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Year: 1876

John P. Jones, the Nevada Senator, in his speech on the silver question said:

 "What an unheard of proposition That a country burdened with two billion dollars should attempt to introduce machine for effecting its internal exchange that would raise the burden of such debt at least twen- ty per cent: and not only this, but increase also the weight of the vast amount of cor porate, municipal, State, county and city debts want to know why the seven or eight thousand millions of private debts which exist in addition to those of the na- tion, States, and municipalities, and which were enpendered in greenbacks, shall be in- creased in the interest of creditors and to the ruin of debtors tell you, it is not the money-lender that gives prosperity to a country. It is the active business man; it is the borrower; the hopeful, the industri- ous, the snterprising man, who IS always Tn debt. That is the man who lends feetness to the wings of commerce. That IS the man who gives elasticity to the Tagging foot steps of industry. It is not the man, who, instead of inaugurating enterprises, sits back and lends money. And if any legis- lation is to be had, it should be in favor of the masses of the people of the country. Let few honest words be said for Lazarus. Let us not always be nodding to Dives. We hear vail throughout this country from certain classes whenever you propose to make money plenty, so as to keep up prices at the range in which they were when the debts were contracted. We hear vail lest somebody with fixed income is going to be hurt, or somebody with fixed salary is going to be hurt. We have heard no words of encouragement or defence for that much larger class, who have neither income, fixed nor unixed, but who have very fixed obligations to meet"

 He warned the Senate of the serious con dition of business affairs throughout the country, and claimed that the only means for equitable liquidation is found in the silver dollar; that as previously shown, We now have the opportunity to purchase sill yer with greenbacks, owing to the tempo rary rise in gold and the fall of silver, caus- ed by Germany's denmonetization of silver. Now was the propitious moment, which might never return. We needed and could absorb just the amount of silver which Germany has to sell. We must soon either extend our paper currency, or repudiate. He said if we failed to restore the silver dol lar to full legal tender, and so neglected the mining interests of the country, the mines of Nevada would be closed, and if once abandoned would never be reopened
Year: 1876

THK FIRE Yesterday at 12a
o,clock dense smoke was seen issuing from
the alley in rear Of Madame Demelman's ex-
tensive millinery establishment. No. 1879
Main street, and 1t was supposed that the
basement was on fire. The cry Of fire was
raised, and Captain Ainslie, Chief Engineer
of the Fire Department, was induced to turn
in an alarm at Station 81. corner Fourteenth
aud Main streets. Four steamers, the
Broad street truck and the Tenth street hose
company, were soon in sight and not little
excitement was created in that part OF the
CITY. It turned out that servant girl had
deposited a scuttleful of live Goals and hot
ashes in q wooden box in the alley, which
set the box on fire. a few buckets of water
sufficed to extinguish the flames.


1t is very pretty sight to see the bright
steamers hurryiug through the streets, but
il is very dangerous thing TO drive down
,be hills az rapidly as some Of our worthy
fr.men do. One of them narrowly escaped
being thrown from bis seat yesterday.
Year: 1876

SOUTHERN Historical SoclErY.-Tbe re.
tirement of Secretary Belkuap has inter
rupted the correspondence between the War
Department and the secretary Of the South
ern Historical Society in reference to the
Confederate archives. 1t remains to be seen
what policy the next Secretary of War will
ADOPT with reference to the "Archive Blu.
reau.1 There has been such q run on the
January No. of the Southern Historical
Popers that the supply has been entirely
exhausted, and the secretary has ordered
another edition of 1000 copies, which will


be ready in q few days.
Year: 1876

FssTaL LArIaG THE SENATE CHANBER.-By
resolution OF MIR: Grimsley yesterday the
clerk of theS Senate was instructed 80 TO ar
range the entrance to the gallery Of the
senate as to separate it from the floor of the
Senate, and, with view to ventilation, to
open the tire.places In the chamber and
cover them with suitable open iron screens,
and 10 assist in.Ventilstion to introduce gas
burners therein.
Year: 1876

On Jan. IIth, the case of Miss Ern-
estine Hauser came on before the
Civil Court of Breisach. Grand Duchy
of Baden. Miss Hauser is the young
lady who stated to her parents and
her physician that several priests bad
induced her to weara tight rope round
her loins as a sure means Of pleasing
the Deity. When on the brink Of the
grave by this constant torture, an at
tempt was made to cup her feet and
produce stigmata. The skin being
filled with blood owing to the pres
sure exercised by the rope, this cup
ping, according to medical opinion,
would be sure to produce prolonged
bleeding. One OF the two priests con-
eerned in this affair, and mentioned
by the young lady in her la:e confess
ions, brought an action for libel against
the physician who had published the
story. The action, however, was
Withdrawn previous to trial. A little
later the other priest sued the girl for
telling the physician falsehoOds at his
expense. The case was tried, and
ended in the aequittal Of the young
lady. During the trial counsel for the
Crown expressed regret that the
priests could not be prosecuted with
out the consent of the young lady,
which he had failed to obtain.
Year: 1876

and you will remember the excite


ment those produced and the Gen.
I serious publication which was uttered
| against me because / WOul5 not visit
: on helpless prisoners in our hands
slch barbarities as, according to re-
I ports, had been inflicted on our men.
! Imprisonment is hard lot at best,


and prisoners are prone to exaggerate
their suffs-ings, and such was
I probably the case on both sides; but


We did not seek by report OF commit


tees, with Photographic illustrations,
I to intiame the passions OF our people.
I How was it with orr enemy? Let
one example suffice. You may re-


member s published report Of
a committee Of the United States
/ Congress which was sent 10 Annapolis
to visit some exchange prisoners, and


which had appended tn it photo


graphs of some Of the emaciated sub
jects which were offered as samples
OF the prisoners returned from the
South. When a copy of that report


was received, sent it to Colonel Ould
Com missioner OF the Exchange Of
Prisoners, and learned, as l anticipst-
ed, that the photographs had been
taken from men who were in the
hospitals when they were liberated


for exchange, and whom the hospital
surgeon regarded as eonvaleseent, but
too weak TO be removed with safety
to themselves. The anxiety of the
prisoners. to be sent to their homes


had prevailed over the objections of
the surgeon. But this Is not all, for


have recently learned from a priest
who was then at Annapolis that the
most wretehed looking ofthese phoLo-
graphs was taken from 8 man who


had never been q prisoner, but who
had been left on the sick list at An
napolis when the eomtnand to which


he was attached had passed through


that place on its southwark march.


Whatever may be said in extenuatiOn
OF such impOsture because OF the eXi-
gencies of war, there can be no such
excuse now for the attempt Of Mr..
Blaine, by gross misrepresentation
and slanderous accusations, to revive
the worst passions of war, and it Is to
be hoped that, much as it is to be re-
gretted, it will have the good effect Of
ev0king truthful statements in regard
to this little understood subject from
men who would have preferred to
leave their sorrowful story untold if
the subject could have been peace
fully t. sink into oblivion. Mutual
respect is ueedful for common interest,
is essential to friendly union, and
when slander is promulgated from
high places, the public welfare de-
mands thst the truth should strip
falsehOOd OF its power for evil. 1 am
respectfully and truly your friend,


[Signed.l JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Year: 1876

The darkness falls, the wind IS high,
Dense black clouds hli the western sky;


The storm will soon begin.
The thunders roar, the Iightnings fash,
hear the great round rain-drops dash


Are all the children in?
coming softly to my side;
Their forms within my arms I hide


No other arms as sure.
The storm may rage with fuTy wild,
With trusting faith each little child


With mother feels secare.
But future days are drawing near
They'll go from this warm shelter here,


Out in the worlds wide din.
The rain will fall, the cold winds blow;
I'll sit alone and long 10 know,


Are all the childien in?
VIII they have shelters then secure,
Where hearts are waiting strong and sure,


And love is true when tried
Or will they md broken reed,
When strength of heart they so much neeS
To help them brave the tide
God knows It all His will is best;
IplI shield them now, and leave the rest


In His most righteous hand.
Sometimes souls He loves are riven
By tempest's wild. and thus are driven


Nearer the better land.
n He should cali me home before
The children go, on that blest shore,


Afar from care and sin,
know that shall watch and wait
Till He, the Keeper of the Gate,


Let's all the children in.
Year: 1876

The subject of impression at first
sight was being talked over at the tea
table, when the lady Of the house said,
son at first sight, and generally found
it correct" Mamma" said the
youngest son, in a shrilI voice that at
tracted the attention of all present.
well, my dear, what is 1t ?" asked
the mother. 81 want to know what
was your opinion when you first saw
me ?" The question gave q sudden
turn to the conversation.
Year: 1876

AN AWKWARD PAUsE.-A young
gentleman undertook to relate cir
cumstance, one sunday evening, In
the presence of some young ladies'
He commenced as follows:


"A lady friend and myself, last Sun
day evening, went to Bed


With a sudden spring the old lady
bounced him utofthe house. The next
day the old gentleman met him in the
street and asked him for an apology.


Il was about to cay commenced
the young man, that a lady friend
and myself went to Bed when a
sudden thrust from the old man 8
cane started him back several feet,
upon which he exclaimed at the top
of his voice


~ lady friend and myself went to
Bedford street church. you old fool
Ne,Cqrk Union.
Year: 1876

A man In Pennsylvania has inven-
ted rat-trap that is made to operate
upon the selfish passions of the poor
rat, and lure him into trouble. A mir
ror set in the back part of the device,
beyond the bait, and as his ratship is
out on foraging expedition he espies
the bait; at the same times believes
his own image in the mirror to be an.
other rat making for 1t on the oppos'
ite side. This is too much for rat na'
ture to stand and be cool over; so he
rushes for the bait and is caught. This
is the theory. What the practice is
we are not informed.
Year: 1876

HALF AN HOUR Too LATE.--A
young couple eloped from neighbor-
ing town lately, and when at safe
distance from home were married.
Soon after. an officer was sent in pur-
suit, and arriving at the hotel where
they were stopping, he Immediately
entered their room, and found them
snug in bed. He explained his errand,
when the young lady said with ring
ing laugh


Tell ma IT'S too late-we've been
married some time, and have been In
bed half an hour. Snuggle up, George,
and don't get out of bed for him.
Year: 1876

A crow shot In the orchard of dea-
con Barbric, of Plymouth, Me-, was
found to have in his crop twenty or
thirty nests of caterpillar eggs. show
Ing that the much abused crow had
made satisfactory dinner on about
1000 or 5000 caterpillar eggs. AS
these eggs are plenty, we bid the
whole crow family to eat their fill
three times daily or much oftener,
and there will be enough and to
spare" then.
Year: 1876

For whitening the teeth there is
nothing superior to wood charcoal
very finely powdered. Take a few
shsvings of CASTLE soap and dissolve
in spirit with the aid of heat. Use
this solution to make with the char
coal very stiff paste, adding little
sirup or honey to sweeten it, and scent
m anti
Year: 1876

We are interested in everything pertain.
ing to the farm, to the life and work of the
farmer. The food that he eats, and the
water that he drinks. we consider an i'm
portant part Of farm hygiene. We are
glad to see the New York farmers club
turning its attention to this subject, and
make this extract from remaks of the
members in discussing it:


A well-regulated farm does not always
have neat and systematic house.
Farmers look first to the Improvement
Of their land and last to the making
comfortable and cheerful their homes.
One is often struck in travelling though
the country with the difference between
the systematic household, where there is
a place for everything and everything
in its place, and the household where
irregularity prevails, where the house.
hold furniture, as we'll as the outdoor
implements, show neglect, and where
the comforts predominant in a sys-
tematic home are unknown. System
and neatness should also reign in the
house yards. A pile of wood here and q
heap of old lumber there, waiting q
more convenient season to be stored in
the wood-house, are useless and very sug-
6SotiNO Va ioZiuOSos OSOIy AoA Ia ouOuAu
have wood-house, where the wood for y
year should be stored each autumn. Other
disgusting sights are often seen in house,
yards, such as heaps of ashes, old bones,
old boots, and innumerable other nuisances
which are allowed to accumulate, often
breeding disease. Whole neighborhoods
are often greatly alarmed by the sudden
appearance of fevers which are caused by
the carelessness of few, or perhaps one
household, who are slovenly in allowing
old castaways to accumulate, and espe-
cially those who have no proper system
of drainage. A filthy back door is sure
to breed disease. For the preservation
of health. drainage should be looked to
carefully. A swill-barrel at back door


is an institution that should be done
away with. The proper place for
swill-barrel is in the pig-house, where
all swill, as fast as it accumulates, should
be placed. The rear of the house should
be kept as neatly as the front. System
and regularity should exist in the barns.
Cattle are not calculated to roam about
barn floor among moving machines,
horse -rakes, scythes, etc.
Year: 1876




My mother yielded to Rudolph's wish, and
they resided together in the old family man
sion, whilst I, with unabated ardor, pressed
nv scholastic career. I was eager to distin'
zuish myself, and to this end worked with an
ardor and diligence which gained for me the
highest honors, but which were somewhat de-
trimental to my already weak health. This,
however, did not regard. Long after every
other light in the college was extinguished, I
would sit up poring over my books far into
the night, until my throbbing pulses and fe'
vered brain would warn me to desist and seek
q few hours of brief repose. I was not very
popular among my companions. This, think,
was owing to my reserve, which could not
shake Of One or two kindly spirits sought
me out but with one only ever felt at my
ease-a young Yorkshireman Of the name OF
Selwyn; and having once accepted his over
lures of friendship, soon admitted him to
tho closest intimacy, and we became almost in
separable companions.


selwyn was three years my senior, and in
many respects very engaging and attractive
youth. I have used these terms because to
me he appeared singularly fascinating yet
do not know that others regarded him in the
same light, though he was sufficiently we'll
liked by both teachers and scholars. He was
both thoughtful and clever, with clear, we'll
balanced mind. He was fond Of the studies
in which delighted, and this formed strong
bond between us. But what charmed me
most was his sympathy with that part of my
nature which usually found least favor in the
estimation of my own sex. Unlike my broth
er, and the generality Of youths to whom |
was accustomed, he had no pleasure in rough
sports and severe bodily exercise. but rather
inclined to quiet and meditative mode OF
life. And though graceful horseman, an
excellent swimmer, and an unerring marks
man, he placed mental culture on far higher
pinnacle in his esteem than the most perfect
physical training. Feeling assured, therefore,
that my backwardness in that respect excited
no contempt for me in his mind, was entire
ly at my ease in his society, and yielded him
my confidence and affection the more readily
for the want of sympathy which existed be-
tween myself and others; for my nature was
naturally affecsionate, and craved some outlet
for its pent.up yearnings, especially now that
was away from home. He was very
handsome fellow tall, though not muscular,
with well.sbaped head and brow, large grey
eyes, which looked black under the shadow OF
his sweeping lashes, and straight, clearly-cut
features great contrast in appearance to
Year: 1876

CONGRESSMAN WADDgLL, Of North
Carolina, managed to work this sat
irical thurst at the maker of the Des
Moines speech into his enlogy of An
drew Johnson: "Atter his death some
pious investigator, | believe, claimed
to have discovered that he vas an in
fidel. | have very good evidence to
disprove that; but while personally |
know not how that may have been, |
90 know that while he was alive and
in Office lie was too good a patriot TO
seek to excite a religious prosecution
against any portion Of his fellow citi-
zens. Ifhe had religious views Of any
kind, it is safe to say that they were
his own, and were arrived at after ma
ture deliberation and reflection; but
whatever they Were, Sir, he never
sought to make political capital out
of them.
Year: 1876

A VIGOROUS PROTEST against tie
German ecclesiastical laws has just
been made public at Berlin in pam
ph!et by Herr Reichensperger. The
rigor of Bismarck is creating its own
reaction, and if it is maintained in the
future as it has been in the past the
stability OF :he Empire Itself will be
seriously threatened. In the end these
ecclesiastical troubles must, at least,
result in the separation of Church
and State.
Year: 1876

The ENGLIsH CAPITALISTS in Egypt
have no longer anything to fear from
their French rivals. We cannot for
get, however, in connection with the
announcement, that the English did
everything in their power to defeat
the Suez Canal project, and that had
it not been for the French there
would be no ship channel across the
lsthmus.
Year: 1876

SlLvER.-At the first glance one
might say that too much silver was
being produced. If We examine the
subject carefully, however, it is prob
able that we sail become convinced
that the functions OF silver are too linn
tied. 1t has fallen, compared with
gold, simply because certain Europe
an nations have driven it from their
currency by legislation, and by tho
United States introducing its fraction
al currency. If silver conld be restor-
cd to trade, and made the common
currency for all sums of less than
dollar, and a legal tender for twenty
dollars and under, the demand for 1t
would be fully equal to the supply.
There may be something in Senator
Jones' idea that silver will be the step
ping stone 10 a return TO a gold basis
He is credited with proposition TO
make silver the basis of large transac-
tions by means of silver certificates,
to be issued in place of silver bullion,
which is TO be deposited as security,
some what after the principle OF gold
notes.
Year: 1876

TIE WHISKEY FRAUDS in the West
are still productive of crimes. Now
it is charged that two Chicago alder
men cOnspired to destroy public
building in Milwaukee in order TO OBJ
literate proofs of these frauds. The
report is startling one, but not surp-
rising in view of the decentralization
which was the result ofthe widespread
conspiracies to defraud the revenue in
most Of the Western cities.
Year: 1876

THE President. makers who are so
sure Mr.. Blaine is dead, had best not
be in haste about burying him. He
will be found at Cincinnati animated
with An amount of liveliness which
would be simply preposterous in
COrrse
Year: 1876

The DEMOCRATIC PEEss begins to see
tLat the party majority in Congress
is liable to put its foot in it every
time it touches the currency question,
and is advising the adoption of the
passive policy. Thus, THE Baltimore
Gazette SAYS: We begin to believe
that the best thing that Congress can
do with the question of finance is to
do nothing at all. As it stands, the
republican party of the last Congress
is respon sible for the resumption act.
Let it have all the glory of it; and so
far as it is unpopular that party will
bear the odium so far as it is popu-
lar the democratic party will be
censured for any change that is made
in it, even if it should be to better it
By fixing an earlier date for resump-
ton and arranging the necessary de-
tails upon a sound and sensible plan.
No plan that can be devised will be
so good that the republican press and


speakers will not argue and declare it
10 be disguised scheme of initiation !"
Year: 1876

out.


NEw-YEAR TOPICS.


New-Year calls will be paid with less
ceremony this year than for many years
before. In fact the fashionablcs mourn the
small and quiet ways in which everything
is being done. They are afraid that the
world in its exaggerated reverence for ey-
erything old fashioned in the centennial
year may go back to the custsm of doing
without wedding g-tours, and that brides of
next season will be unceremoniously march
ed to their new homes and begin married
life without so much as trip to Niagara,
and take their Paris tours out in round
of tesparties through the honeymoon, as
their grandfathers and grandmothers did a
hundred years ago. Truth compels me to
say that the Paris trip would be the cheap
er in the emo, for there used to be deep
complaints of old that these festivities
preyed heavily OH the pockets of all con-
cerned, and more than one good tradesman
was ruined by having too much company.
But spite of the money pressure and the
fancy for simple ways, we hear of ladies
receiving in blue and maroon velvet gowns,
that the fashionable gowns for receiving
calls OH New Years day will be Of blue and
maroon velvet, with trimmings of the new
Genoa point which is a sort of fine honiton
lace with net ground, which my lady
readers will recognize as new departure
in lace. Yellow and blue diamonds, and
canoes which require the most exquisite
creations of art in their subjectA will be
the approved jewels to wear with these
elegant toilets. The fine world is pretty
we'll divided on the question of supplying
wines and spirituous beverages to callers.
Not few of the best families in the fash
lonable world diseountenance it entirely,
while others are abandoning the cautious
ground on they have always held on the
subject. Apropos of this see that Har-
per's Bazaar in q late editorial on Christmas,
proposes the use of Punch, Eggnogg and
kindred drinks, and speaks of them in a
tone of allowance which is in decided con-
trast with its position some time since.
Two or three years ago the Bazar publish
ed number OF recipes for fancy drinks,
like prince regents punch, claret-cup and
the like which raised a perfect storm of
expostulation from it's readers, especially
the good Methodist brothers who make it
their business to keep a strict watch over
the morals of Harper publications. So
much was said that the editor of the Bazar
incontinently refused to publish any far
ther articles on the same subject. Either
there is a reaction on the part of its CEN
sors or the Bazar gauges the tone of socie-
E1ty differently indeed, since it apparently
gives editorial sanction to the use OF wine
and its compounds in the family. 1t will
however find few to quarrel with the stand
it has last taken. PIETRo.