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W.VA.COLLEGE.

The Collegisd year of this Institution
opens on the 4tL OF September. The
faculty is conn posed OF progressive. ex>
perienced and thorough teac lers. Two
new professorsh Ups have been establish
ed-nnt Of An lent Languages, which
will be flied by the best tin and
Greek scholar IT. the ST tie. and another
o'he Modern 1t uguages. which Will he
filled by lady at many years esperi-
ence ~ teacher, and who cOnVerses
sfuently in both ihe French and the
German.
Good neral reference aud Depart
mental Libraries
Good apparatus and appliances in
every department.
The institution Is Unsectarian and
Uudeuou national, but thoroughly
christian,
The location IL th O most beautiful,
healthiLI. central ahd accessible. A
moral and industrious community.
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LADIES' DEPARTM EMIT.

which is under the supervision OF an ex>
perienced lady principal. Supe nor in
structiOn tx giN en- in both the useful ana
ornamental branches to any ladis s. SEM
mary.
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Tho PEOPLES. LIBRARY H. tho
most popular, because II contains 49,
..ilany "f'ginal stories by American au-
co on receipt OF n cents ior single ana
newsdealer for ~ S'"i
j. >, OGILVIE & co Publishers.
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Preparatory Department
its students for each OF the college
NORMAL DEPARTMENT

il the best school Tor tea,ibers in the
State.
No other institution doeg so much and
a. thorough work in Ancient IIanguag es
Modern Languages. Higher Mathemat-
les and the study of the En- glish Lan~
guage ana Literature in the anne time
The college in all its Gepat tInents is
open t. BOTH sexes
Special attention Il Y.yen 10 ID q
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THE PEOPLES LIBRARY

Is the only one containing original mer.
'can stories 10y May Agnes Fleming. and
other popular authors. Two huT,Jed
Numbers now ready The following &c
regent issues, in largo type:
No. NJ.
% Tho secret Sorrow, by May Ag-
mes Fleming one
% Fdted 20 Marry, by May Az
ues Fleming "a,
so East Lynne, by Nrs. Henry
Wood On.
46 Dora Thorno On
al Blunders of q Bashfnl Man. hv
the author OF n Bad how
Diary IN.
l1t Oscar Wilde's Poems inc
l,f Welded AID Parted. by The an,
thor q Dora Thotne 100
i4' Nnma Eonestan, by Alpbonse
DJudpt foc
~ Tom Yorkes Legacy, by Td.
ward Garrett no
l56 Tom TiddIer's Ground nv
Charles Dickers nc
~ Weayers and Won, by Miss NJ.
y. Braddon -
l'i reg Wellington, by Charles
frf'i' loo
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company, when a child, with the GOudie family
whom sailing from Scotland to America. McMi.-
Ian and Miss GOudie were then little children,
and were the Youngest passengers on the
steamer. The Inter Ocean staff presented Mr..
MCMILLAN, as a wedding gift. a very handsome
solid silver tea SERVICE"
AN italian professor recently forwarded to
Mr. Gladstone u copy Of a work he had pub
iished on Dante, and has received in reply a let
ter written In italian. Mr.. Gladstone says the
reading of Dante is NOT merely a pleasure, it
Is "a vigorous discipline for the heart, the intel
leet, the whole man." In the school OF Dante he
Learned a great part OF that mental provision
however Insignificant it may bel which has
served him to make the journey of human life up
to the turn Of nearly seventy-three years"
A SHORT time ago Encouragement Brewster
received a letter from a gentleman In Richmond,
who said he had In his possession a genuine por-
trait by sully OF the late Chief Justice Marshall.
He wanted to sell it to the Department of Justice.
Brewster caused all Investigation to be made.
As a result he pronounces the portrait to be not
only genuine, but a work of great artistic merit.
There is no fund out of which he can purchase
1t for the department, but he has
that the Supreme Court buy it to hang on the
wall OF the room where its sessions are held.
JOSEPH COOK is described by Mary Clemmer
as a man in early middle life; h large man, OF
nervous, sauguIne temperament; fatter, it seems,
than u man OF such restless activities could be;
larger at waist than around his chest; apoplec>c
OF neck, with a round, frank face, a pleasant
mouth, a non-aggressive nose; blue, kindly, over
taxed eyes, that persist in shutting to rest them
selves; a high, broad brow, burdened by re-
hsctive faculties; a large head, well covered
with a name of brown hair, and the moonlike
roundness of his visage IS heightened by a full
brown beard.
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FEES AND

The question of fees and salaries of public
offices is yet an unsolved one in our own, as
in other States. The State Bureau of Statistics
instituted an inquiry into this subject for
the forthcoming report, which seems to have
been the right step toward a solution of the
matter, for it affords the first definite data
that has yet been collected, and which must
form the only fair basis of adjustment, and
that is a knowledge OF the duties of the sew
eral county officers and volume of business.
The bureau sent out blanks to all the
county clerks requesting this information,
but received reports from only forty-tbree
counties As showing how inadequate popu-
lation alone would be in the adjustment of
salaries, take the reports from the following
counties of nearly equal population, which
includes the civil and criminal cases begun
and pending during the year, also the court
processes issued, embracing the entire work
of the Office:
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in the State Senate, whereby four constitu-
tional amendments were done to death at
the behest of the liquor-sellers' league.
The amendments are dead. To talk of
other constitutional propositions in the face
Of this liquor-league Legislature is to talk
nonsense, and any discussion of further
action in that direction would be a
waste of the peoples time which can be
usefully employed to better advantage. But
the question of the regulation of
the liquor traffic cannot be per-
mitted to rest where it is.
The present law is the work of the liquor
sellers themselves. Its provisions have been
steadily and vsuntingly disregarded. Yet, in
the face of the tendency of a prohibition prop
o%sition, the liquor sellers were anxious for
s~tricter license. This should be at once
provided for, by the Introduction and
perfection OF a statute which will, in
some degree at least, put the liquor traffic
under restraint, reduce the confessed evils
resulting from it, and compel the payment
to the treasures of towns, cities and the
State of some fair proportion of the expense
laid upon the public by this business. That
is a duty to which the present Legislature
must at once address itself.
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Fri TRIP.
1t was Not Postp ned Because He Feared
Kidnapping.

q iplh EpTtihI'
To a reporter who asked him if it was true
that he had abandoned his Western trip, w.
H. Vanderbilt said; mo; that is not true.
1t is true that l have given up my intention
of starting on Wednesday, but l am surprised
that that is known so soon. Why, | did not
tell my family till last night that l should
put it off, The bad weather was my reason.
Friends advised me that it would be much
p%leasanter three or four weeks later"
Were you going to the Yellowstone
Park?"
"Yes; all through the West"
"Is not the weather much milder out
there?'
March and April are very mild months in
that section"
rs tins to be merely q pleasure trip, Mr..
Vanderbilt"
tOnly a pleasure trip. 1 have no other
reason whatever for making it."
Have you heard any talk of an alleged
plan TO kidnap you in the West and hold you
for a ransom? The story goes that such re-
ports have had something to do with your
change of plans"
Mr.. Vanderbilt leaned back in the broad
chair, laid his head on the back and said
slowly: Now as to this ransom business, it
is simply impossible. Why, they couldn't
kidnap me if they wanted to. No one
knows five minutes ahead where I am going
to be. l have got things so liked that l can
go in any direction at any moment, so you
see they could hardly lay any trap for me-"
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MIR. Giadstone's Ill Health.
L. j. Jennings in New York World.

L.. D.. Jennings III . loih NpIu
"What is the matter with him?" asked
some one of Lord Beaconsfeld's doctor dur
ing his last illness. "Seventy-six years."
was the brief reply. And it is something of
the same kind which has to be said of Mr..
Gladstone. His seventy-three years may be
lightly borne, but they will tell, Various
rumors are af1oat as TO the nature of the sud
den warning which visited him on Saturday.
1t has been stated in the newspapers that
Lord Rosebery was with him in the
morning, and he appears to have left
Hawarden $50 far as the public are aware)
without any suspicion that the health of his
distinguished friend was not in its usual
state. AT night DR.. Andrew Clarke was
suddenly summoned from London, and
it was announced that the new Mid
lothian campaign had been interdicted.
What had happened Perhaps the mere
whispers which are in the air at such a time
are not OF much consequence, but everything
relating to Mr.. Gladstone is of interest. 1t
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essential to the integrity of the French re-
public, then a popular government in
France is impossible. A republic
has no need OF a consul or dictator. 1t must
be free to put up and take down. The power
is not in-the head, but in the body. When
those in power in France learn to look to the
people for strength and support, then will
the republic become a fixture. 1t is an
ernment becomes panic-stricken at the utter
ances Of an unsupported nobody, so long as
the masses are loyal to the existing order.
But the people of France cannot be expected
to remain quiet forever if the heads of the
government continue their ju~mping-jack
performances. 1t is sorry confession to
admit that the wild ideas of a Prince Jerome
should %endanger France. 1t can but be
argued from this that the governments ten
ure Of life is very uncertain. How
false such q shameful confession
is, is proved by the palpable
fact that the people-the source of power
have remained practically undisturbed in all
this senseless wrangle. Let the cabinet go,
and let the President resign if he will.
Unless some new danger should arise the
republic will still live. despite the follies
of those who seem 10 have lost all common
sense. What France needs is a man from
the middle ranks, imbued with pure repub-
lican ideas and emboidened by the conscious
ness OF the justice of the cause of the peo-
pie. The great connection over the bombas-
tic proclamation of nerveless Napoleon
great only in wearing a great name
is absurd. As we'll might Paris be set in an
uproar on account of the advent of a
fangless wolf. These silly and puerile fears
should be dismissed. Turn prince"
Jerome out into the obscurity of his own
personality, and let common sense have
fair play. What France needs is not a
leader in the sense of a dictator,
but public men confident in the cause of
popular government, and from these let one
be chosen as President. They might, with
profit, study the history of the American
republic, which was never stronger in the
hearts of the people than on the fateful
morning Of April Is, 1865, when the great
Lincoln died at the hands of an assassin.
There is no plot in France, and Gambetta
died a peaceful death. If any disturbance
shall finally arise from it, it will be because
of the conduct of foolish leaders.
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NOTHING could better illustrate the animus
two Of the generals, appointed by jeff Davis
and assigned to special duty in Indiana, now
high in official position under the party.
longing to the Democratic party who would
be glad to serve as assistant superintendent
of the Insane Asylum, but they were never
major-generals in the rebel army; hence
Major-general J.. G. Walker is chosen; and
there are some Democrats in Washington
county who were not open rebels, but
none of them will fill the bill but Lieutenant
general Heffren. Will the Democrats never
cease to wave the rebel flag?
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The Late Archbishop TAFT.

MIR. smalley's Gable to N. Y. Tribune.
The meeting at the Mansion House Saturday
IN support of the memorial to the late Arch.
bishop of Canterbury was presided over by
the Duke of Albany, and attended by numer'
erous notabilities. Every party in the church,
ritualists, high, broad and evangelical, even
the nonconformists united in expressing re.
spect for an Archbishop who really strove to
make the English church national. The
demonstration was the more significant be-
cause fears have already been expressed re-
s%pecting the ritualistic tendencies of the
Archbishop. Many churchmen note with
alarm that all three of Mr.. Gladstone's re-
cent episcopal nominations belong to the
high church.
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New York Special.
In sporting circles a good deal of CONVEX
sation has taken place with reference to the
postprandial challenge thrown out by Jem
Mace at Harry Hills on behalf of his pupil,
Herbert A. Slade. A person curious to
know what SHADES style of jumping was.
whether a standing jump, a running jump,
asked for the information. Mace said: II
ought to have explained the Maori's style of
jumping. Slade goes down on his hands
and jumps on all fours, like a dog or a frog.
Nobody in the world can beat him at that
game. He Is a good long jumper, too, but il,
is at the dog jump that | challenge any man
in America to beat him."
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Here again it is found that mere popula-
ton does not indicate the amount of bust
ness in the several offices. The bureau tabu-
lates the items of business in detail in the
several counties as reported, and those famil-
lar with the several items can readily form
an idea of the relative duties and labor to be
performed in the counties which reported.
The report of the bureau will be ready for
distribution this week.
No method of mixed fees and salaries will
ever be made satisfactory to the public.
Every officer puts his own Interpretation on
the law of fees, and there will never be equal
ity in this regard. The only true method of
adjustment is by salary and the sub-treasury
system, which prevails in some other States.
Salaries may justly be based upon the
amount of business required to be performed,
and fees should all go into the treasury.
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WASHINGTON SpeclaI,
Colonel George B. Corkhill has issued in.
vitations to a Inner complimentary to Cen
eral Sherman, on the occasion of the %latter's
sixty-third birthday and practical retirement
from the army, to be given at Colonel Cork
hills apartments, on Feb. s. From the list
of guests and assurances of those who will DO
present to unite in the graceful testimonial.
the dinner bids fair to be one of the most en-
joyable of the season. Among the guests
will be General Grant, General Sheridan.
Justices Waite, Miller aud Harlan, aud ex-
SecrefarV Blaine.
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must be stated, then, that the belief Is that
symptoms presented themselves which
seemed alarmingly like an incipient attack of
paralysis. The newspapers are permitted to
acknowledge that Mr.. Gladstone has shown
signs of nervousness which he never dis
played before. We know for a fact that di-
rectly DR.. Andrew Clarke was made ac-
quainted with all the circumstances he or
dered rest and quiet, and forbade any more
speech-making for the present.
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This is a fair sample of the relative volume
of business to population in all the other
counties which reported. and it is plain
enough from these facts to see that popula-
ton alone is insufficient data for regulating
either salaries or fees.
The bureau also addressed all the county
auditors OF the State, requesting from them
statements of the volume of business Ia
detail in their respective offices, n re-
ceived reports from fifty-seven counties, and
the following are fair samples of these,
embracing the number of papers filed and
issued, causes tried in the Commissioners
words in the tax duplicate for the year 1882:
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Mr.. GEORGE HAYES, who slapped Mr..
Burnham, in the Union Square Theater, New
York, after having rebuked Burnham's lady
companions, has publicly apologized to the
latter for his rudenes 1t is encouraging to
note hat he did not make amends to the
ladies who disturbed people by their talking.
Hayes is a gentleman, and his example can
but have a good effect.
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The Whisky-iu-Bond Bill.

1LouisviIIe COMMERCIAL.
We can see nothing but c~owardice and
demagogy in the delay of the House to ex-
tend the bonded period. The fact is, there
should be no limit to the bonded period, and
the law in relation to the tax on whisky
will never be properly adjusted to the con.
ditions of business until the bonded period
is made unlimited.
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Mighty Little of the Gazette Left.

Orleans Examiner
For many years the Cincinnati Gazette has
maintained a larger circulation in this sec
ton than any other weekly paper. But we
have heard quite a number of farmers, who
have long been patrons of the Gazette, ex-
press their dissatisfaction with its consolida-
ton with the Commercial. There is not
enough Gazette in IL.
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Cardinal Manning ycrv m.

London Special to New York World.
Cardinal Manning is very ill, and 1t Is re-
ported to-day that he is in a low, weak state.
The recent attacks upon His Eminence ia
Bishop Wilberforce's diary increase the wide
and profound sympathy that is felt for him.
It'll known, l may add, that these attacks
gave him great pain.
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WASHINGTON, D.. c., is going to add to the
gayeties of its social season by having a dog
show. A large number of aristocratic ami
mails are expected to be on exhibition. The
Prince of Wales has been invited to send
over some of his pets for the OCCASION.
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ENGLISH Conservatives predict a speedy
collapse of the French republic. The wish
IS probably father to the thought. 1t doesn't
seem to have occurred to anybody that the
Imperialists are as much in need of compe-
tent leaders as are the Republicans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30

SIXTEEN of the mob who attempted to
lynch Neal and Craft, at Catlettsburg, KY,
have been indicted by the grand jury.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 80, 1888.

Mr.. HENRY BERGH has addressed a letter
TO Mayor Edison, urging that the glove-tights
in New York city be discontinued.
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The situation in France, which at first
gave evidence of something serious through
the laundering of tie government, has re-
solved itself into a ludicrous scramble for
the succession of Ganbetta. The govern
ment is laundering right along, and scarcely
q day passes that does not reveal anew its
Incompetence. The people OH the other
hand are calm, self possessed and going
about their business with a regularity very
creditable to them. The intense excite
ment is confined to the Palace OF the Elysees
and the Palais Bourbon. Outside of this
there seems to be scarcely n ripple. No or
ganized conspiracy has been developed, and
martre, Belleville and Grenelle are
quiet and undemonstrative The re-
publican government of France needs u head
OF common sense, that is all. The people
are all right. Let President Grevy form "A
new cabinet and proceed with public affairs
1ust as though NJ. Gambetta were still in the
flesh, The masses are tranquil and reliable.
What more can he ask? There is no revolu-
ton, nor signs of one; no riots, and no indi-
cation of any general dissatisfaction with the
present order of things. To all outward APP
pearances The people are confident and in no
degree alarmed because Gambetta Is no more.
II it were so that he, or any one man, were
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Tue grand jury of ST. Louis county reports
that fully 80 per cent. of all crimes commit
ted in that county, and of all pauperism, is
the result of the liquor traffic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30

SESAroR-ELEcT TABOR, of Colorado, elected
for the short term, is en- route for Washing
ton. He succeeds George NJ. Chilcott, h
was appointed as Secretary Teller's success
sOr
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SUPERINTENDENT WALKER, with 5000, 900
more, hopes to finish the national census yet
this year. Why all this inconsiderate haste?
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THERE is nothing mean about the st. Louis
man. He is not only willing to get II divorce
from his wife, hut is also ready to help her into
matrimOny again-with some other fellow as
the husband. One citizen was even more accom-
modating. In company with Ills wife he entered
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THE new piece OF Edouard Pailleron will be
performed in April at the TEeater Francois.
Five women are to play in it, and only one man!
Delaunay ia to represent this unique specimen
of the stronger sex. The men Will be in the
orchestra chairs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30

Rev. J. NJ. BUCKLEY has convicted Rev.
Joseph Parker, of the London Temple, and
editor of "The Christian Chronicle and
House and Home" of the plagiarism of an
editorial which appeared in the New York
Christian Advocate of Sept. IA, 1882. 1t ap-
peared, word for word, in DR.. Parker's paper
oil Dec. 2s, 1882. Probably 1.-THE quotation
marks were omitted" which we understand
to be the stock excuse when editors are
caught cribbing.
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W. II. L.-City-YOur verses, beginning 81
Am Dying, Egypt, Dying" have decided lite
rary merit, and we rather pride ourselves in dis
covering that fact. But it was remembered
that many years ago. possibly about the time OF
Queen Elizabeth. Gen. Lytle wrote II poem on
the same subject, and its identity has been OBJ
served. The Journal is not engaged in 'joking."
Apply to the last new paper.
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A SOCIETY writer says:

''The proper caper for a bower now, when he
meets a lady, Is TO lift his hat from his head,
turn it forward until the plane Of tne hrim is
vertical, and while in this position bring It, down
so that tn front just escapes the wearer's nose,
then look into il while he counts three quick,
elevate 1t in the same position, place IL on the
head and smile serenely."
The successful accomplishment of this great
act should entit;e the young man TO the proud
position Of right bower.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30

A REPORT from Laurons county, s. c.,
says that a family of nine negroes was poisoned
by eating a goose that had been bitten by Il mad
dog. Four have died. ana the other five are not
expected to live. If true, the case is u very
note worthy One.