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Daily Republican., 1885-12-30

necessary TO Lave prevented confiagra-
ton or to have kept the Mediterranean
SEQ from flashing over Paleetine.
Nov, ~ far as We know secret mira
cles have no place In the divine systom,
IL they hare they could not authenticate
q revelation. - But n We admit that the
miracle wss wrought on the rays Of
light, than but one miracle is necceb.
sary, and that to establish Gods authori-
ty.
Even by refraction of rays we daily
see the sun before he has risen above
the horizon. And sometimes after he
has gone below the horizon we continue
to see him.
This law is illustrated by putting q
spoon into d tumbler Of water, the spoon
looks bent because it in part passes from
. rarer to denser medium.
Now by the supernatural refraction
of the rays OF light, the sun and moon
might maintain stationary appearances
for several hours. The record does not
say twenty.four hours.
Again: would God swing back the
earth In Its revolution 30 as to throw a
shadow back ward ON the dial Of Ahaz
when without secret miracle, 1t would
have broken backs, unjointed necks,
uprooted forests, torn up mountain Q,
submerged continents, drowned Heze-
kiah, the man he desired to save.
But by q supernatural refraction OF
the rays of light the shadow could have
been thrown backward without secret
miracle.
DIR. Whedop and long list of Chris
tian philosopf ~ adopt this theory. and
ask, docs it nt5 involve the principlt
which Is found In nearly all miracles
namely the intensifying Of some natu
raj agency, rather than the violation o
any nstural Law?
In the miracles performed for th'
widow and the multitude new oil AND
new loaves were not directly created
but that which was in existence wa
multiplied.
Some have affirmed that the body o
the star was. drought down before tn
wise men TO guide them.
| Some that the Lord stopped the eartl
on Its axial revolution to answer Joshua
and convince Hezekiah.
But this would be too much lik
''leaping over the house to unbar tn
little gate"
God, With the fewest means possible
accomplishes the greatest results. b.
this strange and mysterious luminar,
the wise men found Christ and wor-
shipped him. Let us by the light Of hi
word find him and serve him in spiri
and In truth.
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30
MY BOY

(three years old) was recently taken
with cold in the head. which seemed
finally to settle in his nose, which was
stopped up for days and nights 80 that
1t was difficult for him to breathe and
sleep. I called a physician who pre-
scribed, but did him no good. Finally
I went to the drug store and gotta bottle
of Ely's Cream Balm. It seemed to
work like magic. The boys nose was
clear In two days, and he has been o. X.
ever siuoe.-E. j. Hazzard, New York.
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30
church or enc Reaeemer.

On Tuesday night the Sunday school
Of the Reformed Epicopal church of the
Redeemer Sth and Monroe streets, gave q
Christmas treat to the children. Every
portion Of the neat little edifice was
crowded, and many were tn rned away
unable to hnd seats. The church is trim.
med appropriate TO the season, with
|evergreers gracefully entwined from
the chapel. the organ and the galleries.
The singing by the school, under the
leadership of DIR. Brinkle, was most ex-
oellently rendered. Harvey Wyatt and
two little girls sang solos, and the en-
tire infant school Joined In the chorus,
and sang loud, and sweetly. Little
Daisy Sutton recited . Christmas poem
In q very pleasant manner.
Rev. DIR. r. A. Cook made q very
happy address. Every child and adult
of the school received . handsome box
filled with the finest candy and an
Iorange. A number of pretty gifts were
given to teachers by their classes. Aftel
the singing of the closing anthem the
large congregation was dismissed by
DR.. Cook with the benediction.
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30
BREvITIEs.
BREvITlES.
Sun rises 7.18. San sets 4.b0.
Agents for DuhIap's Hats,
Rumford Brothers. Hatters.

Sun rfsee 7.lb. san sets 4.bO.
Agents for DuhIap's Hats,
Rumf0rd Brothofs. Hatters.
Earn mensy before you spend 1t.
Try Bush's coal yen Will like II.
Strong cough candy ct Ferguson's.
George +. Hodges, 6o7 Shiplsy street.
Have you read the Home Weekly ~
Try Bush's coal youIwill surely like 1t.
Grand ru ID has commenced. SOC. store.
Birds and cages at farkers's, East end st
Millard r. Davis. jswsler, Q e. 2nd street.
Oity Laundry, sixth and Shipley streets
Fine 10 X. Kings, ct Hanfs, ID K Fourth
Harting, sign painter, III West Seventh st
The proper way to warm the house is to
keep the cellar coaled.
Burning oil, Harrison paint, perfumery
toilet articles and medicines Of every kind at
B,oth's Pharmacy, Newport, Del.
heuse, sign painters and srainers. Brick
staining speciality. Estimates furnished
for city or oosntry.
Go to W. II. Hartlove's, 800 Z. Third street
For Guns, kifies, Ammunition, sporting
Goods, L..ia:s@y T., o sns tne Guns. Repairing
An exchange asks, What is the hottest
place in the United States ?" We reply
without the slightest hesitatioa. hornets
nest.
At recent wedding in Washington tbt
groom gave the clergyman 81 ,00o. 1t Is al
ways we'll 70 have one happy neart at mar
riage.
Gold, nouer bronse, velvet and plush
mouldings are all tho style. frames mad
ne from all kinds ut ~ per cent. on OF usua
prtoss BAu8h, l08 West Second street. r
S,-Ohromos Of all kinds cheap.
A Paris cook has committed suicide from
mortitication after the failure OF one of hi
breakfasts. Ibis 10 step in the right direc
tton.
At cent mile, 1t would cost $3.50, 900 II
20 to the sun-time, at forty miles an hour
266 years. hound trip tickets, s., 100000.
Morrow & Croker, alt French street, Grav.
| sl. Plastic and Stag hooters. Tin roofs made
water tight with our improved coating. Ais
tin roofs painted with the celebr ated AS
bestos paint. Old roofs repaired and mad
water tight. All work done py US guaran
| teed.
A girl has been arrested while disguised q
an old woman. The old woman disguised a
q girl is still at large.
You would ask the secret Of wealth, tn
question is answered In the talismanic Wor'
/ Of only four letters 5-A-V-E!
The distance Of the nearest fixed star
two hundred thousand times that Of tn
sun.
Health first, business afterwards. DI
h..
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30
|RESS CLOTHS,

all the popular shades, 54
ches wide, rs cents. to
Las.
irlcots and Serges from
cents up.
In Brocaded Velvet we
Der best styles in the mar
Figures woven in, not
amPed) from $2.oo to
90 Black, Brown, etc.
our fringes are also very
adsome, made on regular
men back (not cotton) as is
pa extensively in this mar
AT all events we war
MI ours as we do all oul
ooas to be just as repre-
.l'eo, on our regular &C
M ;,1l''m,odating terms, on {
oi $1,000, $I.oo dow
la sI.oo a week.
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30
RPEClAL MENTION.
Spanish run

spanish PuM
Is the best 5-cent cigar In the city. Try
them. H. F. Bourbon 81 Bro, N. w.
cor. Second and Orange streets, manu-
fnoturers.
TflRhman DAnner, house and sign
painter, No. 80 Market street. job
bling properly attended to and estimates
Coal, Flour and Feed.
Fell & Joseph are selling best coal at
lowest prices. Best -four ut reasonable
rates. 713 West Front street.
Oy yssorss oysters.
The best place in tho city 10 get good
fresh opened oysters In At T. "A. Nc
Clure's Eighth street market.
Cnrassmas BOOKS.
The best place to buy books in Will
mington is at No. 900 Market street.
Auction sales every night this week.
Important.
For good and cheap furniture 60 to
L. L. Messick, ,305 and 307 W. Second st.
Good stewing oysters, 25 cents per
quart at Lynch's, 605 Madison street.
Salt Oysters.
Fine salt oysters, wholesale and retail
at Shoemaker's, 6O2 King street.
For the DenenJ on inquirers ] Will say
that 1 have no more interest in the store
| on Third street, but you will always
hnd me at the great tobacco mart, Sew
snth and Orange. A. A. CHAPMAN.
Pure butter only sold at stalls 81 and
% Third street market toth in tub and
dairy print. Don't forget the number
The VIM. Lea & Sons Co.'S and Ches-
ter mills Il our. wholesale and retail, 81
Tatnall u Bros, 101 Maryland avenue
Morning Light, New Royal and Dade
parlor stoves, East Fourth street
Pickels' stove store.
Janney, 303 King street, is head
Quarters for potatoes. For sale by tht
car load or bushel.
The handsomest line OF gents anl
ladies EN-. Slippers in the city at th'
Boston Shoe House.
Beaton Smith, druggist, Seventh ant
Pine streets, has erything in his lint
at fair prices.
Seven pounds best pure buckwheat
25c. Philips Bros, Front and Madison
streets.
Frames for cabinet pictures for 25c. y
Lex Barney's, No. 8 East Seventh street
Hay by the car load or by the hum
Idred at Janney's, sos King street.
Call and try the Indian nickel cleaue
and polishe Pickels' stove store.
VIII sell you Eve pounds Of string fo
81 at the REPUBLICAN Office.
The right thing in the right place i
II I'D thor n H.A 70 0rh AuuRT
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30
The Last Sad Rites.

The funeral OF John Worth, the
musician, took place from his late
residence No. 40 East Ninth street yes
terday afternoon, and was largely atten-
ded. For at least two hours before the
time announced for the funeral there
was q constant line of friends and
acquaintances passed through the
house to view the remains. The Rev.
Mr.. Breck, formerly of this city, but
now of Pennsylvania, conducted the
religious services, and the pail bearers
were selected from the organizations
with which the deceased was connected.
The floral tributes were very fine, and
among them was a large Tyre, with q
broken string, from the First ReRi.
ment Band. Asylum Lodge No. IS,
1. o. o. r. LAfay ette Lodge, No. K. OF
P. with the First Regiment Band and q
number of musicians from Chester also
attended the funeral, which, with all the
arrangements, was under the direction
| of Undertaken j. B. Martin. The
|interment took place at the Whining
ton and Brandy wine Cemetery, and nj
the cortege proceeded to the last resting
place the band played solemn dirges.
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30

Horses, cattle, sneep and hogs, when
ont of condition. need Days Horse
Powdot. Prioe 25 cents.
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30

Bag BEST family -four, 20c. Philips
Bros, Front and Madison streets.
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30
Fire Lass Night.

An alarm of fire was sounded from
box 43Sat Eighth and Broome streets
about 11.30 O'Clock on Tuesday night,
to which the entire department re-.
kitchen, at the residence OF Richard
Robinson, on Eighth street west of the
new B & p. Railroad. was in flames
and almost destroyed by the time the
fremen arrived. The main building
Is a large stone structure, and was
formerly farm house. The wood work
OF the building and a barn near by
were also In flames when the firemen
reached the place, but they succeeded
after considerable hard work In getting
Mr. Robinson was away HUM no..--,
and when the FIRE was discovered his
two small children were asleep In
bed, and would probably have been
smothered by the smoke, had 1t moi
been for exoff Ger Townsley and John f
Bradley, who reside in the vicinity, and
succeeded in recovering them from th'
burning building. A carriage wa
| then procured in which Mrs Robinson
and her little ones were placed and tax
en- to Mr.. Townsley's house, where the,
W ere cared for last night. Daniel Lyncl
a. 4 excellent service in helping to &c
the furniture out, and the greater par
was saved. The fire is thought to hav
been the work of an incendlary, ant
the full amount of the loss could not b
lascertained, but 1t is believed to be GOV
cred by insurance. The property be
longs to James MCGOWAN.
About z O'Clock last evening slight
fire was discovered At the Diamond
State rolling mill, at Third and Churc
streets, and an alarm was struck from
box 1t al Railroad and Third streets
to which the department responded, bu
as IL was not necessary for more thai
one company TO go into service tn
flames were extinRuished by the Bel
ance Fire Company
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30
HAMBURG EMBRO|DER|ES

Ever exhibited in this. city.
Also new and handsome
styles in Percales, Seer
suckers and Shirting Prints,
as we'll as the best value in
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30
BLACK CASHMERES

Having closed out a large
lot OF an importer at reduced
prices, we are enabled to
offer splendid values at Soc,
$50, 62c., 75c. and $I.oo a
yard. Come and look at
them.
In a few days we will open
the largest, handsomest and
cheapest line of
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30

Health FIRST, business afterwards. DR..
Bulls Baltimore Pills promote both.
Only 25 cents.
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30
SCOTS Emulsion Of Pure COD Liver
Oal, with Hyp0phOsphiteS,

Is excellent In lung troubles. DR.. Enoch
Galloway, LAGRANGE, Ga, says: 81
have used Scott's Emulsion with won.
deriul success In Lung troubles, also
find 1t has no equal in Summer Diar-
rhpA of children"
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30

Beaton Smith pays particular atten-
ton to prescriptions and family receipts
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30

The right thing in the right place is
without doubt DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup
in the family medicine chest, the best
remedy for babies while teething.
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30

1hIthkOkxSD~~ - -----------r
must be reduced during the
next 80 days. Our very low
prices will do sit. Special
bargain in
Daily Republican., 1885-12-30

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turds! !
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this mV
again !
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Daily Republican., 1885-12-30

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ecll0upI
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Daily Republican., 1885-12-30

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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-11-06

,ssion, cause more Agony of Mind and Body, and
s every year than All the Armies of the World.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-11-06

struck by freight train and fatally in
jured, on the 9th ult.
DR.. Peters has 500 acres on Browns
creek which 40 is now clearing of sage
brush. He has already had ditch dug
that will supply all the water needed for
irrigsting, and next year will have q
crop OF hay.-Avalsnchc.
Joe Stout, an Indian confined in the
Blacktoot Jail for unlawfully branding
cattle, made 3 desperate unsuccessful
attempt to escape recently. The other
prisoners made him believe he was to be
hanged the next day.
The store of T. E. Kicks & Co., says
the Eagls Rock Register. at Rexburg,
was robbed on Thursday night of last
week of about $500 worth of goods.
About 5000 worth of furs, 800 lbs. of
sugar, clothing, boots and shoes, and
$40 in money were taken.
The body of John Kohler, who disap-
peared from Lewiston last spring, was
found on the Salmon d short time since,
with bolo in the skull. An empty
bottle beside the body might
sustain the inference Of suicide, but for
the impossibility of the wound being
The Weissr Ditch company, says the
Leader, will spare no expense to COM
plete its canal the coming winter and
spring. This ditch covers bstweon 49,
900 and $4,000 acres of tho best desert
land in Idaho, and whom the canal is
made of sufficient capacity to supply
plenty of water it will be valuable prop
erty.
The canal to bo taken ont of the Pay
site st Emmettsville will carry 1900
inches ard extend to tho Snake. Says
The Idaho World: 1T is the intention
Of the company at work on the Paystts
canals to make them second to none in
Idaho in rize, and when completed
sither of them will cover as much or
more land than any other irrigatins
canal in Idaho"
On the 205h, ]. W, Sttratton. B. jack
son and D. c. Kitty left Blackfoot for
Jhe vicinity of Teton Basin, looking for
lost or stolen horses belonging to High
& Stout. Thy were accompanied By
Two Indians, and intended making a
thorough search of thst part OF the
On the Goth they had sent
'he Indians around the point OF the
and had gone back after
Wild colt that had been found, when
hey saw Thompson leaving his ranch,
eading his horse and the saddle piled
up with pack saddles. He had gone
about six hundred yards from his house
when they became satisfied it was
Thompson, and he observed them,
he Immediately let 90 his
lorse and started toward tie house,
never looking up. They called to him
several times, bat he paid no attention
o them, only increasing his gait until,
that they were getting too
lose bshind, he fred at them. They
and returned the fire. BY
his time he had got nearly back to the
ouse, when the firing brought two msn
amed Harrington aud Wilson to his
ssistsnoe and \ lively battle ensued,
ONE fifty shots being exchanged. Thoy
Don found that The Thompson party
ad guns OF too long range for them,
nd SO they hsd worked their way back
ITO the house, had the advantage OF
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-11-06
Idaho Items.

lhe DicJ Cio Los "PPo~io Wv NJ
Shoshone falls had over 800 visitors
4 this year.
Mountain goats are numerous about
SawIootA.
There sre twenty-five telephones on
Wood river.
Zsohariah Barnes was found guilty of
incest at HALEY.
Wood is scarce at Silver City, but
money Is plenty.
There is an increasing demand for
lumber at Haley.
Lewiston has that delightful luxury,
hot soda fountain.
Indians sro selling good hay at Black
foot for $3.50 a ton.
Father Nat,ini, OF Haley, leaves for
Europe in few days.
Ketchum has received hose cart that
scost 1852 81 laid down.
II iley has been shipping an average
Of three cars of ore daily.
A millinery has been started at Weissr
by lady from Tho Dalles.
CAmas lodge No. IA, I. o. o. F., will
soon be Instituted at Crichton.
Dennis aIcDsvitt has been sont to the
insane asylum from Idaho City.
The E,gls Rock fire company has or
aered nose cart from Chicago.
The wife aud daughter of Delegate
HALEY have gone to Washington.
Hi5bs' counsel claim to be able TO
clear him of the charge of forgery.
Henry Bows put the Haley postoniee
into brand now quarters Monday.
Considerable street improvement,
sidewalks, etc., is going on at Weissr.
The corner stone of the Methodist
church at HALEY will be. laid in fsw
days
EAGLE Rock has built an addition to its
school Louse and ordered an entire new
lot of seats.
Four hundred dollars have boon SUBJ
scribed for telephone line from Boise
TO Idaho City.
Nearly all the available bottom lands
of O9yhee county have been taken up
for ranches, says the Avalanche.
The Carrie Leonard, on Wood river,
Welded $4,000 worth Of ore this year.
The owners divided two-thirds Of it.
The first apple grown on Wood river
was picked near Bellevue recently.
That settles the question OF maturity
there.
The city OF Bellevue won the case
against the ranchers, involving the right
to SEQ inches of water from Soamands
creek.
A hard character named Sober John
son was shot through the bowels during
a saloon row at Lewiston on the 20 1, but
it failed to kill him.
Rickett, engineer at the Vienna mill,
caught his arm in the machinery last
Thursday and broke it in two places.
necessitating amputation.
C. G. Stevenson, son of the governor,
a fine young man who las Just gradual
cd at tho law department Of Michigan
university, has located in Boise.
The crop of mall grain on Camas
prairie and Wood river valley this year
amounted to about rs 600 bushels, says
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-11-06

of Modern Chemistry pronounced TO be unequld for
nshng the vitality the body supplying all the essential
Powers Functions Of the specific
arrangements the Nervous and Blood Systems Nervous
Jraon te1 s III
Ears Energy and Appetite. Being Restorative,
PERMANENT frequently shown, from the first of its ii
bye Power
Vigor Strength which the patient
refreshing At the time the patient flesh the
lips the brighter the skin clear ard healthy Teha
strength the the
Importance of the action Of the medicine the organs Of nutrition 1t gives
element of life which has been wasted and exers Important
Marrow of
and vigoratg ohaacte thereby checking all wasting
of maintaining
that Buoyant Energy System
Mind Cheerful Happy, Brilliant and En-
overcoming disposition
many persons all their action Price, $3.50 PC. Bottle
SALE ALL DRUGGISTS.
l4NGIEY HIICHAELS, Francisco, Wholesale CTS
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-07-02
The New Fiscal Year.

WASHINGTON, June 50. - With the
new fiscal year, beginning Tomorrow
the new Legislation contained in the
post oilic5 appropriation will go int
effect. In the Office Of the
first assistant ostmastsr genera
II additional clerks pre provided for
most OF them being 81 eois y desiGnai
ed for SO, vice in the o? 'arv and allow
ance division. in connection with the
adjustment OF accounts of r ostmaHters.
Under tho terms OF the act of March 3,
1891, for the settlement of these Gle ms,
an appropriation of Sl7, SEQ will be avail
able, The new appropriation bill
contain clause au ,ol.zing the leaS-
ing of third-class Offices. AS there arc
l,s37 such Offices and the appropriation
is only S50,CCo, 1t Is not probable that
the provision eau be carried out. A
rou III estimate places tho sum re-
quired for the purpose at St34,O Oper
apnum. Provision was also made for
the adoption of sys I'M OF special
delivery of letters Immediately upon
the receipt at the 1st office, out the
Postmaster.G Genera, has not yot given
The matter his personal cons deviation.
1t Is r disable that the system will be
)sted in one or more of the large Cit
les next autumn and its extension
will dersnd upon the result of the eX-
pertinent. In the Office OF the second
Assistant Postmaster General the
appropriations for star route services
has been increased SG00,CcJ, for rail-
road sery ice SAC ),Cco and tor railway
postal clerks $cc2,S00, thus allowing
tor wholesome expansion OF the trans
portatlon sol vice. Only $li,E00 will be
IA a hla for fhn avian qintl rf thn
is5ing special mail facilities or the fast
mail service, and it has not
yet been determined how
The CLAUSE Hnnse in tbs ' new bill provides
that the postmaster-general may e.
tend domestic steamship service to
foreign ports within 900 miles of the
nearest domestic Ports. The steam
ship service between New York and
Havana and between San Francisco
and Victoria, British Columbia, may
be affected by this provision. The
companies are now entitled - receive
the sea postage on letters, while unde.
the new law the ser vice may be let
to the lowest bidders. The revenue
of the Postoffice Department wilt DO
seriously effected by the new leGlsla.
ton. Tomorrow letters weighing one
ounce or less may be sent through the
mails for cents, and the rats on news
papers mailed by publishers will be
reduced from 2 cents to l cent per
)und. From the reduction in news
paper rates a large deficit in revenue is
exI ,cted TO result. The deficit for
tho year just expiring is roughly
estimated at 100000 and the estimate
for the new fiscal year contem plated a
deficit OF "a, S25,000. This estimaI s,how-
ever, was prepared without knowledge
of the reduction in newspapers to, be
made by Congress during the last
weeks OF the session. In the opinion
of the financial officers of the depart
ment this legislation will cost the gov
eminent at least $1,000 10 during the
next fiscal year, and will swell the eX-
cess of expenditures over receipts to
$1,000, 000.