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Year: 1876

The conductors the Jersey City and Bergen Rail,
road fast emulating the example OF the fraternity
in New York The story told James Mcguire in tho
First District Police Court at Jersey City compromises
the police well the conductors He was a passen-
ger Grand street car, and pulling out two i've
pieces to pay for his fare Of them dropped in
the straw He proceeded TO search for it, but in
"Three cents more; leave that to the sweeper"
Mcguire would submit to this view OF the and
the conductor caught him and dragging him OF
tho car when OiTcer Whiting ran up and pulling
Mcguire OF conveyed him to the station house and
locked him up for me night Mcguire at FIRST
challenged the right OF the ocer to arrest him, for
which he received two blows Of a club on the arm.
The officer preferred a charge OF "drunk and dis
orderly " whereas Mcguire has not tasted spirituoua


liquors since last April In spite OF all these crcum-
stances the Justice fined Mcguire Sl0 The abused
man however, intends to bring both the conductor
and the officer before the Grand Jury.
Year: 1876

oGlcer Locke, Of the Third precinct OF Jersey City,
was making his rounds along Hoboken avenue on
Wednesday night while the cold snap most severe.
when be heard OF distress proceeding from ths
meadowa on making search he discovered laboret
named James Mackay who while intoxicated, had
stumbled into pool OF water and, being unable to ex
trcate himself, freezing TO death. Tho Officer
banled him out and as he was unable TO walk,
he was half carried half dragged to the Rock Tavern,
where he received immediate attention. Both his
hands and feet frozen. He subjected to Wig
orous rubbing and received dry clothing. after which
he conveyed to the police station and attended by
the police surgeon.


About the same time officer Short found middle
aged woman named Margaret Bodine, lying in state
OF Inconsistencies Hoboken avenue. She, too was
intoxicated The officer provided her with lodgings IN
the station for the remainder Of the night
Year: 1876

Tho protractcd difficulty between tho Board OF
Finance OF Jersey City and jeremiah d. Cleveland ths
contractor for the erection OF the new reservoir ha
come to issue in the Supreme Court Judge scud
der delivered tho opinion OF the Court yesterday thats
nandamus should issue recurring the Board OF Finance
20 appoint arbraors to determine the amount due Mr.
Cleveland on his contract ho had repeatedly 90
handed aatsIacton OF his claims and the Legislature
passed in his behalf bl which the Board oil financ'
fpt nrpd
Year: 1876

so long as they "work for the party" they
will have the sympathy and support OF the
party. leaders and the party press. We do not
doubt Gen. Hawley's carnestness and sincerity
In all that he said, and yet it does occur to us
that this was not the occasion, nor, with all
Difference, he the proper person to lecture upon
its duties profession of which he knows so
little. And We submit further that the lnde-
pendent who does not find God in either party
and SO does not fight for either, may be quite
as near the trut, and as worthy even OF Cen
ITawley's respect as the noisy persons In GUS
tom-housos and post-o6ices who fight by his
side, or the noisy persons who want places IN
custom houses and post-Oif:ces. aud are tight
ing on the other side
Year: 1876

We incline to accept the statement that the
President has decided on Gen. BabcOck's re-
tirement from the White House as true, and
certainly see in it reason for heartily con-
graduating both the President and the cOun-
try. We thought the acquittal Of Gen. Bah
cock reason for similar cOngatulaion but
we did not fail to comment on the amazing
and shocking imprudence Of his course, and
we are even more gratified than surprised to
find that the President too has been able to
perceive this imprudenCe, and to resolve TO
submit to no more of it. the White House
has been too long regarded as an ally
for the men who were rabbing the Gov
ernment. Officials who are 30 innocent
aud so indiscreet as to prove useful tools to
the Whisky thieves should be given some other
base Of operations; and the sooner the Prcsl-
dent shakes himself loose from them the bet
ter will it be for the country and for his own
place III history. His rccord-whatcyer ii is
to be-must he soon made. No patriot viii
tail to hope that iii many respects ii may, in
the few months to come. he mcnded.
Year: 1876

The annual reports of the church organiza-
tons, although made up of statistics, have Il
peculiar interest for the secular observer,
especially when they refer TO the missionary
work or other means used for Chiistianizing =
and ciyizipg our own nation. Ii is of use to
any mans understanding TO be forced occa


sionally to regard the people about him from
some other than commercial or political
point of view. We all of us are apt to con-
elder the influx OF emigration, or the condi-
ton of the population already in the country,
with regard solely to its effect upon the devel-
opment of the territories, the building of rail
roads. the increasing the demand for whatever
commodity We may have to sell, or raising the
value of our own Western land. Provided the will
derness be turned into town lots and furnished
with voters we are satisfied, and leave to the
Year: 1876

In Franco there is q strong sentiment in ia
vor of general amnesty, and this is one OF the
principal questions to be considered by the
new Legislature. There is considerable dis
agreement OH the subject among the Rcpubli-
can deputies, but it Is evident from the tone
of the meeting at cx-President Thiers's house
that many political prisoners will soon be par
dnned.
Year: 1876

The full result of the action Of the Advisory
Council in vindicating Plymouth Church and
its pastor cannot be known Immediately; but
che church naturally accepts it as complete
and. so far as it goes, as final and the report
Of the committee on the subject is pean of
Year: 1876




There is NJ place in American socicty for old
women- those on the shady side Of forty. and
sunny side Of thrce-score


The above remark was read with surprise
in recent article in the WA1cmMAN, and
was said to have been made by woman.
Bless me said !, as | read it, what can it
mean; Why. ! am on the shady side she
speaks Of, and yet never in my life received
more gallant treatment from gentlemen, or
more love and honor from my own sex but
perhaps do not understand what she means
by being in society" Many woman Of
forty is popular in the ballroom and similar
places and as hostess to a circle Of friends
and fashionable acquantances, She has no
equal but if at forty She pines for the small
gallantries and unmeaning attentions shown
ogirls of sixteen she has made mistake in
life somehow Society has place for such
women, and it is very desirable one. II is
not in the ballroom or in conspicuous seats
at the theatre or opera, neither is II ON the
public platform, where politicians wrangle.
1t is at her own Greside, presiding at her own
table, counsellor aud companion for sons
and daughters wise adviser and comforter
for her husband. There are women Of forty.
aud upwards. who by their ready tact and
ready sympathy, added to varied experience
and culture, draw around them the young
girl, who seek for sympathy and help, aud
young men who wish for circle of friends
where the name Of woman is not lightly
spoken, and whore home is hallowed by all
pure and holy influences. The influence of
such an one may he a power for good
worth living for


Every woman has place and an influence
in society, and it is her duty to give herself
all the culture and growth possible, to fit her
for it; and if when she is old, she lacks or
misses the admiration or attention she was
wont TO receive as girl, She may content
herself with what is far better-the homage
and veneration Of the young, and the love
and respect Of ALL
Year: 1876

The COURIER is run upon its merits, no
man is pledged to support it, and no man
will ev.r get the control of its columns in
that manner, but 1t will remain FREQ and
independent the servant of the people.
Year: 1876

A professional thief died recently in
Moyamensing prison, of whom local
journal says that during his residence at
Sing Sing he signalized himself by giving
as much trouble as possible, and on one
occasion being told that he must go to
work or take the consequences, he seized
the hatchet and at one blow chopped of
four of his fingers, defying the authori-
ties to force him to labor against his will.
He refused on his deathbed tosee priest
Or to receive any of his relatives or friends
One of his dying requests was, "Gimme
some chloroform. Let me die game"
Year: 1876

When the gates of youth close behind
a young man, and he is about to go out
alone into the battle of life, he should
be rich in all the wisdom that father
and mother have to give, for, if they
have been true to him, his whole life
thus far has been spent in gathering
from the rich fields that their great
love has opened. He has stood upon
the mountain-tOps of their lifelong eX-
perience, while they have pointed out
the winding way across the perilous
plains below. He is rich in all their
added years of wisdom. His pilgrim
scrip is filled with kindly words of
counsel and advice, and hopes and
prayers shed their fragrance upon him,
and, when the parting hand is given,
he feels in his parents anxious hearts
the words that may be unspoken: "My
son, if you fall, even among the thieves
of temptation, and in the ways of sin,
and if, in the darkness, you cannot find
your way, arise and come back to your
not waste in sinful ways all the best
years of manhood, cannot do anything
that is not noble, true, and manly, for,
wherever he may be, he can see the
home lights and the loved faces pressed
against the windows, looking out
toward him.


The daughter needs yet more of the
home influence, for in her heart must
an ideal home be reared to be wrought
out in all the years of her life; and she
is always daughter, though her chill
dren come with her to visit the old
home that grows more and more beau
tiful in memory's golden light as the
years roll on. How often must the
young girl go to strangers, or go alone,
when word, an hour, or a step may
change the destiny of a life forever !
How the cries of the lost come up to US
because home was not home to their
hearts hungry yearning and the young
souls deepest needs Homeless might
be written on the record of every sinner
as the cause of the shame that curses it.
More than all, should children have in
their tendeTest years the sweet nf1u-
ence that can only be found within the
sacred walls of hOme-hOme in its deep
and broadest meaning. Without it the
buds will never come to fruitage, even
! if there should be flowers, and "might
! have been" must be the Judgment.


! This home power is mighty in its in
fiuence for the world good; yet, faith
ers and mothers stand careless and in
| different as day after day waits before
them, full of grand and glorious oppor-
tunities that reach down to generations
and ages yet unborn; toying with the
gilded trappings of an outward life,
they do not see the gates closing up to
be sealed forever.
Year: 1876

How INDIAN NAMES ORIGINATE
The Sioux Indians name their papOoses
after events transpiring at the time of
their birth. AS illustrative of this pc
culiar trait, Red Cloud is known to have
taken that name from the fact that the
western sky was overspread with red
clouds at the moment of his birth,
while the bringing in of captive horse
with spotted tail gave the now great
chief the singular cognomen of Spotted
Tail. Sitting Bull received the name
because buffalo bull was, by lucky
shot, thrown upon its launches in plain
sight of his mothers tepee at the natal
hour, while the cavortings of a fractions
pony furnished name for the redOubt-
able Crazy Horse.
Year: 1876

A citizen of Dakota took Turkish
bath in Omaha a few days ago, and died
within an hour. The verdict of the
jury was HE hadn't ought to have
got so much of the mud off of him at
one time.n
Year: 1876

The Ohio Democrats have not, 10 use
their own expressive phrase, "gone back on
the platform Of 1876" They reiterate those
absurd and nauseous sentences, that resump-
ton paralyzes productive and commercial in
dustries, and that the masses of the people
are subjugated to the imperious sway of
money oligarchy. They declare for the un-
conditional repeal of the resumption act, for
the substitution of a forced currency for an
optional one, and thereby vast increase of
the national debt, for banking by the Treas
ury, and they reach the climax of absurdity
by protesting against any scheme of resump-
ton which involves either contraction of the
currency or increase of the interest burden of
the debt. This last plank is in effect dec
laration against resumption at any time, for
that much to be desired result can only be
brought about by the means which they ex-
pressy condemn. They fifty crown their
work by endorsing as the choice of Ohio for
President the most blatant repudiationist in
the land, the man who calls the metallic dol
lar "a barren ideality."


In only one important particular does the
platform differ from the one adopted last
year. Since then new form of dishonesty,
a new way to swindle the nations creditors,
has made its appearance, and the Ohio Dem
ocrats hasten to endorse it. So long as silver
maintained its value as compared with gold,
they were as strong in its condemnation as
in that of the other metal. The silver
dollar was as barren an idealty as the gold.
But now that silver is greatly deprecated,
now that its use affords an opportunity to
cheat somebody, they call for its coinage.
They cannot bring themselves to forego so
tempting chance TO swindle their creditors.
The silver dollar becomes productive and
desirable actually the moment it is available
for the purposes of fraud.


Those who pretend that the Ohio Democra-
cy last year was laboring under a temporary
delusion and that it has outgrown or forsaken
its errors, will have difficult task to de-
fend its action Of Wednesday. 1t has adopted
the old bad platform. Incorporating in it an
added form of dishonesty. It has discarded
its best man and taken up an arrant dema-
gogue. The result is to assure the State to
the Republicans, and to bring the currency
question once more into the front rank of
the issues to be brought out in the coming
campaign.
Year: 1876

May IA, 1876.


To the Editor Of the Press:


The greater part of three days 1 have spent
in the Main building at the Centennial and as
yet have not succeeded in getting anything like
an idea of the contents and capacities of the
place. 1t is bewildering and tiresome in the
extreme and still is a great delight, this wan
dering about among the beauties of the New
World and the Old, through a labyrinth of
gorgeousness.


There is much that is not done. Turkey and
Portugal have not even unpacked, Russia is
preparing the space allotted her, the French are
busy arranging their goods and planning new
exhibitions, the Japanese are working with
tools upon the wood of their buildings, the
Sound of hammers, blow on blow rings
through the air, and without, the fountains and
general decorations are, many of them, still in
an unfinished state. In some places the debris
is not removed and lumber and plastering ex-
ist where they ought not at least in the rough
Every day makes a marvellous advance, how
ever, and you can see the improvements con-
stantly. Those who come to the Centennial in
the fall will gain in this direction. Everything
will be completed and the whole will stand
forth in its perfection. Still there are argu-
ments in favor of a visit at this season. 1t was
fine to be here at the opening. the weather
now is cool and comfortable and everything has
the attraction of newness and freshness, un-
soiled by the summer heat and dust; and there
is enough to exhaust the mind, body and es-
tate" of an ordinary individual SO far as
sight seeing goes, as it is. To the truly patri-
otic soul, to the genuinely inquiring mind, to
the devotedly American heart. it is nothing TO
come home from the Centennial, SO wearied
that rest has no perceptible effect in refreshing
you, your eyes aching as if they themselves pro-
tested against gazing at any further display,
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The namG and address of the writer are In
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty cf good faith.


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

The Republicans of Maine and all others who pro-
pose to support the candidate of the Republican par
ty in the pending elections invited to send dele
gates TO a State Convention to be held in
Year: 1876

coming. There were no new recruits Tor
my company, but we were marching
toward Richmond numbering twenty
seven. Has the country forgotten the
fierce conflict at Petersburg? As we fell
into line to make twenty seven more In
the brigade, saw the lieutenant looking
at me. Poor fellow there was no need
for him to speak. Would this fight wipe
out the old company entirely, or would
one be spared? And which one? He
had a:wife-I had none, none. hoped
he might live to call the roll after the bat
tie was over, and that death would have
taken me-


The line quivered as they felt the order
coming. and then it dashed al an earth
work. went forward with the same OLD
cheer which had been its own ever since
its brouzed veterans heard the whistle o'
bullets. But it was too much tor US.
They had forgotten how weak we We're
and some one had blundered. The hnes
withered before the storm OF shot we leii
back; were charged in turn. ana went
down among the heaps OF dead and wound
ed. The roar of battle died away I'D
moment; daylight changed to darkness
and when l opened my eyes again me
surgeons stood over me ana my iel' arm
was gone. n.


There was no one TO call the roll. 1he
stark, stiff form ofthe lieutenant had been
given to earth. and the seven men who
represented Company G looked to them
selves. Fate had Il choice who shouitt be
taken and who left, and death passed me
by. alone of the one hundred and three
veterans returned to the country village
to tell them how this one and that one
died; to hear the sobs of widow and or
phan, until my heart ached. Sometimes,
in my day reveries or night dreams call
the roll again, and shadowy forms stand
in line. and ghostly voices aye and
"aye" until start up with sob in my
throat at the remembrance Of those who
sleep in the trenches beside the Potomac,
meath the shadow of Round Top, along
the Rappahannock, and down among the
dark thickets of the Wilderness. sleeping
there never to know war again.


c. b. LEWIS.
Year: 1876

The Gazette of last week makes a
very foolish and unwarrantable attack
upon Mayor Stevenson, because he
saw fit to appoint Mr.. Ed. Colvin, a
Republican, on the police force, in
stead of Mr.. Vance McConnaughey,
a Democrat, who did all in his pow
er to defeat the Mayors election!
When were any Democratic officials
hereabouts known to prefer Re
publican to one of their own party,
in the distribution of their official
appointments? Never, to our certain
knowledge, and yet when the same
rule is applied to them that they ap
ply to the Republicans, they raise a
terrible outcry, and charge Mayor
Stevenson with committing "a high
handed outraged"


The Gazette says that Colvin was
not fit person to be appointed. If
so, how did lie manage to obtain the
signatures of thirty or more of our
leading business men, to all of whom
he is well known, (includiug all three
of the Banks) to an agreement to
pay him 81 month, each, for his
services as night policeman until
September, when the Corporation
will have funds in the treasury to
pay the police? With such backing
as that, the Mayor was entirely jus
titled in appointing Colvin, and the
attempt of the Gazette to censure
him for so doing, is too ridiculous
to merit serious notice.


The Gazette S statement that our
business men subscribed for the sup
port of the police with the under
standing that all "the old force would
be continued, does not agree with
the facts, as we have shown, for at
least 80 of them subscribed to a pa
per to employ Colvin, who did not
belong to the old force. We are in
formed that McConnaughey did not
circulate any subscription paper in
his own behalf, while Messrs. Mule
nix and Willetts, of the old force,
both circulated papers and obtained
considerable subscription. Mr..
Colvin, as we have said, also circu-
lated paper especially for himself
Year: 1876

THE PRACTICE of indiscriminate drug
ging can hardly be too severely con-
demned. The effect of all such amateur
doctoring is to unduly stimulate organs of
the body for while, after which they are
LEFT worse than before. Relief for the
lungs is of a different nature, and is
always a gain, by leaving them stronger
for the rest it gives. Why suffer the tired
feelings, the fever and irritability, that
every form of lung disease, however
trivial, is sure to give, when the magic aid
of HALLS BALsAM dispels these miseries,
and leaves one fresh and free for the duties
and delights of hfe2 Sold everywhere.
Price, 81.
Year: 1876

The Liverpool Presbyterian folks are get
ting to work in a thoroughly earnest manner.
A largely-attended meeting was lately held
" for the purpose of organizing system of
visiting Presbyterians in Liverpool who may
have lapsed from church-going." The chair
man was sorry to say that recent research
es proved that in Liverpool there were vast
numbers of Scotch and not few Irish Pres
byterians who had ceased to attend any place
of worship, since they left their native land.
The question might be asked-How came it
that people so attentive to Church ordi-
nances at home should, in so many instances
forget to worship their fathers God when
they came south Of the Tweed? 1t was not
the scarcity of churches, for there are no
fewer than eighteen of them in Liverpool
1t must be attributed to the carelessneSS of
these people themselves, and to the fact that
no pastor had the charge Of watching over
them as at home" lie feared "many of the
poorer people we're kept from going to the
churches by inability to pay for sttings, and
it would be vast gain to religion to abolish
these, and raise the money required for the
services of the Church entirely from volun-
tary subscriptions Cheers


Another speaker offered resolution dep
recating this lapsing of Presbyterians not
only from their denominational connection,
but from all attendance upon the means of
grace, and calling upon all the churches to
give it their serious attention. Says the
Weekly Review, referring to this speaker:
Abiding to that portion of the resolu-
ton which spoke Of the lapsing Of Presbyte-
rians from their denominational connection,
he said he had no sympathy, little pity,
and sometimes not little indignation when
he saw Presbyterians going into the Church
of England. They were not to misunder-
stand him. In the Church of England there
had been great historical array of noble
minds and devout hearts, but he held hon.
estly of the Church of England as. an insti-
tuition quite apart from the noble goldly men
who had been in it and were in it, that as an
institution it was enslaved to the State-it
had in it not only Evangelical doctrines and
Evangelical men, but insidious Papists and
open rationalists who were kept there and
not put out, and besides who would not ad-
nit into their pulpits nor into their graves
Presbyterians when they were living or when
they were dead (hear, hear, and who held
off from them in theory, and, alas, too much
in practice as Scriptural and sister Churches" :"


After passing resolution recommending
Christian workers from all the churches to
undertake " house toulouse visitation of the
whole town." with a view to ascertaining
what becomes of the SO, 900 Scotch people in
Liverpool alone, on Sundays; and a resolu;
tiop pledging the meeting to the vigorous
use of every available means to secure the
important results contemplated, the meeting
adjourned.


1t would be good thing if some avail
able plan could be set on foot by which the
multitudes of elapsed" Presbyterians in this
country could be brought back to their duty
to their God and their Church.