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this fact and believing that it was evil
dence that the source of the gold gulch was
in leads yet undiscovered, Moody lett the
scene of his early summers successful
prospecting, and went mp the gulch to
where he had made his latest strike The
ground was covered by placer patent,
owned by Captain \. j. Ware. who made
Moody u promise that he would deed him
Il half-ntcrcst in any valuable lead he
could discover. Upon this promise Moody
commenced work.
He followed every rich streak he found
upon the hill BY this means he
has discovered three leads, all sad to he
rich in gold, but the last one rich beyond
precedent, In sinking Il siNfoOt shaft he
got ont dirt from which ne panncd out
over $500 in wire gold and nuggets. besides
II pile of rich ore, which is full of gold.
Then he began tracing the lode, and has
opened it for 1900 feet in Il dozen or more
places, and in every hole it is said to hold
the same richness. Most of the gold is ON
punches of thin, matted wires, which the
miners call wool
Moody has obtained his deed to II half
interest, and is at the claim putting in
eighteen hours day panning out ounces
of the yellow metal Captain Ware il not
II particle excited but takes his Z cd for
tune very cody. One gentleman stated to
Il reporter last evening, with an entire
abandonment to the magic Of big figures,
that Moody would show up SlO,OOO,UO
worth of ore in two weeks.
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now new YORK CITY TOOK 1T.


New York Herald.
Election might was conspicuous also for
itscrowd. but there has never been Il time
when for so many hours at II stretch great
gatherings of orderly, sensible, decent
looking men and women, stood masscd
about common points. quietly WaitinGHnd
vocfcrously cheering or significantly
sncering and kissing the announcements
rs they were made one after another, upon
the several bulletin boards The excite
ment Tuesday night, intense. vivid, cicc-
tive, multitudinous Us it was, palcd its
Intellectual fire in the presence of the all
absorbing restlcssncSs, the viviiyin@
eagerness that characterized the situation
yesterday. Every vehicle in the
public service was packed. The elevated
cars rolled laundering down along
their lofty structure. filled with people
eager in their anxiety To reach the scene
of information. The fcrryboats from be
vond, East and West and South, brought
one and all their living freight, permeatcd
from first to last with II single thought.
anxious to ask a single question. "Who
is elected :" "What is the final vote -
New Eork's 100000 houses threw out up
on the busy streets lOoO.OO0 of men and
women and children. Business was re
sumcd and stores were opened of course,
but no mans thought was upon his
store. no mans care was about his bust
ness. \ bare suggestion of an extra sent
employer and clerk alike to the front
door, the shout of II crazy enthusiast
awOke echoes in every breast. Far up by
the Harlem River the query started, gain
ing in volume, until it reached the hating
spot of Printing House square, where with
one vast amplitude of voice it demanded the
results of Tuesdays struggle. Broadway
isn't the only street in tins great city but
toward that mammoth avenue Il million
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THE IDIEE.


Notos,nd c,s.i,, ,,icL,d ~, an, th. Strect
Ihe ldler was ldllng on college street.
election night when the men were putting
up the canvas for the FREE PRESS sterc-
onticon disnI,v of the nlnctinn RETURNS
T,t. ...' .:,3.
w htI ,le '"lN Us was IT" I'Ni'''"
ven H"''' NPe''"'"l' ]" '"'''a vi 'ile
Piolou''''eS,' com pI'.'S' "'HN"o' i''N III
lile i''.l'c vi illl ,iiat .',h
NV tI,nt ,hnnt pau
\ crowd c,,nn f., ,r,inf fine nthpr dov at
tho hands or Mr. G. I.urns nur ,yoll-
known ,,l,1inr He ,,os ON , Iodda, re-
..,,.i,.,. .,.,,.., :; ,.,. r.,,,
9ct''ilN p'"' vi -''9H ]" H'"'c ii"''''
vi course CROWD galhef'u III less IMAM
no time and Mr.. Lucas ON his aerial perch
was assaulted bv ten thousand Questions
"Nhatcher dom up there =" How did
that ret broken - "Burglars been
'rn1ud, etc. etc Fiu1IE Mr.. II;cns
could stand il no LONGER. lie descend
ell the ladder and thus addressed the mul-
titudc:
"Grutlcmpu. early Yesterday morning Mr.
Joseph Bacon sent tormc TO reset "A pane
of GLASS that had zen broken in his front
window. REPLIED that was very busy.
but would do The lob in the afternoon.
Mr.. Bacon sent word that il must be done
right OF. asked why Inc was in such an
awful hurry about it. lie replied: BE
cnIlsr every thanked fool that comes nluur
viii STOP and ask how that IT. pane of glass
,,nt hrnlinn,''
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BILL NIE ABROAD.



We arrived in Rome last evening via thr
Rock Island road, and an old cattle friend
of mine from North park, who is staying
here invited me to come and visit him
during my stay in the city. He has been
showing Inc the town and telling me all
about it. Before the Christian era Rome
was ruled by kings who were elected for
life or during good behavior. This was
done to curtail campaign expenses, So that
the surplus funds could he frittcrcd away
ON bread and other Roman dcliCacies.
There was also il senate ANA college of pom
tiiCeS and tWO-inch auGurS who explained
the will of the gods. These augurS be
came ut last Il great bore lEtruscau relic
found ncara Roman corralD
For many years there was a Squabblc
between the patricians and the plebeians.
The patriCanS were people who had made
Il good deal of money, and whose blue
blooded daughters showed their proud
and high lineage by clipping with the fam
lily coachman. The plcbeians, aS Il rule,
were not checked up SO nigh, but they
generally got there. Eli, with both feet, as
"A proud Roman told me yesterday as
he socked his Roman nose into tum-
bier of Roman punch. The present
Rome is built over forty or fifty feet
debris that is between 2OOO and 1000 years
old. Those who have been in Chicago
when the street gang was engaged in
raking up old personalities and things
that had been accommodating for fifty
years. will remember the subtle odor of
the deceased past. This putsa kind of IA
damper on building here, and real estate
is rather dead. AT least II is not feeling
well. SO they only build a new house
every fifty or sixty years. Then il takes
half il century for the air To get fresh again.
| have been trying for several days to find
some Roman candles to take home with
me. but have failed So far. My next letter
will he from Verona or Cheyenne do
not know which. I've got To hear from
Eli Perkins first. We agreed not To write
from the same place AT the same time, for
we might get confused
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Baseball umpires ought to he the ones
to wear mask-not the players.
A scientific writer asserts that the ear
of the clam is situated in its foot. Nature
has to economize space sometimes.
An Ohio sportsman, after firing at and
missing Il deer three times, threw his rife
at it and brought it down. This reminds
us of the Ncrmonter who shot all his am
muntiOn away at IA squirrel in a tree, and
was finally obliged to bring it down with
a stone.
\ man without any bones is being ex-
hibitcd in New Jersey. Everybody looks
anXiously around to see if his wife is i'm
the room.
An exchange has an article on "Club
Life ut Home" We are surprised that
neither the rolling pin nor the broomstck
are even alluded to.
81 am very strongly attached to my ma
tive place. remarked the schoolmastcr to
Il visitor who was his chum in boyhood.
And then he rose to castigatc an offender.
and discover that his native place was
very strongly attached to him-by a large
piece of shocmaker's wax.
1t Is said that John Stuart Mill waited
fourteen years for Il man to die 50 that
he could marry his widow Some Of these
literary fcllcro are practical sorts OF chaps
aftcrall.
An exchange says that, Ground waists
are worn with or without q belt" We
hop" to gracious there isn't a possibility
OF waists getting To be square or three
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up which are the widest. one place is
called Pioneer Crossing, because way back
in the early part of the creation or Il little
later. parties used to cross here on fallen
tree and 50 you 90 from one lovely view to
another till you reach the end of that part
rs yet made accessible, though next season
there will tie more opened to the public
have made this letter longer than intend
ed. bnt as the spot is almost unknown
wanted to give all the information about
it that could. To say that it is well
worth II journey there, expressly to see it.
is giving it faint praise. fear that at
times COqucttc with the truth in my let
tiers, but have said nothing in this one
that Chateaugay chasm will not fully sus-
trim.
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HENRY TtWCETT.


Rt. Hon. Henry Fuwcett, postmaster
general of England, is dead, Professor
faWCctt was born in 1888, near Salisbury.
The father had been Il draycr, and though
not wealthy, had the means to secure for
Henry the best education. He entered at
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, at an early age,
and graduated III 1886 with high mathe-
matlCal hOnOrs, ana was made IL Fellow
of Trinity Hall. AT this time no youth in
England could have had before him "A
prospect more full Of sunshine. His faith
or had arranged for the entrance OF his
son on the profession Of law. and he enter
ed the Middle Temple. But now occurred
the tragcal event by which this fair pros
pcCt was overcast, as it seemed, hopeless
~ ana forever one day when he was out
shooting with his father, the gun OF the
latter went off, rs he was getting over Il
stllc, ana Il single Shot put out one of the
young mans eyes. The other eye was at
once affected, and Henry Fawcctt speedily
became stone blind. The agony of the
father was Understandable. From the first
it was he that required consolation rather
than his bind son, and one intimate
with them told me that it was IL
strange and affecting sight to see the
youth sitting beside his diScOnsOlatc
father, and cheering him with the as
suranCe that the accident would make no
difference III his career. The promise was
/ more IMAM Iulllllcu. II tltl make "a ulIltr-
ence IN his career, but II was one which
set "A remarkable statesman where super
/ iluOus barrister had been promised
/ Henry FawCett completed his law studies,
and was called To the bar in 1862, but was
of course, unable to follow that profess
sion. He at once devoted himself to the
study of political economy and politics
/ Though he had been brought up u Tory,
he had for some time become n Liberal, or
even Radical, and enjoyed the friend
ship of John Stuart Mill, Prof. Cairnes,
and other leading economists. In the
Political Economy Club, of which Mill
/ was the centre, Fawcett was also Il cen
ire, rs the rising man whose power OF pub
lie speaking was to ditluse the views OF
the more secluded thinkers. His afiliction
drew to him many friendly hearts, and he
might at once have become popular fig
ure at political meetings. But he had re-
economy, and to rest his claims to public
attention ON his contributions to that.
The universities of England cannot afford
to be influenced by sentiment, and much us
FawCett was loved at aIlbridge it was unl y
after his manual of political economy and
other writings had made their impression
on the minds of the country that he was
made professor of political economy at
Cambridge. This position he continued
to hold while sitting in Parliament. II,
unSuCCesSiuly contested southwark in
1891, the borough of CUnbridgpin 1862 and
Brighton in lNt4 was returned for the
last mentioned in 1861, and was reelected
in 1865. lie was uuScatcd at brighton in
1874 and was elected for Hackney il
April of the same year. lie was made
postmaster general Of England some years
ago, and has introduced many reforms in
the British postal service.
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lll't,

The Presidential canvass, is too long
The Republican convention met early in
June, and it Ia, been almost five months
since the Republican candidate was put in
the field Nearly half II year has thus
been consumed in the Presidential cain
paign.
In the early part Of the nineteenth cen
tury, when the railroad and the telegraph
were unknown, when the mails were rare
and irregular, and news travelled slowly
through the thinly settled country, there
was some excuse for stretching the can
yass over number OF months Several
weeks must needs clapse before voters in
the more remote districts could learn the
action OF conventions summer and fall
together did not constitute too long il per
iod for the dissemination of news and the
discussion of issues.
But the methods of 1924 are out of place
in 1854. The telegraph now enables every
daily paper To publish Immediately the
action of the National Convention, and Il
week does not elapse before the most re-
mote rural journal has carried the news To
its readers. BY the middle of June the
action of the convention which nomi
mated Blaine was more generally
known throughout the country than
such news would have been by
the Ihluule Oh August Sixty yelrsaS l ne
consequence is that for weeks past the
public has labored under a feeling of ter
rible.Weariness at the prOlOngatiOn of Il
discussion which had been carried.on long
enough two months ago. Nine men out
of ten would have said any time within
the last eight weeks that they heartily
wished the thing was over.
However the election of 1884 results, lei
us reform the canvass of 1855. \ VigOrOu,
campaign for two months is long enough
Instead of holding Presidential Conyen
tions in June and July, let us postpone
them Till the latter part of August, an'
have short CANVASS.
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SALT RHEUM,
And Every Species of Itching
and Burning Diseases
Positively Cured.

ECZEMA. or Salt Rhcum, with it, ugoniAng
l. itching and hlnninP. instantly relieved by
warm bath with CrTICrRA soar, and Il sin
gle application of trTfCTRA. the ~, at SKIN
Cure. This repeated daily. with two or three
doses of tUTICuRA RESuINENT. the New
Blood Purifier. to keep the blood cool. the
pcrspiratiOn pure and uulrrtating, the bow
els open, the liver ana kidneys active. will
speedily cure Eczema, letter Ring worm,
Psoriasis Lichrn Pruritus, Scaled Head, Dan.
urun. ana every Species OF Itching, Sc1ly, and
Pimply Ilumors of the Scalp and skin. when
the best physicians and all known remedies
fail.
Will Mcdonald. 25l2 Dcarhuru 81. Chicago,
gratefully acknowledges "A cure of Salt Rhcum
ON head. neck, face. arms. and legs for severn
teen years not able to walk except ON hands
and knees or one year; not able to helm him
sell for eight years tried hundreds of rcmc-
dies: doctors pronounced his case hopeless;
permanently cured 10y CrTICURA REsoLvENT
(hlOOd puriiiCr internally. and CUTICTRA and
CrTlcrrA SOAP ohc great skin cure cNtcr-
nally.
Chas. Houghton, Esq, lawyer = state St.
Boston, reports a case OF Salt Rhcum under
his obscrVat ion for ten years, which covered
the patients body and limbs. and to which all
known methods of treatment had been applied
without benefit. which was completely cured
solely 10y the tCTICrRA REMEDIES, leaving
clean and healthy skin.
+. II. Drake, Esq, Detroit, Mich, suffered
untold torturrS from salt lthcum. which APP
pcar"d on his hands, head and face, and near
Iy destroyed his eyes. After the most careful
duCtorlng and Il consultation Of physicians
failed to relieve him. he used the CtrrI,rKA
REMEDIES, ana was cured, ANA has remained
So to date.
Mr.. John ThicI. WIlkcshurrc. Pa. writes 3
| have suffered from salt Rhcum for over
eight years. at times ~u bad that could not
attend to- my business for weeks at - time.
Three boxes OF CrriCrRt az four BOTTLES
Ht>plNtNr, may" entirely cured me- OF Uni,
dreadful disease.
Sold by all druggists. Price: trrIrruN. ~
I - d
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LIKE THE DAYS OF 40.


What is claimed to he rs rich gold
strike rs has been recorded for years
in Colorado was made by f.. c. Moody,
ten or twelve days ago. at the head of
Georgia and American gulches, in Sum
init county, near Breckenridge. 1t was
the case in the early days that Georgia
gulch yielded the largest nuggets and
coarsest gold near its head. Knowing
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WONDERFUL NASSAU.
singular Island Where Vegetation
NrNes Dies and Grain Fields are
Unknown
LRchoboth Sunday Hcrald.l


1t is curious to think that, in IA country
where vegetation never dies and every
thing is perpetually green, the people have
never seen field of grain or II haystack;
have never watched the earth turned over
and under by pillow; never heard the
click of harvester on the hum of Il threSh-
ing machine never listened to the muir
muriuC of Il brook or watched the flow of Il
river These things are unknown i'll Nassau.
No grain is raised there; there is no field
biz enough to make il worth while for one
thing and where the land has been cleared
and broken and made productive il is too
rich i'm its capacity to raise more valuable
things. There is very little grass, Here
and there are little patches of it. but al
most always where it has been sOWn and
carefully cultivated All the hour used
has to he imported. As most of the horses
come from America, So their hay and feed
is taken from here too, except such green
stuff rs they pick up incidentally. Our
modern farm machines being unnecessary
there are unknown and unheard of.
There are no rivers, and in travelling
over almost all parts of the island of New
Providence ! do not remember to have
seen even the smallest broOklct. But it is
anything but barren. anything but desc
late. Take Il field there that is nothing
but Il SOLID mass of coral rock and lime
stone, and if left alone for u year or two il
becomes 50 covered with all sorts of NcGe-
tatiOn that no man could tell whether
the bottom of il was sand, or clay, or
rock or what. If land is not carefully
cultivated all the time it soon disappears
/ beneath the growth of trees and bushes.
\ barren rock in less than two years he
comes Il flower garden, If l,t alone. II is
IL common saying that the Hand had to he
titled with pickaXe, and trees and vcge-
tables set out with crOWbarS. There is
good clay soil on some parts of the island.
Some of the pineapple fields were rich red
clay, strong enough to raise grain ur any
thing planted in them But they were cN-
ccptionS Only here and there is red clay
found, and all the rest is rock.
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\oNcIlIlnr.

November was styled 10y the ancient
SaNonS IIiut-m0H0t. or the wind month,
from the gales of wind which were 50
prevalent ut this season of the year, oh
llglng our scandinavian ancestors To lay
up their kcclS ON shore and refrain from
exposing themselves on the ocean until
the advent of more genial weather in the
ensuing year. II bore also the name of
WOt- nOHUt. or the bloody month. from
the circumstances of its being customary
then to slaughter great numbers of cattle,
to be sailed for winter use. The epithet
had possibly also reference To the SaCriti-
cial rites praCtiSed at this season.
November is generally regarded rs the
gloomiest month of the year and it is per
hapS true that less enjoyment is deriVable
in it from external objects than in any
other of the twelve divisions of the calen-
dar
at is the season when the humble want,
And know the misery of their wrctchcd sCant (;
Go We and seek their homes, who have the
power,
And ease the sorrows of their trying hour
The first day of November was sur
rounded by many Superstitions III ancient
times. The night was celebrated by many
curious sports, all deemed important To
usher in All Saints Day, or the first of
November. Much of all that was con
nceted with the old ceremonies and sports
is still observed in many places, but great
ly modified. There was a very ancient
custom of ringing the church bells, he
ginning ON the vigil or All liallOw Eve,
and continued through All Saints Day.
not as part of the festivities, but relg-
iOuS Office for the continued protection of
the souls supposed by them to be in pur
gatOry, against the influence of the evil
power part of the supcrStitiOus notion
then in practice, of ringing church bells
when a friend was dying, to shield them
+ MI nm h4Ip
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.FEARFULLY MOMC0N


There i something startling IN the rapid IN
crease ut Kidney Gl~rd~c among the American
people within a few years past. Many cases
peculiar To certain CLASSES tc1d To- produce and
HggrHNutc these troubles ~, for example,
careless living. uNvrV"rh. .uu exposure. Or.
David Kennedy, at kuuduut. y. Y, is OFTEN
his medicine called fNNpRlrl REMEDY in
arrcStiug and radically Curln. ihr-r most pain
tul and dangerous disorders. Proofs of this,
like tn" following are constantly brought to
his attention, and are published pN HIM for the
sake of thousands Of other >ulc'cl~ whom he
desires to reach and benefit. tn" letter there
fore, may be- of vital lupuCtun,r To- You or to
some ouc whom You !.uutv. II frlm Uu, of
the best known and popular druggists in the
tnv and growing city from which he writes
and doubtless where those may hud Mr.. Craw-
ford At his place of business on the corner of
Main and | Mon streets:
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. March -, loSi.
Or. Ddrd kfNH'dh ROduuu, Y. \.
=, DEAR SIR For ten YEAR, | have been at
nrtGd W VIII kdn%E disG",G in IFS most acute
Imagination for no one can appreciate it cN-
ccpt who have gone through il. ! rc>ortcd to
many physicians and to many different kinds
OF treatment, and spent great deal of money,
only To ind myself Older and worse thun ever.
may say that used p bottles of n prepare
ton widely advertised asa specific for this pre-
else sort ut troubles, and found L entirely use
less at least m my cI.c.
Your FANORlTE REMEDY say it with
a perfect recollection of all that was done for
besides Is the oHLU thing that did me slightest
good; ana am happy 10 admit that il gave
me permanent relief. | have recommended
FANORlTE REMEDY to many people Tor
Kidney disease, and they all agree with me IN
saving that DIR. DAVID kENNEpl'S IA
NoRlTE REMEDY has NOT it, equal i'm the
wide world for this distressing and often fatal
complaint
r~c this letter us You deem best Tor tho benz
Cht of others.
Yours, etc, LYMAN CRAWFORD.
OctEcplNwlm
This medicine Is lor sal, hy us. BEAIPRE
LOWRY, Corner church aud Bank So.
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'"Thc baby is slccping''-ut last, yes! Bot
she would not have slept, nor would her MOTH
cr, had not hat fond parent been induced to
try DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup. II cures the
crOupy cough that sounds so like nails being
driven into the childs coffin.