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THE DAILY NEWS. MON DAT. MABCH 31. 187*.

The Indianspolis News has a bona fide circulation more than one-half larger than that of any other daily paper in Indiana. The following wm the bona fide Lasae of The News for the week ending March 29: Monday, Marrh 24...„ — 10.848 Tbonday, •• 27 10,752 frlday. • “ *8 10,818 6“Md*r, “ 29 ii.OM Daily arcrage. io,842 W. J. Bichakds, Adr. Manager, Subceribed and sworn to before me this Slat day Of March, 1879. Jamb Gassas, ' ■ Notary Public. County expenses must be reduced. The decision of a court ia not necessarily justice. This is strange but true. The world’s charity ia wide now-a-days. The people of Ssegedin, in Hungary, are asking help, and Mayor Cooper, of New York, ia receiving subscriptions for them. The census of 1880 will go far toward •etling the “balance of power,” which desperate politicians are endeavoring to locate arbitrarily aa swita their peraonal interests. Nebraska for instance, it is estimated, has not far from 400,000 inhabitanta. Yet she sends only two members to congress, while Tennessee, with little more than three times that population, sends ten members. The “course of empire” will carry the center of the country a good ways west. When the democrats were about to elect the last president, they hare had in this country—in 1856—they declared in national convention that they “were decidedly opposed to taking from the president the qualified veto power by which he ia enabled to suspend the passage of a bill, whose merits cannot secure two-thirds of the senate and house.” They who say the spirit of the democracy is not changed; that it is the same now that it was before the war, we think most be mistaken. There is a decided change. An opposition president gives them an entirely different view of things. Free trade is a flue thing, but it is possible to have too much of it. It ia to the interest of man’s health and pocket book that there should he some presumption in favor of the doctor or lawyer he njay be compelled to, employ having at least been educated for his profession, however much nature may have nullified such work. The Edwins medical bill vetoed by the governor is believed to be such a safeguard concerning physicians. If it is, the legislature could have spent the little time left it to won« advantage than in passing it over the veto. Indiana is the prey of quacks. Illinois has driven them oat from her borders and they have settled here to ruin the health and purse of credulous people. It would be a fit thing to have lawyers examined before allowing them to practice. The eame principle is involved, although the same danger is not a consequence. The new constitution of 1850 was mainly suggested by the overflow of “local legislation.” Special charters were granted to each corporation, special road laws made, individual relief bills paawd, estates, guardianships, divorces were all brought to the Legislature, at times. The “local laws” made a volume as big as a family bible every year. They swelled expenses as much as the statutes. The new constitution was intended to remedy this evil among others. For a time it did. But how ia it now? The governor’s special message sharply and justly lashed the obtrusion of local before general legislation. Xths of the work, or pretense of it, regular session, were local laws, proportion at the extra session is much the Mine. The constitution is practically nullified. Local business is oonthe sessions, and what is not put is worse than wasted in party and schemes of dishonest party It. With the revenue provided for and general expenses prudently covered by iprehensive but clear appropriations, could do without the legislature for with great profit, aside from the saved.

aa it may seem, that scorching lit Zach Chandler’s on the arch has caused him (Chan“boom” tot the pwsisimply Washington

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rank treason for any of Its immediate supporters to be named In connection with the presidency, that none would dare be the man to do it. But it has penetrated the inner consciousness of the ring, that while there are thousands who believe the best interests of the conntry demand the continuation of the republican party in the conduct of national affairs, they are sure that no democratic administration could work the harm that would happen from breaking down the common law of the presidency which Washington established, to elect a man who has given eight years’ of proof that his civil administration means rascality rampant, and indecency enthroned in high places. Besides this, a large number of republicans who, are in the counsels of the party, do not themselves take kindly to the renomination of Grant Some for the causes named, some others because they sincerely admire him and don’t want to see him dragged through the mire of politics, perhaps to defeat. They recall how all parties and persons vied in doing honor to old General Scott, and truly say how much greater Grant would be, resting on his arms as a private citizen after being twice president and the hero of the war. Therefore they take to Chandler as embodying all the vigor and decision of Grant; infinitely more fitted to manage affairs than he, and with an established character for honesty. The Effect of Eeeent Trials. Some weeks ago a prominent judge in discussing the pardoning power and the reformation of criminals, premised by saying that before a man could be reformed he must be willing to admit that he had done something wrong. He went on to say that in the course of a long experience with criminals he had never known one who was willing to admit his guilt; that each one thought he was the victim of oppression, and had done nothing worse than many another who had escaped prosecution or punishment; he was to suffer simply because he had no influence or influential friends. The judge said his experience, compelled him to believe that this sentiment was deep-rooted in the community, and he ascribed it largely to the scrambles for office, which put men under obligations to • others add open the way to •corruption in office, which for party and personal reasons goes unrebuked, though it may be notorious. Whatever the origin there can be no doubt that - such a sentiment prevails widely, and that for several vears the people have been losing faith in the courts. There have been many evidences of corruption and partiality in different parts of the country, tending to create and foster this opinion, not the least of which was the partisan division of the justices of the supreme court in the electoral tribunal. Anything that adds to this is to be regretted deeply, particularly if done in a^ court which is free from the influences of parties. We are safe in saying that nothing dofte in this community for a long time, will demoralise the public mind and conscience as much as the result of the Slaughter and Miller cases last week. The acts of'the accused were unquestioned. Between them they had taken from the First national bank about $100,000, which had been used, for their own benefit. Yet they are acquitted of any violation of law. If this is law, it is neither justice nor common sense. Whether the result be due to the mismanagement of the prosecution, the positive instructions of the judge or the faaltinees of the law, matters not so far as the bad effect is concerned. Justly or unjustly, nine-tlnths of the public believe that these men escaped because they had influential friends and money to make an able defense. Their acquittal puts a premium upon rascality.- It tells every national bank employe in the state to take what he pleases of the funds intrusted to hi* care, for so long as no criminal intent can be proved upon him or ao long as he can call his stealing “shortage”, or carry it on until barred by the statute of limitations, he will go acquit. What security can depositors or stockholders deel, when their money is liable to such inroads, only to be prevented by the closest watchfulness. But the harm done in lowering the public confidence in the courts, is far greater than any pecuniary damage. The courts are the bulwarks of aociety. With just and independent courts no people’s liberty can be endangered, and anything that impairs that confidence is a£low at society whose effects are deep and lasting. In the cases under consideration, the harm has been Lightened by the fact that the judge has just emerged from a cloud of investigation which, whether rightly or wrongly we do not assume to say, has unquestionably injured his reputatiu% . A Novelty In fall tics. The chances, judging from the New York reports published in The News lately, are that Tilden will hold the mastery of that city, and through that, the mastery of the state. This will go far to assure him a second nomination for the presidency, an assurance said to be strengthened by Randall’s success against Blackburn. It is by no means unreasonable to acceptthe possibility. The chances of Grant’s third nomination by the republicans, though weaker appear to be growing, and will undoubtedly have the well organized and supplied assistance of the national office-holding fraternity. It is not at all beyond the bounds of eantious speculation to look at the next national contest as likely to be led by Tilden and Grant. If it is it may develop something new in party conflicts in this country, at least since the days of Monroe and the “era of good feeling.” Each party will find its mouth shut to the conspicuous offenses of the other. Neither can safely say a word of personal reproach. “The pot can’t call the kettle black,” and the republicans can’t talk about “cipher dispatches” when the democrats have a mouthful of “whisky rings” to talk back. Felton and Boas Sheppard Will set off each other. Babcock will put a stopper on

all* allusions to Weed. There is no reproach of personal demerit or diagraoeTn one leader that can’t be officially silenced by "you’re another," andatrueone at that And it doesn’t matter which party beginn. They are a perfect tie in all that is personally offensive in their leaders. So out of the untoward occurrence of having two candidate* who are notoriously associated with acts that disgrace the country, may come the welcome %hance of a campaign without any personal abuse. Such a consummation is so “devoutly to be wished” that one could almost hope the favoring nominations of equally balanced dishonors may be made, and each silence the other to all but legitimate issues. I But what a spectacle we shall present to other nations. Each of two great parties with a leader and embodiment of its principles, in a man who has been most closely if not guiltily associated with the grossest and worst cases of corruption ever known in any land or time! It does not matter now, and it never will, whethei Mr. Tilden knew explicitly what dispatches came to his house for his nephew. That the bosiness could not go on in his house, in the interest of a contest which enlisted his whole nature, and which depended upon his wealth for the means of success, without his having a positive though . not particular knowledge of it, is just as certain as that he could not have his leg broken without knowing that he was lame. He may not have had the knowledge that would make him technically guilty of complicity, but he hod the knowledge that made him morally guilty. So the world believes, and will while it remembers him. General Grant’s connection with the rascally Washington and whisky rings is just as clear. The evidence is even stronger. He pardoned whisky thieves and official abettors and partners. He held the law off of the thief Bingham in this state, after conviction on confession. He held up that pestilent scamp Babcock and kept him in confidence after a complete exposure of his corruption. And now the foremost of his supporters are whisky thieves. No one supposes he took any of the money that the revenue was robbed of by his pets and confidants, but he allowed robbery that he could have prevented, and kept friends with men whom he should have been the first to denounce as felons. Next year it may easily happen that we shall show the world the edifying spectacle of the great republic, the only republic, marshalling iUr universally educated, newspaper reading voters to a national contest, with one force led by an accomplice in election bribery, and th* other by a friend of revenue robbing. Not so Much Worse. The readers of The News can bear witness that it has not been slack of censure of the self-seeking and dishonesty of parties, their well balanced meanness and well matched recklessness, their easy corruptibility and their impregnable indifference to any consideration but their own advantage, but it must admit that there is not a little in the party contests of “the good old times,” when our great-grand-fathers were on the stage, and when, in our reverential estimate, all men were honest and magnanimous, even in their mistakes, to give countenance to some of the werst achievements of modern party ism. The letters of Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchell, who was a representative and senator from New York for a number of years during the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, and was one of the most distinguished scholars of his time, tells m that ‘Mrs. Madison is shockingly and unfeelingly traduced in the Virginia papers”— in 1808 it was—and that “the attack grows out of the approaching election in which her husband is so prominent a character.'” Our parties now days rarely or never descend to the abuse of the wives of candidates. Let us as the Romans used to say “mark this with a white stone.” There is an improvement here. What meaner thing has our centennial democracy or republicanism ever done than Dr. M. tells us of in a letter of 18027 Speaking of Jefferson’s well known description of the passage of the Shenandoah through Blue Ridge, he says he asked Jefferson about his point of view, so as to examine it from that point himself, and the president told him “the place no longer existed,” that “during Adams’s administration, the spot, which was a projecting point of rock on the brow of the mountain, had been industriously blown up.” “Federal troops quartered there were several, days blasting and blowing, doubtless with the intention of falsifying his account and rendering it incredible by patting it out of the power of any subsequent traveler to behold the like from the same point of view. What shameful, what vandalic revenge is this?” That is as mean a trick aa the cipher dispatches or ths Louisans election board arrangement. It is meaner^ smaller, more shabbily spiteful. H the imputation were false, the spirit thatcould conceive and credit it was equally mean. Latter day parties may defy investigating committees to unearth anything meaner than that. The congressional trick of suppnasing speeches that were delivered and publishing others that were not, is an old one, too. It is no invention of modern party impudence or duplicity. The doctor says, in 1802, “there is a secret about newspaper reports which yen ought to know. Many things are told there which never happened. Speeches are printed as made which never were made. Many speeches actually made never appear. According to the temper, humor aud party of the editor, debates are mutilated, garbled and perverted.” He relates an incident of the retirement of Burr from the vice-presidency that is worth recalling. He says that Burr’s farewell speech, March 2d, 1805, affected the senate so deeply “that many bunt into tears." His colleague, “Gen. Smith, Ms stout and manly as he is, wept as profusely as I did. He laid his head upon his table, and did not recover for a quarter of an hour or more.” Another illustration of the “way things come about” is men-

t’oned. Colonel Humphreys, ear minister to Spain during Washington’s administration, was recalled by Jefferson, and the jgMn of Spain presented hi* wife with a box of jewels on thsir return heme. The minister could not, constitutionally, accept a present from a foreign power, and declined them. They were sent after him, and be sent them to the president, and he sent them to the secretary of state, Mr. Madison, and he sent them back to Colonel Humphreys, who refused them till congress should give him permission to accept them. This is something like the affair of the diamonds sent by the khedive of Egypt to General Sherman’s daughter.

OCMMOnr COMMA NT. In 1872 D. G. Croly, formerly of the Graphic, published a paper, which he signed “a positive predictor,” wherein he foretold a money panic to come in the ensuing two years, describing its features almost exactly as they were. What seemed marvelous prescience in him, be explained was nothing more than a careful watching of the times and a calculation of conclusions in as prosaic a manner as sums in arithmetic. He is out with another prophesy. He says, 1. 1879 will be prosperous on the whole, and that a great mining excitement will spring up at the close of the year and a speculative spirit in other industries show itself. 2. There will be a partial failure of crops, the hay crop on the Atlantic coast falling short. 3. Two important failures of Wall street magnates will take place during the year 4. An unsuspected weakness in the national banking system will be developed. 5. Before 1881 the figures of our foreign trade will change. We shall export less and import more.. Home prices will go up. There will be a drain of gold abroad,, and then reautnpumption will fail unless legislated upon. 6. if the republic is prosperous John Sherman will be the next republican candidate for the presidency. 7. The final outcome of our financial difficulties will he the establishment of a national bank like the bank of England or that of France, and the United States treasurer stripped of much of th* power he now has. 8. A foreign war will happen to us before many years on account of our weak navy and the unprotected condition of our rich seaports. 9 A new pestilence or the revival of an o'd ote will occur in the near future, effecting the temperate zone. 10. A new motor will t e discovered which will ma'-e air nav’gation possible. At least it must be conceded that Mr. Croly is more definite in his f iserdons than Mother Shipton, whether more aooorate or not. MThe first Lord of the Admiralty, the original of “Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B.,” has laid before parliament the estimates for the British navy for the coming year. The gum asked is $53,000,000. Last year over $60,000,000 were spent. The number of men borne upon the fleet is 54,684, while there are, besides, 3,934 men in the coast-guard service ashore and afloat. The total number of vessels of the fleet on the 1st of December, 1878, was 255, and of these 131 were serving in various parte of the world. The number of vessels in course of construction at this moment is 37. A feature of British ship construction is the use of steel. Deck plating is now in all instances made of steel, and the ribs and beams of British ships are being to a large extent constructed of this material. Steel is also making its appearance in the form of armor A convention of evangelical ministers, to meet in Springfield, Massachusetts, May 6, promises to be an important one. It will include the evangelical churches of western Massachusetts, and it is expected Rev. Joseph Cook, Dr. John Hall, Stephen Tyng, jr., and others will be present. The object of the convention is to stir up an interest in the proper observance of Sunday and endeavor to decide on some measures to attain that end. Mr. White, minister to Berlin, in response to a question as to who will be the next president, said: “J think all indications point to General Grant as the coming man. Grant is profiting greatly by .his European tonr and is an observing student of the people and governments of the countries he is visiting.” Whereat the New York World pertinently remarks that if this is so the people of this country are not so much interested in what General Grant has seen or will see in Europe tr Asia, but “whether what he sees has caused him to change his opinions about Grantism and about tbe methods of Babcock, hhepberd, Belknap, Robeson and the whisky ring generally.” The public school eduoation of this and other countries is not directed to moral training. Children are not taught religion, and their best sentiments are not quickened and called into life by the school discipline. Aund, unfortunately, in too many instances, there is no home training to supply the defects of school instruction. In thousands of homes no religious instruction is given, nor moral training worthy the name is imposed, the voice of prayer is never heard.—[New York Evangelist. A careful estimate shows that there are between forty-five and fifty thousand democrats in this city who will not vote for Tilden again under any circumstances. His nomination would therefore give the state to the republicans by an enormous majority.—[New York Btar. Robeson having been vindicated for spending one hundred and sixty millions of dollars without a result fit to be named, fancies himself a great man troubled with intellect. He U rushing to the front as a leader.—[Cincinnati Commercial. If Gen. Grant should be nominated it will b* a political experiment attended with great uncertainty. No person, not the most sagacious and far-seeing of statesmen, can foretell with any poeitiveness how far the feeling and traditions against a third term will operate with the great mass of th* American people. It seems to us that with an unobjectionable democratic candidate and a sound

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tram MJaaaaata to Haw York. V M;* w lOMMaad riaf dealer.]

Among th* MtogM* Ml a Lake Shore train was a scientific gentleman who said he owned a farm on tha shores of Lak* Pepin, the bead watanof tbe Miaeiasippi in Minnaeota. Tbe gentleman said he wm going through to New York with several alligators caught in that lake. Knowing that Lake Pepin, in Minnesota, covered as it is with lo* for seven months in the year, was rather a cold latitude for alligators, our reporter was cunous to know more of the strange phenomenon. The gentleman went on to explain that the alligators were quite common in the lake, and that the inhabitants usually caught them through holes ioth* ice with hooks

baited with young kittens.

“Then yon have seen n good many of

them ?” inquired our reporter.

“Oh, yes, thousands of them. I have nine Urge ones now in the freight car.”

“What prevents them from freezingi& that

cold latitude?” asked the reporter. “Oh, they are covered with thick fur like

seals. They are winter alligators, and only

appear in cold weather.”

•‘■Winter alligators—you say?"

“Ycr, winter alligators. It is thought by Minnesota naturalists that them alligators

lodged in lake Pepin daring the warm peripd of the world’s history, when the mammoth and ithosticus lived in Montana, and that as

the seasons grew colder nature provided them with fur. The alligator is a tough animal, and the fact that he should live in northern water when the less hardy ithosticus and mammalia became extinct is good proof of

vival of

Darwin’s theory of the surviva

the fit-

test. N ature, you^see, provides for an^ emerfrom’themuscatory or testal period into'the glacial period the fur ou the alligators took, the place of scales. Would you like to look at the ten fur-clad alligators I have in the

ft eight car?”

Our reporter said he would, and as he walked along up the track toward a row of box cars, he asked the scientific old gentle*

please give his name.

“M‘;hame, ,, ^ d ^®“r “isEHPar—

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Prince Leopold.

(London Lettei )

This prince is but 26, and has achieved a decided standing in letters. He has, within the month taken the pUtform in favor of the diffusion of education, and made a speech on the same stand with Gladstone by no means unworthy the company on the occasion. He is debarred from the usual habits of princes— vices or virtues—by the delicacy of his organization. ‘ He U, it is said, subject to epileptic attacks against which medical skill has thus far been tried in vain. Besides this, he is most singularly bereaved in body. That is, he has a cuticle so thin that frequently the blood oozes through in case of the sligbteet derangement of the temperature of the body. I have beard the medical term for this, but don’t recall it. Being thus delicate from his youth up, he has remained with his mother; and hat to some extent imbibed her strong prepossessions for bis father and his father’s family. Devoted to studious pursuits he has given all the time his medical advisers would permit to science, literatnre and art. He writes a fine clear style; draws with a masterly band, and displays not only humor but imagination. He is very much beloved by his kinswoman, the princess of Wales, who, it is said, loves to have her two boys Albert and Victor with their uncle Leopold. The queen is said to fee a strong resemblance between her dead husband, Prince Albert and the youngest of her ooys. Mysterious lire at Madison, Wls. A fire at Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturdaydestroyed two upper stories of the Fairchild block. Loss on bnilding, $15,000; other losres about $10,000. Daring the progress of the fire three separate explosions occurred, throwing the firemen and others down a stairway to the street The second explosion caused the rear wall of the building to fall. The following were burned more or less seriously: A Cheny, A. M. Duggett, Thomas Morgan, Robert Hendricks, Wm. Spaulding, Jake Yanetta, Proprinilas House, August Scht nig, S. L. Sheldon, T. G. Grove, James . Reynolds, district attorney; Alfred Goderdam, John Parks, Robert Woolen, Peter Suket, Henry Waltzinger, Charles Bixby and Mat Lynch, Schouig, Spaulding and Hendricks are considered in a dangerous condition and will probably die. The fire was discovered in the third story. Its origin is unknown, but is supposed to be incendiary. It is suspected that something of an explosive nature was placed between the floor and ceiling in the third story, for the tbe purpose of causing the destruction of the entire building. Tne building is owned by tbe Fairchild estate. Rowley & Co., furnishing goods: O. A. Damon, tailor; McConnell and Smith, stationers; S. Klauber, clothier; Thomas Morgan, restaurant, were occupants. Their losses are principally from water mad removal of goods; fully covered by insur-

Laud MoBopotia* la OalUornla*

There are 50,000,000 acres of land in California fit for cultivation, but not over 5,000,000 are in actual use for that purpose, and not over 8,000,000 are enclosed. Over 20,000,000 acres are held by land rings or individual monopolists for speculative purposes, in tracts of 125,000 to 300,000 acres. This state of things has long been felt to be a great check to the prosperity of the state. Under normal conditions men of small means might be expected to flock in large numbers to settle upon the rich fanning land, and healthy, active, and enterprising agricultural communities would arise; but this has been rendered impossible by the refunl of the large land owners to sell except at exorbitant prices. The new constitution that is now before the California people for adoption seelu to remedy this evil by providing that the taxation of lands held in large uncultivated tracts, shall not be assessed, as heretefore, at the nominal value of 50 cents to $2.50 per acre, but that the same valuation shall be [-laced upon them as upon the small cultivated farms adjoining them. This will be from $20 to $60 per acre, according to location,and will make the annual tax on one of these small kingdoms $100,000 or more. It is believed that such assessments will loon cause the monopolists to sell their tracts for

what they will fairly bring.

Fir# la a Deaf aad Dumb Avylum.

portion _

Jacksonville,

of the

[New York 8un. The republican party, from 1868 to 1876, settled nothirg; their policy was to keep all questions open, with tbe selfish object of ■caring the country into re-electing them by a biennial cry of “here come the democrats!" Well, at last the cry of “wolf” lost its terror, and to-day we have the democrats. Nobody is alarmed, bat everybody is carious to know wbat they are going to make of it now they are here.—[New York Herald.

will go

Graphic Bcvelatloa of Hwauta Nature. [New Albany Ladger-Staadard.] It 1* Cotton who toys that “men will wrangle for religion—write for it, fight for 2* Atm J4 « *tnvthinrF ■ 1* VA {{if* t men . _ Office. They” will wrangle ferit, write for it, fight for it, live for it lie for it, steal for it, com mit perjury for it, drink rotgut whisky for it, smoke villainous cigars for it, aaaxnate with and toady to rowdies for it beg for it, swear for it, art the hypocrite for it, play cards with niggers for it, stands at the polls all day for {t; sit up all night for U, or do

anything under the heavens except die lor iL •

A fire yesterday afternoon destroyed a of tbe deaf and dumb asylum at iville. 111., but the speedy apperraace „ — fire dejiariment checked the flames. Tbe damage by fire and water is not over $10,000, The inmates were badly scared, but none were injured. The fire caught on the

roof frpm a repairer’s stove.

Usually th# Case. [Philadelphia Star.]

B Whenever you hear a man Tauntingly boast that he does not care for oewspaner criticismjyou may set it down as a fixed fact that his skiii is of the thinnest and most seasitive texture, and that no one more than he dreads the newspapers when he knows that he is engaged in questionable pursuits.

Ex-Congressmen D#ad.

Ex-Congressman Wm. J. Albert died at

Baltimore, Saturday.

Ex-Congfessman Jas. K. Gibson died at

Abingdon, Va., Saturday.

Ex-Congressman H. Y. Riddle eommitteed suicide at Lebanon, Tennessee, Saturday.

Tha T#aa#aa## State Debt

The state senate of Tennessee, on Saturday, concurred in the bouse amendment to the bill to compromise the state debt at fifty cents, with four per cent interest, to be submitted to the people for ratification, if the bondholders accept the proposition.

A Fear of Kmptre.

[Franklin Democrat-HerslfL] The prediction of Frank Blair may yet come true: “Before the people of the United Stategget rid of U. S. Grant, that he will have to be carried feet foremost out of the white house at Washington.” Another HlaaenpoUs Mill Banted*

[Believed to have t

i shout the yeer 551.]

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, the me# h» dies.

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finally,

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how th# tbe audience, and in a bold p “Meetin’! Come open I”—{New

(Conn.) Ray.

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newly aprai

r btfeua.

Mrete-dny,

Use te the gram the Or like ■ tale that’s i

Or like the bird that’s here t _ Or like the pearled dew in May, Or like aa hour, or like a span, Or like the Musing of a swan: is man, who Uvea hy breath,

i here, now there, in life i

The gram withers. The bird is flown,

the tale ieead#^

^ ladewn, thedew**

The hour ie shore, the apao set long.

The swan’s near death, man’s Bis is don*.

Like to tbe babble in the brash, Or in a glass much like a look. Or Ilka tha skuttio in weaver's brad, Or Uke tbe writing In the rand, Or Uke a thought, or Uke a dream. Or Uke the gliding at th* stream:

Even such is man, vh# lives hy breath.

Is here, now there, in life sad death. The bubhte’e oat, the look forgot. The shuttle dang, the writing 1 ! blot,

The thought i» p*»t, the dream Is gone.

The waters glide, man’s Ufa is done. Uke to an arrow from the bow, Or Uke swift course of water dew.

Or Uke that time ’twixt flood and ebb,

Or Uke the iplder’s tender web.

Or like a race, or Ukea goal. Or Uke the dealing o( a dote ;

Even such is tuan. whose bclUlestate

Is always eunject unto fata.

The arrow shit, the flood soon spent. The time, no time, the web aeon rent. The race toon run, the goal aoon won, The dole soon dealt, man’s life soon done. Like to the lightning from the aky. Or Uke a poet that quick doth hie.

Or Uke a quaver in a song,

-ee days long,

. .!$:*»«*> “‘i hud been rrganted as Mist Ltnkhnw’s accepted suitor. She was a somewhat famous beauty of that isolated port of til* state, an active worker in religious charities, ao4 the daughter of a moderately wealthy man. Her joined her in the hotel parlor mad ihook bands ; bat while she bald bis

she drew a

pistojl with

Ur like a quaver in a sou Or like a journey three (

Or like the snow when f | Or Uke the peer, or like the plum; Even such is man, who heaps up sorrow, f and diet to-morrow.

ng’a past, the post mus short, the journey ao, >th rot, the plum doth i

lives but this day and dies to-morrow. The Ughtnum's paat, the post must go, Tbe aoog is short, the journey so, The pear doth rot, tbe plum doth tail. The snow diseolni, and so must all,

, SCRAPS. This talk abont illicit Whisky seems to brf all moonshine. A Western pedestrian quit the track owing to an “indisposed heel.” General Hancock is the wealthiest officer of the United States army. Prince Louis Napoleon could read in four languages when only seven years old. Recruits for the British army no longer receive the traditional “queen’s shilling” on enlistnfent. The Texas legislature, as a matter of eocnto^2 h? rc< * uce< * l ** e P rice pei^or prayers Governor Marks, of Tennessee, has set an example of economy by relinquishing $1,000 of his salary. Temperance is something that touches human nature all over, inside and out. says Henry .Ward Beecher. Until last week Montreal did not have an ordinance for the punishment of persons giving immoral shows in the city!

with her left

right, and shot him _ months ago, aad she has sine* been ia jail, except when lately taken into court on the day appointed for n trial. Tk* iatanet in the case was so great that 4,000 $sbb|ml nearly the entire population of two oeontics, gathered In and around tbe w

Miss Linkhaw addressed the that she killed Harrimda because he promise of marriage; that she did not she had done any wrong, and that

not desire a lawyer to defend her, as M entirely willing to leave herself in the 1 of God, who would take care of her.

father, however, had er.| the trial was postponed.

The circus business has decidedly wane! from what it was twenty years ego, aad for the coming season the travelling concerns will be very few compared wfth form* times. Many of th* names once familiar on the flaming bills nre not seen in connection with circuaeA Dr. Spnuldir - U IMwr on bis money in Saugert*- jf - Yankee Robinson is an ac* .wtera

Ben Maginley.

Pastor. Torr l\ *»y Partor, and ?£*> theatric^* -*«riy clowns, are also on the of O ate**- Andrew Haight, one owner Montgomery Quran is interested in BrookUa sspy. SSfl;

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theater, Burr Robbins is lectorin west on temperance, and tbe Cooper A Bailey keeps a horse i

delphia: Dan Rice, after many ape and downs, is building a floating theater to run

on the Mississippi. Baruum, F« Robinson, and Lent are about the proprietors still in the business.

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sin state authorities for the bounty. A girl 11 years of sge is In prison at Labors, France, awaiting trial for burning her little 2-jear-old brother alive because “it annoyed her to be obliged to nurse him.” Rudolph, future emperor of Austria, desires to speak the language of every race be will one day have to rule over, and is now studying Turkish. He speaks ten languages all eady, seven or eight or which are usedin the Austro-Hungaiian empire. An old farmer living near Elliota, Minn., recommends farmers to sow about one pint of winter rye to each bushel of wheat this spring. The rye will not mature, but will keep green, and tbe'chinch bugs will leave the wheat entirely alone and eat the rye. Gen. Boynton, the well known correspondent, entered the union army in 1861 as major of the 24th Ohio infantry, and bad reached the rank of brigadier general when he resigned in 1864, haring been severely wounded at the storming os Mission Ridge. Mr. D. R. Locke (Petroleum Y. Nasby”) has written aplay founded upon the celebrated “Widow Bedott Papers,” using the widow herself, “Tim Crane” and "Elder Sniffles,” who are familiar figures with those who have read the book but adding soms new and originhl ones. ’ When the confederate army was on its shortest rations, General Lee remonstrated one day with a straggler for eating green persimmons, and asked him if h# did not know that they were unfit for food. “I’m not eating them for food, General," replied the man, “but for tbe sake of drawing my stomach up to fit my rations.” One day last week a man named Seagraves, living near Zanesville, in this county, dreamed three times in succession that some gold was buried in a certain place, and th# dreams having madt such an impression on his mind he concluded to test the matter, and discovered buried in a quinine bottle eleven hundred dollars of the yellow metal. It is supposed to have been buried there several years ■go by Dr. Thompson* now dead, who once lived in the place.—[Holly Springs Register. As a matter of fact, the last congress was exceptionally healthy. Out of 293 members of ths lower boose but nine died, when four* teen would have died had the average been the same among the members as among the general population. As an eminent physician remarked in speaking of this subject, “Because a man is a member of congress it is no sign he won’t die.” According to tables of mortal!tr and the doctrine of chances, fourteen of the present congress will die before the expiration of their terms. A bronze figure of a confederate soldier, measuring seven feet in height and weighing nearly one thousand pounds, has recently been finished at the National fine art foundry in New York. It was modeled by the sculptor Richards, and is to surmoant the shaft of tbe soldiers’ memorial in Savannah, Ga. The figure represents a private of the confederate army. The stock of his gun rates on the ground at his feet, and the fixed bayonet exteada from the top of the barrel in front of his shoulder. He wears a belt, with cap box and cartridge box, and on the clasp of the belt are the letters “C. 9.” Mr. Benjamin Bntler was in his youth deatined by bis mother to become a Baptist minister, and she sent him to WaterviUe college for preparation. Er. Bland relate* that one of the professors delivered a sermon in the chapel, in which be said: “1. None but tbe elect can be saved. 2. Of so-called Christian* probably not more than one in a hundred will be savfld. S. Heathen people will have more consideration of the Almighty in future life than men of Christian nations, who hear but do not profit by the word of God.” After hearing this sermon the young Butler petitioned the faculty to relieve him from further attendance upon preaching, upon the ground that according to the proportion stated, not above six persons ia the college could possibly be saved; aad as there were nine worthy professors, all of whom were doctors of olvinity, it weald be presumptuous for him, a poor student, to hope for even the remotest chance of salvation; hence in attending church he wm oaly making his damnation more certatn nod terrible. - , « * *■ .■ Unde David Wooster, of Unkm City, having been permanently teased when comparatively a young man, had not been able to mix very roach with society. He would, however, manage to get oat to a political or school district meeting occasionally. On* evening be was attending one of the tetter gatherings, when some one’movedthat Hncle David should open the meeting. The old gentleman hardly knew what it was neceasa-

The Oliver-Cameron Caen. In the Oliver-Cameron case at Washington Saturday, the judge denied the motion to withdraw the case from the Jury, and then Gen. Butler moved that as Mrs. Oliver, by her statements, manner of living and conduct. was. in the eye of the law, a married woman, she waa estopped from consmnmatii g another marriage. The judge said it he should govern himself in the action In th*' case, while th* jury was absent from the room, he would make short work of it; but this case must be tried as any other is. These parties come here both adulterer!; wdl that was rather a poor recommendation for a senator s wife, but, after being informed of all the adulterous practices of the woman, if a senator is fool enough to marry her there Is nothing to prevent it Thli womaa’i history and practises run through the entire oaae, and he believed that her antecedent history played a part of the deception, and all knew that deception did net bind in a contract to marry. Bnt he had no fears of the jura running away with justice while he held the rein, so he would overrule the motion.

Aa Ingentoas Murderer. A box containing small fragments of human remains, each pirce wrapped in coarse brown paper, was fished up from th# Thames. The mutilated remains have been recognized as those of Mrs. Thomas, who lived alone near Richmond. The supposed murderess ia Catharine Webb, alias Lawler, who was Mrs. Thomas's servant. It is believed she made away with the identifiable parts and threw the rest into the Thames, then sold the contents of tbe house at her leisure and went home to Ireland, where she was arrested.

Tk* Condition of Workingmen.

[Elkhart Review.]

The people of the United Btetes will now have an opportunity to compare, under similar conditioas, the circumstances of ths working people of England and Aneerion, and ns the comparison is made, as England gate ns far under the shadow as we were before a revival of prosperity began, the dlflbreace will be so apparent in favor of this nation that the moat blinded communist enn not but see it, and rejoke that his lot was not out lu

Great Britain.

Th# Newark Fir#. The fir* at Newark, Ohio, reported 8*tarday, caused a loss on the new court bouse, which cosi $160,080, of from $60,000 to $75,000; insured for $25,000. Mote of the county records were removed in good order. A.boy named Kramer and a man named .Smyths were badly injured by tailing timber. It Is thought by some that the building wm fired to destroy crooked record*. Can This B# la Indian*, [Columbus Democrat.] In Jennings county tbe negroes now there are not permitted to rote the democratic ticket, but are given a straight republican ticket on th* day or night before the election, with the voter’s name written on the back of it by some “stalwart,” and given to understand that that ticket must be found in tbe ballot box.

Hardly Ever.

[Middlebury Becord.]

No rostter how bad tbe man i* who ha* been written up, tbe article might “provoke friends and relative*,” • warrant would follow and the editor would languish in “dnrance vile.” But, too know, such a tew was

needed to screen the guilt; roan is never made the tut

discussion.

Apropos of th# Mmjo Cam*,

[Lafayette Journal.]

In these bird times economy should he the rule. Besides are there not preoedeato-SMd recent ones too—for that sort of economy? Tbe cost of punishing felonies U aa attar waste of money, when so much may be saved

by a noL pros.

How to Wak# Tour Wife.

■ays James

output Jimw

i* guilty, since a guiltless i the subject of a newspaper

wife yesterday

that it was

A dispatch from Moberly, Mo Daily shot and killed his wi while she wm asleep. He claims

acddeataL He thought the pistol wm empty, and expected to wake his wife by snapping a cap. He had been married only three

w eeks. Daily was jailed. Why • Revolution Collapsed,

Governor Mariseal, of Sonora, says the reason the revolution in Sonora so suddenly collapsed wm because the federal governmfnt joined General Sereno, and to avoid bloodshed he withdrew, though hi* forces

were superior to both his opponents.

[ Col u m bus OetamMaa.] The present third congressional district has two able democratic congressman—Bicknell and New. r -

seaboard aad taterter, Hostetter*s 1 is pre-eminently popular. Wi plants its foot os this continent, thithsr ths great lie way. Nor is this soipthtog, .of all others best!

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