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Tree HurisIin New Zealand.

The recent fall of an enormous puketea
tree near OpOtlki, New Zealand disclosed the fact
that the hollow interior from the roots 10 the first
fork about forty hyo feet from the ground had been
filled with human bOdles. A confused heap Of
skeletons burst out Of the butt Of tho reo when II fell
local paper says; "a more extraordinary sight
than this monarch Ut the forest lying prone aud dis
charging perfect heca1mb uf human skeletons can
scarcely be- conceived. Some nearly perfect while
others are mixed up In chaotic mass oil heads hands
feet, and arms, mdisCIlminataly. All the MaOTies
here seem 10 have been quite unaware Of this natural
ChaTnel- house, ana declare that II must have hap
pened long before their or their fall6rs time ln-
deed, the appearance of tho tToo fully Justified the
suppOsitOn that must have been some hundreds Of
years since this novel family vault was filled with It's
occupants. -
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PROPOSALS. FOR PRINTED WOODEN
u TAGS AND METALLIC LABEL CASES FOR
MAIL RAGS.


POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., August ~, 1882.
SEPARATE SEALED PROPOSALS Will he re-
ceved at this department until noon the fourth day
of October 1852, for furnishing by contract Printed
wooden Tags Ike the samples of this Department, In
such quantities and at such times as may be required
and ordered during year from the first day OF No
VemDer, 1882; also for furnishing In like manner and
for the same period Metallic Label Cases for mail bags
like the samples Of this Department.
The proposals che right Ia reject any or all OF which
being reseIved must be In accordance with the sDeci-
cations and forms which viii lbs furnished on app-
cation TO the Second Assistant Postmaster General.
The contracts which may be made win he In cOnfOr-
NIFTY to such specifications and the accepted proposals.
FRANK HhTTON,
an2l-6t Acting Postmaster General.
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The standing of the clubs in the Depart
mental League mp 10 date Is as given below. 1t Is
more than likely that when the League comes u pass
upon the record of the several clubs than four
Of the games will he thrown out account OF tile clubs
playing outsiders and delaying contests to prevent
full quota OF innings being played, TO make
game:
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Fall Overcoais

Are coming into play, and we are ready to
show them whom you are ready to look. George
spTansy, j07 Seventh street.
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Our fashionable milliner, Mrs. T. b. Harri-
son. Of Eaton & Harrison. 1897 street northwest
has gone North Ia the latest imported novelties
III millinery for the early fall season.
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BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Are now ready for you to inspect. George
: prausy, JO7 seventh street.
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1t is proper to state, in order to correct n
misapprehonslon, that tho Mr.. Moore, paperhanger,
who attempted to commit suicide recently was not
Brother j. A. X. Moore, Of Metropolis Lodge No.
10, who Is also a well. known paporhanger. Brother
Jm says this Is the best world he has struck vet
to do
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WE have written q good deal about the
celebrated rauhhauser beer lint the more and
hear vi II the more we are convinced made mS-
take In pronouncng 1t the rurest aud best beer man
ufacurei. Mcssrs. II. Rcnzer Co., 1913 street are
the sole agents Tor It's sale In this city.
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Capital Lodge No. II will make fraternal
visit to Potomac Lodge No. s. In Cooperative Hail.
next Wednesday evening.
Harmony Lodge No. 10 has changed its
night and place of meeting. and viii hereafter meet
IN Tmms's Han on Monday evening, commencing
Tomorrow night.
The anniversary excursion of Lafayette
Lodge No. 49, on the steamer W. W. CorcOran, to
Marshall Hall, last Friday evening, was highly en-
Ioyabe and successful. The affair having gotten
up quietly, select party was the result.
Anchor Lodge No. visited Friendship
Lodge No. last Monday evening, and were re-
ceived with remarks by Worthy Master George :.
Johnson. Grand Architect l., e. Crump and brothers
william T. bailey and George Is. Wilson, OF No. .,
replied with entertaining addresses.
The board of directors of the Mutual Re
lief Association, at Its meeting last Monday evening
received q number nf applications, and adjourned to
meet on Monday evening, the 18th instant, when the
applications VIII ie considered. A delegation OF tho
board Will visit King David Lodge No. AZ, Balti-
more, next Saturday night, In tho Interest of the AS
EDciltlDu.
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An adjourned meeting of the Uniformed
Battalion Of Parlaichs held Friday evening last
10 receive the report of thecomttee the projected
visit to baltimore on tho 18th instant. The battalion
very wisely decided To parOniZe the Baltimore and
foohac ROAD, and VIII leave ON the G:l5 A. NJ. train
AMI Join with the Baltimore Dri Association as an
escort 10 tho sovereign Grand Lodge from Barnun'
Hotel To the Gay street Hail. The round trip will he
~ 65. The Drill Association OF Alexandria Will toin
with tho Uniformed Patriarchs of this city.
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AoESTs can now grasp fortune. Outfit
worth $40 sent free For full particulars address EGG.
Rldennt CO., 10 BarClay street, New YORK.
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Odd Fellowship.

Covenant Lodge No. - have in contem-
paton an entertainment at Curtis School building
Brother Alfred II. Gawler, p. &. NJ, left
for three weeks visit to Brantord, Canada Thurs
day last. lie VIII return by the way OF Niagara and
Watkins Glen,
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TAG Shedd Excelsior Turoo Russian Baths
the perfection of luxury and conducive to health
open Sundays till T.. NJ.
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Metropolis Lodge No. 16 held an open
meeting at their hail. (Moore's, on Nin.h street
FRIDAY evening last, on which occasion the Lodge
room was crowded with the members and their lady
friends. Among the features of the excellent pro-
grammo rendered We're rccltatOns and readings by
Professor f.. q. Townsend. Miss Ada Tune, Miss
Saunders, and Norman Pruitt; plano solo. Mrs GrIf
IN; vocal solos 10y Joseph Smith. Mrs. Dr. Winter,
Mrs. BEETLE iiavenner McEwen, and little ''Baby "
McEwcn; duet by Miss Sallic Westhorpn and Mrs.
Grinin and quartette by Mrs. Constantine, Miss
Charleton, Mr.. Pruiti, and Mr.. Smith. brother
Frank l.. Headley, l.. c., presided, and Brother
Ed. iawseli, Il. Il. NJ. welcomed the guests in AN
Interesting historical address The feature of the
evening, however, was the presentation to Brother
NJ. ID. Branard Grand Representative elect, of a
magnificent Grand Representatives, collar and Jewell
The presentation address was made by brother
WlllisJ. DrummOnd, l.. q e, In well. chosen phrase
and handsomely responded to by the recipient after
which Brother W. j. Weaver, In behalf OF a number
OF the members presented splendid basket OF How
ers to Brother lranard, designed for his wife, who
was III and unable to he present. In the midst of
the proceedings an intermisson declared, during
which time the Lodge served the audience with an
abundance of icc-cream and cake. The whole affair
was pleasant and successful, and great credit Is due
TO brothers q. W. Leannarla, James A. X. Moore,
anu f. r. Heauay, the efficient committee in charge
OF the entertainment. Special congratulations were
offered ~ Brother Ieannada for The taste oylnced
In the selection Of the collar aud Ia brother leadey
Tor the SIKH displayed in the selection his pro-
prlInmc of the evening :
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Brother j. II. Eberbach, for thirty six
years member OF Beacon Lodge No. Is, died Mon
day morning last Of softcning OF the brain. Ie was
buried Wednesday morning from his late residence
1oi New Jersey avenue, delegation OF the Lodge at
tending In carriages.
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der any rule vt the Association that makes him q
scniotg N the executive committee puts such con-
struction upon the rules they arc the few who do
against the many who do not. lie said he would
await the publication OF the letter to what response
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

vision of the occupations of the New
Jerusalem, makes it consist in a large
part i'll ecstatic heavenly harmonies.
1t is finishing up of the work first be-
gun on earth the gloria iR crceIsis.
One of the first objects in cultivating
good church music is to attract the at
tention of the multitude who are in
different to preaching and need some
thing besides duty to attract them to
the house of God and thus be placed
under its benign influences. The re-
ligiOn of demonstration is q thing of
the past. 1t answered well when the
masses were uncultIlred, but now they
are intelligent compared to what they
were generation ago. The masses
now seek to be edited and cultivated
because they have been educated in
this day by the press and by higher
grade of studies in the public schools,
to say nothing of a more extended and
refining literature. Every child is
not only taught to read, but in most of
the families n musical instrument at
tests the sure line of progress. The
duty of the church is plain wherever
musical talent is manifested it should
be seized upon and developed as one OF
Gods gifts for the use of the church.
and the chorister who gives his Sunday
mornings and afternoons in developing
the children of the congregation in the
harmOnies Of sacred music, is placing q
church under debt of gratitude, while
he himself is treasuring up shcaves, Il,
is the minister, for " cr0wn of rcioic
ing" The parents should not be i'll
different to this talent whenever mani
tested, but should cooperate with any
one who is ready and willing to pre-
pare his child for service IN this, tht
right arm of the church.
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18
Church Music.

The value of music as an adjunct of
religious worship is not appreciated by
the masses in its fullest effect, but it
has an undoubted and positive recog-
milton nevertheless. The services of a
rich melody and the rendition of glo-
rious anthems such as the attendants
at the M. F. Church enjoyed on Sun
day last that rival the inspiring Te
deum LdHdGmus in lifting the soul to q
purer realm of thought and feeling,
cannot be without effect in preparing
the hearer for the sacred services Of
the hour. The best element of wor-
ship is manifested in Inscriptions of
praise, and as this comes with the
voice, how better can it be manifested
than in music whose melody enrap-
lures the soul? The church must
keep up with the progressive spirit of
the age, and this is in the line of cul-
ture, aesthetics if you please. When
the early settlers advanced from their
rude huts to comfortable dwellings of
bricks and otherwise, the log meeting
house had to give way to the more
ornate church. The same advance
ment must mark the music as well as
the emanations from the pulpit, and
the work at one end of the church
must harmonize in excellence with that
at the other.
The Apocalypse that narrates Johns
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

ALTHOUGH some politicians seem
disposed to talk about the so-called
mixed-schOOl question, the real friends
of education throughout the State are
displaying a letLargy by no means
becoming them in view of the election
near at hand. There are many real
defects in our school law which cripple
its power for good. Several plans
have been suggested for its improve
ment; one CT which is to establish
County School Boards having power to
levy school tax and distribute the
funds among the various schools and
to perform most of the duties now per-
formed by local commissioners; another
is to establish Hundred School Boards
having similar powers in their various
hundreds. All agree to the abolish
ment of voting every year "tax or nc
tax" \ committee of gentlemen have
been appointed to write an address tC
the people upon this subject. These
gentlemen have the question in hand
and will ere long issue an address t.
the people of the State, but not unit
after the country has been saved. :
After this event, the question o
mixed-schools'' will fade away iron
public observation like the comet has
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many, prior to the last session of the
Legislature. But others were disposed
to try other means for the regulation
and reasonable restraint of the liquor
traffic. Against every effort in that
direction the liquor interest rebelled
1t fought against the Republican party
just as strongly and unitedly, because
of moderate measures for regulation of
the traffic, as it could possibly have
done had a prohibitory amendment
been submitted to the people. By
adopting half-measures, the Republican
party lost all that it could have lost by
any other course, and gained nothing.
For the vote indicates that the believ-
ers in prohibition were not disposed to
help the Republican party, without
assurance that its success would mean
more than new and probably futile
attempt to restrain and regulate. In
that frame of mind, many voted for a
separate ticket, and many more re-
fused to vote at ALL"
The advocates of Prohibition are in
very much the same condition that the
Free Sellers or Abolitionists were once.
Intent on a great principle, but not
able to stand alone, and begged not to
disturb the relations of the party they
were otherwise affiliated with, they
"hob nobbed" along receiving the
curses of all until they became
resolute enough to stand alone.
When they thus resolved, then was the
| dow of tbair DoUyar Tho Or0oni1otiOo
grew apace, and with strength came
respectability. 1t finally swallowed
up the major part of national organi
zation and ascended to national power
through the ballots of the American
people, If every man who is a prohi
bitionist will take this determined
stand, the days of the rum power ant
its abettors will soon be ended.
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

THE Ohio election that has put a
" Presidential bee" in so many Demo
cratic statesmens bonnets is explained
away as the result of two cause.-the
absence from the polls of many dis
affected Garfield Republicans, and, the
effect of attempts at Temperance agita-
ton. The question is thus stated by d
metropolitan paper:
"The Temperance question had
much to do with the result, no doubt.
The whiskeY-jug and beer-cask, gave a
large fund to the Democratic Commit
tee, and placed thousands of workers
at the polls for the cause of Free
Whiskey and No Sunday, but did not
move temperance voters to correspond
ing exertions. The reason is plain
The Republican party had taken con.
siderable pains not to obtain reinforce.
ments from that quarter. Part of its
leaders and organs were willing, but
part were not willing. Part would
have been glad to commit the party
unreservedly to the submission of {
constitutional amendment, which haC
been promised, in the estimation o
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

REV. DR.. MATLACK takes Levi Bird
to task for his position in a political
speech in Wilmington last week in
reference to the License Law, he says:
"The average Democratic rumseller"
is put on level, in business and char
acter, with the clothier, grocer and
plumber. "The liquor men in this
State" are sympathized with as having
" been more disgraced by class legisla-
ton" than any other class of men, >
and that too "by the Democratic
party" Mr.. Bird proposes to sweep
out this disgrace and make rumselling
respectable. Whose vote does this
cater to? 1t will not please both
temperance and liquor menw As a
Republican and temperance man
protest against this plank even in a
platform speech"
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

THE change in the management of
the Hotel Richardson at Dover will be
gratifying to the friends of social prog
ress, resulting as it has from growth
of conviction by the proprietor that
any other course would be detrimental
to society. The removal of the bar
will not be without pecuniary loss, as
it was fitted up at great expense, but
it gives an easy conscience.
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

New YORK and Pennsylvania are
not the only states that have the
BOSS" question to settle. The Demo
Gratis of Maryland and especially Balti-
more are in a fight with the machine,
on the question of Judges of the
Supreme Court, and the SIN, which
has entered gallantly i'll the fight,
thinks the people will triumph over
the party managers.
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

Remember that every one suffering
from Catarrh, Hay Fever and Cold in
the head have cure at hand in Ely's
Cream Balm. Price 80 cents.
Apply into nostrils with little finger.
was troubled with Chronic Catarrh
and gathering in my head, was very
deaf at times and had discharges from
my ears, besides being unable to
breathe through my nose. Before the
second bottle of Elys' Cream Balm wa
exhausted l was cured, and today
enjoy sound health. G. J. Corbin, 923
Chestnut-st., Field Manager Philadel-
phia Pub. House, Pa.
Elys' Cream Balm cured me of
Catarrh of many years standing--re-
stored my sense of smell. For colds in
the head it works like magic. f. II.
Sherwood, National State Bank, Eliza
beth, N. J.
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Off to the Mountains.
The ! Oct of the Tower Hall

The Oct of the Tower Hall
Is absent rusticutinS,
And with the Keystone mountain air
Is now his lungs Initiating.
He tarred through the summers heat
In Philadelphia city
Aud talked Of the Towers Clothes
In many song and ditty.
His hear; was yearning for the bliss
Of sunny hills and fountains,
And lifting out at Tower Hall,
He started for the mountains.
He went to Bethlehem, and there
Took quarters for Il season:
And in that Paradise of Earth
mdllgCd in rhyme and reason.
He hunted on the mountain side;
lie sailed on Lchigh waters:
And, best of all, got introduced
70 Bethlehcms fariest daughters
He took a few up to Mauch Chunk,
For every pretty jewel
Desired 10 look upon the hills
Tint furnished them with fuel.
IN engine on the mountain stood;
y wire rope came down.
And they were drawn thousand feet
Up to the mountains crown.
And standing on Mount PiSgah's top.
They almost frOZe their noses;
Twas not the mountain, let me say,
Identified with Moses.
To see the sights they were incliucd
And moved by inclination;
They Travelled on an inclined plane
PropCl ed by gruvitatiun.
They made IL circuit round the hills,
Mid shady trees AMI vines;
And swiftly ON the SWitchbacli" car
They dartcd through the mines
They saw the sights and safely back
They went to Bethlehem town:
And then the bard OF Tower Hail
These hasty notes put down
The bard on Bcthlchems sunny hills
viii tarry through the Fall
But Will not fail to tune his harp
In praise of Tower Hall
And if his faucicS are not liked
Iii, fact are not disputed;
The tr Ith that at the Tower Hall
The millions may be suited
IT Is TIME WASTED l. go anywhere else for yo
clothing We have every kind and quality a
II large assortment TO select from. and our pri,
are the lowest in the city. TOWER HALL. Nos
AND go MARKET STREET. GARITEE MASTES
ALLEN.
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

THE possibilities of the uniform
ballot" are illustrated in the recent
election for Inspector where ballot
in New Castle county with a fly speck
on it was thrown out as marked
causing tie, thus giving the Collector
Inspector the decision of the candidate
by casting second ballot. Suppose
the decision for Governor or Congress-
man shall turn on a mark of this kind
won't there be a howl my country.
men?
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

THE step taken by the Morning Ne,rs
to refuse the admission to its columns
in future of all Lottery advertisements
is one decidedly in the interest of cor
rect morals, and commendable in that
it refuses to help make the poor poorer
ill the delusive offort to obtain sudden
riches. Lottery gambling is unlawful
in most of the states and condemned
by the better sentiment every where,
and the newspapers should steer clear
of the nefarious business.
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

A POLITICAL organ of this county an
nounces that it is ready, that it has
entered on a personal campaign. That
seems to be the popularity of the
Canvass this year, men not principles.
The old method used to be measures
not men.
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

-Those who have bought of me say
have Good Goods and for less
money than they can buy else
wher.
eEave you Pants, Coat, Vest, Under
RI wear or Boots to buy. if 50. for
u a good article cheap, call at
Thompson's.
6n my Shelves, Counters and Tables
are the best assortment of Over
" coats and Suitings ever offered
in the Town.
EEy stock of Neck Wear is the largest,
M best and the freshest this side
W. of Philadelphia Neck Ties
from l cent to $500.
noliteness, prOmptness and good man
ners, will always be found in
my store.
Gee your friends and bring them in
~ and examine my whole stock.
" No trouble to show goods, but
will always be pleasure to do
so.
Tn my wires in the window is the
Ill best goods of the kind ever sold
k line out of 10 that have examined
III my goods have bought of me.
~ And for rSegars-Two for cts
defy competition, and in fact,
anything | have in my store,
you find in the same proportion.
Smyrna times., 1882-10-18

THE Republicans of Ohio lose seven
and the Democrats gain eight congress
men-the congressman-at-large being
an addition to the old number. The
Republicans offset this by the gain of
two congressman in West Virginia and
two in Maine.