Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 October 1877 — Page 7
WEEKLY COURIER.
" C.'MAXI.fftUMMr. JASPER, - - - INDIANA.
ITEMS OFJNTEREST. Forsoaml and Idterary. WentleJl Phillips hi reported to b worth $60,000. Henry Ward Ileeclter will visit California next spring, lecturing aliout 30 nights en route. Mrs. Burnett's " I,s o' Lowrte V in its dramatic form ia tlie success of the n in London. William Morris is to give a series of
lectures oh the history of decorative art ia England during the coming winter. The late Una Hawthorne is said to have been that one of the novelist's children who resembled him most closely in personal appearance. Joaquin Miller's play of "The Danites" is the success of the season in New York. McKee Uaakin ami wife have been engaged to represent it for 40 weeks. Elijah A. Morse, of Morse nros.,the " Rising Sun Stove Polish" man, has been nominated for Lieutenant-Gov
ernor of Massachusetts by the Temperance party. Edward Lear, author of the delightful "Nonsense Verses," is a groat broad-shouldered Englishman, who
spends much of his time among children, and delights in making them hapThe Kev. Dr. Schneider, who recently died in Boston, was the first person in the world to write and preach in the Turkish language a Christian sermon. It was over 40 years ago, and at Constantinople, A new oner. "Le Dernier des Mo
hican.," will be brought out in Brussels j in November. The coniioser is Mrs.
Cortane loung, of NewjYork, who is in
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Jail fr forgery, cat Ms throat, with a
poexet kniie.-Mrs. Garms, of East Tenapletou at., aged 50, who Had been ettgkJy deranged for some time, committed suk by throwing herself into the river.
the hand, forming a white globule, and would form a mirror, like nwrenry, if pressed between two glass plate. AMI CttMMtu The Dartmouth, N. II., Agricultural College ha only eight stule, i place of 24 last mr. V.iua
el tine fall, and the prospect is mot verv t
enC01irag..)g. " Far Xotea. Uiehon Wilav. nf tiu ilt a iimi i Queen Victoria, will, it ia rawortad.
Episcopal Church, has sailed from San . to BrliB 8bortlJ u witness the marFrancisco fnr f!lii,i if ..'.-it .i., nare of her rranddaurhuir. I'rimu
.Metnotnst missions in all parte of the w lwe 1 nnee ot Metningea. world, except Liberia, before hie return I Tb Rabenu Festival, held at Anta year hence. weqi, August lth it, was a great If the Northern and Southern Pres- J even.t' a'H,,rt!Were pro-
uyionan Uliurcbes were united the sum , w ueoorauons, illuminations,
rot au a quarrel wtm herier- v warnum kmm Alt Kx-v. er, a notel sporunc nun. Cbarlee i i;"'1" IUH Aoitw cmi(.
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- .'r".v "wwwaeq a me joenmond ( va.i
IFrom tint Xew York
i M O. A C.M iMHt er the en null r in Mtfr Mirrlol au.
wawet WHf dollar, entirf their ewn ttoekefet. KImmm miiriJarhn
la). Otrdeee, NMes O. FttkerTWMen, Seett's lrotber-iRUw, Heaesc Jeha Palter-
loiai oi memoers would be 670,124. In 1861, when thev artal. tlu tl Bun
ber of members in the unHed body was!
The following college admit both sexes on (Kjuxl terms ; The Cincinnati University, Antioch College, Cornell University, Miehigan University, Penn College and the Swarthraore, and the Iowa Law College. Two young ladiee have entered the latter this year. It is suggested in Great Britain that Government might-make payments for
I'lAununi uiairucuone m cookery in the same manner as for the teaching of elementary science; and Sir John Lub-
oock nas asket in Parliament, " Why should not boys learn about cleanliness and ventilation, the manaimAHt nf ,.
come, expenditure and saving?" ,r".ls9 lrel(m Mg". daughter of lir. Magill, President of Swarthmore College, is the only lady who ever was graduated from the Boston Latin bchool, aud who received from the Boston University the degree of Doctor of Philosophy last summer, sailed for Europe the other day to continue her studies in philoloirv and science at run.
bridge, England, and perhaps in Ger-
Rrussels attendinfir tlie reliearsals. Tim 1
hbretto is taken from Cooper's novel. burg, through their counsel, have i led
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a uiu in wiuiiv aeainst tne iiev
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An effort is hein? made bv a Lnn.
don publisher tocomiete;withthe cheap,
unwnojesome literature of the dav bv 41.-. I t . f M ... -
me rwjmMitcHuim m goou, iieaittiy books at a cheap price. One of these, Bunyaa's "Pilgrim's Progress," has al
ready appeared, and may be obtained complete for one penn)-. The book is
in pamphlet form, and consists of 64 page, fairly printed, and with numerous wood cuts, which, if not highly finished, are quaintly suggestive. Prof, Asaph Hall, of the United states Naval Observatory at Washington, who discovered the moons of Mars, 4 a native erf Goshen, Conn. " He learn1 the trade of a carpenter and married schoolmistress, and it was she who inleced him to stady, and became his eacher. He rapidly advanced, surpassng his teacher, and readied the higher tranches of mathematics. When about J5 years old he obtained a position in he Harvard College Observatory, and as retained there for several vears as taistaat. In 1861 he was appointed to he Naval Observatory, and since 1875 w had charge of the large telescope. It k ol aimed that Comim nfariati
andled 6,000,000 pounds of wool the The production of conl oil has been Rcreased from 600,000 bbls., in 1860, to 8,m bfek. in 187$. A new establishment, to Im
a the Progressive Art Compear, tins een established t New Britain, Conn., r the manufacture of bronzes and for reod engraving. There isinreeted in th carpet trade Philadelphia over $4,000,000, and the Tpspects of the trade just now are very fght. All the manufactories are rwn'iag on full time. .Mr. Bradley, of Lampasas County, l exss, raised this season 14 wagon-loads I onions, estimated to be over 20,000 winds, on one acre of vtymibi! Tt-
net him four cents a pound or 800.
,"TJe BW1' of tlie Supreme Court
iim, nas invented a musical innroent somewhat like a violin, and wjed a tetrachord. It may be made in tferent staee, so that 12 inetraments ill constitute a fall string band. A class of 28 young Boston women M successfully prosecuted diamondwing, whieh has heretofore been carf oet exeluelvely by the Jews ',rtrw. The girls cut and polthe diamonds in an excellent man r. -Irish moes is gathered in the bay r Scituate, Maes. The water is clear, the "raoesers" in their boats oaa see to gather with long rakos' nclies clinging to the rocks below. Preparation of the moss for market simply of washing and packing. ewen, use k largely instead of higher d isinglniss.
j-vv method of seiMirating oil from X 7 waste has been inJwced in fJernlany. The waste is l!. , , dn,m aml quantity of I'wwis.mixed witV it, suftiSfJf tefe T,P th oil Prolonged The mixture of pfater and ft :nfxt, Place1 ln Irterted jw, 2hich J revolvetl rapidly, and PMter escape in the form of pow-
and every thing that could add to the brilliancy of the fttc. Gambetta put out one of hk own eyes when a child in a fit of rage. He was placed by his p&rents in the keening of some people who had ill treated
him, and lie wrote to his father that if be did not take him back home he would put out one of his eyes. No attention was paid to the childish threat, but Gambetta kept hk word and tore out an eye.
Mr. E. W. Blyden, the new Liberian ambassador to England, is the first minister ever accredited to that country by a negro State. He is of pure negro blood, and was educated chiellr in l.i.
Iwria. He has excellent ability, has been a professor in the College of Liberia, has contributed verv clever articles to Frastr, and has served in the Liberian Government, lie has just been received by Lord Derby. London's nobility flutter over another of its frequent scandals, Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency, an Irish peer aged 71, having been sent to a lunatic asylum by his friend to prevent his marrying a woman with whom he
was years ago concerned m a divorce
Mf Kfeetor, for. poetlen of the property, put tiMttugk Xk-i IgnerMit LejctofcttHre a Mil reteaftia a merte ef m,mjm te Mm State, and then sold out to their ewn great It U a )hH etirkMH that Parker, who te
now anxious teturn Stale's evktan,NgMre in this imw as ipprshamh'e thai Xeacie might turn tralter and betray the nreeieiM crew. Of the several members of the Kln&Klmnton, Cardeea, I'arker. and Patterson are now under htdietaientferlaelrerimos. Neafle, we believe, has gene to the bad, and Im Huriey is prominent as an admirer ef the Fraudulent President, whom he helped to make. Chamnerleia has not been ealled te account by m-eeee of Hew- k thie notable omic4on te be expkdaed? Wm immnnity for Chamberlain part ef Wade Hampton's bargain with Hayes?
TMI LfUISfAXA JtOBBElS.
.V airain.st thn (or at w i for um ir. T ' .j
m imniiKjr oi ine memners of tieniy Lennox, and conspiring for
i in , rTiaoa: i nr nruiicr i ii t i. - : i . . a t .
adventurer from tbeXcrtk. I'nlikohu
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Ott Tim Lnt-.l ' . . ... v ,au -nmcua ivKlll.
RMW I ei man, witn toe manner of a Kentknuin was formerly the plebeian name of J wd tl intellectual nbiufa botar ttMoues, has not been a credit to his; or- lagiaeowpsraWytne bk-t of the lot, he
uer, navinr m l2 sweat a Year in iau . ' uaweroui. lie soon
Ex-Gor. ClMHMbertaiH spesks the truth i ". L. Xeehi, ex-Cemptrelier-GeNeral,
Parker eontaln ne new efcuf ef hnplrtaaee aalnt him. and ne evidence whatever. Parkw's rtory of the traneaetions lr which a fine of rmmU loaded South Carolina with a fraudulent debt of more than twenty milIIoh of dollars has a certain valu. knw vr
for It corroborates the ehaixes made by the
vmMimwm ociore ne Became Oovernor, and repeated with some peritency during a period eorering sovenl years. At that time the Huh wm almot alone in H etjmate of CbaniberlaiH'd real elwneter. The Attorner-Uenend and eandldtte for
Geremor has aMumed the role of a reformer. Standing forth in a mantle of fraudulent bone r, he hd the audacity to deneunee the King of earpet-bag thieves of which he himself hwl and Hill w the mater pirH. Our friends of the Demoeratie press, loth la4de and ontaide ef the plttndered Mate,veiTgnendlyacMedChamlerlaM's pretentions. The BepuUlean newppef without exception, pointed to him with pride living proof that a nun might be a Republican pelhieleu and a carpet -bagger and yet hate thieves aad expose villainy. With the honorable exeeptkm of the .Velio, which discovered Chaaberiaia's raocality not long after the Shr hd printed facts to ! bow it, the independent wem aolaudd th
omiiwe ami imucoi iB true reremer; and "i ale College took the rami te her very
W- have been gntifed to receive assurance from iH-owlant HflTBRa of .auik r.r.
otina, includinf honest mea of both parties, that the downfall of Chamberlain and his
aocmef , anu tne redemption of the State from their Infamous rubj. was largely due to the .Vea'x battle agaiMt the plunderers. It is alo gratifying to observe that Parker's conf"ion, m far as it goc, eonarm4 in every e-ential particular the charges long ago made in thk paper. Indeed, had Parker's memory failed him when be undertook to unbosom his guilty secrets, he might readily have gatWd the material for hi statement from the ales of the V, frm 1S72 to 17S inefctsive. Like the other carpet-baggers concerned in the wholesale robbery of the prostrate State, Daniel II. Chamberlain laeked both money and principles when be went a needv
Re-
a a . t
ivmes Aietnouist uniircii fnr Htm.
ducing an organ to assist in the music, contrary to the charter of the. Church, which provide that there shall be cnn.
grogational singing in the services, and that no instrument shall be used. In the Grand Duchy of Baden a new State law ordains the establishment of Middle Schools for Girls, with
years' course of tuition. The verv beet
teachers will be employed. These new Higher Schools for Girls are to recolra
subvention from the State Exchequer, like the corresjionding institutions for boys. Seminaries for the training of lady professors are to be foundodin
connection with those new educational establishments.
"Are there manv nrofaaanrs of
lhrion at vour college. James ?" snlnmn.
ly asked the deacon of hk nephew, who
nan just got nome from His freshman
year. Think not, sir," replied James, musingly; "we've got a professor of Hellenic Greek, a professor of comnara.
tiveqonchology; In fact, professors of almost every thing else: but (with a
wink) 1 don't recall any professor of re
ligion among tne faculty." Old man
Holds up bis hands astounded.
Hap aad MMmhm. Near Greencastle. Ind..Fred Sibm
was blasting a rock, when the limb of a
tree, mown on by the explosion, fell up on him, killing him instantly.
At fWtau'a l' . 1 T t .
it, names rarnnng, while going down stairs to wait on his tZU'L urifo Innnml ..II 1 1.1 If
" n'jrvrvi ami roil, 1nmKIHc US TT 1?1 1 . .. W
uuutv. ne uieu aimost instanilv.
Hile two brothers. John swd
Nathan Petticord, of Indianapolis; were
ma-iereu the vulgar thieves around him, and became the acknowledged brains of the Kine. v hen the hltorv nf events in mh
Caroliaa for the ten years following the war
scandalous purposes
The following storr is told about i h,Ua,' "en, the pluck. petverAritml.i TUv -rrl 1.11. ee. d executive force of the Xew Eng-
tor of a Prussian General : The Gn.
roSS, W Th 1Ilum' Ji-overed yrs ago by M. Wn de Boiebaur uT. U resembles pewhet and cut. Wlwn heated to
out hunting, John was faUlly injured by the accidental discharge of Nathan 's
gun. A little daughter of William Wyan, of Pittsburg, while playing in a vacant
lot found a bundle of Jamestown weed
(Stramonium), a portion of which she
ate, producing death in a few hours.
At Omaha, Neb., Mrs. P. H. Leary U0 O sin, rlm.tM ...! 1. 1 . 11 1
" iiimuj nun uer iwo cniHiren, wlien her horse ran awav and came into collision with a telegrap'h pole, throwing Mrs. Leary from the buggy and h real' in IT liar niuil- Tl.
" ""h a jto vnuuien were but little injured. Two loys, named Jones and Barton, were standing on the platform of a car on an excursion train, near York, Pa., when the locomotive met wkh an obstruction which threw it off the track and badly shattered the cars. The two boys were crushed to death and several others were injured. The suicidal list: Dr. Daniel Kiser, for nearly 50 years a resident of Fort Wayne, Ind.took a fatal dose of morhhino to ease tho troubles caused by povertv and domestic infelicity CkrU.
topher Cumphrey, of Little Creek, Ind., shot himself through the head. Cause, sickness and temporary insanity.
uMMavHs iianson, a aweoe, aged 85, residing near Weetville, Ind., in a fit of despondency hanged himself to a tree. A man giving his name as Horsefelt was arrested on a charge of horsestealing and locked in the LawrenceIwrg (Ind.) Jail. During the night he out - hie throat with a penknife. Samuel C. Armstrong, of Cleveland, O., a gentleman well connect ml, but a hard drinker, severed his jugular vein and also out hie wriete with a razor. His wounds were not necessarily fetal. At Colnmbne, O., Constable Jonas Pletohshot himself with a re vol ver. Pletoh has been low-spirited for some time, caused by dissipation. At Dayton,0.,Miohael Myers.a blacksmith, jumped into a well and broke his neck.
eral was not blessed with much wealth,
vui. mm wmt marnageaiHe oaugniers." One day the Turkish Ambaeeador called niion him and asked if he might hope t become the General's son-in-law.
ith pleasure,' replied Gen. Bonin, delighted. How many do you want?' Aristarchi, seeing that the General took him for a Mussulman, replied with some trepidation that he was a Christian, and wanted only one. 'What a naieance!' grumbled the General. 'Well, take whichever you want!' " Dun robin Castle, where Gen. Grant is to be the guest ef the Duke of Sutherland, stands close to the sea in the remote northern county of Sutherland, and has for manv centuries been the home of the chiefs of the Sutherland clan, which the Duke represents in the female line on account of the marriage of hie grandfather, the first Duke, with
tlte Countess of Sutherland in her own right. The present Duke was chiefly
eutrciMea oy a son oi rare isunsen,who was tutor Jo the late W. B. Astor, and subsequently Prussian Minister in England. He is a practical scientific man, and devotes his energies to put works of
improvement on am estates, on which he expends not less than $0,000 a year. He has made a railroad at his own cost, and is now reclaiming vast tracts of
butherlandehtre land.
land lawyer will command a certain v-huiAf
mm raiioa, notwithstanding the base usee to which he applied the qualities. It is not often that a man of Chamberlain's
w nie nimseir down a thief, even in
evrikhiwi cuMiBuaicauoa wun ai eon-
HNieraies. ine Charleston Xaesaml n,ir-
ifr, a Democratic Journal whieh rapported the ex-Governor at the time of his appearance as a reformer, aad which itself prolited
Ifefted the followinr letter wHttM l.v rLu
beriain to Parker during the progre of the great bond steal under Scott's ad mi a it ra
tion:
Dear P.- Toura of the 21st earn to ate this
evriiw. i wu zmv( lmfeee, to near from
TV. " Horm, i nave no
Thwe fei no eeial news iwre. For a few &&y we have tout fears of an otitWeak in Laa - ri ami XewliOH hU tr kmip vasiiiMi.
m " w - - - j wrawa unj -
fv Mnumui wn v era
.aei
About the Catted State eaatorafci
i w;
woene i aw r ine root oi wr terw
Icmuw what to mv.
U, in eveo way, better for
tne
in.Idm't
anow very well that
it
me to remain loru still T
am ealletl a candidate already, aad ay nok. tkHt li iut tMa: If mv f rUmAm wink dm u u.
coine h candidate, lor t He sake of keetdag the party from aotnc over to NmmMUtu. rrui
stand: bat, if o mmjIi need vxUXs. I boid
lwvier to remain wbere I am. What the chaneeA are I have no mean of freezing now. I will erve mr friends in niimavin uvn,,..
i im conimweton Kk : ! KeffardatoK.
is,
M4a and
A tntstness that couldn't succeed
without strikers: The match trade,
Ihe lover who is kicked off the
front stoop may be said to have a rood
-Dobson thinks his wife has rot re
!! i . . .
iigwn, iwwe see is always singing
on cm, uj sua jrmy to mm.
"The best wav to cure a
child." sava aj -
buy it a baby-carriage. " That
keep the bawl rolling.
Miss Loner, of Oreron. has marriad
Mr. Little. She, of course, savs, "Love me Little," and he, of course, savs, " Love me Lone." And the leritimate
result of it all will be that a Long having come a Little, a Little will soon
come a Lonr.
A ladv havinr attemnted to exulmia
the new birth to aclass of lads at a Sun.
day-school, asked one whether he woubl
not like to be born again. Xo," was the reply. "Why not.mybev?" inquired the teacher. Acos I mirht be bora a
wench," answered the boy.
Here is a Turkish fable : Abdullah
went to the hoase of Xasereddin to bor.
row his mule. Nasereddin. who was a
ready lender, snki that the mule was not at home. At that moment the mule brayed loud enough to wake the echoes. " hat dkl you sav. Naseretldin. that
your mule was not at home but I hear
mm." " Go thv wav. false Abdullah."
said his neighbor, "yon are not a true friend, for you believe the mule and refuse to take my word."
Comment inr on a recent statMMat
to the eflfeot that "Professor Hall, the discoverer of the moons of Mars, began
ire as a carpenter," a correspondent
savs: "Thai U tuvtUalJ.- tw.
why it was he who first saw the satellites, and k not only adae to his honors, but agn) well for fninre aspirMts for astronomioal mate, though Hk plane that hk case is the exception rather than the rale. We square away to let any ether craft compass this that can. We have done our icrst best."
foot np iretty well? Voura Ulthfally.
WHAHBEHialX. This U one of the documents whieh the negro Elliott produced awl threatened to read to the Kcpubliean State Convention of hurt rear, and bv mean of which a fAnxui
Chamberlain to provide for himself and for Dunn. Parker says that he sold the letter
aim two otaers to Dunn for fijm. The
- rererreu to just arter the exulting allusion to the diviaion of the poib) is Kfinpton, ChamberUin's daMntatein college, and subeiiiently the agent ehesen by him to sell and hypothecate in the "ew York nmket the fraudulent bonds boned bv the mlttions by the confederates at Columbia. We have in our possession a letter written by Chamberlain to Kimpton. in the earlr part of the same year, and which aserik still stronger evidence of his guilt. Seven of the thieved now under indictment for other crimes bad devised a colossal cheme for Mealing the entire railroad system of South Carolina. The handle which presented itselfmoH conveniently was the Greenville and Columbia Kallroad, at that time heavily mortgaged to the State. While the details of the Job were under discuMion, Chamberlain wrote as follows to Kimpton in Xew York: Offickofthe Attomskt-Gexkr.il, Coumnu,iS.c., Jan. &,?. Mr DKAK KlMITOX: lrkM- mrriv-4 Lm
evening, and apoke of the C. A C. matter, etc. I told htm that I had Hint writton vnu fiiiK-
on that matter, ami aio about the oW K k
mil.
Well, Andaraoa A- Co., Patterson,
im irawaMRi AHminiatration. fl'roiH the Memphis Anpeal.l
.1. 3tadlsn Wells and the Louisiana
turning Board seem to be ia high feather wkh the Administration. They have return-
eu o .ew urteaas irom washington insolvent and defiant. The inflicted forgers have been placed in high positions, and they expect to escape the peniteetiary for the crimes they have committed through the Adminhdratfon. Civil service reform becomes a fares and a mockery when perjurers and forgers are rewarded for their villainy. Should Welis and Anderson be convicted, Hayes will realize his error in permitting Sherman te transfer the patronage of tlm .New Orleans Custom House to thee knaves. The stream can never rise higher than its source, and It is not surprising that a President elected by fraud should commit the moral degradation, the fathamlete depth of human depravity, by promoting the indicted villains to whom he m indebted for the once of PrMldaat.
The power which Wells and Anderson exer
cise over tne Administration is the legitimate offspring of the consniracv whfoh in.
aururateda candidate for the Presideacy
ucinicu ui ibc people. WellS. Anderson. FTaVM anil Sliaraia ih
linked together by a community of crime which wIll.not fade from the memory ef , lon Iree instltutlens exist. The ininudenee Of ueh laadaraaf tta 1.1.
minhdration as Wells and Patterson ef South Carolina biiiublime. Both of tkM ia.
dieted for the most infamous crimes. Hut they woukl have the country believe that,
ineyare poor, persecuted Innocents martyrs to the cause of truth and Justice. TJ ells commits perjury, prostitutes the sanctity of the ballot-box, and elects a President by throwing out ten thousand votes. Patterson directs the dellverr of $114,900 ef serif to another patriot for the purpose ef bribing the South Carolina Legislature. Both of these creature are indieted; yet they are high priests, ministering at the altar of an Admfnietratioa which is so pure that H will not permit an oAeehcider te exercise the righto of freemen m elections. Weils is
Ior JPreeideat by per
xraua generally, nut new fwmeforhlmtopartkipatein a pe-
Ih yon nndenrtantt tally the plan of the O. A C. enter"? It l proponed to buv $M, worth of theti.AC.tMk. TkU. vtih th!
KM.as f rtwrk held by the State, will jdve entire control to . the Laurens Branch willbeKddiHiebniar-by decree of Court, and will t not more than JSe.SSS, and ntiably not wore than Me.ess. The Spartnlmrg and union can ateo be got without UMtcHltv. Whall then have in ti. O. MS mile. In Laurens 31. ami in S. A V. 7 ml U lit aiiawi
milee eiiiited ami running. Put a ilrst mortrage oi mjm h mile on thin, sell the bond at fift or and thebalafunfrtMviiur
alIotlHy9ffreot ami repalni U immemte, over . .HW. There is a mint of monev inthU
or 1 am n fool. :
Then we wilt mnmi phiimi ilu r u u tn
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imi mio our nun ana etHupiete the conneet4n U, Aneville. . C. There i an lmkMnitA vmvi tor Binmulnii
of newer before tw.
W rite me fully and tell me of anv thine vih
want done. My hn letter wa Vef' full.
If arrimNt ball be attomled to at once. 1 don't think Xeattte M1 imWi ur trmklo
Parker hates Xeagte ami waywCc hki inteu-
Vour, truly, d. it. Ch.Vmbemuvix. That a shrewd aaaa and a lawver twrwlt.
ted himself to put upon paper so clear a confer Ion of vAmmy, would le almost meredtlde had we .net that eenfeion hi his own hand-wrtthMf. liere is the AMemeyeeneral ef the Slate, paid te protect the State' mitred and te prosecute efenders agaimd the State's laws, con pi ring te rob stock holder ef their property, defraud the State of ha dues, and enrich hinwelf and hi eenfedsratesattheexpeneeef the tax-payer. The enormity of the proposition is shown by
CITIL S1KVICI SEF9BM.
The OW Glerka at WalU4m niiJ
Walngton Special to the X. Y. Tribune. The man for ohtaluhur th full imm
the votes of the Ohio clerks in the various department baa at lat umuj ii.ti.it.
shape. Gen. Grosvenor, of Ohio, has had S?JeRuiu,,s regarding the matter wkh . "JfJ? Sherman, and hwt evening a meetyHZ held at the rooms ef Sixth Auditor MeGrew. Tb Mtr w.ivi
full dh)euftsien. Gen. Smith, the Appointment Clerk, has also interested himself ia the matter, and the clerics k- i. f
toumtemandthat they can take whatever
" " aeceesary te go Some te vote, and ome of them have received an intimation that ft will not even be necessary teapely for a f urlough for that purpose, but that their absence will be understood. Aeemmhtee was appointed te ascertain the eennties and townships in which the Ohio dorks reside.and in regard to certain counties an
caw wm ne ntaoe to eeeitre the vote ef all clerks residing there, these being the couaijfws'ch the contest over the legishttive ticket is suppled to be doe. In a number of counties it was agreed that votes of eierks would net be needed, as the RepubliB Hrttywaa quhe sumeient, andft was decided that clerks who reside in these counties should be requested te contribute a sum equal to at least half the expense ef a trip home to vote, for genera campaign expenses. A committee waa alto appomted Vear- , range if possible for half-fare tick eta. It was also agreed that a genera effort should be made to raiee funds among the clerks for the use ef the State campaign. Washington Special to Koston Post. Civil service reform received a new wrench to-day. In the absence from town of r.
Schurz, two gentlemen from Ohio made a
descent upon the interior Department and went about solieitinr aontrihutiau t
along the Republican campaign in Ohio. The gentleman aforesaid represented that contributions were to be wholly voluntary, but some ef the mulcted eierks say they somehow received the impression that R was tobethe eld story, "payor get," and se they paid. Coming so dose on the heels ef Sherman's signineant hint that the Ohio clerks in his department could get away long enough to vote, this revival of the eld contribution dodge has a suspicious look. It is certainly at variance with Schurz ' r.
cent manifesto on the subject of election duties, and considerable Interest i manifested here to know what Schurx i rl to -La
about it. Prom the description ef the two seekers after campaign money, one is believed to be ex-Speaker Grosvenor ef Ohio, who arrived here last night.
A Dethoit sursreon was the other dav
called to go tip the river and give hie professional services to a man who was accidentally shot by a friend while praoUclncat Urget-nrinf , and yesterday the tlbctor was met on the street by a friend who asked : Well, you went up and saw that man, did you?' Yes." "And , where was he shot?" "In the lumbar region,1' answered the surgeon: " Oh, in the lumber region was it? Why, bow did they get him dewn from the pineries so omok?" Then the dootr lumbered along towards home. Fru Press. There hasn't really been veryaoh prophet in the whaling business since Jonah died.