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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 187;
NO. 26.
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A LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER
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lirmir, Business Mm, & Family Circle.
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door to Joh?i Myers' store, uj-.vtairs.
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Thlrty-Jlve Your' KxperiMi--,
PtiCTUlNS PHYSICIAN AM)
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Main Str -et. Or--;on 'ity.
J. Y. NORR3S, ftl.D.,
(l.ATK OF ILLINOIS.)
PIIYSKIU AM) sn;r,no
o k e a o x v i r v, Ji r. ; o x.
e:7"Will roiponil promptly to calls duritip:
:tbr dav or'ninlit.
Offlci at Ward's 1 ru store. a:i ik numd
at tlii Cliff House at niht. n-bHiii"'-
V. II. WATKSrSS,
k i m
D.,
PORTLAIiD,
B7-i)I'I"If K dd Kfoow'T.-M!ii l-'.'-orre r
First And Aidr sir. ts. K-sidi-nc cor a r
of Maiuatii S-vonth str-rts.
Velch & Thompson,
DSN
T 3 37G,
varoncln odd I-Vllows' Tempi corner
of First and Ald--r st r t s, Tor; land.
Th patrons; r tlios" a-s.rtns s-j;"
op-ra!iom tH in special r -ni'-st . N it r
r:"r
oxid.f tor th paml -ss exi r:i i m
Artifiriat t. tti " lMt-r tlian tli - 1j :,'
a cliap :v th-i clieap -st.
Will be iu Or.- n City on Saturday.
Nov. :;:tf
B. HCTII.AT.
ciias. wai:::k:
Attorneyo-a'
0RE50N CITY,
7-OI'KICIv
-Cliaraian's brick. Main st.
.r)iiinrlTJ :tf.
ATT0RZVS AND COI aSILLtJ liS AT-LAW.
Orason GUy, Orc.cn.
-Vill practic; in nil th" Ci;ri "f I li"
Ktat. Sp?eial alt'-nt mil LCiveii t o eases ill
th U. S. Iiad o il. it r. on City.
.jarls7-'-tt'.
ATTORNGY-AT'LAVrf,
OKEUUX CITY, : : OIUXIUX.
OKFICK
treet. -Over Tope
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Tinari.s7.J-ti.
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tod, Oregon.
J. T. APPSRSOW,
OFF1CK IX rosToFFICK IU'II-DIXf;.
Xgml TpmltTH, ( lnrkamn-t C'otitjly Or
dttrs, nud Ori-un t ity Orilcn
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
NOTASY PUBLIC.
) Iimii u-;;-ti.-t"d, Coll--t ions attended
to, and a Ui-n r.il Uroln-a.c tjuin'-s c:irri-d
on. jatnitf.
" W. II. HIGIiriKLl).
Jat ablUltrd itnrt- ' !', al the old .stnml.
Jlaia Stri'rt, Orcon City, Crnon.
An assort m nt of :it!e s, .Iwl-
ry.and s t Ii Tliomas" Wi iht 'ioc's
T- S2 all nt which are warranti-d to l- as
V-LLA3 rpr -snt -il.
"Kpiinair dun" on sliort notice, and
bantful for past patronage.
JOUX 31. IJAl'OX,
IMIDRTKK ANDDKAT F.lt
fn llooks. St.-it ioncry, l't-miiu- - TTfSVy'
ery, etc.,
et c.
Orrjron City.
Ort'j;oii,
BV.Vt Charaian A Wnrn-T's old stand
ltly iM-cupi -d ty S. Aekrman. Main ft.
A. NOLTMER
X OTAR Y r U li L I (.-.
ENTERPRISE OFFICE.
OUEKOX CITV.
For the vory host photographs, jroto Trnd
"y A Itulofsnirs (laliry without STAIRS
tier ml in the Klevatnr, 11 MontoniPry
Sfr.Tt, a:i Frm.-lv.o, California.
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;ru -wm v mi f nl"n , .
YVhv do I love imv darling so?
(loo'.l faith, my In-art, I hardly know,
I liavi' such a store of reasons;
'Twould take me all a summer day
Nav. saving half that I could say
Yoiild till the circling seasons.
Because her eyes are softly brown.
Mv dove, who quietly hath tlown
To me as to her haven?
Ileeause her hair is soft, and laid
Madonna-wise, in simple I raid,
At id jetty as the raven !
I lwr lilivi cu-(if tit toneh.
ot eiiill. nor licry over niueh,
Rut soltlv warm as roses.
Dear lips that chasten whilethey move,
Lips tli.st a man may d;ire to love,
Till earthly love-time closes.
Because her hand is soft and white,
Of toneh so tender and so liirht,
That where her slender tinker
Dotli fall or move, t tie man t whom
The ;j;u:trd of ildi n wlii- pere l ' Comel"
Leneath its si-ell iiiuiht linger!
liee uise Iier heart is woman soft,
St true, so tender, that I oft
Do marvel that a treasure.
So rie!i, so rare, to 1110 should fall.
Whose sole desert so small, so small,
Is loving past all measure!
Deeause she has sin h store of moods,
So arelily smiles, so staidly broods,
So lovingly earesses;
So that my love may never tire
Of monotone, or more desire
Than she, my love, possesses!
Ah me! what know or what care I?
Or what hath lo e to do it h "why'?"
How simple is the reason?
I 1-
ve her for she is inv love.
And shall while stars shall shis
a hove
And season follow season.
CAPTAIN JACK'S CASU1STKY.
I'm Captain Jack of the Mi loe tril e ;
It 's 'jTovi-rnment wnisky that I mitiiPi
And 1 like soim-timcs ly way ot a uihe,
A quiet assassination.
Tut I make a tr atv whenever I ean
I'm- 1 'm Captain Jack and I know my
plan :
I'm a Credit Mohili. r Injun nnn.
Ati-1 open tospcculation.
!
i e talk of the rr-sorvat ion. hoth :
'Of course, to that 1 am not nnvj: h alii,
And I make my little Injun oath
To el se till' stipulation.
' Vi's." '-reserv i! J-n
1 1 's lixeil as a pair of
e!i partv savs :
iialani-es.
And I ehe.t kle now
mv res
Mv meiit
1 think of
ervatii m.
1 r
-1 1 d if ol:l.
To
hrsian.T the truth one mmt
live it.
( loOwlK
is hoautv in its ih-si,
e:
i.
To love is th
only thing that can
iil! ui etoruiiy.
Art is tli ni iuif.'station of the in
liaite in the inlinitf.
DeTout is ,i s.'hool in wliieli truth
alwavs grows stro:ig.
ilithooit sl'ov
th
man as moi-ri-
in
j;ws l!a-tlay.
nth i.; rieiicr than imaglnatioii;
Ti
she ovi-vsteps it on all sales.
Nothing is lovelier or move holy
than a thorough wifely woman.
H is in learning music that. m;my
votiI Id'-.il liearis h-arn Jove.
is the
mt, wli
who
s v. ar
ha)j;est he he king or
; linds x-a -t'- in his lionie.
ers( elites ;i g :ui l.tan
a''a:n.st h.'mselt a.nl a 1
.eas;
1l
l:iak.
mankiiivl.
The active man cares
hiniseli. whether the ri
need not tronhh- him.
Tlie truest mark of
with groat qualities, i
to do ii-.il t
ght haiiprr.s
heing horn
s heimr horn
without envv.
l'hvsie. for he most ):;
ing else hut the suhstituh
t. is IHitll-
fov oxer-
ei-i? or teieper.lliee.
A great fault That a man thinks
himself more than he is, and esti
mate ; himself iess than he is worth.
Life is a constant sunshine, which
loath cannot interrupt any more
than nielit can swallow the sun.
Insults are like counterfeit monov;
wo cannot hin;h
hut wo are not
t he i r he i n g o !!' -reil ,
ciini el!el to tuko
them.
Certain hook:-, appear to have hoon
written not to give instruction hut
to indicate that the author know
something.
1i:avf. Yv'onns. A oi tion of the
letter addressed hv (iovoi'nor Dix'
of New York, to Kov. Dr. Tyng, de
clining to inteifero wilh the judg
ment of the Court in .Foster's case
leservos to ho impressed on the
memory ot every einet executive
' j , f rill Ml
oTiicer in ti;o country. liiev win
prove tin utterance of terror to tio
lesperado -s of ew ork, who have
too often committed crime in move
wantonness, believing it to bo an
oasv mat! or to elVect an os'-apo from
punislnnp.t. Ciovernor ix says:
I am a ke.l in disregard of the ev
idence and the judgment of the high
est jud.eial tribunal in the State on
the law, to set aside the penalty
awarded to the most atrocious of
crimes. It seems to me that the in
evi table effect of such a proceeding
on my p ut, under the cirennvstances
of this case, would bo to impair the
force if judicial decisions, and to
breakdown the barriers which the
law has set up for the protection of
human life. To this aet of social
disorganization I cannot h-ml the ex
ecutive authority confided to mo bv
the people of the State. I deem it
due to the good order of soeiet v to
sav that, so far as depends on me.
the supremacy of the law will be in
llexibly maintained, and that overy
man who strikes a murderous kli.ii-
nt the life of hi
e I., ...
f el low must be made
10 icei mat ins
wo cannot by
own is in peril. If
Tinnmss of liurnose
attain tins end. we
mav soon bo
ioreei i to acknowledge the disheart
ening truth that there is nothing so
cheap or ill-protected as human fife.
"The manufacturer of wine from
grapes is coming into favor in Yir
ginia." They used to make it out of
crab-apples and copperas, but the
cemeteries got to tilling up too rap
idly. ' ' The rock upon which the English
Cabinet failed to split Glad-stone.
The C.'arrotted Siate.
AN Al l'EAL, mOM THE TIUUlVF. TO TTITl
NATION.
Gov. r.rcEncry has issued the fol
lowing address to the l.ooido of
Louisiana and the Union. It xvill
be transmitted to the Governors of
States, mombers of the various State
Legislatures, and otherhhd, officials!
New Okleaxs, March i:, 1N7:5.
3)t:.vit Sin: I have the honor here
with to enclose to von an address to
the people of Louisiana and th
Union, issued by authority of a joint
resolution of the general" assembly.
Permit me to ask your serious atten
tion to its allegations, and also re
quest that you lay it officially before
the Legislature of your groat State.
1 he people of this State, without
distinction of past sectional feeling.
present party diileronoes, or of birth,
race or color, fool that an issue has
boon made in our case bv the illegal
ami monstrous usurpations of certain
oilieials, Avhieh. if suffered to be de
cided against us, cither bv non-action
or adverse action of Congress, in
volves most certainly and gravely
the liberties and the rights of every
other State.
The President has said in his mes
sage: " Xo r.rer H;ri; control it c.rcr
risi'il !u (tit if one of litem (t'tti Soiitln t'n
Snt'.-i) thitt irijiihl ttol he f.rrrt i.tml in
on' of t'te Si tics tinder UI.c rifctt in
i ' "
St llHU'X.
Yv hat has been the action referred
to? A United States district Judge
sitting on the bench of the Circuit
Court, lias seized a State Capitol, bv
the use of the United States army
created a Legislature by an interlo
cutory order of the nature of an in
junction, and installed that legisla
ture in power bv a limiting them
into the eanifol. past the1 guard of
the United States Marshals, ".hos
orders wore obeyed by those troops
and excluding all others claiming
seats, until that Legislature had keen
seated and sworn. Senator Carpen
ter characterizes this action thus:
"I don't want to go before the
Dooi.ile of "Wisconsin with tin testi
mony of the Louisiana llepublicans
themselves, admitting their frauds in
setting up this Kellogg government
and "with our voles here sustaining
this acknowledgement, fraud and
usurpation iinally executed and ac
complislicd by the military force o
the government of the United States.1
J no maiontv ot the renato com
mittee ray of this:
"The testimony doe- not show
that voters were ilisi ra'.iehise.t m
many instances on account of race,
color or previous condition of servi
tude, and therefore the law of tin
General Government was not violat
ed suiiicieiitly to authorize the inter
f' ro?ice of Durell. The injunction
placed by the Kiglh District Court
of the Stale upon the counting of
the returns by the 'Lynch b; avd1
was legal and should have been re
spect -d.
"The whole intorferror.ee by the
United States court in the organiza
tion of the legislature is a gross
usurpation. The constitution ex
pressly gives to each State the or
ganization of its own legislature. A
member has no right to contest for
his :vat be fore a court of the United
States.
'Jt is therefore cvih-nt that such
a court has no authority to seat a
hundred men at, the instance of the
Lioutonan t-Govornoi-. Jn this con
nection it becomes the painful duty
of the committee to express their
opinion of the action of Judg
ell. A proceeding so inanife:
legal has never come bef.re C.
for its consideration in
Dnr
tly il-
igre-ss
con-
nection
United
fail to
with a
court
of
tho
Stites, and the oommittot
tind words with which to ex
press their
of Durell.'
abhorrence of the action
Senator
iks
it as fol-
lows: "A Federal judge is applied to
for interference. Overstepping his
jurisdiction, he does not interfere;
ho restrains all other returning olli
cers but those recognized and desig
nated by him from returning the
vote. y an act of usurpation still
more palpable and flagrant, ho or
ders that the State-house bo taken
possession of by the troops, he vir
tually orders who shall be members
of the Legislaturt nay, I think it is
not an inexcusable exaggeration
when I say he virtually vnth cs or cre
ttfes lint I,i'filittnre. In executing
those gross and llagrant usurpations,
he is supported by the military force
of the Federal Government. The
usurpation is consummated under
the protection of Federal court, con
venes. Thus the usurpation
was consummated a usurpation
without a shadow of law as an ex
cuse, with nothing but fraud and
force to stand upon a usurpation
palpable, gross, shameless, and ut
terly subversive of all principles of
re -publican government a usurpation
such as this country has never seen,
and 7robably no citizen of the Uni
ted States has over dreamed of. The
offspring of this Legislature i., the
Kellogg government.11
And even Senator Morton cannot
avoid in his extreme partisanship
showing his honest opinion of itsvil
lainv in these words: "The conduct
of judge Durell. sitting in the Cir
cuit Court of the United States, can
not be justified or defended. He
grossly exceeded his jurisdiction and
assumed the exorcise of powers to
which he could lay no claim.
In the Antoine case Judge
Durell not only assumed to deter
mine who constituted the legal return
ing board, but to prescribe who
should be permitted to take part in
the organization of the Legislature,
find to enjoin all persons from taking
Dart in the organization trio trrrc not
irefnrned Lif the Lineh hoard as elected,
and this assumption of jurisdiction
was made in the face of the express
COURTESY OF
UNIVERSITY
provisions in the act of 1870 that its
benefits should not extend to eandi-
lates for Electors for Congress, or
for mombers of the State Legislature.
" His order issued m the Kellogg
disc to the United States Marshal, to
take possession ot the State house for
the purpose of preventing unlawful
assemblages, umier v-uu-ii the mar
shal called to his aid a portion of the
army of the Unnited States as a oo.sc
com itnt it, can only be characterized
as a gross usurpation.
Upon these facts our citizens, m
one of the largest mass meetings ever
held in New Orleans, appointed a
committee of two hundred of the
most worthy and respected people in
the citv, to wait upon the President
and request the withdrawal of Fed
eral interference. v In reply to the
notice ot their coming, Attorney
General Williams sent me the follow
ing dispatch, Avhieh I quote without
comment:
Wasitixotox, I). C, Doc.
Your visit with a hundred citizens
will be unavailing no for as t!n I'rcs
i lent it concerned. His decision is
untile "nil trill not he clutiifed ', and the
sooner it is acquiesced in, the sooner
good order and peace will be restor
ed. (Signed) Geo. II. YsTeetams,
Attorney-General.
In the extremity of our distress
business being paralyzed, commerce
f r igl i t on od aw ay , t rad o st oppod , c red i t
destroyed, confidence lost, and, with
al, taxes increased we a; peal to our
brethren of sister States to consider
our situation. Wo f.n-1 that what is
our sad condition to-day may bo theirs
some other day through the same
moansand that therefore they should,
and doubtless will, f,-oi interested in
seeing that their Senators and ltep
resentativos in Congress take stops
to right those Avrongs. Our only
hope is in the interposition of the
States of the Union through Con
gress; because if we seek to right
ourselves, our enemies will revive
against us the unhappy cries of the
late civil war, and falsely represent
us as seeking to reopen its dead is
sues. As to this question, we point
to the record of the last political
canvass in the State to demonstrate
to yen what is the truth, that our
people have honestly and squarely
accepted all the results of the war;
the measures of reconstruction, the
enfranchisement, sufi'raganship and
right to oilice of the colored people,
and all the constitutional amend
ments. In the last canvass the I'eo
p!o"s or ihision ticket had upon it
llepublicans and Democrats, white
and colored, Southern and Northern
men,
diers.
ral and eon federate koI-
In our platform we ignored
last differences. Y"e sor.i-ht
a
11
soi(
lv to obtain a Government of the
wliole people, llial saoui'l oe lie re-
t
se'..tatie economical and just. This
Goornmont we obtained by the hon
est votes of the people at the late
election. It has been wrested from
us :y t.us graee
not describe lo
despair of our p
unless their can-'
usurpation. I can
yon the gloom and
oolo. We feel that
-e i s made a common
one by the people of other States,
elections, so far as we are concerned,
are a mockery, and free Government
ended.
Hoping that this appeal may re
ceive your mat ure and deliberate at
t: i tion, and will be by you m.ido
known to the people of your S'ah
and that it may enure to the benefit
of fn e and just government through
out the Union, and cai nestly inviting
yon to join in the appeal now being
made by the pe plo of this State to
the President for an extra session
of Congress, in order that necessary
and legal measures may be inaug
urated by that honorable body which
will give to the people, of Louisiana a
just, free ami l'epubliean govern
ment, I remain, sir, with groat con
sideration, your obedient servant,
.Tons McExEity,
Governor of Louisiana.
Domestic; Si.kvants. A Santa
Cruz (('al.) paper states that an ef
fort is about to be made in that town
to secure a better olass of domestic
servants than the Heathen Chinee
aliords. A joint stock association is
to be formed for the purpose of in
troducing live hundred German
girls. The oapit.il stock is to be
.2.",oo:, of which .20. ()(! is already
subs -ribed. When all the stock is
taken an ;gout will be sent to the ru
ral districts of Germany to hire the
girls and secure their transportation
to this country, where they will be
hired out to farmers and others re
quiring help, for a stated term, a
1 orcentage of their wages being de
ducted to pay expenses. J'.r.
Tin: Pakponino AnrsE. The ad
vocates of abolishing the death pen
alty for murder are mot with an op
posing argument of much force in
the record of several of the Ihistern
prisons. In the Auburn (N. Y.)
Prison, from LSl-" to 1K;.S there were
convicts condemned for life, of
which 101 received pardons. In
Massachusetts, o" l"'1' ('c'nt of t.10
life prisoners are pardoned; in Ghio.
40 per cent; and in Wisconsin, :-'
per cent. In several of the other
States, the pardons bear a corre
sponding average percentage. After
the circunistnces of the trial and
Here is another one of those de
lightful facts of science: Feeling is
a much slower sense than sight. If
a man had an arm long enough to
reach to the sun, and were to touch
that bodv with the tip of his linger
he would never lind out whether it
was hot or cold, as ho would be dead
before the sensation arrived at head
quarters
vears.
which would require
100
A discontented wife in Buffalo al
leges that her husband is noit coiijos
mi litis, and offers in proof the cir
cumstance that he has been accepted
as a juryman in two murder trials.
BANCROFT LIBRARY,
OF CALIFORNIA,
I ii fa muiis l'o vt y ec o n 1
Congress.
The Forty-second Congress expir
ed at noon Tuesday, March 4th.
Within the last one hundred and
fifty years there have been more
famous legislative bodies than this,
hut we do not remember one more
infamous. There "wore conscientious
gentlemen in the Senate and the
House; but jirimn facie the case; is
against the whole of them, and till
the ' close of the present century
membership in that Congress will, in
the estimation of the general public,
throw upon the incumbent the bur
den of proving that he was not a
dishonest man.
The entire term of this Congress
has been characterized by a series of
disreputable transactions which have
no parallel in our history. Wv wont
through all the temptations of the
war without seeing anything so out
rageous as the doing of the two
Houses over which Schuyler Colfax
and James G. Plain have now presided.-
Amid the seething mass of
those transactions perhaps the two
which will hereafter loom up the
most conspicuously and bo the long
est remembered are, first and chiefly,
that though some twenty members of
the two Houses wore proven before
lenient committees of the one House
or the other to have boon guilty of
fraud, bribery, and corruption, and
of double dealing and rank perjury
in vain efforts to explain their offen
ces, not one of them was expelled,
omy two, and they on false pretenses,
were mildly rebuked, while the rest
wore whitened over till their reputa
tions shone again; and secondly, that
after this scandalous betrayal of their
trusts, the two Houses filled utj the
measure of their iniquity by voting
themselves a large iuereV.se" of their
salaries, not excepting the disgraced
members whom even Pen Pntlor
thought so infamous that they ought
to be indicted by the Grand Jury
and sent by the petit jury to thopoii
itentiary. The Forty-second Congress! As
its members sneak home with the
money of the people lining their
pockets, even boys at their marbles
in the streets will point to them, one
saying to his comrade, "There goes
a member of the I'ortv-Seeond Con-
grc
int.
:s!"' and the comrade, not deign
to raise his eves, will respond.
'.nl i.f can rwn i i!ti..fO
This has boon Seor Itobeson's
Congress.
This his boon brother-in-law
Casey's Congress.
This has boon brazen-browed
Pinch 1. lack's Congress.
This has been drunken Judge
I)u roll's Congress.
Tin's has been the Congress of the
French arms swindle.
This has boon the Congress of
(5 rant's Now York Custom Hons-o
whitewashing.
Tiiis is the Congress which looked
approvingly upon Harlan's accept
ance of 3 u rant's chocks for SI(l,IHlfl
to aid him in purchasn. g his St-na-
! torial seat.
This is the Congress which saw
Pen Potior overawe one of its com
mittees because it allowed to bo
proven that Pen took J?10,f);)0 from
the Union Pacific Pailroad for draw
ing up a contract.
This is the Congress which has
condoned Colfax's perjury.
This is the Congress which lot
Ponierov out at the back door of the
Indcpon tence bank lodge.
This is the Congress which furn
ished Professor Patterson with a
coating of whitewash to go home; in
but Aery thin though.
This is the Congress, which in the
face of the damning proofs of Sena
tor Clayton's frauds, said to that
shameless scoundrel, "Well done,
good and faithful servant!"
This is the Congress which dared
not turn out Caldwell for buying his
seat in the Senate because the Senate
feared that in response to nearly
evory vote in the afiirmative the enl
prit wuld rise up and say "you're
another!"
This is the Congress which bound
the sins and iniquities of Colfax,
Patterson, Allison, Lo-an, Willson,
Kellov. Dawes, Bingham, Garfield,
Seoiield, and we know not how many
other tainted Senators and Repre
sentatives, upon the shoulders of
Oakes Amos and James Brooks, with
intent to send them as scape-goats
into the wilderness, but failed to do
so because it turned out that there
wore not enough virtuous members
in. the House to expel the corrupt
ones.
This is the Congress which groat
railway corporations owned and used
as their needs required, and which a
venal lobby bought and sold day by
day.
This is the Congress which some
Macaulay of the next century will
describe as more infamous than that
Parliament which originated Law's
celebrated Mississippi scheme, and
more corrupt than those Parliaments
which Walpole used to purchase as
he bought Merino shoo) and Flan
ders mares to stock his estates in
Sussex.
In fact this is the Congress which
the American people on Tuesday, as
the clock struck twelve, hooted out
of the Capitol!
Dead. The New York Herald be
lieves the great Credit Mobil ier partv
is in articulis mortis, and knows that
it not only deserves to die, but ought
to bo also irretrievably damned. It
says: "With the -expiration of the
debauched and degraded Congress
passes away the Republican party.
No continued 2rofessions of virtue
and reform can save the political or
ganization whose loading members,
with a large majority in both Houses
of Congress, having shielded corrui
tionists and 2erjurers and thus made
themselves ros2onsible as a 2artv for
the offences they were too cowardly
or too base to condemn,"
Ihul of the
W ho is a CJcntleman.
An exchange copies the following
correct and comprehensive answer
to the above question, and urges
every child as well as grown persons
to commit it to memory, to be recited
as often as practicable:
A gentleman is not merely a per
son acquainted with ceitain forms
of the etiquette of life, easy and self
possessed in society, able to speak
and act and move in the world w ith
out awkwardness, and free from hab
its which are vulgar and in bad taste.
A gentleman is something beyond
this; that which lies at the root of
all his pleasing is the same spirit
which lies at the root of every Chris
tian virtue. It is the thoughtful de
sire of doing in every instance to
others as lie would that others should
do unto him. He is constantly think
ing not indeed how he may give
pleasure to others for the mere sense
of pleasing, but how he can show-
respect to others how he may avoid
hurting their feelings. When he is
in society, he scrupulously ascertains
the position and relations of every
one with whom he ovmies in contact
that he mav give to each his due
honor, his proper position. He stud
ios now no may avoid touching in
conversation upon any subject w hich
may needlessly hurt their feelings
how he may abstain from any illu
sions which may call up a disagreea
ble or offensive association. A gen
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iieiiian never amnios to never een
appears conscious of anv person's de
fect, bodily deformity, inferiority of
talent, of reputation in the erson in
whose society he is placed. He
never assumes any superiority to
himself, never ridicules, m-ver sneer
never boasts, never makes a display
of his own power, or rank, or advan
tages such as implied in ridicule,
or sarcasm, or abuse as lie never in
dulges in habits, or tricks, or inclina
tions which may be offensive to
others.
Information For (aim tlicwcrs.
OIMME A C HAW.
"Chewing gum," said the store
keeper; " why, we sell more of that
than of candy, though the sale isn't
quite so good as it was a little while 1
ago."
"Is it good to cat?"
"Oh no; only to chew," said the
man; "tin-re's a spicy sort of taste
to it; and then folks get in the habit
of chewing, and feel uneasy without
something in their months. Some
folks think it makes the teeth white."
"Ah! I'll ask the doctor about
that ;" and so I did.
"All nonsense!" said the doctor,
" folks say the same thing about to
bacco. The fact is that the habit of
chewing excite the salivary glands,
causing an unnatural flow of saliva
glands, injuring the mouth and teeth,
and cheating the stomach. So far
as the mouth is concerned, it is just
as bad to chew gum as tobacco, and
in fact it actually leads to it."
"But gum is clean, doctor; it has
a pleasant, spicy taste, and tobacco
is dirty stuff."
"What do you suppose gum is
made of?" said the doctor, with a
dreadful smile.
"1 know," said I, triumphantly;
" the manufacturers told me. Gum
tragacaiith, gum arabic rosin and
fat!"
"Just so," said the doctor; "now
read this," and he gave me news
paper slip, and went away while I
read: "The fat used in the manu
facture of gum is almost wholly ob
tained from dead animals, cats and
dogs picked up about the streets and
alloys, old omnibus horses, iu fact,
any kind of re fuse fat."
My dear ruminating animals, there
is something to add interest to the
pleasant, spicy taste of your cud, as
you muse and meditate over it! I
hope you will medftate to such good
purpose that the trade in chewing
gum may be ruined forever.
Little Corjioral.
Condition of the South. The
London Xeirs has a valuable and in
structive letter from a tourist in the
Southern States of this country,
w hose Views may be regarded as im
2artial, an. I certainly boar the im-
2rcss of intelligent observation. He
reports that the whole South is suf
fering for want of money to repair
its deserted plantations and broken
commerce, that the taxes are every
where in arrears, and that they are
so exorbitant as to ruin the small
landholders. " But," he adds, " cap
italists will not carry their money
into communities where rascally
legislators seize so much and give
so little in return." Herein he
touches the vital spot of the whole
difficulty. He describes the negroes
as working, after their fashion, just
enough to keep starvation from the
door, in isolated settlements. He
2ictures a well known weakness of
the 2lantation hands when he says
that " whore they have no 2''gs r
poultry themselves, they 2robahly
livo very near somebody who has,
nnd that answers just as well." The
Southern Legislatures are described
as ' a daily burlesque upon govern
ment monstrous than the extrava
gances of Christy's Minstrels." He
speaks of the situation as deplorable
and melancholy, but thinks it onlv a
natural result of the great social rev
olution, and believes that it will be
righted "as soon as the government
improves." The question is, how
soon the government will ini2rove
at the present rate? Vide Louisiana.
A Chicago Alderman made a speech
half an hour long in sii2qort of the
question of koeiing oen beer shojis
on Sunday. "Whisky," said the
great man "is a thing which can be
keit over from Saturday till Monday
but lager beer cannot."
Is the future French monarchy hid
beneath the veil of T(h)eirs?
l'uii and Fact.
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Newark, N. J., proposes So run a
'horse-railroad" by steam.
To keep the Indians oniet remitm
considerable Ingin-annuitv.
Kerosene averaged one victim ra.
week last year in Madison Wi
The Dead-Letter Office in Washing
ton is called the "Literary Morgue."
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lhe newly elected Senator from
Massachusetts came out of the Bout
well.
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An Illinois Senatorial committee
lias reported in favor of abolishing
Grand juries.
The Iowa State Woman's Suffrage
Association has a surplus of $1 G3 in
its treasury.
Since the marriage of Pere Hya1
cinthe, it takes himself and wife to
make a pair.
Tobacco is not only a slow poison
but is said to lie the slowest poison
in the world. O
Although O. F. is called3 "a crazy
Train," it is evident he has lucid
trains of thought.
The public receives the. resignation
of Senator Caldwell with a gla J spirit
of resignation.
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A confirmed corruptionist Collec
tor Casey's confirmation by the Unit
ed States Senate. q
Auburn, Maine, produced 2,018
cases of shoes and several cases of
small-pox last week.
Florida's gold mine is reported by
experts to be almost big enough to,
till a tooth with.
A Western musical editor says
Mile. Ormeny "has a magnificent
voice for a fog-whistle."
Gold is at a premium of only thir
ty thousand per cent, as compared,
with 2-aper currency in Hayti.
A Pennsylvania woman challenges
any man in her county to8 a wrestling
match for the championship.
The Supreme Court of Vermont
has set aside a verdict which the
jury reached by means of a raflle.
The young man who boasted thftt
he could marry any girl he pleased
found that he couldn't please any.
Millions of robbins are roosting near
Murfreesboro, Tonn., and all the in?
habitants are robbin' the roosts.
A young lady "took a horn" the
other day in church and nobody was
shocked. His first name war Wiiiiam.
A traveling agent from Cincinnati
is going through the west soliciting
orders for whiskey and tombstones.
There is nothing singular in the
fact that a boy makes a wry face when
he takes his first "nip" of old Bour
bon. Having a Young Men's Christian
Association, Brazil is beginning to
keo2 a shari look-out in its custom
houses.
A female student of medicine wants
ir-0 "to buy a man to cut iq-" Most
Avomeu can cut 1121 a man chcaier
than that.
Thousands of 2ersons die eAery
year from drinking hot water, ami
their deaths are attributed to drink
ing tea and coffee.
Members of the last Congress who
sign recei2ts for the wages voted to
themselves by themselves, are said
to do it with a t-leal 2en.
An ordnance manufacturer, haA'lng
heard that the Yellowstone region is
full of conons, is organ izingan ex2
dition to dig them out.
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A rise in the? 2n""ce f strychnine
is riqiorted in Alabama as the result
of a recent act of Legislature exemp
ting widows from taxation.
The Salt Lake girls are on a matri
monial strike. They have formed an
agreement not to marry unless tho
husband Avill be content with, one
wife. o
The beneficial result of enforcing
temperance by legislation is shown O
in Vermont by an official re2ort that
there are 10,000 habitual drunkards
there.
An Iowa man now languishes in O
prison because his Avife to whom he
deeded all his real estate refuse I to
become his surety for 1,C00 ball in
a criminal suit.
What is the difference betAveen a
wave Avashing over a ship or the same
vessel being attached bv the Sheriff?
Answer one shijqied a sea, and thoo
other seized a ship.
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The Y. M. C. A. of Chicago pro
poses to furnish all the railways in
that neighborhood with bibles, re- O
gardless of the circumstance that the
coni2anies make their own scrip sure.
Rhode Islanders are multitudin-ousl-
signing petitions for the reto- q
ration to the death 2'enalty, the Stato
not being large enough to isolate its
murderers from the rest of the com
munity.
Kansas is proud oT the preeosity of
a new town called Sargent, Avhieh
thongR barely a fortnight old, has
sent to market more than 8,000 buf- O
falo hides, and had three murders
committed Avithin its limits.
California ceases the centenarian
records cf humanity Avith a live frog
lately set free from the centre of a
stratum of sandstone which, accord
ing to sir William Thomisons chro
nologA", must be .4e-ersil millioityears
old.
A felonions Oregonian was lately
caught in the act of purloining two
grindstones. When rebuked by the
magistrate for his folly in stealing
such heaA-y articles he promptly re
plied that he only wanted to try
th'heft of 'em. Q
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