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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-10-18
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.
Their Notions and Ours.

"hooking" from the Echo without
"chalking" it, and makes the prom.
er confession, summing up the
matter thus:
Now, if the fair editress of the
Echo will adhere strictly to the
"credit system" the unfair editor of
the Observer will do the same
We think that quite creditable
all round.
To be correct judge between
prohibition and anti-prohibition,
one should be sober one day and
drunk another, to view the case
from cash stand point.-Nicholas
Chronicle.
By parity of reasoning a man
would have to be wise one day and
a fool the next to account for the
foregoing paragraph.
Vote the Democratic ticket with
out a scratch.-Po5nt Pleasant Req
aster.
That's old Bro. Tippett, ard they
won't mind you any more. When
any ticket needs scratching it will
get it. Mind that!
The whisky business is becoming
very common. A Pig made ap.
plication for license on Monday
Huntington Commercial.
And no doubt the pig proved
itself entitled to license under the
law, as we have never known a
hog young or old to be "of intern
perate habits"
A little dull.-"Ratchie Gazette.
"Open confession is good for the
soul"
The newspapers may educate the
people, but they can't give them
brains. Until time shall be no
more there will always be persons
who will eat toadstools, blow into
the muzzles of guns, light fires with
coal oil, walk on the railroad tracks
and vote the Democratic ticket
Ritchie Gazette.
If Bro. Morris is an inspired
prophet, that's surely very encour-
aging to the Democracy; as they
are to have a ticket in the field
when time shall be no more.
Mr., K. S. Foreman, having been
appointed to a position in the Pen
sion Bureau at Washington, left
for that city Tuesday. While we
all shall sadly miss Kenner from
our midst, we wish him abundant
s1ccess-7yler Star.
We heartily join the Star in good
wishes for our young Tyler friend
We felt the grip of his hand while
stopping with friends here.
The editor of this paper has pur-
chased from Mr. Holswade lot ad-
joining J. L. Orders drug store on
Third Avenue, and in connection
with Mr. Order will build a brick
business Huntington Repub-
Jacon.
The idea of a West Virginia ed
itor being able to purchase a lot,
is what we're worrying over just
now.
The story that President Ar
thurs son is engaged to the daugh-
ter of Congressman Crowley is OIL
cially denied.-Ea.
We are glad of that. Of course
President Arthur's son, like any
body's else son, has right to marry
Crowley's daughter or any other
girl, if the girl and the folks are
willing, but then we are glad 1t is
Officially denied" in this case, It's
news, you know.
The Keyser Echo is edited by,
woman. We know this by the
way she "talks back" at the other
newspapers Grafton Sentinel
Has the Sentinel learned this by
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-10-18
Of Two Evils Shall We Choose
the Least, or Neither!

ton IN ONO has calleu loIIH li0
quent and pressing applications OF
that old, time-worn and unscrlptu-
1ral adage, 'sOf two evils, always
choose the least" We are aware
that good temperance people on
this side the river, who take a
lively interest in Ohio affairs, just
like our friends over there, are dl-
vided as to the propriety of adopt
ing this old adage; and as the cleo
ton is now past, both parties will
pardon the FREEMAN if it gives
some little opinions of its own in
the premises; and at the outset let
lEit say that the Republican party OF
bQhip, like the Democratic party OF
West Virginia, needed a sound
Kicking, for its servile trucking
Ito the Liquor power in defiance Of
Ithe known wishes of a large major
Iity Of thespeople; and the FREE
MAN is by no means sorry that both
have received a right lively casti-
lgatip n; though we do sympathize
with our Ohio friends in their ex-
Etreme humiliation Of being oval
Hoped'' by the lawless and rebel
1lious beer insurrectionists.
For years past this lawless beer
and-whisky vote of Ohio has been
held up as a standing prize and
premium to the political party that
should prove itself most expert in
lodging the only live and real is
sue in politics.
This year the Democrats have
lons- lodged the Republicans and
EWon the prize, and that's all there is
Iof the Ohio situation.
Had the Republican party been
wise enough>to have abandoned the
contest for the prize offered in this
disgraceful lodging tournament,
and struck out on the straight line
Of right and principle for the great
er and more potent prize held out
by all the better elements of the
State, it had to day been proudly
victorious and not disgracefully
humbled.
InIsetting it's policy-net to catch
votes, it seemed to ignore two i'm
portant facts:
L First, That Of two evils, the liq
uor men, like the devil, choose the
worst, always and invariably, and
having driven them to this choice,
by its legislation to restrain the
traffic, it was folly for the party to
hope for votes in that direction:
Second, That on the "two evils"
proposition, good Christian and
temperance people are divided ;
that while some are ready to choose
the least, many are decidedly
against choosing either, and regard
ing the tax or license (both which
mean the same) plank in the Re
publican platform as one Of two
evils offered, they turned away from
both for ballot that conscience
could approve.
AND now, if a great party acting
in seeming ignorance or open def
ance of these two important facts,
has stubbornly persisted in trying
to legalize a great crime for six
days i'm the week. while righteously
trying to suppress it on the sew
enth, finds itself swallowed up in
the maelstrom between Silla and
Charybdis, whom or what can #
blame for it's discontinue but it's
own leaders and it's own folly.
The only salvation for the party
now, is to go at once and vigorously
for the submission of the prohibit
orv amendment which the DnOr,le
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-10-18

Now, friends, give us the news,
and temperance items.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
GAM sETrA's ILLsEss.

1t appears from the latest dispatches
that Gambetta's illness is much more seri-
GUS than was a. first supposed. In fact
the symptoms disclosed seem TO be those of
peri.oritis, which is almost always fatal
Gambetta, too, is man Of full habit of
body, and therefore liable to be taken hold
of by infamma.ory affections very severely.
Should he die at this time French politics
will perhaps be thrown into some confu-
sion, but it does not follow that the future
OF the republic will uuffer. Gambetta has
shown himself too ambitious to be trusted
Daring his brief term of power he allowed
it to be inferred that he was anxious TO
subordinate the legislative branch of the
Government to himself, and that he did not
think he couid have too decided predom-
nance. Indeed his passionate demand for
the Scrutin de lSte reminded Frenchmen who
were not carried away by enthusiasm, that
Louis Napoleon had avaiIed himself of the
same agency to steal the empire. Now
France has had mere than enough OF auto.
Gratis, and Gambetta's sgotism and ambi.
ton fairly frightened her. Aud since he
has never given the country the least reason
to believe that he has repen.ed of his high
aspirations, or that he ism Of demo.
crat than he was, it is even possible that
his death now might remove instead of
creating diff ;ulties, and that a. least it
would render easier that policy of quies.
oence which everything points out as the
best the circumstances admit of.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
PAYING TIE PIPER.

France is about to pay 25. OO9, 600 francs
for the occupation Of Tunis This is but a
part OF the total cost of the Tunis expedi.
tiop, which the Ministry assured tie Cham
Der would not exceed three or four million
francs at the outside. The republic was
plunged into this unfortunate affair through
the venality and ambition Of Roustan, its
consul at Tunis, who had become the lover
of profigate woman, whose husband had
risen from barber to minister in the Bsy's
employ. The Rochcfors. R ous.au trial in
Paris brought all the disgraceful facts to
light, and helped to pull down Gambe.to.
Subsequently, NJ. Rnustan having &C.
quired too bad reputation to he any
longer employed in the European diElc.
matte service, the French Government
showed its friendiiness to the United
States by appointing him Minister to
Washington. Had our Government re.
fused to issue his er2qaatur it would have
been only proper.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30


vh h was {, son { ext esdiualy su: il
.mFodanc in this Aori.i, rns neishbors ~.
hreri..ed lis nane. Hedis'ik d Jason. auG
liked J-y. aud hes alwa.. isnsd kimte #
Complaints in regard 10 tie .ieatuent o
the jews are sgain sppe4iit ia the Russian
newspapers- l. Is s.sstd tat tie rai road
compact haye crder,d the di charge of tfsir
Jewish employees. TIE Prefecs Of ST. Peers
burg has ordered that 10 indulgence be show n
the jews residieg in the capiiol wi h, n. eff.
cial leave, and the Senate h - decided hat 10
Court can susLorizs the tsassitr Of lad to
the jews
The Chris'm mas festival of TIE Chinese SUI.
dsy-fchocl in Cnicaq~, CONDUCTED ~ The
faung Mels Christian Ass eiasiop. tick
place Thursday event: G lie me5a, er, hip
Il the school is aheut 125 the IN Iify o.
whom attended. There was also = large at
tendance ct fislds cf the caooi. An inter.
esting programme, in which the pupils os the
school took prominent parts, was arranged
for the occasion.
MONTREAL. December 90 NV. @. An
dersor, ycuug telegraph operator a. La.
chine, who recently fell heir to $3.50, eco by
the death of an uncle ia Scotland, has been
notified that he has fallen heir to another
500, 900 by the deceass Sf another uncle.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
FeEEIGs NEWS.
naYIlt sfiIIIInIninn

LONDON, December 23th.-Dsvitt. in his
speech last nj said that Dublin Castle is no y
fortress to which. cor ,itusionally spssking,
the political ascsndancy of the lander Ia has
been forced to retire. There they would
make Efforts, by the exercise of powers which
they still possessed, to regain the political il
hlence Of which the Land Lasgue had de-
prived them. Unless tfs Lord Lieutenant
changed his tactics, the Itime would come
when even Englishmea w9b bld demand his re-
call. The highest to the Eeanest Justice OF
the Peace in Ireland bslcz eed to the landlord
class. So long as England tolerated political
Judges, so long would the Irish people iisre-
gard the law thoze Judges administered.
An Editor En,prIsoned.
DUBLIN, December 29sh.-The Mayor Of
Wexford, proprietor of the local paper, has
been sentenced to five wesks' imprisonment
for publishing portion Of the report Of toe
meeting OF the Ladies Lesgue, calculated to
cause intimidation.
The Floods I'm Germany.
WORMS, December sh.-Hemmel DYKE.
on the Rhine, has burst, AID is hlodiug the
lower part of the town. Railway travel from
Frankfort-on-the-M Main to Weisbaden Is in.
terrupted, owing to the inundations at Castle
depot.
MAYENCE, December 29.h-bLidnisht.-
The Rhine has fallen three csn!imeters.
BERLIN, December 29.h.-Is is estimated
that fully 80 persons have rerished in the
foods.
High Water In France
PARIS, December 29sb.-A renewal of the
floods is reported in various parts Of France,
Several streets of Lyons are submerged. Be-
sanccn is much damaged and Lisieux iuun-
d1ted.
The Chimney Disaster.
BRApFoRD (Eagl December 80 A boy
has been recovered alive from the ruins of the
building wrecked by the fall OF the mill chin.
ney, which was long notoriously unsafe.
The Danube Rising.
vienna, December 29:b-Ths danger
from lha rising Danube in increa, ing. The
main channel has rises tonight 16 ceutime.
Ssrs.
Gambetfa's Condition.
PARIS, December 29sh.-The condition of
Gsmhetta is still alarming. and his frisnGs no
longer deny that his state is critical
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
GovEaos STEPHENS a.sa ACT.

Governor Stephens, of Georgia, has bser
very shsrply censured for pardon:ng Cox,
the murderer of Aston, and ir. self-defenss
he -Sas giSa-. .Ehs. &c is ple1sed to call his
asPns for clemency. Hs says be has
received hundreds of petitions. embrac.
/fng many eminent citizens, lawyers,
|' jurists, merchants, bankers, ministers OF
the Gospel, journalists, mechanics and
farmers, and including majority of the
8 House of Representatives and two-thirds
"of the Senate of the present General
Assembly, asking executive cleniency y
and he further says tia. "there existed in
!" the minds of several distinguished law.
"yers, jurists and others, at the time Of
"the conviction, doubts as to the grade Of
the crime, and that many of the same
class as well as Others entertained and
expressed doubts on that points lie
adds that he shared those doubts himself.
and therefore he gave the assassinss full
pardon. There could not he moro strik.
ing ye. conclusive proof of the fore and
truth OF all thai has been said concerning
the disregard of human life at the South,
than Governor Stephens has here fur.
nished. As to the crime, it was a peculiar.
ly ferocious and brutal murder, the purpose
to commit which was persisted in with
diabolical malignity. We admit that there
was mistake in regard to the character
of the punishment. In a civilized com.
munity Cox would have been sentenced to
the galloxs. But TO pardon such ruffian,
and because clemency was asked for him
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30

For upwards of twenty-five years, DIR
LIGHTHILL'S professional attention ha.
been exclusively devoted to the relief aat
cure of these important ailments, and it i:
with pardonable pride tha. he refers to ths
success which he has achieved in thi:
special department Of medical science. H.
apparatus and appliances for the examination
and treatment of the hidden cavities of tbs
head, throat and sir passages are original
and confessedly TIE most perfect of anything
OF the kind yet devised, rabling him not
only to readily discover the exact nature ol
the complaint, but also to direct his applics
tions to the diseased parts so effactually that
relief ID experienced at once, and permanent
cures are often effected in the most stubborn
and aggravated cases. And it is one of the
happy features of his practice that the appli.
cations cause neither pain nor distress, and
can therefore be readily administered to the
most tinid or nervous person.
candid opinion will invariably be given
as to the probabilities of cure, and no case
will be accepted for treatment which does not
offsr a reasonable chance of success.
TIT Office hnurs f-nm 10 A NJ +, 19y owl
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30

CRoAT AND SERB The Crown Prince
OF Austria, during his visit to the Exhibi,
tion at Trieste, made a point of inspect
ing the Croat Pavilion, which is reported
to be well worth seeing. The Croat ex
hibitors were, OF course, delighted, and
waited upon their future sovereign to ex.
press their thanks and pleasure for the
attention he bad given to the products of
the Slav subjects of his father. They
were told that they might address his In.
perial Highness in the Croas language.
but they were astonished when the Pine
replied TO them in the same tongae. The
President Of the Cfost Committee said TO
the august visitor, 81 reckon myself haDpv
to be able to ,rspeEt= To -felloY.coun.
trymen at homo that your Imperial High
ness speaks spch perfect Croas." The
Crown Prince answered "No. no: that
will not do. I can hardly speak a word
of Croat correctly, but can make myself
fairly understood in Serb. The Croat ex-
hibitor stared 1t the Prince with look OF
amazsment. Imperial Highness 70 he ex.
claimed, .sfor Us Croats that is one and the
same. T" The Prince thought th,E he had
been speaking Serb. and the hearerA thought
that he had BEEN speaking Croat, Nd both
were right. The only difference Aetween
the speech of the Serbians and that(of the
Croats lies in tho written language, because
the former is always written and NJ nted
In the ancient Cyrillian alphabet, inverted
by st. Cyril AMI ST. MethodIus, the ApR Rtie
Of Slavonia.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30

by great Number of psople, slows that
there really does not exise at the South aay
welI-defined sentiment of respect fer
human life. OF course this pardon will
have the worst effects. It viii encourage
homicide, and it will render the S iuth
more than ever sealed region to Northern
civilization. Fur law. abb ing and in.elli.
gent men will ros so to live in country
where murderers are pardoned upon gen.
eral petitions, and where the shotgun is
recognized as legitimate factor in all
disn1tes
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
A PROPER CONVICTION.

Smith, the man who murdered his con,
and then ascribed the deed to divine
command, has been convicted of murder
in the first degree, and sentenced to i'm.
prisonment for life. This is a just and
proper disposition of the man. The evi.
dence all went to sn3w that he was not
insane, but that even if be was insane he
knew perfectly well what he was doing.
II Juflss could always be got to "clea1
:" their minds of can't" and examine the
facts before them impartially, there are
very few murder cases involving plea Of
insanity which would net be dealt with in
this way.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
GENERAL NEWS.

Boiler Explosion at Releium-Lord Maple,
now Field Marshal-Fires Ena Less n,
Life-New.paper Consolidation I'm Gin
cinnati-The BeeTs and ihs Trnnsyaal
Convention = Business Failures The
Jews In Russia-Shinese Chrt,tua.
Festival fin Chicago ZuinIand HI
ElyfdFd-Ite.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
Home AND ABROAD.

Deadly Combats by waneB-A Sister of
Charity Ma ried : Captain De LcDs's
Eeperi-sIecirie Lights Put cut by a
Eat-1s piorabie Tragedy In Miss surt-A
Mormon Leader Ry!ng-Fafber and Four
Children Eurned 10 Deaik-aanaed for
xnrder-I;eIns of Foreign News-Etc.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
MlSOSRY IL EARLY days.

Among those present at the installation
of the new officers of California Lodge. No.
!, T. and a. NJ, held last evening in Com.
mandery Hall, Masonic Temple, was Past
Grand Master J. ID. Steven son. the Oldest
living Free Mason in California. Before
the meeting closed, Colonel Stevenson
spoke briefly of the early history of Fee.
masonry in California. la lS49 California
Lodge, No. the first Masonic L,dge in
the State-was organized in this city. il a
loft, the ceiling of which was so low that
man five feet six inches in hight could
not stand erect ten feet from the center of
the room. The Lodge consisted of ten
members, few OF whom had TO become
personally responsible for the rent, which
was $500 month. IL cost s., 500 to fur.
nish the hall. After the regulac business
of TIE Lodge had been transacted, the
doors were thrown open to all who desired
10 enter and aid in relieving the scl, and
distressed. Up to that time the city coa-
tainad few places where men could meet
enc another in friendly and social inter.
course, except in saloons, gambling dens
and kindred establishments. To tnis first
assembly hall Of California Lodge, reports
were brought of those who arrived in the
e.
lief was furnished. At one time it would
be announced that 6 launch loaded with
sick miners had jus. arrived from Sacra.
mento; at another the report would
bs that ship had Just cone
IN from Panama with load of fever.
stricken passengers needing immediate
assistance. Committees were at once or
gained to take charge of the sufferers.
whether Masons or not, and a collection
taken up to defray the expenses Of their
care. Ihe hat was iu chose days placed
upon the altar, and voluntary contributions
TO charity were poured into is so rapidly
that frequently il was filed in much less
time than 1t took him (she speaker) to mar.
rate 1t. 1t was no uncommon thing to take
up LOCO night. Miners fresh from tie
mining districts would dEaW--aas--isrg
purses filed with god, and without regard
to the valre of their contents throw them
into the hat. Il was under these auspices
and in this way that Masonry started in
California. The first 30 organize in the
interest of charity, masonry showed the
way to Others to establish hospitals for
the sick end homes for the dsstI Ut
spread its influence everywherz
tended its sphere Of ssRlnz
tshe State. AT Sacrame
Established a hospital sl
pr its maintenance Of
which three of them
resulting uufortuni
ruin OF some Of them.
the unwritten history Of
California. It has con
present time the work
And yet, continued the
there are some people wh7
coed in Masonry us. F. 3
Der 2Ssh.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
Rooxs II, 12 AN, 1a,

Where he can be consulted on DEAFNESS
CATARRH, and DISEASES OF THF
EYE, EAR, THROAT and LUNGS.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
DIR. LICHTETILL,,
OF NEW YORK CITY,

Begs leave to inform the public tha. e has
arrived in Sacramento and opened an office in,
the building over the heCALIFORNIA STATE
RANK
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
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