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It tr?if t Mt-a k r tiin:i It. mml i
feymialll ruo auu'udi U ..lldi-trn.
What others naif about
- Ttitl's jCjcpeclorant
HadAsthmaThirtyYears
fi i riMOfT f-ftrttttry 3 175.
I fciv? n-ii A ;r i ..trl .d ruvrf
faun J a 1111. Ji'-.r.c !.:.. ha 1 ir!i n !i.irvv trtccr."
W. F. HCtiAN Chariot St.
A Child's Idea of Merit.
"Tt.tt' Fxpt-. lor-jtit li rt (:iii;ih;ir n.MTi1 in fit
h'jusr. My wite l;nr it ihc brt fncJi mem !;:e
world and iht cEuitixco tay it ii. cr ti.ti?
ino.j-4 1 ran.lv.'
NOAH VWOOC'VAHD 101 N. Paydraj 8t
tt f 1 1 1 r ;
six cna aiioupy.
14 1 uin the nto!hcnf hix c liir- n : all oHhcm
have Keen vrovpv. W iin-ut 't
I don i think tii-ycciM havcMirvned fccuie ci
the klUcks
MARY 6TEVCNS Frankfort. K.
' Iii my pt-ai im c 1 advise nil Imnihcfc to kc
Tutl I'.xpnlur.inl in fcuuden riiicryeucick lui
uu!i. tioiip iliii'i'licria tr."
T. P. ELLIS. M.D.. Newtrfc N. J.
fiold btnlfirufifimU. i ir.S OO. Vjte
US Murray tiirrrt Krw 1'vrk.
"THE TREE IS SNayJij BY ITS FRUIT.
" Tult's Pills are worth tlirir wpicht in fold."
f REV. L. B. SIMP80N Looi.xill. Ky.
" Tutt' Pill lire a t;cial blciung ol Hi
in;iccnlh rnturv."
REV. F. W. OSQQOD Nw York.
" J !ist ued Tuu 1T1 for loror of Ilia
Thry ar sniH-rior lo any medicine lot
bilurv linrlrr ever made." s
I. P. CARR Attorney t Law August Ga.
'I h.ivcu&eilTuU'b 1'iiis ttve year in my fam
tW. They are rniequaled fT coslivcness nnd hiU
i"uicm."-F. B.WILSON. Georgotown Te-
"I have nrl t'hh s'.iedirine wiih great
bene --W.W. MANNFd.toe MobHa Register.
iell firt n'ixc J I "itt' Pills to five ot
1I otffti." SAVRE A CO. CaHortviilo Ga.
"Tm'i Pills have uniyi to be trcd to e-
ah!isi tfteir merits Thev work like maRic.1
W. BARRON. 93 Surnmar St. Botton.
' T Is no med h im ui'vell adapted to Oia
fre Ll'-' 'l' OrjVf as Tutt's Pills."
4vi"lrrjSlMEL Richmond Virginia.
- ' AND A TrAdf''wD MORE. "
SotdVif druvfitHt. reft a bnr. OjJJra
Murray Strert l'oi-fc.
ii rii va
TUTT'S IllB m
HIGH TESTIMONY.
FROM TIIF. PK-IFlr flt'HXAL.
11 -A CREAT INVENTI.ON
Ulias nwi uia.ln ly Dr. I i r i. '! Npw Tnrt.g
Nwbieii re-tores v.nithfiil tvairtv to the lialr.rj
link c-iii iit-ii riit'iiiiv um " ' "
prclui-iint a Hair l)v tinlMte-.
nalure to perfo liuii. old lachelors tuajg
now rejoice." f
fVfr $1.00. Offit 3X tTarron .
XewXovk. gold bij alWrutjqM: K
Br Its Kreat an1 thoroarh Mnml-pitrlrj'lnir proper-
Ses Ir. Pkree's t..iM u .Mi-.U.il lli-cuviry cures
til lluaaora. from the ort Henfuht to a common
iUtotv I'ltaple or Eruplisi. Akr' iirlnl 0Uea.-u-
Mineral 1'oisoiin ami tlnlr i-lTocts " radicnteil
Mil vigorous health and a roimd ct-iiltniloti eil.iK
felled. K.rr!p-la tialt-rhruw t'cr Soresv Bvn!.-
Ir Koata tklib hi hhort. :ill .li- as. s etui.--I by had
Hood are ciwuerei by thU jhjw urlul. imTuyUig asd
tiviuonitlnfr itiedlctue.
Kiiicclally has It manltWe! Hi porortey In cnriti.T
tetU-is Uuae. Ilcwh. Helln. t'arbunrt-' i'fc-J
W roTuloMa Rare and (ttTidlliu. Wko (iwcIUiLgv
ioltr mr Thk-k Nork. and Lulargiil .lawia.
If you el du!U druvv Mlliu.ud. I"ve Ktllotr
Jotor i't 6k In. or vi l!tnlh-brin n'l15 n faro or
lody. freiiie-nt Ih'adactii or iil7.7tnes. bad ta&ic In
tioulh hiUrna! Ik it or eh!l!s nll ri.;ili d Willi bol
iislM's. low apirlt.i uinl glix:my forelioctlnt.'S lrrepil-
FliiM'tlte. Mid toiifiir eoated v.-it nrc aimera:" IVoiii
orpld Liven or olllllouoneaa." Ill itnny eases o
Uver omplulnt oi.lv part of tlieae yuiptotus aru
In nerk-neel. As a ruiinivlor i.U -eu eaucs. Dr.
Pierre's liolden Mi lle:d Disroveiy UaJ UO CHUUl U
t efl'eets IM-i KH-t uinl rndl-al etires. f
ill the cure ot llemeliltu h vcre. CohslS and the
larlv ataires of ConauaiptioH It has arioiilslied tho
bedicat raeiiltv and enihirnt phlchiui pronouiu o
It Uie ureatesl ineilh al ill-mvi rv of llul are. Idle
I cures the neve rest onr'is. ltKreniTihi iwUiesystcm
tllil parWra Ike blood hmd liv ilrii)-rlf -J
1LV. 11 Hit I-: Al. !. I'nip-r. Vi unU'V arj
lud lnvaUdi' lloli 1 UuH'.do K. . - 1 -J:
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THE cAT-
' No ne of Ink Inp tlic larms rrpiilslvA noJott pm
rouipomd of cheap crude and bulky
IMaalacaa Mur I ntlnlliM from tke Ha
Uate la the Mnatb Ullloaa aituek. l'aln re"!
T Kklaey. laleemd lever. Ilionted fee I !"
Ita. k It!" r UooJ to Urasl take lej
fWsMKt l'aruniUx KeUeta. In exdauall-fn of th
N-uedlal p.itsir or Ihesu rurv-allvc lVheis ovr v
treat avarletv of ltsi'iise.lt maybe tald tliat iks-n
iello ars tho anlrnul eionor la lerk a
i . i i ki. ..itr aiM t Art
FT . .7T. !.. .r iIk - iivtl.14
riM are ui!ro.Hi d ae.d Inclosed In bIsm bottles.
Sielr virtue tx-ttic' t;:erel
. .. L...tk nf tlu Ilk till
v preservcil uiiiuivlrl'd ftt
jv Vum.ite.ao that tibey art
iwvi rtwh and n liable. Till I not the eae wlta
fill put up In cheap v.ovd ii ir ''iTV-tM
Sfalves Indleateil these IHUe IVIU ts -rodl girt
lieuiot perft-etantl-iiictton. telit 'rt''
i K. V. I! K. lit ' F. M. I k. rtairlt wu ljiLienarj
lud luvauas' uoui iuuoio i
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k other a drmtkyv tirv. Vai. trai. w hlHHi-d
are toiiiliia up. or cictnie: u. oi tlio naal p
rtiufiix In cars. .teafiK-w. Iiawkln: an.l ccu-?l-kit
tociear the throat. uloerntiooeab from rs.
5ee alu ret. u;il twain. oUenat ve brratu ini!ris
V total deprlval loo ot aeuneot anKit ano mu-.""-'
Ines. DH-nial teipeton ts of appetite inikv
7 . .....i. ii..lfli.ii. frtin' t afi li'lii' a
(w of uie stmpiouis are Ukvly to i j ixxut la aoj
bj at um utucv
l X5R. SAGE'S CATARRH RE2IEDYj
roda-e Tsfleal enres of the worst ease ef Catarrh
matter of bow loi.c M mJInij. The ll )iitd rvti'!l
hav be anuftVd or b' trr aprslel be Uh us vf lr.
rir'RvI'S IkwK'iir. This h t!j wv frra of tnstru-
l p.. . .... i. -I iui . h iri. r .1 1 i nw.iMn..iii
tvmvHt niiiH it and rKi;-rLT Afrutro to all
rt of Ue attVcte-l banal paa. ant Uie chain
a-r or caviile ixioinimiiraiiu iiHn'wiui la win v ii
ore and u liters Imiuentlr eyl-t and (Vmu w.iKtt
fe eatarrnal JicUar-T hers;iy priHtrJ. It3 io
a rvieaant and easllv tmik'rstiHHL from alwstta
fdNrnvtii cai ll lntnm rit. Pr. S i i. ll-
arrft Keturdv eun-s reeeiit aita. tt vf "4 ra tke
roa'bva tvw appileauon it u kiii ijio-i ( le.s
tit to me e.ntalci:i B tMer van- i eruirs or
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Wuk. K. V. Tiki. . ?l. I 'r .u.vi Li
suiwut d Uiva.i.i' tlvikk kin-ixi. l
miu STATE OF TEXAS
To ti-. S'er'.S v inv Veolli;a of
Trii
coaiit. (rret.'ior;
Whr.; i c.-h ha this dtr ben md befiwt
n by Wuiiam litvvn that J. W. Bafonl t a
.tnc ivrna. att i hat toe twdinarv proeeaa ef
.laMnaiii ne kiTV.il ii '.Kin nun. nn w 10
.-m..it ih.i vi.u bv laakit c aal.lica!H or
Ik nt iu me twvfjH:r prutieU to lravi j
count for t'tne vieee-iv week Kelons tHe
reiara d.ir lhereif. eiimm.w. Iha 'd J y
Irtufu-4 to le ami i rer betoee rue. at my hjti.
tn Wiiiiam tiivecs :tre. In Travis count . ca
tlietUird Mivnda i Xavvinbee. 1!TS. to ar.awee
t:.o complaint t-f thid V. ll.iam tlive fnr
the tun t.f twenty dollar da 0 a pnra:-
a.ry rote cwcutcii bv tae aiJ i. '. Uufard !t
aa d W.lhuttj Olv-en tor twenty dollar. tlaMst.
a the foartes-nttt lUr of February. 1S. atxt
VavabKoo th ttmt of October. trs. lo -eur
a hicH b ve mortsjae n a maon Hevetn
fad aea. and of ttuswr.l m.ik ana return
m dire.-i.
tiiyva andr biv k-i! Ikia tVoher . IT.
t i I r JOU.NNO.v. i. V. T. C
Cajua to bsnl tVo'ver 1 l.-TS and. execttej
k. .un a true coiit hrc-if to be tmMiohcd
i.; iin. tir a. a aitie j-rva. a lc
rub!ilve4 t thetuvof Aa; in. Travia cufcuyr
V-iaa fur ihreo ui w.-. k.
Fket 4 of Travi conntr.
By C- r. A'T Dcout j.
SHIS
i i lila i' Tli "I l i
riiew; IVIIets are aeareeir lararer in - -
tielH entirely vractable no partleular crv re-
kilrwl wUUtf u4ng llH-m. '1 hey owrato wl out I
Jiruaiieo to tlio eonslltnlton Oiet or oeoupaiion.
f'or Junwdlee Heiulaehe. "o.y-U.Jo. "e-"
5. ' . t!v. fcib..l.lM. r iMl Beat
PlSliOP II A VESS -"THE PI I.VIT
AMOIUDKIllS FKElATlllMiEUS.
TLc ' spirit of the age is rcVelHou..
As it lias given us frictiou in itc lie?
steam engines sewms taacliint? reap-
ers telegraphs and E-iisoo s in the
moral world it throws off od restrain' s
and hesitates to qiiestioa notuinj; ir-
cstiKating everything. A-je ii'iats no
creed sanctity. TherB is colhin"; too
holy to be touched hy the hand of p re-
gress and men vainly perhaps im 'oirif
there is as much to be discovered t hut
ii true aud as much to le repudiated
that is false in the moral as in the
physical world. 0:d :reeds we nr
told are ss useless a old machines
and George 'Washington's ignorance of
the commonest convenience? and neces
saries of modern life was not nime
wonderful modern philosophers t?ay
than his errors and absurdities of
faith and opinion. We have before us
an extract from a lecture delivered last
week in Bishop Ilaveii's tovu. Ad
verting to this subject tlio speaker
said :
Admit for the sake of the argument
that a gent 1 man ty the name of Moses
wrote the lYttatcucli ; whic!iof course
he did not. He did not certainly write
all of it for he could not write an ac-
count of his own death. lie -(.peaks
of cities that did not exist un'il he hkd
been dust ant! ashes hundreds of yeurs ;
he speaks of facts that did not occur
until lie had been dead five hundred
years. Moses in the first place gives
au account of the creation ami he
said that tlotl divided the li!;ht from
the darkness. The man who wrote
that regarded dnjkness as a something
as an entity la Ids imagination prob-
ably he saw the Supreme Being throw
ing great chunks of darkness on one
side and slivers pieces chips and
beams of light on the other luey
had on exhibition in Koino many
years ago a bottle tilled with darkness
that once overspread Egypt. Mopes
next tells us that Uod divided tho wa
ters under the firmament from those
above. The man who wrote that re
garded the firmament as a solid body
of a character that would hold wuter.
lie looked upon the firmament as a
place where gods and goddesses and
angels dwell because at the time of
the flood the windows of heaven
were opened and that accounted for
the wonderful amount of water that
was poured upon the tarth. The man
who wrote that knew nothing about
evaporation. The next thing happens
on the-third day when the earth is
clothed with green and the trees
grow and the leaves murmur in the
air; and all this happens before any
sun shone in tho heavens. On the
next day the sun was made to rule the
day. Do you suppose the mau who
wrote that knew anything about the
Sim? And the next thing which was
dot e and it nearly slipped his mind he
ma"le the stars also. l)o you suppose
the man who compressed the astro
nomical history of the world into five
words understood that history? Then
he mikes animals. And what next?
lie makes man out of the dust of the
ground. He made animals in the same
way and if you want to know just how
they were made read Milton. The rec
ord does not state but it states that
lie made them male and female. A
eeoond account of the creation io h'v
in the same chapter but the gentleman
who wrote the second account does not
agree with the one who wrote the first.
According to the second account man
was made before the animals aud there
was no idea of making womau at all.
After the animals were m-ide God
caused all the animals to pass before
Adam to see if ho couIU not picK
out one that would do for a helpmeet
for him. Head it and you will find that
God tried to palm oil on Adam as a
wife one of the beasts of the held.
Well Adam did not see anything to
suit him. Laughter. I am glad of
it. If he had there never would have
been a freethinker on this earth. The
world would have died orthodox.
Nothing was found to suit Adam. The
megatherium the giraffe the mam-
moth the ichthyosaurus and all the
crawling monsters they came; thou-
sands of bird? thousands of mammals
baboons and monkeys; the parrotB
probably lit on tho tree of life and
commenced crying "Pretty Poll wants
an apple." 80 God was ariven to ne
cessity. He bad to make a thing ana
he had not anything to start out witti.
How did he get at it? He took a bone
out of Adam. How did he get it? Did
he pull it outr cut it out? bite it out.
How did he get it out? Just im.igine
au infinite God with a bone in his band
to start a womau with! Laughter.
Ami yet you have got to believe that
or it will not bo well with you in the
next world.
There is nothing sacred in the ryes
of him who pronounces such terrific
sentences. They shock the predilec
tions and prejudices and beliefs of a
lifetime. They affect in nothing the
stability of one's faith. The assault is
too violent and even blasphemous.
The '"reformer " in this iustance de
feats his own purposes by the very rude
ness and recklessness of his onslaught
upon established immutable creeds
sanctified in our hearts and memories
and hallowed by every cherished recol
lection of childhood and age. But it
is well enough for the church and peo-
ple to see. how audacious these reform
ers hve become and for the churches
to rtflsct that there is nothing to
holy that the rude bauds of modern
iconoclasts do not thrust it from our
altars and desecrate it in our temples.
The pulpit go jogging along in its
old accustomed ruts. Its sermons
with rare exception are such as have
been pronounced for two hundred
years everywhere in England and
America ai.d yet the people addressed
are wholly unlike their fathers. They
live in a wholly changed moral
atmosphere. Books ot our t me
most read and wielding the strong
est and widest influence upon popu-
lar - intellitfence. are emanations
from just such intellects as that
which holds nothing sacred which in-
vades the holy ot holies of old faiths
and traditions destroying everything
that canaot be reconciled with truth t r
suppoMd truth as defined by modem
ducoverics in ail worlds. It is only
now and then that a preachvr wctui to
realize and comprehend the extent to
which all forms of fplriUsra have
silently and secretly undermined the
simple ncqsestioning Christiui faith
ot our father abd the more dis-
astrous inroads ot. Darwinism and
materialism. The readers of Spen-
ter and ot modern philosophers
sot only in Germany but of England
nee iad Ajrterjc to a greater or
ettot. have beva 1d to sestion
e veijrHiJauytsts.. pnncipi as this
ightfal wrtic!. kXiove notrd ques-
tjVns tie rliLert ta t cf 1jo.v learm
It is needless and useless for a mod
cm pulpit dec I aimer to turn over an-
nually that traditional barrel of ser-
nnn used by himself or h:s
great grandfather; these mild moral
esitv9 have no adaptability to the pres
ent condition of society and none
whatever to the religious thinking of
our titnp. We must go back to first
principles an 1 defend them and ex-
puiinl the very basis of our
faith. The extract gvea is
fr-. tu a ltcture delivered before three
thousand people in the most learned
city of America having at this hour in
this modest capital an able represents
tive of its churches pleading before
sini.ers even here. He comes as a sort
of missionary to Texas an honest earn
est good man do doubt of great
learning p.ud ability and we print the
horrible paragraphs above that he may
see how ii ficitely better than his own
people are we who abhor these out
giving" and even shudder when we
read.
WHIT TIIK ELKI-TIONS OF
TI'ESDIY sicrtirv.
All over the country the politicians
are weeping because the people have
escaped from time-worn leading strings
and most men except Senegambians
for the first time have used ballots of
their own making. Parties have lost
much moral power and cohesiveness
and both the old organizations
are real g.iners. The people are
freer to think aud act than
ever before aud the weight of moral
despotisms is slowly uplifted by the
growing intelligence of the country
and by the absence of local or Federal
despotisms. New issues have sepa-
rated political thinkers and however
disagreeable the confession it is true
that the recent contest in this State has
given 110 additional strength to the
victors and in little has it harmed
the vanquished. Issues on which par
ties were separated were very narrow
and if the Democratic platform of the
State be accepted as a definition of the
financial theories of the party there
was no great yawning chasm between
the moderate Greenbacker and Reagan
Democrat half as deep as that dug by
the. personal ambitions of candidates.
In many instances it was simply a
struggle for office and a question as
tr. the relative fitness of men.
But now a grander contest on a
broader platform approaches. It in
volves the presidency and already party-
leaders looking over the battlefield of
the last week are studying the conse-
quences of the struggle.as these may
affect the mightier event of 18S0. Es-
pecially do the thoughtful men
of the country deplore the
fact that the North and the
South are still compacted against
each ether. Parties are too nearly ge-
ographical. President Hayes sought
to change this state of things while
oMtremiota hftsro r&1y oubt iio porpok
uation. Hancock's election would hay
been as deplorable an eyent in the eyes
of Conkling and Blaine as in those
of the seashore philosophers who
published that little jeremiad. In
very truth the aspects of affairs and re-
sults ot elections demonstrate the
failure of those who have sought to
eviscerate the negro from the body of
partianship thus wresting the bloody
shirt from tho flagbearers of Northern
partisan armies. It is painful to reflect
that these elections in the South
and the triumph of the anti-
podes of the seashore philosophers
in New York bode no good to these
hapless Southern commonwealths and
only point infallibly to the reproduc-
tion of Grant's absolutism. His strength
consists in sectional politics and by it
his re-election is made almost absolute
ly certain. He is of Blaine's and Conk-
ling's and not of Hayes's sort. He is
the embodiment of Inextinguishable
hatred of secessionists and of those
who love secessionism and its memo-
ries. Even so do our seashore philoso-
phers who expressed hostility to Han-
cock hate Conkling and Hayes and
Blaine and Grant and in this fierce
hostility consists Grant's omnipotence
and our helplessness. Our worst ene-
mies it seems are they who love us
too desperately. The Cincinnati Oa-
sttte expresses the opinions of the Re-
publican press when it says:
'There car. be no mistaking the
elections this fall. They mean that a
saiith politically solid is hostility to
the North still more a South made
solid by a savage reign of force shall
work a united North and that the
North shall again take possession of all
branches of the government."
The Indianapolis Journal says:
"In a contest between the Republi-
cans led by either Grant Conkling
Edmunds Blaine Garfield Harrison
or Washburne representing sound
financial views on the one band and
the Democrats led by either Thurman
Hendricks McDonald Pendleton Til-
den Bayard or Wade Hampton on an
equivocal platform like that adopted
at St. Louis and tho result would be a
solid INorth against a solid South
counting Indiana if you please aa be-
longing to the Smth. There is liter-
ally no show for the Democracy to
get possetsftn of the government. Con-
sider for a moment the feasibility of a
canvass led by Mr. Hendricks or Mr.
Thurman on the "Ohio idea.' What
State besides Indiana can they hope to
add to a solid South t Not one unless
a perfect coalition Is formed with the
Nationals and the race made upon an
equivocal Greenback platform. This
is the only road to even a possibility of
success for th Democracy in 1330.
Mr.. Bayard was about right when he
said the doctrines of Mr. Yoorhcea
would carry the party to h L"
It ia well to see and hear what our
enemies say of us and what they pro
pose to do and how to accomplish it.
and with this aspect of the future po-
litical fortunes of the South before us
we may begin to provide agencies and
select leaders whose candidature would
render evils contemplated impossible.
Evkm that solemn newspaper the
Ttk-jram that mast delights U obitu-
aries and solid sense and never could
discover the fua in a jke delares
Galveston's maintenance ot quantntis
against New Orleans senseless. - It ia
proposed ia nonstosi to opea di
rect commanicatioa with New Orleans
through Baliioe Pass. This doae Got
ernor Hubbard would lift the veil and
New Orleans be fraed from this wrong
f ul restriction upoa her trad.
Galveston still enforces quarantine
against New Orleans. It is well for
there is money in it. B it the question
presented is whether CnDL.'re-:s may
not think itself clothed with power to
"regulate commerce between the
States?-' The Federal Cors itiitlon
so declares and since it fails to icvest
Governor Hubbard and a binrJ of doc-
tois with this authority we would
gladiy know how loog this usurpation
of power will be tolerated. G-ivernor
Hubbard and his subordinates have
the power to guard the public health
but this authority should tint extend
to the "regulation" of inter -State
trade. II the Governor and his coad
jutors in this behalf would obey the
country's laws and prevent the recur-
rence of evils aud wrongs imposed by
quarantine of which the country com-
plains they will surrender the power
to guard cities of tbe coast to Feder-
al law and then his excellency
will insisf instead of invoking fasting
and prayer that each city and village
of Texas be thoroughly drained and
cleansed. If the plagu? next spring
and summer defy the blockade these
thoroughly expurgated towns will in-
cur little or no danger. Whether this
be true or false no one town or city of
the same State has the moral right to
declare citizens of another mutes generis
human i. We have no right to build a
wall of fire about Houston when the
plague is within that a city may thus
be surely put to death and it is the
foremost duty of the new Congress to
enact laws upon this subject repealing
the hidecusly selfi-ih indefensible im
moral State codes affecting this mat
ter. Shutting off communication with
New Orleans Galveston and Houston
monopolize trade that went to the
Crescent City and thu? the laws of
health became laws of inter-Stato trade
and Federal power must intervene.
R. L.- Taylor the newly elected
member of Congress from upper East
Tennessee defeated the eloquent and
popular ex-Congressman Pettibone.
Taylor is twentj-3even year3 old and a
handsome fellow and 1110: t felicitous
talker he is. Pettibone was no match
for htm in any respect. In outbursts
of eloquence and wit and story tellirg
Pettibone was painfully inferior to the
youthful Congressman aud then Tay
lor was often seemingly inspired and
in surpassing himself was absolutely in-
imitable. Pettibone carried the district
two years ago by 2900 majority con
tending with a potent Democrat and
now rati bone himself is as sadly
beaten by the youthful Tennesscan.
The mountaineers think they have
discovered another Prentic3 in Taylor
or a John Taylor of Carolina. He is
withal most captivating musician and
when he and Pettibone had closed their
debates Taylor would hold his audi-
ence spell-bound by his wonderful
skill in music. But he owes
hia triumph to the music of
hi aowgpmtk mmJi i- Uk I fain tlo
lin and if the people and papers tell
the truth of him he will be the most
youthful and the most brilliant of Con
gressmen ne inherits genius from a
long line of distinguished ancestors.
Horatio Seymour in his simple un
affected article m the International Jie-
viexo defining the peculiarities of our
republican form of (government says:
The general government is remarka
ble for being the reverse of every other.
Instead of being the source of author-
ity it only receives the remnant of
power after all that concerns town
county and State jurisdictions has
been distributed. Its jurisdiction al-
though confined within narrow limits
is ofgreat dignity for it concerns our
national honor and provides for the
national defense. We make this head
of our system strong when we confine
its action to those objects which are of
general interest and prevent its inter
ference with subjects upon which it
cannot act with intelligence. If our
general government had tbe power
which is now divided between town
county and State jurisdiction its at
tempts at their exercise would shiver
it into atoms. It it were composed of
the wisest and purest men the world
ever saw it could not understand all
the varied interests of a land as wide
as all Europe and with as great a di-
versity of climate soil and social con-
dition. The welfare of the several
communities would be sacrificed to the
ignorance or prejudices of those who
had no direct concern in the laws they
imposed upon others.
Barbour Lewis appointed by
Grant receiver of public money at Silt
Lake City has been removed by the
President. Barbour is a smart fellow
and an adroit negro manager and stump
speaker. He can twirl the bloody
shirt about his elongated head and
protuberant abdomen as deftly as
Blaine. But Birbour's personal
morals are bad. Grant did
a grievous wrong when the oleaginous
Barbour was sent down to worry the
much-married saints of Silt Lake.
There was malice in it. Grant wanted
to make their sweet lives wretched
and Barbour was sent thinking they
might be induced to surrender the
country the lake and the wives all
to Barbour. He is capable of getting
away with anything and was doubt-
less exercising his skill on the public
money when his head fell into the bas-
ket. Key wtnt out West and had the
job done. Barbour it is said will go
back to Mobile and God pity Ala-
bama. Dxs McGart's Aye says corsets
have been greatly improved of late.
Should not Dan devote more time to
the faded pages of that venerable Bi
ble of which he tells than to the ma-
nipulation of corsets lint Dan was
always strait-laced and piecise in dress
and morals and it comes of hereditary
virtues that descended tbe current of
years with that old Bible from his
Scotch Kentucky forefathers. It ia
a queer old book older than SU
James's vereion but full of wisdom
and of delineations of human Tices and
follies and men who read it most are
those who say its stores ot wisdom are
inexhaustible He was a profound
philosopher as well as poet who said:
-Book of brwaka vf alTI be bet
Uift bm- tala take ail live rest.
Oiae boo. oo soma betray.
ba.1 ti cma kever krd Mtray.
Desisoh seems boastful of tbe gen ins
and worth of Capt Foster one of tbe
Legislature elect.
Tun Ee'klvi'.le iv.-;. reports that
grading is now progressing on the line
of the Galveston and SmtaFe railway
twenty-3ix miles below KjUyiUe which
is now the ibjicive poiat and yet the
owners and uieniiants au 1 backers of
Austin are idle. Ii the northwestern
narrow gauge towards E! Paso l e not
buiU when the raid frnm Gilveston
readies Bclton the business inhabi
tants of the cspi'al will meet have the
benediction urnntiuoced by Major Pc-nn
and arlj rum finally ami forever leav-
ing the pretty place for the sole occu-
pancy of a few boarding house keepers
who remain to feed Rutabagas and
others that come up biuuia!ly to the
defunct citv.
Is Schleicher' district the masses of
the people read r.nd write and there
fore we said "Schleicher was elected
by the newspapers of which the Ex-
prts was chicfpfit." Thereupon the
C re 11 haul Router asks:
"How about Junes who didn't have
a newspaper in th? district mipportine
him except one or ' two Greenback
sheets?"
It was according to our Greenback
prophet Mr. Still "Uell and high wa-
ter" that made Joucs fiat. It was
hell's blackness to which we suppose
Mr. Still referred. Ia any event it did
the business for Jones and newspapers
avail nothing in such au atmosphere.
They don't go there.
The newspapers are commenting
upon the folly and criminal selfishness
of the people of Austin who fail to
build a narrow gauge towards Lam-
pasas and El Paso. Factories and mills
will not exist till this cheap railway
furnishes cheap fuel cheap raw ma-
terials and cheap means cf distributing
the products of mills. But the B.'lton
Jvvrnul says if Austin start a road
towards El Paso it will build itself and
compelling the Indianola and Cuero
road to come to Austin it will also
compel tbe Missouri Kansas and Texas
to come to the capital.
Some Marius sittius: among tke
ruins of some Carthage wrote not ele
gantly but truthfully:
Oh! city of unnnm'iored woes!
The sport of grim ni'sfortune'a blow!
From war to tiller hai.krup ry
From bankruptcy to scourges three
Cholera pinic. cpizoo;
And. stay! old Yellow Jack came too;
And now nuuin ihou'rt on the rack
A prey of this same Yellow Jack
Luki feather ou Uie camel's back.
There is & lesson in it for every
city of Texas. But Texas we are
told has faith only in quarantine and
indefeasible objections to cleanliness
and unobstructed trade and travel.
No sian ever looked into A. D.
Langst&iTs face and questioned his
honcity. It 13 written there in great
capitals as plainly as "thief " i in
scribed upon the brows of villains in
the stocks. Lacgstaff. is the president
of the Howards at Memphis. Some
fellow in California siys the Howards
have an unexpended balance of
rf 100000. Lanffif 6ays they bve
less than 5000 and ttiat this sum
will hardly pay their debts. His as
sertions are final or there is no honesty
iu man.
It is properly proposed by the New
York Mail that a dinner be given to
Col. J. M. Keating of the Memphis
Appeal by the press gang of Gotham
in attestation of the pluck and heroism
of Keating who was editor pressman
and compositor for the Appeal during
the prevalence of the plague in Mem-
phis. He served the paper under the
same circumstances and in the same
capacities in 1873 and yet has never
had yellow fever.
James D. Brown the wise and
toiling manager of the Missouri Kan-
sas and Texas railway insists we are
told by the RrpnUiean that his road
must be extended tt Fort Worth
thenco to Meridian and Austin where
it is to meet the Indianola and Cuero
road from the ' sea coast. A liberal
charter and land grant will be gladly
conceded by the State of Texas.
No sooner did it appear in proof in
the trial at Benton of an innocent
man that he had written a poem for
the San Antonio Herald than the jury
brought in a verdict of guilty and sent
the youth to the State prison for twen-
ty years. Every reader of the Herald
approves the verdict. But evidently
it is not safe for an average fellow to
write yerses for the newspapers.
TnE Moorcs who were denied halea
corjmnhj Judge Lytt Moore will go
before the Court of Appeals for relief
nappily this Court of Appeals is as
thoroughly devoted to the rigid execu-
tion of the criminal code as Judge
Moore and the people and the courts
and juries will see that bloody murder-
ers are shown no mercy in Texas.
TnE Greenbackers btCated that they
would poll from 2500 to 3000 votes in
Grayson county but did not poll one-
half of r000 including a very large
percentage of the R -publican vote.
Greenbackism will gradually grow
weaker and should it prove true that
Jonea is defeated it will not' be heard
of at another election ia Texas.
There is a certain amount of money
to he used in accomplishing political
results where suffrage is universal.
When the candidates and party mana-
gers fail to enter the vote market with
at least a modest share of cash the
devil if not the voters will be to pay
and the impecunious candidate beaten.
Dean Stanlf.v recently in Wash
ingtoo was as-kid by a newly chosen
congressman "when he would lecture
and tell of hii wonderful discoveries
ia Central Africa." Tbe Dean mod-
estly replied "It ia probable I will see
you ia nrst
Eisnop Haven is here as a mission
arr. nis church assigned a thousand
dollars to tbe benighted of the capital
of Texas. Loe doesn't want any of it
but it is here and he might as well
take it in out of the weU
If Mrs- A. T. Stewart would pay
1 23.000 for tbe dry bonei of the dead
octogenarian how much would she
not squander upon a vigorous maa of
forty!
The Sao Antonio Her.t'd says that
Austin needs more a dozen enter
priaing Tigorcws c'it'z?ns than aught
else. There was never a city of great
er possibilities and never one tf
meaner more selfish iae.pable cit:-
zens. Gad and nature having done so
much for them they are too selilsh and
n.rrow souled to do aught for them-
selves. The Coiirier-Jourial sajs: "Tom
Ochiltree ia his race for sheriff of Gal
veston county Texa1" was snowed un
der." But won't it give Tom a glo-
rious opportunity to indnlge his ac
customed game of "freeze out."
Hot. S. B. Maxey is distributing
the report of the Eatomolcgical Com
mission. It is worth more than forty
volumes of Conqremonal Reeord.
The Brenhara Banner nays the story
about a ballot box being broken in
pieces and emptied of its contents in
that county is baseless.
Editorial Note.
An Anglo-Afghan dictionary is soon
to be published.
Gustaye Dore the celebrated French
artist is contemplating a visit to this
country.
A London firm has undertaken a
contract with the German government
to raise the Grosser Kurfurst sunk in
the British Channel by her consort the
Ko?nig Wilbelm for the sum of $250-
000.
Recent investigations seem to prove
that either very cold or very hot
weather is equally fatal to the euca-
lyptus tree whose beneficial effect in
malarial regions i3 attracting so much
attention in Europe.
Paris correspondents of the London
newspapers say that the soldierly ap
pearance and fine marching of the
American marines excited general ad
miration when they paraded before
Marshal MacMahon the other day.
The London Time shows uuu-nml
comprehension of the political situa
tion in considering it not improbable
that both Tilden and Thurman will
disappear from the front ranks of the
Democracy before 1880 and that Bay-
ard will be that party's candidate for
Preiident.
Negotiations have been set on foot
by two parties one in England and
the other in Paris for the purchase of
the London Daily Telegraph. The only
question is the matter of price the
sum asked being $4250000. The cir-
culation of this paper is said to aver
age 200000 daily and Lawson Levy
& Co. the proprietors are willing to
sell and start a new paper.
Mr. Edisoa'8 electric light invention
employs a platinum coil which is
raised to incandescence by its resist-
ance to the passage of a current of
electricity through it. The idea has
been experimented on very extensively
for the last quarter of a century but
the peculiarity of Mr. Edison's inven
tion is a device to prevent the wire
fusing and this it is claimed has
been accomplished by so applying a
small bar that it will expand the in-
stant the wire reaches the fusing point
and intercept the n w pi the current
through the wire sufficiently to prevent
fuaing- u.. uj
.... r. .a DC 11 L .UIUM J uy 111V
Czar to the Ameer of Cabul were of
two descriptions personal and gov-
ernmental. The personal presents con
sist of a sabre richly ornamented with
diamonds rubies and pearls harness
etc. The governmental presents in-
clude two mountain batteries steel
Krupp guns with the Brodwell
ring and 809 rounds per gun. An-
other present consists of 800 men in
uniform who after having accompa
nied the caravans to Uabul nave re-
mained there. These men are officers
and non-commissioned officers of artil-
lery and engineers.
A life insurance suit six years old
has resulted but probably not ended
in a verdict for the plaint'ff as suits
against a life insurance company usu-
ally do when the plaintiff has any sort
of a good case. In this the Mutual
Life of New York declined to pay the
policy of f 10000 placed on the me 01
Edward Magarge because his quarter
ly premium due ou the lourteentn 01
January 1871 was not tendered the
agents until tbe sixteenth tbe inter-
vening day being Sunday. No notice
bad been sent him as usual ana mere
stood to bis credit as member of the
Mutual Company a share of the surplus
more than enough to pay the premium.
Under the non-forfeitable laws of Mas
sachusetts and Maine no such sudden
confiscation as this could even have
been attempted aad in this case the
verdict of the jury was that it ought
not to haye been.
British Consul-General Playftir has
forwarded to the Toreign effice in Lon
don an account of the results in his
experiments in raising and planting
the eucalyptus in Algeria ine local-
ity chosen for these trees should be
one possessing a climate similar to that
of tbe Mediterranean basin. Extremes
of cold or heat ire both fatal to suc-
cess. The eucalyptus mill stand a
slight amount of frost if not of long
continuance and a considerable
amount of drought if well rooted ; but
it is as hopeless to attempt to grow it
within the tropics as it would be in
tbe north of Scotland. The eucalyp-
tus will best succeed wbero there ate
only two marked seasons the ceo!
and rainy one lasting from October to
April and the not and dry one from
May to September. The experience
hitherto gained iu Algeria points to
only two species as sufficiently hardy
to be grown on a great scale the eu
calyptus globulus or blue gum and
the eucalyptus rcsinitera or red gum.
Webb tbe murderer of Foster has
been sentenced in Brazoria for forty
five years. A plan was proposed to
rescue him from the omcers convey
ing him to the Galveston jail but tbe
would-be rescuers were evaded. It
will be remembered that' Webb hav-
inz been offended with another cattle
man named Foster because tbe latter
wanted money that ebb owed him.
determined on revenge. He sent word
to bim to look out. Shortly after he
found bis victim quietly sitting on tbe
railroad track near one of the cattle
pens in the western suburbs of Gil
veston unarm! ana unapprehensive
of dancer. Webb who bad a six-
shooter concealed under his coat
which be carried over his arm ad
vanced on his victim and drawing
his DiatoL deliberately shot down
Foster who almost instantly expired.
Tbe murderer was arrested and
sent to jail where he for some time af-
fected to be violently crazy. Bail was
denied htm. His counsel applied for a
change of venue on the usual plea of
ao great a prejudice in .Galveston that
he could not obtain a fair tnaL A
large number ot the most responsible
citizens testified to the contrary.
Jndge Cook however granted change
of venue to Brazoria county where he
bad many friend. Subsequently
Webb went to trial and the jury failed
to agree the majority being for abso-
lute aad unqoaliled acquittal. A new
trial resulted with the sequel as above.
The usual appeal has'btea made.
1 IhHIii-x t rim 11 a.
I started with a friend to make the
a?ceut. It rained until we reached the
observatory and then fortuuatcly the
iay i.tcame delightful. It is
weary climb up though through the
loose ashe and one is tempted to halt
aad aiiurrc the pretty view often -
tore reacincg the top. hen we bad
reached it we could see nothing for tbe
mist ana smoke that tiled the big era
ter while far leneath us we could bet r
the lava seethiDg and frtquent explc
sions from the new cone. We were
a Ivised at starting not to descend into
tne crater but our guide assured us
that we could quite safely do it. so
down we scrambled on to the lava. The
floor of the crater hs risen in the last
few weeks from a considerable depth
to within about twenty feet of a
gip in the side of the crater
wall looking towards the old left
hand Core of Vesuvius and it is still
rising. As we stood on the compara
tively cool blocks ol lava the fresh.
red-hot stream was slowly flowing out
irom the cracks around us moving on
in a snrike like fascinating way and
breaking out in a fresh place as soon as
tho llow stopped elsewhere. Every
crack stowed the lava red-hot a foot or
so beneath us but the guides ran about
on it and we followed them as if we
were on the level Campana. At the
upper end of the old crater that is.
just underneath tbe highest point of the
old cone is the new cone which has
risen in the last week or so; a baby
cone about fifty feet in height and per-
haps one hundred yards in circumfer
ence at the base but a very noisy
and fiery cone sending out continual
puffs of smoke rosy with the flames
which frequently rise above its summit
and hurling into the air to a height of
one hundred feet or so lumps of red-
hot stone aud lava which falhngdown
on to its sides make them rise higher
every day. The wind fortunately blew
the smoke away from us or otherwise
we should have been almost if not
quite suffocated where wo stood about
thirty yards from the base of the cone;
and we were able to enjoy tho wonder
ful sight which as a man who fol
lowed us down said one could
stay all day to look at. Accom-
panying the bursts of 1 ime were
hollow reports not loud as I had ex-
pected but smothered st'fltd explo
sions; and as I climbed up the side of
the crater so as to be able to look more
into the mouth of the new cone I could
see through the smoke a struggling
confusion of lltmes which found vent
in the ejection of the burning fluid.
The crater walls are brilliaut with yel-
low and orange-colored sulphur mixed
with basalt and red lava and white salts
forming a bright contrast to tbe lead-ec-colored
lava which forms the floor
and the black cone with its crown of
smoke. The guide told us that the
floor had risen an extraordinary num-
ber of feet; but judging from what we
saw of lava flowing it would take a
month probably to reach the gap
through which its flow 6cems indica-
ted unless it should burst out any-
where on the side of the mountain. At
present the stories that it is flawing
down the outside of Vesuvius and
that Professor Palmicn is building a
dyke to protect the observatory and
so forth are pure inventions.
AVltat Hie Papers aay About It.
D troit Free Prexs: "The result of
Tuesday's election not only in Michi-
gan but elsewhere reinforces very
""Jll""1" fTla'n '''"'"in of the Uliip
ly of an attempt of the Democratic
party to secure votes by a sacrifice of
principle. In evety State and in al-
most every Congressional district where
the Democracy lowered their standard
for the purpose either of preventing
defection to the National party or of
wmniDg back deserters the party has
suffered loss by the operation. This is
less conspicuously shown perhaps in
Michigau than in some other States
because the Democratic platform bere
was for sound currency. But even in
this State the effects of abandoning or
feebly supporting principle can readily
be triced. In eyery district where the
candidates have bid for the support of
the 'soft money' men so-called they
have not only failed to ge1. the vote
they sought but have lost very notice
ably from the disgust or indifference of
Democrats who favored a sound cur-
rency with no irredeemable paper fea
tures."
Boston Herald: "Had Gen. Butler
been free from stains had his past re
cord inspired confidence nothing could
have prevented bim from winning an
overwhelming victory. The people
were ripe for a political overturn. There
were real grievances ingeniously pre
sented. As we have repeatedly said
if we had had any confidence in the
character of the candidate we should
have supported bim for in this declar
ation of principles he came up to our
platform. Let it be understood that to
his own record in public life Gen. But-
ler owes his defeat and that the value
of a good name ia emphasized by the
event. Character is still of some ac
count in Massachusetts."
Washington RevMiean: ' When
Gen. Grant returns he will not come
asking or seeking anything at tbe
hands of his country but to take his
position among his American citizens
regarding the private station tbe post
of honor until the yoicc of the people
shall call him to other fields to other
duties and to other honors. Nothing
aside from this will ever again induce
kim to assume the cares responsibili
tics and duties of public life. As to
the time of his return that will be
quite as soon as any rebel-ay mpatbiz
iog Domociat will care to see him."
' The Pupular SeUnee Montldy remarks
that many of tbe ills aad diseases prev
alent among women in our day are no
doubt traceable to tbe sedentary mode
of life so common among them. The
progress of the industrial art has done
away with much ol tbe household
drudgery to which women were former
ly subjected and tbe result is in too
many cases watt of sufficient occupa
tion for needed bodily exercue. it
says: "Tbe faults of this state of
things are strikingly exhibited in cer-
tain observations made by the late Dr
Robertson a Mancbestersnrgeon who
in his practice as a specialist for wo
men diseases found that in women
who themselves performed all
their household work there was
no trace of certain complaints.
tbat these cmplainta begin to make
their appearacce in women with one
sarvant become more pronounced with
women who have two servants cr
wone with thoe who bave three ser
rants and so on. He showed statist!
callytbat tbe Qeaths from childbirth
were four times greater in tbe cases of
women with four servants than those
with none. On the other band we ob
served a statement the other day that
since the suspension ot labor ia the
mills of New England on account of
tbe panic many of the female opera
Uvea have sought employment aa do
mestics and aa a consequence tbe re is
much more sic knots among tuem in an
there was previously. This would
seem to show that housework is not
as healthy as labor ia cotton and wool
en mills.
The Texas Central Railroad has been
and u now doing a good baiari. For
the past six weeks it bas brought dowa
aa average of 2000 bale of cotton per
day or about eighty car loads.
Election) New.
Freestone county went largely Diiu-
ocratic. W. "V. Mcrritt will represent Collin
county.
S. W. Stewart wa elected ll.atcr
from Lamar county.
Ia Brownwood Hancock got CC2
votes and Jones fit votes.
Waller couoty elected two negroes
for county commissioner.
There were only three Greeaback
voters in Stephens cunty.
Wellborn is elected to Congress over
his opponent by five to one.
Mr. Miillin will represent Pecos
county in the Legislature.
Io Jack county the Republicans voted
solidly for Wellborn for Congress.
Col. G. B. Pickett . will be in the
next Legislature from Wise county.
U. Rtbb was almost unanimously
re-elected sheriff of F..yette county.
Col. Ashbel Smith aud Dr. R. T.
Lewellen will represent Harris county.
Capt. Daugherty was chosen to rep-
resent Cooke county in the L?git-1 dure.
Tbe vote of M.tacord ia now rr-
poitcd to be 875 for Hancock and 275
for Jones.
R. D. Allison fcr flo tttr. was de
feated in his own county by Goo. R.
Keeves ot Urayson.
C. W. Geers of the Denton Monitor.
was defeated for the State Senate by
u. j. juacK 01 uoiiin couoty.
F. M. Uaderwood is elected to the
Legislature from Freestone county. F
M. Martin will be the S ate Senator.
Hal Gregier a notorious and ob
noxious negro is elected to the Leg is
lature over one of the best men in
i ashington coun y
Four precinct io Brazoria county
give uancock O'J'J voles and Jones 81
The balance of the vote about 120 is
mainly lor uancock.
Milam county lects the entire Dem
ocratic ticket. 7 he State ticket has a
majority of nearly 1100 and Hancock
of 692. For prohibition there was 017
votes and against it 1714.
Greenbackism elected a negro to the
Legislature in Robertson and Brazos
counties and delivered Falls county
oyer again to negro rule. How much
more of this sort of woik it has done
in the State is at present unknown.
Iu Washington county two negroes
got into a fight over au electiou box.
One of them broke the box over tbe
othet's head and scattered the tickets
ana an attempt to cure the matter may
not pass muster when the votes arc of-
ficially counted.
The vote of Karnes county for con
gressman stood with one box to bear
from Schleicher 290; Ireland 264.
The other box increases Ireland's vote.
About 600 votes were cast in tbe coun
ty and of these only 20 or 23 were
for Hamman while the re it were for
Roberts.
Burnet Bulletin : "The district attor
neyship is a very close race between
Acker and Estell. Tbe latter came
out of Gillespie with 700 or 800 major-
ty. 1 he former has carried Burnet
San Saba and Lampasas counties giv-
ing him such a formidable array of
votes as will equal if not overrule the
latter'a majority in Gillespie. Wilkes
has carried Macon and Llano counties
by small majorities. The other counties
in the district are not reported. With
this state of facts nothing but an offi-
1 " .rl 11 tJ-.rri- will r r
roiuiiuo nov id tnrr auetAoofc-ii "J a.ui- .
date."
Tbe Burnet Bulletin says: "All the
old county officers who offered again
for office were ro elected except Harri-
son Poseywbo was succeeded by Wm.
O'Hair in the office of county assessor.
G. R. Berry John McJ-arlund Geo.
Lacy R. II. Flippen were elected and
will be our next commissioners' court
Judge R. W. Cates presiding. Dan
Eldridge was re-slected justice of the
peace of precinct sko. SML-
True was elected constable 01 the same
precinct. J. A. Crews was re-elected
justice of tbe peace of this precinct.
Mr. Spitler was re-elected justice of
tbe peace of bis precinct."
Here history refutes a common error.
Instead of being at all a peculiar fea
ture of Moslem society narem-Ufe
without its polygamic extension but
with the recognized practice of con
cubinage was essentially a Byzantine
institution and long before ever
Turk set foot in Europe had spread
aa a high domestic fashion nearly as
Btrong as that wuicn now obtains
among the Ottomans northward even
into Russia. Indeed not this alone but
nearly all the other usages of Turkish
society which seem most opposed to
modern Christian ethics and civiliza-
tion were prevalent throughout Asia
and as regards most of them through-
out Europe too centuries before Otb-
man first settled in Bitbynia aBd with
hardly an exception were found in
especial vitality in the lower empire by
Amurath and Mohammed 11. Ju
nucha a necessary element of tbe
harem system infested tbe court and
patrician palaces of Rome itself from
before the dsys of Elagabalus and
twelve centuries later were still as neces
ary adjuncts of tbe establishment of a
Byzantine grandee as they now are 01
any harem in Staraboul. The "neutral"
indeed who waited on Anna Comnena
and the Btzsiitine ladies for 300 years
after ber were white ones from
Caucasus between which and Constan
tinople a brisk slave trade bad been
kept up centuries before tbe Crescent
displaced the Cross Irom St. bopbla.
These "vermin of the Ewt" therefore
no more came in with tbe Turk than
did the system of which they form a
part. On tbe contrary to tbe latter
oelongs the credit of having at length
mitigated tbe social horror oy select
ing its victims from among a lower
type of humanity. Slaves of this clust
are now exclusively African blocks
smuggled through Egypt from Soudan
Till within a lew years ago tbeir muti
lation commonly took place at Asauut
and other stations on tne L pper Nile
where Coptic prieots were tbe chief op-
erators; but tbe Khedive has put an
end to this infamous industry and the
whole of the small yearly importation
comes ready-made from Kordofan and
Darfour. Their high price too now
limits tbeir employment to tbe imperial
palace and only tbe very wealthiest
households la which l need baraiy
say tbe part of a tyrant police aacribed
to them by tbe common Western no
tion bas so foundation to fact.
Pittsburgh Ctnnmereial'GaietU: "The
straggle developed the fact that tbe
Republican party will be held to a rig-
id responsibility for its policy and
that errors aad mistakes will not be
leniently considered in virtue of its
brilliant recerd ia tbe past. While we
do not think tbe party blamable for
the condition ot affairs that made
Greenbackism poaaible we are never
the leas well aware that the recent can
vass certainly shows that tne feeling
among tbe people is to bold tbe party
to a rigid responsibility both in tbe
Slate and nation. No allowance will
be made for rnistakes and wrongs.
Our past record is well enough but
will not bo accepted as a cover for
present mistakes. Tbe oticker we
wake up to thu idea the better. We
are to be judged ia the future tfu
retard ytt to I mde. There can be no
doubt vs to Una.
Home Rt Farm. .
Blood CoJtTOsmox. There are in
1000 parts of blbod about 780 psrts of
water and 220 parts ot solid matters
of which more than one-half consist
ofblood discs more.than one-fourth of
albumen and about one-seventh of ex-
tractive matter and salts. .
Liver. The best beeves' liver pre-
sents a clear bright yellow-red color
although that which is of clear dark
color is goad. Mashing easily under
the pressure of the finger is a sura aigu
of tenderness. Bat those livers affect-
ed with dark " sedgy " streaks sandy
spots and abscesses are unwholesome
and unfit to be eaten.
Barlkt. On stiff clay barley may
yield a greater produce but it is of a
coarser quality. On light chalky soil
it is thin skinned rich in color and
though light in weight well adapted
for malting. On loamy lands aud
sandy marl's it assumes a greater plump-
ness jet still retains its malting qual-
ity. Prtzk for Driixiko. The follow-
ing "joke" is of course intended to f
have a "moral." Jenka bearing that
a certain agricultural fair association
had offered a large premium for the
best drilled military company sug-
gested that it would hare been better
to have offered the prise for the beet
drilled field of grain. But we do not
see why a farmer may not have a little
run sometimes as well aa tho rest of
mankind and If it takes no wornti
form than playing soldier he need not
be hung for it.
Earlt Latino. There is nothing
that will induce early laying in pullet j
better if as well as to be fed with raw
bones pounded in pieces of proper sir.
It strengthens them and prevents leg
weakness which is often seen in cock
erels. Bat for chickens intended for
exhibition we would not recommend-
its use for it is conceded that growth
ceases when the pullet commences to
lay. la these bone dust will be found
to answer better aa it does not bave
the same effect on their tendency to
iy.
Dairtiso New York continues tn
be tbe great dairy State. It has 1139
factories for cheese or butter and '
cheese Jefferson county leading wit! '
lttu followed by Herkimer with Sn
Oneida 81 Madison 78 and then Alle-i
ghany. Tho average number of cow
contributing milk is 308.332 own?
hw 91 nil. nibnnl .n nnn.. C !
'J "t v v i.iwnh) wmia I1VUUVIU Ull -
110000 pounds of cheese 8214.125
pounds of butter and 7880733 pounds
of skim cheese. Orange county sold
13530700 gallons of milk Wektcbee-
ter 5244007 Duchess 5101-510. Put-
nam 2428693.
Sheep Husbandry. Ai an Illustra
tion of the rapidity with which sheep
husbandry is advancing ia Texas.
Sheep HudHindry in Vtt South says that
in 1806 San Antonio received but C00-
000 pounds of wool which waa sent
through Galveston. In 1877 she re-
ceived 2000000 pounds. Tho wool of
Nueces aad tbe neighboring counties ia
shipped from Corpus Chriati. In 18Gi
there were shipped only 600000 pounds
This year there will bo shipped 6500- '
000 pounds.
Col. Tom Crutchfield. of Chattanoo
ga Tennessee in an article written for
a work on sheep husbandry now be
ing prepared by the Commiiaioaer tY
Agriculture ol Tennessee makes tbe.
f olio win tr surtrestiona about the care
he devotes to bis flock a "Annually at
shearing time I cull my flock and uke
out all ewes and lambs thatftrfi !?.
respect inferior and place them witu
the sheep keeping to breed from uodo
but tne Dear.. 1 give my uocngooei at-
tention. They have access to an open
shed and salt all the time. I cbango
their grazing ground often' and en-
deavor to keep them in uniform con
dition as that makes uniform wool.
Any sudden change from a f f
to a poor condition and 'vjTefK
strengthens or aiminisnea-the nitre v
the wool which detracts great:
from the fibre of the wool frequently
rendering the long wools valuless tu-
ts combing wooL It the th sheep
becomes poor when tbe fleece is about
half-grown and then fatted the wool
inevitably 'ells it as at tbat point
where tbe poverty 01 the sheep was
shewn so will It be shown in tbe wool
being much weaker than the other
portions of the fiber grown while tho
sheep was in good condition; this same
cause as also any other cause from
whicb tbey may bave bad lever wi:i
cause them to shed their wool. I have
beard it said that the feeding of com
to sheep makes them shed their wool.
No doubt it is trueas the corn
brought them rapidly from poverty to
flesh the sudden change causing Uie
shedding of wool which rightfully .is
attributed to tbe corn."
The eccentric Dean Swift inUio
course of one of those journeys to
Holyhead whicb it is well known be
several times performed on foot was
traveling through Church StrettoD
Shropshire when be put up at the si?i
of tbe Crown and finding the host to
be a communicative good-humored
man inquired it there was any agree-
able person in town with whom be
might partake of a dinner (as be be t
desired bim to provide one) and tbtt
such person should bave nought to pay.
The landlord immediately replied that
the curate Mr. Jones was a very agree-
able companionable man and woulil
not he supposed bave aoy objection
to spend a few hours with a gentleman
of his appearance. Tbe dean direcu-.i
bim to wait on Mr. Jones with bis com-
pliments and to ssy that a traveler
would be glad to be favored with Li
company at tbe Crown if It was agree-
able. When Mr. Jones and the dean
had dined and the glass began to cir-
culate tbe former made an apology f r
an occasional absence saying that t .
o'clock be was to read prsycrs in-i
preach at the church. Upon this Inti-
mation tbe dean replied that be a' o
should attend prayers. Service beir .:
ended and tbe two gentlemen bsvii ..;
resumed tbeir station at tbe Crown
the dean began to compliment I't.
Jones upon bis delivery of a very a; -propiiate
sermon and remarked that n
must bave coat bim (Mr. ' Jones) sor:.-
time and attention to compose such a
one. Mr. Jones observed that 1. '
duty was very laborious as be strrc 1
another pariah church at a dUtaXf
which with tbe Sunday and weekly
service at Church Stretton straighten-
ed bim much with respect to tbe ti;ii-
necessary for the composition of ser-
mons; so tbat when the subjects pri ed
he could only devote a tew el-.; -aod
eights to that purpose.
"Well'' says tbe dean "it is wt '.:
for you to have such a talent; fur v ?
part the very sermon you preaebe :
this afternoon cost me months ia '.--.
composing."
On this observation llr. Jones be;
to look vary gloomy aad to rtcf g!.;
his companion.
"However" n joioed the Dt.
"don't you be alarmed; you bave 1
good a ulent at delivery tbat I liv -by
declare you bave done more I" '
to my aennoa this day than 1 could
myself; and by way of comprtu.U'
tbe matter you mutt accept of t
bait guinea for tbe jastice yoa 1
done in tbe delivery ot it."
The Galveston board of tenU'i 1
postponed tbe consideration of t
qnestioo of removing the qurit
against New Orleans until tier
teentb inst. We suppoie tLij u.
waiting for an iceberg.
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