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DOCTOR MARY WALKER AND
HER PATIENTS.

Doctor Mary Walker hung out her pro-
fessiOnal "shingle" at LeavenwOrth, Kan
sas, recently, and the Commercial of
that city records an amusing incident in
her professional life, in which she seems
to have turned the laugh on a trio of
would-be wits most admirably:
Three gentlemen called to see Doctor
Mary, Stimulating sickness. One of them
is a legal light, remarkable for the length
of his head and also of his beard. This
one feigned rheumatism and sat down in
an afflicted manner. They then all sat
down, and the lady eyed them askance.
By and by they spoke, saying that they
had heard of the doctors fame and
came to be healed. They each held
out hand, desiring her to feel their
pulse Gentlemen" said the lady,
Il will undertake to cure you, but
want fee, please. Five dollars, in adj
vance" "That's cheap" said one.
anyhow its the regular charge" said
another. The lady looked on, saying
nothing. Conversation began to flag, and
the visitors made as though they were
feeling round their clothes for the five
dollars. The silence grew embarrassing
to all but the lady, who sat looking like
sphynx. Then one of her visitors got
up and went out, then the other went out
also; finally the third got up and ran,
without even staying to say gOOd-by to
the doctor or waiting for her to write out
her prescription. He did not, however,
get away so quickly but that he heard the
lady calling after him eft takes three
smarter men than you to come fOOling
round me-" Her patients having gone,
the lady looked round smiling like a saint
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ACOOD WORDFOR wOuEN,

From the lips of woman every infant
hears the first accent of affection and re-
ceives the first lessons of industry in ten
derness and love. For the appreciation of
woman the grown up youth will undertake
the boldest enterprise and brave every diff
ficulty of sturdy danger, and even death
itself. To the happiness of woman the
man of maturer years will devote the best
energies of his mind and body; and from
the soothing and affectionate regards of
woman, the man who has become veneer
able in years derives his chief consola-
ton in Hfe's decline. Who, then, shall
say that the half of the human race,
and they cOnfessedly the most yirtuOus
and the most amiable, may not be en-
trusted with an intelligence, and an infu-
ence equal to our ownl To them when
sorrow afilicts us, We c0nsign half our
sufferings, and they cheerfully relieve us,
by tightening them. When joy delights,
we give the half of our pleasures and
they readily consent TO share them. They
lessen, by their sympathy, the pangs of
all our privations, and they increase by
their participation, the ecstacy of our
delights. They deserve, therefore, the
full enjoyment of every privilege that it
is in our power to confer on them.
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JAMAICA.
Progress of Religious Liber

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, Dec. %, via Ha-
Kama, Dec. 2S.-The Government has
officially announced the disestablishment
and disendowment of the Church in this
island. One of the effects will be that
many clergymen will have to resort to
manual labor for a livelihood. The
Government has abolished private juris-
diction at the magistrates courts.
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IOWA.
HcPents and Wants 10 Die.

Chicago, Dec. 2S.-Themystcry of the
recent robbery Of the county treasury of
Talma county, Iowa, has been finally re-
yealed. II will he remembered that the
Denton county Assistant Treasurer assert
ed that he had been knocked down,
stabbed and otherwise maltreated, and
robbed of some $4,000. lie has finally
confessed that he committed the robbery
himself, and has restored every dollar of
the money. Shortly after his confession
he undertook TO commit suicide by
shooting himself in the bowels, inflicting
a wound which may prove fatal He has
hitherto been regarded as young man of
sterling character.
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NIACREADY.
An interesting Reminiscence.

Macready was, in the main, kind
hearted man, and full of consideration for
all associated with him, but subject to oc-
casional tornadoes of passion, usually in
cited by the merest trifles. An instance
of this occurred in Boston under Burton's
management. 1t was this actors custom
| invariably to be at his dressing room in
the theater an hour and half before the
raising of the curtain, so that he might
have time to dress leisurely. One bitter
cold night he had just thrown off his COM
Portable wrapper, and sat down while
his indispensable Attendant singu-
lar character of the name of
| Thompson-busiedh himself in preparing
the costumes for Macbeth in precise order,
and with cat-like tread. Thompson had
| placed the habiliments in their proper
| places, and all was ready for the ''star'
to disrobe himself for the process of per.
sonal transformation, when, with sudden
veil, similar to that which used to startle
the public in 'eWerner," he threw himself
back in his chair, his face wearing an ex-
hibition of utter despair. The frightened
valet sought for an explanation. Macrea-
| dy uttered not word, but sat still, stony,
and resigned. Thompson then looked
about him to see what he had forgotten,
when the irate actor at last shouted:
'LoOk, you-you-" with certain 9TH
er words peculiar to Forrest and Macrea-
dy) ''you beast, can't you see2"
''See what?" mildly asked the other.
"What2 Oh, grant me patience! Con
found your brutal stupidity, what do |
play tonight"
'NIacbeth.
''Yes-well Where is it?'
'Where is what 2"
'My book of boards, you immaculate
ass 2"
With a scream of terror, Thompson
dashed away, and the tragedian muttered
continuous anathemas during his absence.
lie returned with the missing article in a
wonderfully short time, and while he was
putting and blowing from the exertiOn,
Macready Numbered away at him, in his
ierky, staccato style: ''Ah, Thompson,
Thompson if ever a man was cursed with
an inconceivably besotted fool, am that
pitiable wretch. Great-ah-heaVens
For what unknown sin of my early life,
or what unrepented crime of my ances-
tors, am l condemned 10 endure the puT-
gatory of your constant irritation? I-ah
brought yon all this distance from your
home. You know, confOund your tor
menting soul, that l promised your fam
lily to see that you took proper care of
yourself, and now, you perverse beast, on
such terrible night as this-yOu go out
without an overcoat.
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ROME.
EnfnIIibiIifV,

ROME, Dec. 2S.-Itis certain that in the
questions thus far submitted for the con-
sideration of the committee as appointed
by the Council nothing is said on the sub
iect of infallibility.
The Pope expresses the opinion that
members of the Council have no voice in
regulating that body's proceedings.
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MONTREAL.
ENlradiIiOnnI.

MONTREAL, Dec. 28.-In the Caldwell
case, the evidence being concluded, the
counsel for the United States Government
claimed that Caldwell's guilt has been
clearly established, and moved for his ex-
tradition. The counsel for the prisoner
reiterated their protest that Judge Coursal
has no jurisdiction in this matter.
The Decision.
Judge Coursal decided that the evil
dence of forgery against Caldwell was
fully established. and ordered that he be
committed for extradition according to the
terms of the treaty.
Appeal
Caldwell's counsel gave notice that he
would appeal to a higher court as to
questions of jurisdiction in the matter
This will delay, if not prevent the extradi-
ton,
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Still Living
ST. LOUIS.
The worlds Fair.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2S.-At the meeting
last night of the committee recently ap-
pointed to consider the project of hold
ing the Worlds Fair here in 1871, after
considerable discussion of the various
plans, it was finally resolved that the hold
inc of such Fair is not only feasible but
practicable and desirable The commit
tee appointed drafted articles for the in
corporation of the Worlds Fair Associa-
ton, with a capital stock of $1,000, 600,
to be submitted to a mass meeting at the
Southern Hotel, Jan. 3, at which the in
auguration and perfection of arrangements
for holding such Fair will be made.
Chinese for Texas.
Nearly 500 hundred Chinese from Cali
fornia will arrive here tonight. They
will Immediately proceed to Texas to
work on the railroads.
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PORTLAND.
Peabody

PORTLAND, Me-, Dec. 2S.-The COM
mittee of ten appointed to arrange for
the reception of the remains of Pea
body, met last night and consulted over
the affair. 1t was determined that the
funeral should not take place at The town
of Peabody until ten days after the ar
rival Of the remains here. When the
Monarch arrives, the civil authorities will
take charge of the body.
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$4,000 Troops i'm the Field
against Cuban Insurgents.
WASHINGTON.
Grade.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-The case OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, charged with obstructing public
highways, was taken in the Criminal
Court to-day. 1t was in testimony that
the company refuses to conform to the
street grade, thereby retarding city i'm
provements. The object of the suit is to
compel obedience to the municipal law.
No Cabinet
The President was in his Office but a
short time to-day. No visitors were re-
ceived. No Cabinet meeting was held.
The clerks of departments were all per-
mitted to leave at noon.
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BELLS STATION.
MurdCTouS.

MEMPHIS, Dec. 2S.-On Thursday night
Store Bennett and Tom Judson, colored,
had an alteration at Bells Station. on the
Memphis and Louisville Railroad, during
which the former was hrutally murdered.
Last night a party of maskers took Judson
from the custody of the constable, car
ricd him to the woods and shot him
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GEORGIA..
FATAL whisky Bout

AUGUSTA, Dec. ga serious riot oc-
CURED yesterday at bearing, Columbia
county, in which \. n Hods and Ellis
Adams were killed, and D. Holds was
wounded. Whisky was the cause, poll
tics having nothing whatever TO do with
the affair.
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CHARLESTON
EFOSpitabIe.

CHARLESTON, Dec. 2S.-The officers Of
a feet of thirteen Spanish gunboats now
anchored off Battery, were entertained at
a collation. to-day, by the municipal
authorities. The fleet remains three or
four days and is expected to make this
port their rendezvous The frigate
Pizarro and three gunboats are expected
to-uipht
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-29
AN INCIDENT OF THE LATE WAR

A clergyman in Lexington, Va, who
served as a chaplain in the Confederate
army, from the beginning to the end of
the late civil war, sends us an account of
the following strange incident, which, he
assures us, may be depended on as strict
" true:
Among the COnfederates wounded al
the battle of Antietam, who fell into the
hands of the Union forces, was young
private of good family named F., from
the mountain region of Virginia. He
was a boy at school when the war broke
out, and abandoned his studies to
shoulder musket in the army of Gen.
Lee. lie was shot through the lungs al
Antietam, and, after lying for a long time
on the field, was carried to a Union hos
pital, and tenderly cared for by Mary.
land surgeon attached to the Northern
army, under whose skillful treatment the
young Virginian soon became cOnva-
lescent. The Marylander conceived q
strong liking for his patient, and, pro
curing his release on parole, took him to
his own house, where he remained in
comfort and security until he was ex.
changed, when he returned to the Con
federate army.
Some time later in the war, the Mary
land surgeon, while with his regiment in
Virginia, got separated from his comrades,
and, being cut off from rejoining them by
Early's cavalry, took to the woods to avoid
capture, and wandered for several days
among the forests and mountains, until he
became utterly exhausted with fatigue
and hunger. In this desperate strait, he
resolved TO apply for help at the first
house he should come to, even at the risk
of being arrested and consigned to Rebel
prison. He soon reached a dwelling of
the better class, in which he found at
home an intelligent-looking lady and
several small children.
He made himself known as a surgeon in
the Union army, and asked for food and
shelter. The lady replied that Federal
surgeon had been very kind to her son
while a prisoner of war, and for his sake
she would do what size could for the
stranger. This remark led to mutual in
quiries and explanations, from which the
Marylander learned that the house to
which he had thus accidentally wandered
was the house of young F., hispatient
from the field of Antietaml 1t may
easily be imagined that he was warmly
welcomed to its hospitalities, and provided
in due time with the means of regaining
the Union lines in safety.-AppletOH's
Journal
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BRISTOL.

Eighteen Persons Crushed TO Death.
BRISToI, [CoNN.2 lIDec. 2S.-During the
performance at the theater in this place
last night there was an alarm among the
audience, and in the efforts of the crowd
to escape from the building eighteen per-
sons were killed and manv were in
inrp1
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n.nrrr returning from church

A DARKEY returning from church, was
asked to give an account of the sermon.
''Well, sab, de sermon was upon de mira
Gle OBJ de loaves and de fishes. De minis
ter said how der was seven thousand
leaves and five thousand fishes divided
between de twelve 'postles. swell whaf
miracle was there about that9" "Why,
sab, de miracle was dat dey didn't bust
OATS my perception OBJ de circumstance.
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MINNESOTA.
More Whisky-TwO Men Killed and
Seven Wounded

Seven Wounded.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2S.-On Christmas day
a bloody fight occurred at Morris Lake,
Mimi, on Lake Superior railroad, be-
tween some Swedes and Irish labOrers-
all drunk-which lasted three hours. One
Swede. name unknown, and Jas. Brown
were killed, and seven others seriously
wounded, one of whom will die. About
fifty men were engaged in the row.
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CINCINNATI
Playful Murder.

CINoINNATI, Dec. %. AT Mount
Pleasant yesterday a blacksmith named
Mcdonald, in a saloon, playfully snapped
a pistol at Thomas COTcOran and shO' 10,
dead. He had carried the revolver with
out a cylinder for several days, swapping
it at people He says he forgot the cyl
Under was replaced, being very drunk at
the time His character has been good as
a peaceable citizen. He was arrested and
gave bail 10 appear before the Criminal
Court.
still Living.
Mrs Wilder, whose husband, on Sun
day, at Cheyiot, attempted TO murder her,
and subsequently killed himself, is still
living,
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Sheer FaIschOOC
RICHMOND.

why shouldn't Uncle Sam Make
Restitution
RICHMOND, Dec. est has transpired
that a number of the sheriffs appointed by
Gen Candy, under the reconstruction act,
are defaulters to the State in sums rang
ing from S., 600 to $40, 900, which they
collected, but are unable to pay into the
Treasury.
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Vera Cruz is getting up petroleum com
panies to work 4, 900 barrel well recent
" struck there.
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Liberal Comment.
DALMATIA.
Entirely Suppressed.

LONDON, Dec. 28.-Dispatches from
Venice confirm previous reports of tie
entire suppression of the Instruction in
Dalmatia
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In The Stale Of Iowa Miss Julia {. Ac,
dington being elected by the free SUI
frages of her male admirers, Superintend
ent of Common Schools, asks the advice
of Mr.. Attorney General O'Connor as to
her right in the premises, and that gentle
man answers that ''recent decision in
the Court of Exchequer, England, holds,
that the generic term man includes wO-
man, and that it advances our progress
from a crude barbarianism to a better
civilization. The Attor yGeneral war
rants this construction, and concludes !;
81 need scarcely add that, in my opinion,
Miss Arlington is entitled to the office to
which she has been elected After this
let Sorosis be glorifed and the StantOns
and Anthonys magniied.
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BROOKLYN.
Police Court Frauds.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-It is understood
that Mayor Kalbfeisch, of Brooklyn, in
his annual message, will unfold sORle facts
relating to- unfaIthful police justice in
at least one case. There are very re-
markable discrepancies between the actual
amount received in fines, etc, and that
returned to the city Treasury.
Sheer FaIsehOOd.
The officers of the Kings county Aims
House pronounce the report that they ex-
PEELED disabled soldiers because they voted
the Republican ticket a sheer falsehoOd.
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In London it has been discovered that
they manufacture ''genuine Dutch butter
out of suet.
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Appeal.
FRANCE.
Ministerial Resignation.

PARIS, Dec. 29.-The Journal OficieL
announces the resignation of the ministry,
and the Emperor's determination TO &C
cent the mo
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ILLINOIS


CHICAGO, Dec. 2S.-A daughter of Mel
son Whitney, a farmer living about six
miles from Bloomington, fell into a well
yesterday and was drowned.
lucky.
Mike Dugan, track-repairer of the
Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, has re-
covered judgment against that road for
$4,000 for injuries received while in its
employ.
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A New York restaurant displays a sign
s'Whisky free from fusil oil.
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FUIT NOMINIs UNTBRA.
The Identity of Junius and Sir Phil
Up Francis Fully Established.

a
The conclusive proof of the identity of
Francis and Junius is as follows:
Upon the publication of the fac smiles
of the famous 'feigned hand" of Junius,
a Mrs. King, (1lee Giles of Youngsbury
in Essex, at cnce recognized it as the hand
writing of an anonymous note which she
had received in ITO at Bath, with a copy
of verses enclosed, written in different
and unknown hand. From various circum-
stances, she had always believed and
stated that this note came from Philip
Francis; but as the evidence on that
point was not satisfactory, the story at
tracted no great attention. Upon the pub
LEGATION of the "Life of Sir Philip Fran
els, about two years ago, however, two
lines of the verses in question were found
quoted in letter from Richard Tilghman,
of Philadelphia, (elder brother of the late
Chief Justice Tilghman) to Francis, dated
Sept. 20, 1913, in manner plainly i'm
plying that Francis would recognize them.
This led to a renewed examination of the
original papers, when it was found that
the copy of verses IO0S IN TiIghmdR's
handwriting! Now, Tilghman, as ap-
pears from the "Life of Francis" while
a law student in the Temple in 1863 and
1770-the two most important years of
the Junius period was the Intimate
friend of Francis, who was his near rela-
ton, and was with him at Bath at the
time the verses were delivered These
facts led to most careful examination,
by the first expert in London, of the
original note in which the verses were
envelOped, and they unhesitatingly pro-
nounce it to be, beyond all doubt,
written in the "feigned hand" of
Junius. II follows that Junius was
the writer of the note. His friend Thigh
man wrote the verses (no doubt copied
them for Francis;) and when, three years
afterward,. we find him quoting the verses
in letter to Francis, the conclusion is
irTepressible that one of the two wrote
the note which enveloped them. But the
writer of the note was JuniUs, which
Tilghman could not have been, because,
among thousand other reasons, the Ju-
MUS letters began before his arrival in
England, and continued after his return
to America 1t follows, therefore, that
Francis was the writer; and thus, after
the secret has been kept in impenetrable
mystery for just a century, a trivial acct
dent has led to its discovery and to the alb
solute demonstration that Francis was
Junius. We may add that we have our
selves compared the fac SMILES of the
note with those of the feigned hand of
Junius, and that of the verses with nu-
merOus contemporaneous letters of Thigh
man now in the possession of his relations
in this city, and we concur in the opinion
of the London experts that there cannot
be doubt of the identity in either case.
-Lippincotts Magazine.
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Col AARON WILBUR, who recently died
at Savannah, Ga, had his life insured for
seventy thousand dollars.
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France is said to be the freest and hap
piest country in the world for people who
will let politics alone.
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An Imperial EpistIe.

eeAAb bAAS lNASA . eNAAAAAAAtstiCA1 ~ 81
cept the same.
An Imperial EpistIe.
1t contains also letter from the En-
perOr to NJ Emile Olivier, requesting him
to name persons who will associate with
him to form a homogeneous cabinet, faith
fully representing the legislative majority,
and resolve TO apply in letter and spirit
the .SendtILS COnsultun1 of September s.
The Emperor counts on the devotion of
the Corps Legislatif to the great interests
of the country, and no less on that of NJ.
Olivier, to aid him in the task he has un-
dertaken of putting into successful opera
ton a constitutional regime.
Liberal Comment.
Liberal Paris journals, commenting on
the Emperor's letter to NJ. Olivier, say
that personal government is now at an
end in France, and the letter is the first
chapter of liberal empire.
Corps LegisIatif.
The new session of the Corps Legislatif
commenced to-day. NJ. Schneider was re-
elected President by vote of 100 to 40.
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IILIVN ItV NJ IAELT n,
AsHEvILLE, Dec. z, 1869.

CARRYING a bouquet containing chloro.
form is the fashion among rapid women
in the West. When a chap with money
concealed about him gets spooney Oh
them, they let him smell of it, when hi
lies down in a corner, and is gone through
with little trouble.
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A DENVER reporter in describing a ball
says that the married ladies of that city
always did discount the girls in grand
dress, and they do still, " and he mentions
several who were ''chiefs-of staff for
stylish grace and superb harness." A
certain ''quiet class of married ladies, "
however, all likewise mentioned by name,
''were, as usual, well attired, though not
fashionably stunning" and of this latter
class, it is said, they ''may be quoted al
ways sterling-the style of wife it pays
to have"