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^GRAPHIC.
. .. y oV- S.—Fire S39 Broad-
j l 'V 3 "rt gallery damaged. The
I buffered slight damages from
.oni’on Times
N'ov. 8.—A
‘V. „ tc i, fS ys Hussia is raising
difficulties regarding the tine
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il compelling the Turks to
ullev of Narva.
WASIIIXfiTON
s it. Nov. 8.—The
• ri»K<and Washington Chrcn
only n liid>le papers who
B.Tilden'i election this morning.
aliform.v.
9' s ,mo, Nov. S.—It is likely
I . -s elect all four members of
Twelve of forty-nine pre-
;. ;,y jive Hayes four ma-
" v ”,from interior Oregon
Hie Democrats are jubi-
tarn5 from the East. Tilden
j[ a vor Bryant that he is
MICHIGAN.
y llV- 212 towns’ Demc-
. 1 ! ; ;;i..cr.itic gain, 9,03S.
un Yyr.S.—Hamilton coun-
.'.fnl nnj .:ity. Vote in
... ,[, t r. 37 ; prohibition-
Missonu.
•. \'ov. 8 —Phelps, for gov-
; r. r ,g behind Tilden.
ri.oi.iPA.
. :v. Nov. S.—Findley, Demo-
■ :r ,l i„ Congress by COO majori-
—■tombia county Democratic ma
le. Democratic g/dn of 240.
county Republican majority,
| (gjblican gain of 330. Partial
; -»x other portions of the State
ratio gains, with prospect
- carrying the State.
INliUNA.
it-. Nov. 8.-260 points,
^■•11 per cent, of October vote,
cain Same ratio give
| >;i majority in the State.
:ir; give a Democratic gain of
H?..irir unheard from give a
ioritv of 6,091 in Ooto-
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M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR
VOLUME XXXI.
“WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.”
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER la, 1876.
jWjjgA -nil ;
NEW SERIES-NO. 11
it. Nov. S.—Trie Herald says
ci have cast a majority for
a!?, and 16 for the Itepubli-
iOovernor Tilden is President
s. A. Hendricks Vice-President
electoral votes—against ICO for
&1 Wheeler—giving them 49
" 21 more than is necessary for
Next House of Representa-
d Live a majority of 25.
Writ state goes Democratic by
majority. Smith Ely, Jr., is
a.rv' r ovi r Gov. Dix by 50,000.
’’'lTil I'Alloi.lXA.
SI-TD.V. Nov. .5.—I Ifficial count
•4 of Charleston gives Ilamp-
as.'ortty. The .V. u-< and Courier
tt returns, covering the whole
f Charleston county,
tmpton over ten thousand ma-
paper does not think it
tat Charleston county can
t..aa o.Q00 Republican ma
tt considers the State safe for
wd for Tilden.
WfGiAXA.
•tEAX?. Nov. S.—As yet defi-
■j and matters stand as last
•r r ”'.e; claiming the State,
tt.t R Democratic gains in
bison, Democrat, elected
U:y prohahly gave 11,000
tt Majority.
xtt'v YORK.
a. Nov. '.—The election of
-' f tiu claimed by cautious Re-
---•wao count on carrying I.ouis-
Florida.
tu.t.voi*.
. Nov. s._Hayes’ majority in
5 ! PPwximates 30,000. Later
■ u> " I.arnoins election very
AMV .,KK'F.V.
Nov. S.—Senate stands 11
■sur. l In Republicans. House
-ats and 31 Republicans, giv-
‘■publieans one majority on
• ■ Ihtnocrats still claim an-
-tn-r.but the above figures are
•'■-securea Republican United
TlollIIU.
■ IY - Nov. ,s.—The opinion of
|is that Florida will elect
ticket hv over 2,000 major
‘. llc gains are large in all
' ’We or four exceptions.
CALIFORNIA.
kW:w 0 , Nov. S.— Returns
■till y 1 *"' are near, y complete.
| have a smttll majority. For
|. - 1 ' 15 . Republican, elected by
-•fe are few additional returns
n, ‘- and none of effect.
'H-Nsvi.vania.
k N Nov.Returns received
j ‘'‘-publican majority of 7,-
7 Shany county, and a gain of
|j_- an Congressmen in the coun-
' jsHpto 2 P. M. from 141 dis-
J ^ counties in the western part
L not including Alleghany
r;'-a Republican majority of
- Republican gain of 1.378
B tot6 of 1S75.
_ MICHIGAN.
■ •''ov. 8.—Returns from 304
J'^anil 5 precincts in this city
‘ a Dtt majority of 1,225. A
•gain 0 f < )j4C3 over 1872 .
r towns
Rover,
gave Caswell, Repub-
n °r, a majority of 6,631
l! ,1 . Jl —
! Clai ® the election of Wil-
r-he i
d district by 1,000 ma-
«£. dispatch from Portland, Oregon,
says the State is undoubtedly Republi
can by a full majority.
A private dispatch from Virginia,
Nev., says Nevada is sure for a decided
Republican majority.
Latest returns from Oregon show a
Republican majority of 10,000. Dem
ocrats now concede that State Republi
can.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery, Nov. 8.—Returns con
tinue to indicate at least 25,000 for
Tilden. Herbert in 2d, Williams in
3d, Ligon in 5th, Hewitt in 6th, Forney
in 7th, and Gath in 8th district, all
Democrats, elected to Congress. Re
turns are favorable to Jones, Democrat,
over Bromberg. Shelly,' Democrat,
makes immense gains in 4lh district,
very hopeful of election over Haralson
and Rapier, Republican candidates. As
far as heard from there was not a dis
turbance in the State. The U. S. Mar
shal s Deputies in this city were, with a
few exceptions, negroes.
NEW JERSEY.
Trenton, Nov. 8.—Congressional del
egation remains four Republicans and
three Democrats.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Pottsvxlle, Nov. 8.—Reilly re-elected
to Congress by one hundred majority.
The Washington Star says neither Judge
Edmunds nor the President have re
ceived dispatches from Chandler to-day,
which fact they regard as too discoura
ging to hope any possible change of fig
ures to Hayes side.
MISSOURI,
St. Louis, Nov. 8.—Sixty-four towns,
give Phillips 8,S40; Finklenburg. 6,405.
A Washington dispatch says: The
World bureau here has the following
from New York, 7 P. M.: Hendricks
telegraphs that he has trustworthy ad
vices that Wisconsin has gone Demo
cratic by 1,004 majority.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Nov. S.—The Western
Union Bulletin says that the Democrat
ic committee claim Louisiana by 10,000.
Republicans claim Florida and Ore
gon.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, Nov. 8.—Democratic
gains: Bucks 73, Lehigh 38, Columbia
231. Republican gains: Snyder 51,
Tioga nearly 1,0C0, Blair 477, Chester
1,065.
Republican gains : Lancaster 2,279.
Democratic gains: Lycoming, slight
Centre, 550, Northampton 1,076, North
umberland unchanged.
OHIO.
Columbus, Nov. 8.—Great excitement
here over the announcement that Gov
ernor Hayes is elected. His private
secretary is sending out telegrams
claiming a majority of one for Hayes
in the electoral college, High street in
front of the Republican headquarters
is closely packed with thousands ol
people, all wild with excitement. In
the midst of such general excitement,
all efforts to obtain complete returns ol
Ohio election by counties have signally
failed thus far. Replies have only
been received from 19 counties. It is,
however, conceded by both btate com
mittees that the Republican majority
will be from 8,000 to 10,000.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, Nov. 8.—The follow
ing special is from a Democrat, Lau
rence Clinton. East Feliciana, Parish
8th: Owing to the failure of the register
to fill his appointments, a large number
of voters were not registered. 1,743 reg
istered votes were polled, of which
Hayes got three, and Tilden the bal
ance. At a poll conducted under United
States superviors, 443 deposited ballots
in a separate box were all Democratic"
The Republicans refrained from voting.
There was no intimidation. The gross
number of voters was within 300 of the
number at last election. Many Demo
cratic voters were deterred by want of
registration. Whites aud blacks frater
nized, and all are happy and jubilent.
The above majority, 1,740, shows a
Democratic gain of 2,581 over the vote
of 1874. Prominent Republicans say
the voting in East Feliciana informal,
and votes will not be canvassed by re
turning hoard of registrators. The
voters there having been run oft and in
timidated. Other Democratic parishes
will be treated the same way, for simi
lar reasons. Charges of intimidation,
fraud, eic., will he made. The Demo
cratic majority in Ouichita parish is
1,087, a gain of 1,915 over the vote cf
1874, when Dubucklet, Republican, re
ceived 528 majority.
WISCONSIN.
Milwaukee, Nov. 8.—Complete and
partial returns from 41-counties show a
net Republican gain of 4,200 over last
year. This cannot he overcome by the
counties to be heard from. Republican
majority in the State will be fully
3,000.
ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, Nov. 8.—Vote smaller
than October. All Democratic Com
gressmen elected.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis, Nov. 8.—Thomas, Inde 1
pendent, carries this county by 2.SOO;
Hardeman county, -149; Haywood
county, l.SOO. Porter, Democrat, car
ries Weakley by 1,100.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston, Nov. 8.—The Republi
can and Democratic committees are
still widely at variance as to the result
in this Slate. The former claim 8,000
majority for Chamberlain, but withhold
details of their estipaateg. The latter,
conceding every county unheard from
to have gone according to Republican
prediction, claim that Hampton is cer
tainly elected. The dispute will hardly
be settled before to-morrow. A serious
riot broke out here about dusk this
evening. Broad street, from the court
house to the postoffice, was crowded
with blackB and whites, all excited
and blacks much angered at returns
unfavorrble to Republicans. An alter
cation between Democrats and Repub
licans was followed by a general out
break of blacks, who were largely supe
rior in number to the whites, and who
opened a general fire with pistols and
rifles upon the whites, taking complete
possession of the street for the time.
The whites soon rallied. A sharp fir
ing occurred. Intense excitement
ranged throughout the city for some
houre. The companies of United States
troops in the city double-quicked to
the scene, dispersed the crowd and
now have charge of the streets. Casu
alties, one negro mortally, and eight
others seriously, wounded ; one white,
a son of G. H. Walter, a prominent
cotton buyer, was killed, and a about a
dozen whites wounded.
Raleigh, Nov. 8.—North Carolina
Democratic by 1,500. Unbroken dele
gation, except Gov. Brogden, Republi
can, in the 2d District.
Lake City, Nov. 8.—Florida Demo
cratic by 2,500 or 3,000.
San Francisco, Nov. 8.—Oregon Re
publican.
Louisiana Democratic by 15,000 to
20,000.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, Nov. 8, midnight.—
In 11 parishes, partial official returns
and estimates show net Democratic
gains to he 7,127 over the Democratic
Conservative Committee’s returns of
1874, which elected Moncure, Demo
cratic treasurer, by 2,939. The above
indicates that the Democrats have car
ried the State by 15 to 20,000, and
claimed by the Democratic committeea
Democratic majority in the city will
probably reach 11,000.
The latest from Charleston gives
Hampton 5,000, Tilden 3,000 majority.
Hartford, Conn., Nov. 9.—Tilden’s
majority in Connecticut 2,824.
Trenton, N. J., Nov. 9.—Democrats
have three majority on joint ballot, se
curing a United States Senator.
Savannah, 1:40 A. M.,Nov.9.—Rail
road disaster in Florida, which cuts off
On its lust Legs.
Closing Hay Sketches at the Gieat Eihi-
bitlon—A Glimpse th 0 i h»oners—How
They Look, Gape, ^ orn'er ami Wander—
Philadelphia’s C'ei teimial £pree.
Philadelphia, Nov. 4,1876.
Ominoussigusof the approaching end
of the festal Centennial times begin to
appear, although the crowds at the
grounds on Fairmont Park are greater
than ever. The admissions during the
past week have been 500,000. and the
fact that but a few days remain for
seeing the huge creature before it ex
pires under the last batch of speeches
which are being prepared by the Cen
tennial Com m issi oners stim ulates every
body who has been putting off his or
her visit. There is no doubt that the
closing ceremonies will take place on
Friday next, for General Hawley, Mr.
Goshorn, Mr. Welsh and all the other
magnates of the fair have been shut up
for hours daily before a cunning ma
chine run by gas which turns out
speeches in links like sausages. I am
not permitted to describe this curious
engine, but I was informed to-day by a
trusted office-sweeper that one day last
week it was paying out a speech for
W m M. E ts at one*end and to
D d A. W Is at the other. The
trusted official would not give me the
full names, as he said it might cost him
his place. But to the Exhibition.
While it has been decided to close next
Friday, it is tolerably certain that the
Board will not “shut up” for many days
after, but will continue to make speeches
and receive half-dollars for a week or
two later. It would be hard to blame
the Board for this determination, but
after the set of speeches now ready for
the closing day are delivered, the life
will he knocked out of the Centennial
Exhibition.
the permanent delusion.
The plan for a permanent exhibition
in the Main Building is a delusion, as
enthusiastic Philadelphians look on it
now. That a few hundred people will
ing to advertise their wares, will apply
for space, put up showcases and keep a
voluble man or a pretty woman to dis
tribute handbills and take orders, goes
without saying; hut it w : ll be a collec
tion of mercantile mummies that will
attract people less day by day, until
the voluble men will at last he reduced
to making love to the pretty women to
keep their tongues from rusting at the
roots. Philadelphia has never had a
great exhibition before. It has found
the giganlio animal so lively and withal
so profitable that it cannot make itself
believe that the big creature is about to
pav the debt of nature. But to those
who, like the writer, have seen exhibi
tions,expositions and W eltausstellungen
die the death of dismantlement and
dismemberment, the signs that the hour
is at hand are as plein as that night will
come after the day. The glory of the
days at Fairmount is the gorgeousness
of sunset, and the kerosene and candles
of a “permanent exhibition” will not
make sunlight again.
Lika the busiest fabric of a vision,
Tbo big foghorn, the geargooua restaurant*,
The Corliss engine, tbo great show itself^
Tfe», all which it, inherits ahalt dissolve,
And like this unsubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.
The great rush meam that the shew;
has been a success, but-the talk of
making it eternal is as absurd os to talk
of making a permanent wave.
HAS TnE QUAKER CITY BENEFITED?
A question, indeed, new agitating the
minds of the good people-of Philadel
phia is, of what use the Exhibition has
been to the Quaker City ?JLaAf.e city’s
present hilnrious com!lt®ff-it would*
hardly be safe to trust ainhnicipal vote
on the matter. Philadelpbgjtie.unques
tionably in the sixth mftaith of the
longest spree in its existence, and it is
a toes up whether it wilinEfper off into
a return to sober provincial habits or
end in a delirium tremens, in'which
tits'most dangerous hallcriBatjotf will
be that itis the metropclifi22hn'natiod.
It has certainly tasted lii ifi oxicated
liquors of metropolitanisijo^and flonar-
ently likes them. Chestn^tirttoetp-after.
nightfall, has become as,metropblitan
as the lower end of the Btgvery on o
Saturday night All sort*' of cheap
amusements flourish along that once
highly circumspect thoroughfare. Here
a man with scissors,"mavis' silhouette
portraits; there the shooing gallery,
with its fanciful targets, flames on the
pedestrian. At midnight whets that in
the ante-Centennial times were dark
and still after nine o’clock, now wear a
rakish and garbish aspect, • while
snatches of popular songs and shouts
of laughter float on the air.^Tlie great
hotels overflow on, the sidewalks, and
the Broadway statues that form the
caryatides of New York’s hblels now
support the door poets of tho .Continen
tal, the Girard, and La Pierre house
until late in the ujorning. jjll this my
Quaker friend says is the work of the
visitors. Not so. The natives, stay up
to keep the visitors in .countenance.
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A CHANGE OF HEART, -
The effect of the Centennial spree
on the minds of tbp citizens jis most-
marked. They have met a great many
people. Look at the hundreds and
hundreds of families who ho^e taken
boarders who have taken hoarders who
rarely had strangers in theiff homes.
The privacy that came of the ?ine sep
arate home system of the city been
invaded. A blaze of publicity fcs been
thrown upon homes where sVeniDg
prayers and a chapter of tlfc Bible
were as regular as buckwheg^^i.esjbr
breakfast. Not that the vi'ito»:3 jjx.vere
any thing; but reputable. Gn the con
trary, robberies have been unheard of
and elopements unknown ; but it is
undeniable that our boys have become
faster and our girls not so prim as six
months ago. Here and there some oid
survival of the days of William Penn
mourns in his back parlor over the
“centennial demoralization” while he
counts his profits, much as the grocer
of Benjamin Franklin’s time got hie
sugar nicely sanded while his family
was assembling for devotions. But to
the mass the change is hailed as liber
alizing. City manners must come if
Philadelphia is ever to be more than a
big village. If we want to rival New
York, we must have metropolitan cakes
and ale, and, by St. Ann, “ginger must
be hot” to the mouth. On with the
dance, then. A waltz will do for
Brother Broadbrim and Sister T:ibitha
to-day ; to-morrow or the day after, if
the Centennial excitement keeps up, it
may be the cancan. I hope not. The
danger lies in the fact that Philadel
phia is a convert to metropolitaaism,
and we all know how the proselyte
rushes to extremes. A fortnight or
three weeks will decide the matter.
Meanwhile, “eat, drink and be merry,”
is the motto. It is well carried out.
THE OUTPOURING.
From early morn the throng which
pours out of the city by horse-car and
steam-car is astonishing. Philadelphia
itself is pouring out »s well as Philadel
phia’s visitors. Arriving opposite the
gates of the Exhibition, you are met
by multitudes who have come in de
tachments of 3,000 and 4,000 from dis
tant points.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND STRONG.
It would be impossible to describe
the mass of humanity. They are main
ly of the working classes, in which
may be included everybody hut the
very rich. They are people who have
come for a day or two days, and who
go in for quantity in sight-seefng. Here
are quantity and quality for them. Sit
on a bench and look ai a thousand of
them pass by and try to generalize on
them. You may he disappointed at
first in their looks. We are not a fresh-
faced people. Lines of care are marked
on young countenances, and there is a
Ecale of color from sickly white to dis-
peptic sallowness on too many of those
who pass by. The majority look
healthy enough, and one-third are ro
bustly built, though nearly a third are
lank, and narrow shouldered. The
women look belter than the men, as
they should, no doubt, but they have
a relatively stronger appearance. I am
not endeavoring to resolve the throng
into its parent nationalities; for, native
or naturalized, this is the American
people passing before you.
The farmer, the man of the fields, is
easily distinguishable by the awkward
hanging of his hands and the heavy tread
as of one who walks with effort through
soft earth—the camel step; the city
workman, light of heart and free of com
ment, cynical and wondering by tufns,
walks easily past; the bnsiness man, the
dapper clerk,’ swift of step and eager
eyed ; the male student and the school;
marm, with hungering glances and note
book in band skim along with hot en
deavor to see everything in half a day;
the children tagging at their parents—
good, healthy, chubby children, too; 4lje'
‘ bevy of good-looking girls,, under charge
of somebody old enough, to take care of
them—giggling often, bu t, to their credit,
seldom flirting—make up, a portion of
the ;thropg. , ;You' tire -of analyzing it.
Yon afgv.jqtmrwhclmed.. with numbers.
Such a thought strikes you-as that the
young men of the educated;<)!&&> who go
jy'bnd. with ;peceil and mtebook arepaio-
nud pony looking, us though their mind
»|s.W aLth.®L9KB e P*®nqf their .Jodies.
,A| goodjmany of the underfed and over
worked attest the slrenoHStms of oar
civilizatiqn. The effort to amuse them-
selves seems pa'nfnl
0Hl.cn!
The commonest state of mind among
the visitors rapt wonderment, People
wulk.alqug in tnasses among the exhibits
with a dared exprsaion, over, which a sense
of fatigue creeps as. the. day. goes on, just
like the advancing shadow on a sun diaL
A man svd.toehiein ope of theside aisles
of Machinery, HaJl r .“ Say,..can you tell
iile if j^m anywhere near the end of this
.fbrflg?” He lnoked worn out, to I told
him he was, and to go ont through a cer
tain door. Hq went with a smile of re
lief, but if I had told him the reverse he
would have gone on conscientiously for
hburs. If people were only frank this
wouldJ>eu Qommon experience. :
: .!, m'iAMWG THE PICTURES.
. . In the Art.Gallery the throngs an na«
bearable. People move through them.in
a : compact mass, glancing hopelessly.right
and left.. Sometimes a determined man
halts to find out a picture in his cata
logue. He looks under the wrong head,
of course, and the voluptuous bacchante
on.the walls turns into “ cattle grazing”
in the book. No determination can
stand against such a disappointment.
He yields to the angry pressure of the
hundreds at his back and allows himself
to be swept on. The passage becomes a
huge conundrum. There would be
laughter for the next hundred years in
the guesses of the multitude as the mean
ing of. the pictures and statnes. There
is a sort of general understanding that
all nude females are Venus, and the ex
pression “something kind o’ ai.cient’’
covers a thousand canvases and several
thousand years. Waggoner's picture of
the Roman chariot race, after a number
of guesses, evoked the opinion that it was
a “ tournament,” which expression satis
fied at least 200 gaping spectators.
; *■" "'THE'SWEDISH GR00F3.
In the Main Building the throngs
scatter more equally, and the student
of character could write a volume of
quaint remarks: TheSweedish peasant
groops attract cbormous crowds—tht-
“asking in marriage” in particular
The old clock maker sits wits his head
bent over his work, while the mother
points to the would be-son-in-law in
whose favor she is speaking. Said a
farmer’s wife. The old man looks as if
he warn’t in a hufy to say yes or no.”
Said the farmer,inlnatienth*, “I reckon
Maria, you’re goin’tostay till he makes
up his mind. Come on,” and he tugged
her away. I heard a young woman, in
the United States Building, standing
before a huge skull, naively read off
the ticket “skeleton of the pinback
whale.” Her companions accepted it
implicity, beeaus I am told, there is
some occult connection betwen a pin-
hack and whalebone.
CLOSING TIME.
At last the bells begin to chime,
and by the calliope begins to whistle
the “Star Spangled Banner,” as though
it was a lame giant playing on a flute
and blowing a note at every step as he
limped along. Then the jaded sight
seers, with weary limbs and blinking
eyes, and faces more careworn than
ever, troop out and back themselves
into the horse cats in a manner that
would rejoice a New York horse co
director. It makes New Yorkers feel
at home to hear the familiar cry, “Pass
up in front!” Then thousands back
themselves in a suffocating mass into
the huge railroad depot, awaiting like
pedned sheep the opening of the gate
that takes them off in detachments.
There the weariness of a day at the
Centennial is felt to the full.
THE DREARY DAYS TO COME.
It breaks the heart of the enthusiastic
Philadelphian to think that all this
must pass away. Yet the signs, as I
have said before, are many. Grim
plackards, announcing tnat this house
or that case, or these engines, cars and
tracks are for sale, greet the eye. No
tices of irnm'ense sales by auction ap
pear in the city newspapers. Thous
ands of the exhibitors are longing for
next Friday to take away their goods.
Tens of thousands of purchasers of
goods on exibition are ravening for the
articles they have paid for. The clos
ing day will see the commencment of
a stampede that only those who have
seen other exhihitious close can fore
shadow. Packing coses will enmber
the earth; showcases will disappear and
baled spots will spread over the floors
as they do over the head of u man
that uses his papers capillary lotion.
Cold draughts wili sweep through va
cant balls and cold comfort will be for
the luckiess pilgrim to the scene of the
departed glory.
FOR SALE.
Outside the Exhibition grounds the
people that keep the big mushroon hotels
and the little toadstool shanties have no
illusions. Everything is ticketed for sale.
I don’t remember seeing so sad as the ex
pression of the face the “ armless wonder,”
who sjtsia u lager beer shanty, facing
the Main Building. He eeemed tg ask
with his eyes and his prehtnaible toes,
“What am I to do after next Friday—;
who will buy me?” Thus in a whirl of
excitement approaches the end of Phila-
delpnia Centennial spree, when the order
of exercises on the now historic grounds
may be stripped of the directors’ rhetoric
and summed up in the three sad words—
dismiss, diamantic, dismember.
What the Centennial Exposi
tion Teaches.
One Word more. The greatest of all
the great lessons taught by this Exposi
tion, the chief of all the controlling ideas
born, as it were, of the very atmosphere
Of the place, is freedom. I.m£an free
dom in its’ highest sense ; ’-freedom of
thought, of word, of action; freedom of
politics, of education, of agriculture, of
commerce, of art, religiion. You remem
ber that when the last name ins signed
to the declaration of independence, a
little boy who was waiting for the proper
signal runs out amidst the mighty crowd
that for hour- had been standing anxious
and still in front of Independence Hall,
and, waving his cap in the air, cries out,
with face turned upward, “Ring! grand
father, ring!” And forthwith the old
hell in the steeple began its ponderous vi
brations; but faster did it swing and
louder did it ring, until it burst its iron
sides, that all the land might hear. And
now, in Independence Hall, they take ns
to an antiquated chamber and with great
reverence show us that “old dead bell,” as
they call it. But who of you that have
lately look upon it will say that it dead?
Its voice is even now ringing ont as on
the fourth of July one hundred years
ago. To-night it Bounds from Maine to
Kentucky, from Kentucky to Florida.
Why, then, may not we of this genera
tion and our descendants of the next so
live in the cultivation and development
of this higher freedom—a freedom chast
ened by the laws of virtue and controlled
by the will of God, freedom heartily
commending itself to the purest yearn
ing of the broad bosom of humanity,
that when, one hundred years from now,
the world shall once more come to visit
us a Philadelphia, and the children’s
children of those now there shall strike
hands in commemoration of the two
hundredth birth-day of American inde
pendence, the tones of that same old bell
may be sounding on, not only amid the
valleys of the Alleghanies or the gorges
of the Rocky Mountains, but on the
Alps, the Apennines, the Pyrenees, even
the Himalayas themselves, proclaiming
the reign of peace, the triumph of law,
he empire of liberty.—Home and School.
The Struggle for Life.
The most casual observer cannot fail
n discover in every department of life,
>otb animal and vegetable, a constant
tnd energetic struggle for existence.
iiieJaj»ol life is eiubodleO In
“ The s»»oJ old rule, the simple plan,
That ho •h*ll who has the pjircr,
Aik. he uh*it keen wbo can ”
The tree.' of the forest are constantly
-Irugai’-G- with each other,and with the
elements as well. In a locality where
-.here are prevalent windi: the tree puts
rbrth its rooty anchors and braces
against the attack which otherwise
would overthrow and destroy it. In
sects are provided with methods of con
cealing themselves from their enimics.
:nd those same foes have peculiar facul
ties for hunting them out and destroy
ing them. Some species of animal life,
as the toads and chameleons, change the
color of the skin so that it approximates
,o the surroundings, ana are thus af
forded some protection from natural en
emies. So in every department of life,
from the least monad to the highest or
ganisms, all have their methods of at
tack and defense—all are provided for
by nature, and the races are perpetua
ted generation after generation, until
an organism, having run its allotted
course, drops from the living list and
is entombed perhaps in the sand or
chalk strata, or more permanently in
some rock formation—monumental re
mains of extinct vitality.
Fishes are not exempt from the gen
eral iaw which requires a constant
struggle for existence. It is cot man
alone who is compelled to earn his
daily food, and fight his way by hard
knocks in this busy world. Every
living thing has its work to do, and its
goal to attain, and the “toilers of the
sea” who glide so gracefully about
their limpid homes have all the troubles
commensurate with their mode of life
as well as we.—From November Home
and School.
An Unhealthy Occupation.
At the last census in Wales and Eng
land, of persons engaged in manufactur
ing pottery, the number of people so oc
cupied was found to be about 46,122;
of these 29,169 were males, and 16,953
females. Among the males the mortali
ty was no less than 38 per cent, higher
than the average death rate for the males
of the whole community above the age of
fifteen years, and the increase principally
showed itself in carrying off men in the
prime of life, say thirty-five of age. The
climate being good, the wages fair, and
the workmen fairly temperate and clean
ly, nevertheless the potters were poor in
physique. Now, repeated chemical an
alysis of the human lungs have shown
that silica is absent as a normal constitu
ent of these organs. Professor Church
having, however, incinerated the lungs
of a potter, found that there existed in
the ash left, the amazing amount of 48
per cent, of silica, 18 per cent, of
alumuia and 5 per cent, of oxide of iron.
This showed to what an enormous extent
finely divided clay was constantly
breathed by the potters, and was, evi-
dently, the cause of the premature
deaths.
A Romance of Leavenworth, Kan., has
come to an untimely end. A veteran
of 75 contrived in some manner to open
a correspondence with a lady in another
State, aged 64. Each concealed their
true age from the other, and ere many
letters had passed between them they be
came engaged to be married, and the lady,
having settled her affairs at home aud
bad the usual amount of sewing done,
went to Leavenworth to meet her af
fianced, who bad in the meantime taken
out a marriage license. When they met
there was mutual disappointment, bnt
the bean proposed, as matters bad gone
so far, to have the ceremony proceeded
with. The lady, however, was in a huff,
and repacking her recticule, she set out
for her distant home.
The Cincinnati Gazette errs in saying
that in the Chicago homicide “Roman
Catholic partisanship and Democratic
partisanship are connected.” Sullivan
and his wife are Catholics, bntRepnb-
licans.—Grap/tie, Rep.
Strousberg, the Russian Swin
dler.
Dr. Strousberg and his accomplices
in the Moscow Commerce and Loan
Bank swindle have been found guilty.
This case has excited the .people of
Russia almost as much its the Servian
war. The bank failed last November,
and the catastrophe was brought about
by the bankruptcy of Dr. Strousberg
and by the consequent imposibility of
realizing the loan of 7,000,000 roubles
which the bank had advanced to him.
The Capital of this institution was 3,-
000,000 roubles, and according to its
character, whenever one-fourth of the
capital—in the case 750,000 roubles—
was lost, the aflairs.had to bo wound
up, so that the whole of the' loss would
fall on the shareholder^ and none on
the depoeitoryg and creditors. Such
characters have given> the commerci al
public great confidence in the Russian
banks, although it has for some time
been well known that they were prac
tically at the mercy of the managing
directors, and that in many cases the
council—as the board of directors is
called—rareiy meets, and is exceed
ingly remins in its duties of inspection
and supervision. Banks in Russia have
been but recently established, and the
practice of deposits and of payment by
checks has been of firadual intraduc
tion, and cannot yet be called general.
Great therefore, was the shock when it
became known that the Commerce and
Loan Bank had refused to pay two
ceecks for the sums of 75,000 roubles,
that its books had been taken into pos
session by an agent of the Procurator,
and that the doors of the institution
were closed. What the exact losses are
is not even yet thoroughly known.
According to the published weekly
statements of the bank, shortly before
its failare, it was engaged in operations
to the amount of about 25,000,000 rou
bles. After a short investigation of the
facts, Mr. Poliansky, the managing di
rector, and Mr, Landau, in charge of
the foreign department, were arrested
and placed in the strictest confinement
Subsequently several other members of
the council, including Mr. Schnhmach-
er, the mayor of Moscow, were placed
under the close arrest in their own re
sidences, and all their property was
attached. Dr. Strousberg was in Mos
cow at the time of the failure trying to
negotiate an additional loan, but left
the town and was arrested on his arri
val in St Petirsburg, The balance sheet
pres ented to the stock-holders has been
proven fraudulent, and it has been
shown that Strousberg bribed the di
rectors to advance him the 7,000,000
roubles. The lasses will be paid in fnll
out of the personal property of the
convicted directors, so that *fur a long
delay, the merchants will got" their
money back, and Strousberg and his
friends will go to jail or Siberia for fife,
accord itig to the dispatches. Strousberg
has also got the Roum.miad govern-
nii nt badly in debt through his mis
management in constructing railways
in that country. Had Strousberg oper
ated in this country, ho would proba
bly have been enabled to escape with
his ill-gotton millions. The case has
created great excitement in Europe.
The Rothschilds.
An official London journal informs
us that the Earl of Rosebery is shortly
to marry Hannah, daughter of the late
Baron Meyer de Rothschild. Not hav
ing seen any denial as yet of the report,
we presume it is true, and that the fair
author of “The Hebrew Woman” and
other compositions of interest to Juda
ism will change her name, and add the
Countess of Rosebery to the genealogy
of a proud family that already includes
a Lady Yorke. The Jewish papers of
London have been ominously silent
about the social aspects of the Roths
child family, and this silence if not ap
preciated when a few bold words utter
ed at the very doors of the wealthy
bankers would find an echo in the
hearts of the sturdy English Jews.
We have not a word to say against
the gentlemen who are thus introduced
into the bosom of what was until a few
years ago a strictly Jewish family. We
are not in a position to state that the
interests of the Rothschilds in Judaism
had been weakened by the dreams of
some of their number for personal or
political preferment We cannot avoid
wondering that the two ladies, whose
pens have been largely devoted to re
cording the steadfastness of the Hebrew
women, and who have evinced so warm
an interest in the welfare of their race,
should forget the lessons that they them
selves have tried to teach. Can it be
due to any haughty bearing of their
fathers and mothers toward the young
men of their own faith? Itis a sim
ple question of social ethics that the
Rothschilds have construed from a
merely worldly point of view.—Jewish
Times.
A Southern letter says: “Your cor
respondent was traveling a night or two
ago from Augusta to Columbia, and
on the train he met several prominent
citizens, who were thoroughly posted.
It was their opinion, and the belief is
;eneral, that Hampton would carry the
Jtate by from five to ten thousand
majority. As the cars stooped at a vil-
age near Columbia a large erwd of both
colors; about equally devided, sang a
campaign song, the chorns of which
was—
*-We'U rock Wide Ilunptoo is tha big rocking-
chair,
In the big rocking chair.
In the big rocking-chair."
The Jeff. Davis bugbear is trotted
out again, poor tbiDg. It is dressed up
now in the shape of the following “pur
ported declaration” from him; bnt it is
a most transparent forgery: “I knew
Tilden and Hendricks well While the
Southern people were bravely conten
ding in the field for four long years of
cruel war, your nominees bout in the
forum and as private citizens were giv
ing their political aid and comfort to
our righteous cans. I think we will
gain all we lost by the war between
the States in the election of those glo
rious champions of State sovereignty
and the Constitution as is was.”—
Springfield Republican.
Mr. David Pulsieer, in the office of
the Massachusetts Secretary of State,
has in his possession a well preserved,
but very ancient Hebrew roll, known
to be more than one thousand years
old. It contains the four books of
Moees, written upon a soft, brown
skin, about ninety feet long and two
feet wide.
C0RTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING.
One aqcazo one month _...$ 4 00
One Bqaarc three months- '-T - " F SOS
One square six mcatln—...... , 11 03
One equarc twelre month* 20 00
Ona-fonrtb column one month lb 00
Ona-fcmrth column three month; .10 00
One-fourth column BIX months
One-fourth column twelre months.-
One-half column one month ...
One-half ootuma three nfonthe
One-half column six months-
One-hall column twelre months—„
One column one month. —.
One column three months.— ——
One ooiumn air month* let 00
")ne column twelve month*. — 1W (0
I*- The foregoing rate* are for either Weekly
« Tri-Weekly. When published in both pspare,
SO per cant, additional upon table rata*.
The Educated Housewife.
And yet is There no median! between
the servant and the scholar ? • May- not
all reasonable wants of the body be at
tended to withont sacrificing thereto all
mental culture and'spiritual grate?
May not the disposition of t*rc;fthige of
the towels and haelq oLthii.Tuohir.g* be
sacrificed to a speakinq acquaintance
with grammar and a : writteiV- 6 rci.ee
to rhetoric? Mnst an err--:,: .-;y con
cerning the things that, ure'sroi i iierj-rt-
ually triumph over ali regard ibr the
higher life of mind and soul ? Is the
raiment more than the body and the
meat more than the life, that so much
uf the imperishable shquld be sacrificed
for that which perisbetb? And yet far
be it irom me to disparage the day of
small things or lose sight of the oft-re
peated truth that “triflles make up the
sum of life.” The small thing is equally
sublime with the great thing when it
serves the same purpose or signifies a
noble tendency. It is contemptible
only when it loses sight of and endea
vors to make subservient the great thing.
Order and neatness in a home are
trnly delightful when they suggest har
mony of soul and its accompanying
strength of mind and depth of heart;
bnt when the affections are repressed,
the sensibilites blunted, and the mind
itself so dwarfed and warped that even
its moral perceptions are confused for
the sake of a painful exactness and
regularity concerning temporal things,
one can but be persuaded that the end
is unworthy of the means.
Nothing seems more appropriate in
this connection than the time-worn
adage that “truth lies between the two
extremes.”
A woman need not be so mad a blue
stocking that she will walk, absent-
mindedly, into the street, wearing one
slipper and and gaiter (as has been re
lated of a famous authoress), nor does
literature, art, or science demand of her
an utter neglect of her person and fam
ily ; bat if by dividing her time be
tween soul and body she can supply a
greater number of needs than by devot
ing herself exclusively to either, surely
Bhe stands justified if she is neither a
rabid blue-stocking, discoursing in un
known tongues and looking like a
fright, nor yet a notable housewife, with
no aptitude in her mind nor any space
in her sonl for anything more impor
tant than the fringe of towels and the
heels of stockings. — From November
Home and School.
The Wonders of Telegraphy.
The wonders of telegraphy have not
yet been exhausted. The old mystics
who conceived it to be possible for
friend to hold intercourse with friend
while at distances remote from each
other, could they reappear on earii,
would find that their fanciful imagining
was completely realized when science
summoned to man’s uses the electric
current, and made it the servant of his
will. But even Morse never imagined
that two musical instruments, placed
miles apart, when brought into connec
tion with an electric wire could be
made to play the same tune, or that a
person writing at one end ef a wire
could have a fac simile of his man
uscript produced at the other end of
it Yet these things have been done.
And now we have, as the latest triumph
of inventive genius, audible speech by
telegraph. At Boston, a few days ago,
conversation by word of mouth between
two persons—one in an office in that
city and the other in a factory at Cam
bridge, two miles off—was carried on
over a telegraph wire. A record of the
conversation was kept at both ends of
the wire, and is published in the news
papers. A comparison of the records
shows that, with the exception of two
or three words that the ear of the listen
er failed to catch correctly, the ques
tions and answers were accurately
transmitted. At first the sounds are
said to have been faint and indistinct,
but became suddenly quite loud and
intelligible, and so continued as long as
the session lasted. The invention that
adds articulate speech to the other won
ders of telegraphy is difficult todescribe,
but the author of it is Prof. A. Graham
Bell.
The famous mare Flora Temple is
now thirty-one years of age. We saw
her last Monday in her comfortable
box at Mr. Welche’s at Chestnut Hill.
She begins to show the ravages of age,
and we fear that she will hadly survive
the coming winter. She is of course
well attended to fed with nice mashes
and led out to take the aironsunshny
days. But she grows feeble and some
times falls down. What a vast dif
ference in form there is between what
she is now and what there was over
twenty years ago, when John C. Per
rin and his brother, George E. P;rrin,
who now manages the United States
Hotel at Hartford, Conn., owned and
trained her. One look at good old
Flora in her present estate will con;
vince anybody of the of the folly and
absurdity of taking the dimensions of
horses long past their prim ?, for the
purpose of forming generalizu.ion from
them.—N. V. Sportsman.
There is a prospect of fie opening
of an important export trade to Europe
in American boots and shoes, the priors
of our goods in the Centennial Exposi
tion having greatly surprised our for
eign visitors. No doubt.the prices will
equally surprise some of our own peo
ple, and $1.20 for a pair of substantial
shoes for men’s wear, and S2.50 for a
pair of men’s boots, are rates none too
common. It is truly said that no Eu
ropean goods compare with these in
cheapness, wearing quality, style and
finish. Some orders for Germany have
been received by New England manu
facturers, and the purchasers express
the belief that a trade can be worked
up in France, Germany and other coun
tries in Hhropo for cheap, coarse goods.
Hitherto we have only shipped leather
and hides to Europe, but it is now
probable that the manufactured articles
will accompany the raw materials.
Bulletin, like many other chiefs of
the party is the natural product of the
politics of the last ten years. If he
were scrupulous, law respecting, clean
handed, a lover of exactness, of punc
tuality and honesty in public affairs,
eager to see honor and morality fos-_
ti.red by the Administration, he would*
be an abnormal growth. To hold him
responsible for the civil-service abases
the Jayne and Sanborn frauds, and the
inflationist notions of the party, is like
holding the tiger responsible for the
jungle, or the buzzard for the carrion,
on tiie plains.—The Nation.
