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Gawgsst "a Tartar.

4 mere verbal report of the ex-
animation of Mrs. jerks before the
Potter Committee can give but a
faint idea of the scene III which
she played Il leading role, and in
which Butler and McMahon played
subordinate parts. She came to
the witness chair with an air OF
conscious superiority and preserved
1t to the last.
When Nh. Butler addressed him
self to the task of .eliciting facts
from her he set himself to work in
n serious manner as if he realized
the difficulty of the enterprise, but
from the very first she assumed an
attitude of u disdainful coquett.
She repeated many of the questions
put to her &and then replied to
them in a manner of her own, hall
scornfully, while taking good care
not to transgress rules of propriety.
She. leaned back confidently in the
chair which she occupied beside
Mr.. Butler, played coquettishly
with her fan, and answered his in
terrogations with the most irrita-
ting self-possession. At last, after
amusing herself, members of the
committee, and the audience for
over half an hour in this manner,
she closed up her fan, laid it on the
table before her, assumed a more
dignifed attitude in her chair, and
and thus began: Il wish to state
in the presence of this august COM
mittee of course, using an adJec-
tive in an ironical sense and OF
the country at large. Then she
paused II long time aud looked sol
emn, and MIR. Potter broke silence
by asking her, ''Are going to give
is anything more?" Yes" said
she. with her matchless impertur-
liability, II am going to say con-
siderably more" Then there was
another equally long pause, as II
she were gathering up all her intel
lectui powers for a superb burst,
and after a while she continued,
Il distinctly and entirely exonerate
Mr.. Secretary Sherman from any
completely, indirect or direct, III
the so-called Anderson and Weber
guarantee. If there is crlminabty
in that document, if there is pub
lie dishonor attached to it, L alone
know the outgo and income OF 1t;
no one else knows aught IN regard
to it, and l do not think | am COIN
PEELED to tell any more. 1t is suf-
ficent to me to exonerate Mr.. Sher-
mon, and also Mr.. Anderson, al
though i believe anderson to be
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one of the most sublime scoundrels
on record. Still, gentlemen, in a
matter of guarantee, he at least
has been sincere. / award to him
that little merit. He has always
deemed it genuine. That is the
single ray of light admitted in the
darkness that surrounds him."
AS she ended this speech, which
was delivered with a melodramatic
air, Mr.. Springer, member of the
COMMITTEE, was so carried away by
the theatrical effect of it that he
burst out with the exclamation /:
"Now let the curtain drop. The
act is finished" This was, how
ever, her sole deviation from the
knocking and contemptuous air with
which she invested her role, and
which she maintained in. the most
perfect style during the five hours
that she was under examination.
Her accent and pronunciation are
strongly marked with French pc
cnliarities, and she acted as fin
ished coincidence as she described
how she took Weber and Ander-
sons letter to Sherman in Parlof
p at the st. Charles Hotel, cut the
ends of it, and then could not think
of such an act of disrespect as the
presentation of such note to "vis-
iting statesmen" Bnt, as she said,
al idea struck her, and when Mr..
Butler proposed to know what the
idea was, she replied with All arch
mimicry:
"Weber wished an answer, and
he got it." She did not then say,
as she afterwards did, that she her.
self dictated that letter to some
one else, and palmed it on Weber
as a genuine document, and when
ever Butler ATTEMPTED to assume
that, he was met by u sharp rebuke
and by II reminder that he must
not impute to her what she did not
say.
After a couple of hours, Mr..
Butler realized that he was besieg-
ing an impregnable fortress and
he retired from the siege, leaving
the enemy with drums beating and
colors flying. After recess Mr..
Mcmahon tried his hand for three
hours, but met with no better sue
cess, and at , o'clock, when MIR.
Cox suggested that they We're all
tired, aud that the witness must
be, Sue repudiated the suggestion
with scorn and said that whoever
else might be fatigued, she was
not, and that she could keep it up
Iaii SUMMER.
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Tropical Bee Hunters.

Bees wax is an important and
valuable product, formed by the
wild bees winch build huge honey
combs suspended IL the open air
from the underside of the lofty
branches Of the highest trees.
These are of a semi-circular form,
AID often three or four feet in di-
ameter. | once saw the natives
take bees nest, and a very inter-
esting sight it was. In the valley
where ] use to collect insects, l
one day saw three or four limo
reese men and boys under high
tree, and, looking up, saw on
very lofty horizontal branch three
large bees combs. The tree was
straight and smooth barked, and
without branch, till at seventy or
eighty feet from the ground it gave
out the limb which the bees had
chosen for their home. One of the
men first producing a long piece of
wood, wrapped it in palm leaves.
He then fastened his cloth tightly
round his loins, and producing an
other cloth, wrapped it round his
head, neck and body, and tied it
firmly found his neck, leaving his
face arms and legs completely bare.
slung to his girdle he carried a
long thin coil of cord; and while
be had been making these prepar-
atoms one of his companions had
cut strong creeper or bush rope,
eight or ten yards long, to one end
of which the wood-torch was fas-
tened, and lighted at the bottom,
emitting steady stream of smoke.
Just above the torch a chopping
knife was fastened by short cord.
The bee-hunter now took hold of
the bush-rope, just above the torch
and passed the other end round
the trunk of the tree, holding one
end in each hand. Jerking it up
the tree a little above his head, he
set his foot against the trunk, and,
leaning back, began walking up it.
He kept on with as much GOODNESS
and apparent certainty as if he
were going up a ladder, till he got
in ten or fifteen feet of the bees
Then he stopped moment, and
took care to swing the torch (which
hung just at his feet) a little to-
ward these little insects, SO as to
send up the stream of smoke be-
tween him and them. Still going
on, in a minute more he brought
himself under the limb, and, in a
manner quite unintelligible to me,
seeing that both hands were occu-
pied in Supporting himself to the
creeper, managed to get on it.
BY this time the bees began to
be alarmed, and formed n dense
buzzing swarm just over him, but
he brought the torch mp closer to
him. and coolly brushed away
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''s creek Celebrates.

Glorious Fourth" was duly
'a oy the good people of the
H'eA country with barbecue
''uilying IN We old time
~ usual upon such occa-
PROVISIONS and politicians
-asa- DR.. W. G. Deal gave
~Un' OF what and why we
tapering' off with his
| ~. 'neme, the education of
| @uafen. Rev. Thomas ALI
4 'nsed INTO politics and gave
\, - !, ,Or running the govern
= MAJOR Willett also had his
|.;a = don't think it a good plan
"a % a party, but holds that
nas come when we want
| ,,sa not measures. This may
s"a doctrine, but we incline to
H., 4' . that the Major will find
~ beautifully left when the
4, ufant do conclude to
h., -sn not measures. This
u. :, - been tried and proved a
'sAaage. A'SH' outs
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Market Report.

Corrected ,ceekly by the Nec Orleans Mar
ket Report
COTTON--Low Ordinary, Oh Ordina-
ry,91; Good Ordinary 10: Low Middhng
log, Kidding III; Good Middling IL;
Middling Fair l24.
SUGAR-Common 4t95t; Prime 74(9
8; Choice 6(9S4; Yellow Clarified Sa@
st, White $685..
MOLASSES-Choice 40942: Strictly
Prime 36(93S; Prime 30l932; Fair 25(9
%; !. Common 20@23; Centrifugal 17@21.
MESS PORK-slO@1O so.
BACON-S Shoulders 81, clear rib sides
So, clear sides 55(96.
DRY SALT MEAT-Lpose and packed
4s@44; shoulders, loose, Al.
HAMS Choice Sugar-cured 9l@ 10f
Plain canvassed and uncanvassed LOG
l0A.
LARD-Refined tierce 71(97s; pack
ers' tierce Ct; kettle 7; refined kegs "A
OH; packers kegs s@s4.
FLOUR Fancy choice IS 5O9s6
family So 25(G $3.50 ;trebles, low to choice,
81 621@S5; double extra 81 25@s4 so
single extra 50 rs; superfine SO 5O9;-
fine SO 50@3 rs.
CORN MEAL-Good to choice 50 45
50 80.
POTATOES 75c9S2 10 per Dbl.
ONIONS-S2 50@s2 IS per Dbl. fol
red and yellow.
RICE-Choice It, prime 61@64. good
6s@6t, fair 5f@6, ordinary 54@5f, com
mon 5@5t, No. 2 44944.
APPLES-None i'll market.
ORANGES-s6 @Ss none in market.
POULTRY-Old chickens $4@s4 SO
young So 50@s3, dncks So, geese 81
turkeys Sl6@slS per dozen.
Western 10@12, Creole 12(a
15c per dozen.
H1DES-According to quality 5000.
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The sensation now is that the
worms have come. We don't be-
lieve a word of it, and hereby pro-
pose to bet gill of chinqnapin
hulls against suit of paper clothes
that the cotton worm does nu in
jury TO the cotton crop iii Grant
parish this year. Come, now, rut
up or shut up.
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SPECIAL NOTICE!

The citizens of Grant parish are here
by notified that / will meet them at the
places named below for the purpose OF
Assessing and Registering:
Ward z, Montgomery. July /, 2 and 3.
:. 6, Fredieu's, July 5 and 6.
" l. Colfax, July =, 9 and 10.
/" 2, Mrs. Taylor's, July IL and IL.
" 3, Robt. Satcher's. July Is and 16.
4, Liberty Chapel, July IL and Is.
5, Union Precinct, July 10 and 10.
Twill return to Colfax July 25th, and
will keep my Office open at that place
from day to day until 18th of August.
j. O. GRAYSON, Assessor.
The tax payers of Grant parish are
hereby notified that l will accompany
the Assessor at the above named places
for the purpose of collecting taxes
Je22 c.. C. NASH, Tax Collector.
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We hope the colored people will
+ out and register, and vote
n lAe time comes. We are
|'ns a fight with corruption,
N5anl them to help establish a
/" government. Come ont and
Fsa hit and you will not re-
|" hereafter; Just try it one
sad you will be satisfied to
Fp9 down on the Democratic
\ ron this time forward.
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There is no secret about success
in hfe," said Commodore Wander
bilt; "all you have to do is to attend
to your business and go ahead
except one thing, added the Com
modore, "and that is, never tell
what you are going to do until
YOU have done It,.
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4 6olfaE Gbrunlfle.
'rrpnAY, JULY 6, 1878.

:, that there may be no mlsun-
W. ,;oos and disappointments when
Car such matters arrives we
~ ,.iu advance that no Candidates
he announced in the CHRoNI-
',... tbe same is paid for In adj
"a no communication or call
lEs.tes will be inserted unless ac-
Ia nv the money to pay TOR the
!. me rate of ten cents per line
Recommendations. This rule
/" ), he deviated from in any in
uuAer any circumstances, and
iii avoid any unpleasant mis-
s.,,,nlipc with us by bearing this
L. mind.
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A CARD.

CoLFAY, La, July l, 1873.
Whereas Mr.. H. NJ. Jeter seems to
think l have done him wrong by
placing a misconstruction on language
used by him at the last term of the Dis
trict Court, in regard to keeping order,
hereby tender him an apology for
any injury or injustice done him, as
my statements were entirely without
malice. r. o. KELLY.
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Es have bad rain everv day for
pssl week, accompanied by IA
supply Of Wild, thunder and
shing, bat none of tile storms
\ damaging,
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nee week m Jour own town. IS
OOO Outfit free. No risk. Reader
il you want business at which persons
of either sex can make great pay all the
time they work, write for particulars TO
IL. HALLETr a. CO., Portland, Maine.
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NJ crops continue to look fine,
yne fears are held that the
veather will produce worms.
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lat a eek We made the mistake
1ng tie word bushels" in
|d0i BARRELS" in speaking OF
+ Gny's brag potato crop. He
Piled seventy rows Of the Lon
Lady potato, expecting to
tns aboat thirty bushels. He
ge'en rows and got his thirty
pes out Of them. having made
|'A'en times as many as he had
h1is,l.
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Il. thank Mrs. A. A. Dean for a
Eo nice plums and large ana
|xous peaches.
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|Iny traffic in beeves at C0lfax
assumed Considerable impor-
b Of late, and an enterprising
|Glual is building a pen oppo-
|.;he iown, on Grant's Point, to
nfl shipping operations.
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|Ersr falling slowly

q, LIB. Elan has favored US
!. interesting Congressionl doc
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|Auuet playing is on the wane.
|, getting too hot to enjoy a
\ quarrel.
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|aalflales are said IL he plen
IS blackbefries III Jane, bis
h they have been slipping
|niso silently yon don't know
|F to fad them. Come out,
EFnen, and let all know who
EEhst You are.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-05-11
Hints About Post office Matters.

For general information we give
the following in regard to postal
charges, which ought to be known:
Many persons think that an IN
seated letter, with a one cent stamp,
will get to its destination. 1t won't,
and goes to the Dead Letter Office.
Ball tickets or printed invitations to
parties, with the words "cOmpli-
ments of with the name of the
sender, with a cent stamp, go the
same way, and are subject to letter
postage,
Packages Of merchandise, sam
pies or other matter Of third class
must contain no writing except the
address. The name and number of
articles can be printed or written in
the address and the words ''frOm"
giving the name of the sender
They must be packed so that the
Postmaster can readily examine
them. The law says:
1t is the duty of the Postmaster to
remove the wrappers from all mat
tiers not chargeable with letter post
age, in order that he may discover
if the packages contain anything
subject to a higher rate.
For the violation of this law the
penalty is five dollars in each case.
In regard to the forwarding of
letters, if they once pass out of the
possession of the Postmaster they
must be prepaid another rate before
they can be forwarded.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-05-11

A correspondent sends the follow
ing interesting facts to a Knoxville
exchange, from Rutledge, Granger
county:
The world, in its progress, may
forget this Otf-the-railrOad country.
1t is claimed to be the cradle of
much of Tennessee's greatness, and
malice, which is never mute, TetOTts
that it is also its graveyard. Hence
came John Cooke, the rival of jack
son, Sam. Bunch, James Williams,
Spencer Jarnagin, Clement G. Clay,
and other lights in Tennessee's his
tory. Here is the modest brick
house, with one room, twelve by
twenty, where the tailor, Andrew
Johnson, lived with his family, and
wrought at his trade. Here is the
wooded hillside where he made
his first political speech, and here
is the quiet old town, still sleeping
where William BlOut, the terrific
rial Governor located it, and named
it "Rutledge," after the family
name of his wife. 1t was erstwise
the resort of the "Clinchmanites,
where they met on public days and
held high revel; but now they have
a most respectable educational in
stitutiOn here, under the shadow
of which. the village rests in sObriety.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-05-11
Carrrieg Coneealed Keapons.

A Kentucky correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial winds up a
sensible article on this subject with
the following suggestions. The adj
vice applies to this locality as well
as to Kentucky:
"Let us have done with the I'M
easy, deprecatory, self-complimen-
tary style of dealing with man
slaughter, and try little honest,
outspoken vigorous denunciation of
its enormity, and Of the cowardice
which generally instigates it. Stamp
any one who goes about the streets
among peaceful people loaded down
with pistol or knife as blackguard
and a would be cowardly assassin.
That is the true remedy, and until
public sentiment shall be educated
to the point of regarding and prac-
tically treating it in this light, all
legislative enactments are simply
poWerless."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-05-11
why the HuRgarianS Hate RuSsia.
london Teleprapb

The Magyars are a vigorous,
proud and aggressive nationality,
and make good their claim to more
than the amount of home rule de-
manded by our own Irish members.
They have a hatred of Russia,
founded on her intervention at the
moment when their rebellion prom
ised to be successful; and their adj
miratiOn for Turkey springs, not
only from her resistance to their
own foe, but from her refusal to
give up the Hungarians who took
refuge in her territory. They have
not forgotten that the Sultan defied
the threats of Gar, It is perfectly
natural that they should dislike
Russia and admire Turkey. But
they have a more practical reason
for hostility to any federation of
Russian objects. They know that
if the treaty of San StefanO were to
be be enforced, Austria would be
obliged to protect her own interests
by extending her sovereignty over
some of the Slav provinces of Tur-
key, and that she would thus become
more of Slav Empire. 1t is not
surprising that they should be hos
tile to any change that would tend
to lessen the political importance of
PeSth.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-05-11
A Bit of Married Experience.

/ married my wife about thirty
five years ago. The ceremony was
performed about seven o'clock in
the morning. Before retiring that
evening we had a good talk with
each other, and the result has sweet
ened our entire lives. We agreed
that each should always be watchful
and careful, never, by word or act,
to hurt the feelings of the other.
We were both young, hot-tempered,
both positive in our likes and dis
likes, and both somewhat eXacting
and infieXible-iust the material for
a life of cOnjugal warfare. Well,
for a few years we found it hard
work to always live by our agree
ment. Occasionally mot Often) a
word or look would slip off the
tongue or face before it could be
caught or suppressed; but we never
allowed the sun to go down upon
our wrath. Before retiring at night
on such occasions there was always
confession and forgiveness, and the
culprit would become more careful
in future.
Our tempers and dispositions be-
came gradually more congenial, so
that after few years we came to be
one in reality, as the matrimonial
ceremony had pronounced us NOM
inalIy. In thinking back we find
that for more than twenty years our
little agreement has been unbroken,
and there has been no occasion for
confession and forgiveness. In bus
mess we have had adversely and
prosperity, failure and success. We
raised a family of children about us,
and we are simple enough to believe
that we have better children and
better grandchildren because of our
little agreement. Under such a con-
tract religiously kept, no ill-natured
children will be reared, and no boys
will find the streets and bar-rOOms
more pleasant than home. To make
a good wife or a good husband re-
quires the cooperation of both.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-05-11
the Antecedents of disease.

Among ii e antecedents of disease are in
ertness in the circulation of the blood, an
unnaturaIly attenuated condition of the
physique, indicating that the life current is
deficient in nutritive properties, a wan, bag
gard look, inability to digest the food, loss of
appetite, sleep and strength and a sensation
OF unnatural 1angor. All these may be re-
garded as among the indicia of approaching
disease, which will eventually attack the
system and overwhelm it, lift is not built
up ahd fortified in advance. lnv1gorate,
then, without loss of time, making choice of
the greatest yitalizing agent extant, Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, an elixir which has
given health and Vigor to nyriadS of the
sick and debilitated, which is avouched by
physicians and analysts to be pure as
well as effective, which is immensely pop
abroad, and which has been for years past
one of the leading medicinal staples of
America
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-05-11

a Democratic rule Of only a few
years, we had, instead of a debt of
$43, 052, 625 80, which, on the first
day Of January, 1870, hung over the
State like the harbinger of financial
ruin and distress, we had debt of
less than twenty one million dollars.
Under radical rule we had disfran-
chisements, confusion. anarchy,
military rule, profiigacy, extrava-
gance and corruption. Under
Democratic rule everything is
changed. Peace and quiet pervades
every part of the State. The State
government is economically adj
ministered, and law and order
everywhere prevails. The same
economy and reform, the same
quietude and the same obedience to
law has prevailed in all the south
ern States so soon as the Democrats
secured control. Talk about the
failure of Democracy Contrast the
condition Of Mississippi under Dem
ocratic rule with its condition I'M
der the rule of Ames. The Demo-
Gratis have reduced taxes to one
half of the former rates, and the
State government is a model of
honesty and economy. The same
thing may be said of Arkansas,
Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and,
indeed, all the southern States and
the same results will follow so soon
as the Democrats get possession Of
the national government. The
KnOw-nOthing party, which sprung
into existence so suddenly and
with no more promise than the
National party, after a fitful career
of two years, during which time it
was busy in pointing out the fail
ures of the Democratic party, was
swallowed up by the Republican
party and in less than three months
the National party will be absorbed
by the same organization, which
has the happy faculty of making
itself the refuge for disgruntled
Democratic office-seekers.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-05-11
A New Set Of RuIes for Counting.

A New Set of Rules for Counting.
The attention of the fathers of
manageable daughters is called to
the following set of rules which
Dispatch reporter saw hanging in o
front parlor, few days ago. They
are evidently formulated with great
care, and seem to cover the whole
ground:
l. Gentlemen, whose heads are
anointed with BEARS oil, must not
lean against the wall, as it soils the
paper and renders frequent and eX-
pensive repairs necessary.
2. The piano stool is dedicated TO
music, and gentlemen who put
their feet upon it will not be toll
Grated.
3. Kissing, except on the front
steps, is strictly prohibited.
4. No proposals will be enter
tanned except upon ten days notice
in writing, accompanied by satisfac-
tory references of good moral char
acter. The applicant to be subject
to an examination in the rudiments
of finance at the option of parents.
5. Gentlemen remaining later
than IL o'clock will be charged extra
for gas.
6. Talking in loud tones and bois-
ferrous laughing after O'clock must
not be INDUCED in, under pain OF
immediate dismissal.
z. No liquors furnished to minors.