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Year: 1876

THE New York Tribune has cor
respondent writing all the way from St.
Thomas Island, who says that Tweed has
a little tale to unfold when he shall ar
rive on American soil that will make Mr..
Tilden's hair stand on end. This is about
as highly probable as the yarn that the
Democrats bad paid the Commander Of
the Franklin to remain away until attel
the election. Over a week has elapsed
and they have not brought Sweet William
nome vet.
Year: 1876

If the Republican party organs Of Phila-
deiphia keep on they will swell the major
ity Of their party in Pennsylvania in the
last election up to enough to give Hayes a
majority Of the popular vote. 1t COM
menced at ten thousand and now it has
reached seventeen thousand.
Year: 1876

EVEN the presence Of military cannot
disturb the peace of New Orleans. All
the dispatches from there report the city in
a perfect state Of quiet, and the military,
headed by Sheridan, are of no more ser.
vice than to give a martial display every
afternoon.
Year: 1876

The proceedings of the trial by court martial of the guard at the West Point military academy for the shooting of the hackman, William Porter, have been forwarded to the department, but are not yet promulgated. The court finds from the evidence that the shooting was accidental, having occurred as sworn to, by reason of the guards piece being at half cock and the end of it striking the wheel of the vehicle in which the wound ed man was driving by without respect ing the command "halt." It does not appear from the testimony that the guard was under the influence of liquor. Failing to find that there was any inten- tion on his part to injure the wounded man, the commanding officer, in accord ance with the finding of the court, has directed the discharge of the prisoner from military confinement, and that he be turned over to the United States commissioner for trial under the civil law and jurisdiction on criminal charge of deadly assault with attempt to kill. He could not be tried by the military law except on the charge of conduct prejudical to good order and military discipline. He was discharged from the guard house and turned over to the civil authorities.
Year: 1876

MANY who are suffering from the effects of the warm weather and debitated are advised by physoians to take moderate amounts of whisky three times during the day. In little while those who adopt this advice frequently increase the number of drink" and in time become confirmed inebriates A beverage which will not create thirst for intoxicating Hquors which is intended especially for the benefit of dsbitateo persons whether at home abroad, is Dr. Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic Containing the juices of many medi- cnal herbs this preparation does not appetite for the Intoxicating cup The nourishng and fe-sup- porting properties of many valuable natural contained In 1t and well known medical men have most strengthening influence. single bottle of the Tonic will demonstrate its valuable qualities For debility arising from sickness exerton from any cause whatever, wnegassful of Sea Weed taken after meals will strengthen the stomach create an appetite for wholesome food. To all who are about leaving their homes, desire to say that excellent effects of Dr. Schencks seasonable remedies Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, particularly evident when taken by these who injuriously affected by change of water and diet No person leave home without taking supply of these safeguards aong For safe by all Druggists
Year: 1876

Walter Scott tells the story of one of the tricks of his boyhood. In his class at school he had. won his way upward with great rapidity until he reached the second place, but there he stuck. The boy at the head never failed ur even faltered in answering 8 question, and day after day Scott watched for an op- portunity to get above him, but no op- portunlty came. He studied the situa- tion with great anxiety and tested the weakness of his rivals character to no purpose. The boy at the head could not be tempted to relax his vigilant in- dustry. At last Scott noticed a peculiar habit of the lad. When a question was put to him he invariably took hold of one of the buttons in the breast of his jacket and began to finger it. Scott conceived the existence of some subtle connection between this button and his rivals self-possession and readiness, and secretly cut the button off. Next day. when the first question in the lesson was put to the boy at the head of the class, he felt for the reassuring button, found It missing, got amazed and faltered. His faculties lost touch and tune, and he failed to answer. The young plotter went above him and watched with con- placency the course of his victim as he went down to the foot, losing place after place.
Year: 1876

AS ne tells the story himself Stanley must be desperate fellow among the natives. He tells us of fight he had on the Nyanza. He was with his party in boat when the natives began to as semble on the ridge of low hill about 100 yards from the boat, and presently drums were heard beating the call to war, until within half an hour about 500 warriors had gathered around Shekka, who was sitting down addressing his people. When he had done, about fifty rushed down and took our drum, and kindly told us to get our guns ready for fight, as they were. coming presently to cut our throats. As soon as saw that the savages had arrived in the presence of Shekka with our drum, shouted to my men to push the boat into the water. With one desperate effort my crew of eleven men seized the boat as if she had been 8 mere toy, and shot her far into the water. The impetus they had given her caused her to drag them all irto deep water. In the meantime the say ages, uttering furious howl of disap- pointment and baff1ed rage, came rush ing like 8 whirlwind toward the waters edge.

 l discharged my elephant rife, with it's two large conical balls, into their midst: and then, assisting one of the crew into the boat, told him to help his fellows in while l continued to fight, My double barreled shotgun, loaded with buckshot, was next discharged with terrible effect ; for, without drawing 8 single bow or launching single spear, they retreated up the slope of the hill, leaving us to exert our wits to get the boat out of the cove before the enemy should decide to man their canoes.

 The crew was composed ofpicked men, and in this dire emergency they did am pie justice to my choice. Though we were without oars the men were at no loss for substitute. As soon as they found themselves in the boat they tore up the seats and footboards and began to paddle the boat out as though she were canoe, while I was left to single out with my rifle the most prominent and boldest of the enemy. Twice in succession succeeded in dropping men determined on launching the canoes, and seeing the" sub-chief who had com handed the party that took the drum, I took deliberate aim with my elephant rife at him. That bullet, as I have since been told, killed the chief and his wife and infant, who happened to be standing 8 few paces behind him, and the extraordinary result had moro effect on the superstitious minds of the na- tlves than all previous or subsequent shots. On getting out of the cove we saw two canoes loaded with men coming out in pursuit from another small cove. I permitted them to come within 100 yards of us, and this time I used the elephant rifle with explosive balls. Four shots killed five men and sunk the canoes. This decisive affair disheart ened the enemy, and we were left to pursue our way unmolested, not, how ever, without hearing a ringing voice shouting out to us: '' Go and die in the Nyanza!" When the savages counted their losses they found fourteen dead and eight wounded with buckshot, which l Iconsider to be very dear pay ment for the robbery of eight ash oars and drum, though barely equivalent, in our estimation, to the intended massacre of ourselves
Year: 1876

An old physician says: If man is stricken by lightning, lay him flat on his back, open his clothing at the pit of his stomach and dash on it pail of the coldest water you can get. In nine cases out of ten it will restore conscious ness and save life if done within fifteen or twenty minutes after the stroke.
Year: 1876

Half a pound of sugar to pound of peaches. Put the sugar on the fire with little water; let it boil until the syrup IS clear; then put in the peaches and let them boil until heated through. Take the peaches out with perforated ladle, and then to every eight pounds of the fruit puttwo teaspoonfuls of Spear $ fluid. Put it into the boiling fluid after the fruit Is taken out. Pour the hot syrup over the peaches, and no sealing of jars is necessary. This recipe has been proved to be reliable, aud if you prsfer to put up your fruit without eugar, it may be done by using more water, bu4 otherw!se proceeding as di- rected above.
Year: 1876

Judge Gilbert of the Supreme Court stated
last evening 10 TRIBUNE reporter that the Clerk OF
the Court had informed him that his associate Judge
Dyekmau upon the application Of the counsel OF Edward
3 stokes had granted writ OF habeas corpus, return


able before Judge Dyckman next saturday. The writ
qures that stokes shall be taken before the Judge
White Plains, when the question may be argued to
whether Stokes is legally restrained OF his liberty and
whether the time which the prisoner spent In prison be-


fore sentenced should be taken into consideration
aud deducted from the time for which he sentenced
Year: 1876

NORTH TARRYTOwS.-An enlargement OF the
public school proposed and the matter Is to be brought
before the next meeting In March.


WHITE PLAINs-About 30 prisoners are at present con
fined IN the County Jail.
Year: 1876

There was some disappointment to-
day ut the continuance Of suit pending
in the Circuit Court Of the United States,
Judge Billings presiding, touching the
ownership Of one Of our city papers, On
the trial of which testimony was to be
given Of quito an instructive and inter
esting character, relative to the
political schemes Of exGovernof
Warmoth and his declared and conf
dent assurances that he will be the Con
servattve and Republican candidate for
Governor, with a strong newspaper sup
port? We hear OF rich developments
that will be elected in the progress OF
this otherwise dry chancery suit.
Year: 1876

California has done very good
thing in providing the whipping post
for wife beaters. If there is coward
ly, cruel set of villains on the face of
the earth, men utterly hardened against
every. human and manly impulse,
depraved, brutal, selfish beast, who
can be reached only through corporeal
punishment, it is the wife beater. And
we glory in the wisdom and manhood
of California in restoring penalty
which every part of the country feels
the need of, hut has not the moral
courage to inflict.


A maudlin sentimentality has de-
nounced the whipping post as "relie
of ba-barism," and society is full OF
weak imitators, of people who know in
their inmost consciences that justice
demands its application to certain
crimes, bat are afraid of being accused
of lack of refinement, good tasle or
charity if they advocate it. What is
there on earth that will teach a wife
beater that weak woman has rights
which he must respect if it is not the
lash? To fine him is to make the poor
abused victim pay for the suffering
she already endures. To send him to
Jail is to tax this same victim TO supply
the ruffian with extra comforts from
her toll and humiliation, and to infiict
fines by collecting taxes of every de-
cent man and law abiding citizen to
support in comfort and laziness the
most despicable scoundrel on the face
of the earth. That is what our present
laws do and so far from such penalties
deterring these utterly depraved things
from such practices they virtually
encourage them .-Balt. Meas.
Year: 1876

| l|ai APPROACHING THE MoHUMENTs


In order TO be certain that the keep
er OF the grounds had left for the night
they went TO the reception-room door
and flashed bulls eye lantern around
the room, but discovered nothing.
Then they passed to the north end OF
the monument, where they commenced
operations. In about five minutes
Swigle, who was detailed by Mullen to
watch, passed around the south and
whispered to Tyreil that they were
sawingthe lock off the door. One OF the
detectives, who had worked his way IN
between the brick walls above alluded
to until he had reached the walls sep
arating the crypts from the interior OF
the monument base, distinctly heard
the blows OF the burglars in their ell
fort TO force open the sarcophagus:
In a moment the noise ceased, and
Swigle made his appearance at the re-
ception-room door. and said they we're


All READY TO MOVE THE cAsKEr.
and had sent him to the road, where
they supposed he had the team In
waiting, to tell the trusty driver to
come up and help them carry it to the
wagon. He had left them n few min
ute before standing at the door OF the
vault, and had worked his way around
as rapidly as possible. The detectives
Immediately left the reception-roomt to
pass around the east side Of the monu-
ment. As they were leaving the
door


RANG!


A sharp report OF pistol rang out
on the night, and was doubled and
tribled a hundred times among the
trees and hills of the cemetery. One OF
the detectives had accidently exploded
cap on his revolver. Caution was
dropped now for haste. The robbers
must have heard the noise, and the
only hope OF catching them lay in pre-
cipitate action. The party arrived at
the north door before the echo OF the
pistol-shot had died away, and found
it open and the place deserted. Not a
man was TO be seen except those OF the
detectives own party. There was no
moon. The sky was thick with clouds.
1t was so dark that a person could
scarce be distinguished ten feet away.
The officers immediately scattered in
all directions, but nothing could be
seen or heard of the thieves. Swigle
was amazed, aud could not conceive
what had become of Mullen and
Hughes.
Year: 1876

that was all. They wanted to find
whether he would stand by them in a
dangerous piece Of work without let
ting him know what that work was
They we're satisfied with him now.
They had n job of that kind which
would make them all rich il they could
only succeed with il. Then for the first
time they unfolded to him their scheme
to rob the grave of Lincoln. They
told him they wanted to steal the re-
mains from the sarcophagus, and bury
them in some secure and lonely place
to be revealed only upon payment of a
large sum of money. They believed
they
Year: 1876

IT is much to be desired that the profit
gate expenditures of foreign ministers in
excess of their regular allowances, which
are themselves far too large, should bs cut
of, These dignitaries, not content with
big salaries in gold, have been in the
habit of giving away the public money in
presents, the cost of such gifts reaching
frequently to thousands of dollars. Now
we have it stated from Washington that
the cost Of the foreign service is draining
the treasury Of gold under the diminished
receipts from customs. The expenditures
of the foreign service ought to be severely
pruped.
Year: 1876

IT is said that prophet is not without
honor save in his own country-such is de-
servedly SO in some instances, 1t was pre-
dcted that the HERALD would not last three
weeks-then it was stated that it was bound
to leave the field of journalism in three
months, it was then prophesied that it was
bound to 60 in January, and it was i'm
possible for it to live through February, and
yet, we still live.
Year: 1876

CERTAIN members of Council would do
we'll to govern their participation in debate
with little more reason and common. sense
than they generally do. An election to the
Office of Councilman does not guarantee
the privilege of exhausting all the gas in a
members body simply to hear himself
talk, and in fact set himself up as the tar
get for ridcule.
Year: 1876

WE publish this morning the contribu-
ton of Dover to the Centennial fund, which
isthree hundred and eighteen dollars. Lit
tie Dover really deserves credit for this
which is almost spontaneous. To Whining
it is a decided rebuke, having agitated the
matter for considerable length of time,
and yet has not raised a sufficient sum to
be at all creditablc.
Year: 1876

Tho passenger railway cars are having
about as much to do as they can conven.
iently get through with. The rush to
the Centennial grounds continues una
bated, and, until the fence is completed
and the gates closed, as was said would
be the case on Monday last, this Hocking
to the great centre of attraction will not
only continue, but largely increase. The
general interest in the Exposition is
simply intense. Everybody appears to
entertain the most lively regard for the
success OF the great enterprise, and all
are preparing for the full enjoyment of
the Centennial novelty Chronicle.
Year: 1876

WHAT THE DEMocRATIc HOUSE is Do
INs.-A dispatch from Washington says
the saving by the post office appropria-
Gon bill will be over $1,000, 600. The bill
changes the mode Of paying postmasters
by substituting fees for salary, and in
this way the committee expect to save
S5o,00o per annum. The committee also
propose to pay for transportation OF mails
by speed and space instead Of weight,
and to save two millions by the change.
1t is thought that the railroads WI as
sent to the change.
Year: 1876

The great question of the day, es-
pecially in the higher circles, is how to
keep up appearances and to outdo ones
neighbsr. People live according to the
standard of their neighbor's resources i'll
stead of their own pockets. The lace
curtains on one side of the street must
be finer, or at least equal to texture of
the lace curtains on the other, and an
extra silver button must be added to
the coachman's livery as often as circum-
stances or the condition of the coat will
admit.


Extravaganza in dress and display in
furniture lead the way, no matter what
the cost or the sacrifice. Men of moder-
ate means plod along from day to day
with their noses to the grindstone, and
rise no higher in the social scale than the
middle height, and are lost in the gem
eral whirl of humanity. Many are still
living too fast, and all do so who look
around the corner to invite trouble,
already near enough at hand. The plain
moral of the times is that society is based
upon conditions not easily complied
with, demands that are imperative; and
that the end OF the delusion must come,
sooner or later, and people whose Gre
dentials are honesty and industry rather
than meretricious show and false pre-
tense to superiority must find an appre-
ciation as they did, years ago, when the
country was honest and could Hfford to
Year: 1876

An incident recently occurred at an
exhibition of school in Live Oak
county, Texas. A large orphan boy was
asked by the teacher why it was that no
attempt was made to explore the south
pole The boy replied, because it WAS
too cold. After expressing his unbound
ed amazement at the Ignorance of the
youth, the professor procured his cow
hide out of his desk, and began to instill
the latest geographical intelligence into
him, annotating the information with
copious whacks "Ill teach you to
disgrace my school in that way (whack y
Now repeat after me (whack y (whack , :
The south pole being in the torrid zone,
Immediately under the equator (whack !!
quit glowing your fingers--hold out tho
other handy, and being covered (whack !
take some more youlyoung ass) covered
with dense jungle, infested by savage
tribes (quit bowling or I'll punish you
overwhelmingly, ferocious wild beasts


and venomous reptiles you'll know next,
whack won't you?, civilized man can
not penetrate there (whack whack y.
The audience expressed their approval
of the zeal of the professor by increas-
ing his salary.
Year: 1876

Says q newspaper writer: ! believe
one great cause Of intemperancc, Of OK
cessive drinking of ardent spirits, is the
custom Of the American people Of indul-
ging in social drinks. If we invite n
friend to take n drink, he considers it
his duty to invite us to take one in re-
turn with him; if n third join the party
he must also, according to custom, invite
both, and 80 it goes on, the larger the
party the more rounds of drinks.


The custom is most vicious in its re-
suits. A man who goes to fashionable
saloon to take q single drink finds it diff
ficult to get ont without drinking half
dozen times. The one drink would per-
hnps have done him little harm, the half
dozen drinks muddle his brain, tangle
his tongue, and render him unfit for
business.


The remedy, I think, is to do away
with social drinking, and to inaugurate
some society by which gentlemen shall
cease to be "cappers for saloons l
would suggest the creation of an associa-
ton whose members would pledge them
selves neither to drink in public bar
room with any person nor to allow any
person to drink with them; in short,
that every man should pay for his own
drink, and all be independent. Then, if
one desires to take n drink, he can pay
for it, and not feel under obligations to
take several in order not to offend
friends.


This system is extensively practiced in
England, and is known by the title OF
Yorkshire" When man asks party
to drink, and says Yorkshire, y it means
every man pay for his own drink.


have indulged in the use of spiritu-
GUS liquors for long period of time. 1
believe myself to be fully aware Of its
evil results. am satisfied from close
observation that many men are made
drunkards by this system of "every
man treating in his turn"
Year: 1876

4. A New York physician gives the fol-


lowing experience. 1t is only one out of


thousands of stories of the same kind


that Ugh. be told ha,ro enoountared


already this winter an appalling amount


Of misery among the families of unem-


ployed men. Cold and privation induce


illness, and then am called in to find


them destitute not only of the comforts


but even of the necessities of life.. 1t is


hard enough to see adults in such misery


as theirs, but to see the little children,


shivering with cold, crying for food, dy-


ing even for lack Of the few small COM


forts requisite for their recovery from i'll
ness consequent upon their condition,


that is simply horrible. One case out of
many which could cite to you A poor


woman sent for me to attend her child,


which was sick with Group. I told her
to obtain simple and cheap remedy at
the drug store. She had no money
to get it. gave her sufficient Then I
told her to pat mustard draughts to the
little things feet She had not even
money enough to get the little mustard
required Well, gave her some more.
The next morning, when called, I no.
ticed that the poor woman looked very
much exhausted, and her room was cold
as cave. 7 said to her: "You have
been up all night with the child, have you
not ?" She burst out crying and an
swered me eyes; and haven't had
bit to eat for two days" Her husband
was good, sober, hard working man,
but had had no work for long while,
and had gone to another city in search
of some. He had not found any, and
there she was without food, fire, sufficient
clothing to keep herself Or child warm,
or even the means to get medicines to
save its life. Since then her husband
has come back, and still he has nothing
to do. I have done what 1 could for
them, and have enlisted some kind peo-
pie in aiding them, but what can I do pro-
portionate to the demand, when such
cases are all about me? I go
wherever my professional services can
do any good, and cannot, as long as I
have anything, refrain from helping the
most needy, but the people who
can afford to pay, and who do
pay now, are much the smaller
and do not keep the bal
ance good enough to enable me to do
anything like what I should. am fairly
worn out, sick with exposure and fatigue,
heartsick with the sight of misery.