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Year: 1876

The new styles of the season are SIM


pie and pretty. The voluminous pulled
and looped overskirts which not one wo-
man in a dozen knows how to arrange,
disappear for close long polonaises whose
fullness in the back is hardly lifted at all
but hangs in folds crossing, or shawl lash
ion. What draping there is being very
low on the skirt. The tournure is mere
ly frame to carry out the skirt graceful
ly, instead of letting it fall to the form.
Young ladies who wear big bustles
standing out at the waistare warned that
they are shockingly out of style, Also
the button fever is over, and nothing
more certaily betrays the county visitor
at the Centennial than sacque or polon-
aise with three rows of buttons back and
front. Third-rate dress makers cling to
the style, but it is gone out, and the fig
ure and the polonise looks much better
without them. A dim, grayish dark
blue, like the deepest hue of smoke will
be the color most worn, as it blends ad-
mirably with the cardinal trimmings
and accessories, which are part of the
fashionable dress. Flounces lined their
depth with the red, 50 as TO show when
the wind lifts them. will be the refined
version ofthe red silk skirts worn abroad,
and bows, pipings, narrow pleatings and
bindings will relieve the costume in
every way. Nothing is worn for the
neck but white lawn or cardinal silk ties
Even the slipper bow for the house
matches the rest of the trimmings The
effect is delightful in American eyes
which have been used to gray and dra0
suits so long. Importers and modistes
try to introduce deep myrtle green as
the leading color, but do not seem over
successful. as the sallow women are sure
to take to it, and the effect discourages
nopular taste. Blondes, pure and simple,
cling to the blue which they fancy sets
them off best, not awere thata fresh com


plexion looks daisy fair in dark green
suit. Dark brown and dark red Of a
Year: 1876

The prettiest sight | have seen for
some time was at the Ladies Swimming
Academy, Tuesday, the occasion being
an exhibition by the pupils of Miss Ben
nett. Little girls of four, and matrons
and maids of forty, participated in the
exercises. and they swan with skill and
pluck that never saw men exhibit
One race was between two little girl ba-
bies of scarcely four, who disport them
selves in the water as gracefully as trout,
The women dived, swan, floated, and
took every position in the water that the
most experienced swimmer ever did,
seeming to do it with more ease than
men. Miss Benefits pupils have no
reason to be afraid of accidents on the
Sound. or any water not more than three
miles from land. One young lady swan
four miles and came out not at all fatig-
ned
Year: 1876

The hard times has broken up one
combination-the coal kings of Penn
sylvania have been obliged to succumb
to the downward tendency of the times.
At the big coal sale here this week, half
million tons were taken at a reduction
of fifty per cent. from the established
prices. This drop means more than ap-
pears on the face of it. Not only is it
relief to the millions of householders
who have their winters fuel to put in, but
it is letting up on the manufacturers,
who, compelled TO sell their product at
reduced rates, have been paying old pri-
ces for coal, an important item in the
cost of production. The effect of this
will be felt all over the country, and will
go a long way toward .reviving business
in the East. Next?
Year: 1876

School opened last week with a
larger number of pupils in attendance
than usual. About one hundred and
twenty five belonging to the district,
and over thirty foreign scholars SO far.
Year: 1876

Judging by what has reached us in the
way OF news concerning the feeling OF
the delegates who will sit in convention
tomorrow In this city, we see that the
DEMOCRATS article OF yesterday has had
its effect, and that there Is little or no
talk to-day about Mr.. Williamson 3
nomination. We showed that it was
impossible for the Radicals to elect Mr..
Williamson, and we can do as much for
every possible candidate they can
rake up.
Year: 1876

ON HASD.


At tie meeting of the Water Committee,
last evening, Mr.. Farrell was disposed to
find fault with tho Chairman for not put
ting the men to work on Monday morning.
Mr.. Pyle said he was Only one Of the com.
mittee, and had no authority to do 80, un-
less instructed.


Farrell is represented TO have said he did
not care about going to the basin yesterday
morning, because he knew the newspaper
reporters would be there, to hold hin up to
ridicule, but, this morning, he went out to
the works, and he says would have put the
men to work If any had been there.
Year: 1876

THE CAINHoYTRoUBLE.- The other
day when the industrious agent of
the Associated Press at Charleston
told us of that negro outbreak near
that city. we suggested t0Our readers
the propriety of suspension OF opinion
until the negroes had been heard from.
Their side of the story is now coming
to the surface, and it is very differ
ent version of the cause of the COLI
sion from the story us told by the
Associated Press. 1t seems that
crowd of white Democrats went up
from Charleston for the purpose of
creating disturbance by demanding
that they should have half of the
time at the meeting. The negroes,
feeling themselves numerically able
to hold their own and protect tIlcir
rights, refused to- have their meeting
interfered with. The white men then
offered violence, but the negroes not
only stood their ground, but attacked
the whites and drove the them off.


Louisville ComrucrTfal
Year: 1876

When Tilden heard that BOSS
Tweed was captured, he ran up two
flights of stairs, palled the stairs up
after him, locked his door on the in :
side, piled the sofa, bureau and bed
stead and two chairs against it. threw
the key out Of the window, and back
ing into the closet, lay down behind
the trunk and pulled gum overcoat
and pair of gum hunting boots
over himself, exclaming: Well, what
difference does it make to me if he
does come lack Let him come. .r-Elr.
Year: 1876

One Of the curio,itics of the emperor
Of Russia palace at lsarskoc Selo is the
horse asylum, where the imperial char.
gcs live in snug quarters when they are
no longer fit for use. Near the comfort
able stables is the cemetery, where the
history Of many famous stccd may he
read in tine inscriptions on the tomb
stones. The rooms which pres"At the
greatest historical interest are those
which are occupied by Emperor Alexan-
der J., and which are shown exactly a.
he left them and the chamber which is
considered of the greatest curiosity Is the
room in which all the walls are OF amber
Bcyond the garden, in front Of that part
Of the palace occupied by their majes-
ties, is little island in which there is a
Russian cottage, a garden, a cowhouse-
in short, complete establishment on a
diminutive scale, arranged for the amusc-
menl of the duchess of Edinburgh when
she was child.
Year: 1876

\ poor man died a few years ago in
the hospital at Paris from carbuncle
produced by the poisonous punctnrc OF
a hy. Deceased informed some friends
that one night 4 large green fly kept him
awake with his bu22ing; to punish it he
plucked off three OF its Legs ard set 1t
free. -Four days afterwards he fell asleep
after his breakfast and was awakened by
A sting On his cheek he raised his hand
to the spot and picked Of the insect that
had been sucking his lesh and iound II
to be the very fy that had been mutt
lated. This time he crushed II past sur
gery, but forgot his wound I'LL mortlii-
cation set in and resulted in death.
Year: 1876

beaten spot, Early in spring the whole
surface was narrowed, which scattered the
manure and mixed it with the soil. This
mellowed the soil and destroyed the weeds
that were Just ready to come up, leaving
a clean surface till the young raspberricS
were half a foot high.
Year: 1876

The tie which bound q certain youth
TO u lawyers office was severed yester-
day, and his parents were happy
They wanted the boy to make n great
lawyer, but he was getting along too
fast. he pursued his studies with an
Rrdor which cast judicial shadow
DER the household aud created consid-
erablc neighborhood talk. He got
trusted for candy and repudiated the
bill on the ground that he was mi
nor. lie bought a dog and went into
bankruptcy. He borrowed a pair of
skates and dared the owner to get out
a writ of replevin. He borrowed fifty
cents and then made the lender his
assignee.


But the worst of it was in the fami-
ly. He had legal name for almost
everything, and his desire was to
prove to his parents that he was just
absorbing dead loads of law. If he
wanted a potato at the dinner table he
would remark:


Father, file my claim against that
baked potato and I'll prove the in
debtedness this afternoon" If he
wanted bread he said: Mother, get
me out a writ of attachment for q
piece of bread.


1t was expected of him that he
would light the fires but no sooner
had he gained an insight into law than
he said to his father


Pm going to move for change of
venue unless some other arrangement
is made"


He moved for stay of proceedings
when asked to go to the grocery, and
if chided for being out late at nights
he replied


"File your declaration and give me
chance for jury trial"


W hen he was in a good humor he
would sit and regale his mother with
stories about how Old Chancery was
going up town one night and met Old
Equity and asked him how Degree
was getting along. Old Pleadings and
Exceptions came along just then, and
there was big fight, and the young
lawyer would slap his leg and add


II Indictment had only been there
he'd have whaled the whole crowd ~


The other day the long suffering
father severed the tie. He was trying
to bear up hoping for reform, but as
he sat down to the tea table his son
frightened up and remarked


"The defendent will now take the
stand ard be sworn, Now, sir, did
you or did you not come out of Girls
void street saloon at IL O'Clock this
morning, wiping your mouth on the
back of your handP Tell the jury all
about it, sir!"


1t was little ton much, and the boy
doesn't study law any more. He plays
with a wood pile in the back yard
Cincinnati Trade List.
Year: 1876

We had two neighbors in my boy
hood who pursued methods directly op-
posite in their manner of doing work.
One was systematic. The labor for
the day was written out and strictly
adhered to, When n job was begun it
was made the order of the day. All
hands turned to and made light work
OF what would otherwise have been
tedious and unpleasant. His work
was always done in season--well done,
because done under his supervision,
and by previously conceived plan.
His premises were very neat and
orderly. He added largely to bis in>
heritance.


The other had no system, but worked
at random. His force were divided,
each man doing a different kind of
work on different part of the farm. He
seldom finished job in the time of it,
but left them oftentimes for a long
time unfinished, His work was almost
always behindhand; much of it was
poorly done. His promises were in a
slOvenly and disOrderly condition.
Although hard working man, he ad-
ded but little to his property. Both
have long since passed away, but the
effect of their different management
is as visible to-day as during their
lives Cor. Country GeQtlCmUn.
Year: 1876

No one has yet been able to analYze
or demonstrate the essential action of
perfume. Gas can be weighted, but
not scents. The smallest known crea-
tures-the very monads of life-can be
caught by microscope lens and made
to deliver up the secrets of their or
ganiZatiOns, but what it is that emil
mates from the pouch of the musk deer
that fills the whole space for years and
years with its penetrating odor-an
odor that an illimitable number of ex-
traneous substances can carry on with
out diminishing its size and weight
and what is it that the warm summer
air brings to us from the flowers, no
man has yet been able to determine.
So fine, so suitable, so imponderable,
il has eludGd both our most delicate
weights and measures, and our strong
est senses. If we come to the essence
of each odor, we should have made an
enormous stride forward, both in hy-
giene and in chemistry, and none
would profit more than the medical
profession if it could be as conclusive
ly demonstrated that such All Odor pro-
ceeded from such and such a cause, as
we already know of sulphurate hydro
gen, ammonia, and the like.
Year: 1876

A poor woman used to give an ele-
phant, who often passed her stall in
the market, a handful of greens, OF
which he was very fond, One day be
was in great fury, and broke away
from his keeper, and came raging down
the market-plaee. Every one fled, and
in her haste the market-woman forgot
her little child. But the furious ele-
phant, instead of trampling it to death
picked it up tenderly and laid it on
one side in place of safety. Do you
think she was sorry she gave him his
handful of greens as he went by? No.
We never loase by kind action, no
matter to whom IL is done.
Year: 1876

This remarkable witness, Bell, has
not sought this examination. On the
contrary, he has been living Obscurely.
and only happened upon the stand
because he had applied to Belknap for
post-tradership. There are docu-
ments in the Treasury Department
that corroborate this testimony. Dis
trict Attorney Dyer is said to have
known all about it. He and eX-Sena-
tor Henderson are in Washington,
and have been interviewed, and they,
according to our special correspondent,
confirm Bells testimony.


We cannot avoid q very disagreeable
impression III this connection, that
the Presidents appearance in it is eX
tremely infelicitOus. He had no call
to send spy TO st. Louis to know
whether Babcock was guilty. He
probably had clear opinion on that
subject. When we take and examine
together the items Of interference by
the President with the trial of Gen.
Babcock, It is difficult to elude con-
clusions of the most painful character,
The appearance of All old scout en-
plOyed at the direct urgency of the
President OH q thin pretense, who was
urged to destroy evidence and promis-
GU u IS"hIh lOI uOllIS SO, anu lllOl tllcu
by the innocent Babcock that it would
be the better way not to make par
tlal job of it, but to destroy the whole
or none--all this wears q sinister
aspect that will disturb the whole
country. When we take into consid-
Grafton that the report to the President
by the old scout that his Secretary
was guilty, was followed by his dis
missal, it seems likely that the worst
Interpretation cannot be far from the
true one.


Certainly this testimony could not
stand unsupported, but it has dOcu-
mentary support, and is confirmed by
men of unquestiOned character and
intelligence-among them the Assist
ant District attorney, who did his duty
In the prosecution of Avery, and, sue
ceeding, was dismissed, and the Dis
trict Attorney who prosecuted the
Presidents Private Secretary, in spite
of the protest of the Attorney General,
deprived of witnesses by the stolen
letter, and surrounded by spies, The
testimony of Bell not only throws a
broad light upon the Babcock trial,
but illuminatee the Administration,
The President seemed to be an eager
witness in Babcock's case. Perhaps
he will appear before Mr.. Clymer's
committee. His testimony would be
quite pertinent. Indeed, 1t seems in
dispensable, and it should be given
without circumlocution or delay. BabA
cock and Chandler and PierrepOnt are
also wanted to complete the story.
Year: 1876

Consider it your religious duty to
take outdoor exercise, without fail,
each day. Sweeping and trotting
around the house will not take its
place, the eXhIlaratiOn of the open air
and change of scene are absolutely
necessary, o, know all about 'LuCy's
gown that is not finished, - and "Tom-
my's jacket" and even his coat, his
buttonless coat, thrown in your lap,
az if to add the last ounce to the cameps 8
back still ] say up and out D.! 1t is not
more important that your children, in
their tender years, should not be left
motherless, and that they should not
be born to that feeble constitution of
body which will blight every early
blessing? Let buttons and strings 90,
you will take hold of them with more
Nigor and patience when you do return
bright and refreshed; and if every
stitch be not finished at Just such a
moment land it is discouraging not to
be able to symmetize in your labor,
even with your best efiorts) still re-
member that "she who hath done
what she could" is entitled to no mean
praise. Your husband is undoubtedly
1.-THE best of men," though there are
some malicious people who might say
that that is not saying much for him
Still, he would never, to the end of
time, dream what you were dying Of:
so accept my advice, and take the mat
ter in hand y ourself,-Funny Fern.
Year: 1876

Editors Drawer. in Harper's Magazine for June.]


When Mr.. Webster visited England, after
he had attained fame enough to precede him,
an English gentleman took him one day to
see Lord Brougham. The eminent Briton
received our Daniel with such GOODNESS that
he was glad to get away and back to his
rooms. The friend who had taken him at
once returned to Lord Brougham in haste
and anger.


My lord, how could you behave with such
unseemly rudeness and discourtesy to so great
lawyer and statesman? 1t was insulting
to him and filled me with notification.


why, what on earth have l done, and
who on earth have been rude to?'


"To Daniel Webster, of the senate of the
United States"


Great Jupiter, what blunder! thought
1t was that fellow Webster who made die
tonary aid nearly ruined the English Ian
guage."


Then the great chancellor quickly hunted
up the American senator, and having other
tastes in common besides law and politics,
they made royal night of it,
Year: 1876

1t has generally been supposed that the
masculine portion of the population aggre


gated to themselves the sole right of making
love to the herones of the drama, and that
from their attentions solely the actresses suf-
fered. But such is not the case Indeed, it
would be matter of surprise were it known
how many of Our public woman are badgered
and bothered by the silly of their own sex
who fall in love with them and worry them
with attentions. One charming lady on the
Boston stage is actually beset by rorlatic
girls who have conceived strong affection
for her simply on the stage, and the tricks
which they restor to see har and much win
her acquaintance are varied and much more
ingenious than the other sex employ They
follow her about while she shops; they
besiege her door and beg for admittance; {;
they f1atter and coax her maid, and try to
wheede her into admitting them. They
send, daily, baskets of flowers and fruit, tied
about with white ribbons as though they
were wedding favors. They send her books
of poems with double pencil marks at all the
gushing lines. They write notes and inclose
newspaper poetry they find who her friends
are, and even play agreeable to them to get
into the desired presence. Perhaps the very
decided rebuffs which they meet only encour-
age them. If they did not know how utterly
impossible it is for hardworking women,
whose task-master is the pvblic, to give time
them, they would cease their opportunities.
10 send tokens of appreciation like flowers,
is all well enough, indeed, it is a pretty
remembrance occasionally; but no person
cares to burdened with an obligation which
she can not repay. and it is a great bore
be adored to such fearful extent
Year: 1876

best husband woman ever had, I'm sure.
and MIR. Markham, know now that never
really loved YOU


| don't know whether that was true or not,
but that did not matter. She did not love me
then, and does not now, and lost her.


live alone at Mosswood now, an old bache-
lor. with limp and the dyspepsia, and she
and boquet of little blossoms flourish over
the way at Dr. Roper's


Some time, perhaps may marry Miss
Flint would have me and so would the Wild
ow Virgins; but whatever may get to wear
evermy heart it will not be a rosebud. ! threw
that away long ago, and Roper picked it up,
and it makes his life fragrant.
Year: 1876

In spite of political changes and the large
! ness of executive affection, Washington can
exhibit some moss-covered public function
aries whose continued devotion to office could
| not be surpassed even in conservative Eng
land. In wandering about the corridors and
galleries of the Capitol, one comes across
some curious specimens of this kind. They


are evidently employees, for they have their


hats Oft and nothing to do. There is set


tied look about them, an appearance of ad-


hesion when they sit, and of adhesion when


they walk, all of which tells you plainly that


they have grown into the governmental fabric


In the Senate chamber, sitting at the left of


the presiding officer, is a tall, ruddy-faced


old gentleman. His hair and whiskers are


long and snowy white, while the former is


brushed down until it is wonderfully glossy


and smooth, ending withal in a single row


of curls. The hair is quite marvellous, but


the row of curls is phenomenon. For years


upon years it has surrounded his head like a


freshly sprouting aureole, and never has a


single hair been seen displaced. Neither the


vehemence or passion, nor the ardOr of af-
fection, nor domestic sorrows, nor official
duties have ever disarranged its glitteripg
symmetry. Tornadoes have ragged, earth
quakes shaken, two wives have been tender
ly cared for and creditably buried, but the
sivery radiance of that curl has shown
through it ALL No one knows how old he is,
nor exactly when the curl commenced. He
began his public career in the Senate as a
page and a small boy; he is now continuing
it as the doorkeeper of that chamber, and the
climax of venerable propriety. His duty is
i sit there in his great arm chair, giving in:
terest and dignity to the assembly, and to an
nounce the bringing of messages from the
House and the President This he does,
having first stepped out in front of the pre-
siding officer, with admirable elocution and
an unexceptionable bow. Then he resumes
bis seat, and the whole Legislative body
breathes more freely Supposing the exer-
lion should induce apolexy, to which be looks
liable, the consummate flower of door-keep-
er would be gone-Letter to Woodstock Stan-
lard.
Year: 1876

We see no reason why editors shouldn't
be allowed to 60 to church on Sundays, just
the same as any other poor people but when
one wakes up suddenly during the sermon
ana yells out to the devil to come and take
copy you cant blame the congregation for
having sly snicker at his expense.
Year: 1876

Gov. Perry of South Carolina, who
shouts loudly for Tilden and reform,
recently said: sk ssyT4o


And here / would appeal to. my
Democratic srienss sA over theSsate
to stop social intercourse with any
man who Is base enough to be Rad
ical. Let him feel by your conduct
toward him that tho brand Of in
fanny Is on him and his children.
Ibis is the only way you can reach
his black heart. Let him SEQ that
there Is a moral pestilence around
him which prevents all social con-
tact with honorable men, aud leaves
him for patronage and society to his
own chosen rogues and plunderers.'
Year: 1876

Thos. A. Hendricks was Major
General in the reasonable Order Of
Knights OF the Golden Circle, and
during the war was a prominent
actor In a conspiracy by that Order
to liberate rebel prisoners confined
at Camp Morton in Indiana.