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Year: 1876

THE adherents of the lost cause in New
York held a gloomy gathering at Saratoga
Wednesday. They had not recovered from
the Seymour fiasco, and the news from Maine
struck them when they were least able to
bear disappointment. Comptroller Robinson
was selected as the leader of the forlorn hope
and the convention adjourned in the dumps.
Morgan's majority will be 10000.
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 tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve comma.
nications that are not used
Year: 1876

Well, in the first place, you must take
your seat at a dinner table we'll .nr-
rounded with strangers, and fix your
eyes upon ONE one of the young ladiess
on whom you desire to make an innres
sion. You then gracefully unfold your
napkin and prepare for action.


Grasping your fork, you impale a
healthy looking "spear" upon this use
full instrument. and, bending forward.
withOpen mouth, you-tind it willquiet-
ly slip off and assume its primary posi-
tion with a mild admonitory splash in
the gravy. After more fruitless attempts
of this sort, by which you can only soil
your hitherto immaculate shirt bosom
and distribute two or three stalks upon
your vest and unmentionables, you grow
sensible and slightly embarrassed.


You now repair damages, and with a
flourish which is intended to show that
it is OF no consequence, ! assure you" ."
which Is also intended to make
,wn to the lady next you that you are
"D-oSGr having spoiled her dress, and
OF colt will not do so again, YOU curl
few aaye finger to the proper angle.


MIR. pg the diabolical DESTROYER of
eleven az of mind by the stem with
ieaI Sel ~ n i1n.ligits you proceed to beslob-


Therein, make wild passes at your
- ,i,iie the n,'Srlt-ll grease your fingers, and
ne inTarner that you are mot very
lover, paragus, anyway, and just


show that you understood


way to handle the articleW
Year: 1876

1t will not do to undcrvalue the efforts


the St. Louis and New Orleans people
are making 10 open UP direct trade with


the South American ports. More may
come of it than most people not in direct
sympathy with il anticipate. At any


rate, the effort itself is to bc commended,
and we heartily wish it all possible sue


cess. At time when there is a too pre-


valent disposition to sit down and la


ment the dullness of the times and the


general unproiitableness of mercantile


ventures of all descriptions, it is credi-


table to the merchants of the southwest
that they are at least determined to try
and discover new markets in part OF
the world where we have rs yet made
but a faint commercial impression. If
men never try, certainly they will never
know their own powers. With seven


teen feet of water at the mouth Of the


Mississippi, and twenty in the near
future, M guaranteed by Capt. Eads at
the end of the year. the calculation II
that ships of large tonnage will be able
to go and come at all stages of the tide,
without annoying detentions that have
heretofore been experienced. In the
course of a few days, taking advantage
of this circumstance, the new line of
monthly steamers will be under way for
LaguayTa, Port of Spain,
Georgetown, Cayenne, Pernambubo and
Rio de Janeiro. This line. If judiciously
managed, can scarcely fail 10 prove Of
great importance TO western interests,
inasmuch as the consumption of the diff
ferent countries thus brought into direct
close contact consists principally OF -four,
lard, hams, pork, beef, etc. to the
amount of nearly twenty million dol
lars. This trade at present is carried on
by Philadelphia, Baltimore and New
York, chiefly in sailing vessels requiring
twenty TO forty-fve days TO reach the
rear ports, which these New Orleans
steamers expect to do in six to ten days,
and arrive at Rio in twenty eight days.
With the advantage Of close proximity
to the ports between New Orleans and
Cayenne, the projectors of the new line
expect to be able TO compete advan-
for this important trade. No
however, need be enter
tained that the competition, If success
full, is going to curtail commerce with
other ports. Trade makes trade, and
there ought to be room enough ere long
in such new countries ~ South America,
not only for one or two, but n dozen
ventures of the same kind.
Year: 1876

1t being generally understood that
there will be no tariff bill passed at this
session of congress, there is a good deal
Of curiosity to know what will be done
about internal revenue matters, espec-
i&lly with regard to tobacco. The sub
committee of the committee of ways
and means, charged with considering the
question of tebacCs tax, has prepared a
favorable report. In that report they
take strong grounds in favor of reducing
the tax from twenty-fOur to sixteen
cents, and Just here is where the trouble
comes that causes all the commOtiOn in
the tobacco trade. 1t may be asserted
most positively that even if the COM
mittee of WAYS and means does indOrse
the report of the subcommittee on this
ques' ion of tobacco tax, and the house
should pass it, the treasury department
will exert its energies against it, and the
probabilities are that the senate will
defeat it by an overwhelming majority.
j. may be certainly stated that by no
possibility can there be a change of the
tobacco tax ut this session of congress.
There will be something done with re-
gard to details of the spirit and tobacco
laws 1t is likely that there will be
some change in the tax on whisky, be-
cause of the accommodating proofs that
he high tax is beyond the revenue point
and has become a premium on fraud.
The large number of distilleries seized
each day and the suspicious held by the
treasury department that there are an
immense number of illicit distilleries in
operation, favor a reduced tax on spirits
Each indication is in the direction OF
the passage of an act making con-
siderable modification in tie internal
revenue laws.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Hayes, though by no means con-
sSicuOus in politics, is not wholly un-
knO yn, and we presume there are few
even of those who know him best and
like him most who do not doubt whether
he is the kind of man for which the crisis
through which we are now passing calls.
The civil-service plank in the platform
though doubtless well meant, has, in its
declaration that senators and representa-
tives should confine themselves to the le-
gitimate duties and refrain from inhu-
encing appointments, ludicrOus resem-
blance to the resolution introduced into
the French national assembly calling on
all rascals to quit France. 1t brings
strikiugly to mind the great fact that to
get rid of the master evil of the govern
ment in our day-that which has already
degraded and Paralyzed it, and threatens
with serious fundamental change5 at no
very remote date-the president must
be man of no ordinary tenacity and
breadth of view, and must be prepared
to sacrifice personal ease and smoothness
of administration, and party harmony
and success, to higher and more impor-
tant things We do not believa, with
our present knowledge, that Mr.. HAYES
is such man. We do not know, for we
have no reason for believing, that he
thinks the condition of the civil service
a serious evil that he would make great
sacrifices to amend it, or that he thinks
anything of more importance to the
country than the supremacy of the re-
publican party, managed substantially as
il now is
Year: 1876

The effect of rain in calming an agitated
sea is a popular belief among sailors.
Professor Osborn's recent Investigations
have thrown some light on the point:
and, as usual, confirm the popular
notions. Besides the splash, or rebound
of the falling drops on the surface of the
sea, and the little waves formed around
every drop, the professor found that
underneath the surface a very consider
able mechanical effect was being produced
of which no notice was given to the eye
of the looker-on. By an ingenious con-
trivance, he discovered that each drop of
rain, in falling, sends below the surface
a quantity ofwater, in the form of vortex
rings. They descend, with a gradually
diminishing velocity and increasing size,
as much as eighteen inches below the
surface, according to the size and speed
of the drop. Before they stop they have
generally attained a diameter of from
one to two inches and upwards. When
rain, therefore, is falling on the sea, there
is as much motion Immediately beneath
the surface as above it, only the drops
below it are larger and their motion
slower. The water at the Urface is thus
rapidly changing places with that at
some distance underneath. 1t is in this
way that rain tends to destroy wave
motion, or as sailors express it, knock
down the sea-"
Year: 1876

AT a recent meeting of the Physical
and Natural History society of Geneva
NJ. TheOd. Turrettini. who has to make
frequent visits to the boring of st.
Gothard tunnel, gave an account of 4
phenomenon which is frequently pro-
duced during the progress of the work in
the granite mass of the mountain. When
the rock is shaken by the explosion of a
mine, the reports resulting from the
explosion are not the only immediate
ones produced. Afterwards, and at equal
intervals, other spontaneous explosions
are produced, at considerable distances
from the mine hole, of which che cause
is unknown, and which cause numerous
accidents to the workmen. The ephenom-
enon is new, and it appears TO indicate in
the very substance of the granite aspecies
of tension inherent in its formation, and
which, agitated at one point, is transmit
ted to a distance so as suddenly to
disengage large fragments of material.
1t may be compared with the experiment
daily made by the quarrymen who work
the cratic blocks in the valleys of the
Alps TO obtain building materials. In
order to obtain them they use wedges of
wood which they drive into holes pierced
for the purpose, and which, being wetted,
cause by their expansion the disjunction
of the granite masses. This disjunction
is not produced by gradual assures as in
the case of millstones, for example. 1t
is always ACCOMPANIED by an explosion
more or less violent, and the two disjoined
surfaces cannot again be exactly fitted to
each other. There is reformation of the
material, leading to the presumption of
state of latent tension existing in the
constitution of the rock itself, and which,
a point hitherto quite mysterious, may
throw light on the mode of formation of
these ancient rocks.
Year: 1876

Gail Hamilton III tue bhlaAys


A vast amouLt of the bcwildering mag
nificence, the mad and reckless splendor
of Washington society is in the descrip-
tions Of it, not in the society ITSELF Your
"palatial residence is but one of most
unpretending street-a house 40 exactly
like its neighbors that, though you may
have been there a dozen times you can
never tell which is which except by the
number and it is 70 small that the side
board has to stand against diningToom
door; and the next hOugc j. borrowed OF
the friendly owner to give room for the
evening party which cot ten thousand
dollars in the newspapers, but might
Just as reasonably been rated at ten
millions, and was in no respects different
from scores of other parties which cost
one hundred dollars. The two most ex-
pensiye parties given in Washington
during this generation were those given
bv the French minister at the close OF
the rebellion To congratulate us on
victory of which Louis Napoleon had
done his best to deprive us. and by the
British minister to celebrate the presence
among us of the queen'- Z. on. Neither
of these parties cost any'h hing like ten
thousand dollars, and yet either Of them
cost vastly more than all the parties
given by the Belknaps during their
whole seven years residence in Wash
iDgtOn.
Year: 1876

APRoPos of nude art at the centen-
NAL: Boswell once asked DIR. johnson
If certain classical picture was indie
cent. No, sir" replied the doctor,
but your question Is"


This Is sample Of the arithmetical
problems proposed at the Storey county
(Nev.) Teachers Institute:


A man puts down a certain sum of
money on the corner of the ace, TO take
the tray, in a twenty-five dollar limit
game. They both win through. At
the end of the deal he finds he has S57.
How much did he put down, and how
much did he win ?"


THE petition offered up by the believer
who abides in Christ, and has Christs
words abiding in him, will be in har-
mony with the will of God. The
spirit maketh intercession for the saints
according to the will Of God" The
spirit. taught breathing of desire, there
fore, on the part of the believer are the
very breathings of God within him, and
surely God on the throne in heaven will
not be Indifferent to the breathings of
God in the human heart Rather these
breathings are themselves fulhllment
of the promise, and preliminary step on
the part of God towards richer, fuller,
grander fulfllment of it.


WAIT NY LITTLE ONE.
Wait my little one, wait


When you get TO the beautiful land;
Tarry little, my darling,


Ere you Join the heavenly band.
Stand close TO the shining gates Of pearl,
Look out on the narrow way,
For l want the first glance Of my heaven


borne sight


On my little babe to stray.


Watt my little one, waitl


When you reach the courts above;
Look down with the light of thy beautiful


eyes,


On those that you used to love-
Whisper sweet dreams in our earthly ears,
When we lie down to sleep;
Paint bright pictures before your eyes,
When we wake up to weep.


Wait! my little one, wait!


When you reach the celestial strand,
For thy mother may be tOiliDC up
To the heights of the better land.
For the years that fall like IN often lead,
On the hearts this side Of the sea,
Will pass like the light of beautiful dream,
My little babe, DER thee.


MOTHERS, let every daughter that is
borne to you be given equal opportuni-
ties with your boys Let her physical
education be attended TO with the rest
let I'LL 0tI IOWtIS bt HlitIlBlhtnIu dllhts
let her learn a trade, or study a proies-
sion to fit her for the battle of life; and
if marriage does not come TO her, let her
know and feel that she is an independent
woman, free to take her place in the
proud ranks of those who use hands and
brain for support. She will not spend
her davs in idleness, nor will her mind
be filled with thoughts of dress, but with
nerfect health which will be hers when
she is taught its supreme Importance,
and the means for its preservation, and
with her time fully occupied, she will be
strong and well balanced, and assuredly
none the less fitted to be wife and the
happy mother of immortal souls. Then
too, when our women are thus trained
our papers wilnOt be disgraced with such
as this:


A lady of refinement and education
desires the friendship Of a gentleman of
Year: 1876

OF these states Ohio is conceded to the
republicans and Florida and Oregon to
the democrats The democracy, there
fore, have the pro pect of polling one
hundred and ninety six electoral votes,
or eleven more than is necessary to elect
The doubtful states of Tndiara and
Wisconsin are also likely to be demo.
cratic; but if both shall fail us victory
is certain.


A sturdy and heroic struggle is sure to
bring success.
Year: 1876

We hardly think it fair thing for our
lady friends to stop at the age OF thirty
nine, as there are few ladies who ar


rived at the age of singleblessedness from
whose hearts have been extinguished
hopes of seeing the chosen one. No,
indeed, so long as there is still an old
batchelor left, we say give the old maids
a chance, and don't blame them for still
clinging to Cincinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1876

AMONGST the contributions to the CEN
tennial is a peculiarly shaped canoe.
fashioned by the Indians of Vancouver's
Island, on the extreme northwestern
coast. 1t was placed in the United
States government building. Although
measuring sixty feet in length, and eight
in breadth not a joint is discernible in
the entire boat. The government Off
cials promise that remarkable specimen
OF this peculiar class will soon be exhib-
tied in a totem post from Cape Flattery.
It is to measure forty-fve feet in height
and contain various forms, combining
frogs, beavers and bears, with human
brms in such delightful pOstures, as to
Iival the ugly totem post already set up
on the south side of the government
building.
Year: 1876

A very sweet young lady of the West
End, who has evidently been giving the
subject serious reflection, gives the
following table as showing a woman's
chances of marriage between the age of
fourteen and forty years. OF one thou
sand women, taken without selection, it
is found that the number married at
each age is as below. Or if (by an arith-
metical license) we call a woman's
chances of marriage in the whole course
of her life one thousand, her chances in
each two years will lie shown in the ta-
hIn
Year: 1876

AMONG the pottery exhibited in the
Chinese department at Philadelphia is a
shallow soup bowl made of bronze metal
and enameled, which is four thousand
years old. There are four hundred pieces
of chinaware dating back one thousand
wears
Year: 1876

WE observe that the republican press
boasts dd Gbifuna about Gov. Hayes war
record and his claims on the party He
may have claims on the party. We know
nothing about that, but we do know that
he has no claims On the country. The
country paid him in dollars and cents all
claim he had against it. If the party
owes him anything he should look to the
party for his pay 1t is highly unjust to
make the people at large pay the claims
of party. We have seen the folly and
the error of giving places of trust TO men
who claim to have earned the right to
them through party service. And hav-
ing seen this error we should not fall into
it again. No man has any claim to office
under the shadow of our flag unless he is
mentally and morally competent. A de
parture from this truth has led to all the
shameful frauds of the past eight years.
Troy Press.
Year: 1876

A SAFETY rail has been put down on
the several trestles and important bridges
on the New York & Long Branch rail
road. 1t consists of an additional rail
on each side of and about four inches
from the main track.
Year: 1876

LONDON, March 16-Night


In the House Of Commons to night the Postmaster
General Lord John Manners, stated that It was the in
tenton OF the department after tho present year to
make arrangements for the conveyance OF the mails to
America similar 10 those adopted by the United States
viz make contract. but send the mails by vessels
whose efficiency proved and pay according TO weight
Year: 1876

In view of the defeat Of Mr.. San
ford's Mate and Preallness in the
events they tool. part in at Good
wood, July 26 and u, the following,
from the Newmarket Commissioner
of the Londen Sportsman, July II,
nine days before the Goodwood
meeting, may not be uninteresting,
even at this late day: 1.-The Ameri-
can Goodwood nags galloped as
usual the length of the Bury side
tan. [ must say one word in favor
of these horses, that when you come
to look them over there is not a
speck or blemish about them, and
not strap or bandage on their
limbs, which are as clean as new
straw. Nothing could possibly ex-
ceed the health and vigor of their
appearance; but one singular cir
cumstance has always struck me
concerning them, which is that
when they have done work of a
morning they walk about as slow
and sleepy as ghosts.
Year: 1876

Brigham Young claims to have
been told Of God in a vision that the
invisible outlet to Salt Lake is be-
ing filed with salt deposits, and that
within six years the lake will over
flow that part of the country. If
Brigham had any faith in the vision
he would try to find the outlet and
dig out the salt.
Year: 1876

OUR NEW CoMERs. Rs.-Those who
anne first had the appearance of well
to do people and are no doubt salts
factorily located, but of late we no.
tice another class Of emigrants whose
stock looks poor and worn out,
which causes us to think that their
animals did frequently without feed
on sundry sterile camping places
along the road, because the owners
had no means wherewith to purchase
grain, else why should one party
make the trip in quick time and
come through with fat, sleekanimals,
while another outfit moves "slowly
along" and arrives here with mere
skeletons of horses? One thing is
certain. There is a considerable
poverty among our late emigration
and wherever poverty whispers, suff-
ering cries aloud. It is seldom
heard, but there is none so d saf,
but what might hear. The eye that
never dropped a tear is frequently
the saddest and tells tale Of sorrow
and woe just by one look. In view
of these inevitable prospects before
us, it behooves every farmer to ap-
point and constitute himself COM
mittee of one called a Relief Com
mittee. On some ranches and farms
enough is wasted in one month to
keep poor and destitute emigrant
family whole year. Help these
people wherever you meet them and
wherever you see they need an as
sisting hand. Remember giving to
the poor is lending to the Lord and
is like the bread cast upon the water.
Our merchants and business men
will do their part, especially those
doing business on Main street.
However charity never grows old or
ont of fashion and if ever it is right
fully bestowed, it is done when we
aid and assist the poor emigrants.
Emigrants are still pouring into
the valley, more in fact than many
in town would surmise. Many of
them seem to have an eye to the
country north of us, but all no doubt
will find comfortable homes and
perpetual contentment somewhere.
At first most of our new comers get
the blues, but were they to land in
the garden of Eden it would be all
the same. After while however
dispondency gives way to industry
and that oils the wheels to prosperi-
ty and then the patient is cured.


STARTLING NEws.-Mr. Jack Pet
tygrew just down from Elorance,
Idaho, brings startling news con-
cerning the sudden and mysterious
disappearance of one VIM. Mansben-
die, well known here as ''as old un-
Gle Billy He was employed on
claim near Florance by the Clark
Bros. Every evening he cleaned up
and brought the dust, usually about
four ounces to their store, but one
e7ening he did not come, SO one of
the brothers took a walk up to the
claim, to see what was the matter.
Billy was not there. He went up q
little farther on the creek where 5
chinaman had been at work. but
they too had gone. Tt isthe impress
ion that these cinnamon killed the
man and fed. The sheriff traced
them as far as White Bird and if
they are caught and found guilty.
heaven help them fer the miners
won't.-Wala Wella Union.
Year: 1876

We he9r that the Indian chief
Crazy Horse wants peace and pro-
poses to come in and be "good In
dian" We believe Crazy Horse was
a chief under Sitting Bull in the re-
cent fight with Custer. The ques-
ton whether we should have terms
with chief who took part in that
massacre is a serious one. It may
be said that these are savages who
acted according to their nature, and
that it is to late, considering our
whole course with the Indians, to
think o. revenge or retaliation. But


if Sitting Bull can send within our
lines every crii pied detachment,


if he can make up parties of wound
ed and infirm warriors and quarter
them upon us as peaceful Indians,
it will be constant recruiting of
his army. 1t seems that all tn


young men are going out on the war
path, while all the old men, the
squaws, the wounded and infrm are
within the reservations. There
should be an end of this. We should
treat with the Indians as one tribe.
If Crazy Horse comes in and brings
with him Sitting Bull end his band
there will be no trouble. We can
disarm them, inclose them within a
reservation and set them to useful
employment. We trust this war
will not end until the Indian tribes
are under the control of the govern
ment. When, therefore, Crazy Horse,
Sitting Bull and other chiefs ask to
"come in and make peace" the au-
thoraties should see that all the
bands are included in the surrender.
Year: 1876

a n A D D TO Il = . = .
Do you want to purify the system?
Do ytu want to get rid of Biousness
Do you want something to strengthen you
Do you want good appetite?
Do you want to get rid Of nervousness
DO YOU want good dges.ion2
Do you want to sleep well :?
Do YOU want brisk aud vigorous teeung?


If YOU do take