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Year: 1876

Judge Trumbull has the rare good sense
to see that nothing can be gained for his
party by denouncing the Louisiana Return
ing Board before il has manifested disposi-
ton to act unfairly. He says in private
letter to his son: "I do not myself despair
of reasonable fair count in this State. We
shall have it il we carry Florida, and even
if the Presidency hangs on the result here,
do not see how, without committing such
palpable injustice and wrong as will take
from the decision all weight before the
country, the Returning Board, even II SO dis
posed, can commit any great iniquity in
the presence of the committees. Even
blind Democrat ought to be able to see the
wisdom of talk ike this.
Year: 1876

Why! DecNuSe InhuIAIlOn
is the only way that the
Air Passages can be leach
ed. and Catarrh is a dis
ease of Air Passages of the
Head. Use this treatment
as we direct, which is easy
and pleasant, and we guar
antee a perfect CURE OF


Catarrh.
Year: 1876

The following will touch chord in the
hearts of all who have lost those of whom
our Saviour said, "Suffer little children to
come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom
Of Heaven"
God bless the little feet


That never went astray,
For the little shoes are empty,


In my closet laid away;
sometimes take one IN my hand,


Forgetting, till see,
They are the little half-worn shoes,


And much too small for me.
All! little feet they weary not,


l sigh for them no more,
For they have climbed the golden stair,
And left me on the shore;
And when the binding tear-drops wet
The little shoes SO old,
! almost see those little feet


Climbing the stairs Of gold,
And then | take one n my hand,


But always turn and say,
"God bless those little feet


That never went astray."
God bless the little feet


That never went astray-
A little form beside me


Just as it used to lay,
The little face uplifted,


With her blue and fearful eyes,
All, me! might have known that look
Was meant for Paradise.
reach my hands about me,


But they clasp an empty air,
For there is nothing of my darling


But the shoes she used to wear,
The bitterness ofthe parting


Ne'er can be done away
Until meet my darling


Where her feet can never stray;
And then take one in my hand,


But always turn to say,
"God bless the little feet


That never went asray"
Year: 1876

SOLVING A PRoBLEN.-Madame
Suzanne LAGER, a good actress,
but extremely stout, was one
night enacting o part in a melo-
drama with TaillAde, the original
Pierre OF "The Two Orphans"
and thus he had at one moment TO
carry her faintiug off the stage.
He tried with all his might TO
lift the fat heroine; but although
she helped her little comrade by
standing on tiptoe in the usual
manner he was unable to move
Ter an inch. At this junction Il
boy in the gallery cried out: "Take
what you can and come back for
the rest"
Year: 1876

Some years since some miners,
working far under the ground,
came upon the body of a poor fel,
low who had perished In the pit
forty years before. Some chemi.
cal agent-an agent prepared by
nature-arrested decay. They
brought it up to the surface, and
for while, until thoroughly ex-
posed, it lay the image of fine,
sturdy young man. No -conyul,
sion had passed over the face in
death; the features were tran.
quill; the hair was as black es Jet.
A generation had grown up since
the miner bad gene down into
the shalt for the last time. But
a tottering old woman, who had
hurried from her cottage at hear
ing the news, came up, and she
knew again the face which,
through all these long years, she
had not forgotten. The MIXER
was to have been her husband on
the day after which he died.
There were no dry eyes when
the gray,headed pilgrim cast her.
self upon the youthful corpse, and
poured into its deaf ear many
words of endearment unused for
forty years. 1t was a touching
contrast-the one SO old, the 9TH
er so young. They bad both
been young long ago, but time
had gone on with the living and
stood still with the dead.
Year: 1876

Says the Danbury .Neaos :
"This is not only an exciting, but
a very interesting, political cam
paign. Women as we'll as men
have a duty to perform to their
country, and they should not
shrink from it. They cannot vote
or appear in professions, but they
can cut wood and bring up the
coal, aud thus leave the men more
time to talk up matters"
Year: 1876

At dinner party there were
two sisters present, one a widow
who had just emerged from her
weeds the other not long married,
whose husband had lately gone
out to India for a short term. A
young barrister present was deput-
ed to take the young widow down
to dinner. Unfortunately he was
under the impression that his
partner was the married lady


whose husband had just arrived
in India. The conversation be-
tween them began with the lady's
remarking how extremely hot it
was, 'Yes, it is very hot" re-
turned the young barrister. Then
a happy thought suggested itself


to him, and he added with a
cheerful smile, "But not so hot as
the place to which your husband
has gone" The look with which
the widow answered this "second
thought" will haunt that young
bairister till the day of his death.


The Ponc * said TO he worth
Year: 1876

| III LiO Aaddo VI q lCCCtfCi3 dO-


vantage was sought to be ta-


ken Of the shaken confidence


which might follow the fall Of 6


well known company, to obtain
money Of other companies tc


prevent disclosures in regard tC
them which might cause distrust
among their policy-holders.
This little game was strongly
tried on the old "United States
Life" but the noble bribe-seek-
ers promptly discovered that
they had caught a Tartar there.
The company, which is known
to be one Of the strongest in
America, had too much surplus
to fear and too much backbone
to put up with such impudence,
and the threatened charges fell
fiat. Thanks to the energy and
courage Of its officers, the com
pany stands even better than
before these attacks, its real
strength having been clearly
shown in repeling them.


The municipal government is
divided against itself, and there
are lively times among the city
fathers. The mammoth Catho-
tic cathedral on Fifth Avenue
which Cardinal McCloskey is
building, having got SO far as
wanting to make its water con-
nections, applied to the Council
to have it done free Of expense
to itself, and the Council ODE
diently passed a resolution
granting the favor. The May
or vetoed the bill OH the ground
that discrimination in favor of
a Roman Catholic structure
was not allowable, and sent it
back to the aldermen who
passed it again over his veto.
And now the nti-Catholic press
froth at the mouth, the mayor
calls the Council names, and
the Notwithstanding corpora
tion calls him another. The
deed is done, however, and St.
Patrick will probably get his
holy water free. Nor is this the
only difficulty in local affairs.


A queer railway accident
was that which occurred the
other afternoon at the Jersey
Cenlral depot situated on the
river bank in Jersey city. A
train of nine cars, arriving from
Philadelphia came blowing into
the depot at the rate Of ten
miles an hour. AS it neared
the upper end, no diminution
of speed being noticed, it be-
came suddenly and unpleasant
ly evident that the iron horse
had taken the bits in his teeth
and was running away. In a
good deal less time than it takes
to tell it, a first class panic was
under way, with usual accom-
paniments Of shouting and
''cutting for corners" on the
part Of bystanders. The fire
man jumped from the cab and
escaped. The engineer followed,
landed On his head and was
carried off insensible. Still the
train thundcred on toward the
end Of the track which was pro-
tected only by the wooden wall
Of the freight office beyond,
and barely had the terror-strick-
en- occupants got out of its de-
yastating course when the loco
motive struck the frail wall and
went through as if it were card
board. Passing through this
room and the outer side, the
dock was reached, where a fer

ryboat lay in position. This
the engine forced from its moor
ings and then plunged kissing
into the water, followed happily
by but one car. This extraordi-
nary disaster was occasioned
primarily by the failure to act of
the patent air brakes, and imme-
dintely by the lack of the proper
bumpers at the end Of the rail-
road track. Almost miracu-
lously no one was killed, but
L.. -
Year: 1876

Considerable anxiety and
hustle were manifested at
dance in Brooklyn the other
evening, when, during the sec
ond figure of the Iancers. hol-
low spherical object, Of wire
and canvas, was suddenly dis
covered on the floor, in the CEN
Ter of one of the sets. Nobody
appeared to know what it was,
or where it came from, but it
was noticed that several young
men snickered audibly as an at
tendant removed the offending
obstacle, and that four young
ladies lett the room in hot haste
the moment the dance conclu-
ded.
Year: 1876

Because an Indian came into
a northern Nebraska newspa-
per Office and advanced a 50
subscription, the other day, the
editor brought out in his next
issue a 200-line editorial on the
the susceptibility of the Amer
lean Indian to the influences Of
civilization.
Year: 1876

Brooklyn Argus: The city is
now enjoying comparative quiet.
You no longer hear the window
sash go up with an angry bang at
| a. m and a female voice, that
cuts the air like a buzz saw de-
claiming:


Montgomery Adams Brown,
you may j-rk out that bell wire,
or kick in the door, but when you
married me you married a wo
man who doesn't scare"
Year: 1876

A mule near Maryville, Cal,
Is probably the only animal of
his kind in the country with a
bank account. HIS owner is a
sheep herder near Gridley's Sta
ton. For some time be has been
depositing in the bank the sum of
50 per month to the credit of bis
dog and mule, so in case of his
suddenly kicking the bucket they
would have something to live up
on. The other day the dog died,
and the mule is full heir to :he
estate.
Year: 1876

Governor Tilden Is NOT ONE OF THOSE peculiar statesmen who consider that the burden of an enormous debt is of advantage to to the nation which has it to sus- tain, and in his Letter of Accept ance he shows how the massive load under which we are staggcr- ing may be removed, without er- tailing any expenditure of force greater than is now necessary to hold it on our shoulders. By simply obtaining q reduction of one per cent. on most of our loans Gan operation which it ought not to be difficult to accomplish, ] we could, in less than thirty eight years, pay of the whole of our funded debt, This plan our present rulers had not even the brains to devise, and how to set about it's execution they have no idea. Surely if no other good were to result, the inauguration of system by which we can rid ourselves of this incubus, at the rate of $l7,000,000 8 year, would render the election of Tilden to the Presidency q blessing to the country.
Year: 1876

No candidate for the Presiden- cy since the foundation of our government ever issued such an able paper. It is broad in it's conception and full of heaming light in the midst of darkness. The letter of Governor Hendricks is a document full of sound polit- ical reasoning.-T.oy Press.
Year: 1876

Speaking of the Democratic inves-
LEGATIONS at Washington, cores
pondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial says:


The difficulty with the Democrats
seems to be that they rely more upon
the corruption of the Republican
party to restore their bankrupt for
tunes than they do in the effect that
would be produced if they were to
demonstrate their own superior wis
dom and patriotism. They seem to
think if they prove that the Republi-
cans have stolen the public funds and
outraged the trusts confided to them,
that that ought to persuade the peo-
pie of the necessity Of turning over
to them (the Democrats the admin
istration of affairs. They have in
this made the mistake, l apprehend,
of measuring the American people
with too short yard stick. The Re
publican party has committed lts
crimes and made its mistakes, but
the Democratic party has also graveiy
offended. and is also in disgrace. And
the offenses of the Democratic party
are far more serious than those OF the
Republican party. 1t is as well to
meet the question fairly. Under the
administration and encouragement Of
the Democratic party, a rebellion and
attempt to dissolve the Union and de-
stroy the Republic was made possible.
The doctrine Of State Rights, as
taught by the dangerous school OF
which jefferson was the founder and
head, was made the cover and ex-
cuse for treason. The Democratic
party of the South made bold and
manly fight for its opinions and in
defense of its doctrines, and the
Democratic party of the North gave
them a sneaking encouragement. This
one crime for the Democratic party
outweighs all the petty thieyery and
roguery of which the Republican
party has been guilty.
Year: 1876

You know me by sight, / presume;'
and 1 put up the mask veil and look
led him.


He stood staring at me still as q
statue, after the start with which he
had relinquished my waist.
Well, just stood there and gave
him piece of my mind. I told him
that l knew him for bad, unprinci-
pied fellow, unfit for the society of
any decent girl. l gave him one or
two glimpses of his past life, as clear
as if in mirror, and even named the
young girls he had led astray, and /
actually could feel him shake in his
boots as proceeded:


81 shall telegraph to Mr.. Grosve-
nor to night, and he will be here to-
morrow evening. If you ever at
tempt another instant of intercourse
With his daugster he will find you
out and horsewhip you within an inch
Of your lifer'


l was at white heat. l felt six
feet high and strong as u giant, as l
watched him walking of.


Well. / didn't telegraph to Mr..
Grosvener, because l felt there would
be no need, and there wasn't. Glyn-
don Fame left town next day, and
never has returned.


Pet dropped little for a few
weeks, but she wasn't of the melan-
choly, tenacious type who make them
selves unhappy for what would make
them so with reason if they had it
she didn't die of broken heart, but
took up with her old lovers again, and
in three months had quite forgotten
that scoundrel of Glyndon Fame, |
think.


She was my pupil for two years
longer, and then went abroad with an
aunt, and was gone two years more.
Meantime Moriaunt Malcolm's IA
ther had taken him into the firm, and
Mordaunt was sent to Paris. When
he came back he and Pet were en-
gagged. with her fathers permission.


Three months after, she came home
aud they were married.


After her first boy was born l told
her about Glyndon Fame. She grew
white to the lips.


"Oh, you good, kind friend; it was
a great escape for me, wasn't it?' she
said. 81 was only a child, and an in
nocent one, and l feel that l came
very near my ruin"
Year: 1876

The excursion business has been quite
lively during the week past. On Satur-
day last large company took passage
on the Minnie Sutton for Burt lake and
and Crooked river, the tug having bust
ness in Crooked river to allow the exam
ination of the work which has been done
there, by the proper officers, they being
passengers on the boat. A run of about
four miles was made up Crooked river,
which was further than the Sutton had
ever been before, and to point that no
white ladies had ever gone in that manner
at least before. Some difficulty was ex-
perienceI in turning the short bends i'm
the river, which it is expected that the
improvements under contract will obvi-
ate entirely. The party arrived back
shortly after midnight, somewhat tired,
but all maintaining that no better days
enjoyment had ever been spent.


Monday, the Williams took a party
over to Mackinaw, where the day was
spent in very enjoyable manner.


Wednesday. the Sutton took another
company up to Burt Lake. In fact near
ly every day this nicely arranged little
steamer takes more or less upon pleas
ure ride up to the finest inland lakes in
the state. This is a business which will
grow from year to year as the merits of
this section become known.
Year: 1876

The river and harbor bill as it finally
passed both Houses left the SauIt canal
with very meagre appropriation. The
House first put the amount at 100000. 1t
was afterward increased to 100000, but
the bill as it finally passed gave it only
S3O,OOO. In proportion to the magnitude
and importance of this work this amount
is nothing. 1t is true that owing to the
failure of some of the contractors to do
their work there is a large unexpended
balance of old appropriations, which will
continue the work probably until Con
gress can make further provisions for it.
Certainly the importance of an early
completion of this work demands liberal
appropriations.
Year: 1876




nient of Indian River.


The completion in a permanent man
ner of the improvments contemplated in
Indian river, is matter of as much i'm
portance to the county at large. as any
improvement ever commenced i'm the
county. The southern portion of the
county is rapidly filing up with settlers,
who look to this Improvement as means
of securing an easy and expeditions out
let. Last fall serious difficulty, never
before known, presented itself to those
having charge Of the work. A heavy
bar of sand had formed just below the
mouth of the Sturgeon river. Apparent
ly it came all at once. BY this summer
the bar had moved more than one thous-
and feet down stream, leaving fair depth
of water where it was the lowest last
year. Should this keep on, and we can
see no reason why it should not, the nav
igation of Indian river between Mullet
and Burt lakes will be entirely stopped.
There is an estimate to dredge passage
through the bar already there, but it will
do very little good if some means are not
adopted to prevent the sand from COM
ing id again. fThis,esn 61lly be gdenesby
the Construction of dam across the
mouth of the Sturgeon. TO this end the
Local Commissioner and engineer are en-
gagged in perfecting the plan and specifi-
cations for building such dam, and it is
hoped that the state will make sufficient
appropriation to cover the cost of it. 1t
cannot, however, be built unless the own
ers Of the land adjacent to the stream
give release of the ground for that pur-
pose. Negotiations have, we understand,
been opened with the owners of the land.
looking to such release, and we trust
there will be no trouble arise on that
score. With this done and the channel
once opened, we can see no reason why
this portion of the work should not be as
permanent as any other part of it. The
sand coming down the Sturgeon is sup
posed to come from swamp, dozen or
so miles up stream, an opening between
that and the river having been made
some five or six years ago to float out
some logs, and our informant states that
the sand has been flowing out from there
ever since and probably just reached the
mouth of the river last year.
Year: 1876

Our Catholic friends Iwho reside out
near Black lake, under the direction of
Father DeCcuninck. have a new church
in the process of construction. In size it
is to be 40 by 80 feet. This will be a
great convenience to the residents of that
part of the county. Living so far away,
it is matter of much time and trouble
for them to come to the village to attend
church. We believe the ground upon
which the church is to be built, was do
mated for that purpose by W. S. Hum
phrey. We are glad to note this improve
mcnt
Year: 1876

A few days since there was a trial OF
speed between two rival tugs on Lake
Huron, in which the contestants were the
Sweepstakes and the A. j. Smith. AS
both tugs are quite well known to many
OF our people, we give the account as
given in the Detroit Post: ''The Sweep
stakes and the A. j. Smith both had
tows up, and on going outside the Smith
blew off steam at her rival, and her cap
tain, in short, put Il chip on his shoulder.
The Sweepstakes was not in shape TORE
ply, as she had just blown out joint. but
after coming to the dock at Port Huron
and getting in shape again prepared to
give the Smith brush. An opportunity
soon presented itself, when the two start
ed for Lake Huron, the Smith a little
ahead. The lake was soon reached, when
it was demonstrated that the Smith was
not as fast as her captain thought. The
Sweepstakes ran completely around her,
footing her whistle and blowing off
steam."
Year: 1876

The following were the receipts and shipments Of
tie leading articles Of produce Ia this city during
the twcnty.four houra ending at o'clock on Mon
day morning, and for the corresponding time last
Yeurs
Year: 1876

ALTHOUGH the Tom Scott influence is
just now active, it will fail to convince
members of the Legislature that an i'm
mense public domain should always be held
at his disposal. 1t will also fail to prove
that it is right for Texas to use clerical
force for years, and to supply place for
the safe keeping of Texas and Pacific land
papers for an indefinite period, until this
railroad magnate shall see fit to turn the
States labor to his account. He will fai
in these schemes as effectually as he did IN
foisting Blaine, the bitter enemy of the
South, upon the people of this country a,
their chief magistrate.
Year: 1876

J HE STATESMAN has reported Mr.. Nc
Comb improperly upon the question as to
whether this is a regular or biennial session
of the Legislature. His remarks we're in
favor Of the majority report. He said
there might be three kinds Of sessiOns-reg
ula- sessions, as to time provided by Law; ;
called or special sessions; and extraordi-
nary sessions, not provided for by law or
called by any authority, such as came di-
recly from the people through the late con
vention. by an ordinance and not a perpet-
ual law; that according to these definltio IS
this must be an irregular biennial ses-
| sion, because not assembled by any


law fixing the Irregular" time of meeting
Governor; that it is an extraordinary ses-
| sion, called by the people acting in their
'overeign capacity; that delegates with ex
trlorIinary puwers, restrained by nothing
They said by ordinance that this session
| should be held at an unusual time, the
eighteenth of April-an extra period of
time "tacked on to the present term of
Office, assembled for purposes for which no
other session can be assembled until we
have another constitutional convention
that the power which convened this session
was extraordinary, as it did not meet at a
regular time of meeting, while the leading
purposes for which this session was con-
vened were extraordinary, and it cannot be
Irregular" biennial session, nor yet spe-
cial session called by the Governor; that it
must be an extraordinary session, yet with
The authority of regular session-because
the power which called it gave it the au-
thority to do what may be done in regular
session. That convention had the right to
confer this authority because it had su-
preme politicai mower
Year: 1876

To SILENCE further inquiry we would
state that the Wheeler tackled ON to Hayes
to defeat Tilden in New York is not the
Mayor of Austin or the inventor of clock
stitch" in the rent garments of red-shirted
Radicalism. He is the standing Colfax
Blaine-appointed chairman of the Railroad
Committee of Congress.
Year: 1876

IT is said that Hayes used TO be Know
Nothing with Deacon Smith and those
other good people who undertook, about
twenty years ago, to reform" Cincinnati.
This fact and the anti-Catholic spirit of the
Radical party and platform drives foreign
born voters into the ranks Of the Demo-
cratic party.