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GENERAL g. p. N. TURNEK.

Now that The c-uaiy elections are over,
the people throughout the State are be-
ginning 10 prepare for action in November;
and the battle promises bitterness and an
earnest zeal untqusled 10 any campaign Tor
many wears. Ihs issue involved IS oil 80
grave and all-absorbiDg character IS TO
inspire the tongue and nerve the arm oil
every true son Of Tennessee. The question
in a nut shell is-THE PEOPLES RIGHT TO
RuLEl This is ;he sacred cause in behalf OF
which the people call upon their champions
to do battle; and they call not in warn.
Many Of their gallant warriors have already
drawn their blades and thrown their scab-
bards away, and are to-day doing battle
under the only banner OF the people IN the
State-that of Bate and the Democracy.
Among these we know OF none who have
done more effectual service than our gifted
TeITUw=cTIIZEu; CTeuerdr d. I'll VI. i uTTIrr
has, in the late county campaign, been a
stsuuch friend to the party with the
Seimitdr; and has stirred the masses from
the husiings with his burning eloquence.
As was said OF him during the campaign,
"his usefulness cannot be cireumscribed by
county liner," but in this contest the State
needs AMI claims his services. We OF Shelby
must be generous, and lend him occasionally
TO our sister counties We have no inten-
ton of rejecting on other gentlemen who
did their duty uobly, but have said thus
much as matter of sheer justice. Merit
deserves commentator. General Turner'S
speech in the State convention on nominal
Jog General Bate for governor, and his terri
bic excoriation and triumph over Hawkins
at Bell Station the day before the election,
have made him one OF the most prominent
and popular orators in Tennessee, and the
Democracy in every section of the State are
calling for his services. II General Turner
should respond he will make brilliant
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sE.KYmAnDEsINs.

Pending the discussion OF the contested
elections in South Carolina Horr, Of Michi-
gan, hung up nap showing how the dis
tricts had been carved in South Carolina
with the view of electing a solid Democratic
delegation 10 Congress. The map produced
much M erriment in Congress; but the
Charleston Negs and Courier has gone into
the map business, and has exposed the most
shameful gerrymandering in the Northern
States, where the districts go meandering
about as crooked as the Mississippi river.
Such districting Of any State OF course no
honest man will approve, but it does moi
become an Republican congressman TO pick
up and throw the first stone OF reprobation.
There was not one of them who was without
sin as a party man. 1t has been the prac-
tice OF their party to gerIymsnder States
boldly in their interest. The map OF Con-
necficut has not yet been excelled, and the
lines of the South Carolina gePryma nder are
regular as compared TO its meanderings.
Since the last census scarcely Republican
State has failed 10 make scandalous use OF
the privilege. In Horr's State, Michigan,
with Democratic vote in 1876 OF over AL
900, and Republican vote of 100. 600, the
districts were so arranged that the former
could not get single representation. So
with Iowa and other States. Republican
politicians have studied and mastered the
art of preventing representation according
10 population as it was never studied and
mastered before, and Democratic States sim
ply retaIiate by using method sanctioned
by the great moral party. As this statesman
decIaimed his colleagues should have hung
their heads in shame at the thought that
this was the kind of thing which they had
been doing for years whenever they got
chance. But they impudently laughed and
appIauded Especially impudent was this
exhibition in view of the fact that when the
apportionment bill was before the present
Congress the minority endeayored to have il !
amended so that gerrymandering would be
prevented entirely, and that the Republicans
defeated that emineptly proper provision.
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A GentiemanIy Burglar.


The most considerable burglar ever heard
of has Just placed Mrs. Merrill, of Fall
mouth, Mo-, under lasting obligations. She
was alone in her house, and in the middle OF
the night was awakened by the sound of
footsteps on the stairs. She jumped out of
bed, FASTENED 10 the door and asked who
was there, when the following amusing COLO
guy began: snow, don't you be afraid.
We don't want to hurt you, and won't hurt
a hair of your head. But we want sic, and
YOU have got to give it to u.s." But haven't
any money in the house." Well, give Us IS
them 81 tell you haven't any money at
ALL" "Oh come, now, you must have dol
lar. Give us that and We will go away"
"No, / haven't a cent" "Well, l suppose
we'll have to go without it. Now don't be
scared; we don't mean to hurt you, and are
going away directly. Do you want US 10
leave the light burning, or do you want US
10 blow it QUIZ" "You may leave 1t burn
ing, please" And the burglar went down
stairs, rejoined his confederate, and they
leisurely departed through window, carry
ing with them several articles OF silver and
jewelry, which they had collected while the
lady of the house slept.
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A Comfortable Commission.


Over against the West End Hotel at Long
Branch there is block of Queen Anne cot
tages, with broad galleries around them and
a green lawn in front. In one OF these the
Tariff Commission has established itself.
An EastIake table occupies one end OF the
large room on the first floor, running from
gallery to rear, and the hreezes from the
ocean sweep easily through from window to
window. Around this table the nine COM
missioners seat themselves in cool and COM
Portable arm-cha1rs. Tne carpet rs soft and
the color Of it is dead gold. The wall is
bright with pictured sunfowers, and tall
lilies stand out from the subdued background
of the dado. There are other arm-ehairs
and sofas for visitors, and the expertto be
heard is seated at the table at the right
hand Of the president. There were only
Two visitors besides the reporters at the open
ing session yesterday. Outside the windows,
however, there were occasional glimpses Of
summer costumes OF muslin and nuns veil
ing, and on the sward in front lawn-tennis
party was playing. Inside there was an
earnest person talking of specific duties and
ad valoTem, of the free list, of chlorides
and anilines Thus extremes meet.
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wedding superstftions.


II you persist in being married, a least
consult the omens and thereby avert an i'm
mense amount OF i'll luck. Brides especially
ought to be very careful what they do until
after the wedding ceremonies are over: il is
an unhappy omen for a wedding 10 be put
off when The day has been fixed, and ii is
believed much harm Will ensue if a bride
groom stands at the junction of roads or
beside closed gate upon HE wedding morn.
Ia Eoglsnd it is thought to be bad sign if
the bride fails 10 shed tears on the happy
day, or if she INDUCES herself by taking q
last glance at the lookipg-glass alter her
toilet is completed; but she may CRAFTY her
vanity without dagger il she leaves one hand
ungloved. To look back or go back before
gaining the church door, to marry in green
or white, there is an open grave In the
churchyard, and all are unfortunate, and the
bride must be careful TO go in at one door
and come out at another. When the brides
maids undress the bride they must throw
away and lose all the pins. Woe to the bride
ii single one be about her! Nothing will
go right Woe also to the bridesmaids if
they keep one of them; for they will not be
married before Whiisuntide or Till the Easter
following at the soonest We have taken this
bodily from an interesting magazine article,
and have no doubt that it represents actual
ex Derieuce
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which draw them are OF immense proper
tons The Lord OF the Isles" the model
express engine exhibited at the International
Exhibition OF 1851, was on the road I'D TO
two years ago. Its driviDg-wheels four in
number, are eight feet in diameter, and the
heating-surface of the boiler is computed to
be equal to that OF four OF The lar9est mar
row-gauge engines. in the present day the
narrowgsuge system is superseding the
broad gauge on the Great Western, the only
lire which ever attempted it. BrunePs
great conception certainly accom- plished his
design OF high speed with easy travelling and
public convenience, but the expense Of sc-
curing land and running the trains proved
absolutely ruinous.
One of the curious features of railway
travel in England Is the Underground rail-
way. 1t runs almost in circle round Lon
don, some thirty feet below surface, over a
distance OF sixteen miles, with stations or
depots about every half mile of the way. II
is similar to the New York Elevated rail-
road, only that IL runs below ground instead
of above IT. At one point between F arinsdou
street and Kings Cross station may be seen
the singular spectacle of high level car
risge road over bridge, lower level car
rage road beneath, the Underground rail-
way thirty feet below this, and still lower
another line Ia branch of the Great North
ern) running some sky leet from surface
below all. The celebrated Fleet ditch runs
close to this point.
Railroad trains never run through the
streets of England, the American quckness
OF intellect tending to preservation not being
held sufficiently established in the British
mind to insure safety. Lines leaving large
towns have therefore either to be carried 10
a central station below the level, or over
bridges on the high-leyel principle. 1t is
nee, less to say that this enormously enhances
the cost of construction. Socially, the dill
ferences between railroad travelling in the
two countries are as wide as possible. There
is some approach TO cordiality between
strangers in an English third-class Carriage.
in The second there is little, in the first none
As Illustrative OF this may be recorded the
story of a waggish but profane commercial
traveller ("drummer") and severe-look-
ing preacher, who had travelled by the
same train nearly 100 miles without saying
a single word, despite the drummer's per-
sistent efforts. Presently the cars flashed
out of a tunnel into the full blaze of the pot
terry districts about the Stoke-on-Trent, the
train drawing up at depot between liviRg
walls OF fame, from which wild cries aP-
peared 10 issue.
what station is this?" inquired the rev.
erend gentleman.
The drummer gripped hold of the door
and got out. He had arrived at his desti-
nation. Then raising his voice 10 an un-
earthly shrek he yelled in the victims ear:
"H-l Fire Junction. Change here for
Sodom and Gomorrahw
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De Lessons believe he could make anything
practical OF it was deplorable; he was only
heapipg up modification and shame Tor
himself and heavy losses for those who con-
tributed the capital invested. Now ioo< at
the position Of England with respect to the
very work It had 20 ridiculed ard
condemned. Her feet and her armies
are called out, and she runs the
risk of becoming involved in serious
complications with other nations, all for this
very Suez canal that she had proved, over
and over again, would never exist, az she
laughed at the absurd Frenchmen who were
throwing away toll and capital on scheme
that had no element of possible success about
il. Ought not what has happened to En-
gland 10 have some warning upon us? We
are sure DeLesseps is wrong, hat his Panama
project is q mere wIld-goose chase, that the
difficulties before him are uncouquerabie,
that his means are inadequate, his system CT
proceeding a mistaken one, and all his
methods errors. Is there not something
over-hardy, something beyond what good
sense would suggest, in this Wholesale con-
domination of the proceedings OF the man
whose genius constructed the Suez canal? Is
there not even something even worse than
all this in the insensibilty that view all
such man can say with indifference, and
views what is doing at Panama with apathy?
That England, spurred by the sting OF bitter
experience, is more alive than we are 10 the
Importance Of the Panama enterprise is
shown by the claim she has put In
to share in the guarantee OF the pro-
iected canals neutrality, so that IN
on this contine mt she has so resolutely AFRO
gated to herself with respect TO the Suez
canal in the face of all Europe. The very
fact of the English putting in such claim
ought to arouse US 10 sense oil The I'M
portance of the subject. The fact is, We are
generally remiss as a people with respect
to international affairs; our coustry is large
and lis interest varied, and the tendency
with ne Is to forget that there is world out
side OF ourselves As we increase, and as our
commerce extends TO the ends OF the earth,
our foreign interests will become great, and
we must now, while these things are in
plastic state, mold our policy with wise
forethouohi.
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who observed the process says: in less than
thirty seconds thin, curling puff OF smoke
gave evidence OF the progress OF the expert
ment. In minute the board wss bursting
out in flames. The focus was then shifted
upon the zinc. In few moments IT began
TO turn color, then shrink IS II anxious 10
get away when ii was cooler, and then. IN
less than three min0tes, the entire surface
covered BY the locus was literally melting,
drop by drop. To melt zinc it requires
temperature of over ZOO Fahrenheit" An
official OF the postofice, whose opinion was
asked as to the importance OF this invention,
spoke somewhat disrespeclfully of ii, and
said: "The use OF mirrors, both curved and
fiat, 10 accumulate and concentrate the heat
of the sun's rays is about as old as the sun
itself. Ericsson's collar engine is perhaps
the best application 10 the principle. The
French have of late years done much in this
direction. At the exhibition of 1878 come
very interesting machines we're exhibited"
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more than eleven, the youngest perhaps two
wears of age, all wear sailor suits and wide
brimmed straw hats, rolling away from their
face with the effect of the golden halo on
heads ~ Florentine saints. The carriage is
packed just as full as it can possibly be
packed with this young family, and the
father peeps over their heads at the spec,a-
ts,or with an air Of conscious pride in his
thriving growth OF olive branches. This
father Is Ferdinand de Lesseps, aged seventy
seven years, whose wife, aged thirty-ive
years, does net appear with her elder chill
drep. perhaps because there is no room in
the carriage for them. Mme. De Lesseps is
a fashionable woman, very careful of her
figure, and for whom such frequent maternity
cannot be the pride and joy il seems to her
husband. She follows tine example OF the
empress OF Austria in corseting herself TO
the last point of human endurance, and
wears no Undertaking other than one
woven garment Of spun silk, fitting to the
figure from throat to ankles, tight like the
akin
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SARATOGA BELLIES
Trying 10 Capture the Turkish Ann
bassador.
ssr.toga Correspondent Philadelphia Pres.

Saratoga Correspondent Philadelphia Press.
1t is an open secret here that Saratoga
society is not Indifferent to the presence OF
Aristarchi Bey, the distinguished representa-
tive Of the Ottoman empire to this country.
More than one matchmaking mamma has
her eyes already upon him, for when one has
numerous daughters to marry off the i'm
portzut question often is not whether the
future husband be christian or Mohammedsn.
European, American or Turk, but whether
there are available husbands enough in So
ciety 10 go round, and whether they are rich
enough TO support a wife az young ladies
brought up in Vanity Fair expect 10 be sup
ported.
But to Aristarchi Bey. There is evidently
in society doubt as to the proper mode of
addressing him. One maiden Of advancing
years, peusive as giliyfower hanging on
wall, and more romantic than any jolly
belle under twenty, this morning accosted
the minister with: "Nsw, really, Mr.. Bey,
do you find American beauty superior 10
that of all other countries?"
Certainly, madame" courteously returns
the hey, with that peculiar bow which re-
minds you Of the Turkish salasm, and laying
his hand on his heart-that is, upon the spot
supposed TO be occupied by the masculine
heaTt-although there must be frightful
vacuums sometimes in those regions.
An hour later pretty and winsome belle
looks only slyly from beneath the wide
trimmed hat, with its dropping plumes, tx
ing her blue eyes softly upon the dark face
OF the Turkish ambassador, and half whis-
pers: "Please tell me, Aristarchi Bsy-it
does seem too horribly dreadful to askl-but
do please tell me" here blush and a sigh,
and downward look Of the deep blue eyes
-"please tell me how many wives you
have" The hey looks unusually grave and
solemnly replies, "sevenw The young lady
looks aghast for a moment, nearly faints,
then, remembering it is the fashion in the
Turkish country, quietly RECEIVERS, smiles her
sweetest and murmurs: "Only sevenl Why,
somebody told me you had ten" Tabeau.
An anxious mamma then PUSHES up and begs
Mr.. Aristarchi TO come and be introduced 10
her daughters, who are "dyiBg to know
things" A vile or two more will GER
tsiniy not make much difference TO such
very-much-married man, snd one who be-
iieves in such kind of matrimony might be
useful even in christian community, since
he could marry off all the daughters at once,
debtttdntes and wall flowers too. And while
Aristsrchi Bey goes off 10 be introduced TO
the ladies to save them from dying" / may
as well here remark that this gentleman hap
pens 10 be bachelor, Greek instead Of a
Turk, although coming from Constsntinople,
and would undoubtedly have christian scru-
Piles against wedding more than one wife at
time, which pralseworlhy example is not
followed by all christians here at the springs.
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A Romantic story OF Arah,.

A romantic story, designed 10 illustrate at
once the delicate sense Of honor of Arab
Pasha and his hatred OF the English, is pub
Iished in Vienna newspaper. The story il
that last spring an English officer at Cairo
insulted "a lady, and, having refused to
apologize, likewise refused TO f ght duel TO
which he was challenged by Hungarian
noblemap, Baron Atczel. Not long after
ward, at a social entertsinment, Arab APP
preached the baron and thus expressed him
sc +: although the Koran strictly forbids
dueIs, yet If had discovered that one of INV
officers had conducted himself in such a
despicable and cowsrdly manner | wouId
have commanded him 70 fight; and if he h sd
tn refused would have shot him with "a v
own hand" The story ends with the asser-
lion that Arabs words were coon in every
body's mouth, and that during the first part
of April no Englishman could appesr on
the street without hearing himself called a
coward
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The Panama canal across the isthmus il
constructed, must necessarily exercise vast
iohuence upon ourselves and upon the
greater part OF the American continent.
The work is going on under French manage
ment, yet we remain as insensible to what is
taking place as if that work could be COM
pleted without the relations of the United
States to the world being affected by the
changes it will produce. The English were
as foolishly Indifferent when the Suez canal
was building. Every month one Of their
papers or magazines demonstrated the entire
impossibility of finishing the work. Nature
had made it Impossible to preserve the canal
if it could be built, but its completion was
impossible, and the iniatuation that made
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An Aneedete of Charles Dickens.

A correspondent kindly sends tothe 1Tib-
uas the following amusing testimony to
Dickens's power: 81 once had the honor Of
dining with Charles Dickens in London" he
writes, "and among the guests was asplenetic
old gentleman whose name shall not d.
vulge, but who was we'll known in English
society at the time. He had but recently
been introduced to Dickens, and he spoke
little and then abruptly, until the meal was
almost over; then he suddedly turned 10
Dickens and said in an apparently displeased
and irritable tone: Mr.. Dickens, think il
you had known the more latent worriments
and private troubles of Mr.. Pecksniff's life,
and fhe many p-e-oca.iens which L am snre
he must have had, you would scarcely have
presented him TO the world in 30 unfavora-
BILE a light But, surely,' said Dickens,
smiling, 4 drew the character as / had
created, and to my mind perfected it, and ]
portrayed Mr.. Pecksnif's shortcomings and
displeasing attributes as they presented
themselves to me in my IDEAL WELL said
the old gentleman, Have it your way, Mr..
Dickens, but / shall always believe Mr..
Peeksniff was not so despicable man as you
make him. And there was considerable
suppressed laughter among the company"
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CUPID's KISS.

Twas as she slept that Gu pid came
His bow and arrow stalking,
That she might feel his power in dreams
Who scorned his weapons waking.
As DER her sleeping form he poised,
The staff that oft had missed her,
Her beauty touched his rOguish heart
He only stopped and kissed her.
Since when, upon her fair, soft cheek,
i.3ve's amofous imprint keeping,
A charming dimple marked the spot
Where Cupid kissed her, sleeping.
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script.l
REPARTEE.

sShall marry the man that love?''
Sang Phillis, sweet Phillis the fair:
And the music went soaring above
As if t'were her favorite air
And a voice coming out from the sky,
From the singer she hoped to entrance
Quite startled her with the reply
''She will If she once gets the chance"
shall marry the girl that lover
He sang on a subsequent day;
Sang high in his attic above
When ne thought the fair Phillis away.
A surprise came up from below,
An answer us color to cool;
Twas a little emphatic mo, no;
Not unless the girl, too, is fool
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The Shirt of n Man

overlook his wife last week clipping with his
neighbor Kalin, he spoke right out angriIy !:
''It's mighty mean in ye Klain, t'r go and
steal all the wife I had. / hope that yen
have t'r live with her an endure her tongue
now all yer born days."
Go it, Blaze; pitch inter him hard" said
Dan Pelter; ercouragingly.
81 have" continued Blaze; knew I'd got
t'r say somethin' to show that I've got the
spirit Of a man in my buzzum."
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Nv grandmother maintains that it is vul-
gar Tor a woman TO cross her knees. She
well rememb ers week spent in the same
house with Nine. Jerome Eonaparte in Balti-
more, than whom she believes DO more lady
like person ever lived. Well she recalls ID at
Madame always sat with her legs two inches
spsrt-no more and no less. She declares
that 10 girl with pretentious to deliczcy
should sit cross-legged. 1 suppose that the
sticklers will pretty soon object to women
crossing one foot over the other. Even that
feminine habit of sitting on one foot, to the
peril of getting it canght in the busiIe and
making the owner go hop-seotch on rising.
will next he aszziied.
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MRF G. DELANEY, OF Norfolk, Va, writes.
"It gives me great pleasure TO experience once
more that glorously good feeling of perfect health
was buried in despair, my back constantly panied
me, ana from head 70 foot felt thoroughly i'll
Nothing 1 ate agreed with me. Doctors could do
me- no good tired Browns Iron Bitters. They