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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-20
JEFFERSON DA WIS IN RETIRE.
MEVT


THERE is no more significant evidence of the
rapid obliteration of the bitter feelings en-
gendered by the Rebellion than the obscurity
into which jefferson Davis has fallen. At the
close of the war all the indignation and wrath
of the loyal portion of the nation was concen-
trated upon him as the head and front of the
Rebellion. His trial, condemnation, and
punishment were eagerly demanded, as a
warning to possible future traitors, and his
release on bail and the practical abandonment
of proceedings against him were viewed with
no little discomfort by those who remembered
the enormity of his crimes, and who thought
that at least one who was chief among the
offenders should be made an example Of
The soundness of the policy pur-
sued towards the leader of the Re-
bellion has been fully demonstrated
by the results. The conviction and punish
ment of Mr.. Davis would only have served to
increase the bad feeling between the two
sections of the country, at a time when it
was of the greatest Importance that the work
of reconstruction should be advanced as
rapidly as possible, and it would have
answered no good end Like most punish
hiohtS luotou OuI W pollIlcdl ohohuoIo, IL
would have secured for the victim sympa-
thy in other countries to which he was not
entitled, and instead of making treason
odious it would rather have glorifed it, in
certain quarters, at least. By letting Jeffer-
son Davis severely alone, the nation has
sustained its own dignity, and it has
banished him to an obscurity in which
he has but little sympathy or respect
from any one. Instead of being
martyr he is now almost forgotten and the
nation has ceased to think or care about him.
This is the best fate that Mr.. Davis could
wish for, and it is creditable to his good sense
that he has rather sought his present obscu-
rity, instead of endeavoring to keep himself
before the public. For some time he was in
England, where a few Rebel sympathizers
endeavored to do him honor; but it was made
painfully apparent that the general interest
in him had ceased, and that the treason of
which he was the exponent had lost its popu-
iarity. A short time ago he returned to the
United States, but, beyond the mere an
nouncement of the fact, no notice was taken
of him, and it is doubtful whether the ma
iority of the people of the country
knaw whether he is here or in
Europe, alive or dead Some of the
unreconstructed Rebels of Memphis, Tennes-
see, day or two ago, endeavored to make an
exhibition of their disloyalty by giving him a
serenade, but Mr.. Davis very wisely declined
to make speech; and the probabilities are
that when his former admirers find that he is
not disposed to make fool of himself, they
will take the hint and endeavor to initiate his
example. That jefferson Davis should have
passed off from the scene so completely and
become practically forgotten is
proof that the humane policy o.
the Government towards him and the other
Rebel leaders was the only proper one tc
pursue consistent with the honor and dignity
of the nation
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HOSlER Y.

Ladies, Misses, and Gents, in all
Varieties.
so dozen Bleached and Brown Balbrig-
gan Hose, extra long top, at 62ac.
100 dozen Merino Hose, at 12i cents.
900 dozen Bleached and Brown Fleeced
do, at 81 cents.
Rochdale Super Extra Blankets, ALL
wool, at $3.50 per pair.
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GLOVES OF ALL KINDS.

We sell the EMPRESS KHD
GLOVES at s7H cents per pair,
which is "a better Glove than is
sold i'm other stores at SI'OO. All
sizes and cOlOrs.
Also, the best $500 HAid Glove
at $l'6215, in black, cOIOrs, and
all sizes. every pair warranted.
A full line of DRE SIS GOODS,
i'm all the new and desirable
fabrics.
A full line Of Nh q u R n n q
GOODS, i'm the popular varieties,
at less than the usual prices.
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DRY GOODS.

We enumerate a few of the Special Bargains;-
500 dozen Ladies' All.inen Hemstitch
Handkerchiefs, wide hens, 25 cents,
worth so cents.
7-8 All-linen Loom Table Damask, at
46 cents.
"a Half Bleaohed do, at rs cents.
S-4 All-linen extra heavy Double Satin
Damask, at $1.12.
36-inch Dice Huckaback Towels, extra
heavy, at 25 cents.
Extra Heavy Quality Towels, at 12lc.
Extra All-hnen Table Napkins, at
$1.37! per dozen.
Heavy Canton Flannels, at 124 cents.
Yard wide Extra Heavy Shaker Elan
nels, at so cents.
1000 Yards New Style Delaines, at Is
cents, same as sold at 25 cents in
other stores.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-20

This road runs through the richest and most
thcky settled portion of this magnificent State and
is the only link wanting to connect St Louis and St.
Paul 10y direct line 14T miles shorter than any
other.
1t runs through the great coal fields OF Southern
Iowa to the North, where coal is indispensable and
must be carried.
1t runs from the great lumber regions Of the North
through district of country which is destitute of
this prime necessity.
II DOES NOT RUN THROUGH A WILDERNESS where
it would wait for years for population to give il
business, but through tier of counties which are
now producing about twenty million bushels of
grain, most of which is freight for railroads.
Forty-fve miles are just finished, and the SUPER
ntendent reports that the portion open for busi-
ness the net earnings are more than the interest
liabilities
Sixty miles more are graded and million and
half Of dollars have already been expended on the
work.
The mortgage is made to the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company, and bonds can be issued only at the
rate OF 900 per mle or only half the amount upon
some other roads. Special security is provided for
the principal and for the payment of interest.
First mortgages upon most railroads are the very
safest investments and, so far can learn there
Is not single completed line in the Northwest which
is not only paying its interest but good dividend
upon its stock.
The immense grain and other freghts to be car
ried away and the domestic supplies to be brought
in, ensure profitable business.
First Mortgage Bonds for so small an amount upon
road running through such rich and already
well-setted part of Iowa, can we'll be recommended
as perfectly safe as we'll very profitable invest
ment. AT the present rate they pay about ten per
cent. on the investment Over 100000 have already
been taken by the Companys officers and others in
terested in the enterprise. Pamphlets, with map
may be obtained, and subscriptions will be received
| in Philadelphia by
IS. IA. JAMESON 81 CO.,
N. w. Cor. THIRD and CHESN Ut sts..
BOWEN & FOX,
Merchants Exchange Building.
| And in New York at THE COMPANY'S OFFICES,
No. so PINE Street, at the BANK OF NORTH
AMERICA, No. a WALL Street, and at HOWES &
MACY'S, No. 80 WALL Street.
Pamphlets sent by mail on application.
W. b. SHATTUCK,
II IS stuth1m4p TREASURER.
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The July number of the American
Missionary relates some laughable in
cidents occurring among freedmen
One teacher says that they circulate a
pledge against liquor, tobacco and
swearing, but that one man objected
to the swearing item, on the ground
that he was obliged to plow with some
very ugly mulesl The qualifications
of the negro preachers may be under
stood from this account:
The minister, last Sabbath evening,
began the service, "Bruthering and
sisters, embrace this most solemn
and serious occasion by giving out the
hime found on the 200 page" and an
nounced as his text, "Elias was man
subdued to like passions" etc. At the
close, when another minister was read
ing the hymn, he stopped to invite
mourners to the altar, and at the same
time said he would relate an "anti-
dote.n @ ~
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WHAT AN EPICURE ATE.-Few per.
sons ever give a thought to the amount
of food which they consume during
lifetime. From an article recently
published, we extract the following
estimate of what a noted English cpl
cure ate during the 10 years that he
lived: "Ten oxen, 200 sheep, 100
calves, 200 lambs, so pigs, 1, 200 fowls,
300 turkeys, $50 geese, 400 ducks,
200 pigeons, 1,40O partridges and
quails, 600 woodcocks, 1,4O0 snipe
and other small game, besides 500
hares and rabbits, 40 deer, 120 guin-
ca fowls. In 0sh, 100 turbots, 140
salmon, 220 cod, 260 trout, 400 mack
erel, 400 founders, 200 eels, $50 had
dock, 400 herrings, and 10000 smelts,
also, 20 turtles, 10000 oysters, $500
Holsters and crabs, 100000 prawns,
shrimps, sardines and anchovies. In
fruits, $50 lbs. grapes, so pineapples,
1000 peaches, 1,4OO apricots, 24O
melons and some hundred thousand
plums, green cages, apples and pears,
and million of cherries, strawberries,
currants, walnuts, chestnuts, figs, a.
monds, &c. In vegetation of other
kinds, 25,475 lbs. weight, about 1884
lbs. butter, 6S4 of cheese, q, 900 eggs,
1900 lbs. of bread, 1000 lbs. of salt
and pepper, $500 lbs. of sugar. In
liquids, 49 hogsheads of wine, 1894
gallons of beer: 1894 gallons of cof.
fee, cocoa and tea. 1864 gallons of
milk, and 2,796 gallons of water.
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AN AWFUL SToRY.-There was once
an awful little girl who had an awful
way of saying lawful" to everything.
She lived in an awful house, and in an
awful street, in an awful village, which
was an awful distance from every
other awful place. She went to an
awful school where she had an awful
teacher, who gave her awful lessons
out of awful books. Every day she
was so awful hungry that she ate an
awful amount of food, so that she look.
ed awful healthy. Her hat was aw-
full small and her feet awful large
She went to an awful church, and her
minister was an awful preacher
When she took an awful walk she
climbed awful hills, and when she got
awful tired she sat down under an aw-
full tree to rest herself. In the sum.
mer she found the weather awful hot,
and the winter awful cold, When it
didn't rain there was an awful drought
and when the awful drought was over,
there was an awful rain. So that this
awful girl was all the time in an aw-
full state, and if she didn't get over
saying lawful about everything, I
am afraid she will by-and-by come to
an awful end.
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BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO A WIFE,
DR.. Bushnell dedicates his new book
on Woman Suffrage to his wife. He
does this in terms so handsome to
one of the sex, whose claim to the
ballot he denies, that we copy it en-
tire:
"For once | will dare to break open
one of the customary seals of silence,
by inscribing this little book to the
woman / know best and most thor
oughly; having been overlapped as
it were, and curtained, in the same
unconsciousness for the last thirty
six years. If she is offended that |
do it without her consent, I hope she
may get over the offence shortly, as
she has a great many others that
were worse. She has been with me
in many weaknesses and some storms,
giving strength alike in both; sharp
enough to see my faults, faithful
enough to expose them, and consid-
crate enough to do it wisely; shrink
ing never from loss or blame or
shame to be encountered in anything
right to be done; adding great and
high instigations-instigations always
to good, and never to evil mistaken
for good; forecasting always the
things bravest and best to be done,
and supplying inspirations enough to
have made a hero, If they had not
lacked the timber. If | have done
any one thing well, she has been the
more really in it that she did not
know it, and the more willingly also,
that having her part in it known has
not even occurred to her, compelling
me thus to honor not less, but more,
the covert glory of the womanly
nature, even as l obtained a distincter
and more wondering apprehension of
the divine meanings and moistenings,
and countless unbought ministries it
contributes to this otherwise very dry
world"
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A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN ENGLAND.

A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN ENGLAND.
On the 2Sth ult., a whole family,
consisting of husband, wife and six
children, were found dead in their
house in Smithfeld, England. The
husbands name was Walter j. Dug
gin, a silversmith, and the children's
ages ranged from fourteen months to
thirteen years. 1t is supposed that
the father. administered the poison,
hydrocyanic acid, to the family and
then took it himself, as he sent a let
ter to the police authorities stating
that upon calling at his house they
would find something to interest them.
As soon as the letter was received by
the police they went to the house des-
ignated, and found the front door
locked on the inside, but obtained ad-
mission through a window at the back.
On a bed in the front room lay the
dead bodies of the mother and of three
of the youngest children, one on each
side of her and the other across the
foot of the bed. The dead bodies of
the daughters, Emma and Jessie, were
stretched upon another bed in the
same room, and that OF the Oldest boy,
Walter James, upon an adjoining crib,
while the body of the father lay alone
in the back room.
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stone, and timber, and men, and we
shall have the foundation laid this fall
But remember that if you break that
pledge, you will lose your job"
He went away. This is how | be.
came teetotaler. That was more
than twenty years ago. | have not
drank drop since. have the same
pledge here in book, and l hope
those of you who have not signed il
will do So"
King walked up and signed it.
81 am glad to see your name there
King"
Robert O'Neill then presented him
self, and said:
"Misther Jinkins, it's not the likes
of me that can write, but ye may put
my name on, and by all the saints II
kape it,"
Mr.. Jenkins put his name on, ant
said, "Robert, if you keep that, it will
be the making Of you" He was fol
lowed by all the others who had no
previously signed.
Soon the tea, party, which had beer
so pleasant and profitable, broke up
and the visitors returned to thei
homes.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-08-03

The "EARTH CURE" E."-The follow.
ing is given by correspondent of the
Country Gentleman. How fortunate
it is that the remedial properties of
earth are beginning to be found out.
We hope it will drive many an inva-
lid from cooped up quarters to the
garden and field, where health and
strength can be found, if at all:
Several years ago a Yankee friend
of mine, who, as commander of his
own ship, had learned to live pretty
fast, was taken sick in Florida-that
land of FLOWERS and Fleas'-and had
narrow escape with life. When the
fever left him, we, with much difficult
ty got him on board, and after a quick
run landed him safely in New York,
but in terribly crippled state from
gout or some disease which caused
his legs so swell badly, and he was a
great sufferer. We lost no time in
sending him home to his family up
the Connecticut river
Being much attached to the captain,
as soon as | could spare the time |
took a boat and landed near his resi-
dence before sunrise the next morn
ing, and at once went in search of my
old friend, and found him-not in bed,
but in his garden, hoe in hand, and
bare-footed, standing in earth knee
deep, where he had been since day
light, was looking well, and said he
felt like boy. This had been his
daily practice since his return home.
Your articles on Earth as Disin-
fectant, bring this circumstance to
mind and may interest some of your
readers. We shall hope to learn
whether earth should be applied di-
recily to wounds or sores, or enclos-
ed in a bag-without knowing GER
tainly should suppose the latter"
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they were painfully affecting, have been radically
cured in such great numbers in almost every sec
ton of the country, that the public scarcely need to
be informed of its virtues or uses.
Scrofulous poison is one of the most destructive
enemies of our race Often, this unseen and unfelt
tenant of the organism undermines the constitution,
and invites the attack of enteeblng fatal diseases,
without exciting suspicion of its presence. Again,
it seems to breed infection throughout the body and
then, on some favorable occasion, rapidly develop
into other of its hideous FORMS either on the
surface or among the vitals. In the latter tuber-
cles may be suddenly deposited in the lungs or
heart, or tumors formed in the liver, or it shows
its presence by eruptions the skin, foul ulcer
ations some part of the body. Hence the occa-
sional use of bottle of this SdrsapariHa is ad-
Visable even when no active symptoms of disease
appear. Persons afflicted with the following com
plants generally find immediate relief and, at
length, cure, by the use of this S4RS4P4RIL-
La: st. 4nthony's Fire, Rose or Erystpelds,
letter, Salt RheUnl, ScdId Head, Ringtc0rfn,
Sore Eyes, Sore Ears, and other eruptions or
visible forms of Sc1'ofntous disease. Also in the
more concealed forms, as Dyspepsia. DropsY,
Heart Disease, Fits, Epilepsy, Neuralgia,
and the various UIcerOus affections of the muscu-
lar and nervous systems.
SyphiIis or Veneredt and MercuriaI Diseases
are cured by it, though long time is required for
subdung these obstinate malades by any medicine.
But long continued of this medicine will cure
the complaint. LeucoTrhGd or Whites, Uterine
UIceratiOas, and Female Diseases, are COM
| monty soon relieved and ultimately cured by its
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lions for each case found in our Almanac, sup.
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caused by accumulations of extraneous matters
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as they often do, from the ranking poisons in the
| blood. This SARSAPARILLAi is great re
| storer for the strength and vigor of the system
Those who are Lo1sgftid and Listfess, DespO7s-
dent, SIeeptess, and troubled with Nervous Ap-
prehe,asions or Fears, or any of the affections
| symptomatic of Weakness, will find immediate
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power upon trial.
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A blind horse wandered into the
river at Indianapolis, the other day,
and getting beyond his depth swan
around In circle in his efforts to find
his way out. His distress attracted
the attention of horse near by on
the bank, who instantly went to his
assistance. He first went to the
waters edge and attempted to direct
the blind horse by neighing, but find
ing this proceeding Intellectual, he
boldly took to the water and swan
out to his relief. After swimming
around with him for nearly quarter
of an hour he finally got the blind
horse to understand his good inten-
tions, and in what direction the land
lay, and the two horses came to shore
side by side, amid the cheers of up
ward of one hundred persons, who
were interested spectators Of the
scene.
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Poisoned Fun.

Young readers, you know there are
poisoned drinks for sale at saloons in
abundance, and foolish persons, old
and young, to buy them, and poisoned
candies too. But did you ever notice
that a great deal of the fun we see is
also poisoned? I have seen four
kinds of poison in it.
l. FALsEHooD.-The talk of many
fun-makers is very highly seasoned
with this. They seem to think the
more false the more funny. Some of
it they call jesting or joking; or they
tell you they said it "only in fun
Nevertheless, it is really falsehood,
and as such it is poison. The de-
stroyer, Satan, has used it to injure
men ever since he deceived our moth
er Eve in the garden of Eden; and it
has been very efectual to spoil peo-
pie. do not think that you can find
a single person that uses it, or is
fond of the fun it makes, whose soul
is in good health. This poison is In
juring all such persons, and to many
Of them it will soon prove fatal. You
know what the good book says OF ''all
liars" v
2. OBsCENITY.-This is filthy
poison, and [ do not like to say much
about it; but know that, as vile as
it is, many mix it with their fun, and
SO poison themselves and others by it.
Beware of it.
3. PRoFANrrY.-Qucting Bible ex-
pressions in trihing or sneering way
or using uncommon forms of swear
ing or cursing, or ridiculing religious
people or their practices, seems very
funny to many persons, both old and
young. When they want to make fun
they put in some such profanity to
season it.
4. CRUELTY.-One boy knocks off
another's hat, and runs away with it
or spatters his clothes. One CIR,
snatches another's pencil or comb, anG
hides it; or one vexes another about
poor dress, or an old bonnet, OF
about some awkward action or mis-
take in speaking; or one laughs al
another about some friend; in these
and many other ways, some persons
take pleasure in injuring or vexing
others. They delight in making 9th
ers feel bad. They make their fur
almost wholly of such cruelties. Blu
it is dreadfully poisoned fun. l
, makes those that love it like the enc
my whose delight it is to do evil.
Now | like good fun, and like t.
have other people, especially th,
young, enjoy it, and plenty of it; bu
| poisoned fun-young readers, what d.
you think about it? Is it best to max
it? If we eat poison it commonl,
harms only the body; but can we par
{ take Of these poisons without harmin'
, the precious soul?
: Then when you make fun do no
, mix any of these things with it; anG
3 when you seek to have fun made b
) others, 60 where they do not mi
poison with it.-Child at Home.
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The Green Bay (Wis.) Gazette
says wheat promises to give more
than an average'yield, and rye is 60
ing to be large crop. Potatoes are
doing very well; those pests, the
potato bugs, are not very numerous
in that section. The hay crop is 60.
ing to be uncommonly large.
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Singapore has boa, constructor
that has swallowed young lady, who
wore at the time a $4,000 dollar
necklace. The young lady is of no
value now, but the necklace is-so
about 10000 natives are diligently in
search of the snake.
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A man now temporarily in Nova
Scotia does not know to what country
he belongs. His father was Irish
and his mother German. He was
born in Canada, was naturalized in
the United States, became a Confed-
crate by rebellion, and is by residence
and attachment Mexican.