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CHURCHES.

FOREST PREsBYTERIAN.-Rev. John Patton,
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TELLER.-John S. Crouch
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the first and third Tuesdays Of every month
at o'clock. D. m. Masonic Hall.
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RTILDING AND LOAN.

MUTUAL, LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLETowN
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retary. Meets on the third Tuesday OF every
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AGRICTLTTRAL ASSOCIATION.

PENINSULA AGRICULTURAL& POMoLoGlcAL AS
soCIATIoN.-Wm R. Cochran, President and
Chairman of Board of Managers; J. B. Nau-
dain, Secretary. Fourth Annual Fair will be
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ber, 1878.
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KNIGHTs OF PYTHIAS.

DAMON LODGE, No. 12 Meets every Friday
evening at o'clock. Lodge room in the
Town Hall.
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Mail for the South closes at 10 Is a
Mails for Odessa close at l0.23 m and z 50
pm.
Mails for Warwick, Sassalras and Cecilton
close ut 1923 m.
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DIAMOND STATE BRASS BAND.
Meets for practice every Monday evening at
o'clock.
DELAWARE RAILROAD.

Passenger trains going North leave at 7.54
IL .O7 m and 36 p m; going South at
1910 m, 2.23 and 7.38 pm.
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JUSTICE oF FHE PEAcR. .--Janes B. Nandain
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STAGE LINES.

Stage for Odessa, with U. S. Mail, leaves
shortly after arrival Of the 1912 am and Z. .3s
m mail trains.
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leave shortly after arrival Of the 1912 m
train
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DIRECTORS OF TOWN HALL co.
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J. r. Hall, Treas; R. A. Cochran, Jas. Oui-
bertson, Jas. H. Scowdrick, VIM. H. Barr.
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Pensions.

All OFFICERS, SOLDIERS and SAILORS wounded.
ruptnred, OF injured in the late war, koWet er
slightly, can obtain pension, many now sceiy-
ing pensions are entitled TO IRcredss. send
atamp and Information will be furnished free
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ARRANGEMENT

md after Monday, nov 26th, 1877, Sundays
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enger Passenger
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United States Courts and Departments.

Claims prosecuted in the Supreme Court of the
United States, Court of Claims, Court of Com
missioners of Alabama Claims, Southern Claims
Commission, and all classes of war claims b.
fore the Executive Departments.
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United States General Land Ofies.
old bounty Land Warrants.

Contested Land Cases, Private Land t'liinis
Mining re-smpti0u aud Homestead Cases, pros
ecuted before the ieneral Land Oaire ana de-
partment of the Interior.
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The last Report OF the Commissioner sf ihe
General Land Office shows ,s97, 300 acres u Boun-
ty Land Warrants outstanding. These We're is
sued nnder act OF 1855 and prior acts Ne pay
cash for them Send bf registered eiter. v here
assignments are imperfect wS give lust a Sous
to perfect them.
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Each department Of our business is eond'eIed
in a separate bureau, under the tAarge "i e1pe
rienced lawyers and clerks
nv reason of error or fraud many attorneys
are suspended from practice before the Pension
and other offices each year Claimants WEosr
attornevs have been thus suspended, viii be
gratuitously furnished with fun information Snd
proper papers on application 10 iis
AS we charge no fee unless successful stamps
for return postage should be sentus.
Liberal arrangements made with attorneys IN
all classes Of business
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Address GILMORE & CO.,
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WAsIuSeToy, u. c., NoremJer a, 1876
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Dublieations.

Success unprecedented in the history of SINH
lar enterprises has attended the Publica-
tion of
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-12
THE ssANDERSON APPEAL

NEW ORLEANS, March H. 1878.
Copies Of the letter addressed to Gov Nichols
on behalf of Thomas G. Anderson. and free
from some slight typographical errors that oc-
Cured in the publication of the same in yester-
days papers. desired by any one for transmits
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beyond the city. or. if wanted. to persons else
where. will be furnished cheerfully and gratu-
itous,y on application at Office, % Magazine
street. mh12 ip2t
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-12
THE REPEAL OF THE LOTTERY
CHARTER. ..

Hon. John Fitzpatrick, one Of the members
Of the General Assembly from this city has
introduced a bill in the House to repeal the
charter OF the Louisiana State Lottery Com
pany. The bill was referred to the Judiciary
Committee, and, under the powerful pressure
in New Orleans and from every section Of the
State for the repeal of this iniquitous charter,
we presume the committee will make an early
and favorable report.
When the bill comes up we shall have mere
to say about II. We desire now only to ap-
plaud the step Mr. Fitzpatrick has taken for
the protection Of the rights of the people and
the honor Of the Democratic party. Early in
the regular session Mr.. Fitzpatrick took the
initiative in this fight, but his bill was
finally voted down by large majority Of
the House almost before we noticed that it
had come up. Since then the attention of the
whole State has been attracted to the neces-
sity for the repeal Of the lottery charter, and
Mr.. Fitzpatrick has gallantIy assumed the
leadership in the peoples fight. We believe
that he will force the fight; that he will
follow up his bill; that he will de-
mand a prompt report of 1t back to the
House and a prompt vote on 1t. This bill
must not be permitted to die. The people de
mand the issue, and we shall promptly fur
nish them with the record of the vote ON 1t.
The bill, as it now stands before the House.
makes an issue, and II Mr.. Fitzpatrick can
get 1t to a vote. every Democratic member of
the House must go upon the record on It,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-12

The railroads from st. Louis which re-
duced freight rates to an extravagantly low
figure, In order TO beat the Mississippi river
have given In and advanced their charges
much sooner than was expected. 1t was evil
dent that these railroads could not keep the
freight on flour to New York as low as twenty
cents per barrel; that they must increase II
sooner or later or go under. utitwas thought
that they would be able to carry these "eut-
rates. at least until tho river was fully
open and the summer river trade fairly
begun. Instead Of this being 30. the railroads
have given In. after experimenting only few
weeks with their low rates, and have I'D
yanced their charges, beginning with this
wesk, from twenty to sixty cents barrel for
flour to New York. The river cannot be
bnatrtf
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such idea was ever entertained. and II would
BIO the height OF folly to reject SO wise and
provident a law upon such unreasonable
grounds, and we trust that the clause will be
reinaerted In the House. 1t Is In accordance
with IN old principle Of law to allow the defense
double the number OF challenges permitted
TO the State, and we can readily appreciate
the wisdom of the rule when the jury system
was a mere experiment, or before the manipu-
Luton Of juries became part of the science
of attorneys. The idea Of the principle was
not to allow the accused an advantage over
the State, but merely to put him OH equal
grounds. There might naturally exist per-
sonal relations between the accused and per-
sons in the panel which should preclude the
latter from serving on the jury, which would
not be held to be legal cause of challenge, and
the law was meant only to cover such eases.
But 80 soon as the equilibrium, tho perfect
equality, the law meant to establish is de-
stroyed, we see no reason who the law should
not be amended 80 as to re-establish it. The
sole purpose Of the law should be to secure
jury Of fair, impartial and unprecedented per-
sons, and in order to do this we see no reason
why either side should have an advantage.
Certainly the ends of justice are defeated If
such a jury is not drawn, and 1t is not less
certain that the present limit upon the chal-
lenges OF the State has been proved by OK
perience to operate most dsastrously to the
administration of criminal Justice To allow
the State an equal number of challenges can
not be In any way prejudicaI or unjust to tho
accused, while 1t will go very far towards
the publication Of juries and the exclusion
from them of partial and improper persons.
We understand that this innovation has been
found necessary In number of States, and
has been adopted by them. notably In New
York, Indiana Illinois and Wisconsin. The
inadequacy of our jury law to secure the ends
of justice is too notorious to require discus
sion, and 1t must be amended In some way for
the protection Of society. This change can
not have any other effect than to increase the
chances of securing an impartial jury, and
this cannot be rightly construed as prejudicial
to persons accused.
With such an acqlttal as that of White
fresh in our memory, whose trial clearly
demonstrated the insufIiciency of the number
of challenges now allowed the State, there
should be no hesitation about giving to the
prosecution every privilege that will not
operate a positive injustice to the defense.
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as TRIPLE SHEET.

New Hampshire holds her State election
to-day, being the first State TO vote this year
THE New Hampshire election has In the past
been generally regarded as prophetic OF tho
result III November, which II has almost Ill
ways truthfully forecast; but this year, ow-
ing to the ano malous political condition Of
the country, this election Is deemed scarcely
worth consideration. although The Legisla-
turc elected will select United States Sen
ator The Republicans have carried the
State for number Of years past their ma
iority last year being 1897, while In 1876 II
was 321l.
There seems little chance that the Demo-
Gratis will succeed In gaining tho Legislature
as the State has been 80 gerrymandered that
IL will require them 10 gain over 5000 votes
III order to be successful In this
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-12
THE JURY BILL.

In all respects the jury bill introduced in
the Senate by Senator Goode eommends it.
self to us as wise and provident improve
ment on the existing law. The present sys-
tenn has long been acknowledged to be en-
tirely inadequate to the protection OF society,
and attorneys have become SO expert in avail
ing themselves of its defects to defeat the
ends of justice as to bring serious disrepute
upon the jury system, which we had been
taught by tradition to look upon as the surests
bulwark of individual liberty. Through
the corruption and manipulation of juries,
against which the existing law provides
almost no security, the enforce
ment Of the criminal law has become
SO utterly inefficient and precarious as to
cause grave doubts of the efficacy of jusies,
and to suggest the necessity for the protec-
ton of society of some surer process of
criminal justice. Of course, with our tradi-
tons, it would be useless and visionary to dis
cuss the abolition of the jury system; yet it
will be hard, indeed, if the system cannot be
so organized as to afford some surer protec-
ton to the State, while it secures to persons
accused perfect fairness and justice. AS it is
now, criminal justice is entirely paroxysmal
through the general inefficiency of our jury
law one criminal escapes, and then another,
and acquittals become mere matters of
course, until public sentiment is out
ragged, when some poor devil is made
an example OF, or perhaps we have
an epidemic of convictions, followed
by one or more executions, and then matters
settle down to their old routine. 1t seems to
us that great deal of this might be remedied,
and Senator Goodies bill, should it become
law, would go a long ways toward the correc-
ton of much of it. The method it proposes
for the selection Of iuries in New Orleans is
great improvement on the one now in vogue,
and under it it will be a mere accident if par
tial or prejudiced persons are drawn upon
iuries.
The bill as originally drafted had one wise
innovation on the present law, which we re-
greet to see has been stricken from it; that
which gave the State an equal number Of
peremptory challenges with the defence.
This provision. we understand was opposed
by the Republican Senators, who secured its
defeat, under an erroneous impression that it
was inserted with special reference to the
trial of Wells and his co-conspirators. No