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Providing Dolls for London Poor.

Every year o weekly paper in London
buys a great supply of dolls, and fur
nishes to every female reader, or, in
fact, to anyone who cares to apply fol-
them, as many as they desire, provided
they will make dress for them and re-
turn them to the office few weeks be.
fore Christmas Day. Then tho dolls,
each one in its splendid dress of silk OF
satin, bedecked with gay ribbons and
trimming, are sent to as many orphan
asylums and hospitals as is possible, so
that when the little ones awake on
Christmas morning they find upon theil
beds present such as their wondering
ewes have never seen before. For every
dressmaker, must not forget to state,
does her best to win prize which the
paper offers for the best attired puppet
and magnifcently attired some OF
them are, to be sure.
have more than once thought how
the same idea might De carried out here
with good results. There ore lots of
poor children left fatherless or mother.
less, and in the hospitals as we'll, whom
Santa Claus seldom visits. A great
many institutions, l bel eve, provide
TOYS, such a. they are, for the little in
mates at Christmas time. But toys are
expensive, and these institut ons are
naturally not in position to expend a
great deal in that direction. Again, if /
am not misinformed, there are several
benevolent societies in the city that send
out certain number of presents during
the holidays. But the field is such a
wide one that there are hardly presents
enough to go round, even under the
most favorable conditions. If,howeVer,
some of our fashionable ladies who
spend so much of their time in novel
reading and in eating candy would
organize themselves into some such DON
dressing scheme as the one of which /
write, / think that they would be much
better employed than at present, while
a thousand little expectant hearts would
be made happier at a season of the year
when no being should be otherwise
Neao York Ne,os.
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StUdyinS SILK.

For several days the children of the
John SWEET Grammar School have been
studying silk and silk culture, and a
great charm has been lent to the study
by the daily visits which some of the
classes have been paying to the rooms of
the Board of Silk Culture in the Flood
Building ea"h day after school hours.
The other afternoon the fourth and fifth
grades. in charge of Principal Lyser,
,i1led the rooms with noise and eager lit
tie faces. They saw the great piles of
cocoons and the silk in different stages,
and then each one received handful of
cocoons and a specimen of floss silk.
Over one thousand children of this
school have visited the rooms, obtained
the specimens mentioned and a treatise
on silk culture. and have written compo-
stions on what they saw.-,San Fran
cisco CSvonicle.
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Dancer of COntagion.

The Uuu,l,rLy .journal OF IneLriety, lro1I
the purely scientific point of view, sounds
this timely note of warning to young men
especially to such as are not physically 70 70
bust, concerning the danger involved IN .ne
.'centagion of drinking companions:
Young man with an unstable nervous organ,
ization becomes reduced in health, una
is subject to contagion OF drlnkins eoh,, tho
nan;cns, uses spirits TO intoxication; the
result is, his physical system takes diseased
tendency, which quickly deyelopes into inc. @
briefly. No matter what the surroundingss
NAV he he is under the control OF diseased
impulses, which carry him farther from
health and sanity" To all such especiany,
as indeed to everybody, total abstinence from n
n'r..ho'ic hevcraors ia n great safeguard tn
shysical and moral health.
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Do Not Be Afraid to Ask.

Many a young Christian-even II no lon
ger actually young in years-needs spiritual
advice occasionally and is reluctant to ask
for it. The minister is friendly, and un.
doubtedly would be glad to give the desired
aid, but is believed to be too much engrossed
with his special duties, or in meeting the
pressing wants Of others. The older church
members are also kind and cordial. But
some Of them are constituted so differently
by nature, or arc situated in life so differ
emily, that they hardly can be expected to
enter into the case understandingly; and the
others are as busy as the pastor, and are
supposed to be in the habit Of referring
everybo ly to him for such suggestions as
are wanted in this case. So the inexperi-
and finally goes without the help he needs;
and either be gets into trouble which he
might have been shown how to avoid, or
else he escapes it by his own endea' ors, but
at the cost Of very wearing and unnecessary
anxiety and labor.
If you are in his case, do not DO afraid to
ask for the help which you desire. Do not
delay, but apply for it at once. Either the
pastor or some other Christian friend, whom
ience, will give it to you gladly. The inter.
view will be enjoyable, and it will be worth
more than you expect Of it. The help that
you specially need will be given you, If pos
sible, and also relations Of more or less
confidential, and thoroughly delightful and
useful, nature will be established between
you ard the friend whom you accost. A
mutual interest in each others religious his.
tory and welfare will be created, which will
continue and will be full OF blessing. You
will do good as we'll as secure advice and aid.
Probably both of you-especially If you
kneel together before parting in order to
ask the divine favor and aid--will draw
nearer than ever not only to each other, but
also to Jesus Himself. Do not be afraid to
ask for the advice or help Of any sort that
you need. You will be glad when you have
asked-lCongregationalist.
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TEMPERANCE.
Cog and Magog.

NOS anu mu%OS.
We are living in the grandest
or tho ages ever known:
We are living in the brightest
OF the light ever shone;
So we should not live, my brother,
Simply for ourselves alone,
But keep working for the Master,
And be living near the Throne.
Oh. the greatest fight of ages
Row, my brother, has begun;
And the hosts of Cog and Magog
Are now muster ng, every one;
And the lurid smoke OF battle
Soon shall darken all the sun;
But there'll be peace eternal
When the victory is wonl
There are those who sit in darkness,
Let US bring them to the light;
There are some oppressed with weakness,
Let us help them with our might.
There are weeping wives and children
On whose wretched homes the blight
Of the Liquor Curse has rested,
Let us put their wrongs to right.
There are drupkards by the millions
Whom tho liquor f1end would slay:
There are young men crowding forward
In the dark and downward way;
Let us dash the cup Of ruin
From their lips, now, while we may,
And they yet may live to thank us
In some blessed future day.
We are living in the grandest
OF the ages ever known;
We are living in the brightest
OF the light that ever shone;
So we should not live, my brother,
Simply for ourselves alone,
But keep working for the Master,
And keep living near the Throne.
John W. Whitfield, in the Pioneer.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
These Three Il Cor. Kill. 13).

These Three Il Cor. Kill. 13).
There are three lessons would write
Three words as with burning pen
In tracings Of ethereal light,
Upon the hearts Of men.
Have HOPE Though clouds environ now
Aud gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow;
No night but hath its morn.
Have FAITH. Where'er thy bark is drivcn-
The calm's disport. the tempest's mirth-
Know this: God rules the host Of heaven
The inhabitants Of earth.
Have LOVE. Not alone for one,
But man. as man, thy brother call,
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.
Thus grave these lessons on your soul
Hope, Faith and Love-and thou shalt find
Strength when life's rudest surges roll,
Light when thou else vert blind.
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The United States Fish Commission, IT y
claimed, has accomplished more, both OF
practical work and in the line OF original
investigation looking to practical work IN
the immediate future, this year than during
any previous season i'll its history.
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FARMERS in Chester, VT, are being oRe.ed
sixty.tlve cents barrel for apples; while ene
barrel, picking, putting up and drawing 10
tho depot costs sixty cents
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Years ending Yo1rs sndfng
June 50, 1882, june 81: 1886,
1888, 1884. 1887, H.

Totals. s.............$2O,22 ,22l,5 ,53l SIS, ,931. 143
Saving In miscellaneous expenses a, ,3O1, -
Ss7.29; equal to 81, ,4:s3, ,4Ga. 4" per year.
I'm regard to the establishment OF a sys-
tenn OF naval reserves" says the Secretary,
.'the Chief Of Bureau tof Navigation) asks
favorable attention to the subject which has
as an object the supply Of a reserve to meet
the demands Of the country for rapidly man
ming and increasing its fleet upon tho OUT
break OF war. At present no means exist Tor
providing the heet with single trained man
beyond the number prescribed by law for the
peace establishment. The passage OF the
Whirthorn bill will do much to remedy enis
eyiln
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White men, or, In the Indian phraseology,
"squaw men," should, in the opinion OF the
Indian Bureau and Of the Sioux Commission,
be removed from the Indian reservations,
and kept out Of them. These intruders are
declared to be the curse Of every tribe. They
perpetrate fraud numerically upon their
victims, supply them with vile whiskey, and
degrade them with many of their vicious
practices
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Z
& the ivory palaces
Your second curiosity is TO know why the
robes Of Jesus are odorous with aloes. There
Is some difference OF opinion about where
these aloes grow, what is the color OF the
flower, what is the particular appearance OF
the herb. Suffice it for you and me to know
that a.oes mean bitterness the world
over, and when Christ comes with garments
bearing that particular odor, they suggest to
me the bitterness Of O Saviour's sufferings.
! Were there ever such nights as Jesus lived
r through-nights on the mountains, nights on
I-the sea, mig hts in the deseref VINO ever nao
s such hard reception as Jesus hadl a hos
3 5telry the first an unjust trial in oyer and
, >terminsr another. foul mouthed, yelling
mob the lat Was there a space on His
back as wide as your two fingers where He
was not whippedf Was there space on His
brow an inch square where He was not cut
of the briers! When the spike struck at the
instep. did it not 60 clear through to the
hollow Of the foot7 Oh, long, deep, bitter
pilgrimage. Aloes Aloesl
John leaned his head on Christ, but who
did Christ lean on2 Five thousand men fed
by the Saviour; who fed Jesus! The SYM
pathy of a SavIours heart going out to the
feper and the adulteress; but who soothed
Christi Denied both cradle and death.
bed, he had a fit place neither to be
born nor to die A poor Eabe! A
poor lad! poor young man! Not so much
as taper to cheer his dying hours. Even
the candle Of the sun snurfed out Oh, was
it not all aloes' All our sins, SORROWS be.
reavemeuts, losses, and all the agonies Of
earth and hell picked up as in one clus.
ter and squeezed into one cup, and that
pressed to His lips, until the acrid.
naaseating, bitter draught was swallowed
with distorted countenance, and shudder
from head to foot, and a gurging strangula-
Hon. Aloes! Aloes! Nothing but aloes.
ALI this for Himselfi All this to get the
tame IN the world of being martyrs All
this in the spirit OF stubbornness, because hs
did not like CGsari Mol mol All this because
He wanted to pluck you and me from hell.
Because He wanted to raise you and me to
Heaven Because we were lost and he
wanted US found. Because we were blind
and He wanted US to see Because We " ere
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mud. Though it rained all that funeral day,
and the water came up to the wheels hub as
you drove out to the cemetery, it made no
difference to them, for they stepped from
the home here to the home there, right into
the ivory palaces. All is we'll with them.
All is we'll
1t is not a dead weight that YOU lift
when you carry Christian out. Jesus makes
the bed up soft with velvet promises, and
He says: "Put her down here very gently.
Put that head, which will never ache again,
on this pillow Of hallelu jahs. Send up word
that the procession is coming. Ring the els
Ring! Open your gates, We ivory palacesl"
And so your loved ones are there. They are
just as certainly there. having died in Christ,
moro they want. Indeed. there is one thing
in henven they have not got. They
want it. What is it! Your company.
But, oh, my brother, unless you change
your tack you cannot reach that harbor.
You might as we'll take tho Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. expecting in that direction to
reach Toronto. as to 60 on in the way sone
ivory palaces Your loved ones are looking
out Of the windows Of Heaven now, and
yet you seem to turn your back
upon them. You do not seem to
know the sound of their voices as
well as you used to, or to be novel by the
sight Of their dear faces. Call louder, ye de-
parted ones. Call louder from the ivory
palaces When I think Of that place, and
think of my entering it, l feel awkward; l
feel az sometimes when have been exposed
to the weather, and my shoes have been be-
mired. and my coat is soiled, and my hair is dis
heveled. and stop in front Of some fine resi-
dence where have an errand. | feel not lit
to go in as am and sit among polished guests.
So some of US feel boutheaven. Weneed to he
washed-we need to be rehabilitated before we
20 into the ivory palaces. Eternal God, letthe
surges OF Thy pardoning mercy roll over us.
want not only to wash my hands and my
feet. but, like some skilled diver, standing
on the pier-head. who leaps into the waves
aud comes up at a faraistaut point from
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-26
GROCERIES AND LIQUORS.
-~~-~~~~--~-~~>--~-~~~-~
EOR THE "LENTEN SEASON"

MACK EREL. something very fine aud Fat.
SALMON. talted, smoked, spiced. and Il csb.
HfKRI GS, roe. SIN" ked, and kippered.
GOLDFISH, extra fine aud boueicss.
ANCHoNIS, ia salt and in oil.
SAhiiiNES, French, Russian, and smoked.
LOBSTER, flesh in cans aad picked In glass
MACAKONI. Spaghetti and Vermicele.
APRlCOTS. q esh In cans and tyapOrated.
PEACHES, fresh IN cans, eyaporatcd, and
sun-dried
APPLES. cvaporatcd and sun dried.
PRU Me-, great variety OF French and
Turkish.
phCNELtES, Italian. skinned, and dried.
LIMA BEANS, California, dried, and fresh
In cans.
GREEN and YELLOW fresh SNAP
BEANS IN cans.
Tronch ana domestic GREEN PEAS In CANS
Dried SPLIT, GREEN, and BLACKEYE
PEAS
LENTILS and WHITE KIDNEY BEANS.
English and domestic PRESERVES, very
Gne
srILTON, ROQUEFORT. and BRIE
CHEEsF. Our celebrated i've year old
premium WHI~kEY" sells still a. $50
a gallon at HERMANN SCHMI Ut.
800 AND 502 BROAD, CORNER FIFTH sTaEyr.
kfebl- IF
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ARRIVE RICHMOND.
800 pm.-MAIL daily except Sunday.
s~S ACCOMMODATION daily except
20 am.-NIGHT EXPRESS daily except
Monday.
CONNECTIONS.
AT Clifton Forge with Chesapeake and Ohio
railway for the south, West, and Northwest.
At Iynchburg with Norfolk and Western
railroad for all points South. Southeast, ant.
Southwest, and Virginia Midland railway Tor
al points North and south.
At Richmond with Associated Railways for
al points IN the South. and Richmond, frede-
iiossburg aud Potomac railroad for all points
North.
AT Lexington with Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road. making close connections at Harper's
Ferry Ia and from Pttsburg and the West
also TO points North and East.
sleeplng-car attached 10 NIGHT EXPRESS
for Lynchhurg.
sLEEPING-CAR LYNCHBURG to MEN.
PHiS, NEW ORLEANS. and LITTLE ROCk.
Trans marked daily except Sunday.
Tickets sold TO all points. 0fhces: 1000
Main. and az Richmond an Allegheny depot,
Eighth and Canal streets.
JOHN X. MACMURDO,
Jie5 0en'l Passenger Agent.
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Californla Exourslon Statistics.

Railroad men in California estimate that
up 70 Jan. 1000 California excursion
tickets were sold in 1851, representing SAW,
90 profits to tho transcontinontaI roaas
alone This docs not include the first class
and second class, or enigrant, single trip
tickets that have been largely sold, when
are estimated as increasing the number OF
Fcksts 10 10000 for tho year.--Now YORK
6ua
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CONNECTIONS.
Train No 81 makes connection at Keysvfilo
for Chase City aud Carksyile; ut Greensboro
for Durham. Raleigh, daily except Sunday, and
all points on North Carolina Division and N.
". y. q Il. K.
Train No. 8, makes connection at Greens
boro' for y. w. n. q X. r., Raleigh, Colds.
bOro', and NOrchoad City, 1T Salisbury for
Ashcyille. Hot Springs, and all points Va
Western North Carolina at Charlotte with
Columbia, Augusta. Aiken. Charleston, swan
nah, ThOmasvlle, Ga, Jacksonville aud other
Florida points also with Carolina Central
railroad for Wilmington.
Trains from the South arrive at kiehmond
6:l5 am. and 1916 pm.
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RAILROADS.

X lCHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG
~ AND POTOMAC RATLROAD-So hs.,uIs
standard time: "' '"' eoe'e'n
40 am. leaves Byrd street sta,ior ts,i,,. atom.
only at Ashland Junction, Nlford.
ana fredericksburg. Sleeper 10
W5ninston. Leaves Washington for
SIN New York at ll:,0 am.
STU am. leaves Byrd street station: special
fuiiman vestibule train. on which
extra fare IS CHARGED Daily except
odnesiays and sundays.
Makes no local stops.
n''' aui' leaves Byrd-strect station daily. ex-
Sept sunday. Leaves Washington for
Sew York ~ $40 pm.
OK y H. leaves Byrd-street statios daily.
,ooo sleeper 70 New York.
iV:oc Hm' arrives at Byrd street station daily.
Sleeper from New York.
lao pm. arrives az Byri-strret station daily 4.
s,ops az fredericksburg Milford. and
80 'unctlor. sleeper froH Washington.
'as pun arrives at Byrd street station I;
sp'Slai Pullman veStbule train. on
"nlSh extra fare Is charged Daily
except Thursdays and SUNDAYS
Makes no local st ps
IVA" pm arrives at Byrd-strcet station daily,
encept sunday. Sleeper from
Washington.
ASHLAND TRAINS.
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS.
4No pm. accommodation. leaves Byri-stre I
"a, stauon arrives AZ Ashland az 8 pm.
oO7 pun. leaves Eliza; arrives AZ Ashland Al
6aS pm.
suo am. accommodation, arrives ar Broad
street station: leaves Ashland AZ sol
am.
$50 pm. arrives at Eliza: leaves Ashland nj,
6sl2 pm.
ca. TAYLOR. General Tickle, Agent
H. 4. ID. MYERS. General SUPERINTENDENT.
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Daily. fpaiiy (0ncept sunday.
STOPPING PLACES.

'htty. ftnliy concept sunday.
STOPPING PLACES.
Nos. q ana Il make no stops. No. % stops
only on signal NJ Manchester ani Chester
No. - stops only on signal az Chester. Contra
liza and Manchester, No. ID stops on signal at
all regular stations No. Us stous on signal at
al regular stations, and also AZ Temple and
Port Walthall. Nos. 81. 81, 80. "a. ~. and
Will stop AT Al stations Tor passensers.
PULLMAN CAR SERVICE.
On Trains Nos. II and - slcoping-cars ..
tween New York aud Tampa, Fla. via Jack
sonvillcl ON Trains Nos. IA and II. sleeping
cars between Washington and Charleston. Gu
TranNo. q, slceping-cars between Washirg-
ton and Jacksonville. On Train No, 49, sleep
ing-cars between Jacksonville and New York.
On Trains Nos. u aud IS sloepiug-ears boz
tween Washington and Thomasville. On Trains
Nos. IS and o. seeping-oars between Washing
ton and Wilmington.
In addition TO the above
THE NEW YORK SPECIAL
CONSISTING OF vE-rIBuLE PULLMAN OAns
pm. snd arrive at Petersburg ut pm, on
Mondays Tuesdays. Wed esdays, Fridays,
aud Saturdays. Leave Petersburg. north
bound, at T@@3 IN. and arrive at Richmond at
am, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays,
Fridays. and Saturdays.
Extra fare Is charg u on this train.
THE ONLY ALLRAILLiNE TO NORFOLK
LEAVE. ARRIVE.
RcS%Sas ' ss p p% S SS.sS re p p
Norfolk. 1910 am. Richmond. l2:s0 pm.
Norfolk, 1850 pm. Richmond. SIS pun.
These trains also make close connections
for farmville. Lynchburg, and south
western points and all stations on the Norfolk
and Western railroad. except the 1858 train.
Passengers for points west OF Petersburg
should take the s:O5 "a. IN. traia instead.
X. NJ. SULLY,
Superintendent.
l.. Z. b. MYERS,
General superintendent
TN. EMERSON, General Passenger Agent.
SOL HAAS. Traffic Manager. taps
DIEDMONT AIRLINE.
SHORTEST AND MOST DIRECT ROUTE
TO THE SOUTH.
PULLMAN SLEEPER ON ALL MONT
TRAINS.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT JAN. IL. 1888.
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CHEsAPEAKE AND OHIO ROUTE
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MARCH lsr
1888

LEAVE RICHMOND:
$40 am For Newport News. Old Point Com.
iort and Norfolk. daily. Pullman
Palace Carlo Old Point.
ll:Oo am Through and Local Mail TO al
points West, except Sunday.
Sleepers from Clifton Forge 10
Huntington.
3:D pm For Newport's News, Old Point and
Norfolk, exceDt Sunday. Pull.
man Patlor Car Washington to
Old Point.
500 pm Charlottesville accommodation
EXCEPT Sunday.
6;2o pm For Louisville, Cincinnati ChlcSgC.
81. Louis, Memphis, and New Or.
leans. Fast Express, with throuf
Fullmans Daily. Only route run.
ming Pullmsns West from Ricb.
mOni.
ARRIVE RICHMOND:
$50 am Charlottesville accommodation
exceut Sunday.
1885 am From Norfolk, Old Point, and
Newport News, except SUNDAY
Pullman ParlOr Car Old Point e
Washington.
$40 pm From Local points sud the wet
daily except Sunday
6.l0 pm From Norfolk. Old Point and New
port News, daily. Pu Imam Palace
Cars Old Point 10 Cincinnati ant
Louisville
900 pm From Louisville and Cincinnati
Fast Express daily.
Depot Seventeenth and Broad streets.
Ticket-otlices: 1000 Main street and depot.
II. W. FULLER,
General Passenger Agent.
WINS. G. WICKHAM,
Receiver q. * -. Railway.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-13
CONDENSED NEWS.

A large number of workmen have been discharged from the navy yard at Nor folk, Va.
 New England carpenters are joining in a movement for eight hours day labor.
 Mir. Edwards, Lord Sackville's chief as. sistant at the British legation, is ill at his home and will not be able to come to this country and take charge of the legation. MT. Herbert will be the chief representative of England.
 The Republican guests of Snyders hotel, Chicago, made an election bet with the Dem. ocratic guests that the losers should eat a a dinner of crow and the winners dinner of snipe at the same table. The bet was settled Saturday. The Democrats ate their crow.
 Dr. A. w. Culbertson, & physician of In. dianapolis, dropped dead on the street. : William Sandman, collector for J. c. Buckles & Co.,, Cincinnati, is missing. His accounts are short $1 ,OOO
 The floating of the Russian loan in Berlin has been officially forbidden.
 J. D. Sheehan, member of parliament for Kerry, was arrested at Killarney.
 It is announced that a niece of the dowager empress has been chosen as consort for the emperor of China,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-13
Jaehne's Last Hope Gone.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13-The United States supreme court held that the consolidation act of the state of New York, under which ex-Alderman Jaehne, of New York was con victed, is not retroactive, and that there is no reason for the discharge of Jaehne, and says: "A general law for the punishment of otfenses, which should endeavor to reach by it's retroactive operation acts before com mitted, as well as to prescribe rule of con- duct for the citizen in future, would be void so far as it was retrospective, but such in validity would not affect the operation of the law in regard to the cases which were within the legislative control The order of the circuit court refusing the writs was right, and it is affirmedA