Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 8, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 July 1877 — Page 4

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WH, G.BALL A CO«i GAZETTE. Terre Haute. Ind.

THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1877.

FREIGHT rates have been reduced from St, Louis East.

THE Pope is ill, It seems as if we had read this pice of news before

TICK is a prodigious predicter, but for reliability commend us to Dr. Ayres. His almanac is reliable.

DR. Chapin, the distinguished divine af New York has resigned because it was proposed to reduce his salary.

BOTH men are intelligent and honest but Black is the better qualified of the two to perform the special duties of Mayor.

A NEW Mexican minister has made his appearance at Washington. Since Col. Nelson left Mexico our relations with that power have not been pleasant.

HAVING twice sought to make Mr Black, a candidate on their ov*n ticket, it is only fair to presume Republicans will vote for him now that he is a candidate.

BLACK will make an A. No. I mayor and everybody knows and acknowledges it. His election will be a tribute to a. worthy.man rather than a party triumph.

POOR old Turkey has thanksgiving a prospect of being caived and we are glad of it.

TURKISH atrocities have entirely alienated from her all'the sympathies of mankind. -*\.y

GREECE, by royal degree, has made 20,000,000, pieces of rags a legal tender for an equl amount of drachmas, which is Greek for a certain sum of money. When a country runs entirely down at the heels it coddles the rag baby.

Gen. Pillow is ill.—Ex. Something ought to be done to bolster up his health —Phila. Bulletin. Blank it, man! isn't abed the proper place for a pillow? And he wouldn't be thfre if he wasn't ill.— NoVristown Herald. We don't know what the mattress with him but the above is poor comfort for that Pillow-case.— St. Louis Journal.

IF General Pillow-slip and spread himself on a bed of sickness, it is plain he needs a winding sheet.

AND still the cows run at large on the streets. According to Terre Haute law one man has a right to turn a cow loose in the streets to mar the sidewalks, rub the trees, break the fences and spoil the shrubbery of a dozen neighbors. The marvel to the GAZETTE is that the milk given by a cow who has made her meals by such predatory excursions does not choke the family (hat attempts to drink it. The GAZETTE only wishes it would give them the milk sick.

NOBODY doubts the eminent qualifications of Asa M. Black for the position of Mayor. Trained in the study of the law and the keeping of records he will perform the duties of Mayor with exceptional skill. He has had experience as a presiding officer and the meetings of the Council will be conducted with order and method. Able,careful and conscientious he will make a model Mayor. He is not a politician and he does not understand the art of electioneering. It therefore behooves his friends to all get but and work fcr him on their own account.

LUTHER BENSON.

In this issue of the GAZETTE will be found a letter written by Luther Benson, to the Editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel. He is now in the Insane Asylum where he was sent at his own request^ feeling that he was in imminent danger of again lapsing from his temperance principles. Benson is a man of remarkable talents. His love for ardent spirits is his besetting sin, and it has lashed him with scorpion whips through & world of woe. It is probable that the poor fellow will be disenthralled only when his freed, spirit leaves its frail teament ot clay,

REPUBLICAN .VOTES FOR MR BLACK. When solicited before to be their candidate, Mr.

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the honor done him—could not accept' because he had been a candidate before another convention, and was in honor bound to abide by the decision of a body to which his claims had been submitted. All fair minded men will recognize the force of such an obligation, and appreciate his conduct. But their desire to have him as their own candidate shows the high regard the managers had of hi* popularity, and was a recognition of his eminent character and ability. All this the people have not forgotten, nor have they forgotten either that he possesses those qualities still. He will divide the Republican vote into two parts and get the larger one.

AN idle rumor to the effect that the Irish Democratic vote will not be cast for Mr. Black has been industriously retailed by the more unscrupulous ot the Republican managers. No reason whatever exists for such a statement. No class of its members has been more fully remembered by the Democratic party in the hour of its success. On the police force and in the fire department thev reallv have a greater representation than the number of.votes cast by them would warrant, on an even distribution. The County Clerk and his deputy are representatives of this nationality as arc also the Criminal and Circuit Prosecutors. Our Irish fellow citizens not only have no just ground for complaint with the recognition they have received from the Democratic party, but they have every reason to feel proud and grateful. The GAZETTE feels certain, not only that they will vote solidly for Mr. Black tomorrow, but that thev will work enthusiastically for him, as they always do when their sympathies are enlisted in a cause. The Republican w'nb counts on any disaffection in that quarter, will b({ deceived.

THE GAZETTE has not one word to say against the character of Mr. Henry Fairbanks. He has the reputation of an honest man, and would no doubt perform the duties ot the office to the be6t of his ability. He would make neither an incompetent or a dishonest Mayor. We do not say that he it possessed ot less intelligence or general information than AsaM Black., But what we do is that his life has been spent in the performance of an altogether different class of du tie9 from those required of a Mayor, while Mr. Blacks experience and training has all been directly in this line. Other things being equal,—which is about the way they are—it stands to reason that Mr. Black will make the better Mayor. And just this question of personal fitness is the sole issue in the present election. There is not another solitary issue in the canvass. Mr. Black could not appoint a single officer in addition to the ones now under pay, nor could Mr. Fairbanks make a solitary removal. .The political complexion of the Council could not and would not be changed. It is and would be Democratic whether Mr. Black was elected or defeated.

Therefore, vote for Black.

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THE card of County Clerk Durkan published in .yesterday's GAZETTE was manly and to the point a credit both to his head and heart. It will make him friends not only in every section of the Democratic party but in the ranks of the opposition. And by the bye, it is worthy ot mention in this connection that Mr. Durkan is making a capital clerk. Everything about the office is kept ship shape order and method rule the day and we venture to say that there is not a Clerk's office in all the State better managed. He has surpassed the expectations ot his most enthusiastic friends. ":rt I

IN 1854 Henry Fairbanks, the Republican candidate for Mayor, was elected Treasurer of Vigo County on the "Know Nothing" ticket. He was a prominent and active member of that organization, as his election to office on that ticket shows. Whether or not he has ever changed his views since, the GAZETTE does not know. He certainly has never publicly announced a change heart. Foreign born citizens of the country cannot and will not forget that it was the .Democratic party which met and defeated that organization, which if it had been successful would have prevented all persons of foreign birth from voting and, making a religious test of citizenship, would have excluded all members of the Catholic Church, whether born abroad or in this country. Having advocated the doctrine, and been duly elected County Treasurer on the ground that he did advocate the doctrine that no foreigner or Catholic oufht to be allowed to vote, it is only fair to presume that Mr. Fairbanks will instiuct his partisans to prevent any of those classes from contaminating the ballot box by voting for him. The GAZETTE, however, apprehends that he will have little trouble in preventing such per sons from voting for him, inasmuch as they do not intend to vote for him any-

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THE POST OFFICE.

It will probably be of some interest lor the public to know what is going on with regard to the location of the Post Office in this city. For over eight years it has remained in its present locality which is regarded as perhaps the most central for the city at large. The Govt, took a lease of the present building for a period of years wi the privilege of eight more. The lease expired last year

The. Government continued to occupy the premises and have been paying the rent- therefor signifying its intention to hold the lessor to the agreement made over eight years ago at a nominal rent. The building was erected expressly for the purpose, and fitted up at a very heavy expense with all the modern improvements. The mai] service having been largely increased and

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the money order business having greatly expanded, it was thought expedient to provide more room to meet the requirements of the service. It was also thought desirable to have a fire-proof, vault added for the additional security to stamps and valuable papers. To meet the necessities of the case the lessor has proposed to -y,, add everything needful **in the way of improvements for a small advance in the rental value. To this end a special agent has been appointed by' the Postoffice Department to look into the matter and see what arrangement could be made that would best protect the interests of the Government. The gentleman so ap-f pointed wishing to do nothing in a private manner, gave publicity to the fact in the public print that bids would be received by him in order to determine the lowest rent obtainable for the Government. The agent has gone over the city and conferred with many of our prominent citizens and business men, to satisfy himself as to the eligibility of the present site. So far as known, there has been no objection made to the present locality. Therefore, the question will be mainly one of price and from the spirited competition that is manifested, the Government is certain to get very reasonable terms for a Postoffice building.

DOUBLE DUTY FORBIDDEN. President Hayes and his cabinet, after careful deliberation, have decided that no-person holding ail office under the general government can actively partici pate in politics as a member of any of the numerous committees that plan and prosecute political campaigns. It they cleave to the one they must eschew the other but both may not be held by the same person at the same time. This decision, if adhered to, will revolutionize the Republican political committees, if it does not demoralize the public service, by causing wholesale resignations. All things being considered however, the GAZETTE inclines to the belief that the former or the two allternatives will be the likelier to come about. When one remembers that, as a rule, men become committee men and plunge about the country working up enthusiasm, carrying torches, and generally effervescing not from an innate love for that sort of thing, but with an, ulterior object in view, which may be delicately alluded to by stating that they expect to draw a salary from their Uncle Sam will be understood that when the alternative is presented them of kicking down the bridge that carried them safely over, or of turning their backs on the land flowing with milk and honey and becoming again props and piers for the bridge, they will choose the former. For its own part the GAZETTE inclines to the belief that the chairmen and secretaries and especially treasurers of campaign committees who have been—as such persons generally are and intend that they shall be—selected as collectors and gaugers and postmasters et id omne genus, will be only too glad to escape from such onerous duties by the imperative order of this all-reforming President. With many pious ejaculations and much sanctimonious elevation of their eyes to the vault above, they will pour forth their regret that they can no longer fil, torches, or preside over wayside gatherings, or—highest and holiest privilege of all—make up those little deficiencies which will obtrude themselves on the attention ef committeemen at the end of a campaign, when the fires of patriotism has burned low in the average breast and a panic has struck the average packet. But down deep in the innermost recesses of the cardiac region, they will rejoice, and kick up their heels, and gener ally disport themselves as persons who stretch their legs beneath a bounteous banquet, with no spectre of a score or a landlord presenting a reconing, to disturb the feast of reason or dam up the flow of soul.

An office-holder is a fair sample of the average citizen. He does not change his nature when he accepts (service under his Uncle Samuel. What is pleasant he likes, and what is disagreeable he dislikes. With him, as with all mankind, it is more pleasant to receive than to give, whatever the blessing attending. these things may be.

In the GAZETTE of Saturday, a telegram from Wilkesbarre, Pa., announced that the Collector of Internal Reventfe and the Postmaster Had resigned,—not their offices but—their positions respect ively of Chairman and Secretary of thejrepublican Committee. It was further announced that thi9 action was taken in accordance with the expressed detemii nation'of the President that 110 person should serve two masters.

What the GAZETTE would like to ask is whether or not the party in this section is squaring its conduct in accordance with this order of President Haves. (WW

SCANDAL.

wo orttiree evenings ago a*cTostf carriage hastily drove up to the home of a certain colored woman on South Third street and left a newly born white babe, wrapped in a blanket, that had just made its entrance into this world. The mother is a young lady that has moved in the best society in the city, and the father also is a member of the highest circle. They loved not wisely but too well.

Mrs. L. L. Light, the baloonist, wa|| in the city yesterday morning. She has entered iutb a written agreements with the coitamittee of airangements, for the Fourth of July celebration- The documents binds her to make the ascension on that day unless prevented by the atmospherical, iu which event she is to be compensated for lost time, trouble, etc.

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FACTS AND FANCIES.

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The young swells of Buffalo have started a polo club. Moulton and Tilton are now gaiJ to be personal enemies.

There used to be talk of such a thing as "blue glass cure." Mowing-machines have commenced to perform amputations.

Only the female mosquito sings, but she fills the bill every time. Toombs thinks a dollar a day is pay enough for a legislater.

Ladies' dress waists are slowly creeping up nearer the shoulder joints. The New York Commercial Advertiser advises the bald to wear mohair.

The article most frequently found in newspapers—The article "The." A man with a green patch has frequently an eye witness of his own folly.

The favorite flower of a St. Louis dooryard is the hollyhock.—[Chicago Journal.

Paris has 300 photographers, but it is asserted, only to merit the name of artist

The boy of the period will want the father's dollar next week. II should be ready.

Navy blue grenadine with flecks of gilt are the newest importations which will suit the bewitci.ing sex.

PHOTOGRAPHING THE KORAN. According to the customs of the Turks the Koran must not be printed, but always be preserved in manuscript. This circumstance put it out of the power of the poor classes to posess a copy of the sacred book, and recourse has been had to photography. As the heliographic process had no existence when Mohammed promulgated his prohibition, there can be no impropriety in employing it for the dissemination of his teachings, particularly as in Turkey this process is not classed with printing, but is described as due to the direct action of the sun. It is thus that photography comes to the rescue of a religion professed by a great number of races. The operation of photographing the Koran has been accomplished by Fruwist, in London under the strictest control to prevent any violation of the Mussulman regulations on the subject.

THE EX-PRESIDENT. LONDON, July 3.—A deputation ot forty men, each representing differenf trades, and representing altogether one million English workingmen, waited on ex-President Grant at Consul-General Badeau's house to-day, and presented him an address, welcoming him to England aiid assuring him of their good wishes and deep regard for the welfare and progress of America, where British workmen had always been welcome. Impromptu speeches were made by members ot the delegation, ali of which were extremely cordial. Gen-. Grant replied as follows: In the name of my country I thank you for the address you have presented" to me. I feel it a g'eat compliment paid my government, and one to me personally. Since my arrival^ I have received great attention, which were intended I feel sure in some way for my country I have had ovations, free hand shakings, presentations from different classes, from the Govt and from controlling authorities of cities artd have been received in cities by the populace but there has been 110 reception which I am prouder of than this to-dav. I recog ize the fact that whatever there is of grcatnes in the U* S. as indeed in any other country is due to labor. The laborer is author of all greatness and wealth Without labor there would be no government, or no leading class or nothing to preserve. With

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as highly rcpectable when it is not so regarded it is because the man dishonor' labor. We recognize that labor dishonors no man, and no matter what a mans occupation is, he is eligible to fill and post in the gilt of the peoples His occupation is not considered in selecting, whether as law maker or as an executor of la v. Now gentlemen in conclusion all I can do is to renew my thanks for the address and repeat what I have said before that I have received nothing trom any class since my arrival whicu has given me more pleasure After the speech, there was informal exchange of courtesies and deputation then withdrew. Gen Grant has finally concluded that he will not at present go to Pai is. He will go to Brussels Thursday, will visit Germany and Switzerland will return down the Rhine go to Norway and Sweden and wijl come back to England the last week in August. He will visit all the places interest in Great Britain making London his headquarters.

In the House of Common this p. M. Sir Stafford Northcote Chancellor exchequer confirmed report that a fleet had gone to Besika Bay.

ROW IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

NEW YORK, July 3.—A London dispatch says the~ House of Commons was the seen* last night was one of the most extraordinary and unexampled scenes on record.

SENATOR GROVER.

San Francisco, July 3.—A Portland dispatch: The commission to investigate the charges against Senator Grover of using money for the purpose of securing his election to the senate, met yesterday. The witnesses summoned include many prominent citizens of the state, and the preparations seem to indicate a searching inquiry. Aftet a brief session, without eliciting anything of importance, the commission adj urned until to-day.

'fit THE FIRE FIEND.

A $500,000 FIRE.

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London, July 3 —A large' block of warehouses at Bradford burned loss 5,00jr 000 dollars. 5f 3

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Baltimore July 3.—Nathan Smith distinguished surgeon and medical practitioner died this morning at his residence on Saratoga street in the 81st year of his age: He, was well known as writer in Medical Jonrnals and published voluminous work or Surgical anatomy ol" art

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A GREAT GUN.

INTERESTING EXPERIMENT IN ENGLAND—THE HEAVIEST CHARGE OF

POWDER EVER FIRED—A COST-. Ml hi .. LY TARGET.,

A few davs back the cightv-ton srun was subjected at Shoeburynesr to a trial with the heaviest charge of powder ever yet fired from rifle ordinance. At the conclusion of the former series of experiments with this monster weapon, it was returned to the Royal gun lactones at Woolwich Arsenal, for the purpose of being converted into what is called a chambered gun. By this process the lower end of the bore, where the powder charge is placed, has been enlarged to a diameter exceeding that of the other portion of the bore

A similar modification was effected during the earlier history of the gun, when the caliber was 15 inches, the diamater of the powder chamber being made 16 inches. But the more recent change has given the gun a powder chamber iS inches in diameter, 16 inches being the calibre. Thus there is now a difference of two inches in the two diameters. The length ot the powder chamber is 58^ inches, so that the space alotted to the powder has a diameter of half a yard, and a length of very nearly five feet. This allows room for a cartridge containing 425 pounds of powder, consisting of 1 5 inch cubes, the space occupied by the cartride being at the rate of 34 cubic inches per pound of powder. The cartridge employed at this new trial was made up in the usual bag of rough silk, and ignition was effected through the axial veat of the gun, the flash from the primer pasping along a hollow space in the cartridge, formed by a species of sine funnel, and setting up ignition first of all in the centre ot the mass of powder. The feffect ot this arrangement is to prevent those waves of pressure which are so injurious when a large cartridge is ignited at the rear end. The amount of pressure in the powder chamber, and some little distance in ad vance of it, was taken by means of the usual crusher gauges inserted in the apertures provided for the purpose. The gun with which these trial& are made is &n experimental piece, intended to decide certain important elements connected with the four eighty-ton guns now in course of manufacture for the Inflexible, one of whicii is just ready for proof.

The charge of powder in "the gun we have already stated as being 425 pounds. The weight of the projectile was 1,700 pounds, being a Palliser whell weighed with sand. Its bursting charge of powder would have been 21 pounds. It was the usual studded projectile, with a copper gas chcck of the Lyon pattern. The largest charge yet fired from the 100 ton Armstrong gun at Spezzia is 3^5 pounds of such powder as that which was fired in the So-ton Fraser gun, and 400 pounds of the Fossano powder, which is of a less violent character. The weight of the projectile employed with thepe charges was 2,000 pounds. The 80-ton gun fired its projectile against the great target which tried its strength when the gun had a bore throughout of 16 inches. On that occasion, when 370 pounds of powder were used, the back plate of the massive target was cracked and bulged, but the head of the shot was not visible at the rear. The target consists of four three-inch plates of rolled iron, separated by three eight-inch layers of teak, this array of plates and backing being supported at the rear by a massive structure of piles, struts and horizontal beams, care being taken taken also to make everything secure at the sides and top, while beneath there is a foundation to which the target is held down by bent bolts and other uevicas. Each plate weighs about twenty-nine tons.

At a tew minutes past 11 all were ready for the impot tant trial. Everybody was under cover, and when the instruments were in due order for taking the velocity the|eleclric circuit was completed, firing the charge of powder. The report was exceedingly heavy, bMt not alarmingly loud. The discharge of the gun was followed by the fall of a few small pieces of metal flung from the face of the target through the air. All risk ofbeing struck by such fragments was over in a few seconds, and then there was an eager rush to see the effect of crucial round. The shot was found to have struck within a few inches of the spot marked for it, striking the target three feet from the top and six feet from the proper left. The gas cheek was crumpled up and thrown out to the front and the shot itself was extensively shattered. The aperture made by the projectile was at ouce seen to be a large one, and on measuring the hole it was found to have a vertical diameter of seventeen inches, with a horizontal diameter of only about two-tenths of an inch less. The diameter of the aparture made on the tormer occasion was as nearly as possible th*t of the shot—namely, sixteen inches. It was evident that the projectile was unsteady at the moment it struck the target. The range was 120 yards, and the velocity at the muzzle of the gun was 1 600 feet per second. Although this was about fifteen feet less then had been calculated upon, it was yet a very high result, and it was suggested by some parties that the lange was insufficient, the shot not having time to acquire steadiness in its flight. Evidently there was a loss of penetrative power, the shot deing a large amount of work laterally, and at the same time de stroying itself. A small fragment of iron from the projectile, twenty minutes after the firing of ihe gun, was too hot to be held in the hand lor more than a few seconds.

Despite the drawbacks to which we have just referred, the projectile went sufficiently far into te target to bulpe the back plate something like a foot, the distension producing four radial crack. At the center trom whence these cracks radiated the point of the projectile was visible, and it would seem as if the head and shoulders of the shot had kept well together, although the fcody was extensively and somewhat minutely shattered. The point 0/ the shot was apparently 8.3 inches beyond the original line of the target It might be reckoned that the fourth plate was penetrated to the extent ot two or three inches. The timber work at the rear stood the shock extremely well, and it is to be observed that the rear plate had no support except at the top and bottom. It was, strictly speaking, an unbacked plate, held in its place with considerable firmness. At the time the shot had to send its apex through twenty-four inches of iron, and fifteen Inches of teak before it could reach the rear plate.

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The great wrought-ircn carriage audits b«gies, weighing in all forty tons, had suffered no damage.- The crusher-gauges showed thit the pressure created Dy thejj^ immense charge'of powder had not been# excessive, the mean pressure being 19.9 tons per square inch. An impression of the interior of the gun was taken by means of melted gutta-percha, and it was discovered that the celebrated "crack'^* had undergone no enlargement, either iwf length or breadth. Although the shot had neMode wor)£ on the target quite as weirps wis' desired, the Committee dfcemed it ucadvisable to repeat th6 round, the target being required for other^ experiments, and having only!, pace left for two more round*. As the^r target cost $30,000, it will thus be seen that each round knocks down $7,500, and the Committee must be su£poed to have some consideration for tie Britisd tax-'' payer.

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BUT A STUPID RESTAURANT-KEEPER COULDN'T SEE ITS IMPORTANCH. (Fr«m the Boston AavoTler.)

It was at a popular restaurant. The seedy customer who had lingered for half an hour over a doughnut revel brushed the crumb* off his panthloons with his 4x5 napkin and approached the cashier with an abstracted air. As he^ handed over his dime, lie remarked: "MisMf, I think youi and. I could do a little business." "How so?" said the cashier.

Why, I have noticed that the folks who patronize this hashery seem to go in mostly for clam chowder, and beef and doughnuts. They ignore the more recherche elements ol the meal, such as quail on toast and venison steak. You'd realize more profit if the public partook?1 more extensively of the luxuries of the season, so to speak. Wouldn't you?" '•I reckon, replied the check taker. ."Have you eve* noticed," continued the seedy customer, "that man is an emulative being? He is guided and governed by pubtic opinion rather than his own idea?"

Exactly. Now do you see what I'm. driving at? Public opinion if influenced by hard times, says doughnuts and clam chowder. You want to educate public opinion up to the more elevated standpoint of quail on toast and venison steak." "Howare you going to do it?" "That's just what I'm coming to. That's just where mv Inventive genious comes in. You antf I pat up a job on 'em. Every day about this time I come here foi1 dinner. I look over the programme and yell out, 'Hete, waiter, turtle soup, fried oysters, pate de foie gras and a pint of Roderer—and the waitei sings out the order so the whole room can hear. The folks that have just come in say to themselves''Helloj this is a kind of a stylUh place. It won't do to eat baked beans and codfish balls here,' and then they follow my example more especially if the waiter does his part well, and can infuse a tone of sarcasm into his voice when passing along-the order for clam chowder and hash, so as to make the cheap feeders feel their insignificance. Things would soon work around if some enterprising man would set the example." "Well," said the cashier, "ycu or anybody else can order just what you like,, provided vou pay for it." "I'm afraid you hardly appreciate the importance of my idea. In order to in-!. augurate the system it will be necessary to disregard the immediate pecuniary outlay. Now, my proposition is that should officiate as epicurean exampler. I will soon rouse the spirit of emulation by my apparent reckless extravagance. I will, by revelling in the delicacies which would appease the aopetiteof a Lucullus, stimulate ethers to like lavish indulgence, I shall assist the process by casting around me glances of scornful depreciation at those groveling souls who persist, in partaking of humble fare. Here, now^ for instance, I assume an air of lofty disdain. Do you think'you could sit calmly5 and eat clam soup while I was looking at you—o—and devouring boned turkeyr" "No I should probably get up and kick you," was the answer. "Ah, but most men would take it diff? erently. They would say'I guess I can, afford boned turkey as well as that fellow,' and they would order all the luxuries they could think of. It would catch 'em, I tell you. Now, to comte right down to business, I ain't ambitious I don't ask any salary. All I want is to order what I like free gratis, and I'll set to work and we'll bring about the biggest revolution in public opinion you ever saw. What do you say? Is it a bargain?" "I can't see as it would exactly pay me," said the restaurant man.

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things have got to work around gradu» ally. "You don't seem to have much enterprise," sadiv observed the epicurian ex* amplar. "What kind of a one horse bcannery is this, anyhow? You may put down venison and quail in your.lying programme, and hanged il I believe you have any in your old chowder mill. I'll offer my services to soma tablishment.

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GROWTH OF BLACK HILLS TOWNS. The rapid growth of Black Hills settlements may be gathered from the following statement of a correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer-Press:

Custer City went up in two months from three or four cabins and about a dozen miners to 600 houses and i,8oo inhabitants. Then the stampede came, and the population dropped to about 600. Deadwood rose in one month from nothing to 10,000, which population it has since maintained. On Battle. Creek, over the ground of which I passed in November last, where there were not twenty miners, all told, now there ift a population of over 3.000, three towns, stores, hotels, etc. So, too, of Gaysville, about Deadwood. In Central City, above Gaysville, I could have purchased" lots for $1. Thev are now selling for $500 and $800. In Deadwood I was offered a house and lot last fall for $125. It was sold this spring for (3,000 cash. Rente in Ceadwood run from $40 and $75 to $100 per month for small, inferior buildings, and few can be had at these! prices.

In hot weather a man's energy melts away like a dish of ice-cream, and when night comes where is he? OL course, clear behind in his work. .Ibr-

The Palladium, of Oswego. N. Y., announces that Dr. Mary Walker is just at present visiting the Scenes of her early in at vi in it