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Year: 1876

by JOHN q. WHITTIER.
Our fathers Cod! from out whose hand
The centuries fall like grains of sand,
We meet to-day, united, free,
And loyal to our land and Thee,
To thank Thee for the era done,
And trust Thee for the opening one.
Here where of old, by Thy design,
The fathers spake that word of Thine
Whose echo is the glad refrain
OF rcndcd bolt and falling chain,
TO grace our fcstal time from all
The zones of earth our guests we call.
Be with us while the New World grcets
The old world thronging all its streets,
Unvailing all the triumphS won
BY art or toll beneath the sun,
And unto common good ordain
This reyivalsbip of hand and brain.
Thou who hast here in concord furled
The wartlags of a gathered world,
Beneath our western kics fulfill
The Oricnt's mission of good will,
And, freighted with Loves golden fleece
Send back the Argoaauts of peace.
For art and labor met in truce,
For beauty made the bride of use,
We thank Thee, while withal we crave
The austere virtues strong to save
The honor proof to place or gold,
The manhood never bought or sold
o! make Thou us, through centuries long
In peace secure, a I'D justice strong;
Around our gift Of freedom draw
The safeguards of Thy righteous law,
And, cast in some divincr mold
Let the new cYclc shame the old
Year: 1876

Mr.. Jones tolG; his wife last Sunday
morning that he believed he would
walk out in the country, spend the
day with farmer he knew, and get
an old fashioned country dinner. So
after eating a scant breakfast, in Or
der that he would be able to put
away" a good portion Of the old
fashioned dinner that he imagined he
was going to get, he cit out" AS it
was several miles to where he was 60
ing, the walking began to wet up his
appetite, and by the time he came
within sight Of the farmers house lie
felt as if he could devour an OK, and
when he reached the house and the
savoy fumes Of roast pork greeted his
olfactories, his hunger became almost
beyond endurance.


After knocking about the plac,
awhile with the farmer, the coveted
dinner hour arrived, and with the
full intention Of doing justice to an
old-tasAioned country dinner, Jones
went to the house with the farmer
and took seat at TIE table, and be-
ing hol red to a choice piece of pork,
he "pitchod in" telling the farmer
that he thought it was very nice.


IS os, said the farmer, "and if that
hog had lived ull Christmas it would
have pushed lonr hundred pounds,
but twas taken sick and died, and as
times were hard We thought we would
save it, anyhow


Jones eyes became about the size
Of his plate, his appetite disappeared,
and buttoning up his coat he looked
at the farmer and began shaking from
head to foot.


"Got a chill, ell ?" said, the farmer,
taking in a good sized mouthful Of
the pork which made Jones sick at
the stomach


Yes" said Jones, jumping up
from the table and making for the
door, "and must be getting home,
as | don't want to be laid up on your
hands, and leaving the farmer to
eat his old fashioned country dinner
himself, Jones struck out for home.


About three o'clock that afternoon,
Mrs. Jones, who was taking nap,
was aroused by hearing a noise in
the kitchen, and on going out to hear
the cause of it, found John at the
cupboard devouring cold victuals as
Ii he had not tasted food for week.


Didn't you get your old fashioned
country dinner % she asked.


"Get--thunder and lightning, no
Go and make supper, old woman !"
Year: 1876

The waves were rolling in toward
the shore as John Beckett stool upon
a ledge of rock overlooking the sea,
While the sun was slowly sinking into
a great frosty bank Of cloud. 1t was
in tie autumn of the year; and as the
wind lifted Johns hair from off his
forehead, you could see the Inns o.
trouble that had come there with lat
ter years, and something in the ex-
preston Of his face appeared to inli
cate a restles3ness within which seem
ed akin to the seas wild motion.


John Beckett was by trade a fisher
man, and no brave or more industri-
Gus man lived upon that coast. He
had been born and brought up there
and was known to every one. Among
all tho people of the neighbornood
John had but one enemy, and that was
a man Of his own calling, Samuel Hen
derson. They had once been part
ners in business, and the two had toll
ed together many a day upon the wa
ters, bat at length all intercourse
ceased between the two men.


Now, as John stood there upon the
Ied5e any one who was acquainted
with him, seeing him there and mark
ing the expression Of his face, would
have known to certainty that his
thoughts were Of Samuel Henderson
and certain sickly-faced child at
home, once plump and rosy, now limp
ing about on crutches, whose mother
lay in her grave, whittier she went on
giving the child birth.


1t SO happened that one day this
child was playing upon the shore
when Henderson returned from fish
ing. Beckett was not with Henderson
at the time, but was busy in his own
garden, for it was in the spring Of the
year; and Henderson, being Il high
tempered man, calling to the child,
and bidding him leave the fish alone,
which he was stringing, and the child
not needing, struck it with an oar Of
the boat, little thinking, perhaps, Of
the weight Of the blow, or Of what
would be the result. For months the
child languished, and when at last it
left its little bed, it was to hobble
about among old friends cripple


And it was of the injury done to
the child by Henderson that Beckett S
thoughts were busy with as he stood
upon the ledge, as the sun sank
among the clouds, and the wind that
lifted his hair told him Of the storm
that was fast approaching


John Becket's boat was snugly
beacbed a few yards distant ; he had
not been out that day, but something
always drew him to the shore when a
storm was approaching. He loved the
tumultuous anger of the waves, as
they lashed the rocks or foamed in
helpless rage upon the sands. The
salt sea-wind hinging the spray in his
face was more welcome to him than
the breeze that hoated over clover
fields; it brought him sense Of free
dom and of the great power of the ell
ements that was refreshing to his rug
ged nature.


How he enjoyed it nowl how cool
ing were these first big drops Of rain!
how black the sea looked with the
shadow Of the clouds upon i'll how the
thunder muttered, like voices calling
to him out of the distancel how the
waves rose in their strength, and
dashed themselves in blind rage
against the immovablc rocks at his
feet.


Then he thought Of Henderson com
Year: 1876

A youth Of Lafayette, Ark, recent
ly undertook to frighten a doctor by
the name Of Westbrook by presenting
a plug of twist tobacco at his head.
The doctor thinking that it was pis.
tol drew his revolver and shot the
boy dead.
Year: 1876

How to raise cats First catch
your cats and then put them in
barrel and explode a can Of nitro
glycerine under them. 1t never fails
to raise EN- but the cats come down
greatly demoraiizcd
Year: 1876

An Irish agricultural journal ad-
vertises new washing machine under
the heading Every man his own
Washer-woman," and in its culinary
department says that potatoes should
always be boiled in cold water
Year: 1876

After the last voyage but one, the
good ship of which [ was first officer
went into dock for thorough reftting,
and I had longer spell at home than L
had enjoyed for many years. I would
not change this way of life for any in the
world; but was glad for once to stretch
my legs fairly on dry land, and see
something of green fields, brick and
mortar, and my shore going friends in
the neighborhood of Canterbury.


Among the families in which I was
most intimate was that of Mr.. Harper.
He had made comfortable fortune by
trade, and now was enjoying his otiuna
cum digpitGte in good house on the
outskirts of the city An only daughter
kept house for him; for he was wild
over. Now Julia Harper, when I first
knew her, was fine, handsome girl of
two and-twenty; tall, well made, but on
rather large scale, with bright, restless
eyes, and a profusion of dark hair. She
had great many admirers, some of
whom, there is every reason to suppose,
admired the old gentleman s money as
much as the young lady's eyes, but they
met with no great encouragement.


often met with Julia at the house of
mutual friends. I certainly diked the
girl; ard my vanity was flattered, be-
cause, with SO many admirers around
her, she showed me, as thought, a de-
cided preference. She seemed to be
never tirel of talking about the sea.
She wearied me with questions about it;
and on moie than one occasion said
very unguardedly-that she thought
voyage to India would be the most de-
lightful thing in the world. OF course,
made fitting answer, that with con-
genial companion, voyage anywhere
would be delightful; and, more than
once, opportunity being favorable, was
on the point of declaring myself, when
an internal qualm of conscience arrested
the dangerous avowal.


Affairs were in this state, when an ac-
cident befell roe which brought matters
to crisis. There was steeplechase
one day in the neighborhood of Canter.
bury, which I attended on foot. During
the excitement of the race, 1 attempted
difficult cut across the country, failed
at leap which was beyond my powers,
and had the misfortune to sprain my
ankle. The injury was very severe
one, and 1 was laid up for many weeks
in my lodgings. You have often laugh
ed at mefor taking everything so coolly.
assure you that I did not take this
Year: 1876

Comparatively little information has
yet reached us as to the result of the re-
cent fighting in front of Alexinatz. On
the one hand we have the report of
correspondent of the London Times
with the Turkish forces. Naturally a
man in that position would see the case
through Ottoman spectacles, and when
we consider that his report was tele-
graphed from city not far in the rear
of Nisch-perhaps Sofia-to CONSTANT
nople and thence to London, and was
therefore subject to Turkish censorship
at two points, it is evident that it would
not be likely to contain any truths that
would be unpleasant in Constantinople.
Another source of information is the
correspondent of the London Standard
at Belgrade. Anybody telegraphing
from that side would be apt to give us
the Servian story except this correspon-
dent but as the tory organ is so thor
oughly identified with the support of the
Ottoman cause that it depreciates to the
utmost possible point all Servian acts
and admits no Servian successes. Per-
haps, therefore, the fact that it does not
claim that the Servians were annihilated
in the recent fighting is ON evidence that
they were moderately successful in their
movement. They seem to have moved
from their works to the assault of the
Turkish lines, and to have endeavoreA
to turn the Turks on both fanks at
once; fact which indicates that there is
as yet no tactical genius in the Servian
staff, for the attack on both fanks is al
ways blunder where the attacking
force does not enormously outnumber
the enemy. But though they did not
overwhelm the Turks they doubtless
had some satisfactory achievements, for
the Turks are reported as assuming the
offensive in circumstances which do not
indicate that they had advanced. The
Turks perhaps endeavored to recapture
positions stormed two days before by
the Servians. The one fact certain is
that the valley of the Morava above
Alexinatz has been the scene of some
really obstinate fighting, which is enough
! to show the very great change from a
! few weeks since, when the Turks drove
the Servians down the same valley like
sheep. Already, therefore, the Servians
have established new relation of facts
for the peacemakers. Probably the re-
ports of the contents of the note of the
czar to the emperor of Austria are ac-
curate. 1t is said that the czar proposes
conference of ministers of foreign
affairs of all the powers if the Porte will
accept permanent armistice, but other
wise the immediate occupation of Bull
garia by Russian forces and of Herzego-
vina and Bosnia by Austria; this joint
occupation to guarantee to the popula-
tion of those countries and of Servia
their practical independence in the
future from Turkish domination. This
is very likely to be the turn events will
take. There is no appearance anywhere
of capacity or o will to oppose this
step, and Turkey herself can at most
only protest against it.-Nes0 York Her.
aid.
Year: 1876

Well wife, found a model church 1 wor-
SHIPPED there to day
l. made me think OF good old times, before my
head was gray;
The meetn' house was fixed up more than
they we're years ago,
But then felt when 1 went in, it wasn't all
built for show.
The sexton didn't seat me away back by the
door
He knew that was old and deaf, as well as
old and poor
He must have been Christian because he led
me through
The long aisles Of that crowded church, to find
splace and pew.
! wish you'd heard the singing, it had the old
time ring.
The preacher said, with trumpet voice
" Let all the people sing !"
The tune was Coronat on" and the music
upward rolled,
TIL thought heard the angels striking all
tLeir hsrps of god.
My deafness seemed to melt away, my spirit
caught the fire
Joined my feeble, trembling voice with that
melodious choir,
And sung, as in my younger days, Let an
gels prostrate fall
Bring forth the royal disdem, and crown Him
Lord of all"
tell you, wife, it did me good to sing that
aonp once more
felt like some wrecked MARINER who gets a
glimpse Of shore
/ almost wanted to lay down this weather
beaten form,
And anchor in the blessed port forever fropl
the storm.
The preacbin'? Well, juet can't tell you all
that the preacher said
l know it wasn't written know it waent
read;
He hadn't time to read it, for the hghtnin' OF
his eye
Went flashing long from pew to pew, no,
passed sinner by.
The sermon wasn't fowery; twas simple Cos.
pei truth
1t fitted poor old men like me it fitted hope.
ful youth
Twas full If consolation for weary hearts that
bleed,
Twas full of invitation to Christ and not to
creed.
The preacher made sin hideous in Gentiles
and iii Jews;
He shot the golden sentences down in the
finest pews;
And though l can't zee very wel-I saw the
falling tear
That told me hell was some ways off, and
heaven very near.
How swift the golden moments fed within
that holy place;
How beautiful beamed the light Of heaven
from every happy face;
Again lopged for thstsweet time when friend
shall meet with friend,
When congregations neer break up, and
Sabbath has no end"
hope to meet that miLister-that congrega-
ton, too
In the dear home bt yond the stars that shine
from heavens blue
Idoubt not I'll remember, beyond life's even
ing gray,
The happy hour Of worship in that model
church today.
Dear wife, the fight will soon be fought, the
victory be won;
The ehinin' goal is just ahead, the race is
nearly run
Der the river we are nearing they are throng-
ing to the Shore
To shout our safe arrival where the weary
weep no more.
Year: 1876

Mr.. George Blair, president of the
workingmen's assembly in the State of
New York, who is we'll informed on this
question, and whose opinion may be
taken as honestly given, has furnished
the data from which the following tabu-
lar statement was prepared. 1t forms
clearer idea of the precise condition of
affairs among the working classes than
any words of description OR argument:
Year: 1876

A miss of ten or eleven, on her way TO
school, was heard saying to herself {: A
noun is the name of any person, place
or thing, and if any of the girls have
hooked that apple from my desk III
raise fuss with the whole school.
Year: 1876

It will thus be seen that, instead of
an average of $4,000 unemployed men,
as was usual in fair times, there are now
$4,000, or two and half times as many
hands out of employment than there
ought to be.
Year: 1876

Between eight and nine O'Clock, yesterday
morning, double frame shed, in the rear
of SS2 King street, owned by Chas. Smith, a
colored whitewasher, was discovered to BE-
in flames. One side of the shed was occu-
pied as stable for cows, and in the other
considerable quantity of hay was stored
The flames communicating to the hay, gain
ed such headway that the building could
not be saved, and is total loss The COW
had been removed only a short time previ
GUS to the discovery Of the fire, Mr.. Smith
having gone with them to the pasture field
It is supposed that the building was set or
fire. The loss will probably exceed two
hundred dollars.
Year: 1876

When the fire alarm was rung out this
morning, the Weccacoe Fire Company re-
sponded, and got as far as Front and Mar
ket, where the body y-bolt of their steamer
was broken, and the engine disabled for
use. After considerable effort the break
was temporarily repaired. and the steamer
was returned to the engine house.
Year: 1876

A BLACK EYE.-When man is split
ting wood and stick flies up and blacks
his eye, he must prepare TO endure all
the taunts and jeers which the world in
ficts upon pirate. Social standing
counts for nothing, and dignity can't be
made mantle of. The other day when
a compositor on this paper took up his
little AK and broke stick in two and one
end few into his eye, he knew that he
must either remain in the house for two
weeks or go out and face the worlds
sneer. He decided to face the sneers,
and during one short half day he noted
down the following


cts all right; of course it was stick
of wood. Oh, Yes"


"Been fighting again, eh P'


"Well, who knocked you down this
time ?"


"Oh, I've had the same thing all my
eve, and always laid it to stick of wood, "


"Ha, ha. The policeman struck hard
didn't he ?"


"Of course it was stick of wood-ye--
he-he !"


Then there were some people who
pointed him out as the abductor Of Char
ley Ross and people who thought he was
one of the Gad's Hill robbers, and over
fifty respectable men asked him why he
didn't get the other one blacked SO as to
have pair.-E'rchdn0e.
Year: 1876

THE Providence Journal says: "This
morning a horse attached to business
wagon ran away on Long Wharf. New
port, just as James n. Hart, boatman,
was crossing said wharf with broom in
one hand and a bucket of water in the
other. Hearing the shouting of Whoa /!
Whoa {" Hart threw down the broom,
planted his feet firmly and, as the horse
came up with him, let fly the contents of
his pail, hitting the horse squarely in the
face and eyes and stopping him as sud-
denly MS if he had been shot. The aston
ished animal was Immediately secured
amid hearty laughter from a number Of
amused spectators" The moral of which
is : Always have a man with pail of
water ready to throw into the face Of
runaway horse.
Year: 1876

UNDERSTOOD 1T AT LAsT.-A gentle
man who resides in the Third Ward,
came homo rather late one night last
week and slumbered correspondingly
heavy far into the morning hours. His
wife had arisen and built the fire and was
busily engaged in preparing breakfast,
one article of which was biscuit, when
she made the discovery that the larder
was deficient in the matter of yeast
Going to the bedside of her somnoent
lord, she said


George, George-get up, wan: you
to go down and get me some raising"


The sleepy man turned uneasily over
and said:


"Raise him raise him What are
you doing it On ?"


"What am doing it on % echoed the
little woman, in a mystiied manner /;
"why am making some biscuits, and
there isn't morsel of anything in the
house to raise them."


NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." muttered
the husband dreamily.


"Then let it stay out 4? Why, George,
you know better than that; they wouldn't
be fl to eat."


George had dropped off into still deep
er slumber and did not answer. The little
woman renewed the attack, shaking him,
and at the same time exclaiming:


'Do get up and go for some yeast
cakes or I'll let the breakfast stand til
noon."


'All right let it stand and ante again.
muttered the man. She understood then
and seizing hand hold of each ear she
raised him out" fairly to the floor.


In about three minutes afterwafd, u
man with pantaloons wrong side before
and suspenders floating in the breeze,
might have been seen going down West
ern avenue at a rapid pace toward Main
street, fully bent on getting a morning
cocktail, and some kind Of saleratus or
stuff at the grocery.-F0n da Lac COM
mt0nWcdiM.
Year: 1876

RUM DEBT.-If you are young and
just married, our earnest advice TO you is
to run deeply in debt. A good substan-
tial debt is the handsomest thing in the
world to stave off your wife with when
she wants a new dress, a new hat or a
new carpet. If you are in debt, why. it
is SO easy TO say, "why deary. you know
| would not deny you anything in the
world, but you know I'm IN debt, can't
you wait for that dress until get out of
debt ?" This will capture her nine times
out of ten and you will get rid of buying
all these things. Therefore, our advice is
10 get in debt big.
Year: 1876

TT is said that hen held up by one
leg will not squawk half as much sa when
both legs are grasped.' Thanksgiving
Day is one week hence, and persons who
are accustomed to purchasing their poul
try at night, few hours after the owner
of the poultry has retired, will do we'll to
cut this out and paste it in their hats.
Year: 1876

JOHN Stalks, the popular fashion
able barber, has procured two of the
finest new chairs ever set up in this
city, and as soon as a more available
room can be obtained, will fit up an
elegant shop, such as will reflect
creditably upon our city.
Year: 1876

THE Darlington Republican has a
new power press. The RepuJNca.
is good paper and deserves the
success it is meeting. Though on
some questions we fail to agree with
our neighbor, we can but recognize
its merits as a good Republican pa
per, and heartily rejoice in its pros
perity.
Year: 1876

THAT Carter hat of ours referred
to by tho Democrat, is the coming
style, and we advise our friends over
the way to fernish themselves with
the same kind, and thus get relieved
from the ticklish task of choosing
between tho Strong and Cothren
tiles.
Year: 1876

LICENSE on No LICENSE The
temperance people have determined,
instead of putting a city ticket in
the field expressive of their views,
to submit the question of "No
License on its merits to the voters
next Tuesday. So long as those
claiming to be temperance men allow
their prejudices to overshadow their
principles, as manifested by some at
the capcus on Monday evening, they
cannot hope and do not deserve to
succeed. Before attempting to re-
move the mote from the eyes Of theil
brethren, some of the so-called tenn
perance men of our city need tc
have the beams extracted from thei,
own optics. They need reform a.
much, though of different kind, as
many of those whom they propose
to doctor.
Year: 1876

Til dilemma of the Democrats on
acco, Of the turn the Judicial Can
vass has taken is sad enough, but
sadder still is the situation Of those
sore-h -headleepublicans who hoped hat
the action Of the Boscobcl meeting
would initiate against Mr.. Carter
and crafty their inexcusable ami
mostly toward a gentleman whose only
fault is that he was preferred by the
Muscoda Convention to their paltic-
ular friends. 1t may be uuchlistian
in us, but we cannot help feeling
of keen satisfaction at the non-pluss-
ed air of those malcontent missnamed
Republicans since they heard of the
action Of the Boscobcl rump Conten-
ton. For the Democrats, who are
doomed to defeat by the nomination
Of third candidate, we have degree
Of sympathy, which we do not have
for the Republicans whose schemes
are quite as etiectualiy frustrated.
They see that Carriers election IS now
assured AMI that their puny opposi-
ton can have no eject except TO
their own prejudice.