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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-06-18
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Even Balaam's ass spoke under a certain
compulsion. President Grant exhibited
the subimity Of dumbness until he beheld
the guardian angel of American liberty
standing in his pathway with flaming
sword to cut of third-term aspirants.
And then the Presidents mouth was
opened, and he declared that he would not
60 in the way of that sword unless cir
cumstances make il an imperative duty.-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-06-18
ITEMS Of INTEREST.

INDIANA

Personal and Literary.
Tom Thumb has taken thirty-two de
grces In Masonry.
Moody and Sankey will return to
Americain time TO take part in our next
Fourth OF July.
-Flipper, the only colored cadet at
West Point. stands torty-six in a class of
seyenty-seyei.
MIR. joaquin Miller, the poet, has ar
rived in New Y ork and taken up his resi-
dence at the Windsor Hotel
General Mcclellan, VINO has been
spending the winter months upon the Up
per Nile, will return home In July.
George Derby OF st. Louis, son of the
late Lieut.. Derby John Phenix), ranks
second in his class at West Point
--Colored Cadet Smith Is now a Brga-
dier and Inspector in the South Carolina
militia.
Mark Twain Is accused of removing
the cushion In his church pew at Hart
ford, and putting IL into seat he has pur-
chased on the base ball grounds.
Lord Lytton, the "Owen Meredith"
oflterature is stated to have declined the
offer of the Governorship of Madras. He
/. now British Minister at Lisbon.
The congressional service of John A.
Cuthbert, of Mobile, antedates that of all
members now living. He was elected
from Georgia in 1879.
Mr.. Tennyson has at last sent to the
press the drama which he has had so long
on hand. IL is entitled Queen Mary; a
Drama :" and embraces the life of Mary
Tudor, from her accession to her death,
together with the chief scenes in her reign.
-Carruth, the Vineland IN. j. editor,
remarks in his valedictory, "Two months
constant wresile with bullet in our brain
has convinced us that we lack the capacity
to develop lead mine and publish an In
dependent Vineland newspaper at the
same time"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-06-18

lated limbs and uses them TO obtain cica-
trization on the bodies OF other patients.
The expansion of the sides Of the body
In animals, as a support while moving
through the air, is Am adaptation found Ia
various classes. The fly squirrels and
Petauristas are well known examples
among mammalia. The lizards OF the ge-
nus Draco represent II among reptiles.
The batrachians possess modified repre-
sentative in Walace's RhacophonIs. where
the webs of the toes are so dilated as 10
resemble parachute. And now Mr..
Cambridge describes spider from Aus
tralia which Is furnished with parachute.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-06-18

In the Arcadian village of Tracadie, near
the mouth of the Miramichi River, says
the Toronto (Canada) Globe. there have
been lepers for the last eighty or ninety
years. A hospital for their benefit is sup
ported by the local government. A cor
respondent of the Church Journal, who has
recently made a visit TO the establishment.
says the lazaretto, though well kept as far
as II goes, is much too small TO furnish the
requisite accommodations The sexes are
kept apart, and every thing Is done for the
comfort OF the unfortunates that Is posi-
BILE with the means placed at the disposal
of those who manage the institution.
The leprosy which they suffer is eIe-
phdntidtis oroco71ln. so called from its ten
dency to make the limbs swell to elephan-
tine proportions. The disease Is under
stood TO have been brought here by a
French vessel, which. on its return voy-
age from Smyrna, touched at the Island of
Mityline, and took o., aquantity of cloth
ing and other stores. and on her way to
Beaubaris Island, a French military port,
she was wrecked near the mouth of MI
ramichi. The people in the neighbor-
hood played the part Of wreckers. and
helped themselves 10 clothes cast ashore,
which were supposed TO be tainted with
leprosy, the consequence OF which was
that the disease soon broke out among
them. Another account Is that the vessel
in question brought two lepers from ST.
Maloes. and that every leper known in
Tracadie descended from one or the other
ofthese men.
The opinion there is that the disease is
not contagious. but simply hereditary.
The people have no dread OF it. and per-
sons engaged about the lepers for years
never contract the disease. Not only do
the lepers marry among themselves, but
such Is the feeling among the poor French
In Tracadie that there is no repugnance in
many cases among perfectly healthy peo-
Pile TO taking lepers for husbands or wives.
The faint generally manifests itself in
every alternate generation. In this way
the disease has become permanently seat
ed In the locality, while the general
poverty and not very healthy habits of the
French population tend TO excite and in
tensify it,
II irst shows itself in the form of small
white spots on the breast, then the face
assum IS puffy appearance, and there Is
mrcl pain. langour and drowsiness. The
fingers become crooked, the neck swells,
the limbs show all the symptoms Of
dropsy, the nails fall of, and at last the
throat and lungs are attacked, and the
sufferer dies, mere mass OF loathsome
disease. Its duration varies from five to
twenty-five years, according to the
strength Of constitution. Leprosy Is not
nearly so rare disease as is generally
supposed. IL is on the increase in many
of the British dependencies. In some
parts of India one person in every hun
dred is leper, and in some parts of the
West Indies, as well as i'm the Sandwich
ma be mitigatedto some extent by clean
illness and attention to diet, but that is all.
The certain prospect of death from such a
disease must be horrible hey ond concep-
ton.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-06-18

Sarah Seine took laudanum; and at
kemptvillc, Ont, w. X. Anderson threw
himself under locomotive.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-06-18

The cost of the Tennessee public
schools was last year about Sl.O per
scholar.
The st. Louis University has had a
welcome windfall." Peter Joseph Vor-
hagen has bequeathed TO il the whole Of
bis estate.
-Yama CANA, japanese member OF
the class Of 70 at the y ale Scientific School,
has been graduated, and has left for home
to become an instructor In the Royal I'M
perial College of Japan.
The University Of North Carolina will
be revived this year. A faculty Is TO be
elected in June. and the institution willb
opened TO students on the first Wednes-
day In September.
The latest school statistics of New
Hampshire reveal an alarming decadence
in the enthusiasm for education. The
number of children attending school in
1874 was 10000 less than that of 1850.
The American Home Missionary So
ciety has had larger receipts In 1874 than
in any other year Of its existence. The
total from all sources was S30S 500 the
disbursements were S296.7s9. The socie-
y has in its service 952 ministers, distrib-
aied through thirty-three States and Ter
rtories. The number of congregations
and missionary stations supplied In whole
or in part during the year was 2.223. The
Rev. DIR. Woolsey, of New Haven. was re-
elected president atthe annual meeting.
"A question earliest propounded by
visitors to Missouri Is, "What kind Of
schools DO you possessY' Ii Is the popu-
lar impression that Missouri Is as careless
about education rs Kentucky. Few know
that IL IL one of the two or three States in
the Union where there Is a permanent
school fund in excess and constantly be-
ing supplied TO the uses Of the people.
The school system was adopted at the
suggestion of Gov. Boggs In 1889, and the
public school fund last year amounted to
nearly $4,000 900; the investment pro
duced in 1874, $4,000. This applies TO
the public schools alone, and more than
three .tifths Of the whole fund Is invested
In United States bonds. Besides there is
county school fund arising from the sale
Of swamp and overlooked lands, which
has netted the State about $1,000 600,
and stands on interest in real estate for
the support Of local schools. There Is a
township school fund. besides. Last year
there were about 405,0 pupils In the
schools Of Missouri and the daily average
attendance was 100000, or nearly 30 per
cent. of the whole schoolable population
Of the State. There are 1924 school
houses In Missouri.-St. LOUIS Times.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-06-18

"A recent petition against conventual
institutions raised In England, bore III o
600 signatures and was three quarters of q
mile long.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-06-18

Lemon Caks-l pound of sugar, pound
of butter, s eggs, rind Of lemons, juice
of ! a lemon, pound of sifted flour.
Beat the yelks and whites Of the eggs
separately. Crate the rinds from the lem
ons. Beat the sugar and butter together,
until they make smooth cream. Add
the beaten eggs, the rinds Of the lemons,
and juice of ! Of lemon. Stir the flour
in gradually. Line two baking-pans with
white paper, well buttered. Bake in a
quick oven. When done. turn the cakes
out, and place them on sleeves TO cool.
Mr.. Yeast has just been admitted to
the Cincinnati bar. With a jury CON-
posed OF Heaven men, what a doughty
orator he'd be, Ell IN. y. Com Adv.
He is doubtless rising man, and II he has
been bred to the law will make light Of
any ordinary case. In the trial Of any
flour case he will be much kneaded.-Bos
ton Advertiser. How those fellows pun
and sin But 1t requires a bakers dozen
of rude jokes to make the thing album
dainty funny. Louis Republican.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-18
Important Results Pleasantly
ANhfnvAA

Although the days of irrational medication hap
PLY passing away, and intelligent physicians have
ceased to the supposed efficacy Of remedy by
the violence of its effects there still nger among the
older practitioners few of those predictions in favor
of "heroic" treatment, which it would be lucky for
their patients if they had abandoned Ono these is
fondness for administering drastic purgatives such as
blue pill cslomcl, jaap and castor oil. A contrast of
the effects Of these drenching drugs with the mild
beneficial operation Of Hoseters Stomach Bitters is
tho very best argument that be adduced against tho
wisdom of such destructive treatment. The old fash
toned cathartcs eonvulse the stomach and relax the
bowels so abruptly and copousy to weaken them
Hostetters Bittors the contrary, grippe the
intestnes, but produce laxative effect resembling the
action of nature. At the same time they remove the
cause of constipation by arousng the dormant liver
secrste the bile necessary to the regular performance of
the excretive function and enable the stomach thor
oughly digest the food Indigestion and biliousness
having boon thus overcome regular habit of body
the necessary consequence which the occaonal subse
qucnt of the Btters renders permanent Every
dsagreeaLle symptom which, in the absence of perfect
digestion and evacuation harnesses the SYSTEM van
ishes under the influence of the great national stOm
sche and Alternative. Health and vgor are twin bless
ings that follow its use.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-18
THE DEMOCRATS LOSING POWER.

A CORRESPONDENT of the NeD York Post
,r;t;,r fro,, po,t;,,oro f,;+u so,, oftar +ho
' .ionl . "''u ivy s1oA 80 wv
nomination Vi oarroii' gives the ioiio"lhs
review OF the situation:
"Since that year r1s6S) the Democrats
have been losing mower Tn 1879 Greelev
oorr;ad tha Sto+s hv onir o-o n,o;or;tv on3
H. R.nnh,;cans cIeota3 tro ,nembsrs IF
Conaress In 1874 the Rannblicans sent
twentv.two delegates to the Leaislatnre
and one to the Senate In Alleoany county
the Rennblicans elected ali their county
officers inclndino Clerk REGISTER of wills
and County Commissioners, and sent full
Republican declaration to the LEGISLATURE:
Frederick county elected 1 Republican
Senator and 4 delepates. Calvert county Q
DELEGATES. Charles .. Garrett I. Prince
Georre,s, I: on the Eastern shore Somer-
set county which nolls a large colored vote
elected deIeoates. Talbot / and Worces'
ter The MARYLAND Senate consists of
e6 members and the House of DELEGATES.
"a. The last Senate Contained % Demo.
Gratis. Republican, and 2 INDEPENDENTS.
The last Honse of Delegates was composed
of 81 Democrats. % Republicans and In
dependents. The Democrats this Autumn,
to obtain a majority. will have to elect i
members to the Senate and AZ to the House
of DELEGATES The Republicans and indie
pendents at the next election NAV have a
majority combined against the Democrats
which will enable them to elect a State
Treasurer. a very imnortant office and
over which there is ALWAYS a strong CON
tention. The nomination of Jobn Lee
Carroll for Governor does not give salts
faction to the masses of the peonle. The
Democratic papers of Baltimore are irving
to nersnade the people that the ticket will
he elected nv a large majority. Int the
naners in the COMMITTEES seem To donbt yerv
mich whether the ticket will he successful
Tharo ;s M oh;act;on n Tho MOI, ar 70 tL.
nlatforn Init there is objection to the
means nsed in tho Ralt;moya Citv Convan
tion to send delegates to the State Conven.
ton The majority of Democrats in Raj
timore favored William r. Hamilton for
Governor. and he was the choice of three.
fonrths Of the Democratic voters in tho
State Threa Uami,tor de,er,tos fro,,
baltimore ware elected Int not ono Of
them was allowed to take his seat The
Raltimora Civ Convention ;onorad tho
LEGISLATIVE districts of Ralrimore and sent
twenty.one delegates to the State Conven.
ton in favor of Carroll the great grandson
of Charles Carroll. of Carrollton. After
one of the warmest debates ever hold in .
MARYLAND State Convention the twentv-one
delegates sent hv the Citv Conyention ,voro
allowed to take their seats The Conven
tion VOC in sess;on oil niaht and ad;o,,rnaa
W. 80 ~ Tha uan7;ltnn 49, 800
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-18
REGISTRATION N0TIGE,
TO the Voters of Cecil county.

The undersigned, Officers of Registration for Cecil
county, in compliance with the requirements Of the
Act of 1874 chapter 1870, which makes it the duty Of
Officers of Registration to sit at place convenient
to the voters of their respective districts for two sue
cessive days, commencing the first Monday of
October in each year. for the purpose of discharging
their duties, hereby give notice that they will attend
follows:
The Officer of Registration for the First Election
District will sit ut CectUn;
The Officer Of Registration for tho Second Election
District will sit at Chesapeake City;
The Officer of Registration for the Third Election
District will sit at Elkton
The Officer of Registration for the Fourth Election
District will sit at Fair Hill:
The Officer of Registration for the Fifth Election
District will sit at North East:
The Officer of Registration for the Sixth Election
District will sit at Rising sun;
The Officer of Registration for the Seventh. Election
District will sit at Port Deposit:
The Officer Of Registration for the Eighth Election
District will sit at Mount Pleasant
The Officer Of Registration for the Ninth Election
District will sit at Brick Meeting House.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-18
Baltimore Markets.

FLoUR.-The market is more active, but
the feeling in it is still heavy, and prices
show declining tendency. Howard Street
super 81. 25@5; do. common to fair extra
$525G5.50; do. good to choice $5.75G6;
do. family $6@7; Patapsco family $S.75;
do. extra 1925. Corn meal $4.25.
WHEAT-Southern red, good to prime,
S1.30G1.42; do. amber at 81. 45G1. so; do
white 81 .20@1. so; Pennsylvania red 81. 35
@1.3S; Western red $l.40; do. amber at
$1.40G1.43.
CoRN.-The market was firmer. South
ern yellow II cents, do. white at S2GS5c. !;
Western mixed 70 cents.
OATs.-The market was quiet. Pennsyl-
vania inferior 40 cents; White Western at
47@4S cents.
RYE.-The market is dull and heavy
We note sale Of good Southern at 20 cents.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-18
On Monday and Tuesday, the 18th
and 5th days of October, 1875,
from 9 O'clock A. NJ, to 6 O'clock P. NJ

for the purpose of correcting registration lists accord
Ing to the provisions of section II of chapter IoO
of said Acts of the General Assembly.
The Registration Act of 1874 provides (secton IL
that
At tho time and place published by said Officers of
Registration for correcting said books Of registration
and lists as published by said officers. they shall pro-
coed to strike from said books and said lists the names
of all persons known made known to them or who
may not be residents of entitled the ward
election district in which they respectively regis
tered who have died who do possess the requisite
constitutional qualifications, or who will possess
said qualifications before the election ensuing or
who are disqualified under the provisions of the second
third sections of the first article of the Constitution
and 10 register the name Of every person who shall
apply to them to he registered who shall satisfy said
Officers of Registration that they possess will posses.
the requisite constitutional qualifications before the
election next ensuing, and who not disqualified
under the second and third sections of tho first article
OF the Constitution, and also the of every person
whom Judge of a Court to which appeal has been
taken from the decision of said Officers Registration
has decided to be entitled to be registered as a qualified
voter; prorided, that when any person applying as
aforesaid for registration shall have been previously
registered within this State, the Officer of Registration
to whom such application is made before registering
such person shall demand and receive from him the
certificate of his previous registration as provided for
III the sixth section of this Act
All male citizens without distinction of color who
are entitled to registration under the preceding section
are hereby notified to appear before the undersigned at
the places named above, betwe tho hours prescribed
on one of the two days, and be registered. They may
otherwise be excluded from voting at the November
election, by the provisions of the Act of Assembly and
the Constitution Of the State of Maryland.
JOHN WROTH,
Officer of Registration First District.
NOBLE BIDDLE,
Officer of Registration Second District
WILLIAM R. GILPIN
Officer of Registration Third District
W. R. MAHAN,
Officer of Registration Fourth District
GRANVILLE s. JEFFRIES
Officer of Registration Fifth District
JOSEPH COLBERT,
Officer Of Registration Sixth District
D. NJ. McCLENAHAN,
Officer of Registration Seventh District
JOHN j. BENNETT,
officer of Registration Eighth District
II. II. DUYCKINCK
Officer of Registration Ninth District
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-18

AUGUST FLowKR.-The most miserable
beings in the world are those suffering from
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. More
than seventy five per cent of the people in
the United States are afflicted with these
two diseases and their effect; such as sour
stomach, sick headache, habitual costive-
ness, impure blood, heartburn, waterbrash,
gnawing and burning pains at the pit of
the stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue
and disagreeable taste in the mouth, COM
ing up of the food after eating, low spirits,
sc. Go to the Drug Store of H. H. Nit
chel, Elkton, or E. B. Frazer, Port De-
post, and get rs cent bottle, or sample
bottle for 10 cents. Try it,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-18
THE TICKET COMPLETE.

The Republican Central Committee of
the County assembled at Elkton, on Tues
day, to fill the vacancies on the ticket caused
by the refusal of Messrs. Lyon and Wilson
to serve. After a careful exchange of views,
in which the public interest was made the
cardinal point of their deliberations, Mr..
P. c. Strickland, of Elkton, was selected
to fill the place left vacant on the County
Commissioners ticket by Mr.. Wilson; and
James McKane, of the Fourth District,
was chosen to complete the Orphans Court
ticket.
The above, as far as we have been able
to ascertain, meets with general favor
throughout the county. Mr.. Strickland is
generally known by the people of the coun-
ty, and is universally popular with both
parties. He was elected County Commits
sioner in 1871, the only Republican candi-
date, except the county surveyor, elected
in the county that year. He will make
big vote in his own district and run we'll
throughout the county.
Mr.. McKane is new man as candidate,
and has not had the advantage of SO ex-
tended acquaintance as others on the ticket,
but the more he is known the better he will
be liked, and the more respected. He is
noble specimen of the sons of ERIN, trans
planted on American soil, is sterling men,
Der of the Presbyterian Church in his
neighborhood, and in tho fullest sense it is
permitted to mortals to be, a man without
guile. In business matters he is splendid
farmer, owning one of the best titled and
tidiest farms in that district of thrifty
farmers.
And now We present to the public a
ticket complete, which will bear micro
scopic scrutiny, both intellectually and
morally, and stand approved before an un-
prejudiced examination. 1t was the aim
of the leading men Of the Republican party
to place ticket before the public composed
of such men in all its parts, as the best
men of every religious denomination or
political party could find no fault in. That
renewed assurance daily; not from men,
bers of the Republican party only, but
more frequently from the best men of the
Democrat party.
The smart huckstering class of politi-
clans, who play fast and loose, and who are
all things to all men, either false or true as
seems most advantageous, have been en-
tirely avoided, in making nominations, and
ticket of substantial men who will resort
to no deception, nor stoop to any thing low
to secure vote, have been presented to
public which ought to be true to its better
convictions, and choose without moments
hesitation, such men as officers, in prefer
ence to many of their opponents on the
Democrat ticket. The time has come when
men of worth are much more sought after
than caucus selections, and the voter is
beginning to assert his manhood by casting
his ballot for men whom he respects, in
place of men on his party ticket, solely
because they happen to be there. When
this custom becomes general then we will
see the last of rings and political stealing.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-18

Mr.. Wilbur F. Parker, the &" Parker
Gun" manufacturer, is stopping at the
fremont House. He is en- route for Colo
RADIO, where he intends taking a hand at
shooting and fishing on tho plains and
in the Rocky Mountains the present and
the coming month. Mr.. Parker is one
of the most prominent sportsmen of the
country, and we'll and favorably known
to all who delight in the use of the gun
and the rod or desire the protection Of
our game and fish during their breeding
season as the founder of the gentleman's
journal, the american Sportsman, now the
Rod and the Gun. Mr.. Parker, through
his untiring exertions, founded the Ma
tional Sportsman's Association, which is to
hold its next annual convention in this city
next Summer, and is corresponding secre-
tary of the same.-Inter- Ocean Chicago.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-18

A RELIGIOUS REVIVAL MUCH NEEDED,
BUT NOT MUCH IN VoGUE.-The revival
which we need is revival of the religion
which keeps Gods commandments; which
tells the truth and sticks to its promises
which pays twenty shillings to the pound
which cares moro for good character than
a fine coat; which votes at the ballot-box
in the same direction that it prays; which
denies ungodly lusts and which can be
trusted in every stress of temptation. A
revival which will sweeten our homes and
chasten our press and purify our politics
and cleanse our business and commerce
from roguery and rottenness would be a
boon from heaven.