Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 March 1879 — Page 4

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THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1879.

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THE papers over tne Country very gen erally commeift favorably on the President's veto of the anti-Chinese bill.

IT is rumored that S. S. Cox, sometimed called Sunset Cox, is figuring for

the nomination for .Governor of New York.

SINCE the Potter committee made it6 report, the -New York. Tribune has seemed to lose interest in the cipher dispatches.

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A LOUD call is made on Kimball, the church debt raiser, to go to Cincinnati and relieve the Catholic church of that place from a $6,000,000 debt.

THE prospects for an exciting citv election this spring are excellent. When the time comes the GAZETTE will be found at the front with a hat full of bricks.

THE latest news from Maine is of the resignation of Dr. Charles E. Hursey frotn the Greenback committee. In his card he says in substance that he'has had ^enough of that foolishness.

ENGLAND has just hanged a brutal murderer named Peace a youth in jail charged with the Manhattan bank robbery bears the appellation of Mr. Hope an Angell robbed the Pullman car company and in Chicago's latest and most startling murder the central figure is a Mr. Lamb. And yet Juliet said there was nothing in a name.

TALMAGE is to be tried by a Church Council. From the nature of the charges preferred against him, it would seem as if a Grand Jury and Criminal Court ought to take cognizance of his offenses. When a minister is tried on charges which practically amount to accusations of Ijing, cheating and blackmailing, it would seem as if the, church ought to resign him to the courts. 1

PENCKS PANDEMONIUM is no not the only place inthe world [where Ine medium ia caught and exposed. Tne other day a bold boy seized the materialized form of Big Indian by the foot id a seance in Beebe Plain, Canada, and c^uld not be kicked off, although the account says that a mule could not have worked more vigorously than did this spirit! visitant. The lights were turned up, and the lad was disclosed clutching the foot of Mrs. Huntoon, the medium, who was clumsily disguised in Indian dress. Mrs. Huntoon is a sister of the notorious Ed-

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FROM a Washington dispatch to an exchange the ftiTlbtiing paragraph is taken: It reflects not a little credit on! a colored Congressman whose 6kin is the only black thing about him. The' dispatch says that Robert Smalls, the much-per-atcutcd colored Congressman from South .Carolina, has recently, in a quiet way, done an act that would makfe a white man confj^Quous, but in hij ,case it iaeetns t6 iihaVe teen entirely overlooked. He was a slave before, the war and had a kind master, who wjas financially ruined during the rebellion, and died in poverty some years ago. Small recently learned that his daughter had 'become widowed, and was herself in a distressing condition. In the most delicate manner he arranged that she should be provided with the necessaries of life, and sent her son, a boy of 16, an appointment as cadet atihe Naval Acadiemy. I'U

CONGRESS frill begin again next Tuesday. Randall will probably be relected speaker, though Blackburn has many friends and will be a good second for the Democratic caucus nomination. Randall has made a most excellent Speaker, his influence being always thrdwn on the side of economy, and he has fairly earned the right to be elected Speaker of the orty-sixth Congress by his efficiency in fhat posit'on in the forty-fifth..

Some rumors are afloat that! the Notional Fiatics will be a disturbing ele. ment in the speakership contest, in this claim there is about as much basis of fact as there was in the impudent boast of the

eatrie party in this State that they would organize the Indiana Legislature and dictate the Senatorial-nomination. For Senator, it will be remembered, Plan Buchanan received just three votes. He now in Washington organizing Congress, and it is possible bis party n.ay muster three votes next Tuesday. They will not have many more.

IN this issue Mr. James P. Foley an.OftWISS8 his candidacy for the office of Cit Treasurer at the coir ing election.

Mr. |Mha6 been led to this resoultion by the suggestion uf men in and out of the Democratic party, who are of first clas8 Standing and among the foremost citizens pf Terre Haute. The relative merits of the ••many :. excellent men who are candidates for the various city offices this Spring must be determined bv the convention but the party can well felicitate it6elf on having so substantial and popular a man in the race. Mr. Foley comes of first class Democratic family. Though an active worker for the party he has never before been a candidate for any of her favors. His business record is first class. As a Salesman he won the approval, friendship and confidence of his employers, and as a proprietor of a 6tore has built np a large trade, and surrounded himself with a number of warm friends, who take an active interest in his advancement. Being a good business man, no one questions his competency to fill the responsible office to which he aspires.

A PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Just at this time an earnest effort is being made by certain enthusiastic persons to 6tart a public library in Terre Haute. That former effort in this direction failed is no reason for doubting the success of the present movement. Obstacles in the way formerly no longer oppose. The times are much easier and ^"'better than they ,'C were when this was attempted on former occasions. Since then the town has grown and the people have become more and more impressed with the extent of their poverty in not being possessed of an institution of this kind. Besides this the new movement has been largely undertaken b'lilies and there can be no doubt but that the canvassing will be done much more thoroughly and effectively than it was ev. er attempted before to have it done. No one can for a moment question the desirability of having a library. Few, if any, will decline to contribute something towards establishing it, if only the matter is presented to them in a right light. That it will be so presented by the committee having the matter in charge is only reasonable to expect from the vigorous manner in which they have conducted the campaign so far.

THE INDIANA LEGISLATURE. It is of course a source of annoyance to everybody that the Legislature was not able in sixty days allotted by law for the regular session to transact all the business needing its attention. People incline to the belief that they are governed too much rather than too little and are disposed to resent a prolongation of legislative A misery beyond the limit fixed bv law. Man wants but little law-making here below, nor wants he that little long* Just how the infliction has been brought about :n our case is a matter difficult to determine. It is in part due to the overzealousness of the Solons who really find themselves in the condition of the man who habitually "bit off more than he could chaw." Our Solons wanted to enact all the laws that would be needed for the government of the Universe during the unending cycles of eternity. Each had his pocket full of bills, remedying every existing disease and reforming every present abuse. The result was that the mill choked up as a corn sheller or a threshing machine will when the corn or the wheat i§. crowded too rapidly. Much of the time that ought to have been devoted to the pas* sage of a few commonplace bills, which may very probably be called the necessaries of life to our body politic, was spent in dallying with the luxuries of life in the shape of bills of no earthly useThus out of the very goodness of their philanthropic souls it came about that the real business of the session was so crowded into the last hours that a few obstructionists could block the wheels of legislation.

In calling an extra session so promptly Governor Williams has done as much as was in his power to mitigate the severity of the infliction. It may reasonably be hoped that the Legislature can now manage to finish the business and separate in a week or ten days, and for that end the people will continue to pray.

A WASHINGTON correspondent of a Western paper was recently induced to change her opinion of a hard-featured Republican Senator by the following circumstance. It was only & few weeks ago, she says, that I saw a pompous, hard-vis

Aged Senator passsing along the

street. I had fancied that Senator a selfish, grumbling, 6tony-hearted man as seen in public life. The snow and sleet were whirling along the avenue it was late, almost dark. He was buttoned up

snugly in his handsome overcoat, fur bordered, and his seal skin gloves were sleek and co6tly. I, almost crazy with neuralgia in my head, was walking the floor of my room, with a hop bag on my temple, and flannel around my jaws: my promenade ground was bounded by the win dow6 at one of the apartment, the fire, place at the other. Pausing at the window on one ot my rounds, I saw this Senator, walding the street, just in the edge of the night. A crippled, imbecile, half-grown negro man, shuffled across the road and held out his shaky nar.d for alms. The Senator stopped, unbuttoned his great coat, took off his rich glove, found a quarter in his vest pocket, and laid it in the palm ot the beggar then each went his separate way. No one on this earth probably 6aw that act of kindness excepting a woman with her head tied up in flannels, but it will offset in that woman's mir.d many an unwise, pigheaded, political blunder of which that statesman has been guilty. Alter all he has a heart he has a human sympathy. He had time the 6torm and the late hour, to relieve one of the most distressingly repulsive mendicants that walks our streets. And I said, as I drew the curtain and knelt down by the gra»e, and put & fresh hot hop poultice on my aching head: "We are not as bad as we seem." I took a good deal of comfort from that thought and the very first time that I am able to be out, I am going over to that Senate Chamber, and take a good look at that man, and see if he is not better looking than he used to be.''

CALIFORNIA'S CONSTITUTION AND THE CHINESE. California is wrathful over the President's veto of the anti-Chinese bill. But California is not disposed to sit supinely down, and with folded hands, wait for the general government to manage this matter entirely. In the proposed new constitution for the State, lately adopted by the convention, are the following sections relating to this subject:

Section 1. The Legislature shall prescribe necessary regulations for the protection of the State, and the counties, cities and towns thereof, from the burdens and evils arising from the presence of aliens w^o are or may become vagrants, paupers, mendicants, criminals, or invalids afflicted with contageous or infectious diseases, and aliens otherwise dangerous or detrimental to the well-be-•ing or peace of .the State,.and to impose conditions upon which 6uch persons may reside in the State, and to provide the means and the mode ,of their removal frOm'the S^ate upon failure or refusal to comply with such conditions .provided, that nothing contained in the. foregoing shall be construef tjo impair or limit the power of the Legislature to pass such" "police laws or other regulations as it may'tfeem fiecessary.

SEC. 2* No corporation now existing or hereafter formed under the laWs of this State shall, after the adoption of this constitution, employ, directly or indirectly, in any capacity, any Chinese or Mongolian. The Legislature shall pass such laws as may be necessary to enforce this provision.

SEC. 3. No Chines, shall be employed on any State, county, municipal, or other public work, except in punishment for crimes.

SEC. 6. The presence of foreigners ineligible to become citizens of the United States is declared herein to be dangerous to the well-being of the State, and the Legislature shall discourage their immigration by all the means within its power. Asiatic cooliecism, being a form of human slavery, is forever prohibited in this S'ate, and all contracts for coolie labor are null and void, All companies or corporations, whether formed in this country or any foreign country, for the importation ot such labor, 6hall be subject to such penalties as the Legislature may prescribe. The Legislature shall delegate all necessary power to the incorporated cities and towns of this State for the removal of Chinese without the limits of 6uch towns, or their location within prescribed portions of those limits, and it shall also provide the necessary legislation to prohibit the introduction into this State of Chinese after the adoption of this constitution. This section shall be enforced by appropriate legislation. V?

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Whether or not thi6 will be acceptable to the people of California can only be told by ascertaining the opinion of Dennis Kerrney, who is, forhe says so himself, the exponent of the popular sentiment on the Pacific coast. Dennis has published an address, setting forth his views in reference to the proposed new constitution as a whole, and particularly in reference to that portion of it relating to the Chinese. Readers of the GAZETTE are familiar with the vigorous oratory of this energetic champion of the rights of Hoodlums, for we have been faithful in publishing his speeches, believing them to be unanswerable arguments against fiaticism, fanatacism Butlerism, communism et id omne genus. A formal address from him, however, is something new, and we give space to a brief extract from his last manifesto. He says-

The loading points in the new Constitution, as far as they have been elaborated, meet the requirements of the Workin jmen's party in a modified form. The instrument is not perfect, and your executiye department are not so deficient in political experience as to expect that any political Constitution can be framed by a constitutional body that would be absolutely perfect. The corrupt system which the Workingmeu's party is attacking has been carefully elaborated, and is the outgrowth of Old World abuses engrafted upon the tree of American liberty. It cannot be destroyed in a single campaign, but the party of

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reform has already carried its outworks, striking terror to its leaders, and by thorough organization and he nest cooperataion the citadel of cfficial corruption will be captured in the next September election, when the State of California should be emancipated forever from the rule of thieves and conspirators, who are working to overthrow the republic of Washington and Jefferson. "Already the wires are laid, and the agents ot every vested interest in fraud and monopoly in ihe State are at work devising means for breaking down the new Constitution. They have unlimited monev at their command, nearly all of it stolen, aod thev look to sustaining thc.nselves at all hazards by defeating the new organic law. If they succeed, they are sure at least of twenty hold-over Senator*, who are owned body and bones by corrupt Rings, and can also count upon that last resort of all rotten social and political institutions, a*corrupt Judiciary. Adopt the new Constitution, and thieves must either exile themselves or pay the penalty ot their crimes. They can no longer buy Legislatures, for honest men will be elected they can no longer count tfpon a corrupt Judiciary, for the Judiciary of California will no longer constitute a roll of infamy. "Bank thieves, land sharks, water rats, gas and railroad robbers and monopolists, stock swindlers, usurers and mortgage wreckers, abortionists, gamblers, and blacklegs at large have pooled their issues to defeat the new centtitution. They have their attorneys in the pulpit and on the press, and are prepared to prostitute the sacred cause of religion and the purity and independence of the press to advancc their vile interests. Already their hired assassins are abroad, and the military and the police strength of the state are at their command. Workingmen. stand firm, and you will infallibly succeed. Organize, we say, in every county, town, precinct, and hamlet. No compromise must be made with Republican thieves or Democratic robbers. A6 licnest men, we nail our colors to the mast. Whatever happens, the Chinese must go."

ANCESTRAL WISDOM. !•. Knowledge does not consist alone in the acquisition of new fact6, there collection of old ones, or the recoloring of faded impressions. It may also, and often Joe6 doubtless consist in the forgetting or discarding of a great many things which had been accepted and cherished as truths. In order to learn we must sometimes forget or rather learn by forgetting. It ie amusing to observe, and encouraging to those who feel disheartened at their own ignorance, to note how some of the greatest intellects of antiquity—the accepted teachers of mankind—have themselves been mistaken on very commonplace subjects, and propogated their errors among their admiring followers

Every school boy nowadays knows that snow and ice, for example, are water in a congealed form and yet Pliny, Gregory the Great—many centuries after Pliny—believed that ice and snow were converted into crystals. Plutarch believed that goat's blood could melt diamonds but that the blood should be warm and the goat fed on wine and rassafras, and then it would not only melt diamonds, but break hammers and anvils, and was, in fact an infaillible cure for calculus in the bladder.

Wonderful and various was the efficacy ascribed to the mandrake. It would poison him who pulled it it shrieked when pulled, and would only grow at the foot of a scaffold. A plant, called ferrum equinum would draw the nails out of the horse-shoe that pressed it. Bay leaves warded off lightning so did the fig tree and the skin of a seal. A cup-of-i7y-leaf, filled with wine and water, separated these liquids, retaining the wine and letting the water ooze through the pores of the leaf. A snake could not liye in the shade of an ash, and an elephant had no ioints. Aristotle asserted that solopedes (animals not split in the hoof) had no gall, neither, according to others, had the dove or pigeon— this, because of the meekness ascribed in Scripture to those birds. According to Seneca—the tutor of Nero—the she-bear licked her offspring into shape. It was said by the ancients that, if a wolf saw a traveler be lore the traveler saw the wolf, the traveler was struck dumb or hoarse. This notion gave rise to the expression among the Romans. Lupus in fabula (the wolf in the fable), and was applied on occasions when a sudden pause occurred in a conversation. Sudden surprise and the natural alarm at encountering such a furious animal may have given rise to the fiction.

Another idea was that deer, crows hawks, and eagles lived to fabulous ages. A deer, it was believed, lived a hundred years crows five hundred, and hawks seven hundred years. The periods of gestation in the one case, and of incubation in the other, ought to have corrected this notion, for length of life in all animals is proportionate to their respective periods of gestation. Thus, the deer is in gestation eight months, and the elephants fifteen and as those longest in gestation are slowest in maturing, it it probable that the life of a deer would extend to thirty years, and that of an elephant to sixty or seventy. But birds of any kind can not, according to this thery, be long livers, since the period of incubation is short and they arrive at maturity early. Yet it is a popular belief even in the present day that eagles live a hundred years. Who has not heard of the poetic fiction of the phoenix first introduced by Homer? There was but one phoenix in the world, and it lived a thousand years. At the end of that time it was consumed by fire, from the

ashes of which, and procreated by its own energy, it arose renewed after the lapse of another thousand years. It is possible that Homer meant to typify by allegory the life of a nation which can not be annihilated by whatever disaster, and must revive in some form or another.

A salamander was so cold as to extinguish fire when placed in it, and the female vipers bit eff the head of the male in revenge of which the young in parturition ate their way through their mother's side. The Romans for this reason, when drowning a parricide in execution of the law, inclosed a viper in the sack with the criminal. In the construction of this fable, it was forgotten that the young vipers, when apprehending danger, take refuge in their mothers' mouths.

Change of sexes in the hare was aloo an accepted theory. The hare might be a male one part of the year, and a female another. Zamprey eels were believed to have nine eyes in each side of the head. A chameleon lived on air until it was discovered that flies offered the necessary food. The ostrich, and still later th. enu, .ifdigested iron but though these birds are known to swallow iron nails as ducks i-and turkeys swallow stones, to promote digestion, it is scarcely likely that iron would dissolve in the stomach. The horn of a unicorn, made into a drinking cup, was an antidote to poison and a preservative against apo plexv. But as there are several kinds of unicorns, such as the rhinosceros and In dian ox, besides several sorts of fishes and insects, and the horn of no particular unicorn is slated, the rcceipe loses its value. That all animals hare their counterpart in the sea is a fiction not yet exploded but though there might be some points of resemblance sufficient to suggest a name, still the dog-fish i^.no more like a dog thanthetterlike his namesake in the heavens.

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That Ae swan 6ings sweetly immediately before its death is a very pretty poetic fiction not yet exploded. It is founded on the well-known mythological table of Orpheu* having been changed into a swan. But that a peacock should be ashamed of his feet, and that a 6tork couldn't live in any other but a republican country are fables, for which one failes to tee the slightest foundation. The lion, after centuries of patient endurance under the imputation of being afraid of a cock, had a last vindicated bis courage by springing from the King of Bavaria's managerie into a neighboring poultry yard and eating up the denizens thereof—cocks and hens together.

Rings are worn on the left hand and on the third finger, because the heart is in the left side, and a nerve from the heart de«cends to the third finger. But when rings first began to be worn, they were put on any finger of either hand. The Romans wore their rings on the torefinger of the right hand, and sometimes,^

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sometimes cn another. This was when iron rings were worn. But when they began to wear gold and precious rings they shifted them to the left. The most plausible reason for shifting the ring to the left seems to be that the left hand is less used than the right, and the ring on the left hand is less liable to injury. The right is the place of honor from time immemoria', nature and custom uniting to give preference to it for many reasons, the chief of which is because of its superior strength,

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From the Washington Poet. For the first time in eighteen years the Senate of the United States is under control of a Democratic majority, and a6 a natural result there will he a change in the employes when they meet in extra session on the 18th of the present month. The Senate has evidently always believed that "the laborer is worthy of his hire," and as a result the pay-roll of its employes aggregates about $20,000 per month, which sum has been6o well divided that even the ixinor places are worth looking after, as from a financial point the position of messenger the Senate will compare favorably with that of chief clerk In most of the executive departments. Below is a nearly complete list of the employes and their salaries, which is published in order that aspirants for preferment may select the place and then "go for it:" Geo. C. or ham. secretary '..T.. .6,096 00 Wm. S. Bpencer, chief clerk. 8,000 00 J. R. Young, executive cler 2.608 00 J. W. Nightingale, principal clerk.. 2,692 00 J. W. Clayton, minute and journal 2,683 00 2,993 CO 2,692 00

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S. B. Nixon, financial clerk C. O. Simpson, enrolling clerk Geo. If. Dawson, librarian M. R. bhanklin, elerk Geo. C. Garrison, clerk W. W. Presbury,clerk H. E. Fitz, clerk a. B. McDonald, clerk Paul Geddes, clerk H. K. KincaUe. clerk J. S. riupatrick, clerk T. Griffith, eJerk

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Edward Fenno, keeper of stationery. 2,102 40 C. N. Richards, assistant keeper of stationery 1,800 00 E. A. Hi Is, messenger 1,296 00 Jo*.McGuskin,special policeman... 1,^96 00 FOOT laborers, each 730 00 £. JC. Dlckerson, secretary to Vice-

President 3,103 40 Brron Sunderland, chaplain 900 00 T. P. cleaves, elerk to Committee on

AppropriaUona 2^00 00 Be j. Durfee, clerk to Committee on Finance 3,320 00 B. McMurtrle, elerk to Committee on Claims 2,236 00 Geo. B. Broadstreet, clerk to Committee on Judiciary 3£30 00 J. W. Wilson, clerk to Committee on

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W. A. McKonny, clerk to Committee on frivate Land Claims 2,2JO 00" A. R. Banks, clerk to Committee on

Pensions 2,230 00 H. A. Kirkham, clerk to Commit lee oa Contingent Exientea 2,220 00 Wiu. Ives, teltgraph operator 1,200 00 John R. Irene!), sergeant-at-arms.. 4,820 00 Isaac Bnssptt, assistant doorkeeper. 2,593 00 James J, Oh res tie, acting assistant ao'-rkeeper j,582 01 W. E. Crt-er.v, postmaster 2,100 00 C. C. Jones, assistant postmaster 2,038 00 B. T. Thora, mall-carrier 1,200 03 R. C. Bromley, mail-carrier 1,300 00 Geo. W. Smith, msll-carrier l.iOO 00 Geo. T. Howard, mall-carrier 1,200 00 Amzl Smith, superintendent document room 2,160 00 W. D. Blackford, assistant superintendent document room 1,440 00 Robt. G. Blaine, assistant superintendent document room 1,440 00 L. D. Merchant, superintendent folding rooua j^ioo 00

Htrraidson, assistant superintendent folding room 1,200 00 C. It bra per, mess'g'r, ass't doorkeeper 1,800 00 Chas. Bridge*, mess'g'r, ass't doorkeeper 2,800 00 B. W. Bell, uiesseugcr, asi't door-

It cpor 1,800 CO S. L. Wilson, messenger 1,440 00 J. U. Merritc. messenger 1,410 00 J. L*. Kennedy, messenger 1,440 00 John Lars, messenger 1,410 0C Wm.Johtieon, messenger 1,440 00 Henry Johns.tnessenger 1,440 00 L. W. Kenuedr, nusa inger. 1,440 101 Prrston Rew, nnssenger. 1,440 00 r. Kimball, meKsenger 1,440 CO

J, Baruell, mib* njrer 1,440 00 Edw. Camp, messenger 1,440 00 U. G. Coleman, messenger 1,440 00 frank ft. Harris, messenger 1,440 00 W. R. Uaudy, messenger 1,440 00 Isaac harbert, messenger '1,440 00 Geo. Collison, messenger 1,440 00 J. S. Morgan, messenger 1,440 00 J.,). G. Ball, messenger 1,440 00 C.B. Wheelock, messenger 1,440 00 Tbos. Youngs, messenger 1,140 00

P. Corraiz'.er, messenger (upbol sterer) 1,440 00 C. Christmas, messenger for Committee on Appropriations 1,410 00 W. H, H. St. John, messenger in charge of store room 1,200 00 William Hili. laborer In charge of private gallery 843 00 Kute DodsoM, laborer In charge of ladles' room 730 00 H. F. Hayden, chief engineer 2,160 00 W. B.Kimball, assistant engineer.. 1,440 00r G. W. Davie, assistant engineer 1,440 10 G. W. A. Custis, assistant engineer... 1,440 00

A. Jones, assistant engineer 1,440 00Geo. N. Stranahan. conductor of elevator 1.200 00

V. Dulln, fireman 1,096 CO J. B. Hatchings, fireman 1,»95 00 In addition to the above there are on the rolls of the engineer's department 3 laborers (each) per annum, $750 on the general rollS skilled laborers, one of whom i» in charge of the barber shop (each) per annum, $1,000 10 laborers (each) per annum, $720 12 laborers dur-, ing session at the tate of $720 19 pages at $2.50 (each) per diem, two of whom are paid during the entire year and the remaiader during the session^ folders at $3 per dietn while employed 37 clerks of committees, appointed by the chairman of the respective committees, and paid $6 per diem during the session. There are also ten or twelve positions of what may be called minor importance, but which ,": some good Democrat is probably willing and anxious to fill, as they all afford a fair living to the holder.

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Are thote who carelessly, and without thinkiug of the consequence!:, continue at their daily work or business, constantly hacking, coughing and spitting, pain in the left side, night-sweat and sleepless nights, supposing all the time they can wear it out. But when the family physician is called in. and pronounces to that husband, wife, eon or daughter, it to be that dreaded of all diseases, Consumption, then it occurs to the patient How much better it would have been if I had taken this in time." Parents, be on your guard, and always have in the house, ready for use, that popular remedy known asH ALE'S HONEY OF HOREHOUM) AND TAR, an article which was used fur many years in the private practice of Dr. Hale, a celebrated physician in Europe, for all Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Hoarseness, Difficult1 Breathing, and all Affections of the Throat, Bronchial Tubes and Lungs, leading to Consumption. It is now prepared according to the original recipe by C. N. Crittenton, 7 Sixth avenue, New: York Citv, who is now the sole proprietor. It is sold by all druggists at 50 cents and $ 1 per bottle. Great saving to buy large 6:ze.

Pike'e Toothache Drops cure 'in one minute. Sti

LIGHT IN A NEW LIGHT, t'rom the Portland (Me. 1 Transcript. Among the guests at one of our houses of summer resort last season was a blind man who could not "see a hole through a ten foot ladder." When the hour of retiring arrived the landlord said to him, "Here's your light, Mr. "What do you suppose I want with a light?" was the reply. "Oh, thunder,rejoined the astonished host, "I didn't suppose you would go to bed in the dark. I thought you might feel round your room better if it was light!"

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PRETTY SWISS MEYRINGEN BURNED. (London Truth, February 20.) Most people who have stayed any time in the Oberland have visited" Meyringen, and nobody ever stayed there who did not wish to do so again. It was luckily off the "rush-route," between Lucerne and Interlaken, and has remained a typical Swiss village surrounded on eyery side by charming scenery. It is announc- a ed that last week the greater part of the place was burned.

CONDENSED HISTORY. Fron the Oakland (Cal.) Times, Feb. 1. One hundred and forty-seven yeara •go to-morrow the doctor removed his fe spectacles and said: "My dear Mrs, I Washington, its's a boy!".

WHY, TO BE SURE From the New Orleans Picayune. Men who get drunk in beer saloons have their honor to protect, and that ia one reason why they commit murder.

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