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Addresslall letters, WM. C- BALL & CO. GAZETTE, "Bene Haute, Ind.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. or Criminal Judge THOMASB. LONG.

For Criminal Prosecutor, ALBERT J. KELLEY. For Auditor,

AKDEEW GRIMES. For Treasurer, NEWTON ROGERS.

For Sheriff, LOUIS HAY. For Recorder.

JAMES PHILLIPS. For Coroner, HENRY 1CHRENHARDT.:

For Commissioners,

Firat Distnet-JOHN W. W1L80N Second Diatriet—JNO. S. JORDO ForoBepresentatlves, I

I. N. EESTER.

ROBERT VAN lYALZAH. For Surveyor, TULLY SIMMONS.

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET FOR 1878

For Secretary of State,

JOHN G. 8HANKL1N, of Yandexbargh Co. For Auditor of^State, MAI1LON D. ANSON, of Montgomery Co

For Treasurer of State,

WILLIAM FLEMING, of Allen County. Fer Atterney-General, THOS.W. WOOLEN, efr Johnson County.

Jot Superintendent of Publio Instruction. JAMES H. SMART, of Allen County.

THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1878.

HAVING

dropped Jones, of Nevada

the Notionals are now screaming for ri Butler.

VEN a cucumber, with any selt-re-spect, would find it impossible to keep cool in these degenei ate da} s.

CHIEF SCHXLL

FOR

and General Sherma

are in the same boat. The constituted authorities will furnish horse feed for neither.

awhile yet there wilt be no sewer

cn Main street. It is, however, only a matter of time when that improvement, which is really needed, will be made. t,r, for

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was renominated

Congress by the Republicans in the seventh (the Indianapolis and Greencastle) district, on Saturday, by acclamaii'li.ra

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SINCE

Disraeli sprung the treaty with

•jyj.jjgy jn the Congress, Gortschakoff is wvpsst said to have expressed a greater fondness for BIsnjarck's dog than firf the British premier.

C5 ONE

would naturally have supposed

the Turk would have been too fond of the Cyprians to have parted with thetin Besides what can staid and puritanical England want with them?

'*«THK Fort Wayne Sentinel is authori-1' ty for $he statement that the fish in the Little Wabash, near Huntington, are dy

ing by the thousands. No cause for the fatality has yet been discovered,

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they

begs to remind its

have no

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tional friends that the weather is too warm for red hot Notional poetry 4 Will they please think of the community, if iH

care for themselves,

the name of the whole people, of Terre Haute, whose organ the

we welcom5

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the advocates ofcold

water to our beautiful Prairie City* best wish is that they may have a ^cOol and pleasant time

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IOWA has "waked up," to to speak,-on the tramp problem* They corral them with muskets and shoot them when they resist arrest Once taken, they make them repair roads to the dismal clanking of chains. It cures the disease. Ol'

LET

us tee about it. Beecher cays

there is no hell hereafter, but that every man has his hell on this earth. Wel' maybe the old man man is right, after all. Someway the question looks just a little different, from what it did last winter.

you are suffering very much from ihe heat, and find it difficult to discover a cool place, the

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would sug

gest the cellar as a locality, which, if not cool, is at least endurable. Several persons have been living in the cellar for a W§ek pa6t, during the day time, and only emerge from its cavernous depths at night.

KATK CLAXTON appeared the other day in a jSew Tork court ia bankruptcy proceedings. The unfor uoato actress was in tears at one stage of her examination. 8he tells a pitiful story of her theatrical experiences. —[Exchange.

It would seem to bo about time lor New York sharks to let a poor, blind

orphan, beggar girl alone. Or are they the scoundrels our Notional friends sa they are?

the four valiant young men who once upon a time, were firemen, but who are firemen no longer, will go into the country they can get work and earn some money. If they had served the city with half the zeal they worked for the Notional ticket in food expectancy of promotion from that c,allow party they would not be left now to the charity of a perspiring world.

THE summer«every-day suit ef a Madagascar gentleman costs only fifteen cents, and twelve of these are laid out for a can? —I Free Press.

Will the individual who does not wish the artless manners of the Madagascar gentlemen prevailed in thSs country, dur. ing the dog days, rise up with his hand upon his hear,t^.. „What.manner ol man is he?

OF COURSE NOT.

We do not believe a word of the charge that Secretary Thompson is taking his friendalong the coast at the expense of the government. Mr. Thompson is an old-fashioned gentleman, too proud to sponge upon the government treasury. It would bea blessing upon the country if all the public men of Doth parties vrere as honest as Secretary Thompson*—|Evansville Courier.

You are right. Secretary Thompson is an honest man. His shipmates (nautical term) pay their own share of tht mess (another nautical term, See Webster) expenses.

BY the way, did anyone ever observe that the most artfent of the "workingmen" never de any work, except with their jaws? The men who do most of the talking about the hardships and oppr esslon ot the laboi er don't seem to ever hurt themselves by over-exer-tion. It is singular, but It Is true.—1 City rli drawn

County Enterprise. Your hand pard. You have the picture of a Terre Haute Hoodlum to the very life. They earn their breadno, not their bread, their pies and cakes by the sweat of their jawt. And of such is the kingdom of bummers

A "JDNWET" where eaohman pays his own bills )s cot so much of a junket after all That ts the kind the Secretary of the Navy and his party are going to indulge in on their taster A trip.—[Boston Evening Herald.

It gratifies the

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AN idea of the disastrously hot weather at Danville^ 111., can be gained from the following paragraph taken from the Danville News, a very clear-headed and sensible paper in cool weather: "Many journals carp a great deal about the old ring corruptionists wanting Grant for'President, when the fact is that there is not a man in the nation of whom ring.corraptionistiK 1 horror. General 'Grant left House without^ taint of cor on his natjB«.^*^-v ^ij

JOSEPH

to observe

that its Boston contemporary takes the 6ame view of Secretary Thomsons tour of inspection as it does. The more this remarkable excursion is contemplated the more it redounds to the credit of the jolloy old mariner from the Wabhsh. »w*

GKOBOK BKTTS, a clergyman's son, aged fourteen, and a friend sei out at Lansing, Mtch., not long ago. to spend an afternoon shooting at a mark with their loaded revolvers. Returning home young Betts, in a tragic manner, ciTed: "Tou villain, die! and snapped his pistol at his compahion, who told him not to do so again, as seme one might get hart. Betts then held the re volverto his own temple to show it was, empty, fired* and fell dead.—| Exchange.

Some way it is a little difficult to' mourn over the early demise of an inspired young lunatic who had a habit of snapping pistols promiscuously. His own death Is really the paving of some other persons life in th^aT^ji by and this tempers our grief, making it endurable in this hot weather.'

White

It will be observed that Jthe excessive there as to utterly destroy the memory* Grant pure!? H—11.

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A 1 E S In the Montesuma Era of yesterday we find the following article. It pays a just and deserving tribute to the eniergy and eficiency ofpur distinguished townsman. We gfytethe headlines and all of the Article, though reduced in size, just as it appears in the Era:

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HAS BEEN "FODDERED" BT A DEVIOCKATiC SENATOR 'j.j-

IT TRUE FRIKKD OFTHK SOLD1SB! Iw A vj

We challenge 3. B. ©avis, of the Hoosier State, to deny, these fafcts. Hon. 0. P. Morlou tried to get him a pension and failed Gen. Coborri, nf Indianapolis, tried to get bim a pension and failed Gen. H. D. Wa«hburn tried to get him a pension and failed M. C. Hunter, aided Dy Republican attorneys, tried to get him a pension and iailedf. After all these representative Republicans had proven recreant to the soldier, Senator Voorhees, aided by a Democratic attorney of Newport, went to work and secured Davis a pension. These are the fact# and our readers can judge for themselves who. has been the friend of the soldier. It was no one eUe but Hon. D. W. yporhees, and Davis dare not deny it.

OBITUARY.

Rev. Chauncey W. Fitch, D. post chaplin United States army, died at the residence ofhi8fon,K. W. Fitch. Juq«, on Market street, leffersonvihe, Saturday afternoon, of anemia of the brain. Mr. Fitch was born in Rensselaerville, New Tork, in 1891. He was one of the leading clergymen in the Episcopal Church in the West in his day, and servthe geaer conventions ef that denomination, a aistinc

ed forty years as delegate to ihe general conventions er thatdenomin&tion, a ais tion shown to but few in the church. He was the flfst president of the University of Michigan, and was also professor of ancient languages of Kenyon College, Ohio, several years. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War under Lincoln, aud Senator David Dtivis were at one time under his tutelage. In 1863 Mr Stanton appointed Dr. Fitch post chaplain in the United States army, and stationed him at Detroit. Dr. Fitch was a great favoriteia army circles and in society at Detrois. Those woo knew him regarlea him with high esteem lor his many christian and social virtues. His family can

WEDDING,

This explanation is due to a court that is conducted upon the most watchful system of economy and which has been constantly reducing instead of in' creasing its expenses.. The people should also know this additional fact, that the criminal expenses of pur County in accordance with its populatian, are only one half of what are paid by any other coun t/ in the state. j?.,

'•THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN BEFORE THE iAW." Within the past few years the temaie colleges of the country, particularly those in the East, have introduced into the curriculum a text book on "The Rights of Women Before the Law."' It is what is called "an elective study." That is to say, it is not put down in the regular course as a subject which must be mas tered, to enable one to graduate, but is classed with certain other branches, u8etul and ornamental, the privilege of studying one or more of which is optional with the student. It is stated (and we mention this to the shame and confusion Of all scoffers who insist that girls are fanciful and frivolouy, pursuing shadows rather than grasping at the substantial) that from the very first this has been a favorite study with them. Year bv year it has become more popular. For it they have abandoned descriptive astronomy, with its wonderful legendary lore, and all the pomp and pageantry of an imperial sky blazoned with the loves of Gods and

THE TERRE HAUTl WEEKtY GAZETTE

Israel Is dead

truly say, verily a prince in —jIndianapolis Journal, Dr. Fitch, was, for several years rector of St, Stephens Episcopal church, this ctyy. While here he did much to endear himselt to the congregation over which he had charge and all others with whom he came in contact. He was a man of fine scholarship and possessed of-?-*, a memory which retained within its strong grasp everything that came under his observation, either'in books or among men. Though he was an old man, who had paseed the allotted 6pan of life, his many friends here will learn with deep and abiding grief of his decease.

an old citizen OF

Vigo county, ha6 two boys, twins, now seven years old, that preserve the most remarkable resemblance. They are named Harry and Jimmy, and bear such close likeness to one another that it is impossible, when they are dressed alike as they always are, to tell them apart. In fact, Harry wears

little

piece of

leather on the but on of his coat so that he can tell himself which one he is. When either boy is asked his name up goes his hand tQ that button, and if the leather is there he 6ays "Harry," and if it isnt, he will tell you his name is Jimmy. One night their coats were changed and for a week those twins were hopelessly mixed us Harry's knee was rubbed with liniire for the tocth ache, and Jimmy had a tooth pulled out to cure aIr 60re knee, to the mutual astonishment of those bewildered infapts. Their iathj has drilled them in the manual of nsand it is said that a perfectly ober man, who saw them once going hrough their evolutions, was so thorough^ ly persuaded that he saw double, that he made all his preparations to go to an inebriate as\ lum until the mystery wa explained. They were in town to day and were weighed. The most delicate scales failed to detect a hairs weight differences between them* Their -^father proposes to ir.ake farmers Of them and they start out on their agricultural careers by looking as much alike as two peas. They are withal fine boys, bright eyed, quick moving, and intelligent, veritable,. and creditable chips of the old block.

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AMENDE.

Some days ago dur attention was called by Treasurer Rogers to an error in his report,,by which the expenses of our two courts were wholly charged to the criminal court. It occurred in making out the copy for publication, when the abbreviations C. C. standing for circui' court, but intended for,both, were writ, ten out criminal court. This, of course, makes the statement very unjust to the latter tuUfel|W hen in ./act, only one pehses are incurred fourths being made by the circuit court. 'The figures, too, in the treasurer's report, are much too grea* for the current expenses of the year because they include part of the allowances made by the courts during the year still preceding, and perhaps yet farther back, when county orders were not paid. In this way they came into the hands of speculators and others, and many were not presented at the treasur cr's counter until during the past year when their payment was resumed. This1 then, would make these figures larger than they otherwise would be. The proper place to look for the actual expense of the courts during the past year is in the Auditor's report, printed along with that of the Treasurer. It is his duty to draw the orders for these allowances, and his report shows all that were issued during the year. By reference to this document it will be seen that the jury expenses of the circuit court were three thousand, three?' hundred and thirty-pix dollars, while those of the Criminal court were only nine hundred and seven dollars. The bailiff allowances are included in one sum, but their proportion is about the same.

Goddtsses. French has measurably lost its fascination for them, or at best is understood as being a superfluous accomplishment in the presence of this commanding reality. Chewing gum and omels are trival. Sentiment is sickening. Dancing, and even the peculiarly feminine accomplishment .of managing a train, are at last discovered to be minor matters, and the fair heads of bewitching maidens bend low over law books. Midnight oil burning brightly in wel' tr med lamps discovers them ponder, ing, not, as before on the pleasures of hope, but on the legal status of female minors. Beaux have assumed anew appearance in their eyes, and they know just wlut phrases of endearment are actionable in a breach of promise suit, while they tre keenly alive to the superior character of docu* mentary evidence. Boys, both old and young, who think it safe to play fast ana loose with a maiden's affections, will do well to bear in mind this changed condi. tion of affairs, and they may save their own, or their father's bank aicconat by heeding this advice.

The "Sweet girl graduate" of to-day no longer elucidates the profound metereological phenomenon exhibited .in the fact that "Every Cloud has a Silver Lining. "She expounds instead,the difference between a femme sole and a femtr.e covert, or denounces the doctrine of the common law,that a hnsband and wife are one, and that that one is the husband. She does not speak of mar* riage but of coverture. She knows the exact extent ot a husband's liability for the debts of a wife contracted before coverture, and just how far her own individual property is exeVipt from he1" husband's debts. She knows that a husband cannot convey real estate without her signature, and is minutely informed* on the subject of dower. She is well versed in the law of divorce and knows the statute of each state on that subject, Indiana and Utah included.' In fact, she is no longer a vine clinging to imaginary oaks, but a tree on her own occount, well rooted and grounded on the subject of her rights and privilege* as well as duties. She is—well! will the individual who thinks the Almighty ever made any thing more lovable than a pretty, sensible, good and honest girl please stand up and have his miserable mutton head "punched?" That is a fair proposition, and he may make some amends fjr his iniquitous doubts by accepting it.

THE WORK OF THE FORTY FIFTH CONGRESS/] b, After all that has been said about the 45th Congress, it has a fair record of good works. True in its composition there are individual evidences of that degeneracy which permeates and grows upon our entire political system, yet, as whole, it has been a tolerably efficient bddy, honest, economical and fruitful' of accomplished results. Il has remoneti* ed silver, proyided for a settlement between Uncle Sam and the Pacific railroads, and repealed the bankrupt law. It has prohibited the use of the army as a posse comitatus oyer the free people of a free state, provided for the settlement of southern claims by a judicial court* instead of a corrupt and imbecile) com mission, and ordered the completion of the Washington monument, a standing disgrace in its unfinished Condition, for man) years. It has given the District of Columbia the first equitable and permanent form of government it ever h*d, and, after making liberal provisions for piiblic works and improvements, which must give employment to hundreds of laboring men, it has tftill cut off ten, to twenty millions from the atinual expen ditures of the government^

This last named achievement is," perhaps, under all the circumstances the greatest of all. It is an ungracious and ungrateful task to try to economize the public money, at best, and particularly so just now, when there are so many demands, and while there ie such need of extending aid to the unemployed. Prominent members of the House have heard themselves denounced on all hands for service which they know to be hard—for unremitting vigilance and determined opposition to wasteful expenditures. There is scarcely an economizer of them all that has uot friends whom be has to oppose, and every attempt to save money or to kill even so transparent a job as the Brazilian subsidy is denounced as another unpatriotic blunder. All the. subsidy men, have, of course, only the good of the country in view, and every jobber and lobbyist is quite certain that if it were not for this miserably economical House he could, with his little game, restore the prosperiiy of the country.

$396,000

Citizens of Washington feel a sort of gratitude to Congress for what it has done for them, not only in the erection of an improved form of Government o^ the District, but in making liberal pro visions for the completion of public works here, and the consequent employment of the city's ^mechanics and workingmen, among whom there has been so much distress the past winter.. The following are some of the appropriation's For continuing the work on the new State, War, and Navy Department buildings, $675,000 for new building for Bureau of Engraving and Printing $327,000 for repairs on the Patent Office

for terracing the Capitol

grounds, $100,000 for the Washington Monument, $50,000 for clearing the property around the Naval Monument, $50,000 for the improvement of the

harbor, $50,000. These make a total of Over $1,600,000 to be expended in Washington during the next fiscal year. In addition the G9vernment, under the new bill, is to furnish a sum equal to that re ceived from the taxation of property at the rate of i£ per cent, making in all a total of more than $4,000,000 availab: here for public purposes. Large sum will be used on the street?, public ground and buildings, and the improvement of the Capital will be of a marked character. The appropriation for river and harbor improvements in the various states have been liberal, most too liberal Nevada is the only State, which was omitted in this distribution, and some of he papers facetiously remark that the reason of this was that Senator Jones could not think of any river where a little public money could be sunk, and Sena'.or Sharon failed to send on tbe name of one. -*,1

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BUTLER'S BONDS.

Mow that Benjamin F. Butler has assumed to be the especial champion of the working man his duplicity and hypocrisy are likely to be shown up in their true colors. There is something so monstrously absurd in this tricky lawyer, with his 6ubtelties and his subterfuges, his sharp practices and his low cunning, his double dealing and his dishonesty, his manners of a mountebank and his morals of a keno player, pretending to belong to that controlling class of the community who earn tbeir daily bread by the sweat of their faces, as to excite one's risibilities when it does not arouse indignation and contempt. Wearing his face perpetually in a lop sided.leer, he appears, as.he is the nc rnationof thrifty and unscrupulous cunning. Since he came into public life there has not been a dirty job he has not been in. He scents speculation as a vulture scents carrion. 'His fortune, for he is a rich man, has been made in all sorts of questionable ways. They have not hurt Butler because he glories in what would be honest folks shame.

His latest escapade seems likely to prove that, in addition to his many other admirable traits, he is a most consummate liar. This story we can best tell in the words of another. What follows is taken from a Washington dispatch to an eastern paper:

General Butler in his Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, advertised his poverty in the following strain

I do not own any United Statfek bonds myself. As for wealth, that I have not, as wealth is understood. All my property is either, in this state, or in several business and industrial enterprises, dozen mere or less. I hold that as affairs now evist, the man is a poor man who has nothing but what is invested in industrial and business enterprises, and therefore I feel, I think rightfully, in common with the great ma»sofmen in the country, the injustice and the wrong done to the business interests of the country by the present financial system and its management

This depressed condition of the Gen eral'8 business and financial affairs has furnished cause for surprise to his acquaintances here, for is has been quite generally believd ethat he was in easy circumstances and there are people here who have felt almost certain that he was even a bondholder to some extent. A little inquiry among the keen-eyed financiersjwho make it their business to watch the transactions of influential legislators, with a view to forecasting the rite or fall of public securities, ha« not developed any reason to believe that General Butler exceeded the truth in the account he rendered to his laboring friends in Newbury port. On the contrary it seems to indicate that he did not come up to the truth. It is no secret among this class of gentlemen that General Butler has for the past year or more been a'heavy, purchaser, not of United States bonds but of District ot Columbia bonds—quite a different thing-

There are about $13,000,000 of the 3 65 District ot Columbia coupon and registered bonds in the debt of the District. The securities became yery much depressed during the days when, Congress seemed to be showing the cold shoulder and to be disposed to let the District take care of itself and a little over a year ago they might have been purchased for from sixty-seven to sixty-nine cents 011 the dollar. It is supposed to have been about this time that General Butler began to buy these bonds quite heavily. From that time District securities have been appreciating as the disposition manifested by Congrie88 towards the District has .become more taycrable. Just beiore the passage of the bill, which was approved by the President on June it, providing for a permanent form of govern ment tor the District of Columbia, District 3-658 were sold at 74, but they immediately jumped from that point up to 84 in consequence of the passage of that bill. The provision of the bill which was chiefly instrumental in» bringing about this lively appreciation was as follows: "Hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay the interest of the 3-65 bonds of the Act ot Congress approved June 20, 1874, when the some shall become due, and all amounts so paid shall be credited as a put 1 ui ihe appropriation for the year by me United States toward the expenses of the Dictrict of Columbia as herein provicfed."

So General Butler owns 1.0 United States bonds. The only bonds he owns, so far as can be learned, are those for which the United States has bound itself to pay the interest when it becomes due. Just what the total of his poverty in this class of securities amounts to, cannot, of course,be asserted, but it is mentioned as a point of some interest that the General has quite recently converted several thousands of 3-65 District coupon bonds into District registered bonds bearing the same rate of interest. It is also asserted with some degree of positiveness that the General's private secretary has economized so successfully within the last year or two that he now holds District securities in his own name amounting to oyer $100,000.

VERA ZASSOULiruH Something as the communist Kearney is careering over this country, Vera ^as soulitch is traveling over Europe. Between them, however, is this radical dif

ference, that, whereas Kearney is a blath-^ erskite among blatherskite^ „the Russian heroine^ has a real grievance whereof she is spreading the tidings Onh the other day she was tendered an ovation at Geneva, Switzerland. Her history isa curious and interesting one the like of which could hardly be enacted, outside of Russia. Her trial only lately, was conclud d. She was charged with attempting ta murder General Trepoff t! the chief of the Russian police, at St Ptersburg. ^Notwithstanding the fact that she admitted the crime, the jury acquited her, amid the plaudits of those present in the court room. The circumstances of this ase made a deep impres. sion upon the ruling classe of the Empire. Here was a case where an assassin, in open court, confessed that she had shot at the Chief of Police, but a jury selected from the middle Classes, returned a verdict of not guilty, and the woman was immediately adopted as a popular, heroine. It is not surprising that the Czar and his advisers were compelled to regard society in the Empire as in a dangerous condition

Simultaneously with this manifestation of feeling in the capital of the Empire, it was evident that the tone of the Russian Foreign Minister changed con* cerning the San Stefano Treaty. It is more than probable that the Berlin Conference owed its inception to the fact that the Russian Government feared disaffection was deep rooted in the heart of the Empire. The glamour of war did much to (mother the mutterings of discontent. But the victories over the Turkish armies were not potent enough to crush the doctrines of Nihilism,-the form which the Socialism of Europe has assumed in the dominions of the Czar. Yet it is possible the sympathies of the jury with the young woman had also much to do in securing the extraordinary verdict. She had been subjected to police surveillance and illegal imprisonment fbr nine years. The reason she assigned for the deed was that General Ttepoff was too much of a monster to live. She had witnessed in prison his barbarous and cruel treatment of political prisoners. She accused him of deliberate murder by th6 machinations of prison discipline, and like Charlotte Corday, she placed hersel* in the position ofanayenger of innocent blOOd. uv ,r, 4

There a belief at St. Petersburg that a widespread conspiracy exists throughout the Empire. The manumission of the serfs, while benefiting the peasantry* has impoverUhed the middle and upper classes. These classes compose the intelligence of the Empire, and it is among them that the Nihilists find their disciples. It is conceded that the concesMons made to the other powers in the Berlin Conference may be traced in great measure to the disturbed social condition of the Russian Empire.

The account given by Misl Zassoulitch of her escape from Russia leads to to the inference that it was connived at by the authorities. She was an elephant on their hands. For the government to have acknowledged themselves defeated by her would have lessened their power of control over the people. Outwardly arrangements had been made for another trial. The first trial was quashed on account of some alleged informality of the proceedings. A change of venue was granted on the application of the Crown advocate. The seco.id trial wa* to have been held far away from St Petersburg at Novgorod. But during the time these preparations were in proress the authorities must have known that the young woman was on her way to Switzerland.

Recent cvents in Russia point to change in tbe constitution of society there. All travelers admit that education has become much more general than formerly. The Empire is nominally an autocracy. Eyerything is subjected to the will of the Czar. Actually, in an Empire of the vast extent of Russia, the government must perforce be an oligarchy acting through the sovereign power. The Czar can only know of the wants of the Empire through officials. It would be impossible for him to become personally acquainted with all that occurs among sixty millions of people. Oligarchies have always been the worst. forms of government The Czar Alexander has never failed to punish malifeasance and tyranny in office when the circumstances have come to his knowledge. Nobody imagines that Russia as she now stands offers much hope of pi-ogress. A radical change in the constitution of the Government would follow naturally the abolition of serfdom. There are many who believe that the near future, after all the matters adjusted by the Bar 1 in Corgress shall have gene into eff-ct, a ukase will be issued establishing a Represetative Parliament on the model of Western nations.

Fever and Ag«e Cured for 50 Cents. Da. SWATOB'8 FKVXB AHD AOUX PI 1 lb. without calomel or quinine,] a quick and aare curb in every case for ague and fever, intermittent and remittent levers, and alf disetaes having tbeir origin in Malaria. They area great tonic and preventive as well as core of alt complaints peculiar to mtlarU otis, marshy and miasmatic districts. They act on tbe liver, and brace up the system ta a vigorous healthy condition. NotwitbsSandiogthese Pills are sold for o&e-half ther price that other ague cures are sold for, yet! we will warrant tnem as effectual In all cases as any pillsor mixture, let the price or comtoandbe what they may and being entirely J'reefrom all minerals, their use leaves no bad effects, as in the case with many other remedies. Seat by mail to any address on receipt of price, currency or postage stampsl, 50 cents a box, three boxua 11.25, six boxes, $2.50- Address .etters, Dr. Sway nc &&ob, S3oy. Sixthstreet, Philadelphia.

"June" Patterson is in Evansville.

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