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HHOrse-Tacing in the Old
ORMtrys

Horse-raeing has been favorite
amusement in the ''old country for
nearly two hundred and fifty years.
Under Charles H., two centuries ago,
Newmarket, in Cambridgeshirc, became
the metropolis of the turf. 1t was the
same ''merry Monarch who established
races at EPSON Originally Ebbasham,)
then and subsequently famous for its
sulphate of magnesia springs. The
great great grand father of the pres
ent Earl of Derby, who was a sporting
character, fond OF races, and success
full amateur trainer of fighting cocks,
possessed an estate close to the Downs
at EPSON, and give great lift " to the
stakes-one called "The Derby" to be
run for Oh the Wednesday ); the other,
still known as "The Oaks,n to be con-
tested for on the Friday, at the spring
meeting in each year. Lord Derhy's
estate at EPSON was known as 1.-The
Oaks" and the name was thus given to
a race prize. 1t is not unknown in
literature. Major General John Bur-
g0yne, who came to grief" SO fatally
during our War of Independence, when
he had to surrender with the British
forces under his command, to Gen.
Gates at Saratoga, in October, 1777,
wrote play called "The Maid of the
Oaks" which was performed by mem
hers and friends of the Derby family in
1880. the very year in which "The
Derby and 1.-THE Oaks" were estab-
lished. The stakes in the former have
amounted to nearly S35,0 900, and to over
$4,000 in the latter. In the ST. Leger,
at Doncaster, contended for in the au-
tumn, the stakes average $4,000, and
III these three contests the runners are
three-year-olds. The st. Ltger is run
for by the competitors in the previous
Derby Oaks, but is seldom won by the
canqneror in either preceding contest.
There are prizes at thea Newmarket
races, running up to $1,000 aud 100000.
Ascot races, in Berkshire, almost within
sight of Windsor Castle, are run on
Ascot Heath, and are very fashionable.
The best horses in England compete
there at a more mature age than at
other races. 1t is for The Cup" that
the principal contest an Ascot takes
Dlace. The total of all the stakes an
nually run for in England exceeds L.
900 900, but this is not tenth part of
what changes hands in betting on var
ious events.
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Art Publ

Few people are aware Of the wonder
fui progress that Art has made III this
country during the last quarter of "a
century. 1t is but. few decades
since, that those who desired ta
beautify and adorn their homes, were
obliged to depend almost entirely on
foreign artists. Bnt such ID state d
Iaffairs in this age Of progress and
improvement conld not last long with
the great American people. Genins
from the East to the West, from the
North to the Gulf Of Mexico on the
south, answered the demand for beauty,
| taste and refinement, and to-day our
| leading artists are not surpassed by the
leading modern masters OF. .Arti Europe.
Great Art publishing establishments
have sprung up, and by various pro
cesses the finest and most expensive
paintings ar4 reproduced in all their
elegance and beauty, and at a price
within the means of the masses. So
that no one need be without the refining
influences of beautiful pictures at home.
Among the progressive leading Art
Publishing firms of the country, we take
pleasure in mentioning George Stinson
g. Co., of Portland Maine; they were
among the first in the business, and we
can only understand the colossal pro-
portions their trade has assumed by re-
membering that this is great and
mighty Nation Of nearly fifty million
pc pie. We cannot better illustrate the
magnitude of their business than to
state the amount of money paid by them
for postage stamps during the year
1876; we have the figures direct from
the firm, or we should think there was
some mistake. They paid for postage
stamps during the year 1876, thirty three
thousand one hundred and four dollars
and ninety-two cents 1888, 104 92) and, i'll
connection with this it should be re-
membered that only the small orders
were sent by mail, the larger going by
express and freight. George Stinson Il
Co.'S, agents are to be found in every
State in the Union and Dominion of
Canada, and in every county with scarce
ly an exception.
Long since, this enterprising firm re-
cognized the value of printers ink, judi
ciously used in advertising, and they
inform us that without it they could
never have extended their business as
it is to-day, in three7times the number
of years. A short time since they paid
in single day twenty-fOur thousand
dollars (S24,0O0,00) on contract for
newspaper advertising. They evidently
long since found the road to success and
have neither turped to the right nor the
left. These things are necessary for
eminent success in business. First,
standard honest goods, that the people
generally need and desire-let them be
the best, whatever the line of business.
Second, let your price be reasonable
as low as possible. Third, let the peo-
pie know what you have, and what you
can do, by liberal and persistent ad-
vertising, and You will find low prices,
made known and proved, will bring
trade that will give a larger income than
can be made in any other way.
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SLANDER.-Never use a lady's name
in an improper place, at an improper
time or in mixed company. Never
make assertions about her that you
think untrue, or illusions that she
herself would blush to hear. When
you meet with men who do not scru-
pie to use wOman's name in a
reckless manner, shun them; they are
the very worst members of the commu-
nifty men lost to every sense of honor,
every feeling of humanity. Many a
good and worthy woman's character
has been forever ruined and her heart
broken by lie, manufactured by some
villain, and repeated where it should
not have been, and in the presence of
those whose little judgment could not
deter them from circulating the foul
and Dragging report. A slander is soon
propagated, and the smallest thing
derOgatory to woman's character will
fly on the wings Gf the wind and mag
nify as it circulates, until its monstrous
weight crushes the unconscious victim.
Respect the name Of woman. Your
mother and sisters are womens@and as
you would have their fair name untar-
nished, and their lives unembittered by
the slanderers bitter tongue, heed the
i'll your own words may bring upOn the
mother, the sister or the wife of some
fellow creature,
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THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN THE
WoRLD.-The Chinese possess tie
oldest newspaper in the world. "Conrt
Announcements" is its Chinese name,
but it is known as the PelSin Gazette,
and dates back to the year 713 D. c. In
the Oldest book of Chinese poetry ex-
tant mention is made OF an appoints
ment conferred on the author by the
Chinese government, and its announce.
ment in the Pekin Gazette is referred
to. The newspaper is mentioned several
times in the earliest Chinese annals
known, and exercises great influence
among and over the people. Hence the
anxieties of tIle British minister in
China TO obtain mention Of the recent
between the two countries
in the Pekin Gazette. The newspaper
consists OF about twelve leaves, printed
on bright yellow paper. IN former
times the different copies were trans
eribed BY hand, i copy being sent to
every province and important city in
the empire, aud posted up in some
public place,
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ORIGIN OF THE MOLLY MAGUIREs.-
The name of MollyS Maguires comes
from Ireland. Some fifty years ormore
ago, a poor old lady had her cottage
pulled down over her head by a
landlord. Her name was Molly Ma
guire, and she died of grief and expos
ure. Thereupon her sons and neigllbor
lads formed themselves into society,
and viewed and took fierce revenge on
Irish landlords In general. The band
spread rapidly, and they called them
selves Molly Maguires, and Irish coal
minors brought the name to America.
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Our very active and efficient Town
Constable, Mr.. Chas. NJ. Thompson, has
been making it quite lively for those
who have been breaking the town ordi-
nances. During this week the follow
lug named parties have been arrested
and either paid their fine or went tojail !:
Isaac Pompey, for disturbing the
peace, paid his fine.
Willis Richard, for fighting in the
street, paid his fine.
George Boudreaux (alias chin,) fight
ing in the streets, went to Jail for
twenty -four hours.
Geo. Dupre, running his horse through
the streets, paid his fine.
Robt. Right, running his horse through
the streets, paid his fine.
Boy Valliere, fighting, paid his fine.
Lucien Estorge,
There are two great benefits derived
from enforcing the ordinances, to-wit ::
First, it keeps evil doers in fear, and
secondly it helps the town treasury.
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The French election.
New Orleans Times. ]

The issue in the coming French cleo
ton for members of the Assembly is not
a mere question of measures such as we
divide upon into parties, nor is 1T Vul-
gar scramble for office, led by fulsOme,
windy orators, and trnmpeted with
gauZy clap-trap. 1t is a question OF fun
damental principle, and goes to the
form of the government. 1t IS whether
France shall have republic, on one of
three forms of monarchy. On one side
of this m0mentOus controversy are
ranged all classes of the Republicans,
from the wild Red to the most timid
Conservative. Opposed to them is the
MacMah0n government, with all Its
vast patronage and power, sustained
by the 0rleanists, BOnapartists and
Bourbons, a tripl6Talliance, for common
canse against the republic, which will he
dissolved the moment the defeat of the
Republicans enables them to renew the
struggle among themselves. The ablesf
men In France are participating III the
discussion which hreathes an exalted
and earnest tone that can only be com
pared 10 thegResearcil ana learning dis,,
played hy HanrfstOn, Madison, Jay ana
their adversaries, in the famous contfo-
yelsy over the adoption OF the American
Germany sympathizes, ina diplomatic
sense, with the Republicans, and is
warmly prtising Gamhetta because he
agrees with Bismarck in denonnclng the
Mcmahon government as being under
the influence OF the Vatican. lt fears
that this influence will force another war
if the Republicans are defeated III the
t.lection. Bismarck, in short, looks upon
the anntasf ns n struggle between Re
nnblicanism and Catholicism, and while
he dislikes the former he drea9s the
triumph of the latter.
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A planter was i'll our office this week,
on the 23d inst, who said the caterpil-
lars had begun to ravage his cotton,
and that he expected them TO clear it OF
leaves in short time; that few days
ago his prospects were good for crop
of two hundred and fifty bales, but
now, on account of the caterpillars, he
would not make more than one hundred
hairs. We are Of course not as much
yersed in cotton caterpillars as practi-
cal n,ant. n, but we believe they eat only
the leaves of the cotton plant, and not
the stalks and polls; therefore the boils
now made or ma tnred, will not be des-
troyed, and only the cotton that would
come from bolls to be hereafter grown Ns.n
from August asd to the snd ot the sea
son-wOuld be cut off by thfs 5ealeFpbIars'
We doubt if the cotton grown aIlef oep-
tember 23d amounts to much IT, 4'e'elofe
the caterpiIlars in this case will desStIoy
the production of the cotton plants dus
ring the last month of their growth,
which is generally the smallest. But
according to our friends estimate OF
his prospective loss, only one hundred
bales of cotton, during the past two
months or more, have grown on the
plants, while one hundred and nifty
are yet to egiow in one month, which
latter the caterpillars will cut off. The
appearancCof caterpillars in force Will
make any planter or farmer feel panlcky,
and therefore liable to ovur-estlnate
the damageA they may cause. 4 fnll
crop does nst over-pay the cost OF pro-
duction, etc, and 1t is certainly very
diseouraging and distressing to have a
fine crop at this season OF the year,
when by much expense, labor and care,
it has been brought successfully anu
4lourishingly through the extremes OF
wet and dry weather, and grass, to have
it ravaged by the blasted, good- Tor
nothing caserpillars. But for all this.
we think our frield's expected loss too
great, because three fifShs OF a crop OF
cotton can not be made after this date.
And as partial remedy to losses by
caterpillars, re suggest, as we have
often done before, that oIif planters and
farmers quit the one-erop system (which
is like putting oil the eggs in one basket;
an accident to it ruins all. Plant less
cotton, and the caterpillars will have
less to destroy; plant more corn, and
you will have less to buy raise your
own mules, and il the charbon kills
them, you will notfeel the loss 80 heavily,
especially if they hare been bought on
q credit, to be paid for out Of crop
Of cotton that the eaterpillars destroy
and finally raise your own meat, and
keep out OF debt for advances each year
to run the plantation OF farm--one that
will not rnn without advances each
wear, had better not be run at all.
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MYSTERY or DREAMs.-lt is related
that man fell asleep Is the clock
tolled the first stroke of twelve. He
awakened here the echo of the twelfth
stroke had died away, having, IN the
interval, dreamed that he committed
crime, was detected after five years,
tried. and condemned; the shock OF
finding the halter about his neck
aroused him to consciousness, when he
discovered that all these events had
hapnened i'm an infinitesimal fragment
nf time. Mohammed, wishing to illus
frata the wonders of sleep, told how a
certain man, being q sIleik, found him
self. for his pride, made poor Usher
man !: that he lived as one for sixty
years, bringing up a family and work
ing hard and how, upon waking up
from this long dream. so short O time
had he been asleep, that the marrow
necked gonrd hottie filled with water,
which he knew he overturned as he tell
asleep had not time in gilicIl TO empty
itself. How fast the soul travels when
the body Is asleep! Often, when we
awake, we shrink from going back into
the dull routine of u sordia existence,
rggretting the pieasanter life OF dream
land. How is it that sometimes. when
we 70 to q strange place, we fancy that
We have seen it before Is it possible
that when one has been asieep the soul
has fnatea away, seen the place, and
has that memory OF 1t which so sur
prises us In a word, how far dual IS
the life OF man, how far pot
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WHEN THE BLOSSOMS COVER Us,

WHEN THE BLOSSOMS COVER Us,
DARLING.-This is the name of another
Ct the popular Charlie Bakers new
songs can be had from any music dealer
in the United States, or from +. W.
HELMIcK, No. 80 West Fourth Street,
Cincinnati, O., by sending DO cents.
When the blossoms cover MS. darling,
With their bloom of white and gold,
And our faces are hid from each other
In the church yard, so white and so cold,
OF the many dear ones who will never
See our faces or greet us again,
Are there any kind hearts i'll that day. love.
Who will think of us, care for us then2
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The War i'm the East.

LONDON, Aug. 4.-The Daily News CORES
pondent with Prince SchackoWnsk's force, tele
graphing from Simnitza, August l, gives an ac-
count OF the retreat. He says the road from
POerden to Bargareni was numbered with
broken and retreating troops. wholly destitute
Of order-Otticers without soldiers, and soldiers
without otficers-al without cohesion, and
mostly without arms,
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MAsoNIC.-Bro. c. A. Frazee, Wor-
shipful Master of Humble Cottage
Lodge No. 19, Opelousas, has received Il
letter from Bro. John G. Gordy, from
which we CLEAN the following, which
We publish for the benefit of the Craft ::
He will be here and visit the Lodge
officially, at candle-light, OH Monday
evening, October the first, when the
work III the +, A. and F. c. degrees will
be exemplitied-all the brethren ut these
degrees are requested to be present.
On the following, Tuesday, evening
the work in the NJ. NJ. degree will be ex-
emplitled. He will attend special
meeting of Gordy r. A. Chapter, Oh
Wednesday evening, October 3d. lie
will remain at Opelousas till Monday,
October 9Th, when be will go to Wash
ington, and visit Magnolia Lodge that
same evening. He will go to Big Cane,
aud visit Orphans Friend Lodge No.
1856, ON Thursday evening, October 18th
and Evergreen Lodge No. 1S9, at Ever
green, on Saturday, October 18th.
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~; ln China the dogs are entirely bald.
This accounts for the temperate habits
OF the Ce!estials, "The hair Of the
dog is unknown among them.
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The charity that begins at home isn't
the kind that covers a multitude of
sins VA
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DIE ID

TAYLOR-fn Opelous:,s on the 91s inst
Murphy Lewis Taylor, anu of Edward \. TavIG}.
and Fannie c. Meginiey, aged "A months and
q days. 40 "Ai''
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Each beau plucks leaf from n CO.
quette; SO that thOIns only remain for
the husband.
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Envy not the appearance of happi-
ness in any man, for thou knoWest not
shis secret griefs.
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We have read great deal lately
about the Turkish atrocities in Bull
garia-which are doubtless true. This
week, in dispatches of August Goth, we
have the cause of them. Bulgaria is a.
part of Turkey, and is Inhabited by d
mixed population of Moslems and Chris
tians. When the Russians took pos
session of this country, the Bulgarian
christians-so- -calIed-sided with them,
and murdered the Moslems and ravished
theiH>women. This was the work of
Christians. But when the tide of war
changed, and the Russians were driven
back, the Turks not being imbued with
a christian spirit, retaliated. And thus
is waged the war of the Car of Russia,
against the Turks, in the cause of chris
tianity. By this war he has already
done that cause more injury, than the
Turks would have done i'll century.
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ana young She had Deen killed and thrown
iiahGt ;, lllt2 pool OF water: saw families, in
Well The hGnses Of these people and tie hand.
some eIhhr0ided dresses OF the women, showed
Inat .Is. they had been lich. In one house the
SSMDJectfp during ten days to outrages sby the
,i,r, IioSaackS ana bu!garans. The Bulgariaas when
sHey y, heard OF the arrival OF the Turkish army.
and children, from three to thirty wears :"f ace
ana q II. Hed 70 the balkans. Tie victims of whom
/ spoke above, were all collected together and
tinHE4qeFed t,tqd 10 succession. Many more were
see them, ~ ~ 50 anu
CoNSTANTfNoFLE, Aug 2O-A later telegram
! rom Mukhtar PaslIa gives tho Turkish losses
III saturdays battle as 1870 killed and 33g Vg,unI"d
ana the Russian loss as 1900 Killed.
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su. +,onsond Mussulman, refugees, are are
fnP hrre opd hree thous a asond are E
Kanzanh% = Daily News Bucharest
LoNnoN. aug oId,.,M, IdmIh%. have written the me
correspondent IL nm from the te[[Dp top
%nsh s5yTts mnst SS SS on too true OF OF
the @ Bakans "a i 9 lear n} II We Russian Chris
EsEt sasra the Turks oF&ers9 t. o
tIanS-men, women andt "i
as they lett their houses.
THOSE WHO REMAINED
within were burnt alive. The otoer Wu.' ~ Sl'e1 t
to burn down and destroy eV wy pau iIhS nSin u
Christian property in the place. Many Na11nS
Turkish MERCHANTS took part in thS 4ffRt oJFs URs
dispatched a large number of Basil baH|ouIhS
Hll over Trhirpan district. This district ls ono
Of the richest III that part of Turkey. c,.
1t contains very lar~t proportion oL ShLtS SaS
ton inhHbltantS-oycr 500 churches ana 500
schools and coleges-;3I Of which have been
burnt. DISTINCTIONS extended tu the villages OF
rio%Hdan. MuhaIcsI, 1.Ini and otltrs-ln al
about sIXty-COntuuiD- from $50 to 1Oo lalhlIles
each. Scarcely fifty persons nave escaped
alive
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WAR NEWS.

The situation of affairs along the Dan
ube is given as follows in dispatch of the
It'll: The Turks have changed front and faced
to the westward since the Russian entrance
into Bulgaria. The Russians are deploying,
with their left flank resting on the Danube
to force the Turkish line from Rustchuk to
Shumla. When this movement is COM
plete, general battle may
be expected, unless the Turks
fall back to the Balkans, or the Russians
mask the whole quadrilateral, and turn it by
passing the Balkans. The Russian forces
coming through Dobrudscha are approach
ing the rear of the Turkish Rustchuk and
Shumla line. This column is too strong to
be opposed by any force detached from the
Turkish main body, while the main body
itself can not turn upon it without exposing
its rear to the Russian main force.
1t was reported from London, on the
9th, that the Government had information
that the Russians intend to occupy Constan-
tinople at all risks, unless the Turks antici-
pate that event by making peace on the
Cars terms.
A dispatch from ErzerOum, 10th, says
it is officially announced that the Russian
left wing has been driven across the Russian
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grandly inscribed thereon. Making
neat parcel of them, and tying them up
with cerisse ribbon in formidable bows,
he dispatched them to Weatherwax,
with this note in disguised hand;
DEAR W: Your pale face plainly in
dieates that your mind is i'll at ease. sus-
pect II is the loss Of the Cowiey card. do
not repine-all is WE'LL Here are fifty.
Scatter them broadcast in your house. Have
one or more in every apartment. Rainthe
about TO meet your admiring gaze at every
turn. Indulge in a debaueh Of the Cowley
pastebOard-revel in il riotOusly-and when
time shall destroy or accident remove them,
count on a fresh supply. Yours, visiting
cardily, y. \. H.
Shortly after this Artemus began his
brief career as lecturer at the Egyptian
Hall. went off to the United States
on professional tour with my eater
tainment, and we never again met
poor dear Artemus having gone over
to the majority" in my absence. often
meet Weatherwax, but the sign and
symbol of my Lord Cowley has long
since disappeared from the china bowl
That packet of fifty cards cured him.
HoDard Paul, IN american Register.