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Year: 1876

pS-NOTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT or NEW YORK AT NIGHT-The NEW YORK
HERALD has adopted distinguishing Cos,on night signal for
board the HERALD steam yacht showing while burn
ing the coors red red changing from the other
In succession and be several miles distant Cap
tans of vessels upon seeing this signal will obige by
preparing any marine they may have for the Ship
News Department OF the HKaALn


pJ-Persons desrous OF communicating with vessels arrv
ing New York do by addressing such vessels
Of HERALD yacht pier No East River New York
Letters from all parts of the world and promptly do
livered Duplicates required.
Year: 1876

Police Superintendent walliug yesterday received a
telegram from Sing Sing saying that one OF the most
desperate prisoners had broken jail and at large
The name OF the convict is William Dougherty, better
known to the police as ''Btg Dock " lie serving a
sentence of fifteen years for highway robbery
mitted last summer the inl particulars OF which
published at the time in the HERALD. Prior TO his last
sentence he served several short terms for other
crimes.
Year: 1876

The Cambridge and Dublin University crews
will arrive this evening, and will be received
at the depot by committee from the Analos-
tan Boat club, and escorted to the Arlington
and Willard's. They will take a pull over the
course to morrow, and the race will be rowed
on Thursday. the finish being at point op-
posite the G-street wharf, near the Analostan
boat-house. AS the tide comes in at the hour
named for the race the start will be made one
mile below the boat house, affor1ing perfectly
straight course. The regatta will open by a
race between two crews made up of the best
oarsmen of the Analostan club, and at $50
O'Clock the great race will be rowed.


As both crews are evenly matched it will be
difficult to say which boat will win, and q
close and interesting contest is predicted. A
fine band of music has been engaged, which
will enliven the short interval before the start.
The best points to witness the race will be be-
tween Easby's and the G-street wharves.


Great excitement is manifested throughout
the city in this interesting trial of SKILL and it
is a common topic of conversation in every
quarter. Tomorrow evening the crews will
he entertained at Table Rock, about two miles
beyond the Aqueduct. Fireworks and a gen.
cral illumination along the shores will be
prominent objects of interest to all the lockers
on. On Friday Governor Shepherd will enter
tain them at his residence in his characteristic
style.
Year: 1876

dA6O pu1C1uc VI d b6dILllUl 1OUuR


GREAT BEND, PA, Sept. 2, 1875.
To the Editor Of the National Republican,:


SIR: Two miles back, in one of the little
valleys which lead into the main valley of the
Susquehanna river, about three miles from
this burg, we witnessed a scene last night
which for its weird surroundings and mys-
terious character excels anything which we
have seen chroncled for many months. A re-
port reached town last night that young
lady, named Carrie May Cary, had been found
hung to a tree in the deep woods of a section
of the country known here as Egypt. The
burgess of the borough Immediately sum-
moned jury of inquest and repaired to the
spot to make an investigation. 1t was nearly
midnight when we reached the scene of the
tragedy. As we approached the outskirts of
dense forest two lights were seen dimly
burning in the woods, around which sat three
stalwart men keeping rigid watch over the
young form which was still dangling from the
limb Of a small birch sapling. Presently we
stood by the lifeless body of a beautiful girl
only fifteen years of age. Her face was calm,
and the first lineament showing that she had
suffered or struggled in the unfortunate death
battle through which she had just passed.
One hand gracefully clasped the body of the
tree, and one foot rested upon a small stump
close to the body of the sapling from which
she was suspended. The hangman's moose
had been skillfully tied AMI properly adjusted.
Her clothes were tastefully arranged, and
everything bore evidence that she had taken
measures to look as beautiful In death as the
gloomy and strange surroundings would
permit.


1t was a weird and solemn sight. A dozen
brawny and broad-chested lumbermen stood
here and there about the spot in silence. The
jurymen and physician carefully examined the
form for evidences of violence, but none were
found. Then four men took the body in their
arms, and the fatal rope was severed. A pro-
found stiffness reigned, and as the form was
being lowered to a horizontal startling half
scIeech aud half groan escaped from the pallid
lips of tine dead. The superstitious cried, "My
Gcd, she is alive p but this impression was
dispelled by the physician, who immediately


announced that the rolse resulted from escap-
ing gases, " hich had been confined in the
throat by the action of the moose. The form


was then removed to house, where an inves-
tigation was had into the cause of her death.
1t seems that she was engaged to be married.


but that during the absence of her lover she
had been to the photographers with another


Young fellow and had o tin-type taken. This
the young man displayed among his friends,
and announced that it was his intended wife.
Friends of the young lady informed her of the
fact, and told her that, should her intended
husband ever hear of it, he would never marry
her. This, it is believed, preyed upon her
mind, until, through desperation, she sought
relief in suicide. B.
Year: 1876

The most powerfully armored ship aaoat is the
Thunderer, which met with such terrible acci-
dent recently, but two gunboats have just been
finished on the Tyne which will be fitted up by the
Armstrong firm with hydraulic machinery work.
ing q thirty -eight-ton gun. Compared with the
Thunderer, the gunboats, built for q foreign Gov
ernment, are diminutiye, yet each little vessel
will carry gun capable Of piercing the thickest
armvr now on tie seas. The smallness of these
marine wasp3 I'll be their greatest protection,
and tho steam power will be so applied that not
only the gun, but also the vessel, Will be under
the complete control of the artillerist.
Year: 1876

Whether for use on man or beast,
Melcha1t's Gargling Oil will be found
an invaluable liniment, and worthy of
use by every resident in the land. We
know of no proprietary medicine or ar
ticle now used in the United States
which shares the good will of the peo'
pie to a greater degree than this. Vel
low wrapper for animal, and white tor
human fiesh.-N. Y. Independent.
Year: 1876

BrOggs who lives in Elliott's
) Southern Addition, ran acrcss


the item the other day that sat
night a horse would refuse to


step on Grover the body of a


man found lying in the road,


but, as if impelled by instinct,
lwOuld stop and remain motion


less until after the matter should


be investigated"


| Grave doubts as to the truth


of this statement arose in his
Imind, and to settle the matter


for himself, he resolved to give


the thing a practical test. Now


Broggs has no horse, but does


own a very intelligent and fris-


ky young mule, so he thought


it just as well to try the ex-


pertinent with him. There is a


narrow lane leading from the
IcIoycr patch to the water
trough, and he sent his little
son Bobby to open the gate
land turn out the mule; mean
while Broggs lay down full
length across the lane, assum-
ing an apparently lifeless atti-
Itude. The mule had been kept
in the pasture all day and con-
.sequently was very dry, so he
came waItzing down the lane at
ii great rate, and everything de-
noted a fair trial of the test. =
And so it was, but not exactly
as Broggs would have desired,
although it confirmed him in his
skepticsm. When within a
yard Or two the mule perceived
the PROSTATE form Of his mas
ter, and, with an explosion of .
sound which was Il compromise /
between the shrek Of a loco
motive aul the yell Of fright
ened maniac, he bowed up his .
back, flung his tail to the breeze,
elevated himself about fifteen
feet in the air, and with ali four
feet III a bunch lit on the pit Of .
"bread-baskct." Then, /
with a fiendish laugh, he sud-
denly spread ont his feet with d
scraping sound, and was off like
Il flash, not omitting, however, /
to give the eXperimcnter a par
III g kick in the small of his
back is he departed. The price
Of the mule did not near pay
tie doctors bill, and Broggs is /
now calculating how many post
hotes he will have TO mortise
before he will get even on his
Year: 1876

From the Sandy Creek, y. Y, News


Not a thousand miles from
here a short time since one of
two farmers sold forty turkeys
to the other at a certain price
per pound alive. 1t was stipu-
lated that the seller should keep
the turkeys until the buyer
called for them the next day,
and that in the mean time they
were not to be fed. According
to contract the latter called for
the turkeys, weighed, took them
home and dressed them, when
10! twenty-five pounds Of corn
were raked from the crops. =
Buyer was wrathy, and deduc-
ted the above number Of pounds
from the weight Of the turkeys
and refused to pay more. Sell
ler, in turn, became mad and
sued for the corn. The case
was tried and decided in favor
Of the latter, each paying his
own costs, which amounted to
So for the plaintiff and So for
the defendant.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Moody is credited with
having made the following an
nounccment: Suppose that
President Grant or some other
politician should die suddenly,
there would be cOmmotioD and
distress through the whole coun-
try; yet in heaven it might not
be known at aIll' Mr.. Moody
was careful not to say the news
would not be received in that
other place.
Year: 1876

Here is sweet morsel from
the gifted pen of the Columbia
Journals editress, COMMENDED to
all who have that ever present
parsonage, a motherin-law, and
especially to the "Boaz' fam -:


Treat your mother in-law as
you would your own mother; don't
let her teel that she is a stranger
in her sons house. You ought
to love her for the good husband
she has given you Don't be


jealous of the af1ectionate atten.
ton he shows her; remember how
we'll she has earned it. Your.
husbands heart would be a poor
contracted one, if it could not
fiud room for a wife and mother.
Help him love and cherish her =
Think of the vacant chairs around
the hearth stene-of the voices
she, misses that used to make mel
ody in her heart. 1t will be but
for a little while; aud when her
work is accomplished, and the
shriveled hands are folded meekly
upon that bosom on which your
husband has so often wept out his
childish sorrows, comforted by
those silent lips, it will be the
sweetest joy to your heart if you
can say, "She was to me a Mao
NIL was to her as Ruth"
Year: 1876

IF man is found drunk in Yer.
mont he is committed TO Jail and
kept there until be reveals who
supplied the liquor. Several are
now lying in the Jail at Rutland
because they refuse to tell.
Year: 1876

So from their quiet graves they SPEAK,
So speaks that quiet scene
Where now the violet blossoms meek.
And all the fields are green.
There wood and stream and flower and Diru
A pure content declare;
Ard where the voice Of war was heard
Is heard the voice Of prayer.
Year: 1876

Forget. the arm may lose its might,
The tired heart beat low.
The sun from heaven blot out his light,
The west wind cease 10 blow;
But, while one spark OF life IL warm
Within this mould OF clay,
His soul will reyel In the storm


OF that tremendous day.
Year: 1876

Although it was a very hot day, an I'M
firing number OF Il e Woman's Temperance
Aid Society. met last Saturday, July lst. at
the usual time ard place. By prayer, mutu-
Al counsel. and planning work, we are
Strengthened to the performance of duties,
which though seeming small. may grow to
have mighty power.


Those who work to promote the cause
Of temperance. should not be less yigiant
than the workers of intemperance. Hot
weather is not an obstacle to them.


Our greatest hope in this cause is in pro-
teeling the young from evil influence aud
training them, in virtuous and temperance
principles. Let no unfortunate child be
without friend TO Lend helping hand
with faith that worketh by love"


While We regret that there is not more
interest in temperance among the people
we fully trust in God the Father of US all
that he overrules and underlies, all thu
good works of His children.
Year: 1876

executive, and forcibly taught BY the
shameful abuse Of pubic sfice which has
characterized the present administration
We feel honored to have the name ofour


chosen Senator, Thomas F. Bayard, placed


In constellation Of such shining lights


IS the candidature at St. Louis will present.


1t will be ennobling to test favor with a
competition so honorable in every respect
as this. OF his record and ability we with
the whole country feel just pride. In
private and public life he has everbeen the
exponent Of right and honesty. his ire
proacEable character has been the impene-
trable armor around his public actions. He
stands in the midst Of fiery criticism as
steady as the towering oak in the fercest
gale. The insinuating arrows Of investiga-
ton have found him impervious to their
penetration, and while others around were
buried in obloquy he remained the same
lustrious light. At st. Louis he will be a
mark of conspicuity, for these high requi-
sites of the statesman that we have men,
toned, and the loud cheers that will greet
the mention of his name there will echo
back to Delaware the same enthusiasm that
the people Of his own state feel proud in
offering him.


Senator Bayard is our choice. We
believe him the superior intellect of all
those that will be offered. His record is
the equal ofany, and his nomination weuld
inspire confidence in all compilations of
politics. He would meet thoroughly the
emergencies which the dishonesty of
Grants administration has caused, and
elevate the National administration 10 that
plane of thoroughness, which has been
rendered imperative by the shameful dis
honor STAINLESS party has brought upon
it. these immediate qualities in the man
the Convention cannot ignore, and if it
should be their judgment to select him, the
crown Of laurels will be placed upon the
head of one who will grace it with honesty
intelligence and dignity.
Year: 1876

That we have made giant strides in
population, power, and prosperity, within
the century about to close, no man can
doubt. Have we made like progress in
political knowledge, justice, morals, patri-
otism, good sense, is a question about
which much can be said the most, we
fear, in favor Of the negative. In political
knowledge we have sadly degenerated, for
the reason that patriotism in a statesman
Year: 1876

Man, to certain extent, is creature
of circumstances. Circumstances pro-
duce habits, and habit is more fire.
quently the propelling power than fun
damental truth. In view of this, it Is
almost palpable that the law which
holds good in physical arrangements is
also applicable to mental alteration.
Prevention is better than cure.


Do we wish to prevent the evils of
crime2 Let US endeavor to prevent
crime. How? By training the youth
to steady moral habits, and by giving
them a thorough knowledge of those
branches of science, literature, and the
arts, which tend to impart dignity of
sentiment.


9 Our common school system is the dit
tie leaven" that teuds toward leavening
the "whole lump" but crime can never
be successfully combated until the law
makes it crime on the part of the par
ents to bring up their children in ignor-
ance. There are hundreds of children
who live within hearing of the school
bell, who are deprived of the benefit of
the liberal State and governmental pro-
visions. They are deprived of this hen
eft by those whom the law accepts as
their natural protectors.


III would not be Just to compel par
ents to send their children to school,"
Far be it from me to advise law that
might mar the consciences of good Chris
tians. 1t is unjust to allow them to en-
velOp their offspring in the darkness of
primitive ignorance.


1t is not unjust to require parents to
bring up their children to a certain de-
gree of proficiency in the branches of
most practical value in the affairs of
life. Let us now turn to the malady.
But the disease is already rife; crime is
doing its baleful work. A cure must be
devised or the bad seed already sown
will continue to spring up, and decay
ing, fill the moral atmosphere with
stencil and poison in spite of the benev-
olent administration of kindly acts.


Those who live in malarious districts,
after becoming infected with the poi
sons so common in such localities, have
found it necessary to remove to a local
ity where they could enjoy a pure at
mOsphere.


The same holds good in mental aber-
ration; the criminal must be transported
to pure moral element until he forms
habits of industry and attains that dig
nifty of character which is greater bar
against violation of law than bars and
bolts and prison walls.-NeW Age.
Year: 1876

Persons of gentle and yielding dispo-
sitions are startled when they come in
contact with a rugged nature and iron
will. For there are these giants of hu-
manity who shape their resolves as the
furnace and trip-hammer shape masses
of metal. They bear down all opposi-
ton, compelling weaker spirits into
compliance. Yet the power and tenaGity
of purpose that surprise temperaments
of finer, Trailer mold do not belong ex-
clusively to the bold and the great, for
even the most uuObtrusive persons are
capable of it at times.


1t is a trait of character in men to
form their resolutions with fervOr and
impetuosity; but the mider and quieter
spirit of woman comes silently aud al
most uncOnsciOusly to- determinations
that are not shaken or altered by the
wear and tear of even a whole lifetime.
Man is gifted with strength, woman
with endurance. The difficulty for dis
positions of average power and perss-
verance is found, not so much in coming
to a resolution of sufficient intensity,
but in keeping it for any length of time.
The smooth water of an A pine fountain
may be frozen into a mass as hard, ap-
parently, as glass; but the hot rays of
summer soften it until it yields gradu-
ally, and at length finally melts away
altogether. Bad habits take a long


time to form, and they cannot be thrown
| off without eXertiop. The good habit
which replaces them canNonly be formed
! by a repetition of good acts. Drops of


water falling from the roof of a cave


form, in the course of time, a stalactite,


bright and strong to behold. The pro-


cess, though, of this wonderful fOrma-


ton is slow and barely perceptible. So


do single small acts of our will form


themselves by repetition into lasting


and unshaken habits.
Year: 1876

of her life lay in the fact that it was
impossible to prevail upon him to pur-
sue their study.


The saloon and faro table hard by pos
sessed attractions which he fully appre-
ciated, and often during that first trying
winter of Edna's life in Idaho Flat, did
the poor young mother listen in vain
till the wee, small hours of the morning
tor the return of her husband from the
haunts of vice, where the fascination of
gambling became his evil genius.


ITO be continued
Year: 1876

To Young LADIES.-The pastor of
church in one of our largest cities said
to me not long ago: al have Officated
at forty weddings since | came here, and
i'm every case, save one, | felt the bride
was running an awful risk. Young
men of bad habits and fast tendencies
never marry girls of their own sort, but
demand a wife above suspicion, Some
pure, sweet woman, kept from the touch
of evil through the years of their girl
hood, give themselves, with all their
costly dover of wOmanhOOd, into the
keeping of men of base associations,
who have learned to undervalue all that
belongs to them, and then find time
for repentance in the sad after years.
There is but one way out of this that
can see, and that is for you-the young
women of the cOuntry-tO require in
association and marriage, purity for
purity, sobriety for sobriety, and honor
for honor. There is no reason why the
young men of this Christian land
should not be just as virtuOus as its
young women, and if the loss of your
society and love be the price they are
| forced to pay for vice, they will not pay
| it, / admit with sadness, that not all
our young women are capable of this
| high standard for themselves or others,
! but l believe there are enough earnest,
thoughtful girls in the society of OuI
country to work wonders, if faithfully
aroused. Dear girls, will you help us
in the name of Christ? Will you, first
of all, be true to yourselves and God
so pure in your inner and outer life that


you shall have right to ask that the
young men with whom you associate


and especially those you marry, shall bt


the same? The awful gulf of dishOnOl


is close beside your feet, and in it faith


ere, brothers, lovers, and sons are going


down. Will you not help us in ou
great work ?"
Year: 1876

Two persons were once disputing so
loudly on the subject of religion that
they woke a large dog that had been
sleeping near them, and he forthwith


barked most furiously. An old divine
present, who had been quietly slipping
his tea while the disputants were talk
ing, gave the dog a kick and exclaimed:
"Hold your tongue, you silly brute, you
know no more about it than they do.n
Year: 1876

The Wheeling Register yesterday aston.
ished the world with a symptom Of
enterprise such as no body ever expected
to sec that decrepid concern exhibit. 1t
undertook to illuminate the situation in
South Carolina with = wood cut purport.
ing to be the production Of native genius
and home industry. This wood cut rep.
resents the Goddess OF Liberty on her
knees and bound round and round with
inch and n half mannilla rope-a
yard or so Of her hair hanging down
her back-her head surmounted by a
fatigue cap-an iron collar, properly pad
locked, around her neck-a distressed
look on her countenance-a chain with
two balls to one OF her feet-a soldier
equipped in heavy marching order
.hruSting his bayoneted musket athwart
her bosom as II TO stop the poor woman
from rising up Notwithstanding her i'm.
pedimentS, and walking of somewhere.
We are sorry to say anything to
detract from the credit Of this i'm.
meme effort OF enterprise on the
part Of our neighbor, but we cannot
stand by and see an old volume OF
Harpers Magazine thus perverted to
Democratic uses without letting the cat
out Of the bag. We are therefore com.
PEELED to announce that the Registers
picture can be found in the March num-
Der Of Harpers Magazine for 1852, and
along with it the explanation that It is
intended to represent, not IN American
soldier or the American Goddess ofubib.
ertp, but French soldier and a French
goddess OF some sort.


This picture can be used. when the
Regiaer Is through with it, 10 help illus.
trate the present bound and helpless con.
dition Of large mass of American citi-
zens in the South who are hunted down
and murdered in the swamps and in their
beds by men calling themselves Demo.
Gratis in order to prevent them from ex.
erci,ing the right ofsuffrage, with which
they are invested by the Constitution and
laws Of their country.
Year: 1876

Turs is the day set apart BY the Presi-
dent OF the United States and by the
Governor OF West Virginia as Thanks.
giving occasion. We presume that twill
be generally observed as a day OF good
cheer by our people. In nearly all the
cities the banks and exchanges will be
closed. Some Of the newspapers will
suspend publication. The Wheeling In.
rEIIIGEScER, however, will make its ap.
pearAnce as usual tomorrow The peO.
pie want the news these times and it Ia
our occupation to furnish It to them.