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Year: 1876

Experience continually contradicts


the notion that poor young man can


not rise If we look over the list Of


rich men, we find that nearly all of


them began life worth little or nothing.


To any person familiar with the million


aires Of the United States. a score Of


examples will occur. On the other


hand, the sons of rich men. who began


like with the capital which SO many


poor young men covet. frequently die


beggars 1t would probably not be


going too far to say that large major


ity Of such moneyed individuals either
fail outright or gradually eat up the
capital with which they commenced
their career. And the reason is plain.
Brought up in expensive habits. they
spend entirely too much. Educated
with high notions of personal impor-
tance. they will not, as they phrase it.
stoop to hard work. Is it astonishing.
therefore, that they are passed in the
race of life by others with less capital
originally, but more energy, thrift, and
industry? For these virtues, after all.
are worth more than money. They
make it, in fact Nay, after tits made.
they enable the possessor to keep it.
which most men pronounce to be more
difficult than the making. The young
man who begins life with resolution
always to lay by part of his income is
sure, even without extraordinary abil-
ity. gradually to acquire suficiency. |
as habits Of economy, which
the resolution renders necessary, will
make that competence for him which
would be quite insufficient for an ex-
lravagant person. 1t is really what we
save, more than what We make. which
leads us to fortune. He who enlarges
his expenses as fast as bis earnings in
crease must always be poor, no matter
what bis abilities. And content may
be had on comparatively little. 1t is
,ot in luxurious living that men find
'eal happiness.
Year: 1876

To be without passion is worse than
brute, to be without reason is to be
less than a man. Since can be with
out neither | am blessed in that l have.
For if it be not against reason to be
passionate. I will not be passionate
against reason. will both grieve and
joy if / have reason for it, but no Joy
nor grief rbove reason. l will 30 Joy
at my good as not to take evil; by my
evils as not to increase my evil by grief
For it is not folly to have passion,
but to want reason. I would be neither
senseless nor beastly Arthur Kar-
acick
Year: 1876

MANNERS are Of more importance
than laws. In great measure the
laws depend on them. The law touches
us but here and there. and now and
then. Manners are what vex or soothe,
corrupt or purify, exalt or debase. bar
barize or refine US. by constant,
steady. uniform insensible operation,
like that Of the air we breathe. They
give their whole color to our lives.
According to their quality, they aid
morals. they supply them. or totally
destoyed them.
Year: 1876

The remedy lies In the ballot-that
grand invention of our fathers to &C.
complish peaceful revolution effectually
See to it that the election in 1875 shall
give to us President and Federal
Congress who, in the language Of your
toast will recognize and respect "the
sovereignty Of the States and the ma
jority of the people,"
Year: 1876

The foundation. for sound, firm.
white teeth must be laid in early life,
by subsisting on food that contains
the elements which teeth must have, or
they will be imperfectly formed, feeble
in structure. and fall early into decay.
II wheat -four we're never bolted. but
eaten with the bran, as We end it par
tally in the Graham bran, then the
system would be abundautly provided
with the phosphate Of lime, the essen
tial ingredient for the formation Of the
teeth.
Year: 1876

The Turkish refusal of an armistice..is important chiefly because of what it sig nifies as to the attitu6e of the greater powers. Turkey of course has no choice but to do whatever her great neighbors unite in directing her to do, and her refusal to grant an armistice shows that the Christian nations are not yet agreed upon policy, and that in Constantinople, at least, it is not be- lieved that they will agree. The da@ger in which Europe is placed comes not from Turkey, but from the conflicting interests of other powe,s; and every thing which shows their inability to agree upon course of action in Turkish affairs is bad news, because every day adds to the danger that the small quar- rel between Turkey and her Christian provinces will grow into great quarrel between nations that are able to fight.
Year: 1876

While party of men were driving 8 we'll tube, in Royal Oak, Mich, lately, they struck kind of soft stone about twelve inches thick, and after they had drilled through it an explosion took place like the report of 8 cannon, throw ing the tools fully thirty feet in the air. The hole then begun emitting sand and stones, some of them which weighed twelve pounds, and afterwa ard sent out white sand and smoke for about nine
Year: 1876

AFTER GHosT.-A few nights ago a party of Vicksburg young ladies induced one of their male acquaintances to cover himself with a sheet and sally forth to play the ghost on another party of young ladies, which was expected to come along the street. The ghost went out, but, before coming up with tho girls, met young man, who, being cu- rious to know if ghost would stand fire, whipped out his pistol and begun to shoot. The ghost didn't stand it two aaconda
Year: 1876

Prof. Blackie, in a recentlecture, said {: A woman is naturally as different from @ man as flower from Q tree. She will be fitted for the rough and thorny walk of the masculine professions when she has got rough beard, brazen front, and hard skin, but not sooner.
Year: 1876

We have often wondered whether there ia person in the country who does not know aud appreciate the value of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment as 8 family medicine2 It is adapted to most all purposes, and is the best pain destroyer that can be used.
Year: 1876

A prisoner named William Leonard, who was convicted of a highway rob- bery with violence from young lady, received recently in Newgate the first installment of the forty lashes awarded him. The prisoner had been previously logged in 1870 for similar otfense, and the present is said to be almost the only instance in which the punishment of the cat has not proved effectual in prevent ing the offender from repeating acts of violence; and MT. Commissioner Kerr, having regard to this fact and to the prisoners previous bad character, sen- fenced him to undergo two separate foggings of twenty lashes each at an interval of one month, and then to be kept in penal servitude for seven years. The prisoner. it is stated, greatly dread ed the punishment, and frequently ap- pealed to the governor to relieve him from it, representing that he was ill and un- able to bear the fogging. Dr. Gibson, the medical officer of the prison, was consulted, but he could find no reason in the condition of the prisoner to jus tify any remission of the punishment. The moment he was brought into the room where the punishment was to be inflicted, the reporter says, he began bowling and appealing to Mir. Smith and Dr. Gibson to have mercy upon him, and it was with some difficulty that he was fixed to the whipping block. At the first stroke he shrieked for mercy, and urged the warden who was admin istering the punishment not to give it to him too hard. He continued shrieking and crying all the time the punishment was being inflicted, and when it was com pleted he pretended to faint, and he was taken back to his cell.
Year: 1876

Good living is said to cause dyspep- sia; but the most healthy people we have ever known have been among those who lived we'll who ate freely several times 8 day of the most nutritious food. By some it is said that tobacco, snuff, tea, coffee. butter, and even bread cause this complaint but whoever will make in- quiries on this subject throughout the community will find that this is seldom true. In fact dyspepsia prevails, accord ing to my experience, altogether the most among the temperate and careful among those who are careful as regards what they eat and drink, and the labor they put upon the stomach, but exceed ingly careless how much labor they put upon that most delicate organ, the brain. Such people often eat nothing but by the advice of the doctor, or some treat ise on dyspepsia, or by weight; nor drink anything that is not certainly harmless; they chew every mouthful until they are confident, on mature re- fection, that it cannot hurt the stomach.

 Why, then, are they dyspeptics2 Be- cause, with all their carefulness, they pay no attention to the excitement of the brain. They continue to write two or three sermons or essays every week,

 besides reading volume or two, with magazines. reviews, newspapers, etc., and attending to much other business calculated to excite tla mind. It is not strange that such persons have nervous and stomachic affections. The constant excitement of the brain sends an excess of blood to the head, and therefore other organs are weakened, and morbid sensibility is produced, which renders the stomach liable to Arrangement from very slight causes.
Year: 1876

A properly conducted printing office is as much secret society as is Q ma sonic lodge. The printers are not under an oath of secrecy, but always feel them selves as truly in honor bound to keep secrets as though they had been put through triple oaths. An employee in a printing office who willingly disregards this rule in regard to printing office secrets would not only be scorned by his brethren of the craft, but would lose his position in the office st once. We make this statement because it sometimes happens that communication appears in newspaper under an assumed sigma ture which excites comment, and various parties try to find out who is the author. Let all be saved the trouble of question ing the employees or attachees of the printing office. They are "know noth- ings" on such points as these. On such matters they "have eyes and ears, but no mouth, and if they fail to observe this rule, let them be put down as dis honored members. -Erchange.
Year: 1876

Lawyer Northup and myself agreed very well indeed, and the reader will not be surprised to learn that I ultimate ly married his niece, whose life I cer- tainly saved. I have now lived many years in Kentucky, but I invariably keep up the old Northern custom of locking up my house when I go to bed.
Year: 1876

the enemy. The British fell back few PAGES.
A sergeant of the royal army then announced
to the Americans that if they would surreisss
der they should have honorable quarters.
"By what authority" inquired Captain Barn
well, "do you make this promise' What is
your rank p It was replied, 81 am but
sergeant in his majesty service, but my word
is as good as that of any oficerin the army"
This assurance having been given of their
safety, Captain Barnwell and his men sur.
rendered. No sooner had they laid down
their arms than they were set upon BY the
British, with bsyonets, and nearly all either
killed or severely wounded. Captain Barn
we'll received seventeen bayonet wounds, snd
was left on the ground supposed to be dead.
He, however, afterwards recovered.


Connected with this affair of Captain Mat.
thews with the British at Johns Island, there
are several little incidents which are not
wholly without interest. The name of the
second sentinel with whom the British came
in contact, in their approach to the camp of
Captain Matthews, was james Black. He
was brave man and uid his duty to his
country faithfully He was ship carpenter
By trade and resided in Beaufort. One of
the many wounds which he received was
bayonet stab in the feshy part of his back,
the point of the bayonet going towards the
back bone Ths-wounds Of bravo mon
were afterwards dressed and he was sent to
Charleston. In order to keep the wound
open the surgeon, or whoever it Was that
dressed it, inserted piece Of gentian root,
several inches long, in the cavity made by
the bayonet This was not discovered for
some time, and the gentian root becoming sat-
urated with blood, increased in size and tore
the wound asunder, causing great infamma'
tim and much pain. The gentian root was
taken out, but the inflammation had reached
the spinal.marfow and james Black died.


Robert Barnwell was, as we have already
stated, stabbed with seventeen bayonet
wounds and supposed to be dead. He was
taken up and removed to the house Of Rob
ert Gibbs and kindly nursed by Mrs. Gibbs.


This suggests another noble deed that oc-
Cured in the Gibbs family. During the stay
of the British on Johns Island, the family Of
Robert Gibbs were forced, one dark night, to
leave the house and seek place Of refuge.
In their hurry to depart, they forgot an infant,
a distant relation of the family, in the house.
No one would volunteer to go back for the
child. The servants refused. Moved BY q
kind and plying heart, Mary Ann Gibbs, a
girl of only thirteen, faced the darkness Of
the night and went back, more than a mile
after the child. After being several times
refused by the occupants of the house, she
succeeded, at last, in obtaining permission to
enter the room in which the child had been
left. There she found the little fellow sleep.
ing soundly, unconscious of the booming Of
cannon and the clashing of arms. She took
him up in her arms and hastened to join the
other members of the family. This child,
thus rescued by Mary Ann Gibbs, was the
gallant Lieutenant-C Colonel Fenwick, of the
uar of 1910 ..-,..
Year: 1876

The NEXT CorToN CRoP-The published
reports from the Southeast Atlantic ports in.
dicate that the movement of commercial fer
tilizers to the INTERIOR this year, is considera'
bly, larger than last year. This fact is al
ready the basis of considerable speculation,
inasmuch as the inference is drawn that an ef
fort will be made to make an unusually large
crop of cotton. This is not warranted by the
information in our possession.


We find that Northern manufacturers of
fertilizers have made large shipments to South
ern ports. These have generally passed into
the interior and, in some einstances, were Of
fered ut unusually low rates. But the great
er part of the shipments are believed to be in
the hands of agents awaiting buyers, and it
is reasonable to suppose that considerable
quantity will lie over until next season and
will not be taken up for consumption. In the
standard Charleston Phosphates, of various
kinds, no larger business than usual has been
done. In some cases there is marked de-
crease in the amount sold.


The planters are very poor. In this State
there is less money to-day than there was ten
years ago. There is not the means or the
credit to admit of an extraordinary outlay for
fertilizers, nor is there any disposition to force
the production of cotton. On the contrary.
the tendency, year by year, is to rely more
and more on small grain, and to make the
cotton an incident and not the main object of
the years work. This is very generally the
case, we presume, on the South Atlantic, and
our conclusion is that they who count on a
big cotton crop, because Of the shipment of
fertilizers this season, will surely be disap-
pointed Charleston Ne,us and Courier.


How TO BE M1sERABLE.-Think about
yourself about what you want, what you like,
what respect people ought to pay you, what
people think of you; and then to you nothing
will be pure. You will spoil everything you
touch; you will make sin and misery for your
self out Of everything which God sends you.
You will be as wretched as you choose, on
earth or in heaven either.


The proud, greedy, selfish, selfseeking spir-
it would turn heaven into hell. 1t did turn
heaven into hell, for the great devil himself
It was by pride, by seeking his own glory
(so, at least, wise men say)-that he fell from
heaven to hell:-Ksng:lsy,. Sermons.


p8- Out in the Black Hills gold region,
when you buy bowl of bean soup, you take
of your coat, dive for a bean, and when you
get it the proprietor of the saloon takes it
from you saying you only paid for soup.


p9 The total area covered by the Centen-
nial buildings will be about seventy.6ve acres.
which is nearly double the space covered by
the buildings at the Vienna exposition.
Year: 1876

r0r Out in the Black Hills gold region,
when you buy bowl of bean soup, you take
of your coat, dive for bean, and when you
get it the proprietor of the saloon takes it
from you saying you only paid for soup.
Year: 1876

GENTLEMEN:-I desire to inform
you that officer McFadden vest erday
went through my saloon and also
through my residence. He asked per-
mission to go through my business
place, but went through my house in
a rude manner without permission
and greatly alarmed my wife. His
pretense was that he was looking for
man. would like to know wheth-
er you allow policemen to thus inter-
fere with private citizens and would
suggest to you that the sooner you re-
tire such an over. .officious policeman
the better, as he is more competent to
handle pick and shovel than to be
entrusted with the protection of the
lives and propert y of citizens.


JOSEPH RUTTGER.
Year: 1876

WHAT A PbAsT DID.--A little plant
was given 10 a sick girl In trying TO
take care Of it the family made changes
in their way Of living. First they
cleaned the window that more light might
come 10 70 its leaves then, when not
too cold. they would open the window
50 that fresh air might help the plant
70 grow. Next, the clean window made
the rest Of the room look 20 untidy that
they used TO wash the floor and walls
aLd arrange the furniture more neatly.
This led the father Of the family 70 mend
broken chair or two. which kept him
home several evenings. After the work
was done. be stayed homc instead Of
spending Bis leasure at tavern. aud the
money thus saved went % buy comforts
for them all And then. a. the home
grew attractive. the whole family loved
It aud each other better THAI ever before.
aud grow healthier and happier with
their flowers. Thus the little plant
brought real az veil as physical
blessing
Year: 1876

not sleep Tor that internal thing 1C01td
come before my eyes, and if by any for
tunate chance | did get into doze. my
dreams were of fantastic shapes dancing
around me, each one bearing alOft fac
simite of that horrid inscription at
times my mind has almost given way
and have thought | might eventually
grow mad but l resolved on a bold and
desperate venture; / have sold all my
property, everything / possess in the
world, and shall succeed or perish in the
struggle for liberty; have my entire
fortune here in legal money of the Unit
ed States, and the time has now arrived
when l shall make the final struggle"
- The clerk was just about making a
dart for the door, when the stranger
arose, cutting off all possibility of es-
cape, and standing there with every
vestige of color gone from his face, his
black eyes CLASSY and staring, his arm
out-stretched and long, white finger
pointing toward the window, his body
thrown forward and his head bowed
close to his arm, his whole position be-
ing dramatic in the extreme, exclaimed !:


There There There is the demon
that has haunted me for the last three
months-that has made a wreck of a
once fine specimen of manhood; and now,
young man, sell me fresh sword fish so
long as my money holds out or else take
down and demolish that fy-specked in
scription in the window, reading: FRESH
SWORD FISH" AS the clerk again de-
MED having any of the article in the
shop, the stranger dashed out the door
and up the street in frantic manner,
to the great relief OF the clerk, who re-
marked in a more cheerful tone than he
had used for the last few minutes


ga lunatic, by Christopher


The next morning one might have
seen sad faced man coming down the
street, seemingly against his will, for he
would occasionally halt and half turn
back. When opposite the inscription
which had greeted him so often, he halt
ed-a deep sigh came from between his
lips, as his eyes were raised to the win
dow but when they searched in vain
for that which had heretofore caused
them to dim with tears, a new light
seemed to come into them-the form
seemed to straighten and a faint tinge
of color Redeemed the cheek of the man
who was haunted by demon and as
he moved down the street with an elias
tic step, he murmured to himself:


1.-The demon is exercised. ."-POrtLanc


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Year: 1876

BlackwOOd has very poor opinion of
the "girl of the period" 1t asks the
question, "And nowadays where shall
man find sweet, natural girl to rule
his household and air his linen? Rath-
er shall he find young ladies, whose
thoughts, withdrawn by the fashion of
the time from the domestic duties which
formed the daily occupation of their rep
resentatives sixty years ago, are wholly
devoted to the tricking-out of their ex-
teriors, to the end that the gentleman
known as Mr.. Wright may be struck
with the logical inference, that person
elevated three inches above her natural
height upon artificial heels, decorated
as to her head with two stuffed hum
ming birds and a green lizard, and
whose garment Is so tightly tied back
as to prevent her going up stairs, is cal
culated to make a loving wife and a
careful mother"
Year: 1876

B.. F. Lippincott has still very large stock
of plants and flowers on hand at his nursery
and greenhouse on Broad street which he is
selling very low. Ladies call and examine
his stock.
Year: 1876

Some of the newspapers are aston
ished at horses pulling the plug out OF
the bunghOle Of barrel Tor the purpose
of slaking his thirst. It's extraordinary.
Now, ii the horse had pulled
the barrel out oil the bunghole
and slaked his thirst with the
plug, or ii the barrel had pulled the
bunghole ont Of the horse and slaked its
thirst with the plug, or II the barrel had
pulled the bunghole out OF the plug and
slaked Its thirst with the horse, or if the
plug had pulled the horse out OF the bar
rel and slaked its thirst with the bung-
hole, or II the bungnole had pulled the
thirst out Of the horse aud slaked the
plug with the barrel, or if the barrel had
pulled the horse out OF the bungnole and
plugged its thirst with the slake, 1t
might be worth while to make fuss
about it.
Year: 1876

The. La, Crosse Wis Sun. thus de-
scribes the fiddling Of Camilla Urso
and the performance generally in that
town: "The fiddler Urso more than
carved the fiddle. She dug sweet NOR
sells of music out of it, all the way
from the wishbone to the part that
goes over the fence last. She made it
talk Norwegian, and squeezed little
notes out OF 1t not bigger than a cam
brio needle and as smooth as book
agent. But the most agile. flea catch
er was Sixteen fingered Jack, the sand
hill crane that had the disturbance
with the piano. We never knew what
the row was about, but when he walked
up to the piano smiling and SHE'D his
castor intothe ring anybody could see
that there was going to be trouble.
He spit on his hands, spared a little
and suddenly landed stunning blow
right on the ivory, which staggered
the piano and caused an exclamation
of agony. First knockdown for Jack.
He paused moment and then began
putting on blows right and left in such
q cruel manner that the spectators
came near breaking into the ring.
Whenever a key showed its head he
mauled it."iSss z7S7ozk ~of