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A street-Car Dialogue.

1t was q street car that was COM
fortably filled. There was a block
ade in the street, and the car was
brought to a stop. The attention of
the occupants were attracted by a
spruce young man, who sat in about
the middle of the car, and who was
poking in the sides with his cane a
bright little boy on the opposite side.
The boy sat by the side of a stern
looking, coarse featured woman,
"Your boy?" asked the young man.
The woman nodded.
Handsome boyl" the young man
said, looking round to see that all
were listening.
ale will be President one of these
days"
The woman was as imperturbable
as a sphynx.
ayes, you know that when Grant
was small boy, like this one, the
people all told his parents that he
was a handsome child, and would one
day be President"
"Woll, all I've got to say is, if that
ere boy don't do bctter'n he has, I'll
tan his hide every day as long as he
lives"
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Seven Reasons for Getting
Drunk.

Thomas Charloton hooked his chin
over the prisoners bar at the Fifty
seventh Street Police Court and re.
garded his Honor with a bland smile,
"Thomas, you are charged with be-
ing drunk" said the Court.
81 can't deny it," said Thomas,
grinning from ear to ear
"You don't seem to be very sorry"
T'm happy, yer Honor said the
prisoner, gigling.
"What excuse have YOU for getting
drunk?"
owe got seven of EN-, Judge"
"Scven excuses"
ayes, yer Honor, seven. Now, !
don't mind tellin' yo all, bout it,
Ye SEQ, I've got six boys in my fami'
ly, and las night--it'sa a girl, Judge
Thomas got of.
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AMotheE,s Cares.

do not think TINT could bear =
NV daily weight OF woman's care,
II Il were not for this; 4,
That Jesus seemelh always near,
Unseen, hut whispering in my ear
Some tender word OF love or cheer,
To oil my soul with blissl
There are many trivial cares
That no one knows and no one shares
Too small for me 10 tell.
Things cen my husband cannot see,
Nor bis dear love upliit from me-
Each hours unnamed perplexity
That mothers know 10 we'll
The failure oisome household scheme,
The ending Oh some pleasant dream,
Deep hidden IN my breast;
Rhe Yeariness Of children's n0lse,,
The yearning for that subtle poise,
That turneth duty into Joys,
And giyeth inuerrest.
These secret ;liings, lfoWe fersiHall, p
Are known to Jesus, each and all,
And this thought brings me peace.
do not need to say one word,
He knows what thought my heart hat
stirr'd,
And By divine caress my Lord
Makes all its throbbing cease.
And then, upon his loving breast,
Ny weary head is laid at rest,
In speechless ecstacy!
Until it seemeth all in vain
That care, fatigue or mortal pain,
Should hope to drive me forth again
From such felicity!
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On the Brink.

The condition of the poor girls in
Washington is thus described in a
letter to the Cleveland Plaindealer:
"Evcry one observes that there
are few ladies in Washington this
winter. Those who have already be-
come familiar with its ways care very
little for repeating the same exper-
fence season after season, and the de-
preston in business affairs doubtless
keeps away many who would like to
try its gayeties, Go down, however,
to the doorways of the Capitol and
note the groups of women and girls
who try to hide their despairing faces
and miserable hats under scraps of
shabby faded wells. Their thin cali
co dresses cling about them in way
sadly sadly suggestive ofscanty cloth
ing; the shawl or superannuated wa
ter-proof tells its own story of bitter
need. They are some of the discharg-
ed clerks from the printing bureau,
striving for influence which may
give them another position; respecta-
bility has not yet become to them an
unknown good; they cannot bear to
quite give it up, and, in drowning
we are told that in the brief struggle
lies all the pain and fear. Submit
to sink, and the horror is past. Is it
not greatly so in human living? De-
feated, balIlod, yet hoping still, we
strive for some desired good as long
as any weapon is left, and only when
despair has seized us do we yield in
the fruitless contest"
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COUNTY DIRECTORY.

Judge Circuit Court-HoN. Jos. SMITH
Residence Ravenswood, jackson County.
Clerk Circuit Court-C. B. WAdGESER,
Deputy-JAMEs II. HoLLowAY.
Clerk County Court-E. KptBERLING.
Deputy-JosEPH II. HOLLOWAY.
President County Court-D. S. VAN MA
TIRE.
Prosecuting AttOrney-G. P. SIMPSON.
Sherif-DAvID S. STEVENSON.
Deputies-J, p, R. B. SMITH, j. JEwErr
JONI r. DABNEY, HENRY Fry.
Jailor-J. JEwETT.
Surveyor of Lands-THos ]. ROBERTS.
Assessor Dist, No. l--JAs. w. WINDOW.
Assessor Dist. No. Pc. L. BAKER.
Sup't Public Schools-CHAs E. HoGG.
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AYEsIrA's CHARM.
BY JEAN ST. ELMO.

"a charm? How FUNNY Tell me
all about it, please" And Agatha
Blythe nestled her head closer against
the shoulder of her husband, turning
the seeds over curiouSly in her little
pink palm.
Captain Blythe looked down upon
his child wife with afond smile upon
his brown bearded face.
at was when We were on the Is
land of Ujway," he replied. GLOW
well remember that afternoon
The still shadows of the palms that
lay upon the burning sands; the Ian
guild air loaded with the perfume of
strange tropic flowers; the stiffness
broken now and then by the shrill
cry of the parrots, that called to each
other from low hanging, spicy
boughs.
"One-tenth of all our crew were
dead from the terrible fever that had
broken out on ship-board, and each
! man; asshe +sGw. one after another
udded to the death list thought with
u thudder that another day might
add his own to the long catalogue of
names.
"The natives had been kind to us;
and when the terrible scourge ap-
pearcd among them, the surgeon by
my orders, dispensed his medical
stores freely among them,
"By mere accident he one day dis
covered this plant growing in the
crcvice of the rocks that form a low
mountain range along the eastern
shore of the island, and recognized it
as medicinal plant which had long
been regarded by some physicians as
aspecific in this particular type Of
fever. He Immediately began using
1t as a medicine, and whether the fe-
yer had spent its strength, or owing
to the peculiar virtues claimed for
the plant the preparation acted
specifically in arresting its further
spread cannot tell, but from that
day change began which resulted
in complete cure of all the fever
pationts-seamen and natives.
Among the latter wasa son of the
old sorceress, or medicine woman Of
the tribe, Ayesha, and her gratitude
at his Recover knew no bounds"
"She looked upon me and the sur
gcon as being in league with the
power of light, and invoked all her
gods and goddesses in our behalf in
the most frantic manner. Finally
after long fast, she went to the
rocks one day in company with two
other priestess and gathered some OF
the seeds, with songs, dances, and in
carnations, wrought charm, which
invested them with certain powers,
and gave them to me with the assur.
ance that if / should ever be so un-
fortunate as to lose anything these
seeds by her magic charms would re-
store it to me again, So there you
have the story of Ayesha's charm.
ADO you really believe in such
miraculous powers2" and Agatha's
frank brown eyes looked straight in
to his.
"Do believe that the moon is
made of green cheese2" laughed her
husband "WhO would have thought
You such credulous little gooseH"
But, Notwithstanding her hus-
bands ridicule, Aggie locked the
shining seeds carefully away in a
littlo sandal-wood chest which held
Somc Of her choicest treasures, half
smiling at he own folly as she did 30
n Il Il u
The great clms in tho hollows were
wrapping themselves in n soft and
tender mist of green The aldcrs hung
thelr tasslCs out above tho ripping
brook, and the dandolions lay in
broad yellow patches of gold on the
Ma.
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Don'tLosc a Minute.

Keep busy. The man who has
nothing to do is the most miserable
of beings. If you have no regular
work, do chores, as farmers do when
it rains too hard to work in the field,
In occupation we forget our troubles,
and get a respite from sorrow. The
man whose mind and hands are busy,
finds no time to weep and wall. If
work is slack, spend the time in read.
ing. No man ever knew too much.
The hardest students in the world
are the old men VINO know the most.
If you lack books, there are free or
very cheap libraries, AT least in cities
at your command. The man who
does not acquire some item Of useful
information between daybreak and
bedtime must mournfully say with
the Roman Emperor 81 have lost a
day.
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her good-natured face that she had
worn during her dusty, hot Journey
Of threehundred miles; the Sat old
lady withs.a poodle, and the Weary
nervous young mother withtwo ii
red, crying children.
A gentleman sat lookingoatof the
window with an abstracted gaze thai
took fngnone of his surrounding
not even the handsome young lady
who had beenshis gis,a-vis for sshup-
dred miles or so, and whose az
tention was occasionally diyettaa
from tho pages Of "Rhe AEomah
White to the bronzed and Bearded
face Opposite and swlrtch sheysiisntly
voted gmagIifeei Will gdl for
sign ir.l.si ose Sldssls
ing jacket, Of foreign cut and two
massive gold rings wrought with
quaint and strange devices. All
these the young lady had noted when
her Investigations were arrested by a
childish voice beside her.
"Will you buy boquet of flowers
ma'am2"
A child stood there with basket
of flowers in her hand, a child with
dark violet eyes and AosSy curls of
gold, and she held up her basket fair
ly running over with its fragrant
burden,
There were roses with a whole
Summers shine and fragrance dis
titled in their glowing, crimson pc
tails; holiotrope, fragrant as breath
from Araby; pansies, with vestments
of royal purple dashed with gold, and
white wood violets and sprays of del
icate fern, brought from cool mossy
dells.
But the young lady's white fingers
pushed past these and held up dainti-
ly long, trailing lichen, with shin
ming berries of coral red.
A change came over the foreign
looking gentleman. His bronzed
face became livid, and he leaned
eagerly forward.
His eye scanned rapidly the child
ish face, the sweet blue eyes, the rosy
smiling mouth.
Then he spoke his voice husky
with emotion which he vainly tried
to control.
"What is your name, my dear?"
"Aggie Blythe, sir..f
Captain Blythe,.for twas he, had
ALA mans dislike of a scene, but
there was a woman's tenderness in
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A woman halted at the gate Of a
yard on Bush street, Tuesday even
ing, and asked a girl of nine or ten
years of age, if her mother was at
home,
"No, marm,-she's gone down
street" was the reply,
"Is your father in the house"
"No, marm; fathers gone down
street to bring mother homo"
well, where's you brother VIII
liam thcn7"
"Billl Oh, he's gone down street
to gee fair play
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TERMs OF COURT.

CIRCUIT CouRr-First Monday in April,
and first Monday in October.
County CouRT-Third Monday in Janu-
ary; Third Monday in March; Third Mon
day in May; Third Monday in July; Third
Monday in November; Third Monday in
December.
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BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES.

MAsoNIc-Minturn Lodge No. 10, meets
on the first and third Tuesdays OF each
month.
OpD FELLows.-Point Pleasant Lodge No
SO, ]. o. o. f., meets every Thursday
night. Hall in stort2's block.
Court Point Pleasant, No. 5, ]. o. F.,
meets every Friday evening y o'clock, at
Capehart's Hall.
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oents line eif6f each Insertion; but no no-
tee inserted ior less than one dollar.
All adyertising.io for shorter period than
three months is considered transient.
All yearly advertisements payable hall
yearly inadyance.
Transient advertisements must be paid
for in advance.
Legal publications must be paid for, in
all cases, before the delivery OF the certih-
cate OF publication.
Personal communications, and those rec
ommending persons for office, will be charg-
ed at regular advertising rates.
Marriage and Death notices. not'over
Ave lines, published gratis; all over that
amount at half advertising rates.
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bog q0o little an'
mal,w llm ltleeds r'e
" on insects # bAs is body coyss
ed with sharp Instead Of haigs,
and can roll its Is ball, ard
thpsshoe IN isalray d pickles point
! ing inspyery direction
slos q foot this little cEetta
lcann0 iron dsngdf' but'adi
shasp, hard ad tough prisk
its coat, 1t safeguard
than the teeth and clpEs Of TIE y
cat or the fieetness Of ihe,hal
The hedgehog has pogeff4l
cles beneath the skinof tbe ~
Iby the.aid Of theieson tbk
alarm, It rolls itself up 50 as to nave
its head and legs hidden in the mid
die of the ball it thus makes of itself
Our dog Snip saw hedgehog the
other day for the first time. Assoc
as he saw him, the little creature
seemed to change from a living thing
into a ball. Snip did not know what
to make Of it. His curiosity was
much excited, He went up and look
ed at it.
If the two could have spoken l
think this would have been their
talk:
Snip "ofall the queer things I
ever saw you are the queerest What
are you anyhow
Hedgehog. Suppose you put out
your paw, and try
snip.-"I don't like the look of
those prickles."
Hcdgohog.-'Don't be coward,
Snip! Put your nose down and feel
Of my nice soft back"
Whether the cunning hedgehog
really cheated him by any such re-
marks as these, 1 cannot say. But
Snip at last mustered courage enough
to put his nose down to the ball
Rash snipl Up rose the bristle8, and
prieked him SO that he ran back to
the house, bowling and yelping as if
he had been shot.
Having put Snip to fight, the
hedgehog quietly unrolled itself,
thrust out its queer little head with
the long snout, and crcpt along on
its way rejoicing. AS for Snip, | am
quite sure he will never put his nose
to the back Of a hedgehog again as
long as he livos.-The Nursery,
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CITY DIRECTORY.

Mayor-JAMIs II. CoucH, JR.
Recerder-M. II. HALE.
Sergeant--J. r. Grover.
Councilmen-JOhn W. English, 7. Strib-
ling, G. b. Waggener, j. W. Bryan, John
L. Charles.
Street Commissioned, !. Gibbs I.
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"DoeS your father know you are

here9'
~ have no father"
"Are you paid for your labor2"
eyes, get ninepence day"
"Do you like this work2"
"Well enough; but if l did not, 1
should do it, to get the money for my
mother"
"How longd doyou work in the day?"
"From nine till eleven in the mora
ing, and from two till five in the af-
ternoon."
"IIow old are your"
."Almost nine"
'Do you ever get tired of turning
this great wheel?"
eyes, sometimes
"And what do you do then?"
81 take the other hand"
The lady gave him piece ofmon-
ey.
as this for my mother2' he asked.
"No, tits for yourself"
THANK you, ma 'am," the boy said
and the lady babe him farewell.
She went home strengthened in
her devotion to duty, and instructed
in true practical philosophy, by the
words and example of little child.
"The next time" she said to herself,
"that duty seems hard to me, I will
remember this child, and take the
other hand"
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Cooks are sweet, unreproaching
companions to the miserable, and If
they cannot bring us to enjoy life,
they will at least teach us to endure
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The most precious possession that
ever comes to man in this world is a
woman's heart. ,ot
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DR. 8, q. SHAW,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
TENDERS his professional seryicesto the
public. Callsirom the country prompt.
ly attended to. Office, corner OF Main and
Third streets. opposite the old Presbyterian
Church. lNpril o, lSfB-ly.
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d r
ftMas an 1 dgys
Spring ghel Vt Aed been
watching by las IlermotH-
er for some weeks vent 'oF to take
a little exercise and enjo he fresh
air Alter Walking son distance,
.shg,camo to q fope-walli she was
fantilfaf With the place afa entered.
At tho end q one buildi1 be saw 1
AttIe boy TURNING 4 large Nell she
Thought II to- lgboljoes fSr.such q
'ghiid, and as she came d he.spoke
to:lstilia =
sent yqb to tpi she
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PHYSICIANS.
w. .NEALE, M. d,

Office S. Il. Cor ain and 2nd SITS; resi-
denco on Main ST., between 9th and 7th.
Attends promptly to all calls, whether day
or night, When not professionally engaged
can always be found in his office.
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Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Judge
SWAYNr has his own State and Michigan,
Kentucky and Tcnnosscc. Judge MILLER
has Minnesota Iowa. Missouri, kansas. Ar-
kansas, and Nebraska. Judge FIELD has tho
thrce Pacific States. The chief Justice, an
OHIO lawyer. has Maryland West Virginia
and North and South Carolina. The rcsig-
nation Of Judge DAVIS has left vacancy in
the circuit which compartments Illinois, In
diam, end Wisconsin.
1t Is obvious thatnccordng 70 the present
arrangement not n single Southern state is
represented in tho supreme Court. Il, ms in
all rrorricty should be the casr. the ap-
pointmcnt 10 Judge n,vis's circuit is con-
fined TO Tint circuit Assuming that tho
present allotment H. 10 rcmain tho South
orn States will -tili be unreprcsonted. II
Mr.. II NYts m rms to 90 ont of the Seventh
Circuit Tor a Successor 90 Judge DAVIS and
TO look for his successor in the Southern
States, q new allotment oi the circuits Will
be necessary. both from convenience and
proprictv. But if Mr.. II ,yr's is governed by
any political motive In selecting the locality
from which he is to take his nominee II he
docs not make his selection solely for the
purpose Of restoring the representative
character of the Court AZ tho Same tirc TINT
he sclccts the iittr-t man to bc found ia the
region which ought TO be represented he
will simplydoa much mischief to the Court
n O man ID his situation can do. Wha, he
has TO do is to strengthen the Court, and
not 20 strengthen bis own fraudulent posi-
tion. The Senate must hold him to the pcr-
Torrance oi this duty upon the only rrn-
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The Confusion Of Parties.

Two political conventions have been holden
In this State. One WIS called Republican.
the other Democratic. We now hive what
is called a Republican National Adninistrn-
ton. Yet this national Administration
found little or no favor with our Rcruh-
lican Convention, while in one Of tho
resolutions Of the Democratic Convention u
was exuberantly praised. II is true the de-
nunciation of the fraud ami the cheat 10y
which the national Administration came
into power was more pronounced ON the
part OF the Democrats; hut the sting Of heir
resolutions on this point was completely
.n'ried up In tho honey of the resolution
which followed commanding this same
Administration for having rescued the
Constitution,
What docs this mean? Mr.. HAYrs's Ad-
ministration has been characterized. thus
far, by one single original measure: m or
der forbidding all men who hold Office under
the national Government from performing
the first and highest duty OF American citi-
zenship. that is. taking m active part in
public affairs. So fragrant violation Of the
Constitution was never attempted before
since the organization Of the Government.
This abominahle measure was pointedlv
condemned by the Republican Convention.
while the Democratic Convention was abso-
lutely dumb on the subject
Judging from, these two state Conventions.
n there is any HAYES party in the State of
New York, 1t would seem to bee the Demo-
cratic party. An Administrator which has
so signally failed with its own party. the
Democratic party has taken 70 its bosom.
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The vote cast thl, fall by factions outside
of the regular Republican and Democratic
organizations Inns thus far been much larger
than in any previous year. This !, demon
-tratcd by tho elections i'm California, Maine.
Ohio, and Iowa The vote thrown IN those
States by the Prohibtionisf, soom- to be
about ms usual; but the dl-sat ,faction with
the old parties which has manifested ilsoll
at the polls in extraordinary proportions,
springs mainly from differences OF opinion
on the currency and labor questions.
Thus for intho fail campaign these out
side factions, bearing various Names have
oyorted q good deal Of Influence in the CON
t"st; md this Influence has been 50 unccr-
tain IN lis dritt aud tendency, sometimes
cutting deep into the Republicans and
sometimes into the Democrats, TINT it
has played the very mischief with the
plnus and plophecios OF the leaders
% the two great parties Cake Iowa. for "a
ample Although Gran, the Republican
candidate Tor Governor has received some
i5,oN0 more votes than lRIsu the Democratic
candidate, yet the vote for the Groenbeck
and PrNhihifiOn candidates ~ 50 LARGE that
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Speaker Randall.

Full assurance that to-day's election Of
Mr.. RANDALL rs Speaker OF the House will
be prominently satisfactory to the party
throughout the country, Is given in the large
majority by which his nomination was sus-
tanned in the Democratic caucus OF last sat
urday nght. OF the ll3 votes that were east
upon the first ballot, l07 were for Mr.. RAN
DALI; md thcrcupon his nomination was
made unanimous
Thus there will be NJ time lost by the
House over The Spcaker-hp thus the ri
diculous notion Mt one time entertained by
HAYES and SrANLlY MATTHEWS that n SER
vicoahlc tool could be traded into the place,
is scattered to tho winds; thus hundred
schemes of iotherv and corruption arc
nippcd in tho bud, thus the country IS
assured that the policy OF retronch-
mont aud reform pursued by the last
House will he continued and extended; thus
the dangerous and revolutionary measures
concoctcd by consprators against the pub
lie liberties are crushed before their appear
anec; thus n man of ability, experience,
and sound political principles is placed in
tho speaker chair.
Mr.. RANDALL made himself good record
in the last Congress and he has but 10 follow
ia the way he then laid out to increase
his honorable reputation.
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probably GEAR has not obtained majority
over all his opponents. STUDS, the Green
hacker having alone got in the neighbor-
hood of 1900 votes
Now, it is we'll for all concerned to bear in
mind that the factions which have created
so much disturbance ut the West have their
candidates In the iiold in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, New York. aud Massachusetts, and
1t will be extraordinary if those now and I'M
certain factors in politics do not throw moro
confusion into the elections In these four
States than tho Democratic and Ropubli-
can leaders have boon anticipating. Al ell
events, we advise these leaders ~ be look
ing around to SEQ if they have all their
troops VOL In hand