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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-08-01
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The last three Lord Chancellors Of
England have all been Sunday-school
teachers.
Harry A. Garfield. son of the late
President, has accepted a position as
teacher in ST. PauPs School, Concord
N. H.
Rev. DR.. j. P. Newman has been
readmitted with great unanimity and
cordiality to the New York Metho-
dist Episcopal Christian
Union.
President Gilman, of Johns Hop
kins University, has made aplea to the
various colleges to consider plan by
which an intercollegiate system OF
granting degrees maybe adopted.-M
Mark Twain told the vassar Col.
lege students that his usual price for .
reading was $500. but that there he was
quite satisfied to take fifty cents and get
the other $499.5O in looking at the girls.
Troy Times.
I'm the University of Virginia the
chaplain is appointed for two years. and
the Office is held in rotation by minis
ters of different denominations. The
cornerstone of new chapel has been
laid. The attendance of students al
chapel service is purely voluntary; but
such services are maintained with Deep
est interest, while the religious tone OF
the institution is declared to be that OF
strictly theological school.-M Y. In
dependent.
Judge Stewart charged the Grand
Jury recently at Baltimore very plainly
about gambling at church fairs. saying:
1.-The vice will probably continue until
the people are educated up to the point
that raffles ct fairs will be considered
an evil to be frowned upoo. and chances
in holiday presents as thing to be
avoided. The grosser forms of this vice
are liable to punishment, and VIXEN the
business of gambling is carf1DlSdl \
violation of law, the duty to society {
quires that the offence should not u
lightly passed over, but should be pros
ecuted."-N Y. Tribune.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina there
are AZ inter-confessional and 81 confes-
sional public schools. or these 1876
schools. 56 are under the control of the
Orthodox Greek Church. So under Ro-
man Catholic, one under Mohammedan
and one under Jewish. The teachers
number 1856. the pupils 8,1l4-namely,
6. 240 boys and 1874 girls. In compar-
ison with previous years. there has been
q great advance in educational affairs
in these countries; especially do the Mo
hammedan inhabitants seem to appre.
ciate the benefit of q school training fol
their children.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-08-01
cUPPING.
An Old Art in . Modern Barber Shop
Seldom Resorted to in This Country.

An Old Art in . Modern Barber Shop
Seldom Resorted to in This Country.
A novel sight was presented in a
bathroom at Phil. Balzer's yesterday
afternoon, and was exhibited to a num-
Der of interested customers of the shop.
An old German barber who keeps a
chair in the south end was "cupping" a
patient. The process had. of course.
been often heard of, but never seen bv
any present. The man upon whom the
art was being practiced was sitting i'm
bathtub, and attached to his skin were
no less than twenty-eight small glass
cups, which had been applied to all
parts of his body by the doctor barber.
The skin had been cut or scarified un-
der each, and the blood was slowly
oozing oat into the cups. The applica-
tions were made by expelling the air
from the cups by means of heat, and
quickly pressing them upon the mans
person. The flesh was drawn up into
the cup by the pressure of the air. and
the blood extracted by sort of sue
ton.
..Cupping" was formerly part of the
profession Of every barber in Germany.
and from it came the sign of the red, blue
and white pole. the colors being sup
posed to represent arterial and veinous
blood, aud pure health. respectively. Il
was approved by reputable physicians.
though not when done to such an ex-
tent as in the case of yesterday. 1t was
used mostly for local troubles. and not
for wholesale blood-letting. 1t is now
seldom done in this country, though
English doctors sometimes prescribe it.
fO.J .State journal
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-08-01
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

is "silence golden when . wife
asks her husband for money to buy
necessary articles?
-He-Won't you go riding with me
this evening? She-Haye you a gentle
horse? He-Yes. indeed. l can drive
him with one hand. She-1'n GO
Chicago Tribune.
What is the difference between a
flood and an angry brakeman One
breaks the dams and the other swears
with considerable vigor.-Merchan
Irdreler
Fashionable Ma-"Children! chill.
dren! stop that noise. Sit down and
keep quiet" Children-"Why, what's
the matter, MAJ" Ma-"Doggie is
taking his nap."-N =. Mail.
An amusing story is told of . lec-
turer who, in discoursing on the subject
of Health" inquired: What use can
. man make of the time while waiting
for doctor?" Before he could begin
his answer to his inquiry some one in
the audience called out: He can make
his will. ."-Boston Transcript.
Some men who imagine that they
have been made of better clay than
others should take a hint from the
Chicago man who says that some men
who are looking for coat of arms to-
day probably wore q coat without any
arms twenty years ago.-4mericdn
Crockery Journal.
The Turkish soldiers are armed
with what is probably the finest military
rifle in the world-the Peabody Martini
Henri. These guns, to the number Of
600. 900. were manufactured few years
ago in this country, where Turkey buys
nearly all of her supplies. The contract
was awarded to the Providence Tool
Company, of Providence.
"A romantic scribe thus describes
the first kiss Of a newly-wedded couple:
..Up the perfume-swept avenue of love
and under the roseate archway of Hy-
men, they had passed into the joy-lit
realms of that higher and holier exist
ence where soul meets soul on limpid
waves of ecstatie feeling, and hearts
touch hearts through the blended chan
mel Of lips in rapture linked. N Y
Grsphic.
Yes" said Mrs. Catchem. those
are my daughters over there on the
SOFA, tncy nave n8iI mlillOu UeIWeeu
them" 1t was not until after they
were married TO those daughters. that
the two young men who overheard the
above remark found out that Mrs.
Catchem referred to the rich old codger
who sat on the sofa between the girls.
Mrs. Catchem couldn't tell . fib, but
she knew how to speak the HatA ad-
vantageously -Norristo,cn Herald.
Mrs. Suiverly il the wife OF the
Captain of New York militia COM
pany. She attended . review not long
since at which her husband was the
commanding officer. Mrs. Sniverly
laughed all the way home. and when.
after she got home, she was asked what
was the cause of her merrimeat, she
replied: ut was the funniest thing in
the world to see my husband, who never
dares open his mouth ut home. ordering
all those men about. and they Doing
just what he teld then to do."-N r
Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-08-01
THEN AND NOW,

We laughed to see the whirling snow
and hear the raging tempest blow;
We recked not of the icy blast,
NOR how the storm came wild and fast
Our hearts had sunny weather;
nor snow, nor hail. nor wild winds moan
Gould chill the glow around them thrown
For then we were together.
U. sweetest word-togethcr!
tread, in golden summer hours,
A pathway through a land of flowers,
Beneath the blue of peaceful skies,
With weary feet and tear dimmed ewes:
care no longer whether
In Inc days fe bright or dark. nor how
Inc lonely time goes by, for now
We walk no more together,
Ah, nevermore together.
--4Hnd f.. B,Hser, in Current
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-08-01

An exchange states that Wisconsin
furnishes more poetry and pine lumber
than any other Stat. i'm the Union.
Why say poetry and pine iumber9 Why
not say kindl NJ, anI XII two birds
with one stoae?- Through Nail.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.

The Oroville Register calls for the aboli-
ton of the Teachers Institutes. We sug-
gested the same thought the other day,
and now second the motion of the Register.
The Institutes are of little value, because
they are systemless. Because they are
held 50 infrequently. Because trained
teachers, educated for the purpose by the
State in her Normal Schools, enjoy no
greater privileges under the Institutes
than those teachers who are the product of
local schools; for they are put under and
controlled in the Institutes by Superin-
tendents who hold the offices by political
favor, and frequently are incompetent to
decide what the conduct of an Institute
should be. Because, also, the attendance
upon these Institutes is compulsory, and
by fully one-half the teachers they are
considered an insuferable bore, to be
avoided whenever the opportunity offers.
Because, also, they consume goodly por-
ton Of the school fund for the payment of
lecturing theorists to talk at the teachers.
Because, finally, they have not, during
their existence, shown good fruits worth
the mentioning. We would give more for
monthly assemblies of teachers in cities.
and quarterly meetings of teachers outside
of cities. Such councils might be of some
practical use
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04
CONTRACTING FOR OFFICE.

Referring to the resignation of Mr. JUS
tice Ross, the San Francisco Gail well saws:
" \ place on the Supreme Bench has been
much sought for by eminent lawyers of
this city, with the salary attached. This
Is not conclusive that the salary is suffi
cent, but it raises the presumption that it
Is. When conventions have been eonsid-
ering the nomination of aspirants, there
has been little show of declining on ac-
count of insufficient salary" Very true.
Still that Is not an argument for the insult
ticiency of the reward. We believe the
salary is inadequate. The cheapest Judi
cial service for the people is the best, and
the best is not to be had al a meager sal
ary-meager as compared to the capacity
to earn. But the question we the other
day suggested, and to which the Gail also
refers, comes to the front whenever this
matter of resignation presents itself-is
not the incumbent of an elective office
morally bound to fill it to the close of the
term? He certainly is. On seeking and
accepting it, he entered into a contract
with the people for service for a given
term, at stated salary. Why should not
the otice-holder keep the contract? Why
not pass law making it incumbent on
ofiice-holders to live up to such contracts +?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04
DAILY RECORD-UNION
FRIcAY..................D DECEMBER 4, 1885
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bones
were quoted at l235s for As of 1907; 1l2sz for as;
sterling, 81 s31594 SC ; 1925 for Is: silver
bars, 1925.
Silver in London, 471zd; consols, 90 S-16d;
per cent. United States bonds, extended, los;
As, 1919; rs, 1153s.
At the opening Of the stock market in San
Francisco yesterday morning there was a small
decline in prices, but a firmer tone prevailed at
noon. At the close Hale & Norcross sold at
So 10, Consolidated California 81 IS, Bulwer 65
cents Bodie 81 95, Mono 81 co, Sierra Nevada 10
cents Union 10 cents, Potosi % cents, Chollsr
81, Best & Belcher 81 20 Gould & Curry 20 cents.
Severe fighting occurred in the city OF Lima,
Peru, Wednesday night. but it is now said that
the contending factions have arrived at a set
tlement
fire in Detroit yesterday caused a loss of
$4,000 to $4,000.
The large sawmill, known as the McGraw
mill, was destroyed by fire at Bay City, Mich
Wednesday night
Bertha Buekworth was found murdered in
Detroit yesterday.
Mccoy, convicted Of manslaughter in San
Buenaventura has been sentenced to eight years
in Folsom.
Near Pine Grove, Amador county, Wednes-
day, L. u. Pounds, a teamster, was run over by
loaded wagon and killed
The win Of the late Vice-President Hendricks
beqneaths his entire estate to his widow
The Duke of Wellington win represent Queen
Victoria at the requiem mass in Madrid for the
repose Of the soul of the late King Alfonso
Further details of the surrender of the King
Of Burmah TO the British are given this morn
ing
Maurice Shannon, eyed Is, had his sight'arm
tom of in a factory at San Francisco yesterday.
The death Of Clarence Whistler, the wrestler
is announced from Australia
stevens, " no started FROM San Francisco on a
bicycle tour around the world, has reached
Teheran, in Persia
Lx-tlueen Isabella has decided to go into re-
tirement at Seville, Spain.
. thoughtin Washington that Ex-Governor
Irwin Nil be appointed Surveyor of the Port Of
San Francsco
John Hurst, an old resident, died suddenly in
Nevada City yesterday.
Fighting has been resumed between seryia
and Bulgaria.
Charles H. Scott, Clerk of Arapahoe county
Colorado, has been arrested for forgery.
General Crook uses plain language in giving
his views to the War Department regarding the
Indian situation in Arizona and New Mexico
Marshall Clements was hanged at Saguache
Colorado, yesterday, for the murder of his
brother and sister-in-law.
fhe boiler of steam tug exploded at New
York last evening, causing the death of sin
men.
Mercedes, the young Queen of Spain, has &c
yeloped symptoms Of lung disease. and will
never be in proper condition of health to sue
coed to the throne.
The Liberals seem to be getting the best Of the
Enciish elections
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04
THE vICE-PREsIDENCY.

1t Is probable that either Mr.. Sherman.
Mr.. Edmunds or General Logan will be
elected President pro tempore of the
United States Senate. The right thing to
do in the interests of harmony within the
Republican party is for General Logan to
nominate MIR. Edmunds, and for Mr.. Sher-
man to second it. Neither of the latter
want the place, or should want it. 1t is
Of no earthly Use as means to advance
the interests of a Presidential candidate.
It is said that Mr.. Edmunds was not suffi-
GENTLY enthusiastic for the party last year,
and that he is now lukewarm in its inter-
est However that may he, he is Re-
publican and one from conviction He
has not and never will desert the party.
Membership in it is with him a matter of
lofty principle. He is among the fittest of
men for the position referred to, and his col
leagues can compliment him in no better
way than by comforting the honor upon
him.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04

REFERRING to our criticism of the CrH
for advertising the Louisiana lottery, the
San Francisco Spirit Of the Times asks the
REcoRD-UNIoN why it publishes sales of
wheat and barley, and adds
There have been more infamous gambling
steals in the articles named than there ever was
in the Louisiana lottery. Now, we are not adj
vocatirg or defendingthe institution just named.
We are only DESTROYS of showing up the pseudo
spssmodic virtue of the anti-Louisiana lottery
newspapers. A disgraceful, stealing, gambling
game in barley had more 10 do with the death
of Charles Clayton than any other cause.
Suppose all that to be admitted, what
then? The selling of wheat and barley is
legitimate in itself. Because some men
gamble upon the quoted rates, or manipu-
late 4he rates so they shall be quoted thus
or So, does no, render the buying or sell
ing, nor the honest specializing in wheat
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04
TWENTY-FOUR Hours TO LIVE.

From John Kuhn, Lafayette, Ind, who an
nounces that he is now in perfect health" we
have the following: One year ago was, to all
appearance, in the last stages Of Consumption.
Our best physicians gave my case up. I finally
got so low that our doctor said could only live
twenty-four hours. My friends then purchased
bottle of DR.. VIM. HALLS BALSAM FOR
THE LUNGS, which considerably benefited me-
I continued until 1 took nine bottles, and l am
now in perfect health. fe24-lySw1y
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04
PERTLoUs SITUArIoN.-The following is
from, tho MarrSviIle 1,,,,eoy.

from the Marysville Appeal:
On Thursday of last week Al Moore.
who resides on the ranch of j. W. Brad
shaw, five miles east of WheatlanG, had q
terrible experience, which he relates as fol-
lows: A part of the gearing of the wind
mill on the farm had become disordered.
and the heavy wind prevailing was caus-
ing great damage to the mill on account
of it. Moore assembled to the platform to
make repairs, and while he had hold of
one of the stats of the wheel a sudden gust
of wind swung it around, carrying him
with it and off the platform. He chung
desperately to the slat and was suspended.
for what seemed to him an age, in midair,
forty feet above the ground. To let go
was almost certain death, and he could
only hang on for dear life, trusting to the
strength of the frail slat and change in
the wind to carry him back over the plat
form. II came before his strength gave
ont, and, as the wheel swung back, Moore
dropped to the platform, more dead than
alive The reaction was sudden and COM
plete, and he dared not stir from the posi-
ton in which he landed for many minutes,
and until he had regained his nerve.
Nothing could induce him to go through
the same experience again.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04

How often do we hear of the Sudden fatal
termination of a case of Group, when a
young life might have been saved by the
prompt use of Ayers Cherry PICTORIAL
Keep bottle of. it on hand, ready for in
slant use.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04

and barley illegitimate Moreover, such
publication is not prohibited by law. But
suppose it were; suppose the RECORD
UNION to be all wrong in publishing wheat
and barley market quotations; suppose it
TO know it to be vicious; suppose the REC
oRD-UNIoN to be as black as its sincerest
enemy could wish it? How does that
affect the question of the righteousness or
the damnablenesss of advertising lottery
schemes, as is the custom with those high
minded law abiding, virtuous and alto
gether respectable journals, the San Fran
cisco Cal, Alta, Chronicle, Examiner and
others of the same stripe? These same
papers exclaim loudly if thief, pursued
to frenzy's threshold, snatches the purse of
citizen of that metropolis, but premed-
itatedly lend their assistance to the rob
bers of New Orleans in filchlng the hard
earnings of the school teachers, mechanics,
clerks and wage-winners generally of San
Francisco.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04
A TRUCE CONCLUDED.

WASHINGTON, December 3d.-Secretary
Bayard received to-day a telegram from
Buck, Minister of the United States to
Peru, informing him that after three days
fighting in the streets of Lima, truce was
yesterday concluded, through the good
offices Of the diplomatic corps, Iglesias and
Caceres both agreeing to renounce execu-
tive power. Three Commissioners from
government
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04

CANON FARRAR was taken to task in a
just criticism by Chicago reporter be-
cause he does not know how to deliver a
lecture gracefully, and does not under
stand the simplest demands of elocution-
airy art. He reads badly, speaks worse, is
awkward on the stage, difficult to be heard
and cuts altogether an ungraceful figure.
Thereupon the Canon retorts and cries 9" l
know it it is true; but | have none of
the powers of oratory" This the distin-
guished scholar deemed sufficient excuse,
as has many another when the plea of
guilty was entered. But no man has a
right to ask the people to pay money to
hear him lecture who cannot lecture. 1t
makes no difference how talented he may
be, or how rich in thought is his discourse.
The delivery of it were better omitted I'M
less it is well done. The framing of pic
lures Of gold should at least be done in
silver. The hter-Ocean puts it pointedly
when it says that " the lecturer is public
performer. 1t is his duty to give 4 per-
Torrance worth the money asked, and it is
the duty of the critic to speak of it as OF
any other public performance" The man
who has no oratorical training, or no ma
tive elocutionary ability, has no right to
take the rostrum at ali. He does the
cause of learning grevious injury when he
dresses wisdom in ragged robes and makes
its presentation unattractive.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04
its presentation unattractive.

WHAT will the hide-bound States
rights Democrats find to growl at next d?
Here are a lot of them grumbling because
President Cleveland followed IN Republi-
can footsteps and issued Thanksgiving
proclamation, when there is 10 express
warrant in the Constitution for the act.
VIII these contentious fellows please re-
call that George Washington, the first
President of the United States, issued the
first Thanksgiving proclamation. States
rights, to be sure As though some dan,
gerous act had been performed in advising
the people to thank God for all His boun-
ties.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04
The Situation in Peru.

LIMA, December 3d-There was severe
firing in the center of the city between 10
an armistice was agreed upon till midday,
The number killed and wounded is un-
known, but it is not great. Much damage
to property resulted. Caceres pulled up all
the pavements in the neighborhood of
Bolivar Square and barricaded his troops.
He is said to have cannon on the house
tops commanding the palace. The conflict
ing parties have arrived at a settlement.
An agreement has been signed that one of
them is to name members of a commission
to elect a provisional President, who shall
convoke general election. This arrange
ment was brought about by the diplomatic
corps, whose good offices were rendered
Sunday, and since then have been in de-
mand By both sides
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04
4 County Clerk in Trouble.

DENVER (COI.l, December 3d.-Papers
were made out this afternoon for the arrest
of Charles II. Scott, Clerk of Arapahoe
county, and one of the most prominent
citizens of Colorado, for forgery to the
amount of 49, 600. Ii is claimed that Scott
forged the name of ex-Clerb w. c. Lothrop
TO notes amounting to $4,000, which he ne
gotiated at the banks. He also by a forged
bill of sale, transferred a set of abstract
books from Lothrop to himself, upon
which he gave chattel mortgage for
S., 500 The money is supposed to have
been used in the election expenses of the
last fall campaign. SCOTS friends claim
that he is prosecuted by political enemies,
among whom is Lothrop, and is not guilty
of the crime, and are offering money to
settle the claims
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-04
PROMISING LIBERAL OUTLOOK.

LONDON December 3d-A. M.-The coun-
ties are polling so strongly for the Liberals,
that they promise Liberal majority over
the Tories and Parnellites combined. The
Conservatives require to win 122 seats out
of the IA still unpolled, of which it is
calculated that 80 will fall to the Parnel-
ties. They cannot possibly maintain their
power independently of the Parnellites.
The opinion of the Conservative Clubs is
opposed to placing any reliance on the
Parnellites