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Year: 1876

There were two strawberry festivals in
successful operation last evening in the city,
one under the auspices of the Union NJ. D..
Church Sunday School, held in the Odd
Fellows Hall. Third and King, End tho
other under the management Of the ladies
Of the First Presbyterian Church. It was
held in the lecture room, Tenth and Mar
ket, and was largely ATTENDED. M


The festival at Third and King will con
tinue the balance of the week.
Year: 1876

[From the Broekpo-t Nnd) Journal.l


A young lady of this city who was pre-
pairing for q journey had dress made for
the occasion, and as the time for departure
approached she WAS considerably annoyed
lest 1t should not be done in time. The
dress came in due time but thera was some
thing about it that did not exactly suit her,
and tho matter still buldeAed her mind.
The evening previous to her intended depar-
ture, she put tho dre's cw'y and tried to
dismiss the matter hom E:r mind, but does
not seem to have succeeded. When she
arose the following nsrnins, she found her
dress ripped apart, not . seam Of the whole
garment remained sewed, and not cut or
tear In the material. Az no one had access
to It but herself, she WAS forced 70 conclude
that she had arisen in her asleep and rippsd
~ apart, g,ss n
Year: 1876

Work is progressing in a very satisfac-
tory manner upon the Burt lake division


of the navigation Improvement, twelve


to fifteen men being employed at


present upon it by the different contract


Ors. Enough has been done already to
make it certain that the plan adopted to
secure permanent channel into Burt
lake will prove successful. Il will proba


bly, require two or three weeks yet for
Messrs. Sammons and Smith 10 complete
their work in this place, when it will be
ready for the dredge to complete the
work. Tie dredge will probably be here
some time next week. Mr.. Green, the
contractor for the dredging, went over
the whole line of the work last Monday,
and expressed himselfquite satisfied with
the general appearance of the work, it
being rather better than he expected. We
have no doubt but that boats will, be run
ming between here and the end of the
route many weeks before the close of nav
lgation, thus saving passengers from here
a long and tiresome stage ride.
Year: 1876

Yesterday a sailor on the schooner
Mary Merritt received severe cut in the
abdomen from an axe which flew off the
handle while being used on board of that
vessel. 1t cut cash 10 inches long, and
came very near severing the temoral ar
terry. DIR. Gerow was.ca1led, and dressed
and sewed up the, wound, and the man
will probably speedily recover.


Last Thursday sailor at work on the
schooner Manzauilla, loading timber, in
some manner got his fingers caught in
one of the blocks, and had them badly
twisted and bruised up. DIR. Gerow
dressed them and Strengthened them out
for him, but he will likely have a sore
hand for some days.
Year: 1876

Yesterday morning man who had


been temporarily employed OH the Le-


viathan as fireman was arrested for dis
orderly conduct and taken before Justice
Sutton, and, OH being found guilty, was
sentenced to pay il fine and costs. He
represented tothe Sheriff that the captain
OF the Leviathan was owing him, and by
going down to the tug he could get the
necessary amount of currency to pay the
fine.


The Sheriff, to accommodate him. ac-
companled him down to the boat. There
the prisoner intimated that he did not
wish the captain to know of his being al
rested, as he would lose his place and re-
quested the officer TO wait on the dock
while he went OH board and rot the
money. This the Sheriff kindly consent
ed to do.' The man went aboard, and in
stead OF applying for money to pay his
fine, he made his wav TO the
stern of the boat and jumped off and
struck out to swim across the river. thus
making bold strike to gain his liberty.
but the current carried him out to the
mouth of the river, where he managed TO
gain spile, to which he clung, he hay
ing had narrow escape from drowning.
sinking twice. The Sheriff engaged a
couple of men to take boat and 90 and
secure the prisoner. -


They started to do so, but upon reach
ing the man and getting him into the
boat, he seized:an oar and compelled them
by threats to take him across the river TO
the other shore-which he had no sooner
reached than he struck out on foot for
dear life, and experienced considerable
difficulty in making his way through the
wet and swampy ground. Upto the pres
ent writing he has not been recaptured.


The schooner A. Mosher loaded with
lumber from Nelson s. Bullen's mill this
week, and cleared for Chicago Yesterday
Year: 1876

The building of brick chimneys has
been very fashionable during the past
week or two. They are not built because
the owners of the buildings very strong
ly desired to do so, but because the vii
lage fathers declared that no stovepipes
should be used i'm the place of chimneys.
The village marshal notified all who pos
sessed houses deficient in these c)ndi-
tions, and the result was new chimneys
was the rage. 1t was wise move and
will reduce the danger of fire very great
T.
Year: 1876

Following the established usage, hereby appoint,
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council,


Thursday, the Twentieth Day of April


Next,
day OF PUBLIC HUMILIATION, FASTING AND
PRAYER; and earnestly recommend that the day
be observed IN manner beftting the solemn pur-
pose for which it is set apartthe strengthening of
allegiance to Him in whose hands are the welfare
of men and the permanence of states
Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta. this
thirty first day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy
six, ana OF the independence of the United
States Of America. the one hundredth.


SELDEN CONNOR.
BY the Governor.


SD. CHApBoURNE, Secretary of State.
Year: 1876

JOURNAL CLERK SMITH is not, it appears,
the only officer of the House whose character
is impeached. 1t is asserted that certified
copies of three indictments found against
Doorkeeper Fitz-Hugh in Kentucky several
years ago are soon to be read in the House.
One of the indictments is for grand larceny,
one for arson, and one for perjury. Report
says that still another officer of the House
was once convicted of an infamous crime,
and that the matter will soon be made publc.
Year: 1876

The Treasury anticipates that it will take
about year to substitute silver for the entire
volume of fractional currency, about the
same time occupied by paper renewal. 1t
is probable that the coin will be issued
through the Treasury exclusively, the cur
rency being sent to the redemption bureau.
Individual holders Of fractional notes will
have to obtain their silver through the de-
postares aud the banks.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The namG 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 eommu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter thinks
that it may with tolerable certainty be as
sumed that nothing in the way of legislation
will be accomplished this year to help or
hinder the natural process by which we are
slowly moving toward the goal of resumption
and stability. A great many projects have
been brought, but none appear to have pros
pect of success. Mr.. ChittenIen's plan to
fund the legal tenders in forty year loan is,
it says, $50 radically contractive that its adop.
tion by the present House is simply an impos-
sibility, unless it can be worked through on
the strength of an accompanying provision
repeating the resumption act of January 14th,
1875. To gain this essential point, the disci-
Piles of irredeemable currency would be will
ling to yield a great many of their cherished
opinions. But the moral effect of the repeal
would be pernicious. When that act was
passed stake was driven ina long WAYS
ahead it is true-but still so plainly in sight
that the friends of honest money had bea-
con by which they could shape their course.
The law as whole has proved infinitely
more salutary and effective than its opponents
imagined or its friends hoped it would.''
Year: 1876

the right to leave the Union whenever it
chooses. Like him are nearly all the other
men of expediency. The exceptions are the
whilom Republicans, like Judge Davis who
must apostatize to win the nomination, who
must achieve treason to entitle them to lead
ership, who must prove their fitness for Dem
ocratic support bv discarding all the princi-
pies they have heretofore held.


Back of the presidential candidates are two
men who are to-day the real leaders of the
Democratic party in the North, and the OBJ
jects of its enthusiastic admiration. These
are Horatio Seymour and Jere Black. There
is no need to point out the records of Bu-
chanan's Attorney General and New York's
draft-rio. Governor. They darken too many
pages of our history to be recalled with pleas
ure. In the South the Democracy is con-
trolled by able and honest men, but men who
cling to CalhoInism as the true theory of the
relation between the states and the general
government, whose severest condemnation of
secession is that it was a political blunder
and who long with all the ardor of lofty and
ambitious spirits to recover for their section
its old-time supremacy in the national coun-
ellis. Some of them have given indications
of capability of rising to a wise and enlght-
ened public policy, but the great majority are
too strongly committed TO the heresy of state
rights to make any real advancement. Poit-
ically they stand where they stood in 1860
Not one decade, nor two, can change the po-
litical opinions entertained by great section
for eighty years; nor do men, merely because
they are beaten on the battlefield, surrender
the convictions of a lifetime.


1t is perhaps too much to say that these
leaders, Northern and Southern, will be so
unwise, in case of success, as to attempt i'm
mediatelJ and openly to undo the W ork of
the war. But they are all reactionis:s, all
fanatics as regards the one great Democratic
dogma, all bent on restoring, as far as posi-.
BILE, the old order of things. To entrust them
with control in this transition period when
the new order is scarcely established, and
while the verdict of Appomattox is not yet
secure against appeal or reversal, would be
measureless folly.
Year: 1876

How GREENBACK PAPER Is MADE
ALL the paper for the money issued by
the United State. Government is manufac-
tured on siXty-two inch Fouririn-
ier machine. at the Glen Mills, near
West Chester, Pa. Short pieces OF
red silk are mixed with pulp in
the Engine, and the finished stuff is
conducted to the wire without passing
through any screens, which might retain
the silk threads. By an arrangement
above the wire cloth, shower of short
pieces of fine blue silk thread is dropped
in streaks upon the paper while it is being
formed. The upper side. on which the
blue silk is dropped, is the one used
for the face of the notes, and, from the
manner in which the threads are applied,
must show them more distinctly than the
reverse side, although they are imbedded
deeply enough to remain fixed. The
mill is guarded by officials night and day
to prevent the abstraction of any paper
Paper Trade Journal.
Year: 1876

THINK FOR YoURsELF.-Do your think
ing. Y es, that Is the idea. Think for your
self. 1t is well to listen to the express
ed thoughts of others, and it is an agree
able pastime to give expression 10 your
thoughts; but when alone, weigh what
you have said. 1t is well to do this, for it
will assist in curing you of false not
ions. and eradicate Improbable ideas. and
in time make you better men and women.
You will thus gain from surroundings.
you will uuwittingly transmit to tne ris-
ing generation. aud the result will be
that you will do your share in the glor
Gus work OF eleyating the human family
Do your own thinking
Year: 1876

terrible to her. What might be the
next thing undertaken she could
not soy. Much against her incli-
nation she felt compelled to consult
the Judge on the subject, who gave
her to understand that as she had
accepted payment for the rooms in
advance for six months, so long as
they we're not noisy, she could OBJ
tain no relief. Indeed" said the
Judge, "you need not be so squsm.
ish about it. This man is . gen.
tlsman, and the best class Of public
men are among his clients. You
could get great deal out of him if
you only chose"


~ want nothing but my room
rent and decent people about me. 1
have no favors to ask from such as
he, but the good name of my house
is being taken and I won't stand it. I"


"You need not get into such
dudgeon about it. People in your
position have to put up with q great
deal they do not like. If your pres
ent roomers leave you on account Of
the gambling rooms. why many
more will be attracted who will pay
you better rent"


lyon are mean man, Judge,
and can think anything bad Of your
fellows. ! am determined in some
way to get rid of this fellow"


Don't get his ill-will whatever
you do, lie is q bad fellow to deal
with, unless he is friendly"


"You know him them"


"Of course do. We have played
many a game of poker together, and
l tell you what he'sa very good
fellow, il you get the right side of
him"


You own you play poker?"


"Of course; it is the classic game
of California, and all the prominent
men Of the bar indulge little. You
are very good company do assure
you"


Good company never felt in
mesner than with you. NowJudge.
I believe you have been instru-
mental in getting me into tins situ-
alton, and if you do not get me out
of 1t 1 will expose you"


Threats Mistress Hetty, and
against lawyer? You are getting
bold indeed. Suppose Ihave; sup
pose l wished to prove to you that
you did not understand human
nature quite so we'll as you thought
you did, and wished to give you q
lesson. would there be any harm
in it?"


"Not if you took decent means to
do So"


ANY means is decent so long as
it answers the purpose. I will an
swer for the success Of the expert
ment before you get through with
it, and il you will be less particular
as to ways and means you may yet
thank me for it.


To be continued.)
Year: 1876

The New York Her aid pfinrs a dis
patch from Washington that if Bristow
is not nominated for President at
Cincinnati, bold push will be made
at st. Louis, next week, to place him
at the head of the Democratic ticket
That game is played out. Democrats
arc not likely to attempt a "compro,
mise" On a Republican soon again.
Year: 1876

The Democratic State Convention,
which met at Dover yesterday, was
largely attended. The delegates re-
presented the industry and talent of
the State. 1t was general remark
that finer looking body of men never
assembled at the Capital on a similar
occasion before. The proceedings of
the Convention were conducted with
great harmony and the object sought
effected with unaniinity. The Pr1si>
dent, J. Alexander Fulton, Esq, de-
served the thanks of his party for the
handsome and truthful speech on as
suming the chair and the determined
effort to maintain order while giving
the amplest latitude to the freedom OF
debate, that the time allowed; and the
delegates exhibited so much of the
manly and. gentlemanly spirit OF grace
full submission, as to reflect a degree
Of dignity and decorum that must be
gratifying to their constituency.


The contrast between the conventions
of the Democratic party and those of
the Republican party is wide indeed.
The latter managed by grasping Office
holders and aspiring negroes, often
bring blush of shame and feeling
of disgust to those even who have the
hardihood to participate in them.


1t is impossible that the white people
of Delaware should forget self respect
and allow their State or any county of
it to fall into the hands of such party
while its opponent holds forth such
purity of purpose and maintains tha,
purpose in all its transactions so faith.
fully as to defy competition in the
management of public affairs, the
economy of expenditures and tho
lightness Of State and county taxation
In all the other States, where the Re.
publicans have controlled the burden
of taxation is excessive.


The work of the convention was
we'll performed and will be acceptable
to the people. The resolutions reflect
the views of the whole party and the
mass of the white people of eacl
county. Economy and Reform in the
Administration of theNationalGovern
ment is what is demanded for the goot
of all the people; and the dispersion
of the hordes of officeholders exercis
ing police powers and living at the ex
pense of the people who are. groaninl
under the burden of national taxation
Weneed hardly add that the resolution
instructing the delegates to st, Louis
to vote for the nomination of Hon. 7
+. BAYARD, for President was receive,
with applause and met the unanimou
wish of the convention as it does of tn
people of our State OF all parties.
Year: 1876

PLAYFUL.-The Citizen seizes an item in the MINER, with reference to the number of pounds and feet shipped by the steamer Gila and, after running round after its own tail a spell, losses it up in the air and plays with it with as much apparent satisfaction as kit ten would young mouse she had caught and crippled but not quite killed.

 The Citizen is evidently acting under a new impulse and if we could feel assured that such laches of ours as the one alluded to were having the effect of bait of catnip on the dropping spirits of cur contemporary it would be a pleasure to us to afford it simi- lar relief as occasion seems to require.

 ''Asserted feet" is good
Year: 1876

MoHAvE IrEMs.-Feb. 18th :-MineraI Park mill IS running successfully, day and night on the Keystone ore. All the mschin- cry works to charm and the roasting fur mace, the first of its kind on this coast, is a perfect success. The Keystone is still look ing well and turning out a large quantity ot ore.

 Mir. Garfield will resume work on the "63'' mine soon.

 f. J. Christy has returned from San Fran cisco where he took eight tons of ore from his mine, the Metallic Accident, which net ted hin, several thousand dollars. He will at once resume work on his mine, and the ore will be worked here. This mine pays better profits on the amount invested in work than any other mine here, it is only one mile from town. Several large teams arrived from Blackberry with ore yesterday and re- turned with supplies. Messrs. Davis and Jones, of Blackberry, are in town.

 The stage company charges fifty dollars from San Bernariino here and only forty to Prescott, hundred and twenty miles fur, ther, which we all regard as gross outrage.

 found package in the road between here and Cerbat few days ago addressed to Prescott which had evidently been lost from the mail. gave it to Postmaster Cory to forward. this relate to show the care they take of mail matter. The general opinion here is that they are fraud on the people. Their charges are really outrageous.
Year: 1876

WHEN facts are properly placed before the public it matters but little where they come from, and we should not now notice the circumstance of the San Diego Union's copy ing an item of ours on school lands, and giv ing credit to the Citizen, had that paper not repeated the same item in its next issue, wrong credit and all.
Year: 1876

A denier of the original taint Of sin once
stood before two pictures, which hung side
by side upon a wall. The first was the por-
trait of a boy with open brow, and curls
that looked golden in the sunshine and
cheeks whose damask beauty shamed the
ripened fruit, wearing that happy smile
which can be worn but once in life-a
smile whose ripping waves are poisoned by
no weeds of suspicion and break upon no
strand of doubt, looking gaily up from the
lowered earth into the azure heaven with
out the slightest misgiying. From the can
vass of the second picture there glared out
wolllsh eye, the home of all subtlety and
malice and in the gloom of the dim-lighted
cell you might perceive the matted hair and
garments stained with blood chains clank,
or seem 10 clank, upon his fettered limbs
All tell Of the desperate character OF the
man. On these two pictures, hanging side
by side the denier of original sin fixed his
gaze, until the exclamation burst out at
length in half-concealed triumph What /
DO you mean to say that these two beings
were originally and radically the same DO
you mean TO tell me that any amount of
evil teaching could develop that guieess
child into that debased and goddess man 2"
The artist volunteered the information that
the portraits were taken from the life Of the
selt-same individual at different stages of
his history. You know the moral of the
tale. There is an aocelerating progress in
an ungodly course, increasing with the mo-
mentum of an avalanche when the first
stages OF its course have run. The descent
into perdition is easy when the striyings of
the passions are seconded by the dictates of
the viii. Sinner, | charge thee, beware lest
my SIN become habit.--Rec, w. ". Pun
shOn, n. n.
Year: 1876

A preacher was once down in part of
England where the greatest ignorance pre-
vailed along with a belief in witchcrait
One morning he got up early and met la
horer going TO his work and, after a variety
of questions he asked him if he had ever
prayed TO God. The mau said not as he
knowed of he never troubled his head about
such things as them. You're just the man
| want, said the preacher and ultimately
got him TO promise that he never would
pray if he gave him half-acrown. The man
promised and tool, the money, and the
stranger vanished. When the man got 10
work he turned the thing over and over
again. and growing more aud more troubled
with dark suspicious about the stranger he
finally left his work. went home, and told
his wife. The good dame, who was very
superstitious, was more troubled than Hodge
himself, and amongst other significant ques-
tions, asked if he noticed the strangers
head and feet No." said Hodge +" he
had hat and boots on" "Ah said the
woman, 81 see it all now; You don't know
what they might cover. | shouldn't wonder
if it wasn't am sure it was. You've sold
yourself body and soul to the devil, John
| know you have That settled the matter,
and John was knocked over altogether and
he fell i'll both in body and mind. His wife
persuaded him to go and hear man who
was to preach in Mr.. Piper's barn, and who
might possibly do him some good. The
man preached from the words, "'What shall
it profit a man, if he gain the whole world
and lose his own soul - And when he
told his hearers that he knew a man who
sold his soul for half-a-crown, adding "souls
are evidently cheaper now than they were in
those days Hodge saw it all then, and
when the sermon was over, he went to the
man, and, with tears in his eyes, besought
him to take back the half-crown, and after
some ado the man consented, and then knelt
down and prayed with the penitent peasant
One can scarcely commend the preacher for
using this stratagem, but perhaps he saw
further down into that poor mans heart than
we can imagine who only read the story
Year: 1876

On Tuesday afternoon when they were
placed In the furnace the bodies Of the two
sheep weighed one hundred and sixty-two
pounds, making a total weight Of two hun
dred and twenty.six pounds which was COM
pletely reduced to ashes in bulk not more
than would I'LL gallon measure. This e1-
pertinent shows cremation 10 be entirely
feasible, and now the question presents It.
self, will IL become popular Aside from
the preiudices growing out Of habit and edu-
cation, there can be but little said against
IT, The doctor could write volume in its
favor, and give many reasons why this mode
Of disposing Of the dead should be adopted
that would be difficult to answer The sub
iect is now under discussion all over the
country, and, indeed, all over the civilized
world, and all sorts Of opinions are ELECTED.
Whatever the result may be, the doctor has
given Washington the distinction Of having
the first cremation furnace in America


Washington Reporter
Year: 1876

A friend who has both inilrmitics, thus
describes the rheumatism and the gout.
lie says


Place your. Joint in vice, turn the
screw till you can bear il no longer, that
gives you an idea OF rheumatism now
give the instrument ono more turn ana
you have tho gout.