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Sprague -Conkling.
Special to the Cincinnati Oazottc ]
Nakhaoanbktt Pier; August 11.—
Ex-Gov. Sprague has a mansion at the
edge of this plaoe, of large dimensions
and much beauty of position, having
a lugs number of ocean and inland
views of rare attractiveness. Owing to
the financial difficulties of the Governor
the house and grounds aro to be sold in
September. With a view to economiz
ing, the Governor has sought in vain to
have his wife curtail her expenditures.
On Friday last he returned home from
Providence to find his house in posses
sion of Mrs. Sprague aad seventeen
geests, among whom was a German
music teacher, named Linck, and
United States Senate Roscoe Conkling,
He ordered them all to leave, in per
emptory language, and after running
away Linck, the Governor got his shot-
i gun and fallowed him to this village,
declaring that he would kill the small
| game first, and return to the hunt of
the larger game, Conkling. Not find
ing the German, he hunted Conkling
until he came on to him at Billingston’s
restaurant, on the beach. From an
eye witness to the scene that here en
sued, your correspondent loams that
this conversation substantially took
to Conkling—D—n you, if
you ever cross ray path again I’ll shoot
you.
Conkling—What have I done to you,
Governor? I hnvo always treated you
you well.
Sprague—You are a d d liar.
You have insulted me. You have come
to my house without an invitation.
Conkling—No, I did not; you invited
me. You will think better of this to
morrow. You are drunk.
Sprague—You are a lying son of a
b—.
Conkling—Don’t you call me that
Jgnin or I will strike you with this um
brella.
Sprague—Recollect what I tell you
I always keep my word. I will kill
T°» >f you ever cross my path again.
With this Sprague rode away, and in
a few minutes Mrs. Sprague came in a
damage to the restaurant and talked
■»*». with Senator Conkling, after
which she went to a friend’s house and
remained, while her carriage was used
to convey the Senator to the train. She
ha* gone, no one seems to know just
where. Her friends blame her exceed-
'W, saying that the Governor is de
voted to her and his children, while sho
is cool and unfeeling to him.
. matter of the music teacher was
''.reply ono of whisky, economy, and
unregarded wishes, not of jealouys.
toward Conkling the Governor seems
to, ■signs of jealous hereto-
.ilk ’’“hhigton was rife last winter
tnreports as to thu intimacy of Mrs,
into u Ue an .*f Conkling, and here, I am
hiWt s tridents, the Governor had pro-
nfik ,lm f'' 8 house on this accouut.
dn„to« a , Ul , hurit y of 1,1 i 8 latter fact I am
,l Col, but of the Washington scandal
'“Me is no doubt,
w l S enl J e man here of high character,
u, «* knbwn Mrs. Sprague from her
infiS’ < f[ acre dits all tales as to her
inw Uy ' ^ Ut 8ftya lias the will and
andh| 13ne . 68 °f a d 6V 'l. and by its force
fathn. ®r judgement she caused her
co®m*i lao f |lte Silmon P. Chase, to
takes' man y °f I*' 8 most serious inis
sulwin 8 a PI’ ea led personall aud
to the New York Herald to
in NaJp , eoandal, but every paper
Maro? an( f * a loaded with it to-day,
Thn 6ar y °f tliose in New York.
Spramw B8nera * verdict here is that
Mifio.1 , Wa8 drunk, but sonmewhat
nod iLi r8, Sprague’s behavior,
* re oU
l>e ma!n!f° n , *°, e con “pany is now said to
gating il lr - g „| iCe by a °^ eap refr !«;
Cats are affectionate; they love young
chickens, sweet cream and the best
place in front of the fireplace.
Dogs are very faithful; they will
stick to a bone when everybody else has
deserted it.
The donkoy is an emblem of patience;
but if you study him closer you will
find that laziness is what is the matter
with him.
Monkeys are imitative; but if they
can’t imitate some mischief, they aie
not happy.
The eagle is the monarch of the skies;
but the little king-bird will chase him
to his hiding place.
Hens know when it is going to rain,
and shelter themselves; but they will
try to a hatch out a glnss egg just' as
honestly as they will one of their own.
The elephant has the least, and the
rabbit the most eyes for its Bize; and a
rat’s tail is just the length of its body.
The roof of a thoroughbred dog’s
mouth'is always black; so is the bottom
of a cat’s foot who is a good mouser.
The serpent and the crab change their
clothing each year; and the raccoon
lives all the winter long on the memory
of what he ate in the summer.
Horace Greeley.
political bummer walked one day
into his private office—so called because
the entire public had access to it—and
handed him ten dollars, which he had
borrowed from the journalist ten years
before. “You don’t mean it,” said
Greeley. “You must have mistaken
your man.” "No, I haven’t. You lent
me the money, and I promised you sol
emnly that I would return it.” “That’s
the queerness of it,” retorted the journ
alist. “The idea of a man paying mon
ey because he solemnly promised to. If
ou had told me you wouldn’t pay it,
might have expected it. But I’ve
been lending people money who have
solemnly promised to return it for
twenty years, and you are the first man
who has ever disappointed me by keep
ing his word.”
s Electric Light projects of Mr.
Edison, are now declared by the New
York Graphic to have resulted, in noth
ing likely to be of practical value. His
last requsition—an indefmit amount
of platinum at the price of lead or iron,
is altogether unattainable. Six months
ago, says the New York correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial Edison
was told by a famous French chemist,
who visited hislaboratory., that the wire
of platinum would crystnlize after a lit
tle use, but Edison was sure that he
could prevent such a result, and now he
finds that ordinary platinum does crys.
talize and is much too expensive. The
Madison Square Garden is illuminated
every night by some sort of electric
light. The effect is most unpleasant.
It throws doep shadows, and it is impos
sible to see anything distinctly, while
the promenaders look like so many pri-
patetic ghosts. Another drawback is
the constant flickering of the light
which, of course, would render it dis
agreeable to read by.
Right Time to Operate in Stocks
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Place, New York City.
Sociability.
Think how much happiness you con
vey to each other by kindly notice and
a careful conversation. Think how
much sunshine such sociability lets
back into your own soul. Who does
not feel more cheerful and contented
A farther in the upper part of this
county last year, at different times, lost
five horses. All were taken sick pretty
much the same way. The last one was
cut open after it died, and i's maw vyaa
found to he completely packed with
sand. There is no doubt but the sand
killed it, and as little doubt but the
others were killed with sand in their
maws. The man on the farm that pre
ceded this gentleman, carried on the
butcher’s business, put up a great deal
of corned beef, and was in the habit of
pouring out the pickle in tho field back
of the barn, where it was saudy. In
licking the groujd to get the salt the
horses had filled themselves with sand.
Indeed, it is said they parwed a great
hole in the sand to get the salt.—Easton
(Md.) Star.
Of all possessio: s, reputation is the
most valuable, next to good conscience,
to which, indeed, it of right belongs,
and from which it naturally springs.
The root lies out of the reach of injury.
Your innocence, no one can take trom
you, without your own consent, hut
the fruit of a fair reputation, so beuti-
ful and fragrant, and'in all respects, so
precious—this, alas ! haugs exposed to
the assault of every passenger, the low
est as he goes along, can fling a. stone
upwards and laugh to see the prize fall,
though he cannot gather it.
The ice Liu , very large profit,
per ton wholesale for ten dollars
five ce '. 0 1}" 6 the cost is only eighty-
ice is J 8 *** This manufactured
block- *M? ably 8 °lid, coming out in
* inohea long and twelve
square, and is absolutely pure.
happier by these little impressions of
fellow feeling and good will? Silence,
and a stiff, unbending reserve, are es
sentially selfish and vulgar. The gen
erous and polite man has pleasant rec
ognition and cheerful words for all he
meets. He scatters sunbeams wherever
he goes. He paves the path of others
with smiles. He makes society seem
genial, and the world delightful to those
who would else find them cold, selfish
and forlorn. And what he gives is but
a tithe of what he receives. Be social
wherever you go, and wrap your light
est words In tones that are sweet and a
spirit that is genial.
Incorruptible Patriots ?
Marietta Journal.]
The Legislative committee investi
gating the wild land crookedness, ex
amined Comptroller Goldsmith’s cheoks
and found some cf them payable to
newspaper men. A great fuss was
raised over this matter, some demand
ing to know who received this money.
The Constitution gratifies this curiosity
by publishing their names. P. F.
Lawshe, the independent editor of the
Gainesville Southron, received $100,
drawn July Sth, and Marcellus E.
Thorton, the independent leader, and
correspondent of the Augusta News, re
ceived $80, drawn July 14th. They are
the only newspaper men who received
Goldsmith’s questionable money. So
it seems that tneso independent Pharr
sees, after all their abuse of the Demo
crats, are no better than the rest of man
kind. The Atlanta Phonograph says It
was offered money not to write an edi
torial on the wild land committee’s re
port and rejected the bribe.
Referring to the New York Times’
second installment of“Tilden Frauds in
1870,” the Philadelphia Chronicle says :
“This i a great'artistic work which the
Times has undertaken, but it took too
long to strike tho lead. It didn’t re
quire nearly three years to discover and
prove tho triumpbrnt fraud in the face
of an adverse majority of a quarter of a
million, and against a clear majority of
the electoral college. ‘You’re another,’
is not a Bhrewd argument, and will not
divert the attention of voters in 1S80.
That is the vital point.”
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During the yoar 1878 there were 2,708
medical students graduated irons the
fifty-nine colleges of the United. Suites.
As the statistics show that in this coun
try au average of 500 hundred people
support ono physician, there must a
constant supply of over 13,000 patients
who must pay the handsome sunt ot $1,-
970,000 a year, in order to allow enon
doctor only $2 a day.
New York Aug. 12.—Carponter's por
trait of Dr. Crawford W. Long, dis
coverer of suroical anesthessa, late Ot
Athens, Ga., whioh is designed for the
oapitol at Atlanta, was sent te-day by
Adam’s Express free of charge, through
the country by theceurteB/ of Mr. John
Hoey, to Senator Gordon.
Men aro strong and influential just so
far as they have some darling thought,
eome immovable conviction, some ur
gent belief.
“Mont,” the Paris correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, writes as fol
lows on a subject dear to the heart of
every Southern man:
At this moment the eyes of Europe
are turned toward the great army com
mander in Zulu'and. During “our lit
tle war” this officer was a guest with
Gen. Robert E. Lee. I knew him then.
I have met him since. The last time I
met him I nsked him where his head
quarters would be in South Africa. "Not
in the saddle," he replied, with a smile,
and the suggestive quotation revived
our recollections of persons aud events
in the past that gavo us much mirth of
criticism. We talked over the campaign
ing in the South, and Sir Garnet said:
“Do you know that the armies of Eu
rope have learned some great leEsons
from General Lee? I think he was the
greatest General of his age; yes, perhaps
of any age; and my own opinion is that
tho North, though not very proud of him
now, will soon come to look upon Gen.
Lee with as much pride os the people
of the South, and both be gloried of the
great American General, from whom
much of modern strategy has grown in
to rules of war." I note this as ooming
from the irat soldier of Great Britain,
if not of Europe, and at some future
day I may add further remarks on the
General* who were opposed to Gen.
Robt. E. Lee, and whose military abili
ties European offioers have carefully
noted.
/ ■«. i — i —
A gUl went hack on her bow-legged
bejaUse, she said, sho “didn’t like beau
to waltz in brackets.”
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Vienna, Switurland, Ao., in Europo. Also, a
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