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BALrIMoRE. Aur. g 1880

BALTIMORE, aug. 3, 1852.
Editors 81. Nary's Beaeon-Deey
Siys In q visit to the counting room
Of friend. found your paper ofthe
9Th Of last month, and having some
time to spare, glanced over it to hear
what news from the old mother Of
Maryland. In reading along, / fell
upon the letter of your correspondent
who signs himself Occasional" /
continued to read it calmly until I
arrived at that portion in which he
boldly claims that old st. Mary's is
zone Of the republican banner coun-
ties Of the State, both in brains and
majority" / could read no further
until ! got through an uncomfortable
&c Of laughter.
He charges that the republicans of
the old county are taken advantage OF
by the bosses from counties and cities
irrsvocably democratic. With won
derful boldness he exclaima: "Re-
publicans. this should not be. We
should net give our help to put first
one and then the other on top and
then be forced 10 stand aside. By
opposing them will st. Mary's be en-
abled 70 take her proper rank in the
party"
What struck me as very singular
was that the man should utter such
complaints against the upper county
bosses, who declares that ''all Is fair
IN love and war, and which may
truly bs extended to pOlihcs." Ought
he to complain that the bosses cheat
hin when, according to his doctrine,
he thinks IL fair to cheat the bosses I?
He had forgot that fraud is one Of the
principal planks in the republican
platform, though hidden when he adj
dvlses his party friends to see that
none but thosewhO are true and wor-
thy to be trusted are suffered to rem
resent them in convention. Certain
y Occasional should not be trusted.
WIS pToclaims that call is fair ia pol-
itics. He is frank enough to confess
that he does not consider itwrOnp 10
commit frand.
Notwithstanding he sets up a claim
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that we believe the people are mora
hoEssst than Congress. and will visit Is
condnct with condemnation and Re-
trit1tion, IL would lead rs to take :
desppnding view Of the future
clI' the Al Affirmative votea il the
Senate Is were those Of Republicans
and g those Of Democrats. OF the
negative votes u were Republican,
3 Democratic, and ] Independent.-
In the House S. Republicans. 81
Democrats. and 8 Gresnbackers and
other independents voted for the
steal, and 30 Republicans, ~ Demo
Gratis. and 2 Independents voted
against i.
These men are 70 be dealt with q
individuals, bat the Republican par
ty cannot fail to suffer for this piece
Of recklessness. It controlled the
committees, and Il had majority in
both Houses. 1t had the power 10
insist upon honesty and decency in
the appropriation bills and failed 10
do ik Moreover. the veto was that
Of . Republican President. and should
at least have commanded the respect
Of Republicans. They cannot es-
cape the responsibility on account Of
the division OF beth parties by the
line that separates thieves from hon
est men.
This act viii cost the Republicans
many q Congressional district at the
coming election. and il is likely to
destroy their hope Of controlling the
next Congress. But the people should
discriminate. and 50 far as possible
metz out their retribution to the in
dividual offenders. Among the many
considerations which must impress
upon the people the necessity oil
efecting a reform Congress this fall
the reckless river and harbor thievery
should not be the least.
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e.,l.;ect ana fhe countv paDers gave :
feeble Endorsement. casped word e.
kwa nl..uk r;ncs. and then Quoted
down RaIfsnSo,re + the centre OF Do
If1;nal r.,ie n fhis stats and the conn-
IL rnlif;.sare tale lessons there: mhile
60 nnsrtv narers COX i'll tn cilv
da;sv ~ fhesr ena III the central
ur1sn & ave farriblv and enerreti-
cn7Iv e3;seF---;f 4 laws down points Of
arpsrssnk ana eoun1 principles that
a. exrhango. eaa take un. the conn
+ nar~r~ 9;il is shIv edited also.
hs ~, 49, ahera are divisions
IN fRe sarfv fgef mo- " healed. o.
- nn1 M $1,000. Il fells "a leaders
are anfacon;,;ng eaeh other but e
r;;var ai.e,o - ,..ssa-s.s - wsrnine. Il an-
49, 81 49,, =. a.,rw kbe;r katcIets
"a feht - cenal.rosr enemy. but z.
rives = Mar "a 80 healins Of these
div;s;~.. a. ~. eonntv Journal 90
alaeh;,s,, 'ssr.ssd = go slnmOh with
60 80 .s-;.s :. anokl,ar ssTeforna.''
m. nse 1s,nards hnneefv. and that
one + aoainsk s.lifs of;ces.s There j
10 coan'on round shown us. where
On all ear meek. and our city Jour
raj - nat uhow M the way ont Of
the .ods
Fy.rv ssn.;lla r,.an can seat that sour
naFfw & nct divided On princinlas.
bnt fba divis;o,, = oecasionezl Nv the
great quantity of..slatesmen. : and the
Daue, IL az anlaces'. for them. When
Ne 100 4 Pres;dent. they viii ali
have place. Gov. Hamilton shall
have the nortfolio 81 Aor;culture
Gen. shnson either the War Depart
meIt br the Attorney Generalshin
Georae Cotton Tie Inferior Denart-
ment: Pincknev White micht he sent
TO the Court az ST. James. for he il
an excellent diplomat. and could mol
lify John Bull every time Robinson
made 4 speech in the House aoa;ust
the British Lion. See what Offices are
in store for these gentlemen aUAe,, are
elect a Democratic President
But gentleman leaders OF the mar
ty, Won must work together and get
the Dav to teach ns conptrv foIks
what 70 do and saw while we FORGET
our partisansh;Ds. So far as fhe
editor Of this journal is concerned. he
has no ill-wili towards any one of the
aboye-named; and when the national
Offices are under Democratic control
he will not contest any ofica with =
single one of them There now
That puts us ont Of the contentious
race that is surely coming
But We would saw to Messrs Cor
man Whvte Cotton J,,hnson Comm
ton. ct ia on,ne 0eans that neither
Of them win live 10 an old political
age unless thew come shoulder to
shoulder in a common cause Alrea-
DIV there is organizing within the
Democratic ranks Unreasonable move
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DIED.

Departed this life, at his residepce at Budd's
Greek in this county on the 2Sth ult., JOHN
n. CHING, in the 13rd year Of his age. A
good-hearted weil-wisher Of all
''.Ie passed his way,
lie saw the Light,
Aud to the Will Of God he knelt'
TN Saturday, August 4th, 1882. at the res
;dencs Of her parents IN the End election dis
trict of this county, NAY CORDELiA, eldest
daughter Of Robt. II. and ZIpporah Tarli0n,
aged years. months and days.
ssSuGier little children TO come unto me, and
forbid them not, for Of such Is the Kingdom
Of Heaven.'
AT the residence of her SON, John G. Hurry
Ia the 9TH district, on the 4th Instant, EMILY,
relics OF the late Clement MAitingly, aged
about 80 years. May she rest in peace
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PoLlTIcAL WORCESTERSHIRE Re-
publican State Central Committee
met in Baltimore city on the lst Of
-Angnsty instant, and its proceedings
we're pndissurbed by any inharmOni-
Gus element. Henry Stockbridge pre-
siAga TIRE CITY Of BaltimUrs and
eightstn counties were Represented,
our own county By Judge John L.
MlIburn. The Chairman stated that
Tho Committee had been convened to
arrange for the judicial and congres-
sional nominating conventions. He
further said that under the new re-
diviaiOn Of Baltimore city this. the 9Th
Congressional district. had been. given
besides the 18th ward. two precincts
in the 18th and one each in the 10th
and 1eth wards. It would be neces-
sary, lie said, to determine what
shall be the representation from this
Baltimore territory in the SIN con-
gressional district.
The eentral conmittee members
from the 9Th district discussed this
question at length. Col. Sult, Of
Prince Georges, moved in favor Of
giving the seventeenth ward three
and the other four precincts, collec-
lively, one delegate. making four from
the city in the fifth district conven-
ton. Mr.. Baldwin, Of Anne Arun-
del, argued for three delegates in
stead Of four. The vote Of the COM
mittee was for four delegates, and
that number was authorized.
The members of the central COM
mittee conferred by congressional dis
tFicts and judicial circuits, and fixed
places and dates, which were APPROX
ed by the whole committee.
We give these. so far as they relate
to this district. The Convention meets
at Annapolis on October 9th. The
primaries for the counties will be held
September Both and the county con-
ventiOns on October 3rd. The pri-
maries for the city precincts will be
held October End and the convention to
select four delegates to represent these
precincts in the Congressional con-
vention On October the 3rd.
The committee reached the follow
ing conclusion in regard to the time
and place for holding the Judicial
convention for this, the 7th Judicial
Circuit. The convention will meet at
Leonardtown in this county on Octo-
Der 10th. Primaries on the same
date as for Congressman. The selec-
ton Of LeonardtOwn as the place for
Ne meeting Of this convention is ac-
cePted by republicans here as 5 CON-
pliment to our county and is regarded
BY them as a hopeful sign ofthe NOM
inatiOn of Col. Crane for the Judge,s
ship in this Judicial Circuit.
We have already given the demo-
cratic program, but as great lethargy
and Indifference exist among demo-
Gratis in this county as to political
matters, We have thought it well to
repeat TO them. that the democratic
State Central Committee, which met
IN Baltimore in May last, ordered
that the primaries should be held
uniiOrnly throughout the State on
the 9th Of September and that both
the Congressional and Judicial con-
yentiOns for this district and circuit
should meet at Upper Marlboro on
the 3rd Of October.
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FOR THE LEGISLATURES.

Messrs Editors PLEASE announre In The
BEACON that II DIR. L. J. SUTTON, OF the 9th
district, will consent TO become q candidate
for a seat in the lower branch Of the next
General Assembly Of Mary land, he will receive
the cordial and thorough support Of the re-
pablicans Of the
July l3, 1882. Bird District
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Orphans Court Of Sc. Nary's County, Set 3
June -, 1882. r
NRDERED by the Court, That Mary r.
~ Harrison and Spencer Harrison, admin
istrators Of
THE0PHILUS HARRISON,
late Of Sc. Mary's county. Nd, deceased, give
the notice required By law 20 the deceased Q
creditors 20 exhibit their claims and that the
same be published once n week for SIX success
sive weeks in the 81. Mary BEAcoH.
Test: ions b. ABEEL,
Register ofwills fOr ST. Mary's county.
NOTICE.
in pursuance Of the above order, we hereby
give notice that we have obtained from the Or
phans Court Of 81. Mary's county, Maryland,
letters Of administration on the personal e.
tate Of Thecphiius Harrison, late ofsaid county,
deceased. All persons having claims against
the said deceased are hereby notified 70 exhib-
IL the same with the proper vouchers attached
thereto 20 the subscribers, on or before the
18th day Of Dec, 1881. they win otherwise
By law be excluded from the benefits Of the
said estate. All persons indebted TO the de-
ceased are requested 20 make Immediate pay
meat 20 the subscribers.
NARY y. HARRISON.
SPENCER HARRISON,
AdminisiH ators.
June Is, 1se2-ew.
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MARRlED.

On the Tth day OF Aug. 1881, by the Rev.
Father Lancaster, FRANK SIMPSON 10 Miss
MAGGIE FARR.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICE.

THERE will be no Mass at LeonardtOwn
on Sunday, August 18th. Monday Is q
Fasting Day Of Obligation-TuesdAy. As.
sumption, = Holiday Of Obligation. Masses
~ Land 0 o'clock.
Aug 10, 1889.
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FOR CONGRESS.

near 70 q Congressional election for this Dis
triet, aad rs this county has not had repre-
sentative for several yearrS take the liberty
OF suggesting the name Of Col. Il. JOHN
son COTTON as q suitable candidate to
represent US in the next CongTess.
Jan 10, 1882.
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$40 to $4,000.

10 legitimate judieious speculation n Crain.
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New Advertisements.
NOTICE.

A LII persons knowin themselves indebted
~ TO me must call and settle.
A. A. LAWRENCE.
Aug 10, les2--tf.
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THURSDAY MORNING. Angus. Io,h. 1851.
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NOTICE.

THHERE will be meeting Of the Repul u.
cans Of the l 4, End and 9Th districts ai
BEAL'S SCHOOL HOUSE on the
18Th Of August, 1881.
The meeting will be addressed ny Coils
Alls,On and Crane. Aug. 10, l862-lt.
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[Frons The Cumberland Allegasssaz)
UNITE on PRISCIPLEs.-The Balti-
more Day is doubtless sincere in Its
efforts to harmonize conflicting els-
ments in the Democratic party, and
recently it had very able editorial
npon the necessity of unity for par
tvs sake; but it did not follow up its
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-12-06
How to Renew Subscriptions

Any old subscriber who will, with his
subscription, send the name of a new
subscriber, shall have the paper sent to
the two one year for SIS. If he will send
the names of two new subscribers the
paper will be sent to the three for 81.
If he will send the names of three new
subscribers the paper will be sent to the
four for $3.50.
Almost daily we receive letters from
subscribers who express the desire to have
the circulation of the Central PreSbytc-
rian greatly enlarged. These friends
can aid us by availing themselves of the
above offer, which we make as an induce
ment to assist in extending our circula-
ton and as small remuneration for the
work necessary to accomplish the end.
Quite number of our subscribers
have already responded to this offer by
sending with their subscriptions the
names Of new subscribers We hope it
will be generally done.
See our terms at the top Of first page.
Single subscriptions for new or old sub
scribers, So. Ministers Of the gospel
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people in Virginia still say CLARK" .

people in Virginia still say "clark."
The speech of Virginia, Mr.. Freeman
says, he can see agrees in some points
with the speech of Wessex. "Thus, for
instance, the surname Carter, which to
us does not sound specially patriciau, but
which in Virginia is reckoned to be at
least as noble as Berkeley, if not as Mont
morency, is locally sounded Ryartah
Now if the latter half of the word may
seem to be that of London lounger, the
utterance of the former part is genuine
west-Saxon, whether of the days of Alfred
or the days of Victoria"
Mr.. Freeman has in his pleasant article
the following judicious observation, which
corresponds with the sentiment expressed
on this subject recently in the Central
Presbyterian, and which all Americans
would do well to act on: he says:
In nearly all these cases the difference mat
tiers nothing to one whose object is to save some
relics of the good old English tongue. One
way is for the most part as good as the other;
let each side Of the ocean stick to its own way
if only to keepup those little picturesque differ
ences which are really a gain when the sub
stance is essentially the same. This same line
of thought might be carried out in a crowd of
phrases, old and new, in which British and
American usage differs, but in which neither
usage can be said to be in itself better or worse
than the other. Each usage is The better in the
land in which thas grown up of itself A good
British writer and good American writer will
write in the same language and the same dia-
lect but it is well that each should keep to
those little pecularites of established and rea-
sonable local usage which will show on which
side of the ocean he writes. 1t is not so with
slang on whichever side it has grown up. 1t
is hard to define slang; but we commonly know
it when we hear it.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-12-06

BoTANIsTs will appreciate the bearing
on the theory Of evolution of statement
by the eminent DR.. Carruthers Zone of
the highest authorities on fossil botany
that Ferns, equisetums, and lyoopods
appear as far back in the Old Red Sand
stone Devonian not in simple or more
generalised, but in more complex strnc-
lures than their living representatives.
The earliest known conifers were we'll
developed trees with woody structure
and fruits as highly differentiated as
those Of their living representatives"
The same is true, we believe, Of the old
est fossil insects.
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TIE press of the State has had much to say
about MIR. JAMES A CowARDIN, late editor of
The Dispatch. The secret of Mr. Cowardin's
great success as a journalist, we believe, was
his good sense. He wrote with ease, and pos
sessed wonderful stock of practical informa-
ton, but what he did for the Dispatch, which
ne engineered for more than thirty years, was
DUE in the first place, we think to his tact-a
quality which the fewest of men possess. To
edit newspaper is very different thing from
knowing how to write. The important point is
to know What to write. He lived to see COM
Pleted one of the pet schemes of his life-one
which he pressed for years in the columns of the
Dispatches railroad up the James River Val
ley. No man ever had to conduct a newspaper
through more difficult seas. All the bitter dis
cussions of the ante-bellum period-the four
years Of the war-and then the fifteen years
which followed
The other great feature in Mr. Cowardin's in
tellectual character was his power as taLker.
He had only one rival in Richmond in his re-
pertoire of stories. He had that wonderful f.
Guilty Of illustrating everything by happy and
pertinent anecdote.
There is way of leading the public without
seeming to dictate to it. 1t is done more bv the
thousand little paragraphs which are hardly
noticed than by formal discussions. Labored
leaders in the papers are not widely read.
Everybody reads the paragraphs. By atten-
ton to this fact, the Dispatch built itself up
from small beginnings until it has for years been
probably more widely read than any other pa
per in the State.
Under Mr.. Cowardin's management it had
another merit, not always observed in our
American papers; it was uniformly courteous
and good-humoured.
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JOSEPH Cook told the Young Mems
Christian Association in San Francisco
that 1.-THE religious signs of the times he
considered encouraging, Infdelity and
Materialism are decreasing, and Chris
tian.ty is spreading, not only in America,
but all over the world SO that the chimes
of Christian church bells are heard near
ly around the globe"
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The London Christian says: "Those
in charge of evangelistic meetings should
be on their guard against the distribu
ton of infdel tracts We have seen a
copy of most blasphemous leafet that
was distributed at the close of some of
Messrs. Moody and Sankey's recent
meetings in Bristol"
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THE 70 URTH EiSTA TIE.

We do not believe that any substan-
tial pleasure is given by the present sys-
tenn of selecting matter for the tele-
graphic columns of our daily papers.
We think an occasional murder or loss
of steamer is read with interest by
many persons, but we suspect that there
are very few who do not feel that the
thing is overdone under the present cui-
sine of the associated press. The sense
of novelty is entirely destroyed. One
good murder furnished the readers Of the
Enquirer forty years ago excitement for
week, and agitated the whole country.
Now, owing, we suppose, to the rapid
diffusion of news, and the greater activ-
ity of the world, we find a half dozen
murders in every issue of moderate
sized sheet, besides burglaries, seductions,
fires, disasters at sea, defalcations, abb
auctions, burning of theatres, etc. AS
we write this we have the city paper
before us. 1t opens in the first column
with Miss Melville's Narrative of Her
Abduction" The next item in the paper
is, 4" Killed while trying to Shoot
Ghost" The death" of an esteemed
citizen fills the next half column.
Turning the paper over, on the fourth
page Git has only four pages), we pro-
ceeded to read an account OF " A Terrible
Shipwreck," which was followed by an
account of marriage in a church in
Trenton, where considerable trouble arose
in consequence of two women insisting
that the groom was already married to
another woman.
Turning then to the inside pages of
our family journal, we had the pleasure
before getting to the Telegraphic News.
of reading an article of two-thirds of
column on "The Lynchburg Tragedy"
which was followed by halt-column ON
" The Pistol in High Life in st. Louis.
Proceeding to the piece which followed
next, we read quarter-column entitled
Wholesale Crime-Startling Develop
ments, &C." This was followed by " Brief
News Items" the first of which stated
q" A well-known banker in Bucharest has
been murdered" In the telegraphic col
umn we found" Railroad Accident in
Georgia; "a Stage Tragedy in Cincin-
nati"-where Mr.. Frank Frayne shot
Miss Anne Won Behren in the play of ST
Slocum' at the Coliseum Theatre; then
" Two Officers Shot in Chicago" by a
negro named Allen then the Wreck
of a Steamer; then "A Maine Lover
Kills His Sweetheart then "a Con-
fessed Murderer" giving an account of
the murder of Mack Drew by Bob Coch-
ran in Alabama then "a Foot-Race in
New York; then dwelling of Con-
federate Monument; then "a Fatal
Leap" and small item about the Bank
of England.
We felt that we were too heavily load
ed. We have in fact ceased to take in
terest in murders. If the editor between
now and Christmas would try to give us
something little more cheerful, we think
we should feel better.
1t is hardly necessary to add that we
are not aiming these remarks at the Rich
mond papers; they apply with equal force
to any American city, and any of our en-
terprising journals. What we are speak
ing of is the ideal paper.
BoTANIsTs will appreciate the bearing
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AN IDOL GOD from the Temple Of Delhi
is one Of the odd things offered for sale in
the agony column of the Times. 1t con-
sists, we are told, Of an extremely fine
pear-shaped cat's-eye stone, upon a yellow
topaz, surrounded by nine other large
precious stones set in 22-carat gold, and
the estimate is that five thousand mil
lions Of Hindu women have worshipped
at its shrine
The heather gods are for sale.
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TO-DAY those who will look into the
heavens will see the planet Venus cross
the face of the sun. The transit will &C.
cupy six hours (from about nine to three
o'clock, and such an event will not
occur again for one hundred and twenty
two years.
The excitement among the astronomers
over this matter is easily explained. In
astronomy the earth's distance from the
sun is the standard unit of measure,
which, of course, it is most important to
fix with the greatest precision. The OBJ
ject to be obtained by careful observa-
ton of this transit is to ascertain this dis
lance. The data obtained from previous
observations led astronomers to the we'll
known figures of 95,OOOOOO miles, but
this has proved irreconcilable with other
calculations.
Experts with the telescope from all
parts of the civilised world will be sta
toned to-day at posts scattered through
out the West Indies, South America,
South Africa, Madagascar, and New Zea-
land. The transit (supposing, of course,
that the day is clear) will be favorably
seen also from every part of the United
States. We hope Venus will array her
self in her brightest colors.