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The DAILY GAZETTE is published tvery afternoon except Sunday, antf sold by the carrier at 300 per fortnight, by mail, $8.00 per year $4.00 for six months, $2.0 0 for three months. THE WEEKLY GAZETTE is issued erery Thursday, and contains all the best matter of the six daily issues. THE WEEE.LY GAZETTE is the largest paper printed in Terre Haute, and is sold for: One copy per year $1.50 nix months, 75c three months. 40c. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the proprietor. A failure to notify a discontinuance at the end of the year will* be considered a new engagement.

Address all letters, WM- C. BALL & CO. GAZETTE, Terie Haute, Ind.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.

For Criminal Judge, THOMAS B. l.ONG. ForCrimlnnl l'roscoiitor,

ALBERT J. KKLLEY. For Auditor. ANDliKW J. GKIMES.

For"rreasurer,

KKWTON KOGKR3. For Sheriff, LOUIS HAY.

For ltacordcr,

JOSKI'H PHILLIP.?. Kor Coroner, 11KNRY EHKKNHAttDT.

For Commissioners,

First District—JOHN* WILSON. Second District—JNO. S. JORDON. For Representatives,

J. N. KESTER.

ROBERT VAh' VALZAH. For Surveyor, TULLY SIMMONS.

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET FOR 1878

For SeorCvRry of State,

JOHN G. SIIANKLlN,of Yandei bwrgli Co. For Auditor of State, MAI1LON D. ANSON, of Montgomery Ce.

For Treasurer of State,

WILLIAM FLEMING, of Allen County. For Attorney-General, THOS.W. WOOLEN, ef Johnson County.

For Superintendent of Public Instruction JAMES 11. S Si ART, of Allen County.

THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1878.

HARVARD will open her doors to women. One George O. Hove/ accomplished this with his little bequest. He gave $io,ooo to the medical school on condition that girls should share its privileges equally with boys. Only one dissenting vote was found, when the faculty voted on the question of accepting the gift.

THE following dispatch from Berlin is significant: Berlin, May 16.—It is reported that in view ofthe attack made upon the emper or, the government lias resolved to propose, or even to introduce by administrative decrees, serious restraints on the freedom ofthe press and the right of public meeting. Efforts will it is said, be made to bring about common action on the part of Germany, Russia, Engiand, the United Stales and other countries where socialistic or communistic »-ymptoms have lately appeared.

Germany proposes to draw a sharp distinction between liberty and license. Speakers whose followers misconstrue their utterances and learn assassination from their teachings arc to be suppressed. It is folly to punish infractions of the law and throw the protection of the law around the teaching of lawlessness.

GREEN LEY THE MURDERER Various opinions are expressed at Indianapolis in referece to the Governor's, action in commuting the punishment of Greenley from hanging to imprisonment for life. The predominant idea is that the Governor let his ieelings over-master his judgement, and with tna^ sentiment the GAZETTE agrees. It was murder pure and simple. His victim offended him and he shot her. At the time there was a very general disposition to lynch him. Better counsels prevailed and the law was allowed to take its cout se. He was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be hanged Now the Governor has interposed his power to save hi6 life and tliis, not because tiny new evidenctf has been discovered, or because any irregularity by the jury has been pointed out, but merely be cause he was solicited so to do by a good many people and some fools might say that the Wood of Groenley would be on his head if he permitted the law to take its coarse. We very much tear the effect of this act will be disastrous.

In the first place it is as direct a statement as can be made by the Governor that during his term of office the death penalty shall not be enforced. This is the aw as laid down by him. J.'

Secondly, if, as we believe, the absence of a death penalty tends to increase the number of murders, there will be an increase of that kind of crime.

Third, Judge nch will be elected to clfice. Some night a murder will be committed and the friends of the victim will make up their minds that it is mockting the memory of a good man fouley dealt with to have his murderer wept, over in the court, and petitioned for, and made much ado about and finally pardoned. And they will catch the murderer and hang hiva on their own account.

There would be nothing TVrong in the practice, either, saving only the liability »n the excitement of passion to sometimes hang an innocent and wrongly accuscd man, and the blood of all such vril

jttaxs* J-* resijzts. ovouyai-» tfk8cis& wuu

THE INDIANA GERRYMANDER. The Imliftnapolls Sentinel says if the Democrats carry the Legislature the Congressioudl districts will be so gerrymandered to insure a Democratic Congressional del ration. The Republicans *u»« uk« rare that the Democrats Hre thoroughly defeated.—(Lafayeite Joart *!.

If the Democrats carry Indiana this fall the Statr will be re-districted. We do not believe on honest man in the State will deny that it ought to be done. It ought to de bone on the ground of political fairness and of convenience. As at present districted it is most unfair. At the last election the Democratic candidates received something over

7,000

votes than the Republican candidates yet out of the thirteen members from the State the Democrats only elected four while the Republicans elected nine. In decency and fairness seven of the present delgeation should be Democrats and six Republican*.

To bring about this result the most gigantic abortions of districts have been made. This—theTerre Haute—district is a visable sign of what we are t-aying^ It stretches like a shoe string i:i a crooked diagonal across the state. There is no business or social intercourse Lctween the people oi the extreme ends of this district. It takes two days for tr.e delegates from some parts of the district to get to the convention. No newspaper in it reaches throughout the district. It is an abortion, conceived a Republican caucus and brought forth in a Republican Legislature. It could and should be done away with.

The Democrats will re-dntrict the State as they should. They will make the districts compact, building them up around the business centres. They will make them fairer than the present ones They could not make them more unfair than they now are if they tried, unless they should divide on the basis of townships and detach the parts from one another.

TIIEI COUNTY

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

The Democracy of Vigo county has nominated an excellent ticket. It will be found at the hesd of thi-t column. It. should and will receive the earnest sup-j^ these things now, perhaps, may be port of every Democrat in the county I explained. It is to be hoped the commit-

The candidates are all well known men, both as partisans and citizens. Each and every one can be relied upon to perform, and perform well the duties ofthe office to which he has been nominates by his party. Betore the campaign is over the GAZETTE will take frequent occasion to mention particularly the qualifications which each man has for the support of his party and citizens generally. Our purpose now is not to men. tion particulars.

It is a ticket' which will not only secure the full vole of the party» but will draw strength from the outside. In the matter of tov/n and country and different nationalities the convention was fortunate. No flaw can be found in its work on any of these accounts. Where men at present holding .ffice. as Criminal udge, Prosecutor, Treasurer and Commissioners have been renominated, they are persons whose records entitle them to the confidence of the community. Thev are men who have been watchful of the interests of the people entrusted to their care. On that account they were re-nominated. And the same thing that made them strong with Democratic delegates in convention assembled wil make them strong with the people at large in the race. Where new men have been nominated as in the case of the Auditor, Sheriff, Recorder and Representatives, they are men whose characters in private life, and business ability make it certain that they will do their duty, fearlessly and without favor.

The GAZETTE feels that the ticket nominated by the Democracy is certain be elected.

SENATOR DAVIS AND THE TREASURY BOOKS. From the Baltimore Gazette of a recent date wo take the following paragraph which relates to a subject of absorbing interest. It is follows:

Senator Davis, of West Virginia, must be striki"g ''pay dirt More than a year ago he asserted in a speech in the presence of Mr. Boutwell, ex-secretary ofthe treasury, that for years a forced balance had been made to the books in the treasury department, and that a discrepancy of at least

$200,000,000

existed. Mr.

Boutwell made no reply. Mr. Davis was afiei ward placed in charge of a select committee to overhaul the books and account* of the treasury. On yesterdav he arose in the senate and asked leave to have his committee sit during recess. In the course of hi* remarks he sail! that the fact would be Hilly established that a deficit of $2oo,ooo,oooor more did exist in the treaty according to their own books. Tins is the kind ot investigation tnui investigates. Tne country wants more of it. There is no Glover nonsense about Mr. Davis.

Ever si.ice Senator Davis breached this subject, the GAZETTE ha,s watched his proceedings with ever increasing respect for his honesty cf purpos'e in beginning, and for the indefatigable industry with which he has prosecuted his researches. Senator Boutwell's explanation of the doings of Boutwell, the Sec. retary of the Treasury, were never tatiafactory. On the face of the books appears an alarming discrepancy. In a matter involving so large a turn as

tee will call the two Chandlers before it and ask them to determine what is dark in their correspcndence, what is low to raise and support, that the committee may assert outrageous frauds and prove the ways of returning boards to men. Lest the readers memory may have failed him on this point the GAZETTE takes great pleasure in reproducing here a tew choice extracts as follows:

Talla, 13.—W. A. Clancy, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York: Florida swarming with prominent Democats. Send some Republican lawyers and eminent mm. Send Jones to E. A. Rollins, Philadelphia. Have Arthur Williams warm. Men acting cold.

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

hundred millions of dollars is a very lar sum of money. It is more than enough to conduct the Government for a whole vear. It is a thine worth looking into when there is any failure to accouut for it# expenditure. All this happened, apparently under Boutwell when Grant was at the head of the most dishonest ring that ever wronged or robbed a nation. This sum may have'gone into the corruption fund of that gang, and have been used by it to swell personal profits, or to organize that system of rings within rings which at one time seemed stronger than the law.

It gratifies the GAZETTE to observe t.iat Senator Davis persists in delving Into this mystery. We hope he will keep at it all summer. Really it docs seem as if we ought to catch some of these rascals and punish them here on this earth and not turn ovei the rulers of I he next world so tremendous a job. Let us know what became of t'-.a'

$200,000,000

for which 3outwe11 r.r.cr nas accounted. Who got the mo.c\? What aid he do with it?

THE CHANDLER TELEGRAMS. It-vet tigation under the Potter resolution will, it is to be presumed, begin at er.ee. There is no reason why, since Congress ha? decided that it is to be done, it should not be quickly disposed of. Like the little business Macbeth had on hand, "if it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.'' In prosecuting their investigation it js to be hoped that the committer: will not fail to dispel the mystery that has clung about the correspondence between Zacharuh Chandler, of Michigan, chairman of the Republican national committee, P./id Wm. E. Chandler, of Near Hampshire, who traveled through the South at the time the Returning Boards vere getting in their work. It has long been admired as a beautiful correspondence, worthy o' preservation and study. Some things about it were a little shadowy, it is true, and susceptible, as idyllic productions usually are, of several interpretations.

W. E. CHANDLER.

Washington,

13.—Hon.

W. E. Chand

ler, Tallahassee, Pla.: Dispatch received. Jonts gone to Philada hartley all alon^ the line—sea safe cotton high stiffen oianges men coming.

Z. CHANDLER, Ch'mn,

Washington, D. C., Nov.

Washington, Nov. 24.—Hon. W. E. Chandler: Cotton high. Robinson in Philadelphia. Smith went with Jjnes to Florida.

W. "E. CHANDLER.

Tallahassee, Nov. 26.—Got. W. P. Kellogg, New Orleans: Cold reports here doctors scarce cotton fever spreading raining here. Answer.

W. E. CHANDLER.

THE FLORIDA AND LOUISIANA FRAUDS. Very important action was taken by the Democrats in Congress last Friday. Late in the afiernoor was passed what are known as the Potter resolutions from the name of Congressman Clarkson N. Potter of New York, who introduced them. For the more petlect information of the reader we give the resolutions entire, as they were introduced in the House, on Mon Jay lait. 'lliey are as fpllows*

Whereas, the State of Maryland has by its Legislature formally declared that due effect was no: given to the electoral vole cast by that State on the 6th day of December,

1S76,

$200,000,000

the explanation which shall account for its disappearance tj the satisfaction of tax payers must be very clear and explicit It is not like a matter of a few cents which balks a balUnce sheet. It is not represented by any one, or any small number erf1 coins whereof it might be said that a crevice in the floor caught tod hid them theprosecutioirof l&stliess. Two

by reason of fraudulent

returns of electoral votes from the States of Florida and Louisiana and Whereas, an affidavit by Samuel B.' McLin, chairman of the board of State canvassers of the State of Florida, for the election held in that State in November, 1S76, for electors of President and VicePresident has been made public, alleging false and fraudulent returns for voU-s for such electors in that State whereby the choice of the people of that State was annulled and reversed and that the action of the board of State canvassers in making such returns was influenced by the conduct and promises of Hon. Edward F. Noyea, now a minister for this Government to France and

Whereas it is alleged that a conspiracy existed in the State of Louisiana whereby

itiUfeo.

returning board of that State of the votes cut in those precincts for electors of President and Vice-President and that James E. Anderson. the supervisoi of registration of East Feliciana, and D. A. Weber, the supervisor of registration of the parish of West Feliciana in that State, in furtherance of that conspiracy, falsely protested that the election in such precincts had not been fair and free, and that the said returning board thereupon falsely and fraudulently excluded the votes of the said precincts and by means thereof and of other false and fraudulent action by the said returning board, the choice of the people of that State was annulled and reversed and that such action of the said Weber and Anderson was induced or encouraged by the assurance of Hon. John Sherman, now Secretary of tne Treasury of the United States.

Whereas the gravity of these charges, the nature of the evider.ee upon which hey are reported to be based and the official dignity and position of the persons named in connection with the said frauds make it proper the same should be inquired into to the end that the honor of the nation may be vindicated and the truth as to such elections maue known. Therefore,

Be it resolved, That a select committee, consisting of eleven members of this House, be appointed by the Speaker to inquire into the aforesaid allegation a3 to the conduct of the persons in office aforesaid in respect D! the said election, and into the alleged false and fraudulent canvass and return of votes by Stare, county, parish, and precint officers in the said States of Louisiana and Florida, and into all the facts which, in the judgement of the said committee, are connected with or pertinent thereto and that the said'committee, for the purpose of executing this resolution, shall have p«wer to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, and to take testimony, and in their disc-etion to detail sub committees, with like full authuritv of said commit' .e in every particular, ar.d with power to sit in Florida and Louisiana, which subcommittees shall be committees of this House and the chairman thereof shall be authorized to administer oaths that the said committees and subcommittees may employ stenographers, clerks and messengers, and be attended each by a deputy sergeant-at-^rms, and nuy sit during the sessions of this House and during the vacation and that said committee do forthwith proceed i.. this inquiry and have leave to report at any time.

From the day it was infroduoed it has been violently opposed bj the Republicans. At first they tried to load it down with an amendment which sent the com* mittee hunting over the whole union. To this the Democrats objected, drawing this very clear distinction between Florida and other States of the Union. That very startling confessions hare lately been made b- persons in charge of the polling places in Floii la. showing that they did alter the returns, and nothing of the kind has transpired elsewhere. Failing to pass their amend* ment, or to have it incorporared in the original resolutions, th* Republicans resorted to filibustering their, tactics being to abstain from voting^ altogether, thus leaving the House without a quorum.

It so happened that a number of Democrats net contemplating such tactics, had permitted themselves to be paired. All the week the fight haA been kept up, to the exclusive of all other business. Friday afternoon however, the lor.g deadlock was broken, and by a vote of

15.—Hon.

W. E. Chandler: Cook and others leave to-night. Robinson will accompany Jones if necessary. Cotton hi^h. Doctors plenty. You must net leave.

Z. CHAt m.F.R,Ch'mn,

Z. CHANDLER.

Tallahassee, Nov. 27.—2. Chandler, Washington, C.: William Kohinsou in sinali cherries probably shall not net him apples abouc twenty, be6t to be ready for any emergency

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the resolution passed, The effect of this resolution will be that the Florida and Louisiana elections will be investigated, and, if the results obtain, ed are such as it is reasonable to expect they will be, a great wror.i will be cighted. /I

THE WONDERFUL i^Ir-ON. When this man Edison will stop in his marvelous inventions is one of those things "tio feilah can find out." Nothing seems to hinder him. His inventive genius grasps all problems and solves all difficulties. So far he has confined his labors to electricity and kindied subjects. He is the inventor of the stock reporter, a telegraphic instrument which registers stock quotations, as noticed in the large hotels of the country.

He invented the duplex, as it is called, a contrivance by which two or more messages may be tent each way over the same wirekat the same time.

He is one ofthe inventors of the telephone, for it was invented at aiinoct the same time bv others.

His latest marvel is the phonograph which has startk'dnhe world. He is now busy extending the applications of this contrivance. A f«»w days ago we publish ed an article from his pen, in the North American Review, in which he stated the uses to which it might be put Something not thought of at the time of writing that article, has been hit upon by him since. An account of it is given in the New York World of Friday last. A party of gentlemen it seems went to see him at his residence at Menlo Park, New Jersey, on Thursday evening of last week. lie was showing them the operation of his phonograph, when one of the party handed him a slip from the Burlington Hawkeye, in which the writer in a facetious vein had proposed puzzle for Mr. Edison to solve, not dreaming of course that it could be solved. His puzzle was as follows:

Couldn't Mr. Edison'Invent some kind of a phone or graph that would be acted 011 by the cry of an infant in the night sc it would instantly grasp the cradle and rock like the tossing billows on the ocean's breast. We have thought a great deal on this subject, and in fact have a lude kind of machine that performs this labor with tolerable perfection

t.ie Republican vote in all the precmcis^ now, but it is rather complicated, and es of the parish of East Feliciana and in!it wears out our robe de nuif and we some precincts of West Feliciana, at the! have to wake up every time it operates, general election in November, 1876, was it doesn't just exactly fill the bill. Speak purposely withheld from the polls to Up» Mr. Edison.

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seeing any joke in the inquiry of the funny man of the Hawkeye, made answer that he had been thinking of and had prepared a contrivance that lie thought would fit the case. He proposed he said, to have a telephone attached to a point near the cradle. Connection would be made between ard a battery. Con nection again was made fiom the battery a box containing magnets and con nected with a lever, which was in turn .joined to the cradle. The babyV. cries would be received by the telephone which, operating through the battery and magnets, would set in motion the levtr that would rock the cradle. When the baby stopped crying the cradle would cease to rock.

It sems reasonable anJ natural and will woik. Perhaps, the Hawkeye mat. will realizj that lact is funnier than fun. In this connection we reprint from the same issue of the World a local item giving an account of the manner in which the phonograph is to be exhibited over the country, to the enlightenment of the people and the enrichment of its inventor. The account is as follows:

At the office of the Phonograph Company, No.

203

Broadway, there are now

eighty persons engaeed in learning the art of manipulating the talking-machtne. Twenty-two large-lunged men were yesterday detected by a World reporter in the act of declaiming at the top of their voices the popular ballad of "Mary's Lamb." and he was informed that they were part of the chosen band who are to introduce ail over the United Slates Mr. Edison's great invention.

It appears that the Phonograph Company have been for a long time devising the moit effective way of reaping an abundant harye6t from their instruments, and have hit upon the plan of sweeping the country with agents. When it first became known thai a "talking machine" was in actual existence, there were a number of energetic men from all the sections of the country who saw in it a means of making an easy tortune. Applications for the instrument poured in from all quarters, in response to which the company issued letters promising that on the first of May the machines would be ready for delivering, on receipt of $100.

Afterwards, however, the compa

ny thought of a more profitable scheme, and refused to deliver the machines on the above tetms, but finally, on May Sth, the following terms were offered: On payment of

$100

in cash, all who could

give suitable recommendations or ample bonds were to be "loaned" a phonograph, conditionally upon their signing a contract to the following effect: They should be nllowed the privilege of exhibiting the talking machine in whatsoever manner they chose in certain territories to be allotted by the company Ihey should fix upon a common price of 25 cents in their exhibitions of their ma chines, and they should return to the Phonoar .ph Company, daily,

per cent,

ot their gross receipts. The contracts were limited to the space ot three months. The result was that eighty men are now actively at work, under the tuition of trained teachers, provided by th« company, in learning the art of manipulating the machine. In ten days' time this hand of energetic showmen will be distributed throughout the country, giving to every citizen an opportunity to hear 'Mary's Little Lamb" and other choice passages of English literature. i-,

AN IRISHMAN'S APOLOGY. A gentleman identified with the busi* ness of railroading until abo.it .1 year since, says the Milwaukee (Wi») Sentir nal, and now a conscientious membe. on 'change, tells a vcrv good storv ot'S S. Merrill, General Manager of the Chi. cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. The two gmtlmen wvi returing from Minneapolis, where they had been on business connected with the road. At Austin, where thw train halted for several minutes, a mechanic was engagtd in testing the car wheels with a hammer. The fellow took bat little inteiest in his work, more than to finish it as speedily as possibly. Mr. Merrill, when he witnessed the shiitlessness ofthe employe' could not resist the desire to take the hammer trom the fellow's hands. No sooner had the wpikman recovered from his a.nazement than he rudelv snatched the hammer back, and resumed his occupation not without sundry »cowls and faces at the individual who had pretended to ttach him his own business. Subse quently a bvstander told him who the individual was, and, to readvised him to apologize. So, when the conductor shouted "All aboard!" the sen of Erin awkwardly approached Mr. Merrill, and while nervously twisting a refractory lock of reddish hair, delivered Inm etf a* follows "Misther Merrill, I hekve? Faith and 1 did't know I was spcak'ng lo •, 011, out tfeie. You know I uiu^.ci't pay aier.tion tuivery fool taht comes along!"

BUM NKSS at the Terre Haute Oar Works is exceedingly brisk. Ihey are now employing over two hunJred ir.en turning out five new t.eight cars daily, and repairing several old cars per day. They are at work on an order for five hunured first class freight cars for the Erie & Pacific company, and they are spleneid care, as are ail made by this company. Th.M ii ^ve also a great number of old cars to repair for several companies 1 hey have lately been making numerous extensive additions and improvements to their shops and machinery, 'ticluding a ne.v office, new storehouse, an o.l hcw-e, !e\v roof to the car hou»e, etc. f'*|*

INVITATIONS to the Grand Masonic celebration to be given in this city on July 12tii, ar« being sent out. l'hey arc sent oiu in the name ot ail three of the B:ue lodges of ihi» city and are very tasteful in design.

A NEW reel house for No.

is badly needed, and now is a good ttme lo have it b.iiit. It should be located on Third

street

just opposite the present lo

cation, north of Mam street, li is an improvement most needed by the city a*,ide trom the street wants.

No Lady's Toilet Complete

tTalo there be tiie Iragant SOZOUOXT unto the breach sweet uravri it imparts, tdo Sums a ruby remieu* soon assu ne, the (ju.cJir1r4lAiftbaBb.-r itnl,auUsueui it»peatl« ct in a coral 7*as. ^Spalding's Glue,cheap, convenient,useful

if ii ii 1 IT ii S

THE SUNNY SOUTH.

A May Trip

to Nsr-hville tanooga.

Nearly $500,000

the

lust

drawn during the year

not

ports

arrived there at

Mr. A. P, Lynch, ,^he United States MftdgiuU &in$ but he intend*.to siiw •tfwtaKp. z:\Z

and Chat-

I was pleased and interested with Nashville. It is in every respect first class city. It shows grandly in situation high above the vnlley of ih Cumberland, well graded and bsabtiful streets, ry many really fine private residences, targe and substantial churches, hotels no* excelled in any city, and a state capitol worthy of imitation, and one that puts to shame the extravagance and frauds so frequently practiced in the erection of public buildings. The state capitol of Tennessee is an unexceptionable edifice, externally and internally. The situation is more beautiful and commanding than any state capitol 1 have seen. From aulhority reliable, I was informed that the whole cost of building, and outside adornments was but a little over one million dollars. Nashville is now famous for its many good schools. I wish that I could enumerate all of them. The celebrated "Drew University" is located thsre, and is in a prosperous condition. The Methodist denomination have also a High School, or University, devoted exclusively to the education of the colored race. And located there too, is the Fisk University. 1 rode out to see it and to judge of its character. It has a very pleasant and conspicuous situation, about one and a half miles from the city. The association purchased and own 25 acres of ground, for which they paid

$20,000.

The Jubilee Singers 1 who has not heard of the Jubilee Singers? All over this country and in Foreign countries they traveled singing melodious songs of higi order, and attracting large audences. They were very successful ir» cash tveeipts. They paid for the

acres of land and, under

the guidance and supervision of the American Missionary Ai-sociation, they erected a large, substantial and imposing edifice, in every wav adapted for a university school. It is five stories high, without including the cellar. The cellar and first story is built of stone, and the others of blick. It has an east front ot 145 feet, and a south of

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cost was about

feet. Its

$130,000.

Gen. Clinton

B. Fish is president of the board of ofiicers, and it has a very efficient board of trustees, executive committee and professional teachers. Professor A. K. Spence is Dean ot the faculty and he, with his devoted wife, have labor, ed long and faithfully to buiid up and make successful, one of the noble educational institution of the south. On my way from Nashville to Chattanooga, I learned through a student returning to it it, ofthe University ofthe South, located on the Cumberland mountains. I had heard of it before, and heard too, that the civil war interfered very much with its prospei it}', and that General Roencrans neaHy razed the buildiiig to the ground I was very much gratified to learn through this student that it is now prospei ing as a school, and that it hus a very able faculty and a large patronage. On account of the coldness of the winters on the mountains, and th-i coolness ot the summer months, the vacation season occur* during the winter months. While a guest at the Maxwell House in Nadivillc, I was quite surprised one day by the laige in-

flux of guests into that house, and they looked in numbers and bodily appearance as though they wire about to take possession ot the dining room, and ail the beds in the house. My fears were dispelled wheu I found that they belonged to an organization called the "Knights of Honor." I found they were delegates from subordinate lodges of that order and lrom nearly all the stu'e* in the Union to a National convention. 1 had never heard of the order before and was anxious to learn sometning of its principles. From 9 printed report, I extract the following statistics. Number of ubordirutfe Lodges

1,155.

Humbert

Number of

40,000.

1 cau| not quote from

their constitutions as I may nut be able to obtain it. But there a Supreme LodBe and there are Grand Lodges,whichi govern and control all the machinery of the order. The grund principle and aim ofthe order, as near as I can gather, ii insurance. In this respect it varies but little from the Knights of Pythias, only the assessments are larger, and the paymetits in case of death larger also. The organization took place in

1S73.

that time, there is reported

Since

254

deaths.

have been paid out to

fne representatives of those deceased, an average of about

$2,000

to each. During

fiscal year, the membership

nearly doubled. The cash receipts from assessments were

$300,982.57.

Orders

$300,000.

on hand May 1,

Cash

1878,

$1,734.46. The

plan now is to pay in case ot death

$3,000

to the representatives of each. From rep n'.s it would seem that the order i». working ha. mouious'y, and in perfect MSttni,

a cloud resting upon it,

But in poking over the details of its workings, it seems to tno that there is ... much complication and difficulty to bo itpprehended in the future. There are *ome statistics reported in regard to deaths cf an interesting character and import.

Kentucky ha3 seventy-one lodges* 4,250 member*, and theie has been forcytwo deaths in five years. Teiniesiect has

101

lodges,

4,100

membtrs, and re-,

deaths 111 four years. Pennsyl

vania,

l.jdge», membership "ispo, and

deaths in f.iur y^urs,

18.

But 1 can not

continue this. I do net look *ith confidence upon its success. 1 left Nashville for Chattanooga aL uiiout

A. M, and

151

p. M. The distance is

miles. The railroad is a capital one, and the road bed, a good part of

100

the

way,

in lime stone roca, which crops out, and ties but a little below the surface of the country,? Alter crossing the Comberiand Plateau, a plain of

miles io length, and of

miK 8 in width,

hose reel

crossed the

beautiful Tennessee River at Bridgeport. From this point on to Chattanooua the scenery in grand and highly interesting. We cross tne mountains up and down,, winding grades through a tunnel nearly a half a mile in length, wind aro*d .. Lookout mountain, under its very base,., the summit of which is

1500ft

above the

rsii road and enter Chattanooga having /, the river ar.d mountains in full view, 1 will try to describe Chat.tanooga the beautiful National cemetery and Lcokou Mountain in my next and la^t.

S. H. P.

Dr. Van Valzah is deeply engaged in a rastle" with an attack of "chills," with ibf odd#in favor af the^hHls this -mom-*"*

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