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Year: 1875

From a speech C Senator Cockrel, Of
Missouri on his election.
He said that the government at this
time was controlled by an unholy triune
alliance-the national banks, bond
holders and protective manufactures
of this land--that were to-day absorb
ing the vitals of the country, bringing
poverty and ruin to the best interests
| of the country An internal revenue
system which levied nine-tenths of its
burdens on Western products, the un-
just extension of patent righta under
which agricultural people have to pay
three times their value, monster mono
poles fostered by the governmental all
tended TO the Capitalization of despot-
ic power.


He regarded the financial question
as in most wretched condition, fol-


which they must hold the Republican
party responsible Money should be
| fixed and permanent, and distributed
! according to the growth of the entire
country. No government should legis
late for class, race or section. He would
never vote to increase the bonded debt
of the country.
Year: 1875

The negroes 10 the District Of Colum-
bia are getting very restive. They were
elevated by the Radical Congress above
the poor whites and favored with legal
rights superior to those Of any other peo-
pie Of the country. But they made such
bad use Of suffrage that Congress abol-
ished the whole system of voting in the
District, and now the negro begins to
feel that he is only an ordinary man, on
Il hpolitical equality with other men again,
and possessing none OF the influence
which made him OF consequence to the
Radical office-seekers. Hence caucuses
and meetings of the negroes have re-
Gently been held and committee has
decided to send report to Congress, in
favor of Summers Senate Civil Rights
Bill. Other meetings have been held,
and one in South Washington in favor
of suffrage was largely attended, and
chiefly by members of secret societies
1t is said that the members Of these So
cieties number thousands, and With one
Colonel Perry Carson ut their head. will
enter then protest against the Regency
Bill of the District, which deprives them
of suffrage. Now it will be observed
that Congressman give no heed to the fact
that they have deprived the white man
of suffrage in the District. 1t is only
when the negro raises his voice that the
Radicals give any attention.


Under the votes Of the negroes Wash
ington was run into debt ct about
twenty millions Of dollars in four or five
years; and now it turns ont that the
Government has to pay it.


How much Of this money went into
the pockets Of Ross Sheppard and other
Radical olfice-LoldeIa has not been found
ont, nor has there boen any effort made
to ferret this out; such an attempt was
made by Congressional Committee, but
fearing the result would be too damag-
ing to Grant and his Cabinet, the work
was cut short Ly the. adjustment of the
whole government of the District. Had
the matter been allowed to progress 10
the legitimate end it might have showed
the Washington Ring as guilty as the
Ring headed by Tweed, who is now being
punished in the peniteItiary while Rad
ical Boss Sheppard and his crew are en-
]oying entire liberty and reyelips in laA
urious living from their ill-gotten gains


The negro doubtless sees this and feel.
that he was made mere cat 5 paw; anC
when he had accomplished for the ricl
Radicals all that his vote could effect h,
was suddenly let down to the common
level


In Wilmington we have no Congress
to pay the debts made by Radicals elect
Ell by negro votes, and the high taIe
On real estate caused hy the e1trava
gancc Of Council will have to be paid
notwithstanding the depression in trad
and the difficulty to rent many proper
ties, even at sacrifice.
Year: 1875

The Radical press dislikes to see the
late Confederate soldiers joining the
Democratic Union army; Of course they
does. Longstreet and Mosby make very
good Radicals, while they serve the
Grant party, but none of the Confedcr-
ates make good Union Democrats. Bah
The Confederates know on which side is
liberty and law, and all that the Grant
party can do will not prevent brave and
honest pen from following where truth
and justice point they should.
Year: 1875

LECTCRE.-Ilon. Judge Gilman will dcliyer a
lecture on Elementary Geology at the rooms OF
the Ottawa Academy of Natural Science (Chee-
ver's block) on Tuesday evening next Feb. 10th
for the benefit of the Academy.


The society appeals to all who take an interest
in the diffusion of knowledge to come forward
and by their patronage give them such material
encouragement as will enable them to add to
their already large collection and make the
rooms more attractive to the general public. II
should be borne in mind that few individuals
have given their time and money to make the
society what it now is, but they find the burden
rather enerous, and as the rooms arc open to
all they can the more confidently call on the
public for assistance, and at the same time give
them value received. An admission fee Of y
cents will be charged
Year: 1875

Conc East,


Mr.. A. Frank leaves to-day for sojourn o
several weeks in Baltimore, whittier he goes to
superintend the manufacture of his spring ani
summer stock of clothing. The popularity o
the Peoples Clothing House is second to none in
the county, and no truer solution Of their pOpu
larity can be given than to assert that Mr. Frank
is the business man of the firm and that he attends
to the business Mr. +. leaves the city with the very
best wishes of our citizens for a safe, pleasant
and profitable trip and when, with opening
Gpring, he shall open his spring stock they will
rally around his popular emporium with more
substantial support than we could hope to give
with locals Fabcr
Year: 1875

Russell & Son are moving into the store room
formerly occupied by Mosher, on La Sale street
with their well selected stock of elegant furni
ture, They will be pleased to see all of their ole
friends in their new quarters and will in the
future. as in the past, convince all that RUSSELL,
is The furniture store of Ottawa.


We are pleased to note that they are receiving
a very liberal patronage during the dull season
for no more worthy or straightforward firm cvcl
catered to the tastes of our community thar
they. Remember their place, nearly opposite
their old stand on La Sale street
Year: 1875

Let all those interested in securing the
State Fair in Ottawa for the years 1875 and 1876
attend the meeting of the Agricultural Society
at one o'clock to-day. Remember this is the last
day in the afternoon.
Year: 1875

The Washington negro colinization
scheme seems to have taken a turn.
The following interesting particulars,
from communication in Washington
paper, seem tG be authoritative ssIt is
proposed to establish at once a coliniza-
ton society for the purpose of organic
ing parties for emigration to the rich
bottom lands on the Colorado river, in
the territory Of Arizona. The object of
these parties has been, and still is to
thoroughly investigate and point out
and assist their people to country
wherein the climate is good and condu-
Give to health and longevity, and also
wherein industrial pursuits can and will
thrive. This movement has now as
sumed shape, and is expected to meet
with hearty endorsement and sure sue
cess. One influential gentleman has
already engaged to send 500 families
and another 100 families when the
organization is ready to receive them"
Year: 1875

-"Augustus dear, she said tender
ly pushing him from her as the moon
light flooded the bay window where they
were standing, | think you had better
try some other hair-dye; your NOUS
tache tastes like turpentine.'
Year: 1875

or silver. / made fairly good hauls
every time went down, and sold
one peice / found to Barnum of
New York.


After / left there had a curious
adventure with a shark. / was
down on a nasty rock bottom. \
man never feels comfortable on
them; he can't tell what big crea-
ture may be hiding under the huge
quarterback sea leaves which grow
there. The first part of the time
| was visited by porcupine fish,
which kept sticking its quilts up
and bobbing against my helmet.
Soon after / saw a big shadow fall
across me, and looking up there
was an internal shark playing
about my tubing. 1t makes you
feel chilly in the back when they're
about. He came down to me slick
when / looked up. l made at him
and he sheared off. For about an
hour he worked at it till / could
stand it no longer. If you can
keep your head level, its all right,
and you're pretty safe if they're
not on you sharp. This ugly brute
was twenty feet long, | should
think, for when / lay down on the
bottom he stretched considerable
way ahead of me, and l could see
him beyond my feet. Then |
waited. They must turn over to
bite, and my lying down bothered
him. He swan over three or four
times, and then slkulked off to a big
thicket Of seaweed to consider. /
knew he'd come back when he'd
settled his mind. 1t seemed a long
time to wait for him. At last he
came viciously for me, but like. the
time before he was too far from
my arms. The next time | had
my chance, and ripped at him with
my knife as neatly as | could. A
shark always remembers he's got
business somewhere else when he's
cut, so off this fellow goes. 1t is "a
curious thing too, that all the
sharks about will follow in the
trail he leaves. | got on my hands
and knees, and as he swan Off /
noticed four dark shadows slip af-
ter him. l saw him no more that
time. They did not like my COM
pany.
Year: 1875

ers for other assemblages than tho
home group. Many father comes
home tired; he has worked hard
and talked a great deal, told anus
ing anecdotes and displayed much
wit. He has to come to rest. He
takes out his paper and is soon OBJ
livious to everything around him.
Wife would like to tell him many
of the little harrassing Affections
Of the day, and would like to hear
some Of his interesting experiences,
but if he were q deaf mute he
could not be more silent, only an
occasional grunt answering her
many attempts at conversation
and the children, except the good
night kiss, and often not even that,
are not noticed. Such q home,
whether the abode of wealth or
otherwise, cannot be a healthy one.
AS a parallax draw around the
evening lamp Of another home cir
Gle. The father tells the anecdotes
from the paper as he reads them
the mother laughs her sweet, low
laugh, and the children burst into
merry ha! has To watch them
as they ask questions and listen to
the answers and patient explana-
tions, the wonderment, interest,
and thought imprinted on their
young faces is picture for an
artist.


This home education is a heri-
tage more valuable than land or
money; and one beautiful recoms
pense in life is that in making
others happy we bring happiness
to ourselves. Parents who prac-
ticc self-denial and endeavor by
cheerful conversation and playful
wit to cnliven home life, will reap
a rich reward in the better thoughts


and nobler actions Of their children,


and will experience the truest and


best contentment themselves.
Year: 1875

Fairor than any flower


OF summers hour.
Sweeter than any love


Ay, sweet in truth !
OF her what shall be said


Hope that is dead
Fair Hope that garlanded,
Fair hope that led and fed


The dreams of youth
What song Il sweet enough


To sing of her .
What murmur Of the dove,


What cooing noto thereof,
To breathe the memories


That cling to hor
Hope, brave and strong
Hope swooter than all song,
What song is sweet enough


To sing of her!
How weary are the ways


Unto our feet
o, tagging length OF days


That once We're feet
o, barren OF all grucc,
Life that she made so sweet
Hidden from moon and star
She that was faiIer far


To look upon
Not where the roses are,
But whore Slow waters sleep


TO the great deep.
Whose only shadows wune,
And rain may fall thereon,


But never the VAIN sun.
Year: 1875

The ravages of diptheria in
Australia have been so extensive
within the last few years that the
government offered a large reward
tor any certain method Of cure and
among other responses this one by
Mr. Greathead, who at first kept
his method secret, but afterward
communicated it freely to the pub
lie. Il is simply the use of sui
phuric acid, Of which four drops
are diluted in three-fourths Of a
tumbler of water, to be administer
ed to grown person, and a small
er dose to children, at intervals not
specified. The result is said to be
a coagulation of the diptheric mem
brane and its ready removal by
coughing. 1t is asserted that where
the case thus treated had not adVan-
ced to a nearly fatal termination
the patient recovered in almost
every instance.
Year: 1875

-Garibaldi is poor, aged and in
firm, in consequence of his great
services to Italy. The ItaIian Par
liment with an honorable nnanimIty
granted him pension from the pub
he treasury. Garibaldi declines it
on the patriotic ground that the
Italian finances are in so impoverish-
ed a condition that as a patriot he
has no right to accept such a gift.
Now let all the people ofItaly make
up Tire subscription for this grand
old man.
Year: 1875

The Rev. DR.. Hawks, Of New York,
as historian of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church in America. has discover
ed some documents which ought to be
of interest in Philadelphia about tho
one hundredth anniversary of Ameri-
can Independence. The documents
referred to are the private diaries Of
Bishop White, of Pennsylvania, who
relates in one place conversation that
he overhead between two gentleman
at tavern in remote country parish.
The speakers " ere a father and son.
enc of whom had been q Tory during
the Revolutionary War and the other
Patriot. Each had decided all his
property to the other, and, as the war
was now closed, the son who had been
the Tory, wished to have his share
back. The father who seemed to be Q
thrifty soul, refused to part with any.
thing in his possession. The next day
the Bishop asked the landlord who


were the occupants of tho room from


which the conversation had proceeded
and was informed that they were Ben.
.aman Franklin and son,
Year: 1875

Mary Todd caught her hands over her
heart to crush back the sudden hope.
It were madness to hope now. And
yet, with the impress of kiss upon
her cheek, and with the memory of the
look that had accompanied it, she sank
upon her knees and wept and prayed.


John Todd went away into the
woods where he wandered until night
fall, and with the last cleaning of the
setting sun he was upon his knees, his
palsied hands reverently folded, speak
ing vow to heaven that his home
should be once more happy if he could
make it so.


Out of the darkness of desolation,
even in the midst of ruin, comes the
angel of hope and promise to the strick-
en- home. Mary heard, and saw, and
took heart, and gave her smile and
blessing to the work.


That was twenty years ago. John
Todd has kept the faith from that day
to this. He is beloved, respected and
honored wherever he is known; and a
happier woman than his wife is not to
be found anywhere.
Year: 1875

Wien the summer day Of youth is
slowly wasting away into the night
fall Of age, and the shadows of the
year grow deeper and deeper as life
wears to q close, it is pleasant 10 look
back through the vistas Of time upon
the joys and SORROWS of early years.
If we have home to shelter. or hearts
to rejoice with us, and friends who
have been gathering around our fire.
side, then the rough places of our
way faring will be worn and smoothed
away in the twilight of life, while the
bright sunny spots we have passed
through will grow brighter and more
beautiful. Happy indeed, are those
whose intercourse with the world
has not changed the course of thell
holier feeling, or broken those musical
chords of the heart whose vibrations
are so melodiOus. so tender and st
tou ching in the evening of age.
Year: 1875

1t not unfrequently happens that
when prayers and entreaties and shame,
suffering and degradation have failed
to check a man in his down hill course,
some incident seemingly changes the
whole current of his life. I have such
an incident in mind. You may know
my hero as John Todd. A few YET
living may know him by another
name.


John Todd had sunk very low. Once
he had been gay. handsome and happy
| When he made Mary Somers his wife
there was not a young man in our vii
lage whose prospects seemed brighter.
But the demon of drink seized him. 1t
was a gradual growing of appetite and
a gradual going down. Wife and chill
dren were neglected true friends were
forsaken the low and debased were his
chosen companions, and poverty and
want fell upon his once happy house
hold.


For months and years his friends
tried to save John Todd. They expos
tulated, they begged, they reasoned,
but all to no avail, and at length they
gave it up.


One night, quivering and shaking,
| with not penny in his pocket, John
Todd entered his dilapidated home and
asked his wife for liquor. She told him
there was not drop in the house. He
cursed her savagely and then COM
menced to search, protesting to believe
that she had liquor hidden away some
where At length, away back on one
of the shelves of small locker over the
| fireplace he found bottle the contents
of which smelled like rum. AS he
raised it to his lips his wife, who had
been watching him, sprang forward
shivering it upon the hearth.


With q fierce oath John Todd smote
his wife to the floor, supine upon the
broken glass, and then staggered away
to his bed. He would not go out again
for he had no money.


On the following morning his oldest
child-a girl of twelve years-came te
his bedside.


80, papa, do you know what you die
last night?"


He had dim recollection, but made
no reply.


"You knocked mar,ma down anC
cut her badly"


"Aye, child, she-she-"


"She saved your life, papa. That
was poison in the bottle you were hold
ing to your lips-amost deadly poison


"Poison child?"


Eyes, don't you remember what
grandma sent over for mamma to Kill
bugs with? 1t was corrosive sublimat
and alcohol"


John Todd sank back upon his pill
low and did not get up until noon
When he arose he was very weak AM
tremulous. He dressed himself an
went out into the kitchen, where b
saw his wife standing by the fireplace
with a napkin bound around her heaC
He went to her side and laid his han
upon her shoulder. She turned an
: looked into his face, but he did III
speak. He only kissed her aud the
went out.


|, Only kissed her! What did it mean
Year: 1875




The Committee on Grain OF the New York Produce
Exchange has decided 10 establish the following grades
OF corn under the new grading ruless-


l. White corn--It must be sound, dry, plump and
weh cleaned; an occasional colored grain shall NOT
deprive Il OF this grade


yellow shall be sound, dry, plump and wen
cleaned; occasional whlte red grain shah not
deprive IL of this grade


8 Mixed shan be sound, dry and reasonably
clean.


a Low mixed corn shall be sound dry, reasonably
clean but in color unsuitable to grade 'mxed corn"


s. Steamer corn shall include corn or the above
named grades in quality in condition II may DO
slightly soft or damp, but must be cool


G. No grade corn-All son. damp corn, warm or in
ferior quality described teamer corn" shall be
called mo grade. Z"


In the grades of oats as recently established the
committee has decided TO change the term high
mixed" TO slow mixed and make this grade con-
sist OF three quarters white, instead OF twothirdB
white. The quality OF oats viii thus be described oy
the following Ave grades:-


L White oats shall be bright, sound, clean free


from other grain and shall not weigh less than thirty
two pounds to the measured busheL


2 Light mixed shall be three quarters white and
equal TO No. in all other respects.


s. No oats shall be sound, reasonably clean, and
reasonably free from other grain


No. oats shall be at for warehousing, but other
wise unequal TO No. Q.


g. mo grade shall include all oats damp, unsound,
dirty, or from any other cause unfit for No. B.


Standard samples Of all grades OF grain are soon to DO
made up The grain inspectors who have been sent out
on a western tour 70 collect information IN regard 70
this subject are expected to return next week Inus
New York city will have It's standard samples
and be freed from the trouble and expense OF collecting
them from Chicago and other Western cities, as has
been heretofore the custom.
Year: 1875

SERGEANT FROST ON rRIAI-HIs INTERFKR-


ENcR IN DOMESTIC DIFFICULTY RESENTED.


Detective Sergeant Charles Frost placed trial
before the Board OF Police and Excise Commissioners
OF Brooklyn yesterday to answer charge Of conduct
unbecomIng an oicer and unwarrantable Interference


in the affairs Of othersn Tho complainant in the case
Is a very respectable lady, named Mrs Adelaide N.
Blake, residing at No 723 Fulton street
Ex,Judgo Culver appeared as her counsel
she testified that on Tuesday, three weeks
ago Sergeant Frost called at her house and requested
a private interview with her. He then told her that
her husband again married, and that he would ad-
wise her TO for divorce and not to bring action
for pigamy or abandonment; he said he would get
counsel who would cheap for her; he told her he
was a detective and she could communicate with him
through 'box No, "a Police Headquarters" he
seemed to know all about her affairs witness
Snsnsnd or seven 0sSn eps she did not
tell him Of her affairs On tho cross-examination she
admitted that Mr. Frost acted in gentlemanly man
ner Fanny Blake, q daughter Of tho witness, aged
twelve years, corroborated her mother in her test
mony Superintendent Campbell testified that Ser
gean Frost had admitted to HIM that he was the per-
son referred to by Mrs. Blake Charles f. Blake hus-
band OF the complainant testified that he saw Frost
for the rst time Friday and that he never advised
him to visit his wife; that he was not married
10 another woman he never, he said, requested
any person the services of detective to call
upon his witc and advise her to seek divorce This
closed the evidence the and Sergeant Frost who
contended through the counsel for the Board, Mr. Bar
rett that he had done nothing even to bring upon him
their offered evidence in defence. The con-
versaton between Mrs Blake and the sergeant had
been invited by the complainant and defendant
only gave her the best advice he could Ex-
Judge Culver held that defendant had proved him
self unworthy of his position and should therefore be
punished by the Board The Commissioners reserved
their decision Frost stated subsequently that his good
nature and sympathy for the complainant alone
prompted him give her the advice he gave and that
If every man who recommended citizen how TO act
be dismissed there would be policemen LETT
for duty Frost has been twenty years the Brooklyn
police