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Year: 1876

MAID AND AS A BooTBLACK.- What do
you think of Russian Princess,


genuine article, with her name, coat
| of arms, etc, stamped even on her


stockings, serving in the capacity of
chambermaid at gentleman's house,


bringing up a fellow's-this fellows
early cup of coffee, and gracefully
shufaing down stairs with his boots?


How would that fit into your pipe for
a quiet smoke? will tell you tale,
stranger than fiction. In the first
place | must give incredulity gentle
tap on the head as hint to be quiet,
by promising that Russian Princesses
in their native land are as thick as


leaves in Valombrosa. This particu-
lar Princess, who had cut some caper
or other, resulting in policeman's or
der for her to move on, came to this
country She here fell III love with a
thoroughbred scalawag and married
him. He was an expeditions young
man, and he went through her money
and diamonds like beans through a
tin horn. AS the diamonds melted
away they came down in life by go
ing up to the neighborhood of the at
tic. At last, one morning after break
fast, out of the melting of the last ear


ring, the young man arose, embraced
his wife, shed one tear ON her throb-
bing bosom, and bolted. He went off
with another name and took to keep
ing school at $40 a month. The Prin-
cess took an engagement as chamber
maid in a private family at 81 week,
and no half benefit. Eighteen months
rolled around, at the end of which
time she treed her man-the vagrant
husband. She went into court and
demanded share of the pedagogue's
salary. The scalawag pulled out a
decree of divorce, obtained somewhere
in the West. But the employer of the
Princess was a prominent lawyer,
and, badgered by his servant, took. up
her cause. The decree was right, but
had one fatal defect. Such docu-
ment is taken in evidence in the New
York courts, provided it has the sig
nature of the clerk of the court, seal,
ETC., also that of the judge, with the
additional requirement that the judge
must certify that it is the clerk ia
question, and the clerk must swear to
the judge, which is funny, and, with
all due respect to the courts, | should
say highly preposterous. In this doc
ument the clerk had failed to certify
to the identity of the court, and the
Justice here threw out the evidence
and assigned to Nine. Princess $l2
a week out of her husbands earnings.
Now see the effect of sudden prosperi-
tv. From that moment the Princess
has refused to make bed or flourish
u duster, and as long as school keeps
will not touch his boots with pair Of
tongs.--.Louasudle Courier-Journal.


"MR. ToMPKINs," said young lady
who had heen showing off her wit at
Year: 1876

Two gallons will cover a hundred square feet OF
shingle roof while tin, iron, felt matched boards
or any smooth surface from two quarts to gallon
are required to 100 square feet of surface, and al
though the Paint has heavy body it is easily applied
with brush
Year: 1876

roof may be covered with a very cheap shingle,
Id by application of this slate be made to last from
2 to 25 years. Old roofs be patched and coated
LOOKING much better, and lasting longer than new
shingles without the slate. for
Year: 1876

The Ds,,socrtto TioRst IN Chester County


A gentleman of this city visiting in Ches
ter county . few days ago made 1t q point to
talk with the farmers on the questions of the
campaign, and he says that out of twenty
who have heretofore voted the Republican
ticket every one of them declared their
intention to vote for Tilden and Hendricks
this time. Each one assigned as reason
that they wanted change from this cor
ruption in government that we have had
under Grants administration.
Year: 1876

Remember that you do not lose your vote
to morrow by moving from one Ward into
another, or from ono Hundred into another,
provided you are otherwise properly quail
fed. The thirty days residence only sp-
plies to city elections.
Year: 1876

Examine your tickets we'll. See that you
vote, and see that you get everyone to vote
who is entitled to. Remember that you are
striking for the freedom of the ballot and
The return to peace and prosperity.
Year: 1876

Remember that you do not lose your vote
tomorrow by moving from one Ward into
another or from one Hundred into another,
provided you are otherwise properly quail
fed. The thirty days residence only ap-
plies to city elections.
Year: 1876

On Saturday evening, the Newark Cornet
Band, and the Elmira Cornet Band of New
port, finding that they were to play for
colored people, and to be bossed BY COL
ored Marshal under the influence of liquor,
wheeled out of line and proceeded to the
Black Horse hotel, where they gave three
cheers for Tilden and Reform, and favored
those present with some good music.
Year: 1876

Examine your tickets we'll. See that you
vote, and see that you get everyone to vote
who is entitled to. Remember that you are
striking for the freedom of the ballot and
the return to peace and prosperity.
Year: 1876

Remember that you do not lose your vote
tomorrow by moving from one ward into
another, or from one Hundred into another
provided you are otherwise properly quail
lied. The thirty days residence only ap-
plies TO city elections. I
Year: 1876

Ok the trial and conviction of John
ID. Lee, in the Court at Beaver, the
evidence of McCurdy was very clear
and positive as to Lee having shot
and killed four or FIVE wounded men
and women who we're lying helpless
in the wagon that the witness was
driving, and as to his heartlessness
in the slaughter. Witness testified
that as soon as Lee fred the first
shot, preceded by the word Haiti"
the Indians rushed out of their am
bush apparently on all sides, sur
rounding the emigrants completely,
and the work of destruction lasted
only a few minutes; that from his
best judgment there we're not to ex-
coed twenty-five white men on the
ground, who had been deceived as to
what was wanted of them there.
Year: 1876

THE Western press is greatly in
eensed by the inventive genius of the
East, which has covered Sitting Bull
with the glamor of romance. 1t makes
proclamation that the said Sitting
Bull is not West Point cadet in
disguise; that he does not speak
French; that he resembles neither
Napoleon nor Phil Sheridan; that he
is not a picturesque Logan or Meta
mora, pacing with melancholy mien
up and down his wigwam and sigh
ing " Where is the home of my faith
ersr' but that he is merely dirty,
cut-throat Indian, with a game leg
and an enormous capacity for whisky.
Year: 1876

The Technologist states that
paint ssiss.d to the exterior
f,f ~ in autumn or
wlnterl will endure twice as
long as when applied in early
summer or in hot weather.


In the former it dries slowly
and becomes hard, like aglaz-
ed surface, not easily affected
afterwards by the weather,
or worn off by the beating of
storms. But in very hot
weather the oil ip the paint
sGaks into the wood at once.
as in a sponge, leaving the
lead nearly dry and ready to
crumble off. The last diff
Guilty, however, might in a
measure be guarded against,
though at an increased eX-
pensc, by first going over the
surface with law oil. Fur
thermore, by painting in cold
weather You escape the au-
noyance Of small flies which
invariably collect during the
warm season on Fl esh paint.
Year: 1876

Colenfan's Rnral World:-
If eAetrF ii one thing more
than andtller that puzzles the
iuind &c the farmer, it is as to
what lie shall DO to make
money. Ii any new source
of making money by farming
were found, it would not be
long Before everybody would
be going into it, and it would
soon be ovcrdone. So every
farmer must fall back on first
principles, see what his farm
is best adapted to, taken in
connection with the markets
within reach. the cost of get
ting his productions to mark
ct, and hen concentrate his
energies and abilities Oh pro-
ducing The best, so as t" get
it into market and obtain the
highest prices. He wants
largeyislds per acre, and cam
not have them without good
land and the best culture
He must possess enterprise
and energy, like any other bus
mess man, and know wheth-
er he can produce his crops
or his stock at a profit or a
loss. Where he sees a chance
for good profits, he must put
his best foot forward, and
market his produce at the
best time and in the most at
tractive manner. Bad farm
ing will pay no man. Intel
ligence and skilLare necessa-
ry to reap SUCCESS.
Year: 1876

Not one half the persons
who lay shingles when MAX
ing a roof on a building have
any correct ideas in regard to
making a roof that will be
absolutely rain-tight during a
driving storm Of rain. We
have frequently seen men
shingling, WIN, when they
would meet with a worthless
shingle, say once in laying
two or three courses, would
lay this poor shingle among
the good ones. saying: 1T is
only one poor shingle, one
shingle cannot make u poor
Year: 1876

DR.. W. &. Ford writes IT,
the Brookhaven Ledger: The
cholera has been very destruc-
tive among hogs this FALL
There are but few planters in
this State who have not lost
more or less hogs with chol-
era. There have been many
remedies tried without sue
cess, and my opinion is that
there is no remedy after the
disease fully sets in. The only
remedy is a preventative,a ,and
to obtain such a remedy we
must know something about
the cause of the disease, of
which l will give you my
humble opinion, ,havingform-
ed it from circumstances aud
observation.


I think a hog requires a
certain amount of dit to be
healthy, which he getsin root
ing after worms, roots, etc -
This Fall has been very dry
and hogs have been forced to
live on vegetation alone, with
out that amount of earth ne
cessary for their health. My
reason for so believing is that
my hogs have been exempt
from cholera, while my neigh
boris hogs have died of that
disease. | have a large lick
in my pasture which is very
salt. The hogs eat quantities
of this salty earth daily
There is gentleman living
near Hazlehursl who has been
feeding his hogs upon cotton
seed by throwing the seed in
"a mudhole, the hogs eating a
large amount of dirt with the
seed, aud his hogs were ex-
empt from cholera, while his
neighbors hogs nearly all died
Of the disease. The impress
sion of that neighborhood is,
that the feeding on seed pre-
vented the disease.


After this information /
adopted the feeding upon cot
ton seed myself in the same
manner. / am not well salts
fled which is the remedy, the
seed or dirt, if either. | am
inclined from the above rea-
soniDg to think the latter
This is only m, opinion, and
/ give it to the public for
what it is worth.
Year: 1876

roof" But one poor shing'e
will make IA leaky one. If
first rate shingles are employ
ed, and one poor one is work
ed in every 100, that roof
might as we'll have been with
out any shingles. Ifany poor
shingles arc to be used. let
them all be laid together at
the upper part of the roof
The best of shingles will not
make a tight roof if they are
not properly laid, while the
same shingles wonld make an
excellent roof If laid as shin-
gles should be laid.
Year: 1876

millions of intelligent men
have less influence in making
our laws, than one hundred
men! This must bring the
blush to the cheek of every in
telligent farmer. And shall
such stat tements always re-
main true9 Will the farm


ers always be so lacking in
representative men to attend
to their dearest interests q
Let ussllope not. d..
Year: 1876

The Holly Springs South,
the best paper published in
the northern part of the State,
says of the colored man and
brother: Our cplored popula-
tion should be of good cheer.
BY the result of the election
they have been emancipated
from the leadership of selfish
men who used them only for
their personal ends, as rhe
monkey used the cats paw in
pulling chesnuts out Of the
fire. In this their hour of
triumph, it will be seen that
Southerners are true friends
Of those who were once their
slaves, and that the powers Of
Government will be benefi-
cially used for the equal BEN
eft of all, without regard to
rare or color. Offices are to
be filled by honest and COM
petent men, and all are to be
alike protected in all the
rights of lite, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. No one
has a right to expect frt III
Government more than an
equal chance to take care of
himself. and enjoy fully the
fl nits of his own enterprise,
skill, and labor. Offices are
created and filled, not as re-
wards to the incumbents. or
for the benefit of the office
holders, but for the good of
the people, aud this being the
case, henceforth let the office
seek the man, and not the
man. the office.
Year: 1876

Take a fine white bunch o1
celery -four or five heads),
scrape and wash white, re-
serve he delicate green leaves,
shred the white part like
straws, lay this in q glass or
white china dish, i'm the form
Of a nest; mince all the white
meat of Il fowl without the
skin, and put it in the nest.
Make salad dressing, viz
Rub the yolks of two bard
boiled eggs to a smooth paste,
with a dessert spoonful of sal
al oil or melted butter, add
to it two teaspoonfu!s of made
mustard, and Il amall tea
spoonful of fine white sugar,
and put 20 it gradually a cup
Of strong vinegar; make a
wreath Of the most delicate
leaves of the celery around
the edge Of the nest, between
it and The chicken; pour the
dressing over the chicken
when ready to serve. IF the
dressing is poured over too
soon, it will discolor the Gel
cry. White heart lettncemay
be used for the nest, instead
of celery.
Year: 1876

CHApPED HANDS - A wri-
ter in the American Grocer
asserts that to preserve the
smoothness and softness OF
the hands, keep a small bot
tie Of glycerin near the place
where you ha5itually wash
them, and whenever You have
finished washing. and before
wiring them, put one or two
drops Of glycerin on tho wet
palm and rub The hands thor
oughly with it as if it were
soap, then dry lightly with a
towel. Honsehold work and
bad weather will not prevent
your skin from being smooth
and soft, if this plan of using
glycerin is followed.
Year: 1876

The Miss. Baptist says the
reason why ALI cotton seed
80 soon rust out is because
the planter viii not take the
little pains necessary to pre-
serve the purity Of the seed,
but Will plant it and gin it
where il will mix with the
common, and will plant all
the degenerate seed with the
pure.
Year: 1876

SELF KNowLEDGE.-While we do not
hold that every man should be his own
DOCTOR" we are free to maintain that
the ignorance of a majority of men and
women upon matters most vitally i'm
portant to their physical organization is
lamentable. If the standard works of
the Peabody Medical Institute, Boston,
could be placed in the hands of all, both
old and young, the field of quackery
would be greatly diminished and the de;
structiveness of our most insidlous and
wasting diseases greatly lessened. BY
reference to our advertising columns, it
will be found that the titles OF these
works are 'The Science of Life, or Self
We@an ana Her PhysOd0gyo snd Of
eases of the Nerves and Nervous Mala-
ladies'" the value of which is proven by
the fact that beautiful and costly Gold
Medal has just been presented the au-
thor by the National Medical Associa-
ton
Year: 1876

In view of the opening of the camp


meeting at Chester Heights on Lext
Tuesday, considerable activity is be,
ing manifested upon the grounds by
those who intend taking part in the
exercises. Cottages and tents are be-
ing put up with neatness and dispatch,
and all through the woods a very ac-
tive scene greets the eye uf the visitor
Year: 1876

Mr.. Joseph T. Campbell, an aged
citizen of Florence, New Jersey, re-
Gently brought to Philadelphia the
identical grape shot with which Mar
quis de Lafayette was wounded at the
battle of Brandywine. 1t has been in
his possession over half a century,
and was given to him by his aunt, Isa-
bella McCloskey, who picked it up af-
ter 1t had struck the Marquis and been
stopped by a wall. The heroine was
on that day carrying ammunition 10
her apron, and when the gallant
Frenchman was wounded she tore off
her underclothing to staunch the blood
and bind up the wound. On the visit
OF the Marquis to this country several
years later he sought her out. The
ball is a cast iron globe, about II inch.
es in diameter. and has been religious.
ly preserved.
Year: 1876

EARLY York PEAcHEs.-This morning
small crate of peaches was offered for
sale on King street at 10 cents per quart.
They were of the Early York premature
variety. and were grown near Kirk
wood
Year: 1876

A QUESTION FOR DEBATE.-out at
Philippi, in Barbour county, the famous
place where the war commenced, the fol-
lowing question is set for debate at the
next meeting OF the Philippi Literary
Society, viz "Resolved that uncducated
Ministers arc injurious to the cause oil
Christianity"


This identical question has been more
or less discussed by some of the leading pa
pers Of the country since the Moody and
Sunkey revivals began. The New York
Sun had an elaborate leader on the sub
cct a few days ago. and so had the
Chicago Tribune. The question was asked,
what Ia the secret Of Moody's power
% preacher? Why ia 1t that none
Of the learned diyincs who throng his
platform, aud who sit as listeners at his
feet, are able to move the people as he
moves themP Why is it that so many
Of them preach to half.fllCd churches :
They have learning to make their dis
courses attractive, and yet it is notorious
that even their congregations weary OF
hearing them longer than half an hour
The same people however will go and
spend an hour listening to Moody and be
interested all the time.


The conclusion reached by the Sun is
thAtvery many Of the fashionable preach
ess, So.called, do not manifest the enthu-
'iA'm that men ought to manifest who
really believe that they are sent to warn
Year: 1876

The following advertisement appeared in a
New Zealand newspaper: "Mr. John Cow
begs to intimate to the party or parties who
are in the habit of helping themselves to his
firewood that they may now have the axe, as
he has no further use for it. lie hopes that
the taste which they so strongly displayed
for heat may be gratiied, il not IN this
snhere, at least IN the neXt.n
Year: 1876

Dom Pedro was fascinated by the high
culture and intense quiet of Boston. He en-.
loved good rest there, and says that Boston
is the only city in the United States in which
he has been able to secure square sleep.
Even the nightly cats sing themes from
Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Year: 1876

A boy at the west enu' had birthday
party A slx.year old guest thus describes it
to his mother First we all had some bread
and butter Then we had some lemonade
cold enough to freeze you. Then we all had
piece OF birthday cake. Then we all had a
lot of ice-cream; and then all the little boys
had stomachache. The big girls told us to
go into the house and lie down on the floor,
and they made US drink peppermint and wa.
ter, till we felt better. Then we all went out
to play
Year: 1876

Plaid stockings are coming into
fashion.


Cardinal red silk boots will be worn
with bail dresses this winter
Basques buttoned behind continue in
fashion for very young ladies.
. Paris fashions" like olive wood arti-
cles from Jerusalem, are of New York
manufacture.


An attempt is being made to intro
duce the Partisan fashion of metallic soles
on ladies' shoes.


A three-cornered neckerchief is now
worn outside of fall wraps, instead of the
long scarf of lace.


Looping the Overskirt at eneside to
display the cardinal red balmOral is the
latest device Of the fashionable.


Sitting down in dresses composed en-
tirely of flowers will be an imp0ssibility.
Ribbons form the only trimmings on
such tOiletes, neither jewelry nor orna-
ment being admissible.


1t is roughly estimated by the New
York World that five thousand western
girls have taken husbands this year for
the only reason that they were thereby en-
abled to visit the centennial at somebody
else's expense.


As a stern-wheel steamboat was pass
ing up the Ohio river the other day,
little girl who was standing on the hotel
stoop ran into the house to her mother,
calling out: Mother, mother, cGme
and see this steamboat-it's got hustle
on"


Milandy who has been abroad now
adopts the foreign plan, and has her foot
man stand in the lobby of the theater when
the performance is over, with his arms
filled with wraps and his eyes with dig
nifty. Curious how many wrinkles we
get in Europe.


A Paris correspondent of the New Cen
tury for women writes: In the new sys-
TEN of female education the boarding
school does not occupy the position to
which it has risen in America. They
allow too much liberty, too many oppor-
tunities to escape surveillance, to please
people among whom it is popularity
said thatifayoung girls once seen to cross
the street alone no man will marry her.
Hence in the higher and the upper mid
die classes girls are either sent to converts
or taught by governesses at home.
Year: 1876

"What was the object of these men ?


"Well, these fellows had been without
any counterfeit capital for some time
and 1t was necessary, in order to procure
stuff, to get some of the cOney men out
of the penitentiary. TIE man they had
been dealing with was Ben Boyd. They
1t had all been talked up, and money could
have been gotten, but it was impossible.
They are connected with a gang of coun-
terfeiters in st. Louis. Being men OF
talent-all of them are, in fact-some one
proposed this scheme to rob Lincoln's
grave. Whether he got the idea from
history, or 1t was original with himself,
/ don't know"


Who was the author of it ?"


"That don't know. Hughes says he
was, but | don't think he is smart enough.
l belive it was the contractor or Mullins
either of them could do it. Some one
anyhow conceived that if they could get
Lincoln's body, large reward would be
paid for its return, and Boyd would be
set free. They all knew that the monu-
ment cost over $500, 900, and they asked
the question, What's the use of


THE MONUMENT WITHOUT THE CORPSE? p


The penalty was looked up, and it was
discovered to be a mere fine and one
year in the county jail. The chances of
detection were very small. Everything
was gone over carefully, and the conclu-
sion reached that there were no chances
for detection at all. There were no
guards at the monument, and all there
was to do was to go there, shoulder the
casket, and carry il off. 1t was to be
taken to some place where nobody could
find it, and they thought, in due course
of time, the association, or the govern
ment, or somebody would offer big re-
ward to get it back, and then it would be
turned up for the money and a aldon
for Boyd; and the settlement of the case
against Hughes was also to be one of the
rconditions.-Chicdgo Tribune.
Year: 1876

The secret is to discover how many
different ways you can read the warning
words-Red Rum and Murder. After
you think you have the solution correct
ly, look it over again carefully and see if
you are not at least a thousand out of
: he
Year: 1876

In Colorado they have invented a
dreaoful machine, which has been styled
the Grasshopper's Hell. 1t is fiery
furnace on wheels, made of long and
wide piece of iron, with the lower edge
turned and strapped into u trench or
trough to hold the fire. The upper edge
is arched forward to catch the varmints
as they rise, and cast them on the living
Goals, where they feed the flames for
those that follow them. Thus the grass
hoppers are turned into a means of their
own destruction. The machine-infer-
nal as it is-has failed to keep down the
pests, for their increase beats the devil
itself. When they alight on a field Of
corn, there is no help forjt; they do not
leave the place until it is as clear
as though nothing had been planted
there.
Year: 1876

General Grant is in favor of removing
the Sioux to the Indian Territory and
teaching them to support themselves by
raising crops. The Sioux will never
learn to raise anything except hair.