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M ACON, GA, AUG. IS, 1879-
'in ta UKOBUU FBK83.
Bill Anr Tklls Amur His Trap to
Cabrolton.—We quote the following
from Wiii-m’e lest epistle to ths Atlanta
Constitution:
Tvaootn down to lha little village of
Carroltou where there’s nothing to laves-
tigiie end nobody In trouble. A Kind
provide j h«s smiled upon that primi
tive country a ad given them rain in eea-
eon and they feel comfortable and
full of tups and gratitude and about 3.000
of ’em had gathered together to frolio
and eat sheep meat and have a good time
oPTismll j. Aad they had it. I didn’t
generally. Aad they
know there was suoh a people in the
State. There's cot a doggery in the conn-
try. I ut-ver siw a man drnak or drink
ing. 1 never heard a quarrel nor a cuss
«ord n»r e pis ol shoot, nor saw a wagon
run away or any other thiDg to disturb
the geueial peeo» and tranquillity.
Every *ody w»a in a good humor, especi
ally uiy friend Osins, who weighs 210
pounds <*n<l itUghs tkbordir, and sells
fertile* and writes poetry, and the
girls cell hid) the sweet skylark of the
Tails poo* »• Every community ought to
have • Gnus in it to prevent a .agnation
and shv- docrore’ bills.
Thu b ass band tooted ua out to the
barbecu i under tho inspiring etrains of
" c >!onel Tom Hardeman wa3
ther —’.he king of the field, the bull ol
the woods, the patron saint of the farm
ers in Georgia. He .was there to tell
them he knew about farming, and
I was invited to tell ’em what I didn’t
know. Tee ladies were aa thick in front
of ns as leaves in Valambrcza, and the
day was bor, and so I tcok pity on em
and didotnt ezposo mere than half of my
ignor.wee. Well, the fact is, I was put
on a farm in my early boyhood, for I
plowed one season in rock land. The
rocks were what we called in old Gwin-
net “nigger heads,” and they jerked me
aronad so I stopped growing, I was so
little and old ail the boys called me
“Thnt«-y” for Methuselah, My father
dident oo-rn to think I had struck my
talent and so he pat me about one foot
behinl * jick plane and told me to shove
it. This I did for six months when one
day I fell off a two story house and broke
my arm and nearly broke my mother’s
heart. Sne bid always entertained a
Cbristain faith that I was to be a preach
er or a president. When I put on
Sunday face and recited the shorter cate-
chum -to knew I would be a. preacher.
Bui when I repeated Patrick Henry’s
great speech and assumed a fighting at
titude and said, “Give me liberty or give
me d.ato,” she would shake her head in
doubt about the preacher and settle
lown upon the president. She alterna
ed so longb.tween the two that I be-
ame neither, my nearest approach to
tie roared oiling beiug a remarkable
!ondu*-a* tor women and fried chicken.
C»1 Joel Hiidsman talked to em like
Jatber and patriot. Tne old men wept
over bis elcquenoa as he recalled the good
old ways of our fathers. The young men
liaiaued with rapture and tho women hung
their unties and tears upon his tender and
goatling compliments. Wben he was
tbroage an old man came up to him, and
says do, “Tom Hardeman, I give yon
my hand. My name is Fleming.”
“How do yon do, Mr. Fleming?'
“I am very well in body, Mr. Harde
man, bat my mind is not right; I am f ail-
la i. air, jnentallj; but, Tom Hardeman,
you aro u; man for Governor.”
Tho colonel looked around npon the
crowd, and remaiked: “Gentlemen,
don’t think Mr. Fleming’s mind is a
riou-ly affected—do yon?”
A'id everybody shouted, "Ho, nr; he’
sou ad.”
Mr. Fleming then made an assault up
on my ignorance, and asked me if I could
tell wnat kind of calves would most likely
make good milk oows. Well, of course I
told him that the heifer oalves would
and everybody laughed ttemendions and
I don’t know yet what they was laughin’
at—do yon? Bill Asp.
Attempt at Jail Breaking.—The .Dis
patch t-»ja last Saturday night abont half
past eleven o’clock, it was discovered
that “Caarles Bereeford, the forger, and
Ayres Jones, the murderer of lieutenant
M.-Iotyre, were in tho act of escaping
from the Atlanta jaiL Tee Jones broth
ers, Ayres and Tom were usually confined
in cell No. 7- Bereeford occupied the ad
joins* cell. On Samrday evening, when
*w birds were being locked np for the
mgbt, Bereeford managed in some way
to bd locked np with Ayres Jones, while
Tom Jones clipped into cell thirteen, oc
cupied by two negroes. In the afternoon
sometime, probably when all the inmates
of tbe jail wpre singing and frolicking,
as they usually do to kill time, the two
negroes in thirteen were sawing away at
the bars with a case-knife aad file, the
singing completely drowning the noise.
A little after eleven o’clock Bereeford
and Jones broke the hook that is used in
lockmg their cell, and instead of going
np the stairs that lead to the second
floor, they climbed np the rods at the
back of the building. Captain Adder-
Boa bow Bereeford thas oocupied and fired
hia shotgun, tbe shot taking effect in his
thighs.
They were making for cell thirteen
when the bars wore sawed, and would
have broken tbe book as they hod done
onttudoorof their own cell. Blanket
ropes were mads aid ready, and bad
Joues and Bereeford succeeded in getting
inside of cell thirteen, where the two ne
groes and the other Jones was confined,
they coul i have easily made their eecape,
after about an hopr’s more work in en
larging the hole.’’
Bsebien county shows an increase In
tax valuation this, over last jour, of
$70,071.
Tbs Berrien County JS'cws aava a negro
in that oonnty recently found in his
obioken ooop » fall grown alligator and a
couple of possums, tbe trio being busily
engaged in kilting the ohickens.
The Eews pays its respeois to a bill
recently introduced in the Legislature to
let out oiunty pii.t'ng t) the lowest
bidder, after this fashion
We are in favor of the bill, because we
are in favor of everything that is sees!
ble and just. Tcis bill is sensible and
jnst. It gives evidence of a stitesman
ship we did not expeot to originate In
Georgia; therefore this painful surprise
that has taken possession of our anato
my. -Let us see bow tbe old thing
would work. Oar county officials under
this law w^nld let oat their advertising to
tbe lowest bidder. Mr. Inkslinger, of
the Northeastern Kansas Weekly Dirt Sting
er, get* the advertising in virtue of his
bid being the lowest. Don’t yousee bow
nice that thing would work. The people
of onr county would not have to bother
their heads poring over legal advertise
menta—but pshaw! we won’t go any far
ther into the merits of this bill. Yon
can see at a glance that it is grand in its
ootioeption, and that none other than a
gitat mind could have conceived It. The
aathor of this bill should be loaded down
with leather medals and returned to the
qniet shades of private life, as there is
much caDger of his genius setting on
dr." tho capual 0 ity of our State should
be remain there any length of time.
Thz Atlanta Dispatch states that Aaa
Gnus, the alleged murderer of the Da
foore, was np before Justice Tanner on
Mondiy, and, waiving a preliminary trial
was remanded to ptison. He persists in
declaring bis entire ignorance of the
murder.
DcriKo the month of July there were
409 uiieeta in Atlanta, and the cash prof
its iL.reof footed up exictly $6S5. The
Bough Tikr.—The Savannah Records
Bays Mr. J. C. Vallean, the telegraph
operator at Ty bee, had a xough experience
Saturday. He crossed over in a entail
boat to the quarantine station, in answer
to a signal, and having transacted hie
business prepared to return. He had
been ont but a short time when a Equall
struok him and, after tossing him about
for a while, carried him ont to sea. From
this perilous predicament he was fortu
nately rescued by an incoming ocean
steamer and taken to Tlybte.”
Tnx Augusta Am says on the diy in
March, 1873, the fearful cyclone which
ravaged middle Georgia was doing its
moat destructive work, a white lamb, “no
larger than an ordinary sized house cat,
was safely deposited, among other debris,
in the yard of Mr. Dan Prather, an old
gentleman who lives near Barzelis, on
the Georgia road. Aa eo;n as the lamb
was discovered, some one of Mr. Pra°
ther’s family ran ont, picked it np and
carried itinto tne house. Wnere it came
from no one knew, but it was fed and
warmed atd nurtured, and became a great
pet in the honseho'd. Ia fact, like Ma
ry’s lamb, it followed Mr. Prather about
all tho time.
After enquiries, Mr. Prather could find
no one who owned a flick of tho sheep in
{ho direction from which the ejelone
came for a distance of twenty miles, and
where his pet came from was more of a
mystery than ever. At any rate, it grew
to be a fine, healthy eheep, and as the
years pissed it was regularly sheared,
and the wool applied to domestic uaeB.
There was no other sheep on the place,
and it is doubtful if ever this lamb eaw
another of its speoies since the memora
ble March winds took her npon its wings
and deposited her safely in Mr. Prather e
yard.
This has been over six years ago, and
the yield of wool from this lost sheep has
averaged annually abont five pounds.
Mr. Prather biought to towD this yeat’a
clip, which netUd six pounds, for which
he received twenty-five cents per pound.
Wk learn from the Augusta Evening
News that the Telegraph and Messenger
is "a Waaiey organ.” We do not vouch
for tha authority.
Faosi editor Cabanies’ last latter to the
Monroe Advertiser, from Atlanta,
make this extraoi:
Speaking of the
INDEPENDENT PABTT,
the indications are that strong efforts
will be made to whip out the organized
Democracy all over the State when the
next elections are held. I do not doubt
that Independent candidates from Gov
ernor down to the lowest effioers will op
pose the regular nominees. That this
new party will gain victories in aomescc-
tions is almost sure; that the organized
Democracy will triumph in a large ma
jority of instances, I think equally cer-
The investigations now going on, in
order to prove the fraud) in the manage
ment of the afftirs of the State, instead
of injuring the Democracy, will strength
en tne party in the affections of the peo
ple, for the investigations are moved and
csrried on by the Dsmooratio party. It
ia an instance of a party inves ligating its
own officers, something rare in the histo
ry of political parties.
I can recall no instance ia whioh tbs
Badioal party called one of its officers to
acoonnt for wrong dorag. I do not fear
that the independent people, so-called,
will break down the Democratic party,
but I thieve that they will do their best
and will res»»t to any means. It will be
recollected thatu.raon Felton commecoed
his fight against the aomine9 of tbe De
mocracy because he saia *he party 1
corrupt and composed of trloa^ra.
And yet General Gordon openly cwgcd
in his speech that Felton was elocteiTLj
the penning up of the negroes on the day
before election and filling them with
whisky that they might be mado to vote
as these Independent gentlemen wished
next day. This ia a nice crowd, »■«* the
Parson is a nice man to charge trickery
against the organized Democracy, the
party that saved tb« State from Badical-
iam and is no* running the State on a
most poonomical plan, despite the few
irregularities that have crept into some of
the offioes.
When the Democratic leaders are dis
placed I hope it will be by better men
than now compose thi3 so-called Inde
pendent party. It has been the opinion
of many stioug Democrats that another
party ia a necessity and wonld necessari
ly grow Into existenc, and that it would
d> good. Bat when the people are called
npon to leave the course that has accsm-
plished so much good, -admitting some
faults, they will naturally Beek some
thing betler. Can they do it among the
Independents? I think not.
Mb, Asa Ltnch, one of tho most es
teemed citizens of Columbus, died last
Monday, aged seventy-six years. He
was one of the earliest settlers of that
section.
The death of Mrs. Gen. John W. A.
Sanford, at Milledgeville last week, is
noticed as follows by the Union and Re
corder:
Mrs. Sanford was born in Southamp
ton oounty, Virginia, in April, 1802, and
during that year was brought by her
parents to Hancock county, Georgia.
Afterwards, her father, Col. Bichard A.
Bloant, removed to Washington county,
where she was for the most part reared.
She was educated at the school of tho
celebrated Jacob Mordecai, in Warrenton,
North Carolina, where she laid the foun
dation of those accomplishments for
which she was distinguished. In 1822,
she married the late Gen. John W. A.
Sanford, whom she survived but a few
ysars.
“Agbicola" in the Union and Recorder
offers this wager, which we print for the
in formation of thoee whom it may con
cern:
Tha Americas Recorder says, on the
authority of Mr. W. D. Haynes, that Mr.
James Dorn, of Webeter county, has fifty
acres of cotton that will produce fifty
bales, if the season is favorable.
If it is meant the average bale of 450
pounds,I will wager Mr.Doru a free tick-
et through the Macon fair, next October,
that he don't do it. Agbicola.
August 11th, 1879.
Mb. Jambs Bradford, c f Col mbur,
keeps his eyes particularly busy when he
goes away from home. He has seen a
four-acre ohufa field in Taylor oounty,
whioh will yield 600 bushels; a man who
has not combed his head in twenty years;
and two trees standing near together, be
tween whioh In one season over four
handled sqaitrels’ tails had been pioked
np. Tbe tails had been oat off by owls
;n their efforts to oatch tha squirrels ea
they jamped from ene of these trees to
tbe other.’’
The Oolambas Enguircr is not positive
about the number of the tails, bat de
clines to fall many Bhakes.
The MonUzam* Weekly says it “is
generally believed that the Central rail
road will reduce freights on cotton from
lfontczuma to Savannah to two dollars
and fifty cants per bale of five'hundred
pounds. With this redaction on the part
of the railroad there will still remain b
difference of abont one dollar in favor of
onr neighbor, Hawkins villa. This differ
ence must bs overoome by some means.
Seyjral plans have been snggested, but
neither one of them has been adopted
yet.
Emanuil oonnty shows an increase of
$32,329 in taxable values this, over last
fines worked out and being worked ont year,
amounted to $470.23, 1 Seven thou: end doit re have been sub*
Tbe; s $009 fire in a house on . re.'ibad to build a railroad from Swains-
Marietta street, Atlanta, Monday night.
It vc-s us’d aa a bakery by W, J, Keel
ing.
boro to Camochea, thero to oormest wi th a
road now being constructed frem Station
9 to Camoochea by the Masers. Wad ley*
(The Swainsboro Herald has tbe follow
ing:
A Cow iron a Fiddle.—We hear of a
man who owned a fine cow, and was de
sirous of learning to play the violin.
Money being scarce with him, he resolved
to sell his cow, and in spite of remon
strances from his better half, did so and
invested in a violin. He is now without
a cow, and the fiddle is on the highest
shelf in the boaee, minus two strings and
the bridge broken.
The Atlanta Dispatch prints the follow
ing x -
j An Act to Encourage Immigration to
Georgia, and fob otheb Purposes.
E-ad first time in House, August 1st,
1879, and referred to Finance Commit-
tee.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gener
al Assembly of Georgia, That from and af
ter the passage of this act, tho Governor
shall appoint, subject to the approval of
the Senate, a suitable person to b3 known
as the State Immigration Agent. Said
agent shall,, by advertising, by the dis
semination of correct information as to
our soil, climate, productions and re
source^ by the arrangement of special
rates of transportation between the cities
of the North and West, and of Europe,
to thiB State, and by suoh other methods
as the Governor may approve, invite and
encourage immigration.
Seo. 2. Be it farther enacted, That
said agent may appoint a secretary to as
sist him m performing tha clerical duties
of hie office. He may also appoint agents
at suitable paints, snbj aot to the approval
of tho Governor; Provided, That not
more than twelve hundred dollars ehall
be paid annually for clerioal force which
may be nsoeasary to carry ont tho pro
visions of this act, whioh sam shall be
paid cut of the annual appropriation for
the Department of Agriculture.
Sac. 3. Be it farther enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the agent of Immi
gration to keep in his office a register of
lands for sale in Georgia, and the names
of peraonB who desire to purchase lands,
or secure employes, or employment in
Georgia, in the manner and on the term3
hereinafter provided.
Sic] IV. Be it farther enacted, That
any citizen of Georgia may register n
the office of the Commissioner any lands
owned by him or her in the State, giving
ai abstract of theJtities to the said land,
with a oondensed description of the
same on payment of a fee of two dsllarB
to the Agent of Immigration for each
separate tract or parcel of land so regis
tered; Provided, an abstract to the titles
of eaid lands, bearing the seal of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of the coun
ty in which said lands lie, shall bo filed
in the efflee of the Commissioner, and
the fees for snch registration shall bs
paid before ench registration is made.
Seo. V. Be it farther enacted, That
any person desiring to pnrohase lands,
to secure employees or employment as a
skilled laborer in Georgia, may register
his or her name, with a statement of his
or her wants, in the office of the Agent of
Immigration on a payment of a fee of
one dollar to the Commissioner.
Sec. 6. Beit further enacted, That as
soon as the amount received from suoh
feeB shall justify it, the said agent shall
issue circulars or pamphlets truthfully
and concisely setting forth the induce
ments to immigrants to bay lands and
sstile in the State, and shall distribute
said circulars and pamphlets in snch
numbers and manner as will beet promote
the objects of this act.
Seo. 7. Be it farther enacted, That the
said agent shall keep in his office an ac
curate account of all moneys received for
registration, and report to tho Governor
at the end of each month the amount
thn3 received. Th8 expense of regiatra-
tration, printing and mailing said circu
lars shall be paid ont of the fees received
for registration, aad from no other
source.
Sec. 8. Be it farther enacted, That the
ctx-eg of said Agent of Immigration shall
be loo*--» •** —• »»•*»•, viouigto, uuu iue
city of New York.
Bee. 9.—Beit further enacted, That all
laws and patts of laws conflicting with
this act be and the same are hereby re
pealed.
Tbe Sprague-ConUIfng Explo
sion—Tbe Outcome of What
Washington bas Been and
Talked of for months—Koscoe
and not “a German Teacher,”
tbe Han.
Western prees dispatches in yester
day’s Nashville papers aro fall of an af.
fair that has kicked np the most tremen
dous social bobbery of tha decade
down east. Tho actors are an ex-Gover-
nor, ex-Senator, and ex-millionaire,
Sprague, by name, and of Bhcds Island,
when he is on his native heath, and the
gorgeons, the glowing and altogether
refulgent Conkling. The Western
press telegrams are full of it, but
boiled down, it seems to amount
to an assault, certainly verbal, and very
possibly physical, npon Conkling by
Sprague in the letter’s house at Narra-
gansett Pier. The dispatches say great
efforts have been made to keep the facts
from the newspapers, but the latter are
brlmfali of details notwithstandiog. Ia
order that oar readers may have some
idea of the anteoedsnt faota oonneoted
with the explosion, we give the following
from tbe Washington Tosi:
“Ex-Senator Sprague attacked a Ger
man teacher of his children with a pistol,
but Senator Conkling interposed and pre
vented murder” is substantially the story
sent by an associated press telegram from
Providence to the Sunday papers, but the
most general exclamation of all well
posted people of the city of Washington
on reading it was, “too thin.” “Conkling
and Sprague were not brought together
on account of so inconsiderable a person
as a German teacher,” said a Senator to
one of the Pori representatives yesterday.
“There has been plenty of material for
an able-bodied scandal in that quarter,”
said another well-posted gentleman, “and
the result of it has been aa attempt on
the part of ex Senator Sprague to re
venge himself. It was the noble form of
Lord Bo.oie himself that Sprague was
seeking to make a target of.”
It will certainly surprise many intelli
gent persons who spent the past winter
in this city, to learn that a much talked
of affair has culminated in attempted vi
olence, and possible disgrace to all par
ties concerned.
The intimate relations between Sena
tor Cockling and the wife of ex.Senator
and ex-Sovernor Sprague have been talk
ed over in undertones in Washington so
ciety and political circles for upwards of
three years. It has been hinted at dark
ly in newspaper correspondence quite
frequently, bat a feeling of regard or pity
for “the woman in the oase” has induced
the press generally to suppress, instead of
parading, accessible information. Last
spring, when Senator Conkling 80 ener
getically advocated the bill to relieve
Mrr, Sprague’s estate from taxation, ev
erybody was set to talking.
Mrs. Sprague wanted the assessment
of her country estate, known as Edge-
wood, reduced, and the-penalties that
had accrued because of non-payment of
taxes remitted. It required an act of
Congress to effeot this, and Conkling was
a man of power in the then Badioal
Senate. Ha very readily accepted the
commission given him by tha lady and
worked with each diligence as to pass the
bill through tbe Senate. Tbe House,
howevor, did not accept it bo readily,
and the resnlt was a compromise in the
conference. The high contracting par
ties met frequently at the Capitol, as
wae natural, bat it was not long before
employes of the Senate seated “ia confi
dence” to one and another that Mrs.
Sprague was in the habit of meeting Mr.,
Conkling in hie committee room (he ni
then chairman of the Committee on Com-
merceV and that they were sometimes
looked in there together. This reached
tbe ears of some of tbe reporters, whr,
npon investigation, found the statement
to be true. Conkling’s trusted agent
wae a clerk under Secretary Gorham,
named Griffith. He would bring Mrs.
Sprague to the Capitol in a carriage and
eacort her to the committee room, and
then notify. Conkling, and while tbe
couple were.together Griffith would Btand
on the outside and prevent intrusion.
Daring laBt winter and spring both
parties seemed to grow more and more
regardless of pnblic opinion. Mrs. Sprague
boldly displayed her partiality for tha dis
tinguished Senator, and her conduct at
the capitol became a subject of comment
even among grave and reverend Sena
tors. She was often to be seen in the
Senate gallery, and generally occupied a
front seat. It was rare that Bhe failed to
be on baud when Conkling was adver
tised for a speech, and was often on
such occasions demonstrative in her ex-
preeBsions of approval. Daring the clos
ing days and nights of the extra session,
Mrs. Sprague was a regular attendant
npon the Senate. She wsb invariably
accompanied by the faithful Griffith, and
on more than one occasion, in fall view
of tbe reporter’s gallery, wrote notes to
the Senator, which her attendant would
deliver to him at bis seat. Then the
lordly Senator, smiling acceptance and
approval to his fair correspondent in the
gallery, would indite replies, which Grif
fith wonld promptly deliver. Scenes
this character have amused the reporters
several times, and caused them to lose
eight entirely ef the business before the
Senate.
The night of the difficulty between
Senators Lamer and Conkling Mrs.
Sprague betrayed her deep interest in the
latter to the most careless spectator.
She ocoupied her usual seat in the gal
lery dating all the weary hoars of that
session. When Mr. Lamar gave Conk-
ling the lie and the latter advanced to re
ply, she arose in her Seat, and leased
over the baloony, with a blanched face
and intense interest. She enddeniy
dropped in her seat and it waa whispered
that she had fainted,bat this was not true.
Her alarm was apparent to everybody,
however, and the moment Conkling ceased
speaking she sent Griffith to him with a
message. Mr. Conkling fonnd time to
send word baok to her by the same mes
senger, whioh seemed to reassure her.
All this oconrred in fall view of many
eorntinizing eyes, and from that night
the relations between the twain be-
oame a common topic of conversation
on the floor of tho Senate. It was ru
mored soon after, that Mr. Sprague bad
heard of the night scene at the Senate,
and had declared his intention to bring
the affair to an issne. Apparently this
rumor did not reach Conkling, for he re
mained in Washington some time after
th9 adjournment and spent the larger
portion of it at Edgewood. It was a com
mon thing for freqaenters of the road to
meet them driving after the Senator’s fine
team, and about the time of Mrs.
Sprague’s arrival at Long Branch the tel
egraph gave notice of Mr. Conkling’s
presence there. He Seems, howevsr, to
have gone too far when he followed the
lady to her hnBband’s residence near
Frovidenoe. The matter it is now be
lieved will go to tbe coarie, and notwith
standing the efforts of the agent of the
Associated Press to oover np the affair at
Narraganaett Pier, the whole trath con
cerning it ie likely to be made pnblio.
The Post, onr readers will be able to tes
tify, has given no pnblieity to tbe many
rumors that have been in circulation for
the past twelve months, and will endeavor
at all times to keep within the limits pro
sorioed by a fair presentation of the ac-
taalfaots.
The TFoi-Zd'e special of Sunday from
Narragansett Pier gives this succinot
statement of the affair a3 it ao'.ually oc
onrred s
Either on Wednesday night or Thurs
day morning Senator Conkliog arrived at
Narragansett Pier. With him or after
him came a trunk and a large valiss.
ThoOA artlitlao o* '—BS-5- •-
the Sprague mansion by tbe direotion of
Senator Conkliog. He remained there as
a visitor the next day and was on a hotel
piszza daring the next evening convert
ing with some ladies. Dcring Friday af
ternoon Governor Sprague was observed
driving abont Narragansett Pier, having
been at home entertaining his gnests tbe
night previous, though he had been ab
sent for a day or two before. He
had a gun with him whioh it iB
believed that he loaded earlier in the
day. Finally he drove to the rear of his
house, which wa3 about a mile and a
half from the Fier, and came through the
house in a 8ome«ihit excited condition.
He got out to the piazza, where he found
Senator Conkling conversing with Mrs.
Sprague, who was at a window. Gov
ernor Sprague then said, addressing San
ator Conkling, “Are you armed, sir?”
and CoDkling replied : “No, I am not.”
“Then,” said ex-Governor Sprague, “I
give yon five minutes to get eff these
premises. If you are not away I will
fire at you.” Ex-Governor Sprague is
said to have made ubo of some further
exasperating langnago. Senator Conk
ling seeming much surprised but re
membering that he was under ex-Govern
or Sprague’s roof, rose and walked a few
steps away while Mrs. Sprague oame
our of the house and stood between tbem.
A ter ex Governor Sprague repeated
bis peremptory order to Mr. Conkling to
quit his house there waa some heaitanoy
on the part of the New York Senator as
to what should be done, bat seeing no
hope of a rational solution be finally took
bis hat, and, entering the carriage, went
down to the Pier, stopping on tho way at
Billington’s restanrant. Scarcely had be
arrived there and got out of the oonvey-
anoo than ex-Governor Spragne, who had
followed, osme np, and it if, therefore,
certain that the latter must have kept his
horse hitched np ready for nse to follow
Senator Conkling. On the arrival of ex-
Governor Sprague at Billington’s anoth
er exohangs of words took place, bnt
there is not the slightest testimony to
show that at any lime a hand-to-hand en
counter. snch as has been spoken of free
ly here to-day, took plaoe. But it ia oer-
taln that there was an exalted and threat
ening oollcqny between' the two ontside
of the most pnblio spot in the whole
plaoe, and thus it came to pass that the
most exaggerated rumors were set in
motion. Sifted down tbe foregoing are
the principal facts in the oase so far as
Mr. Conkling and Mr. Spragna aro con
cerned. As to the alleged oanae of tbe
hostility of Mr. Sprague to Mr. Conkling
it is only certain that the German
teaoher, eo indiscreetly and foolishly
brought into the matter, had nothing
whatever to do with it.
That ex-Senator and Mrs. Spiague
have been on most unhappy terms for
some time ie a matter of general noto
riety here, A few weeks ago a gentle
man whose family are staying at Narra-
gansett Pier called on Mrs. Sprague, and,
sending in his card, saw her. He had
known her tor maDy years, but had never
met her hnsband. He snggested to Mrs.
Sprague that ho would like to leave a
card for the ex-Senator-persosally, as he
desired to have the pleasure of meeting
him. Mrs. Sprague in reply said that
she was quite unable to answer for anj-
thiog that Mr. Sprague might think or
do. She had taken no responsibility for
bis conduct for a long time, and it was
not likely that she could long remain in
the same home with him.
“No sore Hea”
Aye, painters come to paint it; and writers, to
put in a book
How grand in storm, and fair in calm, a mimic
tea cut look.
I’ve wondered to hear them talking, how to mim
ic m music or somr,
The Vuice that thrills the brooding Mr with its
thunder low and long.
Since never aught hut itself, I wot, could sound
like its angry ro»r. *
"When its breakers rise to the east winds call, to
crash on the angry shore.
Sat rough or smooth, in shade or shine, the face
of the mighty main
Can speak of little else to me hut memory, fear
: or pain.
Father and huthind, and bold, bright boy, it has
taken them one by one;
I shall lie alcna in the churchyard, there, when
my weary dey, aredens.
God never itnt me a maiden bairn, to st»y by me
to the last,
So I sit by the restless tides alone, by the grave of
all my past;
By tho waves so strong and pitiless, that have
orewned life’s joys for me.
And think of the land whore all shall meet, the
land where is no more sea.
Yet I cannot rest in meadow or fell, or the quiet
inland lanes,
Where the great t-ees spread their rustling arms
over the smiling plains.
I can’t diaw breath in the country, all shadowed,
and green, and dumb.
Tho want of the sea is at my heart; I hear it call,
ing, Come I
I hearken, and rise, and follow; perhaps my men
down there.
Where the bright shells gleam and the fishes
dart ’mid seaweeds* tangles fair,.
Will find me best, il still on earth,;when the
angel’s trump Is blown.
On tho sanl reach, or the tall cliff’s side, era we
passed to the great white threne.
Sc summer anl winter, all alone, by the break
Till 1°see the rod light flush the cloud;, as He
opens the golden gale;
And though at the sound of the rising waves,I of t-
times tremble and weep.
When the air ia void ol tha glonou voice, I can
neither rest nor sleep.
And strangest of all the promises, writ in the
Book to me,
Is how, on tho shores of Paradise, * there lahau
oe no more sea.”
—All the Tear Round.
THE SKIN AND SCALP
How to Preserve them and
how to Treat them
when Diseased.
A Pair Skin and Luxuriant
Tfesses, the Secret of
Beauty.
Some or the Tortures Inflicted
by Skin and Scalp
Diseases.
Valuable Tfratlss, by Mary
Jcsselyn, M. D., of
New York.
E.
That Silver Dollar.
Senator Blaine’s sliver dollar will bay one
bottle of Dr. Pieroe’4 Golden Modio&l Dis-
oovery. This medicine is a pnrely vegetable
blood-purifier, pectoral and tonlo, and hta
been tested ia thousands of cases of chronio
disease of the stomach, liver and longs, with
unparalleled success.
Don’t Overlook John.
ijOhlcago Times]
Gen. Logan has not been mentioned for
the Anglian mission, bat then it Is not cer
tain he speaks the language of tbe country.
It Con’s Be Done.
Cincinnati Enquirer.]
The New York Sun persist an tly nr, e? the
United States government to abolish tbe
dip'omatte servioo. ,Tuat can’t b; done.
There are toe min; Pennsylvania politicians
who have nothing particular to do just now.
Apart from tho suffering caused by skn dis
eases, their tnflaenca on the h.ppicess of those
to whom a delicate and pearly complexion is the
dearest wish of their lives is paramount to all
others. No lady afdieied with cutaneous erup
t ions, or loss ol hair, will deny that, to obtain a
fair skin and luxuriant tresses, she would gladly
exchange tbe disfigurations that now mar her
otherwise handsome face, hands, or hair, lor
other diseases of greater severety—even dan
ger-could their existence be concealed from the
public eye. There is something repulsive about
a face covered with humor; and all the grace of
manner and brilliant powers of conversation can
scarcely remove tho impression produced on one
who witnesses it. It is remembered when more
important and worthy subjects are forgotten.
Many an estimable lady's life has been embitter*
OW ay <,uialleOUS frScckians. BUo imagines that
every one sees and comments upon her looks.
She avoids society and public places, and endea
vors to hide her misery in seclusion, Here the
struggle to improve her appearance is renewed.
No remedy is too repulsive or dangerous to be
used. Aisenic is devoured in large quantities,
mercury is taken interuslly and applied exter
nally, until the teeih rattle in their loosened
sockets, and the si stem groans beneath the load
of poisons it is obliged to carry.
If such be the feeliugs of one afflicted with
slight skin blemishes, what must be the condi
tion of those suffering from salt rheum, tetter,
ringworm, pemphigus, psoriasis, leprosy, lichen,
prurigo, and scald head t No pen o*b ful/ydo'
scribe the tortures they endure. Death in m*ry
cases might be considered a blessing. Tbe burn
ing heat. inflammation, and itching nearly impel
the sufferer to do violence to himself in order to
end hit suffering.. I have seen patients tear
the ! r flesh with their nails until the blood flowed
in streams. Others have told me that they
could cut tbe fiesb from their limbs, so great was
the agony they endured.
With a view to impart some useful info-ma-
tion on the construction and preservation of the
skin, scalp, and hair, and the proper treatment
of them when diseased, I have here condensed
to a popular lorm such information as is most
desired.
dHB COXSTBtCIIOXOPIHBSXIff.
The skin is composed of two layers, which may
bs separated from each other by the action of a
blister. The thin portion, which is raised up
by the blister is called the scarf skin, the cuticle,
or tbe epidermis that which remains in con
nection with the body is the sensitive skin, the
cutis, the derma, or the true skin. Each has
separate duties to perform. The scarf skin is
corny and inaemiDfe. and serves as a sheath to
protect the more sensitive skin under it. Were
the scarf skin taken off. we could not bear te
have anything touch us The derma or true
skin and its glands, oil tubes, etc, are the seat of
all cutaneous diseases, these may be separated
into fou- great divisions, viz: diseases of the
true skin, diseases of tbe sweat glands and
tubes, diseases of toe oil glands ana lubes, and
diseases of the hair and hair glands.
TUB OIL ASDsWSA" OIAXDS.
That the skin may be pliable and boallhy it u
necessary to hnva it oiled every day. and for this
the Creator has wisely provided by placing i.
tbe true skin small glands and tubes, whose
olflee it Is to prepare and pour out upon the sur-
J«oe the proper amount of oil. On some parts of
the body they do not exist, bat are abundant
on the face, nose, ears, head, eyelids, etc. Thev
pro f uoe the wax ot tho ears, and on the head
thev open into the sheath of the hair, and fur
nish it with nature’s own hair oil or pomade.
Wben the skin is healthy these little vessels are
always at work and constantly responding to
the demands made upon ihom. Consequently
no person should be afraid to wash thorougbly
every day with soap «nd water, lest, as tbe Bos
ton Medical Journal once taught, the skin bo
injured by having the oil removed from it.
FB (QUEST WXSBtnOS WITH TUBE BOAT
(free from caustic alkalies)—aud I have some
thing to say further about soap that will be of
interest to all who desire to preserve the skin
and scalp In health or to properly treat them
when diseased—and lukewarm water, followed
by brisk rubbing with a coarse towel, will do
more to preserve tha healthy action of the oil
glands and tubes, upon which depends a clear
and wholesome complexion, than a'l the cos
metics in the world. Bo important is the free
aad perfect action of the sweat and fat or oil
glaods in the preservation ol the general health
as well as tbe special condition of the skin that
particular atteatlou to them will be rewarded
by increased physical health.
They discharge upon the surface of the body
about two and one-half pounds ot matter per
day, and their Importauoe in the purification of
the blood and fluids of tbe body is so great that
were they closed by an impervious coating, like
rubberocoiled silk, death would soonen.-ne,
The daily occupation of many, want of cleanli
ness in others, and the inheritance ot s sluggish
skin, pave the way for numerous di-eases tf
these vessels and tube.. Their contents, instead
of flowing freolj, be.One hard and impacts,
and the Tasso's are not emptied. Hence the
origin ot many diseases.
Sometimes the action of the gland is too great
and oil is poured out so profusely, that the sur-
f.ce shines with it. At other times there is so
little that the skin is dry and hard. In the
hardened oily muttrrthat constitutes comedones
are found small animals, which Erasmus Wit-
son, the great authority, calls "the animal of the
oily product of tbe skin.”
THE QUEST SKIN AES SCALP LIS IAS CB.
But bad as are minor forms of skin ditetscs
they bins into indgnifictnes when compared
wits the great skin and scalp diseases with
waichthousands are afflicted during their whole
lives. That the reader may know more abont
them the principal affections are here named,
omitting suth as are symptoms Of constitutional
diseasrs. like measles, rath, etc. The most im
portant are »s!t rhtum or eczema, tetter, ring
worm, psoriasis, iapetigo, leprosy, lichen,
ground itch, mild head, and dandiuff.
Towering above all others in extent, in dura
tion. in suffering. U
ECZ33CA,
commonly called salt rheum. Wilson divides it
into twelve ipccies. and others into many more;
bui it is iutficii-ntly clear to the average reader,
aud will be reergnit d by its small watery blis
ter, about the site of a pinhead, who ever seen,
Prurigo, impel igo, aud psoriasis are bus little
bohinz salt rheum in ths suffering they cause
Scald head is another obstinate affection, defying
all remedies, destroying the hair. ai;d producing
g eat misery ane suffering. The scalp, like the
skin.is subject to salt rhtum. Utter, dandruff,
aud othor eruptive and scaly diseases, whicu'
generally destroy the hair foi.isl.’s ami produce
p jrmanent baldness,
THE TREATMENT
of siseasos of the nkio ami maU has been for
centuries h u d upon ihemiitaien theory that
they are e tirely due to note lr,purity of ths
blood. Nu special attention has ever beendi-
reeled t > tb* impmnn*. p-ft (hs iw.sl ud f .t
glands play in tie prepagat on aus maintenance
si diieaae, *
It is no unjttit reflection upon ths medical
profession to say that it* efforts in tbe cure of
skm disease* have been a failure. What with
miotaken theories, poisonous remedies, and blind
adherence to methods and practioes originating
in ignorance and superstition, salt rheum, scald
head and psoriasis flourish and increase upon
systems shattered by the copious use, both in
ternal snd external, of mercury, arsenic, sine,
and lead. Dr Wood mildly admits that the
mercurial influence does sometimes produce
saltrheum-a tact so well known that it is re
corded in most ol the text-bocks as mercurial
eczema
BLOOD PUEITIlSe.
For centuries it has been the popular notion
that dixeatea *d the skin end scalp must be cured,
if cured at all, by purifying tbe blood.
Admitting that this is partly true, what has
been the method or wbat the remedies by which
it was sought to be a:complished ?
MBtCUBT AND ARSENIC.
Putting aside the senseless ‘‘sarsaparilla,”
“dock ” and “dandelion” “blood purifiers,” and
considering only tnoge remedies that have re
ceived the sanction of physicians, hospitals, col
leges, we find that mercury and araenicarette
only medicinal agents ot to-day, aa they were
hundreds of years ago, which ate regarded by
ths “regular” as having specifio medical proper-
for the purification of the blocd, and hence the
only remedies adapted to the treatment ot skin
and scalp disease j,
A FEW POISONS.
Out at ssvrnteen prescriptions denominated
“alteratives” or “blood punfltrs,” taken from a
stand ard medical work, eight contained mercury
in the form of corrosive sublimate, the pioto-
iodide, and the blue pill, five arsenic, three
io line—all corrosive poisons. For lour hundred
years mercury has been the sheet anchor of the
regular practitioner, and arsenio the main stay
of the specialist. It is not to be expected that
the productions of quacks snd patent medicine
men are any better. So much for internal reme
dies*
While the blocd is being purified (?) by the in
temal administration of polsen (!) the good
work is often hastened forward, where the sub
ject is a skin disease, by the external applica
tion of ointments and salves ard solutions, in
every case containing a virulent poison. Befer-
ring to the same “standard medical work,” we
find that these «tq directed to be prepared
from
CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE,
(mercury I), white precipitate (mercury!!), red
precipitate (mercury!!!), citrine ointment (mer-
caryill!), prussio acid, arsenic,ziuc, sulphur,
lean, creosote, and opium as suits the fancy or
prejadice of the physician. Here is tha whole
fiat in the exict order In which they are given;
net one is omitted. This is tho course pursued
by the average practitioner and advocated by
most of the schools of medi ine.
TEE TSCB THEORY.
But a little light is being thrown upon the
darkness that has surrounded the intellect of
the past; To a tew German and French physi
cians and specialists we owe what true progress
we are making at the present time in the cure of
obstinate affections oj the skin and scalp. They
teach and prove (1) that diseases of the skin and
scalp aro caused by a derangement of the secre
tory and excretory tubes and vessels of the true
skin, and 00 that such dis-ases or affections are
aggravated and maintained by poisonous fluids
containing the virus of ceraluls, malaria, or
discharged from
ids upon the skin
glands. From those
facts they successfully maintain that skin dis
eases cannot be cured soly by internal remedies,
nor solely by external remedies, bnt by a judi
cious use of both. These affections aro not
wholly caused by impur.ties of the blood and
circulating fluids, nor are they d ue entirely to a
diseased condition of the sweat and fat glands,
tubes vessels, and cells of the true skin, but to a
peculiar and inseparable condition of both. For
if you treat the one to the neglect of the other
no progress is made, but with att ntion to both
at the same time, and the used such remedies
as I can here recommend, a permanent cure is
possible in nearly every cue.
“WHAT WE WANT,”
said a distinguished authority on th; skin,
“what we most earnestly desire in order to cure
the most obstinate skin and scalp affections are
three great remedies, with as many specific
properties, viz:
“1, An external application of a jelly consis
tence that ha3 the power of arresting inlivnma-
tion snd destroying fungus or parasitic growths.
1. An emollient and healing soap, tree from
caustic alkalies for cleansing diseased surfaces.
2. An external remedy having a chemical
affinity or tho power of uniting with and neutral•
iziug ordestruying the corrupt partich s of mut
ter, or disease-breeding elem-nts which exist as
impurities .in the blood and circulating fluids,
and which are discharged upon the akin by the
sweat and fat glands to feed diseases already
existing.
-Vith three such remedies as I conceive it
possible to prepare, but which I do net now
know to exist, 1 will venture to assert l bat nine
ty per centum of the skin diseases iu existence
may be permanently cured.”
THE USUAL BEXEDiBS FAILURES. ■
If I have appeared severe upon the medical
profession, I have not been unjustly so towards
physicians who adhere to practipes at variance
wi:h reason and common seuse, and, withal,
lamentable 1 allures. I here assert that no oint
ment, salvo, cerate, lotion, or compound, for ex
ternal application, nor alterative or “blood puri-
fmr" for internal use. to be found in themateria
medica of tho schools and colleges of medicines,
and thero are thousands of them, will certainly
cure a case of salt rheum, psoriasis, or loprcsy—
no, not even dandruff end simple soaly affections.
I hav-
utnes
unsatisfactory results, as to specifio’ curative
properties.
HOPE POR THE AFFLICTED;
Hence, when Messrs Weeks a Pol ter. Chcm-
isfs and Druggists, of Boston, informed me that
for eight years they had been experimenting
with medicinal agents, and had obtained mostly
from subscancss never before usod in medicine,
and by a process original with themselves, three
great remedies, which they believed to be an
infallible cure for every kind of skin andacalp
disease from salt rheum to dandruff, whether
caused by a scrotal ms or diseased-tainted blood,
erbyamoroid condition of the glands, tubes,
vessels and colls of the true skin, or both. As I
had concluded to devote my life entirely to the
treatment ol skin and scalo diseases, to which I
have given much study and attention. I eagerly
embraced the opportunity given me by Messrs
Weeks A Potterto mako % thorough test of these
remediesiumy practice, and if successful to rive
them such publicity as their merits entitled them
to. This l now do, with the object of thereby
lessening as far as in my power tne great suffer
ing caused by tho diseases under consideration.
With this objsct In view I received a quantity
of eWi remedy uni made a most carc'ul elimi
nation cl them,
THE FIRST.
Tho name given to tho first of these groat
remedial is Cuticura. from cutis, ihe akin, and
cura, a cure—a skin cure. In practice I found
it possessed wonderful curative properties as
thev exist in no other remedies of the day. It is
entirely unlike anything for external applica
tion that I have ever secu before. It does not
contain a particle of deleterious or unwholesome
matter,a”d is to easily appli-d that no irritation
or pain is caused by its applicstion to raw or
infl-unedsur.aces. >
Cuticura, when used as directed, is wonder
fully adapted to soolho and heal the most in
flamed surface, to allay itchmgs and irritations,
that have been the torture of a lifetime, to de
stroy fuuoa or unnatural growths on the skiu
and scalp, to cleanse and purify the pores of the
skin and restore to he -lthy and regular action
the oil glands, tubes and cells, upon whose per
fect action depend the preservation of a healthy
skin and restoration when ditezscd. It does not
evaporate until tbe temperarure is rai-ol to
more than double that of the body, and hence is
not dissipated by heat, but remains on tho skin
until completely absorbed. It does not cental-
a trace of merenry. arsenic, zinc, or caustic
chemicals of any kind. It will not become ran
cid orspoil on exposure in any climate. It will
bo as fresh, fragrant, soothing, and healing fifty
years hence as it is to-day Contrast this with
the horrible salves and ointmentsof the present
time I It* fragrant odor is no no more grate fnl
than Is its agreeable taste, for, be it known, no
remedy is better adaptol to .cure affections of
the throat and lungs than Cuticura.
THE BECOND.
A pure skin soap, appropriately named alter
the great remedy from which it draws its cura
tive properties, is of a delicate natural green
color, showing its wholesome origin, Its emol
lient, soothing, and healing action is tho same a*
Cuticura, only in a modified form. While it can
not take the place of the latter in the treatment
of obstinate skin and aeslp affections, it may
ably assi-it it at every stage, and ii positively
indispensible inmost cases. It is iu every res
pect a pleasing contrast to the filthy products
prepared from the refuse sinks, vats, hotels,
pospitals and rendering-hous-s, reeking with
putrescence and animal pxresitos and tho germs
of contagious disease*, and innocently libelled
“skin soap.” In recommending the Cnticura
Soap as an assistant to Cuticura, as well as for
the preservation of the rkin of infants, of gentle
men who shave, and those who desire a whole
some skin and scalp, I but fill to the brim the
measure of my duty to the public,
Permit me to pause a moment to impress upon
all the necessity of frequent washing of the
■kin and scalp with soap—using plenty of soap
(free from caustic alkalieO. Whether the skin
or scalp is diseased or healthy, do not be afraid
of f oxp- It will assist all other remedies if dis
eased, and preserve and freshen the healthy,
skin. Too much ignoranes prevails si to its
value in the preservation of the skin and sealp
Cuticura Soap is a most fragrant aud refreshing
application to the skin and will preserve the
complexion better than sll the cosmetics in
existence. For tbe toilet, bath, and nursery,
it is the purest healing anJ cloansiug sosd be
fore the public, aud should be eave-1; demanded
by all who value health, a clear akin, and whole
some o.mplexiou.
THE THIRD
great remedy submitted to me is called tbe Cuti*
cura E -s-ilvent because of its intimate relation
to Cull-ura m tha vure of skin and scalp dit-
esses. Ot all the remedies for tha purification of
the bio d snd circulating fluids that I have ever
examine! no approach in specifio medicil action
the woiid- rlul properties ot tbe Resolvent. In
forty minutes after taking the first dose it may
be detected by chemical analysis in the saliva,
fat and blood, showing th it it has entered the
blood svd c-rculating flui >s, and made the en
tire circuit of tbe human labyrinth many times.
Chemical teats show it to be present in the
water with which the patient has bathed on
rising in th« morning. This wonderful property
alone should render itfsmous, for by thus enter-
ing snd b -coming a part of the circulating fluids
it is enabled to traverse every diseased cell, tube
and veiselof tha skin, tnd leave its wholescme
m.dicsl constituents upoh the surface of tbe
body, thus realizing tbe dream of the greatest
French i h tsicisns.
Jb'ut it does more than this. It is a powerful
purifying agent snd liver stimulant. It neutral-.
jars and retolvei away blood poi9ons, caused by
the virus of scrofula, c inccr, canker, malarial or
contagious diseases.
It destroys microscopic insects or Dsrasitvs
which infetft the water and air of malarial re
gions. and breed many forms o-t skin dUease9,
besides destroying the lives and kidneys. And
fcesi les all these wonderful pro -crties. it regu
lates tho stom.ch and bowel, so succe sfubv
tbit riig-.—t.ou becomes so perfect as to admit of
a reyi-i increase of whole9 >m9 t .suie, while tha
nj«nt»kA and j hj. sical force* are so favorably
aif*cte i that the most obsitr&to affection* which
h»T4 b*n prrmriu.ircd incurable by tho hijrhect
m#di«u auLhQ'itiftt lire sj-eodiij and permanent*
ll turid.
OB
Having been charmed, I must confess, with ths
results of my analyses of these new remedies,
my next step was to demonstrate their value in
the treatment of the great skin affections usu
ally considered incurable. I know that every
word I now write
WILL AWAKEN HOVE
in the breast of many a life-long sufferer. Can
I,in abroad and Christian spirit, without pre
iudice, without reservation, say to those afflicted
here, in these great natural remedies, is a speedy
ann permanent cure f With a just sense of the
responsibility 1 assume I say I can. There does
not exist a ease of chronic salt rbeum, totter,
ringworm, pemphigus, psoriasis, leproey. lichen,
prurigo, scald head, dandruff, or itching or scaly
eruptions that the Cuticura remedies may cot
cure, unless the recuperative powers of tbe
glands and tubes are destroyed forever. In
stantly they begin their great work. Belief dates
from tbe first application ahd a cure speedily
1 dlows their faithful use.
KUHDBSDS OF LIVING WITNESSES.
The best evidence 1 ran offer in favor of these
gre-1 remedies is the wonderful cures they have '
made—cures that have astonished, nay dumb
founded tbe noted specialists of the day, and
created an excitement among medical men,
among druggists, among ali classes of society,
never equalled by any other remedies in the his
tory ot medicines.
Among the many remarkable cures performed
by the Cuticura remedies I have spaee only for
the following: •
Hon William Tavlor, Jetton. Hass, perma
nently cured of a humor of tbe face and scalp
(eczema) that had been treated unsuccessfully
for twelve years by many of Boston’s best physi
cians and most noted specialists, as well as
Euiopean authorities. Be says : “I have been
so elated with my succasif ul us i of the Cuticura
remedies that I have stopped men in the streets
to tell them of my case ”
Charles HongbtoD, Esq, lawyer, i7 Congress
Street. Boston, certifies to a case of eczema or
salt rheum, which had been under his personal
observation for ten years, and which covered the
greater part of the patient’s body with its pecu>
lisr irritating and itching scab, and to which all
known remedies and methods of treating such
diseases had Deeti applied without benefit, has
completely disappeared, leaving a clean and
who esomo skin, under the use of the Cuticura
remedies.
Alderman J A Tucker. IS Doane Street, Bos
ton, writes: * I think I have paid for medicines
and medical treatment during the last twenty
years all, of three thousand dollars without
reeeiving any permanent binefit. Since my
cure Ihavo had no trouble from the disease, and
have sot hid suoh good health iu twenty years
as daring the list six months. I believe it the
greatest discovery of this century,” Disease,
eczema or salt rheum of the body, limbs, face
and scalp,
Messrs Dunning Brothers, druggists, Allegan,
Michigan, write under date of February 111 “A
caseof leprosy In our poorhouse is being cured
by the Cuticura remedies. The oounty had em-
ployed all of our doctors, and had tout to New
York for advice, but all to no avail The pa
tient commenced getting better as soon as he
began using them. Had been confined to his bed
for two and one half years. Lass week he dressed
for the first time. When he washed there would
■ quart of scales come off of him. This happened
every day. We think it a wonderful cure.” This
case is creating great excitement in that section
of the country.
HA Kaymond, Esq, Jtckson, Mich, auditor
Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad, was
cured of scald head that had resisted all reme
dies for nice years.
F H Drake. Esq, agent for Harper A Brothers,
Detroit, Mich, gives an astonishing account of
his case (eczema rodent) whi- h had been treat
ed by a consultation of physicians without bene
fit. and which speedily yielded to the Cnticura
remedies.
P P CutcII. Brq, attorney at law, S8 Camp
Street, New Orleans, writes a long letter, grate
fully ackno wtedicg a cure ot tetter of the hands,
which had afflioted him fer years,
Fred Rohrer, Esq. Cashi r Stock Growers'
National Bank, Pueblo, Colorado, writes: “I am
so well pleased with its effects on my baby, that
1 cannot afford to be wittont it in my bouse. It
U a wonderful cure, and is bound to become verv
popular as soon ai its virtues are known to the
masses.’*
J 8 Weeks, Esq. Town Treasurer, St Albans,
Vt. ssys in a letter dated May 28: “It workB to
a charm on my baby’s face and head. Cured
tbe uezd entirely, and has nearly cleansd tbe
face cf sores. 1 have recommended it to several
and Dr Plant has ordered it for them.” **
MM Chick, Bsq. 41 Franklin fittest, Boston
says: “My little daughter eighteen months old
h>s what the doctors call eczema. We have
tried most everything, and at last have used
about a box ef Cuticura. and she is almost a new
child, and we feel very happy.”
It would require every column of this paper
to do fustice to a description of the cures per-
formed by tho Cuticura remedies. Eczjma of
the palms of the hands and of the ends of the
fingers, very difficult to treat and usually con
sidered incurable, small patches ot tetter and
salt rheum on the ears, nose, and sides ot the
face, scald heads w.th loss of hair wiihont num
ber. heads covered with dandruff and scaly
eruptions—specially of. children and infants,
many of which since birth had be-.n a mass of
scabi—p-orbo-is. leprosy, and other fri-htful
forms of skin diseases, scrofulous ulcers, old
sorer, a r.d discharging wounds; each and all of
which have been speedily, permanently aud
economically cured by the Cnticura rexedies.
Of each a record Messrs Weeks A Potter may
be jastl.v proud. It is a grand medical triumph,
a triumph that will be gratefully remembered by
thousands long after tbe originate rs hare passed
an *j. To relievo »nd per mattemly cure diseases
of the skin and scalp which have been the tor
ture of a lifetime, to replace the repulsive evi-
sences of disease with tbe glow of health, and
thus render beaut iful.the face of man or woman,
I* to deserve tbe gratitude of mankina.
That Cuticura externally applied, with t
proper use of the Cuticura Soap and the inter-
nal use of the Cuticura Resolvent, will cure
speedily and permanently the worst forma ot
skin and soalp diseases wi:h loss cf hair, 1 think
1 have folly demonstrated,
I know that what I have wriltex in these
columns will bring
JOT TO MANT,
and I mean it shall, Iw.nttomakc those
happy who, Dy reason of these affections snd
diseases, have b*en unhappy; and that I may
do so, I freely proclaim the virtues of the Cuti
cura remedies, and as loDg as good-natured
editors grant me space in their papers I mean to
do so. And as long as Messrs Weeks A Potter
can furnish them at a price within the reach of
all who need them, there must be less suffering
from these intolerable disorders than ever
before. Let me say, in conclusion, what I have
oefore so often said, the Cuticura remedies wilt
core scalp and skin diseases that have defied
tbe skill and resurcesi-f the ablest physicians. I
have demonstrated It to be trne. A grand
curative blessing is thus substituted for death
dealing poisons. Mercury, arsenic, zinc, and
lead, and a thousand and one other revolting,
poisonous and senseless things prescribed bv
ignorance and superstition must now sink into
obscurity before the wonderful healing power
of Cnticura. As a humanitarian I recommend
them to humanity. As a physician I indorse
them, and rejoice at their discovery.
N. Y.SunJ
Is it possible that the rich Methodists
of the country will stand by with their
hand3 in their pocket and see the Metro
politan Church at Washington, the
ohuroh in whioh Parson Newman preached
and Grant worshipped, the church who-.e
melodious chimes have chased clumber
all these years from the eyelids of the
wicked Dion Plot, to bs sold at auction ?
If that humiliating fate is to be avert'd,
they have no time to lose. The church
ia in default on ita bonds, and eeme of
the holders have brought suit against
Grant sed the other trustees to enforce
the Bale of tho property. Here ia a fire
chanoe for the pious Mr. Hayes. -We
believe he is not himself & member of
the Methodist Church, but 1 • site every
Sunday under Methodist preaching.
Moreover, he is partly responsible for
the Metropolitan’aembarrasiments. since
his unexpected refusal to occupy tbe
“President’s pew,” wherein Grant had
listened to Parson Newman’s homilies,
divested it of its distinction aB fhe court
church. Hayes ia drawing $50,000
year to which he ia net entitled, and, be
ing a thrifty man, can well afford to
come down handeomely. Let Hayes head
the snbscription list!
Washington Capital.)
Under ench a reckless and reeking condi
tion of the United States Treasury Depart
ment, the meaning conveyed in a late con
versation cannot be -understood: “Are you
going to oarry Ohio this fall a Democrat
wts asked by one of the most intelligent
and honest of Republicans—a man who
knows as much about ths bank note hntioess
as any min at the capital. Upon an affir
mative reply it was rejsioed: “Not much
it won’t. I'll tell yon what’s a foot; you
won’t oarry Ohio if a million dollars cut pre
vent it. John Bheimus can put a million
there j net as easily aa he can put a thousand,
and nobody will know that the volume of
currency has been increased ” He Went on
to state as a fact, of his own knowledge thu
there wae no registry of greenbacks by their
numbers, snd no registry of the numbers of
these destroyed: that there was absolutely
no way to fl d out how many of the same
numbers were leaned In other words, the
impression conveyed to ths listener, and
sought to he conveyed, waa that the govern
ment plates oould be used by John Bberman
for the emirsion of any quantity of money
deemed; rodent, and this Republican believ
ed that John Sherman oould be trusted with
the management tf that part of the Ohio
campaign with tbe most implicit confidence.
Baliimcre Bun ]
From May 1, 1878, to May 1, K;9, there
were made and sold in the ouy of New Fork
1,842,18) barrels of lager beer. In each
barrel there are four kegs, and each keg, at
retail, averages IIS glasses of beer, making
the,total sales 617,892,800 glasses, which, at
5 cents per glass, wh ch the oontumar pays
for it, will give $30,870,140 as the amount
annually expended in New Fork for beer
alone. It is equal to about $39 per capita of
the entire population, or $ltfO per annum for
each head of a family—$15 a month; the
wages, in f set. of an average farm hand who
bo-rJs on the farm. It amounts, in another
v.ew of the css?, to r.etrly three p6r oent.
noon the rotsl assisted valuation of New
Yo:k, and is n! bin about $3.000,tCO of the
total municipal taxation of that heaTily-tAxed
city. The beer (core ie probably larger than
tbe whisky roore, but both together retch a
frightful sum. *2
Trout-Fishing.
Washington Post)
A mountain brook, a ihsdy ncok,
A ripple.
A rod and fly—-• He’s very sly.
Be careful l"
A sudden da-h. a little splash—
’■ Don’t lose him 1”
A turr, a bout, a splendid trout—
“Nowland himl”
Three hungry men, a ty ing-ptu
Can&cious:
A crispy brown, no snch in town—
“ Delicious 1”
A good article, at a fair price, ia the
$60 Five Ton Wagon Scale ; platform 14
x7. Freight paid, sold on trial. Jones
of Binghampton, Binghampton) N, y.
—It is proposed to ooavert Manchester
England, into a eesport for the lareest
steamers »t a oost of tlB.OOO.OCO. 8
—Extraordinary precautions were aeain
taken when the Queen of England w ■d-li
to Ohiaelhurst. Threats of violence had
been made.
-A gentleman who has traveled through
porHone of South Carolina, esys he saw hah-
“ r t? 8 2 f ,*5 r ^. ofoomlh » t wmnof - Produce
% buthel to the tore.
—A Chicago man has wagered $190 aasinst
a 60 oent thermometer that August I4tu will
be the hottest day of the year. Get voar
cabbage leaves ready.
—Brother Moody was rowing on a pond
at Northfleld, Mass., aud singing 'Pull for
the Shore,’ when over went tho boat, and
the evangelist was compelled to swim for
the shore or drown.
—The Dally News of London says that it
ie impossible to find room for a tenth part of
the letters it has received in protest against
the meditated erection cf a monument to
the Prinoe Imperial in Westminster Abbey
Masuchusetts.—Last Saturday in Boston
the Abbott Democrats refuted to undo with
tbe Butler Democrats in oaUing a State con
vention. It is stated, to-nixht, very posi«
tively that Gov. Talbot will decline a rocomi-
naUon.
—The Cincinnati Commercial believes (hit
if Gen. Grant were nominated he would be
beaten worse thin Van Boren or Greeley,
while any otherBcpnblicsn would be elected.
It wishes Gen. Grant to remain simply m
our first citizen.’
—The Montgomery Advertiser aaya Mr.
Sid Hall reports that the farmers in his sec
tion have effectually stopped the program of
the peetiferious cotton worm, by the free
snd constant use of Paris green. If tbe
eigoe do not fail, ths crop this year will bs
large.
—While John Shermin was off ia hie rev
enue ontter making Bepublioan speeches in
New England the pnblio debt increased
$8,066,844 for the month. We have spoken
to John about this before, says the Baltimore
Gazette.
—The first bale of cotton, of the new crop,
was received iu Montgomery on Sstordsv.
It wae raised byL. W. Tyson, of Lowndes
county, consigned to Lehman, Dorr & Go.,
and sold by J. N. Mnrpby, auctioneer, to
Maj. B. Dreyfus; prioe 11>4 cents.
—The Mormon missionaries will ttill con-
tinue the work of proselyting in Georgia,
notwithstanding the murder of Elder Stans
ding. Their labors are confined to Oh&ttooga
and several other counties, and it is said
they have baen quite euoceesfalin miking
oonverte.
—According to the New Yoik Herald tbe
subscription looks for stock in ths TeLm-
seps Darien canal scheme were kept open in
that city until 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon,
when they were finally closed This was the
o:ae also in Europe. The project, therefore,
si apparently abandoned
—A correapondentof the Nashville Ameri
can states, without confection by that paper,
that the effect of Thursday’s vote on the
bond compromise is repudiation. _ Are Ten*
nesseaus willing to eink all their glorious
hopes of oivio progress and prosperity in the
Dead Sea of repudiation?
—Beal estate transactions in Chicago tell
the same general story of reviving business
and increasing sales. For the fi<st half of
1878 real estate transfers numbered 2,334,
with a consideration of $10,006,814; in the
first half of the current year there have been
3.('46 transfers, with a consideration of 813,-
13 ‘, 657 „ ,,
—Boston Courier: ‘What news to-dsj?
said one of our city merchants • o bis friend.
‘What newr?’reeponded the ofhsr; ’nothing,
only things grow bettor. Oar people are
getting on their legs again.’ ’On their legs,’
eaid the first; ‘I dent see bow yon can make
that out.’ ‘Why, vee,’ replied the other,
folks that need to xide are obliged to walk
now.’
—A Ch'cigo dispatch says Theophelus
Yon de Moor tel, the Jesuit priest, who re*
cently created a sensation by publicly re*
ncuncing Catholicism iu favor ol tho Epia*
copal form of orthodox religion, will to
morrow renew that sensation by publishing
tbe following card: • ’The sympathy expressed
on all Bides by my oldest friends is ea true
and heartfelt that I find myself unable to
rat 1st. -I retract what I have said against
the Ohuroh ot Borne, and I sm telolvedto
retain to tbe church that opens its arms to
receive an erring child.’
Cosfis.tsh of a Mubdeber — Mayor
Stokely of Philadelphia, received cn Satur
day, a letter from a lawyer of Erie, stating
that a man in that city, while under the fear
of death, had oonfeeeed having committed
a murder in Philadelphia, some years ago,
killing a porter in a dentiet’s establishment
and robbing tbe place of a large amount of
gold. Th9 murder referred to is that of
James Needs, in 18C5, who was gsgzed and
strangled at White’s denial establishment.
Parties were arrested at the time, but the
evidence was inaufficent to hold them.
—A Georgia negro girl who went to Liberia
in 1877, taye an exchange, has returned.
Bhe does not give a cheerful recount of b6r
experience in that free xepnblio Among
other things, the e&ya that *tbs natives Bes
son everything very highly with p»pper, and
when a child ie borne among them they Bluff
its mouth with red pepper ana gruel, and
Jay it in the sun for an hoar. Tnoy sty it
will make it strong and healthy.’ Also she
says The.natives are very hard on our race
wnen they commit crime-’ Bhe mentions
the case of ono Beuben Cayho, who stole
something from ona of tbem, and they
otught him. tied a big rock around hia neck
and threw him in the river.
Bxleigh Observer.]
The Democrats of Georgia are now d'.icg
for themselves whit they hwe heretofore
done for thoee Sepublieancffise-liolderewho
being weighed in the balaics were foura
warning. The Comptroller, a Demi cat, and
presumably a Democratic politician of fair
standing, and of influence tav.cg been »o*
cased of mslpractloe m c£3:e, the House Of
Bepreaintstivea at once osused artiales of
impeachment to be prepared against hi®i
and ths Senate therenpon put him on m*
trisl Thus it happens that Washington L.
Goldsmith, notwithstanding his official por
tion atd hie relation to the party in power,
is now suspended from hia high office, ana
if his guilt be proved, will hive his offiMl
heed roiled into tbe waste basket by the
honest snd inoonuptiblo Democrats of Geor
gia. It is tbi* disposition of the Democrats
to probe any suspicions transactions to tto
bottom, ana if aught be found am ss, to pun
ish ths evil doer, that commend* onr party
to the oonfidecco of the masees.
It appears that for one honorable momte
to call another honorable member a liar is
not regarded by a majority of the Qaebec
legislators as a breaoh of parliamentary de
corum. Evidently our northern neighbor*
believe in the freedom of debate in its widest
extent.
N- F. Buu.>
Whenever the troops at the West hive *
fight with bionx, it is customary to hear th*!
“ among the dead ia the chief who
Gen. Ous er.” That ohief mnsch&veatle*’ 5
as many lives as a eat, so o’ten has he been
slain. His latest resnrrection was in Miles *
last fight, wben he wae promptly rekiU«<>i
Of oonrse. . /'
N.Y. Eras)
This ia not a good year for the Memphis
doctors to be airing their professional h:c*“*
fnga and jealonties-' There will ho plenty o
time to quarrel with one another after »
frosts come. Until then tfcey should R* y
tfceir undivided attention to the yellow zeve •
Harrisburg Patriot. 1 / .
Stoughton siyj that it oost
hia ealasy to lira in fit. Petersburg, and IW
the aotuzl work wqairedof the American
Minister at that Court would not occupy o
week in a year. When Congress mesu »
ought to abolish that institution with ia nm
delay as possible.
N. F. Fun.]
The Maryland Democrats denounce m
Fraud of 1877 as “a crime agunat a wno.
people.” That ia a true vitw to takeof *•
It was tho Amerioan people—not m«reiya|-
Tilden, Mr. Henddoks. and the ixm®*^
party—against whom that on me was piowj
and i xeented. And it was a
against the Americana of to-day tat agau»
their children and tbair ohfldre?*
Those who planned U, those who .aided m
earning it out, those who benffltted by
ehonld be held in everlanttog infamy.
No one can develop tbe grace of
ness by listening to a crying baby,
its fret fulness by curing the Colic wttb
Dr. E'lU’s Baby Syrup.