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Year: 1876

When we are young our boys are sweet,
They climb our knees and lie at our feet
When we are old they are hard to please,
Cold as the rock and wild as the breeze;
They kiss us kindly and speak us fair,
Rut we know their hearts are otherwhere.
Oh, my sons my son till he gets him


wife,


But my daughters my daughter all her


lie.
When We are young our Gays our bright,
And full Of hope from morn till night;
When We are old We sit alone,
And think Of pleasant days long gone,
When the house was full Of the children's


noise,
The willful girls and the naughty boys.
Oh, my sons my son till he gets him q


wife,


But my daughters my daughter all her
life.
Year: 1876

A farmer attending fair with hun
dred pounds in his pocket. took the pre-
caution of depositing the money in the
hands of the proprietor Of the public
house at which he stopped. Having
occasion for it shortly afterwards. be
resorted to mine host for payment. But
the landlord, too deep for the country
man, wondered what he meant, and was
quite sure no such sum had ever been
lodged in his hands by the astonished
rustic. After Intellectual appeals to the
recollection. and finally to the honor of
Bardolph, the farmer applied to Curran,
for advice.


"Have patience, my friend" said the
counsel; "speak to the landlord civilly
tell him you have left your money
with some other person. Take friend
with you, and lodge with him another
hundred in the presence Of your friend.
and come to me-"


He did so, and returned to his legal
friend.


"And now I can't see how 1 am 60
ing to be any better off for this, if 1
get my second hundred back again.
But how is that to be done ?"


"Go ask him for it when he is alone, F"
said the counsel.


"Aye, sir. asking won't do I am
afraid without my witness. at any rate. "


"Never mind take my advice" said
the counsel; "do as bid you. and re-
turn to me-"


The farmer returned with bis hun
dred glad to find that safely in bis
possession.


CHOW, sir, I must be content, but /
don't see that I am much better off,"


swell. then." said the counsel, NOW
take your friend along With you,
and ask the landlord for tho hundred
pounds your friend saw you leave with
him."


We need not add that the willy land
lord found he had been taken off his
guard. while our honest friend returned
to thank his counsel exultingly with
both hundred in his pocket.
Year: 1876

AN old constitution is like an old
bone-broken with ease, mended with
difficulty. A young tree bends to the
gale, an old one snaps and falls before
blast. A single hard lift run to
catch departing train; an evening of
exposure to rain or damp; a severe
chill; an excess Of food the unusual
indulgence of any appetite or passion /;
sudden fit Of anger; an improper
dose Of medicine-any of these or
other similar things may cut off val
liable life in an hour. and leave the fair
hopes Of usefulness and enjoyment but
shapeless wreck.
Year: 1876

Be cheerful, contentsd and light
hearted. Always remember that there
are others whose troubles are greater
than yours. In the family circle show
the sunny side Of your nature. Don't
90 around complaining, miserable and
unhappy. It is too much like the un-
comfortable custom of the ancient Egyp-
tians, who never gave feast without
a skeleton in full view. that they might
not forget their mortality.
Year: 1876

THE WEATHER YESTERDAY.


Tho following record will show tho changes in tho
temperature for the past twenty -four hours in CON-
parson with tho corresponding date of last year. as
indicated BY tho thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy
Year: 1876

THOMAS PRICE formerly of the San Francisco As saying and Refining works) having fitted up the old cifc Mail building No 524 Sacramento street corner of Lsdesdorf as an Assay Office and Chemical Laboratory now prepared to make assays of the precious and fu metals and their well complete or partial analysis of all minerals Salts Waters other substances that may be desired.

 His office will be epeued for business on Monday May l and he hopes that his long residence and experience in his profession will entle him reasonable portion of the business of his friends and the public generally s3
Year: 1876

From the first the Rings have been anx
ious to get Hayes in. Their first attemp
was to vote him in; the last to count him
n. They failed at the first, and now they
begin to see that they are likely to fail in
the second. The third plan is to filibuster
him in. That is to say, the Senate is to
talk against time, from the second We'd
nesday in February until the fourth Of
March, when the new House GENES into
being. This new House is to he called
together by the President, and the Repub-
icans claiming to control majority OF
the States will elect Governor HAYES
President. This is the plan now avowed
with some thin veil of words, by W. NJ
Grosvenor, editor OF the Anew York Pub.
lie" OF Mr.. Grosvenor himself, it is
scarcely necessary to say more than tha,
the evidence adduced in the whisky trials
At St. Louis, showed him to have received
money from members of the Ring, while
an editor there, and the only answer he
could make was, that he had given his note
for the money and expected to pay it! The
"Nation" made the caustic remark about
this, that ii showed how unfortunate i,
was ''for Reformers to have relations with
Rings"


1t is difficult to conceive Of more dan
gerous or dishonest scheme. 1t simply
means that the Republicans failing in ev-
cry other mode Of getting the Presidency,
shall steal it by means of Parliamentary
tilibustering. If Governor Hayes should
gain the Presidency in this way, would
there ever afterwards be any security OF
certainty about an election. Five times
during the last nine Presidential elections,
the Houses which were to count the cleo
toral vote have been of opposite politics.
Has it ever been proposed before tha,
either of them should, by tlibustering, re-.
verse the verdict Of the people when it did
not suit them? If this should be done once,
have We any guarantee that it will not be
done.again?Our Government will then be a,
the mercy Of either House of Congress
which chooses to cheat the people out of
their rights This idea is about as valua
BILE to society as the invention of a new
burglars jimmy, or Of a new style of brass
knuckles would be- 1t simply adds one to
the many known methods OF political ras-
cality. We wish Mr.. Grosvenor and his
Ring joy Of his scheme.
Year: 1876

THERE is more suffering, and actual
starvation in the large cities of the United
States, at the present time, than in any Of
the capitals OF Europe, the cities have
grown 90 fast, tha. the governing elemen,
in them, have not had experience enough
to use these resources to help the needy
1t would pay to put at the head of the
administration of New York City, one OIL
more Parisians versed in the science Of
municipal relief to the poor and unem'
ployed.
Year: 1876

Here is another story from Wash
ington: There is a doorkeeper
whose duty it is to hoist the flag
over the House, which designates
whether that body is in session The
memories of the glorious past are SO
overmastering to this faithful devotee
of the lost cause that he will not
raise the flag in person; that duty is
performed by a negro at ten cents a
day. When it comes to lowering the
flag, the Confederate performs that
proud and graceful Office himself.
The subject is said to worry the
Speaker.-[New York Herald


Evidently this matter might be
compromised by the use Of the stars
and bars over the south wing of the
CAPITOL Cincinnati Commercial
Year: 1876

We have made arrangements with the publishers
of the Cincinnati Weekly Commercial and the
Ohio Weekly State Journal that enable US to send
either of those papers, together with the News for
50, postage paid. The Commercial is independent
in politics. and is in every way first-class paper
The Jour lsl is Republican; but not in sense to
interfere with the exercise of the utmost freedom
of discussion on the part of the editor. In Their
spheres, both ere model papers, and can not well
fail to satisfy all who may conclude to take them in
connection with the News. The subscription price
of both papers is s2OO-so ii will he seen that those
who may take either in connection with the News
viii save rs cents. This offer is open to all oul
Subscribers.


UeU. Q, 1915. H
Year: 1876

The President is reported as late
ly saving: "As warm and cordial as
were the personal relations of my
self and General Babcock, yet if h.
is guilty his conviction will gratif,y
no one more than myself"
Year: 1876

When your time is out, don't wait till you have a
chance to come TO town, or send the money by q
neighbor but enclose it in letter at once and hand
it to your P. NJ. We Ui be responsible if the none,
is lost, from any lnnst-otfce in this county.


Subscribers outside of the county should send
money orders, when practicable, where the amount
is 81 or more. An order costs but 10 cents, which
the subscriber msy deduct from the amount sent.
Year: 1876

A couple. Of respectable colored men


have called at our Office and informed
lls that contrary to their expectations
and the general teachings Of their lead
ers in politics, there is spirit Of in
equality manifested against the emarl-
clpated, even among the faithful, that
they cannot account for except on the
hypothesis that recently emancipated
cOlored man Is only as good as an nylte
beH,tm free colored man during election
times when the latter wants the votes
OF the former.


Our lnformants say that they were ex-
cluded from Christmas party by Gers
tain leading colored men, of the old
school, on the ground that they wero
freedmen not freemen like themselves.
They also say that heretofore the per.
sons who propose to exclude them from
hlgh-colored society have led in poll
tics and have hoodwinked them with
fine teachings about social equality and
yet In the face OF these teachings refuse
TO accept their own teachings and place
recently freed people who are i'm every
way their equals.


These colored men say they are dis
gusted with, not SO much the treatmenf
they have received at the hands Of the
leading Radical free negroes, as With
the outrageous falsity of the promises
long made by these leaders, and as VET
unredeemed, as well as their Janus
faced conduct, which in every way shows
them to be void of true moral honesty
in their teachings to the "slave class
OF the doctrines Of social equality. They
say they are done with such leaders.
and intend to throw them overheard.


They. say they have never vet been
favored with the present Of that forty
acres OF land and amule from the Gov
ernment they say they have been de-
ceivcd In the matter Of public educa-
tion, and that instead of educating the
uneducated and children, the funds col
lected evaporate before they reach tho
object for which they are taxed; they
say that the sugar-coated pill styled
social equality is about the bitter
est farce that has ever been invented to
deceive q free but religiously credulous
people; they say that when the party
leaders, who have preached such nols-
sense, go back on their own words they
have no further use for them, and they
say that henceforth the Democratic
party shall get their votes and have
their good will.


Ii they stick to their words they will
never have cause to regret it. Baton
Rouge AdpOcate.
Year: 1876

II E,eeeuro II LonAon-Wh04 ~ ~
pevt 1hinks ef 1winnafDg-1he
Channel Feat.


Capt. Webb lectured recently at st. James
Hall, London. As lecturer, he said, she
felt like fish out of WATER" but the story
he had to narrate, which was that OF his
life and adventures, was told with rugged
bluntness, not unreleyed with caustic hu-


NOR, which had peculiar charm for those
who knew what he had done. "He was un.
accustomed to the art of public speaking, :"
he said, and he further assured those
who laughed that "it was fact; but he


"could tell them when he was born,
and something which had happened in the
course of his life." he said he first saw
light in 1S4S. He could not swim then, but
he commenced to learn not very long after
ward, and between Z and was considered
q good swimmer. Not fast swimmer
that he did not pretend to be even now


but he could live long time in the water,
and had long steady stroke, which told In
the long run. He had great love for the
sea, but had horror of the bathing women
whom he saw ruthlessly dipping children at
the coast. Example and kind words went
further in the teaching of swimming, as
we'll as in other things, than threats or
terror. After being in the training-shp
Conway, he went as sailor to Calcutta ard
Hong Kong, and at the latter place he had
fight with two Cinnamon. He had half
dollar in his pocket, and the Cinnamon
wanted to take it from him, so they had re
course to trial by combat, and the result
was he was landed in a drain, which was
not the "drain" for which he had come on
shore. Laughter. He did not remember
much more laughter l-only he knew the
Cinnamon did not get that half dollar. Ap-
plause and laughter. Then there was an
event of different description-the attempt


in which he saved an unfortunate sailor who
was washed off the Cunard steamer Russia,
and which won for him the medal of the
Humane Society, and the Stanhope gold
medal, prizes which he Captain Webb
valued all the more highly because he
had received them from the hands of
another British soldier, his Royal Highness
the Duke of Edinburgh. Applause. Fl.
nally, there was the Channel feat, In regard
to which he gave an interesting account.
There were merry bursts Of applause when
he described himself, after being rubbed
down with porpoise-oil, as moi only feeling
but smelling strong, and hearty cheering
when he told of the difficulties he had met
and overcome. DR.. Pope, late staff Sur
geon, K A, then made some general re
marks on the history of swimming, while
Mr.. Macgregor, of Rob Roy repute, gave
verbal expression to the admiration of the
meeting and performed the almost super
fuous duty of calling on those present to
give three cheers for ''the hero of the
Channel"
Year: 1876

IT DOES seem as though Grant had not
only disgustel the people with himself,
but even the members of his cabinet
Bristow has left in milf, and goes back to
Kentucky to practice law, and all because
he could not remain in the cabinet Of a
man who does not scruple at anything to
attain selfish purposes.


Now the news comes to US that Mr..
Jewell is not the most contented man in
the world, and will soon retire from the
Postmaster Generalship. Here will be
another chance for Grant to slip in a man
from some one of the many doubtful
States in the effort to procure the success
of the Republican party in the next cleo
tioA. The same bid has already been
made for Pennsylvania, Maine, New York,
Ohio, and now the next. Why should the
President not make itJudge Fisher of Della.
ware? He could get bushel Of recon.
mendations for a cabinet position, where
he cannot get even smile for the Distrc
Attorneyship Of the State from his owr
people.
Year: 1876

IT WOULD hardly be polite to keep a
man in the sun such day as yesterday TO
converse upon the weather, more than five
minutes, but still countryman at one Q;
our market houses hung fire fifteen minutes
On difference Of three cents in pelting
hot sun, during the conversation, the arti-
Gle for s4le-~hich was butter, melted
Moral take 3 nan up quickly, and don't
ak ~ much.
Year: 1876




Now THAT the State Convention has
met and fixed up an old feud, which
created dissensions between the counties in
regard to delegate representation, we
thought that that part of the machinery
would run smoothly, bu: it seems not, the
trouble has begun afresh in Kent. This
time it is between the hundreds of Kent
county. Dover hundred claims that 1t is
entitled to fifteen delegates, and as it is now
they only have eleven. Mr.. Dean takes
this opportunity in a communication
which appears in another column, to re-
mind Kent of New Castle eounty's grlev-
ances, and reminds the Kent county peo-
pie that they should follow the teachings
of the bible and do unto others as they
would be done by, but Mr.. Dean should
recollect that religion and politics don't
mix any better than combination against
fairness does with wisdom, which is about
the truth of the vote on this matter in the
last Convention.
Year: 1876

[LondonLettei to theManchesi erGuardian. !


l am assured on high authority that on
June an alliance was contracted between
the Duke of Connaught and the Princess
Frederica, daughter of the ex-King of Han
over, and that vote for his Royal High
ness establishment and for settlement on
the Princess will be submitted to Parliament
before this session is ended. Such an alli-
ancc would not be unpopular in England, as
King George Is Of our blood royal, and
Prince Ernest is likely, in course Of time. to
take up his abode amongst us, and attend
to Parliamentary duties in the House of
Peers in his future capacity of Duke OF
Cumberland
Year: 1876

IT APPEARS ridiculous, but then it is
at the same time very true, that the strong
est supporters Of the Republican party in
the South are those men, who were in the
foremost in the advocacy Of the Southern
cause. The secret Of this love of the Re
publican party is that they either hold
Office or expect to as return for this sup
port. Two beastiful specimens are Long
street and Mosby, both Of whom have sold
their decency to the love Of position. Thi,
SUPPORT is very ridiculous as its object is
very transparent.
Year: 1876

HEAT OF THE HUMAN BoDY.--Some
remarkable observations have lately
been made in regard to the heat of the
human body. By means of an ingenious
instrument recently invented by DR..
Lombard, of New York, it is ascertained
that a woman's body is warmer than that
Of man by about three-fourths of a
degree, and sometimes as high as one
half degree, while in no instance has
the warmth of males body been found
to be greater than that of q female. 1t
Is also definitely ascertained that chill
dren are decidedly warmer than adults.
the difference being about one degree
Fahrenheit, and that the younger the
child the greater the diversity. A diff
ference in the heat of the sides of the
body is discovered to be an inviariable
law. The left side Of the head, and ex-
tending downward to the base of the
neck, is much hotter than the right
side. These curious facts open to the
medical men new line of research and
inquiry.
Year: 1876

CAMP OF COMBINED YELLOWSTONE FORCES,)


ROSEBUD CREEK, August II, 1879 !
The columns under Generals Terry and Crook met
yesterday at noon in this valley and will operate
henceorth in union. The southern force let its
supply camp on Goose Creek August 9, where 1t had
been augmented by the arrival OF the Fifth cavalry.
The route OF the march was to Tongue River, at the
point where the Sioux attacked the camp on June
10 and thence thirty miles northeastward, where
the column turned to the north and crossed the
Panther Mountains to the Rosebud.


bivouac was made August ten miles north Of
the battle ground OF June L. near the site OF grand
Sioux encampment Next day the great trail lead
ing down the valley showed signs OF the movement
OF large numbers OF Indians over it about week be-
fore-probaby the whole of Sitting Bulls people
The country west OF the Rosebud has been ut
terly consumed by connagration and eastward there
are the same indications. The Sioux seem re-
solved on abandoning all the region south of the
Yellowstone for the present season. The traces Of
their camps along the Rosebud show that their
ponies have nearly starved and that their own sub





HILLS AND VALLEYS IN FLAMES.


Trails from the Little Big Horn join the grand
trail, and it is probable that the parties scattered
along the base OF the Big Horn Mountains during
started norehward leaving the hills and valleys in
flames General Terrys column was espied yes
tertlay, at ten O'clock by Buffalo Bill. 1t was mov-
ing up the valley in line of battle, General Terry's
The meeting between the commanders in arms was
enthusiastic, the friendly Indians with both CON-
manders giving vent to exuberance ofjoy.


q SCATTERED TRAIL.


eastward, and the scouts yesterday discovered
fresh signs above the old ones indicating q rear
guard of the Sioux lingering behind, who had prob
ably discovered our approach from both ends of the
cross the Yellowstone east Of the mouth OF the
Rosebud. General Miles, with detachment OF In
fantry and artillery, started last night proceed
down the river on steamer from the mouth Of
Rosebud as patrol to Intercept them. Another
detachment of General Terry's infantry will guard
his supply train.


AN UNCERTAIN ENEMY.


The rest Of the combined forces will move to-day
upon the OF the Sioux taking rations for four
days. The supplies can he sent back to meet them
at any point on the river There is great uncertainty
regarding the enemy. 1t Is impossible to shape any
conjecture to the occurrence Of fight.
Year: 1876

The following record will show tho changes In the
temperature for the past twcnty-tour hours In CON-
parson with corresponding date OF last year. as In
dicsted by the thermometer at Hudnut's pharmacy
HERALD BUILDING
Year: 1876

The Boston Commercial Bulletin
says: She can sit at the open win
dow Of railway carriage with a
stiff northeast wind blowing in that
chills everybody in the vicinity to
the marrow, for two hours in a thin
muslin dress, without flinching.


She can dance or waltz down the
captain of q marching regiment,
and at the II o'clock supper put
away lobster salad, ice cream,
champagne, cake and coffee, with
out flinching, sufficient for a weeks
nightmare for strong man.


She can comb her hair all back
so as to leave the roots of it TO the
full play of a December breeze;
and wear a bonnet on the top of a
chignon, leaving ears and head ex-
posed with impunity, with the thor
mometer ten degrees below zero,


She can pull over $1,000 worth of
dry goods for the investment Of
fifty cents,


She can study music for ten years
sufficiently to enable her to perform
excellently, when not in the pres
ence Of those who desire to hear
her.


She can balance herself on the
ball of her great toe and a shoe
heel the size Of a dime all day In
the public streets without falling


She can occupy three seats in 9
horse-car and be utterly oblivioui
that any of her own sex are stand
ing.


She shows unusual strength ant
frmness in the holding of req
Year: 1876

Bill Murrell, the irrepressible, has
broken loose in Madison parish again,
and has been renominated by an enthu-
siastic convention for reelection to the
Legislature. Murrell has been quenched
a dozen times; was even ANONYMOUSLY
kicked out of the last convention, but
even that does not dismay or alarm him,
and he comes to the front again can
didate for legislative honors. Anxious
inquiries are being made at the State
House as to where and when Murrell' S
convention met, as nobody seems to
know anything about it save its nomina-
ton.


We congratulate the Radicals on their
first candidate for the Legislature as a
proof of how earnest they are for re-
form. Bill Murrell is their first in the
legislative field and Bill Murrell's name
is synonymous with reform.
Year: 1876

And now Tantalus Pinch Is on the
extreme verge of another ragged edge /;
for several weary years the Senatorship
was kept shining before his eyes, always
within seeming reach, but receding
beyond as soon as his outstretched
hands ventured for grasp. At length
the shining light was extinguished but
the glitter of gold replaced it. For a
Pinch gold may replace fame; but now
even the gold appears to vanish, the
dispatches state that the contingent
fund Of the Senate is exhausted, and
Pinch's pay depends upon the contin-
gent fund, for the current year concern
ing whose amount the Confederate
Brigadiers" have something to say. This
makes Pinch's $4,000 tolerably uncer-
tain. He thinks there is very little fun,
contingent or not, in that.