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THE DON ALDSON VILLE HIE 1'. _______ ____il--------- - -~~ g~t·------zr ---T-c·---zrz_- Z --I----z7 ~__~- -- _________ *Offilcial Journal of the Stte a f triowlSna, 'ar-ish of AMoension and Town of DomALMonville. VOLUME IV. DI)ONA1SONVILLE, LA., BATrURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1874. NUMBER 9. !t dia I I m l I H I NI IrI I n m n l l nn .. III11I I llli~um Ilm N l 4 onatbinnbi11e 1,4[ie. Arpixue Ileenaui (lenerie. A Wide-Awake Hiomne Newspaper, 1'nblieeledl Every Saturday, at Donaideourille, Ascension Parisi, La,, -DY .L mINDE EN.r i*. TT I: V. I)eITOI ANID VR(dI'RlET')lb TA'RMS OF $(TBK(SCRIP1P7'WO.N: One ropy, nyeil ar y e............... ...$3 00 One copy, Hix mlloths--tle g .......... 1 50 Si x copie'H, 11110 year' ...................I5 00 Twelve copiere, nley ear, - ........45 00( I'Payablile ieivaeriaetly Ip ad~vance. Al)VIN? TrUINc/ J TE.: (A square is Vie' space orewpirel by Itel linma Agate lGRe, eebout ( eC :pi inch.) squ.A111.H. I 1111. 2Inmos. 310IQr. Oinoye. 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Augustuos Knighlt, Linwoodl 1'lnee. D~r. A. 13. Robecrtson, butch Sl torrs.. John D)ixon, New River. Thou. Mcintyre, New Orleans. Chas. 0. Donnaune l. (leo. P. Rowell & Co.. New .~ork. 1'. 11. WaC lker & Clo., BLaltilmore. Md. POI TICAL DI REFTIORY. 1Union *epub. Oongresuion J Oommittoe. Z. (IIANDLE.t. I'resideut. JV'!1N A. L()(4AN, Vlceereeident.t A. II. ('rruigen, .o101 (mhun N. P. tileiyr n, H. E. IIe1vens, Rngrni Hale. $. Il. ('entfnr. Henry L,. Pieieree, James W! ikon, J. K. Phae1eton, U. W. Ilazlet en U. I. btarkwentber, . 0. P. hto Thes. Z. P'latt, nd, Maren L. Ward, I t ki~iote) C;ameron, .1. If. ;MitcheI, Wiln. .1, Albert, S. A. I Julbu F. Lewis, A. I. Hoee ne 'C. L. Ceobb. Win. 11 $tew' rtr Itieh'eI 1. Whiteley, P'. W. 1Jitrhele k, (leo. E. Op8enier. I'eWej A rnrytoens Ore. C. MJ(·ee, S. IPU1flee. J. Roedney West, 11. ('. 'ti ( orrwick 11. 8. Iindy . S. It. FThias, Adldlrese eelUinuIlicaetiolns te )JOb,, 1 Chan dler. 1'n iel-·en t, or to the XecQetilty er the 'Union Republican Congresseioneal I ornaceittee, `Washingtne. I). IC. Republican Oentral ExecutiyeOommittee, State of Lou iiniuna. L. B. PACKAIRD, Pr*aMnet. JAMES 1JI;WIS, Vi,' P'r ,idlent. C H IA IR L E 'S I 11 ,I ,, .er rr tt ry . !L. IA A NI ;lti:, Assistant Her'y. J. . (I. PI'i'K IN. C4 rresp'd'g Ser'y. F. . iw H' RTJ'U, Traurer. I'u-IE:XEC UTIVE COMM') ITTIE. 8. 1. 'ackard, Chairnan e x-oflicio. B. F. Flanders, James F. ('ancy, B. F. .Joubert, C. W. Lowell, IIirbael hi hn, ,Janos Longtreet, Jaones Lewis. C. C. A,tane, Jou N. .Iarris, T. T. Allain, 'R. A. Bray, F. Riard. VINANA('1E '()MITTKE. 4.. . Itlanalin, I hair.,an. B. F. Joubhrt, P. It. 8. ~'inrbback, C. F. l,na'l, T. I. S*tamnis, ievi l)srrall. John Gair, William F. Loan, .1. L. Ilerwig, Thonmas A. ('age, L. E. lentley. A DDIITIONAL MEMIINgEA. E. W. I)ew ee, f ieorge Y. Kelso, Raford Iilunt. Allen l (;rne,n, J. Ed. IBrton. i). 4. P. Hill, louis J. 'oner. Commllunieations hould be addre~std to the president, io,,n. S. I. Ptu:k.rd, New Or leaun, La. Republican Congressional Committee, 'i.hird Dist~rict of Loltisiatla. P. O. )DESI)N)LONE of Ilbervil e, P'resident. Auceusion............ Louins ( lolrt, A~snim!ption .......... Meyer Kah,.n, ('alcasion ............ '. .. ar,. (Caaieron ............. I. I. i'ney, Iberia ................P. aM. r.nle, Iberville .............(eorge Randolph, Lafpyette ............F. Mar In, Laf.u'lrche........... Willian Murrell, ISL M::rtin............Cbharles Neveu, St. Mary.............Noel Sladlrick, Terrelonue .......... W. II. hey, Vernilion.............. J. A. BUookshier. Repablican Parish Executive Committee, 'Parish of 'Ascension. PIERRE LANDRY, IPreident. l. H. I.l INTLE Y, Secretary. P'. A. JONES. Assistant cr.retary. G. II. IIILL, Treasurer. Louis Butler, Georg I)iggs, Owen White. Carpelter .Jenkins, Willis Johnson, George Woodside, Manuel ,Johnesn, Edwarl (antsy, N. M. Conway, Louisn efort, Robert Noel., Natha Hayas, Joseph RIevnaud, Frederek lbolh, Beverly Willis, V. C. Eantrelle, Uillery Rice,. Chtbic .ackson. Calvin Carter, Charle, Henry, Aaron Hill, j vote, J. Robes-on, vote, Albert Brandy, .Iohn V. (ravens, Henry llayman. JosephCarter, Augustus Knight, Allen -ephen, Isam Thority, Arthurtlurnett, Conununieations should be sldresand to the president or secretary, )Doaldsouville. CAMPAIGN (OMMITTI. I,. E. BENTLEY. Chairnan. ISAM THIORITY, Treastrer. Henry IHayman, Frederirk Fobb. Aaron Hill. Albert lraudy, X. M. Conway. llillery Lice. As Exttrpaordinary Love Sto7r. S9e London correspondent of the New 'York Grophir writes: A ,vary 4.raulge story was told to nme the.ltrller ayh Iin at town not flar froml LoA.dlog tti lived a young lady who was halndsome, tolerably wealthy, and peollº'than usually well educated. Her fither was an invalid ; her tpother Uassa insipid, cold and and heartless It - .fl'wo years ago a physsicianu .of doiin was called to attend the f i;in this way the young lady sW hlII. He paid n1o attenition to li--lils milnd was engrossed with hiA professional duties. A ftriy weeks ago this doctor, after paying a visit to his patient, was somewhat surp'ised tq'inlg asked by the young lady to pve her the favor of a private inter view. Slhe took him into alrawing rit y, and led him to the fuetlier end of Vie apartmenet. " DootI)or," sa5i qpe, i I su1ppose that genl.tien of younr profession are acciistolued to .re c:ivoe trange confidiences. i loei a tconfession to lan.ke to yon1." -4e suip ased tfinat the imnpedling ,(oli xsioni haild mpething to do wit. the states of iher own health or with that t' her father, and lie begg!-d her to ptioceeld. " Yoap will, however, be sclirely pre pared lor what I a11 about to any," she cortiunlled. " But I wish you to hear It. It is now just twi years sinoe ýI first saw you. Yoell have scarcely ever exchanliged a w rd with me, bit, I have learietld mlnlti about you. I am not mistaken in lqlieving that yoy are unnlrriell?" " No," said lie, " I am not married." " Apd your aftetiolus are not on gagel , " k u sarcely have the right to ask Mlat," said lie. " ifell, then," she replied, " I will not aik it, but I mlliSt m.ake to (yoll my confession. I love you with ill amiy heart. 1 wish you ,to marry me. I ,loved~ you fromi the grat molment I .paw you, I said to imyself, I will wait for yvo years-if he then 'peaks to ; eI will know what to say. 'Yost bive not spoken ; and now I speak. I sgy I love you with all my heart; yoqi are eiciessary for lse ; will youl `Ie doctor, who, althoulgh not a very young man, was twice the ag ýof the young lady, ricovering sa rl iomin his surprfIl, tried to the matter off as a joke; but e young lady was very serious. " ," Said slhe, " I ani i ver'y so ber "ernest. I know aif that you !liay pay or think as to tlkodelicacy off gg uy pr4oa 10oM J help b it. i alk you once maore, cai you lvre hise, atod will youl tnllaiy wie " "1 lsober earneTst, then;" lie re plied. " I can not lirry yn.' j"1lein I shall die," said sile, very canl.y, and she left the roqWL. The lduoctor had heard oelle say hefoise this that they s.luoi die, and le left the house withoult, attaching mluh iimlportance to tile prophecy, althouighi wondering greatly at the other jiortion( of this ii.tit.jw. A few dliys after this ,thle young lady was found dead inll ~tr bled. Two letters laid uplon her dretuing table. One was addressed to hew family so licitor, It recalled to gis mindli a piromnise lie had made ber. Slhe hald gonie to see hlimn and had asked himi to Imake, out for her a paper transfer ring the whole of her property to a person whose nallme she woulld inot thlien give him. lie was to pre'are the nlecessary paper and send it to Iher to till uilp the blanks alind to sign. Shli had done this, and she now en clºsel:tl the paper, filled upll lad signed. Every penny of her property was given to the doctor, afnd the solicitor was instructed to tmake the transfer to himin, to ask no qastionsI, and to teake no receipt. I'ie other letter was to the doetor. ,! I told you I should die," said sheit ." and when you receive this I shall he dead. For ten ILays I have taken no food nor drik ; fliut that does not kill ie, and now I have taken poison. I have no re ilrol'acll to fiake to y011, hilt I Coiflh not live without yoiIr love. When I .ini d ead, look at nmy heart. Yellou will C(ee youlr name there. I have two roe qjlcests to mlake of you. Go to iny MAlicitor, and take lwhat he has for you, andll thei go off on a lholilday to Itl:y fotr a tif w mlonths. The other reqtluest is that you ever ask where I aml buried, and never conme to my There was a post morltem exafmina hion nmade of the young 'l'adys's body. Oni h.er breast, over her fiealrt, deeply ilmprinted in the flesh, ;'ere the in itials of the doctor's name. TIhe characters seeniedl to hlayp been made thlere two or three, years before. They were probably imprintedl ly her own Ihand on the day when -ell first saw him. A correspondent writing from An tigua, Guatamala, under date of the 1st, gives an account of the earth quake the previous evening. On the 3rd of September, at 8:30( P. M., with out previous warning, a strong earth quake shook the ground violently in the direction from west to east. Wave like undulations on the surface rose and fell at least a foot. The timt strong shock lasted from twenty-five to thirty seconds, when the contents of a large water-tank in the court vard of the hotel were thrown out. Wild screeches and screams continued even after the early terror had some what subsided, and long after there was the noise of walls falling more or less distant, mingled with the sound of hundreds of voices chanti ng hbymns fo- mercy. Many shocks fcc bowe.l dyaring tet aigligt, every one 6f which gavr, rise 4t new alarms aid new imllorationti. It was intetrjif. dark during the continunce of the shocks. An inspection in the mornig showedt that ablout two dozen inhabited honlae were destroyed causing a loss of thirty two lives. The number of houses damaged, and which will have to be taken down, is considerable. Many of the old ruins of 1773 have sutffereiP seriously. During the cotfusion in cident to the earthquake, several men atpeared with long knivds for the purpose of stealing aP d murdering, nbut the political chief o. Antigu n soon repressed tWem. All thejga.e apd courts serve as temporary abodes. IJt will take mame time before the people of Antigua recover serenity of mind enough to go to sleep in their totter ing houses. At Guatarnala, the cap ital, sligltt chocks were felt. The In. lians say,that three villages at the foot of the volcano I)elfuego have been destroycd. A lodel Government. lion. ,Joseph MIedill writes froml Bhrne, Switzerland, to the Chicagq Tribune: Switzerland is a most unique coun* try in every respect. Surrounided by nmonarchies, it is a piue repullic. 'While every other European nation has an Emnp~ror or a King for a ruler, or is waginº a civil war to restore a de posed royalty, Switzerlahnd has no prince or poitentate, not even ta l'resi dent. Her executive authority con sist.s Of a Council of State, aplpointed by the Legiflature for a limited period of time, au+1 with the power of remov al. ( no (t this Council Board is ap pointed Chairman of the Board for one year, with tile title of P'resident. But he has no patronage, no power of removal or pardon--nothi9g except the privilehi of presiding at the pbt tings of the CUuncil of State and coun tersigning Ats reesolmt~ins and orders. It is the satme as if the American Con gPress elected the Cabinet officers, ,14 the presiding officer of the Board, end, at the same time, abmlished the office of President or Chief Magistrate and absorbed the powers of the oflfce 19h those of the legislative assem bly, ,.Iow this system of legislative sggri4- iuzment would operate in the Amuericap republic is easy to predict; but in this small eountry of simple minded anld honest molutaineer/. : 4whe; a rt.b lobbbies . The Swiss goversllmnt is@ n iule in another esHpect: Its legislative pro ccedings are conducted atnd recorded in three languages-German, French, and Italian-corresponding to the three races which compose the popU latjil of the republic; but the Ger niitao constitute the great majority of the inhabitants. In the geurus re turns of 1.7f1, it was asecrtained that 3:J4,4;il families spoke German as the mother lniguage, 1 34,19: French, and 30,)13 Italian; but all the educated liprsons can speak French. When a Flrenlchlllman makes a spe:ch in the Swiss Congress, all the Germans and Italians can l lnderstand him perfcti:ly, but they generally reply in their own. lopgauges, which, the French memn hers not understanding, the offlicial interpreter st tes the subIlistance of in French. All bills, reports, and reso lutions are written in the three ton gmwe and the journals are kept in the nuae way, andil the laws and procla nmations are printed in the three lail guages. I)EATII OF TIlE OIU;INAL "AIKAN sAs TA YvE E.l"--Y:.esterday after noon our city was shocked over the news of the death of Col. Sandy Faulkner, who died at his residence, corner of CUmmerce and Fifth streets, at 3 o'clock, of gastric fever. It is well known throughout the Southwest that Col. Faulkner was the orginal personator of the "Ar kansas 'T'raveler," and it was his pride to be known as such. The story, it is said, was foundedI on a little incident which occurred in the campaign of 1840, when lihe made the tour of the State in company with Tie lion. A. H. Sevier, Gov. Fulton, Ch .e ter Ashley aid Gov. Yell. One (lay in the Bosto4 mountains, the party approached a squatter's for inforrna. tion of the route, and Col. "' Sandy" was wade spokesman of the company, and it was upon his witty responses the tune and story were founded. On the return to Little Rock- a grand banquet was given in the famous " bar-room" which used to stand near the Anthony House, and Col. " Sandy " was called on to play the tune and tell the story. Afterward it grew in populariiy. When he sub sequently went to New Orleans, the fame of the ' Arkansas Traveler" had gone before him, and at a ban quet aamid clinking glasses and bril liant toasts, he was handed a violin by the then Governor of Louisiana, and requested to favor thenm with the favorite Arkans.s tune. At the old St. Charles Hotel a special room was devoted to his use, bearing in gilt letters over the door "Arkansas Traveler."-Little Rock Gazette. The gallant secretary of a life in surance company, being in command of a platoon during the late unpleas antness, struck up the gun of one of his men about to fire on a stabf officer with the exclamation, " Don't shoot at him, we've got a policy on him! " -N. O. ORep.ublican. Responsibility ,pf the leMons. The press every where, and very naturally, resents a recent law which it believed to menace its freedom. 'lhis is instinctive; for tire hand of arbitrary power is first laid upon the press, which is the public tongue. Its freedom is tile pallatliuni of every truly freegovernmnent, and its utmost abuse is "not an evAl,as great as ~ale constraint of its liberty. lint while we shall all probably agree upon this, and while the girief aldtoeates of the law in question deny that they cherish anly hostility to thle press, nothing is nlore notoriotus than the discontent of many public men with thle incessant vitulperationl arndnisrepresentation to which they are subjected in the news papers. 'Tlhe point is well worth con sidering wihethler thll press, which in its conmriruts constai.y presents so lofty an iWdal of public life, does all it can to Ileake thiat.idieal practicable. Inldeedl, t jamlpartial reader-name ly, tire intel'iWent and discriminating person who is now perusing these lines-must often ask himself, as he fises,I),lor his daily feast of the news palrWrs, whether it does not seem that the great journal is quite as much irn tent upon lniaintairilng thieconsistency of its own expressedi opinions lruponi pubnliic men anrd lneasures as upoln se curing that lofty conduct whilh it so *trenuously commenlnds. This course, indeed, jp natural eoilugh, because if its judgment be dis.redited its influence is imperiled; and 41s the press constantly expresses the most positive opinions uipon tile most inadequate or even inaccurate ifformation, an apparent consistency oI.n .,qurir.te it to persevere in con scious error. A journal often wishes, uiatuhbtedlyl , that it had not taken tihe position which it has taken, but which, hIlaying taken, it muIst main tain. " I ay, very sorry, " said an editor, in effect, " to have called Mr. Smnith a li;i, a forger, and a thief very sorry indeed; but, hiaving done so, of cotrse I mnst stand to it." le had a theory not only that a journal should seem to be infallible, but that hI could persuade its readers that it was so. lint In the very instance of which lie spoke every body knew that he was wrong, for the disproving facts had been published, Iand his refusal to adkiaowledge tile truth, by showing a what of manly candor, harmed his journal very munch more than his per slItence in a slander helped its relpU reoon of infallibility. '."lie sinmple truth is that if an editor il judglent, he can not help showing It; and nothing is a plainer or more Idticronu proof of it thlan tile effort to establish infallibility or to maintain consistency. Yet it is this Ipreonal and petty teeling wlich crip ples the press iin the work of elevating the tone of Irpublic life. 4.!ch joyrnal has .two or three favorites, wJhose mouths, according to its report, never open but pearls and diamands 4lrop profusely out. They are the greafest of statesimen and most incorruptible of nmen, while the rest are wretrhed twaddlers aLn4 pettifoggers, itmposing thlemiselvens Iponi a good-natured I innimunity as great menll. Party or gans, of coulrse, grind the party tune but we speak of tile press which, whatever party it favors, means to show by tihe method and tone of its advocacy that it does not serve the pairty, htlt tlhe country by tlie party. The object of such a press certainly should he to co-operate with all good enlde.avor, alll as a powerful means to a loftier and purer politics, to make 1 public life an attractive career for the hest nmen. At the botL it has thorns and repulsions errough. But does the press try to remove thelm T-Harper' Mafýzipn. 1 Where Did Columbus Lagd I JIarper for Novemher has an article on the Bahamas, which says: " In all ptbhability it was not Cat Island which Columbus named San Salvador, but Watling's Island-a smaller isle a little more to the southward and eastward. The facts in the case are these : Contrary, probably, to the general opinion, it has never been definitely known which was the island eptitled to the honor; but about fifty years ago, when historians were busy with the history of Colum bus, they undertook to settle the question of comparing his journal with the imperfect charts of the Ba hamnas tlen existing. Navarette fixed on Turk's Island, which later investi gation has proved erroneous, while Irving, supported by the strong an thority of Humboldt, argued for Cat Island, and since then this has been generally accepted as San Salvador, and is so designated on our charts to this day. But the English reversed their opinion some timp ago, and transferred the name of Man Salvador to Watijng's Is'and, and it will be so found onr their latest charts. The reasons for this change seem conclu sive. Lieut. Beecher, of thp English Navy, proves conclusively that Cat Island cannot be San Salvador, and that Watling's Island answers tihe conditions required better than any other isliand lying in t!he track of Columbus, His two strongest rea sons against Cat Island are that Col umbus states that Ihe rowed around the northern end in one day, The size of Cat Island makes this physi-i cally impossible there, while it is' quite feasible at theother island. He also speaks of a large lake in the in terior. There is no such lake on Cat Island, while such a lake does exist on Watling's Ishlnd. News Items. Quiet election in Louisiana. Yellow fever at Charleston. The Carlists are bombarding Iran. Frost and ice at, Pensacola on the 2nd. Diphtheria is spreading in New York. Von Arnim'is nottallowed to leave Prussia. The First National Bank of Salt Lake has " busted." The Episcopal convention will meet next year in Boston. The National Council of the Chero ,Cqe Nation is in session. Wm. M. Rhlinfehart, tl'e sculptor, died at Rome last week. Rochefort is publishing his news paper at Berne, Switzerland. The French legitimist deputy, J.e Temple, has joined Don Carlos. Snow fell at Salt Lake and Q~naha, Oct. 29th ; at Buffalo on the :31st. The,Germae geichstag opened its session on Thursday, the 29th ult. The cotton cro- of Bombay is the largest ever known in that country. Twenty-seven colored emigrants left N.etw York for ,Aiberia, Saturday. It is said the Carlist War Depart ment is negotiating for an armistice. Joseph P. Hamilton, a murderer, was hung at Bethany, Mo., Tuesday. Cincinnati is raising money, food and clothing for the Nebraska suffer era. The Peruvian Senate has ratified the treaty between that country and Peru. .John Laird, the noted ship hnilder and member of the English Pa-lia ment, is deed, A. large portion of the town of (;reencastle, Indiana, was destroyed by fire last week. Centributions are being received at Guatemala for the relief of sufferers lmy the earthqnake. St. Joe, a small oil town in Butler euut.y, Pennsylvania, was 4easr.yed by fire Monday afternoon. Business men of Mobile respond to inquiries from Boston that there is no yellow fever in their city. The Spanish home government dis approves the five per cent. capital tax levied by Concha in Cuba. President Grant has designated Thanrsday, November 2fitb, as a day of Xational Thanksgiving. Judge Lemnel Dehati succeeds Major Tom Ochiltree as marshal of the eastern district of Texas. An insurrection against the govern arent is reported in the provinces of Coro and J arcelona, Venezuela. Kullman, who attempted to assas ,inate Bitparck, haus been sen tenced to fourteen years' hInprisonment. The revolution in Venezuela con tinues with alternate successes for the insurgent and government forces. The steamer Lottie Bernard was wreckSed on Lake Superior, Oct. 29th, during a )1eavy storm. Three lives lost. Gov. Iplie of Kentucky offers a reward of PfW(N. for the arrest of ruf fians who abot a colored girl in Selby cou n ty. The president of the Argentine Re public feels confident that a sflicient force can be mustered to crush the rebellion existing there. Some one purloined $2'160 in Nich olson pavement scrip from the safe of the Mayor of Memphis last week. A discharged clerk is suspected. The Philadelphia commissioners to the Vienna Exposition banquetted Baron Schwasenhonn at the Union League House, Philadelphia, Monday evening. Walter Harris of Baltimore, who had a habit of smoking in Ietd, was burned to death last Sunday night. It is supposed his bed was set on fire by his pipe. The Indian war is rapidly drawing to a close. Major Schoteld's comn mand captured sixty-nine Necanee' warriors and 200( ponies near the Wichita agency, Indian Territory, ten dlays since. A brutal murder was committed in St. Paul, Minn., last Sundlay night. James Lick anid his wife were at tacked by George Lauchtenschlager, Qeorge Rapp anl wife, who waylaidl tJ1em premeditatedly. Mrs. Liek was killed outright and her husband so , seriouily wounded that hlie is not ex pectedI to live. No cause is assigned for thin atroc ious deed. An exchange truly says, than it coat less than a cent a day to take our weekly paper, less thain a 4iligent hen won Id earn in a year at the mar ket price of eggs ; less than one cigar a week, and a very cheap one at that; less than a harber would chlarge by the year to keep one's hair trimmed; than a good thanksgivijng turkey; less than an energetip k~tchen girl will waste in a wetk. penny a day can be saved in giany a way better than stopping a family paper. Heaven, according to the idea of a Vermont clergymAn, is 125,000,000 miles from the earth, and Blobba stopped being good at eight o'clock this morning. He says it's tWoo fr off. Laughing Gag. Bad debts-owing grudges. To secure a result, lock it up. Fruitfulj.i axe-idente-A chopping sea. A fact is worth a thousand bttte nments. A high note--lne of a thousand dollars. Moonlight mechanics is the lateqt for burglars. A man who " salts down " his cash -General Penny-packer. The latet Irish fashion is a home rule hat. It has no crown. What is the use of talking of this world's briglhtness and sunshine to a ,itlan that has tight boots. "Darwin's Darlings" is the sug gestive njpme of a newly organized minstrel troupe at the West. The most bitter critics we have are those who have failed themselves to write anything worth,reading. The keeper of a restaurant in New York announces " paroxysymal stews" as a specialty on his bill of fare. The English folks have grown tired of lending,Joa p ip Miller money, and he has got to conic home and go to work. A Memphis policeman thought that his orders included all cases of drunk enness, and, therefore, arrested the Mayor and was discharged. They have now invented shot guns which can be carried in the pocket, and a fellow can slide out and go hunting Sunday and no one know it. When two Georgians meet now they don't go on about the weather, but merely exchange the novel salutation : " I)you think Toombs will ever die ." If you wake up in the night in an Italian hotel and shoot a burglar, the chances are that you can't see the landlord next morning and that his wife is a widow. " My dear sir," RiAW a candidate, accosting a stray wag on the day of election, " I am very glad to see you." " You needn't be," replied the wag,. " I have voted." A lady in a menagerie being asked why she so closely ,scanned the ele phant with her opera glass, replied that she was "looking for dhe key hole of his trunk." " Is that your offspring madam !" asked a Mtsarl judge of a woman wise had bei f, bab-tOid lmet hand. " No, sir," she replied, " s is my oldest boy." The Count de Chambord duly no tifies his friends to hold themselves in readiness for any event. The gee er.l imipreasion out West is that Chan. bord is going to treat. The matrimonial market has picked up so fast since September that one New Hampshire clergyman has laid in three barrels of beans, a barrel of cider and three dried calf-skins. A Michigan farmer complains that he is not receiving half the campaign speeches this year necessary to light his fires, and he has had to make a shaving contract with a cooper shop. The belief in becoming stronger every day in the East, that if John. Morrissey should give Harvard or Yale College $254,0$)w the Lord would colllnence an entire new account with him. An inquiring man thrust his fingers into a horse's month to see how mrany teeth he had. The horse closed his nmouth to see how many fingers the maq had. The curiosity of each was fully satisfied. An attempt was to have been made last we4 to get up another woman's crijadp in Cleveland, but three or four cif the radcrs were disappointed ahboep their Fall bonnets, and the af fair did not come off. 4 horse-car conductor of New York city who for several months past has beep starving on a salary of .$2 2.5 per day, expects to break ground for tlhe erection of a row of brownstone fronts in South Brooklyn sabortly. "Don't prevarficate, air !" thnn dered Judge Shell, to a witness. " Can't help it Judge" arswered the youth. " Ever since I got a kick from a mule, that kno:ked my teeth out, I prevaricate a good deal.' Marry fpr Iove, -Doug man, but re. member that it's as easy to love a girl wlhoe pa has al;indred .honsan4 in hank a. one whose old mean sits up behind a pair of mules and yells: " Whoa ! on Pete, or I'll take your ear off!'" Whenq a Nevalanminer leapl into . saloon with a revolver in each land, and a bowie knife under his arm, Iand asks, " Who runs this sole-destroying shebang " echo is left to answer, while the crowd fall out of the baok door. Wives of candidates for sheriff it Chicago, complain that their husbquds keep them awake nights talking in their sleep and saying, " What' lyou take ? Step up, boys. Come Dan, Jim, Ed, Mac, Fritz, Buf, "Pat, the whole of ye. Gimme some whiskey." Lawyer-" How do yon identify this handkerchief ?" Witness--" By its general appearance, and the fact that I have others like it." Counsel (cntely)-" That's no proof, for I have got one just like it in my pocket." Witeess (nnoeeptly)-" I don't db6bt that, as I had spore than one of thm same sort st'den."