Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 21, Number 41, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 October 1879 — Page 7

WEEKLYCOURIER C, BO AXE, PaMlikac, JASPER, - - - INDIANA.

The Care ef Canaries. So few understand the care of theo bird that a few words about them will not comh' aniis to the bird lovers, Nearly every one has a bird of some kind hanging in tho window, or indooro, .anil the same treatment will apply to all with th exception of wds and food, ' The cause of most disease is colds whieh are occasioned by cither hanging a bird iiv a draught of air, near a loose, fitting window, or keeping hiui in a very hot mom (sixty-five degrees N the proper teiHratun for a bird) through the day, and then In a cool one at night a variation of, perhaps ;)U decrees in it hour. Tho best cure for the cold is to feed, in addition to their regular seed, rape and canary, and perhaps millet, a p.isto made from a hard-boiled egg and one pulverized eraeker, thoroughly mixed together, using no water in mixing, the egg supplying sufficient moisture Sometimes a bird seems lioare, and apparently has lost lu voice. This is occasioned" by over-singing; a little pure rock-candy not flavored, dissolved in the drinking-water, and a quantity of red popper put into the paste described above, will usually effect a cure. If, , however, tho cold "is allowed to remain for several days without attention or : euro, it will pass rapidly from cold to asthma, and from that to gapes, which is best described by saying that the bird looks like a little puff ball', with ' a constant panting, and UU bill almost i constantly opening; and shutting, as if to catch his breath. His food should be the same as described above, Al-o keep the bird warm stnd give, with his rape i and canary, ripe plantain, if it can be had. Every morning he should have a small toaspoonful of warm bread and milk, and now and then a little hit of sponge-cake soaked in sherry wine. I hardly think it will make tlie bird intemperate, though if von have :uiy scruples don't use the wine. Asthma for birds have this dUcase as well us the human race generally , yield to plantain and rape seed moist-1 cned with water as the sole food. Hirds troubled with a looseness of the bowels can Iw greatly relieved by placing; a rusty nail in their drinking water. Another excellent remedy will he found in common chalk; let'a mall piece be placed iMjtwecn the wire and do not feed them any green Muff. Itisal-o well to scrape the chalk quite line and scatter it with the sand in the bottom of the cage. Should the bird be troubled with costiveness, a piece of wm np-: pie, a little duckweed, lettuce, or am green food will usually afford relief. ; Most ailments of birds commence with a ; cold: keep them free from that and you 1 will have healthy birds. Oftentimes a j bird bristles up and sits moping upn j the porch, with his head under his wing, i and looks like a imff-ball. Uy watching 1 htm you can usually tell the cause and i relieve him. The cause will be often found that the bird has been neglected and not fed properly or that sufficient ; water has not been given him. If, however, it should prove that the bird has plenty of food and is perfectly regular, ' then make a chan-re in his food, taking away the seed a wf feeding the soft food as recommended for birds with colds, and perhaps, a small piece of sweet apple. Occasionally a canary is troubled with a kind of indigestion, 'which cause in-' tiaination of tin? intestines, to which young birds are more especially subject.. The symptoms are a swelling of the body, which, on blowing up the feathers, looks semi-transparent and full of red veins. The cause of this is , generally an overdose of nutrition, or bad or stale food or water; the remedy, if any there lie, is a .spare diet with a little alum or salt in the drink; oatmeal i good in this ease; if tholiowels should be much relaxed giro bruised hemp and ' maw steed. Sometimes the feathers of the bird come off; then rub the bare parts with fresh lard. Yellow gall , .sometimes makes, its appearance alniut t tho head and eye-?; this is a small ulcer the size of a hemp seed. This nuit Iw carefully cut off with a sharp penknife ; and tho place snnoinied with fresh butter; tlw bird should have fresh, nour-i iMungioml, fcneeziiig, often caused by an obstruction of the nostrils, may lo cured by passing A very fine feather through'them. Most birds shed tlwir feathers in the months of Soptenilicr and October; and, though it is ierfectly natural for them to do so, tho operation is aceonijwuiied bya slight disease. They,liotild le fed on tho joft paste; and, as tluiy are not well covered with feathers, groat care .should lie taken to keep them in a comfortably warm place, out of all draughts of air. With these precautions a bird will fully molt in from four to six week.s. Should a bird not shed Ins wing ami tail feathers readily, it is well to pull them outpulling, however, only one at a time. When a bird loses its appetite it is Well togivethoni a little hemp seed, and all tho millet seed a bird will eat. rsh beefsteak is good for a bird, as also is mustard seed, and red peppers. Sometimes the cage is in a dark corner or dismal place; if so, move him into a bright, sunny place. It is cruel to birds to hang them where the sun does not reach them. Hirds that sing at night should be moved to a dark place, or a jloth thrown over their cage until the light is put out, for if they sing all the day they need rest at night. Uirds can ho made companions of; and very lame if you feed them green hemp tprout&

It is a good idea to sow it in jJmllow earth and have it always for them. Thev will soon learn to conic out of the cage after it, when they learn that by coming out they will be led the green sprouts, for they are very fond of them. My bird is nearly lo years old, and is a sweeter cinder to-day than ever before: all owing to his good care, of course, Ojr, Jhtrmi Free Vitus. ' i-, Stalwart Rke4e Island. Rhode Island is a staunch and stalwart Republican State that has never wavered in its party fealty for twenty years, Under the Contitution of this model Republican Commonwealth no naturalized citizen can exercise the suffrage unless- he owns real estate clear of debt to the value of .-51.1 1 at least, The consequence of this Know-Nothing provision is that the majority of the naturalized citizens arc robbed of the franchise. A naturalized Voter may have double and treble the amount 'of the nrojH'ity required bt this qualification. : but if none of it i in real estate he can:u vote. Many emigrants do not ta.ke the trouble uf becoming miturarrzed. because naturalization doe not confer on ; ! them the political rights on which they ' set the moat value. According to the census taken in Rhode Idand in 1S75 there were HsG,X)o native-born inhabitants of that iState, who cast 7.o.mj , votes, or one vote for etery five native inhabitant-.. There wen- 7l,oH) inhabitants of foreign birth, who east ,,yf ' votes, or one vote for everv thirteen or fourteen fotvigu-bum inhabitants. The attention of naturalized citizens, , as well as of all lovers of political equal- ' ity, eannuot be called too oft-u to this I- iniquitous provision uf this boasted ReI publican Mate. Some of the Ustfinv taken by tin Wallace Intvstigalin: Committee pritctieally illustrates its character. Amuug the witue-ses befoie 1 the cotnmittre won two naturalized 1 citi:tens who volunteered in defen-e of 1 the Union at the outbreak of the rebel-, lion. Vet Rhode bland refuses tho right Of --mirage to the-e men, who risked their lives for their country, because they do not pushes the required amount of real e-tate. A Union ollieer, a naturalized Gentian, brought with , , him to Rhode Island, at the close of the . war, a freedinan from the routit whom i he had emphiyed a a servant. The ' Union ollieer 'cannot ote because lie doe not po-csa certain amount of Rhde Island dirt, but the negro can, : bectiuse no such test is made agttiu-t him. It is applied oitly to the hated foreigners. "I he Hon. Thomas Davis, of the city of Providence, went to Rhode Island tliirty-four years ago. became naturalised. and invested hi- money in , real estate. lie was several r t fines chosen to the State Legislature, and in lfv:i-4 he represetited" Rhode Mand in : Congres. He afterward failed in btisi-1 neas and delb erel up his property to his creditors. The gray-headed old'mnn who once helped to make laws for ! Rhode Island a well as for the whole ; country now.timU himself robbed of ; the suirrage. For thb monstrous provision the Re-, publican- of Rhode Island are alone rei sponsible. The Democrats every year make the demand for its abrogation in the State Convention, but the" Republicans obstinately refuse to concede to naturalized citizens the rights which the natives enjoy. Tho Republicans fear that a change in the Constitution admitting all citizens to equal political rights will destroy or greatlv weaken their power in tho State. A llepubliean Leg-, islature made a pretense of conceding m ' 1870 by submitting an amendment to the ', Constitution, but the Republican ioliticiaus took care that it did not receive the necessary three-fifths majority of the votes of the people of tlw State, i Thus the naturalized citizens of Rhode Island who do not posses the requisite amount of real property remain dis-i franchised to this day. The sovereign State of Rhode Island in the exercise of its power maintains this grossly par- j tial and unjust distinction Initwee'n na-tive-bom and naturalized citizens. Rhode Island has the undoubted right t to put such tests and qualifications to ! the enjoyment of the suffrage a sha j pleases, within the limits of the Constitution of the United States. The peculiar injustice of this provision consists in the distinction which it makes against naturalized citizens. Tho regulation of the suffrage is a matter which belongs to the States, and Rhode Island cannot be restrained in the exercise of this unjust power except through an amendment of the Constitution of the United States. As

long as the spirit of Know-Nothing-isni prevails among the Republicans of Rhode Island an amendment of the State Constitution is out of the question. It is well to hold tip this model Republican State frequently for tJte serious consideration of naturalized citiaens. Jlarrishurq (Fa.) Ikttriet. j To make breakfast biscuit, take a piece of risen bread dough and work tutu it one. beaten egg and 'a tablespoon-1 ful of butter, or lard and butter mixed. , When these ingredients are thoroughly amalgamated, Hour your hands i and make into balls the size of an egg. Rub a tin baking pan over with butter, , and set them in a quick oven for 20 1 minutes, when they will be ready for the table, Alwavs break them open, for to ! cut tnem would niaKo tneni totign. ' The munificence of the Duke of Norfolk as a Catholic is wonderful. It is calculated that within the past 10 vears he has applied over a million didlars to his religion. He has jut undertaken to defray the cost of a new church at Sheffield, and is about to build another al the east end of Uindon. I Oak tut editor hat be. called the news I tile?

lUir .Mai W CarrM. Considering the tr mendou efforts of the whiie-plumed knight of the bottleiKe, nv-tsted hv the cash wrun from Federal oHlee-holders, the hiss of even thoiK-md Republkaa votes kt Maine since 170 is something remarkaide. A corresjHitident of the Now York Ifernhl writinir from Augusta, Me., thus describes the methods, of Hlaino and his coadjutor? in the reeent canvass in that State: "Not all the votes which were cat for Davis were secured from love of the Republican cause or admiration of an hone-t dollar, or party prejudice, or ; fear of Democratic ascentlency. It is a shame to lie oblisud to record that there was much bulldozing of a civil-1 ized sort resorted to by wealthy firms and rich coqiorattons and manufacturing establishments upon their Hor employes. Many workmen were discharged for avowing their puqtose to vote the Greenback ticket. Many cases of this nature caa be named to the shame of the State and our New England civilization. Then the votes of many army ami navy pensioners were inlluenced by threats of the Examining Surgeoas and others that if they did not vote the Republican tieket their pensions should be withdrawn. This disgraceful appliance is thought to have added materially to the vote for Davis. The search of Congressional Committees for cases of bulldozing anil intimidating voters would be promptly rewarded by a visit to Maine. It would seem that Congress should take some notice of the threats made to tho disabled defenders of the Union, and it is understood that the case of one pensioner in Oxford County, who was cut on account of jo'miug the Greenback party, will ba presented before Congress early in tk uext session. 4 Beyond the arguments on the stump, distribution of political literature, bulldozing of employes and United States pensioners, the "Republicans employed a lever which was more powerful and effective than all the others combined, viz., money. They evidently had a large fund, and they expended it judiciously and to the best advantage. It was raised at home, and the National Committee gave permission to the State Committee to draw upon it for as large a sum as might be neceary to buy the State. All the Republican State' and National officials were assessed five per cent, on their salaries, while all the candidates were mercilessly bled to raise an immense corruption 'fund. One of the mail-route agents on the train from Hangor to Portland was assessed $42.50 on his salary of S."0, and I suppose he paid it, for lie is still running on the train, and that would sot be possible had he refused. A country postmaster in this district, with a salary of ;?t 5, wa forced to disjrorgc $2.25 as his share of the fund. Voters were bought in this city like sheep in the shambles, and the'sarac was true in the other cities and many of the larger towns in the State. The prices paid for votes varied, ami was somewhat smaller than ia former years. I am told that $5, 10, $15 and ?r20 were paid, and in some instances $25 and $30, and even as high as $45 were paid for a single vote in the close districts. The buying was carried on to some extent , on'both sides, but the Republicans had a fund fifty times as large as their op- i ponents and easily outstripped them in this race. It is an" encouraging thought that after next year, if the biennial , Constitutional amendment be adopted, as now appears to be the case, the i moral sense of the people will not be I offended by the disgraceful spectacle of vote buying but once in two years." 1

Gen. Chalmers te Gen. Weedferd. Gen. Chalmers. Representative in Congress from Mississippi, has published the following letter in reply to Gen. Woodford's interview m the trial of Gully for the murder of Chisholm : Mv intention hs ust been directed to aa article lu a Kejraulieim newspaper csllioK ljtiHr,SliiKU'i.m or maimer to answer the. stHtetiHint tt tien. Wixxltonl ni to tlie trial of Gully lor tlie nmnlerel MLs Chl-Uotni. 1 take itea.ttirc in i,Hj1iiy, h.h the statement . ot lion. Woodford ami UiuconiiueiUi of the He-, iMtbllt'tm tressinlt,re mot KtariUuar In. iitcatiuii.4 of the tatetit to which the JteimMIcan iturtv U pn-paml to p in the destniettiin civil liberty. Gen. woodford state that th Jury wire fairly drawa and selected; tliat, it tlw Jntlss erred, it was aain-t the prisoner; that tlwIM-trk't-AMor-iiev had prepartit Id ca- well and proecHtcd it with ulillitv.and that le wax a-t-ed in the pmseentlon by JuiuteMorrfs.oaeof tJ erimliml lawyw li hml ever wet. Mrs. Chisholm swore that she saw tlw prisoner sIkhH her daughter, but in this she wa aatlt; contradicted by a number of uniniiK'aclHtd, witmwsef. Mrs. Chiflwlm wm wore likely' to liMve bcc e-xcltcd at the time than the other wlteef, ad tlterefore 1ft) nble to rive a correct teent of the fact. The jury, who, by law, are the ri u!le of the fact, betieved tne other witnesses awt found Gully otjciMy. For thl verdict 0n. WoolfOnl viliaeethe Jury awltheeountiy.and tlie Kewiblican papew ask that a isearth be made through the stati Mtes? to see if wmie lnt-aiH can not be found wheM'byttio NMioncan protect it citieens; in other word", whether tlw Nation can not take awns from a Mtadtslppl lK-mocrat, when chnnred with kllltntr a Kepubliean, the riht of trial ty Juo1. lids iihj,, which our aneestornheld most s.ncnjd.eniitledtheprisoner toRtrlftlbvjur-f the vicinage, hhiJ it was held to be better tlmt ntnety-nlne jrniltymea ahould oscape than one innocent wan , be punished. It is now n-ed, that this right shall he taken from MtaUaipnl, and, utead, when one is chanted with erlme.he shall be tried by n Jiuyot l!en. Wondford'a, who go down to register a verdict agreed on before the trial. A new bnteh (4 reconstructed laws are demandetl, under which tho bloody scene of judicial murder under JeKreys and fmtiM tnuvliH iv-eiinrted. This ia tlie fate the South may cxiH?ct from tho Hepublican party, and yet li i denounced for being (Wild against it. t our truly, Orkney Spriae. SiUcmter). 'I'wo jiirls have lieen scalped lately hv their h.tlr eateliin in tiiaelitiiery TliiWt the lhistou Com' mcrrtttlllttlhtiit. does modern invention not onlv diiniuisdt the opportunities of labor "but actually brin to rah the poor Indian of his birthright.

Wh, six mmiUis after the gtiratio of Mr. Hay, ike pK4kton was made in the eefewwus tnM ifc Republican platform for 1S60 would be essentially the same as in l7t, l$7i ami 18S.fw members of either party Mere ready to beliere wkt then seemed to the mmc ef political observers ahogcether improbable. The Southern poli?v of tfce Administration had been iiroclaimed and establ'shed, and was already in tk full tide of successful operation. Peace reigned ia the section which had so long been an ntter stranger to R, The two races, so long driven ajmrt by partisnn prejudice and intrijguc, we're gradually drawing together on the basis of a common intercut, l'n?erity, so long a dream, -wa gradually becoming a l)Jcss(i ' reality. The 'general improvement in everything iK'rtaininjr to the public welfare which had followed the collapse of carpet-bag domination and the cessation of Federal interference was so apparent that even the bitterest Republican organs and orators were , compelled to t acknowledge it. ' "The outrage mill" had ceased to ginU the color line' had ceased to be a. line of battle: and the 1 bloody shirt," like Othello, found its occuj nt ion rone. No wonder, t hen, : that to the careless eye the old is.-ue w Inch had divided and distracted the country for many years as dead and ! buried beyond the possibility of re.-ur-reetbn, "No wonder the popular mind i yielded to the ;deaing delusion that a new iuc inu. and would be brought forward for tlw next Presidential contest. Hut those who thus llattered themsclres did not duly con-ider the origin, hilry and spirit of the Republican party. That jtrt was born of sectional agitation, consummated and consolidated its pmver in a seeliomd war, and math- -eetional iealotisie and lilreds ;

the pivot uf its subsequent sueeees, IV ? ...... .1! V- .1 ...... To sink secti'Mialisiu in Nationalism was I therefore fatal to Republican proRets, stitu tins js the mam, U not the oulv.

rca-oii for tln relent and praetieally that the present Ohio caaipnign exhibt;uaniimus tjpositioni)f the Republican j its the most striking picture i onr hkpm to the Stintheru jMdley of a Re-1 tory of Federal ofiicials workiag like u' ficati Adininisvration. i"hat npwsi-1 beavers for party emk. The AdniinistUm. from the moment it was clearly ; tration that has talked loudesi about developed, pointeil tuuuitakably to ," correcting the evil has ikmo and k doing the result now manifest "to the dull- nio-t to strengthen and extcml it. Sec-

et compreheu-ion. the Republiean ; lea.h r.. before Haves had hanllv wanned bis stolen seat, detenninetl to revive the old i;-ue for lisu. It was preuiptlv dug up from its new-made graw, ha- been imltintrioiisly cultivated and vigorously pushed ever " since, and tu-day K ia tlsesame agi:a-s,aiveattituln it ha" id wats maintained on the eve of a National "cleetioit. Every Republican State Contention held during the present season ha emphatically indorsed it without iidienting voice; even- Republiean journal has accepted it with more or les enthuiam, and not a single prominent Republican, so far as we are aware, lias ventured an expression oi There are other questions of vastly greater importance and urgency, but these hare been ignored and thntt ' out of siirht. leaving the Southern mteslion to ntonoiwlize" the iolitical Held, Tho Republiean party has declared that , the settlement effected through the hhexpected conservatism of Haves shall not stand; that in event of a Republiean victory next year it shall he, in one way or another, torn up, nnd the car-pct-bajr-bayonet machinery ia one way or another're-cstablished. The Republican test of Southern loyalty is now what it always has been and always will ; be: voting the Republican ticket Though the Democracy have endeavored to secure for the coming straggle ( an issue less demoralizing to our pel- j it ics and less dangerous to the reviving i business of the country, they have no reason to fearso far as chances of success arc concerned the one which their opponeuts have forced upon them. It embodies, indeed, their strongest isitkvn for attack as well as for defense. The South, as it wa? from 1S65 to 1877, and as it has been from 1S77 to 1379, furnishes ample political capital for the Democratic side of the camiaign. The contrast between the results of twelve vears of RejiuWican rale and two years of liemocratic rnle concetling all the J alleged deficiencies of the latter is of corjse is likely to stay la IM CO WH .

itself an argument which no amount of j ;)o, lSTii, he then lH-ing75 awl she Siyears soihistry awl falehKxl can overme. iM AWHxts history in the aariThe Aiuenean iieoplo. in 1S6, ilcehleil ; ta, -.j-.tn- fj U iiuU iicrhain wkh-

hy a larw niavority that the Southern ont ,)anlHei t. rcconk of the nH)liey of the ReiMibliean party was a , tiofl mX tmlition has it tWre is to he stupendous and disgraceful failure. J w anothfn U i curnntlv stateil wkhThey will rcarHrin that dwision by j eontmdicfioM that Me years ago merensed majority m 1880. IV Liwhad a vision in which eight men shirt banner destined to be the Re- f MoQt !H,fore h jKxrly impress publican shrowl and this tine i ..wr wkiefc !. W ever recant

-Ahen the present lVfe was a Car- ? jnt hkely anil rea-onabk a the dinal he cherfeheil the hleaof publishing seventh, awl already lJlns a Catholic jonrnal tl-nt skmhl he an or- ginning Ui wark this and that i as gHnforhisehureh, awl that could he thevK'timxtcon.pie. JltJ" read hv all the iKWk of Europe ami . name wn. dlnta, and she has leen America in their motlier language. Since -eeesively Mrs. JW his elevation to the rontificWs he to Mrs. f arrow, Mrs. V ""Jr exerted himself to start this newspajier, Mrs. Pratt, and Mrs. Abbott. In every and now announces that iH first number J Iirtnnw, save the ttrst, she has inarnei will be Isstictl next month. It will le i widowers, son? irf them with a gowl printed in H'vcn different langnagcs: k j number of chdjlren, anil on one occa- ! .m .? ' .iuLi -...i ,,,wi ! Min in herearlv inarried lifoshewentto

TVlII lliV "H.S If 1Z n.mtlVitl mm rirv" ipiesiiuns OI I lie , nwi "mivijm.. n--rescut the opinions of tlie Hoi V See. The compositors are to Imj tbedeaf ami dumb pupils in tho asylums of Rome. AlinxrtHle will le the general SuiMTintcndent, ami the Pope is anxious that a Cardinal should Imj at tho head of thecHhtorial departnu'tit. The novel pajier will start with 42,tXX) Mibserilwrs.i. Very few of this nuinlHT aw Italiass. .t. . ...i k..:.ii.. ....... The dtill'cst times are Imtween seasons, wnen me jtin-s nav nrnm wear. When it istoo co.,1 for asumtuer riif ami too warm tor a tii suit.

The PrethfenTs Example ami Ife Effect. In tkif tiw ttmfi in Okie to hp ttt the Kepnblieim ennrnw TrtMmt Have ha Yiomtotl tJwt lottor ami Jo irk of hkofttcbl kUorM and "spoctnl orders" repectinr CirU-Srrk wfam and th cow that ought to b ymnmi, by Fedend oASciak in referen to eloetxms. He has repcolodiy ooclnnd vnot Mich oftciak should noMain from aciirt prth:iMMio in politienl oontNta, and now he furnkkos the bright nndthming xam4e of the CnieC MagitrMt swingmg rmMtd tH circle, makinc uoltticnl Ieechs and throwintg the whole Mfneneeof hkmKttion into a State emmvasti. Is it likely that Government ofnciaks and inploves will my muck altentkm to the Proriileat's "views or to the otdcrs of members of ku Cnbint toochitt their poKtknl eondnct when they have so dj4infubd an example to the contrary before their eyes? Tho President sys owe thine on this snbjoet and evidently course shows what h mens. Ilentnnti tliat every Hndical ottce-hokter mnt do wht he can for the porty" that while a few smooth pbuxudets abont Civil-Srvic reform may be nocery to tickle the public ear'now ami then and to win the re)HUUkn of 44 high moral ideas' for the Administration, he does not intend thot they should he very sternly construed. Snch tergiversation would he contemptible if tho President were made ef "kerner stwff than he is, for it would hare been unexpected and without excuse; but in his cas-e it k exactly what might have been nntkiwted. He kt an amiable and plastic man, without anv strong original opinions, and incapable of a clear, self-marked course. He is a partisan in politics; not of the bold, designing type, but such as k easily wielded and directed by others. Under the influence of a sharp, adventurous politician, like Sherman, he can ho made a pliant toul for party purposes.

r.tnt t;irouit some suck means, nndoubtedlv, he lcs been induced to take his present course, nnd to overlook not onlv his own stultification, but the fact rctary,Shnean and some other mem bers oi tm ttotnet liare otowa their horns for the beneit of tlie Ohio Re- , publicans, the Federal onlce-hohkrs in the State are putting m their best licks for the same patriotic object, and now the President beads the noble band by j a jmrsonal appeal. Thk is Civil-Service t reform with a vengeance, but is about as near consistency a the Kepublfcan managers generally get when partisan ' inmieuccs interfere. , Hc opening of the Cincinnati Ex- ; )osition and the numerous questions 1 now pending connected with our industries aSbrued ample opportunity for ' the President to aiidress the public on , sreneral totiics of interest and in keepng with the dignity of the office ho holds and hk iKonounced views. In allowing himself to he dragooned into partisan speech-making he has acted weakly and foolishly; hat then how could he jo back on hk old friends in Ohio, whose courage and rascality ttiatcriallv helped to make him what be k the President of a loug-sufer-ing and dkguated people. 51. Leuit JttepubUemm. The Xest Married el We-mea. Renjamin Ablxrtt, one of our old citiL'tis. dieil in thl town .Saturday lat ht zet tin1 eighty-seconsl year of his age. lie wa a m'nlww of the celebrated Kev. Benjamin AblnHt, the great 3Iethoilist revivaHt of the early part of this centurv, ami cane lo this State front Xew Jefsev when a vonnr man, ami settled i in tlie ' Neck," east of this town, where his active life was nostiy ski. wnt the notalile feature in Mr, Abbott's otherwise uneventful life Is the remarkalde fact of being the seventh hnband of Ms widow, who survives hint. This mach-talked-of and ninch-imMk-hed event (for it went the rounds of the press of fa B f) '. nation), when he for the s-eoonH ami or the seventh tune inrwen peiora : j j .mjiLilir. rJ k Hl.Hllur ttt (HMIuuoms sbe was to make. The eisrhth H a -------- - - . . - 4i ST- rttlll. T r . . -v. w--.-children and raised thent. She nver hal anv children of her own. All her life has lieen spent in this vicimtv, and all her husbands were buried br the same undertaker. Smyrmt (Itol.) Times. The State Normal Schcxd, recently emlowcil and organised by the Texan Legidature, will give free tnitkm to 71 pupils. So small a number for hi large a State, w ill doulaless nnrtce great com- , mJ, ,1 9Mijtiijt JmJ gc J-X, " 1 -