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EMOCUTIO COUNTY CONVENTION.

To the Democracy »f V'go County Ymi archwehy requested to meet in mu« convention at the l*«»urt Hous -. In Terre Haute, cm Saturday, Felnuary 8th, 1838, at half past on« o'clock T. u., for the pnrposeot choofltr.g delegates to represent you in the Btate Convention, to be holden ac IudianapoUs. Feb fO, 1877.

We invite all voters wh. are In favor of the greatest Rood to tlm greatest number, ail who »re opposed to class legislation, *ho spptte "nonopolies, all who hold that the maws liave ngh s, that those in power mu't and shah resiicct and not longer ignore, to participate with us "IOTQ

January 3,1878. ANDREW GRIMES, Chairman D,

Pan.. MAT,

Secretary.

WM. C. BALL JFC CO., Prop's. W1L C. BALL SPENCER F. BALL

OFFICE, NO. 23 AND 25 SOUTH FIFTH

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GAZETTE. Terre Haute, Ind.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1878.

STiLi/the silver debate continues.

OLD Madison Wells is still in retirement.

BLUFF Ben Wade, who has been quite sick, is recovering.

GENERAL TO JOHNSON will He a candidate for congress in Virginia.

EIGHT to seven Joe Bradley i.» the appellate judge in the Louisiana returnin a as

J. MADISON WELLS, of returning board fame, still languishes in jail. 'Tis well. Let him languish.

SECRETARY SHERMAN ought to give our people a chance to try some of his four per cent, bonds.

TURKEY is already bankrupt, but she will be obliged to pay Russia a large in0 demnity in cash before she can secure perfect peace.

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IT look* a little as if we should have an income tax before long. News boys. who sell the GAZETTE, must prepare to ,#upp»rt their government.

NOTWITHSTANDING the desperate straits in which the Turkish army is fiw-vJ, to earn mat Constantinople is unusually gay. Opera bouffe flourishes and the theatres are crowded nightly.

A FELLOW by the name of Grant, bumming around somewhere in Europe, writes to a friend that he approves of President Hayes' southern policy. This is the severest crit cism the policy has ev_er received.

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THE musical critic of a California paper says Clara Louise Kellogg has as much magnetism and warmth as a full sized Morning Glory stove, on a cold morning before the cook has made the fire with kerosene.

SENATOR CHRISTIANCY wants a sil. ver dollar of 434 grains coined can Senator Christiancy give any good reason why he should not take from the gold dollar as well as add, to the

silver one?

Must the debtor stand all the hazard of changes in the value of metallic money? Does the optional payment of debts in either one of two coins mean that the creditor may^ elect to take the dearer one, and that the debtor too must pay it to him? It will be a sad day for the government creditors when they change a law for their own ^benefit.

HENDRICKS ON SILVER.

w^About

a week ago, Laura Ream, the

Indianapolis correspondent of the CinK: ^.. cinnati Commercial interviewed Governor Hendricks on the silver question

Our readers will remember

that Vthe GAZETTE published the intervied entire as it appeared in the J?" Commercial. -f'i ffWlien the article was' published in the 1 New York Herald it attracted the attenI tion of August Belmont, a prominent

Democrat, and a few years ago chaiwan of the Democratic national committee He wrote letter to the Herald in which tfiW he doubts the accuracy of the interview, and proceeds to give what he conceives .$$2 to be Hendrickte position on the silver question as taken from his record. A telegraphic summary of this lfetter was published in the GAZETTE on the day of its appearance in the

Herald. But it was not exactly satisfactory an we now publish the full text of the letter, taking it from the Herald. From it the reader can learn the exact .v position wluch Mr, Belmont takes.

After the appearance of the letter of Mr. Befmoiit in the Herald, the manager of that paper telegraphed to Governor Hendricks offering him the use of,

the columns of that paper for a reply, and inviting him to telegraph them at the Heralds expense. Hendricks did reply on Friday night. The article appeared in the Herald On Saturday morning and in the GAZETTE Saturday afternoon in complete form. Thus our readers have been enabled to keep up with all the phases of this controversy.

GOVERNOR HEKDRICKS' reply to the letter of August Belmont was published in the GAZETTE of Saturday and is familiar to our readers. As stated at the time, it was published first in the New York Herald. We now reproduce in this pKce the comments of the Herald on the letter. It is only proper to say that the Herald never yet has attempted to argue the legal question involved in the silver agita tation. It has not, and cannot 6how that the silver coinage was destroyed after public discussion, and that its restoration ie both legal and equitable. Until it can do that successfully it would do well to refrain from speaking of the dishonorable record of those who insist upon remone tization. But we digress. The Herald says:

We give elsewhere some observations by Mr. Hendricks on the charge that if he was correctly reported in a recent interview published in the Cincinnati Commercial, then his present position on the national finances is grossly inconsistent with his views as formerly given to the public. This allegation was made by Mr. Belmont, whose letter was published in the Herald of last Wednesday, when Mr. Hendricks was first reported as the latest distinguished convert to the silver madnes?. Mr. Hendricks now declares that in the interview in which he was represented as a silver man he was correctly reported. He further 6ays that while he desires to be regarded as consistent he deems it of more consequence to be right but he holds that his inconsistency is not and cannot be shown. His ground for this opinion is that he never held that the public dtbt was payable in gold. He held that it was not payable in greenbacks, but in coin. In fact, if congress had passed a law declaring greenbacks coin, as they now propose to declare that hinety-two cents is a hundred, his scruples as to the good faith of the government would have been satisfied. /.II his position turns on the word coin. He wanted the debt paid in coin, and silver is coin as well as gold therefore a law to pay it in silver will be in agreement with his former views. As 10 the value of the coin he seem to deem that a point of no consequence. He did not, therefore, oppose the greenback notion out of regard to the national honor, as he is now prepared to go further than that did toward paying the debt in depreciated money, and the result of his present explanation is not so much to show that he has not fallen away from a former honorable record as to show that, rightly understood, he never had an honorable record.

ANOTHER STORY ABOUT MR. LINCOLN The death of Mr, Denton, of Delaware county, Iowa, recalls a story which he used to tell. In the early days of the Illinois Central railway, the line was. not fenced, and one nay two cows belonging to a Methodist clergyman were killed. Being sued for damages, the company resolved to make a test case of it. 'rh' rrcsiuent 01 the road directed Mr. Denton to take $500 in gold and go to Springfield and retain Abraham Lincoln, whom he knew well, for the company. Mr. Lincoln replied to his request: "I am sorry you didn't come yesterday, Nick, for I have been letained b) the preacher and his friends." Denton explained frilly the importance of the case to the company, and then, pulling two buckskin bags filled with gold out of his pockets, he put them down on the table before the lawyer with a startling chink, saying, "Mr. Lincoln, the President of the company authorizes me to hand you this retainer of $500 to take our case." Mr. Lincoln jumped to his feet, flushed with anger. "Nick Denton," he said, '•I have given my promise to that preach* er and his fiiend's, and the Illinois Central hasn't money enough to buy me away from his side. I don't kno that I shall ever gfct a dollar from him—bat I'll do my best to make your companv pay for those cows." Denton 6aid that he never felt so mean and small in his life as he did at that moment. And in I860, though a Democrat, he used to 6ay, during the Presidential campaign that Lincoln was the noblest man in America.

A PARROT STORY. From the Cincinnati Commcrc'a'. The negro minstrel, Thatcher, the other evening, told a ludicrous story to a big audience at the Grand Opera Houte, and put a catch phrase into the mouth of Indianapolitans that has kept them laughing ever since. Two sailors, who had a parrot with them, went into a magician's show, in an upper room in some foreign city. The three constituted the audience. After each feat of the magicians, one of the sailors would remark, "That's pretty good wonder what they'll do next." Finally one of the sailors asked permission to smoke, which the magician granted, forgetting that in the room beneath was stored an immense quantity of gunpowder. The Jack tars and the parrot continued to enjoy the show, one sailor adding the pleasure of his pipe, and the ot'aer remarking after each trick,

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pretty good wonder what they'll

do next.' A spark from the smoker's pipe chanced to drop through a crack in the floor into the uowder, and something suddenly occurred. .Sailors and magicians parrot ard all, "rose above party prejudice," and were ali blown to kmgdora come in a million fragments. All except the poll-parrot. He landed in a heap of bruised flesh and burnt feathers on a potatoe patch, three miles away. He was utterly demoralized. It took some moments to collect himself, and when he had partially done so he hopped limpingly upon a fence rail and remarked: "That's pretty good, wonder what they'll do ne.xt."

A Vermont widow of sixty, with ten children, has married a boy of sixteen. Before 'he cermony her oldest son, a man aged thirty five, knocked down the prospective biidegroom. However, the happv youth won't have any mother-in-law. .,. ..

ANDERSON.

His Ti iaI Continues to Progress jSlowly but Surely.

Getting at the True Inward nest).

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New Orleans, Feb. 4.—The Anderson trial was resumed to-day. D. Davis, chief clerk of the returning board, wa* cross-examined. The testimony elicited was contradictory of the statements made by Peilitier. ,1

Wm. H. Green, a leading colored ward politician and clerk of the returning board, testified that the board, when the tabulated statement of the electoral vote was brought into the secret session by him, did not ask for parish returns to compare them with the statements. The members signed the statement, and returned it *0 the chief clerk to copy. The witne:s is now employed in Wells' department at the custom house. G: ecu was asked ifthere was not a p-omi^c made to him when he was caiurj to Washington a« a witness, lie -aid there was but refused to tell about it. He was fre, quently interviewed by the secretary of the democratic committee, who attempted to induce him to tell what he knew in Washington, also to make certain copies and abstracts from the minute book of the returning board. He was promised the assessorship of the third district if he complied with the secretary's wishes. He was told at a confi Jential dinner by the secretary that Governor Palmer had a good opinion of him (witness,) and would like to see him doing well. The witness feared a trap was being set for him, and answered tne questions carefully. They were presented to him in writing.

Several other clerks testified, but nothing new or startling was developed. Green when recalled said the promises made to him in Washington did not come from the returning board. He received a letter from the secretary of the democratic committee which had $20 inclosed.

At the evening setsion Green .vas cross-examined at length by the attorney general. He would not tell who promised him the assessorship, but when threatened with punishment for contempt named Mr. Ed. Harris, secretary of Governor Palmer and his committee.

M. Powers, passenger agent for Cassidv's hotel, testified thAthe package deposited at the office by the supervisor of Moorehouse parish, containing the returns of that parish, addressed to the secretary of 6tate. was with hfs consent taken to the Democratic central committee rooms, and in his presence the seals were broken, the figures copied, the package sealed again and returned to him did not know who informed tne defense of this thought everything was right in politics. Tiie defense closed. The rebutting testimony on the part of the state was then brought our. Mr. Harris stated that Green offered himself as a patriotic Louisianain to tell about all the frauds committed by the returning board was aware of all the frauds committed by the returning board in 1S74. Green went decidedly back on him and Governor Palmer after we had taken him to Washington was anxious to get the minute book of the returning board, which Green said he had kept as personal property, but did not get it. He rebutted several statements of Green. Adjourned. /,

The evidence will cl«se about noon tomorrow, and the argument commence, during which the judge will write out his charge. Wells is irnproveing. His £)onric are fiv»4 tne sneri/T is authorized to accept them if good and solid bonds are ottered. Up to this hour (10 p. m.) they have not been given, and Wells is still in prison.

TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

New Orleans, Feb. 5. —The rebutting testimony and cross examination of Edwin Harris by the defence closed at 11130, when assistant attorney Gen. Egan opened the argument. The counsel for the defence Messrs. Castlanos, Cullom and Ray, will then address the jury. Perhaps the dist ric attorney will speak between them and Attorney-General Ogden will make the closing argument for the state. A delay will occur bv the defence not accepting the proposal of Judge Wh^aker, to fur nish him, at close of evidence, with points to charge the jury. 60 as to have them written up during the argument. Consequently the case will probably not go to the jury before to-mOrrow,

A SPIDER STORY. "V

The correspondent of a French paper relates a remarkable contest which he witnessed in the Isle of Java between a parrot and a gigantic spider. The spider, whose body was as large as a small bird's dropped down upon a young parrot whose mamma was from home, and, spreading its huge claws over the nest, began sucking its blood. When the mpther returned she naturally "went for" the enemy, and seized one of its legs, but whether it be that legs are not a sensative portion of spiders' organizations, or that this particular insect had an overpowering penchant for the blood of young parrots, he wouldn't let go, until his pain becoming too intencefor endurance,* he turned on the mother, and, twining all his legs firmly around her neck, was just arranging for a good long suck in that auarter, when she gave him an awful dig in the belly with her beak, whereupon he fell over, dragging her to the ground with him. The nataraiist then shot him and released the parrot.

MORE AND NO

HEADACHE

1 HIGH.

From the Baltimore Gazette. The country is now in its headache after the intoxiation of the era of greenback inflation it is just getting over that headache a natural contraction has brought money almost to par it is almost for healthy work. The tidal wave mands a second drunk, but this time will get second headache without second exhilaration.

ready deit the

One of the Kentucky minstrels is Silting for his carte in character. Operator —"Now. sir, look pleasant—smile a little." Minstrel smiles. "Oh I that will never do. It's too wide ror the instrumeut."

THHY sound its praises who useGlenn^s Sulphur Soap to remedy diseases of the skin, improve the complexion, and heal abrasions or unhealthy sores. There is no mistake about its thorough efficacy.

Hill's Hair and Whisker" Dve, Black or Brown, 50c. KKK

IS IT CHARLEY ROSS?

A CONSIDERABLE PROBABILITY THAT THE MISSING LAS HAS AT LAST BEEN FOUND, AND IS MOW IN

BA1/TIMORF.

Philadelphia Special to Xew "Y ork Tiroes Quite a sensation has«been created here by the announcement tl.at the bov recently brought from Demerara to Baltimore resembled Charley Ross closer than any of the numerous children who have been found. He was placed in an asylum near Baltimore, where a sister of Mr. Frederick K. Womrath, a prominent resident of this city, and a member of the council from the Twenty-third ward, is a manageress. From examinations, made, the lady requested her brother to come to Baltimore, which he did, and on returning this morning related to Mr. Ross what he had seen. Mr. Womrath is a cautious man and not an enthusiast, and while he does not positively state that this is the lost Charley Ross, he says the boy is about the age and size that Charley should be, has the cowlip mark on his head and vaccination mark on his arm. and answers in every retpcct the printed description of Charley Ross when he was abducted, except that his skin and hair are darker, the former having an olive complexion peculiar to those who live in a warm climate. The change of hai^ may be accounted for by reason of the fact that most children's hair turns a little after they are five years of age. In conversation with Mr. Womrath, the boy is said.to have spoken with a foreign accent, and said he was stolen from in front of a large house on a hill where he lived. His description of the surroundings answers perfectly to that of Mr. Ross' mansion in Germantown, but he does not recognize the name of Philadelphia. He says he was taken away wi.h what he called a "congo," otherwise a pug-nose, which also answers the description of Mosher, one of his proved abductors. The only name of a city which he remembers is th&t of Boston, whence he was taken on a ^vessel to Demarara. He also &ives other informantion showing that he had lived in this country, but the authorities refuse to divulge this until they investigate it, as by this, it is said, hangs an important thread in the identification of the boy. Mr. Womrath investigated the boy minutely and found every mark on him that was described as being on the missing lad. He brought back with him a photograph of the boy, and Mr. Ross unhesitatingly declares it bears a closer reseVnblance to his son than any he has seen since his abduction. Mrs. Ross identifies in the photograph a peculiar formatior of the lip ana ear that Chailey had, and fresh hopes were raised in her breast this morning that her son had been found.

The father wis morfe elated to-day over the prospect than he has been for a long time, and would have gone to Baltimore but he was requested not to do so for the following reasons: Those who have the boy in charge have noticed that his skin has become much whit, since he came to ^this country, inj^ fact becoming mare so every day, his hair, which was closely matted, is getting looser and more natural. The bo^ siys that the complexion of his skin and the matting of his hair was caused by his having been torced to wash in dirty water. Mr. Ross will not go to Baltimore till Tuesday. From the facts that have come to his posession there is a possibility that the missing boy has been found. The bov was brought from Demarara two weeks ago, having been sent from the first named place by a Mr. Perot to the care ot his brother, 011 the sjpposition that he was Charlie Ross. Mr. Perot found hjm in Dcmtfrara, wnere he had been abandoned by a mulatto woman, who had claimed him as her child. The woman said her name was Crawford, and that his name was Albert, but he persisted that it was not, that it was Charley Ross, "'because his mama told him so." This so impressed Mr. Perot that he determined to send him to this country, and wheo he reached Baltimore he Wfta taken to ft home. The woman abandoned the child, and he became a street gamin. She used to beat him and treat him badly.

Mr. Womrath asked the bov where he first heard the name of Charley Ross, and he said. "Mether called me that!" He pronounced Boston. "Bowston." He states that he left "Bjwston" in a 6hip with a man, and got that way to Demerara. Now, it is known that Mosher and Doughlass were traced to Boston, and that one of tnem to«k a sea voyage, and was absent a long time. There has been for a long time a club in this direction. Hts hands, feet, and face, bowever, are much darker than Charley's, being somewhat of on olive cclor, and are some shades darker than his body, which is fair. There is indisputable evidence that these have been dyed. Besides, when found he had been moveing about neglected and exposed to the hot sun. His hands aud feet were cut and bruised also. The lad says that he always had to wash himself in a tank apart from others, and it had a dirty kind ot water with a dye in it. At the asylum every attention is being paved to his washing, and his face and hands are bleaching each day more like his body. Another strong point is that he sings the li tie nursery song that was a favorite of the lost lad.

THANKS.

The following letter to our firemen explains itself and shows.how popular outboys are with their visitors.

It may be added, that all our firemen do say that those Evansville boys are just the very best fellows they e«rer met. It's just like them:

Evansville,Jan. 2, 1S7S.

To Joseph Schell, and members of Terie Haute Fire Department: Gentlemen:

At our regular meeting ot the department it was resolved to tender a vote of thanks to the Terre Haute lire lads, for their very kind and hospitable treatment shown our boys while on a vi-it to your annual ball, on the 17th and on motion the above was amended by offeting three rousing cheers for the Terre Haute lads, and hopeing that they may live long and prosper. 7\

BENJ. NIBHOUSE, Sec'y ofE. F. D.

WM. BEDFORD, I E

B.CROSS. Committee. CHAS. CEEKER

DR. SEYMOUR.

Galveston, February 5.—A Houston special says the standing committee of the diocese of Texas unanimously consent to the consecration of Dr. Seymour.

Mr, Wm Ernst, of Indianapolis, is In the city.

ONE BANDIT TO A FAMILY OF BANDITS. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat publishes a letter from the notorious Frank Rande to the Younger brothers, in the state prison at Stillwater. Rande commences by asking the acceptance uf his photograph, feeling he says, an interest in men who acquired such a general fame over the world, and then sajf: "As for who or »vhat I am, I will let others inform you but I suppose you have probably heard about me ere this. Keep courage and nil desperdndum. I was almost mortally wounded in a little fracas, and suppose as near handing in my checks as the Northfield bank robbers. We are worth more than a dozen dead men each, and I will never die if I can h»lp it, by God. If you write tell me where I can get a history of your lives, if you have had one published. Also where I can find your photos for sale. I would put a sm?ll photo in this but wish to send you a large one which represents my looks better. There is a short histotory printed on the back of my cabinet photo. I write this to cheer you, and vou know, also,

A fellow feeling makes us wonderous

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"With high respect, your friend. I t* "FRANK RANDR. "Galesburgh, 111. "P. S.—My trial commences in this city, February 1S, 187S, and there are seventv-nins or more witnesses in the prosecution. If you are allowed to receive newspapers I will send you some, and if ever I write my history, as I expect, will send you a copy. I once cut open the Ottuma jail and let out seven or eight prisoners, among whom was Clell Miller, a chap who was worth $5,000 in gold to Corydon, Iowa authorities, and think he is one of your 'b'hovs.' "FRANK RANDE, alias

A Hyde Park, Vt., schoolma'am is in trouble. She undertook to break her pupils of using tobacco by steeping up a number of old pipes and giving some of the resulting matter to the offenders, which not only made the little boys very sick, but their parents very mad, and seriously impairs the ..usefulness cf the

Dr. Chapin, the distinguished Universalist, says he has labored not so much to get people out of hell as to get hell out of people. "It is infinitely better,'1 says the doctor, "to spend one's endeavors in a struggle for right living than in a search for the future punishment." tt ...

A friend of Jones' was remonstrating with him for punning so unceasingly, and finally exclaimed: "Hang it, man, I believe you would make a pun on your way to be buried if you had a chance." "Well." drawled out Jones, "may be I might atk for a troche to stop that coffin."

AGOOP

CHARLES C. SCOTT."

The Clell Miller alluded to it will be remembered, was killed at Northfield.

A TOUGH JOKE.

Here is another of Southern's'practical jokes: He invited a party of gentlemen to dine 'with him. The hour arrived, and with one exception, so had the guests, "We may as well begin," said Southern, is sure to come, and he would rather we did not wait for him upon which the company sat down, and were just finishing soup when the card of the missing guest was handed to Southern. A sudden inspiration of fun led him to propose that before the gentleman came in they should all £et under the table. Without an objection, and trusting to Soulhern'6 wit tor some comical denouncement, the unsuspecting fellows hurriedly crept under the table and awaited res tilts, totally ignorant of the fact that their wicked host had not followed their example, but had quietly continued his soup. The belated guest came in full of apology for his tardiness. "Don't mention it," said Southern "it isn't of the slightest consequence we are only at the soup sit down and be helped." The gentle-nan did so but with a puzzled look at the empty chairs around the table. "Oh!" said Southern, "you miss tne other gentlemen. They are all here, but for some extraordiuary reason they all got under the table! What thev are doing is more than I know." It is easier to imagine than to describe the variety of expressions u,jon the faces of the deluded victims as one by one they came crawling sheepishly from under the table.

Wfien Washington was carving hi' way into the hearts of his countrymen9 do you suppose he never leaned upon his •word to ponder that the da} would come when his portrait would look down benignantly from over a bar upon' two red nosed snoozers putting away bad whisky, and jamming their noses into each other's eyes, as they discussed, in mangled English, the boons and blessings of freedom?—-Cincinnati Breakfast Table.

A Houghton, Mich., woman took sweet sweet revenge on a neighbor for killing her cat, by sending her a sack containing two or three cabbage-heads and a dozen live rats, which the unsuspecting cat slayer emptied upon her kitchen floor, and then was confined to her bed in consequence of the fright, j. .,

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STORY OF

STEPHENS

AND

TOOMBS.

A doctor named Royston had sued Peter Bennett for his bill, long overdue, for attending the wife of the latter. Alexander H. Stephens was on the Bennett side, and Robert Toombs, then sen ator of the United States, was for Dr. Royston. The doctor proved the number of his visits, their value according to local custom and his own authority to do medical practice. Mr. Stephens told his cliant that the physician had made out his case, and as there was nothing wherewith to rebut or offset the claim, the only thing left to do was to pay it. "No," said Peter "I hired vou to speak in my case, and now speak.

Mr. Stephens told him th«re was nothing to say he had looked on to see that it was made out, and it wa«.

Peter was obstinate, and at last Mr. Stephens told him to make a speech himself, if he thought one could be made. "I will," said Peter Bennett, "it Bobby Toombs will not be too hard on me."

Senator Toomb« promised, and Peter began: "Gentlemen of the jury—You and I plain farmers, and if we don't stick together these 'ere lawyers and doctors will git the advantage of us. I a'n't no objections to them in their proper place but: they a'n'l farmers, gentlen of the jury." "Now, this man Royston was a new doctor,and I went for him to come an' to-: doctor my wife's sore leg. And he come an' put some salve truck dhto it and some rags, but never done it one bit of good, gentlemen of the jury. I don't believe he is no doctor, no way. There is doctors as is doctors sure enough, but this man don't earn his money and if you send. for him, as Mrs. Sarah Atkinson did, for a negro boy as was worth $1,000, he just kills him and wants pay for it." "I don't," thundered the doctor. "Did you cure him?" asked Peter, with the slow accents ofa judge with the black cap on.

The doctor was silent, and Peter proceeded: "As I was sayin', gentlemen of the jury, we farmers when we sell our cotton has to give vally for the money we ask and doctors a'n't none too good to be put to the same rule. And I don't believe this Sam Royston is no doctor, nohow."

The physician again put in his oar, with "Look at my diploma if you think I am no doctor." "His diploma!" exclaimed the newfle lged orator with great contempt. "His diploma! Gentlemen, that is a big word for printed sheepskins, and it didn't make no doctor of the sheep as first wore it, nor does it of the man as now carries it. A good newspaper has more in it, and I p'int out to ye that he a'nt no doctor at all."

The man of medicine was now in a fury, and screamed out, "Ask my patients if I am not a doctor!" "I asked my wife," retorted Peter, "an' she said as how she thought you wasn't." "Ask my other paitients," said Doctor Royston.

This stemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back, for Peter replied with a look and tone of unutterable sadness: "TH*a£ is a Kar3 sayin', gentlemen of the jury, and one that requires me to die or to have powers as I've beam tell ceased to be exercised since thu Apos-, ties. Does he expeet to bring the Angel Gabriel down to toot his horn before the time and cry aloud, 'Awake ye dead, and give this ceurt and jury your opinion of Royston's practice?' Am I to go the' tomb and say to um as is at last at rest from phy9ic and doctor bills, 'Git up here, you and state if you died a'natural death, or was hurried up some by doctors?' He says ask his patients, and, gentlemen of the jury, they are all dead? Whire is Mrs. Beszly*s man Sam? Go ask the worm* in the graveyard where he lies. Mr. Peak's woman Sarah was attended by him, and her funeral was app'inted, and he had the corpse ready. wh«re is that likely Bill as belonged to Mr.( Mitchell? Now in glory a' expressing his opinion on Royston's doctorinV Where is 'ihat baby gal of Harry Stephens'? She are where doctor's cease from troublin' and the infants are at rest. "Gentlemen of the jury he has eat chickens enough at my house to pay for his salve, and I furnished the rag?, and I don't suppose he charges for makin' of her worse, and even he don't pretend tocharge for curin' of her, and I am humbly thankful that he never gave her nothin' for her inwards, as he did his other patients, for somethin' made um all die mighty sudden."

Here the applause tfiade the speaker, sit down in confusion, and in spire of a' logical restatement of the case by Senator Toombs, the doctor lost and Peter Bennett won.

There is a young man of North Trov, Vt., thirty-three years of age, who is said to have had the happiness of courting ninety nine girls since his childhood, and is now looking tor another to complete his hundred.

It is a thing of observation with the New York Commercial Advertiser that mothers raise their daughters on the' principle ot teaching them first to play the piano, second to dress, third to dance* and sew fourth,

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