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Year: 1876

The Maysville (Ky.) Eagle says that
w. B. Mcmillan, of Dover, bought q
cOoking-stOve at stove store in Ripley,
Ohio, and after using it for two days in
cooking the meals of the family, Mrs.
Mcmillan, on Saturday morning, found
that the draft of the stove was not very
good, and concluded to examine the in
ternal arrangements, and if possible
remedy the defect. On probing into the
ash or SCOT chamber in the rear part OF
the stove she drew forth package OF
one-quarter pound of blasting powder,
tightly and securely tied with twine, and
about dozen friction matches (in pairs
crossing each other) adjusted all around
the package, as If purposely to set it of.
How the powder came there is a question
but the most wonderful part is that
the magazine was not exploded by the
repeated heating that the stove had re-
ceived during the two days it was used.
As it happened, though, only two of the
matches had caught fire and gone out,
and the outside paper wrapping was
slightly scorched in places.
Year: 1876

their way out, and I'll tell you good story about that. One cold night was taking 8 hundred rats to a broker s house for rat bait, when @ Cooper stopped me in the street and asked me what l had in the bag. had my collar up over my face and an old cap on, and he took me for 8 burglar. I said hadn't got anything, but kept shaking the bag. We'll, this policeman wanted to catch burglar bad, so he necked me and took me to the station. A certain captain, I aint going to mention his name, was behind the desk, and he says: 'Who've ye got there, Connors P and the cop says: I guess he's burglar. , So he is, says the captain, his picture IS in the gallery and he came out from behind the desk to have good look at me. What stuff have you got in that bag. You can look for yourself, says l, and I gave him the bag. He dropped it on the floor, and you ought to see bis face when them rats ran all over the station house. Who are you,' says he. I'm Dick the Rat, says I. 'You get out of here, quick, says he, and so I did. We'll, good night, young fellow. I'm going out to Newark tomorrow to work brewery"
Year: 1876

The New York Herald, in view of the recent mysterious departure of we'll known lawyer and trustee for several es- tates, calls for rigid law for the pun ishment of breach of trust. The editor says: We must make breach of trust a crime. We must accept no apology like that we hear every hour almost in dis cussing the cases of these recent de- faulters. There is 10 office more easily executed than tbat of trustee. We have securities of tho best character in which to invest trust funds. The law should make it crime for trustee to use any other. Let the securities be government bonds, trust companies ap- proved by the State laws, and mortgages on real estate so guarded as to allow for depression of business and the fall that is sometimes seen in that generally prime security. We must go into this whole business of trusts with two pur- poses-tirst to so arrange our laws that any breach of trust where it affects the management of the estates of widows and children, shall be felony, to be punished as we punish forgery; and, second, to deal with the offender against this law, in personal and social life, as @ criminal of the most despicable grade.
Year: 1876

a month ago, perhaps, man by the
name of Jeffries, in company with his
family, was out in the woods hunting
nuts, at Palmyra, Missouri, when one of
the girls saw something that attracted
her attention in a hollow tree, and called
to her mother to come and look att.
Mrs. Jeffries mlde some examination,
and soon found it to be an old paint keg.
Upon taking it out, there was found
within it an earthen jar containg 1888
in gold and silver. They did not know
what to do with it, but concluded to
keep quiet and wait for developments.
However, some of the children mentioned
it at school, and thence it came to the
ears of Issac and Jacob johnson, who
came at once to see Jeffries, and soon
convinced him that the treasure belonged
to them and they had hid it there the
day before Porter's raid into Palmyra in
1852. After hiding it they did not go TO
look for it for some time and when they
did were totally unable to find the
place of its concealment, nor had they
ever been able to find it since. The keg
had been pushed up into the hollow of
the tree and propped up by stick,
which, in the course of the fourteen
years since elapsed, rotted of and let
the treasure down, and thus it was found
by accident. The Johnsons made a
present of $50 TO the little girl who found
it; and who will say it was not cheap
enough
Year: 1876

Mrs. Allen, of Calaveras, California,
lives on the stage road between Railroad
Flat and West Point, and she dreams
strange dreams. On October Oath her
house was entered by a robber during
her absence, and her watch and pocket
book were stolen. That night she saw
in her dream a thief enter her house,
take the watch, and follow the trail up
the river. In the morning she whistled
for her dog, mounted her horse, and fol-
lowed the trail up stream. A ride of a
mile brought her to an old abandoned
quartz mill, and in the ruins she dis
covered the man she had seen in her
dream. She accused him of the theft,
but he stoutly denied having committed
it. She determined to go to West Point
for an officer, but, after proceeding a
short distance, resolved to make the
tramp give up the plunder at all hazards.
When she reached the mill the man had
gone, but, with the aid of the dog, she
overlook him about half mile up the
ridge. Dismounting and arming herself
with a stout club, she cooliy informed
him that she knew he had the watch
and money. She let loose the dog upon
him, and dealt him blow upon the
head, which felled him to the ground.
She found her watch and her wallet in
his boots. Mrs. Allen, of Calaveras,
then went home to sIeep-perchance to
dream,
Year: 1876

Since the ghoul of Radicalism has cast


its shadow over the hall of the United
States Senate, the dignity of that body
has degenerated, and the morals of some
of its members are of low order, if the


testimony of Senator Sherman can be
taken as authority. A few days ago
Senator Sherman is reported to have
said in speech in the Senate, that the


members of the Louisiana Returning
Board, one of them being Governor
Wells, were as good men as any Senators
On that floor, and that the decisonsof that


Board were as much worthy of respect as
those of the Supreme Court of the United
States. When we are reminded that
Governor Wells is bitter, unprincipled
partisan, defaulter to his own State for
large sum of money, and that General
Phil. Sheridan removed him from the Of
flee of Governor of Louisiana, and de-
clared him to be an unmitigated knave,
we are inclined to the belief that Senator
Sherman places very low estimate on
the moral worth of his iellow-Senators.
Senator Sherman has very suddenly de-
veloped an affection for knaves. In this
connection it is interesting to note how
the honorable Senator conducted him
self at home on election day. He certainly
lost his dignity for once, if
he did not before, when he was
ito be seen hanging around the
polls all day like some petty politi-
clan, instructiDg people how to vote.
A correspondent says that he even
busted himself by visiting the Jail, and
went on prisoners bail bond so that
the prisoner could vote the Republican
ticket. We have the documents before
US, and there is a moral to the story
which prisoners who feel an inclination
to vote the Republican ticket hereafter
should profit by. From the records oil
the Mayors Office of Mansfield, Rich.
land County; we learn that one Daniel
Blair was arrested on Oct. for cutting
Louis Deems with knife. The charge
was assault with intent to kill. He wa!
committed to Jail by the order of tht
Mayor of the city of Mansfield on ths
9th of October, and on the 10th wa


bailed out by Garvin Blair, John WOOD
and John Sherman in the sum of five
hundred dollars, the bond being gooc
till the 18th, on the day of election
On the strength of the bond the prisonel
was taken from the jail of Richlanc
County, guarded, to the polls of Wash


ington Township, in the southern par


of the county, by Republican " bull-doz
ers," and, after voting the Republican
ticket was Immediately guarded back tt
the Mayors Office and surrendered, anc
at once recommitted to Jail. Blair's tria
was to come off on the 18th, and his Re
publican friends signed bond good fo
Year: 1876




The latest in the confidence line is
dodge for swindling farmers, which is
now being practiced in some of the in
terror counties of the States. Several
strange men drive into an agricultural
district. They stop at all the farm houses
and make a contract to take all the but
ter the farmers can furnish at fifty cents
a pound. Further, it will be gathered by
a fast special team, and the cash paid for
it at the door. The pretense is that dur
ing the fall and winter, the large cities
will be crowded and that butter will bs
scarce. In this way all the farmers in a
district are contracted with, and arrange
ments are made to come for the butter
on certain days and at certain points :;
the contract to 60 into effect in two
weeks. A few days after the departure of
the men drove of COWS come along
They are fine looking milch COWS. The
farmers, having good thing in view,
think they might use few more cows
They try to buy them, but the drover
doesn't seem anxious to sell. Finally,
however, he is induced to sell two or
three toeach farmer, at prices considera-
bly, higher than the real market value.
He then departs, meets his partners, who
put up the butter job, and they divide
the profits.
Year: 1876

three days, but as soon as they obtained
his vote they Immediately returned him
to Jail. What spectacle for a United
States Senator to be placed inl If John
Sherman could act in bad faith with a
prisoner for the sake of obtaining vote
for his party, he must be lost to proper
sense of dignity and honor. OF such men
is portion of the Senate of the United
States comnOsed.
Year: 1876

The New York Herald of the 18th
concludes a lengthy article on the
Presidential muddle in this style:


We advise the factionists and partisans,
including the President, to keep their tenn
pers. Their innings are nearly over. They
have come nearly to the end of their rope.
They have gambled with the country's
interests long enough. We Wecounsel them, on
both sides, not to go too far. This country
does not belong to the political gamblers of
either party lit is the property of the people.
They were dragged into needless war in
1861 by a set of reckless politicians, and
they are not going to suffer a similar
calamity now to please either side. They
care little who is to be President, but they
mean TO tolerate no violence, and they are
right. Whichever party is disappointed in
the eventual result can appeal to the country
two years hence. If it has grievances they
will be settled then, but only on the condition
that now, whatever happens. there shall be
quiet and orderly submission. That is what
the people require and what they will insist
on.


From all of which it is to be inferred
that the rich people are not anxious for
trouble.
Year: 1876

illumination and Rejoicing in St Louis


ST.LoUIs. June 29.-Meetings are be-
ing held at the east and west fronts of the
court house. and another at the Republi-
can office Fourth and Fifth streets are
illuminated for nearly mile, and great
enthusiasm prevails throughout the city.
Year: 1876

TIE HsRAlD understands that sena-
tors and representatives who have been
looking into the practices Of Congress
since the Government was founded
find thaS it has always required the
concurrent action of the two houses 10
abrogate a joint rale rs we'll as to adopt
it, Under the uniform precedent
therefore The twenty joint rule
having beea reseiuded by bat one house
is now in force, and covers, Of course
the counting OF the electoral vote in
February. The record of the two
houses also shows that both perfected
ail of the legislation of the last session.
by virtue Of the joint rules which con
tnued in force from the preceding Con
Year: 1876

os the Presidential problem Mr.. Will
liams is reported to have said There
is no use in making such fuss about
the case, the remedy is perfectly clear,
and the courts are constantly applying
it. The thing to do is to put the Presi-
dent into the hands of receiver. with
power to run the concern and collect
the debts"
Year: 1876

Ws are clothing, feeding and lighting
a large part OF Europe, and we are not
importing anything like an equal
amount OF merchandise from them. As
Grant boasts in his message the balance,
Of trade is largely in cur iay, r, and rap
idly increasing. 1t would roll on were
Tilden seated
Year: 1876

Ak effort is being made to have the
mails transported between New York
ara San Francisco in less time than is
required at present, Its thought that
two days can be gained without much
difficulty.
Year: 1876

in counting the electoral vote. Again the
mark of Divine Providence 4. Visible on The
record, for we find that the Democratic House
ignored the request of the Senste last session
and failed to- adopt the joint rule, thus destroy
ing this hast resort BY which they proposed to
steal the Presidency. The Democratic party
have been crying "Good Lord and good devil"
In this contest, and in this same spirit they
have made every move in the game of@heads
win and tails you lose. 49,
Year: 1876

SENATOR MKRRINoN met with his Water
loo yesterday in the Senate, the logical Morton
acting as the Iron Duke and Judge ,Edmunds
gsllsntly playing the part of Blucher.s Last
session the North Carolina Senator violently
opposed the joint rule, but owing to the pecu-
liar situation Of political affairs affecting the
triumph or defeat of the Democracy in this
session we ind the rctund statesman quite as
violently insisting that Il b In force In his
Ptolemie sparring yesterday the Inconsistency
of his record was exposed and criticised with
such withering sarcasm BY Judge Edmunds as
to create feeling of pity in the galleries for
him as be writhed under the scorching word
Ore Of the Vermonter. = - ~,
Year: 1876

THE PRESENT revolution in Mexico should
serve as an example to us Of the future In
store for us in the eventof Q departure from
the old landmarks Of fair elections and firm
msintenance Of the purityof the ballot. II
Wade Hampton shall now issue his pronun-
ciamento declaring himself Governor Of the
State of South Carolina, through the force
and violence e4erted to disfranchise the freed.
men by his rife club Organization, he must
and will just as surelylbe put down as was
the organized rebellion in the same State
which attacked Fort Sumter In 1861, or we
shall have fairly set out upon the Mexican
road to revolutionary elections and an unstable
and yacfllating Government. a. . s.ss5
Year: 1876

THE marks of Gods providence stand clearly
defined on the record of recent events. At
the outset of the political contest the Repub-
lican party fell heir to Presidential candi-
date against whom the voice of scandal dare
not be raised. After the smoke of the fierce
battle had passed away we found the result
depending upon three Southern States, and It
proved that they were the only Republican
Commonwealths in the South. These States
have returning boards, and to these institu-
tions the Democratic party object, claiming
that they are unconstitutional, and that under
the joint rule they can throw these returns out
Year: 1876

/ A STIFF UPPER LIP may be said TO make
the man. Now, as men make great political
parties the natural deduction is that stiff
upper lip preserves if it does not create power
full partisan organizations. If this be logi-
cal conclusion, then stiff upper LIP is to
political party what a Widespread canvass is
to sailing vessel. 1t is in every sense of the
word it's main-stay. This being the case, as
proven by indisputable and logical conclu-
sions, we most respectfully recommend to
the Republican party in the present perilous
crisis the urgent necessity Of preserving stiff
upper lip.
Year: 1876

THE President refuses to send any more
troops to South Carolina to aid in the arrest
of the participants in the Hamburg massacre
until the civil authorities have exhausted all
the means in their power to accomplish the
object. This doesn't lock much like a desire
on part of the President to take the execu-
tion of the laws out of the hands of the State
authorities,
Year: 1876

THE Republicans will try hard to prevent
the Democratic SANDER mills running during
recess, but as the material turned out from
these mills is the only reliance of the Demo-
Gratis for success in the campaign they will
probably be unsuccessful.
Year: 1876

THE action resolved upon by the House
naval committee In Mr.. Robeson's case is a
fitting conclusion to an investigation which
has been carried on, not for correcting
abuses in the Navy department, but for the
sole purpose of making party capital. Pre-
tending that they have discovered sufficient
evidence to warrant the Secretary's impeaeh-
ment for high crimes and misdemeanors, they
hesitate to prefer articles of impeachment lest
the Senate should insist upon immediate trial
and by exposing the weakness of the case
deprive them of campaign material, but refer
testimony to the judiciary committee who
are expected in some way to convice the pub
lie that Mr.. Robson is guilty of gross viola
tion of the law, while taking good care that
he has no opportunity to defend himself.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
uications that are not used.
Year: 1876

" For at the last IL bitelh like a serpent
and stingeth like an adder does intoxi-
eating liquor Never have We been more
forcibly impressed with the truth Of this dec
laration than when, last week, we noticed
in Western paper the tragic fate OF Hon.
J. j. Talbot, Grand Worthy Chief Templar
Of the Good Templars Of lndiana-an elo-
quent advocate OF the cause, and Of a most
brilliant intellect. We made his acquain-
tance at the International gathering Of
Good Templars at Kentucky last May, and
heard him speak several times. lie was a
reformed man. and was obliged to fight hour
by hour with the terrible appetite for liquor.
lie had often fallen, but was as often re-
claimed-aud when we met him he was the
chief officer Of the Good Templars Of bis
state. In an evil hour he cut aloof from
his moorinrs 10 follow the lead Of the few
ambitious men on the other side Of the wa
ter, who at Louisville seeded from the or
der and now he is picked up in the streets
of indianapolis "roariug drunk and con
fined in the station house. tpon recovering
from his inebriation, inflammation Of the
stomach and congestion of the brain set in,
from which he died on the second instant.
He had been a member Of Congress from
Kentucky, and also a clergyman who had
presided over wealthy society in Kentucky
His struggles for the mastery Of his terrible
appetite for drink, a. he narrated them, are
q sad warning TO all TO avoid the quick
sands upon which his bark was wrecked
BridgioH Neics.
Year: 1876




Is it not almost time for people TO realize
that no one fundamentally is going to do
the coveted work effectively The reason
is evident enough. No one line of work will
suit all capacities, tastes and degrees OF tenn
perance intelligence. Then, again, different
arms Of service are Just as effective in the
temperance army as they are in the armies
of the state. If temperance workers, III
stead of cinging to the idea that all temper
ance work must be done in some one favor
ite line should set themselves to devising
different modes of work by which all classes
and dispositions in society could be reached,
they would soon see that these would work
harmoniously together, while that would
prosper most which met the needs of the
greatest number, and the workers would
come to regard temperance itself as the
prominent and desirable thing, rather than
any mere form of work, and that is Just the
state Of things we want aud must have be-
fore we shall have temperance largely sue
cessful. Perfect success implies that all
classes and all individuals be reached and
brought into sympathy with the work. IL
| that looks like a herculean task all the bet
ter, that is Just what it is, and correct view
NAV take out of some people the conceit that
they are going to do it all themselves. Earn
est workers, however, may be consoled with
the assurance that there are many desirable
degrees Of success short of the last.-Jmid
| Coleman, in temperance 1drOcdie.
Year: 1876

The enemy trying to get real Christian
to commit some great sin, is like consuming
a green log with candle. Here the blaze
is perfectly harmless, as would be the temp
tation to sell our hope of heaven. But light
a mere shaving with the candle, and add to
that few more slivers, then few a little
larger-then add dry sticks of wood and
still larger ones, aud when these get to
burning well, put on the green logs. BE
sure and keep the small sticks on, and in
this way you may successfully destroy your
green logs or anything else In this same
way Satan can draw away the children OF
God, but he is wise enough to know that
there is no use in tempting them TO steal, or
murder, or even lie, the first thing but, like
Esau, they may be tempted over morsel of
meat, and so, perhaps at last sell their birth
right or fall into open and dreadful iniquity.
--Seiected.
Year: 1876

"Open to me the gates of righteousness !
will go into them and will praise the Lord.
This is the gate Of the Lord, which the
righteous shall enter" Psalms xviii 10,
20. This was the language Of one whom the
Lord had chastened sorely, but had not given
over TO death, lie had called upon the Lord
in distress and had learned that it was bet
ter TO trust in the Lord than 10 put conf
dence in princes. And now, chastened,
afflicted and delivered, be desires the open
ing of :" the gates of righteousness that he
may go in and praise the Lord, There are
many gates open before the sons of men,
The gates Of pleasure, the gates of business,
the gates OF honor, the gates of sim the gates
of death, the gates Of hell all stand open or
ajar, and invite the footsteps of the way
faring to enter in. Though these portals
may seem fair and beautiful, yet many who
enter therein return no more, but 60 down
the path TO darkness aud death. "The gates
of righteousness may have little of pomp
or pretension about them, the eye Of the am
bilious may overlook them, the thoughts Of
the gain-seeking aud goddess may disregard
them, but the children of the Lord Most
High pray that "the gates Of righteousness "
may be open before them, and that they may
"go into them and praise the Lord" Gods
mercy has opened the gates Of righteousness
TO us. We who had been lost in the wilder
ness Of sin and sorrow, we who had no right


TO tread a holy path or enter hallowed


gate yet through the abundance Of divine


mercy, the blood of the everlasting covenant


and the death Of Him who purchased eternal
Year: 1876

redemption for sinful men, there is opened
ca new aud living way F." by which we may
enter -" the gates OF righteousness" Blessed
are they whose feet take hold upon this
heavenly path. Blessed are they who, weary
of a life Of sin and sorrow and temptation
aud waywarduess, are knocking at 4" the
gates Of righteousness aud seeking to go in
land praise the Lord" And they who
enter there shall find their ways the ways Of
pleasantness, their paths full OF peace, and
shall reach at last the house Of the Lord, the
city Of the Great King, the home of all the
blest-IHc Christian
Year: 1876

Superphosphate Of lime is one Of the best of
the commercial or special fertilizers in the mar
ket-mark what we say, one of the best, and of
this class we know of none better than that
which is sold under the trade mark. 'Bradley's