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Year: 1876

L. was brighteyed little boy about
four years old. His parents were deyotedly
attached to him. They were both members
of the church, and his father was an officer
in 1t, but because of his timidity, had never
erected family altar in his home, and, in
consequence of this, little L. had never
heard his fathers voice in prayer. LIS
mother had taught her little boy TO pray
every evening before retiring, and was
earnestly trying TO raise him up in the nur-
ture and admonition of the Lord. One
evening, after the little fellow arose from
his knees, as he was climbing into bed, he
said " Ma, when | get to be a man, won't
have to pray, will :" g Yes, dear" said
the mother, you will always have to pray
to God, for He loves you" Well, father
doesn't pray, and he is a man" The above
is true incident. give it just as 1t was
related to me by the child's mother. l need
not add that that father has now family
altar in his home. | hope that the eye Of
some other Christian parent who never prays
with his family may fall on it. Fathers,
see to it Little eyes are watching you.
Year: 1876

In one Of his recent sermons at Chicago,
Mr.. Moody relates the following incident
remember while in Philadelphia man
with his wife came TO our meetings. When
he went out he wouldn't speak TO his wife.
She thought it was very funny, but said
nothing and went TO bed thinking that in
the morning he would be all right. At
breakfast, however, he did not speak word.
Well, she thought this strange but was
sure he would have got all over whatever
was wrong with him by dinner. The dinner
hour arrived, and it passed away without
his saying a word. At supper, not a word
escaped him, and he would not go with her
to the meeting. Every day, for whole
week, the same thing went on. But at the
end of the week he could not stand it any
longer, and he said to his wife Why did
you go and write to Mr., Moody, and tell him
all about me 2 never wrote TO Mr..
Moody in my life said the wife. You did,
he answered. You're mistaken why do
you think that 2 Well, then, wronged
you but when saw Mr.. Moody picking
me out from all those people, and telling all
about me, | was sure you must have written
TO him. 1t was the Son of Man seeking for
him, my friends, and hope there will be a
man here to-night-that man in the gallery
yonder, that one before me-who will feel
that | am talking personally to him. May
you feel that you are lost, and that the Lord
is seeking for you, and when you feel this
there will be some chance of your being
snva1 -
Year: 1876

Subscribers willplease watch the date
printed with their names upon the mar
%in Of the paper. The date indicates
the time to which they have paid, and
not the date OF the commencement of
their subscription. Our terms are cash
in advance, and those who, us personal
favor we allow 10 receive the paper
after the time paid for has expired, are
liable to have it discontinued at any
time, If
Year: 1876

The man who would take paper
out of the Office for one or two years,
and then refuse to pay arrcaragcs,
would chase his poor lame grand
mother, barefooted, half dav
through thorn thicket, just to get
q chance to knock out her front teeth
to sell them tor old iron.
Year: 1876

From the Boston Sunday Times.l


If you drop few drops of strong tea
upon piece Of iron, knife blade, for in
stance, the tannate Of iron is formed, which
is black. Ifyou mix with iron filings or
pulverized iron, you can make fair article
ofink. If you mix 1t with fresh human
blood, 1t formes with the iron of the blood,
the tannate of iron. Take human skin and
let 1t soak for time in strong tea, and it
will become leather. Now, when we re-
member that the liquids which enter the
stomach are rapidly absorbed by the veins
and absorbents of the stomach, and enter
into the circulation and are thrown out of
the system by the skin, respiration and kid
neys, 1t is probable that drink 30 common
as tea and 60 abundantly used will have some
effect. Can It be possible than tannin, in
troduced with so much liquor producing
Precipitation, will have no effect on the skinP
Look at the the tea-irinkers of Russia, the
Chinese, and the old women of America u,
who have so long continued the habit of
drinking strong tea. Are they not dark
colored and leather skinned? When young
they were fair complexioned.
Year: 1876

A FEMALE VAQUERo.-There is a
young woman in the upper part OF the
country who is Il credi. to her sex. She
does not, like some OF her sisters whom
we read about in the papers occasionally,
plant and harvest Il wheat crop every
year, nor run dairy, chicken farm
and Il hog ranch all at the Same time,
nor does she skipper lumber schooner,
like one who visited this port not long
since, nor even chop cord of wood be-
fore breakfast, nor kill griZZy bears who
prowl around the house when the men
folks are away-she does none OF these
things, and yet her achievements knock
the socks of all the others whom we
have ever read Of. She parsues the dan
gerous and difficult occupation oi va
uuero with skill and success. She can
be seen in the region Of Pleasant Valley,
fving about the hills on horseback, leap
ing yawning chasms and Iavines, and
riding on the precipitour side hills where
an ordinary equestrian would lhlhK I'M
possible for horse to get ioothold.-
She throws the lasso with precision and
can turn the stoutcst bull over on his
back with as much ease as cook would
flop pancake. Contrary to what might
be supposed, She does not ride q td clothes
pin, but in the insecure side saddle fash
ion. This woman whose performances
create deserved enthusiasm in her region
is apparently not over twenty three years
of age. Ii our citizens want to behold
her dexterity with the lasso let them
persuade the Agricultural Fair trustees
to offer premium at the next annual en-
hibition which will induce her TO come
down and display her Accomplishments.
- Vutiej0 ChrOntcie.
Year: 1876

The reason why the Legislature is un
willing to retrench in its current cx-
penses, is now quite apparent. Nearly
all the members seem afraid to act be
cause they would expose themselves to
attack, where they are vulnerable. The
person who called attention to tie fact
that an Assemblyman had his wife on
the payroll rs one OF the copying clerks,
mad been trying to get a similar position
for one Of his friends, and he had also
dawn an eAtravagant amount of mile
age. There is hardly any righteous man
there to "cast the first stone. - Oahland
1ruAScript
Year: 1876

PERHAPS there will be Il reduction in the
rates of fare between San Francisco and
New York, after all. There is to he an
opposition line Of steamers on the Panama
route, and competition is likely tocompel
reduction that would not be made vol
unfairly. That remedy is far more efftc-
tive than laws to regulate freight and
fares.
Year: 1876

THE Plymouth Church people have not
succeeded in making Bowen tell what he
knows about Beecher. He will not sub
init his testimony before tribunal of that
kind, but will do it before any that viii
hear both sides, and which has no: in ad
vance declared that no evidence whatever
would shake their faith in the innocence
Of the accused
Year: 1876

Two weeks ngo last Sunday IA young
man named Hickey was carrie away by
an avalanche of snow somewhere above
San Juan North. He was ditch tender
on Mark ZalIerbach's ditch, and was at
tending to his duties when the avalanche
came down upon him and swept him of.
Year: 1876

A NEWSPAPER is window through
which men hook out oa all that is going
on in the world without n new paper Il
mau is shut IN a small room and knows
little or nothing oi what is happening out
sideothimseIi. In oar day the new w-papers
keep pace with history and record it. a
new -paperwiIi kcepa sensible man in sym
pathy with the worlds current history
san enfoIding encyclopedias an unbound
book, forever Issuing and never finished.
Year: 1876

THE San Jose papers-the home Of
Senator Laine-say that gentleman has
not been guilty of taking or reading his
own county newspapers, and are not sur
prlsed in finding that gentleman ready
ana anxious to destroy the vital liber-
ties Of the press.
Year: 1876

The work has been begun after long and eareful preliminary labor and with the most ample resources for carrying it on to . successful termination. None of the original stereotype plates have been
Year: 1876

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 The great political revolutions of the last decade with the natural result of the lapse of time, hav brought into public yiew e multitude of new men whose names are in every ones mouth, and of who's lives every one is curious to know the particulars Great battlee have been fought and important siege maintained, of which the details yet preserved only ill the newspapers in the transient publications of the day but which ought to take their place il
Year: 1876

E&- Horatio Seymour says: Men
should not seek to hand down sectional
hate as a heritage to those who are com
ing upon the stage Of political action
and merely to CRAFTY their passions.
The Republicans do this because they
are forced to do it to save themselves
from discussions fatal to them. This
Government cannot be we'll administered
until it acts in harmony with the change
in business and social habits brought
about by the condition Of eur afflirs.
These changes are not temporary; they
must become for many years the settle
usages of our people. Official life must
come down to them and must 60 through
the same struggles and trials which have
brought down private life to safer rules
of conduct In no other way can the
weight of taxation be lifted off from
labor and commerce The Republicans
may say they sec and feel this. | hope
and b elieve as party they d.; but they
cannot correct evils in the face of their
own acts and of the solemn declarations
in their Conventions, that their policy in
The past has been wise and benefcent
They demand in their resolutions that
the people shall at this election approve
OF what they have done in the past and
commend it foE future guidance. Two
years ago they resisted the election of
Democratic House of Representatives.
That body may not always have acted
wisely or we'll, but no man denies that
its exposures OF wrong, the reforms
which it made and the reforms which It
induced Republican officials to make were
of the utmost importance t. The Ameri-
eau people.
Year: 1876

One of the most ludicrous scenes that
ever transpired took place this morn ing
between j and o'clock The names of
the parties are not obtainable at this writ
ing, as the police are out looking for a
thief who figured in the occurrence, and
not until he is captured will the names be
made public.


Two burglars entered a gentleman's
room this morning, which is in a build
ing near the corner of Sixth and Locust
streets. The gentleman was sleeping
soundly at the time the thieves entered
his room but was soon awakened by their
movements. He comprehended the sit
uation at once and Just in time to see the
burglars start out of the room, taking his
pants with them. Notwithstanding the
fact that the gentleman had nothing on
him save short cut knit shirt, that reach
ed only TO the small of his back, he STAR
ted alter the thieves.


The bottom OF the stairs was soon reach
ed, and up the street the thieves flew. with
the gentleman in his natural garb close
pursuing 1t was a merry sight. indeed
At every jump the close cut shirt shifted
up little higher until he reached the cor
ner of Seventh and Locust, when it had
crawled up into graceful roll lie ban
dage under his arm-pits But being free
from the usual habiiments he gained
rapidly on the thieves and succeeded in
catching the one who had the pants. Be-
ing possessed of great moral courage, the
thief surrendered. especially as a large
crowd Joined the naked man in the pur-
suit and came up as a relief just in time
A police officer was also soon on the SPOT.
and taking the burglar in charge soon
lodged him in the Chestnut Street Station.
The other burglar is at large. but the po-
lice have description of him and his ar
rest is sure to follow.
Year: 1876

The Rev. Brook Herford the new Unta-
rian minister in Chicago, recently said that
after being in this country fortnight he
began to realize what small place Eng
land is, and could understand the feeling of
the American who said that he was afraid
to 60 out on dark nights in England, for
fear he should fall overheard.
Year: 1876

One OF the most shocking domestic trag-
edies of the Centennial year was enacted
in Cincinnati on Monday night. Mrs Rosa
Hummell was a poor woman who sewed
and washed for a living. Her husband, a
drunken vagabond, spent most of his time
in saloons and warehouses. He repeated
~ threatened her life, and assaulted her
severely on two OF three occasions. Once
he filled her bed with Cayenne pepper and
tried to sutfocate her For his recent out
RACES he was put under bonds to keep the
peace, and finally sent to the workhouse.
On Monday evening he returned from thai
institution and demanded admission to his
Wifes room. She was afraid and refused
but he afterwards forced his way in. and
the bloody work began. a lady who lived
in the building had been on the lookout
for him, so rs to warn the nei9hbors if an
attack was begun, but she did not know
Of his presence until screams came from
the closed room The poll e came and
forced the door The floor was covered
with blood The husbands body lay
against the door in a pool of his own
blood. Under the bed was the mutilated
form of his wife She was hacked so bad
ly that the officer could not pull her out
by the arms. In few minutes she showed
signs of life and was carried to the hos
pital where the surgeons found fifty
wounds on her body and limbs Fifteen
gashes We're on her arms alone, anu her
legs and throat We're trightfully cut. Her
thumbs and fingers were nearly severed.
For half an hour she had tried to defend
herself against her lnturated husband,
w H., l.,
The man had locked her in and put the
key into his pocket. When this model
husband thought that he had killed his
vile he repeatedly stabbed himself in the
breast with one OF the knives.
Year: 1876

a y Electro-t ialvanic Battery, combined with the
A celebrated Medicaed Porous Plaster, forming
the grandest curative agent in the world of medicine
and utterly surprising all other Pasters heretofore
IN use: They accomplish more in week than


the Old plastcrs in whole year. They do not pail
ate, they CURE.
Year: 1876

EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-Some of the
papers say the tiremen deluged the building
with water at the fire in the Franklin mill


Such is not the fact. They did not put any
water in the building at all. The fremen
were on the ground ready to do their duty.
As soon as the Chief told the foremeD
to stop they did so. All we ask is to give
US fair show; don't give US bad name.
You have one of the best departments in
tho country for the low sum Of SIG, 600 per
'year-about what it costs to keep engines in
repair in other departments. Truth.
Year: 1876

The remarks Of Gen. Terry on
the bill to pension the wife of Gen.
Custer, were in good taste and
exhibit the chivarlous regard which
true bravery always inspires in the
breast of a soldier. Doubtless
Gen. Terry as the leader of the
Stonowall brigade had ample evi-
denco of both the Gravery and
chiyalry of Custer. Such action
loses us nothing among the better
people Of the North, while it
ennobles us in our own estimation.
The Knoxville Chronicle asks why
SO much should be said about an
act of simple duty on the part Of
eX-rebels and eX>confederatcs.-
Evidently the answer is that the
class alluded to have had to look to
citizens and nonocombatants of the
Union side for justice, and these
not being actuated by a soldierly
nobility have denied that eX-rebels
and eX-confederates were aught
better than Ku KluX, and incapable
of "an act of simple duty"
Year: 1876

held an immense ratification meet
ing last Wednesday evening in
New York. Gov. Walker of Va.


was one of the Speakers. The
feeling manifested was of the most
enthusiastic and satisfactory kind.
Year: 1876

was proceeding to say that the
name of Custer Is familiar to the peo-
death in the peculiar circumstances
his name, but on account of his brill
liant career in the late civil war, in
which he displayed gallantry which
scarcely any eulaled and none sur
passed. l hope this side of the House
at least will be unanimous In paying
this Just tribute of respect to the gall
liant and brave man who has fallen at
the head of his brave followers.
Year: 1876

VIZ were panied to learn that Mr..


f. b Hale had his hand badly Grip
Piled the other day,-whilc fooling
around in caressing manner, about a
moving machine, he got two fingers
OF his right hand caught among the
cutting knives, and he now mourns the
loss Of the end of his index finger,
which has gone the way ,f ali flesh,
and a cash in the next finger whicl,
will require careful nursing for some
time to come. Better luck next time.
Year: 1876

Hereafter no Legal Advertise
mcnts will be Inserted in tho TINE
unless payment is made when hand
ed IN. 1t requires money TO carry
on our basiness and wo are com
PEELED TO adopt the cash principle.
This rule will not be dcvinted from
in any case.
Year: 1876




It was at the second battle of Bull
Run, that a cannon ball carried off q
poor soldiers leg.


"Carry me to the rear p he Dried to
tall companion, who had been fight
ing by his side, " My legs shot off"


The comrads caught the wounded
soldier up, and as he was about to put
him across his shoulders another can
non ball carried away the poor fellow s
head. His friend however in the con-
fusion did not notice this, but pro
ceeded with his burden toward the
rear. What are you carrying that
thing for ?" cried al officer. "Thing p
returned he. "It's man with his leg
cut off" Why. he hasn't any head p
The soldier looked around, and for
the first time saw that what the officer
said was true. Throwing down the
body, he thundered out: confound
him he told me it was his leg y
Year: 1876

Probably there ts no complaint that aff1icts
the human system, which is 50 little understood
at the present time, as some OF the var .ed forms
of Kidney Complaints.


There is no disease which causes such acute
pain or moro alarming in its RESULTS than when
the kidneys fail , secrete from the blood the
uric acid, and other poisonous substances which
the blood accumulates in its circulation through
the system.


If from any cause the kidneys fail to perform
the functions devOlving upon them, the cumi-
nations are taken up by the absorbents and the
causing great paip and suffering and very often
Immediate death. Hence the importance OF
keeping the kidneys and blood In a healthy con-
dltion, through which all the impurities OF the
hOdV
Year: 1876

If you want shaving or hslr cutting
done, go TO Democratic barber.


Ii you want cook or washerwoman,
employ the wife, daughter or sister of
a Dem ocrat.


Here is no prescription, but it is
manifest preference.
Year: 1876

Singing requires of the vocal organs
functions very different from those re-
quired for speaking. Furthermore, a
good physical constitution and perfect
regularity in the functions of the organ
ism, are of inestimable value to the
artist. In the emission of the voice the
respiratory movements must be per-
formed without strain or effort; they
must be regulated so as to make the in
spiration short and easy, and the expi-
ration slow and prolonged. There is a
struggle between the organs which re-
tain breath and those which expel it;
practice, youth, and good health, are
the conditions upon which an adjust
ment must be based. In the highly
gifted artist the larynx holds its Ordi-
nary position notwithstanding the vari-
ations of intensity and pitch of the
sounds produced. Being implicated in
some of the more energetic movements
Of the tongue, it rises or falls, but to no
purpose. The larynx of the singer,
while fixed in its position, multiplies
its performance; the suppleness of all
its parts is matter Of prime impor-
tance. The vibration of the local lips
and the resonance of the vesuibule de-
termine the timbre of the glottic sounds,
the configuration of the pharynx of the
buccal cavity, by modifying the sounds
formed in the glottis, produces the tim
bre of the voice. This cannot be altered
to any considerable degree by even the
most powerful effort of the will. Pro-
fessors of singing injure their pupils by
prescribing in too absolute a manner
the mouth arrangements which they
themselves find most serviceable. Each
individual must follow Nature, and NJ


Mandl had good reason for begging
singing masters never to forget thi:
truth.-Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1876

English papers give interesting par
ticulars of the success which has marked
the life of Mr.. Walter Wren, who has
come prominently into public notice by
the great success which has attended
his pupils for their competition for the
India civil service. His prosperity is
the more remarkable as he has long
been a hopeless cripple. Recently
while canvassIng Chelsea for an cleo
ton to Parliament, MIR. Wren in the
course of speech which he made, men
toned that his condition was due to a
kick which he received from bully at
school for whom he was tagging. He
did not, however mention, all the facts.
Soon after he received the blow, it was
found that he was most seriously in
jured, and his prospects seemed utterly
blighted. He refused, however, to ad-
nit that he was beaten in the battle OF
life, and rejected an offer of e. week
which was made to him. He determined
to proceed to the university and become
coach" if he succeeded as well as he
hoped to do. At Cambridge he acquitted
himself with great credit, and since he
left the banks of the Cam for the banks
of the Thames. he has become the most
successful "crammer" of the day. He
is wheeled from room to room although,
he can walk little, his favorite position
is to lie horizontally on coach. He
married very well, and has family OF
six or seven children, and besides a
very good house in London, he has an
estate in Berkshire.