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Year: 1876

The generous subscribers whose names and
subscriptions are elsewhere printed have
brought the fund to secure Gen. C"snola's
latest prize for our Metropolitan Museum of
Art within $4,000 of the required amount
We trust there can be no doubt now that the
remaining sum will be promptly raised. Sub
scriptions may be sent either directly to the
Museum, No. 12S West Fomtcenth-st, or to
THE TRIBUNE Office. All checks should be
drawn to the order of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art.
Year: 1876

The impudence and sang froid of thievery can no
further go. Think of Mr. Cohen OF East Broad
way, awakened one Monday morniDgat o'clock and
seeing in the next apartment deliberately
putting on Mr.. Cohens Enthusiastically making
toilet at the expense Of his sumbering VICTIM with
out the least regard to the predestinate nudity of
respectable gentleman in the morning SO closely at
handl The demands of the situation were impera-
tive. To hesitate was to see the spoiler making OF


in the boots and trousers Of the despoled TO seize
the plunderer and to call for policeman simultane-
ously was as much q prompting of instinct as Of
bravery Taken before the police judge this ravsher
of raiInent pleaded inebrety, as if a man full Of
Bacchus could care whether ho was well or i'll
dressed, or not dressed at al. II have nothing TO
Year: 1876

There is doubtful report from Baltimore
to the effect that Mr.. William II. Vanderbilt
has been finally worried into a proposal to the
Baltimore and Ohio to waive his former de-
mand that in any schedule of freight rates
from the West no discrimination should
be made against New-York on ac-
count of its greater distance from the Leading
Western shipping points. This very proper
demand by Mr.. Vanderbilt in behalf OF New
York was the origin of the whole railroad
war. If he surrenders this, we do not see why
he should ever have made any nght
at all, and we confess that we are not
yet prepared to believe that ne has
surrendered it. We do not think the New
York Central has always served this city weli'
but it has certainly done its duty manfuliy IN
protecting us from unjust freight d1scrlmina-
tions in favor of rival ports We do not DE-
lieve the pressure of the times has been q,h'e
so hard as to force the Central into abandon
ing this cardinal point of its policy OF tla'
Mr. VIM. H. Vanderbilt is the sort OF man 10
stultify himself.
Year: 1876

the year. The sum is not large, but it is
nearly equal to the amount which Mr. Steb-
bins declares to be sufficient. There can be
no doubt of the wisdom of doing at least this
much, and doing it quickly. The matter OF
responsibility for this complication Is one
about which Mr.. Green has his opinions
given elsewhere, and Mr.. Martin his. Mean
while all this argument does not mend roads
or keep parks from going to ruin. Every
consideration Of economy, if nothing else, dl-
rects immediate provision for the regular needs
of the parks. One dollar spent now would
save twenty later. Mr.. Martin and Mr.. Green
can settle the question of municipal ethics
afterward.
Year: 1876

Those conditions of the body in which its function
are not performed with healthful activity, tbut
sluggshly and irregulary, are in fact hhe early
stages Of niseaue. The are moreover, almost in
variably the result of local or general weakness
which can ouly be permanently overcome by an
efficient tonic There lie no medical fact more
clearly established than that Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters admirably adapted to infuse vigor into
the deblitated system and to restore regularity to
its interrupted functions, As weakness and
irregularity are to develop into disease, the
BitteIs by Overcoming them are the means OF
ayerting far more serious evils, Debility mist
frequently manifests itself in the organs OF
djgestons and evacuation, two important offices
whose vigorous performance is insured by the


Bites which also rectify weakness or irreguiariiI


Of the bladder or kidneys, and fortify the system
| against mslsria.
Year: 1876

Personal Oxe.


There never has been opposition to
Bailey Davenport for mayor which was
founded on public principle or had any
reference to public good. The opposition
to him has always been purely personal
growing out of personal and family matters
and controlled and carried on by the
friends of those who fancied they had a
personal grievance to redress. One of the
strongest friends Of the personal party
opposing him has told us that he had
watched Mr.. Davenport's official course
carefully for years, in order to find him
doing some act for his own benefit which
was not for the public good, but he was
willing to say that he never could find it,
and he added, with emphasis: II don't
believe Bailey Davenport ever did an
official act or ever used his official
position to benefit himself as against
the public Interest,"" That tells the whole
story of his official life. No man, no
matter how intimate friend land he don't
allow anybody to be very intimate With
him) could never get him to do any act
which he did not believe to be for the good
of the people generally. And no reason,
but personal one, can be given why lie
should not have every vote in the city for
mayor. In 1862 his strong union
principles overrode and crushed out even
this personal warfare, and he had no oppo-
nent But he has generally had opposi
sition, growing wholly out of this persona
matter. The Republican organization has
been controlled and used against him by this
personal party, but large numbers of Re
publicans have always voted for him and
probably always will, as long as this per.
sonal matter is used to drive the Republi.
can party and control it's action. Who.
ever the Republican candidate is he mus,
always be personal friend of this per.
sonal party. Look back apd see: Carse
once; Calf once; Murdock three times;
DR.. Truesdale twice; Reynolds twice; DR.
Plummer once; Geo. W. Peasants once
all pc rsonal friends of this personal party
that, for personal reason, uses the Re
publican organization. AND now Butler
another of that personal ring!


We repeat what we before said: Their
is no opposition to Bailey Davenport fo
mayor, and never was, except sssuch a
grows out Of personal and not publi
reason. He is the best man in town fo
mayor, and ought to have every vote.
Year: 1876

We are informed that is the intention of
the Butler party to import negroes from
Davenport and Moline to vote there to-
morrow, aud we are requested to invite all
men who value the purity of the ballot
box to watch for them and all other illegal
voting. All persons who vote illegally will
be arrested on the spot, and all who are
informedithat they are not voters will be
arrested if they again offer to vote in any
ward. The ward committee have a duty
to attend to in this respect.
Year: 1876

Alderman Butler offered and got passed
by his water board council resolution not
to pay newly appointed policemen until
they had been confirmed by the council,
This was done at time of most danger
to persons and property and was intended
to nullify the state law giving the mayor
power to appoint policemen whenever in his
judgement, the public interests required.
The mayor vetoed the resolution and that
was the end of it. 1t was an atten pt on
the part of Buffers water board ring to
usurp power that does not belong to them,
aud which does belong to the mayor.
Year: 1876

GROUP. Almost daily we are called up
on to chronicle the death of some loved
one, by this dreadful disease, which often
takes its victim away from loving parents.
with only very short notice. Every
mother should supply herself with Goes
Cough Balsam, for it is no exaggeration
to say it will cure ninety nine cases in every
one hundred, if taken in season. There
are very many mothers who will tell YOU
they owe the life of some dear one to this
wonderful medicine. One very desirable
quality is, that it leaves no bad effect, it
being perfectly harmless. In cases of
cough, hoarseness, or tickling in the throat
it has no equal.
Year: 1876

The best is nearly always the cheapest
The use of dry earth as Gisinfectant
would soon become universal if no other
commode were in existence besides the
Wakefield. To the sanitary and salutary
details of the old Levitical law the Jews
of all times have owed their health and
longevity. The principle taught in Deut.
xiii, l2. Is. is best applied by the
Wakefield Earth Closet Co of 80 Dey
Street New York,
Year: 1876

Why let aches and pains your beauty spoil?


A cure is sure by using Renne's Magic Oil


This is "a safe and reliable family
remedy, and is good to cure any kind of
pain or lameness. Keep it in the house in
case of emergencies.
Year: 1876

At every great exhibition during the past 40 wears
beware OF limitations. the country is full Of them
See that DIXON is on the package


S The great labor question solved by Dixon's
Stove Polish which saves nearly all the labor


For sale by Henry Darts Sons. Wholesale Gro
GERS, Rock Island. Wv
Year: 1876

THE waste of time in the House
OF Delegates last week on the per
diem questions, was cruel ccr-
sumption of time that ought to
have been devoted to the tax bill
and other important measures
The amendments which lad al
ready been adopted, provided that,
if adopted next November, this
Legislature when it shall meet on
the first of December following,
must agree upon salary for its
members instead Of a per diem.-
OF course unless these amend
mcnt5 be defeated, any change
made now in the pay of members,
can only last for the few days re
remaining Of this session, and this
very discussion was a stupendous
humbug, III this, that it aided in
prolonging the session, and thus
cost the people of the State more
money than it pretended to save.
Year: 1876

There was no additional proof fleces-
sary to establish the venality, treaehery
and corruption OF the man who assumes
to be the sole Senatorial representative
Of Louisiana. No man is more fully
understood and appreciated than West
Is by this community, as the most a1da-
cious barterer OF votes and patronage,
and unscrupulous venalst ever known,
even In the circles OF the corrupt party
whose representative he Ia. If such
confirmation were needed, however. 1t
will be found In his recent action III


the Senate, in shackling the small
appropriation OF one hundred thousand
dollars for dredging the bar of the Mis-
sissippi with the proviso that the money
should not be applied to dredging any
other pass IL eighteen feet Of water
should be obtained at the mouth Of the
river at South Pass. This proposition
means simply that the dredging at
Southwest Pass, the present safe and
certain exit for our shipping shall cease
when Mr.. Eads secures eighteen feetat.
LILO tOWeI DttI vi bu5 OOuOl JitsDo,
without regard to the water on
the upper bar, at the passes
where Eads finds his great difficulty In
establishing sufficient depth for the
demands OF our commerce. This Is to
be taken as q Congressional construc-
ton OF the contract Of Eads, that he has
executed his contract and become en-
titled to his money, II he can secure the
depth OF water required at the bar at
the mouth, leaving the upper bar at the
passes to be dredged at the expense OF
the Government. Meantime, 4, a.
good, safe and certain passage
at the Southwest Pass, made
80 by the dredging under Capt.
Howell is to be left, neglected and un-
dredged, to enable Eads to employ the
boats In helping him to do what he un-
dertook to do with his own means. No
wonder that so fragrant an outrage and
serious blow at the great commercial
interests OF this city has excited the in
dignation OF our whole mercantile pub
lie, and elected petitions OF protest and
remonstrance from all classes. We fear
that they will not reach Washington in
time to arrest and defeat the pernicious
scheme and action, so cunningly sprung
at the close OF the session by the cor
rupt schemer who devised it,. 81 +
Year: 1876

New York correspondence of the Hart
ford Times The advance of women IN
literature is one of the remarkable facts
of the age. Female story writers are now
much more in demand than the other
sex, and in this field of industry, at least,
women have no reason to complain that
they are not as well paid as men. Those
who write for the weeklies and maya
zines receive the same compensation, In
proportion to the amount of work done,
that is given to male writers. The Har-
pers, Appletons, ScribDer, and other
large concerns make no distinction in
this respect, the only point considered
being the actual value of the sketch or
story offered. Female writers are stronger
than the opposite sex in working up
sentiment and detail, and this gives
them decided advantage in popular
fiction. Men excel in the arrangement
of plot, but, when it comes to elabora-
tion, they can not compete with the
literary sisterhood. This remark is not
intended to go beyond the range of
American writers of the present time.
Such authors as Scott, Dickens, Bulwer,
Thackeray, Cooper and Irving are, of
course, not included in any comparison
on the subject. But magazine editors,
who may be considered good authority,
tell me that women are now read more
extensively than men, and account for
this on the ground just mentioned-their
superior tact in working up interest by
presenting every detail and playing
cleverly on all the chords of sentiment.
Outside of fiction women do not make
much progress, but within that charmed
circle they now have matters pretty
much to themselves. If the female ele-
ment were eliminated from the author
ship of light literature in the United
States, what remained would probably
not be more than one-third of the
whole.
Year: 1876




The Chicago Inter- Ocean says that
Christian Schurz, the father of Senator
Carl Schurz, now of New York, and Mrs.
Edmund Jussen, of this city, died in
Monee, Will county, Illinois, on the 18th
of February. He was born In 1876, In
the small village of Duisdorf, in the
Rhenish Provinces of Germany. He
was a school-teacher in the village of
Liblar, near Cologne, where his son Carl
was born, and formed no exception to
the general rule which consigns the Ger
man teacher to life long poverty. But
in spite of his poverty he resolved to
give his son the best education then to
be obtained in that part of Germany.
The untiring energy and ambition of the
life of the elder Schurz in this direction
were truly remarkable. He compelled
his son Carl to walk almost daily dis
tance of nearly ten miles, when be was
still of very tender years, to take lessons
on the piano; and, when the boy had
reached the age of ten years. he per-
formed with great success at several con-
eerts,to the infinite satisfaction Of his
father. s-


At very early age Christian Schurz
placed his boy at the Gymnasium of
Cologne, one of the best educational in
stitutes in the Rhenish Provinces, and,
though he was poor, he managed to raise
funds to keep Carl at this school until
he passed an examination for admittance
to the University at Bonn.


Next door to the village home of Carl
oh fh<ara - fhnca mid 1oa
simple public halls which, on feast days,
served as ball room for the young peo-
pie of the village. Here was the first
theater of Carl Schurps eloquence. The
old gentleman used to conduct his son
Carl to this hall and place him on the
platform erected for the village musi-
clans, and command him to reciIe either
some composition of his own or to de-
claim the classic poems of Goethe and
Schiller. And while the shrill and boy
ish voice of the young student was re-
sounding through the room the old man,
solitary and alone, would pace up and
down before the improvised rostrum,
and sharply eriticise the youthful orator.


The revolution of 1S4S brought dark
hours of sorrow and grief to Christian
Schurz. A true republican at heart
himself, he was proud of the eminent
position which his son held among the
rebels. But the day came when Carl
was taken prisoner at Rastatt, and was
sentenced to be shot. He wrote to his
father a last farewell, and the grief
stricken old man at once started for
Rastatt to recover, if possible, the body
of his son. In tears, and staggering
under his terrible grief, he called on the
young commander of the Prussian gar
rison and demanded the remains of the
young martyr to liberty. His joy may
be imagined when he was told that Carl
had escaped from the fort the night be.
fore the morning fixed for his execution.
He returned home with light and joy
GUS heart, and did not see his son again
until he met him on the soil of the
United States in 1852. Since then the
old man has led a truly happy life. He
has lived for his birds and his flowers
and fairly reveled in the eyer-increasing
renown of his boy.
Year: 1876

WE have heard of a great many mean
men, but here is one who towers above
ordinary folks as Mont Blanc among
surrounding hills. He went to church
regularly, for the religious instincts
seem not to have been entirely obliter-
ated; but he always sat in the very last
pew, the one nearest the door. Why ?
do you ask. Well, because by so doing
he saved the interest on his money until
the contribution box reached him.
Year: 1876

The Womsn's National Christian Temperance
Union will hold National Temperance Fair in
Philadelphia, opening June the l3th the day after
the International convention, in Horticultural
Hail. central and commodious building.


The Fair will continue for two weeks, and will
be conducted on the strictest religious principles.
Railing, chances, grab bags, aud everything else
that is Objectionable, will absolutely be prohibited
and prevented. The Fair will be entirely under the
management of the Christian Temperance Union
but the States are invited to cooperate and take
charge of their own goods and are to have half OF
the net proceeds ofthe same. Many of the States
need money, and this will enable them to call on
the friends of temperance, in their several State.
to contribute and their profits will be in proper
ton to their ZEAL and the lberaity oftheir people
If the women Of each State will act promptly, and
vigorously there can be no doubt Of the largest
success in this enterprise.


Tens of thousands of people who are deeply in
terested in temperance will visit Philadelphia,
during those two weeks, many of them men and
women of wealth who will be glad to show their
appreciation of this noble ca lse and wlg give free
ly.


Any contributions for the above object may be
left with Mrs. S. G. Sargent President of the Au-
gusta Union at her residence on Green street.
Year: 1876

The National Tube Works Company have just
completed at their Works at McKeesport, Pa, a
sample pipe for exhibition at the Centennial. 1t is
IA feet in length and of IA inches outside diane
ter and 10 inches inside, the iron Of which it is
made being inches in thickness. This is said to
the heaviest piece of lap welded pipe ever made in
this or any other country, and it is stated that
such heavy work has never been attempted by any
other establishment.
Year: 1876

Parties liable to special tax under the internal
revenue laws, will bear in mind that returns for the
annual taxes must be made before the close Of
business houses the 3lst inst, TO save the penalty.
One days delay will incur the fifty per cent. PEN
atty imposed by law. The internal revenue Off
GERS have no discretionary power in the matter; /;
the penalty must be collected in every case where
the return is not made and tax paid, within the
the time required by law.
Year: 1876

Clergymen may not be aware that by an amend
ment to the laws last winter, in regard to making
return to town clerks of their marriages solemn
lied, that the return must be made on or before
the 18th day of each month, Or heavy fine is
iunpnsed
Year: 1876

In speaking of the entertainments that have
been given at the Insane Hospital, for the benefit
of the patients, Maj Shorey one of the Trustees,
in his paper, says: "The truth is, the patients at
the Hospital have entered upon a new existence
since the completion Of the new amusement hall,
and we predict that in consequence the officers
will be able to report an increased percentage of
recoveries. The Hospital. in all its departments,
is now in most excellent condition, and the patients
IS comfortable it is possible to make them under
the circumstances"
Year: 1876

In the morning You arise with dull, heavy leel.
ing about the head and extreme nausea at the stom.
task, as you have that dull pain and sense Of op.
preston which demonstrates the fact that
Year: 1876

Some people seem to be extremely sensitive.
At of the churches Sunday the minister read tho
had just married got mp and went Ie said he
didn't want public sympathy obtruded on him In thai
way-lN Norwich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

We advise the colored voters in the
southern states to support the democratic
state and local tickets. They will prob
ably, in general, want to vote for Gov
Hayes, and this they can easily do at
the same time that they vote for the
democratic local and state tickets. II is
time for them to exercise discrimination
in their voting. To "vote the straight
ticket" is not, as they have been tau ght
by corrupt white men, the highest duty
Of an American citizen. They may
reasonably say that they prefer a repub
lican federal administration but in such
states as South Carolina, Louisiana and
Mississippi, they ought to see that they
have been in local politics emily the in.
struments of bad men, who mislead them
and use them for purposes antagonistic
10 their own interests ard to those of the
communities of which they are a part.
Senator Boutwell,, one of the most zeal
Gus and watchful friends of the southern
colored men, was 30 impressed with the
condition of Mississippi politics that he
advised the colored leaders in that state
To nominate none but leading white men
Of character and standing in the commu-
nifty, native born and property owners,
10 the Offices, and to support these faith
fully. This was sound advice. If they
do this they will give the state peace and
themselves the good will of the whole
community. So in South Carolina, Gen.
Hampton, one OF the foremost citizens Of
the state, solemnly and publicly pledges
himself that, if he is chosen governor, he
will execute impartial justice between
white and black and see that the colored
people are secure in all their rights in
every part of the state. We advise the
colored man TO take him at his word and
give him trial. He promises more than
Gov. Chamberlain has performed, and
he has the ability to do wha. he says.
In I.ouisiaaa there can be no doubt of
the duty of colored voters; they ought
to support the conservative ticket and
put down the corrupt republican ring
which has 40 long kept the state in tur-
moil. If the cOlored voters it these
states should declare openly that they
mean to vote for Hayes, but that they
will everywhere support the local demo-
cratic tickets, they would put a new
face on the campaign in the south and
they would only be doing, after all, what
honest white republicans in Louisiana
and Mississippi have been doing for
several years.