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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-04-26

along.
The reason given by some that in a
convention the State debt and all ques-
tions relative thereto can be finally re-
adjusted and permanently settled. which
cannot be done by the acts of the Le-
gislature, is wholly untenable, for the
Federal judiciary can set aside the ordi-
nance Of a convention as void, being
contrary to the United States Con-
stitution, as we'll as it can the
act of an ordinary Legislature.
Why should we, therefore, throw away
all these useful reforms which we have
maturely inserted without expense into
our Constitution, which have made it
entirely different from the one imposed
upon US at first? Shall the Conserva-
tive-Democratic party, who inaugurated
and carried out these great improve
ments, destroy this their proudest re-
cord, to which they can always point
and command the gratitude Of the Vir-
ginia peoples
A call of q convention would disturb
and demoralize our people, who need
rest from the political agitations Of the
past few years. We should not erect
An arena for demagogues Of both races
and colors to fret and wrangle upon.
1t is at variance with all our Virginia
traditions that form of government
can be as easily changed as an old coat for
new one. A good government should
DO Of slow and steady growth like
that Of Great Britain, whose great
writer has compared it to o cspa-
cious castle, founded as Nor
man tower, which, having stood
the attacks and sieges Of many enemies,
has been remodelled and changed into
. mansion with al the apartments and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30

"A stage line is now running from Hud-
SON TO Devils Lake.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30
Indestructibility OF Gold.

Gold may be said to be everlast-
ing, indestructible. The pure acids
have no effect upon it. Air and
water are alike prohibited from
working its destruction; while to baser
metals they are decay, to gold they are
innocuous. Bury it through long ages,
and when the rude tool of the excavator
again brings it to light, while every
thing around it, and originally asso-
ciated with it, has returned to dust
from which it sprang: while the deli
cate form which it adorned has become
a powder so impalpable as to be map
preciable; while the strong bone of the
mighty warrior crumbles as you gaze
upon it.; while his trusty sword lies a
mass of shale rust, the delicate tracery
in gold which adorned it, or the finely
wrought tiara which encircled the lofty
brow of the fair damsel, is there in its
pristine beauty, perfect as when it left
the workman's hands, and became the
Joy of her fleeing Yes. days,
years, centuries upon centuries have
rolled by, mighty empires have risen
and fallen, dynasties that dreamed
their power was to be everlasting have
passed away; armies have marched,
conquered, and become nerveless with
decrepit old age; cities teeming with
population and commerce have become
the dwelling place of the owl and the
bat; the very pyramids themselves,
raised in the pride of power, and des-
tined to be forever, have crumblej and
are crumbling; yet that thin filament of
gold has stood unchanged through all
these mighty changes; it has withstood
triumphantly the destroying hand of
time; it is to-day what it was 5000
years ago. Surely it is noble metal
worthy of all admiration.-Sir Henry
ViUidn.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30

bloody Engagement Between Govern
ment Forces and Revolutionists
in Colombia.

Admiral Jouett has sent TO the Navy De-
partment at Washington from Savanilla a
report of the condition of affairs in the
United States of Columbia. He makes
mention of a recent battle between the
Government forces and the reyolutjonists
In which LOCO men were said 10 have been
killed. The Admiral says: "The Govern
ment troops, numbering about 1900, have
advanced from Cartagena to Calomar, on
the banks Of the Magdalena River, where
they are strongly intrenched. Calomar is
sixty-six miles above Barranquilla. In adj
dition to this land force. the Government
has now an efficient steamer called the
Caucar, which is armed as vessel of war
and is ready to patrol the coast or to per-
form any naval service which may be re-
quired of her.
"The revolutionary forces number only
$500 men, but the Revolutionists hold a
number of large river steamers and are
therefore able to move about freely on the
Magdalena River, while the Government
forces. having but two small steamers. are
obliged to move by land, and are therefore
much impeded.
June 10 Gen. Camargo, very promi-
pent Colombian politician and leader, ar
rived at this port in nm English steamer.
and upon landing, Immediately assumed
command of the revolutionary army. The
arrival of Gen. Camargo, who is violent
Liberal, effeetually defeated the efforts to
secure peace by treaty, although there is
no doubt but that these efforts would have
been successful if he had remained away
while longer. Gen. Camargo attacked
force of about $50 men with his whole
army, and, although he claims to have won
the battle, admits he suffered severe loss,
which includes seven of his best Generals.
1t is reported each side lost about 500 men.
The revolutionists clearly intend to CON-
fine their operations to the Magdalena
River and the interior. This, together with
the fact that the Government has now a
steamer vessel of war on the coast, insures
the Isthmus and vessels on the high seas
against any chance of disturbance by the
revolutionists.
'All reports from the Isthmus of Pana-
ma indicate that political matters remain
settled, and that peace and good order pre-
vail there There is, however an alarming
epidemic of yellow fever prevailing at As
pinwall and al over the Isthmus.
Admiral Jouett says the crews of all the
vessels of the squadron that have remained
are much debilitated by their long stay in
the tropics and the unavoidable confne-
ment on board ship and deprivation of
recreation.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30
Remarkable Christian Names.

One of the clerks in the General
Register Office, Somerset House, kept
by him for years memorandum book
in which he carefully noted the extra
ordinary names given at times by
parents to their. children. Without
this certified evidence by an official, one
might almost be inclined to doubt the
genuineness of some of them. But
they are all real enough, as the docu-
ments In the Office show. Here are a
few specimens:
Diewell Sykes, father a weaver.
Loyal Thomas Inkpen, father q
farmer.
Patience Dinner, wife of a husband
man.
Zaphnathpaaneah Drayson, cooper.
Thankful Joy. His wife's name be-
fore he married her was Payne.
Acts Apostles Tong, witness to mar
riage.
Albertena Regina Victoria Gotha
Boult, daughter of farmer.
Repentance Taylor, daughter Of q
laborer.
Emma Tuesday Taylor, daughter Of
O combmaker, born on Tuesday
Eliza Thursday Taylor, daughter of
a comb-maker, born on Thursday.
Sanspareil Scamp, daughter of John
Scamp, tinker
First Son Jones, son of laborer.
Fergus O'Connor Frost O'Brien Nc
Donnell Hunt Taylor, son of shoe
maker.
Feargus O'Connor Frost Mason, son
of a mule-spinner.
Feargus O'Connor Vincent Bronterre
Holloweil, son of a shoemaker.
John Frost Feargus Bronterre Paine
Smith, son of printer.
Turnerica Henrica Urica Da Gloria
De Lavinia Rebecca Turner, daughter
of a bookkeeper.
Jane Stickolorum, wife of a weaver
Hostilna Iphigenia Maria Hypsihile
Wade, daughter of carpenter.
Prince Albert Daniel Canon, son of
laborer.
Zelousiania Chafer.
Matilda French Onion, a spinster
James Death, butcher.
Samson Catchasides Kitchen.
Happy George Dadd, son of black
smith.
William Teatottle Cross, son of a
mechanic.
Primus Community Flitcroft, son of
brick-layer, born at Queenwood Com
munity.
Martin Luther Spooner, son of a
maltster.
Coin Teal, cooper.
Hurbert Pay Day, an engineer, mar
ried 1843.
Isabella Wilhelmina Jacobina Caro-
lima Adelina Cunningham Campbell
Moffat, daughter of q farmer.
Times
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30

Certainly not. Did he tell You
that?"
yes
Then Nettie gave her husband an ac-
count of her experience with Shiftless
Seth. After she had finished, he said /:
"One of the mill boys and found
you after long search in the arms of
that man. We were in time, thank
heaven. You are sure you are not hurt,
Nettie?"
my ankle pains me, that is all, q
mere nothing; but that man"
Seth Bragg? 1t is terrible thing,
Nettie. He is "a raving maniac"
Nettie closed her eyes without asking
more questions. She felt thankful at
her escape from horrible fate; she
was thankful, too, that Shiftless Seth
was not sane, otherwise his crime could
never have been forgiven. Against q
mailman she hold no enmity.- CHI
cdg0 Ledger.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30
HIS OWN EXECUTIONER.
John GauDt, Jersey Wife-nurderer,
Relieves the HaDgman of n Transporting
ing Job.
New York special


ing Job.
New York special.l
John Gaunt, who stabbed his wife to
death on Saturday morning. committed
suicide' to-day in the Jersey City Jail.
When committed to the Jail he seemed to
be as unconcerned as any OF the ordinary
prisoners, and he had the free use of the
corridors. On Sunday he ate his meals
with apparent relish. He did not seem to
apprec ate the enormity of his crime, and,
as he appeared to be in good frame of
mind. the Jail officials gave him no special
attention. In the evening, after having
read a newspaper, Gaunt closed the door
of his cell, and at s o'clock, when the
night Waterman locked him up, he
threw himself on his cot. At 2
o'clock, in making his rounds, the watch
man looked into Gaunts CELL The prisoner
was stretched on his cot and appeared to
be sleeping When the cell was opened
this morning Guant's body was found sus-
pended from the ceiling and life was ex-
tinct
The murderer had evidently planned the
suicide with much deliberation. The cot
on which he slept is suspended from the
ceiling by heavy chain. A short rope
runs transversely across the cot for the
support of the mattress. After untying
this rope Gaunt unrayeed enough of it to
make slender rope about five feet long.
He then fastened the end of it to the chain
near the ceiling. and made running moose
on the other end, which he placed around
his neck, with the knot under his left ear.
He then must have thrown all his weight
on the rope, and thus strangled himself.
One foot touched the floor.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30
IMMIGRATION.
Marked Decrease I'm the Number of Immi-
grants Arriving I'm the United States.

Marked Decrease In the Number of Immi-
grants Arriving I'm the United States.
The Chief Of the Bureau Of Statistics at
Washington reports that the number Of
immigrants arrived in the United States
during the fiscal year ended June 80, 1885,
was 3S7, S21, being 122, 0l3 less than the
immigration during the preceding fiscal
year, and 401, III less than during the year
ended June 80, 1882, the year of the great
immigration.
During the month of June. 1885. there
arrived in the customs dist lets of Balti-
more, Boston, Detroit Huron, Minnesota,
New Orleans, New York, Passamaquoddy,
Philadelphia, and San francisco 55,778
passengers. of whom 40, 382 were immi-
grants. $3.50 citizens of the United States
returned from abroad, and 3, 444 aliens not
intending to remain in the United States.
The number of immigrants arrived in
the above named customs districts from
the principal foreign countries during the
months of June 1856 and 1884, were as
follows:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30
State Items.

"A churn run by electricity is o Harri-
son invention.
Two women have opened o barber shop
at Grand Rapids.
Saginaw City teachers will have their
pay raised next term. as far as an aggregate
of 81, 900 will mise it,
Rev. William Smith, of Howell, who
was on tour of Europe, had to abandon
it, because of failing health.
"A railroad engineer was fined 1886 at
Grand Rapids for allowing his train to
stand twenty-five minutes on q crossing.
Manager Darlington, of the Darlington
Opera Company, disappeared from De-
troit, leaving the troupe, which was headed
by Marie Roe, penniless.
"A rough pine board attached to the
outermost walls of Michigan avenue place
of business contains the following unique
announcement: "Langwidges taught. For
tunes told, Seed pertaters. Free
Pre8s.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30
SPLINTERS.

THE Rothschilds have loaned Egypt
81 $50 600 until September.
The Masons Of Cleveland are erecting q
temple ut a cost Of 100000.
THE baby blanket of Samuel Adams is
on exhibition in Boston store window.
The crown jewels in the Cathedral at
Moscow are said TO be worth $4,000, 900.
THEY have twenty eight baseball clubs
and twenty brass bands in Salt Lake City.
any other country on tho globe, and wears
less.
DURING the tobacco season Lynchburg
VA has sold 100000 pounds of leaf
tobacco.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30

On. how narrow 10 our vision
That we see no more Elysian
the commonest of things:
Why. mmber-wagon' rattle
II AZ grand rs any battle.
III our ears had only WINGS
It's necessary fraction
OF the worlds unfolding action
Detail of the life OF man;
Discord when we hear It single.
Music when we make IL mingle
In the complicated plan
in the simplest shines the story
OF the universes glory.
And the lofty and the wise
See that al things are relations,
Follow the concentrations
Till above the stars they rise.
Even anguish, even error.
Taints them with no trace OF terror,
FOR the All is In their eyes:
Knowing nothing isolated.
from the loved and from the hated.
Up TO God they genera1ze.
Franklin h. Dustin, in the Current
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30
Profitable Productions.

Italy has 1880, 900 lemon trees,
which bear 1,200,0 100000 lemons an
nually.
There was nearly 100000 pounds
of sugar made from sorghum cane in
Kansas last year.
Paper -four barrels are made in Con-
necticut at cost of % cents each.
Wooden ones cost So cents.
London produces $4,000 tons of SCOT
per annum, which is worth 100000,
and is used for fertilizer at a rate of
1000 pounds por acre. ILL.,, u.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30

NAVAL officers are not allowed tohave
their wives with them Mt foreign sta
tons. The policy of the United States
toward foreign countries is strictly
peaceful.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30

"No MAN is thoroughly bad" says
some one. This may be true, but some
men creep up very clsce to the line.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30

THERE is q shortage of 5000. 900
spruce logs in Maine this year.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
WORSE THAN THE KlNG.>

There was no "ring' among the
county officials last term. If there
had been the TIMES (Which, as every
one knows, frequently criticized their
acts) would have denounced it. The
outgoing County Commissioners made
some mistakes, to be sure; but they
were as honorable men, and Of as
average ability, as live in the county.
The hospital contract-being Oh a
basis of 81 per patient per day was
none TOO high at that time. Taking
the then ruling prices Of everything
here, and the price per day was no
higher than 81 per patient would be
now. But the TIMES denounced it
because the public interests had not
beon sufficiently guarded in making |
it, and-the commissioners were more
careful from that time on. This
showed laudable desire, on the part
of the commissioners, to do their duty
to the best OF their ability.
How is it with this Board Tie
allowances since they have been in
Office exceed those made by their
predecessors by SEVERAL THOU
SAND DOLLARS each quarter
DO they seek to economize? Not by
any means. If any well-meaning
taxpayer ventures to suggest where
one or two thousand dollars can | c
saved without the least injury to the
public service, they not only snub him
in the lofticst manner, but actually
rush headlonG into the very extrava-
gancc against which they have been
warned!
Isit, therefore, any wonder that the
county expenditures are increasing so
alarmingly? If the brakes are not
put OH, somehow, the taxes, which
were $3.50 per 800 last year, and
which are 50 per 800 this year, will
have to DO increased to the very max
imum allowed by the law which
heaven be praised was framed for
the special purpose Of holding dis
honest or incompetent officials i'll
check.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12

II. II. Clayton has made careful
investigation Of the camphor baromc-
ter or "storm glass;" which is sup
posed by many to give genuine baro-
metric indications of the weather of
the immediate future. He finds that
the hight of the precipitate in. the
glass-which gives the forecast Of
"fair," ''changc," or "storm"-docs
not depend upon atmospheric pressure
or moisture, but upon temporal ire,
and that the instrument is therefore a
rude thermometer only. AS the APP
pnoach OF storm is often hcralded by
a sudden fall Of temperature, causing
rise OF the precipitate to the division
OF the scale marked "storm," the pre-
dictions arc sometimes correct, but as
the same change Of temperature &C.
cnrs during continued clear weather
the Instruments warnings are quite as
likely to be false alarms. During
steady or slowly changing tempera'
tare tA@ prscipitatc is settled com
pactiy 1T the bottom of the glass
which is marked "fair," although II
The cold Of winter, it may rise to thu
center OF tho glass. and continue
pretty constantly in the divisio,
marked ''chsnge." Storms unattend
ed by sudden cold pass without affect
ing the ''indications" OF the campho
solution.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
A PERFECT PORTRAIT OF GEN.
GRANT.

We print in to-day's DAILY and
WEEKLY TINES portrait of General
Grant, taken from the very latest pho
tograph-tose:her with his autograph.
The portrait has very generally been
praised as the most perfect extan,,
and as it is the one which will be
handed down to posterity, the readers
of the TIMES will be peased to have
copy even though it be but
printed.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
Letter from Sacramento.
To THE EDITOR:

The Capital City of California presents many interesting
E but few are SO than am s'i
in miniature with capital of but few hundred dollars
creased the extent Of its ground than hundred
fold; the its clerks from to hundred and fifty
she inssst general retail stores in States
Long ago people predicted that account Of its already large
Indeed the recent increase in its business has
@ Ec s n nsn .o t a" nm sss its
ton added its experience and proven to the people that Its
newspaper and dngy with we find the germ
of these principles APPLY stated in one OF the store
we wc n, in their c tow much this has meant millions
who have dealt with the store since was started or now nuch
continues to to-day no one can ten VINO mas never give" us
methods il personal trial.
and territories people can he 'cnn WHO
but whose confidence in this House
by cyp Renee wherco: they think speak,
almost feels lhat with such brilliant record House like
this would rest content so still work to be done
provide the people OF the Pacific Coast with
the prices they pay What undertake the work
AND In fact it IS doing It,
an interesting and suggestive fact that people who
have this but who to-day being served by
dealers better and than they would be- but for Its exist
word public opinion being slowly revoluionized as
tho treatment in justice due from dealer to customer
While is thus accomplishing much indirectly it is in
direct work that its principles and methods shine brightest 1t
an WIDOW who may send for cents worth goods
does the banker or capitalist VINO enters 's oors 10 Pn
ship, influence the determination to treat all customers
alike.
Furthermore people know that in sending Weinsock Iubn
Sacramento deal direct with the leading manufacturers OF
Amecahat they get the benefit OF latest styles
prices low and lower than those OF other
dealers
There hardly anything which this House does not keep
from oothpick bridal outfit Dry Goods Clothing Millinery,
Shoes Hats Notions etc. all command its earnest attention
large Catalogue of its goods prices etc. sent free
to any address.
food for reflection The lesson they teach in this
case is plain uNAceuANTED WITH THE ADvAN
rAaEs PRESENTED THIS STORE
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12

tracks in all !onei,udcs almost invari
ably follow an essterlv course, but
generally have an inclination north of
east. In the tropics, however, the
tendency of storm tracks is westerly or
toward the northwest. An interest
ing fact connected with tropical cy.
clones is that they are unknown in
the Pacif; Ocean except near the
Asiatic coast. The average velocity
Of storms in tho United States for the
entire year is found to be 2Ss miles
per hour, but in February they travel
twice as rapidly as in August.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
Ayers Pills

Never fail to relieve the bowels and pro.
mote their hcAIhful and regular action.
and thus cure Dyspepsia. Temporary
palhatives all do permanent harm. Tho
1tful activity into which the enfeebled
stomach Is spurred by ''bittcrs," and alc0.
hotc stiMulantS, Is inevitably followed
BY reaction that leavcs the organ weaker
than before.
s'Costiveaees, induced BY my sedeatazy
Aehiss Of life. became chronic: AYBR's PrlIs
Afforded me speedy relief. Their occasional use
has stnec kept me all right" HIRxANN BRINa-
1oy1. Nsxark. n. y.
II Vas induced to try Arms PrILs - Q
remedy for Indigestion, Constipation. and
Headache, from which I had long been . suf.
ssser. I found their action easy, and obtained
than All the medicines ever before tried" NV.
WArsox. 1852 State ST., Chicago. NJ.
"They have entirely corrected the costivs
6ahit and vastly improved my general health"
REV. FRANcis B. HAlLowH. Atlanta, Ga.
''Ths most effective and the easiest physic
have ever found. One dose will quickly move
ny bowels and frse my bead from pain" WI
PAe8, Richmoad. Va.
"a sufferer from Liver Complaint, Dys-
pepoiA, and Neuralgia for the last twenty
ysers, AT8R's Pulls have benefited me moro
than any medicine have ever TAKEN" p. b.
Roe1Rs, Eesdsore. Broom Co.. Ind.
"ror Dyspepeia they ~ invaluable" J. T.
Hans. Xszao, Tsxos.
AYERS PILLS,
PREPARED BY
Dr.. J. G. Aver 4 Co., Lowell, MaH.'
Sold BY all Druggists.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12

At a recent scientific meeting in
London, it was stated that arsenic, in
quantities large enough to poison
beasts, has been known to find its
way through the ground into wells
fifty feet distant.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
DYSPEPSIA.

eedentary habits, mental worry, nervous
excitement, excess or imprudence IN ct.
ine or drinking, and various other causes,
induce Constipation followed BY general
arrangement OF the liver, kidneys, and
stomach, in which the disorder Of each
organ increases the inhrmtty Of the others.
The immediate results are Loss Of Ape.
lite, Nausea, Foul Breath, Heartburn, Fiat
ulence. Dizziness, Sick Headaches, failure
Of physical and mental vigor, distressing
sense Of weight and fullness In the stomach,
and Increased Costiveness, all Of which arc
known under one head ~ Dyspepota.
Inevery Instance where this disease doee
~ originate from scrotulous faint In the
hlces, AYERS Puts may be confidently
sesses s,,~aa 70 eject cure. Those cases
I'M AaseAsAle to the curative influence Of
ANEx>s nus alone viii certainly yield II
tAe mas are aksc<t by the powerful blood
I>ssssS ssS Yxes,erssca Of AYERS SARSArA-
ksslA.
pysvxrsks should know that the longer
treAknaeas et their n,a,ady IL postponed,
IL xaexv 2scaeuh ef cure Il becomes.