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TOPICS OF TEE V AY.
A sromT la " going the rounda " that
J. Wilkes Booth and Robert Lincoln,
oo of Abraham, were in lore with the
mm young lady. Bobert preened hie
nit with great ardor ; he had the father
and mother of the lady and the Gov
rnmenton hia tide. Booth waa furi
naly jealous, and to he killed the Presi
dent. It aeeme to ua that, for a jealoua
penon, he killed the wrong man.
Test have a musical mountain in
Delaware County, Indiana, "By
atamping your foot upon the ground,
It sounds like three or four hog wal
lowing in a mud-puddle ten or twelve
feet away." Hucli la the thrilling de
scription of a poetical correspondent
located In that quarter. Prof. Cox, the
distinguished scientist, is unable to ac
count for the Orphean whispers.
Urn in a Boh ham. of Cambridge-.
Mass., is one Hundred and forty years
old. He claims to hare been George
Washington's school-teacher, and says
George wasn't any better than any of
the rest of the boys. He would steal
eggs and suck them, rob orchards, and
lick his school-teacher. The hatchet
story is true, probably, so far as the
cherry-tree cutting is concerned, but the
truth-telling part of that yarn begins to
fade away in the dim perspectire of
legendary lore.
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VOLUME VI.
SOMERSET, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1878.
NUMBER 13.
Da. Hcillct, late of Pondicherry,
undertakes to show that vaccination was
known to a certain Dahnwantori, who
flourished several thousand years before
Hippocrates. Dr. Huillet arrived at
this conclusion from the contents of cer
tain Hindoo manuscripts preserved at
Pondicherry, in which are described the
fleets produced by Inoculating the hu
man subject with the matter taken from
a man or a caw. The secondary disease
Is described as identical in appearance
with its source, with this difference, that
it la quite harmless.
The difficulty of providing horses
with forage in war baa aet the ingenious
to work in endeavoring to compound a
condensed horse biscuit, and Col. Ra
valli, an Italian officer, seems to have
been very successful in this respect. By
direction of the Minister of War, very
careful experiments have lately been
made with cavalry horses, and a com
mission report that not only when the
biscuit is administered with proper care
Is it consumed with appetite and easily
digested, but that the horses fed upon
it actually increased in vigor. There is
really nothing new in this, for three
centuries ago horses in England were
often fed in the same way.
there are other uses which this esculent
is turned abroad. After extracting the
farina the pulp is manufactured into
ornamental article, such as picture
frames, snuff-boxes, and several descrip
tions of tops, and the water that runs
from it in the process of manufacture is
a most valuable scourer. For perfectly
cleansing woolens, and such like arti
cles, it is the housewife's panacea ; and
if the washerwoman happens to have
chilblains she becomes cured by the
operation.
Two or three weeks ago the Royal
Carbineers at the Porta del Fopolo,
Rome, were attracted by an unusual
light which appeared on the roads out
side the walls leading from the Porto
del Fopulo, in the direction of the an
cient Porta Pinciana. , On drawing to
ward Ihe scene of the illumination they
heard cries of " Vittoria! Evvivia!"
and found that both the light and the
cries proceeded from a man who was en
veloped in flames. Before they could
extinguish the flames the man was
reduced to carborn before their eyes.
He had soaked his garments in petrol
eum and set fire to himself. A box of
matches and an empty petroleum flask
lay near him, and his hat which had
mourning crape around it, was hung
on the adjoining hedge. His features
were horribly disfigured. The gentle
man who thus committed self-cremation
was a vice-secretary in the office of the
minister of war. He was a good, intel
ligent public servant, and was noted for
his intelligence and diligence. He was
unmarried, and somewhat taciturn and
gloomy at times, but gave no indication
REVIEW OF DOMESTIC NEWS.
Ohb of the most remarkable cases on
record is that of Mrs. Bell, of Oxford,
Mich., who has lived for twenty years
without eating one mouthful of solid
food, being troubled with what ia sup
posed to be a cancerous affection of the
stomach. During the past twenty years
she has, moat of the time, been able to
do her own housework, not unf requently
being able to be around for a year or
more. Her only means of sustenance is
derived from liquids, a portion of solid
food no larger than a pea being sufficient
to induce the greatest agony. At times
he suffers all the cravings of hunger,
which she is obliged to allay, as above
stated, with some kind of liquid food.
A PABTY of scientists while attempt
ing to ascertain the depth of a famous
pond called Halster's Sink, a few miles
back from New Madrid, Mo., recently,
learned to their surprise that something
had become attached to the sounding
line, and, on hauling in, they were as
tonished and horrified by seeing a
ghastly skeleton appear, which held in
- one of its hands a box containing
twen'y pounds of dynamite. After be
ing brought to the surface and taken
ashore, the men investigated the matter
thoroughly and used the skeleton so
roughly that its joints parted. A great
many people in New Madrid now firmly
believe that the great earthquake was
caused by a dynamite fiend.
of insanity.
William Cullen Beyant'b summer
residence was at the home of his boy
hood, in Cummington among the hills
of western Massachusetts. The farm is
rough, and the house stands on what is
called Zion's Hill. Some of the land
has been made fertile by draining and en
riching. Mr. Bryant bought the place
about twelve years ago, and partly re
built the old house, which is two stories
in height, painted brown, and has a
dormered roof. He spent several months
of every fall and summer there, and his
daughters lived with him or in the
neighborhood. He usually walked sev
eral miles to church every Sunday, and
invariably slept through the sermon.
A writer in the Springfield Republican,
says: " He lived almost out of doors,
caring little for the weather, and ready
with an ax or pruning knife or anything
that gave hearty exercise. At seventy
five he could leap into the air, catch a
bough, and swing himself along by it
ike a very boy, and we p resume he
could even later than that. Any one
driving or walking in that vicinity was
liable to spy the poet in the woods or in
the field under a broad-brimmed straw
hat,t his great snowy beard and slender
figure attracting the eye among any
number of other men ; and his intense
wiry way of walking, as if it was no
effort at all, but something purely me
chanical, was very peculiar."
THE
ASSASSINATION
COLN.
OF MR. LIN-
Max Allibow, a farmer near Mount
Vernon, while out hunting, recently,
came upon a huge bird, something like
an eagle in appearance, but whose feet
were elongated to an enormous extent,
measuring twenty -three inches in length,
while the bird's wings when spread out
measured fifteen feet. The huge speci
men of the ge.nus avis, instead of flee
ing at the approach ' of the hunter,
plumed its pinions and rushed eagerly
forward. The hunter, having no time
to fire, clubbed his gun, and with a few
well directed blows stretched the bird
dead upon the ground. It was truly a
rara avis, for when it was examined a
clear white pebble was found in one of
its eyes.
Thb comparative time lost in turning
at the enda of long and short furrows,
in plowing long or short fields, may be
seen from the following calculation :
With a length of furrow measuring two
hundred and thirty feet, and a breadth
of ten inches, in a day's work of ten
hours, the time lost by a team in turn
ing would equal five hours and eleven
minutes, while but four hours and forty
nine minutes would be devoted to plow
ing; with a length of furrow of four
hundred and forty-nine feet, two hours
and forty-four minutes would be lost in
turning, and seven hours and sixteen
minutes devoted to plowing; a length of
furrow of six hundred feet would nec
ceasltate two hours' loss of time in turn
ing, with eight hours of plowing, while,
with a length of furrow of eight hun
dred and eighty-two feet, only one hour
and twenty-eight minutes would be lost
in turning, giving eight hours and
thirty-two minutes out of the day's
work for actual plowing.
A curious account ot- a mysterious
package that John Wilkes Booth, de
livered on the morning of the assassina
tion of President Lincoln has now ap
peared. An eye-witnes relates that on
the night of the assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln, a private dinner-party
was in progress in a back room at Worm
ley's restaurant, in 'Washington, at
which were present General Baird,
Robert Johnson, the Hon. Samuel J.
Randall, John Morrissey, John F. Coyle,
editor of the National Intelligencer, and
one other gentleman. During the pro
gress of the dinner, a waiter who had
been out on the street returned and
stated that the President had been shot
at Ford's Theater. The news created-
great consternation in the party, who
at first thought the waiter was drunk or
Crazy. Later, when they were assured
that it was a fact, and that John Wilkes
Booth was accused of the crime, John
F. Coyle, with blanched features and
trembling lips, said : " My God, gentle
men 1 This very day I met John Wilkes
Booth on the market-space. He was on
a bay mare, and rode up to me and
handed me a sealed envelope as he did so,
' If you bear of me within twenty
four hours publish this ; if you do not
hear of me within that time, destroy
this,' and rode away. Here is the pack
age," continued Mr. Coyle, producing a
letter envelope from his pocket ; " what
shall I do with itf " Destroy it at once,"
said Mr. Randall. "They will hang any
body who knows anything about the as
sassination, no matter how innocently
they may have come by their knowl
edge ; don't open it burn it up just as it
it is I" " x es said Mr. Morrissey, "burn
it np, for God's sake, at once." The
doors were carefully locked. A fire
was made in the grate, and the mysteri
ous envelope and its contents were care
fully burned. Even the ashes were
carefully collected and placed in a dish ;
water poured upon them, and the two
were mixed into a paste, which was
aiterward put into the fire and buratd
again.
Old Stark County, Ohio, is in trouble,
the Treasurer having absconded with about
$65,000. A reward of $1,000 was offered for
his apprehension.
David Thomas was fatally stabbed by
J. Gathey, at Fillmore, Ky., on Wednesday
afternoon. Gathey escaped. Botn were
negroes.
A Bismarck special announces the dis
covery of a rich gold field in Bearpaw
Mountain, Montana, and great excitement at
Ft. Benton.
Theodokk Hendekkk, proprietor of
Ferny Brae Hotel, Milwaukee, was shot and
killed on Wednesday, by RuseU Wheeler,
a noted gambler of that ci y.
Sangieb Chace, defaulting treasurer of
Fall River Mills, has pleaded guilty, and was
sen'enced to twelve years in the State
Prison and two days solitary confinement.
A BOAT containing eight young men was
capsized by a sudden squall, in (.heater
Basin at Halifax, Sunday evening. Four
were drowned. Their names are Schaffer,
Dessauson, Eisenhauer. and Dinim.
A GALVESTON New special from Fairfield,
Texas, Bays George Solomon, colored, was
executed on Jane 28, for the murder of his
wife and step-daughter last June. Two
thousand people witnessed the hanging.
John Finn, James Shea, Hattie Sands,
and Marv Welsh, of Oswego, were drowned
on Tuesday, at Pleasant Point Lake, Ontario.
They belonged to the St. John's Church ex
cursion par.y which left Oswego on a pleas
ure trip.
The Postmaster General is in receipt of
dispatches announcing that the Indians at
several points in the Northwest have inter
rupted the mails. It is surmised, however,
that frightened contract rs are giving the
case a sensational coloring.
At Smithville, Ind., a band of masked
men broke in the door of Charles Kastener,
at midnight, when his family was abed, and
demanded that Kastener should follow
them. They took him from the house, and
beat him nearly to death. No reason is
known for the act.
AT Bronson, Michigan, Tuesday night,
Samuel Whittaker shot his wife dead and
afterward killed himself. Domestic trouble
was the cause. Whittaker endeavored to
commit suicide by poison two years ago.
The parties are respectable, and the affair
has cast a gloom over the entire community.
Geokge Hoelzle, an inma e of the
Soldiers' Home, at Dayton, Ohio, fell from
the balcony of the hospital at tha place, the
other morning, and broke his neck.
Hoelzle was a German, and was aged about
forty years. No one sa him fall, but
from all appearances it was thought to be
accidental.
Two only sons of James Maxwell, aged
respectively eight and ten years, were
drowned in Montgomery's Creek, at
Knightetown, Ind., while bathing. Their
bodies were immediately rec vered, but
life was entirely extinct. The grief f the
parents was painful to wit ess, as they
are left but one of a household of three
children.
Judge Sidney Breeze, of the Illinois
Supreme Beuch, died June 27, at Pinckney
ville, Illinois. He is said to have been the
oldest Judge in the country, being over
eighty years of age. A dispatch from
Carljle, Illinois, his home for nearly fifty
years, says the intelligence of his death has
caused deep sorrow throughout the entire
community.
At Savannah, Ga., Frank Perrino
(colored), was hnng Wednesday afternoon
for the murder of J. F. Lee, a white farmer,
in April last. The execution was public,
and near the spot where the murder was
committed, just outside the city. Five
thousand people witnessed the hanging.
The criminal died acknowledging his guilt,
and telling all present to take warning by
his fate. - ... -....T4
On Tuesday a young man was taken out
of the canal at Cincinnati, . whe e it is
th' ught he had attempted suicide. Every
effort was made to restore him to ale, but
without success, and in a short time the
limbs bad grown rigid in death. The de
ceased was evidently about twenty-five years
of ace. and was finely dressed. Me wore a
ring, within which the letters " J. B." are
engraved, and a love letter was found in
one of his pockets from Montgomery, Ohio,
addressed to Valentine Bees. . He was seen
sitting on a Inmber pile near by a short
time before the fatal occurrence.
A terrible murder occurred, a few
mornings since, at Swinton, a short distance
from Freeport, Illinois. For some time
past a young man named Albert Fnrbush
had been paying attention to a beautiful
and accomplished young girl, daughter of
Mr. Thomas R. Blair, a well-known citizen
of the county, and succeeded in causing
her ruin. The information of Miss Blair's
ruin soon reached the ears of her brother,
who is engaged in business in Chicago. He
started at once for Swinton, and on his ar
rival there, met Fnrbush on the street, and
drawing a revolver shot him dead in his
tracks. He then gave himself up,
The " affair causes the greatest excite
ment in that section of Illinois.
' Owensville, Gibson County, Ind., has
of late been the scene of several terrible
conflicts between outlaws and citizens, the
last occurring on the night of June 23,
The attempt was upon the life of Andrew J.
Montgomery, who has taken a prominent
part in exposing and bringing to punish'
ment members of the lawless band. Mont
gomery had been in Owensville, and was
returning to his farm, when he was attacked
by several masked men. He was armed,
and succeeded in wounding one of his
assailants. A dozen bullets entered Mont
gomery's clothing, and one chipped the
skin from his hips, but he escaped unhurt.
The whole neighborhood was aroused, and
one hundred men began scouring the
country in search of the outlaws.
Isr France the farina is largely used
for culinary purposes. The famed
gravies, ' sauces and ' soups of France
are largely indebted for their excel
lence to that source, and its bread and
pastry equally so; while a great deal
of the so-called Cognac, imported into
England from France, is the produce of
the potato. Throunhout Germany the
aame uses are common ; in Poland the
manufacture of spirits from the potato
ia a moat extensive trade. " Stettin
brandy," well known in commerce, is
largely imported into England, and is
sent from thence to many of our foreign
possessions as the produce of the grape,
and is placed on many a table of En
gland as the same; while the fair ladies
of oar general country perfume them
selves with the spirit of potato under
the designation of Eau de Cologne. Bat
The horse with a snake in his eye was
in town yesterday on exhibition at the
stables of the Knapp House. The rep
tile is comfortably located in the watery
humor of the left eye, is : perfectly
formed, of a white color, and about the
size of an ordinary darning needle. - It
is plainly visible, and constantly on the
move, wriggling and twisting in every
direction. Its presence does not seem
to worry the horse in the least, and has
evidently created no inflammations in or
about the eye. It has, however, changed
the color oi tne eyeoaii, which is of a
lighter shade than that of the right eye,
and has affected the Bight somewhat.
The snake was first discovered about
two months ago. when it was much
smaller than it is now. How it came in
the horse's eye ia a question which puz
ales scientists. Penn Yan Escpret.
Thb pen may be mightier than the
sword, but the lead pencil does the most
wont.
FORElOtJX SUMMARY.
A Berlin dispatch reports France, Italy
and Germany warmly in support of the
Greek claims for the extension of territory.
A BERLIN dispatch says the Turkish dele
gates at the Tuesday's sitting of the
Congress consented to the evacuation of
Varna.
Thb London Time says: The Congress.
like most reasonable assemblies, has disap
pointed equally both the extreme views
which had been taken of its prospects. It
has been sitting for not more than a fort
night, but questions which threutned most
directly the peace of Europe have been, in
substance, solved, England having secured
the barrier of the Belkans to Turkey. No
compromise on minor points destroys the
value of such a concession.
It seems a little singular that some
enterprising Bample-room man hasn't
had the forethought to name his crema
tory "The Phonograph," for the
benefit of husbands going down town
in the evening.
The Fraud Committee.
Mrs. Jenks was again on the stand on
June 24. She repeated her performance of
Saturday for about two hours, much to the
general amusement but not to the increase
of general knowledge in regard to the Sher
man letter. She continued to maintain that
she dictated the whole of the Sherman
letter, though she refused to say who she
dictated it to, or to give any special details
of her work. She declared that Secretary
Sherman was not in any sense a party to it,
and that she delivered it after it was com
pleted to Weber and Anderson. There was ,
again a great amount of valueless question
ing and answering.
After recess Mr. McMabon called General
Boynton of the Cincinnati GazeUe, to ask
about the report that he had been to the
White House to make inquiries about the
appointment of Anderson at the time it
was made, and had conversed with the Pres
ident on t e subject. The fact was devel
oped that in a ride with the President, ex
tending over several hours, the first week
in last Jnne, about two or three minutes'
conversation took place in - regard
to the matter. The President stated
the appointment was made on ac
count of the good service Ander
son had rendered as a Republican. The
charges of the press that he had been ap
pointed on account of some imp oper manip
ulation of the vote were referred to, arid
the President neither affirmed nor denied,
bntsaid he thought Anderson, would not oc
cupy the office. This was then supposed by
the witness to refer to a report curr nt that
Anderson would net take the place ; and
witness stated that the impression made
upon his mind then was that Anderson had
been appointed because of his connec
tion with the operations there charged
in Louisiana. Witness said he had re
mained under this impression, and had
stated it to others in private talks in his
office, but that upon seeing, by the dae f
the President's letter to Secretary Evarts,
that the commission had been ordered with
held on the 26th of May, a week or ten
days before the conversation with the Pres
ident, he saw that his impression had been
altogether erroneous.
On the 25th June, Mrs Jenks and General
Boynton were again on the stand, but noth
ing satisfac ory was developed. Gen.ral
Boynton corrected and verified the evi
dence given by him yesterday, and added
an account of how General Harlan, of Ken'
tacky, intrigued for a place on the Supreme
Bench, and urged Boynton to find out lor
him, while in Louisiana as a member of the
MacVeagh Commission, whether or not
General BriBtow was a candidate for the
place, saving that if Bristow was not a candi
date, he thought it possible the solution of
the Louisiana difficulty by the Commission
would have a tendency to promote his (Har
lan's) candidacy for the place.
Marshall John B. G. Pitkin was on the
stand, and testified that his Deputy U. S.
Marshals assisted in bringing witnesses be
fore the Returning Board, a State organiza
tion, and that these witnesses were all Re
publicanx, while the Democrats had to pro
duce and detray tne expenses or their own
witnesses. Pitkin was familiar with the
handwriting of Dan Weber, and identified
his signatures upon various papers pre
sented to him, but he expressed doubt as to
the genuineness of the signature on the
Weber-Anderson agreement. He believes
it is not real, because of differences in the
characteristics of the handwriting, al
though there is a general resemblance
except in tne size ot tne letters.
The next witness called was a Mr Haley,
by whose testimony it is expected to dis
credit Mrs. Jenks. tie was prevented from
testifying, however, by the interesting and
spirited interlocutory discussion which
grew out of the objection raised by Mr.
riiscocK to attempting tnus early to lni-
Deach the testimony of the witness. Mrs
Jenks, because she didn't swear that Sher
man wrote the guaranty of safety to Weber
and Anderson, which attempt, he charged,
was made for the purpose of allowing the
erroneous impression to go to the country
that, because she may be proven to be not
worthy ot belief, Mr. Sherman wrote the
letter which she swears she dictated.
Mr. Hisoock and McMahon indulged in
somewhat animated discussion upon this
question, during which the latter, in reply
to a question by Hiscock, gave it as his
judgment that John Sherman wrote the
letter.
ueneral Cox agreed with Hiscotk and so
did Butler in the main, though the latter
in favor of taking tne testimony ot
Haley.
Mr. .Butler argued tnat no evidence ot
the existence of a letter written by Sher
man will be afforded by proving that
Mrs. Jenks has testified falsely.
She says she procured to be
written a letter which might have been and
probably was the letter which was circu
lating aoout tne country, it you prove ner
wrong, it. doesn't prove that Sherman wrote
it; the thing is to prove that she is not
worthy of belief.
Mr. Hiscock asserted that t 11 ere was no
legal evidence to show that Sherman wrote
or ever saw tne letter, me material thing
is to establish the charge that Sherman was
or was not tne author or bad anything to do
with the letter.
Mrs. Jenks was again before the Commit
tee on the 26th of June She agreed to pro
duce certain letters of Mr. Kell gg not yet
submitted to tne VJomm ttee, atter sending
for them to New Orleans. In reply to ques
tions, the witness said she dictated the Sher
man letter to anotber party, and wisbed tne
Committee to distinctly understand that she
herself did not write it. She would not give
tbe name ot tne person.
Mr. Haley, a Democratic clerk in the In
terior Department, by whom it was intended
to disprove some ot Mrs. jenKs s testimony,
swore that she had told him last winter that
she knew where the Sherman letter was, and
had been oflered $1,000 for it. Me advised
her not to sell at that price, because if she
was willing to sell she could obtain $5,000
for it.
The only point of material difference be
tween Haley's and Mrs. Jenks's testimony
is tnat ne says sue stated to mm tnat sue
had written to her husband to send her the
letter, which was in a safe in New Orleans,
and tbat be responded by letter to tne eflect
tnat sne nan committed tbe blunder ot leav
ing it subject to her personal command,
wbereas sho testihed tnat sbe bad written
to her husband about it.
Judge Campbell, now United States Dis
trict Attorney for Dakota, a local Judge
at tbe tune ot tne election, was ex
amined regarding the form and mode of
making election protests, and as to the
little he knew about the circumstances of
Anderson's protest and subsequent ob-
streperouBness about withdrawing it. Camp
nen scaiea mac ne regarded it legal and
proper to annex a protest or other affidavit
to an election return after it had been Bent
f om the parish to which it related, where
circumstances such ns intimidati n or other
danger might have rendered its annexation
impracticable in the first instance, especially
if such reason was stated by the Supervisor.
lie nau metsnerman once and otoughton
several tunes in jNew Orleans, but the sub
ject of the Anderson protest was not dis
cussed by the visiting statesmen.
A 1 hands j ined in keeping up a brisk
cross-fire at the witness, wbo gave it as his
judgment that Packard was elected leg lly
as were the Hayes Electors; that neither
Kellogg nor Packard could have maintained
the State Government without the support
of Federal authority, becau e of tbe illegal
and revolutionary opposition brought to
bear upon them, and am obeli answered
affirmatively General Butler's ironical ques
tions as to whether the authority of the
Government conld have been maintained in
Louisiana in 1862 without the support of
c I 1 i i :
rcuvnu soiuiers.
Butler marked out a long line of investi
gation on the 27th, and laid the foundation
for much of it in the examination of Pitkin.
He proposes t prove that members of the
Returning Board were nrnmiaml nfficA for
their work ; that Packard was legally eleo-
. .1 i - i i . . - ,
leu, out loruuu out in pursurnce ot a Dar-
gain ; that the M Veagh Commission cor
ruptly contributed to carry this ou . While
he affects to despise newspapers, he laid
tne lounuauon lor mucb ot bis case by intro
ducing various extract from Nw Orleuna
and other papers. He charged that fiis letter
to " My Dear Pitkin " was stolen by
one newt paper, though he supposed
that this thelt was only oalled enterprise.
Upon this his own witness, Pitkin,
testified that he himself telegraphed a
copy of it to tbe press. He seenred from
Pitkin several bits of what were to him
evidently choice bits of evidence about
McVeagh and Harlan.
Pitkin related a conversation he had with
one Swayne, a member of the Packard Leg
isla ure, wherein the former set forth that
while the McVeagh Commission was in
New Orleans members of the Packard Legis
lature were requested to send a committee
to consult with the commission, and a com
mittee of twelve was appointed at a joint
caucus ot tne senate and nouse.
When the Commission received this
committee General Harlan was pacing the
floor quite excitedly, and said: "We
have been in New Orleans too long already,
and this thing has got to be fixed up."
Mc veagh also told tbe committee tnat tne
troops were to be withdrawn from the
State-house ; that there was no use of the
Packard men making a nght, because if they
flid t'-e Nicholls men would hang them to
the lamp-posts Pitkin also gave an inter
esting recital of the conversation had with
the manager of the Louisiana State Lottery,
wno-asserted that he had furnished money
which was given to members of the Packard
Legislature to desert te Nicholls. He stated
emphatically that he believed that had
Packard been recognized by the Executive
tnat be could bave maintained his govern
ment within three weeks after such recogni
tion without the use of United States troops.
jNext a man named ulassicK, a resident ot
Washington City, was called to prove that
Mrs. Jenks had told him that Sherman had
nsulted her, and that she would make it hot
for him yet bv producing a letter or docu
ment which she had got from Mrs. Weber,
and which was theu in New Orleans. Mrs.
Jenks afterward went to New Orleans, but
whether she got the document witness had
no means of knowing. Witness was not
cross-examined.
The Florida case was taken ur, and Wm.
E. Chandler examined. The object of this
examination was to show that General Noyes
had made promises to give omces to those
who helped to carry Florida tor Hayes and
to connect Hayes with the bargain. .Noth
ing came of it, however. The memory of
the witness was faulty.
Li. u. Uenms was sworn, in regard to
Noyes he said : " Noyes always spoke of
Governor Haes as his inti-xate friend,
and used to assure us of his fidelity to
the Republican cause, and of his special
desire to take care of Southern Republicans.
He never showed me any writing from Gov
ernor Hayes, and did not speak about his
having been invited by llayes to go tbere,
but we regarded him as tbe personal friend
and special representative ot Mr. llayes dur
ing the contest there. I was very enthusias
tic myself, and I required no pledges or as
surances from any one. I do not know
whether any such assurances were given to
any ol the members ot the .returning Bora.
Noyes gave me, I think, the gravest assur
ances that President Hayes was a very
staunch Republican, and that he had volun
tari y pledg'ed himself to protect Southern
Republicans, and he called my attention to
some hing that had been published to that
effect some speech he had made, or letter
he had written."
L. E. Dennis was on the stand again on
June 28. He said Box No. 2, of Archer
Precinct at Alachua County, Florida, was
objected to by t- e Democrats on account of
alleged fraud. The inspector of the polls had
in a conhdential conversation with witness,
admitted there had been two hundred and
nineteen fraudulent names added to the list
of voters, and his knowledge of this fact
was partially the cause of his declining to
testily as requested oy uovernor xnoyes.
The addition of these two hundred and
nineteen names was a matter of public
notoriety..
Witness was appointed by the Secretary
of the Treasnryas an employee in the Secret
Service. His instructions were to examine
the records of the United States Courts in
North and Sonth Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida. After resigning this position i e was ap
pointed agent of Internal Revenue, but his
commission was canceled before he entered
upon the duties of that office. The letter
of recommendation, written by Governor
Noyes, was submitted. It is a formal letter
of recommendation to Secretary Sherman,
mentioning the witness of one of many Re
publicans ostracized in Florida, and com
mending bis application to tbe considera
tion of the Secretary. Witness never knew
Uovernor JNoyes having put in evidence be
fore the Returning Board anything" except
ing the facts as furnished him. It was the
idea ot the southern Republicans to im
pose upon the minds of the Northern Re
publicans that every thing was fair and
honest in Florida.
Wi ness believed the returns in the Ar
cher Precinct should have shown two hun
dred and nineteen votes in excess of what
they did for the Repub ican party. Republi
can officers made up the denciency irem the
registration book so as to make the returns
show their proper number of votes. He be
lieved there had been iraud on both sides.
When the votes were turned out of the box
the missing number of Republican votes
app ared as having been legally cast.
Wi ness test l bed that .black. Re, nblican
Inspector of Elections, and Vance, Repub
lican t lerk, had made affi avits to the cor
rectness of tbe return, and his reason for
not wishing to go on the stand was that hi
testimony would have tended strongly t
i-ave contradicted theirs. He did not dis
close this knowledge to Governor Noyes, but
simply tried to impress him with the idea
that he had not be ter put him on the stand,
because it won d injure his case.
Minister JNoyes occupied tne witness
stand for several hours. -He told the com
mittee that he hoped they would not wait
until their report was formally made to
Congress to pronounee upon his cose,
but would arrive at a verdict so
far as he was concerned, and if they
thought he had been vindicated by the
evidence, that they would publish
the vindication as widely as the accusation.
He did not want to go back to bis post with
nny stain resting upon h s reputat on. He
complained of the use of hi-, name in the
Potter resolution, and insisted that it was
unwarranted and unjust.
The principal point made against Minister
Noyes in the investigation of the Florida
case, was in the testimony of Dennis, who
testified that he told Governor Noyes that
" it would be dangerous to put him on tbe
witness stand," and Democrats inter
that Dennis meant that it would be
dangerous to Re, ublican interests for
him to testify. In regard to this, Govern r
Noyes says that Dennis's statement is true;
that he did say tbat it would be dangerous
to put him on the stand - dangerous to him
self (Dennis). Dennis further said that be
had- already aggravated the Democrats so
much that his life was in danger,' and he
had got the colored peon e of Alachua
County to meet in a church, and on their
benoeo Knees to swear to protect bim, and
it ne was Killed to avenge his death.
JNoye- said he had no means of knowing
that llayes ever knew he was going to
Florida. He had no private conversation
at any time with McLin previous to the
completion of the couni. He read several
letters lrora McLin, expressing the greatest
pleasure at the success of the Republicans,
tbe last one being ritten the day belore
tbe inauguration, expressing unbounded
joy over the result. Noyes also said he
bad, when he came here, a lour page letter
irom jucLiin, dated in June, alter the iuau
uration, still expressing satisfaction with
everything. This had mysteriously disap
peared from his room. Privately, circum
stances are known to be such as to give
good ground for tne belief tha an attempt
was made to steal his papers.
The testimony of Governor Wallace and
General Little corroborated that of Noyes.
Wallace disposed ot the reason Dennis
assigned yesterday, as the one he supposed
determine ! the Republicans not to call
him namely, that he would defeat their
case. General Wallace testified that the
real reason was that Dennis had given them
to uuderstaud that to coll uim would sub
ject him to personal danger, and he was
not called, iu order to save him from diffi
culty of this kind.
On June 2!, Mrs. Jenks appeared before
the Committee, and produced her corres
pondence with AnderBon, but Gen. Butler
being absent the letters were not read Mrs.
Jenks, under examination still refused to
diseli se the name of the person to whom
she dictated the Sherman letter. The party
was sitting against the wall in parlor " P "
when she entered, and when she left her
amanuensis was sitting at the table.
William E. Chandler produced dispatches
sent by him from the Fifth Avenue Hotel
early on the morning of November 8,
though dated November 7, to Geo. C. Gor
hara, California; J. H. Mitchell, Oregon;
S B. Packard, New Orleans; Gov. Chamber
lain, South Carolina; Senator Conover,
Florida, in each of which he stated that
Hayes a d Wi ee er were elected if they had
carried those States, and in each of which
he also counseled Republicans to be watch
ful against p ssible Democratic frauds.
While in Florida, Mr. Chandler received
a telegram from President G'ant, saying,
"I hope you will remain in Flori ia until the
vote ot the State is decided." Mr. Chandler
did not know of the existing frauds in Flor
ida, and the five thousand dollars for which
he telegraphed was handed by him to Gen
eral Martin, who expended it in procuring
evidence.
Mr. Chandler maintained that in his opin
ion, there never was a fair result obtained
by fairer means than the result of the Flor
ida election.
-Mr. Chandler entertained the audience
with an account of his travels in Florida,
correspondence with Grant and other states
men in the Nrth : conference with visiting
statesmen in the South in the interest ot a
fair count; what General Garfield told him
about the Wormley conference; how
S anley Matthews had urged him to
use his influence to prevent Presi
dent Grant from recognizing the Packard
Government, which was the first tangible
evidence he had of the " subsequent dis
honor which was to come;" the showing
Matthews made as to how Hayes could con
sistently recognize the Nicholls and Hamp
ton Governments, (Matthews having looked
into the matter, and found that tbere would
be no difficulty, because the Hayes electors
and Packard had their titles from different
sources,) and winding up with a list of
names of Florida worthies whom Chandler
had indorsed for office, some of whom had
been provided for.
Returning Roard Anderson in nis testi
mony intimated that nobody knew or had
the sligbest knowledge about now tne elec
tion in Louisiana was going until the final
ruin, involved in the Republican policy has
been partially averted by the Democratia
measures . passed at the late session of
Congress, restoring the debt paying power
to silver dollars, made a law in spite of a
Presidential veto, and stopping the further
destruction of greenbacks, we demand, as
further acts of justice-, as well as measures
of relief, the absolute repeal ef the re
sumption act, and the lawful libera
tion of tbe . coin hoarded in , the
Treasury; the removal if all re
s'rictiona to the coinage of silver, and re
establishment of silver as a money metal, .
the same as gold, t e same as it was before
its fraudulent substitution of United States
legal tender paper for national bank notes,
and its permanent establishment as the sole
paper money of the country, made receiv
able for all dues to the government, and of
equal tender with coin ; the amount of such
issues to be so regulated by legislation or or
ganic law as to give the people an assurance
of stability iu the volume of currency,
and consequent stability of value; nofur-
tner increase in the bonded dent, and - no
further sale of bonds for the purchase of
coin for resumption purposes, but th
tradual extinction of the public debt; rigid
economy in the reduction; of .expenditures
in all branches nf public service anil a tariff
for revenue only. . f - . . -'i-H T , i
" Hesoived, The interests of the industrial
wealth producing classes is the paramount
interest of the people of the United States,
Those whose labor and enterprise produce
wealth should be secure in its enjoyment.
Our warmest sympathy is extended to the
laboring classes who have been thrown out of
employment by the ruinous financial policy
and unjust legislation of the Republican
party, and we pledge tbe Democratic party
to a reversal of that policy, and a restoration
of all rights they are entitled to upon its
ascendency o power. - - ,;
"Rem red, That there can be no legitimate
employment of organized force in this coun
try except to execute the law and to main
tain public peace ; tbat, no violence should
be countenanced to obtain redress fo any
alleged grievance, but should be repressed
at every cost until relief can be secured by
legal methods. We congratulate the conn,
try on the adoption of . the constitutional
PASSING SMILES.
result was reached by the Returning Board, and pacific policy of local government in
i en days atter that body nrst met and ne- I the States of the South, so long advocat d
gan thew rk of canvass. ng the votes, be- y the Democratic party, and which has
cauBe although the eyes of the county were
turned in tbat direct on, and every body
was in feverish excitement to know, he and
his colleagues never even tried to guess
what would be the effect of throwing out
certain votes.
Dennis appeared, and said he had been
told by President Hayes that he was one of
the few men who this Adm nistration could
afford to take care of, and was asked by His
Excellency what he (Dennis) wanted. He
responded that he wanted to be an Auditor
in the I'reasury Department, because his
appointment to a Federal office would be
such a recognition as would have the moral
effect to stave off, if not actually prevent,
the prosecutions threatened against him
upon pending indictments based n all
alleged offenses against the local laws of
Florida. The President thereupon wrote
on the back of his visiting card a note to
Secretary Sherman, saying that he particu
larly desired the appointment of Dennis to
an Auditorship or other good place, because
he was worthy. That didn't accomplish the
purpose. So subsequently Mr. Hayes wrote
a m te to Mr. Sherman stating that he was
reliably assured that Mr. Dennis would
make a capable Special Agent, and that " I
especially desire that his claims may have
your early consideration." Even that
didn't bring satisfactory fruit. The As
sistant Secretary, McCormick, tried to se
cure a good place as custodian of plates and
dies in the Treasury vaults, and asked the
appointment of Dennis as a personal favor.
The President wanted Dennis to have the
place, but Secretary Sherman wanted it for
a pei sonal friend, and as interjected by
Ben, Butler Sherman beat, for he got his
man in the place. Dennis here remarked
coolly, though with evident sympathy for
the President, that he was always satisfied
that if the President had had any influence,
he (Dennis) would have gotten a good place.
He wanted to work, and did n t care
for the sinecure at seven dollars a day,
brought peace and harmony to that section
of the Union."
The resolutions were adopted unan
imously as a whole, and without discussion.
. Bepublicans of Ullnois.
The Republicans of Illinois, on June 26,
nominated General J C. Smith for State
Treasurer, and' candidates for Clerks of the
Appellate and Supreme Court. The .Com
mittee on Platform made the following
report:
- "The delegated representatives of the
Republican party of Illinois, in Convention
assembled, hereby declare our unaltering
faith in the principles and patriotism of the
Republican party, State and National, and
in its permanent fitness and ability over all
other parties to administer the Government
of both tate and nation wisely and suc
cessfully ; that t e Democratic party, being
largely composed of recent rebels and their
sympathizers, can not be safely intrusted
with the administration ot tne altars oi tne
Government; that the partial success of
the party in Congress, as well as in several
of the States, .nly shows its grossly
partisan character and general inca acity
and lack of honor and patriot sm. . For
the financial syBtem created by the Re
publican party during the war, and in
spite of the violent opposition of - the
Democratic party we express our unquali
fied admiration. By its provisious the peo
ple have been supplied with a larger amount
of paper currency, safer and more uniform
in value, than they bave ever before en
joyed. The credit of the nation has steadily
improved, while both the principal and in
terest of the public debt, as well as the
burdens of National taxation has been
steadily diminished. Such results can only
he produced bv honesty, economy, and wis
dom in the management of public affairs.
We are oppose' to any further contraction
Thi father of "Helen's Babies" is
only thirty-eix.: " And the widows of
Brigham Youg are only nineteen.
No base nail pitcher is now considered
an expert unless he can curve the ball
into the batter's stomach three times
out of every possible five. -
The youngster who was sent away
from the table just as the pastry came
on went sadly np stairs singing, " Good-
bye sweet tart, good-bye."
.HEArj man The phrenologist. Bait
air diamonds--Ocean spray, in morning
sunlight. Weather atripa-Changing
your flannels for the season. ,; . ,
Education has no creative power; it
can m rely unfold and direct the powers
nature confers. It cannot make a poet
of a horse, nor a writer of an ape.
A good listener1 Enthusiastic young
lady: " You are fond " of music,
colonel?" " Aw yea, I think I may say
I like aw noise of of any kind."
There is a great difference between
what an ambitious man, is and what he
aspires to be as there is also between
hat a vain man thinks himself and
what be is..- . . ;
Love is deaf as well as blind. If it
wasn't, how could the tendrils of wo- -.
man's affection wind themselves about
the man who talks through, his nose? ,
Breakfast Table. ' . .
The prayer with which the Eev. Dr.
Moore opened the Ohio Convention be
gan with the words, " Grant, we pray '
Thee," etc. - Whereupon there was great
cheering for Ulysses. - '
Maky persons consider themselves ":
friendly when they are only officious;
they counsel not so much that you may
become wise, as that they may. be known . ,
as teachers of wisdom.
" "A' basket of "champagne I" . ex
claimed a country dame. ' Why, I de-.
clare, now, I always thought champagne ;
was watery stuff, like ;-1 never kno wed
you could carry it in a basket."' .
" Tommy, do you know . that your
Uncle Bobert has found a beautiful boy
baby on his door-step, and is going to
adopt him 1" " Yes, mamma, and he'll ,
be Uncle Bob's step-son, won't he?"
A coree8POKDent writes from Parma :,
" There's always something to charm'
the eye, delight the ear and stir the soul
in Italy. The introduction of the
scrubbing brush would make it a para
dise." . , . . - ....
Air orator,, who was much in demand
in political campaigns; being asked by
an admirer the secret of his success, re-:
plied. " When I have facta. I eive 'em
facts ; but when I haven't, 1 yell and saw
the air." .
Professor " Can you multiply to
gethsr concrete numbers f . The class '
are uncertain. Professor " What will
be the product of five" apples multiplied -by
six potatoes?" Freshman (triumph
antly)" Hash." . ' .
. It takes mote philosophy to sit down
on a tack without swearing than it does
to put up with a cold dinner on washday
without grumbling.. This item ' was
handed in by a man who'has tried both.
Breakf-itt Table -.. -
- Esthetic tramps who recognize the
eternal fitness ef things when engaged
in passing the time " card-playing"
during the balmy spring months, find
nothing so much against the grain as
playing a " spade."
A coxcomb, talking of the transmi-
Sation of souls, said: " In the time of
oses, I have no doubt I was the '
golden calf." " Very likely," replied a
lady, "and time has robbed you of
nothing but the gilding."
When two boys of a family have gone
in swimming against their mother's ex
press commands, -the satisfaction of be
ing able to see the other fellow waled
usually operates so as to soothe the pains
of the one that got it first.
. No man can go down into the dungeon
of his experiei.ee, and hold the torch of
truth to all his dark chambers and
hidden cavities, and not come up with a
shudder and a chill, and an earnest cry
to heaven for mercy and cleansing.
If you are a wise man you will treat
the world as the moon treats it. Show
it only one side of yourself, seldom show
yourself too much at a time, and let
which they gave him, in which, as he stated I of the greenback currency, and are in favor jjat yOU r0 show be calm, cool, and
!- it, he had nothing to do; didn't go often, of such currency as can be maintained at ,. . . t t ii. -t ... R1-j nft
about once a month, and tiring Sf loafing par with, and convertible into coin at the POU hed. But look at every Bide 01 the
about M ashinston. he told Mr. McCormick
that " if I am to draw my pay I will not
lose the capacity to do so if I go up to Mas
sachusetts to visit my family." The hint
was taken. He was granted leave of ab
sence for one month, but stayed away nearly
four months, during which time he was
pretty independent, did as he pleased, and
didn't expect any pay, but when he re
turned he found he could get it, so he took
two months' pay. Dennis' delivery was rel
ished and kept the audience in a high state
of mirth, because his descriptions of the
ups and downs and ins and outs were il
lustrative of so many others known to each
person in the room, and also of flagrant vio
lation of civil service rules.
Ohio Democracy In Convention.
The Ohio Democratic Convention met at
Columbus on June 26, and nominated D R.
Paige, of Summit County, for Secretary of
State; Judge A. F. Hume, of Butler
County, for Judee of the Supreme Court;
and Rust Fields, of Richland County, for
Board of Public Works. We give the plat
form of resolutions in full :
" The Democ atic party of Ohio, in con
vention assembled hereby reaffirm the fol
lowing clauBes in tbe platform of the conven
tion of July 25, 1877, indorsed by a majority
of more than 22,000 last fall by the people
of Ohio. "We renew its pledges of devotion
to the Union and Constitution, with the
amendments. It declares as essential to the
preservation of free government a faithful
adherence to the following principles:
strict construction of home rule; suprem
acy of civil over military power; separa
tion of Church and State; equality of al
oitizens before the law; liberty of in-
div dual action ufi vexed by sump
tuary laws; absolute acquiescence in the
lawfully expressed will of the majority;
opposition to all subsidies; preservation of
public lands for use of actual settlers, and
maintenance and perfecting of the common
school system. As per inent to the issue
now pending before the people,
"Resolved, That the investigation of
frauds committed at the la-t Presidential
election in Florida and Louisiana ought to
have been made by tbe Electoral Com
mission. Its refusal to do so waa the viola
tion of the spirit, of the law under which it
was organized, and a gross ou race npon the
people of the United States; and while
the decision as made by tbe Forty-fourth
ongress of the question as to who should
be declared President of the United States
for the present Presidential was in our
judgment final, that decision ought not pre
clude authentic investigation and exposure
of all frauds connected with that election,
will of the holder. We favoi such currency
being received for import duties, and depre"
eate the defeat of the recent bill for tnat
purpose by the Democratic House of Repre
sentatives. The permanent pacification of the
Southern section of the Union, and the com
plete protection of all its citizens in all their
civil, political, personal, and property
rights, is a duty to which the party stands
sacredly pledged. Ia order to redeem this
pledge it placed the recent Amendments in
the Constitution of the United States, a d
upon the righteous bae of said Amend
ments, it will go forward in the work of
pacification until peace shall come through
right-doing and contentment through jus
tice. That the Criminal Code shall be
amended for the protection of depositors in
Savings Banks bV providing for the punis
ment of dishonest bank managers ; . and,
nnaliy, be it
" Reeolred, That those who preserved the
conntry should govern it instead of those
who attempted to destroy it." .
The platform was unanimously adopted.
world.
' ; An old Highland clergyman, who had
received several calls to parishes, asked
his servant when he shou'd go. The
servant said, " Go where there is most
sin, sir." The preacher concluded that
was cood advice, and went wheie there
was most money.
In a recent trial in England it came
out that economical band-leaders were
in the habit of ringing " dummy vio
lins" in upon the managers. The
dummy violin is played with a greased
bow by a man wno Knows notning oi
music, and renders no audible sound.
. ' BOWING. ' . . i
A wonderful thing is seed
The one thin? deatkla fore Ter!
The one thing changeless utterly true- ,
Forever old sod forever new,
And fickle and faith leas never.
Plant blessing, and blessings will Moon;
Plant hate, and haU will grow;
You can sow to-day to-morrow win bring
The blonom wiU prove what sort of thing
ts the seed the sesd to sow.
A clergyman, accosted by an old
acquaintance by the name of Cobb, re
plied : " I don't know you, sir." "My
name is Cobb, sir." reioined the man,
who was about half seas over. "Ah
sir," said the minister, "you have so
much corn on that I did not see the
cob,"
More of the Mystery of the Mind.
The Louisville Medical Aetw says:
Curious Facts of Miscegenation.
The child of colored parents of differ
ent time, such as quadroon and mu
latto, or mulatto or black, will be nearer
the tint of the darker parent. If both
parents are of the same color, says an
authority in such matters, the child will
be a shade darker, and, singularly enough,
the second child will be darker than the
first, and so on to the last. In other
words, a colored community, left to it
self, is fatally destined to return to the
original African black after a limited I The following psychological incident,
number of (fenerations. Thus, while
each new alliance with an individual of
pure Caucasian blood brings the negro
a step nearer to the white standard, the
reverse is the case the moment the Cau
casian element is withheld, and the color
rotroirrades from lieht to dark. .
A curious proof of this is found in ob
servations made during some time in one
which was told to me by a gentleman of
undoubted veracity, may prove of inter
est to those of your readers who are
studying the occult phases of nervous
phenomena. ' The narrator, a man of
nervous organization, was taking his
aiternoon siesta, m uauguwn,
lady of seventeen, sitting by his side,
with her hand ia his. ana read in c. As
of the islands. A mulatto woman had a I he nassed from the wakeful state into
female child by a white man ; this young one 0f semi-slumber he saw, or seemed
girl gave birth to a quadroon by a white to see, appear at the foot of his bed a
father, and this rec rossing with the white tall man, with a sorrowful expression on
l - J A . . ' . . 1 . a 1 1
throughout the country, and the consequent
: i i tir..: i- -1 - .1 : . 1 . . U
pernicious financial legislation of the Re
publican party, which we hereby arraign
for its sou, and charge ; First I hat at the
time when the country was weighed down
with debt, created on the basis of a full vol
ume of paper, added to both the precious
metals as money, it enacted a sweeping
chance in the decrease of values, wholly in
the interest of m neyed capital, by demo
tizing silver, and decreeing the destruction
of legal tender paper, and thereby wrong,
fully added in elltct hundreds of millions to
the burden o debt and taxes upon the peo
ple. Second By pursuing it merciless
policy of contracting the paper cur
rency, and hoarding gold, it has
increased continuously -the value of
money and securities that partake of ths
enhancement of money, and decreased ths
value of all other pr- perty, and especially
his face, who, bending down tenderly,
lilted up a comn ana aisappearea. no
was so disturbed by the strange and un
accountable nature of his vision that,
after tossing restlessly for a few mo
menta, he opened his eyes and said,
" Daughter, I believe I can not sleep to
day, and I will get up." Looking up
fi-nm hor honV in which she was evi-
haa nrevailed but the vigor and gracefulness of their dentlv deeply absorbed, she said, "Papa,
' I 1- U I .k.;.k.i ;.n inf. '1 I. a 1 . . . . , L .1. .4 I . .
race was kept up for six (Fenerations. An
identical process of recrossing had been
simultaneously noticed in another plan
tation. 1 he children resulting from tne
seventh crossing in both of these families
were of remarkable physicial beauty;
they had blonde hair, their complexion
was OI Buca transparent iiuruess uiiu
and the due accountability of all who were
JlZrZZZ and in. they might have been taken for Albinos,
dustrial stagnation that
limbs and their brilliant intellect. : The
most experienced eve could not have de
tected in them the slightest indication of
their African origin. They intermarried.
Their children were dark complexioned
and the children of their children are
very dark mulattoes. This inexorable
law of nature is given as one of the prin
thi ia a Btranire book that I am readinc."
" What is it?" said he. " The Life of
Marie Antoinette," she replied, and
then read from the pases before her a re
cital of the exact incident that had just
constituted his dream.
i? .v.. o i ..f. . Mr.-Lecky. in his "History of the
r ...i UHmnno. 1 !t :.u ,i: i i . v. I Middle Aires, sava with respect to clean-
fa n test tinge of negro blood in theu
Veins, though their skin may be as f -ir
ua that of Eurorjeans. The Creoles wish
their . posterity to remain what they
themselves are whites.
A student In eeoirraphT having; an
swered that the world was round, was
asked by the professor if he could give
some proof. He said he thought nothing
else but : the curvature of the earth
linesa, that the saints in Mesopotamia
regarded washing the body asa pollution
of the soul, and no man waa considered
to have attained the full odor of sanctity
until he had converted himself into one
hirianua mass of dotted filth. fcU An
thony, in his extreme old age, refused
to put his feet in hot water, on the ground
that washing of any sort waa a fleshly
vanity. BU Abraham, for fifty years
after bia conversion, rigidly refused to
wash either his face or his leet, ooaerv-
of canital designed for productive use, and
required for the employment of la"or, thus
oou p,plesoc,mmonly the face ought to reflect the
. ,r Is ' . j .u: inland nAisik.Untlv nnninir down their I .M:. f mil" St. Kiinh rasia
iraue nuu uvaiiuerce. auu bdw ian pa 1; i ...wmv ...g
in Ohio puts forward in iu platform the 1 shoes at the heel.
declaration that the financial question has
been settled. We deny this declaration, i
and while we congratulate the country that
the downward course to bankruptcy and
...
purity of
joined a coi
Pulverized borax In water will re
lieve the pain of a burn.
the soul." St. Euphrasia
loined a convent of one nunarea ana
. . . i m.i...j toA.
thirty nuns wuo novn wbbucumio
and who " shuddered at the mention of
a bath."