The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-07-20

10 take a contract 70 sack London IN
sixty days with Fenian soldiers and
sailers, free from al cost bat that o
transportation"
Asa Packer, the new Democratic
nominee for Governor Of Penusy lvania
is a native Of Connecticut lie was u
Representative IN Congress for four
years, beginning with 1853
The Richmond Wing SAYS Eve
bog the New York World, and all tho
over zealous Democratic journals, to
LET rs alone What we have done has
been done without their aid and in
spite Of their opposition. We are more
indebted to President Grant than to
all the Northern Democrats pat togoth-
er for onr deliyorance
Tho Detroit Post thinks that our
naval vessels, if We would have them
inspire terror, should receive such
pames as Cholera and Yellow Fever,
Niro-Glyeerine, Susan u. Anthony.
Anna Dickinson, sc,
The National Republican party Of
Mississippi has decided to run Judge
Dent a brother law Of the president
for Governor. The new party supports
the administration, and iayors the en-
forcement OF the reconstruction acts,
Universal suffrage and universal am
nesty, upon the basis Of civil and pol
iticnl equality to all. President Grant
has decided that the election in Miss
issippi and Texas shall take place on
the Both of November.
An Iowa paper reports that, us a
man and his wife were at work in a
field in that State, their child, which
was i'll a basket uear them, was heard
to cry, and the husband asked his wife
to go and see what the trouble was -
She, intent upon her work, delayed a
few minutes, and then to her horror,
found her child dead, with large snake
coiled around it. The husband, in the
frenzy Of his anger and grief struck his
wife with hoe which be held in his
hand and killed her instantly.
Josh Billings says: Zone Of the
fussyest scenes | ever listened wuz two
old maids waiting on one sick bachelor.
The disease known to the ancients
as leprosy, is making sad havoc among
the inhabitants Of the Sandwich Islands.
This scourgo attacks old, middleaged
and Dung Of both sexes. In one group
may be seen an aged woman, a stalwart
man in the prime of life, the girl in her
teens, the school-boy and child -four
years of age, all bearing the distinctive
and neyer-to be forgotten marks Of lep-
rosy The ears Of one are swollen,
another's hands are deformed, the fng
ers being drawn into the palms Of the
hands and one or more joints gone from
each finger, while another's face is SO
SWOLLEN and disfgured that bis own
friends find it hard to recognize him.
There is no cure for this horrible atllic-
ton. Its victims are all sent to au is
land devoted entirely TO thea occupa-
ton, and are compelled to remain there
for lite.
-VIcKsBuRG STILL EXHIBITS severe
marks Of the seige Of 1868 The mum.
erous caves in the sides of the hills
where the inhabitants took refuge arc
| still open. Recently, one Of these cav
es was opened, and to contain the bon
es Of family supposed to have been
suilicated by tie closing Of the en-,
trance. The rife pits and earth forts
still remain on tho hill-tops, but Tho
cannon have all been removed.
-Ir is stated that Asa Packer, The
Democratic candidate for Governor o.
Pennsylvania, was nominated solely be.
canse lie IS estimated TO be worth $40
100000 Packer has nothing 70 recon
mend him but his bank account He
is old, infrm aud past his usefulness
Governor Geary, the Republican can
didate, has served the country as a
statesman and soldier He is ener
getic and progressive. The issue il
the canvass in Pennsylvania will bc
dollars age, and imbecility agains
brains, patriotism, and activity.
Josh Billings says sOne Of tht
fussyest scenes / eyer listened wus two
old maids waiting on one sick bachelor
1 Bathing is now in order, but PEG
pie indulge in this luxury with reck
lessness. Many constitutions arc sadll
shattered every summer by too muei
bathing. Bathing is good thing, en-
ployed il moderation but immoder
ately enjoyed it becomes very dan
gerous and damaging thing. Only th'
most robust and souudest system car
stand daily dimensions without beeom
ing impaired Persons afflicted by or
ganic disabilities should not bath Offer
er than every other day, anc in n'
event should they remain in the water
longer than ten Or fifteen minutes An.
indulgence il bathing extended to hal
al hour or an honr, (which is more nc