Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 8, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 September 1876 — Page 4

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Thursday, Septeml )r 7,1870.

IF parties, like trees, arc to be known by their fruits, it is high time the poeple were laying in a good supply of hatchets

GOVERNOR 11 ENDRICK'S speech, which is published in full in another column will be found worth reading. The Gov. strikes the true key note.

"A in.oonY shirt campaign with money" is what Killpatrick thinks necessary to save Indi r. Republicans Killpatrick is very busy shaking the ensanquined rag.

IK one of the parties in every prize fight should be killed, and the other should be hanged for murder, perhaps an end might be made of tin brutal sport. Such deaths are valuable .is warnings

THE Turks have a goodly way of getting rid of inefficient or disagreeable Sul tan's. Perhaps the United States could imitate some of the customs of the Orient with profit. Abdul Ilamid is the name of the successor of Mourad Khan.

IF four years more of Republican rule will increase the prosperity of the country in the gratifying and glorious fashion of the four, it must be plain that e/crybody ought to vote for Hayes. The country is in a capital condition, Jto bJ sure.

DON CAMERON cast the vote of Pennsylvania, which he could control, for Hayes at the Cincinnati convention Don is the son of Simon, and Simon had intimated to to his hopeful son that it was a case of thumbs up.

IT is pleasant to reflect that, under the charming peace policy which our gloriOJS country has been enjoying, $105,900 is to be spent this year, to supply Mr Lo and his family with sugar wherewith to sweeten their coftce. It is highly proper that after the fatigues of campaigning, they should have their coffee sweetened to their taste.

To ID gloved Republicans there is .Something inexpressibly funnr, and ineffably impudent, in a plain old gentle man in a suit of homespun, like Blue Jeans Williams, being a candidate for Governor of the State of Indiana. They consider it a great joke. The laugh wil be on the oth( side of their mouths next month.

THE Vermont state election occurs today. Her last general election was in 87^, when the Republican majority for Governor was 20,324. Of course the state will go Republican to-day. If the Republican majority is greater than in 1874 it will be a Republican victory, if less it will be practically a defeat. It will be interesting on that account.

THE Republican party demonetized silver, and is now in favor of keeping it demonetized. The only hope of its remonetization during the life time of the present generation, is through the Democratic party. A vote for that party is a vote for the demonetization of silver. No citizen who believes it should be remonetized, can afford to vote any other ticket.

THE Slate ejection in Vermont occurs to-morrow. It will go Republican, of course. .Since the organization of the Republican party it has only been one way. It once repudiated old Luke Poland, but it has taken him to her bosom again. The election in Maine comes next Monday It, too, has always been Republican, and will be Republican this vear."

Now that their favorite baseball club has been beaten in the National championship by the Whites of Chicago, the St. Lousians are endeavoring to find comfort in the statement that the Browns have, after all been made up from various cities and really do not belong to St. Louis. The Browns must keenly feel this ingratitude in the hour of their defeat.

ULYSSES will introduce Rutherford to the Republican court at Long Branch, when the latter visits him there, as he has been invited to do. Of course Hayes loathes and despises grantism with the cordial contempt of Carl Schurz. Men generally despise people they visit. To cross ones legs under another man's mahogany is certain ej idence of deep and deadly distrust.

THE Postmasters at Kingston and Rondout New York have added a new device to the instrument for cancelling the postage stamps on letters. The Kingston P. M. has cut the word Hayes on his stamping machine and the one at Rondout has inscribed the words "vote for Hayes" on his. It is a pretty little device, and is calculated to keep the name of the leader of the Republican hosts belore the people. It will doubtless be generally adopted by Republican Postmasters although it is just a little irregular.

THE St. Louis Globe Democrat is editorially commenting on the difference between that city and Boston, presents the following table showing how few St. Louis boys attend eastern colleges and how many of the young fellows of "the hub" are attendants there:

St. Louis. Boston.

Amherst Boston University Brown University Cornell University

7

13 4 2 3

3

Dartmouth Harvard Mass. Inst, of Technology College of New Jersey 1 Princeton 5 Renssalaer

168

3

Washington and Lee 1 Yale

Total *9

2C9

THE Indianapolis Journal in some way gained posscsssion of a letter written by Austin II. Brown of Indianapolis to Governor Tilden. asking for a letter of ntroduction to Henry Watterson.

It publishes the letter with a great flourish of trumpets. The letter merely says that he intends to visit Louisville and that he would consider it favor to have a letter of introduction to Mr. Watterson, whom he wishes to consult on business with the details cf which it is unnecessary that he should trouble the Governor. He further states that he will not misuse the letter or compromise any one. It is a straight, forward letter, and no one without the perverted imagination of a thief, can otherwise construe it. The Journal proclaims itself an ass when it seeks to make capital out of the letter.

How Hayes Hates Grant. Carl Schurz hates Grant and grantism. So far Carl's head is level. But Carl is supporting Hayes. He thinks he will not perpetuate Grantism. In that, he is not, we are sorry to say, as level headed as he might be, and ought to be.

Carl knows that the Grant influence was thrown at the (Jincinnati Convention in favor of Hayes. He not, perhaps, his first choice, but it was a mighty early and fervent second choice. He was first, last and all the time opposed to Bristow, because thut gentleman was honest, because he had the exceeding bad taste to capture some of the President's friends in questionable transactions, and because such Miss Nancy's as Schurz were in favor of him. He was opposed to Blaine, because, in addition to being about as big a rascal as himself—a piece of impertinence on Blaine's part—he was infinitely his superior in all mental and socia' qualities and because being his intellectual superior, he would not and did not truckle to him.

Carl knows that Hayes wrote to Gran apologizing for his neglect to extol him and his administration in his letter accepting the Cincinnati noniii. ..ion. Zach Chandler, at any rate, says Grant received such a letter, and that it sati&fiedj Ulysses of Hayes' adrr.irr tion of him and his administration. Zach cannot have lied about this, for he is the chairman of the Republican National committee, a'cabinet officer, and, generally, a pretty big man in the party.

Carl knows th£t Hayes has accepted Grant's invitation to visit him at the summer Capitol, by, the rollicking sea waves at Long Branch. Carl never received any such invitation, and we do him the credit to suppose that he is too much of a man to accept it, even if it had been ten, dered him. Carl certainly does not find in this that evidence of an abiding hatred of Grant and grantism, with the lodgement of which in the bosom of his friend Hayes, he finds his greatest and only consolation.

Hayes will sleep under the shelter of the presidential cottage there, will look upon the presidential wine when it is red, will ride behind that sore tailed colt of five years ago, now grown to a handsome horse, will break bread, and taste salt and go through a variety of forms of accepting the presidential hospitality. He will form the acquaintance of Brother Orville, and Brothers-in-law Casey and Corbin.

He will dip in the surf with the Dents, and go yachting with Robberson, and learn the beauties of appropriating gov eminent vessels to private purposes, and bccome imbued with the delights of the KnaveyJ Department. He will weep briny tears with that dear martyr Belknap, and be initiated into the mysteries of measurements by Babcock. He. will talk about military matters with the gorgeous Col. Fred Grant, and hob-nob with Don Cameron and Zach Chandler while they explaip to him the way in which the elections are to be carried in the :3outh. Ail these things must indicate pretty clearly to Mr. Schurz the depth and fervor of that abiding hatred of Grant arid grantism/• with which the manly bosom of Rutherford heaves and pants. It must be plain to Mr. Schurz that Hayes is merely accepting the hospi­

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tality of Grant, to emphasize the reform spirit with which he is inspireS, when he smites them hip and thigh after his election. It is plain to the meanest comprehension, and therefore must be as clear as the sun to Mr. Schurz, that he is only trying to beguile from Chandler and Cameron their nefarious plans for conducting the cam

paign, that he may see his way the clear er to denouncing them in a second letter, Of course Hayes will make war to the hilt on Grant and grantism. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Whom Rutherford intends to skin he boardeth and drinketh and sleepeth with.

Rutherford worketh in a mysterious way, Carl Schurz's wonders to perform

Tilden'8 Cabinet.

The probability of Tilden's election has grown hourly stronger, since the day he was placed in nomination at St. Louis. As the canvas looks now, it hardly seems probable that enough money to suit Killpatrick, and a whole laund:y full of bloody shirts, could save the election to the Republicans. In this aspect of the case then, it becomes interesting to speculate on the cabinet officers, with which our Uncle Samuel will surround himself. He has an abundance of good materia froii which to select.

He could choose for example, Charles Francis Adams, for Secretary ofte David A. Wells, for Secretary of the Treasury, Judge Doolittle ol Wisconsin, for Attorney General, George W. Julian, for Secretary of the Interior, General Hancock, for Secretary of War, and some sound naval officer for the head,, of the Navy Department.

These gentlemen would cor stitute a cabinet in which the country could take some pride. It would show well in contrast with those, wherewith Grant has treated us.

Adams is a born diplomat. By inheritance and education he is a gentle

man

and a scholar. He is^moreover proud and dignified man, who, if all other motives failed to keep him honest, would not steal out of respeet to his honorable lineage' This is a matter of more moment than most people are

willing to allow. David A. Wells has made political economy a life study. To the study he brought a strong mind, enriched with careful research into the physical sciences. He is, perhaps, to-day the best informed man in the United States, on those very questions, with which he would have to grapple, if at the head of the

Treasury. Judge Doolittle, has been the brightest ornament of the bar in the northwest for a quarter of a century, and as a constitutional lawyer has few equals, and no su­

periors. Julian, during his long carcer in Congress, was a member of the committee on public lands, and lo him the perfection ot

our

homestead laws are due. We will not say that what he does not know on that subject is not worth knowing. That can be said of no man. But it would be safe to say that his information in refei ence to it is as thorough and exaustive as that of any man living.

Gen'l Hancock, is a soldier, and a man of affairs, reared in the profession of arms, which he adorned on the field by his splendid achievements. He. understands the wants of the army. The most nearly a civilian of all ourtrained soldiers, he has a proper appreciation of the good democratic doctrine of the subordination of military to civil law.

Knowing moic about military affairs than Belknap and Don Cameron combined he would not sel post Hraderships like the, one nor make war on the citizens at the ballot box Hkethe other.

As to the Secretaryship of the navy some good man could doubtless be found. Our OA Commodore, Chancey Twaddle would be better than Robeson, because does know something about boats, and he does not associate with thieves.

The Silver Question.

Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, engendered through the Senate, the act 1873 demonetizing Silver. As was then and is now, the chairman of the. Senate Finance Committee. He was then and is now the acknowledged leader of the party in Ohio. Though he managed to secure the passage of the bill demonetizing silver, by a trick, and a very disgraceful trick too. He has the honesty now, to acknowledge that he worked for the bill and knew what it meant. He goes further, and says, what everybody knows to be true, and what is only denied by weak-kneed Republicans in Terre Haute that it was and is, a Republican measure He worked for its passage, and will work for its retention on the statute books. The very party that can beat the Republicans is Democracy.

Every vote cast by an Independent Greenbacker, who proposed to believe in the ^demonetization of silver,is a vote cast for the party, headed by John Sherman, which demonetized silver and will keep it demonetized. It is a very fine thing, perhaps, to be an Independ ent, but to be one this fall, will be to forge anew the claims which already bind the laborers of the West. The friends o^ silver remonetization are not so numerous, that they can afford to divide their strength and be whipped in detachments by the common enemy. To be success

ful they must unite. The basis of n:oD must be on the Democratic party. It is idle for Independents without an organization in one-hundredths part of the union, and no possible chance of any general success, to demand the disbandment of a party, which is thoroughly organized everywhere, and only needs a grand victory this fall to put it in pocsession, the fourth dav of next March, of the whole government. To aid in that victory, the Independents can do much. By a separate organization they can accomplish nothing.

Harricn.

Ben Harrison is none the better for being the grand-son of President Harrison, and none the worse for being remotely connected, as it is said, with the celebrated Cincinnati burglar, by the1 name of Drift-wood Johnson. In this work-a-day world, neither the good deeds, nor the sins of father's descend unto the children of the third and fourth generation. There is neither a heritage of glory nor of shame. The people are willing to take Gen. Harrison on his own merits, lie need ask for nothing better. He will not find here in Terre Haute, a single man, even those who intend to vote against him, and their name is legion, who does not take a just pride in his name and fame. Mr. Harrison is a man of ability and integrity,—a gentleman every inch.

Fo. his candidature at this time, the people are indebted to the Democratic paitv. In the past, Gen. Harrison and men of his stamp, have been ordered to the rear of the Republican party, and placed in disgrace. It would have been the same this year, and was. until the Democrats forced the party, by working on its fears, to pay a decent regard for public opinion, by nominating a good man. But this sudden conversion, this eleventh hour repentance, is too late to accomplish salvation. Its motive is too transparent, its sincerity too doubtfjl General Harrison has been chosen, as Brutus was chosen by the conspirators against Cresar, to add dignity and respectability to the cause, or as the livery of Heaven, is sometimes stolen to serve the devil in. A good sound thrashing this fall in .Indiana, and over thc country, will teach the party that it mus put forward first, and keep at the head to he last, all the men of the Harrison stamp that it has, and not squander the fair estate of the people through nine years, and seek to do tardy justice in the tenth.

Gen. Harrison's opponent in this cam paign, is a man of the very type the people want. He is a hard headed, close fist ed son of a toil,—a man trained in the school of adversity, and accustomed to practicing the mo rigid economy,—the very man to save the revenues of an impoverished stale.

A correspondent writing from Saratc ga, under date of August 2S, savs: "Saratoga has reached the culminating point of brilliancy and gayety. How long the mad whirl of fashionable frivolity will last it is of course impossible to say, but it is quite safe to venture the supposition that the gay season this year will be extended into the balmy days of September. If such be truly the fact, society will have reason to rejoice, for there is scarcely a more charming spot to be found than Saratoga in the early fail. Then the weather is simply perfect. The first cool frost tints the leaves with a thousand varied hues, and the drives and alks for miles around are truly delightful."

Fatal Explosion.

New York, September 5.—This morniag shotrlv before ten o'clock, a fptal explosion occurred at the government works at Hell's Gate, by which three men were killed and a number wounded, some qui*e seriously. It appears a number of men wee employed on a barge, fixing the primer for a final explosion, when a premature explosion occurred.

"Go away: you're too heavy to hold on my

knee,''said a.cross young man to his Sweetheart's little brother. "Me too heavy!"exclaimed the child 'why I ain't near so heavy as Eliza, and yeu hold her on your knee easy!" Eliza also then told him to go away.

An Explorer Gone.

London, Sept. 5.—Geo. Smith, the Assysian explorer, is dead.

UNCLE' SAM.

The Old Fellows Collections here During the Past Month Foot up Immense.

The following is the official revenue report for the month of August, past: Penalties &c, 23 01 Dist. Spirits

WHAT TILDEN HAS DONE

In Breaking rings.

The true History of the reduction of taxes.

In 1874. the year in which Mr. Tilden was elected Governor of New York, the State tax amounted to $15,737482 In 1876, the State tax amounts to 8,268,196

Reduction $7,45^,286 This remarkable reduction cf taxes is very largely a direct result of Gov. Tilden's work in administrative reform in New York. He had been in office less than three months when he made his exposure of the Canal Ring, which compelled, by the storm o'" public indignation it aroused, a marked reduction ir. the app.op iations for the canals, especially for new work. Gov. Tilden was not, however, satisfied with this reduction, and vetoed many items in the canal reappropriat'on bill, and vetoed the whole bill lTirt' ii appropriation for new work. T.ie re ult was that no tax was levied in 1875 for canal purposes, such appropriations as were made being paid out of accumul ted funds. These are the items on which a tion of taxes were

Total $2,725,198 Governor Tilden, in vetoing the bill for ne.v work on the canals, expressed the opinion that of the $11,000,000 expended un» er that head during the last five years, probably not more than one-fourth had resulted in any practical good to the State. The reduction in the appropriations for asylums was made, with Gov. ilden's concurrence, with a view to expendi ig oily so mi-ch as would put the completed portions of these costly institutions in condition for actual use. The reduction of half a million in the appropriation for general purposes was due very largely lo Gov. Tilden's recomraendatio is p'd vetoes. The figure named above represented what would have been the reduction if the State Assessors Iiad not increased the valuation and thus increased the amount of taxes rece' /ed. The result, however, was to ler ,e a sui plus to aid in the reduction of taxes the following vear. The actual reduction was $1,520,So 1, and the surplus to be devoted to the reduction of taxes the following year was $1,033,875.

REDUCTION IN 1876.

In Gov. Tilde I'S last annual message he laid before the Legislature a statement of the way in which, in his judgment, the taxes for 1876 mteht be reduced to onenaif the total of 1S74, without detriment to the public interests. He showed that while $4,458,888 had been necessary for payments Oil the State debts in 1874, on-

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was

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Tobacco and Cigars 2,130 7 er 1,024 44 Special tax 545 42

Total for the month 163,302 49

Grand Total for the term $3,173,97

12

The following are the changes which have been made in collectors. There changes are regularly ..iade each sixty days.

W. A. Whitson storekeeper, assigned to John Sutherlin & Bros, distillry vic°, Geo. F. Myers who was assigned IJ Hulman and Fairbanks distillry C. E. Barrick and P. B. OReilly storekeepers, both assigned to Hulman and Fairbanks, Bar. ick on Mashfloors day service and OReilly night service Gauger T. G. Spangler and Frank Heusley assigned to distillery warehouse of H. and F. Gauger Lee assigned to the recti tying house of Hulman & Cox.

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OAK street is the champion Centenni al street in town. More have taken in the grand show living on that street than on any other.

necessary in 1876, one

of these debts—the bounty debt—having been largely reduced, and that, therefore, a reduction under this head was to be had of $2,105,531. The reduction which could be made in canal expenditures he estimated at $2,200,000, cutting down the appropriation for new work, as before, from $1,898,144 in 1874, to nothing, and the amount necessary to pay canal appraisers' awards—a favorite channel of fraud with the Ring—from $474. 536, in 1874, to $172,680 in 1876. The reduction by means of the surplus taxes of 1875 would $i»°33I875- The same economy in appropriations for asylums as was pursued last year would, he showed, with one or two other items, bring the total of the reducif jn in taxes for 1876 to $6,009,496. In order to effect a diminution of one-half, there remained to be effected out of the other appropriations, which usually amounted to about $8,000, 000, a reduction of $1,854,244, or a little less than one-quarter of the amount. This saving was effected, substantially, by different economies recommended' by Gov. Tilden.

Gov. Tilden's message estimated a tax for 1876 of $7,863,741 the tax actually levied was $8,268,196.

The entire savings recommendei by him in his message would have been worked out to the letter, and the tax would have fallen even below his estimate, if the tax for schools had not been increased 276,000 by an increased valuation applied to a system which makes the assessors the real arbiters of the amount of the tax. and which has increased it a million in the last few years and if the decision of the United States Supreme Court against the legality of the emigrant laws had not made it necessary for the State to appropriate to the Emigration Commission $2.00,000, in reality a loan Making allowance for these, the total saving is $7,936,155. Three-quarters of a million dollars was realized to the State to aid in these reductions by disposing of securities held by the State which were at a premium in the market.

As may be seen by the foregoing states ment, $1,712,830 of the whole saving is in the diminished payments of the State debts. All the remainder, more than $6,000,000, or nearlv 80 per cent, is in real economies. This brief state-, ment shows the items:

The application of saving from formetaxes, and from the expenditures for which they were levied, furnishes $1,949,004.

The saving in canr.l taxes is $2,362,780, The taxes for these purposes were in 1874. 1876. New York $1,898,144 None. Awards and

expenditures exceeding appropriations 474536 None.

The general expenses, including the new capitol, asylums and 'reformatories, were: 'C-

1874 1876

$6,087,620 4,005,887

Savings $2,081,733 RECAPITULATION. Saving applied $1,949,124 Canal retrenchments 2,372,680 General retrenchments 2,081,733

Total $6,403,537 SAVINGS IN CANAL EXPENDITURES. The ordinary repairs of the canals are

paid out of their revenues, and sc trenchment in this particular does feet the tax account, though it lis the burdens of the people. In the nary repairs a saving wa* effected in over 1874, of $397,031, and in reapp ations of $917,379. The total redu in canal expenditures in 1S76 over are as follows: New work $i,Sg Ordinary repairs 39 Awards and outlays in excess of appropriations

Making a saving ot'

reduc-

effected:

REDUCTION IN 1875. 1S74. S73

REDUCTION*

New work on canals $1,80S 144 nono Asylums and Reformatory 813 490 470,800 General purposes 4,189,475 3 (KM,11

1,80S 144

933,600 498.358

47,

Re-appropriations 91

EIGHT MILLIONS THE TOTAL SAVF The actual saving from taxation above, $6,403,537, inadequately repre the saving in 1S76. The following penditurcs, although they come from! revenues and funds of the State, ultir' ly affect the taxes: In 1S75, the expenses for ordinary repairs were $1,67. In 1S76 they were 1,27

Making a saving in 1S76 of $39 In 1S74 the re-appropriations of cash already in treasury were $9i7-379 In 1S76 they were Nono

in 1S76 $9!7.

Another saving of $!,•?! Add actual saving from taxation $6,40]

Total saving in 1S76 $7,71* Thus, leaving entirely out of acc the contributions to sinking evident that retrenchment* saved the State in 1S76, under den, over the amount in 1874, Dix, the immense sum of $7,717.94I[hvreelonGoapprofunds,underalonethe

In'addition to these sums, tions fro.n expenditures going Gov. Tilden came in, under tions made in 1S74, and provided ation, were $i/-. Deduct part included in loregoing statements 75,

Balance $S4« This reduction has been accompli? notwithstanding the increase of $76 in the school tax, and the advanc $200,000 to the Emigrant Commissic

The reduction of taxes is neatly $S, 000. The whole saving is more than $S,^ 000.

A PERMANENT RETRENCHMENT This is a permanent saving and nt, temporary retrenchment, to be paid subsequently in increased taxes. InT Tilden's own words: "The people ma" have the satisl'ac of feeling that while half of their hj taxes are remitted—$8,000,000 oil $16,000,000—it is accomplished witi improvidence of the future temporary retrenchment cannot be maintained and that the I, proprations have bee kept clearly \y oat the means provided by the taxes ied so that no temporary floating will becreated or invasion of the sin fund made as has often, and to a 1 extent, happened hitherto, in disobedi to the express commands of the Co tution, and in violation of the scheme and policy of that instrument respect to the State finances."

WHAT THE TAXES HAVE DEEN. It will, perhaps, be easier founders what Governor Tilden has accompli! in a brief administration, after rea this table, showing the growth of the taxes in the last sixteen vears:

Unto of .Stale Tax in Mills, on each Dollar of valuation 8 5-0 8 7-8 3 3-4 5 5 1-4 4 53-80 5 9-16 7 8-5 5 4-5 5 5*8 7 41-15(1 5 79-120 9 8-8 6 95-100 7 1-4 6 3 11-21

AffRrepnte Equalize! Valuation.

Year,

1860 .'SOl 1882 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1860 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876

staf. Luvieil, clii'liii School

*1.419, 207 520 1,441,767 480 1,449,808 948 1,454,454,817 1.500.909.877 1,550 879,085 1,531.229,036 1 064,107,725 1,766 089,140 1,860,120,770 1,967,001,185 2,052 687,898 2,088 627,445 2,129,626,886 2.169.807.878 2^67,780 102

$1.410,6 5,5STJ,8 6,8*4, I 7 272,2 7,880 7,230,9' 8 517 12047,2 19,243.8 10,463,1'. 14 285,91 11 013,94 19.580,8S 14 800 W 15,727 14,206,6! 8,268,11

Tbis table shows that the taxes been reduced in amount to the lov figure reached in the past eleven ye and nearly to the figure which obtai before the war, and that the rate of ts tion is lower than it was before the or has been at any time since.

MERCANTILE COURTESIES.—An merchant who settled with his chect amount he owed a Pittsburgh firm was reminded by the latter that there Wiained ten cents due, as they not stand the exchange," got even his tormentors by getting together tei the largest-sized coppers he could I and sending them on by express to Pi burgh, leaving to their recipients the ty of paying twenty-five cents for charj

DESCRIPTIVE PHRASES.—Consic able socalled slang is classic. "Esca with the skin of my teeth" is from "He is a brick" is from Plutarch. historian tells of a King of Sparta boasted that his army was the only of the city—"and every man is a brk We call a fair and honest man "a squ man," but the Greeks described the sa person as Tetragonos—"a four-concen man."

ADVICE.—The Flemingsburg Rami has a department of "answers to coi spondents." In reply to C. W. the Ra bier says: If you love the lady, and loves vou, we see no reason why shouldn't marry—provided you are worth $50,000. But if you own nothing a standing collar and a spur, and she nothing but a box of hairpins and a of striped stockings' why, don't do it.

SAD REASON TO KNOW.—A whose reputation was none of the recently retired into the ccuntry to

joy

$2,372,680 Nothing.

his "ill-gotten. A gentleman, notic that he always carried a heavy stick night, asked "Why this precautk Doesn't he know that the road is safi "Ot course,"' replied a friend "he is last man not to be aware of the efficier of the police."

THE case of Mary G. Long, befc Judge Patterson has been continued the October term of court, owing to sickness of two jurors.

SUPERINTENDENT JEFFERS infor the GAZETTE that he has had the grounds carefully cleaned. Efforts been made to secure the best horses •he races,, this season, with good si '^6S.