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Year: 1876

sought to rescue was Madge's brother
Harry, whom report had told him was
his alleged murderer.


The wicked flee when none pursue
them. George Hanson was no excep-
tion. He departed as suddenly as be
came, none of the Morrison family car
ing to enquire how or where.


Morris Morrison departed also, and in
a little while the interests of Molalla
Moorland relapsed into the wonted
tenor of their even way, and the nine
days gossip came to an end.


ITO be continued
Year: 1876

place to acquire a thorough business educa-
ton, or TO become q successful teacher of
Spencerian penmanship under the instruc-
ton OF one OF Its authors is at the Union
lars address


PLATT r. SPENCER.
Year: 1876

Col Ward II. Lamon of Berkeley county,
West Virginia, is a prominent candidate for
the Republican nomination for Governor of
that State Col. Lamon was once United
States marshal for the District Of Columbia,
and he is not the kind Of man the Virginia
Republicans should select to head their
ticket.


The Washington correspondent Of the
Springfield Republican says


There can be no doubt that Clymer and
Backb and Robbins, the Democrats IN
the committee have shockingly misman-
aged the impeachment business Robbins
pot on lofty airs about corruption, and it
turns out that be once took bribe himself
when in a public Office. Blackburn, who
has been bullying and Dragging ever since
the case was opened, seems to be anxious to
protect the guilty women in the affair, be
cause they come from Kentucky, and ely
mer, the chairman, is responsible for the
discharge of Marsh, and it is not improbable
that he will be proved guilty OF having at
tempted to shield Pendleton from exposure
in connection with the Belknaps."


Mrs. ex-SecPetary Belknap is reported as
saving


The General asks that all his affairs mas
be fully investigated lie hopes they will
summon from every post all the witnesses
possible that they will examine ali the
papers and records OF the War Department.
He has come out of this q poor man; be
has not anything; every penny we have be
longs to me, and when this is done we shall
have precious little. How we are to live or
what we are to do | cannot think. 1t will
all come right some day though the waiting
seems long. Vengeance is in better hands
than ours. am sure my husband will not
be so severely blamed when all is known
For myself do not care so much"
Year: 1876

The Boston correspondent; of the Adrance
writes The great temperance reform
movement gathers strength, and is mani
testing itself in new localities, without any
notss Of preparation. The absence of any
central organization to direct the move
ment, places it beyond the pale of statistics,
an probably no man could give even an
Year: 1876

IHE ART OF LIsTENING.-Conyersati IS
more frequently spoiled and ruined by bad
listening than by bad talking, Two
persons, or several many, engage on the dis
cussion Of a subject with which each is well
acquainted, and each may possess command
Of language and fuency of diction. but if
one OF them IS an inattentiye, uneasy, or i'm
patent listener, the conversation becomes
confused and irregular, often irritating, and
either OF itself breakes up altogether, or Is
abandoned with mutual or general sense 1t
relief on the occurrence Of any interruption
from without There arc various classes
Of such offenders, examples Of each OF which
may net seldom be met with in 9 single large
party. The least blamable, and the least en-
harrassing but often sufficiently 50 to distract
the best takers and 70 hinder the progress
OF discourse are the nervous and fdgeiy who,
although perhaps desirous and intending
TO give attention to the subject under treat
ment, are unable 10 control physical restless
Ness while Others are speaking. This man
itests itself in various ways by wanderings
of the eyes. movements OF the limbs arrange
ments OF the dress, taking up and putting
down books and other objects. and etten
by very ungainly tricks practised BY an
astonishingly large number Of sensible well
educated anu otherwise well-conduted people
The presence of a single person Of this TEN
perament in an audience Is VIGOROUSLY suih-
cient TO annoy and dissomposc even eminent
public speakers. and often spo,i> A speech
0T a sermon L4sure Hours.
Year: 1876

If We were in order, we should impure
of the Democratic papers-not the young
est, but the more wary and experienced
what they think the Democratic State
Convention ought to do about adjustment
Will the extreme policy for which the
convention was first called prevail, or the
opposing Conservative counsels be adopt
ed? The Bulletin informs Us : "We be-
lieve that city and county will be found
to agree substantially in the declarations
to be put forward, and in the policy to be
adopted and we are confident that both
declarations and policy viii be of such
character as to satisfy the just expectations
and bring no discredit on the National
Democracy" This is extremely unsatis-
factory. We confess to our absolute ina
bility to make any sense out of these
words Of no meaning, further than
that, the city and country delegates
will agree upon something which
is not stated, and that the ac-
ton, when it is had, will satisfy the ex-
pectations Of the national Democracy and
do credit to that conglomerate organizs-
ton. 1t is limited that the newly elected
delegates represent novel political notions,
which, of course, will prevail in the con-
Yenton and tickle the whole party
throughout the nation, from Governor
Allen to Brick Pomeroy.


But this carries US away from the
original purpose Of the convention, which
was avowed to be the unseating Of Gov
ernor Kellogg. The original question was;
Shall the Wheeler compromise be ripped
upP Yes, or no? The Bulletin. hints that
something entirely novel, original and
satisfactory, will be the upshot of the
'late movement of the people" " in which
less than one-tenth of the Democratic
party took any part. We ask that this
wonderful programme may be filed a
once, that we nay for once know what
Democratic policy really is.
Year: 1876

The primary elections which took place
on Wednesday have been underlined and
posted as a general movement Of the
people against Radicalism in general and
the late compromise in particular. Hence
we have watched the proceedings with
some interest from beginning to end.
Like the Bulletin, we think the result is
eminently satisfactory. 1t shows that the
main body of the Democratic party do not
sympathize with their putatiye leaders in
this attempt to countenance further agita-
ton. With all the drumming and be-
seeching, with high flown appeals to
''come out" and the fervid invocations to
patriotic action, we find that barely five
hundred voters turned out in the most
populous ward in the city; and what
makes the matter worse, majority
of that meagre number was sufficient
to beat the impracticable element nearly
two to one. The result was about
the same throughout the city. Not one
tenth of the Democratic vote was cast
Had there been general turn out, some
of the old party hacks whose names were
on the tickets and were only beaten,
would have been buried beyond the reach
of the deepest sea plummet. Two or
three hundred votes in each Of the great
tenth and eleventh wards, and five hun
dred in the third, were all that could be
rallied, and large majority of these voted
against the policy as we'll as the success
of nearly every prominent participator in
the st. Patrick's Hall meeting. Whatever
may be thought of the political effect of
the recent mass meeting, it is certain that
''the people" refused to indorse its reso-
lutions at the polls.


The Democracy have in effect manifest
ed disapproval of the proposal to hold
a convention at all The people have
almost ignored the call Of the parish COM
mittee to come out and vote. A majority
of those who voted at all gave their suf-
frages against the originators of the revo-
lutionary scheme, while those who re-
mained away showed their contempt for
the whole proceeding.


We sympathize with the slaughtered
gentlemen. They we're probably sincere
in the belief that they and their excess
sively foolish notions are really popular.
They have become so full Of their own
Importance that they imagined every
body else was equally impressed. And
yet to-day they stand naked before US;
sh orn of all delusion, they appear as men
who have not the half of FIVE hundred
friends in the most populous ward in the
city. These gentlemen have either fallen
into the error of overrating themselves OF
|ethey have somehow lost their hold on the
masses. So long as their batterrs we're
employed in dislodging Republi'
cans from Office, and making va
cancies to be filed, all the Dem
ocracy cheered them, and let them
publish their oracular platitudes in ''tht
name of the people" without question
But when they present themselves as can
didates to fill these vacancies, they arr
rudely pushed side for men who are Ger
tainly not so prominently known to thil
community. The boys were satisfied K
let the graybeards demolsh Radicalisu
and enjoy all the fame due to such feat
But that is all The youngsters think the.
know something about running State con
ventions, and have proved their abilit.
to conduct primary electi ons:
Year: 1876

The editor of Appieton's journal has
no patience with women who are
slovenly at home: MANY women
have little idea of how greatly they
shock the tastes and really endanger
the affections of their husbands by
their unseemingly domestic apparel
There is not a man of sense and refined
feeling anywhere who would not pre-
fer some simple and chaste adornment
for his wife in the morning TO any ex-
treme of splendor at the evening bail.
Let woman by all means dress bril-
liantly on those occasions that render
it proper; we have no desire to abridge
her privileges nor battle her instincts
in this particular; but we claim that it
is important for her, if she values her
household serenity, that she should
give equal heed to her ordinary de-
mestic attire. The female who goes
about the house untidily dressed has
no right to the title of woman. She is
without those marks and indications
by which she can be classified"
Year: 1876

America would have been in vain. Unit
this senseless and destructive habit can be
cured. and farmers learn to stick to
a chosen line of business, through fair
weather and foul. we can never hope to
become independent Of foreign nations,
either for our stock or for our wool.
Neither can our woolen manufacture be-
come steady business, but will always be
injured and discouraged by alternate
prosperity and reverses. Wool can be
grown at profit for thirty cents pound,
when mutton can be sold at present prices,
and where pastures are SO cheap so cost
less as In the far West, half this price will
pay fair profit to the shepherd. Instead
of abandoning the persuit, it would be
profitable thing to do to improve the flock
and make each sheep produce more wool
and mutton, which. II sold for less price.
will bring just As much money. Wool
manufacturing will then be put upon
steady basis, and farmers can afford to
laugh at tarffs.-American Agricultur-
alist.
Year: 1876

If you had been around the Great
Western depot on Atwater street at noon
yesterday you might have seen the CAM
paign opened. Said man sitting on
doorstep to man leaning against lamp
post:


'.What do you think hof the nomination
of AZe2"


IL think he ought to eat you," WAS the
reply. His name isn't Aze any more
than your name is Mud"


s'Then wot his hit


"The right name OF the Cincinnati can.
dldate is Hazen Wheeler"


Hi guess not"


Il guess your fool


Hi guess there's other fools hsround
ere, too"


That was the commencement of rough
and tumble fight which covered half
block-and destroyed the peace of mind of
score Of men. They might have been
fighting vet. had not an old man with gray
hair announced that both were wrong.
lie said that he had seen the names of the
candidates up town and that they were
"Waze and Heeler. r."-l Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1876

The following congratulatory letter
from the emperor of Russia reached
this country too late to be presented
to the president by the Russia minister
on July 4, and has since been present.
ed:


MR.. president At a moment when
the people of the United States cele-
brate the centennial period of their
national existence, I desire to ex.
press to YOU the sentiments with
which take part in the celebration.
The people of the United States may
contemplate with pride the immense
progress their energy has achieved
within the period Of a century. I
especially rejoice that, during this
centennial period, the friendly rela-
tions our respective countries have
never suffered interruption but, on
the contrary, have made themselves
manifest by proofs of mutual good
will. therefore cordially congratu.
late the American people, in the per.
son of their president; and l pray
that the friendship of the two coun.
tries may increase with their pros
perity. embrace this occasion to
offer to you, at the same time, the as.
surance of my sincere esteem and Of
my high consideration.


AIExANrcp
Year: 1876

So much tinkering has been done to
the silver bill in Congress that very
few know anything of it's provisions as
1t now stands. As values now stand.
it proposes the payment of the United
States bonds in a currency less valua.
BILE than that in which Pendleton in
1868 proposed to pay them. The bill
makes silver dollars a legal.tender in
payment for all debts of the United
States. The silver dollar, if coined,
would now be worth less than the
greenback dollar. The opponents of
the Silver bill maintain that it cannot
be otherwise construed than to mean
that the entire outstanding indebted
ness of the United States may be paid
in this deprecated silver dollar, which
is a proposition to pay them in a nom-
inal dollar of less value than the green
back dollar. The inflationists in the
House have become so strengthened
since the st. Louis Convention that
there can be no doubt that the House
will concur in almost anything the
South proposes, though the Senators
are not all agreed as to its effects.
Year: 1876

A lady who has been under the care
OF a physician in Omaha, for some
time past. had very singular reptile
extracted from her stomach the other
day. It was about .18 or 20 inches II
length and as large around as a per.
sons middle finger. From each side
protruded numberless legs, each one
of which appeared similar to the claws
OF a crawish. Its head tapered off to
a point almost as sharp as a needle,
Year: 1876

The pleasant picnic season is now
approaching. The chief characteris-
tic of the picnic is it's effect upon men
of sanguine and Respondent temper
ament. One secretly wishes he was
at home, and the other wishes he was
dead. The redeeming feature of the
picnic seems to be that it enables one
to wreak deadly revenge upon the
man he hates by persuading him to at
fond
Year: 1876

Mr.. Knott says he does not intend to
call MIR. Bristow to press him any further
with questions about cabinet matters, though
he may call him on other points. Mr.. Bris-
tow's friends say he will not change his
course towards the committee on account of
the Presidents letter, and they admit that
this question Of answering the committees Of
Congress was formally discussed in the cab
met and that the President and all the cab
met agreed that no answer should be made
touching cabinet proceedings Or CONVEX
sations, to any extent.
Year: 1876

Prospects Of the Wheat Market,


kilograms, from New York indicate
great alarm in reference to the condition
the wheat now there and on the way there,
and the market rules heavy in consequence,
though it does not appear that any OF the
grades are affected except Northwestern. The
mischief seems to be confined to the Aiinncso-
ia grades, which are more plump than that
known as "straight," and to some low grades
of Chicago which have been cleaned up on
the way to the seaboard, good deal Of
which has been inspected into store in Chi
cago as No. $50 rated simply because it was
too damp for No. 2, and the late hot weather
brought the moisture out of it. The last croy
being harvested amid good deal Of rain, the
fact is now telling it's own story.
Year: 1876

A fact worth remembering-Fiye
cents worth of Sheridan's Cavalry Condition
Powders, given to u horse twice 4 week, will
save double that amount i'll grain, and the
horse will be fatter, sleeker, and every way
worth more money than though he did not
have them.
Year: 1876

THERE are many reasons why you
should vote the Democratic ticket
next Tuesday, and not one Why you
should vote the Radical ticket. You
should vote for the Democrats because
they are in favor of an honest govern
mcut and for retrenchment and re.
form. Because they want to put
thieves out of Office and honest men
in. Because they want to reiore all
Of the States to an equal footin, Be
ca,'ss they want 3" reduce your take
and the tariff Because they want to
stop the sale Of the public domain and
the giving away Of the same to rich
railroad corporations, and keep it sa-
cre,i IN the use Of settlers and other
poor men who have no farms. BE-
cause they want to put stop to the
commission Of frauds in the Indian
bureau. Because they are not in fs-
vor Of qusrtering the Federal soldiers
in States to prevent fair elections.
These, and hundreds Of other reasons
We might mention. should induce eve
~ honest voter TO support the Demo
cratic party.
Year: 1876

We never knew genuine ex.Con-
federate who preferred amy such clam,
and as far Us the Confederate South
are concerned they wish to see the
clauses in the Fourteenth Amendment
strictly enforced, and the payment by
Congress of any Southern debt grow.
ing out of the war forever barred
The ex-Confe,lerate elected to Con
gress will be the last man to vote for
these Southern claims. and the South
will endorse every word Mr.. Tilden
says on the. subject. Yeo-
man.
Year: 1876

Peace reigns supreme in South Car.
olina, and the. Republicans are not
happy. They did not hope for this
If the supporters Of Hampton woull
raise little row in a single precinct
where there are a hundred Republican
voters the Republicans would rejoice.
Military were sent to South Carolina
to raise row. but the patient, law
abiding, liberty-loving Democrats Of
the State are too honest and patriotic
to create it. Secession is dead, the
war is ended, and the people OF South
Carolina revere the Union to-day, and
will fight for its preservation. b.
Year: 1876

This is not only an exciting, but a
very interesting, political campaign.
Women as well as men have a duty to
perform to their country, and they
should not shrink from it. they can
not vote or appear in professions, but
they cut the wood and bring up the
coal. aud thus leave the men more
time to talk up matters. Il Danbury
News.
Year: 1876

No Democrat that has the good OF
his party at heart, will let any personal
feeling influence his vote in the coming
election. but will vote the straight
ticket for Tildcn, Hendricks and
Durham. VIZ Z
Year: 1876

The days grow strange, the nights gro,

 cool;

 The bees have left the clover; he maple droppeth in the pool

 Its shady Summer cover. All day the swallows southward fit;

 All night the wind sighs dreary, And through the thin vail overit

 The moon looks wan and weary. The crisp leaves rustic on the path

 That slopeth to the meadow; The oak beneath the lilly pond

 Drops down its naked shadow; The barred bOughs at eventide

 On upland fells keep swpying, And doleful sounds through valley wide

 At lonely hours are straylng. Three Summer months tO warm the heart

 And then the cs.iu frosts after; Three Summer moons to dream Of love; Some ninety days or laughter; And then the South doth end its reIgn, The north wind clip our dreaming; The shadow droppeth once again,

 To end Loves empty scheming- There Is no strip Of Summer blue,

 But Winter clouds blow over; There is no iuchOf sodden turf

 The white snow shall not cover; No pleasant thing but has it's end

 When sunny days are waning; No note Of music for the Tyre,

 But endlessly complaining.
Year: 1876

AN old man of eighiy-one recently called on a resident of New Haven saying that he bought an auger of hi, father forty years ago, but was loo pooi ' tO pay for it. He couldn't be content tJ leave the world with the debt unpaid

 and so. as he couldn't pay Co ride, he had walked all the way from Ocdens burg. New York, tO leave the $j and interest with his creditors heirs. AfeI i doing this he started on his long walk

 home.-[ Exchange.

 To say that such deeds as the above 'icnrease ones pride and faith in human nature, sounds tame and commonplace

 But with all due admiration for the act, the manner of its performance by the honest 0ctogenarian seems a little strange. New Haven is anywhere around 300 miles from Ogdcnsburg

 Why should the old gentleman have walked this distance and gone to the atte ndant expense and wear and tear to pay his debt? Couldn't he have sealed the money in a properly direct ed tin can and dropped il into the neighborinE river of St Lawrence to float thence via the Atlantic and Long Island sound to its d-s.iua.ilng Or couldn't he have waited unul ,he ship canal connecting the great Lakes with the Mississippi Was finished anl in duced some ship captain who Was go- ing to Connecticut via the Lakes, the Mississippi, the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Stream, {, ,tke the money alongy Or couldn't h. have chosen the winter season and bought T pair of snow shoes and slid across to Alas ka and handed the package to some navy captain who was about t3 return to the east via Cape Horn? Or could mt he have got Sergeant Bates to car ry it with tine American flag in the direction taken by the course of empire, and through Asia and past the Turkish lines to England and thence 10 New Haven? These are suggestions of eas- fer ways, than that taken by the old gentleman, to get at his creditor. They come too late to help him in the case referred to, but may be of use in future payments for augcrs, and would proba- bly, heighten the effect of the narration in Sunday school literature.
Year: 1876

ON October 19, the New York Her aid reduced its price to three cents and this innovation in the great newspaper world of New York produced more or less commotion. A dispatch of OctO- Der 20 says: The Times and Tribune made no reduction in their price this morning, as was gen rally supposed they would The Herald charges the newsmen about as much for papers as as before the reduction. It is reported that many heavy newsdealers will re- fuse to handle the Herald, as the profit will De infinitely small
Year: 1876

velopng those principles of philanthropy equality char
ity and benevoenee which alone can enable our race
attain to the highest results


II such revelation has been necessary, II must have
been made If made hat system of religion has the best
right to be considered such reyelaon Rousseau and
other prominent Inde writers have settled this ques


ton by admitting that the Christian religion has the best
claims. Now, in proof that at some time revelation
has been made, addIee the following arguments There


in language which could only have there
through revelation. All ideas come primarily from
our ensepereeptions All ideas then, have arche.
types in nature corresponding objective reality,
which gives birth to the mental conception. Now the
term spirit represents idea which nothing that appeals
to our senseperceptons give rise to. From what
source then could the idea eome Only from reyea-
ton


But enough on this have already considerably ex.
ceeded my limits. merely wished to give few
why one must accept the truths of Christianity
of Divine origin For years was confirmed skeptic
all religious matters am far from being orthodox yet
many points but the leading essential truths of Chris
tianity. must admit susceptible Of proof II our
clergy would deal in argument and less In TRADE
and abuse of reethnkers many Of them do it would
be better for all sides Truth need fear the light
That system deserves fall which bear invest
CATION. sAGE-BRUSH.