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thority TO appointyWatts as electpr on De-
cember Q, 1915, because on that FAY Watts
was still the postmaster at Lafayette, Ore
gon, and was still on that day holding the
said Office of profit and trust.
Seventh. Watts, who claims to be an
elector in the above-dsscribed certificate,
was in February, 1878, appointed post
master at Lafayette, Oregon, and was duly
commissioned and qualified as such post.
master, that being an office Of trust under
the laws, and continued to be and act as
such postmaster from February, 1873, ur-
til after November 13, 1875, and was act,
ing as such postmaster on November 7,
1875, when Presidential electors were ap-
pointed bythe State of Oregon, and that
he was ineligible to be appointed as one
Of the SAID Presidential electors.
Eighth. When the Governor of Oregon
caused the lists of the names of the cleo
tors Of the State to be made and certified,
such lists did not contain the name oi
Watts, but did contain the names of Cart
wright, Odell and Cronin, who were duly
appointed electors of President and Vice
President of the United State in the State
Of Oregon on November 7, 1875. ID t~' t
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OuR DAIRY INTEREsrs.-At the
meeting of the Western Reserve Dairy
mems Association, held recently at
GarrQtsville, Ohio, Mr.. Sherman Ira
cey. of Philadelphia, delivered the
annual address, in which he furnished
seme interesting statistics concerning
the dairy products of the United
States. He stated that in 1875 there
were in this country about 10000, ,0OC
milch cows which at $45 per head re-
presented a capital of $3.50, 100000. In
the same year there were manufactur-
ed 203 SEQ 1884 lbs. Of cheese, 625. 191, :
219 lbs, OF butter and 1876, SOC, 500 gal
Ions of milk were sold. Besides this
an enormous quantity of milk was con
sumed in families, of which no account
can be taken, but evidently four times
the quantity noted as sold, which
would make the total quantity con-
sumed and sold 1902, ,002 1895 gallons
This would make the probable yearly
weld of the COW in butter cheese etc,
as follows: Cheese, 203, 1884 lbs.
at 10 cents per lb. $24, ,440, 1926; buttel
625. .191 ,219 lbs. lat % cents per 10. ,$l37,
541. .O6S; milk, 1902, ,OO2, 1896 gallons, q
8 cents per gallon, $l04, ,160.191, ant
| Q .OOO, 600 calves, at ST. per head, So
600, ,OOu. Total, 1915, 142, 2,5s5, as thu
annual product of our dairy inter
eats
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MISSISSIPPI AFFAIRS-TESTl
MONY OF HON. E. BARKS-
.4 . DALE.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Hon. E.
Barksdale, of Mississippi, Tilden Elector
at Large and member of the National
Democratic Committee, testified before
the special Senate committee in7estiga-
ting the Mississippi election concerning
Mississippi affairs. Entire good feeling
has been established under Democratic
rule; he participated in the canvasses of
1875 and '76, and has knowledge of how
they were conducted; the Democrats
promised the colored people protection in
their make impartial laws, and the prom
ise was kept by the Democratic Legisla-
ture, as was declared by colored Republi-
can members at the close of the last two
sessions. + FL, IL. l.. Z
Mr.. Barksdale also testified that he is
acquainted with G.P. Lester, of Kinds
county, and he was consulted by Lester
several times during the late campaign,
but he never heard Of duplicate keys for
ballot-boxes until he read the statement
made by Lester before this committee
and members of the Kinds County Dem
ocratic Committee deny the existence OF
such keys and have expressed desire to
testify to that effect.
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MERIT REeoGNiZED.I

Benson's Capc1ne' Porous PIasters receiy
ed the highest and only award of merit a
the Philadelphia Exposition, over all arti-
cles OF like character, proving by the high
est medical authority in the world, that
they are greatly superior to ordinary porous
plasters, and not q patent medicine-as no
tS nSostrums were allowed to be exhibited
there. Benson's Capcine Porous Plaster Is
positively the best external remedy ever
devised. They relieve pain at Nonce, and
cure where other porous plasters only re-
lieve after long use. Over three thousand
physicians now recommend their use Z; and
they are sold by druggists everywhere
Price % cents. fisfr p.
IMPORTANT TO EVERY HOUSEHOLD
"Improvement" is the watchword Of the
hour; Its development and re-development
is the ambition OF every true American
Porous plasters were invented in 1e45. For
thirty years their composition remained un-
Improved, until Benson's Capcine Porous
Plasters were invented. They differ from
all others in their greater medical activity.
1hey Uu cure disease IN d JctV hours that other
porous plasters, liniments or compounds
require days and weeks Of continuous wear
and use to simply relieve. They are supe-
rior to electricity and more powerful. 1t Is
not nostrum. They are endorsed by over
three thousand physicians and druggists as
meeting great want remedy for exter-
nal diseases which relieves instantly and
cures quicker than any known medicine
Try them and you will not be deceived.-
Purely vegetable. Price 25 cents.
nov16eod&v
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Tilden ON Horseback.

HE NEVER LOOKED BETTEk-NoT Bo-
THERED ABOUT TIE ELECTORAL
Commission. I.,., =.
New York correspondent Buffalo Courier.
Ihad started ON again, in sort of
brown study, when solitary horse
man turned the corner right in front
of me. l looked up, and behold! there
was the very identical man. l had q
chance to observe our ex-Governor's
face before he passed, and q calmer or
pleasanter face / have not seen in a
long time. Not q shadow of anxiety
there, not a line indicating ansasiness
or concern about the momantous pro :
ceedings in Washington. He was out
for his regular afternoons ride and SO
far as any observer could judge he had
left all the care of politics behind. l
have seen Governor Tilden q number
of times in the past few years, but l
never saw him look 30 well as be did
yesterday, sitting as straight and firm
in the saddle as an old cuirassier, and
seeming as fresh and buoyant as a man
of forty. / am told that he does not
VERY himselfa at all about the pros and
cons Of White House possibilities, and
that be heeds but little of what is pub
lished daily on that subject. He knows
exactly what the situation Is. and he
does not want to have his habitual
composure ruffied by keeping the run
of this, that and the other new state>
ment and disclosure, SO called. At all
events he won't allow any Thing in that
line TO deprive him of his regular two
hours in the saddle. and he keeps the
matter as far from him in his comfor-
table home, facing Gramercy Park, as
the circumstances will allow. II Con-
gress and the Electoral tribunal decide
the great question against him I much
doubtif Governor Tilden will lose one
hours sleep in consequence. -....
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Public Sale.

zpscriber having determined to
png, Will sell at Public Sale at
pee In Mill Creek Hundred. on
leading from Red Clay Creek
Mendenhall's Mill,
URsDAY, MARCH 1st, 1877.
at ! o'clock, p, m.
Wlng Personal Property, to wit i.
cows, york wagon, dearborn
2sleighs, Zone Of them first class}
steel plough, l Moore plough
uaIe narrow, cultivator. roller
I, uou0le trees, neck-yoke breast
nee chains, 2 sets Carriage har-
ol plough or wagon harness,
"a !, collars, bridles, halte7s. double
sa lines, saddle and brldle. / Ia
ny nets, robe, blanket. whin
H., mattock, barn shovel. garden
oushel and half peck measure 3
SSeI G = nay knives, forks, rakes
4 4 az sraln Dags, grain craddie. corn
srr barrels, hay by the ton, &c
lures, ,su consisting of milk pans
, sles, churns, scales and weights
Me.s ana butter tub. bousehoId
~ as srcni, cnia,irs, tables, bedsteads'
M small stoves, doughtray cor.
o'u, washing tubs and sa,isae,
y, chickens by the pair meat bS
anu y variety of other articles
r,m,Allsums OF $40 and under ca oh
x S Si,i.ho Hyer that amount a credit O
ksnIa MI n oe given by purchaser Civ,
1 naId WI, W., WIN an approved en-,
n G dns Tnen ;n, que no interest, if no
ASpp.cB BEESON GREGG.
sSs 81 bRACKlN. Auctioneer.
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| Annual Joint Sale
OF
|oNAL' PROPERTY

tc n surnlus of stock, &c, on
we will sell at Public SAFE, on
sss "a Of WIN. NJ. Eastburn, near
ttch. Mil Creek hundred, Dell on
SDAY. MARCH 9TH. 1877.
at 12 o'clock, NJ,
|hwlng described property. VIZ;
Tventy head Of horses and colts
AMONG which are several good
|iriyers the rest are good farm or
road horses; one mare In ioai'
rows some of which s1V1-~
nroft by day of sale, NAW
satile steers and heif- ~W
ot we'll selected wes- -AA0--A&
with lambs by pure Southdown
|, wethers three shOats of Berk-
would make excellent brood
.ats Of Chester White stock, % or
rbIckens / good rockaway car
bsdect order, Thompson & Pas
Ikej dug-out wagon, ] sulkey,
Of extra seed oats, ripens ten
n than common oats, 10 bushels
lar seed warranted clear of pink
full set of carpenter tools In
formerly the property OF James
ased a lot Of chestnut posts and
many other articles not herein
oSs.-On all sums of S25, and
q months credit will be given by
lser giving a bankable note with
endorser. II not paid when due
=ill be added from date. On al
er s25, cash will be required.
VIM. NJ. EASTBURN.
tIDHAM & Son, Auct's, fl5-w2t
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Twenty-Ounce Apples.

At the discussions of the Western New
York farmers club, it was remarked by
several members that the colding moth
had been much more destructive the
past season than usual to the apple crop.
VIM. Otis, of Rochester, said he had not
seen perfect apple this year. But the
fairest fruit and the best annual bearer
was the twenty-ounce apple. The fact
therefore that it has proved tender In
seme parts of the country should not In
duce planters to reject it without afur
ther trial.
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SALE

Ia kisraOer fsrro r win sell at Public Sale
Fed IarIa dhf Of Jacob Cazier % in Penne, rIaae,
5n e. ""'u' 9miles west Of Summit Td
|Fhs tnDAS; tn,,.,. MARCH THE 7rn, 1877 ,
mt,a, nvHu OF horses, . pair of mulos
iTcsh ins a and others spring Vd24A
4 'oS' of ,ho,l1 10 head Of young ing w
7goOodt Or mem SmimI 2 years old, yeaTiiHss -
lrSSed Sel, farml" l"S SSsons SSars old; 8 shoats
EoIatD.i EIIaDie trees and single 1x t1ees carts. E
d6rs 6SrssoHIolr forks, shoyeIs, cuItlystors tlges ors
I'M, I tUa Ded, steel tooth borsa bHu..ayator. "a
apS ng2 iEo9l Pennington rorSe Sea rake, rake,
Fer ts ibiaele tables, pans, pans'breM9ea bDcEsetas bed; ed
.-AlI' lI'yliCe snga at 10 o'clock, k a. aien'ioh' m,
aseF syirs gyfr $50 credit ofS Of 3 ma%,S nndeSr,
end6r,cTn 61'Ting a bankable nots 4 lponins sritS
K, a ,cti,,oJ JOHN DEMPSEY
feb22 wit
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X IN Linen Handkerchiefs, all prices and
Klnos uH' VIM. b. SHARP
ith and Market
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.LIC SALE

Sbscriber, having rented his farm,
bell at Public Vendue, at his resi-
White Clay Creek hundred, about
b half miles north Of Newark,
on
THURSDAY,
M DAY OF MARCH NEXT,
stock and farming utensils, con-
hg in part as follows, to wit:
six head of good horses, two
mules, II head of cows s-..5,sS.
" lone half of which will ~ AN
be in profit by the day ~H
ID heifers, one bull, two Au
txen, six shoats, two four. horse
i wagons, one two-horse wagon,
oXc cart, one horse-cart, one Ger
mantown wagon, one shifting.
one York wagon, one rockaway
Z trotting wagon, one sulkey, one
"a twO-horse power and thresher
.pion mower, one fan, one corn
6e hay fork and block and fall
rake, enc cutting box, plows
nltivators, one roller, double and
es, two sets of carriage harness,
@ n heavy tongue harness, two sets
Arness, four sets of lead harness
pllars, lines and double lines and
|bes, and one lead line, six COW
1fked chains, lot of tongues for
wagons, grain and fieur bags,
nshels, two half-pecks, two grain
lowing scythes, brlar scythes, 8
ows, two cross-cut saws. forks
fels, spades, hoes, picks, oil cans
the barrel; also, a lot of chest
the hundred, and posts by the
X board and scantling; also, a
ltity Of old iron.
pmmence at II o'clock. NJ.
A credit of nine months will be
p security and interest to begin
" Of June, 1871.
MANSEL TWEED.
rlDHAM Il Son, Auct's. febl6
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EPILEPSY OR FITS.

wv SAMARITAN NERvINE, the reat
81 Nerve Conoueror, cures Epileptic Fits,
Commissions st. ony wtgf kDo%n DeR1e pos ana
All nere snre cure for Epilepsy. 1t has
isase haen test tested by thousands and has never
stsmp Seen for circulars giving evidence o.
cures. Trial package free ordeTins lgase geS g,ye
name Of express oiiice Wnem ond o address Of % ali
1s, narsons subject to Epileptic Fs,oNn Fits;
persxo1d 1dress' DR.. S. A. RICHMOND
,onod%wiy Box. TAI, ST. Josephs. MO.
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CARLYLE ON DARWIN.

A good sort OF man is this Darwin,
and we'll meaning, but with little in-
tellect. All it's sad aterrible thing
to see whole generation of men and
women, processing to be cultivated,
looking around in purblind fashion
and finding no God in this universe. l
suppose it is reaction from the reign
of cant and hollow pretense, profess
ing to believe in what in fact they do
not believe. And this is what we
have got to. All things from frog
spawn the gospel of dirt the order OF
the day. The older grow-and
now stand upon the brink of eternity
the more comes back to me the sem
tence in the Catechism, which
learned when a child, and the fuller
and deeper its meaning becomes
"What is the chief end of man? To
glorify God and enjoy him farever. "
No gospel of dirt, teaching that men
have descended from frogs through
| monkeys, can ever set that aside.
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Towser and the Bee.

The following is a summer cpl
sode, as evolved by little Johnny :
"Last summer our dog Towser
was a lyin in the sun a trine to
sleep, but the flies was that bad
he cuddent, cos he he'd to cetch
EN-, and bime by q bee lit on his
he'd, and was working about like
the dog was hisn. Towser he hel
his he'd still, and when the bee was
close to his nose, Towser winked
at me, like he sed you see what
this duffer is doin; he thinks I'm
a lily of the valley which isn't
open'd yet, but you jest wait till l
blossom and you will see sum fun,
and sure enuf Towser opened his
mouth very slo so as not to fritten
the bee, and the bee went inside
Towser mouth. Then Towser he
shet his eyes dreamy, and his
mouth too. and he'd begun to make
a peacefle smile when the bee
stung him. and you never see a
lily of the valley ack SO in all your
life."
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Journal 0sbotta gofa ann General ns sdn sertnie
coLFAx GRANT PARISH, La, SATURDAY, JUNE 80, 1877

down to die. The hApdsomest man
in Europe, he was in his; prime !;
and it was said that "the royal
family of Russia is the handsomest
that ever lived" by one who saw
the four sons and three daughters
in their blossoming season. He
was succeeded by the present
Gar, Alexander II. in 1855. He
had been brought up under q rule
of iron, and his health had become
impaired by military service. A
secret melancholy preyed at his
heart. His father sent him to
visit the different courts of Eu-
rope, with permission to choose a
wife for himself. All the princess
es set their caps for him. At
Hesse-D armstadt the Grand Duke
Louis had several handsome
daughters, who decked themselves
in gorgeous array to win his heart.
The younger, however, had no
such ambition, and modestly min
ded her studies and her mother.
Alexander saw and sought her, and
surprised the family by asking for
her hand. She went to Russia,
studied the language, was baptized
into the Greek church, and they
were married in lS4l !; and their
domestic life has been unusually
happy. The loss of their eldest
son, in 1865, cast a deep sorrow
over tho royal household, as he
was a young man of great prom
Use and was betrothed to the Prin-
cess Eagmar, of Denmark, who
has since married his oldest broth
er, Alexander. The present Gear.
has five sons and one daughter,
the wife of the Duke of Edin-
burg, Victoria's second son. The
events of his reign are too well
known to need mention. He eman-
cipated some 25,000,O00 serfs by |
imperial ukase in 1861, has carried |
out a number of important re-
forms, and probably has done more
than any previous ruler to devel-
op the resources of the empire. |
He has extended its boundaries in |
the east till it is more of an Asiat-
&c than European nation, and has
given it place among the first
nations of Europe.
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hAh," said Mr.. Boxer, as he
came into the Office the other day,
"still at work 1 see. Well, don't
let me disturb you; don't mind
me; I'm nobody; bat before you
go on you might call that boy Of
yours, get him to fetch q spittoon,
send him to the one remaining
place where your credit is good
and order up two punches, stiff
mind you; and while he is gone
you may get out your pipe and to-
bacco and some matches, and as
soon as we get comfortably fixed
I'll read you some war poetry
which I clipped from another paper
and which you can produce by re-
quest, and then-Oh IL say, you
know, hold on, hold on | don't
kick SO hard 1 beg Of you my dear
fellow. Not the shooting stick
There. you see there goes another
case Oh my, oh myl No, no |!
for mercy's sake not the window,
l don't mind the stairs, my dear
boy; I'm used to them; oh, nuch
r and in two seconds after
Mr.. Boxer was engaged in getting
himself together at the foot of the
stair, and as he went off we heard
him murmur, "How very playful"
Sunday Delta.
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Earthquake Waves.
San Francisco CALI

San Francisco CALI
Prof. George Davidson has made
communication to the Academy
of Sciences on earthquake waves,
at Fort Point, phenomena caused,
it is supposed, by the earthquake
at Iquique. He first called the at
tention to the earthquake wave
recorded in 1854, as this has been,
at Fort Point on the 23d of De-
cember. The discussion of that
earthquake wave took place, from
the records at Port Point, before
we knew Of the earthquake at
Japan; the average oscillations at
Fort Point were IS minutes, and
at San Diego 81 minutes. The
average height of the first set of
waves was 45-l00 of q foot. Read
ing from the official report of these
occurrences, Prof. Davidson stated
that the difference of time between
the wave at Samoda, in Japan, and
the observations at San Francisco,
was twelve hours and thirty-eight
minutes. The wave, therefore,
travelled at the rate of 358 miles
per hour, or 6 miles per minute.
Another account gave the interval
at IL hours and 13 minutes, or $40
miles per hour, or 60 miles per
minute. At San Diego the obser-
walton was - hours and so min
utes, or 355 miles per hour. The
rate of motion, from 6 to So miles
per minute, and the duration of an
oscillation, IS minutes at San
Francisco, and 81 minutes at San
Diego, gave for the length of the
wave on the San Francisco path
2lO to 217 miles, and on the San
Diego path from 18O to 1872 miles.
A wave 21O miles would move with
a velocity of 6 miles per minute in
q depth of 1890 'fathoms; and one
of 2l7 miles would move with a
velocity of So miles per minute in
$500 fathoms. The corresponding
depth on the San Diego path liz
210O fathoms. Curiously enough,
within the last two years we have
had confirmation of this as the ac-
tual depth from the researches of
Commander Belknap, of the Tus-
carora. On the tenth of May last,
the Professor was informed that
an earthquake wave was coming
into the harbor. He drove out
and found this to be the case. The
observations of rise and fall were
taken by clock-work. The clock
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mo. AZ.

moves one inch to the hour, and
the rise and fall of the tide is one,
inch to the foot. The record has
very smooth curve until sir hours
and eighteen minutes on the morn
ing of the 10th, when the first
earthquake wave suddenly came
into an elevation of about nine
inches. Then it fell eight or nine
inches, and some five elevations
occur in an hour and twenty
minutes. After that occur q series
of maxima, with intermediate
maxima, averaging forty-sight
minutes apart, until about 6 o'clock
in the evening. Then occur an
other series of waves, six in num-
Der, very nearly similar to the
first, as if there had been another
shock at or about the same centre
of action, or reflex action of the
first shock from some other shores,
although the height to which the
second set rose would initiate
against that supposition. Until
we have further advices he should
incline to the belief that there
happened a second shock, say ten
or twelve hours after the first
Then the forms of the waves COM
ing in had a peculiar shape. They
rise suddenly, even allowing for
the rise of tide. Then occur O
broken series of waves, and that
falls for twelve hours, and to the
next low tide. when there are sew
eral large waves. There are two
waves of depression of seventeen
inches deep, and then one large
one of eighteen inches, and after
that the waves are somewhat ire
gular and a little further apart
than at the commencement, as if
they were then coming by rever-
beration or reflex action from sonie
other shores. The waves continued
over seven high tides, or three
days and q half-from Thursday
at six o'clock till Tuesday
morning at 10 or II o'clock. At
hat time occurred several very
small waves. The Professor illus
trated his observations by refer
snce to q diagram drawn to Q
scale.
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There are only two genuine
remedies for sorrow, prayer and
work. Trust in heaven and keep
doing is the best receipt for every
human care. There are no wounds
of the spirit which it will not heal