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Year: 1876

"You say that she's in bed!"


"Ye5-I saw her put the light
out some time ago in her room, for
/ took care to ascertain which it
was but she's lit the gas In the
lower part Of the house, for the
benefit Of the master and mistress,
no doubt, little thinking what
kindness she was doing u.s."


"She's little fooll Fancy let
ting a house and never asking the
name of the person who took it,


"Ah," said third voice." she's q
neat thing in housekeepers."


They had opened the window
while speaking, and one man jump
ed down. ] raised my weopon,
trembling in every limb, and aimed
at his legs as well as was able in
the dark. l wounded him, for he
uttered fearful oath and sunk to
the ground.


"We're sold !" exclaimed another.
Missus, you shall rue this I"
concluded the speaker address,
ed was the woman who had visited
me some hours before, but for my
self l dared not breathe least they
should discover how very weak the
opposition was. / heard the wo-
man reply that she had not sold
them, and then came the sound of
retreating footsteps; but the man
whom had shot was left behind,
and my blood run cold when I
thought that perhaps / had killed
him, for after that one oath he had
made no sound. For a moment 1
stood irresolute, and then turned
and fed up stairs. Seizing can
die, ! returned to the cellar, and
never shall I forget the ghastly
sight that presented itself. The
man lay there pale as death and
quite as still, while one leg Of his
trousers was saturated with blood.
If l had killed him what should I
dol l sped back to the dining
room, and returned with the water
bottle and some brandy. / dashed
the water in his face and thanked
heaven when he moved family and
then put the brandy to his lips.
He swallowed a little and seemed to
revive, but the next minute tainted
again and / was at my wits end.
What if he should die 4?


l longed with an unspeakable
longing for Mr.. and Mrs. New
stead's return, and could only pray
the man might recover. At last
there was the sound of carriage
wheels on the drive, and rushed
to the door. l remember nothing
more but l was told afterwards
that Mr.. Newstead caught me rs /
sank helpless now that the need OF
exertion was over. They discov-
cred the man, sent for doctor,
who dressed his wounds, and the
next morning he was removed to
the infirmary. For many days l
lay ill with brain fever, but when
I at length recovered l begged to
be taken to see him that might
tell him how sorry l was that had
hurt him. AT my earnest request
Mr.. Newstesd declined to prose-
cute him; but l never think of the
night / was left in charge without
hoping that the turning point OF
his life, and that the leniency ac-
corded him had more power over
him for good than the longest term
of Imprisonment would have had.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Booth introduced bill into the
New York Legislature making it mis-
demeanor for any person to hire out, ap-
prentice, give away or otherwise dis
pose of any child under sixteen years of
age to be used in any exhibition as tight
rope walker or other gymnastic perform
ance, or for any immoral purpose or en-
ployment dangerous to life or health, or
as beggar or singer or dancer, also
making It q misdsmeanor for any person
to employ or exhibit such child for any
such purpose. g.
Year: 1876

I would respectfully inform those of
my friendr, both here and at a distance,
who have any expectation of getting
thirsty, that l have just received a most
complete assortment of Pure Liqnors
ever imported to Lake Charles, which
[ am desirous of selling at wholesale
and retail at prices to justify both seller
and buyer. My wines and brandies are
unsurpassed, and my whiskies ''the
Simon pure" Before leaving town be
sure and call around and take a parting
farewell. Lager beer, Scotch ale and
porter constantly on hand. ap4n4y
Year: 1876

All the mOuOpOlies with which


our dist essed people ar burthened


are the outgrowth of republican


rule. The republican party has


never abated a monopoly. The


democratic party has never created


one. The republican party always


muItiplies legislation. The demo-


cratic party PelsistentIy removes


bad laws from the Statute book.
We believe it is the Intention of
Brother Moody and Brother San


key, after they have flushed their


spiritual campaign in Chicago, to


lay siege TO the citadel of the devil


iD Boston. Before they enter on


that enterprise, We caution them


to lay IN a tremendous store of


spiritual ammunition and to make


arrangements for a constant sue
cession of new material for the


long conflict they will need to


wage. For if anywhere in the


country the devil is almost impreg-


rably intrenched, it is at Boston.
The Boston people think they are
good enough already-a little too
good to put up with the rest of us
and so far from wishing to get
any theological points from Bro
ther Moody, they stand ready TO
supply him with them Mt short no.
tice and in infinite variety. As to
Brother Sankey's singing, unless
he adapts his hymns to the music
of the future, Boston will paw no
attention to them, for next to
theology he9 strong point is mu-
sic. The Boston people enjoy 60
ing to church, but not to gain
spiritual edifcation. What they
are after is to sharpen their wits
at the expense of the preacher.
Brother Moody will at once see
that this is not a state of mind
which leads dstOcODyprsiODs. Instead
Of seeking truth at his hands, the
BostoniAns will undertake to put
him in the wav of finding it him
self, for they devoutly believe that
t is locked up in Boston and that
hey alone hold the key to the
strong box. Yes, Boston will be
stony ground for Brother Moody
o cast the seed of the Gospel
1pon. Let him begin by proceed
ug 10 take down the spiritual pre-
enoions of the people there, break
u2 their religious self-suficiency,
nd proving to them that they
lave no royal Boston road to
heaven. He must paint their cold,
and Hfeless spiritual state
n vivid coloIs and humble their
Intellectual arrogance without
percy. Only so can he do any
hing there. We shall watch Bro
her Moody's campaign in Boston.
N. Y. Sun.
Year: 1876

Very few people look deep enough into
the effect Of crimes which are denomi-
mated breaches of trust, to see fully
the losses sustained thereby. We will
refer to two cases of local crime to illus
trate our meaning. These cases were de-
falcations at the Farmers Bank of Della
ware and the Union Bank of Delaware.


In both cases the Banks were amply
secured by the bonds of the defaulters.
But that did nov save the stock of the in
stitutions from severe contraction. The
effect upon tire stock Of the former Bank
was not so great. nor was it SO percepti-
bic. But upon the holders of tine stock
Of the Union Bank it was very severe,
causing depression of eight to ten dol
lars share. That is to say shares that
had previously old as high as silb sunk
down to about $32; and did not rise
again to 81 for eight or ten years. This
stock has sold recently at $40 SO. The
Bank having q heavy surplus and max
ing money rapidly. But during the
period in which it was depressed iu con-
sequence of the abstraction of the
unds by its officer, Day, all who were
compelled to realize on it had to meet a
loss varisusly estimated from S. to s. a
share, or it might have been one-fifth
their investment. This was the case
while the Bank. perhaps, actually lost
nothing, since it recovered from the Sc
curities of its officer. Now this was the
case with one of our Banks that had
then, as it has now, the highest standing
in our community.


The point we aim to call attention to
is the fact that in all such cases those
who suffer are the ones least able To
bear it i. e, those who are compelled to
sell. Where estates are settled widows
and orphans have to bear the loss, and
where misfortune overtakes one, they
are less able to bear such sacrifice.


Bank defalcations have not been nu-
merous in our city but they have been
throughout the country and it seems to
us that penal enactmcnts are need to
deter such offences.
Year: 1876

perpetual picnicers. They live there.
How they employ themselves when
they don't have company was always a
mystery, but they find enough to do
while you are there-and SO do you.
OF course the first thing you do, is to
kill off all these troublesome insects,
and as there are good many:of you it
won't take long. tT7 -


Did food ever taste better than at, a
picnice or is it that this particular
dinneris specially well cookede Did
|annoyances ever seem more agreeable!
Did youever have a better, time, any
how!
Year: 1876

From the New Orleans Bulletin.


Daisy Deane sat on one of the low
benches in the front row. Her pretty
face was rather flushed, and her bold
black eyes had lost some of their
brightness, for Daisy Deane had been
drunk the night before, and had been
locked up. One of her ''friends,"
however, had secured her release for
the night, under promise that she
would come to court and answer, and
in keeping with her promise she had
come. Daisy Deane was one of the
fallen, and was one of the widest
but it was the first time she had been
called on to make promise of the
kind or to answer, for Daisy Deane
was noted as "a new one.


She sat in the front row, strangely
subdued, and she looked upon the pro-
ceedings of the Court in a listless way,
and was apparently unconscious of the
admiring gaze of the clerks and the
admiring glances of the Judge.
The 'sdrunks'' and disturbances
were trotted out and trotted in again,
and still Daisy Deane looked on and
seemed to see nothing; until, at last,
an old woman was led out-a woman
with gray hair, wrinkled face and
hands, and shabby but neatly patched
clothes. She advanced in dazed way,
and trembled as she stood before the
Judge.


Daisy Deane looked on her in the
same absent manner she had looked OH
all the others, but she started, her
face flushed, and she leaned forward
and gazed on the old woman with pain.
full intensity; then she sank back,
dropped her eyes and lowered her veil
but her face was still turned to the
trembling form.


The old woman had been arrested as
vagrant.


The officer said he had watched her.
She had habit of coming back of
town at all hours of the day and night;
he had seen her when he was on day
duty and when he was on night duty,
and she had a habit of looking into
the windows of some of those houses
back of town in a strange, searching
way. When he asked her /: ssWhat are
you up to, and what do you do for a
living p she gave no satisfactory ans.
wer, and he had taken her in as being
on the ''vag.''


The formal question was put by the
Court: "What have you to say :" And
all she had to say, was-and she said it
in a quivering voice-''1 was looking
for my daughter, SIR


This was no answer under the law,
and the Court, having in the one ques.
tion complied with the formalities.
asked no more, but passed sentence.


Ten dollars or ten days."


| An officer took charge of the old
woman and started for the dock, wher
Year: 1876

From the Red Wing Republican.


This is the season for them, and of
course you are going. The signal ser.
vice man renders you signal service
by furnishing you the finest day he
has laid away in his bureau, because
yours is the Centennial picnic. You
enter your carriage bright and early
destined to leave it not so bright and
not very early. You are astonished
when you find that the baskets of pro-
visions won't 60 under the carriage
seats, and the eatables are so plentiful
that when you get in you think you are
riding in bakery and provision store
But you are not impatient, because
that's the way it is at picnics. Their
your feet go into the cream-cake bas
ket, and you find you have left youl
measure for new pair of boots, but
way it is at picnics.


The left.handed horse is lame ir
three of his four feet and some of his
hind feet, and he is not so anxious tt
be at the grounds as you are, so hi
goes slow and looks back frequently tt
see that you don't get in a hurry an(
spoil that nice, new whip. But that!
the way at picnics.


It is unfortunate that the road is moi
paved, because now the pail of ice
water has upset right into your boots
just as it is always does going to pic
mic; but you console yourself with thu
reflection that the water is not reall,
gone, and that you don't want to have
a dry time, any way.


You have a party of singers along
and jubilee songs, melodious, half-for
gotten darkey songs, and Bliss ant
Sankey's stirring hymnsj enliven th'
way and the grounds after your ar
rival, and you forget the lame horse
the ruined cream-cakes and the ice
water.


To reach the grounds you. cross
stream in a row-boat, and of course i
wouldn't be picnic if you could Ian.
without getting your two feet thre,
feet into the mud.


The grounds are quite shady, ant
picnicers like shade. Musquitos ar
Year: 1876

Ouos "11oAcupOA AssI1S4clc Iulc" uOWu
his cords and said, Let some one else
bind her. It's not my profession to
execute children!' There was some
delay in starting, and little Nicole
Bouchard sat down by her mistr ess'
feet and tried to console her. She
asked leave to be with her in the
same cart. really believe that if
she had begged for life, more than
one would have freed her and offered
to take her place.


What we felt the people felt also.
The crowd was very large, owing to
the proportions of the execution.
Five or six young and pretty women
were in the first cart, and their fate
excited pity; but when poor little Nj.
cole Bouchard was seen there was an
explosion Of indignation. Cries of
: No children rose numerous and
loud. In the Fauburg St. Antoine I
could see the women weeping. l was
almost overpowered by the scene.
had looked at Nicole Bouchard in the
Conciergerie, and her eyes, to my
thinking. seemed to say, You will not
kill me?' And yet she is dead now.
She was the ninth. When she passed
before me had to struggle with an
inspiration that whispered in my ear,
Smash up the guillotine, and do not
allow this child to die!' My assist
ants pushed her on toward the knife.
| turned away, my legs trembled, and
turned sick. 1t was Martin who had
charge of the execution. He said to
me, You are unwell. Go home and
trust to me for the rest I did not
answer, and left the scaffold.


at the corner of the Rue Santonge,
when a woman stopped me and begged,
I thought the little girl was before
me. This evening / thought I saw
spots of blood on the table.cloth when
l was sitting down to dinner San.
sons constitution was giving away,
and his spirits also. Martin, his
brother, who usually took his place
whenever there was occasion for doing
so, perceived that the old executioner
was breaking down. The slightest
noise made him shudder, and he avoid.
ed his relatives. His usual state of
mind was that of the darkest mood
mess, which he retained to his last
day. In 1906 the aged headsman died.
Calling his son to his bedside half an
hour before he expired he addressed
him thus: ''Henri, believe me, let us
abide by the station which fate award
ed to us. It is of no use to hope that
the world will ever receive you; your
origin can neither be forgotten nor
forgiven. Do not take another occu-
patton for yourself or for your son. 1t
would be a desertion from your duty.
There has not been a single instance
in our family Of such desertion. Our
family is certainly the most ancient
and important in the profession; but
others have done as we have done.
For a long time sincerely believe we
were useful to society, and that in no
profession were self.denial and de.
votion shown more than in ours, but
l have seen such singular events that
my opinions are slightly altered now.
Some day we may be suppressed, just
as many other things have been sup
pressed. Until then be certain that
no one has right to blame you or in
suit you. You are not responsible for
the blood you shed. Do not forget
that the judge who passes sentence is
more responsible than you are
Year: 1876

Philadelphia Correspondence.


Yesterday afternoon, standing near
the principal entrance to Paramount,
park, noticed a tall, raw-boned New
Englander who had just made his way
through the turnstile, and who stood
lin evident amazement looking at the
|great buildings about him, and star
ing in open.mouthed wonder at the i'm
mense crowds that thronged the ave-
nues. He was young man, evidently
just fresh from some interior village.
He was naturally no fool, but it could
be plainly seen that he knew next to
nothing of men or of the world, and
that his visit to the worlds fair was
the crowning event in his quiet life.


He had his best clothes on, ''store-
clothes I suppose he would have
called them, and in his hand he carried
Ia new and shining black carpet-bag
which probably contained the greater
part of all his earthly possessions. He


clung to it as if it contained untold
treasure. For fully five minutes he
stood looking about him, and then in
an humble and deprecatory kind of
way he approached an Irish policeman,


radiant in his new uniform of black
and red, and almost busting with an


overpowering sense of his own impor-


tance. Timidly the villager asked the


mighty official, ''Will you please to tell
me whereabouts the Maine building
lis?"


"That's it sur,' said s'the guard, -


with a toss of his head toward the


grand palace of industry, and then as


became person of his dignity and po.


away. The countryman looked at the


immense structure that had been
pointed out to him, and then shaking


his head walked on few PAGES. He
passed two policemen without daring


to address them. Then he came to a
Ijolly.faced member of the French
Year: 1876

FORCED TO MovE.-John Murray, COL,


was the occupant of of two story frame


house which stands on the marsh in South


Wilmington, just south of the Artic


storm in September, last, the marsh was
flooded, and Johns house was surround
ed by several feet of water, compelling
him to live in the garret, and to use a raft
in going to and from his work. This
condition of affairs lasted about two
weeks, and on Sunday last, just as he was
getting nicely dried, another storm came
and flooded his house again. This was
more than human nature could stand SO
this morning John procured a raft and
removed his family and household goods


to higher and dryer quarters.
Year: 1876

PERsoNAL.-As the lease upon their
headquarters expired last night, the Will.
liams Democratic Club disbanded until
the next campaign. This organization
performed good work forthe party during
the recent canvass, and always made a
handsome appearance in the street parade


The lease upon the Democratic Head
quarters. Nos. 605-7 Market street, which
was extended one week will expire to-
NIGHT
Year: 1876

HIGH WATER.-This morning the wa
ter in the Brandywine was very high, and
as it came dashing down over the dams
men and boys were kept busy in catching
the fine large suckers, which came down
in large numbers.
Year: 1876

New SrEAMER.-The West Chester
Borough Council has accepted the new
nButtonn steam engine, which was re-
Gently tested there. 1t will form part
of the Borough Fire Department, and will
be used by the Good Will Company.
Year: 1876

Nothing IS calculated to make a
Young man more deliberate than the
srectacIe of seventeen pair OF st1Ped
.tockiDgs hanging on the clothes-line oi
horse where there is only one young lady
=, tho family.
Year: 1876

as the workmen describe it as being
"smeary, like soft, black putty" but,
unfortunately, none of this substance
was saved. No coin, implement or
weapon of any kind has yet been dis
covered. Specimens of the hardened
white duet, of the mud mortar and of
the rock have been sent to Cambridge
for examination.
Year: 1876

RUMINATIoNs.-W have really moth
ing to growl about, and that's why we
are not happy. For man is 50 constituted
that he must, in order to enjoy life thor
oughly, have some source of discontent.
For happiness, after all is only a relative
term. We feel happy when there is a
complete absence of pain of mind and
body, but very little thing distdrbs our
equanimity and throws US back into the
old channel.


For awhile we growled about the Mu-
steal Union. That, for awhile, furnished
us with an item nearly every week. But
the Musical Union has weakened and
the diScordant notes of the vocaists start
ing in on new "piece," are no longer
borne 20 our ears. We were not happy
when the Union was in full blast, and we
growled at it. We are not happy now,
cause the Union quit meeting to prac-
tice, and we have nothing to growl at
We wish it woul start up again.


This weather gives us the blues. We
thought when John Smith got that bridge
done the storms would be sure tn come
But teams pass over the bridge daily and
yet the rains keep of. So it appears af-
ter all that the Lord does not make n
special di~pensation in our friend Smiths
favor. 1t is only his luck" And the
fellows keep asking when we think it will
rain, as iface had special communica-
ton with the clerk of the weather It's
when we were asked 36S times in ten
days how Louisiana was going. We
know now how Louisiana has gone, but
the Florida recount ." is - linitfu theme
for the Q'eid names. Wen get rid of this
idential nuisance by the 4th OF March,
and that's some comfort.


1t is a source of ongratuation also.
that Leap Year is over. Where there
are 80 many marriageabe ladies rs Weav-
erville can boast of, and so few eligible
gentlemen, what few there are have run
fearful risk. After to morrow they
won't have to dodge into the saloons
when they see dear creatures coming up
the street, to avoid the possibility of hay
ing to pain some gentle heart by a refusal.
More than once have we scootcd out of
our Office ut the sound of light foot step.
and sto1d shivering on the back stairs till
the danger was past. II i The part of
prudence to avoid daneer and W.. did it,
though We knew hy ,ad axp'' icnce that
we would find our chairs tipped bottom
upward and our couch filled with pitch
wood, whisky bottles, and water pals.
But such is life.
Year: 1876

ABOUT HORSE. On Tuesday Mr..
Henry Spiegelberg, de>irous OF prospect
ing for quartz on the hills above the
Ware place mounted bis horse and rode
on. there. When he reached the vicini-
ty of the place he designed looking at, he
hitched the animal securely and com
menced his search for indications. When
ready to return home he came back to
where he had left the horse bat found it
gone. He tracked it for some distance
until night coming on he was unable to
follow the traces farther and he returned
to town on foot. Spiegeiberg was very
confident that the animal was hitched 50
securely that he could not get loose with
out help, and the great question with him
was. who could be in such an out of the
way place to take the animal. Wednes-
day morning the horse returned to town
and came to the stable in which he had
been kept, having probably been turned
loose by whoever had ridden him.
Year: 1876

AN EXTRA NUMERALS will be OBJ
served by looking at the date line of the
heading Of this paper, the present issue
has been numb bered SO, I..aking an extra
number for the year 1876. We have
done this in order to keep the volume
even with the year and have the new one
commence on the first Saturday in Janu
ary. While many of our contemporaries
are taking weeks holiday instead Of is
suing the SD number in year, we pre-
fer giving our patrons this extra number
to missing an issue-something which
has not been done since the JOURNAL
was established twenty-one years ago.
Year: 1876

NEW YEARS DANCE.-By referring
to our advertising columns, lovers of the
dance will see that an opportunity for
enjoyment will be given at Thomas The
atre on next Monday evening. A sup
per will be furnished and every possible
effort made to make the occasion pleas
ant aud appropriate opening of the New
Year. Tickets have been placed at the
low price of 81 so, and everybody will
be there.
Year: 1876

Folks that have not got money so
plenty that they can throw half dollars at
the birds should remember that to day is
the last day of grace about paying taxes.
Next week Eve per cent will be added.