Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 February 1879 — Page 4

I* TWO EDITIONS

THK announcement of Gkv. Williams that he will not call an extra Session of the Legislature will give general satisfaction to the people of the State.

ON Monday last, JndgeSolomon Blair •a exjadge of the Superior Court of Marion county, and chairman of the Republican State Central.Committee, died of heart dieeise, at his Some Indianapolis, aged 50 years. -1

Tins N. Y. Son says taoks placed points upward interfere trtth the movecdfents of materialized spirits in Boston seances. Guess an attack of that kind would tax the temper of onr Pence Hall spirits, and put them apon another tack

ONE of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat editors has been getting figures about Pullman palace cars. He finds that a ride in one of these Pullmancars oosts about f3 a day, and be thinks that 91 day would be enough, oonsidering that the company makes too much money,

THIS is Nasby *s oomment on the Til den exposure: "Ther is no limit to the crooelty nv the ablishen managers, nun watever. Not content with predentin that gilelis reformer, Saml. J. Tilden, from buyin' the Presidency, they are doin ther level best to fasten the attempt onto him."

IN our neighbor town of Galesburg, Illinois, over 2,700 persons who had never previously taken the pledge, signed daring the recent temperance revival, under the management of the Hon. A. B. Campbell, of Bloomington. The meetings closed last Sunday night with a grand love feast at the Opera House.

THE historical critics have tomahawked another inspiring tradition. In connection with the preparation by the citizens of Greenwich, Connecticut, to celebrate the one hnndreth anniversary of Putnam's riding down Horse-Neck, we are told that Old Put" did not ride down Horse-Neck that the story is nothing but a revolutionary fiction.

THK Indianapolis Benevolent Society hsu done a good thing in establishing quarters where a night's lodging can be had for five cents, a dinner for ten cents, and a breakfast or supper for five cents. Of course the lodgings and fare are not "sumptuous," but they area good deal better than none and are within the reach of the poorest. This is a feature of oharitable work that is worthy of general imitation.

'Das politicians 3are reported to be considerably disappointed over the reception of Chinese prohibit!tory bill by by the press of the country. It is condemned on all sides and as it must go back to the House for concurrence in the Senate's amendments, it Is doubtful If it will finally pass that body in its present form. If it does the President will be very likely to put his seal of condemnation upon it.

Thk extreme poverty of the widow of Bayard Taylor will be a surprise to most people. It is reported that her husband expended a large sum in furnishing hi* official quarters in Berlin, and indeed contracted considerable la* debtedness on that score, and that now his widow is absolutely without money to pay even a quarter's rent with. It has generally been understood that Taylor owned a considerable interest in the New York Tribune, which paid a round dividend, and was also well paid for hia editorial work on that paper, be* aides receiving a steady revenue-from tbe aale of his books. the faeels*f reports of this kisd the alleged pqvefciff of his widow is a painful surprise.

A wbitkr in tbe Indianapolis Journal presents some sensible Ideas on tbe «utyect of reducing court expenses, and it is not to be denied that these exposses are very heavy and ought to be cot down in every possible way. In view of the fact that petty oases sre frequently tried by jury, consuming much of .the oourt's time and entailing large expense upon the taxpayers, be sug gsets Chat in all civil oases the party oalling for a Jury shall be required to give security for tbe payment to tbe oounty treasurer of all oosts made by calling aaeh jury in case tbe verdict is against htan. The foes of the jury would thus be taxed against tbe losing party in case he called the jury, and where both parties demand a jury the cost to be taxed against the defeated party. Oeupie w*th this a reduction of the jury to six members snd give fopr the right to return a verdict, and we will have eliminated from the Jury system a good deal of nonsense which ha*

SIMBK

TH E-MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

S. WESTFALL, EPITOB A1TP PHOPR1BTOR.

TXRRKHAUTB, FEB. 22, 1$79

Oftfct*Ptptr An published. TK« FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evtoing VJUM a larg« ctrcnlatlan in th« anrronDdlng £towna, fbm it la cold by newsboys and agents. SHASBOOKD EDITION, on Saturday Even tog, (on lato £h« hands of nsarly evs*y reading person ltt She city, and the flurm

Mltf thli Immediate vielfclty. -»*»=•—»*•«. Bvacy Week's Issue is, la feet, &mt

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Adyartlaezneata appear Aw

THIS IS the birthday of George Wash Ington. We cannot tell a lie. It is not as big a day as the Fonrth of Jaly.

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THE im VLT TO QBINAtif The bill restricting Chinese Immlgra tlon, whioh has psssed botli Souses of Congress, and is before the President for his signature, ought not to beoome a law, and we hope the Intimation that the President will veto It will prove true. Should the bill become law It will reflect lasting disgrace upon the American nation. A few years ago this country negotiated a treaty with China, very much against the will of tbe latter, by whioh wessetftred important commercial advantages, and in return stipulated for unlimited Chinese immigration. China has kept that treaty, on her part, and propones to keep it still while we deliberately propose to violate lfewithout so muoh as communicating with the government of China, To do so is to fling an insult in the face of the latter oountry. Why this indecent haste Why not prooeed in the usual way, as we would with any of the warlike powers of Europe, by negotiating for a modification of the treaty? Is Chins so wea that we oan afford to deal thus unfair! with her? We would not dsre to fling such an insult in tbe face of England pr. Russia. That China is unwarlike makes the set cowardly as well as unjust.

The measure was opposed in the Senate by tbe best men of that body, and nearly all the Republicans voted against it. Blsine and Booth were the notable exceptions. The latter no doubt felt it necessary to vote for the bill on aocount of the pressure for it on the Pacific slope, while Blaine thought to make presidential capital out of it. We doubt if be hSs advanced his chances by his vote on the Chinese bill. The Democrats of course voted for the measure. If tbe President vetoes the bill, it is said it cannot receive the number of votes necessary to make it a law.

HOAXES. I 1-. Oljj

That singular and incomprehensibly class of people who are fond of playing practical jokes have of late turned their ingenious talents in the direction of perpetrating hoaxee upon tbe newspapers. At one time the public mind is harrowed up by an elaborate and ingenious aocount of the suicide of a gifted but eccentric young man who blows his brains out with a revolver at the olose of a publio lecture on tbe subject of atheism At an other time a hissing aerolite falls through the roof of a house and through the body of a man asleep in bed, burying itself in the earth beneath the floor. Encouraged by the credulity of the public mind which allows stories like these to be imposed upon it for realities, the practical joker grows bolder and concocts a tale that makes the blood of every one who reads run cold. A young lsdy who has closed a term of school and received a considerable sum of money from the trustee, is waylaid upon tbe road by a party of young men, beaten, robbed, outraged and left for dead. She has strength enough left, however, to crawl back te the sohool house and write the names of her mur derers on the black-board before she dies. The county and vicinity where the crime occurs is given, but the name of the young woman is not. There is nothing incredible in the story, and the friends and relatives of several young ladies who have been engaged as teachers in the county named are caused to suffer cruel and intense anxiety until it is learned that the story is a hoax—tbe noisome exhalation of some practical joker's depraved brain. The man who could be guilty of perpetrating a joke like that could never be appropriately punished in a community where the whipping post hss been abolished. A sound flogging, in- the public square, would be the only legitimate method of dealing with bim. A newspaper whioh has been imposed upon by stories like these owes it to itself and its readers to make every possible effort to discover and expose tbe party who has perpetrated the outrage and the Legislature ought to enact a law for tbe adequate punishment of this kind of wrongdoers.

MKT* OPOLIZINQ.

Tbe bill known as the Metropolitan Police Bill, now before the Legislature, which provides that in oftieif having population of 85,000 or over, the polloe department shall be under tbe control of aboard of commissioners, a majority of whom sbsll be appointed by tbe Governor, looks very muoh like a thinly disguised trick on the part of the Democrats to gain control of tbe city of Indianapolis. It is provided that tbe board above mentioned shall have entire control of the police force of the city, regulate the salaries of the members, and ploy as many as they see fit. These commissioners are to haves salary of 91,000 a year each themselves. The arrangement could not help increasing the cost of the police force of the city very materially, while tbe strong probabilities are that it would detract from its efficiency. As the minority report of the committee on tbe bill forcibly puts it: "It is on just to provide by law that tbe olt|A«ll Mf| within a certain fixed l»t come," (the linrtt of taxation Is new 90 cents on tbe

Mand

thtm take the

power out of her bands to oontrol her expenses and place it in the hands of persons over whom she can have no oontrol. Just why the citizens oi Indianapolis should not have the right to oontrol their own police regulations, the same as those of other cities in the 8tate, might puzzle any one bats Democratic member of tbe Legislature to find out is not hard to imagine, however, tbst the fair prospect of many Democratic successors to Oovernor Williams furnishes a key for tbe solution of tbe conundrum.

VAM»KR& i.f once said, "A million 6r

come dowo with irom tin middle two is as uiueb asy msn should seen at all elegant evening parties where jiges. jhswr." |»*U w* w»nt. dsndng 1? goiog on.

Fnoptfl sre putting their mon#y into four per oent, government bonds at tbe rate of several millions per day, snd the government presses are kept running night and dsy In order to print enough bonds to supply tbe demand. This stats of things speaks well for the confidence the people have In the govern ment, but It does not indloate much eagerness on the part of aaotoeyed men to Invest In business enterprises. When oapital seeks the channels of trade and commerce, Instead of four per cent bonds, the business of tbe country will be in a more healthy oonditlop than it is at present.

THB unpopularity of a bankrupt law could not well be more forcibly shown than by tbe vote on Mr. Grubbs* bill providing for voluntary assignments, whioh was taken on Wednesday in the State Senate, After along and animated discussion the bill was defeated by tbe emphatic vote of 35 to 9. The bill provided for, the flbal disobsrge of the debtor, and it was oharged by the oppo nents of the measure that it wonld virtually operate like the national bank rupt law. The remembrance of tbe odious workings of that law is too fresh yet in the minds of the people for any measure looking in the direction of return to it to meet with sny favor.

CONNECTICUT gives us the latest prison romance. Fourteen years ago Charles Gilbert was sentenced to prison for life for the murder of Henry Cad well, in New Britain. He was oonvioted on clr cumstantial evidenoe snd, although be could have taken advantage of evidence tending to prove an slibi, he did not and his strange conduct had some infiu ence in securing his conviction. Gil bert's father died last October, and it $ has lately come to light that the prisoner has declared that the death of, bis father has removed an obligation of secrecy that he put upon himself at the time of his trial, and that his father was really guilty of the crime for which he, the son, has been convicted. Neither at the trial, nor since, he says, could he tell the truth without disolosing facts that would put the rope around his father's neck. His story of the murder committed by his father is believed by those familiar with the case, and the prisoner's statement is now before the

Legislative Committee on Pardons.

THE latest thing that the Rev. Dr. Talmage has looked at "from a religious standpoint" is St. Valentine's Day, with its "six million valentines fluttering in the excited grasp, and thirty million people wondering where they ca from." Tbe religious lesson is this "St. Valentine's Day cannot be spared from the calendar. No harm will come from the caricatures your children receive. The valentine also has higher uses. There comes a time between 18 and 25 years of age, when one does not know exactly what is the matter. You set dreamy. You dare not write a letter expressive of your feeling, for you do not wdnt to commit yourself, and at just that time the uses of the valentine comes in 1"

THE AMERICAN PUNCH. This paper is upon our table, and from the evidence it affords, seems to constitute a most important and promising new departure" in American journal ism. Of humorous and comic papers there have been many, and it would appear among a people like the Amerioans there should be a rich and fruitful field for a journal of this character. But of the numerous papers of this kind nearly all have proved unsuccessful and for the reason that there has been a lack of resources in the very features which are indispensable. The American Punch depends upon what is known as the "Mumler Process" of photo-engrav-ing, for its illustrations, and is issued from the establishment of the PhotoElectrotype Co., of Boston, celebrated tbrougboutjthe country for their wonderful prooess of producing electrotype plates by means of photography. This process offers numerous advantages I which to tbe wood engraver are wholly unknown) in executing engravings far beyond that ever employed by any other establishment. With artists or repute snd writers of ability, combined with other advantages, they oan produce tbe obeapeat and best comic paper ever isssued and although Five cents per copy (the price of a Punch) seems a remarkably low figure for an original Illustrated Journal of sixteen psges: vet this very circumstance will speedily prove the sagaoity of the publishers, as it const secure immense sales.

Panch is designed to be to Amerioans what tbe renownedXiondoa Punch Is to Englishmen, snd it is thus aiming to ocafield that bag as yet been uncovered in Amerioa. American Punch appears to fill this long coveted position. It Is high-toned absolutely free from vulgarity or coarseness, while it is rich, arkling, and literally alive with "good

spar! thins ally tea, forcible, and very handsomely exeou evincing rare talent in tbe department of caricature. We would call special attention of newsdealers and canvassers to their advertisement, which may be found in another eolumn.

THKRB HATTITt SAT1TRDAY FVKNI-NG MAILT

The illustrations are especial!

A DREADFUL STORY. Reno (Nev.) Oasetie. Previous to Christmas last there wait flourishing temperance society in Sierra Valley. During tbe holidays certain melancholy things occurred, snd st a subsequent meeting of tbe cold-water lodge a good young man moved that those who had broken their vows be expelled. The motion was lost. Then a motion wis made that all those who failed to get drunk during the holidays be fired out. Carried. A motion to dissolve the lodge was also carried amid wild enthusiasm*

HOOPS AQAIN.,

®%an Francisco Call, London Letter. I wrote yon sons months ago tbst a few of our ultra-elegantes were having the padded hips mads in the style of ueen Elisabeth. That movement is

owly growing, and you may take my word for it will finally culminate In the large, circular, but not trailing hoop, such as was brought Into fSehlon years ago by Eugenie. In fact, this vei hoop-skirt, with short dresses, Is aln

is. t,-

very eady

THE CHIEF OF SCOUTS.

HOW BUFFALO BILL BBCAMK AN ACTOR.

Hon. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) has a anew play tbta* season, written by Col. Prentiss Ingraham, and more in harmony with tbe cultured and istined audlenoes that everywhere gather to see tbe noted chief of scouts. We learn that Mr.Cody has wonderfully improved as an actor, and is supported this season by a very strong company, It wes not always thus. His introduction to tbe stsgs wss told lsst Saturday in the Youngstown, Ohio, Evening News. Tbe Nswsssys: ]*•'".

Buffalo iBilt, Chief of Scouts TJ.S.A and the pride of tbe prairios, to day re lated in his off hand manner and jovial way how It was he became an actor, and his career before tbe footlights, "It wsa in the fall of '71," said Bill, "that Gen. Sheridan came to tbe plains with a party of gentlemen for tbe purpose of engaging in a Buffalo bunt, to extend from Fort McPherson, Nebraska, to Fort HSyes, Kansas, on the Ksnsas Psbific railroad, a distsnoe of 228 miles through the finest hunting country in the world. In tbe party were James Gordon Bennett, of tbe New York Herald, Lawrence and Leonard Jerome, Carl Livingston, J. G. H*oksbire, Gen. Fitzhugh, of Pittsburgh. Gen. Anson Stager, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and other noted gentlemen. I guided the party, and when the bunt was finished I received an Invitation from them to New York and make tbeoj a visit, as they wanted to show me the East, as I had shown them tbe West. I was then Chief of Scouts in the department of the Platte. And in January, 1872, just after the Grand Duke Alexis' hunt, wbIob, by the way, I organized. I got a leave of absence, and for tbe first time in my life fonnd myself esst of tbe Mississippi river. Stopping at Chicago two days, where I was the guest of Gen. Sheridan, I proceeded to New York, where I was shown tbe elephant. During myvisit I

attended a performance at tbe Boweiy Theater, in company with Col. E. Z. C. Judson (Ned Bantllne), and witnessed a dramatization of Judson's story, entitled ^Buffalo Bill, King of Border Men." Tbe part of Buffalo Bill was impersonated by Mr. J. B. Studley, an excellent actor, and I must say I thought the fellow looked like me, as his make up was a perfect pioture of myself. I bad not watched myself very long before the audience discovered thst the original Buffalo Bill was in the private box, and they commenced cheering, which stoj ped the performance, and they wou not cease until I had shown myself and spoken a few words.

At that time I bad no idea of going on the stage, such a thought having never entered my head. But some enterprising managers, believing there was money in me, offered me as high as one thousand dollar^ per week to go on the stage. I told them I would rather face a thousand Indians than attempt to open my mouth before all those people. I returned to my duties as scont and during tbe summer of 1872 Ned Buntline was constantly writing me to come east snd go on the stsge offering large inducements' As scouting business was rather dull, I concluded to try it for a while, and started east in company with Texas Jack. Met Buntline in Chicago with a company ready to support me.

We were to open in Chicago in Nixon's Amphitheater, on December 16tb, 1872. arrived in Chicago December 12th, 1872. We were driven to the theater where I was introduced to Jim Nixon, who said, "Mr. Buntline give me your drama as I am ready to cast your piece, and we have no time to lose, if you are to open Monday, and these men who have never been on the-stsge will require several rehearsals." Buntline surprised us all by saying that be bad not written the drama yet, but would do so at once. Mr. Nixon said, "No drama! and this 1b Thursday. Well, I will cancel your date." But Buntline was not to be balked in this way, and asked Nixon what he would rent tbe theatre for one week. "One thousand dollars," said Nixon. "It's my theatre," said Buntline, making out a check for tbe amount. He rushed to the hotel, secured the services of several clerks to copy the parts, and in four hours bad written "The Scouts of tbe Prairie." He handed Texas Jack and I our parts, told us to commit them to memory and report next morning for rehearsal. I looked at Jack, and then at my part. Jack looked at me and said, "Bill, how long will it take you to comoiit your part?" "About Beven years, If I have good luck." Buntline said "Go to work?' I studied hard, and next

morning

While I was telling the story, Buntline had whispered to tbe stage manager thst when I got through with my story to send on tbe Indians. Presently Buntline sang out, "The Indians are upon us." Now this was "pie" for Jack and is Indians last one la most tremendous applause, while the audiehbe wint wild. The other actors never I ot chance to appear in the first act. luntline said, "go ahead with the second act, Its going splendid." I think that during tbe entire performance neither Jack or myself spokes line of onr originSl parts. Bnt the next morning the press said It was tbe best show ever given In Chicago, as it wss so bad it was good, and they could not see wbst Buntline was doing sll the time if It took him four hours to write that drama.

Our business was immense all that season, and if we bed been menaced properly we would have each made a small fortune. As it was* I came out ten thousand dollars ahead. In June, 1873,1 returned to tbe plains, came east again in tbe fall, this time my own manager. I got a company, took the noted "Wild Kll" with me, rat could not do much with bim( as be wss not an easy

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man to handle, and would insist on shooting tbe supers in tbe legs with

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wder, just to see them jump. He me a few months later and returned to the plains. Hs was klllsd in August, 1876 in Deadwood.

In tbe summer of 1876 I was Chief of Scoots under Gen. Csrr, afterwards with Gen, Crook snd Gen. Terry.

On tbe 17tb of July, 1876, I killed "Yellow Hand." a noted Cheyenne chief and took tbe first seslp lor Custer. I retHrned to tbe stage In October, 1876, and during tbe season of *76 and T7 I cNkred tblrt have genera dally, on the 'stage, cattle business in

Eoston.

recited the lines, cues

snd all, to Buntline. Buntline said, You' must bot recite cues they Sre for you to speak from—the last words of tbe person who speaks before you." I said, "cues be d—d I never heard of anything but a billiard cue." Well, night came. The house wfus paoked. Up went the curtain. Buntline appeared as CaJe Durg, an old trapper, and at a certain time Jack and I wero to come on. But we were a little late, and when made my appearance, facing three usaud people, among them Gen. iv it broke me ail up and I could not remember a word. All that saved me was my answer to si question put by Buntline. He asked, "What detained you?" 1 told him had been on a hunt with Milllgan. You see Milligan was a prominent Chicago gentleman, who had been hunting with me a short time before on tbe plains, and had been chased by the Indians, and tbe papers had been full of bis bunt for some time. Buntline saw that I was "up a stomp," for I bad forgotten my lines* and he told me to tell iim about the hunt. I told the story in a very funny way, and it took like Wild* fire with the audience.

y-efght thousand dollars, Tly been successful, finan

I am now in the Nebraska, which

lace I will return to in a few weeks, as tie Indians sre giving us some trouble in our oountry By stesling horses snd cattle.

the Indians sre

SAND AND SAWDUST.

The Part They Play in This World o/ Sin and Sorrow. Ji.

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Detroit Free Press.

"Gen'lem, if you see a pusson rusbin' 'roun' de world enveloped in adiamund

in sn' sn ulster, am dat any sign dat pays taxes, rents a church pew an brings his cbiU'en up hi de wsy dey should go?"

Brother Gsrdner looked down on the sixty-four fsoes in tbe orchestra chairs bot not a voice responded "When you see a pusson seated in a blue cutter, pushin' de lines over a fast boss an' lookln' outer bis left eve as if be bad de bulge on all de co'ner lots in town, am das any sign dat a single grocer would true' bim for a box of sa'dines or a peck of carrots?"

Then Elder Toots besved a deep sigh and Huckleberry Jones silently scratched his off leg just below tbe knee. "When a man takes up tur seats in the kysr, pushes folks sroun' on de market, elbows sroun' de city bell sn

its fust place at de stamp window In poetoffice, am dat enny sign when it came to de pull he'd give half a dollar's worth of wood ter keepanorfun asylum from frAeztn* to death? Doan'you black folks flirt dost in yer eyes I Dar's a heap of sand an' sawdnst in dis world dat passes for sugar to de man walkin' by, but when you oomes to de pinch de sugar ain't dar. Der sawdust bulges up an'de sand creepe out, an* you am dispinfed an' disgusted. It's kinder bard to hav to eat cold turnip when yon know dat de family next doah am luxuriatln' On sweet cake an' turkey, but if de tur nip Sm paid for you needn't fear for your digestion. I expeck dat de h'ar after am de biggest fing enny of us bev

Sat

ot to work for, an' I tole you, brudders, big seal rings an' pants cut twentytwo inches across de cull am nowhar alongside of a kin' word an' honeet heart." I $3 THIRTY YEARS A STRANGER AT

HOME.

Boston Transcript, *££$-5

Men may escape the law, but their own consciences they cannot flee from. Many years ago a young man in this city was guilty of sn offence against the law, ah offence which brought social ruin upon himself and his family. The man and'his offence are forgotten by the

ublic, yet he lives, and lives here in But from the day his offence was discovered—although, having es caped the law, he is free to come and go as be pleases—be ha9 never been seen outside of his home in the daytime. Sometimes, under the cover of night, he walks abroad to take an airing, and note the changes that thirty years have wrought, but an ever active conscience makes him shun the light of day, and the faces of men, and he walks apart, a stranger in the midst of those among whom he has always lived.

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THEIR DA Y.

Peoria Journal.

There is no disguisin newspaper "funny" men day. has

rhe

the foot that ave bad their

been oloyed by

public

their so-called "humor," and a reaction is setting in. A surfeit brings satiety, and popular appreciation has been surfeited with the jokes of professional journalistic jesters. The court fools went long ago. The fools of tbe populace will follow them. When tbe occupation of tbe newspaper "funnv" man is gone, the only field open to bim will oe the circus ling and the minstrel stage. This is his proper place, and there he will drift.- rp

FASHION NOTE.

h, J'JIOUJ ilWi Xii. (... Oil City Derrick.

A society paper says: Square neoks are much worn on low corsages. necks are also seen, but round, low necks are preferred by most young ladies for ball toilets." We prefer round, low necks, and objeot strongly to square neoks, because tbe corners cut your arms, and the necks (which mean five dollars* we suppose) are too costly.

gwt •jFRUIT PROSPECTS. Iris 4 Fond da Lac Reporter. &•*<»•.* Already it is announced that the heft" of tbe fruit crop for another season is ruined. Shippers will probably order the bottoms or tbelr baskets raised another inch or so on tbe strength of it.

CERTAINLY NOT^ Crown Point Cosmos.

If 92,500 SBlary will make a circuit Judge honest and competent, and fl,500 will make bim dishonest and incompetent, tbe legislature ought not to reduce tbe salary.

THE DISTINCTION. », Chicago News. The Chinese needn't go but they mustn't come. ««. 4

YES," WE ALL ANSWER.

Dshbury News.

Did you ever wonder what you are to die of. HOW TO MIND THB BABY.

Norristown Herald.

first get your baby.

Spring Styles, Novelties and Fancy Goods are the attractions at the CENT STORE.

WRIGHT & KING'S, On the corner of Seventh and Main, for Dressed Turkeys, Chickens,Docks, Michigan Apples. Cranberries, Celery, Pickled Pigs* Feet, Oysters, Chow Chow, Fresh Prunes, Raisins, Smoked Hams, Breakfiist Bacon and New Maple Syrup1

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