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A $4,000 Biblical Prize.

The following Biblical prize is
offered by the publishers of Rut-
ledge's Bright Light:
To the person telling us which
is the longest verse In the Bible
by June Goth. 1881, we will give a
$40 90 gold piece as prize. Should
more than one correct answer be
received the prize will be divided.
The money will be forwarded to
winner June %, 1881. Those who
try for the prize must send 10 cents
with their answer, for which they
will receive the July number OF
Bright Light. q handsome, spicy,
interesting monthly, in which
will be published the name and
address of the winner of the prize,
with the correct answer thereto.
Address Rutlsdge Publishing
Company, 532 Northampton ST.,
Easton, Pa.
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VancIevesviIIe.

In few weeks our village will
sell for good deal more than it
would now. We can soon boast of
one of those professional men who
figure so conspicuously in the
worlds history,-a doctor. There
is also lawyer on the way, but
whether he will ever be 80 fortu-
nate as to get here, we cannot say.
Our village is more lively now
than it has ever been before; ev-
erything around it is prospecting
and we are looking forward to the
time when it shall take the lead
i'm business and enterprise, of any
place for its size in Berkeley. Our
merchants are doing a thriving
business. Their stores are filed
with the best of merchandise and
looks as inviting as many of
the best stores la larger towns.
While we have so much business
going on, we do not give wholly
over to the hustle oil the world.
We have some among us who
soothe the careworn nature with
sweat and delicious music. Miss
Cora Billmyer Is our principal
musician, and often when the
cares of life are pressing hard up
on us, the delicate sounds of mu-
sic reaches our ears and causes our
weary natures TO be lifted out of
the monotonOus ruts of life. Miss
Cora practices considerably and
bids fair to become a good perfor-
mer. We believe that practice is
the one thing needful in becOm-
ing good performer. OF Lirzt
in his youth, Professor Asger
Hamerick SAYS that the great mu-
stefan was an industrious student.
Prince Poniatowski, who was his
roommate, told Professor Hamer-
lex that List practiced all the
time, and even took his meals at
the piano, playing with one hand
while he used :, is fork with the
other. When the Prince asked
him what his object was in thus
working so indeiatigably, he re-
piled: 40 be the first artist in the
world.
When your lady friend comes
to see you. and you want to ride
in the cars along home with her,
without your dad seeing you, just
get on the engine and let the lady
get in the rear car.
A young lady said to her lover:
"Charley, how far is it around
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The will Of Colonel Scott.

The will of Colonel Thomas A.
Scott, which, as heretofore men
toned, has been probatsd in Phil
adelphia appoints his wife, James
p. Scott, his son, and Mrs. Rebsc-
ca ID Buckley, his granddaughter,
his Executors. Real estate in Iowa
Is giVen 10 VIM. =. Scott, his
brother; Mrs. Eliza J. Crawford
and Mrs. Rebecca ID. Bewles, get
real estate in Illinois; Mrs. Rebec-
ca King, receives property in
Chambersburg, Pa, and $25, 900 in
Texas and Pacific mortgage bonds;
Mrs. Rebecca d. grant, $4,000 In
bonds and a house in New York;
Mis-. Rebecca | Riddle, a house in
Philadelphia; Sarah Ann Evans,
$4,000 in bonds; Major James Pat
ten, life tenure of the house he
occupies; James p. Scott and
daughter, the property in Della
ware county they Occupy; to his
wife for her life and to her child
rem after her, the family winter
residence at Nineteenth and Lo-
Gust streets and the summer resi-
dence in Delaware county, wit.
all the personal property thereon
of every description. All the re-
mainder OF tn estate. real and per-
sOnal, is % be divided equally a.
mOng the wife and children and
issue of any. deceased child or
children share and hare alike.
Mira. Scott is appointed guardian
of minor children and of their es-
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This is furnished by Mr.. VIM.
Will. 1913 Frankfort Ave-, PhiIa-
delphia, Pa. Some time since
received a severe injur to my back.
by falling against The sharp edge
of a marble STEP. the stone pene-
trating 1t at least half-inch, and
leaving a very painful wound.
After suffering for time, con-
cluded TO apply ST. Jacobs Oil,
and am pleased to say, that the re-
suits exceeded my expectations.
1t speedily allayed all pain and
swelling and by continued use,
made a perfect cure. really
think it the most efficacious lini-
ment / ever used.
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mean ?" and, still doubling, the
suggestion was made that there
must be some mistake. Mr.. Congsr
was then appealed to, to know if he
had not said his name was Conkling,
and he then pronounced it intelligi-
bly, enough to be understood by the
able domestic, who sent it this time
all right through the telephone, and
Mr.. Blaine was relieved of any fears
he had as to the presence OF his arch
enemy in his thr, shold.
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Profit, $1,000.

ITO sum 1t up, six long years
of bedridden sickness, costing 5000
per year, total ST. 200--all of this
expense was stopped by three bot
ties of Hop Bittsrs, taken by my
wife. She has done her own
homework fer year since, with
out the loss of day, and l want
everybody to know 1t, for their
benefit'-N Il. Farmer.
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Cooked up noses are pert and some
say not tso civil,
Some have none, like bear when q
cub,
A fine stately nose, may some time
hide devil,
And an angle may beam in snub,
But noses of all kinds no matter their
shape,
Are attacked some time with disorder.
Catarrh caused by cold, will cause
your head to ache,
But Eclectric Oil. will scon put you
in order.
For sale by e. G. Williams, Jr,, s. Bro,
druggists.
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McSsrs. Hutchison 81 Bro: / have
used your "Neuralgine" in several
instances, and and 1t the best reme-
dy for neuralgia and headache | Nave
ever tried. 1t relieves the pain,
leaves none of those unpleasant eff
fects due to narcotics or other ano-
dynes. shall always keep it in my
office, and take much pleasure in
recommending to my patients.
S. G.. HOLLAND, ID. D.,
"a Whitehall, Atlanta, Ga.
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The Luray Hotel and Cave
Company contemplate laying off a
beautiful park on their grounds at
Luray.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-12
Personal AND LITERARY.

JOIN. G. Whittier will be seventy
four years old ON the 18th of December
next.
George Bancroft, the historian, has
Just celebrated his eighty-tirst birthday.
He is living at Newport.
-Beaconstield' statue is to stand in
the north tranSept of Westminster
Abbey, next to that o. Sir Robert Peel.
"A French Shakespeare Society is
talked of among Partisan writers who
are acquainted with English terature.
king Oscar. of Sweden. has recent
" finished q new drama, called the
'.Castle of kronbers,' and it is shortly
to be Published at Stockholm in the
Swedish and at Berlin in the German,
language.
Mr. F. G. Heath, an Englishman,
las for many years been OF great serv-
ice to human kind by writing about
ferns and leaves. \ London firm is
publishing, under his authorship,
hook which gives colored figures OF au-
tumn leaves.
Hubert H. Bancroft has Just COM
pleted "a San Francisco two story and
DtStIuclb DtlCh Diluillg, tCAcO lCeU,
solely for the accommodation or his pri-
vate library OF Pacific coast books,
which now number $1,000 volumes.
and has become specially rich in
original manuscript material for history.
Miss Leila J. Robinson is Boston's
first woman lawyer. Not being allowed
to practice in court, she has made ar
engagements with prominent gentlemen
OF the profession to conduct her cases
alter she has prepa ed them. She
graduated number four in class of
thirtv-two from the Boston University
Law School
Paul II. Havne, the poet of the
South, is described rs man tiftv-one
years old, medium height, with an olive
complexion and dark brown eyes He
lives on a tree clad hillside. sixteen
miles from Atlanta, Ga and his sitting
room is papered with pictures from the
illustrated journals. Longlellow and
Whittier are his fayoritc American
poets, although he thinks Holmes the
greatest genius.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-12
HUMO ROCS.

-"Woman in the abstract'-a fe-
male shop-lifter. }. graphic.
Motto for u church bazar-"A
fair exchange is no robbery --Boston
Courier.
Potatoes planted must have their
eyes about them if they are to come
up.--M o. PicayaSnc.
There is not so much money in the
train-robbery business as there is in
bank defauiting but there is more fun.
N. y. Commercial advertiser.
-" Time is money to me-" said
Brown. "So9" Intercepted Fogg.
"Wetl. lend me fftv, and I'll give YOU
all the time you wish to collect it in"
Boston Transcript.
The man who is dead-head on the
trunk lines from New York to Chicago
considers the cut rates great swindle
He used to save about twenty dollars
Nor71stoCn Herald.
"A young lady at Mills Seminary
who recently sent US a poem entitled,
''Murmurings from the Outer Utter
ness is informed that any pecuniary
assistance she can send to the widow
of the man to whom we gave it to read
will be gratefully received by that lady.
San francisco Post.
-"I knew he was no saint said the
parsons wife, referring to a party who
occasionally attended church, but
whose piety her husband had been in
the habit of extolIing. mo saint, my
dear? | don't understand YOU
''Don't, Ell? Well. sat in the pew
next to him this morning, and when he
made believe get down to pray, his
knee joints creaked like the rusty
hinges of an old barn door. "--Brooklys
Eaqte.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-12
All You Think.

Even to your most intimate friends
it is not safe to say all you think con-
corning them or their actions. You
are not called upon to gloss over their
faults; but you need not expose their
foIlies. brutality of speaking is too
otter dignited with the title OF SINGER
ity. Some persons pique themselves
upon saving all they think. and are
continually protesting to do so. As
proof of this, they will say things the
most shocking to others, and give them
pain without the least remorse. Such,
so-called sincerity is to be suspected.
The conduct which an honest heart in
spires flows naturally from it; and
those who say rough things in order to
convince others of their sincerity give
some reason to doubt of their being
perfectly convinced of it themselves.
Their conduct is pernicious to the peace
and pleasure of society, and may also
lead to very fatal consequences. They
do what they can to frighten every one
from what is right. If sincerity, then,
discovers such a heart, disguise must
appear desirable. Few consider SUI
fciently how much the cause of virtue
must suffer, whenever a good quality IS.
made to appear in an unamiab.e light.
Sincerity is, indeed, the groundwork OF
all that is good and valuable. However
beautiful in appearance the structure
may be, if it stand not on this founda-
ton it cannot last. But sincerity can
hardly be called virtue in itself.
though a deviation from it is fault. A
man may be sincere in his vices, as
well as in his virtues. Now he who
throws off all remorse or shame, ana
even makes boast of his vices, can
claim no merit from the sincerity ne
expresses in so doing. Ii he who IS
sincere cannot appear amlab!e, his heart
is wrong, and his sincerity. far from be-
ing virtue, seems only to add to the
rest of his faults that of being willing
to give pain to others.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-12
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

A DISPATCH from Keokuk, Iowa,
dated the 4th, says: The steamer War
Eagle, with one OF the heaviest trips of the
sea on, was coming down from st. Paul, and,
owing to the height of the water in the
river, crossed the Des Moines Rapids,
| instead of passing through the canal.
| She passed safely over the swift
| flowing tide, and her passengers
and crew were congratulaling themselvt S
upon making a speedy landing at the Gate
| City, when all at once her speed was sud-
denly accelerated and she was borne down
at a terrific rate of speed toward the Hamil
ton'a and Keokuk bridge. The pilot sounded
his gong to go astern, but the boat refused
| to acknowledge the authority of the engines,
and swung with full force against the bridge.
The vast structure lrembed beneath the
weight OF the blow, and then, with mighty
crash, an entire span toppled over on the
stricken vessel, crushing r large hole in her
side, through which the water poured in a
vast flood. The passengers were hastily
gathered together upon the hurricane deck,
and many climbed from the boat upon the
bridge. The boat soon afterward swung
clear from the bridge pier and tloated down
stream with the current a few hundred
yards, when she rounded to and was made
fast to the bank, and the passengers were
safely transferred to terra frma. First re-
ports regarding loss of life were contradic-
tory, but it was thought at least two or three
were drowned.
A FIRE at Clean, N. Y, destroyed
the American House and five small build
ings. George Brooks and wife, in jumping
from one of the buildings, each had a leg
broken, and Mrs. Brooks was injured in-
ternally, and it is thought fatally.
DURING a storm at ManZanillo, Mex
leo, recently four large vessels and all small
craft in the harbor were wrecked, and sew
eral stores, the Custom-h house, and other
buildings were demolished.
Born houses of the Minnesota Legis-
lature have passed the bill for the readjust-
ment of the old bonded debt OF the State, at
an interest not to exceed per cent.
THE annual report of United States
Treasurer GifiIlan shows an increase in re-
ceipts over the previous year as follows:
Customs, ST. ,637 GIL; internal revenue, $11,-
90, 10; sales of public lands, 81, ls5, S56;
miscellaneous sources, 3,1l1, 1o2; increase in
surplus revenue, s34, 1S5, 151.
HENRY KING, who murdered Michael
Hugelin in Clinton rison last July, was
b nged at Plattsburg, N. Y, on the 4th.
Henry Lovelt and Tom Belts were legally
s,rangled on the same day--the former a.
Wilmington, n. c., and the latter at Jones'
boro, Ga. '' e-''-'s
CHRIS. PRYOR, a farmer and stock
raiser, was killed in q saloon brawl ut Web
ster, O.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-12

| Pacific struck broken rail about four miles
west of Jefferson City on the ID, and seven
coaches and the engine were derailed. One
CIR tumbled complete somersault No in
juries except a few slight bruises were sus-
tanned by any of the passengers.
The annual report of the Pension Blu
reau shows that on the 30th of June, 1881,
| there were 26S, $50 pensioners; net increase
during the year, lS,02S; aggregate annual
value of all pensions, $2S, 169,9G7. The an
nual disbursements of the office, however,
largely exceed this sum. For instance, the
total amount paid for pensions during the
year exclusive of certain arrears i'll claims
allowed prior to January %, 1879, was $40,
723, 14I, the difference being accounted for in
arrears of pensions, or ''accrued PENSIONS
covering a period dating back to the dis
charge. in each case, of soldiers still living
and soldiers deaths in the claims Of widow
or minor children.
GOVERNOR SHELDON is preparing to
break up the cowboy and ''rusller" element
in Southern New Mexico. This lawless
element is said to number about l5) persons
They lnfest the southern part of Grant
County, and have their principal camps at
San Simon. Cloverdale and Carsealillo
Springs. Their leaders are Russian Bill,
Curly Bill and Chris Moe>ner. Something
like 800 horses and 1000 head of cattle have
been stolen during the last nine months
and driven to Texas and Arizona, and
then sold. Horses and cattle stolen in
Arizon and Texas are run to New Mexico
and sold. The southeastern portion of Ari-
IONA is completely under the heel of these
''rustlers. - Governor Sheldon intends to
procure indictments, offer rewards, and
then send armed and mounted militia COM
panies, from fifty to one hundred men
strong, with the Sheriff> OF Dona Ana. Lin
coin and Grant Counties, to execute the
writs. Matters are now being put into
shape for the movement.
The Wabash will put on limited eX-
press between st. Louis and New York,
time SO hours and Al minutes.
EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark, has been de-
clared by Governor Churchill a city of the
tirst-clasS. This grade has been reached in
two years and three months from the date
of the erection of the first cabin.
ENGLAND has been visited by severe
snow-storm, which was accompanied by
rather brisk gale. In some of the midland
counties the snow fell to depth Of two feet.
AN order has been issued by the Pres
ident, directing that the Pension Agency at
St. Louis be removed on the 1st OF January
to Topeka, Hans, and Nathaniel Adams, OF
Manhattan, Hans. has been appointed
Agent, vice Rufus Campion, whose term has
expired.
IT is estimated that the recent over
flow of the Mississippi has caused damages
between keokuk, a., and Louisiana, No.,
on both sides Of the river, amounting to
s.. 930, 900.
FLOODS in Delmatia and Croatia
caused the River Keika to burst its bounds.
Houses are inundated, crops damaged roads
submerged and postal communication sus-
pended.
THE Nihilists threaten to prevent the
Cars coronation unless he grants specific
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-12
COMMERCE AND INDUsTRY.

LATER developments regarding the
failure of the Mechanics National Bank
OF Newark, n. j., confirm the report that
the institution is hopelessly wrecked. Stock
holders will be called upon to pay dollar for
dollar for the full amount of stock held by
them. Depositors will get about fifty cents
on the dollar. 1t has been ascertained that
Baldwin, the Cashier, speculated some in
Wall Street, but it is not known that he met
with any serious losses there. The firm of
Nugent d Co. protest against being made
the scapegoat for Baldwin's deficiency.
They claim that Baldwin was their paid
financial manager, receiving one per cent.
commission for negotiating their paper, and
That their Indebtedness to the bank is moth
ang like the amount claimed by Baldwin.
W. S. Brooks, a well-known mer-
chant Of Wheetley, Ark. has suspended
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-12
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
UNITED STATES SENATE.

In the Senate, on the Goth, Mr.. Hill, of
Georgia. offered the following:
ReSOtred, Thatappointments to offices under
the Federal Government ought not to be made
to control or influence elections in the several
states and the appointments made with such
intent are nnwise. unDa-irtic and contrary
to the spirit of our political institutions, and
if continued without rebuke bv the people
will become dangerous to the parpetuity of
our Institutions
The resolution was laid over and execu-
tive session followed. The nomination of
Stratham as Postmaster at Lvnchburg,
Va. being taken up as unfinished business,
Mr. Ferry, who, as Chairman of the Post office
Committee, had charge of the nomination, re-
marked that in view of the manifest determi-
nation of the Democratic members of the
Senate to continue the employment of dila-
tory proceedings against final action in this
case indefinitely, or at least until after the
Virginia election, the Republicans had con-
cluded flia5 rather than permit any further
obstruction OF the remaining public business,
they would lay the Lynchburg nomination
aside, and he accordingly made that motion,
which was unanimously. agreed to, and
the Senate proceeded to confirm
a large number of other nominations.
While the doors were still closed. but after
the transaction of executive business, COM
mittee appointed to wait upon the President
reported that he had nothing further to COM
municate, and motion to adjourn sine die
was agreed to. A vote of thanks was ten
dcred Hon. David Davis, responding to which
lie said:
"SESATORS-1 am touched by the generous
expressions in the resolution which it has
pleased the Senate to pass in my honor, and
am era eful for the courteous co operation
which has been rendered me from all sides in
adln,nst ering the duties of presiding officer
OF this high and enlightened body. Hoping
every member of the Senate will return hap
PLY and safely to his home, and be permitted
to resume his duties here at the next meeting
ofCon@ress, it only remains for me to declare
the Senate adjourned without day"
The door. were then opened and the usual
leave taking exchanged, aud in a few mo-
ments the Senate chamber was deserted.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-12

with liabilities Of $4,000, placed chiefly in
st. Louis and Memphis.
THE Executive Committee of the
Missouri River Improvement Association
have called Convention to be held at ST.
Joseph on the Goth Of November.
THE London Times in it's financial
article says that purchases of Confederate
bonds are believed to be entirely due to the
action Of clique prepared to run up the
price OF any rubbish if they think there is
the faintest chance of alluring the public in
to joining in the venture. There has been
a decline in the prices offered.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-12
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

GARFIELD memorial services were
held in the Town Hall at Berlin on Sunday,
the 30th ult. Prof. Gneist delivered an
Grafton before colossal bust of the dead
President. A distinguished audience was
present.
IMMEDIATELY following the adjourn.
ment of the Senate the President appoint ed
Stratham Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va, in
place Of Wilson, suspended.
THE Government has been defeated in
the recent German elections. In Berlin the
Progressists gained complete victory. The
most remarkable feature of the election is a
triumph of those Liberals who are specially
obnoxious to Prince Bismarck, VIZ, Eugene
Richter, Karl Mayer and Count Won Arnim
Bismarck's son William was defeated for
reelection at Mulhausen by the Liberal
candidate.
MIR. BRADY assumes to be so confident
OF establishing his innocence of any COM
plicity in the alleged Star-route frauds that
he is said to be preparing to bring suits for
libel against Postmaster General James and
Attorney-General MacVeagh, whom he
charges with giving out much of the def
amatory matter that has been published re-
garding him.
JACOB ECKHERDT, ex-member of the
Wisconsin Assembly, dropped dead in the
street at Milwaukee.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR went to New
York on the Sd, to remain until after the
State election.
HE late Governor Wilt, of Louisi-
ana, left his widow and five children in pow
erty, and committee Of leading citizens has
appealed to the people Of the State to pro-
vide fund for them.
CHARLES j. FoLGER, the newly-ap-
pointed Secretary of the Treasury, was born
In Massachusetts in 1918. His first Office
was that of Judge of Ontario County, New
York. He served eight years in the State
Senate, was Sub-Treasurer of New York,
and now holds the position OF Chief-Justice
OF the Court Of Appeals.
The State of Guatemala sent special
envoy to Washington to personally convey
TO our people and Government the sympathy
and coincidence of that Government upon
the death Of President Garfield
>~~~ASs y. ! AANboA1S SulCl l1cdu ClCIhs
has been placed in charge of all mail routes
in Texas.
HERR J. Won SCHOONER, at present
Diplomatic Agent and Consul General of
Austria at Alexandria, has been appointed
Austrian Minister at Washington.
The argument on the motion to set
aside the criminal information in the star
route cases began in the District Court at
Washington on the Sd. The Government
was represented by District Attorney
Corkhill; Brewster, of Philadelphia; Bliss,
OF New York, and Cook, of Washington:
the defense by Totten, Wilson, Shellabarger,
Robert G. Ingersoll, sypher, and Jefferson
Chandler, of st. Louis.
COMMERCE. AND INDUSTRY.
LATER developments regarding the
failure Of the Mechanics National Bank
OF Newark, N. j., confirm the report that
" Al