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NEWS SUMMARY.
prRSoNALAND POLITICAL.

James r. Groome has been elected Govern
or of MARYLAND for the unexpired term OF
Governor William Pinckney White, elected
United States Senator.
The National Reform Convention in session
at Pittsburg, adopted the following Deeiara-
ton of Principles:
/. This country and institutions were founoed
nv Christians and should remain Christian
2 Whether acknowledged or not, Jesus ChfiSt
is ruler of the nations of the Worla, anu 0od >
moral law is the nation guide.
g. The Constitution fixes the moral status OF
the people, and, if the Constitution De ChfIseiah'
the people will be Christian.
The objects of the association are the perpet-
nation of the Christian Sabbath; to maintain the
Bible in the public schools; to establish proper
regard for the sanctity of the marriage feiatloh;
and the suppression of intemperanee.
Edwin Booth, the well-known actor, has
filed petition in bankruptcy. Among Sc
cured liabilities is claim of Cakes Ames es-
tate for 100000.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
will report bill, the main features of which
make it penal offense to cheat or defraud an
Indian, or to fraudulently obtain his signature
or mark to receipts for money which has moi
been fully explained to him. The bill gener
ally has the effect of protecting Indians from
| swindling agents, contractors, etc., who have
heretofore grown rich at their expense.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Gold closed in New York, on the 9TH, al
112.
The burning of the Memphis and Louisville
Railroad machiae shops at Memphis was
done by John Mccarthy, former fireman on
the road, who entered the office of the mas
ter mechanic, and pretending to be drunk,
raised row with the watehman, whom ne
knocked down with billet of wood, then lit
a match and set fire to lot of papers. lie
was pursued by another watchman and shot
at several times, one ball it was said hitting
him, but he finally succeeded in making his
escape.
The annual convention of the National Re
form Association met at Pittsburg on the 4th
| An immense audience was present, embrac
| ing delegates from almost every State IN tnt
Union, and representatives Of all the eyangei
ical denominations. The meeting was callet
to order by Hon. Felix R. Brunot, President
and Professor j. e. w. Sloan, OF the he
i formed Presbyterian Seminary of Allegheny
was chosen President pro tenn.
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eo,smERCE AND INDUSTRY.

The National Grange of the Patrons OF
Husbandry convened at st. Louis on the 4th.
All except three or four of the States were
represented, large proportion OF the dele
gates being ladies. Grand Master Dudley
w, Adams of Iowa presided. Master L. X.
Allen of Missouri made an address OF well
come, which was responded to by Mr.. saun-
ders of the District of Columbia. The seere-
tary reported that 500 Oranges had been adj
ded during the past year, and the treasurer
reported a balance of over $50, 900 in his hands
to the credit of the order.
The strike on the New York and OsWegO
Midland Railroad was terminated on the 4th,
when the company commenced paying OIL the
men.
New York dispatch of the 9th says
The principal through lines to the west nave
adopted uniform scale of classification 1or
| freigbts, The classification has reference to
bulk and cost of goods. High-prieed goods
and bulky light goods will be charged hlsh
rates. and low-priced and heavy goods low
figures. The following are the rates OF Varl
Gus classes of goods to some OF the prlnclpa
Western cities: Chicago-first, $100; second
80 cents; third, rs cents; fourth, 60 cents
special, As cents. st. Louis-frst, $1.2S; see
ond, 81 .16; third, 81 cents; fourth, 70 cents
special, 81 cents. Cincinnati-first, 80 cents
second, so cents; third, 70 cents; fourth,
cents; special, Al cents.
The Utah Northern Railroad is complete
TO ogden. and the first train passed over tn
road from Ogden to Logan on the 6tn.
A suit has been brought against the Chlcag
and St. Louis Railroad by the Attorney-Ge1
eral of the State of Illinois for violations c
the Railroad law. The Attorney-Genefai y
cites several cases ia which more than q la
and reasonable compensation has been charge
by the company for passengers as well
freight. and demands the legal damage
This is the first prosecution of the kind und'
r this law and the result is looked for with gre
: interest.
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POETRY.
COMPENSATION.
BY BARTON GREY.


THEY were three sisters all that summer eve
They paced the glimmering whiteness OF the
beach -,
And Gods great sea, spread out before thefh'
taught:
Its own peculiar lesson unto each.
And, as they unused, they spake-the youngest
ssThe green waves open pathways infinite;
Shall nv feet wander on through shade and
Fail m the gloom, or wanton in the light?
ssFar out beyond the utmost belt of foam
Sleeps the yelled haven but, alas VINO Knows
What breezes blow there, or what flowers bloom,
What breath of fennel, or what scent oI rose
And then the second sister spake, and said
stFar o'eT this sea his silver sails are set
The gray, kaank leagues between us grow not
Nor shah the sea relent, nor death forget.
EsBut whether this wan ocean shall become
His tremulous pathway unto me who walt
Or whether it shall wash his dead face out
Beyond the sunset-who can win from Fate ?''
Then spake the eldest, Una: Long ago
Beneath this weary sea my hopes went down
walk alone alone, too, shall bear
Whate' er any Father sends of cross or crown.
tsYet. though not here, nor even afterward,
NV lie with wifely music e'er shall move
In Natures harmonyI grieve not, l
Around whom flows the ocean OF God's love
And, as she.spake, angel touched their eyes.
And great glory fell upon the three;
And there was sound of harpers with then
And the night led-and there was no more sea
-Appletons' Journal.
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Ex.Confederates in Congress.


Following is list Of members OF the
Forty-third Congress who served as ON
GERS in the Confederate army
Alabama has Lieut.-COl. John ID. Cala-
well, Mai. James ii. Sloss and Captains
Charles Hays and Charles Pelham. Sena-
tor Goldthwaite was also Adj. .-Gen. OF the
State during the war. Georgia has NAL
Gems. John B. Gordon and Pierce Nj. B.
Young. Brig.-Gen. Philip Cook, Col. Ill
ram r. Bell, Lieut.-Cols. Morgan, Kawis y,
and James II. Blount and Maj. II. ID; Il.
Whiteley (the latter Republican,. Nils
sissippi has Brig.-Gen. James u. Alcorn
and Col. L. Q. G. Lamar. Missouri has
Brio. g.-Gen. John B. Clark and Maj. Robt.
A. Hatcher. North Carolina has Maj
Gen. Matthew w. Ransom, Brig.
| Robert B. Vance, Cols. James M. Leach,
| Alfred NJ. Waddell and William M. hop-
bins, Tennessee has Lieut.-Cols. W. Z.
Whitthorne aud John D. G. Atkins. Texas
has Coils. Dewitt c.. Giddings, Roger Z
Mills, Mai. Asa A. Willie and Privates
S. Herndon and w. P. Mclean. Virginia
has Brig. .-Gen. Eppa Hunton and Malol
Thomas Whitehead. Mr.. James b. Sener
Republican representative from the Fred
ericksburg district in this State, also cam
i paigned with the Confederate army as cor
respondent of the Southern Associate
Press.
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FOREIGN.

The returns from the Parliamentary cleo |
tions in Great Britain, up to the morning OF
the It'll. showed 4S4 members returned, oil
whom 255 are Conservatives and 229 Liberals.
The Conservatives replace seventy-one Lib
erals. and the latter have ousted twenty-seVen
Conservatives. The London Times of the
9th saws: at is now evident that the coun-
try has returned an adverse answer to Glad
stones appeal. The elections in Ireland may
show unlooked-for results, but nothing is
likely to restore the losses of the Liberals in
Great Britain. Disraeli is bound to accept
Office if the Government, following his eX-
ample in 1868, resigns without waiting the
reassembling of Parliament"
General Sickles took his final leave of the
| Spanish Government on the 9th, and placed
Secretary Adee in charge of the Legation.
M. Buffet has been reelected President of
the French Assembly.
A Berlin telegram of the 9TH says: The
| session of the Reichstag was opened to-day
! with a speech from the throne, delivered by
the Imperial Commission. The Emperor re-
erets that he cannot attend the opening in
person He enumerates, as among the prlE-
cipal measures to be submitted during the
/ session, bills relating to the army, the press,
trades-unions and marine jurisdiction. The
speech concludes with an assurance that all
: the nations of Europe are resolved to preserve
peace.
| Thirty thousand unemployed workmen in
Vienna have petitioned the Government fol-
relief.
! The English Parliamentary elections have
been prolific in rioting, attended in seVera
g cases with loss of life. In addition to those
cases already mentioned, later dispatches
0 sneak of serious disturbances in the potter.
|, districts of fstatfordshire, at Hanley, Tunstall
Willenhal and Hastings, and in Limericl
county, ireland.
e The following dispatch from the command
e er of the Ashantee expedition was receives
is in London on the 9Th: s'Al white prisoner
|. held by the Ashantees have been delivered
IS me. The King accepts my terms for cessa
1t tionof hostilities for which he asked, and ha
agreed to pay annuity of 100000. We hay
lie been for a few days thirty miles from Sooma:
+ sie."
Ii The Spanish minister has informed tn
Secretary of State that he mas received te
u egram announcing blockade by his Govern
OF ment of the coast of Cantobria from CaT
"a Penas to Fuenterrabia, except ports GlJol
I. Santandar and saugebastian.
ae David Frederick Strauss, the eminent Ge
y man theologian, is dead.
IL The Captain-G General of Cuba has ISSUE
7; proclamations declaring the entire island in
stage of siege; enforcing rigid conscriptit
and permitting no one subject to draft
leave the island without giving bonds to ftl
at nish a substitute in case he is drafted; al
ordering the owners of slaves to give one
LIE of every one thousand in the island to work
as camps and on the fortifcations and in t
on trenches, at the end of the campaign the &c
IS ernment to liberate these slaves, paying th'
,h' owners 81 ,0OO for each.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

FEB. 4.-Senate.-The consideration OF the
numerous amendments offered to the bankrupt
bill occupied nearly the entire day Mr..
= long and tedious debate. He desired to
strike out a certain passage which says, "or
who has sfoppe or suspended, and not resumed ls
payment of his commercial paper WITHIN the
period of forty days. so that persons OF tnat
class shall not be considered bankrupts Mr.
Sherman, in speaking on this amendment
said that the English and French bankrupt laws
we're even more strict than our old laws. Mr.
0giesby thought that, with the exception OF the
portion be desired to strike ont, the amendment
were lust and fair, and the people Of the whole
country would be satisfied with It Pending us
cnssio1 the Senate adjourned. Hotsse,--Mr. Becl
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DoNA1DsoNy11IE. La, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 1874.

The bodies of the Siamese Twins have been
secured by committee of Philadelphia ply
sicians and taken to that city, where a thor
ough autopsy will be made for the benefit of
science.
1t appears in evidence before the House
Committee of Appropriations that during the
past year the Adams Express Company car
ried for the Government 500, ,00O, 900 of actual
money and over $500, 100000 of bonds and
fractional currency, for which service the
company received $260. 900:
A committee of the Iowa Senate appointed
to investigate the condition of the alleged suf-
fering homesteaders in that State, have re-
turned from a tour through the counties of
Linn, Osceola, O'Brien and Sioux. They re-
port great distress among the people, and the
necessity of immediate action to prevent s,lf-
fering and to enable farmers to seed their
| lands.
John Mccarthy, who is charged with firing
| the Louisville Railroad machine shops at
Memphis, has been arrested. Arson is cap
ital crime in Tennessee.
Benoni Howard, well-known match man.
ufacturer of New York City, and said to be
millionaire, has been convicted of counterfeit
ing revenue stamps and sentenced to the Pen
! itentiary for five years.
John c. Henry, Chief Clerk of the United
States Revenue Office at Lynchburg, Va, has
absconded with large sum of money, said
to be 100000.
Representative Farris of the Missouri Leg
4 islature, who was on the train that was rob
bed at Gadshill, says that it was the origina
intention of the robbers to throw the tran
from the track, but at the earnest solicitation
of his son, whom they held prisoner, they Il
nally agreed that if he would consent to fla
the train and open the switches they Woul'
not obstruct the track, which he promised
and did do, to save his fathers life.
: The woman's temperance movement, rt
r Gently inaugurated in Ohio, is rapidly extend
) ing, and is meeting with most encouragin
results. In Ripley, Ohio, sixteen out OF tn
D twenty-three saloon-keepers in the town haV
signed the pledge and abandoned the busines
e A converted saleon-keepor of New Vienna
o., has started out on temperance crusad
!: lecturing in various places.
e Tt is reported that the Committee on India
r Affairs are maturing measures for dispensir
o with the present Board of Indian Cemmi
S sioners and restoring the management to Il
b War Department, A general reform IN
v dian agencies will be recommended.
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Dom Piatt and the Poet.

One day Quicker the poet approached
Piatt on the piazza.
"Colonel,'' said he, 81 wrote an address
last summer year on the occasion OF the
guests at the Old Sweet visiting in body
the puesta. at the Young Sweet. Would
YOU mi1fSf Il repeated it to you ?".
The colonel took off his hat and Wiped
his head of rich brown hair-nota a halr IN
the crown gray, though life is little ola
with the wearer.
NV dear Cueker," he said, in kind,
passive way, ''nothing would more please
The poor numbskull repeated two hun
dred lines of weary drivel, and then the
colonel said:
s.My dear Quicker, that's a remarkably
graceful thing. Would you mind repeat al.
! ino il all TO me again. / know tnat an
asking great deal, but you would really
oblige me-"
The astonished and delighted Cucker re-
heated the whole lugubrious performance
| The colonel sat in apparent ecstasy, not
! twinkle in his face, and at the end ne sald
"Thanks, my dear Quicker! What pam
| Won have been at to crafty me. NOW
won't you select some of the passages ina
/ strike You most in that poem, and repea
them TO me? BY that time | shall nave
living memory of that extraordinary com
nosition. for SO must call it."
The bewildered Cucker looked INTO tn
coloners eyes, and met there the genue,s
reverence, the sincerest interest. 90 \
oalloped through two-thirds OF the stupid
i tv third time.
The colonel had headache all that da9
o,d couId not sleep at night. / said TO mn
ssGreat Heavens what did you Go IN;
q.ssWl ssWell,o he said, 81 thought the a
mighty might put it to my credlI s,1,o 70 !, 4
. Gath IN the Chicago Tribune.
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unwittingly on knowledge Of the crimi-
NILS will be knownion the trial, which is
likely to be one of most extraordinary
iIiternEt
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-28

"WHY Did He Not Die2" is the title OF
a new novel. We have not read the conun-
drum, but we believe the answer to be, De-
cause he refused to take his medicine.
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: GEORGE WAsHINGToS's watch has reach
ed Detroit at last, and it is now hanging III
4 pawnbroker's window properly labeled;
Washington's only watch has Tor seyerai
years been on sale in the twenty-five Iead1
ing cities of America at the same tLnes am.
no one need be deferred from purchasing
this watch from fear that the stock viii
run oat.
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1.-THE cause Of Woman-Suffrage -
Scarcity of husbands.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-09-04

FgTHE SCHOOL OF Mss BELLE SMIIH,
& ON KING STREET,
(Ovcr the AicxAndia librATy,)
vii be resumed on " ED II ESDA1, Sept %
Haying = number Of pupils who have been un-
der h instruction for several years, is rraiige-
incns of sud- hxs bc"n .dv.nceI with thor
wants, AID iis ntmbcr increased. IL riirr$ thc
advantages ot a spacious, well Ventilated sc!.ooi
room nIld any desired mrrah cement ol lIistEuc.
tio,i Gdupici IT, pupils according 10 age and at
tairmrt.ts aug l2-eo4w
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AIexa. Gazette SE Virginia Advertiser
LOCUSTS AND GRASSHOppERS.

The American Naturalist recommends that
the people of those sections which have suffer
ed % grievously from the ravages of the grass
h9ppcrs should retaliate by eating up these de-
structiVc insects. As the latter have consumed
the crops they are supposed to be in good con-
dtion for the table.
These creatures and locusts have a history
that dates book to the remotcst past. They
have been known as scourges from the earliest
ulucs, and have been dreaded in the numerous
countries subject to their vsitatlons as pestl-
lcnce and famine are dreaded. Human in
genuity has failed to find any adequate meas
utcs Of protection against them. They come 10
such dense and mighty numbers as to darken
the air, aud in few hours all vegetation dis
aprcars before them 1t is said that the 10
Gusts, of which We read, and which have so Of
ten carried !ismay among the Eastern and Eu.
ropeaD nations, are bred in the deserts of Ara
bia and Tartary, and are carried by the east
winds into Africa and Europe. A writer says
tia; after iufating themselves with air they
undertake journeys, during which they travel
more than six leagues a day laying waste all
yepetaton in their route.
Pliny relates that in many places 10 Greece
law obliged the Inhabitants to wage war
against the ocusts three times year. e., IN
the egg state, the larvae state, and the adult
state. 1n the Isle of Lemnos the citizens were
required to pay as taxes so many measures OF
ocuSts Armies have been employed to de-
>troyed them All kinds of noises have been
!esortcd to to trighten them -yels, cannon,
Nc Good Christians have tried the efficacy of
chanting psalms and exorcism. The traveller
Alvarez monk, relates that while in Ethiopia
lie employed all the powers Of the Church to
destroy or frighten them away. Ordering the
natives to catch some ofthe locusts he deliver.
cd to the insects an adjuration, which he had
written the proceeding night. "summoning
a,imonShing and communicating. them.
He then charged them 10 three hours time
to depart "On their refusal of which, says
he Il adjured and invoked all the birds of the
air, animals and tcmpests to dlsslpate, destroy
aud dcvour them; and pronouncing these words
in their presence, that they might not be ig
uorant Of them, let then 90, so they might
tel the rest" But such superstition was not
cootned to Christians The Mahomedans had
an idea that by catching some, writing certain
verses Of the Koran on their wings, and theu
turning them loose they would prevail with the
rest to depart.
The locusts have been eaten by many East
crn people They are eaten, ''grilled, or boiled,
and are sometimes dried 10 tha sun, powdered,
mixed with milk and made into cakes with
-four Dried and saltcd, they are an article
OF commerce in Asia and Africa. Their taste
slkcucd to that Of the crab. All remember
how John the Baptist, when in the wilderness
lived on locusts and wild honey. The Arabs are
very fond of them, The Caliph Omar Benel-
Kho,oI, when asked his opinion of them, said:
Il only wish | had basket full of them;
wouldn't crunch them?
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TRESH OAT MEAL just received by
IL aug 81 D. Y. MlLDohN.
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DRYGS .q.N.zy CHEMICALS.

Nearly all diseases originate from Indigestion
and Torpidity of the Liver and relief is always
anxiously sought after. If the Liver is kegu-
lated in its action, health is almost invariably
secured Want of action in the Liver causes
Headache, Constipation, Jaundce, Pain in the
Shoulders, Cough, Chills, dizziness, Sour Stom'
ach bad taste in the mouth, bilious attacks pal
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blues and 81 hundred other symptoms for which
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4 1LiFFlON IEEI AKA lDhl D. Ll'DIL;
~ NEAR MARKHAM STATION,
FAUQJIEK tOU>Tf.
Terms: $500 per schoiast!c ycar. No extra
~ h. JAQUELIN AMBLER, PRINCIPAL.
2. 81 have just engaged Mr. } M rs VI.
AMBlEk ~ my Assistant who has th,s ses-
sion graduated III the University IL GsccA, Lat
in ana German.
REFERENCES:
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and the success OF which every lover u SOUND
learning ought earnestly u desire. Ihc well
known Scholarship. skill and experience oi Is
Principal, MIR. 4. j. Amber, renders The school
worthy Of the liberal patronage oi th-sc VINO
seek thorough training for Their sons
CHARLES ;. Y ENABLE,
Prof: Math Unlv. Nirg gn!s
We endorse the above recommendation OF
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j. JOINS Bishop Of Firsinia.
+ VI. v WHlTTLE, Asst. Bp. Va.
eCnELE Den ERE,
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WM E. PETERS,
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IT take pleasure in recommending NJ. r. j..
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