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CHRISTMAS.

our Stock % holiday GOODS - ar fa1
snd rnrn rlets. ami frg - tally re~ript ~ ~
an1 DESIRABLE GOODS fDR tttEl-I uA>
PRESENTS. cur Hfw isStgRs "a tA>kt-~ Az
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PORT OF RfCHMOSD- DEcEMBs1 =, Ists..
skuzr.


SSTLEr.
<telnlr Ctd Dominion. Walker. View f1rs-
merchandise aud passengers. y. " Aisn s9--
agents.
steamer Piase.r. smi,H, Philadelphia uservhan-
dise. J. " N,,arr.rt, a 3ar-
nail. merchandise. and passengers Z. D. rasarA
surer1ntgDs.Pns-
schooner lmsgpne Dfvertg, Curtis. Ses Iiaven.
D. --tran- Chs-si Dsase ant ONO Raitvay sSni-
panY; sVs<es. a. b. eess.Enaa, vessel. artis 4
Parssr.
schooner Thrsr Friends RiTvin. ysrIaik. naa-
rans-s and barrels. gl-rse 4 20.
PORT OF NEwPORT News. DWC. -. iss2.
By Teiexr1ph.l
sKETvED.
-teaa ier Workman pscu- M~E1rrfck. Ssr-of<.
merchandise tus 1as~efizerS- ths>a psaxR aud OHIO
RsfTxav Company and .tiird "a r~trra.
steamer A-runfstr- ucts. flerrna1sis = and 1is-
ssngrrs- NTH iei.- Chesapeake 1Et s4iso stits2y
CDmpaug .isa F.ieC 90 rsfurui-
steamer Plnllrn. Bourne. NcrScis. Ggsreh.in-
i-s ant uls-enEe-s .Insf saii.,i IN rrsnrni.
sfsamsiiD Galveston. Taaysr, hage,t0n for
liverpool. pa- "a or fuel
sAiLko.
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View Orleans 1aVi1r AIKEN flei-craL
steamship thanrrllGF. Z yons. EIvrs- ffufif ~
ur.e las. having -tSen idei eoui.
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PORT OF NEwFORT News. DwC. -. iss2
By Tsiexraph.l
DIIDAf GOODs.
SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS

FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
sxI0 Francs. via Cori. Mar. ana N.slls, At
-. So. 75--- aGa u.
-4x'o FRAMED cu20s00-, WIN Cord amt
Walls. a. g0c.,
over 100 styles CAsTSET FRAMES r-om he
uDvart-ortecs lower tla1 ever
Fine s-orrinent q COPIES OF -rEEL ENGEA-
WINGS FRAMED. az $3.50 eaen, v'th cosi
lnd Nhs.
inc JOG Of STEEL ENGRNVISGs % 30 cold
very bow. suitable 5,raof,iay presents
CORD and NtrL> GIVEN AWAY s,m az
frames
a. WORTH OF CHRISTMAS CARDS '0r zee,
CORNICEs IN every s5y.e. u tow esara-.
OIL-PArVTINGs. ENGRNVTSGs HAND
PAINTED PLAQUES abb NJ, EAsFL-.
llrge anal .mIl- 40
iel- f.. LswIs'-. 9l3 Man street,.
EUEL FOR CHRISTMAS FIREs.
ANTHRACITE n $3.50 ant 49,. rcr r.n.
FA~r-BNNN tpNLbUkar -fltNr- y5-jn and
500 PINE WOOD t-rm - Der haIt-.ar'i
~ ~ 1u.f $50 0t, Wood. -3.Ts .1 81
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eari ENGINE ana tNrHRAgtrt ~ sul v
DRIES l- .nT PRICES. tsli ..llI -tnfs 1f AZ slnt
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where rae biggest bargains IN CTR -T1fN-
GlgT~--f sr. PURSES. .oJn fli.n anG Plush
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n MAS >TzEkr.
OPPOSITE MoSE0k Ma,
goa slE 1Rt. a, aoierass gr'cs-' 2 a.is ~ -
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NV YORK December 22--Csri.ld-Net -
criot.. 1855 5ls,ss gycss receipts. f.i1 SA-es-
ser. sfgzIn.L0.1-. iInGlgV. e.3--3. SCI
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IaDe. sfQ--2ad- tG--J: Jay. .lp-s3'e- te-s-
tux-t-t 81 0.3ar - l. a.
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l..e4 rH-r-fs. Coupons G- lrT
il-tl'-. 49,. Did r1-.ilv.
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UouE AID JOB Work NEAL,
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,-,FRT,TNA- PRESENTS GIVEN At
1873 MAES STREET,
PUN n..Rl IRON FgCHrEESrH STREET.
-rtr.Nr 4 cRrfNteg9l wiH gave christ
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.,TRsT AyTrAL CHRIsTMA--GIFTS
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AeD
EvERF-D AS NECE--frtEs-
m OrL-.rCvE sc FINE SlCNEL-PLATEo
,rEM.wISDlNG Atmospheric LAMP. NJ
PArEST FIFTY CENT DRAss sCENkRs hss
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,ri8 h. sad p rsaet ssglDastioa. Ti.hosf chimney
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BKIEF NEWS FrEh--

The House Appropriations commune
,o-a,v agreed 20 TAKE up. after the IL oA
f,nuarv. the legislative navy AID Us
r.iet appropriation blls in the order 'aihed'
The of5eers Of the army and navy He1e
.,r, about 10 form 4 social club.
government receipts to-day customs
sees SOS. internal revenue, sssj4.7i7.
The supreme Court Of the uai'ed states
,s. adjourned until January 50.
Pei cloud. the sioux chief. Is expected
,..re Tonight or tomorrow morning
Members Of Congress eft to-day by every
tram for hoEle-
gFsy Associated Prcsz.l
,,-,.,r,,croS. December s2~-Nr. Inzer-
III e,neIuded his argument n Tue ~
III 90 ,.asr. Mfr. Wiltshire made pfisi az
- - tar Rerslell, and the taxing Of 'ss''-
nsony began. ...;,,, =, smishyiTle.
= = report. the schooner Henry y. NAY,
80, s,van nah to PhiIadeiphti, ashore Gu
,So'I pm. four miles from land
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MILWAUKEE,.

arLWsrssE. Derenlner ----Fionr .Jtl.rt ~
- vl,,s,- lu-er AMI eufv. ~. : N.iNtua-e
rar.L nominal. SIT. rlsh ADJ uscfn ltr- -.
IsnuarT. y--sr.. NJ. iitiwt-Ser. l-c-- -.
n 80 r,-,.cse-f s. Ouns gu'sg AIT unchanged /.
NJ !. yfr Prlvi-isgs l1wer. hess pork - q
- N mi Dr-ruihsr. -i-.I0 51nrurf. arr
Prinl.. steam sl0.Sn cash and Decent Der - - ,
'r,,lr.rv- Hogs qalet 10 sJ-10ms5. Whisky
--rur--
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schooner Thrsr friends. Riggin- ysrialk. naa-
<ane-s and barrels. E-rse 4 20.
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HOLIDAY PKEsESTs vt LOWEST rxiexs
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Fl.r,at rrrn,s. mea hese materials xSrEe-
,,,s,.k last r.aroa..i worxs ssnz sxp<r'erss> &Ad
1ri.s reises ~haA resume .se as, Of Sshs A. snsn
a. frrysar-s n . ---.---- 49, -
The Republican journal., 1882-09-07
ITO accompany bill II. R. 6S09.l

H.
The Committee Means referred the
bill Oh r. 6SO9) adjust the duty hay report the
with the recommendation that the same do pass
Under section 256 of the Revised Statutes which provides that
there shall be levied duty of ad
manufactured articles not enumerated the tariff schedules
and 20 per all articles imported
the United States the Treasury Department. by decision Of April
g. 1868, held that hay manufactured article and such
subject to import duty of 20 This Of duty
imposed and collected hay without question: from that date
until the 23d of March, the Treasury
issued circular stating that the United States Circuit
northern district Of New York. the Frazee al
had decided that hay is manufactured article and SUCH
the Acknowledgement the department had acquesced in the ruling
and therefore, instructed officers of customs to thereafter
duty of only 10 per cent hay imported from Canada
where.
duty imported hay imported timber wood
mails wheat and other agricultural products, which averages
90 per This regarded only and proper protec
ton to the farmers OF the States bordering Canada and Of the
States which could be easily reached by vessels from Nova
and New Brunswick To suddenly reduce the tariff important
agricultural product hay, while all other duties
same is regarded improper discrimination 1t be
ged only simple justice to promptly the effect Of this
judicial decision which changes the abtua construction
And is all the important that this correction should be made
at otherwise will subject the farmers Of large number of
States to the injurious competition of the Canadian crop
will be harvested Your committee report
bill with favorable recommendation Received
placed on calendar.
At that late period Of the required vote
suspend the rules to take and this BILL though with
consent it could have been done in
went the calendar and owing Democratic opposition Mr.
Dngey unable to get any action upon and that the
of Maine to-day exposed to the competitions foreign
with only half the protection they have hitherto enOved they
solely the refusal of political opponents permit Repu
hcans to succeed in their efforts the tariff the Old
of 20 per In order avail possible
Senate July 2lt the following amendment pending
Tax Bill restoring the rate of duty 0 hay.
At the end Of section 5, add the following:
That hereafter the duty levied and paid hay shall
be twenty centum ad valOem.
The Republican journal., 1882-09-07

But this Democratic obstruction prevented and by their
fight to take the tax off whke and Democrats pre-
vented the passage of the Senate reduction thus
deprived the farmers of just protection for heir hay
In this connection, special the following letter
from the United States Commissioner Agriculture in reply to
letter from Mr. Boutee earnestly requesting the
his influence in behalf of
ton of the twenty per cent duty on hay:
The Republican journal., 1882-09-07

Immediately upon the reception Of Mr. Boutees letter. Hon.
Nelson Dgey r the vgant and able Representative from the
Second District introduced the following bill in the
House. restore the duty to its former rate and the following
day. assisted by his Republican colleagues made convincing
gument before the Committee Ways and Means:
A Bill to Adjust the Duty on Imported Hay.
Be enacted By the Senate and House Of Representatives Of the
United States Of Anerica IN Congress assembled:
That from and after the passage Of this act the duty import
ed hay shall be twenty cenm ad orem being the
collected imported hay from April eighth eighteen hundred
and xteght to March twenty eighteen hundred and eg
tytwO
The committee promptly voted report the bill favoraby
House. but doing the committee divided equally upon party
lines the six Republicans voting Of and the four Demo
cratic members voting against this of justice the
New England On July 27th Mr. Dngey bill reported to
the House by order Of the Republican majority Of the Ways and
Means Commute with the following Endorsement Of its justice
desirablity:
The Republican journal., 1882-09-07


letter from Mr. Boutee earnestly requesting Commissioner to
his influence in behalf of the farmers securing
ton of the twenty per cent. duty on hay:
Letter from the Commissioner Of Agriculture.
United Stctes Department Of agriculture,
Washington, D. O., dug. 10, 1882
Ny dear Mr. Boutee:
In reply your communication relating reduction of the
duty on hay allow me to that undoubtedly
views of the Importance of the hay crop to the farmers of
Maine and of the effect of the tariff law
by winch the duty has been reduced oneha This reduction
peciay injurious to New England increasing does
petition which has already had quite impetus years
Notice the increase while the twenty per duty
force, as follows:
3?"; S SslGs i Po9 iS5
1880. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 6, 260 493,934 So 1856
1881. .165 1852 1,965,632 1893 10
Large this item has become onesizh of million
reduction of the duties may swell immensely the importation
which is to compete with domestic hay the supply of than
thirty mon tons now required for our annual consumption Com
ing as 1t does from the Dominion and gravang naturally
district in which the highest prices prevail New England threat
ened with dege OF importation and her farmers with larger
proportion than any other section Of the country
The farmers Of Maine well know the comparative Importance Of
TINS crop me records OF the Department Of Agriculture show that
for in arabic crops that State there four
and five grass be for years the average e
mate for the United States follows:
Tons 1855 500
Value. 1927 800 l32
Most Of this product grown the Northern States VERY large
proportion Of it north Of 40 In the product was
2;3 tons valued az s371 S11 OSl Tbs i n, caoto
than that produced by the cotton crop or by other and
wheat alone excepted The grass crop including pas;e by
far the most valuable grown in the United eec-
Tally northern product, abundance and little
cost in foreign country which stretches of
three thousand miles along northern border there
agricultural product exposed to such
tition as is the hay crop of the United States
The effort of Representative Dingey promptly taken Con-
for defining the duty and restoring the
leced is worthy Of all praise, and entitled all the sympathy
Truly yours, etc., GEO B. IoRINCi,
Commissioners
Hon. G. A. Boutele Bangor, Ne.
The intelligent farmers of Maine will fail that
while the entire Republican delegation State in both
branches OF Congress- eXhausng every effort pro-
The Republican journal., 1882-09-07
The Committees Report.

Mr. Kasson, from the Committee Ways and Means submitted
the following report:
The Republican journal., 1882-09-07
Hon. c. A. Boutelle, Bangor, Me.

The intelligent farmers of Maine will fail
while the entire Republican delegation from this
branches OF Congress- exhaung every effort pro-
lection for our most important agricultural product the Fusons
Representative MuTch had word in its favor and his Fusonst
colleague ldd instead Of being in his place Congress- born
for the great interest Of the people Of Maine home deliver
ing political harangues and pulling wires elected Free
Trade PLATFORM to 60 back and all the tariff duties which
the Republican party has established to American products Of field
factory, from the competition Of cheap foreign labor The
two Fusion candidates for Congress equally indifferent and o
tile to the efforts made in behalf of the farming
State Joseph W. Dane is lifelong opponent of Projections and
Daniel H. Thing is the stump camp0nng the doctrines oil Free
Trade and ustfying the Democrats of Congress for diyng
farmers OF just protection for their hay
The refusal of the Democrats and Fuonits permit the
alton Of the twenty per cent duty foreign hay. will stimulate
importation from the British Provinces that will reduce by
sands and thousands Of dollars the price farmers will
for their great surplus hay crop this year They should bear these
facts in mind when they their ballots for Representatives
Congress on the 18th day Of September
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-02
NEED FOR EXPLANATION,

Mr.. W. D. Howells appears to have dis
covered that he has got into hot water
through his recent curiously extravagant
eulogy upon Henry James, Jr., and that
in particular his expression OF the opinion
that James methods are superior IN art
to those of Thackeray, was, to say the
least, unfortunate. He ia reported as say
ing now that he has been misunderstood
in what ne wrote about Thackeray, but
that plea is scarcely admissible on behalf
of go extremely lucid and perspicuous a
writer as Mr.. Howells. He proposes, how
ever, to write an essay upon Dickens and
Thsckeray. OF course he must decide for
himself whether it is worth while to do
this. We should be inclined to think,
from what he has said in his article on
Henry James, that criticism of style
is not his forte. In fact his putting
James before Thsckeray as an artist was
almost as bad as Col. Higginson' s
queer declaration that Irving s
Knickerbocker's History of New York" is
the finest piece of humor since CULVER
Travels. In both these assertions there is
evidenced SO comprehensive an ignorance
of literary history, and SO conspicuous an
absence of critical Judgment, as to justify
establishment but when critics have thus
exposed their quality, it is hardly to be
hoped that their subsequent efforts can be
of much weight or moment. Henry James
is no doubt very clever novelist, but
he is full of many odious and even intoler-
able Alterations he is often so fastidious
as to be namby-pamby and unless he
produces very much better work than he
has ever done yet, it is improbable that he
will have any vogue twenty years hence.
But Thackeray is genius whose books
will be read with never-failing delight as
long as English literature eudures.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-02
Arab AND HIS TRIAL.

And now it is said that Arab is not to
be tried at all, the presumption being that
the Khedive has been persuaded to this
course as the only possible method of ex-
Treating England from the dilemma into
which his trial had plunged her. She
took him prisoner, but she refused to keep
him. Sac surrendered him to the Khedive.
thereby admitting that she had no jaris.
diction over him. Having done this, how
ever, she at once began to interfere with
the action of the Egyptian Government,
without the faintest excuse or justification.
At first she wanted him to be tried in
European fashion, which was not only pre-.
posterous, but must have had the effect of
weakening the .Khedive's credit with his
own subjects, already sufficiently low.
This could not be consented to, but he was
permitted to have English counsel, which
was another piece of nonsense. It la clear
enough that Mr.. Gladstone ought either to
have kept Arab as prisoner of war; or
he ought to have washed his hands of him
in surrendering him to the Khedive. The
latter would then have settled the whe'
business in quarter of an hour, by a
platoon in the palace court, and probably
that would have been after all the best
mode of adjusting it. As it is, the status
of England in regard to Arab, and of
Arab in regard to everybody, are questions
which must perplex even so grand an old
man as the British Premier, to say nothing
of the Khedive and the Sultan.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-02
THE WILLIAM TELL BUSINESS.

An actor has Just killed his own sweet
heart while attempting to hit an apple
placed on her head, with rifle. A play
wright who must have had taste for
homicide wrote a drama called "Si Slo-
cum" the hero of which is supposed to be
a fine marksman, and is taken prisoner by
a gang of ruffians who compel him to fire
at an apple placed on his daughters head.
The popularity of this drama obviously is
that it can never be played without in
curing the imminent danger of homicide
and very probably it owes its popularity to
that circumstance. In the case under no.
tice, however, the principal performer was
called upon to shoot an apple off the head
of the girl to whom ne was engaged, and
not content with the ordinary risk, which
one might have thought sufficient, under
the circumstances, for the most exigent
person, this ineff.ble idiot must "show
"off" by firing backwards over his
shoulder, taking aim by the aid of a
mirror. The result was that he put bull.
let into the poor girls brain, and that
having realized what his utterly unpardon,
able foolhardiness had done, the fellow
himself was nearly distracted. II hang.
ing was not played out we should feel in.
duced to recommend it as an appropriate
ending to this tragedy. Certainly a man
so utterly destitute of common sense as to
encounter so horrible risk with the
woman he loved, has not judgment enough
to keep him sweet, and it would be
almost a charity to hang him. 1t would,
however, be distinctly useful to take this
serious view of the homicide, for it is time
that all such reckless exhibitions were put
a stop to, and the prompt execution of an
accidental murderer of the kind would
have strong tendency to make the bust.
ness unpopular with the profession.
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sought to exterminate all other tribes of
Indians. The Mohicans were their allies
for long period, but gained nothing but
ruin from the connection. But had the
League of the Iroquois been more enlight-
ened, and had the powerful tribes which
formed it recognized the necessity and the
sound policy of uniting all the Indian ma.
tions on the continent in an offensive and
defensive compact, it is very certain that
they could have postponed the conquest of
Canada for a long time, and that they
might have made the settlement of the En-
glish Colonies very much more difficult
matter than it proved. Perhaps, however,
to suppose the possibility of greater cir
cumspectiop and craftsmanship in the Iro-
quois than they actually exhibited, is
equivalent to supposing the possibility of
their possession of civilization for certainly
they were among the most ferocious and
untamable savages of whom history has
any record. As to the Last of the Mo.
hicans, no doubt he is just as well dead,
for the time has long passed when there
could be any place for such relies of an
extinct world, and he could only illustrate
by his abiect degradation the inevitable
destiny OF all his kind.