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FISKIANA.

rrcm the published letters of the
-a-s Fisk to Helen Josephine
lI4asheld the following aphorisms
and epigrsmmatic sayings are coll
lected, some of which will GO to rec
ord on the page Of history alongside
of that famous saying, "Gone where
the 8oodbine tHineth %
"Bully morning for funeral"
''Dear Dolly, get up now.'
''Dear Josie, be ready.''
"Sleep Dolly, all the sleep you can
to-day-every little bit, sleep, Dolly"
II feel as if three cents worth of
clans would help me some."
81 am wrong. but i am bothered.
1t will come right"
"You know me-"
"No more. Like the Arabs, we
will fold our tents and quietly steal
away, and when We spread them next
we hope it will be where the wood
bine twineth' over the river Jordan,
on the bright and beautiful banks Of
Heaven"
"The thread is so slender / dare
not strain it more. am sore; but
God has made me so, and i have
not the power to change it,
."Comment is unnecessary'-aplot-
ting house, and against me-. What
have i done that Nully Pieris should
work against my peace of mind p
"Surely the world is machinery.
Am keeping up with it, is the ques.
tion."
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WHOLE NUMBER s67
A WICKED PRESIDENT.


Con. Grant has rendered ssrvices
&. reused the enthusiastic grati-
tlae Of his eounsrymeD; he led our
armies from victory to victory, I'LL the
rebellion met its death at .Appomst-
tox; but then it cannot be denied
that he has kept his father in a coun-
try post-office 20 which he had been
appointed by a farmer President /; ror
that he has selected for confidential
service at the White House, his broth
er-in-law, who, b ing an officer Of the
army, not by Grants appointment,
receives no additional compensation
for this duty. Still it is argued that
it is improper for President to sp-
point, at the same cost to the Govern
ment, man whom he knows and can
co-f1e in, rather than stranger. We
how this charge is to be
ans /. efad. Nor is this all, for il is
positively stated that among the
female clerks in the Treasury Depart
ment. is the Presidents wife's broth
er-in.laws's second cousin. To suca a
fearful extent has nepotism been car
ried by the present Administration !
1t is not denied that under General
Grants Administration the debt has
been reduced to an extent without
precedent in financial history; but
then it is equally clear that the Presi.
dent smokes strong cigars. 1t is ad-
mitted that more than $50, 1000, 900 of
taxes have been lifted from the shoul-
ders of the people; but what answer
have we to the fearful fact that the
President likes a good horse almost as
much as Washington and Jackson
did? In mitigation of this offense, it
may be pleaded that soldiers are gen.
orally rather fond of horses--Proyi-
dence journal. eD
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8f1iginns.

lLRST PRESB CHURcH,Rev. A
B. Fields. Pastor. Services every Sabbath a
l0zo,ciock, A. NJ. and7 O'Clock, p. NJ. Sab
bath School Y O'Clock, A. NJ. Prayer Meet
ing O'Clock p. NJ, Thursday evening. Cor.
nsr OF Main and Hardin streets.
FIRST COHGREGAT TIONAL cHURcH.Rev,
W.S.fetersen, Pastor. Services every Sabbath
al leT O'Clock. A NJ, and O'Clock, Z. M
Sapoatn school O'Clock, Z. NJ. Prayer Meet
ing clock Thursday evening. Broadway,
south of Main-Cross street.
AET ODLST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Rev.
Oliver Kennedy, Pastor. Services every Sab
bath st ioH O'Clock, A: NJ. and 4 z O'Clock, Z:
Meeting Z o'clock Thursday evening. SAM
dusky street, west of Main street.
ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH, Rev.
Z. s. Hooper Pastor. Services every sabbath
sabbath school at O'Clock, A. NJ. Prayer
Aeeting o'clock Thursday evening. Craw-
ford street west of Main street.
UNITED BRETRREN IN CHRIST, Rev. T.
]. Harbaugh, Pastor. Services every sabbath
bath School at 8 O'Clock, A. M. Prayer Meet
ng7 o'clock Thursday evening. Corner of
Crawford and West streets.
CHURCH OF GOD, Front street, ,westof Main.
Rev. J. w. Awkerman, Pastor Services on
Pm. sabbath-schooi at ~ p. M: Prayer
meeting every Thurs day evening at
o'clock.
ST. AICHAELS CATHOLIC CH UhCd, Kew
j. b. YOUNG, Pastor. Every other Sabbath,
First Mass at soclock, A NJ, High Mass at
10, A. NJ. Catechism at 9, p. NJ. Services in
English, German and French. Mass every
morning at O'Clock, A. NJ. West end OF
Main-Cross street.
GERMANLUTHERAN (St. Jotn's) CHURCH,
Rev. NJ. Buerkle, Pastor. Services every
other Sabbath at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, Sabbath
School at O'Clock, A. NJ. Singing Society at
O'Clock Friday evening. Corner of West
and Front streets
ENGLLSHREFORHED (Ss. PuuPs) CHURCH,
Rev. Josiah May, Pastor. Services every
other Sabbath at 10 O'Clock, A. N. East end
of Main-Cross street.
GERMANREFORMED CHURCH, Rev. ]. g.
Ruhl, Pastor. Services every other Sabbath
at O'Clock, A. M. Sabbath School at
O'Clock, A. NJ. Prayer Meeting at O'Clock
Wednesday evening. East end of Main
Cross street.
EVAyGELICAL URCH, Rev. Z. B
Grouse, Pastor. Services every Sabbath at
l0H O'Clock, A. M, and O'Clock, p. M
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. San
dusky street east of Main.
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SfsNiseellalleuns.
Conduct of the Administration
The Work of Correcting Abuses
A Comparative Exhibit
Civil Service Reform in Practice

From letter to the New York
Times, in regard to the conduct of
Grants administration in exposing
and correcting abuses, we make the
following full extract:
THE LOSSES BY DEFALCATIONs SINCE
MARCH 4, 1869.
First, as TO the amount of losses
sustained by the government through
its appointees. The amount, | am
well aware, is not altogether salts
factory criterion by which the integ-
rity of an administration is t. be
judged. Yet comparison showing
that the amount thus lost is not only
diminishing, but that the boldness
and audacity Of such crimes have also
been checked, is legitimate proof of
the increased vigilance enforced upon
the custodians of public funds. The
following is Il list Of all the losses of
public funds through the crimes OF
defalcstion or embezzlement, known
TO the records, any part of ,Ohich is
believed to have accrued during this
administration. The amount actually
recovered in each case is deducted,
while the amount which may be re-
covered On the bond i3 not deducted /:
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been accomplished by this admins

iration:
Amount OF
No. of amt of unabated
| Collectors. money. taxes
Apt,ed by Lincoln-;7 $50 o. GSSls g g
Apt'ed by Grant......l0 I75,995 65 3i26l3 iC
The lesson enforced by these forty
cases in litigation, thus condensed
and classified, is, that three-fourths
OF the cases, four-fifths of the money,
and nine tenths OF the uncollected
taxes, are the inheritance Of previous
administrations, mainly OF MIR. John
sons.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT - ENFORCE
MENT OF THE LAWS:
We will now take one other
branch of the workings Of this
bureau for an illustration. In the
regular course of things, with largely
reduced taxes-nearly one-half-with
a great number of articles and deal
ers entirely released from its bur
dens and annoyances, with amended
and more effective Jaws for the pre-
vention of crime, and with the temp
tations to the violation of law greatly
lessened, there ought to be large
Ic~rnasn in the number nf a"its. in
dictments, and convictions, as COM
pared with the years 1867 and 1868,
when the taxes were large, and when
the situation of affairs under John
son was marked by very lax en-
forcement of the laws, save in excep-
tional instances, where some resolute
law officer pursued criminals on his
own responsibility. We will COM
pare the fiscal year 1868, which is a
clear year under johnson, with the
fiscal years 1870 and 1871, two clear
years under Grant:
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The Postoffice Department has just
made an important decision regar ,ll-
the transmission of newspapers by
mail, which is OF considerable interest
not only to publishers, but to the peo-
pie generally. Under the new con
struction placed upon the law, nc
name or memorandum can be made
on newspaper inside the wrapper on
which the address is written. 1t is
barely permissible to mark an article
with pen or pencil. More Than this,
subjects tie paper to letter postage,
and the violator of the law to fine,
Neither must any printed card, hand
bill or advertisement, written notice,
letter, or slip of any kind whatsoever,
be folded in the paper. Printed slips
posted on the outside or folded in
papers or periodicals, soliciting no
tices, are also violations of the law
senders of transient papers can send
bundles of printed matter by weight
at transient postage charges, but must
not send any written matter in such
bundles. To do any of these things
is to violate the law. These facts are
of Importance, and should be borne in
mind.-PiHs5urg Commercial.
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A CHICAGO paper concludes a laud-
atory Lgtice of detective by saying
tbat Pinkerton undertook to break
..sa Gang ofrobbers, and the Job was
done effectually. -Four of six of the
men composing the gang now sleep
the sleep that knows no waking. Two
OF them fell at the hands of Mr.. Pink
erton, one into the Mississippi River,
where he met a watery grave, and the
other went "where the woodbine twin
eth'' with two bullet holes through
his skull. Net so much in the way of
arresting, but an emphatic breaking up.
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gaze amount of money involved, aud
the result Is thus;

Now, perhaps, it makes little differ
ence, so far IS the morality OF the
case is concerned, whether one six
teenth OF per cent. or 16 per cent.
is embezzled. But when you come to
discuss the question as to whc en-
bezzles it, it does make great desl
OF difference. And if this article " as
not already too long, the comparison
might be carried back several years,
with still more striking results. The
point here demonstrated is that the
charge that the standard OF the great
mass of the men in the civil servir"
not being improved, is false. y -.
men denounce the civil service rs
"the worst the world ever saw it
shows that they don't know what
they are talking about-that they are
chattering SANDER and misrepresen-
tation without investigation, or any
regard for truth. No doubt the civil
service can be greatly improved, and
no men have given more effective
demonstration of their intention to
improve it than those at present in
power. In conclusion, i invite the
attention OF candid people and ere
formers" also to the facts here set
forth. II l have "set down naught
in malice" 1 certainly have extenu-
uated nothing. CYMoN.
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9oetiGal.
From the City of Brooklyn.l
THE SNOW DRIFT.
BY A. ]. II. DUGANNE.


The SHOWS are whirling thick and fast,
The drifts asSail my doorway;
doubt me if n wilder blast
Blows DER the hills of Norway.
But sit thee down, my olden friend;
We twain will mock the weather.;
And, while the fearful winds contend,
Wen have a night together.
o, many year and many a storm
We twain have Knocked at Ughtly;
And though our hearts tonight are warm
Our heads are powdered whitely.
And SHOWS have drifted DER our souls,
To fall on wintry heather,
And hide from us the grassy knobs
Where rest our loves together.
Stir up the fire weIl talk of love
Oflove, old friend, and sorrow;
For lite, like rainbow arch above,
Its light TIN ough tears must borrow.
Wen talk Of lips that clung to ours,
Though ours are now like leather,
Wen talk of girls, we'll talk of flowers
That now are dust together.
Fill up the cup, old friend of mine,
Though tears have wet our lashes;
For all our dead we quan the wine,
And pledge-to dust and ashes,
Wen bind Tonight our friends and foes
Withmemory' S silken tether,
Tf6Sgfath. II HE d5iq SHOWS
Divinity heart! tits throbbing low
Divinity storm 'tis pelting:
What boots IL that We warm our snow p
1t turns to tears in melting,
But better tears than ice, old friend,
Sotears We'll shed together;
And DER our hearts a rainbow bend,
To light the stormy weather.
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Aeufrplfnt.

FINDLAY COUNCIL, NO. so II. q 8. II
Regular Convocation second Monday in eact
month. JANIS WILSON, I. i. u. M, b. b
BEARDsLEY, Recorder.
FINDLAY CHAPTER, NO. 5s, x. A. M
Regular Convocation, First Monday in each
month. b. f. KIMMoNs, II. p, ID. b. BEARDs
LEY, Secretary.
fINDLAY LODGE, NO. 2Z7, r. & a. M
Regular Communication First and Third
Wednesdays In each month. NJ. b. PATfER-
SON w NJ, o. ]. DEWoLFE, Secretary.
BLANCHARD LODGE, NO. 403, r. d Il. M.
Regular Communication Second and Fourth
Wednesdays in each month"; b. +. KIM
MONS, w. NJ, +. W. FIRMIN, Secretary.
GOLDEN RULE ENCAAfPMENT, NO. 80,
Z. o. o. f. Stated meetings on the second
and fourth Fridays of each month, Z O'Clock,
p. NJ, in Odd Fellows Hall ID. c, FISHER
c. p, and ID. 7. WINDERs. Scribe.
HANCOCK LODGE, NO. 70, l. o. o. r.
stated meetings every Tuesday evening al
7o'clock, p. NJ. IN Odd Fellows Hall. ]. y.
BURKEr,, N. G., j. {. POWELL, Sec'y.
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In regard to Mrs. Wharton's &C
quittal, the New York Tribune says
"W hatever may be the private, un
uttered opinions of people as to the
guilt or innocence of one accused o.
murder, it is more than ever clear
that it is difficult to convict upon
circunstantial evidence. And il
must be confessed that, justly or IN.
justly, most people will consider thai
science has not cut a dignified figure
in the trial which has just been
finished. Those who followed the
case may not have had all their sus-
picions allayed, but they will moi
have them strengthened by the evil
dence of chemical experts. The YER
dict OF the jury is just and right under
the circumstances but the popular
belief that a great deal of medical
science is purely empirical will be
fortified by the details and result oi
the trial.
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To any person produclng any Medicine able
TO show one-third as many living permanent
cures as DIR. FILTERS VEGETABLE RHEUMAT-
&c REMEDY; and q further TeiCdrd Of slOO for
anycase ofChronic or InfiammatOTy Rheuma-
tism, Neuralgia, Rheumatic Ague, Sciatica,
and rheumatism of the Kidneys IL iUfu MOI
cure. This Rheumatic Syrup is used intOdrdty
only, pleasant to the taste, and guaranteed
tree from injurious Drugs. 1t is not a Quack
Medicine, but the scientific prescription ofJos.
u. Filter, Nj. D., Professor of ToXicology and
Chemistry, graduate OF the celebrated Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, A. D., 1888, whose en-
tire professional life has been devoted special
ly to this disease. Thispreparation undersol-
emn oath Is conscientiously believed to be the
only positive, reliable specific ever discovered
The proof that no other specific ever exists Is
found in every community in persons afflicted
for many years past and still suffering. ~
physicians could cure IL, u a specific did erfst,
yersally admitted. The OF deceived sugerer
may wisely ask, whaLsecurity or evidence has
he that DIR. Filters Rheumatic Syrup " i'll cure
his case. The protection offered To patients
against imposition Is in a legally signed con-
tract which will be forward, Il without charge
to any sufferer sending by letter "a description
of Affections; this guarantee will state the ex-
act number of bottles warranted t. cure, and
in case of failure the money paid viii be re-
turned to the patient. No other remedy has
ever been offered on sueh liberal and honora-
BILE terms. Medical advice, with certificates
from prominent Physicians, tlereymen, ETC.,
who have been cured after all other treat
ments failed, sent by letter, gratis. Afflicted
invited 10 write Tor advice to the
principal Office, % South Fourth street Phila-
delphfa, Pa. Dr. Fitler's Rheumatic syrup Is
June l6, lilly Sole Agents. Findlay, Ohio.
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SIX months and nine days.

SIX months and nine days.
THE three clerks who embezzled
this amount-Edwins, Marden and
JOhnson-were appointed under Mr..
Lincoln, and continued thereafter.
Here are transactions involving an
amount of money beyond human
comprehension fifty five thousand
millions-cOvering over eleven years
OF time, and passing through the
hands OF three or four thousand dit
ierent people during that period,
with losses sustsined through a lack
of official integrity on the part Of the
Treasurer's appointees of less than
one dollar on the million, per cent
age go small as to almost defy calcu-
lation, and infinitely less than the
loss from the abrasion of the gold
coin paid into and out of the Tressu-
ry during the same time. 1t is firmly
believed that no parallel for such sue
cess can he found in history.
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Let us take up the Interior De.
partment. In the Patent Office, In
dian Office, Census Office and Educa.
tional Bureau, there have been no de
falcations of any kind during the
period named. In the other Offices
there have been discovered, since the
4th of March, 1869, thirteen defalca.
tions, involving a total of S2l6,O97 95
of which there has been recovered
slO7, 900, leaving balance OF $1O9,
097 95, which is fully covered bv re.
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"A Complete Picl Orial History of the
Times"
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ful Family Paper Iu the Union"
Harper's Weekly.
sPLEEDIpLY ILLUSTRATED.
Notices Of the Press.

NUtIct8 q Itt ITtS5.
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The best publication of lis class in America
and so far ahead of all other weekly journal.
as not TO permit of any comparison between
ii and any of their number. Its columns con.
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the chief artists of the country.-BostOn Trap
eler,
HaTpeT's Weekly is the best and most inter
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reading matter is OF "A higher order of literary
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The New York Evening Post says
OF appropriations of public money to
sectarian schools: During the las
five yesrs the amounts thus approrr
a'ed have been as follows: 1867
sl94, 900; 1868, Sal, 900; 126a
s42l, 900; 1870, s525,0OO; .-4
0,OOO ; total in five years, s2.U5l,
900. Ofthese two millions OF dol
lars, about quarter of a million,
(s25O, ,OO0) were given for charitable
schools not professedly sectarian,
but in nearly all cases of such ap
propriations the schools were connec-
ted with Roman Catholic churches.
There is only one way to prevenl
extravagance and ,avoritisE in this
direction. The door must be abso-
lutely and finally closed against ali
state assistance to sectsrian chsri-
ties.
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The bark Warren HalIett, which
sailed from the port of Boston Tues
day, for Cape De Verde, put into
Princeton harbor the same night in
consequence OF a mutiny among its
crew. Previous to reaching the hsr-
Dor q terrible fight had occurred on
oard, during which one man was
He'd and another fatally injured.
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euC iOiiOWluS paltiCuiaie aOoOs t1s
late Fisk and Mrs. Fisk; "When ht
was in the dry goods firm of Jordon
Marsh & Co., he and his wife boarded
at the fremont House. Subsequent
ly, or perhaps it was while he was
still connected with that firm, he
bought the house in Chester Square.
He and Mrs. Fisk visited Europe
some years since, and Mrs. Fisk
accompanied by her friend, Mrs
Fanny Harrod, fwho was formerly s
school teacher in this city, and Mr..
A. j. Pollard, who was Fisk's ex.
press agent here, made a second
European tour last summer. There
was no estrangement whatever be-
tween Mr.. and Mrs. Fisk, as would
have seemed natural. The latter has
lived in expensive style, her husband
furnishing the money. Her stylish
carrisge is well known in our streets,
and it is the same in which the Col
onei was wont to ride when he was
here. In the course Of his Sunday
visits he transacted an immense
amount of business, after holding a
continuous levee at the house in
Chester Square. 1t was currently
reported some years ago that the
deceased had placed in trust for his
wife considerable sum of money, to
guard either one or both against a
''rainy day." Then it was yariouslY
estim ated from two to three hundred
thousand dollars to million dollars.
The trustees we're said to be well
known Boston gentlemen. w hen
Mrs. Fisk was recently in Eur
most extravagant article app -fs,. -
an American journal published liz
Paris, describing the expensive waEd-
robe she was said to have purchased
abroad. No queen was ever arrayed
half so gorgeously as the fancitul
writer sought to array Mrs. Fisk.
How much truth there was in the
article, which was extensively copied
in this country, Bostonians have nc
means of knowing, for the lady dres-
ses no more extravagantly than
scores of our fashionable ladies, al
though she has always been remark
able for her taste and elegance OF
dress"
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THE Government printing office at

IHE government printing ONCE a
Washington, as described by Mr.
Garfield, has become a monstro
institution, and a vast leach upon -
Public Treasury. 1t is the largesI
printing establishment in the world,
employs over one thousand men and
women, and uses printing ink enough
every year to float the biggest man,
OF. war in the navy, while its annual
expense rises to the sum oil sZ'OoV,-
900. A tram of army wagons MT
Garfield said, reaching three-iourths
of the way between Washington ana
Baltimore, and loaded with one ton
apiece, would not be able to hold
and haul the mass of public docu
ments printed every year st this es
tablishment.
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This includes every case in which
the law Offices of the government have
declared that the evidence is OF such
character aa TO warrant prosecu-
ton tor the crime of embezzlement or
defalcation, and includes all the well
known cases which have attracted
public attention during the past three
years.
AN INTERESTING COMPARISON.
Now, as compared with this, the
government lost. in two single de-
falcations, in New Orleans, under
Johnson's administration, an amount
nearly equal to the above, to wit:
The Sub Treasury, Treasury, and
National Depository defalcation
of Whitaker and May, in 1867,
less amount supposed to be re-
covered (grOSs amount sl.l5D,OO0). $4,000 "
Steadman Internal Revenue defal-
cation, First Louisiana District,
discovered on his removal, April
IL, ZlzSSo "
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Great Western Gun Works.
Rifles: Double and Single Barrel

Shot Guns: Revolvers: Ammunition:
Sporting Goods, Rife Barrels, Locks, Mount
ings, Gun Materials, &c Send for Price List.
Address j. IL. Joh nston, Great Western Gun
Works, I79 SnIifhfield Street. Pittburgh Pa.
N. B. Army Carbines Rifles an Reyolye
bought or traded for. lno8-6mor