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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-24

The city of Boston has elected a re-
publican mayor and has voted TO
license drinking saloons.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-24

Ea,, ui Dras, at New Orleans, occurs
February 2lst, 1885,.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-24
Christmas and New Year Cards.

Nothing like the Dollar Store in al
Texas
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-24

IT you want fragrant cigar smoke
"DiamOnd Seal, ,"-l220lt
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-24

Five hundred Inhabitants at Ozark,
Ala, and not Smith in the directory.
Perhaps the old and well-Known
Jones family haye kept them out with
clubs.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-24
CONSUMPTION

. have positive romedy for the above disease hy
US use toilsaicS OF cases o! the worst kind and of long
standlhg have been cured. Indeed. 50 strorl. g my
ia,h Ini IN IT'S eficAcy thut will send TWO BOTTLES
rhEE. togef her with n VALUABLE TRFATISEon
ths disease t. any sniteEer GIVE FNpress and r o. adj
hIess. Dh. u. A. hLOt1 Il r..arI ~ -.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-24

1t is said that sixty steamboats, on
the Mississippi river use the electric
light. Its superiority over the COM
mon lights render accidents less liable.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-24

The total cost of Mississippi river
improvements Will be $39,00O,OOO
That is very light bill for deepening
the greatest water highway of the
continent
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-24

christmas tomorrow.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-24
FOR OLD CONFEDERATE

IN nm CART ENTERSa are now
File Saws, Price, S2 so, Send y0Hr all
dress on pos:sl cad for our illustrated Circu-
tar. ROTH BRO, Ney. oxford, Adams
county, Pa.
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GHHr year and expenses to agents. Out
% 1T free. Address p. o. VlCKERY,
Augusta, Me. la-22-dS,y I'm
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Ae0 EXAMINER.

WACO, DECEMBER "a, 1881
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and Rave crossed IL lines aal ira d, a41. ou a5apisr.
REMARE OE IAITaIrOhE.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02
A Woman'S Age.

A case has just been decided before the ap-
peal court of Metz which shows how lady's
age is matter entirely within her own con-
troll. Fraulein Catharine Mahl was engaged
to a desirable partner, to whom she had i'm
prudently declared her age as six years less
than it really was As soon as the moment ar
rived for producing the certificate of birth,
she was aware that her little deception would
be discovered, and she feared that the match
would be broken off. She therefore took the
liberty of altering the official document so as to
make it correspond with the statement already
made. The ceremony took place, and the hus-
band was duly united to lady whom he be-
lieved to be quite jeune ingenue. Unfortu-
nately the certificate, in passing through some
office, happened to be minutely examined by
one Of the clerks. The bride was charged
with the offense of classifying a public docu-
ment, and condemned to spend, if not her HON
eymeon, at least three of the first months of
her married life in prison. She had the cour-
age to appeal from the sentence, and cause the
case to be argued out before the court at Metz,
which reversed the decision of the inferior tri-
bunal, and acquitted the lady on the ground
that she did not intend to commit an illegal
act, but had been actuated by female vanity"
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

APRoPos of a sensational dispatch in the
New York Graphic, charging Mr.. Blaine
with usurping the powers of the Presiden-
tial office, the Boston Herald says: 'We
do not think the public will be made uneasy
in its mind by the chatter in New York
journal over Secretary Blaine's alleged as
sumption of the Presidential office. As the
recognized head of the cabinet Mr.. Blaine
has nat urally taken prominent part in the
direction of affairs at the White House, but
there are no proofs that he has in any way
overstepped the bounds of his authority.
He has made no appointments to office; be
has neither stopped the star-route investiga-
ton nor interfered in any way in the en-
forcement of the laws. He has, as it was
proper he should do, kept our representa-
tives abroad well informed as to the Presi-
dents condition; but beyond this he ap-
pears to have done nothing that would not
naturally devolve upon him as the chief Off
cial adviser and near personal friend of the
President. 1t is fiat nonsense, if not some
thing worse, to talk about any "usurpation
OF power' by the Secretary of State.'
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat gives a
new version of the offer made to Senator
Conkling of the Chief Justiceship of the
United States Supreme Court by President
Grant. It has heretofore been asserted
that he declined, but the Globe-Democrat
says; "He was about to be appointed some
years since, with his own con sent, by Gen
eral Grant, but it was found that he was
disqualified by clause of the constitution
wAich provides that no Senator or Member
OF Congress shall, during the term for which
he shall have been elected, be appointed to
any office which shall have been created or
the emoluments Of which shall have been
increased during his term of office. The sal
aries of the Supreme Court Judges had been
increased during the term for which Mr..
Conkling had been elected when Grant
thought of appointing him, and the appoint
ment, therefore, was not made"
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02
Getting Well.

The beginning of the fifth week since the
President was shot finds him not only alive
but making apparently sure and steady, if not
rapid, progress toward recovery. DR.. Ham
ilton when asked soon after the President
had escaped the more immediate danger of
his wound when the patient would be out of
danger, replied "When he gets WELL" He
is not well yet and it is therefore wise to
bear in mind the implied caution of DR..
Hamilton's reply and not grow too sanguine.
1t can safely be said, however, that all the
probabilities are now in favor of the Presi-
dents recovery. His symptoms are all
favorable, and the fact that the exact loca-
tion of the ball has been ascertained in
creases the chances of successfully dealing
with any trouble which may arise at that
point. There has been no time since the
President was shot when there were so many
substantial reasons for predicting his COM
plete restoration as now.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02
Hartford Courant.l
A Defense of College BOYS.

The college student spends over his books,
either really or nominally, the years which his
out-of-college contemporaries spend in learn
ing some trade or business. He comes home,
after having been supp orted for eight years or
SO, to find his old mates all self-supporting and
well planted on their feet in this practical
world. And yet in a comparatively short
time hetoo begins to support himself in the
same practical world to which he has been
stranger, and he puts his education to its final
test by making success with it. AS rule
college graduates succeed. When man is
failure, if he is q college graduate that fact is
always mentioned. 1t is the remarkable part
of it.
If the colleges are training schools for life,
and if their graduates succeed in life, there Is
no call to abuse the students. 1t is time the
cheap talk of that character ended. The
average student does not waste his opportu-
mites nor live free and easy and regardless
life. He studies and works. II he didn't he
would be dropped. 1t is no easy matter to
keep along with ones class and meet the ex-
animation ordeals.
In the growth of society in wealth it follows
that our colleges have more rich students in
them than formerly, and that the average of
college life is lifted to more expensive plane.
But this does not in any way directly affect the
cost of getting college education for any one
person. Drummers fer little back country COL
ieges take the statistics Of the average amount
spent by each of Yale or Harvard class Of
these days, and go about bowling over the aw-
full cost of getting an education. "The average
cost Of four years at Yale is $60O0," and SINH
lar paragraphs are floating about on the sea of
exchanges and will never entirely sink. They
mean nothing. They represent use of statis-
tics that is entirely erroneous, blunder if not
wilful perverson No one ,is compelled to
spend the sum named because it is the
average If the spendthrifts are all the time
growing plentier in our colleges they do not
prevent other students from working as econ
omicaly as ever. Indeed with the increase Of
scholarships and of funds we incline to believe
that an education can be got cheaper today
than ever before in these very institutions Of
high average expense.
So long as the boys do not spend more than
they have a right to it is nobody's business;
and if, after their studies, they succeed then
their college work has been good one.
Holding them up to the public representative
idlers, wasters of opportunity-a sh:ftless, in
dolent and improbable LOTS all wrong. It
does no good to anybody and is liable to do
serious mischief.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

able daugh tiers attended the trial and ap-
peared much interested Especially was she in
terested in the statements which showed how
large was the amount Morey had fallen heir
to- And he is gentle and kipd-hearted look
ing and it certainly was temptation to hear
so many thousands OF dollars spoken of 50
recklessly. The season at North Conway
could hardly be called failure even though
the son-in-law be not quite CONNIE ii faut, with
thirteen acres of solid timber land, stone
mansion and thousands of dollars. And tho
way she smiled on Morey was pleasant to see:
"Are you acquainted with him, is he nice?"
she inquired rapturously of North Conway Ia
dy 'No, don't know him much but he was
always considered very respectable man."
answers the lady. SIS he married?" still
more eagerly. 80 yes and has large fami-
ly." The other lady looked panied, distressed
even. Another hope was crushed.
The evidence showed no Incarceration of
DR. Bemis by Morey, no intimidation. Moth.
ing indicating that the Doctor was in his dotage,
or was unduly influenced was brought out In
the testimony, Notwithstanding Mr. Cope
lands sturdy an rsevering endeavors, so
Judge Hill gave his decision in favor OF the
executors, George Fl. Morey and F. B. Osgood,
sustaining the last will. The contestants ap-
pealed. E.M.M.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02
James T. Fields's Joke.
Edward Everett Soliciting Old Clothes
for the Historian Macaulay.

E. P. Whipple in August Atlantic.l
One morning 1 received a letter which pur-
ported to come from Edward Everett, and
which was written in that style Of plaintive
dignity which it might be supposed that dis
tinguished man would assume If he were solic-
-iting contributions to deserving charity.
learned from this epistle that Mr.. Everett, un-
derstanding that had once written an article
on Mr.. Macaulay, supposed that might be in
terested in hearing of the condition of wretch
ed poverty in which that eminent essayist
was now placed. 1t seemed that Mr.. Macau-
lay, though he still continued to write brilliant
papers for the Edinburgh Review, was not
paid for them sum sufficient to support his
suffering family, which consisted of wife and
six children. Mr.. Everett proceeded to say
that he had received letters from numerous
friends IN London to the effect that subscrip-
tion had been started in the United Kingdom
to relieve Mr. Macaulay's most pressing neces-
sities but that it was insufficient to effect that
desirable end, and that an appeal was there
fore to be made through Mr.. Everett to the ad-
mirers OF MIR. Macaulay in the United States
Money it was shardly expected that authors
could give, but If l had any old clothes to
spare they would be very acceptable, as Mrs
Macaulay had the reputation of being an ex-
pert with the needle, and could readily adapt
oho WIN SdimcutS VI SrOWu m6u 10 bQ6 SnlV0r-
ing limbs of her destitute children. In address
ing man OF letters Mr. Everett acknowl-
edged he felt degree of age which it was not
permissible to transcend in selecting articles
from my wardrobe. He had found that writers
as general thing, considered as new many ar
ticles of apparel which statesmen and diplo-
matists, accustomed to courts, would pronounce
very old indeed. Still, if among my old clothes
there were some which stopped this side of ut
ter raggedness he thought he had sufficient in
terest with his successor at the court of St.
James to have the parcels containing them
franked by the American government to Mr..
Macaulay without any expense. Mr.. Everett
concluded his interesting communication by
assuring me that this was an occasion which Of
fered new opportunity to bind the two great
branches of the English race together in
peaceful union and show to Great Britain that
the thinkers of America were proud of their
descent from the countrymen Of Milton, New
ton and Locke. There could, of course, be no
doubt in my mind from whose pen this prec-
ious epistle came.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

THE attack made by ex-Surgeon General
Hammond on the Presidents attending
physicians has caused some anxiety lest the
President might not be having the best med
ical attendance, but DR.. Hamilton's opinion
of DR.. Bliss ought to satisfy everybody DIR.
Hamilton recently remarked that DR.. Bliss
had more experience in treating gunshot
wounds similar to the Presidents, known to
the profession as "wounds in the great cav
ities," than any other surgeon in either the
United States or Europe. The fact is that
while in charge of the Armory Square Hos
pital DR.. Bliss had on an average for four
years from one to fifteen new case a day of
gunshot wounds in the great cavities, all of
them more or less like the Presidents and
some of them precisely like it; and his sue
cess in treating them was very great He
had also all the cases of compound fracture
Of the thigh and other desperate wounds
that were brought from other hospitals and
battlefields to Washington.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02
Selling the Controlling Interest in
the Sahara.
Detroit Free Press.l

81 have plan to turn the Sahara Desert in
to smiling landscape, full Of hills, valleys.
glades and dells," he said, as he entered
Griswold street tobacco store yesterday.
"Yum," was the reply from the man who
was sorting over pipe stems.
'The cost will only be S50,00O,OOO shall
issue 1O, 900, 900 shares at So per share. Every
shareholder will be entitled to ten-acre lot
and share in the profits of sales. Will you
take two shares?'
"No, SIR"
"One?"
''No, SIR"
"Will you give me half pound of fine cut
for share?"
mo, SIR"
"Don't you want to see the desert smile?"
''No, sir"
"And you refuse a ranch in some green val
ley in reclaimed Sahara?"s
81 do"
VERY well, sir-very well. 1t is such men
as you, sir, who obstruct-but hold on. Gim-
me ten cents worth of poor plug and take the
whole desert off my hands and let me go ahead
with my tunnel from Portland to San Fran
cisco. Eth? What do you say? It's the last
chance you'll have this summer to buy a coun-
try of your own. Eh! Thanks; Sahara is
yours. Go ahead with the smiling process"
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

ACCORDING to the Boston Journal the
Chinese commissioner sent to this country
to look after the Chinese students here "was
greatly shocked to see how the spirit of our
institutions had been caught up by the
youths from China. They had in some in
stances disposed Of their queues, and, with
the exception of physiognomical peculiari-
ties, they were to all intents and purposes
Americans, without political privileges"
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

IT is reported by way of St. Louis that the
late Judge Clifford left in manuscript a
complete and detailed history of the pro-
ceedings of the electoral commission, of
which he was a member, and that it would
be published after his death, unless his wife,
who is the custodian of the manuscript,
should otherwise decide. Governor Critten-
den, to whom the information was given,
was also told that its publication would Gre
ate a sensation throughout the country.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

BOSTON Post: "Solon Chase and his con-
federates have issued call for Greenback
state convention to be holden in Maine in
September. The reorganization of the
Greenback party is to be the chief work of
the convention. But how are these men to
reorganize a party that does not exist?"
If the Greenback party doesn't exist perhaps
the Post will tell us whose candidate Judge
Gilbert is whom it advises the Democrats
to endorse.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica-
tion but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

For the third time within eight years a
strong and prominent Ohio temperance
worker declines to accept an important
place on the prohibition ticket because he
has determined that 'the interests of the
people will be best served by Republican
succeSsN
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

The Congregationalist thinks as general
thing it is not best for clergymen to preach
for money during vacation. But there are
good many ministers who can't afford to
give their pocketbook a vacation.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

THE st, Louis Globe-Democrat can't be-
lieve that Minister Noyes has declined a
dinner. 1t sententiously remarks that he
is from Ohio
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
viii confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
OF every person claiming to represent our Journal
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

THE Legislature which was elected in
Kentucky yesterday will choose a successor
to Senator Beck. There is no doubt but it
will re-elect him.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02
PROPOSALS

PORTLAND, July 27, 1881.
The undersigned will receive proposals fer print
ing new Finding List for the Portland Institute
and Public Library.
The Finding List may be either with or without
advertisements, and is to bs similar to the present
Finding List in paper and general STYLE
Proposals will be received till Aug l5 at noon.
The right to reject any and all bids is reserve
For further particulars inquire of
jy2Seod2ws S. M. WATSON, Librarian
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

There is good deal of human nature in
clothes wringers An Altoona girl had her
hand badly squeezed by one.-Philadelphia
News.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

The Bath Democrats have selected an an
ti-fusion delegation to the Second District
convention. This will be grievous news for
the Argus.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02
MILK, MILK, MILK.

/ CAN furnish few more families with the first
Il quality of Jersey Milk at Cents per quart
Milk for children speciality. address
1ue2S2m V. II. SOULE, Woodford's
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02
MISCELLANEOUS
PICNIC GOODS.

yar goods specially adapted for Pcncs Travellers
table, which
the quality OF the goods offer
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02

TALMAGE is preaching on housekeeping.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-02
Summer
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