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Year: 1876

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For 50 the whole round earth is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of Gol.'
So far, then, ms both natural and spirit
ual are concerned, the first part of my
text gets its answer in the second
" Lord, teach lis how to pray And the
answer comes, that the way Tor us to
find God and get his forces as helpers on
our side is by knowing and obcying the
divine wlll-thc laws and conditions in
whatever department we wish the results
produced. Thus, the highest prayer is
Not rs will, hut as thou wilt Gods
will is the only power; and it works ont
our purposes when We have obcyrd the
conditions, so that the divine forces flow
in the channels that we have in diligently
dug ont for them.


"And yet the spirit in my heart


Says, wherefore should play


That thou would',t seek me with thy love,


Since thou do,t seek Away,


And dOst not even wait until


urcc my step 10 thee;


But in the darkness of my life


Art coming still to me?


lpray not, then, because would;


pray because must


There is no meaning in my PRAYER


But thankrulncss and trust
would not have thee otherwise


Than what thOu ever art,


Be still thySclf and then know


We cannot live apart
Year: 1876

This is the way the newspapers talk IN
Louisiana: "If that convicted thief and
robber Jim Walker, wants any fuss with US
he can have steel or buckshot in unlimited
quantities by poking his nose around our
corner"
Year: 1876

Years ago Chocorua, one of the last
of the Indian chiefs of the White Noun
tains, seeing his people dwindle away,
his power fail, and every thing 60 to
the bad generally through the continued
encroachments of the white people, com
mitted suicide by leaping down the lofty
precipice near Conway, now called
Mount Chocorua. Before his leap, how
ever, he is said to have cursed all the
cattle in that region, the effect of the
curse still remaining and destroying
many cattle yearly.


Such is the tradition. The facts about
the death of the cattle are that the soil
is so poor, so deficient in lime, that the
cattle gradually become afflicted with
the disease known as ''Cripple all, !"
pine away, become unable to walk, and
finally die, sometimes as maRy as 200
dying yearly in the space of few miles.
Some fifty years ago a certain doctor
brought out the lime theory in an arti-
Gle, but the country people laughed him
to scorn, secuted the idea that the dis
ease was any thing else but a God-sent
curse, and finally by sheer force of de-
rision the doctor was compelled to re-
nounce his theory. Now the scientific
men of the State propose to verify that
theory Sprinqfeld Republican.
Year: 1876




On Friday morning, says the Terre
Haute 1nd. Express, Justice Sheets, of
Paris, ILL.,, was called upon by happy
couple. The man beckoned him aside
and said that he wanted to be married.
The young lady was twenty-five, while
her lover was about ten years her
senior. The Justice adjusted his spec
tacles, put on the look he usually wears
when about to make people (un) happy
for life, and told them TO stand up.
This they did, and as he was about to
begin the ceremony, the following for
mula was handed to him by the groom,
who stated that they had concluded to
be married by this: Verbatim it is as
follows 'sMr. w. G.. Cole do you take
this woman, Ida Hutchins whom you
hold by the rite hand to your lawful
and welded wife in the presence of God
and these witnesses. So long as you
both love each other and live Happy to-
gether and will you endeavor to make
her happiness and that. of. y0urself and
familys, your hiest earthly ann to take
care of her in sickness and in health, so
long as you both live together as hus-
band and wife ?n The same formula
was presented interrogatively to the
lady, except that the sentence "to do
your duty by him so long as you live
tegether as husband and wife - was in
terpolated at the close. The parties
live at Chrisman Ill
Year: 1876

THERE was a,case in London the other
day in which man died at the mere
sight of poison label, which he had not
previously observed, on bottle from
which he had just taken dose OF sim
pie medicine.
Year: 1876




A PLEASANT story is told by the Oak
land (Cal } Transcript about a Mr.. Pc
ter Millar, who lived in that city for
over 20 years, working at his trade,
carpentering, and part of the time at
the mines. He kept sending home to
his widowed mother in Michigan all he
could spare of his earnings, determined
that she should want for nothing. After
years of absence his mother wrote many
a time and oft for him to return, but he
did not wish to do so until he had ac-
eumulated some money, but the aecu-
mutation seemed to be slow process.
At last he became " strapped" and
prospects getting duIler he wrote home
and stated the position of things. He
received for answer a $500 check, and
the information that the money he had
sent home had been invested in real
estate, and was now worth $4,000.
Year: 1876

THE PdH Mall Gazette says that Eng
lish field laborers drink from four to six
quarts of beer day, the same being
provided by their employers as part of
their pay After drinking this amount
of strong beer the agricultural laborer
is merely ssfuddled.
Year: 1876

than per cent and yet the aggregate ccartngs for
tue first full week after the election only per
cent below those Ut the corresponding week laat
year. Hence, the decline in prices being taken
into account the transactions OF this same week
Of unprecedented excitement and suspense show
alaree increase in quantities exchanged The clear
ins at the different cities for the week ending Nov
Is compare thus:
Year: 1876

If it was wrong for the Census Marshal oi

 Iavapai County to enroll the names of E

 B. Pomroy and J. T. Alsap, who were here

 during the time the Census was being

 taken according to law, then we ask why it was that the names of quite a party of residents of Yavapai County, some of them we'll known and prominent citizens, who happened to be temporarily in Tucson, were listed by the Census taker there, against the earnest protest of the parties themselves, who assured the officer that they belonged to Yavapai 2 In order that there may be no mistake about it, we mention the names of Philip Hull, E. D. Darby, and Seth Cole. There were several others whose names we have not learned, but can do so if necessary. who were enrolled in Tucson by the Census at a Camp in corral, all of whom the officer that they belonged to iavapai and other counties. We do not say that he had no right to enroll them as temporary residents, but if he had, then why was it wrong for our Marshal to enroll Pomroy and Alsapl
Year: 1876

Colonel Bigelow and J. R. Darroche having secured the control of the old Often mine on the lower Hassayampa, left Prescott on Thursday to go to work on the vein. The mine was worked in 1864 and paid well in gold. There is shaft on it 90 feet deep, which they propose to clean out and resume work where the previous owners left off. This mine has always had a good name and we hope it may be kept up.
Year: 1876

The administration of Governor Coke
will be ever memorable. He went into Of
fee in sunburst of glory; the supreme
splendor of his rising sun was measured
by the gloom that overshadowed the ''em-
pirer when Davis was dethroned. 1t is a
sad spectacle, its contemplation rendered
more painful by the fact that his last year
in Office Is the centennial year of American
freedom; and through all future time men
must look back to 1876 as a Poa stO-a start
ing point in Texan history. It will be re-
membered as the last year Of Coke's reign
and the last year of = historical century. il
will be remembered a. the year in which g
rude, constructed Rutabaga Constitution was
coboled together by gross incomPetency,
and its adoption secured BY the arts oi
demagogism- The attainment Of the Sen


atorship was only possible through It's ad


vocacy, and vet, As soon as it was adoptes
Year: 1876

GRANTS Unauthorized order to Sherman,
instructing him to hold as great number
of troops as possible in readiness for use in
the negro ruled Safes, is unmixed 6'utum
fuZnaen. Grant can send no troops into the
South unless these be called for by Gov
ernors when legislatures are not in session
and cannot be convened, and when an in
surrection or invasion justities it. He is
sued the order to Sherman either In utter
ignorance of his own powers and duties as
President, or he is using his high office as
President for the basest purposes of dis
graceful partisanship. He would make
Northern people believe that tine negro
is everywhere victimized, when the facts
we print every day show that murder is
most impartislly done. and that there are
ten white men for each black killed in the
South In Texas, where everything, ac-
cording to Governor Coke, is extremely
lovely, we slaughter and rob one hundred
whites for each penniless Cuffee that bites
the dust. In fact, Sambo rarely suffers.
He isn't worth killing, and is only put to
death when he amuses himself by commit
ing rape, to which he is peculiarly addicted.
Year: 1876

SENATOR FORD did not say exactly what
was reported of him. He said that editori-
ais had appeared in various portions of the
State indicating that members of the FIf-
teenth Legislature had sold out to Col.
Scott; that he did not know upon what
authority these allegations had been made,
nor would he attempt to controvert them,
but he would say for himself, and a part
of the minority in the Senate, that he knew
of no facts to justify the charge that any
protest of the minority in the Senate, in
which they distinctly disavowed any lnten-
tion to impugn the motives of the majority.
Year: 1876

THE luck of Texas In being outside OF the
maelstrom of politics and in little quiet
pool away down South is appreciated by
those who scan closely the pages of North
ern partisan journals. The foulest stories
are told of every candidate for every office.
Tilden catches it and in Radical eyes is a
common swindler, and here we have that
gray haired old man, who was an old Con-
gresham in cur boyhood and had served in
Congress twenty or thirty years before the
war-even this old man Phelps, who would
be Governor of Missouri, is accused of the
most heinOus of offenses against woman's
purity-and of acts that would disgrace an
alderman in Ujiji.
Year: 1876

TEXAS is IN y very peaceful condition.
In fact, as the Governor sees it, it is abso-
lutely delectable In Lockhart last week
two men were killed; two banks at the
same time were robbed in two towns
of the State, and Major Monroe was beaten
to death near Bremond by a negro, and
SambO took hand at his specially in
crime and two white women were violated
and then put to death, and now comes the
details of barbarities practiced at Harwood
betweed Luling and Columbus. A dare
devil and desperate from Indiana, named
Parker, armed eap-a-pie and mounted, Just
to satisfy the country of the delectable
state of society, began firing into a crowd.
He killed one man and wounded two NOR
tally, sending bullet through the legs of
fourth. Parker was captured and will
probably be hanged by the mob Saturday
at Dallas three negroes attacked the sheriff
woundlng him mortally while taking
fourth negro to Jail, and furious mob seek
ing to kill the black was resisted to the
death by Moon, the high sheriff. And yet
the Governor seems to think that the press
exaggerates the facvs, and even while we
are telling of these terrible events ever re-
curing IN that wonderful town of Dallas,
there is horse of such wondrous fleetness
that none have been found to capture him,
bearing about over sunlit plains northeast
of US reeking corpse of some unknown
victim of murderous violence. This steed
and its ghostly rider, even here in Texas.
tell aH infinitely more horrible story than
that of Mazeppa. OF Texas Byron might
nave written:


Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle


Are emblems of deeds that in their cline


Whe'e the of the vuture and love of the turtle


Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime


Tis the cline of the West; tits the land of the sun
Can he smile such deeds his children have done,
Year: 1876

under the influence OF the same men that GENERA,
Grant had been for the past four years -
General Grant, with his well known nrmness OF Guar
acter had been compelled TO give way to the corrups


leaders of his party, how could the amiaoie oeneras
HAYES? He conterded that the republican party u
to-day was not the republican party OF lsoe us
original founders were such men as Salnoa /. Onase
Charles Sumner and Charles Francis Adams Yet
corruptionst-Simon Cameron-was made 10 dlspiaco
Charles Sumner when the latter. as chairman OF he
Committee on Foreign Relations in the United
States Senate, refused to be parry
to what ho considered corrupt JOB.
The strongest and best who were among the
founders OF the republican party were not now IN SYM
pathy with the party. Unwilling to be dishonest, they
had been aside by the corrupt men In the party
who found favor with those in power than they.
Mr.. Apgar then went to show with some detail tne
corrupt doings under republican rule aud asserted
that the present depression in business and the suVer
ings OF the aborng classes the result OF this cor
ruption, and that the only remedy for the evil was
to put the republican party out OF power
He claimed that in answer 10 the charges OF corrup-
ton under republican rule the republican speakers and
newspapers INDUCED N talk about the danger to the
the reoel debt would be paid and the slaves be put
being an insult TO the commoncs intelligence. He
firmly believed that If the whole people could go to
bed that night and wake up in the morning forgetting
that they had been democrats or republicans
they would resolve that there should be change OF
and at Washington for the safety OF our
Institutions.


Several other speeches made, after which the
meeting adjourned, with cheers tor Tilden aud Hem
drcks.
Year: 1876

The police have made short work of the
horrid crime which came to light on Satur-
day at Greenpoint. The action of the
criminal in leaving the head of his victim in
lumber yard made it, fortunately, easy to
work up the case to the disgusting discovery
OF the remains of the unfortunate man,
chopped up for secret interment in the
house of his murderer The case presents
many points in common with a number of
murders which are ON record-namely, the
vain attempt to dispose of the body by
dismembering it previous to hiding the
traces of the crime from mortal eye. What
most appeals to our sense of horror in such
crimes is the thought of the cold -bloodedness
with which the criminal must have passed
hours and hours face to face with the mutt
lated remains of his victim, which at every
stroke of the hatchet, every slash fthe knife,
every grating of the saw must have cried out to
his frightened soul, in unbearable tones, 'You
cannot hide mel" In this case the murder
appears to have been done in frenzy whether
in drunken jealousy, as the unfortunate
child-witness and the woman Fuchs claim,
or as the murderer, Andreas Fuchs AYERS,
because he was witness to his own dis
honor, is not clear That he slept through
the night with his murdered victim lying in
an adjoining apartment might show that he
was drunk but the picture of the family
sitting down to breakfast the next morning
with the body just dragged out of sight,
is an appalling one. The evident intention
of hiding the body under the hearthstone
shows that he had either read the stories of
several similar attempts to dispose of MUIR
dered men and women, or that the same
reasoning led him to select it which had in
duced his predecessors to do so-namely, the
unlikelihood of the stone being subsequently
disturbed and the ease and secrecy with
which it could in the first instance be re-
moved. However that may be, this. idiosyn-
Grassy of murderers has made the vicinity of
the hearthstone almost the first place a
trained detective would search 1t is alto
gether the most terrible story New York has
listened to for years
Year: 1876

to the protection of the merchants, it is, per-
haps, wise to give this guarantee to their in
terests and if there must be board con-
trived to hamper the administration Of the
Health laws there are fewer objections to be
made to a board constituted as this one is
than could be made to any other. Properly
the Health Officer should, in Quarantine
matters, be absolute under the Quarantine
laws, and the only appeal from his Authority
should be to the courts for the interpreta-
ton Of the law. But the board proposed,
made up of the President of the Chamber of
Commerce, the President of the Shipowners'
Association and the President of the Board
of Health, would seem to be irreproachable,
precisely because two of its members hold
the positions which give them membership
without regard to party or public interest,
simply for their integrity and Importance in
the commercial world.
Year: 1876

Nearly every section of the country
cherishes with local pride some peculiar
attribute of its people, or the tradition of
some influences it commonly exercises in the
national history Our city has an especial
glory in this respect; for as it was the
province of Rome to rule the world, and of
Greece to carve the brittle brass, so it is the
province of this metropolis to furnish great
idea whenever the country seems to need
one. No emergency can transcend our
metropolitan capacity in this respect 1t is
in Congress principally that we exhibit this
splendid faculty it is in the record of legis-
lative discussion that our intellectual readi-
ness appears that our happy words dazzle
the world more than Solomon's ''apples of
gold in pictures of silver" and Mr.. s. S.
Cox is the gentleman in whom our genius in
this respect stands confessed" Only few
weeks since there was a debate in Congress
on amnesty and some correlative topics.
Maine was there eloquent without wis
dom, Ohio wise without eloquence, and
Georgia with purpose, even if we esteem
it a bad one, and the power to make it felt.
To that debate New York made one great,
important, brilliant addition in these
words:-"Oh, Blaine dry upr That was
our metropolitan idea about it. Georgia,
Maine, Ohio, all the other States, were
staggered by this rhetorical splendor, and
this Empire State had one more occasion to
glorify herself upon her representatives.
Now she has still another. In warm de-
bate on Friday this city carried away all the
honors by the brilliant declaration of one
of its representatives that another gentle-
man was known as "Jim Blaine's little pup. :"
AS the eye that gazes on the sun is blinded,
so the mind, too frequently assailed by bril-
liant touches of this sort, becomes fatigued
with splendor and sighs for the repose of
dulness. One of our city wits is said to
have once remarked that an oyster knew
more than some men, since it "knew when
to shut up, and because of this wisdom and
because of natural aspiration of the
fatigued intellect for dulness in Congress-
men we should like to see the Sixth district
of this State represented by an oyster.
Year: 1876

Out of all the investigation of this much
vexed and very important service comes
bill for the redistribution of the Quarantine
authority. 1t is in the right direction, mas
much as it bids fair to make the service less
cumbersome, and restores TO the Health
officer, the proper administrator of the
Quarantine laws, the power of which he was,
deprived by some previous legislation. 1t
organizes a board of appeal from his decis-
ions, which seems to us erroneous in princi-
pie but, as there is sentiment in the COM
merNal world that such board is necessary
Year: 1876

Mr. BERoH's Bill. Bergh's bill in re-
gard to sailing railway tracks does not forbid
The placing of salt on the track except when
is placed there fora certain purpose and
At certain time. To come within the pro-
aibition of this law the salt must be thrown
Or the purpose of dissolving snow or ice. If
The horse car companies can contrive any
other reason they may scatter all the salt
hey please. More than this, it must be
snow that may have fallen" The act for
hidden is, therefore, throwing salt to dissolve
snow that is already on the earth If the COM
panies take counsel of Probabilities, and
find that heavy snow storm is to come
within twelve hours, they can cover the whole
track with salt before the snow falls and per-
haps escape the penalty of this statute.
Year: 1876

CIVIL RIGHTS Judge Sawyer charged q
jury in San Francisco recently in way
pretty sure to invite the wrath of the friends
of the negro. 1t was a case under the Civil
Rights law in which negro sought rem
edy for having been excluded from a theatre.
There was some strong swearing on one side
or the other, for the testimony was very con-
Trajectory on the simple facts, and it was
charged by the Judge that in the absence of
any rule of the theatre that negroes should
be excluded" there was no evidence to show
that the man was excluded on account of
color, and that he might have been excluded
for some other reason. With the way thus
opened for them tho jury found a verdict in
favor of the manager. 1t is very difficult to
enforce a law that is in conflict with the SEN
timents of the great mass Of the people
Year: 1876

CARBYNG PIsToLs Judge Brady suggests
q statute on this subject, and seems to have
faith that it would be useful; and although
we are less sanguine, yet the case is GER
tainly SO bad that no step should be neg
lected that any person entitled to judge be-
lieves will remedy the evil Half the
murders are probably due TO the fact that
the criminal has within reach so easy a
means to kill as the revolver in his pocket;
ind if there is any means that may prevent
this result by preventing the carrying of re-
volvers it should be tried. 1t is proposed to
license persons to carry reyolvers, and to
punish severely all who are found with such
weapons on their persons if they have no
license. 1t is thought that, as the authori-
ties charged with the duty of licensing
would have the right to discriminate, this
would result in keeping SO dangerous a
weapon out Of the hands Of persons not
known to have proper discretion but we
fear. on the contrary, that this law would
become as much dead letter as is now the
old statute on the same subject, which, ap-
parently, the Courts never enforca
Year: 1876

The SUFFERNGs OF THE HERzEGovNrANs
under the despotic rule Of the Mussulmans,
and the fendish barbarism with which the
war is conducted by the latter, wreaking
their ruthless vengeance on women and chill
dren when the men are out of reach are
described in communication to prelate of
the Greek Church which we publish else
where.
Year: 1876

OvERcRowD1NG ON THE CARS How the villa
process is conducted on the Sixth avenue
line is shown in another part of the HERALD
Although not approaching the infamous con-
dition of affairs on the Third avenue line it
will be seen that they can pack fifty on
a single car when necessary. 1t must be re-
called that the Elevated Railroad has drawn
off great deal of the through traffic on this
and other west side lines, and hence the OBJ
lection to enforcing the rule of seat for a
fare is decreased by the ease with which
it could be done. The chief objection OF
the grasping car companies is that the re-
form is impracticable; but, with law passed
compelling them to seat passengers, we have
heretofore shown that a month would find
them perfectly ready to respect the rights
they now outrage