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Year: 1876

To undertake to lie down the reports Of
the Associated Press is q heavy under
taking, but the Democratic managers are
equal to jobs OF that kind. The report
about the Colorado election is an illustra-
tion. With O view to breaking the force of
the Republican victory in that State the
most barefaced lies have been circulated by
the Democratic John Thompson in Ohio
and Indiana; but it is no use. One effect,
however, has been to induce greenhorns of
the Democratic persuasion to bet their
money, which they lose, of course. The
Democratic papers that have been circu-
their poor dupes are called on to pay up.
Colorado has been fairly swept by the Re-
publicans. There is hardly a greaee spot Of
the Democrats left in the State, 9 ach branch
of the Legislature being nearly three-fourtha
Republican. Our readers may rely upon
the accuracy of this statement, and if there
are any Democratic dupes left they may ae
we'll be taken in.-Alabama State Journal.
Year: 1876

Experience has taught men who are
subject to severe anu prolonged cold
that there is danger in taking alcoholic
stimulants while the exposure contin-
ueS. The lumberers of Canada who are
engaged in telling timber in the forests,
living there all winter. sleeping in holes
dug in the snow, and lying on spruce
branches covered with buffalo-robes,
allow no spirits in their camp, and de-
stroy any that may be found there. The
experience of Arctic travellers on this
subject is nearly unanimous, as to the
same effect. But after exposure the
administration of stimulan may be
We > teneficie
Year: 1876

The Chillicothe Gazette says that
General WorthiDgton contends that
the peaches are not all dead yet, and
that if they receive no further injury
he still hopes to have good many
the coming season. He says they
were injured more by the freeze of
last week than by all the severe
weather previous to that.
Year: 1876

The PRACTICE of indiscriminate drug
gng can hardly be too severely con-
demned. The effect of all such amateur
doctoring is to unduly stimulate organs of
the body for a while, after which they are
left worse than before. Relief for the
lungs is of a different nature, and is
always a gain, By leaving them stronger
for the rest it gives. Why suffer the tired
feelings, the fever and irritability, that
every form of lung disease, however
trivial, is sure to give, when the magic aid
of Halls BALsAM dispels these miseries,
and leaves one fresh and free for the duties
and delights of life? Sold everywhere.
Price, 81.
Year: 1876

SILVER CHANeE.-An exchange says:
THE fractional currency is to be
supplanted by silver, which will not
suit the convenience of the people so
well as the familiar scrip" We
think ''the people" will have slight
difference of opinion with that writ
er on that subject.
Year: 1876

President Gibbs, the gentleman
who built the double track, steel rail,
broad gauge railroad down the Scioto
Valley about a year ago, is making
arrangements to build a similar road
to Macarthur A ship-load of rails
for the road is now on its way to
this country.
Year: 1876

one corner small round table, COW
cred with red goods, a photograph
album, pincushion, and two. or
three small paste board boxes upon
it. Next corner was taken up by a
bed, covered with good old-fashion-
ed quilt, with high eolors. At one
side of the room stood good sew
ing machine, and on the opposite
side were two trunks, fireplace and
mantel.


Upon the mantel were few vases,
white glass sugar-bowl and spoon
holder for ornaments, and a clock.


On shelf lay a pair of ladies
cloth shoes and near by a bottle or
two of medicine Two chairs, one
of them of the usual Texas raw hide
style, completed the furniture.


The back room, as we could see
through the door when open, or
could have seen through the cracks
in the partition had the door been
closed, was furnished more plainly,
having only one bed and table,
plain and unpainted The ceilings
of both rooms were, as hall. the hous-
es in the State are, of muslin, and
there were no carpets upon the floors,
yet the hospitality of Bob Williams
would make stranger feel "right at9
home. ETHRF -"
His farm, he informed us, was
worth $50 per acre, but the open
lands about him are not worth one
fourth of that price. As it has been
an unusual winter, the grass is near
ly as good as ever it will be, and bet
ter than it will be after while when
the dry weather comes on.


Stock has run all winter without
grain, and is generally looking very
well now. Such a climate as this
encourages laziness, for all that a
person wants is small crop of
grain, few head of stock, and money
enough to buy few necessaries, and
he is happy. The people don't work,
because they can live without, and
why do it when it is not necessary


Yours &c. N AYRES.
Year: 1876

Fruit IN ADAMS Co.-The West
Union Scion says:


1t is now reduced to certainty
that the great mass of the fruit
buds are unharmed, and unless
blasted in the future there will be an
Unprecedented crop, so far as this
locality is concerned at0
Year: 1876

CONSIDERING the usua, habit Democratic
politicians have of eating their words when
ever they desire to change their position on
any issue the vote of the Democratic Sena-
tors on the twenty-second joint rule is a graft
flying surprise. They are to be heartily COM
mended tor holding to the courage of their
convictions. 1t is now settled that the rule
is no longer in force, and the President of
the Senate will open and declare the vote.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and commun-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

SOME of the Democratic Congressman are
anxious to read out OF the party those Sena-
tors who believe that the twenty-second joint
rule is in force. They seem desirous 10 rid
the party of what brains it has got.
Year: 1876

Many Of tho better grade OF Colorado mines have
Gently been placed the list Of tho Board, including
the Cleveland, Hukili and the Lucerno the for
being owned by respectable parties in Colorado.
Tho Lucerne almost the only the list that Is
owned exclusively by our citizens


SAN FRANCISCO STOCKS


The following the closing official prices Of mining
Year: 1876

The suit of Eaathan Sweet against the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company and Aureus Morrison ct al came up
in the Supreme Court Kings County, yesterday, before
Judge Gilbert motion Of counsel for defendants Tor
order appointing Commissioner to take testimony
in Minnesota The action is TO recover large amount
of money for work done in grading the Northern
Pacific Railroad The plaintiff claims that the engineer
in estimating the labor performed, underestmated TO
the amount of 200 900 yards and this he alleges was
done through fraud and colusion with the defendant


The Judge took the papers and reserved his decision
Year: 1876

EDITOR DISPATCH Some months
since an ordinance was passed giving
the Seattle Coal & Transportation
Company the privilege of using a
portion of Pike street, but requiring
them to remove distractions from
the balance of the street. The
Council have been petitioned, and
the Company asked, to have por-
tion of that street opened to travel,
but neither they nor the Council
pay any attention to the matter.
Evidently the rights and convenience
of property holders are of no conse-
quence. Mr.. A. J. Brunn had lum-
ber hauled on the ground to erect
building on the corner of Front and
Pike streets, but owing to his inabil-
ity to have Pike street opened was
compelled to remove his lumber.
Do the Council and the Company
intend to compel property holders
to have recourse to law to secure
their rights? Or have the tax pay
ers no rights that the Council are
to respect? Surely, in no other
city would so little regard be paid
TO carrying out the provisions OF an
ordinance as is manifested in Seattle.


A TAX PAYER.
Year: 1876

A STRANGE CAsE.-The other after
noon an old lady and her daughter
drove into the city on the Gra.iot road
in a one horse wagon, and the horse
was secured in an alley near the lower
park on Randolph street. while the
woman went eff in search of dry good
store. Some boys wandered through
the alley, saw chance for joke. and
one of them borrowed a wrench, others
got pry, and in about five minutes
they had placed the hind wheels of the
vehicle where the fore wheels had been
in the habit of running. By and by the
woman and her daughter returned, un-
tied the horse, led him out, and the
mother looked at the vehicle and re
marked:


"Seems as if this darned old horse
had been kicking in the dash board"


Pile in. mother" called the girl, as
she tied up the halter; but the mother
couldn't. The pitch was SO great that
the seat slanted skyward, and the wo-
man got off the hub, walked around the
wagon, and said:


"I'll bet onions that this horse is
hitched to the wrong end of this ere
wagon ~


They were in a great puzzle when q
boy came along, saw the true state Of
affairs, and he lear ed up against store
and laughed till the tears came. A
blacksmith was sent for, the wheels
properly placed, and the Old lady re.
marked, as she climbed up:


Blamed if I wasn't afraid for one
spell that I'd either gone oross-eyed OF
was losing my reason. just want to
get hold of some OF these Detroit boys!'
Year: 1876

The proposed flooding of the Sahara
Desert is something more than mere
talk. Mr.. Mckenzie, the protector,
with an engineering party, is about to
leave London tor Western Africa, to
make the necessary surveys for turn
ing the waters of the Atlantic into the
great desert. He is confident that
canal eight or nine miles long will ac-
complish the object, and enable the
flooding of the low lands of the desert
to be accomplished, so that Timbuctoo
will be brought within navigable dis
tance of the sea. The opening up of
a vast trade with the interior of Af-
rica is the inducement offered for car
rying out this project.
Year: 1876

When Daniel Drew mourns the loss
of a round million dollars in sixteen
months, and says he is now bankrupt,
before shedding any sympathetic tears
with him, it will be we'll to find out
what kind of a bankrupt he is. We
have bankrupts in these times that
have bank accounts.
Year: 1876

In these times Of political excite
mcnt when the public mind is feverish
and unsettled, when the cauldron is
seething and bubbling, and houses are
divided against themselves, it is sooth-
ing to know that there is still a fair
demand for Mrs. Stoves Uncle Tom
Cabin.
Year: 1876

Old Princeton college looked down
on the rest of the new world, on the
Fourth, with an air of great superiori-
ty. She had just celebrated her one
hundred and eleventh commencement
on June 2Sth, while the thermometer
registered one hundred red hot in the
shade.
Year: 1876

"A simple and effectual remedy for
the prevention OF milk turning sour
in the summer time consists in adding
to each quart fifteen grains of bicarb-
onate of soda. This does not affect the
taste of the milk.
Year: 1876

A New Bedford physician lately gave
each nackman of the town a dollars
worth of soda water tickets in the in
terest Of temperance. Now will some
body distribute a quantity of gum
through our schools in the interest of.
the anti-tobacco society?
Year: 1876

The best vinegar in use for picking
in this country is that made from the
western high-wines. In a vinegar
made fromswood the pickles soon be-
come soft, and even cider vinegar,
though the best and most wholesome
for table purposes, win not preserve
pickles more than a month. All the
artificial vinegars made from acid fail
in this respect, and from vitriol es-
pecially. Cucumbers picked in high
wine vinegar will keep for an almost
indefinite time, and will come out as
good as at the first, after in interval of
several years.
Year: 1876

We are glad that the Grand Jury has pre-
sented the Board of Excise Commissioners
as nuisance. This is, perhaps the first
time that any part of our municipal govern
ment has been Justly and correctly described
in the references to it made IN their official
capacity by any dignified body. Excise
boards are generally nuisances. This is the
common opinion Of mankind In all coun-
tries, without regard to race, color or pre-
vious conditions Of servitude. Straight
haired men and kinky- haired men, and even
bald men white men, black men, red men
and even men with the ''yaller janders, all
agree in the opinion that an excise board is
a nuisance, and such unanimity OF opinion
is the evidence of truth.-Q Z. ID. That
common opinion is, however, we fear, de-
rived from prejudices not unrelated to the
thirst of humanity and the hatred OF bodies
instituted by government for making liquor
dearer. 1t is an odd fact that the prejudices
OF men in regard to liquor are derived in
much greater degree from their pockets
than from their palates, which may be due to
the circumstance that the majority of men are
poor. but only the minority have palates


If it were otherwise we are inclined to be-
lieve that the fact that excise boards make
liquor dearer would be condoned by the
equally certain fact that they insure to the
consumer an article of better quality. But
the case with our Excise Board is of another
nature. The very licenses it gives are an
evidence that it performs no function with
regard to quality, and no other function
entitled to respect But an inquiry, to
which we should be obliged for an early an
swer is this:-When the Grand Jury deemed
the various parts of our municipal govern
ment worthy its attention why did it stop
with the declaration that the Excise Board
is nuisance? And when does it propose
to make the same declaration with regard to
all the other parts?
Year: 1876

Nettle is the man whose case is in litiga-
ton before several courts Some of them
are in Austria and some Of them are in this
country. Some are United States courts,
some are only courts of this Commonwealth !;
but at least one is an aula regis. Some
months ago it was decided that Nettle
should 60 to Austria for trial there, and he
was incarcerated subject to the order of the
Austrian Consul and labelled G. o. d.
Thereupon the Austrian Consul sent to
Austria for the money. But the de-
mand had to pass through several
circumlocution offices. Finally it was
understood to be on its way. Ere the
arrival, however, the time for which Net
tie was incarcerated had expired. There
was rush of lawyers to the rescue. There
were injunctions and writs of habeas corpus
and other weapons from the arsenals of the
law. In the midst of this fight the money
arrives. The sadly badgered Judge, uncer-
tain of his course decides to ''take the
papers" But, behold, Nettle himself steps
dramatically forward and requests the Judge
to release him from his lawyers and send
him home to a quiet life in the prisons of
Austria. We trust that when our citizens
are in search of the next person to whom
they can erect monument they will not
forget Nettle
Year: 1876

Of the lower parts could be prevented and
the laboring people could enjoy cheaper
rents and more respectable accommodations.
Rapid transit would, in less than three
years. entirely change the character Of New
York


ii. A belt freight railroad, double track,
elevated If possible, and traversing the ex-
treme water front on both sides of the island,
from the Battery to the Harlem River, SO rs
to bring the warehouses and the shipping
into cheap and close relations. This would
relieve the pressure, now SO extreme, on
the business streets down town, and induce
capitalists to construct warehouses of such
extent and character as will be needed here
at once, whenever we have a real revival Of
commerce.


III. Complete the canal across the upper
end of the island, which has been for SO
many years spoken of This would enable
the coasting and Hudson River trade to
York, where this vast commerce could be
conveniently accommodated, and where the
products it brings and exchanges could be
handled cheaply and without delay.


These are, in our judgment, the three great
fundamental improvements which New York
needs. They should not be made at the
city's expense, but they ought to be planned
in the city's interest; private capital
would gladly undertake them NIL, un-
der proper safeguards and restrictions.
If they were now planned, null
titude of unemployed laborers could
have work, and their labor would be pre-
pairing New York for that which cannot be
far of, renewed prosperity, which we
ought to be ready tor, but are not. The next
high tide of commerce and industry ought
to make New York, if we are wise, the COM
mercial capital of the world. Nothing can
prevent this except our own i'll manage
ment or wilful neglect of opportunities
which thrust themselves upon us. Can we
not have a Mayor with imagination enough
to foresee the great future of New York and
vigor enough to force the needed prepara-
tions for that future?
Year: 1876

1t is proposed that the Chamber of Com
merce shall, on behalf Of the merchants of
New York, present testimonial to General
Newton for the great service his skill has
rendered to our harbor. BY all means !;
but suppose the merchants and capitalists
of New York make the testimonial some
thing really advantageous to the General
A service of silver is a good thing; but we
suggest something good deal better.
Flood Rock remains to be removed. Con-
gress has not appropriated enough money
tor the purpose. All this work is for the
benefit. largely. though Of course not Alto
gether, of the city. Why should not the
Chamber of Commerce raise enough
money to remove the remaining OBJ
structions at once,-in two years say,
rather than four and at the same
time make handsome and proper ad-
dition to General Newton's very modest
salary while he is engaged on the work ?
That would be a testimonial which the Gen.
eral would appreciate. Three hundred
thousand dollars is the sum needed, we be-
lieve We may wait some years before Con-
gress will give that amount in addition to
what it has already given; why not raise it
here by subscription and let General New
ton complete without delay what he has SO
we'll brought forward?


The city needs nothing SO much as we'll
matured plan tor the Harlem River improve
ment and the proper organization of its
docks and warehouses. Why should not
the Chamber Of Commerce ask General
Newton for plan on which these and
other harbor improvements, required
to accommodate our growing COM
merce, could be systematically carried out !?
For such plan the General could be and
ought to be handsomely paid, and by it the
city would be very greatly benefited, and
such employment in the line of the profess
sion in which he excels would be proper
testimonial to the General. We do not OBJ
ject to the customary service of silver let
that come as a matter Of course. But to
enable him 10 go on with his work of i'm
provement would, we do not doubt, be even
more welcome to the man who has done so
much for our harbor.
Year: 1876

traoe-a lame blacksmith whose limp
excited inextinguishable laughter in
Olympus-a fact which indica' es that
the people who occupied the top of that
mountain were, like mountaineers generally.
not well bred. He carries his anvil with
him and wears leather apron. 1t is
thought that he will cut across in front of
the sun day after tomorrow, and, as he is not
afraid of fire, he will 60 pretty close, the bet
ter to elude pursuit or escape observation.
He was once seen by an amateur astronomer
with dilapidated telescope. Wherever he is
it is to be hoped that whoever has dilapi-
dated telescope in the house will polish it
up for this occasion.
Year: 1876

THE SERvIAN WAR.-Whoever had the adj
vantage of the fight in the Morava Valley
last Thursday, it is certain that it was not
much of q battle after ALL The main point
in the news is that, although the Pow
ers seem doing all they can to
bring the war to n conclusion, events
are shaping themselves for continu-
snce of the struggle. Russian soldiers
are still focking to Prince Milan's standard,
md Montenegro seems determined to take
mp the fighting where it was left off three
weeks ago.
Year: 1876

JEROME PARK RACES. The rain which Old
Probabilities said was possible yesterday
made itself unmistakably felt in the fore
noon, and looked so persistent in its deter
mination to drizzle all day that the Jockey
Club was reluctantly compelled to postpone
the opening of the fall meeting until to-mor-
row, when it is to be hoped the clerk of the
weather will come to an understanding with
the clerk of the course and give the public
and the horses chance to do fitting honor
TO this beautiful open-air sport. The city is
full Of strangers, who are anxious to view
such a spectacle as the race course at Jerome
Park affords when grand programme is
prepared.
Year: 1876

BABcocK's AcouITTAL on the conspiracy
indictment in the safe burglary case has
been foregone conclusion for several days
past. and its actual announcement this
morning will not startle the world. That
remarkable piece of villany, the safe
burglary, has been 80 carefully dark
ened by perjury and trickery that
the actors in it, who of late pro-
fessed TO tell the truth about it, were
obliged to discredit their statements by con-
Tossing to bearing false witness at some of
the earlier stages of inquiry. We wish we
could congratulate Colonel Babcock on his
acquittal with certainty that the truth
about the nefarious business at last
was known but the fact is that
this latest inquest has only made
the confusion respecting the crime
greater still. No man could or should be
convicted on the evidence of self-confessed
perjurers. Such failure to convict, how
ever, is not exactly washing an accused man
free of all stain. All the malign, corrupting
Influences that have hovered around WASH
ington since the war seem to have concen-
trated themselves in this loathsome affair.
Year: 1876

Great improvements, such as those in
progress at the upper end of the East River,
necessitate many others which contribute in
a greater or lesser degree to the importance
of the first. The opening Of a new outlet
to the ocean for large vessels through the
hitherto almost impossible channel OF He'll
Gate, develops new conditions and creates
possibilities for that part of New York which
it will be wise to recognize in time. We
publish in to-days HERALD an exhaustive
description, illustrated by a map, of the
Harlem River and of the proposed improve
ments of its channel These embrace the
opening of q ship canal, which will connect
the Hudson River with the East River and
the Sound, and by which new commercial
water front will be created for the already
crampcd-up trade of Now York. The ad-
vantages of such work will be apparent to
every one giving the subject proper con-
sideration, especially when it is executed at
part OF the city that must soon feel the
influence of its remarkable growth. The
future of New York depends on the wisdom
exhibited in the plans for the improvement
of her trade facilities, and none can be con-
sidered perfect that does not include the
opening of the Harlem River to commerce.