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cm 1CHIN' E 'KKSSl'.S. wln.-h wiU mulae
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All Butineu Irrmscf.-lioiis' upon a Spirit b'Ji.-.
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Mai Street, On -0,1, CU'j, Vi
An A.M irtnienl oi w mvi't.J
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Cl icks, all of whi'rii arc warraniei:
t. lie a- re pre-outrd.
Ilpairin At:c oti s!ort notice,
unl t'li.inkful for pa-'t favors.
JMl'EUIAL. MIIiHS.
Savier, LarLoquc & Co.,
ORI2GOS CITY.
Keep i-'onstantly on lranri f.n s?.N
V.dliax. Brnn an.t C'hi.iUcn KccJ.Pfi'ir'
pure'aaiinc fei-d musl furnish the sin Is.
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Attorneys at Lav,
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March o, lsTitf
F. BARCLAY. C.
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Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. II. 1?. Co.
33 Year Expei-Ienee. j
rRcTretxa niYsiciAX and srr.or.ox,
Main Street, Orfjnti C 1 1 y.
Store to Rent.
JL pied by Iv.FK.. on Rook l'r ok.l-' lnilos
from Aurora, sit iati d at a t'.iio poiet for
eoantry trading post ; can be had ori vpiv
reasinat)le Ifrtns. This is a io-if.iblv oirst
f.jr a man with stna'.l capit.il to 'o into busi
ness. Enq-nre of JOHNSON' A MrfdWN,
jtilyiOtf. Oregon City, Oregon.
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JOHNSON & McCOVVn
ATTORNEYS AND COHSELORS AT-LAW
OftEGOX CITYOHEGON.q
WILL PRACTICE IX ALL THE COURTS
of th State,
a t5?Special attention civen to esses ia the
V- S. Land Office at Oregon City.
April 5,lsTL':tf
A. NOLTNER,
OTATVY l'UnLIC.L-XTEKrKlSE OFFICE
Oregon Citv. Jaa I3:tt
to $20
T"rdayS Agents n-nnted ! All
olas.-s of working neonle. of
tthr sex
1 t - . - . - jit.itvtr mint; liiun" l
r anvth.n- Partiohliiw freo.
VOIln or nlrl . n .
nSit 27th, ls7?:lv. '
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Tlic pnrf. fho Lrighr. t lie beautiful
Tint Miir-1 our hearts in youth,
TIjc impulse lo a worldly prayer,
Tlielreanis of love and triitli;
The ioninc: alt-r sonifiliimr !ot,
The spirit's vearnii.'p: civ;
The "triving alter better Lopes
These iLirig.s can never die.
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The limid band stretched forth lo aid " '
A hiother in his nred.
TJ e Kirill3' words in fjrief .s dtnk hour
Ttiat proves a friend indeed:
The plea of mercy softly brenthed,
When jus: ice threatens nilt;
The sorrow of i contrite heart
These (flings shall never die.
The memory of a clasping hand,
The prese'ice of itdi!.-.
And all the tr'.fSes sreet and frail
That ink tf life's tirsfb!i-s;
11 with it firm. unch;injrin laitti.
And hoi trust and hiti.
Those hands have clasped, those lips huve
r. met.
These things shall never die. 0
The cruel and the bitter word
That wouuded as it It'll.
The chilling want of sympathy,
We feel but never lei!;
Ttie hard repulse that chills the heurt,
Whose hopes were bounding high
In m uiifaded record kept
These things siia.1 never die.
Let nothing pass, for every hand
Mu.-f liinl some rork t'J do;
Lose tint a chance to wakea love,
lie film smtl just ai.d true.
So sliali a iijihl that cannot fade
Ilea ni on ttiee from on hih.
And tiij;el voices sny to thee,
These thirds shall never die.
The Credit 3Iobilicr.
In rrjily to a foi-ri-sjtomlcjit wlio
asks fiat is the Civlit JMnwilier
J u vt slipation?"' vc answer: Wlien
the l"n'n;!i I'acilic Kaih'cfiil v as bc-4uiit-
its contracts, were Jet to
an organization iixiej.t iicr.t in law
of tin; corporation, but in fact coin-
ai II. e (dlieeis
:ul(crs of thu I
:ii:l leadiiiy;
nion I'atitic
stock
U:iiIroal ('om.iny, calleil the
"Crcilil 3loliIicr." 'i'liis lat named
cofiij any enter. 1 into Contracts
with t lie Uaiiroatl Company to con
struct the load at leaiTtil prices.
The Jtai!iial Coiiijiany, Leiiejj anx
iotis to steal, coulii not 1) si ex
cept ly the agency of a third er
son ; if it went oulide it wonhl l.-e
compelled to divide the jiluntler;
iicncein resorted to the ex pediment
of the creation f t wo corporations,
distinct m law. L
nt composed nl
t tie same. individuals.
Is. J lie C lt dit
.woollier s'o
lVotii the liailroad
Company and the Iiailread Com
pany stole iiom the (iocrnmeiit.
Govt mini nt was jiaincj mere to
constinct the road than it cost and
had the ii rst- m nt t; lien upon
the road and as the company want
ed to change that lien to a second
morterac, it hecame necessary to
1m ihe cei tain inemlicrs of Congress
and Senators. Credit 3!oliT;cr
stock w as isstu il ; Oakcs Ames, a
numher of Congress, w as President
of the road; other thieves were
connected with the lobby. When
Congress l.'id, certain members
charged with receivini; this Ci etlit
Jlobilier stock as a bribe, called foi
an iiivcrdhratiiui, and this mockery
of an examination is goiii' tm illi
closed I !! a secret investiga
tion. Nothing will come of it;
ndlhin, ever comes of secret inves
titrations except whitewash. We
shall not at all be surprised to have
the Committee repoit that Oakes
Ames is an honest man and that
the Union I'acilic Kailroad Com
pany was not. a swindle from be
n;inninir, to endinn;. Tltis Commit
tee may p,o so lar as to icpoit that.
Coiigit ssmen and Senators will
not steal, and that the Credit 3Io
bilier w as i: tjt oi anizetl & for the
dishonest purpose- which it succeed
ed in accomoli.-hiii".' There is no
telling what a secret Committee
will not do. J Chronicle.
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Sucm ncti.y jjfATEp., The Xew
ork J A raid doe not e.xairirerate
the matter when it declares that
"such corruption ami anarchy as
exist now in the Eolith are not
only injurious to that section, not
only check ils progress ami mate
rial interests, and therefore, prove
damaging to the business. interests
of the North, but they are infec
tious, and must in the'eud demor
alize the w hole republic. It is in
fact, a loner step toward centraliza
tion, despotism and miiitarv rule.
It is the way in which all nations
have marched the liberties and in
stitutions of which have been sub
verted or overturned."
AN e know a nun who bet a box
of ci-ars that he could in live min
utes, make himself tht- strongest
man in the company.,, His bet was
taken. I!e retired" ami anointed
otl his hair with an 'niiTuent of
asafoetula
a ana gallic, and a unan-
unon v::tit-t e?i noses decide. 1 tbut
1.,, ,.,.,.i, ..1,..., - ;
Ill JUliL 111 1 1 11 I ' Tllf r-1 T I v.? o,,.l
he got them.
According to the Philadelphia
lazitte, the Pennsylvania Central
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Kailroad
will
own three Pacifii
Kailroads, found new commercial
cities at Sano Diego and Pugel ! ...piev, to procure the assist
Sound, create new commerce on j ance ot he United States inar
Lake Superior, and be 111 f ull com- Frias aiv soldiers lo avert leal
mand of an extensive lleet of Qctan j oppOSition to ilis fcheme, to seize
steamers in less than ten years. i upoa lhe State Capitol, to exclude
The Contest ia Louisiana.
The -citizens of New Orleans
held a meetinor on t,e lltj, t ? to
take action in favor of the author
ities as designated by the State, as
against those attempted to be en
forced' upon them by Federal au
thority. It was one of the most
notable meetings ever held in that
city. At that meeting the follow
ing memorial was presented and
adopted, to be sent to Washing
ton :
To the Ii'csi:7eit and Cotajress of
the XCulted States :
As citizens of the United States,
deprived of those rights guaran
teed by the Constitution and Laws
of the country,, through the irts- t
tirntion of iudicial functions and !
mi
the abuse of military power we
present this memorial to you as a
statement ot grievances exceeding
in magnitude and atrocity any
hitherto' imposed upon the people
of any portion of the country.
Through the 'machinations of a
United States senator, a'ded by
the processes issued under the or
ders of a corrupt and arbitrary
judge, and enforcement by soldie rs
ef the U. S. ceumnanded by U. S.
marshals.' the existing government
of the State has been constituted,
composedin the main of persons
w ho had been fairly defeated at
the polls, and a majority of whom
are iulorieuly corrupt, ignorant
and 'vicious, the governor of,the
Stale has been impeached and sus
pended from office by this pretend
ed' legislature, a board of return
ing oliicers really selected by Sen
ator Kellogg, and forced upon the
Slate by the judge of tlu United
States District Court, sitting as a
Chancellor, has promulgated elec
tions ba-ed upon no official returns,
no documentary evidence, nothing
but the ix-jarte and. secret state
ments of the participants in the
conspiracy; and so flagrantly and
notoriously violative of the truth
as to prove that not even a decent
respect for public opinion has any
influence upon them. In order to
preve that these charges are not
made in a partisan spirit, or with
the object of casting discredit up
on political oppements, w'e have
only to refer to the facts of the
case-. A'e haz.ard nothing in say
ing that those fuels disclose a con
dition of public affairs in this State,
so alarming as to challenge the at
tention of the whole country, ami
a condition of political morality
on the part of those who have
contrived and abetted the conspir
acy which mu-t shock the con
science of the whole public.
In proof of these charges we
make these statements, which we
pledge ourselves to maintain and
substantiate by incontrovertible ev
idence. At the election held in this State
on the -1th of November, li??-, the
the total number of votes polled
, was 128, -102, of which number
John 3IcFnery, for lovernor. re-
ceived 0S,1 TJ), and Wm. Pitt Kcl-
ogg, 00,203; ami I). Ji., .
nn, lor
Lieutenant Governor, G0.89D. and
C. C. Anionic 5 7,381. The vote
lor other ollicers showed the elec
tion of w hat was called the Fusion
ticket by majorities ranging from
7,000 to 12',000 votes. The re
turns likewise showed the election
to the House of Keprescntatives
of the General Assembly ot" about
seventy-five Fusion members. The
results were expressed and proved
by the returns sworn to by the
commissioners of election and the
surpervisors of registration, and
transmitted to the Governor, ac
cording to law, to be by him
opened in the presence of the re
turning officers. Under pretence
that the Governor and the citizens
acting with him as returning offi
cers intended to falsify ami de
stroy these returns, which, it was
falsely alleged, contained evidence
showing t lie election of Senator
Kellogg, that person brought suit
in the United Slates Circuit Court,
in the form of a bill in equity, in
which he made the Slate of Louis
iana a party in the person of the
Governor. Senator Kellogg, a
person ineligible under the fifth ar
ticle of our const it ut 'on, to be a
candidate lor Governor, was the
plaintiff in this suit, and swore
that this proceeding v. as a neces
sary preliminary to a subsequent
contesting suit w hich it, was his in
tention to prosecute under the 23d
section of the act of Congress,
known as the enforcement act, al
leging that the evielcnce of the re
turns to be indispensable lo him.
The trouble is, and was shown to
l,o by the subsequent procecdin-'s.
I c;m,K- iv!,..,! m .a ,.
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! 1 hw cuit the :weney t iron" 1 v n.-h
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to obtain such orders from the Cir
cuit Judge1, sitting as a Chancellor,
as would enable him to substitute
for the legal ret inning oflicers,
others of his own choice. His
j Wll nm.fmWnt "in t ."".
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
TTKTYTTR.TTY CY? P. AT.TPfVPMTfi .
the elected members ot the Gcner- ; due form, and these returns are the
al Assembly and to constitute a only official evidence in existence
legislative body composed of per- of the vote of the late election,
sons selected by his agents and The pretence of the agents selected
proclaimiHl elected without even by Senator K'dlogg, that they
the pretense of .legal returns. The have promulgated aii9ofiicinl state
judge of the United States Court i ment tflhe result that they have
became a confederate of the con- i made a compilation of the votes,
spiratot s. lie "lent them to these is only one of the bold, Audacious
fraudulent purposes. He assumed ' falsehoods by which every step of
jurisdiction in the case, not for the conspirators has been marked,
the sake of pepetuating testimony, j Those persons had no returns, no
because the testimony which was 'documents, no evidence of any
falsely allegeel to be the object of kind in their possession, t except
the suit, was conclusive against the j the statements made up by them
pretensions and plans of the con-; selves and their allies, for the con
spirators; but really to assist in I summation of their fraudulent pur
overthrowing of the State Gov- ; poses. A comparison of the tabu-
ernment, ami m lorcing upon the ;
people a legi
ante ot their
lative body in den- ; with the genuine returns as previ
wishes, and in eon-1 ously published, shows that .thev
tempt of the sacred rights of the
State, of constitutional and statute a nee of eleceney, and without even
law and of public liberty; and i an attempt to conceal their fraud
these wicked purposes he resolved and falsehood from the eyes of the
to accomplish by a prostitution of' public. The bill filed by Senator
judicial functions, and an arbitrary i Kellogg alleged a deficiency in his
application of judicial processes j returned vote of about 10,000 due
unparalleled in the history of any j to an alleged suppression of a por
civilized country. lie parnlyzed j tiou of votes actually cast, and a
the State'Government.by rest rain- refusal to register and receive an
ini; the Governor in the exetcise of j other portion. The alleged sup
executive duties; he prevented the ! pression wa totally false, and was
canvassing of the election returns j supported by no evidence what
and the proclamation of the re- ! ever not even the stimulated cross
suits; he ordered the returns to be j marked aflidavits with which the
surrendered to men whom he false- j conspirators so liberally provided
ly declared to be legal returning ; themselves in advance. The alli
otlicers, after the offices which they 1 davits filed by them amounted
claimed to hold had been abolish- j to about four thous.vnd in number,
ed by law, after a State court had ; according to their own statement,
definitely decided the case by re- If they had simply added this
pealing law, and whilst a board of! number to the total, it would have
returning ollicers, appointed by the ! given Senator Kellogg 01, 203
Governor under the iaws of the ; votes against 08,109 for Mr. Ale
constitution, and composed of j Kuery, not enough to show an ap
citizens eminent for their integrity, ! parent election, even including the
were engaged in the duty of com-J vole of the three omitted parishes,
piling the returns. lie permitted j They, therefore, without return,
the conspirators to summon the j without testimony of any kind,
Governor before him lo answer lor i without even adopting and follow-
an alleged contempt of his author
ity, and held over him for many
days the threat of imprisonment,
in order to deter him fron14.-xerci.s-ing
his constitutional functions,
disehargimr his legal duties.
He did not hesitate te assist at
a midnight caucus of the conspir
ators, and to sign an order prepar
ed by them, directing the United
States Marshal to take possession
of the buildinir used as a State
Capitol, well knowing it was the
purpose of the .Marshal to brinir in
the I nited States soldiery under I
the false pretense that such assist
ance was necessary in order to
enforce t lie; orders of the court.
With a flagrant disregard of pub
lic decency and of judicial forms,
he suffered this to be done before
the trial of the cause had ended;
before the case of alleged con
tempt had been tried and before
the order was recorded in his court,
sealed with his seal, or counter
signed by his clerk. At the dark
est hour of the night two compa
nies of United States troops under
the direction of the United States
and in the execution of the illegal
! orders of the United St
s Dis
trict Judge, seized upon the Cap
itol, and held it subject to the
wishes ami the designs of Senator
Kejlogg and his confederate con
spirators. Having thus prepared
their defenses, they proceeded to
make a false and fraudulent can
vass of the elect ion. ret urns, based
upon no oflicial documents, but
consisting simply of arbitrary fig
ures arranged according to" the
necessities of their case, amP cor
responding with nothing except
the perjurcvl statements of the
conspirators and their defeated
allies and partisans.
And, finally, they availed them
selves of the judge of the United
States District Court, b' requiring
him to issue an order restraining
the legally elected representatives
and Senators from assembling in
any place or attempting in any
w ay to discharge the duties which
the people had imposed upon them.
This extraordinary order was is
sueel by the judge on the evening
of the day on which lie had de
clined, 011 the pretense of illness,
lo entertain an application for rc
lief from the Governor's counsel,
made at the private residence ot
the judge, and after having, in
open court, refused to let a motion
of the same counsel be either read
or filed.
The election had been fairly and
honestly conducted under the laws
0of the State, and the registration
and the vote were both unusually
full, the latter being the largest
ever held in Louisiana. The total
vote for Governor, exclusive of the
three parishes of St James, Terro
bone and St. Tammany, from
which no returns were received,
amounted to 12S,402, an increase
of 21,800 on the vote of 1SG0. The
I Republican vote, estimating the
three omitted parishes at J,4UO is
only 1,899 below the vote cast for
the" Republican State ticket at the
previous election, and it is well
known that thousands of colored
voters, throughout the State, at
this election, supported the Fusion
ticket. The returns made by the
commissioners of election were in
Iated statement published by them,
did their work in flagrant deli-
ing any rational theory of compu
tation, added the enormous num
ber of 12,057 to Senator Kellogg's
vote," and, as if to still further in
sult the intelligence of the public,
and still more flagrantly expose
l heir own falsehood ar.el wicked
ness, they deliberately struck, o.'F
14,1-10 from the vote cast for Mr.
McKnery. The return from the
parish of liosier was lor MeEnery
953, " for Kellogg 555 ; they
repoit .for Kellogg 1,159, for
Mclmcry none-. The vote of Natch
itoches was for McEneiy 1,-50,
for Kellogg 550; they report for
Kellogg 1,200, for McEnery none.
In Assumption they have added
504 to Kell.gg1s veite and subtract
ed 454 from -McEuery's. In Avoy
elies they add 525 to Kellogg's
vote, anel subtracted 454 from Alc
Knery's. In East Raton Rouge
they add 1,343 to Kellogg's vote,
and subtract 727 from McEuery's.
In De Soto they add 578 to Kel
logg's vote, and subtracted 000
from McEuery's. In Plaquemines
they add 1129 to Kellogg's vole.
In St. cLandry they add 5 15 to
Kellogg's vote, and subtract 555
from MeEncry's. In Vernon,
where Mr. McEneiy has G99 votes
they allow him 112; in Winn,
where MeLnery has o 1 a vote
they allow him 127: 111 ashin
Y -
ton, where McEnery has 453 votes,
they allow him 194; in St. Mary
they add 300 to Kellogg's vote,
and subtract 500 from Mclyiery's;
in Union, where McEnery has 1,--!
IS votes, they aliow hini 400; in
Orleans they strike between 3,000
and 4,000 from MeEncry's vote,
and in almost every parish they
have made changes equally capri
cious and irrational, and returns
equally false and fraudulent.
And these are the men who bas
ed their suit at law upon the
charge that the Governor and re
turning officers intended to falsify,
to mutillate and destroy the elec
tion returns. Those returns are
in existence. They retain all the
integrity of their original form."
They are unmutilated and are un
falsified. They constitute the only
evidence in the late election that
any law recognizes or that any
honest judicial tribunal would ac
cept. They have never been in
the hands of the conspirators, and
yet these person, pretending to
act as public ofiicials, have promul
gated results so monstrously at va
riance with the truth, that they
seem to court the notoriety of
falsehood, and to'revtl in the pub
licity of fraud.
The plot against the rights of
the people of Louisiana, rehdereel
possible of success by the acces
sion lo its counsels of a corrupt
judge, ready and eager to post rate
his. .judicial f unctions to the service
of the conspirators, has culminated
in the assembling of a pretended
legislature, composed ma'njy of
defeated candidates, and protected
by the bayonets of the United
States soldiers. The preterrded
house of representatives have pre
ferreel articles of impeachment
against the Governor, and the rem
nant of the senate, in concert with
the fiaudulent admitted senators
have resolved themselves into a
high court of impeachment. The
recent acting lieutenant governor
has broken into the executive
office and declared himself govern
or of the State.
The general assembly, prohibit
eel by the injunction of the United
States court, and by the threaten
ed interposition of the fJJuited
States soldiery, from discharging
their legislative duties, can elo
nothing not even effect an organ
ization. That the congress ot the
United States will sanction this
outrage upon law and justice, and
upon the dearest rights of the peo
ple of this State, cannot be imag
ined, and a decent respect for the
chief magistrate of thenation re
quires us to believe that when the
facts and the testimony in the case
are laid before him, he will not tol
erate the perversion of federal au
thority, and the abuse of military
power bymeans of which the con
spirators have thus far succeeded
m carrying out their designs.
A larson's Story
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The following is old it belongs
to the last generation-' but it may
be knew to many at the pres
ent day: Old Parson Munson, of
Worcester, used occasionally to
be absent from his llock 011 mis
sionary tours into distant States.
Upon a certain Summer Sabbath,
having just returned from one of
these excursions, he foufld his con
gregation quite drowsy, and for
the purpose of waking them up he
broke off in the midst of his sermon
and began to tell them of what
wonderful things he had ecen'-iu
York State. Amemg other won
ders he said he had there seen the
largest mosquitoes it had ever been
his misfortune to fall in with so
large, in fact that many of them
wouidweigh a pound!
The good people were, by this
time, wide awake.
'VesV continued the parson";
"and moreover, they have been
known to climb up a tree and bark!
The congregation were sleepy
no more on that elay. On the day
following two of the deacons ot
the church waited upon Parson
Munson and informed him that the
members of-'the leirisli eevi nip.cli
scandalized by the big stories he
had told them from the pnltut
''What stories?" said thi paron
with innocent surprise.
" Why, sir, you said that you had
seen mosquitoes in York State that
would weigh a pound," 0 O
"I said," returned the cjarson,
explanatorily, "that many of them
would weigh a pound; and I elo
really think that a great many of
them would wtigh a jiound.'
"Well but continued the elder
deacon with a slight-chuckling in
his utterance, "you said they had
been known to climb a tree and
bark."
"Certainly,' said the parson,
with an assuring nod. "As to
their climbing iqca tree, I have
seen them do that here in Worces
ter county; haven't you, deacon
"O yes", I have seen 'em do that:1'
"Well, how could they climb a
tree1 w ithout climbing on the bark?"
The good deacons went their
way with something like a mosqui
to humming iii their errs.
Finish eo. The canal and locks
at Oregon City are linisheel, and,
on New Year's day, a boat passed
up from the lower river, ami re
turned. There was great rejoicing
em the occasion, and the projectors
of the enterprise were highly com
plimented for the energy anel per
severance they had exhibited in
pressing the improvement to an
early completion. The dam and
locks should be owned by the State,
and then producers of the Willan
ette Valley would have a sure pro
tection against extravagant freight
charges. M IK iStatexmim.
Ax Enviaum: Condition. At
the city of Fraukfort-on-the-Main
forcone hundred years nt? murder
has-been committed, with a popu
lation of 70,000. The good moral
condition of that city isowing to
the fact that the murderously in
cliueel meet with conelign punish
ment. In Germany laws are
framed to secure the punishment
of criminals, ami they are admin
istered with like intent. The in
terests of society ore held in su
preme regard. o
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A New York editor thinks, from
the manner in which shirts are
made in that city, there ought to
be an inspector of sewing. He
says lie wenttothe expense of a
new shirt the other day, and found
himself, when he awoken in the
morning crawling out between two
of the shortest stitches. 0
A'AViltshlrc farmer states that
fie cured his daughter of the Gre
cian bend' by pouring water on
her and holding lier out in theunj
till sue warped back again. M
A hole in the coat pocket of
r. Weisseger, of Augusta, is to
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be sewed up, because heoean't find
the $3,000 Qt hat dropped, through
the aperture.
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Away "Without I'oison.
"We kcow of three methods:
First, the oh I French plan; this is
followed chiefly in Paris by men
making it a special business. " They
take a deep tub with water on the
bottom and a little elevation in tho
middle likejan island, on which is
only place for just one rat to sit on.
The top is covered, aird has a largn
balance valve opening downward.
On the middle of the valve a piece
of fried pork or cheese Is placed,
and when the rat walks on it to
get the cheese the valve goes deCvn,
drops, the rat into the" water and
moves back interposition. A road 5
is made from the rat-hole to the
top of the tub by means of pieces
onboard rubbed w ith ehecse, so as
to make the walk attractive for
the rats. In the course of a night,?
eoie ten, twenty or even more
rats may go elow-n, ami if the
island was not there they would
be found most all alive in the
morning,quietly swimming around;
butthe provision of the--little
island saves the trouble of killing
them, bce.Tiiset.heir egotistic in
stinct for preservation causes them
to fight for the exclusive posses
sion of the island, on which, in
the morning, the Strongest rat is
found in solitary posscssion,all the
others being killed anel drowned
around him. Second, the New
York plan, invented ly one of
our friends. The floor near the
rat hole is covered with j? thin lay
er of a most caustic potassa.
When the rats walk on this it
makes their feet sore; the'e they
lick with their" tongues, which
makes their mouths sore; and the
result is tlfat they shun this" local
ity not alone, but appear to tell
all thorats in the neighborhoof
about it, and eventually ihe house
is entirely abandoned b' them,
notwithstanding the houses around
may befull of rats. Third, the
Dutch method. This is said, to be.
used successfully in Holland; wo
have, however, not tried it. A num
ber of rats are left to themselves
in a very large Iran or cage, with
no food whatever; their craving
IliniKri'i' will "iii-n tin in In li.rl.i
and the weakest will be eiten ly
the strongest. After a time the
light is renewed and the next
weakest is the victim, and ffo it
goes on until one strong rat is left.
When thus has eaten the last re
mains of any of the others, it is
set loose; the animal has now ac
ejuired such a taste -for rat flesh
that he is the terror of ratd5mr
going around seeking what i-.;tshe
may de our. In an incredibly
short-lime the premises are aban
doned by all the rats which will
not come back before the cannibal
rat has left or died. JfUttifJ act tint
and JhiUdcr.
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JUDAII I'. RkxJAMIN" J.IKKLY Te
ni:co.Mi-: an Enoi.isii Juuci;.
Among the most- striking careers
of the times has been that of Ju
dah 1. Rcnjamin, who long repre
sented Louisiana in the United
States Senate, subsequently became3
a leading member ofthe confeder
ate Cabinet, and after the close of
the war removed his residence to
London. He procured naturaliza
tion in England, anel upon c-oni-plying
with the requisite condi
tions, began practice in jjie West
minster and Lincoln's Inn Courts.
His pregress has been so rapid
that, although he has only been at
the English bar live or six Vears,
he has received the honor of
"Queen's counsel,", ami assumed
.the traditional "silk gown,"thus
taking Ins place among the upper
grade of barristers. It is now in
timated in some of the English
papers that Mr. Renjamin is among
the foremost) in the line of those
whePare likely to be raised to the
Pencil within the next few years.
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c Sad ExAMrxi:. A sad story
is tolel of John E. Plain, of Spring
field, Mass. He was well educat
ed and a good mechanic, but h
acepjired an appetite for strong
drink. He0 made a good many
efforts to eoixqne.t-jhis failiiig, know
ing that it vvouhl ultimately ruin
him, and that it liael already pre
vented his marriage with whom he
he ardently loved. He consulted
physicians, begging thern to help
him. Finally, finding that his ap
petite was "stronger than his w ill.
and dreading the disgrace which
must certainly altc-jjd him through
life and at last become terrible, he
took poison and died And yet
there arfr5 people who holel that the
appetite for strong drink is in no
case a disease, but in each case a
mere whim, which ' it is eas' to
overcome. We do not believe thai
with all people who claim as much
this appetite a disease, but it is
impossible to suppose that any man
posessing the pr'nte which Plain
evidently did would sacrifice him
self to the death because of a mero
w him.
A new pass has been found
across the Andes, which is said
to be 'andier than any other route.
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