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National Republican., 1882-12-23
A Worthy Example.
Eor. Rlune lLnd.N Gnrette.

IUT WUyNe IINu,J GuZtHe.
The opponents of Gorham will scarcely be
able to defeat him for secretary of the senate.
1t is pretty well ascertained that he will re-
ceive the united support of the republican
senators, and that will elect him. He held
the position once before, and the Treasury
department paid him back one cent due him
from the United States when he settled up his
accounts and turned over the office. A good
record and a worthy example to follow.
National Republican., 1882-12-23
When the Blue Birds Sing Again.

The stormy hours Of winter,
With its sleet, and ice, and rain,
Win usher in the sunshine
When the blue birds sing again,
The love we cherished fopdly,
Through the years OF joy and pain
WIN OFT revert 10 childhood
When the blue birds sing again,
Though life be sad and dreary,
With no turning in your lane,
Cheer up and wait for spring time,
When the blue birds sing again.
The palace and the hoyel,
The hillside and the plain,
Shall sparkle in the sunlight
When the blue birds sing again
Old time is ever writing
On the body and the brain,
Yet hope shall not desert us
Till the blue birds sing again.
To the grave our buried treasures
Go, like falling drops Of rain
We shall meet beyond the river"
Where the blue birds sing again.
Col. John A, Joyce
National Republican., 1882-12-23
Holiday Preseuts

Tt is truly difficult to decide what to give,
as there are so many beautiful articles this
season to select from. If you wish something q
to cost 81, we would say to the thousands Of
readers of THE REPUBLICAN that the most ac-
ceptable present to a lady is one of Helphen-
stine's French Square Glass Stoppered Pint
Bottle of German Cologne. Over five hun
dred were given as presents last Christmas
and as many more will be selected this season.
National Republican., 1882-12-23
Tho Skating Rink.

Last night the skating rink was well filled
Rt the regular Friday night assembly, and the
Enjoyment was thorough and complete. This
afternoon there will be the usual children's
Inatinee, with music. Invitations are already
put for the reception to the Columbia boat
tlub which will take placest the rink on the
lWenty-seVenth,
National Republican., 1882-12-23
Department Dots.

The receipts from internal revenue yester-
day were $35l,7170l and from customs $685.
S06.62.
The national bank notes received for re-
demption amount to 1851 900.
Orders have been issued for the iron-clad
Miantonomoh, which was put out of dock at
Norfolk last night, to proceed to Washington,
n
National Republican., 1882-12-23
The CHEYENNE River Indians.

Indian Commissioner Price received dis
patch from Pierre, Oak, yesterday, saying
that the Indians of the Cheyenne river agency
had signed the agreement and the commits
sion had started for YanktOn. This substan'
TALLY completes the commissions work.
National Republican., 1882-12-23
No Lecture Tn-nnv.

The lecture of Prof. Dali, which was to have
been delivered at the new national museum
this afternoon in the young folks course, has
been indefinitely postponed. Next Saturday
Prof. True will lecture, and on the following
week Prof. Chickering will deliver the last
lecture in the course.
National Republican., 1882-12-23
wonderfully Improved.
Atlanta Constitution,

The Washington NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
has been enlarged to an eight page paper and
is wonderfully improved. Frank Hatton is a
good newspaper man, and he has brought the
old partisan sheet up to very high standard
National Republican., 1882-12-23
A Brnss Monument.

The secretary of war has granted the request
of the party of French scientists, who observed
the transit of Venus at Fort Brooke, Tampa,
Fla, for permission to erect Il brass tablet at
that fort in commemoration of their visit.
National Republican., 1882-12-23

THE way to produce smile on the face of
a man, suffering with racking cough, is to
make him present of a bottle of DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup. Just try it and you will be as
tonished at the result
National Republican., 1882-12-23
AppropriatIons.

The house committee on appropriations has
agreed to take up in order the legislative,
navy, and district appropriation bills at the
yeaSsembling in january.
National Republican., 1882-12-23
Fits, Fats, Fits,

successfully treated by Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Address, with stamp
for pamphlet, Buffalo, N. Y.
National Republican., 1882-12-23
NOMINATIONS.

The President sent the following nomina-
tions to the souatc
Mai Albert = Morrow, 9th cavalry, to be lieu
tenant colonel 9th cavalry
Cnpt. Frederick w. Benteen, 7th cavalry to be
mrior 9TH cavalry.
First lieut.. Charles c. DeRudio eth cavalry, to be
captain
second Lieuts. H. G. sickel, ir., and John
Pitcher, lst cavalry, to be 1st lieuenants.
National Republican., 1882-12-23
CONVERSATIONS

adjourn, and it was agreed to ayes o. noes
81. So at $3.50 the senate adjourned until to-
National Republican., 1882-12-23

The senate in executive session yesterday
confirmed the following nominations:
Postmasters-Inmcs Ruth, at Lansing, To-. S. w.
McEderry, at Alton, H.; Thomas l.. Hoffman, at
Fairfield, Ia; IL. H. Crcnshaw, nt Marengo, Ia;
Julius Ropes al Ishprming. Mich; John pckcrt
nj saint Charles, Mimi; Jacob NJ. Bell, at Paris,
H.; William FIRTH ut Moberly, Mo-; Luther r.
Palmer, at ST. MarVS kanS.
National Republican., 1882-12-23
INvEsrIaArIoN onpEREn.

Mr. Van Wyck offered resolution, which
was agreed to, directing an investigation and
report by the committee on public lands as to
whether payments should be made upon con-
tracts made under the deposit system for sur
veys before such surveys have been inspected
by the officers created for that purpose by the
act of last session. The committee is given
power to Send for persons and papers.
Mr.. Voorhees, then renewed his motion Ia
National Republican., 1882-12-23
THE PACIFIC RAILWAY QUESTION.

Mr.. Anderson, of Kansas, obtained leave to
have printed a proposed amendment to the
army appropriation bill, providing that the
compensation Of the Pacific railway for army
transportation at two cents per mile for pas
sengers and one cent per ton per mile for
freight. There were twenty eight leaves of alb
sence granted making total of 13l members
absent on leave, and then the house at 4:25
adjourned, the common understanding being
that no business will be transacted to-mor-
row, but no formal agreement to that effect
National Republican., 1882-12-23
MR.. WILTSHIRE

addressed the jury briefly on behalf his client,
Rerdell, representing that he had not been
interested in any of the contracts and had
only acted in the capacity of a clerk. He also
spoke of his good character and fidelity in
the various positions of trust and RESPONSE
bility which he has held.
This closed the opening addresses to the jury
National Republican., 1882-12-23

The speaker announced the appointment of
Mr.. Hit, of Illinois, on the committee on for
eign affairs and Mr.. Mclean, of Missouri, ON
the committee on pensions, bounty, and back
/ t,ny
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
THE CHINESE QUESTION

What would be the most natural expres- sion of a man who woke up on a cold night and found himself without sufficient cover ing? Blank it."
 Whereabouts unknown Postman: Say, sis, where's Mrs. Malley O'Dearmont 7 Sis: ''Id nor. She died last week and didn't leave any directions "-1he Judge.
 The laziest man is on western paper, He spells photograph '4tograph." There have been only three worse than he. One lived out in Kansas and dated his letters ''11worth," !" another spelled Tennessee ''10ac, " and the other wrote Wyandotte "Y&."
 very old lady on her death-bed, in the penitential mood, said ''I have been great sinner more than eighty years and didn't know it." An old colored woman, who had lived with her a long time, exclaimed |: Laws, I knowed it all the time. .'-Ne'o York Ialegram.
 Remarkable phenomenon A tipsy Bosto- nian, who was arrested while making vain efforts to clutch at barbers pole, exclaimed, as the policeman drifted him in the direction of the station house 'Stransh, never saw r 'rora borealish s near before ''-A0okLyn Eagle.
 Children frequently make original appllca- tions of Scripture texts or trlte proverbs. A little girl four years old, daughter of the rec tor of a church in a neighboring city, had ten cents given to her to spend. She made some foolish purchase, which was in pieces before she reached home. Her father had long talk with her, and in the course of it quoted, "A fool and his money are soon parted, impressing the lesson by every means he possessed Some Sundays after, in Sunday school, the plate being passed, she had to think for text to say, as is the custom on making the contributions. Finally dropping her money into the plate, she recited tri- umphantly, "A fool and his money are soon narted '1-F Fl,0Didence JOurnaL.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
The Divorce Question.

Professor P1att's Reply to Rev. Dr. Bacon
 Professor Johnson T. Platt has replied to the attack made upon him by Rev. Dr. Ba- con of Norwich at North church Sunday evening. Professor Platt says
 His attack seems to have grown out of the following circumstance A few weeks ago l was in Hartford on business, and ln the after noon went into the room where the Judi ciary committee was in session. l found that hearing was in progress upon a proposed bill for a change ln the divorce laws of the State. My presence was quite accidental, but after hearing Mir. Bacon ut ter, with much intemperance of language, a series of islanders upon the people of this State, and especially upon the bench and bar, felt it my duty to follow him and say something upon the other side. l endeaV- ored, with entire courtesy to him, to correct some of his misstatements of fact, and ID the course of my remarks, made some general observations upon the surJect Sf divorce legislation, the words and pur- port of which he last night totally misrepresented and perverted. l stated that no one reverenced the family relation more than I did, or more deeply deplored the state of things that led to such frequent applications for divorce; but that in my judgment the existing condition Of so- ciety, as respects this relation, was due to causes that Legislation was pO"erlesS ID cOh- trol. To further restrict the causes for which divorces may be granted, would, be. lieved, lead to greater evils than we have at present The difference between MT. Bacon and myself seems to be largely question Of method He seems to think that men and women can be legislated into goodness. l believe that reformation should be from the heart outwards, and that religion Is the great power for regsnerating the world by elevat- ing and purifying the emotions. To show that was under no professional bias l stated to the committee that for many years l had been employed in only one divorce case, and in that instance the divorce was granted for what Mir. Bacon called "a scriptural cause '"
 The opinions I expressed were formed af- ter some observation and study of the sub feet. and were stated to a legislative com init tee upon a question of pending legislation. If MT Bacon had used the language at that hearing that he is reported to have used last night, I should have answered him as he de- served As he has used the liberty of the pulpit as a cloak for maliciousness, am obliged to reply to him through the press See 1st Peter, 2-l6- He may, with his pc culiar methods, make a sensation for an hour but venture to say that the cause of truth and sound legislation will never be ad- vanced by such advocacy.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
Isthe Levee sy.tem a Failure


 This is the most important question for residents of the Mississippi valley. If the system of keeping out the water of the Miss issippi river by entertainments is a failure or a partial failure, the sooner 1t is abandoned and an effective system adopted, the better. Already the Levee boards are making eEti- mates of the cost of repairing the crevasses and strengthening the leyees. and hundreds of thousands of dollars are put down with the utmost nonchalance-hundreds of thou sands of dollars, that will have to be paid by the people, and absolutely thrown into the floods if the levee system Is a failure.
 Our experience and observation induce us to say that the system is not the most eHec- tsal one that can be adopted. though it is by all odds the most expensive. The Leyee boards, the engineers, the contractors, and all the hangers on, will at once say the rene- dy is good if enough is applied That Is extremely doubtful. No community, no county, no Leyee board, no State has yet been able to apply enough of it, and we doubt the ability of the United States gov ernment to erect entertainments sufficiently large to restrain the oceans of water that must at times escape through the Mississippi valley. Thelevee advocates will say, Missis- sippi must keep the system up because other States will do 1t, and throw all the water on Mississippi if she does not keep up her leTees. Before the recent floods it was a common boast of levee men Tn Allsslssippl that hissls- sippi was safe, because her levees were so much better than those in Arkansas and Louisiana, the latter would give way and re- lieve the pressure on the Mississippi levees- So much had been spent on our levees ve placed some confidence in their assertions but the result proves they were vain. The Mississippi levees, like all the balance, are ! only effective barriers against low water. It | is doubtless true that one State should not ! abandon the system while the others adhere to it. Some general system should be adopt ! ad for the whole river and that system should | be perfected by the United States govern msnt. If the levee system is not the best,
 then the government should not rely on it : l if the Ievees, in connection with other me4s- ures, can be made of use, rely on them to that extent only.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
CannibaliSm in Fiji.
Massacre of n ships Crew W tth the story
 Told by Survivors.
 


 Details have been received at Plymouth from Sydney of the recent frightful msssa- ere of portion of the crew of the trading schooner Isabella on one of the islands of the Fiji group The narrative was furnished by Mir J. E. Hawkins, the master of the Isa- bella The starboard boat, with MT. Mair, government agent, on board, left the Isabella for the Island of Santo at Iii. on Novem- Der l2 The day passed without the boat returning Mir Hawkins sent boats in search, but without result. Next morning another boat was sent ashore. They met q boat from the steamer May Queen, of Queensland. which reported that two of the missing boats crews had that morning swam off to that vessel, which was at anchor some four miles from the scene of the massacre, and that both were severely wounded. Two boats then proceeded along the shore in search of the missing boat which was found hauled some distance into the bush. She had been gotted, and natives were lowering about at respectful distance. Two oars were found in the bush on the opposite side of a small creek The landing party then pro- ceaded inland leaving man in each boat to keep them afioat and to be in readiness. The search party came to a village, at which was found some of the gear belonging to the miss ing boat. As the search party only consisted of one white man and five natives, 1t was thought advisable not to go further into the n. what had been done. As the party returned to the boats the head of Mir. Mair, the gov ernment agent, was found among the rocks frightfully ton1ahawked. In the result a stronger party was formed consisting of two boats from the May Queen, two from the Surprise, and one from the Mavis. They landed, and in village further in the bush than the one visited already, they found parts of human body. The boats having re turned to the ship, Captain Hawkins decided to bury these remains as well as the head or Mir Mair, which was done.
 The survivors of the massacre were two hal caste Fijians, viz. Malakai and Jimmy both serving on board the Isabella as boat crew, They state they saw the two white men killed-i. e., NIT. Mair, government agent. and Mir Hampshire, mate-also the two others of the boats crew-i. e., Don Juani and Amosi, half-castes The boat was attacked W hen about to leave the beach, hay ing recruited three men. No ofense was oigep to the natives, who had brought down the recruits themselves. Malakai had two severe tomahawk cuts on the head, one being on the left side penetrating the skull. The blow must, fortunately, have been slanting one: it was three and half inches long, but the brain was not cut into. The other wound 1 was on the forehead, between the eyes. These wounds were sewed up by the captain of the | May Queen. The other man saved had
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
Price Four Cents.

knife wound on the forehead. These two state that they jumped overheard and swan away. The natives pursued them, but they were able to land and hide among the rocks When the moon rose they swam to another place, hid themselves, slept awhile, and at daybreak swan, with the assistance of logs of wood, to the schooner May Queen. They both state that they saw Mir Mair shoot a man through the body with his revolver, but he was overpowered by numbers Mir Hamp- shire was shot through the body and received a cut from tomahawk in the side. He fell overheard and tried to swim away, but was surrounded by the natives and hacked to pieces, as was also Don Juani. Amosi was shot dead and fell overheard. All having been done that could be done, as the natives had retired far back in the bush and it would have been impossible to get at them, Captain Hawkins deemed it his duty to pro- ceed at once to Fiji and report the matter to the authorities
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
Instincts of Trout.

Generally speaking g thunder storm is re- garded by trout fishers as putting a decisive
 stop to their operations. It is not always the case, however, that trout then >ase ris- ing. Just as pheasants always crow loudly after clap of thunder and the electrical state of the atmosphere at such time has Q curious effect upon eels causing them to be much more active than at other times. so MT. W. Henderson relates a case of unwont- ed activity in trout during 8 thunder storm and that at night. Between the flashes he cast his flies straight across a running mill stream in the Black Forest. T fished the stream steadily downward" he writes, C''AIy
 hundred yards. The lightning showed me
 where to throw my flies; all around was Inky blackness. I cast, and rarely failed either to hook or catch 8 fish. The strength of the current enabled many a fish to break away. but at the end of half an hour my
 basket held eight fish and when these were
 tabled at the hotel they proved to be three trout three grayling, and two fish resemb- ling chub. The least was three-quarters of
 pound in weight, and the largest pound and half-altogether 8 beautiful dish, and the fish by far the largest in size that had cap tured during my weeks angling" Most anglers must have noticed when fy fishing in the dark that after a certain moment. as if some piscine curfew had rung under water. every rising fish stops, and none can be taken afterward for some time. I found this the case night after night in the balmy darkness of June in Devon last year; and Mir. Hen derson relates the same thing of the Wear,
 when, immediately before, his ears had been assailed ''by such tumult of fish spIatter- ing and splashing I had never before heard the water seemed alive with large fish. There seemed something uncanny in the affair" Before the cessation of their rise, however he had secured six trout, as in the previous case, considerably larger than any which he could capture by day
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22

The Boston Transcript has discoveredthat the eating of beans on 1Iid-Lent Sunday has a special significance Several centuries back, " says the Transcript, ''this Sunday was known as Carl Sunday, for beans, called 'carlings,' were eaten on that day and in an old translation of the 'Quadragesimale Spirituale' of 1865 is this passage: We eat fried beans, by which we understand comics sion When we would have beanes will sooden, we lay them in steepe, for otherwise they will never seeth kindly. Therefore, if we purpose to mend our faults, it is not suf- fcient barely to confess them at all adven- ture but we must let our confession lie in steepe in the water of meditation Now, the good people of Boston have immortalized beans as a national dish, and while they cling to the toothsome mass as a precious relic of Plymouth Rock, it proves after all to be relic of centuries gone, very much mixed up with penance and Popish cus-
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22

It's an ill wind that blows no good. In past years the land overfowed by the waters of the Mississippi has brought forth more plentifully than in ordinary seasons In 1858, after being covered with waser for weeks the lower region adjacent to the river produced an abundant crop, the cotton yield of the whole country in that year being the largest ever known, 4,O18,914 bales against 3,257, ,339 bales in the previous season. The following year the flood came again, con- tinuing tiD May (much of the planting is done in March and ApriD, and 4,86l, ,292
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22

bales were produced, an increase of more than eight hundred thousand bales. After the submerging of 1878 the lands yielded magnifcently It would be in keeping with former experience if after the deluge of these weeks, the cotton crop should be fine one. This prospect does not, however, help those who are suffering now.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Real estate in Charleston, South Carolina, advanced last year an average of nearly 23 per cent in value. As great an advance, or a greater one, took place in many other cities. New Haven's turn will come before many years, and perhaps before many months.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
HECKER'S :, Perfect Baking Powder to consist essentially of Cream of Tartar and Bi-carbonate of Soda or, in other words, Hs a Pure Cream Tartar
 Baking Powder,

free from alum, terra alba, or any other in- urious substances. I find the "Royal' Ba king Powder to consist of Cream Tartar and Bi-carbonate of Soda, with the addition of sesqui-carbonate of ammonia. AS regards the carbonic acid gas, which I believe to be the only efficient constituent in the use of these powders, I find it to be developed in practically identical amounts in each. The ammoniacal gas (better known to the public as it is found in hartshorn or in smelling salts) obtained by the introduction of sesqui carbonate of
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
The following was published in the N. Y. Tribune, Sn. 26, 1881, and other papers:
 KITCHEN ECONOMY" EXP AIMED.

In answer to the article denominated
 Kitchen Economy" which has recently ap- peared in the New York Tribune, and vari- ous other papers, and to satisfy the public that our Baking Powder is what we represent it to be, we directed Prof. Henry Morton, President of Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J., to purchase ln the open market and ana jyze samples of "Royal'' and ' Hecker's Per feet Baking Powder" and his report is as fol- ows "I find the
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
AMMONIA
 IN THE " ROYAL" BAKING POWDER.

do not find in practice to produce any good effect in raising the bread, and should not therefore, consider it's presence as desirable If, then, we accept Dr. Love's standard of commercial value, these two powders are both worth 50 cents, with the additional advantage of purity, or freedom from ammonia, on the part of C Heckers Perfect Baking Powder"
 We feel called upon, in justice to our selve and the public to give the above facts, as the article denominated 'FKitchen Economy" was published apparently as disinterested infor- nation, intended for the public good, where as in fact it was an advertisement of the Roy al Baking Powder Company.
 George V. Hecker & Co,
 CrOtOn Flour Mills,
 jy14 2tawtf 2O5 Cherry St., N. Y.