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LAUGHING AWAY PAIN.

variety entertainment given last evening at
the Charity Hospital on Blackwels Island for the
amusement OF the patients The affair managed
by Or. d. H. Kitchen chief OF sta and the programme
interpreted afforded great fun to the spectators These
concerts doing great deal OF mental and physical
good 70 the Inmates Of the hospital
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PROPERTY OUT OF THE CITY FOR
SALE OR TO RENT.

DARN FOR SALE-PLEAsANTLY SITUATED on
the branch OF the Delaware River. containing lOt
about 60 river fat title good locality healthy
For particulars inquire of f. W. CLOSE 133 East 54th ST.
between the hours of and r. M Tuesday, Thursday
Saturday.
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DERMUDA IsLANDs.-AvERAGE TEMPERATURE
Id February degrees; good hotels exquisite scenery;
only 700 miles from New York First class British iron
expense less than any other winter Apply
QUEBEC AND GULF PORTS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
No % Broadway, New York
LlxCURsIoN TO THE TRoPIcs.-AN EXCURSION
u will leave New York every three weeks calling
Havana Progreso Campeche. Vera CruE Tuxpan, Tam
pico and New Orleans and there return calling the
same ports. For particulars apply TO y. ALEXANDRA
SONS, 33 Broadway.
DoyAL VICTORIA HOTEL NEW PROVIDENCE,
cuars, containing full Information apply JAMES LID
GERWOOD CO., 75S Broadway.
PROPOSALS.
CITY OF BOSTON.
Proposal tor Pine
Hail. till March for the or any part Of 20 900 feet Of
l2inch vtriaed Sewer Pipe including branches
The right reserved 10 decline all bids Indose bids PRO
CLINTON vILEs.
Chairman Committee n sewers.
WANTED TO PURCHASE.
WANTED TO BUY-A GOOD SECOND HAND ME.
" dinm sized Safe, for cash. Address SAFE, Herald
Office
RESTAURANTS.
OYSTERS OYSTERS OYSTERS
~ Live and Let Live, Broadway and Fulton the
centre ior the best the country produces
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REAL ESTATE TO EXCHANGE.

RIO RENT-oNE OR MORE BEST CENTENNIAL
Lots 20xl6O, fronts main Exhibition building.
Address W. A. STEPHENS, 43l Walnut ST.. Philadelphia
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7 ARGE CENTENNIAL LOT TO LEASE-TWO o
IL squares from buildings l4ox362 feet enclosed by 20
torest trees suitable for garden Address THOMAS A.
ANDREWS, Horticultural Hail. Philadelphia Also smaller
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TO LET FOR RusINEss PURPOSES.

TO LET FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES.
ITO LET-TwO BUILDINGS WELL LOCAnED VERY
i low, with steam power. Apply TO GEORGE W. READ
a CO. foot East 9Th 81.
no LET-A STORE ON WEST SIDE OF BROAD
way, nearly opposite Gisey House. Apply to w. FITZ-
PATRICK Florist, l.2l3 Broadway
no LET CHEAP-ENTIRE OR PART OF BUILDING
L No ii Nandewater st., with without power;
well lighted Floors Inquire at 90 Gold st.
no LET-W1TH STEAM POWER THE WHOLE OR
any part OF building JOx65 well lighted Inquire
premises JOHN McCLAVE. llth av and 22d st.
RIO LET-MAIDEN LANE-FIRsT FLOOR AND Gel
Il lar No. 7S Maiden lane Apply TO W. H. SCHIEFfE-
LIN Co, ITO William
FNO LEASE FOR BUSINESS PURPOsES-l3 LOTS OF
ground with Office stable aud storehouse, 25xiOD suit
able for all business purposes within 600 feet OF
and near Tenth street ferry. Apply TO JOSIAH fAMEh
70 Franklin st, 27O Eckford ST., Greenpont, L. l.
ITO LEASR-STORE AND DWELLING 80 WEST
Il Houston st size, 21x9O Inquire n HENRY DEM
Arrest at Relief Fire Office 149 Broadway.
eTH Av 377 NEAR 23D sT-To LEASE FOR THREE
u or Eve years. JAMES BIRCHETT. 34i West SD st.
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-24

The Presidential Conferenea assembled on
the 1ath ilsl.. aE fRs Eif!f AyehHe Hotel
In New York, pursuant to call Issued BIZ
VIM. c. Bryant Thomas ID. WOolSey, A..
H. Bullock, Horace White and Carl Schurz.
About three hundred delegates were present.
The Secretary called the meeting to order,
and read the call. Thomas ID. WOolsey w;s
elected President, who said that for eight or
ten years past, the country was growing
politically worse; leading and strong men OF
the Republican party had made the country
blush with shame, and now this meeting
was called to DECIDE what Mas best 70 be
done to remedy matters. - 80 ..
Carl SchurZ thanked the audience for
such large attendance. 1t was good sign
when these men came forward and showed
their political independence, that every cit.
izen should see that the party he belonged
to is a good oAe None have been invited
here but men not oyerawed by any party,
and are known to have the best interests OF
the country at heart. Independents, it is
said are ON the fence, but it IS owing to the
vast quantity of mud on both sides of the
fence that they are afraid to descend. The
object of this conference is to promote and
further the general interests of the country.
On motion of Mr.. Schnrz, Park Goodwin.
Judge L. 8. Roster, Of Oohhecticut, John
W. Hoyt, of Wisconsin, Martin BremmeT,
of Massachusetts,, and Carl Schurz, were
appointed committee to draw up some
definite plan of action, and take such otheI
measures as may be deemed necessary.
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Hints for Travellers.

At this season many persons contemplate
travelling; to do 50 with the largest amount
of comfort and advantage, physical, social
and mental, the following suggestions are
made:
Take ope-fourth more money than your
actual estimated expenses
Acquaint yourself wi it'll the geography of
the route and region of travel;
Have good sVpply qf alAAit change, and
lars, that you may not take counterfeit
change.
So arrange as TO have but a single ar
tcle of luggage to look after
Dress substantially better be too hot for
two or three hours at noon, than to be too
cool for the remainder of the twenty-fopr,
Arrange, under all eircumstanees, % be
at the place Of starting fifteen or twenty
minutes hafole the time, thus allowing for
unavoidable or unanticipated detention
on the way.
Do not commence a days travel before
breakfast, even if that has to be eaten at
daylight. Dinner or supper or both can be
more BEAUTIFULLY dispensed with than coed
warm breakfast.
Put your purse aI.d watch III your vest
pocket, and all under your pillow, and you
will not be likely to leave either.
The most, if not the only secure fastening
of your chamber door Is Il common bolt OIL
the inside if there is none, lock the door
| turn the key so that it cannot be drawn part
" out, and put the wash basin under it
thus any attempt to use a jimmy or put in a
false key, will push it out and cause a rack
ct among the crockery, which viii be pretty
certain to rouse thg <leePeF and Fout the
robbeE
A sixpenRy sandwich eaten leisurely in
| the cars is better for you than dollar dinner
| b0ted at Il station.
Take with you months supply ofpatienee
and always think thirteen times before you
reply once to any real or supposed rudenes-
or insult or inattention.
Do not suppose yourself specially ana de-
signedly neglected, i. walters at hotels do not
bring you what you call for in double quick
time nothing distinctly marks the we'll
bred man quiet waiting on such coca,
sions; passion prnVes tho puppy.
| Do not allow yourself TO converse in tone
loud enough to be heard by person at two
or three seats away it is the mark of boor,
if in a man, and want of refinement and
/ Iady-like deIicacy if in a woman. A gentle
1 man is not noisy ladies are serene.
| Comply cheerfully and gracefully with the
customs Of the convGy ances in which you
| travel, and OF the places where you stop.
! Respect yourself by exhibiting the man
ners of gentleman and lady, if you wish
| to be treated a. such, ard tLen you will re
ceive the respapt OF others
/ TraEel is great leyeller; take the position
which Others assign you from your conduct
rather than from your nreteRtiOns.-Ex.
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a Young Lady who mgst Di e soon
wills her Body 10 dhe Surgeons.

A singular case has been developed at the
MARYLAND University hospital, at Baltimore.
A Young lady of intelligence and TesPecta-
bly, connected, who has been treated for
an incurable abdominal affection, requests
that. after her death, her body be dissected
for the benefit of science. In letter TO
Resident Phi ysician Ashby she says: Asniy
death must speedily result from causes
which have baffied science and confused the
best medical minds, desire that you shall
perform upon my body, after death, an ex-
Summation end ascertain what il is that has
terminated my life. / request thai such
examination shall be made privately and re-
snectfully by yourself and a few of your
medical students and medical friends.
have furthermore urged my parents and
friends to allow such an examination, and
TO inform you at once Is to my death IN
case Of such ala eSsRt, sineesl shall go to my
home from the hospital 10 pass the remain
der of my days a post-mortem examiner
ton can do me no possible harm, and 1t may
| benefit science, and through 1t some osher
unfortunate affected lik0myseH. Moreover,
desire to express in this manner, the graf
itude feel to the many medical men who nave
| lahored for my relief Lastly, It - duty
owe my sex and my God" She will leave
the hospital and return to her home IN the
city. and in the event of her death her re-
/ quest will be compIied with by the physl-
] clans named in her viii. eAaA
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-24
Senator AIcOrm's Acres.

Col. L. J. Du fr0a, Of Memphis, wrote a
letter to the New York World, the other
day, descriptive of Hon. JAS. l.. Alcorn's
plantations We make some interesting ex-
tracts,
'To-day rode with Senator Alcorn, Of
Mississippi, over his Jamestown estates.
These are in the lowlands of Co4homa coun-
ty, fourteen miles east from the Mississippi
river and elevated four or five feet abote
its flood tide. The senator has bought one
adjacent tract after another until his Jones
town plantation consists Of Il, 900 acres, and
a few miles further east lies another of 5000
acres Swan Lake, nine miles in length and
300 yards wide, Astounding in trout, and, in
the fall and winter months, tlocked with
countless water fowl, defines the northwest
ern side of the broad cotton and corn fields.
Along the whole northern front OF the es-
tate t1tege is plank fence seventeen miles
in length, 81 intervals of Il mile or less
there are collected from t8Hr 70 dozen
white cottages. Each has two tq494ts tQHr-
teen feet square, and an open piazza along
the whole, ten feet wide OF these cottages
there are about two hundred and fifty on
the estate, occupied by about eleven hundred
n69tG4s. Negroes are emlnently SregaIlOus,
and therefore GhA{teVer the Senator would
have a dense forest swept away. W TFreacis q
few of these comfortable cottages In lts
midst The houses are left open to trespassers,
and homeless, nomadict blacks are soon
enscoheeI within. They must need have
bread and bacon, ahG soon appear at the Of
flee of Mr.. Jones, the SENATOR'S tactotum
= contract is soon made, the negroes are
paid fo4 ther labor in food or money, trees
are q deadened," an4 The dense underground
is swept away, and within a brieT Period cot
tou and corn grow luxurianely about the
congeries Of white cottages not long befofS
hidden in the foliage of the matted vines and
among great towering oak and cypress trees.
Plantations are added annually to the ex-
banding Jamestown estate. 1t thus happens
That Senator Acorn pays one-ninth of all
the taAes If the rich county, of Coahoma,
and if he lives ten se9Fs and no unforeseen
calamity befall, he will own, Ga his 9%h
terms, the broadcast and richest and best
cultivated estate in America. "Sandhillers"
and Poor whites from the upland c districts
hundred pounds. The picking Of a bale
worth $50 (as prepared 'fot MARKET thus
| costs So. and its whole production not ihefe
tbsa 500. In no process or mode of agricul-
ture Il these hsagder margin for profit" e
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-24
The Cost of Plumage

There is no lady deserving of the name
who could witness without a feeling of hOr-
ror the process of preparing for use Il 9
feathered beauties which form such conspiC-
uous ornaments in the present style OF wo-
mems hats. If those who wear such orna-
ments knew the fortunes to which these
helpless little creatures are subjected, and
the heartless cruelty with which the BUSH
ness Is carried ON, thsy you'd shrink from
even indirect completely in it. of course
the impression prevails that all birds used
for personal decoration are killed immedi-
atelv when caught and prepared in the or
binary way by taxidermiSts; but here is
fust ,Shere he mistake is made The birds
are taken alive, anu ~.i.G lying the skin
is skillfully stripped from their quivering
CHASTITY bodies. By this process it is claimed
The feathers retain a firmer hold upon the
skin. Such Is the method BY which all
birds used in the decoration OF ladies hats
are prepared. Think of the exquisite hum
ming bird, the blue bird, the cardinal bird,
the oriole, and numberless Others OF a beauti-
full plumage, struggling beneath the knife oil
the heartless operator; think OF this, tender
hearted ladies, as your admiring gaze rests
on the latest novelties in fashion by which
our CALM bellies are crowned Hundreds OF
thousands of birds Of The hIlghtest Rlumage
are literally fayed alive every year, and 50
long as our ladies will consent to wear such
ornaments, Just 80 long will this cruel BUSH
ness continue The Baroness Burdette-
Coutts has placed herself at the head of a
movement in England designed to put an
end to the brutal business, and it is to be
hoped that she will meet with cordial en-
couragement and cooperation on this side
of the Atlantic. Li
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-24

.emphis Appeal

Memphis Appeal
The evidence is daily accommodating show
b. Aat Governor Tilden is the foremost
Eaiiia;a for the Presidency. We regard
Is nomination just Is certain As the TWEEN
sA5reutb OF June arrives, and his election
pill be equally as certain, for he cannot fail
4 BE- acceptable TO every man who sincerely
EFsires reform. He has demonstrated that
Pis an uncompromising foe to corruption
lhd yenalitv in high places. In uneafthiBg
saud IN bis own party, in New York, he
basHlted no,a of the local politicians, made
b calculations a. 20 the effect on himself
u his party. He was Indifferent to every
Rterest but that Of the tax-lidden people.
d the discharge Of the responsible duties of
is Office, he sought not how EaGrG~. t4t
'ow broad, be could find the path of duty,
Ind hi, blows correspondent with his deter
Rlnation and lac was rs courageous in eX-
lDsing and routing the caRal ring as he was
d crushing out the Tweed rGgues. The
Rack, nerve, Integrity and ability displayed
a filden in rescuing the great State of
lev York from the domination of thieves,
Rale him the most popular man in the
tnIted States, fos the people believe he VIZ
4 as President what ke has already done
y governor of New York
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---------- 80 alaE
nAnth of Another New York wills
IiOnHire

New York Correspondence Baltimore sun
The heaviest stakeholder in the Paclhc
Bank. of this city, also in the Pacific lnsur-
ance Company, died at his residence IN West
chester county, yesterday. He was bach
efor, aged ssyepty years, and leaves Tor
tune of -, 500 600 Fhe bFqpeFtty was .ac,
cumulated from his business as dro+et aha
what proved to be judicious investments.
Mr.. Merritt was an eccentric man and lett
will. He had been frequently urged to
do so during his recent sickness, but refused
on the plea that he would get well. lie ad-
ded IF do not, hope those who receive
NV money will have as much pleasure IN
spending il as l had in making it; with WI:
all his vast wealth. so close was he IN ms
haLiss he lived all alone) that be refused to
buy Carpet 10. bis aoor, and had scarcely
sufficient covering for his LED Indeed,
from his surrounding, one would suFpV+S
him a very poor man, yet he was the virtual
owner of a national bank and weil-known
Insurance. company. Mr.. Campbell, PreSl-
dent of the lsaei6c Rank, estimates Air.
Merritt's wealth at %, 5000 00, while others
place it between S3,O0O00o and $4,000. 900.
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,r;u Tue Centennial be {" Success ?

The Philadelphia correspondent of the
k+a York Bulletin thus answers this ques
boz. 1-...e-e
/. Iii he "a success, the Socratic reply is the
.tjon a. to what is meant by success ~
es,Ee eur-ti1uer means, ''Will there be any
saaney in it, the answer Is, most emphati
gr,' No There will not be dollar to di-
/ N among stockholders; nor did any stock
n.r when he subscribed, expect there
ud be-. All the money contributed for
h erection Of the buildings and for prepa-
td5n.->7 500, 00O-was paid in by individ-
+, i. and corporations, who paid it out in
.atriotic zeal for the cause.
Even Congress acted upon that impulse
Ffe money furnished to carry out the design
!. MOI vet exhausted nor nearly exhausted
/ will last for good while yet, even if they
A not take in a cent. As matter Of fact,
1. Commissioners, though they have always
sg4 poor mouth, have never yet been
F55rl NJ for money. Col. Thomas A. Scott,
prg.iIentof the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
lsgy saws he does not expect to make much
foGey out Of the thing for his road, because
|. ba, spent over Il million dollars in pre-
6srng for the event, and did not expect to
III ANYTHING back that lie paid in as sub
sripti1u But he believes that it will be a
Inat thing for other railroads and every
LIv lie calculates that ten million differ
lnt people will 90 into the Exhibition dur
BIZ the exhibition.
Theadmissiom price is fifty cents, and some
rn le will 90 in fifty times; but he believes
b9t tie average from each visitor will be
mar 10 fake him or them inside the gates
lr,o. if ten million people pay dollar each,
b. profit Of tie Exhibition will be two and
Ihllf millions. with the buildings standing
ll owned. This would, of course, be fine
b. the stockholders but the running ex-
btn,es will bc large, and L is very plain that
| the Exhibition pays the expenses of such
Tremendous undertaking it will do well.
Cpon this score there is no fear, especially
/ the Commission starts in with a.p!ethoric
Purse and out Of debt. But there never will
i much of anything for the stockholders
Eat the buildings. which will probably be
ought in by the city Of Philadelphia when
BIZ Exhibition Is over.
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ORDyYAY THE RADICAL SER
GEANT-AT-ARMS. ii
Hi- X u~caIitie- During n NEmber
of Years.

The scandalous traces left by the House
: Sergeant-at-Arms Ordway, the predecessor
! of Thompson, are unmistakable, and the COM
! mittee who have him in charge are prepared
! to confront him not only with the cumula-
/ tive details Of his crimes while an officer Df
I Congress, but have witnesses and dOcumeal-
+ tary evidence which he cannot gainsay. 1t
will be shown that during his two or three
terms tenure of the office of Sergeant-at-
Arms he leaped from almost AFFECT poverty
to affiuence; that this wealth was by various
fraudulent practices gained from the gov
eminent; that his books were made to con-
ceal theft that he perpetually kept upon
his rolls men who never even appeared Ia
Washington; that he exacted percentages
of salary from scores of his subordinate ofh-
ciaIs; that he furnished and refurnished his
official quarters in the capital, and removed
the costly furniture for his own use; that
costly pieces of Office furniture were re-
moved from the capitol and given to the
Washington Market company, of which
Ordwav is a stakeholder; that this same
company is a creature of fraud, and that
Ordway was largely instrumental in its or
gan;zation. 1t will be shown that swarms
of deputi ties were sent out by OrdwAy, Osten-
sibly on public business, but really on per-
sonal missions; that his own son, whose
name has been ON the rolls since he was five
wears old or less, and who drew salary,
Travelled to his home in New Hampshire
and to and from college at Rochester, \. Y
as a deputy of this Sergeant alarms; that
adventures who wanted to go to all parts
of the country were furnished both creden-
tials as deputies aud drew mileage while
attending to private business As far Oft us
New Orleans; that the laws tor the govern
ment of his office were Systematically ig-
nored that enormous bills for board were
allowed prisoners confined for contempt,
and that in many eases Ordway "whacked
up" with subordinates who ''raised" bills. A
list of this officials criminalities while in
the position of Sergeant-at-ArmSw would ex-
ceed the Tweed story in number, though the
aggregate pilferings were necessarily not so
great. Ordway is a resident of this district
and member of the New Hampshire Leg
islature. His Identification with the Bah
cock Shepherd ring was plain to all while he
was in power, yet no steps were ever taken
to remove him. 1t will, in short, be shown
that Ordway was of piece with that cor
rupt body which squandered the public
treasure and enriched public robbers during
the last ten years.
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Nice Pets
v. 0. Bulletin.

y. o. Bulletin.
Thomas l. Bond, the celebrated alligator
trapuoE on "Wednesday morning boxed up
about thirty Of the largcst--izcd ulligltors
ever seem and conveyed them 20 The city
park, where picture of the reptiles was
taken by Mr.. Anderson Everyone of the
animals kept their large jaws open, and be-
side them stood the trapper We learned the
following facts about these Reptiles from Mr..
Bond He goes into his hole about the first
of November, on the first cold wind stays
until the first warm day in February
The female commences laying in Tine latter
part Of May; they hatch the latter part vi
July and August They cat fish. Young
pigs, dOgs--in fact any animal that comes
within thoir rcach--ncgrue- and grass when
thcy can find nothing else; they commence
to eat soon as they come out. and eat
until they 90 into their holes iu the
fall The female lays from eighteen to
ninety eggs according % the size of the iC-
male. The male lies about the nest and M
he succeeds in driving the female uh, dee
yours the young n, soon as Matched. The
nest is made in low swamp ground the ma
terial used is dry grass or dried came and
raised about three aud half on four lcct
high When il is of the required height She
gets on top and with her claws make a.
hole and deposits her eggs, then covers over
with more Of the same material, then cove
ering Of mud 20 make II 81 near waterproof
A. possible. The first four years after hatch
ing they grow about four inches Ier year,
after that very slow, not more than from
one to two. DR. Dick ~a,- in his Christian
Philosophy" that man and alligator are clio
only animals that kill their own species Oy
Wholesale
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A Conscientious Voter.

Bout dis hyar lection bizness, Fze done
/ ri down new hstform!" said Pete to
Pm other darkies.
What sort Of new fatfGral is dat y was
Fsed by another darky.
Wei, dey aidt gwine to fool me no more
out who I'm voting for, dat's howl" said
What You gwine TO kno' bout it2 You
/ n Gln 70 skool since the las lection, an
put read nohow" returned third dar-
Nebber YOU mind bout my readin', Mig
II dat don't splain de pint. But I'm tel
2 Oyer dat when goes to Publican
gets lag ticket, Tze gwine to make him
E~a IL strait down from de top to de bot
-WeI?8 they said.
Den Ize gwine to a Dimicrat and ak
~ to read it back ards from the bottom
Y an ei dai ticket don't dove-tail at BOZ
US IKE 5ur0 draw, she don't go inter
S'oX, OATS all. "--Savannah (Ga.) News