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Peter Cooper’s Position. : ~ . NEw. Yoßk, June 14, 1879, Gereral B.¥. Cary: < 7. aar DEAR Sig—ln your recent letter you request of me some advice in reference ‘to the National affairs and the late nomination in Ohio. "It seems to me ¢clear as 1 told Mr. Evarts, our Secretary of State but lately, that the time has come when this question of the National money and currency must be settled, and it must be. settled in the interests of the whole people, and not as it is now-in the_ interests of a special ‘moneyed class. The people are suffering daily untold - miseries from ruin in business\and want of employment, arising fro%i this - very cause—a class legislation on the subject of money, to permit the people’s c% medium-to 6 be invested in unta bonds which must be sustained by taxes on the people, is now the great oppression of which the Nation complains. This cruel policy turned two hundred millions of circulating medium in the shape of legal-tenders, with which we could pay our debts and fructify all our industries, into an oppressive tax upon that very industry. This money was all real money, drawn from the Government by labor, service and material furnished by the people, and hence paid for asso much gold and, silver. The investment 'of this real . money into bonds is the yoke nnder which the people groan this day, for it removes the very tools of industry and substitutes taxes for mouey which makes it impossible for the people to pay their taxes. These bonds must be paid as soonas possible, and in strict conformity to the law under which they areissued. Any course or party action that will hasten that‘ day will be an incalcuiable blessing to the people, hence I rejoiced when I heard that the great Democratic party 1 of Ohio had nominated one of the most outspoken and ablest advocates of a sound National currency, issued solely by this Government. It seems to me that this is one of the best and most significant facts in regard to the progress of our cause in the West. ILmust say, therefore, in response to the request for advice, that I think this nomination of General Ewing ought to be sustained, without wishing to employ any disparagement to the excellent gentleman nominated. by the Greenback Converftion in Ohio, or wishing to dictate to any one in the free exercise of their political judgment. I must say that if I were a citizen of Ohio, I shovld vote for General Ewing, as not only consistent with the great: prineiples for which we conteng. as an inde‘pendent.; party, but also the best method of securing success in our contest against the vicious policy, that is distressing our people. = ' . b ' Yours very truly, - (Signed) PeETER COOPER.

Our Sham Resumption. ; The Daily News has, from their initiation to the present time, charged ‘that Secretary Shefman’s theory and methods of resumption were a fraud and ‘a sham. The Chicago Tridbune, on the other hand, has, from the first, indorsed them as the very pitch and acme of successful financiering and profound statesmanship. A few days ago the Daily News showed conclusively that there literally had been no resumption. This charge the T'ribune took up promptly, and gave it a blank denial. We responded by showing that all the Sub-Treasuries in the United States, with the single exception of ‘the New York one, refused to pay specie for Government obligations upon which they had been accustomed to pay specie previous to resumption. ‘This the Tribune denied, after writing to Washington for information, which it published, but which we showed totally failed to touch the question in dispute; it then again indorsed Secretary Sherman and his method of ‘‘ how not to do it’’ as the very perfection of National financiering. - ; But 10, and behold! Secretary Sherman’s organ now comes out, at the eleventh t3;10111‘, ‘and endorses all that we charged upon-this sham resumption as literally true. In the Tribune of June 27 we find the following financial editorial: - i “Some indignation prevails among Chicaga holders of Government bonds at the refusal of the Government, to pay the interestin gold. In--quiry at the Chicago Sub-lreasury shows that the?uly_ interest will be paid here in silver, ‘legal-tenders, or Treasury checks on New York. Until specie payments were resumed this inter--est was always paid here in gold. When specie payments began gold was refused. The resumption of specie Fayments is' thus made.to cut off the local supply of goid. Banks that have been receiving gold at the Chicago Sub-Treasury ever sinee their organization, in payment of the interest on their Governments, even when gold was at arpremimm of 150 and more, now fail to get it g‘eca_,use specie payments have been resumed!. It of no use to say that the legal-tenders are now as good as gold. They are not, to persons who want gold in Chicago. Every bank wants more or less gold on hand, and, if the Government refuses to pay them gold, they have to suozl)ly themselves in New York ‘at a cost of [email protected] per $l,OOO. 1t is strictly true, strange as it seems, that the only practical way in which the resumption of specie payments has been felt in Chicago is in this refusal of the Government to pay its interest in gold! While specie payments were suspended we got gold; when specie payments are resumed paper 1s forced upon us.” We knew that the Tribune would one day be compelled to goback upon every line of its endorsement of Sherman’s sham resumption; but we must confess we never imagined it had the heart to do it in so flat-footed a fashion as the above. We have consequently some faint hope that it will one day accept all our past teachings upon so momentous a subject.— Chicago Daily News.

] Democratic Success in 1880, - The following is a sample of a column and a half double-leaded editorial in the Cincinnati Commercial of the 25th: . ; . Sl As the Democratic party stands before the country to-day, its success in the choice of a President would signify the victory of the Southern Confederacy over all its enemies—the vindication of the rinciples' upon which the Southern people swmfin.thear ﬁ%ht-and at ‘t%e very least the right of the South, as the master of us allﬁéto have the Confederate c'nt?ples pensioned, the slaves emancipated paid for, and compensation for all damage to Southern property done by invading armies, ' 7 - Pretty good for a paper claiming to wepresent the conservative wing of the Republican party, and bitterly opposed o Grantism and Radicalism. A very short step will now land the Commercial in the camp of the buthmers and boomers, toward which it has beex gravitating for the last six months. As the Democratic party stands be-

fore the country to-day, its success in’ the choice of a President would signify the victory of the Union over its worst eriemy, the Republican party—the vin--dication of the principles of the Constitution and the precepts and practices of the founders of the Government—and at the very least the right of the people, as the sovereign power, to manage their own elections without the assistance of Fed‘eral Supervisors or bayonets, and free from the supplementary manipulations ~of returning-boards. Moreover, Demo“cratic success in the choice of a Presi‘dent would effectually demolish those 'schemes of centralization by and through lich the Republican leaders hope tu destroy the last vestige of . State-rights nd give us a Government of the HamAltonian instead of the Jeffersonian sort. It would forever extinguish those polit‘ical eonspirators who are continually ‘sowing seeds of suspicion and hatred between North and South, and while erying ¢ peace! peace!” aredoing their best to render genuine and permanent peace impossible. And last, but not least, Democratic success in 1880 will convince such fire-eating journals as the Commercial that the people are tired of that kind of business and want no more of it at any price; that the pensioning of Confederate ’ cripples, payment for emancipated slaves, and compensation for damaged Southern property, are played-out bugaboos which only expose the folly of their inventors. Meanwhile our Cincinnati contemporary should economize its fuel, or it will not have enough to get up steam when the campaign fairly‘ opens.—St. Louts Republican. ' |

- How the Plot Was Foiled. - We have reason to believe that Lamar’s insult to Senator Conkling was the result of a conspiracy on the part’of the Contederate Brigadiers, who had met in conclave, deliberated, and decided upon this line of conduct in the ‘hope’ of inducing a personal rencontre in the Senate Chamber, during which the life of Senator Conkling was to have been taken. But the scheme failed, except: that Senator Lamar performed the:first act/of the drama. The intended denouement was not reached. Senator Conkling was not allured into the trap. The whole truth of this matter may be revealed ;et, and Eben the plot will be exposed.—National Repubean, .

- It is the creed not only of optimism, Jbut it is the teaching of every-day experience as well, that the world moves toward improvement, if not toward perfection in all departments of enterprise and endeavor. We remember the day when 2:40 was first-class. trotting. The speed of Patchen, Ethan Allen and Flora Temple very sdon taught us that we had formed a very inadequate conception of equine capability at that gait. Dexter, Goldsmith Maid, and others of even superior speed, hgye advanced the ideal still further towary zero. In' billiards the laurels of PMelan have been withered in the light of the achievements of Garnier, Slosson and Sexton; ‘and these last have been thrown into the shade by the late unrivaled run of Schaefer. In yacht sailing, sculing, pedestrianism and the like, the tendency has been the same. We are no longer in a position to be surprised at anything, and we canno longer be sure that any champion will wear his belt for six consecutive months. Still we must confess that we had thought the limit of assinine journalism had been reached by a certain class of Republican newspapers years ago. But it seems that the rule holds good, and that our cotemporaries of the other side are, like John Brown’s body, still marching on. For the present, however, it must be admitte<_§) that the National Republican is any number of miles and several laps ahead. oy In the first place, if the National Republican places any confidence at all in the blood and thundgg, cock and bull story, which we qugé from its columns, it should at once be placed under the protection of a curator, and should be kept under shelter, as .it is certainly green enough to sprout if it gets caught in a shower. If it does not credit its own tale of horror but expects to palm it off on an overcredulous public, it offers an insult to the common sense of the American people of such enormity as to subject it justly to the perils of mob violence and lynch law. o

- The National Republican has a certain insane genius all its own, which might serve well to scare children with ghost stories after dark; but when it proposes to introduce seriously its raw head and bloody bones in broad daylight into the arena of practical politics, it reminds us of the attempt of the Chinese troops in ‘:?e ‘opium war to frighten away the English soldiers by the sound of gongs. e . Conkling is the Republican Csesar whom the Democratic Senators were to strike down in his towering pride of place as the invineible enemy of their party! The Democratic party, with a majority in both- houses of Congress, and bn the eve of a successful Presidential campaign, the Republicans ask us to believe, has no route open to victory, save over the mangled corpse of the scented and curled Adonis from New York. v ;

If the National Republican could only get one clear %impse of the ways and means upon which the Democracy relies, it woould know that there is no man in the world whose continued good health is so much desired by the party as Mr. Conkling’s. Pretentious, supercilious, arrogant, dictatorial, he has'insulted and estranged the strongest men in his own party. - The existing wide and threatening Republican split is his work, and there is no sensible Demegrat who would not be dismayed at the prospect of his early demise. We are glad to learn that his physical condition is pronounced sound, and our only apprehension is that he may fall a victim to the inflation of his own conceit. e

But the cream of the joke is the Republican’s account of the sagacity and presence of mind displayed by Mr. Conkling in avoidin% the danger which beset him that night in the Senate. The great man had been making a long and rambling, speech, scarcely touching the merits of the question under discussion, but excessively.and outrageously personal and offensive to the Democratic Senators. He concluded with a wanton and altogether unprovoked attack upon Mr. Lamar. 'Fhat gentlemq,n ,togg the floor and administered a well deserved rebuke. Mr: Conkling retorted in the language of

a blackguard and a bully. Mr. Lamar replied in terms which fixed the onus of the initiative upon his unmanly opponent, and Mr. Conkling had nothing to say except to inquire what was the question before the Senate? The question before the Senate and country was what Mr. Conkling was going to do ahout it, and Mr. Conkling did nothing and is going to do nothing. Thus was the plot of assassination foiled. ‘“Senator Conkling was not allured into the trap.’” Such an astonishing display of straftegy, readiness of resource and courage, Wwas, perhaps, never exhibited outside of the Republican party. - . . _ The closing sentence of the Naticnal Republican’s paragraph would have been worthy of the Delphic oracle: ‘““T'he whole truth of this matter may be revealed: yet, and then the plot will be exposed.” How sage, how profound, how prophetic! When we know all about it, the conspiracy will be exposed. The Republican plants itself upon safe ground at last, and winds up with a proposition which it is impossible to dispute.—N. 0. Picayune.

- FACTS AND FIGURES. v IN the ten years ending June, 1861, the chief English railreads had to pay $1,655,000 compensation for injuries received by railroad accidents. , ACCORDING to the official report of last year from the Russian Province of Saratoff, there were 41,715 acres of grain destroyed by “hail; the total loss is estimated at nearly, a quarter of a million of dollars. - :

THERE were sent through the New York State canals-from the opening of navigation this year to. the end of the first week of June, 179,442 tons of apthracite and 16,599 tons of bitumingﬁs coal; showing an increase over the corresponding period in 1878, when the figures were 95,222 and 25,339 tons,respectively. - _

- THERE were 10,183 births — 5,211 males and 4,974 females—in Boston last year, a decrease of 345 for the previous year. The decrease of births in the last four years has been 13 per cent. August was the most prolific month of last year, and May the least. The excess of the living births over the deaths of the year was 2,508. : - IN the Red River country the Grandin farm contains 68,000 acres, with wheat standing on 40,000 acres of it. The farm has an elevator of the capacity of 50,000 bushels, and a telephone four miles in length. 7The Dalrymplé farm is four miles square, and yielded last season 111,933 bushels of wheat and 25,000 bushels of oats and barley. - : THE French amnesty benefited 3,331 persons, and there are about 900 excluded from its benefits, including members of the Commune, of the Central Commitiee, and others who played a prominent part in the insurrection—convicts who have been imprisoned before, and persons condemned for peiﬁuliarly grave offenses against common aw.. , : A PARLIAMENTARY return shows that the total number of electors now on the register in the United Kingdom 1§92, 999,229. In England and Wales the numbers are: Counties, 883,649; boroughs, 1,563,319; universities, 13,031 — total, 2,459,999. In-Ireland there are 172,570 electors in counties, 55,247 in boroughs, and 3,472 in Trinity College, Dublin—total, 231,289. .In Scotland the numbers are: Counties,” 92,310; boroughs, 204,142; universities, 11,489 —total, 307,491.

- PRUSSIAN statistics go to prove that the price of wheat governs the births there. Most 'births occur in January and February; fewest in June and July. Those Prussian Provinces which contain an unamixed German population of a comparatively high degree of civilization have fewer births than the more mixed Polish Provinces. Jews multiply less rapidly than Christians; a circumstance contrary to what has been supposed. On the other hand, they live longer. Since 1867 the average number of children to married women has been five. It used to be four. ' : »

AN Italian official report lately published gives a summary of the criminal statistics of the first four months of this year. ‘During that time there were 545 murders, 406 attempts to murder, 1,409 assaults with serious bodily injury, 7,015 assaults with slight injury. This gives a daily average of ninetythree armed attacks against persons. There were, beside, 472 - robberies effected without employing arms, 11,325 thefts, and 1,052 attempts to steal. Very remarkable is the different proportion in which these crimes fall to the share of the several provinces.: Foremost stands Sicily, in- which during those four months there was a murder for every 12,000 inhabitants; next comes the province of Rome, with a murder for every 13,000. In the Neapolitan district the ratio was a murder to every 16,000; in- Sardinia, .one to every 26,000; in Tuscany, one to every 56,000; in Piedmont, one to every 87,000, 2w g :

~ Iris an interesting fact that, when aniline purple was first prepared, it was for a length of time sold at seven times the price of pure silver. A cake of it, sixty-nine ounces in weight, will dye of a deep tint 1,428 pounds of wool or silk, equal to the wool obtained from 250 sheep. From thirty cwt. of coal, some 3865 pounds of tar -are obtained, which furnighes eighteen pounds of naphtha, containing six pounds of benzol; from this latter—the -starting point of mauve and magentarﬁve pounds of aniline are produced, .from which, again, one pound of mauve or magenta can be obtained, sufficient to dye 560 pounds of silk, or 960 of wool. In.other worlls, four pounds of conl will yield enough of the benzol--aniline. itself is present in‘coal tar, but in too small’ quantities to be practically separated—to produce magenta suflicient for dyeing ' one pound of wool.—N. Y. Sun. ,

3 —-Youn(% Gillipod to friend: It is aw-deuced uncomforting, you know, to think that, perhaps, my aw-wival for the hand of that charming cweature, Miss Dashington, is her father's awbeastly coachman, you know.’—(Qincinnati Enquirer. o

INDEPENDENCE DAY. MA4Ry bad a little dog-- : A sort of brindle gray— And it went out to celebrate 3 - On Independence Day. . - : Now, where it went or what it did We're not prepared to state; But it will never, never more ; Desire to celebrate. : It struggled home at eventide, . A sorry, hopeless wreck— - : A pack of crackers. torn and rent, Adorned its hanless neck. i . While to its shattered little tail =~ A fire balloon was tied, And black torpedo strains appeared ‘Upon its eithér side. & *'What made them treat my doggie so?” Did weeping Mary cry— : ** It's lndependencé Day, you know,” - * Her mother madereply. . -—St. Louis Times.

TRUE LOVE. ‘ A Story Told by a Washington Corre=spondent—How a. Young Lady Was Saved from a Loveless NMarriage. It is well worth remembering that no one can tell what influence he may be exerting, and how pg}Werful that influence may be in determining the character and destiny of another. One day last week a gentleman whose business calls him occasionally to Washington concluded to make himself better acquainted than before with the pleasant places in the outskirts of the city, and ordering from the livery stable a horse and buggy, inquired, while at dinnerat his boarding place, the location of and the way to the chief points of interest. Among those present at the table was a young lady who mentioned the Soldiers’ Home, a few imiles out from the city, as being a delightful retreat, | and endeavored to direct him thither. He did not very clesrly understand her direction, and on the impulse of the moment invited her to save herself and -him all further efforts at instruction in local geography and topography by going with -him and showing him the way. She hesitated a moment, ' but having been somewhat acquainted with him for nearly a year, and by reputation with his wife and children, soon decided to go. It was Saturday afternoon and a delightful day, and more beautiful scenery than that inside the grounds of the Soldiers’ Home is npt to be found anywhere ‘‘in this new world, which is the old.”” To talk of undulating fields, of pathways winding over hills, though green and flowery vales, and .along the shores of lakelets sleeping In the sunlight—of cool . drives completely overarched by bending trees, through an atmosphere laden with the odor of honeysuckles and magnolia blossorhs—would be but a mockery, meager and inadequate to give any idea of the varied beauties of that lovely Eden. The ‘gentleman knew little of his lady companion beyond what any one could soon discover—that she was neither a gushing and sentimental young miss on the one hand, nor a voluble and flippant chatterbox on the ‘other; but an - intelligent, sensible and rathér reserved young woman. On this occasion she seemed rather more reticent than usual. It turned out that in what little she did say she shaped the conversation, whether purposely or unwittingly it would be difficult to say, in such a wayas to lead him to speak of his wife and children," his early days and hopes and struggles, the brave fidelity with which she who had consented to share his fortunes had stood by his side through poverty and. distress until the dawning of brighter | days; and without antecedent purpose, } and almost unconsciously, he gave utterance to the warmest affection and ‘ ‘highest appreciation of her who made | his home a paradise on earth from which it was one of the misfortunes of his lot and his business that he must remain so much away. . When he be-

gan to feel as if he was talking too ‘much of himself, and his home and home affairs, she seemed strangely. bent—he thought of it afterward more than he did then—upon bringing him back to the same old subject. And thus the afternoon wore away, and the twain turned fror the Soldiers’ Home pleased with each other and delighted with their trip. : But as for the woman, it was midnight before she slept. Her mind was undergoing a revolution, in which her previous purposes were becoming unsettled. The next afternoon.she had an engagement to ride:out with another gentleman; and she had her rea[sons——woman’s reasons—for believing | that then, or soon, he - would ask her to ‘become his wife. He was an eminently eligible parti—comfortably wealthy, well connected socially, and only one thing formed an argument a%ainst her accepting him; she did not love him. But, she had asked herself, wasshe not over romantic? Was she not expecting too much of herself? If she waited for the welling up in her own heart of feelings which she fancied she should have toward a man whom she could marry, ‘'would she not be waiting for something that would never come—because it existed nowhere outside of poetry and novels? Was not the calm feeling of esteem and respect she had for this man the same thing that others called ‘““love,”” and married in accordance therewith, and were happy? Yes, she concluded, she was an enthusiast and a dreamer; 'she would beé sensible; she would not sacrifice her best chance for happiness in ‘life to a delusion; when he asked the momentous question, she would say ‘“yes.” | : Such had been her intention; but she had had a revelation. She had been in’ the presence and companionship of a man who had married forlove—ardent, | intense, tender, unfailing, ever-growing. love; 4 man whose wife and children were his world, whose home /was his heaven. Here was love in real life—not a ﬁ%menp. of the imagination, or a fancy of the novelist; a something that some human beings actually in existence did feel toward each other, and it was the supreme guide and delight and glory of their lives. Such a sentiment she felt assured within herself now she was. capable of feeling; but not toward this ‘man who spught her hand—oh, never toward him! Her perceptions grew more definite and her judgment clearer. . . N - Sunday afternoon ¢‘‘he came, as .pre-ﬂl‘l'ﬂnﬁﬁdi to take her out in his carriage. They, too, went to the Soldiers’ ‘Home. But how differently it seemed,

with this listless lump of mortality beside her in place of a man! At one sightly eminence she asked him to stop and look at the panorama spread cut before and below them. He admitted that it was very miece—in as enthusiastic tones as he would have admitted the superiority of a prize pumpkin at a county fair. . Whilethey were stopped, the horse reached down for a bite of the green grass beside the carriage path; his master gave-him & sudden jerk with the reins and a sharp cut with the whip. The lady remonstrated at what seemed to her the uncalled-for cruelty;; the man seemed somewhat ashamed, and answered apologetically that ** anything that obeyed him would get along well enough, but anything that disobeyed him would have té suffer the consequences.”” The woman mused within herself that ¢ anything,’’ after he was married, would undoubtedly include his wife. - Tk

In due time came the sunset, and the twilight—and the expected ‘¢ proposal.” But for the assurance gained the preceding day that real,'tgaithful, fervent, long-enduring human love had not died out of the world and become entirely a thing of history, poetry and romance—but for the confidence that she ,could so love some man who.was worthy, and the hope that some day some worthy man might so love ber—but for the contrast of that husband with this person who offered himself as her husband —she would have said ¢““Yes.” Asit was, there was an almost sharpness in the promptness and emphasis with which she answered ¢ No.” -~ - . ‘That Sabbath evening, if one had asked the gentleman who accompanied the lady to the Soldiers’ Home on Saturday what influence he had exerted for good that day, he might have answered truly that he knew of none. If one had asked the lady she could have answered that by his manifestation -of manly character, his utterance of noble sentimments, with no thought of putting himself or them on exhibition, he had given her new and larger and maore correct ideas of genuine manhood, and saved her from a loveless marriage and a blighted life. P - If I seem to be writing these as facts that I know all about, it is simply because they are facts, and I do know all about them. They but illustrate again the tremendous truth that, unconscicusly to ourselves, influences for good or ill, as our characters may be, are constantly radiating upon and affecting all about us: - N i ' % % x “Nostareverrose Or set \ﬁithout influence somewhere. Who What ear%t? g;{ds trom earth's lowest creature? Can be f)é;)xjeélig its purpose and strong in its And all lii‘er;:t be purer and strongerthereby.” -—~Washington Cor. Dubuque Herald.

" An Eccentric Miser. L - Mr. MARVIN BANNING, of Hadlyme, who died on Thursday, the 12th inst.; at the age of seventy-four years, has been the object of much comment in this and adjoining villages. It is alleged that the poor old man starved himself to. death, which report is substantiated by the physicians who “attended Lim in his sickness. His manner of living and the circumstances connected with his death, if given in detail, would make an interesting book for Silas Wegg to read to Mr. Boffin; for seemingly no - miser’s library counld be complete without an edition of the life of the late Marvin Banning. By dint of industry, remarkable financeering and rigid economy the deceased had accumulated an ample fortune before attaining the age of fifty. Unlike most young men on beginning life for himself, Marvin was not inclined to be uxorious; coﬁsequent]'y his whole attention was directed to the accumulation of money, and he, as he would frequently remark during the last years of his life, ‘“never had any time to look for a wife.”’ :

During the last ten years of his life he lived like a hermit, his diet consisting mostly -of raw pork and hard bread, 8o cunningly concealing his true circumstances that many were led to | believe that he could not atford the luxury of & housekeeper. Denying himself the actual comforts of life, from miserly motives alone, by going without eating during long periods, and staying in his house on cold winter days without a fire, is the alleged ecause of his sickness, which resulted in_ his death. Thus he saerificed even himself on the altar of his idolatry—the almighty dollar. This peculiar man had manifested no particular desire to possess much real estate until about .three years: since, when he suddenly branched out and purchased ‘ three extensive farms, which, in addition to the territory bequeathed by his mother, ‘mace him the largest land-holder in the place where he resided: The prompt manner in which he paid the cash for this property led his neighbors }to believe that there was more truth rthan, poetry in the prevailing rumor that this old chap had amint of money. The day before Mr. Bagning died he intimated that . there were: hidden treasures in and around his residence, ~which declaration was delayed so long that the poor cld man’s strength gave out before he was able to particularize all the various nooks and corners which he had utilized as banks of deposit. After this unexpected disclosure a very careful search throughout the premises was instituted, which resulted in the finding of several bags of gold and silver in a barrel of butternuts in the garret, amounting in the aggregate to about three thousand dollars. A box was also unearthed in the cellar which contained not only gold and silver coins, but several thousand dollars in Government and other bonds. Mr. Banning was the owner of a number of shares in the 'Saybrook National Bank and a large depositor in several savings banks. The value of his estate is variously estimated, but there is at. present no means of knowing the ex‘dct amount, as the inventory is not yet perfected, and all the treasure may not ;gava:f been found.—Cor. Hariford (Conn.) Tvmes. + e

. a-The little girl looks forward to the time when she can ‘‘do up’’ her hair like a lady, as a period of. true hairpinness. : st —The'cabbage is a head in the vegetable world. o o

' 'Dickens as a Pedestrian. ‘¢ ARE you a good walker?’ inquired the English friend who drove me to the station from whieh I wa§ to start for Gad’s Hill, on iy first visit to Charles Dickens. ‘‘Pretty fair,”” I replied, with that American confidence in the ability to do anything- which has made my countrymen famous. ‘¢ All right,” responded'my friend, with a quizzical glance at the thin-soled gaiters affected by New Yorkers in 1866—a glance which I did not thoroughly appreciate until forty-eight hours afterward in my reom at Gad’s Hill ‘place, when 1 endeavored to coax these very gaiters off from my swollen, burning and painful feet. During that interval I had met Charles Dickens, and we had taken one of his walks together. Professional or amateur, thete never was a more enthusiastic pedestrian than Dickens. . He loved walking for its own sake, he practiced it for its beneficial effects upon his health; he utilized it as a means of observatjion; he preferred it to any other method of locomotion; he found in it rest, recreation «nd unlimited enjoyment. To ask you to walk with him, in town or country, was one of the highest compliments which . he, who paid so few compliments, could offer. Many are the happy Kours, along London streets and Rochester roads, that memory now tenderly recalls; but these pleasures do not obliterate the recollections of the exquisite ~pedestrian pains that followed niy first walk with Dickens. There was nothing, except my friend’s tentative question at the station, to prepare me for ‘the sacrifice. A basket carriage wds waiting at Gad’s Hill Station to drive ‘me to the Diekens mansion in time for ~dinner. Next day the host himself ‘drove me about Cobham Park.' It was "not until the second morning, when we had become better- acquainted, that he proposed that walk to . Rochester, -around Rochester, through the marshes,t to ' Gravesend, by Chalk Church, ‘that sent me back to London footsore from unaccustomed exercise, but \Yith head and heart full of the_ genial and wise gossip of the greatnovelist. ‘“Not. quite twenty miles out and back,” said Dickens, as we reached Gad's Hill Gate, “¢butgoed walking for five hours and a half, considering the 'Q'o?nt.ry.’_’ ‘Considering, too, he might hat¥e add--ed, the stoppages for hearty laughter, the episodes of flower-gathering and stair-climbing, the visits to roadside hostelries; old church-yards and curious ruins; the talks with tramps, with children and with inquisitive dogs; and ._ the merry accompaniment of anecdote, reminiseence and remark, that made each mile a miraclée of delight to one who was, for the first time, alone with the Dickens of his boyhood’s adoration ’and his youthful' dreams.—Bretano’s Aguatic Monthly... .. o 1

. —*Do you call that a veal cutlet, waiter?’- said a customer.. ¢ Why, it is an insult to every true calf in the country.” - #*l'didn’t mean to insult you, sir,”’ said the waiter.. °. - —The world was never intended for a house of mourning. The flowers are not painted black, nor is every bird a crow.——Hartford Journal. e

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Tone up the System by using JOHNSTON'S : _SARSAPARILLA. . It has been in use for 20 iyea.rs, and has proved to be the best preparation in the market for SICK HEADACHE, PAIN IN THE SIDE OR BACK, LIVER COMf’I}AINT. PIMPLES ONTHE FACE, DYSPEPSIA, PILES, and all Diseases that arise - fror: a Disorde,red,tiver or an_impure blood. Thouasa::ds of our best people take it and %iva it to ticir children. - Physicians prescribe it daily, Those who use it once recommend it to others. Itis made from Yellow Dock, Honduras Sarsaparilla: Wild Cherry, Stylingia Dandelion, - Sassafras, fWintergreen. and other well-krown valuabie Roots and Herbs. It is strictly vegetsble, and cannot hurt the most delicate constitution. Itisone of the best medicines in use fo. Regulating the Bowels. . . : ‘lt is sold by all respornsible druggists at one - -cdloﬂax‘ for a quart hottle, or six bottles for five ollars. s 3 eaiaed 2 Those who canuotohtain a bottle of this medicine from their druggist may send us one dollar, and we will deliver it to them free of any charges. '~ W.JOHNSETON & €O., Manufacturers, ' 161 Jefferson avenus....s ~...DETROIT MICH For Sale by €. ELDRED & SON, ' Ligonier, Ind. diie

L : 9 Positively Cured by | ¥ . these Little Pills, - They also relieve s 77 FDistress from Dyspep- : gia, Iﬂ_digestion and ; 111 LE Too earty Eating. ) A perfect, remedy for ; ilv E R Bizzinfss,' Nﬁa\ég ea, = 1 Drowsiness,Bad Taste b in the Mouth, Coated ;, PILLSn f Tongue, Pain in the ? e | Side, &e. They regu--4 : late the Bowels and ; _ prevent Constipation - and Piles, The smallest and easiest to take. Only'one pill a dose. 40 in a vial, Purely Vegetable. ‘Price 25 cents. 80ld by all Druggists. BRAEED . CARTER MEDICINE CO., Prop'rs, Erie, Pa.* . *ive Vials by mail for one dollar, .

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