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Year: 1876

TAE CENTENNIAL LOTTERY. -
Messrs. Wildman Il Crosson,
proprietors Of the Centennial
Lottery, have been fitting up
their building in their building
in the handsomest style. The
building has been newly paint
ed, and the name "Centennial
Lottery" neatly letterod over
the door. A handsome lamp
post has been put Immediately
in front Of the door by Messrs.
Waddell x Miles and painted by
Pike. The interior has been fit
ted up with fine carpets, etc. and
is as neatly fitted up as any
office in town. They have been
doing rushing business lately,
but as the expenditures in start
ing, fitting up, ETC., have been
very heavy, they have not real
lied largely as yet. From this
time forward their earnings will
begin to count up Their lottery
plan is SO entirely on the square
that they have never heard a
complaint from anyone investing
in it.
Year: 1876

THE VIvIAN-KoHLER TROUPE
came over on the North Pacific
this afternoon and will give the
first of their two entertainm ents
at Yesler's Hall in this city this
evening. Any troupe with Char
ley Vivian at the head of it is
certain to be of a hrst-class de-
scription, and we have no doubt
they will have full houses here.
Year: 1876

of solder that in soldering the can had
fallen into its contents.


CURIOUS PRANKs OF CRAZY WOMAN
The Union Pacific train that arrived
here recently from the West had among
its passengers man named Joinsen
from Cheyenne, who was taking his
wife, who was q lunatic, to the Insane
Asy lum al Mount Pleasant, Ia. In The
coach that they occupied there were
only three otherSpassengers. all men.
The poor woman was laboring under
the delusion that she was engaged to
make rag carpet for tho Centennial.
and with that in view she was continu-
ally tearing up her own clothes as we'll
as the clothes of everybody else that
she could get hold of and the pieces she
would sew together The husband
warned the gentlemen to watch her or
she would get hold of any loose cloth
ing they might have lying on their seats
and tear it into shreds. She had to be
closely watched on this account. Dur
ing the night the men fell asleep, and the
woman, having clear field, went on 9
grand "tear.' She ripped Eer own
clothing to pieces, and then got hold Of
an overcoat belonging to one of the
men and tore that up. She next served
two blankets belonging to the peanut
boy in the same manner, and she also
demolish one or two hats. When the
men awoke the one who had his over.
coat ruined called in the husband to
make it good. The husband couldn't
do it, however, az be had no money.
This led to his telling his sad story:
He had formerly been farmer in Iowa,
worth $4,000 or $4,000. He had been
married about seven years, and two
years ago his wife began to show signs
of insanity. He travelled all over the
world with her in hopes to cure her, but
everything failed. Misfortune after
misfortune overlook him leaving him q
penniless man. Among the other Incl
dents of his uniortunats career he re-
lated that when he was about TO send
his wife to Wales he purchased dratt
from an agent of Boston banking
house for $4,000, and the draft proved
to be bogus. He now has suit in the
East to recover the amount. For some
time past he has been resident of
Wyoming. and has been in the en-.
ploy of the Union Pacific Railway.
The expense of the transportation and
admission into the Mount Pleasant
Asylum is borne by Wyoming Territory.
Omaha Bee.
Year: 1876

SuNK.-The steamer Wenat,
while towing in the river yester-
day, ran her bow up on the bank,
near the mouth of the river,
forcing her stern under water
and sinking her. The Fanny
Lake towed an empty scow up
to her, to assist in raising her,
but she has not been raised yet.
Year: 1876

A curious story is told by Mrs.
Frances Wordsworth, one Of the sur
vivors of the wreck of the ship Strath-
more. She was sitting by fire in the
island on which they were cast, when
pear. 1t was beautiful face-pale
complexion and black eyes, with ker-
chief tied over the head and under the
chin. 1t smiled kindly on her, and
slowly faded away. She spoke of it to
her son, and he mentioned it to some
of their companions but the striking
part of the story is that the gentle
young wife of the American captain
who took them from the island and
saved them-who was on her husbands
ship-had the face of the vision, even
to the .kerchief tied under the chin.
Year: 1876

"Ho birdie, come play!
Ho birdie, do stay
Just one minute |!
You've been to the sky, j.
Away up so high, .-
And know all that's in it;
You've pierced with your fight
Its wonderful light


What makes It so blue?
Now tell me, oh do,


Little birdie ~
The bird stopped awhile
To rest on stile,


With MOSES upon it;
And ere very long,
He poured forth . song
AS sweet as a sonnet.
But never word
My waiting ear heard,
Why the sky was 50 blue,
Though he told all he knew


Stupid birdie!
Invent in to look
For the facts in a book,
All told to letter;
Yet somehow it seemed
Though may be dreamed
The bird told it better.
Oh, never word
My willing ear heard,


Why the sky was so blue,
Yet he told me quite true


Knowing birdie!
Year: 1876

A mouse found it's way into the hive
of one of our amateur bee men, not
long since, and the intruder was found
dead, and completely imbedded in wax.
The mouse, having sweet tooth, crept
into the hive to steal honey, but un-
fortunately aroused the inmates, and
before he could find his way out again,
he was stung to death. By-and-by de-
composition set in, and Mr.. Mousey be-
gan to disseminate bad smell, which
bees cannot tolerate but finding it
impossible to hustle him over the ram
parts as they do other nuisances, they
went energetically to work and sealed
him up in wax, Theoretically sealed
him, in fact, so that not the slightest
odor escaped, to make the hive un-
pleasant for the high-toned, extremely
neat and cleanly inhabitant.
Year: 1876

In a late number of the Edinburgh
ReUiew is an exhaustive and carefully
written paper upon The Physiological
Influence of Alcohol" 1t is calm and
scientific, not emotional, but crowded
with facts and information. According
to this article, when spirituous drink is
taken into the body it does not simply
run through the digestive cavity OF that
body, but il runs through the blood before
it can find any escape. and it clings to
that blood for considerable period,
flowing with it round and round through
the circling stream OF its unceasing
progress. 1t goes everywhere, in each
fibre, membrane and tissue, and fills and
saturates each vital organ-hesh, brain'
heart. liver, lung, kidney, skin and Sc
creting apparatus. Wherever there should
be blood. under the natural arrangements
of life, there. is now blood mingled with
the alcoholic spirit.


AIIlClcs vi lOOu aiO NNAAkA~~
built up from simpler elements by the
effort of vegetable life." Alcohol is not
such u complex substance, but it is q
"product OF the downward degradation
and decay of such complex principle"
The foods which furnish substance to the
living structures are, for the most part.
composed with the aid of nitrogen, and
have therefore an affinity with the vital
parts of the human structure. The
fibrin of the blood, the muscular flesh,
the cartilages and tendons, the men,
branes and the skin, the soft nerve pulp
and the brain are all so many examples
OF nitrogenized matter" But alcohol is
entirely devoid OF nitrogen in any form.
In the exceptional cases where alcohol
has been found useful as medicine an
unnatural condition of the body exists,
Year: 1876

What a terrible example is set to the
youth of the country by its Chief Magis-
trate and his Cabinet, and the General
and Lieutenant Gsneral,a uniting in an
effort to lie and cheat at politics. Has
the Republican Party mo more great men?
No men who admire republican institu-
tions and hold them TO be paramount to
political triumph? Alas, it seems not.
Year: 1876

WE HAVE NO GREAT SOLDIERS Now
No, we have no great soldiers now
The Generals are the merest pupits-they
fly about at the suggestion of Grant like
so many men worked by the showman's s
wires. There was time when Lieut..
General of the Army of the United
states had opinions Of his own, and did
not fear to express them. But that was
when Cabinet officers were tolerant and
afraid to express their thoughts. The
imbeciles who now follow the dictates
of the schemers, Grant, Zack Chandler,
Don Cameron, are mere tools to do any
work they are bid, without regard to
whether the credit of the country is in
jured or not. All they care for is to get
heir enormous pay, and live sumptuously
off the people who are taxed for their
sustainance. Hence we find Mr.. Grant
indulging his childish whims, in secretly
ordering troops from point to point as
though he thought the sworn Representa-
tives of forty millions of people feared
the presence of his army. Let him dare
-ouse the anger Of this people to resist
ance and he and his small army would
.!windle into the scorn and contempt of
the people.


The General and Lieut.. General ofthc
United States ought to know that they
IRE the servants Of the people, and in
time Of peace are not to be made the
tools of scheming partizans to defeat the
will of tie majority.


But the secret of this subserviencv is
the fact that these Generals are op-
posed to Reform and Retrenchment.
They faar that the will of the people will
reach their salaries as twell as those of
others, and hence they are the willing
Instruments of the man who is scheminp
plans to assist the Radical party to count
IN President who belongs to their mil


ta'y order against the will of the people.
Year: 1876

Does the Republic belong to Grant and
his Military associates The people may
defy them. Let them not dare to attempt
to interfere with Congress to prevent re-
form and the reduction of taxation.
Year: 1876

The Radical politicians will not let the
people govern themselves. Whenever
our country comes to point where the
passions Of men are tried, they want to
resort to force and the bullet instead of
the ballot. They are the men who are
unfit for self-government.
Year: 1876

The Women's Temperance League
of Ohio have taken a step toward re-
formation of inebriates that is really
practical and likely to be of great
benefit. They have, or will establish
in the cities of Ohio free coffee
houses where those whose appetites
for liquor makes them averse to en-
tering restaurants where liquor is
sold, can at all hours of the day or
night find plenty of fwarm wholesome
food and hot coffee. This is follow
ing the "Holly Tree Inn" system OF
the East
Year: 1876

1


An exchange gives the following


ten reasons why people should spend


their money at home. They are SO


forcible and well put that we can not


refrain from presenting them to our
readers, hoping that they will give
them the consideration which they
deserve:


LIST. 1t Is your home; you can not
improve it much by taking money
away to spend or invest 8aB


I'd. There is no way of impreFing
place so much as by encouraging
good merchants, good schools, and
good people to settle among you, and
this can not be done unless you
spend your money at home.


3D. Spend your money at home
because that IS where you generally
get it. Itis your duty.


4th- Spend your money at home,
because when il is necessary for you
to get credit, it is of your town mer-
chants you have generally to get it.
and they must wait on the smoney.
Therefore, when you have cash in
hand spend it at home.


5th. Spend your money at home.
1t viii make better merchants of
your merchants; they can and vii
keep better assortments and sell at
lower rates than if the only business
they do is what is credited out, while
the money goes to other places.


9th. Spend your money at home.
You may have sons growing up who
will some day be the best merchants
in town. Help lay the foundations of
them now. 1t is duty. 1t may be
your pride in after years to say, "By
trading at the store I got my son a
position as clerk, and now he is a
proprietor" Then you will think it
hard if your neighbors spend their
money out of town. Set the example
now. .Frn


7th. Spend your money at home.
Set the example now. Buy your dry
goods, groceries, meats and every.
thing at home, and you viii see a
wonderful change In short time in
the business lookout of the place;
therefore, deal with your home mer-
chants.


8th. Spend your money at home.
What do you gain by going off?
Count the cost; see what you could
have done at home by letting your
merchant have the cash. Strike q
balance and see if you would not
have been just as well off, besides
helping your merchant.


9th. Spend your money at home.
Your merchants are your neighbors,
your friends; they stand by you in
sickness-are your associates; with
ont your trade they can not keep your
business. No stores, then no banks,
no one wanting to buy property to
settle on and build up your place.


10th. Merchants should do their
at home. They should
get their bill heads, circulars, cards,
letter heads, envelopes, and all their
printing at home, of their own news
papers, that aid them in many ways,
and advertise them hundreds Of times
without any pay whatever. Mer-
chants should set an example to
their customers by patronizing hber-
ally their home newspapers. Men
and women are initiative animals and
are prone to follow examples set
them. How can merchants expect
their neighbors to trade with them
if they set the example of going
away from home for their printing
and advertisingi Let merchants and
people all patronize home enterprise
and home industry and home trade.
So shall they all be prosperous and
happy.
Year: 1876

To-day there is cry for a protec-
tive tariff going up from every man.
ufacturing district in England, to
Parliament. Belgium with her cheap
er labor is destroying the steel and
iron industries of that country. To
day we have in this country free
trade Congress, who scout the idea
of protective revenue tariff. What
ever that body may do during its
winter session in unearthing frauds
committed by Republicans, and even
though it should trace those frauds
into the portals of the White House,
and yet declare for free trade, or
manifest any rebel proclivities, it
will stand no chance in '76, we care
not what candidate either party may
select.
Year: 1876

The members of the new Legisla
ture of Samoa are SO averse to wear
ing respectable amount of clothing
that it has been found necessary to
adopt a rule imposing fine OF
those who enter the hall in a com
plete or partial state of nudity.
Year: 1876

The Republican purity will be the
ruling party in this country for many
years to come. The Democrats may
steal into power occasionally, but it
will be only to step out again at the
next election. They have been SO
thoroughly unfortunate when in pow


er in attaining to any kind of decent
reputation for honesty that the people
cannot safely tie to them in the belief
that they are capable of managing
public affairs for the country's s good.
The strife and corruption attending
the election Of officers of the present
House of Representatives, and bitter
scrambles for the spoils of Office have
been enough to disgust people every
where. At the next election the
majority of the present members will
be remanded back to private life.
The next House will be Republican.
Year: 1876

The Gas Company of Portsmouth,
do not accept the terms laid down in
the ordinance regulating the price of
gas at $40 per post, per annum, and
the people in that city are groping
in the dark in consequence.
Year: 1876

In this complaint the good effects of the vEGE-
TINE are realized Immediately after commencing to
take it debility denotes deficiency of the blood,
and VEGETINE acts directly upon the blood.
Year: 1876

Desiring to increase our circula-
ton to the highest possible point
during the coming year, the Centen-
NAL year OF the Nation, as well as
the year of the Presidential election,
we have decided to offer the News to
Clubs at the following reduced rates:
Year: 1876

A GIFT FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPosEs.-Mr.
3. B. Tenant, of Petersburg, the owner
the splendid estate at CurFs Neck known as
"Straw berry Plains Farm" has donated an
acre of land on the public road running
along its northern or upper side as location
for public school, only reserying the coDd.
tion that if unused for its original purposes
for term of two years 1t shall revert back to
him or his heirs. 1t is the purpose Of the
School Board of Varina district, in whis b
this property is located, to erect q school.
house on it at once, and have school in ope-
ration by the fall term.


They have now in this immediate neigh
Dorhood, as we'll as in every other proper To-
cation in their district, large and flourishing
schools, which are year by year being more
appreciated and patronized by the public.


Tue average number of pupils for this
scholastic year is one third more than of any
previous year. ..s
Year: 1876

COLONIAL BALL.-The management Of the
Colonial ball having been solicited to repeat
their entertainment tonight, had consented
to do so; but finding that number OF per.
sons from distance who took prominent
parts were compelled 70 return home, ana
that the costumer was also called away by
another engagement, they had 20 abandon
the project.
Year: 1876

County Court This court was engaged
yesterday in the trial Of cases on the civil
docket, after which it adjourned until Mon
day, when it is expected the Manchester
Township Board will appear and settle up
their delinquencies With the county.
Year: 1876

Before and after services yesterday at Or. Storrs'
DR. Budington's and Rev. VI. II. Smiths Park Con-
gregationa church there much earnest conversa-
ton concerning the advisory council to be convcncdb by
Plymouth church, and the. national council which
many members in nearly all the Congregational
churches look to the only really effective means
the settlement OF the questions OF church rule and dis
cplInc difference OF opinion concerning which is the
Of great tribuaton among the churches at the
present time. A HKRALD reporter convcrsed with
number OF less prominent members OF the
churches named, with generally the follow
ing results:-The more prominent of tho
several organizations say that they do dis
the needs for national council freely they
did week ago, for the that they prefer TO
await the action of the advisory council whatever that
action may be- They free in declaring that what
ever the advisory council may doif indeed 1t is to be
called at a-w not be nor claim TO be binding the
churches generally for the reason that II Is called by
Plymouth church alone, aud that church has there.
fore, the option, If IL chooses, TO call only such
churches as may be presumed to be


ENTIRE ACCORD WITH PLYMOUTH CHURCH


Oh the questions now in debate in all the churches
They declare that the action Of the advisory council
If called, cannot because of the way In
the Congregational denomination, and that,
therefore, there will remain the necessity for
national council after II shall have adjourned that
there is now, in their judgment before 1t shall con-
Less prominent though equally jealous mem
bers are rce in declaring now, they did one week
ago. that the decision of national ocuLcl of the Con-
gregational denomination is the only way open TO a
nnal settlement OF the questions now at issue in the
churches aud that any unnecessary delay in calling
is simply deierring the settlement which is really
necessary to the restoration OF peace the Church,
aud they declare that the advisory council
shall have closed its session, so II shall
utmost to the operation of the leading
bers or the denomination in calling national council
Year: 1876




Yesterday morning, at tho above church, sermon
was preached by Dr. Rylance on "Modern Revival
ism,' marked both by originality and ability. The
services were intersperscd with the music usual In
the Episcopal SERVICE the double quartet choir of the
church comprising some excellent singers, among
whom Miss Emanuel is distinguished. DR.. Rylance
said in regard to modern revvals eve make con
fessior of faith in one holy and apostolic Church ;
meanwhile are surprised with 100 diforont schools
of theology. and now IL is question Of importance
what attitude wo shall maintain toward them.
The simplest answer would be-We are
right, and all tho rest wrong; but
mat,er-this settling down In apathy Churchmen
are, 1t is true nstinctvcly conservative; they love the
quiet and orderly ways IN which they have been
trained, and this is legitimate and just; but it is
different thing TO say that when egangeliss who
not ordained preach the Word of God they should be
denied comfort aud aid. Must every man who
breaches the Word OF God receive ordinance from a
bishop No the blinded zealot would not claim this.
We should love church and its ordinances hut
will claim that Christ ordains alone. The re-
vivas which have lately taken place have


SPREAD OVER 4 GREAT PART Oh, ,CHRsrENDoM,
and while some have been made by popular
evangelists great good has resulted While | am by
my constitution and training unsuitcd for such work,
still should not up my standard Of taste the
true STANDARD for the multitude. The speaker here
descanted at length upon the labors Of Whitfield IN
former days and the work of tho Paust fathers in
the present time, conCludng-in referring TO Sankcy s
work-by saying Tho hymns OF Charles Wesley did
more TO aid the revival than the preaching OF his
brother John While have been quarrehng in a
captous spirit the work OF the cvangests religion
has well nigh been crushed between the upper and
neither millsoncs OF inhGeity and superstition "
Year: 1876

A BILL CREATING A RADICAL CHANGE IN THE
SYSTEM INTRODUCED INTO THE ASSEMBLY.


TRENTON Jan. 90 1876.
Much excitement has been created throughout the
State by the introduction Of bill in the Legislature
which has for its object abrogaion OF the present
school system It separates public education from all
connection with the people, deprves the citizens OF all
voice vote in tho management Of their schools, and
takes away entirely the right always enjoyed by the
voters in every school district to elect their district
school olcers IL also goes further and substitutes


CENTRALIZED SYSTEM


Of appointments for that OF popular elections, and
makes the city and township school boards salaricd
Offices According TO the present system each city,
town and village has tho right by popular vote to select
It's own school trustees but by the change contcm-
plated in this bill the State Board of Education Is
vested with the power OF appointments. Mr. Cars
callan Speaker Of tho House, is the author Of tho
measure The democrats say II is an assault upon one
Of the peoples most nestmable rights and Is the worst
attack upon tho public schools ever devised Somo
day next week tho bill will come up for consideration,
whom a lively time 10 anticipated