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The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-07-20

A girl composed OF eight halves is
a mathematical anomaly, a scientific
montrosity. And yet. We heard one
recently, within half an hour, declare
she was hall dead with the heat, had
laughed herself half to death at some
body's miShap or hlnnder, was hall
crazy to know something about some
thing else, was half ticklcd to death
at some funny remark OF an ape Of a
beau, was halt mad at an escorts pre-
sumption. and half killed by a hairpin
scratching her neck, while all Of hel
- two halves more-wa still alive
well and absurd. Girls, drop all thes,
hyperbolical nonsensicalities tina,
disiigure your daily walk and CONVEX
sation, and be as sensible as you ar,
pretty and lovable.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-07-20

The Princess Of Wales sold bou-
quets at a bazaar held at Baron
Grants house, three weeks ago, and
realized large sum for charitable pur-
oseS.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-07-20
GENERAL NEWS.

The population Of Columbus Ohio,
is 5l.337.
An Alabama man has taken 200
North to sell.
A double execution took place at
Memphis Friday.
A girl of 90 died from the effects Of
tight lacing in New Yolk last week.
There are $4,000 persons in Rus
sian prisons.
A negro in Nashville named child
Revelations. because lie was the last
in the family. sFr
Mrs. Cora Walker tainted and fell
into bath tnb filled with hot water in
Poughkeepsie and scalded to death.
Ed. G. o. Burnett, the first Gov
ernor Of California, is still living, in
his 18th, year.
Thos. DcJarnctte went into a bangle
in Danville. Va, and shot his sister,
aged II who had become a prostitute
Anderson .Iones( col. twas hanged
ut Atlanta, Friday, for numbering h
yonng white man named HARRISON.
Chicago's population is 505,945
about 10000 more than St. Louis,
long her rival.
A fanatic named Tanner, has start
ed out to fast forty days. lie has
now been without food fifteen days.
Negroes are being taken from this
State to Indiana to vote the Republi-
can ticket. They will be watched.
A yacht containing IA persons cap
sized on White Bear Lake, twelve
miles from st. Paul Mimi, last week
and seven pc. sons were drowned.
The Tennessee Porter Rifles took
the first premium at The competitive
drill at Evansville last week.
One OF Stickney's circus men was
run over and killed by train al
Cynthiana Saturday.
Gabriel Jones, a murderer refused
to be arrested and was shot and kill.
ed by the officer at Spring Lick, But
Ter county.
| Why is a lady's hair like the latest
news? Because in the morning we
always find it in papers.
There are 100000 hives Of bees
in the United States, and the estima.
ted annual income from them is $l4,-
100000.
One OF the census enumerators OF
McLennan county Texas, found q
widow thirty-fvo years old, with Q
son twenty -sevenycars ofage.s
Aduel was fought near Charleston,
S. c. July 5 between Coils. E. b
Cash and VIM. NJ. Shannon in which
the latter was killed, Col Shannon
was about go years old, and miver-
sally beloved and respected. The
trouble originated from law suit in
which Shannon was the opposing at
.torney.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-07-20

There are 100000 hives of bees
in the United States, and the estima.
ted annual income from them is $l4,-
600. 900. w
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-07-20

Gabriel Jones, a murderer refused
to be arrested and was shot and kill
ed by the officer at Spring Lick, But
Ter county.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-07-20

One Of Stickney's circus men was
run over and killed by a train al
Cynthiana Saturday.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-07-20

Why is lady's hair like the latest
news? Because in the morning we
always find it in papers.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-07-20

One Of the census enumerators OF
McLennan county Texas, found q
widow thirty-tivo years old, with Q
son twenty seven. years Of age.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-07-20

The Tennessee Porter Rifles took
the first premium at the competitive
drill at Evansville last week.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-07-20

A yacht containing IA persons cap
sized on White Bear Lake, twelve
miles from st. Paul Mimi, last week
and seven pes sons were drowned.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-07-20

Negroes are being taken from this
State to Indiana to vote the Republi.
can ticket. They will be watched.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-13

whereof Beecher il chaplain, and
which boasts one Company exclusively
composed of the youthful buds of prom
Use of Plymouth Church, have been
camping by the sad sea waves at Far
Rockaway, hard by the Mammoth ho-
tel, which is occupied by the mechan-
les who are owed wages for its con-
struction, and they have had very
woefully wet and uncomfortable time
of it.: 1t was supposed their encanlp-
ment would do wonders in attracting
vast througs to the beach, but the
weather has been against it. Coney
Island seems still to take the lead in
spite of the new rivals at Long Beach
and elsewhere, and if mimic war is
carried on at Rockaway, they have real
war at Manhattan between Levy the
blower (of his own trumpet) and Anvil
Chorus Gilmore. There is no love lost
between him, and after Levy's most
ravishing rendition of the few simple
but beautiful airs which he plays so
often that he has attained perfection
with them, Gilmore seats a trombone
player to repeat them on his ludicrous
instrument. 1t reminds one of the ia
BILE of the affectionate jackass and the
lap dog. Poor, paunchy little Levy
gets very mad, screws his "heyglass in
lis 'owling ed, you know" and con-
torts his limbs as if he had cramps Sc
verely whenever he hears his prepOs-
ferrous echo.
We are promised new dramatic
sensation in the coming Winter in the
shape of genuine old fashioned En-
glish pantomime, one of those side
splitting affairs, which John Bull null
titudinopsly makes it religious duty
to attend on Boxing Day. Conquest,
the King of Pantomimists, is here now
prospecting, and we may expect some
thing that will put even the famous
Black Crook entirely in the shade.
The Long Beach branch of the Long
Island Railroad has been indulging in
about as many accidents, big and lit
tie, as the passenger and excursion
steam boats of late. Some sixteen Ital-
ians were killed or barbarOusly mutila-
ted few days ago by being swept off
some fiat cars by an iron derrick stay
which had fallen across the track and
been carelessIy allowed to remain
there, and conductor and engineer
endangered the lives of some 300 pleas
ure seekers of the most aristOcratic
order for Long Beach is nothing if not
"tOney." 1t was singular that the
engineers of the colliding trains were
brothers and their engines happened to
be numbered 3 and 33 respectively.
The irrepressible Edison is devoting
some of his attention to flying ma
chimes, and is perfecting his electric
motor for use on elevated and horse
car tracks. He has been forestalled in
patenting the latter by a nephew of
Cyrus Field, also an accomplished cleo
trician, who has put similar invention
through the official mill, and is going to
put his engines at work very shortly on
one of the 81" roads. If it succeeds
as well in practice as it does expert
mentally, it will be vast improvement
on steam, in making less noise for one
thing and being less Objectionable on
the score of dropping oil, hot water and
mud on the persons and garments of
passers-by below. RADIX.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-13

has been for that freedom in trade that
would open the whole country to COM
petition from the rest of the world,
making a liability to paralyze and ruin
our own home industries. Republican
ism has ever been for protective poll
cy, the principles of which the majority
of nations believe in and practice to-
day. Democracy In one section of the
country will not allow Republicans to
vote, but keeps them away from the
polls with threats, pistols and knives.
Republicanism has never interfered
with the sacred rights of freemen any
where, but urges and encourages all in
the free exercise of these rights. Re-
publicans cannot vote in the South, but
Democrats can vote in the North. The
dominant party in the North allows
perfect freedom. The dominant party
in the South allows only partial free
dom. And this is the grand and dis
tinctive difference between these two
great parties-DemOcracy would rule
with an arbitrary and aristocratic spir-
it, Republicanism would rule effective
ly without it. AS political standard,
Republication thus far has been OF
higher, and far superior to DemOcra-
CIV in its general aims to establish uni
versal freedom and progress.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-13
The Irrepressible Conflict.

Among the many good sentiments ut
tered by Col. Joyce the other evening,
there was one that was supremacy grand
as well as true. And that one was
where he made reference to the ire
pressible conflict of IDEAS, that in this
country is still warning over moment
sOus issues. There is something in this
sentiment that will be we'll for us to
consider. 1t is strange to us that so
many of our public men have apparent
ly ignored, or failed to give significance
to this fact. There is this day hand
writing upon the wall, the import of
which it is our duty to consider. In
this Interpretation we shall find that
the conflict of ideas has nowhere near
ended. 1t is this very thing, in all ages
of the world, that has made men intel
ligent and progressive. 1t is this con-
tiict that has made this the foremost
nation of Christendom. Our forefathers
went through it in order to resist the
injustice of the old British Stamp Act,
and to worship God according to the
dictates of their consciences. Our late
war was preceded by a conflict of ideas
of more than thirty years duration.
The result of those terrible conflicts of
the mind and the sword, emancipated
four millions Of human beings from
bondage. But even this, fearful as it
was, has not ended the matter. While
the conflict has abolished the physical
fact of slavery, the sentiment that made
it yet remains. That sentiment is en-
bodied in just one word-aristocracy
1t is this element over which there is
yet to be severe conflict of ideas,
whatever else may come with it. 1t is
an element entirely unsuited to Ameri-
lean soil, and it will be disturbed until
the last vestiges disappear, and true
democracy can be allowed to take it's
rightful place. AS Col. Joyce remark
ed, this question must be met and set
tied. And we have no doubt whatever
but Republicanism, Which is the natur-
al product of this soil, will yet in the
great conflict of ideas, vanquish this
enemy to liberty and the rights of man.
But in the meantime we should remem-
Der that the conflict will not end here.
but 1t will be continued as long as there
Is any need of human institutions.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-13
Too Much Steam On.

With thoughtful men, it is matter
of some interest what is to be the up
shot of this high-pressure action among
the American people. None are so dull
as not to have noticed that about every
thing we do is done in hurry. re-
cent writer has remarked that this bur-
ried tendency among US is the one
thing most noticeable to foreigners
when they land upon our shores. The
chief thing about all this is its truth.
We charge the cause mainly to our free
institutions, the nature of which is to
give free scope and unlimited latitude
to ones abilities and ambition. But as
every thing has its two sides, so has this
matter. We are surely following an
extreme that is already telling more
or less unfavorably upon our national
character. We act as though we ex-
pected to grasp success instantane-
ously. We start from our dwellings
upon the run, and if business is in view
we can hardly stop to recognize
neighbor decently. The fact is, we
keep a red-hot fire under the boiler,
and the steam is constantly up to its
highest pressure. Never before did
men grow gray SO quickly. Nervous
disorders have increased to a fearful
extent, and it is doubtful if any have
ever known of so many sudden deaths,
of so many suicides, and so much in
sanity. In our own mind we have nc
doubt whatever, that the principal
cause of these things is hurried action
the lavish expenditure of the mental
and physical forces-in other words, we
have too much steam on. A large
number of us act as though We were
trying to see how short we could
make life. Business men especially
can hardly stop to practice the common
civilities of society, for fear chance
may be lost to make cent of money
somewhere. The fast working of the
nervous forces makes brilliant light
for little while, but soon goes out.
By this process we have but little time
for culture, or to do good in the world
before the boiler bursts and away we
go. Children are crowded through
schools, and it is sought to make men
and women of them before it is time to
take their pinafores off; and the fire.
quent spectacle is, sickly, stunted
dwarfs and shrubs, lily prepared to en-
dure the storms of life. The saying is
but too true, that we are fast people.
If it were not for the infusion of for
eign blood, that renews life and makes
new activity, we should have burned
up long ago. We say let US have bet
ter care and little more deliberation,
that life may be mole worth the living
and not so much hurried force.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-13

above all, and we stop for the night at
Ausable Forks, place of some impor-
lance for its iron smelling works.
Mondays drive of twenty-four miles,
gave us further glimpses of the Adlron-
dack iron industry. We met loads of
granulated ore. We passed the mills
driven by water, catching glimpses
within of large machines crushing the
coarser Jumps into gravel. We saw
also as we rode. on the roasting of the
ore, in its various stages. Here it lay
in huge heaps of gray stones, some as
large as ones head, just as it come from
the mines, yonder immense woodchuck
holes in the hilsides. Near by were
piles of round wood, saplings, of sled
length, and close at hand were walled
pits, open on one side, like side-hill
cellars, in which this long wood had
been piled, covered with the coarse ore
and fired, the heat breaking up the rock
like a hammer. We closed the days
NA''O VI o"ShOJ III d
rain that did not wet us, thanks to the
neighbOr who had lent us his water
tight mountain carriage), at the Loon
Lake House, on whose piazzas, among
the crowd of faces, we recognized sew
eral most welcome ones from st. Johns
bury. Indeed we have found townsmen
somewhat abundant along our way.
Nine registered at the same hotel in
Swanton the same day, and we had a
pleasant chat with two at Sheldon
Springs.
In such agreeable society and by this
beautiful sheet of water, after our not
very fatiguing drive of one hundred and
seventy-two miles, let us rest awhile,
and breathe the breath of pine and bal
sam. HI. w. j.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-13
A Good Speech bv woodford.

(NOT) DELIVERED AT ST. JoHNSBURY.
The following appeared in Fridays
Boston Journal as the remarks of Gen.
WOodford ut this place on the Southern
question. Although it is not at all what
the General said here, it is no doubt
what he has given at some time, and
has the right ring:
Courage and honor alike require that
we, who by Gods providence were vic
tors i'll the strife, should be freely and
absolutely generous in peace. Courage
and homer equally require that they
who were beaten should yield manly
submission to the decision of that final
tribunal of the sword to which they APP
pealed. These are plain words plainly
spoken. Peace, complete peace, peace
that shall endure, peace from the bone
that shall leave no scar upon the skin,
can come in no other way. Let us
fully own that those whom we fought
were and are our brothers still-brOth-
ers not alone in name but in blood and
in love. We fought them to save our
Union. We freed their slaves as Op-
portnnity was given, and were devOut-
ly glad that thus the way was opened
to put from them and us the sin and
sh ameand hurt of slavery. Aud yet,
while we remember this, let us as di-
rectly say that we will keep, with reso-
lutte will and unyielding hand, all the
results OF Justice, of liberty, of equal
and far play for labor and manhood,
that have been bought at such terrible
cost to North and South alike.
Does any seek this day for any cause
to revive the old prejudice of class and
caste and race? He is no friend of the
Union. Does any seek this day, for
self or partisan success, to set white
against black or black against white /?
He Is no friend of the Union. The man
who this day draws the color line in
politics is either traitor, knave or
simpleton. His place is among the
shadows and bats OF the past and not
in the sunlight of the present. Does
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-13
Renaissance of the Phair Case.

WITNESS DOWNING A BOLD swINDLER.
The Boston Herald of the 8th inst
has an article from which we CLEAN the
following:
On the 2Ist of May last Marshall d.
Downing, who formerly had an office a,
80 School street, and atterward at 81
Kil3y street. and still later ON CONNER
cial street, carrying on business us the
Atlantic Novelty Manufacturing Co.,
called at Il well known clothing store
near the BoylSton Market on Washing
ton street, III company with another
man and expressed to the proprietor il
desire to purchase a suit of clothes for
bis companion, whom, he stated, was
i'll his employ, and that he himself was
a member of the firm OF Downing, Pray
& Co., No. 10 Kilby street. The clothes,
the price of which was Sl5, were Sc
lected, when Mr.. Downing said he had
not the money with him to pay for them,
and it was too late in the day to go
down town to his store, but he would
leave note on 60 days, drawn by Geo.
I'll. Eates in favor of Downing for sos,
as security, and would call and pay the
SI5 in three days. The clothing dealer
asked him who Geo. FL. Bates was, and
was informed that he was agent of the
Rutland Marble Co., and was worth
some $4,000 or more. On this repre-
sentation Downing and his man were
allowed to take the clothes, the former
on leaving the note indorsing it IN. d.
Downing" As he did not call in the
time specified, the clothing dealer sent
down to Kilby street, but found there
was no such firm as Downing, Pray &
Co. on the street, and the matter was
then placed in the hands of the police
Subsequently this Downing and Bates
carried on quite swindling operation
in various places, but on Saturday last
the police arrested Bates, but we do
not learn as Downing was taken into
custody. This Downing is the man who
made himself somewhat notorious by
testifying that he met and cOnversed
with Phair, who was executed for MUIR
der at Windsor, in the Providence cars,
and which led many to believe that
Phair was innocent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-13

any seek to deny to loyal corners in
any part of the South full citizenship,
complete protection and hearty well
come because such corners wore the
Federal blue in other days? He is no
friend of the Union. Does any seek to
taunt loyal subjects of the law and
keepers of the peace, because such
wore the gray in the days OF battle
He is no friend of the Union.
The land is one and should be at
rest. We owe too much and earn and
save too little to waste in past strife
and present duty. 1t should not be
hard for us to dwell together in full
accord. On many fields the ashes of
our common dead are mingled. On
many fields the living proved and
learned to respect each the manhood of
the other. All that should be asked,
all that need be yielded by any each
and all should be swift to Offer-simply
obedience to the law in spirit as in let
ter, with the honest performance by
every citizen of his personal duty to
the state.
Where so-called conservatism has
triumphed at the South, there have
been too often practical intolerance,
practical denial of personal liberty,
practical denial of popular education,
and persistent effort to revive old sys-
TENS under new forms. Where So
called radicalism has succeeded, there
have been too often official corruption
and much venality. One turns in sad
ness from such partizanship on either
side and asks for a patriotism of con-
science, courage and common sense,
that will neither coerce the ballot of
the citizen nor steal the revenue of the
state; that will deal with white and
black alike in the great but rare wisdom
of simple justice that will seek to per-
form each public trust with brave fidel-
ity and intelligent honesty.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-13
The Parties Compared.

Democracy has never fully and free
~ advocated liberty for all-it has been
more for a privileged class-for those
who were "white," and belonged to the
superior" race. Republicanism has
always advocated the liberty of all as
an Unborn, natural right; it has never
assumed the prerogative of making po-
htlcai distinction in races. Democracy
is not happy unless it can use authori-
ty-unless it can rule somebody. Re-
Publicanism does not wish to "teamn
the people, but is happiest when but
little authority is needed. Democracy
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-13
Grand Republican Rally.

The Republican campaign of this
county commenced in good earnest at
this place last Thursday, under the aus
pices of the Garfield and Arthur Club.
Franklin Fairbanks President. AS had
been previously announced, a grand
meeting was held in Court House square
in the afternoon, where good audience
gathered to listen to eminent speakers
from abroad. The music for the occa-
sion was rendered by the Delaire band
of this place, the Lyndonville Cornet
band, and by the Glee Club, led by Ma
jor Clark, the campaign singer.
When the time had arrived for the
exercises to commence, prominent gen.
tlemen from this and other places took
seats upon the platform-the audience
being principally seated in chairs upon
the grounds provided for the occasion,
and in carriages near by. After songs
by the Glee Club and music by the
bands, Col. Franklin Fairbanks intro
duced to the people Col. Roswell Farm
ham, our Republican nominee for Gov
ernor, who spoke in a calm, sensible,
dispassionate manner upon the pending
national issues, and what our duties are
as citizens. He felt that the safety of
our country was in the intelligence of
the people, that free discussion was a
glorious thing and our just pride that
Republican principles were something
greater than platforms or Presidents !;
and that it was our duty to watch over
and guard them from every assault. He
referred to Gen. Garfield as the right
man for us to support, because he was
eminently fitted for the high position
in which the party desired to place him.
He said that while Hancock was a good
soldier and an excellent man, he was
only figurehead of his party, and from
political inexperience entirely unfit for
the Presidency. His letter announced
no doctrine, it meets no issue. Rebels
are rebels still, and the young men of
the South are more violent than their
fathers-having naturally imbibed their
bitterness from their mothers, who,
during the war and since, have been
more violent than the fathers them
selves. He referred in fitting terms to
our beautiful soldiers monument, as
the speaking emblem of American lib
erty. The words of Col. Farnham were
highly patriotic and we'll received. We