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Ratification I'm Wise County.

ppeclul 10 the herulu,
Decatur, Aug. l6.-The delegates to the
state convention have just returned from
Dallas. An enthusiastic ratification meeting
was held last night. Speeches were made by
Booth, Gordon, Spark man, and Others, who
had been anti-Roberts. Wise county will
roll up large majority for the ticket.
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scraps rron, San Antonio.

SpeClAI 70 lhb HtIAIN,
San Antonio, Aug. l6.-Those who know,
say Hon. Columbus Epson will be nominated
tomorrow by accla nation.
There will be grand Democratic ratifca.
ton meeting tomorrow night to endose Han
cock and English. Prominent speakers will
attend.
Farmers say that recent heavy rains have
washed and drowned the cotton-worm.
A Mexican was tatalle cut with knife in
an ARRAY Saturday ght.
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joyful Event.

New York, Aug. l6.-The following cable
dispatch has been received here, dated
Cologne, Aug. IA: The dome ofthe cathedral
here Is finished. The Anal stone has been
inserted in the second tower. Flags every.
whore announce the joyful event.
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Wise County Delegates 90 the Con
gressiOnal Convention.

pITVNIUE 10 IIIU IItTeIIs
Decatur, Aug. l6.--The convention to
send delegates to the Congressional conven-
ton was held here to-day. Welborn VIZ
the unanimous choice, The platform and
nominees of the Dallas convention were rat
flied. Wise county will nominate full
Democratic ticket.
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Austin's Now Mayor.

Special to The HeraiI
Austin, Aug 16.-At the election to-day
to FIJI the vacancy occasioned by the resigna-
ton of Mayor De Gress l.. M. Crooker was
elected by twelve majority. No victory for
the Democrats,
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p,tteu by n RattIesmake.

The little seven-year-old son of Mr.. Hen
derson, living five miles northwest Of Plano,
was bitten by rattlesnake on Wednesday
last, bu, by applying the usual antidote', the
child was doing well at last accounts.
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ANumber of Lives Lost

Fall River, Mass, Aug. 16. The wharf at
Mount Hope, upon which was large crowd
Of excursionists, broke do va this morning
There must have been number lost, but It
is impossible to ascertain tonight how
MANY,
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Saratoga, Aug. l6.--Weather cool and
pleasant track in good condition; attendance
large.
First race, extra race, five furlongs. Ada
won; Boo,jack, second. Time, 10;Ss.
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Comnuehe Items,

Special to the Herald.
Comanche, Aug. l6.-A crazy girl, named
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GALVESTON.

GALVESTON, August l6.--Recelpts net, 2S5;
gross, -- exports to Great Britain, -;
coastwise, IT stock, 1850, sales, los bales;
market closed steady.
S ah"aI{ 800 ''.-.'''....s..'..... ,..... va
GOOD ordinary. ...................... ....... 9I
Low middling ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ...... l01
Middling. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ....,,.. IL
Good middling ..................,....,.. 11H
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CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, August 16.--The Drovers' Journal
reports cattle receipts, 800; shipments, 400,
strong, active and IN moderate supply; prices
firm, some 10 cents higher; shipping, y0@a %;
Sheen receipts, 800; shipments, -; market
drmer; common to medium, 1904 50; lambs,
0Q95 90 perhead.
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,,ttU,IUH TuIet Dut HrMi Sales, 80 bales.
Middiing uplands II ella
D'T "nsnR ,C,ieahs ..,.;................u ILLS
Great Britain, 0,l95; France, 0Oi; continent,
90 Wool firm but quiet; domestic fleece,
SSSsgSo; pulled, 5000; unwashed, l5@S4i Texas,
Hides quiet but steady; wet sailed New
US,reans, % to 70 lbs, II; Texas, selected, 90 to
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
In the sIck.rOom.

MosT people are at times called TO do
duty in the sick-room. II has been my
fortune for the last fortnight to write,
read and work by the side of helpless
friend, while not far off, separated only
by hall, lies another person, sick of a
fever. AS l write, however, the Great
Healer has written signs of returning
health on each pallid cheek, and we and
our invalids are making up our minds TO
have a good time. Bulletins pass hour
ly; little delicacies are sent from one to
the other, and weak voices occasionally
bridge the chasm of silence that has
been so painful.
Yesterday invalid No. paid a short
visit to No. /, and it was very comical
to see them both laugh at each others
altered appearance. The next occasion
was q visit from No. 1, and the matter
was made pleasant by sundry baskets OF
fruit paraded on every thing that could
hold them; goblets of Jelly, and all the
nice things sent by considerate friends
TO tempt the fastidious palate. There
Is no need of making the sick-room a
place of gloom, where every body walks
on tiptoe, and whispers, and mods, and
lugubrions faces hint at possible
death and the grave. / have noticed in
some places where have called a pa
rade Of feeling that was simply disgust
ing. To attempt to walk tiptoe on
creaking shoes makes noise more or
less diabolioal, while the contor6ons
necessary to such an unnatural gait dis
tress even the least sensitive patient. II
you can not have good easy slippers, OF
shoes that make no noise at all, you had
better walk in your stooking-feet, for
sick persons notice more than you i'm
agine, and though they may say nothing,
yet they are distressed at any thing Out
Of the usual course. 1t is better not Ia
talk at all than to whisper. A low
voice, well modulated, never distresse'
the most sensitive patient, while the
Kissing consequent on the effort to b'
heard, or to be distinetin whispering, L
very unpleasant, Besides, the patien
Is often suspicious and distressed foi
fear something is being told that he o.
she is not to hear-something relating
10 their danger, perhaps, and 1t worrie
them sometimes into danger.
A person should cultivate good tast
and delioacy of perception, no less thai
a good touch. Some persons rattle tn
dishes while washing them in such
way as to set the healthiest nerves oi
edge. Now it is very possible to was
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16

lead Of Mr. Hill in this Kellogg bust
ness" The same journal further warns
the Democratic majority in the Senate
that a postponement Of the matter
Is not enough,n but that ga square and
straight vote" must be taken, and the
Hill proposition defeated even at the
cost of dividing the Democratic major
ity. Nevertheless, the dlsgraceful eff
fort will have been made, and, if it
fail by few votes, the failure win be
due, not to any Democratic sense Of
justice, but to the fear that the outrage
may be injurious TO the party.
There is another view, entirely inde-
pendent of the agreement which the
Democrats made in their own interest,
which renders the attempt to oust Kel-
logg revolutionary and dangerous. The
Senate has once declared him to be law
fully entitled to his seat. The only
lawful way to deprive him Of this right
is by means Of expulsion, which must be
for good cause, and which requires a
two thirds vote. II the Senate should
remove Kellogg in any other manner by
simple resolution of the majority, it
would establish a precedent which
would render the tenure of a seat in the
United States Senate as uncertain and
insecure as that of place in revolu-
tionary body in Mexico or one of the
South American States. Thefeafter the
ruling majority in the Senate, no matter
how often it might change, would
always have the power to unseat any
member of the minority whom it might
ds3ire to exclude. There would never
be any final settlement of a Senatorial
election, and every Senator's title to his
seat would depend upon the success of
his party in keeping political control of
that body. In this respect the ousting
of Kellogg would be long step in the
direction of anarchy.
1t is not likely that the Democrats in
the Senate will have the manliness and
decency TO dispose of the Kellogg case
as the Netos and Courier advises It
may be that they will not dare to adopt
Ben Hills resolution; but in that event,
they viii probably postpone considera-
tion of the case indefinitely, and thus seek
to divert public attention from it until
after the Presidential campaign. If the
case be treated in this manner, the peo-
pie may be sure that the Democrats will
only await further accretion of power
in the Government from this year s
election to revive the Kellogg outrage,
and perhaps to proceed against other
Senators and Representatives Of any
minority party, no matter how strong
their title nor how sacred their rights
may be. The Democrats have shown
that they seek power only to abuse it.
-ChicaqO Tribune.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
Cure for Foot Rot in Sheep.

THE Ohio Farmer once gave this rem
edy for foot rot Three parts pure
tar, one part pure white lead, two
ounces finely pulverized blue-stone to
one pint OF above. Add one-fourth
ounce (fluid) nitric acid. While STIR
ring these add enough crude oil (unre-
fined ground oiD to make thin salve.
Nitric acid will lose its strength, there
fore compound hut a small portion at a
time-say one-fourth of pint. Sheep
should be yarded for the operation
while their feet are wet, if practicable,
as their hoofs can be readily cut. Have
a trough made with boards twelve or
fifteen inches wide and three or four
feet long on legs, so as to make the
trough about waist high. Place the
sheep with his back in the trough and
you are ready for the operation, Your
knife should have narrow blade and
very sharp, and on the effectual per-
formances of this all depends. If the
disease is in the first stage-viz: if there
is merely an erosion and liberation of
the cuticle and flesh in the cleft
above the walls of the hoof
no pairing is necessary. But if the
ulCcIdtlOu mas bSluUllSneu lJA6ll D6LW66u
the hoof and the fleshy sole, the ulcer
ated parts, be they more or less extern
sive, must be entirely denuded of their
home covering, cost what it may of
time and care. 1t is better not to
wound the sole so as to cause it to
bleed, as the running blood will prevent
the application of the mediciue taking
effect. Apply the salve with a small
paddle, letting it extend up the cleft as
high as the bihux naval. Apply the
medicine to every sheep and every foot,
as you viii never get rid of the disease
by doctoring only the diseased ones.
Keep the sheep you have doctored in a
dry place over night; then turn them
into the same pasture if you wish, as
the medicine win adhere to the feet un-
til the virus has been washed off by the
grass. 1t is best TO apply the medicine
two or three times, so as to be sure and
catch every one. Cleanse the sheds
thoroughly, as the virus might remain
in the dung and take effect after an in-
definite length of time.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16

and wipe dishes noiselessly, and it Is
sheer Indifference to the comfort of 9th
ers TO strike dish on dish, when care
ful touch would obviate all unpleasant
sounds. So in a sick-room, one who
has praoticed the gentle and refined
way Of doing very common things has
an experience that will make her most
welcome in the presence Of suffering
Refinement will never allow soil Of any
kind in the siok-room. IL mas a dish of
cold water 10 receive the spoons as soon
as they are used, and the more tasteful
and elegant that dish, the better. It
sets unsightly bottles out Of sight, and
keeps medicine and nourishment apart.
1t garnishes the plain dishes, and makes
them look appetizing; it keeps every
thing spotlessly clean; II has a bright
and cheerful word for the patient at all
times, and way cftOuching and sooth-
ing the irritable nerves that very few
paid nurses ever attain to.
1t is to daughters and mothers am
writing now. Some time theirs must
be the half-painful, half-pleasant task to
minister to the sick whom they love.
All are not born nurses, bus all may
learn TO be neat, quick, gentle, efficient.
Let me introduce you to two sick-rooms.
A young girl busters in, bringing some
friend. The invalid is languid, and not
inclined to talk, but the thoughtless
nurse appeals to him to say if this or
that is 20. On the bureau there is a
mass Of bottles. In finding the medi-
cine, she searches noisily for the right
one, and knocks down two or three
during the operation. This, Of course,
is distressing. Then the spoon is hunted
for, and not being in its holder Of clean
water, may be nice, and may be not.
The sugar has no cover, and is full of
flies she has not taken the pains 10
wrap the ice carefully in flannel, so that
the point of a pin would split it, and
consequently it has all melted away.
The pillows are uncomfortably placed.
Instead Of deftly turning and shaking
them, almost without the patients
knowledge, she allows the aching head
TO rest upon a lump or q stone, and
because he does not cry out, thinks there
is no need of a change.
But step into this room. Every thing
is cheerful with the light of order and
cleanliness. The best is made of every
little ornament. There is nothing con-
strained or cheerless. The young nurse
talks naturally, has her basket of woods
or sewing near by-there is no parade
of sickness. The. patient always looks
comfortable, is always spoken to with a
smile is always sure of the most tender
and kindly consideration. Though she
is very young, scarcely more than a
schoolgirl, father never could be easy
with any one else to wait upon him.
One other little matter will speak of
here-the often cleansing of the hands
where there is illness, that they may be
always cool and soft and white. There
are many other minor things which /
have not space to write about now.-
Cor. Youths COMPANION.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
How They Die on the Stage.

"That's what you're AFTER" said G.
A. Graver, the courteous stage manager
of Haverly's Brooklyn theater to Star
reporter. How do actors die on the
stageP In various ways, should say;
from great many causes, or from no
causes at all. In shooting scenes young
and inexperienced actors will fall before
you see the flash or hear the report of
the pistol shot. To stand without
hinching while a pistol is aimed at you
is not very easy. In our early days we
fired cork balls at each other to over
come our nervousness. Shooting acci-
dents are numerous on the stage. /
need not remind you of the latest fatal
case in Baltimore. Once we took six
muskets from the property-room and
found six slugs in every one of them.
Gas to myself, have suffered all man
ners of death, figuratively, in the past
twenty-five years. This is the first sea-
son in that long period that 1 am not
acting. There were heavy pieces in
which had TO die every night for
weeks. do not approve of Salvlni's
death scenes, nor of the hospital at
mosphere on the stage. Death from
corrosive poison is preceded by ex-
cruciating pains. Are they a fit subject
for nlustrationP w. Goodall person
ated at Barnum's Museum a drunkard
suffering from delirium tremens. He
was seized with spasms, and was car
ried off the stage, utterly exhausted.
His representation of his celebrated
character of Edward Middleton, the
Drunkard, was too realistic and re-
pulsive to the audience.
" Consumption on the stage has not
spread much on this side of the Atlantic.
Clara Morris has her peculiar cough as
Lady of the Camelias. Matilda Heron
surpassed her in that character. In
'Jack Sheppard OCCURS scene
where cloth is thrown over a mans
head and two rufians club him to death.
The cloth was getting saturated with
blood. The spectators objected to so
brutal an exhibition, and now the blud-
geons do their work off the stage. Ola
dozen men shot in a play, each one will
act and die differently.
"At the old Park Theatre, under Mrs.
| Conway's management, swung from
the limb of a tree on the stage and pre-
vented the commission of a murder.
The villain in the piece had inveigled a
girl into a mountain glen, where he had
already dug a grave for her. hear
her cries for help while standing on the
top of cliff twenty feet high, and grasp
ing the limb of a tree / swing down,
rescue the girl, and, with terrific
blow of the spade, kill the villain. At
the rehearsal discovered a defective
spot in the sapling, whichwas to enable,
the rescuer to make his descent.
81 pointed out the weak part to the car
penter, who entered into An argument
and claimed the hickory was strong
enough to hold an elephant. To put It
to test, ran up the cliff and swung
down. The sapling did break at the
point had indicated, and 1 fell down,
but landed safely on my feet. Next time
another sapling snapped, and Collin
Stuart broke his arm. Death by hang
ing is afrequent occurrence on the stage.
l was led to the gallows many times, for,
instance, in the Carpenter of Rouen,
and in Jessie Brown by Boucieault. Z"
I-NelD York iSft1l
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How to Make Moss Baskets.

VERY beautiful baskets for holding
flowers can be made of the longer and
more feathery kinds of MOSES. We
have made them often, and never do
either garden or wild flowers look more
lovely than when clustered upon a YER
dant border of that delicate and beau
tiiul material, which by proper manage,
ment may be made TO preserve its fresh
ness and brilliancy for many months.
We will here give directions for their
manufacture. A light frame, of any
shape you like, should be made with
wire and covered with common paste
board or calico, and the moss, which
should first be well picked over and
cleansed from any bits of dirt or dead
leaves which may be hanging about it,
gathered into little tufts and sewed with
a coarse needle and thread to the COW
ering, so as to clothe it thickly with AZ
cloe and compact coating, taking care
that the points of the moss are all out
ward. A long handle, made in the
same manner, should be attached 10 the
basket, and q tin or other vessel, filled
with either wet sand or water, placed
within, to hold the flowers. By dipping
the whole structure into water once in
three or four days, its verdure and elias.
ticity will be fully preserved, and
block of wood, about an inch thick and
stained black or green. if placed under
the basket, will prevent all risk of dam
age to the table from moisture. To
make such baskets affords much pleas,
ant, social amusement for children, who
will find a constantly renewed pleasure
IN varying their appearance. .-FlOrG
Cabinet.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
Th0 KeIIogg 0aso bod lta Import.


The bad faith of the Democratic
movemontin the United States Senate,
under the leadership Of Ben Hill, TO un-
seat Kellogg, Of Louisiana, has been
fully exposed and denounced by the
Charleston Is. C.J NcOs and C6iTisr,
one Of the leading Democratic newspa-
pers of the South.
The story is retold Of the agreement
between the Republicans and Demo-
crats in the closing hours of the last
Congress, whereby Kellogg, of Louisi-
ava, and Butler, Of South Carolina,
wero sworn in and took their seats as
members of the Senate. The Repub-
licans were then In u majority, so that
the agreement was a gain for the Demo-
Gratis. just before the final vote adj
mitting Kellogg was taken, Mr.. Merrl-
mon moved that Spoliord, the contest
ant for Kellogg's seat, be permitted to
produce his testimony ut the bar of the
Senate. Mr.. Edmunds arose and stated
tthnt this motion was "a plain violation
of tho Understandings this statement
was recognized as true by the Demo-
cratic side, and Mr.. Merrimon with
drew his motion The resolution was
then adopted which declared that Kel-
lOgg was lawfully entitled 10 his seat
"upOn tho merits of the cason This
was final disposal of the controversy.
Immediately AFTER in pursuance OF the
understanding, tho Democratic resou-
ton was passed which simply provided
that IN. O. Butler, of South Carolina,
be sworn in as Senator from that
State.n II Butler holds his seat by vir-
tue of Republican concession at a
time wheu he could otherwise have
been excluded, and simply upon q mo-
tion thRt he be sworn IN, the effort Ia
nnseat Kellogg, who was declared to be
-'lawinlly entitled TO his scat ''upon
the merits of the case,n is disreputa-
BILE piece of business.
Ltis clear that Mr.. Ben Hul and the
other Democratic Senators associated
with him ia this movement TO unseai
Kellogg have no respect for the obliga
stion Of an agreement at any moment
they have the power TO violate It. Til,
hot0s dgld Courier, though Democrat,
organ which disavows any liking fo
.KehQgg, maintains that the Senate
'" cannot lawfully oxpel him unless by
'twO-thirds vote;N declares that his ad
mission twas regarded as a iinality q
the time, and ought not, therefore, h
be disturbed or re-opepedjh says tina
the effort 10 unseat him twill be ro
garded at the North as evidence Of Oh
determination Of the Democrats 10 pre-
servo their majority in the Senate a
any cost" and advises the Democrat
Senators "to decline 70 follow tn
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16

realm In greedy expectancy Of some-
thing TO iill those lOng-ompty stomaohs.
They have, after hours Of endeavor,
earned the penny you tossed them for
holding the cab door, or sweeping the
crossing, or begging in the guiso OF
match-seller. You are tonight n Crmsus
among these people A pound sterling
10 them Is a fortune. A pound would
mean an infinite succession OF these
luxurious meals. A pound with nine
tenths OF them would upset their mental
balance altogether; it would mean half
dozen drinks, half-dozen treats, in
sensibility, robbery, and In half an hour
the harpies, but little lower than angels
in these rotten gowns, would be quar-
reling over the eighteen shillings' plum
der. Look down those dark passages
leading out of Drury Lane. Step down
this one. 1t is Parker Street. The side
walk is scarce wide enough for two.
More slatterns in corners and in hall
ways There is the sensation of CRIME
in the air, CRIME on the walls, the win
dows, the people. 1t seems the accumu-
lated CRIME of generations. The woman
in a doorway is also one of her Majesty's
subjects. glance into her room.
A very slim, squalid bed, chair,
table, fire in the CRATE;
over the mantelpieoe a highly-colored
print The Return of the Prodigal
Son" No fatted calves are ever killed
for the prodigal daughters. They are
seldom rescued from the diet of husks.
The prodigal daughters return is not a
fatal day for calves. This woman in the
doorway is another prodigal daughter.
She is not old. She is not yet ugly,
though beer and gin have marked her
for their own. She has commenced to
be invitingly loquacious when out of the
fog looms the black helmet and stiff
belted form of the British policeman.
He addresses her: "Now, see here, if
I catch you out of your door again III
run you i'm Not q word from her.
She sinks back into her den. All along
the narrow street, as far as Gan peer
through the mixture of fog, darkness
and gas-glare, behold these squalid
women-her Majesty's unreturnable,
unwelcomed prodigal daughters-slink-
ing into their doorways as the repre-
sentative of British law and respecta-
bility approaches.-C. w. Stoddard, 10
Sdu FrattciScO Chronicle.