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Year: 1876

A big. green sea turtle splashed impa-
tiently in the narrow limits of large
box in front of an eating house. One
eve rested rehectively on a sign which
announced that the turtle which to-day
is, tomorrow is cut up and cast into the
Dot, while the other was closed as if in
meditation. The turtle sighed, and a
reporter leaned over the box and gently
inquired:


"Why that sigh2 Is it that you are
thinking of the dark blue sea from
whence you have been ruthlessly torn Z
Is it that you grieve for an absent turtle
maiden, whose eyes had learned to light
mo with the fire of love at the souna OF
your gentle jaws as they clashedin greet
ING. or over whose cheek the soft rosy
blush of affection came at the tender
pressure of your fnsa"


"Ah !" replies the turtle, "you will
never know the anguish that lends this
bosom. If thou wouldst list, I could
tell thee q tale that would make thy
heart bleed, of family proud and dis
tinguished, for noble blood courses in
their veins, but will not. would
only have you know that my very shell
creeps at the thought of the existence 1
have led for twenty years-to think that
i, a we'll meaning turtle, should be
forced into the life of 'bunko steer
er."


"What mean you ?" said the re
porter. -,
"Bend lower, while whisper" said
the turtle, in an excited voice; "they
never cook me. Know that for twenty
years 1 have done duty at this place, a
few days to be stared at by little boys
and gloated over by gourmands, antici.
pating rare meal from my flesh, and
then to be put in the cellar for few
days while the public eats soup made
from veal and liver. cannot stand
this life long. It is bringing me in sor
row to the grave"


Here the turtle dashed tear from his
eye with his left fin, silently swallowed
fly, and retired into his shell to mourn
alone
Year: 1876

We saw her on the street yesterday,
says the st. Louis Journal. She wore a
neatly fitting, plainly cut and modestly
trimmed calico dress. Her modest face
beamed with youth and beauty beneath
the graceful folds of a gauzy green veil,
aud her rosy cheeks shone through it
Ike pair Of large cherries. She didn't
carry one-haf of her dress in her hand
high up to crafty the vulgar gaze of
blsckguards or to draw forth ludicrous
and ungentlemanly remarks of corner
loafers. Nor was she pinned back so
tight she couldn't step, and her heels
didn't kick her tilter as high as the small
of her back. She didn't walk like a
mule with loose set Of harness on and


flies bad. No; she wasn't dressed in a
style calculated to attract the attention
of any but true gentlemen, and OF these
she commanded the utmost respect, and
il was paid her by all who, in meeting,
admired her.
Year: 1876

Ont of, the many instances of indi:
yidual bravery which must have signal
lied the struggle for independence, few
have been preserved; but one, that has
been, lights up the melancholy darkness
of the scene with peculiar brightness.
At the battle of Bunker Hill, John CAL
lender, a captain of artillery, had with
drawn from the battle, and had dis
obeyed Putnam's orders to return. The
battle over, Putnam declared that If
Calender was not cashiered or shot, he
would himself leave the service. A
court-martial convicted him of coward
ice, and dismissed him "f from all fur
ther service in the Continental army as
an officer" Coward or not, he was
brave enough to step down into the
ranks of the company he had command
ed. The twenty-seventh of August
found him on the heights overlooking
Flatbush. His captain and lieutenant
had fallen, his companions were begin.
ming to retreat. Springing in front OF
them he ordered them to return and man
their pieces. For time his courage
noarished theirs; but at length he stood
alone, charging a field piece, while his
comrades were swept away by tremen-
dous onset of the enemy. Courtlng
death, he made no signal of surrender
when the hostile bayonets were at his
breast; but a brave officer interfered in
his behalf, and he was made prisoner.
Washington, hearing of his conduct,
ordered the sentence against him to be
erased and his command to be restored
to him; and when, a year later, he was ex'
changed, he gave him his hand before the
army, in token of his great respect and
admiration. He left the service at the
end of the war with an enviable
re nntation.
Year: 1876

Strong men may bathe before break
fast, but the best average time Is about
three hours after breakfast.


Walk at a moderate pace to the bath
ing ground, 80 as to be neither too hot
nor too cold, and undress as speedily as
possible, putting on your bathing dress
without delay.


It is better to plunge at once into
deep water; don't unless you can swim,
however, but rather after bending down
and laving the face and both arms, drop
right underneath the first wavelet.


Wear a bathing cap, especially ii a
lady.


If you can swim, swim and nothing
else; if you cannot, you can at least
tumble about and keep moving, and
also rub your limbs with the hands.


Come out before you have actually
ceased to enjoy yourself.


It is better to have in your bathing
house your own towel, one at least, and
let it be moderately rough.


Remove your bathing dress. Rub
your face, shoulders, limbs and body,
using moderate friction, and finish dry
ing with smoother towel. =.


When quite dry, dress, and 1t ought
not to be at all necessary to dress
quickly.


If faintness or sickness comes on,
which must be looked upon as quite an
accident, lie down for few minutes.


After dressing, a brisk walk should
be taken; and now a lunch biscuit will
do you service.


Remember that the glow after the
bath is the grand event to be looked for;


If instead of this glow decided chill
takes place, and if not removed by o
brisk walk, q small drop OF brandy,
taken along with biscuit, becomes a
necessity, or for ladies glass OF some
cordial.


Don't forget flannel underclothing il
at all delicate.
Year: 1876

He used to. stand in front of the post
Office and yell: "'Ere's your papers J!
q few weeks ago--a ragged, sad eyed,
light haired boy, frail and hungry look
ing. No one noticed him; no one cared
for him; even his fellow newsboys, with
whom he seldom associated, knew him
only as Dominic" Yet he was at his
post from early dawn till late at night,
always civil and obiging, never bolster
ous, ever attentive to business. OF Late
little Joe has been missing. They miss
ed him first at the news offices, where
he was q general favorite. He had been
weary looking and haggard for days, and
when he came in for his morning pa
pers he would take drink of water
and lie down on bench for half an
hour.


One morning Joe woke up on the
steps of q house and found that he could
not move. His head ached, his eyes
were dim and his hands and feet were
swollen. His tongue, which seemed to
be burning, was dry and cracked; and
he was frightened when be saw the door
open and heard the hired girl call to her
mistress:


"Missus, missus, here's sick boy on
the doorsteps."


And little Joe again tried to get to his
feet, but failed.


The mistress came out and saw the
little fellow. She bent over him and
asked:


"Little boy, what is your namep


"Little Joe, he murmured.


"Can't you get up3" kindly asked the
lady.


The little fellow made fruitless at
tempt, but it weakened him so that he
fell back again on his stone bed and be-
gun to cry.


"Poor boy!" said the lady, as che
called the hired girl. And both OF them
lifted the nearly unconscious form OF
little Joe and carried him to bed III
quiet room in the rear of the house.


Next morning Joe was no better, and
his nurse waited On him tenderly. He
could only look gratitude at her-the
Door little street waif knew no words OF
thanks, accustomed as he had been to
the rougher side Of life in the busy me-


-
tropolis.


Joe wanted to look out of the window.
They propped him up with pillows, and
he felt happy. He longed to be well
again.


Then he grew delirious, and would
CRY in strangely altered tone:


"Mister, here's your papersF


Next day little Joe was no more. The
kind lady, who had learned to love him
while she ministered to his wants, weptt
q few tears over the inanimate form OF
the motherless waif. But who misses
him from among the throng OF busy
bodies who come and 60 at the post
Office The nevsdealers say: "Guess
Dominic Joe's gone up the river some.
where" but none of them think that
the poor little fellow has been taken
away from this world of SORROW to the
only Father he ever knew.
Year: 1876

A very daring Kentucky girl lately
rode her horse close up to the edge OF q
vawnine chasmA and proudly deied any
gentleman of the party to follow her
example,. Not soul stirred except one
youth, who boldly backed his horse
into the same position, and, standing on
his head in the saddle, dared her to do
this sane, She concluded net 70,
Year: 1876

men twas reaclt ID which put togshane
the v8ry worst kesults ever accomplish
ed through the combined agency OF war
and pestilence. Here also was another


great fact 1t was history teaching by
example. The rank and file Of the
emancip8tedsneg had already dis
covered that they could not live without
labor; that but miserable percentage
of their race ever succeeded in making


politics profitable. and that, by aiding


carpet bag adyenturers to plunder the
State, they were indirectly lowering the
price of labor, and bringing ruin upon
themselves.


THUS it comes about that through the
direct logic OF events the negro voters
of this and other Southern States have
lost the faith in Republicanism which,
Ia the genesis of their new dispensatlon,
they adhered to with religious fidelity.
Their experiences teach them that, as
part Of d political community, they can


not be prosperous while the rest Is
plundered, and while commercial con
fidence is destroyed through bastard
rule which is at once miserable parody
on self-governmenta and an outrage upon
every human right.


Then, too, the negroes began to inquire
to whom they were indebted for their
emancipation. Lincoln had issued the
proclamation that freed them, put they
discovered that it was, as 1t were, against
his will. He was willing to leave slavery
untouched, IL he could at the same time
terminate the war and save the Union.
But the Confederates had become
aggressive, and the proclamation
was issued as a measure, not of politi-
cal Justice, but OF military strategy.
The Southern negroes have, therefore,
no good grounds for gratitude to any
political party for their emancipation
Nor does the logic Of subsequent events
fix on them any new debt OF gratitude.
They have been used for party ends, not
for their own advantage; they have suf-
fered equally with their white neigh
bors through the misgovernments they
assisted to establish, and have been
plundered through q bank which was
pretendedly organized for their special
benefit and protection.


These circumstances have been elo-
quent In convincing the more sensible Of
the colored voters that they can no
longer trust the Radical leaders upon
whose counsel they once SO I'm
plicitly relied. The necessity of re-
form is as apparent to them as to their
white neighbors. and now. in abandon
ing the party Of ruin to join the party Of
redemption. they are following their
natural instincts and their highest in
terests.
Year: 1876

The Washington Artillery Battalion
left yesterday afternoon by the. O'Clock
train for Mississippi City. where the
Mobile Volunteer Military will meet
them, and the gay party will indulge in
festivities which have been prepared
for them. The Battalion will return to.
the city on Monday morning. ,n tst4
Year: 1876

Mayor Beaudry had a pleasa ntly
varied docket to dispose Of yesterday.
A party for rolling his chum while
drunk and abstracting fifty dollars
from his pocket was sent up for fifty
days. Two native Californians were
arrested for drunk and disorderly. One
will work ten days in the chain gang
and the other goes free acquittal. Two
parties were also arraigned under the
vagrantact which is something new
for Los Angeles. One was dismissed
as the charge was not proven salts
factorily, and the discision of the court
is reserved in the case of the other


Officer McFaddin made descent
upon another house of ill-repute last
night and arrested one Of their 0ccu-
pants. Her trial will probably take
place in a day or two.


1t will be seen that our Irish citizens
are about celebrating st. Patrick's
day with considerable eclat. They
publish an interesting advertisement
in another column.
Year: 1876

The young lion of the Midland
(Mich.) Independent roars aloud as
follows; Sand now appeared one Of
the most terrible and magnificent
spectacles it was ever our lot to wit.
ness. The whole broad and high front
of the International Hotel was wrap
ped-as in its winding sheet-in one
lurid mass Of flame, which, seemingly
as in mockery Of the puny powers Of
man and his appliances to stay its
course, stopped toward the earth
in the eddy of the wind with a
hurtling sourd as of demoniac laugh
ter, and then swerving and veering, as
if in disdaln tossing its head, it arose
towering almost to the very clouds
and-ah, it needed no fervent Dante
an i'm ginaticn then to discover with
in the fringes Of that gilt-edged hell
the glaring eye-balls, yea, the very
claws and bloody hair of the demon of
the lames-with one fell swoop it
hurled itself across the broad street
over upon and wound itself around,
fastened its fearful clutches in, took
possession of and invested the whole
immense building known as the Har-
ris block
Year: 1876

A writer in the Georgia Farmer
gives directions for making a cheap
barometer to aid in foretelling the
weather. He takes a stick three feet
long, and attaches to the butt end
phial full of air, and corked tight.
The stick is then suspended in hori-
zontal position on a pivot where it will
readily turn, say ON a thread tied
near its centre. When a storm is
coming on, the air outside is lighter
than that within the phial; of course
the phial sinks, and indicates change
in the atmosphere. Such barometer
may be made in ten minutes, and
some of our philosophic farmers will
incline to have a barometer of their
own manufacture.
Year: 1876

WAITING TWENTY YERAs FOR A HUs-
BAND.-Twenty years ago Douglass Lyon
lett Scotland and came to this country
for the purpose Of making his fortune
When he left his home there was lassle
for whom he had strong attachment,
who had promised at some future day to
become his wife, and he left her with the
understanding that as soon as his tinan'
cial condition should improve sufficient
" he would send for her. When young
Lyon arrived in this country he made his
way to Bergen, N. j., and there he laid
the foundation for competence, which
having been acquired, about year since
he fulfilled his promise to his sweetheart,
who had remained faithful to him all
through this time, period OF twenty
wears, and he sent for her to come to
him, that they might spend the rest OF
their days together as man and wife.
During this courtship of twenty years,
which has been carried on by CORE
spondencc, no lovers quarrels have oc'


cured to mar the pleasure of their court
shin and in the course OF few days
thew expect to be united. The long
postponed wedding will take place on
Bergen heights.
Year: 1876

4 BERLIN dispatch to the London SfoHd-
ard says that the failure of the conference
project ON the eastern question Is considered
there a almost certain, and that the same
impression prevails in Vienna.
Year: 1876

ChamberIain's Estimate OF the Result
Special to the New York Herald 11h.


COLUMBIA, November Ill would gladly
give you the statement you request, but the
official returns have not been received from
more than eight counties. The figures given
are therefore mostly estimates and differ
greatly, and to repeat them in detail would
hardly be worth your while, as you are fami-
liar with the Democratic claims The Repub-
Gcans claim that after giving the Democrats
all they can plausibly claim. and accepting
their figures III a great majority of the com-
ties, Hayes still has majority of about three
thousand two hundred and Chamberlain of
about two thousand one hundred. But
the Republicans insist that their best inforrna-
ton from the most authentic sources, includ-
ing all official returns now received or author
itively reported to our executive committee,
give Hayes majority of about two thousand
and Chamberlain of about six thousand FIVE
hundred. That this State has gone for Hayes
we have not shadow ofdOubt, on either the
Democratic or Republican showing On the
Republican showing we are equally sure of
the election of the Republican State officers
and Legislature, with amajority on JOINT bal
lot OF over twenty.
Year: 1876




thing which he cast over the ships side
into the kissing sea The chief mate, rum
ming after the boy. caught him in his arms
and extinguished the flames by pressing
the brave little fellow against his own
broad chest, while sailor quickly threw
blanket around the two. The poor boys
hands. arms, chest and one side of his face
and neck were found to be fearfully burn
ed, but for awhile his intense excitement
made him insensible to the pain. and he
declared he was not hurt.


The sudden confusion on deck reused
even the most exhausted of the passen-
gers, and all came thronging up to learn
the cause, feeling no apprehensions, but
full of the aimless curiosity which is the
stimulant of the idle. The ships officers
and the middies, pale and excited. gath
cred around poor little Joe eagerly ques-
tioning. The General with sob caught
his little daughter closely in his arms.


"You see, SIR" said Joe, touching his
cap with the piteous. ragged, brave right
hand, 'when felt the iron so hot | re-
membered all at once what was in the
hold, and how | saw somebody going
down in there while ago with lighted
candle in his hand. So just ran down
and found the hold wasn't locked. and the
candlestick, all afre, was on top of one
of the queer barrels, sir, close up under
the cabin floor"


The captain gave a startled glance
around to see if Joe's intimation of some
thing dangerous in the hold attracted
any attention; but all those who had
not previously known it were too inter-
ested to heed the alhsion. O.
~There was nothing particular in the
hold, Joe, you know nothing very par
ticular." said the captain, with an uneasy
bluster Of unconcern. "But the candle
stick all afire! How was that? Candle
sticks are not made of wood or paste
board" .If


Il don't know how 1t was. sir, but | sup
pose it was so hot in the hold that the can
die melted and ran down, for the bottom
Of the candlestick was full of fire, and /
just grabbed 1t and ran, and thars"--


Just here. poor brave little Joe became
conscious of his pain, and turning white,
fell into the Captains ready arms.


s ioosrISUED TOMORROW.
Year: 1876

The Lives Insured bY the Society are carefully
selected in different parts of North America and
Europe, furnishing, by this broad field of opera
tions, an additional and exceptional safety to the
Policy-holders. The assurances are made only on
the Mutual Principle. The Surplus Premiums are
returned annually to the Insured
Year: 1876

EF A priest was hearing confession,
and boy came to him and said he had
bad sin on his mind. ell my good
boy, come on wild it, said his reverence
'Augh, then. your reverence, do be al
ways sayin' Be the Holy Father You
do THAT'S very bad me boy, Now how
often do you be sayin' tllat?' Begor,
more than forty times a day, your rever.
ence.' Go home now, said the priest,
and get your sister to make you bag
and hang 1t round your neck, and eve y
time you say, Be the Holy Father drop
. little stone in, and come to me this day
week That day week his reverence was
as usual in his box, and he heard an aw-
ful noise in the church, so he looked on,
and saw his penitent dragging sack
lady Mulloy, says he what do you
inane by such conduct as that in the
church = Sure your reverence, says the
fellow. does is all Be the Holy Fa her,
an the rest 10 out on the dray.'
Year: 1876

SOLID SYLLABuB.--Takea pint of thick
cream, half pint of white wine. and
sweeten il to vour taste. put in the juice
OF one lemon and half of the rind grated
Whip it up on the eve of the day when
you design it for use, hut do not I'LL your
glasses or garnish with i. until the day
after it is made, if you wish it to be quite
solid and stand.
Year: 1876

that he is acting in precise, downright COM
mou-sense earnest, in choosing to vote for
Governor Hayes, in order that the South
shall not suffer "a relapse into violence
and intimidation" and that as he depre-
Gates such danger he also sees it is a dam
ger, and that by Hayes's election it can be
avoided.


We recommend to E0ery Eoenang, whose
managerial we are not mistaken, have some
acquaintance with Col. McComb, the peru
sal Of his opinions. We do not expect that
journal to change Its mind as to the entire
propriety of the Ku Klux movement, and
the impropriety of putting stone in the
way of those who murder Southern colored
men, but still we think Col. McComb's
views might be read with interest, if not
profit, in that quarter.
Year: 1876

Yesterday the Gazette had an article of
most mischievous and inhammatory ten.
dency. Itwas full of intimations that there
might be collision of the marching po-
litical clubs, the Democrats, it says, having
armed themselves, and while it pretended
to deprecate and regret such a possibility,
the whole drift Of the article was to fan the
flame of making it likely to occur. Some
weeks ago, the Gazette denounced the
course of Martin Farrell-who is to be, by
the way, marshal of the Democratic pa
rade, this evening declared Farrell a
violent and dangerous man, but he never
acted in such an outrageous and incendiary
manner as does the Gazette in this article.
1t is like spark brought near magazine
for newspaper to justify the arming of
political clubs, and to seriously consider
the likelihood of bloodshed in our streets,
from political collision.
Year: 1876

AS the virtues of medicines can only be ascer-
tanned by careful observation, it is to be regretted
that many of the drugs still prescribed By some
Physicians should retain place in our materia
medca. AS an instance of this, that vile drug Bal
sam Copaiba furnishes example. About the year
1880 the Spaniards in the Island of San Domingo
having become afflicted with certain complaints,
thought, according to the prevailing notion that
time, that the remedy might be found where the
disease originated. Under this impression Balsam
Copaiba came into use, but never has a nauseatng
drug done more injury, for it not only changes the
nature of the disease to more dreadful state than
the original but it ruins the tone of the stomach
and brings on Dyspepsia in its worst forms. To
avoid this drug and its effects the SAMARITAN S
GIFT, a pure vegetable remedy is within the reach
of ALL Only ten pills to be taken and will every
time in from two to four days. Male packages S2E
female So
Year: 1876

sun tnese stockholders kept up such a per-
sstent and tortuiing pursuit against the plum
derers, that the Board of Directors were forced
to something for quiet" The suit which is
been instituted apparently BY their direction
IL is believed TO be an evasion, and on both
sides controlled by the same party. II NAV be
dismissed and abandoned when the storm Of
accusation snail be pat to sleep by the narcotic
power of this worthless stock, and prolonged
and proftless proceeding.
Year: 1876

SHOULD the bill to prohibit members OF
Congress from contributing money for elec.
ton purposes become law it will have the
good effect of keeping some useless rich men
like Barnum OF Connecticut, for instance
out of places which will be better filed when
the dimensions of the brain rather than of
the pocket-book become the test of candi-
dafec
Year: 1876

made an exception to other officials. The
feet of the young men who have just carried
out the late lamented Mr.. Pendleton are lin
gering about the door of the Democratic tenn
pie waiting for another ruined Presidential
candidate. Is it to be Reformer Tilden?
Year: 1876

WHEN'the Democrats in Congress show q
willingness to cut down their own salaries in
the same proportion in which they cut down
the salaries Of the clerks it will be time for
them to boast of retrenchment.