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Year: 1876

the Ottoman government, by an immediate
change of attitude, shall remove the occa-
sion. There is no doubt that the Christian
religion is substantial bond of sympathy
between the people of Christian nations,
and even the people Of England are deeply
under the influence of this sentiment
though it has been ignored in the govern
ment policy. This relation of the people to
a common faith would sustain Russia as a
protector and avenger on this occasion with
the moral support Of Christendom. 1t ia,
however, hardly an occasion even to call for
the sympathy of common religious senti-
ment 1t is civilization itself that is assailed.
But when humanity, civilization and Chris
tianity are in the scale on one side and the
wild fnnaticism Of Asia on the othor England
herself will rejoice to see Russia punish the
allies of England's government. "Blood is
thicker than water"


Removed from the struggle by 50 great a
distance our sympathies as o people would
count for little in the struggle but if the
operation should extend from a mere ocou-
patton of Servia into a general war, as it
would be likely to- our relation to it would
assume very practical and commercial
character It would suddenly stimulate
many great industries almost as much as our
own war did, with this important differ
ence-that the commodities supplied by our
merchants would be paid tor in gold and not
in paper In this particular great war in
Europe would restore to our advantage that
balance in the distribution of specie which
was lost in our war. Arms, ammunition,
military supplies of every kind would sud-
denly be in demand. Flour especially
would be called for, because industry would
be interrupted in great degree in the great
grain districts of Eastern Europe. and our
ships would swarm into the service Of the
belligerent Powers. War for the final settle
ment Of the fate of Eastern Europe cannot
be deprecated by us from any point of view,
and, commercially considered, such a war
would be our great opportunity and as the
many problems involved in the relations of
Turkey, Russia and Austria can probably
never be settled without a great war, we
may, without inhumanity, reflect that the
settlement, if it is to come now, could never
have come at q moro propitious moment for us.
Year: 1876

The essential soundness of our industries
and commerce, depressed though they are,


is shown by the very slight effect upon the
general markets of the surprising break in
coal stocks Here is great and as was sup
posed wealthy combination Of railroad


corporations, which suddenly fails and is
found to have overtraded and mismnnaged
its concerns very seriously. Under ordinary
circumstances such discovery would havo
produced panic in the market and would
have been followed by numerous other fail
ures. The only effect now is to give us all
cheaper coal. OF course the holders Of the
securities which have 80 rapidly fallen in
value suffer; but there is no sympathetic
train of disasters; the wreck is isolated; it
does not injure the general public, but on
the contrary benefits it by cheapcning fuel


The social science philosophers at Sara
toga are right when they assert that the
country is really rich and not poor that the
disease is not marasmus, as some of the
political Jeremiahs pretend, but plethora, a
tendency to apoplexy, and that if we could
only get Congress to let US have sound
money and better chance to exchange our
surplus products abroad we should at once
begin new and bright period of prosperity.
There is growing belief among the most
careful and best informed Of our merchants
and manufacturers that affairs have touched
bottom that, though we may continue
to hear Of business failures, the commerce
and industry of the country are now on a
sound footing, and that while there will
continue to be complaints Of hard times,


because great many fortunes have changed
hands and left their former possessors poor
and desponding, it is fact that business in
many branches revives and that money begins
to be made again. The revival will be slow,
very slow, indeed, because bad laws act as
a check on healthful enterprise but there
is good and sound reason to believe that
with us at any rate, even if not with some
of the European nations, the worst is over,


and the hard times will gradually give way.
Year: 1876

Yesterday three of the competing teams
namely, the Scotch, Irish and Canadian
had full practice at Creedmoor, the Amer
only few Of their men. For tho first time
in connection with the approaching contest
we have an opportunity of comparing the
work Of the Canadians at Creedmoor with
that Of the other teams, and this comparison
is very favorable one for our friends
from across the st. Lawrence. Yesterday
the Scotch team made the highest average
that has yet been made by any team in
practice for the international match
namely, 0S63S. The great score made by
the Americans, equal to an average of 1888,
was that Of the eight highest scores out of
thirteen or fourteen marksmen but several
of these were not members of the selected
team. The actual average of the American
team on that occasion was 0.S572
which is below that of the Scotch.
The Irish team made yesterday an average
of O.S61G and the Canadian team 0.S505. In
Justice to the latter it must be stated that
one of their members did not fire at the 500
yards range; but in order to arrive at COM
parison we allow him score of &C points
out Of possible IS, which he made at the
900 yards range. 1t will DO seen from the
foregoing records that we must look to our
laurels very sharply if wo desire to retain
them, and that wherever victory rests it will
only be after q magnificent struggle by all
tho teams.
Year: 1876

A VNDICATIoN OF THE LAw.-Charles
Eighmey paid the penalty attached to the
crime of murder Mt Canandaigua yesterday,
being changed by the neck" until he was
dead, according to the precise wording of
the sentence. startling incident con-
nected with the execution was the solemn
urraisnment by the doomed criminal of the
chief witness against him as being m insti-
gator of the crime. An effort was made
some time since To secure a Communication of
the sentence of death, but Governor Tilden
declined to grant the request, and 80 the
doomed man had to die.
Year: 1876

Once more the milkman is in revolt, and
as the Health Board has made war upon
the milkman and his pump tho offended
dealer assails the Health Board and its lac
tometer. And in this tho milkman is alto
gether in tho right and the Health Board is
absurdly and ridiculously in the wrong. In
this dispute Mr.. Chandler simply takes the
position that the quality Of an article offered
for sale is to be determined by its weight.
If an outraged public should declare that
the so-called beets supplied by grocer are
turnips stained red on the surface, or that
his carrots are dyed parsnips, Mr.. Chandler
would investigate with scales. He would
not cut open ON offending parsnip or
turnip and look at it. He would simply
determine that so many beets weighed
pound by an absolute rule, and
then weigh the articles in dispute
and settle the case scientifically To deter
mine the quality of milk by it's specific
gravity is not less ridiculous; for tho oily
parts of the fluid are light which is evil
denced by the fact that they rise to the sur
face, and their absence is not to be determined
by the specific gravity test. Neither, how
ever, Is analysis necessary. Tho presence
Of tho proper quantity of cream may be
determined by the cream gauge on speci-
mems of milk kept long enough for the cream
to rise. With this test and the lactomcter
together the examination of the fluid may
be reasonably satisfactory.
Year: 1876

THE WEATHER. The rainfall of yesterday
was produced by small area of low baron.
etcr which detached itself from the main one,
which still rests to the westward Of the Al
leghanies. The separation was evidently
caused by the movement Of an area of high
pressure southoastward from Dakota which
acted like wedge on the low area, cutting
off its eastern end and driving it rapidly
toward the northeast. Thus two rain areas
have been created which carry with
them their local precipitation. In the West
The rains continue and are causing the
Mississippi to rise steadily. The river at
s.. Louis is now nineteen feet one inch
above low water, being rise of twenty-three
inches in twenty-four hours. At Keokuk,
Iowa, the rise has been proportionately
great. The rainfall Of 2. rs inches up to mid
night of Thursday, at Keokuk. was above
the general average Of the surrounding ter
ritory, but shows conclusively that the
volume of water that fell in the Western
States has been very great. Owing to the
influence of the high pressure now moving
over the lakes the weather to-day in New
York will be cooler and partly cloudy or
clear.
Year: 1876

HILL GATE ACCIDENT Now we have an
American jury solemnly declaring that the
explosion of quantity of nitro-glycerine
on board the government scow at He'll Gate,
was en- accident, although the evidence
went to prove that the catastrophe was due
to the reckless handling of that terribly
sensitive compound. Mr.. Warren, tho
manufacturer, is SO confident in the
harmlessness of that eccentric compo-
sition that he carries some of it
about with him in his valise. Let the
reckless singers of baggage take heed of
this and handle every valise with great eau
tion and tenderness, 'for they know not
the day nor the hour" Out Of regard for u
travelling public we would respectfully sug-
gest to Mr. Warren that when he leaves the
bosom of his family and takes his valise
along he should be properly labelled on the
back and breast, "Nitro-glycerine."
Year: 1876

In the Methodist Conference, yesterday,
Rev. Scott Chimp, born and raised a slave
in Kentucky, was called on to make few
remarks. After the old man, whose head
is as white as snow, warmed up in his
speech, he narrated two anecdotes which
are worthy of place anywhere. He said
that when the federal army arrived in New
Orleans, during the war, he was in bond
age, slave, and q minister of the gospel.
His duties called him out at all hours of
day aud night, to make service for the
dead and to marry people of his own race.
Occasionally, he was interrupted on the
streets, and finally concluded to call on
General Butler for protection papers.
There was little trouble in finding the
commanding officer, and when he faced
that important Official he stated his
business in humble manner. The
coveted paper was furnished, and it
proclaimed that Scott Chinn was a
free man, to 60 and come as he pleased, and
no one had right to say him nay. At first
the old man could not comprehend the situ-
alton, but finally began to understand that
there had been change in his condition.
He took the paper furnished him, on which
the Colonel had placed the United States
SEAL" and hurried home to tell his aged wife
that he could 60 and come as he pleased and
was no longer slave. He was SO full of
happiness that his weak old legs refused to
get into car, for they travelled faster than
q locomotive. He clutched the paper ex.
citedly, and concluded that he was dream
ing strange dream. He pinched himself
and found that he was wide awake, and
thereupon poured forth fervant prayer of
thanksgiving for his deliverance from a
thraldom which had held him from infancy


The old man also related how, when the
war of rebellion broke out, white preachers
from their puIpits told how they would
wade knee-deep in Yankee blood before the
invaders should gain q foothold in Louisi-
ana. When the federal army arrived, those
ministers, instead of wsding in blood, waded
knee-deep in mud to reach the jackson
railroad depot.


In his devotion to Methodiam he wished
to make an illustration to show that his
church had but one service, and that one
open for all mankind to enter when they
found themselves fitted for the duties. His
illustration was given in a homely style,
but before he closed ne was almost grand.
His old mistress fell very sick, and it was
supposed died, but eventually came round
and recovered. Her cook having learned
that the madam HAD died. gone 10 heaven
and returned, visited her to inquire if she
had seen her daughter Jenny in the other
world. The madam replied that she had
not seen Jenny, not having gone into the
kitchen while in heaven. The old man said
that that was not like the Methodist Church
here, for it had only ono department, one
always ready to receive the humblest. The
application was readily understood by all
present, and Scott Chinn took his seat, his
ewes moist with tears that welled up from
his heart.
Year: 1876

FURNITURE, FURNITURE, FURNITURE
Our friends the Messrs. Montgomery,
Armory Hall, No. 81 Camp street, are still
ahead in selling fine, medium and common
furniture cheaper than any other house In
the city. All they ask is for their friends
patrons and all those in want OF furniture
of any grade, class or kind to call, examine
and price their stock, composed Of the finest
parlor, bedroom, dinningroom and other
suits, fit to adorn the most paiatlal
residence, to the cheapest class that Will
add comfort to the most humble cottage.
They publish NO prices to entice the un-
wary. but deem it the best policy to make
their prices to their customers when tney
select their goods. They are determined
not to be undersold by any house IN tho
city whether they publish prices or not
They aEe selling their mahogany and rose
wood furniture below maaufactoEy net cost.
Year: 1876

NEW YORK, November 6.-The ex-
element over the approaching election
is intense, and this evening the lebbies
of the hotels were crowded with persons
eagerly discussing the result in this
State, which many believe will decide
the contest. The betting is very heavy,
and the pool-rOom quotations favor Til.
den. The Republicans claim that these
do not represent the real state Of the
pools, and outside Wagers are nearly
even on the State ticket, the Rspubli-
cans giving odds on the general result.
The canvass in this city, owing to the
fact that the local Democratic ticket is
almost certain of being elected, is
claimed as calculated not TO bring out a
full vote, and this the Republicans urge
as favorable to them.
Year: 1876

More than fifty members of the PhiIa.
delphia bar, many of them eminent in
their profession, have published a SOL
emn protest against the proclamation OF
President Grant, upon which he bases
his ground for military interference with
the south. They condemn his action in
the matter because they hold it to be Ut
terly without warrant by any proper in
depreciation Of that section Of the con.
titution under which the power is now
claimed.
Year: 1876

We appeal to every citizen to come
out on election day and cast vote fol
the good OF their government. This is
no small or unmesning responsibility.
It ia of great Importance. See to iJ,
fellow citizens, that your individual in
fiuence and power be felt at this crisis.
Go yourselves to the polls, and carry
your neighbors with you. You will
thus be dischsrging duty as binding ss
that of any Of Q religious character.
Year: 1876

The country needs change Of party
rule to restore general confidence, set In
motion the wheels OF commerce and
manufactures, restore employment to
labor, and renew in all its natural
sources the prosperity of the people.
Year: 1876

came up here to the gates of Paradise. l
am told they are open to poor creatures
like me--and now have no house left
down upon the rampant; not that think
this VIII give me admission here"


Then the gates of heaven were opened,
and the angel led the old woman in She
left straw behind her, straw that had
been in her bed when she set it on fire to
save the lives of many, and this straw
had been changed into the purest gold
into gold that grew and grew, and spread
into beauteous leaves and flowers


Look, this is what the poor woman
brought" said the angel to the critic.
what dost thou bring9 / know that
thou hast accomplished nOthing-thou
hast not made so much as single brick.
All, if thou couldst only return, and effect
at least so much as thatl Probably the
brick, when thou hast made 1t, would not
be worth much but if it were made with
good will, it would at least be something.
But thou canst not go back, and can do
nothing for theep'


Then the poor soul, the old dame who
had lived on the dixie, put in petition
for him. She said: Ills brother gave
me the bricks and the pieces out of which
built my house, and that was a great
deal for poor woman like me. Could
not all those bricks and pieces be counted
as a single brick in his favorg 1t was an
act of mercy. lie wants it now; and is
not this the very fountain of mercy?"


Then the angel said "Thy brother,
whom thou hast regarded as the least
among you all, he whose honest industry
seemed TO thee as the most humble, hath
given thee this heavenly gift. Thou shalt
not be turned away. 1t shall be vouch-
safed to thee 10 stand here without the
gate, and to reflect, and repent of thy life
down yOnder but thou shalt not be admit
ted until thou hast in real earnest accom-
plished somethtng"


al could have said that in better
wordsl" thought the critic, but he did not
find fault aloud and for him, after all,
that was s0methjng." aL
Year: 1876

Now A young banker abscOnds with all
his customers money. This case is a lit
tie peculiar. The young man squandered
il all upon woman, but who do YOU
suppose that woman was? Why, his own
mother! She is very handsome widow,
forty, who has a passion for fashionable
life. The young man, her son, is a weak,
coed fellow, who loves his mother-as
very few sons do-and can refuse her moth
ing. When he went into business for
himself, she emerged from the humble
boarding house where they had lived, and
took an elegant house up town, and COM
menced living in the style of wealthy
people.


She set up carriage-she had. the
house full of servants-she gave elegant
entcrtainments-she bought diamonds,
and cOmol's hair Ohavgls, and, in short, she
lived at a rate that made all her old friends
turn green with envy. The son, at this
time, was furnishing her with the means
for all this extravaganza, knowing that
the end was ruin, but his mother liked it,
and he was too weak to say no. She prob
ably knew that she was living beyond his
means, but the madness was on her, and
she could not stop.


The end came last week. The young
man and mis- mother sailed for Rotterdam,
taking with them every dollar that was in
the concern, and all that could be bor-
rowed, begged or stolen. 1t is supposed
that the absconding, like all the rest OF it,
was the inspiration OF the mother, Tor all
who knew the young man believed him to
be honest, if left to himself. The loss to
the depOsiIors will foot up 5000, 900, and
there is as much more owing on notes on
the street This vast sum of money has
been spent within five years, and that it
was spent there can be no doubt, for as
near as can be ascertained they had mighty
little to take aYay with them,


The fine house was dismantled, though
they had sold quietly all that they could
without exciting suspicion. Curious easel
Men have been ruined by women times
enough, but who ever heard before ofthat
woman's being one's own mothers--Neio
York Cor. Au6urR IN. ~ AdUertiser,l
Year: 1876

In recent charge to the Grand Jury at
Salt Lake City, Chief-J ustice White said,
concerning polygamy' ave had better
look it squarely in the face, distasteful as
it may be to some, and govern ourselves
by the light of reason and manly discre-
ton in dealing with it. Polygamy must
be suppressed in this Territory. Nor
monism may survive it, and relieved from
it, would stand unshackled and free as
every other creed or mode of religious
worship, shielded and protected by the
Constitution of our common country; but
if Mormonism cannot sever itself from
polygamy, it will be to it the bridal of
death"
Year: 1876

Rtchmsnd Dispatch throw aside
all considerations of less msnent and
look only to the deSirableness OF hav
ing Democratic President. If there
be any other man stronger than Tilden
let us nominate him. Bat Tilden and
Hendricks both-would that not be II
strong ticket.


Th1ddeIphid Times - TO any fair
minded, impartial person the chances
of the future are all with the Democ-
racy and against the Republican party.
Ii the Democrats mean to win they
can do it. But TO do it they must
stand together shoulder to shoulder.
and under the leadership of the best
man who can be found ia the whole
country, march resolutely and deter.
minedly to the victory before them. -
That is the way to win the November
battle.


A%stjt Gazette (Dem MIR. Tilden
has achieved II reputation as rcformer
which may stand him in good stead in
case of his nomination, but he has
many political enemies, and would
| concentrate the Radical vote against
him, while such man as Genera
Hancock would divide the Republican
vote and poll the entire strength o1
the Democracy.


7erre Hdute Gdeetts.-One thing j.
to be said in favor of the Democratic
aspirants for the Presidency as agains
their Republican opponents. They &C
towards each either as gentlemen ant
in courteous manner, while the Re
publicans 6ght among themselves will
a bitterness which would lead one t.
believe that II would be impossible 70
any one of them to work in the rank
If his rival should secure the longe'


for nomination.
Year: 1876

A WEALTHY YOUNG ENGLISH PLANTER BLOWS


HIS BRAINS OUT AT WILMINGTON, n C.


WILMINGTON, N. c., July 26 1870


young man by the name OF q. Roundcll found
this morning the floor oil his at tho hannini
House, IN this city, with bullet through his brain
fired from heavy English pistol found beside him
He had evidently knc by the side Of the bed and fired
the fatal shot with the muzzIc OF the pistol within
few inches of his forehead The ball crashed through
the brain and lodged in the back part Of the head
Deceased undoubtedly laboring under a III OF men
tai alteration, and has been thought Tor weeks st
that his mind was unsound He came here from
London about year ago. and purchased the Orion
plantation, fifteen miles below Wilmington, the finest
place on the river. He gloomy and tao
turn, and avoided so 'iety, although he haf
mado some warm friends here. He was about twenty
three years OF age and leaves a widowed mother ant
sisters In London lie very wealthy and spent hn
money iavishy. His family are said To be highly con-
nccted, and Lord Scbournc is mentioned as beng
relative Hc Is also said to have been related "a
the late Lord Pamerston, the great Prime Minister Of
Great Britain.


The body has been cnbamcd and a csbegram sent 70
his relatives as to tho disposition OF the body and
effects The shot was fred about eleven O'Clock last
night, and the report heard. but was Thought IA
have been the street The body was nude when
found with the exception OF pair OF pants Ho LETT
no indications IN writing or otherwise oil his Intentions
Year: 1876

DAMAGING RUMoR CoNTRApIcrEp.-T
rumor that has been current on the
streets for the past few days to the effect
that there was a defalcation in the Della
ware Avenue Babtist Church, we are
authorized and requested by Mr.. Ball,
the Treasuren and Mr.. Buckingham, one
Of the Trustees, to state is wholly false.
The church had no funds on hand and
a report Of committee OF auditors will
be published in day or two in proof of
the falsity of the rumor.