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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-06-27
He WANTED TO SUBSCRIBE.

We got new subscriber on Wed
nesdaV. When We ans Hered his
knock at the door, he Sided in, took
off his hat and asked
''1s dis de newspaper shop ?"
We told him it was.
"An' is you de boss fo'eman OF
de wuks ?"
We satisfied our colored visitor
on that point also, and he continu-
ed
81 fOtch in some baskets to sell to-
day, an l promised Ebahneezah-
dat's my oldes' chiIe-I promised
dat boy I'd prescribe for a paper.
He kin read he kin, an he's alters
pesterin' the ole CONAN an me for
books an papers. SIP )se we orter
curridge de chile's dlspensity. How
d'pe sell yu' papers ?''
"Two dollars a year."
''All de same price ?"
eyes"
''Let me observe one, eff you
please -
I'VE handed him paper, and he
unfolded it, upside down, scanning
it critically on both sides.
''LoOks Ike dar's sight o. let
term in dat. l don't got my spec
tacles dis mornin', 1 can't persactly
tell il it's de MeIican language,
We assured him that it was.
I'm de Democratic or Republican
branch, sab ?''
democratic,
''Dat's de kline OBJ a book dat'll
suit Ebahneezah, an I s'pose I'd
better prescribe for dis paper at onst.
Two dollahs a year you say, sab !?
How much is dat a month";"
About sixteen and two-third
cents"
FPS not de man to min expense
whar do propha eddicatin' ob my
chilluns in consarned.. L hol' dat
it's ebbery purson's duty to culti-
vate his Outspring to de stent oh his
ab:eness. Prescribe de name OBJ
EbahneeZah Snow on 20 books.
Dat's it. If you'd jes' put a few
picters in Eb's paper it 'Hd please
de chillen mightily.-Here's five
cents, sab. Send de paper 'long an
if it gives sassefaction I'll come in
an prescribe for full month. Good
n0rnin' '"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-06-27
SNAKE FASCINATION.

We borrowed from Forest and
Strean, not long ago, a very inter-
esting account of the movements of
the black snake in exercising the
singular charm over its victims that
subjects them irresistably to It's fatal
power. In the case related, the fas-
cination was eXerted upon huMan
observer, who had strength to break
the spell before it was completed.
The paper which published the Incl
dent now brings forward another, of
no less interest, in which bird had
fallen within the baleful influence of
the charmer. The story is recount
ed by witness Of the scene, who
on passing through the woods, one
June afternoon, was aroused by
hearing strill, discordant notes, as
of bird whose nest is endangered.
PausinG to investigate the cause, he
discovered, about twenty feet from
him, a cat-bird sitting on a horizont-
al branch Of low tree, and pouring
out the tones that has arrested his
attention.
1t seemed in great distress (stated
the narrator), as, fluttering its wing
and swinging its body to and fro, it
repeated the plaintive cries which
first drew my attention to it. In
all its seeming agony it moved not
from the limb, but clunx to it as If
ii were its only protection. In Won
der gazed, but not long. A rust
ling in the leaves below drew my
eyes from the bird. STOPPING,
crawled nearer and nearer, l looked
again, and on the ground, beneath
the branch on w ich the bird was
perched, was Il black snake from
two and half to three feet in length.
with body In close coil, head erect,
and moving with an undulating
| pendulous motion, tongue flashing,
and eyes riVeted on its victim only
three feet above him. Again he
rusted the leaves with his tail, and e.,
quickly withdrawing it, left but a
small porCiOn-perhaps three or four
inclleS-out of the coil, which part
he caused to vibrate with dazzling
rdpidity. The motion of it's head
increased. / fancied its eyes gained
brilliancy in its eagerness. All this
time the poor bird continued its
cries and flutterings but, as l
watched, its struggles grew weaker,
its tlutterings less. 1t would sit for
time with dropping heai AMI clos
ed eyes, as though asleep, and then,
as if suddenly awakened would fee-
bly, raise its wings and utter a low,
sad cry. AT last these ceased, and
the poor bird, after vainly Strngg-
ling to retain its hold upon the
limb, fell as if lifeless to the ground.
Immediately tho snake uncoiled
himself and stretched out his head
to grasp the bird. At that moment
killed him. l gently raised the
bird from the ground, and, placing
it in the pllm of my hand, l could
feel the violent pulsAtions of its
heart, as, with closed eyes and tight
ly-clenched feet, it Law inanimate.
carried it quite a distance before
the first signs of consciousness ap-
peared. Then a tremor ran through
its body, its feet unclasped, It's
wings made a slight motion, it's
eyes opened, and, raising itself on
its feet, it stood tottering. Then,
as if endued with new life and
strength, its spread it wings and
swiftly flew to its native woods.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1878-06-27

al iNl EN- on the L. c. S S. c. r. R., mas 4
reputation of coo, II thriving business
centre, and controls the trade ofan average
radius of over eight miles, in which the
JOURNAL has larger circulation than all
other county papers combined.
Advertisers lciL please make note OF thiS
National Republican., 1878-08-30
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.

The English journals are discussing the
question OF reciprocity treaty between
this Government and that of Canada. We
have had such an arrangement with our
Canadian neighbors in former years, but
never under the true principles of reciproc-
ity, and we do not see, so long as the Can
adas are provinces of Great Britain, how it
is possible to have such treaty, except un-
der the principles and laws of free trade.
The former treaty was not equitable to
American interests. 1t threw our markets
open to Canadian products, ailording them
an equal chance of competition with our
own, while, on the other hand, no CORE
products Of this country a, competitors in
the Canadian markets. The forests of Cau-
ada gluttcd our market with lumber; Their
wheat, corn and other cereals came in direct
competition with our own; and thus Can
ada, though n foreign country, extending
along our border for some two thousand
miles, found an advantageous market for ii,
products without any corresponding benefit,
TO this side, for the simple reason that oui
products found little or no market on tho
Canadian side of the line. For this reason th'
treaty was ubrogutcd years ago and should
never be restored under existing circum
stances.
Whenever the Canadas are sufficiently in
love with American markets and institu~
tiOns to become States within our Union
and accept membership in the family OF the
United States, then they will be assured of &
reciprocity and trade as free rs now exist.
between Pennsylvania and New York and
Ohio and Indiana but the benefits Of such
reciprocity should never be extended to any
foreign nation, or the provinces of a foreign
Power, 80 long as we adhere to tariff loI
revenues. Indeed, such policy would mu
terially interfere with the favored nation
clause Of our existing treaties, aud afford
cause Of dissatisfaction and, pcrchance
difficulty with other nations. II
Canada desires to be put on the
footing Of Interstate trade let 1t come
into the family Of states and then ii will
share all these benefits that are enjoyed by
them. But US an outsider it cannot cxpcc
! to be seated to the table and share its Wand,
without contributing To the family larler
Annexation is the only treaty this country
should consider, and if, as some of the Eng,
National Republican., 1878-08-30
TIE TRUE FRIEND.

Democracy, which has always pretended
to be the friend of the workingman, is at
last showing its true colors, and the thou
sands of honest workingmcn who have here
toiore been deludcd by its professions are
renouncing their allegiance TO ii and either
identifying themselves with the great Re-
publican party or acting independently of
either organization. The past several years
Of Congressional legislation has no doubt
bscn disastrous TO the worlingmcn, and
they now seek TO find remedy But will
they lind that remedy by deserting the Re-
publican party?
The same demagogery which enabled
the Democracy to keep control of the coun-
try and its measures for nearly seventy years
influenced the Democratic House of Rep
rcscntatives since the Forty-third Congress,
when it refused to make necessary appro-
priations on the score Of economy! The
Republican party saw the necessity of cur
failing expenditures and preparing the
way for resumption, but it .never refused
appropriations that were beneficial and
needed, and especially when they were
made TO give employment to the idle yet
deserving mechanics and laborer that were
fast increasing in numbers throughout the
country. But review Of the Congressional
proceedings Of the FOrty-fourth and Forty
| fifth Congresses will show that the De-
mocracy did refuse to make such appropria-
tions. When the Appropriation Committee
| l.. = -, Ia, I,..t II.
found that sums necessary for carrying OIL
! the business of the Government were omit
ted, and if the bills as reported had been
passed by the Senate aud signed by tho
/ President, the Government and the people
would have suffered disastrOusly in cOnSe
quencc. But good and faithful Republicans
| in the House of Representatives like Eos.
TER, GARFIELD, HALE and Others fought
so dctcrminedly to incorporate the neces-
sary amounts in the bills, and increase tn c
mcagrc appropriations for public buildings
throughout the country, that when til,
bills passed the House and went 10 the Sen.
ate they were in far better shape than when
| first presented. though far from answering
the wishes OF the Republican legislators
But the Democracy in the House and Sem
ate, especially in the former, opposed any
thing looking like liberality in the appro,
prations, and cried out those dolclul words
Fraud!' Economy" whenever the Re-
pubicans sought to assist the workingmer
of the county.
But with Republican lower House in
the Forty Congress there will be diff
ferent measures enacted for the benefit of
the sons of toll" Then let Democrat ,
Senate oppose them The issue will be
brought before the country in such man
ner rs to make IL unmistakeable The
workingman will know who are his friends
and Democracy, which has ever been the
synonym for demagogery, corruption, and
deceit, will then receive its death blow and
Rcpublicanism at last be fully recognized
and endorsed everywhere throughout the
Union as the true friend Of the mechanic
the laborcr, and all honest workers fol
their bread
National Republican., 1878-08-30
PERSONAL.
The Graphic calls him Marble Msntel.

THE Graphic calls him Marble Msntel.
MRS scoTT.sIDDoSs Is in san Francisco.
Ex-Governor HENDRICKS Is in Philadel-
phia.
FRANK W. ANGEL, of New York, Is at
Wormley's.
Mn. PARKE GOODWIN will return to America
Hon. JAY COOKE, of Philadelphia, Is at the
Riggs House.
THEODORE THOMAS salary rs director of the
Cincinnati Conservatory Of Music is TO be
5000.
SENATOR JOHNSTON, Of Virginia, will 20 to
Pennsylvania to lecture about emigration to
Virginia.
Mrs. JENKs Is In New Orleans, but tho vel.
low fever will take warning from Ben Butler
and let her alone.
The house in which Bayard Taylor was
born, at Kcnnctt Square, Chester County, has
been destroyed by fire.
THE Rev. Robert Collycr, of Chicago, has
been preaching TO large congregations at Leeds
and other places In England.
"IASDsoME FRANK" Boston milkmap,
has married one Of the wealthicst and most
beautiful widows at the Hub.
THERE is a good chance for some pretty
American girl to 90 and start business in Lon.
don as leading society beauty.
ANNIE W. JACKSON, NJ. d., q member Of tho
faculty Of the Woman's Medical College Of
Boston, beqneathcd her body for dissection.
II DR.. Mary Walker wants to avoid further
molestation she should make IL public that
she has pistol pocket in her-well, on tho
premises.
JOSEPH PROCTOR, the popular actor whose
summer residence is at Manchester. by. .tho-Sea,
has just been appointed a justice Of the peace
for seven years.
DI MuRsRA has interesting travelling com.
panions. When she reached Saratoga she was
accompanied by parrot, two magpics, a
| mocking-bird, u cat, and dog.
A NORTH CAROLINA editor declares that the
man who will read atncwspaper three or four
years without paying for It will pasture goat
oil the grave Of his grandfather.
\ LADY In Connecticut has novel barome.
ter---a tree-toad-which she keeps In an uncov-
cred jar. small ladder Is at the service Of
the toad, which never mounts It save when Il
| is about to rain.
| THERE Is a crystal pool, or words to that ef.
feet, at Kirkwood, No., in which the village
bellies and beaux bathe. The prevailing cos.
tunes arc thus described by the st. Louis
Globe. Democrat: The ladies wear pink stock.
ings, white Turkish trousers of muslin, gauzy
sacks, and broad d-brimmed straw hats. The
bathing costumes Of the gents consist Of white
| linen drawers, net undershirts, aud straw hat
the shirt being held down by sinken, like
| those Ct q seine"
National Republican., 1878-08-30

GENERAL Ben BrILEE's so-cullcd open
letter to Register SCHUrIELD gave pcrmis-
sion TO that eiuincntly courteous official to
expose his ,BITLER'Sj bond account 10
any lying and rascally newspaper scrib-
" bier" who might apply to him for that
privilege. This jug-handled permission de-
barred TIE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN from
the coveted view Of Judge SCHOFIELD's
books. 1t seems, however, that our even
ing cotcmpoury, the str, and any number
Of the substitute or pro hnt. correspondents
for outside" journals, made diligent appli-
cation and were rctIiscd-pOssibly because
they were also debarred. lIe this us 1t may,
the door posts Of the Treasury building are
us yet uuornamcntcd with II large or small
assortment of journalistic ears, In fact, the
ears Of the guild in Washington are safe
from such injury, and will be Of use to
their individual owners after the next fall
election in listening to the joyful news Of
the defeat Of the Iegnant American dema-
gOguc. The truth IL the average newspaper
mans ear is not calculated for such ignO-
minIOus use. 1t il delicate pcarl-tintcd
organ, shaded like the rim of a small, rare,
and beautiful sea shell, and not at all like
the gigantic aurcular growth which enables
National Republican., 1878-08-30

GENERAL JOE JoHSsToN's nomination for
Congress in the Richmond lVa.) district will
not dishearten the 'army"-by which we
mean the regular forces of the General Gov
ernment-for II is known that he is opposed
to reduction thereof He seems to be pos
sessed of an idea that long and honorable
service in the military arm of the Govern
ment is not necessarily a disqualification
for further service in the same line and,
what is better, he does not seem to he nl-
bued with the design to reduce the army
now so that il may be increased again under
the patronage of some future Democratic
administration.
National Republican., 1878-08-30

PROBABLY one Of the strongest Of the
many strong and able speeches yet made in
the pending Ohio campaign was that of the
Hon. CHARLES GRosvENoR, at Hillsboro
last week. But In some respects IL was one
of the weakest. lie stood up, rs the phrase
goes, firmly and squarely for honest money
and honest dealing in our finances general
ly, and then weakened on the Southern
question, as follows
I would not menace the South with solid
North, but | would hold on to the Republican
organization as the only party that can be re-
He'd upon In the emergency of q second rebel
lion, and | would aid the LAMARs and STEpH.
Ems of the South to stand up against the rein
augnrJtion of the shotgun policy and trust
somewhat to returning reason to carry on the
work of disintegratng the solid South,
which is already manfcstihg itself in Tenncs.
see aud elsewhere.
Mr.. GRosvEYoR is right in his assump-
tion Of the stalwart loyalty of the Republi-
can party in the event of second rebel
lion,' but wrong in the assumption that
LAMAR or STEPHENS are engaged in any
effort to oppose the shotgun policy in the
South. If they were honest in their pre-
frssiOns of such opposition, LAMAR would
at once resign his bloodstained seat in the
Senate, and STEPHENS would concede lie.
gitimate Republican majority in Georgia.
The slightest sympathy or any kind of en-
courugemcnt extended to these men and the
class of political hypocrites they represent
will be worse than wasted. STEPHENS is
an insidious intriguer, who bolted his party
CAUCUS the better to serve his partisan OBJ
iccts. LAMAR is . JANUs-faced Gushcr
who talks conciliation while enjoying the
blood-red fruits of violence. 1t is strange
indeed, that Mr.. GRosvESoR should con.
tinuc to he deceived by such barefaccd
hypocrisy.
National Republican., 1878-08-30

POPULAR sentiment in Mexico as regards
the Rio Graude border difficulties seems to
he controlled by false assumption that
the United States Government is desirous
of perpetrating an outrage upon that conn
try, instead of simply Furnishing outrages
committee by Mexicans upon American citi-
zens. In the City of Mexico the Greascrs
are putting on their war-paint and organiz-
ing anti-American clubs from which fire.
quent prom""ciamcnios are issued. They all
read very much alike. and rs follows:
Come on, yo who prate Of civilization and
progress. Come aud rob us of our liberty and
boast of your strength We will spit in your
faces and cover You with intamy. The coun.
try shall be converted into one cncampment:
no noise but that OF arms shall be heard no cry
but Long live Mexico
National Republican., 1878-08-30
THE SECRET SERVICE AND THE RoNDs.

THE SECRET SERVICE AND THE BONDS.
We have received note from JAMES j.
BROOKS, EST, chief of the Secret Service Di-
vision of the Treasury Department,
marked "personal'-and hence we do not
feel at liberty to use it entire
which asks If we were not mis-
taken in stating that we obtained our
information in the BCTLER-bonds question
from the Secret Service Division. In reply
to this inquiry, We take early opportunity
of saying that the information was not OBJ
tanned at the Office of the division, neither
was it furnished by the chief of the divi-
sion. 1t was brought to our office by an
accredited member Of the secret service
force written out in substance as il ap-
pearcd, with an urgent request that il be
made public, under the assurance that if
the permission sought was granted the
truth of the statement would be verified
by the records of the Registers Office 1t
was under these circumstances that the
paragraph which has disgruntled General
BrTLER found its way TO the public.
When our informant returns to the city, il
General BUTLER's permission unseals the
secresy Of the Registers Office,
we expect that he will either
verify the statement or authorize
us to say that he was mistaken as to the
facts Until then we propose to leave the
matter where it is, with this explanation,
which fully exonerates all members of the
secret service force except our informant,
whose name will remain iacoynito until he
has an opportunity to perform his promised
undertakings.
In this connection we will say right here
that, while we are deSirous of obtaining
early news, and are uniformly up with our
neighbors in that regard, we prefer not to
give what purports TO be news unless il is
intrcnchcd in truth. We dislike to be be-
trayed into what may prove an act Of injus'
tice, and have no thanks for the person who
misleads us into such a position. 1t is no
part of the mission of respectable Journal
ism TO misrepresent public or private act'
and characters, and hence we shall feel in
dignant If we find that this BUTLER matteI
has been misrcpresented and we have been
betrayed into wrong.
National Republican., 1878-08-30

BIAISE has lorm ed n copartnership with
JIM WILSON and jim HARLAN, under the
Grm name of JIM, JIM 4 JIM, for traffic in
bloody shirts.-st. L0Ui Times
And the Times might have added that
SAN RANDALL, SAM TlLDEN, and SAM
Cox have formed a copartnership under the
firm name OF SAM, SAM * SAM, for traffic
in Modification and Southern States Rights
here les. When these two firms get into
solid competition before the people the
jNIs will prove to be more than the equal
OF the SANS. Bloody-shirt stock is on the
rise, Mr SINGLETON bulIcd it not a little
when he declared his allegiance to the State
o! Mississippi to be supreme over his 10y
ally 10 the General Government and Sena-
National Republican., 1878-08-30

THE New York 7ribr" indulges the fol-
lowing line Of remarks on the bond ques-
tion, which has stirred General BUTLER up
to his very depths, and until he east up
I" mire and dirt
The REpUBLICAS, referred to by General
BuTI.Eg IN his open letter to the Register Of
the ! rcasury concerning the registration of
United States bonds in his name, seems
tu have cOnfOundcd United States bonds with
those Of the District of Columbia which are
only guaranteed by the Government. Tie
TumOr which doubtless formed the basis of
the article which excited the Generals ire
credit, him with the ownership Of the latter
class OF bonds, not those of the United States
and the current impression IS that he holds
them, Or the most Of them, ~ he ha, perfect
right To- do, in the name Of his private scCre.
tary, and not iu hi, own name. II !, really
nobody- busincs, what kind OF bonds General
BUTLER invests his harl-Carncd cash in, and
the matter would have no public Interest il
he had not asserted IN his ScwbuTypOrt speech
that all hi, wealth wa, invested in real estate
or business enterprises.
National Republican., 1878-08-30

crown Of rags by the Thurmans, and cruoifod
by copperheads and PARTICLES on the cross OF irea
son and now, IN It's reascendcd estate and glory
Of maturod strength, the bondmen to whom Il gave
freedom. the heroes TO whom II gave victory the
patriots 70 whom II restored country, have sworn
that It's old arch. enemy shall not cruelty II anew
BY Substituting the worship Of their spurious god
but receiving from gratitude q crown Of silver and
gold, II shall reign.
National Republican., 1878-08-30

THE bankruptcy Of the Khedive of Egypt
is matter of national concern to this coun-
try. A number Of ex-Canfederate officers
arc thereby thrown out of employment, or
upon the tender mercies of our Democratic
House
National Republican., 1878-08-30

SENATOR THURMAN will proceed to re-
peat the experiment Of twisting his polt-
zeal neck seventeen ways for Sunday at
Athens, Ohio, tomorrow. 1t will bchoove
him to be little more explicit in his expla-
nation Of his present financial theories than
he was at Hamilton last week. His mem
ory has been refreshed since then regarding
his past record by the kind attentions of
his eanc,t Gricnls Of the Nernhlican press.