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- ^ 1 ^ - y ̂ 'U - - -i * J. YA.N 8LTKK, PCBUSHIK. * -î ̂ -v.se> -̂ VrjSrtHfĉ r, }* V' 3» V _, $-0, PF^ffF fnrs fjlaintahr. JliOSSir OF THE BAY. / A PEDESTRIAN lunatic TiftmAft Brooks is engaged in the arduous task of walk ing 1,000 half miles in 1,000 half hours, flt Pittsburgh; PIL Tt will reauire twenty dayB and twenty hours to oomplete the weary tramp. . .A CLEVELAND dentist committed sui­ cide because he failed in his efforts to f invent a sovereign remedy against the ' toothache. His success would have ruined the profession, and his colleagues are not wewaa^ mourning for the 4e- THE report, which has been pretty generally circulated, of a proposed con­ solidation of the Western Union and At­ lantic and Pacific Telegraph Companies, has no foundation in fact. They have, however, entered into a mutual agree­ ment for protecting etteh other in the matter of rates, ete. # ' f*- O 5 MB. BEECHER is having a jolly old time a^k the Twin Mountains. On Sundays he jpt$ach$$ to audiences of 4,000 or 5,000 people, and through the week plays cro­ quet with handsome ladies and gentle­ men, pretty mallets and nickel-plated hoops. His admirers have put up a big canvas for him, which will accommodate 25,000 ordinary-sized BOUIS. Two PRBsiDBinB, John and John Quincy Adams, are buried in Massachusetts; one, Piecroe, in New Hampshire; two, Van Bufen and Fillmore, in New York ; one, Buchanan, in Pennsylvania; one, Lin­ coln, in Illinois; one, Harrison, in Ohio; one, Taylor, in Kentucky; three, Jack-' son, Polk and Johnson, in Tennessee; ann five, Washington, Jefferson, Madi- SQC, Monroe and Tyler, in Virginia. w„ WHEN an editor starts a paper in Texas G. with the announcement that he proposes ^ ' +* to discuss all questions fearlessly, without regard to persons," the doctors for miles around flock to chat town, and some of them roost on the roofs of their offices all night, in order to be ready for business in the morning. It usually hap­ pens than an editor, under these circum- aiances, gets killed the first week. MRS. WHTTTBUBOBB, a Chicago woman, discovered a burglar in her house. She proved her claim to be a " strong-mind- ed" as well as a strong-wristed female ly grabbing the marauder and imprison­ ing him in a vise-like clutch. The burg­ lar pointed a revolver at her head, but Mrs. Wiklttburger knewno suchwordas quail, and never released her hold until an officer appeared and took charge of the offender. I Ax Englishman has lately patented a printing machine which is said to work without human help, takes up the sheet of paper at one end, and turns out at the other the b<>ok--stitched, cut and bound. This reminds us of the story of a ma­ chine in which » five sheep was put in OQ top and it came out at the bottom a "roast leg of mutton, shoulders of lamb stuffed, mutton fricassee, and a dress- coat ready made. fix a singular coincidence, both Mr. JJSefafcerbox, Democrat and.Mr. Oilman, Republican, candidates for the office of ;JR®ikoad Commissioner in .Minnesota, are ineligible under a constitutional pro­ vision, as they were members of the Legislature whieh passed the act creat­ ing the .offioe. Mr. Gilman has with­ drawn, but it is understood that Mr. Senoerbox intends to run in spite of his alleged ineligibility. Miss ROBERTS, of Rouseville, Pa., is five pluckiest woman of whom we have reed for some time. Going home the other evening, she found a burglar in the house, concealed in a closet. He sprang out and knocked her down. She jumped up, and, seizing a revolver, fired At him. He threw a hatchet at her, but she followed him up, firing away. The rascal escaped, and it is hot known whether any of the shots struck him- - ONCE a letter is committed to the WMI" the sender loses all control over it. 86 the Postmaster-General has decided in the case of an application from the pos- r.ttl authorities of Switzerland for the return of two registered letters ad­ dressed to Duncan, Sherman & Co. The letters contained remittances a-nd were mailed before it was known in Switzer­ land that the firm had failed. The de- -cision of the Postmaster-General was based upon the advice of the Attorney- General. A RECENT member ef the Leavenworth (Kan.) Times says that Col. D. R. An­ thony's wound is healed. The oollar- bone has united and is nearly as strong as ever. The only danger now is from thtf onettrismal tumor. Hie surgeon in attendance says that the tumor was originally three inches by two and one- inches in size, and that it has been reduced until it is now no larger than a small almond. He is positive that con­ tinued compression of the artery inside the collar-boic ̂few diet, mil ejffect a permanent cure. The position <jf the bullet has not been discovered. ' A FRENCH physician announces that COWB' milk, taken fresh every morning, ig an infallible remedy for gout; while an English doctor has proved that asparagus is also a sure remedy for rheu­ matism. Now, let all the disagreeable 'pothecary stuffs be banished. Wheu we can cure a gouty leg with a few glasses of milk punch, and get rid of rheumatic pains by feeding on asparagus, it will be time for doctors to prescribe ice cream for toothache and clam chowder for neuralgia. THE stories made public that the late Andrew Johnson was an infidel in relig­ ious belief have been flatly oontradicted by his relatives. In support of their contradiction they publish a letter writ­ ten by Mr. Johnson during the cholera season of 1873. In this letter he speaks of death as "the mere shadow of God's protecting wing." Another story in re­ gard to an unrequited love affair has been denied and explained by his son, who shows that it did not cause the "se­ vere disappointment" mentioned. ZACK AIIIIEN. a Deputy Sheriff in Bel Norte, Col. , had two horse-thievee in jail, and, learning that their friends meditated a rescue, he stationed a senti­ nel at the prison with orders to shoot anyone who approached him without the countersign. Zack happened to be the first to approach, and, failing to give the countersign, the faithful guard blazed away and lodged enough shot in his poor body to make sinkers for a dozen or two trout-lines. If Zack Allen ever gets well, which is extremely doubtful, he will probably be more careful how he advances upon a sentinel with a loaded shot-gun. THE correspondence between Roche- fort and De Cassagnac apropos of their reoent attempted duel is decidedly per­ sonal. Rochefort writes to De Cas­ sagnac : " Tou will not invoke legal in­ terference as you did with regard to M. Clemenoeau and De Cassagnac retorts by requesting Rochefort not to wear oon- oealed armor and not to forget his smell­ ing-salts. Even those who are most op­ posed to dueling cannot help regretting that these two fellows did not fight and kill «each other. French Republicans would gain by the death of Rochefort, and the killing of De Cassagnac would remove a disgraoe from the Imperialist parly. MB. TURHEB owns a farm near Byron, Mich. There is nothing uncommon in that, but this farm possesses the rarity of a veritable haunted house. The eo- oentric spirit of the place has amused itself for a long time past by throwing stones in dangerous proximity to mem- toer^M itouly, lor tlm pro­ pose of watching them dodge and jump to avoid being struck by the missiles. Men at work digging potatoes on the farm' were annoyed all day long in this singular manner, and the invisible joker seems very careful not to strike any one. Lately stones have entered the house and caromed round the rooms in an manner. Mrs. Turner states that they seem to move swiftly in an invisibte hand rather than appearing to be tlirown. She lately informed her husband that she could live in the house no longer, when the spirit discontinued the stone- throwing, and attempted to reconcile Mrs. Turner by placing indelible pic­ tures of landscapes and ghostly forme upon the window-glass, which no acid will remove. The Detroit Free Press is responsible fc* xumitttivcv- Tns rocent terrible blunder in the In­ sane Asylum at St. Louis, whereby four patients were fatally poisoned by over­ doses of a sedative of which the deadly hemlock was a chief component part, has provoked no small degree ol exaited comment in the Mound City. The en­ tire medical fraternity there are engaged in a bitter war over the merits of the prescription used by Dr. Howard, the asylum physician. The fight is a trian­ gular one. Howard being an allopath, all the physicians of that school main­ tain that the prescription was usual and safe, while the homeopaths contend with equal pertinacity that the dose was a deadly one, and depress wonder thai fifty did not die instead of four. The eclectics occupy a sort of middle ground in the fight. They say the remedy was good, but criticise Howard severely for the amount of hemlock used. The quarrel has involved a discussion of the social merits of the respective theories, and the di'iciples of each system have each other by the ears in a manner that shows they are in earnest Niagara Receding. •Niagara is receding a foot a year--per­ haps a humiliating attempt to retreat from the presence of plundering hack- men who sell her beauty for opulence. The same erosion that has bitten off the ledge century by century, ever since its brink was fit , the shore of Lake Erie ; the same which has driven the Falls of St. Anthony fifteen miles Up the Missis­ sippi even' within historic times; the same that has caused the retreat of the Yosemite plunge, and that has dug out through endless ages the Colorado can­ yons, is at work, slowly gnawing away at the ledges that flank Goat Island. In a million years the Falls will forever dis­ appear in Lake Erie. It is a mere act of prudence to take advantage of the j present low fares to visit this vanishing J wonder.. . lixUDiOlS SEWS." THEO. C. SCHUSSEB has been appointed Postmaster at Haineeville, Lake oouhty. JACKSONVILLE people say, " Let the ' loafer seats' in Central Fade be removed, for decency's sake."' / TEE Grangers of Macoupin county held their picnic at Osriinville oil the 20th of August The attendance was very large, being estimated at 6,000. , MB. CHARLES W. SPAUWMNO, for nearly twenty years connected with the Blaomington Poetoffioe, has resigned his position as deputy. % THE Daily Whig, of Qniney, appears mmrto form, enlarged, and in new type. The paper is a very handsome sheet, and presents a decidedly business appearance. CHARLES BROWN, of Carlinville, while hunting last week, was shot accidentally, causing the loss of his right eye. At the time of the occurrence he woe Hitting on a fence, and in drawing tip his gun it was discharged. • His recovery is doubt­ ful. © ' THE jury in the case of the People vs. John Evans, tried for the murder of George Worthington, at Mount Vernon, returned a verdict of guilty, and a sen­ tence of thirty-four yean in the peni­ tentiary. WM. VAN BTTREN, who so mysteriously disappeared from Fairbury some time ago, taking with him some $1,900 in money not his, has turned up at Council Bluff*, Iowa. About $1,300 of the money has been recovered. ISAAC EMILY, of Martinsville, a highly respectable young man, committed sui­ cide the other day, by shooting himself in the head with a pistol, because a young lady for whom he had formed an attachment refused his company. COL. CHAS. £L DRAKE, of the Peoria House, Peoria, who has been boring for sulpher water on his grounds at the head of Spring street, struck a vein at a depth of 835 feet The water immediately rose to the surface, and is of very sulphurous nature. A IDLE and a half from St Mary, a young man, while boring for water, was deceived by a volcano of pure gas. The boring is sixty-five feet deep, through a three-inch pipe. When lit, the flame goes more than ten feet high. The noise is heard thirty rods. At night it is almost beautiful sight A YOUNG tramp, name unknown, very narrowly escaped being killed while sit­ ting in a loaded lumber car at Cham­ paign one night last week. The lumber, by the sudden movement of the train, was thrown against him, and his head was horribly cut, and the skull barely escaped fracture. MRS. GHABLSS near McLeansboro, was reoently found dead in Tier house with her throat cut from ear to ear, and the raBor with which the act was done lying on the floor. Her husband, a young w\*n 23 years old, has been arrested on suspicion of having committed the deed. Ei K. SMART, a member of the Carlin­ ville City Council, reoently horsewhipped E. A Snively, editor of the Carlinville Enquirer, the whip used being one commonly known as a black-snake. Half a dozen severe blows were given, leaving bright red marks on Snively's face and hands. The cause was on ac­ count of some reflections made by Snively in his paper upon Smart's con­ duct as one of the City CounoiL TH* assessment returns FROM the counties of this Stitc fc: 1875, no tv-be­ fore the State Board of Equalization, give the following total for the State at large: Acres under wheat culture, 2,433,051; corn, 7,797,851 acres ; oats, 2,226,744 acres ; hay, 2,381,518 acres; hogs, 2,809,969 head ; cattle, 1,985,155 ; horses, 923,468. The total assessment of the taxable property of the State is $1,025,427,855, bem* $80,230,221 less than last year's assessment. ATTORNEY-GENERAL F,nair.r. frq* fur­ nished the State Board of Equalization an opinion as to the proper construction of section 3 of the Revenue law as amended by the act approved April 10, 1875, relating to the valuation for taxa­ ble purposes of the franchises, privileges and other intangible property of cor-' porations. The Attorney-General in­ structs the Board that the meaning and intent of the statute is that the property of corporations, tangible or intangible, shall be assessed the same as the prop­ erty of individuals---at its fair cash value; and that a strictly uniform rule should be observed in reference to individuals and corporations, and there should be no unfavorable discrimination against the latter in assessing their property for taxation. head. In vain the rat tried to seize her; and he finally fell stunned to the ;gToni>le too disabled to get through an- j?"er round. The combatants were sepai-ated and a small dog was in and proceeded to dispose of the defeated antagonist as only dogs and Chinamen can do. A Hen. Assaults a Bat. . - A matronly hen belonging to Jacob Zimmerman, of the town of Minden, Montgomery county, N. ¥., was the he­ roine of a stubbornly-fought contest the other day. A large barnyard rat at­ tacked her brood, with intent of making a goodly meal; but the mother warned the little ones of their danger, and they fled, she remaining to give battle to what to her was a ferocious monster. Her only hope was in a furious aggi^S" sive assault, aud she consequently made the attack at once, fer she comprehend­ ed the situation at a glance. Her meth­ od of campaign consisted in confusing and blinding the rat with her wings, at the same time fiercely pecking him on t All Sorts. Britain number Russia,' 76,000,000". A MATHEMATICIAN has discovered that, were is but one female to every four ®^®-iw5ciss of ground *n Mostsii!.. A THAMP in Canada whipped a bull- d°g, and then pummeled the dog's owner, What airs those tramps are put­ ting on. . aSwiDiHT of Roekpori, Maes., lives a house 150 years old, owns a oounter- pone which is 250 years old, and is him­ self 80 years old. / THE butchers of Montreal are going to start a paper with $50,000 capital. R'ood will telL Perhaps the F.ngliab language will be slaughtered. Whss the commurdsts plundered the house of M. Thiers they captured aome of the love-letters he wrote when young­ er, ami they are now offered for sole m London. A XEQBO quack .-doctored two patients at East Point, Ga., so badiv that they died. The friends took tne importer into the woods and whipped him until he almost followed his victims. ^ I'HE gross earnings of tne big St Louis bridge, for the past year, were $286,000, aad it® expenses $98,000, There remains, therefore, only $188,000 with which to pay the interest on the $7,000,000 which it cost. AN invention for steering vessels by steam has just been perfected, by means of which one man Can do in ten seconds what it requires eight men a minute and a half to perform under the old style system. TUB suggestion OF a fear that Stanley may have been caught and eaten by a cannibal provokes from the Louisville Cmrior- Journal the response that " no­ body cares much what happens to cannibal." THE Marquis of Lorne ventured into the tent of the Prince of Wales at a garden-party near London reoently, and W!w immediately ejected by his brother- inlaw's order," because he had not i special invitation. THERE are over 2,700 varieties of apples known by over 1,800 names, 2, 200 of pears, 200 of cherries, 150 Of plums, 300 of our native grapes, 50 of currants, 80 of blackberries, and 30 of raspberries, according to a counting up of somebody. THE Louisville clergymen recommend that slates bo hung in the church vesti­ bules to enable the girls to register their names ou entering for morning servioes. This will obviate the <listurbance created by young men who come in to see wnetner tiie charmers are present A RATTLESNAKE, twenty-five feet six inches loug, and having thirty-one rat­ tles, was lately killed near Redbone, Ga. When coiled up his snakeship looked like a huge coil of steamboat rope. Its ' Ffangs were fully two inches long. No larger snake was ever killed in the State. QUEEN VICTORIA is in her fifty-seventh year, but is said to be a young-looking woman for one of her years. Her elde&t grandchild, the son of the Crown Prinoe of Germany, is now sixteen ; and it is quite possible, considering the age at which Royal Printsess marry, that she may be great-grandmother before she is sixty. AK Aroostook county (Me.) printer has trapped seventeen bears sinoe the middle of May last. He was wise enough to leave a few spaces between the logs of the pen where he got the bears in quod, and so escaped the loss of a fat take for any of them from his person. He ought to contribute a bottle or two of hair oil toward the Greeley monument THE Buffalo Express, right in the face of the opening day of the races, "ven­ tures to remark gently that the race­ horse is a public nuisance, and a damage to IHR ovraer. The improvement of iliostonghbred horses is one in which no public or private good is subsorved." And goes on to say that " blood will not tell," and that a fast horse is an accident A Devoted Wife's Long Search for Her Husband. The Denver News tells the following the wife of John Comstock, the discov­ er of the great Comstock mine at Vir­ ginia City, has been making; a tour of ,the Territories in quesi of information concerning her husband, who left her over twenty years ago. Twice or thride he was reported dead, and each time the report was contradicted, until his wife was unprepared to believe him either dead or aive. About a month ago she started on a trip of inquiry and discov­ er}*. At Cheyenne she was told by a man who pretended to know Comstock that he was living in southern Utah, and was very poor. The wife, ready to seize upon any hope, hastened off on the hunt for her husband, visiting nearly every town in the . Territory. Then she went over to Nevada, where he was once known to everybody as the discoverer of the Comstock, and there she heard that he had died in Montana, in destitute circumstances, some years ago. She re­ turned to Salt Lake, and from there went up into- "Montana, where she found the proofs of his death. He had drifted, it seems, into the Sweetwater, Wyoming, mines, and left there with the Big Horn expedition, in 1871. The expedition, failing of its object, was disbanded, some returning to the railroad and the remain der going on through the Yellowstone region into Montana. Comstock reached Bozeman sick, discouraged and penni­ less. He often pointed to his discovery, the Comstock, then producing its $20,- 000.000 annually, and the thought seemed to bring despondency. One day , in the spring of 1871, he borrowed a pistol from a Mr. Dillabur, a shoemaker, and stepping outside the shop lodged a bullet in his brain. He left no property of any kind, and the expense of his burial, wliich was quietly conducted, was shared among a few friends. Mrs. Comstock has found his crave, and being possessed of means left by her father, proposes to remove the remains to her present home, somewhere in the States. Food for Reflection. The United States will pay the bearer one dollar." This is the inscrip­ tion upon the greenbacks. It does not state where the payment is to be made. Every promise to pay which does not specify the date at which it will arrive at Maturity is always due. The greenbacks therefore are a debt that is due and pay­ able, and thv promise which they con­ tain is a broken promise. As a mere matter of form a greenback was present­ ed to United States Treasurer bpinner, several years ago, for redemption. Of course it was not paid. The position which the united States occupies, there­ fore, is the same as that of a merchant whose evidences of indebtedness had not been paid. In other words the United States government is bankrupt so long as it does not pay its evidenoes of in­ debtedness. What makes the case of our govern­ ment worse is the fact that until lately there was no excuse for the failure to re­ deem its payable notes. During the first six or seven years after the war there was an annual excess of receipts over expenditures. Therefore, if we did nothing our dieliOMKred promises to pay, it was not because we could not, but the more dishonorable reason because we would not Can we wonder under these cir- cumstenoes that in the money markets of the world America has le§s credit than other countries wliich cannot cope with her as regards wealth and natural re­ sources ? A debtor who can nay but- will not, is much worse than a debtor, who for the time being Wn not meet,Ms obli­ gations, but who strives to do all in his power to meet them. For this reason all efforts which nave been made heretofore toward funding the national debt at a lower rate of in­ terest have either failed entirely or been crowned with very poor success. We now pay five and six per cent upon our public debt, while if the correct financial policy were pursued, we would need to pay only from three and one-half to four per cent The many millions which we might save year after year on the inter­ est of our public debt if we but knew how to maintain our credit would be a very perceptible relief to our over-taxed people. But owing to our short-sighted and dishonorable financial policy, or, rather, our lack of all financial policy, we have deprived ourselves of the credit in the money markets of the world, which we ootud and might enjoy, and the result is that we are obliged to pay higher rates of interest upon our debt than under other circumstances a coun­ try of our gigantic proportions should pay. The smaller the confidence which the government enjoys, the higher will be the rate of interest which it will be obliged to pay upon its debts. The greater the confidence the smaller will be the interest for which it can obtain money. So long as we do not take meas­ ures to care for the ultimate redemption of our broken promises to pay long since due, we cannot expect to fund our debt at a lower rate of interest. But what will the world think of as if, instead of caring for the redemption of our due and broken promises to pay, we try to double the number of them by a new issue? We cannot pay the debt already payable of three hundred and eighty-two millions,and therefore we want to issue three hundred and fifty millions of greenbacks additional. Such a pro­ ceeding farould deprive us of all credit and at once lead to au immediate depre­ ciation of all American securities in foreign countries. Our bonds would come back from Europe millions at a time, and be thrown upon the American market and a crash would surely result. A new and more tremendous panic than that of 1873 would be the unavoidable results of such a proceeding. What necessity, the civilized world will ask, compelled the American gov­ ernment to issue three hundred and fifty millions of new irredeemable legal-tender notes without any cause? America is not involved in any war with foreign powers. She has no internal war to com­ bat. Her finances are in a pretty good condition.. Her resources are inexhaust­ ible. The money which she needs to pay her annual interest debt can be raised by taxation, and if America would but slightly restrict her extravagance and wast-efnfriees, an increase of taxes would Mot be necessary. -For what reason th?!» this doubling of - hex- dishonored legal- tender currency I For none other than to- subsewe the instincts of dishonesty and injustice to which her demagogues have'appealed! It is a totally unprovoked and tuuieoessary act of dishonesty and repudiation, and a country which is guilty of such an act deserves no credit. This would be the judgment of the civilized world, and the panic which would come upon us would onjy be the execution of this judgment--Cincinnati Volksblatti The Stay>at-Home Vote. But the great resource of the Repub­ licans is in the stay-at-home vote of the last two years. The actual number of voters in the State is unknown, but is probably 550,000. In the Presidential election of 1872, 529,498 votes were cast. When Allen was elected two years ago, the aggregate vote was only 448,878. Tyear for Secretary of State the vote was 467,425. From this statement it seems 62,000 voters did not vote last vear; nor 80,000 the year before. When ^Phurman was beaten by Hayes in 1867, he received almost 26,000 more votes than Allen had when he was elected. The defeated candidate in 1871 also received nearly 4,000 more votes than elected Allen in 1873. These facts show that by far the greater proportion of those who last year stayed from the polls were Re­ publicans. These facts would justify, under ordinary conditions, the confident assertion that a full poll would insure a Republican victory. It is not to be for­ gotten that the uncertain influence of in­ flation will operate with some of this class.--Ohio Cor. New York lime*. been resting in peace during these recent turmoils. Now his gentle ghost visits the scene of his former labors, and vexes the souls of the Aliens and Ihwmrt* -- New York Herald. ". Remarkable Utterances by Mr. Tftmvw would be The Gliosis of Other Days. Aiid here, all the way from Ohio, we hear of two apparitions taking part in the canvass. Tnere is the ghost at the blatant Sam Gary, who died a Republi­ can and temperance orator about twenty years ago. His phantom is now preach­ ing Democracy, repudiation and unlimit ed grog to tne luiterrified politicians. The other is the gentle benign appa­ rition of Pendleton--the courteous, lamented Pendleton--who was suffocated under a mass of irredeemable paper cur­ rency On Sunday morning fast, about 11 ̂ o'clock, Senator Thurmat? Mid Mr. Qook % of Cincinnati, were sitting in front of the I West House at Put-in-Bay, and, in the - presence of a third party, engaged in an earnest and mournful conversation upon the Democratic ticket and the prospects in the State. Mr. Cook, in tne course of the conversation, expressed a poor opinion of Sam Gary, saying he was too much ef a dead weight for the party to carry, and that the party made a great. -. mistake in nominating him--so much* so that the ticket in absolute danger of defeat. Mr. Thturman responded, saying that he agreed with Mr. Cook that he had no respect for Mr. Carv, as he considered him a mere politico ad­ venturer, narrow-minded, perfectly un­ principled, with an active mind, but to­ tally unbalanced. He believed him to | be ati nnnAmpiilons deTivagngnn. . ona £ whose great forte is to appeal to the pas-1 sions of his hearers. In fact, he con-1 sidered Gary to be an out-and-out Com­ munist As for himself, the Senator aaid under no circumstances speak at the same meeting where Sam Gary wag to speak, for his self-respect ^ forbade him to be seen in his company. It- He said he never heard Gary but twioe ,, in his life, and did not wish to hear Mm i; again under any circnnstonces, so great ^ was his feeling of contempt for that > hypocritical temperanoe spouter. Ho heard Mm deliver a temperance lecture in Columbus from the west end of toe State-House some years ago, but his vi­ tuperative abuse of men who dealt in liquors was as violent and slanderous that he only remained a few minutes and oome away disgusted. The next time he ' heard Sam at was ZanesviUe, during the campaign of 1872, when he (Thurm*-n) had an appointment to speak. When he arrived at the place of meeting he found, muoh to his surprise, that Sam Gary was announced as one of the speakers, and he was compelled, in spite of ium'self, to listen to him. Mr. Cook remarked that it was very unfortunate for the Democracy that the Catholic question had been brought in* that it was going to result in many Demo- crate voting wiui the Republicans, and many more in staying away from the polls. He feared mat this alone would ; lose the State to the Democracy. Mr. Thurman replied emphatically: " Yes; we shall lose the State. The d---d priests have overdone the thing by stick­ ing their noses into our politios, ahd they deserve to be beaten to teach them their place. The Democracy only have themselves to blame in submitting to the demands of the priests in the way they did. It was unfortunate, indeed, that the Catholic question was lugged into . the campaign. The Democracy was the only party that ever did anything for the Catholics, and it would seem that the more that is done for them the more. 1 * they will demand. Their arroganoe is insufferable, and, as we shall be defeated anyway, I hope it will hereafter teach, these meddlesome priests a lesson that they will understand--that is, to let , politics alone. I, for one, don't propose > 5 to stand any further nonsense from thes4 Mlaws." The Senator went oa to dej* fend the position hto took Da Ills Maniĵ field speech, saying that he had been most outrageously abused and misrepreWF B sented by the Republican preas; that, ; had he oome out uat-footedtj in opposif V tion to the financial plank in the Stat# ? platform, he would have been more bitf terly abused by his own party press tha$ he was by the Republican press for th<J ^ position he had takefi in that speech |; y therefore,, that position was the best foe his own personal interests. The above report of the conversation is oorrect as far as sentiments uttered were concerned. The language mat *i varr a little. His expression in regard to Cary, the priests, and acknowledging ^ that the State is lost, are given in his, * exact language.--Cleveland Oar. Chi­ cago Tribune. A Republican Victory In 5orth Carolina* A dispatch received here from North Carolina gh-cs very different information. - from that ..contained in the press dis* patches. This dispatch L* from a generally trustworthy. It says: "Wo ave a clear majority in the convention, with two of our counties given to thrt Democrats by Democratic county com­ missioners. The convention will restoro them, which will give us at least seven majority. The Associated Preas dis­ patches are , false, and are sent to en. deavor to check the effect of our gfeat Republican victory. We have carried the State on the popular vote by fully 18,000. The defeat and demoralization ^ of the Democratic party in this State 13 ' complete. Their leaders acknowledge' •? it The vote on both sides this year was larger than ever before. You can. not rely on the Associated Press dis­ patches from this State on political mat­ ters. They are made up by editors of Democratic newspapers,* who are doing what they can to prevent the Northern people from learning and believing that a large majority of the people of this State are Republicans to the core, and true to the Union. North Carolina is sure for the Republican President in 1876 by 12,W0 majority.-- Washington Cor. Chicago Tribune. A little Story. Bag-ravep will please read and ponder the following true story: A party of convivial gentlemen, who had been im­ bibing freely, wished to light their ci-*^ gaxa. One of them twisted a dollar bill into a taper, held it to the gas with an air of bravado, and used it as a light. A second, not to be daunted, used a five- dollar bill in the same way. A third' turned a ten-dollar note. The fourth of the quartet took a check-book from his pocket, wrote a check f^r a thousand dollars, tore it out and used it as a cigar- light How much poorer was he for the transaction ? Worshippers of the green­ back will please remember, in preparing their answers, that the check " repre­ sented " money, and was made out of the material of their pet money. It was money, then, and this man paid a thous­ and dollars for his eigar-light--didn't be I--Chicago Tribune* SPBINOKELD, Mass., has a female bat-