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Year: 1876




Serene, fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea;
rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For 10 my own shall come to me.
stay my haste, make delays,
For what aVails this eager pacel
] stand amid the eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my face.
Asleep, awake, by night day,
The friends seek are seeking me
No wind can drive my bark astray,
Nor change the tide Of destiny.
What matter If stand alone
wait with Joy tine coming years;
Ny heart shall reap where Il has sown,
And garner up its fruit Of tears.
The waters know their own and draw
The brook that springs in yonder height
So flows the good with equal law
Unto the soul Of pure delight
The stars come nightly TO the skyj
The tidal wave into the sea
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.
Year: 1876

A student who went to Agassiz at
Penikese has published an account OF
his experience with this teacher. He ex-
pected lecture or formal lesson, but
got nothing of the kind. The professor
gave him fish, and told him to look at
It. He looked long time, reported
progress, and was told to keep on look
ing, and so from time to time. He looked
till he got heartily tired of the fish, but
was astonished when he found what a
number of things he had learned about
it that he had not dreamed Of when he
began, and that books would never have
told him. Most of all, he learned how
to study the next object that should fall
under his eyes. The point OF the lesson,
the central idea of the teaching OF
Agassiz, was that the object of instruc-
ton was to teach him to observe. What
was to be observed was q matter OF In
ferior importance. The humblest OBJ
ject, with proper study, would yield a
rich reward in knowledge.
Year: 1876

When told that she evinced perfect
self possession when she made her first
appearance on the stage in Boston as an
actress, Anna Dickinson replied:


"Oh, yes, but did not feel it. I had
nothing like stage fright, and my audi
ence did not trouble me. I am too well
used to them. But my surroundings
were so strange, my clothes were so new,
and I had such sense Of them; then
when I lecture 1 have everything my
own way, the platform is clear, and I
go where I will. But here it is differ
ent. I would start on some quick i'm
pulse and suddenly find a human op-
posing my way, or I would becomepain-
fully aware of a chair or table, and it
was such shock to my enthusiasm. like
a cold water page. When get ac-
customed to other, presence and to the
stage accessories shall be much more
free in action.
Year: 1876

There was once a skillful doctor in
New York, says the Sun, who spent his
leisure hours in learning to paint pic
lures. He became so expert as an artist
that his works attracted notice, and his
name got into the newspapers. But his
patients begun to drop off soon after it
became known that he was painter.
They seemed to lose confidence in the
medical skill of a practitioner who gave
his mind to pictures. In a year or two
his Office was totally deserted by pa
tients, and he found himself high and
dry as a doctor. Fortunately, he was
by that period able to make his living at
his easel, for which he now had all his
time; and when he died, not long ago,
he was one of the most celebrated and
successful artists in the country. He
used to say that nothing was so ruinous
to the practice of physician as repu-
tation in any line of activity outside OF
his profession; and he always advised
his medical friends to take warning by
his experience, and conceal from their
patients any talents that did not strictly
belong to their business. There is q
rumpus in one of the churches of New
York that had its origin in the attempt
of the clergyman to carry on two pro-
fessions. Mr.. Campbell had studied
medicine as well as theology; he had
"Rev." before his namo, and "M. D."
after it. Some of his people found out
that he not only preached Seligion, but
practiced doctoring around, and that
he not only drew the salary of his pu'-
pit, but the fees of his patients. They
begun to fly from his church; those who
remained fell into dissension, and some
time ago they reduced his salary to q
merely nominal sum-which incidents
have brought his case before the courts
of his denomination. He will have to
give up one Of his two professions, as
the artist whom we have mentioned had
Tn do
Year: 1876

At a meeting of the New York board
of aldermen to discuss the question of
the East river bridge, a ship captain
stated that it would cost $3.50 and require
whole days work to send down the
topgallant masts of bis ship, so that she
could pass under the bridge. Vessel
captains agree in asserting that the ser
vices of professional riggers would be
required in order to perform that intri-
cate feat, and allege that only on board
naval vessels would it be possible to find
crews that could manage so abstruse an
affair without external aid. Comment
ing on the above the Times says: Va
rious persons have been in the habit of
daily remarking during the last twenty
years that the sailor is becoming ex-
tinct. The remark has thus lost some
of its novelty, but that the sailor has
finally and totally vanished has been
made suddenly apparent by the evidence
given before the aldermen. Not only
do captains of clipper ships confess their
inability to perform simple task which
every able seaman ought to thoroughly
understand, but they actually refer to
the superior seamanship of the navy as
an admitted and notorious fact. 1t is
enough to make "Bully Waterman
turn in his grave, and to wiring, even
without the aid of a spiritual medium,
indignant protests from the ancient
"shell l-backs and wild "packetarians"
who sleep in the Potter's Field. When
the Young America made her firstvoyage
was it twenty-five or twenty-three
years ago 9-there was, perhaps, lib
eral minded mariner in the forecastle
who would have admitted thatA sporadic
"sailor-man might occasionally be
found in the navy, but the idea that the
average crew of California clipper or
Black Ball "slaughter-house " was not
superior in practical seamanship to the
entire United States navy would have
been resented as a crazy insult. Yet
here come the captains of our surviving
merchant marine and unblushingly an
nounce that only in the navy can be
found sailors who can send down top
gallant mast. There is now no room for
doubt as to the extinction Of the sailor.
He is absolutely and completely gone,
and it is pity that Mr.. Sterne is now
in situation where he cannot " drop the
tear of sensibility" over the grave OF
the last sailor man.
Year: 1876

The Appleton (Mo.) Democrat has
the following: We learn from MIR. A.


J. Hoffman, who lives in the north part
of the county, that recently, as one OF
his hired men was going down small
gulch, he came upon perfect nest OF
squirming reptiles, the ground being
covered with little and big coils OF black,
shining bodies that were basking.


Knowing the habits of these reptiles,


the man went back to the farm and re-


ported to Mr.. Hoffman what he had
seen, when it was decided to wait until
evening, after the snakes had retired to
their hole, and endeavor to kill them of.


Just after sundown both men repaired
to the place, to find not vestige or
tail of q snake to be seen, but we'll
beaten trails leading to hole in the
ground about the size of q bucket, which
went down slantingly under the earth.


The ground was beaten down as solid as
though it had been pounded with NAL
let or used as croquet ground for q
whole season. Mr.. Hoffman is some
what acquainted with the habits of these
animals, 80 he stationed the hired man


at the mouth of the hole with an iron
bar, having sharp hook on the end,


and begun hauling out the ugly "crit-
ters." The firstto respond to his thrust
was one which measured eight feet eight
inches in length, and was one OF the
blacksnake species. After working for
an hour and half or 80, and having
drawn out 183 snakes, they quit for
the day. Next morning before the sun
was up, they begun again and drew forth
PAT more of the reptiles, when the mine
seemed to give ont. The rock and soil
on top of the nest was then removed
and an excavation about the size OF a
barrel was found. It is supposed that
this family of snakes had held possession
of the prairies for years, as many meas
ured from nine to twelve feet in length,
and were as large round as mans leg.
Year: 1876

The late Judge Dowling, of New
York, had the rare qualification OF retl-
cence, and he was never known to be-
tray secret, or let drop hint of off,
ciai purposes. He had more confidence
placed in him by superiors and friends
than any man of his age in the city.
Merchants who were in doubt abouttheir
clerks, but did not feel warranted in
charging them with dishonesty, almost
invariably went to Judge Bowling for
advice. A merchant prominent to-day
in New York owes his salvation to Judge
Dowling's kindness and sympathy. His
employer some fifteen years ago was led
to believe that he WAS in the habit OF
gambling. He confded his suspicious
to Dowling, and told him that if he
found his fears correct he should dis
charge the young man at once. Dowl-
ing went quietly at work, and in a few
days confronted the clerk at the supper
table of one of the fashionable faro
banks in the city. Meantime he had
informed himself as to the young mans
domestic surroundings, and knew that
his discharge from fhe merchants en-
ploy meant ruin to him and destitution
to his widowed mother, wife and child.
Bowling managed an introduction, took
him aside, showed him the folly of look
ing for fair treatment in professional
gambling hell, told him of the peril that
awaited him if he persisted in bis
course, and finally secured from the
conscience stricken youth apromise that
he would never enter the doors OF faro
bank again. That done, he successfully
managed the employer, and to-day the
cle.k of fifteen years ago chants the
praises of the man who snatched him
from the very claws of the tiger, and the
edge of precipice in which ne would
seen have fallen.
Year: 1876




One Sunday, says the Buffalo En-
press, little boy and girl, named Helt'
rich, aged respectively seven and nine
wears, left their home in the city to 60
to Sabbath-school. The hours wore on
until late in the evening, and the chill
dren failed to return home. The parents
grew alarmed and inaugurated search
for them. They made every effort to
ascertain their whereabouts, but with
out avail. 1t was simply known that
they started homeward from Sabbath
school, but no further trace OF them
could be obtained. The night settled
down dark, and the sgonized parents
became wild with grief. The neighbors
were appealed to and did all In their
power to find some clew to the missing
children, but in vain.


The little ones had mistaken the
streets leading to their home, and hand
in hand wandered out from the city.
Soon they passed the suburbs, and met
but few pedestrians. It began to grow
dismal and lonesome along the way.
Soon the sun went down, and the chill
dren, footsore and weary, began to cry.
They struggled on bravely through the
darkness, but strsying of into the woods
they grew frightened and could 60 no
further. They huddled close together
at the foot Of q tree, and in that cold
and cheerless place cried themselves to
sleep.


Monday morning dawned at last, and
with the bright daylight to encourage
them the children got up and resumed
their weary walk. They had not tasted
a morsel of food since Sunday noon, and
were both chilled and hungry. At last
they came out upon q little brook at
the edge of the woods, and sat down
to drink and rest. Here they were
found by farmer living near by, who
took them home and kindly cared for
them.


In the meantime the agonies OF the
parents were such as We will not attempt
to describe. All Sunday night and all
day Monday passed away without any
tidings from the lost children. After
trying every possible means to obtain
some traces of them, the matter was
finally put in the hands of detectives,
two old and experienced police officers.
They traced the children from the Sab
bath-school far out into the country,
and finally found them at the house OF
the farmer above mentioned, five miles
northeast of Lancaster. The children
had walked ever fifteen miles in all from
their homo in Buffalo. They were taken
back to their parents, whose manifesto
tions of JOY were something touching to
behold.
Year: 1876

A CARD.-Circumstance rendering it de.
n sirable that should locate in Baltimore.
have transferred my DENTAL PRACTICE in
Alexandria to DIR. D. N RUST. He has been
for SO many years associated with me as to need @
no introduction or endorsement his skill, ability
and reputation for honesty and high integrity
being we'll known. cordially commend HIM
to the favor of my friends and patients, as well
worthy of the position to which he succeeds, and
bespeak for him the practice with which, for so
long, I have been favored.


nloyandria Va mar loft
Year: 1876

An EDIToR's APrEAL.-As the re-
port that We are very wealthy has
gone among our subscribers, and has
made them awful slow about paying
up, thinking, doubtless, we do not
want the money, we hasten to say
the report of our wealth is false in
every particular. Ifocean steamers
were selling at cent dozen, we
could not make the first payment on
a Siwash canoe. The lightning of
poverty has struck US square, and
had it not been for an armful of hay
which we managed to steal from a
blind mule, our family would be
without a mouthful to eat at the
present moment. Is not this sad
picture, and can you delinquent sub
scribers look upon it without feeling
the coin rattle with Indignation in
your pockets. We do not like to
dun Won. but we must if you fail to
take the hint.-Ex.
Year: 1876

Run AwAY.-On last Friday eve.
as WIN. Lakeland and Joe Pitcher
were about to leave the city for 5
hunt, their horse took fright and ran
away and threw them both out and
smashed the buggy up generally.
No one seriously hart.
Year: 1876

Don't have your shirt collar work
ing up over your neck bard, your
bosom gaping open and showing up
under your chin.


When Ayers will give you a per.
feet fit of better goods for Less
money than you pay Cor shirts that
bang like d sack on hoe handle.
u 1t.
Year: 1876

If you want to orive live trade
and do paying business; keep your
stock Of goods and their qualities
before the people; keep your bust
ness before the people and they will
know what you have and how you
sell it,
Year: 1876

We would state to the public that
our stock is now unusually large
and complete, and we would call es-
peciaI attention to our stock of ladies
cloaks. We have some now novelties
of the latest styles and guarantee
prices for every department.


27tf. WOODWARD y Coo Ms
Year: 1876

An EXPENSIVE DINNER.-The most


expensive dinner served on Thsnksgiv


ing day was eaten at San Francisco, if
the News Letter be veracious. A rich
citizen, who had made fortune as a
poultry dealer. wished to send fine
turkey to bis daughter and young hus-
band. and at the same time to incloss
a little souvenir. He placed certif-
cate Of 100 shares Of Consolidated Vir-
ginia mining stock in rich morocco
pocket book. hiding his gift insid Of
the royal bird, near the heart. As he
Joined the young couple at dinner there
was a merry twinkle in his eye Grace
was said, and the keen carving-knife
cleft the breast of the fowl 1T tastes
little leathery." remarked the young
wife. "Cut deeper" responded the
fond parent. They cut and cut until
the last vestige of the stuAiug. which
smelt like a collection of elegantly
bound books. was removed. There lay
a soggy-iookiug pocket book. The
India rubber band had dissolved, and
as it opened with the heat the sweet
juices Of the turkey had little by little
reduced the crisp certificate to boiled
pulp. With loud shrek the father
fell under the table He bad forgotten
to take the number Of the certificate,
and they bad been eating a turkey
worth $4,000.
Year: 1876

The Hon. Benjamin H. Hill, of Ga !,
has written to friend in that State a
letter in answer to many flying rumors
that are current in Georgia in respect to
his political fidelity, and in vindica,ion
of bis course during the present session
Of Congress. He asserts that be has
acted with his party both in caucus and
in the House; that those who say he
has lost faith in the election of Mr.. Til
den, or that he and other Southern men
are willing to make some bargain or
trade or other arrangement with Mr.
Hayes state what is not true. All that
be has said or done in caucus, he de-
clares. has met with the warmest ap-
proval of his party associates, and all
the stories circulated to the contrary,
and casting doubt on his good faith,
''are simply manufactu' ed by sensation
al hirelings for republican use and ben
eft" In conclusion be says:


1.-THE political situation was never so
critical as now. Our constitutional
system is on magazine of powder. and
ten thousand fools, and some that are
not fools, are striking matches all
around it. None but cool men and pa.
triots who love country more than Office
can avert the most horrible civil war
that has ever disgraced and destroyed
liberty and humanity. And yet there
was never less excuse for any war in the
history of the world. Such war, if it
come, will be the elimination of human
crime in the dastardly destruction of
human rights by disgraceful scramble
for Office. In the late election both Mr..
Tilden and Mr.. Hayes received some
votes. Will it not be letter to have
either for President than to have ruler
who received no votes? He is too stupid
for argument who does not see that the
last alternative is possible But who
ever may or may not be made President
by returning bo 'rds or bayonets. one
thing is certain-Mr. Tilden cannot and
will not be made President unless be is
made SO by fair. honest count Of the
votes Of the people That count can be
neither fair nor honest unless il be had
under interpretations Of the constitution
long accepted and by methods Of pre-
cedure long established The party
that now demands new interpretations
or new form or method Of count will
be a party in rebellion and treason
against the constitution, the Union and
the people"
Year: 1876

San Domingo has again distinguished
itself BY revolution. President Con
gales has resigned and left the country,
and Baes, who was in exile. has been
restored 1t would be difficult to un-
derstand the meaning Of these foot ball
revolutions in the tropics were We less
familiar with the elements which pro-
duce them, and show themselves in the
turbulent and vindictive minority which
may be found in most political parties
These revolutions are not without their
value. They are sufficiently near to
give us something like home lesson
out of their very contemplate though
sometimes barbarous and bloody charac-
ter
Year: 1876

A TALE told Of Wade Hampton-is
it true? His father. a millionaire, left
to each of his two daughters. by his
will. 100000 the rest of his prop
erty be bequeathed to his only son
After the funeral the will was shown
to the young Wade He read it
through very carefully, and then threw
it into the fire. saying: "Pll never
consent to take larger share of the
estate than the others. Let the property
be divided equally among the three. !"
This. it is said, was actually done.
Year: 1876

LONDON, April 10-Burke, the Under
Foreign Secretary, stated in the House of
Commons that the English Government had
made no representation and had no inten-
ton of taking any action in the surplus of
the Geneva award


The Stock Exchange closed very fiat
khedives have fallen I'D.
Year: 1876

The Kansas Conservatory OF Music gave
their dress rehearsal in Fifth Avenue
Chapel on the 9th inst. Prof. Robt. Brown
director, and to an audience embracing
some of the most cultured and refined OF
both the city and Fort, much to the credit
OF pupils and Faculty, and presented the
following
Year: 1876

Is very complete. and to those intending purchae- ing can offer great bargains in SPRCTACLES and EYE GLASSES. have full line, and can warrant a perfect fit and satisfaction at prices lower than ever before offered.
Year: 1876

Are the people OF this country
willing to trust the management OF
the Government to the hands of a
"solid Democratic South" secured
In the way 1t Is? When there is an
unembarrassed, free, honest ballot in
the South, when all who are entitled
to vote under the constitution OF
their country are permitted to ex-
press their honest opinions at the
ballot-box without fear of molesta-
ton in their persons or business,
then, and not until then, will the
time have arrived for another party
than the Republican TO be trusted.
Year: 1876

Do the people of Marion county
want to vote for q Member of the
Board of Supervisors who will
award bridge contracts in his district
without giving men who would like
to an opportunity to put in bid?
This Is the course Lucas pursues.
Nice work for a "reformer," isn't IL?
Vote against him, and for John b.
Ely man who believes in giving all
mechanics an opportunity to secure
county work.
Year: 1876

Tilden has secured postponement
until after election OF the suit brought
against him by the Terre Haute rail
road for fraudulently taking S5S, 900
of railway bonds from that company
and appropriating them to his own
use. and also of the suit brought by
the government to recover the in
come tax unpaid.
Year: 1876

MILLER & BELLVILLE are prepared TO do all
Hi kinds of work in their line on short notice
and on reasonable terms. Give them a call at
their store, near northeast corner of Court House
Square, Knoxville. l9-H-tf
Year: 1876

Citizens Of Marion county, men
who love your country, Is Judge
Hendershott the sort of man you
want to represent you In Congress.
Let us ask you each, individually,
can you give your vote TO such a
man, or even half-vots by with
Year: 1876

We have almost in vain looked fsr
dispatches from the South, telling the
world how patriotically the centennial
day Of our national existence was cele-
brated there. So far we have heard
Of only very few instances in which
there was any Fourth of July celebra-
ton at all, and these were generally in
places where Northern men and color
ed loyalist predominate. One very
significant Southern Fourth of July
celebration item reaches us, however,
and that comes from Kentucky-the
only one from that State-where a
mob of men surrounded the house of
the widow of a Union soldier and com
PEELED her, under threat of destroy
ing her home, to take down an Amer
lean flag which her patriotic soul had
impelled her to display on the house.
top in honor of the national anniyer-
sary. This same south, by aid of her
political slaves of the north, confident
ly expects to elect Samuel J. Tilden
President of the United States next
November. In view Of the cold
shoulder she has given the Centennial
Fourth, to which every true Ameri-
can patriot at home and abroad did
honor by word or act, the question We
are compelled to ask-and it is a very
important questions, Can the Gov
ernment of the American Republic be
intrusted to the control of that sort of
people, or to those with whom they
are in political sympathy? In other
words, Can we afford to surrender our
dearest interests as a nation to those
who hate patriots and despise patriot
ism?- Chicago Journal.


A dispatch from Augusta, Me-,
says: "Mr Blaine has now been
home eigLt days. So far there has
been no special change in his case.
The nervous prostration is still a
marked characteristic. He is not able
to leave his rocm, and is almost entire
ly confined to bed. His physician
thinks it will be many weeks before he
will resume active work. 4 European
trip is strongly recommended as soen
| 8 his strength is sufficient"
Year: 1876

How is Ii that we hear 10 more
from our Democratic friends about
those terrible monopolies which
were eating up everybody and OPP
pressing "the rest OF mankind" a
year or two ago? Have our friends
Boydston and Mccormack and Lucas
and all those other fellows who had
so much sympathy for the dear
farmers then 80 soon forgotten that
irrepressible conflict between the
farmer and the monopolist? Or
have they discovered that they can
not use the "Autimonopoly" cry In
this campaign so effectively as they
can that old slogan Reform" which
Tilden has commanded his friends
to use in the process OF hosting him
and the Southern brethren" TO
power?