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The IndianapolU New. U published every afternoon, except Holiday, at the office, Ko. 32 East Market etrect. Price—Two cetits a copy. Served by carriers In my part of the city, ten cents a week; by mail, postage prepaid, fifty cento a month; S6 a year. The Weekly Mewe la published every Wed needay. Price SI a year, postage paid. Adverttoementa, fliat page, five cento a line for each Insertion. Display advertisementa vary in pnea according to time and position. Jf« adveriuemenlt inserted as editorial or notes Specimen numbers tent tree on application. t Terms—Cash, invariably In advance. All aotumuoicatioos should he adpreesed to Jon* H- Holuoat, proprlotor. THE DAILY NEWS. FRIDAY, OC^OBKB 24 lg7». The IndianaiKiliH News has a bona fide circalation more than one-half larger than that of any Other dally paper in Indiana. The New York Sun profeeses to see alarm in th« republican ranks over the suggestion of Hancock for president. Holland has inaugurated cheap telegraph j. The new tariff which is now in force there A id in Belgium makes the rate about a half-cent a word. ♦ • ■ ■ The administration supporting Cornell in New York is a pretty spectacle. The administration would have Had more respect if it had stayed in Washington and attended to its own business. The president thinks both houses of the next congress will be republican. If they are he will have to take a back seat. He did rery well as a reform leader, but he" only makes a rery small stalwart follower. Therf. is only one party in Virginia, for all practical purposes, and that is the democratic; and the only question before It it to repudiate or not to repudiateWe tender them Punch’s advice, “Don’t.” George T. A no ell, of Boston, is in Chicago for the purpose of organizing an association to make an end pi food aduleration, which he has been a chief instru' meat in exposing. Such an organization should be in every city. The production of coal this year is already 7,000,000 tons ahead of last year’s yield. It is expected that the demand will equal the supply. But this is speculation—which just now is flavoring too much most of the industries of the couutl 7- / ’ A movement is afoot in Europe for a meeting of a congress at Naples to favor ai general disarmament throughout the| world. This seems to be one of the restless movements just before the storm. There is a shrinking from the consequences that are sure to follow when the most civilized portion of mankind has, all told, nearly nine millions of soldiers ready to let loose upon one another. Happy for Europe were this universal disbanding project to be carried out, instead of being thrown aside without consideration, as it will be. Ih the Oneida community, which not long ago abandoned its mixed marriage system, and adopted the monogamic system, eight weddings have taken place and those who married before they entered the community are again living together exclusively. About eighty couples are yet single, bnt of these a number are young, and are required by their parents to wait for greater maturity. The tendency toward monogamic marriage has been a strong one for some time, and the recent outside demonstration against the community resulted in the formal adoption of it. The thinking members of the community say this innovation will be followed by others and that wages will soon be paid for labor, and there will thus begin individual sayings. The entire property of the community, together with its Cennecticut branch, it is estimated would sell for enough to give each of its 300 members $1,666 apiece. The community is now governed by a committee of ten men and ten Women, to whom are submitted all questions of business and who also advise aa to marriages, yet have no control over them. Noyes, the founder, now old, doe* not^interfere much. With this introduction of the marriage relation, the end of the community is only a matter of time. The Thin Edge of the Wedge. The landed interests and the nobility of England are so inextricably tied together that a change in one will disturb, if not destroy, the other. She might have a nobility, that is, a class of people with titles, without lands, as Italy and France and Russia have, but it would no more be the honored and powerful peerage of England than the Count Johannes is the Duke of Argyle. Long descent might count for something in the absence of estates, but the long descents are not numerous even in the English nobility, and, with hereditary wealth and associations gone, there wuld remain little to make a peer of the realm of more importance than the pro-

prietor of a corner grocery. Their land* alone, or at leaat far more than all other intluenceo, have kept the English nobility far above the level of moot of the titled dasses on the continent. And they will maintain their advantage by every art that their political, pecuniary and traditional influence can apply. They are very sure to have the chance before long Some yean ago an English farmer hold', ing a long lease, as his father had done before him, of two hundred acres in Leiceetenhire, not far Jrom Melton-Mow-bray, the place of the celebrated “Melton Hunt,” told a gentleman of this city that the best farming he knew of would not enable the farmer to pay out the fee simple of his land in twenty years. He eould live comfortably, educate his children fairly, and save something, but he could never be the owner of his farm. Whatever improvements he made he must make for the benefit of his landlord rather than his own. Even if unusually good fbrtune should give him money enough to pay for his farm his landlord would not sell it. The abundance of labor kept wages low, kept the laborer down, and obstructed the use of machinery, or the farmer could do better. But even at the best he could rarely or never hope to be owner. Now the commissioners sent to this country by parliament to investigate the condition of agriculture,have written back that an American farmer in an average year can make twenty per cant, of the value of his land, and own it clear of incumbrance in five years. In many cases three, or even two, successive fine crops will enable him to buy, and there is always land to be bought. Furthermore, with the advantage *f owning his land, cultivating it largely by machinery, and bearing comparatively light taxes, he can produce grain at a price that no English fanner can begin to compete with, and make a better profits than an average English farmer ever makes. This makes the coadition of the latter looks hopeless unless he owns the land he cultivates. And right there we see the “thin edge of the wedge” forcing its way between the nobility and their great landed estates. The feeling seems to be very general that the land laws, primogeniture, entail and other restrictions of landed property must and will be vigorously overhauled soon, and if they are the nobility can hardly come out unscathed. They will resist as they have always resisted what affected their privileges, and out of the enmity thus engendered and strengthened may come a revolution that will sweep away the peerage as well as the monopoly of lands. Political Cowardice. “Litti.e Evarts,” as Conkling calls him, certainly never appeared smaller than when he stood before republican New York the other night and recommended for governor the man whom he chiefly, published as unfit to be trusted with the management of the New York custom house. Mr. Evarts has defended many doubtful cases in his life, but he certainly never appeared in a more questionable attitude than in this utterance. He is the head of the cabinet and hails from New York. He is responsible for the administration’s handling of New York politics in a way no other cabinet officer is. He was pitted against Conkling in the fight against the corruption of patronage, for which Sherman was the mouth-piece on one side and Cornell on the other. Now behold him lifting up his voice in behalf of the man whom he dismissed for dhhonesty. A more contemptible piece pof stultification, to call it by no stronger ^ term, is difficult to conceive of. If Mr. Cornell is defeated in his race for the governorship, Mr. Evarts owes it to him to see that he is reinstated in his custom house office. If there be now a feeling that Mr. Conkling has correctly gauged Mr. Evarts in calling him “little Evarts,” it is because that gentleman himself has furnished the evidence in abandoning his self-respect by traveling from Washington to New York and mounting the platform in the Cooper union to eat crow in the plain view of the country. As he was about to begin this humiliating performance a letter from the independent republicans was handed him, which read in part: We venture, therefore, to suggest that in your speeches to the republicans of this state you Will either preserve a significant silence as regards Mr. Cornell aud Mr. Soule, or else that you will inform the friends of the administration and of reform • generally, specifically upon what grounds you recommend to them the election of a man who was removed from his office by the administration a year ago in order that It might be “honestly and efficiently administered,” and that, reviewing the report contained in N. Y. Sen.. Doc., No. 78, 1876, and signed by your present assistant, Mr. Seward, you will tell them upon what grounds vou recommend the election of Mr. Howard Soule. But Mr. Evarts simply wrapped his sell respect up in this and put both out of sight, and proceeded to tell his hearers that Mr. Cornell stands before you as a citizen without reproach; as a man for many years active in the councils of the party and the political service of the state—a speaker of your house of assembly and a candidate ten years ago for lieutenant governor, but was counted out. He stands before you as the representative of republican principles; he is the only candidate by depositing ia whose favor your vote, you can assist in making republican principles supreme iu the state of New York. Such an exhibition aa this will do more to corrupt the popular mind and lower the standard of public virtue than all the political dishonesties of avowed “machinists;” and it brings the blush of shame to the cheek of sturdy manhood. What kind of a vertebrateless, pink-faced race are these who have stood up in the name of purity and reform? Here is Mr. Sherman to follow Mr. Evarts, and Mr. Hayes who leads him with the declaration that he would vote for Cornell if he lived in New York. A pretty pair they are, speaking and voting for the man whom they dismissed from office a year ago with the stigma of dishonestv; the man who defied them with invective and insult, which ha* sinew been “rubbed in” by Conkling at every opportonity. Now behold Hayes and Sherman thoroughly whipped, licking the hand* that did it.

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1879.

CURRANT VOMMBT. A curious case was decided in a Philadelphia court the other day. An architect had erected a porch of novel design in front of his house and it had stood there for three years. Another architect copied It and the designer sued out an injunction. The court decided that “three years upon the highway must certainly be regarded as an abandonment of any righf, else the copyright law which confers the remedy and the protection that plaintiff is now seeking would become useless,” and that the public had a right to presume that the plaintiff bad waived bis right to protection under that law. He can not make his design public aud claim protection unless he complies with the law of congress. • Physicians in Rome have been testing the , water and soil of a malarious portion near that city. They gave some of it to dogs aud it produced intermittent fever, similar to that afflicting persons living in that locality. The water filtered and administered either produced no effect, or the same effect in very mild form. Doubtless the same results must follow similar experiments in the Wabash bottoms, or those of our own Fall Greek. Si rice January I the specie and bullion imjiorts of this country amount to $50,135,’202, of which $42,069,871 is gold and $8,065,331 Silver. This is inflation of a solid sort, aud affords a fine chance for the repeal of the law authorizing the reisSue of paid greenbacks. The proposed democratic congressional campaign for free trade is giving the other side some uneasiness. War issues would be pretty effectively burred if a free trade and tariff controversy were started. Politics in Maryland are very livsly and considerably mixed. There are opposition local tickets supported by discontented democrats and republicans, that give the regular democrats a good deal of uneasiness. The annual report of the paymaster of the army it is said, will show that for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1879, the receipts of the department were $15,358,000, of which amount $12,700,000 were disbursed, $800,000 hare been deposited and the balance, $1,858,000, is the amount of cash on hand. The policy of increasing the pay of the principal noc-comroissioned officers will be strongly advocated, as will also the proposition to pay brevet officers, under certain circumstances, the pay af the rank to which they may be brevetted. The subject of bounties due colored soldiers, it is said, will be treated at considerable length. The Wilmington Delaware Commercial booming for Bayard says: “He is the strongest candidate his party can name, and is, we repeat, all the stronger, because he is not from one of the larger states." We don’t see that; and equally we do not see the force of the objection to him that it is hisfatal weakness because he does come from a small state. The words of Mr. Hendricks might be applied here: “’Tis treason, I say ’tis treason.” If one state is not the same as another to the democrats, they are false to their chief doctrine. To discriminate against a candidate on the ground of the inequality of slates is false democracy. Besides, if Bayard's state is small he is great enough to make it up.

And hereafter, if there should continue to be a permanent and serious threat on a larce scale, in this country, against the integrity and freedom of the suffrage, this people will not hesitate to accord the full executive authority of their government to that citizen who best understands and caa best maintain the power of the people on election day.— [Evarts’s New York speech. The currency question is not wholly out of politics, and will not be so long as the government continues in the business of issuing legal tender notes. A decision by the supreme court in the Butier-Chittenden case that congress has no power under the constitution to issued legal tender notes, would do more than any other thing to take the currency question out of politics, aud keep it out.—[Chicago Times. The south now presents the wonderful spectacle of a free people, having constitutional government, home rule, and the example of great states in which popular government has always been found sufficient, and having a country of great natural wealth, kept out of the course of human progress, aud actually impoverished, by their own politics.—[Cincinnati Gazette. The south is solid because we of the south are the peculiar victims of republican policy, a policy which actually subjected for six mortal years and which would subject again property to pauperism, intelligence to ignorancq, honesty to theft and peace to anarchy. The north is not solid and can not become so, since the theory of government which the republican party would apply to the south strikes at the liberties of north and south alike.—[Mobile Register.

Schorz on the Ute War. Gov. Pitkin, yesterday, telegraphed Secretary Scburz, urging a vigorous prosecution of the war against the Indians, anji a recognition of the fact that a war with barbarians now exists which involves the lives of numerous exposed mining settlements, and can be terminated only by the most vigorous and uninterrupted warfare. Secretary Schurz replied that General Adams, who a month ago was recommended by Gov. Pitkin as a gentleman of excellent character, uncommon ability and energy, intimately acquainted with the Utes and eminently qualified to deal with them in an emergency, had been sent to personally investigate the matter, and he reports that none of the southern and only a part of the White river Utes have been engaged in the trouble, and all rumors of depredations off the reservations are untrue, except the driving off of horses from Bear river, and this was before Ouray’s order to cease fighting was received. He also states; “The captured women and children, who, I have assurances are safe, will be delivered. ^ Troops should not proceed south from White river, as I believe that your conditions to secure peace will be complied with.” Secretary Schurz also states that military preparations will not be relaxed, anda failure of peace negotiations will be followed by energetic action. He says the government ia endeavoring to prevent a general war with the whole Ute tribe, which will be a better way to protect yaur border settlements than by a general attack upon the Indians by armed citizens.

Proposed Organization of the NilUla. Gen. S. V. Benet, chief of the ordnance of the Unifed States army, has completed his annual report. The total amount of expenditures during the year was $1,441,998. He recommends that provision be made bylaw for organizing, arming and disciplining a militia force of 200,000 men, distributed among the states in the, proportion of about 700 men to each congressional district and territory and the District of Columbia. There should be an annual appropriation of one million dollars for arms and equipments, which would give about $3,000 for the troops in each congressional district, and there should be an annual appropriation of four million dollars for the expenses of the annual encampment, the payment to each militiaman of a per diem for each day’s service while actually in camp, etc.

Prohibition of American Meats. A family at Carlsruhe having been poisoned by American corned beef, the German government has interdicted the importation of all preserved meats from the United State*. The meat by which the accident was caused was of ekcellent quality, but was rendered poisonous by the lead used to solder it.

LETTKR PROM FLORIDA.

Bar King.

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Tho Former Home of Oae of JaekaoB’* Cabinet—A Deeerted V 111 ago—Poverty and Destitution on Once Bleb Plantations. I Correspondence of The Indian*poll* New*.] Tallahassci, October 15,1879. The surveyor for my land party is a nativq^ of Kentucky, but long a resident of Florida. Before the war he had a commission in the United States coast survey service and resigned it to become a confederate soldier and live on the husks of unsuccessful rebellion. He couldn't be induced to repeat the experiment, no matter bow flattering the promises might be, and I have not yet met an old soldier—one who actually saw service as a private or line officer—who would not resist any attempt to inaugurate another civil war. If there are any disturbances—political or otherwise—they are not created by the men who did the hard fighting. Connected by birth w ith one of the old ruling families of Florida he is familiar wi*h the history of many of the prominent men of the state. As guide and explorer for the party he took me through the Murat plantation, which I described in a previous letter. On our journey the other day to the Lake Imonia region he suggested that we take a private road, winch would n<Jt be any longer than the public way, as there was something on the route which he wished to point out to me. A gate was opened, and we drove into a cotton field. At the end of the cotton field road was a large and beautiful grove of live and w ater oaks. In the midst of it was a two story frame dwelling, very much out of repair, aud apparently deserted. There every evidence of the former existence of fine shrubbery and cultivated flowers was to be seen. The grove and dwelling had been surrounded with hedges of Spanish bayonet—a species of palmetto and a beautiful evergreen. The negro quarters were divided from the dwelling by the same kind of hedge, and all over the place there appeared to have existed everything that wealth could supply on the demands of comfort and luxury. “This,” my guide remarked to me, “was once the abode of unbounded hospitality. No stranger of distinction ever came-to Tallahassee who was not entertained beneath that roof during the lifetime of the original owner, and no stranger of known rest ectability was ever forgotten or slighted. That was the former residence of John , Branch, who was in Jackson’s cabinet for a time as secretary of the nary. He was a neat, trim old man, as I recollect him from my bovhood years, of commanding presence, and well calculated to win by his engaging manners. He has been dead many years, and the property passed into other hands. Since the surrender it has rapdly run down. You see the hedges and fences are destroyed, and there is' no timber on the plantation to replace the fences. A colored family lives in the house and takes care of it, and you see the care it receives. There are no white people here, and the place does not produce enough to pay the taxes on it and keep up the repairs.” “Where does the fault lie for such a result as that ?” I asked. “In the labor,” he replied. “Northern men don’t know what we have had to contend with here in the south. Before you get outof Florida you willsee a good deaiand learn a good deal about our laboring element. 1 don’t want to influence your views, but when you have seen it all give your honest conclusions to the public." I promised him that I would, and told him what 1 bad already written for The News on the subject of wages and labor. “That is a melancholy truth,” he remarked, “but there is another side to it which you can not help seeing, as I believe you are disposed to deal justly and impartially with our poverty stricken and, as we sometimes think, undeservedly abused people. We got more tban we had any reason to expect at the surrender, but w e have suffered since in a thousand ways from your clemency then. You northerners are a magnanimous people, but it would have been better for us in the end if you had not been so in the beginning. We will talk this over after you have been here and mixed with our people a few mouths longer. "Before we leave this plantation, once the synonym of wealth, and now of poverty, I want to tell you something more of the decadence of this country as illustrated by Bel Air. You have been to Bel Air?” he asked. “I passed through there hurriedly one day in order to reach Tallahassee before the bursting of a storm which threatened,” I answered. “Well,” he continned, “Bel Air was once a fashionable suburb of Tallahassee, and Tallahassee was one of the gayest capitals in the south. The idea prevailed that Bel Air was more wholesome as a place of residence than Tallahassee, and many of the best families, whose business or property was in Tallahassee, lived iu Bel Air. It was noted for its superior society of both young and old people, and any body expecting a social welcome at Bel Air had to go armed with an unblemished record or the voucher of an introduction from someone of influence and high respectability. It was iu Bel Air I spent many of the years of my youth and earlier manhood. From the doors of its dwellings I have seen my kindred aud my friends borne to their graves, and every foot of ground in that now deserted village is held tender recollection. Before the war it was as pleasant a place to visit as could be found in the' south. Wealth abounded and hospitality was practiced without stint. But the war swept away this wealth and destroyed this hospitality. There is but one white man left in the village. The houses of the once opu lent planters have been abandoned to their former slaves, and where wasonce refinement and luxury we see naught but poverty and destitution. The plantations are uncultivated; thousands of acres of the beat lands in Florida are being turned into wasted fields, and are now growing up with scrub pine and jack oak. It is sad to contemplate, but our people brought all this desolation upon themselves. Hot-headed politicians caused the jjeople for a time to lose their better judgment. The many went mad to gratify the few, and they are now eating in wisdom the bitter herbs produced from the seed they sowed in folly. “We have traveled together over a large part of middle Florida. We find more acres turned out to waste than we see in cultivation. When we talk ovjer the labor question, which we will do at no distent day, we will see why it ispo. It is a question with two sides to it, and there is wrong on both sides. You see that the country is poor and needing something to rescue it from deeper poverty. No statesman has yet arisen, in state or nation, who grasps the situation. We have plenty of politicians in the south, but no statesmen. Our people do not appear to be understood at the north. In truth, the southern people are not represented in congress. The will and the wants of the people are not reflected. The people—the property owners—care nothing for party but do want prosperity. We vote one way* it is true, but there are strong reasons for ft, as yon will learn after awhile. Convince us that our interests are with the republican party aud we will all be republicans. The people—I don’t speak for the politicians—care nothing for the democratic party as a party. I believe that if I was in the north I would be a republican for the same reason that I am a democrat here. The better element of your northern people is in the republican party, and the property owning and tax paying people of the south are ia the democratic party. Republican supremacy in the south means negro ascendancy,And the legal control of those who pay all the expenses of government. “I have talked a good deal and yon have been patient in listening. I am anxions that the people at the north should know how we view things politically and otherwise. lam satisfied that I have spoken for a majority of the taxpayers and better class of people in middle Florida. I have lived here nearly all my life and claim to know something of the people and their ideas of public affairs. I will be glad if you will write out, as nearly as you can recollect it, what I have said, and give it to the northern papers.” I have endeavored to do as requested by the last paragraph, and will add that the views expressed are those of several of the intelligent men whose acquaintance I have made in Tallahassee. Bartos.

Ptae hM not found h*r King u vet. The saMen day* glide bv . They bring no Borrow* to forget.

Nor any CAoae to *!gb-

No heart for bier devotion made The pasaionate tuminrn bring;

Unharmed abe walk* and unaflrayed —

She baa not found her King.

Men bring their title*, and their geld;

She turn* in acorn away.

The man must be of difterent mould

She swears abe will obey.

Though poor iu honor* and in lends,

Rich in a rarer thing.

Titled by God alone, he standi. Whom abe will own her King I

But wben be comes, aa come he will,

Strong to support, and grand, With supplication that shall All

Her soul, like a command;

She'll place her band in his, and take Wbate’er thto world may bring, Proud and contented for hi* sake. Whom she bath crowned her Kingl

the bath crowned her Kingl —{Hamilton Aide, ia Temple Bar.

SCRAPS.

Some of the birds on bonnets are over a foot in length. The state agricultural bureau of North Carolina wants all the dogs killed. A music seller announces in his window a sentimental song, “Thou hast loved and left me” for three cents. Larkin and Hankinson, of the Chicago nine, have been secured for noxt summer by the Alaskas, of New York. On the island of Elba a monument was inaugurated on the 7th ult. with the inscription: “To Garibaldi—the European Washington,” etc. The prince of Wales’s sons receive as naval cadets twenty-five cents a dav, which will be raised to forty-five, cents when they are midshipmen. The most novel joint stock company yet formed is at Chester, Pennsylvania, where fifteen stockholders own an animal said to be the best coon dog in the country. Longfellow’s new poem has for its subject the iron pen, made from the fetter of Bonnevard, the prisoner of Chilon, which a lady in Maine recently presented to the poet. “Are you a professor of religion, my little fellow ?” asked a lady of her pastor’s six year old boy. “No, ma’m,” was the little boy’s prompt response, “I’m only the professor’s son.”

Four of the largest trades unions in Great Britain have, during a comparatively brief existence, spent upwards of £200,000 ($1,500,000) in relieving the wants of members on strikes. As an entrance fee to Masonic lodges in Turkey is so high that only the rich can join the order, the Turkish officers in Connecticut have united with a lodge in a land of steady habits. The mother of Charles Stewart Parnell.the leader of the new home rule movement iu Ireland, was Delia Tudor Stewart, daughter of Admiral Charles Stewart, who commanded our “old iron-sides’' in 1815. Dr. Henry Von Holst, author of the excellent constitutional history of the Unite d States has declined a professorship of constitutional law in the Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore, at a salary of $5,000. Types play funny pranks sometimes. The Gouverneur (N. Y.) Herald says: “In our Hammond items, instead of ‘Miss. H. Gregor had her collar bone broken,’ read ‘the lady had her cellar broken into.’ ” Anthony Trollope says that he has never been able to perfect a plot fora novel beforehand. “I have to confess,” he continues, Hhat my incidents are fabricated to fit my story as it goes on, and not my story to fit my incidents.” A recent discovery at Pompeii was that of a birdseller’s bouse. The embedded skeletons of numerous birds were dug out; also, large quantities of carbonized millet seed, hemp seed, and a species of small bean, which had been the dealer's stock of bird food. * Last week eight Chinamen who have been living in Boston returned to their native iand. Four of them took first class passage. Of the 130 Chinamen in Boston about 20 return this season, nearly all of whom express the intention of coming back to Boston ia one, two or three years. At the Presbyterian synod at Albany, which closed its session last week, resolutions were introduced by Dr. Darling providing for bringing Hamilton college into closer relations with the Presbyterian church and raising an endowment of $500,000, which were passed. Justice Hunt, of the United States supreme court,-who is ill at his home in Utica, will not, as has been somewhere reported, ask to be retired. He is somewhat better, but his paralysis will not permit him to resume his seat this year, although he will pass the winter in Washington ou account of the climate. New York had a death on Saturday which it would require deep metaphysical considertion to determine upon as to whether it was a suicide or not. A young German prepared to kill himself. He wrote farewell notes, prepared a pistol and a bottle of poison and was found dead in his room. No bullet bad been fired, and the bottle had not been opened. It is supposed that he died of excitemeut brought on by the thought that he was about to die.

A letter, addressed as below, was received at the New Haven post office. It was mailed from New London, one of the localities where Postmaster General Key’s “misdirection order” was a peculiar injustice:

Mr. Enoe A. Hale, Assistant postmaster, 250 Orchard street,

New Haven,

City of New Haven, Town of New Haven, County of New Haven, State of Connecticut, United States of America, Western continent, Planet earth, Solar system,

Universe.

Sum people marry bekase they think wimtnin will be scarce next year, and live to wonder how the stock holds out. Sum marry to get rid of themselves, and discover that the game was one that two can play at and neither win. Sum marry for love without a cent in their pocket, nor a friend iu the world, nor a drop of pedigree. This looks desperate, but is the streagth of the game. Sum marry in haste, and then sit down and think it carefully over. Sum think it carefully over fust, and then set down and marry. No man kan tell jist what calico had made up her mind tew do. Calico don’t know herself. Dry goods of all kinds izthechild of circumstance. —[Josh Billings.

At the Eastern railroad shops in Portsmouth, N. H., a large tank is in coarse of construction for subjecting the railroad ties to the new process, which, it is claimed, will make them weather-indestructible. A large tank, capable of holding a car load of ties is to be filled with creosote, and the ties passed through, the creosote drawing out the sap and pitch from the wood and leaving the pores open. A preparation of paraffine is then to be nsed, which fills up the pores, and it is stated that these are thereby so filled as to make the wood wholly impervious to all atmospheric influences, neither absorbing moisture and swelling, nor, on the other hand, shrinking or splitting because of the

A good story is told of Bishop Peck, of the Methodist Episcopal church: “The bishop is remarkable not only for mental, but also for physical weight, and he is very witty withaL Not very long since he was stopping all night at the house of a friend. About midnight the bishop attempted to roll over, when down came the bed with a crash upon the floor The gentleman of the house rushed up with a light and cried out; “Bishop, what’s the matter?’ ‘Nothing at aU,’said the bishop. ‘Yon go down and toll your wife if I am not here in the morning to look for me in the cellar.” * The force of this story and of the biseop’s fall will be better appreciated when it is known that his weight is between 360 and 400 pounds.—[Buffalo Express.

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Oew. Woodford Tolls tho Troth About the

Solid Sooth Mod How to Treat IS. (Report ia 8pr1il|a*U Republican.]

Now what is your duty and mine toward our fellow citizens in the south? Is it to abuse the south ? Nay; may my right arm be palsied and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I forget that the south is a part of ottr one union, and that their grandfathers and our grandfathers fought together in the struggle of the revolution. But our doty is to help upbuild the south by doing what we can to assist popular education, and to compel, by all legitimate means, the practical toleration by ali men of all parties and of all political opinions throughout the south. I believe that the solid south is as hollow to-day as was the confederacy - when Sherman swept through from Atlanta to the sea. The solid eotfth was hollow as was then the exhausted rebellion. There are in the county of Kemper many independent men. Some of them took me by the hand and frankly said; “This condition of matters must be checked, or the future of our beloved south is blighted.” Even during the progress of the murder trial which I was attending, with men gathered from every part of the county, an advertisement was published in their county paper to have a mass democratic county convention and nominate a ticket. But when they got together the people refused to have the convention. Thus independence has begun even in Kemper county. It will spread to every county in Mississippi. And as for the sake of the poor black man, who is denied by force the ballot which the constitution gives him; for the sake of the poor white mau, who is held by the will of the ruling classes; for the sake of the young men who are coming into the ranks of citizenship; for the sake of the south itself, I plead with the republicans of the north and nation to stand to-day in unbroken ranks and hold this government solid for education; solid for progress; solid for the equal personal security and equal political rights of all men under the law; solid for the absolute supremacy of

the nation in ail national affairs.

Progreso of the Cabbage Worm, West, [Chicago letter.] The imported cabbage worm, which appeared in small numbers in the vicinitv of Naw York, only a few years ago. now infests all the market and private gardens in this portion of this state. By another season these insects will reach the Mississippi river, if they do not pass it. Prof. Riley states that their progress is hastened by the prevailing w.nda hut Mr. Johnston, of Champaign, .believes that they are transported on railway cars. Perhaps they are both right, for they are not only traveling very fast nut in vast numbers. The yield of cabbages in the regions infested by them is only about one-fourth of an average crop. The manufacturers of sauer kraut are alarmed. They think “their craft is in danger.”

Singular Case of Censnmption. H. H. Currier, a prominent lawyer of Salisbury, N. H., died Saturday, of tubercular coDsumntion. About eight years ago while eonversing with a trader iu a gun store on Court street, Boston, a stranger entered, aud taking up a small revolver, deliberately fired at Mr. Currier, the ball entering his left breast. ^ The surgeon in attendauce at the time failed to find the bullet, but the death of Mr. Currier is attributed to this cause A post-mortem examination, Sunday failed to find any bullet, but the left lung was completely destroyed, and, also, a portion of the right lung.

The Sarvlvers af the Pejaro. The burning of the Spanish steamer Nuevo Pajuro del Oceauo in the Bahama straits, has been heretofore announced. Of the crew of forty-two, and twenty passengers, seventeen have just arrived in New Orleans, having been picked up by the steamer Louise, after being in the water eighteen hours. Those who were picked up were in a fearful state from their long exposure to the sun and water. Thirty-three of the passengers and crew are still missing.

An other attempt to abolish the Hebrew Sabath, or rather, to unite it with the Christian Sunday, so that that the Hebrews will not be at the disadvantage of doing business but five instead of six days in the week, will probably be made at an approaching confer-

and the g change is

opinion seems to be that 1 only a matter of time.

Increase In Exchange*. The exchanges of the nineteen principal cities for the week ending October 18, amount to $1,032,717,365. The New York Public says this splendid record of exchanges surpassing in rapidity of increase for that of any other week for six years, and probaBly for a much longer time, is sufficient answer to all doubts as the solidity and reality of the improvement in business.

A Huge War Ship. An ironclad 400 feet long, 73 feet wide, 50 feet deep at the bow, aud 55 feet at the stern, with solid iron armor of one foot thickness and a speed of 16 knots an hour, is to be launched next month from the royal navy yard near Naples. It is to be called Italia, and will he the largest war ship iu existence. *

Wake enake*! (Tipton Times. | Not always will the quiet brain and patriotic heart of the country submit to the tricks of fraud incarpate, or the threats of uniformed force. Never yet have the gods seen freedom slain, or honor overridden. Be still,true hearts, and keep your sabres bright. We may need them.

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Grand Saturday Mali nee, HAVK&LT’S NEW YORK Juvenile Pinafore Company, Direct frem HAVERLY’8 Naw York Theater. « e A Trained Voices, Selected Children, ia C A OU their ( harming rendition of OU AC. MB. FIxi.aXox’o Or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor.

Prices as usual. Recure scats at Frank Bird's Transfer office, opposite Bates House, and Oamoron's Music Store, No. 10 North Meridian street. Matinee Pncee, 25 and 60c. Beats may be secured for Matinee at usual prices by paying t5c extra.

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The wonderful.little Reversible Filter on exhibition in our streets the past lew weeks to for sale at the WATER WORKS OFFICE, 2S South Vmmsylvania street. Call at the office and see it. It can instantly be attached to any faucet or neaxle, and being reversible without trouble, to at once aelf-cleaning and always fresh. It cun be used and applied with equal facility for rain water, well water, or that furnished by the Water Work* Company. Recommended by all medical authoriUe*. Simple, durable, cheap, ornamental and thoroughly efficient. Gall and examine It. % DANIEL MACAU LEY, Agent.

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Ohio Official Return*. The total vote for governor was 668.667, divided aa follows: Foster, 336,261; Ewing, 317,132; btewart, 4,145; Piatt, 9,129. Foster'* majority over EwingiS 17,129. Hickenlooper’s majority over Rice for lieutenantgovernor was 16,678.

A Lofty Residence, The highest inhabited houscin the world is believed to be the one erected for the miners employed on Mount Lincoln, in the main range of the Rocky mountains. Park county, Colorado. It is 13,157 feet above tbe sea level.

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Item from Bartholomew. [Columbus Democrat.] The result of the recent alleged Ohio election has acted somewhat as a damper on the Landers boom. Gray seems to be the coming man.

Motto for Fort Wayne’s Colleys. [Correspondent Fort Wayn* Sentinel.] Here is a motto for the Fort Wayne college of medicine: “We are seven—fourltudenta and three sUffs.”

Poor State Preachers. In 1867 there were 6,000 English clergymen of the established church with incomes under $750 a year, and probably there are now many-more.

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