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Year: 1876

by rushing about you lose not only your strength "


you pass by and cursorily examire many oeau,,u @
things in this truly beautiful exhibition DO not, tnen
try TO dc too much IN one day. Second awass IAN.
good lunch with you for you get very hungry aoou'
twelve O'Clock. The MONDAY whistle crates ear,un,
on an empty stomach; besides you require more 'nou
you think as lunch. You ore more weary ana h"hery
than you have any ida Of and II you 80 without eahs
you will surely suner from nervous headache ana oe
very exhausted condition when you arrive al your


lodgings In the third do not too carly or como
ava, too late Let the sun have fair at the dew.
and get of the ground bcore the evening dampness APP
pears The grass and soil should be dry. four,p 40
not remain on or near the grounds over night Better
90 down twlce, for the reason that the whole sur
rounding territory, well The grounds themselves
have been disturbed within the year and newly oult
upon Before the Centennial buildings were erected there
were very few buildings IN that vicinity. There were
OF the holeis which are now standing closo
to the entrance OF the grounds II was an egre2ous
their propretors to have erected them SO near
the grounds; but there they are, and the grounds
around are full Of malaria Besides, the grounds
not well drained Fifth, be careful not to
drink water than is possible. Better have II
boiled then cooled, better sti drink iced tea or
simply cold tea little brandy or Bourbon will do
you harm; IN fact it is good thing while you are
at the Centennial Anything but the raw water IS pet
ter than It, have often thought whether u would not


lie good dea for some enterprsng individuai 10 take
water from secous of the country and place u
sale. that every visitor can, as nearly
possible, be supplied with his own nome
water. For instance let some New Yorker take
Il supply OF Crolon, &c. There is one thing moro
which might venture to SPEAK o. ana sna o,. ~ as 20 20
clothes which ht loosely and easily upon The person.
have seen ladies' weary dragging heavy SIX sKirs
after them They look pale, SICK weary and nave the
appearance desiring drop down in the nearest
and stay there Now, ladies, very lew notice your
dress besides you are stranger to all and they are
strangers YOU You should, therefore, look out Tor
No. l. consult your own feelings ana save the oo'om
OF your skirts for needs but one day 10 destroy na
handsomest dress made. l will venture to assert
that every dress which of the grounds alter
whole honest days wear Will need repairs. ThcIe-
lore your dresses aud make yourself comfortable
The same advice will, IN general way apply to gen.
temen


Now once more Mr.. Editor, my object is not to in.
jure the Exhibition TO keep any ono away. II Is
simply TO caution visitors to be careful There Is no
danger provided proper observed IL is


beautiful exhibition ana should be seen by all but IT
viii be sad and dear pleasure If purchased at the ex
pense OF health N. D.
Year: 1876

TIE CUBAN INSURGENTS LOOKING UP .
Cuban affairs are beginning to attract
notice again. 1t was supposed that af.
ter the surrender of the last force of
Carlists. the Spanish Government
would concentrate its energies on the
rebellion IN Cuba. But only few
fresh troops have been shipped to the
island as yet, and these have arrived
too late to be OF any service this year.
For the season is fast approaching
when it is death to raw Spanish sold
iery to brave the heat and the fevers
of the scene of insurrection; and the
war of suppression may therefore be
considered postponed for the present.
Late advices report great activity
among the insurgents. This means
that they are rading and burning
estates and having occasional skirmi
shes with the enemy's outposts- their
object being not to engage the Span
iards in fight, bat to make their posi-.
tion as uncomfortable as possible.
They have been doing precisely this
for the past seven years and we now
see nothing which will prevent them
from continuing the pastime till ccld
weather comes, at least,
Year: 1876

Prices of grain and breadstuff have an
upward tendency in the markets of En-
gland, and there are indications of a like
movement in France and Germany
This is occasioned by the possibility of
a war, in which in all the great powers
will be engaged. Southern Russia is a
vast grain depot, and large quantities
ale sent thence each year to London and
Liverpool to supply the demands Of En-
gland. This is the grain that enters into
competition with like exports from the
United States, and keeps down both
suantlty and prices. In 1.-The event of
war this supply from the Black Sea will
be cut off, Germany and France will
cease producing their usual quantities
Of grain, and the demand will press upon
this country and make trade both brisk
and profitable.
Year: 1876

SIDE SHows.-The Labor Reformers
and the Greenback fanatics have set up
their own candidates for the Presidency.
And now third eccentric faction pro-
poses to play the same farce. This is
the American Alliance-a name new to
the public. Its object is to exclude all
foreigners not only from office, but from
the elective franchise. This is more
logical than the am of the old Know
Nothing party, which sought only to bar
out foreigners from the offices, and that
too by no other means than creating
such native majoritles everywhere tina,
no Irishman or German could get elected


The farce will run its course.
Year: 1876

Too BAD.-It is too bad that the hand.
some building being erected by DR.. Tan.
tum in Market street, has been stopped
by an injunction. The mechanics are all
thrown out of employment for the sake
of recovering few dollars by this process
which if justly due could be collected as
easily by other Legal modes. 1t may put
money in the hands of attorneys and
orc to be paid when it is not due but
1T looks like an unjust mode of operation
and one that is barely tolerable.
Year: 1876

IT is reported among the Railroad men
here that there is to be big change in the
timetable next Monday. The morning
train north, which has been running from
Delmar, is to stop hereafter at Harrington,
and leave there at A. NJ. for Philadelphia.
Should this be the case, our morning train
will have to leave town about 6 o'clock,
which is a very early hour these mornings,
and very unreasonable one, it seems.
But it is to be hoped that there is some
mistake in the report. The new time.
tables will be issued about Saturday if the
change is to be made,
Year: 1876

The PRESIDENTIAL QUEsrIoN.-Thsre is
hardly any necessity for saying that the
Presidential contest is undecided; every
body knowsit. Wethoughtitw was lastwsek,
but we were mistaken. When it will be
decided is hard to tell, but our leading
daily papers seera to think it may be a
week or more yet. The returning boards
of the disputed States-South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana-are to decide the
question when they meet and count the
vote. In the mean time let every one
possess his soul in peace. We do not pro-
pose to discuss the subject, because people
are tired of reading about it in their dailies,
and when they pick up their local papers
twill be "a rest for them to be exemptfro it.
Year: 1876

LINCoLN's BoDY.-AReged Anenlpt to Steal
IA special dispatch from Springfield, ILL.,,
to the New York Herald says:


"a most daring attempt was made Tues
day evening by several scoundrels to break
into the vault Of the Lincoln monument at
this place and steal therefrom the remains
of the dead President. Some weeks ago it
was suspected that designs Of this kind
were premeditated, and strict and con.
slant watch has been kept. Itwss thought
that Tuesday night being election night,
and everybody busy over the election mat
ters, would be selected for the job. Elmer
Washburne, late chief of the secret service,
and United States detective Tiarell, with
several assistants, were accordingly secreted
in the reception room of the monument
during the afternoon and evening. At nine
o'clock the attempt was made; the vault
was entered the sarcophagus was opened
and the burial case drawn out, when
the detectives sprung out, and by
the accidental discharge of revolver the
monsters were frightened and fed into the
shrubbery. They are now being pursued,
and although there is but slight clue to
their indentity they will doubtless be taken.
The design was q deeply laid plan by sharp
men to arrange for q ransom"
Year: 1876

BUTTER IN FRANCE.-If our dairymen need
a spur, an eye;opener, a lesson which speaks
volumes in three words, here is one at the
head of this article. Butter is actually
brought from France and sold by the New
York dealers. And this is thus because
there is an actual scarcity in the market of
good butter put up in an attractive shape
for small consumers. When we know that
one dairyman gets $l.l5 pound for his
products, another 81, another IS cents the
year round, at his dairy door, it is easily
seen that it will pay to bring butter across
the ocean from France if it is only good and
shapely enough to suit the fastidious pur
chasers who will have something nice,
whatever it may cost. All this butter is
made from choice cows, choicely fed on
clean sweet food; the milking is done in
the cleanliest manner. The milk is shandled
as carefully as though it were nectar, the
cream is churned with clock and thermom-
eter, the butter is worked with skill, and
is made up in shapely cakes, which do not
require to be cut when brought to the table.
Compare then, this cake-hard, golden yell
low, sweet, fragrant and tempting to all the
senses-with an unsightly chunk, which is
cut out of greasy keg, and smells of old
age and rancidity, and is made from illkept
cream from COWS filthily lodged and care.
lessly milksd, and the difference is amply
accounted for.-Net0 York Tribune.
Year: 1876

Space would fail me to tell half the
oddities of election customs in this
State, writes a Concord correspondent.
They call an election "town meeting, "
and that's what it really is, for the whole
town turns out in the morning and
gathers in the town hall. At nine
o'clock the three selectmen take the
platform and announce that the election
of a moderator is in order. Each party
makes nomination, and if the town is
close there is division-the Democrats
going on one side of the hall and the
Republicans on the other to be counted.
Either side, if dissatisfied, can demand
O ballot, and sometimes the whole fore
noon is consumed in getting organized.
When they get moderator they put it
to vote how long the polls shall be kept
open. Sometimes they close the poll
for representative at one or two o'clock,
and keep on voting for the general
ticket until six. Usually all voting in
the country towns ceases at three, but
there is nothing to prevent keeping the
boxes open until midnight, and. this is
occasionally done in the cities. If there
are three candidates for representative,
and neither gets an absolute majority,
there is q second ballot had and often a
third or if night comes on, and the
farmers want to 60 home to milk, they
postpone the business until next day.
The town, being q petty sovereignty In
such matters, can do as it pleases.
Year: 1876

A British officer was at one period of
the Revolutionary war dispatched with
q flag of truce to General Marion.
What was his surprise on being con-
Quoted into Marion's presence to behold
in our hero sw ,rthy, smoke dried little
man, with scarce enough of threadbare
homespun to cover his nakedness! Hav-
ing recovered a little from his surprise
he presented his letter to General
Marion, who perused it, and soon settled
everything to his satisfaction. The
officer took up his hat to retire.


"Oh, no." said Marion, "it is now
about our time of dining, and hope, sir,
tLat you will give us the pleasure of
your company to dinner"


At mention of the word dinner the
British officer looked around him, and
to his great modification could see no
signs of it.


"Well, Tom," said the general to one
of his men, "come, give us our dinner"


The dinner to which he alluded was
no other than heap of sweet potatoes
that were snugly roasting under the en-
bers, and which Tom, with his pine
stick poker, soon liberated from their
ashy confinement, pinched them every
now and then with his fingers, especial
ly the big ones, to see whether they
were done or not. Then, having
cleansed them of the ashes, he piled
some of the best ona large piece of bark
and placed them between the British
officer and Marion on the trunk of the
fallen pine on which they sat.
Year: 1876

A Vermont lady sends a protest
against an article which appeared in
the columns of city paper advising
people to go to the city to purchase their
goods. She thinks country merchants
should be encouraged; that their judg-
ment and taste in the selection OF goods
is better than the average housewives s;
that the time and trouble she takes In
going to the city to do her own shopping
gives poor returns; that she might bet
ter give the merchant list of what she
wishes, and get him to purchase for her,
than 60 herself; that the practice OF de-
pending upon neighboring cities tor
shopping facilities tends to make towns
suburban, and keeps them from retain
ing their distinctive character as coun-
try villages; that the ladies OF her town
who make their purchases in large cities
do no better, so far as she can learn,
than those who buy of the country mer'
chant. She concludes thus: 81 agree
perfectly with what you say about buy
ing by the quantity, but we can Go that
without going to cities; and just think
of the loss of trade to country dealers
and the personal discomfort of husbands
and children if women, on the strength
of your advice, fee to the city stores to
spend their money this spring"
Year: 1876

The leaves of the gumbo trees, which
grow in the West Indies, when eaten by
any animal, will cause all its hair to drop
out. and have seen horses and COWS
both without hair in name or tail from
eating it's leaves. The manchenillo tree
is quite common on some of these
islands, and is very poisonous. The
wind blowing through it directly upon a
person sensitive to poison will take effect
in few moments. The smoke from its
burning wood has the same effect. I
saw horse which had taken shelter un-
der one of these trees during shower,
whose hair was taken off wherever the
drops of rain from its boughs had touch
ed him, and years afterward had this
mottled appearance. A man who slept
under one of them in midday was awak-
ened nearly unconscious, as if under the
effects of powerful narcotic. I have
known several cases of severe poison and
two deaths from eating crabs poisoned
wi, 4 this tree.
Year: 1876

TO bear Is to conquer late.


The sweetest pleasure is in imparting
it.


Choose such pleasures as recreate
much and cost little.


Poverty persuades a man to do and
uffer everything, that he may escape
from it.


Devote each day to the object then in
time, and every evening will find some
thing done.


Pride is a vice which pride itself in
clines every man to find IN others and
overlook in himself.


Suffering becomes beautiful when one
bears great calamities with cheerfulness,
not through insensiblity, but through
greatness of mind.


Lost wealth may be replaced by in
dustry, lost knowledge by study, lost
health by temperance or medicine, but
lost time is gone forever.


There is no less merit in keeping what
we have got than in first acquiring it.
Chance has something to do with the
one, while the other will always be the
effect of skill.


Socrates, when informed of some de-
rogating speeches one had used concern
ing him behind his back, made only
this facetious reply: "Let him beat
me, too, when am absent"


The skeptic, when he plunges into the
depths of infidelity, like the miser who
leaps from the shipwreck, will find that
the treasures which he bears about him
will only sink hin deeper in the abyss.


Over the time thou hast no power;
to redeem a world sunk in dishonesty
has not been given thee; solely over one
man therein thou hast a quite absolute
uncomfortable power; him redeem, him
make honest.


It is at the approach of extreme dan
ger when hollow puppet can do moth
ing that power falls into the mighty
hands of nature, of the spirit giant
born who listens only to himself and
knows nothing of compacts.


I am convinced, both by faith and ex-
perienee, that to maintain ones self on
this earth is not hardship, but pas
time, if we will live simply and wisely,
as the pursuits of the simpler nations
are still the sports of the more artificial.


Man is subject to fate solely in him
self, not in others; he soon hardens his
mind against all fear, and prepares it for
all events. A little philosophy enables
him to bear bodily pain, or the common
infrmities of flesh; by a philosophy
somewhat deeper, he can conquer the
ordinary reverses of fortune, the dread
of shame, and the last calamity OF
death,
Year: 1876

We're of that band that till the land,


And draw from earth her store;
Right happy indeed is the life re lead,


While our days are passing DER.
Many there are in riches far


SURPRISING the farmers purse,
While other pursuits may yield more fruits,
Yet often produce much worse.
We envy not the statesman's lot,


Still clamoring for his class;
Nor his that fights for glory's rights,


At some redoubted pass.
No risk have we on boisterous sea,


No fears lest tempest whelm
And we possess without redress,


While laboring at the helm.
The fruitful field in bounties yields,


A rich reward for toll;
Be ours the trade to ply the spade,


And deeply plow the soil;
We walk abroad DER carpet sod,


And flowerets kiss our feet,
Whose odors rise to scent the skies-
tribute pure and sweet.
To all we give the means to live,


AS brother shares with brother,
And thus fulfill the holy will


That bids Us love each other.
Oh, LIE secure from guile, and pure,
To thee our love clings ever,
With all its might and fond delight
To change from thee, no, never!
Year: 1876

Our friends, the enemy, are having
bad luck just now. They have scarcely
gotten through with the bad job of
taking down one candidate under fire
and putting up another in Indiana
before they are called upon to repeat
the performance in Illinois. How long
is this sort of thing to go on If it
disuualifies q Radical candidate for
etaying in the field to be caught in his
rascality. the party is in a bad way.
Would it MT be better for Grant to
order O few TROOPS to Illinois and
"exhaust the judiciary" of that State
than to take the candidate down {?
Why not give him little "substantial
support" like that Settle gave Holden
in 1870 It will be an endless job to
take all their candidates down.


We throw out the suggestion for
what it is worth and in spite of the
knowledge that the Radical party
looks with distrust ana suspicion upon
anything coming from the JOURNAL.
But it does simplify a campaign SO
much 10 put in troops and exhaust the
Judiciary, and sometimes produces
astonishing results, such as that for
example when Blow-your horn-Billy
Smith. Of Johnston county, the present
candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
was ''eIected" Il Senator from Ala
nance and Guilford. BY the way is it
not about time to take Billy down or
to give him little substantial support !?


But to return to the point where
we started. The Indianapolis Sentinel
says:


4 striking coincidence in the nomi-
nations in Indiana and illinois occur
rod this year The Republicans NOM
mated Orth, n slippery politician,
against Farmer Williams, the Demo-
cratic nominee i'll Indiana, and the
canvass was but fairly opened, when
Orth had to be taken from the ticket
on account of his exposed rascality
In Illinois the Republicans nominated
CullOm against Granger Stewart, and
now that pesky and troublesome fellow.
BlufOrd Wilson will tell how Cullom
was a confederate with revenue officer
Harper of the Pekin district, by whose
defalcatiOn the government lost $100,
coo. Cullom Will have to be taken off
the ticket, and the party is looking for
some kidglOved gentleman who has
never stolen anything to put in his
place.
Year: 1876

The Indianapolis sentinel says


eff you ask Republican orator
what he has to say of the corruption
of the administration, he will tell you,
in answer, that there was red-handed
rebellion in the South fifteen years
ago.


If you ask him what prospect there
is of reform and economy under Hayes,
he will tell you that the Republican
party emancipated the slaves.


IF you speak of subsidies, he will re.
ply that negroes are oppressed and
disfranchiscd in the South.


If you name Babcock and Belknap,
he will talk of the Confederate generals
in Congress.


IF you ask whether taxation is to be
reduced, he will tell you that the
Democrats want to enslave the negroes
again.


IF you IL ention rings, he will quote
YOU an extract from Southern paper
threading determination of the ne
groes.


Ifyou recall to his mind sandstone,
San Domingo, or grave stone contracts,
he will read you touching monody
on Libby and Andersonville.


If you talk of putting honest men in
office, he will snatch up bloody shirt
and wave it at you.


IF You demand the cause of the in
crease of public expenses, he will re-
ply that jeff Davis was traitor.


If you suggest the probable guilt of
Grant in the whisky frauds, he will
reply that negroes we're slaughtered at
Hamburg.


No matter what gross abuse is
alluded to, what crime in high places
has been committed, there comes
back ever the old bloody shirt policy
for reply. Truly the Radicals are
in bad fix. They are on the defens-
i've. and the case made up against
them. They cannot answer honestly
and fairly without condemninR shem-
selves, and hence they tell of terrible
things in the past to Justify or hide
away from public view the depravity
of the party in power. They expect
the bloody shirt to cover multitude
of sins.
Year: 1876

The New York Herald in replying
to recent letter of BarnwelI Rhett Jr.
of South Carolina makes the astounding
declaration that "there has been moth
ing but kindness and fraternity to
wards the South in the minds of the
Republicans of the North" OF course
it is impossible for Southern men to
know what the'true inwardness" North
ern Republicans may have been or
may still be towards them. The ques-
tion is whether their words now or
their actions heretofore give the best
evidence of their sentiments. The
good book says "by their fruits ye
shall know them" and judged by the
harvest that the South has reaped
from the gushing feelings of the
North one would say in the language
of the parable, "some enemy hath done
this"


When the war ended the universal
desire on the part of our people was
for peace and the re- establishment of
fraternal relations with our former
foes. Wearied and exhausted by four
years of terrible war, our homes de-
vastated, our fieldsa howling waste, and
our system of labor violently uprooted,
we lay at the feet of our conquerers
powerless and helpless, without the
ability even if we had the desire to
offer any resistance to whatever re-
strictions might be imposed upon US.
That they were onerous, that they
were calling and oppressive in the
extreme, cannot be successfully denied,
but they were accepted in good faith
by our people and honestly OBJ
served. A military satrap, whose
word was law, abolished by stroke of
his pen the system of Jurisprudence
established by our fathers and under
which the rights of all citizens were
sacredly protected, and substituted in
it's place such edicts from his head.
quarters as his passions might die
tate, or his caprice invent. The pres
ent constitution of the State under
which we now groan was forced upon
us by a military dictation, and our
people had no rights but those he chose
to recognize.


Next in order came the Freedmen's
bureau, an institution, which, in it's
conception, its concoction, and it's
completion, was designed by its orig
inators to operate entirely in favor of
the blacks and against not only the
interests but almost the very existence
Of the whites. Tt was intended to OK.
cite fierce antagonism between the
races, to engender bad blood, to
ALLEVIATE the kindly feelings which had