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Year: 1876

A downtown man who read that the
habit of tobacco chewing could be cured
by tasting an apple every time be felt
inclined TO partake of tho weed. gave
the recipe one days trial As be felt a
hankering for the weed all day. be de-
voured bushel of apples before bed
time, and retired with chunk of the
fruit in his mouth. which accidentally
slipped down his throat. and nearly
clicked him to death. He resumed tie
weed next morning.
Year: 1876

The article in yesterdays Commereid, and
which we republish to day relating to the
Fisher Nolen matter, is sufficient to make
every Delawarean draw sigh Of relief at
the narrow escape we have made from the
infiction Of such disruptable character
upon us as Judge Fisher, in high govern
ment position. The HERALD has not
handled the case Of Fisher in a gingerly
way, because it knew the man
to be exactly what he is, a
social outcast, and proven in yesterdays
Commercial to be dishonest. In this way
he swung into power, and in this way he
maintained it, until the Administration
disowned him for its own protection. 1t
is now more than plain why he wished the
appointment, to shield those whom he
made his servants, as he would do in the
cases of his son and Harrington;
removed to this District the charges
would be wiped out by his political tactics,
which are transcendent over the law. We
have had enough to convince us that he is
not deserving of the love of the Good
Samaritans down the State, who declare
his confirmation would be wise one.
Spare us from any such physic as this.
Year: 1876

The conduct Of the Southern delegates
ii ST. Louis was well tempered. The
Radical organs were serely disappointed
1t not hearing the ''rebel YELL" and can
find now but little to make capital Of in
this respect. They we'll preserved their
determination to serve the ends Of their
missions in the most faithful manner.
They were there to be instructed, and only
acted in the most conservative manner.
There was no display Of plantation man
ners, which we have heard so much of
from Radical organs, and by their heroic
conduct they. won the respect and conf
dence Of others. We witness in this har-
mony among Southern Democrats, which
is Indicative of their firm purpose to ably
support the party, and not inject into
canvasses any spirit which can disorgan.
ize the party, or excite sectional jealousy.
1t gives no room to the old Republican
party hacks, which have been used IN
every election, until they have become
threadbare. The South is willing to work
peaceably with the North. 1t desires no
\ part in politics, only that which is bern Of
honor, to drive from place party that
has corrupted its privileges. The people
Of the South will make no effort to create
dissentions. Ifthey occur they must bs in
the North, East, Or West, for it will GER
tainly not come from the South. This was
shown at the st. Louis Convention where
the delegates from that section acted only
in harmony with the others. Voted
solidly for the acknowledged choice of the
Convention, and at the election will do the
same thing, when we expect to see a
triumph for the Democratic party, that
will spread confidence throughout the
nation, and to these down trodden people
an equal freedom with those of the North,
and chase the horde of carpet-baggers now
fattening there to some honest employ.
ment.
Year: 1876

with drawn pistol had compelled him
to hand over SIC. 90, he could, if arrested,
be sent to Saltwater jail but the ware
houseman can rob not one farmer but a
whole countryside and he not only goes
unpunished but remains hOnOred and
respected.


Then some of the warehousemen have
their little thimble-rigging two quart tes-
ters put up in dark corner where they
will make wheat weigh just whatever
they please.


The farmers. the real creators of the
wealth and greatness of the state, are
treated like pack Of dogs; they sneak
into the villages and are ready to take
any treatment which their lords and mas
ters see fit to give them and say, ''thank
your With votes enough to control all
laws, they are utterly unprotected in
every respect; and they have lot the
courage and manhood to help themselves;
they are the jest and jibe of the very
people who plunder them.


Now the ANTI-MONOPOLY party offers
them an opportunity to organize for self
defence. Will they avail themselves OF
it? We doubt it. Any cross-road law
yer can scatter tnem like flock of sheep
by the merest appeal to old party bigot-
ries. All he has to do is to shake 1.-THE
bloody shirt" or ''the Pope IN their faces,
and they fall to fighting each other like
a pack Of wolves.


We'll, we suppose that those who are
unable or unwilling to defend themselves
ought to be the hewers Of wood and
drawers of water, for the world.
Year: 1876

before the recent election in Mississippi
shows that there is no foundation for this
fear, but that on the contrary the ne.
groes are welcomed to the Democratic
camp with open arms. The writer
says:


The whites are perfectly infatuated with the
determination to get the Legislature, and il
seems to me that they are going to have it.
When all the property holders, or we may safe
ly say 95 per cent. OF them, are moved by a
common impulse, they are apt to carry their
point.


1t looks to me as though they would get the
Legislature for reasons have given. am con-
vinced that more regroes will vote with the
whites than ever before. There are several
counties where from two to four hundred are
enrolled for the Democratic clubs. At the
large Democratic demonstration at Holly
Springs, Thursday, there were over five hund-
red cOlored men in the procession. TLey were
received with larger volume of yells and ap-
plause than any other feature of the procession
called out. When darkey once crosses the
Rubicon and lands in the Democratic camp,
the warmth Of his reception exceeds the de-
scriptive power Of language. The tatted calf
IS killed, and songs of rejoicing fill the air
But it has chilling effect OH the proceedings to
see how closely the convert is watched tina. he
does not return to his first love before election.


Times are very, very hard, and even the me-
grots, although in the main owning 10 prop
erty, are feeling the heavy hand of taxation. In
some parts of the State planters are bringing
the beauties of what is styled 'radical rule' to
their attention by adding the amount OF land
taxes against them in the division of tie crop.
There is no fairness tn this, but it is thought a
good way to influence the darky to vote the
white ticket Having failed to lodge an argu-
ment in his thick skull by anv other means,
they propose to get into his true inwardness by
way OF the pocket nerve and an empty belly.


Whenever politics in the south ceases
to be divided on the line of race we may
look tor peace and prosperity.
Year: 1876

Our good friend Charley Baker, (ior
apart from his politics we feel kindly
towards him. vas lifted out OF his seat
on Saturday last in the House of Repre-
sentatives by the combined pedal ex-
tremities OF 66 members NEARLY all
those who were present and voting.
Charley has his seat yet his own seat
but it is in badly demoralizcd con-
dition it feels likeia universe boil and
he don't know where to put it. Charley
ought to have taken the advice we gave
him some weeks since to gracefully
step out without putting his competitor
to the bother aud expense OF a contest
Ii he had done so he would be to-day
the most popular man in Dakota county
and no power on earth could keep hin
out of the House next winter. Bat h
has lost his golden opportunity to do !
wise, graceful and righteous act.


We thank the House that it rose above
party considerations and did justice
without regard to politics. 1t is well
and it argues well tor the future.


What does Stebbins say now? He wa
ready to bet that Baker would hold thu
seat to the last day of the session.


twill now be in order for him to de
monstrate that it was the Pope turne,
Charley out Of the House. A picture Q
Charley Baker in the character Of Joh1
Rodgers, tied to the stake, with sevel
small children and three at the breast
surrounded by priests, led on by CAY
Parliman, would rouse the tagging spil
its of the Peoples Party of Dakota cour
ty and make them invincible in the ne,
contest.
Year: 1876

1t is with great grief that we hear OF
the death of Hon. Lewis Porter, of Gar


den City, Blue Earth county, MINI.
Judge Porter drank corrosive sublimate
by mistake. supposing it to be wine, and
died after several days of g'eat suffer
ing. He was one of the ablest and
clearest minds in the State. Some OF
his letters were published in the ANTI
MoNoPoLIsT, and were marked by great
ability. His death is public calamity.
Year: 1876

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-A special despatch
from Paris says there is high authority
for stating that, notwithstanding the hope
fql dispatches recently received from Con-
stantinople, there is but single chance of
peace in the East. Russia, in spite of the
intense ardor of her people for war, may be
obliged to yield at the last moment, owing
to her meads of transportation being defec-
tive. She has been taking her resources to
the utmost to get her army into condition
to strike with the greatest possible sudden
ness and vigor, but it seems now that her
means of transport are very inadequate to
the task of providing for such large army
as would be necessary to strike decisive
blow against Turkey.
Year: 1876




NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-A Bozeman,
Montana, despatch says Tho agent Of the
Flathead Indians has applied to General
Gibbon for troops to protect himself All the
Government property at the agency. The
agent states that ever since the breaking
out of the Sioux war the Flatheads have
been insolsnt and disposed to make trouble.
A plot has been discovered to resort to
violent measures at an early day to drive
out the agent and seize the agency and
property. General Gibbon telegraphsd to
the post commander at Fort Ellis to send
troops at once to aid the agent, and force
of cavalry started Wednesday morning for
the Flathead agency
Year: 1876

after three hours council. Spotted
Tail made another lengthy speech, in
which he insisted upon going down to
the Indian Territory and first look at
the country; then go to Washington
and talk with the Great Father and
touch the pen at the same time. He
also wished to delay signing the Treaty
until the present war was satisfactorily
and peacefully settled. He said: 81
wish to have two men help me. One is
the chief minister (pointing to Bishop


Whipple) and the other is Rev. Mr..


Hingman, to settle the matter. You
have the words of the Great Spirit, and
you try to live according to his will.


You know this war trouble does not
please the Great Spirit, and
| want YOU to help me rub it out.
II our friends up above (referring to the
Red Cloud Agency had not signed the
Treaty, l would help them in holding
out, but as our friends up there have
signed it, l ask all good men who are
trustworthy to come up and sign it. >"
Half an hour later the necessary sigma
lures were attached and the treaty was
made. The Indians here all want the
military agent removedand Howard re-
instated. .- ...- -|
Year: 1876

Yesterday morning, about 2 O'Clock,
German named Fred Weisenberg,
while proceeding along Market Street,
near Nineteenth, on his way home, was
Intercepted by two rough-looking Gus
TONERS, who asked him for his valua-
bles. He placidly told them to go to
Jericho, and made vigorous lunge for
the throat of the spokesman, at the
same time shouting "Police!" The
two daring highwaymen quaked at
the sonorous cry, and turning on their
heels dsrted eff at a lively pace. The
German started off after one of them
down the street, and was gaining on
him when the fellow turned and dis
charged shot at his pursuer. The
stolid German, undismayed by the flash
and the warning whistle of the bullet
past his ear, sped on and followed the
fugitive into a dark street, where the
latter hoped nimbly over fence. To
s'follow the leader " in this last instance
proved to be the most distressing expe-
rience Of the evening for the corpulent
German, but after much exertion and
considerable putting he clambered to
the top and fell over with thud upon
the PROSTATE body of the robber, who
was Icrouehed under the shadow of the
fence completely exhausted, with Der
ringer .elutched in his fist. The German
took the pistolaway, and lifting his cor
pulent form up allowed himself to drop
on. the. frightened man three or four
times until he begged mercy. The
captor forced him to reseale the fence,
and marched him to prison, where he
was charged with assault to murder
and attempt to rob. In his pockets


were found a number of burglars
tools.-San Francisco Chronicle,
Year: 1876

Among the troubles of the hour is
what to do with one's money!. .Itis not
safe in the bank ! The trust companies
turn ont to be vain things for safety.
The more real estate a man has the
worse he is off. There have been q
great many times in the last fifty years
when people could not make money un-
less they had money to make it with.
But there has never been time till now
when people could not make money
with money to make it with. The pc
culiarity of this panic is thatryouscan
do nothing with the money No invest
ment seems safe, and millions are lying
idle. THE recent furry ir Wall Street
shows this. Every body who could
has taken out his money from real
estate and put it into stock g. "A cer-
-tain-liner stocks was considered as
good as gold This was especially true
of coal stocks. AL along the line of
the Lackawanna and Kindred roads
stock was held by weil-to-do families.
In a single hour last week families
with incomes from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year were made penniless. 1t Is said
that if the great railroad men were OBJ
liged TO realize at once a larger part of
the so-called millionaires would be as
poor as their neighbors. Nearly all
our heavy companies, if obliged to
throw their real estate on the market,
would find themselves in a bad way
Boston journal. go a- 80 3
Year: 1876

ALTHOUGH Victor Emmanuel is
physically vigorous, rising every morn
ing at 5 and taking a stroll in his gar
den before breakfast, he is not without
superstition. He had not been long in
the Quirinal Palace before he discover
ed trap-d00r in his bedroom. 1t
communicated with vast gallery, in
which the King and his attendants
walked for 20 minutes without finding
an outlet. 1t seemed, however, to lead
to the Castle of st. Angelo. His Ma
jesty declined to investigate the matter,
and ordered the trap door to be brick
ed up. Soon afterward he discovered
a secret door in the wall, which COM
municated with a narrow staircase lead
ing up to the roof. 1t, too, was bricked
up, but since this discovery we are in
formed that whenever his Majesty
sleeps at the Quirinal two huge black
dogs also sleep at the foot of the royal
bed. They obey no one but the King,
never bark, and would strangle, with
out any parleying, the first person who
entered the room.
Year: 1876

AT Camden, N. j., soon after Henry
Mctadden, who had been committed
to the county Jail on a charge of hav>
ing murdered Isaac jackson, a colored
man who was found shot dead in front
OF his tavern on Saturday morning had
been removed to the cell in the third
story OF the county Jail, he committed
suicide by cutting his throat from ear
to ear with penknife, the blade sever
ing the jugular vein. He Gied in a
short time.
Year: 1876

Miss Clara Virginia Oramer,
niece of President Grant and
daughter of Minister Cramer, starts
out early as newspaper CORE
spondent, being but eleven years of
age, according to her letter from
Copenhagen to a Cincinnati paper,
in which she says: "Last summer
my parents took my little brother
jesse and myself on a boat down to
Elsinore, where we saw the cele-
brated old castle of Kronburg.
My governesS lived in this castle in
her teens, for her father was a Cen
eral and had command of it. l
have seen what is said to be Ham
let's grave, and the pond where
0phelia was drowned. In the
middle of this very small pond is a
tiny island, and a tree in the mid
die of it. | knew Hans Christian
Andersen when he was living, and
he gave me a large book of his in
teresting stories. In this book he
wrote on the fy-leaf his name and
my own" M
Year: 1876

hVphAhSNlio DolhVslhtl


Talk about the opium eater or
the whisky drinker, how much
more are they to be pitied than the
lady who is addicted to dipping
snuff? We believe there is more
snuff used in Hopkinsville than any
other place Of its size in Kentucky,
and its use is steadily on the in
crease. Hopkinsville has a reputa-
ton for beautiful women, but how
long that reputation will last tits
hard to tell. Some of the pretti-
est women we knew ten or twelve
years ago are now nothing but
faded flowers. Lips that once
looked like ripe cherries, and for
one kiss from which a man would
almost give his right arm, now look
more like dried apples than any
thing else we can think of. The
cheek once full and rosy is now
sunken and colorless. The chin,
which looks longer, now glories in
a bronze-colored stripe, which
reaches down to the throat.


We were going down the street
the other day, and noticed a lady
coming up. 1t was a windy March
day, and the lady's skirts were
lifted a little above her boot-tops.
We knew the aristocratically arched
foot, but hang It'll what has become
of the nicely rounded ankle? 1t
wasn't there. When we got near
enough to look into the lady's face
we knew that snuff had done its
work, Snuff is robbing women of
their beauty and depriying them of
husbands. tits more harmful than
smoking, and more repulsive than
chewing, and its use by ladies is
almost as much to be condemned
as the drinking of whisky by men
and if the ladies have grounds to
talk about men drinking and smok-
ing, they are assured that snuff
dipping in the eyes of men is about
as repulsive as the smell of two
cent-and-a-half cigar, or a sniff Of
"rife" " whisky to the olfactories Of
the fair sex.


We indulge the hope that soon
there will be an anti-snuff society
formed, which will be a twin sister
Of our temperance society. We
have no idea how many ladies in
our city will take exception to this
article. If all that use snuff were
to get after us, we would call their
name legion, but we are upheld in
our action by some Of the most SEN
sible mothers in town, in entering
a protest against a habit, the adop-
ton of which by a girl is almost as
much to be dreaded by a parent as
is the first taste of liquor by his
| how
Year: 1876

Yesterday we stated that the credit
of opposing Chinese immigration as a
party belonged to the Democracy and
that the individual honor of placing
the party on record on this issue rested
on General JOHN r. MCCONNELL of
this city. We have since been placed
In possession of the address to the peo-
pie OF the United States on the Chi
nese question issued by the Demo-
cratic State Convention of 1869, to-
gether with the platform of the party
for the campaign of that year. We
shall in a day or two reproduce the
address. The following are the Anti
Chinese resolutions drafted by General
MCCONNELL and unanimously adopt
ed by the convention:


Resolved, That we are opposed to
the adoption of the proposed Fifteenth
Amendment to the United States
Constitution, believing the same to be
designed and, if adopted, certain to
degrade the right of suffrage; to ruin
the laboring white man, by bringing
untold hordes of Pagan slaves Gn all
but name) into direct competition
with his efforts to earn livelihood,
to build up an aristocratic class OF
oligarchs in our midst, created and
maintained by Chinese votes; to give
the negro and Chinaman the right to
vote and hold office; and that its pas
sage would be inimIcal to the best in
terests of our country; in direct oppo.
sition to the teaching of Washington,
Adams, Jefferson and the other foun-
ders of the Republic; in fragrant viola.
tion of the planest principles upon
which the superstructure of our liber.
ties were raised; subversive of the
dearest rights of the different States
and direct step toward anarchy anC
its natural sequence, the erection of ar
empire upon the ruins ofconstitutiona
liberty.


Resolved, That the Democracy o
California believe that the labor Of oul
Year: 1876

Although money is abundant in our
banks and may be had in large or
small sums at the usual rate of inter-
est, on satisfactory security, there is
still general complaint of hard times
and our business firms find it difficult
to make their usual collections. The
cry of hard times is general through
out the State, and though We have
suffered the calamity of local bank
failure, we are confident that the
money stress is less stringent with us
than with many other communities.
The monthly disbursement of about
one hundred thousand dollars in this
county by the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company has materially aided
our community in financial matters.
Notwithstanding the self apparent
fact that we are steadily, and more
rapidly than might have been antici-
pated, recovering from the effects of
the bank failure, we must still expect
the lapse Of four or five months be-
fore the arrival of the good time COM
ing. The farmers have been favored
with abundant crops, and the harvest
is upon us, but the return for our farm
products is yet some distance off.
Railroad communication between our
city and San Francisco will be effect
ed not later than October, and about
that time the farmers will realize from
their crops; hence our conclusion is
that we may anticipate return of the
flush times late in the Fall or about
the beginning of Winter. Meantime,
all should sail close to the wind. The
times are not propitious for rash in
vestments or venturesome specula-
tions. To go slow is an almost sure
way to avoid advancing backward.
We have no cause for complaint, and
those who feel inclined to murmur
should read the following extract from
letter written in the interior of Penn
sylvania under date of the 18th inst:
"Times are awful. Hundreds and
hundreds of men can find nothing to
do, and it is getting worse all over the
East. Railroads are discharging hum
dreds of men; mills are closing down,
and merchants are falling every
where
Year: 1876

Is HAYES whole man? The ques-
tion should be definitely answered.
When first nominated the Republi-
cans told us he had lost leg in the
war, and he was therefore good
stumper. 1t is now known that he
has two good legs, and the missing
limb is claimed to be an arm. We
doubt this, because the Governor is
too good q striker for one-armed
man. He knocked BLAINE out of
time and the Republican party into
smithereens at single blow. He
could not have done this with cork
arm. Is the Governor a whole man?
is the all-important question of the
dav
Year: 1876

However much disposed to do so,
the HERALD has seldom found occa-
sion to commend or defend the Com
mon Council, and now that an oppor-
tunity presents itself, which enables
US to come in as the champion of our
City Fathers, we embrace it with
pleasure. The Express of last even
ing attacks the Council ON the ground
of Inconsistency in voting $4,000 for a
foot-bridge to reach East Los Angeles
and rejecting petition for pridge or
bridges across arroyas on the exten-
sion of Temple street." This needs
some explanation. In the first place
the people of East Los Angeles built
and maintained at their own expense
foot t-bridge across the river. Next,
the East Los Angeles Street Railroad
Company built a bridge across the
river for their road, and as the city
had established a school in East Los
Angeles, the Council, in order to Sc
cure communication with that part of
the city, purchased of the Railway
Company the right of way for foot pas
sengers over their bridge, paying
therefor the sum of three hundred dol
lars. There are good many people
living in East Los Angeles, and there
is public school maintained there.
When there is a school house and as
many homes beyond the. arroyo on
Temple street, we take it for granted
the Council will provide the necessa-
ry means for communication.