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The Monitor., 1884-11-14
GENERAL. NEWS.

Pennsylvania gave the Blaine electors
plurality of more than so, 80
\ confidence man by false representa-
tion has cheated Mrs. Garfield out of ten
dollars.
The steamships Donau and Umbria, at
New York, from Europe, have brought
81, 0O5 900 in gold.
The President of the United States is
sued proclamation on Friday last, desig
mating Thursday, November 27th, as a day
of National thanksgiving.
\ Cabinet meeting was held on Tuesday
in the White House, at which all the mem
bcrs were present, except Secretary Chan
dler. The session, it is said was devoted
to the topics to be presented in the Presid-
ent's annual message.
The returns from the various Congress
sonal Districts throughout the United
States indicate that the next House of Rep
resentatives will stand 1873 Democrats to
142 Republicans. The present House stands
200 Democrats to 125 Opposition.
Maud s. lowered her record on Tuesday
by trotting mile in 209t at Lexington,
Kentucky. This is J of second lower
than her achievement at Cleveland. Ohio, in
August last, when she beat Jay Eye-Sec's
then unprecedented record of 2.l0.
A body was found drowned at New
Haven. Conn, last week and was successive
ly identified as that of fourdifferent men,
all of whom came forward personally to
contest the allegation. 1t was finally de-
cidcd to be that of a foundry workman.
Hanging st. John in effi5y as some
very hot-headed politicians in the West
have been doing is very small spite.
There are lots Of people alive, in sound
memory and vigorous health, who re-
member when that was done with promi-
nent anti-slaycry men. No earnest tenn
perance man will be converted by that
kind of persuasion.- Phila. Ledger.
We have received from the world re-
nowned firm Of tobacconists, p. Lorillard
& Co., of Jersey City, a finely executed
print from the press of Root x Tinker, of
New York, entitled Representatives of
Professional Base Ball in America, con-
tanning fine portraits of prominent players
and managers. with scenes from the game
neatly introduced as a background.
IN the case Of the Demorest executors
against Henry $. Little. receiver of the
Central Railroad of New jersey, motion
for "A new trial was argued before the
Supreme Court on Monday. Application
was made for new trial on the ground of
excessive damages awarded by the juries in
the two trials held. The first jury award
ed $50, 900, and the second jury $50, 900
damages. Decision was reserved. The
suit arose out of the killing of Mr.. De
morcst, in the Parker's Creek abroad
disaster three years ago.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

The committee appointed by the Nation-
al Bureau of Animal Industry to gather
statistics relating to the cattle business in
the West has nearly completed its work
Its report will show that there are %, 900, :
600 head of cattle in the States west of the
Mississippi river, being an average gain of
80 per cent. since 1880. Texas leads with
gain of 20 per cent, and Kansas is second
showing an increase of 81 per cent.
Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, issued on
Tuesday proclamation to the people of
the three counties in the Hooking Valley i'll
which trouble has resulted from the miners
strike He enumerates the inceudiary acts
and intimates that they are in great meas
ure due to the sympathy extended the
strikers by the citizens. He calls ON the
latter ''to use their efforts to preserve the
peace by discontinuing all unlawful acts
and aiding the local authorities in their eff
forts to preserve property and the peace.
He assures them that ''if the disturbance
continues it will be suppressed, if it re-
quired the entire military force of the
State"
The Monitor., 1884-11-14
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
CORRECTED EVERY THURSDAY BY W. C. GARRISO
327 SOUTH FRONT ST., PHILADELPHIA.

CORRECTED EVERY THURSDAY BY W. C. GARRISON,
327 SOUTH FRONT ST., PHILADELPHIA.
BUTTER-Print. prime, 32e. to 35c.; fair, 2sc.
to 30c roll DC to 2Sc.; common, &c. to Zoe.
per Id. Eggs, 30c per doZ. DRESSED POULTRY
Turkeys, l6c. to lsc.; chickens, l6c. to lie;
fowls 4c. to l5c; ducks, l4e to Ice; geese, l2c.
to I4c. DRESSED HoGs-heavy, 13c. to Sc; light.
Sc. to &c. SToCR-Calves, SC. to SIC; sheep, 4c.
to &c; lambs, Sc. to &c. GAME-Squabs 4Oc. TO
45c per pair; pigeons, BIC. to 30c. per pair plo-
ver 81. y to $50 per doz. wood cock. GOc. 10
75c per pair: pheasants soc. to $l.W per pair;
quail JOc. to 6Oc.; English snipe $l.2j to $i.50
per doZ.; rabbits, BIC. to 40c. per pair; canvass
back ducks, s.50 to 500 per pair; red head
ducks, G0c. to 75c per pair: bulls and heifers.
500 to $1,000 per doZ.; salt water terrapin,
SI2.O0 to Sl4O0 per doz. OYsTERs-Extra, $500 to
600 per lOO0 prime, 500 to 500 per 1000 culs,
s.. 30 TO $500 per 1900. FEATHERs-Geese, choice,
55c to GDc., fair, tsc to Soc per h.. chicken 10.
to Sc per h.; ducks 2sc to SOC. per lb.; turkey,
7c. TO Sc. per lb. FRrIT AND NEGETA BLEs-
Apples, choice eating, $3.50 to $500 per bbl.
cooking, 500 to y. per bbl; fair 81 so to $500
per Dbl: common, $l.0O to sl.2 per bbl. Cab
bage soc. to 81 100 per Dbl. Onions, $3.50 TO ST. ~
per Dbl. Crinberries, dark, 1880 to $500 per
crate; medium, $500 to So q per crate; ig hit 80
to 81. IS per crate. Potatoes, Early Rose, choice
SOC to 55c. per bushel; Burbunks 45c. TO soc. per
bushel; Mammoth Pearl. 4jc. to soc. per bushel
Snowflake, 4sc. to soc. per bushel; Peerless, 45c
to 50c per bushel. sweet potatoes, prime, 81 10
to $500 per bb; fair, 200 to ~ 80 per bbl; chis
ii 90 to sl.25 per bbl.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

Many eminent ministers have told us
that the Republican party is Prohibition
party, and as the Republican party has a
good working majority in both houses of
the legislature we shall surely have the
Prohibition amendment resolutions passed
at the ensuing session of the legislature.
OF course, we who voted for st. John will
not have much influence with the domi-
nant party but then that does not change
the principle. The advantages of Prohbi-
ton do not grow out of the worthiness of
Prohibitionists, but out of the thing itself.
If the legislature will pass our Prohibition
resolutions it will prove that the eminent
ministers who voted the Republican ticket
were right and that we third party men
are cranks; it will be rather hard on us,
but we shall willingly suffer in the inter-
ests of Prohibition reform. We respect
fully suggest that the Republican party
has now an opportunity to show that we
have misrepresented it. We will beg par
don if We have misrep"esented our friends.
-Iemperance Gazette.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

\ good story is told of Third warder
who while lacking in the virtue of that alb
stinence himSelfis never the less great
stickler for constancy in those who pro
fess it, and meeting with a neighbor who
last year was rampant temperance spout
er he said $50 understand you are going
to vote for Blaine this year. 'Oh yes
was the answer, wife says if | don't
Cleveland may he elected and then we
shall have no tariff, no work and every
thing will go to the deliberations; yes
shall have to vote for Blaine this time. -
well, said his somewhat bilious friend,
''all right, all right Sammic, do as you
please, but if you vote for rum this year
don't want you to come to me on next
election and stick your God and human
ity' ticket under my nose, understand
that ?''-Bridgeton Neos.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14
THE TEMPERANCE SHIP.



Take courage, temperance workers
You shall not suffer wreck
While up to God the peoples prayers
Are ringing from your deck
Wait cheerily, temperance workers,
For daylight and for land;
The breath of God is in your sail,
Your rudder in His hand.
sail on sail on deep freighted
With blessings and with hopes;
The good of old, with shadowy hand,
Are pulling at your ropes.
Behind you, holy martyrs
Uplift the palm and crown;
Before you, unborn ages send
Their benediction down.
Courage. your work is holy.
Gods el1ands never fail
Sweep on through storm and sunshine,
The thunder and the hail
Work on sail on. the morning comes,
The port You yet shall win:
And all the bells of God shall ring
The ship of Temperance in.
Isaiah ALI, W-f3.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

State Superintendent of instruction Ap-
gar has issued a circular to the public
school teachers of the state, calling atten-
ton to the proposed exhibit of New Jersey
educational matters to be made at the New
Orleans Exposition. Every teacher is re-
quested to secure for the exhibit one speci-
men of work in each branch of study pur-
sued by her pupils. Considerable
interest is being developed among the pu-
pills and teachers, and the display is expec-
ted to exceed in interest that which the
same schools made at the Centennial.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

| have heard it said, on good authority,
that "a vote for St. John is a vote stuck in
the mud" think that is a good illustra-
ton. The roots of the lilies on our pond
are stuck down deep in the mud but they
draw thence the nourshment which makes
them "a thing of beauty and joy forever"
They have plenty of water, too, and that is
what the ST. John men believe in. Yes,
let the Prohibitionists plant their votes
thickly in the mud of party politics till
they come up to the surface i'll goodly
bloom to beautify and bless our homes
with prohibition, and crowd out the decay
ed issues of the past. Yours truly,
PROHIBITION.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14
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The Monitor., 1884-11-14

The people of the United States have
been making history lately. Our grand
children will read our doings in the year of
grace 1884 with the same amount of in
terest that we now read of the political re
volutions of the country, that took place
before we were born.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14
THE AWFUL RISK.

Il shall say more later on of the ending
of this fast life of indulgence and sin.
Only this now. To begin it, to tamper
with it, to touch it, is to take stand above
a crater. whose sudden burst may mean
blighting ruin.
I'm the midst of the mining regions a
wealthy contractor gave grand ball in his
sumptous parlorS. The rooms sparkled
with brightness and resounded with music
and laughter In the midst of the revelry
the host sent a servant below for some for
gotten duty, bidding him carry candle to
light his way. Ten minutes afterward.
finding the servant in the corridor he asks
him of his errand and finds it done.
Where did he leave the candle? Careless
ly left X burning, sticking III barrel of
sand III the cellar lie will go down and
blow it out. No, the host will go himself.
In an instant he is on the STAIR and then
calmness to the winds. Or, awful danger.
Sand? Blasting powder. Ten barrels lying
there side by side. Any moment an awful
'APi''i'ii may nun outi anu Dtduly ltD
awful death. An instant and he is in the
further cellar. There is the candle, BEAM
ing out from its socket in the dark. glsten-
ing sand of death. A current of air has
burned it hurriedly. and long, shining
wick is hanging down, just ready to fall.
Carefully, with hands extended, he creeps
toward it, holding his very breath lest it
cast down the fatal spark. There it goes.
God be merciful. No it has caught again
in the side of the dripping wax. Nearer
yet and then, unmindful of the flame, with
tight clenched hands he draws it out, and
then reels senseless to the ground And
when the cool air revivcs him. and he finds
again the upper air, his hair, black before,
is white as driven snow, aged in a single
hour. An awful danger. merciul es-
cape!-but not worthy of mention, young
man, beside the danger of him who
lights the iaintest gleam of indulgence in
the midst of this explosive life Keep away,
III Gods name, keep away from the danger
OF habits and the man-trap of hell. You
are too good to he Slave to the devil,
Prove it, and live to honor God and save
eternally your better self -
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

The Prohibitionists have no more thrown
away their votes than did the 1, 300. 600 who
voted for John C. Fremont throw away
their votes in 1856.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

First impressions are most lasting.
We were impressed the morning after
election with the idea that Cleveland was
elected President. The impression seems
To stick
The Monitor., 1884-11-14
Camden Ministers and Rev. j. IL. Graw

The preachers of the Camden District
New Jersey Conference met at the book
rooms of Pcrkinpine & Higgins, 914 Arch
street, Philadelphia, on Monday morning
to consider what action it was necessary to
take in reference to the charge of a Cam
dan paper against the official integrity of
the Presiding Elder of the district.
The following report was adopted:
" Whereas, an unjust assault has been
made upon the character of the Rev. J. b.
Graw. ID. d., insinuating that he would
use the power of his office as Presiding
Elder in Furnishing preachers who might
not act in accordance with him in the late
Presidential canvass.
''We do most earnestly protest against
any such unjust intimation
1--WE also protest against the thought
that We have any members among us, who
will sacrifice their manhood so far as to
submit through fear, to the direction Of any
Presiding Elder as to the course they shall
pursue at the ballot box.
Signed, G. +. Downs, President; ]. g.
Crate, Secretary G. f. Garrison, ]. H.
Payran, J. f. Morrel. ]. 5. IIeisler Com
mittee.
The signatures of twenty-four members
of the Camden district were appended to
this report aud the meeting adjourned
The Monitor., 1884-11-14
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The Monitor., 1884-11-14

We have the largest stock of clothing we
ever owned-all kinds, for men, boys,
youths and children-new stock just bought
at the present low down prices. E. b.
Humphreys & Co.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14
EXHIBIT OF SCHOOL WORK.
State superintendent Apgar to the SUI
perintendents and Teachers.

Great interest is being developed among
the teachers and pupils of the public schools
in different parts of the State over the cx-
hibit of school work at the New Orleans
exposition. State Superintendent Apgar
has issued a circular to the superntendents
and teachers in which he says
Specimens in all ordinary branches pur-
sued in our schools, and also in such special
studies as may find place in some of them.
Collections of objects in natural history
made by teachers or pupils will be accept
ed and cared for. and, if desired, they, at the
close of the exhibition, will be returned to
the owners. This work need not and should
not interrupt the regular daily exercises
of the school. What is desired are simply
the best specimens of the regular daily work
done by the pupils
Every teacher should try to secure at
least one specimen of work in each branch
of study pursued in his room. Let the
teacher, for instance say to the pupils in
his arithmetic class Now, next week we
will select for the New Orleans Exhibit
one, two or three, as the case may be, of
the best original solutions of the problems
found in the lessons assigned. The pupils
doing the work selected will then be fur
nished with the proper blanks on which
their work can be neatly transcribed The
same suggestion will apply to the other
branches.
In spelling let one hundred words be Sc
lected from that portion of the book passed
over by the pupils since the opening of the
school in September, and given to the class
to write, with the understanding that the
four pupils making the fewest mistakes
will have their work Transcribed in the
proper blank. The copying may be done
by the person spelling the word, or by
some other person, as preferred by the
teacher. The mistakes must all be copied
spelled should all be underscored with red
or black ink. Each page in the blank is
ruled for one hundred words The blank
has three pages, and will thus contain the
work of three pupils.
The other branches of which there will
be exhibits are map drawing, grammar
penmanship, mathematics, essays, drawing
Latin, Greek, French and German exer-
cises, etc. The address concludes
Let all the work be that which has been
honestly done by the pupils without assist
ance. TIL. teachers influence should ap-
pear i'll the preparatory training the pupil
has received, but not in the actual work
done for exhibition. The work for the Cen
tennal was bound according to subjects,
and thus the contributions from any par
ticular school were distributed through sew
eral volumes. This time all the work con-
tributed by a school will be bound together
One volume may contain work from sever
al schools, but that from each school will
be together. This will apply to all work
except miscellaneous drawing and map
drawing, which must be on the large sheets
of paper
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

Get ready for a grand raid by the De
mocraey on the post offices of the country
after March 4th, 1885.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

If it be true as asserted, that ballots
voted for unsuccessful candidates are stuck
in the mud, the earth must be full of them.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

Five million Republicans have thrown
away their votes: they have not even the
satisfaction of having voted for a principle.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

The following remark, made by clergy
man of Philada., a few days ago, contains
much that is true and should be placed in
the Republican pipe and smoked, even if
the flavor is bitter ''St John is the man
who costs Blaine the State of New York il
Cleveland is successful. 1t is to me really
the first important advance in the direction
of success ever made by the little army
of Prohibitionists. The Republican party,
i'll the next Presidential contest, will be
forced to treat with the temperance peo-
pie or look for defeat
The Monitor., 1884-11-14
SOME CHOICE WINE!

From saloon a few doors away comes
a bottle of port wine that is marvel The
nearest it ever was to grapevine was
when it passed it on the cars 1t has
enough neutral spirits to keep it from
spelling; the first is water thickened with
glycerine and licorice, while the havoring
of this choice vintage is made Of zinc, mer-
curry, antinony. and several acids, making,
with the alcohol, a sort of chemical ether
that would do a chemists heart good to
smell at.
"a bottle of choice sherry from Clark
Street, has the same neutral spirits, with
choice ilavoring and coloring of lead iodine.
stryclnine, muriatic and sulphnric acid,
and arsenic to give it elearness and sparkle.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

'.From little further uptown bottle
of choice Kentucky whisky, from State
Street has in it. in a little less quantities.
suphuric acid, arsenic, sulphate of zinc,
and fusel oil in abundance. Some gin,
from Randolph and LaSalle Streets, has
carbolic acid and arsenic in addition to its
turpentine and blue vitriol, to make it
more palatable and delightful.
Perhaps as delightful a concoction as
any is bottle of brandy from Dearborn
Street, near Washington, made entirely of
neutral spirits, water, acetc ether, and
burnt sugar. Ch ,ice old apple brandy, so
reads the label. Are all these second-rate
saloons BY no means.
From place on Monroe Street, between
Dearborn and State, comes a screw-top
bottle labeled Fine Old French Cognac,
1870 1t turns out to be alcohol and wa
ter colored with burnt sugar, favored
with spirits of cognac, which is nothing
more than acetic ether, made of alcohol,
sulphuric acid, acetic acid, and certain
minerals, while arsenic gives clearness and
sparkle. Plenty of plate glass, and color
ed globes, and tiled floor, and costly oil
paintings, can be bought selling such a
compound at $3.50 gallon.
"On Madison Street, between Dearborn
and State, they sell old crow whisky, pre-
sumably quite pure and certainly very
good. But just what sulphuric acid and
acetate of lead and arsenic have to do with
old Kentucky whiskey | certainly do not
know.
So went the list. OF all the liquors
bought, only one single sample. and that
expensive beyond the popular ability, was
pure and what it pretended to be. The
whole thing is
A CONCENTRATED LIE, MoNsTROUs BEYOND
BELIEF.
This is new argument for temperance,
young man. question if you have ever
heard it before, but here it is, sparkling
with the clear voice of science. telling of
poison and disease and death And these
liquors are the same, 60 where you will.
You will have to look long to find pure
whisky sold over the counter in Chicago.
Do you want to drink the stuff that is sold?
Do you so especially crave concentrated
lye and nnslacked lime, and sulphuric acid
and turpentine, and glycerine and arsenic,
that you want to pay ten cents a swallow
for them? tell you the whole thing is a
cheat. The habit is simply of a part with
the morphine or any drug disease-expen-
sve, useless, and ruinous to the body
mind, and soul \ glass of milk has in it
ten times the nutrition and food for vital
growth that ten times as much alcohol
possesses. And in any shape alcohol cor
rodes the body and blights with idiocy the
mind
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

Best rubber boots--no second quality,
none better made, SO per pair at Hum
phreys.
The Monitor., 1884-11-14

The political excitement of the last few
months. has, in great measure, subsidized
and the people are beginning to tum their
attention to their everyday affairs, and it
is quite time. Rent day comes around,
notes mature and bills fall due quite as reg
ularly in political campaign as in any
other time, and many man has found to
his sorrow that the time spent by him in
whOoping it up for his party has been to
the disadvantage of his own affairs No
donbt many Of us sitting down quietly
after the heat of the battle is over have
reason to be ashamed of many eXtraya-
gances in word or action in the campaign
Just ended. And when we find that the sky
has not fallen, that there has been no
earthquake and that matters are running
on very much as usual, we begin to Won
der what all the fuss has been about after
all. 1t is always so and when we consider
that after every election the people have to
accept the situation and cool off sooner or
later. we are led to wonder what was the
the use of getting excited at all Human
nature is 4 curious thing, taking it by aud
large