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Employment for Ladies' and Gentlemen
at Home.

Our attention has been called to some new
and labor-saving cooking utensils-recentIy
invented. One of which, the Universal
Weight and Measuring Utensl, for weighing
sugar. -four. butter, aud measuring molasses,
milk and all kinds of liquids used in cooking,
entirely superceding expensive scales. The
Patent Centennial Cake Pan, the best and
most convenient Cake Pan ever made, and
which every housckcepcr will have when they
see its advantages over all others. Also, the
Kitchen Gem, plated wire boiler to hang in-
side of an ordinary pot, for boling all kinds
of vegetables, eggs, etc, which when done,
can be removed .at once perfectly dry without
lifting the heavy sooty lot off the stove.
These goods are sold exclusively through
agents to families and offer splendid oppor-
tunity to some reliable lady or gentleman can
vasser of this county to secure the agency for
a very profitable business. For terms, terri
tory, etc. write to L. +. Brown Il Co., No.
242, Elm street, Cincinnati, o.
June li-w3
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LETTER FROM KANSAS.
BENSrNeroN, KS, June 15, 1873.

BENNINGTON, KS, June 10, 1873.
EDITORS CoLuMBrAN.-As promised to
write again shall fulfill my promise. We
are now almost in the midst of a new rail-
road, the trains are to be running by July
End. Tracklaying is progressing at the rate
of mile per day, the road is graded to
Minneapolis, they shall be to Bennington
next week. The track runs within about
one hundred yards from our place.
We are nearly through harvesting our
winter grain, and we can say that, take the
whole Valley we have a splendid crop this
year, grain is filled very well and no doubt
will yield good. Corn and oats are looking
fine, no such thing as failure in crops this
year again;by the way all things appear, there
will be plenty of peaches as all the trees are
loaded heavily. We have fine growing wealth.
er, we have now about one hundred and
seventy-fve acres under cultivation, we broke
about miles of ground for hedgerow and
intend planting the same with plants now
growing from the seed we sowed this last
spring.
1t is surprising to see the emigrants COM
ing in. Last week II teams went up theVal-
ley in one train, all emigrants. We see them
pass up the Valley day after day.
Land is still rising in valuation, for in
stance one whole section joining ours on the
west, was last month offered for 800 per
acre, and certain parties were going to take it
at that then he would not sell, now he
asks $1,000. Some land joining us on the
east, last summer was offered at $3.50 now
| they ask $1,000 for that. In fact land in two
years from now will be worth twice what it
is even now. If emigration keep on as it
has since we are out here, very large emf
grafton from Pennsylvania.
Free ride lexcursion) on the new railroad
the 4th of July told you in my last that
trains were to run by April 2nd, the time
was extended to July 2nd, too short time
to do the grading, and too much rain caus-
ing delay.
| / receive the COLUMBIAN every week aud
read it too. How far is the new Jail under
headvay and how is the Normal School
progressing? / attended there two years
ago and think it is the finest institution of
the kind / ever saw. DR.. Griswold was the
principal, l was very much pleased with the
school.
What has become of Kelley 'the bum ?"
How about that new railroad that was To-
Gated on the south bank of the river at your
place? | have heard but very little about it
a few words in the COLUMBIAN once, but
nothing since. Is it to be completed
We built new house and are living in the
same now, a good strong two story frame
house.
We cut our harvests with seif.binders,
binds with wire, takes but one man to run
the machine, we run six foot cut, and can
on smooth ground cut 90 acres per day by
changing horses.
| Hoping to receive an answer to those few
questions asked, / close.
| Yours &C.,
| +, w. MILLER
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THE USURY LAW.

The Pittsburgh Commercial says the some.
what surprising fact has just transpired there
that the Usury bill which was pending
before the last session of our State Legisla.
ture, and which was supposed to have been
defeated, was actually passed upon reconsid-
Grafton. The bill, as it now stands, restricts
the rate to 6 per cent. and makes its provis-
ions apply to all banking corporations in the
State, thus attacking the specially chartered
organizations.
Whether the act is in violation of the
Constitution or not, the Courts will deter
mine. 1t is fair to presume that it does not
violate vested rights, or the Legislature
would not have passed it, nor would the
Attorney General and Governor have ap.
proved it.
:. But it is eminently just that no bank,
corporation, saving fund or individual should
have special privileges in the matter of loan
ing or borrowing money. If the loaning of
money is to be matter of legislatation, that
legislation should be equitable, just, and
equal. If untrammeled by legislation, then
money as commodity or medium OF ex-
change, every person of mature age would
be competent to make contract for the loan
or hire of money, the same as he can now
legally do for horse or farm.
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Oh Whose Arm lie Leans.

Mr.. John Sherman, Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States, appears in
public, on an occasion of interest and to
him of great solemnity, leaning on the arm
of a woman for support This woman, for
several days past, has been communicating
herself When she talks on other subjects,
there is too much reason to believe that her
statements are to be taken with many grains
of allowance. When she speaks OF herself,
we will concede her description TO be truth
full.
This woman is one Mrs. jerks, of whom
we have had occasion to discourse already.
A letter was intrusted to Mrs. jerks by
friend, Mr.. Weber, to be delivered to Mr..
John Sherman, at the time one of the visit
to her own statement, she opened this letter
and read ii. 1t demanded written pledges -
such as he had already given orally-of Mr..
Sherman. This white souled" woman, ac-
cording to her own story, "was disguised
with Weber for presuming to demand writ
ten pledges from such man as John Sher-
man." And so the white souled woman
wrote or dictated just such letter as Mr..
Weber requested, and signed John Sher-
mans name TO it Her own estimate of this
performance is given very briefly in her
own words, She says: "H aoas small qf-
fair"
| What importance Mrs. jerks attaches to
| PERJURY we are not advised. We are left Ia
infer her estimate of the gravity of one
crime by her own statement of her views OF
another of corresponding Nervousness. For
gerry she esteems "a small affair"
In reference to cerkship which Mrs
jerks at one time held in the Treasury De
partment, she testified 81 don't think the
Government made much by my services
went there almost every day
when had nothing else 10 do
We suspect Mrs. jerks will prove just a
Improbable to Mr.. Secretary Sherman a
she did to the Government When b,
promenades-to speak iguratively but aptl,
before the whole country leaning ON tn
arm of this woman, every one already be
gins to perceive that he leans upon frail, i
not broken, reed.-M Y. Sun.
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Mr.. VIM. H. Armstrong, who narrowly
missed being the candidate of the Nationals
for Governor, AMI who would have made sad
havoc:in the Cameron-Hoyt ranks had he
been nominated, has fallen back into the Re-
publican lines. 1t isn't to be expected that
he will take very much heart in the cause
that he lately intended to defeat by leading
the Nationals, but it is probable that he has
less heart for the success of the new party
that wsltzed with him all around the politi-
cal boards and then gladdened Cameron,
Hoyt, Mackey and Quay by nominating the
other fellow. He will be likely to take the
Hoyt ticket as the choice of unpalatable
evils, and leave to other tongues the wagginp
that may be wanted on the stump.-Phila-
de{Dhid Tiyaes
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The Filz John Porter Inquiry.

WEST POINT, June 24.-The board of of.
hcers appointed by the President to reopen
the cases of William A. Hsmmond, late Sur
geon General of the army, and Iajor Gem
eral Fitz John Porter convened to-day. In
General Porter's case it is understood that
new evidence has been discovered which
Was not pre- eviously attainable, aud which
would have materially influenced the court
before which he IVES tried and found guilty
Of disobedience to orders in not responding
to General Pope's orders for him to reinforce
the latter's command at the second battle OF
Bull Run. The utmost publicity is to be
given to the proceedings.
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An Amusing Thing in History.

One of the most amusing things in history
is the harangue of General William Tecum-
sch Sherman to the West Point graduates.
The hero of Atlanta and, shall we say Shi-
loh stood up in the presence of the eighteen
or twenty callow, blushing young soldiers,
unassigned, and vehemently assured them
that though Rutherford b. Hayes was mild
hammered man he could fight upon occasion
with the best of 'em, and when it came to
battling for his rights he would brace up
uocom,nonly. In the meantime these strip
plings must know, for ii is their general who
tells them, that it is their duty to support
the dc (acto government with their lives if
need be. Great heavens suppose one or
all of them should prove recreant l-Ex.
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Chester N. Farr, Esq. private secretary to
Governor Hartranft, has been on visit to
his home in Reading, and having been asked
by a reporter for the Eagle of that city what
truth there is in the reported candidacy of
Governor Hartranft for the U. S. Senator
ship, replied: "None whatever The OPP
position to the Camerons in Pennsy lvania
are naturally looking toward some person
of prominence, responsibility and standing
to organize their forces and rally them, and
it appears they have selected the go vernon.
He does not sympathize with them nor en-
courage them, and will not be a candi date. "
The Columbia Spy will now be obliged to
look up another candidate. .-Pdtri0t.
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Mrs. Surratt's innocence.

Ben Pitman, the we'll known phonogra-
pber of this city, was interviewed to-day as
to his personal knowledge concerning the
trial and execution of Mrs. Surratt for the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln. His at
tention was first called to the statement OF
relative to the Innocence Of Mrs. Surratt,
anG, in answer 70 the Heraid correspondents
questions, Mr.. Pitman communicated the
following information: He said that he was
erDment in the assassination trial, the Sons
of Liberty invC 'tigation and the congress-
iona Inquiries into the New Orleans and
Memphis riots, and consequently of the Ku-
Kux nAls,all of which gave him a peculiar
insight into the yet unwritten history of
those momentous events. II have no doubt"
said Mr.. Pitman, "ot the correctness OF Mr..
Ford statement of Mrs.Surratt's innocence;
assassination trial were due to the theory
Mr.. Stanton entertained, that Booth was the
active instrument in great conspiracy, the
dictatory power Of which was the rebel gov
eminent. Mrs Surratt was hanged for COM
plicity in the assassination plot, of which
she was entirely ignorant, and poor Spang-
Ter was sent to the Dry Tortugas because a
long rope was found in his carpet-sack, with
which it was supposed Mr.. Lincoln was to
be bound, when in fact no other use was to
be made of it than the catching of crabs."-
Cincinnati dispatch to ", Y. Herald
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No WORK FOR THE MATTHEWS COM.
MlTTEE.

The committee of the United States Sem
ate appointed to investigate the charges
against Senator Matthews of being princi.
pal actor in the fraud by which the election
Of Hayes was accomplished, met in WASH
ington on on the 2lst inst, James E. Ander-
son appeared before them, but refused to tes'
tify to anything unless the committee would
allow him to have counsel. This was refused
and Anderson persisted whereupon the COM
mittee adjourned to meet at the call of the
chairman. Congress not being in session
the witness could not be punished for con.
tempt.
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Another Nellie Arrested.

PittsbuIg, June 26.-Henry Devlin, an-
other member of the Mollie Mcguire gang,
which committed so many depredstions al
Irwin, Westmoreland county, was arrested
at Oil City yesterday by one of Pinkerton's
Detectives, and is now in jail at Greensburg
He fed when parties recently arrested made
confessions, and detectives have been in
search of him ever since. He is charged
with completely in the murder of Joseph
Carol in 1876 Detectives are in active pur.
suit of two others concerned in the same
crime.
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The National Labor -Greenback candidate
for Governor is thrifty gentleman. He
breaches the gospel of labor at nightfall, and
in the day time attends to his duties as a
juror in the United States District Court and
Uncle Sam pays his travelling expenses and
his board bill. This does very well for Mr.,
Mason, but 1t is measure of contraction
rather than imitation. If he would let some
other citizen serve as juror, and pay his
own campaign expenses, there would be a
greater diffusion of currency in the country
and he would contribute something to the
elaboration of his own theories .-Phiiadel-
phid Record.
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Malarial Feyer.

Malarial Fevers, constipation, torpidity OF
the liver and kidneys, general debility, ner-
vous and neuralgiac ailments yield readily
to this great disease conquerer, Hop Bitters.
1t repairs the ravages of disease by convert
ing the food into rich blood, and it gives new
life and vigor to the aged and infrm always.
See advertisement in another column.
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DEMOCRATS BEWAREl

W. H. Armstrong, a leading National"
has gone back to Hoyt. The whole Repub-
licsn gang will do it ere long, and hope to
carry few recreant Democrats with them.
As Randolph once said 'there they stink
and shine, and shine and stink like rotten
herring by moonlight"
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TiltOn- Beecher.

BROOKLYN, May 80, 1S7S.-Airs. Elizabeth
Tlton-MADAM: In pursuance of a resolu-
ton passed by the examining committee OF
Plymouth church, at meeting held last
evening, enclose copy of the charge and
specifications made against you by Mrs. B..
Walton, and which the committee have vot-
ed to entertain. am requested to inform
you that meeting Of the committee will be
held at the church parlors on Monday, June
10 at o'clock, at which time they will re-
ceive any reply you may desire to make to
the charge and specifications, and will pro-
ceed with the trial of the same.
THOMAS j. TILNEY, Clerk.
TO h' Examining Committee of Plymouth
Church Il have before me copy of the
charge and specifications made against me
by Mrs. b. Walton, and signed by her, un-
der date of May %, 1873, and also letter
accompanying the same wherein you express
a willingness to receive any reply may de-
sire to make.
Therefore | answer, first, that in my house
on the evening of the 10Th day of April 1875
| did say i'm the presence of Mrs. Waltor
that the statement contained in a certain
card which she held in her hand was true
correct copy of the same being annexed +
the charge and specifications.
Second. / did authorize the card to b
published in several newspapers in the cit
of New York the following day.
And now | repeat and reaffirm that th
acknowledgment of adultery with the Re-
Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of Plymout
church, was the truth and nothing but III
truth and that having previously publshe
a false statement denying the charge, d.
sire to make the truth as world wide as ii
lie had been.
have no further or other statement
make 10 the committee.
ELIZABETH II. TILToS.
Brooklyn, June 10, 1873.
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Candidates..

[The following persons have been proposed for
nomination by the next Democratic county Conven-
ton TO be held August 18Th, 1878. Candidates an
nounced In this list are pledged to abide by the de-
cision OF the Conventional
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E.F,Kunkel's Bitter Wine ofIron

The great success and deli ht OF the people. In
fact nOthiug VI the kind has been offered 10 the
American people which has SO quickly found Its
way into their good favor and hearty approval as H.
+. kunkelsBitter Wine OF Iron It does all II pro-
poses, and thus gives universal satisfaction. IL Is
guaranteed TO cure the worst case OF dyspepsia or
Indigestion kidney or liver disease, weakness, ner-
yousness, constipation acldlty OF the stomach &C.
Get the genuine. only IN 81 bottles Depot and Of
fee, $50 North Ninth street, Philadelphia ASK for
Kunkel's and take no other. Sold by all druggists.
DYSPEPSIA. DYSPEPSIA. A.DYSPEPSIA.
Kunkel's Bitter Wine OF Iron. is sure cure for
this disease, IL has been prescribed deiy for many
years In the practice OF eminent physicians with
Unparalleled success. symptoms are loss OF appetite
wind and rising OF food, dryness in mouth headache
dizziness sleeplsSsness, and low spirits. Get the
genuine. Not sold IN bulk only In 81 kottles Sold
by all druggists. Ask for r. H. kunkels Bitter Wine
OF Iron and take no other. SO0 per bottle, or six
bottles for S. All ask Is a simple trial of this val
liable medicine. trial VIII convince you ut once
Worms. worms. Worms.
K. Il. Kunkel's Worm Syrup never falls TO remove
all kinds OF worms. Seat, pin aud SO mach WO ms
readily removed by kunkels worm syrup, DR. Kun
ke Is the only successful physician In this country
that can remove tape worm In from two 10 four
hours He has no fee TIL head and all posses alive
and In this space OF time. Common sense teaches
n tape worm can be removed, all other WORMS ca q
readily be destroyed. ASK yoLr druggist for bot
vi kunkels worm syrup. Price sl.O per bottle. IL
never falls or send TO the doctor for clrculpr NO
25e North Ninth ST., philadelphia. Advice free.
June
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CT.
nI,IInING Fund ACCOUNT

To amt Of tax for BUILDING purposes sl6s4 6S
." " received IRON J. i.. Evans on
sale Of Old Academy.............,.... lOO OO
" /" received from collector, due
last settlemenU.......... ............'.. $40 os
" received from treasurer Que
last lement...........,.......- l43 10
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CT.

BY exonerations......." ~ ~
amount paid on bonds and intest l,I42 v.
collectors commission. ~ 6i
" treasurer's commission..."..."... ~ ~
p" balance due dlstri from W. b.
Ko)ns former treasurer......,..... 10
balance due district collector 80. 3Oi w
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Il 4. ZARR. Treasnrer.
SCHOOL FUND ACCOUNT.

To amount tax levied for school pur-
poses .............,., ea5 20
II" stat appropriation. ."....... s9o 10
" " from former treasure'....... a5l 10
90 " " " COllpCtoruu"" lO3O ~
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
CTATEMENT OF
BLooAsBURS SCHOOL DISTRICT
FoRHEAR lNDING JUNE |, is1s.

NJ. b. WOODWARD, collector. DR..
TO amount of duplicate 4 lsIT-S S.... Ss4es IS
" balance on iuplicateu ls76-7.... 1884 80
so,so5 "a
or.
BY amount Of ex,nerations. .."..... s242 %
" paid treasurer o. per re-
ccpts..."...".,+..... -. .::.....' so2i ~
" per cent COL mission on s326 30. 40 60
~ lance due dsNlct from Duplicate
of 1861 ..........4 ... t.........,...".. 90 w
q balance due district from 1s1'-S... S07 OF
s9,sOb A
B p. ZARR, Treasurer DR..
To amount from former treasurer.,, s5i0 ID
" j. X. Evans,purchase
amount state appreciation ...,.. ssb 10
lector ',',..'',,,....,,.............. 1884 SO
IL
Cr.
BY amount of orders cashed '""'"s'ls 1is 90 90
bonds paid by treasurer. wv ~
per cent commission on s9sIs bo. nj 81
slOO70 IL
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NJ. Y. WVVDN NTNDi OUTTcVIUT.
TO amount of duplicate 4 ISIS. .... $s49s IS
/" balance on duplicated is76-T".. 1884 80
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05
The New coadjutor Bishop of Galveston.

TIE Missions Catalogues publishes the fol-
lowing:
mgr. Dubuis, Bishop of Galveston, Texas,
whose strength, after thirty years of lsbori-
GUS apost tolate, is not equal to his courage, has
just received as his CoAdjutor Mgr. Pierre
Dufal, of the Congregation of the Holy Cross,
Bishop of Delcon, in partibus, formerly Vicar
Apostolic of Eastern Bengal.
mgr. Dufal set out for Eastern Bengal in
the month of October, 1853, WAS appointed
Vicar Apostolic of this Mission on July 3. 1860,
and was consecrated on the 25th of November
following. Very Rev. Father Moreau, founder
of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, haviD &
resigned his position as Superior General in
the month OF August, 1866, WAS succeeded by
Mgr. Dufal, who, to his great regret, was
obliged to leave his Mission in tho course OF
the following year, to return to France. But
in July, 1868, he resigned his functions of Su.
peror General, and on the 10th of October he
| embarked at Marseilles to return to Bengal
On August 4th, 1875, an Apostolic Brief trans
ferred the administration of the Vicariate o.
Eastern Bengal to the Anglo Belgian Provinc'
| of Benedictines of Monte Casino, and on July
%, 1876, another Brief appointed Rev. Fathe
Downey Pro Vicar. Mgr. Dufal left Ben gel il
October, 1876, and went to Rome to place him
self at the disposal of the Holy See.
On Monday, April 1, Mgr, Dubuis, Bishol
of Galveston, started for Rome, where his ney
Coadjutor has been residing for some tim
past"
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-05-05
Tariffs.

Morally speaking Custom House is
nuisance, economically it is scandal.
In the former capacity it is the hot bed of
all political intrigues for overruling the
popular will. By means of the Custom
House and the Post Office national ad
wire-pullers. The positions at its dispos
ton are Intended solely for the general
good, yet they are dishonesty converted
into engines of party or of personal suprem-
acy The operation of this system is fire.
quently to subvert the real popular will.
It acts as an immense bribe, bribe the
influence of which is felt in every hamlet
of every State, forcing its benefciaries
into an activity that may be foreign to
their disposition and in favor of policy
which they secretly disapprove.
The mainspring of republican govern
ment is the popular vote; the popular will
is the only sovereign, and any tampering
with its full and fair expression is kind
of treason. Yet the Custom House is oper-
ated as a standing, flagrant, organized
treason of this sort.
But that is not all. The tariff is tax
on the poor. The labOrer pays more fol
his coffee, his sugar, his cotton and wool.
len clothing, his hats and shoes, his tools
and Implements of labor than he could
get them for If there were no Custom
House. It is true that the rich man mus