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Representatives i'm England.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE ELECTION OF THE
ENGLISH PARLIAMENT.

There are so many shams and decep-
tions in this so-called representative
system, says Capt. Mayne Reid in q
letter to the Tribune, such a network OF
tricks and contrivances to make it utter
ly worthless, that time with many words
is needed to reveal them. What will
Americans think of a Legislative assem-
bly, in which the vote of one man can
neutralize and make nought of those OF
hundred? Yet just this is done in the
Parliament of England--I mean vicari-
ously-and not exceptionally, but rather
as the rule. There is many borough
whose voting constituency counts less
than 800 /; and of course it's elective ma
jority will be still smaller number
often not half this. Yet the member
who sits for one of these has as much
say in shaping the laws of England as
he who represents constituency of Is,
900. 1t is exactly as if in the American
National Legislature, the town of New
port, Rhode Island, was represented by
the same number of Congressman as
the great city of New York. Indeed the
analogy does not do Justice to my argu-
ment for the people of Newport are
presumably as enlightened and as capa-
BILE of exercising the franchise as those
of New York, while in England it is
altogether different /: the voting con-
stituencies of these miniature boroughs
being often ignorant, 1 might almost
say, in proportion to their bulk. As
instance, have a friend who sits for
one of them, very worthy gentleman,
sent to Parliament over and over again
by the votes of 10 men. They are all
unlettered fishermen-for the privileged
place is by the seaside-knowing little
beyo ond the manipulation of their boats
and nets. Yet within the walls of
Parliament my friends yea or nay-in
other words the dictum of ITO ignorant
fishermen-is as potential as though
pronounced by the largest and most
enlightened constituency in the king
dom 1t is indeed wonder how little
English people are alive to the import
ance of an equally proportioned fran
chise the great body of them being
absolutely unaware of the fact e at in
"equal electoral districts" lie the gist
and germ of all representative govern
ment. Even the Chartists, in making
this one of the 'six points" of their
Charter, gave it a secondary place, as
the despised stone of the builders, while
in reality it is the true cornerstone of
Liberty's fabric.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-05
The Burned City of Smyrna.

The city of Smyrna, which has been
visited by disastrous confagration, is
the chief commercial emporium of
Western Asia. Smyrna has for centu-
ries been the most important centre of
trade in the Levant. 1t is the starting
point of two of the very few railways
in Asiatic Turkey. Like all Turkish
towns, Smyrna looks best at distance.
The view from the bay is grand and inn
pressive, but on shore the presence of
10000 Orientals crowded together in
the narrow streets is disencharting.
The hot season ends in the middle of
September. Provisions are plentiful,
and the abundance of flowers makes the
city seem to be embowered in roses and
myrtles. The city is wretchedly built,
the houses being mostly of wood and
only one story high. The streets are
narrow. Offering abundant means for the
rapid spread of a confagration. Numer-
GUS cafes and gardens are scattered
along the banks of a small stream which
runs through the suburbs. The annual
imports amount to about S14, 100000
and the exports S23, ,000,000 The most
of the carrying trade, after that of Eng
land, is conducted under the flags of
Austria and France. The chief imports
are silks, velvets, cotton, iron, nails,
timber, copper, manufactures, rice,
coffee, sugar and petroleum. The sta
pie exports are raisins, figs, cotton,
opium, sponges, carpets, grain and
tobacco. BY the Smyrna and Aidin
Railway, eighty-one miles in length,
visits can be paid to Ephesus. The re-
ceipts of the railway were S472, 900 in
1876. The Smyrna and Cassaba Rail-
way, 105 miles long, earned $500, 900 at
the same period. The roads are bad.
The pavement of the streets remains as
it was a century since. The port, which
can accommodate about three hundred
vessels, is surrounded by stone mole.
1t is regarded as q safe harbor, while
there is excellent anchorage in most
parts of the gulf. There is quay con-
structed by French company in 1869,
but the landing is sometimes inconven
lent and passengers have to be carried
on shore through the mud. Smyrna
has suffered repeated vicissitudes, espe-
cially from destructive earthquakes and
visitations of the plague; but its adj
mirable situation for commerce has
caused it, after each calamity, rapidly
to regain its Importance
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-05
FOOling a Monkey.

Joe, the Chimpanzee, used to be let
out in the mornings for exercise, and
when the time came for going back to
the cage delighted in keeping just ont
of reach of Sutton, his keeper. No
amount of bribery of fruit or sweets
would cause him to descend from his
perch. To what passion of the monkeys
mind could an appeal be made, and in
what form was that appeal to be pre-
sented Mr.. Bartlett, the superintend-
ent, had observed that two weak points
in Joe's character were curiosity and
cowardice, and he therefore approached
the keeper in a mysterious manner and
pretended to point out to him some
strange monster in the dark passage
underneath the gas-pipe, saying: "Look
out there he is there he is - This
worked upon Joe's fear and curiosity
until he gradually came close to the
passage, crossing with agitation. Then
Mr.. Bartlett and the keeper, crying
He's coming out he's coming out p
fled as If in great alarm toward Joe's
house, with the effect of inducing Joe
to rush into it himself at top speed.
Joe, Mr.. Bartlett adds, never found out
the trick, with which he was repeatedly
taken in.- Saturday Revie,D.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-05
CLOSING IN.

About my life the twilight shades are deep,
And soon. ah, soon l must lie down and
sleep;
How long know not. =. Through the
darkening air
or my worn soul strange thoughts and fancies
fare.
Some steal like solemn phantoms silent by,
Lifting cold eyes that glitter warningly;
Some. with prial swifiness. fit and pass,
Like birds Of night DER dead autumnal grass;
And some, scarce glimpsed athwart the twi-
light glow,
Glance bat-like, with black pinions, to and
fro;
While from afar dreary wind, whose breath
Seems sick with odors of some place of death,
Means round me, with the low, half-muffled
fall
OF music wailing funeral call.
Oh, wind of woe through skies Of ghostly
gray!
Oh, mournful closing of a mournful day
Would heaven that even now. at this late
hour,
Fate could uplift me on a storm of power,
Nerve the frail limbs, roll back the 0bbing life.
And whirl me to the inmost heart Of strife,
Where, from some hallowed field by heroes
trod
My soul might pass on cloud and fire to
God PAUL HAYNE.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-05
A Romance i'm a Nutshell.

The Washington correspondent of the
st. Louis Globe Democrat relates the
following regarding Senator Conger
" He had a veritable romance, although
apparently the last man in the world to
fall victim to the tender passion. In
early life he had been engaged to a
young lady from whom circumstances
had separated him. He married ana
she married. His wife died, and no
hint of marrying appeared to enter the
mind of the Representative from Michi-
gan. His first love, then widow, came
to Washington ON visit, and one day,
going down to the Capitol, from the
ladies' gallery of the house she heard q
gentleman making a speech. She lis
tened to its conclusion, recognized her
former lover, and sent him card. He
Immediately left the floor of the House
and came up to the gallery, where their
acquaintance was renewed, and In lew
weeks the pretty widow was the second
Mrs. Conger."
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-05
Our Indian Wars.

One of the documents laid before Con-
gress by the Secretary of War tells the
the cost of Indian hostilities for the
past ten years. Without reckoning in
cidental expenses, the immediate extra
cost of the Sioux war of 1867 was
81, 1894. .361; that of the Nez Perce war
of 1877 was 1915, ,0S2; that of the war,
the year following, was S567, 571; that
OF the Cheyenne war is put at $4,000,
but this seems an underestimate; while
the subiugation of the Utes cost 81, 1922
602. Here are over four and a half mill
ons expended within the space of four
years.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-05

paid, and you may yet make suitable
match when this little affair has blown
over" said mamma, complacently add
ing, "By the way, Royal Vane has gone
abroad; it was the wisest thing he could
do. He will return in few years with
bride, dare say"
Long after she left me pondered in
deep modification of spirit on the cir
cumstances SO bitterly humiliating that
surrounded us, and wondered, vaguely,
how long Royal Vane would remain in
Europe, and If mammals surmise would
prove true, and, by the very perversity
of my woman's nature, 1 felt slight
twinge of jealousy in regard to this pos
sible bride.
Two years crept by and mamma had
not yet succeeded in bringing about the
suitable match she had set her heart
upon.
"Of all the ridiculous, old-fashioned
girls l ever knew you are the
stubbornest. What am 1 to do with
you? Are you determined to be an old
maid ?"
Yes, mamma"
"Royal Vane has returned, hear
perhaps you fancy you can persuade
him to attempt making you his bride
again I think he is far too wise
and -
Mamma, do not speak to me so, "
/ pleaded earnestly. Royal Vane feels
no worse contempt for me than 1 feel
for myself.
At party one night saw him again,
for the first time since his return
handsomer, graver, but the lion of the
evening. Was it possible he had ever
loved me? could scarcely believe it
and crept back in an alcove that, myself
unseen, / might behold him to my
hearts content.
BY and by [ perceived our hostess
bringing him direct to me, and trembled
with mingled dread and pleasure; but
when he addressed me in his calm,
pleasant way grew more composed
that is, until some one in passing him
inquired:
did your wife accompany you ?"
My heart stood still.
l saw him smile and shake his head,
but failed to catch his reply.
The room swan, the lights danced.
"The-the heat is great" faltered.
''Let us go out upon this veranda.
You do look i'll. Come !"
/ gladly went, drinking in strong,
fresh draughts of the cool evening air.
''Did you say your wife, 1 be-
gan, hut could go no further.
"Tessle, ne said gently" "doy you see
this ?" and he held up my old engage
ment ring. "The only wife ever had
wore this a very little while"
And then it must have been the moon
light that betrayed my great relief, for
he exclaimed =
"Tessie Tessie what is it I read in
your dear eyes? Has it all been mis-
take and do you love me? Will you
wear this once more ?"
allowed him to put it on my finger;
then flung my arms about his neck
and sobbed for sheer Joy.
"I loved you always, only l did not
know it-not until you had gone away.
For ali the sorrow have caused you
1 will try to repay by a lifetime of devo-
tion."
And when once more we stood before
the minister there were given two earn
est, heartfelt responses.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-05

FIRE ARMS. Mr.. Childers stated in
the House of Commons the other night
that he did not know what became of
the 100000 to 200, 900 rifles sold in 1878
by the War Department. The Pail
Mall Gazette says "We can tell what
became of some of them. The Mayor
of town possessing large number of
Irish residents bought some thousands
of them at about half a crown or three
and sixpence apiece. He then adver-
tised throughout the district that any
one who cared to buy goods at his shop
to the value of ten or twenty shillings
should be presented with one of the
discarded War Office firearms. The
bait took. In very short time the
whole parcel was disposed of, and some
thousand rifles were, by the agency of
this enterprising Mayor, placed in the
hands of private individuals"
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ATLANTIC HOTEL,
OATE ENGLIsHs.)
CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND, VA.
WI MATTHEWS CO.. Proprietors.

The undersigned beg leave TO inform their
friends and the general public that they have
leased and refurnished the above elegant and
eommodious house, and are now prepared to
accommodate permanent and transient guests
In hrst-class style.
Large airy rooms. Home comforts.
Fine Sea and Bay Fishing. Cunning and
Bathing etc. The table is provided with Wild
Fowl, Terrapin, Fish, Oysters, Crabs, and all
the luxuries of the season.
Pleasure boats of all kinds, guides, fishing
lines, decoys, ponies etc, always ready for
the use Of guests.
First-class Bar attached. Choice wines,
liquors, ales, beers and cigars.
Passengers for Chincoteague connect with
steamer for the Island at Franklin City, the
terminus of the Worcester Railroad. morning
and evening. Connection may also be made
daily at Nashville. All who visit the Atlantic
may rest assured that they will receive cour-
teous treatment and excellent fare.
Your patronage is respectfully solieitsd.
W. J. MATTHEWS d. co.
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THEY went fishing. She looked Ian
guidly at him and said 81 wish the
fish would bite at your hook; if 1 was
q fish / would" But he didn't bite.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-05

WHY are farmers like fowls because
neither will get full crops without in
dustry.
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subsequent insertion.
liberal discount will be made on quarterly
six months, or yearly advertisements.
Local notices will be inserted at 20 cents per
line.
Marriage and death notices inserted tree.
Obituary notices inserted at half advertising
rates.
All advertising bills are due after the first
Insertion, unless otherwise agreed upon.
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MINE, miner, minus" This is the
general upshot of speculation in mining
stocks.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-05
The Democratic Messenger.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY
LITTLEToN DENNIS, Proprietor
At SNOW HILL, WORCESTER co., ND.
Subscription. 81 a Year in Advance

Liberal arrangements made with clubs.
Correspondence solicited from all parts of
the county.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30
OUR NATIONAL RESOURCES.

Trout fishing is unusually good this year. We have reports of sixteen inch trout having been caught in two-inch streams.-W Cttg Derrick.
 ]. Dos Carlos, the would be king of Spain, and his wife have parted. The cause of the disagreement is not given, but the neighbors say she used the royal scepter to stir soap with, and set 8 hen on fourteen duck-eggs ID his kingly crown.-TeEGs SJttngs.
 In a certain street are three tailors. The first to set up shop hung out his sign : ''Here is the best tailor in town" The next put up: Here is the best tailor in the world. n The third simply had this: Here IS the best tailor in this street"
 Old lady, reading of the trousseau-'' The trousers of the Princess is described as sur passingly rich Well, I never : I wonder the nasty stuck up thing isn't ashamed to be seen! Thank goodness we live ID country where women don't put on pants when they go to get married :"
 member of the House of Representa- tives died last winter. He discovered that he had neglected to charge three trunks, bis wife's seaiskin cloak, and a barrel of whiskey to his stationary account, and immediately took to his bed and died of a broken heart Harrington Halokeye.
 A youth of Hibernian extraction, in chop ping wood with hatchet the other day, was so unfortunate as to graze the thumb of his left hand, with which he was steadying the piece of wood he was splitting. Ruefully gazing at the injured member, he remarked, ''Begorra, it was good thing did not have hold of the handle with both hands, or I'd have cut it of, sure !''
 My country 'tis from thee
 long to get fee,
 Of that sing.
 Place me where Congress mee.s. Where find the sweets,
 Or in Jme ring.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

St. Nieholtus for June is beautiful num- Der. It has for frontispiece very fine pie ture of MT. Longfellow and- the Children, '' and there are also two interesting illustrated articles upon Lsngfellow. Mary Mapes Dodge's story, 'Donald and Dorothy" goes on through three more chapters, and gives a stirring account of Donald shooting mad dog. Among the other articles are these 'sThe Great Tub Race at Point No Point" !" H. lustrated Mary Jane Tells About the Spi- cers' Cows" illustrated; 1.-The Witch Trap, ) three illustrations; 1.-The Whirngig Club, ' three illustrations 'Seals and Seal Hunting in the North Atlantic,'' twelve illustrations "TN Ninegrams, illustrated.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30
CORRESPONDENCE.

From New Haven ts the Garden or the | Gods-InterestIng Sights i'm the Latter Place and in the Cave of the Winds. l To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: Leaving New Haven on the fast train
 soon reached Springfield, where seated my
 self in one of the sumptuous sleeping cars Saint Thomas of the Wagner hne-said to 1 be one of the finest in the country, and breakfast was taken Many bottles of wine and spirits were broken before passing into Canada as my route was that way, all bag gage being examined at Black Rock, U. s., to prevent duty being claimed. We passed through the cities of Hagerstown, Hamilton and St Thomas, over the Welland canal, through Chatham and Windsor in Canada At Windsor the entire train is run aboard 8 transfer steamer across the Detroit river (when the baggage is again looked over) to Detroit, Michigan.
 Of we go over the Michigan Central through Ann Arbor, Jackson, Cold Water, South Bend, and through the town of Pull man, named after George Pullman. of the Pullman Palace Car company, whose shops are here. The town has a population of about two thousand people, churches, a grand opera house, and is altogether one of the prettiest places I have ever been in. The great Corliss Centennial engine runs the ma chinery in the mammoth shops.
 Leaving Chicago for Kansas City over the Chicago and Alton railroad we soon come to the fine farming lands of Illinois, and from all appearances should judge that large crops may be expected From the time of leaving the Pork City until the time came for retiring the conversation of nearly all of the passen- gers in the sleeper was about the numerous train robberies that have been committed by the ''James boys" gang of late On this road. Little did we know but before morning came we would be called upon to hold up our hands, to have our pockets riaed of money and valuables. On two occasions recently the passengers were robbed of all their mon- ey, etc., and the express messenger killed the conductor getting through all right by putting his money and watch in the water cooler.
 We reached Kansas City all right, no harm | coming nigh unto us. Kansas City is located on the Missouri river at the junction of the
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30

"AU is rerOse and peace,
 UntrGmpled Ges the sod IHe shouts Gf 6attle cease,
 It is the truce Cf God. "ReSt, comrades, rest and sleep! IHe tAoughts of men shaU 6e As Se1att7aels to Keep
 Your rest from danger fres. Your silent tents 0f green
 We deck aoith fragrant J10aoers. Yours has the suferi11g been, IHe m1en,a01su ahnM be OaLr,s. D
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30

A'small landed property was put up for auction in one of the eastern counties in En- gland the other day whose value, some four years ago, was reputed to be e25 1000. The utmost bid made for the estate of 49O acres was g9,OOO, which was refused. and the whole was bought in by the trustees. This is practical proof of the depreciation of the value of land in corn-growing counties in England. Much arabic land is running to waste in these formerly prolific and valuable counties. Hundreds of acres are lying un- cultivated for want of capital to pay the labor necessary.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

To-day the soldiers graves will be again decorated and their services to their country brought to mind. May it be long before this day ceases to teach old and young lessons of patriotism, self-sacrifce, noble living and noble dying.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30

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 The Doctor has visited New Haven regularly every month for six years and Is highly recommended by the people and the p-ess the great Healer and Physician If you sick need valuable advice do not fail to consult him. Dr. Fiske has had 31 years experience in the practice of medicine and has made thousands the astonishing cures of all chron- c long standing diseases of whatever name or ture The Doctor has the gift to describe every pain and secret disease at sight.
 His prices reasonable that rich and poor alike be restored to health.
 The Doctor also gives valuable advice on business matters all the affairs of life, both social and dna1ical, including journeys lawsuits gains Iosses absent friends and great success in selecting lucky numbers.
 Sittngs for business affairs examination of the sick, $1. Communications by letter upon business or health must contain $2e age, sex, lock of hair and stanp. Address Look Box ,253 Norwich Ot hair further particulars send stamp get circu- lar. TAKE NOTICE-Dr. Fiske will be at the Anso- For Hotel in Ansonia three days, commencing the af ternoon of the 23d 1so st Smiths Hotel in Water bury four days. commencing April 27th.
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Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30
FINE CREAMERY BUTTER

g Tubs of that Fine Creamery Butter received fresh this morning. We have reduced the price to 2S cents p@' pound. It is the finest Table Butter to be had. Try it. It suits every
 The finest Strawberri in the market this season, only 15 cents quart [Ths is the price for dayl Fresh Country Eggs at 12c dog, all warranted. The finest New Cheese only 15c lb.
 The finest Bermuda Onions at 10c at.
 Fresh Green Peas pods well filled, only 60c peck, Try tlscar Wilde" Sweet Cracker, only 15c a lb-sel like hot cakes.
 Splendid large New Potatoes, 60c peck.
 We have nice Store Factory Brooms at f0c. each. Large Cocoanuts. Sc each. Lemons, 12 and 15c dog, The above are a few of our numerous bargains.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30

Representatives of the liquor interest from 8 number of western States met at Chicago the other day and organized national dis tillers, brewers and liquor dealers assoeia- tion, with the special object of opposing pro- hibitory legislation. The plan is to have subsidiary organizations in every State, to have the membership include all concerned in the liquor business, and to systematically fight "the fanatical element" everywhere The meeting resolved that i've stand ready to assist the cause of temperance so long as the term is used in the true meaning of the word" Their assistance of the cause of temperance would be valuable.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30

Hop PdsteTS are sold by all druggists in the United States and Canada, 25 cents each Ave for S1 ant are guaranteed to be the best in the markets Avoit cheap, worthless goods.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30
Suurnal an0 Courier.
EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY HARRINGTON & CO.,,
Tuesday Morning, May 30, 1882.

No. 400 State Street. Courier Building
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