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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-04
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ITS RELIEF AND CURE " CERTAIN AS DAY FOL
LOWS BAY.
The reduction of Or J. A. SERMANS terms, thOn
SANDS are ruwdng upon him tor treatment gladly throwing
away their gilriug lrkSpme. dispng ami Hf pnnNhng
russcs for this affection makes tie patient
comfortable the performance OF cNtry Kind OF ex
erri4e thing and tlpS who ?rc rul
ami 10 not provide hrnsc YES WIN II must tlur" inc
affection and the use II tfuSsc' al
tnul hfr ThnlS nd those cured the ~ Halter
ng 'unnals " gratitude Ia Dr SHERMAN ii" IL the
Ot his popular system he lupt II his
II applicable to all classes anu clSeS and
ha reduced within the reach ui almost every
course Doctors and skill ~ tins branch OF
almost auaDle. aud ore should expect MS
and remedies without being willing q compensate hun
ND, rally
recently consulted him and hRd their cases
examined 10 went hiS treatment wiiCh 1rt gives the
oiCusye evidence Of h moderate IN charges AMI the
the Athlete In hIs ABILITY. lie has down
the times Ike uhIl mihrp-t determined 10 r.
the humber, whose limited circumstances call for
consideration
who applied 10 him when his charges high
aud ""u not an I'D to take hts treatment are gladly awaiting
Themselves Of his present Those Interested should
consider this matter the RdVandgra and sltSfac on Of ply
s6 soundneS' the dangers ami vrXdOu OF rupture and
tiss4 aud accordance with the impulse ~
FEARFU LAILMENTS ARISING FRO KUPfU REAND
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-04

PILES are instantly relieved and permanently
cured by usiuy ANAKgs-" samples free al - MerceTst
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-04
SILVER PLATE FOR THE UNION LEAGUE.

Nearly 700 pieces of silver plate have been COM
heted recently by the Gorham Manufacturing Com
many for the new house of the Union League CLUB.
About one-ouarter OF the number Is now on eXhD-
tion at the rooms of the company, No. 81 Union
square, These pieces make up small dinner services
which will be used the thirtysix small tables to
he placed in the club restaurant. Each service IS
intended for from two to six persons. The material
is heavy silver plating upon hard metal. The same
design Which is remarkable for its simplicity Is fol-
lowed throughout Tbs surface of the pieces shows
what is called satin finish, giving richer appear
ance than the Ordinary polished shining slverware A
narrow shell border used all the pieces Is the only
attempt at OrnamentatOn pure aud simple: ms
border, which has the appearance OF dehcatcIy
frosted SILVER contains dainty little scallop Shells
The covers OF the dishes suTmOunted by an acorn
shaped knob There is nothing novel III the shape OF
the peces which consist of those ordinarily used at
dluner-SOup turecn; large plates with covers, or1s
game and rOasts tea coffee and chocolate pots, anu
receptacles for butter sugar and condiments. In
the latter slight innovation has been introduced 10
tie use of two rather large cutgass decanters such
ms are commonly used for sherry, which are
intended for the vinegar and oil. these are Ill a
small silver stand and the other condiments are IN
separate pieces Some OF the soup tureens ish
platters etc. are designed for one portion as when
Two are dining together, and Others for two and
three portions when four or six are at table. The
SAVERS for the Use of the waters IN bringing the
coffee service are Of silver and have the same design
as the other pieces. Tins silver will be on exhibition
tor two weeks. The members OF the Union League
Club expect to take possession OF tue new building
nh February o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-04

HENRY d. HYDE.
GEORGE d. MORGAN,
GEORGE T. ADEE,
II. A. HURLBUT,
II. +. SPAULDING,
WILLIAM II. FOGG.
WM. A. WHEEL0CK,
PARKER HANDY.
WM. G. LAMBERT.
II. @. MARQCAND.
J. W. ALEXANDER
HENRY :. TERRELL,
THOMAS 3. YOUNG.
THOS. A. CUMMINS,
ROBERT BLISS.
DANIEL d. LORD.
JAMES NJ. HALSTED,
HORACE PORTER
T.. W. Lam BERT,
B. E. RANDOLPH.
ALANSON TRASK.
JOHN SLOANE,
ASHBEL GREEN.
SAMUEL BORRoWE,
HENRY V. Blu TIER,
GEORGE II. STUART,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-04
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

JOHN A. STEWART.
JOHN d. JONES,
ROBT. l.. KENNEDY,
c. NJ. DEPEw.
d. WILLIAMSON,
II. NJ. ALEXANDER,
WILLIAM WALKER,
HENRY DAY,
f. BOUDIN0T COLT,
THOMAS A. BIDDLE,
G. w. CARLETON,
GEORGE @. KELL0 G,
JOSE +. NAVARRO.
JOHN J. McCOOK,
w. WHITENING HIT,
:. II. PHILLIPS,
SAMUEL W. T0RREN
CHARLES G. LANGD0N
SAMUEL HOLMES,
THEODORE WESTON
4. p. IRWIN,
Il. DE WITT CUYLER
LOUIS FITZGERALD.
WILLIAM VI. BLISS,
Nm. ALEXANDER,
s. G. GOODRICH.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-04

Man wants but little here below, but he pre-.
fers that little above sero.-iNew Haven Journal
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-13
POLITICAL BREVITIES.

Bg-The day of ballotbox juggling is
rapidly passing away.
bS-Politics are dull, but the country
is happy. 1t was ever thus.
p@This is great country and it has
produced a good many great things;
but the product which comes nearest to
being boundless is Democratic stupid
ity.
BBThe mission of the Democratic
party seems to be that of determining
how many times a party can stand de-
feat and still object to a funeral.-Mad-
ison (Wis.) Democrat.
D@The Democracy has the satisfac-
tion of knowing that its prospects can
not possibly look much blacker than
they do at present. The party must
strike bottom pretty soon, unless it is
in the pit which mas no bottom.
A6-Ben Hill lets it be known that if
General Garfield is =. real good" to the
South he will rally large support in
that section. If Ben and his class ex-
pect to be fed on sugar-plums in order
to persuade them to do right, they will
find themselves mistaken, that is all.
p6-"The South is willing to give
General Gariields Administration a
fair trial." says a chorus of Southern
editors. Dear brethren, this is kind of
you, but you have somehow got the
thing turned around. General Gar
fields Administration will give the
South fair trial-that's the way the
matter stands, IN II Tfs6ase,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-13
The BOycOtt Business.

What is the process known as "Boy-
cotting," and which is fast taking the
place of the shillelah and the shotgun
among the instruments of Irish protest
and resistance? 1t is species of social
ostracism, enforced with pitiless severi-
ty in the minutest details, as well as in
the large concerns of life. The pres
ence of a Boycotted person is not ac-
knowledged by a word, look. a gest-
ure. Not only is there no intercourse,
but no business is directly or indirectly
transacted with him. Nobody will buy
his grain, his fruit, his garden produce,
his horses, cattle, fowls, or ANYTHING he
has to sell; nobody will sell him pound
of meat, an ounce Of flour, gill of
whisky, or an hours work. No one
will give or lend him assistance in any
way, and no money will tempt a man to
approach his dwelling. Under such
circumstances, Boycotted person
must stock his house as if he were
going ON an Arctic cruise, for other
wise, no matter how large his bank &C
count, he may starve in the midst OF
plenty. Even when supplies have been
procured from distance he would lead
the life of castaway on some desert
island, with the singing consciousness
that, in his case, solitude bore constant
witness to the hate and loathing OF
every human being within reach of eye
or ear.
In word, Boycotting means much
the same sort of compulsory isolation
as that to which lepers were subjected
in ancient and mediaval times. In
deed, the Irish process is, in some re.
spects, a harsher one, since, ever
among the Jews, the kinfolk of lepel
were allowed to bring him food and
clothing, provided they laid the article:
on the ground at certain distance. Il
is not at all impossible, on the othel
hand, that under the stern application
of the Irish proscriptive measure some
landlords may be made to feel the same
pangs Of hunger which their tenant:
have so frequently experienced. 1t j.
certain that threat of Boycotting i!
already regarded with peculiar dismay
and that this impalpable engine of CO
ercion has already proved more effect
i've than overt acts of violence.-M Y
S,fxl
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-13
WIT AND WISDOM.

If singer swent down cellar and
sat on the hot furnace, would his voice
come out clearly in the upper register?
When q man becomes SO angry
that his face colors up, we presume
that is what you call battered. Yonkers
GGzette.
chance SO much that they prefer to win
fifty cents at cards rather than two dol
lars at genuine hard work.
An Ohio girl was deserted by her
lover at the very foot of the altar.
Lucky girl! This is the narrowest es-
cape on record.-Bosto's Transcript.
An Ohio man has taken the small
pox from a pet pig. When ence this
disease gets into family, it is pretty
sure to 90 through it.-GaiUeston Ntsos.
The Syracuse Standard asks: why
do the street railroads charge children,
who often take up as much room as
grown persons, half price?' If any
distinction is to be drawn at all, it
should be between the lean and the fat.
1t is question of space and not OF age.
Just after Mr.. Vennor curls up
snugly in bed and pulls the blankets up
around his ears. Mrs. Vennor startles
him with the customary There! That
front door isn't locked! Itold you that
you would forget it!' And then, do you
know, before that man comes back to
bed, he makes little note for snow
storm that will discount anything this
side of the eternal icebergs, with a
biting northwest wind thrown in to
drift It, and ..49 below thermometer
| to keep it there until next spring.
| vennor is q good-natured man himself
and dossnt want to be 20 hard on rs
hut bis wife does torment him ses -
DwrltNlton Easckeye
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-13
WELLINGTON O.. THURSDAY JANUARY 49, 1881.

bat since I've come visiting here I've
noticed that you seem to be one that
has some Judgment, and I've made up
my mind to ask you
'Oh, mighty mer screeches just
then. You see that pesky hard-back
bug had took hold. He'd fastened his
claws in me. and was a-nipping away. :
You did remark something then,
Miss Samanthy,' says the Major, but by
this time couldn't say anything. No
body that has never had hard back bug
run down their back can ever under
stand my feelings. 1 gave one awful
shrek and jumped up and overset the
glass shade over the wax flowers, and
trod on the Majors toes, and ran out
of the room.
81 rather guessed he'd never forgive
me, but a hard-back bug down your
back, beginning to bite, makes every
thing else seem insignificant.
. 81 ran up to my room and assassin
ated that bug, short meter; but when l
came back, the Major was sitting hold
ing his hat, and saw that he would not
go on with his proposition that evening.
When sat down, he riz up, and says
he:
".Well, Miss Samanthy, as see you
have something of importance on your
mind, won't detain you any longer,
but take my leave
"'Oh, it is off now,' said 1.
"'It's pity says he. severely,
that it didn't 60 before. 1t quite pre-
vented me from making the remarks
desired to make. However. doubtless
it's for the best. So I'll take my leave,
as said before
Then he wents marching off as if he
was at the head of regiment, and the
next week he proposed to widow in
the village, and married her in less
than a month. I've no doubt if I'd had
him / should have been sorry long ago,
but sometimes when 1 think OF that
nice, old oak furniture, and them goose.
chase counterpanes. and all that silver,
get riied at the thought of hard-back
bugs. If it hadn't been for one of them
/ should have been able to sit still until
was proposed to, and should have
been head of my own house, and Mrs
Major Miller, instead of Miss Samanthy
going out a tailoring.
"Of course, there's no picking uI
split milk, but always kill every hard.
back bug see, regular"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-13
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Mine per cent. of the Yale College
graduates during the past ten years
have become clergymen.
There are S,651 pupils enrolled in
the Davenport Uowa) public schools,
and of these 2,216 study German.
DIR. A. r. Courier has been ap-
pointed to the Presidency of the new
Southern University for colored stu.
dents at New Orleans.
One hundred and fifty of the mem.
bers of the present House of Commons
are in favor of the disestablishment of
the Church of England.
Mr.. David Morrice. of Montreal,
has offered to erect at his sole expense
the buildings needed for the complete
in that city. The required buildings
are a convocation hall, library build
ings,, q new dining hall, and dormito-
ries.
The Hebrew Union College is to be
established permanently in Cincinnati,
where a house has been purchased for
its accommodation. The institution is
maintained by voluntary subscriptions.
There are only three Hebrew colleges
in this country-one in New York, one
in Philadelphia, and the third is that in
Cincinnati.
The Methodists are making prepa-
raticns for their Ecumenical Council,
which is to meet in London next Sep
tember .' to devise means for prosecut-
ing home and foreign religious work
with the greatest economy and efficien-
cy, to promote fraternity. to increase
the moral and evangelical power of a
common Methodism, and to secure the
more speedy conversion of the world. !"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-13
The Georgia Crackers.

Dr.. w. B. Jones writes from Herndon
to the Atlanta Constitution: In sew
eral issues of your paper of late you
have had occasion to use the word
"Cracker'-"Ge Georgia Cracker" 1t
would be interesting to some of your
readers to know the origin or deriva-
ton of this epithet as applied to "in-
digenous'' Georgians. Il certainly be-
longs to the country. In contradistinc-
ton to town folks, and is of ancient
origin, coming down from the first or
earliest history of our State. 1t GER
tainly began in the city of Savannah:
Immediately after the war Of 1776, ana
was used, if not in ridicule, for some
Distinguishing habit or feature of our
ancestry who traded in that city. AS
town." The children even recognized
and used the word when wishing to
handy an epithet of ridicule, or to call
attention to their own importance over
the country boy or girl 'You are
Cracker" Probably little sting of
this kind (when quite child) most in
delibly impressed upon my mind led
me to often inquire the derivation of
the word. One would say it was be-
cause the country people. in coming to
town with their wagons and teams, used
long whips which they crack to the dis
turbance of the city people. But this
was not the origin of it, and l have
found no clew to the word save in Rev.
w. b. Stevens History of Georgia.
And think it is explained in that
work, though he does not refer
to syM or use the word: In
the few "Whigs" who held out in that
struggle, how about three hundred and
fifty men in Burke and Wilkes Counties
were kept from their homes, scouting g
about to avoid the Tories Cfor Savannah
and Augusta were in the hands of To
ries and British, and the whole State
| was overrun) the women and children
| remained in the secluded forest, at their
little huts, and cultivated with much
difficulty small patches of Indian corn.
| their ONLY means of food There were
no mills to grind their corn. and they
parched and cracked it as best they could.
and ate it. "They ate parched corn,'
| and were emphatically "corn crack
ers." An old citizen of revolutionary
fame here has been heard to relate the
description his r,other gave him of di.
viding a crop of corn among some Sis.
| tiers who made it, she covering her pile
with q cow-hide until she could get some
place to store it, the men not being able
to build pens or barns. When the wal
closed and the singular looking people
visited the celestial city" of Savannah
to trade. they must have presented 6
striking contrast to the more fortunate
colonists, who were well fed and clothed
with British gold, and it was a good
appropriate epithet to call them "Crack
ers" II this be the origin of the word
it points a period of self-sacrifice ane
suffering, Of heroic endurance and de
votion to principle, evinced by peo
pie and parents Of whom Georgians neee
not be ashamed.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-13
THE DEAD NOON.

The moon is in state of decrepitude, deat
world.-ErOctor's Lectures.
The moon is ead-defunct-played out
So says q very learned doctor;
She looketh well, beyond q doubts:
Perhaps she's In q trance, dear Proctor.
At any rate. she's most enhancing
For one OF such decrcpit age;
And on her radiant beauties giancng,
She charms the eyes of youth and sage.
And so the man upon hers perished!-
He lived In doleful isolation:
Poor wretch! No wife his bosom cherished,
No children squalled his consolation.
Yet she's adored by all the gypsies,
Whose lovers sigh beneath her beams;
She aids the steps of staggering tipsies,
And silvers oe'r romantic streams
And once she caught Endymion sleeping,
And stopped to kiss him in grove,
Upon him very slyly creeping;
He was her first and early love.
But that's very ancient story,
And was youthful indiscretion,
When she was i'm her primal glory,
Ere scandalschools had held n session.
Dear, darling moon! dote upon her,
watch her nightly in the sky;
But OIL upon my word of honor,
I'd rather she were dead than l.
-Scribner's Bric-d-brdc.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-13
Heating by Friction.

A Boston gentleman has invented a
simple device which, If its present
promises are realized, ought to work
revolution in methods of heating. 1t is
nothing less than an invention to use
friction as practical means of produ-
cling heat. At the time of the Ashta-
bula horror, when SO many persons
were burned to death by the wrecked
cars catching fire from the stove. Mr..
Webster Wells, the Professor of Mathe-
matics at The Massachusetts, Institute OF
Technology, began to consider the
problem Of heating cars without fire.
He has now solved it. His invention
consists of q strong iron cylinder, at
one end of which, inside, is a fixed
plate of hardened iron, against which.
firmly attached to a revolving shaft,
another plate presses. either closely or
lightly, as required. The cylinder is
filled with water, and this, heated by
the friction of the two plates, circulates
through pipes, warming the room
through which they run, just as steam
pipes do. The water is kept in constant
circulation in these pipes. returning to
the cylinder to be heated over again.
The water in the cylinder, which is
brought to a high degree of heat in a
remarkably short time, keeps the plates
iuorlca.ed' Prevs;dS'ing P';d ,. 'nel Whar Mea wnrg
away a. aPl 80 -
away 'he SosS u .aS;n "s hs w sn on,a -
trihlns, anu Tue ~ aci.e :. ns' nv Nv Gvl :. !,
PhcaIe1 wo!k aoou' -; ~ sna. ~ 20
easly kePs IN iepa ne powSr eI;as. rS
dul.e9 70 run tne s.Sa1a maI'o - :. % 81 SH q. !.
lna. 'ne WIS.,, -. ..,f. Iow..oo III
nsn.s anh;no., - =. hrpdroIs os h,';iS-
other tnacnueIy ~ oS g.. Il,
lngs tnrougnouI d city Is 0uouSn Aol az
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-01-13
Senator Wallace's Discovery.

The Democratic party has a mission.
We wouldn't have believed it if we were
not SO assured by Senator William A.
Wallace. who has made this remarka-
bic discovery, and announces it through
the columns of the North American Re
eteso at S2O a page.
What does a cruel world fancy the
mission of the Democratic party to be2
Perhaps a million guesses might be
made without hitting it. We can easily
imagine how some might guess its mis-
sion to be to make the North solidly
Republican, to keep the South in an
uproar, to defeat the operation of the
Constitutional amendments, to keep
John Kelly at the head of Tammany, to
pass resolutions extolling the virtues of
Tilden, to elect Myers, of Indiana,
to Congress, to give Carter Harrison
something to talk about, to make the
yellow fever seem a comparatively
trivial infliction, and so on ad infinitum
and ad nauseum: but no sane man
would ever hit upon the truth, accord
ing to Wallace, unless aided by spiritual
agency.
The mission of .he Democratic party,
as we are told by MIR. Wallace, is to
save suffrage from being "debased "
duu COIEuptCus duu W AOSeoAO
the Government of the Republic to the
rule of the masses of the people,"
That's what Wallace says, and.
though we may shut one eye and wink
at that distinguished gentleman, and.
figuratively speaking, poke him in the
ribs and say, 'Go away, you bad man,
you're joking with u.s." Wallace main
tains his serious aspect and looks for
all the world as if he didn't know he
was absurd.
Why, bless the Senatorial soul OF
William Wallace! there wouldn't be
any Democratic party if suffrage were
not "debased' and was not corrupted
and tampered with! A dot on the po.
litical chart that might often be mis-.
taken for a fly speck would be the
body, breeches, and brains of Democ
racy if suffrage were as free and un.
trameled as William Wallace would
make il. MIR. Wallace occupies the
anomalous position of preaching Re
publicanism and voting Democracy
He is political exhorter, who cries
"Swear not at ALL" and then goes Out
and damns the whole continent.
He is veterinary surgeon who de
scants upon the deadly nature of tn,
glanders, and goes about inoculating tn,
whole equine creation with the disease
"Save those people from going ovel
the rapids" screamed noble-heartet
philanthropist, "and particularly saw
the man with the red head. He owe
me a dollar"
"Save the glorious ship of state,
roars Wallace, "and especially tn
men in the stern of the boat. who ar
boring holes in the bottom and hurrah
ing for me-"
1t is all wrong in Mr.. Wallace to writ
humorous essay and attempt to pain
it off as kind of modern psalm. Wit
tissue ballots and the counting out
process in the South, and Phi:ps Chi
nese letter and Barnum's mules in tn
North all so fresh in our memories, MI
Wallace can hardly expect us to accep
his essay seriously. We know he mus
be giggling merrily in front, in spite c
the solemnity of that portion of hi
anatomy exposed to us, and to whic
he so ungraciously calls public after
ton in his article. Chicago Int,
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