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men, for the silver miner pays his men no
higher proportion than the lead or the iron
miner. The silver people have been very
busy of late publishing pamphlets and news
paper articles, and getting their allies to
make speeches in Congress, with view TO
have the present $4,000, 900 month that are
coined increased to 100000. Why push
this point just now, especially? The reader
will find it worth while to note why. The
reason is this-railroads are extending into
Mexico. When then begin TO run the rich
silver mines of Mexico will become accessi-
BILE to our people and to our machinery,
and the product of Mexican silver will be
larger than at any period since the old
Spanish times. The consequence will be
that large amount of silver will be thrown
upon the worlds markets. This will result
in lower. prices. II the American miners
haye-a large stock on hand, that, as well as
the ore in the mines, will decrease in value.
If by inducing the coming of 81 100000
month that nobody want that stock can be
government, then the silver miners will have
made full profits, and the total loss from the
decline will fall upon the American people
There is the whole secret. Now shall we
continue coming unnecessary silver dollars,
and in that way encourage" the silver mine
capitalists to foist their coming losses upon
ourselves7
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss Medora Won Hoffman, of New York,
has Just married the Marquis of Mores, heir
OF the Duke of Vallombrosa. She is young
and lovely, and wore white Cut-velvet. The
next personal she gets will be about two
years from now, when she comes back to
New York with holes in her socks and a
hungry baby in her arms to live with old
man Won Hoffman, and advise the rest of
the girls to fight shy of marquises.-Deauey'
Tribune.
A newspaper correspondent Who sat by
Lieutenant De Longs side at the hotel table,
during the last few weeks of preparation for
the Jeanette expedition, said, one day, to
that Inflated officer, that the little family he
was about to leave was worth more to his
life than all the glory he could hope to gain.
"Would you, then, let the bachelors have all
the glory?" asked De Long, pleasantly; and
his wife, who with their little daughter, sat
by his side, added. Il want him to go; 1 am
as enthusiastic for him as he isl
Emile Loisset, the circus rider, who was
killed in the full flush of youth and beauty
at the Cirque D'Ete, Paris, the other day by
fall from her horse, J'y Pense, during
rehearsal, was the sister of another famous
circus rider, Clothilde, now the Princess Won
Reuss Like her, she might have been a
princess had she lived. Her funeral was
attended by thousands of sincere admirers.
Prince Reuss walked at the head of the
mourners, and among the senders of the 200
wreaths and bouquets which concealed the
hearse were members OF the noblest families
in France.
The Guiteau family bid fair to become a
national nuisance. What with their petit
tions, their lectures, their books and their
general lack of sense OF decency, they threat
en- to make the family name as odious as the
assassin has m ade it infamous. Unfortunate
ly there must be some soil for this sort of no.
toriety to take root in, or it would not -four
ish as it does in this country. Misfortunes
and crimes are matters which must often be
made public by force of circumstances, but
should be relegated into obscurity as soon as
the ends of justice and mercy are served. 1t
is bad social symptom when they are
either made source of revenue or used to
crafty curiosity.
Nine. Modjeska will begin her new Amer
lean engagement next fall-the first week in
October-under the management of Mr..
John Stetson. Her repertory will include
"Camile," "Frou-Frou," "Adrienne," SUI
liet," "Msry Stuart" and "Julia" in The
Hunehback. 1t is probable, also, that she will
appear in The Actress Of Radud and Diane de
Lys. The fine talents of this actress were
long since recognized, and her return to
America will give pleasure to the lovers of
good acting, by whom, no doubt, she will be
warmly welcomed. Mr.. Frank Clements
will travel with Nine. MoGjeska and will en-
act "Master Walter" "Mercutio," "Michon-
net" "Brigard," "Old Duval,' etc, besides
managing the stage. Mr.. Stetson has Sc
lected an efficient company.
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ALMOST A CATASTROPHE.
The Marrow Escape of Train-LOad of
Missouri Editors.

PARSONS, KAs, May 12.-The excursion
train of the Missouri Press Association, while
on the way to Galveston, over the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas division of the Missouri
Pacific railroad, collided with a loose engine
and caboose at $3.50 o'clock this morning
FIVE miles north of Oswego, Ras. In some
unexplained manner the engine and caboose
started alone up the track from Oswego, while
Conductor Fagin and the engineer were in
the Office at that point receiving orders, and
when it reached the point of collision was
flying along at the rate of forty miles an
hour. The engineer of the excursion train
seeing the approaching headlight slowed up
his train and came nearly to a stop, and then
he and his fireman jumped just In time to
save themselves from death. Both engines
were completely wrecked and the tender of
the excursion train was telescoped, the postal
car and the chief postal clerk were slightly
injured. The passengers on the excursion
train, numbering 700 editors, their wives,
daughters and other persons, were greatly
shaken up and much alarmed, but none of
them were hurt. Had the excursion train
not slowed up, it is likely that there would
have been fearful loss of life. The excur-
sion train was taken back to Parsons, some
hours after the collision, but will proceed as
soon as the track is cleared.
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MISSISSIPPI POLITICS.

A candidate for Congress is wanted in the
Raymond district, says the Gazette.
Judge Chrisman is prominently men,
toned for Congress from the Jackson dis
trict.
Captain Woods's prospects for Congress
in the Fifth district are Frightening up.
The Ne,O Mississippian (Jackson) says live
progressive Democrat can sweep the congress
sional stakes in that district.
Bright Morgan, as he is called by his
legion of friends, declines to become can
didate for Congress in the Second district.
Colonel Singleton announces that he is
"pure gold" All of which he has perfect
right to do, though he appears to have some
difficulty in getting tie people to agree with
him.
If Horn, of the Mercury, will hold up, and
the Comet will hungle little more over Sin.
gleton's affairs, the old man stands fair
chance to be retired in the fall.-Orford
FdIcon.
There is much talk concerning General
Chalmers's recent change of base, and some
seem to think he will be in Mississippi
what Malone Is in Virginia. Keep cool
and don't get uneasy. The Little Brig
will never set the world a6re.-Erchange.
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KtngIy sympathy for nilsson.

Madame Nilsson Rouzand has received
the following letter from the king of Sweden:
81 am sure that you have not doubted a
single instant of the very sincere sympathy /
have in the cruel trial which has fallen on
you. The news reached me very late, owing
to my journey to Christisna, and when at
length heard of the death of your husband
it was too late to telegraph, and 1 preferred
waiting till could properly write letter in
your great and natural affection without
being obtrusive. Dear Nine. Nilsson,
was much distressed when l read the sad
circumstances which led to your terrible
misfortune. God alone can give you strength
of mind and body to bear up against such
trial; but He will give it to you, / am
certain, and you have my sincere wishes
for your future. You are still young
and in full possession of the great
artistic qualities which have founded
and justify your renown. You will find
consolation in work, and your very sorrow,
by the help of God, may contribute to the
development of your genius. You may
long, very long, hope, remain the great
artist who honors the country which gave
you birth. 1t is not so much in my charac-
ter as king of that country as an amateur,
and above all things as your friend, that 1
do not hesitate to say this. Yes, rely on
these sentiments on my part, and believe me
your affectionate OSCAR"
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THE FIRST TELEPHONE,
AS Described in the Seventeenth Cen
fury by "simpIfcius Sim
pIicissimus.o
London Globe


There is a celebrated German romance of
the seventeenth century known as The Id
ventures of Simplicius Sinplicissimus, which was
published under the pseudonym of G. Shilief-
helm Won SutZford, but is now known to have
been written by Hans Jakob Christopher
Grimmelshausen, soldier 10 the service of
the Bishop of Strasbourg. So popular were
the sartirical works of the author, though
invariably published under false name,
that no fewer than six complete editions of
them appeared within thirty years after his
death, from 1858 to 1713. His real per-
sonality was almost as great a se-
cret as that of Junius, and was only
lately cleared up by the research of
Echtermeyer and Passon. The wondering
hero of the romance. Simplicius Sim
piicissimus, is now claimed as the original
inventor of the telephone. In book iii,
chapter l, he is found to be in possession OF
instruments by means of which he can hear
a trumpet call or the neighlng of horse at a
distance of nine miles. By putting one end
of it in his ear he can tell what two men are
whispering about, though they are three
miles distant from him. What the telephone
does for the eye this unnamed instrument of
Simplicissimus does for they ear. He can
hear the songs of the smallest birds, the
croaking of frogs, the grunting Of pigs, and
the chatter of men and women at the mar
put his instrument to his ear and say to his
comrades, 81 hear troopers coming, for the
horses are well shod," and 81 hear peasants
riding, for the horses are barefooted." 1t
was more valuable to the soldier than the
telescope, for that could only be used by day,
whereas this was equally useful at night.
The comrades of SimpIicius thought that
he had studied magic, or, as he put it, that
''the devil and his mother had revealed a
secret to me-" 1t was, however, his own in
vention; but he kept it secret on account OF
the terrible abuse which might be made OF
it. "If had revealed this science" says
SImplicissimus, ''its use would have been
very common, especially in the wars, and,
most of all, in SIEGE" 1t is now suggested
as not improbable that the eccentric author,
who persevered his anonymity intact
throughout his life, may have had a notion
of such an instrument as the telephone, and
even had experimental in the construction
of something of the kind.
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CHERRY PECTORAL.
Various Causes


Advancing years, care, sickness, disap-
pointment, and hereditary predisposi-
tion-an operate to turn the hair gray,
and either of them inclineS it to shed
prematurely. AYERS HAIR VIGoR will
restore faded or gray, light or red hair
to a rich brown or deep black, as may
be desired. 1t Softens and cleanSeS the
scalp, giving it healthy action. 1t
removes and cures dandruff and humors.
BY its use falling hair is checked, and
a new growth will be produced in all
cases where the follicles are not de-
stroyed or the glands decayed. Its
effects are beautifully shown on brashy,
weak, or sickly hair. on which few
applications will plousroo ya.e srOss and
freshness of youth. Harmless and sure
in its results, it is incompatible as
a dressing, and is especially valued
for the soft lustre and richness of tone
it imparts.
AYERS HAIR VIGoR is colorless;
contains neither oil nor dye; and will
not soil or color white cambria; yet
it lasts long on the hair, and keeps
it fresh and vigorous, imparting an
agreeable perfume.
For sale by all druggists.
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NEW YORK.
General Trade Very Quiet. with a
Steady Decline i'm transactions.

General Trade Very Quiet. with a
Steady Decline in transactions.
New YORK, May 1.-THE volume of
business is very light this week, and ex-
changes show steady decline in transac-
tions throughout the country, no doubt
partly caused by the extraordinarily inclem-
emit and unreasonable weather. In dry goods
the market is generally dull; what little
animation there is is owing TO back orders
and current demands. Wheat is quiet and
steady, with prices fairly well up, and closing
with considerable firmness. The widest huc-
tuations in corn and oats, and the break OF
two or three cents which occurred in the
early part of the week, have been fairly re-
covered, and prices closed firm at advanced
rates. Business in these descriptions of grain
is quite large. There is nothing of special
interest to note in pork and provisions.
American pig-iron is unchanged and the
volume of business is light. The market for
Scotch pig is gaining strength, with rather
more inquiry at better prices. There is
some inquiry for steel rails, and
some large transactions are reported, but
prices low. Iron rails are neglected, and
quotations nominal. the boot and shoe
trade is only fairly active, and no great i'm
provement can be expected until the weather
becomes more settled. Manufacturers are
principally working on old orders. The
hardware trade is backward, and orders for
even seasonable goods do not come in freely.
The tea market is dull. The English COM
bination is still forcing their goods, for cash,
at auction, on this market, which has very
depressing effect. In the market for raw su-
gar, holders do not care to sell large lots at
present quotations, as better prices are antic-
fpated. There is no change in the prices of
refined sugar, and business is somewhat in
active. In coffee prices are better, but much
depends on the number of arrivals; trade
backward and but little doing. Arrivals OF
butter show steady increase, with CORE
spending dropping in prices. Cheese is in
large supply, with prices we'll maintained.
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Again bloom the roses and hearts that are true
Are nursed by sweet May, ss the rose by its dew,
And love thus awakens at Mays soft caress
As from wintry slumber its dream to possess;
Though lovely young flowers bloom brightly each
year,
The loving heart blighted is sad-sad and drear.
Each May the fair flowers their sweet fragrance
cast,
But our May of life is the first and the last,
The swallows fly forth, to return in the spring,
And with their returning sweet melody bring;
The fowerless valley blooms bright as before
When our loved ones leave they return, never
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THE late Khedive IsmaiPs great projec,
of Nubian and Soudan railway is assum-
ing something like substantial form. The
English have taken hold of it. 1t is to be a
single line, of which at present seventy-fve
miles are finished; and, as it leaves Assouan,
it passes through a portion of the famous
granite quarries, out of which the Gizch
pyramids, near Cairo, and SO many other
Pharaonic works were made. The engineer
is Scotchman, who does the best he can
with Nubian and Arab laborers, who work
in gangs, refuse to use wheelbarrows and
carry their loads just as the ancient Egyp-
tians are depicted as doing on the sepulcherf
at Thebes and Karnac.
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CINCINNATI.
Business Fairly Active. but Not Press
IDg-MOney In Light Demand.

Business Fairly Active, but Not Press.
iDa-MOney An Light Demand.
CINCINNATI, May 1.-THE rain has been
excessive during the week, and, although
alternating with dry weather, has hindered
farm work at time when time is valuable.
There has been very little change in the
tone of business II has been fairly active,
but not at all pressing. Groceries have been
little slower than for some time past, and
a tendency to easier prices in staples begins
to be seen. Provisions, however, have been
frmer, and clear rib sides are running close
up to lie. Stocks al not at all heavy for
this time of the year. There is good con-
sumptive demand, and holders are slow to
sell. Grain has been rather steady, except
rye, which has declined to sc. Wheat is
in good milling demand, with a wide range
from 81 SO@1 40 for No. red, according
10 whether it is soft or hard. Corn
has huctuated slightly, but the de-
mand has been active. Oats closed firm
at full prices, the stock being low and the
demand pressing. Whisky has declined
4 to cents from the rate of last week, with
very good demand at the rates and an up
ward tendency. The association which has
held the price steady SO long, was dissolved
by limitation May LIST, and greater fuctua-
tons may now be in order. The iron trade
has been fair, but offerings do not give any
prospect of frmer prices. Manufactured
iron firm. The demand for money has been
light, and, though rates are held at 6 and
per CENT most of the business is at lower
6gure New York exchanges is strong; par
buying, and selling at Ito per cent
Premium.
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spoils. The recent debate on the Tariff Com
mission bill in the House OF Representatives
was instrumental in effecting an unholy alli-
ance between Democratic free traders and
revenue reform men with pig-headed pro-
tectionists Of the Kelley school. The Tennes-
see Repu blicans and Democrats have come
together on the question of debt payment
The Tammany Boss and Mr.. Cornell have
formed a disrepulable partnership in
New York, and in several other
parts of the country there Is more or
less bartering of an equally corrupt and de-
basing character. Georgia Is a case in point
split has taken place IN the Democracy of
that State, and the venerable Alexander H.
Stephens is announced as the leader of the
ticket which will be nominated in opposition
to all the ideas and principles for which he
has been contending from almost time i'm
memorial. In the evolution of our politics
this is doubtless all right. Mr.. Stephens
comes in under the survival of the fttest
theory. If this is the best that Georgia can
do she is to be commiserated.
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Tenn Tamn AAaAHAan.

Cotton Belt Bulletin.
MEMPHIS, TENN, May IL, 1882, pm.
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CHICAGO, May 12.-The Republican State
Central Committee to-day decided to hold
the State Convention at Springfield, June
delegate for every 400 votes cast for Garfield.
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IAM aoLIEK THAN THoU

In this free country we have a Just abhor.
renee of the tyranny and wrong inflicted by
the aristocracies of the old world upon the
poor community, by whose toll the rich food
was produced that loaded their tables, AND
the vast revenues that supported their gran
deur. When we read of the peasants OF
whole villages being compelled to whip the
waters of ponds the night through to keep
the frogs silent in order that the seigneur and
his grande dame and their guests might sleep
undisturbed in the chateau, we are moved
with indignation. When we learn of the
Horrors of the great panic time of 1926, when
in England trade was completely crushed
and famine stalked hollow-eyed through the
land, we can feel only scorn for the landed
aristocracy that were then enforcing the
hated corn-laws by which the price of the
poor mans loaf was doubled that their rents
might be kept up. Are we really entitled
to feel all this scorn and Indignation? In
the incisive language of Paul, Thou that
teachest another, faiest thou to teach myself?
thou that preachest man should not steal,
dost thou steal2 AS old Butler tell in his
Hudibras, men compound for sins they are
inclined to by damning those they have no
mind to-are we clear of falling into that
error? Let us see. Owing to the drouth
last fall, our crops of potatoes, cabbages,
beans and other vegetable was partial fail
ure, and prices went up high. Upon the
working classes, who are largely dependant
upon those articles for their daily food, the
increase of price fell heavily. What a
happy thing it ought TO have been that
owing to the wonderful advances steam
transportation has made-these articles were
brought over from Europe in abundance.
The other year, when the British grain har-
vests failed, we sent them sufficiency from
our plenteous stores, and the poor, now de-
livered from the hated corn-laws, escaped
suffering, no duties holding back the bread
from access to the poor mans table. How
was it with the vegetables sent to us who
have neither seigneur, duke, nor lord?
The reply is humiliating-every bushel of
potatoes the laborer boughtfor his family was
taxed thirty-fve per cent, and every cabbage
ten per cent. When tight time occurs, and
food becomes scarce and dear, SO that we
have to initiate Jacob, who sent to Egypt for
corn, we jump upon the poor like wolf
upon a helpless lamb, and say, now your
food is dear and hard to get, it shall be made
yet dearer, and more inaccessible, for you
shall pay heavy tax or go hungry. Is not
this nice doctrine for free Americans TO
preach and practice? If the poor ask why
the State seizes the moment of his extremity,
the crisis when food is dear and hard to get
for his children, to take from him ten cents
TO thirty-fve cents of each dollar he buys
his vegetables with, he is astounded by re-
ceiving the insulting assurance that the
money is scooped out of his hard earning for
his "protection." Such is one phase of the sys-
tenn of monopoly that is cursing the country
with exactions that even English aristocrats
have abandoned.
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lis on July Alb. The invitation has been
informally accepted, but in accordance with
the bylaws of the regiment it must go to the
different companies for recognition. Colonel
Emmons Clark said yesterday: "The trip
will be pretty hard one if hot weather, as
in the centennial summer, should set in.
The project is DOW being voted on, and it
looks as though there would be majority in
favor of the trip. The expenses have been
figured down to about $50 man. Any de-
fciency will be made up from the funds Of
the regiment. The programme 10 to leave
New York on Monday afternoon, July Sd.
the afternoon of the 4th, and go into camp
for two days, leaving the camp in time te
arrive home on the following Saturday"
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A Model Woman.

OF lady who died in Pittsburg, Pa, a
few days ago, the Commercial Gazette, OF that
city, says: ''She was model woman in all
the relations of life, whether as daughter,
wife, mother, sister, friend or christian. She
was model in her thougbtfulness and care
for her psrsnts in their declining years; she
was a model in the confidence she placed in
her husband aud her interest in his success;
she was model in the affection she bestowed
on her children and her solicitude for their
souls salvation; she was model in the ex-
ample she set for her sisters to follow-they
were all disposed TO take her as such; she
was model as friend, in that she IVES a
friend at all times she was model in the
consistent, godIy life she lived and the peace
Jul and triumphant death she died. She was
altogether unselfsh, she was kind, she was
benevolent, she was charitable; she was for
giving, she was meek, she was humble, she
was Christ-lIke, she believed, she trusted, she
worked, she made home happy, and when a
stranger entered the family circle to sojourn
for little, it was but little while until he
felt he was in the sunshine. She was never
idle. and the work she had 10 do at home, in
the church, or institutions for charity, she
did WE'LL"