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Horrible ease Hs Superstition In
susGocbann2 sGuntJ, Pa.

A correspondent writes from Great
Bend 10 the Montpose Republican the
following account Of q terrible case of
superstition and It's results, gathered
from eye witnesses Of The affair:
A Mr.. Eli Stowe and wife, living in
Randolph, some four miles from tho
Bend { Nazarites), becoming possessed
with the idea that the devil had entered
into their child "a babe only eighteen
months Old, and that the evil spirit
must be conquered by whipping and
starving, are said TO have tied the help.
less infant in a high chair for twenty
three hours. ever and anon spanking
and whipping it, until when discovered
it was said TO he ''black and blue" from
its neck TO its heels, and its little ouiy-
ering flesh so cut and maneled by the
lash that the blood actually trickled
down the chair to the floor. The alarm
was given by the hired man, who has,
tened to the chld's grand parent, Mr..
Kent, living near Windsor village, who,
on learning the facts, hastened as fast
as whip and spur could urge fleet
horse, and on reaching the house Of the
infatuated parents, actually found the
babe undergoing crucifXion at the
hands Of the father and mother, as
above stated. A few hours longer must
have ended its sufferings, as the child
seemed to be so exhausted as to be
nearly insenshle. A thrill of horror
seemed to pervade that community, and
a universal murmur for the laws to have
its weight. The parents have heretofore
been regarded as good cilizens,g and the
cause of this, temporary religious in
SANITY.
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NENR a.
REVOLUTION IsAU0UaArED,
OMce of Goyernsr Declared Va
can't

OMAHA, NEB, Jan. 22-The follow
ing has just been received from Lincoln:
Hilton has been elected President o;
the senate The Office Of Governor is
declared vacant, and resolution for
the election Of a Governor by joint
Convention on W cdnes;lay has passed
the Senate.
"Send down company Of militia"
OMAHA, NEB January % Senator
Kennedy, having been sent for, arrived
at Lincoln to-day, and a quorum was
obtained in the Senate. The uliice of
Governor was declared vacant, aud a
resolution for the election Of a Govern
or by a joint convention passed.
The six Senators who adjourned the
Senate on Saturday had lei. for their
homes, and also many members Of tie
House.
The House assembled at two F. n
and ordered thc Sergeant alarms to
arrest Chirf Clerk Cropsey, who was
ahscut, and 10 compel a return Of tbs
Journa, of the House. Cropsey refused
t4 Respect the warrant of arrest A
3 80 p. NJ. CroPsey VAS taken out on &
writ Of h0bea& cnypUS.
There was nu quorum in the House,
leaving tie Senate without . quOrum-
eleven members Of the House (of thir-
ty-three) and six Senators (of thiftecu)
only being present No roll Vas ca,ied
in either house.
Governor James refnscs to recognize
any oct Of the Legislature, having adj
ioUrned that body on Saturday last
OMAHA, January 2l--Iherc were
eleven maFnb"rs in The House and six
in the Senate There IS uo quorum
and none is expected, although every
effort ia being made 10 induce the ab
sent members 10 return The election
Of = new Governor vii! be attempted
tomorrow The order prorogning tie
Legislature was ordered to be struck
from the House journal.
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A Terrible Tale.

A Mantako Wisconsin, correspon,
dent Of the Milwaukee Wisconsin sends
the following horrible tale: Last sum,
mer, family, consisting of husband,
wife and thrse children, Nent from this
city to live upon claim situated near
Heron Lake, Noble county, and about
fifteen miles from Okakens. On the 1st
inst, the husband, who is given to drin-
king. started for Jackson ostensibly on
business, but only to indulge in the
pleasures Of his devilish appetite. He
left his wife and children ont upon the
open prairie, in the dead Of winter, with
scarce stick of wood, and what is still
more incredible, while she was daily eX-
pecting confinement The day after he
left came the fearful storm, and when
that was expended the poor woman
found herself without fuel. She knew
that she could scarcely expect her hus-
band home for several days, as it took
that time generally for him to rec over
from his sprces, and the conviction came
to her that her family would soon freeze
to death unless succor could be had
from the neighhors, the nearest Of whom
was three miles distant. So this des
Derate woman, at that time in so deli
cate condition that she might he con
fined to her bed, started out in the fierce
cold for help. At least such is the sup
position, for the next day some Of the
neighbors found the body, together with
that of the new born babe, stark stiff, in
a snow bank, where she had fallen faint,
and perished. Iorrilied, they picked
her up and carried her home. and here,
horror upon horrors, they found the
three little ones also frozen to death.
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THE JAUNTKNG JAPs.
Sketches Of the Principal H2em-
bers of the Embassy.

Correspondence of the New York Times,
1wakula, the fIet ambassador, is
Vice President Of His japanese Impe-
ria Majcsty's Ministry, Sandeo being
President Iwakura is somewhat over
fifty years of age, Of second official
rank, and & man Of snch superior abil
ity as to he commonly termed tie Ten.
nos right hand man The Tenno is
improperly termed Miksdo. Jwakura
is, in fact, the principal working execu-
tive officer Of the japanese Govern
ment, TO him more than to any other
man is due the recent revolution and
its results, and he now wields CORES,
pondjng force in the Japanese Ministry.
KIDD, whose title is Sangee, is aboat
forty years Of age, and is one of those
remarkable men who stood out SO long
for the restoration Of the Tennos pow
er.
Okuricho Okubu is Satmir by birth,
brave, Imp@ssiOned man, fOrtv-f0ur
years Of age 1t is SAID Of Oku0u that
whef news OF defeat in the first bat.
lie OF the revolution which was the out-
-rowth of 600 years, so slow do great
movements rpen in Japan, some one
asked in the General Council what
Should they do with themselves and the
Mikado, Gkuhn replied, Let us expect
no more ihan to die here, hut while a
SalIHir lives the usHrpajion Of the ly-
coon will he resislll' il was OkutAs
Satmig soldiers that at last turned the
battle and defeated tue tycoon.
iro. who recently visited ihIs country,
is now Assistant Minister Of Public
Works and Industry, and has charge
cf the .hiphuilding, railroads and tele-
Graph, which in Japsn are Government
affairs IT" - only about thnty years
Of acc, progressive, liberal and prom
iajng statesman.
Yamakuchi Is also about thirty years
Of asc; is Assistant Minister Of For.
ejcn Affairs.
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EF FDuring the Radical war upon
Civil Service Reform by MoRroN, CAR.
rENrER, EDMUsDs and other leaders who
wear GRANTS collar, i; is worth while to
read GRANTS commissioners report to
Congress as to the corruption existing
under the present Administration. Here
it is in their own language:
1T is not easy to compute in figures
the exact economical difference between
a good and bad system Of the civil
service 1t is, necessarily matter OF
inference and of comparison between
the probable operation of careless and
careful method But it IS calculated
BY those ,cho hare nude n careful study
Of aH the .fucts that one fourth Of the
rerenue Of tie United States are anna
ally lost in the collection. ..
That means "that une-fourth Of the
revenue of the United States are an nu-
ally" stolen by the rogues whom GRANT
appoints to collect them.
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" P. Sprasue's Kssw Nottingham
Tho Radical Party oPpeseG to
E0Tsisn Bern Cttizens.
GEN. MOEGeN'S AMEN ~ SS EN1'
fD Tslf. <HNSTiTETsJN,

The 70 lowing is the resolution offer
el hy Mr. MORGAN. Of Ohio, on the 23d
ut bat which the House refused to sus
peal the rules Ia allow its consdera-
tio..
WuER.As political equality ia the true
hs,is # republican institutions, and
whereas ali the citizens Of the United
States under the Constitution, IS amend
s'i. without rrgar,i tn race. color or pre-.
vious condition, arc eligible to the OIL
ces Of President and Vice President, cx-
cept na'H"Ai;zai cii;zons, who alone are
eXciuied Therefore, t.e it
Hc&0'ted, dc, That the following ar
tic.e he Submitted for ratification by the
Lo9islaturcs of the Statcs,and when rat
tied by hree-fourths nf them, said arti-
Gle shall he declared tn I've a part Of the
Constitution Of the United States.
ARTICLE -.
SECTION =. Ns,uraiize,l citizens who
have attained the age Of thirty five years.
and have resided fourteen years in the
United States, are hereby declared eligi-
l,ie to the Office of President and Vice
President. -.,.
WILLIAM p. SPRAGuE, The man who
misrerresents this, 18th Ohio, District in
Congress, voted ngatast ssspcn,iiag the
ruIes TO pernit The dbove to be considered
WILLIAM p. SPRaGuE WAS an ardent
supporter of the 18th Amendment, the
provisions of which make the dirticst.
meanest Negro in the United States, or
that may come in, eligible to the office
of President and Vice President.
But when the question comes up OF
permitting intelligent foreisn-born citi-
zens 10 become eligible to the same po-
sitions, he votes, NO.
Now. we desire to know Of the Mari
eta Register. Pomerov Telegraph,A Athens
Messenger, Athens Jsurnal and Morgan
Herald, whether Mr.. SrRAGUE represents
the sentiment OF the Radical party Of
this District on that question. And
whether Mey INDORSE that cote.
The Democracy of the District favor
tho Amendment and condemn sll such
Know Nothingism.
Gentlemen, let us have an unequivocal
answer, without any ''ifs" or sands or
dod ses of. the demagogue sort,
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EECoLFAx likes to see his name in
the papers. He has caused it to be an
nounced ahoat seventysi1 times in the
last two years, that he positively never
would, under any conceivable circum-
stances, permit himself to be a candi-
date for any position great or small. He
wanted it repeatedly, distinctly and en-
phatcsiiy understood that on this point
he was inexorable.
He now explains that he didn't mean
this to preclude him from taking an Of
fee, the Vice Presidency for instance. il
he could worm himself into it,
The benignant smilsr only wanted to
be coaxed little, aud petted a little,s
to be told that the party couldn't do
without him. That was all.
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EE'A resolution in favor Of the one.
term principle, was recently passed in
the lower House Of the Missouri Leg
islature, by vote Of eighty six to
twenty one, and the lower House of the
Kansas. Legislature, and the Illinois
Legislature, have also adopted similar
declaration. The people are for this
principle everywhere, and will manifest
it in way that cannot be questioned, at
the proper time. Do the Republicans
of the Ohio House Of Represe natives
propose TO smother this question in
committee? 1t looks very much as il
they had received high orders from the
Grant Office, bolders Statesman.
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EFThe bill in the Ohio House oil
Representatives, to prohibit persons
from hunting wild game Off their own
lands without permission, was defeated
on the 23d inst, by a vote Of yeas 4S to
nays sc, not constitutional majority.
A bill Of that kind smacks too much
Of the game laws Of England; all such
absurd measures deserve defeat Mr.
GREEN rdiculed it in this manner, which
it and its author certainly richly dese.r-
ed: s - ..,
"Provided that such animal or ami
mails, bird or birds shall. have been do
mesticated to such an. extent that they
know their masters voice and distin-
guish between him and any interloPer
and provided further, that the owner OF
such land shall, for one. year next prece-
ding any prosecution under this act have
provided proper food for such bird or
birds, animal OF. animals" Lost.
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aE Secretary FIsu has requested the
House Committee on Appropriations to
ap .lropriate $4,000 for the entertain.
ment, by the Government, of forty ia
panese who have arrived in this coun-
try.
or course that amount and a defcicn-
cy bill, after their departure, will be ap-
propriated to enable the Administration
to make big splurge and drunk for the
Japs, If the people can stand such
costly sprees,all right.
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EEAs We predicted some weeks ego
GRANT pet Senators are making furi-
Gus fight against civil service reform. 1t
10 now more apparent than ever that the
advocacy of reform iu GRANTS message
vas bit Of demagoguish clap trap:
lie was to obtain applause for favoring
Tie measure, while bis tools in Congress
were to prevent it from Weakening his
patronage.
We will have no civil service reform
under GRANT. Some sort of sham will
lie set up to he kicked over as soon as
The Presidential election is decided
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~"Aunt Phillis," an old colored
woman who was we'll known in and
about Railway, n. j., WAS burned 10
death al Bricktown, near Railway, last
Friday night. She was born in New
Jersey about the year 17G7, and during
the Revolutionary War,although mere
girl. is said to have been OF some SER
vice to the American cause as spy
She herself used to say that at one time
she was in tho special service OF Gen
eral Washington. She had in her pos
session gold snuff box, which was
given to her hy Governor Livingston
as testimonial of her services to the
Federal cause.
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Fac is:Itary Occupation OF, Chi
cage.

SPRINGFIELD, Jaruarv 24-Resolu-
ti"ns we're adopted last night in the
Republican caucus, by vote of 35 to
IA, declaring That The military should
be kept in strict subordination to the
cj'i! power; declaring as unlawful and
aganst the CoIstI.drion 8 hoth OF this
State and the United States the late ex-
ereise Of military poweE-sin Chicago :;
yet, in view Of the extraordinary Cir
cumstanccs the great ealaDity yawhen
ii was used, exhonerating the Federal
military authorities rom intent to viii
fully tresrass on the constitutional
rights of the State or to interfere with
The proper authoriiies, Theresolutiops
finally approved the protest of the gov
ernmcnt Of the State as establishing a
valuable PRECEDENT
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wThe West Virginia Commits

@The West Virginia Commission
ers, General Jackson, Of Parkersburg
]. NJ. Burnett, Of Weston, and A. w.
Campbell, of Wheeling, have published
the amount and character Of the debI
Of Virginia prior to the war. This
State proposes to settle with Virgins
for the proportion of the debt, and af
ter crsditing Virginia with the amounts
expended for improvements, bank stocks
etc, and charging her with her estima
ted interest in public buildings and va
rious funds, find balance in her favor
Of about million dollars. The public
improvements of Virginia, which repre-.
sented some thirty millions of her debt
before the war, they turn over to that
State, along with the debt for the same.
Their language is, Virginis has the prop
erty and owes the debt, which it repre-
sents
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SSenators CARPENTER, MORTON and
others Of GRANTS henchmen are terribly
frightened at the way Civil Service Re
form works CARPENTER says it will de-
stroy any political party that upholds it,
Senator TRUMBULL, who fayors honesty,
instead of corruption, says:
Il say it in my place here, and | will
say it everywhere, that if the Repu blcan
party has not virtue enough in it to sus,
tain this reform in the civil service, then
it ought to go down, and it will go
down"
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kaEsae.

Sr LOUIS, Jan. 2i-In the Kansas
Senate yesterday Colonel Suodsy, in a
speech on the question of appointing a
committee TO investigate the Senatorial
election last winter, said no investiga-
ton was needed to satisfy the entir e
people OF the State that Senator Csll :
well procured his election by the use Of
money. He said Mr.. Caldwell repre-
sented no party in the State, and no
combinations of any interests whatever,
except the interest Of his own pocket.
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~President Grant is NOT rs bann

ES IIeSiicIlt OIaut is NOT rs naphy
as he was. Several unpleasant things
have transpired. One of his broth
er-in-laws has made a fool of him.
self in New Orleans; and another of the
same valuable class of relatives has done
the like thing in Copenhagen; while
still another has been discovered in an
enterprise Of disreputable character
in New York. Last, not least, civil ser.
vice reform in the shape in which it has
been presented has not, taken the coun-
try by s1orm-not by considerable. The
truth is the civil service reform that the
country most needs is the elimination
of the worthless relatives Of superior
officers. There is room for new abo-
lition party for the abolishment of broth
er in laws Gin. Com. Rad.
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@ Senator Sherman has received a
letter from State Senator j. q. Smith,
of Ohio, in which he latter says that
he has conversed with Easement, How
ard & Co, with regard to the proposed
changes Of votes for Z. s. Senator in
the recent election in The Ohio Senate
Immediately preceding the announce
ment Of the result, and that they say
the only purpose was not to secure the
change Of enough votes 10 defeat Sher
man, hut to insist that they had the par
liamentary right to change their votes
before the final result was announced
and that the movement had no other
purpose in view, and farther that in
half dozen more ballots Howard
would have voted for Shcrman-W Wash-
ington Telegram.
The above dispatch Senator Sherman
has been at the trouble of having tele-
graphed all over the United States. 1t
is pretty strong evidence that the pro
test of the State Senate against the le-
gality of the Mueller election, hurts.
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2gOur member of Congress, W. P.
SpRAGuE, sits in his seat and calls out
"yes'-'no," on matters which come
before Congress for consideration. A
well.made wooden man could be made
as scrviceable as our member. How
would it do for this District to send a
man next time who possesses some in
tclIigence?
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Rg American carpenters sre be
ing taken in large numbers 10 England
to work in the British ship yards. There
is no employment for them here.
This is the way high tariff protects
American laborers rrom being brought
into comretition with the .pauper Labor
or Europe" They are not on y com
jpelled to compete with it, bat they are
eomuel,ed 10 leave their families, and at
heavy expense cross the ocean for the
begearly privilege Of scrambling with
these ..paupers'' for employment al pau
psr's", wages.
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EG.ya In Arkansas Almost De-
kfrOyed.

LITTLE Rock, January 20.-On the
night OF the 18th one-half of the town
of Monticello, in Drew County, was de-
stroyed by fire. The stores of S. F,
Arnett,W W. S. Jethcr, Smith & Bordeaux,
w f. Owens & Co, the saddle and
harness store of Mr. GALLON, the office
of Fulton & Coates, and the shop of
Fulton 81 Allen were entirely destroyed.
A few days before this a terrific storm
passed over the same place, blowing
down two churches and several other
houses and unroofng the courthouse.
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R To keep General Hancock in d.

H To keep General Hancock in Da-
cotah, and prevent him from succeeding
(as he rightly should) to the Military
Department of the South, just made va,
cant by General Halleck's death. Grant
has actually assumed command of that
himself, and ordered Gen
erals Terry and Emory to report "to
these headquarters" Why don't he
give the department to Leet, with let
ter of recommendation to some of the
little Governors down there? Is the
South completely plebottomized?
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The Coming New Y0ri4 man.

Cath has discovered the man who
is to take Fisk's place, and writes thus
about him in the Chicago Tribune:
In conversation to-day with prom
iuent Wall-strcet broker, he told me
that 1.-The Coming Man OF the street
was Dir. Henry Smith, and then he told
me little something about tie man,
which | will repea. Mr.. Smith is a
young man-actiye, energetic, ambitious,
and far seeing. He was formerly a
member of the firm of Fisk, Gould &
Martin, but withdrew thereirOm some
time since, and has since been operating
in his own name He spends his whole
time in Wall street. dealing almost ex-
clusirely in railway sharas-sometimes
carrying millions of dollars worth -
My authority says that he made four
millions of dollars clear last year, and
that he is now worth from seven to ten
millions. He is bold, fearless specu
lator, who having once calculated the
chances, persistently pushes forward till
success crowns his efforts. He can in
no wise be called reckless-saYe only as
all speculation is reckless-but he care
fully makes up his mind, then is bold
and fearless in the execution of his
plans. 1t is predicted Of him that his
immense railroad interests will yet ne
cessitste his becoming manager Of some
one of the great railroad corporations.
Vanderbilt, Gould,an other princes, -
recognize in Mr., Smith "a foeman wor,
thy of their STEEL and prophesy that
he will become the Dictator" of the
street. As to his morality in business
matters, he probably has as good a sup,
ply of that commodity as any of his
brother spectators. Mr.. Smith nov
has a large following Of operators III
the street, as does every new man pos,
sessing vieor, originality and-succeSs
The prophecy as to his future is wortl
recording
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EEThe Lower House Of the Ohio
Legislature has passed. bill to admit as
competent jurors persons that may have
formed an opinion as to the innocence
or guilt of accused parties, from reading
newspaper accounts and hearing rum ors
The bill ought to pass the Senate and
thus do away with the present system
which awards premium, FOR ignorance,
to professional Jurors
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s5,- The leaders Of Radicsllsm
throughout: the country are frightened
.,i,,ost ont of their wits at the exposure
If their robbery schemes III the New
y,,k Custom House. The Radical post
,oaslrr editors don't publish word con-
c.,.uiny the investigation. They have
their orders to keep q net but the REQ
III. are aroused and will, in the elections
,t,;s wear. route GRANT AID his General
o,der thieves from every position they
now disgrace.
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sT GRANT and his family have the
free lun OF the National Theatsr al
Washington.
The proprietor Of the theater, however,
is not ruined bv this generosity He
draws psy as an internal revenue officer
in some district in Connecticut. 1t is
needless to say lie never saw the Office
in which he is supposed to transact bu-
siness.
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eg-Senator SrlMsoN's little bill to ia

Ey-Senator STlMsoN's little bill to ia
crease the salaries Of Supreme Judges
from $4,000 to $4,000 and that of Sec
retary of State from $4,000 to $500,
came to grief in the Ohio Senate,en the
10Th inst, by vote Of 10 nays to 16
yeas.
That's right Reform in the eyes of
Radicals is to increase the salaries Of
officials.