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Year: 1876

Hendershott Is In favor Of repudia-
ting the greenbacks. He said in his
speech here last Wednesday that 1t
was "murderous policy . monstrous
policy" for the government to re-
deem the greenbacks. And yet he
processes to be q friend Of the green


backs. He is simply ia favor Of the


Pendletonian plan Of repudiation.


Every greenback bill says upon its


face ssThe United States will pay.n


Now IL the United States refuse to


make any provision to pay, or to ful-


fill its promise, either in this century


or the next, and the holder Of the


greenback note cannot sue and COL
lect, what is the promise worth?
True, the holder can psy a debt with
It, If he is so unfortunate as to be in
debt. But the legal tender provision
alone does not make the note good
and keep it good. Let it once be un-
derstood tina. the government will
never redeem them, and that
moment they will begin to depreci-
ate in value, and they will gradually
approach worthlessness for any other
purpose than the payment of debts:
and soon they will not buy bread and
meat. Ifyou want to buy horse,
or q cow, or spade, or sack
-four, you cannot force any man to
take greenbacks and part with his
property. And when the greenbacks
are rendered worthless they will not
buy bread. The history of all paper


currency proves that its value and its


purchasing power depends upon the


ability and the readiness of the
maker to redeem. The man who
tells you that the greenbacks never


should be redeemed is dishonest


man and unworthy the confidence or
lyotes of honest men.
Year: 1876

ysILLER IL BELLVILLE are prepared To DO All


hi kinds of work in their line on short notice
and on reasonable terms Give them call at
their store near northeast corner of Court House
Square, Knoxville. ls-ha
Year: 1876

Some of these men were pretty hard
boxing cases, and could have been fined as
vagranss and sent to work on the streets,
but no charges were made against them
and they were discharged.


s9~ On Saturday forenoon Mayor
W heelock appointed VIM Benson special
policeman to collect the dog tax. William
has often taken the place of members of
the regular force, when they we're sick or
were obliged to be out of town, and always
been a good officer. Whether OF not 1t
was because of his appointment as dog
shooter that he concluded to have spree
cannot now be learned. but suffice it to
say that on Saturday night the police of
Rock Island found him in a house of ILL
fame in that city, in company with two
frail creatures, and the whole party was
locked up 10 Jail. When arrested. William
attempted to get out of the difficulty by
exhibiting his star as an officer IRON this
city, but it was of no use-he had to go to
Jail.
Year: 1876

owners on the line of the new road, but
that gentleman being engaged on case in
the circuit court, it was impossible for him
to be present. and the commissioners ad
journed until next Saturday afternoon at
o'ciock, when it is hoped this very import
tant matter may be settled The interests
of this city demand that the new road be
put through immediately,


B1-The following impecunious tramps
have been sheltered in the caiaboosc since
Saturday.
Year: 1876

BARNEY CAULFIELD, Democratic


member of Congress from Chicago, :


very ofiicious and egotistical chap


got into Blaine's vice on Tuesday last


Barney not only got squeezed himself


but he took his party along with him,


and the pressure got to be SO severe


in very few moments that the party


crawfshed with a will, and backed


square out. Barney from the Judi


ciary Committee introduced bill


making il a misdemeanor for any
person in the employ of the govern
ment to solicit or contribute funds
for election purposes or to canvass in
any election. Blaine wanted to know
if it included members of Congress,
and Barney said no. Blaine said that
he thought they oughtto be included,
and Barney invited him to offer such
an amendment which Blaine imme-
diately attempted to do, but Barney
suddenly changed his mind and went
square back ON his offer to admit the
amendment, and then came Blaine's
Heimmediately moved
to reconsider the vote by which
the main question was ordered, for
the purpose of offering his amend
mont to include Senators and Repre-
This caught the Demo-
cratic side of the House on the hip,
and Barney seeing the dilemma, and
that he was about to make an ass of
if Blaine's motion was passed,
out that he would yield for
Blaine's amendment now that he
could not help it. But the regular or
der was called and the vote taken,
and only four Democrats had the
pluck to vote against the motion to
reconsider, and so Blaine gained an
orther splendid triumph.
Year: 1876

A VOTE in the House at Washington
on the Goth inst, disclosed the fact
that there is a close division on the
question of repeating the resumption
bill. The vote came up on motion
to suspend the rules, SO as to take up
at once a bill for a repeal of the law,
The vote-lO9 for, and los against
was certainly hewing pretty close,
The suspension requiring a two.
thirds vote, the motion was lost
Some seventy-five members did not
vote, SO that it is yet difficult to tell
the exact status of the House upon
this question.
Year: 1876

GEN. ROBERT e. ScHENcK, late min
ister to Great Britain, is in Washing
ton, and is about to enter vigorously
into defense of himself in regard to
the Emma Mine embroglio. 1t is a
very common thing nowadays to
jump at the guilt of party. but VIC
are decidedly in favor of giving Gen
Schenck respectful and fair hearing
in this matter, and we incline strong.
ly to the view that while it would
have been better that he should not
occupying the position he did, enter
into this matter, yet we question very
much the idea, that any intentional
wrong can be ascribed to him in wha
he did. We think the most that car
be charged to his account is indiscre
ton.
Year: 1876

| How They Make BETTER J0lDato by tn
| Eye Than Our NIechAnics Cam " ish
the square-Their work On the
Centennfal Grends 1T Philadel
phis.


The Japanese carpenters at worE


on the Centennial grounds at Phila.


delphia draw crowds of curiosity.
Hunters. Mr.. Stillson, of the World


has been to see them and tells us what


he saw. To keep all at a distance q
fence-guard has been set around the
japanese building. An old boss
Philadelphia carpenter, whom Mr.
Stillson saw leaning over the fence


Thursday afternoon, said in answer
to question whether any one could


go inside, 20, no they had to put up


this concern to keep out just such


men as me. They've got tools in
there that American carpenters cant
hold a candle to, and they found out
that some folks around here wasn't
above stealing. But the tools ain't
half as ingenious as their ways OF
handlin' 'em. I've watched that fell
low up there now for half day, and
I've never seen him use rule or a
measuring rod. Did if he don't


measure everything with his eye.
See him nOw-see him saw off that
connection between those two posts ;
see how quick he saws it in two with
that little fine tool of his. Now look
at him put it up. There--it fits to q
hairs breadth, and yet he did it with
his eye! Now notice the other little
cuss yOnder. He's fixin' one dove
tail to fit into another; he hain't
touched anything in the shape of a
rule since he began, and you'll see
he'll make them two joints set as
if they were melted into each other.
Hi didn't l tell you so? l can see
like microscope you can't get your
finger nail in the crack The wood
they use is mostly kind of red cedar,
straighter, whittier and coarser grained
than ours not so red, and without the
odor of American cedar. Another
kind of wood is as fine as lockwood,
but harder, and has large, broad,
ornamental grain. The roof tiles are
made of a clay mixture of their own.
Each tile weighs about as much as
one of our bricks. These tiles are of
COHseIuCllOH COllN
on zone side, the other side slightly
convoluted, tapping under and into
the conyolution of its neighbor, so
that the tiles are jointed sidewise by
the device of their own construction.
The correspondent did not see that
they were knitted together up and
down the roof by any joint or catch,
but they oycrlapped one another, as
American shingles do, and were fas-
tened to the roof by deep underlay-
ing of waterproof cement. He re-
marked to the old carpenter that such
a roof must be very heavy. Heavy!
Yes indeed. That there roof must
weigh nigh onto two tons. But just
see how beautifully they contrive to
support it without letting it seem to
be heavy, and without seeming to
make any fuss. See how light all the
timber gear is; yet how well the up
rights are distributed, and how we'll
placed the slender braces are. III
didn't tell you, you'd never think that
roof was SO heavy When they get
the building finished and painted
you'll think of the roof as the lightest
part of it, and the whole thingll seem
as if you could take it up on your
back and carry it away"
Year: 1876

As a debater and ever ready, mast.
erly parliamentarian, in our opinion
James G. Blaine never had all equal
on the floor of the House of Repre-.
sentatives. His wonderful adroitness
in parliamentary tactics and his bold
ringing powerful speeches during this
session have marked him pre-eminent-
ly throughout the entire country as,
perhaps, the most noted statesman OF
the nation of his years.
Year: 1876

THERE is Democratic member OF
Congress by the name of Schumacher,
whose righteous soul was sore vexed
about the Belknap corruption, and
who voted for the impeachment OF
the Secretary. This man is the same
to whom was traced 100000 of the
Pacific Mail bribery fund, year ago.
He votes steadily with the Democrats,
and their virtuous souls don't object
to be cheek by jowl with him.
Year: 1876

NINETY THOUSAND dollars has al
ready been applied for to add to the
contingent expenses on account Of
investigating committees. This is
likely to be qnadrupled before the
session is over.
Year: 1876

During the inquest in the cause of
the death of Gee Wy Fung the other
evening, says the Virginia New
Chronicle, Sam Sing made remarks
to the effect that woman was at the
bottom of the war in Chinatown and
the sole cause of it. Sam had a cousin
who was married to a Chinese maid
en-, beauteous in form and feature,
but tiend at heart. She was born
i'm China in the year 1858, and mar
ried her husband in the little village
of Sing Po. She was the daughter OF
wealthy rag-pickers and though they
were bitterly opposed to the mesalli-
ance, marriage became in few short
months thing of necessity, and to
escape from the reproaches and scorn
of her relatives the fair aristocrat and
her husband emigrated to America,
and arrived at Virginia City about
four years ago. Unfortunately for
the domestic peace of the couple, Hop
Sing exercised his destinations upon
the Young wife, and allured by the
fine figure, classic features and nu-
merous accomplishments of the chief
of the Hop Sing faction, the oblique-
eyed beauty consented to abandon
her liege lord for the wicked Hop
Sing. This was step fraught with
great danger. Old Sam Sing was
willing to defend his cousin even by
sacrificing the life of the unfaithful
wife. The cousin himself was a
young man who had many friends
ready and willing to defend him in
any action he might take under the
circumstances. All these considera.
tions deferred old Hop Sing from
openly taking the woman into the
house, and, according to Sam Sing
the willy Celestial determined tc
adopt King David's plan, and have
his tobacco-hued Uriah assassinateG
as the speediest and safest way out OF
the difficulty. The poor young hus.
band was accordingly set upon and
brutally murdered by Hop Sing
hired assassin in cellar on the corner
of Union and Istreets, receiving eigh
stabs in vital portions of the body
His wife mourned in good style for ;
week, and then retired into Hol
Sings harem as his most favored
companion. Sam Sing immediatel.
inaugurated war of revenge ant
killed three of Hop Sings men. Hol
Sing retaliated by slicing two San
Singers, and thus the vendetta ha


been kept up among them to tn
present day. But the way of tn
transgressor is hard. New rivals es
tranged the affections Of the giftet


Hop Sing from the unfaithful wife
and about two years ago she was dan


gerously scalded, losing one eye, s.


that now no one can recognize in tn


haggard, Scared, blind and miser


able creature who hangs over fire il
Hop Sings palace on l street tn
beautiful woman who three years ag
occasioned by her folly the Chimes
war in Virginia.
Year: 1876

The Comptroller yesterday audience TO gentle
men claiming to represent tho Gcrman-Amoric
Independent Tden and Hendricks Club of the Nine-
tcenth Assembly district which had recently nom-
mated him for Mayor. Tho resolutions rendering tho
nomination presented by Mr.. John Franz In
responding Mr. Green rendered his thanks for the
courtesy extended to him. He stated thar he NOT
seeking any pubic Office. At the same time he would
feel az liberty 10 decline any public that
fellow citizens might place in his charge In concu.
sion he said that whether he should go into private


lie or take some other public position, tho confidence
in him eviuced by the gentlemen who had spoken OF
him Mayor would always be q matter OF grateful
remembrance
Year: 1876

THE SOUTH.
Important Bearing of the Southern


Vote on the Election
MILITARY OCCUPATION.
President Grant on the Movement OF


Troops to the South.
UISIANA POLITIC S
The Necessity OF Protection to the


Colored Population.
Year: 1876

\ wet Sunday night affects the two
classes of lovers in opposite way TO him
who is engaged it is -udsend, as it enablts
him to sung up to her in the parlor and
have the whole evening to himself; but to
the other lover, the one who is not engaged,
u rainy Sund'y night is most painful
episode. His footing at the house isn't
enough to warrant his going there through
the storm, and all he can do is to attend
the church, and stand in the vestibule. aud
pull up his shirt COLLAR, in the despairins
hupe that she may appear. She don't, of
course, and he goes back to his dreary
home wretclcd and miserable beyond de-
scrip,ion Oh, those days of ecstatic idiocyl
how their memory overcomeS us.
Year: 1876

The MOLLY MAGUIRES.


Expose Of the Notorious Cabal.
CONFESSION OF MURDERER.
The Reign of Terror at Tamaqua
ASSASSINATION OF POLICEMAN YOST
Shocking Details Of Crime
THE SECRET ORDER OF HIBERNIANS
Effects OF Ardent Spirits
Year: 1876

And burn down dwellings The notion is
that 1t is to protect wurkingmen, but really
they are all of the most hardened villain.
in the place where they reside. If any one
wants any work done they inform the head
man, known as
Year: 1876

SIMULTANEOUSLY with the publication
of Governor HAYES letter OF acceptance
comes the account of the organization OF
the National Republican committee. 1t
is said to have been accomplished only
after stout fight; but that is nothing to
the point. The important fact is that
ZACH. CHANDLER is chosen chairman in
opposition to what may perhaps
by courtesy be called the reform
element, and that the anti-retormers
have captured the national committee as
completely as they secured the conven-
tion. All the Republican organs. except
those which were committed to BLAINE,
have begun TO apologize, and say that
the management OF the canvass is of no
consequences; but If the people must mot
l,ok to tho leaders of the party, nor to
the platform, nor to the administration,
for the promise of the future, it is very
poor satisfaction TO look to such csndi-
date as HAYES.
Year: 1876

ALTHOUGH Governor TILDEE Is an
old bachelor, he will be able 10 furnish
refined female society to the White
House, IN case he is elected, in the per-
son of his widowed sister, Mrs. Pelton,
who with her son and his wife are MEM
bers of his household. Should he attain
the Presidency he will be better Oft in
regard to lady society than his bachelor
predecessor, JAMES BUCHANAN, VINO had
only a niece, HARRIET LANE, to do the
honors of the Executive Mansion.
Year: 1876

THE Turkish government is display
ing no little strength and vigor in its
operations against ITS allied assailants'
The Christian insurgents and their sup
porters have undoubtedly got the worst
of it in nearly all of the half dozen en-
gsgements of the past ten days. Allow
ing for the exaggerations of the Turkish
reports, it is yet evident that their sue
cesses on the Drina and in the direction
of Bulgaria have been considerable, But
none of the actions has been decisive,
and the Servian forces are still intact.
We cannot but believe that the allies
will soon make better show for them.
selves than they have done in the pre-
liminary movements.
Year: 1876

WHEN the fact becomes generally
known that :igh-rope walker can fall
distance of fifty-four feet and not be
killed or even seriously injured, as was
the case in Toledo the other day, the
public will begin to lose interest in such
entertainments, and devote its attention
to the more perilous occupations of base
ball and hoeing potatoes.
Year: 1876

Cincinnati Commercial.


For some time the attention OF people
frequenting the river, in the vicinity OF
the foot of Vine street, has been attracted
to the figure OF u woman, IN PLAIN out
neat attire, standing on fatboat that Is
moored to the bank. Day after day, in
the same position, solitary and silent,
and rs motionless as . statute she stands
there, bestowing no notice on curious men
who gaze at her, and looking
very sorrowful and forlorn. At
one time this unfortunate was
we'll known, and was quite popular
with river men and travellers on the
boats. She made numerous trips up as
far as Pomeroy, and down as far as
Memphis and New Orleans, going prln.
cipally on the steamers Darling and Ohio
No 4. She was then admired for her
beauty, modesty and virtue, and IN pay
ment of passage was required 10 do only
the very slightest of service. But at
length the beautiful woman fell, lost her
beauty, descended into disrepute, and
was 6snished from the boats. OF late
she was provided with lodgings in the
Big Sandy wharfboat, where she was
treated with the kindliest considers-
ton. For several days past at
any hour, she might be seen at
her post outside the whAriooa:
refusing to SPEAK = word to those sd-
dressing her, and is believed to have not
taken bit Of food or drink during that
period. Her mind seems to be entirely
gone, and her once beautiful face mas
been sadly disigured by accident or the
inrosds of time and decay; and there she
stands, the uuressnting mark OF coarse
epithets and reference, Of tobacco quids
and other indignities by rude boys and
river rs:s, whose outrageous conduct the
police wink at Her name is said to be
Mabel or Maple Wood, born somewhere
in the country, and reared in this city by
a poor but honest artist-a carver, whose
name is not remembered.
Year: 1876

JUST now "Lo! the poor Indian,


seems to be the most unpopular OF all In
dividuals in the country. The newspa'
pers from Maine to Georgia are waglng
a war OF ink on him that will probably
aid IN stirring up something that will
impress him more forcibly than the
pen. The five regiments that it is
proposedito raise in the pioneer SETTLE
ments would be q good thing, notwith'
standing we foresee there is already a
disposition TO. oppose them by the ma
jority of the House. al Washington, on
the score of economy and the plea that
the regular army is sufficien: to deal
with the Indians. Nothing short of
vigorous punishment of SITTING BULL
and his band of barbarians, will satisfy
that distinguished savage that our gov.
ernment is power that must be respect
ed. We recommend that beef be made
of that Bull as soon as practicable.
Year: 1876

The banking and currency committee
this morning postponed action upon the
specie resumption question until NEXT
Monday. The Democrats OF the COM
mittee have agreed 10 propose and pass
through the committee bill repeating
the present resumption act, but at the
same time to provide some, m yet un-
determined, method Of preparing the
treasury and the country for reump-
ton.
Year: 1876




Among the list of chronic diseases which
affect the human frame catarrh is the one
most prevalent, most offensive, most pro-
ductive of discomfort, and most liable to a
variety of dangerous and distressing compli-
cations.


Thousands are annually FASTENED to q
premature grave from its pernicious effects,
and no doubt thousands are at this moment
slowly perishipg under its fatal influence,
ignorant of the cause of their declining health.
1t was in fact, the destructive influence of this
disease and its alarming prevalence that first
attracted the writer's attention, and 1t is with
pardonable pride that he refers to the fact Of
having been the first physician who made this
disease special study, and originated sys-
tenn of treatment calculated to effect radical
and permanent cure.


Catarrh man!fests itself by discharge from
the head, varying in its nature in different
cases, and even in the same individual at diff
ferent times. 1t may be thin, colorless, ,acrid
fluid, or q glary, starch-like substance: gen.
orally, however, 1t is a thick, purulent, or
muco-purulent matter, either greenish-yelio
or of q deep green tint, occasionally streaked
or lecked with blood. So copious and Often
sive is the discharge in many cases that the
patient feels as though the whole head was in
a state of corruption.


Mucn OF tne ulscnarge passes backward lnJO
the throat, or collects as a tough, viscid
phlegm behind and above the soft palate, in
the passage between the throat and the head,
creating a constant and almost irresistible de-
sire to obtain relief by "hawking," a practice
characteristic of catarrh, aad SIS embarrassing
to the one affected as 1t is disagreeable to those
around. Often the phlegm is so tenacious
that the most persistent and exhaustive efforts
fail to dislodge it until some food or stimulant
is swallowed.


Again the offensive matter deposits itself IN
the nasal cavities in the shape of dry, hard
crusts, which, in some cases, accumulates to
such an extent as to form q regular plug, OBJ
structipg breathing and producing serious dis
comfort. This condition is indicative of ulcer
alton, which in time may destroy the bony
structure of the nose, and produce its subse-
quent fattening.


The breath is always tainted, and some
times is so revoltingly offensive as to render
the sufferer an object of disgust to himself as
well as to others, and cases are occasionally
met with in which the stencil is really over
powering, and sufficiently fetid to poison the
atmosphere of whole room. Thus person
affected with catarrh lives continually in an
impure atmosphere of bis own surrounding,
and inhales a poisonous efiilYia with every
breath.


DR.. Hartley may be consulted at his resi-
dence, 7S2 Tenth street, near Grant Place.
Year: 1876

National Theatre-"Two Men of Sandy Bar"


This piece had respectable audience last
night, both in numbers and quality. The spec
tators appeared to be in entire sympathy with
the author and the characters of his creation.
Col. Starbottle was vociferously applauded at
the close upon his announcement that he was
perfectly responsible The piece
evidently grows in popular favor, and will no
doubt continue to do so through the week.


Ford's Opera House-Ths Woman Show.


The reformatory efforts of this journal yes
terday in behalf of this establishment proved
q sad failure. The whole affair will have to
be turned over to the great professional re-
former, the bachelor, nlden. The handsome
thoroughbred women now on exhibition there
are an irresistible attraction to old bachelors.
The latter are joined to their idols, let them
alone.


Theatre Comique-Model Artists.


Manager Rogers was obliged to call in the
police last night to keep the crowd from over
loading the winter auditorium and the gale
ries. Those who were there pronounced Matt
Morgan's tableaux less immodest than the
Centennial Art Gallery at Philadelphia. The
handsome girls, artistic tsbleaux and fanciful
costumes-what there is of them-seem to
make up for whatever is lacking in modesty.