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Year: 1876

TO RENT.-A large store room on Aliso
street, opposite the Also Mills, on the
main avenue leading in and out of the city.
Location is good for both city and country
trade, and suitable for either the dry goods,
drug or grocery business. Enquire of f. N.
Bailey, on the premises, or at this office.


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Year: 1876

The n. Y. Times special from
Washington, Nov. 10th says: The Dem
ocrats here have clearly given up all
hope of securing majority of the
Electoral College, and are con-
sidering every conceivable scheme out
side. There is good deal of loud talk,
and some blatant demagogues are offer
ing to bet there will be a civil war in
forty days, which is another way ef ad-
mitting defeat. The scheme which is
most discussed is for the House to with
draw from joint conference to count
votes, and prevent an election. With
some it is favorite imagination that
the affair may be so managed as to
throw the election into the House.
Several able statesmen are devoting
themselves assiduously to the devising
of means to prevent the Inauguration
of Hayes, but they profess that every
thing shall be done according to law.
Year: 1876

The n. Y. Herald has an editorial
demanding the impeachment of Grant
if he has done anything wrong. This is
an answer to the Express and other
Democratic journals which accuse the
president of exceeding his duty in the
matter of sending troops south.
Year: 1876

Last night a strawberry festival was
held in the West Church, corner Of sth and
Washington streets. The refreshments
were of the best kind, the strawberries
being particularly Ane, There was quite a
number of persons present but the ladies
and gentlemen who have the affair in charge
would be pleased to have mnch larger At
tendance this evening.
Year: 1876

THE Paving Commission object to being
compelled to finish the Avenue pavement
by December 1. Having rejected all stone
pavements, which are the only kind that
can be successfully put down IN cold
weather, it would seem that they contem-
plate carrying the enterprise over to be
completed next summer. We hope not,
and we trust that the Senate will refuse to
so amend the bill as to permit it. We pro-
test against having the present pavement
removed and the great thoroughfare of the
Capital rendered impossible all next win
ter. There is no necessity for this course.
As we have already stated, men and ma
terial are both cheap and plenty. With
proper display Of energy on the part of the
commission the preparations can be made
at once, and when these are completed the
roadway can be laid just as well in thirty
days as in six months. II Gems. Wright
and Gilmore were ordered to construct
such a work in war time for the transpor-
tation Of supplies, they would guarantee
to have it completed 10 less time. Let US
have no nursing of jobs, and no loosely
drawn contracts, resulting in claims for
damages in this business, but let US have a
clean, square. finished and perfect pave
ment selected, and then have it laid down
with promptness under the eye Of the com
mission. This, we are confident, can only
be done by the commissioners themselves
without the intervention of contractors


The Latter may agree to do it more cheaply
and with greater dispatch than the COM
missioners, but such an agreement involves
great risk of an imperfect work or failure
of the contractors. Both of these risks
must be avoided. The appropriation is
ample for the cost of perfect work. The
commissioners cannot afford to risk their
professional regulations for the benefit of
any patentee or contractor. We, in COM
mon with many other taxpayers, believe
that the laboring classes of the city and the
property holders on the Avenue will alike
be benefited more largely by an avoidance
of the contract system. And we insist that
the commissioners owe it to these interests
in common with their own professional
safety to be guided by these suggestions.
Year: 1876

TILDEN accepts the Constitutional
amendments in his letter, and he demanded
that the ex Confederate House should do
so once more. So that body went through
the farce again yesterday with all the act
andname implies is, throw dust in the
eyes of the Northern people. TO aid in car
Tying the election. 1t is too late. The
Iabors of the banditti have forestalled the
effort. >
Year: 1876

THE National Labor Council last night
repudiattd Sam F. Carey as the candidate
for Vice President on the Independent
ticket, which that organization was pledged
to support Poor Sam has a hard road to
travel. He has been repudiated by the
Temperance folks and by the Democrats,


and now by the ''hard- fsted sons Of toll
Year: 1876

Read Tilden's letter and then read Hayes
and see the difference between a statesman
and political thingumbob.- Boston Post.


1t is said that the Governor gets furious when
he is called Sammy, but to have the Post call
him thingumbob will kindle the fire of wrath
in his bosom until it consumes hours in coun-
termanding his orders to pay that paper so
much for each editorial insertion.
Year: 1876

very important decision was rendered by the Su-
prone Court, General Term, yesterday, in the OF
The Gaatin National Bank against the Commissioners
OF Taxes The Court holds that the banks shares
were rightly assessed by the Commissioners on their
par value and that the act OF Congress OF 1S45 does
not Affect this case that the assessment may he made
upon sum exceeding the par value. The tax was i'm
posed upon standard ol value ascertaincd by the
Dank statement ana the mmssioner3 acted properly
in including both the reserve and surplus. The case
came up writ OF certiorari by the Gallatln Ma
tonal Bank and the writ Is dismissed The opin.
Ion was rendered by Judge Brady.
Year: 1876

PROF w. G. Sumner.


We have dragged through two gears of
hard times; we have paid the price of the re-
sumption of specie payments. We have gona
through the worst inhationists could possibly
prophesy would be the result of contraction.
Values have shrunk at the touch of the lack
of confidence. Paper money is redundant,
and vast amount could be taken out of circu-
lation and funded in long bonds without the
country feeling it, The rate of discount
might be raised two or three points. The
country is like newsboy in clothes much too
large for bin. The contraction that has taken
place has been due to banks suVendering
their circulation. The banking issues have
been reduced by $25, 600, 900 Or $4,000, 900.
We can resume specie payments because we


have gone through the disaster consequent
upon it. Now we desire to be rid of this pa
per, and We do not propose to aid men who
have had no opportunity to get out of debt by
throwing their losses on their creditors In
hation would meet their purpose exactly.
Year: 1876

From the Chicago Times.


Reduced to plain and simple statement of
fact, what Blaine did was this He accepted
the challenge thrown down by the JEFF. Davis
amnesty bill, forced the Confederates from
their ambush of virtuous professions, and
gave them chance to exhibit themselves be-
fore the country in the character of Bourbon
reactionists, defending the infamy of Ander-
sonville, and contending for the principle for
which the champions of Andersonville inaug-
urated civil war; thus acknowledging their
political guide to be the words of their chief
tain who declares that ''the principle for
which we conteaded is bound TO reassert
itself, though it be at another time and in an
1ffef- Way
Year: 1876

SPEAKER KEER, it is stated, received over
one hundred and fifty dispatches in one day,
from his party friends, begging him, for heav-
ems sake, to stop off the amnesty debate, as it
was doing the party great harm. But what
difference does If make? Whatever The
House does is sure to injure the party, and It
might as well do the injury one way as an
other.
Year: 1876

Theodore Hook was once asked fora
contribution to the treasury OF the So
ciety for the conversion OF the Jews.
He said he was quite unable 20 give
any money, but II the society wouio
send him Jew he would do his 1estso
convert him.
Year: 1876

1t has been observed by frequenters of
watering places that the female swim
mer never learns to use her other limbs
as she does her arms. This fact should
be considered by the streng minded sis
terhood as natural proof that lovely
woman's mission is to embrace and not
10 kick.
Year: 1876

We are afraid the friends of monarch
ical system of government fail to do Justice
to the royal virtues of the late lamented
Sultan of Turkey. When he fell his coun-
try was impoverished and it's debts dishon-
ored. But this thoughtful monarch had
millions upon millions slowed away in his
cellars. When he was king there was no
department of his empire SO we'll protected
as his menagerie Of wild animals. When he
was deposed he went into seclusion with
fifty four boat loads of women In fact,
since the death of the first gentleman of
Europe, His Revered and Gracious Majesty
George W., whose memory is so dear to the
present royal family that the Queen resent
ed the Grevilla Memoirs as an affront, there
has been no king who has shown himself so
true a representative of the royal quality as
this Sultan. He did what he pleased, had
everything his own way, and allowed the
country to go the devil He was king by
"the grace Of God" We hope that his
character will receive justice at the hands
of some of the eloquent admirers of royal
system.
Year: 1876

Plaids will be out Of style after this
year.


A revolution in the shapes of hats Is pre-
dicted. E --


Parasols are made with vlniagrettes at tho
top of the handle.


False hair is not invested in to any great
extent at present.


Kate Field is expected home before long
to marry an American critic.


Ladies who adopt the fashionable mourn
ing must wear black corsets.
In what key would lover write 0 pro-
posal of marriage? Be mine, alb


Linen goods will be as much worn as
they were last summer. They will be as
varied in colofs and designs as the voolen
suits se -~=-s


The French consider the wearing u dia4
monds on the street the height of bad taste;
and young lady, unmarried, who wore
jewels, would be looked On as Q paruea'a.


"Mamma," asked prececious youth at
the tea-table the other evening, after long
and yearning gaze toward plate OF dough
nuts, ssMamma, do you think could stand
another one Of those fried holes ?n She
thought he could. @


A remarkable trial has been had at Des
Moines Iowa, which lasted two weeks, be-
fore Judge Dillon, in which widow sued
for dover interest in her husbands estate,
valued at 100000, and in which she was
confronted with divorce granted sixteen
years ago, which she says she never heard
Of and knows nothing about. Over hun
dred witnesses were examined, and their.
testimony was SO directly conflicting and
contradictory that the jury could not agree,
and it is said twelve men can never be found
who will arrive at single and united opin-
ion upon it.


Alabama Baptist No woman viii love a
man any better for being renowned or
prominent. Though he be the first among
men, she will be the prouder, not fonder; as
is Otter the case, she will not even be proud
But give her love, appreciation, kindness,
and there is no sacrifice she would not make
for his content and comfort. The man who
loves her well is her hero and her king. No
less hero to her, though he is not to any
other !; no less a king, though his only king
dom is her heart and home. 1t is a mans
own fault if he is unhappy with his wife. in
nine cases out of ten. It is very excep-
tional woman who win not be all she can be
to an attentive husband, and very excep-
tional one who will not be very disagreea-
BILE if she finds herself willfully neglected.
1t would be easy to hate man who, having
bound woman to him, made no effort to
make her happy; hard not to love one who
is constant and tender, and when woman
loves she always strives to please. The
great men of this world have always been
Wretched in their domestic relations While
common men have been exceedingly happy.
The reason is plain. Absorbed in them
selves those who desire the world s applause
were careless of the little world at home,
while those who had none of it's egotism
stroye to keep the hearts that were their
own and were happy in their tenderness.
Year: 1876

THE object of M. Blackburns resolu-
tion calling on the President for informa-
ton regarding the performance Of official
acts at other places than at the seat of Gov,
crnmeut is not exactly apparent, but the
surmise is involuntary that the New York
Worlds frequent demand that the Prcs:-
dent shall be impeached on account Of his
occasional temporary absence from Wash
IDgton may have something to do with it.
Year: 1876

Mr.. RANDALL's efforts to collect and
disburse eight hundred TO one thousand
millions per annum as cheaply as he could
one to two hundred millions are likely to
prove a failure. Any practical business
man would have known that from the
start, and would never have proclaimed to
the contrary just upon the New York
World as authority. Mr.. Randall is not
the first man who has found 1t the most
expensive way to bore large hole to use
a small auGur.
Year: 1876

CONNECTICUT seems TO be IN doubt as to
the final result-but there is no doubt
about the fact that the Republicans have
made great gains. The nutmeg State al
ways did do greater things than she
promised, and next November, when the
real contest occurs, will undoubtedly do
battpr
Year: 1876

THERE must have been some Republican
members of the Independent Press gang in
the lead at Mstamoras the other day, when
the Government troops pronounced" and
went over to the enemy.
Year: 1876

When it was found that Senator Beck:was
interested in the Kentucky mule case the in
situations against Secretary Bristow suddenly
stopped, and when it was discovered that Pen.
dleton was concerned in the railroad claim the
cry about Republican corruption moderated.
The interest in the investigation thus appears
to depend altogether on who is getting butted
BY the ram.
Year: 1876

"What do you mean, YOU little ras-
CALI" exclaimed an individual to an
youth who had seized him
by the nose on the street ooh, moth
ing only ! am going out to seek my
fortune, and my father told me to
seize hold Of the first thing that
vumcd up
Year: 1876

RESPECT DrE To WIVES. DO not
jest with your wife upon subject
which there is danger of wounding her
feelings Remember that she treasures
every word you utter. Do not speak OF
great virtues in another mans wife TO
remind your own Of fault. Do not
reproach your wife with personal de-
iects, for If she has sensibility you in
flict wound difficult to heal. Do not
treat your wife with inattention in COM
pany. it touches her pride and she will
not respect you more or love you better
for it. Do not upraid your wife in the
presence of third party; the sense of
your disregard for her feelings will
prevent her from acknowledging her
fault. Do not entertain your wife by
praising the beauty and accomplishment
Of other women. II you have . pleas
ant home and cheerful wife, pass your
evenings under your own roof. Do not
be stern and silent under your own
house. and remarkable for sociability
elsewhere.
Year: 1876

lost your pride Coax it back, Mary.
Give up complaints and repiniugs,
and go nestle by him just as be used
to like to have you do. John isn't al
together a brute, if that notice does
make him appear so. Stay by him,
and make your home so pleasant, it
will be model for the children when
they are ready to go to other nests


John, you haven't lost all your
manhood. Meet her half way; burn
the paper with the notice, and help
her the thousand ways wives love so
well. aud when you celebrate your
goldenwedding," your guests will
forget the gray hairs and gathering
years because of the glorious sun
shine of the happy results of united
aims and twin purposes the years
lave been unfolding.
Year: 1876

Is there no place on the face of the Garth
Where charity dweleth, where virtue has


birth,
Where bosoms in kindness and mercy viii


hcaveI
And the poor and the wretched shall ask


ard receiver
Is there no place ON earth where knock


from the poor
Will bring kind angel TO open the door i?
All? search the wild world wherever you


can,
There is an open door for the moneyless
Go look in the hall where chandelier light
Drives off in ats splendors the darkness of


night;
Where the rich. hanging velvet. in shad-


owy fold,
Sweeps gracefully down, with its trim


mings OF gold,
And mirrors Of silver take up and renew
In long gilded vistas the 'wildering view !;
Go there in your patches, and find if you
A welcoming smile for the money.ess man.
Go look in your church OF the cloud-reach-


ing spire,
Which gives back the sun his same look OF


fire,
Where the arches and columns are gor-


geous within,
And the walls seem as pure as soul with


out sin;
Go down TO the aisle-sec the rich and the


great,
In the pomp and the pride OF their world


ly estate,
Walk down in your patches, and find if


you can,
Who opens pew for the moneyless man.
Go look to your judges, in dark flowing


gown,
With the scales wherein law weigheth


quietly down;
Where he frowns on the weak and smiles


on the strong,
And Furnishes right while he justifies


wrong,
Where jurors their lips on the Bible have


laid,
To render verdict they We already made;
Go there III the courtroom and find il you


can,
Any law for the case OF the moneyless
Go look in the banks, where mammon has


told
His hundreds and thousands of silver and


gold
Where, safe from the hands OF the starv


ing and poor,
Lies pile upon pile OF the glittering orc
Walk up to the counter-ah, there you


may stay,
Till your limbs have grown old and your


hair turns gray.
And you find at the bank not one OF the
elan
With money to lend To moneyless man.
Then go 10 your hovel-no raven has led
the wiic who has suffered SO long for her


bread
kneel down by her pallet and kiss the


death frost
From the lips of the angel your poverty


lost
Then turn in your agony upward TO God,
And bless while nc smites you his chasten-


ing rod;
And you'll find at the end of your life's
little span.
There's welcome above Tor the money


less man.
Year: 1876

The CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN
OF AN AGED PARENT WERE ADDRESS
ED. BY HIN AS FOLLOWS, on a
CHRISTMAS MOURN AND AT THE
CLOSE EACH ONE WAS PRESENTED
WITH A HANDSOME AND VALUABLE
GIFT AS A MEMORIAL OF THE &C.
CASIoN
Year: 1876

The State Committee held two sessions this evening
TO take into consideration propositions rendering to
the Convention the OF tho halls attached to the
Grand Union Hotel and Congress Hail.


1t was stated that the ballroom Of the latter had
already been prepared for tho Convention,
seats arranged and telegraph wires introduced.
but 1t was thought 10 bo too small being
capable oi seating only 500 persons while
the Grand Union hall Will accommodate about l. 200
The propretors OF both hotels appears were anxious
TO secure the Convention ~ soon made know
That the town nan could not be obtained, II being IN
the hands OF the Unitarian Convention. Ii was finally
determined to accept tue Congress Hails offer. the
Con ventIon will be held there
Year: 1876

Feeding hens with ia, occasionally
will cause then 10 lay during the
winter Mix hogs hard with dough
is the rule q piece Of lard about The
size OF walnut given TO q hen after
she has been broken up irvm set.
ting will start her 10 laying again.
Year: 1876

After he induced Mrz Taylor to leave her
home the pair would often spend as much
as $500 In an evenings debauch until ne
nnally reduced himself 70 poverty. Mrs Taylorf
maiden name was Carman, and her father and brother
still live In BROOKLYN she only thrtythrce years
old; she had behaved dsgracefully in her lifetime
that no one will now claim the body the town o
Babylon Will have 70 give her a pauper's burial
Wright was equally successful in disgusting hz relatives
and will also It is SAID I'll a dishnnorable grave
though having children living In New York and
Brooklyn Taylor actually rejoced az the horrible
death OF the woman who brought so much misery &c
him and the children OF their unhappy marriage He
Is a carpenter and lives at present Port Jervs He
was employed for several years by the Brooklyn Gas
light Company, and his father was trustee OF the
johnson street Methodist Episcopal church


After Maud Taylor and Mrs Hegeman had eft th,
hotel where the examination was being conducted &c
return 10 the hut OF Mrs Hegeman the driver OF tbs
wagon overheard them congratulating each other on
having escaped from the examination so lightly. 1--WE
were not such foos they said as 10 tell all knew
On this hint the driver returned with them, and The
occurrence being reported TO the Coroner he delivered
Maud to the custody Of the constable and allowed the
woman to return TO attend her sick husband Terrell
is also left in charge OF the constable After besg
brought back the girl told the constable she knew
colored man who could tell all about the burning OF
Skdmores house He will be secured, no doubt, and
produced next Tuesday David and Carl Skidmore
were held 10 bail appear when the inquest proceeds
The District Attorney will conduct the examination Of
witnesses next Tuesday
Year: 1876

WIFE OR WIDOW AND HER HUSBAND LIVING AT


SING sINa-END OF A STRANGE LITIGATIoN-


MRS. KINGS FORTY THOUSAND DOLLAR FOR


TUNE.


The legal proceedings that followed the killing OF
Anthony j. ONeil in this city, November Is 1872, by
James G King, did not end by the conviction Of tho
latter and his Incarceration the State Prison Sing
Sing for e according to the sentence pronounced by
Judge Brady. o'Nei it will be recollected, a
ductor the Erie Railway and with his wife
intimately acquainted with Mr. and Mrs King. Dis
sensons arose between the latter caused by the
duct of o'Nei, who charged with maintaining
improper relations with Mrs King which, however,
both Of the incriminated persons denied Separation,
actively aided by 0Ne and suit for divorce followed
with reference to Judge Sutherland whose Office
Liberty street. Of the Court OF General Sessions
Az hearing where King and bis wife were present
O'Ne testified witness for the latter and all passed
OF quietly but as the party, after adjournment
descending the stairs reach the street King shot and
fatally wounded ONeiL


King It appeared had travelled much over the world
and was man of some refinement and education, but
his had been marked with numerous vicissi-
tudes He met Miss Anna f. Stall in the Sandwich
Islands where he married the lady an only daughter
contrary the express injunction Of her father who
possessed considerable means Dying soon afterward
Captain Stall left all his estate to Mrs King with the
proviso that she should be entitled receive any
portion OF it so long rs her husband survived Ac-
cording to the law of New York person sentenced
u
tents and purposes Mrs King proceeded to San Fran
CISCO where the property held, and applied TO the
Probate Court under the will, for the bcquest Tho
Court held King. though living in Sing Sing,
dead and his wife widow, and, therefore, her
application was granted The final steps IN the
matter took place In San Francisco last week.
The had rendered accounting OF the estate
up April 1862 and presented his final statement De-
cember, 1874 but he failed 10 make for the in
terest received by him during his administration The
Court has just decided that he bound to for
this interest the Of per cent per annum,
compromising annually, from the time he was ap-
pointed executor This decision gives to Mrs. King
$780, 900 in gold coin and 1t seems puts end TO the
Probate proceedings


One thing more remains to be added MRS. Kings.
feelings toward her unhappy husband it Is said, have
entirely changed She desires reconciliation and
his discharge from Sing Sing IL has been given out
that the first use she will make Of the large sum OF
money that comes into her possession rs TO lnsu-
tute Of proceedings for his liberation III she
succeeds 1t Will be strange ending TO very ragicai
episode in New York life.