Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1879 — Page 2

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THE DAILY NEWS. TUE8I*AY, DECEMBER 2*. 1879.

Erring Brother ■ Key wins the first round la the fight against the lottery dealers. Keep him fresh and fire him room. ' Thom innocent persons (always republicans} whe “don’t beliere Grant want# it,” may receive an accession of information before long, if they “try right hard. ’ A TpncuAi. takes the place in parliament of the late Mr. Roebuck. The drift in England seems to be toward putting liberals in the places now occupied by several conservatives. . The Chilians are still victors in war according to the latest reports. Some big brother in the family of nations ought to act as peace maker, and give these heated little fellows a chance to cool off. It is announced for President Hayes that be is in favor of a third term for Grant. Inasmuch as be is only in favor of one term for himself, he must feel that he is. not more than one-third “as big a man as old Grant.” Governor Williams has a fine chance to help the state by a judicious selection to filklhe vacancy caused by the death of Judge Perkins. There is hardly any institution in the state that can stand improvement better than the supreme bench. Ouray made the contract, but can’t deliver the goods. The White river Utes won’t be surrendered, and now Ouray’s voice is for war. Doubtless it will come, and one more red page be written in our history of wrongs against the Indians. They hung two men for murder in Alabama Sunday, in true border ruffian style. They were both negroes; their victims two Irish peddlers. One would think the chance for hanging a negro under the law was sufficiently sure in Alabama to make the services of Judge Lynoh unnecessary. Senator Yoorbeea’s conception of negroes under the law seems to be as crude and ill-digested as his financial fancies. In the interview with him printed in this paper yesterday, he said "if the negroes were brought here other than by natural methods, the matter was certainly a propur subject for inquiry, just as the matter of bringing Chinese into California by means of companies organised for that purpose war,” A parallel for this sort of reasoning is probably not to be found outside the Frid ay-afternoon .essay 'of the school boy. The analogy involving ' the state of North Carolina and the state of Indiana in corelalive positions with the empire of China and the republic of the United States, places the negroes, who are free cititens under the law, which is equal in force in North Carolina and Indiana, on the same plane with Chinese who are subjects of a foreign power, and have no rights here whatever, other than treaty rights. A more unfortunate illustration even for Mr. Voothees, could not well have been made. Passing by the implication of sovereignty fur the two states by their comparisen with two separate nations, we have the assertion that if there is afoot a movement to shift bodies of citizens from one part of the country to another, it is a proper subject of legislative investigation in the same sense that a movement of foreign population to this country in defiance of treaty rights isWe do not here touch the question of political colonisation. We may be as much opposed to that as Senator Yoorhees is. We call attention to the fact that to a senator of the United States, the rights of negroes in this country as citizens are as limited as the rights of Chinese under a treaty, and that an organized movement of them from one part of the country to another seems to him exactly as a coolie importation. We fear Senator Yoorhees ha* not ihorougly digested the constitutional amendments. It is reported from Maine that the democratic members of the legislature will not stand by the action of the governor and state returnin'* board, but will admit republicans to all the seats they have a valid claim to. Putting aside all questions of doty and jastice, and regarding the case solely in the aspect of party expediency, this will be the next beat thing to giving full force to the elections by the returning board. It wilt gt^p good way toward counteracting ihe evil of so indefensible sn set as that of Gov. Gareelon and his associ* tes. The part of prudence, as well as honor, would have been to let the elections pass as they had always passed before, and used the contrast, if any, with the action of the Louisiana returning board, as a democratic argument. It would have been a legitimate argument for democratic good faith and respect for individual righta. Simply as a party “dodge,” honesty would have been the

beetpoMcft Befog deprived of that by Gown** Gareelon'* action, the remedy, as far as any remedy can he devised for a wrong done and entered of record, lies in the course reported as likely to betaken by the member* who will organize the legislature. A party may outlive auch acts as this “counting out” operation, for as great wrongs have been done by both parties, though probably noneao indefensible, but no party can do such things without paying the penalty. We are not e! those who count largely on the influence of conscience in a nation or a party, but there is a substitute for conscience, if not the quality itself, in a source of shame at the exposure of baseness, which, protest as they may, the better men of a party can not wholly threw off. It repels support even among meu who would not be a bit too honest to <to the same thing. They don’t like “the looks oi it.” It weakens party appeals. It silences party aspersions. It alienates acropoleis friends. It can net in the nature of things, make friends of these who were not so before. It is a losing game all round. The Oxford and other frauds in Kansas had a terrible influence for harm on the democracy, and alone would probably have beaten it, if there had been no great tidal wave of humane sentiment to sweep it and slavery extension away together. No party ever profited by a fraud that could not be disputed, or an inflatipn of right that could be defended only by trivial forms.

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: TUESDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1879.

EDISON'S LIGHT.

The Urmi Problem Solved at Las?.

What It Is aad How Produced.

CURRENT COMMENT. If we may believe a creditable Washington eorrespoadent, Conkling hf>s sadly lost his grip and is really conscious of it Everybody notices how entirely he has been dropped from any discussions of political proferment at the hands of the people. His presidential aspirations ia the past have beea real as Blaine’s and other candidates, bat for the future he is not considered a safficieaUy remote probability to be even mentioned. His manner ia the senate, it is said, has lost its customary arrogance, and he shows pitifully how badly he has been whipped in the past year. ^ The moral defeat he suffered in his own state, at the last election, ordinarily might have phased him little, bat coming on the heels of the social scalping he received in the Caaonchet affair, has made him feel the bitterest of timereveoges—to be shrunken so small as to be considered as of no importance of any kind. ' How completely New York is the monetary center of the country is illustrated in the course of mining stock operations. Mines and mining interests hare been considered, and naturally as San Francisco’s preserves, but yet the governing forces of that interest are centered in New York. Eight of the leading mining companies having offices in San Francisco paid out November dividends to the amount of $336,000, while the eigfatchief companies having offices in New York paid $962,500 in dividends for the same mfenth. We are not ruining Switzerland in the matter of “chean labor” on watches, as is generally supposed. Thirty years ago that country made onlv 54,000 watches. Last year she made 27,433 more watches than in the year before, and over 149,000 more in 1666. Her progress has been steady for a score of years. Oar improved methods have simply taught

her how to work. *

General McCook’s report concerning the educational facilities and demands of the military posts of the United States, shows a gratifying increase and elevation in the standard of Intelligence in the army. A vas t number of enlisted men attend the schools •r the pests, and there is a scarcity of competent teachers and means of instruction. The attendance at some of the schools is reported to be as high as three hnadred, and the greatest number of teacher* at any one place appears to be three. The total number of eokolars in attendance is 1,864. The city of brotherly love seems to extend its affection to cats and dogs and “Bich.” It has a flourishing “home” for the supernuated of this elaee. H was established and ismaintained by th<womaa’a|jbraDch|of the Pennsylvania society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. It was epeaed ia 1875 and since then has received nearly 11,000 of theeo brutes

(Hew York Herald Meeont..]

The task before the young Inventor was

divenible into two parts:

Firat—The produciag of a pure, steady and reliable light from electricity; and Second—Producing it so cheaply that it

could compete with gas for general illumi-

tion.

HI CHOOSES IHCAHDBSCSSCH. Of the two systems before him, viz., voltaic and the incandescence system, Edison chose the latter as his field of operations. raarKcriKo nil machinkby. The lamp he made after latter improvements was In quite a satisfactory condition, -and the Inventor contemplated with much gratification the near conclusion of his labors. One by one he bad overcome the many difficolties that lay in his path. He had brought up platinum as a substance for illumination from a state of comparative worthlessness to one well nigh perfection. He had succeeded, by a carious combination and improvement, in air pumps, in obtaining & vaccuifi of nearly one milliuneth of an atmosphere, and he had perfected a generator or electricity producing machine (for all the time he had been working at lamps he was also experimenting in magneto-electric machines) that gave out some ninety per cent in electricity of the energy it received from the driving engine. In a word, all the serioos obstacles toward the success of incandescent electric lightning, he believed, had melted

d there r

away, anc

remained but

a compara-

tively few minor details to be arranged before bis laboratory was to be thrown open for public inspection and the light given to

the world for better or for worse.

A GB1AT DI800VBBY.

There occurred, however, at this juncture a discovery that materially changed the system and gave a rapid stride toward the perfect electric lamp. Sitting one night ia his laboratory reflecting on some of the unfinisned details, Edison began abstractedly rolling between his fingers* piece of compressed lampblack mixed with tar for use in his telephone. For several minutes his thoughts continued far away, his fingers in the meantime mechanically rolling out the little piece of tarred lampblack until it had become a tender filament. Happening to glance at it the idea occurred to him that it might give good result as a burner if made incandescent. A few minutes later the experiment was tried, and, to the inventor’s gratification, satisfactory, although not surprising results weie obtained. Further experiments were made, with altered forms and composition of of the substance, each experiment demonstrating that ai last the inventor was upon

the right track. A COTTON THUSAD.

A spool ofcotton thread lay on the table in the laboratory. The inventor out off a small piece, put it.in a grove between two clamps of iron and placed the latter ia the fnraace. The satisfactory light obtained from the tarred lampblack convinced him that filaments of carbon of a texture not previously ased in electric lighting were the hidden agents to make a thorough success of incau- > descent lightning, and it was with this view that he thought to test the carbon remains of a cotton thread. At the expiration ef an hoar he removed the iron mold containing the thread from the furnace and took oat the delicate carbon framework of the thread—all that was left of it after its fiery ordeal. This slender filament he placed in a globe and connected it with the wires leading to the machine generating the electric current. Then he extracted the air from the globe and turned on the electricity. Pres.o I a beautiful light greeted his eyes. He turns on more current expecting the fragile filament instaatly to fuse; but no, the only change is a more brilliant light. He tarns ob more current, and still more, but the delicate thread remeuns entire.- Then, with characteristic impetuosity and wondering and marveling at the strength ef the little filament, he turns on the full power of his machine aid eagerly watches the consequences. For a minute or more the tender thread seems to struggle with the intense heat pawing through it—beat that would melt the diamond itself—then at last it succumbs and all is darkness. The powerful current bad broken it in twain, but not before it had emitted a light of several gas jets. Eagerly tye inventor hastened to examine under the microscope this curious filament, apparently so delicate, but-in reality much more infusable than palatinum, so long considered one of the most infusible of metals. The microscope showed the surface of the filament to be highly polished and its parts iaterwoven with each other.

THl PAPBB LIGHT.

It was also noticed that the filament had obtained a remarkable degree of hardness compared with its fragile character before it was subjected to the action of the current. Night and day, with scarcely rest enough to eat a hearty meal, or catch a brief repose, the inventor kept up bis experiments, and from carbonizing pieces of thread he went to splinters of wood, straw, paper and other substancer never before used for .that purpose. The result of his experiments

and oared for them during the days of,their ahowed that the substance beet adapted for •aeloseness, when they ought to hsfrebeea carbonization, and the giving out of incau-

uoder the sod. This sort of charity’seems J

sort

to he a “teettle to mneh.”

Alaska hasn’t been a source of much general pleasure or profit since it came to ns, bat it may be at least the latter when its resources are developed. A San Francisco maa who has spent ranch time there, says there are extensive foreats of yellow cedar. The trees grew 150 feet high, and are from three to five feet ia diameter. Their wood is cloee-wrained, susceptibleof a fine polish, and is as fragrant as sandal wood. No timber is more admirably adapted to ship building and cabinet making. The white spruce also grows abuiMfentiy, aad has many valuable qualttes. The waters off the coast so swarm with codfish that this great fishing ground of the future promisee to eclipse the banks of New Eonndland. The inland streams are so alive with salmon that they will rival the Colombia. Gold, silver, copper and coal are already being mined. South of the sixty-first parallel the climate of Alaska is moist but mild. Of 147 d»j8 at Port Wrangel, beginning in May, 65 were rainy, 43 cloudy, and 39 dear. The temperature in winter ranged from 35 1

and in summer from 54° to 76°.

to 40°,

There is, we believe, more danger of Blaine's nomination than of Grant’s. This is a good time to get out the old weapons and »ee that they are in order.—[Boston Tran-

script.

To cry for protection now is to write one’s *elf down a puling baby. The country is getting both beard and mustache.—[Louis-

ville Courier-Journal.

It w a high duty to be loyal ia utterance audio action to one’s convictions, how-

follow bravely m ” anee

to trutn is paramount to any other fealty The only consistency worthy of the name is that honest purpose which dares to right-about-face and g« in aa opposite direction when duty calls a halt and commands a

change of front—{Philadelphia Record.

The Maine outrage is worse than the Louisiana one. There,* good deal of of intimidation had girea some excase fer setting aside the vote of certain parishes, but the Main* election had been perfectly free and peaceable. The Louisiana hoard made aa inequitable use of a strictly legal power; the Maine governor deliberately violates a law authorizing him to correct technical errors. It is thus that each transgression leads to a bolder one when once the plea of retaliation

is set up.—(Springfield Republican.

The prosperity and development of the south are mow to its people than are

the personal ambitions of self-seeking cal chiefs; and it heeoaee them

to this point They should be solid for a policy that will secure- for their section progress and prosperity in harmony with and

abreast of that of th<

Orleans Times.

tag poiiti-

them to look well

he nation at large.—[New

descent light, was paper preferably thick, like cardboard, but giving good results even when very thin. The beautiful character of the illumination’, and the steadineaB,reliability aad non-fusibility of the carbon filament were not the only elements incident to the new discovery that brought joy to the heart of Edison. There was another element—aot the lees necessary because of its being hidden—the element of a proper and uniform reeistance to the passage of the electric cur-

rent.

The inventor’s efforts to obtain this element had been by far the most laborious of any in the history of his work from the time be undertook the task, aad without It absolute success to electric incandescent illumination could not be predicated, even though all the other necessary properties were present in the fullest degree. Passing over the scores of experiments made since the discovery that the carbon framework of a little piece of paper or thread was the beet substance possible for incandescent light jag, we come to consider the wav in which the same is prepared at the pretent time in the laboratory. ■AXING THH FAfl* CARBON. With a snitable punch there is cat from a piece of ‘‘Bristol” cardboard a strip of the same in the form of a miniature horseshoe, about two inches in length and one-eighth of an inch hi width. A number of these strips are laid flatwise in a wrought iron mould about the size of the hand and separated from each other by tissue paper. The mould is then covered aad placed in an oven, where it is gradually raised to a temperature of about six hundred degrees Fahrenheit. This allows the volatile portions of the paper to pass away. The mould is then placed in a furnace and heated almost to a white beat, aad then removed and allowed to cool gradually. On opening the mould the little red horseshoe cardboards are found. It mast be taken oat with the greatest of care, else it would fall to pieces. After b»iag removed from tho mould it is plaeod in a little globe and attached to the wires leading to the generating machine. The globe is thea connected with an air pump, aad the latter is at once set to wark extracting the air. After the air has been extracted the globe is sealed, aad the lamp is ready for use. The complete lamp has no complex reguUtieg apparatus, such as characterized the inventor's earlier laborers. All the work ho did in regulator* was practically waste!, for he has lately realized that they were not at all necessary—no more so than a fifth wheel is to a coach. RZGULATBn AT THl MAIN, LIKZ GAS—CUB At’. He fiads that the electricity can be regulated with entire reliability at the central station, just as the pressure of gas is now regulated. By hit system of connecting tbe wires, the extinguishment of certain of the bnrnen affects the others no more than the extinguishment of the same number of gas burners affects those drawing tho supply from the same mains. The simplicity of the completed lamp seems certainly to have arrived at the highest point, aad Edison

assarts that U Is aoarcely possible to simplify it more. The entiia sort of oonatructinf them Is sot more than twehty-ftva emits. ■AST mbta Moapuoaia. The lamp for chandeliers would consist of only the vacuum globe and the carbon filament attached to the chandelier and connected to the wirse leading to the generating machine ia a central atatkra, perhaps a half mile away, tka wires being run through the gal pipes, so that ia reality the oaly change necessary to turn a gas jot into an electric lamp is to run the wires through the gas pipe, take off the jet and sersw tbs electric lamp in the latter’s place. Although the plana have been fully consummated for general illumination the outliae of the probable system to be adopted is the looating of a central station in large cities ia such a manner that each station will supply an arm of about one-third of a mile. In each station there will be, it is contemplated, one or two engines of immense power, which will drive several generating machines, each generating machine supplying about fifty lamps. TEX OEMS BATING MAORIS*. Mr Edison’s first experiments in machines for generating the electric carrent did not meet with success. His primal apparatus was in the form of a large tuning fork constructed in such a way that its ends vibrated with great rapidity before the poles of a large magnet. These vibrations cqpld be produced with comparative little power. Several weeks of practice proved, however, that the machine was not practical, and it was laid aside. Then followed a number of other forma, leading up gradually to the one at present used. a DOMaenc MOTOR. fiy constructing the machine in another form there is obtained an electric motor capable of performing light wsrk, such as running tewing machines and pnmping water. It forms part of the iaventer’s system and maybe rued uther with or without the electric light To run aa ordinary sewing machine it requires only as much electricity as is neceesarv to give out one electric light of the strength of a common gas jet To put it in operation on a sewing machine the housewife has merely to attacn it by a tittle belt with the wheel of the sewing machine, and turn on the electricity by touching a little knob conveniently attached. The cost is the same aa if she was burning one electric tight THB BLECTBOMETKR. The apparatus for measuring the amount of electricity used by each household is a simple contrivance consists of an electrolytic cell and a small coil of wire, appropriately arranged in a box, the latter beinsr of about half the size of an ordinary gas meter, and tike a gas meter it can be placed in any part af the nouse. The measurement is obtained by the deposit of copper particles on a tittle plate in the electrolytic cell, such deposit being caused by the electric current passing through the cell. At the end ef any period, say one month, the plate is taken by tbe inspector to the central office, where the amount of the copper deposit is weighed and the amount of electricity consumed determined by a simple calculation. The entire sysmem embraces an amount of work so extensive that one naturally wonders bow a single man in such a brief space of time as fifteen months could possibly have planned and perfected it all.

XIie Government Clerk. [Washington letter. | So enervating is the life in the department? through tittle work and sure pay, that the young man who has once experienced its relaxing influences, loses all good for active business life. Not long ago a gentleman acquaintance of mine tried to secure the services of a young fellow employed in the interior department. The latter once had been noted for his energy, quickness and activity; he had taken care of himself since he was a boy. Hisearly life had bred in him unusual habits of self-reliance, confidence and energy. Three years ago he was one of tbe most faithful and untiring of workers. A little over a jear ago he secured, through a friend, a place ia the interior department at a salary of $100 a month. It is a place where be has not the remotest chance of promotion. Throngh this year of non-action the iad has been thorough ly ruined for active business. When offered the other day a business place with equal pay, with chances of promotion, but coupled with a slight risk, so far as responsibilities are concerned, he refused to come out of his snug nest, where he has nothing to do and no responsibilitv, to take the chances that a tittle over a year ago he would have snatched at eagerly as the foundation of future fortune.

Ouray's and the Utev. Ouray informs the commission that thd Indians have accepted his ultimation. General Hatch is ready to leave with the prisoners, but is compelled to await the arrival of Sear wick, who is on his way from Graad river to accompaay the chiefs to Washing >n aa a representative of the White river Utes. Jack was also selected by Ouray to represent that tribe, but his heart fails him, aad he declines* the trim fearing arrest. The change in Jack is attributed by Ouray to Mormon influence. Jack bas decided to quit the reservatiou and join Sitting Bull. He informed Ouray that he was a man with a carbine and plenty of am> munition, and he proposed to fight. General Hatch will probably start on the 25th Inst The Indian prisoners will be under a military gaard detailed from Fort Garland. The Champion “Workingman.’* [Denis Kearney’s San Francisco »peach.] I am ipvitad to attend a conference of greenback labor congressmen and labor organizations, that will convene in Washington City January 8,1880. I will go direct from here to Boston, where l expect to remain about one week. I will interview* great many people ere my return, so as to get their views on the Chinese question and tbe presidential outlook. There is considerable work to be done to capture the White House. It must be captured. A friend has concluded to loan me $480 to defray my expenses there and back. In the meantime our friends will get up an entertainment so as to pay back the $400, and there may be aiew dollars left for my family, which is in need of it. Important Cases in Court. A motion was made in the United States supreme court yesterday to advance a test case brought in order to obtain tbe opinion of the supreme court as to the validity of th* act of congress of May 31, 1878, forbidding further retirement of the so-called United States legal-tender notes, and requiring them to bo reiafued and kept in drcnlatk n after redemption. A motion was also made to advance a case of bigamy in Utah, which involves, among other questio js, tbe light of a proeecutiog officer to examine persons drawn as jurom as to their practice or belief in the divine origiq of polygamy, exclude for bias those found to observe si.cn practice or retain such belie! Embryo Washington Correspondents. Some Harvard students offered the printer $360 for an advance copy of the questions to be submitted to them at an examination, Tbe printer had completed the job and parted with the sheets; but he obtained an old set of questions, put them in type aud struck off a proof, which he sold to the students for the $300. They did aot discover tbe double quality of the fraud until exami nation day. lire In New York. The large corset aad suspender factory of West, Brsdley k Corey, at 227, 229, 231 and 233 West Twenty-math street, was destroyed by fire last night. Twenty women were in tbe building and barely escaped with their lives. Four of them jumped from the seventh story upon the roofs of the adjoining buildings, a distance of three stories and were seriously injured. The entire Imu is aboat $300,000. ^ How the Republicans are Divided.'; [Wsskioftoa tetter Chicago Times. 1 A ponderous statesman asked the other dey if 1 uaderttood bow th* republicans are divided upon tbe presidential question. "No," was the reply. “I will tell you,” said be. “The upper crust is for John Sherman,' the middle cruet is for Blaine, and the under crust is for Grrnt.”

% WhtehT

X knew twoasaids. Uhl wondrous pretty t

One bss ey«s of laughing blue, Like the snore Uat 'Theeteas, Painted by an artist true. P util:* tips, that rival Bhsrrim.

Curtain teeth, so da*sling white.

That tbe iatas of th* PariSc Owned never pearls an bright. akin an fair ns anew jeet (alien, Timms like fine-threaded gold,

Y*U her la tbtak»H Aad their wealth at

is a stylish design in ittil in ranch favor in

wary b>mh

k of feuteth i Vwe, a* musical aad tender, Like the summer nephyr fails.

And her swertsnd magic presence With lie charm my anal an thralls.

Bat the other by her power

Bieeks the chain and sets dm free; Yet, alee, ah* blade them tighter

Whan her lovely form I see.

She’s a brunette, ta>l and slender,

Aad her hair Is Ilka ihedwd,

When the storm st midnight rages

And th* thunder peateth loud.

Stately, grand her every motion, But her heart Is warm aad tight.

Oh, that I could see her only Or tbe other fairy bright.

Thea in v soul that on* theoid worship,

Nor th* other’s areseaoecrave:

But, ah me! their deuhie beauty

Readers me a double slave.

—{Beaton Traneeript

' SCRAPS.

An exchange talks of “bazn&nng a debt off

a church.”

Fonr-leaf ^clover jewelry and such. Silver jewelry is New York society. The young lady who tempts a yonng man with a glass of wine deserves n drunken

husband.

"The beautiful Annabel Lee” has become Mrs. John C. George. The parties reside in

Baltimore.

Mr. Gladstone, the English liberal leader, always cats an egg beaten np in sherry before beginning one of his great speeches. Professor in Roman history: “Mr, Y for what was the war with Pyrrhus remarkable?” Mr. Y : "I think that it was the first time the Romani ever saw the elephant.” —[Cornell Era. Now that a London chemist has produced cryetaiized carbons which are veritable diamonds, there is a chance ef a ooal-heaver becoming as big a man as a hotel clerk or a megatneirian minstrel. The Rer. Dr. 0. H. Tiffany of St. Panl’a M. E. Church, New York, has announced that next spring he will leave New York to assume the pastorate of the Broad and Arch street E. church in Philadelphia. Elder sister (to little one who appeared to take great interest in Mr. Skibbons): "Come, little pet, it is time year eyes were shat in sleep/’ Little pet; “I think not. Mother told me to keep my eyes open when yoa and Mr. Skibbons were together.” The present parliament in England was summoned fer th* 4th af March, 1874, and assembled on that day. If it should only survive until the 14th of April next, it will not only have ran into a seventh session, but it will have exceeded ia duration any previous parliament summoned since the union, and will have been the longest-lived parliament for a century. Mrs. Hannah Simpson Grant, the mother of the general, is new, at the age of 80, living with her daughter, Mrs Corbin, in h small, retired boose an the heights above Jersey City. She is a quiet, dignified old lady, with a small, straight figure and regular features. She has bright, dark eyes and a kindly smile, and she moves about with nnusual vigor and activity. Mrs. Grant does not talk much about her son’s re-election, “The general is not in the habit of giving himself np to conjectures,” she said the other day to a writer for the Philadelphia Press. ‘ When a question arises he decides it, and I do not think be has given any thoasht to to the possibility of his being nominated again.” A witty journalist the other day, in speaking of the tendency to grow conservative after remsinisg in Washingtos for some time, was asked why it was that, when he first went there he abused nearly everybody, and that new be abased almost nobody. Said he: “I have discovered that th* average rascal in Washington has rascality for bis capital atock in trade, aad the very fact that he is a scoundrel, and is known as such, gives the basis of his prosperity. And the simple feet of your celling him a scoundrel, and proving it, merely gives him a gratuitous advertisement for hu already thriving

business.”

When Thad. Stevens was a yonng lawyer in the Pennsylvania courts, he once lost his case by what he cossidered a wrong ruling of the judge. Disgusted, he banged his law hook on the table, picked up his hat, and started for the door with some vigorous words in his month. The judge feeling that his dignity was assailed, rose impressively and said: “Mr. Stevens!” Mr. Stevens stopped, tamed and bowed deferentially. “Mr. Steveas,” Mid the judge, “do yon intend by such conduct to express your eon-tt-mpt for this court?” And Stevens, with much seriousness, answered: “Express contempt for this court > No, sir I 1 was trying to conceal it, your honor l”

STATE HEWS.

While hunting hear Nevada, George Riffe. a boy of fifteen, accidentally shot himsels through the hand, which will reqnii

tatum.

require ampu-

A report comes from Flora that Jeremiah Ashby caught Nattxa Thomas in the act of committing an outrage upon a daughter of the former, end killed him with a saber. Helen Cmycraft, a well known colored woman of Jeffersonville, aged sixty-eight years, went out to the city cemetery to attend sn interment, when she fell dead* from the heart disease, causing great excitement. Albert Gaffins, at Blonntaville, ten miles north of Hagerstown, last Saturday night went to tbe residence of J. B. Luther, aud gave him an inhuman beating, because he had left for collection with a jastice a trifling account against the former. Beeeher and the Bible Society. [Freon hia last lecture.] There are some of onr societies that don’t need our help. For instance, there is the Bible society. It is aa endowed institution and very rich. Whenever they want money they can get it from men who won’t give a penny for more progressive objects. For one, "I I won’t give a dollar to a society that prints a bible notoriously false ia some parts, and which tbe society knows is false. A committee was appointed to revise the present copy of the bible, and it worked laboriously and well, and made its report, recommending certain alterations, which was adopted, but some of the old school members of the board kicked up about h, and tbe society let tbe expense of the committee go, and never dared to print that version that it bad declared to be correct. 1 won’t give it a dollar. The Strike in Chicago. The eight thousand striking workmen at the Chicago stockyards have largely resume i ope'a* ions, the packers having acceded to their demand that no men outside the union should be employed. The only firms which still stand out are Armour k Go , Fowler Brothers, Cudahy A Chapin, and the AngloAmerican packing company. Electric Light la Cincinnati. John Shillito and associates have beea given the preference in bidding for the management of the business of lighting Cincinnati, Covington and Newport so soon ns tbe experiments show the Edison invention to be practicable.

LOCAL ITEMS.

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Jewelry Store; elegant new stock. to s For gold wticket, gold ehtiaa, silver wttebes, silver chains, go to ths Botes Hoots Jewelry a tore. U ‘ _ Seesetl aquts aad cap* st Stoat’s, ths hotter, nlot

Rogers’s A. 1. pitted table cutlery, poeket knives Isdfss’ scissors In esses, toilet sets, carving sets, razors, fluting machines, clothes wringer*, team and steel fire irons, ooal hods aad vam st ndueed prices, destnbte for Christmas presents. Open every evening until Christmas. HUdebrsnd A Fugste, 86 South Meridian strati. II o Ever body goes to the Bates Houso Jewelry Start; largest sad best stock In the city; no scarcity of goods; stock perfect and very large; all new aad nobby. ts s Choice lot oi boRalo robes at a vary low pries,

St 8. Meridian st. and at East Market.

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cHuvnu* raerr, nuts, n»a * Florida oranges. Malaga grapes. Debeaaa raisins. Muscatel raisins. Imperial cabinets. English walnuts. Filberts, peesaa. Paper and soft shell Almonds, sad the Finest Aspin wall Bananas, Imported wtius, champagnes, liquor sad ate. H. ScawiNoa, No. SI North Pennsylvania street and SO North Illinois street. 8t Charles Block. tt e

Fes your groceries, fresh aad ciee batter, eggs, vegetables, and all ia that Unejo to W. A. Smock’s, 160 Massachusetts avenue. tt st

The Alsolay of frwlta, nuts and family suppltes hi the window of Henry Schwlage’s Pennsylvania street store i&silarlng to good livers. tt e Brass fin sets and coal races st reduced prices, until Oust mas. Hildebrand A Fugate, 86 South Meridian st, tt o

Levely bracelets In new styles st th* Bates Houso Jewelry 8tors. Best stock In th* city. U s Solid gold and set rings. Gems of beauty la endless varieties at the Bates House Jewelry Store. ta a We mean bnetaea this year, and we have the goods to do tt with. Corns and see for yourselves before you psrebsae, st the old reliable Bates Boose Jewelry Store. ta s Big holiday boom at the Bates Hosw Jewelry Store. Immense stock Of jewelry, watches sod diamonds, new sod nobby styles. Own* for bargains. ^ tes Diamond rings, soltalre and cluster, elegant dorigns, diamond studs and lovely gems, st the Bates Boom Jewelry Store. ta z Elegant stoae cameo sets, cleg as t gold tarqsotee sols, elegant mosaic and gold seta, onyx and gold sets In large vertety, at the Betas House Jewelry Bun. ta s Skates—a good assortment at G. A.. Marten A A Co.’s. me a Pocket knives, pitted table cutlery, knl vee sn forks, carvers, scissors, plated shears, Uol chests, • utiag mscbices, patent sad and polishing irons, st O. A. Marten A Co.'s, next door to Chaa. Mayer Co.'a. ne s Bates House Jewelry Store beets thsna all this year In fiae new goods. Stock Immense; ail new, finest aebby stylos. No old steak to work; everything just as represented. tax OUs, Beeps, Tarnishes, Brushes sad combs, Prescriptions compounded a specialty. Browning A Sloan, tv I Lanins' Fens. We have about fifty ales mink sets, which we drains to close eat before taking Inventory. Early tillers will get the choice god benefit of very tew prioss. . H. BaMssaasa, at n U Best Whahlngtoa street.

BaKBBBGBK'8 PRKraRATIONS Far the holiday trade sn on a grand male. Among ths many attractions are: Ladies’ Sealskin Gloves. Gents’ Seal Capa and Gloves. Bilk Umbrellas. 1 Ftae Soft Hats. Otter Baas sad Malls. M4nk Muffs and Bras. Far and Plush Robes, tad svery tiling usually found In a flnt-clau hat store. H. Bambsbskb, uv n IS East Washington street. 1 • Sterling silverware st the old reliable Bates Fosse Jewelry Stare. Low prices. tas

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!

D. LELEWEB, the popular Far Manufacturer, «T East Washington s* , (sear Reis war* street) informs the general puhlte that Re has the largest and beat selected stock oi Fla* Fnra ta ths city, ocnstetlBg of elegant SEAL, MIRK aad OTTER BETH, LADIES’ and CENT’BEAL CAPS, HANDSOME BEAL BONNETS and all other goods generally faond la a frat-eteas Fur establishment, which will b* attend at Msnnfseturers' cost, to close eat for th* next 14 days. Call and examine enr gaods baler* pnrehaalag. Our stock Is fresh and af onr own manufacture, sad warranted perfect. Parties living st s disuses caa bav* tit sir orders ailed by mail by stating price, subject to retuntag goods If net suited. Call or address TPTizunn* A/* JuJCsaaJBi W JSJ&i 97 EAST WASHINGTON STEER, (Near Court House.)

Don’t Mistake the Plaoe.

This is Headquarters for Repairing Furs, sspooiafly fer Altering aad tolsrglig Seel Hsoquas.

GIFTS

o' ^ AIM, Silk FICHUS U Bomu ud l.<i. •fleet*. Crepe de Chine FICHUS In aU colors, fringed or plain. Fine Bows and Tien. Silk Handkerchiefs. Linen Handkerchief. Collar* and C flb. t , Knitted Goo « JEWELRY, Kid Gloves and Rial Laces. POCKETBOOKS, la Walrus, Sealskin, Calf and Euasia Leather. RIVET & PARDRIDGE, LEAD XU IS FOFULAK FUCK, 26 ud 28 Nut Wattlagto* St.

X nx.A.s CRAFT'S Just received sad now open sn Yjtlegant Stock tt Watehm, Diamonds aad Jewatry YTThkh wtt he aoM at Bottom Prices. Xtvonrthtag la onr stock Is new sod alee. Tet no en* buy natl they have called an «s. pistedwnresf new deafens ta Tas Sets, etc. A^Stud* 0, “ <>0 Ki °C*’ Buttons, J^aee Vail Pins, Neck Chains sad Lsoketa. A mericsn and gwtes Wsteties, In sliver ud gold A casra. tile rush and select your jgl very thing told engravtd free of charge. 94 BgMt Washington st.

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Why do you sufibr fth ttiepam in your Back, Lotas or ffidof Your Kidnoys are diseased. Do not delay, as delays are

DApif V» aE£>1r2 DUftJH ■ MMM of theKidueys, ■WWWW ■« ■ Bladder, Liver and Urinary Organs, Dropsy, Gravel, Diabetes, Bright's Disease of tbe hidoeyt, and Incontinence and Beteutioo of Urine, are cured by HUNT'S REMhbY. It Is prepared EXPRESSLY tor thsos

1 ’. . | Cameron Co., Central Penn., Driftwood, Nov. 18. 187S.

Drab Sir: I nuy soy HUNT'S DKMEDY has

raised tbe dead. It raised me from th# dead far sure, as ihe doctors bad given me up to die' . SIX HOURS, and so had all tho people. My f loads

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sailed in tho priest to prepare ms for dost i and he also said I was doomed. They all tied mo dead, but HUNT’S REMEDY savau me, and I am all re

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From Bov. E. Q. Taylor, D. D., Pbstor Pint Baptist Church: , _ .

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T can testifv to tbs virtue ofBUNrd RF.MKU in Kidnry Diseaars from actual trial, having hern greatly benefited by its um ■ B. G. TAYLOR. V ’ HUNTd REMEDY

baa beau used by Family Physicians for 90 years It bus never been knows it fall. It Its aafe. sure and speedy cure. U

"is purely vogstabl All wbo use it enjfl

_ rood health. Ben • for pamphlet to WM, B. CLARKE, Pro video ce, R. I. HOLD BY ALL riRUGGl-TS.

greatly benenteo ny its naa HUNT’S

Mr. R. Schaefer, No. 31 Brown street, Allegheny city, bad tbe rheumatism for eight jeers, and bad used every known medicine without relief. A angle bottle of bl Jacobs OM cured him.

In 1180 the “Bronchial Troches” ware Jotradneed, and from that time *p to tee present their tnetass In coughs, colds, asthma and brooch LUa bas been uopaiaJtefcd. No household should be without “Brown’s Bronchial Troches.’* as by their early use most troubles of tho throat indaood by ooid can be overcome.

ELEGANT Trtenmail Hats, Lace Fteshus, Laos Ties, lace Toilet gets, In great vartaty. For Holiday Presents, WOODBRIDGE’S JV/Xilliixexry 8 Bast Washington st.

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Extra for rsoaro with bath. Only hotel ta th* ate) with Passiegar Kievstar aad all medora improve■etas. cat©. E, CTTMGUrr, rrsgrtaSir,

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. The Latest NovelUaa la Fancy Articles, Toys, Notions, ROLLPLATK JEWELRY, HflverplAted Ware, ItuhPininn tilts* Wftr«, ■•Jolfet antf Thousands of Different ArtlclPt. for Our Store is open every nlght.*M« Charles Mayer & Co.,' 99 Wsst Washington 8t. Forthe Holidays. Soft Shell Almonda, 30c par lb. Shotted Almondt, - - 40e per ib. Cream Nuta, - - - 15c par Ib. Filberts, extra duality 20c per Ib. Fancy targe Pecans, 15c par Ib. Fineat Naples Walnuts 25c par Ib. Fancy Mixed Candles, 20c par Ib. AT Mu, Tic Grocer's. For Breakfast! CHOCOLAT MIMLER. Ask Yoor Grocer For It I PARIS AND LOMCON. Hew York Depot, 286 Greenwich St. N. U SOU DAY & C0„ Indianapolis, t«,te [4]

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6EO.W.5POTT 9g ud 89 North Dll seta street, keeps eontsntly on hood st lowest prices th* best brands of “New Process* sad FbttOy Flour: delivered free. Ail rinds ef Grain bsndM In job Iota on very amsU margin.

COMMISSION.

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FLOUR and FEED. * ■■ j 1 11

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