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Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-09
Local weather Record.

Local Weather Record.
 FOR DEC B. 1884.
 7:16 11:16 s:16 7:16 11:16
 AM. A. PM. PM P.N Barometer, s9.7e s9.s4 as.ss s9.9s g; sT HuTnidif9 HHGnm2Eps'er-, @ a 5s s 5s 5s zs 55 Wind, in direction
 miles per hour. WEI w15 WIT NW15 W13 Weather....-.. Fair Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Mean bar, g. S66; mean temp. ,45.0 mean humid Max temp, 55.; min. temp, fl; rainfall .oO Max. velocity of wind. a5 miles,
 FOR DEC. 8, 1883. Mean bar, so.172; mean temp, 49.7; mean humid Max temp, 6s.4; min. temp, 4s.0
 J.H. SHERMAN, sergt s. c. LISA A minus sign Fl prefixed to thermonster read A dash Fl prefxed to rainfall figures indicates pTecipitation too small to measure.
 MINIATURE ALMANAC.
 DECEMBER g. sgs sgs RHzs REsEs Fl Moog R5zrs HraH wArzn'
 MARRIAGES. BLACKIE-ROBBIE- this city, on the 9th inst by Rev. Dr. Mclean, David Blackie native of Scotland, to Mary A. Robbie, of Tannadice, For farShire, Scotland.
 DEATHS. BATES-In this city, Sunday, Dec. 2, Captain Will liam Bates, aged 50 years. Notice of funeral here after.
 Funeral services at his late residence, as2 Howard avenue, on Wednesday. Dec. 10, at p. m Rela- tiyes and friends are invited to attend. GOODALE-In Meriten, Conn. Dec 6. Mrs. Nancy Goodale, mother of 4. D. and G. W. Hendrick of this city, aged 82. Funeral in Bristol this afternoon at o'clock WALTER-In West Haven, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Justina B. Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth R. Waiter in her 83d year, and widow of the late Jacob D. Walter : CLARk-In this city, Fec. B. Ambrose Clark aged 76 years.
 Notice of funeral hsreaffer
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tedr Treaty Wffh Snafn
The Cranston PrInt wor,.,

PROVIDENCE, Dec. S.-The Union company has sold the Cranston Print works for s25O,- 900 to the Waverly company, a corporation of Providence and New York capitalists, which will engage in the bleaching, dyeing and job printing of cloth. Such changes will be necessary to fit the mill for the new line of work that it is not probable the mills will be running before the winter of 1885. It is possible that the Waverly company will effect lease of one or more buildings to another local company, the members of which intend to manufacture rubber insulated wire and cabIes
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POUNDED WITH A BILLET.

Terrible Drubbins Given a Spring.
 field Widow Who Has Daughters
 Living i'm This City.
 SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec. S.-About 2 o'clock this afternoon Mertha McMahon, aged twenty-six, one-armed painter, went to the house of a widow named Chloe Thayer, aged sixty-nine, and taking bottle of whisky from his pocket asked her to drink. She refused, whereupon McMahon became enraged, seized stick of wood and pounded her about the head, arms and face, closing both. eyes, terribly cutting her head and breaking the bones in both arms and hands. When her son returned he found his mother lying on the bed unable to speak, the blood streaming from her face and the ceiling and bed spattered with blood. The woman will probably die. She has daugh- ters living in New Haven. McMahon was arrested, but denies all knowledge of the affair
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Repairs On A Broken Cable,

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-The steamer Fara- day, which on Saturday joined the ends of the Commercial company's cable, is now re- pairing the second. The New York end of the cable from Nova Scotia was carried into the company's New York office to-day but the wires will not be thrown open to the public until the second cable is repaired and this date is uncertain
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HoweII,s Challenge TO Pr1nce.

BOSTON, Dec S--Richard Howell of Eng land, the champion bicyclist of the world, is out in challenge to John L. Prince to race him any distance from one to twenty five miles for s, 800 side and so offers to give him the following handicap: Twenty five yards in one mile; fifty yards in two; one hundred and fifty yards in six; one hun dred and seventy-ive yards in seven; two hundred yards in eight and two hundred and fifty yards in ten miles. He will come to Springfield at his own expense or will allow Prince S250 eInenses to O to Encland
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Grave Robbers FoiIed.

NEWTON, N. J., Dec. 8.-The grave of Fachareah H. Price in the Frankfaid Plains cemetery was opaned last night and the coffin broken, but before the body could be remov- ed the 'desecrators were frightened away Prinz was prominent man in this part of the State, and the object of the ghouls was probably to hold the body for ransom.
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Fined for Personating a Juror.

NEW YORK, Dee. 8.-There was sensa- tiQn in the United States circuit court room to-day when Richard M. Jordon, wealthy and well known citizen, was fined for perso- hating juEor. Justice Coxe had summoned Mir. Jordon and Henry B. Hyde, president of the Equitable Life Assurance association, before him to satisfy himself which of the men was Hyde. He said Jordon had called on him last week, represented himself as H. B. Hyde and asked to be excused from serY- ice as juror. Mir. Hyde under oath dis claimed knowledge of Jordon's action. Jor- don was fined +S100, which he paid
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WANTE ESsb-

A A BOUT 100 feet of counter show cases, gooC ~ n1ality and low price. P. o. BOX S04.
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HeadwonevYvu.th.p.,a

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.==A decision was or dered by the Supreme court to-day in the so- called s'head money cases" sustaining the va- Hdity of the statute requiring the master, owner or consignee of every vessel arriving from foreign port to pay the sum of 50 cents for every passenger brought into the United States who is not a citizen, such sums to be used for the benefit and care of the inn migrants ''-
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Pastor HaIliday,s Brother Dead.

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-Rev. David M Halli day, brother of Assistant Pastor Halliday of Plymouth church, died at the latter's resi- dence in Brooklyn to-day, aged seventy seven. He was graduated from Princeton in 1924. Ill health has prevented him from en- gazing in pastoral labors for the past eighteen years. During the period of his activity he was widely known in the Presbyterian min istry
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He went out of Town,

EAsToN, Pa., Dec. 9.-John Carries, aged sixty-six, @ cabinet maker of South Easton, complained to his wife Saturday of the dull times and said he was going out of town to see a friend. This afternoon his wife found him dead hanging to rafter in shed near the house with one knee resting on the floor
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Woman Starving 1o heath.

ROCHESTER, Dec. S.-For the last two years Miss Caroline Rolling, of this city, has been sick with mysterious disease which the physicians have been unable to under stand. During this time she has subsisted entirely on brandy and water, and all the growing smaller. Two weeks ago it closed entirely, and she is now slowly starving to death
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". M. 0. A. Notes.

It is not too late to join the class in short hand The instruction is to be thorough and practical This is splendid chance to learn shorthand at an exceedingly low price, Every Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the par Tor of the Y. NJ. c. A., 841 Chapel street, the class meets.
 The class in mechanical drawing meets
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over n REilIten Dollars Iavolved.

Bosror, Dec. 8.-The appeal made by seY- en relatives of the late Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Maiden, against the decision of the judge of probate allowing her will was opened in the Supreme court before Judge Allen to- day. Mrs Stone died in January, leaving piTsoperty valued et nearly Ss,0QQ,00o By a will dated May 10, 1879, Ray. William H: Wilcox, of Reading, was appointed executor and the property wiiled to him in trust to be
 .>4atowed at such time and manner as by nlm ee. .1 If such educational, he thought best in alo oh benevolent or charitable institutions or iaets aa he thought proper, all to be paid out within two years after her death. Daniel F. s. Page, of Maiden, wes willed S1O,Qoo 1 di- rect. Mrs Stone executed two FrAsg deeas of her estate to Mr. Wilcox after she had made her will, under the provisions of which the grantee is to distribute the Pfopsrty rbo to amonnt, given by Mrs. Stone to various .in- stitutions foots up $1 ,065, ,292.
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QUIET AT SOUTH NORWALK.
The Strikers Continue Firm and Sober -The Feeling Against Now Arrivals Very Strong.

The Strikers Continue Firm and Sober
 The Feeling Against Now Arrivals
 Very Strong,
 SOUTH NoRwALK, Dec. S.-The only ex- citement to-day was the arrival at 12 o'clock of three workmen from Newark. Ten police men with the manufacturers were at the depot to receive them. A crowd of several hundred of the strikers were also present. When the train came in instead of twenty five men, which were expected, only three arrived, which caused the strikers to cheer Justify. Surrounded by the policemen they were escorted to the factory of Knapp & Gro fut. On the way to the factory the crowd followed and efforts were made upon the part of several strikers to speak with the men to try and induce them to refuse to go to work. They were repulsed, however, by the police and few arguments that were not wholly dignifed resulted. Cries of 1.-two more prisoners for the penitentiary" were freely indulged in during the march An altercation arose between bookkeeper of Crofut & Knapp named Ruggles aud striker named McCune, which resulted in some live ly pushing. Two of the employees who have been incarcerated in the factory for several days refused to work longer, and this morn ing they left town. Two others are expected to leave owing to their knowledge of sevsral workmen who have recently come in wAo are not the kind of companions they desire. No drunkenness is visible, not one case hay ing been reported or seen upon the street in the last two days. The managers of the strike have the men well in hand and any evidence of insubordination they immediately queIl At every station efforts are made by local committees to induce the Iaen to refuse to come.
 The Rev. c. B. Crane, D. D., ofa Boston, gratifed the people of his former charge, (the South Baptist church, Hartford by preach ing for them December 7th. Dr. Crane is seeking restoration of health and will rest during the winter from stated charge
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Chairman nTackin Under Arrest.

CHICAGO, Dec. 8.-Late this evening Jos eph Chesterfield Mackin, secretary of the amalgamated Democratic clubs of Cook county, was arrested on warrant sworn out by 0. H. Day, chairman of the citizens com mittee, charging him with complicity in the Leman-B Brand fraud. He was taken before United States Commissioner Hoyne and held for further hearing. Mike Mcdonald and E. Fl. Lehman became his bondsmen. The arrest has created O sensation
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A windfam For Paupers.

NANTUCKET, R. l., Dec. 6.-otis J. Ballou, who died in Central Falls last week, be- queathed all his property to this town to be used for the benefit of it's paupers The property consists of real estate and is the biggest gift the town ever had.
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18th Congress---Second Session.
WASHINGTON, December 8, 1884.

WASHINGTON, December $, 1884.
 SENATE-The House bill making tempora- " provision for the naval service went to the Appropriations committee. MT. Hale criti- eised it's method and preferred to take up the House bill of last session as that contained the provision for building new ships which by the course proposed would be practically withdrawn from the consideration of the Sen ate.
 A bill to reimburse firm in Detroit, Mich, $473 excess of duty paid without protest on an importation of malt in July, 1870, which was the unfinished business on the calendar was debated for an hour and forty minutes and on call of the roll was defeated by a vote of 19 to 29.
 At 3:45 p. m. the Senate went into execu- tive session and at $50 adjourned.
 The Senate in executive session confirmed the following nominations: Thomas o. Os- born, of Illinois, to be minister resident and consul general of the United States to the Argentine republic John Baker, of Illinois, to be minister resident and consul general of the United States to Venezuela; Otis P. G. Clark, of Rhode Island, to be commissioner of pensions; Calvin B. Walker, of Indiana, to be first deputy commissioner of pensions i;
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W w q A

The usual entertainment will be given at the Home, 528 Chapel street, Wednesday evening, December 10th, at 8 o'clock. Read ingS by Mrs. Don Thompson and Miss Ward. 01strumental music by Misses Long and IT IT '-. All young women are cordially in-
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Egyptians Beaten Rack By Arabs.

CAIRO, Dec. S.-A detachment of Egyp- tian cavalry while reconnoitering around Suakim to-day were surprised by one thou sand five hundred Arabs in ambush and U TTveTy encounter were IUre~a + ~ treat and take refuge under cover of tno fnrtS.
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A Historic street.

DUBLIN, Dec. s.-The Dublin corporation has. bv a vote of 39 to 12, changed the name of SackyiIle street to O'Connell street.
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EOR RENT
REX HOESE.


Cur6 % NGOOU HOlme. @eA ONE FAMILY HOUSE, 200 Atwater street ::i House and barn, 29 Auburn street. Two-fam AzlisG ily house. No. Ii Clay street. Two-family house. 460 Orchard street. All to be sold low if sold within ten days. Also for rent, first floor 7S Wool street. 12 Portsea street; BIO Congress avenue and second floor % Auburn street.
 A. M. HOLMES, HOUSE MOVER, OFFICE
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every Tuesday evening in the Y. M. c. A,

hall at 7:3U.
 Especial attention is called to the class in bookkeeping under the instruc- tion of Professor Loveridge. This class offers an excellent opportunity to young men de string practical knowledge of this branch.
 The class in penmanship is making rapid progress under the efficient instruction of Professor Lee on the 'tHogarth Line" This class meets every Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
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For Sale or Exchange.

fk4A A FIRST-CLASS BRICK HOUSE, fourteen A5i:ii rooms, with all the improvements, located
 l!il central; would exchange for smaller property that would rent well
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SITUATION by a respectable girl, to do gen -A- eral housew-ork, or cook, wash and iron in a private family Good city reference. Apply in rear of 20 PALMER STREET.
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Annual COnvOcatiOn.
SECOND ANNUAL.

Pulaski chapter No. 26, of Fair Haven, has its annual convocation tomorrow, We'd nesday, evening.
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ned to become President of the United ties, with compensation from the time he the presidency. The Committee on ions was excused from further consider sS,the bill.
 Unitedy Treaty With Spain.
 here to-day, Dec. 8--General Foster,
 the Secretary y9ister to Madrid, arrived
 American treaty afternoon submitted to
 United States, Cubaopy of the Spanish
 eral Foster says this en6tttr trade between the government abroad, that R Rico. Gen to eonsummate the treaty and Tor the will take up his residence her2polnted
 Foster does not apprehend that Ghe9ne It export from the Spanish colonies to thiser try will amount to competition or materi. affect the market here, but the export sugar will be considerable and will mater ly reduce the price of that commodity.
 anticipates opposition to the ratification the treaty from Louisiana, but notwithsta ing, expects to see it ratified.
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He Win Need It Wore Then

LONDON, Dec. 8.-The Daily Telegraph un- derstands that the Prince of Wales has re- solved not to solicit governmental allow ance for his eldest son upon his coming of age Gin January), but to defer the request until the young man marries.
 He Wanted to He Fanny,s Protector.
 CHICAGO, Dec. S.-M. L. Necum, g fine looking young unmarried man of twenty-six, was declared by Judge Prendergast to-day to be insane and sent to Jefferson. Bereave- ment was assigned as the cause of his insan- ity. He wrote letters to Fanny Davenport offering to become her protector from news paper scandal.
 FOR \ CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. A Wealthy Young Lady Gives Three
 Hundred Thousand Dollars Toward
 The Project.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-Miss Mary Caldwell, a wealthy young lady residing at 121 Madi- son avenue in this city, has given $300,000 toward the establishment of such a national Catholic university was recommended by the plenary council at Baltimore. The offer was made by Miss Caldwell in communica- tion to the council and was considered and accepted by that body. The amount will be made the basis of a large fund to be raised and man aged under the supervision of committee of which Archbishop Gibbons is chairman and which includes seven bishops and five lay men, among the latter being Mir. Eugene Kelley, the New York banker, and MT. Reu- ben Springer, the well known philanthropist of Cincinnati. It is hoped to raise S1, ,000,- 900. A member of the committee said to- day that the university will probably be located in New York State. Miss Caldwell is twenty-four years of age and comes of 8 Louisville family. She and sister inherited S4,O00, GOO.
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FOR RENT.

FVEG KLEIN ks 5 rooms on Chapel street, Slipper month. rooms on George street, Church.
 FOR SALE. Brick house, 12 rooms, all modern improvements, S4 GOO on Hamilton street. Brick house Artisan street $4, 900. Frame house and grocery store on Putnam street. $2,800. Frame house on Oak street & 900; rents for $3S4. Frame house on Hallock street S2 TOO Nice lot Martin street very cheap. Lot on Jackson street 50x120 for $S50. Lot Ward street 5Ox127 will be sold low. Valuable property on George street, near Church, at bargain. Money to loan in to suit.
 THOMAS O'BRIEN & co
 800 CHAPEL STREET.
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VOL. LII.
dMamts.
WANTERL
WANTED,

"A SITUATION by q young girl chambermaid 4 da h- tta 4r ~shtress eA' 20 ss FRANKLIN STREET
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WANTED.

d SITUATION to do general housework or sec "A opd work The best of reference. Inquire at d9 1t 642 CHAPEL STREET for days.
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WANTED.
WANTED.

A SITUATION by a respectable girl, to do light A housework in small family or assist in boarding house strong and willing to work Call at s9 JAMES STREET Cd hoor).
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FOR RENT,

4&4sA FIVE new houses with eight rooms, S12. 50; &4.iI five tenements in houses with five rooms, Eassl $9; five tenements in houses with. three rooms, $5.
 Twenty whole houses and forty tenements in various parts of the city.
 Houses and los for sale all over the city.
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EOR RENT.

kA A FIRsT-CLASS HOUSE on Howe street, Ei:iiI partly furnished at reduced price for the EaaasssAz winter; possession at once. Money to loan on improved property. Inquire at
 NO. 70 CHURCH STREET. ROOM ?. Office open evenings from to 8.
 l.. F. CONzSTOCK.
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EOR. RENT.

FOR RENT, 4k+.A On Lloyd street, pleasant tenement of As..il six rooms with bath room and hot and cold Isl.l water for $16 per month. Tenements on offe and Winter streets for $10 and $11 per month On Bright street for $10, and on Pardee and Haven streets for $7, $8 and S9.
 S. IL. BLATCHLEY & SONS,
 16 Exchange Building,
 Church and Chanel St
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 WANTED,

{sA BY a gentleman and wife Ono ehildren), Es;,sl three unfurnished rooms, centrally located. LII. Address A.C..
 rJ,
The Arizona champion., 1884-12-06
Rate of Fare to New Orleans,

Agent Nixon, of the Atchison, Tope
 ka & Sonta Fe, informed us yesterda, that the rate for the round trip from Albuquerque to New Orleans had beer reduced from sos to $50. There are no tickets on sale at this office via E
 Paso and therefore all who purcha. G must go via St. Louis From Kansas City to St. Louis the passauger may choose any one of the three routes. or he may go via of the St. Louis & San Francisco from HalsIead. w, are confident that all who intend vi,
 ting the New Orleans exposition vii. be pleased, not only with the price, but, with the route. Mir. Nixon be
 lieves that large number of tickets will be sold from this city. The paste. boards can now be had at the Union depot.-Albuquerque Journal.
The Arizona champion., 1884-12-06

Since the conviction of Ammon Penney and Peter ]. Christofferson, for polygamy, Judge Howard has re- celved two threatening letters, stating that the immunity enjoyed by him while U. s. District Attorney of Utah from mormon vengeance, should not make him too confident of protection here from the wrath of "persecuteo saints" Both letters were post mark ed Prescott, and were in different handwriting. Judge Howard treats the matter with indifference, and ap parently entertains little fear of an, attempt at thuggery by Mormon Boan- erges. es.-Miner.
The Arizona champion., 1884-12-06
Civil Service.
CANON plABLo, A. T., Nov. a7.

| NANoN piAbLo; A. T., NOV. 27. EDITOR CHAMPION. Now, that the long agony is over and Governor Cleveland is President elect of these great United States, the people. breathe easy again that the shame and outrage of IS76 Is not to be repeated no visiting statesmen, no returning boards, no Southern outrages and nc need to ressurrcct that respectable lady of color (the defunct Eliza Pinkerton) nor the many disgia ceful adjunCts of a Presidential steal, seat ing Mrs, Hayes husband-happily we are spaied all these; and now that the Judas quarte,te (Ford, Finner!y, Sullivan and Grady) witt, the strabis matic child of destiny and Presiden tlal aspirations, the much widowed Benjamin, having earned their thirty pieces, should if possessed of common decency go like their infamous pro- genitor, lScarlot, and hang them selves.
 Shade of Jackson! what howl the Republican press will raise for civil service reform, or as John A. Logan has it, "snive!" service reform. But let us remind these now would be reiormers and apostles of official purity and fitness that during twenty years of political possession anu power that civil service reform now so blatantly urged, was dead letter, d thing of sound and fury signifying nothing, only for placing and keep ing those In office who faithfully train in the Republican ranks. No matter what your qualifications might be, nc matter what the service rendered our common country, when the service oi good and true men were needed, the fact of being democrat made an octcast of you, political pariah, un- worthy a seat with the chosen, you are willing to d monstrate your f,- ness by education and character for position Tn the civil service, you ap- peal to the gratitude of d republic you helped in the field to save from de- stIuctlon, 1t avalls you naught. Get thee hence, Democrat and you real lze what civil service reform Is as ad mlnistered by the Republican party a deluslon and snare. And now that the cup is placed to their own lips how they squlrm and prate of re- form. They would forget now the homely application that what IS sauce for the goose should be sauce tor the gander, and as We invoke tn, names of the Old Hero we would ap ply his doctrine and political motto, that "to the victors belong the spoils." We took our medicine for twenty years and now let them take theirs, tho 1t be sickening dose they need a good purge.
 Being lifelong Democrat (cast- ing our maiden vote for Douglass and consequently recognizing the eternal fitness of things and deierring to none as to requisite quahic cations and profound and practical knowl. adge of our political sustenence, Bdrkis IS willin' to save his country Tn the exclse department of the revenue service, and in pleasant an we have the honor to sub scribe ourSelf, FL DIABLo.