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REVERDY JOHNSON.
Particulars Of His Sudden Death at Annap-
oils.


A dispatch from Annapolis, Md, gives
the following account of the death of the
venerable jurist and statesman, Reverdy
johnson The main facts connected with
the sad death of Reverdy Johnson in the
grounds attached to the Executive Man
sion, as made known last night, are not
changed by the developments this morn
ing. His death was SO sudden and I'M
expected, after his appearance in the
Senate Library and about the State
House yesterday while the Legislature
was in session, in apparently full health,
that the community has not yet recov-
cred from the shock. DR.. Lewis II.
Stein, State Senator from Frederick
County, a distinguished physician, and
Chief Inspector of the Sanitary Commits
sion in the Army of the Potomac during
the war, who examined the body shortly
after it was found, gives the following as
his theory of the cause of his death
Mr.. Johnson either stumbled over q
piece of coal, or, being seized with ver-
tigo, or incipient symptoms of apoplexy,
and trying to save himself, moved toward
the west, staggering along by the
northerly side of the Executive Mansion,
at each step his body gaining additional
momentum, so that having reached the
door leading into the basement he
swayed around to the south, and fell, his
head striking against the sharp corner
of the granite base of the house, which
gave the first wound on the head. Reach
ing the pavement of rough cobble
stones, second wound was received III
front of the first At this instant, prob
ably, the bones of the nose were frac-
tured, and one joint of the second finger
of his right hand was dislocated. Wheth
er his subsequent struggles may ac-
count for the abrasions on his knees and
the fingers of his left hand, cannot be
positively asserted. The wounds in the
scalp were accompanied with fractures
of the external bones of the Uranium
and the base of his skull, also, with the
probable rupture of some of the arteries
Mt the base. Death must have resulted
instantly.
Mr.. Gwynne, the Attorney General of
the State, and son-in-law of Mr.. John
son, is of the opinion that he was seized
with vertigo and fell, as he had a similar
attack, lasting three hours, while attend
ing trial in South Carolina, several
years ago.
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Upper of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, amount to
81, 200.
The Kansas House of Representatives has
passed resolution, by a vote Of AZ to 40, re-
questng Congress to repeal the Specie Re
sumption act.
A bill substituting the Northern Pacific Rail-
road TO the amount of $4,000, 900 and bill
subsidizlng the Utah Northern Narrow-Gauge
to the amount of 81, $50, 900 have passed the
Montana Legislature and received the Gov
errors approval. Both bills come before the
people of the Territory on the Sd of April.
Heavy snow-storms are reported in the Far
West aud trains on the Union Pacific have been
snow-bound.
In order to afford people who desire it an OPP
portuuity of attending the annual Mardi Gras
festivities in New Orleans, the Illinois Central
Railroad is selling excursion tickets from Chi
cago to the Crescent City and return at S35,
good till the 7th of March.
The Ohio State Grange OF Patrons of Hus-
bandry was in session at Cleveland last week.
A large number of delegates were present.
There are l,247 subordinate oranges in the
State Of Ohio, with a membership OF over
80, 900.
Five persons were drowned at Golconda, Ill.
a few days ago, by the capsizing of sail-boat
in the river, during the prevalence of a
storm.
South.
Fort Smith, Ark, is to have another whole
sale execution. In the United States District
Court at that place, the other day, Judge Parker
passed sentence of death on six murderers.
The crimes for which they we're tried were COM
mitted in the Indian Nation. The 2lst day of
April next was fixed as the day upon which they
are to swing.
Articles of impeachment against Lieut.-G
Davis have been reported to the Mississippi
Legislature.
Matters begin to look serious again in Lou
isiana The House Committee appointed to
investigate the books of the State Treasurer
have submitted report recommending that
articles of impeachment be presented against
Gov Kellogg and Treasurer Dubuclet, the Of
Tense charged being that these two officials i'm
/ properly diverted from the interest fund the
sum of $19s, ZOO.
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that the Ceptennial fares will not be reduced
more than 25 per cent
Hon. Reverdy Johnson met his death last
week in sudden and tragic manner. While
walking in the grounds of the Governors man
sion, at Annapolis, Nd, he stumbled and fell,
and, striking his head against stone fractured
the frontal bone. He was alone when the ac-
cident happened. Shortly after his absence
from the house had been noticed. aservant went
in search of him and oundhim lying in the yard
bleeding profusely, and life extinct. Mr. John
son was born in 1876, and was, consequently,
80 years old.
Since the passage of the act Of Jan. 4, 1875,
the contraction OF National Bank currency has
amounted to $40, 7G8, 1852.
The ship Progress, bound from Galveston to
Liverpool, was recently abandoned at sea. Her
cargo was valued at $3.50, 900.
George @. Smith, an old Chicago banker
formerly President of the National Loan and
Trust Company aud Treasurer of tho State In
surance Company, both of Chicago, has been
arrested ON complaint OF Homer Cook, assignee
of the State Insurance Company, charged with
having unlawfully converted some $50, 200 OF
the assets of that company without the assent
of the Directors.
An additional vault is to be constructed at
New York for the fast accommodating silver coin.
In all parts of the country there is now on
hand about $140OO,0OO in subsidiary coins, of
which "a, 000, 900 is in Boston $500, 600 in
New York, and 100000 III the minis the
balance being at the different sub treasures.
Boss Tweed has been heard from at Point
Sec, on the st. Lawrence coast, Canada.
Chicago and New York capitalists are said to
have obtained control of most of the mortgage
bonds 1.-THE Missouri Pacific Railroad, with the
intention of forcing foreclosure.
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AN unfortunate lunatic, who died re-
Gently in the Prestwich (Eng.) Asylum,
seems to have lived neither wisely nor
we'll 4 post-mortem examination led
to the discovery of no fewer than 1,S41
articles in his inside, viz: Sixteen hun
dred and thirty-nine shoemaker's spara-
bles, six 4-inch cut nails, nineteen 3-inch
cut nails, eight 2l-inch cut nails, eigh-
teen pinch cut nails, forty 4-inch cut
nails, seven inch cut nails, thirty nine
tacks, five brass nails, nine brass but
tons, twenty pieces of buckles, one pin,
fourteen bits of glass, ten small pebbles,
three pieces of string, one piece of leather
three inches long, one piece of lead four
inches long, and one American pegging
awl; the total, IL pounds and 10
ounces.
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An Arsenic Consumer.

A Troy On. W man has been trying
to kill rats with bread covered with ar
senic. The bread disappeared but the
rats didn't, and finally he caught his 49,
year-old daughter eating it. She con-
fessed that she had disposed of all of it,
and liked it better than anything she
ever tasted. 1t appears that the girl had
fits, year ago, when she kept begging
for arsenic, and the doctor thinking she
was going to die any way, gave her
some, whereupon she got well. Since
then she has been given the deadly poison
at different times, the only effect being
to make her appear well, bright and
cheerful. The case has been laid before
several scientific men, all of whom pro
nounce il one of the most remarkable
phenomena of the age.
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swearing, drinking, and desperate

of swearing, drinking, and desperate
poker playing.
RUMoRs OF CABINET DIssEHsIoNs.
The rumors of Cabinet discussions
which have been telegraphed over the
country are so greatly exaggerated that
they may be said to be lies made out of
whole cloth. They are an illustration of
what said the other day that the only
thing greatly manufactured here is
"news." There has been no dissension
III the Cabinet. But there have been
many persons who have been trying TO
get up difficulty between Secretary
Br!stow and the President. They are
men of the virtuous whisky ring,
or friends of meD of that no
torious combination. They would like
to put an eternal quietus on Bristow's
lightning SO that it shall strike no more
forever. They want discussions in the
Cabinet, and, there being none, they
manufacture them. The wish is father
to the thought. 1t is greatly to be
hoped, in the interest of the whole PEG.
pie, that the Vaccinations of the ring
and the ring hackers will not succeed.
All the people are interested in the hon
est collection OF the revenue.
PERSONALITIES.
AS for the rumored high words be-
tween Mr.. Bristow and Senator Conk-
ling, there is not word of truth in all
that story SO circumstantially related by
the sensational reporters. When the
account was shown to Bristow he dryly
said, "Why L have not seen Senator
Conkling for month" Thus he blew
it all away with a breath, and then he
blew his nose and went about his bust
ness.
Senator Christiancy, of Michigan, was
married, day or two ago, to a young
and handsome bride. He is grave and
reverend Senator, for many years q
Judge of the Supreme Court of his
State she is scarcely twenty years of
age. But the Judge is young in spirit,
though advanced in years, and will no
doubt make as jolly husband as he is
an able, dignifed, and conscientious
Senator. wish him and his very many
years of such joyous happiness as the
great and good ought to enjoy.
l.. NJ. n.
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.

6IaSI.
Two children named Smith, and young man
named Barry, who attempted their rescue, were
drowned at Apponang, r. l., last week, by the
breaking of the ice.
The National Trotting Association met in
New York the other day. 1853 local associations
being represented. The presiding officer said
the value of the courses owned by the various
associations was not less than $4,000, 900,
VIII 1.-The value Of the horses entered in a sin
ltyear was S15, OOO, 900.
The Bank of Commerce of New London, Ct,
was recently robbed of $21, 900. No clue to
the robbers.
Piper, the iend who murdered little. girl in
church befry at Boston, last spring, has
been tried a second time, the jury rendering
verdict of guilty Of murder in the first de-
gree.
Another sad drowning accident is reported
from New England. Three children of Andrew
Bates broke through the ice on Lake Whitney,
New Haven, Ct, on Thursday week, and were
all drowned. The mother and four other per-
sons who went to their rescue broke through
and we're with great difficulty saved.
Owen Lindsay was hung at Syracuse, N. Y,
on the 18th inst, for the murder of Francis A.
Colvin.
The burglar who entered the National Bank
of Commerce, of New London, Ct. and re-
heved it of S21, 00O turns out to be George c.
Packer, one of the tellers of the institution.
He has confessed his crime and made full resti-
tuition.
An exciting scene took place in the lecture
of 81,
adjourned annual meeting on Friday night
week, at which the clerk read the report of the
examining committee, detailing the several
meetings between it and Mr.. Bowen. After
the report was read, and resolution passed
referring back the insinuations of Bowen against
Beecher to the Examining Committee and sum-
moning Bowen to appear before them, Mr.
Beecher made some exciting remarks, closing
as follows: GAS for myself 1 pronounce the
allegations as false and, with Almighty God
before me, and the judgment day, arraign
him as a slanderer and a liar"
George W. Fletcher has been sentenced to
death at Philadelphia for the murder Of William
Hanley.
Four miners were instantly killed, and six or
eight badly injured, by the explosion of fire.
damp in coal mine at Pittston, Pa, one day
last week.
Clifford White Boston lawyer, has been ar
rested and placed under $40, 900 bonds, detect
ives having traced to his possession $50, 900 of
the Government bonds stolen from gentleman
in New York about year since.
The Plymouth Church Advisory Council as
sembled at Brooklyn on Feb Is, with delegates
from about 140 churches in attendance.
West.
Heavy rains and destructive floods are report
cd from the Pacific coast.
ID. II. Mitchell, prominent citizen OF Leay.
enWorth, Kan, is under arrest for attempting
TO steal 5000 from the Government in grain
contracts.
The recent heavy rains have caused much
damage in various parts Of the West by the
rising OF the rivers.
Three Chicago Aldermen-Hil Culler-
ton and Jonss-have been indicted for com
plicity in the whisky frauds
As fer ~ sscerta NOD, the forgereI OF Mrs.
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Important News, II True.

LONDON, Feb. 5.--On Thursday last
Queen Victoria entered the boudoir of
her unmarried daughter, the Princess
Beatrice, and said, Beatrice, my dear
est, you want to get married, don't
you 2" "Oh, don't i, just, replied the
girl, enthusiastically, land it's leap
year, too. Hooray But say, ma, who's
the him 2" prince Louis, of Batten-
burg" replied her Majesty. "That'll
be awfully jolly" said the Princess;
"Louis is such sweet name," and she
began scrawling on the blotting pad:
Beatrice Battenburg," and wondering
how she would look in white. Yester
day morning, when her august mother
entered Her Royal Highness' apart
ments, she found her daughter in tears
tears of indignation rather than grief.
Why, drat the child, what ails her"
said Her Majesty. "Oh, ma, cried
the Princess, look at this" and she
pointed to the following item in the
Times:
CALCUTTA Feb. 4.-Prnce Louis, of oatten-
burg, while pig-sticking to-day, fell and broke
his collar bone. The sad event has cas-,
gloom over the community.
"Well, said the Queen, WHAT OF
that2" "What of that" echoed the
daughter; "what of that With all due
Difference to you, ma am, 1 will have no
Prince Louis in mine. | thought we
had come down low enough when poor
Louise married into grocer's family;
but butcher, man that makes his liv-
ing by sticking horrid pigs-not much,
Alexandrina Victoria" and kicking off
her mothers crown, with the remark
that that was the sort of hair-pin she
was, Her Royal Highness betook herself
to her bedroom and gave way to tears
NelO York Word.
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would not be indicted. because j understood
then that the Grand Jury would adjourn in n
day or two. Gen. Babcock, after Hendersons
speech, desired to be heard, and photographed
Dyer for that purpose. The Military Court of
Inquiry was ordered very soon after Babcock
was informed that he could not be heard in the
Avery case. My confidence in Babcock IL still
mistaken. Explanations OF the "sylph " and
some other dispatches were given me by Gen.
Babcock, and were perfectly satisfactory,
showing his entire innocence. Nothing has
occurred to change the good opinion enter
tanned of him.
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DAVID DUDLEY FIELD is not teacher
of penmanship. Recently he signed a
legal document, and sent it to printer
in Albany. The proof was sent to him
to be read, and "David Dudley Field
in manuscript appeared in type as :" Tried
and duly fled"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-18

MICHAEL MoFADDEN and Michael
Burns, of Fall River, quarreled in the
presence OF McFadden's dog; the dog
may not have understood the affair, yet
the next time he met Burns he attacked
him savagely, inAicting dangerous
wounds.
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ONLY one person is killed where 700,-
coo are safely carried on a railroad.
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MrscELLAN GUS GLEANINes.

4 general convention Of railroad tic ket
az ents, in session IN Louisville. Lave resolved
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pronouncing it the great Medical Discovery

To all, particularly invalids,, spring
y : trying season. Indications ct sickness
should at once be attended ia. Fatal diseases
may be caused by allowing the bowels to be-
come constipateL, and the system to remain
III = disordered condition, until the disorder
has time to develop itself. An ounce OF pre-
ventfon is worth pound Of cure, is IN old
and truthful saying. Therefore we advise
al who are troubled with the complaints now
very prevalent headache, indigestion, dis
ordered liver, want Of appetite nausea, ~ or
feyerish skin, to take, without delay,
Schenck's Mandrake. Pills. We know Of no
remedy 50 harmless and decisive in its action.
1t At once strikes at the root Of the disease
and produces healthy tone to the system.
People never need suffer from any disease
Arising from disordered condition of the
liver It they would take this excellent medi-
cine when they feel the first indications of the
malady. Families leaving home for the sum-
mer months should take three or four boxes
OF these pills with them. They have an al
most instantaneous effect. They will relieve
the patient OF headache in one or two hours,
and will rapidly cleanse the liver OF sur
rounding bile, and will effectually prevent q
bilious attack. They are sold by all drug
gists.
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ssssasa ..z Il;
Hanging In China.

: SIobseryed one mode of Chinese cap.
|Eital punishment known d. thetscage."
The "cage" was between two and
three feet square, and over six feet
high. Near the bottom was a close.
floor of plank. The four sides were
work of open palings. The plank COM
posing the cover were made to fit
around mans neck, close enough to
hang him, but not close enough to stran-
gle him. The condemned man was
[sp1t into this cage, his head projecting
above, the cover fitting around his neck,
and under his feet a number of bricks,
one above the other, just enough to
ENABLE him to stand on tiptoe. When
this position from WEAKNESS, became
sunendurable, his only relief was to
hang by his neck. The design is to
make a man suffer as much as possible,
but not to kill him too quickly. Usu-
ally, after a criminal has been standing
thus for day or so, one of the bricks
is removed, and then another, until he
hangs by the neck altogether. 1t is
said that q strong man ordinarily will
endure this torture several days before
life becomes extinct.
W. VAC pACSCAt OCC6tS1O1l uC<tUu WitS
fastened more quickly. The man was
put into the cage on Sunday afternoon,
believe, about one O'Clock. I heard
of it on Monday morning, and went
over to Annoy about 2 O'Clock in the
afternoon to see him. He had been
dead sometime. The guard said that
he just died before daylight; that he
was conscious of having committed
great crimes, and had fastened his
death by kicking the bricks from under
his feet. But the people said (private-
ly) that the guard wished to get rid of
their charge that they might prepare
to keep New Years day 1.-THE Chinese
New Year was near at hand, and there
fore had taken the bricks from under
his feet during the night. That was
probably the fact.
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Sleep the Best Stimulaut,


The best possible thing for man to
do when he feels too weak to carry it
through is to go to bed and sleep a
week if he can. This is the only true
recupertaion of power, the only actual
'recuperation of brain force. Because
during sleep the brain is in a state of
rest, in a condition to receive and ap-
propriate particles of nutriment from
the blood which takes the place of
those which have been consumed in
previous labor, since the very act of
thinking consumes, burns up solid par
ticles, as every turn of the wheel or
screw of the splendid steamer is the
result of consumption by fire of the
fuel in the furnace. The supply of
consumed brain substance can only be
had from the nutritive particles in the
blood, which were obtained from the
food eaten previously, and the brain is
so constituted that it canabest receive
and appropriate to itself those nutri-
tive particles during state of rest,
of quiet, and stiffness in sleep. Mere
stinulents supply nothing in them
selves; they only goad the brain, force
Ito q greater consumption of it's sub.
stance; until that substance has been
50 exhausted that thereis not power
enough left to receive a supply, just as
men are so near death by thirst and
|starvation that there is not: power
enough to swallow anything, and all is
over. - .!
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sPRIM POUR MO1!'
Ny dyingwishj fDr soon Ihence shall 10 Y
Beyond The ken ot mortal friend orIoe.
Whittier, ali! whittier do my footsteps benz!
may not know, but these words backward
Price pour moi!
Wand're my soul alone or angel led, -.
IN sa;T realms Of light, Or darkest gloom my bed,
From blessed nights, or saddest depths
..A 2 Prie< pour moi!
For al within Gods universe 80 wide
No place is found for human soul to hide,
So this know, where'er my spirit be-
shall have need Of all His love for me
-Prie< pour moi!
''Pray for mel' No formal epitaph was
ever so touching as this simple Inscription,
common in French and Catholic cemeteries
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A new Thames Tunnel.

The proposal to construct a subway
under the river Thames at Woodwich,
which originated October, 1873, con-
seqnent upon the upsetting of a
.skiffs in a fog, and the lossofsnine lives.
is about to be carried into effect, and
the necessary capital, 100000, is said
to have been subscribed. The tunnel
will be for foot passengers only, but
wide enough.for five persons to walk
abreast. "A subway which would have
admitted carriages as well has been
thought very desirable, as there is nc
way for vehicles across the river be.
low London bridge, but the estimated
cost exceeds f350, 900, and it was con.
sidered impracticable to raise such an
amount. -
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We are glad to proclaim Throughout
the State that the Bostoe One Price clothing
store, Minneapolis, are just what they claim
to be-one price to every one.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-10

Decidedly the best remedy that has
or stiff joints, flesh wounds, sprains, bruises,
cuts, and burns, is Johnson's Anodyne Lini-
ment. We use it, and always recommend it
to our friends
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Notice to Subscribers.

Attention is called to the arrange
ment made whereby any subscriber to this
paper told or new may obtain FREE, copy
OF that household treasure, "Hodgman's Fam
ny Album, :" the retail price of which, assold
by agents, is $500. Read the advertisement
in another column.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-10

Chapped hands, face, pimples, ring.
worm, saltrheum, and other cutaneous afec-
tons cured, and rough skin made soft and
smooth, by using Juniper Tar Soap. Be care
full to get only that made by Caswell, Hazard
Co., New York, as there are many imita-
tions made with common tar, all Of which
are worthless. ~'- /