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Year: 1876

JAMESTOWN. Jan. %, 1876.
At three O'Clock A. N. Norman HaIladay, respect
able farmer went to his insane fathers to watch
him during the balance OF the night An hour later
screams from the old gentleman aroused the family,
who ON entering the ROOM found tho son dying from
terrible wound in the throat and the father sitting up
locking at him Beside the dying found a
twoDladed knife with which he had inflicted the
wound


An inquest was held this afternoon and verdict rem
dered OF suicide while aborns under temporary in
sanity.
Year: 1876

MnFoRn, Pa, Jan. 2s, 1870
Great excitement is manifested at the revival meet
inss now being held in the Methodist Episcopal church
here under the direction OF the Rev. r. w. Copeland
There has been a large number OF conversions and
when the invitation extended last night many per
sons arose for prayer Tho church Is nightly crowded
Earnest revivas also in progress in nearly every
township In Pike county.
Year: 1876

The creditors ordered to provo their claims and
choose assgnees OF hts estate session Of the Bank
ruptcy Court In Helena on the 4th OF March next
AN INTERESTING FEATURE OF THE CENTENNIAL


CELEBRATION.


What may prove striking and interesting feature OF
the Centennial celebration Is immense album,
tanning the autographs OF several thousands Of the
leading OF the country beginning with the Presi-
dent Cabinet, Supreme Court, Senate and the House
OF Represen which Is to DO covered with glass
bell and enclosed a safe, with front panel OF thick
glass, through which the volume may be plainly
seen from the outside Il Is proposed TO put the safo
in the rotunda other conspicuous place the Capitol
there stand until the year 1876 object OF curiosity
and attraction and souvenir 70 everybody for the
hundred years Tho autograph album will be accom-
panied by the inkstand and pens with which the
we're written, and, II possible by another album
tanning far they be obtained photographs Of
the signers


The President Cabinet and Supreme Court have
already wrtton their pames and the work progress
ing quite satisfactorily.


Kx-INDIAN COMMISSIONER SMITH BROUGHT


BACK TO TESTIFY.


Rev r. p Smith, ex Commissioner Of Indian Affairs,
was brought back to Washington to-day from New
York by deputy sent by sergeantat-Arms Thompson
and armed with process issued by the Committee
Indian Affairs His testimony wanted BY tho CON-
mittee and by the charged with investigating the
Preedman's Bank failure
Year: 1876

There is o cry of hard times all over
the country, and the financial question is
regarded as one intimately connected
with II.


In discussing this matter We want TO
consider the relation of the people to the
Government, and realize that the two are
one and inseparable, with interests iden-
tical. In speaking OF the Government
we are apt to speak of it as of some far
away power, accessible only to privi'
legged few. Just so long as We indulge
in this fallacy and admit our helplesspess
we shall find plenty Of unprincipled men
to take advantage of US; but when we.
in the true spirit of Republican Gov
ernment, feel that we are equal sovereigns
of great Nation in whose policy and
legislation we each have voice, then
sooner or later that voice will be heard.


Governments in their financial dealings
ore to be measured by the same code Of
honor and stability as individuals, and we
are to regard their financial movements
in the light of political economy. Indi-
vidual interest and local preferences are
not to be considered, but the general vel.
fare-the greatest good to the greatest
number. The interests of some might
call for more currency, but the good OF
the whole and the permanent prosperity
of the country might suffer in conse-
Year: 1876

qlcnce. The man whom VIC trust is Tie
one whose integrity is undOubted, and
whose notes do not sell al q discount. In
such a man we have confidence. It may
be 10 case OF an unavoidable emergency
that he was obliged to raise large sums of
money on his notes, and for the time be.
ing they sold at a discount; but after that
emergency was passed he like prudent
man does not issue another lot ofnotes 20
run bis credit lower, but hastens 10
establish his credit so his note for dollar
is worth so much in gold.


This is just what our Government needs
to do, and just what the people want
done. A few years ago We saw our Gov
eminent promises to pay current for only
So cents on a dollar; but since then We
have improved our credit so our notes
are worth to. day 81 cents on a dollar
Now what we want is to get where our
Government notes are worth As much "a
gold, and then confidence is fully restored.
and sound financial basis established.
This does not Necessarily imply a literal
and immediate return to specie payment,
for that is not especially desirable; but
return OF confidence and good feeling. a
feeling that if the choice Of 800 in
greenbacks. or the same amount OF
gold were given Us we would as soon
take the former as the latter in cOnsidera.
ton of its value, and prefer it in point of
convenience. When this feeling becomes
universal. business will return 10 It's
Legitimate channels, and reckless specu-
lation will be checked. We DO not need
gold in all our business transactions in
place OF our greenbacss; but we want it
for q stable basis, and not speculative
indicator as it now is.


But how are we to bring about this
condition of things. and when brought
about how is 1t going to relieve the poor
man How Il it going to meet his immc.
diate wants The resumption of q specie
basis Of itself simply will not relieve him.
The means necessary to secure resump.
ton are the very means Of his relief, for
these means will establish principles Of
economy underlying all successful ard
healthy business, and without which we
may look in vain for improvement.


The relief of all this difficulty lies wits-
in the hands of the people and at their
own door. They may make as many
political issues of it as they please, bat
this will not draw the money from the
rich man and place it in their pockets;
but it is for the people TO work out their
own salvation. When the horde of young
men who idle away their time 10 our
cities and villages, will cease TO be spec-
ulators and drawers of impossibili,ies
and seek such honest employment as
comes in their way, when our merchants
and other business men in hard times will
do their own work and reduce their family
expenses to q more economical basis,
when our farmers will raise their own
potatoes. corn, butter and cheese in
short when the people otthis country will
make it a rule to spend less than they earn
and do as they did previous to 1860, theh
we shall sec them on the broad highway
Of prosperity. BUCKFHLD.
Year: 1876

Last evening number of gentlemen
met at the office of Henry @. Turner
Esq, No. East Eighth street, for the
purpose OF discussing the propriety Of
organizing a Tilden and Hendricks
Campaign Club. The subject was
favorably considered. and a committee
was appointed to draft Constitution
Another meeting will be held at the
same place next Wednesday evening,
when permanent organization will
probably be effected.


Movements are also on foot for the
organization of other campaign clubs
IN this city, and before long the
democracy of Wilmington will be
thoroughly organized for the cam.
paign.
Year: 1876

All the evening payers of this city
are reprints from the Morning Herald
in local matters. After a person has
read the Herald, his mind is simply
refreshed on the same topics in the
afternoon.


Queer, also, that the same paper in
which the abave cool and surprisingly
false assertion is made, contained at
least dazen local items which had
previously been printed in the after
noon papers.
Year: 1876

Congress for the issue of silver coin.


Resotred, That the Secretary of the Treasury
under such limits and regulations as will best se
cure just and fair distribution of the same
thfough the country, may issue the silver coin at
| any ume In the Treasury to an amount not ex-
| ceedlng Slo,0J0,OOO, in exchange for an equal
amount of egal-tender notes. and the notes so ex.
changed shall be kept as a special fund, separate
ana apart from all other money in the TREASURY
and be reissued only upon the retirement and de-
structlon of a like sum of fractional currency re-
| celved at the Treasury in payment of dues to the
United States, and said fractional currency when
so substituted, shall be destroyed and held as a
part OF the sinking fund.- provided in the act ap-
proved April II 1876.


SEC. :. That the trade dollar shall not hereafter
be legal tender and the Secretary of the Treas
ury is hereby authorized to limit from time to
time the coinage thereof to such an amount as he
may deem sufficient to meet the export demand
for the same.


SEC. 3. That in addition to the amount of sub
sidiary silver coin authorized by law to be issued
in redemption of the fractional currency it shall
be lawful to manufacture at the several mints and
issue through the Treasury and its several offices
such coin to an amount that, including the
amount OF subsidiary silver coin and of fractional
currency outstanding, shall in the aggregate not
exceed at any time $50 OOOO 900


SEC. 4. That the silver bullion required for the
purpose of this act shall be purchased from time
to time at market rates by the Secretary of the
Treasury with any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, but no purchase of bullion
shall be made under this resolution when the
market rate for the shall be such as will not
admit of the coinage and issue as herein provided
without loss to the Treasury, and any gain or
li,r riSin hall
counted for and paid into the Treasury as pro-
vided under the existing laws relative to the sub
sidiary coinage, provided that the amount of
money at any one time IN such silver bullion. ex
elusive of such resulting coin, shall not exceed
Year: 1876

remarks he will hear concerning your


conduct will certainly fill him with un-


dying love.


At the same time be frantically ieal-
Gus of him, and give him to under
stand that you don't trust him when


he is out of your sight. So exalted an
opinion of his honor cannot but make
him, eventually, worthy of your ut
most confidence.


When he goes out of an evening, for
business or pleasure, and fails to ar
rive at home upon the instant which
you have mentally fixed for his return,
bolt up the house and compel him to
arouse the entire neighborhood before
you open it. Such wifely conduct will,
undoubtedly, put him into remark
ably loving mood


Snub him and tyrannize over him in
the presence of his bachelor friends,
before whom he is solicitous of appear
ing as the most enviable man in exist
ence, and to whom he is particularly
anxious to rehearse the delights of ben
edict-dOm. The modification he will
feel at the Illustration of his laudable
desire will, most assuredly, produce q
reaction in your favor.


Should all other means seem likely
to fail, become most hopelessly at
tachcd to your dear parents, and. if
they reside in a different city from
that in which you live, spend all the
time You possibly can with them, max
ing life dismal while YOU are at home
with mOanS because YOU can't see your
dear parents every day. Should your
husband manifest any dissatisfaction
with this, open private deluge at
once, and tell him that you never
knew before that You had married u
a brute. Such affecting devotion to
your parents must surely inspire him
with unquenchable love and admira-
ton. But if, with the rest of the pro-
gramme, it doesn't appear to do 50,
after Il dozen Years or more, don't give
up in despair, but keep trying, and i'll
the end YOU will certainly accomplish
something. .-G0ie Forest, in Cinci'l-
natl Times.
Year: 1876

MAKE up your mind, from the be-
ginning, that, whatever happens, you
will never lose your individuality, nor
give in one iota to his OPINION; ar
vour differences upon every possible
occasion it will teach him to respect
YOU, and furnish unlimited food for
the gossips.


After the honeymoon is past, ana
before, if you think it necessary, grow
slack in regard to your personal ap-
pearance, and, if he has any remarks
to make, tell him THAT you dldh
know when you married him that he
| was able to dress you like aqueen, ana
| YOU hadn't discovered it yet, Tor the
matter of that; but, if he wishes you
to set up for queen, you are ready
and willing to do it. As it Is, as you
are obliged to do the work of servants
YOU claim the privilege of looking like
| them: if he has any objection, you
shouldn't object to his hiring glrl.


If his love does not seem to bt
growing greater under this manage
ment, become careless about YOU
house, and inform him, if he remon


strates about it, that "yOur house Il


not palace that you are aware;


YOU had home, such as you alway'


imagined you should be mistress OF
you should, probably, take some de
light in keeping it looking nicely; a
it is, YOU can't see the use in 1t.


When at home be in the 'blues'
continually; look on the dark side o
everything; never give your husbah
, a word of encouragement from on
wears end to another, but prophes
, his eternal ruin, financially, upon ever


available opportunity. In view 9
t which, get every cent you can ffoi
; him, to make a show away from nome
Endeavor to get up Irritation VIII


every man you meet in society. In
Year: 1876

ference in the southern work, that there
should be no such division OF such con-
ference into two or more conferences,
and where IL is not cieSrly to be seen
that such division would favor or i'm
prove the 6 ate Of the work in any con-
ference, and whore the interests and
usefulness OF even a msjority of the
membeIs Of such conference, and Of the
members Of the churches In such con-
ference might be damaged or imperiled
by divisions, 1t is the opinion OF this
z snersl conference that such division
should not be made.


Sscond-Tost whenever 1t shall be
requested by large psrt Of the mem
beIs Of any annual conference in our
southern work, clearly and naturally
expressed, that such conference should
be divided into two or more conferences,
and whenever it shall appear that the
interests Of the work would be promo
ted by such division without any dam
age to any part thereof, 1t is-the opinion
of this general conference that such d.
vision should be made.


Adjourned.
Year: 1876

THE Federal senate was In court Of
inn parchment nearly al Of yesterdays Is
session, and adjourned without reaching
a decision. In the house Mr.. Cate made
a personal explanation in regard to the
ChUgss made against him ln q memo
rial sent 20 congress by the Wisconsin
Legislature. The house went into COM
mite Of the whole on the naval appro-
-.r.aFfr~- ErTF
Year: 1876

Quiet has been restored throughout
the county. The trouble could have
been avoided, had tie cclored people not
fired into my posse. They were advised
by their leaders to kill the white people
from the cradle up. I have arrested
some Of the ringlesdeIs, and may get
more. Politics had nothing to do with
the affair. Prominent colored men were
with me in the attempt to pacify them,
but they would listen to no advice. I
apprehend no further trouble.


w. II. NOBLE, Sheriff.
Year: 1876

We come and GO.
There is a-sweet philosophy in these pref
ty liEes entitled, 1--WE Come and Co."


ffyOu or


To-day should die.
The birds would sing as sweet tomorrow;


The vernal spring


Her flowers would bring
And few would think OF us with sorrow.


Yes. he is dead


Would then be said
The corn would floss, the grass yield hay.


The cattle low,


And summer go,
And few would heed US pass away.


How soon we pass


How few, alas
Remember those who turn 20 mold
Whose faces fade


With autumn's shade,
Beneath the sodded church yard cold
Yes, it is So


We come, We go
They hail our birth. they mourn us dead
A day or more,


bewinter DER,
Another takes our place instead.
Year: 1876

never forgotten them, but such is the fact.


But we are glad and happy to share them
again. and we look joyfully forward to
their perpetuity as our brightest hope. But
just here we pause. We have heard words
ofpeace and fraternal regard before, and re.
member too well that the South has been too
prone to insist on monopoly of patriotism.
We love the patriotism of acts more than of
words, and when these orators are express
ing grandiloquent sentiments that may be
and are made use Of for sectional and party
purposes, and in the guise Of generosity an
advantage in political sense is sought to
be won by them, we say that they are but
as sounding brass and tinklIng cymbal.
There is no more Of the true music of pa
triotism in them than in the beating Of the
Chinese tom.tom. Genuine sentiments of
good. will we revere, but the studied plan
to gain Northern votes by the display of
meteoric and strangely -coincldent shower
of patriotic fireworks does not deceive In
the least. The North has held out its hand
of amity for years. All that is to be done
is to step up quietly and take it. There
is no need of going into convulsions of
patriotism about it. There is nothing of
the war troubles to forgive. They are al
ready forgotten. But the peace asked for
by the North is the peace of to-day. 1t
wants the South to come here with clean
hands from the latest elections; not with
forgiveness for war wrongs done or re-
ceived, but with genuine desire expressed
in acts to live q new and better life.
Year: 1876

The meeting Of the Woman Suffrage As
sociation to day will be of more than ordi-
nary importance. The movement has
gathered strength during the last few
years, and is commanding, as 1t should,
the serious consideration of the coming, if
not of the present statesman. The day has
passed when the question may be laughed
and sneered into oblivion. 1t presents it
self at every turn, and must be met squarely
upon its merits. Thinking men are arriv-
ing at the conclusion that it must be treated
seriously. 1t is an clement that is bound
sooner or later to exercise an important in
fuence upon our political future. Perhaps
it will be the absorbing question in the
opening year of our new century. And
very many men are asking themselves why
it should not become so? 1t is suggested
that the labor of the women Of this country
is important to the creation Of wealth, per-
haps quite as much so as that of men. A
hard working man saves and thrives ac-
cording as his wife and daughters are in
dustrious and economical. Much of the
economy which produces individual wealth
is due to the management and discretion
and wisdom of the women as to those of the
men, Ifthen, the women are co-workers and
expert economists, why have they not an
equal right to voice in making those laws
which protect persons and property?
Again, it is suggested that laborers are tax
payers. In this country the consumer pays
the taxes. Those who produce nothing are
drones; they live upon the labor of others.
If women labor more hours than men, if
they earn the bread they consume, are they
not taxpayers? And if they are taxpayers,
even in this sense, have they not the same
moral right to vote which the men claim,
and which the genius of our republican
institutions accord to the laborer, however
humble? These suggestions certainly ap-
pear to be logical and worthy of serious
consideration.


Another very important feature of the
woman-sufrage question is the hope (not
to say facD which many indulge, that
through this element, if in no other way,
sounder and more elevated and pure state
of political morals may be achieved. 1t is
averred by many that to clothe woman with
the ballot will degrade her to the present
level of pot-hous politicians. But is there
any real danger of this? Did the entrance
of the influence and presence of woman into
any earthly sphere ever result in baneful
effect upon men? Does not experience
teach us rather that the appearance of such
influences exert refining tendency every
where? Who believes that if woman at
tended at the hustings they would be
held at groggeries, or that they would re-
suit in drunken orgies and disgraceful
fights2 Who knows but that we are to be
indebted to the ballot in female hands for
greater purity of elections and G sounder
code of political morals than now prevail
throughout our country2
Year: 1876

THE proposed reduction of the salaries of
our diplomatic officers is simply piece of
infamous demagogism. The world over
the diplomatic representatives of the United
States are respected because of the i'm
portance of their Government, and are
consequently expected to act the same as
their contemporaries from other Govern
ments. The salaries paid to them now
are not sufficient to support them in their
efforts to do this, and they are consequently
compelled to draw upon their private
means. These facts are known to the
Democratic demagogues in the House, as
well as the further fact that the Senate will
probably refuse to concur in the proposed
reduction. They will claim, however,
when the Senate thus refuses, that they
attempted to cut down expenses and were
prevented from so doing by the Republican
majority in the upper House. This specious
claim, presented in the coming campaign,
will serve as political capital-about all of
that scarce material that the Democrats
will be able to discover
Year: 1876

THE New York Tribune still demands
the immediate disgrace and expulsion Of
Senator Spencer, of Ala. 1t admits, how
ever, that the evidence against him is en-
tirely ez parte, and that the memorial sent
to the Senate by the Alabama Legislature
regarding this matter is based upon the
prejudiced assertions Of violent partisans.
Without waiting TO hear his defense it pro-
ceeds to arraign the Senator on these
charges, try him, find him guilty and, as
we have said, demand his punishment. 1t
is fortunate that the Tribune is not all
powerful in this instance, and it is also
fortunate that the Senate, before which the
case will soon come for final action, is not
so easily influenced by partisan and per-
sonal malice as that journal
Year: 1876

In RESPONSE to published call, about
one hundred and fifty Republicans of the
District assembled last night and decided
to make an effort to reorganize the party
in this District. AS a primary measure
they adopted resolutions looking to the
simultaneous election of three delegates
from each of the old Legislative districts,
to compose central committee. The i'm
mediate necessity for such an organization
is to provide for the election of two dele
gates to the National Nominating Conven-
ton in Cincinnati. who it is only right and
proper should fully represent the Republi-
can sentiment of the capital. The day
was fixed for the election of said delegates,
and it should be the acceptable duty Of
every Republican voter to attend the ward
meetings and aid in sending proper repre-
sentatives to the central committee.
Year: 1876

leaders of the Republican party, and whose
record is as pure and consistent as that of
any man in the country, either in public or
private life, has been made the target for
the unbounded abuse Of the Opposition by
being brought out as a candidate for Presi-
dent. There is nothing to be gained by
this for the Opposition, and the Senator
will not lose anything by it. On the con-
trary, the discussion of his claims, services
and merits, which will necessarily follow,
cannot fail to add TO his already wide
spread reputation as man of commanding
ability and uprightness of character.
Year: 1876

In THE present rage for retrenchment it
is proposed to make sweeping reduction
of salaries. Reformers should recollect
that the salaries of the first, second, third
and fourth class clerks in the Executive
Departments are the same now that they
were paid liz gold before the war. The
pay of these grades has never been raised
except by an extra allowance of twenty
per cent. for one year. As these salaries
were fixed by the Democratic party, when
prices of subsistence were fifty per cent.
lower than now, it is submitted that they
were either extrayagant when established
or that they are much too low now.
Year: 1876

THE proposition of Representative Cox
to abolish the Bureau of Education meets
with general disapproval. The time has
passed when such characteristic Bourbon
Democratic measure as this is could find
public favor. The people believe that the
scope of the bureau should be enlarged
rather than contracted or abolished.