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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-23

tic New Ioik Herald, in 4 lcpg Article Iar.
porting GeHaf.! Malone, speaks CT the Generals
vote ty which Ito coalrol OF tAe Serg:c Of TIC
Uailtd States 'ats !fsn:t@irtd from the dcn.C-
c;a:s 70 tae republicans, - Trivial question"
And tJI the lie Q: i. c.a SEQ noting strange II
sao !a2t lhat 8 republican cluc.s shiu 1 nomi.
as:e iT tho IDoa! iEip0:taa. lice within the gift.
0. ihc Sci a.a I'll uhtepentelt ysbel g req liGtor
r3c!ss;td 9aTocsst, ard HSrco u!cc!9r
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& Card from SER. 5. v. Brooke

To the editor Of the Alc&anari1 Gazette:
ALLOW me to say, through your columns. tbs.
II you have properly construed the latter iIoa!
Fauquer, published il the Richmond Wig, s.
aH.loutlng to me tendency TO 'M.honis;n.' !n
statements are utterly without foundstio Fsu-
quier conservatism hss uttered its voice ard e.
clared its willingness to mako any Reasonable
concession on the debt question 10 ree.trs tie
integrity of tho conservative party aad secure
us triumph II the approaching contest wit ::
piebald enemy. Ihere is where l stand
Respectfully, JAS. V, BRoCEs.
Warrenton, April %. 1881.
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DIED.

On tie morning Of April 11.s, 1884, in Phils.
deiphia: JANE, relict Of lhs late Henry Ce7::
enger, formerly of This city, in the es.h year q
her 'ge. Asleep ia Jesus.
On the morning of the 21st mat, Mrs. SU7AS
Ohg aUGHN, widow of the late Willism De-
vaughn, in the 69th year Of he: sge. tsS- be;
funeral Will take place from he: lats sidelce,
0 9u Atn'ngton street. 6NWe.n Gam ron az
O'clock
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SOCIALISTS.

LONDON. April 25-Tbe Timer s,ys !sa coz.
ference of Socialists which WAS TO hsre lea,
ne!d IN u ndon st tho ED 0: April Ia; teaa
abandoned in order to ws: s lille lo1ga. . ga,
Whist course the political evin!s ore Likely !5iska
in Russia snd Germany. Ii The Socisiis: cor.
ference Of Zurich during the summer is p:0h j,.
ed Immediate steps will pro5sb!y be taken 10
summon an International co1fsterco in Nss
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Encen<liary FIRES.

SYRACUSE. N. Y, April 25.-Ex.tp.7,
ioceudiary fires cc.urted a,y this mornns 5.
the salt property Desr this CITY. Matis
Coouey' three salt blocks were frs. tucsct, ca
about Sc 600; fully insured. Liner TIE sst
mill ard three dou5lo sal: blocks, cwlo BY he
Porter Manufacturing C0mpary. were buried.
The loss is estimated o: $4,000; in:nuuc.,
SS4 COO,
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Fearful Leap.

ALLENTOWN. Pa, April 23.-John Grin
pherc. the Hungerisn who hss bsen as,een =.
the poor's house fer - days, aad, who sgst.
ened for the first time yesterday. srose ,c,i,
this mornirg @! $50 o'clock, bo!tcd the oom
door and Jumped cut Of tao window. t..li,r
distance OF 25 feet. Fl va, slocc 10 the ,e,r
at tho tins. When ho vas picked ID i, ~.
found that two Of lis ribs w,ro b:okeo, ed Ii:
spine was Injured so badly that be csn tsr6y
b. expcc,cd to live.
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Dead

CINCINNATI. April 2S.-The d.bth 0! j liso
NJ. j. FerRusoO. a. Louisa U@u5t Hau:e, H.,
occurred piQht before last. IL Vas CcoaN
tho 18th Vir2icis Confc ielata rCgmsns ed
Distinguished himself at Gettysburg,
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''pl bid cLeuigs i Wa. 3lr }. V. Brooke
g.yi"s the Msho9o-repnbIc,u c1nbpasion, IL !
j: IS sb3u! Is nay expressive Designation 81
aoy he emil have dcyis6t.
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law, ard -ecti7et iu, pay 70: every ala7o they
aeid when slavery wss sbo!ished in their STATIC,
sEe they wcro fee traders e. long as they ovr-
e. 81 he ships o1gssed il foreign trade, tn!
uni! they became manufacturers.
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Notwithstanding sill the denuEcistiors The
New England Senators arc now pouring upon
the South for the slavery that orce existed
within her borders and for he1 present free trade
opinion. authentic history proves thst the poo.
pie of New England were in favor Of bo:h until
they ceased to be profitable. They ran slaves
from Africa to this country until prohibited by
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Severe Punishment,

ST. PETEgsBURG. April 23 THO ,xec ui,.t;
FrohloH has received oro hundred Ia hss 70;
msmsnagemsnt in tho hanging Of !ha nitis.
Michsilcif whose rope broke twc,.
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NE Exy01cD,' = til paala CT sc,ii
damotraiic acNsparsr j1': started s: Cu3erer
" NT, 4. I'D. G:e2a. Il the FRS! Luntcr
5o a. %asncs! 81 VIA. e1e 10 ilI.oH. i; VII
c2ra!1'J yu:Fi: tae su:o,s5 W. h2pe i! ns7
5-r,l-r
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pdaciuility is tie Hinge of Busiaass." 10
families where d.. Bulls Cough Sy.upis kept,
there is never a case Of sbsauce from schoo CT
business en- accouot of Coughs, Colds CT Sore
Throat Pf:cs IS cts.
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s f7atrS TN Porn

PANAMA. April l3.-Afairs in the P,ruv Al
capital and throughout that distressed ,oun. =
generally are in o worse condition nov than VS.
co asidt red possible six wseks ago.
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Suicide OF Minister,

LITTLE RcCK. Ark. April ga dsplea
f ON Ozark. Ark, reports b, suicide there "
laudanum of Esv. II. Thomss, On scccua. O.:
rapidly growing blindness.
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EXcurS.OntSsS

KANSAS C1TY, Nc, April 23.-The Few Ers.
land excursion to California which left Chicsgp
on Thursday arrived here safely last nigh.
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John Mooney was arrested 10 Cincinnati last
night TOR the murder o! bis vile. The crime
was committed last Sunday. bu; the cause OF
death was not revealed until les: evsai0g. when
the Coroner. beicg called upou. discovered that
tbs woman had died from the eff cts Of wound
Inflicted with hstchet.
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A !'lod s'd trusted remedy, always ready for
use. is 81, jacobs Oh the household boon. '''
LIST OF LETTERS.

Inc t9llo%ing is a list of the letters remaining
PeP,o ons c aIeI;3and e Virginia. posoce Ap %
sVertlsed and give the date of tho list. N'' 0u
Il not eaiied for within thirty days, they will be
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-04-23

HANGING ~ VIRGINIA -LTcnia Fcy7;kes
coi,r3i. y banged at L1cc1bu:s cur: house
yesterday iuc Ito L.u:dGc OF htr husband 10
January l.9t. ihc condemn; w,mar, 90 tsiag
Waited is t5o DOrLiGg, ;7as f,u;d q1io! and sp-
psf2n;lS u1co:c:raaj. She sid sho had sept
rs usual daiiog the night. sud ksd prayed q
scad deal Csc had 10 dread OF death, and
trusted il iie tin t0:.iFieg God, 10 whom she
kEeT che .Taa IGiag II answer to iotcrroga-
to:ias, sbo said 70 obe wss i'm plicated in the
killing ef h husband tut h:rsef; size bad
douo it, apd lha pegro Dears. who YES .uspec.-
cd Of c mpi:;,g, was 'iutts Gear as Sd aDgel."
Her husbsDd vas ,sIou7 of Dlnos. she said,
tut WitGcu: csps!, She killed him because be
vas mean TO her, AID co0staotly abusing aud
beating hsr. at ! 1cu. 10 o'ccck colcrad
preacher WIS ed nttcd 10 her cell. Quite a
cro7d, mostly coloyed. hsi collected. AID cc,a-
sloEsi|g The vJicc ct the preacher, could be
hedFd giving Gu: hymrs, 6hch were taken up
and snos with religious ferVor by those outside.
il. few minutes attGr elaVeo. tie wcm,n,
GleSs3G III White clifton CoEr, vas taken cut
b7 sheriff }. w. Ellis, end escorted By guards
10 the scatio'3. She vas 81: ID if n, desired 10
ssy GnylhlDr, 6: scsEtrst, M u!ra thsn to
bid all a.o1el.' The back cap 1as then pulled
over he. face, the lrsp vas sprung, eud the
Eu G::ts' Was sGun2 lato eternity at 1l:35
o'cI:ck. Thcro was Go struggling. AID bat few
muscular contrGc:ious. Atl.r hanging twenty
minutes. the bcGy vas tsll:n down aId PLACED
10 ;uio c2fio, aud buried cear Ihs jail.
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~~S ASSaA 4Sk
Adams. Mrs N
Birch, Mrs Martha
Csl roll, Virginia
Clsson, Robert
Crowley, Matilds
Carr, Mrs Mile
Carter, Robert
Crowell, Isdor
Golfer, Miss Fannis
Dennis. 4 Q
Davis, Miss Sarah r
Foulks, Mrs Malinds
FasrfsI, Mrs Willie
Gregg, lsssc A
Ridwell, L a
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u ONCE, In Washington.
Lawrence, Jam es
!,pcss, Mrs Am ella
Mcdonald, Mrs Pal
Manlay, Mrs Alice
Manly, Mr., Mary
Muls, W NJ
N nkens. Mrs
Scot, Miss Lizzie
Stencil, Miss Kate
SMhsi,on, Miss Sarah
Iay'or, Thomas
Ghomss. & II
Manner, Miss BETA
Williams, Mrs Matilda
WIS MCKENZIE, P, M,
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SUPREME Court OF APPEALS, YESTERDAY,
Rcsan6er1er vs kclIeI's administrator upon 8
petition Tor 81 appesi from decree CT the Cir
cult Court Of Shenandoah county. appeal re.
fused By all Of the judges.
Ha!he, sc. W. Mcr!or, sc argued by Msj.
S. 4. Page Tor appellants ard Judge William
j. Robertson and & s. Ssgsr, esq Tor appellees
and submitted.
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LEWIS MCKENZIE, P. n.
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an ATTEMPT TO UUTaAGE.-Ua last Sa.ur-
day night negro msn ven: to the house Of
two old maids, living near E5a Station, in this
county, aDd knocked at tbs door for adnitauc,,
but they refused to let him il. He then climb.
ed Up On tho roof, thinking 10 eDter 10 this Esy,
but 1slrg to do So. caua down sni turs; the
door open, h,dirg both the old ladies' 10 bed.
Frightened neatly Gu! Of thsir wis. they jomo
ed up and boloRed a: The top otthes voices,
Ehlch attracted the attention Of Mr. j. /.
Robertson, q ueighbor living c'cse by. who
came to their assistance, bu: before the arrival
OF this gentleman, tn, sc9uoircI he6 thrcHu
one OF the women doRn. bu. throug fear Of
being caught made bis esos2c. This beiue
the testimony OF the two WOE En- tSylrauia
Tribune
, 1881-07-17

In TERESTINC To: THE PUBLIC.
LETTER FROM A PATRON OF The BANKRUPT STORE
CHICAGO, July s, 1851:
-
Proprietor Bankrupt Store: ::

CHICAGO, July s, 1851:
Proprietor Bankrupt Store: ::
DEAR SIR: I notice you do
some effective advertising for your
Carpet Department; but permit
me to point out to you one feature
in the management of that depart
ment to which you have never
drawn the attention Of your GUS
toners, but which / think, if it
was perfectly understood, would
bring you even more trade than
you are having already, viz: Your
charges for sewing Carpets are
only q cts. per yard, while ali the
other stores charge 10 cts; also
for the laying Of Carpets the usual
charges are,1o cts. per yard, and
your charges are ouly &C per yard,
which makes altogether a saving
of II cts. per yard on each yard OF
Carpet bought. Now my convic-
ton is, that if you would make this
generally known, this item Of saw
ing alone, without any other con-
sideration, would bring you lots
of trade. Please excuse me for
addressing myself to you in this
manner, but I like to see justice
done, and therefore I wrote this
to you at the risk Of being called
a busybody.
Respectfully yours,
A PATRON
Of the Bankrupt Store:
, 1881-07-17
July t9, 20, 21, ~,
and 23, 1881.

$4,000 are offered in the Regu-
lar and Special Purses.
One Hundred and Eighty-Five
Horses are entered, including ev-
cry celebrated Trotter and PAGER
on the Turf.
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the Twenty Day Of April,
next,
A Word for William Chandler.

The Providence Press is, under its new
management, a noticeably able paper. 1t
assumes to be independent Republican in
politics, and comes within nearer reach of
that ambition than any other journal that
faunts the name. 1t has freely criticised
the new administration. Its criticisms have
sometimes seemed to be just and sometimes
unjust. They have always seemed to us
honest. In its issue of Thursday last it
comes to the defence of much-abused man.
Concerning Mr.. William Chandler we know
little that is not known to newspaper read
ers but in thinking of him and the attacks
upon him by the sef-styled independent
press, we are always reminded of the witty
definition of abuse of public men: "The mud
with which man is spattered on his road
to distinction" Against the expressed
opinions of other Independent papers should
in fairness be set the opinion of the most
independent of them all; and so we quote
the following from the Providence Press:
1t seems to be taken for granted by the edi-
tors of some Republican newspapers that the
nomination of William E. Chandler to be So
lictor general will be rejected by the Senate
on account of the opposition of Attorney Gen.
eral McVeagh and of certain Democrats who
think that Mr.. Chandler has been too severe
in his criticisms of the South Let us see how
this case stands. In 1877 Mr.. Chandler did not
approve of President Hayes's Southern policy,
and he was especially displeased at the manner
in which the Democratic party was given con-
troll of Louisiana. AS he thought it his duty
to do he expressed his opinion on these SUBJ
jectS in very vigorous language in letters to
the New York Tribune, and afterwards in a
pamphlet which he printed. Mr.. Chandler
was not moved to make these attacks by per-
sonal disappointment; he wanted no office and,
we believe, expected mono. He did what he
did from his conscientious conviction of right,
confess that we honored him for his cour-
age and his loyalty to what he believed to be
hissduty. In his letters and pamphlet he made
no personal attacks upon the men who were
responsible for the acts which he criticised, al
though he did not mince his words in speaking
of their political course. Now it strikes us
that the qualities which Mr.. Chandler dis
ought to commend him to an independent
man like Mr.. MacVeagh. 1t very frequently
happens that the men who protest most loudly
against prescription for opinions sake when
they are in the minority, forget to accord full
freedom to others when they get into the ma
jority. We don't believe Mr.. MacVeagh is
one of those men. And as for the Democrats,
they ought to have learned before this that
their best friends are generally those who
speak out freely, concealing nothing, rather
than those who carry smiling face and work
by underhanded means. Who knows any rea-
son why Mr.. Chandler should not be con-
frmed, except it be personal one and who is
willing to put himself ON record as opposing
the appointment of good officer on personal
grounds?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-18

IT was the greatest of French wits who
said that we find some consola Ion in the
misfortunes of our dearest friends. Most of
us do get amusement from harmless jokes
at their expense. Certainly no friend of
President Garfield, unless he be very tetchy.
can refrain from laughing at the following
from that bright but unreconstructed paper,
the Galveston Texas News:
1t is pretty evident that Garfield is not con-
sulting Conkling in regard to the nominations.
The fight will be bitter one, and it is hard to
say which will get the worst of it in the end.
1t is not unlike the case of the Irishman who,
being annoyed by the bowling of his own
watchdog, that was very hungry, one very
cold night in January, when the snow was
three feet deep, jumped out of bed to dislodge
the offender. Not returning, his wife went
out to see what was the matter, when she
found her husband, whom we shall call Gar
field, in his brief, short-stop garments, holding
the New York senatorial bulldog by the tail,
the formers teeth chattering and his whole
body almost paralyzed with cold "Arrah!'
said she, "what wud ye be afther doing?"
"Hush!" said he, "don't yez see 1 am thrying
to fraZe the baSte?"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-18
The Stage Drivers Death Ride.


About forty-fve' years ago Boston expert
enced an unusually severe winter. 1t was SO
cold that one January morning as two rural
members of the legislature were warming their
purple hands at the cheerful open fireplace of
the Old City tavern, one of them remarked to
the other, "Purty cold weather, cap'n." Eyes,"
replied the addressed party. 81 heerd a man
in the Plymouth stage say last night that the
thermometer down there was below zero" On
that night the stage from Newburyport arrived
at its headquarters, the Eastern Stage house,
No. 81 Ann street, under circumstances pecu-
liar and extraordinary. The frost-laden wind
howled around the ancient tavern with such
effect that landlord, guests and stable-hands
kept as far as possible within doors. While
thus making themselves comfortable, the New
buryport stage, quite prompt to its usual time,
dashed through the archway into the yard in
gallant style, but the driver seemed in no hur-
ry to dismount. He was spoken to, but made
no answer. Upon investigation he was found
to be frozen stiff, and dead; his icy hands still
holding the reins, which, during the latter
portion of the terrible ride, had been powerless
to guide the sagacious animals. They, with
instructive sagacity, had sought their accus-
toned shelter in tho stable of the old stage
tavern.
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A New England Clergyman.
[Rose Terry Cooke. ]


Parson Robbins was fiery, positive set, en-
ergetic little man, with enough executive pow
er in him to have been President of six rail-
roads at time, man who could not be idle
moment, who rose early and read late, who
was by nature q belligerant, autocratic, eager,
earnest man, and was set down in a little coun-
try parish. Cal was right; to fight something
was the necessity of the parsons nature; his
very face was aggressive. Modern clergymen,
who preach one sermon a week, are victims to
dyspepsi, and use long words by the thousand
to express what they don't mean; who dabble
in aesthetics and affinities, and have spiritual
ups and downs like the cradle holes in Win
ter-drifted road, because they have so little
work that they have time to waste in studying
themselves and their feelings,-would have
made Parson Robbins stare. Three sermons a
Sunday, and lecture Thursday evening;
prayer meetings in the ends Of the town alter
nately twice a week. visiting such of his flock
as needed it, and all of them occasionally, and
writing sermons every week with conscien-
tious diligence; splitting wood, hoeing corn,
and, in short, farming his few acres by way OF
amusement and relaxation; his only reading
the county weekly paper and the few solid vol
what life is this in comparison with that of
today! Five hundred dollars a year were well
earned, and hard earned too. No wonder that
the gospel was daily reality to this prophet
in the wilderness, and the devil real and
roaring parsonage, to be bafied fought, defied
and exercised; and no wonder that learning 10
endure hardness as good soldier of Christ Je-
sus, and to put on the whole armor of God, this
militant parson longed to test that hardness, and
use those weapons in lawful warfare with the en-
emy; and he did. He did not forget God, but he
could trust Him. The devil was persistent and
at hand; and he preached about, prayed at,
and wrestled with him to an extent incredible
to us who talk about an impersonal principle
of evil, aud consider that awful solitude in the
wilderness and its agonIes only a dramatiza-
tion.
To Parson Robbins, as to Luther the enemy
was real and active being; and the flock
whom he gathered into the old red meeting
house accepted his belief with equal earnest
ness except a few born sceptics who could not
believe in anything, and few sturdy sinners
who would not.
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Ecclesiastes.
flames Freeman Clarke.l

loalneS rreen;tu Cldrke.
The book of Ecclesiastes is very wonderful
work to be found in the Bible, since it teaches
pure skepticism and pessimism; that nothing
in the world is of any use; that everything
goes round and round in circle, and that
there is no such thing as progress. 1t teaches
that it is better to die than to live, and better
than both never to have been born. The
whole tendency of the book is more desperate
than onything Byron or Goethe ever wrote.
Nothing that ever fell from the pen of man
goes down to quite such depth of black des-
pair as this poem which we find in the heart of
the Bible. How did it get trere, why does it
remain there? How it got there may be ex-
planned from the fact that it processes to be
the work of Solomon, although there is no
proof of this; why it remains there, by the
statement that it is the best expression ever
made of one state of man. III the Bible is to
be considered, as it has been, book of pure
doctrinal instruction, then it ought not to be
there. But, if it is to be regarded as great
treasury of the facts and experiences of men in
wrong, good and evil, then there is most ex-
cellent reason why the book of Ecclesiastes
should be in the Bible, because the moral of
the book is this: that if you give man every
thing that this world can offer, wealth, luxury,
and worldly wisdom, it all tends to this des-
perate state of mind, unless he has something
better than outward things and outward
knowledge; that he needs some high convic-
tions, some large purpose. This moral is stated
with such tremendous force that it gives the
book a very good right to be in the Bible
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-18

SENATOR MAHoNE wears his overcoat
constantly in the Senate chamber. Perhaps
it would be an imputation of his courage to
suggest that he fears getting left some cold
day. The country, by the way, has got the
impression from his speeches, that he is al
ways in his shirt-sleeves ready for fight.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-18

IT may be interesting and profitable for
our people to know that the squawking Eng
lish sparrows are worth eight cents pair
after death-and are good eating when
served on toast They may yet turn out to
be the greatest gift conferred on the coun-
try by Boston philanthropists.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-18

THE policy of the Republicans in the Sem
ate is thus outlined by one of the most mod
crate members of that body: "We are for
protection to home industry, for internal
improvements, for revival of our foreign
commerce by proper aid to American ocean
steamers. We are for developing the coun-
try. If any Southern man favors this policy
he need not wait for Congress to assemble !;
he can declare for it at once. Let him join
the Independents, by whatever name they
are called in his State, and labor for the
overthrow of the solid Democrats, who are
opposed to all these things"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-18

THE good time coming when swords shall
be beaten into plowshares, has dawned on
Atlanta, Ga. The Christian Index, a relig-
ious paper published there, has font of
type cast from bullets used by the Union
and Confederate armies before Sherman en-
tered the city
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-18

THE New York Herald says that the plan
of extending maturing bonds at three and a
half per centum until Congress meets, was
carefully considered, first by Attorney Gen.
eral MacVeagh, and later by ex-Secretary
Sherman, Senators Bayard and Morrill,, and
Ex-Secretary McCulloch, who were called
into consultation, and who, it is understood.
gave their entire approval to the plan as not
in violation of any law, not changing in any
way the character of the con tract of the
government with the holders of the bonds
and not increasing the liabilities of the gov
ernment.