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Year: 1876

No fool can be silent at feast.


Next to faith in God is faith in labor.


The greatest pleasure of life is love.


To live long, it is necessary to live slow
ly.


In bringing up child, think Of its old
age.


Love can hope where reason would de-
spair.


Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.


The miserable have no other medicine
but hope.


While we are reasoning concerning life,
life is gone


The love which arises suddenly is the
most difficult to cure.


We can do more good by being good
than in any other way.


TO give pain is the tyranny, to make
happy the true empire Of beauty.


He shall be immortal who liveth till he
is stoned by one without fault


/ think it best not to dispute where
there is no probability of convencing.


As words can never be recalled, speak
only such words as you never wish to re-
call.


Our souls must become expanded by the
contemplation of natures grandeur before
we can fully comprehend the features of
man.


1t is the mind that makes us rich and
happy in what condition soever we are /;
and money signifies no more to 1t than it
does to the gods.


We do not take possession of our ideas,
but are possessed by them. They master
us and force us into the arena, where, like
gladiators, we must fight for them.


Enjoy the flowers on your pathside bat
do not spend too much of your pilgrim
time and strength, too many of your pre-
cious sunlit hours, to stoop and gather
them.


Let us carefully observe those good
qualities wherein our enemies excel US, and
endeavor to excel them by avoiding what is
excellent in them.
Year: 1876

The rather old notion that fires may be
caused by iron rust is thus defended by a
recent English writer: When oxide of iron
is placed in contact with timber, excluded
from the atmosphere, and aided by slightly
increased temperature, the oxide parts with
its oxygen, is converted into very finely
divided particles of metallic iron having
such an affinity for oxygen that, when after
ward exposed to the action Of the atmos-
phere from any cause, oxygen is absorbed
so rapidly that these particles become sud
denly red hot, and, if in sufficient quantity,
will produce temperature far beyond the
ignitibIe point of dry timber. Wherever
iron pipes are employed for the circulation
of and heated medium (whether hot water,
hot air or steam, and whenever these pipes
are allowed to become rusty, and are also in
close contact with timber, it is only necessary
to suppose that under these circumstances the
finely divided particles of metallic iron be
comes exposed to the action Of the atmos-
phere, (and this may occur from the mere
expansion or contration Of the pipes) in
order to account for many of the fires which
periodically take place at the commence
ment of the winter season.
Year: 1876

Two teaspoonfuls of finely powered char
coal, drank in half tumbler of water, will
often give relief to the headache, when
caused, as in most cases it is, by super
abundance Of acid in the stomach.
Year: 1876

For burns and scalds take the white of
an egg and apply Immediately as plaster,
and the pain will cease almost instantly.
This recipe is nearly always on hand in
most families, and nothing can be found
better.
Year: 1876

PATRoNIzE HoNE IssTITUTioNs.-An
exchange says: " When you get in q
tight place for some article Of family use,
and haven't the money by you to pay for
it, you often get accommodation from the
merchant of your own town or neighbor.
hood, who waits till it is convenient To-.
you pay for it. But then again, when
you have some funds on hand, do you
think of this. and 60 and spend your
money with those who accommodate You,
and thus keep the home currency in cir
cuiatioh where 1t ought to stay? or, do
you make up an order, and get others to
join You, and forward the cash to dis
tant city to swell the Golfers of those
whom you never derive any benefit or ia.
vors from? This course will react on
you if you do so. Each class is depend
ent on the other, to some extent, for mu-
tual benefits; and patronage should be
bestowed upon those upon whom you
are dependent for patronage. In that
way you are building up an interest
from which you may, some day, derive
something in return, no matter what your
business may be. 1t is better, even, to
pay little more for an article sometimes
than to be draining your section Of its
circulating medium by sending it off to
foreign parts. If others would serve
you so in your line of business how
would you live. Paironize home inter
ests first, if you want to prosper your
selves, and see Others prosper"
Year: 1876

Now is the time, cold weather is coming on
to purchase one of Smiths celebrated fire
kindlers. They are safe, and will start your
fire in ten minutes. This is what the Fayett
vile Sentinel says of it 1--WE know, by actu-
al experiment, that it Is the greatest ccono-
mist OF fret and worry ever invented There
ought to be one in every household. Secure
one before it is too late" Price only 65 cents
Sec advertisement in our paper
Year: 1876

BFEcHER STILL STRUGGL1NG.-Thc N.
Y. Sun of January Oath, says: "In Mr.
Bcecher's sermon, yesterday morning, he
frequently worked himself upto the pitch
of weeping He said that faith in man
consists in perceiving something that we
trust that we like. The people had con-
fdenec III Grant in the dark hours of the
struggle for the preservation Of the Union
as general who would stick, but their
trust in him "a soldier did not extend
to his qualities as politician, Il would
trust my WATCH" he said, to a skilful
horologist, but not my books, flowers, or
horses. In friend, when We know him,
or think we do Suppressed laughter at
this fling at Moulton we believe in his
disinterestedness in his honor, in his
fidelity, in his truth, in his disinterested
affection We lie down in his heart as
a child lies down in his mothers arms.
We are ashamed to have doubt rise in
our mind that is treacherous to our friend.
We give ourselves truly up to our friend
ship The man that is worthy OF friend
and has heroic conception of friend
ship. is traitor to himself and TO his
kind if he permits doubt to blur or blot
the sense Of trust. The way of the body
is not the way of the mind, the way of
the mind is not the way Of the heart, and
the way of the heart and mind is not the
way of the soul.


"' They tell me that | 1ave fallen
that am fallen creature never was
better than am. The only fall that
ever had, was from my mothers womb
Then there was not an inch between nc
and the brute. The calf that Is dropped
in moonlight pasture, on a summer
night, knows more than | did, for he
knows enough to get on his feet imme-
diately, and turns, at once. to the mater
nal udders. l, babe, knew no more
than the blanket that enwrappcd me.
They tell me that fell. fell up. Zap
| plause.)


"' Every mother, and every man, il he
will toss aside the mist of speculation,
knows that we come in at the minimum,
and go up TO righteousness, step by step
We are born zeroes, and life puts one
before the zero and makes us ten, and
puts two before it, and makes us twenty,
and 50 on
Year: 1876




GRowING OLD How strange our
ideas of growing old change as we get
on in lite! To the girl in her teens the
ripper maiden of twenty five seems quite
aged. Twenty-Five thinks thirty an ''old
thing" Thirty five breads forty, but
congratulates herself that there may still
remain some ground to be possessed in
the fifteen years before the half century
shall be attained. But fifty does not, by
any means, give up the battle of life. 1t
feels middle aged and vigorous, and this
old age is a long way in the future Six
ty remembers those who have done great
things at three-score, and one doubts If
Parr, when he was married at one hun
dred, had at all began to feel himself an
old man, 1t is the desire of life in us
which makes US feel young so long.
Year: 1876

THE Boy VINO LOVES HIS Mother. -
or all the love affairs in the world, none
can surpass the true love Of the big boy
for his mother. 1t is pure love and no.
bic. honorable in the highest degree to
both. do not mean merely a dntifu
affection. l mean love which makes a
boy gallant and courteous to his mott er,
saying to every body that he is fairly in
love with her. Next to the love OF hus
band, nothing so crowns a woman's life
with honor as this second love, this de
votion Of son to her And l never YET
knew a boy "turn out bad who began
by falling 10 love with his mother. Any
man may fall in love with fresh faced
girl, and the man who is gallant to the
girl may cruelty neglect the worn and
weary wife. But the boy who is lover
to his mother, in her middle age, is true
knight who will love his wife as much in
the sear-leaved autumn as he did in the
dashed spring time.


A BEAUTIFUL SENTlMENT.-Dr. Chal
mers beautifully says: The little have
seen in the world, and know of mankind
teaches me to look upon their errors
in sorrow, not in anger. When take
the history of one poor heart that has
sinned and suffered and represent to nay.
self the struggle and temptations it pass.
cd through-the brief pulsatious of joy
the tears of regret, the feebleness of pur,
pose, the scorn of the world that has lit
tie charity, the desolation of the souls
sanctuary, and threatening voices within
health gone--I fain would leave the soul
Of my fellow being with Him from whose
hands it came"
Year: 1876

We will not undertake to say that
the conduct of the Democracy In the
mast has been universally so pure that
they cannot be reproached with Unfair
dealings in connection with the elec-
tions, but this we can say with truth :
if there has ever been any such loose
practice here in Virginia We have new
er bv word, wink, or nod connlved at
or justified it. On the contrary, we
would delight In seeing the heaviest
nenaIties Of the law inflicted invariably
upon those who are party to any at
tempt to secure the triumph OF par
tv whether Democrat or Republican,
through the instrumentallty OF fraud.
The liberties of a people can be pre-
served only so long as their virtue Is
maintained. To hope for the one
without practising the other would be
to expect the enjoyment OF heaven
while surrounded by all the influences
of the internal regions. Liberty is
the result of pure, honest, .virtuous
practices. Hand in hand they must
walk; for when they part company
liberty perishes and dies. Clrcum-
stances at times of an extreme nature
NAV offer strong inducements tC
seek temporary and immediate reliei
through means other than such as arc
Legitimate, but the history of the world


teach that the end, however pure II
itself, will never justify resort to any


means for itS accomplishment not sane


toned by the highest morality: Hon


esty is always the best policy in pub
| lie as we'll as in private affairs, and un


less the people Of this country can b.


made fully to realize this fact the rae


of the Republic will soon be run
To-day the country is shocked at tn
magnitude of fraud that would
consummated deprive it of a fairl
elected Chief Magistrate. And ye
wbv the shock? 1t is but the natura


result of minor frauds that for year
: have been successfully practiced !
, almost every State with impunity-t
a certain extent, we fear, by all parties


The country must call halt. Ther
must be reform and a return to th
: practices of the earlier, purer, an
| better days of the Republic, or theII
: IS but little of good to be hoped Tor
its future-RichnIORd Wing.
Year: 1876

spurgeon says: 81 do not know a
more beautiful sight on earth than a
man who has served his Lord for
many years, and who having grown synn
gray in service, feels that in the order
of nature he must soon be called
home. He is rejoicing in the first
fruit of the spirit which he has %;
tained. but he is painting after the full
harvest of the spirit which is guaran-
on a iutting crag by the edge of the
Jordan. listening TO the harpers on the
other side, and waiting till the pitcher
sball be broken at the fountain, and
the wheel at the cistern, and the spirit
shall dapart to God who gave it; A
wife waiting for her husbands foot
stems. a child waiting in the darkness
Of the night till its mother comes t
give it the evening kiss, are portraits
of our waiting. tits a pleasant and ;;
precious thing to wait and so to hope
Year: 1876

The people demand an honest declar,,
alton of the decision of the majority OF
the voters of Louisiana, whether 1t be
for Hayes or Tilden, and it is to be
boned that those who have control OF
the machinery in that State car. be
made to feel the force of public opln-
ion. and be restrained from unfair
dishonest and revolu tionary action
Boston Globe.
Year: 1876




This gentleman is now the object
of a concentrated fire from the
Democratic mud machines, chiefly
because he happens to stand at the
head of the Republican ticket. II
he is personally offensive to the ma
chimes, it is because he is personally
too worthy and decent a man to suit
the taste of his slanderers. The fact
that he is gentleman of high intel
ligence, a citizen Of blameless char
acter, and a soldier of honorable
record, is enough, Of course, to ex-
cite the envy of the corner grocery
Democratic organs, and arouse their
low ambition to bespatter him with
filth. 1t is only necessary that the
people of Ohio should fully under
stand who Colonel Barnes is, and
what he is, to comprehend the inner
motives for the fusilade of dirty wa
ter which is being squirted at him.


His principal crime seems to be
that he is too decent man to suit
the Democratic mud singers. He is
temperate, sober and industrious,
and these honorable traits are made
the groundwork for the bulk of the
abuse that is heaped upon him. The
plain inference is that the yilifiers OF
Colonel Barnes want Secretary OF
State who is Incorporate and profit
gate, and such being their prefer
enee, they must Of course look else,
Year: 1876

Col. BOB. 1NGERsoLL arraigns the
Democratic party in this vigorous
style, the truth of which cannot be
gainsayed:


Hold on; / have not got through
my indictment yet. A voice
Every man who believed that slavery
was divine institution; that the
bay of the bloodhound formed a part
of the music of the Union; every
man who believed that human be-
ings should be bought and sold upon
the auction-block like cattle; every
man who believed that another
should be made to bend in burning
sun under a masters lash without
compensation-every one of these
men was and is Democrat. Every
man that wept over the corpse of
slavery; every man that denounced
and damned the Emancipation Proc
lamation, the grandest document
ever issued since the Declaration of
Independence, was and is a Demo
crat. Applause. The man that
assassinated Abraham Lincoln was u
Democrat; every man that was glad
Lincoln was assassinated was a
Democrat-every one. l don't say
that all Democrats were glad of it,
but every man that was glad of it was
a Democrat. lApplausel. More
than that, every man who endeavor-
ed to impair the credit of the United
States when 1t wished to borrow
money to buy shot and shell to kill
Democrats with laughterI was a
Democrat. Every man that said the
bonds never would be paid; every
man that said the greenbacks were
worthless trash--eyery single, soli-
tary one was Democrat Tap
plause.


So much did they slander and so
much did they malign the credit of
our glorious country that at one time
during the war gold went up to 300.
What did that mean? It meant that
a greenback dollar was worth only
thirty-four cents. What became of
the other sixty-six cents2 They
were lied out of the greenback, they
were maligned, and slandered and
eliminated out of the greenback.
Whom by? By the Democratic par
ty of the North. Applause, and a
voice, "Rully boy" Two-thirds of
the great debt put upon the shoul-
ders of American industry were put
there by the Democratic party of
the North; the other third by the
Democratic party of the South. Ap
plause.


When the Democrats talk about
hard times let them remember that
they made the debt. Let them rec
ollect that they piled this mountain
upon the shoulders of American in
dustry. Whenever you work to pay
it, whenever you blister your hands
to pay taxes, then pull off these
hlisters and under every one you will
find Democratic lie. Cheers and
laughter.
Year: 1876

The Democratic party have as their
candidate for the Presidency Mr..
Samuel J. Tilden. 1t is enough for
me to say of him that he is a Demo
crat. He belongs to the Democratic
party of the city and State of New
York. The Democratic party of the
city of New York, as l understand it,
and we have heard it out West, never
had but two objects, grand and petit
larceny. Great applause. We have
always heard out West that Tam
many Hall bears the same relation to
the penitentiary that a Sunday school
does to the church. Laughter and
applause. l understand that the
Democratic party of the city of New
York got control of this city when it
didn't owe dollar, and that it has
managed to steal until it now owes
about one hundred and sixty million
dollars. understand that every con
tract ever made by the Democratic
party Of the city Of New York was
larceny in disguise. Applause. l
understand that every election they
ever had was fraud. / understand
they stole everything they could lay
their hands upon; and Oh, what
hands! Laughter and applause.
They grasped and clutched until they
stole all that it was possible for the
people to pay interest upon, and then,
clapping their enormous hands to
their bursting pockets, they began
yelling for honesty and REFORM


Laughter and applause. I under
stand that Mr.. Tilden was pupil in
that school, and that he is now a
teacher in that school. I understand
that wheGSthe war commenced he
said he would never aid in the prose-
cution of that outrage. / understand
that he said in1860 and 1851 that the
Southern States could snap the tie of
confederation as Nation would
break treaty, and that they could
repel coercion as Nation would re-
pei invasion. understand that dur
ing the entire war he was opposed to
its prosecution, that he was opposed
to the proclamation of emancipation,
and demanded that the document be
taken back. I understand that he
regretted to see the chains fall from
the limbs of the colored men. ] un-
derstspd that he regretted when the
Year: 1876

SAN Francisco BULLETIN (REP. j:
There is not, to-day, a handful Of men
who were active twelve years ago in
building up Confederacy on the
ruins of the Union, who are now
working with the Republican party.
They are all working with might and
main for the asoendency of the DEM
ocratic party, which is substantially
that Of twelve years ago,
Year: 1876

WEsTLICHE Posr: The Democrats
as soon as they find that they can moi
continue their falsehoods, go back te
Jefferson's time to show that they
have demands on the peoples vote
But when we only go back to 1866
they raise a loud cry, and say those
are old times, which are past and
done away with, and that they are nc
longer to be spoken Of How do these
things agree?
Year: 1876

A COMMITTEE has been appointed by
the Irish Catholic Benevolent Uniou Of
Philadelphia to draft resolutions on the
subject of making arrangements for bring
ing the unstocked labor markets of the
South and West into communication with
the overstocked markets of the North and
East. This movement will bring work
for the UNEMPLOYED.
Year: 1876

,...S sscretary Of War and the President
intend to concentrate the army in the
South, and rule the southern States during
the Presidential campaign with the sword
and the bayonet, This is evident in them
making Congressman Lords resolution the
pretext and the basis for their last mons
trous and despotic military order. At the
time of the issuing Of this most upjusti.
fable and malignant order, there were no.
less than three thousand regular troops in
the South doing nothing beyond cousum-
ing large quantity of rations at the ex.
panse Of the people. In Sumpter county,
Alabama, full company Of troops has
been kept for many months to protect the
old bloody shirter, Judge Abrams, who has
made himself obnoxious to both whites and
blacks; and now when the whole people
of the South, both white and black, are at
peace, when there is universal desire for
peace and unity, revolutionary military
order such as that Of Grants and Cam
eron's, is Infamous and tyrannical beyond
expression, and is a direct violation Of the
pl edges given by the Republican conven.
tion at Cincinnati, and Of the pledge given
by their Presidential candidate in his let
ter Of acceptance, that there should be
peace, law and liberty throughout the whole
nation. The order directly ignores and
de6es the positive pledges of their conven.
tion and the conventions chosen candidate.
Now, when the people Of the South, white
and black, are prepared to vote without
hlndrance or molestation, and in accord.
ance with their own convictions, for the
President Of the United States and his
Minister Of War to issue an order which
is in spirit and terms declaration Of war
against law, order, peace and the. freedom
Of suffrage, it is damnahle and should meet
with the universal execration of the
people. That the President and his Min.
lister Of War should, one through hatred,
and the other through ambition, take this
great national contest from the ballot. !.
the bayonet is terrible to contemplate; and
should doom their party TO ignominious
defeat, and Ithemselves to eternal infamy.
May God in His infinite mercy save our
country from another reign Of Cameronian
Caserism. & .gJgt1s '.-s, no.. =
Year: 1876

A GENTLEMAN in Iowa who grew weary
Of his wife's absence on visit to her
mother, had the photograph of his house
taken with himself and his neighbor's wife
standing together on the porch. This be
semitic his wife which hurried her home on
the first trsin, ~
Year: 1876

~ v W U0 tCSAVtVOA sAA.' S''S "N
drinks occasionally corrupted with the
Uisckarge Of chemical refuse into the
Brandywine. The way TO remedy this is
not by the Board OF Health drifting into a
quarrel, with the mill owners upon its
banks. Men like Mr.. Thatcher are apt to
suppose that large community like Will
mington primarily have rights to the
waters of the river before and beyond any
owner Of its riparian rights. This is asad
mistake, and one which may as well be
looked into at once. In law the riparian
rights Of the mill owners may be greatly
superior to those Of the city of Whining
ton. If they acquired them before our
corporation obtained theirs, and that they
now use them Is Of old, it is sheer non
sense to threaten them, as they have been
threatened by Mr.. Thatcher, ct al.


Three summers ago, the necessities OF
the people Of Philadelphia, compelled them
to use the Schuylkil water, SO as to lower
the river, to an unmanageable point for
the boats Of the Reading Railroad Com
pany, the assignee of the riparian rights Of
the schuylkill Navigation Company. A
feet of boats lay below the Paramount
dam and could not go up the
river. Suit was brought against the
city of Philadelphia, for damages
and in fair contest in the courts, the
city lost, and it cost her we believe over
100000, The schuylkill Navigation c.
had .acnpi,~Jugut Ithe aes Of God as it was
argued the people were obliged to use
the water, it made no difference, they had
to pay compensation to those who lost by
their 70 doing.


This led to the development Of greater
capacity of water storage to prevent the
recurrence of like trouble.


A committee of intelligent citizens advis-
ed by competent engineer would be able to
amioably arrange with the mill owners
along the BrAndywine, and immensely
increase our supply.


While upon the subject, we beg to
remind City Council, that there is more
blind 1nulishness upon the entire question
of the water power Of the Brandywine,
than can be found upon this continent.
Within the limits Of this municipality is 10
be found, a combination Of tide water, and
water power, such as would lay the foun-
datien Of great city in the East. There
is more wilful permissive waste of power,
than if turned into practical operation
would supply us with water without
charge, pay the cost Of teaching our child.
rem, and increase the population of our
city $1,000 in five years. We have more
than once pointed out how this can be
done, and we want the people to know,
that 1.-THE of the time and energy, given
to minor matters would accomplish, what
We point out.