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A SKELETON IN L LEAD-MIyE.
The startling Discovery Recently
MADE In an Abandoned shat near
EIIelViIIe, New York,

New York Times: "Many years ago. what
was supposed to be rich vein of lead ore
was discovered in the Shawangunk range of
mountains. half mile distant from Ellen
vile, Ulster county, New York. A company
was formed and operations were at once be-
gun. For several years the mining opera
tons were continued, but owing to the fact
that ore was not found in paying quantities.
and the funds OF the company becoming ex-
hausted, the mine was deserted and was
soon Hooded. Recently the mining fever has
been revived along the Shawaagunk range.
and several parties of prospectors have visit
cd different actions of the mountains for the
purpose OF discovering the most favorable
location. This activity on the part of pros
pectors had the effect OF reviving the interest
In the deserted mine near Elenville, and re-
suited IN the old mine being opened and a
force OF men employed in PUMPING the water
from 1t. On Wednesday a man went down
the shaft to ascertain the condition of the
NINE lie had been down the shaft only a
short time when he returned and asfonisHed
his fellow workmen by telling Their, tbat he
had found the skeleton of a man Several
other workmen then entered the shaft.
when the story was confirmed. The skei,
eton was found to be perfect, and the
bones and hair in a good state Of preserya-
ton. The news of the discovery soon spread
through Ellenville, and all kinds of surmises
were INDUCED in as to whom the skeleton
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The Eastern Question.

New York Herald: Apparently the pres
ent anxiety of the Russians in Turkey Is to
get away. They have made their definitive
treaty, have all their relations with their
late enemy well understood, have put the
christian population north of the Balkan out
of the dominion of the Moslem and those to
the south in a greatly ameliorated position,
and are eager, perhaps, to see how the ma
chinery that they have put in motion will OPP
crate when they have gone. But there al
ready appears on the scene the initiation of
the proceedings that are to force the second
stage of the solution of the eastern question
who shall be dominant in the east of Eu-
rope? What shall be the fate of the CONT
mental parts of the Ottoman empire? and
and who shall rule the people # those coun-
tries? These are the points of the eastern
question. And the first doubt that was to
be determined was settled in the late war by
tie collapse of the Turkish resistance. 1t
cannot be the Ottoman, because he is beaten
out and is beyond revival, and if not him not
England, because England could act there
only through him. Shall it be Russia or
Austria? That is the next point in the prob
lem. England moved Austria possession of
Bosnia with deliberate purpose to put a
spoke In Russia's wheel; and there are
already appearances that sort of moral col
lision is already in progress. Out of that will
grow the passions and rivalries that will pro-
duce the next forcible solution"
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A Question for ali Christians.

The New York Erening Post, in an edi
torial on Arch bishop Purcell's bankruptcy,
an interesting topic in the fifty Romsa
Catholic churches OF New York to-day. But
the subject has a general bearing uFo on a
serious question of the time. What should
be the effect of church influence upon secular
and business conduct In It's relation to morals
and what Is the actual effect. After con-
siderng what the influence shoud be, t
says: 1.-The truth is that, not only IN respect
to the commercial rascalities Of the age, but
IN respect also to the reckless methods OF de-
ing business and the extravaganza way of liY-
ing, which are the fecund parent of CONNER
cial crime, there has not been between men
who are church members and men vino are
not that distinct difference which it should be
the aim of the church to promote. The evil
times have not spared the churches. Their
own business has been marked by the head
long rivalry, the rash assumption of obliga-
tons without the scrupulous provision of
means to meet them. and other so-called en-
terprisiDg traits which have been The curse of
the last fifteen years, and which, If not them
selves grossly immoral, are closely allied to
immortality" The ambition of church ad-
vancement, the recklessness of prudent con-
slderatlons which permitted Archbishop Pur-
cell and his brother to take tie savings of the
peoEie, b6loDg ID ''the same loose moral no.
tons which have induced many Protestant
oenomlnaGlons 10 put up hne buildings for
which they were unable to pay, to trust to
luck to meet the enormous obligations which
resulted, and to wind up with a mortgage
foreclosure or debt lifting auction, with
perhaps bogus bids TIE situation IS one
for christians of all denominations TO con-
slider seriously. The churches should ask
themselves if it is not high time to stop set
ting bad examples before the world and to
begin setting good onesi if the every day
life of men in the present world is not closely
related 10 their eterAal life IN the world +,
come"
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What Proctor Knott has 70 9ay abOut
that Report.

WASHINGTON, March 8.-The Washing
ton t{G1etse Will publish tomorrow the sub
stance of an interview with Mr.. Knott, who
indicates HAT he Is not altogether satisfied
with bis report in the BloLgett case. The
investigation was ordered too late in the ses-
sion. The printed testimony, which ought
to have been in his hands three weeks before,
had not all been laid before hin up to the
day OF adjournment. Under these circum-
stances the Investigation was necessarily
FASTENED too much. The failure to aDt~
the prIn ed testimony was q SsFso,.- ain
be 20 5SS o 0gGJ S af24 the renoT
and complete, aau +r,op,5 IV En-, more definite
aad referred o:e directly to tbe quoted from
stiony TO Sustain the conclusions ar ~ 1n9
fH in't the whole business was n Trl1fea
i'-.yry to Mr., Knott. The result is NOT one
to which he will point with pride or satiSfsne
ton, because the work was performed I nnSer
unusual difficulties, and in the face of 49,
obstacles. In the main, however, the re ENJOY
EN- braces his views, and conveys his nd
ment upon the case as presented JUG
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Chicago NeUS: "The railroads OF the
country are just now, by the power which
the monopoly of the transportation business
gives them, making more money than any
other interest. Navigation Is closed; n con-
sequence OF which they combine and put up
rates to figures which will make dividends
for them, no matter what the prices Of the
products of the country may b9. 1t is this
power which short time since raised the
value of nearly all railroad securities, which
We're declining. But there is another mode
by which the railr1 ads are able to throw the
burden Of depressed industry and low mar
gins of profit off their shoulders and upon
those of all other industrles-this is by hold
ing back the taxes assessed upon them. The
railroads Of Illinois Just now owe the treas
ury of the State not less than one milliod
two hundred thousand dollars of back taxes,
and one million dollars for the current year,
making two million two hundred thousand
dollars in ta-es dye by then aad unpaid to
date. The railroads II this county owe two
hundred and seven thousand eight hundred
and four dollars of this amount. These
counts are due from 6fi""-one railroads in
TIL: 2>t:;t Inc evasion OF the payment Of
such an immense amount as this, even if it
be Only temporary, has q depressing effect
Upon all other interests, burdened, as the lat
ter are at present, by bad debts, low prices
or products and heavy expenses, in the share
OF interest, rents, etc. Our State authorities
and the legislature should see that some eff
tort IS made to secure this large amount of
money TO the peoples treasury"
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General n. yg, snerm..,

n NEWPORT, z. /, March 8-Gero,o1
Thomas W. Sherman, United States ARM a. a.
seriously i'll at his residence in this city, With b
..at Ia Or hlng, his physician, states
OF this city, and is sef-made man in everv
sense OF the word. When a YOUNG man bss
begged of his father to allow him 70 ' ent nT
the army, but being refused he crossed oVer
TO the Narragansstt shore and walked 70
Washington, where he procured from Pros ~
dent jackson a nomination at large to the
military academy. Having raised verT,
Gredltable examination he was admitted 70
ives west Foin5 IN 1872 and was graduated in
1886, standing we'll up In his class. He vas 90
hrsG commissioned second lieutenant in t%o
ihlrd artillery. commanding Sherman's bar.
terry, and won high hoaors In the Mexicar
war. Early in the late war he was made a
general general ct volunteers. He lost a leg at Port
Banks, and was placed on the retired list 90
a Jor-general, December 81, 1870.
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THE New York Herald, commenting upon
the interviews of leading Democratic con-
Rressmen as to the Presidential contest, which
At published in its issue Of the eighth, says,
editorially, that there is disclosed in these
interviews a strong drift of Democratic pref
erence for Mr.. Thurman throughout the south
and throughout the west. But the sentiment
in favor of Thurman is by no means so de-
cided and general as the opposition to Tlden.
Some of the southern and western Demo-
Gratis think almost as we'll of Hendricks as
they do Of Thurman, and smaller number
have leaning toward Bayard; but through
out those large sections, as we'll as IN the
Pacific States, any one of the three would be
decidedly preferred to Tilden. The knowl-
edge of this fact will weaken him in his own
State, where he has many enemies in the
Democratic party. If the Democratic ma
tional convention were to be held to- morrow,
and If the Democratic members of the late
congress were to be the delegates, Mr.. Tilden
would not only fail to get the nomination,
but he would rank as low as the third on the
list Of defeated candidates"
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TIE Washington correspondent of the
Pic6yuHe gossips about the election of officers
for the senate and house, and says "Stenger,
who has been canvassing for the secretary
ship, will throw his influence for Judge Har-
vey Watterson, and Wstterson's influence
will be cast for Zeigler, of Pennsylvania, for
sergeant alarms. Should Watterson src-
coed, there IS no doubt Zeigler will receive
the second place. Should the speakership 90
north, the contest for clerk will be between
Adams, OF Kentucky, and Caldwell of Ala
bama. Should 1t go south, Stercrr. cf Penn
sylvania, IN Consider atom u b ldoning
his chances for the secretsrysL.. he sem
ate, is the probable clerk Cyle. Polk, of
Missouri, is making vigorous d4-G for the
doorkeepership, but General Field will proba-
bly, retain the place. Colonel Thompson will
continue sergeant-at-arms un'e ography
beats him."
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Abraham LIncoIn's sweetheart,

Virginia (Ill.l Enquirer, March LIST: "John
M'Namer was buried last Sunday, near
Petersburg, Menard county. long while
ago he was assessor and treasurer of the
county for several successive terms. Mr.
M'Namer was an early settler in that section,
and before the town of Petersburg was laid
out was in business at Old Salem, village
that existed many years ago two miles south
of the present site of Petersburg. Lincoln
was then postmaster Of the place. 1t was
here that Annie Rutledge dwelt, and in
whose grave Lincoln wrote that his heart was
buried. As the old story runs, the fair and
sweetheart, but Abe took a Shine to the
young lady, and succeeded In heading off
NJ Manner, and won her affections But Annie
Rutledge died, and Lincoln went to Spring.
held, where he some time afterward married :"
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An Uncommon saIrOrmatIon.

Pittsburg Telegraph, March Z: "a woman
named Spitachler, living in a court off Sixth
street, whose husband is Henry Spitachler,
driver for Myers d Co., gave birth to a child,
or rather two children, day before yesterday,
and the case is conceded by the medical fra
ternity to be marvel. The children were
connected together at the breastbone in such
a way as to bring them face to face. The
flesh, extending from about the center of the
breastbone downward to the lower part Of
the abdomen, and in width taking up the
whole front part of the body, holds them 10.
gether. In all other respects they are per
fectly-formed children. hands, arms, feet and
other parts of the body showing no malforma-
ton Whatever, They are Just about like per
fectly-formed female children, with the ex-
ception of the link which connects them to-
gether. The muscles OF the body, about the
feet, head, neck and arms were flexible. so
that any part of the body could be moved
naturally. They were born about half-past
seven O'Clock Wednesday morning, and died
shortly after, but the mother is well, and is
rapidly recovering"
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GENERAL CHALMERS represents the Demo-
cratic party and the south fairly when he
says, that ''the jurors test oath and the su-
" pervisors and deputy marshals act must
Il" be repealed. We have taken all the respon-
" sibility of an extra session, to preserve the
/" trial by jury and the purity of character
mawed 10y United States officials. But this
1" is not enough. To save innocent men from
being prosecuted, we must repeal the sew
g enth chapter of the revised statutes, which
d" will be a statutory pardon if they are con-
" victed. This we can do if an extra session
I" is secured. Republcanism is making Its
81 death-struggle to retain power. If any
" Democrat covers, he will be eternally
s. damned, and should be-"
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WE stated the other day that the first for
eign loan ever made by this country was put
on the market In New York last week. 1t is
a loan of three million dollars to one of the
provinces of Canada. The subscription to
the loan exceeded expectations. The books
we're to be kept open until next Thurs lay
week, but on Friday last three-quarters Of
the entire sum had been taken. Next day
the rate was raised from par to one hundred
and half. The money pays five per cent.
The New York Bulletin says: The success
of this, the first foreign loan ever offered
here, Is a surprise to many, and will I'M
doubtedly lead to other offerings
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English Judgment.

New York Herald: "An important decis-
ion was made by an English Judge in a re-
cent case tried at Liverpool, on point that
may be the same IN law on both sides of the
Atlantic. and if so is of interest to the public
and to the police of this city. Sewell, a po-
hceman, was shot dead In the street by a
man named Carey, whom he had stopped,
and Carey was tried on the charge of murder,
but under the ruling made by the Judge it
was clear that the shooting was not murder
and the prisoner escaped conviction for
capital ofense and was held guilty of man
slaughter. The circumstances of the h0ml-
eide were these: The policeman met the
culprit IN the street and demanded to know
the contents of bundle the prisoner had
with him. But the prisoner refused to salts
fy him, and WheG the policeman tried forci-
bly, to examine the bundle, the other drew a
revolver, exclaimed, take that!' and fred
the fatal shot. The judge held that the off
Ger was not justified In laying hands on the
prisoner, and was, Therefore, engaged in an
illegal act when he was shot, and he directed
the jury that the prisoner could not be con-
vIcted on the capital charge As it appears
to be standing order that the police in this
city shall stop every man they meet at night
with a bundle, and as that is one Of their
principal duties, this judgment on a case
growing out of similar activity may interest
them"
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MEssRs. LAY and Bland OF Missouri; SIN
gleton, of Illinois, and Acklen, of Louisiana,
have all announced that, Notwithstanding
their ill-health, they feel fully warranted in
promising their presence at Washington at
the opening of the extra session on the
eighteenth to make part of the Democratic
majority. The first two have telegraphed
from Arkansas that they will assuredly be in
Washington in time. The Democratic mem
ber-elect from Oregon has not been heard
from in response to repeated Geographic
inqu ries, but he has probably by this time
left for Washington. 1t will take him fully
ten days to reach that city, and his vote alone
is IN doubt.
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Captain Brown was one OF the first officers
OF his rank in the Federal navy-lieutenant
and was executive officer in command of
the Niagara when the first Atlantic cable
was laid. Captain Gift, who was notable for
bravery and the discretion VII ch is always
an accompaniment of cool courage, did not
need any fictitious aid to enhance him in the
public esteem. He was too well known here
where one of his gallant comrades of the
Arkansas, Captain Dabuey Scales, resides,
who could and would, had we been in error,
have taken pleasure IN correcting us.
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VOLUNTARY
TESTINt my a..
EXTRACT from the Baltimore az afcan,"
December p, 1881

Extract from the baltimore a. !. aTcdn,"
December p, 1851
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the cure of diseases of the kidneys, stomach,
liver and blood; secondly, for its extreme
simplicity, and the fact of its being applied
outside, precludes all possibility of any in
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remedy is universally acknowledged TO be
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iusted so as to cover the parts affected. The
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by the sufferers who have regained health,
enjoyment, and a new lease of life through
its benefcent qualities, but by the medical
profession, who very frequently prescribe its
use to their patients"
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1t would seem to be truth appreciable by ALL and
especially by professors of the healing art that to
remove the disease not to alleviate its symptoms,
should be the chief aim of medication. Yet in how
many instances do we this truth admitted in
theory, ignored in practice. The reason that Hos
letters StJmach Bitters is successful IN 50 many
cases, with which remedies previously tried in
adequate to cope, is attributable to the fact that it
is medicine which Teac.es and removes the GAUGES
of the various maladles to which 1t Is adapted In.
digestion, fever and ague. liver complaint, govt,
rhe umatism disorders of the bowels, urinary aHec-
tons and other naladies are rot palliated merely.
nilt rooted out by it It goes to the fountain head
IL IS really not Domtnally radical Tened, ana a.
endoTs tins system with an amount oil yiEoF VttiI -
Is It's best prOtectOn AGAINST diseass.
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Grants Prospects for the white Hon..

ST. LOUIS, March 10.-The Globe Den,oc,ot
to-day publishes the sentiments and prefer.
ences of the members of the legislatures If
Kansas, Wisconsin and Arkansas on the
PRESIDENTIAL question. Grant is decidedIv
the strongest man among the Republican:
but the Democrats are divided between TIL
den, Thurman and Hendricks, with perbans
the majority favoring Tilden.
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In answer to a correspondent at Glendale
postofice, Mississippi, we have to say that
the APPEAL did not say that the lamented
George. w. Gift was commander of the gun
boat Arkansas, which ran the gauntlet OF
the Federal feet on its way from the Yazoo
river to Vicksburg. What we did say was
that he was executive officer of that Inflated
craft. We have always known and said that
Captain J. N. Brown was her commander.
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A BLAsPHEMO : SENSATION.
The Good GOd-Feariug People of San
Francisco Outraged By the Pro-
ductIOn OF u Passion Play
(which Jesus Christ
is PersOnated
But fC is
success.

San Francisco Chronicle: 1.-The announce
ment of the revival of the medieval drama
in the form of the Passion Play at the
Grand operahouse last evening created an
intense feeling among religious people OF all
denominations, and every influence was
brought to bear to suppress the sacrilege, as
it is regarded. The emphatic protest against
the performance made through the press nd
pulpit would doubtless deter many people
from patronizing the entertainment, but the
negative effect of the pious denUnciatons
could only be to advertise the exhibition and
conduce enormously to Its pecuniary success.
The manager manitesting no deposition to
yield to the clamor of Indignation by with
drawing the play after mourning h avy out
lay III its preparation, vigorous efforts were
made yesterday to procure the interference
of the authorities AS the performance was
advertised as a sacred affair, and that style
of passion plays being without precedent IN
this city, it was not clear that the police had
authority to act directly, and the supervisors
were beset by people particularly excited IN
the matter to take measures for the suppress
sion of the play. Supervisors Rountree and
Danforth constituted themselves a committee
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