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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

Mr.. A. X. Courtney, Of the law Arm Of Court.
ney Cannon, OF Richmond who Is member
of a delegation which arrived In the city yes.
terday, was interrogated rs to tho effect Of the
recent decision of the United states supreme
Court maintaining tho validity OF Virginia
coupons rs medium for the payment OF
taxes.
"The Democrats" said he, "Are not divided
on the subject The sentiment of Virginia tax.
payers Is almost universally In favor OF paying
their taxes In money Unless the sentiment
changes decidedly, they will not buy the bonds
nom the English owners 10 pay their taxes
with. regard the decision as an empty VIC
tory for the bondholdors"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

SHOULD Mr., Cox decline to accept tho
Turkish mission, Congress and the ooun.
try will be gamers by his change of mind.
But we deem 1t scarcely possible, or at
any rate highly improbable, that any
combination can be made that will insure
his election to the speakership.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

THE average Baltimorean is a person
who hath not music in his soul and is not
charmed by concord of sweet sounds.
This is why the papers of that city are
expressing their deep regret that the
spring musical festival did not prove as
successful financially as 1t did artistically.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

Mr.. FRouDE said to New York inter
viewer recently; II would rather travel q
thousand miles to sec great man than
ton to SOC the best scenery" We infer
from this that Mr. Froude will not leave
the country till he has seen Horizontal
William
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

IN THE light Of experience we are, as q
matter Of course, compelled to agree with
the esteemed Critic that a Democratic
senator's support of the administration
cannot be effected by such tribes as loaves
and fishes.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

The notion that tho pOlygAmous Nor.
nous of Utah can Gnd indulgence for their
peculiar institution in Mexico is q mani
fest absurdity. The laws aud public sem
iimont of that republic are decidedly un-
favorable to any triflng with the marital
relation.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

CIVIL service reformers Of the Mug
wump order complain bitterly and with
the force Of absolute conviction that re.
ceut removals aud appointments in the
treasury were in violation Of tho prin-
ciples and promises of the administration,
and mauifsstly detrimental to thl public
service. Tney are disposed TO regard at
least ono of the new auditors as 3 pro-
nounced opponent Of civil service reform
principles aud pTaGtina.p All this Is true
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

THERE is enough "Maokay-Bennett
cable in the New York Herdids edi.
torials to lay All extra limo under the
Atlantic and loaye surplus for repairs.
II Mr.. Bennett owned stock in saw
mill or sausage factory, would the con-
corn be advertised in tho editorials OF his
newspaper?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

ACCORDING TO tho highest Democratic
authority, there was surplus of $685.
100000 in tho treasury on the 4th of last
March. According to Secretary Manning
the surplus is now only s2i,oO0,OOO. viii
Mr.. Hendricks explain this tremendous
discrepancy
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

oNE Of the best traits of the Democratic
party is humility. In what other party
would ox-senators accept consulates and
cx.representativos be grateful for route
ngencias2
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

IF things are not going TO be mado
pleasant during tho summer by q war in
Europe the American public will have to
satisfy its craving for war news by a
lively revival OF the great conflict be.
tweed the belligorent houses of Hen.
d ticks and Mcdonald.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

GEN. SHERIDAN arrived at Fort Riley Sun.
day lie will 80 thence 20 Arizona.
REV. HESRY WARD BEEoHEa arrived In the
city yesterday to meet his wife, who Ia return.
Ing from a ylalt south. 1hoy are Stopping at
Willardsi and win leave Tor homo this even
iDE
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

Dn. HENRI WATTERsoN's bulletin rep.
rcscnts the pulse of the administration
full and regular, respiration normal, tenn
rerature os! good supply of laudable
pus constantly ON hand.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

THE Anglo. Russian war may not peter
out" but it has certainly got Sir Peter
out Of favor with u good many of his
countrymon.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

THERE is not the loast reason 10 sup
pose that the cousrdly scoundrel who
Cred several pistol shots at she Gettys.
burg excursion trsip lsbt evening had
any dehnile idea of assAssinating the
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

A snoRTAdE Of two cents has been
found In a hye.dollSr package OF pennies
in tho cash room at the Treasury. "Turn
tho rasCals out"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

A QUANER sermon could not he much
moro pacific in tone than the utterances
Of Gladstone and Granville in parliament
last evening.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

DISAPPOINTED ofFicoseekers rejoice at
the GOODNESS of these lato spring days--it
gives them ready excuse for getting
left.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

IT will not do for tho British ministry
TO let the Afghanistsu trouble cool down
so far that it will furnish no excuse for
getting out Of the soudan.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05
AmnsemeniA.

FoRb's--standard English Opera.
ALUAugH's--"Pa Patience
HERzoG's -MrsEuN.-Coo Burgess.
DINE MuSruM. THE Two Orphans"
THEATRE CoNlQCE- Durlesquo and Variety.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

JUDD q DETwEILER
Are always prepared 10 print Books, Pamphlets
Briefs. Records and Commercial Printing of all
kinds handsomely, quickly, and correctly.
AT LOWEST POSSIBLE RATES.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

true as gospel but what are the com
plAinants going to do about it? Where IL
their remndY2
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gibson BROS.

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Printing OF All Descriptions PFoinhty 1re-
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05
ABOUT PEOPLE.

SALVATION on will cure the worst cases o
frosted feet only twenty-five cents bottle,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05
TUESDAY. MAY ., 1885.

Entered At tho posonco u, Washington, u. o.,
TttecUndclnss matter
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05

TpE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN 90,
u. w. FOX, PnisruESr ANp MANAGER.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-05
Book AND Jon PRINrINa.

Il SOUTH OF PHILADELPHIA,
42o AND 4a2 ELEVENTH sTREEr N. W
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-04

tory, art, and human life. His dra-
matte powers are great. His preach.
ing is partly delivered from notes, but
amongst these he interpersed freely
spoken passages, some of which at
times are of the highest order of incis-
i've address, eloquent, rich in sugges,
tion, full of the largest sympathy. the
noblest sentiment of devout aspiration
and human enthusiasm.
1t would be impossible to character.
ise Mr.. Beecher's preaching 1t is so
varied, so multiform, we might more
easily say what he is not than what he
is. He furnishes illustrations of all
styles, and he continues, even now
that he has passed the SEVENTEEN year
OF his life, fresh, vigorous, young as
ever. The distinguishing qualities of
his style are radiance and joyousness.
His sermons are like floods of sunshine,
In which there is the perpetual stir
and stress of life. There is no preach
er in our time-perhaps there has been
never preacher-who has pressed in
to the service of the pulpit so wide
range OF treatment, sympathy and
method. 1t would not be excessive if
we should entitle him the Shakespeare
OF the pulpit, so rich, so varied, so
manifold has been the spirit and man
ner of his work. -Dr. LII. BeeUan, in
the Queer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-04
Birds and Their Feathers.

The best time for seeing perfect
festhering is in the winter, Or onward
to the spring; then after very short
honeymoon, the birds settle down to
domestic drudgery with exemplary ar
dor, with the result that at the end of
a few weeks their tail-feathers are
rough and irregular, their pinions
worn and ragged from constant con-
tact with the nest iE sitting; and by
the time their new suit comes at mid
summer they are more than ready for
it. The spring, of course, is the eli
max of birds life. With scrupulous
care he arranges hourly his feathers,
all their markings are seen to perfec-
tion, and many peculiarities of decora-
tion are then and then alone displayed.
The tleshy combs and proturberances
become scarlet and enlarged, and any
one who has not seen a pheasant or
cock grouse at this season of love
would 6e astonished at the alteration
from his normal state. The cock pig
cons swells that part Of his body most
adorned with iridescent feathers TO
make tie graldest show lie can; and
every humble fncii and small bird
brushes UP his modest linery. If birds
have bright~colored tails, they raise
them to their highest and fullest
and abase their heads; if bright heads,
then they shake out thsir plumes
their eyes distends, apd their wattles
swell; and if, as in some cases, they
have large tippets Of feathers falling
on both sides of the head they con.
trive the bewildered hel shall see all
the glories of both sides at one glance,
and SO drag all the feathers of the far
side round to the near side. maxine
such huge mass that Tie face is near. |
ly hldfen. and the projecting beak I
alone sas~s ehere the head must he. |
All .his done 20. the ben's benefit, ana
il :, only don. vh-r she Is near;
it all turns ON her cYisteaca and ceases
il 'he h~ absent-Masazan: % Dirt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-04
The COyOte,

A Wyoming Territory letter to the
New York Sun says. The coyote is
the sneak thief, the pickpocket of the
Rocky Mountain region. Although the
dog belongs to the same genus of ami
mails, yet the hunters and trappers in
expressing their contempt for a Dig
ger Indian will compare him to coy
ote, but never to dog. Even the In
dian dog, which is coyote tanned
through long generations, despises his
ancestors and fights him at every o.
portunity with great show of con-
tempt. So cowardly is this animal
that he never dares to seize a bird
which faces him, but springs when its
back is turned.
The coyote is found over very
wide section of country. Evidently
their range is from sea level to 10000
feet above. saw large numbers of
them in Wyoming, Idaho and Mon
tana, between 5000 and 5000 feet
above sea level. When first seen they
are usually standing motionless on
some slight elevation or among the
sage brush. If no harm is likely to
come to them, they will stand and
scrutinize the traveller from a very
near point. In fact, they are safer
near by than at a distace, as one is apt
to take them for Indian dogs if they
appear tame. In Idaho l saw them
hunting in their usual sneaking way,
the large sage hens. Indeed, when I
had taken the trouble to shoot one of
these birds l was surprised to see a
nimble coyote step out from
under a tall sage bush, seize
the bird, and dash away. At
that time l was riding through the
mountains in double buggy, and
was unable to give chase. One day J.
climbed an almost perpendicular ele-
walton of about 1900 feet. On the
narrow top was coyote, who in his
haste to escape, leaped too far, and
fell over the precipice on the opposite
side, several thousand feet deep. In
captivity the coyote is the most ser
vile and despicable rascal imaginable.
How the Indians ever had patience to
domesticate them and make coura-
geous and faithful dogs Of them can
not imagine. Although the Indian
may be wifeless and wigwamless, he
ia never doplacs
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-04
How Mr.. Beecher Looks and How
He breaches.
Mr.. Beecher has strongly mark

Mr.. Beecher has astrongly marked
appearance. He is robust. A splen-
did constitution has been sedulously
guarded. His face in the upper part
is intellectual and spiritual. The lower
is heavy, and if not relieved by tho
eyes and front would be gross and un-
pleasing. But when the countenance
lights up with the glowing fervor of
the orator, it affords field on which
all the passing emotions are depicted.
He is a wide student, has read much,
and observed nature and human life
keenly. He loves children and flow
ers. He is connoisseur of art-a
keen critic of men and manner. His
theology is of no school, and is to some
strangely and perplexingly inconsis-
tent. He is a humorist, at times car
rying the grotesque beyond the limits
not merely of pulpit law, but even
those of general good taste. He evil
IDENTIFY represses much that bubbles up
to his lips to say. What he says
might sometimes be better kept within
the "white bounds of the teeth" lie
deals with Scripture in very free end
unconventional manner. He is rich
in illustration drawn from nature his
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-04

Mrs. Langtry had been taught to
dread the cowboy as an incarnate fiend
to be fled from at all risks. On one oc-
casion, when her servants had marched
off to the groggeries of the neighbor-
ing settlement, she was quite alone in
her car, when there came timid and
tentative knock at the door. She
opened it at once and there stood one
of the dreaded race, gigantic leather
clad cowboy. His look was strange
and wild, but his words were meek
and mild. Extending his huge paw,
and raising his hat with the other. he
said, 81 guess, madam, you are Mrs.
Langtry. We are right glad to see
you in our part of the country.
There's some of us boys who work up
in the mountains who don't see
woman, let alone pretty one above
oncest or twice a year." Mrs. Lang
try made suitable reply, whereat the
cowboy grew bolder and said, s.Might
l Jest ask you, madam, to wave your
handkerchief out OF the Window You
see that little house down FOUNDER.
Wal there's girl there as I'm dead
gone on, and l kinder promised her
as l would get you to wave your
handkerchief to her. If you would
do this it might help me bit.
Like any true woman Mrs. Langtry
had no objection to advance the cow.
boys love affairs, and wave her hand.
kerceief accordingly In the direction
indicated. He was profusely grateful,
but still not entirely happy. 81 guess
he went on, you ara a kind-hearte6
lady. Now would you jest give me q
bit OF old ribbon, or a glove you have
worn, or torn handkerchief, to show
to the boys around as something that
once belonged to you?" There was
nothing for it, Mrs Langtry confesses
but to give him a scrap of pink ribbon
and then, after more thanks and ex
pressions of the devotion of the entire
territory, he stalked off.-Londor
World.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-04
What Vaccination Is.

Pasteur had little difficulty in estab-
fishing the parasitic origin of fowl
cholera; indeed, the parasitic had been
observed by others before him. But,
by his successive civilizations, he rem
dered the solution sure. His next
step will remain forever memorable in
the history of medicine l allude to
what he calls "virus attenuation"
And here it may be well to throw out
a few remarks in advance. When
tree, or bundle of wheat or barley
straw, is burned, a certain amount of
mineral matter remains in the ashes
extremely small in comparison with
the bulk of the tree or of the straw,
but absolutely essential to its growth.
In soil lacking, or exhausted of, the
necessary mineral constituents, the
tree can not live, the crop can not
grow. Now, contagia are living
things, which demand certain ele-
ments of life just as inexorably as
trees. or wheat, or barley; and it is not
difficult to see that a crop Of given
parasite may so far use up constitu-
ent existing in small quantities in the
body, but essential to the growth of
the parasite, as to render the body un-
fit for the production of second crop.
The soil is exhausted, and until the
lost constituent is restored, the body is
protected from any further attack of
the same disorder. Such an explana-
tion of non-recurrent diseases natur-
ally presents itself to thorough be-
lever in the germ theory, and such
was the solution which, in reply to q
question, ventured to offer nearly
fifteen years ago to an eminent Lon
don physician. To exhaust a soil,
however, a parasite less vigorous and
destructive than the really virulent
one may suffice; and if, after having
by means of feebler organism ex-
hausted the soil, without fatal result,
the most highly virulent parasite be
into the system it will
prove powerless. This. in the Ian
guage of the germ theory, is the whole
secret of vaccination.-Prof. TyndaN.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-04
Shakespeare XerSus Hash.

81 tell you, sir" said an eloquent
boarder, referring to Shakespeare, "that
man has left hs impress upon the
thought of the world, and his influence
will reach to the remotest posterity.
When We come under the influence of
his genius we no longer groyel in the
dust, thinking only of bread and but
ter, but We" Just then the dinner
bell rang, and he fell over chair in
his mad haste to get at the provender,
and at the next moment he was eating
soup at the rate of quart minute
Chicag0 Ledger.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-04
PRICE THREE CENTS
o fifteen of these wanderers will daily

to fifteen of these wanderers will daily
implore aims at wayside cottage or
In lonely village, while the men are
busy in the fields, and as their wives
and daughters, partly from good ma
ture and partly from fear, hardly like
to refuse crust, no inconsiderable
tax is levied on the honest and the
Industrious. 1t is only parts of the
country which offer unusual attract
ions to the vagabond which are sub
Jected to such visitation as this: but
no place is entirely free from annoy
ance, According to one estimate the
number of tramps in Germany last
year amounted to 100000, and the
expense they caused the community
amounted to 100000 marks: and
though from the difficulty of obtaining
accurate information it is impossible
to rely on such calculation, most of
those who have made the matter
subject of study seem to think it fair
ly correct.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-04

We read in Demorest that there is
general expectation that Asiatic
cholera is on its march around the
world. 1t has reappeared in Spain;
mas made its appearance in Southern
Russia, and in all probability before
this meets the readers eye will be
heard OF in different parts of Central
and Southern Europe. Cases of 1t
may appear on our own Atlantic sea-
board by midsummer, but there does
not seem very much danger that it
VIII penetrate far inland this year.
There is no cure for cholera. A GER
tlan proportion of those attacked die
no matter what the treatment Peo-
pie who live on hlly or upland dry
regions generally escape its ravages,
While it is more apt to prevail along
the line of water-courses and where
the soil is saturated with moisture. A
cholera scare is not without its good
effects. 1t leads to general cleaning
up IN every locality liable to be visited
by the pestilence. People live more
carefully, and the final result is that
more lives are really saved from other
diseases than are destroyed by the
prevailing pestilence. Those who
wish to preserve their homes from its
ravages would do well to pay atten-
tion to the disinfectants employed.
Some of these compounds merely
serve to neutralize bad smells. This
can generally be much better done by
and pure air than by chemi-
Cal means. Clean your houses, re-
move the waste of your family to a
distance, ventilate your rooms, and
then if you employ any disinfectants,
let them be such as will destroy germ
life. Keep watch over your out
houses, cess-pools and wells, always
bearing in mind the fact that the
cholera poison is generally dissemin-
lted by liquids rather than by the cur.
'ents of air.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-04
Wanted S0ur.Krout.

ibid ever tell you about the time
that I had the whole army laughing
at me for asking for sour-krout in
JulyY asked Dr., who was Gen.
Jackson's corps surgeon, Of me one
day about year ago. when we were
waiting for train at little station
down in Virginia. at was after we
reached Chambersburg, Pa, when Lee
invaded the north. AT that time, you
remember Hunter was in the valley
playing the mischief with everything
and Lee had determined that if he did
not stop that sort Of things he would
get even on the first town of any i'm
PORTAGE that came in his way. Well,
we heard something just before we
got to Chambersburg that made Lee
very mad, and he thought that the
time for getting even had come. So
he sent an officer or two into the town
to say that the town council must ex-
pect topay a considerable sum of mon
ey, or its equivalent; and they sent
back the answer that the members Of
the council would meet delegation of
officers within two hours or something
like that. Our army was in terrible
state; the men wanted shoes, clothing
of every kind, provisions and medi-
cines We're wanted for the hospital ser
vice. SO l was sent to say what ]
wanted, and to see that got it.
"After the officers had stated their
wants, l was called on to read my bill
OF particulars. J. wanted so much
quinine, for the men were suffering
from malaria and various fevers that
required quinine, and / had none. /
wanted great many other things,
and did not hesitate to ask for then,
under the circumstances, and at the
end of my list l read out ten barrels
OF sour krout.' In spite of the fact
that the members of that town
council were not feeling very jolly,
evey one of them burst out laughing
as did our officers. One little old man
belonging to the council got up, and
asked if l had come there to make fun
OF them, I replied that nothing was
farther from my intention; that the
soldiers needed acids very much, and
if they did not have any sour-krout in
town l would take lemons or good
pickles. Then the testy little man
wanted to know where l was raised.
told him was born in Virginia and
that l had spent the most of my life in
'he state, but that did not see what
hat had to do with sour-krout. Did 1
you ever make any krout?' he asked.
confessed that had never been
guilty of making any of the stuff, and
hat did not remember that | had
'ver seen any of it, but that I had
leard we were among the Pennsylva-
Tia Dutch, and l thought they would
lave sour-krout if they had anything.
Che little man put about two years
lisgust into his face and said: If you
lad ever seen any krout you would
lot be asking for it in July. 1
hought everybody knew that it don't
lever get ripe until late in the fall
did not hear the last of that sour
,rout for more than six months. The
tory seemed to get all over the south;
very new man that saw for the
ext six month wanted to know If had
ad any sour-krout lately "-Chicago
tines.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-04

Japan Is the bummers' paradise
Materials for iirst-class spree can be
procured for 20 cents, and when that
condition is attained the courts assess
a fine Of only one dollar. Besides, the
policemen carry no clubs, and the be-
fuddled citizen runs no risk of having
his head broken by the jealous police
man.