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Year: 1876

The continued cross-examination o. GOV
Tilden yesterday in the Tweed suit gave hiIi
further opportunities for explaining details o.
the division of plunder among the hine
thieves. The defense endeavOred as un
successfully as before to make it appear that
there had been at one time some animation
between Mr. Tilden and Tweed. The case OF
the plaintiff is now closed. and it is moi
believed that the defense has much testimony
TO otter.


The railway company which is constructing
a tunnel through Mount st. GOthard has just
concluded that the enterprise is of universal
importance" and therefore ought to receive
subsidies from Great Britain and Belgium
This wish is not likely to be gratified, neither
of those countries being directly interested u
the enterprise. The company might better
RELY mainly on Germany for capital, since the
tunnel will afford her direct communication
with Switzerland and Italy.


For one who has caused much needless misery
and bloodshed, Don Carlos is faring better
than he deserves. The Prefect at Pau tolc
him that his presence was undesirable, bu
made amends for this inhOspitality by placing
a special train at his disposal to convey hin
to the north of France, or the Spanish from
tier-thc latter being the place of all others h'
wishes to avoid. 1t is probable the fugitive
prince will judge that both France and SPAN
are tired of him and that he might bette
settle in England, where, at all events, he cal
do least harm.
Year: 1876

Joseph Grass was captured at half
past six o'clock last evening and locked
up in the Central Station by Corporal
Fastrict, charged with shooting and
dangerously wounding his father, Nicho-
las Grass. He was brought before Judge
Evans and remanded to the Parish
Prison, without the benefit Of bail.


Further particulars will be found on
the third page Of to-day's paper.
Year: 1876

! line" as if to fellow in the precise line


of policy of the scandalous characters


who got into power in the Southern


States. some of whom have had to fly
and have not been permitted to return,
for fear Of the offended laws.


He has proclaimed his intention to
array the negroes against the whites in
Delaware, and to claim for the negro the
right to any and all official positions in
the State; as if anything: could be ad-
ded to what has already been done in
legislation for the black population, un-
less it is to place them az once in the
official positions-to fill our jury boxes
with them by electing Sheriff and
Levy Court Commissioners, and to ap-
point them as Tax Collectors, Constables
and other county officers, as has beer
done in the States where the Republican
party has power.


He intends $50 he is reported as hav-
ing said he would,) to appeal to the peo-
pie on behalf Of the negroes, and accuse
the Democratic Party of having done
them injustice, while yet his own party
in Delaware has only used the blacks as
tools to vote Republicans to Office.


If you would prevent such man 60
ing to Congress, to re-enforce the gang of
characters that have coupled the name
of Delaware with Boss Shepherd, and
made it notorious in an unenviable light,
you should organize. For it has already
been proclaimed by this man from the
stump that New Castle County will give
his party 1860 majority, and that this
with what majority he will get in Sussex
county will overcome the decreased ma
jority in Kent county, and the State will
be given to Hayes and Wheeler.


There is not a word of truth in his
assertion-but it is the beginning of what
may be expected to the end-truth will
lie secuted as it is always secuted by
those who will prostitute virtue, boast of
debauchery and deal in unreliable lam
guage to deceive the unwary.
Year: 1876

SENATOR BAYARD's SPEECH AT TRRN.
TON We hope our readers will care.
fully peruse this able and convincing
speech, which we publish to day. 1t
has been referred to by the Press in
other cities as one of the ablest of the
campaign.
Year: 1876

The best possible thing for man to do
when he feels too weak to carry it through
is to 90 to bed and sleep a week if he can.
This is the only true recuperation of pow
er. the only actual recuperation of brain
force. Because during sleep the brain is
in a state Of rest, in condition to receive
and appropriate particles Of nutriment
from the blood which takes the place of
those which have been consumed in pre-
vious labor, since the very act of thinking
consumes. burns up solid particles. as
every turn of the wheel or screw Of the
splendid steamer is the result of consump-
ton by fire of the fuel in the furnace. The
supply of consumed brain substance can
only be had from the nutritive particles in
the blood, which were obtained from the
food eaten previously. and the brain is so
constituted that it can best receive and ap-
propriate to itself those nutritive particles
during state of rest, quiet, and stiffness
in sleep. Mere stimulants supply nothing
in themselves; they only goad the brain,
force it to a greater consumption of its
substance, until that substance has been
so exhausted that there is not power
enough left to receive a supply, just as
men are SO near death by thirst and star
walton that there is not power enough to
swallow. w.anything, and all is over.
Year: 1876

The prejudice existing against the use
# maize as an article OF human food,
among certain classes OF people. is sur
prl9ing, and this prejudice is based on ig-
norance. Our corn is seldom found in
Irish OF English Kitchens, although mil
lions OF bushels are exported to England
every year. The people there are strang-
ers to those New England Injuries, corn
bread and puddngs, and we suppose it
viii be a long time before they will know
anything of them.


Indian corn is one Of the most import
ant and healthlul articles of human food
that beneticent Providence has bestowed
upon man and to its high nutrtive value
il due in large degree the strength and
Vig0r Of the race of men who laid the
foundations Of this great republic. 1t was
much more largely used fifty or one hun
dred years ago than now. as fine wheat
1Our for some not well-1ounded reason,
has usurped its place in bread making In
The several forms, however, Of hulled
corn, popped corn, hominy samp. corn
sta. ch. maizena,, etc, vast quantities are
consumed by all classes OF people.


Meal from Indian corn contains more
than four times as much Oleaginous mat
Ter as wheat flour, more starch, and near
ly as much nitrogenous material conse-
quently in all cold climates it is admirably
adapted TO sustain the system by furnish
ing eat-tormng compounds The oil
gives warmth, the nitrogenous principle
gives muscular strength The combina-
ton OF allmentary compounds in Indian
corn renders it alone the mixed diet capa-
bic OF sustaining man under the most eX-
tr2ordnarv circumstances. 1t holds the
elementary principles which constitute the
basis OF organic life. In this particular
II is more remarkable than any other veg
etable production known to man There
is large number of dishes Of which corn
meal forms the basis. which are eyceel-
inglv palatable. What, for instance. is
more delicious than cold corn pudding
cut in slices and fried in sweet butter and
lard Hot corn-cakes, when properly
and skiiully made, are almost universally
regarded as a luxury, and Boston brown
bread is famous everywhere in the coun-
try. The reason why corn meal is not
more largely used at the present time is
that it is quite difficult to obtain it of deal
ers or grocers in a perfectly pure and
sweet state. Millers grind the corn as it
comes from the West, mixed with portions
OF the cob and saturated with dust and
dirt, and this is sold for kitchen as well as
for table use. Much of the Western corn
is damaged in transportation, and this is
ground up with that which is sound If
good, sweet, Northern corn is properly
ground in an old-lashioned stone mill,
after being winnowed to free it from dust.
meal will result Of rich golden color,
and no dish can be prepared from it which
will not be palatable and most nutritious.
In our family we use the Lakeside-grown
corn, selected for domestic use, pass it after
itis shelled througha winnowing machine,
and have it ground between millstones
Year: 1876

which have been revolving for probably
half Il century. In this way we secure
meal in it, highest perfection, and this is
what ought to be accessible 70 all families


In trials at the farm to lest the compar-
ative value Of meal from homegrown
corn aud that from commercial sources,
when fed to cows and other animals, we
have learned that the nutritive value of
the former is nearly double that Of the lat
ter, and this practical result confirms an
aytical results. The difference between
the specimens from the two sources is
most surprising Farmers who are SO
foolish as to go into the market to pur
chase corn and meal ion their animals
should understand the great difference in
nutritiye value between what they can
raise and what they purchase. [Boston
journal of Chemistry


EATiNG AND DYSPEPSIA 1t is an old
German adagc that more people dig their
own graves with their teeth than with
spades. and verify it would seem SO if we
would look at the immense number OF dvs-
peptics, rheumatic and golty individuals,
creeping through lie in pain and wretch
edness, Yet it is next 10 impossible to
induce even thinking people to control
their appetites, and to eat such things and
at such times rs nature shows them is
necessary and right Dr. Hall declares
unhestatingly that it is wrong to eat with
out an appetite, for it shows there is no
gastric iuice in the stomach. and that ma
tare does not need food, and, Hot needing
it, there being no tinid to Receive and act
upon it. it remains there only to putrIty,
the ycty thought of which should he suiii-
cient to deter ANY man from eating with
ut an appetite the remainder OF his life
IL 4 tonic is taken to whet the appetite it
is a mistaken course, for its only result is
t. cause one to eat more WneD already an
amount has been eaten beyond what the
gastric Juice is able to prepare The OBJ
jcct to ne obtained is large supply OF
gastric Juice whatever tli!s to accomplish
that essential object fails to have any etli-
cacy toward the cure OF dyspeptic diseases.
i he formation oi gastric juice Is directly
rfoportioned to the wear and tear Of the
5y stem. which it is to be lhe means of sup
piying. and this Wear and tear can only
take place AS the result rt exercise. fhe
efficient remedy tor 5!}speptics IS work
oGt-d0or -beneticial and Successful
in direct proportion as it is agreeable, in
teresting and profitable. Earai New
l OrkeF
Year: 1876

The editor Of heather paper in Ben
gal says. in an article which will pass for
a sort of review of the Scriptures: If a
person studies the English language with
a view to gain wisdom there is not book
more worthy of being read than the BIZ
BILE"
Year: 1876

CONTROL OF THE WEDDING RING.-A
curious question was involved in a trial
at the Springfield (N. W county court,
namely, the control of wife over her
wedding ring. The circumstances were
rs follows: The wife, shortly before
her death, gave the wedding ring to her
mother, at whose house she died. The
husband claimed the value OF it as n
set-Of' against claim brought against
him for his wifc's board and lodging.
The Judge decided that 4 wedding ring
comes under a class Of articles which
the wife has separately and independ-
emily of her husband, and which she
has power to keep, but not to give
away or leave from her husband.--On
the contrary, the husband has power TO
give them away even during her life.
In this case the vile had 10 power TO
give away her ring, and the Judgment
must be accordingly. This may be
law, but it seems hard that the wishes
of the deceased woman with regard TO
her ring should not be respected. Had
! the husband claimed the wedding ring
as a matter of sentiment, legal proceed
inos TO recover it would be Ineligible,
but to demand it as "set-otl' against
claim for board and lodging is a sad
desecratiOn of what was regarded IN
less pawnbroking ages as a symbol OF
confidence and eternity.
Year: 1876

store beside Bonfanti's large establish
ment He always ascribed his success TO
this infexible honesty in trade. Yet
when asked if he believed in luck, it is
said that he always answered: Indeed
| do. There are persons who are un-
lucky | sometimes open case of goods
and sell the first piece from it TO some
person who is unlucky, and lose on it 10
the end. l frequently see persons TO
whom | would not sell if | could avoid
it." His mistake in lite, he thought, was
that he had not established his retail
store above Twenty third street He
thought that he should have had better
returns on his stock. He had constant
watchfulness over all the details OF his
business. and more than one Of his en-
ployees found himself watched when he
least supposed it. "IIe never spoke to
me but twice" one of his clerks relates.
Once | tore piece of wrapping paper
roughly across, and he came around 10
tell me should have folded il and made
even edges People, he said, didn't like
to Get ShlttleSs-looklng bundles. Again
| wound bundle round with an extra
turn of string, and before | could cut IT
he had the bundle out of my hand and
unwound the unnecessary turn. Never
waste even piece Of string, he said
waste is always wrong.


1t was almost impossible to get at
Mr.. Stewart in business hours. He was
to be seen only at the downtown store,
and on the visitors entering, the floor
walker would enquire his business. II
he said he wanted to see Mr.. Stewart,
he was asked what he wanted of him,
and if it was anything 4 subordinate
could do the visitor was turned over 10
him. Ii he still insisted upon seeing the
merchant himself, he was allowed to go
rs far as the foot of the stairs, where
another watchman was i'll waiting, aud
unless he could be satisfied that it was
worth while disturbing Mr.. Stewart, the
visitor was permitted 10 go no further.
Year: 1876

That was a shrewd method which
an Iowa girl recently adopted to induce
all her friends to attend her wedding.
She didn't !et them know up 20 the last
moment who the groom was to be.


The heaTicst snorer we have heard
of is the man whose wife woke him up
the other night, during a tempest, say
ing she did wish he would stop snor-
iug, for sue wanted to hear the thun.
der


Many persons in preparing potatoes
for cooking pare off thick slice from
the surface instead Of digging out the
eyes. The skinniOg process is all wrong,
as the strength Of the vegetable lies
near the surface, the starch growing less
abundant as the center is approximated
The best way is to scour them well. and
either bake or bell them With the skins
on.


a Frenchman, describing rheumatism
and gout, says "Place your joinl in n
wise, ,nrn the screw I'LL you can bear it
no longer; that gives you an idea Of the
rheumatism now give the instrument
one more turn and you have the gout.


Warm weather helps one to be good.
That is, you don't care whether your
neighbor has big wood pile or
small one.


Senator Matt. Carpenter says that
this government must be run more eco.
nomicalIy, and so he has given up
wearing suspenders.


An Irishman, noticing a lady pass
along, espied two strips depending from
under the ladies CLOAK. Not knowing
that these were styled sashes and in the
right place, he exclaimed: Faith ma am
your galluses are united


a lazy fellow falling distance of IF
ty feet and escaping with Only few
scratches, a bystandrr remarked that he
was too slow 10 fill fast enough to hurt
himself
Year: 1876

Suggested by reading a newspaper
paragraph describing the scene between
Ethan Allen and his daughter, on the eve
of her death, when she asked the stern In
fidel in whose faith he would have her die
his or her mothers
Year: 1876

They have had another riot at
Hamburg, and the Republican
party has lost vote. The dead
man was a colored citizen and Il
thief, and of course he supported
Grantism, He was killed by one
of his own color, and, unfortunate
ly for the bloody-shirt brigade,
not a single white man figured in
the squable, The "color line" was
sharply drown and the fighting
was all on the other side of it,
We hope it will not turn out that
the murderer was a white man
with a BACKED lace.
Year: 1876

A white man was whipped by
order fthe Mayor of this city, a
short time ago, and the radical
newspapers never said aword about
it, but negro boy was whipped
at Arkansas a day or two ago, and
the whole radical press is teeming
with highly wrought accounts Of
the "barbarity. .'-Alexandria Gaz.
cite.
Year: 1876

we are sorry to keep our neigh
Dor IN suspense, but have devoted
so much space to the financial ques-
ton recently, that we expect our
readers want a little rest. We hope
that the editor of the Republican
will not take it an,iss, therefore, if
we delay replying to him. In stat
ing our plan we gave him credit for
ordinary intelligence, and were not
so careful as we might have been in
the selection Of our language. It
appears that we were to blame for
this, inasn1uch as he seems not to
have comprehended what we said;
hence an explanation is in order.


We stated that our plan contained
three propositions: First, to retire
the bank currency; second, to issue
more greenbacks and the bonds;
and, third, to make the issue of 9TH
er currency a penal ofense. We
did not expect anybody to suppose
that we wanted, first, in order of
time, to retire all the bank currency
and thus contract the volume Of cir
culating medium, but it seems that
our neighbor did so understand us.
We are sorry for him, but it is Who'll
ly out of our power to supply the
article he needs, and we will endeav-
or hereafter to adapt our language
to his capacity.


We will now say, that our plan
contemplates that the three opera.
tions shall be proceeding at the
same time. That, as the bank notes
are retired, the greenbacks shall be
issued, the debt refunded, and the
law be enforced against issuing other
currency. That all these operations
shall progress gradually, so that both
contraction and expansion may be
avoided. If a man "retires" his
usual allowance of meat during
Lent, it does not follow that he
"contracts" his supply of food to
that extent. He makes up for the
deprivation by "issuing" proportion
ately increased rations of bread and
butter, potatoes, fish, etc. You can
certainly comprehend this illustra-
tion, neighbor.


So much for the alleged violent
contraction" of the currency Incl
dent to the adoption of our plan.
With the remark that every other
objection raised by the Republican
to the greenback system may be as
easily disposed Of we must dismiss
the subject for the present.
Year: 1876

The New Hampshire Election.


The New Hampshire election is
as likely to injure as benefit the re-
publican party's prospects, and from
the tone of the newspapers of that
organization, we think that the effect
will be really damaging. 1t has
made the party leaders over-conf-
dent and arrogant, and inclined
them to treat amiss such Of their fol-
lowers as sincerely desire reform in
high places. In the recent New
York State convention the protest
ofthe Union League club was haugh-
tily disregarded and those instrument
tai in issuing it were insulted. Such
behavior must have the effect OF
disgusting the true men of the party
and melting them to resist the ar
rangement made wholly by and in
the interest of the wire-pullers, even
though it becomes necessary for
them to go over to the opposition in
order to do so.


The democracy, even as it is,
with Belmont, John Kelley, Ben Hill
and Pendleton as: its leaders, can
hardly be more Objectionable to hon.
est men than the unprincipled gangs
which have obtained ascendancy in
the republican camp and which
still seem determined to retain the
management, notwithstanding the
'1amning exposures that have been
made in official circles. The pres
ent independent party does not show
a very formidable array, it is true.
On the contrary, it seems aninsignh-
cant foe, hardly meriting notice.
That it occupies this hun,iliating
position is due to the folly or wicked
treachery of those who assume to
lead it. Induced by their PERSONAL
aspirations to deliver it over to the
democracy last year and the year
previous, they have destroyed public
confidence in themselves, but it does
not follow that they have weakened
faith in the reformatory measures
they advocate.


The truth is, the anti-monopo]y and
reform sentiment is stronger in the
country to-day than it ever was, but
it refuses to be played with by
ambitious mountebanks. Let the
republican party, continue to. refuse
to listen to the demands made upon
it for reform, let it place itself pos
itively in opposition to public senti-
ment, and it will not be long before
the people, the sturdy yeomanry of
the country, who only desire an hon.
est and economical administration
Of public affairs, will sweep aside the
pigmies who now assume to control
them and, taking charge of the indie
pendent movement themselves, push
it forward to success.


Instead, then, Of permitting the
New Hampshire elections to lead
them to adopt the suicidal policy of
disregarding public opinion, the re-
publican leaders will do we'll to
change their tactics. If they allow
themselves to be blinded by the
glamor Of this unimportant success,
they will find too late that they have
mistaken the public temper. The
people want and intend to have an
honest government, and the indie.
pendent party, which now looks SO
small as only to excite laughter OF
pity, may soon become the mighty
multitude which will drive from the
high places of the nation the corrupt
men who have maintained them.
selves so long in power by fraud and
bribery.
Year: 1876

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's scandal
trial has just been supplemented by q trial
for the payment of a bill presented against
him by a Brooklyn dentist for two sets OF
teeth furnished Beechers wife and one set
furnished his father, Rev. pr. Lyman
Beecher. These teeth were deliverd about
twenty years ago, and for ten years they
have been the subjects of more or less
court litigation. The plea entered by
Beecher was that the teeth were never got
of that dentist, or if so, were paid for He
also plead the statute of limitation. and
thereby foored the dentist The Judge
said it was no case, and did not let it go to
the jury.
Year: 1876

RENOvATING PEACH TREEs.-Peach trees,
after few crops, will, unless properly
cared for. cease to grow good fruit, and in
many instances decay and die, whereas
their natural life reaches to fifty or sixty
years. The cause of this premature decay
IS oWiRg TO deficiency Of potash in the
soil; and If this alkali is supplied the tree
will at once revive and its fruit bearing
powers be restored.


Many persons attribute this premature
defect in the tree 10 worms in the root, and
they go to work digging about the roots
in hopes Of finding the fell destroyers,
whereas the real cause is lack Of the
peculiar aliment upon which the tree
depends for its health and vigor. This is
potash, and if the earth to the depth Of
four or FIVE inches about the root of the
tree is removed and its place filled with
unslaked ashes, the potash they contain
will be dissolved by the rain and absorbed
by the roots, and thus the tree is restored
TO its former health and vigor, and con-
tinues to bear abundant crops of fine fruit
for many years. An occasional application
Of soapsuds about the roots has also been
found highly benefcial.-Bah. Sun.
Year: 1876

Peanut oil, first made in the South dur.
ing the war, is now in large demand. 1t
supplies the place of almond and olive oils
for various uses, and is lower in price, re.
tains its purity and flavor for a long time,
and is less susceptible to the effect Of light
than olive oil. The oil is extracted entirely
from the meat of the nut by pressure, the
refuse being used as cattle feed or ferti-
iiZer.
Year: 1876

GJohn," said fond wife, enthusiastically
pointing out to her husband little shop
on Main street, when you die I'm going
to take the insurance and buy that little
place and set up millinery