Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1881 — Page 1

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The Denio c rat. Official Paper of Adams County. 19. Elay Williams, Fi-opi-iotoi-. Terms: One Dollar amd Fifty Cents Per Year. THE DEBOfRATO AGFXTS. An fuMt n»» sntiNfactory arrnit*emrntH can !>»• made wr will have an fur The l>rmurraf nt each poMotlicv in the < 'aunt> * ihr minify of whom will hr kept m(un<l in* 111 the paper. Vie do this for the com ettienrr < I our HiiooeriberM, and trui*t they will appreciate It. Subscribers c«*n pity their subscription, or any pari thereof* or any Mini ol inoury, to our HfevulM, who will receipt tor the same, mid w ho nku will take the names and rash of new subscribers. The iollowiiiu are the nnmes oi owvhim already appointed, and our patrons al the several offices will do us a grt»ni favor by remittin* to them a '’iit-lr money on subset iptiott:” C. VV. HOC KE ft Monroe JOHN l». II ALE Geneva EUGENE .HO« UOW IJnn Giove J. T. BAILEY, ATT’Y AT LAW # J. P., DECATUB, INDIANA. Will Practice in Adams and adjoining Ceunties. Collections a specialty. v24n29if aTgT HOLLO WAyTm~d7 PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUB, INDIANA. Office in Houston s Block, up-stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence on north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's .Mill. 25jy7'Jtf 11 B. Atuaox, Prvs’t. W. H. Niblick,Cashier. D. Stvdabaker, Vice Prea’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general hanking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf PETERSON & HOFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgage? Real estate bought, sold and tented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 nnd 2, I. 0. O. F. building. 25jy79tf 1 K.ANfi: 4 !•; ATTORNEYS AT LAW, REC ATI R,INDIANA. m pi J’fbbv, Huston, county, Ga., Jaouswjt 2E, 18W. In 1873, there were two negros confined in jail badly afflicted with Syphilis. In iny official capaciiy I employed C. T. Swift lo cure llum, under a oontroc*, “no cure, no pay, He administered his •‘Syphlitic Specific, aud in a few weeks 1 felt bound lo pay him out of the county treasury, as he had effected a complete and radical cure. A. 5. Giles, Ord. Houston co,, G.t. Chattanooga, Tenn , Feb. 1 1,1879. Th# S. S. 8. is giving good satisfaction. Due gentleman s!*o ha-l been co -fined to his bed etx weeks with Syphilitic Rheumatism has bscn cured entirely, and speaks iu tLc highest praise of it. Chiles 4 Binnr. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC C 0 JI I’A NY, Proprietors, Atlanta, Ga. Sold by Dr.rwin 4 Holthouse. Call for a copy of “Young Men's Friend.'' no. 3.3 m.

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BRIBERY, TheDegradationof Our Politics. Putrefaction Whose Stench Reaches to " Heaven. The Monster Sin. Plausible, Potent and Pestiferous, Its Two H ands Rotten With hie Leprosy of Corruption. The Present Disgraceful Phase of National and State Politics. Sermon Preached in Brooklyn Tabernacle on Sunday, June i6th,by Rev. DeWitt Talmage Brooklyn June 19.—Dr. Talmage expounded the 28thchapter of Job and gave out the hymn : “Let our lips and lives express The holy gospel we possess.” SUBJECT OF THU SERMON: “BRIBERY, Oil THE DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS.” Text: Job xv., 34: “Eire shall consume the tabernacle of bribery.” The grandest of earthly sciences is the science of politics. National order National preservation, National defense, National morality, all swept by that circle. In that science Clarkson Cobden and Brougham and 0 Connell and Sir Rowland Hill won their garland on the other side of the sea, while on this side we have our Washington and our Adams, Benjamin F. Butler, Attorney-General of New York; i Theodore Frelinhuysen, Senator from i New Jersey; John McLean, Judge of the ' .Supreme Court, from Ohio; the great I expounder of Massachusetts and the great cominoierof Kentucky, while the i scroll of great and honorable statesmen now living is so long that the attempt to speak their names would be a bewilderment. Going from our own city into State and National politics are some of our best fellow citizens. But politics, from being- the science of I Government, has again and again been I bedraggled into a synonym of trucu- | lency and turpitude. One monster i I sin, plausibly potent and pestiferous, I comes forth to do its dreadful work in i all ages. Its two hands are rotten with leprosy. Its right hand it carries hidden in its deep pocket. The left hand is clenched; with its itcherous knuckles it taps at the door of Court rooms, Legislatures and Congresses and Parliments. The door opens, and then the monster enters and moves up the aisle of the Council Chamber more the right hand from the deep pocket where it was hidden and offers it in salutation to Judge or Legislator. 11 the .hand be taken and the palm of the intruder touch the palm of the official, the leprosy passes in the shape of , a round blotch, round as a gold eagle, and the virus spreads from palm to palm, and the doom is fixed and the victim perishes. Let bribery stanu up and be judged vo-efay by American people. The Bibk arraigns it. Samuel says of his two sons, who were Judges: “They took bribes and preverted judgement.” L'a'id says of some of his pursuers; 'Their right hand is full of bribes.” AnjoS says : -They took a bribe and they aside the poor in the gate,” whii.e L‘lphas in the text foretells the crushing bolts of God's indignation, deelareing : “Eire shall consume the tabernacles of i bribery.” Think it no trifling temptation. Under it some of the mightiest have fallen. Francis Bacon, Lord Chancel r of England, the founder of modern philosophy, author of novum organum, and a whole library of books, precociously responding when a small child to Queen Elizabeth s ([uestion: “How old are you?” “I am two years younger than your Majestey s happy reign , of whose oratory Ben Johnson said: “The fear of men that, heard him was that he should make an end;” with an an income which you would suppose would put him beyond the reach of temptation—3B,ooo a year-and Twickenham Court as a present, and princely estates in Hertfordshire and Gorhambury, yet, under a spell of temptation, falling flat into ruin, and on his confession of bribes, for which he gave no reason save that all his predecessors took them, was fined $200,000, and imprisoned in London 'l ower, so also Lord Chancellor Macclesfield went down. So Lord Chancellor Weitbury perished. The blackest chapter in | English, Irish, or French and American politics is the chapter of bribery. Many of you remember the Pacific Mail subsidies. You all remember the awful tragedy of the Credit Mobclier. Under temptation of bribery Benedict Arnold sold the fort in the Highlands for $31,575. For this sin Gorgey betrayed Hungary, aud Ahithophel forsook David, and Judas killed Christ. W hen I see the illustrations aud the strong men that have gone down under this contamination I’think of the red dragon in revelation, having seven heads and ten horns aud seven crowns upon its heads, drawing the third part of the stars of heaven after him. It seems to me the right time to preach against bribery has come. Much of religious ' advice is ineffective because of its inopportune, as a child I know of at eight years of age who received from her Sabbath school teacher, as a reward for learning many verses of Scripture, a book entitled “Advice to a Young Married Couple,” or a soldier in the army who had lost both legs by amputation had a tract given him ou the sin of dancing. But faithful words at the right time, how important! The Legislature of New York is now busy investigating charges of bribery. That body and the whole eoun-

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try, North, South, East and WeV, wake up in holy horror at the charge that $2,C00 have been offered to inflk enco a Legislative vote. As thougl this was something! As though in the United States hundred of thousand of dollars were not being paid in bribes! As though in one State $975,000 had not been paid a Legislature and a State Government by a railroad company to get through a charter and secure donation of public lands. As though three fourths of the Legislatures of the United States had not through bri bery gone into a putrefaction whose stench reaches heaven. Oh, yes, hunt down that $2,000 at Albany by all means! Keep the Committee of Investigation busy! Put all the witnesses on the gridiron and broil them till you get the whole truth ! After a few weeks hunting that squirrel that has been stealing hickory-nuts, perhaps the honesty of the land may go to work and hunt down the bears and tigers and panthers and behemoths of polit.io.nl .«• i apt ion with which the land is being devoured. Oh, yes, gentle-. men of New York Legislature! do as according to your testimony you have been doing! Search out wrong by day and then go to the Delavan House and play poker and old sledge all night! When, aster many sessions of corrupt legislation, involving millions of dollars, the New York Legislature goes into paroxysm at this paltry $2,000, it seems as though in 1873 the whole country, with $6,000,000 of lawsuits against Win. Tweed, had suddenly gone-into hysterics about his theft of a box of steel pens. Go on, Committee of Investigation, and strain out the gnat, but do not swallow the camel. The lobbies of the Legislatures, by which I mean the bribers, now control the most of the states. They have completely submerged California by putting it in the grip of a great monopoly. You remember the great bribery case in Kansas involving a United States Senator. Congressional elections in Connetieut are bought with uo more embarrassment than you would buy a box of strawberries. You know which is the State of Camden and Amboy. Last year persons were convicted of attempted bribery in Pennsylvania. The Court of Pardons, excepting two Judges, immediately consented to the liberation of the political felons, and the two Judges who held out against the demand for justice were bluntly told that they were cut off from all political preferment. A United States Senator from Pennsylvania for many years was accustomed to attach a price to many of the Legislatures, just as a Kentuckian puts a price upon his raee-hersos — this one worth $2,000, that one worth $5,000. The railroads are the common canrigrsi_ui' tlis neqnle. and shouliLbe-imu, which is only another mode of bribery, the great railroads favor this or that business. The Standard Oil Company .in eighteen months had paid to it in rebates by a great railroad trunk company §10,151,000, thus disadvantaging other companies. That Standard Oil Company produces only one-fiftieth of our petroleum, yet it controls the price of ail that kiud of light. The great merchandise in grains and provisions and cattle by the favor of the railroads in many of the cities is gradually being put in the hands of one or more firms, and all others in the same business get hard pushed. Bribery under so many forms, I can only hint at them. Haw much did it cost the elevated railroads of a certain city to keep the fare from dropping from ten to five cents? I have been told $300,000. Very seldom doe 5 a bill pass through our Legislatures’f there be no money in it. Sometimes lite bribes are in bank bills, sometimes in railroad passes, sometimes iu political preference, sometimes by the monopolism gG»ng to the legislators who desire to speculate m A all street what arc callbj "points.’ Perhaps you may not understand what “points are. The other language of Wall street | has gone into the common vernacular, and most of us know wiiat is meant by a “corner,” “flyer,” “cover, J "buyer 2,” “seller 3,” “carrying stock,’’ “washing the street,” “long Ln stocks, “suiting down,” “ten up, ’ but many oi you may not know what is tfeant, when a monopolist gives to a memt>.-r i of the Legislature “points.” Do you really want to know what "points” are? Ask the bribed members at Albany and Harrisburg. But bribery begins away back of all this iu the money subscribed for election expenses. Unless a man has large wealth he can not afford to run for congress or any other position. The question asked before nomit’ation is how much money has he, and how much will he spend for his election ? Or how much will his friends subscribe? And from the great big reservoir of subscribed election expenses the little rills roll down in ten thousand directions, and by tlm time our great Gubernatorial and Congressional and Presidential election! are over, the land is drunk with bii bery. I pity that little orphaned' $2,000 wandering about the streets of Albany, and finding no parentage. It strayed off from a family of big brothers, who ought to take charge of fhc • foundling laid at the Legislator's door. What a striking phenomenon, that, in the last fifty years, among the millions of dollars expended in the New York i Legislature, only $2,000 have miscarI ried ! It shows that if there was no j God and no Judgment day, the safest I business iu the United States is bribery. What other great enterprise, what other great business, involving millions of dollars, can be carried ou for ten years with only a loss of $2,000? All this contention for the spoib of office, which kept the Senate of the United States for four months playing the fool, and for the last one month has made the private parlors j)i the Delavan House the center of National interest. It is only ancther

phase of bribery. It is not so much “You help me into one office and I will help you into another office.” It is often true that by the time a man is sworn in he has pledged all his patronage of that office. The trouble comes from his unwillingness or incapacity to deliver the good she sold the first Tuesdayin November. The machinery of bad American politics just now consists of five hundred wheels, but the cogs of 'these wheek play into one great wheel and that grtat center wheel has a tire made out <?: railroad iron, and on that wheel is a trank, and on that crank is the band >f Satan, and as he moves the big whei. all the smaller wheels spin round in tli< manufactory. What has i been the d< itructibn of other Nations is getting to be the overshadowing | trouble of tis Nation. While through favoritism sf legislation, the great mass of pet pie find it harder and harder work to/make a living, we have to many mepAvorth $10,000,000 and S4O, 000,000 J>ml SRH 009 (100 ami iKow pn» into one pocket and me Congress of the United States into the other pocket. Revolution is just ahead of us, and I pray God that it may be a peaceful one, and at the bal-lot-box, where this great wrong is to be corrected, if corrected it will be. We L:id a forty years’ quarrel about black slavery. What we must have now is a twenty years’ contest about white slavery. We must have the emanciparion of American labor from the curse of monopoly. We must send men to State and National Legislatures who cau not be suborned by bribery, either in the shape of promotion or dollars. I do not believe in the Union of Church or State, but I do believe that unless the church of God rises up and shows herself the friend of the people, as well as the friend of God, and proclaims her sympathy for those who are, with their families at their back, fighting this great battle for bread, she will become a defunct institution, and christ will again go down to the beach and invite twelve plain, honest fishermen to come forth in the Apostleship of a new dispensation of righteousness, tnanward as well as Godward. What is the present disgraceful phase of State and National politics? You and I are paying to-day the board, and washing, and cigars, and whisky bills of the Legislature of the State of New York, while they are hovering over the spoils of office. No one supposes that the fifteen or twenty candidates over which they are contending are the only men fit for tho Senate of the United States. Why not branch out into a new field and give us for a change two great Christian philanthropists who would adorn tho Senate of the United States more than the Senatorial office would adorn them? I nominate \\ illiam E. Dodge, the great Christian Dhilantbrocistof New York, and George tbropist of Brooklyn. I do not know whether they are Conkling men or an-ti-C-inkling men. I only know they are anti-fraud, anti-rum, anti-ignorance. But no such nomination will be ratified. The time has not yet come for the elevation of such men. But it will come. God did not make tho Atlantic ocean for a few great whales to swallow up all the small fish. Nor did He make this continent to furnish a few magnates with blubber. The greatest blessing of this country is the railroads, made for us to ride over, but we must not lie down as the “sleepers’ and let the railroads ride over us. 1 “Oh,” says some one, “there is no need of talking against bribery, whether of office or case, every man has his price. I don't believe it. 'Even heathen lands and dark ages have given ns specimens of iueurruptibility. Cadi, at Smyrna, had a ease brought before him for trial. One of tho parties, to win case, gavOfhe Cadi §OO ducats. A half dozen witnesses testified in behalf of the briber. The peer man opposed had no witnesses. Then the Cadi pulled out from iu under the ot tman the bag of ducats and said: “This poor man has been able to furnish no witnesses, but I will produce on his side five hundred witnesses,” and throwing the ducats in disgust aside the Cadi decided for the poor man. Epanimondas, when offered large bribes, replied: “If the thing you want me to do is right, f will do it anyhow, if wrong, all the goods iu the world could not persuade me.” Fabricius, the Roman senator, was offered for betrayal of his .and gold by Pyrrhus, the Macedonian. Fabricius responded: “What example should 1 set for the citizens of Rome? Keep your riches to yourself and I will keep my poverty and my reputation.” The president of the American Coagress during the Revolution, Generafßeed, was offered by foreign Commissioners ten thousand guineas to betraj his country, and he replied: “Gentlemen, I am poor, very poor, but your King is not rich enough to buy me.” Yet. why go so far back, when you and I, if we move in honorable society, know men and women which all the concentrated forces of the earth and hell could not shake. No one would think of offering such an office or a dolI lar iu bribery anymore than they would ' think of trying to tempt and angel of light to exchange heaven for a pit. It I is villiany to offer a bribe, but it is a very poor compliment to the mau to I whom it is offered. I do not like those ‘ laen who go about telling how much ; they would get if they only would sell ' sit. Women who complain of fre- ' quentiy getting insulted may know I that tbe re is something in their car- ' riage to invite insult. There are mon at Albany, Harrisburg aud Washington who woaid no more be approached with a bribe than a pirate boat with a few ' cutlasses would dare to attack a British ' man-of-war with two long banks of ! ouns on both sides, loaded to the touch--1 Dole. There are incorruptible men, j and they are to be the righteous men ■’ that will save the city and save the State and save the Nation. My counsel is, stay out of politics unless you are invulnerable to this

bribery in cash paid down, but bribery in the way of offices promised, style of temptation. Indeed, your natural strength needs religious bracing. Nothing but the grace of God can keep our public men what they ought tc be. I wish that an old fashioned revival might bicak out in Congress and our Legislatures, and that many of our leading Republicans and Democrats might go down on the anxious seat in repentance. That day will come, for Kings and Queens are, according to the Bible, to be made “nursing fathers of the church,” and if Kings and Queens, then all lesser officials." Meanwhile, let all parents know that the home circle is where the evil of bribery often starts. Do not bribe your children. Have them do that which is right because it is right, and not because you will give them ten cents or an orange. There is a great difference between rewarding virtue and making the profits thereof the imEfa who is honest merely because honesty is the best policy, is already morally bankrupt. In all departments of life steer clear of bribes. Not one of you, man or woman, but will be tempted to do wrong for compensation. Let us remember that the day comes when the most secret transactions'of private and official life, unles repented of, will come to reprehension. We can not bribe death. We can nut bribe the grave. We can not bribe the judgement of that God who thunders in his text: “Fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.” “Fie!” cried Cardinal Bauford when dying, “Fie! Will not death be hired? Will money do nothing? Wherefore should I 'die, being so rich? If the whole realm would save my life I am able either by policy to get it or by riches to buy it.” Men bemoan that they have to leave their wealth on earth. But I have to tell the taker of bribes that he will take his money with him out of this world. God will wrap it up in Ins shroud or put it in the palm of his hand in the resurrection, and there it will stay, not the cold, bright., shining gold that lay in the palm on the day he sold his vote and his moral principals, but a hot metal, burning in the hand forever. Or if there be enough to forge the chain, then from the wrist it shall clank, the fetters of an eternal captivity. So that bribe shall be an eternal possession. You took it for tho time and you took it for eternity, and some day in the next- world, long for sympathy, you may feel ou you. cheek a kiss, and, turning, you shall find it to be Judas, who, after taking thirty pieces of silver as a bribe, closed the bargain by a kiss on the pure cheek of his Master. sc?<redlTya door. A Bu? ‘Lir Drops Vab.abk-s BeL’ro'H the Salt Lake Tribune. On Thursday night O. A. Palmer was awakened by a strange noise which startled him iu his sleep. When he was thoroughly arroused ho heard the rain pattering on the shingles and tried to compose himself to sleep, but was so nervous that he could not succeed. He got out of bed to look around, when he saw the top bureau door lying m the center of the room. There was a watch therein iu sight, with several sets of valuable jewelry, a heavy gold chain, etc. Not a thing had been disturbed, but tho contents were all saturated with water. It then suggested itself to Mr. Palmer that he had been visited by a burglar, who must have worn a ha l with an upturned brim, which had field the rain water until he stooped over to examine the contents of the drawer, when it spilled out. But, why should the thief have skipped j without taking the valuable property, already in his grasp? At length after much discussion the mystery was solved. The chamber door was not on the plumb, and when not fastened will swing open gradually until half ajar, when it reaches the apex, so to speak, and opens out with a bang. Back of the door was a washstand, in the drawers of which were numerous bottles, the. noise of which when struck by the door aroused Mr. Palmer. The burglar must have known the location of the bedroom and valuables, and opening tjie door thought to make -a quick job of it, but forgot to fasten the latch behind him. Meantime, as ha rushed to the bureau and pulled the drawer out, the door swung slowly open until it reached the apex above spoken of, and as the guilty robber was about to appropriate the gold and jewels, swung back with a crash that roused Mr. Palmer and sent the burglar fleeing empty-handed from the house ,into the rain and darkness.

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EMBARRASSED. Afraid to Stop, Yet not Daring to go Forward—Will ° McVeagh Resign ? Washington, June 27.—Mr. Pitney the discharged subordinate in the Treasury Department, though no longer custodian or agent for spending the contingent fund, is, nevertheless, keep er of much information which it may become important to the public to know and which may prove damaging to persons who formerly occupied posts above him. But there seems to exist a wish to suppress this information; at all events, not to have it pursued for the ascertainment of the truth. No order from the White House is yet heard to the Attorney-General or any one else to “probe them to the core.” Mr. Pitney is understood to be able to impart valuable evidence to the Government, if there really exists in quoatar tlua Ri»po»iu*»w osposu wrong and punish the doers of it. There are, it is said, high personages to be affected, whatever course is adopted. The policy that has withheld from the public the facts ascertained by the Windom investigation may prevail to tha end. Mr. Pitney is a bumble individual. Persons less humble have before now concluded not to do the brave things they at one time thought of doing. The public may have to wait for a committee of Congress, after all, to bring out the facts. The are many things, independent of the treasury investigation and Mr. Pitney, going to prove that the administration is in a corner concerning investigations and alleged offenders in general. It would appear that there are too many offenders or two few facts. Some such embarrassment is regarded as confessed in regard to the Star cases. It may not be right to conclude this much for a certainty. If there is any mistake as to the cause of suspicion, the government has no right to complain; for surely its course positively authorizes as much. Touching Mr. Pitney’s proposed rev elations, it is not too much to say if the use of the names of distinguished individuals, ranging all the way down from ex President Hayes, is without warrant or justice, then, iu view of the state of the public mind and known facts, it would seem that there ought to be uo hesitation about inquiring into everything; at the very least there should be no obstacles put in the way. One drops naturally to the rumors of the early retiring of Mr. McVeagh from the Cabinet —some say by the invitation of the President, others by his own choice, after what has happened touching the Star cases. Unless there is some explanation the public has not had concerning the interference by Garfield, it would seem there ought to resignation. Many think there is no other course open to him. He is a gentleman not likely to show a want of spirit whenever his professional or personal honor is touched. Events have placed him where either Le is to be relieved by an explanation or he must retire from the Cabinet, because such a course becomes necessary to the preservation of his self-respect. Should McVeagh resign, he will be regarded as having been driven out of the Cabinet, especially in Pennsylvania, where the Republicans are iu a jangle about a candidate for Governor. By taking him up and electing him, as they would, they would at the same time record an emphatic profest against the A imiui. tration. More than that, Pennsylvania Republicans thenceforth would not be without a Presidential candidate. They would be solid lor I McVeagh. They have away of mak ' i>-;’ Presidential candidates out of their Governors, to h°ld the balance of power, if for nothing more serious. National characters are suddenly made in I this country. Even stranger things have occurred than the possibilities I have here hinted at regarding Wayne MacVeagh,

No Chance for Him. He was coming down John R street with a “criek in his back, a wobble in his knees, and a thumb tied up in a rag.” Persperation had wilted his collar and made his flannels crawl up and each knee carried the mark of dust. At Miami avenue he halted a pedestrian, got his aching back against the lamp post, and asked : “Sir, do you suppose that George Washington ever fell dowu stairs with a bureau after him and ou top of him!” “I don’t think so.” “Did Daniel Webster ever turn old ingrain carpet t’other side up, an I haul it around, and pull his blamed arms off, and pound his thumbs to a mash in tacking it down?” “I’never heard that he did.” “And sir, do you believe that Henry Clay ever lugged a darned old bedstead all over the house, papered bedrooms, I daubed around with paint, and lifted * stoves until his eyes stuck out like lemons on a Greeley hat?” “I never heard that Henry was any such man. ’ “No, of course yon aide t and yet you and the rest of the world wonder whv I don’t get up and perorate and philosiphize and theorize and thunder around like an earthquake. Look at me! Feel of me! Go ache as I ache, wilt .ns I wilt, an 1 then tell me what earthly chance a man of moderate means has in this world for securing the laurels of fame. Yes, sir, and boh&nged to you, sir, and even now I m my way to buy a whitewash brash,

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two pounds of putty, a peck of lim and four more papers of tanks. —Z?etroit Free Press. '“sunbeams? Japan is now supporting six new universities on the European plan. Mr. James Russell Lowell is said to be collecting materials for a memoir of Hawthorn. Lord Beaconfield’s late London residence, with its furniture, is advertised for sale by auction. One hundred and nineteen members of the House of Commons voted against adjournment on the Derby day. Notwitstanding his blindness, the British Postmaster-General is an expert angler, and lately had some good sport. According to Secretary Blaine, there are more than 1,000,000 applications for office on tile in the various departments at Washington. Prince Bismark says world’s fairs are largely responsible for spoiling tho world, and is obstinately opposed to the holding of one in Berlin. Three Americans, Burns, Hamilton, and Wilkes, caught in Italy counterfeiting its paper money, are now galley slaves at Gaeta, serving out a twenty year’s sentence each. A celebrated Lyons physician, M. Montain, says that smoking tobacco colors the bones. There is a society in France which has been formed to carry on a crusade against the use of the weed. There are 890 boys at Eton, which now gives a Prime Minister to the country. This has not occurred since Lord Derby was in the office. Lord Palmerston was at Harrow, Lord Russell at Westminister. A decline is noticed of ’ate in the prices given for pictures by Greuze. One of his finest works only fetched $1,200 lately, while it is not many years since the late Lord Hertford gave $30,000 for a Greuze. Between 1311 and 1880 about threefifths of the known supply of gold, obtained daring nearly four centuries, was poured into the market. Nearly one-quarter of the silver produced was also obtained during the same time. A Slave derivifttion of the word Nihilist traces it from Nadiel, the patch of ground allotted to emancipated serfs; hence all poor peasants desiring to become owners of Nadiels are called Nadielists. This is more fanciful than sound. The new picture by Hans Makrat is now on exhibition at the Kunstlerhaus at Vienna. Its title is “Summer,” and rair sex—some in me ' water, some" dressing—among whom are recognized beauties of the Austrian capital. At Genoa there has just died a dog which during the Crimean war was present in one of the battles and made three Russian soldiers prisoners. Ho attained a wonderful longevity, but of late years was a more wreck, though cared for in a Government hospitals. The city of London police are loud in praise of their new helmet. It is of blue cloth stretched over a cork body, with a leugtuened peak at the bacx, an effective protection from snn or rain, and designed to carry the latter to the ccnntro of the cap. The helmet is light and cool. A striking illustration of the depreciation in the value of landed propertv is afforded by a remark made recently Ly one of the richest noblemen 1 in England, who, in conversation upon ' the subject, said he would be glad to. • get 1 pec cent- on the estimated value- ' of his land, •

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