The Noble County Republican. (Caldwell, Ohio), 1882-05-11

              THE JtEPUBMCAX, ADVERTISING RATES. SDBIilBHKD nn Y REP CAN One column one year $100 00 8n-balf column one year 50 00 ne-fourth column one year 25 00 One-eighth column one year 13 00 Road Notices, $3.00; Attachment Notices. S2JS0; Legal advertising at the rate prescribed by law. Local advertisiag ten cents per line for every publication. Obituary Resolutions from Orders and Societies, when they exceed six lines, five cents per line for each additional line of eight words; money toaecompaay therisslntions. EVERY THURSDAY, CALDWELL, NOBLE CO., OHIO. CRMS: 81.60 per Year, in advance. Address YOL. XXIII. CALDWELL, 0., THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1882. NO. 41, letter to W. H. COOLEV, CaldweU. Noble Co.. O. NOBLE BL 1 THE PRAISE OF GOOD DOCTORS. The best of al! the pill-box crew, Since ever time began. Are the doctors who have most to do With the health of a hearty man. And so I count them up again And praise them as I L can; There s Dr. Diet, And Dr. Quiet, And Dr. Morryman. There's Dr. Diet, ho tries my tongue. "1 know you well," says he: "Your stomach is poor and your liver is sprung. We must make your food agree." And Dr. Quiet, he feels my wrist And he gravely shakes his head, "Now, now, dear sir, 1 must insist That you go at ten to bed." But Dr. Merrymnn for me Of all the pill-box crow! For he smiles and says, as he fobs his fee: "Laugh on, whatever you do!" So now I eat what I ought to eat, And at ten I go to ImhI, And 1 laugh in the face of cold or heat; For thus have the doctors said ! And so I count them up again, And praise them as 1 oan: There's Dr. Diet, And Dr. Quiet, And Dr. Merryman 1 S. IF. Suffldd, in N. Y. Independent. AN ARK OF SAFETY. The Bell of St. John's A Story of the Recent Floods. For many days the rain had fallen in ceaseless, heavy torrents, and from every direction came now the brooks and streams rushing with unwonted swiftness, and sending up a deep, hoarse murmur, which was but as a musical echo to the voice of the mighty, swollen rivers. In the little town of Chesterbrook there was every cause for the anxiety and alarm increasing hourly: already was the giant Mississippi, near which the village lay, at its greatest height known at that point, and stealthily encroaching nearer and nearer upon the main street, while the inhabitants dwelling farther yback were thankful for the natural rise "in the land placing them in a safer position. "Is not the river very high, grandfather, asked Ruth Boynton, a timid accent faltering in her tone. She was a young girl of fifteen years, busied at the time with preparations for the evening meal, but pausing now as she spoke to look toward her grandfather 1 ? J - Al ,1 L 1 - as ne sat uesiue tne winuuw in ms targe chair, looking anxiously without. Ruth came nearer to him, laying her hand on his shoulder. "Does it not look very, very high?" she repeated, "and there seem to be so many timbers floating on the waves." "It is, indeed, higher than I have ever seen it in my eighty years, Ruth," answered the old man in the voice grown xeeDie witn age. "Do you think the town is in danger, grandfather?" asked the young girl, a slight pallor creeping over her face as siie spoke. "Not to-night, child, not to-night," ne answered, "ana to-morrow may bring brighter skies; aye, to-morrow, who knows, he murmured softly to himself, as Ruth turned away to her work again, and the old man folded his hands and closed his eyes in silent praver to the God who rules the storm and clouds. ' Midnight had already passed in the thick darkness enshrouding the silent town, and even the most watchful and anxious were at last sleeping heavily when suddenly with a confused thun der of sound rising in crashing din above the voice ot storm or river, and seeming: to rend heaven and earth asunder, the village nestling so peace fully under the shadow of the hills was roused to death and destruction. Restrained no longer by any former bounds, the relentless stream had broken every barrier, and now amid the despairing cries of fated human beings was wildly sweeping away every tenement or building in its widening pathway. ''! With the first wild alarm, Ruth Boyn ton had started terrified and bewildered from her bed and rushed into the adjoining room to find her grandfather also up, groping with the nervous tremor of age, blindly for a light. In that moment it seemed as though the old man, who had been strong for his eighty years, was transformed into a weak and timid child. "What is it, Ruthie?" he cried, with an imploring, piteous glance at the girl entering with a candle in her hand. "What can it be, and what, O what shall we; do!" "It is the river, grandfather," she answered, hurrying to the door; "the town is Hooded, and everything is being swept away!" "My God, My God!" cried the old man, trembling in every limb, " who willsave us. and what can do!" Whether it was the sense of appalling danger at their very door, or tender pity even in this terrible moment for her helpless companion, the young girl seemed suddenly imbued with a new heroic strength, tingling in every nerve; and with a voice almost steady, she said, calmly: " God is still with us grandfather, and will surely make some way of escape; try to be strong and trust to his heJp." But even as she spoke another fearful crash, accompanied by piteous shrieks, told of a nearer catastrophe, and Ruth impulsively laid a trembling hand on the old man's arm. " Come, grandfather," said she, "let us hasten to the nearest house; they may be there making some plan for safety and will help us; and waiting to exchange the llickering candle for a lantern, the two helpless ones hurried out into the darkness of the night. But little were they prepared for the scene of desolation around them; only in the distance glimmered moving lights anil with the slow progress alone possible in the feeble condition of her companion Ruth felt that they could never reach the far-offheln. Only a small strip of land seemed left to them, the river behind and to the right of them, while on the left rose the high steep bank, up which her active feet might have climbed, but never the old man by her side; and not once did the thought of escape apart from him enter the brave girl's mind. With a heart beating wildly with fear, Rntli raised her eyes to the cloud-covered sky, half breathing a prayer for aid, while the trembling one beside her uttered a helpless groan. Suddenly a ray of hope quickened her senses. A little higher up on the left, somewhat elevated above the path before them, stood the old church untouched as yet by the water, looking in silent pity upon the scene of destruction surrounding it. t was possible that safety might be lun.l there; even though the waves should reach it, might not the strong foundation on which it had stood so long prove invincible? "The church, grandfather, the church!"' cried Ruth, in tones of hope and encouragement "Surely we will be safe there;" and the next moment tin v were hurrying over the short space -intervening, and finding but a feeble resistance in the old lock, they soon stood within the silent church. Was it that the soothing spirit of prayer still hovered like incense about the place, or was it the thought of the ever-abiding presence of God in this his house, that seemed to impart a sudden calm to the weary old man? Silently he sank within one of the old-fashioned pews; and here, ah, yes, here, he could die peacefully if such were God's will. The lantern gave but a feeble light in the great room; but thankful for even this mitigation of the darkness, Ruth placed it near, and with loving, tender care knelt beside her grandfather, still bent on cheering and encouraging him. I think we are surely safe here, frandpapa," said she, nestling close to im in her old childlike way, feeling now, having done all that she could, a sudden longing for comfort and support. I trust so, my child," answered the old man, in a tone so strong and calm that it surprised as much as it comforted the young girl. " God has surely guided and sustained you in this hour of danger, and we are now in His hands; he will save or take us to himself as he sees best." A deep silence fell upon them, then, a trembling, prayerful silence on Ruth's part, for nearer and nearer came the sound of the rushing water, while a great sense of desolation crept over her. suddenly a cold dampness seemed to pervade the room, and the next moment perceptible tremor passed over the building, causing the young girl to spring to her leet and clasp her arms about her grandfather, trembling violently. yuickly and hrmly he drew her closet to him, pressing her tenderly to his breast. Be brave, my child," he said in a voice subdued, but calm; " the hour of danger has come, but God is with us still." Again and again came that quiver through the old building, while around it could be distinctly heard the splash of waves; then came one convulsive throe. that seemed violently wrenching timber from timber, and with a rocking, reeling motion the old church, with its liv ing inmates, was washed from its foundations, and floated away on the bosom of the angry stream. Almost unconscious from fright, Kuui lay on her grandfather's breast; but as the movement became more regular and steady, she raised her pale face and whispered: " Grandpapa, are we really floating?" 'Yes, my child, like the ark of old," answered her grandfather. " We are adrift, and God only knows how long we may float, or what the end will be. Let us not murmur at his will; we will perhaps find many friends who have gone to-night into the other world." The girl hid her face again for a moment, but suddenly a faint, as it were, far off sound broke the stillness the sound of a bell feebly, slowly tolling. Ruth started up. "O, listen, grandfather!" she cried, " it is the bell, the church bell, tolling with the motion of the waves!" The old man started, listeni ng intently also, and a tear moistened his eye, trickling slowly down his furrowed cheek. "Aye, child, it is the old bell of St. John's, that has rung out many a chime. It is tolling now its long last message tolling its own knell, and the knell of the many that to-night have passed away." But to Ruth the familiar sound, solemn and sad as it was, seemed to bear a message of life and hope; and, with her young face all aglow, she started once again to herfeet, exclaiming: " Grandfather, I know whatl will do! I will climb the belfry stair, and hang the lantern from its high window, and I will send out such a peal from the good old bell that help, I am sure, must come." Timid for her safety, where he was brave for his own, the old man anxiously tried to dissuade her from an effort so perilous at this hour of darkness ; but, scarce waiting for permission, Ruth had already darted awav with the lantern, leaving her grandfather in the solemn darkness, where he could only wait and prav, while sue was cautiously but swiftly climbing the belfry stair. On through the gloom and silence the old church floated, when suddenly through the darkness a bright light sparkled like a beacon star from a light house tower, and above the din of the rushing waters, a ringing peal came forth, awakening the startled echoes slumbering on the river bank. "Clang! Clang! Clang!" the sound seemed almost to dance along the waves, while the brave girl aloft clung to her trail support, aud the old man prayed below. The river had now found a deeper, narrower channel, with high dry cliffs once more on either side, and as that strange sound rang out amid the storm and gloom, a group of. men with skiffs moored high peered up the rushing stream with wondering, awe-struck faces. "Egad!" cried one, "it sounds like the old bell of St. John's ! Can it be the timbers of little Chesterbrook that have been floating by to-night?" On came the pealing sound, and now the starlike light shone out upon them. "Aslhve! cried the same speaker, "it is the old church afloat, and that bell could never ring like that from the motion of the waves; there are living souls within call ing for help ! To the rescue, men; out with the ropes and skiff's!" Five minutes more and strong, brave hands were out in the stream, all un known to the two anxious ones within; heavy ropes were being securely fastened to the old building, and, with the bell still tolling, the old church was rap idly towed toward a haven-like break in the clifls. And suddenly, with a start ling shock, it stood still, and with a frightened, beating heart, Ruth gazed anxiously from the little window. Could it be possible! Was that really the bank on which they were safely moored? And the lights and moving figures had God really sent help so soon? Hastily, swiftly, she descended the rickety stairs, crying joyfully, "We are saved, grandfather: thank: uod, we are saved!" A sudden light- in the doorway, and the next moment Kindly voices were breaking the silence. Lanterns held high soon revealed the two lonely figures and guided by kindly, helpful hands. Ruth and the old man soon found them selves bv the hospitable firesides of a lit tie hamlet a short distance back from the dangerous river. And here they made new friends and a new home, as did also more than one of the few who were picked up and rescued from the ruins of Chesterbrook. JV. 1'. Observer. The late Deacon Thomas Smith of Hartford, left over 5400,000 for hi family after giving $20,000 to the mis sionary boards and 10,000 to local charities. Detroit Post. Ladies of the highest rank in En gland are again wearing their hair cut short and curled. J. he same style prevails in Timbuctoo. Chicago Journal. Consolation. Dear friend, do you ever stand in the doorway of memory, when the golden sun lights up the road over which you have traveled through the dust and heat of former years, and while you look out over the field of jour great struggles, and victories, and def ats, do you ever wish yourself back again beyond the hour when first ambition filled your heart and made your present seem distasteful, and poor and mean in your eyes? Do you ever figure your gains and losses, and look with weariness and unrest upon your achievements? Does it not sometimes occurto you that you have dearly bought your position and wealth. Ah, who can buy the joyous hope and bounding health of sore-toed boyhood? What wealth can procure the free and unalloyed satisfaction of those days when you could eat your fish bait and stay in the water up to your eyebrows all day? Would not President Arthur to-day madly fling away his scepter of power and resign his lofty position if he could once more be placed back at the threshold of life; with his pantaloons hanging by one home-made suspender? How empty and how vain are the glor ies that crown the hero of a thousand battles. How worthless are the faded laurels that crown the bilious, pimply brow of greatness. We combat with all humanity for a proud position, and just as we get our name in print we find that our digestion has gone back on us and the overtaxed gastric department must be sent to the shop for repairs. Then come those retrospective longings for the dreamy nights long since, when the Katydid sung in the August grass and the watermelon went to its long home. Then come golden memories of the bright days of midsummer, when beneath the bending willow we bathed in the sunny depths of the silent pool and speared the warty toad with an old pitchfork. It is a proud day to the ambitious statesman, when in the flush of victory he stands before the applauding host of those who have carried him upward to this glorious moment, when he feels his own strength and calmly surveys the cetvnr fiolrl m-pp wh!rh bf baa friiio-lit. But when every man who voted for liim has asked and petitioned him for the nine dollar postoflice at his old home and threatens to bolt all nominations and disrupt the party if he cannot have it, there steals over the senses of the reat statesman the fcuitless wish that e may be taken back to the old home where he snared gophers witli an old fish-line or pasted blue mud all over his freckled skin and ran along the beach in the warm July air and scared the frisky horses ot the young lovers who drove along the pebbly shore. Greatness is to be sought for and de sired because it stirs the stagnant ambi tion of man and helps him to kill time, but fresh laurels and bronze medals cannot minister to a pair of torpid kid neys. 1 he praise of men and the smiles of beautiful women cannot bring joy to the heart of a hollow-eved statesman who cannot digest anvthing but oat-meal mush and distilled Graham juice. The world is full of great men, men who, when they write their names on hotel register, are sure that they will be interviewed by newspaper men and their words printed before break-last; men who wear Prince Albert coats every day and talk grammatically even when they are mad; but the collection of happy men men who laugh and have fun and never miss a meal is comparatively small. Wealth does not always do the business, either. Money can buy off the opinions of the public sometimes and take the edge from popular censure, but it cannot choke off the nightmare or still the vague unrest of a congested liver. It is ever thus through life. He who has a big bank account may also have the bilious colic, and he whose name is found on ever y page of a nation's history may have an ingrowing toe-nail that makes his life a burden to him. If we could look at this life philosophically and live on soda crackers and calm, the con suming ambitions which torture the great would not come nigh us, and when we died, the human hell-hounds who survived us would not dig up our crumbling bones and spread our errors out before a gaping, grinning world, while our widow and orphans would suffer a thou sand agonies, helpless under the iron heel of the relentless slanderer of the dead. Blessed is the dead whose worthless dust belongs alone to his sorrowing relatives and his God. The public did not feed him during life, and in death it cannot blacken his name. Nye's Boomerang.The Resemblances Between Men and Monkeys. If the skeletons ot an orang-outang and a chimpanzee be compared with that of a man, there will be found to be the most- wonderful resemblance, to- ether with a very marked diversity. Sone for bone, throughout the whole structure, will be found to agree m general form, position and function, the only absolute differences being that the orang has nine wrist bones, whereas man and the chimpanzee have but eight; and the chimpanzee has thirteen pairs of ribs, whereas the orang, like man, has but twelve. With these two exceptions, the differences are those of shape, proportion and direction only, though the resulting differences in the external form and motions are very considerable. The greatest of these are that the feet of the anthropoid or man-like apes, as well as those of all monkeys, are formed like hands, with large opposable thumbs fitted to grasp the branches of trees, but unsuitable for erect walking, while the hands have weak, small thumbs but very long and powerful lingers, forming a hooTt rather than a hand, adapted for climbing up trees and suspending the whole weight from horizontal branches. The almost complete identity of the skeleton, however, and the close similarity of the muscles and of all the internal organs, have produced that striking and ludicrous resemblance to man which everyone recognizes in these higher apes and, in a less degree, in the whole monkey tribe; the face and features, the motions, attitudes and gestures being often a strange caricature of humanity. Prof. A. B. Wallace, in Popular Science Monthly. At the meeting of fie Unitarian Club in Boston the other night President Eliot, of Harvard University, told a good story of Professors Day and Dwight, of Yale. The former, he said, is long of speech, and the other is concise and pithy. The two were out taking a walk, spiced with conversation, when they were met by a friend, who greeted them with the paraphrase of a Bible text: "Day unto Dwight uttereth speech; Dwight unto Day showeth knowledge." N. Y. Post. But very few ever transmit a pedigree in as good order as they receive it. The "Previous Question" in the House of Commons. It is not surprising that the introduc tion into the House of Commons of the cloture," or what is known bv parlia mentarians in this country as the "previous question," should be so stoutly re- ted, when the importance of the inno vation is historically and practically considered. Looking at the subject in the light of the present and its necessities, the wonder is that some method of closing a debate within a reasonable period should not have been resorted to before this late day; but, when we look back and remember how few debaters there were in the days when Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox led in the discussion of important questions, how conservative the i.nghsh people are, and how opposed they are to a new departure from the old methods of procedure, we easily realize that the opposition to Mi-. Gladstone's new rule is not altogether unnatural. Prior to the adoption of the Reform bill in 18;i"2. the House of Commons was a large body only in theory, for while the number on the clerk's list was large, the number of absentees was also always very large, the speaking was restricted to a limited number of orators, and the debates on the most important questions usually terminated by the natural process of exhaustion in a few hours, so that the main question came without forcing. But "the Reform bill in 1832 not only added many more members to the Commons, but it threw into it many conspicuous citizens who belonged to the mid dle classes, like Mr. John Bright, men fitted by education, ability and training, to properly represent the ideas and de fend the principles which had brought them prominently to the notice of the public. Instead of the leading parts be ing all taken bv a dozen of bright and distinguished leaders, as was the case in the days ot tax and Pitt, there was a crowd of new speakers, representing un easy constituencies, who insisted on being heard. As a natural consequence the debates became more and more protracted and wearisome, the party contests became more bitter and prolonged as the House membership resolved itself into cliques and factions, which resisted obnoxious measures by what is now called "filibustering" in this country a word that has come into general use since Jefferson's Manual was written. Of late years these obstructionists have become so numerous and so persistent, and so determined to delay certain Government measures that were obnoxious to them, that it became manifest some decisive measures must be adopted, or all legislation would be defeated by the chronic dead-lock. No matter whether the "filibustering" was resorted toby the Tories, Radicals or Irish members, or all of them in league against the Ministry, the effect was the same, and there was no way of putting an end to talking against time. The instance of the Irish members keeping the House in session forty-two continuous hours, as was the case on one occasion recently, is an example of the power of a factious minority, under the existing rules of practice, a id also serves to show the necessity of curbing it. Under these circumstances one would naturally suppose that the necessity of adopting a new rule of procedure in the House of Commons would be so apparent that there would be but little opposition to it, especially with the majority party in Parliament, which is charged with the responsibility of keeping the wheels of government in motion. But the pro posed new departure is seriously objected to (1) by the old conservative element in Parliament and out of it, which dislikes changes of all kinds, and which is tenaciously wedded to the idea that it is "better to bear the ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of." (2) The application of the previous question to cut off debate looks to many people, even in this country, as a device to stilie the freedom of speech, with which mankind seems to be becoming more and more enamored. Even the majority has a deep interest in the change, because it may be in the minority next year, or next month, and then the bit placed in its own mouth by an overbearing majority may be as aggravating to them as it now is to the minority. (3) The innovation is resisted on the ground that it may lead to still more serious and far-reaching results. An ambitious and reckless Ministry, backed by a resolute and courageous majority in full sympathy with them, might not only pass the most tyrannical measures, but suppress the voice of fi.ju-est opposition to them on the floor of ;,he House. (4) The Tories unanimously object to the new rule, because they a,-e now in the minority, and expect to re main so indefinitely. Altogether, tin position of Mr. Gladstone on this subject is not a pleasant one. The use of the previous question in all legislative bodies in this country, except in the United States Senate, where it has never been in vogue, has not been prolific of any of the bad results anticipated from its enforcement by the English statesmen. On the other hand, it has been found so useful in suppressing wind speech-makers and unscrupulous filibusters that it will not be long before it must be adopted by the Senate of the United States. Chicago Journal, Wealth in the Senate. The present Senate contains at least a score ot Senators not one of whom is worth less than 200,000. The richest man is, of course, Fair of Nevada, who probably possesses as much as all the other Senators together. Next to him is David Davis, of Illinois, a widower. who is reputed to be the possessor of millions. It is somewhat difficult to name the Senator whose fortune ranks third in size; but if Eugene Hale of Maine has received the mantle of his father-in-law, Zach Chandler, with its well-lined pockets, his fortune is nearly as large as that of David Davis. The wife of Senator Hale is the only daughter of the late Senator Zach Chandler. Other very wealthy Senators are Miller of California, Mahone of Virginia, and Sawyer of Wisconsin, known to be worth more than a million each. Sewell of New Jersey is a railroad man, and is very wealthy. Senator John Sherman ot Uhio, it is said, is worth more than 2,000,000, his property consisting largely of real estate in Washington. Among other Senators who write their fortunes with seven figures are Cameron of Penn sylvania, Camden and Davis of West Virginia, Brown of Georgia, and Plumb of Kansas. Senators Hill of Colorad Gorman of Maryland, McPherson of New Jersey, and Pendleton of Ohio are all worth more than 6000,000. Many other Senators are comfortably fixed, possessing little hoards of from $00,000 to .9400,000. Among those who hav but little comparatively hero bclow- that is not more than $1 00,000 apiece are Morrill of Vermont, Anthony of Rhode Island, Rollins of New Hampshire, Jones of Nevada, Saunders of Nebraska, and Allison of Iowa. Portland (Me-) Argun. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Cincinnati claims to have taken 1,300 converts into her churches this winter. There is in New Orleans a colored sisterhood of the Catholic Church who are devoting themselves to the education of young girls of their own race. A young lady recently received into the First Baptist Church at Burlington. Iowa, dated her first religious convic tions to the reading of Longfellow's "Psalm of Life." G.'iago Journal, The Brooklyn Board of Education charges its teachers with using slang, dressing loudly, and showing a lack of refinement and cleanliness. In short, " they are totally unfit" to teach Brooklyn's children. A sect called the "New Israel" has risen among the Jews of Russia. It abandons circumcision, abstinence from certain viands, changes the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day and abolishes usury. N. Y. Independent. A railroad conductor was recently chosen deacon of a church. When it became his duty to take up a collection, he surprised the congregation by starting out with the characteristic ejaculation: "Tickets, gentlemen!" The contribution that day was large. Chicago Herald. Sands Street Methodist Church is the oldest of its . denomination in Brooklyn. The rules which were in force in 1815 required that the sexton should have the church opened and thccandles lighted at least a quarter of an hour before the time of evening meeting. He was also to see that the candles were snuffed before the meeting began. The steady progress of missionary work in India may be judged of by what is said by the Rev. James Smith, an English Baptist missionary of long ex perience in IJelhi. He says that thirty years ago it was considered encouraging it a new convert could be reported every two or three years. Now, at every mission station, they are counted by soores in each year. The suggestive and inspiring teacher is the man who is born to his work and who alone should perform it. A patron of a school was once heard to say: "I wish we could get such a teacher as we had last year; he taught the. children hundreds of things they never thought of before, and my boy has pestered me with questions ever since; he will scarcely give me any rest; he tells me everything he has heard there and relates to me all the stories in his reading book and comments upon everything. Such a teacher has a value be yond expression; he remains an inspiring influence in his pupils' lives to the end of them. These teachers may be found and they are always appreciated abstractly; it has not been discovered that they are paid more liberally than are the dullards of their profession. N. I. Tribune. PCSGEST PARAGRAPHS. To-morrow never greets us; lo-day never bids us farewell; yesterday never recalls us. H hiteliall Times. The hardest rocks are made of the softest mud, just as the biggest swells are made from the smallest men. Low ell Citizen. "Lemmy, you re a pig', said a father to his son, who was five years old, "Now, Lemmy, do you know what a pig isr "Yes, sir a pig is a hog s little boy." Meriden Recorder. Sympathetic lady to beggar, who is standing with hat oft: "O, sir, won t you take a cold?" Beggar: "No, thank ou, ma am; 1 only takes pennies or nve- cent pieces. Philadelphia Sun. -A chap who sent us a poem begin ning "When twilight dews are falling fast upon the rosy lea, has since mar, ried Rosa Lee, and now the weekly dues are falhng faster upon him. Free Press. -The presence of spongilla iluviaKlis in most of the city water in the land is regarded as a sufficient excuse by many for the insertion of four tablespoonfuis of spiritus frumtnti in a small tumbler of aqua pura. Aornstown Herald. Now that the fact has been demon strated that the earth will continue to revolve on its axis for at least ten mil lion years more, we would request our subscribers to hesitate no longer about paying up lor one year in advance. We may be sanguine, but we think this op portunity for displaying faith should not be neglected. Hackensach liepubhean. A New York athlete named Donald son wants to bet that he will jump from the centre of the Brooklvn bridge into the East River. He is safe enough in that bet We'll bet that neither he nor any other man can jump from the centre of the Brooklyn bridge and come down anywhere but in the .bast ftiver. A. X. iiraphic. It was an independent looking fel low who was standing on the railroad track, apparently paying no attention to the fact that a train was rapidly ap proaching. "1 say, said the station- master, "you had better get off the track or you will get run over. "I fancy that is my own affair if 1 get run over, ' was the reply. "Yes, I reckon so, but who is going to attend to taking up the mess afterwards? It's not me." And, reach ing out his right foot, he kicked the indifferent man fifteen feet and nine inches by actual measurement. Texas Siflings. We have studied with great care an essay " (Jn the Application ot Udectro-Puncture to the Treatment of Pulsatile Exophthalmos of the Orbit," and on the whole conclude that it is indispensable for family use. A lght after night have we been kept awake by the "pulsatile ex ophthalmos getting on a racket and knocking its own orbit askew. If we had only had an "electro puncture" or or even a bell punch in the house we should have been happy. But now science has stepped in and filled this long felt want we are comparatively happy. New Haven Register. Mesquite Gam. It has been found (says the Northwest ern Lumberman) that the mesquite tree of Texas is identical with, or at least vastly similar to the aeyacia tree of the East, from which is obtained the gum arable of commerce, and an industry in the direction of collecting and utilizing this gum is being developed. It is held to be equal or superior to the imported gum, and quite large quantities were gathered last year and sold readily at fifteen cents per pound. A mesquite grove is a novel and interesting sight, the encasings of the tree branches being likened to transparent crystal armor, reflecting the sun's rays, and glittering and glowing like unto some golden harvest. The gum is capable of being handled with great expedition and facility, the trees always growing in groves and to medium height. Cattle are also fond of the gum, and eat it from the trees M'here it is in reach. It is believed that were the mesquite cared for like the maple, and proper operations followed, the project of gum-raising would be a feasible and profitable one. Mississippi Politics. The independent Democratic move ment in Mississippi is said to have "interesting peculiarities." So the gushers write of it. But little account is to be made of the descriptions or prophe- syings of people who imagine that every Southern growl against Southern Bourbonism is sure to be the presage of the early and final extinction of Southern Democracy. It is said that Mississippi independantism is a quiet voting movement. It is quiet, so quiet that its actual existence may be doubted. And it undoubtedly votes, but when it does it is against the Repub licans. It is now said that business men in large cities and planters have the sense to perceive that "the continuance of a policy of proscription, intolerance and violence in politics will surely check the material development of the South. But this is not a newly invented thought. It has been the first bugle blast of every appeal for the "old Hag and an appropriation. JMississipnians said the same thing in 1875, but it did not save Chisliolm. They repeated it afterward, but it did not preserve Dix on. In fact, instead ot being novel in Mississippi, such sentiments are more threadbare than the garments of its saudhillers, and have no more meaning than the buzz of the mosquitoes which swarm over its overflowed bottom lands. Whoever builds on it builds on vapor. Aspiring politicians in Mississippi are dissatisfied; so much is true. But their dissatisfaction goes against the political rings of which they would gladly be a part but are not, and not against IJour-bonism. It is not the methods of Bourbonism they oppose, but the fact that they are not managers of the methods. A correspondent of the New York Tribune says they are tired of " tur-" moil." Perhaps, as the wolf was tired of the lamb's bleating, and swallowed it as a remedy. And here it may be said that perfect peace and obedience to law will never come to Mississippi from those who are tired of turmoil. They are simply shirkers. Justice can only triumph through those who covet strife for the purpose of subduing tur moil, it is lighting lor peace which is wanted, and not general proclamations that they are sick of str;te. And evi dence is wanting that there is any real purpose to make a struggle lor peace against the machine men and their violent emissaries throughout the State, The New York Tribune correspond ent insists that the vote ot Jast year is full of instruction and hopefulness. 1 he person who can find hope of grow ing xxcpuuiicamsiu in it must De very sanguine, indeed. Such person would find hope in a cyclone. The facts are, a prominent Democrat consented to be an independent candidate. - His pro fessions of faith were nothing but glittering generalities, and his politics were neither more nor less than soreheadism. If King, that was his name, was a Republican so is Chalmers, and so is " the sage of Gramercy Park." King is a Mississippi Kelly, without the Tammany boss's pluck, persistence and backing. He kicked mildly over the Bourbon traces, took the usual amount of lampooning and stalled. That was all there was of it. As for helping the Republic ans or being in sympathy with Republicans, that is nonsense. He did say something about a " a fair vote and an honest count," Minority candidates always clamor for that. But what hits he done since? Nothing! All his words on the subject ended when his personal concern in the result ended. There is no evidence that he was alive to the principle involved; and no evidence that his harangue had more effect in Mississippi than the down borne by the wind from its thistle balls. Nor is there any irresistible evidence that any considerable number of even dis satisfied liouroons voted for King, though the New York Tribune asserts to the contrary. Greenbackers and Republicans supported him, and yet he only received 51,364 votes, that is 30,000 short of Grant's vote in 1872; 1,000 short of Haves' vote in 1876, and 22,000 less than the Republican vote for Ames in laid. he regular Bourbon candidate at the same election received nearly 1,000 more votes than were cast for Hancock the prsviis vear. Any per son who can find cause for Republican rejoicing in these figures can find joy in bunions, and a ioy torever m a lively case of. colic. It is very nice to be happy under diffi culties, but it is not necessary to pre tend to like them. Nor is it wise to give ourselves over to delusions. Mississippi Bourbonism is a thing by itself, and so long as the colored people of that State are its majority of voters its spirit will remain unchanged. Its disintegra tion will be predicted, but its counting out will continue and its Kepubhcanism will not materialize. As well hope for the materialization of shadows as to hope otherwise. On a fair vote it is now a Republican State by an over whelming majority. Nevertheless Bourbon force and fraud control it and will control it for some time to come In counting up for the future the Re publican party may as well accept this disagreeable and disgraceful truth. The true field for Republican mission ary work m the South lies elsewhere. Une halt the wont devoted to carrying Indiana and Ohio will carry V lrginia and North Carolina and not impossibly Tennessee and West Virginia. These are the States which the party must la bor for. As for Mississippi, it has an idol, but that idol is not the Republican party or republican creed and it may as well be lett to its idols and the gushers about the non-existaut. Detroit Post and Tribune. Democratic Obstructionists. The news comes from Washington that the Democrats intend to resist to the uttermost some of the schemes which the Republican caucus resolved to push in Congress at the earliest pos sible moment. These obstructionists are particularly stirred up over the re port of the Committee on Elections, which has reported in favor of ousting several members on their side of the House, and seating Republicans in their stead, .these contested-seat cases nearly all come from the South, the land of the bull-dozer and the tissue-ballot. and, as the Democratic party is always swift to defend a bad cause, it is pre paring to defend these fraudulent claims to seats by all the resources known to Parliamentary tactics, even if it involves dead-lock and the obstruction of the necessary business of the session. Thev are a little ticklish about the case of Campbell and Cannon, from Ltah, and will hardly be found defend ing the latter s right to his seat as party measure, but when it comes to the ease of Chalmers and Lynch, of Mississippi, a contest between a white Democrat and a black Republican, the tug of war will be reached. this will be the test case, and is ai: in eresting one from almost any point of observation. General Chalmers is not only a representative Southern man, but a representative Democrat, and the lit exponent of the party which believes this is a " white man's Government," and that white men should always be at the front by fair means or foul. This was the prevailing sentiment in Mississippi, where Chalmers and Lynch reside, and it was this belief which gave rise to the celebrated " Yazoo plan" of disposing of political opponents, which was very simple and effective, to-wit, to kill them. General Chalmers, however, did not need to resort to such extreme measures as the use of the shot-gun. He suppressed Mr. Lynch by another but quite as effectual a process. Ho had a returning board which was sound on the colored goose, and although Mr. Lynch had over 5,000 majority upon a fair count, it did not avail him; votes enough wore thrown out upon various pretexts to put Mr. Chalmers ahead, and the white man's right to rule was again vin dicated. Mr. Lynch has furnished such indu bitable proof to the committee of his right to the seat that they have decided in his lavor by a vote of 10 to 2, and haye so reported to the House. But no matter about the justice of the case or the rights of the majority to rule, the Democrats in Congress under the lead of Bill Springer, will be found filibuster ing by the day or week, to the detriment of the public business, in order to ke-p Chalmers in his seat. To oust him will not only take a good Democrat out of Congress and give the Republicans one more vote, thus making the ma;or-ity in fhe House still more powerful, but it would really look like a reflection upon the methods adopted by the Democrats in the South to make their sec tion " solid," and Bourbon soliditv is a thing very much to be desired. Chica go Journal. The Champion Bourbon Election Frand, The coolest example of Bourbon frauds in tne south which has yet been unearthed is to be found in the Fourth Alabama District. The facts in the caso have been developed in the investiga tion of the contested election case of Smith against Sheilev bv the House Committee on Elections. The report of tne committee shows that when the Bourbons gerrymandered the State eight years ago it was found impossible to make it solidly Democratic. They there- iore iook nve counties which had an overwhelming majority of colored vot ers, and made them into a " black district," the rest of the State being solidl y Democratic, this district being conceded to the Republicans. The census shows that it contains 135,881 colored, and only 32,885 white persons. In 1874 it gave a Republican majority of 14,946 Votes, and in 1876 it gave Hayes 9,446 majority, and yet at the lastNjiection it was so manipulated that Shelley, the Bourbon candidate for Congress, received the certificate of election! Under such circumstances fraud is apparent on the very face. No sane per son will contend that a Bourbon could be honestly elected in a district which was set off by itself because ninety-five, per cent, of the voters were Republicans. The report of the committee shows how Shelley was made to appear elected The County Supervisors, who were Bour bons, only placed one republican inspector in each precinct where there were the heaviest Republican majorities, and in every case selected some one who could neither read nor write, and who could not make out returns legally. The Democratic inspectors then refused to open the polls on the day of election, leaving that duty to the ignorant re publican inspector, who would be sure to make some error which would be a pretext for rejecting the ballot-box en tirely. The report then seta forth individual cases. In one precinct of Dallas County a box was thrown out entirely containing 360 Republican and one Democratic vote. In another precinct the ballots were counted, the returns made out, and the box given to the Sheriff, but when the box was opened by some hocus pocus no returns were found, and this box was thrown out with384-Republican and 16 Democratic votes. At a third precinct, where there were 320 Republican and no Democratic votes, the same plan was adopted. At a fourth precinct the Bourbon supervisors failed to furnish a ballot-box, and the vote? were put in a cigar-box. The votes and certified returns were handed to the Sheriff, but he refused to take them at all. This box contained 124 Repub lican and one Democratic vote. The boldness of these Bourbon scoundrels is shown by the following operation which took place at Pintala precinct, Lownde Uounty: In this precinct the Democratic Inspectors failed to open the polls, and the evidence shows that polls were opened by the voters. ana mat one ri. r. uoicomoe, wno naa been appointed by the County Supervisors as an inspector, refused to act, although present. The election was quiet and orderly during the voting:, but about the time the polls closed said Holeombe appeared in the room and claimed the box, and, against the protest of the officers, took the box and put it 1n a carpet-sack or sachel, in which he had. In the opinion of your committee, anotner Danot-Dox stuffed for the occasion, and which he. after disputing with the officers of the election for a time, took out and left instead of the one he had taken from the table; and it appears fully and conclusively that the box stolen by Hoi combe contained 815 votes for Smith andthirty-live for Shelley, and the one substituted only nine votes for Smith and the balance for Shelley. In some precincts no election at all was held, as there were no inspector present; where they were held, boxes were either thrown out altogether or the returns were falsified. By these various devices the State election officers deprived Smith (Republican) of 4,857 votes and Shelley of 252, and gave tho latter the certificate, although according to the returns made by the United States Supervisors Smith received 10,-878 votes and Shelley 6,781, or a ma jority of over 4,000 votes. And Shelley has the audacity to appear in Congress and claim his seat by 2,651 majority, when the proof shows that ninety-seven and one-half per cent, of the negro electors cast their votes for the Republican candidate. The Bourbons of the Fourth Alabama District ought to be presented with a banner as the champion bulldozers and ballot-box manipulators of the South. Tammany in its palmiest days never operated on election returns with such cheek and skill. It will be a matter of some interest to see how many Democrats in Congress are willing to place themselves on record as indorsing this representative of fraud and corruption in his efforts to steal a seat when the committee make," its report Chicago Tribune. -The Lawrence (Mass.) girl strikers are more firm than most strikers, and the closing of the largest of the mills for six months indicates that thev will need all the fortitude they can command be fore they aarain secure employment, But tieir thrift in past years has given them better preparation for their present emergency than most strikers would have. liostnn Post. C0XGBESSI0SAL. Mb. Sherman introduced in the Sen ate on the 87th a bill to regulate the coinage of the standard silver dollar. It repeals much of the act of February 28, 1878, authorizing tho coinage of the standard silver dollar, and restoring its legal tender character, and directs the Durchase and coinage into standard silver dollars of not less than $2,000,000 worth of silver bullion per month. The bill directs the purchase of bullion from time to time, and its coinage only when in the opinion of tho Secretary of the Treasury further coinage of such dollars is demanded for public use and convenience; referred. The political disabilities bill gave rise to a political discussion, the most animated of the session, in which Mr. Edmunds championed the opposition to the measure and opposed the indiscriminate removal of disabilities from ex-confederates. and Messrs. Vest, Garland. Maxev and Hamp ton responded. No action was taken and the Senate took up the Chinese bill. A long controversy took place between Messrs. Farley andVest and the Massachusetts Senators upon an rne allegations mat extraordinary ettorts were necessary to protect the Chinese laborers employed in Massachusetts some years ago. Tho Chair stated the question to be upon concurring in the amendment mad3 in the Committee of the Whole striking out the fifteenth secnon, wmcn aennea the words "Chinese laborers" to mean both skilled and unskilled laborers. Without action the bill went over. The conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill was submitted and adopted. Adjourned In the House Mr. Townsend, of C5hio. submit ted the conference report on the bill to provide for the efficiency of the life saving service and to encourage the saving of life from shipwreck. The conference report recommends the adoption of the Senate amendment adding the pensioning feature to the bill; the bill was adopted. Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, offered the following preamble and resolution, which was adopted: Whereas the charter of -the Second National Bank of Cincinnati, will expire on or about the 25th of May next; and whereas it is alleged that the said bank has gone into liquidation and has reorganized to continue its existence as a corporation under the existing law. Kesol ved that the Comptroller of Currency is hereby directed to communicate to the House any correspondence between him and the officers of said bank in relation to the said liquidation and reorganization, and inform . this House under what existing statutes said reorganization was authorized, and further to communicate the manner and form prescribed of such reorganization of National banks. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President, respecting the troubles in Arizona. After a brief speech by Mr. Springer, relativeito the importance of immediate action, the message was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs with leave to report any time. Adjourned. The House bill fixing the time for holding the elections In West Virginia passed the Senate on the 28th. The Committee on Judiciary agreed to report the House resolution asking that the bill heretofore reported in favor of seating Majors as an additional Representative from Nebraska be committed to the committee, and the commit tee authorized to send for the person? and papers in order to ascertain the facts in regard to the certified copy of the census report for the State of Nebraska, upon which the committee decided to seat Majors. It appears that the committee was informed that the copy referred to as a basis for action gave tho census of the State for 1872, while, in fact, it gave the census for 1874. The object of the resolution agreed upon is to ascertain who is responsible for the misrep resentation. Adjourned until tho 1st In the House a resolution was adopted reciting the recent Anache outbreak in -Arizona, and calling on tho Secretary of War for informa tion as to tne numoer or umiea atares soldiers now in the territory and whether the military force stationed there is sufficient to grant full protection to the people, and also wnetner any legislation is necessary tor prompt and efficient security of the people against the destruction of life and property by hostile Indians. The Chalmers-Lynch case was then taken up and discussed until the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 1st, Mr. Edmunds, from the Judiciary Committee, reported on the President's message in reference to western cowboys, that no additinal legislation was needed, as the President now had ample power to suDpress them by using the army as a posse cnmitattui. Mr. Allison Introduced a bill to authorize the Kock Island & Southwestern Railroad to build a bridge over the Mississippi River at Dupout, III. Mr. Pendleton called attention to the outrages on American citizens in countries of the East, by reason of defects in law conferring criminal jurisdiction upon our consuls and ministers; referred. An appropriation of f3f,U0O was recommended for the purchase of the Benjamin Franklin collection belonging to Stevens, of London. The bill to .repeal discrimination against the appointment of ex-Confederates in the army came up and after some discussion was laid over, as was also the Court of Appeals bill. After a short executive session the Senate adjourned In the House Mr. Berry introduced a hill transferring the Indian Bureau to the WarDepait-ment. Mr. Crapo moved to suspend fhe rules, making the bill extending the charters of National banks the special order for May ; adopted. Mr. Townshend, of 111., offered a resolution that as Chinese immigration was injurious and dangerous, the President be directed and authorized to open negotiation? to abrogate the treaty. A second was retused by 100 nays to 63 yeas, and the resolution was lost. On motion of Mr. Haskell the Senate bill to provide for the sale of lands of the Miami Indians passed. The rules were suspended and bills passed for the erection of public buildings at Detroit Mich.; f 600,000; Jackson, Tenu.. 0,000; Denver, Col., t3O,00O; Greensboro, N. C., SO,000; Council Bluffs, Iowa, $100,000; Lynchburgh, Va., $100,000; Peoria, III., $225,-000. Adjourned. The bill granting condemned cannon to the Morton Monument Association passed the Senate on the 2d. A bill for the relief ot General Custer's widow was reported favor-ably. Mr. Bayard reported adversely, from the Finance Committee, the bill for the relief of the Grand Trunk Railway ot Canada. A motion to refer to the Judiciary Committee the bill for removing the disquallf.cations ofex-Cbnfeder-ates for army appointment was defeated. Mr. Lapham introduced a bill proposing an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting any denial or abridgment of suffrage on account of sex; reterred. The bill to establish a Court of Appeals was then taken up for consideration, hut notice beinit given of amendments to the bill it was laid over and the Senate adjourned In the House billsor the erection of public buildings at Ouincv. 111., and Hannibal, Mo., were passed. The Senate amendments to the Chinese bill were then concurred in, and the House went into Committee of the Whole on the Tariff Commission bill, but without action the Com mittee rose and the House adjourned. Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution in the Senate on the 3d creating a committee of investigation to ascertain whether corrupt or Improper influences had been brought to bear on any member of tho Senate in regard to the bill pending before tho Senate Finance Committee to amend the laws regarding distilled spirits in special bonded ware-bouses; also to inquire if any attempt had been made to bring any such improper or corrupt inlluence to bear on any member of the Senate to secure the passage or defeat nf the bill; the resolution, after a lengthy debate, wentovor. The bill to create a Court of Ap- ' peals then came up as uniinishcd business, and its consideration occupied the remainder of the day without action. Adjourned Jn the House Mr. Henderson reported the bill to allow the army to be used as a ioje cnmiltu tux: ordered printed. The following bills were reported : Authorizing tho Secretary ot War to erect at Washington's headquarters, at Newburgh. N. Y.. a memorial column, and to aid in defraying the expenses of the Centennial celebration to be held In that city in 1883; referred to the Committee of the Whole. To carry into effect the provision in the constitution respecting the election of the President and Vice President of the United States; ordered printed and recommitted. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Tariff Commission bill and rose without action and the HourJe adjourned. Good Advice, A Southern paper relates how G. T. met an old friend, who was formerly a prosperous young lumberman up North, but whose bad habits of drinking resulted as they often do, though lie has since reformed and is trying to do better. "How are you?" said (i. T. "Pretty well, thank you, except that I've had a good deal of "worriment caused by the prevailing throat difficulty, and I've just been to a doctor to have him look at mv throat." . "What's the matter?'' "Well, the doctor couldn't give me any encouragement. At least he couldn't find what I wanted him to find. "What did you expect him to lind?" "I asked him to look down my throat for the saw iriill and farm that h.-ul go'ne down there." "And did he see anything of i! ?" "'No; but he advised nie if ever I had another mill, to run it by water." Cincinnati has a man who compels his wife to use gluts for hair pins. Ho does not mean to have hiseyea put out. Cincinnati Star.