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Year: 1876

has blundered, and blundered most inglor1-
ously in his investigations this winter, but we
doubt that there is any one who will deny that
he can enter Duluth hotel and take brandy
smash on treat with as much grace as any
Chesterfield of the bar in this country.


There is a ine-lookiug mastiff in the West
End of this city who is peace maker among
his fellow dogs. Yesterday he noticed two
Scotch terriers fighting furiously on the curb
stone, and, stepping quickly to the scene of
conflict, seized one by the ear and led him away.
The other followed up and commenced
vigorous attack on his arrested antagonist.
The mastiff Immediately turned upon him,
and, catching him firmly by the nape of the
neck, tossed him over an adjoining fence. He
then returned to the first terrier, and, taking
the corner, away from his foe. The mastiff
never says much, but he has way of dis
patching business that makes him an un-
doubted success. -..


The press is creating q general outcry
against Samuel J. Tilden because he is at
tempting 70 advertise himself into the White
House. This is wrong, for Samuel is right.
He knows full well the worth and power of
printers ink. 1t is the horse that has carried
many men to success. Small merchants have
been made commercial princes. Poor trades
men by its potency have been elevated to affiu-
ence and social distinction, and why should
not the great canal ring breaker sail into the
Presidential harbor on this trustworthy craft!
OF course, a great deal depends upon judicious
advertising. The following card, If 1t is
genuine, shows how fully Samuel appreciated
this fact


'.Bdtes g. Locke:


ttGENTs send You q batch of notices which
have Just written to be inserted in such papers as
touch the people in the right spot. Draw on me
at the rate of $3.50 for each Insertion.


"Fery respectfully, S. J. T."


Where is the pitent-medicine man who
could frame more business-like notice than
that 'I latter myself they will touch the peo-
pie in the right spot?" How delicately it is
expressed! Conscious of the sensitiveness Of the
American people, he does not mention what
spot the right one is. Unlike the patent-med-
icine man, he does not announce "Ready Re-
lief for burns, ulcers, Group, lock-js small
pox, creek in the back, consumption, and So
forth, taken internally with a spoon and ex-
ternally with the fiat of your hand, i" but he
modestly remarks it will "strike the right
spot" Whether that spot on the general sur
face of the American people is their head,
stomach, or heart, the sly oil gentleman does
not say. And why should he! 1t is enough
for us to know that it will, like the aim of an
unerring archer, plug the right spot, and plug
1t, too, in such forcible and convincing man
ner that he is willing to pay So so for each
insertion. Printers ink judiciously applied
pays, and the wisdom Of Mr.. Tilden in this
respect is commendable.
Year: 1876

Only few days more remain be-
fore the election, and if our friends
in any township have not made all
their arrangements to secure full
Republican vote next Tuesday, we
urge them to attend to the matter
without a moments delay.


See to it, that conveyances are
provided to bring infrm and aged
voters to the polls; that a correct
list of all the Republican voters in
the township be placed in the hands
of some active, reliable Republican,
who will check off the name of each
voter after he has voted, and have
men appointed to send for every
Republican who has not voted, say
by 2 o'clock p NJ, and if possible
bring him to the polls. Appoint
good challenging committees, to pre-
vent illegal voting. In short, use all
honorable means to bring out the
entire Republican cote Of yoor toace-
ship, and do not rest satisfied until
this result is accomplished. Do this,
and you will have the satisfaction of
having done your whole duty and
contributed all in your power to the
great Republican victory which we
are confident awaits us in Ohio next
Tuesday.
Year: 1876

measurements and their correctness
was doubted.


When the Commissioners of Ross
and Highland counties met at Green
field to accept the work on the abut-
ments of the bridge over Paint
creek, this gentleman happened to
be in that village and was employed
by three Democratic Commissioners
from Ross and tooO Democratic and
one Republican Commissioner from
Highland to re-measure the work af-
ter Mr.. Dickey and he found the
measurement incorrect: Mr.. Albert,
of Chillicothe, was the most earnest
in his desire for re-measurement,
and in his distrust of Mr.. Dickey's
accuracy.


The people of this county, who
have paid enormous prices for
wretched roads, can charge the same
to Mr.. Dickey' cherished habits, not
to his intentional dishonesty.


We have tried to write of MIR.
Diekey kindly, but faithfully and
with feeling of sadness over his
infrmity, but he has counted too
much upon the forbearance and sup
posed devotion to party of the people
of the Seventh District and in doing
so has made the question of his cleo
ton not one of party, but one of good
citizenship, as opposed to prejudice
and political chicanery. To add to
his mistake, he has placed himself in
the hands of men notorious for their
unscrupulous conduct and who are
fragrant violators of public morals,
private decency and even of the laws
of the land. 1t remains to be seen
whether the good sense and common
business sagacity of the District can
overcome the efforts of those who
seem determined to push their selfish
schemes by means of party prejudice
and appeals to the baser passions of
our nature, to the hazardous extent
of placing in the councils of the ma
ton man who has shown no ability
and no desire for self-control, and
who, if we can credit charges boldly
made and seemingly proven, and
met with only weak and evasive de-
nials-has not been able to restrain
his appetites for brief season, in
spite of solemn promises to friends,
and when in sight of the goal of his
life's ambition.
Year: 1876

The Democratic managers have ad
vised their party throughout the
State, to trade off any other candi-
date on their ticket, for a vote for
Bell, their candidate for Sc cretary OF
State. The object of this is to carry
Ohio for Bell, and then claim that
the State is fer Tilden! In some
counties, it is said, the Democrats
are actually offering to vote for any
three Republicans, in exchange for
one Republican vote for Bell


Let no Republican bite at such a
naked hook. Vote the straight Re
publican ticket
Year: 1876

Confidence among the leading
merchants and other business men
of the country would seem to be
universal that the general revival of
business which began some weeks
ago, and which has continued to
gain strength, will prove of per-
manent character, and that we are
now on a sounder basis than at any
time since the panic. Indications
on every hand are that the bottom
has been touched, and doubt and
distrust are rapidly giving place to a
feeling of confidence.
Year: 1876

We submit the question to the respectable por-
tion of the Democratic party, whether they ap-
prove the style of vulgar personal abuse and de-
famation recently INDUCED in towards respectable
citizens, by their party organ, the Hisboro
Gazette? For instance, are they not ashamed of
some of the dirty "Police Gazette" paragraphs in
last weeks issue? The late editor of the Gazette
had too much respect for propriety and decency
to allow his columns to be prostituted to such vile
uses, and his successor would do well to initiate
his example in that respect, if he desires the good
opinion of decent people.
Year: 1876

New York Tribune (Ind): 'Per-
haps the best means to prevent the
Democratic party from ever carrying
Presidential election, the surest
and most eficacious, is to give it one
branch of Congress in the middle of
a Presidential term. All that the
people needs is to see it on exhibit
ton, and all that the party needs to
effect its OWL. ruin is the opportunity
of brief and partial exercise of
power"
Year: 1876

The Democratic party are claiming
great credit for the present members
of the House of Representatives, in
the way of what they falsely claim as
retrenchment of the expenses of the
government. The following is but
a sample of the qualities of the re-
trenchment system adopted by them
at the late session. We take it from
the .. S. Record and Gazette.
Soldiers, read it:
Year: 1876

RoMNEY, August II, 1876.
Editors of the Register:


Now that the first battle OF the great
contest for reform and economy has been
fought, with such glorious results, 1t
Ahould stimulate all good Democrats to be
up and doing, in order that we my carry
our State by such large majority as TO
make the Radicals tremble in their boots
for the result in November. In order
TO bring this about, l would suggest that
each coRnty committee appoint SUBJ
committees in each district, whose duty
(as we'll as that of each member of the
county committee) should be to
see their neighbors and talk to
them, explaining TO them the
great importance of tue approaching
elections, and see to IL that every Demo
cratic voter goes TO the polls and votes,
both in the state and national elections.
If they do this, believe we will carry
the state by rousing majority. Old
Hampshire will do her duty in this con-
test, and do it we'll. Our people appear
to be alive to the Importance OF tho
present contest. understand that men
who have not voted since the war, Will
vote this fall, and you may look for a
majority of from 800 to 1000.


For the benefit of our brethren OF this
Congressional District west Of the noun.
tains, l am happy to say that hogue
stock has fallen almost to zero in this
county. Hampshire is with them, and
almost aunt for the Hon. b. B. Martin.
Let every Democrat do his whole duty,
as the state expects them to do so; let
them stand firm, shoulder to shoulder
keep the ball moving and give the
RAIDS. fits. I:subscribe myself yours, &c.'


SNIFFLES.
Year: 1876

The New York T'ibune,in an article on
the gensrsl reduction of wages in that
city, states that any builder can employ
as many arst-clsss carpenters MS he wants
y, sl5 per week, and find them grateful
for the chance. The same may be said
of most of the other trades connected
with building. 1t adds that there has
been no time in the past fifteen years
when building could be done in New
York at So cheap rsie. and scarcely a
time in that interval when there has
been so little OF il doing.
Year: 1876

NEW YORK may be said to have almost
abolished capital punishment. Recorder
HACKErr told KING, who killed Police
nsn McGivEN TO escape arrest, that
while he sentenced him to imprisonment
Tor l'ic he should certainly have had the
sentencing of him To desth for murder IN
the first degree but for tho unwisdom Of
the last amendment of the law in that
State. Under this premeditstion is made
So dubious MISTER that plea of "guilty
"i murder in the second degree is often
accepted by the prosecuting officer as the
test opprosch TO justice possible in the
case
Year: 1876

Ir IS STRANGE.-A philosopher says /:
Planets govern not the soul nor guide
the destines of men; but trifles lighter
than straws are levers in the building up
of our character" How true this is A
meteor fifteen thousand times as big as
the earth may sweep across the heavens
without disturbing the moral standing of
a man carryin footbath full of'hot wa
ter down stairs. when piece of soap no
bigger than a pigeons egg may lift his
heel as high as a hall-lamp, drag him
all the way down stairs a la wheeloarrow,
empty the footbath in his lap, spoil his
clothes, and ruin his standing in the com
munty, until the frightful stories Of his
unbridled temper are hushed up.
Year: 1876

REVERENCE OLD AGE.-Bow low the
head, boy do reverence to the old man.
once like you, the vicissitudes of life have
siyered the hair, and changed the round,
merry face to the worn visage before you.
Once that heart beat with ASPIRATIONS CO


equal to any you have felt, aspirations
crushed by disappointment, as yours are,
perhaps, destined to be. Once that form
stalked proudly through the gay scenes
of pleasure the beau and ideal Of grace /;
now the hand Of time that withers
the flower of yesterdy, has warped that
figure and destroyed that noble carriage


Once, at your age, he possessed the
thousand thoughts that pass through
your brain now Wishing to accomplish
worthy of nook in fame anon imagiH


ing life dream that thesooner'he awoke
from it the better But he has lived the
dream very near through. The time to
awake is very near at hand; yet his eye
ever kindles at old deeds Of daring, and
the hand takes tirmer grasp of the staff.
Bow low the head, boy, as you would in
your old age he reverenced. r-#f -s. p.
Year: 1876

There seems to be a disposition, on
the part of our people, to add to the at,
tractiveness of our town, by the improve.
ment of their residences and the sur
roundings. We are glad to notice it, as
it is gratifying evidence of the arous.
ing of our citizens from the disastrous
inactivity in which they have so long
been indnising. ......
Year: 1876

Shortly after twelve o'clock on
Monday night the twenty-first ses-
sion of the California Legislature ad-
journed sine die. To say that the peo-
pie breathed more freely on Tuesday
than on Monday morning is, though
prejudicial to the wisdom and honesty
of the Legislators, but saying what
ninety-nine out of every hundred citi-
zens have themselves already said. 1t
was dangerous Legislature-danger-
GUS because much more liable to re-
peal good laws and pass mischievous
and vicious ones than to place in the
statutes laws that would advance the
material prosperity of the masses.


Taken as a body the Legislature just
adjourned was, in point of wisdom
and judgment, below the average of
many of its predecessors. Its ability and
debating powers were of fair order


The proportion of members in either
House capable and always ready and
anxious to make ringing and some
times eloquent speech on any snbject
within the scope of Legislative vision,
was perhaps larger than could be
pointed out in any previous Legisla-
ture since 1861. But it was in sound
practical sense and a comprehensive
ness of the wants of the country and
how to supply them that our last Sem
ate and Assembly were wanting. The
members who possessed sufficient tai
ent to have made them useful Repre-
sentatives did not understand the
wishes of their constituents. There
was manifest from the opening to the
close of the session a disposition to
pander to popular prejudice rather
than pursue the course dictated by
sound sense and practical judg-
ment. Political buncomb and
campaign clap-trap influenced more
than desire for reform and the


enactment of the much needed just
and wise laws. But after all few very
mischievous laws were passed. The
wisdom and tact of the few overcome
and held in check the bot-headed eX-
tremist majority. The attempt to dis
turb the public school system, the fool
ish onslaught on newspapers and cru
sade against railroads were all fruit
less efforts which though supported
by the majority failed for want of able
advocates. Legislatures are necessary
evils-infiictions that come bi-annuaI
ly and must be endured-and we con-
gratulate the people on having es-
capped serious injury if they have de-


rived no great benefit from the twen-
ty-first session of their Legislature.
Year: 1876

A case terminated in the Probate
Court yesterday which presented
many features not generally found in
trials of like character. The contest
was for letters of Administration on


the estate of the late Don ANDRES
PICo. Both RoMULo PICo the son, and
Pho PICO the brother of the deceased,
sought for the appointment of Ad-
ministrator on the estate and the
objective point was which possessed
the strongest natural claim to the
place. The brother based his right to
the letters on the assumption of ille-
gitimacy of the son. All the evidence
he introduced tended to the establish
ment of this point. The brother ne
cessarily adopted an aggressive policy
while the sen stood on the defensive.
For eight days the time of the
court was occupied in listening
to documentary and oral evidence
offered by the uncle to prove
that the nephew was not the son
of his father, and we are assured
Year: 1876

that for popularity of origin and fee
bleness of purpose, some of the mass
of testimony would have excited the
curiosity and taxed the ingenuity of
all the lawyers that have lived since
the lays of SoLoN. All, however, fell
to the ground or rose up in refutation
of the charge it was brought forward to
sustain. 1t was in evidence that ROM
ULo Proc had always been regarded
as the son of ANDRES PICo; that he
bore striking resemblance IN form
and feature to his father, and that Don
ANDRES had always spoken of and
acknowledged RoMULo as his son.
The Court ordered letters of admins
tration to be issued to RoMULo Proc,
the son of the deceased.
Year: 1876

OFFCER RYAN in the capacity of
Fire Marshal yesterday made tour
through what is known as Chinatown,
the principal street of which is, we
believe, "Negro Alley" He reports
that he found no stove or fire place in
most of the rooms or dens, though fires
were used in nearly all. In many
are sink holes and cesspools that would
breed pestilence in any other eli
mate in twenty-four hours, and all the
filth and supage of the entire locality
drains or is thrown into the zanjas
from which many people procure
water for domestic purposes. While
such plague spot is permitted in al
most the very center of the city need
we wonder if fires are of frequent oc-
currence and that filthborn fevers con-
tinue to present themselves?
Year: 1876

When the manager of the HERALD yester-
day informed the Board of Supervisors that
he knew the Republican had a greater circu-
tion than the Star, because he printed both
papers, he committed a breach of profession
al faith which he tries to correct by asserting
in his paper this morning that he said he did
not know anything about the circulation Of
either paper.-ErpreSs.


When the managers of the Express
assert. that the manager of the Herald
Uniformed the Board of Supervisors
that he knew that the Republican had
a greater circulation than the Star,
because he printed both papers, they
asserted that which they know to be,
and which we brand, deliberate false
hood
Year: 1876

Gratis elected three and the Republi-
cans two. The Republicans will have
a majority in the City Council and the
School Board. The Democrats will
retain majority in the Board of Al
dermen and will probably have a small
majority on joint ballot. Returns from
the interior part of the State indicate
that the election generally has turned
upon local rather than upon party is
sues.


steamship and Railroad Suit.


NEW YORK, April 4th.-Counsel for
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
made motion before Judge Gilbert
to-day for reference in the case of that
corporation against the Union Pacific
Railroad Company. The Court grant
ed the motion, and appointed Charles
E. Strong Of Wall street us referee.
The motion is for alleged breach of
contract in the transportation of some
freight from New York to San Fran
cisco. The damages claimed are $780,
600. The defence set up failure of the
performance of contract on the part of
the steamship company, and also that
there has been settlement of all
questions between them.


VIII be Hanged


New YORK, April 4th.-When Do
Ian, the condemned murderer of Noe,
was informed of the decision of the
Court of Appeals against him to-day
and that his execution must come of
April 14th, he said: "Well, it can't be
helped, unless the Governor inter-
feres." Dolap will certainly suffer
the extreme penalty Of the law
Year: 1876

He went into the corner saloon to
take drink. He took it, and be-
gan to feel like himself. He took
another, and felt bully; another, and
he felt like whale; another, and he
became belligerent. He wanted to
whip somebody. He spread out his
coat-tail for somebody to tramp upon.
But there being no coat tramper
around, he was not accommodated.
Then he went into the street and
looked cross-eyed at people, but no
one crossed at him. He ground his
teeth, and flung out his right arm, to
see if the joints worked well. Every
body kept out of his way. 1t was
not good day for fights. Then he
swore a black oath, and said he
could whip any man in town. No
one coming forward, he dared any
three men in town to stand before
him. Slowly the paid minion of the
law approached him, and laid his
official paw upon the collar of the
belligerent rooster, who now sitteth
sadly in City Hall cell, where the
dust raised by the gentle zephyrs
from Laramie doth not blow into his
eyes, and the corner saloon does not
get into his way.
Year: 1876

Permit me to inquire through the
columns of your paper why the acts OF
the last Legislature have not been pub
lished and distributed? The Legislature
adjourned tour months ago but the acts
passed have not yet been Published
Surely some one is to blame for this long
delay. Who is it7 Is it the clerk OF the
House Of Delegates, or the Public PRINT
err Let some one rise and explain; the
public want to know. -


I do not wish to find fault with any
public officer Who tried to do his duty,
but think the delay in Publishing these
acts is wholly unnecessary, and sno~s
gross negligence somewhere. 81 ~. s


1t Is said thAt the last Legisiature
made many important changes in GU,
laws, yet the people are kept in psoioona
ignorsncs Of the natsrs of the chAnges,
and are Justly indignant that they af'
not published ID DAslnS
Year: 1876

q question was put to to him would say,
"On the whole l. do. not think
l will answer that question" and
when the Senate committed him for
contempt, then Chief Justice Garter
would nave q right to say, "Take that
man ont of the custody of the Sergeant
alarms, and bring him before me, and
1 will say myself what I think of the
question" This outcry that the House
was undertaking to put itself against


liberty, was perfectly preposterous.


Mr.. Garfield then quoted from
the Mais Parliamentary Law to
the effect that the ha6eas corpus
act is binding on all persons whatever,
and that it is therefore, competent for
judges to have before them persons com.
mitted by buses OF Parliament for con-
tempt. Now they were confronted by
the assertion that one branch of Con-
gress was omnipotent. The proposition
would make the House the
great tyrant of the nation. Let it be
once kno ~n, and every citizens would
be armed IN hostility against the Con-
gress OF his country. He declared him,
self an implacsble foe of the tyrant who
presented himself in such guise. The
position taken to-day would make Con-
gress the most uncontrolled tyrant that
had ever sialked abroad over any
land. He denied that the House was
above the law by delivering up the body
OF prisoner.


Mr.. Hurd stated that he had just been
Informed by the Sergeant-at-Arms that
he had appeared before the Judge this
morning, and hearing the case had been
postponed until Tuesday, he thereto
gave notice he would call the previous
question Monday at 8 o'clock.


Adjourned.