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Year: 1876

President Grants tribute to Speaker
Kerr was kindly and graceful one. After
speaking of Mr.. Kerr as "a mad of great
intellectual endowments, large culture, and
great probity and earnestness in his devo-
ton to public interests" the PreaJent
says:


The body over which he had been select
ed TO preside not being in session to render
its tribute of affection and respect to the
memory of the deceased, the President in
vites the people of the United States TO a
solemn rebognitIon of the public and pri-
vate worth, and the services of pure and
eminent character,
Year: 1876

John Babbitt's clerk stole $780,
0oO from the great soap man and an
expert accountant had to be sent for
to see II the sum was gone. Now We
know OF folks who would feel a loss
like that clear down totheir boots. and
wan's not have to hire any one to tell


hen Of i q her. -
Year: 1876

The New York Tribune, which certainly
cannot be accused of partiality for Secretary
Robeson, holds to the opinion that the
charges raised against him rest on insufficient
foundation. 1t says: 1--WE fail to see from
anything yet brought to light that in the mat
ter of the naval balances with Jay Cooke,
McCulloch & Co. in London at the time oil
the panic, be did anything other or more
than prudent business man would have
done under the same circumstances. The
Government has lost nothing yet by his lem
iency, while it would have lost at once and
heavily is he had insisted on throwing his
financial agents into bankruptcy"
Year: 1876

THE editor of the Brunswick Telegraph,
we grieve to notice, is not entirely in serene
state of mind the present week. The town
treasurer is required TO give bonds in 500 900,
aud has only salary Of $50; the making up
of the Maine Central freight trains is an
Internal nuisance; his compositors had to
work nights and Sundays to get out the town
report, and worse than all he is defeated
candidate for the position Of school commit
tee and he takes nearly column to say he
don't care a continental about the matter
still there are evidences of the sting that de-
feat brings to noble souls.
Year: 1876

IT is the Nation which rises to remark
that: The shortcoming of the Democrats
lies in the absence of a proper sense of re-
sponsibility for the manner in which the Gov
ernment is carried on. They have the power
to find fault and to cut down the appropria
tions, but they will escape the responsibility
which ought to result from vexatious criti.
cism or reckless economy-for there is such
thing as reckless economy as well as reckless
extravaganza. They have made curious
and fragrant display of it in their attempt to
diminish salaries and to reduce the number
and pay of consuls and diplomatic agents.
The ignorant impetuosity displayed in
this latter case was Well shown up by
one of their own membership. Hewitt


-and it would hardly have been dis.
played by any party actually charged
with the administration of the Government
Their object Is to tickle the imagination OF
the masses during the next six months with
an appearance of frugality anu simplicity
About the effect on the service and on Amer
ican commerce, as it will not show itself for
year or two, they care nothing, because they
will not at best have charge of it for a year
two. The onslaught on the salaries of the
Government employees and the proposal to
reduce some of the bureaux of the depart
ments without any consultation With
the Secretaries and apparently without
caring in the least what the result will
be to the service, is another striking H.
Illustration of the kind of madness which
comes from giving men the power of med
ding with business without making them IL
able to be called on at once to conduct it
themselves. n y


The whole country has been watch
ing the House eagerly for four months for
signs of what we should gain by putting a
Democratic Administration in power, and
bas been treated to little but displays of
what it is no exaggeration to call spirit OF
mischief.
Year: 1876

The Democrats in the House persevere in
their contemplate practice of publishing tes-
timony against public officers before the ac-
cused men have an opportunity to appear in
their own behalf. The latest instance in
point is afforded by the Hanscom charges.
Mr. Hanscom claims that he will, under oath,
give full and sufficient explanation of the
affair as soon as he is allowed hearing by
the committee. 1t is believed that his share
in the transaction was in no sense improper
or irregular, that the claim in question was
a just one, and that no payment to him in
connection with it was made, offered or sug-
gested.
Year: 1876

THE friends of the proposed railroad from
Wiscasset to Quebec had very agreeable
season at Augusta Thursday. The talk was
very enthusiastic, hopeful and all that. We
wish them all manner of success but it strikes
us that practical Ira Sturgis must have
thrown q GOODNESS over the Augusta portion of
the meeting when he remarked that the first
step was for Augusta to loan its credit for
100000 to start the enterprise. The fact is
people amt quite SO willing to vote railroad
aid as they were.
Year: 1876

M. THEIRS has been giving good advice to
the members of the Left in the French cham
bers. He warns them to be very careful
what they do, and says: "The third Republic
is the last that France will see. 1t will be
deinitive if you act wisely: but if you upset
it by your rashness or impudence, there will
be no chance for another"
Year: 1876

IT appears by the Hartford Courant that
river navigators are indebted to one of Ohio's
prominent statesmen for an improvement in
ferry boats. 1t quotes from the Massachu-
setts Spy of July Sd, 1906. The account has
it that San old boatman of Ohio named
Allen" on the 22d of May in that year, began
the use of novel machine for ferry boat mo-
ton that he himself designed. A rope reach
ing from shore to shore was wound round a
wheel in the boat At the word of the cap
tain Allen would "rise up" and turn the
crank to move the wheel and thereupon the
boat would cross the stream. That was only
seventy years ago, but it is a suggestive anec-
dote as showing how the great Ohioan even
up to middle life retained an active mind in
spite of DR.. Boards theory that no body is
good for anything after thirty-five. The
identity of ''Old Allen'' and sold Bill Allen"
is not absolutely assured, but in the nature
of things it seems safe to assume that the two
were one,
Year: 1876

We DO notread anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
sl cases indispensable necessarily TOR publication
but as a guaranty q good faith


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

New York correspondence of the st.
Louis journal. There is good deal OF
curiosity in this part of the country to
know who it is that a certain female lee
turer now treading the rostrum in I'LL
nois and Michigan, and advertising her
self as Miss Bessie Turner, may be. The
real original Bessie, who testified in the
Beecher case about Theodore Tilton's
:" soft spots," is quietly living in South
Brooklyn, earning her own living as a
private tutor to several well-known fam
lilies, and seeking exemption from noto-
riety in all possible ways. She is rarely
seen in the streets, but when she is her
features are recognized, and she is stared
at by both sexes in manner as disgust.
ing as it is offensive. Bessie is highly
indignant because of the false Bessie who
is using her name as lectures; but she
says public denial of her identity with
the person alluded to will only serve to
bring her name into print again, and
hence she prefers to bear the ills of a
fraudulent Bessie than to fly to othert
which may flow from denial.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Plunkett was gentleman who knew the time
If not the interstellar spaces of the milky way;
But the world had used him roughly, and in conse-
To ovsrhauiing barrels with rusty iron hook.
There are many ways Of winning wealth, as every
More PsrtisularIy sudden than the method Plunsstt
But tyoung man, regard this maximD any line of


LIE on earth
May be diguifed by virtue and adorned by honest


worth.
And Mr. Plunkett never stole railroad, I believe;
Nor dealt in crooked whisky, crooked fortunes to
Nor shared plunderer's profit his own income to
But 1 must confess, in passing. that he never had


the chance
But all the same bit Of luck he lately tumbled to
He was raking in some rubbish on an uptown


avenue,
When he came upon treasure which had been


swept down the stair
By maid whose head was iustered by little love


affair.


Twas single diamond ear-ring, small but worth
And be Slipped it in his pocket, With intention to
But GENT who saw the circumstance, in tones With


menace fraught,
Desired him to diyvy-which was foreign to his


thought.


And at once my hero's honesty became cOnspic-
And he dscately limited that the other was a cuss,
And revealed that his design had been, as no one


could gainsay,
To return the little jewel to its right away
which he rang the bell and did So not forgetting to


relate


A judicious exposition Of his impecunious state;
And he found the grateful owner quite responsive


to his need,


deed.


pray you not condemn this tale as naught but idle
TIL you hear my pretty neral which is suited to


the times


The honesty that pays very beautiful and chaste
While theft Chat Is discovered is in wretchedly


bad taste. IN Y Graphic.
Year: 1876

ONE of the saddest conditions of hui
man creature is to read Gods word with
veil upon the heart-to pass blind
folded through all the wondrous testimo-
nies of redeeming love and grace which
the Scriptures contain. And it is sad,
also, if net actually censurable, to pass
blindfolded through the works of God, to
live in world Of flowers and stars and
sunsets, and thousand glorious objects
of nature, and never to have passing
interest awakened by any of them.
Year: 1876

WHEN a man comes home and tries to
bolt his door with sweet potato, pokes
the fire with the spout of coffee pot,
attempts to wind uf the clock with his
bootjack, tries to cut kindling wood for
the morning fire with a paper knife,
takes cold potato in hand to light him
to bed, and prefers sleeping with his hat
and boots on, you may reasonably infer
that he has been making the acquaint.
ance of some very friendly people.
Year: 1876

is ashy pale, and his eye wild, CLASSY, can
nibalish. The different parts of the system
now war with each other. The stomach
calls upon the legs to go with it in quest of
food the legs, from very weakness, refuse
The sixth day brings with it increased suf-
fering, although the pangs of hunger are
lost in an overpowering languor and sick
ness. The head becomes giddy-the ghosts
of well remembered dinners pass in hideous
procession through his mind. The seventh
day comes, bringing increased lassitude and
further prostration of strength. The
arms hang lifelessly the legs drag
heavily. The desire for food is still
left, to degree. but it must be brought,
not sought. The miserable remnant of life
which still hangs to the sufferer is burden
almost too grievous to be borne; yet his in
herent love of existence induces desire to
preserve it, if it can be saved without tax
upon bodily exertion. The mind wanders.
At one moment he thinks his weary limbs
cannot sustain him mile, the next he is
endowed with unnatural strength, and il
there be certainty of relief before him,
dashes bravely and strongly forward, Won
dering whence proceeds his new and sudden
impulse,
Year: 1876

For the first two days through which
strong and healthy man is doomed to ex-
ist upon nothing his sufferings are perhaps
more acute than in the remaining stages
he feels an inordlnate, unspeakable craving
at the stomach, night and day. The mind
runs upon beef, bread, and other substan-


tials, but still, in great measure, the body
retains its strength. On the third and
fourth days, but especially on the fourth,


this incessant craving gives place to sink
lug and weakness of the stomach, accom-
panied by nausea. The unfortunate suf-
ferer still desires food, but with loss of
strength he loses that eager craving which
is felt in the earliest stages. Should he
chance to obtain a morsel or two of
food he swallows it with a wolfish
avidity ;but five minutes afterward his suf-
feriugs are more intense than ever. He
feels as if he had swallowed living lob
ster, which is clawing and feeding upon the
very foundation of his existence. On the
fifth day his cheeks suddenly appear hollow
and sunken his body at'enuated, his color
Year: 1876

THK PorATo BRErLk. are al
ready swarming aud long before the
potatoes are out Of the ground. What
they are living on No one seems 70
know and there are not few that pro.
phesy that they must starve TO death
and that in this way they will find II
better 10 leave this part OF the world
and GO to some country where potatoes
will come sooner and make food for
them. There must of course be some
parts of the world where from some
cause or another things will go wrong
and become distasteful to the beetle.
but We fancy il viii manage to keep its
hold here. So far as we can learn there
is no general feeling that the beetle
will leave as 20 ourselves. On tue
other hand there seems TO be no great
dread Of him. Potato planting has
been going on as brisk as ever this sea
son aud in spite OF many losses and
drawbacks In some quarters we fancy
the crop on the whole NEXT fall will De
found "a abundant a. ver.-Germsn
town Telegraph. ~
Year: 1876

Money andthe Bayonets their Forlorn


Hope in the Coming Election.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The Republi-
cans here have very little hopes of elect
ing Hayes, but they are fighting with,the
energy of despair. Their only reliance
now is on money, fraud, the use of army
and the cOncoction Of personal ISLANDERS
upon Mr.. Tilden. You may expect these
personal ISLANDERS to be tclegraphed from
this point tonight and every night until
the day of the Presidential election. Some
of the prominent Republicans have Gained
down and are APPARENTLY resolved to accept
the result in good part. They own up that
Tilden will be elected, and make no
threats ofresistance to the popular will.
The majority of the Republicans are full
of rage and venom, are looking forward
to revolution and resistance in some shape
or other if they cannot accomplish the
result by fraud and bayonets. Bets have
been offered here on 100000 popular
majority for Tilden, but find no takers.
Year: 1876

Every man who believes in retrench-
ment, in reform, in reconciliation and
better times, should vote for Tilden. He
has shown his skill in retrenchment by
his reduction of taxes in his own State.
He has shown his earncstness in reform
by breaking up the Tweed Ring and the
Canal Ring, and setting on foot an invest
igation of the State Prison Ring. He has
shown his desire for reconciliation by the
fraternal spirit of all his utterances about
the South. He has shown what he can
do towards bringing better times. Every
farmer in the State of New York knows
that his tax bill is just about one half this
year of what it was last year, and the
farmer is man with whom little facts
like than offset an ocean of partisan abuse


of Governor Tilden.
Year: 1876

AT LAST the subject of building a
scnool house is being agitatcd, and
we feel delighted at the prospects.
1t is impossible TO secure rooms OF
sufficient; capacity TO hold all the
children in this (No. y district, and
until we do have a roomy school
house, IL is waste Of school funds
to attempt to have n school. 1t
would be far better to appropriate
the fands Of tho district toward
building house, and dong with
out school for one or two sessions
than TO continue as in the past.
Let a meeting be called, and the
vlows and sentiments OF the major
ity be obtained on this important
ject. What says our trustee F.?
Year: 1876

Amt it about time that the
chairman Of the Democratic eoun-
" central committee was taking
some steps looking to a meeting OF
that body for the purrose of call
ing and fixing the time for the
county convention. The state cor
ventlon meets on the l4th of June,
10 nominate state officers. II is
time actien in this important mat
ter was being had.
Year: 1876

A FEW hours before the fall OF
flesh in Kentucky, a sausage lac
tory was blown pp in Chicago, and
It 10 now understood that the flesh
which fell from the heavens was
aothing more nor less than dog
meat TEX.
Year: 1876

few weeks ago number OF downtown business
men handed petition to the Elevated railroad Com


pany asking them 10 run their trains until eleven
O'Clock IN the evening II seems they received the
impression at that time that the company, when
making time table subsequent TO the opening OF
tho section Of tho road. would make arrange.
ncnt to SUIT their wishes Inquiries, however, OF tue
Secretary Mr. Cowing elected that promise OF tho
kind had been made. rho amount OF travel after
eight O'Clock would not warrant them TO incur tho
additional expense Or night iorce OF employees Al
present the employees of the road work from six min


utes past i've In tho morning Til tweivc minutes
past oight r. N. II the company would run their
after that time they would have to employ compleis
night force OF men, for II the trains till eleven T.


M. they might well run during the whole night.
The company expect, however, increase OF travel
during the which will enable them to
cars both night and day without loss 70 themselves
Year: 1876

This excellent institution is forced to appeal for the


first time TO the charitable public Tor aid Its object
to care for the aged and worthy OF both and
OF all Protestant denominations 1t appeals especially
to those who themselves wen advanced ile's
journey, and, though blessed with abundance, can
fuzzy appreciate and pity the ot poor old
man. The institution, with the exception OF about
5000 from tho city entirely dependent upon volun
tary contributions. Tha Home is situated at No. Ala
West Twenty second street. and Is always open 10 the
inspection OF public who cordially invited 10
VISIT It, Their donations OF any kind will DO CRATE
fully received, or when IN money hc sent the
Treasurer, J. James H.gginson. No. "a Pine street.
Year: 1876

A little incidence came to our knowi-
edge the other day which, at this time.
may be worth telling. Just after the
holidays, in 1873, physician in one
of the large cities, while making his
daily rounds. gave description to one
of his patients of the almshouse which
he had visited that day, especially
dwelling upon the pitiable sight of so
many children to whom Christmas had
not been. even name, but had passed
in all the dull misery of other days.


The lady to whom he spoke was "a
hopeless invalid unable for years to
leave her bed; she was Strengthened.
too, in means, But hearing the story,
she determih d that the next Christmas
should bring little pleasure to at least
some of these little ones whom society
had thrust out of the pale even at
their birth. She had that inevitable
storehouse in her family, the '.picce-
bag" brought and emptied on her bed,
and began to make rag-babies, knitted
mittens, balls. etc J., etc. the thousand
inexpensive little trihes which requires
only labor and patience to make them
precious to any child. She had a
whole year in which to work: her
courage and zeal grew with every day !;
her friends became interested and
brought in their contributions of vel
vet, cloth, yarn, etc, When she had
provided some little gift for each of
the children, she began to work for the
insane ward, then for the hospital.


Of~course, as nothing is more con-
tagious than charity, the idea spread
among her neighbors. One brought
socks, another comfortable undercloth-
ing, an old lady knitted jacket, her
son collection of pipes, one house
keeper pile of chromos and old prints,
another II cartload of old magazines,
until by Christmas, although the aims
house has as many inhabitants as a
fourishing town, there was not for
whom this woman had not little gift.
When the day came it was observed
as a holiday, the keepers making an
effort to bring the wards into a con-
dition of unusual cleanliness and to
provide dinner better than the ordi-
nary fare. The Christmas presents
were given from the unseen friends,
she lying in the far off little room
which she was never to leave alive
aud with each gift was some message
of Christian kindness which told of
Him who was born on that day and of
His errand here.


All this happened last Christmas,
and was the work of one crippled poor
woman. The birthday of Christ is
coming again, and in every town there
is an almshouse, asylum, or Jail filled
with the miserable, the guilty, the poor
the very class to whom He came
first and in every one of these towns
there are communities of men and
women who profess to follow HIM.
When one woman can do SO much to
give significance to His birth to thous-
ands of these His bretheren, what
may not these communities do? Chris
tians, as rule, do not visit the prisons
or almshouse. What if they made
Christmas Day an exception to their
usual neglect? Let them go, not with
stern rebuke or tedious sermons, but
with some cheerful, tangible, live re-
membranee of their Master, which will
gladden. aud soften the hearts of those
who know God only through the hard
justice OF men.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1876

EMPTY PROMISES. The leaders of
the Democratic party are doing their
best to saddle every financial i'll and
every development of dull times upon
the Republican party. The task is a
hard one. As a rule, Republican
States are the most prosperous at the
present time. New York was to be a
Garden of Eden to workingmen when
The Democrats came into power. "High
wages and plenty to do was inscribed
on every Democratic banner in 1873
and "a. On false promises they car
ried the State. Instead of better
times, the State has had worse times
than ever. Wages instead of going
up have come down. Even the myth
ical fisherman of Long Island, who
voted for Democracy because he
thought that cit was about time to
change when fellow caught but one
eel in pot" now sighs for return to
his old love, because even a single eel
is denied him.-Republic Magazine.
Year: 1876

Stop Your Cough. The wonder
full results and immense sale of Hale's S
Cough Cordial the past season, ought
to convince the most skeptical still
we are going to continue the same lib
eral offer that we have made heretofore,
viz: Any person suffering with a cold,
cough or sore throat, who will call at
Robinson & Schultz Drug Store and
purchase a bottle Of Hale's Cough
Cordial, use one half of it, and if they
then conclude that it is doing them no
gooa, they can return the balance and
receive back their money. Who would
not test this medicine on such liberal
terms? No medicine ever sold in this
vicinity that produced such wonderful
results. All we ask is that you will
try it.


nov4'75 6m.
Year: 1876

An Indianapolis cat got to playing
with a small turtle the other day, and
was having a nice time tumbling it
around, when suddenly the turtles
jaws closed on the cats tail. There
was some very lively tumbling then
on the part of the cat, to an accom-
parliament of her OWE selection.
Two hours after she was seen exam
lining that tail tenderly, evidently
wondering if the piece would grow
out again.
Year: 1876

"The sun goes up, and the sun goes down,
And thousand years are but as one;
The leaves grow green, and the leaves grow


brown,


And what is i. all, when all is done 7"
Aye, what is it ALL il this life be all
But draught to lts dregs of cup of gall,
A bitter round Of the rayless years,
A saddening dole Of worm wood tears.
A sorrow:ul plant Of the spirits thrall,
The grave, the shroud, the funeral pail
This is its sum if this life be all.
But it is not all beyond this shore
A sun goes up to go down no more,
The leaves that grow green are green for aye
And the flowers that bloom do not decay.
A thousand years are indeed rs one.
But Of bitterness then the soul hath none,
And this is it all, when all is done