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PRESIDENTIAL HOROSCOPE.
THE STARS PREDICT VICTORY FOR
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.
An Astrological Analysis Of the
Situation The Snags and
Shoals for Party Man
ayers to Avoid.

The National Democratic Commit
tee has appointed the Democratic
Convention to meet in Chicago on
July s next. Although in some res
poets the day is not exactly what
may be termed perfectly lovely" it
is so immeasurably more favorable
than June 3.-the day on which the
Republicans meet in the same city
that there can be but little doubt
that the great party Of moral ideas
VIII meet its Waterloo this year, un-
less the Democrats, through party
and factional discord. are grievously
misled in the selection of their stand
ard bearer.
on TUESDAY, JULY s, 1881,
at twelve o'clock, noon, when the
gavcl of Chairman Barnum, or his
representative, fails to call the con-
vention to order, twelve degrees and
ffty-iive minutes of the cardinal,
equinoctal and scientific sign Libra
will occupy the ascendant in the east,
with the benign planet Venus, gov
erning the ascendant, posted in the
middle of the tenth house. Fifteen
degrees of Cancer are in the midheav-
en-, with the sun closely approaching
the cusp of the tenth house, but being
within it, in asmuch as on that day
the clocks will be four minutes and
fifty seconds fast. The moon, far re.
moved from all the rest Of the planets
is situated in the fourth house in the
sign Capricorn. Neptune is in the
eight house in twenty-five degrees
and forty three minutes Of Taurus
Uranus is in the twelfth house il
twenty-four degrees and thirty
eight minutes of Virgo, with Mars il
the cusp Of the same house in eigh
, teen degrees and thirty-siX minutes
; of the Virgin. Saturn is in the mint
house with Mercury, the former il
, eighteen degrees of Gemini, the lat
ter in eleven degrees and thirty min
| utes of Cancer. Jupiter is posite'
: well within the tenth house in min
| degrees and three minutes of Leo.
: THE SIGN OF THE SUN.
! Venus, the lady of the ascendan
} and the moon represent the nominc
t af the convention. The planet as ha
II already been stated, is situated in tn
n middle of the twelfth house, whic
: represents the government, the MOI
d arch or the presidency; and at III
date of the convention Venus wi
), have been retrograding for abor
II three weeks. The moon is about tw
degrees from being in opposition
o the planet, and has not long passe
y the opposition of the sun, and Il
J. trine of Mars. The retrogradc pos
d ton of Venus, and theunfavorable pr
IS sition of the moon, will almost ce
A tainly lead to factional fight, an
Il more than likely the best and mo
available candidate will either d
Y cline the nomination or be defeatC
d by tricky manipulation. But as Il
sun and Venus are approaching
/ conjunction which will occur OH Il
18th (Saturday,) and as Venus w
d be in conjunction with Mercury Q
&c the same day, the motto of the co
Is vention ought to be "Festina lentC
MAKE HASTE SLOWLY,
ID and defer the nomination till as nc
the end of the week as possible. 7
m presence of Jupiter in the ten
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-03-14
he good county Of Christian.

the good county of Christian.
"Please push the knob of the cleo
trio bell"
what for!'
81 want servant to bring me
twenty grains of ipccachuana to take
a fiShy taste out of my mouth" AMI
with these words the doctor fell back
in a deathlikc swoon.-L3uisvlllc
Commercial.
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Decelv,ng a Songstress,

The following anecdote of the late
Sir Michael Costa is told by London
Truth. ION one occasion Madame
Rudersdorf, after singing her song at
rehearsal, declared she must have it
transposed a half note lower. .Rnt
madame said Costa, CONSIDER the
inconvenience, especially to the wind
instruments. And all my men can
not be counted on to transpose IN
sight etc etc. But the ladv was
imperative, and Sc Costa shrugged his
shoulders and bowed. Gentlemen
said he, turning to the bewilderad
band, and closing the score, :to-mo nu
row you play it a note lower re
mex day, just before Madame Rno
am on to sing, Costa pava
me word sofia voice. 'Gentlemen ;n
tne original key. Nc changev And
u Was sung. At the close tho DO
lighted singer turned rapturons1v To-
Gostaand thanked him With efin:;on TO
L ana charmed she said. .Madama,
replied Costa, with that to"ch e.
Pheasant irony which often nIaved
around bis lips, we are charmapd i.yeu
sang it in the original kew" n'7'' you
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How = Woman Puts on Shoes.

When a woman has a new pair of
shoes sent home she performs alto
gether different from a man. She
never shoves her toes into them and
yanks and hauls until she is red in
the lace and all out OF breath, and
then GO stamping and kicking around,
Dut pul@ them on part way very care
fully, twitches them off az gain to take
a last look and SEE if she has got the
right one, pulls them on again, looks
at them dreamingly, says they are
just right, then takes another look.
stops suddenly to smooth out the
wrinkles. twists around and surveys
them sideways, exclaims: "Mercv.
now loose they are!!" looks at them
again square in front, works her feet
around so they won't hurt her quite
so much, takes them off, looks at the
heels, the toe, the bottom, and then
inside, puts them Oh again, walks up
ana down the room once or twice. re-
marks to her better half that she
won't have them at any price, tits
down the mirror so she can see how
they look, turns in every possible di-
rect'on, and nearly d~islocates her
neck trying to see how thew look
from that way, backs off, steps up
again, takes thirty or forty farewell
looks, says they make her feet look
awful big and Will never do in the
world, puts them off and on three or
four times more, asks her husband
what he thinks about 1t and paws no
attention to what he says, goes
through it all again, and finaliy SAYS
she Will take them. 1t is a very SIM
pie matter, indeed.
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licaps are the following:

1t will require POI votes to elect, sc
that, at the best showing, the Repub'
licans are IL votes short OF a majority
without New York. In order to give
| these 1873 it is necessary to concede to
them Connecticut, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts and Ohio, Is well as
all the Pacific coast states. It is by
nc means certain that they can carry
all these. Ohio is an extremely
doubtful state. It was carried by the
Democrats last year with a majority
of 13. 600, and by the prevailing dis
content af the Germans with q pro-
hibition candidate, it is by no means
certain that the verdict will be re-
versed. Connecticut is also a very
doubtful state and is very apt to sym
pathize, as it always does, with its
neighbor, New York. New Hamp-
shire is a very close state in all cleo
lions. Massachusetts is threatened
by a formidable bolt, the effect of
which cannot yet be foreseen. Hence
the concession of 1873 votes for Blaine
extremely liberal.
On the other side the following !
states may be considered as reasons
ably certain for any candidate whom
he Democratic party may nominate:
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Il

ST. PETERSBURG, June 3O.-Thtre
is a panic among the jews in towns
In Western Russia. This city OPP,
poses the sympathy with Jews ana
declares that equal rights for CHRIS
tlans and Jews would be a greater
misfortune for Russia than the Tor
mel Monaghan yoke.
LONDON. June 3O.-Ciifford LLOYD
In a letter to the Times gives q
graphic description of the horrors u
the Egyptian prisons and the corluP
ton Of the Mudirs and anti English
lntrlgues OF the officials at Cairo.
EDIEBURG, June 30.-The Thealle
Royal of this city was burned TO-DAY
BRUSSELS, June Set is consul,
ered certain that America, Ffaiss
ana Germany are about to rectgn"
the free State of Congo.
BERLIN, June 3O.-it is announces
That at the next session the go'eln
ment will submit to the Relcns'"ss
the scheme of greatly enlarglns
navy.
LONDON. June 3O.-Tbe Erlls"
slooD of war Pegasuas has been 70
dered to proceed from SinSaP9e, he,
Acheen with provisions ard clo, ,'pr
for the crew of the British slean If
Nisere, wrecked December iass d,,
the Acheen coast and still held w
tives by the Rajah. m
MARsE1LLEs, June 3o.-ino TO-
%nlnsular & Oriental Steams!llP, 10
will discontinue running Vesoe.
and Bombay for inc
owing to the outbreak OF cholei"
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The London police are once MORE
we are told, on the track" OF Inc
dvnamiters. That means hat Inc
London police, finding no o W
praise them, circulate . rumor WHICH
means that they are praising them
selves. It might be hazardous to say
hat the .strack" is altogether q blind
,ne. The London olice may have
have found a trail, but it ia no harm
to think that the man who praises
their vigilance is guilty of that Gym,
which makes praise ~undeseryed
satire in disguise.
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AMUSING E

The rhetoric of the committee in
formally notifying Mr.. Blaine of his
nomination by the Chicago conven>
ton is amusing, to say the least. He
was reminded by the chairman of the
delegation that his selection twas the
spontaneous expression by a free peo-
pie of love and admiration Of a chosen
leader" MI. Blaine was probably
under the impression that it was
''Elkins" who did it, so that this rev
elation must have delighted him.
But this was not the only new thing
that the "Plumed Knight" learned
on this interesting occasion, He was
told about his magnificent services
in protecting the nation against the
assaults of armed treason;" about his
"un%loosening the shackles of the
slave" and preserving the national
credit when it Was assailed by false
financial theorists. Nj. Blaine did
perform great services during the wal
through a strong and sinewy substi>
tute. When Butler was at the front
declaring that the negro should be
considered "contraband of war;" Mr..
Blaine was serving the cause of free>
dom by drawing his salary of S., 900
a year as a congressman. And, final
~, when the financial honor of the
nation was in peril, Mr.. Blaine did
his utmost to maintain it in the chair
OF the Speaker of the House of Rep>
re%sentatives by investing in ques-
tionable railroad enterprises and car
rying on a correspondence with
Dear Mulligan."
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TELEGRAPH NP%m,


"rttAl
WASHINGTON, June 20
ldent directed that Bripad;oIh ePs
David G: Swain, Judr s'sr Gen.
General U. s. A, and Advosss
Colonel P. Marrow of tn. %lSt!ateas'
s. Cavalry, be broughtto t,1 ellztl
the general court martial 'ilal bstss
to assemble in tn. c,ty CT sS9pEpoipss
ton Sept. 10Th. The fo]JovMi ashir,s
detail of the court: Ma;".n it,
! J. NJ M schofie'd, Brigadier GsDs,eo sp,
Holbard, Brigadier Gensraa1' $
Murray, Brigadler Gensra, RNb--
Newton, Col. q. Smith, I9Ih ID
ry; Col. G. l. Andrews, XXI iIatl,!
~; Col. Bradley, 18th infan1,ll ate,
dodgers, "a Artillery; C"l
lis, 2S1h Infantry; Col, l. !,
black, 23d Infantry; with NJ =: Y
A. =. Gardner, Judge Adyo.sasNe
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General Logan took occasion to
%reiterate that he did not seek the
nomination for vice president. Per-
haps not. He would certainly have
preferred the first place. Butin view
OF the fact that the election of a
United States senator to succeed the
General takes place next fall, when
ne would have been reIegated to pri-
vate life. he availed himself cheer
fully of the last desperate chance to
maintain himself in public. But the
Republican party must go, and john
Logan with the rest.
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IN the Choir.

During the sermon one of the quar-.
tet fell asleep.
"Now's your chants" said the Or
ganlst to the soprano. "See if you
canticle the tenor"
You wouldn't dare duet" said the
cOntralto-
You'll wake hymn up," sug-
gested the bass.
II could make a better pun than
that, as sure as my names Psalm"
remarked the boy that pumped the
organ; but he said it solo that no one
quartet. Life.
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TOOK a Wrong View If T,
New York Granh;.,

Firps, who has been lnna.
thing Won o goo frogs legs: Every.
frog" 'o'ae use, even tie
not ta sern who is disputatious: 81 ID
mo- Kiee Win you. What use ia = tho no
take ep y mAh, my dear fellow vo,,
think h wrong view Of things. jn %
quito" We are to the mos
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SENATE.

WASHINGTON, June 80. - Sis,,.
from the committee on public Iand,
submitted a report to accountant ~
bill torfelting unearned lanes crsn,4t
the Northern Pacific railroad. Tal
report, he said Wa net atfa,iman N.Y.
and the minority would submit T.
views.
Morgan, from the committee o.
public lands, reported adversely +
the bill to grant public lands to On,
vivors of the Mountain Meadow nss
sacre. Morgan said he was sstjsfs1
if valid claims existed against II,
government arising out Of the mas,
sacre it was not GAINED tina. thar
should be compensated in nnhi,
lands, but in money. Placed on ii.
calendar.
Cameron PENNSYLVANIA called y,
his resolution, therefore suhmitteG
d scha ging the finance committss
from further consideration of the bin
for the retirement and recoinasa a
t ade dollars.
On Il motion to agree to the resolr-
ton Morrill, called for the yeas and
nays, which resulted in yeas, y
nays, 2S, so the resolution was uC
agreed to.
Coke from the committee reporta
favOrably to he acted on the next GA.
sion. the bill to provide for the in.
Drovement of the channel between
Galveston harbor and the Cuff
Mexica. Adjourned.
The secretary OF the senate was d,
rected to ask a recall from the Hous
of the bill to grant a right of way b
the Southern Kansas Railroad G.
through the Indian Territory, in
order that the Senate may order 4
committee conference on it.
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, intro.
duced a resolution directing the Sec
rotary of the Treasury to purchase
not 10 exceed $40, DOC, 900 Of trade dol.
lars at a fair value paying therefor
the standard silver dollars, proyid'
ing the purchase can be made prior
to Sept. lst. 1884.
Morrill, objected TO the presentation
section and the matter went over.
HOUSE.
King introduced a bill appropriat
ing $200,OOO to prevent he lntrodur
tlon OF cholera in the Z. s.
In the Iowa contested election ease
of Frederlcks VS.. Wilson, the House
committee on elections decided to IT,
port i'll favor OF Fredericks.
Randall introduced a joint reso'u'
ton providing that all appropriations
Tor the necessary operation OF the
under the existing law
which shall remain uuprovlded Tor
after June 80, 1854, shall be contin'
ued and made available for the period
of five days from and after that date
aniess the regular appropriation bills
now pending shall have been pre-
v!ousiy enacted. Passed.
The House went into committee Of
The whole Oh tie forl!1ication Till; al
a debate the cOmnIltle arose.
Rostcrans presented the cnnter>
report bill which provides 10!
he disposition, abandonment and
Use OF the military reservations.
Agreed to.
Adjourned.
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It was not the Canadian govern

It was not the Canadian govern
ment but the Hudson Bay Company,
that for two centuries kept the Cans
adam Indians in order. Now that
the Indians have passed from under
the Jurisdiction of the latter to the
control of the former, we hear OF
"'riots" and "war paths" from the
Canadian Northwest az we have
been accustomed to hear from New
Mexico aud Arizona. If the Indians
understood how to telegraph their
own side of the question we would
be better able to judge about the bal
ance of the scales.
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The Chicago Inter- Ocean says:
When Jim and Johu get there, let
some "blarsted foreigners dare to
haul down our flag and see if there
is not an erup: ion. Yes, and then
see if citizens of the United States
visiting Mexico will register as Eng
lish subjects. Some now do that.
but when Tim ana John have been
inaugurated the Stars and Stripes
will be respected and honored or
there will indeed be an eruption.
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UnhOlifed Crew.

ST.. JOHNS, N. b., June 80 An
outrage was perpetrated SaturdN
night by the crew of the bark Lady
Ellbahk. They broke into the Cath
Ollie church at st. Mary's, at St.
Mary's Bay, and demolished the fur
nlture and appointments of the sane
tuary and destroyed the tabernacle ab'
Stracts.
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Senator Edmunds did not material
lie at the Republican ratification
meeting at Washington last Thurs
day evening. He was specially in
vited, but he claimed to be ill. As q
matter of fact Mr.. Edmunds has not
thawed out yet. He will not gush
for Blaine.
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"Mr. Bayard," remarks the st.
Louis Globe Democrat, lis not the
first man to be beaten for the presi-
dental nomination by one of his own
speeches. It is said of Daniel Web.
ster, by one of his biographers. that
he was defeated for the presidency by
a single sentence in his Plymouth
Rock speech-one in which he de-
that all government is founded
on property"
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e Democratic party may nominate:

There are doubtful states in the
above list, and if the Democrats sue
coed in carrying New York, with its
thirty-six votes, and Indiana with
it's fifteen, they will have Ola votes, or
twelve more than a majority. In
both states they start with the ODDS
in their favor. That New York is
doubtful under any circumstances,
demands no proof; that IN view of the
extensive bolt, which even the Blaine
organ admits, the doubt becomes
rather %one-sided, is an obvious con-
cluslon. With Cleveland as the NOM
inee, a large part of the disafected
vote will go to him, although the
phenomenal majority Of 1882 cannot
be expected, since many of the then
kickers were Blaine men, determined
upon smashing the Arthur machine.
Still, the independent voters, pure
and simple, are sufficiently numer-
GUS to turn the scale in q state which
is naturally Democratic on a straight
party vote. AS for Indiana, it is
no longer an October state, and can
not be singled out for the extraordi-
nary pressure which was brought
upon it in 1880, under Dorsey's lead
ership. Left to their own inclina>
tions and unbiased by 'soap," the
majority of the voters are Democrats.
To succeed without New York Blaine
must carry Connecticut, Massachu-
sets, Ohio and Indiana, and ne will
then have only 2O3 votes, or only two
more than enough. This is a very
narrow margin and a very risky Que,
the uncertainty of Con-
necticut. II be loses Indiana in adj
dition to New York he must go south
for aid, and the only states for which
be has ever a shadow of q chance |
are Florida and West Virginia, !
which would not be enough to elect
Under the circumstances the
assu med confidence of his managers
ire remindful only of the boy who
.histled the loudest when passing
he graveyard, to keep up his cour-
lua |
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Change OF Managers.

LOUISVILLE, June 3O.-Mr. Brad
ford Durham to day resigned as gen
-ral manager of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad company, the
resignation to take effect July l. IA.
Harahan, general superintendent OF
the southern division, has been ap'
pc lnted to succeed him.
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Treasurer hon

LITTLE Rock, June 3o.-Special
Master S!mms to>day reported the
d~efalcation of ex-State Treasurer
Thomas H. Churchill, filed late ms
afternoon. He was treasurer three
terms OF two years each, and the Ut
hcit announced is $50, 522.
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DelnOcra tic Movement.

NEW YORK, June 3o.-Tbe.
democracy resolved to.nigbt ~
$50 members to the Chicago "
ton. They start Friday next
West Shore road. The D.
House will be their Leadon'Ns
The monopolists have res1 1Laa''
form a t. national nlonopoIist ~
with branches in every city N NY \
Union. Theodore E.. TomIijns'
made a speech advocating the naF
nation of Tild' n and Thurman 1 a,a
Chicago convention. U
The Jefferson,an Dcmocrs,,
Brooklyn, send sixty 1nen4bers rs ,
Democratic National CoDyen,i""s u
They leave SATURDAY.
L nr headquarters will be ., w :,
hotel. vt
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NEW O r

In contrast with the buster of the
Blaineites that they can elect their
man without carrying New York, the
following cold figures are recon-
mended to their leisure perusal and
cold comfort. All the states which
are reasonably certain for the Repub>
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General LOAN is calamity march
ing through the moods and lenses
without the elightest regard to the
rules and regulations Of the late
LindIey Murray.
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The New York Tribune once
claimed to be an independent jour-
nal, but now it is an organ
and is crying out against indepen~
dent journalism.
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Judge Tourgee is one of the Blaine
boilers. He has had enough of a
Fools Errand.
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Blaine and Logan il a double cath.
artio that the independent voter can
not swallow.
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TERRITORIAL DEMOCRATIC CON-
VENTION.

The Territorial Democratic Convention will
meet at Deer Dodge. on Thursday, the Is. h day
of September, at II O'Clock N The following
are the number of Delegates apportioned to the
several counties:
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b unanimous vote of the Central Commit.
tee being against the use of proxies in the con-
ventton, it recommends to the several county
mates to the Territorial Convention, and the
q option of the resolution in each county con-
ventiOn authorizing those of the Delegates or
alternatesp present IN the Territorial COnven-
ton to cast the entire vote of their county in
said convention.
A. n. MITCHELL, Chairman.
CHAs. D. CURTIS, Secretary.
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THEO. b. ALLEN,
1888 kCH ST.
II III I L A ID z Ii E4IA,
PURCHASING AGENCY FOR
General Merchandise.

MAKES q speciality o. shopping 70. out.of-
WI town trade. will buy for Jon any kind
OF goods that can be procured 10 Philadelphis,
will give description a1d prices when samples
cannot be cent. No place ia this country can
you buy goods cheaper than 10 this city, and
never 90 cheap az now. Have the whole city
to make selections seom. aud six years expert.
ence In two Of the leading retail houses here,
will assist me in m liking jadicious seiec tons
for you.
Orders whether large or small will have alike
careful attention The prices Of the goods are
not enhanced BIZ ordering :hrough me bot bill
the goods TO my customers at the same price
that customer would pay II here 10 bur In per.
sou Ny compensation being - smsll trade
discount allowed me by the merchants Of whom
buy. Add on some goods such IS mu slins
and others, no discount at al as they are sold
net TO everybody alike. A sample order soIici.
ted Cvrresp,ndcncs promptly answered -
Goods by mail or Express at sIigh; cost TO alt
parts OF the couptrv. Address.
TfIEO. Ii. ALLEN,
1888 Arch Street.