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Year: 1876


On the seashore at morning she wandered alone,
The waves kissed her cheek ama the wind tossed


her hair,
And the great solemn fishes came up one by one,
And swan by her side all the time she was there.
Did the fishes remember what legend has told
How Queen APhrodite arose from the seal
Did they think that my darling, with Tinglets Of
Was Venus returned. or one fairer than shef
In the woods she would stray all the long summer
Now Glistening in the sunshine. now lost in the


shade,
And the birds would flock round her and show her
To their leaf hidden nests where their children


were laid;
For they knew she was gentle and harmless to all,
And her prattliDg they answered with chipping


and song.
She would pet the young birds till the tree shadows
Said, Home little truant, the journey Is long"
So she placed the dear chicks In their nests, and
Each wide-open bill as she murmured By-bye;"
Then she stole from the wood like star through


the mist,


When the sun to the moon yields the rule Of the


sky.
The jlysayiug homo famed her CHEEK with their
The lambs blested kindly. the dogs bayed adieu,
And even the owl-the most stupid Of thing
Kept Hodding good night till she passed from bis


view.
Then she came up the lane-mother's darling and
Not formal and prini, like your city bred girls;
With q foot-weary stumble she sunk al my side.
Brown hands on my knees, and my lap full oil


curls.
The embra.e and the kiss only mothers can know
The supper, the bath, and the old cradle song;
- Good night, mamma dear % From the room did


gOf


Yes, MY form, but my soul was there all tho


night long.
Year: 1876

The New York Evening Post pub
fishes private letter from Jefferson Davis
to lady in that city concerning his al
legged connection with reputation in
Mississippi. He says:


had no more to do with the repudia-
tion by Mississippi of the bonds issued
than either of you had. | was sen. to
college when a boy from college went
to West Point, from West Point into the
army, and served on the Indian frontier
until 1885, when | married and left the
army. | took up my residence in very
retired place, distant from the country
in which my father lived and where !
had been reared, so that | was q stranger
in Mississippi, seldom leaving the cane
brake in which l lived, when, in 1886,
the last of these notorious bonds were
issued.


1t was seven years thereafter before /
was brought into any political discussion,
and then only in the county in which |
resided before that time-1S33-th
famous Union bank bonds had been re-
pudiated, and though the question still
entered into party politics it had little
more than historical existence.


Upon the question as a politico-moral
one ] opposed the doctrine of repudia-
tion, insisting that governments, like in
dividuals, when claims were made
against them, had no right to make any
other issue than one in fact. Is there a
debt, or is there not


For that publicly declared opinion the
party of repudiators made war uPon me
in the beginning of my political life,
using both stratagem and concentration
of their forces to defeat my nomination
for congress in 1S45.


When the federal government sought
TO discredit the confederacy in foreign
markets, they sent - to England to
represent me as a repudiator. No man
knew better than he the falsity Of his
representations, for he was an active pol
itician in Mississippi when repudiation
occurred, and it was years afterward be-
fore he knew of my existence.
Year: 1876

Manchester files of July I'd, fore


shadow plainly enough the further cut
ting down of operatives wages, the clos
ing up of some mills and the resort to


shorter time in others, of which the ca
bic, from day to day, in the course of
the current week has been apprising us.


The following from the Examiners trade
article, under date of lst instant, tells
the whole story


"Our market is again worse, that is,
business continues to dwindle, while
prices still give way. The stagnation is
more complete than ever yet, and the
dependency of tone in all departments
is more than ever striking. If there
were anything of the nature of panic,
the position would be less irksOme as il
is, there is little prospect of early relief.
Again, great outcry for reduced pro-
duction is made on all hands, and, by
some means or other, production GER
tainly must be reduced.


In no department at all is there any
improved tone 10 report in none does
there seem to be even an average bust
moss doing demand being limited
strictly to absolute requirements. Com
ing to explain a state of affairs SO dis
couragiDg, we find firstly, that political
anxiety Is one OF the increase, not 50
much on account of the war actually
begun or threatened, ~ from fear of
ulterior consequences; secondly, the
trade has been suffering 80 long that
climax of some sort seems inevitable;
and it is felt that, unless production is
greatly and quickly reduced by de-
1iberaie action, credit will not long be
able to sustain the present strain of adj
versity.


If it were only textile manufactures
that were thus, as il were, in a state of
collapse, the situation, bad as IL is, might
be less alarming, but from most of the
great mining centres we are having re-
ports of depression in business scarcely
less severe. As might I've expected,
these are accompanied by the constant
threats of workmen's strikes. These
may be carried out, but no one
that is not blind but can foresee the
ultimate unavoidable result--a brief
period of enforced idleness, the impover-
ishment and decentralization of the
strikers, to be followed finally by re-
turn TO labor on the best terms they can
pet
Year: 1876

No one has yet been able 10 analyze or
demonstrate the essential action of per
fume. Ga, can be weighed, but not
scents The smallest known creatures
the very monads of life-can be caught
by microscope lens and made to deliver
up the secrets Of their organization but
what is it that emanates from the pouch
of the musk deer that fills a whole space
for wears and years with its penetrating
odor-that an Illimitable number of ex-
traneous substances can carry on with
out diminishing either its size or weight
and what is il that the warm summer
air brings TO us from the flowers, no man
has yet been able TO determine. So fine,
so subtle, so imponderable, it has eluded
both our most delicate weights and meas
ures and our strongest lenses If we come
TO the esse; ce of each odor, we should
have made an enormous stripe forward,
both in hygiene and in chemistry, and
none would profit more than the medical
profession lift could be as conclusively
demonstrated that such an odor proceed
ed from such and such cause, as we al
ready know of sulphur, sulphurate hy-
drogen. ammonia and the like.
Year: 1876

WE saw mosquito work about ten
minutes, says an exchange, trying to get
his bill through the skin of a man who
owes us two years subscription. How we
laughed at that demoralized little insect
"a, with look of disgust, he folded up
his little bill, placed it in his pocket, and
went for another victim.
Year: 1876

He is good that does good'to others If
he suffers for the good he does, he is bet
ter still; and if he suffers from them TO
whom he did good, he is arrived at that
height of goodness that nothing but an
increase of his suferings can add to it; ;
if it proves his death, his virtue is at its
summit, it is heroism complete.
Year: 1876

The Mnrtinsburg Salesman iS not alone
in opposing Major Mathews Tor Govern
or. The Pt. Pleasant Register speaks out
very plainly against his nomination. 1t
says:


ave desire to say most cmphGticdily that
Major Mathews is by no means acGepta.
BILE 10 the people Of this end of the Third
District. Let the convention nominate
some man who is not, objectionable, or
against whom there is no prejudice, and
with such leader the Democratic party
may confidently expect an easy victory"


The Martlnsburg Statesman follows up
its former protests against Mathews
nomination by the following:


As the third district has been generally
conceded the choice OF Governor, but for
what substantial reason docs not seem
clear, tho least that the Democracy Of that
district can do is TO present ,au entirely
uncxceptionablc candidate to the Democ-
raCy Of tho other two districts OF the
State. II the third district cannot agree
let them take the candidate from some
other portion OF the Stale. Anybody but
Matthews. We couldn't elect him il we
would, and we onghtn't to II we could.


From what we know, we would not be
surprised to sec support Of 'ex-GoV. Sam
Price developing itself in the Charleston
Convention. There is at IessL one Price
man that we know .oI in the Wheeling
delegation. How many more We kno"
not. We presnmc that Price would be
quite acceptable to the Martinsburg man
as well as him OF Point Pleasant, and
would not wound the sensibilities Of the
Mathews mon. ,.
Year: 1876

ItFOm Ihr FosI'I


The farmers living in this county have
nearly all planted large crops Of corn, and
a great deal Of It is up. We are glad 10
learn that farmers all over the county arc
planting large crops Of all kinds OF grain,
and II we have an ordinary season we will
ship to other markets next fall instead OF
buying as heretofore, which will make
quite difference in the hard times. Let
Monongalia county raise what grain Is
used in it, and some to sell, instead OF
impoverishing ourselves by letting other
people raise what we eat, and we will have
no reason for saying that we are the poor.
est people on earth.
Year: 1876

condition of the wharf was so bad as to cause
loss might be basis for counter claim or
set off, but ceuld not release the company


from paying wharfage. The companys
attorneys gave notice of appeal to the
supreme ecourt-Dduenport Gazette, 10th.
Year: 1876

But perhaps you don't know how to read by
subjects. Let me tell you. Suppose you see
an allusion to something that interests you
say Sir Walter Raleigh; look for his name in
an encyclopedia or biographical dictionary,
(Which you will find in every tolerable village
library.) Reading of him, you will become
interested in Queen Elizabeth; look her up, in
the same books, and in English history; OBJ
serve the noted men of her reign, look them up,
read their lives, read historical novels and
poems of her times; look at the table of con-
tents of magazines and reviews and read essays
on the subject. You see the way open before
you. Once make start and there Is scarcely
an end to the paths you will wish to follow.


If you have no special subject of interest
take up an encyclopedia, slowly turn the
leaves and read any item that attracts you,
not forcing yourself to read anything. If you
have any life in you you will find something to
interest you; then you have your subject. If
1t some historical person or event, proceed as /
have already indicated; if scientific, overhaul
the dictionaries of science, lives of scientific
men, discussions of disputed points, &C.; If
geographical, turn to gazetteer, books of
travels, &c. One book will lead to another.


Right here let me say hope you have access
to these works of reference, either in your own
house, or that of friend, or at public library.
But If your ease is the very worst-if you have
none, cannot buy them and have no public
library in your neighborhood, let me advise
you to drop everything else and make 1t your
sole and special mission to start one, either by
influencing your parents and older friends ar
bygettirg up club of your mates, A strong
will and earnest effort will Accomplish won,
ders; and all older people are willing to help
younger ones TO useful tools.-St. Nicholas for
S6DteTnbeT.
Year: 1876

The regular meeting of the National Veteran
Club was held last evening at their rooms, in
the LIE Droit building, Colonel Tichenor in tue
chair. The meeting was enthusiastic in the
highest degree, and a large number were
elected members of the club.


The new campaign song-book, issued by the
National Republican Committee, was used by
the club, and a number of spirited songs were
sung.


Short addresses were made by Gen. Brown,
Capt. Adams and the president, Col Hchenor,
the latter of whom commended moderation in
all their efforts looking to the interests of SOL
diers, that their influence might not be weak
ened by either espousing the cause of improper
persons, or a too hasty Condemnation of those
supposed to be unfriendly to the claims of SOL
diers. Committees were instructed to make q
careful examination of all cases submitted to
them before action was taken. This sentiment
met with the unqualified approval of the club
and cannot fail TO have good effect.
Year: 1876

Recently while Judge Stone was on his way
to hold court and hear railroad case the
parties likely to be damaged by his decisions
entered the cars and seized the Judge. The
Denver papers have interesting stories of
Judge stones adventures, taken down from
his own lips. His captors were twenty -four in
number, were mounted on good horses, and
wore masks. The only rough handling which
he received was when he resisted their efforts
to remove him from the cars. They told him
they merely intended to give him a ride about
the country until the term Of the court should
lapse. They put him in a wagon, struck q
trail toward the foot hills, followed it six
miles, and halted at an old ranch, where q
fine riding-hor was waiting for him. The
guard was reduced to eight men, and after a
long ride in the saddle they dismounted for
lunch, His captors gave him cigars and what
the Judge calls ga fair article Of whisky" and
made themselves quite agreeable. A few
miles further on he was left in charge of one
man, and two or three hours afterward car
riage drove up, and he rode back to Golden.
For a young State, Colorado is leading rather
a fast life
Year: 1876

Parties who desire to enjoy the inVigoratIng
salt water air of the lower Potomac should not
fail to 20 down on the excursion to be given by
tie choir of Union chapel tomorrow, as we
are assured that nothing will be left undone
to make this the most pleasant and enjoyable
affair of the season. Strangers, especially,
will have q fine opportunity Of viewing the
beautiful waters and scenery Of the Potomac,
&c. besides vocal and instrumental music OF
the choir. 1t will be remembered that the
members of this choir materially assisted In
the stOIde Folke's" concerts of last winter for
tbe benefit of the various churches. It Is there
fore but Just that they should be rewarded by
: liberal and generous patronage. See their
advertisement IN another column.
Year: 1876

An exciting chase took place in the east
grounds of the Capitol about O'Clock last
evening. A rascally- looking colored man
posted himself at the bottom of the steps Of
the southern portico of the east front, and in
suited ladies passing until his actions attracted
a great deal of attention. A watchman
collared him, but the negro picked up brick,
and. hitting the watchman over head with it,
broke away, and the chase began. A crowd
gathered from all parts, and chased the negro
over the Capitol grounds to street, where
he escaped into house. The crowd surround
ed the premises, and the culprit was soon
brought out, taken back over the same course,
and consigned to the crypt in the Capitol.
Year: 1876

When the drinking fountains which Sir
Richard Wallace presented to the city of Paris
few years ago were first put up everybody
sneered at them. Nobody would drink from
them, and the only use they appeared to be
to them. Now they form one of the most
popular institutions Of Paris. A thirsty crowd
perpetually surrounds each one, and the neigh
boring householders who come to fill their
pitchers and carafes are met with black looks
by the throng on account Of the time they
take.
Year: 1876

don't take down their signs in dull times nor
stop advertising.


Small Handbills printed for seventy-fve cents
per thousand at the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
Job Office.


Business Cards printed for s2.25 per thou
sand, at the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN Job Office.
Year: 1876

The Peoples Playhouse is filed nightly with
large audiences, who fill the air with their loud
and continuous bursts of applause, occasioned
by the manner in which they are entertained
by the brilliant stars who are docketed for this
week. Do not miss to spend an evening there
this uaaE
Year: 1876

with their usual enterprise, have had their
fine billiard room closed for the past two
weeks, in the hands Of fresco painters and other
artists. Tomorrow evening the grand reopen
ing will take place, to which all lovers Of this
innocent game are cordially invited.
Year: 1876

What You want these times Is good Five Cent
Cigar. LITTLE ROSE is a new brand Of cigars
that we have had put up expressly for our retail
trade. 1t is guaranteed TO us TO be Manufactured
from selected foreign and domestic leaf II has no
artificial favor, and satisfied that the hller
contains preponderance of Cuban tobacco. In
Introducing this brand our object Is 20 furnish .
cigar at centsve for Is cents-of delicate flavor,
good enough to pun at home. Believing that NO
member Of the family circle would object 70 the
odor OF pure HAVANA, we commend this cigar In
special manner TO gentlemen who wish 70 enjoy


their evening smoke at home, without onense 70
sold only At the LYNCHBURG TOBACCO STORE,
No. 1lo eeventh street northwest, between u and
PrissI n7-t
Year: 1876




1t is to be hoped there is now sufficient in-
terest awakened on the subject of kinder
garten education to anticipate that all those
who have been at the expense of being trained
for teachers of kindergartens and fitting them
up may be encouraged and receive the patron
age they deserve. People Of thought and cul-
ture have heretofore preferred to keep their
children at home until their seventh and eighth
year, especially if they were delicate and of
naturally quick perceptions. But the genuine
kindergarten is not place where young chill
dren are sent to be out of their mothers way.
On the contrary, here the loving, conscientious
mother separates herself for few hours daily
from her child that it may enjoy the great
benefits resulting from kindergarten training,
not only for the present time but through life;
for in the kindergarten the little ones are not
only prepared for school, but also for life in
all its phases, by awakening in them an inter-
est for everything, and giving them a thirst
for knowledge and making them find pleasure
In well-doing from unselfsh motives. Those
who have not studied deeply into the philos-
ophy of the system or been thoroughly trained
for it specifically should refrain from calling
their schools kindergarten schools, because
they make use of some of the plays and occu-
pations used in the kindergarten proper, for it
will defer the time when the public will arrive
at a clear comprehension and appreciation of
the philosophy which underlies all the plays
and occupations of the kindergarten.
Year: 1876

Now that the war in Spain is virtually
At IN end. some forty thousand soldiers
will be sent to Cuba and make short work
Of tho rebellion; so say the dispatches,
but al Spanish news must be taken with
many grains Of allowance.
Year: 1876

When the Commissioners met at the Crow
Agency in 1873, for the purpose of making q
treaty with the Crows, they were told certain
truths by the Chiefs respecting their common
enemy the Sioux, which recent events con-
firm. The leading Chief and orator, Black
foot, and a firm friend of the whites, Gf an
Indian can be one,) during the proceedings
of the second day made several speeches,
from one of which we make the following
extract:


"Tbe commissioners told meythat
we should have plenty of food given US tor
forty years. They were big men who talked
to us; they were not drunk when they told
us. told the commissioners at Laramie that
had seen the Sioux commit great massa-
ere they killed many white men. But the
Sioux are still there and still kill white men.
When you whip the Sioux come and tell US
of it. You are afraid of the Sioux. Two
wears ago went with the soldiers; they we're
very brave; they were going through the
Sioux country to Powder river and Tongue
river. We got to Prior creek, just below
here in the Crow country. wanted to go
ahead into the Sioux country, but the soldiers
got scared and turned back. l was there and
so were others who are here; they know
what l say is true. The soldiers said they
were going to Tongue river, but they got
frightened at the Sioux and turned back.
The soldiers were the whirlwind; they went
toward the Sioux country, but the whirlwind
to Prior creek again; again they said they
were going through the Sioux country, but
they saw few Sioux; they were afraid of
them; they got scared and turned up to the
Muscleshell, and went back again again the
whirlwind was going through the Sioux cOun-
try. but again the whirlwind turned back.
We are not the whirlwind, but we 60 to the
Sioux; we 60 into their country; we meet
them and fight, but we do not turn back but
we are not the whirlwind. You say the rail-
road is coming up the Yellowstone; that is
like the whirlwind and cannot be turned back.
/ do not think it will come. The Sioux are
on the way and you are afraid of them; they
will turn the whirlwind back. If you whip
the Sioux, and get them out of its way, the
railroad may come, and will say nothing" }"


On the fifth day he said: "You think you
have peace with the Sioux; do not think
you have You want to shake hands with
them. We want to know whether you are
going to fight the Sioux or not; we want to
know" At the close of the Council the same
Chief said "You ought not to give the
Sioux guns and ammunition; you should
wipe them all out; you should throw dis
ease upon them" This Crow knew of the
arming of the Sioux nation by Indian trad
ers; the frontiersmen knew it; the Commis-
sion knew it; the Government knew and
winked at it, and now we have the bloody
fruits of murderous Peace Policy.
Year: 1876

HAYES is really unhappy. He is like
the ass between two bundles OF straw.
GRANT and Grantism on the one side,
ScRURz and the reformers on the other.
He wants to be happy with both dear
charmers, but they are so jealous as not
to harken to such a thought. First he
tickled the ScHURz followers by with
holding all personal mention of GRANT
in his letter of acceptance. Then he
made himself solid with that great
man by writing him. note
declaring the omission OF prepoe-
ferrous blunder, and telling him
what great and good soldier he was.
GRANT was placated by HAYES "frank
and manly letter (all HAYES letters are
"frank and manly') and invited him and
Mrs. H. to spend few days in the presi-
dents cottage at Long Branch. The
guileless HAYS accepted, but the "re-
formers" got about him with dolefui
pictures of the effect upon the canvass OF
such visit, and he was compelled to in
form the president that an unexpected
press of public business forced him to re-
consider his purpose.
Year: 1876

From the Writ County Mentor.


We have this advice for the city OF
Wheeling. Ii you cannot send any bet
ter men than one.hslt of the Ohio dele
CATION that was At the Parkersburg Con-
vention, you had better keep that hal. at
home The idea Of persons calling them
selves men, bringing their little private
quarrels into q political body, ana trying
to engender bad feeling for some little
petty, personal spite, was nearly un bear
able, and from what We saw and heard,
it will not do to repeat it again. There
are four or five members of that clan,
who, when they wake up in the middle of
q sermon, have to resolve something
about Burdett, and are utterly unable
to think, talk, or write about any
thing else. If you have anything
against these men since they
have been turned out of office, go
and tell them so and not talk about
them one hundred miles away. That
miserable attack, too, on Lewis Baker
ought to have made even those men
blush. On and after this date, settle your
difficulties between yourselves like men.
If il was not for these men Wheeling
would have more friends. Give them
seats or you will rue it.
Year: 1876

The ELM GROVE RAILwAY.-Before
anything wise or good can be done, IN
Vulnerable people have to be pursuaded'
or outvoted, or tired out. All the pos
sible folly that can be said on any sub
iect has to be answered and borne with
and exhausted. The chat has to be win
moved away many times before the
grain can be got at.