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CITIZENS. BANK ~ CITIZENS ; S LIGONTER,| : 'INDIANA. , - .~‘\ 3 Y.v ' First-Class Notés Wanted. ~ . STRAUS BROTHERS. ‘AL M. RETTERBAND, Notary Public. - Ligouier, Ind:, May 5, 18_7;._'5-26' : T JAMESs 8. DENNY, ‘Attorney and Counsellor at Law. i- & r Office in'the Court House, | ; LOCALRION, .t -40 - s IND. 815 } L. K CQVERL, & = {ttorncy-at-Law & Netary Public. e - Garrpeti, indiana. 3 Officein the Seeley Block, west side Main Street. S -3, W. GREEN, :;?. 1 ! ) Justiceof the Poace & Collection AL, ) : oy Office—Second Story, Landon’s Brick Block, s MHIQONIER, - INDIANA. @ " Bp. C. VANCAMP, - . ATTORNEY AT LAW, : ! pLigonier, :: : Indiana. " Special attefition given to.collections-and convey- . - ancing, and the writing of deeds, mortgages, and’ s gountracts. Legal business promptly attended to. -~ Office over Jacobs & Goldsmith’s Cash-Store, 9-50: ]l.l(i..Zl)lNll'}_ll.?lA;V,' ~ Attorney at Law & Notary Public, B R " Office; over Gelr‘.,\er‘s Hardware, .. Cavin Stréet. -: : Ligonier, Indiana., *, ®°r Janmary 7, 1875..937 - - N E.MNISELY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, R S EIGONIER, - - ilﬂ’l)lAN.fl. rE—Ofificeon secuuv\‘llxloopof.Lauélon‘s Blbck.‘ 7-2 7 WM. B, McCONNELEL, Attorney at Law and Cir- ;- cuit Prosecutor, b ', GARRETT, .0 @ @ INDIANA. . All professional business promptly and satisfac--;L“i)_xfil_\“uucud\:d to. . - 9-30 I ALBERT-BBANTA, i Justiceof the Peace & Uonveyancer. DIGONIER, INDIANA. - Special attention given o conveyancing andcol- ) !ecéiouﬂ. Deeds, Bonds and Mo,rt'guges drawn up,. and all Jegal business ajtended to promptly auei i /agcurately,, Office over Straus & Meagher’sstore, e ° . Mgy 15187315-8-8 LT R WAKEMAS, ‘ i’f%n*ﬂ ’&J +3 fh P\n - 'TsuranceAp’t &Justics of thePeacs,

1! "KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. - o Office with A. A. Chapin,’ Mitchell Block. will regeive subseriptions to Tur NaATIONAL BasNER, ‘ZD'.R. R.DEPPELLER, : y AL UROSCOPIC AND ]C('JJI:JCTIC . Pl Yy sIC i A N. Ofice over Cunningham’s Drug Store, east side ot Caviu Sireet, Ligouter, Indfana, - 10-2 A , .W, CRUM, L Paysician and Surgeon, © LIGONIER, - @ INDIANA, | , i (fice over-Baum’s Groge. ¥ Store, v n3-ly. . S .W. EaEER, - Dh»fﬂ. 1 3 ,‘l{l @ O Paysician and Surgeon, | EIQON..ER, - = = ='d 5 END,y | Willpromptly gttend all calls intrustedto him. { Office and residence on 4th Street. 1 | -0 . BE.TEAL, 3 L 4 D.E NTS T, - ) | ipeE=mmee Rooms over LE. Pikes Grocerv, i ,v«".,v - Corner ofdain sndMitchellStreets, SUYYY Y Popposise the Post Offee. Kendallwvilie, Ind. .#-All work warrsnted. <&l : //; Kendallville, May 1, 1874. =y : 3 ? Kl A. MOVER, - | ® (Snccessoryo W. L. Andrews,} - N T o ANTT QM SURGEON DENTIST, . ~KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA, .~ ¥ LlQ’JlD:Nit.mus Oxide Gasadministeredfor the \ painlgsz extraction of teeth. Allworkiwariranted. Examiogtions free. L@ Office, Second |Story, Mitchell Block. - 1 ey

gy Lanvhing Gas ! : ‘,,‘;}%j‘;»gr( Lal‘lhm“’ i o YR PANLESS EXTRACTION Bass N\ TEETH V. Gants” Ofice, : . \/ ,‘ L h Fz’ll;'ny;Te;;;l—a Specialty Ligounier, Ind;, Nov. 11, 1875 L el S eb T . 3 !&A s - TEEGARDEN HOQOUSEH,

¥ Laporte, Indiand. V. W.AXTELL, t- :.. : : Proprietor. _ Laporte, April 5, 1871. 3 L TSTOR AT THEHR BRICK XELLY HOUSE < KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. ' NEW COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK Hotel,only ten rods trom the L. 8. & M. S. R. R. Depot,and fourequaresfromthe G, R.R R.— Only five minutes wallk to any of the princi&)&l bu-sinesshonsesofthecity.-Traveling menandstraners will find this a first-clase houre. Fare $2 per ﬁay. : J. B. KELLY, Proprietor, Kend?Yrille, Aug. 3. 1870.-14 : . PHILIP A. CARR, : AU C‘gl‘lfO N EDBER, Offers his services to the publicin general. Terms moderate.” Orders may be left at the ghoe store of P. Sisterhen.. w Ligonier, JanuaryB,”73-31 |, * | . . L CL. V. INKS) ? DEALERIN MONUMENTS, _+ Vanlts, Tombstones, AND BUILDINGISTONES “i. - LIGONIER, IND. e . *Aprii 12, 1871..50 =g : I SRR SRR 'i', T P e T CONCOORD & CATAWBA WINE,

e keep sonstantiy on hand and sell in large or | small quandities, to suit customers, / Wine of Our Own Manufuctare, - Pare — Nothing but’ the Juice of ‘ the Grape. ’ fAvp . ; . SACK BROTHERS. - Ligonier, July 8,"71.-tf . o -, Winebrenner & Hoxworth, - =1 HOUSE, BIGN AND QBENAMENTAL 1 PAINTERS, o Grainers, Glaziersand Papér-Hangers. ' ‘Bhop near.corner of Fodrth and Cavin Sts.; oppo--2 site Kerr’s Cabinet Shop. : ‘ Ligonier, - - » - Indiana, ——— > B. R. SHEFFER, - | 4 ‘ Yot : 13ven 1 ‘ : House Painter & Grainer, s prepared 4o do all work inhislinein ﬂrst-c#asa T ! styl’e and at réasonable rates. . g O GRAINING MADE A SI’ECIAL',I‘Y‘,‘_ - wad executed in exact imitation of the natural . wood., Examineour work.' Sho, on Mitchell St., ~rearof Baker's tin-shop, Kendallyille,lnd. [6m6 - W.A. BROWHN, - Hﬁt;lifactnrer of and Delerin all kindeof = : L e E s . FURNITURE, BPRING BED BOTTOMS, - WILTOW-WARE, @ e b b wed Sit famiian.

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BANKING HOUSE ; N e B L N Conrad’s New Brick Bioek, LIGONIER, INDNA. .Moneyloauedml long and short time. : Notes discounted at reasangblé ratg—; : * Monies received on deporit and interest allowed on specified time, * v . Exchange bought and sold, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principalcities.of Europe, 8-2 | TO THE FARMERS: &’OUv will please take noiice that T am still en%laged in buying’ wheat, -for which. I pay the highestmarket price. = - T [f you do mot find me on the street, call before selling, at my Banking Office, in Conrad’s Brick Block. : ; . SOL.,'MIER. Ligonier,lndjans, May Tth,lB74.—tf N 2 Y man ! Farm For Sale ! I desiré-to sell my farm of Q¥ acres; 50 acres under cultivation, and all under fence.. Contains a rmall frame house and stable. Good water, &c., an orchard of 100 fruit trees. Location—in Sparta township, 33 miles from Ligouvier. and 24 miles gouth of the Rochester Mills. Wil sell for - &30 PER ACRE. The owner can be fonnd om the premises, - Address ¢ .. .W.RJHICKS. | . Oct ‘2l, IBTS-Ty, . . Ligonier, Ind, ° g RO AN 6 HIGGINBOTHAM & SON, . o e TN ‘ o 5 7 (G NN S AN N / 0.. (i ﬂé’i“l\ . C",.:‘j “j.t.':\ / (A% 0 @ 2 ) | ff yEmed Xe s : | ‘gﬂ_ 4w oy | oS o .‘ 1@ e‘i;’-“ i 411}” - G ~:,]I . \“."’S“ % L ~\‘ ) ﬁ:.‘\.’/v . L\ ; o [Ty . NS ;!»féfu HL'.’} A b TN Cg"’ 0W027 o WATCH-MAKERS, LR = dve L] 48Uk T o TJEWERELRERS, LI ~and dealers in— . £ Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, -: e e Fancy Goods, - . REPAIRING s Neatly and promptly executed and warranted. BT Ageats for Lezarus & Morriy’ celebrated Spectacles. . - U ) . gFSign of the Big Watch, oppositethe Banner ‘Block, Ligonier, lud. - Sep. 80, °75-3b TR T 0 DR: GEQC.-CLEIS J T R'; AT 3 5Ae . % .

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. Goshen, Violett House, Monday, 224 November, [ . Ligonier, Lijgonier House, Tuesday, November 23th. SR : Kendallville, Kelley HTouse,Wednesday,24th November. it v LaGrange, Brown’s Hotel, Thursday, November 25th. * e ‘ . Visits will be maderegularly for years ? Residencennd Laboratory: WAUKEGAN, JLLINOIS. 2 : : 99-t1 - e e e .e e ..e e e DR. DUFFE. i+ M 5.39 Kentucky Avenue, Indiznapolis, Ind,; ~ Cures: sl forms of ¥rivate and Chroule Disesses A& rex sy edncated aod fegatly Gualified rnmk‘;g}, has ben longer estabiished, and most’ successful, ag his extensive | poactice will prove. Age with exdpeﬂg-oe, ean be relea S ?u-nnwﬁdbw#ﬂumml’u emauded (1l cuyes, . r-,ﬁporma&or ey Sexual Debility nd Impotency,as the result of efis-ssusE ta . youth; sexual eXessses in maturer years; or other causes, _ producing some.of the folicwing effects: NERVOUSNES SEMINAL EWMISEIOND, DiMMISS OR £IGHT, DEFECTIVE MEMORY, . PUYSICAL BECAY, AVERSION TO BOCIETY OF PEMALES, CONFUo e e | mansusly cued. mﬁﬁm Lo for 2 smss ¢t whiy may naers, ko, may Bot, Whyy the tmped . informesion for th steRaTRGy oF thoss contempiating mar.

e REE ‘ v o Sk Parisian Ueleclive ; ' Vs Sy i 1 Glivil ULUULL Y : A~DESPERATE DEED . : 3 BY v I : ERSKINE BOYD, AUTHOR OF “THE STOLEN CHILD,”- “DRIVEY - From Homg,” &ec., &c. 5 “ .. CHAPTER L. . /77 ; THE CRIME DISCOVERED. On Tuesday, the 6th day of March, 1862, the day following Ash Wednesday, in the _above-mentioned year, five women, belonging to the villa;:e of La Jonchere, appeared. at the police-stdtion of Bougival, a’ small town near Paris, and situated on the banks of fhe Seine. Sy

-—H;;'i';lé-;i:éked to see the commissary of police, they informed him’that one of their neighbours, a widow named Lerouge, who

inhabited singly a detatched cottage just on the outskirts of the village, had not been seen by any of its inhabitants for two en-| tire days, and notwithstanding theix repeat- | ed endeavours they had failed to gain admittance. . e Ay The shutigrs being up at each of the| windows, and the; doors being bolted and | barred, they had found it equally impossible to find even a crevice which might have given them a peep at the interior. | This strange silence, this sudden disappear- | ance, had caused them great uneasiness and, | fearing a crime, or at least an accident, they ¢ begged that the police would kindly break l open the door and relieve 'them from their present anxiety. : o e Bougival is nng\g'reeabl@ sort: of place, overflowing on surhmer Sundays with Paris’| folk, who have been pent up at the desk or | in the' counting-house, or kept prisoners be- | hind the counter, on week-days. “Small misdemeanours” are of frequent occurrence | on these festive occasions; but anythingin | the shape of crime had hardly ever been | heard of.” Therefore the commissary of police of this peaceable little town refused at first to accompany his five lady visitors, and somewhat pooh-poohed their soligitations. However, fiiding them to be so evidently in earnest, and seeing no other way to rid himself of {blir presence, the wearied magistrate at last gave in, and, sending for ‘ the brigadier of gendarmerie, two police-| officers, and a locksmith, set off for the.| cottage of the Widow Lerouge, the five wo- b men leading the way, e 1 La Jonzhere is an' insignificant hamlet, | situated on the declivity of “the hill, which | overlooks the Seine between Malmaizon and Bougival. - A steep path, unconnected Awith thé embankment and high-road, takes you

to it by a short cut, but the little procession, with the gendarmes at its head, followed the road by the embankment, and after a

sharp walk of about three-quarters of an hour’s duratifin, halted befere: a hitbitation of an unpretending yet respéatable appearance.; . . - ‘ This house, or rathier cottage, had probably been built by some retired tradesman, fond of “an open view,” for all the {rees had been carefully cut down, and. any intrusive ivyor other creeping plant as assiduougly banished. . . The cottage consisted of tw# large rooms ‘on the ground floor, with an altic or so above. Around it was a neglected garden, badly protected from marauders by a stone wall of about a yard jn heiglit, which in some places waf crumbling into ruin. A wicket gate with'an iron latch opened into the garden. ) ¢ . “'This is the place,” said the women. - The commissary of police stopped at the little wicket gate and turned round to his men. During their walk their suife had been considerably increased by all the idlers of the neighborhood, and now consisted of about forty persons, all in a very inquisitive and talkative condition. “ ket no one enter -the garden,” said the commissary. :

- And 'to enforee his orders, he placed the two gendarmes before- the gate, while he #advanced to the house, accompanied by the brigadier of gendarmerie and the locksmith. First he knocked loudly with his loaded cane several times at the front door, then at all the shutters. After each blow he placed his ear to the wood and listened attentively. Hearing no sound or movement in answer, He turned toithe lo¢ksmith. “ Force the lock,” he szid. , % . The workman unfastened his bag .and took out his tools. He had just introduced one of his picklocks into'the keyhole, when a great uproar burst from the group of idlers behind. = -

A boy, playing with ene of his ¢comrades, had picked up'a large key in the diteh by the roadside,.and, pushed by a dozen officious hands, presented it in tiinmpl to the commisgary. ; : : The *key, on being tried was found to be that of the front door; and as it swung back on its'hinges, the commissary and the locksmith glanced uneasily at one another. “This looks very suspicious,” murmured the. brigadier, ds he entered the house, whilst the crqwd, with difficulty held in check by the gendarmes, stamped with impatience, craning their necks and crawling along the wall, in their vaii endeavors to see or hear what was going on within. . Those who had fuspected foul play were, unfortunately, not deceived in their conjecture, for the practiced eye of the commissary detected the awful presence of crime tlllg moment he placed hig-foot on the threshold. : The disorder that reigned in the room they entered, denounced with a dismal eloquence, the traces,of its footsteps. Chairs, tables, a - chest of drawers, and two large trunks were overturned, and thrown pellmell on one another. =~ ; 5

-In the second room-the confusion wag, if posgible, still worg® It seemed as if ‘the handof a madman had taken a wild pleasure in tossing everything to right and left, Near the fireplace, her face in the midst of the ashes of tge burnt-out logs, lay the corpse of the Widow Lerouge ; so near, in fact, that one of her cheeks had absolutely been scorched by the heat and a portion of: the long, gray hair consumed, though by gsome miracle the éré had not communicated with any portion of the unfortunate woman’s dress, - ’ ! “The cowardly dogs!” murmured the brigadier of gendarmerie. ¢ Couldn’t they have robbed 'without murdering the poor woman?” AR : - ' “ But where has she been struck ?” asked the c,ommissar}r. “1 don’t see any (;Jlood,’,’ ~ “Here, sir)® answered the gendarme ; % just between fhe shoulders. T'wo steady blows and no mistake. I’d wager my next month’s pay that she hadn’t time to utter even a-groan.” ; ! He bent over the ‘bhody, and touched it with Lis hand. ! i

" 4 Bhe's as cold as marble” he continued, as he proceeded with his exrmination; %ynd if my experience goas for anything, mors than one 72y and night have elapsed sines the poor cxen' re got her death-stroke.” The com: iuary shrageed his shonlders, and, producicy his writing implements, placed them on a corner of the table, .and proceeded to dyaw up the necessary judicial report. i B i : “It's no usz making long speeches, or wasting onr time in suppositions,” said he to the brigadier ; “we ean do that when we have discovered the agsassing. All we lave to do at present,’is to inform the justice of the peace and the mayor of the facts in the case, ‘The next, to start for Paris, and present this letter at the office of the publie prosecutor. Before two hours have élapsed, the examining magistrate may be here. Tn the meantime I w?ﬁl‘ make a provigional inquest, and endeavor to gain gome additional evidence." : Sy o - “Am I to take the letter ” inguired the brigadier. s Lt “qNo; gend one of youwr men, I shal want you here to keep guck the erowd, and ﬁ;:g me the witnesses 1 may require. I shall leave everyiling -as yon now see if, and take np my giarters in the front room A gendarme was ot onee starfed for the

“LIGONTER, NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1875.

whence did she come ? “What was her oc‘cupation ? How did she live—and upon (what? What were her habits—her conduct—her acquaintances? Had she ‘enemies ¢ Was she migerly ? Had she money, _or was it reported Abe had money ? r f These were thedpiqhiiries that it was the 1 duté)\)f the commissary of police to make, !in pursuance of the Hrench law. ! But the witnesses, though numerous, ‘gave but little information. Pt : The depositions of the neighbors were empty, incoherent, and unsatisfactory. Nobody knew anything of the victim; she was ‘an entire stranger to the place. A |gardener’s wife, who had been friendly with the Widow Lerounge, and -a milk-woman, whom she dealt with, were the only people }who could give any information of a pre‘cise and tangible natare. . Lo

At last, after three weai'y hours of questioning and eross-questioning, after having listened to all the vapid gossip of the village, received the miozt conteadictory evidence, and heard the most ridiculous tittletattle, the following confained the only reliable statementsignthered after o much difficulty by the commisgary of police.

- CHAPTERIL SEARCHING FOR A CLUE.

| Two years before, at the commencement lof 1860, the woman Lerougg had arrived at | Bougival with a large van fall of furniture, 'clothes and other property.- She'stopped jat a small inn, where she took up her guar- | ters for the time being, informing the peoIple that she.intended settling in the neigh- | borhood,.and at once set about finding a | house. This cottage beihg according to her |tastes, she had taken it at the yearly rental ;of thirty pounds, payable every six months, land in advance, but refused a lease, al|though offered at more advantageous £25 R AR S R ied l - The agreement being drawn up, she had entered the same day, after having spent Iﬁ\‘re pounds in repairs, e | She was a woman of "about fifty-four or |fifty-five years of age, well-preserved and {enjoying - robust health. Nobody knew {why she had settled herself in a place ;whefe she was astranger. It was sup{posed that she had come from Normandy, | because in the mornings she wore linen ' caps, common to the women of that province. This rather homely sort of .cap was, however, discarded in the afternoong, when. the widow burst into bloom in the shape of very bright-colored dresses, gaudy headgear, and showy jewelry. ‘ T In all probability she had come-from ‘some naval port, f(Jl: allusions to the sea | and ships were of constant occurrence in ther conversation. - : . | She had a dislike of speaking of her hus‘band, who had died, she said,in a ship--1 wreck; but upon this subject she had never ' been heard to enter'into any detail. - Once ‘only she had said to the milk-woman, in the presente of three otber persons, “Never was there a woman more unhappy in her married life than T was.” i

On another oceasion shehad said,“Novelty alone pleases the men. My husband got tired.of me after the first year” * Widow Lerouge had the reputation of being comfortably off, if not rich. She was ‘also generous with her money. Had once lent a woman of Malmaison sixty franes to enable her to pay her rent, and afterwards refused. repayment. Another time shie had’advanced two hundred francs to a fishegman of Port Marly. She loved good living, ordered her wine by the dozen, constantly .gave excellent dinners to her friends, and was foud of patronizing them. When complimented on-being rich - was never known to deny it. Was often heard to say, “ I have nothing in {he funds, but I have all I want. If I wished for more, I could-have it” , ; St ‘ " Apart from what has been ‘menﬁohe?l

above, she never allowed the slightest allugion to escape her concerning herszell or lier past life. At night she burricaded her house with bolf and bay, as if it had been a fortrgss, and never went out after sunsets It was Said she hubluelly drank too much at her dinner, and generally went to bed iminediately afterwards.,” - g It was very seldom any strangers visited her. Four or five tinies a lady and a young man were seen to enter the cottage,-and on

one oceasion two gentlemen—one very old and wearing ‘several orders; the other young, and evidently.“a great swell.” These last had come in a handsome carriage. i - . . A pork-butcher of Bougival, in pecuniary difficuliies, had been known to propose marriage to ber, but had -been summarily dismissed,” with. the observation that she had had one husband, which was quite sufficient, and - that she was by no means disposed to repeat the experiment. - . Neverthelesg, on -several occasions men were seen to call on her. =At first, a young Bamhaving the appeéarance of a railway guard ; then, a. tall, dark, elderly. man, in

i?x blouse, and of a ginister and disagreeable laspect. After the incident of the pork- | butcher, the villagé gossips put these men ]down as the widow’s admirers. . v ‘ Whilst the commissary was - collecting Ithis- evidence and putting it to paper, the i examiniﬁg magistrate arrived. He brought { with him the chief .officer of the detective | police, accompanied by one of his agents. - Monsieur Daburon, the examining magisItx:afe‘, was at this time about thirty-eight years of age. In figure he was tall and well-made-; and, notwithstanding a certain Icoldness and hauteur in manner, with a ! gentie and melancholy expression of faces | This melancholy’ had remained indelibly marked on his features after a severe‘illIness, which two years beafore had nearly proved fatal to him. oy Se 0 | He had held his-present important posi- | tion since 1859; and had rapidly acquired a {brilliant reputation. Haid-working, patient, land endowed w'th asort of subtle common {senge, he conld - ravel ihe most tangled . skein in the most puzating las ease, and in {the inidst of a thousand threads pick out | the right one. e ; | With so many rare qualifies, he, however,

hardly seemed fitted by nature for his terrible office. He never condemned without a shudder, mistrasting his own judgment, and fearing to be led away in spite of himgelf by the extent of the authority placed in his hands. . : ; _The chjef of the detective police was no other than the celebrated Gevrol, who has played so often a.prominent part in the criminal dramas of our time. A very able man, with one fault, an obstinate persistericy whether right or'wrong,in his own ideas. He never confesses himself wrong, and,the scent onee lost, stubbornly refuses to retrace his steps to take up another which a subordinate might have discovered. With this exception, he is the beaw ideal of a police officer —cool and courageous, gifted with a herenlean strength, notwithstanding his meagre appearance, and ever ready to confront,a danger, and arrest—often single-handed—-the most desperaté criminals. But his special peculiarity, his glory, his trinmph, is an extraordinary memory for faces. A face once seen by him is never forgotten. In the most nnlikely places, under the

most incredible disguises. he never fails to recognize it. This remarkable and unerring precision, he explajns, is ~due to his never troubling himse]* about any other part of a man’s face but the eyes. He could remember a glance, or® detect a look, when Ithe other features oftem escaped his memtory. To quote an example: A few weeks {before the oceurrence we are now t) ting {of, a question of identity had aris%nf cerning three malefactors, accused of a lgrave offence. Draped with heavy cover|ings, g 0 as to utterly disgnise both height {and figure, their faces were hidden by thick [veils, in which openings were so managed {as to show only their sinister eyes, and in | this state they were placed before the keena Ivisioned detective. Without a moment’s |hesitatjon Herrecognized each of the three Irascals, and pointed them out by name. .~ Gevrol's agsistant in the matter he had’ now in hand was young, but, at the same time, one of the most Fromiaing_of his staff, Keen as a razor, and loving the profession “he had adopted, he saw the om;dgrén.t fault jof hig master, and never failed, when q?-’ {portunity offered, to take advantage of if. %ut Gevrol, on his #ide, regaé‘d«d his yo‘mﬁe" colleague with “m‘ﬁ‘{m“ 5 ~ This agent's name was Lecog. . | The commissary of police who wag be: {ginning fo feel uncacy at the responsibility (L P R T Yoo ks Pk i iad

the deposifionis of the various witnesses, All this is very safisfactory,” said the magistrate;, “but there is oneé fact you have omitted to ascertain.” ' “And what’s that, sir?” inquired the commissary. . 2 «On “what day was the Widow Lerouge Jast seen, and at what time?” » ¢ «] was just abonut to inform you, sir. She was met returnine from Bougival on the evening of Shrove Tunesddy, with a market-basket on her arm.” : v “Are you quite sure of the hour?” asked Gevrol. ok e : A

«Perfectly, and I'll give you the reason why. Two witnesses, whose depositions T have taken—the . woman Tellier, and a winecooper who lives close by—were getting out of the omnibus that leaves Marly every: hour, when they saw ‘the Widow Lerouge crossing . the road in front of them. .They quickened their pace, and, joining her, walked with her as far as her door” -~ «And what had she in her basket?” asked the magistrate. o sod “The witnesses can’t Whey-onl‘y saw the necks: of two bottles of Wine, each onewith a red seal. . She ‘\cnmplained of abad headache, and remarked that though it was customary to entertain and ‘keep it up’ on’ Shrove Tuesday, shie iffended to go to bed directly.” = 2 s =S “I've got it!” gaddenly interrupted the chief detective. ="+ e : “What?” said the magistrate, eagerly. “Why, it's clear as .the day. We must find out the “tall, dark, elderly man in the blouse. The widow expected him to supper—that explains the wine.” ; _ “Oh,” #aid the brigadier of gendarmerie, with great disgust, “the widow was old and ugigll o e ;

Gevrol looked with an air of much contempt at the simple-hearted gendarme, “You don’t know the world, my friend, or youw’d have known that & woman with money is always young and beautiful.” SPerhaps you may be on the track,” said the magistrate, reflec’-vely. “But what has. struck me the most were those words of the widow, ‘lf 1 wished for more I could have it-, ” % 1 g I > (R I must own I was struek by those words also,” repeated the commissary. ‘ But Gevrol did not stay to listen. He was on the scent, and was inspecting ‘minutely every hole and eorner in the room. 7 . Suddenly he turned toward the commis--sary. W ; S : - ¢Pve just remembered,” he cried; “that there wasa change in the weather on Tnesday. It had heen freezing for a fortnight, when it tumed to rain.’, At what time did the rain commence here?” ! ; “At half-past ning,” answered the brigadier. “I’d just .finishéd-“supper, and was going my rounds, when I'was caughtin a regular shower close by the bridge. In 18ss than ten minntes half an inch of water had fallen on-the roadway.”. =.. == . i : “Very good,” said, Gevrol. “Now, if the man had been heré at half-pagt nine, his boots would have been covered withimud, unless he' arrived ecarliér. 'You owght to have been able to ascertain this, as the floor. is. oaken, and has recently beep waxed. Were there any marks of footsteps when you first entered?” o “I'm sorry to say we never thought of looking.” . S v - #Ah!” grumbled. the detective; “what a pity—what a pity!”?, . . e “Wait-a moment,” said the commissary. “It’s not too lateto see the marks—not in this room, but in the next. Nothing has been touched there..” My foetprints and those of the bricadier can be easily distinguished. = Come plong,” * - : " And 8o saying, he was opening the door ‘of the second room, when he was stopped by Gevrol. - S «May I ask your perniission, sir,” said he, turning to the magistrats, “to:be allowed to examine everything before any one else is allowed to enter? Tt isa matter of greaf: importance to me.” - L - “Certainly=—certaiuiy,” acquiesced M. Dabur . - = 0 L.

~ Gevrol passed in first, and all those He-. hind him paused on the threshold. Thus he took 'in- atone glande the scene before him." : . & Do | i : 2 < * o X . i T e CHAPPET lIL . oy THE MAN WITH THE EARRINGS. ' ’} ' Everything appeared, as the commissary” bad already stated, to have been scattered pelimell, as by the hands of a madman. ‘ln the middle of the roorn stood a table coverad with a fine damask cloth, White as thedriven snow.' At the farfher ena was a’ magnificent antlque gohietiot cut glass, an ivory-handled knife and a plate. Next to these was placed a boitle of wine, hardly touched, and ‘a bottle of brandy, from which about five or six ligienr glasses had Been taken. : : . 'To the right,along the wall, stood two handsome oaken presses, one on each side ‘of the window. Bith were empty, and their contents strewn about the floor. These latter vonsisted of wearing apparel, linen, and other articles of clothing, all rumpled, unfolded and thrown in a heap together.

At the other end of the room,near the chimney, a ‘large cupboard, containing crockery, was wide open, and next to it an old seerefary, with a marble slab, had been broken open, and then -smashed in various places, évidently with the intention of discovering its innermost grooves. . The shelf, half torn away, still hing by a single hinge, while the drawers Had been taken out and thrown on .the ground. The bed also, on the left hand side of the room, was completely unmade, blankets ' and sheets lying in‘a disordered. heap hesideit, even to the mattress, which had been half ripped open, and the horsehair strewn about like: straw in a stable. : .

“Not even the faintest footprint,” murmured Gevrol, with ill-concealed annoyance. “He must ‘have arrived 'before half-past nine. We can enter without disturbing anything now.” 1 o

And so saying, he walked right up to the _eorpse, and knelt beside it. ‘ “Well, there’s no. denying but this affair has been neatly done,” he grumbled. “The :assassin, whoever he may be, was no novice. This is the work of a master and not of an apprentice.” Then, glancing from right to left, “Oh, oh!” he continued, “the poor old girl was busy with her cooking when the blow was struck that sent her into kingdom come in 80 unexpected a manner. Yes, there is the frying-pan on the floor; the raghers of ham and the eggs- that were to have made the omelette, My centleman was in a hurry; or he wouldn’t have done the little business on an empty stomach. He hadn’t even the patience to wait for: his dinner: At anhyrate, he can’t pleadin his defence that his head was confused by the gaiety of the dessert.”’ 2 ) “It’s very evident,” said the commissary of police to the examining magistrate, “that robbery hag beet the inotive of the erime.” 41, should rather - think so,” answered Gevrol, with a slight sneer. “And perhaps it was for. thé same reason that the forks | am%‘ spoons’ have _ disappeared from the table” ey e

“Hilloh! here’s some gold in this drawer!” exclaimed Lecog, who was rumaging about on his own account. “No lpss than three hundred and twenty franes.”” : “Yon don’t mean. that,” said @Gevrol, somewhat abashed; hut recovering quickly ‘from his astonishment, he continned, with his usual confidence. “I’ve héard of queerer things than that, I knew a man once who so completely lost his presence.of mind after he had committed the murder, that he ran away witho!t taking anything, -and forgot his hat and Ploves into the bargain. Our friend, on the present oceasion, musf - have been nervous. Perhaps he was interrnpted by some one. knocking—who knows? I'm inclined to this opinion the moreé readily from the appearance of the candle. You see, he didn’t leaveit burning, but took the trouble to blow it out.” “Fudge!” said TLecoq. “That proves nothing. He may bave been a man of economical tendencies.” S e The investigations of the two deteati ‘were continiiied over the whole .pmmim but after the minutest resoarches they discovered nothing t};atf’gave them "thé;gunfqg;: clue. Even the papers of the Widow. Les rouge, had ehe ever possessed any, had disapreared, Nota lefter, or mmmnr asorap of paperof anykind ecould be ejp svsn g it Yeutd wi i e T R LMO

| “We are sokl,” replied Gevrol, with a ‘despairing shrug of the.shoulders—“eompletely sold! For the present, that is. The scoundrel has taken no end of precautions; but. we shall have him yet. Before the avening I will set my hounds on the scent; -and ‘he’ll be run down to a dead certainty.” i “Then,as it appears to me,” observed Monsieur Daburon, “we are 1o farther advanced than we were this morning?” L “One does one's best, and the best of us -can’t do the impossible,” said Gevrol sullenby o i : : g‘y'“lff old Corkscrew, now, were only here,” 'muttered Lecoq, in a low voice, which, however, reached the ears of Monsieur Da|buron, “he’d . draw the cork,if any.one ‘could.?’- S :

! “V}Zhat could the old fool do more than ‘we have done?” asked Gevrol, darting an ‘angry glance at his subordinate. =~ |’

| Lecoq turned away, secretly glad to ‘have wounded the vanity of his too confi‘dent chief, but too wise to bring his anger upon himself. : ; e ' “What’s all that?” demanded Monsieur {Dabnron. “And whois ' this person—Old ‘Corkscrew, as you call him—that he is like--Iy, to succeed where experienced men have failed? I somehow fancy I have heard of ‘him before.” . : :

{ “He’s a wonderful man,” replied ‘Lecoq, inot sorry to be thus appealed to. “To use jhis own words, hie can get at the heart of 3 imystery as easily as another would draw 'a cork-from a bottle” e .

| “He was formerly a poor clerk 'in a lawyer’s officey” added Gevrol. “The old fellow has come' into money now. = His real name is Tabaret. . He has constituted himself a sort of detective for his own amusement.” 1 “And to augment his revenues, I sup‘pose?” sneered the commissary. , |- “Not he!” answered Lecog. “It’s alabor ‘of love with him. He’s never so happy as (when he’s ferreting after some difficult |case, that ’ud make another chap’s head 'ache for a‘week. "We call him Old CorkIscrew, just ag well as we might. call him |old Gimlet, because he can worm ~himself Jinto anything. Why, it was he in that bus. /iness of the 'robbery at . the bankers you ‘know, sir, who asserted that it was the wife iwho_}va§ thg_ thief, zmdhp_r_-ovgd, it top i

" “That’s all very well,” retorted Gevrol; 'but how about the. poor little tailoy whom ‘he accused of having killed " his ' wife, and ‘nearly got him condemned? He’s too clever |by half, that heist” = = S [ _“Come, come!” interrupted the magis[trate, impatiently, “we are wasting time!” {Then, turning to Lecoq, he said, “Fetch me ‘this M?,:asieur’ Tabaret. I've heard a great \deal of him, and should like to see him- at 'his favorite employment.? ~ . o l Lecoq was gone in- an ingtant, while Gev‘rol looked much monrtified. 7

{ Ot course, sir,"" he commenced, “you have every right to employ any one that jyou may think'proper; but—-" | “Don’t be offended Gevrol,” said the ‘magistrate, good-huioredly. “It was not yesterday that'lT made your' acquaintance —I know your value. .| Only to-day we differ completely in our opinions. You stick to the tall; dark, elderly man in the blouse, and lam convinced you're ori the wrong ‘seent.” S = e oL still thirk I am lizbt)” answered the {datective. “and I hope soon to prove it. 111 {bunt up the raswal wherets,he s | “That’s right. ~Let us all do our best.” | - “Thére’s only one thing, however, which { I hope you will permit me to observe, with- { out thinking that I'm taking a liberty——"

| “What's that?’ % o | “Well, sir, ®ince you' are so kind, just als Jowme to warn you against Old Corkscrew—!l beg syour pardon, Monsieur Tabaret, 1 | meany e e o | «Indeed! and for whatreason?”’ ' .

I “@g’cﬂuse the old boy is too hot-headed, too ‘emergetic, too eccentric; and as ‘he is as | vain as a peacock, he is very likely to lose | his temper . and" betray everything. ~ The lmoment he is made acquainted with a s crime—-like this of to-day, for instance—he shas the impudence toexplain every thing | off-hand. In ghort, £, he’d think nothing ‘of inventing a/story to suit the situation. l He pretends that from one fact he can build 'up the.whole scenes of an assassination, like that Tearned chap—l forget his name—l,who, from the fragment of a bone embedl defl in the earth, was able to reconstruct upon paper the entire bird. -Sometimes he guesses right, sometintes he gnesses wrong. { How about that poor litile.tailor? = I assure yo%sir, if Thadn’t interfered——"" ' * . “That’s enough,” raid Mml’sieu’l{ Daburon. “I’'m much obliged to you for your advice; be sure I shall profit by it. Inthe meantime, we must find out at all hazards where this widow lived before she came here, and: to what part of France she belongs.” The procession of witnesses brought in’ by the brigadier of gendarmerie now commenced to defile hefore the magistrate. But nothing new was éiiscovered.. e . The Widow Lerouge, when alive, must certainly have been a most discreet woman, considering that, of all the words she had uttered—and as she was a great. talker, the number must have been beyond human -caleulation—not one of any signifi<. cance remained in the memory of any of her gossiping friends. i o All the witnesses, howeyer, were obstinatély bent on making the magistrate a con’ﬁgent of their: convictions and their personal opinions, and ‘ these coincided withthose expressed by Gevrol. \ They unahimously, and as with one voice, accused the dark man in the blouse of hav-. committed fthe crime. et

Every one remembered his ferocious air, his sinister aspect; and their lively imaginationis were not slow to add innumerable details to. the ‘somewhat fancy portrait they had sketched. 7 :

One evening, somebody declared that he had threatened a woman; while another asseffed that he had cruelly beaten a child. It is true -that neither the woman nor the child were forthcoming; but such small verifications were not at all necessary, and the public gave its ready belief to the wildest statement. . i L

As an instance, while Monsieur.Dé.buron was impatiently pacing the room, two fresh witnesses were thrust upon him. Oneé was a woman who kept asort of chandler’s shop in Bougival, at which the murdered woman had dealt; and the other a sharp-eyed little ragamuffin of a bey, both of whotn, it was loudly asserted, knew “all about it.” i e <

The woman was the first who appeared. She had heard the Widow Lerouge speak of a son still living. : . “Are you quite sure of that?”’ said the magistrate. | o “As of my own existence, Mr. Judge,” replied the chandler’s shop keeper. “More betoken that, on that very same evening—for it were an evenin: both wet and chilly, as I well remember—she, the poor defunct one, as is now no more, wag, if T may venture to state suth a thing before a respectable gentleman, a little fopsy-turvy.” “What?? . ' e .

T mean alittle on the slack-rope, which is as much as tosay,in vulgar language, that she’d been taking a drop tod much. Poar creetur! she was altvays a conversible ‘woman, anid not . being on that. occasion equal to walking, she stayed nt my shop ‘more than an hour.” foae . - «Waell, well, what did she say?” " ~¢T think I see her now,” said the chandler’s shop-keeper, brushing away an imaginary tear with the back of her hand,—“l think I see her now, with both her elbows ip]anted on the counter, close against the box ‘ that held the bacon.and the candles, a chaffing one of the boatmen, as she called but a ‘poor fresh-water make-believe, as was good for nothing but to pick up ticklebacks with a crooked pin and axfick.! ‘My. husband,’ says she,‘was a regular sailor, galt as this ’ere bacon,/—and she Jaid her hand on the flitch— who was away'a year \at 4 tirhe on his voyages, which wés a comfort to both of us, ag he often said.! . She ‘went on to say that she algo had a son, a gailor, like his father, but where he was at the time she was speaking she couldn’t [even guiess,” ' : . - «Did she mention the name of her sont” ~ “She gaid his name was J acq,:‘zeﬁs.f’ i - «Did she speak against her husband?” § «Nevér; only that his manners were brutal, and he had a- jealous disposition—a good man enough, but that he had led her 2 migerable life. ihti:ématfmwm that ho had swetls_hend,und wonld fly out about nothing. In short, that he was a fool, i aatios ity Ll %M,w%f; B T éw»s;r hidindiiin Shau s £P ¢ %%?ﬁ%wﬁ&@‘%&”ﬁ“

francs' a monfh-—somefimes more; Decause when she took her liquor, she always’ took it of the best. Rest her soull,she wasa worthy woman, and paid ready money.” - Here the shop-keeper, diverging upon the advantages of ready money payments as a principle, and the. disadvantages of trust as a practice, was abruptly dismissed by the magistrate, while the other witness —the boy—was shoved forward. | > . “Now, my boy,” said. the magistrate, “what do you know of this business?” 4 | “Nothing, sir! Only the day before yesterday, I saw a'man standing in Madame Lerouge’s gateway.” b A «With a dark complexion,dressed in a’ blouse, eh, my little man?%s | ““No, sir; quite the contrarv. The man I saw was short, fat, and fair.” »,. .%You are sure you are not mistaken?? .. - “How could I be,” said the boy smartly, “when I spoke to him?” i 3 gt “And he replied?” e : eYeRY e “Tell me what youboth said.” = - “~ “Well, when I saw him first, he seemed rather cross about something—angry, ‘I may say, which is more than being eross. His face was as red as a sliced beetroot, and so was his "head—for his hat was off, and he was as bald as a billiard-ball.”? = =

" “Did he speak to you first?? = - "o “Yes; he called to me without waiting for an introduction. ‘Hilloh; little ’un? says he; ‘you’ve a pair of good 'legs—do.‘you want' to earn half a franc? ¢Of course I do, says I. “Then, says he, ‘cut along down ‘to the river, go on board the big black boat, painted black with a red streak, that lies close down by the landing-stage, and ask for Jervis, the master. . Tell him to. make all ready to start, that my business is’ over, and I'll be with him in the hauling of a rope.” ' Then, placing the half franc in my hand, he stirred me up with a kickyand I bolted off for the river.” 5 :

“If all the witnesses were as sharp as this. little boy,” said the commissary, “to examine them would be a pleasure! ' And now tell us how you performed ‘the com. mission.” e e

«I got,aboard the boat; found the man, and gave the message, and—and that’s all.” ¢ Gevrol, who had been listening with the most eager attention, stooped toward the ear of M. Daburon. , - e br et «If it’s not asking toc much, sir, will you be kind enough to let me puta few questions to the youngster?” ~ ! N “Certainly,” answered the magistrate. “Look here, my litlle man,” qﬁestioned the detective; “do you think if you.saw the man you’veé been telling us about, that you’d recognise him again?”. e " 4QOh, yes!” . g e . ®There was something ‘queer. about him, then?” = . i B

«Well, his red face.” - ' e “Wasg that all?” it ; “Yes, sir.” = ji ! = “Bat don’t you remember how he was dressed?: Had 'he a blouse?’. .. . S “No; he had on around. jacket,with large pockets at the sides, and sticking,out of one was a blue-striped pocket-handker= chief.” > £l i i “What sort of trousers did he wear?” . «T don’t remember.” . S - «And his waistecoat?”? . U

" “Stop!” said the child, suddenly brightening up. again. “Had ‘he a.waisteoat? I think not—perhaps he had, and perhaps he hadn’t. I don’t remember. But le had a neckeérchief, I know, with the ends pulled through a ring.” : T .

. “THat’s a wonderful boy!” remaiked Gevrol, in a hnlf-aside; “and if I were a single ‘man, I’d adopthim.” . . Gt The child, meanwhile, had kni!te&l his soft brows tightly together, as with a violent effort of memory. £ 5 - “I remarked something’ else,” he gaid, after a short pause. ; licdn

“What?® : e i “The man wote “earrings—latge earrings sovergilapome s S 0 oo 2l “Bravo!” cried Gevrol; “nothing -else is wanted. I feel I've got him already, TLet me have a warrant for his arrest, and the thing is done.” Aan e " These words were scarcely out of his mouth than Lecoq, eager and energetic as usnal burstinto the room. = [ ;

“Here’'s Old Corkscrew—l mean, Daddy Tabaret—that is to say, Monsiéur Tabaret —speaking to strangers. I caught him just as he was leaving his house. Whata man!—what a remarkable man he is! He wonldn’t hear of waiting for the train, but took |a cab—the. first on the stand—never bm'gziined for price, bnt .drove down here like s 'madman. Here he comes—hare he is! A "wonderful man—a remarkable man! He’ll draw the cork for usin les¢'than five mintites!” : ; Lol

The detective became suddenly silent, as there appeared upon the.threshold of the- - a man, whose dspect we are bound to confess, by no menns warranted the enlogy so loudly expressed by his “enthusiastic admirer, Pl st e ; '{TO BE CONTINUED.| | - TR lATS LA I TGS The Voter and the Currency Question. 2 (From Scribner’s Monthly.) Ly - The position of the American voter is not & very dignified on¢ Theoretically, he has something to say and do’ in the selection of the man who is to | rale over him. Prdetically, he has nothing to do but to- endorse or condemn the man selected by a citele of politicians. Theoretically, a democratic government ;Lffor(:f a line opportunity for the seléctiofi of the best man for the highest office’ by the ‘voice of a grateful, trusting, and admiring people. -In fact, the best man never gets. the highest oflice, and would never gtoop to -the low tricks and disgraceful compromises of personal dignity and political prihciple | by which -alone, under: the present condition of things, the highest office can be secured. * Instead of having a. government of the people, we have a government of rings. ' The rings may not always be flagrantly corrupt; . but. they are rings mnevertheless;, and Tweed’s ring, in its day, was no more real or vital than the ring which is now endeavoring to get control of the couniry.. il : s : -

. Still, the voters have the privilege of scolding, of warning, of prolesting. 1t does not amonnt to miuch in pracitical results, but it helps to work off JAndignant feeling and carries. the ‘semblance of independence. ~And now, “oit -behalf of many voters,” and with no man and no party to serve, there is one word that we take the ‘privilege of saying to the politici= ans, viz: that there is a single question which, inanaking up their plats forms aud selecting their man, they will do well to comsider very carefully dnd handle very wisely. It relates to the currency of the eountry, and it has but one right side‘f“ “*Much may be said on both sides,” undoubtedly, Ly theoffice seekers and politicians; “buat sound poiiey lies * with the truth. -No party in the 'next Presidential election can make ilself responsible for the continuance of wur plesent anomalous system of curreney—muen less for an exagzeration of it—with= out ruining itself, to say nothing of ‘ruining the country. A nation, in the exceptional circumstances of-a war, may live through its crisis on paper lies; but the moment the necessity retires, as peacs comes in, it must take its ite«a!xo;:;gf with.it for it can only retfhin as. a cuwrse. . No nation can thrive permanently on irredeemable paper money. - We can never have goud titaes ngain wntil we do our ba: siness with truths and not with falsehoods, -We ave living, not only in deflance of all sound finnncial polley, buk in%‘&ﬁww Gvery dollar that we handle ‘{B practically a ‘;;; | noty ;; "“:* g Hag 16 vilhe Bve R it rests GHoH a 0 Eﬁ%ﬁ*“ﬁaf@ﬁ%ﬁ%

THE GREAT BATTLE OF 1876. Politieal Consequences of the Late ' {From the New York Herald (Ind.).] - '~ - We will first insert the democratic States, with the number of Presidential eleetors to whieh each is entitled: Alshamar. o S g s Ar1,(ah5i_15.‘..’.;;‘.,;'......'.~.,.~..._.'._.'..,,._',’._Y.‘ S LONIOPIIN oLo oo iiann Bo Ut LBl e S 0 h i Connectiont. ol titi sl it ol ig iIB Delaware,:'....:‘..;. St Reslvsei el bl i s | Flonldk. ;oo (L L T soh B o i g Qeorgla g oL lilialaniaiis it il Indlane. ooy .o ciniindnins DT Kenituck'y' Seels A S st el e e Douislana .25y, (ooy doni 00l Sl g %gr5%1_5nd;_,;.,;.,...'..‘._....._.;1_;..v.-..;....,.j;,.. 87 ISSIRSIpDIC.. .S oo e s s "8 Mi‘sqou,rjp-.1i.,...’.;,-:.,..,.-’,'a;,;-..-'.,:;.;'.»......;‘ R NewForler o ooy i s s | New-Hampshire.:.,. .5 ito 4770 santinetl o iy Tennesgee. Ly SBN SUAIN TR eS T S E N B TORAE. T s i T Se S S i DRS e S West Virginta,. .(v Gl s i ok e it TT R i ! sl Democratic electoral Votes: ....i...i... ceve 0188 - The. republican States, -with, their respective electoral votes, are ‘ag fol- | lawge > - e el e ~C’oiorddd.;..,.,_-.7._.3.'_.Z..‘,.)..;;.».Li.'..;\‘...";,..r.. Ly TNHHOIeL e= e i e e e 10w&....,,{.’i-‘....'/.,,,a'.‘..'_.";h....-.;!.‘.7;_;".....‘.v..".., AL Kaneas: i st dn i e el e e Malme oo LUI S e e —Mﬁsa’achusette.;..,,.,;.;,;'..f;.'......‘~.‘ Crdarinnti 18 Michigantin, s o g Tl Minnesotar (. Ui Set el e 3 ’Ne’bmska...~..-.-e.,.....‘,“,.;....,..:..‘.......'..,."’3 Nequa.'.....f..-.2;.._,.."..‘..'...:.-.'.,.ﬁ._;‘...._...‘..'.., 3 New deriop. X 0 oo s rane uin eoe 9 North Carolina. ioxi 0 v i S r 210 OO o v e e e i g Qregon oo v e Lt B s e g Poßnsylvanda o 0 oo ie o S 29 Rhogdelsland. 2. ¢ fotans o i e South Carolifia... tiio o o LiG M miis - . Vermogt: 00l U Sl fl el Wiseopsin. &, «ited Tinge ei i T 10

Republican electoral votes.::: ... iv ... 811 - The striking feature of thiscomparison is the near approack to equality in the stremgth of the two political. parties. It shows that the next Presidential election .is to .be one of 'the most close and doubtful, and therefore omne of the most strenuous ‘and Jj exciting, that has ever occuired in the history of “our: politics.” As things now.stand, judgéd: by the lafest ‘elections in all the States, the democratic party would: elect the next President by the slender majority ‘of seven in the electoral colleges, *. + * phe signal democratic reverses of tlhe presentyear will prove a forfunate chastisement if they should teach the party a little needed wisdom. There is nothing so marvellous. im our politics as‘the inability of the democritic. party to bear prosperity. - Ever since the.close of the ‘war.its head has been turned - by.-every -indication: of approaching saccess: It has uniformly forfeited -its -chances becauseé ‘it has had. 'no sobriety of judgment when fortune has seemed to beckon it. It fancied itself strong in. 1868, and the use it made of that great opportunity was to commit itself to; Mr. Pendletow’s tepudiation scheme and to Mr. Frank Blair's erazy nullification” of the -reconstruction measures. - The consequence was an utter prostration” of its hopes by the trinmphant -election of General ‘Grant, “which was a foregone consequence, from the day ‘when the Democratic National Convention put forth its platform and ticket. The’ prospects of the party were. remarkably ‘bright ‘and hopeful after the splendid series of successes in the State élections of last year, - But the *tidal wave” ‘only ‘tempted the party iute the' commission of new’ blunders:. In its sanguine wnd over‘weening conlidence . it rushed into fresh . mistikes, .which: have -cost: it nearly all it gained. ©lts first eonspicuous blunder was the rejection of My, Carl Schurz in‘the Senatorial election in Missouri and thesnbstitution of a small. rebel - General for one of the most gifted statesmen of the cotintry. Mr. Schurz ‘would have been u: chief ornament of the party if it had the good ; sense to. re-elect -him -and takeground that he could have stood upon, and he would have brought to H§support. a Yarge body of -intelligent citizens in nany> Statés whose “pride of nativity would huve beén gratifieid by honors hestowed on the foremost representative of the: Gérman people in Amerieq. “AVithout stopping to piticularize othér blunders of the same’ kind; we liasten to. thie most stupenit-. cus instance of the inability of the democtatic party to act with sobriety and moderation wheni smiled upon by foflmß ~on ol sl ban il i

The indescribable intatuation of the Denmocracy of the two great States of Olhio and :Pennsylvania is' botly the Jatest and themost égregious exhibi--‘tion” of vhat suicidal flightiness of temper and:shallow arrogance which unfit the democratic party to protit by success. - The frothy rhovdomontade about the “tidal wave” -beguiled the Ohio and Pefinsylyania democrats into the delusion’that the success of the party was soassured that they might safely venture oh. any: desperate experifnent for controlling the next Nationad Convention, whose: nomination for the Presidency - they -supposed -would be equivalent to an election. The consequence of their stupidity has beén to give back these two great States to the Reépublicans and put-a dripping wet blanket'on the.prospects. of the national democratic party, The’ “tidal wave” was like alcohol; and the Ohio and Pennsylvania. democrats drank of it to ‘maudlin -intoxication. ‘ln consequence.of this drunken .inflation: folly theé democratic party hus lost in 1875 a great part of its wondertul gaips il 187, el e ni - Will the party leariywisdom now ? We have no doubt that it will, because even Mis Pendleton and his followers must see that: the- possibility of electing a.Démocratic President-is staked on: the vote of New York, and that New York has'become so doubt-' ful that the. least squinting to inllation in ~the denmoeratic -national plat‘form or the slightest bias toward intflation on the part of the democratic candidate would give New: York to ‘the l’uem_ljh}iy‘z‘_lgys.;__. s e “rhrow Paysie (6 Ihe Doge: 11t Sheimaa TN bre g RET S et e “We do not in-the least feel like blaming Muacheth -for this expression. of disgust; indecd, we are rather in elined to sympathize withy him. Kver now:tdays most of the cathariies ofi'vis ‘ed to thie publie are great, repulsivelooking pills, the: very appearance of: “whichi-is sufficient to “turn one's stomach.” Had™ Macbeth ever:tuken Dr, Pierce’s Plansant Purgative Pellets he would not have uttered those words of contemyt. Tt is really encouraging, when ene i ili, Lo tind that w little, sugar-coited. Pellet; no lager than a grain of mustard, will as promptly produee the desired dffect as 4 dose of greut, nauseating pills. - These little. %’Bﬂét&“uﬂmﬁﬂwl cathurbics, are | really nature’s physic, Thegﬁm not debilitate, but tone and invigorate the system. No fimily shonll be without Dr, Preree’s Bleasant Purgative. Pel--1088 oosh T R e s Poubody. thie. ploncer of the £ uhngasen Guen i %.«zyimsm D sLTI s neion gl eet %ﬁ@m*ﬂﬂw’f’%@ww ot Brnckition. D oljeet s to'

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‘. CHIPS ON THE CURRENT. ; _Judge Boreman, of Utah, has decided that a Mormon is not debarred by = his religion from sitting on a jury for the trial of Mormons.. g . Well, since iti’s the orderof the day t 0 nominate spccessful men for the White House, how would “President — Morrisey” sound? inquires the Coms mercial Advertiser. il AR ‘Wendell Phillips has buried therag - baby out of his sight, and entered in- . to a discussion of the Indian’ poliey, ¢ and he talks sensibly on the question, . / advocating humanity and firmness. i fhe ‘Virginia City bhronigl«_a is_huthority for the statement that all our quartz vein deposits have been’pro- ' duced from aqueous solutions and by ™~

magnetic affinities of mineral molecules during protracted periods of ?ceanic submergencies. Shl }5. | Chief Justice Chase, who adminis- ) tered the oath of office to Lincoln in [ 1865, and to Johnson soon after, and twice to Grant, made a practice of sending to the wife of the President ¢ the bible on which the oath was taken, marking the passage therein pressed | by the President’s lips. ( i Sl . It is not generally known that the, United States Treasury Department . employs ' two learned and skillful i ¢hemists, one of whom is ‘constantly engaged .in fabricating indelible ink, ! while the other devotes his talents to . ‘washing ‘out the inks, and thus far, has devised no ink which chemistry = = cannot efface” © - i v The editor i)f the Lebanon (Teuns. .. Herald) an ex-Confederate, giveﬁ thus briefly, but happily, his experience - Wiﬁl an “elastic’ or “self-regulating”§ currency: ‘“More than once duringa

period of four years, not necessary to - particularize, we paid $lOO or ,$l5O for a pair of boots. You see ‘the volume of currency was: equal to the ne- . cessities of trade.’” . ' | toa P - Typhoid fever is alarmingly prevalent at Hanover, N. H,, and'in Dartmouth College over| 80 ‘cases have

occurl‘fd this fall. The cause is the bad drainage of the town, for whiel ' the selectmen and board of health are responsible. The death of Walter W. Puffer, of the senior class, will probably hasten some action in the matter.

The students on Saturday unanimous- @ ly voted to request a vacation until the:cess-pools about town are drained and the cases-of fever abate. -

' Some very inferrsting statistics are , . | given by Commissioner Eaton of the = - Bureau of Education,,in the fifth an-¢ |~ nual report. . Out of 10,000,000 boys - and girls between the ages of six and = sixteen'years, the total public school * ' enrollment in the United States and - Territories amounts to 8,000,000, with an ‘average attendance of 4,500,000. : The total expenditures -for public . §chool, purppses: for sthe past year, | ‘reaches the sum of $74,000,000, and it = ' ‘will interest educators' of both sexes = to know that the highest/salaries are + paid incthe Cherokee Nation, the rates “ being respectively $225 and $2OO per = month for male and female teachers, , | | Po{)e’ Pius {IX. seems to be a hard =~ pioney man, judging from the followling paragraph from an address re- § | cently made by him to a.deputation . of French pilgrims whe called upon him: “Is it not true that at the pres- *= ent time trade is flourishing in France; . that the harvest is rich and luxuri- .. ‘ent-in several:provinces; that sound- \ ! }ﬁing,‘_ money civculates abundantly in = = 5 - your country; while elsewhere, and ! | es,pecia?y'here in Italy, it disappears - | to 'give' place, to ‘another curréncy J ‘which’ gives no sound save that produced by a great mass of paperthrown 4 ‘violently onto a hard” board or on the pavement.” . ~ PR The New York Commercial Adver- 4 ﬁ tiser, one of the leading republican 3 papérs of the East, advocates Chief i Justice Waite for the Presidency in ‘t 1876. The position occupied by Judge = Waite ought to debar him from in~ i dulging in any political aspirations }~ ‘whatever. The position of Chief Just--| jce of thé United States Supreme = .Court is in every way .as honorable ’1 and as distingwished as that of Presi.dent of the United States, and having 1 wchieved that dignity, no man should « | be guilty of dragging the judicial et £ “mine in the mud of partisan polities>. | It is to be hoped that Judge Waiteis = not a party to.any movement looking - | toward his elevation ‘to the Presi- = 7 dency.' : A i “Is-- , " The Indiins are rapidly diminish- = ing, the facilities of cheap access to. - i them have been largely increased by ‘f the building of %he Union Pacific rail- % roads, and yet they become more ex- = { pensive every year, In the ten vears I» Lefore the railroads were built—from ' ‘i 1854 t» 1864—the disbursements on account of the Indians aggregated = :332‘,)208,_;298.85; an annual averageof = ¢ 3,220,829, From 1864 to 1874, the. aggregate disbursements on account of Indiang have been $56,648,105.70, . an average of $5,064,810. The annual *}e average during the last four yearshas = .°* been $7,160,000, more than. double ‘what, it was before the Pacific railroads were built, and when_ the Ind- = ians were fifty per cent. more numers . ‘ous than at present. _ R }

i o i)~ — fag - Circumstances Alter Cases. . @ The other day, while a Vicksburger . was riding in his buggy, hesaw along‘haired young man sitting!on a‘road‘'side fence... There was such an air of. utter desolationabout the countryman ‘that' the Vicksburger drew rein and Guguireds. o ol “For God’s sake! what ails you,’ voung man?” A *Nothing, for God's sake!” was tlie meek reply. ; s L Are you sick PY S - 211 fud kinder bad,” 0T e - wWell, vou look bad; in faft, vou ' ave the worst-looking youny inan I've. seen since thie close of the war? o L 'was all right’ till & months age”) siid the young man, looking still nere” Lsodemn. : S See e “What happened then ¥ T #Woman went back on mel? (o - “She did, eh? Were you engaged By lery" 00l 0 ; AR “P’d hung around there for a yedr orso, and we'd hugged and loved wink hooked fingers. Lt that isn’t being mg@fv*:; raged, then I don't know. - - o _ l{‘ge( tiien 140 i BEe Ll L . »And sho backedout ™ | [t e PR S T e e “Well, I've been through the mill ~myself, - Ihada woman gobagk on .me in that m{thme: months ago, and [ didu’t lose a bit of sleep overin” = Cevendlantt™ (e i ’Z‘N‘f%’%ii‘;‘” Siaeyy s ~i'§{;§ ‘“Bu’-i.»*--ﬂllén,”%i?ﬁod‘ft o young many ag: lie hitched alang outabe, rail, “thd womﬂﬁxww idn't own sixteen. ‘mules, and have a clean one hunidred” bales of cotton to sell!” Vicksburg % i e COVEREEEE | %*‘ﬁi‘*“* et