairs Of
the Republican party or its leaders.
Year: 1875

twenty years. but has become suddenly
convinced that liberal license will be the
salvation Of the country. Every step this
blatherskitish demagogue has taken In the
last three months has been cariacature
upon his past existence. The Democratic
platform, with Cary upon it. and the infia-
ton plank in it, is an object Of ridicule, and
a fit thing for general commiseration.
Year: 1875

THE Southern Democrats do not accept
Sbe spirit of conciliation which is now
abroad with the same feeling as the tender
hearted and weakened Northern Gushers
de. The former believe that reconstruc-
ton was a crime against human liberty;
the latter, that their erring brothers accept
the situation as it is. If the Southern
Democrats should get control they will
proceed to destroy every vestige of the
pledges made when the war ended. Then
the Gushers will begin to appreciate what
kind of traitors they are really dealing
with.
Year: 1875

AND NOW the temperance women of
New York are after Whitelaw Reid. be-
cause the basement of the new Tribune
building has been rented to be used as q
lager beer saloon. They are foolish
enough to imagine that he will pay atten-
ton to their appeals that the Tribune and
its adiuncts under his management shall
be consistent with the record of its founder.
He will do nothing of the kind, but will
probably enjoy the discontinue of the
women as he does the convenience of the
beer.
Year: 1875

In THEIR excitement and exultation over
the failure of Tilton to recover damages
from Mr.. Beecher, the Plymouth church
congregation is in danger Of committing
the unpardonable blunder of giving 9
worldly tinge to their expression of con-
fidence in him. The idea Of a preacher re-
ceiviag a salary of 100000 per annum is
not exactly in accord with the meek and
lowly teachings of the Great Master. But
Brooklyn is a strange place.
Year: 1875

The symptoms of Liver Complaint are
uneasiness and pain in tho side. Some
times the pain is in the shoulder, and is
mistaken for rheumatism. The stomach
is affected with loss of appetite and
sickness, bowels in general costlye,
sometimes alternating with lax. The
head is troubled with pain, and dull.
heavy sensation, considerable loss OF
sstion of having left undone something
which ought to have been done. Often
complaing of weakness, debility, and
low spirits. Sometimes many OF the
above symptoms attend the disease, and
at other times very few OF them; but
the liver is generally the organ most IN
ra1ua6
Year: 1875

THE special Senate committee on the re-
organization of the civil service, appointed TO
sit during the recess of Congress, has been at
work and will hold final meeting in Decem-
Der for the purpose of exchanging opinions
upon the results Of the independent investi-
gations of The several members during the
summer. The committee was appointed for
the purpose of recognizing all of the depart
ments, measure which has been demanded
since the close of the war. In some Of the
departments there are many useless offices
and supernumerary officers. The desire of
Congressman for patronage has hitherto
been the greatest obstacle to any change in
the present organization of the departments.
The bill to reorganize the Treasury Depart
ment was attached to one Of the appopria-
ton bills during the last hours of the third of
March, and was only intended as tempo
rary expe6ient. 1t is possible that the conf
mittee will therefore recommend the repeal
OF that law in order that general law for the
reorganization of all the departments may be
adopted
Year: 1875

Owing to the new food and drug adultera-
ton act the London tea merchants have been
obliged to cease importing green teas from
China, because they are mixed with other SUBJ
stances in the shape of colorng matter, and
therefore liable to be confiscated and destroy
Year: 1875

THE social science men are looking to a
time when stairs in buildings shall be done
away with, and their place taken by some
cheap and simple form of elevator. The
change is one devoutly to be wished for, there
is 'such a gittin up stairs" in nearly all our
buildings now.
Year: 1875

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


We cannot undertake to return CT reserve commu-
neations that are not used
Year: 1875

The need of a good book bindery has
long been felt by THE ARGUS ofice-one
where our work can be done promptly and
our customers not be disappointed. This
want we have now supplied and we are
now ready for work. People who have
magazines or books issued in numbers, OF
any work in the way of binding or ruling,
are respectfully invited to try US. Oul
bindery is in charge Of an experienced and
accomplished workman.
Year: 1875

A SCENE FROM LIFE.-A young man
entering the bar-room of village tavern
called for a drink. ''No," said the land
lord; "you have had delirium tremens
once, and I cannot sell you any more. +"
He stepped aside to make room for O.
couple of young men who had just en-
tered, and the landlord waited upon
them politely. The other had stood
by silent and sullen and when they had
finished he walked up to the landlord
and thus addressed him: ''Six years
ago, at their age, / stood where those
young men are now-I was a man with
fair prospects. Now, at the age of
twenty-eight am wreck, body and
mind. You led me to drink. In this
room I formed the habit that has been
my ruin. Now, sell me few glasses
more, and your work will be done !
shall soon be out of the way; there isno
hope for me. But they can be saved.
Do not sell it to them. Sell to me and
let me die, and the world will be rid of
me; but for heavens sake sell no mora
to Them The landlord listened, pale
and trembling. Setting down his de-
canter, he exclaimed, God helping me,
this is the last drop will ever sell to
any one !" And be kept his word.
Year: 1875

: A SLIGHT difference appears to exist
between the English sea captain and the
American article. When the steamship
Northheet went down in the British
channel, the captain stood at the gang
way with revolver in his hand, to shoot
any man who should attemp to get into
the boats before the women and children
were all embarked. One man disregard
ed the order and sprang into the boat,
and was shot where he stood by the
brave captain. When all the women
were safely embarked, the captain al
lowed the male passengers to enter such
boats as were left. Then the ship went
down, and carried with it the brave cap
tain. Contrast with this heroism the
conduct of Captain Fairbanks, of the
Mendoza, who, when his vessel founder
ed, was the first person on board to jump
into the boat, and left his wife and his
father behind to perish.
Year: 1875

ROMANTIC INCIDENT AT SEA.-A ro-
| mantle incident occurred on the last trip
of the steamer Rotterdam from Rotter-


dam to New York. Among the cabin


passengers were Mr.. Van Seller and
Miss Maria Reuter-, who were engaged
to be married. To give the event an


air of romance they had decided to have
the ceremony performed on board the
ship in mid-ocean. On the evening pre-


ceeding the day fixed for the wedding,


it transpired that the young lady was
the young mans half sister, 1t appear
ed from the explanations given to the
passengers that Van Seller left his home
in Amsterdam when only 10 years old,


shipped as cabin-boy on board YES
sci bound for the West Indies. He re-
visited his native place after lapse of
five years, but finding that his father


had died during the interval, and that
his mother had married again, he ship
ped once more and did not return until


about two months ago, when he was un-


able to find any trace of his mother
During visit to Rotterdam he met Miss


Reuter-, and an attachment at once


sprung up between them, which result


ed in an engagement. In talking about


their early days, they accidentally dis


covered their relationship to each other


1t has been arranged that Miss Reuter-


shall return on the next steamer. The


brother, being rich, will provide for his


sister