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Orrr, r-V.1Pr of 5h,v1 District No. 62.
"gon City, June 2, lST5.-tf
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NOTICE.
VnCE IS HEREBY GIVEN' THAT
trZt v- ' ""n.ont Roll for School Dis
nf k -"ab"n Placed in the hands
- . . v u- ri inn. ii h i is now
3Ii-s. lVilliams Views.
"Bother the school board and
compulsory education, as they call
it," said Mrs. Williams in a loud and
angry voico to her neighbor, Mrs.
"""bc- x o just nai one
of those saucy, prying, impertinent
fellows, called a school visitor liere
inquiring how many children I have',
how old they are and whether I send
them to school. He has just gone
into Mrs. Cope's now; he seems to.
be calling at a good many houses in
this street, but if he meets with the
reception in other houses that he
met with in this one, it will bo warm
work for him. I gave him the length
of yy tongue, and made him glad to
quit, and I wonder that you don't all
of you do the same. It is a shame
of the Government, that, it is, to
cam pel poor folks to send their chil
dren to school, when they are so bad
ly needed at home; and though it is
but a few pence, it's something to
find every week. Let them find me
a servant to do ny work if I am to
send my eldest daughter to school."
"That's what I say," said Mrs.
Hodge. "It is very hard upon us to
be compelled to send them, whether
one can spare them or not, and they
must go so clean, and all. Why the
other day, one of those young misses,
tlit they call the mistress, sent my
children homo to have their hands
and faces washed. I went down to
the school and told her what I tho't
of it, you may be sure."
"And quite right, too," said Mrs.
Williams; "she sent mine home for
the same reason, until I took them
away, and then this precious visitor
comes inquiring into the reason of
their absence. See," she exclaimed,
"he's just coming out of Mrs. Cope's;
I hope she has given him a piece of
her mind."
"Oh," snid Mrs Hodge, "you don't
know'Mrs Cope, if you think she'd
he anything else than civil to him.
She quite approves of it and thinks
it is a line thing for the children."
"It is not line to me, whatever it
may be to them, "said Mrs. Williams.
Iitit at this moment the visitor left
t lie house, politely showed out by
Mrs. Cope, who waited a moment
before shutting the door, to 2ur
chasc some potatoes of a man who
just then happened to be passing
with his cart.
"Good morning Mrs. Cope," said
Mrs Williams, coming round to Mrs.
Cope's door, followed by Mrs. Hodge;
"you have had that tine gentleman
paying you a visit, I see."
"Yes," said Mrs. Cope, pleasantly;
"he called to ask why Sarah and
Hetty had not been to school lately.
I told him they had boon poorly
with whooping cough, but are now
well again, and have gone back this
morning. It was kind of him to
come; he is a pleasant gentleman.
"Kind!" said Mrs. Williams; "he
only called that he might bring you
up before the board for not sending
them, if he could imd out that they
had not been ill. Jts shameful that
poor people's children should be
hunted up in this fashion, and the
parents summoned for not getting
them educated, as they call it, what
ever inconvenience it may put the
parents to. Compulsory education,
as I said Jo Mrs. Hodge, is tyranny."
Mrs. Cope looked grieved. "I am
sorry to hear you talk in that way,"
said .she, "because I take quite an
other view of it. I think it is very
kind of the Government to take such
an interest in our children, and to
provide them with the means of get
ting a good education at so very lit
tle cost. It is an excellent thing for
the children, and really a great ad
vantage to us. They are so well
taught, and the charge is so trifling,
that it would be unfair to them not to
take advantage of it."
"They ought not to compel it,"
said Mrs. Williams; "they ought to
leave it open to us to send them or
not, as we feel inclined, and not to
come looking us up, and prying into
our houses, and threatening to bring
us up before the board if we don't
send them as long as they are able
to go."
"I am afraid, if that were the case.
many thoughtless mothers and fath
ers would never trouble to send their
children to school at all, and so the
poor little things would be suffered
io grow up in ignorance, dirt and
misery; for you see, we must send
them clean to school, aud the very
fact of their being clean makes a
child feel happier and more respect
able, if its clothes are not very good;
to say nothing of the immense ad
vantage to both parents and children
to bo derived from a good education.
Excuse me, Mrs. Williams, if I must
differ with you when you call com
pulsory education tyranny. I should
call it benevolent force, or something
to that effect."
"But what if parents cannot at all
times send their children?" said Mrs.
Williams, on whom Mrs. Cope's views
were beginning to make some im
pression. If the eldest girl is really
wanted at home to mind the baby
while the mother goes out, per
haps to earn a bit of bread for
them to eat?"
"The board is norer unfeeling in
such extreme cases," said Mrs. Cope;
"and I am sure that our children
should be educated when it is possi
ble. Ought a drunken father, for
instance, to drink away the few pence
paid weekly for their schooling that
might lay the foundation for his
children's future respectability? I,
for one, am thankful that the Gov
ernment has taken up the question."
"Did you say," said Mrs. Williams,
"that parents were, benefitted by
their children being educated?"
"Certainly," said Mrs. Cope; "has
that never struck you ? A little re
flection will make it apparent."
"The fact is," said Mrs. Williams,
"that I have been , made so. angry,
and so much put out. with th in
quiries that have been made at my
house about my children, and the
trouble of getting theai off to
school, that I have not bestowed
much thought upon the matter- and
I don't see now how it is to benefit
the parents.
;Well, now," said Mrs. Cope,
smiling and beginning to damp and
fold some dry clothes that lay on her
neat kitchen table ready for ironin
"suppose you wanted to get a place
as nurse-maid for your eldest girl by
and by sho must do something for
her living would she not be likely
to get a better place, and be much
better paid if she were a well-taught,
nicely behaved girl, that could read
pretty stories to her young charge,
and keep them happy and amused
when they were not able toget out.
and it was necessary that they should
be quiet in doors. If she could sew
nicely and help to keep the children's
clothes in repair, how much would
be thought of that! A girl who has
been taught at school, and knows
how to behave, and to make herself
thoroughly useful, must be more re
spectable, and respected and com
mand better wages, than a poor ig
norant, shiftless girl, who neither
knows how to read, write, nor sew."
"There is something in that, cer
tainly," said Mrs. Williams.
"And the same thing holds good
with tne boys," said Mrs. Cope;
"they must command better wages
the better and more intelligent they
are; they will be prized according
to their capabilities. An educated
youth may be placed in a position
that he may earn twice the money
weekly that another of his age may
do without education; and what a
help that is to the parents at home!"
"I see what you mean," said Mrs.
Williams, of whom Mrs" Cope's words
were inst making a convert.
"My children are learning so much
at school in every way," said Mrs.
Cope, "that I would not have them
miss it, however it may inconven
ience me, if I could possibly help it.
Look at this little dress; Hetty made
this for baby herself, at school, and
put the trimmings on. Of course it
was placed for her. It is a great
help to me, the work she does there,
for I have none too much time for
sewing myself, aud I am sure I would
not have cut it out so well. You see
the young people who teach tfiere
are taught to cut out, and do all
they profess to do well."
Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Hodge
both examined the dress and express
ed their astonishment at the beauti
ful way in which it was made.
"You wero angry the other day, I
was told," said Mrs. Cope to Mrs.
Williams, "at your little folks being
sent homo to have their hands and
faces washed; but you see they could
not do such work as this with dirty
hands."
"I did not like the way in which
the young mistress spoke about it,"
said' Mrs. Williams, trying to vindi
cate herself. "The fact is, I don't
like Miss Loxley, the mistres,at all."
"Don't you? I have always thought
her such a nice young person. And
when so much pains are taken with
our children, the least we can do is
to see that they go clean. My chil
dren won't go dirty," continued Mrs.
Cope; "they wash their face3 with
soap and water, and rub them till
hey shine again; and as for Miss
Loxley, they are so fond of her that
they are always wanting to take some
flowers out of the garden."
"Well, of course they could not
sew nicely with dirty hands," said
Mrs. W illiams; "but 1 never gave
my children any needlework to do
there; though I think Miss Loxley
gave them something to do."
"Oh, you should find them work
to do," said Mrs. Cope; "it will bo
such a help to yon. The sewing
done is worth the money paid for
the teaching."
"Perhaps I have been too hasty in
my way of speaking about the mis
tress," said Mrs. Williams. "I see,
of course, that it is better for the
children to go to school and be
taught; and I am glad that I have
had this talk with you, and I don't
think that I shall speak against the
school board in future. I am sorry
now for what I said to the gentleman
this morning the visitor, I mean;
but my temper was always a hasty
one, and always will be. But I am
determined upon one thing; that the
children shall always go clean to
school for the future. I am glad
you showed mo that little frock of
the bab'y's. Good morning Mrs.
Cope, you have been right and I
have been wrong, and I am not too
proud to say so. Perhaps you will
let me have a little more talk with
you another day. It strikes me you
could teach me many things, if it is
only how to be civil. I am vexed at
what I said just now, for it has let
me down."
"I am so' glad you see it Mrs.
Williams," said Mrs. Cope. "It does
let us down when we lose our temper
because people are only doing their
own proper work, without any inten
tion of offending us, though I should
not have liked to tell you so. If I
can help you in any way at any tmie,
I shall be glad to do so."
From that day Mrs. Williams
needed no persuasion to send her
children to school, and she was as
good as her word; she saw that they
were clean when they went, and see
in r how being clean improved their
appearance, she began to take pride
in their dress, and turning them out
as neat and nice as Mrs. Cope's chil
dren She did not accomplish all
this at once; but it soon became easy
to her, and her home, in a short
time, was quite another sort of place
to that it had once been. Being a
candid woman, when convinced that
a thing was pood, she-became as
fond of sending her children to school
and getting tbem educated as .she
had before disliked,. the. thought of
it. British Workman.
The Xew Hampshire Case.
We submit the following extract
from the Mercury on the Now Hamp
shire election to the digestion of tho
Oregonian. It shows things in a dif
ferent light from what that truly in
dependent organ has had tho case:
Tlie New Hampshire Senate con
sists of 12 members. 'By the re
turns of the late election it appeared
that there were chosen 5 Democrats
and 5 Republicans, with no choice
in the 2nd and 4th districts, the
Democratic candidate having a plu
rality in each, but lacking in one
case 23 and in the other 35, votes of
an election. In the 2d district
James Priest, Dem. had 3,834
Natt. Head. Hep. had 3,771
In the 4th district
John Proctor, Dem. had 3,497
George E. Todd, Hep. had 3,457
In the itu district the scattering
votes were cast for Arthur Deering
who had been a resident of the State
only 4 years. The Constitution of
New Hampshire requires that "No
person shall be capable of being
elected Senator who shall not have
been an inhabitant of the State for
seven years immediately preceding
his election." The votes for Deering
being void, there was no other way
than to give the certificate of elec
tion to Proctor, the Democratic can
didate in the 4th district.
In reference to the case in the
second district, Section 8 of Chapter
28 of the General Statutes of New
Hampshire is quoted in these words:
"The full christian and sirname of
every person voted for, with the in
itial letter or letters of the middle
name, and the usual abbreviations
for junior, second, third and tho like
shall be written or printed upon
every ballot; and every ballot not
thus prepared, shall be regarded as
a blank and not counted."
Commenting on this Judge Asa
Fowler, tho most able and upright
Republican jurist in the State says:
"Under this statute it is perfectly
clear, that if the ballots or votes
cast and returned for Natt. Head
were intended to be thrown for Gen
eral Head of Hooksett, and his chris
tian name is Nathaniel, I cannot see
how, without a violation of their of
ficial oaths, under the imperative Re
quirements of tho statute, they can
avoid regarding all these votes as
blanks and refusing to count tbem.
The statute is imperative, that all
votes not containing tho full chris
tian name of the candidate voted for
shall be regarded as blanks and ex
cluded from the computation."
Judge Fowler concludes his ex
haustive opinion in the case as fol
lows: "I say therefore, in conclusion,
that in my opinion, the Governor
and Council have the authority, and
it is their duty, in examining tho re
turns of votes for Senators, to ex
clude from tho computation of votes
of which it is necessary that any can
didate should receive a majority in
order to appear to be elected, all
votes cast and returned for any can
didate by an initial or abbreviated
christian name, or by any other than
his full christian and sirname, and
all votes, cast and returned for any
candidate who is by the provisions
of the constitution incapable of being
elected to the office of Senator; that
they have authority, and it is their
duty to receive aud consider evi
dence upon all quest:ons arising be-
! fore them in relation to ballots, the
names and residences of candidates
aud all other matters relating to the
validity and correctness of the votes
to be examined by them, and the
candidate in any district who is eli
gible and appears to have received a
majority of tho votes legally cast and
returned for eligible candidates by
their full christian and sirnames,
with the initial letter or letters of
their middle names, and the usual
abbreviations for junior ,etc, is en
titled to be declared by the Govern
or aud Council elected a Senator for
said district, and to be summoned
by the Governor to take his seat in
the Senate on the first Wednesday
in June next. Asa Fowler."
Concord, May 10, 1875.
Under these circumstances the
Governor and Council could not do
otherwise than issue their certificates
of election to Messrs. Priest and
Proctor, so that the State of New
Hampshire stands 7 Democrats to 5
Republicans.
There was a case precisely paral
leled to Head's in tho Tenth Senato
rial District of New Hampshire in
1871, when a Republican Gov
ernor and Council threw out Samuel
K. Thrasher, Democrat, because a
part of his votes were printed Sam.
K. Thrasher.
Tho Republicans made the law
and have construed it, and have
acted under it; and all the Demo
crats have done is to follow its re
quirements as held' and acted upon
by them.
Had Better Take Cabe. An arti
cle on Ohio politics in the New York
Sun closes as follows: There is
great danger that a new and grave
element will be introduced into this
campaign by the Republicans which
in the event of success would take
vast proportions, and might ulti
mately affect the Presidential ques
tion. It is understood that the old
Know Nothing organization is to bo
revived with additional features, and
in fact that secret lodges have al
ready been organized with a view to
excite religious prejudice and con
vert it to the worst of partisan
uses. This is a two edged sword,
and they had better take care how
they handle it. . ,
Nevada gives every convict 'dis
charged Jrom her State Prison 825
in gold, and there is a great rush to
get into State Prison and" xrat.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY. CALTFTlRMTA
Local Pride.
The following was clipped from an
exchange and contains so much good
sense that we give it entire to our
readers:
If the citizens of a town desire to
have the community of which they
are renre seutatives maintain an
equality with sister communities and j
wish the town in which they dwelt to
keep pace with others in progress, it
is necessary to cultivate true local
pride. We do not mean an inflicted
idea of superiority of all that per
tains to their locality, or the extrav
agant laudation of every enterprise
or undertaking in their midst, but a
discriminating pride in all advance
ment in the general welfare that shall
prompt a jnst defence of the merits
of tho towu where they have set
up the temple of home; a fair com
mendation of its artistic or natural
beauties, and an encouragement to
every individual who put3 his hand
to the work of developing its re
sources, wealth and advantages. A
community whose people are indif
ferent so the improvements that may
bo inaugurated within their bounda
ries, will make slow progress. Tho
men who express no satisfaction at
seeing a dwelling of comfort and
taste erected; who draw their purse
strings tight, and grumble at the ex
pense of public edifice; shuddering
at the increased taxation to pay for
some modern improvement, which is
to prove a blessing to coming gen
eneration, are enemies to civiliza
tion, as were the inhabitants of
China before its gates of ignorance
and superstition were opened and
the genius of progress induced to
enter.
Every dwelling of taste that
wealth erects in our midst should be
welcomed, every public edifice that
is reared should receive our com
mendation; every teniple of educa
tion should be pointed out with pride
as an evidence that we are prepar
ing the generation to follow the
never ending combat of the spititual
over the animal, of mind over mat
ter. Every church that lifts its grace
ful spire heavenward should be hailed
as planting an altar around which
will cluster the blessings of educa
tion auci rennement. v e should re
joice at the puff of the engine, the
clank of the shaft, and the hum of
machinerv, proclaiming that mdus
try reigns within our borders, for
every additional stroke of labor tixes
on a surer foundation the future
wealth of our community, and is
rearing on an enduring basis the
fabric of common prospeiity.
It is a disgrace to those who are
ever seeking to underato the place of
their birth at home seeing nothing
to commend in the localities of which
they are a representative part, but
holding it up to invidious compari
son with a neiguoring city or town.
We honor a man who has a true lo
cal pride in his village or town where
his own cherished fireside exists,
and who is not ashamed to point
with prido to the spot where his
daily lot is cast,
Bayard the
Democratic Candi
date. From the Cincinnati Commercial.
Those who watched the course of
Bavard last winter must have seen
that he aimed at the leadership of his
party in tho Senate. He did not
make many able speeches as Senator
Thurman, but he displayed inflexi
bility of will and executive force in
a greater degree than any other
member of his party. He it was who
defeated Senator Morton's proposi
tion to amend the rules so as to make
the formality of declaring a Presi
dential election less dangerous; and
his avowed policy was to take the
chances of throwing the next elec
tion into tho House, where the re
sult would be the choice of a Demo
crat. Thurman was inclined to yield
to the blandishments of Morton, for
the sake of tho greater security of
peace, but Bayard was fierce and
stern,' and represented the aggressive
intensity of his party. Another point
may be worth noting:, viz: that Bay
ard has, within a year, .given more
elegant dinner parties than any other
man in Washington, tho President
and Secresary of State not excepted,
showing himself an admirable host,
and making a most pleasing impres
sion upon his guests, among whom
were included all the members of
both Houses capable of appreciating
a good dinner. This is not a large
matter, but a small symptom.
State Rich's is Massachusetts.
The fourth section of tho Bill of
Rights of the State of Massachusetts
reads as follows;
- "The people of this commonwealth
shall have tho solo and exclusive
right of governing themselves as a
free, sovereign State; and they shall
forever hereafter exercise and enjoy
every power, jurisdiction and right
which is not or may not hereafter be
by them expressly delegated to the
United States of America in Con
gress assembled."
And in the closing section of their
Declaration of Rights:
"In the government of this com
monwealth the legislative depart
ment shall never exercise the execu
tive and judicial powers, or either of
them; the executive shall never ex
eicise the legislative and executive
powers, or either of them, to the end
that it may be a government of laws
and not of men."
A writer from Milton, Umatilla
county says: People here had new
potatoes on the 24th of May, and the
Walla Walla people had theirs even
earlier. Wild flax grows here from
2t to 3 feet high and it has excel
lent lint. There is plenty of vacant
land here; good State and school
Jands, etc., at SI 25 per agre."
Coos County.
(From The Coos County Record.
The county is in the southwestern
part of Oregon, on the coast, west of
the Coast liange oi ruouuuuu.5. n
extends along tho coast from Ten
Mile Creek, on the north, to Flare's
Creek, on the south, a distance of
fifty miles: ind back from the coast
to the summit of the" Coast Range,
about sixty miles containing an area
of three thousand square miles. It
is a mountainous and heavily tim
bered country, except in the valleys
along the streams, which are timber
ed, but not so heavily.
Coos Bay is now the principal har
bor, the entrance to which is north
of Cape Arago, which is the
most western point of land belong
ing to the United States. Tho en
trance to this bay is fair for vessels
of twelve or thirteen feet draft; and
two steamers and numerous sail ves
sels ily between this port and San
Francisco, carrying goods, passen
gers, and also coal and lumber which
latter are the chief exports of the
country. Considerable business is
transacted here, and the bay usually
wears a lively aspect.
Coos Bay is a beauty among bays.
It is, perhaps, twelve mile long by
one or one and a half wide, running
in from the ocean in a north-easterly
direction; bordered on the one hand
by the heavily timbered mountains,
and by ridges of white sand, to keep
out the ocean on the other. Then,
turning eastward, it sends its nu
merous arms (tide sloughs,) out
among the mountains, as if it loved
to furnish the lumberman or coal
miner'" facilities for transportation.
These arnft are navigable, some
for sea-going vessels, and others
only for small steamers, three
or four of which ply on the bay.
The principal towns on the bay
are Empire CitjT, on the lower bay,
a place of about four hundred inhab
itants; and Marshfield at the head of
the bay, which contains some six
hundred people. The principal in
dustries are coalmining, lumbering
and shipbuilding.
Communication is had between the
bay aud tho Coquille valley, via
Isthmus Slough, on the bay side,
the Isthmus Transit Company's rail
road across the isthmus and Beaver
Slough, on the Coquille river side.
The distance being about twelve
miles from Marshfield to the Co
qtiille siver.
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A Good Reputation. A young
man expected daily to go away. His
mother gave him an unpaid bill with
money, and asked him to pay it.
When he returned home at night
she said:
"Did you pay that bill?"
"Yes" he answered.
In a few days the bill was sent in
a second time.
"I thought," slie said to her son,
that 3'ou paid this.
I really don t remember, mother;
you know I've had so many things
on my mind,"
"But vou said you did."
"Well'," he answered, "if I said I
did, I did." -
lie went away, and his mother
took the bill herself to the store.
The young man had been known
in town all his life, and what opin
ion was held of him this will show.
"I am quite sure," she said, "that
my son paid this some days ago; he
has been very busy since, and has
quite forgotten all about it; but he
told me that day he had, and says if
ho said then ho had, he is quito sure
he did."
"Well," said tho man. "I forget
about it; but if he ever said he did,
he did."
Wasn't that a grand character to
have?
Studying Geography. While a
newsboy was hanging around one of
the depots yesterday a gentleman
engaged him in conversation and in
quired :
"Do yon go to school, bub?"
"Yes, sir, and I'm in geography."
was the answer.
"Ha, ha! Where does tho sun
rise?"
"In tho east."
"Correct. Where does it set?"
"In the west."
"That's right. What is the earth's
surface composed of?"
"Land and water sir."
"Right again. Is the world round
or flat?"
"Less see," mused tho boy, sitting
down on a bench. "Well, I know
dad and mam had a fight about that
very thing, but I forget which
licked."
Bait a hook, a Pott hook, if you
will, with the possibility of a pun,
and how the paragraphists will bite.
Some matter-of fact man will lead off
with, T. Pott is an editor in Maine.
The Boston Po.t will follow with,
There's a tempest in that T. Pott.
The Courier-Journal will remark that
T. Pott is liable to boil over. The
Rochester Democrat: Come, now, fellow-citizens,
this thing about T. Pott
is too steep. The St. Louis Ileiiubli
can will assert that T. Pott is a jour
nalist who has grounds for his course.
The Milwaukee Sentinel will want to
know what on hearth T. Pott wants
in the profession. The MilwanVee
Xews will speak of him as old Hy's
son. He will be mentioned by the
Boston Advertiser as T. Pott, the
'steemed editor of the Maine Kettle.
The Detroit Free Press will pit T.
Pott against Bob Schenck on a little
game of draw. And these journals
having, like Polly, put the kettle on.
the scissorers of the press will all
take T. Chicago T.ibune.
A. T. Stewart has S40 ,000,000, a
marble house and splendid furniture,
but he hasn't a child to welcome
him home, and he can't be rich with
all his wealth.
The "Privilege Tax."
Governor Ames, of Mississippi,
and the miscellaneous crowd of negro
rascals and white carpet-baggers and
scalawags who- are in authority in
that unfortunate State, are evidently
determined to use their power to tne
utmost for the oppression of the peo
ple so long as they can maintain
themselves in office.' Some time ago
the New York Sun published tax bills
and other evidences of the extortion
ate taxation which the property own
ers in Mississippi are obliged to
endure under the rule of the black
and white plunderers who have fas
tened upon them, and now it seems
that Ames and his crew have invented
a new process for wringing more
money from the impoverished people.
It is called a privilege tax and im
poses an annual contribution to the
tax collector of sums varying fr'orn a
few dollars to a fow thousand for the
privilege of pursuing a reputable
occupation. Almost every imagina
ble mode of gaining a livelihood?,
except farming and preaching, is
included in the list of occupations
which render a person liable to the
payment of the privilege tax; and in
order to make its victims pay up
promptly, it is provided that any
peisan exerc:sing any of the privi
leges enumerated in the bill without
first paying the tax, shall be fined,
or imprisoned, or both, at the dis
cretion of the Court. The law also
provides that no suit shall be main
tained in any Court in the State to
enforce the payment of any claims
that may accrue to anj- person on
account of any business subject to
the privilege tax if the person bring
ing the suit has failed to pay this
extortionate imposition. If Ames
011I3- lives long enough, he will
doubtless become as popular in Mis
sissippi as his father-in-law, Ben
Butler, did in Louisiana.
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Important. Mr. W. S. Donthit,
of Fourth Plain, suggests to those
whose lungs are in any way affected
that it will be well to try as a cure
the following: Take the fresh gum as
it runs from the fir tree when tapped
and put it into water, and after
standing a short time, a kind of oil
will rise to the top. Drink of that
freely and the best of results will fol
low. Some persors who scemeYl to
be far gone with consumption have
tried this remedy find have recover
ed. It may be well fo the many
who are thus effected, to try
the experiment above referred to.
ar.d if it should prove to be a good
thing, our friend D. will be entitled
to great credit for his suggestion.
V aneouvcr
iiejtsier.
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A Female Philanthropist. Miss
Mary Telfair, who died recently,
aged SG, daughter of ex Governor
Telfair, bequeathed to the Georgia
Historical Society about $175,000;
to the Independent rresbvterian
Church, of Savannah, SS0.000; to
the Presbvtrrian Church of Augusta,
$30,000. To the Hodgson Institute
of Telfairville, the Christian Endow
ment of Telfair the hospitajk, for
males, the Telfair Academy of Art
aud Science, and other societies, and
to numerous persons legacies are
made, including handsome bequests
to the colored family cervants. Tho
estate is valued at over $1,000,000.
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Correct View. Commenting on
Grant's absurd letter, in which ho
avers that he is not a candiJate for
renomination to the Presidency, the
Cincinnati Enquirer, truthfully, says
that it is a plain consent to accept a
third nomination if tendered to him.
It is so coupled with self laudatory
comments on his military services as
to leave no doubt? not only concern
ing his willingness, but concerning
his anxiety to become a Presidential
candidate again. In short, the twice
elected President of the United
States, in an open letter, announces
himself a candidate for a third term.
Entitled to It. Mr. Corkhill of
the Washington Chronicle also a
clerk in a Federal Court in Iowa is
quoted as saying the President wants
a renomination, is going to get it,
and is entitled to it in view of tho
sacrifices ho made for the party.
This from an inspired organ is sig
nificant.
Refuses to Canvass. Micheal C.
Kerr has returned from tho South
completely restored to health. HcP
refuses to canvass for the Speaker
ship or to make pledges to anybody
of what he will do if elected Speaker.
He is the first choice of rnr.nv and
the second choice for nearly every
body for that high trust.
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The Ohio Legislature .is talking
about making the first Jay of April a
legal holiday. Inasmuch as the fir t
day cf April is all fools' day, the
Ohio Legislature may very justly
claim a proprietary right to do with
it pretty much whatever it pleases.
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Just as the young men of this
country have resolved to make a new
start and do better, the Rochester
Chronicle comes around the corner
yelling: "Go sonth. young man, go
south. Start a hotel, steal, be an in
surance agent anything to9escapo
this horrible climate."
If you want to know what the free
American people think of the last
Congress, just stand aroufid the De
troit postofiice and hear the mild
remarks of the man who pays six
cents to send a two-cent package.
The Chicago Times doesn't antici- .
pate that Beecher will be convicted,
but it thinks these proceedings will
keep him home of nights after this.
Butler has nothing to do but go
hnckleberrying and sit on the gro-s
eery step
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