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in the matter of the marriage. certificates.
He csme 10 a friend Of mine, who had a
printing shop in his town, one day. and asked
IN low and mysterious tones whether he had
any Ct them pretty pictures. ssiica'es. or
some name like that. the white people hang
on the wsll 10 show they are married" He
had seed them he said, and he wanted
some like them. Ny friend said he c01ld
not n axe them; they we're engraved. "Yes.
yes broke in Brer Peter, "a man aud a
woman standing togsther and q preacher
joining their hands. Very pretty very pref
"" Yes" continued my friend, but you
would have 10 send to the North for them,
and tbey would be expensive "All right
all right" said Brer Peter. II want them.
Send for them: send for hundred and then
print hundred cheap ones without any
pictures for me. By-and-by the engraved
certificates OF marriage arrived from the
North. They were more expensive than my
friend had expected. They cost twenty
five cents piece" he told Brer Peer, rather
expecting that he would have to SEND them
back. "All right, all right, said Brer Peter.
They're very pretty Here's the money
and of he went in high feather NV friend
thought that 200 marriage certificates ought
to last one negro preacher year or two st
least. In little more than a month Brer
Peter surprised him by returning with:
Can't you get me some more OF those Ger
thcates? They'se going like hot cakes"
Yes said my friend, in puzzled way
Yes" echoed BTer Peter, "and. boss I want
to make bargain with you. l don't want
you 10 sell these Certificates TO any body else,
nor 10 tell nobody else where l gets them.
Just let 1t be secret between me- and you.
and FL give you fifty cents apiece
for them" "All right" said my
friend. Yes said Brer Peter
'snd get g lot of them, 50 I can come TO Won
and get as many as | want every time"
Very well" said my friend and he did He
sold Brer Peter thousand in little over a
year-a hundred or so at s. time Then he
began to investigate. He found that the
smart old rascal had gone 10 every old negro
couple In the countryside for miles and
miles, and had told them that General Grant
had declared all the ante-bellum marriages
mo account" had issued instructions that
they must be repefformd In order to validate
them. and had sent supply of certificates to
Brer Peter, which hung upon the wells Of
the cabins were 10 authenticate the new mar
Iisges TO all future generations. His news
powerfully affected the women even where il
didn't touch the men, and every one of them
wanted that pretty picture They got it
for so cents-and Brer Peter got an additional
marriage fee of s. IN each case. He lives In
the cOm Portable house on the spacious lot he
made out OF his ingenious traffic.
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by the natives and made into bread or cakes. At
Cape FslDas. Africa, enormous Goliath beetles are
eaten ty the natives, whip say they are very fat
and sweet
A BIG oak tree on Chico Creek, Colo, is tlRenty-
feet in cirCumfe ence, stands about 100 feet
high and spreads is Branches over circle OF 100
feet in diameter. The droOpiug branches touchsae
ground on all sides.
Miss ALICE MONTGOMERY and VIII Swsuk. be-
trothed lovers, living Flndley. O.. died with
in twenty-four hours o, each ether. and were
buried in one grave. The funeral was the largest
ever known in that section.
JUsucEin Minnesota sometimes operates queer
y. A man at MCPHERSON bought revolver and
was going to XII his family. His wife took the
weapon from him and gave him licking, and a
country Justice fined her eos for it.
The Counter de la Tore pleaded that, being
member of the Anti-Ciuelty Society. she took
eighteen cats and nine dogs into her house out of
compassion, but London Justice fined her 81 and
ordered abatement Of the nuisance.
A CURIOUS well in Missoula, N. T., contains but
eighteen inches OF water, which never lowers an
iuch, though water is constantly pumped from it
to supply steam boiler. At a depth OF thirty feet
solid Ice forms around the pipe in the hottest
weather As a strong draught Of afr comes from
the bottom. the wen is supposed to tap subterra-
mean channel.
GENERAL GRANT does not ike 10 travel on Sun
day if he can help it. The other day General Por-
ter telegTaphed to him in the Catskiu Mountains
that Directors car was at his disposal for trip
TO Long Branch Sunday. General Grant politely
declined it, Eaying: 81 always tried not TO travel
on Sunday when held Office. and there does not
seem TO be any reasonable excuse for it now
New York Tribune.
OyE-THIRD Of the population of the Uni)n is
contained within the boundaries OF five States
which iOim compact section of country between
the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River.
New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio Indiana aud I'LL
nois have over Il 100000 Inhabitants according to
the census of1sS1, and if Missouri is added to the
chain-making 2O,OOOOOo inhabitants - the six
largest States in the Union are to form one uu-
broken band. In variety Of resources and bust
ness interests well in strength of population,
they are OF themselves Empire.
AN interesting book Of Yoltaire's, hitherto I'M
published, has just been brought out in Paris.
Voltai-e, like most of letters, kept a common
place book, in which, besides making notes of his
own, he entered any stories or sayings which
struck his fancy, and one such book he labeled
lie Sottisier" The manuscript passed into the
hands OF Caihsrine H., who bought his library
from his niece, Nine. Denys. in 177S. and it was
only in 1884, when the Beuchot edition was already
completed that Prince LObanoff sent the editors q
copy of most of the book. NM. GARNER Freres
have now inserted the whole of it in their new
edition of voltsires works. and have also struck
OFF a separate impression of it. uniform with the
well known Carpenter series.
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New comes the cry, dishonesty in the
Army" and officers are being Court Mar
tailed for practices unbecoming their rank
and station. Why not the Army? Look at
the Navy under Robson and Chandler; in
deed, look at any Department of the Govern
ment-rsnk dishonesty and rottsnness every
where No Department has escaped the
demcralizing influences of Republicanism.
Even the Department of Justice and the
Supreme Judiciary are contaminated. We
see no reason why the Army should not take
the same down-hil chute. True, it is hu-
initiating, but not surprising, unless the
wonder be that il is no worse.
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POSTAL AFFAIRs.

On the lst Cay Of October the law approved
March s. 1885, reducing postage on letters 70
two cents for each half ounce or fraction
thereof, goes into effect. It is the history of
the Government that the reduction Of the
rates Of postage has always worked well, and
it is quite probable that at no distant day the
minimum rate Of one cent for each half
ounce or traction thereof Will be reached-in
TACT, - the matter of postal cards, it has
already been reached In the year 1872
ninety-one years ago, the first law was passed
regulating the rate to be charged on single
domestic letters. The law went into effect
the lst OF June, 1872, snd the rates were as
follows:
Not exceeding co miles. cents.
Over 80 aud not exceeding 60 miles s cents.
Over so and not exceeding 100 miles, 10 cents
over leo and not exceeding l55 miles. 12lS cents
over l50 and not exceeding 200 miles, Is cents.
Over go and not exceeding go miles, Il cents.
over $50 and not exceeding $50 miles, 20 cents.
Over $50 and not exceeding 40 miles, p cents.
over 40 miles, > cents.
At that time the popHlstion of the United
States was 1923 PA. This law remained in
force until 1889. the General Postoffice hav-
ing been established IN 1894. The act of
March 2, 1899, established the rates on single
letters as follows:
Not exceeding 40 miles, cents.
Over 20 and not exceeding 90 miles. 10 cents
over % and not exceeding $50 miles, l21< cents.
Over 80 and not exceeding 900 miles. IL cents.
over 800 and not exceeding 500 miles, % cents
over 500 miles, IS cent.
These rates continued until December 1914
when law was passed adding so per cent. to
the rates. but it was unpopular and was
promptly repealed and, by the act of April O.
ls16,the following rates on single letters were
established:
Less tban so miles. cents
Over so and not over so miles, 10 cents.
over 80 and not over 1s0 miles, 12lz cents.
Cver $50 and not over 400 miles 1S5< cents.
Over 900 miles, IS cents
The law Of 1916 remained in force twenty
nine years, or until 1916, when, by the act Of
March Of that year, the rates of postage
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were brought down to Eve and ten cents. as

were brought down to FIVE and ten cents, as
follows:
Under go miles. five cents.
Over go niiCs, ten cents.
Drop CT local letters, two cents
There rates continued till March 3, 1871,
when the three-cent rate was established, if
the postage was prepaid, or five cents If IN
paid, snd by the ret Of March B. 1858, the
rate was fixed at three cents per half ounce,
TO De prepaid by stamps, and now, 1883, the
postage on half-ounce letters has gone down
to two cents. 1t may be interesting to note
the growth OF the Postoffice business OF the
country since 1870 and compare the figures
Of that date with reports OF 1889.
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TWO INDIANAPOLIs bankg-the Frs National
and the Indi4na Banking Company-are said = b.
seriously embarrassed on account OF speculation
IN grain margins" Coed enough for them. He
that CANDLES must expect TO lose.-Seymour Lever.
IL is best not 70 be too hasty in finding
cause for the financial embarrassments of the
indianapolis banks referred to. 1t is not
stated upon reliable authority that the First
National and the Indiana Banking Company
are embarrassed by transactions other than
those entirely legitimate. In such cases
rumor should not be accepted as fact.
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Here is a plucky pointer for the telegraph

StrlE6fS.
Miss Mary OTmend Of Fort Mil S. C., was the
te'efIsph operator at Concord, and when the strike
cane she silenCed her Instrument in common with
81 the Brotherhood The chief Cf the Brother
hood in this State, knowing that she epented
upOD her salary operator for her daily bread.
ard fearing that il would 90 hard with ner in case
the Company whipped them out, wrote 70 her aud
save her psTmie sion a. keep her office open for
business rs they appreciated her posi- on aud
uCfeln that she should not run the TisS Her
"a ! ~ was that size was member OF the Bot ler-
hCCd. end come what might. she intended 20 re
loyal ~ true ana fgh 10 the DIT er end.
Sfe was IS good as her wOrd, and the instrument
in her flee remained dumb as a. oyster. Fail
rug to persuade her To resume work, aud not be-
Rble 10 find any body mean enough 10 take the
puCky little woman's place, tho Company, 10 save
offiee rent and other incidental expenses. last
Saturday cut the wires at the Office and wrapped
them around the pole. end then took out the IN
euuments and shipped them away. N IS Ornand
never wavered even when she the men CON-
necce dismentiing her Office. Her pluck is ad-
rnired and applsuded everywhere
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ALEXANDER VI. was the first Rope who
ever consented to grant a dispensation for
marriage with q deceased wife's sister. Before
his time it was considered beyond the power
Of the Holy See to make such a grant, and
Oh this ground it was refused to no less.a per-
son than Louis NJ who, while Dauphin, ap-
piled u Pope EUgenius ~. for liberty to
marry the sister of his dead wife Margaret
of Scotland
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Special to the Sentinel
SHELBYvILLE. Ind, Aug. 1O-An old gen.
tleman named Plymate, aged eighty-two
years, who lived with his son, A. II. Ply
mate, in Acton. concealed himself in the
bushes alongside the track of the Cincinnati
Indianapolis, st. Louis and Chicago Railroad
this afternoon, about three-quarters of a mile
west of Acton, and when express train No. 4,
going east between 4 and O'Clock, came
within two car lengths of where he was,
he Jumped out and laid his head across the
rails. Before the train could be stopped the
wheels had cut off all that portion of his
head above the eyes, The remains were
taken back to the residence of his son in Ac-
ton. No cause is known for the deed.
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OUR own great Msckey now has chance
TO buy title of nobility. Monaco, title and
game, is for sale at $2.OOOOOO. Possibly Jay
Gould will take it in and then get Stanley
Matthews, his 100000 Republican Judge, to
decide that the purchased title to nobility is
according to the Constitution.
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JAMES McDEHMorr, an Irish leader of
Brooklyn, who was knighted by the Pope, re-
Gently crossed the Atlantic and was arrested
al Liverpool on charge Of conspiring to
murder officials OF the Government. He said
he would call upon the United States to pro-
fcof T,f~r,
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Scrofula.

A medicine that destroys the germs OF
Scrofula and has the power to root it out is
appreciated by the afflicted. The remark
able cures of men, women and children as
described by testimonials, prove Hoods SaF-
saparilla reliable medicine containing
remedial agents which eradicate Scrofula
from the blood. 100 doses 81 90. Sold by
all dealers. @. /. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
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Chicago passed Der fiftieth milestone S1a-
day. The papers are giving "reminiscences Of
ne early times. Here is one on a hotel OF
the period
up
why, what's the mattere''
well, breakfast ought to have been ready an
hour ago. and we can't finish II I'LL you get up."
''D--n IL, do you take me for the cook
mo, but want that sheet you're lying on"
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VANDERBILT is reported to have said to an
interviewer: Il viii tell you q principle I
have always followed in life, young man.
It is to hold on 70 a good thing waen I
hova ifu
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Gtra SHmffuHl.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Is.

DISASTROUS effects continue in New En-
gland msnVfsetpfiDg centers, following the
great leatherfaildres Of last week.
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RAILWAYS
Regulating Pills.
The Great Liver and Stomach
Remedy.
Perfect PurgRtive, Soothing, Aperient, Act
Without Pain, Always Reliable and
Natural in Operation.
a Vegetable Substitute Ter CsIOmeI

Perfectly tssteless elegantly coated With sweet
gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse and streng-
then.
Railways Pills for the cure of all disorders of
the stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys. Bladder,
Nervous Diseases, Loss OF Appetite. Headache.
Constipation. Costiyeness, Indigestion, Dyspepsia,
Biliousness, Fever, Inflammation of the Bowels.
Piles and all derangemenso OF the internal Nscera.
Purely vegetable, containing no mercury, miner
ais or deleterious drugs.
SO Observe the following symptoms resulting
from Diseases Of the Digestive Organs: Constips-
ton, Inward Piles FullncSs of Blood in the Head,
Acidity Of the Stomach, Nausea. Heartburn, Dis
gust OF Food, Fullness or Weight In the Stomach,
Sour Eructations, Sinking or Fluttering at the
Heart, Checking or Suffering Sensation when in .
lying posture, Dimness OF Vision Dots or Webs
before the sight, Fever aud Dull Pain IN he
Head. Deficiency OF Precipitation, Yellowness If
the skin and Eyes. Pain In the Sioe. Chest, Limbs
and Sudden Flushes of Heat Burning In the
Flesh.
few doses OF RAILWAYS PILLS win free the
system from ell the above named disorders.
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Postal cards were authorized by the act Of
June s, 1872, but were not issued until May
1, 1873. In the first two months 31,09l.O 600
were sold; during the next three months,
g, POS. 800. making "a, 800, 800 in FIVE months.
OF course a large sale was made at first,
but the following comparison will show the
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BEhEADED.
Special to the Sentinel:

An OctoGenarian Lays His Head the
Track Before an Approaching Train aud
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IT WAS THE FIRST AND IS
THE ONLY PAIN REMEDY
That instantly stops the most excruciatfag Peins.
ell6ys Inflammation and cures Concessions.
wnether OF the Lungs, Stomach, Bowels OF other
g'ahos OF organs, by one application
In from One to Twenty Minutes.
No matter now violent or exeruenting the main
tne RheuEatic, Bedfidden, InfiTn, Crippled
NeINOus, Neureig1c or Frustrated with disease
may suHer, RADWAG'S READY RELIEF viii
ah0Td instant ease.
Inflammation OF the Kfdnevs Inflammation M
tne Blaoder Inflammation of the Bowels, ConRes-
uOn OF the Lungs, Palpitation OF the Heart Hys-
tellcs, Group. Catarrh, NeryOusness SleepeSSness,
Sciatlca PGiu In the Chest, Back or Limbs Rruises
SpralEs, Cold Chills and Ague Chills
The application Of the Ready Relief 70 the mart
OF paris where the difficulty or pain exists viii
AFFORD case and comfort
Bowel Complaints,
Iooseness, Disrrhoea, Cholera Mor.gus or paInful
Discharges from the Bowels are stopped in Is or %
minutes By taking Railways Ready Relief. No
congestion OF Inflammation, no weakness or lassi-
tude will follow the use of the R. r Relief
Thirty TO sixty drops IA half tuuibler of water
VIII N lew minutes cure Cramps Sp6srns Sour
stomach, Heartburn, Sick Headache Diarrhea
Dysentar-, Collie, Wind in the Bowels, and sIl in
ternal pains.
Travellers should always csrry q bottle Of Rea-
ways Ready Relief with them. A few droDs In
water viii prevent sickness OF pains from change
d water 1t is better than French Brandy or Bit
tiers as stimulsnt.
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The cost of the first postal cards was 81;

per 1,e0O. They are now furnished for
81 1870 cents per 1000. Laws relating to
postage of printed matter have undergone
grest changes, as also those bestowing the
ranking privilege. Cheap postage has worked
we'll every time it has been tried, and law
reducing the rate to one cent would now be
popular. The Government should never
make cent Of the people through its postal
arrangements, but DO all in its power to en-
courage letter writing and the distribution
of printed matter. 1t claims monopoly Of
the mail business and can therefore afford TO
be liberal.
The daily gazette., 1883-08-18
BRANDYwINE SUMMIT CAMP.
General News From the Camp-A B
Day Expected TO-morrow

General News From the Camp-A Big
Day Expected Tomorrow.
Yesterday morning dawned bright and
clear at the Brandywine camp grounds and
infused new life into the campers, who suf-
fered many inconvenience during Thurs.
days rain. The early service was con-
Quoted by the Rev. Mr.. Harce, and at 1C
O'Clock he Rev. T. R. Creamer, of Scott
Church, delivered discourse from / John
!, z. In the afternoon the Rev. j. e. Smith,
OF Mt. Salem, spoke from ST. John 1, 12
AT O'Clock the Rev. r. II. Adams had
charge of young peoples prayer meeting
In St. Paul's tent. The p' eaching at night
was by the Rev. E. Potts, of New London
circuit, Pa.
The appointments for tomorrow are as
follows: In the morning at 10 o'clock the
Rev. X. H. Adams of St. Paul's Church
Wilmington; p. M, the Rev. T. R. Creamer
and at night the Rev. L. W. Layfield, also
of Wilmington.
The Increase In the attendance has been
quite preceptable and tomorrow will nc
doubt draw tremendous erowdtothis favor
ite camping ground. The health of the
campers is particularly good, notwithstand-
ing the severe weather they have had to
endure.
The first children's meeting will be held
to morrow under the direction of the Rev.
Q. w. Prettyman. The singing OF the i'm
provised choir composed of singers from st.
Paul, Sloan and Union circles, under the
leadership Of j. 9. Plckels, is greatly ap-
preciated.
The daily gazette., 1883-08-18
--% ~s-----
SEEKING FOR DIVORCE.
A Farmar's Charge Against a judge q
the Illinois Supreme Court

"A raTuHrs OuaFSe Against Judge OF
the Illinois Supreme Court.
CHICAGO, August 1.-THE sensation of
the day, and one which will cause comment
throughout the State and nation, as it in
wolves the reputation Of justice of the
Supreme Court, was the publication here
to-day of the proceedings in a divorce case
at Galesburg. The case is brought by Mr..
Plea ant Henderson Tor separation from his
wife on the ground of cruelty aud alleged
adultery, committed by her with the Hon
Alfred NJ. Craig, justice OF the Supre, ne
Court of Illinois.
Henderson is well-to.do KuoX county
farmer. He is the owner OF 5000 acres,
most OF it under cultivation. He is Free
Mason, as also is Judge Craig. His wife,
Mrs. Josephine Henderson, is a woman to
whom the word captivating may be applied
with all its force.
Two complaints were filed, the reasons
for filing the second being stated therein
The first alleges that the complainant wishes
to be divorced from his wife Josephine, be-
cause she has cruelty beaten him, and one
time has 0fmed loaded pistol at him,
which she snapped with the evident inten
ton of killing him.
In the second complaint Mr.. Henderson
statesu nder oath that Williams g. Lawrence,
his attorneys, have withdrawn from the case
because they seemed desirous to make some
arrangements for procuring divorce on
some grounds If possible, to avoid auy scan
dal that might ensue against A. NJ. Craig,
the man who committed the alleged offense
of adultery with the defendant.
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Caught in a HennerY.

At O'Clock this morning Detective Jones
was routed out of bed and informed that
colored man had been seen in the yard o
Nicholas Ellinger at the corner of Eight
and kirkwood streets. Jones Immediately
repaired to the place and on entering the
chicken house, at the end of the yard, dis.
covered colored man in the act OF put.
ting a chicken in bag which
he had provided for the purpose. When
asked by the detective what he was doing,
the colored man said that he had "counted
on taking two chickens, as his family had
nothing to eat" He was invited to take a
walk, and without offering any resistance,
started along with the detective to the hall.
On the way up the man tried to open large
jack knife with one hand, but was detected
and the knife taken from him. At the hear
ing before Judge Sharpley this m orning he
gave his name as Theodore Gibbs and was
held in the sum of $500 bail for his appear
ance at court.