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Year: 1876

The New ork Observer says that what
ever may be the sympathy that encour-
ages steambosting on Sunday, as a means
of giving our people day of fresh air
we know that the country people who are
visited by these throngs OF Sunday e1-
cursionists regard them as an uL mitigated
nuisance and evil, and goes on to remark:


"The only plausible plea for all this
dssecration of the Sabbath is insulting to
the very persons that it assumes to favor.
1t assumes that we have hireling class
in this country, whose wages are few
cents day, and that existence is to be
maintained only by constant daily labor.
Whereas it is notorious that even IN the
hardest times labor is one OF the
highest of commodities, and that
comparatively few of the most
prosperous citizens are so ready to IN
dulge themselves in leasure and pleasure
as the great number OF those who are
supposed to be dependent on daily toll.
Our daily Journals must know that
more independent, self-sustalning class
does not exist on earth than those who,
in another country, would be called the
working classes. There are seasons
when, like every other class, they are
compelled TO submit to disadvantages
and trials But, in general, they are
lust MS able to take their own time, to
dictate terms, to go and come freely, b.
sny portion Of the community. Few
millionaires in this country are so free
in their movements rs their domestlcs.
But if our New York multitudes will go
out of town on Sunday by the thousand,
we demand, in behalf o! the comfort and
morals of our neighbors, that they stick
to their boats, or empty themselves In
some vas. wilderness"


There is much truth in the above OBJ
servations. What are known as the
working classes IN this country, usually
spend their means in self.indulgence
with greater freedom than almost any
other class of people. OF the hundreds
who drive out the National Road from
this city, every fair Sunday, in So and $40
carriages, nine-tenths belong 10 the class
who work for others. The proprietor
clasa became proprietors by saving their
money.
Year: 1876

The Louisville Courier-JouTnai de-
mands that the Democratic party
snail pant itself upon the one
gr.st issue Of honest government
aud honest men, wherever and wherein
rebel who is not thief ought to. be a fair
match for a radical who is.
Year: 1876

SLEEP PRODUCING MRDIcINEs We would
call erpecaal attention to tho letter from
Philadelphia, on our first page. The Medi-
cal discussion given will be Of interest to the
general reader, as well as to the physician.-
Any one Is liable to accident under illness,
and Chloral may be prescribed. A little
knowledge Of its probable effects may be
worth having. t'T &
Year: 1876

The story OF the absent mind


ed man who, meeting his own
son on the street, shook hands
with him and asked how his
father was, has been equaIed by
the iorgetfulness OF a Wiscon-
sin farmer.


The man drove to town to
transact some business, and was
accompanied by his wife. Leay-


ing her in a dry goods store he


proceeded to carry out his in


tentions. Having finished his


business, he forgot all about the


little circumstance of bringing


his vile with him, and started


alone. Arriving there he put
his horses up, and proceeded to


do the chores.


In the meantime his wife had


learned that her husband had


left town without her. Hiring
"a conveyance she was driven


home. She didn't wait to take
off her things, but seizing a
press board made her way to
the backyard. The husband
had just seated himself on the
milking stool, and had Just O.
pened a conversation with the
cow on the subject of ''h'isting,
remarking frequently that If
was $50 boss"


He was just settling down to
business when Thistling
sound, as Of something rapidly
cleaying the air came from tie
other side of the COW. 1t was
the press board, and his wife
was at an end Off Al instant
after it fell with crushing force
upon his knees. The COW, hay-
lhg CONSCIENTIOUS scTupies a
boat starding between husband
and vile, left very suddenly,
and in a hurry, kicking The
poor man in the immediate VI
clnity Of the vest pocket. The
unfortunate victim OF circun-
stances scrambled upon all iourB
when Che press board again de
scendedy striking him opposite
to where the COW had lett her
tracks. His wife then asked
him ii he would ever forget her
again, and his answer was plain
and TO the point, "Not much.
Year: 1876

A lady called upon her mil
liner the other day to get the
character Of her servant. The
respectable appearance Of the
latter was beyond questioning.
.But is she honest?o asked the
lady. Il am not so certain a.
bout that" replied the milliner,
81 have sent her to you with
my bills a dozen times and she
has never yet given me the
money"
Year: 1876

sign our daily lot, would find it in his

 heart to keep his hands somewhat clean.

 to have his clothes washed at least once a year, to not change his brand of hair oil just as our stomach has learned to repOse under the last brand, to not med itatively pick his teeth with our fork or carefully wipe our knife on the seat of his pants, before he places them by our plate, to occasionally bring Us something that we call for. to refrain from sitting on the side of our table while taking our order, to not entirely neglect us because Brevet Lieutenant Smithers suddenly enters the room and dazes his intellect, to be moderate in the use of musk on his handkerchief, to not mistake our napkin for his hand kerchief, to not fall in love and weep in our dishes, and to never, under any circumstances, smuggle temperanceI tracts or hints to the uncOnverted un- der our plate.
Year: 1876

1 It happened the other day on tho Lehigh Valley Railroad. The trair had just left EastOn, and he conductor was making hIs first round, when Inc discovered a small white dog with a bushy tail and bright black eyes setting costly on the seat beside a young lady so handsome that it made hls heart roll over like a lop-sided pumpkin. But duty was duty, and he remarked in his most depTecatory manner:

 I'm very sorry, madame, but it's against the rules to have dogs in the passenger cars"

 "Oh my, is that so?' and she turned up two lovely brown eyes at him be .seechingly. What in the world shall I do? l can't throw him away. Hes "a Christmas present from my aunt"

 By no means, Miss We'll put him in the baggage-car, and he'll be just as happy as arobin in spring..

 What! put my nice white dog i'll a nasty, stufiy, dusty baggage-cary'

 I'm awful sorry, Miss, l do assure you, but the rules of this company are as intleXible as the laws of the Medes and them other fellows, you know. He shall have my ovcrcOat to lie on, and the brakeman shall give him grub and water every time he opens his mOuth.'

 | just think it's awful mean, so do; and know somebody will steal 1t, so they will" and she showed a halt notion to cry that nearly broke the con- duCtOr'S heart; but he was firm and sang out to the brakeman. who was playing on the stove:

 Here, Andy, take this dog over into the baggage car and tell 'em to take just the best kind of care of him."

 The young lady pOuted, but the brake man reached over and picked the canine up as tenderly as though it was a two weeks'-old baby, but as he did so a strange expression came over his face like q wave of cramp collie, and he sald hastily to the conductor:

 Here, you just hold him a minute till l put this poker away" and he trOtted out at the door and held on to the brake wheel, shaking like man with the ague.

 The conductor no sooner laid his hands on the dog than he looked around for hole to fall through.

 "Wh-wh-why, this is a worsted dog"

 |" Yes, sir" said the little miss. " Did not you know that?'

 No I'm most awfully sorry to say didn't know that;" and he laid the Christmas dog down in the owners lap and walked out on the platform, where he stood half an hour in the cold, try ing to think of a hymn tune to suit the worst sold man on the Lehigh Valley road
Year: 1876

THE Supreme Court of Vermont has rendered a significant decision in the case of the Roman Catholic school children of Brattleboro, Vt, who on "Corpus Christi" day, by order of their parents, refused to attend the public schools, and were in consequence eX- pelled. X bill in chancery was brought io restrain the School Board from car ryinr the order of expulsion into effect, but was dismissed by the court which holds that tic rule requiring the chll- dren to attend was legally made by the School Board, and that the refusal to excuse them was not such an lnterfer- ence with the liberty of conscience as to make the rule in conflict with the Constitution; that the holding of a ses- sion of the school on the day was no more illegal than it would have been to hold a town meeting at the same time :; that the school laws are made for all persons, and, as it did not conflict with the Constitution, the rule was legal and and of binding force.
Year: 1876

BILL TO PREVENT STRAW BIDS FOR MAIL .-WASHTNGTON, March 15th.-The House Committee on Post offices and PostrOads has authorized Luttrell to report for passage bill de signed to prevent straw bidding, the main features of which are these: IL provides that in cases of failure of bid ders and contractors, the Postmaster General shall not be obliged to run up the list of bidders until he finds some one able and willing to perform the service, but, after giving the second lowest bidder the preference, if his bid is not considered too high, the Depart ment may offer the contract to any out side party at price not exceeding the next to the lowest bid on the list. The bill will also provide that no bonds shall be accepted which do not explic- itly embody satisfactory answers to the various prescribed interrOgatories relat ing to location, value, and freedom from membranes of the real estate alleged to be owned by the bOndsmen.
Year: 1876

How TO MAKE A NICE GRL.-First get your girl (N. B.-She mustn't be an old girl, but young one, nice and tender.) Bring her up from early ln- fancy on a strict diet of hot pickles cold brandy and water, and Ouida's novels. Send her to a fashionable boarding school to be finished oil, and when she comes home for the holl- days, carefully develop her latent love for dress, extravagant habits, and fond ness for flirtations. Buy her the Slang Dictionary, and let her go everywhere and do everything she likes. By the time she is twenty-One she will be quite a nice girl.
Year: 1876

A CoRREsPoNDENT of the New York Herald wants to know how he may get through the conventionallty, which compels him to leave his girl at hali mast ten,-and that paper tells him to rive a minister $4.50, and put stop To it.
Year: 1876

Our stock has been selected with great care by one of the firm of most

 EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE and with especial reference tO the require ments Of THIS MARKET. We are conn., dent we meet the necessities of our custO- mers at as REASONABLE RATES as any house in the Territory.

 To examine our stock and PRICE OuI goods, will Do to purchase.

 FULLY, OCHOA &CO.
Year: 1876

About 8 o'clock the other morning ono OF
oar most active business heard W say: am
going to be worked death again to-day. I've got TO
get tnat letter tie PosOcc before night and IL Ism
directed yet, and there Is stamp on 1t either fnat
will take an hour I'D then will be too late To go to the
Post Office except In mack and there Is nobody about
TO help me INTO IT. And lac sighed like furnace-St
Louis Globe Democrat
Year: 1876

lily, and now offers him the hand of
Miss Princess, who is extremely
beautiful, and wears a diamond
studded girdle that would ransoma
king. He promises Morris count
less treasures from his diamond beds
and gold fields, and the help of his
whole tribe in collecting specimens;
but his pride is pitched in a royal
key, and before marriage can take
place he insists that the son of
science shall take the Indian beauty
to his American home as a sister and
obtain the consent of his parents
to the match. The father runs a
10xl2 lamp-store here, and though
he cautioned Ernest not to get
mixed up with any of those girls
down there, he shows a disposition
to favor this diamond future for
his son.
Year: 1876

Olive Logan writes: Girls, at
tend to your couture. No matter
how simple your dress is, look out
for your capillary adornments and
all will be well. Avoid, if possible,
all false hair about the face. Cork
screw curls, ventilated scratches,
and bogus bangs look well on the
stage or under a veil, but they give
age when the wearer is subjected to
inspection. A tiny lock of your
hair shipped off at the top Of your
noses bridge, and rolled up in a
ring with a hair-pin at night will
make a pretty little curly fringe
across your forehead in the morn
ing, and will never be noticed, even
if the fashion changes and you wish
to brush the short locks back with
the rest. Comb up the back hair
as high asyou can without dragging
your arms out of their socket; en-
circle the top of your Uranium with
a smoothly-brushed and neatly
plated braid, and in the vacuum
adherence which this performance
creates stick a high comb or vol
luminous bow, and you have a coif-
fure."
Year: 1876

! in 1884, when we had conquered a great


deal Of the Southern States. when


Grant had pushed his army through


the Wilderness. when the great Sher-
man had almost completed his great


march (applause and when he had


recaptured from a powerful foe more


territory than the half OF Europe, this


same Gov. Tilden goes TO Chicago and


there puts In this cowardly resolution.


'The war is q failure and must cease. ="


Kisses.


Now, the time may have come when


the American people are perfectly sat


isfied 10 see such man occupy the


highest gift in their possession. They
may 80 far have forgotten the wounds


OF the war and the slaughter of those
noble boys who gave their lives to save
the Nation, that they were willing TO
see placed in the Presidential chair q
man who never struck q blow for his
country in its hour Of need; but do
not believe it. Great applause. And
/ believe, as Gen. Dix said, that il we
all had done as Gov. Tilden did, this
country would be shattered into a
thousand pieces. Let us go forth
from this meeting tonight resolved to
do our duty IA we have never done il
before. Let Ms remember that the war
is over and the country saved in spite
Of Gov. Tilden and those who would
make him President; let us remember
that the appointments TO our Constitu-
ton have been ratified ana are to-day
the law Of the land to be maintained;
let us remember that we have TINS far
maintained the plighted faith of the
Nation in spite of him; let us remem.
ber that we have thus far maintained
our public system of instruction fgreat
applansel. that has been the salvation
of this great country; and il yon would
transmit il not dishonored TO your chill.
dren's children, IL you would maintain
the great principles for which we
fought and for which our comrades
died on the battle field, il you would
keep the Nations faith IA honest men
honest as individuals and honest 10
Governmental you would maintain
our system OF instruction. il you would
reform the Government from one end
to the other, then strike Gov. Tilden
and the Democratic party as our faith
ers struck for freedom. Applause.
Strike il as we struck the black curse
Of slavery in the hours of rebellion;
strike it ns you would strike for your
homes and your fireside. God and your
native land. Prolonged applause.
Year: 1876

JOHN TYLER jr., who served the Confeder-
ate cause, supports Hayes and Wheeler. In
long letter he says: "There is an alarming
feature associated with the support of Mr.
Tilden which, as Southern man, seems to
me full of dreadful import, prognosticating
another deluge of blood and destruction to
the South, while shaking the Union to its
center. The Southern states are arrayng
themselves sectionally again on the Presiden-
tial issue, as in 1860, relying upon the De-
mocracy of the North and West again to
stand firmly by them in the event of further
sectional antagonism. will not follow them
in this combined course of hypocrisy, du-
plicity and madness, and 1 make the predic-
tion here aud now that should they succeed,
as they hope to do, in making the South a
unit for Tiden, there will quickly arise in the
North another general and determined effort
upon the Government in reference to the ne
groes, to expel the negroes from the South,
reducing the value of the lands of the South
to mere song. And again will their Demo
cratic allies in the North and West prove not
only treacherous to them, as in the recent
war, but become again, as then, a part of the
moving mass impetuously descending upon
them to complete their ruin."
Year: 1876

Between this time aud the close of the
polls, hundreds of reports will be started
with the hope of creating panic among the
wavering. 1t is the same old foe. He is
desperate with that rage which is begotten
of anticipated defeat. The Democratic lead
ers see the handwriting on the wall. They
only hope to break the force of their defeat
by keeping down the Republican majority.
Every vote they can get from Republican
that they can keep away from the polls
counts them one. To accomplish this pur-
pose there will be no limit to their malice or
falsehood. Republicans have never been
greatly demoralized by the blank cartridges
of the Argus and its claquers.
Year: 1876

Things to be Remembered.


All good citizens should bear in mind the
following facts:


That the full vote of the slams will be poll
ed to-day solid for the Democratic ticket.


That every voter who cannot read his bal
lot will be at the polls to-day, and that nine
teen-twentieths of them will vote the Demo.
cratic ticket.


That every man who thrives by the in
crease of the vices and crimes of the commu.
nifty will be at the polls to-day and vote the
Democratic ticket.


That every voter who is opposed to free
schools, to public intelligence and the moral
elevation OF society, will be at the polls to day
to vote the Democratic ticket.


The good citizen should, therefore, meet
this mass of ignorance and vice at the polls
and defeat it as they can by voting the Re-
publican ticket.
Year: 1876

IN the war for the Union $4,000 Union
soldiers were enlisted in Kentucky. All who
survived are now politically ostracised in that
state, while service IN the Confederate army
is the paramount and prerequisite qualifica-
ton for Office. This is the rule which North
ern Democrats are working to bring into the
National administration, by placing the solid
Confederacy in power.
Year: 1876

Hon Stewart L. Woodford of New York,
in late speech declares this most important
truth: "Beeve nae, speak the words of
soberness and truth, when I tell you that
this day the chief danger to this people lies
not in Democratic success, not in Republican
defeat, but in the criminal neglect of their
personal political duty by the educated and
the good. Educated brain and intelligent
virtue always rule among men when they
will When they do not, it is simply be-
cause they are too cowardly or too indolent.
TO admit anything else is to deny the very
foundation on which all popular governments
rest"


V0te and work for Conner the Rallan m
Year: 1876

this morning will be crowded with coward
ly and false charges against Mr.. Reed and
other Republican candidates, which it dare
not publish before the last morning, well
knowing that they are false and can be
refuted.
Year: 1876

The Treasury Department officers
are led to believe that fully one fourth
of the outstanding fractional currency
has been destroyed, by wear and tear,
and will never be presented for redcm-
ton, and that the total amount in ex-
istence. at this time is not more than
thirty million dollars.
Year: 1876

"A scene Witnessed by some travel
lers in the north of Norway. from a
cliff elevated a thousand feet above the
sea, is thus described -" At our feet
the ocean stretched away i'm the silent
vastness the sound Ofits waves scare
ly reached our airy lookout: away in
the north the huge old sun swung low
along the horizon like the slow beat of
the pendulum in the tall clock Of our
grandfather's parlor corner. We all
stood silent, looking at our watches.
When both hands came together at
twelve. midnight, the full, round orb
hung triumphantly over the waves, a
bridge of gold running due north,
spanning the water between us and
him.. There be shone in silent majes-
ty which knew no setting. We inyol-
UNFAIRLY took off our hats; /; no word
was SAID. Combine, if ~ can, the
most brilliant sunrise and sunset YOU
ever saw and the beauties will pale
before the gorgeous coloring which
now lit up the ocean, heaven and
mountain. In half an hour the sun
had swung up perceptibly on his beat,
the colors changed TO those OF morn
ing, fresh breeze rippled over the
flood, one songster after another piped
up in the grove behind us-we had
slid into another day."
Year: 1876

Well, yes, did find a five pound


note once, and as you are so pressing


iii tell you all about it as well as


can L find, though, that it fan't quite


so easy 10 tell you as l thought il


would bet seems so difficult to


know where to begin. You think it


easy enough before you do begin, but


when you've got your paper, your pen


and ink, ,and settled down like,it seems


as though what you intended TO saw


had all gone out of your head at least


that's how it seems to me. I wonder


now whether 1 ought to begin by tel.


ling You exactly when was born, or


whether 1 ought to go back even be-


fore that. and tell you all about nv


grandfather and grandmother, nv un-
cies and aunts, my father and mother,


and my brothers and sisters, where l


came from, and all have been doing


as long as can remember. Well. I


only wonder all this because find it


so often done in the books 1 manage


to get hold of. l don't intend to do


it myself, because I'm quite sure YOU


wouldn't care about IT, and because 1
don't like to keep on talking about


myself. So I'll endeavor to come TO


the point at once, and if ANYBODY


thinks ii at all easy to come to the
point in telling story. just let them
do as l am doing-try it.


Well, it was about the year 1866, as


we'll as can remember-about fen
years ago-iust after | came to Lon.
don,that | was out with my wagon one
morning early, going to deliyer some
Goals. Goals wasn't the price then
that they arc now, aud therefore it was
better for US men. People didn't want
their Goals weighed then, and they did
not seem to think of it !: and when ,hey
was delivered folks didn't object to
giving you trifle, besides drop o.
beer. Now they nearly snaps your
head off if you only looked as if you
expected anything.-Well, this morn
ing Fun talking about had the wagon
all to myself, as my mate was ill, and
very lucky thought myself at the
time, | can tell you'll was cold,
miserable morning, just few DAYS be-
fore Christmas, and l was jogging
along thinking of all sorts of things
Times had been very hard with us
lately, and although l had been pretty
well knocked about in my time,
never thought l should have had such
/ hard job as the one | had got then.
But there, when times are hard, they
Ire hard for laboring men, especially
for them that haven't been brought up
% any trade, as was my case, and |
vas glad to do most anything. | b,
Knew there was the rent behind hand.
md the missus was only just getting
better of her last illness, and there was ,
he echildren-thcy. of course, hal been
neglected while the missus was i'll; !
heir clothes were nearly off their
'acks, and they'd hardly bit Of shoe
o their feei.-However, / felt that
hings might have been worse. WAS ,
n work, such as it was, and that was
comfort. Still thought how nice
would be if had only as much mon- !
y every week to take home as many :
II the mechanics, l met that morning /;
'olng to their work. l never was one ,
o look at the worst side of things. 9
loweyer. and therefore l didn't envy ,
hem. L believe l really felt glad that 8
hey We're not so bad of as | was.
Nell, went on with my load, and ,