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The Senior Senator.
rsvashtngton letter to the New York world.]

r washington letter to the New York Worldl
J. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont is the
Oldest United States senator. He will
: .be,71 years of age next April. lie has
, had as long continuous service i'll con-
gress as either Clay or Benton and long
erthan any one at nrnennt in nuhlin lie"
lie has been i'll congress since 1868. lie
was member of the house from that
period until 1867. He has been in the
, senate ever since. He has been recen-
tly reelected for another senatorial
term. If he should live to the end of
that term he would be 81 years old.
This would give him a record of 81
years in congress. This is longer rec
ord of continuous service than any one
has yet made in our history. There is
; no reason why he should not live to the
end of his term and even longer. The
senator is in most excellent health and
looks fully as young to-day as many
men in the senate Is years younger than
he. He appears to have a better lease
of life than his colleague, who is nearly
20 years younger than he. A stranger
would not think there was so much DIFF
ference between the ages of the Yer
mont senators.
Mr.. Morrill, is man over six feet la
height. He is slightly round-shouldcr-
ed. This detracts from what would
otherwise be commanding figure. He
is very precise in his manner and very
neat and careful in his dress, as every
Obj man should be. He has often been
de scribed as resembling Charles Sum-
: ner to great degree. There is re-
semblance which the lines of time have
strengthed. He has the Sumner nose.
His gray side whiskers are cut in exact
ly the same fashion as We're Summers.
The general carriage Of his head, the
sweep of the soft iron-eray hair, are
the same. The lower pary of his face
is thinner. The resemblance so mark
ed, however, in its main peculiaritics
that bust of the senator III the parlor
of his house is often taken by strangers
for that of Sumner.
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items of Interest.

Ofthe e., 900 In.ji.;ls IN the Territory
Of Dakota, 10000 speak the English
language.
Twenty years ago the Danes imported
nearly all their sugar Now they raise
it from beets.
London is now one OF the quietest
cities i'll the world III consequence Of the
prevalence of wood or asphalt pavement
il all the chief thOrOughfares.
A huge lemon was recently picked at
PanasofTkce, Fla. 1t measured 2iinches
in circumference one way; % inches the
other, and weighed pounds 10 ounces.
An aged Michigan man and wife had
their first exchange Of blows at family
celebration Of the hi,ioth anniversary of
their marriage, and they have since
lived separately.
Some of Tere Haute's young mel
found amusement il grabbing the ma
terrified from of a spirit, i'll dark
seance, aud then turning on q powerful
lantern, which disclosed the medium
costuHed for the role of ghost.
Seyonty-fve years ago the first toma-
toes grown in this country were cult
waited as Il strange aud snowy horticul-
trual curiosity in n garden in Salem,
Mass. Foriy-iive years ago, or a little
more, they began to be used as vega
table in the season.
The Mayor of DEBORAH, Iowa, de-
termined to enforce decorum in the
streets of his town at night, and to that
end dressed himsef IN the apparel of a
girl, so as to entfap the bad man who
had hgbitually insu,tod those maidens
WHO ventured ont aftor dark.
TIE largest mat in the world covers
The circus or ring of the Covert Garden
Theatre. 1t is made CT unbleached
cocoa-nut fibre and has a soft pile four
inches thick, thus making an excellent
substitute for sawdust. The weight of
this enormous mass IS over two tons.
Who owns a prescription, after it has
once been filled--the physician, the
patient, or the apothecary? The ques-
ton comes up in a Connecticut liquor
case, wherein an order for half a pint %
gin has been duplicated many times, and
the excise officers wish to punish some
body.
The story is being published Of Gen.
Sheridan that. because lie declared that
only in one certain restaurant il America
could roast chicken / e obtained in per-
fec.iou, some waggish friends hal boz
gus fowl construc.eJ Of veal and pork
and served to him in tie same establish
ment. lie spoke in high praise OF the
counterfeit while eating ii.
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TOBOGGANING.

The Canadian girls who engage in
this sport dress comfortably and suit
ably. They appear to good advantage
in the skating-rinks, skimming the
smooth, frozen surface MS birds c'eave
the air. They are as fond of tobaggan-
ing as society girl Of waltzing and
they do it with far more ense. One of
these girls will step On to toboggan's
cushions, wrap her skirts around her
ankles and then throw her feet under
the curve Of the thin board with the M.
conscious grace of a duchess at ball.
It is great fun to see one give her
Yankee cousin ride. The visitor has
seen the toboggans go whjzziug down
the smooth track and shows rather q
doubtful interest. But it is Of 10 use to
object. Everybody must have slide or
be laughed at as effeminate. So he sits
down awkwardly-for a novice finds it
no easy matter to get down Oh q board
with any appearances of comfort when
his trousers are hall frozen and his feet
persist in slipping from under him
and, when his positi5n is fairly eslab-
lished, the girl seizes the rod on each
side, gives little run and jumps on in
a way American boys call ''sidese.."
Her weight rests mainly on her strong
arms and she steers with her right foot
which extends behind the toboggan.
One can never appreciate tie delight of
tobogganing till lie has Tried il. Tho
track for third Of a mile ur more is
made purposely smco.h as ic,. The
bottom Of the tol'osgan i equally
smooth, and it ecens to the Y.ll.ee
cousin as lie whizzes deWn tie course
thai there cannot be any great amount
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Tha following challenge Ia prm oil in
The london uormiag Aiuatser, IN ar
ing so much boast Of sha INK in London,
Paris and other plcce, Juliaa Of Gable
street. in st. George, in the Eps', will
back himself for fvom S'aI 10 $40 to
shave and lather nix men willie blind,
folded without cuttius thcm, Man aud
money ready"
Tramways are rapidly iucrsa3ing in
number and popularity in England and
yet when George Francis Train tried to
Introduce them some years ago he
encountered tho bittoyest hostility, In
London street railr ads are not to be
found in the leading str cts, which, in
deed, arc too crowded for them. The
rails are laid down with much greater
caro- than here, but it is beyond dispute
that carriages suffer,
DR. T. ID. CrotherSadvanc the theory
that inebriety may be not only n disease,
but contagious. He believes it possible
that the results set down to the evil ef-
fects of bad exam L. aud association are
the result of actual contagion, "result.
ing in pathological changes of the nerve
centres, and leading to inebriety with as
little volition on the part of the sufferer
as if he had an attack Of the measles"
In Barbados one Sunday, the captain
of vessel from New York saw very
important colored lady, glovad, shoed,
and parasolled, walking to church with
barefooted colored servant carrying
her bag and prayer book. He was
astonished at the lady CT color being
able to keep up so much state, but was
told that the couple were sisters, and if
he would only wait until next Sunday
he would see the situation reversed.
The famous fire dance OF the Navajo
Indians, often described as though it in
volved some sort of genuine mccromancy,
is explained by matter of fact spectator.
1t is true, he says, that the naked wor-
shippers cavort round big bonfire,
with blazing faggots i'll their hands and
dash the flames over their own aad fell
lows bodies, all in most picturesque
and maniacal fashion ; but their skins
are first so thickly coated with clay
paint that they cannot easily be burned
Rosa Sander, the noted Hungarian
brigand, whose exploits have been the
subject of many n romance, died recent
ly III the fortress of Debreczn. Born
in 1913 he took to the road early, threw
trains off the road pillaged mail bags
and travellers, and levied ransoms on the
wealthy inhabitants of many Of the rural
districts in Hungary, evading all the
research of the police for five-and-twcnty
years When at last he was captured
while sleeping in vineyard, it was
proved that he had allies and associates
among the highest tunc iolaries and
many Aldermen o Pest,r.
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uoHT DOSEl.sON READY FOR EARN

The 9th of February, 1862, lawa d
aarkly after Il thunderstorm. Plci G
the parapets Of the work on tao hill
above the inlet formed by the Junction
of Hickman's Creek and the Cunber-
land River, and sentinel, in the servi-
ceable butternut jeans uniform of the
Confederate Army of the West, might
that day have surveyed Fort Dynelson
almost ready for battle. In fact, very
little was afterward done to it. There
Were the-two water batteries sunk in the
northern face of the bluff, about. 80 feet
above the river in the lower battery
nine 32-pounder guns and one ,1O-inch
Columbiad, and in the upper another
(o!umbiad, bored and rified as n 80
ponder, and two 32-pounder carronades
These guns lay between the embrasures,
Ill snug revetment Of sand in coffee
sacks, hanked right and left with Stout
traverses. The satisfaction of the SEN
try could have been nowise diminished
at seeing the backwater lying deep i'll
the creek a more perfect ditch against
assaults could not have been constructed.
The fort itself was of good profile and
admirably adapted to the ridge it
crowned. Arcund it, on the landwWd
side, ran the rife pits, continuous. but
irregular line Of logs, covered with the
yell w Clay. From Hickman's Greek
they extended far around to The little
run just outside the town Oh the south.
If tie sentry thought the pits looked
shallow he was solaced to see that hey
fllowed the coping of the ascents 70 or
SO fee5 in height, mp which FOE must
charge, and that where they were weak.
est, they We're strengthened by trees
fcl!cd outwardly i'll front of them, 80 that
the interlacipg limbs and branches
seemed impossible By men under fire.
III !1ninta. iIai4ie tbe y,,st-rt'r -,.r1l4 ei,5
inHcr slopes OF the hills, defended thus
nom view of al enemy, ~ well ~ from
his shot lay the hu;s and loshQnses of
tle garrison. Here and. there .gsoups Of
hter concrs, shiyclinS in their wet
blankets, were visible in bivpuac so
cacerless that not even morning fires
conld relieve it. 4 little music would
lave helped their sinking spirits, but
hero was none. Even the picturesque
etfec! Of gay uniforms vas wanting. In
ijaa, the Confederate sentinel on the
ramparts that morning, taking in the
whole scene, knew the i,lly, rollicking
picnic days of tie war were over.
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{ The Vermont Exhibit at New Orleans.

A correspondent of the Free Press
writeing from New Orleans, under date
of January 10, says: 1.-THE Vermont
exhibit has only just arrived and is being
rapidly put in place. 1t will be completed
some time this month, probably, and
will be of a character that will make ev-
cry Vermonter proud-one that will
compare favorably with States having
greater resources and spending more
money here in displaying them. Colonel
Mead is now here and is ably seconded
by. Mr.. l.. j. SWEET, architect of the
Central Veamont railroad, and BY
Colonel Goulding of Rutland who is
more particularly engagcdin fitting up
the exhibit of granite and marble"
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OF friction. The torches on either side
run together till they look like a single
stream of fire. But hardly has the
American taken second breath before
he reaches the foot of the hill, is tum.
bled into the snow and asked how he
likes ii. A toboggan would seem to DO
hard thing to steer, but as matter Of
fact the sled has no time to slew, it goes
so fast.
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STATE NOTES.
FIRE AT WOODSTOCK

The Eagle hotel at Woodstock took
fire from a defective. flue ,on Friday
night at midnight and the wing contain
ing the dining room and Sons of Tenn
perance hall was destroyed and the
main house considerably damaged by
fire ane water. The house was stripped
of its contents and only saved from de-
struction by the arduous efforts of the
firemen. The house and furniture are
insured for $4,000. The Sons of Tenn
perance lost all; insurance $1,000. The
Good Tenplars lost a new piano; in
sured for $50.
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Vance, of No. Carolina, and Voorhees,,
of Indiana, were reelected to the l.. s.,
Senate, Tuesday.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-01-22

. Last Monday was intensely cold in the
west, the mercury falling to from 10 to
80 below.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-01-22
For Sale.

A full set of Timers Tools and
Stock lately owned by Mark II. Farms
worth, deceased. Said tools are first
class and Dearly Dew. a large lot of
manufactured goods, l sap heater, su-
gar pals, stoves and other goods usual
" found in tin and stove store. Said
goods will be sold at reduced prices.
Shop open each afternoon from this
date, and at other times by calling at
the house. Mrs. Abbio S. Farnswoath,
Administrative.
Londonderry, Jan. 5, 1885.
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VIM. Nj. Everts, was elected to the
L. s. Senate, Tuesday, by the N. y,
Legislature.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-01-22

Oliver BrotherS&PhillipS, the grca
iron manufacturers have failed,
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Dissolution Of Copartnership.

The Copartnership heretofore exis-
ting betweenA. w. j. Wilkins " Co
is by mutual consent, dissolved. All.
notes and accounts due said firm are in
the hands of A. w. J. Wilkins and
must be Immediately settled. The bus
mess of the firm will be continued by
B. N. Wilkins, at the old stand.
A. w. J. WILKINS,
b. NJ. WILKINS.
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DRI GOODS LOWER Than EIER!

Just received new lot of Goods which bugt
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Negligence.

NCSNSSiSSs
On last "Wednesday every news reader OF
Manning was anxious to get the Ae.cs anu
Courier to learn the result of the elections
in the various States, especially in Virginia
When the P. NJ. announced that no papers
had come, there was exhibited by the crowd
e ereataeal of disappointment and feeling
to blame some one. Later in the day the
bag containing the 3e,rs ssG Courier and
other papeSs was picked up from the ditch
st point between the railroad tank and the
deep cut, where it lad been thrown By the
mail agent, from the train. Bag and papers
were soaking wet, and our Postmaster had
to sun and air the papers before distribut-
ing them. On Friday no papers came, and
we presume the mail agent carried them on
to Sumter. Now, this is just simply OUT
raceous, and such conduct should be report
ed at once to headquarters and the guilty
party should either be removed or taught to
discharge his duty properly. It IS one OF
two things: That the mail agent IS guilty OF
gross negligence, or, that he is inSsnp petent
to discharge the duties of his Office, by not
having the business capacity to assort the
mail properly between the stations within
the time he has to do it. In either case, he
should be made to account for such conduct
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The Summerton Vigilance Committee.

sfr. Editor: In compliance with Your re-
quest, will in few words give you the orr
gin and the object of the organization OF the
Sunamerton Vigilance Committee: Several
of the more conservative members OF the
community, alarmed at the extent to which
the Illicit trafSc il spirituous liquors had
heen cnrrled in various sections Of tnls
part of the Comfy, and indignant at the
indifference of the officers of the law whose
duty it is to report and bring tojustice these
bold violaters of all moral, social and rehg-
ious as well as civil law, organized them
selves into the above named committee,
They do not nIea!i now to take the law Into
their own hands, bnt as good citizens they
deem it their duty to use first every leG!t,'
mate means to suppress the heliish traffic
1t is :, duty they owe the community II
which live, a dnty they owe to then
own families, to do so, and tken If they
fall their desperation may drive then. to dc
what they now have DO idea of resortins to
and they are not u little surprised Mr.. Ed
tor, that the County papers have shown Sc
little disposition to give them that support
and encouragement which they had right
to expect frem them as the Yeoogn:zed con-
servators of the pubic morals.
Lynch law or mob law, tho deprecated by
any law abiding citizen. is the natural ex
preston Of popular indignation at the law
delay or after failure to a-rais5n and coaric'
the evil doer. May oar people be saved
from ttiS dire extremity.
sUMMERTON.
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Christ;&, :ady for months has feen waiting
upon the margin of the sun for permission
to crn&s ever into tie promise land. Her
funer! w;.s preached by Rev. L. D.
Bass. &c manifestation of deep sorrow by
her children and the large attendance at her
burial bore testimony to her worth and
strong attachment for her IS mother A
life loug member Of the Calvary Baptist
Church, and an exemplary Christian has
passed away.
'Her langnishing head is at rest.
It's aching and throbing are DER;
Her quiet immovable breast
Is heayed by affiict on no more
TOM
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ILNCES FERRY.
YAscss FERRY, S. c., Oct. "a, 1885.

FAScES FERRY, >. e., Oct. ~, looo
Nr. Editor: We propose to send you more
rambling dots from over the line, in DE
Boy down by do Riber." From what we
had heard, had some misgivings, but curl
osisy led us on to visit an old friend, who
lives ID this part of Clarendon. We had to
pass directly through the lines CT the ''Sun1-
merton vigilant committee" fearing We
might 6e suspected as q spy, we engaged
the company Of Judge Mahcncy and his
Deputy, consequently being thus protected
by the strong arm OF the Law, our fears soon
subsidized. We reached our destination and
enjoyed pleasant day. with nothing to
mar our pleasure. The Summerton rlgllant
committee had oat their pickets, menacinG
the merchants in the Bay with pecemptory
orders as 10 the Illicit trahc in seed cotton,
Those who were waited upon We're in agony
grouped together discussing the situation
determined to meet the issue and the IN
vasion of their rights Us like citizens OF the
County-with the same spirit that prompt
ed the crusade and to resent with force II
necessary, the insult and unl,-wful proceed
irgs contemplated by the visilant committee.
This was the feeling we found with some OF
TIE merchants. 1t seemed to rs that a smal!
spark would ignite a..d fan into flame,
tragedy similar to Edge6eld. II the trahc
iu seed cotton be wrong. is there no Statute
prohibiting it? Why take the law N onr
own hands: vigilant Societies now can
| reach offenders only by lynch law and this
mode of prosecution is never '"st'tiable.
! Committees OF this kind often II 4 grave
mistakes We don't suppose that the in
tention of this committee was lynch law,
for those who compose it are some OF our
bes; and most worthy citizens. But sucn
org lizatious generally create bad blood, as
it was dome in this cass. The merchants
over the line are indignant, and haze organ
lied against attack.
The death of Mrs Dorcas N. Ehame
brings grief to many hearts. This es.imable
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-11-11

The Great Music House of the South, has
removed to magni 6cent new store (the larg-
est Music Temple in Z. 81, and as souv-
enir Of this important era in their business,
and also as an advertisement which will
tell from the Potomac to the Rio Grande,
they are actually giving away valuable Gold
Watches
Doubt not this statement. 1t is fact.
It's Wholesale House. and they do things
in 4 wholesale way Read this startling
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An Euglishman's Testimony.

feelit my duty to the thousand
who suffer from Blood Poison to give
my experience with that horrible dis
ease and the wonderful effect of swift's
Specific in its treatment. am native
of England, and while there I contract
ed this terrible disease, and for two
years was under treatment as an out.
door patient at nottingham Hospital,
England, but was not cured. I suffer
ed the agoniziag pains in my bones,
and was covered with sores oil over
my body and limbs l had vertigo
and deafness, with partial loss ofsight
severe pains in my head and eyes, etc.
which nearly ran me crazy. I lost all
hope in that country, and sailed for
America and was treated at Roose-
velt in this city, as we'll as by prom
inent physician in New York, laving
no connection with the hospitals.
saw the advertisement of Swift's
Specific, and I determined to give it
trial as a last resort. had given
up all hope cf being cured, as I had
gone through the hands Of the best
medical men in Nottingham and New
York. I took six bottles Of S. S. S.
and T can say with great Joy that they
have cured me entirely. I am sound
and well as I ever was in my life
I was so proud of the cure that I
wrote to Gloucester, England, to an
old companion who is suffering with
locomator ataxia, as the doctors call
it, caused by Blood Poison. He has
arrived here, and is taking S. S. S
with marked benefit. I confidently
believe that in short time he will
be entirely well, and that after having
passed through the best medical hands
in England without any good effect.
L. FRED HALFORD.
New York City,
June 18th, 1885.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseas-
es mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC co,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga
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You will always find my sorca well selected line of Hard
ware Crockery Saddery and have Cigars and Tobacco OF
the best known Brands in the world and my whole stock
Bought after the decline cotton at low figures and of course
can sell lower than any Merchant who bought while the pros
poets were bright and prices high CALL at my NEW STORE
and you will be convinced that it is THE PLACE FOR BAR
GAINS-NOne Can Beat