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Year: 1876

There ia no better time than the present for
n Journey to Philadelphia and visit to our
grand Centennial Exhibition. The long ardors
of the exceptional Summer are over; the re-
freshing nights are now sure to stay with us ;
the woods are heavy with dark-gre foliage.
vet untouched by the first tinger-mark of Au-
tumn; and even when the noon-day hours
are fierce, open-air life is a luxury III the
shade. Moreover, the Exhibition Is complete
IL has received all its delayed contributions,
settled into an order which will not be changed
looks its very best and offers its fullest chances
of instruction. The large class who have not
vet epioyed it's wonders and breathed it's mel
low cosmopolitan atmosphere, should lose no
further time in availing themselves Of the
privilege-nay, of performing the necessary
duty. The holidays for health may well be
curtailed by those who have means and leisure,
the lul before the hoped-for Fall revival of
trade lie employed by men of business, and the
interval between harvest and wheat-planting
be seized by the farmers There are more OPP
portunities now for all classes than there will
be q month later, and those who arc able TO
avail themselves of them will find their profit
in doing SO at once.


One OF our InNetcIate American HaDltS ls 10
postpone everything until the last moment.
Some hundreds of thousands of our citizens
have fixed October as the time of their visit
to Philadelphia, from vague idea that the
last days of the Exhibition will probably be
the best. To escape the sweltering heats of
July they fly to the opposite extreme of frost
and falling leaves When they come to ride
around the ground in the open ears, In the
face of a nor Twester, or to sit shivering on the
open balconies of the restaurants, they will
hong for these days which are warm and
bright but not sultry, these Summer splendors
of foliage and flowers, which have been re-
stored by the late rains, and the vanished
luxury of lettering or resting under the open
sky. From present indications October will
bring incessant crowds and some discomfort
to those who wish to examine all the moro
notable objects. The number Of visitors, thus
far, is not half of what such an Exhibition
should have drawn, and if it be doubled or
trcbled from now until the end, it will still
not include half Of those in our country who
would derive permanent instruction from a
visit
Year: 1876

Not single flaw has been found yet in Gov
Hayess record That fact makes drst-class campaign
document all by itself


The most profound writer on the Indian
problem who has yet appeared the Western editor who
made this senentious comment: "The Government has
saved million dollars-sunstroke killed 20 Indian In
New-York"


Gov. Hendricks Is said to have decided to
take the stump He Is expected to be very eloquent
In showing how promise TO resume hinderance to
sumption He will also touch upon reform, but will be
shy OF any reference 20 that troublesome and abrupt
animal the nule


GeD Bartlett has been advised by his physi-
Year: 1876




Eerc appears loss, on four of the roads, OF
5,262, $40 tons, or twenty-eiSht per cent. Dut
it has been very unequal on the different
roads, the Lackawanna having lost but lOper
cent of its traffic and the Lehigh Valley but Il
per cent, while the Central of New-Jersey lost
33 per cent. and the Reading 3S per cent dur
ing the same period. Loss of business, loss OF
earnings increase of debts, has been the rule
with these companies, and those which have
been fortunate enough to have strong capi-
tai began TO perceive that if the combination
held together it would involve oil IN common
bankruptcy. Each man for himself Is tho rule
hereafter therefore, and the public will richly
enjoy its revenge. New-Jersey Central suffers
worst at first; in February it sold for lO9, and
Yesterday for So. Delaware and Lackawama
sold for 1908 in January yesterday 1t sold
for So. In Delaware and Hudson the loss has
not been so great, though it sells for sale, and
the break in Reading, expected at Philadel-
phia, was not serious yesterday. But the war
has not vet begun, and we shall sec before
many days which of the companies really has
the strength to sustain itself in open cOmpeu-
ton.


To such competition the public was entitled.
The forced support OF the price OF coai was
gross wrong, which ought to bring upon those
concerned in it the punishment they now seem
likely to get. In a broader view, the breaking
of this combination is another step, and n
long one, toward that readjustment of in
dustres and of prices which must precede
resumption and real prosperity. Tho miners
must learn to mine, and the railroads to carry
coal for what it is worth in open market If
too much coal il produced for consumption at
present prices, there are two natural and just
rcmedies-to stimulate consumption by lower
prices, or TO suffer those who cannot produce
cheaply to stop operations. The attempt to
lock together the best and the worst mines,
the prosperous and the bankrupt roads, ends III
disaster because it was an attempt to fasten
upon the public grievous and most unjust
hnrdcn.
Year: 1876

threatened, it was mainly because OF the IN
formation 80 widely given by the press. In
telligent men, seeing that the load of debt
and unfortunate investments which some mem
bers of the combination had accumulated was
too large for even the richest corporations to
carry, and that the consumption of anthracite
was steadily diminishing refused to be ouped
any longer. Sensible stockholders began to
unload. European operators, who had tacltiy
or actively sustained the combination, saw that
public opinion had been so set against II
that its collapse was merely question
of time and sent urgent warnings 10 officers
on this side to separate from the ill-fated pool.
On Tuesday the collapse came. Tho reasons
given in the official statement are little better
than pretexts, for it is known that had the
Lehigh Company made good its excess OF tom
mage, there was at least one other company
which could not have continued i'll the comDl-
nation any longer without defying the expressed
wishes of large majority of the stock. pool
of this sort is like dam; hole III any place
is as fatal as complete overthrow OF the whole
structure


The real cause of this collapse was the de-
cline in the Use of anthracite coal, or, more
properly, the refusal of the public to continue
in all its industries and necessities at the
mercy of single monopoly. That this decline
has been enormous is well known, but glance
at the reports for q few years past shows that
it was nearly 80 per cent from 1872 to 1879.
The combination commenced Regulating"
the price of coal in 1872, and before the END
of that year it was announced by authority
that the price would be fixed to suit the com
bination at regular monthly meetings. The
amount of coal transported by four OF the
companies during the years 1928 and ls74-3
Year: 1876

asked for a reorganization of the party in this
city and sent their Committee OF conference
to take seats IN tho Republican Convention.
The new State Committee will probably feel
that recent occurrences emphasize the request
for a reorganization in this city. which was
referred to them.
Year: 1876

1t is now claimed that grain can be sent by
railroad from the West to Halifax, and thence
to England, more cheaply than by the ordi-
nary water routes. Should this be borne out,
the steamboat traffic on the lakes must suffer
further detliment from railroad rivalry.
Year: 1876

The union of the two great branches OF
Episcopal Methodsm in the United States,
which is foreshadowed in the address OF the
Joint Board of Commissioners, Is the crowning
religious event of the Centennial year.
Year: 1876

We feel bound to say that the performance
of the Independent Republican delegation at
Saratoga did not come up to the high sound
ing promise. We were assured that large
number of distinguished gentlemen, whom the
whole community trusts, had authorized the
use of their names as delegates, but none OF
them were present, and the conclusion OF the
whole business was impOtSut.
Year: 1876

There are more than two months before election
and the gentlemen who are working mp the criminal
business Of the campaign have got along MS lar a.
perjury in the charges against Gov liideh' IL
seems rather early in the canvass for such develop
uent There ought to be some artistic progression
In these crimes in order 20 keep up sustained ana
cumulative interest until the end. Perjury is well
on toward the felonles, that there is danger OF
exhausing the entire list before the middle of Sep
tembor But then perjury Ii not picturesque CRIME
and there are still fine chances for scenical effects
Besides the field Of insnuatng interrcgatory hasn't
vet been touched. This Is very tempting region
and practically limtless. In the course OF month
or so il will be scasonable to inquire Is 1t true or
ia il not true that S. J. T. was seen carrying pint
of kerosene and a box of parior matches III the
direction of Mr.. Smiths barn on She dark night
when that structure was accidentally bnrnedf or
al, il true or Is il not true that = J. T. purchased
pound of Paris green a few days before the sudden
death OF his grandmother ~
Year: 1876

The appeal in behalf Of the East Side poor,
70 which we gave wide circulation last Satur-
day, il meeting with generous response.
When there is so much sham distress, and
when beggary has been reduced to such q system
of plumber. Charity has to be as wise as ser
pent; but the cases of extreme suffering de-
scribed in our column were so urgent aud
pitiful that her heart was touched.
Year: 1876

for reorganization III OiVy' ""AN" WV
referred to them.


The ends of the first traveller rope OF the
East River Bridge have been splced, ana
there is now a continuous line between the
anchorage piers. The next step In the pro-
gress of this great work will involve ar extra
ordinary buggy ride. The second traveller
rope is to be lashcd at intervals to the first,
and then workman is to be sent ever in
buggy to cut the fastenings. The engineers
have received hundred applications for seats
in the car. Is this an unwhOlesome craving
for notOrety or the genuine spirit OF American
daredevilry7


The prisoners at the White Plains Jail evil
IDENTIFY enjoy all the home privileges of large
family, having keys to their cells and walking
in and ont at pleasure. Four of them met
keeper on the stairs yesterday, knocked HIM
down, fshed out of his pocket the keys OF the
prison doors, and quietly walked out. Now
that the Sheriff has had the trouble OF recap
turing three of his guests, he may be inclined
to curtail some of the privileges OF the e5tao-
lshment. If it would be discourteous to the
conyicts to take away their keys, he might at
least turn out the turnkey who doesn't lock up
the cells. @, = -
Col. Robert G. IngcrsOll carries with him to
the Maine stump all tie breeze of an ILLINOIS
prairie His speech at Lewiston, from which
we can only find room for few extracts,
ought to give the Republicans sufficient mo-
mentum to carry them through the canvass.
There is less of the picturesque rhetoric OF
the West in it than there was in the famous
speech which held the Cincinnati Convention
spell bound, but there is III its place broad,
racy humor which opens the hearts OF a pop
ular audience. His portrait of bachelor PTesi-
dent is AS effective in its way as cartoon.
He goes back to war times-that is haoit
into which all Republican orators have fallen,
and we suspect that the Democrats would do
the same if they dared-and there Is not u
dull sentence in the speech.


There is another rumOr of n battle with the
| Sioux north of the Black Hills. with heavy
| losses on both sides. The report was brought
| 70 Standing Rock on the Missouri River by an


Indian, and is probably an idle tale Nothing


has been heard at Army Headquarters from
| Gen. Crook since his junction with Gen. Terry
in the Rosebud Valley. So wary warrior as
! Sitting Bull, if he had been in condition to


meet the troops in the field, would


have hurled his force against one or


the other of the divisions before they


united. These were the tactics which he


adopted earlier in the season, checking the


advance of Gen. Crook on the headwaters of


the Rosebud, and subsequently Turing Gen.


Custer to destruction on the Little Big Horn.


The abandonment of tactics which had proved


so successful shows that Sitting Bulls force is


badly crippled and that he has adopted the


Fabian policy of guerrilla warfare. Meanwhile,


reGnforccments are moving rapidly toward the


Yellowstone and preparations are making for


an extended campais sn which will probably last
| all Winter
Year: 1876

smiled. '' How much did Pierrot cost 2" "T Ten francs" "Well, you go back to the abattoir and buy another ass, and take good care of this one." gave my card to the woman and said goodbye to her and the donkey. The miracle was complete. The ass started off in high spirits, the woman pushing the cart from behind.

 That evening the poor woman came to me in tears. I understood at once. "Ah, sir, he is gonel" "Poor Pier rot. "Yes, sir, we got to St. Ouen one way or another. But when he came in sight of our hut he fell on his knees. tried to raise him, but this time it was all over. My children came running and crying. They talked to him and kissed him. He looked at them so sadly as to break our hearts. tell you, there are lots of people in the world not worth half so much as poor Pierrot. Think of it, he wanted to die at home after finish ing his days work" Like soldier who dies after firing his last cartridge. The ragpicker opened her hand, and I saw the money had given her in the morn ing. "Here are your hundred francs, sir."

 do not know whether most admired her or the donkey-the ass who did his duty to death, or the woman more deli cate than our charity.
Year: 1876

A lady in Marquette, Mich., suspect. ed that her husband was in the habit of kissing Katy, the cook, and resolved to detect him in the act. After watching for days she heard him come in one evening and quietly pass into the kitch- en. Now, Katy was out that evening, and the kitchen was dark. Burning with jealousy, the wife took some matches in her hand and hastily placed her shawl over her head, as Katy some- times did, entered the kitchen by the back door, and was almost immediately seized and embraced in the most ardent manner. With her heart almost bursting with rage and jealousy the injured wife prepared to administer terrible rebuke to her faithless spouse. Tearing her self from his embrace, she struck 8 match and stood face to face with-the hired man. Her husband says that his wife has never treated him so well since the first month they were married as she has for the past few days.
Year: 1876

The Lewiston (Maine) Journal has discovered the method and thus reveals iC: She is a woman weighing, it was supposed, about 25O pounds, but her husband could not induce her to be weighed. So the other day he was out driving with his wife and drove up to MT. Dorman's store in Auburn. The wife did not notice that the team stood on MT. Dorman's hay scales. While he was talking with gentleman at the door, his whole team was being weigh ed. He then drove over to Lisbon street and left his wife to do some shop ping. Then he drove back to MT. Dor mans hay scales and the team was then weighed-minus the wife. It was but a simple sum in subtraction to discover the weight of the woman. On getting nome the joke leaked out, but his neigh bors declare that Caleb will never be more sorry than he was the hour when his wife learned that she weighed two hundred and forty odd pounds.
Year: 1876

The Chinese tumblers lately intro music in San Francisco, local journal number of athletic Mongolians appear, stripped to the waist, and begin sort of combination on the stage. At first the fighting appears to be promiscuous, but six or eight finally ally themselves against one man, and try to overcome him by springing against him and strik- ing him full in the breast with the soles of their feet. He IT eets this curious mode of attack by standing like statue, while the others fall heavily to the floor

 A number of tables are next brought out and piled one above the other, until a height of about twenty feet is attained. A performer, whose weight is no less than one hundred and fifty pounds, mounts them, and, springiag in the air toward the floor and the stage, strikes both feet with heavy thud upon the bare breast of man standing about ten feet from the foot of the tables, throwing him violently to the floor. How 8 man can sustain such blow is mystery. Again the agile acrobat ascends to the top table, and, springing upward, turns a somersault, while all the tables except the lower table are suddenly taken away. Upon the only table left he falls with a force apparently great enough to break every bone in his body; but he leaps up again immediately and turns back hand springs across the stage. Again he climbs to the top of the tower of tables, while second lies down upon table 8 few feet from the base of the tower. Turning somersault in mid air, he falls upon the other body, the two breast to breast, and bounds oil again with sec ond somersault. Other acrobats climb to various attitudes, and fell upon the stage, alighting square upon their backs with force that is astonishing. The feats are all executed by men in semi nude condition, so that there is no chance for padding their clothes. The manager informed the reporter that the tumblers were we'll trained from child hood, and became habituated to the terrible concussions only by years of practice. He added that many were killed in training, or maimed for life.
Year: 1876




Its t. Be hoped that the newspapers
mensof this city who have been insisting,
through motives Of opposition,to the Dem
ocratic council that there is plenty Of work,
are satisfied that there is moi, far rs coun-
Gil has power. The manner in which they
have kept up this senseless twaddle,is even
to those of their own party false state
ment. Council has shown by repeated
statements that their hands are Ind, and
that they are powerless to do anything,
and this is ably supported by the City So
licitor in his report to the council, on last
Thursday night. We do not deny that
there is city work to be done; there is
plenty of it on the new basin, but how is
it to be done without money? The men
are seeking work to earn bread, as they
express it, and they cannot do this without
money. There is only 50 much in the
reservoir fund, and when that is exhausted,
work must necessarily step upon this i'm
provemeDt.


1t is favorite cry with the CONNER
cial" that the council has power enough,
if they choose to use it, to give the men
employment. What this power consists
in, thorough search of all laws relating
to the matter, has failed to reveal. Legal
ability has been consulted, and rendered
opinion that there is no provision of the
city charter, which gives to council any
such authority. Now We beg ofthe "Com-
mercial," for the personal happiness and
comfort oftwenty-fve hundred workingmen
who are starving for bread, for the enlighl-
enment of Council, for the instruction of
legal lore, for the benefit of whole COM
munity, to settle problem beyond our
solving, to give to the public this authority.
Unfold thy great wisdom that we may
listen and be instructed, and you will have
performed a work Of benefcence, before
which all will bow down and worship.


If the Commercial has treasured this
panacea for financial embarrassment, and
not even offered it to to the distressed peo-
pie, who have been carried to the very
brink of starvation, and when they cried
out for bread were given stone, it was
stony-hearted to do SO, when they could
have with this secret in their possession
have given them fish. Now in the name
of all that we have implored thee, unfold
thy store Of legal wisdom, teach an ignor-
ant Council how they have erred, let an
obtuse attorney know his lack of compre-
hension. Let the City of Wilmington
know your superior legal wisdom, and
there will be no occasion to convene the
Legislature in special session, question
that has racked the brain of the city for
two weeks will be settled, and we will
justly regard thee as an Oracle.
Year: 1876

SAN FRANcsco, Jan. % 1876
In the New South Wales Parliament, the I'd of De-
cember in debate on the condition Of the Pacific mail
service by the way Of San Francisco the Minister in
reply to questions stated that the contract had been
properly fulfilled thus far One member declared that
the colony had been swndled the of ESQ 900
under the late contract, and there TO
expect better things from the contract under the
present control of manager Hall The matter was dis
cussed by other members full statement OF the
condition of the service promised
muncation could be had with the government OF New
Zealand and the contractors would be held strictly
sponsibe for any failure fulfil the of the
frac
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, D. c June 2I, 1876. To THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA TERRITORY

 Being detained here on public business much longer than I expected to have been hereby announce myself a candidate for Reelection as Delegate to Congress, By the people of Arizona. In so doing, I can but repeat my former platform. and with renewed energy and the advantage of what little experience have acquired, I pledge myself eff elected) to devote my time and give my most careful attention to the advancement of the best interests of Arizona and her people, irrespective of par ty faction or section

 To my friends who have so generously and nobly stood by me during the past two years. tender my heartfelt thanks.

 To those who still continue to oppose me and to all opponents, I wish to say: I shall meet you in opposition on tho same field in a friendly manner. and believing as do that the majority of the people are always right, shall feel pleased with the result

 Most respectfully inviting one and all to my support, am

 Very respectfully yours. July 9. H. s. STEVENS.
Year: 1876

Reported Defeat of Gen. Crook and

 Loss of 300 Men--FTOre Cavalry

 Ordered to the Seat of War.

 The Globe Democrat has a spe. cial from Leavenworth, giving what seems to be an exaggerated account of Crooks battle with the Sioux on Goose Creek. Dispatches say a letter from the post sutler at Camp Sheridan arrived at Sandy to-day, and reports the arrival at Camp Sheridan last Wednesday of Lame Deer, friendly Indian, who brings information that Gen. Crook suffered terrible defeat at the hands of the Sioux on Goose Creek, but details of the battle are not given. 4 scout states that Crook lost nearly three hundred soldiers, who were driven across the creek under a terrible fire from the Indians. The fight was more of slaughter than @ battle. It is further stated that the Indians are greatly elated over their vic tory and intend after driving the miners out of the Black Hills to clean out all the Americans in the northern Territories and all the stations along the Pacific railroad. The dispatch is so dated that it cannot be stated whether this is an account of another battle or one ofrecent date. Therefore it is given for what it is worth. All the Cavalry now on duty in South . ern Kansas and Indian Territory have been ordered to join the commands of General Terry and Crook.
Year: 1876

We were shown last night by Mr.. Geo.
Barth, of Company +, First Regiment
louisiana Volunteers Of the Army oi
Northern Virginia, a relic from in front
Of the breastworks at Petersburg, and a
very great curiosity. 1t was nothing
more nor less than two minnie balls
which had met each other point blank
as they sped on their death dealing
mission and were mashed fiat and weld
ed together, the hollow base Of each
ball being alone intact, one on either
side and in the centre OF the leaden disc
formed by the two bullets which spreads
out over diameter of about one and a
half inch. 1t Is certainly a great
curiosity and valuable relic, and as
such is most highly priced by its owner
Mr.. Barth, to whom 1t was given by Mr.
J. Lauff, who picked 1t up in front ol
the breastworks at Petersburg.