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EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

Further accounts of the storm at the
East give it as one Of unprecedented severi-
ty, excepting, perhaps, the freshets of 1869.
In Massachusetts, the village of Westfield
was submerged, and property destroyed to
the value Of S750,0O0, but fortunately no
lives were lost. At Huntingdon
an iron bridge was carried away, and
miles of railroad track destroyed. At
Philadelphia the wharfs were overfowed,
and cellars flooded, and railroads connect
ing with the city damaged considerably.
The Barrett suspension bridge at Port JAR
Wis, n. Y, was carried away, the Delaware
River at that point being higher than for
years past. Up the Hudson River
the damage was also great. In the
vicinity of Rondout and Esopus
property was destroyed to the amount of
$4,000. Twenty-Five bridges that cross Mill
brook, between Mineville and Port Henry
were swept away. Between Rhinebeck
and Poughkeepsie 10 canal boats lay
against the railroad track. At Bing-
hamton the waters of the Susquehan-
ma and Chenango were higher than
they were in 1865, and families had to be re-
moved from their houses in boats. Among
other places flooded were Harrisburg,
Wilkesbarre, Northampton and Scranton,
in Pennsylvania; Trenton and Lambert
vile, in New Jersey; Hampton and Ply
mouth, in New Hampshire, and Brattleboro
in Vermont.
A reception was given on the 12tn by the
New York Press Club to Mr.. J. NJ. Heating,
editor of the Memphis appeal, in recogni
tion Of his heroic conduct during the yellow
fever scourge. The club room was crowd
ed. Mr.. Keating briefly responded to the
welcome extended by the President, j. b.
Wood, and speeches were made by Algernon
$. Sullivan, Chauncey Depew, Peter Cooper,
Rev. t. Dewitt Talmage, Thomas Kinsella,
Father Lille and others,
Governor Wade Hampton, of South Caro-
lima, whose leg was amputated few days
ago, was reported, on the 18th, to be conva-
lescent.
The Legislature of South Carolina, on the
10th, elected Gov. Hampton to the United
States Senate. The vote was taken separate
ly in each House, as required by law. The
Senators who were present-29 in all-in-
Guiding the Republicans, voted unanimous
ly for the Governor. The House, with the
exception Of two members, also voted for
Hampton. The exceptions were Messrs.
Miller and Simmons, colored members from
rgsg-1rt, Nio voted for +. ". VI. N2ckey.
The scene N the House was impressive. A
letter was read from GOV. Hampton defining
his position saying he Vas not e caudidaie.
r uJIJ JTa, the 0lbcc was neither 10 rc sought
nor declined. - E.
GOV uErusnft on iha. I+th rppricyed tn
= JsuUary - the M1ifie Maguires, jas. Nc
Donueu auJ CEas. sharpe sentenced 81. b.
executed Ola -a- f-- + s "rlg'
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School and Church.


Three Cinnamon have been or
dained by the Episcopal Bishop of
Hong Kong.
A London clergyman, who adver-
tises his magazine in the pulpit. is call
ed "The Preacher of the Holy Gospel of
PufIery."
The first woman preacher in India
is Mrs. Monorama Mozoombar, wife of
Baboo Grish Chunder Mozoombar, Min
lister of the Barisal Brahmoo Somai.
-Twenty-six thousand visits were
made and $500 families were relieved
by the st. Vincent de Paul Conferences
of Boston during the past week.
The first American saint was col
ored woman, st. Rose of Lima. There
is church in New York City dedicated
to her and another in Staten Island.
The furniture of the Madison Ave-
nue. Baptist Church, New York, was
recently sold under 4 chattel mortgage.
The sale took place inside the church
and most of the purchasers were mem
bers of the congregation.
-Spurgeon says about committees
that the best is n committee of three,
two of whom are ill in bed. He thinks
that religious work is much hindered by
the people who are all the time waiting
for others to come and help them.
"A colored brother rose in prayer
meeting and said: "My dear bruddern
| feel = if / could talk more good in five
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21

of May, 1869 and the date when full payment
was commenced for eight hours work by the
act approved May, 1865 when it shall be made
to appear that the reduction in the hours OF
labor was the cause OF the reduction IN
wages.
The Senate was not in session on the 14th.
..... In the House, consideration was resum-
ed of the bill for the distribution of the &C.
neva award. MIR. Sparks, from the Commit
tee on Appropriations, reported the indian
Appropriation bill, which was made the
special order for Wednesday next. The
Senate amendments to the Military Appro-
priation bill were concurred in. Mr.. Phillips
submitted a resolution reciting late Indian
raids in Kansas and Nebraska and captures
of marauders, and calling on the Secretary OF
the Interior for Information as to why he had
not surrendered the guilty and responsible
parties of such Indian bands to the authori-
ties of Kansas and Nebraska. Adopted. MIR.
Wilson introduced bill tor changing the
time for holding District and Circuit Courts
for West Virginia; passed; p; senate 9iis ttd0 10
from the Speakers table and referred to the
committee on that subject. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 10th, a resolution in
structing the Judiciary Committee to ex
anime into the expediency of repeating all
laws providing for the compensation by
fees of United States Attorneys. and sub
stituting fixed salaries, was agreed to. The
resolution of Mr.. Blaine in regard to
up, and the amendment of Mr.. Thur
man agreed to without division, a
special committee being also ordered, with
power to appoint a sub committee, to visit
such different sections of the country as they
may see fit. Mr.. Buffers amendment, that
the investigation be conducted with open
doors, was voted down-30 to 30-a strict
party vote. The amendment of a
like nature, offered by Mr.. Da-
Wis, shared the same fate. After brief
executive session, the Senate adiourned......
la the House, beyond the introduction and
reference of numerous bills, no business of
importance was transacted. motion to
suspend the rules and pass the bill making
IL penal offense for any officer, agent or
contractor of the United States to in
termeddle with the election of members
of Congress or of President, by the contribu.
tiOn of money, or by the use or abuse of
Official privileges, or by bribes, threats, in
fiuence, etc, ana also making it penal
offense to solicit or receive contributions for
election purposes from persons in the en-
ploy of the Government, was rejected-l32 to
l0S-not the necessary two-thirds. Ad-
journed.
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ITEMS OF Interest.
PersonaI and Literary.


With 1879 Littell's Living Age be-
gins its one hundred and fortieth vol
ume.
DIR. John B. Wood has been re-
elected President of the New York Press
Club.
DIR. Mary Walker was arrested in
New York City recently for appearing
in male attire.
The Duke of Argyll, Princess
Louise's papa-in-law, is suffering so bad
ly from gout that he can not attend Par
lament.
Byron, the English playwright, is
writing a play called "My Uncle. :"
The actors will doubtless ''spout" their
lines.
james Mace, the bruiser, has two
sons in the ministry, Zone of them,"
the London World says, sis a man of
striking ability"
-Rochefort is straitened pecuniarilv,
owing to the failure of his pamphlet
publications, which have all fallen still
born since Napoleon Ills death.
Lieut.. James H. Holbert, u. S. A,
and author of several beautiful poems,
died at Freeport, H., the night of the
Sth, in his 39th year, of consumption.
-Wilhelmj plays on a Stradivarius
violin $50 years old. 1t cost $4,000,
and double that sum would not tempt
the artist to part with it.
Mr.. Frederick Leighton is now Sir
Frederick Leighton, the Queen having
knighted him when she gave him the
gold medal and chain of the office of
President of the Royal Academy.
Mr.. Salkinson, who translated Mil
toms PARADISE Lost and Shakespeare's
Othello into Hebrew, has just published
a version in that language of Romeo and
Juliet
-Ex-Confederate Gen. Hood, who
is minus one leg, has just returned from
Texas with his children, three pairs of
twins, TO New Orleans, where he pro-
poses to settle permanently.
"A biography of Lord Beaconsfield,
which calls him "lying spirit" and
a man "destitute of truth, honor and
principle" has attained in England to
the sale of 10000 copies.
William Sackville Gordon, employ
ed as a letter in Australia, died
there recently. He was son of the
late Lord Henry Gordon and cousin of
the Marquis of Huntley.
The report that Whitelaw Reid is
going to marry Anna Dickinson is on
the EDITORS intimate friends says he
would not be surprised to hear of the
event at an early day."
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21
from his cabin by masked men and riddled

from his cabin by masked men and riddled
with bullets.
The wife of Oliver Huston has been ar
rested at Delaware, o., charged with pois-
oning her husband.
A young man named William Asburg, of
Robertson County, KY, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head with
q rifle on the 18th.
Daniel Standifer, Of Comanche, Texas,
is accused of killing his wife with strych-
nine.
A. X. Jackson was killed by o. A. Godfrey
with beer-bottle in a saloon at Groesbeck,
Texas, on the 16ih.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21

The classification Of packages and running
time will remain unchanged.
A Minneapolis dispatch says Porter
Guernsey, aged Is, son of a prominent
druggist, and Florence Wyckof, aged 16,
daughter of n Presbyterian clergyman at
Lake City, while skating together the even
ing of the 14th, were drowned. The bodies
were recovered.
1t is officially announced that on Jan. 1
the Baltimore and Ohio express rates to and
from New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
ether points reached by that company will
be the same as those recently made by the
other companies.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21
Foreign Notes.

Foreign Notes.
Lord Leitrim was murdered in
March, but no one has yet been put on
trial for the crime.
"A Marseilles almanac predicts for
1879 the death of Bismarck, Gortscha-
koff, and Beaconsfield.
The Bavarian Exchequer shows this
year deficiency of nearly $2,250,000,
arising from the decreasing income from
State property.
The opium refuge at Shanghai, or
ganized by foreign medical and mission
airy influence, has met with so much well
come from the natives that it is already
self-supporting, and many patients are
there trying to break from the slavery
of opium.
The price of bread in England is
said to be precisely what it was in 1770.
Beef, at its present retail price of nine
pence, is great advance on the three
and three-quarter pence per pound of
that day; and butter has risen from six
pence to twenty pence.
Among the Russian Mission lately
received in Cabul was found an outlaw
ed Afghan of note. The Ameer recog-
nized the culprit; and in spite of the
protests of the General in charge of the
Mission, the delinquent paid the penal
ty of his rashness with his head.
"A piece of Anne of Austria's skin
will soon. be in the market. Her body
was burnt in church she founded, and
the piece of skin is said TO have been
taken from her arm in 1900 by physi-
clan, and preserved in her family until
T1 4 1xyI
bles ga'ats de Suede.
An advertisement of sale of ar
tistic furniture in Belgium in a recent
number of the London Times contained
a curious specimen of Belgian-English /;
after describing some tapestry, it con-
tinued: Further very artful wood
encut mantel adornment, suitable for
the placing several porcelain vases"
Odds and Ends.
A prima donna is very sweet at the
beginning of her career, but let her get
rich, and there is not a more cranky,
contemplate being on the face of the
earth.
1t is written in the Talmud that
"the world is saved by the breath of
school children" The writer evidently
never sat in school next to boy who
grew fat on garlic.
"a sewing machine agent, who
was very ill, being told that he must
prepare to pay the debt of nature,
wanted to know if it couldn't be paid on
the monthly installment plan"
-"Too many cooks spoil the broth. "
That poor cook of Naples who tried to
kill King Humbert got himself into a
royal mess. He thinks he was the one
cook too many.
While Edison is consuming his val
liable time in trying to perfect his elec-
trio light, despairing Ipublic is pray
ing for q lantern that won't blow out
just when you get to the darkest, mud
diest spot on the road.
-Billingsgate, the great London fish
market, is to be lighted by electricity
The language heard in that locality has
the reputation of being "shocking,'
and now the light is to be of the same
character.
-Nicodemus said, "Wake me up
wake me up at the first break of day.
but don't be deceived, girls, the Nico'
demuses of old are all dead, and Nico
demus, Jr., will make no such reques
he'll lay in bed and snore, while yo,
crawl out and start the fire, and let the
day break all to pieces before he get
up to breakfast. Elmira Gazette.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21

The reason the boy about print
ing office is called devil is because he
is to become an imp-oser.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21
1871
Examination and surveys of

Esti- Appro-
1s7S.'so. fs7s-7s.
Examination and SURVEYS of
south Pass of the Mississip-
pi River. r.............:......... $4,000 $4,000
Removing raft in Red River. 10000 $4,000
Removing obstruction from
Reu River. ........ 1900 % 600
Improving mouth of Red Riv-
Improving harbor and Missis. '''O'' -'O'OOV
sippi River ut Memphis,
Improving Mississippi River
ana harDor ut Nicksburg,
Improving Ouachita River.
Arkansas and Louisiana - 25MO 10000
Improving Iazoo River........ $4,000 5000
Continuing observation of
rise and fall OF Mississippi
River and triDutarics........ 5000 5000
Removing snags, wrecks ana
other distractions from
Mississippi, Missouri and
Arkansas River..... 3S5, COG 90, 900
Survey of Missouri River from
mouth to Sioux City, Ia...... 10000 so 900
Improving Missouri River at
or near fort Leavenworth.. 5000 25,OOO
Improvement Missouri River
at Sioux City. ia.......... $500 1880
Improvement Missouri River
at Atchison, Kan............. 10000 10000
Improvement Missouri River
opposite st. Joseph. 1900 10000
Improvement Missouri River
at Eastport, Ia, and Nebras- o ooo
Improvement Missouri River
at Council Bluffs, Ia, and
Omaha, Neb. 10000 $4,000
Improvement Missouri River
above mouth Yellowstone. 5000 10000
Improvement Mississippi Riv-
er between mouth OF Illinois
and OHIO Rivers. ............. 100000 10000
Snagboat-Upper Mississippi
KlNer.. 3OUOO 4l,5OO
Improvement Mississippi Riv-
er from st. Paul TO Des
Moines Rapids. $50 600 100000
Improvements Mississippi Riv-
from Des Moines Rapids
to mouth of Illinois River. 100000 100000
Improvement White River at
Buffalo shoals, Ark. 1000 -
Improvement Rush Chute and
harbor at Burlington, Ia...., 1920 10000
Improvement Harbor Fort
Madison, la................... r. 200 5000
Removing bar in Mississippi
opposite Dubuque, Ia ....... 13,101 10000
Des Moines Rapids and oper-
atfng canal. al.................... 1872 900 5000
Harbor, hi. i.................... $1,000 $4,000
The aggregate appropriated for the pres
ent year was s. 1857 900, and the estimates
for the next foot up 50, 100000.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21

L. Ii. Torp, County Commissioner,
was killed at Denver by being thrown
from his buggy.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON.
ESTIMATES FOR 1s79-,sO.

ESTIMATES FOR 1S79-'SO.
The following is a statement of the esti-
mates for the fiscal year 1S19-'S0, as COM
pared with the appropriations for the cur
rent year:
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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

In the Senate. -ths 10Th, Mr.. VOLTAGE iu-
trcdHcyG bin providing that subsidiary coin
an,li be czehsuGgabie Tor trace dollars at the
rate 1f loo cents i"r each OF sG'' drl' an, and
they shall forthwith He rCcotGcE .rr. #ru-l1I.
',fg coin. au3 che --f0. 20 s-aE, -..H.. ..r msf-
u.t OF rN 'ag H-a..ErF-1 Hi Ga. fr-T.-..-. tD pay
rEe HrrlH--. % -el.ar# s.'-srr .rr. .u -
s"H. PERSONS rauE- ..-f,- f..,
..-.r.t. Senator O. .-.r.. l. .",..f rily
-sir.. t~H fp inquire f4f. .- charges
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21

HAS trees tndU are SOlu III NEW L 1OTk are
imported from Maine.
The Chicago water department,
dnring November, tccl,ir 500 s2f. of
which SIPS, 55S was received from T.acer
rents.
The costliest switch Of hair ever
made In Paris was sold there lately for
$500. tt was snow whitE. and yard
sutrl qasTjet ior1
. --Cuiam5ia College, New YORK, has
put class OF thuJeuu through three
machi1e-sLops OF tbL- city 20 sec what
they could see.
American fruit 20 the value II over
. $4,000, 600 was exported last year. In
, 1867 The entire proceeds .. suca eXpo1-
tations amounted to but S269, 200.
Application for patent made by
Thomas A. Edison for his electric light
was favorably passed upon by the Pat
ent Office, and the patent will be issued.
The taxable valuation of Tennessee
for 1878 is S223,212, 1853, decrease of
S13, ,696, ,695 since 1877, and involving a
percentage of 5-7S in the total State
tax.
There has been no less than 10000
new buildings erected in Philadelphia
during the past two years, notwith-
standing the depreciation in real estate.
The West Hartford Comm reser-
voirs, with capacity for 00,0O0,000
gallons, now contain 275, 100000 gall
Ions of water, with which the city hopes
to get through the winter if there is q
January thaw.
The Sixth Avenue Railroad Com
Vnrly Iaoraoon nf
5S4 ,635 in number of passengers carried
this year as compared with 1877, and
the Ninth Avenue Railroad Company q
decrease of 133,S15
Most of the Paterson, N. j., silk
mills are running to the fullest capacity,
and are making two or three hours over
time every night. The greatest demand
is for ribbons and scarfs. From 5000
to 10000 hands, it is estimated, are now
employed.
From the debris of the coal-mines
France makes annually 100000 tons of
excellent fuel, and Belgium 500, 600 tons.
In England where there is not so much
waste in coal l-mining, and where coal is
much cheaper, the manufacture of arti-
fetal fuel is only about 100000 tons a
year.
Quite a heavy business is done in
California in shipping to China the
shells of the shrimp, which are caught
in such numbers on the coast, and there
is almost as much profit from the sale
of the shells as from the shrimps them
selves. The use they are put TO in
China is as a manure and as poison to
the worm which works such destruc-
ton to the tea plant of that country.
The Cinnamon state that this is the on
ly remedy at present known for the tea
pest.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21

CONSTITUENCY OF CONGRESS.
In the United States Senate are 5S lawyers
and only 20 Of all other professions and oc-
cupationsl From the States of Alabama,
California, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, H.
hnois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York,
North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee,
Texas and Wisconsin, the Senators are all
is represented ut all in all those great States.
Only two small States found both their Sem
ators outside of the legal professionalism
Jersey and Rhode Island. The States not
included in either of these classifications
send to the Senate one lawyer AMI one who
is not lawyer. Here we find almost
three-fourths of the members of
the United States Senate law
yers, in a country where lawyers form an in
significant proportion OF the population,
and, in spite of the fact that, living by the
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cred within their own bosoms.
"A paralytic stroke did for an Illi-
nois clergyman what all the doctors had
been powerless to accomplish. He had
been deaf and nearly blind, but the
paralysis unstopped his ears and open
ed his eyes, and now he can see and
hear as well as ever he could. His name
is Stickney, and his home Rockford.
Jealous street preachers in Edin-
burgh were in the habit of gathering
great crowds of hearers on Sunday al
ternoons. A hotel-keeper who consider
ed his business interfered with by the
preachers, had three of them arrested
on the charge of disorderly and riotous
conduct, and of obstructing the streets
by the crowds which they gathered. On
the first of these they were found inno-
cent; but on the charge of obstructing
the streets they were found guilty and
obliged to give security not to do it any
more.
Haps and Mishaps.
w. H. Metcalf and his son, of Lis
bon, Me-, were smothered to death at
the New England House. Blackstone
having gone to bed and blown out the
Sdo, luSIcdu VI Jul uluS IL Ou
Herbert Kimball, of GAINESVILLE,
Wis, shot himself with pistol, because
Miss Matte Marquissee would not con-
sent to marry him.
Mr.. Azel Waldo, of indianapolis,
was killed by railroad train. The
wheels severed his head from his body
and reduced the latter to a shapeless
mass. Deceased was aged 20 years.
While hunting rabbits, near Elsie,
Mich, Charles Call accidentally shot
and killed Peter Kayser. Both were
boys, aged about IA years.
Hon. John c. Lindley, Treasurer
of Butler County, Ohio, was killed by
the explosion of coal-oil lamp. His
wife, in trying to save him, was badly
burned. Mr.. L. carried life-insurance
policies amounting to S3l 200.
Patrick Shannon, millwright, was
torn to shreds by his clothing being
caught by rapidly revolving shaft, at
the American Iron Works in Pittsburg,
Pa.
William Burnison was killed by
falling into cellar at the Fort Wayne
Depot, Allegheny, Pa.
An old lady, Mrs. Joanna Ryan,
was killed by a freight train at Detroit.
james Hershaw accidentally shot
and killed himself at his home in Pitts
burg, Pa.
At st. Paul. by fall of less than
three feet, youth aged Is, named Ar
thur Ganthler, received such internal
injuries that he died within very few
minutes.
Charles Pilbeau, near Adrian,
Mich, was found dead in the box of his
wagon, he having over-drank himself.
Isaac Mike, while-irtovicated, went
TO sleep on the railroad track near
Pennington, West Va, aad was run
over and killed 10y train of cars,
Fifteen miles south of Kearney, Neb.,
the murdesr-sssa J. bodies Of Mrs. Harrison
and her three children were found in
havsJack. A certain 5. ID. Richards is
suspected OF the crime.
/ The body of Hon. II. p. Gage, ex
President of the Haue Savings Bank,
va found III his bed at Findlsy, Ohio
. aitn q Igliet-h5le il the right temple
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21

1'aHi5ulffCs ana inuCrtcrti0ne 81 luE, ibry
arc disqualified fur making laws Co. partially.
IN shg House 0i Representative iL IS nearly
ls bad. ". have arranged table or W-W-
bcTs from iGg different states by disJFiCls,
t4s t=lire -f2sl'n" fora lawyer, and the
I TOR man uf some oEusI ''5g2.- ,'nl.--' 9e
cipher Ca- au4l-.- iulm pretty accurately
for they AELy"rs lHr. f1 he ol mach account
/ 90 this iETV. er-r lG1rE Congress, .E4lz "a ter
. lsting classification g. as follows.
/ NIUb ma lUE Elif.
. .TEaEs A..
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-21

Through the instrumentality of the
Episcopal Bishop Paddock, of Massa-
chusetts, another unworthy candidate for
clerical Office and duty has been exposed.
This is r. NJ. Neill, who since 1873 has
served Congregational, Baptist, Episco-
pal, and Presbyterian churches in four or
five States between Vermont and Iowa.
He had made use of forged papers, and
had got so far as to obtain candidate
ship for orders in the Episcopal Church
in Massachusetts when his character
was discovered, and his career in this
direction brought to an end.
WILLIAM MARsTEN WHITAKER, an
English artist, was recently tried at
| Warwick for sending threatening letters
to his mother, and althou4 h he declared
| in his defense that he haG 40 idea of ex
ecuting his threat, yet he was sentenced
to ten years penal sergitude.