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Take con rape, Temperance workers!
You sliall not suffer wreck
While up to God the people's prayers
Are rising from your dock.
Wait cheerily, Temjierance workers,
For daylight and for land :
The breath of God is iu your sail,
Your rudder in His liaud !
Sail on ? sail on ! deep freighted
With blessings and with hojes :
The good of old, with shadowy hands.
Are pulling at your l-opes.
Behind you, hob" mart-rs
Uplift the palm and crown ;
Before 3"m, unborn agea scud
Their benedictions down.
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Gotl's ei ramls never fail!
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The thunder and the hail!
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The ship of Temperance in.
Jnhii (. Wiitfirr.
Ill other Browns Dream.
'A IHtEAM WHICH WAS NOT ALL A
DRKAM."
It was on that day of "hard, pitiful
begging"- tliey call it "Missionary
Day." Jirother Brown was there.
Brotlier Brown had spoken of his
conversion in the class-meeting in the
early morning. The tears, great
crystal drops, coursed down his fur
rowed cheeks as he recounted his ex
periencfj for "nigh on Vo forty years,"
liow the Lord had dealt with him
graciously, and given him very many
blessings, "for which," said he, "I
am truly thankful."
And then, wiping away the tears
with his red silk handkerchief, he
remarked, that all he had in the
world he owed to religion, and he
was trying, "in his poor, weak wa'"
to serve the Lord, and he hoped that
he would finally meet his dear broth
ers and sisters in heaven.
"God bless you Brother Brown."
said the good .leader.
"He's an old skin-flint," said crazj
Bill, who sat in a back seat, in a
hoarse whisper, as he shook his fist
behind a broad shouldered sinner in'
the direction of Brother Brown.
Most of the congregation heard
him but happily Brother Brown was j
a little deaf on that side, and so was
spared the annoyance of knowing
that anything unusual had occurred, j
Bio. Brown had prayed loudly that j
the Lord would send salvation to a
church, which he told the Lord was '
in a dead condition; that he would
break the sinner's heart and revive J
his brethren who were growing so j
cold that he hadn't heard them speak
iu meeting for six months and then,
said he, in great earnestness, shaking
the whole church with his knees,
pounding upon the floor and fright- j
ening the children, who were just j
coming in, with his thunderous
tones, "O Lord, give our ministers
more religion real, old-fashioned re-
hgion
Now the public service had begun,
and Bro. Brown was" in his own pew.
He never missed the preaching,
though "it wasn't what it used to be,"
he often said with a sigh.
The preacher had gotten to his
"secondly," and Bro. B., who had
been nodding, was now fast asleep.
He dreamed, and the shadows that
came and went on his wrinkled face
told plainly that no ordinary visions
were flitting through his brain.
He was suddenly in the vestibule
of heaven as he thought ho could
hear the music distinctly and when
lie first appeared, the door being
slightly ajar, he obtained a glimpse
of its glories.
He was going right in, but he
heard a stern voice near by, which
said, "Stop, mortal! only the just
can enter there."
At first he was indignant, but his
tongue seemed tied, and a strange
spell came over him; his heart and
pulse were almost still.
"On what is your hope based?"
said the apparition before him.
"I was a Christian down in the
! world for forty years," said Bro.
Brown.
"That avails you nothing!" was
the solemn answer; "have you no
other plea?"
Bro. B. began to tremble.
"1 always tried to do my duty,"
he said, with hesitation, stammering
with emotion.
"We shall see;" said his questioner
as he took down a great book from a
shelf containing millions of a like ap
pearance; "a strict account is kept
here with every mortal."
By this time Bro. B. was shaking
like an aspen leaf.
The book opened readily to the
page having his name in bold letters
at the' top. And the account ran
thus:
Abraham Brown7.
. to Almighty God, Dr.
To the breath of life.
To sixty years of health.
To eight sons and daughters.
To one farm
To one lot of bonds.
To money at interest.
To Christian privileges during life.
To all the sufferings of the Lord
Jesus. -
Item after item, many thousands
of them, aggregating the value of
many worlds. ...
Bro. B. .was sinking in anguish.
At length. be could 'speak: H is
all unpaid," he moaned, as he fell
insensible to the floor.
"Stand up!" said a voice with , a
firmness and a sternness- that were
awful. "Behold thy payments!"
Cr.
By cash to a friendless orphan 1Q
cents.
By 1 peck of meal to a poor widow
20 years ago.
by cash for Foreign Missions, 2$
cts. a year, for 20 years.
By cash for Home Missions, 25
cents a year.
By cash for widows and orphans
and worrj out preachers 25 cents ft"
year.
By cash for Pastor from 50 cts. to
$1 a year for 39 years, fce., &c.
And he saw what he had dne in
all the years so little, so mocking to
heaven's beneficence in its insiguifi
cance the pittance for God's poor
and for a perishing world ; the plenty,
the case, the luxuiy, the hoarded
store of treasure, of talent and of
property for self, that he cried out in
sorrow: "What shall I do! I have
no hope ! Lost ! lost ! lost '."
A hand routed upon his shoulder,
lie saw no form, but a voice was
heard :
"Thou ma)7 est return to earth, and
again, on in thy years, thou shalt
knock at yon gate of pearl, and per
haps shalt find admission."
Brother B. awoke as the people
were singing:
"I gave my life for thee
My precious blood I shed,
That thou mightest ransomed be
Awl quickened from the dead,
I gave, I gave my life for thee,
What has thou given for me?"
Another scoro of years lived Abra
i
ham BroVvn. He could never give
enough; in every cause his name was
first, andj in secret benevolence his
bounty was without a limit. He
never thought of self, but his heaven
ly Master's wish. The neighbors
never knew the hinge on which life
turned, but when he died, many saw
heavens transformation scene as
the glory hung over his dying bed,
and they heard him whisper, oh, so
earnestly :
"The gate is open wide, now; I
see, I see beyond the veil ! It is well
with my soul?"
Tenfcterly they laid him ,in the
grave; all the people wept as if a
common father and tie:d had gone
from among them, and since the
flowers never fade on the little mound
where his body sleeps, and his mem
ory is as fragrant as the flowers with
the generations that have followed.
Scariiiij a Master.
Talk about pretty girls but. she
was a wild flower and no mistake!
She got. on the train to go over to
.Meridian from Vieksburg, and she
was all alone. There was a sort of
sidelong movement among five or
six men, but a drummer for a Phila
delphia saddlery house got there
first. He grabbed up his grip and
walked square up to her seat and
took possession of it without asking
a question, and in ten minutes he
seemed to be perlectly at home. She
answered his questions briefly, and
he had the hardest kind of work to
keep up conversation, and as the
train approached Jackson, she sud
denly said :
"I vant to telegraph papa Lorn
here. Will you help me?" -
"Oh, certainly. I have a blank in
my pocket. Write your telegram
and I will run into the office with it."
We missed him when the train
started, but by and and he was found
in another car, his hat crushed down
and his nerves all on edge. When
asked what had happened he drew
forth the telegram which the girl had
requested him to hand in. It read :
"Bring your shot-gun with you
to pop oyer a drummer who has
dreadfully annoyed me. Shoot to
kill."
"To think," lie gasped, "that one
so fair could be so murderous. Why,
I'm all in a sweat. I want some of
you to stand by me."
We got his grip from the seal,
traded hats and coats with him, and
the way he slid from the depot when
the train reached Meridian caused a
hotel porter to observe:
"Well, now, but that white face be
longs to an invalid and them legs to
a deer. What sort of a coon can he
be?" Cincinnati Enquirer.
Funerals fit Japan.
Japan funerals are always conduc
ted at sundown, in accordaace with a
superstition that is rather beautiful
than otherwise. The procession is
headed by priests aud a company of
musicians, who play upon samisns
and beat tom-tom. The coffiii is a
wooden tud, in which the decease is
squatting as he has lived, with feet
tucked under him. There is this
difference, however: The-face of the
dead man is looking towards the
north, whereas this position is relig
iously avoided by the living Japanese.
Indeed, the points of the compass
are frequently marked on the ceiling
of sleeping roonis that the sleeper
may arrang his mats so as to avoid
this unfavorable position.
The weal thy "class is buried in earth
em jars iustea c i wooden tubs, but
the mode of arrangement is the same.
"Why Apprentices are Scarce.
A contemporary writer says it is
principally because of. the conceit of
weak and foolish parents, who could
not think of allowiug theii boys to
soil their hands with mauua bor,
or tarnish their pedigree by asso iat
ingwith common workmen. Many
and many a young man have I
known whose aptiVudes called to him
I with alf the imperious demands of
instinct to learn a trade, but he was
prevented from doing so by his
parents, who preferred to see him
filling the more important and digni-
position of clerk, often -working
fifteen hours a day for $15 per month,
and sometimes yielding to the small
temptation to leave unpaid his tailors
and washwoman's bills. Or if he
escaped the clerkship, he was almost
sure to be found among the luckless
ninety and nine professional men
who stand off and eye with green
envy the one in the round hundred
who has made a success. It is not
lack of attention to the new work
men that is lowering the standard in
mechanical trades, but the folly of
parents in closing the doors of the
trades in the face of their sons, and
in the absence of good material we
get bad. It is very often the case
that we get hold of a boy who has
but few or no qualifications, natural
or acquired, for a trade, but he cau
probably make more money at that
than at common labor, and as we can
get no better, wo have to do the best
we can There is no doubt but we
are getting poorer subjects every
year for apprentices for this very
reason. But we can reach a point so
low that it is impossible to go any
lower, and I believe w,e have about
reached that point in some lines of
business. Some parents, and boys
too, are at last getting their eyes
opened. They are. learning that they
cannot plant dudes and raise, inen.
Many bubbles have been pricked, and
much gilding has won through.
Labor is becoming more dignified,
because more than ever before is it
wedded to thought. The manual
training schools which are springing
up in nearly all of our large cities are
giving instruction to many boys
whose parents, perhaps, would not
at the start consent to them entering
the shops. These schools are doing
a good work in teaching the princi
pies of trades, in fostering a genuine
love for mechanics, and in pointing
out tho way to the special field where
the young man can labor with the
assurrance of receiving his highest
reward. With such brightening
prospects as the work of the. manual
training school warrants, we see no
reason for fearing that the race of
good workmen in any trade will
soon die out. On the contrary, we
believe we will see mechanics increas
ing in numbers and skill from year
to year. Scientific American.
All the Glory He Wanted.
It was during the late war. We
were preparing for a charge on Mulli
gan's works at Lexiton, when Vest
of Missouri, the present United State
senator, came up and asked permis
sion to participate as a volunteer.
His request was granted, and being
furnished with weapons and a horse
he dashed boldly into the fray.
The attacking party were driven
back, and in a few minutes Vest rode
up to where General Price and staff
were standing, dismounted, turned
over horse ami weapons to the order
ly, and with an impressiveness all his
own, declared that "The man who
says George Vest has never been m
a battle is a liar, and the man who
says that George Vest will ever be in
another, is a fool."
Gem'len, in one respek Brudder
Slawson was a fa'r to medium man. -If
he borryed half a dollar to go to
de circus he'd pay it back ourtr mon
ey dat his wife aimed at de washbo'd
. De poo' was neber turned away
from his doah empty-handed.
He pited de soirer of a big tramp
and let his wife go bar' futted an' his
chil'n hungry. He was philanthropic
but he has got two pb de wust boys'
in the State oh Ohio. He was kinb
hearted, but alius behind on his pew
rent. He . wus aTobin' husband, but
he wus content to sitaroun" de groce
ry an' let his wife support de family.
While we may say dat we am sorry
dat death has come to sever ties and
bring changes, we have no occashun
to remark dat de world will be eny de
wuss ofl."
Some advantages of a wet spell :
Old gum shoes can be worn out.
Opportunities for trading a cot ton
for a silk umbrella are numerous. The
lungs can be thougherly tested, and
if they stand it can bo warranted for
the rest of the year. New methods
of keeping the feet dry and the con
science clear (of swear t oughts) can
be prepared in advance. Anticipa
tion is always better than realization
- New and powerful adjective can be
invented to describe the state of the
weather and the effect it has upon
the system. Corns ache, malaria
thriven, the "hypos" get the best of
you, the liver lies dormant, food taste
loggy i . and ' you feel reconcil
ed to the hereafter, no, matter what
that may be. -1 , v -1. " '
"Who's So Sweet.
It was a bridal couple on the train
She, a petite figure with a very pret- i
ty face; he, a dapper young man
overflowing with love and gush.
Justin tho rear of this interesting
couple was seated an old man who
had "been through the mill."
The silence was hroken by tlu?
young husband, who in the tenderest
tones cooed out:
"Who's so sweet, can't be no
sweeter?"
The bride answered back in falter
ing accent: "Me."
In a few moments the quesUoiv was
propounded again:
"Who's so sweet, can't be no sweet
er?" Again the reply from the bride,
"Me."
The old gentleman was observed to
become very uneasy by this time; to
eye tho young people closely for
several moments and then to quietly
resume his paper.
In a few moments more the young
man a third tune reiterated his ques
tion, in a voice that spoke volumes
of love, pleasure, &c:
"Who's so sweet, can't be no s eet
er?" And a third time the answer was
given by the blushing bride- "Me."
It was then that their feeling re
ceived a cold bath ; for the old gen
tleman,, whose indignation and dis
gust had been growing larger during
all this time, suddenly leaned for
ward and in a voice loud enough to
be heard all over tho car, launched
this forth upon the heads of his un
suspecting victims:
'Who's so fool, can't te no fooler I
Your
The above is an actual occurrence.
We refrain rom names for various
reasons.
Only two of the five full generals
of the confederacy are. living. These
are Joseph E. Johnson, ex-Unite J
States senator, residence, Richmond,
Va., and General P. G T. Beaure
gard, adjutant genral of Louisiana,
who lives in New Orleans. Of the 21
lieutenant generals, but nine are
living: General Wade Hampton,
United States senator, Columbia, S.
C. ; General Gordon, ex-United States
senator, Atlanta, Ga. ; D. H. Hill is
president of an Alabama college; S.
D. Lee is president of a Mississippi
college; A. P. Stewart is president of
the university of Mississippi; Jubal
Early is piincipal owner of the
Louisiana lottery, at New Orleans: S.
B. Budkner is a farmer in Kentucky,
and a possible governor, and Joseph
E. Wheeler is a member of congress
from Alabama. General Longstreet
is a United States marshal for the
state oiGeorgia.
SclfMclp-
Self help, be it ever so wisely and
thoroughly carried out, can never ab
rogate the duty and privilege of
friendly and benevolent assistance
It will not oiTPn limit the necessity.
of it; for human nature is essentially i -d. These, of course, are fought by j watchfulness and loyalty of our con
eepentially dependent as well as in- ! the butchers and market-men. The. ; gressmeu." J. E. I,
dependent, and life furnishes abun- I n,st, attemnt. to form .-l bill of this i - - - - -
dant opportunities' for the exercise of
" U " hnnnlc, veir.limir. iiiinvv-
crenei
provided the rightful conditions are
obeyed. In lntaucy our dependence
upon others is complete; as we
advance in life it gradually declines;
in healthful maturity it reaches its
lowest point. Yet even here it by no
means vanishes. We are still depen
dent upon one another for happiness
in a thousand ways, and continually
need the helping hand as well as the
sympathizing heart
Gubernatorial salaries are not" par
ticularly -attractive or tempting to
successful business or professional
men. New Y'ork and Pennsylvania
pay their Governors the largest sala
ries $10 000 aud the amount in
other ranges from that figure down
to $1,500. Illinois and California
G,000; Colorado, Kentucky, Nevada
and New Jersey, -$5,000; Louisiana,
Massaehusetst, Mississippi Tennes
see, and Texas, $4,000; North Caro
lina, Kansas, Iowa, Georgia and
Arkansas, $3,000; Connecticut, Dela
ware and Maine, $2,000; New Hamp
shire, Michigan and Vermont, $1,000;
Oregon, $1,500.
Receipt for Scandal.
Take a grain of faleshood, a hand,
ful of runabout, the s;ime amount Of
nimble tongue, a spri? of the herb
back-bite, ateaspoonful of don't you-tell-it,
six drops of malice and few
drachms of envy. Add a little dis
content and jealousy, and strain
through a bag of misconstruction,
cork it up in a bottle of malevolence
and hang it up on a skein of street
yarn; in a hot atmosphere; shake it
occasionly for a few days, and it will
be fit for use. Let a few drops be
. . t,i
taken before walking out, and the do-
... ,
sired result will follow.
:
Crematon really appears to be en-
tering upon a boom. New Orleans
now ftas? cremation society, which
isgoing actively to work, and intends
to build a crematory in a short time.
Its members x urge that the public
nosed of the most pro
public spirited of the citizens. One
thing that it wants to get is an
ordinance authorizing the earmation
of all who die iu smallpox hospitals,
and of all who are to be hurried at the
public expense. Public opinion seems
to be moving more rapiuiy man
hitherto towards cremation.
The volcano dust which the islands
of the Indian Archipelago were so
thickly covered by the recent terrible
eruptions has proved highly fertiiiz-
health demands cremation m .now ; even my eyenaus uecoaio sore una i . . - .,
; uneans aoove an o ie distressed me greatly whenever I ; .
causeotthe low wei ,anq .in aim face j b,C;uue ul t,m. j '" "
surrounding the city. 1 he society is J - J . . ,. j mythology.
j -The Third House."
' ITS (MOD AXD BAD, MKM1VKRS TUB HE.
MAKKABLE EXPERIENCE OF AChDSK
OBSERVER OF ITS WOKKINWS
DL'RINtt A Lo.NO RESIDENCE
at Washington.
ViirrrAjH'ii'lcHi- Jiwhcstcr Dcnuft f.
j No city upon the American conti
nent has a kirger floating population
than Washington. It is estimated
that during the sessions of Congress
twenty-five thousand people, whose
homes are iu various -parts of this
and other countries, make this city
I their place ot residence. J3ouhj cjmo
r . i
nere, auracreu Dyi.no au vantages tne
city offers for making the acquaint
ance of public men; others have
various cL-iims which they wish to
present, while, the great .majority
gather here, as the crows flock to the
carrion, for tho sole purpose of get
ting a morsel at the public crib. The
latter chuss, as a general thing, origi
i nate the many schemes which termi
nate in vicious bills, all of which are
neither directed at the public freas
ury, or toward that revenue which
tlie blackmailing of corporations or j
private enterprises may bring. t
While walkingdown Pennsylvania
avenue the other day 1 met Mr. Wil
liam M. Ashley, formerly of your
city, whose long residence hero has
made him unusually well acquainted j allevi at their siilh i uigs so far as I
with the operations of the lobby. j am able, and any e.nninunicution re
Having made my wants in this ! gai ding -my s mplonis and cure that
particular direction known, in an
swer to an interrogative, Mr. Ashley
said:
"Yes, during my residence hero I
have become well acquainted with
the workings of the 'Third House,' as
it is termed, and could tell you of
numerous jobs, ' wl.ich, like the
'Heathen Chinee,' are puculiar."
"You do not regarothe lobby, as a j
body, vicious, do you ?" j
"Not necessarily.so, there are good
and bad men comprising .that body ;!
yet there have been times when it j
must be admitted that the combined
power of the 'Third House' has over-
ridden tho will of the people. The
bad influence of this lobby can be seen
in the numerous blood-bills that are
introduced at every session."
' 'But how con these be discovered?"
"Easily enough, to the person who
has made the thing a study; I can
detect them at a glance."
"Tell me, to what bills do .you re
fer?"
"Well, take the annual gas bills,
for instance. Thty are introduced j Notwithstanding the power and in
forthe purpose of bleeding the Wash ' ihience of the lobby, but few of these
ington Gas Light company. They vicious measures pass. 'Were; thry
usually result in an investigating j successful it would boa sad common--committee
which never amounts to j tary upon our system of govertl
anything more than a draft upon the j ment, and would n luully'anuihilate
public treasury for the expenses of i one hi anch of it. The great majority
the investigation. Another squeeze 1 of them are either reported adversity
r . i . . ; : . i n . . . . i - ii i , i i : : i I .... I ...
I ls ulu uouauir uni-,, as 11.1-3 tuecau-
I - ,
dlSOnptlOll Was IU 16, when a prO.ll
inent Washington politician offered
a fabulous sum for the franchise."
"Anything else in this lino that
you think of, Mr. Ashely?"
"Yes, there's the job to reclaim the
Potomac flats, which, had it become
a law, would have resulted in an
enormous steal. The work is now
being done by the Government. itself,
and will rid the place of that malaiial
atmosphere of whicl
we hear so
i much outside the citv
"During your residence here have j -jison.
you experienced the bad results of j jsru Cincinnati - Hayes and
living in this climate? 1 Wheeler.
"Well, while 1 have not at alii lbSu -Chicago - Garfield and Ar
times enjoyed good lealth, I am . thur.
certain that Hie difficulty which laid ! "
me up so long was not malarial. It
was something that had troubled me
for years. A shooting, stinging pain
that at times attached different parts
of my body. One day my right arm
and le would torture, me with pain,
there would be great redness, heat
and swelling of the parts; and per
haps the uext day the left arm and
leg would be similarly affected. Then
again it would locate iu some partic
ular part of my body and produce
a tenderness which would well nigh
drive me frantic. 'here would be
weeks at a time that I would be
afflicted with an intermitting kind of
pain that would come on every after
noon aud leave me comparatively free 1
from suffering during the balance of ;
the twenty-four hours. Then I'j
would have terribly paroxysms of j
pain coming on at any time during!
j the day or night when I would bt !
i ,,,.,- , , c ,
ouiigeu to-lie upon in uuck. tor nours
. .
and keep as motionless as possible.
. r ,, , , ,
Lvery tm,eI alU-inpted '"e a
chilly sensation would pass over my
body, or I would faint from hot
n.J' j sufItM,d froin I spasMllodic
coatractKm of 'the ' muscles and a
w
, soieue- ot i..e u..,k tm uu
desperately despondent.
"Ot course you consulted the doc -
tors regarding your difficulty C
"Consulted them? weli I should say
j I did
Some told me 1 had neuralgia;
others that I had inflammatory
rheumatism, for which there was no
Mire LhaL i would b afflicLd all iiiv
life, and that time alone would miti
gate my sufferings."
"But didu t tney try to -relieve
your niseriHfrt
-"Yes, they vomited aud physiced
niment ana ieteu, o nu, mcuui, h uwuic ,m
me, blistered -wid bled m-, plantorod
and oiled me, -sweat, steamed and ev
ery thing but froze me. but without
avail." . ;
"But how did you finally recoveir"
"I had a friend living in Michigan
who had been anhcted in a similar
way and had been cured. Ho wrote,
me regarding his recovery and advis-'
ed me to try the remedy which cured
him. I p rot u red ft bottle 'and com
nieiuvd it.s uso, taking a table -spoonful
alter each meal and at bed time.
1 had used it about .a week, wheu" I
noticed a decreane of the soreness of
the joints and a general feeling f re-..
lief. I iwsevorod in itV use and
finally got so I coutU move around
without limping, then I told my
friends that it" was Warner's Safo
Khcui.'atic Cure that had put me ot
my feet." ,
"Anil do yu-u regard your cure as
permanent V
"Certainly, 1 haint been so well
in ears as 1 am now, and although I
have been subjected to frequent and
severe changes of weather this win
ter, 1 have not felt the first intiinu-
tion of the return of my 'rheumatic
j trouble."
"lo you object In the publication
of this interview,. M r. Ashley I" ,
"Not at all, sir. 1 look upon it as,
a duty I owe my hllow creatures to.
may Ikj sent tome Maiuu-uveimo
will' receive prompt and careful at
tention." "Judging from your recital, Mr.
Ashley, thero must bo wonderful
j curative properties about this medi-.
'cine.'''
"Indeed, there is, sir, for ho man
suffered mort nor longer than did I
before this remedy gave me relief."
"To go back to the original sub-
ject, Mr. Ashley, 1 suppose ')H)U see
the .sa:;;o familiar faces about tho
lobby session after session '" '
"No, not so much so as you might,
think. New faces are constantly
seen and old ones disappear. The
strain upon lobbyists is necessarily
very great, and when you add to
this tho demoralising effect of late
hours and intemperate habits, and
the fact that they are after found out
in their steals, their appearance can
easily bo accounted for. '
"What proportion of these blood
bills are successful ?" -
"A very -small, percentage, sir.
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Kcpii bll mi Con vent lon.
I Since the organization; o the re
I publican party it has had seven na
i tional nominating conventions, loca
ted and resulting as follows:'
j lSJO-l'liiladelphia-Tromont audi
j Dayton.
j ibGO Chicago -Liqcolu and Ham-'
; I;n.
1.SG1- Baltimore- Lincoln and John
1 son. . . ,
is;s Chicago Grant and Colfax.
1? -Philadelphia G r a n t and
The bankrupt law agreed on uy the
House Judiciary Committee, is iden
tical with the bill reported to the Sen
ate. It gives jurisdiction in bankrupt
cy to the United States district court,
and authorize any person owing over
five hundred dollars to file a petition,
for a discharge from tho obligation,
with a statement of all his estate as
signable under the'act. His applica
tion is then to bo referred to a mas
ter in chancery. A person, bankrupt
in a commercial sense, may be thrown,
into involuntary bankruptcy on the
petition ciC'i.tois, f'
. . . . r i i .-. S .1 .1 .
tfgrvK-to hve hu id red dol-
! 'ars-
"Let me sco" said a yo'ui ; I;tdy
graduate to a highly intellectual itu
quintancc, "was it Pojhj who wrote
the llaid, or the ilaid who wrote
Pope?" Neither replied the intellectual
Jt was bhnd Homer who ynsiat4
i , , 'u.
: friend. '
,,. . , 7v l.
the Iliad. "Oh. yes, now I TV. -iein
der. 1 would give anything far your
cIuVen but lwwu wI1 me wliat i3
. ... , ' , ...
H.ad any way - U by ,t a
Pni telling al about an old fellow .
, who lived in a tud of water.
believe that a man euuM
(lh
t
A wagon wil u lour passengers halted
; jn front of the p.t office at Milaiio,
Texas, 'recently, when a man got oat
and upoke to litsv, Mr Jrhirrows, re
turned to the wagon and asked a.
i blushiiur tril l to come to the sidewalk.
! The blushing girl arose and with loud
J voice declarad that she was going to
i be married where stio was. ino man
clambered back, into the wagon,
standing by the side of the blushing
gui, wuen', in the presence of the
gathering . i-rowds the pair were,
made one flesu. , 'i
v- ;