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Year: 1876

IT always seemed strange to US that
there Are SO many who are willing to bor-
row an umbrella who would scorn to bor-
row shirt, and yet the latter article is a
real necessity-unless you possess the
happy faculty OF knowing how to pin a
collar to the neck of your vest and have
il tall look natulal-while the umbrella
may properly be cassed under the head
of luxuries Bridgeport ,Standdrd.
Year: 1876

A GENTLEMAN having appointment
with another who was habitually un-
punctnal, to his great surprise found him
waiting. He thus addressed him :"Why
L see you are here first at last, You were
always behind before but l am glad to
see you have become early oflate."
Year: 1876

On the question of fair elections in the
doubtful States, the Cincinnati Commercial
says:


We take it that there is just as little
doubt that the votes Of Louisiana and
South Carolina, if cast for Hayes, will be
legally cast for him, as that the votes of
Mississippi and Alabama will be legally
cast for Tilden. There will be disturb
ance about Louisiana. but the. State govern
ment of that State, whatever else it is, Is
the legal and only government. There
will be contention over South Carolina, but
there has been fair election in that State
The United States troops are there at the
call of the Governor, and have not mo-
Tested anybody. Whatever may be charged
as to the policy of sending the troops to
that State their S record h has been above
npon which to dispute the validity of q
State election to allege that the presence of
troops at the call Of the Governor had pre-
vented armed mobs from interfering with
the exercise Of the right Of suffrage by
peaceable citizens.
Year: 1876

tuition becomes impossible, would there be
any remedy9


Answer-I do not admit tho probability,
scarcely the possibility, Of such contia-
gency. If it occurs it is without any spe-
cifo provision in the constitution. In that
event it would. in my opinion, be the right
and duty of President Grant to summon
Immediately the new Congress, and it
would be the duty of the new Congress to
devise remedy which, if not in literal CON-
formity with any provision Of the constitu-
ton, yet should observe its spirit and ap-
proximate as nearly as possible to its letter.
There is q law higher than all written con-
stitutions: It is the law of eelf-existence,
and that would be the law incumbent uuon
the two houses Of Congress.-New York
Herald.
Year: 1876

About q month ago Jacob Kliuck,
q farmer, near Fox Chase, was saving
down large chestnut treo, when the
teeth OF the saw came in contact with
some metallic substance Fearing tho
presence of something explosive, he
directed tho workmen to saw on the
other side Of the tree They did SO.
After tho tree had been fellcd, gold
watch, two gold pencil cases and n
gold chain, were imbeGled in the
wood, about eighteen inches from
the surface. They were wrapped III
o soiled sack. Tho tree was sawn OF
close to the ground, and they had
evidently been hidden at the junc~
ton of two roots and the wood had
grown over and enclosed them. The
watch was old fashioned, having q
case that could be detached, and was
inscribed with the date l740. One
pencil case wss provided with pen.
The other had only pencil and was
minus the seal The chain was long
and was intended to pass around the
neck of the wearer. There was also
a gold watch key, which, however,
did not ct the watch. The tree had
attained q great age, being about six
feet in diameter An old mansion
once stood near by, and it is sup
posed that the articles in question
were buried during tho war Of the
Revolution. Tho watch was unin.
jurcd except that the hands were
rusted of. The finder has had it re-.
paired and will exhibit it to any who
are curious to see such relic. He
lives about mile above the Fox
Chase, on the county line.-Norris-
toicn Herald.
Year: 1876

From an acorn weighing few
grains u tree will grow for hundred
years or more, not only throwing of
many pounds Of leaves every year,
but itself weighing several tons.


II an orange twig is put in II large
box of earth, and that earth Is
weighed when the twig becomes II
tree, bearing luscious fruit, there will
be very nearly the Same amount OF
earth.


From careful experiments made
by scientific men, 1T is an asccrtain-
Oh fact that n very large part of the
growth of the tree is derived from the
sun, from tho mir and from the wa
ter. and very little from the earth ;
and notably all vegetation becomes
sickly unless it is freely exposed to
sunshine. Wood and coal are bu'
condensed sunshine, which contains
three important clements, equally
essential to both vegetable and ami,
nal lifc-magnosia, lime and iron
II is the iron in the blood which
gives tho durability necessary t.
bodily vigor, while magnesia is i'm
portant to many Of the tissues. Thus
it il that the moro persons are out
of doors, tho moro healthy, tho more
vigorous they are, and tho longer
they will live, Every human bong
ought to have an hour or two sun
shine at noon in winter, and in the
early forenoon in summer.
Year: 1876

B4-"Old age is coming on me
rapidly" as the urchin said when he
WAS stealing apples from an old mans
garden, and saw the owner coming
with whip in hand.


s6-The best capital for young men
20 start with in life is industry, good
sense, courage and the fear OF God
II is better than all the cash OF Gre
dit that was ever raised.


I0-Success in life is very apt to
make us forget the time when We
were not much. II is just so with
the frog on the jump he can't re-
member when he was o tadpole, but
other folks can.
Year: 1876

"Perhaps this was tho case but,
il so, it was deed of mercy, and the
only one that man ever did,


"You are right


Antonio de Nantes was not again
arrested and lived happily with the
sister who had 30 nobly periled her
own life to save him 10y personating
the Beggar Girl OF Paris.
Year: 1876

Eg-Leisure without learning is
death, and idleness the grave OF n
living man. 1t was a bravo saying
of Scipio, and every scholar can say
it-that ho was never less alone than
when alone. We pity those who
spend themselves, and misspend
their time in doing nothing, or worse
than nothing; who are always idle
or i'll employed.
Year: 1876

fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE


WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-The Democrats are en-
deavorng to fortify themselves in argument that
the President Of the Senate is not entitled to count
the votes in the Electoral College. Democrat who
has recently made an examination of some of the
authorities upon this subject says an examination of
the annals of Congress for the first twenty-five years
of the republic shows very conclusively that the
men who assisted to frame the Constitution con-
strued the electoral provisions as empowering the
President of the Senate merely to declare the vote
after counting and verificatiOn by the telers. In
1893, when Vice-President John Adams announced
the result of the electoral VOTE he said that he did
so ain obedience to the Constitution and laws of
the United States and to the command of both
Houses" In 1905, before Aaron Burr as Vice
President opened the packages containing the
electoral votes and handed them to the tellers
to be counted ho addressed the assembled houses as
follows: "You will now proceed, gentlemen, to
count the votes as the Constitution and laws direct


There is Democratic authority for the statement
that active preparations in progress to bring out
here National newspaper organ of the Democratic
party. The money and the brains will most proba-
bly, come from New-York if the enterprise is
definitely determined upon. The Democratic states
men express the opinion that at this particular crisis
it will be of great advantage to the party to have
at the capital a metropolitan organ 1t is under
stood that If the papers established MantOn Marble
and Mr.. Chamberlain, late of The WOrld, will be
connected with it..
Year: 1876

SHOCKING ELECTION ATROCITIES.


INTIMIDATION IN oUACurA PROyED-1uE WOUNDS


OR ONE or THE VICTIMS WHICH HoRRIFIED THE


NORTHERN wITNEssEs-Two CASES OF AsSAs-


sISAroS.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUSY.l


NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 2S-TO-day's session of the
Returning Board was the most important and inter
csting of any yet held. The Of Ouachita Parish,
the simplest in detail and it is to be hoped the
strongest which the Republicans will make. was
taken up in spite the objections of the Democrats
that East Baton Rouge the first to be consid-
cred, and several very important witnesses
were examined | say that it ia TO be
hoped that the Republicans have no stronger
evidence to provo intimidation of the worst
kind, because if there are many parishes
in Louisiana in which it is possible for such horrible
deeds to be pcrpctrated as were exposed to-day,
there will be just to fear the terrible reaction
which will take place against people who, in spite
of any suffering or injustice to which they may have
been subjected. will tolerate atrocities that would
make a savage blush The most important witness
examined was Eliza PinkstOn. She is purc-blOoded
African, about 35 OF 20 years of age, of
rather moro than average intelligence for
Southern field hand. She bears upon
her body unhealed wounds that tell q sickening
story In her right breast are two wounds that are
still discharging. One is gun or pistol-shot wound
larger than the end of mans finger, and an inch or
two from it is another, smaller, made with knife
On her left thigh is deep slash about a foot long.
An attempt had been made TO cut the tendon
achilles of each foot, but although two ugly wounds
were made the tendonwas not cut. On her left jaw
is a large and severe wound made with knife. On
her throat another of the same kind, and on her
head severe scap-wound made with


Her story was more terrible than he wounds. She
lived on the island in Ouachita Parish and was the
wife of Henry Pnkston. Under the influence OF
threats he had been forced to 90 TO a Democratic
meeting on Oct. l. but had not remained TO its close
On Thursday and Friday after this, and Immediately
preceding the election he had attended Republican
meetings and at one of them had cheered for the
Republican speakers The witness said that two
white Democrats, DIR. Young and Capt. Theo0aid,
were at that meeting and this.


On the Sunday morning following. about two
hours before daybreak, about 80 men, all white as
far as Mrs. Pinkston could see, except two colored
Democrats whom she knew. came 20 her house. aud
one whose voice she recognized to be that OF Dr.
Young. called out asking for her husband and say
ing that the road was to be blockaded to Monroe
Year: 1876

The rise Of the curve Of pressure yesterday very
rapid too much so indeed to betoken very long con-
nuance of the present fine weather. Temperature has
fallen to freezing point and there is little moisture
In the air.


For this city and vicinity cold clear day to be ex-
pected Thanksgiving Day will probably have some
what cloudy sky preceding warmer winds and perhaps
snow,
Year: 1876

Rumor whispered Of late the decline from their former
station in the fashion Of seal skin sacques but the


ladies' who rule leaders Of the boa ton have SAID other
wise. This elegant garment continues In popularity Ihe
Continental dealers with orders and the demand
Is reported greatly increased beyond former years both
sides Of the
Year: 1876

Tho special correspondent OF the HERALD at King
ston, Jamaica, writing the 10Th Of March, reports
the OF tho death OF Captain William Salmon
Cooper for half century superintendent, at that port
OF the Royal Mail Steamship Company. Captain Cooper
had for time the Royal Navy, in which
he attained the rank OF lieutenant. Though thor
ough sailor the gallant captain like English admi-
raj now living, was fond OF that noble ANIMAL tho
horse and his name generally appeared on the list Of
stewards TO the annual Kingston races He man
OF genial hospitality, and like those OF his profession
IN general, honest and ouspoken in all his dealings.
For Time before his death he had retired from the
service OF the Mail Company, well earned pension.
Captain Cooper had also held the position OF harbor
master OF Kingston for many years
Year: 1876




NJ b. Odenhemer, OF picture painted by her for
the Centennial "Guincyero, the heroine of Tenny.
sons dyls is the character which she has attempted
to portray life size threc-quarter length figure of
the unfortunate Queen OF King Arthur she appeared
in her youth, when


In the boy hood of the year


Rode through the coverts of the deer.


A gown of grass green silk she wore,


wlss seasa sn % eIsps Dss.s ss


Closed In golden ring


She stands before the convent walls, ready
TO mount her tcrcam- white mule" caress-
ing the head Of a greyhound while sho waits
her fair hair floats In below her waist and the
face though beautiful in posture and color expresses
well the weakness OF the woman's character The
picture will remain IN Miss Odcnheimcr's studio No.
7sS Broadway, until saturday This artist is also put
ting the finishing touches to iull-length portrait 10
be exhibited at the new Pennsylvania Academy.
Tncrc are now on exhibition at Snedcor's art gal
ery Fifth avenue, near Twerty second street. three
pictures which have been painted for the Centennial.
Two of these are marine views by J. X. Keey,
the harbor of San Francisco and the other "a River
on the Coast" just outside the city. Tho pic
lures are quite large, and are good ex-
amples Of this artists work. They have just been
sent TO this city from Boston, where they havo been
exhibition. The third painting is a very large and
important work by George Inness II is view OF
tho "Pino Grove OF Barbarm Villa, " on the out
skirts OF Rome Tho grove of tall pines, with their
foliage facing the sky occupies the centre OF the pic





in the fiat land Of the campana, which is all
through the distance, until IL reaches the waters OF the
Mediterranean whose blue limo the extreme dis
tance forms the horizon line At the foot OF the pine
forest in the middle distance Is grove OF olives which
look dwarfed by comparison with the tall, lmblcss
pines towering above them, the yellowish and
brownish masses OF foliage forming sort OF protecting
canopy for the olives THIS feeling would have been
strengthened II the artist had the shadow OF tho
pines the olives but he has taken advantage OF
the light foliage Of the latter TO give more breadth
to the OF sunlight placed In this part OF the pic
ture In this sunlight, which falls plain between
the olive grove and foreground, the artist
has introduced flock OF sheep and part OF
them have straycd upon the HILL which, entirely in
shadow, forms the foreground, with old dead tree
the left, the figure OF shepherd the CENTRE
and toward the right convent wall is partly
hidden by group OF scraggy weather-beaten cedars
In this work the artist has changed his usual
The color much cooler in tone and though he has still
worked in OF color, he has paid attention
TO local forms. which he generally suggests rather
than giving them IN reality. This quality seen In
tho shadowed foreground, which Is managed with tho
skill OF a thorough artist being full OF detail and
strength without being obtrusive taking the eye
from tho principal object OF interest
Year: 1876

THE ANNUAL REPoRT-REcEIPTs BELOW THOSE
OF 1874-A BALANCE CARRIED ovER-AN IN
CREASED BUSINESS THIS YEAR


TORONTO, Ont, March 23 1879
The Northern Railway Company held their annual
meeting to-day The annual report shows the road
rolling stock to be in complete repair and efficiency
that steps have been taken to change the rails OF
the man line from iron 10 steel Owing to the dull
ness IN the lumber trade and the general CONNER
cal depression the receipts Of last year below
those OF 1874 but tho working expenses proper
tionatcly reduced and small balance carried over
1916 Since the beginning OF the present year the
traffic returns EXHIBIT marked Improvement those
for the corresponding period OF last season
Year: 1876

fhcrc was no material change In tho condition Of
Commodore vandcrbt yesterday During tho day he
received a number OF old friends and seemed very
cheerful His appetite Is improving. and he seems TO
enjoy tho choice dishes which daily TO him
Year: 1876

CARL SCHURz, in private letter, says:
"There is a striking contrast beween the
hard and soft money mixture in the Dem
ocratic platform and candidates, and the
strong, fearless assertion Of moral duty in
the financial paragraph Of Governor Hay
es' letter of ofacceptance. The views he ex-
presses about civil service form the most
comprehensive, most clearly defined in
every respect most satisfactory, civil SER
vice programme | ever knew uttered in a
few words. That programme is accom-
panied by the pledges of an honest man,
that if elected it shall be faithfully carried
out in its completeness, and that no per-
sonal ambition shall interfere with the
work. Never had civil service reform
ers better opportunity to fight, with
chance of real success of the cause, and
not only the success of candidates, but of
the party. l shall support Governor
Hayes heartily and actively, and / have
never felt more clearly a consciousness of
the right thing for the best interest of the
country"
Year: 1876

THE San Francisco Chronicle attempts
to account for the great fall in the bonan-
"a stock by alleging that these mines are
giving out The large holders of stock
therein have been unloading at a rapid
rate. In the week. just past, 81, ,645 shares
of Consolidated Virginia were sold and
A., ,O75 of California. Some OF the silver
mines owners talk of shutting down be-
cause of the low price of silver. Alto
gether the mining stock market is at n
low ebb- but the mines are just as good
now as they were month ago, with the
exception of the trife that hus been tax
en- out in that time.
Year: 1876

TILDEN is foxy He has been consult
ing Hendricks and others on the style of
his letter OF acceptance, and the announce
ment is made that on account of private
business he cannot prepare it for some
weeks At this rate it will probably be
a long, very long letter F; but the chances
are ten to one that he wants time to learn
how the wind blows SO that he may set
his sails to catch it He is a shrewd pol
itician, and this is politics-and nothing
more?
Year: 1876

THE training ship jamestown. it is
stated, will start next week on her first
cruise since she became school Of in
struction, for the Sandwich Islands. The
pupils are credited with having attained
perfection in seamanship credtable
alike to themselves and their teachers,
and they have now arrived at n stage
when they are actually sutiocating for a
breath Of salt water and starving for a
diet of salt horse.
Year: 1876

IT was sweet household PICTURE
She was red in the face and scolding a
hurricane his nose was bleeding where
the rolling-pin struck him, and he was
swearing cataract; the children were
crying. Owe, the door hunga motto, God
bless our home;" there was chrome
representing Faith, Hope and Charity
over the mantel, and a plaster bust of
Peace on the book case.
Year: 1876

GEN. CROOK writes from Goose Creek,
Wyoming, that he and his command
are all right, that the Indians have three
men to his one, but that he can whip
them for all that, yet as plain whipping
would not have the desired result, he will
wait for the fifth cavalry so that by pur-
suit he may deal them crushing blow,
Year: 1876

DIDN'T CARE.-A Chico girl got mar
ried without the consent of her sister and
brother-in-law, in whose family she was
living, and they burnt up her clothes,
excepting those she had on. But she
was 23 years old and thought herself old
enough to Le her own mistress, wherein
we agree with her. At last reports she
had forgiven her amiable kin and was
supremacy happy.
Year: 1876

SEEY.-A report came from Quincy
that Harry Burk, the murderer OF
Luther at Red Bluff, was seen at Quincy.
He left that place before the description
of his person and the reward offered
reached Quincy, but those who saw him
believed it to be the same man. lie hlred
room at the hotel in Quincy, but DID
not occupy it and left town in the night
Year: 1876

A NUMBER of Boston ladies have
bought the Old Sodth Church building,
and if they cannot raise the amount re-
quired to purchase the land in sixty days,
will take down the building and re-erect
elsewhere.
Year: 1876

In Paris there is an attempt to revive
the old Greek costume for lades-a
picturesque garment, without very much
of waist, bare armed, and looking
Ike nm oat-bag falling loose from the
breast to the instep.
Year: 1876

A Detroit youth, of fourteen. sold fif.
ty pounds of old iron and a piece of lead
pipe, few days ago, and received
enough money to carry out his long
cherished idea OF establishing a weekly
newspaper which should represent the
interests of every section of Michigan.
He was willing to commence low down
and work up, and he established an Of
flee in the cellar of his fathers house,
purchased two quarts of ''pi," hired his
sister as an apprentice, and work wa.
begun on his first number.


The boy had an idea that an indepen-
dent journal would pay best, and hi:
first edition, which consisted of seven
copies of sheet about as large as an
envelope, was devoted to items of a per-
soEal nature.


1t was rather family sheet, also,
seven of the eight items in it being hits
ut his father and mother, and the lone
one was a bit of advice to his school
teacher.


While he was out hunting up adver-
tisements and soliciting subscribers his
father laid the type away to shoot cats
with, and when the editor and proprie-
tor returned he was given a woodshed
interview and then welded to the ham
die of lawn mower.


He was yesterday ''hollering" over
the alley fence to one of his friends that
he couldn't be crushed out nor fright.
ened OFF the track by no bloodthirsty
mob, but the prospect for a new paper
Is duhioilS
Year: 1876

A well-known artist has for the last
four or five months been throwing his
whole soul into landscape which is
now on exhibition in Chestnut street
window. 1t is called fine painting
by art critics, yet what are art critics
in number to the great public, no two
of whom see or criticise alike? There
was crowd around the picture yester-
day, and bootblack took square look
at the painting and said:


"Purty good river he painted, but it
runs up hill. Wonder if that artist
didn't ever 90 fishing?"


There was a pause. and an elderly
gentleman with spectacles on remarked !:


"What strikes me is that all those
six cows should be switching their
tails the same way and at the same
time"


The crowd looked closer and it was
the general opinion that the artist
should have switched over some of those
tails.


''It's very NICE" said young man
with sore eye, "but look at that log
house from builders point of view.
Why, it is so far out of plumb that it
will fall over and hurt some one before
night, and that chimney wouldn't draw
If there were forty fires below"


There was long period of silence as
each one Of the crowd lined the walls
with his eye. Then an old woman
cautiously remarked:


'No matter about the house or the
cows or the river-it's a nice picture.
got two chromos that paid a dollar
apiece for, and don't believe they are
bit better than this,''


There was a woman at her side with
a head of cabbage in basket, and she
put in:


''If can find nice smooth board
anywhere I'll have my husband make
three or four pictures like that"
There was another long silence, and
then sedate man, whose garments
were fast going to Times hospital for
old clothes, elbOwed the boys back with
a great show of authority, and re-
marked:


"You folks don't know anything
about art. You had better go and crit
icise lamp-pOst or a street sign.
There the painter has used up three
yards of factory muslin, a whole days
time, and more'n two shillings' worth
OF paint, and you ignoramuses come
around here and go to abusing his
nicfura ~