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The conservator., 1882-12-23

Thomas Crittenden, who killed
the colored man Rose Moseby last
week at the Anchorage, has his ex-
amining trial at Louisville, KY, Sat
urday. The case is strong against
him, Moseby having committed no
offense other than to testify under
oath in case in which. Crittenden
was a party.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

Two Vicksburg colored men made
a wager as to their relative capacity
for storing away whisky. A drink
inc tournament was begun, the billto
be settled by the one who drank the
least. Milton drank five pints and
won. but his funeral occurred the next
evening.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

Census statistics just published
show that there are 1000, 900 persons
in the United States over 81 years of
age who are unable to write. The
number is equally divided between
white and colored, though the per-
centage is of course greater among
colored people.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

Mile. Christine, the double-headed
colored girl, sued Adam Forepaugh,
the Snowman, for libel last summer,
laying damages at $4,000 The case
came up the 18th inst at Fort Wayne,
Ind, but the plaintiff failed to appear
and the case was dismissed. 1t is
said that Christine compromised for
cash.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

Jackson county, Illinois, claims
the distinction of having two colored
citizens within her borders worth
$4,000. They live near Desoto,
and are named J. NJ. Burkhalter and
]. A. Williams.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

Frank H. Hart, the colored cham
pion pedestrian, denies that he was
bought to retire from the last six
days go-as- you-please race in New
York. He says his leaving the track
was due to sickness. The next six
davs' race will be his last.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

A colored divine, of Charleston,
5. G., Rev. G. r. Morris, is trying
to organize a new church society, to
be called the African Baptist Epis-
copal Church.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

Charles Hadley, of Bridgeport,
Conn, the colored boxer, who had
won the champion medals for two
years, last week defeated Morris
Grant, ofNew York, who had also
won it twice.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

Two colored men aspired to be
elected as Alderman from the Ninth
Ward, Boston, Mass. The usual
result followed, while they were
pickering the white man captured
the cookie.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

An effort was recently made to
prevent colored childred from at
tending school at what is known as
the Hancock building, Pittsburg,
Pa, the colored people indignated,
and the school board decided that
the schools were open to all children
alike
The conservator., 1882-12-23
BOSTON'S LAWYER DEAD.

Robert Morris, the noted calored law
yer of Boston, died this week. We shall
notice the sad event next week, as his
great ability and worth are worthy of
praise and emulation.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

The Carolina Enterprise and Colds
boro Star have consolidated under
the name of The Star-Enterprise
with Z. E. Smith and Geo. T. Was
som, editors and proprietors.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

AT Plumas, Cal, last week, the
Chinese Masons attended the funeral
Of Mr.. Edwards, a member of the Ma
sonic order. 1t is, perhaps, the first
instance of the kind in this country.
The conservator., 1882-12-23
From the Muscatine Iowa) Daily Journal.

From the Muscatine Oowa) Daily Journal
The Journal has the pleasure of
acknowledging copy of the Con
sERvAToR of December 10th, the first
issue of the paper seen at this office
since its purchase by Barnett, Clark
& Son, the two latter gentlemen be-
ing the Hon. A. Clark and his son,
Alexander G., of this city. The
CoNsERvAToR is published in Chi
cago, and will be regarded as the or
gan of the colored people of the
Northwest. AS such it will un-
doubtedly deserve their heartiest
support. The Journal has no ac-
quaintance with the senior partner,
but it can say for Alexander Clark
that the colored people of the North
west and indeed of the whole coun-
try owe him a debt of gratitude foE
his long, earnest and eloquent cham
pionship of their rights and interests,
and for his personal example in an up
right and we'll spent life, which years
of greatful appreciation cannot repay.
His son is graduate of the Muscatine
High School and will render able as
sistance in the conductorship of the
CoNsERvAToR. The paper is neatly
printed and evinces at once the care
full editorial ability at its head.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

has spent nearly 40 years of his life in
Jail, and got six-month's sentence to
his old home last Tuesday from Judge
Welch. of Brooklyn, N. Y.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

Rev. Dr. Wilmot Blyden, Ii D.,
Of Monrovia, Liberia, is making a
tour of the eastern and southern por-
tions Of this country in the interest
Of ''the Black Republic.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

The first person imprisoned at'Sing
Sing, n. Y, was Lewis Thomason, a
colored man. He is now 81 years old,
The conservator., 1882-12-23
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Correspondence limited to one-half column
Of print, about three pages Of note paper
Longer communications inserted only by
special arrangement. All correspondence
must be in by Thursday morning. No manu-
scripts returned.
The conservator., 1882-12-23
Providence Baptist Church.

North Irving Place.
r. Rev. j. w. Polk, Pastor
SERVICES every Sunday at 10 80 A. NJ. and
80 + NJ. Sunday School 80 F. NJ.
All Sfe invited +. Stevenson, Supt.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

This paper is entered as second class mat
ter at the postoffice at Chicago, Ills.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

Electa Chapter, O. E. T. No. IL.
Meets first Wednesday of each month, 7 80 P.M
at l4lt State street. Visiting members welcome.
R. D. Boone w NJ
M. =. Douglas, Sec
The conservator., 1882-12-23
ADVERTISEMENTS.

We will not be responsible for sentiments
expressed by contributors.
Anonymous communications receive no
attention.
The CONSERVATION can be had at Charles
L.andrc's. III East Harrison Street.
The conservator., 1882-12-23

Qutf.p Esther Court Off. O. I. No. 81.
MestH ,lst. and 3rd. Friday Afternoons of each
N. ~ te s..a ss South Clark st.
~ Mrs. l.. NJ. johnson
ChrOniatOr.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10
THE BEST GYMNASIUM.

The exercise that is best adapted to develop
all parts of the body in natural, healthy man
ner is domestic labor. 1t is always at hand; it
can be taken regularly every day, and there is
such variety that almost every muscle can be
exercised. House-work should never be con-
sidered menial or Degrading it is natures lab
oratory in which the girl may obtain not only
the best physical development but most valua-
BILE knowledge that will fit her for the practi-
cal duties of life. This training may be sup
plemented by other kinds of exercise, such as
walking and out door sports The very gener-
al introduction of foreign help into domestic
service has proved most unfortunate for the
health of American women.
Closely connected with this neglect of physi-
cal training at home is an evil of great magni-
tude-that is, supreme devotion to brain work.
The practice pursued very generally at the
present day OF combining the girl in school or
seminary for series of years consecutively is
attended with the most serious evils In the
language of popular writer, 'It is educating
our girls to death" While we would not dis
card education in all its various departments
extending to the highest culture, we maintain
that it is no advantage or blessing if it is to be
obtained at the expense of the physical system
There are other parts of the body besides the
brain that need faithful training. The highest
accomplishments and mental acquisitions will
not compensate for ihlpaired constitution and
poor health.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10
Tried for Manslaughter.

In the United States District Court in Bos'
ton, Friday, before Judge Webb, James Ross
seaman on the schooner John Bird, OF Rock
land, was tried on an Indictment charging him
with manslaughter. Brief mention OF the tri-
al was made in our telegraph columns Satur-
day. The evidence submitted by the prosecut-
ing attorney, Charles Almy, Jr, showed that
while the vessel was in Cienfuegos, W. l., the
defendant while engaged in d fight with George
Dickson, shipmate, stabbed him, and death
was the result Thomas J. Morrison, Esq,
appeared for the defence, and argued new
point of maritime law, and, judging from the
verdict, he impressed the jury strongly in his
favor. In an able plea, that was favorably
commented on by number of leading mem
bers of the bar who were present. he set forth
the fact that the vessel being moored to the
wharf removed her from American jurisdic-
tion and rendered the offender answerable to
Spanish authorities only. He also showed
that at the time of the stabbing Dickson was
rushing for Ross with the intention of strik-
ing him with q wooden winch lever, feet long
and q inches in diameter and the latter in
self defence stabbed him. The jury acquitted
Ross on the charge of maDslaughter. On an
other indictment, charging him with an assault
with dangerous weapon, he was found guilty
but as there were shown many extenuatiDg cir
cumstances in his behalf, only nominal sem
tence will probably be imposed.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10
AMERICAN VIM.

The best life of the modern world has come
to us for generations. By course of natural
selection, the strongest and bravest OF the Old
World lives have sought for betterment on our
shores. Iron-handed men, prompted by a
laudable ambition to be more than the rigorous
rule of caste and custom would allow them to
become at home, have adventured all upon the
throw of emigration. Golden-hearted men
who forgot themselves and thought only OF the
good of their descendants have buried heir no.
biity in the chaos of our uniformed life.
These burned their bridges when they came.
They brought the wealth of the fatherlands,
the seed of their ripest fruitage, and buried it
in our virgin soil. 1t grew, not by brid whose
elements may be clearly traced, but q distinct
new species America is the child of Europe,
but the American is of America, day by day
and year by year growing more distinct and
idiosyncratic.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

GENERAL Joe Shelby, the old confederate
cavalry leader, for himself, and for Missouri
where he owns fertile wheat fields and rich
coal lands, condemns bourbonism, root and
branch. To an old army comrade, who still
prides himself on being a genuine "moss-
back" General Shelby recently declared
that bourbonism hung like pail over the
State, impeded her progress and turned i'm
migration from her borders. Missouri, he
said, could only be great and powerful when
universal toleration of opinion prevailed,
when men could vote as they pleased, and
have their votes represent their will.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

THE Cincinnati Commercial says of
Mondays election in that city: "In some
instances the temperance people Joined
with the Republican brewers and saloon
keepers in rebuking the party of their pref
erence for passing the Pond bill, by voting
the straight Democratic ticket. The one
class administered this rebuke because any
liquor law had been passed, and the other
class because the law does not go far
enough. Some Democrats voted the Repub-
liean ticket for the reason that they did not
like the way Germans were behaving, but
their name was not legion by any means"
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10
HTHE TOWNSHIP SYSTEM.

There is no doubt that the township system
democracies-is the keystone of our American
system. 1t is strange how little it is under
stood or appreciated even by those whose
whole political thought has been shaped BY its
influences. Neither its characteristics nor It's
results have ever been carefully analysed.
Now and then, on the Fourth of July, Fore
fathers Day." and similar occasions, it is
made the subject OF vague and extravagant
eulogy. One or two writers who seem to have
been phenomenal in their power to blunder oy-
or the most significant features Of the system,
have undertaken to trace its descent from eer-
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

A CURIOUS question has been raised in
Tennessee, created by the murder of con-
vict by fellow prisoner Almost as pat-
ter of course, the only witnesses of the tran
saction were convicts also, and now the
Governor has been persuaded, on the ground
that such persons are not competent to give
testimony, to set aside the conviction and
sentence. 1t will be bad day for peniten-
tiary wardens and turnkeys when it is de-
cided that what one convict sees fellow
convict do cannot be testified to. 1t is to be
hoped that the Tennessee Legislature will
act on the Governors very sensible sugges-
tion at the special session which has been
called.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

never smiles. There is nothing wonderful
about that Birds of prey are not usually hila-
rious in their habits. A man whose life is
passed in bringing hungry mon things they
never ordered and can't eat, bringing them
wrong things at wrong times, bringing the
soup cold and the fruit warm, and then laying
for tip and pocketing it in cold blood, is a
man with all these crimes on his conscience ex-
pected to smile? If the English waiter did
smile and smile, he would be only the more a
villain.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10
tain English institutions, thereby establishing

tain English institutions, thereby establishing
its entire respectability.
The truth is, our township system for IL has
long ceased to be peculiar to New England ex-
ceptip degree, was the accident Of an accident
The poetical boast that sit was brought over
n'the cabin of the Mayfower" while true
enough in one sense, is lamentabiy false in the
sense IN which it was intended to be taken.
1t was neither intended by its first originators
as copy of any Old World institution nor as
the model on which should be founded per-
manent government. If its originstors had
dreamed that they were building after any in
stltution OF the mother country, they would no
doubt have hesitated long before they would
have adopted it, Those early Puritans were
not so greatly impressed with the excellence
OF English forms of society and government as
many of their descendants They had
gathered only its bitter fruits. To them
England had been a harsh mother.
When they left her shores they went away 10
seek not only new land but new social and
political conditions. 1t is true they could not
escape the influence of her thought and her in
stitutions because they could not unmake them
selves nor ravel out the tangled web of their
own lives. Get as far as they could, 1t is evil
dent and natural that they sought as far as
possible to avoid copying her forms and adopt
ing her traditions
On the other hand there is no doubt that II
they had possessed foreknowledge Of the fact
that they were framing and setting the m I'D
sllIS OF great natlonanty Wneu they called
their first council of safety and held their first
little congress Of peers; If they had known its
future as it grew TO the dignity of clerk and
moderator, and assumed one after another the
administrative, judicial and legislative func-
tious Of a miniature republic-if they had
known this it 10 more than probable that, hon.
est, God-fearing men as they were, they would
have besitated, studied, looked backward, and
instead of allowing the natural instincts of
sturdy, earnest, high-minded men to shape
without restraint new social fabric they
would have given US stiff formal, imprscti-
cal ahsurdity like the constitution which John
Locke prepared for the province OF Carolina.
1t was because they acted without restraint
aud provided only for the day that was before
them that they bailded so surely for eternity,
The isolation aud growth which followed, the
Jealousy with which all attemps to impose tho
forms of English colonial government were re-
garded, and the gradual strengthening which
the need of public defense imposed, are primo
elements in the formation and preservation OF
that system which is the very cornerstone Of
our national life. 1t was the outgrowth OF
dire necessity and of the most profound uncon-
sciousness. 1t sprang from English roots no
doubt. 1t may even be said to be an evolution
from English institutions, because they who
gave ii form were themselves the product OF
English life; bat in any proper sense it cannot
be said to be OF English growth. W. Tour
gee.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10
STUDLEy,
25s Middle Street. g
&c DIFF
OSCAR Wilde

A prominent New York
Artist photographed a
short time ago Mr.. Oscar
Wilde, the Esthetic apostle,
in many positions which
are very characteristic, as
being explanatory OF the
doctrines of this new dis
ciple. Among many OF the
compositions which were
emblematic, were some,
with the dim and shad0Wy
patterns Of sunflOwers and
lilies ON the walls, and used
as acce series in the interi-
ors. and when exterior
compositions were used,
then the artist was equally
happy i'm their arrangement
The proof of the negatives
gave Mr.. Wilde the greatest
satisfaction, as does the
Esthetic,and other poses OF
Hearn the popular phOto-
grapher of the State of
Maine, whose new and ele"
CANT studio is located i'm
D0w's Block, 5l4 Congress
Street i'm this city.
feb2O eodtf
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

WHILE the State of South Carolina is
rocked nightly to and fro because certain OF
her officials are to be tried in open court be-
fore juries of her own citizens for ballot box
stufing, the dreadful negro, on whose ac-
count all this fuss was made, continues to
escape. Within the last fortnight $50 col
ored people have left the vicinity of Green
vile for various points in the West, and ii
may be by the time their right to vote be-
comes firmly established in South Carolina
they will be in such majority as not to be
considered dangerous even if they should
chance to vote Republican ticket.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

In 1878 Mrs. Sagar, a lovely Philadelphia
widow, was attracted by the double-bar-
relied name and dog tail whiskers of an Eng
lishman named Radcliffe Radcliffe be-
came his wife and went to his English home.
She has been granted divorce, the double
barreled name and dog-tail whiskers being
an insufficient offset to the cruelty of Mr..
Radcliffe -Radcliffe-Hall.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

GEN. Newton will give Hell Gate another
hoist this Summer, using dynamite enough
to crumble IL acres of the obstructing rocks.
1t has cost 50, ,616,00O to get thus far in the
work, and four years more will be necessary
to complete it.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10
STATE OF MAINE.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
APPROXIMATION. a

In accordance with pious and time-honored
custom, come down to us from the Pilgrim Fathers,
and found suitable to love and veneration, /,
vice and consent of the Council, do hereby appoint
and apart Thursday, the thirteenth day OF April
next, as day of humiliation, sting and prayer.
And do recommend to the Christian people OF our
State to keep this their annual fast; refrain from
labor, business, amusements, and In their homes
and houses of public worship, humble themselves
before Him whose mercy endureth forever; sup
picating His favor upon themselves, the State and
nation; confessing their sins and seeking forgive
ness of the same in humility of spirit. 'If con-
fess our si s. He is faithful and just forgive
our sins and to cleanse US from all unrighteous-
ness"
Given at the Council Chamber at Augusta
this thirty-frst day of March, in the year Of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-two, and of the Independence OF the
United States of America the one hundred
and sixth.
HARRIS NJ. PLAISTED
By the Governor.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

THE State Credit Democratic Executive
Committee Of Tennessee have instructed
their chairman to call the Gubernatorial
Convention in conjunction with the other
wing of the party in order to unite the two
organizations.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

THE Cincinnati Enquirer calls the result
of Mondays city election "aground-swen
victory for the Democratic ticket in Cincln-
nasi.o ga beer-swill victory" would more
nearly hit the case.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

OPINIONS vary respecting the political
effect of the Presidents first veto, put the
members from the Pacific slope say it will
unquestionably give the States there to the
Democracy.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10
STATE NEWS.
ANnRoscoGGIN COUNTY. .


Read Nichols OF Lewiston, the young man
who was accidentally shot while cunning in
the lower part of the city, Thursday forenoon,
died of his injuries Friday. His wound and
sufferings were horrible. The charge of the
shot made hole in his thigh about an inch in
diameter, and burned away the flesh over
space as large as a mans palm on the side IL
entered. Where the charge came out, ON the
inside Of the thigh, it tore away piece OF
flesh measuring several inches either way.
Gov. Plaisted has accepted an invitation of
the Lewiston Zouaves to be present at their
drill and ball Tuesday evening, the 11th. a
large number of Gov. Plasted staff officers and
many of Gen. Chamberlain's staff are expected
to be present.
KNOX COUNTY.
Another woman added to those at the State
Prison last week. making four now boarding at
that institution at the expense Of the state.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The Norway New Religion has changed its
name to True Religion and its form to is pages
instead of four
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
A little boy named Harvey Wallace, only
years old arrived in Bangor last week on the
Pullman train from Milford, Mass He was
barely able to tell who Re was aud that no wss
going to st. John. The little fellow mad come
through without q ticket and had no money TO
pay his fare to the end OF his journey Bat in
view of the fact that he had got thus far along
ON his way, the railroad men decided TO for
ward him to his destination.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
With Card certificate signed by Stanley PulieD,
Editor, Ali railway steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
OF every person claiming to represent our Journal
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 10.

We DO not read anonymous letters and commun-
cations. The name and address of the writ are In
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for ubca
tion but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preeerys CON-
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

FREEMAN, the English historian, who
has been mulling around here for three or
four months, says we are splendid fellows
and that he will never believe anything bad
of Americans again. Mr.. Freeman is very
kind.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

THE Philadelphia Record makes no con-
cealment OF its information that President
Arthur is to be married to Mrs. Craig Wads-
worth of Geneseo, who is described as "a
brilliantly beautiful woman
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

The New York Tribune has more reason
TO believe that the general sentiment OF Ke-
publicans will approve Mr.. Arthurs course
as to the anti Chinese bill.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10
DIR. C. w. BENSON, Of Baltimore, Md,

In the course of his practice discovered what now
are renowned in medical practice, viz: combina
tion of Celery and Chamomile in the shape of Pills
They are used by the profession at large and con-
stantly recommended by them.
1t is not patent medicine. 1t is the result of his
own experience in practice. They sure cure
for the following special diseases, and are worthy
of trial by all intelligent sufferers They pre-
pared expressly to cure sick headache, nervous
headache dyspeptic headache, neuralgia, paralysis
sleeplessness dyspepsia and nervousness, and iciA
cure any case. The Doctors great remedy for Skin
disease called Dr. Bensons Skin Cure is exceedingly
valuable and greatly sought after by all persons
who have skin diseases or bad complexion. An
excellent toilet dressing.
Sold by all druggists. Price, 80 cents a box.
Depot, 106 North Entaw St., Baltimore Md. By
mall Two boxes for 81. or six boxes for $3.50, to
any address.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-10

THE Kenneth, Pa, Advance, in order TO
be in time for the procession, flies the name
of Mr. Blaine for President in 1884.