Decatur Journal, Volume 1, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1879 — Page 1

THE DECATUR JOURNAL.

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THE SOLID SOUTH. How Confederate Brigadiers Are Elected to Congress. Practical Effects of the Shotgun Policy of the Southern Democrats. Citizenship Outraged and the Nation Defied by the Bourbons of Rebeldom. An Extract from the Speech of Gen. George A. Sheridan at Fostoria, Ohio. [From the Cincinnati Commercial.] Following is that part of Gen. George A. Sheridan’s speech which relates to the "Solid South," the question of liberty of the ballot-box in that section, etc., as delivered at the big mass-meeting at Fostoria, the home of Charles Foster. The effect produced by this portion of Sheridan’s speech was wonderful. The result was a most profound sensation, the oratory of the speaker being most electric and thrilling in the repeated climaxes: POLITICS IN THE SOUTH. Whenever a at egqita to discuss the question of i.mshea in the Hou th’ helis at . oncefcharged by •ukDemoeratio press 6t the ’ country with avoitftethe legitimate issues of the ojtmpaigo. and stating to rouse The passiona. of the North by wtapdf the “bloody shirt* So far a»T am eoncerKeM hta| no wish to rouse Msston in the minds bf Nbttliern mon.; God knows I pray for poEs|Sai®ftaunohy briweeu the litely-warring sectonsgE my country. To me the “bloody shirt” is a* distasteful as to the veriat ‘Utourbon Tiujtho bujtl I want<to see it bufietfcSnd shaOtH with .delight the (dawn of the day when itljto litijpr an issue Jn the politics orthe country. ItWjtd call yonr attention, my 1 iiTiocrarftf frieffils, to the fact that ’t-is-nnfiue Republican responsible fn this campaign for the “Moody shirt.” But f for the Benucratic opprdfiuqn, of men for < mere poKjcalopipjmun tieSouth within tho ' last year; you would- hatp- heap! nothing of ’ . ’ this garjueat of tefrqf.,' FfaUee, tariff, purely economic questioifr, -SfouidTiave formal the i basis of discussion, but for the red-handed murder that has stalked abroad in the sun of noonday, in sections of the South, Striking down, without cause or justification, citizens of the republic. I am not here to-day, my fellow-citizens, to arraign the whole South tor pohtitM 1 ptrsemiiißn.: Thank God, there t are sections m that oouhirt where political freedom - exists. J<mhiero, though, to say that in fifteen parishes jqf Louisiana, the wliblo of : Mississippi, onotljfrcfbf Ggprn>a. all of pout h ’ Carolina, and one-Bsif Florida, such » a thing as the -political liberty you f < enjoy here iu Ohio is utterly unknown. , IMB Here, if a man eheosag, he can be a Democrat, ’ 1 a Republican, a Grtbnbaeker, a National or an Independent. Hir cad discuss his political slews in every city, town, village and hamlet in the State; ho can’ vote the ticket of his choioe, and have Itts-ballot counted just «s be cast it In a citizen of Ohio is really • a free man in all respects, exercising ahd on- ’ Joying to the fullest extent the rights and priv (leges of citizenship, both State and national. The Democrat will stand by his poli'ical oppouept^id,if need be, with his strong aim defend that opponent’s right to vote. The Republican is equally at the service of his Democratic friend, if his right to vote is denied him. This condition of affaire does not ■ f revail in the Sedtiojiß Os the country to whichhave alluded. Men oanno’fexercfse'tlie right of free speech and free billot except at poiil of life, limb and properly. Organized opposi tion to the Democratic party is not tolerated. Peaceful means failing to prevent the creation of opposiuon to the regular Democratic party, violence and murder are unhesitatingly summoned to accomplish what reason and argu- , ment have failed to secure We have recently bad an illustration of Democratic methods iii Mississippi. It appears that in Yazoo county - one Henry M. Breon, formerly a Democrat, . concluded t> run as an independent can- , didate for Sheriff Tho regular Demo-ratio organization resolved that there should lu »o . ’ towpehdeto dihffidak- intYajpo, ahd this is the- j way, according to the Yazoo Ihrfttff. that Mr. .< Dixon was induced to withdraw from the can J* vase: “ The beat men of the county—the merch R ante, the planters, the farmers, and these en- ’j gaged in other occupations -gat ieied together in town t-rdiA to the nidibar of weveraj Huujfa the interests of tfc county, seeing a rare issue bad risen, iu conscquem-o of it, a committee J wuappointed to wauupou. (.’apt, H. M. Dixon, H tbohwtl of the kn|efn»deat movement in this ' request him to setiag froiq tbe canvass. Tills he at first refused to do, giving reasons for the gfionnd of Tits /efitWal which g|W. were not dpeineo ea’i+faclnry to thw great assembly of earuejit, driwpuiiieduuen. Ho final V* ly, however, edfisemed Jo quirtnltvanvass, and r forever, aa the following rar,l will show: ’• ‘To Utt• Public: For the sake of the peace and harmony of tlie oaawis, aud the affection I bear for my family and friends, 1 agree to withdraw from the poliUoal oauvSfes or rape issue in the future, provide,! I wifl.be protected m my rights as any ofher Mt-.zen, and tost my friend, It A Flaaagan. is to -be unnioketed in bls rights,’etc . .•’•fto the political eanyaes inthiscounty rosy be considered at an cm. The Democratic flag new waves over tins glorious old county un- ' contaminated and un«k*l!euged x and- long* may Herd WAnirfieait atez-n is robbed of two of his dearest and most su-red riems—the right of ■' individual opinion,pp<luf .independent action. * Let the “Dvmoerarie ping" now wave over the glorious old conntv of Yazoo, “uncontaminatcd shout themselves hoarse in approval of the | monstrous outrage. Since Mr. Dixon was oom- t pelled to witbdiaw from the caiivAM another g chapter has been written in this shameful histhat he had reconsidered his recent decision. would rnn for Sheriff as an "Independent.’ days after thia dee laMtiauJ*'- Bansdale. . F yfe political opponent for Sheriff, hailed him in body, silling him then and there. And now the gloriole old flag of the Democracy, with an added luster and a fare-tier glor*: waves “unroLumina’ed and nnchalienged over the glorious old county of Y'azoo.” T %wc«Uto' 'fri- n* ef’fceoeda cTnW.dH'Mio. tremttieM.e yow Mtotoe a • -"ter, have vote-1 just as you pleased, eome- ’ mee for your warty nominees and sometimee ' for the RepubliAn candidate. Row do the proreedinga in Yazoo suit you* Hundreds of Dtm- , .--crato iu this couytr for rears last havovoted for Charley Foster Mr OomWi-ee, and hundreds r ill vote for him for Governor this autumn in ’] tear that In place 1 him-elf in personal peril 1 Iy so dotmrt Do any of you who expect to i vote for him next October have the r»mote«t idea that any man wW dare lay his hand ? < you you in violence fqr exercising roar i ight of choice as to who aha’l be Governor of ’ •Asp’ Doejdie Dsar-cralacfarmer who.votes ’ • -fF wtor fare that to- houA os ban will be ’ 1 Un>«d. lae trees girdled or his stock m timed, 1 1 ecan retie votes against the Democratic nom J •mo* Ito any of vou. asy Democratic friends, j • t peel to be waited on by a committee of tout , 'sUcw-Dsmoentsaad told if you vote fordbar- * ley Foster you must leave this county * ,od □the for ronrseif a b"tne else where, that , bey are detenmned there shall be no oppo«4..oa to the Democracy in thia county, and that * -. .;n vote against your party at the peril of your Ite and property" Not at all You do' not iok is the face of mortal man with fear You J . nw roor own rights, and exevreee your own ( ■ -dr-neat. The Democratic party m'Otuo rec- j I

■ —'“r — your right to vote for him von pleese. in daily operation in Mississippi and other sections of the South 1 have mentioned. ' Wba f - crime did Henry M. Dixon commit When be annnunriYd liim> not :an party ; the Greenbackers, the Nationals did act. suit him. Halfied to organize aqiartv of light of the noonday sun. What has become of he murderer of Dixon ? Is he behind the bare if fail, awaiting trial for his crime? No, he is ;o-day walking the streets of Yazog ualer a laltry bond for bis appearauCdMtVfcfiffTWtufii ; fine for trial. Is Mr. Barlftdtfle lOdHa ffpofi with horror and pointed out as the man whose bands are red with the Wood of a-fellow-being? , Dblhe people of i’azoo stirsik from him as one IzuiltSoX a gxust erjAe nnder.the ban of .(toil. "Not at all. Mr. Barksdale is a hero Worthy of rhonpir, a model for the young to follow, a chiy- . alrous gentleman, worthy of all respect, deserving of great consideration. To plain, simple, law-abiding, God-sealing, liberty-loving men land Women of the North, Mr. Barksdale appears, simply a murderer. What refinement of sentiment, what subtlety of logic, what interpretation of divine or human. Uw "makes him anythingAelse to the people i among whom he lives pAsses the comprehen ■sion of those who love Btw and believe in the /justice of the great command that ages ago - thundered from amid the flame and smoke of tlinai,. kill;" How many Dem•ocratic papers In the North have vou seen that : have condemned the killing of Dixon f Very ifew indeed. The people of-Yazoo justify Dix yin’s murder by saying he himself had, in times gpast, shot down men for opposing the Democratic party. True, he was guilty of this great jerimo. Equally true it is that the verrpeople •Who now glory io his death cwwned hhn with Jionor for doing in iB7Sf juSt w®t they alege vs w jnstifiedim foi his death in J 879. If m 1875 stlie law of Mississippi had been enforced as it ought to have been, Mr. Dixon would not Rave (jived to fbll by the hand of Mr. Barksdale in C 879. He would li»ve been tried, condentni-.l .-and hung for the crimes of which fie was guilty. -When Henry M. Dixon shot down, Republicans ho was committing crime and i/ught to have ■ suffered the penalty due it. That he was guilty -of murder in 1875 is no excuse for hts death at nthe hands of a political opponent in J 879. He ,was wrong in 1875, aud Mr. Barksdale is wrong ■in 1839, and ought to mffer for his crime: but mark my words, my fcllow-cflizoM, np hair of his head will be touched for tins great crime. j Sometimes I hear my Democratic friends toll me thatpublic sentiment inAho South dbes not justify murderand violence io poii'ics. If public opinion dots not approve of such Actions, j why doos it not punish the men guilty bt political crimes? A public sent mont that is pow--erlessto hold in check thb lawless’element* of •the community is of no value. If pubUo sentiment did not justify murder in politics jn Mississippi, murder would'soon vanish as an elo- ■’ meat m politics. Pubno sentimept, whenthqr- ’ oughly aroused, Is resistless: it eweops throngli "a community or a nation, with the force and .’power of the storm; before its consuming fire jjtho wrong withers and its authors perish. WJien •it is understood in the sections of the Honth of which I have spoken that murder means death, that the gtttmtis tfiei Sure doom of him Who slay* Mis fcllqwHnan; when honest n»en sit Upon the juries aud fearlaas J udges are upon the benoig. then, aultpot tilrtheig will tliawrongsof which jwe complain cease. There have been hnn"drods of murders committed in the Bouth since reconstruction ! for purelv political reasons. Toll me, if yon can, ; my Democratic friends, where a single man ha’s been hung in all the Bouth for taking the life of a political opponent, Cease preaching to mo that public sentiment. does not justify political violence and murder until it is punished. Rouse public sentiment In as it ought to be roused and law will be vindicated, order established, paaee reign. An loqg-aa the murderers of (Jhitolm and bis heroic daughter are uAhung, : as long as the assassin of Dixon goes unpuu ished.-so long wifi the North laugh ib denaion when told “publicsehtigient” iu the South is avert* to tt* mirdet'pf polWcal oppouents. Bear with me a little While I dfccrtss the state df .xffaire brought about in the sections of the Routh I have mentioned by the aid of murder and violence. Let me talk to you about the blaqk man ip the ttohth.ii ; HOBS- TUX NSGBO or ffts OWN FREE Wttt VOTB THS lIEMIK IN THS SOUTH? The assertion i« broadly made by the Democratic party. North and South alike, that the uegio wihHigiy vote* the ballotin I'thoSenWf.-r Is this trhe * -’Do the facts of the •years since reconstruction bear out this statu-jiir-nt? I think ndt. I here affirm "that,' ,of tho ijndlion black men upon nnr soil entitled to vote, lint half a hundred thousand will, if left abeontely free to exercise their choke-aaat pDemoiratil- ballot. Is this m<e asaetponf FoHow ane but a little, aud I tliiuk I cars ,sh*W ygn I jiflii m imthing in saying what I do that 'is not Jiavud Upon fa ta as hard as Miami*. Mou, 'whether whit* or black, nevearfUWn choice ■ilace over theinx-lves they .ere; Sicrtain ivi 1, if ctottfrd wjlh power,’ use it for lheir hinudiaiibii and oeproeemu. 7- Ju <<i tonthern vwaWif in fin part 5f Slats, have the jicgrpee in any large numbets roted of thelf own free wifi ihe. j-iemocratic ticket. Where Butts havetponeeesoTslf D<*m-K-ratic in the SjUlh. It has Ureu itler because he Heck mantoU aot basilklUwed to > vote at ill, or because be hasjieeu drhen to the polls Mid compi llod at thoTnnzzfis of rtotginfs and revolvers tn vets agiiiimt his honest convictions ind hie, as ho b lieved, liest inten-sbe Let us look at some of the States iu the South where it. is claimed the negro has voted tho Democratic ticket. a , '•'iLrtMMl - w ' Albania cast 7Fi,oiittH»puubcan votes in ISlrt, IM,(XX) in 187 V, B8.IXX) iu 187 H, aud (l.filljin 1878. Ab-ijlnte protection to the negro an and E872; peace and quiet at the pelts; reenit, a fall ■ote upon hi» part, and all the vo'cs east lie{publican. Partial protection to the negro in - flSTti, aud a fair vote, l.mi—DemooraUi-con- 1 Urol ot the Mita-jio prejoctioa fa the black | "man: result, but GfMf> Repnbiican votes cast I I<ees than 7,M0 of the (M.IXM rotes tn which the j • Republicans were entitled found their way to th# ballst*box. ‘ Do you believe ’this was In Jioneet election? ._ , MXSpBWW . T » Eighty-two thousiad Hepwtoton vetre cist • 3n 18<2; that year protection to the negro. In - 8876 votaecast; mat year s’afe, shot-guns in the ascendant, free speech n ashed out, political opponents murdered or ! irireii fregn the State; result, 2,<6i’. Republican 'dfraoast; ®,fKK> BenwHfean vn'ee cart hfxhe pi let autumn da vs of 1872; X<XX> Republican rotes cast in 1878 (only8&,0B0 less ihau six rears bvfqre). jn Abe first case law aud order j rated: in-toe soeend law bad it* fSu wad order I I®S- 1,3X10 Repubbcanvotea aw*- Pew*) iniworder, men votingffffiSfrt feaai Wfi . * ir. rn’iWatonl Of.»e tWato; "baltoor-v' *s paslhne of anute *eyaMaSßea* ■rt”””"'2TJSSES w ”““A i - ary -two toouaaud BqmUuaa rate* aaat is « 1'74 Reign effae aDdlawieMneea inira. , Lank now for a moment at some of tbe Boo'-', ern Platea, where, eiuce there has be«u a rue, peaoefwi etectioaa; «li*Mt | u:»’he North, Hpeaksre of aH poßtlrel parties , trareraadtk* State freely tad aagaeaaed their I neffa from -the pnWw srtere tbe I pre* tag* been anmantedand freedom of opmiou tolerated. We shall find that not oolv has thewegro vofai btttfltal be baa without excerv 1 food rMd fat tha«adi<Utoa ut tba BepaUiJu iwrty- " North Caro’daa, wifa bat 73,000 aotoreo votdruxvdted in 1876 HO.IXM Repabbcaa bal lota. Teutucky, with 44,000 *l tored' Tctere, v‘rek. f r gave Haye* rote*, went Virginia, hav iog only 4,000 colored voters io 1870. cart 42.0 n Repnl bean rote* Tenneswee, with her <M.<Weolnred voters, rare Ha.rea Hi,UM bal lota. Maryland, with 4O.<«"' black voters, poiied ra,t*» fiapubiKM badota aa 18M A»-

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rtr —c— — - ■ kZnßts, having but jiegroes entitled to r vojßfirlß74ja|P|baß*lßlMlSiepuUh<kMlo4 | North-<Mro^ T ' Tennessee 4,000, Missouri 26,000, West Vir'P dinia 10,(100, Maryland 6,000, and Virginia 2,000 More Republic in voteain the Presidential elec- ■ ti'W'd 1 th “ n a } "* i *A jry~ r It Tpiifcjgthese TjQjfa-ofo, ' gro, left to himself, or subjected to only the I ~ usual methods of almost teaac* b tl»W black man votes the Republican ticket, viz.: : Wherever there is peace and order in the Mouth, where meu are protected in the right of free freq* ballohwßepublicanism in- . vjmsjl J>Vl ihtorons, healthful growth. True, tne Republican party did not carry any of the States I hare mentioned in LB7fi. Os this we do not complain. We had iH tba main a fair chimes. Wedidoiir haat. failed to bring the-people, to our way of thinking. We could not convince them that it was best for the country to continue our party in tho control of the Government. In the exorcise of their unquestioned right they went peaceably to the ballot-box and voted against us. At the same time they did not prevent men from voting for us. This is all we can or do ask. These States won their victory legitimately, and were entitled to it Have I not established these facte: First —That the negroes are to a man Republican in politics, and that wherever peace and order > reign in -tho South they vote that ticket Second—That it is only in those States and parts of States where violence rules that the black man fails to poll his full vote for tho Republican party. Third-s-Tbat in States where there is a fair chance for argument and fair play at the ballot-box tho Republican party increases (teadily in strength and power. The uegro is not, as yqu and I understand tbeferrn, educated, bat there is one thing he dqes know—one subject he has studied fntly and coninrehdnde thoroughly—that is the attitude of the Democratic party toward him. He knows that this party never willingly conceded him a single right; knows just as well as you and Ido that Democracy plungqd this nation into thenorrorsof civil war that they might found »n empire whoso chief corner-stone should-nehis bondage, whose glory should be his shame, whose pride should be his humiliation, whose prosperity should spring frdni his adversity. From the throb of the first gun at Fort Sumter down to tho hour when the last gup of tho Confederacy thundered its nitllen protesiagainst human liberty afAppomattox, tho black man watched the contest with anxious heart, never doubting if the North came out victorious ho would find under iis war-worn banners the liberty through which for gcnerationH his people had cried to God, never doubling if the Bouth triumphid he niiiHt yet for generations bow his neck and wear the yoke of his oppressors. When at lastt s North burst from the clouds of war with Vb tsrijbtaziiigpn its banners, the negro, with faith like that of the child in the mother upon whose bosom ’its bare head is pillowed, looked to tho Republican party.to see to it that tholiberty that had tome to him On the wings of battle was not wrested from him. My fellow-citizens, the uegro knows tbe Demo cratic party even In It -r than you and I do. He has feit the awful cm toll for 200 years upon his throat. Ask him what the Democratic party him .before tfib tar, anil ho will jarniyr: “Stripes and shMno: fin- jl milia'ion ams poverty; toil frrmi to ; djrkr.ess; whiprfaudmaea -li X; wiv< a-Mxlo from tin ir husbands, hnsbauda from their wives; children torn front the bi casta of their mothers; helpless maidens debauched to m ni tor to the lust of their taskmasters; educat on denied; Christ quoted to proveV adageriglueoue; holy tempb s desecrated to forgo chains upon Lie soul; days without sunlight, nights without stare, years withontbope, graven without head stones, woo, sorrow and desolation.” Ask him what ho has found Democracy to mean for him since the war. and he answ ere, “Persistent op T'-’ittnp to Ms freedom,, tliiwesrisd effort* to fast his enfranchisement, education still de- . nieil him, courts oiganized to cheat him of justice, juries packed to convict him of offenses, ,baiids or masked meix riding over th? cojmtiy » night to terrify huffpp tho eve dl eluptions, brutal ruffians lying in wait to drive him from Vie polls, as he sought to flenoait hisballot, si i bool- fi ouees laid in ashea. churclieeand homes destroyed!. Is-atinge, whippings, outnq/es.. Jluiite-e down lite a criininrt, abut, like a itoq, Tlhiwfiairtaiiial denied, b&'nones left towhiten iuihe Jms-curUy as to,nro]ierty, uncertainty as to lile,- doath’H awful shadow al-ways-sbroeß his threshold.” No.tay Mllow citipriM, tho black man do* not vote the Democratic Barty into pßc’e anti power oL bis own free wilt Let me give you onunlore ffluatfatiou of tbe effect of murder and intimidation in Ihe Bouth, and F will then pa>s to other and perhaps mojeinteresting toptee. Mi. Uhalmai sal Ibis time represents, or ■ Father a district in Congress froin Hr isfate of Muaissippi. Tho district ho comes frofil has a littlo’pvcr26,oiX)voter)—2o,.(«ocolored anftalitUo over 6,(D0 white voters. Mr. chainwre wae elected by a little over B,tab rotas ud by a Utile imue tbaia6,VO majority. A imdrlct entitled to cast ‘Ni,(XD votes casts only msyiSiate a..su“" my Democratic frieuda? Mbat became of th i 29,1X10 vqlee not Oast at that election? Why were thev not’ pbljtdt? Simply because 1875 and 1876 Lad. tanglit tho uogruua of Gen, Cludtaerrt dirtrirt «hrt death Stood waftiiig M tbe ballot-box t 5 blast With lie icy breath the man Who dared approach to'rtst a Republican ballot A Republican vote iu the hands of a black man in the.election qf 1878 in Mississippi was (imply a death-warrant, entitling the lordly bulldozer of that State t<s shoot its holder on sight rt . < Now’.’iry’ipUow-citlzenß, yog may eaythat all lam talking about doee not concern you. It is eeevring in remote States. You are mistaken. It d)w« concern you Thit Government ie today fn tbe hands of the Honth—absolutely controlled by that section. Think of it! The men who fifteen years ago, with bowed heads and fokted banners, surrendered to Grant under tbe I trees of Appomattox are to-day interpreting the constitution to tbe loyal armies to whose res atleee valor their legions bowed their battle plumchm homage. Ido notqbiixUu “Lkmfederata Brtgadters’ holding -ostein toe House and th*United rauvided only agffjhoyw<ey hfijd »eir “WaUiy virtue of nr r.nnparfTal elections. But Too object to i any man holding a seat in Congress, clothed dared to assert their manhood. Bnt for tbe i fact that Republicans could not rote in manv seerionaof tbq Bouth in 1878 tbe Deciocistic party would not be in poffer fo-dav in either house of Congress. The Democratic party is in power to-day only because violence, murder and fraud have destroyed liberty of opinion, and made a fair election impossible in a broad section of the Bouth. T 6 Hie Republican party in the North ' i towM. tertifc | Hi) i 1 ■SoilhiH toojrttwtfpr relrtfjudprotection. Th< h’orMlvnfiht itaseeThftqffrSflbii You cannot avoid 1 , - , fto«Wfi<«»ng Justicewill\ave itejull ■afl-perteal Wrk Justice fa of GoM, aodijiks Mass, is is (Casual; ifa aye to never ciortd in ' slumber; fttefcrtcftiesd know* nnUba thutow of | ' wewriaeas; at its comZoand are w.fipona sash-, toned and Wanaarel in ths armonee <>f the MeraiL The may go diss: wo,sorrow, deva.iatino may spread all over the land; but 1 at last iasiice, with flaming award, wiUasfaeh 1 ever all its > nemies; the majesty as, God'S i great laws will he rnwheated; ffkfit will triumph, tail the wrong sill parish, a 1 Os all tbe nattons of fae earth, engirt ta be tba last to a(A to oosapromise with wrong. We tried for Hearty a hundred yaass to aomfrwnfto with the cgiaue as bufaaa abavasw upon this oostmsrt la out hearth' vs knew ha infamy Onr coo- < setenrea refused to bow to tbe accursed wrwar, vet, in state of heart sod cooseiencA , wasabi tonwtooll sod -urt-m atreagibeu .(nd predict at- At tbe demands of ata ad r» cates we struckrobe brightest Jewel from the Declaration of Independen•*; we allowed tbe I importataoo of slaves till 1808; we passed tbe Mireoori Compromise; we enacted the Fugitive Slave law; we placed the courts, tbe bar, the press, tbe pulpit, and tbe "octal life of this

■•■■JT’ L real nation at the feet otge "live power; we j utrygod truth; wo scofa<Wmtice; we exnlted 1 ‘ 1 our infamy; )ve defied (mA and set at naught ihe reason and insttoct > w"h which He has frowned us. The qry ofpoor fed unoeiWl upon onr ears, rinuxat last, all over this Hid (the ctosd vt God s dMmsnre gathered, udout frorti its Swful boa&lhe bolted lightling of HIS wratM fell, ; crakiag and destroyig. Near half a million dM* ra . lifting themcivm to the quwt skies tornsy hear silent but righty wilnesa to us of yie toful punishment i jupt God sends upon lh« who forget the ight in blind devotion toMiVteionjz Mee to it, fien of Onio, that this of right (nd justice Is not set aside fpon any plea of «- ediency. Do the Baht-inff, and do it How. ay by yonr voles that jjare must be free peeeh and an untrammeldFliallot all over this i nd. It is tho duty of thjUNonh to see to it • nt nil the enjoy - (qua! lights. If the laws Bouth Carolina, Giiorfflt ana Florida ard" powerless to secure a free ballot lor their citiaeu.H, and powerless to punish tLo men who ihnrder their political opponents, ve will invoke tho majesty of this great natioa; we will bid it tear from the limp and nerveless h»nd of these Blates the criminals who defy iheiq power and deride th ir laws, and with an iron hand (icto out to them the punishment their crime deserves. If the flag of the Blates is powerless to protect their humblest citizens, than t> that flag w thin whose swelling folds the banners of 1 all tbe States are gathered we will l(fok for help. If the sovereign State cannot do justice to its citizens, then we will appeal to the sov-j Sreign of sovereigns upon this continent, ths gallon 1 WHEN PEACE AND HABMONt Writ, SOME. My fellow-cit’zene, 1 hold no enmity toward tlie people of the Bouth. I only demand of flietn that tho same freedom of oplbion shall bo found there that prevails here. I pray that tlie time may come, aud that quickly, when tho passions aqd prejudices developed by our civil war xball be heard ot no more forever, whenall who live beneath onr fl )g shall point proudly to it as the bymbpl ot the grandest and tho freest nation the sun shines down upon. While I hope for all this, and trust to see it’ oomo before those of us gathered here to-day shall have passed away, I would not, to bring llabont, bury iu oblivion the memory of the men whose valor saved the nation in its time of peril, and whose wisdom embodied in our organic law the results or their triumph. 1 sometimes think wo do not value enough the great service tlie soldiers of the republic, living and dead, rendered humanity, borne people, mistaking sentimentalism for patriotism, are seeking to reunite tbe country ny a half-surrender of tho verv ideas for whose supremacy this nation toiled and sweat in the Bloody agony of battle. lam one of those who believe the nation was right when it took up arms to preserve its existence. I believe tho men who bought to destroy tho Union, circumscribe freedom and extend the area of human bondage, were wrong. I pray for peace, unity and oonbord between the lately warring sections of my country, bnt I hold it can come only when from one end of this continent to tho other the principles for which near .'><Xi;W*) i ,iuen laid down their lives are recognized iu their broadtst sense, made tbe basis of all our laws, and enforced with even and unvaryipg hand. We are sometimes told that now the I war is over we should seek to forget it This is simply impossible. Wo are told that we who saved the nation are got the only mourners injbe land; that- grief as profound and sorrow asdeep as shadows Our households cast their gloom over the dwellings of the South; th at as we mourn for onr dead, so, too, thev mourn for thesis. God knows I Would not Invade the sanctity of grief. That flioso who lost sons and fathers seeking to destroy tliis Government should weep for iho dead fr but natural; that they should cherish their memories kindly, place heaibfoues to mark flieir resting plai-cs, aud beautify their graves with flowers, is human. No one.in thia land objects to such tributes from Ihe living to tho dead. Such mani'estations of private sorrow do honor to those from whom they come. While I would raise no hand to check any expression of grief that reeks only private hannels for its SKpreasion, it does eeeni to me that it is an insult to this nation, a shameful reflection upon its soldiers, living and dead, that -all over the Southern section of the country tbe virtues and too heroism of the armies that sought to destroy the Government are th< theme of every tongue, and that costly momu ients are raised in pnblipplaees and dedicateil with imisising ®remonies to tho dead soldiers of rebellion. While, as I have said, 1 would uotse- k to check (Dy private ruauifostatioiia of grief tho people Os ’tlie Bouth choose to in^ulg-in, I "tttl say that it doos se'-m wrong that public shafts rise skyward from the soil of this continent to commemorate the deeds and hand down the names of men who fell battling to destroy my country. I know the men who fell in battle liefore the armies cf the republic displayed splendid valor aud heroic, but j know, too, they Were all exerted in the wrong direct on. 1 have not yet reached that state of mind where falor and courage, however constant the one or heroic the other, can blind mo to tbe fact that treason inspired both. Ido not wish in Ay day to we tho men who died trying to dc■roy the republic exalted alora thosowteosa Mfo was given in an effort to -ave it Idotoot. wish to see devotion to a lost .cause, ■forth or Honth, given as a reaeop-wny i en should lie played in high pjmtion, I ado the ruters at Miffland and mtrnstad ' i'll the (Nfrring of destiny. Jn a ' ord, I aigfartti'T 'by mon < all partMwJio love their rofintrv, that tfi" i public iwjpre-litely to Jfa zealously "fetched t id and glorified, «*/>*« , i on whose liivo and valor saved it than by too, len shotc strength was wasted in i art ■ ffortat its destruction. I ls'liere,tba> rfclitfaai fiagrtriuqbhed sfabuld not giado’wn Word flroWfte fhal was slafa. I desire tbe Wprkof frrei'om I “gun to tbe fathers, illustrau I Aid established Jjf Jbefr deeeenduta to afar d Snrover as a memorial of tbe wi-dom that founded tlie country and tfia vator Alt ‘ *ved it Jevel sl Ms lance to dtsTogit. ; y - ‘ * lntclligM|e»of Loaferi. | SeWti iir'HpftfHti&Ls weqfa hfalding lilwfadhairsand boxes in agriicMri , unanilioiisly this waa.tjiogreiii at atonfcjk'OTi earth; a stpgnger eMffrMf abdfidd; ’ ■, . . “ rtfiniinnen. I- yoii arw pH f in iliar ffblf noli- “ Wt are? J 'they replied in Achfffitg i“ know all aberet the funda- ’ tai [WMipies of liber#? ” w< da.- * q :■ “ WFlCftn p' dfof it, so: I’ve made a t >t withXYeUer Buk to.how the t ,i-1 ing OooatithtiMK'ffins. < >os < !you itMTwrite me drrtM IM I’naC ten i or<b’’ . ?»■ Whfle ifa lek fox a .10 << a « ■ncil < reryc in beam hiaE fid and 1 < iu-ioi. M» n*n.'lm •?. 'Wkwj in niltreYing: r “ Now 1 lay me,”—and a rexoitel rttad ■imething’..about ♦ iksdfred,” find a d>ird arotexm Ihe top of a cracker-box Qn- inowifa, -wire voted that— I 14at*— - » There wa< a great deal of cotgliing and sneezing and nose-blowing, wliem a boy came in aad said Abe 'tranger* hor-e I had run a<aju rushed out. and ’ fibven faces Shglto-ned i|S and smiled, !’ and triedjpaUo j<M y> jljortant. The Oldestssind Vonnrc't. • ‘! I'r. R. T. Brown, of IndianapolisTi|d , ♦;i« |>ii"ttaitod sotije upie-fe- i-A* thcnldman "riw’ever asra-ii'b-d’l’ike’- Itoak. Bidiani|sili' also'bold* the younjr-t aw- j m-mi-r of that mountain in the j> ra n of , ■■•vt King, son of the I n-hij. ’i ritsaee. Who climbed to the Mreiii.it ia-t Sepleui- ' her at tbe age of eight year*. ♦ - — It is human nature to love perimenU at the j

NEWS OF THE WEEK. The raHmad- of the eduntry are no# anticipating a troublesome strike. West OfUNGE, N. J.—Father-in-law refused s<Mi-iu-law sso—‘shot him—lifiicided. HxyES and party are still “ twinging round the circle.” They have returned from the far West. Nine bohl and de« pcrate bandits have been killed in Indian territory during tbe past week, apd their ]<*ader captured. A <;oilßtspoM»KNT at Millersburg, Ohio, sayg that uti the 6th instant mercury there arose to 88 degrees-in the shade and 120 degrees in the ran. That reminds one of July weather. • It is now rumored that about one of tbe first acts of Congress on reassembling will he that of abolishing the National Board of Health. The O’Letfry belt is now being contested in New York. There arc thirty five contestants. The start was made on the sth, at midnight, in the presence of 0,000 people. First Assistant Postmaster Gknerai. TvNfn and company, who are traveling in the Ute Indian country, report to the War Department tl|at they arc in imminent danger, an<l want aid. rofoE Kemp has just ptid the penalty of the ciimc of murder, at Evening Shade, Ark. AL- rion Uulscy was murdered ten years ago a|l<l ten years after, Joe Kemp stands upon the sdnlfold and, says, a I die to-day for a crime for which J dcservo the punishment. During tho past week John Fred Will, of Jtjdbinapolis, Indiana, kiljed his divorced wife hy Mtalhing her fifteen or twenty times. He then shot himself. Upon the same day John Shoenan, in Now York, shot his wife’s paramour and then shot himself. The journeymen tanners at Pittsburg, num Bering about one hundred and fifty men, have struck for an advance of wages of twenty five cents a day. Tho molders employed at the Pittsburg Locomotive Works, have also struck for an advance of wages. It is predicted that there will he a genera rtnko among’the coal miners of Indiana and Illinois during the fore part of the present njonth. Tho miners at Logan, Ohio, demanded iiq increase of ten cents extra per ton and got ,id 'lreland is expecting trouble. The Pall Mill (ittzftfc says that a (Mipular politkittii named Parnell has exhorted tenantsnot to pay tHeir rents and to stick to their homesteads at whatever consequence. It says that a wholesale eviction will l»e the consequence, and that followed perhaps by a terrible civil war. « A Boston telegram says : /\ company has bion organized of Boston capitalists to extend the Atchison, Topeka «t Santa Fo R. R. through Mexico to Guuymas,a purt on the Gulf of California. The company is organized under the new law, authorizing a state corjMiration t<> build in foreign countries. Fea Kb are now entertained for the safety of Capt. Payne whoso command has gone to the front, the opinion prevailing that perhaps ho. lias met the same fate of Custer at ,the hand of the Ute Indians. No tidings have been recdiv cd since the attack on Thornburg’s com mund. The past week his had a tendency to inrfea*c the ravages of the fever at owing to the warm temperature of the weather. It is doubtful whether the disease will abate until actual cold weather sets hi. The number us new cases ami deaths remains about the same right along. The pedestrian Weston is evidently in a bad row Os luck. In anticipation of hW sueccw, ' credibjrs in advance attach< d the Astlcy belt, on exhibition at Tiffany’s, New York. Weston did not coinc off winner rn the match, as Was exjiected, and now Rowell, the successful concstant, is experiencing considerable legal tipqblc in gaining possession of the property. A bi- Pktkrsbukg cablegram says that during the past summer 11,859 prisonershave been incarcerated in the Central Prison at Moscow, 10.477 of whom were condemned to exile in Siberia. Thule informed u|>oh the manner of treatment that prisoners receive in Siberia ray that death is far preferable to the misery there to be undergone by the condemned. Thk trial of Win. Lydia, at Acbevillo, North Cirolina, for the remarkable crime of castrating aßoung man name'l Chas. Morris, has just lipped, and sentence pronounced upon the < Aprit of sixty year? in the penintentiary. Tfic cause leading to the perjietratioD of thin terrible deed was jealousy. Young Morris was engaged to marry a young lady who had re jerted Lydia. VfHi wicked arc bound to meet their fate ats<Rn<- time. Moody and Sankey and Joseph Cfok, have all des<*ended in a heap on Cferetand, Ohio, and during this month there Mil be weeping and gnashing of teeth among t|Je wayward children of that ** borough.” .Vide from a religious point of view, as some pFdane cotemporary might remark, ‘Gta the show Cleveland ever had.” .No news hae yet been received from Capt. Hfcyne’s command, in the I’te country. Un the <»th two companies <4 the 3d Cavalry, under <«pt. Henry, and six companies of the 7th lifantry, under Col. Gilbert, left for tbe Ute (Mmntry. Three companies of the sth Cavalry, tffr’f companies of the 3d Cevalry, and two < nf the 4th Infantry are also on their toy. "A riRMONAi. encounter between two of Lonfamous journaliaU, Mr. Henry Labou- ! efierc, tbe editor and proprietor of the society i j junta I called Truth, and Mt. Levy Lawson, *Jitur and proprietor of tbe Ixmdon /Hiln Ttte- ' yWipb, haw produced a great aen»alion in Lond>n <«-iety. Mr. Lawron made the attack at l| o’clock at night because <»f tome iarult he fancied he had received thrugh the columns •4 Truth. Mr. Lab* uchere eaye they did not i hurt each other. He ray# that they couldn't. Charlfy Carmeb, a twelve-year-old.boy re I ?Ming near Richmond. Ind., wandered from ‘ hi« hem* last Saturday, since time the | ‘tarohiDg party ha« U» two hundred i.person*. The boy has been traced • di«taoce | <4 fifteen mile* from h«’tn*. and by whomever -ecu, wu running at the top of hw speed through cornfield*aad woods. He «a> afraid of strangers. It i* thought he will secret himself seme where an I die of starvation. His parents are wild with grief. 1 Nkar Kokomo, Indiana. Alexander Combs, a wagon-maker, shot George W. Olinger, a farmer, in tbe breast, killing him instantly. CVuse, jealousy of hi? wife, whom he accused of intimacy with Combs had *ecreted him*elf near Olinger's and waited until dayJilrfrr when bnJmd -larted to hi? barn do the feeding. He sß^bimj without the lean warn-

ing. Combs, on returning to his work, narrated to his partner what he had done, who replied : “ Probably you <)nly wounded him.” Combs replied : “ N<». I killed the ot a I Faw him breathe his last/' A i.aighable incident has just occurred ata place called Mark’s Gap. in A yoyngman named Joo Pcntz. just prior to the. advent of his marriage, received a note from his rival stating that if he attempted towed hi- ;■ tlian< •» d. he would sh«H»t him during the cereim'ny. I n daunted by this threat, Pent/. t«.««k the girl on his arm and a Urot gun on His shoulder and marched to church, where the minister and invited guests awaited in tin- manner and with one eye on the congregation and the other on the minister, the ceremony was per formed. Ths rival dfd n» jhut«rfere. The Baptists of St? Louiaarc having a terrible time. Because the minister of a wealthy church there did nut observe eb se communion, inasmuch as he invited a jew to commune with them, the church wa; ‘’cut off,” and’ then another congregation, rich in this world's good.-, went ami done likewi * <ut llirin.»<’l\c • off. TJbus the two wealthiest Eapti't ebunhe* in St Loui.' have rebclcd. A.> if Io finish matter', in religious circles, Rev. S«»rg, a B.ipti-t preacher, with a huge knifr, di emboweled Frank Gaddy beeaii'C he would n«4 “give him the road,” up<»n whi<h (hey were Iv-lh dri\ing, A I’lSi’ATt h from San Fianci -a\ ,; The scbo«»ner Fanny Il vdr, which ae< ompanicJ the Jeennetto with coal and ’stores to Bchrinu’ Strait, rctiirneil here Septcmbci 2V, w»th date from the Jeimnette m St. Lawren-e Bay l » ApgiU»t s. All were well and the crmulific work was progrc.'.'ing ciiconrugingly. There in every prospect ot an open winter iu the Arctie regions. A. T. foneni, chief, gave new • oUNordenskjold’.- pa-sngc to the -outh. Two days after parting with the Jeannette the Hyde came up with the whaler t'atherina Ward, of New London, becalmed nriii Point Champlain. The world-famed aeronaut, Prut. Wi.-t, who iipcuiiipany with a young uian named Geo. Burr, made a balloon ;i'evn«i<m from St. Loui on Sunday evening, the 2 s th tilt., has uut- yet been heard from, and .‘•erioits thought.- nr< « n tejtained regarding his ■'afefy. This w.i~ the 4Ofyd balloon trip of the Pr»4'cy-«»r’<. It was thtir intention to remain up but a short time, and took food enough with them to supply them oifly forty hourb. Information has been received leading to the belief th.it they have landed somewhere in the wilds <d British America. The last heard of the balloon wa «m the day following the ascension, when, it i said Homeperzona saw it passing out over Lake Michigan. Terrible Accident at a Fair. A dispatch from Adrian, Mich-, say . Thr was the great day of the genawee t’ounty Fair. The weather was all tjhat could havebeen desired, and the city wnsj early crowded with a greater number of \ i'ilsjif- th in ever im scDthlrd here before. Thi' afternoon at o’clock the grounds were a perfect jam of people, and the grand atnnd newly erected wa.' packed to witness the cxercisns on the tra k. I »lass of gentleman’s driving horses, doubk team . had just been sent around the track, and the baud occupying the front and <<nter 'd -4-he ' grand -tand had |W;-t begun to play, while the ' juAgi?? were affixing premium ribbon*, when, with a terrible the stand broke down. It gave way in the center: then th' trout fell outward to the tnn k, and the back fi ll into the river. At once rnaued a ?cr,m of indes cribable confusion. Buggies were ovirtuinod, h'JT-Cd dashed frantically up the only to meet a crown! of people flocking to the ?cinc of the diw’ter. Those who wer« ulilv slightly injured rarnc crawling out of ttie mas? of ruin*. .<howing numcroti* (' ntiri' iiA, and then began the work <>f dragging from the these who were inure severely injured. There were in the. neighborhood of 2,ofiff people on the grand ?tand and a large crowd in the Dj<cc beneath. soon a* possible the Opera-,, hoiise was opened and iminy of the dead ami wounded taken IhcfQ. The following ir a ILt oflhe dead : M. M. Mrrok. Mr-. John Hubbard, a boy named Hyde, a boy uamcl Mb-hrr, HavM Plain idon* and William Mutter. Not less than one hundred and fifty | persons were ueriotisly injured, many fataMy, and the deaths resulting from the accident will probably not be Icm (ban twenty-hve or thirty. The cxeitement in the city immediately succeeding the accident w«m iudeacribablc. Pgrent- were frantically looking for their ehil dr*n, aud children were looking for their , parents. Women went into ‘hy.-leric-, and strong inen cried on ihe streets a- they hcarl the terrible news. Late? <lispatchC'< •‘ay that the number nf the wounded will reach 224. A General Strike Predicted. The following telegram from Reading, P<nn., evidently for.-had<»w* a «ad Mate < f.j h(fairs : ** That the variott? trade ufiion organi | zation* throughout the country, asriated by the Knights «»t Laho? order, have determined t<» j erfate and inaugurate a great and g< rural ag- j gifemve movement against capital, is without i qiirstiou a poeitive fact. A prominent official i of'tbe KnighU, of Labor organization, whose | nfffue is mippreared at, preaent fur prudential | r«saon>, eay- that the order hr halunga to. , ai>ci all the labor union? di-tnbuted at all the ' gffkat industrial of the <ouutrv. nave t>een planning fur an organized and determined cafinpglgn for a -hortrning of the hour* of labor, with an increase of th* ruling wa*e« wberew-t ' any extraordinary improvement in hnrincsii I will warrant it. F«»r some time, and., from I the corrwpnndenee that ha.- been going | on recently, it is believed th* promt j nent' wing?, of the Knight? «>f Labor ; in the East and West are ready to give | the signal for a grand, general, and a concentrated uprising. The labor element of the Ulited State?, it i< raid, was never before in . tbe history of tbe country so united J and harmonious in its action, and «» well pre j pured, financially, to undertake a contest with the capitalist? a? at this time. It i« estimated. ■ after a close and carefnl computation by the j agent* of the Knights nf Labor, who have been visiting every sertmn *»f the country within the I past non«b to learn the .-entiment nt the work ingmen in regard a hostile movement age tn-t capital, that fully laborers nf all ctatarc are ready, willing and anxious to take }<art in a strike. The prevailing local labur | •trugg' o4 are but the premonitory «ympt**nis : of the greater *nd more fully organized up- ‘ riling. LTerrific Poirder Kill Erplos/on New? from Loveland. Ohio, *tate« that-the powder mill "4 J. W. King. »»a thr line *»f the 1 Little Miami railnevi. evpl'*led with «ach forte that the shock h r a distance of seven

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miles was like that of an earthquake. A oorreqxmdentto the Cincinnati C\mini«icial says: s The first explosion took place in the grindingmill, followed in a few seconds afterward hy th© blowing up "f the dry-house. The two building.- wore. Mown to atom.-*, and their inmates, three men, who were engaged in manufacturing the dangerous compound, were literally turn l'. The head us John Siiwons was found on the opposite aide of tho Miami Riven-, whil* Pastor, the other individual who was at ( work with Siniinonn’ ? in th’ gr’nulrng dcfwiTtlumit, has entirely disappeared. Not a single vestige of hi- remains at thr writing has been, identified. In the tlry hou-c at the time of tho explosion wa? a nu|,n who. had worked for the firm but a iioft time. No trace us, bis .have been found. The theory has been advanced that At was < a used by friction us the machinery in the grinding department, which was likely the case? The mill turned out about 22.) kegs of pojder daily, and it is more than probable that there were 2«“» keg.- on hand at. the time of the rx plifrimi. Nothing but a large black spot remains to murk the spot where the buitdingE nuji'tioneJ .-tqod. A Real Live Ghost. A ■ orrei-pondent at Louisville »ys : “ Severs w<-fek m<e ('apt. Drake, •hies of the night pofiee ol thi- < ity. while pairing a vacant lot at inter of Spring and High street-, saw what li» thought wa- a iyan lying on the grass, fte appH'U'bed it, when the object vanished. f>n« w<tk later th'* wunc uperatien wafe related, people began to talk about it. Nigh| before la-t ;• «row-1 us about forty visited the spot, and c aw what they are willing t’fswcnr was a « hild wltich, at th* ir approach, r< sp into the air and vann-hed. Excitement nuw ruse to levVi heat, and la t night, between the hours of 9 .Mid 12, not l<»s> than people, white and black, n- h a id poor, visited thr Spot to see the, strange apparition, hut it did not make its apptaraiicc. V> hen the -un rose thi.- morning there were, by actual count, forty nine people standing around the Jot, having remained on wal< li all night. An old hoiuc, which the supcebhtious claimed wa.- haunted, 1 ormeriy stood upon the lot Excitement ha- by no means abati I. and tlie spot will be again wat« hed tonight. Elections this rear. In tlie following FfatC'elertien are to be liefrl tin- 5e.11lowa, October 14 —Governor, Legislature, k State and County officer-. Ohi". October II Governor, State officers and Legislature. 4--Governor and Legislature. Ma -:o hu-« tt-, November 4 (governor and Leg 1 ria ture. M i-.-issippi, November 3- County officers and urc. Virginia. November 3—Legislature. New Jersey, November 5- Legislature. N< w York. N’oieuilier 9—Governor and Legislatin'. Vl i.wh'in, November 5 -State officer.- and L<g' litun-. A Clog to Lotteries. j TT<‘P<,.t oflve Departmental U’a.-hington has imdc <1 derision, which h*t- been adopted by thu B' -itina-ter General and will ba enforced, prohihitiug r the mailing of letters to lottery cutup or their agciiU; also torbidding the .■’ending of money to lottery comphnios-by postal order or registered letter. Thia 'ieciriwn hai cleat*■ ! a govd <d indignation among lntt< ly agent® there, and they »ay it cannot ftioid. Il !-• aid tjliai lyltsrj companies will Uil(< th<-ni.-e to the e..ur(-. mid maintain their rigtit 'he'ii.e ..( the mail.-. The mithoritle: hate their dei-i.i.-n uj.-n tho |.<>stal law. and reflation-sis I*7'.h which fhrhld ths n-e nf ths mails l" swintlta tho public, anil tbcf claim that lotteries <-<>uie under this head. ' •*“ ' I‘ntting Plants to Skf-p. 1 „n+ .i. Thn..? • 1 h«- idi .x of rtibjoctinff the remarkable . Sensitive plant to .the action of ant* itli' lies wa“ natural, anti several ex-porinv-nt'. of the kind arc recorded, the plgnt haiing been placed in rapora of’ < tin-/or clilornfortu. Ki qently J*. Arlo. in* ha.- made some inferestine obeefvatians of the effort of eltloral. chloroform arid ether pr, -*nted for absorption bv tint roots. Ihe potg were sprinkled with aqticous solutions of these snbstancef. I tlwti covered with Hire to prevent escape offthe tapirs. After absoptionof < hlorofolm or etlier, one notes primary and setondan- effeete; the formeriyephenomena of exeitation similar to th<>* arising from niechanieal irritation, and comparable to those in animals when amesthetixe<l. Thev occur successively from ths bottom to the top of the stem. In thirty to sixtv minutes the , common jieticles ! (<ff leaf Mrmr) »traighl«’n and the leaflets , separate, beginninp from the ton of the 1 steal: I>ut ihe plant is now lon no to have . lost itsscuaibility. Thesecondaryeflicts cmisist <>f cliuiFfiation of the anaesthetic. Tbe sensibility often does not return for l om and a toil 1 or two hours. Chloral I d« s not act ana-ethctically on the sensi- ! tit< plant. These idwervatiAns afltiiMed i ifr Arlrengan opport unity of «ac> rtaxni its tho ><-lqftty vs Liquids in the, stein , artel Uancbes 'rff plants under’ pbyidologl<fel c.vfloftions; whtereto pwst I elperimenta on ihe fcubjeeX hare been* mfide with withered or mutilau-l plaum . I If the leaves are in a cood state. tw’MnI num petiolto bend down suddenlv and I successively from below upward ip,the , plant as the absorlied chloroform reaches tto-m. 116000. knowing the dimen.iotia I ot the plant, the velocity of the cWorobirmized water in the stem and primary can be easily calculated, within the stem, the veh>oity is modified by the state of the tissus mid foliage, the tesnperature. etc.; it wazfound, in dis- | sere nt cases, at the rate of 0.90 metres, 0 I 2.2im.. 2.40 m.. 2.74 m. per hour. Tbe velocity increases from the bss* to the top of the -tern in the ratio of 1 to 1-45 oe 1.5*». and it is If times to twice as ' gte-at in the petioles as in the stem. Tbe time of absorption by the roots was found to vary irom 2 to fil minutes. " How much for a pearT’ he asked, aad with a chuckle paid the three cents demanded. Then came the joke. I oily took a pair,” he said, exhibiting ‘ t<o of trie articles. And what a satisfied , grin that punster started away with! ’ All right.’’ shouted the huckster to him. “ pears are only a cent a piece but I ' knowed you’d l«e up to -.une dodge. I You keep the joke, old buster, and I’ll j keep the extra cent.”